Chp 4

"The perimeter is surrounded Heero." Eric said, still amazed that they had found Duo. He had not told Heildi yet since he had found out that morning. There were different types of cars parked randomly around the building watching the exits and what not, with an unmarked white van parked across the street from the main entrance. The owner to the mini mart across the street was highbred to talk to the guy that drove the van, making it look like it had nothing to do with the old factor.

Heero and Trowa would be the only two going into the building. Trowa would enter from the back and take out the guards while Heero would go through the front. Ely had given them the location of Duo's room. She had also warned them that the doctors were still prepared for a fight and that Duo's room was lined with explosives, encase they had to destroy the evidence and what not.

Heero took a deep breath and entered the building quietly. Making sure to not attract anyone's attention.

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Duo jerked awake wincing at the pain in his ribs, and looked around him. There were alarms going off everywhere. They were loud and they hurt his sensitive ears. Duo covered his ears, a picture of himself, no tail or ears running through a hall with a gun in his hands and the blue eyes boy next to him, they were shooting down shadows. Duo stopped shooting and threw a bomb down the hall. He got out of bed and walked over to the door. Placing his ear against the door, the other flattening again his head so that he could focus on the door.

He could hear a dozen or so people running around the compound, listening carefully he picked out gun sounds and O, S, and H being cut off, there screams dieing away.

"There after Duo make sure to put extra security around that room." Duo smiled, then frowned. He didn't know whether 'them' being after him was a good thing or a bad thing. Then he smiled a sad smile. Either way it would be better then here.

"Heero, you don't want to sh-" There was gunfire and J was cut off. Duo smiled.

"Guess he did want to shot you J." he told himself with a harsh laugh.

The door suddenly opened sending Duo backing up quickly. G walked into the room and backhanded him sending him to the ground and wrapping his arms around his chest in pain.

"This is your fault." He yelled.

"No…no, I don't know them, please." Duo begged as G started pounding his fist into Duo's body.

Realizing that he didn't have to take this any more he kicked G away from him as hard as he could sending G slamming into a wall. Duo got to his feet and jumped up onto the highest shelf on the other end of the room, he held his ribs and watched G cautiously, he may be out of reach but G had other tricks.. G got up and started screaming at him.

"You get down here and you go kill them!" G yelled.

"No!" Duo screamed back. "I'm not going to kill anyone for you!" Duo screamed back at him. G looked around for his remote, realizing he had left it behind in his haste he cursed and started throwing things at Duo. Duo lifted his eye brow in amusement when G's objects came nowhere close to hitting him.

"Damnit Duo get down here or I won't ever feed you again." Duo smiled. A gun pointed to the side of G's head. G's eyes widened and he moved his eyes to see Trowa standing there pointing the gun. Duo watched from his shelf.

"Heero in here!" Trowa said, then he looked up towards Duo and froze. Duo looked down at him, fear laced his eyes, but that's not what got his attention, it was the fact that Duo's eyes where slitted, and that his ears were black and furry, pointed like a cats, and a tail hung off the shelf, flicking slightly. Heero entered the room and Trowa looked at him.

Heero ignored Trowa and slammed his gun into G's head knocking him to the ground. He sat on his and fisted a bunch of his white lab coat together lifting him off the ground and slamming him back down.

"What the fuck did you do to Duo?" He asked slamming him down again. G didn't answer him. Heero picked him up and slammed him down again. He slammed him down so hard that he cracked G's skull on the 'carpeted' floor. Without waiting for an answer Heero reached up and snapped G's neck. Breathing hard he stood up and emptied his gun into G's body. He stood there pulling the trigger over and over. Trowa put a hand on his shoulder and Heero lowered the gun.

He reached over and took Trowa's gun and shot a few more times until Trowa literally pulled the gun away from him. "

"Heero…Stop." Trowa said.

"Where's Duo, this place is going to blow at any second, this stupid ass, placed a few bombs." Heero said. Trowa looked back up at Duo. Heero fallowed his gaze and his eyes widened.

"Duo?" He said, Duo backed up against the wall. He wasn't sure if he could trust these guys. Heero shook off his shock. "Duo, come on, we have to get out of here. If we don't this hole place will blow up." He said. Duo looked around frantically. Maybe he could get out without them catching him.

The wall next to Duo suddenly blew, Duo turned his head so that nothing hit him, flattening himself against the wall as much as he could. "Shit." He whispered.

Heero and Trowa fell to the ground covering there heads. That was the first of seven small bombs that Heero knew G had placed in the room. Thanks to Ely of course. Heero got to his feet quickly and looked for a way to get to Duo who was still a good twenty feet above them on a shelf.

"Duo, trust me please." Heero called back up. Duo looked down at him and decided quickly that it was his last chance to get out of there. To leave behind the hell he lived in. Duo, ignoring all the pain in his body, jumped down and landed on his feet in front of Heero.

"How are we going to get out of here. Both ways are blocked." Trowa said. Duo sighed and shook his head. He grabbed both of there hands and took off at a run down the hall, threw the smoke. Using his ears he could hear that there was no fire crackling this way, just a lot of smoke. Remembering something Duo pulled both boys to the ground and the made there way to the elevator. This is how far Duo had gotten the one time he had managed to escape.

With the smoke and hot flames around them, Heero and Trowa didn't see the man sneaking up on them with the mask on. It was J and Duo could smell him coming. He hissed and back ed away. Heero and Trowa turned squinting in the smoke filled room.

J rushed forward hitting Heero in the face with his metal hand. Or at least intending too. Heero opened his eyes and found Duo's hand onto an inch away. He watched as Duo pushed J away from Heero and into a wall. But that was all he did. He pushed open the door next to the elevator, leading to the stairwell.

Heero saw it when it was too late, due to the smoke screen. J slammed his hand into the back of Duo's head, sending the neko boy to the ground unconscious. Heero shot J, but his gun was empty on bullets. So instead he jumped on J and proceeded to beat the man in the back of the head with the butt of the gun, until he felt the skull give under the force of the metal. Heero stood and picked Duo up, running up the flight of stairs with Trowa right behind him. There was another explosion that sent the staircases rocking on there bindings. Heero and Trowa slammed into the wall, but pushed forward and kept going. There were at the top of the stairs when another bomb went off.

The factory part of the building looked little affected by the explosions. They made a run towards Wufei who was holding the door open and waiting for them. O, S, and H where being forcible pulled out of the building, each with a shot wound to the leg.

An explosion behind them sent them sprawled on the ground. Duo rolled a few times and landed on his stomach a few feet away from Heero. Heero quickly got to his feet, as did Heero. He fell to his knees next to Duo and picked him up again. They made it the rest of the way, and behind the now placed cop cars and waited in cover as the rest of the bombs went off, the dust settling around them as the building collapsed.

Heero set Duo down carefully on the stretcher., as the boy was still unconscious.

"What did they do to him?" Wufei asked fingering the tail lightly. "It feels so real." He said. When it flicked he jumped back. "Oh my god it is real!" he said.

"This is what she was talking about when she said the surgery. Besides the ears and tail I wonder what else they changed?" Heero said.

"His eyes." Trowa said. Instinctively Heero lifted Duo's eye lids carefully, revealing cat like violet eyes. He sighed and bowed his head. Trowa put an arm around Heero's shoulder. "Don't worry, I'm sure most of it can be undone. Duo will be fine."

"He doesn't have his memory Trowa." Heero said sadly. "You say how he looked at us. He had no idea who we were." Heero said.

"It'll come back to him slowly. It did for me." Trowa said. Heero nodded. And got into the car with Wufei and Trowa. They were going to have to fallow the ambulance, as they were not allowed in it with Duo. But Heero wouldn't let it out of his sight as he was the one driving.

When they arrived at the hospital however, Heero and the others were forced to wait in the waiting room and Duo was rushed into the ER. They were saying something about concussions, bruised ribs, and smoke inhalation. Heero and Wufei sat down in the ER waiting room. Heero's head in his hands.

"Quatre, are you busy right now?" Trowa asked. Heero looked up and found him on his cell phone. Quatre was going to be mad at them for not saying anything about the fake 'Duo' and the fake funeral. "Well could you come down to the Elridge Hospital…no I'm not hurt…no it's not anyone else at Preventors…Quatre please just come down here as soon a possible please, the ER…I have something important to tell you." Trowa said. He hung up his phone and put it back into his pocket, sitting down next to Heero and wincing as his elbow hit the back of the chair. He raised it to look at the burn there and laughed slightly.

Heero looked up at him. "What's so funny."

"I don't think I've been this hurt since the war."

"But it's only a little burn." Heero said. Trowa just nodded.

"He's going to kill us." Wufei said. That brought there attention to Wufei. "Quatre." Wufei said, clearing out who 'he' was.

"I bet he already knew." Heero said. "What with that space heart and all. He didn't cry at the funeral, and he doesn't pay his respects to the grave like everyone else does." Heero pointed out. The other two only nodded, finally running out of things to say. Hmmm the world of the wordless, Duo would have called it.

They waited in silence for twenty minutes before Quatre came running into the waiting room.

"Is he okay?" Quatre asked. Heero gave an I told you so grunt, and the other two's eyes widened in shock.

"Quatre you knew the whole time?" Trowa asked.

"Yes…that 'thing' you buried at the funeral wasn't even human, it was all fake. But I guessed that you had a reason for it. So are you going to answer my question or not?" Quatre asked.

"We don't know. I didn't think he was badly hurt, but they took him to the ER." Heero said. Quatre sighed and sat down with them.

"Then I guess all we can do is wait." Quatre said. The others just nodded. Quatre sat down between them and waited for five minutes. "Wow, it's times like these when you wish Duo was here." There all looked at him in a shocked manner. "Oh come off it, you guys seriously thought you would lose Duo that easily." Quatre said.

'He has no memory." Heero said quietly, Quatre froze and swallowed hard.

"What?"

"He has no memory." Wufei repeated. Quatre sat silently then, feeling like an ass.

It was another two hours before Sally came out of the ER, a grim expression on her face. She sat down across from them, her notes in her hands.

"It seems that the Doctors did the surgeries safely. The tail and the ears where perfectly aligned, meaning that there is no complications. The tail is attached to his spin and his spinal cord, giving him free movement of it. His ears are incredible, they pivot on his head like a cats, they flatten the change direction with sounds.

"His tongue is also a work of art, just like a felines, slightly spiking, from what I can see it's his own tongue. And his teeth, well those were easy modifications. His eyes are a different matter, I'm guessing they used laser surgery for that, and I'm slightly curious whether or not they work like a real cat's eye. And his hands have been modified also. Each finger has a retractable claw. Also all of his muscles have been enhanced, I'm guessing so that he can jump higher and the like.

"Now he was pretty banged up as well. Luckily nothing was broken, but the bruises cover his body are unnerving. And he's completely malnourished. If we found him any later, there is a possibility that he would be dead." Sally said.

"Duo has a tail?" Quatre asked. "And ears…" Everyone ignored him. He would get his answer later, right now they wanted to know about Duo.

"Unfortunately, I feel it would be harmful to his health to remove anything at this time." Sally said. The others nodded in understanding.

"Can I see him now." Heero asked. Sally nodded.

She lead them into the room Duo was in. Duo looked so small in the large white hospital bed. Heero smiled. Duo looked like a little kitten-he stopped his train of thought.

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Sorry Quatre was a little odd in this chapter, but he was trying to keep himself from going insane like he did when his father died and stuff okay so bare with me.