07-Sep-2000
These are teaser-like things for ideas I have thought of, but don't know if they are worth continuing. Your comments will decide if anything is ever done with this stuff.....so no complaints if you like something and I drop it because no one commented. Deal? Good. PS. My Muses are in a hyper state due to my impending aging. Gomen, guys.
Dekim Barton watched the young Asian finish loading his Gundam. Having such a dedicated fighter on their side was a definite plus, but Dekim tended toward caution. For him to feel confident about the coming War, he wanted another pilot to back Wufei up. The agents sent after the circus boy, Yuy, and Winner never returned. Those chasing Maxwell couldn't find him.
Clearing his throat, he approached the young warrior.
"We need to talk about your back-up." he began. The man was expecting a fight; Wufei seemed to think a partner would be nothing but a distraction in battle. However, this time, the answer surprised him.
"Duo Maxwell." Wufei said without turning.
"Duo Maxwell?" Barton asked, a bit off balance due to the sudden change in attitude.
"If I must have a partner, I want Duo Maxwell." Wufei turned to his new boss. "Yuy will never join you; he wants this false peace too much. Winner is the same. You won't even think about the other pilot, so that leaves Duo."
"But we can't even find him." Dekim protested; it did not escape his notice Wufei called pilot 02 by his first name and the others by their last. Very interesting.
"He will come to me if I ask," was the confident reply.
"How can you be so sure?" the older man demanded. Risking his men on a maybe was not something he did.
"He will come," Wufei smiled, a glacial cold burning in his dark eyes. "He is clever, dangerous, deadly, and perhaps the most incredible pilot I have ever met, but there is one thing he is above all else."
Dekim Barton raised an eyebrow in question while fighting the impulse to run from this suddenly seeming feral young man.
"Duo trusts his friends, Dekim Barton, and that makes him a fool. He will come to me, walk straight into the arms of your men, and then I am sure we will be able to 'persuade' him to join us."
End teaser
So keep it or toss it?
Phoenix
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