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"Come on, just for a while?"
I grinned. "Plleeeaaassseee? Change it to something interesting!"
Trowa ignored me and continued
watching the drama. I settled back against the couch and sighed.
Everyone was having a 'quiet day', and there was no way I could change
it, and I couldn't watch cartoons either.
My name's Duo Maxwell by the
way. I'm your average 16 year old, except that I'm a licensed Preventer.
What's a Preventer you ask?
About 40 years ago these crazed bunch of scientists started to experiment
with various animals. The end result was a race of sea creatures
bent on destroying anything on land. They started wrecking towns
and houses, and that's where the Preventer Corps. came in.
I'm one of the younger trainees,
in fact our small unit is still pretty young. Besides me, there's
Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Wu Fei Chang.
Heero's a walking robot, no
matter what he says. Sometimes he creeps me out with his machine
personality, but it does make him more fun to annoy. Trowa, well,
I don't know much about him. He showed up one day without explanation
and ever since then has just kind of fit in with the rest of us.
Wu Fei's the crabby one, his home was totally annihilated from an attack
when he was very young, and I guess he joined for revenge purposes.
Then there's Quatre.
His father is the head of the Winner Corporation, which funds the Preventers.
I have a feeling he didn't come by choice, but without him things wouldn't
be the same. I guess he and Heero knew each other since they were
young, since they seem to know each other pretty well. Trowa seems
pretty close to the blonde too, but I guess everyone is.
There was a soft beeping noise
which took our full attention. Trowa jumped up, turned off the tv
and ran towards the front door. I followed.
A minute later Heero, Wu Fei,
Trowa and I were heading towards the parking garage of our small dormitory
building. We all can drive, but I don't think anyone trusts me anymore
since I almost ran into that big building.
It wasn't my fault it
was so close to the sidewalk.
I pulled my brown Preventers
jacket tighter around me and examined my gun. Trowa pulled the jeep
out and we all slid inside.
"The report came from the Bay
Area," Quatre's firm tone announced over our walkie-talkies.
I imagined him somewhere inside the building, hooked up to his tiny headset
and staring at walls of images. "About 5 or 6 reds, and 2 blues.."
"How tall?" Heero inquired.
"The tallest is anywhere between
two to three metres." Quatre's voice remained grave. "Probably
the alpha male.."
"We'll have to take it out
first." Heero mused.
"Be careful," Quatre
said.
"Hey, relax, we can handle
this!" I grinned to myself. "It'll be way too easy.."
We saw them before we
even came close to the small cafe. Large, slimy creatures which looked
like they came out of a horror movie. The largest one looked like
some strange cross between a brown toad, a lizard, and about as slimy as
a jellyfish. The others were smaller and less disgusting, but still
made my skin crawl.
What was even worse was that
they saw us coming first.
"Trowa and Wu Fei, concentrate
on keeping the others seperated.." Quatre ordered. "Duo and
Heero take on the alpha male.."
"No problem there!" I
ran straight ahead, ready to face against the thing. The others seperated
into various groups, leaving me to have the most fun.
"Duo wait!!"
It was too late. I skidded
to a halt, only to be tackled straight to the ground.
I felt a cold, slimy drop of
liquid hit my face and opened my eyes to see the alpha male staring at
me. His reptilian head stared at me as his fish eyes blinked slowly.
I felt his clawed fins holding down my wrists and arms, preventing me from
reaching for my weapon.
I'd heard horror stories about
how just one mistake with the nasties could result in torn appendages or
death, but never believed them. But looking at the thing so close,
and seeing the big teeth made me want to wet myself.
The monster came closer, staring
straight at me. Then there was a loud noise of a gun, and the thing
instantly fell off me, twitching.
Heero approached and shot his
gun again, killing the alpha male without much trouble. I turned
on my side, gagging slightly.
The other monsters twisted
back, stared once at us, then headed towards the bank again. Trowa
and Wu Fei gunned two down, but the others left unscathed.
"Yuch, yuch yuch.." I
wiped the slime off my face. "Did you have to take so long?"
"Be more careful," Heero
muttered softly as he made sure the monster was dead.
"Thanks," I wiped
the last of the slime off my face. "A lot.."
That's when I noticed her.
She couldn't have been older
than 8, and I wondered if she'd been seperated from her family. The
girl had light blonde hair and as I squinted, I saw green-blue flecked
eyes staring back at me.
She trembled and stepped back,
staring horrified at the dead monster. I saw her expression and felt
chills down my back.
She was one of them..
Heero's expression remained
silent. He stared at me momentarily then reloaded his gun.
I turned away just as he lifted
his weapon. There was a loud gunshot, and I knew the family would
never see their daughter again.
Heero lifted me back to my
feet and we went back towards the jeep.
A cleanup crew would be here
soon to get rid of the remains. Our part of the job was done..
And thinking about the big
monster again, I was glad.
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You know I don't own Gundam
Wing, I know I don't own Gundam Wing. 'Nuff said.
As I said, this is just a trial
run. I'm really creatively dried out but this is another idea that's
been playing in my mind. As I said, it's a lot of influence from
Blue Sub, so if you look carefully you'll probably see why.
This might take a loong time
to finish so I won't make any promises. Sorry guys.
And thanks to everyone who reviewed
Legends.. I didn't think so many people would enjoy it!!