They traveled the rest of the journey in silence, it was really uncomfortable. Heero and Trowa were sulking, Quatre was having trouble with the tension, Duo was worried that Heero and Trowa would kill each other after the mission and she was also worried about Quatre. Wufei was the only one who was satisfied of the silence.
"H-Heero?"
"Hmm."
"This tension in the air will bring bad luck to this mission."
"If you think we will fail then..."
"No! I don't think we will fail, it's just a fight before a mission isn't good. W-we need to work together, what I mean is that we would be better if we would work as a team."
"Hmm."
"Stop that!"
"What?"
"That perfect soldier act!"
"It isn't an act."
"Oh yeah I forgot. You ARE THE perfect soldier." Duo sighed
"That I am."
"Gomen"
"Whatever. Nothing you say will help." Duo snapped
"Nothing?"
"Nothing!"
"Be careful."
"Yeah, yeah. Don't get killed. 01"
" "sigh" Understood"
"Good. Over and out."
"Duo" Heero thought and tried to focus on the mission.

After five minutes the Gundams arrived to their destination. The OZ base they were going to destroy was making new mobile dolls and they had to get rid of them before OZ would make more. The hole base was going to be destroyed.
When they were noticed Mobile dolls and Tauruses started attacking them. Heero made a quick plan in his head and gave the orders.
"Duo and Trowa! Take the left side!"
"Roger!"
"...Fine." then Deahtscythe and Heavyarms attacked the left side.
"Quatre and Wufei! The right side!"
"Ok!"
"Right!" Nataku and Sandrock left to their side.
"Your going solo?" Heero heard Duo ask.
"Yes. You have a problem with it?"
"Even if I had, you wouldn't listen"
"Duo come on! Back me up!"
"OK! Lets kill these son of bitches!" Duo yelled and cut a Taurus in half.
"Umm Tro? Are you angry with me?" Duo asked after a while.
"No. Why?" Trowa asked.
"Well it was a bit my fault that you and Heero got in a fight." Duo sighed and destroyed a mobile doll.
"Don't worry."
"STOP THOSE GUNDAMS!"
" Wufei. Do you think that Heero will be fine?" Quatre asked
"Heero? The day Yuy fails is the day when Maxwell leaves him." Wufei sounded bored.

Heero was doing GREAT. He was so irritated that he nearly didn't even notice that all his enemies were beaten. He looked at Duo and Trowa and saw that they seemed to be fine. Trowa was jumping around and useing his machine guns. Duo was cutting suits after a suit with her scythe. Quatre and Wufei were fine, Quatre used his heat shotels and Wufei his dragonfang.
"Heero! Look out!" he heard Duo yell as she rammed Wing with Deathscythe, making the two Gundams fall to the ground.
"Duo? What the hell?" Heero yelled as they stood up.
"Your lucky I saw the doll shoot or you would've been hit!" Duo screamed back to him
"Shit I didn't even hear that doll." Heero thought.
"What the hell were you THINKING! Just standing there wide open for attacks! Fucking IDIOT! You scared the hell out of me!" Heero winced as he listened his girlfriend lecture him.
"Let it go, it was nothing." Heero sighed
"Oh give me a brake!"
The battle had stopped and everyone was watching as the Wing pilot got a looooong lecture from the other pilot.
Wufei sat in his cockpit and shook his head. "Nataku, I can just see tonight's news. "The gundam pilots were captured when to of them started fighting each other"." he moaned. Injustice.
Quatre looked at their enemy and saw that they were watching and LISTENING the fight. Duo screamed so loud that it would be a miracle if they DIDNT hear. How embarrassing.
Trowa looked at them with a blank expression. What use are the microphones in Duo´s gundam if she could scream so loud? And she was using it to yell at Heero. Poor guy.
"YOU´RE THE ONE THAT ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT THE MISSIONS. "DON´T SCREW UP" "FOCUS ON THE MISSIONS" BLAH BLAH BLAH. AND HERE YOU ARE NEARLY GETTING YOURSELF KILLED!"
"But I didn't" Heero yelled.
"YES BECOUSE I SAVED YOU! YOU SUICIDEL IDIOT"
"Calm down! I'm fine!" This could take a long time.
"Man I would never want to be that pilot. I bet that he is deaf by now." One of the OZ soldiers said to his friend.
"Yes, but they are gundam pilots, so they mast have been trained to survive loud sounds."
"True."
"JUST YOU WAIT! WHEN WE GET HOME YOU.ARE.DEAD! I´LL----" Duo stopped her screaming and looked around and notice that everyone was watching her and Heero. "Oh my, did they heard?" Duo thought.
"AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT!" Duo yelled and attacked the remaining few OZ suits.
"OH SHIT!" They yelled as Duo cut them down.

Trowa and Wufei went to destroy the base. As they came back Sandrock walked next to Heavyarms checking if Trowa was hurt.
"I'm fine little one."
"That's good."
"You three go. Duo and I have things to settle. We'll see you later." Heero said.
"But Heero--" Quatre started.
"Go."
"Fine. Don't kill him Maxwell." Wufei sighed.
"Fine, but remember you and I have things to settle too." Trowa said and they left.
When the three gundams were out of sight, Duo opened her cockpit and came out. She lowered herself to the ground and looked up at Heero´s cockpit seeing it open up and Heero jumped down.
Heero walked to Duo only to hope he didn't, she looked ready to kill. She had her arms crossed on her chest and glared up at Heero. He put his hand on her shoulder, but she stepped away, ok so she didn't want to be touched.
Instead of saying anything Duo punched him in the chest, making him back away few steps.
"What?" Heero gasped. Duo didn´t saw anything just stood there and hit him again, this time slapping him on the face.
"That's it" Heero growled in fury. He went right in front of Duo, who this time didn't back away. Her eyes showed her anger, but not her pain. Her mask covered it. Truth was that she was more afraid of losing him right now that angry at him for being so careless.
Heero took a hold of Duo by her shoulders and glared at her. She stood glaring at him back and waiting for him to do something.
"Come one Heero. Do something." She thought
"Why are you being so difficult." Heero thought.
Heero´s hold on her shoulders tighten, they stood there just glaring at each other. Suddenly Heero jumped on Duo making them both fall to the ground.
"Heero! What are you doing!" Duo cried in surprise, was Heero going to beat her up? She squeezed her eyes shut and waited. But a hit never came only a gun shot was heard.
"Heero?" Duo gasped and looked at him as he lay on top of her.
"Heero!" She cried again when she didn't get any reaction from him. Had he been shot! Heero slowly lifted his head from the ground and looked at Duo whose eyes were full of tears.
"Heero are you ok?" She sobbed, trying to get her hands free from between her and Heero so she could hold him, but she had no luck.
"I'm fine. You?"
"Ok, shocked, but ok. Umm...who shot us?"
"I don't know."

Heero looked around to see where the shot came from. His eyes fell on the ruin of the base they had destroyed. "There.", He thought and slowly put his arms around Duo. After taking a good hold of her, he stood quickly and threw Duo over his shoulder and ran behind Wing's leg for cover. New gunshots were heard as he ran.
"Are you fucking crazy?" Duo hissed as Heero gently lowered her to the ground.
"No. Just protecting you." Heero said and pushed the blushing Duo against the metal leg.
"I thought we killed everyone here." Duo whispered and tried to look around.
"Duo, don't move." Heero hissed and pushed back.
Duo did as she was told and stayed put. Heero took his gun and looked at the ruins. After a while Duo took her gun and lowered herself to her knees.
"Should we tell the others about this?"
"... No, we can take care of this."
"Are you sure?"
" Yeah, there is maybe two to three people."
Duo nodded and shot at the ruin, a gunshot was heard and it hit Wing's leg. Heero glared at Duo, who just grinned at him.
"Gundam Pilots come out!" They heard a man's voice.
"Like hell!" Duo screamed
"We mean no harm!"
"Fuck you! How are you?"
"Fine don't tell" Duo hissed and shot again.
"If I could get into Wing I could kill them easily." Heero said and shot his gun.
"Well you can't. They would shoot you down. I can't cover you from here." Duo said and looked at the ruins.
"Heero, they've moved!"
"Yes that we have." A man's voice was heard behind them.
"What the..?" Duo and Heero hissed and stayed put.
"Turn around slowly and drop you guns. Don´t try anything stupid" Another man´s voice.
"This so uncool, being captured again." Duo whined and dropped her gun as she turned around with Heero.

They looked at the two men, they were maybe three of four years older then them.
"Well you got us. What do you want? Fucking bastards." Duo hissed as Heero stayed quiet.
"Harsh words from a girl." One of them laughed
"Girl or not I'll kill you!" Duo snapped and was ready to jump at them, but Heero stepped in front of her.
"Heero!"
"Duo. Calm down." Heero hissed and glared at the men.
"DUO!" One of them yelled.
Heero and Duo looked at the blond man with suprice written on their face. Heero backed closer to Duo, to protect her.
"How do you know my name?" Duo asked.
"Duo, it's me!" the blond laughed.
"Who me?"
"Are you stupid? You've never been stupid. I didn't know that it was you. Your hair has grown." The blond and his friend laughed.
"What the fuck? You call me stupid again and they will be your last words." Duo growled and stepped from behind of Heero.
"Gomen, gomen." He said.
"Who the hell is this asshole?" Duo said and turned to Heero.
"How should I know?" Heero sighed.
"I see, your still stubborn, You haven't changed a bit since I last saw you. You have that same expression when you fight. You were so cute and you still are." The blond said sweetly and Duo blushed. Heero growled and moved closer to Duo.
"So Duo still afraid of rats?" the blond asked.
"Rats?" Duo whispered, after a while she stepped away from Heero and jumped on the blond, bringing her arms around his neck.

"D-Duo!" Heero said surprised and looked at his GIRLFRIEND who was HUGGING the enemy. The ENEMY!
"Oh my god. S-SOLO!" Duo cried hugging Solo closer to her.
"Solo?" Heero was puzzled.
"Took you long enough, but then again you were always a little slow. Slow but not stupid." Solo laughed.
"I thought you were dead! I SAW you die! How can you be alive?"
"Well this guys old man found me at the alley and helped me. Took me to L-3 and took care of me. When I was older I went looking for you from L-2, but didn´t find you. But I did find one of the guys, who hang around with us. He told me you became a pilot to a Gundam. So I watched some news about the Gundams and left to earth with Sam here. And started look for my little Duo." Solo explained.
" Oh I forgot, this is Heero and I'm Duo." She told to Sam.
"Hello I'm Sam." He said and shook hand with Duo, Heero just nodded his head.
"Heero, eh? Nice to meet you" Solo said and held out his hand and Heero shook it.
"Sorry he doesn't talk much." Duo smiled at Heero and held out her hand to him. Heero looked at Duo then her hand and smiled taking a hold of her.
"So his not shy?" Solo interrupted their moment.
"Hell no." Duo laughed.
"So now that you found Duo what do want?" Heero finally asked.
"Oh yeah. I want you to came home with me." Solo said.
"What!" Heero yelled, "Now listen here"
"Heero stop! Solo you want me to leave Heero, Q, Tro and Wu-Wu and go to L-2?" Duo asked.
"No, I want you to come to L-3. Then we can live our lives there."
"I/She can't" Duo and Heero said at the same time.
"Sure you can. Then I can marry you like I promised." Solo smiled sweetly
"MARRY! What the?" Heero growled, "DUO?"
"Heero calm down." She laughed nervously.
"Solo, I can't marry you. I'm with Heero." Duo explained
"Yeah, so fuck off." Heero spat and got smacked to his shoulder by Duo and from Solo he got a growl.
"Heero, you CAN be a bit nicer." Duo sighed
"So you like Heero?" Solo looked at Duo in the eyes.
"Yeah." Duo nodded.
"It would stupid to ask why." Solo sighed.
"Yes it would." Sam said and laughed as Duo chuckled.
"Go shoot yourself." Solo hissed.
" Solo, no need to get angry." Duo tried to calm her childhoodfriend down.
"I´m not mad, I´m just sad. So are you only together or are engaged?"
"Solo?"

Heero and Sam just looked at them. They didn´t understand anything what was going on, but the question about engagement really blew them off. Heero was really shocked, they had just gotten together and some stranger (for him) was asking was he engaged! What was this world coming to?
"Well, yes or no!"Solo glared at the couple.
"We are only together." Solo smiled hearing Duo´s answer.
"That´s great!" Solo said and looked at Duo, who gave him a weak smile.
"Well I would like to get engaged." Duo looked at Heero to watch his expression.
"Duo," Heero sighed "The war."
"I know" She smiled.
" Duo you shouldn´t be here, it´s too dangerous! I´m taking you to L-3." Solo pulled Duo forcefully to him. Duo looked at him with a pained expression and Heero was ready to kill him touching his Duo.
"NO! The guys need me! Quatre need his bestfriend. Trowa...umm...well he must need me with something! Wufei needs someone to ran after when he is angry. And Heero needs his partner and he need me to help him with his emotions." Duo said
Solo was quiet, Duo really was important to the others. He looked at Heero, who had taken Duo in his arms and was hugging her tightly. Duo seemed to calm down but Heero knew that Duo had put her cheerful mask on.
" Duo they seem to need you, but if you were to die they would be lost. So taking you to L-3 is a way to keep you safe." Solo said and Heero had to agree with him.
"Duo, thinking like that he is right." Heero whispered to her ear, but Duo shook her head.
"And if I left and one of you died, I wouldn´t know! If you died where would that leave me!" Duo screamed and started beating Heero´s chest.
"You want me to leave? You don´t need me. Say you don´t need me and I´ll leave!"
"No, I need you. I´ll always need you. I want you to stand by my side, but I just want you to be safe." Heero smiled at the girl who had just stoped beating his chest.
"Umm... Duo how about you come with me..." Solo started
"Solo leave the girl be. She doesn´t want to leave them. It's her new family. She already lost you, don´t make her lose this." Sam said and put his hand on Solo´s shoulder and smiled.
"But I promised to take care of her!"
"We are taking care of her. We are making her happy." Heeo said holding Duo. She smiled at Heero, Duo looked much happier that at L-2 when they were kids. Sure she smiled but it was a fake, but this was the real thing. This smile Solo could never have, it was only for Heero and the other Gundam Pilots.
"Fine, but if you hurt her I'll..."
"Kill me." Heero finished in monotone.
"That's right." Solo smirked. Heero sighed but nodded, sure he could try to kill him, but a boy with no traning would only end up killing himself.
"Good. Duo, I'll come and visit you. Remember to be careful. Ok?" Solo turned to Duo smiling sweetly.
"I will and I have Heero to protect me, if is needed." Duo nodded.
Solo pulled Duo to a hug, Solo buried his head in Duo's hair, but Duo kept her head up, she didn´t want to look like some girl who would lose her old friend. She moved her hands up and down on Solo´s back comforting him silently. Heero shook hands with Sam, quickly saying good bye as Duo pulled away from Solo. She turned to Sam and also shook hands with him, Heero and Solo did the same, but at the same time glared at eatch other.
"Ok, Heero lets go or Q will worry. I bet he´s already pulling his hair out and you and Tro need to settle that argument. I´m sure Tro will blame us more if Quatre starts worring and he goes bald." Duo giggled and walked to her gundam waving to Solo and Sam, who waved back.
Heero chuckled as the wire lifted him up to his cockpit. He quickly went in and looked at Duo who had already closed the entry to her cockpit and did the same. They both looked at Sam and Solo to see that they had moved to a safe distance. Their Gundams came to life and flew away.
Solo looked after Deathscythe and sighed. There went his love. Sam looked at him and laughed slapping him on his back.
"Sam?" Solo said surprised
"Don't look like some lost puppy. She is happy, let her be." Sam smiled and Solo glared him.
"Lets go home." Solo sighed and they started walking away.
"Solo your going to leave them alone?"
"for now. for now." Solo sighed.