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Chapter 3:

Given a clean bill of health by the doctor, and having taken another day to get the machine up to the space ship, which he did, and it was now in a hanger bay kneeling down. That was where he was, looking through the window at that moment, looking out the window to the giant robot, John beside him. They had tested his strength, and his abilities with a gun. He was better then a good shot, his aim was dead on. Heero was given uniforms and a budget to get more clothing and personal supplies before they left.

The team of Atlantis picked up more medical supplies, food and weapons from this trip, it was going to be a very long time before they would be able to return, and they had ran out of the supplies of coffee and tea, though they were still trading and trying to make a home at Atlantis, it hadn't been easy.

Heero had agreed to join the team for a while, try and make it back to his own home of a planet called Earth and a cluster of colonies. He hadn't finished making the repairs and he knew that was what he should have been doing, but he also knew he needed a break for a bit.

That was why he was looking in on the machine.

"It's a giant robot," John said beside him.

"A Gundam," Heero replied. "Wing Zero."

"Yeah, it's a giant robot! How many are there where you come from?" he asked.

"… Few and too many enemies," he replied.

"We travel to a lot of other planets, Teyla comes from a different planet," he said and looked to the woman that walked up to them and stood beside them looking at the machine.

"Not once in my life had I heard of such a thing as this," she said with a smile that seemed to always be on her face.

"It is not long before it is fully operational," Heero replied.

"Yes well if you let some of the other staff look at it, it may go faster," Rodney said as he filed behind John. Heero didn't answer to that right away. "I for one would like to see how some of those systems work, and what you are tampering with that could be useful to us."

"Rodney," John said in his best shut-up voice.

"It's the truth, none of us knows if he really knows how to truly work this machine or not," he said. Heero turned his head to the side watching the doctor. "You could mess up a string of programming code that makes it fly."

"Rodney," John said in a dangerous voice. The man looked at him. "Let's just assume that he didn't already fly that thing up here and into the hanger bay, who else would have?"

McKay was silent for a moment. "Okay fine, but he's still a kid!"

"Teenager actually," Weir said standing at the end of the hall; she looked out the window at the machine as she walked up to them. She looked out at it. "I wanted to talk to you about that machine. It can't fit through the Stargate, so it will have to stay on Atlantis. Can it be used as a defense against the Wraith, when they choose to attack again?" there was a nod from Heero, "I want you to train someone to pilot it in-"

"No."

"Incase you are off world," she finished. He didn't say it again; he gave her the look that meant what he had said. "What if in the event you are off world and we need it?"

There was no reply from Heero as he watched his Mobile Suit from the window.

"Heero please understand that it is a matter of safety for our people," Weir said.

The pilot turned to her his expression cold. "No," he informed her, and walked away from the group.

"There has to be a reason why he's saying no," John said and watched him.

"He doesn't trust us," Weir said.

"Or he doesn't want anyone messing with what is his," Teyla supplied. "Or maybe something else?" she asked as her attention turned to the window as Heero climbed into the cockpit of the mobile suit.

"It could be too dangerous for one of us to learn," John said.

"That machine isn't the nicest of places to be, he can complete cut the cockpit from the rest of the machine," Rodney said and watched as lights displayed on the mobile suit. Heero was sitting on the cockpit door with one leg hanging off and the other under bent towards him with a laptop resting on a stretch of metal with wires plugged into the door below him. "Do you want kind of power that thing must have?" Rodney said.

"According to Heero it's a battery of some kind," John said, "He also said it would last for about 10 or so years."

"Oh is that all?" he asked and shook his head as he watched. "I wish I could get in there and see what he's doing I really don't want him to screw up."

"Rodney," Weir said in her warning voice, "he knows what he's doing, he's been doing this for several years, and he was trained into this."

"Oh and how do you know that hum?" Rodney asked.

"His files that he has given me and the ones that he was so kind to down load for me. Trust him, he is trusting us. We'll be back at Atlantis in a couple of days, I suggest you all get some rest," she said and looked to the window where the boy was working.

Making it back to Atlantis was the easy part, and by that time Heero had completed the system restoring process. Once they touched down and had a bit of a break, Weir wanted to see the suit and what it could do, and what was a beam saber and a gun cannon. Heero nodded in agreement but also had informed her that he wouldn't shoot any of his bullets for he couldn't get more at the moment. She agreed.

So she and nearly all of the people of Atlantis watched as the mobile suit was moving out to get ready. Heero had refused the offer of protective gear. They had the telecom out and looked at him, they now had video of him inside the cockpit and just as Rodney had said, the back was closed off with a wall. The suit took a few steps and was plunged into the ocean water.

"Heero!" Weir called worriedly. On the screen, Heero seemed at ease, and calmed, the inside of the cockpit glowed and came to life with lights, and with him moving his arms up, moving something like joysticks, the Gundam soared into the sky, spraying drops of water everywhere as the wings opened. Heero moved the suit as if in a dance in the sky. He moved flawlessly, and then drew the beam saber, the blade glowed green as he swiped it across the sky a few times, then pulled out his beam cannon, and he looked at the watchers as they looked on with shock and amazement. He decided to show them what it was like and fired off one shot into the sky, it had taken some time for it to charge. Once that was done he chose to show them something else, he pulled apart the beam cannon into two guns.

"That's a weapon," John said and poked Rodney in the side, "Still think he doesn't know how to use it?"

There was no answer for that; Rodney looked at John in the look that spoke he would think of something.

"That's quite a show Heero, I have something to ask you," Weir said and looked at Carson who was wide eyed and mouth agape. "Think you can let Doctor Beckett get some readings while you do that again? I want to know it's safe."

"Safe?" Carson asked. "Going on like that I'm surprised he's not mash mush!" the doctor stammered.

"Affirmative," Heero said and moved closer to them, and then lowered the Gundam down on a city landing spot for ships. He knelt the Gundam down and looked up to the giant mass of metal. There his lips twitched, and he was taken to get looked at again, by the doctor.

…..

Heero was a master at controlling his heart rate, blood pressure and his breathing, and the readings inside the cockpit by their equipment said that his insides should be liquid. That was what Weir had been afraid of, and why Heero refused, she thought, to train anyone. The shear force of moving something of that mass was astounding. One had to train for this for a very long time, starting at low forces and working their way up, without that, anyone who tried to pilot that thing, would die. So he was the only one.

Oh there was no doubt however; she was still going to send him off world.