Chapter 9-Mariemaya's Proposal

September 5, A.C. 198. 7:00 PM. All of the Gundam pilots and Relena were at Mariemaya's mansion, which was situated by the sea and is about a mile away from the city of Vienna. They were about to ring the doorbell when the door opened and inside was Mariemaya, Dorothy, and Duke Dermoil.

"Dorothy!" exclaimed Relena. She had worried about Dorothy for a long time ever since she was missing.

"Yes Relena, it's me," answered Dorothy grimly. She had no emotion on her face, not even a smirk.

Relena was greatly disturbed by Dorothy's behavior. "What did you do to Dorothy?" demanded her.

"Nothing, we simply made her evil," answered Duke Dermoil simply.

"Why are we suppose to be here?" asked Duo.

"Why, to settle a conflict of course," said Mariemaya. "Please, follow me."

They followed her into a conference room elaborately decorated. There was a glass wall at the opposite end of the door that displayed the oceanic scenery and can also be used as a screen for projections.

When they all settled down, Mariemaya started. "I have invited you all to this meeting because I know you'll be interested in this proposal that I will present to you now. As you know, I have held captive Heero and Quatre for about 14 days now. And much has happened over the course of this hostage situation. My proposal is that you let the Romafeller Organization take over the Alliance and we will give you back your friends."

"How will we know that you haven't kept our friends once you've taken control of the Alliance?" asked Relena. "And how will we know that you haven't made a clone of them and still held captive of Heero and Quatre?"

"Your friends will be coming soon. Then, you will inspect the entire place to make sure that there aren't any other clones. Will this be good enough?" asked Mariemaya.

"Yes."

Before long, Heero and Quatre were both in the room, without being handcuffed, and the group inspected the place. When they were all back in the conference room, they saw that they were tricked. A group of Romafeller soldiers were already there, waiting for their return. They were commanded to take captive of all of the pilots and Relena.

Quatre, wanting to save his friends, attacked the closest soldier. Heero did the same thing. Nevertheless, the other soldiers shot them in their arms.

All of a sudden, Dorothy snapped back into the reality. While the other Gundam pilots attacked the soldiers, Dorothy was taking in of all the action here.

Although the pilots were successful in defeating most of soldiers, they were still outnumbered. Then, Mariemaya took out a gun and pointed at Relena.

"Put down your guns, or the Princess dies," threatened Mariemaya.

Everyone had no choice but to do what she said. It seemed that there is no way that they get out of this.

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*thinking: Maybe I SHOULD let Mariemaya kill Relena...*

Pikaniki: "OR THE PRINCESS DIES"??? Isn't that just funky?

Ketra: I dunno... maybe it is...

Pikaniki: Why didn't she kill her?!!!

Ketra: Cuz that's the way that we had done it...

Pikaniki: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Ketra ^_~;