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Not been here? I know, I am sorry, Marrowind took my mind away for a couple of days.

Chapter 13:

Heero and Duo were both suited up and ready to leave; by Atlantis's radar the Wraith ships were hours out. Carson was attacking them with patches that would monitor their heart rate and various other functions. John watched them, as they let him put the patches on them and check his equipment. Rodney was doing his own tests in the control room with Weir and Teyla. John took them up to the control room.

"Oh-one reporting," Heero said.

"Oh-two reporting," Duo said and smiled at Weir.

"I think you know your mission, destroy the Wraith ships, no survivors if possible, and come back alive and well. God speed, and good luck boys," she said.

"Mission accepted," Heero said and turned to walk out to the Gundams.

"Lets kick come Wraith ass!" Duo said and turned, his braid trailing behind him.

"Your communications have been wired into our system, we'll be able to hear you and you'll be able to hear us," Weir informed them. They both lifted their hands in the air. Duo slid into Deathscythe and Heero got into Wing. Their cockpit doors closed and they both moved.

"Hey Heero, you go first," Duo said.

"Hmn," he said and leaped into the air, Deathscythe followed. When they reached closer to leaving the planet, Wing's wings closed around the gundam, and Deathscythe's thruster shields did the same. Once they reached space they hovered there.

"Oh-one reporting in, atmosphere cleared," Heero said.

"Oh-two, same, cleared and in space," Duo said and looked around. "Hey Hee-man," Duo looked on his screen as Heero appeared on the side screen. "Lets make this fun, the first repair parts from Howard to the winner. I bet I kill more ships then you."

"Hn," Heero grunted. "I'm not going to need the repair parts."

"That's what you said last time," Duo complained. "Then you stole my… MY parts," he hissed.

Rodney looked at the screen and shook his head. "Really? You're just now bickering?"

Weir looked back at him. "We copy, they should be there in about thirty minutes," Weir told them. John looked at the screen that showed them as little dots.

"I should be up there with them," John said.

"I know you're a good pilot, but it'll be too dangerous for you up here with us," Duo said over the radio, "Heero and I can handle it." Duo waited a second and took his silver cross from his shirt and looked at it. "Father Maxwell, Sister Helen," he whispered softly. Weir looked to John, wondering if she should mute him for the moment. But he didn't say anything more.

They waited for a bit.

"Duo," Heero said.

"Yeah, I got em," he replied just as three hive ships and ten cruisers jumped out of hyper space. Deathscythe took off, Heero hung back and pulled his beam cannon and aimed it at one of the hive ships. Darts came shooting out of the cruisers and round to attack the Gundams. Deathscythe brought his scythe up and cut through the top of a cruiser, by that time Heero's cannon fired into one of the hive ships. He started charging the cannon again.

Atlantis couldn't do anything but wait and watch the screen as the boys fought, their shield was up. Rodney watched the power levels, and Carson was paying attention to their vitals.

Duo took Deathscythe around and started to fire at the smaller darts, and then looked at a hive ship for a moment, the gundam's eyes glowed green with power as he tried his hyper jammer on the ship. Nothing happened to the Wraith ship.

"Damn, jammers don't work on these things," he said more to himself. "Come on buddy; let's show them what it means to mess with the God of Death!" He ran his double beam scythe through the hive ship, and busted up cutting it open as if gutting it open.

Weir looked at Rodney as if the scientist that was behind what Duo had called himself.

"Heero!" Duo called.

"Hn," came the reply.

"Rodney what happened?" Weir asked behind her. Rodney looked at the power levels and shook his head.

"I…" he looked speechless.

"Just remember I'm a good guy this time!" Duo called out and moved his mobile suit out of the way. "If its too much and you became a danger I will pull your switch." There was a moment of silence. "Oh yeah, I still have it, never removed it." Silence again for a longer moment. Weir looked at the screen as three more hive ships joined in the battle.

Then two of the ships vanished from the screen.

"Damnit oh-one! I told you!" Duo yelled over the line.

Duo looked at the wreckage that Heero just caused, two of the hive ships where closer together them that should have been, and Duo had just finished slicing up a cruiser and some darts, he too was almost caught in the blast. He watched as there were just hive ships and a hand full of cruisers left for them. Duo rushed straight in and attacked the cruisers as Heero charged his beam cannon again. The Zero system beeped at him, making him see all enemies. Duo thrust down on his controls, causing Deathscythe to float for a moment. He watched, and then gave a hard thrust on the controls in his hands causing him to spring back just in time as a shot came from the beam cannon and nipped one hive ship and exploded the second. Duo regained control and thrust his scythe at the last hive ship. The cruisers turned tail to run, but not before they took done one more.

The Atlantis team could only watch as the boys finished the clean up of the darts in amazement. The two teenage boys were efficient and carried out their orders. They knew the Wraith would return.

"Hey, oh-one," Duo's voice could be heard, "lets get back to Atlantis."

As the line was reconnected to Heero, he had taken off the ear piece it seemed. Heavy breaths as if he had ran a marathon.

"Come home boys," Weir said. "The Wraith will take a couple of days to come back and bring backup."

"Roger," was Heero's reply.

-.-.-.-.-

They knelt their gundams, Dup stepped out of the cockpit and gave a thumbs up to the others a goofy grin on his face. Heero emerged from Wing and looked to the sky. John watched them for a long moment. Teyla looked at him and seemed to know what he was thinking.

"They are soldiers, Colonel Sheppard," she said breaking his thoughts as he looked at her, "they aren't teenage boys. They are grown, trained, men fighting for a cause." John watched her for a long moment and then looked back to the two boys, who were just boys.

Duo slung his arm over Heero's shoulder and poked his arm as Duo went about abolishing the battle they just had, but he was cheerful and got several laughs. He caught Weir's eyes and then turned his attention back to the boys. "They shouldn't be fighting at their age."

"But they are, and they do a wonderful job," Teyla confirmed for him.