Mission: Medallion
Part One: The Little Mission That Wasn't Supposed To Be Dangerous
by: Mikala Barton
Disclaimers: These belongs to everyone who made Gundam Wing possible. I am not trying to claim the characters as my own, I am simply showing my affection for them so please don't sue me. (Then again, even if they do, they won't get a cent from me because I am officially broke! ^_^;)
"Oh, I am so glad I saw you guys again!!!" Duo exclaimed rushing over to Heero, Wufei and Quatre.
Heero glanced at him and said, "Duo no baka! You are fifteen minutes late!"
Wufei glanced at his watch (hey, where did he get a watch?), "Not exactly. Duo is is fifteen minutes, and twenty-five seconds late."
Duo sweatdropped when they said that, "Hey, Hilde refused to let me go. You should be glad I managed to arrive at all." When Heero raised an eyebrow at that, he hastily added, "We weren't doing anything bad, we were just eating that disgusting thing that she cooked up."
"You better not." Heero retorted and grabbed the braid of the pilot and kissed him, hard.
Quatre blushed and looked down. Whenever he saw them like that, he gets jealous because Trowa refuses to notice him.
Wufei, however, was indifferent and just said, "Are we going to get to our missions or not?"
At that, Heero immediately separated from Duo and said, "Our mission. I think we should leave our gundams behind, because they might become a distraction."
Duo grinned at him dreamily, "Good idea."
Heero looked hard at his lover, "Duo, do you even know what the idea is?"
"What idea?"
Heero glared at him.
Duo's mind raced, "The idea! Um, your idea? It's, uh ....."
Quatre felt sorry for the pilot so he said, "It's the idea about leaving our gundams behind, right, Duo?"
Duo quickly nodded in agreement, his braid bobbing. "Of course! That idea." Then it struck home, "WHAT?!? You expect me to leave Shinigami! Absolutely not!" he crossed his arms and glared at Heero.
Wufei glared at him and said, "You already agreed to the idea, so let's go. We are just wasting our time here." He turned and walked towards the door. (They were in a warehouse.)
Quatre glanced at Duo with what seemed to be compassion, but he quickly followed Wufei.
Heero glanced at Duo and said, "Are you going to come willingly or do I have to force you?"
Duo seemed to only hear two words, "Force me, eh? You know you don't have to force me." His eyes suddenly contained a tiny glint of mischief.
Heero sweatdropped, (Hmm I wonder what that looks like. I don't remember seeing Heero sweatdrop.) "You little hentai." He grabbed Duo's braid and dragged across the floor to the others outside.
When the boys were in the van that Heero hot wired, Quatre glanced at the window and thought of this mission.
It didn't seem to be that dangerous. The scientists just told them to get the test results of an experiment in the Medallion Laboratory in a supposed-to-be-empty building at the outskirts of a small town. Then, they were supposed to bust the place down. There wasn't much security there, although you never knew with Oz. However, the thing that was bothering Quatre was Trowa.
Trowa wasn't included in the mission and Quatre doesn't know why. It was possible that the scientists just didn't think that Trowa should be bothered with the mission, but what if that wasn't the reason.
At the thought of the pilot, Quatre blushed. He liked that pilot very, very much. It wasn't like the way he feeled for the other pilots. It was much deeper. Quatre had to admit that he just didn't like the handsome pilot, he loved him.
Quatre didn't think that Trowa would feel the same way about him, but it never hurt to wish, right? He imagined Trowa's face to be near his, seeing both eyes, instead of one.
"Thinking of Trowa, huh?"
Quatre jumped at the voice. He turned and saw Duo who was smiling at him, beside him. (Wufei and Heero were up front, despite Duo's insisting that he be beside Heero.) "Huh?" he asked, thinking of an excuse.
Duo grinned even wider (if that was possible), "Come on. We know you like Trowa. And from that lovesick look on your face, it's obvious you're thinking about him."
Quatre flushed, "You know?"
"Heero and I do for sure. I think Wufei does, too." His eyebrows furrowed, "Although I am not sure if he really does know."
"How .....?"
Duo giggled, "Come on, everytime we're in a mission with Trowa, you can't take your eyes off him. The lucky guy."
Quatre sighed, he didn't know that he was that obvious. He glanced at the pilot, "Do you think he likes me, too?"
"Yeah, because he doesn't give you the cold shoulder that much. Look, he only talks to Wufei and Heero about missions and other blahs. He only spoke like four words to me. But to you, he actually expounds on thoughts when he talks to you. Besides, I don't think it's obvious, but I would swear that his eyes become more tender when he looks at ya."
Quatre smiled at the thought that Trowa like him, too. "I hope what you said really means that he likes me as much as I like him."
Duo gave him the thumbs up sign, "Count on it. I know the signs of stoic people. Look at Heero. He used to be mean to me, but now..." his voice trailed off, thinking of his lover.
Quatre imagined him and Trowa together and smiled. "I hope so."
Duo gave him an honest smile, "I do too. I think you'd look sweet together."
Wufei turned around to them and said, "Hey! We're less than a kilometer away from the site. Heero said we should get off now, so that the van wouldn't be visible to them."
Quatre nodded at Wufei, "Okay." The four of them got off and started walking towards the site.
They managed to get in secretly. Quatre and Duo was guarding the door while the other two saved the stuff on a diskette that they brought along.
Then....
BREE!!!!!! BREEEEEEE!!!!!
"What was that?!?" Duo shouted over the noise as he heard people approaching.
Wufei glanced at him as Heero was still fixing the stuffies that he was doing, "It's the alarm, duh." (Does that seem out of character? Oh well, whatever.)
Heero suddenly stood and up and said, "We can go now, I have a plan. Wufei and Quatre, you two go through the ventilation, it shouldn't be a problem to figure a way out there. Duo and I will just force our way through the soldiers. It won't be a problem. We'll meet at the perimeter of the woods, hidden." He handed Wufei the diskette wherein he saved the documents that are supposed to be saved. "Here, hold it. Give us five minutes to come out, then bomb the place, whether we are there or not. If we come out first, we'll give you five minutes then bomb the place."
Duo glanced at him, "But, Heero, we might get killed!"
Heero turned to him coolly and said, "A mission is a mission. Let's go." He grabbed Duo's arm.
Duo's expression suddenly changed from anxious to ... well, horny. "I see." He patted Heero's back, "Heero, if you just wanted us to be alone together, you didn't have to do this kind of stuff that could kill us. A simple 'come here, Duo' would do just fine." He suddenly looked thoughtful, "Of course, it wouldn't hurt if it came with a delicious meal and-"
He was cut off (not by either Heero or Wufei. Hah! fooled you, huh? I didn't? Oh well, it was worth a shot) because they could actually hear sound of the footsteps that are obviously very, very near.
Heero cut off his glare and said, "Go!" Wufei and Quatre dashed to the vents while Heero got out his gun.
Duo rushed to the door and opened it. Heero dashed out, looking left and right (looking Bond-like, may I add) followed by Duo who also looked very alert.
They started navigating through the crowd, just barely escaping through a hairline or so.
Wufei and Quatre were crawling in silence, until they realized that they were lost.
They noticed this when...... Oh well, they just noticed it!
"Shit!" Wufei swore, banging the wall with his arm. (The wall was very, very dirty, so his arm became dirty, too!) He fixed his position to a more comfortable one.
Quatre glanced around, (even though there was no danger of their being seen) and said, "Don't be so loud, someone might hear us." (oooooooh)
Wufei nodded and said, "Where do we go now?"
Quatre thought for a while and said, "I saw an exit two turns ago, it doesn't lead outside, but it'll get us out of this maze."
Wufei thought for a while, "Yeah, but what if it leads to something gross?" (Don't mind him. I think he had a personality transplant. Don't worry, Wuffie fans. I'll save him! *gets pelted for calling Wufei, Wuffie*)
"Hmm. I know! I'll go ahead, then if it's safe, I'll come back in about two minutes. If I'm not back by that time, you should go on ahead and find a way out. You don't need to worry about me. You just have to keep the information safe."
Wufei nodded, "Okay."
Sooooo, Quatre left and found the exit he was talking about very easily. He peered through the vent holes and didn't see much, except for a bunch of computers, so he figured that it was okay break the vent, which broke easily. Suddenly, though, something grabbed his wrist. He was caught!
He glanced at his captor and saw .... Trowa.
He quickly stood up and hugged Trowa, even though he was not hugged back. "Trowa." he said simply gazing at the long banged person in front of him.
He could have stared forever had he not thought of what Heero said about exploding the complex. Pushing aside all logical thoughts like why Trowa was here, he said, "We have got to go, Heero is going to explode the building in a few minutes."
Trowa glanced at him puzzled, then what Quatre said sunk in, he said, "He will, huh?"
"Yes!" Quatre exclaimed, "Do you know the fastest way out? We have to get Wufei and get out of here."
Without another word, Trowa ran half-carrying, half-dragging Quatre along.
Wufei waited for two minutes patiently and when Quatre didn't return, he got worried. He pondered on whether to follow Quatre or not.
He closed his eyes and decided to go on alone, trying to find a way out on his own. He mapped the building in his head and started navigating, praying that the two weren't already waiting outside for him.
Anwayz, he managed to find a way out. And was thrown aside by the power of the blast.
He rolled and rolled at the grass, trying to calm the rumbling in his head.
He heard footsteps coming after him and managed to crack an eye open. "Who is it?" he croaked. (he he, froggy. *runs away from crazed Wuffie- er, I meant, Wufei fans*)
"It's us." Duo said, kindly. Heero was with him.
Wufei sat and looked at them sadly.
"Where's Quatre?" Duo suddenly said, glancing the the incinerated (whoa! it's the biggest word I used here!) building.
Wufei shook his head and said, "I'm sorry."
Duo's eyes filled with tears and he said, "What happened?"
Wufei swallowed the gulp in his throat and was about to speak when Heero said, "We can talk about this in the van. Let's go."
Wufei quickly stood up on his wobbly knees, and was supported by Duo who was shaking.
And they left the place of distruction.
To be Continued
Did you like it? Huh? Huh? *jumps up and down like a crazy girl, which she is* this is my first gundam wing fic so please excuse me. If you have comments, you can always e-mail me at mikala_barton@hotmail.com or just sign my guestbook on the main page and tell me your comments there. I will most probably reply, and even if I don't (I have another real life you know) I would still definitely appreciate it.
Well, the next part is coming soon and don't forget to read it!