A Past Long-Forgotten
((NOTE: To make it shorter—actually, to make it easier to get through, I've used the manga abbreviations for mobile suits and mobile dolls. Mobile suits are call MS, and mobile dolls are referred to as MD.))
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The entire group met together in the Mongolian OZ base, and Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei were surprised to learn that Keli was alive and well.
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"Damn," Rachel commented, staring at Keli, who was leaning against the foot of ShootingStarr. The whole group had decided to stay at the base for a night, and then attack the Russian base the next night, since it would take the group most of the next day to repair their suits.
"I find this situation strange, to say the least," John muttered, taking a seat beside Rachel. "You've been umm—dead for two years, and now you show up?"
Keli sighed, "I guess so. I actually remember everything now, but I don't know what's been going on for the past two years. I wanna know what you guys have all been doing."
"Well…since we graduated," Karen began, "I've gotten my own apartment and work as a graphics designer for a cable company."
"I've been living at my own house still," Emily added. "And I now work at a doctor's clinic as an understudy."
"I'm doing nothing…" John muttered.
"Kassy's living in Iraq, and I took her place," Leigh began. "Right now I'm working as a reporter for the newspaper."
"Angelina's going to college in Korea," Rachel stated, "And I'm working as a message-board columnist."
Keli noticed the fact that John and Rachel were kinda in PDA mode. She raised an eyebrow. "Umm…please don't tell me that the two of you are dating…" John nodded. "Goody, yet another couple formed from this damned group," she muttered, glancing over at Karen and Quatre, and Trowa and Emily. That and the fact that Kassy had had a thing for Heero added up to four.
"I don't find it amusing," John told her, giving her a glare.
"Bakayaro," she replied, crossing her arms.
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**
Keli was wandering around in the dark for a few minutes, using her senses and good vision. It wasn't helping, so she just wandered around in the darkness. She sighed, "Looking for a generator in pitch-black light is a hell-uv-a lot better than watching six people hang all over each other."
She snuck around a corner, and began watching her footing. She didn't realize someone was near her until she bumped into something that wasn't a wall.
Keli let out a scream, but her mouth was quickly covered up, and someone wrapped his arms around her, making it impossible to move. "Don't. Move." Someone stated quietly. "If you're some sort of soldier or guard here you'd better tell me where the rest of your group is." The voice was masculine, but she couldn't tell how old the person was.
Keli tried to speak, but since a hand was clamped over her mouth, she couldn't do anything. So she shook her head.
"Is that an 'I won't tell you?'" the voice asked sinisterly.
She clamped down on his hand, and he let her go. Keli immediately took the opportunity to throw him to the ground and pull out her automatic. "No, it's an 'I'm not a damned soldier so don't fucking touch me'," she retorted. "Now that the tables are turned, why don't you tell me who the hell you are?" She picked him up clear off the ground, and threw him against the wall. As she heard the dull thud that signalized that he had smashed into the wall, the lights flickered once, and then emitted a steady glow.
"Oh God! Duo-kun!" She ran over to the wall where he'd slid down it, "Gomen! Are you okay?!"
"You didn't have to slam me into a wall!" Duo yelled.
"Gomen nasai! I didn't know it was you! And you grabbed me first, damnit!"
"I thought you were a soldier, so shut up! You didn't get hurt or anything, now did you?"
"You didn't either!" Keli retorted. She began stalking off, "I'll just go back to PDA-land now, and let you sulk!" She turned back to him, "You know, you've been acting like a huge jackass ever since you found out that I'm still alive. Get the thick metal rod out of your ass and deal with it!"
He ran up behind her, but didn't say anything. She kept walking, not bothering to care about where she was going, since the lights were now on. Of course, she didn't know the way back to the repair room.
"Umm…can I say something?" Duo began.
Keli sighed, "Fine."
"The repair room is back that way."
"Oh," she muttered. She turned around, and began walking back the other way.
**
The two got back, and Rachel opened her mouth to say something nasty, but Keli pointed at her and spoke quickly, "Don't even think about saying what you wanna say right now, because if you do, you're dead. Nothing happened, nothing's going to happen, and you can go to hell."
"My, aren't we the happy camper?" Rachel taunted, "I wasn't going to say anything, honest!"
"Go to hell," Keli replied, sitting down and leaning against the foot of her Gundam once again, which was away from the rest of the group.
"I've been to hell, thank you," Rachel retorted, "it was fun. I got to meet your parents."
"How fun for you," Keli responded dryly. She looked down at her watch, "It's three a.m., our time, so I suggest that we all get some sleep." At that moment, Heero and Wufei got back.
**
In the morning, the group made the necessary repairs to their suits, and loaded them with ammunition. "So we attack the Russian base as soon as night falls?" Leigh asked, after the group had gone over the plans. Now they were sitting around the repair room, working on last minute alterations.
"Hai," Keli replied, "that way the base won't be able to locate us as well as during the day. It'll be easier for us to sneak up, and make our attack a surprise. Hopefully, they won't know what hit them before the base and soldiers are gone."
"Sounds simple enough," Rachel said.
"It could turn out harder than you think it will be," Karen berated her. "Most of our missions were supposed to be easy, but they very nearly got us killed."
"So you've told us," Leigh sighed, waving her hand in the air. "Today wasn't that bad."
"You just almost got killed," Wufei finished for her. "Admit it, if we hadn't have come, you and the other new onna (woman, for those that don't' know) would be dead. Anata no atarashii sugiru; osoi sugiru, to baka.
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Keli looked up, "He said that you're too new; too slow, and stupid. And on top of that he referred to you and Rachel as 'women'."
Wufei gave Keli a dirty look, and responded, "Well, it's true."
Keli stared at him, "Anata no osoi to baka, sugiru, Chang. (You're slow and stupid too, Wufei.)"
He leapt to his feet, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "They're weak so they shouldn't be fighting!" ((I just had to make Wufei say that))
"We were weak when we joined the Legacy organization, but we grew more experienced over time, Wufei," John began. "Give them a chance." He muttered under his breath, "Because I think you would just die if Rachel or Keli kicked your ass."
Wufei sighed, and sat back down. "You are all weak."
Keli sighed, "Bakayaro."
He stared at her, "What did you just say, onna?"
"The ONNA has a name, thank you very much," Keli retorted, not in the mood to take his crap, "And I called you an idiot. Now, what are you—no, what can you do about it?" It was obviously an insult. Of course, that was the way Wufei took it.
Wufei leapt to his feet, "You useless brat!"
Keli raised an eyebrow, and responded more-or-less boredly, "Jackass."
"Bitch."
"Bastard."
"Whore."
"Pussy."
"Dike."
"Trick."
"Hentai freak."
"Cusso atama. (Shit head)"
"Prostitute."
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"Onna!"
"Shit fuck!"
"Hoe!" ((That came from Keli))
"Baka!"
"Ass hole!"
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During the passing of insults, the others were all staring at Keli and Wufei. Rachel was trying not to laugh, Karen had a smirk on her face, John looked a little sick, and Duo was laughing like a lunatic. The others were indifferently gazing at the two.
"Lesbian."
"Hell-in-a-Chinese-boy!"
"Shit."
"Mother fucker."
At the last comment, Wufei lunged for the girl that was sitting on the ground, throwing out insults as if it was her occupation. "You weak onna!"
Keli sprung up and grabbed his fist when it was a few inches from her face. And the sad thing was, Wufei was almost a foot taller than she was.
((I know in the last series she was like 5'9, which would make Wufei about 6'7—which isn't right. So I'll just say she's 5'5-5'6, which makes him about 6'2. Besides, that makes her about normal Jap. height, I think, and she should be quite a bit shorter than the boys are. [That would make all the Gundam pilots taller than her, along w/ John and Leigh, and it would make Karen, and Emily about 5'1-5'2, and Rachel 5'3-5'4].))
He swung his left fist as well, and she grabbed it too. "Now who's weak?" To demonstrate her point further, she began bending his wrists back.
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"Not until you decide to stop being a pain in the ass. You say I'm weak? I can't even see over your shoulders. And somehow, you can't move. How dare you call people you hardly know weak, especially when you have no idea how strong they really are."
"You're. Weak. Anyone that has been in a coma for a year and a half is weak. Anyone who just now remembers the last 19 years of her life is weak. You are as weak as they come."
"And you're as stupid as they come," Keli retorted, letting go of his hands, and giving him a kick that sent him flying to the ground. She sighed, and sank onto the ground, a symbol that obviously meant she was done with the fight.
It took Wufei about a minute to stand up. He walked back over to his seat, and sat. Duo, who was sitting in between Wufei and Heero, immediately stopped laughing. Instead, he had a sadistic grin on his face.
No one said anything for a few minutes, but then Duo, being the idiot he was, spoke up in a very happy voice, "I'm hungry."
"Hey, that's my line," Rachel whined.
"We're all hungry, damnit," Karen retorted. "But we'll have to wait until after tonight to get food. We don't exactly have a way to get to the nearest Burger KingI don't own Burger King, by the way!"
"But I want food!" Rachel yelled out. "I'm hungry, damnit!"
"Oh shut up!" Keli retorted. "You can relax and eat a million burgers after this mission's over!"
"Why are you yelling at me?" Rachel asked in a small little-girl voice.
Keli sighed, "Gomen. I've just had enough shit to last a lifetime, I'm tired and sleep-deprived, I'm just now remembering countless little things that are so damned insignificant that it's really annoying that I remember them at all, and on top of that I have to deal with being hungry!" She took a deep breath after she said all of that.
"Don't loose your breath," Leigh muttered.
John raised his head up, "Go to sleep then. We still have about five more hours before it gets dark."
Keli nodded, "Good idea. I think I will take a nap for a few hours. I need some sleep." She turned to Wufei, and said specifically loud enough for him to hear her, "Just make sure Wufei doesn't go anywhere near me."
Wufei glared at her for the third time in about twenty minutes, "I despise you."
"The feeling is mutual," Keli replied, walking away from the little circle.
"I don't blame her for being tired," Emily stated.
"Me either," Karen added. "The girl was just in a big battle—a battle that made her remember a crap-load more than a person should remember at one time."
"She's just weak," Wufei mumbled.
"Wufei, give the girl a chance!" Duo practically yelled at him. "You think everyone other than yourself is weak!"
"No, I only think women who shouldn't be fighting are weak."
Karen, Emily, Rachel, and Leigh all stood up, and towered over him, "You think we're weak?!" they all exclaimed at the exact same time.
Wufei got a traumatic look on his face, "Umm…I…umm…no…"
"That's better," Karen replied innocently. As soon as only the girls could hear her, she muttered, "Trick." The girls all sat down.
**
Keli woke up as someone kicked her lightly. She looked up to find Karen hovering over her. "Owe…why'd you kick me?" Keli asked slowly, sitting up, and staring at her.
"Because you need to get up," Karen replied happily, as usual.
"I couldn't sleep all that great anyway," she mumbled. "The floor's all cementy."
"Cementy? I've never heard that one before."
"What's wrong with cementy?"
"You're on crack."
"I know." Keli stood up, and put her hands behind her head, "I like crack. It's so good for you!"
Karen rolled her eyes, "Damn, you wake up all bright and peppy don't you?"
"Not really. I'm more of a night person."
Karen glanced at her watch. It was 8:30. "That explains it."
Keli gazed down at her vertically challenged friend, "Explains what?"
"It's 8:30."
"Oh. Then shouldn't we be going?"
"That's why I woke you up."
"Okay. Let's go then. I wanna get this over with. I've got enough explaining to do when we get back to Dothan, if I even decide to go back."
"Why wouldn't you?" Karen asked.
"I don't know."
"You can see the world later. Right now we've got business to take care of."
"Right," Keli responded, "Work first, decide what to do with the rest of your life later."
"Hai. Perfect philosophy."
**
The groups' MS were completely fixed, save a few dents and paint problems that weren't very noticeable. It was already established that the group would split into three main groups once they were inside the base. They could keep in contact by the communicators they had. The groups were as follows:
Group A: John and Wufei—since their suits are good for a mix of close and long-range combat.
Group B: Rachel, Karen, and Trowa—since their suits are all good for long-range combat.
Group C: Emily, Leigh, and Quatre—because their suits are close-range.
Group D: Keli, Heero, and Duo—because those three suits were a mix of power, speed, and fighting skills.
((NOTE: I always pair them up this way—main character and other important people togetherAKA, relatives, and/or possible umm…relations, and the supporting cast paired up with the Gundam pilots. It's easier than figuring out an actual strategic grouping ^.^ Also, calling them by groups is easier than listing the names over and over and over and over…Plus, all of the girls are supposed to be pissed off at Wufei...))
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The 11 members of the Peace Legacy and Gundam groups split off when they were near enough to the base to be spotted. Group A went around to the back of the base, Group B attacked from the right side, Group C attacked from the left side, and Group D attacked from above.
All of the groups began the attack as soon as the base found out that they were there.
A huge mixture of MD and MS blasted out of underground tunnels, and lasers fired from the building.
Group A had to deal with the MS mostly, which wasn't a problem. Altron blasted a few of them with its claws, and John's MS I don't' feel like going back and looking for it's name, which I thought was dumb in the first place flew by two and sliced them apart.
Group B had to deal with lasers attacking them from all sides. Trowa and Karen flew back to attack with their rifle arms while Rachel flew in on the beams and began getting rid of the root of the problem.
Group C had lasers to deal with as well, along with the MD. Leigh went in to attack the lasers, while Quatre and Emily took care of the MD.
Group D had the most to deal with. No lasers were bothering them, but majority of the MS, and 1/4 of the MD were attacking them. Heero powered up his beam gattling and fired into a stream of MD, destroying as many as possible. Keli did the same from higher in the air with her wing cannon. Duo was fighting alone on the ground for the moment, dealing with everything the others' blasts didn't destroy.
"It's easier when you have the leading advantage," Rachel stated as she shot another laser out of commission.
"Yup," Leigh replied, as she got rid of another MS. "All five of us, and the six Gundams. And now we actually have a strategic plan." Leigh flew by two more MD, hitting them across the chests with her beam saber. "Those were the last ones on my side. What about you Rach?"
"I'm still working on a few more lasers, but for the most part, I'm done."
"Cool. We're coming to help you."
"Thanks. I could certainly use it."
The others were almost done as well. For this battle, the group wouldn't even have to set foot inside the base—they could just get rid of it when all of the MS were destroyed.
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"Heero, I've got something on radar," Keli began, looking at one of the side screens inside her Gundam. "It looks like an incredibly large mobile suit, along with about ten other suits. I can't find their statistics in my Gundam's database. They must be recently-designed suits, or antiques."
Heero pulled them up on radar, and replied, "Those suits must be incredibly new. They aren't showing up in my database either, and their outline is unfamiliar."
"Everyone, get ready!" Karen yelled out as the MS burst through a hidden launch area, and blasted towards the group.
"Peace Legacy and the Gundam pilots. How interesting…" The woman's voice was coming from the large MS. "I don't believe I recognize that other suit…" She, of course, was referring to the Gundam Keli occupied. It was still the same as the most recent design of it, but not many people had laid eyes on it, much less heard about it.
"Since you have not heard of this MS, I will tell you who I am," Keli began. "I am the recently-undead soldier whose life is to get bases like this out of commission. Neither I am in Peace Legacy, nor do I associate myself with the Gundam pilots. I am called Keli Akutenshi. Know thy name, and fear it." A quote by Shakespeare. I just think it sounds cool
"Keli Akutenshi? Of course…I figured as much. The child of a soldier and a peace-oriented representative. How quaint. Both you and your mother have sent me to hell."
Keli glanced over at Heero's Gundam, which was slowly reaching for its beam saber. She sent a private communication to him. "Itokosan, have you heard of this woman?"
"Iie," he replied, "but she apparently knows your background well enough to know who your parents are."
"I don't know who she is, but if she knew my parents, then that means she must have known me when I was little."
"I'm sure she did. But right now she's the enemy, so she has to die."
"Hai, Over and out, Itokosan." The link was cut, and Keli said to the woman, "Who are you? I gave you my name, now I expect yours."
"Fine. My name I shall give. I am Warui Nito."
"Okay, now how do you know who my parents are?"
"Your mother and I were up for the same position—as America's representative. I was a friend of your mother. I also knew you, and the brats you call friends, up until you were about nine."
Keli remembered that her mother had often had someone over at their old house, who she called Nito. The woman speaking was the same person.
"What do you want then? Why did you set up a rebel group? Who are you out to destroy?"
"Anyone who gets in the way of the actual government!" The suit she was in rocketed towards ShootingStarr.
Keli moved out of the way in time to see that the other ten suits were attacking her allies. She launched herself at the other MS, not worried about herself. A huge blast was sent in her direction. Keli got out of the way in time, but the force and quickness of the blast caused her suit to fall to the ground.
ShootingStarr wasn't in bad condition, but it wasn't exactly in top condition either. The other MS had much better odds of surviving, especially since that suit was proving to be faster and more loaded with ammunition than that of ShootingStarr. Keli was screwed. The others had better odds, and they kept fighting.
"Damnit, if I stay in this suit, I'll get killed easily, or at least the Gundam won't be operable anymore," Keli told herself, "ShootingStarr, I'm going to leave you for now."
It was a stupid decision and she knew it. Getting out of a protective MS during a battle was incredibly dumb—it would be a lot easier to be killed. But she didn't really care. Besides, if Nito was an old friend of Naiomi, then she might be obligated to explain some things.
Another blast sent her mobile suit to the ground. Keli stood up, and got out of the safe haven she had been in, leaving her life in the Nito's hands. She stood on her Gundam's chest.
"I see you've decided to surrender," Nito stated, pulling her MS beside the fallen Gundam.
"I surrender to no one," Keli replied coldly. "I abandoned my Gundam because I don't want it to be destroyed. If you were an honorable person, you would do the same, so that we can be on equal footing.
Nito got out of her own MS, and Keli finally got a good look at her. She looked a little younger than Naiomi, with black hair that went a little past her shoulders, and brown eyes. She was taller than Keli was by a few inches.
"I'm no less honorable than a ruthless soldier," she sneered, pulling out a gun. Nito fired, and Keli stumbled, then fell off the Gundam's chest. She hit the ground twenty feet below with a dull thud. ::"Rites of Tambero" starts up:: ((Karen and Rach, I told you I'd do this))
**
Karen stared at ShootingStarr as Keli got out of the cockpit. "No! You idiot!" As Nito pulled out a gun, Karen yelled out to Heero, "Heero! Nito's gonna kill her!"
"Huh—?" Heero looked at the two by their MS. He watched as Keli fell to the ground. "No! Shit!"
**
Nito leapt to the ground, and picked up the fallen soldier. "That was too easy. The Akutenshi brat isn't as tough as she was hyped up to be. A simple dart gun had her down in a few seconds." She began to walk back into the base.
**
Heero and Duo tried to get away from their enemies, but it wasn't working. As soon as Heero tried to make a quick escape, the MS he was fighting against shot at him, and wouldn't give him enough time to get away.
The MS were though—they had the weapons and strength of Gundams. All ten of them were a match for PL and the Gundams.
"This isn't looking so great," Emily commented slowly, "Keli's been taken, and we can't do a damned thing about it!"
"We've got to!" Rachel yelled out, "How else are we supposed to pull this off? This was gonna be an easy mission!"
"I told you: none of our missions have been easy—even the ones that seemed that way before we began them," Karen told her.
"We've got to pull through this!" Duo said, as he hit one of the MS with his scythe. The MS exploded in a brilliant flash of light. "Ha! Shows them that they shouldn't mess with Shinigami!"
Heero powered up his beam gattling, and fired. The suit he was up against dodged, but wasn't ready when Wing Zero smashed its beam saber into the MS, impaling it. He pushed the MS off the glowing blade, and it exploded a few seconds later. "Our odds are better now, at least," he muttered to himself.
Quatre pulled out the twin sickles from the sides of his Gundam, and thew them—glowing red—at one of the suits. The blades cut through it, and the suit blew up.
"I'm sick of this shit!" Rachel yelled out, smashing a suit in the head with her hand. She flew back, and burned it until it was unrecognizable.
"May hell and fury rain down upon your personage!" Karen yelled at the MS she was currently fighting. She aimed the rifle arm at it, and fired until her ammo ran out. As the pilot of the other suit tried to get away from the dying blast, she pulled out the small blade from the suit's arm, and sliced the MS down the middle.
John showered his target with bullets, and then cut it in half with his beam saber. Emily fired off all of her rounds to destroy another suit. Leigh powered up her gattling, and fired, making the suit-count one less. Wufei used the scorpion-tail on his Gundam to shoot down another suit. Trowa blasted the last suit out of the air with his rifle arm.
The allies got out of their suits and met on the ground. "What do we do now?" Leigh asked sarcastically.
"What do you think? We go in the base and find Keli," Rachel retorted.
Emily sighed, "This is getting harder and harder every second."
"It's probably going to get a lot worse," Heero muttered to himself. It was an obvious statement.
**
Keli woke up in a dark room, with some type of restraints around her wrists and a small line of blood that was running down her face. She sat up, and glanced down at her watch. Only about thirty minutes had passed since she'd been shot.
She scowled at the realization that she'd been shot, but she couldn't' feel anything. "Damnit, I got hit with a dart gun. It must have had some type of sedative in it. K'so!"
**
The allies were running down the hallway of the base, which they found to be huge. It had three stories that were above-ground, and they had no idea how many levels there were underground. On every level, one set of stairs led up, and the stairs across the hallway led down. They would have to inspect every one of them before they found Keli.
"Bloody Hell!" Rachel yelled, getting mad as the group got to the first line of stairs. "This is going to take awhile."
"We should split up, then," Trowa suggested. "One group looks upstairs, and the other group looks downstairs."
"Good idea," Karen said. "Who's gonna be in what group?"
In the end, Leigh, John, Rachel, Trowa, and Emily were in the first group; and Heero, Duo, Karen, Quatre, and Wufei were in the other.
"We'll take upstairs," John stated, running back to the stairs behind them. "Use your communicators when you find something!"
"I guess that means we've gotta take the unknown," Karen began, "John always takes the easiest route."
The other group walked to the stairs, and began to make their way down.
**
Keli opened her eyes slightly as someone opened the door, and stepped inside. "Commander Nito would like to see you now."
"Tell her to fuck herself," she replied, closing her eyes again.
Whoever it was gave her a hard kick to the back, and she was moved a few feet from her original spot because of the blow. Keli felt the need to spit and noticed that blood was running from her jaw line.
"Now, are you coming with me willingly or not?"
Keli stood up, and noticed that the guard didn't look so tough. "If you take off the cuffs I will, " she said, holding out her hands, which were bound together at the wrist.
"I don't think so."
"In that case…" Keli jumped in the air and dealt the guard a hard kick to the face. He fell back, and she started to run. Before she could get anywhere, Nito herself noticed her sprint out of the room. The girl wasn't watching where she was going, and stumbled.
Keli hit the wall with her shoulder, suddenly exhausted. She slid down the wall, and didn't even care when Nito grabbed onto her and spoke, "You're dumber than I thought, Kid. You honestly believe that you can even find your way out of here? And don't even think that your precious friends are coming for you. I have fifty well-trained soldiers housed in this base—your friends are no match."
"That doesn't matter," Keli muttered, just loud enough for her to hear, "I'll get rid of you, then I'll go find them. Just wait."
Nito laughed, "You're too drugged-up to do anything, Kid. That sedative was supposed to have someone like you out for a few days."
"I'm not very normal, then," Keli retorted, right before she passed out again.
**
The group that had gone up walked up the last flight of stairs, and checked all of the rooms. They began walking down the stairs, and abruptly stopped when they saw at least thirty soldiers with guns aimed straight at them.
"Oh shit," Rachel stated bluntly.
"You five are gonna die now," one of the soldiers told them. The five allies pulled out guns at the same time, and began firing.
John and Trowa held their ground, and kept firing. Rachel flipped off the third floor, landed on the second one, and began firing up at the soldiers before they had a chance to aim for her. Emily took cover behind a door, and fired whenever anyone got close to her. Leigh leapt down the stairs, and joined Rachel in shooting from below.
"Damn, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!" John yelled, ducking into an adjoining hallway, and reloading his gun. He leapt back out, and fired more.
"I know," Trowa replied. "Five against thirty aren't good odds. But I've been up against much worse than this before. We should make it out of here alive."
Rachel threw away her old gun, and pulled out a new one from her ankle. She began firing off as many rounds as she could in as little possible time.
Leigh reloaded her weapon, and began shooting all over again. Every target she aimed at, she hit.
The guard list had gone down to five against five. The remaining soldiers knew what they were doing, though. John felt a bullet go through his hand, and the gun dropped. The soldier aimed for a kill shot.
"John!" Rachel yelled out, holding her weapon high. She shot, and the soldier fell over the stairs, and crashed right in front of Rachel, with blood spurting from his head. She screamed and leapt back.
Leigh shot two of the others, and Emily hit one. The last soldier took one last shot, and began to make an escape. Trowa aimed for his back and fired. His target stumbled, and then fell into the pool of blood that was forming on the tile.
"Oh God!" Leigh yelled out, "This is nasty!"
"It's called a fight," John muttered, pressing on his hand to try to stop it from bleeding. "Deal with it."
Emily stood up from behind the door, and walked over to the stairs, "Ewe…"
"I don't think thirty against five was all that fair," Rachel muttered. "And yet, we still won."
"And established that nothing's up here," Leigh added, "I hope the others are having slightly more luck."
**
The other group had been down three floors, and nothing had been found yet. "This sucks," Karen muttered.
"Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about it," Duo replied. He spotted something. "Hey guys, I think we just found a clue."
"What, are we the Scooby-Doo gang now?" Karen asked sarcastically.
Duo pointed to the arm that was hanging out of an open door, and a few blood spots on the wall across from it. The group walked to the knocked out soldier.
"Yup. That was Keli's work," Karen noted. "The guy's jaw's broken. Not many people can break someone's jaw by kicking him in the face once. Not to mention that the way his head is bent forwards, and the blood that got on the wall from the kick. But where's Keli?"
"If she'd escaped, then she would have come up towards us. But she didn't so…" Wufei said, "I'd say she got caught or killed."
"Damn you for being right," Karen muttered. The group continued down the hallway.
**
Keli woke up again thirty minutes later. She was in another room this time. It looked like a repair room—with high walls, a garish color scheme, and computer consoles all over.
"Wh-where am I?" she asked slowly, sitting up. The cuffs were gone, and she instinctively reached for her gun. "Damn…" she muttered, when she noticed that it, along with her watch, was gone.
"You're in the repair room of the Revelation base," she heard Nito say, from somewhere in the room.
**
The group that had gone downstairs was wandering around aimlessly. They didn't know where to go, or how to get there.
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One of them was saying, "I don't understand why Commander Nito has to kill the Akutenshi brat herself. What'd that kid ever do to her?"
"I heard that she knew Naiomi Akutenshi before she beat the commander for representative of America. Apparently, they were close friends or something. Maybe the commander wants to get her revenge? Hey you!" the soldier was now addressing the group of five. The whole lot of them drew their guns, "Stop right there!"
The five immediately drew their guns, and fired into the group of soldiers. Wufei drew a gun, and got about four before he ran out of bullets. He threw the gun away, and pulled out his katana. Quatre got down only three soldiers before he had to reload, but he threw down his gun. Karen shot four in non-lethal places that would have them out for awhile.
"Heero! Duo! We can take care of the rest! You two go find Keli as soon as you can!" Karen ordered.
Duo nodded and took off, scythe in hand, with Heero on his heels after he had shot down about three of the soldiers.
"Why'd you have them leave?" Wufei yelled to Karen.
"Because I don't think Keli will be alive much longer of we don't find her ASAP." Karen threw her gun down and drew another.
**
Keli stood up, and noticed that the tiredness she had felt earlier had subsided, at least a little bit. "Why did you bring me here? And why the hell do you wanna kill me, the Gundam pilots, and Peace Legacy ?"
Nito leapt down from a catwalk high above, and landed gracefully. "Because, little child, the government can take care of everything—even when it's too late!"
"What exactly do you mean by 'even when it's too late'?"
"Revelation will take over the earth and the colonies, and we can't have you spoiled little brats in the way. The government is easy to manipulate—you are not. So all of you need to die; that way, the earth will be ours, and soon to follow—the colonies!"
"I don't think you know how things like that work," Keli began. "First off, I'm not just going to move aside and let you do anything to the real government. Second: if you've noticed, my friends aren't as dumb as they sometimes make themselves out to be."
"They were always dumb, and so were you, when you were just little children of no more than eight. I remember all of you brats perfectly. I was friends with your mother, and you always had at least two of your friends hanging around your house—most often it was four or five."
"What do you know about my friends and family?" Keli demanded.
"Fine: I'll give you a little family history lesson before I kill you." Nito pulled out a gun, "And don't' even try to escape while I'm talking."
"I'm not going anywhere," Keli replied. 'I'd probably just pass out again'.
"Your mommy and daddy were in love. They fucked, and then your real father went off into a battle. He never returned, and your mother found out that she was pregnant with a kid. She had you, and then married Frere—a hot-headed commander for a no-longer-in-existence military organization.
"Frere had a kid as well—Jenn, who was every bit as bratty as you. For some reason, you two began to shy away from each other as soon as you turned seven. You liked your grandfather, and wanted to learn martial arts, how to fight, and how to be a computer hacker. He taught you all of that stuff, and soon you surpassed him in ability. Meanwhile, Jenn began going to a private school, and became more and more popular—while Poor Little Keli only had a few friends.
"By the time you got into fourth grade you were good friends with the Peace Legacy agents known as Emily and John. Then in fifth grade, Kassy moved to Dothan from Pennsylvania. You two instantly became best friends. Kassy was the perfect friend for you—she was smart, funny, and good at most of the same things you were—although not near as great as she hyped herself to be.
"Anyway, while you were making a few friends, your mother and I began to compete for the same job—the job of representative of Earth. Of course, your mother won over me, and we stopped being friends. She kicked Frere out, you won in the war of spoiled brats, and you got into middle school, where you met Karen and Angelina. And the rest…was pure coincidence."
Keli stared at her, "What so you mean, coincidence?"
Nito touched her chin with her index finger, "Just as you got the Gundam you use today, your five bratty friends met someone in Peace Legacy on accident. He told them what was really going on, and they decided to do something about it. The five were trained, and became the front-line agents of the rebel group only known only by the Gundam pilots, Relena Peacecraft, and a few others in the colonies and on Earth."
"Are you done yet?" Keli asked, exasperated. She could feel that the sedatives were loosing their control. And when they did, she could attack.
"Not quite. I watched as you and your friends grew up, and watched on the sidelines as you 'died'. After your class graduated, Angelina and Kassy decided that they wanted out to go off and live—in Kassy's case, or go to college---in Angelina's case. So they inducted two of your other close friends—Leigh and Rachel, to be in the group.
"Angelina and Kassy are living across the world from you now—with Kassy in Iraq, and Angelina in Korea. They can still help from time to time, but that's about it. They are no longer members of a top-secret organization. And so we are up to the present."
"You've been spying on me and my friends?!"
"Yes. It wasn't that hard, actually. As a matter of fact, I told Frere where you were—who was more than willing to take out the brat that broke him and your mother up. I was also the one who managed to get Yami to attack your school—he was an old comrade of mine."
"You bitch! Do you have any idea what you've done to us?! You made my friends suspicious! You almost got me killed twice! And now you dare to tell me all of this and not expect me to kill your sorry carcass?! I ought to—" Keli was cut off by Nito firing a shot right by her. It actually grazed her cheek.
"You can't do anything to me. I'm the one with the weapon, remember? Guns are a lot faster than people are. I can have you dead in a second if I wanted to. Which I do, so sayoonara, Akutenshi." Before she could pull the trigger, they heard a gunshot. The gun Nito held was knocked out of her hand.
Both of the women turned to see who had done the firing. Heero and Duo were standing up on the catwalk high above, and the gun Heero was holding was smoking.
"Heero! Duo!" Keli shouted. While she was distracted, Nito began running towards her.
"Keli! Look out!" Duo yelled at her.
Keli turned to see Nito in the air, ready to attack. Keli leapt onto the ground as her foot hit the spot her head had been. Nito jumped back before Keli had a chance to strike back. They both got into fighting positions.
"Keli, we don't have time for a fight right now…" Heero stated, staring at the two.
Keli leapt at the other woman, and began fighting hand-to-hand. "I'm not going to let this bitch get away with what she's done to me!"
"You can't beat me," Nito taunted. "I'm older than you are, I've had more experience, and I'm better."
"Go. To. Hell!" Keli screamed at her, "I don't wanna hear it!"
"Keri-chan! Get your ass outta there! The others are covering for us, and we don't have much time!" Duo yelled out. As soon as he said that, Keli flew back, and smashed into the wall. She got back up, and lunged again.
They fought more, and then Nito decided she'd had enough. She pulled out one of the beam sabers that Frere had invented. "I don't think you can get very far against this little invention."
"Crap…" Keli muttered, as Nito swung the blade around. She leapt back, and started running.
Up on the catwalk, Duo started yelling at Heero, "Heero! We gotta do something! This isn't a fair fight! She'll get killed!"
"We don't know how to get down there." Then Heero remembered that Duo had the scythe that he took with him into battles. "You can get down without much of a problem, but I can't."
"Fine then." Duo leapt over the railing, and parachuted down.
Meanwhile, Keli was having a hard time staying away from the blade. Nito was skilled with the strange weapon, and she swung it at Keli again. This time she could only dodge the blade, and Nito kicked her hard in the chest.
Keli fell back, but tried to use her hands to flip back around. She aimed too far back, and her hands hit the ground less than a second before she slammed into the ground. She groaned, and tried to get up.
Nito lunged for the kill. She leapt in the air, and came down. But her blade didn't hit the girl on the ground, it hit another blade. She stared and noticed that one of the Gundam pilots was standing in front of the Akutenshi girl, with a Gundanium scythe.
"Who the hell are you?!" she demanded, jumping back to get a better look.
The boy laughed evilly, "You can just call me Shinigami."
"Hahaha, very funny," Nito retorted, staring at him.
"It's not supposed to be," Duo said, lunging for the woman.
Heero looked down as Keli slowly stood up, and watched as Duo and Nito fought. At least he had a better chance. Heero reached into the pocket of his jeans and pulled out a small cylinder. It was the other beam saber from the fight with Frere.
He had picked it up after the battle, but didn't tell anyone. Heero assumed everyone forgot about it, so he kept the unused saber. He kept watch over the fight.
Duo was having trouble. He had never used his scythe in a battle before, and didn't really know what to do. Nito swung down, and he brought the scythe up to meet the saber. She took the opportunity to kick him, and he fell back. The scythe fell out of his hands.
"Duo-kun!" Keli yelled out. 'I can't watch this anymore, I've gotta do something'!
Heero looked down, and realized that Duo was losing. "Damnit." He looked down at Keli, who was staring up at him. "Keli! Here!" Heero threw the beam saber down towards her.
The beam saber fell right for her. She leapt into the air, and grabbed it. The saber powered up automatically when she grabbed it. The beam was red, and at least four feet long. It was the saber that Frere had used. Keli decided she'd ask Heero where he got it later.
She landed, and leapt at Nito before she had a chance to figure out whom to attack. "I'm right here, you psychopathic bitch!" Keli cried. Duo jumped up and grabbed the scythe.
Now it was two against one. Nito knew that the boy wasn't good at handling the weapon in his hands, but she had no idea how good the girl was with Frere's weapon.
Nito was having a hard time dodging both of their weapons and attacking with her own. But it looked like both of them were amateurs. She swung her own saber around, and over.
Duo blocked the move while Keli leapt high up into the air. Nito only had time to push the boy out of the way before Keli came crashing down into her. Nito was thrown away from the two, and Keli landed on her feet.
Before the woman had a chance to stand up fully, Keli was on her, swinging her weapon as if it were an extension of herself. 'She's good', Nito thought as she pushed off the ground with her hands, and flew into the air. Keli was right behind her, and the two swung at each other while they were in the air. The sabers met, and the two landed at the same time.
Keli and Nito were facing each other, and the sabers were against each other in the middle of them. Both of them were using all of their strength to stay up.
"I'm not about to give up!" Keli yelled out. She brought her saber down, and quickly turned around. Nito was stunned for a moment, and that was all the time Keli needed.
She stepped back hastily, and lunged with the saber, as she cried out, "Hai!" ((For those of you that don't know, that's what they do in fencing when they do a lunge))
The weapon struck Nito in the chest, and impaled her. The red glow of the saber faded as she turned it off. Nito managed to stay up for a second or so, but then she fell face-first onto the ground.
A line blood leaked onto the floor from her nose, but that was all. The beam saber had cauterized the wound in less than a second, with it's blinding heat. Keli stepped away from the body, stunned.
She dropped the saber as a wave of fatigue washed over her, and fell to her knees.
Heero looked behind his as he heard three people enter onto the catwalk. It was Karen, Wufei, and Quatre. "What happened?" Quatre asked quickly.
"We found Nito and Keli in here. I'm sure you can figure out the rest." He pointed to the scene below.
Duo walked over to Keli, and looked down at her, "Are you okay?"
She nodded, "Yeah. I was hit with some type of sedative. I'll be fine in a few hours when the effects have worn themselves off."
"You were fighting against that woman drugged-up?"
"Hai."
Duo raised an eyebrow, "I don't get you."
"I don't either," Keli muttered. She fell over, but before she could hit the ground, Duo grabbed her. She'd passed out.
**
The whole group met back together on the first floor. Duo was holding Keli, and Heero had his scythe.
"What happened to her?" John asked.
"She and Nito had a battle, and she won," Heero muttered. He wasn't about to try to get into details. Keli could explain it herself when she woke up.
Rachel grinned when she saw Duo carrying Keli. She already thought something was going on between the two and that fueled it. "Awe, how sweet," she cooed.
"That's not funny," Duo answered. "Do you mind not being perverted in times like this?"
"Yeah I mind," Rachel answered.
"Go to hell."
"Hey, that's my line," Keli mumbled, opening her eyes and looking around.
"Well excuse me for stealing your favorite phrase," Duo said sarcastically.
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"Arigato."
"Baka."
**
The group went outside the base, and got back into their MS. Keli and Heero flew high into the air, and fired their main weapons, reducing the base to a high wall of flames and ash in minutes.
"Hey Keli, where are you gonna go now?" Karen asked her.
"I don't know. Now that everything's over, I kinda just wanna get lost—to vanish," she answered.
"Don't vanish yet," Emily whined, "I wanted to have a party."
"Ooh, a party!" Rachel yelled out. "Where's it gonna be?"
"My house at the farm," was Emily's reply.
"Yeah," John added, "you can leave after you stay in Dothan for a few days. Don't you wanna see your family again?"
Keli smiled, "All right, I'll stay for a few days, but then I wanna go off and travel for awhile. No offense, but I don't want to be stuck in Dothan for the rest of my life."
"Hey, you guys are invited too," Emily began, referring to the Gundam pilots, "What about it, huh?"
"Fine," Heero said. The rest agreed with him.
The group flew back to the Mongolian base to refuel, and then flew to Dothan, taking advantage of a few unused carriers at the base.
******~*****
::"Thus Spoke the Raven" starts up:: ((This is turning into me dissing my band music by putting it at the end every time. Trust me, you do NOT want to hear this or the others I've mentioned. Except "Exailtaion" and "Rites of Tambero". Those are just cool.))
Keli: Ohayoo, Minna! Next time is just for fun! Emily throws a party at her new house at the farm her parents own, and the whole group talks about their past, present, and future. Stay tuned!
Jenn: What is with you with sounding like a TV commercial?
Keli: Go to hell.
Rachel: You and Duo fuck.
Keli: Excuse me?
Rachel: You heard me.
Keli: I know I did. (Grins evilly) Okay, I'll make you pregnant.
Rachel: WHAT?! Umm…nevermind.
Keli: That's better.
Leigh: I got to shoot someone!
John: And you're happy about that because…
Leigh: Because I got to shoot someone!
John: Leigh, you're insane.
Leigh: You're on crack.
John: (Gives her an evil glare) ………
Emily: You get to use my farm again! Yay!
Keli: I love your barn, but you haven't let me borrow your scythe yet…((Yes, there is a scythe at Emily's barn. She won't let me borrow it…))
Emily: Of course not! You'd kill Jenn!
Keli: And that's a problem because…
Karen: (Sighs) Baka.
Keli: Hey! I let you say your line!
Karen: (Quoting the story) "May hell and fury rain down upon your personage." Cool.
Rachel: I get to say bloody hell again!
Keli: (Sarcastically) I wanted you to have the record number of times a person can say bloody hell in a story.
Jenn: Are you even going to put me in the next one?
Keli: I don't know yet. Piss me off and I will. Of course…you know the conditions for this.
Jenn: (Being nice) Why would I ever piss you off?
Keli: (Rolls eyes) Go to hell.
Jenn: Why you—!"
Keli: (Holds up her index finger, and waves it in Jenn's face) I don't think so, Sissie.
Jenn: (Shoots Keli a bird) Go fuck yourself!
Keli: I'm not a hermaphrodite, so I can't do that. Why don't you try?
Jenn: YOU BITCH! (Starts chasing after Keli)
Keli: (Calmly jogs away from Jenn) You can't catch me…
Jenn: DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Keli: Okay, now I really WILL make you pregnant!
Jenn: (Immediately shuts up, and stops chasing Keli.) I'm sorry!
Keli: We-ell, I don't think you are.
Jenn: I'll do your chores for a week!
Keli: Done. Get to work. I won't make you pregnant.
Jenn: (Walks out of the room, muttering bad things about Keli)
Keli: (Happy that she gets to do the ending this time) Ja-ne, Minna!
Next on my agenda:
For SHOOTINGSTARR
ShootingStarr 2 Chapter 4
A Look into Peace Legacy (Maybe)
20 Years Later…(this will be as in most of the people are married w/ kids, and something happens to make the kids become pilots)
OTHERS
((I'm not going to tell you. Nyanyanya!!))
