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Chapter 2:
The days bled away it seemed, the lights would dim and the boy would sleep for a few hours. Rodney had asked for books and something to entertain himself with. Though the laptop was refused on more then one occasion by Heero. The teen kept looking to the red box around the errors, and Rodney saw that there were a few less lines then there had been to start with. After the fifth day the people outside the giant robot and Rodney inside was starting to get irritated.
"You can't keep me here forever," Rodney said. The typing stopped for a moment and then the boy looked back at him. "I have a job I need to get back to, back to the Pegasus Galaxy, and you know they won't let you leave, you guys never win." The doctor was starting to shake some from the look the boy was giving him.
"I will complete my mission," he said and looked back to the screen and placed his hands on the key pad when some beeping accrued beside him. Heero looked at the screen and pressed a button.
A woman appeared on the screen and looked at him. "I don't know what you feel right now, but I need my doctor back, if we can talk about this, I would greatly appreciate it. John Sheppard from my understanding has been trying to talk to you, Heero. I think it's my turn now. We have traveled a long way, from the Pegasus Galaxy to come back to earth to get some supplies and more equipment. We are about ready to return back to Atlantis, I would like my doctor to come with us. There is a threat in the Galaxy, they are called the Wraith, they wish to destroy Earth," she said. Heero hadn't gone back to typing, he was looking at her. "It is also my understanding that you haven't harmed Doctor McKay." Heero looked to Rodney.
"No Doctor Weir, he hasn't, just locked me inside this thing with him," Rodney said, "I am starting to question my own mental health."
"Thank you Doctor," she said. "It is also my understanding that this, this machine is a weapon. Maybe we can help each other. You show knowledge of it, and how to run it. I am also guessing you are a long way from home. If you help us, we will help you get back to your planet, to your home."
There was a long silence; Rodney thought he was going to go insane.
"You haven't hurt any of our people, you were being cautious, I cant, no, I won't hold that against you. Join our team, on our way back to Pegasus you can keep working on this machine of yours," she said. "Just, come out so we can see you, and make amends. I swear to you, no one is going to hurt you."
Again there was silence. Rodney watched the boy for a moment; he stood up and moved a key board back into place. He went to his closet and pulled out a jean jacket and took out a clip from the inside pocket and took his gun. Rodney felt excited that he was finally going to be able to leave this place.
"Sit," was Heero's command however. Rodney frowned.
"I can't go out?" he asked. "You can't think they will listen to you if I am not with you." The gun clicked a bullet into place. Rodney went to the bed and sat down. Heero pressed three buttons, and took a smaller device.
The woman's automatic voice sounded. "Self-destruction in sixty minutes and counting."
Heero walked to the door and pressed in a passcode and it slid open. He walked out to stand on the cockpit doors, the inner door closed behind him. They looked up at him, yellowish combat boots, jeans, a green tank top, and a jean jacket. There was a gun in his right hand, at ease to his side.
"Come on down," Weir called and stood there. John on one side of her, and another military man on the other side of her, that man looked older with slightly grey hair, and he was wearing sunglasses. Both men carried no weapons. Heero took stock of what was around him and then placed a foot down, and a cord started to lower him to the ground. The cord recoiled back to where it had been. Heero walked up to the woman and the two men.
"Hello, I am Doctor Elizabeth Weir, this is Brigadier General Jack O'Neill, and Lt. Colonel John Sheppard," she said introducing the two men beside her. "We would like to talk to you," she said and offered a table and chair for him to sit down. He remained standing.
"Do you have any military training?" John asked point blank.
"No," his answer was short.
"We would like you to help defend earth, with the hopes of creating a peaceful relationship between our people and yours," she said. Heero looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment. He wasn't sure where he was, or how he was going to get back. He knew Relena would like the peaceful way out, he had to work towards that, for peace. He gave a short nod, to show that he understood.
"It is also our understanding that that… machine is space worthy?" she asked, again he gave her a nod. "What's wrong with it?" she asked.
"In a battle before here the systems were damaged, I have most of them online," he answered.
"What still needs fixed?" she asked.
"My beam weapons, and the use of the left arm, and two impact shields," she said.
"Beam weapons?" O'Neill asked.
"A saber and a gun cannon yes, recharges on their own, their systems are off line, I have the other weapons able," he said flatly.
"Beam weapons!" O'Neill said again. "Where were you when the Goa'uld attacked?"
Heero didn't answer. How could he, he didn't understand the answer to that.
"Right, Atlantis is under my command, do you have any problems with following orders?"
There was no reply for a long moment. "When the time comes that I know a way home, I will leave, orders or not, I will not agree to comply with any and all orders," he answered her.
"I just need to know you will not put the team in danger because you can't follow the order to fall back."
"Once a mission is accepted, failure is not an option," he said flatly to her.
"I like him already," John said and rocked back and forth on his heels.
"Our spaceship is in orbit, can your suit make it up there?" she asked. Heero seemed to think about this for a moment and looked back to the machine.
"Yes," he replied after a moment. He turned.
"Oh, Heero?" Weir stopped him; he turned his head to the side some. "I will need you to fill out some forms and take a medical exam before you leave."
"Forms?" he asked softly.
"Yes, where you are from, your name age, things of that nature," she said. "Also could you let Rodney out?" she tacked on, "As an act of friendship?"
Heero thought about this for a moment, and then started walking again. They watched as he bounded up the machine, like a cat in a tree he landed on the cockpit door and opened the inner door. Rodney was leaning over a control panel looking at it as the teen walked in.
"I don't think he trusts us," John said as the door closed again and the cockpit locked.
"He's going to," Weir said and turned to leave, but stopped when the cockpit opened and Rodney stepped out. She smiled and looked at John in that 'I told you so,' expression. The man nodded as he went over. They had heard the self-destruction woman a minute or two after Heero was back inside. What was shocking was that the boy also walked out with a vanilla folder, he watched Rodney lower himself down and then he too lowered himself down. Weir waited with O'Neill as the three walked up to them. Rodney was complaining loudly.
"Rodney its good to see you again," Weir said.
"Likewise, do you know what it was like being trapped in that thing with him?" he asked her.
"I can only imagine," she responded and took the folder handed to her. She looked through it, it was his records, training, some brief missions reports though many of them had two dates, she assumed one was when it was given and when it was completed, a medical report from a Doctor Sally Po, and several other things. She handed it to Jack O'Neill who looked it over and then handed it back to her. "My doctor will still have to look over you. Do you mind following me?" she asked.