Chapter 5
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"Hey! Would ya get a load of this place!? Wow. It's sure been a while..." Duo said in awe as he looked down the long outstretched hallways of the preventors building.
Walking down the hall further and peeking around the corners, the braided boy saw something that made a large grin escape his mouth.
"Hey Quatre!" Duo silently shouted to the smaller Arabian boy, never keeping his gaze off the figure down the hall. "Come on! Hurry!"
The blond boy slowly walked over to his companion, a slight worried expression played over his face.
"Duo..we don't have time to waste. We were supposed to report to Lady Une as soon as we-"
Quatre stopped.
His eyes widened in shock as he looked around the same corner that Duo was and saw....Wufei! He was stopped at one of the coffee vending machines at the end of the hallway.
A smile escaped the smaller pilot's mouth as he looked at the familiar face of his 'friend'. It had been two years!
'Two years....' he thought.
The last couple of years had seemed to just drag on for Quatre. He hadn't seen one of the 'former' gundam pilots in what seemed like all too long. He missed them. He missed them all greatly, and just seeing Duo on the plane earlier had made him rather ecstatic. He had been looking forward to hosting a reunion of some sort with his former 'partners' in war, though he had never seemed to get around to it. It had been an incredibly busy year for Quatre. He was now running the entire 'Reberba Enterprise' by himself, and had been rather supprised that he had not yet had a heart attack! He had been working so hard to achieve and seek out peace in the colonies that it had just worn him out......
The blond Arabian boy slowly started to walk forward , when Duo's hand pulled him back. Quatre looked up to the boyish grin of the American boy, and gave him a questioning gaze. Duo smirked and looked at Wufei, silently motioning for Quatre to stay there. As Duo made his way down the hall to the Chinese boy, with his 'all too familiar' small black pony tail that was in the back of his head, he stopped right behind him. Putting on the best scary face he could master he was about to lunge towards Wufei , when suddenly.....
"Stop right there, Maxwell," Duo heard coming from the boy in front of him.
Wufei turned around, and came face to face with Duo standing in a karate kick position with his face scrunched up in a phony scary frown, tounge sticking out.
Wufei smirked.
"Your loosing your touch," he said, sipping his coffee as he walked past a shocked Duo.
Duo's jaw dropped as his head followed Wufei all the way to Quatre. As Quatre and Wufei started to talk Duo let out a chuckle and relaxed.
"Yep...back to normal..." he sighed, as he put his hands behind his head, looking up to the ceiling.
Duo recalled the last time he had seen the 'guys' together.. two years. Two years would seem like a long time to any normal person, but Duo had thought it had all gone faster than it had come. Not that he was complaining. He really enjoyed the company of all the former 'pilots', and missed em' too. He always had fun joking around with them, and also completing missions with them. They were all so different than most soldiers that he had meet because of their unique sense of style and attitudes.
Duo was a laid back kind of guy. He was hardly ever serious, though he knew when the time called to be funny, and when it did not. Some considered him as some sort of 'comic relief' from all the stress the others (Gundam pilots) gave out. He was always so friendly and outgoing, but it's not like he did it only for attention. He loved to hang out with all the gundam pilots, and make them smile (a rare case). Though he didn't mind getting a little blackmail on them once and a while...
Duo snapped back to reality when he heard the familiar voice of Quatre yelling down the hall.
"Duo! Common, were going!"
Duo ran after his friends, standing in the middle of them he put his hands on their shoulders.
"So! How's it goin' Wu-man?! I hear the work load is horrible here..." he said, looking into the open doors along the hallway.
"Yeah. Workload is pretty bad. There have been a lot of assassination attempt reports lately." Wufei said, looking out straight forward.
"On Relena, right? Any news on who the person might be?" Duo asked, eyes focused on the shorter Chinese boy.
Wufei simply nodded.
"We are going to Lady Une right now to check in, but I hear she refuses to give out any information unless all five of us are present," Wufei added "So far we haven't heard anything from Trowa or Heero, but I'm sure they are on their way."
Duo smirked.
"Yeah. Your right...." he said, sighing at the thought of his two friends who had not yet arrived.
They slowly entered the large conference hall. At the end of a large table in the middle of the room sat Lady Une. She smiled inwardly as they entered. She no longer wore her glasses, nor her hair up in the two buns. Instead she wore a comftorable looking business suit and her hair down, coming down past her shoulders. She looked up from her mountain of paperwork to the three boys who had brought back so many memories for her, and her smile grew wider. She sat up straight in her chair and gave them all a nod. They slowly approached her side of the table, and took a seat in the vacant chairs around them. As they each got situated Lady Une stood up, a sly smile crossing her face....
"Welcome gentlemen."
"Perfect." a dry, crisp voice sounded throughout the darkened tunnels of the stonewall building.
As the owner of the voice walked hurriedly down the hallway, he came to the office of General Sinen.
Smirking slightly before entering, he slowly opened the door to the office. Looking around at the pictures and files scattered around the floor, he could tell the General had been working....
'Either that or drinking...' the man thought disobediently.
The general, in his opinion, was not the smartest or the brightest captain he had ever had. Infact, he thought of him quite stupid. He personally thought that he could do a better job of carrying out this ' revenge plan' than Sinen had proposed...but it was out of his league to comment, and so he just kept his opinions to himself.
As the man walked up to the desk of his commanding officer, he gave
a salute. The general spun around in his chair, showing the forming bags
underneath his eyes and the blotchiness in his face. It had been obvious
he had been up late working.
As the general nodded at the soldier's salute, the man slowly let his
hands drop to his sides.
"SIR! I have found new information on the location of Miss Relena Darilan!" the man spoke.
The general's eyes widened in appeal and motioned for him to continue.
"We have found that she is located in a private mountain cottage in northern Europe. We hear that it is the whereabouts for her vacationing area," the man said, smiling in content. "-I have gathered a special troop and we are ready to continue with the mission as planned, SIR!"
"Excellent!" the general said, eyes full of determination."-Bring her to me! She will be the first step to completing our plan...You are now excused Lieutenant. I have great trust that you know what to do."
The man saluted to his general, and went out the door smiling.
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The man slowly walked down the hall, and to his office. The sign on
his door read:
Lieutenant Marder
Picking up his suitcase of 'wigs' and disguise costumes, he slowly put on a costume that looked remarkably like a general's outfit, only it was red with white stripes. What accompanied it was a white/blond wig and cackie colored pants.
The man then smiled at himself as he straightened his wig in the mirror.
"No more playing around Miss Peacecraft...." he hisssed as he turned around, revealing in his reflection a long slit..a scar that was permanently slashed across his face.
As he slowly walked out the door he loaded his gun, hearing the sound of its brief 'clashing' sound echo throughout the dark tunnel. The man smiled and slowly made his way down the hall once more, except this time..it was not to any general's office.........but to the cottage of Relena Peacecraft.
Relena sighed as a warm breeze brushed up against her face. She shifted uncomftorably in her lawn chair as the sun's rays beamed down opon her skin.
It had been the end of the fourth day of her vacation and she was trying her hardest to try and feel relaxed! It did feel good to get away from all those papers and meetings....however, ever since she found that Heero had left she was always worrying. Worrying over him. Though it wasn't a suprise to her that he had left. He had done it so many times in the past that she had just become used to it, and she didn't like that. She wanted so badly to be free from this feeling that cursed through her when he entered the room, or was even in her presence! It was love. Love that would never be expressed or shared. She thought that she might have had a chance with Heero, ever since he had decided to show up at her mansion......
But that was another thing...... why did he show up? She was aware of the fact that there was an assassination attempt on her that night, and strangely enough plenty of back-up in case the assassin failed in his mission. She knew that. What caught her off guard was that out of all the many recent assassination attempts this year, this one Heero decided to show up. It must have been an extremely dangerous threat for him to show up. Though it didn't seem like such a dangerous threat at first...I mean, Heero had taken down their entire troop of back-up, not to mention the assassin!
However, that got her even more suspicious, so she decided to take it into her own investigation. Well...more like 'overhearing' conversations.... so far, she had deduced that the enemy at hand was called the "Lowe Organization" and that they had great military power.
'Why does that name sound so familiar...?!' Relena wondered, while gripping her head slightly with her hand.
Every time that she had said or thought the name "Lowe" she always seemed to get these disturbing flashbacks.... memories of some sort. She had contemplated about them for quite awhile, but when she could think of nothing about why she would remember it she usually set it aside.
Slowly inhaling, she allowed herself to stand up and stretch. That done, she folded up her chair and walked inside the small cottage she was presently staying at. She was so grateful that they had let her spend her vacation in a 'normal' place rather than another mansion where she would have to be so proper all the time. She really did not like to discuss politics all the time, sometimes she just needed some peace and quiet.........
"WHAT?!" Relena's brother, Miliardo screamed down the driveway at a distressed Noin.
Relena rolled her eyes.
All her brother had been doing lately was screaming and yelling at Noin. It wasn't Noin's fault that he had been stressed out. It was her's, and the fact that he was trying so hard to protect his 'little baby sister'...or so he quoted.
Relena did not take kindly to that name. She was considered an adult after all....she was 18!
Relena ignored her brother's consistent yelling and slowly walked into the cottage, and to her room. Relena looked over to her bed, which at the moment looked extremely comftorable and decided to lay down.
She didn't like not knowing what was going on, with all these assasinations.....it was 'top secret police work' and so they wouldn't let Relena know anything about it. She was frustrated. Frustrated that they wouldn't even let her know what's going on, and what will happen to her life. Frustrated, that she can't make her own choices.....!
Relena sighed inwardly as well as outwardly as she stared up to the ceiling.
She knew that was one of the basic things that went with being Vice Foreign Minister......you don't have a life. She had often wondered if it would be better if she were to quit her job and just lead a 'normal' life.
Relena closed her eyes and pictured in her head all the people whom she loved......
'Milliardo, Noin, Pagan, Hilde, Dorothy, Catherine, Sally...Duo, Quatre, Wufei, Trowa...Heero.'
She couldn't let them all down! She had to be strong for the public, AND for her loved ones if she ever wanted any peace to come! She hadn't come this far to quit now, she would stay standing. One of the main reasons she went into being the 'Vice Foreign Minister' was not to be famous or get attention with political power, but to stop all wars so that the people closest to her would never have to shed blood again. She had so many friends who all had fought in wars, and though they might be experts in killing.....she knew they had to despise it. Many fought for their sense of justice to the world, for their view of peace. Relena could not except these ways of fighting. She could not understand on how the soldiers could be so blind....that they would be so arrogant as to not see past their own mistakes and history's mistakes. Relena knew that hatred only caused more hatred, and that is why she was always so opposed to fighting. The adrenaline rush in battle never interested her, nor the outcome of death.
'The victor is not what moves the heart of the people'
Relena remembered on a night not too long ago when Lady Une had made that quote to Dekem Barton ( in the war with Marimeya). Though it did make a very good point, and it was true. She had always inwardly belived the same thing, and that is what made her such a believable for a politician. It was obvious to the public that she really did believe what she said, and acted opon it. That is why the people excepted her. Though there were still people who believed that peace was never going to be attained with 'patience', and so they go and start war's. That is what Relena was out to prevent, and as a world leader she had to be open to widely different and broad ideas everyday. She had been under lots of stress lately from doing all that ...
'It's about time I took a vacation...' Relena thought sleepily as she stretched out, then curling into a ball on her large bed.
Letting her mind wonder onto less important matters, she was just about to fall asleep when a large "BOOM!" sound filled her ears.
Relena's eyes snapped open to attention as she sat straight up in bed.
Milliardo suddenly came bursting into her room and grabbed Relena forcefully, shoving her out the door.
"Milliardo?! What was that?!" Relena shouted over the loud noises being rung throughout the house, her eyes widened in fear. She looked over to him, she couldn't see his face from his wild blond hair escading down in front of it.
Milliardo ran Relena to the garage and practically threw her into his car. Turning the ignition on in the car while quickly backing out of the driveway, his head snapped back to look back at the cottage they had left behind.....
The car speed down the road, slowly getting farther and farther away from the cottage. As soon as they were about five miles away Milliardo stopped his car. He then slowly crossed his arms and leaned back into his seat, his face was still not visible.
"Milliardo?! What was that? Where's Noin?!" Relena asked frantically, looking back to the cottage, then to Milliardo.
Her brother smiled evilly.
'Wait a minute.....' Relena thought.
She looked more closely at her brother, only to see a single gold tooth in his front rows of whites.
'Milliardo never had a gold tooth.....' Relena thought, her eyes widening in shock.
Then it dawned on her. This man was not Milliardo.....
Using her instinct, she quickly tried to open the door to the car, but it was locked. She looked over to Milliardo..or was it Milliardo?
"W-who are you...?" Relena stammered, trying to sound half as strong as she wanted herself to believe she was.
The man then turned to face her, proving not to be Milliardo, but a rather young looking man with one gold tooth and a scar over his left cheek.
Relena gasped.
The man then lunged towards her, taking out his gun in the process and pushed it up against her temple.
"Hello Miss Peacecraft, so glad you could join us." he said in a very dry and hoarse voice.
'Us..?' Relena thought, panicking as she suddenly saw another dark figure emerge from the back seat, holding a needle of some sort.
Relena's eyes widened with realization. She struggled against the men, but proved no avail.
"Now, now Miss Peacecraft," the man started, smiling sadistically. "-it won't hurt too much."
Relena let out a very audible gasp as the needle, along with its fluids were injected forcefully into her arm.
Her entire body started to heat up almost immediately as she could feel the fluids rush through her, increasing her heart rate. Ripping pain scorched through her body in multitudes. Whatever that liquid was that they had injected into her, she was sure it was some sort of drug or chemical. It felt like knives stabbing every inch of her body as she let out a cry of pain. She grabed her elbows and clenched her teeth together as she tried to get her mind to focus, but she couldn't concentrate. She couldn't concentrate on anything but the pain cursing through her system. Relena could now not even hear the laughing of the men in the car as she convulsed of the pain wracking through her. She slumped over in her seat, her head now resting on the dashboard as the pain became so unbearable that she had passed out into the state of complete, and utter unconsciousness.........
General Sinen whirled his chair back as he looked out his large open window, outer space's empty darkness only to greet him. He slumped down into his chair and clasped his hands together, resting his chin on them. His eyes focused onto the large mass known as the planet Earth and glared towards it.
"All we need is that girl...she is the key to this mission....." he said, his mouth curving up into a large menichal smile.
"-and to Odin....."
To Be Continued.........
Thank you sooo much for reading Chapter 5!!! Oh god am I tired.....! I'm sooo sorry for making everyone wait like that......I seriously didn't mean to make it seem like I was ignoring everyone...*sighs* I just have soo...much... HOMEWORK....!! My god. Well..I suppose all I can do is laugh at my teachers..because since they assign all that homework....*evil smirk* THEY HAVE TO CORRECT IT ALL!!!!! *struts triumphantly* Well..I hope that I can get the next chapter out REAL soon! I love to write..and I would NEVER , EVER abandon my story! So...NO WORRIES!!!! :) Thank you again!!! And if you have time, please review! (Special thanks to all who have already!) Alrighty then. Stay cool!
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