Hello! I'm back with this fic I know its been a very long and this is a very short chapter but its been nearly four years since I started this fic and I want to get it finished. I was divested when I discovered that I had lost chapter ten and eleven when my computer crashed so I've had to re-write this chapter. Its short but I promise it'll get better. I'm also trying this fic into something a little evil. well seeing as I'm not going anyway next week (half term holidays) seeing as I can't walk and I have a huge pile of coursework and revision to do, yes, its that time again, I have exams in three months… ek! And I want to learn to drive but my fucked up knee means I can't. Um, anyway I'm hoping to have this fic finished by the end of next week laughs I've been saying that for nearly four years and its still not finished. sweatdrops yeah, throw rotten fruit at me if I don't get it done and flame me until I finish it 6 I need a little encouragement.

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Chapter Ten

"Kayo."

She laughed and let go off his hands. Duo drew himself backwards, his eyes wide as he stared at his friend.

"Why?" he whispered.

"Children are so easy to bend and manipulate. After I lost my first child I needed a new one and my wife was more than willing to let me use Brady here. I received Kayo a few years later. When I first saw her I knew she would be perfect, I mean, just look at her perfect in everyway. I killed her father and paid her mother in order to get my hands on Kayo. She was what I needed. Kayo was brighter than Brady. She knew who you were even before you were stupid enough to take her into your hideout. Now, I have all five Gundams and soon… soon."

Duo spun round and opened his mouth; ready to spit out when he felt it. His whole body felt like it was grinding in on each other. Bone and metal battled against each other and although it didn't hurt the feeling was strange and Duo froze his body, hating it.

Brady laughed as he lazily petting Heero's head. "Hurts doesn't?"

"It don't hurt, you freak, it's not normal. Take your fucking hands off him!" Duo yelled at Brady's sneering face.

"I don't want too and you can't make me."

"Brady stop being an idiot. You can have your fun later."

Duo moved slowly, discovering that slow movements left out the discomforting feelings caused by the bits of gundanium in him. He looked at Musk who was leaning over a computer, typing in something.

"Come with me," Kayo whispered softly, her hand took hold of Duo's.

"No," Duo shook his head and withdrew his hand.

"Come with me," she repeated.

The door opened again and in walked a woman. "Kayo, Brady you have school now, I suggest you leave before you're late."

The two students turned and left. Brady made sure he got one last kiss off Heero before he left.

"Mr Maxwell?"

"Its Duo. I'm not that old yet."

The woman laughed. "I'm Jade. I was the one who operated on you," she held out her hand with a huge smile on her face. Duo glared at it in disgust. "What?" she asked with a laugh.

"You think I'm going to thank you for fucking up my body?"

"It's a good change, you know," she replied, dropping her hand. "Kayo never protested."

"I'm cleverer than her," Duo sneered. "My body was fine the way it was. I'll thank you when you put it back that way."

She laughed. "There's no way to reverse the operation."

"You better find one," Duo threatened.

"Pay no attention to him. Do your check up on Yuy and then get out. Be ready to insert the chip into Duo tomorrow."

"Sir," she whispered quietly and she went across to Heero who was still kneeling on the floor like some dog. Duo watched her with narrowed eyes as she coaxed Heero into sitting on the table. Somewhere while he was watching them, Musk left.

"I didn't know," she spoke as the door shut.

"Know what?"

"You didn't want it. I thought you had been willing, like Kayo had been."

"Willing to have gundanium stuck in me?" Duo slowly walked over the room, wincing every time he felt bone and metal grind.

"I have gundanium in me. I feel better for it."

"Jade, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"I don't know how you think it's nice to have metal inside of you when you don't need it," Duo's eyes fell on Heero who was sitting still on the lab table. "I've never seen him look like that."

"Like what?"

"Human."

Jade paused her examination and looked at the braided boy.

"But, the chip makes him not human."

Duo reached out and placed a hand against Heero's cheek. The boy made no move, but his eyes shifted to look at Duo.

"He's under complete control," Jade explained. "He can't even take a leak without being told."

"And that's good is it?"

Jade shook her head. "I never touch these chips, but I can put them in. Musk makes them to suit the individual. The chip inside Yuy is very old, but it's made him perfect."

"He was already perfect!" Duo snarled. "All it has done is put someone else in control of him."

"You wouldn't understand."

"No. I don't understand you and your doctor Musk, but there is no way in seven hells are you putting a chip in my skull."

"But that's…"

"What? Wrong? Why should I want it?"

"It makes you perfect."

"Do you have one?" Duo challenged softly.

"No," her replied was so soft that Duo could barely hear it even with his new improved hearing.

Duo said nothing more but went about searching the room, looking for something he could use as a weapon. Jade watched him for a few moments before returning to her task.

"The gundams are gone!" Quatre's panic voice alerted Trowa and Wufei who quickly jumped the final few stairs.

"Shit!" Wufei swore loudly, shocking both Quatre and Trowa. It was often the boy swore, in fact in Quatre's recall, that was the only time he had ever sworn.

"HEERO!" Trowa called and he strolled to the sleeping quarters. Heero's gun was on the floor, the bed sheets rumpled.

"Looks like we had an invader," Wufei followed Trowa, holding carefully in his hands a small tracker device. "It was in the kitchen."

"Can you get it to work the other way round?" Quatre asked. "Find out what has happened."

"It'll take a while. I'm no wiz like Heero when it comes to computers."

"I'll go see if the senses picked up anything."

Quatre watched the other two disappear and he sat down on Duo's bed. He closed his eyes, wondering what could have happened, when sharp pains ran through his body. He gasped loudly as they faded quickly. It wasn't his pain, it was someone else. He sat still, waiting for it to happen again but it never did and finally in his waiting, he dropped off to sleep.

Duo gritted his teeth together against the pain that was threatening to consume his body. He had finally sat down in the corner of the room; from there he could see everything. Jade had left a while back, leaving him and Heero alone. He had tried talking to Heero but the boy hadn't listened to one word he had said and dishearten, Duo had retreated into sulking. From where he sat, he could see the entire room but he was also blocked from view unless you were standing directly in front of him. Duo couldn't understand why it felt like his body was burning up, but the pain was so much that it felt like he was about to pass out, but he refused to do so. Especially when the door opened and in walked Brady.

Brady looked around the room but couldn't see anyone apart from Heero. He strolled confidently over to where the boy was sitting on the lab table.

"Hello Heero Yuy," he purred as the boy looked at him, his eyes empty. "You know, there's something I've been wanting to do since I first saw you and now, there is no one around to stop me. Oh, I will enjoy this."

Tbc…

Heehee, like the cliffhanger?

I would just like to say a huge thanks to everyone who has ever read and reviewed this fic! I know its been an awful long trek to get to the double figures on the chapter front but with luck, it'll be done in ten days… woohoo ()

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