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Machine or Mortal?
By: Satsuki Kitsune




Category: yaoi-ish
Rating: PG-13-ish        
Pairings: 1+2 and 3+4… But mostly 1+2
Warnings: the usual…boys with boys… blah..blah… 
Feedback: Any and all comments and feedback is welcome!!!!!!!!! In fact, I enjoy it.  
Notes: hmm… In THIS chapter I get into all the details… *smiles evilly *…… I am so going to enjoy doing this….



“ Heero, I think that metal is attached to your arm….”

          “ What?” Heero’s tone was incredulous. Well, as incredulous as an emotionless soldier would get anyways…

          Duo took another deep breath, never taking his eyes off Heero’s strange arm,

          “ The metal.. It won’t budge….Its like attached or something. And…oh my god….H-Heero…” Those eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as they saw something else.

          “ What is it?”

          Duo did not respond, but probed the pair of wires that seemed to run along the metal, and along the length of Heero’s arm.

          “ Duo….Tell me.” Heero said threateningly. The instrument from Duo’s shaking hands dropped to the bed,

          “ Heero, you wait here.. I’m going to get the others..” And he ran quickly out of the room.

          Heero was left alone, with the strange sensation rolling in waves up and down his arm. Then he himself, turning his head, looked deep into his wound.

          ‘ What was Duo being so weird about? Metal in my arm?? No way… I don’t believe that it could poss-..’ His Prussian eyes widened slightly at the same sight Duo had seen. Along with the said metal, he could make out two wires, one blue, one red. Shocked and a little bit scared, Heero reached amidst the blood and raw skin and poked at the strange wires.

          There was a wave of pain that shot up from his arm, sending his head into the oblivion of pain and unconsciousness.

 

 

          “ QUATRE!!! TROWA!!!!! WUFEI!!!!!” A yell from one familiar God of Death awoke the three other pilots and sent them directly to the hall, where had Duo yelled.

          “ Maxwell, you better have a good explanation for this…” Wufei growled. Trowa said nothing, but looked at him inquisitively while Quatre, always sensible, was the one to talk without a threat,

          “ Duo, what is it? And where’s Heero?” Duo took a deep breath and tried to speak while calming down at the same time.

          “ Its Heero! Something’s really wrong! I was cleaning his wound and I found metal and wires in his arm!!!!! Normal people aren’t supposed to have those things inside their bodies!!!!”

          Wufei didn’t look convinced.

          “ Are you sure you didn’t just see something?” Duo’s eyes narrowed at the Shenlong pilot,

          “ Do you think I’d joke about something like this??!! And I didn’t just see something!! The light was on, and I could see perfectly, and I know what I saw!!” he yelled. Sparks flashed between the two…

          “ Would you show us then?” Startled, everyone looked at Trowa, who had spoken up.

           Duo nodded and led them to his and Heero’s room… only to see the Wing pilot deeply unconscious on his bed. Quatre ran up and tried to wake Heero, but to no success. He took one look at the said arm and gasped, clasping a hand over his mouth. Duo nodded and was right there next to Quatre, trying to get Heero to wake up.

          Heero…come on…wake up! I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but I’m gonna help you… I swear it…’




Later…much later…

 

 

          Consciousness came to him like a dewdrop on a leaf, refusing to fall. But when the weight of the water brought it down, Heero gasped and sat up straight. Blinking his eyes rapidly, he forced the world to come into focus so he could examine the unfamiliar place that he was in. The Wing pilot laid on a sort of examining table, similar to the one in the Alliance Hospital that he had been landed in after trying to destroy Wing, but without the restraints on his wrists and ankles. The place was disgustingly white and sterile, so he could only assume that it was a hospital.

          ‘ Why am I here? And how did I get here?’ A flood of memories came then and he remembered. He looked and saw that a bandage now covered the obscene arm.

          “ You’re awake!!!!!!” Without warning, a familiar figure with a long braid attached himself around Heero in a hug. Heero looked down at Duo, mostly in shock, but some confusion.

          “ What are you doing?” It was a cold tone, so cold that Duo backed off, slightly hurt.

          “ I just…” He stopped when he saw that Heero was staring at him.

          “ Why am I here?” he asked. Duo cleared his throat nervously,

          “ Well, we found you unconscious and took you to Sally. She’s a doctor, ya know…so.. she saw your arm and did some X-rays on you… and…well….she won’t tell any of us what’s wrong until she talks to you. She should be in here any minute.” Duo’s gaze shifted to Heero, who had a confused, blank look on his face.

          “ Uh, Heero??” Duo waved a hand in front of his partner’s face, who gave no reaction. “ Um, braided-god-of-death to one-who-acts-like-a-brick?? I repeat, one-who-acts-like-a-brick, come in? …. okay then, braided-god-of-death, over.” He finished the statement with an imitation of radio static.

          Heero blinked and turned his head towards the door, which had just opened. It revealed Sally Po, with a serious look on her face, walking towards them.

          “ Heero?”

          “ Yes?”

          Sally motioned to the envelope in her hand, containing the X-rays taken earlier, when Heero had been unconscious.

          “ I need to talk with you.” Heero nodded,

          “ I understand.” He then looked to Duo. “ Leave,” Heero commanded.

          Duo looked down at the ground, suddenly feeling small and unimportant. He found the voice, even though it was small, to acknowledge it.

          “ Sure thing….” He said, and walked out.

 

          Sally handed Heero the envelope.

          “ Take a look at these,” she said simply.

          Heero felt his heartbeat increasing faster and faster as he scanned the black and white images. Surely this couldn’t be his body!!! He was speechless, to be putting it mildly. So Sally spoke for him….

          “ You seem to have metal attached to every major bone in your body…. And what’s more, you have a set of wires for each appendage that runs along the metal, all connected together in the center, near your heart.”

          “ T-This can’t be real, can it? I had no idea…. How could I have not known of this?” Heero whispered to no one in particular. Sally happened to be the one who answered,

          “ You mean that you didn’t know about this?? My gosh… Heero, I don’t know what to say….”

          Heero stared numbly down at his leg, then at his forearm, which he rubbed unconsciously, trying to see if it was any different than before. It was hard to believe that he’d been living with something unknown in his body for this long. But what he wanted to know was who did this to him and when it had been done. Now his eyes narrowed in anger as he thought of the first and most likely suspect: His mentor and trainer, Dr. J.



Author’s Note: yeah, yeah, I know it’s short, but I think I feel writer’s block coming on….uh-oh….. *runs away from the huge cube looming ahead * I’ll try to write more!!


Chapter 3