Disclamier: I dont own Stargate or Gundam.
Chapter 4:
He was excited, it would be the first time for Heero to see the Stargate and he couldn't wait to see a different expression on his face when that happened. John Sheppard stood on the platform with Teyla and Rodney waiting for him. He had been called by Weir for her to explain that John was acting officer while he was off world and to reassure him that no one was going to try at his Gundam. Since they had arrived back on Atlantis he had had no expression to his face, like this was some secret mission that he was undergoing for himself. Tapping the SMG as John waited for Heero to climb the steps up to them.
"Wait until you see this!" Sheppard said and turned back. The days before this was him explaining the things that he carried to the boy, but he had already figured out, or knew what most of those were. Heero wore the SGA uniform that was given to him, and the military vest like it was nothing new to him. Teyla even had to learn to cope with them and that had taken some time.
Once he was standing there with the group John gave a thumb up to Weir.
Their mission was simply a gather information and see about trading and making peace with these people. As the chevrons lit up around the ring Heero watched, John was nearly twitching in his boots as Rodney rolled his eyes and shook his head. Teyla placed a soft hand on his shoulder.
"Do not be afraid," she said softly as the last symbol locked and the gate exploded.
Heero stood staring blankly at the gate.
"That's it?" Sheppard asked. "No shock, no excitement, just… nothing?" he asked.
Heero turned to him. "I am suppose to act surprised when facing something new?" he asked emotionlessly as he walked forward and looked at it.
"Well, yeah," John answered back.
"Not everyone thinks this is the coolest thing ever Colonel," Rodney replied. He walked next to Heero and looked at it. "Amazing isn't it? A wormhole that goes to another planet."
Without word or warning of what could be, Heero walked through the gate. Teyla turned her head to the side confused. Rodney followed, and John took it at a jog and Teyla followed him. Heero was kneeling down, gun up looking around; Rodney had some sort of device in his hand. "Which way Teyla?" John asked.
"That way to the city," she said and pointed ahead and to the left of the gate. "It's a little bit of a walk, but we can get there before sun down," she said.
"Just a bit of a walk, should have brought a puddlejumper," John said.
"It's not that far of a walk Colonel Sheppard," Teyla said. Heero was on high alert as they walked for about an hour, then relaxed. Rodney kept looking at him strangely.
"Heero, I couldn't help but notice that you keep getting messages from a Duo, from the sounds of it you haven't replied, is there a reason?" Rodney asked, John looked at him as if he had gone mad.
"You snoop?" John asked.
"No, not really I am just there when he receives them."
Heero looked at Rodney. "My system was damaged beyond my repair, I can only receive the messages," he answered Rodney.
"Why do you get to be in the cockpit of the giant robot?" John asked.
"Because I was studying if any of the Ancient technology would work with those systems of the mobile suit, and Heero will not allow anyone else but myself to do this," he explained, "if you'd show up for some of the other meetings you would know how much of a genius I am."
"Oh and do they work Rodney?" John asked as they kept walking.
"Well, none have so far, however it's a simple matter of rewiring some things," McKay started and got a look from Heero, "not your suit, the connections to the computers." Heero stopped then and looked to the side, Teyla was the first to notice this change and she too stopped and looked at Heero. This caused John to stop and Rodney to nearly run into him.
"What is the matter Heero?" Teyla asked, he watched the brush just as someone ran out from it, and he was quick, quicker than Teyla was at warning him. He pulled out his handgun and leveled three bullets into the head of the sickly white skinned and pale haired being. The humanoid fell to the ground. Heero didn't remove the gun from its fix location. "Wraith," Teyla said.
"How come you didn't feel it Teyla?" John asked.
"I know not, Colonel Sheppard," she said. "Where there is one Wraith, there are others."
"Okay, we're going to go back to Weir, we got the intel we need," John said and watched Heero.
The Wraith sat up and lunged at Heero, John and Teyla both brought their weapons up, trained on the Wraith. Heero moved back and knocked the hands back. The others watched as they seemed to be in a fight, Heero dodging and blocking the strange hands, all the while his expressionless face unmoving. Neither one of the gun holders could get a clear shot on the thing, and it was more useless to shoot at it.
But as they watched, they blinked for a split second and missed it, Heero had the Wraith on his knees, no, there were no knees once they looked Heero had a battle knife in hand, blood covered it, he moved it across the Wraiths neck, slicing right across it's throat, and bringing the gun back placed three more bullets into its head. Rodney was staring shocked. Heero looked like he could have been reading a book, he was unfazed.
"That was a Wraith," John said, "Let's head back to Weir." They turned back to the gate, Heero looked down at the body and then turned and followed the others. "How did you know it was dangerous?"
"The fact that it attacked us?" Rodney asked back.
"Hn." Heero said in agreement.
John looked at Heero. "How many wars have you been apart of?"
Heero didn't stop walking beside them, Rodney looked at him from the side, he had been wondering that same thing. "One, still," he answered, deciding that it may be better to tell them the truth. "I had been training for Operation Meteor years before its date, before Wing was built. Doctor J made sure I knew a friend from a foe least I make a mistake," he didn't add the word 'again' but he thought it. John looked at him as he spoke, Rodney for all his worth couldn't think of a smart-comeback.
They were silent for a while. "How many of you are there?" John asked, "That pilot those robots?" There was nothing from Heero. "Its not like we're going to go there and expose them or anything, they are somewhere far, far away from us."
"Five," he answered.
"Have any codenames?" Sheppard asked him, again there was silence for a while.
"Codenames issuing from zero-one to zero-five, I am zero-one," he answered simply. He didn't see the harm in telling them, it wasn't like they could use the information for anything, and besides, Weir had it all on a file.
"Their names?" John questioned. For this, there was no answer; he refused to go as far as give names of the people he use to work with.
"What's wrong with the communication system?" Rodney asked.
"Damaged with a collision from a Leo, I need a new relay, and then I could install it, but from what I noticed, you don't have anything close to what I need," he replied.
"Maybe we can fix the one you have," John said, Heero looked doubtful, it was an emotion! "You have heard him, he's a genius."
Needless to say, they had a story to tell Weir of how Heero fought off a Wraith once they got back to Atlantis and another world was marked off their list.