Mission: Medallion

Part Three: Who Are You?

by: Mikala Barton

Disclaimers: Yeah, yeah, yeah. These guys are not mine, except for a miserable few. Anyway, they belong to the group of people who made them possible. Let us all take time to reflect on them. ......... Okay! Now, on with the story!

The four were standing on the perimeter of the Louroux mansion, by the bushes. Duo tried to repress a sigh as he felt the branches scratching his arms and feet. Oh, well. Duo tried, but he couldn't really do it so..

"*sigh* It is so boring here and my arms are getting scratchy. Why couldn't we even bring our gundams?" Duo finally said.

Wufei shushed him and said, "Keep quiet. We can't bring Nataku and the others because we don't want them to notice us until it is too late for them."

"Oh."

"Okay. You know the plan. We will now separate." Heero said, as they broke into two groups, Heero and Wufei, Trowa and Duo.

Heero glanced at the leaving backs of Trowa and Duo. He waited for a few minutes and then they followed.

After a few minutes.......

Heero peered in a room, wondering if this was the office. Then he heard Wufei call for him.

"Heero, I found it!"

He quickly rushed to the where Wufei was and peered in the room. It was the office all right.

They quickly rushed to computer and turned it on, to see if the information needed was there.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

Wufei smiled, "Those two are doing a pretty good job at distracting them."

Heero nodded as he broke into the files of the computer.

Wufei leaned towards him, "So, is there anything useful?"

Heero's eyebrows met as he scanned the files. "Hm, there doesn't seem to be one. But wait, until I check this one."

Wufei nodded, knowing that Heero should concentrate to see if their needed files were in there.

"It's not here!" Heero said, dismayed.

"What isn't here?" The voice that said that belonged to neither Wufei nor Heero.

They turned and saw Trowa.

"The files." Wufei said. "Now, we have to search the house, and you need to continue distracting the others."

"Oh, so that's why there is such a ruckus on the other side of the house?" Trowa commented, raising a hand, showing a gun.

Heero's frown turned into a glare. "What are you doing, Trowa?"

The boy smirked, "I am not the Trowa that everybody seems to be talking about. I am Louis Louroux, and you will tell me what you are doing here."

"Louis Louroux?" Wufei said with a slow grin coming to his face.

"Well, well, well." Heero said, lunging towards the boy.

Louis immediately shot Heero, but he avoided it and landed on Louis.

"Get offa me!" Louis yelled, squirming under the Japanese boy.

Wufei rushed towards them and grabbed the gun. Heero stood, grabbing Louis's shoulders.

Wufei pointed the gun at Louis and said, "Okay, now you do what we tell you or else you get hurt."

Louis's eyes widened at the barrel of the gun facing him. "Okay, okay! I'll do what you want! Your blond friend is in the dungeon in the basement!" he said, rushing the words out.

Heero felt something stir in him, "Blond friend?"

"Yeah. You know, the one that was in the warehouse the other day?"

Wufei nodded, "Of course." He got his radio and called for Trowa.

"Trowa, come in."

Somebody quickly picked up the other line, "This is Trowa."

"This is Wufei. Guess what? Quatre is alive and is in the dungeon in the basement. We found it out from Louis Louroux. The three of us, including Louis, will go to the dungeon and save Quatre, while you and Duo keep distracting them, okay?"

"Okay." said the monotone voice from the other line.

Wufei turned back to Louis. "Now, you lead us to the dungeon."

Trowa stared at the radio in his hand.

"What was that about?" Duo asked, as they continued dodging the shots of the people chasing them.

Trowa glanced at the braided boy beside him, "They captured Louis Louroux and Quatre is alive in the dungeon. They're going to save him."

"NANI!!!?!" Duo yelled, almost stumbling. "Quatre is alive?"

"..." Trowa replied dragging Duo behind him.

Trowa's mind was in a blaze. Quatre was alive. The thought created a loud thumping in his chest. He was.... relieved? Yeah, that was natural, right? After all, Quatre was an ally. Trowa frowned microscopically, or was Quatre more than an ally.....

Trowa tried to get rid of this feeling and just be happy that Quatre was safe, but he was more than happy, he was ecstatic, and he felt like jumping up and down with joy.

All in all, he felt weird.

Duo's ears were still rocking from the revelation. Quatre was alive and in the dungeon? Well, Heero was going to save Quatre. How in the world did Quatre manage to escape the explosion of the warehouse? Duo grinned all of a sudden. What did he care in how Quatre escaped as long as he did anyway?

Duo and Trowa concentrated more on living so that they could see Quatre later.

Quatre raised his head at the sound of footsteps. He felt his stomach tighten at the sound. He was sooo hungry.

But I'll never betray my friends, his mind said stubbornly.

He glared towards the direction of the foosteps. There were at least three of them, according to the sound of footsteps.

He tightened his muscles, preparing himself for anything.

The people were...... Heero (?), Wufei (?), and Trowa (?). Then he noticed the gun pointing at Trowa, which meant that this was Louis, not the wonderful boy Quatre cared so much about.

Heero peered in the bars, "Quatre?"

"Heero, Wufei, you came!" Quatre exclaimed, happy that he saw them, that he momentarily forgot the growling in his stomach.

Wufei nodded, "Of course." He turned towards Louis, "The key?"

Grumbling, the boy handed the key over to Wufei. He quickly opened the bars and Quatre rushed out, glad to be free.

"I knew you'd come!" Quatre hugged Wufei tightly.

"Yeah, it would be injustice for you to be locked here." Wufei said, seriously.

"Where's Trowa and Duo?" Quatre asked, looking around.

"They're making a distraction." Heero said.

Quatre's mind raced with worry, thinking about Trowa risking his life for Quatre.

His mind was so full that he didn't notice that Wufei was talking to the others through a radio.

"We got Quatre now. Let's meet at the hotel."

"Okay!" Duo said, signing off.

Then the three rushed out, with a grumbling rich boy.

Trowa opened the door leading to their room, his eyes automatically looking for Quatre. He felt relieved when he saw him, eating a burger.

"Quatre..." he said staring at the boy.

Quatre glanced up and grinned when he saw Trowa, the real one. "Trowa!" he jumped off the chair and hugged the other boy so so tight. "I missed you!" he buried his face on the chest of the taller boy.

Duo giggled, "Nice to see you, too, Quatre."

Quatre glanced up, "Duo! I'm so happy to see you, too."

Duo smiled, "Of course. I missed you, because when you were gone, I was the only one who was using his saliva! The other three? They were just nodding their head off."

Quatre nodded, "Sure."

They went towards another room, where Wufei, Heero and their prisoner were.

The minute Duo and Trowa saw the... prisoner, they froze.

Louis was just glaring sullenly at a corner, until he noticed the boy who looked like him come in. Must be Trowa, he thought, glancing at the boy. They didn't look too much alike, he decided, after all, Louis was much more better looking. Of course, they did have the same hairdo, face and everything else! Correction, this Trowa was thinner than Louis.

Duo finally broke the silence, "So, this is Louis Louroux, huh?"

Heero nodded, "Yeah."

"He looks just like Trowa!" Duo blurted out.

Wufei snorted, "We sort of noticed that, Duo."

"Yeah, but....." Duo turned to Trowa, "Are you two relatives or something?"

Trowa glanced at Duo, "I do not know any of my blood relatives, and the only one I acknowledge as my kin is Catherine and the others from the circus."

Louis snorted at that.

Quatre frowned, "I think that Trowa and Louis are related, in fact, they may even be twins, or something."

Duo nodded, "Yeah, isn't Trowa a frenchy too?"

Trowa nodded, "Yes, the first mercenary I joined was a french one, because I lived in France at the time."

Heero cleared his throat, "Anyway, we can discuss their bloodlines later. We should concentrate on interrogating him." He turned to Louis, "Okay, tell me about the experiment of your family's the one about the creation of a bomb."

"I will tell you nothing." Louis clamped his mouth shut, as if in defiance.

Heero glared at the prisoner, intimidatingly. Then he turned to Wufei, "Give me the matches." Wufei handed them over.

Heero lit one up and said, "If you don't answer, I am going to burn you, bit by bit."

Louis swallowed hard, but didn't say anything.

"Your choice." Heero said, lowering the match to the bound hands of Louis. He pressed the fire against the pinky finger of the right hand.

Wufei lit one up and said, "Tell us." He lowered it, threateningly.

Louis closed his eyes and turned his neck away.

Wufei shrugged and used the match to light a candle. Then he waited for a few seconds before letting the burning wax fall on Louis's face, on the cheeks.

"Tell us." Duo said, forcing Louis's eyes open.

Quatre and Trowa just stood by and watched Louis squirm.

Louis finally said, "Stop it!"

Wufei drew back, "Will you now tell us about this experiment of yours?"

Louis nodded and said, "If I do, will you let me go?"

Heero said, "Depends, but most probably, yes."

Louis narrowed his eyes and actually gambled, "You have to let me go after telling you or else I won't tell you anything at all.

Heero smirked and said, "No, we'll just go on doing what we do until you tell us."

Duo nodded and slapped Louis on the face, hard, that Louis's face moved sidewards with enormous force. "Yeah, and don't even try to gamble with us."

Louis glanced at their merciless faces. "Fine. I'll tell you."

Heero nodded, "A wise decision."

Louis swallowed and started .......

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