Author: Merula
Pairings: 1x2
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing is not mine.
So Bri is home for a few days of vacation, always a good thing, and this morning as we were running around, we were talking about Odd Day and I told him that I'd done a little drabble for Plaid, cause she dropped the bunny on me.
So he proceeded to drop a bunny on me too, for Odd Day, and then sat beside me as I wrote it out and offered suggestions. So this is both of ours, really. *grin*
Odds vs. Evens
The door slammed open and Relena flinched back into the corner. Swearing, her captors tossed in a struggling bundle and departed hastily, locking the door behind them.
Relena leaned forward, reaching out with her bound hands to touch the person on the floor. Was he alive-?
"Damn it all to hell!" The man sat up and tugged on the metal cuffs around his wrists. "Gundaniam..."
"Heero?" She blinked at him. "What-?"
"Came in to get you," he growled at her. "Intel was faulty- this place is swarming with guards- got caught-"
"What do we do now?"
"Relax- I'm not the only one they sent. One of the others will get us out."
The door slammed open again and another body was pitched into the room.
"Ouch," Trowa sat up and rubbed the end of his nose carefully, the manacles on his wrists jingling. "That's going to bruise."
"Barton?" Heero glared at him. "How did you get caught? You were supposed to infiltrate-"
"I did!" Trowa protested. "But I must've missed the meeting where they changed the passwords-"
"Great. Well, at least Chang's still out there somewhere." Heero tugged on his cuffs again.
"Chang?" Relena echoed. "What about Duo?"
"Duo couldn't join us on this one," Trowa explained. "He's got a fractured ankle- thanks to Heero-"
"It wasn't my fault! I told him not to paint the banisters that way."
"And you know damn well he always does exactly what you tell him not to."
Heero turned his glare on Relena. "Do you have a hairpin or something? We could try picking the locks on these."
She shook her head. "I wasn't wearing any."
An hour later the door opened and this time-
"Chang? How the hell did they get you?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Wufei propped himself up against the wall and frowned darkly at Trowa. "How did they get you? I thought-"
"Yeah, let's just say it was one big fuck up all around." Trowa sighed and lay down flat on the floor. "Now what?"
"I don't know. Duo can't make it in here with that ankle..."
"What about Quatre?" Relena interjected and Wufei snorted.
"Winner's not even a member of the Preventers! He's never had the training!"
"He's a trained Gundam pilot," Trowa retorted. "He can wipe the floor with you if he wanted-"
"That was just that one time!"
"He still did it. You even had to-"
They were still wrangling several hours later when:
"Shut up," Heero snapped. "Do you hear that?"
They were all silent for a moment listening to the far off sounds- and then Trowa grinned. "Sounds like explosions to me."
"That's not good-" Relena retreated farther into her corner.
"It's Duo." Heero told her, frowning.
"How can you tell? It might be the terrorists-"
"No. It's his pattern."
"Duo has a pattern to his explosions?" Relena shook her head. "Don't answer that, of course he does-"
"How can it be Duo?" Wufei growled. "He can barely walk!"
The sounds grew closer still. The explosions were joined by a rattle of gunfire that made Trowa grin even more.
"Guess who?" he said to Wufei, who simply snorted again.
"There's no way the Commander would authorize this," he said and it was Heero's turn to snort.
"Great. When they rescue our asses, then we'll just leave you here to be rescued by an approved squad," he said and joined Relena in her corner. "It might be safer away from the door," he added, and Trowa came to join them.
The door exploded inward, falling to the ground and two figures stepped inside. Duo was grinning like a madman, the bandolier of grenades he wore was more than half empty, and his ankle was tightly wrapped in a walking cast.
Quatre, a machine gun over his shoulder, was right behind him. "There you are!" He said and turned to give Duo a high-five. "Yes!"
"How did you two maniacs even get permission-" Wufei started and Quatre laughed.
"Who needs permission? Can you get them free, Duo?"
Heero got Relena to her feet and led her to Duo, who made short work of their cuffs. He freed Trowa next and then turned to Wufei.
"Coming with us or not?"
"Do you really think you can get us out of here?"
"Hey! We got in didn't we?" He and Quatre exchanged another high five, much to Relena's amusement. "You're just mad that we did better than you."
"Excuse me?" Rashid peeked in the doorway. "Master Quatre? Now would be a good time to leave-"
"Of course," Quatre followed him out, pulling his gun back into position. "Let's go-!" Trowa gave Relena his arm and led her out the door.
"You brought the Magunacs?" Heero questioned Duo.
"Of course- how the hell else would we get in here? Two against this base weren't good odds- but when you add in Quat's personal army-?"
"So that's what took you so long- I wondered-"
"Hey, we did pretty good- Quatre got them assembled in an hour!" Duo blinked. "Wait- you knew I was listening in?"
"Of course, I knew a bad ankle wouldn't keep you out of this."
"Guys!" Quatre snapped from the doorway. "Mutual admiration meeting after we get out, okay?"
"Sir, yes sir!" Duo tossed an arm over Heero's shoulders and let him help Duo out the door.
"Guys??" Wufei struggled to his feet. "Hey-!"
OWARI
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