21 Jan 2001
"So, what you're basically saying is that we're gonna have to block all monitoring devices psychicly, disrupt the electical locking mechanisms, free the 'slaves' and skeedattle?" Duo asked and Jackie nodded. "Not possible. They'd have already thought of that. Remember they use psychics to pilot their drones."
Good, she thought. He's thinking. "So what do you propose?"
"I have an idea, but it'll require the use of the other pilots. But I'm pretty sure it's the best chance we have."
"Have at, I'm open to suggestions."
He began to explain. "We uses the Gundams and attack the base, only superficially, no damage needs to be done. We sneak in, befundle the guards minds, pluck from them the passcodes, grab the prisoners and go. 'Lease that's the basic premise."
She nodded thoughtfully. "Sounds good to me. Simple, direct, and avoids casualties. I think we could make that work. I suggest we pull your friend, Quatre, in on the ground assault. Three in the 'air', three in the base. We'll need to confer with them on it."
"You can't be serious!" Wufei shouted. "Do you believe this crazy onna, Maxwell? You are stupider than I thought!"
CRACK! Wufei looked up from the floor to find a pair of very ticked off blue eyes glaring down at him. "Pipe down."
"Look, this may sound crazy, but it's true! Romefeller is using slaves to psychicly pilot their dolls."
"I've seen it with my own two eyes. Fuck, I escaped from that hell!" Jackie cried out.
"How do we know you speak the truth?" Trowa asked.
"You can't lie mind to mind, Trowa." Duo said matter-of-fact-ly. "I've seen it."
"And I have, as well."
All heads turned to the figure in the doorway. "It is as she says and we require your help if we are to free our brethern."
"Unmei," Jackie breathed.
Unmei turned to Duo and Quatre. "We meet again, at last, mes enfants. It has been far to long."
Quatre and Duo looked perplexed.
"You do not remember. Ah, but you were young last we parted." Unmei walked over and joined hands with the two. 'My children, at last we are together,' she said.
//flashback//Lightning crashed and rain poured down in torrents.
"If Romefeller ever finds them they'll be enslaved. We must protect them, Unmei. The might just be our last hope. Get them in the shuttle! Unmei, hurry!" A man cried, battling against time to save his family. The small research station that they lived on was ablaze, torn by the war raging around them.
Unmei looked at her husband with fear in her eyes. Her silky black hair was plastered to her skull and her aqua eyes were tearfilled. She hugged her month-old children to her small bosom.
"Just go! You must get them to safety! I'll be fine!"
"Jack!"
"Go!"
With tears streaking down her cheeks, Unmei secreted her twin born sons away from harm. The shuttle had just cleared range when the station exploded in a cloud of debris and fire.
"JACK!!!!!!"
//flash//
Unmei looked back and forth before crossing the street. She hated leaving her youngest child in a rundown place like L2, but it was a place she was sure he'd never be found.
"My child," Unmei sighed as she lay the chestnut haired baby on the doorstep. He blinked large indigo eyes at her and burbled at her. Before she could regret it, she knocked loudly on the church door then quickly scurried away whispering, "Never forget me."
//flash//Unmei looked at the young blonde nurse with tears in her aqua eyes. "Take care of him, please." She managed, handing the child to the girl.
"I will, I promise," Iria swore, her green eyes steady and truthful. Unmei had no doubt that her baby was in the best of care.
The blond baby safe in the nurse's arms, Unmei baid her eldest child farwell, then disappeared from the world.
//end flashback//
Duo and Quatre gasped as Unmei released their hands. They looked at the woman who, by appearances, could be no older than 17, but mind to mind she was older than her some 30 years.
"Unmei," Jackie whispered.
"It was time, Jack-koi. Time they knew."
Quatre blinked. "Jack?"
"Another twist to the plot," Duo muttered, looking at Jackie.
"I thought...."
"Yes, I died. Reincarnation is a wonderful thing, never take it for granted," Jackie said sitting up. "In this body I am about 16 to 17 so, ye see how it works out?"
"Jesus! This gets more fucked up by the moment! First I'm psychic and I have to help save a bunch of enslaved people, then I find out that Unmei is my mother and Quatre my brother, and now Jackie is my father reincarnated? What next, Relena is my sister?"
"No, she's Heero's," Jackie said. All eues turned to her in surprise. "I'm kidding! I'm kidding! Jeez-us~!" Jackie curled into a ball, trying to hide from the glares being thrown her way and muttering about people not being able to take a joke.
"Well, can we get back to the subject at hand. What's the plan for saving these people?" Wufei asked, growing tired of the family reunion.
Jackie related Duo's idea to the group.
"Sounds like a water-tight plan," Heero remarked. "When does the mission begin?
End of Part Three
Noa (Willow)
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