Chapter 6

Heero parks the pink limo in front of the gated entrance to the Semist Mansion. He scales the gate and falls to the ground below, taking off running. Something by the front door catches his eye and he runs to it. "Took you long enough." Heero stops after the six hundred yard dash and pants a little before straightening up and looking at Noin. "What are you doing here?" Noin tilts her head towards the mansion. "Miss Relena had a talk with Vincent and left with him. I was waiting for you to show up so you can stop him."

Heero raises an eyebrow. "What's going on?" Noin explains what occurred in the library to him and where they seemed to be headed, omitting Zechs' possible involvement. Heero growls and starts to turn and run back to the limo. "Hey, let me give you a ride to the car and we'll switch there. You'll attract less attention with this than that limo." Heero nods and gets in the side pod as Noin starts the bike and takes off towards the front gate. The gate opens and Noin gets off the bike while Heero climbs on. He takes off just as Noin was removing the helmet and goggles for him to use.

She shakes her head as he rushes without any protection and his shirt billowing behind him. "That guy's crazy… crazy for Relena." She walks to the limo and enters it, throwing the helmet and goggles into the passenger seat. The limo starts up and she starts heading back to Relena's house when she notices the lack of fuel. "Dammit, HEERO!"

Heero rushes down the country road, passing the few cars that are driving down it. As he finally gets to the city limits of Paris, a police car heading in the other direction turns around and flashes its lights, rushing after him. Heero turns and looks at the car before increasing his speed. He sees the police car was catching up, so he starts kicking the side pod, intending to decrease the added weight. The side pod gives way and rolls away to the side of the road while the bike increases its speed.

The police car catches up and pulls next to him. The window lowers and the officer starts yelling at him to pull over. Heero ignores him and speeds up further, shooting ahead of the officer. The police radios for backup as Heero barely turns down a side road. The officer stops and reverses as he passes it before entering the side road. "I never had this problem with a mobile suit." He thinks as he turns and steps on the brakes.

The bike comes to a stop and Heero grits his teeth, finding himself blocked by an anti Mars protest. "Of all the times…" He gets off the bike and rushes into the crowd, seeing the police car turning the corner and hitting the parked bike. The crowd continues their protest march towards the center of the city, with Heero shoving his way through the bodies to the other side.

He runs through the town, finding a library and hurrying into it. "Welcome, how may I help you?" Heero looks at the elderly woman behind the reference desk. "I need access to a computer, please." The woman sighs and hands him a notepad. "Please sign your name and wait for your turn. There's quite a few in front of you." Heero glares. "Any idea how long it'll be?" The woman shakes her head. "No, but it probably will be well over an hour." Heero growls and runs out of the library, ignoring the woman yelling for him not to run.

Heero continues running through the streets, occasionally running into buildings to avoid the police looking for him. He looks at the building in front of him and heads into it, noting the sign says "La Sorbonne". He enters through the double doors and looks around the very fancy room. "Good day sir, are you a visitor?" Heero looks at a man walking towards him. "You could say that." The man nods and ushers him to a table. "Here at the University of Paris, we pride ourselves in being one of the best universities in the entire Earth Sphere. We date back…" Heero tunes him out and looks for a floor plan.

Heero interrupts the man. "I'm a computer major and I'm curious about your facilities here." The man smiles. "Ah, but of course. If you'll follow me, I'll show you to the computer science building." The man leads him to the building, explaining that even though computer science wasn't one of their major fields, they had adequate instructors and equipment to provide for those in it. They enter the building and head into a stairway. "The labs are on the second floor and you'll see that…" The man was unable to finish the sentence as Heero knocked him unconscious and carried him up the stairs. After binding and throwing the man into a room, Heero goes into the computer lab and knocks out the two facilitators before settling down into a chair.

He inserts a disk and quickly hacks into the computer system, hunting down information on where Vincent might have taken Relena. After checking on a change in their finances, he sees that within the hour, two tickets were purchased for a shuttle heading out to space. "Two tickets to the L-1 sector… he won't get away." The former gundam pilot pulls up a map of the city, finding the spaceport and the university he is at now.

Heero closes the computer and removes his disk. Leaping over the unconscious facilitators, he rushes down the stairwell and leaves the building. As he races toward the spaceport, two things are on his mind. 'Vincent's going to pay for this.' The other he speaks in between his breaths, "Relena."