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Chapter Nine

He couldn't see. The black material of the blindfold pressed against his eyes causing them to hurt from the pressure. His hands were chained behind his back and the handcuffs had been closed too tightly and with every step he took, his arms swung slightly and the metal dug into his skin a little deeper. He could feel a hand on his left arm, gripping tightly and the nails pressed hard, he wouldn't be surprised if when he looked later that there were nail prints left. To his right, he could hear light footsteps that meant it was Heero who was walking beside him. The boy had been bound similar to Duo but with a stronger kind of metal. There was no other sound other than them walking and the wind blowing gently against them. They had had no choice but to do what the man had ordered them.

They walked for ages, till Duo felt like he was going to collapse if he didn't get to rest soon. His side was driving painful bursts of pain though his whole body, reminding him that barely 24 hours ago he had been seriously injured.

"Sir," the man holding his arm called out, stopping and he jerked on Duo's arm to get the boy to stop.

"What is it?" the leader asked.

"He's not going to make it, sir, he had a wound on his side and it's leaking."

Duo tried to blink, he hadn't noticed that the wound had opened itself, now that it had been pointed out however, he could feel the blood running down his sweat soaked skin.

"Carry him if you must, I don't want to stop until we are there!"

"Sir, Yes, Sir!"

Duo tried to protest as strong arms picked him up, one supporting his knees and the other curled underneath his shoulders. Duo didn't feel safe like he had when Heero had carried him, and it was very uncomfortable to be held like that with his arms behind his back. But he bite his tongue and made no sound as the man began to walk, and with every step he took, Duo's body was jolted about and he soon began to develop a few bruises.

Duo didn't realise that he had fallen asleep in the man's arms until he woke up. He was laying in a dark room and his arms were no longer chained behind his back. He rubbed his wrists, trying to regain feelings in them. His eyes scanned the room; there was no furniture and a hole in the corner of the room. He could smell blood and urine in the air and screwed his nose up against it. In the dark, he reached down and felt for his wound. There was dry blood around it and Duo winched, it hurt to touch. He was alone and he sighed. He ran his hands over his face and pushed his fringe out of his eyes.

"Shit," he muttered as he gazed at the floor. What had the guy meant by he had created Heero? Heero was no machine, Duo snorted; he had seen the guy spill blood. Heero was always warm to touch too, never cold like the metal of a machine.

Duo lent his head back against the wall and swore again, where was Heero?

The room was much too bright for any other person but Heero had no problem seeing. He gazed at the metal table in the middle of the room, and then around at the fridge in the corner, along to the surface that was covered in many surgical equipment.

They had been in to see him, dressed all in white wearing special glasses. They refused to talk to him, just wrote down notes on his behaviour before leaving. The last person who came in had regarding Heero with sad eyes when he had demanded to know where Duo was; she had given him food before she left. Heero hadn't touched it.

He went back to examining the room but was stopped when the door opened.

"Yuy," the man nodded at him and Heero glared back. This was the man who had started this.

"Where's Duo?" he snarled.

"He'll be with you shortly, if you do what we ask of you."

"Who are you?"

"I'm Doctor Musk, please, lay on the table."

Heero refused to move.

"What do you want with me?"

"Oh, its nothing really. I just need to know how you are getting on, and of course, get your training done so you can help me."

"Help you do what?"

"Get rid of Oz, that's what, you stupid boy. Now get on the table before I get my men in."

Heero slowly lowered himself into a laying position. He regretted it the second he did. Fire shot through every nerve in his body and he blacked out from the pain.

Duo looked up as his door opened and in strolled the man who had kidnapped them.

"Good evening Duo, I can call you Duo can't I?"

"Yeah if I can have your name?"

"Doctor S Musk, it's a pleasure to met you."

"Pleasure is all yours, I can assure you of that."

"I have brought you food," he held out a tray, "I'm not a bad person, Duo."

"Neither am I," Duo smirked as he took the tray and placed it on the floor by his feet. He wasn't stupid; he knew the food was drugged.

"I intend you no harm," he plead softly, "please, eat a bit for me?"

"I'm not hungry."

"How about, you eat a few spoonfuls of that soup for me, and I then take you to see Heero?"

Duo looked doubtfully at the food, but the urge to see Heero was too much and he forced himself to swallow a few mouthfuls.

"Good boy," Musk cheered and Duo stood up, feeling slightly light headed. "Come now, follow me."

Duo nodded and carefully followed. As he stepped out into the lit corridor he noticed that he had very dark bruises on both his wrists. He looked in shock at them for a moment.

"Don't worry about them," Musk said softly, "we'll fix them up very soon," he beckoned Duo with a finger. "Along here please."

Duo followed, they entered a long corridor and on one side was a window that ran the length of the corridor. Duo gasped as he stared through the window at the room below.

"Heero!" he breathed out. The gundam pilot was below on a metal table. His eyes wide open and his stomach had been cut open exposing the insides. Duo stared at the pieces of metal that were visible through Heero's stomach tissues.

"I guess you want to know what your boyfriend is? No?" Musk asked.

"What did you do to him?" Duo asked.

Heero's body jerked on the table below, and boy's face screwed up in an expression on pain.

"What are you doing to him?!" Duo snarled, he spun round and slipped. His body fell to the ground as the drugs overpowered his system.

"Don't worry Duo, all will be explained shortly."

When Duo re-entered the world of the living, he was startled to discover that his side was no longer hurting. He was laying on a cold surface and the lights above him were abnormally bright but he could see them clearly. His body felt stiff as he tried to move.

"Be careful," a voice snapped, "don't go and damage yourself."

Slowly Duo pushed himself into a sitting position and he glared across at the doctor.

"What did you do to me?"

Musk turned round and smiled, "I've improved your system."

"My system?" Duo asked.

"Yes, you will notice that your wrists are no longer bruised, and that wound on your side has healed up."

Duo raised his hand, marvelled at the creamy skin on his wrist. His other hand slide down his side to discover that instead of the ragged skin that had been there previously, it was now smooth and there was no trace of blood neither.

"What did you do to me?" Duo repeated, his voice shaking.

"I told you, Duo, I've improved your system."

"I don't understand."

"Of course you don't."

"Explain yourself," Duo tried to climb off the table.

"Don't move!" the doctor snapped, "or you will ruin all my hard work. The human body is a delicate thing and if you ruin what I have done, it will only be to your disadvantage."

"What the fuck did you do to me?" Duo snarled.

Musk held up two x-rays. One was off a normal body and the other was off a body but there was something else in the x-ray. Duo ignored the man's warning and jumped off the table and he walked over to the x-rays.

"This," Musk began, "was your body before I improved it," he pointed at the normal looking x-ray. "This," he pointed at the other one, "is how I have improved it."

Duo staggered backwards, "what the fuck?"

"I wanted to create five of the perfect beings but it took so long to make one. The mother was nothing more than a whore; she sold her child to me when he was just a week old. It was so easy to add the liquid form of Gundamium into him, it moulded to his bones, enhanced his strength and gave him the ability to move faster than the speed of light. I added a sermon to his blood stream that would allow him to heal himself automatically when he injured. I had made the perfect child and as he grew, I knew that the Gundamium would change shape, keeping his body in the fit healthy condition it needed to stay in, and I knew his blood would never cure itself of the sermon disease, he was too young. It was perfect."

Musk chuckled.

"You mean Heero, you did that to him when he was a baby?!"

Musk smiled at Duo, "it was the best time, when the body can change at will to counter-fix the changes."

"Its barbaric."

"They thought so too, and they came and took my child away, and destroyed my lab."

"They?"

"They stole my plans of making the five gundams, and he grew the child as his own. I never finished him. I never finished my creation, but I finished it today. He is complete."

"You are mad," Duo stated.

"Quite so. I was surprised when your body adapted so well to the liquid Gundamium and your body didn't fight the sermon. You are my new creation. I finished my first, look at the beauty he is!"

The door to the room opened and two men brought in a boy, they held him under the arms and dragged him across the room to where Musk stood. They wore big glasses to block out the light.

"You have noticed this room is too bright, but the sermon makes it so you can see in any kind of light."

Musk bent down and stroked the boy's face. His head rose and he gazed at the man before him with adoration.

"A willing servant," he whispered, "that's what you saw early. My men were placing the final stage inside of him. I have complete control over him," and as if to prove a point, Musk ordered, "Stand Up!"

Heero rose gracefully of the floor, he continued to gaze at the man before him, his prussian eyes unusually wide.

"In a few days, Duo, you will be ready for the final stage. My men are already hunting for the other three-gundam pilots. I will do to them what I have done to you."

"Why? I don't understand why."

"The gundams were meant to help Oz, but Oz betrayed me, and now with the Gundams in my control I will do what Oz has failed to do. I will rule the world as King of all."

Duo raised an eyebrow.

"And you think that we are going to let you do this because?"

"I already have the best gundam pilot under my control," Musk stroked Heero's hair and gave a sadist smile at Duo. "Controlling you and the others will be a piece of cake."

Musk turned away.

"Down boy," he whispered at Heero who knelt down on the floor beside him.

Duo felt sick as he watched Heero obey the man who had ruined his life, and was about to ruin his and their friends.

"So, why?" Duo asked, not wanting the conversation to end, he needed to know everything, "Why did you send us to that school? Why did you blow up the school?"

"To gain your trust," he smiled and waved a hand at the door and in strolled two familiar figures, "these are my children."

The boy walked over to Heero, he bent down and pressed hungry lips against Heero's. A spark of jealous shot through Duo as he watched Heero kiss the boy back.

The boy raised his head and smirked at Duo, "Why Danielle, I almost didn't recognise you in trousers."

"Brady," Duo whispered as the boy bent down to kiss Heero again.

Duo had been to busy staring at Brady and Heero he didn't notice the girl until she caught his hands in hers.

"Hello Danielle, remember me?"

Duo closed his eyes against the sight of her face, "Kayo."

Tbc…

Well, how is that for a update? My exams are over and I have a week left of school before my summer holiday starts. I am working on two fics at the moment and you will be pleased to hear that this is one of them. I am hoping that by the end of summer, this fic will be completed.

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