Chp 3

(1 year and three months after body was pulled)

Duo opened his eyes, expecting to see nothing but shadows, but came face to face with a nicely decorated room. There was a nice large bed with down blankets and pillows, even the mattress was stuffed with feathers. The sheets were black silk.

Duo sat up and looked around the room, surprised to find that the room was incredible tall, with large thick shelves with nothing on them. Duo had an urge to jump up to them and take a nap. The furniture in the room was simple oak, a dresser, chest, and two chairs, and a small cozy looking couch. There was also a large wooded post in the corner of the room, the bottom half wrapped in carpet.

Duo scratched his head, he couldn't remember what had happened, actually he could only remember a few things, his name for one, a pair of blue eyes was there, and blurring figures. Everything else in his head was one giant mass of spinning colors and noiselessly screaming people.

Duo pilled his hand back and reached back for his ears, his fingers tracing up them to their furry points.

"What the…" He did remember that he didn't have cat ears. He stood up and walked over to the mirror just to confirm, but he no longer cared about his ears when he saw his eyes. There had slits in them, like a cats, they were still purple, which gave him some relief. His tail flicked in irritation, and he froze, he turned slowly to look down at his butt and saw an incredible long black tail. Duo turned back to the mirror and opened his mouth, sure enough there were sharp teeth and a slightly spiky tongue. Duo looked down at his hands and found no finger nails, but small holes in the tips, he flexed his fingers experimentally and jumped back when black sharp nails popped out from the holes, his feet doing the same. At least he had some dignity left as he was wearing black silk loose pants and a matching shirt.

Duo sank to the ground tears sliding down his checks. He couldn't remember who he was, only that this wasn't right. This couldn't be right. He searched his mind trying to figure it out, but only lost himself further, not knowing weather he had once been a cat or once been a man. He had memories of playing with a mushroom looking man when he was a kitten, but he had memories of that same man telling him not to blow up his…the metal man he called 'Deathscythe', and Duo was a man there.

"I see you are awake, my little pet." Duo flinched away from the voice and looked around the room. A man was walking into the room, a remote in his hand. Duo backed away from him, until his back meet with the bed. It was the mushroom man, and for a reason that he didn't know he feared him right now, cold and utter fear coursed threw him blood. G walked closer to him.

"Let's get to the point, little Neku. We want to see what you can do, and you are going to show us or you're going to be punished." Duo just starred at the man before him. This man couldn't tell him what to do like that. Duo would do what he wanted when he wanted how he wanted.

"Now the first thing, I want you to come here." The man said, starting off with simple orders, since he had erased Duo's memory he wanted to make sure he would still obey him. He pointed to the ground next to him to make sure Duo would understand. Duo just glared at him.

"Here now!" He said a little more firmly. Duo continued to glare at him.

"I'll be there when I feel like it." Duo growled out. G pushed the button on the remote and a shock was sent threw Duo's body, Duo fell the little ways to the ground, shaking violently but not making a noise. His claws sank into the ground around him and he tried desperately to ignore the sheer pain in his body.

"Well it's good to see that you still have a high pain tolerance…now come here." G ordered again. Duo just remained laying on the ground. "Fine, no food for three days." G said, shocking Duo once more before he left. Once the door was closed Duo curled up into a ball and sobbed away the pain. That bastard had punished him for no damn reason. Duo uncurled himself and tested his muscles, jumping onto one of the empty shelves. He curled up into a ball and closed his eyes tightly. Blue eyes starring at him in his mind, oddly they were telling him to be strong and not to give up. All Duo could think or at least remember was that these eyes belonged to someone he didn't want to forget about.

Duo spent the next three days experimenting with his abilities, but by the time the third day came he was too weak to continue doing anything. He had not been feed anything and the water had been warm and tasted just a little stale. Duo laid on the bed, wishing that he could get some food. It seemed that he had been able to go longer then this at one point in his life, but he wanted it so badly. He just wanted to eat something, like he had never eaten before. The fact that he couldn't even remember the last time he had eaten scared him.

Finally the door opened and that man came in. Duo's new senses picked up a steak sandwich with cheese, somewhere near by. His mouth watered and he sat up quickly. But other then that he didn't move towards the man. He remained on a high shelf, where the man couldn't reach him.

"If you want food you will come here." G said. Duo bowed his head , he jumped off the ledge, barely managing to land on his feet and walked over to G, he was hungry, he really was. "Knell down." G ordered. Duo fell to his knees in front of G.

"You always were a sap for food, Duo." G said. "I'll make you a deal Duo. You play around in this room, exercise and experiment more with your new abilities then just flicking you're tail and ears, and I'll feed you. If you don't do anything then you don't get food." It sounded okay for Duo. He wasn't going to hurt anyone doing that, and he would be feed. It was not degrading either because he would learn the capabilities of his new body. Duo nodded. G smiled and patted him on the head. Duo snapped at him.

"That's a good boy." Strangely enough it felt good as G scratched behind his ear, Duo's tail flicked happily. "Biting people is a good sign." After all he wanted an army of these enhanced beings. He suddenly back handed Duo, sending him flying back a few feet. Duo landed in the heap on the ground glaring at the man as he left. Where was the food? He questioned to himself. Then the panel on the wall slide open and a plate was pushed in.

"Hmm Food." Duo said and pounced on the plate. There was a soft giggle of an elderly sounding lady. "Who are you?" Duo asked as he ate his food.

"My name is Ely. I'll be feeding you." She said happily though her voice sounded sad.

"Do you want to come in a play?" Duo asked. He wanted company so badly. Only having seen G.

"Oh I am so sorry, but I am ordered not to." She said, again her voice was sad.

"Why are you sad Ely?" Duo asked, pausing in his food for a second.

"Because what they are doing to you is wrong, little one." Duo sighed.

"Can you keep a secret?" Duo asked.

"Of course, dear, I'm a grandmother after all." She said with a small laugh.

"I dream of things that I don't think exist." He said like a child who knew the secret of life.

"Oh, and what is that dear?" She said softly.

"Large metal robots with glowing green eyes and mans like Deathscythe and Wing. They fly around protecting people, and killing the evil shadows. And I dream of a man with messy chocolate hair and shimmering but cold blue eyes. He's the only reason why I haven't killed myself. Because I believe that one day I will escape and I will find my hero." Duo said. (1) "I'm sorry." Duo added.

"For what, dear?" Ely asked. But there was no reply as Duo had retreated with the rest of his food onto his ledge. She sighed and shut the panel.

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Everything had been going okay, until they started getting more violent on him. He tried to find knew things to do, but he couldn't, not with the same things. They would beat him almost to death some times, only because he couldn't jump in a new way. He could back flip two or three times in one jump, front flip the same. He could jump higher then any human, climb walls with his nails, walk a tight wire without even a threat of falling off. His reflexes where incredible fast. His eye sight was amazing. He could see in the dark and the light and everything in between. He could smell things that were on the other side of the compound. And he could taste things in his food that he couldn't even smell were there, like pills.

If he didn't eat the pills they would come in with ten of so men and force the pills down this throat. And they beat him for not swallowing the pills on his own. He started to fear and hate people. He started to lash out at them. He had killed so many of them too, but they kept coming. He hated everyone except Ely and the mysterious blue eyed man in his dreams.

What was he doing right now? He was laying on his bed, bruised and beat. He didn't even have enough energy to get to his high safe ledge. He whimpered when the doctors got to close to him. And he was literally scared of everything, afraid that they would be used to hurt him, or something along those lines. He was literally a death machine in a lethal body, but he couldn't bring himself to hurt the doctors. He wanted too, he wanted to lash out at them, scratch them, bit them, rip them apart, but he couldn't, he was afraid that if he killed them then he would die in this place, unfed and uncared for. If he even remotely looked like he would attack, they shocked him with his collar and remote, then proceeded to beat him until he couldn't move, and then he wouldn't get food for days.

It was a vicious cycle with no signs of an end. Duo closed his eyes, seeing nothing but those blue eyes, still telling him not to give up. For three months now, those eyes have been the only thing that kept him going. He wanted to know who they belonged to and whether they were someone important in his life, before this. He wanted to wrap himself in the arms of the man who was home for those eyes. That man could protect him, but that man was so far away, it seemed.

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"I would like to talk to someone who was working on the Maxwell Case." An elderly lady said. She looked shaken up and worried about something. The receptionists looked at the lady over the glasses, shock clear in her eyes.

"Maam, that case was closed more then a year and a half ago." The lady said, her eyes sad, she had known Duo, personally, well everyone had really. She had gone to the funeral, had watched him being buried.

"Please." The woman begged. Wufei was walking by at that time. Entering the building to start a new day on the little leads they had on Duo, his secret assignment. Heero kept insisting that he was alive, and so they kept looking for him. They would not give up on there friend until his true body, alive or dead, preferable living, was found. "Please I know where he is." The women begged.

"Maam, Duo is gone, please don-"

"You know where Duo is?" Wufei asked, turning the woman around. The women nodded looking around in a scared fashion. Wufei grabbed her arm and started dragging her towards the interrogation room, where they would have some privacy. "Heero." Was all he said when he passed the chocolate haired boy. Heero fallowed a bit confused but didn't question it.

Once in the room Wufei gently sat the elderly women in a chair and looked at Heero.

"She knows where he is." He said, Heero's eyes widened and he turned to the women.

"You know where Duo is?" He asked. The women nodded, and Heero urged her to go on.

"Doctor G hired me as-" Heero slammed his fist on the table.

"Doctor G!" He nearly yelled, the women flinched.

"Yes, he and the other four insane men," Heero looked at Wufei.

"They all survived." He said, almost not believing himself.

"Look they said they would kill me if I told anyone…but Duo is so sweet and always so kind to me, I can't just leave him there with those bastards. There beating him, and neglecting his needs for food and even medical care. They drug him more then is necessary since he won't even fight them." The women said. Heero sat down and looked at the women. "He has killed people, but I believe it was out of his own protection."

"Please tell me everything." Heero said. The women nodded.

"I have never personally seen Duo after the surgery. I was told to only slip the food and drugs throw the slot. But every time I did he would thank me and tell me how nice I was. And I felt so bad because I was being forced to drug him. I don't know what they did to him, but I do know that they have been beating him, I can hear him crying and screaming. They force him to do things in that room, and I don't want to know. But you have to help him. He told me once that he thought that he didn't belong there. That he kept dreaming of things that seemed fake." Heero's eyes closed.

"Like what?" He asked.

"Like a giant metal man with glowing green eyes….he called it…um death something."

"Deathscythe?" Heero asked.

"Yeah, He said that they fought of the evil shadows to protect the good people. I figured he was talking about one of those Gundam things. But you know, now that I see your eyes I think he was talking about you, also." The women said when Heero opened his eyes again.

"What?' Heero said.

"Yeah, he said the only reason why he hadn't killed himself yet was because he felt like we could try to get out someday and find the man with the cold blue eyes, telling him not to give up." The older woman said. Heero put his head on the table. Duo hadn't giving up because he remembered his eyes, Heero had not given up on Duo either, he had never stopped searching.

"Maam can you tell us where he is?" Heero asked.

"There is a large building at 1386 S. 23rd street. It is disguised as a factory for stuffed toys, but to be truthful, it hasn't let out a single toy in nearly five years." The woman said. "Now, I would like some protection. I know you're concern right now is with Duo, that is fine, but I do not wish to die for telling the truth." The woman said.

"We will put you in protective custody until we take care of this." Heero said, Wufei nodded his agreement and went to call for Eric to take care of the women. "Please do not tell anyone about this." Heero said. The women nodded. Heero left the room, smirking one of his "Mission Accepted' smirks. He was going to get his Duo back whether the boy had his memory or not.

(1) has no idea that hero is Heero lol. I warned you about the sap.