Heero's eyes widened as he recognized the person sitting in the cockpit of Wing Zero. The formerly masked man with long blond hair had challenged him once down in the Antarctic. And he now sat in his cockpit. It took several moments for him to register that there was something wet seeping down the front of his shirt. Glancing down, he saw the dark stain as blood soaked his favorite t-shirt, then back up to see the smoke from Zechs' recently fired gun. Zechs lifted the angle and fired a second time.
Duo, having skidded to a halt right between the two gundams, watched briefly as Heero plummeted down from the area of his cockpit. It took him less time to get over and catch him.
The first bullet had gone through his chest, narrowly missing the heart, and the second had gone through the side of his throat near several veins. He would not survive this. Even traveling at top speed, cloaked, the nearest help was over thousands of miles away.
"Duo." Heero gurgled.
"Don't talk you idiot!"
"Promise me you'll get that bastard." He coughed, and blood spurted from both wounds and his mouth. "Promise me!"
"I promise, Heero."
"Hn." He smiled ever so faintly.
"What are you smiling at?"
"That's the first time you've called me by my first name."
"It won't be the last, Heero."
Except for the wounds, the Gundam pilot known as Heero Yuy slipped into death with a peaceful look on his face.
"I will get him for you, Heero." Duo clutched his hand in the other pilot's before climbing into Deathscythe, paused, and climbed out again. He climbed up into Wing Zero instead.
Today …
He looked at the two packages sitting on his bed, and slowly opened them. Doffing his normal black clothes, he donned the green tank top, black spandex shorts, white socks and mustard yellow high-top shoes. Stepping out in his new attire and life, he proceeded to Wing in order to air his challenge to Mr. Merquise.
A/N: )Cringes( Sorry everyone! There is one more chapter to come, though. Sorry for the short chapter, but I really didn't want to draw it out more. But again, I do not own GundamWing.