Along for the Ride

chapter 5


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It was midnight. The black van pulled silently into a small patch of woods. Quatre stayed in the driver's seat, keeping the engine on for a quick getaway. The other six teens disembarked, and crept towards the Victorian-style manor that was the Carpathia' residence.
Duo led the group to the two wooden doors leading down to the basement. He picked the locks open with a silver bobby pin. The rebel teens worked their way through the basement and up to the stairway, leading to the rest of the household. With each of them donning a pair of night-vision goggles, they made a single file line up the stairs, waiting for the right time to open the door and sneak in.
Heero, Duo, Trowa, Jessie, Alex and Wufei froze as two guards walked to the door, speaking with muffled voices through the solid oak. "Don't know what that old fool's so uptight about...wonder what's worth protecting' so much..." one guard said, but the man was cut off by the stares of six young and obviously angry kids when he opened the door. The two guards were so surprised that they didn't fight back when Heero, who had been in the front, tugged both of them down to the basement floor and knocked them unconscious. He and Trowa quickly used their uniforms to disguise themselves, and they walked through the vast kitchen hall.
"Coast clear." Trowa murmured, ushering them into the study. There was another guard asleep at the desk, but Wufei pulled a judo number on him before he could even wake up. The guard fell to the floor.
"Smooooooth." Alex whispered, playfully whapping her friend on the shoulder. He just smirked, and followed Jessie over to the bookshelf.
"Hey, if this is anything like movies, there could be a hidden chamber behind this shelf!" Jessie said intelligently, pulling odd books or statues off of the wall. Alex leaned on a waist high limestone sculpture of a tiger. A loud *click* echoed through the room, and the statue sunk into the floor, making Alex fall. "Eep!" she cried. Wufei helped her up and gave her a reproving look. Duo, who had been sitting on the desk, yelped as the large mahogany table also disappeared into the floor, revealing a tunnel. Heero looked at Jessie, who opened her mouth to say something, when Duo stopped her.
"You were mistaken." he smiled, and winked at her. Trowa strode toward the hole in the floor and lowered himself into it, holding on to the foot holes in the tunnel. Everyone followed suit.
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Alex looked around, awed, at the large, Batman Cave-like lair. It looked like they were well under the ground surface, and she didn't doubt it because of the endless tunnel they had climbed down. As they walked down a hallway that Wufei had discovered, they came upon a room that closely resembled a working office. People rushed to and fro delivering and receiving stacks of papers. Other people were talking non-stop on phones, and if Jessie weren't 100% sure that the man who owned this house wasn't helping OZ take over the U.S., she would have thought that she was having a very weird dream. But hey, for all she knew she was. Trowa walked up to her and gave Jessie a good hard pinch on the arm.
"OW!" she cried. "What the hell was that for?!?" she hissed at the Heavyarms pilot.
"Thought you might have needed that." he gave her the smallest trace of a smile, and then stared ahead to the room at the end of the hall.
Heero kept them in the shadows of the cave/hallway, and he pulled out his gun. Duo covered his back and cocked his own semi-automatic.
"WHERE IS CARPATHIA?!" Heero yelled as he boldly walked into the office room, pointing his gun straight at the ceiling and firing. Duo rushed out of the hallway and grabbed a frantic-looking woman who had tried to escape the frenzy Heero had created.
"You heard him. Take us to your leader."
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The group, now including one of Carpathia's transcriptions, walked through a hallway that was in the very back of the office room. She shakily pointed to a door, and Heero, who had a gun pointed to the back of her head, opened it, leading her in. An aging man sat in a large, leather swivel chair. He had his gray hair neatly parted. He seemed to be about 5' 4", with broad shoulders and hairy arms. He didn't look a bit startled that six teenagers wearing all black and one of his trembling subordinates who had a gun at her head had just invaded his office. In fact, he seemed to have been waiting for them.
"Ah, the cavalry has finally arrived," Mr. Carpathia smiled. " welcome to my humble undercover base. I believe that you know what this base is here for and it's purpose?" All nodded heads in agreement.
"Cut to the chase." Duo said, kinda ticked that this guy, whose office and staff were obviously being held up didn't seem to give a rat's ass.
"You were expected, and you won't leave this fortress alive. We have the executioners waiting for you in the adjacent chamber. Are you ready to meet them?" Carpathia smiled, and secretly pressed the security button on the bottom of his desk drawer. Guards immediately filed in, and separated the boys from the girls. Heero was the first to break free, and he took out the soldiers subduing his colleagues, except the two girls. Heero pulled the other three boys out of the room, much to the disagreement of everyone else. "Heero, are you crazy!?" Duo had yelled, being yanked by his koibito out of the room.
"Alex! Jessie!" Wufei and Quatre said, before they disappeared into the hallway.
"Let them go!" Carpathia yelled after the two other guards who had tried to follow them. "They will be intercepted, anyway, we have these two..."
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"Let. Us. Go!" Alex screamed as she struggled fiercely with the two men restraining her. "I'll kill you!" she yelled, kicking and tossing her head left and right. Jessie stayed silent, but looked murderous. 'i know they did that to save the mission. but i still feel betrayed and abandoned.'
"Well, well, well, young ladies. What a predicament you are in. Your little partners-in-crime abandon you?" Carpathia sneered, slapping Jessie soundly across the cheek. She still remained silent, showing no emotion. "You little bitches. Did you actually think you both could win? Right now I am slowly handing over the American Military to OZ! And there is nothing you two "little girls" can do about it..." Carpathia chuckled and pinched the Chinese girl's cheek, leaving a red mark.
The Oz general turned around and strode over to Alex. She, however, was glaring at the man with contempt. She reared back and spit in his face. Carpathia wiped off his cheek and then slapped her, and white hot tears spilled over her cheeks. "You mother fucking bastard..."she managed to whisper before he knocked her unconscious.

TBC

well, what did ya think?! Gomen it took so long for us to post this chapter, school just started and we're being overloaded with homework. Pleez review, flames accepted(but not flames for yaoi, because you were warned before.) thanx!^________________^
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