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Hush: Don't Say A Word
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Chapter Two: Try Try Again
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"Relena?!" was the
collective question to Bobbie. She looked around confused. "No, I don't
see Relena Peacecraft...I'm Bobbie." she said, settling her eyes on the
odd group in front of her. Heero, or at least she assumed, pointed a gun
at her head. "Who are you and who do you work for?" She looked at him dead
in the eye, not quite sure how to react. "Yo, Heero, chill! I told you,
this was my training partner. The good doctor finally got around to making
her a gundum and now that Zechs has declared war on Earth, we going to
need all the help we can get. Now, put the damn gun back in your little
pocket or wherever
and let's go check out Apocalypse k?" Duo interfered, already dragging
the large suitcase across the floor to the spare bedroom he'd prepared
for her. Quatre seemed to be reaching out with his mind to check her, empathetically.
"Yes, Duo's right. We'll settle this later." he said finally, giving a
small smile to the others. Trowa simply nodded and went to follow the braid.
The other two followed suit, leaving Wufei to gape. "Are you actually trusting
this weak onna?" he asked incredulously. Bobbie looked at him, annoyed.
'He did not just call me weak.' "You know, you should really get
that inferiority complex of yours checked. It's a sign of weakness to put
down others." she said airily before sauntering past him to where the others
had gone. A huge "Ha!" was heard from her direction as Wufei just slowly
blinked. 'I must not kill women I must not kill women I must not kill women.'
repeated over and over in his head.
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"Well, it looks like a gundum."
came the obvious statement from the still sore Wufei. Duo and Quatre sweat
dropped as Bobbie clenched her fists to keep her temper under control.
"Of course it does. I have better things to do then make up complicated
schemes to outsmart someone I barely know." And seriously don't like,
she continued her thoughts silently. A heartily slap on the back brought
her back. "Wow! Really pumping' out the wit today huh Bobbie?" her friend
laughed. She allowed herself a tiny smirk. Heero jumped into the cock pit
system and activated the systems check. "Everything seems to be in place."
he vouched, shutting down. 'Gee thanks monotone boy.' she thought, wishing
she had just remained anonymous. She nodded and crawled up to check the
cock pit for...anything. Heero took Duo aside. "You do realize that she
has the ZERO system installed right? If anything should happen, you know
what you have to do." he asked, ignoring the looks of protest from his
braided friend. "Look Heero, eliminating people may be easy for you, but
Bobbie is my friend, practically my sister, and I will not kill her, orders
be damned." Duo said in a hushed angry tone. Heero simply acknowledged
that his friend was a fool by nodding and turning back to the gundum. 'I
swear to God Heero, if any harm comes to that girl, you'll loathe the day
you ever met Shinigami.' the usually jovial boy thought darkly. She was
family, and he would rather die then let anyone hurt her.
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Milliardo stood that the
head of the Libra helm and stared out in the space being occupied by the
lush planet known as the Earth. 'Soon, I will end all wars with the destruction
of the planet of war.' he thought solemnly, not noticing when a young solider
ran up to him. "Sir, we have gotten word that Relena Peacecraft was seen
three days ago on the colony L2-5378S in the GS sector. Sir, that's where
all the mobile suits of the colony are kept." he said in the squeaky voice
of adolescence. Milliardo sighed. Yes, he was well aware of what went on
in the GS sector of that colony. Question was, what was Relena doing there?
He realized that the soldier was still there waiting for a reply. "Try
and find out of she is still there and if not, find out where she is now.
That is all." he dismissed the boy. "I wouldn't worry over it Mr. Milliardo.
As long as she is not on Earth, then she is in no danger." his lieutenant
said in almost condescending voice. Punk. "Of course. Any word on the whereabouts
of the gundum pilots?" he asked, keeping his cool. "Sir, we have reason
to believe that a sixth gundum is being made or has been already. Large
shipments of gundanium were ordered to the L2-3914M colony, sector FB.
That may be where the gundum is being housed or possibly the pilots themselves."
the lieutenant continued. 'But who would pilot the gundum? Who is this
new mystery pilot? We'll find out soon enough.' Milliardo simply nodded
at the information. "Do you want us to look into it?" the officer pressed.
'Of course I do you peon.' he thought sourly. "Right away." He sat down
gracefully in his captain chair and contemplated the future of mankind.
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Relena Peacecraft looked
wistfully at a picture of her family that was housed in a locket Noin had
given her. Her younger self looked so...happy and complete. Like nothing
in the world could ever destroy it. 'Unless war loving assholes torch your
kingdom. Wait, what's this?' she thought curiously as she noticed a piece
of an arm attached to her biological mothers' shoulders. "Was there another
person in this picture?" she asked her self softly, slipping the picture
out. Instead of the smooth oval shape she expected, there was a jagged,
clumsy line. 'It's almost as if someone was trying to get rid of a memory....'
Relena gasped when she felt the wind get knocked out of her for no reason.
'Not again.' she thought wearily as she tried to breath easier. Ever since
she was little, she always had these pains for no apparent reason. 'Phantom
pains', her mother called them. She slipped the picture back into it's
slot and turned her chair to face the outside. A gorgeous garden over swept
the land as far as the eye could see. But she could see nothing of it,
only feel the emptiness of her soul.
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Bobbie got up from her fall,
the breath knocked out of her. "Be more careful onna." a voice practically
laughed at her from behind. 'Oh that damn man.' she thought angrily as
she dusted off her jeans. She turned back to Apocalypse and smiled at her
handy work. She had managed to upgrade the data from Deathscythe Hell into
her own database and polish off some of the duller spots from the paint.
A beautiful royal blue now shined back at her. Today was a good day after
all.
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