AC 201 Heero and Wufei are preventors called in for an accident on a sweeper ship captained by Duo. However it was no accident there's a killer on board and it isn't human. If you like suspense and gore you'll like this horror story. (At least I'm hoping to create suspense I believed I managed it.)
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters I only get my jollies off on torturing them and my readers with horrible gory stories like the one below. Bandia and a bunch of other rich and talented folk own these characters. Please don't'sue me.
Warnings: Rated R just to be on the safe side contains yaoi, gore and minor amounts of smut.
Secondary warning: I don't think my stories are scary, not to me personally but I have gotten that in my feedback (few as there was but there was some). A kind reviewer wrote to me and said, "don't change your style of writing. It's yours. There are people out there that will appreciate it." I thank that person. So I haven't toned it down or changed how I write but I am giving you fair warning.
Jaaku na Gundam
(English Translation The Evil Gundam)
Chapter 14 Feeding"I leave for one second and I come back to hear Quatre's disparaging himself," Duo said when he walked into the room. "Again, I might add."
The last wasn't said to Heero. His presence seemed to dispel all the gloom Quatre's confession had caused. His limp wasn't as bad as yesterday and he was wearing another jumper only this one was gray, dark gray, practically black. Heero smiled to himself. He seemed fine from his adventure of clinging to that suit.
"Personally, I am happy to know where that thing came from," Duo told them as he plopped himself onto the bed shaking Heero and Quatre in the process. "See even Heero looks happy."
Heero noticed that all eyes were on him. He frowned realizing that they took his pleasure at seeing Duo as something else. Wufei snorted at Duo's last comment. Heero was almost sure Wufei knew why he had been pleased. He felt himself start to blush and frowned even more.
"I'll be happy after we destroy it," Wufei said to no one particular. "Only after."
"Can someone fill me in," Heero told them sounding peeved. He didn't like feeling left out.
"That suit was made by Wing Zero," Quatre told him his aqua eyes red from crying.
Heero sat there for a moment actually lost for words. Zero made a copy of itself? The thought was frightening. Many times the suit had been left alone in a hangar with all the proper equipment around it. It was in space alone yet the facilities they had stored it had the proper materials to build another suit.
"That's not a zero system," Heero said shaking his head that part didn't add up. "It's completely different."
"Heero, I said Zero made the suit. I didn't say Zero made a copy of itself," Quatre clarified.
"The scientist didn't even want to make the Zero system why would they build such a directive into its specs? That doesn't make sense," he countered.
"Hah! See Heero agrees with me," Duo said triumphantly.
"We already agreed about that," Wufei snapped.
"So what haven't you agreed on," Heero asked them.
"How it changed since the time I picked it up," Duo told him while counting off on one hand. "And why it's killing people."
Heero noticed that his fingers were red and bruised. He resisted the urged to grab his hand and examine his fingers. If the hatch had moved a fraction more, Heero didn't want to think about it.
"It is not killing people," Quatre said proving that they disagreed. "All our suits have built in safety programs. That's what reacting to our handling of it."
"It's not a safety program," Wufei argued. "It has directives we just don't know about and the way that hatch tried to kill you all means it doesn't want us to find out either."
"It's not a program," Duo said angrily. "It's alive."
"It seems alive. That's part of its program," Quatre explained.
"It can rebuild itself," Duo argued stubbornly.
"Also part of the program," Quatre pressed.
"How? Even a machines would need parts to repair it self," Duo looked directly at Heero as he said it. "We all know that, right Heero."
They all looked between Duo and Heero noticing the silent communication between the two. Some private adventure or shared history the group sensed from them. Heero nodded his head at Duo a frown forming on his face.
"Yes, you're right," he told them softly his eyes barely leaving Duo's.
"This ship probably has all the parts it needs," Wufei said into the silence after Heero spoke.
Duo turned to Wufei. He looked exasperated. "So what are you saying? Jaaku na is walking around the bays at night scourging for parts while we're all sleeping."
"Yes," Heero said suddenly.
The comment brought very disturbing thoughts to everyone. They all stared at Heero with mixed expressions. None of those expressions were happy.
"You're not supposed to agree to that comment," Duo told him softly.
"That's not possible," Wufei exclaimed.
"It is possible we just don't understand how," Heero said sitting up even more.
He looked at the others catching each person's undivided attention. Quatre was their natural leader but Heero was the one they all looked up to. Even wounded he commanded respect.
"Quatre mention that intuitive programs were what the scientist were aiming for. Maybe this was the next protégé to Zero."
"It would explained why you feel there are hidden directives that can't be determined," Quatre said to Wufei after a moment.
"That would explain the life like qualities Maxwell keeps insisting on," Wufei added thoughtfully.
"That would also explain why we are having trouble handling it," Duo added acknowledging Quatre's theory. "An intuitive program would be hard to predict. The outcomes can be random."
"If we are having trouble handing it now. How are we going to destroy it?" Quatre asked. "It was trying to protect itself or something like that."
"And Duo is right about its life-like qualities," Heero said feeling a wave of fear. "That suit is growing changing."
"That's not our only problem," Wufei told them. He stepped away from the wall and met each of their eyes. "That suit let Duo capture it. It has shown that it has enough power to move. Why didn't it hide?"
"The hidden directives you fear," Quatre breathed suddenly frightened.
"They not hidden directives," Trowa said. The slight frown on his face deceptive with the fear he was feeling. "I'm afraid, I know what it is."
They all stared at him feeling a sense of panic engulf them. Trowa was not one to ever react so violently. What ever he realized was not going to be good.
"I believe it's feeding."
TBC