AN: Ok, just napped finished and inspiration on my fingertips. Let's get
the ball rolling as usual. I also like to apologise for this late chapter.
I had to see to the orientation and bringing in freshies into my club,
while managing a part time job on the other hand. It's suppose to be the
school holidays!!! Why am I so busy??!!!
I like to dedicate this chapter to: Cloud, Tari of Nargothrond, ShiniNekoGrl, Cactuskitty, Herald Mistylennan (sorry about your previous reviews), Dream Keeper, cryearthstearsfalltou, Death's little side kick, Arianna, Silent Fear, Kuria, Magicia Wiseskill and DragonGirl! Thanks for your reviews!
And we have newcomers: Hello to yami blue eyes white dragon and Rhys! Thanks for reviewing too! Welcome to the family of readers!
Now on with the fic!
Chapter 26
Wufei gently turned the page of his book as he lazed on the couch, feeling the old peacefulness seep into his bones. His wife wasn't at home to make trouble for him; she was somewhere out there, most likely practicing her martial arts and he was given the option to order take-out lunch. A relief from her still terrible tasting meals but Wufei had to admit she was improving. At least now they weren't cancer causing, burnt food.
Wufei eyes worked furiously through the page being unsure when she would appear, but in his heart, he hoped that she would be out a LONG time.
'The longer, the better,' he thought as he flipped to the next page.
Suddenly, the couch underneath him shook, causing him to lose his balance and fall off.
'What the . . .' he never got to finish the thought as an earth-shattering explosion started, sounding somewhere to the south, which was quickly followed by another ground-shaking vibration.
This explosion was shortly followed by another series of short explosions, sounding distinctively like machine-guns firing at very high speed and pressure.
'Shit, we're under attack,' Wufei concluded as the forest to the east started burning with bright orange-red flames licking high into the sky, and sirens within the village further up north started screaming.
Getting on his feet and looking through the opened doorway, Wufei could see people from the East and South were quickly appearing and dashing past his hut, heading for the bomb shelters located just North-west from his home, panic evident on every one of their faces. The atmosphere itself was highly charged with fear as chaos reigned.
'Fools. The bomb shelters are too old to be of any protection. You people are just sitting ducks if you go there,' his mind thought but his body started to follow the as-old-as time instinct of safety in numbers. He took a step out, prepared to follow the crowd to the old bomb shelters since its protection was definitely more than what his miserable hut could offer.
Then, suddenly a thought struck him.
'Meiran,' and he repressed a shudder. 'She better have enough brains to get to those bomb shelters or I'm going to yell at her again. That is if she and I survive. . .'
As if on que, the phone started ringing in his house. Wufei paused in his step. They were under attack and someone was calling him. His mind contemplated whether to pick up the phone or run. In the end, curiosity won out.
'This has better be good or if I die, I'll haunt you for the rest of your miserable life. Even if you die!' he thought as he slammed the book on the table while picking the receiver up.
He didn't even get to greet the person. The caller on the other line immediately spoke.
"Wufei! It's your wife! She just came and took one of our Robots to fight the enemy!" Wufei could feel his body go cold, the receiver suddenly glued to his ear as the scientist he had talked to a week earlier continued. "Her constitutions are not up to optimal handling for our robots! She will DIE if she stay due to the pressure and exertion inside the main controls and with the extra weight and pressure from fighting, she won't last long!"
"Hello?" the scientist asked when Wufei continued to keep silent.
"Where?" Wufei finally managed to say after struggling to get himself out of his stupor. He just couldn't believe he had married a REALLY stupid woman.
"Beg your pardon?" the scientist on the other line asked, baffled by his question.
"I said WHERE IS SHE?!" he yelled into the line, feeling at last his old self, with new anxiety and anger, returning.
"To the west, somewhere in the flower field from your house, our tracers . . ." Wufei didn't wait to hear rest of the sentence, he dropped the receiver and dashed out of the house, hoping against all hope that for once, his feathered-brain wife would at least have some common sense to listen to him.
Apparently he arrived at the flower field a few minutes too late. The robot his wife was piloting was surrounded by four other huge foreign robots, and around them, pieces of robots' material lay scattered, definitely from the foreign robots since his wife's robot was still "alive" and moving.
With horror, he watched as his wife suddenly turned on the rocket boosters in her robot and started jetting into the sky, the other robots following suit, creating a hot air current and causing a lot of broken flowers to fly and swirl around him.
'Ah hell,' he thought and gave his two cents worth.
"Stop! You don't have the strength to pilot that! Come back!" he shouted at the sky where his wife was flying up in her robot.
In response, his wife flipped on the darn robot's loudspeakers without pausing in her advancement into space.
"Don't give me orders! This is a fight for justice!" her voice boomed across the sky.
Shock coursed through Wufei and he watched as his wife's robot, together with the others, disappears into the sky.
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3 seconds later, the tube abruptly stopped spewing fire. Then, on the other side, with an oath, death's door slid opened.
Duo came rushing out, a look of deep worry written all over his face.
"JESS! ARE You all . . . right . . ." his words trailed off as he scrambled to a stop in front of his door, his eyes slowly taking in the scenery before him.
To the side, he could see both Heero's and Quatre's heads poking out from around the corner of the passage. In front of him, Trowa lay on top of the girl, evidently the one who saved her life while the girl below, seeming dead to the world, looked otherwise fine minus the burns that he feared his device would have inflicted.
"Oh." was all Duo could say.
No one said anything for the next few seconds.
"Well, I just . . ." Duo began, taking a step backwards into his room.
"NOW!" Heero shouted and all three boys surged forward in an attempt to tackle him.
"Eep!" Duo let out and tried frantically to move fast and hit the button to close the door. However Heero was faster and was already at the doorpost, jamming a small mental sheet into the slit between the door and door slider. The door fizzled with electricity and then died out.
'Shit! Doctor G must have told him how to deactivate my door. Darn it!'
"You guys aren't taking me alive!" he shouted at them as he smoothly dodged Trowa's hand, which was reaching out to grab his shirt collar, "No sir-re!"
From his position, he could see the guys had left the girl lying on the ground, looking very much like a wilted flower and a dead one at that. He suppressed a giggle at the thought.
* Bang! *
A single shot from a gun froze all of them in mid-action. Turning to the sound, everyone found Heero with his gun up in the air. Then he slowly lowered it till it aimed at Duo's head. Then his chest, then his . . .
"Hey! What are you trying to do?!" Duo shouted, as he uncomfortably moved, trying to get out of the gun's range. "I happen to like the way I am now!"
"Hn. Baka." Came Heero's reply and the gun finally aimed at his knee.
"Oh . . ." Quatre finally understood. That earned him a glare from both Heero and Duo.
Trowa rolled his eyes and made a grab for Duo's waist. The co-pilot agilely dodged it and sent him flying onto the bed with a smart whack on the butt.
'Curse the day he hounded Wufei to teach him martial arts!' Trowa thought as he picked himself up from amidst the tangled bed sheets.
* Bang! *
Heero had fired another shot.
Trowa found himself staring at a bullet hole 2 inches away from his face.
"PUT IT AWAY, HEERO!!!!" he bellowed, as he got up. Heero took one look at his face and obediently placed the gun back in its holster. Meanwhile Duo and Quatre had paused in their struggling to stare at his face in shock.
"So you guys aren't going to shoot me anymore right?" Duo questioned, an evil smile slowly snaking up the sides of his mouth.
Then he let loose the kind of hell he was famous for.
Author's Proclamation: That's it for now, leave you in suspense of what'll happen next. :] I promise this time it will be in two weeks time!
I like to dedicate this chapter to: Cloud, Tari of Nargothrond, ShiniNekoGrl, Cactuskitty, Herald Mistylennan (sorry about your previous reviews), Dream Keeper, cryearthstearsfalltou, Death's little side kick, Arianna, Silent Fear, Kuria, Magicia Wiseskill and DragonGirl! Thanks for your reviews!
And we have newcomers: Hello to yami blue eyes white dragon and Rhys! Thanks for reviewing too! Welcome to the family of readers!
Now on with the fic!
Chapter 26
Wufei gently turned the page of his book as he lazed on the couch, feeling the old peacefulness seep into his bones. His wife wasn't at home to make trouble for him; she was somewhere out there, most likely practicing her martial arts and he was given the option to order take-out lunch. A relief from her still terrible tasting meals but Wufei had to admit she was improving. At least now they weren't cancer causing, burnt food.
Wufei eyes worked furiously through the page being unsure when she would appear, but in his heart, he hoped that she would be out a LONG time.
'The longer, the better,' he thought as he flipped to the next page.
Suddenly, the couch underneath him shook, causing him to lose his balance and fall off.
'What the . . .' he never got to finish the thought as an earth-shattering explosion started, sounding somewhere to the south, which was quickly followed by another ground-shaking vibration.
This explosion was shortly followed by another series of short explosions, sounding distinctively like machine-guns firing at very high speed and pressure.
'Shit, we're under attack,' Wufei concluded as the forest to the east started burning with bright orange-red flames licking high into the sky, and sirens within the village further up north started screaming.
Getting on his feet and looking through the opened doorway, Wufei could see people from the East and South were quickly appearing and dashing past his hut, heading for the bomb shelters located just North-west from his home, panic evident on every one of their faces. The atmosphere itself was highly charged with fear as chaos reigned.
'Fools. The bomb shelters are too old to be of any protection. You people are just sitting ducks if you go there,' his mind thought but his body started to follow the as-old-as time instinct of safety in numbers. He took a step out, prepared to follow the crowd to the old bomb shelters since its protection was definitely more than what his miserable hut could offer.
Then, suddenly a thought struck him.
'Meiran,' and he repressed a shudder. 'She better have enough brains to get to those bomb shelters or I'm going to yell at her again. That is if she and I survive. . .'
As if on que, the phone started ringing in his house. Wufei paused in his step. They were under attack and someone was calling him. His mind contemplated whether to pick up the phone or run. In the end, curiosity won out.
'This has better be good or if I die, I'll haunt you for the rest of your miserable life. Even if you die!' he thought as he slammed the book on the table while picking the receiver up.
He didn't even get to greet the person. The caller on the other line immediately spoke.
"Wufei! It's your wife! She just came and took one of our Robots to fight the enemy!" Wufei could feel his body go cold, the receiver suddenly glued to his ear as the scientist he had talked to a week earlier continued. "Her constitutions are not up to optimal handling for our robots! She will DIE if she stay due to the pressure and exertion inside the main controls and with the extra weight and pressure from fighting, she won't last long!"
"Hello?" the scientist asked when Wufei continued to keep silent.
"Where?" Wufei finally managed to say after struggling to get himself out of his stupor. He just couldn't believe he had married a REALLY stupid woman.
"Beg your pardon?" the scientist on the other line asked, baffled by his question.
"I said WHERE IS SHE?!" he yelled into the line, feeling at last his old self, with new anxiety and anger, returning.
"To the west, somewhere in the flower field from your house, our tracers . . ." Wufei didn't wait to hear rest of the sentence, he dropped the receiver and dashed out of the house, hoping against all hope that for once, his feathered-brain wife would at least have some common sense to listen to him.
Apparently he arrived at the flower field a few minutes too late. The robot his wife was piloting was surrounded by four other huge foreign robots, and around them, pieces of robots' material lay scattered, definitely from the foreign robots since his wife's robot was still "alive" and moving.
With horror, he watched as his wife suddenly turned on the rocket boosters in her robot and started jetting into the sky, the other robots following suit, creating a hot air current and causing a lot of broken flowers to fly and swirl around him.
'Ah hell,' he thought and gave his two cents worth.
"Stop! You don't have the strength to pilot that! Come back!" he shouted at the sky where his wife was flying up in her robot.
In response, his wife flipped on the darn robot's loudspeakers without pausing in her advancement into space.
"Don't give me orders! This is a fight for justice!" her voice boomed across the sky.
Shock coursed through Wufei and he watched as his wife's robot, together with the others, disappears into the sky.
************************************************************************
3 seconds later, the tube abruptly stopped spewing fire. Then, on the other side, with an oath, death's door slid opened.
Duo came rushing out, a look of deep worry written all over his face.
"JESS! ARE You all . . . right . . ." his words trailed off as he scrambled to a stop in front of his door, his eyes slowly taking in the scenery before him.
To the side, he could see both Heero's and Quatre's heads poking out from around the corner of the passage. In front of him, Trowa lay on top of the girl, evidently the one who saved her life while the girl below, seeming dead to the world, looked otherwise fine minus the burns that he feared his device would have inflicted.
"Oh." was all Duo could say.
No one said anything for the next few seconds.
"Well, I just . . ." Duo began, taking a step backwards into his room.
"NOW!" Heero shouted and all three boys surged forward in an attempt to tackle him.
"Eep!" Duo let out and tried frantically to move fast and hit the button to close the door. However Heero was faster and was already at the doorpost, jamming a small mental sheet into the slit between the door and door slider. The door fizzled with electricity and then died out.
'Shit! Doctor G must have told him how to deactivate my door. Darn it!'
"You guys aren't taking me alive!" he shouted at them as he smoothly dodged Trowa's hand, which was reaching out to grab his shirt collar, "No sir-re!"
From his position, he could see the guys had left the girl lying on the ground, looking very much like a wilted flower and a dead one at that. He suppressed a giggle at the thought.
* Bang! *
A single shot from a gun froze all of them in mid-action. Turning to the sound, everyone found Heero with his gun up in the air. Then he slowly lowered it till it aimed at Duo's head. Then his chest, then his . . .
"Hey! What are you trying to do?!" Duo shouted, as he uncomfortably moved, trying to get out of the gun's range. "I happen to like the way I am now!"
"Hn. Baka." Came Heero's reply and the gun finally aimed at his knee.
"Oh . . ." Quatre finally understood. That earned him a glare from both Heero and Duo.
Trowa rolled his eyes and made a grab for Duo's waist. The co-pilot agilely dodged it and sent him flying onto the bed with a smart whack on the butt.
'Curse the day he hounded Wufei to teach him martial arts!' Trowa thought as he picked himself up from amidst the tangled bed sheets.
* Bang! *
Heero had fired another shot.
Trowa found himself staring at a bullet hole 2 inches away from his face.
"PUT IT AWAY, HEERO!!!!" he bellowed, as he got up. Heero took one look at his face and obediently placed the gun back in its holster. Meanwhile Duo and Quatre had paused in their struggling to stare at his face in shock.
"So you guys aren't going to shoot me anymore right?" Duo questioned, an evil smile slowly snaking up the sides of his mouth.
Then he let loose the kind of hell he was famous for.
Author's Proclamation: That's it for now, leave you in suspense of what'll happen next. :] I promise this time it will be in two weeks time!