Armageddon—Chapter 5
By wingtaichi
Rated PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing so please refrain from suing me for writing fan fiction. Thanks and enjoy!
Armageddon--Chapter 5
Quatre and Wufie were making slow progress due to the severity of Wufie's injury. The debris in the streets made traveling all the more harder. And when the earthquake had hit Wufie had been unable to keep from falling over even with Quatre helping him to stand.
But finally they reached a parking lot where the injured were being cared for. It was terrible there. Hundreds of people were lying on the concrete, some dying, some already dead but all injured in some way.
Helicopters were taking the most severely injured people to hospitals elsewhere in L3, but there were many more that needed treatment as well.
A doctor was nearby, bent over one of the unconscious people. The doctor had inserted an IV line into the person's arm. Then he straightened up.
"Sir!" Quatre called.
The doctor walked over to Wufie and Quatre, being especially careful to avoid stepping on any of the injured people that were on the ground.
"Sir, can you please help my friend?" Quatre questioned.
The doctor was an old man, but he looked like a kind man as well. He looked Wufie up and down before inquiring: "is your leg the only thing that is hurting?"
Wufie nodded.
"Are you sure?"
Again Wufie nodded.
"All right then. I'm going to make you a splint for now. Normally a break this severe would be operated on but for the time being that is impossible."
The doctor left for a moment and returned with two straight bits of wood before feeling Wufie's leg carefully where it was broken.
Wufie stiffened when the doctor touched his injury, but remained silent.
"This is a very serious break," the doctor muttered. "I'm going to have you air lifted as soon as possible to get that leg operated on. But for now the best I can do is make the splint. Unfortunately your bones are not in the correct alignment. If I put the splint on your leg like that it would do little or nothing to help. So I'm going to have to get your bones aligned correctly."
The doctor gently seized Wufie's ankle and warned: "this will probably hurt" before pulling as hard as he could.
Wufie gasped. He could feel his bone move and it felt as though his leg was being stabbed over and over again. Then the doctor pushed gently on the place where the bone was broken, trying to get the bones lined up straight.
This was even more painful and it took every bit of reserve Wufie had to keep from screaming. Then the doctor was putting the wood pieces up against his leg and wrapping it in gauze. And Wufie passed out, the pain overwhelming him.
~*~
The helicopter blades whirled faster and faster, throwing up dust and whipping the wind into Catharine, Duo and Sally's faces.
Noin was finally being lifted to safety, away from the tsunami and to a capable hospital.
"Now get out of here, kids. Not like it'll do any good now," the man they had argued with earlier muttered. "Look at the tide."
The three teenagers looked over to the nearby beach and each gasped in surprise. The tide had gone out--way out. Much farther than any natural tide could ever go.
"You've got about two minutes," the man estimated.
"Come on, let's get out of here," Duo murmured.
The three began to run, all three knowing the efforts would be useless…
~*~
Trowa was desperately trying to think of a way out of the basement. Besides the facts that the people he was with were annoying and the new girl creeped him out, he knew of something that was prone to happen after an especially strong earthquake: a tsunami.
Of course he had more sense than to speak his suspicions aloud, as that would only bring about more arguing and more frantic bawling from the sensitive woman.
He was thinking so hard he didn't notice Ashley ever so gently laid her hand on his shoulder. He did, however notice when the basement walls were replaced by open air.
Trowa jumped up from sitting on the floor in surprise and shouted: "what's going on?"
Instead of being in a basement, he was in the middle of a field. Sunlight was shining down onto the field. It was, in short, a beautiful place.
Trowa looked around the field and demanded: "where are we, Ashley?"
Ashley smiled, her large, emerald eyes lighting up before she answered: "it's my world." Before Trowa could inquire further Ashley was already explaining with: "it's where I go when I want to feel better. You looked sad. So I brought you here."
Trowa was taken aback by this, but he quickly recovered and responded: "that's nice of you, but I've got to go back."
Ashley paused a moment before tearfully stating: "you don't like it."
"No, it's not that! I just have to go back to L3!" Trowa insisted, noticing that as Ashley's mood changed the weather changed. The sun was clouding over with dark rain clouds.
"No, you hate it," Ashley quietly whispered. "I know you do."
Before Trowa could say another word Ashley disappeared from view and he was left in the field alone.
"Ashley! Come back here!" he cried as rain started pouring down in torrents.
~*~
Hilde had left the basement after the earthquake only to be confronted with the tsunami. But then the giant wave had just…Frozen. And every person in sight had also frozen. It was as though time had temporarily stopped.
It was silent. Silent, except for the sound of sobbing from a small child.
Hilde looked around, trying to find the source of the sound and found it in a small girl. It was Ashley.
"What's the matter?" Hilde gently inquired.
Ashley sniffled and wailed: "everybody hates me! EVERYBODY!"
Hilde knotted her eyebrows and replied: "I don't hate you."
"Yes you do! You just don't know it yet! But you DO! Oh, I've done bad things. Bad, bad, bad things."
"It can't be too bad," Hilde reasoned. "What's your name?"
"My name's Ashley. And it can be really bad. If you knew you'd hate me too."
"Of course I wouldn't," Hilde protested. She placed her arm around the six-year old's shoulders.
"Yes, you would…"
And then the scene of destruction disappeared for Hilde and she was inside a house in Ashley's world. But Ashley was nowhere to be seen.
~*~
Heero sat on the top of a huge hill. It was the safest place to avoid the tsunami in the area. But there was something he didn't understand.
Where did that girl go? What was here name? Ashley? Something like that…
As he was wondering about the green-eyed six year old, he saw her walking about looking very melancholy indeed.
"Where did you run off to?" he demanded of the girl. "I thought you stayed back at the lab."
"Nowhere!" Ashley shrilly barked. "I was with the doctors the whole time!"
Heero shook his head and thought: there is something weird about her.
"There's NOTHING wrong with me!" Ashley wailed.
And then Heero was no longer on top of the hill, but in Ashley's world, sitting atop a grassy knoll.
The knoll was at the end of a field and it was hailing. Heero noticed somebody was running toward him that he recognized: it was Trowa.
"Trowa!" he shouted.
"Heero? You're here, too?"
"Where are we?"
Trowa explained: "Ashley sent me here. She said it was "her world" and went crazy when I told her I had to go back to L3. She made it hail. It was sunny when I first got here. Come on! There are some houses close by and I want to get out of this hail."
Heero sat perfectly still, not moving at all.
"Come on, Heero!" Trowa insisted.
"Trowa, you don't think it could be possible for all those natural disasters to be caused by a person, do you?"
"No, I don't," Trowa agreed. "Come on already!"
"I have a feeling that Ashley is the one causing it all and we're caught in the middle somehow."
~*~
Meanwhile back in the real world, Zechs and Relena disappeared from the subway system underground at the same instant that Wufie and Quatre disappeared from the parking lot. Catharine, Duo and Sally also disappeared as they were fleeing the wave. Noin disappeared from her hospital bed as well.
All were sent to Ashley's world…
Authors note: More to come, please review.
By wingtaichi
Rated PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing so please refrain from suing me for writing fan fiction. Thanks and enjoy!
Armageddon--Chapter 5
Quatre and Wufie were making slow progress due to the severity of Wufie's injury. The debris in the streets made traveling all the more harder. And when the earthquake had hit Wufie had been unable to keep from falling over even with Quatre helping him to stand.
But finally they reached a parking lot where the injured were being cared for. It was terrible there. Hundreds of people were lying on the concrete, some dying, some already dead but all injured in some way.
Helicopters were taking the most severely injured people to hospitals elsewhere in L3, but there were many more that needed treatment as well.
A doctor was nearby, bent over one of the unconscious people. The doctor had inserted an IV line into the person's arm. Then he straightened up.
"Sir!" Quatre called.
The doctor walked over to Wufie and Quatre, being especially careful to avoid stepping on any of the injured people that were on the ground.
"Sir, can you please help my friend?" Quatre questioned.
The doctor was an old man, but he looked like a kind man as well. He looked Wufie up and down before inquiring: "is your leg the only thing that is hurting?"
Wufie nodded.
"Are you sure?"
Again Wufie nodded.
"All right then. I'm going to make you a splint for now. Normally a break this severe would be operated on but for the time being that is impossible."
The doctor left for a moment and returned with two straight bits of wood before feeling Wufie's leg carefully where it was broken.
Wufie stiffened when the doctor touched his injury, but remained silent.
"This is a very serious break," the doctor muttered. "I'm going to have you air lifted as soon as possible to get that leg operated on. But for now the best I can do is make the splint. Unfortunately your bones are not in the correct alignment. If I put the splint on your leg like that it would do little or nothing to help. So I'm going to have to get your bones aligned correctly."
The doctor gently seized Wufie's ankle and warned: "this will probably hurt" before pulling as hard as he could.
Wufie gasped. He could feel his bone move and it felt as though his leg was being stabbed over and over again. Then the doctor pushed gently on the place where the bone was broken, trying to get the bones lined up straight.
This was even more painful and it took every bit of reserve Wufie had to keep from screaming. Then the doctor was putting the wood pieces up against his leg and wrapping it in gauze. And Wufie passed out, the pain overwhelming him.
~*~
The helicopter blades whirled faster and faster, throwing up dust and whipping the wind into Catharine, Duo and Sally's faces.
Noin was finally being lifted to safety, away from the tsunami and to a capable hospital.
"Now get out of here, kids. Not like it'll do any good now," the man they had argued with earlier muttered. "Look at the tide."
The three teenagers looked over to the nearby beach and each gasped in surprise. The tide had gone out--way out. Much farther than any natural tide could ever go.
"You've got about two minutes," the man estimated.
"Come on, let's get out of here," Duo murmured.
The three began to run, all three knowing the efforts would be useless…
~*~
Trowa was desperately trying to think of a way out of the basement. Besides the facts that the people he was with were annoying and the new girl creeped him out, he knew of something that was prone to happen after an especially strong earthquake: a tsunami.
Of course he had more sense than to speak his suspicions aloud, as that would only bring about more arguing and more frantic bawling from the sensitive woman.
He was thinking so hard he didn't notice Ashley ever so gently laid her hand on his shoulder. He did, however notice when the basement walls were replaced by open air.
Trowa jumped up from sitting on the floor in surprise and shouted: "what's going on?"
Instead of being in a basement, he was in the middle of a field. Sunlight was shining down onto the field. It was, in short, a beautiful place.
Trowa looked around the field and demanded: "where are we, Ashley?"
Ashley smiled, her large, emerald eyes lighting up before she answered: "it's my world." Before Trowa could inquire further Ashley was already explaining with: "it's where I go when I want to feel better. You looked sad. So I brought you here."
Trowa was taken aback by this, but he quickly recovered and responded: "that's nice of you, but I've got to go back."
Ashley paused a moment before tearfully stating: "you don't like it."
"No, it's not that! I just have to go back to L3!" Trowa insisted, noticing that as Ashley's mood changed the weather changed. The sun was clouding over with dark rain clouds.
"No, you hate it," Ashley quietly whispered. "I know you do."
Before Trowa could say another word Ashley disappeared from view and he was left in the field alone.
"Ashley! Come back here!" he cried as rain started pouring down in torrents.
~*~
Hilde had left the basement after the earthquake only to be confronted with the tsunami. But then the giant wave had just…Frozen. And every person in sight had also frozen. It was as though time had temporarily stopped.
It was silent. Silent, except for the sound of sobbing from a small child.
Hilde looked around, trying to find the source of the sound and found it in a small girl. It was Ashley.
"What's the matter?" Hilde gently inquired.
Ashley sniffled and wailed: "everybody hates me! EVERYBODY!"
Hilde knotted her eyebrows and replied: "I don't hate you."
"Yes you do! You just don't know it yet! But you DO! Oh, I've done bad things. Bad, bad, bad things."
"It can't be too bad," Hilde reasoned. "What's your name?"
"My name's Ashley. And it can be really bad. If you knew you'd hate me too."
"Of course I wouldn't," Hilde protested. She placed her arm around the six-year old's shoulders.
"Yes, you would…"
And then the scene of destruction disappeared for Hilde and she was inside a house in Ashley's world. But Ashley was nowhere to be seen.
~*~
Heero sat on the top of a huge hill. It was the safest place to avoid the tsunami in the area. But there was something he didn't understand.
Where did that girl go? What was here name? Ashley? Something like that…
As he was wondering about the green-eyed six year old, he saw her walking about looking very melancholy indeed.
"Where did you run off to?" he demanded of the girl. "I thought you stayed back at the lab."
"Nowhere!" Ashley shrilly barked. "I was with the doctors the whole time!"
Heero shook his head and thought: there is something weird about her.
"There's NOTHING wrong with me!" Ashley wailed.
And then Heero was no longer on top of the hill, but in Ashley's world, sitting atop a grassy knoll.
The knoll was at the end of a field and it was hailing. Heero noticed somebody was running toward him that he recognized: it was Trowa.
"Trowa!" he shouted.
"Heero? You're here, too?"
"Where are we?"
Trowa explained: "Ashley sent me here. She said it was "her world" and went crazy when I told her I had to go back to L3. She made it hail. It was sunny when I first got here. Come on! There are some houses close by and I want to get out of this hail."
Heero sat perfectly still, not moving at all.
"Come on, Heero!" Trowa insisted.
"Trowa, you don't think it could be possible for all those natural disasters to be caused by a person, do you?"
"No, I don't," Trowa agreed. "Come on already!"
"I have a feeling that Ashley is the one causing it all and we're caught in the middle somehow."
~*~
Meanwhile back in the real world, Zechs and Relena disappeared from the subway system underground at the same instant that Wufie and Quatre disappeared from the parking lot. Catharine, Duo and Sally also disappeared as they were fleeing the wave. Noin disappeared from her hospital bed as well.
All were sent to Ashley's world…
Authors note: More to come, please review.