Okie dokie since a lot of ppl don't like the cliffhangers I not gonna make this one I think from now on I gonna switch on and off with cliffhangers but see I not as good at writing non cliffhanger stories b/c 4 some reason it always seems like it's the end of the story when it's not. But n e ways I'll try my best and stuff I mean give me a break I only in 9th grade English and I not even in honors actually my worst thing in English is writing essays. O and umm gomen minna but I had major major writer's block this weekend and stuff. But umm I'll try to make it good but I not as good at writing non cliffhangers than I am at writing cliffhangers well n e ways enough of my ranting umm standard disclaimers apply and umm to infinity and beyond (I just finished watching toy story 2 again my bro got the dvd)
Jess and the rest of the pilots rushed toward Dr. Z's room. They burst through the door and were confronted with gun fire. Dozen's of guns were being shot. Wufei fell to the floor with a bullet in his leg and one in his arm. Heero had been shot at least 3 times but still proceeded forward his face masking the pain. Jess went down with a bullet in her shoulder and the other pilots also suffered bullet wounds. "Jess" cried Trowa when she got shot. It was the first thing he had said all through the day even through the torture he had been stoic and had not even let out a whimper.
Trowa strained against his bonds. With a surge of adrenaline he ripped off his chains and burst out of the chair. Panting from the exertion he snuck up on Dr. Z who was oblivious to everything except seeing the pilots getting shot. He grabbed the scientist by the neck and had him in a headlock in a matter of seconds. "Eek let me go." The doctor squeaked. "Tell them to cease fire." Trowa whispered tightening his grip on the man's throat. "Stop! Everyone stop!" the doctor half yelled.
All guns stopped and silence filled the room. The pilots were badly hurt and were bleeding profusely. "Guys get over here." Trowa said motioning to the pilots. They stumbled over to him. Some soldiers tried to stop them but Trowa looked at them threateningly gripping a little harder on the scientist's throat. Jess grimaced as she walked over and only stopped to grab guns from the soldiers. She tossed them too the other pilots and they all caught them.
"So what are we going to do now?" asked Jess. "There are more soldiers everywhere and we're all injured except for Trowa." "Umm well we can dress up as soldiers and take the Dr. Z with us as insurance." Duo said jerking his finger toward the cowering doctor who Trowa had let go but was still carefully watching him. "Good idea for once baka." Wufei said grudgingly. Heero and Quatre just nodded at the plan. "How did you know we're coming n e ways?" asked Jess to Dr. Z. Heero pointed at a set of monitors that she hadn't noticed before. "O. cameras." Jess said. "We should have been more careful."
They stripped the soldiers of their clothes and donned them. "Let's go" Heero said pulling the hat farther over his eyes so his features wouldn't be as noticeable. The other pilots did the same. They knocked the other soldiers unconscious and proceeded out the door with Dr. Z in front. "No funny stuff" growled Heero shoving the gun into the scientist's back. Jess hesitated for a second and ran back into the room. "Hey you guys I'm gonna download all the info on this base onto a disk." She said. "Baka where are you going to get a disk" Wufei snorted disdainfully. Jess produced one out of her clothes. "None of your business." The downloading only took a few minutes. "Now let's hightail it out of here." Jess said grabbing the disk and running toward the boys.
The pilots proceeded out the door casually so as not to attract attention. "Take us to the hangar." Heero growled. The terrified scientist nodded and brought them to a door. They opened it and came into the hangar. There were many suits. The pilots each got into an aries after knocking out the scientist. "Hey stop!" yelled a man that had just come in. "Shinmatta." Duo yelled and got into his suit. The pilots took off but were followed by a horde of other suits. "Kuso" shouted Heero. Jess looked up to see what her normally impassive oniichan was so worked up about. There was the Siberian looming up in front.
"Out of my way oniichan." She yelled at the gundam. Both Heero and Cinert turned toward her. "I can't." Cinert replied sorrowfully. He then launched himself at the nearest suit which Heero was in. Heero vainly tried to get out of the way but his arm wasn't responding as well as usual do to the bullet wound. He braced himself for impact but didn't feel what he expected. What he felt was more like a shove than a I-wanna-kill-you type of impact. He whirled his suit around and saw the Siberian on the ground hovering over something. The other pilots were also heading down there.
"What happened?" he shouted worriedly through the comm. link. He rushed down towards the ground. Heero saw Jess's mobile suit on the ground with a big gash in the side. "Jess" he cried running out of his gundam once it touched the ground. "No. get back in oniichan u can't get caught again." He heard her voice weakly through the link. The other pilots nodded and took off except for Trowa, Heero, and Citern. Citern had gotten out of his gundam and was ministering to Jess. "Leave!" Jess shouted at Heero and Trowa when she saw more mobile suits in the distance. Trowa nodded and left gripping Heero's suit's arm as he went. "No I can't leave she's my only relative." Heero said getting hysterical. "I'll take care of her." Citern said. "You heard him now go or or I won't ever talk to you again." Jess said tearfully. With that Heero and Trowa took off.
"I'm sorry Jess." Heero whispered tearfully.
Citern looked at his little sister. How did I ever get this way? He wondered silently. Fighting my own sister. He carried her back to the base.
The pilots arrived back at the Peacecraft mansion, though they weren't unscathed. They had fought off most off the suits that had been after them and had hid from the rest. They wearily got out and found the girls rushing towards them asking what was wrong. "What happened?" asked Hilde as she reached them. She looked over the 5 battered pilots. No wait 5? Where's Jess? Sally rushed over there and ushered them inside when she saw all their wounds. Carefully she administered their wounds and managed to get all the bullets out. "You guys are lucky. None of the bullets hit anything major so you'll be fine in about a week or so." (hey they have miraculous healing powers)
"Not a week we have to go now." Heero said grimacing a little at the pain in his arm. "Why?" chorused all the girls. Heero looked away. "Because Jess saved me and she got captured." "NANI?!!!!" asked everyone outraged that the pilots had left their friend. "She told us to go because there were all these other suits there." Quatre explained trying to help Heero out knowing how emotionally battered the fellow pilot was even though he didn't show it. "Well let's go then." Shouted Relena and Hilde and Catherine had to hold her back. "Where do u think you're going vice foreign minister." Sally said stressing her rank. "You can't go Relena. You can't pilot a suit not to mention the uproar it will have if you went to fight." "Humph." Was all Relena said.
"Well you I'm telling you that you can't fight in your condition." Sally said while putting her medical tools away. "Who do u think we are. We aren't a weak onna like you." Wufei yelled. Relena went over and lightly hit Wufei on the arm. "Owww. What do u think you're doing woman I had a bullet there." "Look who the weak one is now." Sally said smirking. "She's right." Heero's said. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him. "We can't save Jess in this condition. We'll only get ourselves captured. I say we wait a week." The other pilots nodded as they saw the truth of his words.
"Jess, Jess, wake up." Jess groggily opened her eyes and stared at the person in front of her. She bolted straight up as her memories came rushing toward her. Jess winced in pain as she moved her arm. "Are the pilots ok? Where am I? Did…." She trailed off as she saw her brother's eyes narrow. "What's wrong?" she asked in a small voice. "Nothing" he replied and turned abruptly away. Jess got up and swayed a little. She almost fell but felt strong hands catch her.
"Thank you." She said as she turned to see who had helped her. "TYBALT!" she yelled outrageously as she saw him. She pried herself from his grip and ran behind her brother who had came running in to see what the commotion was. "Yes?" Tybalt asked with a slight smirk. "Out out out!" she yelled comically pushing him out of the room. Tybalt smiled as he was shoved forward and sidestepped, Jess fell over off-balance but before she hit the ground Tybalt caught her. Citern rushed over to see if she was alright. "What do u think you're doing!" he yelled checking Jess for injuries. "Be careful what you say to me colonel. I am the commanding officer here." Tybalt replied narrowing his eyes and for a split second looked menacing. His face then reverted back to normal.
His eyes locked with Jess. "You don't remember me?" he inquired. "Of course I remember you you're the one that had us captured." Jess snorted. "That was an unfortunate mishap." Tybalt replied not losing his cool. "Actually we used to play together when we were little. I didn't want to tell you before seeing how it might interfere with my duty but…" he trailed off as he saw Jess thinking hard.
Flashback
"Ty-niichan Ty-niichan where are you?" cried an 5 year old Jess. She suddenly felt something tackle her from behind. *Oomph. She fought with tooth and claw against her attacker but still lost and in a matter of minutes was pinned to the ground . A 7 year old Tybalt sat on top of her. "Hehe I thought you said you could beat me in a fight." He taunted. "and the look on your face when you thought I left you in the woods was priceless! "That wasn't funny." She replied miffed. Tybalt got off her and allowed her to get up. She started to get up and then tackled his legs. *Thud *oomph. "Hey no fair." He yelled. Jess shoved his head in the dirt and ran away laughing.
Next scene
Five year old Jess sat under a tree shivering. It was raining and cold and she only had an already soaking wet sweater on Where am I? She started to cry. Where's home? I want to go home? Oniichan and Ty will find me I know they will. With that she drifted off into a deep cold sleep.
In a mansion a worried man paced back and forth. "Where is she?" he muttered. Two wet young boys walked in. "We couldn't find her father." Said a younger version of Citern (I'm tired of calling him by his last name so from now on his name is Mike), perhaps about 10 or so. "Yeah I couldn't find her." piped up Tybalt looking very worried. "That's it. Where are those good for nothing guards. They can't even watch a 5 year old kid!" Jess's father said. "Umm that's kinda my fault sir. I helped Jess get pass the guards so we could play but then she ran away." Tybalt said shifting his weight uncomfortably. Jess's father put his head in his hands. "A five year old girl can't survive out there alone. It's raining and she's scared of storms."
"Let's go back out and look for her." Mike said softly to Tybalt. They ran through the pouring rain back to where Tybalt had last seen Jess. "Are you sure this is the place?" asked Mike uncertainly. "Yes. I wouldn't bring Jess to an unknown place that would be dangerous." Tybalt answered indignantly. "Let's split up and look for her." Mike commanded and the 2 boys split up going in opposite directions.
"Ahhhh" Jess screamed as she woke up from a nightmare. It was thundering and lightning. She whimpered in fear when she heard a tremendous sound from the thunder.
Tybalt heard a yell. He knew that yell. "Jess I'm coming!" he yelled as loud as he could. He tore off towards the voice. He broke through a group of trees and found Jess huddling on the ground whimpering. "It's ok Ty-niichan is here." He took her in his arms and vainly tried to cover her from the pouring rain. The little girl he held looked up at him. "T-t-ty-niichan?" she asked uncertainly and started crying again. Tybalt picked her up and brought her back to the house.
End flashback
"Y-you're Ty-niichan aren't you?" Jess asked wondrously. "Yup." Tybalt said grinning that she had remembered him. Jess punched him hard in the gut. "Ow what was that for?" he asked painfully. "That was for leaving me when we were little with only a note that said you were joining the Oz military. I had daddy looking everywhere for you." Jess said turning her head away snobbishly but then grinned and tackled Tybalt. Sighing, Citern (aka mike in case I decide to use that name more) pried the two apart. "Oniichan we were just having some fun. Like the old days." Jess said grinning with her hair slightly awry from the little tussle. (stupid word but I couldn't think of n e thing I mean it wasn't like a fight or n e thing) Citern shook his head and left them be while they reminisced about the old days.
"Heero no you can't go!" shouted Duo as he held the struggling pilot back. "I have to she's in danger." He replied. "Well sneaking out in the middle of the night and going to save her by yourself isn't the answer. At least wait for the others plus do you really think that that overprotective brother of hers is going to let her get hurt." Duo said but shut up when he saw Heero's angry eyes turned at him. "She's my sister." Heero said through clenched teeth. "Hey, buddy, you wouldn't be getting a little jealous of that guy would you I mean he did no Jess her whole life and always looked after her and I'm guessing they were pretty close…" Duo was flung off Heero and hit the wall. "Oww I guess you are a bit jealous. Man, I feel sorry for Jess. Two overprotective brothers what a pain." Duo said while rubbing his head. The other pilots came into the hanger. "Heero just wait 2 more days we want to save Jess too." Trowa said quietly while internally wanting to go with Heero and blast those bastards away. "Fine but just 2 more days no more." Heero growled knowing full well that the pilots wouldn't let him go.
"Oniichaan are you really going to keep me prisoner here?" Jess asked softly. "Jess you aren't being treated like a prisoner her. Aren't you happy here with me and Tybalt?" Citern replied. "Well yes but…" Trowa's face came to her mind. "No matter what you do or how you treat me I'm still a prisoner. I have no freedom. And I want to see the pilots." she said with tears in her eyes. Those damned pilots that's what is keeping her not happy. Citern thought to himself.
Tybalt walks into the room. "Am I interrupting a family discussion?" he said smiling. Jess has made me feel so alive again. He thought happily to himself. "I have good news Jess his majesty wants to meet you." "Huh?" came the surprised responses from Jess and Citern. "He wants to meet you." Tybalt said again. "Umm ok." Jess replied. "H-his majesty is here?" asked Citern. "Yes." Came a curt reply. "Why wasn't I informed." Citern shouted outraged. "Because--" he was cut off by Jess. "Don't fight you guys." She said knowing that Tybalt would have said something insulting. Tybalt took her over to a dark room that had a couch and a few plush chairs in it and then promptly left her.
A man wearing a mask walked in with another man perhaps a servant. "Are you the Oz military leader?" she asked with fists clenched. The man with the mask nodded. "Who are you?" Mask dude whispered to his servant who replied "His majesty says that no one knows who he is or his name and you are no exception." "What a jerk." Jess muttered. The servant made as if to slap her for disrespectfulness but the mask dude raised a hand to stop him. It may have been a trick of the light but Jess could have sworn she saw a smile under that mask. Mask dude motioned to the servant again and whispered something. The servants eyes widened. "His majesty wants to know if you'll do him the honor of becoming his bride." "Hell no." Came Jess's lightning quick response. The servant's eyes narrowed. "You are dismissed now." "GOOD" came her response and was out the door in seconds. The nerve of that guy asking me to marry him.
She angrily punched the wall of her room. "What an asshole he asks me if I will marry him when he's only just met me." She said to herself. "Where are those pilots don't they want to save me don't they care?" Citern walked into the room. "So what happened with his majesty?" "He asked me to marry him." "WHAT?" came Citern's response. H calmed down a bit and smiled. "Well actually I think you 2 would make a great couple." He said smiling to himself like he knew a huge secret. "No" came her adamant reply and she turned her head snobbishly.
Tybalt walked into the room. "Hello I knew you wouldn't marry him Jess. You're not the type of girl who just marries for power and wealth." He said smiling. "Ty-niichan how did you know?" she asked curiously. Tybalt winced at the name. "Umm Jess why don't you call me Ty-kun I'm not that much older than you." "No you're still my Ty-niichan." She said pouting a little. Tybalt sighed. "Actually Jess I wanted to know if if you would marry me." Man, what's up with all these proposals? She thought . She tried to avoid answering not wanting to hurt his feelings. "Umm umm but won't your majesty get mad?" Good thinking Jess. She thought. Tybalt grinned "No because I am his majesty."
He took out a mask that he'd been hiding. Citern grinned. "I knew it. I saw you putting that mask on earlier." "Figures you'd be the first one to find me out." Tybalt said. "YOU are the leader of OZ?" Jess asked incredulously. "Yup. I wanted to know if you'd marry for what you wanted or for someone who is just rich and stuff. That's why I asked you as the leader of OZ. When you turned me down I knew that if you married me it would be because you loved me and not for n e thing else." He said. "Umm Ty-niichan. I don't know what to say. I—" she was cut off by a loud blast. Thank heavens they came and what good timing too. Jess thought.
"Jess" shouted Trowa and Heero. They had been designated to find Jess while the other pilots tried to destroy the base. The other pilots knew that these two cared about her the most so that's why they were picked. They ran by rooms and rooms. Heero heard a shout. "Trowa this way." He said and took off toward the voice. He found Jess with two men. One that looked like he was proposing and the other was her brother.
"Heero Trowa" thank goodness you're here. She said running up to hug both of them. Tybalt's eyes narrowed. She hugs them so familiarly. He thought jealously. Heero and Citern meanwhile were trying to stare down each other, both instantly disliking each other. O great brother vs. brother. Jess thought. "Jess I didn't want to ask this before but what is your relationship with these pilots?" Tybalt asked through clenched teeth when he saw Trowa's arm protectively around Jess's waist. "Umm Ty-niichan Heero is my brother and Trowa umm" she started to blush a bit. Trowa helped her. " is jus a fellow pilot." "Pilot 1 is your brother?!" Tybalt asked incredulously. "What's with this Ty-niichan stuff?" asked Heero through slit eyes looking at his new rival. "Ty-niichan and me were best friends when we were little and umm well he joined the Oz military and umm he's the leader of Oz now." She said but then clamped her hand over her mouth knowin that she said too much. "Leader of Oz huh." Trowa said his arm tightening a little on Jess's waist. This guy was the one who looked like he was proposing, damn him, I'll kill him. He thought.
"Umm guys can we get out of here?" she said looking from one guy to the next who were all giving each other glares. A loud boom shook the room and she fell against Trowa knocking him back. Tybalt though moved forward like lightning and caught her hand and pulled her towards him before she could hit the ground. Trowa growled lowly. Jess shrugged her way out of Tybalt's grip and went out the door. "Let's go" she yelled and took off towards the outside. The other's followed her.
They all reached the outside and in a heartbeat all pulled guns on each other at the same time. "Hey" yelled Jess indignantly. She rushed forward and stood in the middle of the four guys so that if someone shot anything it would hit her. (they're in a kind of square I guess 2 pilots on one side 2 oz ppl on the other and Jess in the middle) "Out of the way Jess!" Citern yelled leveling his gun so that it pointed at Heero's heart. Heero did the same and Trowa and Tybalt were also pointing guns at each other. Jess pulled out two guns. "Drop them and kick them this way." "You wouldn't shoot your own brother now would you?" Citern asked tightening his finger on the trigger. "Heero's my brother too onnichan." Jess replied. Trowa sighed and put his gun on the ground and kicked it over to Jess. The others sensing that this was the only thing to do did likewise.
"Now. Heero Trowa get into your gundams." She ordered still training her guns on Citern and Tybalt. "Go." She ordered. Neither pilot moved. "What are you waiting for?" she cried. "Jess you need to ride with one of us." Heero said patiently. "O yeah." She said sheepishly. "I'll ride with Trowa." Everyone sent death glares at Trowa as if saying, try anything and die. Heero got into Wing Zero and took off. Jess turned to look but then snapped her head back towards Citern and Tybalt who were inching forward. "Back back" she shouted. They froze and retreated. She ran over to Trowa. He surprised her and picked her up. "Hey!" shouted the other two men. "What are you doing?" Jess asked. "You need to sit in my lap in the gundam." He said. "O" she said blushing a little. Tybalt looked furiously at Trowa. "She's mine you can't have her!" "I'm no one's." Jess retorted and Trowa and her got into Heavyarms.
Tybalt glared at Heavyarms as it disappeared into the distance. Until next time Jess, my love.
Hey so how was this. I made it like almost 8 pages so it kinda makes up for how long I took. I didn't put a cliffhanger this time well I don't think it was a cliffhanger. Well n e ways I was trying to think of a perfect way to put no cliffhanger but still let the story go on. N e ways sorrie it took so long. Please r+r ~ ja ne