Chapter 18

Relena rounded a corner, with Reena right behind her, making sure the girl in front of her was protected from the pursuing soldiers. Reena stopped quickly and jumped in front of Relena when she saw a person in their way. As she pushed Relena out of the way she felt a sharp pain in her arm. Reena landed on the ground and immediately rolled to her knees as she pulled out both of her hand guns, aiming them at the person standing in front of her. She gasped when she recognized him.

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Heero stood with a look of shock on his face as Reena pushed his Relena out of the way from a bullet he had fired by reflex at the figures dashing around the corner. He had shot to kill and Reena dove in front of Relena, knocking her out of the way but, he suspected, getting hit herself. She rolled to her feet as she landed and pointed two guns at him. Heero held up his hands and she relaxed, lowering her guns and dropping the left one from her hand as she clutched her arm.

"Heero, you're a good shot," Reena grumbled, "but you seem to have forgot something: I'm NOT the enemy!!!!!" she yelled at him and winced at the pain in her arm.

Heero ran over and pulled back the torn part of her shirt covering her arm, looking at her wound. He gave an uncharacteristic sigh of relief, "It didn't puncture, it just scratched the skin." he told her.

"Scratched?!" Relena yelled and ran over to Reena, "That's no scratch! That's a very bad wound!!!" she shouted at Heero as she tore off a section of her shirt and tied it around the other blonde girls arm. "That was a deep cut! How could you have been so careless Heero?!" Relena shouted at the shocked Heero as she helped Reena up, who was still holding her arm in pain.

"It was not on purpose Relena." Heero said quietly and turned to Reena, "Daijabu desu ka?" He asked her. Shimatta! If I hurt her, Duo'll have my head. That will make it extremely hard to complete missions. Heero peered down at her expectantly.

"Hai, though you got my best side." Reena muttered, her hat casting a shadow over her face. "I'm not a perfect shot with my right...leave it to you." she grumbled and stood up straight. "We have to hurry, this base is going to blow. Heero, we have to get out of here!" she told him.

"One minute to detonation. Leave now." the computer announced, confirming the need to hurry.

Heero nodded and turned to run down the hall, followed by the two girls.

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"What are those things?!" yelled WuFei when he saw two tan colored mobile suits emerge from one of the smaller buildings. The two suits looked exactly the same and seemed to hold no weapons at all.

"They look like a new type of MS." Trowa answered as he used his cannons to blow the head off an Aries. Fire enveloped its' body and Trowa moved on to another opponent.

"I'm not sure what they are Wu-man, but they'll get their turn. You must wait to greet the God of Death," Duo's voice came over the comm. as he looked at the pair of suits approaching the pilots, "I'm a bit busy at the moment. Too many customers right now." he grumbled and put his scythe through two Leo's to get his point across.

"Kuso!" Trowa cursed to himself as he realized, yet again, that he was out of ammo.

"What's wrong?" Ami asked him, peering over his shoulder at the computer screens.

"I've got no more bullets left." He answered simply and proceeded to use the arm of Heavyarms to punch a meddling Taurus in the mechanical chest.

"Chotto matte." Ami said, pushing Trowa to the side and fiddling with the controls.

"What are you doing?!?!?" Trowa half yelled as she pressed a couple buttons and a yellow image came up on one of his screens, showing ammunition being loaded into Heavyarms. "How'd you do that?!" he asked as she moved away and he found he had another set of ammo in place.

"Simple really, the same thing happens to me in Starfox. I figured out that they carried an extra load of ammunition in all the possible ships. If you enter in the proper things it will reload it for you. The controls to this are pretty much the same, I just tried it out." She answered and shrugged.

"Comparing piloting a Gundam to a video game?" Trowa questioned as he turned back to the battle and resumed shooting things, "I could've really used this ammo that time when I was in Siberia. And when there was that attack on the Colonies..." he began, and listed off multiple times when extra bullets would've came in handy.

"Or," Ami jumped in, "that time when you had to destroy the new Taurus suits a while back..."

"How'd you know about that?" He questioned her.

"News. I quote: 'One Gundam apparently seemed to have run out of ammo. What do you make of this somewhat hilarious event Barbara?' 'Well Tim, I think the pilot would be prepared enough to realize....'" She stopped when she saw him blushing.

"I'm just saying I could've used it." He finished and shot down another Aries. He noticed Ami pouting, "Arigato." he turned to her and said. She brightened up and winked at him. Smiling a little, he turned back to the battle at hand.