Secret Agent, Heero Yuy: Till Death Do Us Part, 9
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or Sandy. 'Nuff said.
{PART NINE}
"Where's Relena, you bastard?!" Heero shouted, tilting his head upwards towards the only light in the
damp, dark tunnel.
"It's no use, Heero," Duo's voice sounded flat beside his fiery one. "She's not here, and he's not going to
tell us."
Heero sighed and let his head drop. "You're right," he mumbled. Wriggling, he tried to free himself of
the knot, and finally he did. Duo was shoved forward with the force of Heero pulling the thick rope and
splintering it.
Rubbing his hands together, Duo looked around. "Where do you think we are?"
"Underneath the building, most likely. We didn't travel too long downwards," Heero said, feeling along
the walls, and cried out in triumph, "aha! A door!"
They pushed it open and gapped. A huge maze was before them, going on endlessly it seemed. Tall,
white walls arched as a gateway.
"Crap…look at that thing." Duo muttered. Heero said nothing, this was too much to take in.
The maze had stone, brick walls, reaching nearly ten feet in height, and ivory green vines criss-crossed
over the stones, creating the medieval effect. Duo looked around and realized he and Heero were standing
on a platform. There was a bit of a drop before they would reach the entrance.
Duo gulped, but he knew he had to find the exit. Looking up, he saw a tiny black case taped to the wall.
"No, don't touch it Maxwell," a cheery voice boomed across the maze towards him. "Its a motion bomb,
any movement and it'll—"
Treize was cut off by a small explosion coming from the other side of the maze and to the left where
another two platforms were. They heard a scream and saw debris rain down on the maze.
"NO!" Heero shouted, and looked around frantically. 'Who was it?'
*****
Sandy and Hilde were still tied together. Both were sitting down on the damp, dark ground. A
pocketknife lay a feet away from them, but Hilde's boot was stuck between two rocks.
"This is all your fault, you know," sandy snapped to her, turning her head to the side, trying to face Hilde.
Her long brown-blonde hair hit Hilde's face and Hilde snapped back, "it wouldn't be if you hadn't
fumbled the knife!"
"It is not my fault, Hilde! You sneezed and your head banged mine, causing me to drop it! Damn you!"
Sandy cried back.
"No, DAMN YOU! You're after MY Duo!" Hilde cried. They said nothing more for awhile before Sandy
sighed.
"Fighting isn't going to get us anywhere," she replied softly.
"True."
"We need to work together," she continued. Thinking, she thought, 'how to get Hilde out of that boot…'
"How?" Hilde asked her.
"Can you lean forward to undo the clasp on your boot? Or slip out your foot?" Sandy asked simply.
"Yeah…" Hilde bit her lip as she gingerly pulled out her foot. Standing up, Sandy picked up the
pocketknife, Hilde arching her back for her to lean over, and Sandy slit the rope.
Once free, both girls sighed in relief and continued bickering.
"I don't care, Duo was mine to begin with!" Hilde snapped, feeling along the wall for an opening.
Finding it, she pushed open the door and they faced an enormous maze.
"Woah," Sandy said, looking around in shock. Hilde said nothing, but spotted out landmarks.
'A waterfall here…and a large stepping stone pond there…a rope walk over there…' she thought, trying
to visualize her way out.
Sandy began down the ladder to start the maze; she needed to find Hermione…or else their plan won't
work.
"Where are you going?" Hilde's voice made her stop and look up.
"I'm heading off on my own. If I don't see you again, it was nice knowing you, and I'll tell Duo you died
a tragic death," Sandy smiled at her enemy. "Cheers!" Her head disappeared over the edge and soon a
small figure running towards the start of the maze on their side was seen. She disappeared from view
completely, and Hilde muttered, "not if you die before me." Before heading down herself.
*****
Hermione and Trowa had already split up; they managed to cut their rope off with a sharp rock on the
bottom of the cell they landed in.
Trowa turned left, left, right, left again, keeping track of how many turns he went. Twice he went to a
dead end, and twice he had to backtrack.
He heard the scream and Treize's announcement. He didn't stop to help though, now it was all for none
and one for all…he wanted to get out alive.
Turning a corner sharply, he almost fell into his first task. Above, hanging off the side of the stone, was
an old-fashioned sign, stating:
HE WHO SHALL GO PAST THIS TASK SHALL POSSIBLY NOT LIVE. HAST NOT, GOOD MAN, IF THOU WILT NOT GO
FORTH. HAST THIS FOR THOU SHALL HELP THEE ALONG THY WAY:
LEFT TWICE IS DANGEROUS, WHILE RIGHT TWICE IS NOT
RIGHT AND THEN LEFT SHALL LEAVE YOU STRANDED, HAST THY'S WARNING AND BE GONE, GOOD SIRE
Trowa cringed and thought, 'I HATE rhymes!' Before re-reading it.
'Okay, left twice and I'll get killed.' Looking around, her found a small stone, and broke it in two,
tossing them both on the stepping-stones he had to cross.
One stone landed on the first left stone, while the other it the second. The stone collapsed and bubbled
into the acid water.
'Well, that rules that out,' he thought grimly, before looked for more stone. 'Right then left shall leave
you stranded…Hmm…let's try this…' tossing the stones on the right and then left stone, the other five
surrounding the left stone crumbled too into the water, sending puffs of smoke in the air.
"Twice right it is then," he said with confidence, and jumped onto those, in the same pattern along the
way.
*****
Hermione had made it so far without any tasks to do…but now, she was really regretting this.
"Why, oh why, did I become an FBI agent in the first place?" She moaned and she took in her first task.
She stared dumbly at the trapeze-like bars she was to cross, jumping to each one along the way. She
rubbed her hands together and prayed her gymnastics classes still held out for her.
Jumping, she caught the first bar, and then counted to ten slowly before jumping to the next one, so forth.
Reaching for the next one, she grasped it, but her fingers slipped and she dangled one-handily.
"Shit," she thought, struggling to regain herself. She pulled herself up and looked around. Looking down,
she saw boiling hot water traveling quickly towards a waterfall a few hundred feet ahead of her. the last
trapeze was only three away.
Biting her lips, She struggled to stand on the trapeze, and once the bar came towards her, she jumped,
locking her knees tightly around the bar as she hung upside down. Her spare gun slipped out of her belt
and hit the water's with a splash and a sizzle.
"That was too close for comfort!" She whispered, up-side-down. She looked around and tried twisting her
body to see when the next trapeze was coming. She slipped, and quickly grasped one of the ropes with her
hand.
"This is not good," she muttered, and then realized the trapeze were lowering themselves slowly to the
ground with her weight. "SHOOT!"
She pulled herself up into a crouch on the bar, and jumped wildly at the next trapeze, catching it, then
catching the last one, when she noted her last task. Blinking, she felt like screaming.
"No, no, no, no," she repeated. Before her was the waterfall, and a lone platform stood waiting her
arrival, which was a twenty foot drop.
*****
Dorothy screamed as Quatre poked at the black case above them. A huge explosion (AN: I know I said
small when Heero and Duo saw it, but that's because they were further away, and not right there!) took
place and Dorothy was thrown backwards.
She hit the ground with a thud and a pain shot up her ankle when she tried moving it.
Quatre was a few feet away, groaning. He had a cut down his left arm.
"Quatre, are you okay?" Dorothy feebly called out to him.
"Somewhat," he moaned back, and sat up, clutching his hand to his bloody arm. "Do you think we can
get out like this? I wish we knew about those bombs though."
"I know," Dorothy sighed, and checked her foot over. Her ankle was swollen, and was red. "I don't think
I can go anywhere with this thing anyway for a while."
Quatre scooted over to where she was, and checked her ankle over. "True." He finally said, and gently
placed it down. She whimpered as it touched the ground, the shock hurt her and another wave of pain shot
up her leg.
They sat in silence for a while until Quatre stood up. "I don't care if you're slow, we're going." He
extended his hand out to her, and she took it. They then helped each other out, Quatre still clutching his
arm and Dorothy holding her head up high; she wasn't going to let her pride and ego down.
*****
Sally and WuFei didn't split, they stayed together. Sally had tried telling WuFei she was slowing him
down, and it would be better if they left each other.
"No, woman, I promised to protect you, now shut up before I get all "injustice" on you," WuFei snapped,
and Sally inwardly smiled.
"Okay," she answered him doubtfully. Inside, she was jumping for joy. She had wanted WuFei to share
her feelings, either it be friends or lovers, him protecting her was something, and it meant a lot to her all
in all.
They walked in silence more until they reached a waterfall. It was steaming, like it was hot, and when
Sally placed her fingers to the surface, the steam moistened her fingers and she gasped.
"It's boiling!" She declared, backing away. If they looked up, they would've seen Hermione, but they
didn't. They saw a cave behind the waterfall and decided to check it out. Vines clung the narrow passage
to get to the cave.
WuFei went first, clearing the path as well as possible, and Sally followed. Thorns stuck out on the vines,
threatening to cut them. WuFei managed not to get cut, but a part of Sally's shirt was cut off and stuck to
the thorn as they passed by. Crying out in shock, she said nothing more, and continued to follow him.
Inside, the top of the cave hung stalactites, water dripping off them and into puddles and pools along the
passage. Artificial lights lit up the path and soon they reached a staircase.
WuFei wasted no time and charged up them, finally reaching light at the top. They were out of the maze,
and the moon shone down to greet them. Looking around, they found themselves on the open platform
where they arrived from. WuFei turned and saw Relena tied to a metal post, her head hanging down,
rolling onto her shoulders, her blonde hair cascading her.
Before he could move, and eerily calm voice sneered, "so nice to see you, WuFei…" and a gunshot went
off…
*****
Heero growled and tried to find his bearings inside…to try and sense where Relena might be, but he was
lost inside the maze, inside an unknown building…it was hopeless.
Heero sighed and looked around. They (he and Duo) were in the middle of a garden now, the leaves and
branches created a mesh overhead of them. They had turned a corner, finding nothing but a tunnel which
turned out to be a garden. This one, however, was not fairy-tale. It was deadly…the branches and hollow
trees stared you down and the leaves a deathly shade of green, created the eerie darkness around them.
"This place is way spooksville, Heero," Duo mumbled, glancing nervously around. "Let's get outta here."
"I couldn't have agreed with you ever more, my friend," Heero muttered back, and they picked up their
pace, hoping to find a way out of the garden.
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or Sandy. 'Nuff said.
{PART NINE}
"Where's Relena, you bastard?!" Heero shouted, tilting his head upwards towards the only light in the
damp, dark tunnel.
"It's no use, Heero," Duo's voice sounded flat beside his fiery one. "She's not here, and he's not going to
tell us."
Heero sighed and let his head drop. "You're right," he mumbled. Wriggling, he tried to free himself of
the knot, and finally he did. Duo was shoved forward with the force of Heero pulling the thick rope and
splintering it.
Rubbing his hands together, Duo looked around. "Where do you think we are?"
"Underneath the building, most likely. We didn't travel too long downwards," Heero said, feeling along
the walls, and cried out in triumph, "aha! A door!"
They pushed it open and gapped. A huge maze was before them, going on endlessly it seemed. Tall,
white walls arched as a gateway.
"Crap…look at that thing." Duo muttered. Heero said nothing, this was too much to take in.
The maze had stone, brick walls, reaching nearly ten feet in height, and ivory green vines criss-crossed
over the stones, creating the medieval effect. Duo looked around and realized he and Heero were standing
on a platform. There was a bit of a drop before they would reach the entrance.
Duo gulped, but he knew he had to find the exit. Looking up, he saw a tiny black case taped to the wall.
"No, don't touch it Maxwell," a cheery voice boomed across the maze towards him. "Its a motion bomb,
any movement and it'll—"
Treize was cut off by a small explosion coming from the other side of the maze and to the left where
another two platforms were. They heard a scream and saw debris rain down on the maze.
"NO!" Heero shouted, and looked around frantically. 'Who was it?'
*****
Sandy and Hilde were still tied together. Both were sitting down on the damp, dark ground. A
pocketknife lay a feet away from them, but Hilde's boot was stuck between two rocks.
"This is all your fault, you know," sandy snapped to her, turning her head to the side, trying to face Hilde.
Her long brown-blonde hair hit Hilde's face and Hilde snapped back, "it wouldn't be if you hadn't
fumbled the knife!"
"It is not my fault, Hilde! You sneezed and your head banged mine, causing me to drop it! Damn you!"
Sandy cried back.
"No, DAMN YOU! You're after MY Duo!" Hilde cried. They said nothing more for awhile before Sandy
sighed.
"Fighting isn't going to get us anywhere," she replied softly.
"True."
"We need to work together," she continued. Thinking, she thought, 'how to get Hilde out of that boot…'
"How?" Hilde asked her.
"Can you lean forward to undo the clasp on your boot? Or slip out your foot?" Sandy asked simply.
"Yeah…" Hilde bit her lip as she gingerly pulled out her foot. Standing up, Sandy picked up the
pocketknife, Hilde arching her back for her to lean over, and Sandy slit the rope.
Once free, both girls sighed in relief and continued bickering.
"I don't care, Duo was mine to begin with!" Hilde snapped, feeling along the wall for an opening.
Finding it, she pushed open the door and they faced an enormous maze.
"Woah," Sandy said, looking around in shock. Hilde said nothing, but spotted out landmarks.
'A waterfall here…and a large stepping stone pond there…a rope walk over there…' she thought, trying
to visualize her way out.
Sandy began down the ladder to start the maze; she needed to find Hermione…or else their plan won't
work.
"Where are you going?" Hilde's voice made her stop and look up.
"I'm heading off on my own. If I don't see you again, it was nice knowing you, and I'll tell Duo you died
a tragic death," Sandy smiled at her enemy. "Cheers!" Her head disappeared over the edge and soon a
small figure running towards the start of the maze on their side was seen. She disappeared from view
completely, and Hilde muttered, "not if you die before me." Before heading down herself.
*****
Hermione and Trowa had already split up; they managed to cut their rope off with a sharp rock on the
bottom of the cell they landed in.
Trowa turned left, left, right, left again, keeping track of how many turns he went. Twice he went to a
dead end, and twice he had to backtrack.
He heard the scream and Treize's announcement. He didn't stop to help though, now it was all for none
and one for all…he wanted to get out alive.
Turning a corner sharply, he almost fell into his first task. Above, hanging off the side of the stone, was
an old-fashioned sign, stating:
HE WHO SHALL GO PAST THIS TASK SHALL POSSIBLY NOT LIVE. HAST NOT, GOOD MAN, IF THOU WILT NOT GO
FORTH. HAST THIS FOR THOU SHALL HELP THEE ALONG THY WAY:
LEFT TWICE IS DANGEROUS, WHILE RIGHT TWICE IS NOT
RIGHT AND THEN LEFT SHALL LEAVE YOU STRANDED, HAST THY'S WARNING AND BE GONE, GOOD SIRE
Trowa cringed and thought, 'I HATE rhymes!' Before re-reading it.
'Okay, left twice and I'll get killed.' Looking around, her found a small stone, and broke it in two,
tossing them both on the stepping-stones he had to cross.
One stone landed on the first left stone, while the other it the second. The stone collapsed and bubbled
into the acid water.
'Well, that rules that out,' he thought grimly, before looked for more stone. 'Right then left shall leave
you stranded…Hmm…let's try this…' tossing the stones on the right and then left stone, the other five
surrounding the left stone crumbled too into the water, sending puffs of smoke in the air.
"Twice right it is then," he said with confidence, and jumped onto those, in the same pattern along the
way.
*****
Hermione had made it so far without any tasks to do…but now, she was really regretting this.
"Why, oh why, did I become an FBI agent in the first place?" She moaned and she took in her first task.
She stared dumbly at the trapeze-like bars she was to cross, jumping to each one along the way. She
rubbed her hands together and prayed her gymnastics classes still held out for her.
Jumping, she caught the first bar, and then counted to ten slowly before jumping to the next one, so forth.
Reaching for the next one, she grasped it, but her fingers slipped and she dangled one-handily.
"Shit," she thought, struggling to regain herself. She pulled herself up and looked around. Looking down,
she saw boiling hot water traveling quickly towards a waterfall a few hundred feet ahead of her. the last
trapeze was only three away.
Biting her lips, She struggled to stand on the trapeze, and once the bar came towards her, she jumped,
locking her knees tightly around the bar as she hung upside down. Her spare gun slipped out of her belt
and hit the water's with a splash and a sizzle.
"That was too close for comfort!" She whispered, up-side-down. She looked around and tried twisting her
body to see when the next trapeze was coming. She slipped, and quickly grasped one of the ropes with her
hand.
"This is not good," she muttered, and then realized the trapeze were lowering themselves slowly to the
ground with her weight. "SHOOT!"
She pulled herself up into a crouch on the bar, and jumped wildly at the next trapeze, catching it, then
catching the last one, when she noted her last task. Blinking, she felt like screaming.
"No, no, no, no," she repeated. Before her was the waterfall, and a lone platform stood waiting her
arrival, which was a twenty foot drop.
*****
Dorothy screamed as Quatre poked at the black case above them. A huge explosion (AN: I know I said
small when Heero and Duo saw it, but that's because they were further away, and not right there!) took
place and Dorothy was thrown backwards.
She hit the ground with a thud and a pain shot up her ankle when she tried moving it.
Quatre was a few feet away, groaning. He had a cut down his left arm.
"Quatre, are you okay?" Dorothy feebly called out to him.
"Somewhat," he moaned back, and sat up, clutching his hand to his bloody arm. "Do you think we can
get out like this? I wish we knew about those bombs though."
"I know," Dorothy sighed, and checked her foot over. Her ankle was swollen, and was red. "I don't think
I can go anywhere with this thing anyway for a while."
Quatre scooted over to where she was, and checked her ankle over. "True." He finally said, and gently
placed it down. She whimpered as it touched the ground, the shock hurt her and another wave of pain shot
up her leg.
They sat in silence for a while until Quatre stood up. "I don't care if you're slow, we're going." He
extended his hand out to her, and she took it. They then helped each other out, Quatre still clutching his
arm and Dorothy holding her head up high; she wasn't going to let her pride and ego down.
*****
Sally and WuFei didn't split, they stayed together. Sally had tried telling WuFei she was slowing him
down, and it would be better if they left each other.
"No, woman, I promised to protect you, now shut up before I get all "injustice" on you," WuFei snapped,
and Sally inwardly smiled.
"Okay," she answered him doubtfully. Inside, she was jumping for joy. She had wanted WuFei to share
her feelings, either it be friends or lovers, him protecting her was something, and it meant a lot to her all
in all.
They walked in silence more until they reached a waterfall. It was steaming, like it was hot, and when
Sally placed her fingers to the surface, the steam moistened her fingers and she gasped.
"It's boiling!" She declared, backing away. If they looked up, they would've seen Hermione, but they
didn't. They saw a cave behind the waterfall and decided to check it out. Vines clung the narrow passage
to get to the cave.
WuFei went first, clearing the path as well as possible, and Sally followed. Thorns stuck out on the vines,
threatening to cut them. WuFei managed not to get cut, but a part of Sally's shirt was cut off and stuck to
the thorn as they passed by. Crying out in shock, she said nothing more, and continued to follow him.
Inside, the top of the cave hung stalactites, water dripping off them and into puddles and pools along the
passage. Artificial lights lit up the path and soon they reached a staircase.
WuFei wasted no time and charged up them, finally reaching light at the top. They were out of the maze,
and the moon shone down to greet them. Looking around, they found themselves on the open platform
where they arrived from. WuFei turned and saw Relena tied to a metal post, her head hanging down,
rolling onto her shoulders, her blonde hair cascading her.
Before he could move, and eerily calm voice sneered, "so nice to see you, WuFei…" and a gunshot went
off…
*****
Heero growled and tried to find his bearings inside…to try and sense where Relena might be, but he was
lost inside the maze, inside an unknown building…it was hopeless.
Heero sighed and looked around. They (he and Duo) were in the middle of a garden now, the leaves and
branches created a mesh overhead of them. They had turned a corner, finding nothing but a tunnel which
turned out to be a garden. This one, however, was not fairy-tale. It was deadly…the branches and hollow
trees stared you down and the leaves a deathly shade of green, created the eerie darkness around them.
"This place is way spooksville, Heero," Duo mumbled, glancing nervously around. "Let's get outta here."
"I couldn't have agreed with you ever more, my friend," Heero muttered back, and they picked up their
pace, hoping to find a way out of the garden.