Paid To Break In-Part 2
"Alright let me put it this way, either you help us or you'll never get out of here alive!" Trowa yelled slamming his fist on the table witch made Hermione and Sandy jump.
"Calm down Trowa," Duo snapped as he looked over Sandy and Hermione how had not said a word since they had arrived, "You have to be diplomatic…" Sandy got up, pushed Duo down and used the cuffs to strangle him. As soon as she did Trowa got up to help Duo, but Hermione had freed her self, cuffed him from behind and pushed him down.
"Come on!" She yelled opening the door, Sandy let go of Duo and ran out after Hermione. It took Duo a minute or two to get back to reality because he was out of breath and almost unconscious.
"Duo get this things off me!" Trowa yelled as the other officers came into the room.
"Their not here! They went that way!" Duo yelled pointing out the door as some turned back to go after them.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"I think we lost them…" Hermione said panting looking around the corner, we might just be able to get out of here! Any ideas?" But Sandy just looked around the corner and walked away holding her finger to her mouth as a sign to keep quiet. There was the sound of a punch followed by the sound of keys falling to the ground. Sandy walked back marking the keys twirl around her finger, and a gun in her hand. She handed the gun to Hermione and unlocked the door witch they hand been standing in front off.
"Did I miss something? Or has not seeing me for 5 months give you the right to not even say HI I MISSED YOU!" Hermione snapped pulling on Sandy's shirt.
"No…" Sandy simply replied walking through the door.
"What?" Hermione asked confused, "I didn't quite catch that."
"I just want to get out of here that's all…" Sandy calmly stated, which left Hermione pissed. Sandy had always been the adventures one, he always played and teased, but now she was acting as if that personality had left, disappeared. They went through a few security cams and other junk till they reached the door, which said in big bright red letters EXIT. 'Finally!' Sandy thought opening the door.
"Going anywhere girls?" Heero asked smiling standing in front of them.
"Heero?" They both exclaimed.
"Nice to see you to…" He said pointing the gun at them, "Now march back in there!" He ordered.
"Heero please…I can't stand those cells, they are so small, so cramped! Let me go and I promise you'll never hear from me again!" Sandy pleaded sobbing on his shirt. Heero didn't know what to do; Sandy the one who had never been afraid of anything was claustrophobic, but before he could think any further his own gun was pointing at his chin and he heard Sandy laugh.
"You think I would actually come crawling to you? Pathetic!" She said baking away from him and into the street, and then as she shot about an inch away from him they disappeared into the night.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Why didn't you tell me?" Hermione questioned as they ran as fast as they could.
"Tell you what?" She replied panting.
"About your claustrophobia!" Hermione snapped back, "I thought we where friends, and friends tell each other everything!"
"It's a personal thing!" She said as she finally stopped running.
"Then how did they know?" Hermione's worried voice asked.
"I… I don't know…" She said looking at the ground.
"You do! You do know! Now just tell me!"
"I guess it was Duo…" She said ready to tear, but she had shed to many tears already, she was not ready to let them ruin her again, it was payback time! "Come on!" She yelled walking away.
"Where are we going? And what are we doing?" Hermione asked confused.
"We need to go find Rel and the gang, there are going to be a few fireworks tomorrow night!" She yelled back smiling.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione and Sandy walked up to a dark alley and knocked on the door five times.
"Who is it?" A shaky voice answered.
"Strom & Twister," Sandy's firm voice called, the door opened.
"SANDY, HERMIONE, YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" Quatre yelled hugging them both.
"Easy there Hun," Sandy replied laughing at Quatre who looked mighty worried, "We ain't dead or nething!"
"We where so worried when you never checked in, and when we found out you where in jail we where devastated!" He said trying to control him self.
"It's ok Quatre, we're fine…" Hermione said reassuring him.
"It's about time you two showed up!" WuFei called from his seat.
"Give a gal a little credit for braking out of jail Wolf Man!" Sandy said walking over to him and hugging him.
"Let go of me weak women!" WuFei cried as she hugged him, "Injustice, injustice I say damn it…" He mumbled finally giving in.
"Relena!" Hermione cried as she saw Relena pop into the room, "I missed you so much!" She cried hugging Relena, both of them where crying now.
"Where is Sally? And Dorothy?" Sandy demanded.
"Right here cowgirl!" Two voices from behind her said.
"See you didn't forget me!" Sandy said laughing hugging Dorothy and shacking Sally's hand, they had never really gotten along. Sally had always hated the fact that Sandy and WuFei where friends because WuFei never paid attention to her and was always worried about Sandy.
"Well I didn't come here for chit chat!" Sandy said firmly. "I need explosives, movement activated mines to be exact." She said looking over the materials they had on the computer.
"But Sandy… can't we rest a bit first?" Hermione asked still worried, it wasn't like Sandy to blow stuff up.
"Rest if you want, I have to make plans…" She claimed as she sat beside WuFei scrolling through what she could possibly need.
"Ok…" Hermione whispered as she walked over to her old room.
"Sandy…" Quatre whispered shaking her a bit.
"What?" A sleepy voice answered.
"You fell asleep at the computer, well so did WuFei but that's not the point. What's wrong with you?" He asked worried.
"Nothing!" A grumpy voice snapped back, "Just let me do my business and I'll be happy." She said getting up and walking away.
"Sure, what ever you say Sandy…"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ouch I think it's broken!" Duo cried as the nurse bandaged up his arm.
"Don't be ridiculous Duo, it's a scratch!" Trowa replied shaking his head.
"You never know!" He complained.
"You two are weird!" Heero confirmed as he stepped into the doorway.
"I can't believe we actually OUCH! WATCH IT!" Duo snapped at the nurse.
"We actually what?" Heero demanded.
"We actually had them!" Duo finished as he tugged his arm away from the nurse.
"I know what you mean, only five months and they got out!" Trowa yelled leaning back in his chair.
"Well they drove her to it…" Duo whispered.
"WHAT?" They both demanded.
"They drove her to it I said!" Duo yelled.
"Now how did they do that?" Heero asked confused.
"You put her in a tight ass cell that's how!" Duo Snapped at Heero.
"We had to man! We had to break her down or she would have been out of there in a week!" Heero yelled scaring away the nurse, "Besides it's your fault, you told us she was claustrophobic!"
"You black mailed it out of me there is a difference!" Duo yelled back.
"It was for the better!" He said crossing his arms.
"Maybe we should concentrate on the problem at hand?" Trowa suggested, but neither of them answered. He was about to add something but there was a knock at the door and Heero excused him self.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Sandy? Where are you going at this time of the night?" Hermione's muffled voice called.
"Don't worry I'll be right back, I just need to go deliver this." She exclaimed waving a tape up into the air.
"What is it?" Hermione replied confused.
"Just a warning, telling them to evacuate the building as soon as possible since I've already planted the bombs." She replied grinning, Hermione giggled at that.
"OK, but don't hurt your self k?"
"No need to worry about Sandy, big girl now you know!" She laughed waving as she stepped out of the building.
"Ya that's what worries me…" Hermione whispered under her breath.
"She didn't?" Quatre asked popping out of the corner.
"She didn't what?" Hermione's scared voice answered.
"Set the bombs up…" He said with a sign.
"Afraid so, why?"
"Well you better go tell her the bad news, once activated the bombs are set to explode five minutes after they detect any movement." Quatre replied handing over the info on the type she had taken out of the artillery room.
"But that means when she presses the button and it doesn't go off she might go check to see what is wrong and… Oh no I have to catch up to her!" Hermione yelled bolting out of the door. Hermione ran as fast as she could trying to catch up to Sandy, she couldn't have gotten that far, sure she could ran fast but not for long. Sandy had very bad longs because of second hand smoking; she would be out of breath in no time, and there she was panting, sitting down trying to catch her breath.
"SANDY!" Hermione screamed, "The bombs!"
"What about them?" Sandy asked looking back at Hermione.
"They aren't model 17, they are model 27B!" She yelled as she finally flopped down beside her.
"I know, I just figured it out when I was looking at the remote." She answered smiling.
"You mean I came out here after you for no reason?" Hermione complained teasingly.
"Yup guess you did!" She laughed punching Hermione lightly in the shoulder, "Come on I want to get this over with, if we're lucky I can blow that place up tonight!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Sir, where are Trowa and Duo?" Heero questioned, he had just come back form.
"Oh Yuy, they're off after the two escaped prisoners." The chief replied sounding proud.
"I see…"
"CHIEF!" An officer came running in, "This was left at the door, it says FROM SANDY SMITH, should I put the cassette in the VCR?"
"YES!" He yelled almost grabbing the tape out of the officer's hand.
*Tape playing*
"By this time all the bombs have been set up, you should evacuate as soon as possible for, at 8:45 pm the bombs will be activated, and any motion in the building will result to it exploding. Love Sandy.
*Tape ends*
Everyone's mouth was wide open, they all looked at the clock on the wall, 8:30.
"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" The chief ordered running out first. The all got out of the building as fast as they could, leaving one by one in their vans, no one was left they where all to worried about saving their own skins.
"I think it's safe to turn it on…" Sandy whispered to Hermione.
"Same here." Hermione nodded, Sandy opened the top and let her finger rest on the button.
"Five, fore, three, two, one, zero!" The red button flashed as Sandy pressed it, now all we have to do is wait, but how long is the question…"
"So we didn't find them big deal!" They heard a voice in the distance say.
"Duo that isn't the point!" Trowa tried to make duo understand. They both walked into the building and set off one of the bombs, Sandy could tell because one of the green lights was flashing on the remote.
"Are they trying to kill them selves?" Sandy yelled as she ran after them.
"What are you doing?" Hermione cried watching her friend running to her death.
"I'm saving their ass, they have 5 minutes to get out of there or they are toast!" Sandy's fading voice replied.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Where is everyone?" Duo questioned as he walked into the empty office.
"I don't know, the door was unlocked so I guess they must be somewhere…" Duo looked around then burst out, "We now this is a surprise party so you cane come out!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Trowa hissed.
"You know this kind of stuff always happened in the movies, two cops come in, no one is there then the all shut…"
"Maxwell, Barton! Get out of here, this place is gonna blow in three minutes!" A voice from behind them shouted.
"Well I was hopping for surprise but… Sandy?"
"No time for chit chat! Come on!" She bitched as she ran back out the same way she came in with Duo and Trowa following her.
"One more minute… Come on Sandy hurry up!" Hermione whispered squeezing the controller in her hands, "30...25…20…15…10…5…" That was when the three figures immerged from the building almost flying as it was blown up.
"SANDY!" She yelled as she ran toward them.
"Wow that was pretty exciting…" The disoriented lying on his back Duo claimed.
"Sure it was…" Sandy sarcastically answered trying to get up out of the pieces of the building surrounding them. "You two are just lucky I didn't feel like killing anyone tonight!" Sandy protested dusting her self off, "Now if you will excuse us, we have business to attend to!" Sandy clarified in a snobby tone walking away with Hermione who kept looking back at the two badly heart figures, Duo now unconscious as well as Trowa.
"Shouldn't we help them Sandy?" Hermione questioned.
"No they'll be fine!"
"They are as badly hurt as you, they need care!"
"They cane call an ambulance!"
"But what if they don't make it through! Don't wake up, can't call en ambulance, lay in there own pool of blood and, and…"
"ALRIGHT!" Sandy screamed, "We'll help them…till I get sick of them!"
"I'm sure that is reassuring for them…" Hermione giggled as she picked up Trowa.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"What the? Duo what are you doing? First you where in the building now you are heading god only knows where…" Heero protested as he looked at the monitor witch was telling him where Duo was heading. Heero was pretty bright, he knew Duo would get him self in some kind of trouble, that was why he had planted a tracking device on him.
"Oh well guess I'll follow you, you're just lucky that explosion didn't kill you."
Heero followed the signal until he reached a small alley; there was only one door so it wasn't too hard to find a way in.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Where am I?" A muffled voice called out.
"That's for me to know, not you Sugar." Sandy calmly replied placing a wet cloth on Duo's forehead.
"Sandy?" Duo couldn't believe it, after what he had done to her she had still saved his life, "But why?"
"Why what? Why I saved your sorry as from being blown up? I don't know…" She answered sitting on the edge of the bed where he had been laying.
"Well thank you…" Duo muttered trying to get up.
"Oh no you don't!" Said hissed pushing him back down.
"What? Why?" Duo replied confused.
"You're in no shape to be going anywhere!"
"Since when do you care what shape I'm in? The only reason you've been nice to me is because I always let you get away with the money!" Duo yelled pushing her away and getting up.
"What are you talking about? You think I would risk my life for you if I didn't love you?" Sandy yelled grabbing his collar. As she realized what she has just said she ran out of the room slamming the door behind her.
"Sandy wait!" Duo called trying to open the door, but it was locked and he was stuck inside the room.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ouch!" Trowa yelled as Hermione applied the rubbing alcohol to the huge cut across his arm.
"If you would hold still it wouldn't hurt so much!" She hissed pressing harder while Trowa bit his lip, "There, I'm all done you big baby!"
"I'm not a baby!" He replied taking his arm back, "I'm just sensitive!"
"Sure you are…" She sarcastically replied with a strange smile, which scared Trowa.
"That reminds me you're still a wanted criminal, how do I know that stuff isn't poison?" He said crossing his arms.
"Because I wouldn't waste my time pretending to be a good person inside and I would have shot you while you where still unconscious!" She concluded putting the rubbing alcohol away.
"Good point…" Trowa admitted uncrossing his arms.
"See? Just because I'm a crook it doesn't mean that I don't have a heart, besides I'm crook not murderer." She simply replied ready to walk out the door.
"Wait! You aren't going to leave me here are you?"
"Yep, I got stuff to do, the gang will decide what we do with you lather!" She teased slamming the door in his face.
"Great, I'm probably going to end up a walking time bomb…" He muttered sitting down on the ground.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Yes!" Heero whispered as he heard the door making a *click* sound as it opened, "Sandy and Hermione aren't the only ones who are able to pick locks!" He slid through the door and tip towed inside, "How where are those two idiots?"
"Looking for something?" A voice called startling him, Heero turned around and found him self face to face with Relena.
"Relena?" He asked confused, "You're alive!" He said placing his hands on her shoulders.
"What are you talking about? Who are you?" Relena answered backing away from him.
"It's me Heero, don't you remember me?" He said cried stepping toward her, "You where my partner two years ago, there was a big explosion on one of our cases, everyone thought you were dead!"
*Two years ago*
"Relena go around, I'll watch the front!"
"Right on Heero!" She yelled as she ran around the building to corner off the crooks.
"You're to late Yuy, a bomb has been set to go off in two minutes, and your little partner is going to be toast!" A voice said behind him and then darkness came over as well as a great pain on the back of his head.
"Heero? Heero are you ok?" A voice called shaking him.
"Duo? WHERE'S RELENA?" He yelled getting up, but with the look on Duo's face Heero already knew the answer. "No… RELENA!" He yelled running into the torn down building, "She can't be!" He yelled tossing pieces of the walls from side to side making a path.
"Heero don't make this any more difficult on your self!" Duo yelled running after him, "She is gone, I know it's hard, but that's the way it is…"
"NO, I know she is alive! Relena must be alive!" He hissed recklessly tarring the place up worse then it was. "I broke my promise to you Relena! I'm so sorry!"
*Around Nine o'clock that night*
"Wow, Sure glad I missed this!" Sandy called from on top of the near by phone booth.
"Tell me about it!" Hermione laughed looking at the wreckage, looking to see which type of bomb had been used to create such a mess.
"Find anything?" Sandy asked jumping off the booth.
"No, but if you helped it would go a lot easier!" Hermione teased throwing cardboard pieces at her, "Oh… Nasty, a left over!" Hermione complained baking away from the bloody body.
"Let me see you woos." Sandy hissed walking over, "Maybe it's got info!" She dug out the body and turned it over, "It's a girl!" Sandy confirmed, but Hermione was too busy being sick from the sight of Sandy's now covered in blood hands.
"How cane you touch that?" Hermione screeched.
"Easy, I just… There's a heart beet!" Sandy yelled turning over to Hermione.
"What? Are you sure? NO one can survive that!" Hermione replied inching over to see.
"I have her wallet, her name is… Relena Peacecraft from the police academy?" Sandy cried stepping away from her.
"Well we can't leave her there!" Hermione protested, "Even if she is a cop!"
"I guess you are right…Help me carry her!" Sandy demanded placing Relena over her shoulder.
"Ouch…" Relena cried.
"She's awake!" Sandy screamed almost dropping her.
"Where am I?" Relena asked still over Sandy's shoulder.
"Don't you remember? You got caught in the big explosion!" Hermione answered making sure she wouldn't fall.
"No, I don't even remember my name…" Relena managed to mumbled before blacking out again.
"What do we do with her?" Hermione questioned.
"We give her a new identity…" Sandy firmly replied walking away from the scene, and they did. Nursing Relena back to health they gave her new memories, made her believe she had always been one of them, she became a new part of the family, even WuFei learned to like her.
*Back to the present*
"I don't know what you are talking about, but if you don't shut up I'm going to shoot you!" Relena threatened pulling out a gun, "I was never a cop, and I've been working with Hermione and Sandy almost my whole life!" Heero stood quiet for a moment then noticed the huge scare across Relena's arm witch she had gotten on the first case she and Heero had been assigned to, she had gotten shot, but the bullet skinned her, but the cut was still pretty deep.
"Then where did you get that?" He asked pointing at the scare.
"This? I got it… I don't remember…" She confirmed.
"Well I do!" Heero protested, "It was on our first case, you pushed me out of the way and took the bullet, it didn't hit you but it skinned you! Remember? I told you that from that day on I would never let anything else happen to you!"
"You're stories don't mean a thing to me!" Relena protested not wanting to believe him, although it did seen familiar, "I am Relena Peacecraft, I have never been a cop, I have served this underground service for the past 5 years, and I don't know what the fuck you are trying to prove with your stupid stories!" She yelled.
"Alright let me put it this way, either you help us or you'll never get out of here alive!" Trowa yelled slamming his fist on the table witch made Hermione and Sandy jump.
"Calm down Trowa," Duo snapped as he looked over Sandy and Hermione how had not said a word since they had arrived, "You have to be diplomatic…" Sandy got up, pushed Duo down and used the cuffs to strangle him. As soon as she did Trowa got up to help Duo, but Hermione had freed her self, cuffed him from behind and pushed him down.
"Come on!" She yelled opening the door, Sandy let go of Duo and ran out after Hermione. It took Duo a minute or two to get back to reality because he was out of breath and almost unconscious.
"Duo get this things off me!" Trowa yelled as the other officers came into the room.
"Their not here! They went that way!" Duo yelled pointing out the door as some turned back to go after them.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"I think we lost them…" Hermione said panting looking around the corner, we might just be able to get out of here! Any ideas?" But Sandy just looked around the corner and walked away holding her finger to her mouth as a sign to keep quiet. There was the sound of a punch followed by the sound of keys falling to the ground. Sandy walked back marking the keys twirl around her finger, and a gun in her hand. She handed the gun to Hermione and unlocked the door witch they hand been standing in front off.
"Did I miss something? Or has not seeing me for 5 months give you the right to not even say HI I MISSED YOU!" Hermione snapped pulling on Sandy's shirt.
"No…" Sandy simply replied walking through the door.
"What?" Hermione asked confused, "I didn't quite catch that."
"I just want to get out of here that's all…" Sandy calmly stated, which left Hermione pissed. Sandy had always been the adventures one, he always played and teased, but now she was acting as if that personality had left, disappeared. They went through a few security cams and other junk till they reached the door, which said in big bright red letters EXIT. 'Finally!' Sandy thought opening the door.
"Going anywhere girls?" Heero asked smiling standing in front of them.
"Heero?" They both exclaimed.
"Nice to see you to…" He said pointing the gun at them, "Now march back in there!" He ordered.
"Heero please…I can't stand those cells, they are so small, so cramped! Let me go and I promise you'll never hear from me again!" Sandy pleaded sobbing on his shirt. Heero didn't know what to do; Sandy the one who had never been afraid of anything was claustrophobic, but before he could think any further his own gun was pointing at his chin and he heard Sandy laugh.
"You think I would actually come crawling to you? Pathetic!" She said baking away from him and into the street, and then as she shot about an inch away from him they disappeared into the night.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Why didn't you tell me?" Hermione questioned as they ran as fast as they could.
"Tell you what?" She replied panting.
"About your claustrophobia!" Hermione snapped back, "I thought we where friends, and friends tell each other everything!"
"It's a personal thing!" She said as she finally stopped running.
"Then how did they know?" Hermione's worried voice asked.
"I… I don't know…" She said looking at the ground.
"You do! You do know! Now just tell me!"
"I guess it was Duo…" She said ready to tear, but she had shed to many tears already, she was not ready to let them ruin her again, it was payback time! "Come on!" She yelled walking away.
"Where are we going? And what are we doing?" Hermione asked confused.
"We need to go find Rel and the gang, there are going to be a few fireworks tomorrow night!" She yelled back smiling.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione and Sandy walked up to a dark alley and knocked on the door five times.
"Who is it?" A shaky voice answered.
"Strom & Twister," Sandy's firm voice called, the door opened.
"SANDY, HERMIONE, YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" Quatre yelled hugging them both.
"Easy there Hun," Sandy replied laughing at Quatre who looked mighty worried, "We ain't dead or nething!"
"We where so worried when you never checked in, and when we found out you where in jail we where devastated!" He said trying to control him self.
"It's ok Quatre, we're fine…" Hermione said reassuring him.
"It's about time you two showed up!" WuFei called from his seat.
"Give a gal a little credit for braking out of jail Wolf Man!" Sandy said walking over to him and hugging him.
"Let go of me weak women!" WuFei cried as she hugged him, "Injustice, injustice I say damn it…" He mumbled finally giving in.
"Relena!" Hermione cried as she saw Relena pop into the room, "I missed you so much!" She cried hugging Relena, both of them where crying now.
"Where is Sally? And Dorothy?" Sandy demanded.
"Right here cowgirl!" Two voices from behind her said.
"See you didn't forget me!" Sandy said laughing hugging Dorothy and shacking Sally's hand, they had never really gotten along. Sally had always hated the fact that Sandy and WuFei where friends because WuFei never paid attention to her and was always worried about Sandy.
"Well I didn't come here for chit chat!" Sandy said firmly. "I need explosives, movement activated mines to be exact." She said looking over the materials they had on the computer.
"But Sandy… can't we rest a bit first?" Hermione asked still worried, it wasn't like Sandy to blow stuff up.
"Rest if you want, I have to make plans…" She claimed as she sat beside WuFei scrolling through what she could possibly need.
"Ok…" Hermione whispered as she walked over to her old room.
"Sandy…" Quatre whispered shaking her a bit.
"What?" A sleepy voice answered.
"You fell asleep at the computer, well so did WuFei but that's not the point. What's wrong with you?" He asked worried.
"Nothing!" A grumpy voice snapped back, "Just let me do my business and I'll be happy." She said getting up and walking away.
"Sure, what ever you say Sandy…"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ouch I think it's broken!" Duo cried as the nurse bandaged up his arm.
"Don't be ridiculous Duo, it's a scratch!" Trowa replied shaking his head.
"You never know!" He complained.
"You two are weird!" Heero confirmed as he stepped into the doorway.
"I can't believe we actually OUCH! WATCH IT!" Duo snapped at the nurse.
"We actually what?" Heero demanded.
"We actually had them!" Duo finished as he tugged his arm away from the nurse.
"I know what you mean, only five months and they got out!" Trowa yelled leaning back in his chair.
"Well they drove her to it…" Duo whispered.
"WHAT?" They both demanded.
"They drove her to it I said!" Duo yelled.
"Now how did they do that?" Heero asked confused.
"You put her in a tight ass cell that's how!" Duo Snapped at Heero.
"We had to man! We had to break her down or she would have been out of there in a week!" Heero yelled scaring away the nurse, "Besides it's your fault, you told us she was claustrophobic!"
"You black mailed it out of me there is a difference!" Duo yelled back.
"It was for the better!" He said crossing his arms.
"Maybe we should concentrate on the problem at hand?" Trowa suggested, but neither of them answered. He was about to add something but there was a knock at the door and Heero excused him self.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Sandy? Where are you going at this time of the night?" Hermione's muffled voice called.
"Don't worry I'll be right back, I just need to go deliver this." She exclaimed waving a tape up into the air.
"What is it?" Hermione replied confused.
"Just a warning, telling them to evacuate the building as soon as possible since I've already planted the bombs." She replied grinning, Hermione giggled at that.
"OK, but don't hurt your self k?"
"No need to worry about Sandy, big girl now you know!" She laughed waving as she stepped out of the building.
"Ya that's what worries me…" Hermione whispered under her breath.
"She didn't?" Quatre asked popping out of the corner.
"She didn't what?" Hermione's scared voice answered.
"Set the bombs up…" He said with a sign.
"Afraid so, why?"
"Well you better go tell her the bad news, once activated the bombs are set to explode five minutes after they detect any movement." Quatre replied handing over the info on the type she had taken out of the artillery room.
"But that means when she presses the button and it doesn't go off she might go check to see what is wrong and… Oh no I have to catch up to her!" Hermione yelled bolting out of the door. Hermione ran as fast as she could trying to catch up to Sandy, she couldn't have gotten that far, sure she could ran fast but not for long. Sandy had very bad longs because of second hand smoking; she would be out of breath in no time, and there she was panting, sitting down trying to catch her breath.
"SANDY!" Hermione screamed, "The bombs!"
"What about them?" Sandy asked looking back at Hermione.
"They aren't model 17, they are model 27B!" She yelled as she finally flopped down beside her.
"I know, I just figured it out when I was looking at the remote." She answered smiling.
"You mean I came out here after you for no reason?" Hermione complained teasingly.
"Yup guess you did!" She laughed punching Hermione lightly in the shoulder, "Come on I want to get this over with, if we're lucky I can blow that place up tonight!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Sir, where are Trowa and Duo?" Heero questioned, he had just come back form.
"Oh Yuy, they're off after the two escaped prisoners." The chief replied sounding proud.
"I see…"
"CHIEF!" An officer came running in, "This was left at the door, it says FROM SANDY SMITH, should I put the cassette in the VCR?"
"YES!" He yelled almost grabbing the tape out of the officer's hand.
*Tape playing*
"By this time all the bombs have been set up, you should evacuate as soon as possible for, at 8:45 pm the bombs will be activated, and any motion in the building will result to it exploding. Love Sandy.
*Tape ends*
Everyone's mouth was wide open, they all looked at the clock on the wall, 8:30.
"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" The chief ordered running out first. The all got out of the building as fast as they could, leaving one by one in their vans, no one was left they where all to worried about saving their own skins.
"I think it's safe to turn it on…" Sandy whispered to Hermione.
"Same here." Hermione nodded, Sandy opened the top and let her finger rest on the button.
"Five, fore, three, two, one, zero!" The red button flashed as Sandy pressed it, now all we have to do is wait, but how long is the question…"
"So we didn't find them big deal!" They heard a voice in the distance say.
"Duo that isn't the point!" Trowa tried to make duo understand. They both walked into the building and set off one of the bombs, Sandy could tell because one of the green lights was flashing on the remote.
"Are they trying to kill them selves?" Sandy yelled as she ran after them.
"What are you doing?" Hermione cried watching her friend running to her death.
"I'm saving their ass, they have 5 minutes to get out of there or they are toast!" Sandy's fading voice replied.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Where is everyone?" Duo questioned as he walked into the empty office.
"I don't know, the door was unlocked so I guess they must be somewhere…" Duo looked around then burst out, "We now this is a surprise party so you cane come out!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Trowa hissed.
"You know this kind of stuff always happened in the movies, two cops come in, no one is there then the all shut…"
"Maxwell, Barton! Get out of here, this place is gonna blow in three minutes!" A voice from behind them shouted.
"Well I was hopping for surprise but… Sandy?"
"No time for chit chat! Come on!" She bitched as she ran back out the same way she came in with Duo and Trowa following her.
"One more minute… Come on Sandy hurry up!" Hermione whispered squeezing the controller in her hands, "30...25…20…15…10…5…" That was when the three figures immerged from the building almost flying as it was blown up.
"SANDY!" She yelled as she ran toward them.
"Wow that was pretty exciting…" The disoriented lying on his back Duo claimed.
"Sure it was…" Sandy sarcastically answered trying to get up out of the pieces of the building surrounding them. "You two are just lucky I didn't feel like killing anyone tonight!" Sandy protested dusting her self off, "Now if you will excuse us, we have business to attend to!" Sandy clarified in a snobby tone walking away with Hermione who kept looking back at the two badly heart figures, Duo now unconscious as well as Trowa.
"Shouldn't we help them Sandy?" Hermione questioned.
"No they'll be fine!"
"They are as badly hurt as you, they need care!"
"They cane call an ambulance!"
"But what if they don't make it through! Don't wake up, can't call en ambulance, lay in there own pool of blood and, and…"
"ALRIGHT!" Sandy screamed, "We'll help them…till I get sick of them!"
"I'm sure that is reassuring for them…" Hermione giggled as she picked up Trowa.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"What the? Duo what are you doing? First you where in the building now you are heading god only knows where…" Heero protested as he looked at the monitor witch was telling him where Duo was heading. Heero was pretty bright, he knew Duo would get him self in some kind of trouble, that was why he had planted a tracking device on him.
"Oh well guess I'll follow you, you're just lucky that explosion didn't kill you."
Heero followed the signal until he reached a small alley; there was only one door so it wasn't too hard to find a way in.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Where am I?" A muffled voice called out.
"That's for me to know, not you Sugar." Sandy calmly replied placing a wet cloth on Duo's forehead.
"Sandy?" Duo couldn't believe it, after what he had done to her she had still saved his life, "But why?"
"Why what? Why I saved your sorry as from being blown up? I don't know…" She answered sitting on the edge of the bed where he had been laying.
"Well thank you…" Duo muttered trying to get up.
"Oh no you don't!" Said hissed pushing him back down.
"What? Why?" Duo replied confused.
"You're in no shape to be going anywhere!"
"Since when do you care what shape I'm in? The only reason you've been nice to me is because I always let you get away with the money!" Duo yelled pushing her away and getting up.
"What are you talking about? You think I would risk my life for you if I didn't love you?" Sandy yelled grabbing his collar. As she realized what she has just said she ran out of the room slamming the door behind her.
"Sandy wait!" Duo called trying to open the door, but it was locked and he was stuck inside the room.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ouch!" Trowa yelled as Hermione applied the rubbing alcohol to the huge cut across his arm.
"If you would hold still it wouldn't hurt so much!" She hissed pressing harder while Trowa bit his lip, "There, I'm all done you big baby!"
"I'm not a baby!" He replied taking his arm back, "I'm just sensitive!"
"Sure you are…" She sarcastically replied with a strange smile, which scared Trowa.
"That reminds me you're still a wanted criminal, how do I know that stuff isn't poison?" He said crossing his arms.
"Because I wouldn't waste my time pretending to be a good person inside and I would have shot you while you where still unconscious!" She concluded putting the rubbing alcohol away.
"Good point…" Trowa admitted uncrossing his arms.
"See? Just because I'm a crook it doesn't mean that I don't have a heart, besides I'm crook not murderer." She simply replied ready to walk out the door.
"Wait! You aren't going to leave me here are you?"
"Yep, I got stuff to do, the gang will decide what we do with you lather!" She teased slamming the door in his face.
"Great, I'm probably going to end up a walking time bomb…" He muttered sitting down on the ground.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Yes!" Heero whispered as he heard the door making a *click* sound as it opened, "Sandy and Hermione aren't the only ones who are able to pick locks!" He slid through the door and tip towed inside, "How where are those two idiots?"
"Looking for something?" A voice called startling him, Heero turned around and found him self face to face with Relena.
"Relena?" He asked confused, "You're alive!" He said placing his hands on her shoulders.
"What are you talking about? Who are you?" Relena answered backing away from him.
"It's me Heero, don't you remember me?" He said cried stepping toward her, "You where my partner two years ago, there was a big explosion on one of our cases, everyone thought you were dead!"
*Two years ago*
"Relena go around, I'll watch the front!"
"Right on Heero!" She yelled as she ran around the building to corner off the crooks.
"You're to late Yuy, a bomb has been set to go off in two minutes, and your little partner is going to be toast!" A voice said behind him and then darkness came over as well as a great pain on the back of his head.
"Heero? Heero are you ok?" A voice called shaking him.
"Duo? WHERE'S RELENA?" He yelled getting up, but with the look on Duo's face Heero already knew the answer. "No… RELENA!" He yelled running into the torn down building, "She can't be!" He yelled tossing pieces of the walls from side to side making a path.
"Heero don't make this any more difficult on your self!" Duo yelled running after him, "She is gone, I know it's hard, but that's the way it is…"
"NO, I know she is alive! Relena must be alive!" He hissed recklessly tarring the place up worse then it was. "I broke my promise to you Relena! I'm so sorry!"
*Around Nine o'clock that night*
"Wow, Sure glad I missed this!" Sandy called from on top of the near by phone booth.
"Tell me about it!" Hermione laughed looking at the wreckage, looking to see which type of bomb had been used to create such a mess.
"Find anything?" Sandy asked jumping off the booth.
"No, but if you helped it would go a lot easier!" Hermione teased throwing cardboard pieces at her, "Oh… Nasty, a left over!" Hermione complained baking away from the bloody body.
"Let me see you woos." Sandy hissed walking over, "Maybe it's got info!" She dug out the body and turned it over, "It's a girl!" Sandy confirmed, but Hermione was too busy being sick from the sight of Sandy's now covered in blood hands.
"How cane you touch that?" Hermione screeched.
"Easy, I just… There's a heart beet!" Sandy yelled turning over to Hermione.
"What? Are you sure? NO one can survive that!" Hermione replied inching over to see.
"I have her wallet, her name is… Relena Peacecraft from the police academy?" Sandy cried stepping away from her.
"Well we can't leave her there!" Hermione protested, "Even if she is a cop!"
"I guess you are right…Help me carry her!" Sandy demanded placing Relena over her shoulder.
"Ouch…" Relena cried.
"She's awake!" Sandy screamed almost dropping her.
"Where am I?" Relena asked still over Sandy's shoulder.
"Don't you remember? You got caught in the big explosion!" Hermione answered making sure she wouldn't fall.
"No, I don't even remember my name…" Relena managed to mumbled before blacking out again.
"What do we do with her?" Hermione questioned.
"We give her a new identity…" Sandy firmly replied walking away from the scene, and they did. Nursing Relena back to health they gave her new memories, made her believe she had always been one of them, she became a new part of the family, even WuFei learned to like her.
*Back to the present*
"I don't know what you are talking about, but if you don't shut up I'm going to shoot you!" Relena threatened pulling out a gun, "I was never a cop, and I've been working with Hermione and Sandy almost my whole life!" Heero stood quiet for a moment then noticed the huge scare across Relena's arm witch she had gotten on the first case she and Heero had been assigned to, she had gotten shot, but the bullet skinned her, but the cut was still pretty deep.
"Then where did you get that?" He asked pointing at the scare.
"This? I got it… I don't remember…" She confirmed.
"Well I do!" Heero protested, "It was on our first case, you pushed me out of the way and took the bullet, it didn't hit you but it skinned you! Remember? I told you that from that day on I would never let anything else happen to you!"
"You're stories don't mean a thing to me!" Relena protested not wanting to believe him, although it did seen familiar, "I am Relena Peacecraft, I have never been a cop, I have served this underground service for the past 5 years, and I don't know what the fuck you are trying to prove with your stupid stories!" She yelled.