OUR HEARTS JOURNEY
OUR HEARTS JOURNEY
By: saihei
Disclaimer: I do not own 'Full metal panic'
A/N: Hello guys! God I miss writing this! Anyway I know you've waited too long for this update! ENJOY!
08/01/09
CHAPTER 26: "The Deal"
Sousuke along with Mao and Kurz cautiously walked inside the cave. Traps were everywhere, but with their expertise they avoided all the possible dangers.
Mao who was the lead smiled when she noticed a silver button embedded on one of the stone. "I think I found the way in soldiers."
Kurz snickered and scratched his nose. "Well good, let's go in then."
Sousuke analyzed the stone first before letting Mao pressed it. She was right; the button was a trigger to move the stone and reveal an underground passage.
Kurz was the one who examined the passage. "This is bad."
Mao and Sousuke threw a quizzical look at him.
Kurz scratched the back of his head and sighed. "I can smell some sort of ammo and metal…and some AS…"
Sousuke understood. "One of us needs to go back."
Mao agreed. "Yeah, that person will act as a guard and will remain one until the moment that we would have to use our ASes."
Kurz smiled. "Base on the tone of your voices it was decided eh? I'll be the look out."
Sousuke nodded and gave Kurz a tap on his shoulder. "We trust you this much Kurz."
Mao smiled and nodded. "We won't lose our connection; we'll tell you everything that will happen."
"Yeah, yeah!." Kurz put on his eye protector device and turned his back. "Good luck guys."
Mao and Sousuke saluted. Kurz saluted back and walked away.
--o0-0o--
Mao and Sousuke enter into the dark passage carefully. On their way in, Sousuke killed two armed men. He used a knife in killing them. When they reached the bottom, both mithrill soldiers were stunned by the big ASes they saw.
"Fuck, how did they bring all these mechas here?" Mao said, astounded.
"They made this. Silver is a good AS designer." Sousuke stated.
In shadowing the area, they were able to annihilate fourteen equipped men. "Geez, all of them are amateurs, I can't believe they chose them as securities."
"We need to find Shizuru, and soon." Sousuke said.
"I know—shit!" Mao's eyes became agitated when the ASes began moving.
"Now we need Kurz." Sousuke switched his communicator on and began speaking to Kurz. "Bring AL here ASAP."
On the other line, Kurz began running back to the sea where they leave their ASes. "ASAP LIEUTENANT! GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES!"
Sousuke looked at Mao. "5 minutes."
Mao frowned. "FUCK! HE'S BEEN WALKING ALL HIS WAY BACK?! Damn…"
"We need to buy Kurz some time." Sousuke released his Glock 9 and set of grenades. He examined the battlefield. "They are twelve of them. Shall we divide them?"
Sousuke ran fast and began shooting the head of the ASes. Mao did the same with her favorite M9A1 bazooka. Sousuke frowned when one of the Ases head got blown off but was still standing. "No pilot? What? How the…"
"You're right Sgt. Sagara." Leonard's voice bounded the area.
"Leonard Testarossa," Sousuke's eyes covered with rage. "YOU BASTARD!!! WHERE ARE YOU?! SHOW YOUR FACE! COWARD! FACE ME!!!" Sousuke bellowed, full of madness.
"They stop moving." Mao said, referring to the ASes. "He's controlling them."
Leonard's devilish laughed echoed in the whole place. "Yes, I am controlling them. Isn't it amazing? I don't even need to waste my money hiring useless humans."
"Where is my daughter?" Sousuke asked directly.
Leonard laughed echoed again. "She's safe Sagara. I won't hurt such priceless treasure."
Sousuke began analyzing the area. Searching for a way that might lead him to where Leonard is.
"Don't waste your time soldier." Leonard's voice once again covered the place. "She's not here, as a matter of fact I'm not even here."
"What do you mean?" Sousuke could feel his madness searing his veins.
"Right now, I'm talking to you using a satellite disk connected to all my whereabouts."
Mao frowned. "The hell, where are you psycho?"
"As if I'll tell you. HAHAHA!" Leonard stated sarcastically. "I'm not going to return the child, not easily perhaps."
"What do you want?" Mao fully understood his words. Leonard wants something in return.
"I will return Shizura-chan if you will give me the De Danaan's main control disc." Leonard said directly. "And of course, you must not tell my sister."
"Why would you like that?" Sousuke asked.
"Well of course, aside from the fact that Mithrill is such a pain in the neck, I would like to know how Tessa came up with such wonderful program." Leonard started. "Just imagine my ASes if they have their own A.I." He smiled evilly. "Fascinating, isn't it?"
Sousuke hissed angrily. "What made you think that we'll hand it over to you?"
Leonard once again laughed evilly. "Because I have your precious daughter Sagara; because you love Chidori Kaname."
Sousuke remained silent while Leonard continued. "This is a once in a lifetime deal Sagara, give me the disc and I promised you a happy future with your family."
"Family?" Sousuke knew that deep in his heart, Leonard's offer was far too tempting to be rejected.
"No." Mao inserted.
Sousuke looked at Mao.
Mao glared at Sousuke. "Whole world will be in danger once he got hold of that program."
Sousuke looked away. "What am I going to do?"
"YO!" A loud bang interrupted the tense scene, when Kurz arrived with their ASes. "Where's the bout?" Half of the place got destroyed by his obstruction.
Mao jumped up to her AS. "Let's go Sousuke, we'll look for another way. At least now we know that Leonard has her,"
Sousuke weakly nodded and jumped up to AL. He sat on the cockpit, eyes bland, thinking deeply,
"Eh?! No battle?" Kurz asked when he noticed Mao's AS flew out of the place, her exit left a large hole up on the cave's ceiling. "HEY!" Kurz followed Mao.
"I will email you my number Sagara. I know you'll change your mind. Remember, Shizuru's safe for me, safe 'til I can." Leonard said, full of confidence and authority.
Sousuke pressed the take off button with clenched teeth, trying his best to ignore Leonard's voice.
The three soldiers took off and left the cave.
"SOUSUKE!!!" Kaname ran toward Sousuke upon seeing the young pilot jumped off from AL's cockpit.
Sousuke watched Kaname ran to him. He froze. He does not know what to think of first. "K-Kaname…"
--o0-0o--
AUTHOR's NOTE:
Hi there guys! This chapter is not too long but I promise that the next chapter will be posted this coming Saturday too, that will be on August 8/09. I'm really sorry if I'm experiencing some writer's block thingy, but as much as I am knowledgeable of, all writers do experience this kind of dilemma, but anyways I still deeply apologize if ever I happened to annoy anyone because of me being just human hehe…
(^_^) Thank you so much guys! Go ahead and post you reviews and give me some push hehe! TAKE CARE EVERYONE!!!
JA! ~saihei~