Disclaimer- Well, of course you all know what it is I'm about to write...I do not own any characters or anime in this fic... I lay no claim to anything. And so forth and so on...
Author's Note- -sigh- yet another...Which signals the first month my fic has been up! Whoop! -dances- Party time! -music plays-
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Chapter Ten
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"So...What's the plan again?" Duo asked. They were all walking to the hangar.
"Can't you pay attention for just one fucking second!" Wufei growled.
"We are to stop the Earth countries from destroying each other." Heero explained.
"Ami and Dr T will continue working on getting Minako back to normal." Quatre added.
"Rei and Makoto are also staying." Usagi continued.
"Whoa! What?" Rei yelled.
"I thought we were going to Earth too." Makoto said.
"We can use the help." Trowa added.
"I know, but if something goes wrong and the countries decide to get rid of us, someone needs to stay alive to go after Mamoru Chiba." Usagi sighed. "I need to tell you all something." And she finally gave them every detail about what Chiba had done, also about the Arkaine Crystal. "If I die, I need someone to get the crystal back to the Core."
"Damn." Duo was stunned.
"You trust us to do so?" Rei asked. Usagi nodded. "Then I'll stay." Makoto inclined her head in silent agreement.
"Thank you." Usagi and the five gundam pilots jumped into their gundams. "As we speak, the countries are deploying their armies."
"Affirmative. We will land right between them and try to talk them into retreating." Heero continued.
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"The fireworks haven't started yet." Duo commented.
"Good. At least we're not late for the show." Usagi started her decent in-between the two armies. The five pilots followed and they all landed at the same time.
"Who are you?" a man's voice came through the intercom. "Whose side are you on?"
"Neither." Usagi answered.
"We come in peace." Quatre replied. "This has to stop!" Silence was all they got as a reply. "We know who killed Miss Relena!"
"Relena Peacecraft!" someone replied. "Who?" "Tell us!"
"It was a man named Mamoru Chiba!" Usagi answered.
"A man! But they found female hair!" "Yes! Minako Aino!" "She killed Relena!"
"NO!" Duo's voice rang loudly.
"Listen to us!" Quatre went on. "Chiba kidnapped Minako! He's trying to frame her! Just like he tried to frame Usagi Tsukino, but he failed!"
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"Akashi, report." Chiba ordered.
"Six gundams interrupted the battle."
"I see that." Chiba pointed to the screen displaying the fight from a hidden camera.
"The gundams are trying to stop the fight. They say you were the one who killed Relena Peacecraft."
"Stupid...Usagi, I never thought you were so naive..." Chiba smirked. "I gave the order, but I personally did not kill her."
"I know..."
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"Proof!" a soldier shouted. "We want proof!"
"He had gone to see Miss Relena while she was in the middle of a peace agreement. He was not permitted to see her because her guards stopped him before he could. He wanted to kill her then!" Usagi remembered the first time Chiba escaped from her.
Everyone fell silent. It wasn't a lot of proof, but it may be enough for the armies to seize fire. And it was. Generals began yelling orders to stand down.
The pilots had only been there for almost five hours, and had been attacked by both sides. But it seemed to pay off. No one had died.
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Minako slowly opened one eye. She was in a dark room with voices...female. She tried to listen to them, but hear ears were ringing. "Wha...Huh?"
"Minako? How are you feeling?" one of the voices asked.
"Do you remember anything?" The other asked.
"I...I..." Minako tried to speak. "I feel like shit and you want me to recap what happened now!"
"She's back to normal." A soft blue image came into Minako's vision.
"Damn straight, Ami." Minako put a hand to her head. "Where am I?"
"Classified. For now..." Hotaru said as her own image displayed itself more clearly to Minako.
"Whatever..." Minako groaned as she slowly sat up in a bed. "Where are the others?"
"Standin' outside waiting all night and day for your sorry ass to wake up." Rei came into the room, followed by Makoto.
"How long till she is back on active duty?" Makoto asked.
"We will watch her for the rest of the day, and we'll see how she is in the morning, but I believe she can go back tomorrow." Ami answered. Hotaru nodded her head slightly in agreement.
"Good. I want to get that guy." Minako clenched her fists.
"Chiba?"
"No. That mean ol' doc." Minako said. She put a hand up to her neck where the red mark was still visible. "He tricked me!"
Makoto laughed. "Yup. She's our Minako."
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Usagi and the gundam boys landed in the hangar and were surprised to see Minako standing with the others.
"Mission accomplished." Heero told everyone.
"Only had our gundams torn apart..." Duo looked over his gundam.
"Stop complaining!" Wufei yelled over his shoulder to Duo.
"I'll have someone begin to repair immediately." Hotaru smiled.
Duo started taking notes on the damage to his gundam, aloud. "Does anyone have duct tape?" Usagi asked.
"Why?" Trowa raised an eyebrow her way.
"So I can tape his big mouth shut." Usagi pointed towards Duo.
"I'll hold him down while you tape him to the floor." Wufei smirked. "Better safe than sorry."
"Agreed." Quatre said. He stared at Duo, who obviously couldn't hear them.
"What's so bad about him?" Minako asked.
"He's VERY annoying." Rei replied.
"He's actually a lot like Minako..." Ami smiled.
"Yeah. They'd make a perfect match." Makoto teased.
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Next- Minako's back. What will they do next? A paid vacation to a hot spring? Relationships fly...
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