Insanity

Chapter 12

They all put their space suit and then climbed to their respective gundams; the sound of the MS was amazingly loud. Duo and Heero left the hangar first being closely followed by Trowa and Quatre. The four pilots waited until the other four exited the hangars too. Treize left first, then Zechs followed by Wufei and Noin. The war was starting and they all had the same thought in their minds: \'We won\'t lose\'.

Heero opened the com-link and gave the last orders.

\"Ok, you all know what you have to do. If I\'m not wrong Une will be piloting Wing, isn\'t her?\"

Treize sighed and answered.

\"Yes, you left it behind after getting Wing Zero so she rescued it. She actually wanted me to use it but I preferred the Tallgeese. She will be here any time soon\"

\"Ok, then as soon as she arrives tell her to join my group. Wing is still a powerful gundam and it\'ll be of great help against the Libra... Well, time to leave, come back to the Peacemillion when you finish\"

With that he lead his team towards the Libra and Treize lead the r onr one towards L-1 where most of the Oz MS were. The four gundams leading towards the Libra base were going at full speed, they knew they would be detected before they could even approach the base and they needed to be faster than them, so they could be as near as the could before the battle begins.

\"Quatre, Duo you two cover Trowa, I can handle the Taurus by myself\"

\"Roger\"

\"Okey dokey!\"

Obviously Duo wouldn\'t answer like any normal pilot, oh well, Heero was used to it already anyway.

\"Trowa, Try not to waste your ammunition, let Duo and Quatre handle the MS and focus only on the target, we MUST destroy those coolers before they have the time to shoot the beam\"

\"I\'ll lower the range of shooting and I can control the speed of the guns. Don\'t worry\"

\"Ok. Don\'t use the com-link unless it is an emergency\"

They didn\'t answer; from now on they wouldn\'t say another word. When they were almost at two miles from the Libra, the Taurus started to attack them. Heero destroyed a good amount of them with the double beam cannon of Zero while Duo and Quatre cleaned the way for Trowa. They were almost there and now they only had to place themselves on the right places, but it was somewhat difficult since the Libra was shooting the lasers and there was no sign of stopping.

One of the lasers hit Deathscythe, which as all of them knew wasn\'t the best thing to do. After Heero, what Duo loved the most was his gundam and the only idf haf having even the smallest of scratches over the so carefully polished paint was something he would never accept. And so he let them know.

\"SHINIGAMI WANT\'S REVENGE!!!\"

Even without the com-links they were sure they would be able to hear that scream. Duo charged against the Taurus in front of him with rage and determination. He was Shinigami and so he let them know. Duo neared the base without any other damage to his precious gundam and the three other pilots were sure that the first laser he destroyed was the one that had hit him. Heero smiled, let it to his lover to take revenge in the biggest of scales.

Heero finally could position himself at one side of the Libra and for the way the cannon was shining they soon would be shooting towards the earth.

\"Trowa!! Get ready!!\"

Trowa didn\'t answer but shooting to a last Taurus raced towards the other side of the base being covered efficiently by Deathscythe and Sandrock. They could see that the Maguanacs had already came and they were now busy fighting the Taurus.

\"01 this is Lady Une, Treize-sama told me to come here\"

\"Perfect, please tell your troops to divide in two and send one half to support Treize and the others. The rest of you must keep the Taurus away from us, or we will never be able to destroy the coolers. There\'s more MS than I expected\"

\"Understood 01\"

Lady Une did as she was told and half of her unit left towards the colonies and she and the other half stayed fighting the other Taurus.

* * *

Treize was furious; this war had become something like those electronic games boys liked to play so much. They were fighting puppets. He hated the MD, how to end a war when your enemy sends wave after wave of unfeeling machines? When he heard Lady Une calling him on the com-link; he was almost relieved. Now they were more; no matter how many MD Tubarov had there was no way they could produce more so fast.

\"Zechs, go and support Noin. Lady Une sent back up and Wufei and I can handle until they get here\"

\"Ok... plebe cbe careful and...\"

\"I know, don\'t worry. Wufei IS an amazing warrior\"

\"I know\"

With that Zechs flew away and joined Noin in battle. The unit Une sent came fast and they won the upper hand in the battle. They knew that their part of the battle wasn\'t as hard as the one Heero and the other would confront, but it was still hard. Wufei told something over the com-link at Treize and left to fight new group of Taurus that had just appeared; he was an excellent warrior but when you\'re surrounded by MD there\'s no much you can do. He hesitated, he didn\'t want to use it, but he knew that if he didn\'t there was very little possibilities for him to win.

\"Better I finish with this now\"

And he inserted the code: Z. E. R. O.

\"Nataku, please don\'t fail me...\"

And then the cockpit of his gundam shone, his pupils got dilated and the system took over him. At first he saw just the mobile dolls and shoot with more precision and velocity. It was amazing to see how the system acted over the pilot, or at least that was what Treize thought when he noticed the change on Altron.

\"The system is dangerous, yes. But I have to admit that is really good\"

What he didn\'t know was that Wufei was losing his control over the Zero system and that his mind was losing itself to the counter effects of it. He stop seeing the MD and he knew that soon it would show him his future... or at least that was what he thought it was.

The image of the MD changed, he knew thhe she system would show him his enemy, whom he must fight. And what he saw almost killed him; there in front of his eyes was the image of Treize. The system was telling him that his enemy, the one he had to destroy was his own lover... He couldn\'t help it; the strength of the system over him was too much and even when he didn\'t want to he knew he had to fightinstinst the one he loved.

\"Wufei? Wufei answer me!\"

But he couldn\'t hear Zechs\' calls, all he could see was his target. His enemy.

\"Wufei!!\"

\"No Zechs... let him. I always knew that this would happen one day. We never finished our duel\"

\"But Treize!!\"

Treize sighed and told Zechs that there was nothing he could do to stop it, that it was the Zero system that was controlling Wufei and that they couldn\'t shut it down because Heero was still fighting.

\"And you know that even if the system is off he still would be under its influence. Please Zechs, if anything happens to me iis dis duel don\'t leave him alone. It\'s not his fault, at least not all of it\"

\"I know, please try to solve it without getting any of you hurt\"

\"I will\"

With that he turned the com-link off leaving it open only for Wufei. Zechs didn\'t leave; he not only wanted to see that duel but he too had to keep the Taurus away from them. Wufei turned towards Treize.

\"Treize! I want you to show me the meaning of your justice!\"

With that he pounced with his thermal trident. Treize could avoid it but not for much, he took his own thermal sword and confronted his lover.
FinaFinally we\'re finishing our duel my little dragon\"

\"I want you to show me the meaning of so many lives lost in your fight\"

\"I respect every life lost in battle and I will honor and forever be grateful for their offer\"

\"Then show me!!\"

They started their fight and Treize knew that he might not be the winner this time.

* * *

The four gundams were in position, they had only one chance, because the cannon was ready to shoot and if they failed there was no way they would be able to stop the beam hitting the earth.

\"Quatre?\"

\"Ready\"

\"Trowa?\"

\"Ready\"

\"Duo?\"

\"Never been better!! More than ready to bring Hell to space!!\"

\"Ok... FIRE!\"

The four of them fired at the same time and to Heero\'s relief the twelve coolers were destroyed. Almost immediately the cannon stopped working.

\"YOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!\"

Heero smiled once again.

\"Don\'t celebrate yet Duo, we still have to destroy the Libra\"

\"I know lover\"

* * *

Treize once again could dodge one of Wufei\'s attacks and he pounced with is own. He hit the side of the gundam but it didn\'t do too much damage. Wufei, who was still with the system acting over him, was in rage.

\"I am JUSTICE!! I can\'t lose!\"

\"Wufei, justice change depending of the view of each person. Your justice may no be the same as the one of any other person, or mine but either way all of them are justice. Each one of us want a different kind of justice\"

\"And so, my justice leads me to fight. I must fight you to prove it! I\'m not weak, for if I am, then I\'m not worth of Nataku! And I would be a failure to my people and Meiran! I CAN\'T ACCEPT THAT!\"

With that he pounced and this time he hit the middle of Treize\'s Tallgeese.

\"You\'re not weak my dragon. You never were, and you never will be... I love you\"

Wufei closed his eyes and waited for the explosion he knew would kill his lover. In a way he knew that it was what he had to do but he didn\'t feel happy for it. He had done what he had to do but it pierced his soul and destroyed his heart. Almost one minute later he heard the explosion and his scream couldn\'t be heard by anyone.

\"I\'m sorry!!\"

He still had his eyes closed and tears were floating in front of him.

\"I\'m so sorry\"

* * *

Heero fired towards the center of the Libra, right through the cannon. All of the gundams and remaining Taurus fastly got away from the base for the up coming explosion. Heero fired once more and too flew away. The explosion was enormous and most of the base was destroyed leaving only a few pieces that would burn before they could get to earth.

\"Heero!! Holly shit! HEERO!\"

\"I know Duo! We have to act as fast as we can! Trowa you still have ammunition?!\"

\"Enough to destroy at least a part of it!\"

\"Ok, then MOVE FAST!\"

There was a big part that still reminded complete, if it fell to earth their mission would be a failure. Heero, Trowa and Lady Une rushed to get in front of the falling wing of the base while Quatre, Duo and the Maguanacs went to the sides. The rest f the Taurus from Une\'s unit joined Heero and the r twr two in the front. cut cut the most of it he could with the scythe and Quatre did the same. The Maguanacs fired at the parts they destrmakemakemake them even smaller so they would burn when falling to earth.

\"Duo! all of you must get away!! We\'ll fire the cannons now!\"

They didn\'t need to be told twice. Once Heero knew they where at a safe distance he, Une and Trowa fired at the same time. The falling wing was destroyed and now the Taurus were destroying the parts to make them as small as they could. None of them knew about what was happening at the other battlefield, except maybe Quatre. He felt pain in his heart but he didn\'t know where it came from. Too many people had died today.

\"Duo?\"

\"I\'m ok Heero\"

\"Good\"

\"Quatre?\"

\"...\"

\"Quatre!!\"

\"Sorry... it\'s just..\"

Quatre suddenly got and idf whf what may have been causing his pain.

\"Oh! By Allah! Wufei!!\"

Heero understood and just then he noticed the small red light at his side that showed the Zero system of Wufei\'s gundam acting out of control. He cursed and shut it down, but he knew it was too late. Heero asked Une if all the pieces left of the Libra were already destroyed and she confirmed it.

\"Ok, then tell your unit to follow us. We must give support to Treize\'s group\"

Heero was leading the whole group. They all flew as fast as they could towards the colonies. Quatre lead the Maguanacs towards one side of the battlefield and Une lead the other towards the Tallgeese was supposed to be. What they never expected was to see an immobile Altron and the pieces of what should have been Tallgeese III.

\"What the hell happened here?!\"

Duo couldn\'t understand what he was seeing. The battle had ended and they had won, but it didn\'t feel like that at all. He respected Treize and he had seen how good was the man for Wufei. A scream coming from his com-link took him out of his thoughts, it was Une.

\"Treize-sama!!\"

Duo saw Heero approach the gundam still not moving and then heard him talk by the shared com-link.

\"Wufei? Wufei answer me. What happened here?\"

There was no answer. It was as if there was no one inside the gundam. Quatre had come back with the Maguanacs and told them that the battle had finished there too. It was then that the Arabian pilot felt it, the pain coming from the gundam 05. He felt the grief that only came when you have lost someone you love. He knew then what had happened.

\"Allah, please give us strength...\"

\"Had someone seen Epyon? I can\'t locate it!\"

Noin asked them, in fact there was no trace of the red gundam. No even on their radar.

\"Someone please look for Zechs. I think he\'ll be the only one who can take care of this\"

That was Trowa. He was next to Quatre anl hel he wanted to do was to get out from his gundam to go and embrace his lover. He knew what the other pilot must have been feeling and even when there was nothing he could about it he at least could be there for him.

They all were so shocked about the scene in front of them that no one noticed Deathscythe starting to get away from them. Duo didn\'t know what was happening, he hadn\'t had the need to use the system and now not being able to control his own body he inserted the of of zero. Just a minute later the system did its work and all Duo could see was a very bright light around him, then everything faded.

Six pilots suddenly lost conscious of their surroundings and all they could see was black. Slowly they all started to see something, shapes started to take form in front of their eyes. Just five of them recognized the place they were seeing. What they saw after that left them even more shocked than they already were. The saw the attack and then the change that took place after it.

How one of them stop existing and other being took possession of the body. How the other were affected by the things happening in front of them. How one of them found a piece of his loved one in a horrible pink plastic box. The bizarre image of a friend bleeding. They heard the painful truth of each one of them. They saw how the one who had fallen was now with them again but not totally with them. They saw the trial and punishment and finally they saw the execution.

They saw and felt everything as if they had actually lived it. And none of them could stand it.

\"Make it stop!\"

\"It hurts too much!\"

\"Please!\"

\"Nooooo!!\"

\"Oh my God!!\"

\"Ahhh!\"

Duo didn\'t know what to do, it hurt like hell to see and feel everything again. He knew who had done this and he didn\'t know why he did it.

\"Why?! Why are you doing this! I didn\'t what them to know!\"

\'You wanted it, even if not consciously... you still wanted it\'

Duo finally could regain control of his body and shut the system off. But he knew it was useless now, what they all had seen couldn\'t be erased from their minds and he feared they wouldn\'t accept it. He was scared that they would leave him alone.

The first one to react was Wufei and his reaction was something no one expected. The pilot started to scream about injustice and pain and before anyone could do anything the pilot of Altron left. They were too shocked to register what was happening and so no one followed him. He disappeared from view.

Duo started to call all his friends but they didn\'t seem to be there. Finally Heero answered him first.

\"What? Duo! Duo are you ok?!\"

\"Heero! Please tell me how are you!\"

Heero, being the perfect trained soldier he was, calmed himself down and started to calm down his lover.

\"I\' Duo Duo, please calm down. I want to know if you\'re ok and I really want to know what was that\"

\"I... I\'m fine... Heero-\"

But he was interrupted by Trowa who was desperately calling Quatre, but the pilot wouldn\'t answer.

\"Trowa take Quatre and go back to the Peacemillion. We\'ll be there in a minute\"

It was kind of strange how calm Heero was, but they didn\'t ask him. He was right, they had to go back towards Peacemillion and take care of the wounded ones. Une took her unit with her and followed the other two pilots and the Maguanacs.

\"Heero, where\'s Wufei?\"

\"I don\'t know Duo. I can\'t find his gundam. Neither I can find Epyon\"

\"Oh God...\"

\"Duo... what I saw... what we all saw... that was-\"

\"That was the dream I had... Shinigami made me see what would have happened if Relena had actually succeeded cutting my braid.

\"I see... Come on, let\'s go back to Peacemillion\"

\"What about Wufei and Zechs?\"

\"I can\'t find any of them in my radar and I think that they actually don\'t want to be found. There\'s nothing I can do for now\"

Duo didn\'t answer and just followed his boyfriend towards the space ship. He was afraid of what the visions had caused to his friends and how they would react towards him. The fact that Wufei and Zechs didn\'t want to be found said a lot and he feared he had already lost two of his friends. They soon reached the space ship and landed their gundams on the hangar. He could see on his monitor how Trowa helped Quatre to get out of his gundam and how Rashid was helping Lady Une to go to the medical center of the ship.

He didn\'t feel like leaving his gundam. Deathscythe had always been his best hiding place and where he always felt secure when he was scared. He didn\'t feel like confronting Heero, but he knew that the other pilot wouldn\'t wait until he felt that he wanted to leave the security of his gundam.

And he wasn\'t disappointed.

\"Duo... Duo please get out of there\"

But he didn\'t want to. What could he say to his lover? It wasn\'t his fault; he didn\'t do it on purpose but it still happened. He was trembling and he had tears in his eyes wanting to be free from them. Instinctively he hugged himself getting himself into a fetal position.

\"Duo I\'m going there...\"

He didn\'t answer. Even if he said no he knew Heero would go and force open the cockpit. He smiled sadly and started trembling even harder. Heero did as he thought and suddenly there was the bright light of the hangars illuminating him and blinding his eyes.

\"Duo!\"

Heero was shocked at the state his lover was. The wing pilot didn\'t waste more time and took one of the blankets Duo always had inside the gundam for emergencies and covered him, but the shaking didn\'t stop. Heero took Duo in his arms and helped him to stand up and leave the cockpit. Carefully he held Duo against his own body and then went down the gundam. When they reached the floor Duo almost collapsed but Heero was fast enough to stop him.

\"Duo please answer me\"

Duo only embraced him tight and started to cry. Heero held him protectively and caressed his back slowly.

\"Shhh... It\'s ok Duo. It\'s over now... no one can hurt you now\"

Only then Duo spoke.

\"No Heero. It\'s not over yet... I may have lost... I may have lost my friends forever\"

Heero sighed.

\"Duo, if there\'s something I\'m sure about is that they will never leave you alone. I saw that images too and felt them too and as you can see I\'m still here\"

\"Thank you... God Heero! Please hold me tight!\"

Heero just did as Duo asked. Duo was so affected that he didn\'t notice when Heero lifted him in his arms and carried him to the medical center to be checked by Sally. He opened the door carefully and entered the room looking for an empty bed he could use. Sally saw him and guided him to one corner of the large room where there was one last bed empty. He settled the now unconscious body of his lover on the bed and looked around him. Quatre was in the bed next to him and in the other side were some Maguanacs and pilots from Une\'s troops. Lady Une was sleeping under inflinfluence of some sedatives in a bed next to Quatre\'s.

\"Where\'s Noin, Sally?\"

Sally Po shook her head sadly.

\"She said she would go to look for Zechs... And I think you should send someone to look for Wufei. I think he\'s in a very bad state of mind right now\"

\"I know, but I couldn\'t detect him in my radar... I\'m quite sure he doesn\'t want to be found\"

Sally sighed and went to check her patients. Heero caressed Duo\'s cheek with his right hand and then noticed the small braid around his wrist. He softly touched it and then leaned down to kiss Duo in the forehead.

\"Don\'t worry Duo. I\'ll always be at your side, no matter what\"

* * *

Noin had been flying for almost two hours now and still nothing. She knew she soon would have to go back to the Peacemillion because her oxygen tank was getting empty. She couldn\'t understand how Zechs had done to disappear like that and why he had disappeared, even when she knew it had to do with Treize\'s death. She loved him and even when she didn\'t accept the relationship he had with the ex-head of Oz and the gundam pilot she loved him too much to interfere.

She sighed sadly and then turned to go back towards the space ship. She would go for a search trip again once her MS was repaired and filled.

* * *

In the dark side of the moon there was a tall and imposing figure. It wasobilobile and impossible to detect because of the strategic place it was. Inside the cockpit a pilot had his hands on the controls gripping them tightly and his head down in shame. His eyes were closed but there were tears floating around him.

\"I\'m so sorry...\"

~tbc~

Ok, once again I left a cliffhanger... And as all of you already know... I DID IT ON PURPOSE!!! Nyaaahahahaaaaa!!!! Well, finally Wufei\'s problem was revealed, yes he always feared the system would cause him to do something like that, because deep inside of him he knew he still had to confront Treize. *hugs Wufei tiiiiightl
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Wufei: Let go of me you ona!! Look at what you made me do!!
BK: Bah... you already know I\'m evil so don\'t annoy me...
Wufei: I hate you...
BK: You don\'t and you know that.

^__^

Sakura and Sasuke
-Go figure! Me too! ^_^ Can\'t stand Relena and Kikyo mkes me sick!
-Heh! First time someone tells me that they didn\'t like the mushy parts... ^^!
-Anyway, I\'m happy you liked the fic and hope you anjoyed this chapter too.


Timber Wolf
-As you said... it \'seems\' ok... as you can see things got kind of complicated again ^^!