Chapter 6 Night of the Angels Part 2

Time seemed to have stopped as Duo Maxwell stood there looking into the doorways, which lead into Preventer computer mainframe standing there as clear as day was a man he believed he would never see again, Heero Yuy. His fellow gundam pilot was dressed in all black with a strange military style vest over his chest and a rifle hanging on a strap across his back. In his hand was a modernized 1911 45 pistol the same type that he would use when they fought side by side.

"Duo." said Heero Calmly as if they were sitting down for a chat after seeing each other just hours before. "It's been a while hasn't it?"

Duo just blinked as he lowered his own 9mm pistol as he looked at the face of the man he hadn't seen in almost nine years, he was clearly older but his hair was still in the same style and he could never change those blue eyes. His mind was racing wondering why Heero was sneaking into the base

"Heero?" repeated Duo stunned as a flash of light caused him to pull his pistol back up but it was too late as Heero's knife armed hand came into the fight. With one quick snake like strike, Heero's combat knife moved out, the aim was perfect as the tip of the knife was stuck behind Duo's pistol trigger preventing him from pulling back and firing. With his gun disabled Duo was stunned for a moment and that is all Heero needed as he reached out with his gun hand and grabbed the back of Duo's neck. Then with one quick movement, he forced Duo's body down while his knee came up. The impact in Duo's stomach caused spit to fly out of his mouth as well as a few speaks of blood.

"Well nice seeing you, again." commented Heero as he moved toward the door "But I have to get going."

Duo groaned for a bit as he forces himself back to his feet grabbing his pistol which was resting on the floor before storming out of the door, his head snapped down the hall only to see Heero's back as he ran full speed down the hallway.

"Come back!" yelled Duo as he started to raise his weapon however the idea of what Relena would do to him if he shot the love of her life filled his mind. Instead, he bolted down the hallway after his friend. He was maybe a dozen yards behind his friend yelling at him to stop when he heard the ding of the nearby elevator meaning the guards at reach them. The elevator was on the other end of hallway around the corner meaning that they should be able to capture Heero. Duo allowed himself to smile for a moment only then did he notice that Heero no longer had a knife in his hand and instead had a baseball-sized item in his hand. Next thing he knew he heard the cling sound as Heero pulled the pin on the grenade with his thumb.

"Stop Heero!" yelled Duo however he was too late as Heero threw the grenade against the far wall bouncing it off it before causing it land directly in front of the team of heavy armed guards stepping off the elevator guns ready. The guards had no time react as it went off, luckily for the guards it was none lethal riot grenade used by Zaft military police where an explosion could blow a howl in the haul of the colony. Instead of a hellish explosion, it released an explosion of foam, which covered the entire security team in foam unable to move at all. Heero ran past them slamming his shoulder into the door leading to the staircase before bolting up toward the roof. Duo paused for a moment as he looked down the hallway expecting to see a bloodbath instead he saw a group of highly trained soldiers stuck together in a giant ball of hardening foam cursing as they tried to get out.

Seeing that all the guards where alive he kept after Heero and bolted up the stairs to the roof, he pushed the door only to hear several soft pops of bullets flying out a silenced gun. Duo ducked down believing he was under fire but there was no impact around him. He open the door only to see Heero standing at the edge of roof, his pistol was at his side but his assault rifle was out.

"Heero what are you doing?" asked Duo as Heero turned his head toward him and for a second just a second Duo thought he saw a smile on his old friend's face.

"My mission." Resounded Heero as he grabbed the same rope, which he had used to climb over to this building from across the road in his hand. The other side had been shoot off and had fallen away from the building making a rope line which lead directly down to the ground. Then in a flash, he was fast roping down rope toward the ground.

While Duo was chasing Heero, a column of vehicles headed by a Humvee with a heavy machine gun on top had come to a stop outside of the main office building. All around the vehicles different guards where walking around with weapons drawn but they made no move to enter the buildings and none had noticed the rope, which was now coming down the side of the building. In the middle of the column inside a reinforced pink limo sat Relena Peacecraft along with Noin and Sally Poe. Both of the older woman had their weapons out but did not seem alarm.

"Any news yet?" inquired Relena

"No, it's probably just a false alarm anyhow remember when a deer tripped that motion alarm in the Preventer base in Kingston, Ontario and caused the entire base to go into lock down for three hours." Laughed Sally

"I am not so sure, we are so close to the military action in Malta against the coordinators, it may be an actual spy." Interrupted Noin as a cry of alarm filled the air as several guards outside the bulletproof window aimed their weapons up. Seconds later they went down blood gushing from bullet wounds in their chests. Relena put her hands to her mouth in a silenced scream as she looked out through the blood stained car window as a dark figure landed in the darkness by the entrees to the office complex. Relena's heart stopped mid beat as she looked at the figure dressed in black.

"Heero?" asked Relena as her heart soared at the sight of her love, she did not even notice the large rifle in his hand. The guards assigned to defend her raised their own weapons but they were partly stunned by the sight of the legendary missing Gundam Pilot, Heero was not as he took careful aim and fired in short controlled bursts.

"Get down!" yelled Noin as she threw herself over Relena preventing her from seeing the firefight which was now in full go outside their vehicle. Outside Heero was running and gun dropping down multiple guards.

"They didn't expect a fight." thought Heero as he dropped two guards which had foolishly just stood there in the open firing their pistols instead of moving or taking cover. A few rounds did impact the armor that he wore but the advanced body armor he wore protected him however each blow did weaken it and in time it would fail.

The sound of a bullet being chambered on the Humvee mounted heavy machine gun caused Heero to instantly change his target, he didn't have a clear shot at the soldier's chest or other survivable wound area so he took aim. With a single pull of the trigger Heero's bullet ripped straight through the young woman's face shattering it into pieces as her life ended. In her death throw her muscles contracted as in death, she pulled the trigger sending the heavy armor piercing rounds down range and into the side of the office building.

At that same moment Duo had finally reached the ground after fast roping on the same line Heero had.

"Heero stop this!" yelled Duo as he took aim and fired at his friend who was throwing the stunned and confused Humvee driver out of the vehicle. The bullet ripped past Heero's head striking the glass, before he could shot again the vehicle took off down the road.

"Follow him! Capture him alive!" yelled Duo as the two following Humvees took off after Heero's.

"We need medical attention outside the command building at once!" yelled a woman's voice into the radio as the guards that remained moved to put pressure on the chest, arms and legs wounds which Heero had inflected on them. Relena stepped out of her Limo to stand beside Duo.

"That was Heero?" Repeated Relena stunned an unable to process what was happening even as she stepped into a small pool of still warm blood.

"It was." Confirmed Duo as he looked at Noin and Sally "Take over here."

With that he turned and started running the opposite way that Heero was going.

"Where is he going?" inquired Relena as Duo disappeared into the darkness.

"He is going for his gundam," reported Sally "Same as Heero, he is going for Wing Zero."

Just than a group of three Humvees and medical transports arrived.

"Noin stay here I am going after Heero." ordered Sally as she jumped into one of the Humvees.

Across the world Lunamaria Yuy was stepping out of a small dressing room beside the main runway of the Dayton Preventer base. She had quickly changed into a different uniform she had entered as a simple Warrant Officer in the supply division but she had walked out a full colonel in the military intelligence division.

"Alright time to make my escape." Said Luna to herself as she tapped a few times on her handheld tablet computer, instantly loud sirens filled the air as multiple fire alarms went off all at once across the base. She moved toward a large mobile suit transport aircraft sitting on the runway.

"Is everything ready!" yelled Luna as the men on the aircraft jumped to attention even as they finished strapping in the large mobile suit car carrier down. The truck was a massive flat bed truck with a sealed box on its back. It was normal for mobile suits to be transported in such boxes over short distances so no one had bat an eye when Luna had drove it onto the base. Likely, the guard believed it to be nothing more than a Leo but in reality it was the Impulse gundam.

"Yes, Ma'am," Confirmed the load commander, to the woman he thought was a high-ranking officer.

"Good, now everyone get off this aircraft is heading to a classified location." Ordered Luna as the two pilots looked at each other confused.

"Ma'am this is a two pilot aircraft." reported the pilot only to get a glare from Luna before she handed in the fake official paperwork with the orders.

"Take it up with military intelligence now get off my aircraft or will I call some MPs over and drag you off it." Ordered Luna as she moved toward the cockpit as the flight crew stepped off the aircraft, within moments she was heading down the runway.

"Flight 239 you are not cleared for takeoff." ordered the tower as they noticed the large four engine aircraft moving.

"This is flight 239, check your computers this is a top secret cargo transport to Madrid." responded Luna as she looked down at her watch, she had less than a minute before they could trace the hack to this base. She rested her hands on the flight controls reading to gun it and take off if they told her to stand down.

"Sorry about that flight 239, you are cleared for takeoff from runway 2A." ordered the tower

"Thank you, flight 239 out." responded Luna as she taxied off to the runway before powering off the ground and into the air. With any luck, at all they would not realize that her flight orders where fake until she was out to sea and out of radar range.

While Luna was having a clean get away, Heero was in possibly the dirtiest get away he had ever done. Bullets where flying past his stolen Humvee as took corners as fast as the vehicle could go, he nearly tipped it over multiple times.

"Son of a bitch!" cursed Heero as a heavy round struck the back of the armored Humvee. Suddenly a voice came over the built in radio.

"This is Commander Po, do not harm the intruder." ordered Sally Po over the radio "Take him alive at all costs."

"Commander this man has killed a guard!" yelled some voice back over the radio

"It seems that we are chasing Heero Yuy," reported Sally as the entire line when dead quiet as if everyone couldn't believe what they just heard. "I say again we are chasing the actual Heero Yuy, he is likely heading toward Wing Zero all mobile suit teams take off now."

"Great, just what I need." complained Heero as he spun to avoid three more Humvees coming at him from the right.

"No need Commander we have him." reported the driver of a Humvee behind him as Heero headed toward a corner in the base perimeter with 12 feet of chain link fence forming the outer wall. The fence was reinforced at the bottom with three feet tall concrete barriers to stop any vehicles from punching through. It seemed that Heero was corned coming from his left were two more Humvees to cut off his escape; three helicopters were also coming toward him their spotlights shining on the ground. Heero just pushed his foot to the floor before spinning his Humvee around in a 90-degree turn. The moment the enemy Humvee turned around a blinding flash of light illuminated the darkness.

"What the hell!" yelled a driver as he spun to get out of the light only to hit a fellow guard Humvee. Dazed and confused by the light they never had a chance to get out of their vehicles. It was at that moment that Sally arrived in her own Humvee, the light had died away the enemy Humvee came to a stop its back right up against the fence. She could just make out Heero jumping off the top of the fence landing with a cat like grace on the ground. In his hands, she could make out the glowing remains of a flash flare used to blind enemies.

"You still have it Heero," confirmed Sally as the helicopters flew over her their spotlights on Heero as he bolted across the street into middle one of three large multiple floor parking garages, which sat just off base.

"I want that surrounded at once!" ordered Sally as her Humvee tore off toward the nearest gate, she could already hear the pounding footsteps of mobile suits as they moved toward the parking garage.

"Why are you doing this Heero?" thought Sally as her Humvee passed through the outer gate before making the turn toward the parking lot. Already two Humvees where guarding the main exit to the parking garage where Heero had disappeared into. She was about to yell for them to guard the exits for the other two garages when a black motorcycle came zooming out of the garage nearest to her. For a moment, her eyes met as she looked into the blue eyes of Heero Yuy. The motorcycle was a sports type bike with black and silver paint on its side.

Then with a burst of speed, Heero took off down the road with the Humvees going after him.

"Order the helicopters that they can't lose sight of him!" yelled Sally

"Yes, Ma'am but don't worry we have Humvees following him." reported her Driver as Sally looked at him with a small amount of contempt.

"Tell me how can a group of Humvees keep up with something like that?" asked Sally remembering how Heero used to spend hours working on Wing Zero back on Peace Million and if he spent half the time on that bike as he did as his mobile suit it could win professional race.

Thousands of miles, away a white twin-engine jet was powering its way through the sky on its way toward Northern Ireland. Sitting back with a glass of red wine in her hand was Dorothy sitting beside her with a glass of water in his hands was Quatre. They had left Sandrock behind to be loaded onto a larger transport to save time however it was only a two hours behind them. Quatre never drank however, he never held it against Dorothy or anyone for drinking and in moments like this, he wished for a drink himself.

"This is most interesting," reported Dorothy, as she kept looking at the computerized picture frame that Heero had sent them. She had been looking at it ever since they had taken off, studying every image that came up.

"Have you learned anything?" inquired Quatre

"In a way." confirmed Dorothy as she handed the frame to Quatre "In a way see, take a look at some of these people. Unless they are using hair coloring and colored contact lenses, they are coordinators. Overall that isn't the most important thing, the most important thing is that aside from the name of the legendary three the rest of the names are removed and you want to know what that tells me?"

"That he is hiding it for some reason." confirmed Quatre

"Master Quatre you need to see this!" yelled a pilot from the open cockpit door "Turn you TV to any of the news network."

Quatre followed the advice as he turned to the small built in TV; he quickly grabbed the remote only to have the first channel come up be some recorded bridal dress show. He turned a quick glance to Dorothy.

"What a girl can window-shop even after she has bought one can't she?" asked Dorothy as Quatre hit the channel he wanted. Instantly the image of a high-speed chase filled the screen as a man on a black sports bike being chased down the highway by what had to be no less than ten military police Humvees plus a dozen police regular police cruiser. The motorcycle was weaving in and out between lines of semi-trucks and other civilian vehicles. Scrolling across the bottom of the screen were the worlds.

"The return of Heero Yuy?"

"Turn up the volume," ordered Dorothy as Quatre turned up the volume as a voiceover anchor from New York came out of the TV.

"We must stress we cannot confirm this but we have gotten unofficial reports that the man on the motorcycle currently going over 150 miles an hour down the highway is in fact the Legendary missing Gundam Pilot Heero Yuy, pilot of Wing and Wing Zero." Reported the announcer as Heero took a turn speeding down an off ramp before entering another smaller highway, which lead out of the city that had grown up around the military base. "I cannot stress this enough we do not know for sure if this is Heero Yuy or not."

"Yes, it is." Confirmed Dorothy as she watched Heero's bike move through traffic while a giant spotlight shown down on him from above.

Heero was well aware of the cameras that were on him as he weaved in and out of traffic at speeds that kept the Humvees far enough back to not be a threat but allow him to take turns at somewhat safe speed for him. He made a turn as the trees that surrounded the road began to thicken limiting the views from the helicopters above him. With a burst of speed, he made a turn jumping off road and disappearing down small animal path. Within moments, the Humvees and the helicopters went past him as they kept heading down the road they believed him to still be on.

"Having fun Heero?" asked Luna through the radio link as Heero drove through the forest toward where Wing Angel was hidden.

"Not really." confirmed Heero his built in night vision goggles providing his vision for him to navigate the woods.

"So where did we mess up?" inquired Luna

"Two guards screwing where they were on duty." explained Heero "They ducked into the computer core and I didn't notice them until it was too late."

"I see, well I remember the two of us doing it more than a few times in one of our offices." offered up Luna as Heero smiled as he remembered those times.

"Good times." said Heero before turning back to the problem at hand "However because of them I am going to have to fight my way out of here."

"Maybe that isn't such a bad thing, we need to show them what we can do so that maybe they will think before they attack Yzak and the other coordinators," offered up Luna as Heero remembered a quote from the Art of War.

"Appear strong when you are weak," said Heero knowing that until the Minerva was ready, they only had two mobile suits and while they were both gundams, they could not stop the hundreds of mobile suits that would take part in any attack.

"Besides isn't the base a major supply center for that attack on Malta?" offered up Luna as her husband smiled.

"Mission accepted." Confirmed Heero as he pulled up to where Wing Angel was hidden using the natural tree coverage plus a few holographic camouflage generators provided by Morgenroute Incorporated.

"Just remember we have a date tomorrow and we have some other stuff to do before that," confirmed Luna as Heero placed his motorcycle into the cargo hold hidden inside Angel's foot. "Also be careful my White knight."

"No, this can't be happening." Cursed Relena as she stood in the conference room where they were suppose to be planning the final battle against the coordinators. Instead, she was looking at the large TV screen, which covered most of the back wall. She was nearing the point of tears as she remembered seeing Heero's face for the first time in years he was only feet away from her and now he was gone again.

"How can we lose him?" asked Relena with tears in her eyes as she turned to her sister-in-law Noin "I can't lose Heero again, not after he came back."

"Relena we can't be sure it is him." offered up Noin to the younger woman, even though from what she had seen enough to be convinced it was Heero. "It may be just a disguise to throw us off. Why else didn't he come to see you?"

"Maybe your right." said Relena not sure what to believe but she knew that she had to learn the truth.

"Ma'am the recon teams have entered the area he was last seen, he will be found." Reported an aid

Elsewhere on base Duo Maxwell ran past the stunned armed guards, which stood, beside the opening hanger doors. The guards had no real idea what was going on they had only heard the strange reports about the return of a Gundam Pilot. Inside the hanger he found his gundam, Deathscythe mark III standing just waiting for him. Across from his black gundam stood Wufei's gundam, Altron, as Duo began to bolt up the staircase that lead to the cockpit his fellow pilot Wufei poked his head out of his cockpit.

"Is it Heero?" yelled Wufei

"It seems get ready to launch." yelled Duo back as he skipped the requirement of getting into a flight suit and instead jumped into the cockpit. He pushed buttons as his flight systems came online as Deathscythe's green eyes turned on. He paused for a moment to look at a photo of Hilde which hung by the flight controls.

"Heavenly Father above protects me so I can come home to her," prayed Duo before he closed the cockpit door, for a moment he was in darkness and then the screens that surrounded him turned on giving him a perfect view of the outside world.

"So Heero is going for Wing Zero?" asked Wufei's voice over the radio as his image appeared in a small box in the corner of the front screen.

"More than likely," confirmed Duo as his fingers danced across a small keyboard on the side "Judging from his current position he is heading to the forest reserve."

"Well it's a good place to hide a mobile suit," confirmed Wufei knowing that the state park was among the largest in Europe. Altron was already moving as the gundam left the hanger before powering up its jet engines, while not a flight model mobile suit his gundam was capable of flight. Duo followed suit as both gundam took flight heading toward the massive forest reserve. Ahead of them, they could make up flights of Ares flight models heading in the same direction.

"Who sent them out!" yelled Duo

"Its standard operation to launch all mobile suits in case of an attack," stated Wufei before tapping his radio "All mobile suits you are not to enter the forest reserve form a ring around in a defensive line and do not let anyone escape."

"Sir, advanced Recon team has already entered the field." Replied the flight commander as Duo cursed.

Meanwhile Heero Yuy sat in the darkness gathering his though his hands where resting on the two arm controls located on either side of him. Within moments the center globe began to glow bathing Heero in light.

"You ready for this Angel?" asked Heero as he lifted his head up the light bouncing off his blue eyes. The computer beeped a few times before a larger globe not unlike the ones in the Strike Freedom and the Infinite Justice, Angel system quickly picked out the nearest targets before feeding attack options into Heero's brain.

"Alright then let's get give them a show." Reported Heero as he pushed the controls forward as Wing Angel powered up.

Meanwhile multiple alarms filled the air on every mobile suit in range.

"Shit." cursed Duo as suddenly a blinding flash of light turned night into day followed moments later by a gust of wind, which knocked down trees and sent birds flying and animals running.

"What is that?" asked Wufei as the light started to die away.

"Enemy mobile suit detected!" yelled some hotshot Ares pilot in the recon squad as he spun his suit around and aimed his heavy machinegun at the source of the light. It was all for not, as a figure burst out of the light before flying up into the air. Then with one burst of speed, it came to a stop as two giant bird like the one wings spread out to reveal a blue, white and little bit of red gundam. In one of its hands, it held a buster rifle and the other a glowing energy sword. It was clearly a descendant of Wing and Wing Zero but it lacked the shield and it did not seem like it could transform into a flight model.

"That isn't Wing Zero," reported Wufei as chill of fear ran down Duo's back as he looked at the new mobile suit.

Well I hope you liked this chapter and now it is time for the Wing Universe to meet Wing Angel, now until next time I hope you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75