Hey Guys, The New Mandalord here. Funny story... um... turns out that I accidently replaced the last chapter with the new re-edited one about Akisu. I was careless and I apologize for the confusion. With that said, keep reading and review.
Enduring Medic
"Well..." An elder Iccan man tried to soothed his granddaughter after getting word that his son and daughter-in-law were killed in the massacre. "What will we do now?"
Abena looked like a young teenager at the time, and her already red eyes were turning redder.
"My little Abena," Her grandfather said. "We must endure."
"Are you saying that we should forgive what the military and Nobles have done?" She asked with tears still in her eyes.
"Don't misunderstand me. Enduring and forgiving are two completely different things." He said. "You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as Mandalorians to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Even if the entire Universe denies it, that doesn't change the fact we Iccans are alive."
"I don't understand."
"Someday, you will."
XxXxXxX
Somewhere within the construction area and sewage treatment area of Tokyo, Abena's pod was covered in slimmy, gunk, and various other- not right mystery fluids. "Well this is just fucking great."
Putting everything which could be taken into Pills, Abena tried to leave the pod. The sewage and slug was causing a little trouble for it to slide up; but when it did, it brought a slimy wrath from hell. Fighting through the grit, Abena worked her way to one of the service side walks before a massive tidal wave of water carried the pod away.
"Well, I don't think that will be necca any more."
She then hugged the wall as a helicopter search light passed over the hole. She crept as quietly and as quickly as possible to one of the huge drainage pipes. Ropes then came from the surface as Britannian forces slid down them. They used red dot sights to target anything or anyone that might of been down there. But they seemed useless considering Abena gave herself away by hitting her head on the roof of the pipe, followed by a loud. "OW!"
She was then running down the pipe, making more noise which she did not need. "Something went down the pipe!"
One soldier was shooting wildly down the pipe. "Cover the exit! Keep what ever it is in there! Don't let it escape!"
"You dickheads couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!" She yelled, but then she got scaped on the side, between the armor, by one of the bullets. "Son of a!"
"Big a light!" The trigger happy soldier yelled. "I can't see a thing!"
XxXxXxX
A helicopter landed near the crash sight. The armed forces near there were blown back a bit. The doors then opened.
"Lady Earnest!" A sergeant ran up the the copter as Dorothea was yelling some unknown words. "I beg your pardon, ma'am?" She continued to yell the same thing, even when she made it down the stairs. "I can't hear you over the helicopter, ma'am... What?"
"THE LIGHTS, YOU IDIOT! TURN OUT THE LIGHTS!" She yelled as she grabbed the sergeant by his collar.
"Yes ma'am!" He said out of fear.
"DO YOU WANT EVERYONE IN THE TOKYO SETTLEMENT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS?"
"I'm sorry, ma'am." He said. "Turn out the lights!"
They followed his orders and turned the lights off.
"So what's wrong?" Dorothea asked.
"Well something fell out of the sky and crashed into the sewer canals." The sergeant explained. "At first we thought it was a satelite of weather ballon. But then my men found someone down there."
"Is that all? Kill it then."
XxXxXxX
After sloshing through a at least three miles of pipe, and eighteen tons of raw sewage, Abena finally lost her pursuers.
"I think it went down there!" She heard a soldier's echo.
"These guys just don't quit." She found the light at the end of the slug tunnel, which lead into another canal like the one she was in before. "Now where am I?"
She then looked to her right and saw a huge chain-linked fence blocking her path. To her right she hear this buzzing noise, like the sound of angry bugs. Soon enough it was a team of three Britannian Skiffs. First generation Knightmares that were constantly upgraded over the corse of it's existence for underground search and destroy missions. And, unluckily for Abena, this was one of those missions.
"As soon as we've trapped the rat! Kill it!"
"I'm trapped! Great!" She slung around her Jackobs SXL2 "Thunder Shock" Shotgun. The Jackobs family is known far and wide through out the U.R. for manufacturing classic style weapons with wooden stocks. Wood is very important to the Mandalorians as it being a building material and, when it brakes and splinters, as a weapon. Each Jackobs weapon is hand crafted and of extremely high quality resulting in higher damage than other weapons of the same level rating. These weapons also have more weight to them because of their solid wooden stocks and as a result handle recoil better. However, they tend to have relatively lower fire rates on their weapons. Due to this, most Jakobs weapons will tend to be Revolvers, Sniper Rifles and, in Abena's case, Shotguns.
"Okay," She said as she pumped the weapon. "So whose first?"
The second one flashed; headlight on on Abena, who was looking down the sight of the gun. "There it is!"
The gatling guns started to shoot rounds at her, causing the water to jet up. "Come and get me, you Brit bastards!"
She fired off one round which shattered through the brace-glass shield that was protecting the pilot. Yes, apparently that they continued to upgrade the Skiffs except the for the cockpit disign. Anyways, the Skiff exploded causing the second one to be blew into the wall and then blow up and smash a hole through the fence.
"Vor entye." Abena said as she went through the hole. An explosion from the first one caused a tidal wave of sloppy water came over her.
The third Skiff stopped before it too also went through the flames. He then turned the railgun on and shot several rounds through the flames. Sending the water shooting up.
"Not again!" Abena yelled, as she gripped her bleeding side in pain. "I'll give you one thing, you guys never give up! But I've had enough of this shit!" Bullets ripped the water and air around her as she ran through the canal. "Dammit! This totally sucks!" She then saw light. "Yee-haw! The light at the end of the tunnel!"
She slammed on her brakes before reaching the edge to not run off a two hundred foot ledge.
"Looks like I've scored another goose egg..." She huffed. The noise of the Skiff was starting to close in on her. Not paying attention, she slipped off the water fall and was hanging on to the ledge. She closed her eyes as the Skiff went over her, launched her self off, and grabbed onto the Knightmare.
"What in the-?"
"Dammit!" Abena said as the pain and now in her arm.
"Get off there, you little!-" He was shooting at her, but this caused him to loose control of the Knightmare. Abena slipped off before the Skiff crashed against opposite wall.
XxXxXxX
Back on the surface, Dorothea was getting statements from the armed forces.
"The intruded made it's way farther into the sewers, ma'am. We've lost that person and now we are getting reports that all three Skiffs were killed." The soldier said. "B-But we hope soon-!"
"I thought this place was structurally sound." Dorothea said.
"There... There have been delays in the construction do to the Eleven holiday. A few passages are still..." She gave the soldier a deathly stare. "I'm sorry, ma'am! There's no excuse!"
"Never mind." She turned and went back to the helicopter. "Find the mouse and exterminate it. If the press asks, tell them that the cement gave way do to stress."
"Yes Ma'am!"
They watched her walk back to the copter in disbelief that she did not kill them on the spot or worse.
"What was that about?"
"Yeah... weird."
"It was like she didn't care."
As the copter took off, Dorothea rested her head against the window.
"You have to be more careful." Ocho said as he sat in the opposite seat. "Solaris took over in those moments."
"She might of been around first, but I'm in control now." She yawned. "I just need to rest."
XxXxXxX
Outside of Ashford, the manhole cover popped open and Abena's head was scanning around to see if there were other enemies. Actually it was her helmet being turned by the stock of her gun. When there was no threat around, Abena came out of the sewer. Her armor was dipping with slug, side was bleeding, and her arm was just relocated. She saw the dim lights of Ashford and decided that it would be a good place to get cleaned up, patched up, and to lay low for a while.
Within the woman's baths, she was able to patch herself up with the item in her trauma kit and clean the stench from her gun and armor. She then smelled her own oder and almost turned green from it."And here I thought that Havox's breath smelled."
She looked around and found that no one was around; so go for it, put the your stuff in Pill form and take a nice shower. She was standing under the shower head, allowing odor and... other unknown objects to be washed off of her body and her wound. Abena noticed that she has been away from her homeland for far to long. Since Iccia is a mostly desert world, all the people have a well dark skin tan to them. He skin was had a paler tint to it. She then got this HUGE headache from nowhere and her balance was off.
"Aaahhs, I lost some blood in that sewer," She rubbed her wound. "... blood is pretty important, so I'm bound to have some side effects like nausea, dizzines, sensitivity to light..." He legs then gave out and she then found herself laying face down in the shower. "or passing out... great..."
XxXxXxX
Within a top secret facility under the Vicerory's Palace; Dorothea, Ocho, and a few guards boarded a large service elevator to go farther underground. Dorothea kept a calm, silent, and stern expression on the ride down.
"You'll need to where these, my lady. It's from cold protection." One of the guards handed her a heavy-down coat and gloves.
The elevator stopped stopped at its final floor. The guards went into a side office and wiped away all of the snow and ice that built up off of the computer screens.
"Level ten is at one-hundred forty Kelvin. Level nine, one hundred eighteen Kelvin."
"Level six, sixty-two K, level five, forty two K. Level three, twenty K, level two at two K. Level one is at point zero zero five K. The readings on the Dewar Flask is reading normal. It's perfect. It's alright to go in now."
"So why does this guy live in a frozen God forgotten room?"
"Said the cold helps him clear his mind." Dorothea walked up to the frozen bars. "Humans are cold creatures. Colder than the ninth circle. Colder than this room. Warmth is a luckery only for a few. You, my dear Moa, have found that warmth. Do you wish to have it back?"
Two hands came out of the darkness and grabbed hold of the frozen over bars. The ice started to melt as the man said. "It's been about time!"
XxXxXxX
In the women's baths, Euphie and an other girl were getting undressed to take a shower before their classes and before the rush. The girl had beautiful shoulder length red hair and striking cerulean eyes, beautiful beyond imagination. Her body was tantalizing, yet so inviting. Her smooth legs were perfectly fashioned to her pre-womanly hips. Her shirt barely contained her sensational breasts... where were we going with this? Oh right...
"So how was your date last night with Suzaku, Euphie?" The red hair girl asked as she took off her blazer.
"Beautiful." Euphie said from the other side of the lockers. She was removing her knee high socks and her skirt. "We went out to the best Italian restaurant in the city and then went for a moonlit walk through the park, stopping at a bench to look at the stars."
"No real, please continue."
"Sorry." She blushed because she gets to carried away about her romance with her knight. "How are things going with you and Gino?"
"We broke up."
"Broke up? Why?"
"My parents forced us to." She said as she removed he skirt. "My mother really like Gino, but my father and his wife wants me to marry Luciano Bradley."
"The Knight of Ten?"
"The Vampire of Britannia himself." The red head sighed as was down to her white long sleeve button down shirt and pair of lacy underwear. "If he finds out that I'm a half-blood, I'm screwed."
"Harsh," Euphie was done with removing her clothes and she wrapped a towel around her waist before she entered the shower room.
The red head removed her last pieces of clothing and folded them in her locker. She put a towel on so that no pervert-hyena-boys or Milly could get a free peep show. As she entered the empty room she found Euphie in one of the stalls. Hunched over something with the water still running.
"Euphie? Did you find something?"
"Come check this out, Kallen." Ephie fidgeted.
"What are you hiding? You're acting like when you see a stray. Did you find one?" The girl named Kallen asked.
"Sure did." Euphie said as she lifted a unconcious Abena.
After thirty seconds of freaking out, they moved Abena onto one of the long wooden benches.
"So, she's knocked out?" Kallen stated.
"Yep. And she is running a huge fever with a gash in her side."
"There's only one thing we can do... Put her back where you found her."
"How can you be so heartless?"
XxXxXxX
The hot desert sun beat down merceclessly on the dry wasteland. Abena found herself walking through this unknown land in traditional Iccan priestiss attire.
"Where am I?" Abena thought as she looked around. "Is this Icca or someplace else?"
"Mom? Dad? Gil? Grandpa? Where is everyone?" She stopped her search through the desert at the foot of a small cliff. She could feel some one stare down on her.
"Well what do we have here?" The shadow person said. "A pretty young priestess in the middle of the desert? How luck am I?"
"You're not Iccan." Abena said.
"No. In fact I hate them. But I love their women, especially priestesses."
The environment became rough and jagged. The earth below her shattered as she fell into a bottomless pit of blackness. Her heavy clothes then dissolved as she fell farther into the abyss, and then the shadow man appeared in front of her. His smile was crooked and his eyes looked over her naked body with hunger lust and desire.
"I've might of killed your parents, but I can still enjoy their pretty daughter."
XxXxXxX
Abena's eyes shot open as she found herself in a soft warm bed. She adjusted her sight to get a look of the room. It was bright and the design was nothing like she has seen in Mandalore. It had a very aristocratic design to it with a lot of spirals and grooves in the wood work. There was a marble fire place across from her bed, and it seemed to had been used earlier. There were two great armchairs and a desk made from some kind of red expensive wood and a large throw rug covered the wooden floor. Abena tried to sit up, but she found that her body was extremely heavy. one her side, she could feel that there were new bandages over her bullet wound.
She was carrying a bowl of water a small cloth. "Are we awake?"
"We're not sure." Abena moaned. "Are we alive?"
"Yes we are."
"Then we're awake. But we're very puzzled." She tried to lift her head, but the headache was keeping her down. "How did I get here?"
"We found you in the showers this morning." Kallen ringed out the cloth and placed it on Abena's forehead. "It's a good thing that you passed out in the girls' baths. If you were in the boys- you would have been a bigger-stickier mess to clean up. In unsexual news, my name is Kallen. Kallen Stadtfeld."
"Abena Beviin."
"Nice to meet you." She then looked at Abena's eyes. "Funny."
"What is?"
"You are the second person I know who has red eye color."
XxXxXxX
Hours pasted, and Kallen came back with a plater filled with food. But she found Abena, on the floor, bare naked, doing push ups.
"Oi! Not again!" Kallen snapped at Abena as she put the food on the desk. "You're fever has not gone down niether have your wounds healed; so you shouldn't be doing that nonsense."
"I always need to train myself." Abena sat cross legged on the floor.
Kallen threw a robe at her. "Whatever! Just get changed! You have a guest."
After she slipped on the robe and closed it, an elder man entered the room. He was of Iccan decent; even though his eyes were slanted, his head was bald, and had a thick black handle bar mustach.
"Teacher" Abena bowed to the man and spoke in the tongue of her people. "I'm glad to see you are unharmed. Have you been living here this entire time?"
"Not exactly. I was with the refugees in the southern mountain area." He sat on the floor with Abena. "Most of the Monks got the word that Icca is safe once more. But I've already started a life here. I've heard that the new Mandalord, the son of the first boss, allowed us yo live on Icca. I've also heard about that trouble in sewers. It would see that you are killing."
Abena was silent, she did not have an excuse against the person who taught her how to be a warrior.
"You want to create a better place, so you became a doctor. I understand your hunger for vengeance. But as long as you kill for your misplaced sense of self-righteousness, is another form of scapegoating. Vengeance breeds new desire for vengeance. You must break out of that cycle. You must endure it."
Kallen stood on the side lines, not sure what they were saying nor language they were speaking in.
"Pardon my intrusion." Milly said as she entered the room.
"Mistress Ashford?" Abena's teacher said.
"Mr. Nekor... Nice to see you here."
"It's a pleasure to see you too," Mr. Nekor said as he got off the floor. "And if you ever made it to my class on time, and passed in the assignments on time, you would see my more often."
Even when he long left the room, Milly was still tense with fear. "Will she be alright?"
"You get used to it." Kallen mumbled. "So Milly, do you think she is 'Student Council' material?"
Milly zoomed in on Abena's face and studied her closely... that ended very soon when she started to squeeze the air out of the Mandalorian medic. "She'll fit in perfect! And She's so cute!"
"Let me go! I can't breath! And what do you mean by fit in?" Milly started he usual new member cop-a-feel. "HEY! I CHARGE TWENTY THOUSAND PER SQUEEZE, HAPPY HANDS!"
XxXxXxX
"Common out, Abena." Milly and Kallen both stood outside of the clubhouse, waiting for their newest members to come out.
"No way in hell!" Abena yelled from inside the clubhouse. "I look rediculas!"
"No you don't." Milly said. "Actually, with your muscles and tone body, you look pretty sexy. Or are you afraid of coming out of the closet?"
"Shut up!- And you're the one who has to come out of the closet!"
Kallen sighed and then started to pull Abena out of the clubhouse. What they got was Abena dressed from head to upper thigh in the standard girls uniform. She seemed to hate it; and who could blame her? Even when she was a little girl, she never wore a dress let alone a skirt. Even at the hospital staff meetings. She would only wear a long dress during her dates with Falco. But this was too far!
"You're so cute!" Milly said.
"Shut...Up!" Abena tried to pull more fabric in front to cover her legs, but this resulted in lesser cover in the back. "It's been years since I wore a dress, let alone a skirt! So I feel draft coming in!"
"Miss President!" A young student ran up to the three of them. "Theirs a fight happening!"
"A fight?"
"Let's go." Kallen and Milly ran towards the crowd that was massing.
"I wonder whose fighting?" Abena slowly walked towards the fight when Blayde landed on her shoulder. "HAVOX!"
XxXxXxX
"Abena!" Falco said, shocked to find his girlfriend here. "What are you doing here!"
"Looking for you guys," She said as she petted Blayde in his favorite spot. "And Blayde was circling around the fight made it a dead give away." She looked over at Kallen. "Hey Kallen, you don't mind if these two blockheads join the council?"
"I don't see why not." Kallen said.
"Great!" She smiled. "So where's Akisu?"
"He wasn't with you?" Falco asked.
"Relax," Havox pulled both of themn in closer. "My scanner said he land in the mountainous rejion of Hokido. So we don't have a problem. He grew up in the mountains. It's like a second home. He'll be back."
XxXxXxX
Falco sat on his bed in his new room, when Abena walked in. "So do you like your new digs?"
"Well it sure beats sleeping in a fridge." He then started to really look at his girlfriend. In fact, for once, his brain started to slow down to a stop.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Ah... I didn't know you were into-" Abena elbowed Falco under the chin; causing him to bite his tongue. "My tongue..."
"I never thought you were also the perverted type."
"I'm not." Falco said. "I just never saw you as a skirt wearinging type. It's really cute on you."
"Really?"
"Do you think I will lie to you on purpose?" They closed in, readied for the kiss... when Havox and Blayde entered the room.
"Ten-hut!" Havox ordered, causing Falco and Abena to come to attention. "At ease, love birds. Any news from Naoto yet."
"Nothing on the private channels." Falco said. "But, he's a grown boy. He can take care of himself."
"I sure hope so."
If someone you love is hurt.
And you know the Bastards that did it.
How could revenge not be that important?
Why not revenge?
Next Time: Rage of the Lover.
If that's what it means to be an adult...
THEN I'M NEVER GROWING UP!