Disclaimer: I do not own any of the "Gundam Wing" characters or concepts, and I do not know who does, but it's not me. I also do not own any of the Angel characters, they are owned by Joss Wheadon and 20^th Century Fox, so don't sue because I'm broke and have no money.

A Gundam Quest Part 11: Heeroic Deeds

It was dark, but candles gave them the illumination that they needed. Shadows flickered over Relena's face as Heero lightly traced her soft features with his fingertips. She sighed as he leaned closer to her. Then . . .

"Hey, Heero, what cha doing?"

Heero woke up to see a feminine face with long blond hair floating about it. In his dream fogged state of mind, he moaned, "Relena."

"Who?" Xander Harris asked with an edge of curiosity in his voice. Heero flew awake and glared at Xander. Xander smiled and said, "Mini-Angel's grumpy when he first wakes up, eh, Buffy?"

Buffy rolled her eyes and said, "Sorry to wake you up, Heero, but we're going to the hospital to see Duo and figured that you wanna come."

Heero stood up and looked around. He was at Angel's mansion. He didn't see the vampire. He asked, "Where's Angel?"

Xander tilted his head toward Angel's bedroom. He said, "Dead Boy's sleeping. It's daylight. Wouldn't want him to be a crispy critter, would we?" His last sentence was thick with sarcasm.

Heero stood up and nodded. Buffy smiled and said, "Good, they're finally letting him see visitors."

Xander had a plastic bag which he held up. He said, "I have goodies for our Braid Boy."

"Braided Baka," Heero corrected as he started to walk out of the room with Buffy following.

Xander asked, "Hey, what's a baka?"

Heero didn't answer him as they walked into the mansion's garden and into the sunlight.

******

Heero, Buffy and Xander walked up to the nurses' station. Heero noticed once you got her away from Riley, she was actually a very intelegent person. Around Riley, she was sort of a shell of a person. This was the girl that Heero could believe was a warrior for the forces of Darkness, not the one who cleaved to her idiot solder boyfriend.

Buffy smiled and said, "Hey, can you tell us where Duo Maxwell's room is?"

The nurse, a hard faced woman in pink scrubs, grimaced and asked, "You mean the kid with the weird eyes and the braid? He's in Room 192. He's a trouble maker."

Buffy smiled and said, "That's the one, thanks." With that, they walked down the hall.

Xander asked, "I wonder what he's been doing, the little hellion."

Buffy looked around and said, "Hopefully not raising demons again."

Heero's lips twitched upwards, his version of a smile. Only Duo would have raised a monster in desperation to find his Gundam. He couldn't believe that his best friend had almost killed himself to save Heero. They turned the hall and there was a loud crash. A bedpan went flying down the hall.

"Damn it, I can use the freaking john on my own, Lady," came Duo's voice from the direction that the bedpan had came flying from.

Heero actually did smile. He walked down the hall with Buffy and Xander following him. He paused at the open door of Room 192 to watch what was going on. Duo was dressed in a hospital gown, a look Heero had seen on him before, and there was an older nurse dressed in pink scrubs with her white hair cropped short around her face.

Heero almost laughed. Buffy giggled and Xander did laugh. Duo shouted, "And, Lady, I think that I'll use the damned bathroom on my own when I need to, okay?"

The nurse looked flustered and said, "Duo, please, I was just trying to help. It's not good to be so active just after surgery."

Duo glared and snapped, "Screw the surgery, Lady, I'm fine. 100 percent God of Death, really."

"Why do you call yourself that?" the nurse asked.

Duo grinned wickedly, reminding Heero too much of the Grim Reaper in Duo's body. He answered, "Because I am." Then he looked out the door way and smiled. He shouted, "Hey Heero, Buffy, and Xander!" He turned to the nurse and said, "Could you please leave now, I've got visitors." His voice was condescending. The nurse huffed out of the room and the unlikely trio walked in.

"Hey guys," Duo chirped cheerfully as he flopped to a sitting position on the bed. As soon as he did, he winced in pain.

Buffy said, "Maybe you shouldn't do that with a hole in your gut."

Duo grinned and said, "Good point Baby, now what did ya bring me?" His eyes were gleaming as he greadly looked at the bag. Heero knew that Duo was not quite use to the prospect of people giving him stuff. Heero had trouble with it, but he could accept it when needed. Duo just took.

Xander jiggled the bag and said, "All sorts of goodies. Ever had a Twinkie?"

"A what?" Duo asked, curious.

Xander walked over and dumped the bag's contents on the bed. A shower of junk food, soft drinks and a few centerfold magazines fell to the bed. Duo picked up one of the Playboys and said, "All right, nudie mags, cool."

Buffy rolled her eyes and cleared her throat. Duo tucked the magazines away with an impish grin. Heero shook his head. Duo was perhaps the most normal of the Gundam pilots in the since of having the normal teenage thoughts and lusts.

Xander picked up a package with two cylinder shaped yellow cake things in it. He said, "The thing of beauty known as the Twinkie. They put a bunch of stuff that you can't name in it and it's good."

Duo unwrapped it and looked at it. Xander said, "You gotta shove it all in your mouth at once."

"Gross," Buffy groaned. She looked at Heero, rolled her eyes and said, "There we go. This part's pretty nasty, Heero. I mean, gross."

"Like this?" Duo asked before he shoved the whole thing into his wide mouth. Heero almost winched as whipped cream exploded around Duo's mouth as he choked the thing down. He didn't see how the Deathscythe pilot could do it.

Duo swallowed, whipped off his mouth, and said, "Yummie!" Then he devoured the other one in the same fashion. Heero did wince at that and Buffy looked away with her eyes closed. She asked, "Is it over?"

Heero nodded and said, "Yeah." Buffy opened her eyes and looked back at the group.

Duo said, "Thanks for bringing me all this stuff and visiting me. This plays sucks ass. It's boring as hell."

Heero heard footsteps down the hall. He said, "Someone's coming." Duo stashed his stuff under the bed quickly. Buffy and Xander looked at the door.

A nurse walked in and said, "Okay, Mr. Maxwell needs some rest. We don't want those stitches to come undone, do we?"

"No," Xander said as he scurried out of the room.

Duo called out, "Thanks man!"

Buffy waved cheerfully and said, "See ya later, Duo, and get better!" She walked out after Xander.

Duo shouted, "Bye, Baby!"

Heero walked over to Duo. To the casual observer, it would have looked like a brotherly hug, but Heero was planning to whisper something into Duo's ear. He said, "I'm looking."

Duo's eyes lit up as he smiled. He said, "Man, bust me out of here if you find it."

Heero walked out as the nurse glared at him.

******

Night had just fallen on the city and Angel was now awake. He had made sure that Buffy and Riley had already started to patrol before he and Heero went out. Heero was curious on why he didn't want them around. Really didn't want them around.

They walked trough Sunnydale's seedy allys, Angel obviously knowing where he was going. Heero followed, on full alert. They stopped at a bar called Willy's Place. Angel studied the sign with a grin. He said, "He changed the name."

The walked into the bar. There was a short man with slicked back black hair wearing a white tank top with a loud Hawwian shirt over it. He had a few gold rings and chains. He looked up at Angel with beady eyes. They became frightened as they looked at the vampire.

Angel leaned closer to Heero and whispered, "That's Willy. If there has been any word of your Gundams, he's heard about it. Now, rule one of Interrogation: Never kill the person. If they're dead, they can't talk. But pain is effective."

Heero nodded. He was told that he was too gun happy by Duo on a constant basis. Angel walked up to the bar and Willy physically paled a few more shades. Angel smiled wickedly and asked, "Hey Willy, long time no see. I've seen that you've changed the name of the place. How are you doing?"

Willy swallowed and backed away from the bar as far as he could without bumping into the liquor. Willy answered, "Hi Angel. It's good to see you again. Really good to see you, man. I've missed you. Really."

Angel smiled again. That smile was meant to frighten people and it worked on Willy. Willy said, "I don't know anything man. That Riley looser just moved in on your chick. He's not right in the head, Angel, really. Just don't hurt me. I'm out of the underground now, really."

"Sure you are Willy, then why do I smell demons everywhere?" Angel asked with that same manic smile.

Willy leaned up and whispered, "Okay, just hit me once, ya know, to leave a mark."

Angel smiled and grabbed Willy's head. Then he slammed it into the bar. Willy screamed and shouted, "Hey, that hurt!"

Angel replied, "It was meant to. Now, I have some questions." He palmed a fifty-dollar bill on the table. Willy smiled and took it. He stuffed it in his pocket.

He grinned, "Hey, you never payed before."

Angel grinned back and replied, "People change, but I'm not as nice as I use to be."

Heero walked up to the bar as well. Willy said, "Hey, I can't serve minors."

Heero pulled out his gun and pointed it at Willy. Angel warned, "Heero, he can't tell you anything if he's dead."

Heero ignored him and walked up closer. He pressed the gun on Willy's sweating forehead. He asked, "Ever heard of a Gundam?"

"No," the bartender looked truly confused.

Heero put his gun away and said, "All right then. I believe you."

Willy whipped off his forehead and said to Angel, "He looks like you. Can vamps have kids?"

"Not to my knowledge, thanks Willy," Angel said as they walked out of the bar. After a block, Angel said, "You weren't planning to shoot him."

"No," Heero replied as he frowned. Nothing, again. He was wondering if they should leave Sunnydale. Hell, he had thought that for a long time. Or maybe their enemy was playing a little game with them, which Heero despised the thought of.

Angel froze. He sniffed the air slightly and sneered, "Vampires."

"Close?" Heero asked, ready to fight, feeling the wooden stake beside his gun.

Angel nodded and said, "This way." They moved through the night. They stopped at an abandoned warehouse. They peered into the window and there were six attractive female vampires sitting around.

"Hey, ladies, look what we've got here." Heero and Angel turned around. There were two female vampires smiling at them with their fangs. Angel was jerked away by one quicker than he could react, and Heero was pushed through the window.

The glass shattered as he fell through.

******

Buffy, with Riley right beside her, had pinpointed the rash of vampire attacks lately. There was a pattern, all attractive males with bites on the inner thigh, which Buffy thought was vaguely creepy. She shook the image that formed in her head of Angel and some attractive woman, with him in full vamp face, draining her from the inner thigh.

Speaking of Angel, Buffy thought as they approached the warehouse. Angel was easily battling two female vampires. Even the way he fights has changed, she thought as she watched him. He was more vicious, more brutal than before in battle. The two vamps went at him from each side. Angel calmly stood there and brought up his hands as they reached him.

Buffy was impressed to see a stake eject from each sleeve of his duster as the feme vamps exploded into dust. Riley muttered, "Show off." Buffy touched his arm, reassuring him that she loved him and Angel was just a past memory.

Angel looked up at them and said, "Heero's in there."

******

Heero stood up to see the six vampires looking at him like he was something interesting. One with long red hair smiled and said, "He's a pretty one. I want him."

Another one, this one wearing a leather vest, said, "No, we're gonna share him sister."

Red pouted and said, "But look at him, those eyes, that body. I wonder if he even knows what a stunning little thing he is in that green tank top."

Heero pulled out his gun in his right hand and the stake in the other. He said, "Look, Lady, I don't think you really understand."

"I do, you're dinner," Leather Vest shouted as she rushed him.

Heero shot her in the chest. While she began to fall back, Heero rushed at her with the stake out. It penetrated her flesh and hit her heart. She looked surprised as she exploded into ash. The other five's faces changed. Heero aimed and just started to fire. The redhead ran and hid.

Heero was going to worry about her later.

******

"This door's reinforced steel, we don't have a chance to budge it Angel," Buffy said as she knocked on the steel door. Angel looked at the rusting lock.

Riley said, "And I don't have anything to pick the lock."

Angel grabbed the lock and began to twist.

******

Heero looked around for the redhead. She had either ran away, or she was as good as hiding as Duo and Angel were. A foot kicked his gun out of his hand, sending it skidding across the concrete floor. The redhead jumped at him, pinning him to the ground.

Her fangs raked across his cheek as she licked it. Heero grunted and kicked her off of him. He wiped his face off. The cuts stung, but Heero put that in the back of his mind. The redhead licked her lips and said, "You taste good, sweetie."

Heero didn't say anything. He just watched her for her next move. She said, "Your Gundams are near by."

"Where?" Heero hissed, hiding his surprise and actually letting his anger show.

She shrugged and answered, "How the hell am I supoce to know. I was just payed to tell you that your Gundams are near by. Where's your braided friend? I really wanted to get my fangs into him. He would have been fun."

"Duo's unavailable at the moment," Heero said as he sent a spinning roundhouse kick toward her face. His combat boot connected, snapping her head back. He added a volley of kicks and punches to her midsection.

She hissed, snarled and caught him up by his throat. She sneered, "Nice try, Kid, but not good enough."

Heero pulled out his stake and jabbed it strait into her heart. She looked surprised for a moment before she exploded into dust. Heero landed gracefully on the ground right as the warehouse door was kicked open.

He turned, with vampire ash falling around him, his face cut and bleeding, with the stake in his hand, to face Angel, Buffy, and Riley. He said to Angel, "They're close."

Angel looked around and asked, "You killed all of them?"

Heero nodded and answered, "Yeah."

"There were six of them, from what Angel said," Buffy said in disbelief.

Riley said, "Impossible."

Angel asked, "Do you see any of them in here?"

"No," Riley dully answered. Heero thought killing him would be a great aid to the future.

Angel smiled and said, "Then it's possible. Those two boys have a way, from my experience, of making the impossible possible."

He smiled at Heero, and Heero smirked back. Heero walked over towards Angel. They headed out of the warehouse together. He said, "We need to see Duo."

Angel nodded and said, "Yeah, I got him a CD player and some CDs to listen to."

Heero didn't say anything because it wasn't his way. They just walked out into the night together, two men that respected the other and shared friendship.

The End!

Duo: I was hardly in this one, that sucked.

Elf: I know, Duo, I'm sorry. I had to do one that focused on Heero because my readers were gonna stab me.

Angel: That's painful.

Elf: Stabbing?

Angel: Yeah, being impaled of any type is painful. Trust me.

Duo: The voice of personal experience.

Elf: But, look on the bright side now, Duo, you're here now!

Duo: But you don't describe my violet eyes or my chestnut braid or nothing.

Heero: You needed a break Duo.

Duo: But the whole story was about you, you even almost got to score with vampire chicks.

Angel: And have a dream about Relena.

Elf: I bet I pissed off a bunch of people doing that.

Heero: (Says nothing, he simply, actually SMILES!)

Duo: Is he smiling?

Angel: Oh, yeah, damn, he is.

Duo: That's pretty freaky.

Elf: (Clears her throat. Heero's expression returns to normal.) It's time to kill Riley.

Duo: Kick ass! Yay, Die, Riley, Die!

Angel: You're adventualy going to run out of characters to kill him, you know.

Elf: Well, if that ever happens, then Angelus will.

Angel: Sign a deal with the devil. . . .

Elf: I'm not going to say what I'm thinking.

Angel: This story is rated PG-13, not NC-17.

Elf: I'd say bite me, but saying that to you is pretty redundant.

Angel: Yeah, don't tempt me.

Elf: A Positive blood.

Duo: (Clearing his throat.) Riley, die, die. Kill Riley Time.

Elf: (Grinning) Yeah, that. Come on out Riley, it's time to die.

(Riley walks out. He groans as he looks at everyone.)

Riley: Oh man, not again. Just get it over with.

Elf: Almost makes you feel sorry for him.

Angel: Almost.

Elf: (Smiling fetchingly at the vampire.) Exactly.

Heero: What's the method this time?

Duo: See? Even Heero's getting into this now.

(Heavyarms flies in.)

Duo: (Shouting and waving) Hey Trowa!

Angel: Who's Trowa?

Elf: The uni banged pilot. He's cool though. He's also a lot like you.

Angel: Okay.

(Inside the Gundam. Trowa is casually clutching the controls.)

Trowa: My target is selected. I cannot harm the other three, but I know I can take out my target without causing harm to my comrades and their friends.

(Outside the Gundam.)

Duo: I wonder what Trowa's planning.

(A single volley of vulcan fire hits Riley, leaving only a bloody stain. The others are unhurt as Heavyarms lands. Trowa comes out of the cockpit and flips gracefully to land beside the other pilots.)

Heero: Trowa.

Trowa: Heero.

Duo: Duo. (At the other's looks) Hey! I was feeling left out!

Elf: Hey Trowa.

Duo: That's Angel.

(Angel and Trowa shake hands.)

Trowa: Cold hands.

Angel: I get that a lot.

Trowa: I don't care.

Angel: About me getting that a lot, or that they're cold?

Trowa: That they're cold.

Duo: That's getting freaky. Did you know that Trowa's a vampire in "A Shade Darker"? Yep, instead of Elf plugging her fics, I am. Freaky, huna?

Elf: Thanks, Duo, and thanks to you all for reading. And, I got Trowa into the story!

Trowa: I succeeded in my mission.

Angel: You killed Riley, I consider that doing the world a favor.

(Duo laughs).

Heero: Well, I will kill you all if you don't leave us alone.

(Everyone walks away. Trowa flies away in Heavyarms, though.)