Chapter 7
By Tenshi no Mugen & Moonlightchic
1 hour later
"So, you're sayin' that this line in green will get us to the computer," Duo indicated the line that curved along the air vents, "and this line in red that leads through the main halls will get us out," he pointed to a line that went straight to an air lift and into the garden maze.
Yuriko looked at Kimaru, who was nodding vigorously, and shrugged. "She seems to think so." Duo grinned, "Well, I like it! So, how are we gonna get through the main halls on the way out without tripping an alarm for the gaurds?"
Rebecca grinned knowing very well what came next. "That's where the rest of us come in. The two computer brainiacs over there," she indicated Yuriko and Heero, "are gonna go in first and download the information. Quatre, Wufei, Trowa, Duo, and Adam are gonna go in through the front doors, guns blazing, when Yuriko tells us they're finished. Because they fit the pilots' basic discriptions the gaurds will rush forward and try to block them off, giving Yuriko and Heero time to escape."
"What about blowing the damn place up?" asked Jerome. "I could have sworn I heard those exact words leave your mouth." Yuriko shot him a dirty look. "Have patience, she's getting there." Jerome snorted. "Yeah, but it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining as it would with you telling it!"
Yuriko growled at him while he smirked at her. "Fine, Kimaru, Rebecca and you are going to be setting up bombs at the major intersections here, here, here and here," she said pointing to four locations on the map. "Heero and I will be planting a bomb at the main computer when we're done."
Heero watched the plan unfold with a critical eye, examining every detail. Quite frankly he was surprised that this group of misfit teens could put anything together what-so-ever. They bickered even more than Duo and Wufei at their worst. This plan that they concocted at a moments' notice, however, was on par with anything he could come up with at the moment.
Yuriko grinned at him. "Well, what do you think?" she asked. He raised an eyebrow then nodded. "It'll work." Yuriko laughed. "Great!" she exclaimed, pumping her fist into the air. She then turned to Rebecca. "You know what to do," she said knowingly. "Already on it," Rebecca said gleefully. "I've been waiting three years to do this!" she practically skipped out of the room.
Jerome nodded his head deap in thought. "I don't think I should go with you guys." Kimaru opened her mouth to argue with him but he cut her off. "I just think that I should stay behind and guide you guys through the hallways via the camera system. You still have the molar mics(A.N.1), right Kima?"
Kimaru blinked then nodded in understanding, "Yeah, they're in the bathroom." Wufei and the rest of the boys sweatdropped. "They're microphones that attach to your molar, therefore catching every word that is said. There is also an earpiece that goes with them," she explained. They assembled group nodded in understanding.
Yuriko thought it over then nodded, "Okay, but start checking the databases for upcoming events that could work in our favor." Jerome nodded, "Gotcha." He sat down at Yuriko's desk and woke up the PC. Then after about ten minutes of typing he smirked and cracked his knuckles. "Heh, we're in the system."
Kimaru leaned over Jeromes shoulders and studied the coded screen. "Search for any systems checks centering around the alarm system," she told him. Jerome tapped in a command then began typing at a blindingly fast speed. beepbeepbeep Jerome scowled at the screen, "Nyet, no go, anything else?"
Kimaru gave him a dead pan look out of the corner of her eye. "Don't feel like thinking for yourself?" Jerome leaned back with his hands behind his head. "Nope!" Kimaru growled at him in frustration, "Then get out of the way, I'll check it myself!" She pushed his rolling chair away from the desk and began to type.
If Jerome's speed was blinding then Kimaru's was maybe the pace of a wounded rabbit. She finally brought up the weekly calender. "Okay, Saturday half the force that's stationed underneath here are going to be transferred to the base on L3 to replace those lost in battle. They're also exporting weapons and med supplies. So far they haven't mantioned anything about knowing where you guys are!" she chuckled.
Duo grinned, "Hey, that means they still haven't found the little present I left for them in the rubble!" Rebecca(who had walked back in during the hacking process), Adam and Jerome stared at her, while Yuriko and Kimaru grinned. Taking the hint, Rebecca sighed, "Not gonna ask." Kimaru nodded sagely. "That's probably a good idea."
Yuriko looked at Heero. "So, would it be too bad to hold off the attack till Saturday night?" "Hn." "Alright, Saturday night it is."
Kimaru jumped up from her position on the bed. "So, does this mean we can go to the club downtown on Friday?" she asked excitedly. Adam grinned as his eyes followed Kimaru's bouncing chest. "Club. Hehehehe… Yeah!" Duo gave him a deathglare when he caught Adam's gaze.
Rebecca rolled her eyes at the two boys' interchange. "Do we have to? I still remember the fiasco it turned out to be last time." "Yes!" yelled Yuriko and Kimaru in reply.
Duo beamed, "Finally, some fun!" Heero's eyes narrowed. "This is a mission Having fun isn't part of it," he stated with conviction.
Rebecca narrowed her eyes and put her hands on he hips. "Okay, so what was that whole scene we walked in on, hmm? Better yet, what exactly was your mission before your little 'change of plans' episode?"
As Rebecca's gaze landed on each of the pilots in turn only Quatre looked more than slightly uncomfortable. "Uh, it was, um, Heero why don't you tell them?" Heero met Rebecca's gaze unflinchingly. "Our orders were to kill you. Kill all five of you and infiltrate the base below."
The room became silent as everyone digested this piece of information. Then Kimaru looked up at Duo with teary eyes. "You were going to kill us?" Duo opened his mouth to explain, "Kimaru- I- you see- uh-," but only giberish came out.
"You five are more of a danger to us than you realize," Heero confessed. "With the minimal information we had on you we assumed you were Oz lackies. That combined with your knowledge of us… the docters jumped to a conclusion that you would be used against us."
Yuriko sat down heavily on her bed as if in a daze. "We've never hurt or killed anyone yet. According to the DI's we were top secret and couldn't be exposed to you yet."
Rebecca snorted derisively. "Not that it really matters anymore. Not only have you found us, but our DI's haven't even taught us anything useful since the first two weeks of training. Oz doesn't even know how good we really are."
Quatre blinked. "You mean the files they have on your training progress is out dated? But when we looked at it you were already well on your way to matching us!"
Jerome sighed deeply. "According to what we have on you we are your matches. But fuck that shit. This God damned school has officially screwed us over too many times," He stated.
"Then why don't you just leave?" Wufei asked. "No one is holding you back." The pseudo- pilots exchanged looks and laughed. Quatre however caught the irony in it. He also noticed Jerome's face fill with pain before he too laughed it off.
Kimaru gasped for breath and betwwen giggles managed to say, "Actually, they are!" Jerome gave her an amused look while continuing for her. "This school keeps up the pretense of being a prestigious boarding school, but it has a main rule. It's kind of an unspoken truth. If you leave the school, a few days later you end up dead."
Yuriko shook her head in disgust. "Oz finds talented teenagers around this area through intelligence tests. You know, like the SATs and stuff? Then they mail them free scholarships. That's exactly what happened to Jerome and me. The second they saw the word 'free' we were gone."
"Same with us," Rebecca said, motioning to Adam. "We're cousins. His parents died a couple of years ago, so he'd been living with us at the time," she explained. "We took the ECAT test in school and the next thing we know there were two scholarships."
Adam snorted indignantly. "Stupid, cheap parents. They'll belive anything they read in a pamphlet or brochure with out question."
Kimaru sighed. "Yeah, my teacher told me I should take the PSAT to see how well I did. Got a scholarship and got the hell out as fast as I could," The pilots looked at her quizzically. "My parents were abusive. But the point is we were gonna use what we got from Oz anjoin with you guys. Help stop this stupid war."
Yuriko nodded her agreement. "Yeah, we did some research on you guys ourselves. We derive a lot of our strategies and tactics from you."
Trowa nodded after assesing that information, "Which is why Heero couldn't find any fundamental problems with your plan."
Duo sat down on the bed next to Kimaru. "So you guys are saying you've been studying our battles for, what, three years?"
Kimaru grinned and nodded. "Yup, I also listened to any frequencies that had managed to get captured on sound files. Pilot 02 was always my favorite. That's why I called myself Mistress of Shinigami. You're 02, right Duo?" Du nodded.
Yuriko jumped off the bed and clapped her hands in excitement. "I know who every one is!" Everyone but Kimaru, who was used to it, looked at each other, then stared at her. "Heero is 01, Duo is 02, Trowa is 03, Quatre is 04, and Wufei is 05!" she giggled.
The pilots continued to stare at her, while the rest broke up laughing. "Dammit, onna, how could you figure that out?" Wufei growled.
Yuriko wiped the tears of merth out of her eyes. "I saw Heero's scars from when he self distructed, Duo just said he was 02, Trowa is always pretty quiet like 03, Quatre is the nice one like 04, who always asks for others to surrender, which leaves you, grumpy pants, as 05."
" Injustice! You are such an infuriating female. I'm going to my room," Wufei snarled at her. Rebecca snorted at his high and mighty attitude. "Don't tell me you're going to bed. It's only 9:00pm! What's wrong with you? Don't you have a life other than carrying out missions?"
Wufei blushed a dull red at her comments. "Of course I have a life! I'm going to practice an hour before I go to bed."
Rebecca laughed condescendingly at him. "You call that having a life? Wow, you're pathetic. Even I do more than that."
"You only do more because your friends make you! Otherwise you would be more reclusive than I am!" he yelled his face growing more red by the moment.
"You know what? I've had enough of you and your attitude towards me! I challenge you, right now, in the arena. No swords or weapons of any kind. First to K.O. the other wins," Rebecca replied frostily.
Wufei's eyes narrowed. "Challenge accepted. Meet you there in five." The both of them walked out of the room.
Quatre sighed. "Well, that could have gone better." Trowa hugged him from behind, to the surprise of the pseudo- pilots. "So, why didn't you stop them?" he asked.
Quatre grinned as evilly as he could(let's face it people, he has to have some tiny bit of the big bad in there), "Cause I want to see what happens when they fight!" Everyone(except for Trowa. He just sweatdropped.) facefaulted at that unexpected comment from Quatre. "Right," they replied in unison.
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-5 Minutes Later-
Wufei casually stood to one side of the ring, his white Chinese style clothes hiding any sign of his amazing musculature. Rebecca stood oposite him in a skintight black shirt with a cat on the front and semi-loose jeans.
"Ready onna?" Wufei asked taking his fighting stance. His entire physique screamed that he was ready for action. Rebecca twisted her neck from side to side, cracking it loudly. "Ready when you are."
Much like their previous fight together, the moment they burst into action the spectators(the rest of the pilots and pseudo-pilots) could hardly see the combatants except for blurs of motion. The only difference being that one of the blurs was half blue, half black and pink.
After ten minutes of the intense speed fighting the pair slowed down enough for the others to see what was going on. Now, instead of speed, the opponents focused on form and skill.
"You \\left hook\\ ready to \\gut punch\\ give up yet \\block\\ onna?" Wufei puffed out while still fighting off her attacks.
"\\kick\\ Never \\leg sweep\\ will I \\block\\ give in \\duck\\ to you!" Rebecca yelled out angrily. Her attacks became more and more heated.
They seemed to be an even match, although neither combatant would admit it. They matched each other perfectly block for strike.
Finally, Rebecca got fed up with the fact that she didn't seem to be gaining any ground. She growled and lunged, frustration winning out over caution. She grabbed an incoming fist and tried to throw him.
Wufei put her in an arm lock and threw her to the mat. She tripped him from her position on the ground only to wind up with him falling on top of her.
Rebecca glared at Wufei as he slowly removed his very red face from where it had landed. Right between her breasts. "You are going to die a slow, humiliating, and excruciatingly
painful death at my hands," she hissed. The only thing keeping her from seriously injuring him was that her arms were being held down.
Wufei smirked down at her. "Then let's have fun before I die, Rebecca," he whispered, pressing his lips hungrily to hers. When she gasped in surprise he took advantage of the opening and began to explore her mouth with his tongue.
To say that Rebecca was shocked would be an understatement. She was stunned excited and enraged all at once, but worst of all she didn't want him to stop.
And the audience stared… "I think I'm starrting to see a pattern here," Yuriko commented, dragging her fingers along Heero's back. He leaned towards her. "Then let's not break such a good pattern," he whispered. He captured her lips, gently licking her lips for entrance.
Kimaru grinned. "Hey, Duo? Do you think they would mind if we go back to my room and have fun now?" Duo grinned back. "No, I don't think they will." They quickly left. Trowa and Quatre caught there idea and followed suit.
Adam looked at Jerome, "So… about that pattern thing-" Jerome socked him in the arm. "Don't even fuckin' think about it."
Adam laughed, rubbing his arm. "You thought I ment it? I was just kidding!" Jerome deadpaned., "I didn't know you could joke…"
The remaining occupants of the room finally left for their rooms to continue their intrigues until only Wufei and Rebecca were left on the mats.
'Wow, she's an excelent kisser. Wait! The camera is still up there!" Wufei thought. He reluctantly broke the kiss. Rebecca looked slightly wozy, but very happy. "We have to get out of here. There are cameras set up to film this place," he told her.
Rebecca paused for a moment to clear her head of some very graphic imagery. Finally, she nodded her agreement. "You're right. We can go to my room."
Wufei helped her to her feet and carefully began to guide her back to her room. On the way back he checked aroun every corner for hall moniters and cameras, deftly avoiding both.
By the time they reached their hallway, Rebecca had regained enough of her senses to pull out her key and pull Wufei inside her room.
The one thing Wufei managed to notice before he went back to being tongue tied with Rebecca was that she didn't have a roommate. 'Maybe I can room with her from now on. It'll leave Quatre and Trowa to themselves,' he thought.
He slowly moved Rebecca over to sit on the bed, never parting their lips. Rebecca's nimble fingers made short work of the frog-buttons on Wufei's shirt, exposing his tan muscular skin beneath. She ran her hands over his deliciously smooth chest, her cold fingers causing his nipples to harden.
Rebecca parted from Wufei to pull off herown shirt, revealing a lacy black and purple bra. The chill of the air caused her to seek for warmth inside the open flaps of Wufei's shirt. He wrapped his arms around her in a firm hug, sensing it was more than the cold that was bothering her.
Wufei leaned forward and kissed her neck. His hair, which had somehow come untied, brushed silkenly across Rebecca's face. "What are you afraid of?" he whispered more to himself than anything.
(TnM: Alrighty girls and guys, give a round of applause for my good friend Rina who wrote this coming section. She may have moved to paradise, but me and MLC miss her!)
Wufei then brought his lips to hers, but he felt that she was no longer as willing as she was before. As he pulled away from the intended kiss he rocked her in his arms. "What are you afraid of, did I do…" he began.
"No, It's not you," Rebecca interupted, not able to bring her eyes to meet his. "It's what will happen if we aretogether." "What do you mean?" he asked, confused.
"I don't want to be hurt any more. Not again. Not after all of my hard work to stay isolated," she said, beginning to babble in her fear.
"I would never intentionally hurt you," he said as he riased her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze. "I know," she replied, but then smiled slightly. Wufei saw the sardonic look in her eyes.
"What?" he asked.
"It's also just plain fear."
"Ah, so the great and powerful Rebecca admits to being afraid of something."
Rebecca took a pillow from behind her and wacked him with it. "If you say anything to anyone I'll deny it."
Wufei grabbed another pillow and threw it at her in retaliation. When she caught it, he tackled her to the bed. Between kisses she whispered, "I don't think I'm afraid anymore."
O.o---(say what?)
Original Chapter 14 Authoress' notes
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