Chapter 19:
The four boys were outside enjoying the breeze and the sounds of the ocean when Daniel and Weir walked out to them, followed my John, Rodney, and another military personal. The four boys looked at them as they turned.
"We have figured it out, it was an attack plan, and now that the five ships, three of which were destroyed and two badly damaged, their forces are lessened. However they still plan on attacking us full force within the month. Will your Gundams be ready by then?" Weir asked.
The boys nodded their heads.
"Great," Daniel said, "now for the DHD, its going to take me a bit to build one that is tailored to our gate system, and when I finish with that you boys can go back to your world, and save the day there, which I am sure you are all home sick by now."
"I miss the desert," Quatre said and nodded.
"We are going to be able to make a DHD for you, so, you know if you ever want to come back," Rodney started.
"You will always have a home here at Atlantis," Weir told them. Smiling at them she turned to John. "We have their battle plans for when Duo sent that information."
The boys dropped their faced. Their friend, the fifth member of their team was gone. The damage and explosions to and around his Gundam had been too much for him. They were going to have to leave a Gundam here. No. They wouldn't do that; they would destroy it before they did that. Heero looked out to the Deathscythe, standing tall looking over the city as a protector and a bringer of death. The Hero of a Massacre, would be remembered.
"We could lock it," Quatre said softly. Heero must have shown what he had been thinking on his face.
"Better to destroy it," Heero said.
"None of us want to do that," the blond boy said. "That includes you." Heero looked at him and then nodded once.
"I'll lock it, let this be a warning, anyone who tries to unlock it and fail, it will take the city with it to Hell," Heero said. Trowa looked up and to Heero who was standing there. Weir nodded her head.
The days that followed were like many others; they worked on their Gundams, ate and worked out. When they weren't doing those Heero was in the lab with Rodney and Daniel, Trowa would be with Wufei in a makeshift library, and Quatre was with Weir, telling her of the politics and the different factions of the colonies and Earth.
With the days spent getting their minds off Duo, their nights that's all they could think about. When they went back to their rooms and stayed in silence. Not one of them would have thought that this was how the proclaimed God of Death would die.
The weeks were slow, almost as time stopped. On the day of the attack they went to see Weir, she was talking to Carson; she nodded and then turned to the boys.
"Are you ready?" she asked. They all nodded their heads. She nodded her head. "You know the drill, kill them, and leave none of them alive." Again they nodded their heads. "Come back alive." She finished. The boys saluted her and turned around. Their grey green jackets with their gundam's face on one side and the Atlantis symbol on the other side faded down the hall towards their awaiting gundams. John watched them and then looked to Carson as he walked with the doctor he would be back before the battle started. Weir watched him vanish with Carson and then looked to the screen.
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They waited.
And waited.
…..
And waited.
Heero looked at his scanners after the fourth hour of waiting, the four of them and nothing.
"Weir?" Heero asked.
"Yes oh-one?" she said.
"How far away are they?" he asked.
"They should be there any moment now," she replied and looked at the screen.
"Hn," he finished and leaned back in his seat. Watching the area around him, the other Gundams free floated. Heavyarms was currently upside down.
The boys waited longer.
Two hours later.
"Your move," Quatre said to Heero. Heero looked at his screen and moved his rook up four spaces. Quatre waited for just a second before taking the rook with his bishop. "Check." Heero looked at the screen on his right and saw the move and then took the bishop with his knight.
"Who's winning?" Wufei asked as he popped up on the screen in both their gundams.
Weir was just listening to the boys in shocked horror. They were playing chess! Weir pressed her lips together. "Why aren't the Wraith there?" she asked the woman at the desk.
"I don't know ma'am, by our scanners they should have been here by now at the speed that they were traveling and still are traveling but they haven't moved, or so their location says.
Daniel looked over her shoulder. "Maybe their caught by something?" he asked. The woman shook her head.
"No abnormalities," she replied as Rodney looked over Daniel's shoulder.
Rodney looked up from where Daniel and he were leaning over and started to snap his fingers, a light shinning in his eyes and he took off out the door. John and Weir didn't pay any attention, he would be back, Daniel looked after him and then to Weir and John. Just then Rodney came back around the corner as Daniel was opening his mouth. "I'm going to go work on something."
"And that starts Rodney project number thousand," John said and chuckled some.
"Miss Weir?" the soft deep voice of Trowa sounded in the room.
"Yes oh-three?" she looked at the screen.
"It has been six hours, seventeen minutes and forty-two seconds, no Wraith have shown up," he said. Heero and Quatre paused their game and looked at Trowa's gundam.
"Yes I know, I don't understand it," she said. "They should be there, they should have been there."
"The point is that they're not," Trowa said over the radio. "They could be fooling your sensors."
"Rodney is this possible?" Heero asked in the radio.
Weir opened her mouth but was stopped, "yes, just like we can full their systems, they can fool ours," he said. "I think, I think I can make your gundams better."
"Explain," Wufei answered first.
"Inertial dampeners, it will help with the G-force, and how much strain your bodies take will reduce," Rodney said.
"Damn Rodney, why didn't we think of that before?" John asked.
"Because the boys show so little strain on the medical monitors that we ignored it, but when I was looking over, I thought of the ships, and you know, I am a genius," Rodney said, his line went quiet for a moment.
"Rodney," John grinned a happy sound to his voice.
"Nothing, yes or no?" he asked the boys.
"I'll try it," Heero said.
"Heero are you sure?" Quatre asked. "He's going to be messing with your gundam."
"I know," Heero said and looked at Quatre on his screen. "It'll be fine."
"Heero are you sure?" Wufei questioned next.
"He said it'd help, better to let him mess around for a day or so then die early because of the strain on my body," Heero said.
"The less strain the more you can fight," Trowa said quietly.
"Hn," Heero agreed.
"Great, well it seems that the Wraith aren't going to show up," Rodney started.
"One of us should be in space at all times just to be on the safe side," Trowa said.
"I will stay," Wufei said.
"Are you sure?" Quatre asked.
"I have food and water, I keep it stocked, I'll be fine," Wufei said.
Quatre made a distressed sound. "Okay then," he agreed. "One of us will be here in a couple of hours to switch places with you."