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The mission was easy. Me and Heero were teamed together to infiltrate an OZ base, download the computer data, then blow up the base. The specs had arrived earlier that morning and estimated a two hour time lapse, including travel time.
With the necessary gear and an untraceable car, we were on out way along a narrow wooded trail that led right to the base's front entrance. According to an area map, there would be a cut off a mile from the entrance that Heero would need to turn down in order to wrap around the base acreage and slip through a side door.
"Slow down. I believe there's where we need to turn," though the turn off was almost missed, I was quickly able to spot the breakage of underbrush.
"You're right," Heero returned while allowing the vehicle to roll to a stop in front of the trail.
We both looked around the area to be sure there was no surveillance. We were pretty sure this particular Oz base didn't have the money, nor felt the necessity to put up cameras, or even microphones, but it never hurt to be too careful. Feeling assured that we wouldn't be spotted; Heero sharply turned our little Jeep to head through the foliage that covered our path.
We made it about three minutes in when it quickly became apparent that, though we were in an off-road car, it was just too wide to fit through the close knit trees.
"We will continue on foot," was Heero's command as he shoved open the driver's side door and grabbed his gear pack.
"What about the Jeep?"
"Leave it. We should be deep enough in for it to be covered."
I was a little easy going on assumptions. I didn't want to get complacent just because things were going so easy. "Give me a minute to run back and see if I can spot it from the main road."
"Be quick."
I took off at a steady jog and made it to the main road within a few minutes. It seamed we haven't gotten as far as I had thought, but a good glance back through the trees affirmed that indeed the car couldn't be scene from where I stood.
"All clear," I declared as I returned to Heero. From there we set off.
It took us a half hour to come within sighting distance of the side door we were to enter. That put us behind already. I was getting a hunch that our easy mission wasn't going to go as we originally planned.
Heero crouched as he pulled off his gear pack and set it in front of him. I quickly dropped next to him, though I didn't have a gear pack of my own. The blue prints we had were spread out in front of our feet for a quick run through of the plans we had put together the night before. Essentially the building was a large square loop that we would wrap around and exit when done.
"One more time. We enter in the side door, hook a right and enter the first room to set up the initial computers for backups, then set the first bomb. We then continue down the hall, turn the corner, and start the computer offices computer downloading. From there we need to cross to the back left corner and set the second bombs. Then we will head back to the right corner to lay the last bombs and make it back to the computers in time for the backups to be done downloading. We then will come back here, detonate the explosives, and flee. Take out any guards that get in the way. Got it?"
"Yes Heero, I got it last night too." I had to love Heero's dedication to his missions, but sometimes I became exasperated at the apparent lack of trust in me and my intelligence.
I received a sharp look in exchange, but Heero opted to return to his silent state as he stashed the blue prints and stood back up. He handed me a gun with a silencer and quickly stated forward, pulling out his own weapon.
Not surprisingly the trek to the door was uneventful. From what we knew of the base, it was mostly empty because of the approaching winter holiday, so we were only expecting some scarce security. The evidence of our correct assumption came when the door we needed to enter through opened without any locks being picked. We entered the hallway without finding further security, and when we slipped into the first room without seeing another human being I was jolly with the ease of things.
"That almost seamed too easy."
"I agree," was Heero's tense response. "Watch the door while I get the download going."
"On it!" I leaned my left shoulder on the door jab to be able to see down each end of the hallway without trapping my gun arm. I wasn't expecting to see anyone turn a corner on either ends of the hall, but it would be a terrible mistake to assume we were safe.
Heero briskly walked up behind me and pushed me out of the doorway, "to the next room," he said as he walked passed me down the hall.
"Did you set the first explosive?"
"Affirmative."
A man of few words…
Following at a close distance, I kept my ears open as Heero paused before turning the corner. We both listened closely while Heero peaked around the corner and moved on. With the next hall clear we were able to make great time getting to the second computer office.
The good luck stopped there. Upon opening the door we both were quick to turn on the few computers and start the backups downloading on the blank disks we brought with us. It was the left side of the office that caught my attention. A huge glass window reached side to side, from ceiling to 3/4th of the way down the wall.
There was a door to one side of the glass that looked to be the only way into the side room, which didn't account for why it wasn't on our blue prints. However, the contents inside did.
In the low lighting glowing on the other side of the glass I was able to recognize a white, plain room that struck me as something found in a scientific lab. A small white bed, with a white table and one white chair was the only furniture in the room. The only thing of color I could see was the skin and clothes of a loan figure huddled in the corner opposite the bed.
It was a girl, and this appeared to be her prison.
AN: I am done with the next chapter, though I am working on edits. Reviews help me know what to edit out, and what to add in.