Target
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What if when Heero saved Relena in Blind Target, he got captured from being wounded by one of the many shots fired? What if the whole plan for this story was ruined because of that? What will the fate be of the 'Perfect Soldier'?
Chapter One:
Blam. The shot ran through the air, hitting its target, the hand of one of the mysterious men in black that were after Vice Minister Darlian, also known as Relena. Firing three more shots they hit all of their targets on each of the other three men: one in the leg, one in the arm, one in the shoulder.
Relena turned to look at her savior's face. A shot with a silencer from one of the men was shot, unknown to the others. Then, they all lay on the ground, still. Not dead, but unconscious, in a dreamless dark void. Then she saw him, in his yellow compact car, her brunet haired, prussain blue-eyed guardian angel, Heero Yuy, pilot of the Wing Gundam, or 01. "Heero?!" She yelled, half-happy, half scared; though her face showed nothing of the sort.
The car screeched to a stop and he slammed the car door, the men in the black suits, getting up, regaining their consciousness. He fired two more shots: Blam! Blam! "Relena!" He shouted. "Run!" The three of them, Heero,
Relena and Chris, who was Relena's secretary on her stay in this colony, ran down an alley.
Chris clutched her arm, her blonde hair fluttering in the wind as she tried to keep up pace with them despite her injury, "Ugh..." Chris muttered, still clutching her arm.
Relena, hearing this from Chris slowed her pace. "Heero, wait. Chris is..."
Chris broke her off. "I'm fine, Miss Relena...but where are we going? And who is he?" She questioned; they were now stopped before a door with a keypad. Heero leaned heavily on the door, Relena didn't even notice this.
Relena smiled, looking at Heero. It had been a long time since she had last seen him. She was only thinking about him this morning, looking at the teddy bear that Heero had sneaked in to give her on her birthday. "He's someone we can trust. We'll be safe by his side." She said happily. Chris noticed this.
Heero typed in a code to the door, not leaning on it anymore. "We're leaving this colony. But until we can go, we have to tuck you away where they won't find you." He typed in the last number and the door slid open.
"Who are they? Why are they after me?" Relena asked, not moving towards the opened door.
"Not just you." Heero said, not bothering to turn and look at her.
"What?" Relena asked, both confused and shocked. 'Who else would they be after?' she thought. 'Quatre?'
Heero turned to look at her, his deep blue prussain eyes that still had a small bit of the icy look they had when he was a soldier. "They're after me too." He stated. No emotion in his voice, like he was stating a fact, which indeed he did.
Relena looked at him, but the sound of voices and the loud clatter of footsteps echoed down the alley.
"They're coming." Heero said, not even allowing her to speak. Relena looked at him and noticed a trickle of blood on the floor that hadn't been there before and saw a bullet hole and a darker patch of coloring on his forest green tank top.
Her eyes widened, causing Chris to look at Heero also. "Heero, you're hurt..." She reached for him and the sounds became louder. Her grabbed her hand, which was out due to her reaching for him to let her help, and then shoved her as lightly but still forcefully into the opened door along with Chris.
His face showed no expression. "Press auto pilot on the ship and get out of here as soon as possible. The auto pilot should take you to where you'll meet the others."
"Wait...Heero what about..." She couldn't finish her sentence as he closed the door before she could make anymore to get to him.
The voice became louder and a close shot, obviously fired by Heero, and then other gunshots and yelling from unknown men.
Relena looked wide-eyed at the door, pounding on it. Screaming his name over and over again, Relena soon had bruised forming on her clenched fists. Chris tried to get the door open, but the keypad wouldn't work and it was dead. "He must have shot the keypad outside so that they couldn't get in here." Chris murmured only audible enough for Relena to hear.
Relena had tears in her eyes. "Heero." She leaned her head against the wall, the very wall separating her from a small fight outside.
"We-We have to go." Relena stood up, acknowledging Chris with her choice.
"We have to meet who Heero was talking about..." Relena got into the shuttle with Chris. She went up to the cockpit and then clicked on auto pilot button. The shuttle came to life, and took off towards the outer L-3 colony cluster.
The same colony that sadly in uninhabited because of the civilians rose against the Alliance and were crushed.
Chris looked at Relena and then back at the door that was now barely visible. The shuttle rattled around as a hatch opened for them to escape unnoticed.
Relena and Chris went off into the back compartment. She tended to Chris' arm wound from the car accident and then went back up to sit in the cockpit, not sitting in the drivers seat, where Heero should be...
.:Out beyond the door:.
Heero rushed forward and punched a few of the enemies in front of him, his gun out of bullets from the previous fray. A man with brown hair kneed Heero hard on the place where he had been shot. He stumbled back, clutching the wound. Trying to make the blood stop running, but it poured through his fingers and he glared at them, then remembered the extra bullet rounds in his car.
The car. If he could get there, then he could get away and meet the others, the other Gundam pilots that were going to the arranged place at this very moment. Hopefully.
He punched the guys who kneed him really hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him, only to meet another group of soldiers, or who looked a lot like them. It would have been better to get Relena to the colony personally, but he didn't have a choice. They would have blasted through the lock, and they found where the place was in the first place.
'So much for being a secret hideaway.' He thought as he took up another fighting stance defended himself from a punch and knocked another guy into a brick wall, killing him on impact.
"We didn't get 03, but instead we can get 01's pilot. This will work out." Said the man named Ralph, who was coming to help with the capture of Darlian to make sure that at least didn't screw up like the capture of 03's pilot, Trowa Barton.
"You wish!" Heero said, falling to his knees and landing a kick on the man's legs, knocking him to the ground. '03? That's Trowa, their already moving their plans into action!' He thought, his mind racing with a thousand things.
"Get him!" Ralph commanded, getting back to his feet. 'Even injured he's really strong.' He thought, kneeling so that his ankle would get anymore damaged than it already was.
Heero tried to get out of the alley, but soldiers grabbed his arms and then held him down on his knees before Ralph. He smiled at this. Heero glared back. He still struggled to get free, and trying to land some good kicks on the soldiers, but one behind him wetted a cloth with some strong sedative to make him fall asleep.
They hit him hard on the bullet wound, he gasped in the sharp pain it made, making him mentally curse himself for getting shot in the first place, even though it was impossible to dodge. It was Relena or he, and he could handle pain much better than she could. He hissed silently in pain as he was going to land a kick to another soldier, but got hit again in his wounded part of his body.
The soldier poured more than the directed content onto the cloth and then placed it hard over Heero's mouth and his nose. Heero tried turning his head, still holding his breath, trying not to give in, but the soldier had it pressed so tightly to his mouth that no matter what he did, he couldn't escape his fate. He still held his breath, at least as long as he managed, but then his muscles relaxed and his eyes closed slowly, taking in the smiling looks on the soldiers and Ralph. He muttered an inaudible 'bastards' into the cloth. Then collapsed, his wound still leaking blood.
"Get him to the commander! He'll be most pleased with this new update!" Ralph said cheerfully.
They carried the limp form of Gundam pilot 01 towards a white van and threw him into the back where a skilled doctor waited, incase they hurt Relena.
"I expected Miss Relena. Who is this?" The doctor asked at the limp labored breathing young boy in front of him.
"That, doctor, is a Gundam pilot." Ralph stated, climbing into the passenger seat while the squad that the other commander in charge was given piled into a black compact car, the one that they were driving in when they were meant to capture Darlian.
"A Gundam pilot!" The doctor exclaimed. 'He's just a young boy...' He thought.
Ralph turned to look at him. The doctor realized he had spoken aloud. "He's sixteen. That's 01's pilot, Heero Yuy. He's the strongest. We got him while he let Darlian escape. Tend to that bullet wound. We can't have him bleed to death." He said.
"Uh-huh." The doctor said, he took off the Gundam pilots shirt, revealing a bloodied bullet wound that went through his back. "You're lucky that the bullet went out of him." He said to Ralph who grunted in response, telling the driver to go.
He got out some gauze and a clean linen cloth and dipped it into hydrochloric rubbing alcohol, and cleaned off the blood that was dripping down his torso. It was in his lower chest area, between his last rib and the one above it. Heero grunted when he tried to clean off the wound directly from the spot where the bullet hit him.
"How much sedatives did you give him?" The doctor asked as Heero shut his eyes tightly and then was about to open them when Ralph jumped into the back where the doctor was tending to him. He rummaged around and found what he was looking for, now sporting a needle with clear liquid.
"He lives up to his legend." Ralph muttered and turned Heero's head sharply, and then jabbed the needle into the vein, giving him a stronger dosage of the drug. Heero's eyes shot open and he managed to keep them open long enough to punch Ralph hard and quick on a point on the arm, causing it a numbing fiery pain. Then he collapsed and let the drug take over him. (The pain was much like you would get when you hit your funny bone so hard on a air hockey table that it feels like its on fire and you can't do anything about it and also end up loosing the game, which makes it a double loss. This person knows from experience.)
Ralph clenched his teeth in pain, and also bit his lip so hard that it drew blood, which tasted salty in his mouth. He muttered an 'Ugh' as the doctor splinted his arm, knowing exactly what Heero had done to him.
"Quite the odd lad." The doctor said. "He hit a certain..." Ralph glared at him and he shut up quickly.
"I don't need a commentary." He turned his head away from the doctor to the driver. "Step on it." Was what he barked and the driver sped up. After the doctor was done with the arm splint, he jumped up to the front seat again.
"You'll be good to take that off in a good hour." The doctor ordered. "Don't take it off before then or you won't be able to do another mission for a good day, and I doubt that you would want that." The doctor turned back to his patient, wrapping the wound tightly with the bandage.
Ralph looked at him. An hour wasn't so bad, but it was an hour of his life... He continued to gaze out the window shield. The doctor continued talking, only changing the subject to the young Gundam pilot, so Ralph listened, though kept his face straight.
"This will heal in an hour or two since I've used some high class ointment." The doctor said triumphantly, pointing to the bullet wound. 'That won't be enough to help this boy, knowing what they will do to him to get what they want.' He sighed and Ralph didn't bother looking back. The car and van sped off towards the base.
.:Relena's Spaceship:.
The auto pilot button that was flashing went off and the engine died. They were in the L-3's outer cluster. Relena sighed. 'Heero...I hope you're alright...' She thought. She hadn't been able to sleep at all.
"Are we here Miss Relena?" Chris walked into the room and then Relena nodded. She forced a sad smile towards Chris. "Are you still worried about him?" Chris asked. Relena nodded. "Don't worry..." Chris said. She knew there was everything to worry for his safety. She didn't care though; for Relena she put a façade. He of all deserved to die, or fight with them for their cause.
"We are going to stay here until the people who Heero wanted us to be with arrive." She sat down on a bench and then Chris sat next to her. Relena remembered the sudden beep beep that died almost as soon as she noticed them before they made it to their destination. It was weird and Relena had no idea what it was about.
A shuttle appeared next to theirs in less than five minutes. "Weird, Heero said he would meet us out here." Duo said and opened the door. The three other pilots got out and then Chris and Relena got out of their shuttle, depressed over the unknown fate of 01's pilot.
"Hey!" Duo said, and slowly stopped, looking at the depressed face of Relena and the downcast look on the other unknown person.
"What's wrong?" Quatre asked, coming out of the shadows.
"Quatre!" Relena cried. "I-I thought that you-the conference." Relena tried to add it up in her head.
"Quatre Raberba Winner!" Chris said, shocked beyond words. He looked at her quizzically, but Relena told him that she was her secretary for her stay on the colony she was visiting. Quatre smiled at her, apologizing for the look he gave her. Chris accepted the apology, a thousand thoughts flying through her mind.
Quatre nodded. He looked at the two. "Where's Heero?" Quatre asked, confused since he was the one who brought them all together.
"He's probably asleep. He's gonna work himself to death, I mean..." Duo joked, but then closed his mouth when he realized Relena had silent tears crying down her eyes and she fell to her knees and buried her face in her hands.
Quatre walked up to them. "What's wrong?" He asked, having a bad feeling about all of this. He placed a hand on Relena's shoulder.
Chris spoke for her. "I think we should discuss it, some where..." She looked around. "Else?" She asked, hoping they would agree with her.
When they walked past the hallways, they found a suitable area and then Relena sat in a chair and fell asleep, exhausted from crying and worrying.
"What is going on?" Trowa asked Chris. He hadn't spoken yet, words weren't something he cared much for.
"It's all about Heero. We were attacked by these men and they killed the driver so we crashed into the wall, but Miss Relena says that Heero shot them down," The nodded. It wasn't hard for any of them to shoot down someone. It was as easily as writing the alphabet for a professor. "He got shot to, really badly, but he ran, and then pushed Relena and I into the ship holding area and closed the door." She took a deep breath.
"We heard a lot of gunshots." She said, looking down at the floor. Trowa looked at her suspiciously.
"You said you were Relena's secretary, right?" Chris nodded. "Where we you when all this happened?" He pondered.
Chris looked at him, ashamed. "If you mean by the whole bad guys thing, I-I got hurt when the car crashed, I got hurt on my upper arm." She said, lifting her sleeve to reveal a bandage, which had dried blood marks in a small amount on them. Trowa looked at her, still skeptical, then his face turned back to an emotionless mask, hiding everything he was thinking.
Duo and the others looked at each other. "We'll be right back." Duo said and the other two shuffled out of the room with him.
"We should go and check the shuttle. Maybe he put some sort of disk with information in it." Trowa said. "It would be a good tactic to use, knowing him he takes every precaution."
The others nodded in agreement. "Duo, you should stay here and look after Relena and Chris." Duo looked at Quatre confused. "Why?"
Trowa spoke for him instead. "I don't trust that Chris person. Something doesn't feel right about her." He said and walked off. Quatre gave him a gun and then went off, following Trowa.
Duo sighed and then walked back into the room, and plopped down into a chair. 'Man, I hope you're okay, buddy.' Duo thought. 'Relena'll be heartbroken if something were to happen to you, so don't die on any of us. If you do, Milliardo will haunt you in death for doing that to his little sis.' He nearly laughed at this thought.
Meanwhile, Trowa and Quatre looked around in the shuttle and found a disk, quite cleverly hidden. Only a Gundam pilot would be able to locate it that is for sure. "Found it." Trowa stated.
They got out of the shuttle and put Relena and Chris into a secure location. Then, they got into a different room that had a disk input vid screen. They shoved the disk in, and decoded it.
All sorts of information came up, giving the base of the organization, the leader, the reason for what they were doing, their numbers, their weaponry ranking, etc.
"We know where the base is. We HAVE to go attack them and get Heero." The others nodded in agreement.
"Quatre, you have to stay here and watch Relena and Chris. They can't die." Duo said and then Trowa and him rushed out of the room, unknowing that Relena herself was following them.
"I'm going to help save him since he saved me."
"Tell us where the Gundam is!" A shadowed figure said, grabbing his chin so that he would look into his cold brown eyes.
Heero glared and spat in his face. The shadow wiped off the spit with the sleeve of his uniform. Heero hung suspended on chains off the floor, staring at the many torturing devices they had.
"Well, if that is the way your going to be..." The man snapped his fingers and a small group of people came in, each carrying whips, grinning evilly as they struck Heero. He didn't cry out in pain, though it stung and hurt, badly. Not just badly, it was excruciating pain as the torment went on, but he was trained to endure this such torment. The man raised his hand, the torturers stopped what they were doing. "Well?" The man asked.
"Go to hell." Heero said through clenched teeth. The man waved his hand and the torture went on, until he really got on the commander's nerves and he beat him with his fists. Heero's limp form hung there.
"Damn him. Of all the Gundam pilots to capture." He growled lowly as he spun on his heels to glare at the soldiers waiting for orders. "Report to the commander; tell him we weren't able to discover anything. We'll try again tomorrow."
They nodded and walked off to tell the commander the report for the day.
The sun didn't measure days and nights, but each time they tortured him. They were really pissed off about him not telling where the Gundam's were, so they tortured him even harder. There was so much pain, and they didn't even stop when he was unconscious...
.:Back with the other Gundam pilots...:.
Duo and Trowa walked out of the shuttle, carrying machine guns and fired them at soldiers, bringing down any man that came across their oath that was an enemy. They discovered Relena had stowed away, but she wouldn't be sent back.
They had taken a while to find the exact location, destroying one unit after another until they came to the last one. It had taken three days. Three-day's for them to do whatever they were going to do with 01's pilot. The other pilots' berated themselves for taking so long, but it was the only way...
They rushed into the building and then they found the corridor where they were holding Heero. They opened the door, cracking the code and the revolting smell of blood hit them full force.
As their eyes adjusted to the dark and they found the light switch and flipped it on, they stood their speechless.
"Oh my god..." Duo whispered. Relena was in the shuttle, staying there, keeping it ready for lift off and thank goodness for that.
Trowa stared. "Dear god." He whispered.