Nameless Ship

“Landing gear engaged. Set. Decent marks at 78000…. 60000…52000.” Duo sounded off in one of the most serious tones he had as the carrier ship began its decent on L3. “2300km. 1800. 1000km.”
Trowa stood by the captain’s seat where he had allowed Quatre to sit. The young blond had come to watch decent and to see what the colony of L3 looked like. It wasn’t much really. Lots of open and and grass but they were landing near a large tent with several animals in cages around it.
“What are those?” he asked
“Just elephants and lions. Nothing really.”
“They’re lovely.”
Trowa smiled as the craft finally landed after about 10 minutes. He ordered the crew to remain on board and watch Quatre while he was out and made a final check to his insidet pot pocket.
“I should be back in an hour or less.” He said as he left the cockpit. Through a camera Duo watched to make sure the captain made it safely off the ship and to the tent about 120meters way.
“I can’t take it any more.” He said more to himself.
“What?” his banged copilot asked.
“This suspense. Every time we make a landing even here, the good captain is always so intense and serious. Its like he’s just waitin’ for something to happen.”
“Well don’t worry too much. And close that door before the bugs get in. you know how much “The good captain” likes to see dead fly’s in the kitchen and hall ways.”
“Yea, right.”
Some time had past as the crew waited for the return of the captain when Noin left to use the ladies room and Duo and Quatre sat watching the men feed the animal? Well Quatre sat watching the men feed the animals, Duo was too busy with an Arubix cube to really care. It wasn’t until another 20 minutes past that Duo decided to look for his copilot. This required no more then flipping through the various cameras on the ship. When he had searched each and every one of them he decided to comm.
“Noin? You out there? NOOOOOOOIIIIIIN?” the braided pilots high-pitched call echoed through out the haul of the ship. When several minutes had passed he asked the rest.
“OY! Anyone seen Noin?” Wufei was the first to COM in saying he had seen her heading from the bathrooms but that was several minutes ago “Try her room again.”
“Hai! Arigato, you Chinese pimp.” Duo said before he quickly checked off.
His voice rang again from the woman’s room and Duo was forced once again to use the cameras when no answer came.
“What’s that?” Quatre pointed to one of the camera shots where blurry patch had appeared directly in front of the lenses.
“I don’t know” Duo studied the image and switched to several cameras before realizing they had an intruder.
“CODE BLUE! CODE BLUE!” Duo called out as he kept an eye on the image. Flipping a switch on the control panel in front of him a small blue light turned on in front of the ship while others flashed through out the ship. “Intruder wearing MicroFlage, (1) headed down corridor 5 towards hanger. Do not allow him to pass north corridor.”
Duo instructed Quatre not to go anywhere because if worse comes to worse Duo would do his best to protect the android. “Just stay here. I let Trowa know the situation” Quatre nodded and stood next Duo.
“Intruder now on the west wing headed towards the south of the ship.” Duo watched the blurry image as it moved fast through the corridors and towards cargo area of the ship.
“Which way Duo!” Sally said over her walky talky. She was the closet to the cargo hold but before Duo could answer the blonde was knocked out cold by a dark floating hand.
“SALLY! If anyone is in hall 3, Sally’s out.”
Continuing to watch the pointless chase for the invisible man Duo continued to call out locations of the intruder until the blur appeared at the door of the Cockpit.
“INTURDER IS NOW At the COCK PIT DOOR” Duo said as he reached for the gun he kept under his seat.
“This is your chance to leave buddy! If you come through that door, I don’t care who you are you’re dead!”
“Those sound like last words,” a voice laced with hatred and lust called through the door. No sooner had he said this than the door blew open and filled the room with a dark hazy smoke.
Both young men in the room covered their heads and faces from the debris and offending smell. Nothing had happened as the smoke cleared and Duo moved towards the door with his gun up.
“Duo! Behind you!”
The pilot had turned just in time to get a full serving of a knuckle sandwich that landed him on the ground cold.
“NO DUO!” Quatre ran to help his friend when the hidden enemy revealed his face.
“Come now, 04. Don’t make this harder then it has been. You don’t want to see any one else get hurt do you?”
“No stop! Just leave us alone!”
“Come, come. Captain Treize has been waiting patiently for you and I intend on delivering you to him. Now won’t you please come quietly or do I have to knock you out like your friends?”
“Those sound like last words.” A deep silky voice sounded the intruder fell to the ground in a partially invisible heap. Standing for several seconds to make sure the intruder was out for good, Trowa looked up and checked on the boy in front of him.
“Are you alright?”
Quatre nodded as he held his hands to his collar.
“Did he hurt you at all?”
“No, I’ll be just fine. But thanks for your concern Cap’n.” Duo’s gruff voice sounded from behind the banged man. Turning to see his pilot clutching his face Trowa breathed a sigh of relief and went to get an ice pack for the braided boy.
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“How’s she doing?” Trowa asked concerned for Sally.
“She’ll be awake soon. Usually these only last half an hour.” Wufei answered
“I see. Call me when she wakes.”
Trowa walked down to the brig where his 1st was interrogating the intruder. He could hear the loud echoes of flesh on flesh as the man beat the trespasser for answers. Trowa wasn’t particularly found of this technique but it did work most of the time.

“So are you going to tell me who sent you?” Heero said coldly to the fully visible man.
“Why don’t you ask your friend? I’m sure he remembers.” The man’s speech was slurred by the fracture in his jaw and the fat, swollen, bloody lips Heero had dressed him with. Trowa watched from the other side of the door as Heero landed two well-stationed punches and reached for a towel. “I’ll give you a little time to think about your decision. When I come back you better have my answers or you’ll meet a new sort of pain.” Heero finished wiping his hands and left meeting his captain in the hall.
“Did he say anything?”
“Just his damn name. He’s got about 10 minutes to get his priorities straight or he won’t be able to leave this ship alive.” The Persian eye man said coldly as he and the captain walked to the kitchen.
“Your certain he knows about Quatre.”
“Yes Duo heard him talking specifically to Quatre while he was on the floor.”
“Hmm…”
The two sat at the tabrea rea of the kitchen while Heero drank some water and Trowa thought about the situation.

Quatre sat beside Duo in his room as the bruised pilot held a cold pack to his face. “Are you really gonna be ok?” the boy asked quietly.
“Yea. I’m fine. But do you remember that name that guy said to you.”
“Treize?”
“Yea. Is he one of the men or groups after you?”
Quatre looked at the floor as he tried to think but only fuzzy images came to mind. “I can’t remember.” He said finally with an apologetic smile
“Try to Quat’. It might help a lot. Maybe you can plug your self in to my computer and remember that way like you did with Heero’s laptop.
Quatre sighed. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to know but he wasn’t really sure how he had used Heero’s laptop that first day.

“Captain, there was something I did find that night on Quatre’s case as I was analyzing it.” Heero took a swallow of his water.
“Oh?”
“There was or is a remote that seems to be connected to a tracking device in the boy that I believe can cause him to self-destruct or at the very least shut down and make him useless.”
“What do you mean?”
“It works just like a bomb would only it can track. So if someone really wanted to they could destroy Quatre now.”

“Quatre,? Hey what’s wrong.” The braided pilot asked concerned as he placed his hand on the other boys shoulder and shook him lightly. Quatre had his head between his legs clenching it tightly with hands. He pulled away from Duo as the pain got worse and he started to scream. “Quatre?! Hey! Where are you going.”

“So what I’m saying is that the person only has to be in the general facinity as Quatre to work the remote.”
Trowa stood from the table rather stiffly and marched at a swift pace down the hall to Duo’s room. “LT. Get the prisoner!”
Just as Trowa rounded the corner the full weight of the android ran into him and fell to the ground. Hands still gripped tight to his head the boy rolled over and hunched on his knees.
“Quatre? What’s wrong?” the captain said as he pulled the blonde’s face from the ground.
“….me…” a faint whisper came
“What?”
“DON”T TOUCH ME!!!” a painful scream now filled the halls.
Looking surprised at the child like figure as tears welled up in the boy’s eyes Trowa grabbed the boy and tried to get him to relax. “Quatre I need you to tell me what’s wrong! Hey!”
The fragile figure fought the stone muscles of the captain until a heart stopping pain surged through him.
“AHHHH!! MAKE IT STOP!!!! NO!! ARGGAAGHHGGH!” in a matter of seconds and a flutter of what seemed like an endless struggle the small figure of the android fell to the ground in a lifeless heap.