Chapter 16

"They've seen us! Let Reena out and guard Wing!" Yelled Heero's voice over the comm. Reena looked at Duo and gave him a kiss on the cheek before pressing the platform button and jumping, via pully, to the ground.

"Follow me." Heero stated as he landed, taking off for the base doors as various MS streamed out of everywhere. She ran after him, trying hard to keep pace with his fast stride.

"What do I do if Relena isn't in there?" she half yelled to him. He turned and looked at her as they reached the front doors.

"She's in here. Find her, destroy the missile, and get the hell out before the base goes up in smoke." he answered and shot the lock on the door. Pushing it open they made their way to a computer room.

Heero killed five guards and Reena tried her best to ignore the sick feeling she was having in her stomach."I'll break down the security from here, which means the doors and the alarms. Some might not be connected to this so be careful." he said, already typing on the computer. Reena turned to leave as Heero spoke again, "Reena, watch your back, you mean a lot to Duo." she turned back to look at him but he was busy typing.

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"Don't piss off the God of Death!!!" Duo yelled, Deathscythe swinging around the Beam Scythe and blowing up two Leo's and an Aries.

The battle outside was a good one, about 300 suits in total, most of them being Taurus and Aries. The boys were having an easy time of it, though it was difficult to guard the Wing Zero.

"Quatre, your left!" yelled Trowa as he shot a Taurus multiple times, causing it to explode.

Quatre turned to his left and swung the two blades of his Sandrock down in an 'X', beheading a Aries. Lys was thrown a bit to the back and her hand landed on the button to open the door. It did and she jumped out and swung from the pulley thing to land on the ground. Quatre turned and yelled something to her but it was too late. Tears streaming down his face he turned and went back to the battle.

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Lys jumped to the ground and ran for a building to her right, Shelter! she thought, and I can prove that I'll be useful......

She dodged the foot of a big green MS and another one behind it and ran into the building as the door closed behind her.

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Reena stuck her head around a corner in the long hall she was in, two guards stood at the only door she had seen in the whole building that wasn't computerized. She cursed under her breath and got an idea. Forcing tears and sobbing a bit she ran around the corner full speed and bumped into one of the guards. Looking up at him and adopting a sad innocent look, she blinked away the blurryness in her eyes.

"Ano, miss. This is a restricted area. Are you lost?" asked the bewildered guard as he looked down at the girl in wearing a black hat that was clinging to his shirt. Reena sniffed and nodded. The guard looked at his partner, who shrugged.

"I guess I'll go tell the Commander we found her." he said as he turned down the hall. Acting quickly, Reena pulled out the gun and shoved it into the first guys stomach as she fired, silencing the shot a bit. She then turned to the other guard as the first one fell to the ground and shot him twice as he reached for his gun. He fell to the floor, the gun falling a few feet away from him. She reached down as she fought back the urge to vomit and picked it up. Seeing it was too heavy and she wasn't used to it, she dropped it and kicked it down the hall. However, the other soldier, as she found when she checked him, had a hand gun similar to hers. She picked it up and stuck it in her waist band. Her original gun ready, she slowly pushed open the door to the room.

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Heero swore as he encountered another encrypted program on the computer. It wasn't only encrypted, but if he made the wrong command, he had a feeling something would blow up. He didn't want to find out what.

He thought for a minute and over-ridded the password only to find it was still encrypted.

"Kuso!" he swore and typed something in quickly. The screen flashed and he swore again, thinking he had triggered something. Heero typed in something and over-rode that. The screen flashed again and he found it no longer encrypted.

"That's good. I wonder what I did..." he mumbled as he proceeded to un-lock the computerized doors, shut down alarms and other security measures, and did a search on the type of missile they were using. The program came up, identifying the missile and it's co-ordinates but it would not allow him to change the commands from the room he was in. Heero realized he had to get into the main control room to do that.

"That's Reena's mission though..." he said as he walked out into the hall, "I guess I'll just help her out a bit." drawing his gun, he made his way to the main room from the map he memorized when shutting down everything.

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"Quatre! Daijobu?!" Trowa yelled over the comm., "Wake up! I just blew up a guy that was going to singe your armor!"

"She left." Quatre said quietly as he sliced up an Aries, "She jumped out. I don't know where she is. I told her I'd protect her."

"She left? Lys left Quatre?!" Yelled Amis' voice, "Oh no...she's gonna blow something up."

"No, I don't think she made it out. I didn't even see her touch the ground." Quatre said quietly, shooting a Leo as it went to attack Duo's Gundam.

"She'll be Ok." assured Ami, who then got a weird look from Trowa, "What? She will. She can get herself out of trouble better than she can get into it, believe me, she has practice."

"C'mon Quatre, lighten up!" came Duo's voice, "Ami says she'll be fine, then she will." he assured Quatre as well, "Oh, buddy? How did they get here anyway!!!!!!!"

"We snuck in. Hi Duo!!!" Ami yelled from Trowa's Heavyarms.

"I tried to tell you that Duo," said Quatre, shooting down another Aries, "but you 'accidentally' cut me off, remember?"

"Oh," Duo said as his scythe cut and Aries into three pieces, "that was an accident Quatre. My hand kinda, umm...slipped." Duo finished lamely and shot a Leo.

"Stop this useless bantering!" WuFei yelled over the comm., "It was weakness on your part to let them tag along. We're on a mission. "

"Right," mumbled Duo, "it's not supposed to be fun at all." he said sarcastically and proceeded to cackle maniacally as he separated the tops of three MS from the bottoms, causing a big explosion.

WuFei shook his head and mumbled, "Why am I stuck with them. They are supposed to be the perfect soldiers. It's injustice..."