Chapter 17
"Empty?" Reena whispered quietly and looked around the room she had just entered, "Shimatta!"
She scanned the room and her eyes settled on a door at the far side, "Well, while I'm in here I might as well....." she muttered as she vaulted over a row of computers and walked up to the door. "Seems to be locked, wasn't Heero supposed to take care of that?" she mumbled as she leveled her gun at it and fired a couple shots. The lights went out and she pried open the door to come face to face with a big guard.
"Excuse me Miss, please do not move any farther. This is a res—" started the man, pointing his gun at her. She thought quickly and dropped to the ground, tripping him. As he fell she brought her knee up to meet his face, hearing a cracking noise she confirmed she had broken something. She used her gun to whack him on the back of the head as she jumped back up, knocking him unconscious. Picking up his weapon and throwing the clipp, without which he cannot fire, back out the door from which she had came.
Reena hopped over the guard and into the room he came from. She saw a glass window and ran over to it, peering inside she saw a very unhappy girl pounding on a set of metal doors. She could faintly hear her screaming something.
"Let me out! Do you hear me? I order you to release me from this chamber!!!" the blonde girl yelled as she hit the metal doors repeatedly. Reena knocked on the window.
"Oi!!!" Reena yelled and waved, smiling. I bet that's Relena, she thought. Reena motioned her to move out of the way and the girl moved to the side. Pointing her gun at the window, Reena prepared to pull the trigger when a blonde blur appeared on the other side of the window, in front of her.
"Who are you? Let me out!!! Release me this minute!!!" yelled the girl as she pounded on the window, Reena sighed and shook her head.
"I'm here to help!" she yelled, "Now get out of my way!" All that pounding must have given her brain damage, she thought and pointed the gun directly at the blonde girls' chest and she hurriedly moved out of Reena's way. Reena fired three shots at one spot in the glass and it created a hole. Grumbling something about bullet proof glass, she fired multiple times and the glass shattered. Reena jumped through the window to the girl who immediately was hugging her.
"Domo arigato! Who are you? Arigato for helping me!" The blonde girl said, she looked up at Reena and stepped back from the girl dressed in black. "I'm Relena Peacecraft. Are you a rebel? Are you here to help me?" she asked.
"Ano....I'm Reena. Yes, I'm supposed to help you. I don't think I'm a rebel," she said as she walked over to the two doors Relena had been pounding on before, "I'm here with the Gundam pilots, I'm whatever they are." Reena said, trying to pry the doors apart.
"That won't work, miss." Relena said, clasping her hands in front of her, "It's locked, computers control it."
"I know that, Heero is undoing the computer locks in here as we speak." Reena told her, pulling on the door, "Now help me out here!" she said, motioning Relena over to the door. She came and helped pull. The door eventually opened enough for them to slip through, though Reena suspected it was most of her doing that allowed it. She shrugged it off and peeked around the room they were in. The room, which like the others, was filled with computers, was empty and the only other way into it was from the door on the other side. Reena walked quietly forward, signaling Relena quite clearly to be quiet as well. She walked over to the wall and pressed herself to it. Peering through the window at the top, Reena caught a glimpse of a guard on the right side, she did the same to the other window and saw three guards to her left.
Shimatta! she thought exasperatedly, then she saw a telescope in the room and numerous very complex looking computers, This must be the room with the missile in it, that's why it's so heavily guarded!!! she cheered mentally. It would make sense to have Relena by the main room, I guess. She could be used as a shield if someone tried to get in here and blow this up, like me! Reena smiled at the thought and looked back at the doors to the room where Relena was being held before she escaped, to the right of the door she noticed a control panel, Probably can be set to blow that room up. She thought again, sighing mentally she ran back to the hall with the two guards she had first killed and searched for the big gun the one had had. I wonder if I can pull this off, Reena bit her lip as she looked around for the gun, I have to hold out until I get to talk to Him. I really don't know why I have to do what I have to do...if Duo finds out, well, he'll probably never forgive me. She fought back tears as she spotted the gun. I'll probably end up getting killed whichever way I go. If not by Him, then by Heero or one of the other pilots. Duo might even when he finds out. Picking up the gun, she shook her head fiercely. Duo wouldn't ever hurt me, he told me that... She wiped the tears that had appeared away and ran back through the doors. Reena found Relena looking at her quizingly and smiled as she showed her the gun, then led her to a spot behind two computers where she would be out of the range of fire if any shots should happen to come that way.
"I'm going to go through that door," she whispered as she pointed to the guarded door, "and I'm just gonna start shooting, I can't do much else. I hope surprise will help me out a bit. Stay here, don't move. If something happens to me, I want you to run out that way." Reena ordered, pointing to the chamber where Relena had been kept, "if you go down the hall and turn to your right every corner, you'll find your way out."
"What do you mean if something happens to you?!" Relena whispered back loudly, "You have to get in there and save the Colony!!!"
Reena shook her head and stood up, rolling her eyes. Creeping silently towards the door, she kicked into a run and rolled into it, knocking it open and shooting the lone guard on the one side, using the door as a shield from the three on the left. She kept her finger on the trigger of the big gun she had taken from the soldier and shot wildly at the remaining ones. They went down one after another. Reena, miraculously, suffered only bruises on her upper arms from the jerking of the gun as it fired and from holding the door in place. She got up and motioned for Relena to join her, giving a V for Victory and winking.
"I'm way too lucky." she mumbled as she walked into the room and over to the biggest computer. Relena followed her in, trying to avoid looking at the dead guards, and sat down on a chair near the other girl.
"May I ask why you are so adept at...that?" she asked, and pointed to a dead guard.
"My....my father. He made me take lessons in shooting and things. Mostly just luck." she answered, while typing.
"Oh." Relena simply answered and fell silent to let Reena work.
Reena bypassed three different programs and over-ridded several password protected systems before she got to the program she needed and disabled the missile. After that, she spent another minute getting into another program of which she was very badly in need of.
"Aha! I found you. Time to have some fun." she smiled cryptically as she typed rapidly into the computer. Reena looked up as lights around her began to flash red.
"Five minutes until base self destruct." announced a computerized alert, "Please evacuate the premises."
"Ok," Reena grabbed Relena's arm and pulled her out of the door from which they had came, "we have to leave now."
"Did you disable the missile?" Relena asked, following her through the window which Reena had previously shot through to free her.
"Hai, and I was able to set the base to blow up quite soon, so pick up the pace Miss Relena." she answered, running out the door and over the two dead guards into the hall, her long blonde braids trailing out behind her.
