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Chapter 5: Showing Weakness
{Four days prior}
Wufei awoke still strapped to his seat within his Gundam. He groaned as he lifted his head. His control panel beeped with messages. He selected the last recording.
"Chang, answer me!" Noin yelled, "We have left multiple messages. Agent Yuy and Agent Maxwell have not responded. Report back!"
Wufei type in a few keystrokes bringing up his communication link. Within seconds Noin popped on screen.
"Agent Chang, report."
"Heavy damage to Shenlong. I have taken serval hits. Passed out for a few minutes. Unsure where Agent Yuy and Maxwell are." He said breathing very shallow.
Sally Poe shoved her way into screen. "Wufei, is your vision blurry? Ringing in your ears?"
"Ask him that later Poe." Noin said shoving the woman out of the screen.
"Chang, you three have been MIA for just over five hours. We had reports the center went up but we have not heard from any of you."
"Five hours?" Wufei muttered as he bought up another screen. "Impossible." Wufei couldn't believe his eyes as he read the clock, but Shenlong didn't lie.
"Chang, are you listening?" Noin asked.
"Yes." He brought his attention back to Noin.
"What was the rendezvous point for Yuy and Maxwell?"
"They were to meet me at the local Motel 6 at 0500 hours. I am attempting to contact them though our secure line." He said as he fingers flew over the consol. "No response."
"We have already tried that, Chang. From our intel we know there was movement from the facility before it went up in flames. A cargo plane was reported leaving. We haven't been able to track it yet."
"I can help with that… shit he cried out when he moved a to adjust himself. "I need an extraction. I don't think I can pilot in my current condition."
Sally popped on again. "Wufei, turn your GPS on and we will get you out of there A.S.A.P."
"10-4." He replied, putting his head back and tried to steady his breathing.
Wufei, laid on the hospital bed touching his side lightly. His ribs were wrapped, and he was intense pain. He refused anything stronger than Ibuprofen since anything else would make him drowsy.
Une barged her way into his room with Sally on her heels. "He needs rest, Doctors orders." She said.
"He can rest when we have answers." She barked.
"Chang! What the hell is going on?" Une yelled at the Chinese man.
Wufie slowly sat up using his automatic bed lift. "The fraction had more dolls then anticipated. I was overwhelmed."
"That we figured out. I'm taking about this shit!" She threw a tablet at him. Wufie, winced as it hit his lap, but refused to show any more weakness to the two women. He took the tablet and played the video. It was a news feed of the previous night's event when Duo and Heero were cornered by the media. He didn't realized how out of control it got. Maxwell hat and hidden braid helped hide his identity but Yuy failed to tell him all that happened that night. He watched as the video played the original viral video. Luckily, Heero had already was able hack in and remove the video after it started to appear over the internet, however it went viral and there is virtually no way to stop it. It will always pop up again and again.
"Yuy and I have ready come up with a plan regarding this." He informed his commanding officer.
"A plan? Don't you think we should have been aware of this when it happened?" She fumed. "And I have two agents on video and one is firing a gun into the air!" She yelled as she grabbed the tablet out of Wufei's extended hand holding the tablet out.
"The situation became out of control, Yuy did what he thought was best."
"Right now, that is not important." Sally interjected. "Heero and Duo are both MIA."
"We are looking into it and will keep you posted. We are going to call in Agent Barton if we need Gundam assistance."
"I will be fine to pilot." Wufei stated.
"Ha, who are you kidding? You are lucky these are only bruised ribs not broken." Sally said poking Wufei in the chest.
"Damn it woman, don't do that." He yelled at her.
"Mm hmm." She replied.
"Rest up Chang, if you are well enough we might use you." Une said turning to leave.
To be continued…
AN: I know this is short. Originally Wufei didn't show up until late, but then there was a pretty big plot hole so this short chapter will help fill in that gap later on. Duo returns for the next chapter! So many questions that need answering I hope you stick around to see how it turns out.
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