risked your life on a gamble you had very little chance of success in. Now instead of just one pilot, we've lost two. What were you thinking?" "Oh, hell, Heero," Duo sighed. "You don't go easy, do you? I don't even know what I was thinking. I just knew that I couldn't let a buddy down, you know?I don't think I could have lived with myself if I'd just stood there and watched you die while there was something I could do to help. That's not the way partners act. I mean, sure, you can be a stone cold bastard when you want to be, and your social skills could use a lot of work, but you're a damn fine pilot, too." Heero considered that. "So you saved me because I'm a good pilot?" "Yes! No!" Duo exclaimed. "Look, I can't deny that my first priority is the Alliance, and that if there's someone around who can do half the serious damage to them that I think you can, then I'll go all out to cheer them on. But it's more than that. You're a pilot too, like me, and there's a connection in that. No one can understand a pilot better than another pilot. We're on the same side, the same team, and we gotta support each other, because no-one else will." "How do you know we're on the same side?" Heero said, a touch of curiosity tingeing his otherwise indifferent voice. "Our orders come from different sources. I was not even aware that other Gundams existed until I saw yours." "Orders?" Duo grumbled, propping his head against his fist. "You can't seriously tell me you're working from orders. Well, I mean, sure you have a general situation and goal in mind, but whoever's giving you orders isn't here, doesn't have all the information that you do, so how could he possibly know what's best? It's not about orders, Heero. It's about having the same goals, the same reasons for fighting. Or do you even have reasons of your own for fighting? I wonder," he finished with a bitter snort, turning to stare out over the water. "I don't know," Heero said unexpectedly, drawing Duo's attention back to him. "I'm not certain of the reason for anything. I only know that the only reason for my existence is fighting. Completing the missions I'm given. I have to be a soldier, the best soldier, and soldiers don't question what you're told." "Now that's where you're wrong," Duo said emphatically. "Soldiers that take orders and don't question are no better than the people who are terrorizing the colonies. The best soldier is the one who questions orders and gives himself his own missions, and who fights out of a conviction that they've chosen the right thing to fight for."
Re: Three Days
Date: 2006-02-21 04:50 am (UTC)"Oh, hell, Heero," Duo sighed. "You don't go easy, do you? I don't even know what I was thinking. I just knew that I couldn't let a buddy down, you know?I don't think I could have lived with myself if I'd just stood there and watched you die while there was something I could do to help. That's not the way partners act. I mean, sure, you can be a stone cold bastard when you want to be, and your social skills could use a lot of work, but you're a damn fine pilot, too."
Heero considered that. "So you saved me because I'm a good pilot?"
"Yes! No!" Duo exclaimed. "Look, I can't deny that my first priority is the Alliance, and that if there's someone around who can do half the serious damage to them that I think you can, then I'll go all out to cheer them on. But it's more than that. You're a pilot too, like me, and there's a connection in that. No one can understand a pilot better than another pilot. We're on the same side, the same team, and we gotta support each other, because no-one else will."
"How do you know we're on the same side?" Heero said, a touch of curiosity tingeing his otherwise indifferent voice. "Our orders come from different sources. I was not even aware that other Gundams existed until I saw yours."
"Orders?" Duo grumbled, propping his head against his fist. "You can't seriously tell me you're working from orders. Well, I mean, sure you have a general situation and goal in mind, but whoever's giving you orders isn't here, doesn't have all the information that you do, so how could he possibly know what's best? It's not about orders, Heero. It's about having the same goals, the same reasons for fighting. Or do you even have reasons of your own for fighting? I wonder," he finished with a bitter snort, turning to stare out over the water.
"I don't know," Heero said unexpectedly, drawing Duo's attention back to him. "I'm not certain of the reason for anything. I only know that the only reason for my existence is fighting. Completing the missions I'm given. I have to be a soldier, the best soldier, and soldiers don't question what you're told."
"Now that's where you're wrong," Duo said emphatically. "Soldiers that take orders and don't question are no better than the people who are terrorizing the colonies. The best soldier is the one who questions orders and gives himself his own missions, and who fights out of a conviction that they've chosen the right thing to fight for."