Why Duo?

Part 8

Notes: I decided to jump back to the future to get into the swing of this fic again. I'll let the next chapter focus on Duo.

The year is AC 195.

Duo had vanished into the sewer about 5 minutes earlier. The OZ base was still on high alert thanks to his little stunt. Zecks and Treize had decided to investigate the base themselves and where currently in rout to get there.

Heero and Wufei had gotten the data from Duo, then waited for his signal that he had left the base. When more time had passed then it should have taken for him to leave the base Heero had tried to pull up Duo on his Gundam's comm. No one answered. Heero, who had been on his laptop in the hotel room he had Wufei had rented to wait for Duo, began to get frustrated and a little bit worried.

Wufei had been taking a nap on their bed and hadn't been worried about Duo, after all he was a trained assassination. Heero decided he needed his help and woke him up. The Chinese man did not look happy about his nap being interrupted.

"Something's wrong." Heero told him and went back to his laptop.

"OZ?" Wufei asked.

"Maybe."

Wufei noticed what Heero was doing, pulled himself out of bed and turned on his laptop.

"What's going on?" he asked him as soon as it was done starting up.

"Duo's missing." Heero finally told him.

"So?" Wufei didn't see any need to be worried, Maxwell just got himself captured or something.

"It's not showing him as captured in OZ's records yet. They're reporting they can't find him."

Wufei still didn't see what was worrying Heero.

"Check OZ's records and see if you can find where they lost Duo." Heero told him. "Zecks and Treize are on their way to see if they can find him."

"Treize?" Wufei had hacked into the OZ base by now and was looking for any sign of Duo. Granted right now the only records where about how bad the security had been since Duo had just walked in and left pretty much without anyone trying to stop him. Had he not called Zecks and Treize he would have gotten out without anyone knowing he had been there.

"Duo's stupid." Wufei muttered.

"Hmm?"

"If he didn't mock Treize…"

"He wouldn't be Duo." Heero finished for him.

Wufei sighed, that much was true.

"Do you want to go to the base and see if we can find Duo ourselves?" Heero asked him suddenly.

Wufei looked up surprised.

"That way we can make sure his Gundam is secure at the same time."

"When do you want to leave?" Wufei asked.

"In about ten minutes." Heero told him, he closed his computer and checked to make sure his gun was loaded and ready.

"Where?" Wufei closed his computer as well; no one at the base knew anything.

"The base us about 15 minutes from here, we should be able to leave everything, go there, get Maxwell, and be back here in under two hours." Heero had already planned to go it appeared.

Wufei stood and followed Heero out of the room. He should have known Heero planned to leave as soon as he woke him up. But then again he had told him to look up data. Whatever Heero had found, it had bothered him enough to want to leave.

Treize and Zecks arrived about an hour after Duo had gone missing. The base was now on high alert, and their car was checked before they where allowed on base.

"Where do you think he went?" Zecks asked.

"He got away." Treize said, it would figure since they didn't catch him yet that he was gone.

"Maybe." Zecks didn't seem convinced.

The car came to a stop and the two men got out. They headed into the base to see where Duo had been.

Five minutes earlier the two Gundam pilots had entered the base. They had found security easy enough to get past and had made it to where Duo had accessed the computer from. The two had used the computer to track where the American had been while on base. The tech that had been there when Duo had used the computer had decided to hide in his room for the rest of the day. The rest of the base was either looking for Duo or greeting Zecks and Treize, little did Heero and Wufei know the two where already on base.

Several minutes later Heero heard voices coming down the hallway to his left. He didn't want to leave what he was working on, so he pulled his gun and continued working. Wufei pulled his gun and got ready to buy Heero more time.

Zecks and Treize rounded the corner and everyone froze, Wufei with his hand on the gun, Heero typing, and the two men stopped walking. They were alone thankfully.

Zecks was the one who broke the silence, "What are you doing here?"

"Nothing." Wufei told him. No one had moved yet, to move the wrong way would be just the break someone else needed to attack.

"Their looking for 02." Treize said.

Heero was the one who moved first and continued typing, "And do you know where he is?"

"All we know is he never left the base on his own, it as if he just vanished." Treize told them.

"Then why don't you help us find him?" Heero suggested.

Wufei began to think Heero had gone crazy.

"We could, then we would have 3 Gundam pilots as prisoners." Treize said.

"Then we have a deal." Heero told him.

"Heero?" Wufei started.

"Treize?" Zecks at the same time.

"We can figure out what we're going to do when we find Duo." Heero told him.

"The first place to start is where he vanished, the manhole." Treize told them, and began to walk in the direction of where it could be found.

Heero followed, walking almost next to him with Zecks and Wufei following up the rear. Wufei and Zecks had looked at one another as if they thought Heero and Treize had fully gone crazy.

"And what do you intend to tell the guards about us?" Wufei asked.

"You're a special task force helping us." Treize told him.

TBC

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