Finding The Truth
Author: This may need to be rated M for murder/death. Most of the conversations that are between just Long Range & Bullseye are in spanish including the very last one. I do not own anyone but my trio that have been in since the last series & Hatchet. Everyone else is Hasbro's property & cudos to them for putting Sigma 6 out & running it alot. R&R.
"I've run a scan of the base and it looks like Cobra's set up shop." Hi-Tech said.
"I still don't understand why Hatchet would do this." Bullseye said.
"He may not have had a choice in the matter." Grey told her. She sighed and leaned againest the table, her back to Duke and Hi-Tech. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow looked at each other and then glanced at Long Range.
"Selen, stay here for this one." he whispered.
"No, I'm going." she snapped in spanish.
He stood in front of her and said, "This is too emotional of a mission for you to go on."
"I don't care. If I can fight Zartan I can handle this. Everytime I'd think of him, I'd see what little bit I can remember of the attack in Madrid. Buildings burning, vehicles exploding and people screaming." she told him.
"I didn't realize you had seen so much." he muttered before cursing under his breath.
"Loose lips sink ships daddy. And it was hard not to." she told him.
"What'd they say?" Heavy Duty asked. The rest of the team shrugged; everything had been in spanish and no one else spoke it fluently enough to know.
Later Long Range, Bullseye, Grey, Iron Claw, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow all stood near the Maryland base. "I'm fine." Bullseye muttered as her father touched her shoulder. All six hated the idea that Hatchet, their close friend, was working for Cobra. Iron Claw growled as the wind blew Cobra's scents to his nose.
"Sometimes I wish you could speak." Grey whispered, kneeling beside him.
"Storm Shadow, can you go run over the area for us?" Bullseye asked. The white clad ninja nodded and ran off.
"Do not worry. If Hatchet has done this againest his will, we will force Cobra to leave him be." Snake Eyes assured her. She nodded and shivered in the snow. Long Range opened his jacket and wrapped it around her, holding her close to him. A few minutes later, Storm Shadow reappeared next to them.
"The security is minimum. They don't seemed to be worried that we might suspect that Hatchet works for them." he said.
"It looks almost too easy." Grey whispered.
"Maybe. But we need to know what's going on." Long Range said. Iron Claw's ears went back and he whimpered.
"It's okay boy." Bullseye whispered.
Bullseye, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow crept around to the side of the building. Bullseye investigated a vent as the ninjas kept watch. "The ice looks like it hasn't melted in years. I don't think I can get us inside." she whispered. Snake Eyes motioned for her to come and take his place so he could look at the vent. Upon close inspect, he saw that the ice had in fact completely covered the screws that held it to the wall.
He slid back up behind her and whispered, "Could you sneak away and shoot the ice off the screws?" She stared at him for a moment before casting an eye over the snow covered area around them.
"I could melt the ice by holding the laser shot on the screws, but it would refreeze before we got in." she told him.
"Not if one of us was there to take them out before it got the chance to refreeze." he said. After considering his words, she opened her gauntlet.
Grey opened his gauntlet as Iron Claw nosed it. "Is something wrong?" he asked.
"No, but we've know how we can get in. There's a vent on the wall that we can open and crawl through the shaft. But the ice is frozen over the screws, so I'm going to sneak away to use a shot from my laser rifle to melt the ice so that Snakes Eyes and Storm Shadow can unscrew the vent and take it down so we can get inside." she said.
"There's too many risks." Long Range told her.
"There's risks involved in everything we do. I knew that when I joined the team." she said, before shutting her gauntlet. Snake Eyes watched as she turned on the camouflage that allowed her to become invisible againest the snow. "Watch the vent." she whispered, before running off. The snow was coming down hard and covered any tracks she left quickly. She found a spot a little ways away to shoot from. Bullseye took a deep breath to steady her nerves before peering through her scope. It immediately zoomed in on the ice covered screws. "Keep hands, feet and other body parts away from the laser boys." she said, squeezing the trigger.
Soon after, they let Long Range, Grey and Iron Claw inside. As Grey and Long Range brushed snow off their jackets, the wolf shook moisture from his coat. "This place has not changed." Storm Shadow whispered.
"No it hasn't." Grey agreed as Iron Claw sniffed the air.
"Find Hatchet." Long Range told him. He led them through deep into the building to a part that didn't look as if it had been used in many years.
"I didn't know that the place was so big." Bullseye said. Snake Eyes stopped and grew very still. As they all fell silent, they heard voices and laughter from behind a closed door. Carefully, all six of them crept to the door.
"Those fools think that they'll find the Eye when they go to China looking for it."
"Baroness." Grey mouthed.
"Bloody hard time we had getting it." Bullseye shook as anger flooded her senses at the sound of Zartan's voice.
"When do I get my share of the spoils?" Iron Claw growled when Hatchet spoke. "What was that?" he snapped. Zartan and The Baroness burst into the hall to find it completely empty.
Hatchet gasped as he felt the edge of a very sharp blade at his throat. "Walk." a voice hissed. Shortly he stood on the roof in the blizzard
"Camo is a nifty trick isn't it." Bullseye appeared in front of him and Snake Eyes behind. Long Range and Storm Shadow appeared nearby. Finally Iron Claw and Grey flickered into view to the side.
"Why did you betray us?" Snake Eyes hissed.
"Answer the ninja's question." she demanded, aiming her laser handgun between his eyes.
"Would you kill me?" Hatchet asked. The blade pressed againest his throat, drawing a line of blood.
"I could paint the snow red with your blood, so do not tempt me. But first: why did you betray us?" the ninja asked.
"Are you sure you're fighting for the right side?" he asked.
"I won't let Cobra to cause more death and destruction. If I have to fight for Sigma 6 to stop them, then yes I'm fighting for the right side. And you've chosen the wrong side, which is sad, because I used to think you were a good man." she told him. Snake Eyes tossed him off the roof and Bullseye took a step forward and pulled the trigger as he fell, shooting him between the eyes.
The next day, after a lecture from Duke, she sat in the room in the back of the Rocc that Hi-Tech normally enhabited. Legs pulled close to her body and arms crossed on top of her knees, she stared into the darkness around her. Her closest friends hadn't spoken to her since they found out what she had done. It was nothing compared to what Cobra did to countless families including her own. No one knew how long Hatchet had been working with Cobra, but he was in no position to do anything for them now. Her act of ruthlessness made perfect sense to her: she had killed a man to prevent him from kill-ing or helping to kill others. While in the team's eyes it made her a murderer, she saw herself as an avenging angel. "It was an act of justice. And justice that was long over-do." she said.
"Not everyone sees it that way and may never." Long Range told her.
"Not everyone understands how hard it is to deal with seeing their homes destoried and loved ones die because of someone like Cobra." she reminded him.
"That's true." he agreed.
Jynx: OMG! You killed Hatchet!
Author: Somebody's been watching too much Southpark. If Hatchet's death is familiar, it's cuz some guy dies in about the way in Gundam Wing ep. 5 I think. Except said guy was tossed out of a plane & then shoot between the eyes by Lady Une. No flames. My spanish sucks so that's why I don't write any of L.R. & Bullseye's conversation's in span.