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"That's probably for the best," Une said to Trowa and Zechs. She went back to sit down.

Mariemeia smiled at Relena in thanks for her support.

Dorothy gave Relena her own smile as well... a knowing one. However, the engines of the craft started then, so she kept any further comments to herself for the time being, looking mildly disappointed that she wasn't going to see Heero.

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"Do you, now?" The leader met Duo's eyes evenly as the 02 pilot stepped up to him. Duo smirked.

"Yeah... we do," he said lightly, tilting his head slightly in a seemingly innocent manner. His smirk shifted into a grin, keeping the man's focus on him as he quickly reached out and snatched the detonator from the guy's hand.

"Wha-"

"Ah, ah..." Duo waved his finger. "Be a good boy now, and come along with us nicely so we don't hafta knock you senseless like your buddies..."

He looked between the two teenagers. He knew Winner. Everyone knew Winner. The other looked familiar, too... that braid... Thwarted by teenagers... mere teenagers!

He lunged at Duo, making a grab for his injured arm in an attempt to recover the detonator.

Duo moved back in an attempt to side-step the attack, but the leader of Epyon de Telos wasn't any slouch. He wrapped his hand around where the bandanna was tied and squeezed... hard.

The long-haired pilot cringed, almost yelping in response as stars exploded into his vision. The two scrabbled for a moment and slipped on the tile, falling over. The detonator clattered across the floor.

He looked at the gun, and then at Quatre. "The Winners are pacifists!" he yelled.

"You don't know Quatre very well, do you?" Duo quipped in a tight, somewhat breathless voice. His arm was throbbing, and the jerk still had a vice-grip on it. He still managed to grin at him. "I think you should listen to him," he said. "After all, it's the quiet ones you gotta watch."

The terrorist leader snarled at them, not wanting to let go.

Duo had grabbed the guy's wrist with his other hand. So, to drive his point home, he pressed his thumb hard into the underside of the joint, right at it's most sensitive point. "Let. GO!"

The man's hand went limp as he cried out in surprise. He went to hit Duo with his other hand, but the pilot brought his knee up into his attacker's stomach. They rolled in opposite directions, and Duo came up armed, pointing his own gun at him as well.

Two guns... he knew when he was defeated. He put his arms out to the side. "Fine..." he said, relenting to them.

Duo got up, breathing hard and holding his arm tightly against his side. He could feel that it had started bleeding again, not that it wasn't obvious from the blood on the leader's hand.

Wufei nodded in agreement, picking up the other side carefully. "That's what I thought." He shifted his hold slowly until he was grasping the case securely. Hearing Quatre's call through the radio, his dark eyes narrowed. "How should we handle this?" He asked quietly. They were too close to the others and if things went wrong in disarming the bomb...it wasn't something they wanted to risk.

"Yeah..." Duo said, too busy trying to catch his breath and block out any pain to argue, and still managing to keep an eye on the 'bad guy' while Quatre checked him out.

He liked to think he had a pretty high pain tolerance, but he knew he wasn't like Heero. He was pretty sure he'd never quite get the image out of his head of the Japanese pilot setting the broken thigh bone in his own leg against the rail of the Sweepers boat before splinting it with a wrench and walking off to check the progress of recovering Wing.

With the leader captured, the rest of the group began to scatter for the hills, like Zechs had said they would. No loyalty... Real nice.

"If they took off in the shuttle already," Duo said then, "we'll need to find transportation. I think our 'friend's' transport will probably do just fine." The large personnel vehicle was still sitting out front where they had left it when they broke in.

"I have the detonator and the leader is under our control." Quatre said cheerily. "We'll be waiting in their transportation out front for when you boy's finish." he finished.

The blonde glanced at Duo and grinned at him. "Good job today Duo. I couldn't have done it without you.... Any of you." He added into the comm.

Zechs got out of his seat and walked over to Lady Une. He leaned in to her ear. "They have the detonator, and the leader in their custody. Chang and Yuy are still disarming the weapon." he whispered.

Trowa watched Zechs leave but kept the shuttle steady. When he didn't get any requests where to go he decided to go to another country, Greece, they can drop him off there and do what they want. Since it wasn't actually too far from where they were it only felt like it took but a moment or two, which was longer then that, before he was landing again. Securing it he walks back and gets off the plane looking around. He activally searched around trying to make sure things were safe.

Once the Epyon de Telos members were loaded up in the truck, Duo leaned against the side of the truck out of sight. He rolled down the sleeve on his good arm and wiped it over his other forearm. He'd rolled up the sleeves on his jacket just before their attacker had shown up and basically blown their plan to bits. It probably looked worse than it was, considering, but who knew at this point. He bit his lip.

Damn, it hurt.

Wondering where Quatre had gotten himself off to, Duo wandered around to the other side of the truck to see if he was there.