New Haven

Chapter Twelve: Plots of the wicked.

Heero motioned Duo past the weapons detectors and waived his badge at the security Preventers. He blinked as Duo passed through with out so much as a beep.

“Assassin, remember.” Wufei murmured fully expecting the noise to happen. He waived his own ID to the men in warning. They hit the button to make sure the noise wouldn’t last long.

Heero muttered under his breath. Quatre and Trowa would be arriving soon. He had commandeered a conference room on the fifth floor and all the information about yesterday’s incident would be waiting there for them to peruse. He lead the Wufei and Duo over to the elevators and they waited for one to arrive.

A group of women agents watched the gorgeous men in envy. They tried to get the attention of the long haired one when the man they knew as Prosecutor Chang glared at them and grabbed a hand of the man possessively.

Duo looked at his love questioningly. The elevator arriving cut off his question. He was pulled by his hand onto the elevator and to deadly glares advised the women not to join them. Duo grinned and waved at the cooing women unintentionally causing hearts to flutter wildly. He heard a groan of protest from beside him.

“Don’t encourage them.” Heero growled at the long haired man. “How old are you not to know that?” He grouched as the elevator rose.

Duo grinned. “Well I am twenty-one. Besides I would rather have their help than have them avoid me when I need their help on something.” Duo let them digest his words as the elevator came to a halt. There was a point to his words. He had to work with a partner. He didn’t want to keep changing them when ever he had a shift.

Wufei and Heero digested his words silently.

‘Twenty-one,’ Wufei thought, ‘Six years younger than us. How could he possibly do the things that he did?’

Unknowingly the same thoughts were going through the other man’s head as well.

The elevator doors slid open smoothly and Heero motioned them out and led them to the room that they would be using. When the trio entered the room they were surprised by the piles of paper in the room. Lady Une and Sally Po sat there waiting for them.

“Well gentlemen,” Sally murmured dryly. “It would seem that the largest crime group in the colony earth sphere want you dead.”

Duo went straight to the pile of paper at one of the chairs. He calmly began to read the information ignoring the conversation around him. What he read made him angrier and angrier.

Anne Une noticed the happy go lucky face on the man she thought of as her brother turn darker and darker. When he finally looked up the mask of Shinigami was firmly in place. She had never thought to see that look on the man’s face ever again.

He looked straight into her eyes and said softly his words almost hissing. “He. Is. Not. Dead.” The calm dead tone of his voice rang in the silence of the room.

Anne Une nearly jumped out of her chair at the words.

“Who isn’t dead Duo?” Wufei asked his love softly. He didn’t like the none expression on the man’s face. Something told him that it was not a face he wanted to see on his love’s face.

“The man who killed the people in the one home I lived in during the war.” Duo stated flatly.

Anne nearly fell from her chair. “But I saw him die!!!” She shouted as Quatre and Trowa entered the room. “I did!!!”

Duo threw the papers onto the table. He knew what they said. She just didn’t read between the lines. He didn’t take his eyes from the woman who had promised him so much. The expression on her face said that she believed her words.

Wufei looked over to see what Heero thought of the famous Shinigami’s words. He met a face as set in stone as his own. They now had a very big problem on their hands. How to keep Shinigami from completely taking over the younger man.

“Did we miss something?” Quatre asked softly.

Apparently not softly enough.

“The man who massacred Maxwell Church is still alive.” Duo answered flatly. “What will you do about this?” The question was pointedly asked of the Preventer leader.

“Look the other way as you take the organization apart.” The leader said to the surprise of the men and single other woman in the room.

Duo nodded and looked at the men waiting for their response.

“Is that what you really want to do?” Quatre asked just as softly as before.

Anne nodded ignoring the gaping face of her love. “I made a promise.” She murmured. “I won’t break it. Not ever.” She stood and made to leave the room. “Just make sure that innocents aren’t killed.” She said before she left the room.

Sally sat and stared after the woman she loved. She had never seen her do anything like this in her life. She looked back to see looks pass between the four other men. She looked to see Duo waiting for the answer. “I think that I will be helping with this. I think you will need this.”

Duo looked at the single woman and nodded the mask still in place.

A hand settled on his shoulder as he had measured the woman. He looked up into Wufei’s eyes. His mask cracked as Wufei looked down at him tenderly.

“You will never have to do this alone.” He told Duo. Emotions flew through Duo’s mind. Finally it settled on thankfulness.

“Wo ai ni, Fei.” Duo answered softly reaching a hand to curl around the one on his shoulder.

Sally choked. “Since when have you been in a relationship with Duo? IF Anne finds out she’ll neuter you!”

Wufei chuckled.

Duo glared at the woman. “She’ll have to get through me first!” He stated flatly. “I like Fei just the way he is.” He said with a sniff.

While Duo and Sally snipped at each other Quatre read over the information in the papers before him. He looked up at Heero as the man stood to leave the room. He received a squeeze. He looked over at Trowa and saw a mask falling over his other love’s face it was one similar to the one Duo wore a minute ago. “Trowa.” Quatre whispered softly.

Trowa turned at the whisper. He smiled slightly in reassurance. “We have an important mission ahead Quat. I will give it everything I have. Do you have a plan yet?”

“Heero has gone to get a map of the area of this SECRET base that isn’t so secret.” Quatre answered. “But I do have an idea surfacing. I won’t know if it will work until I see what the land fall is like.”

“Rugged.”

Quatre’s head shot up at the surprising answer.

“Very rugged.” Duo told Sandrock. “The only way in is chopper or foot. And you’ll need several days to get in by foot. That’s why they put it there. You need stealth to get into there.”

Quatre growled in frustration. “Stealth technology was destroyed during the war.” He threw up his hands in despair.

“Who said it was destroyed?” Duo asked innocently toying with his braid.

Four sets of narrowed eyes settled on the man innocently toying with his braid.

“Duo.” Wufei intoned dangerously.

“What do you mean ‘Who said it was destroyed?’?” Trowa asked softly as he held his lover away from attacking the man across from him.

Heero walked in on this scene and raised a questioning eyebrow.

“Just what I said.” Duo continued looking as innocent as a child that has done something that they know that they shouldn’t have and they were now in trouble. “Who said it was destroyed?”

Quatre settled back into his chair with a growl. “Dr. Howard Green. That’s who.”

Heero followed the questions with a frown. “We’ll need a least a week to get in with out anyone seeing us.” He told the group.

“Ohhh, Howie did.” Duo continued to act innocent.

“Duo.” Wufei reiterated again his voice a low dangerous growl.

“What do you mean Howie, Duo?” Sally questioned.

“He would say that because he didn’t create it so he wouldn’t have the information to give.” Duo looked up at Sally innocently. He looked into her silver blue eyes innocently.

“Who created it?” Trowa asked trying to control the blond beside him.

“I did.”

Four breaths hissed out in amazement.

“You’re telling us that because you are apart of this we have access to this knowledge?” Heero asked calmly ignoring the sputtering of his lovers and Sally.

Wufei didn’t say or do anything trying to hide the smile he wore.

“Yup, but it disappears the minute this is done.” The innocence disappeared as his eyes met Heero’s. Duo waited for the agreement. He wouldn’t agree till his terms were met. “I fly the bird, I give it stealth, and I make it disappear the moment this mission is done. And you have to explain to my boss that I won’t be there on Sunday.” He added the last for good measure.

“Agreed.” Heero told him without hesitation. “There is no such thing as stealth anymore. Therefore there is no way that a chopper could possibly have it.” He looked at Duo through narrowed eyes. “I will also tell your boss that your next three day on is not possible because you got activated for a mission that only you could possibly be part of.”

Duo grinned happily and settled back to listen to the plans flow over and around him. He was finally going to get his vengeance. The people who had taken down his home were finally going to get what they deserve. He listened absent mindedly to the plans. What they were saying finally filtered in after two hours.

“So we’ll go in this coming weekend. We’ll get the base layout…” Quatre trailed off as Duo took the map that had different buildings of the base and started to write in what was what and what was where. “Okay,” Quatre murmured. “We’re still going to go in on the weekend. They won’t expect that.” He looked over what he now saw.

“I’ll get in through the air ducts and open it up for you guys in the main installation.” Duo said reasonably. “I will then place bombs strategically around the base at the main points and make sure that this base can never be used again. “I’ll let you guys round up whatever and whoever you want.” He looked up at the men. “I wouldn’t be good at it. I have a tendency to shot to kill. One of the reasons I told Annie no.”

Quatre looked up into the calm face. “Sally will hold down the chopper to make sure that nothing happens to it.” He said quietly. Sally nodded. “Trowa will take care to check the cells for hostages that need to be released. Heero will hack the system and get proof of what they were up to. I will capture the heads and try not to get seen doing so. Wufei…”

“Wufei will do something he wants to do badly.” Wufei answered not letting any emotion enter his voice to tell what he planned on doing. He was going to find the ring leader and eliminate him from the face of the earth.

“NO.” Duo stated in an almost shout. “YOU will NOT do that.”

Three people looked up startled. They watched the scene play out.

“I want him to rot in a cell knowing he will never get out and see the light of day ever again.” Duo told the man he loved firmly. “You will do this for me. You will help Quatre bring in as many as them as possible including the ringleader. I will do three choppers. We will ask for both Agent Wind and Fire to aide us in our endeavors. That way we will have all the necessary room to bring everyone possible back. I will not leave anything of the base when I am done.” He whispered to the others.

Wufei looked deeply in to the eyes of his one and only love and slowly nodded. It would be as he asked.

“Sooo,” Sally said hesitantly. “We have a plan?”

“Agreed.” Five voices said as one.

“Then I’ll go ask Anne for three carrier choppers and the aide of Agents Fire and Wind.” Sally told them.

“Sally,” Duo looked away from Wufei to catch the honey blond. “Ask her for the 286 Zipper Wings.”

Sally stared. “And lots of C18 for you to play with.” She answered dryly.

“Thanks Sally.” Five voices answered again as one.