Disclaimer: I do not own any Gundam. Sort of wish I did.
Author's note: Thanks everyone for keeping up with me and being patient.
To the guest review asking about the lab. If only I was able to stay up later last night and get this chapter up. I explain about the lab when Marta perspective starts. Since most of perspectives are from Heero and Duo they wouldn't know anything about lab beyond what they can see and hear.
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Chapter 8: Escape
Duo paced around the semi small cell. There was a cot, a toilet and sink and that was it. Considering some of the places he ended up didn't even have, no joke intended, a pot to piss in. This wasn't to bad. He knew he was being watched but he didn't know why they moved him to this cell? The muffled voices though the door brought his attention and then the familiar sound of a gunshot echoed through the cell. The door opened and someone pushed a body through onto the floor. Laughter from someone on the other side lingered as the door was shut. It took Duo a few seconds to realize the body on the floor was bleeding and was Heero.
"Holy Shit! Heero, are you okay?" He ran over to Heero's fallen body.
Heero lifted his head. "Yeah, he shot me in the leg." He grunted.
Duo's eyes blazed with anger. His nostrils flared and he took a deep breath. He stood up and punch the cell door a few times, denting it slightly. When he pulled his hand back, he wiped the blood onto his shirt as the broken skin knitted itself back together. He looked at Heero sitting on the floor and dropped down to his side.
"Let me." He said, but Heero stopped him.
"You know why they shot me. They want to see if you can heal on demand."
Duo's eyes filled with sadness and his face contorted. "This is all my fault." He moaned.
"It's not. Help me tie off my leg and get me up. "
Heero ripped the pants from the wounded leg and Duo helped him tie it off to make tourniquet to restrict blood flow.
"It looks like the bullet passed though and I think you are lucky. It doesn't appear to hit the artery."
"Hn, now I have a matching set." Heero replied.
"Was that a joke? You must be losing blood." Duo said as he helped the Wing Pilot up. He brought him over to the cot settling himself down first and then laying Heero next to his body.
"My wings are good for something. They will keep you warm." He said encasing Heero with is left wing.
"Are you okay?" Duo asked Heero after they settled for bit.
"Hn, as well as can be expected."
"I got some good news." Duo smirked.
"Yeah?" Heero asked raising his eyes up to meet Duo's.
"I was able to send a text to Quatre. He should be able to track the number and hopefully they will be able to get us.
"Good."
A few seconds of awkward silence past until Heero filled it.
"Explain."
"Explain what?" Dup ask innocently.
"Duo." Heero warned.
"It's going to sound strange."
"I think I can handle strange right now."
Duo bit his lower lip and sighed. "Okay. Sooo, I am the reincarnation of an Angel named Seraphin."
"And?"
"And he was, as he put it, the Archangel of Death."
"Archangel of Death? Interesting." Heero paused before he continued, "How come the wings came out when you healed me?"
Duo chewed his bottom lip, but before he could answer a knock at the door interrupted his thought.
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Marta walked briskly to the security control room. She just came from the lab and her assistant told her that they had taken the boys from the lab and they haven't returned. She had made up her mind to help them after hearing the Major and Dr. Gavin's conversation. As a biophysicists she understands the need and desire to study living things but to kill someone was not within her belief system. She had been in contact with "Tink" and has already informed him, or her, that "Peter Pan" and "Lost Boy" will be in that area of the compound. Surprising enough, the security was less enforced in that area instead of the lab where all the data and samples were stored. This was just a lonely research facility on infectious disease in a remote area of Greenland. It was built when humans just started to into space so the tech at the time was high tech. Now it was standard enough to pass inspections for the rest of the compound, but the lab was only truly updated area.
Blood, skin, hair and feather samples were taken from Angel, but they still don't know how he managed to heal Ro. His blood was of a normal human, though clearly he has been given enhancements to withstand certain drugs or diseases, but that was pretty standard in today Military and Space living. Even Ro had similar enhancements. These boys are not strangers to being experimented on. The biggest mystery was the wings and strength from Angel. Base on his reactions this was something unfamiliar and she prayed Tink would get them out alive and unhurt.
Marta turned the corner and entered the control room. Two guards sat in the room watching the various screens.
"Hello boys. I was just checking on our subjects. How are things progressing?"
"Nothing to exciting. The Angel kid hasn't healed the other one and so they are just sitting there talking. Once things start to advance Dr. Gavin wants to be informed. Do you want to be on the list as well?"
"Wait, hasn't healed him? Doe was perfectly healthy when he left the lab. What happened?" She asked.
"He was shot in the leg before being placed into the cell. I don't know why. He wasn't resisting or fighting when they did it." The guard casually said.
"So Doe has been without medical attention?" Martha yelled. "For how long?"
"Uh at least 15 minutes."
"Seriously what is wrong with you guys?"
"We were told to let it be by the Major. He said it if the freaky Angel can't save his friend then he isn't worth saving."
"Unbelievable!" Martha yelled grabbing a first aid kit from the room and ran toward the holding cell.
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The knock at the door stopped Duo from continuing his story. The cell door opened and Marta walked inside with a guard while the other stayed outside and closed them in.
"The Major won't like this." The guard said frowning.
"I don't care. I will treat him."
Heero sat up allowing Duo to take back his wing. Martha walked over to Heero.
"Please let me see your leg."
Heero nodded. Duo got up and stepped away to allowed her access.
Martha began to examine Heero's leg. She looked at Duo and said. "Tink says hi."
Duo smiled. "Good the hear that. Will we see each other soon?"
Marta turned her attention back to Heero's wound. Without turning her head, she filled a syringe with clear liquid. "I assume so." She answered.
She looked at Heero. "This is Morphine. It should help with the pain. Will you let me inject you?"
Heero nodded giving her permission. Marta plunged the needle into his leg injecting the drug into his system. She withdrew the syringe when the sound of explosion somewhere nearby startled the group in the cell.
Duo didn't delay, he reached out and punched the guard in the face and grabbed his gun. The Guard fell to the ground. He rounded Marta and grabbed her arm forcing her to stand.
"Trust me, they won't shoot you." He said into her ear. He brought her over to the door with the gun in her back. Martha knocked on the door and it opened. Before the other guard knew what was happening Duo pulled him inside and knocked him out and took his side arm.
"Marta, you will be safer in here than anywhere else. Thank you." Duo said locking her inside with the knocked out guards.
Once the door was closed they headed toward the sound of gunshots. Heero tried to run as fast as possible with the help of the morphine and adrenaline. They came to a corner and the sound of gunshots were louder. Carefully checking out the hallway a two preventers were firing on some of the soldiers from the lab. Duo began to fire on them as Heero covered them. From another hallway more guards started to show up. Heero fired and Duo swore. "I'm out!"
"I'm down to a 3."
"What freaking guard doesn't have extra clips on their bodies?"
"Moronic ones."
"Come on, we can grab one off the fallen. Be my shadow." Duo told Heero.
They rounded the corner and ran forward. Bullets were flying everywhere and Duo kept being hit. At least one guard left, clearly the better shot manage to kill or force the preventer back and only left Heero and Duo as targets. He shot at Duo, but Duo just kept going they almost made it to a set of guards who fell early on when Heero was grabbed from behind. Duo reached the one guard and took him out with a roundhouse kick. He picked up the gun and put one into the guard's head. When he looked up he found Heero with a gun to his temple and a guard standing against the wall.
"Fucking drop the gun and stand down!" The guard yelled to Duo.
Duo looked at the guard carefully. A twitching finger on a trigger pointing at Heero's head wasn't going to work. He dropped his gun and kicked it away. He stepped slowly closer and raised his hands, almost in surrender.
"You know, there is a reason why I am called the Angel of Death." Duo said.
His right hand turned upward and his fingers began to curl bringing them together. The purple of his eyes began to glow as the guard holding Heero hostage started to sweat profusely. His breathing became labored and he dropped his arm holding the gun to Heero's head. Heero stepped away quickly and noticed behind Duo a few preventer arrived. One being Trowa.
The guard dropped to the ground dead and Duo took a deep breath.
"Duo?" Heero asked.
Duo looked back to Heero and began to collapse. All the bullets he took were catching up with him and his body was ejecting them trying to heal. Heero ran forward and grabbed Duo before he could fall. He picked him up and cradled him in his arms. He started to limp toward the Preventers. As he walked feathers from Duo's wings began to fall. He stopped in front of Trowa, whose visible was as wide with disbelief.
"Trowa." Heero said, snapping Trowa out of this daze.
Trowa hesitated slightly before he said, "Follow me, Quatre is outside with a chopper."
"Good." And Heero preceded to following Trowa as quickly as his injured leg allowed. "Do you want me to take him?"
"No." Heero quickly answered. The chopper came into view. The blades started up. Heero could see two pilots. Quatre and Wufei. Heero nodded to the two as he placed Duo inside the cabin.
"Heero! Is Duo okay?" Quatre yelled.
"Yes! He is healing and should be awake in a few days!" He yelled over the sound of the helicopter engine.
"You will have to fill us in later!" Quatre said and started to take off.
Heero, sat down and buckled himself in as Trowa tended to his bullet wound. He allowed himself to rest and hoped Duo would awake quicker rather than later. They're conversation was not over and he wanted answers.
To be continued.
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Author's Note: Please review. I really want to know your thoughts. Sometimes the story in head can be difficult to get out on a page. Of course this is leading up to Heero and Duo. The question is how much and how far? Can Duo handle his altered body? Is he stuck with giant wings for the rest of his life? Will he end up in the side show of Trowa's circus? Some many avenues to explore, so many way to go.
Hope you will stick with it. Till next time.
-Kayko