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--August Sere
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I Know Who I Am: Chapter Two
Chapter 2:
"Well, we should get her back to her earth, right?" Trowa questioned.
"I don't know about you guys, but I think she might be able to help,"
Duo stated.
"She's a woman; what could she possibly do? She's weak," Wufei
scowled.
"Wufei, have you forgotten the words 'energy readings'??!"
"Let me rephrase that for Duo. Correction, Wufei, energy readings
that could kick 'your' ass!!!"
Every one of the pilots turned to stare at the young Arabian, who,
in turn, blushed profusely.
"Heh...heh..."
"Say, Trowa..."
"Yes?"
"What do you think are the chances of something like that ever
happening again?"
"Have you ever heard the expression, "when Heero stays dead"?
"Thought so." Everyone's heads fell.
"Say, you guys?"
"WHAT, Quatre?"
"I don't think we CAN send her back."
"Just WHAT do you mean?" Wufei growled.
"Umm, the portal kinda dissapeared..."
"WHAT?!!"
"SO WE'RE STUCK WITH HER?!"
"WELL, she's not exactly bad to look at..."
"He'll never change..."
"UGHH!!"
"DUO!!!"
"You guys, could we kill Duo later??!!" Quatre yelled.
"Why?"
"Well, we still haven't decided what to do with Miss Serena...
Where will she stay? And we need to find her some clothes...
I mean, walking around in that weird outfit kinda screams to OZ,"HEY!
COME AND GET ME!!"
Duo thought for a moment. "I SUPPOSE we could get some clothes from
Relena, but I'm NOT doing it."
"Neither am I."
"NO WAY."
"Don't look at me. I may have blond hair, but I'm not stupid."
"Rock, paper, scissors'll have to do," Duo concluded. Wufei frowned.
"Rock,paper,scissors.""Rock,paper,scissors.""Rock,paper,scissors."
"This game is for weaklings."
"Just do it, Wu-man! You're disgracing Nataku!"
"Shut up, Maxwell!! Rock,paper,scissors!"
"HA HA! Wufei, YOU had scissors!!!" Duo yelled.
"GRRRRR..."
"Um, I'll go??"
Wufei nodded.
Fifteen minutes later, Duo returned, accompanied by Relena, who was
carrying an outfit. As Relena entered Serena's room, Duo went back to his
colleagues.
"I feel sorry for Serena," Duo laughed.
"Why?"
"That thing looks like it would kill ANYTHING with it's cheeriness."
"What are you talking about? It's a nice dress..."
"--even if Relena did pick it out."
"I wasn't talking about the dress."
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Relena approached the bed. "Hello, Miss Serena. I'm Relena."
"Hello."
"Are you feeling well?"
"Lots better, actually. Are you in charge here?"
"In a manner of speaking," Relena smiled.
"Well, then, thank you for taking care of me."
"Oh, it was my pleasure. Since you're feeling better, I brought
something for you to wear." Relena handed the dress to Serena,
who by that time was already sitting up on the bed. After a few minutes...
"Finished, Serena?" Relena questioned from her position by the wall.
"Yes," Serena cringed. The dress definitely was NOT her style. She felt
WAY too conventional...
Relena turned around and looked at Serena. "Oh, I knew that dress
would look good on you. Now, would you like to go for a tour?"
"Sure." The two left the room and met up with the four remaining
pilots.
"Okay, Serena, let me introduce you to these young men," Relena
smiled, "this is Quatre Reberra Winner, but I believe you two have
already met."
"Hi, Miss Serena."
"Hi again, Quatre, but please, just call me Serena."
"Hi, I'm Trowa Barton."
"Wufei."
"Duo Maxwell, and the other one was Heero Yuy."
"It's nice to meet all of you."
.............................
After becoming aqquainted with the pilots and given a tour, Serena
was left to explain what had happened before Quatre and Wufei had
shown up.
"Well, first 'Heero' fell on me--" Duo snickered. Trowa sent a look in
his direction, but Serena simply ignored him. "Then, that Zecks guy showed
up and was about to shoot us. Luckily, Wufei showed up and told Zecks not to-
-something to do with honor- and then Quatre arrived with a carrier
and 'secured Heero's gundam', and we all got the heck outta there,"
Serena took a deep breath, "and that's about it. Do you guys mind if
I take a look around? That is, unless there's anything else you want
to know."
"No, that's enough. Feel free."
"Thanks!"
After Serena had gone, Wufei turned to glare at Relena.
"Why'd you let her go alone?! What about the energy readings?
What if she's a spy?!"
"I doubt she is, Wufei, and besides, I know one of you already planted
a tracker on her, didn't you?"
Each of the pilots, excluding Quatre, looked sheepish.
"All three of you? Really-"
Relena was cut off as each pilot's personal intercom began to
go off. The pilots grabbed the boxes, each reading the
identical missions on their viewscreens.
Message:
*********************************
'Mission: Transportation of Leos
from OZ base K12 to colony L1.
Terminate.'
*********************************
The four pilots nodded, while the fifth, in another room, repeated
his famous line.
"Mission...accepted."
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"Stupid pilots, so easily fooled," Lady Un laughed. "His
Excellency was right. Now, time to establish contact. Do you
four copy?"
"Loud and clear, Lady Un. Awaiting orders."
"You were not discovered?"
"No. No one has checked these suits since the last battle. Nothing
we couldn't avoid, anyway."
"Good. Here are your orders. The trackers I gave you will indicate
the energy level of anything. Use it to determine the base's secret
weapon; if there is one. Destroy it, if it can not be captured. Do
NOT fail."
~~~~
Serena turned a corner and ran straight into a guard.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," she said, lightly bowing.
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppebeeeeeppbeeeeeepp...,"
"What the---"the guard gaped, and promptly opened up another box,
pressing a button on it.
"What is it?" an angry woman appeared on the screen.
"Lady Un, this girl is making the tracker go off!" the guard
(actually a soldier) whispered into the intercom, indicating
Serena, who by that time was surrounded by the other men and looked
quite nervous.
"Are you sure SHE'S causing it?"
The guard grabbed her arm and did another scan of Serena before
responding. "Positive."
"Very well. Return to headquarters, with the girl."
Upon hearing this, Serena tried to pull away. "Hey, fellas, heh...
heh...can't we-(gulp)- negotiate?"
"NO. Un would have our heads if we returned without you."
He smirked. "However, you're probably in more danger right now
than we would be." Serena backed away. "Heero!!! RELENA!!! Quatre??!!!"
Serena screamed to no avail. Her pleas were in vain, as her
captor was happy to inform her.
"No one can hear you. I've already disabled the security system;
and by the time it's back up, you'll be long gone.
So there's no use yelling for help. Don't be stupid." He smiled. "And
security will never find us," he said, motioning for the other soldiers
to follow him as he pulled Serena into the room containing the mobile suits.
"Most of the soldiers are already going to fight OUR leos in outer space.
They'll never notice if a few extra suits leave."
The soldier grabbed Serena and roughly shoved her inside of an unoccupied
mobile suit, gagging her mouth with a cloth. The other men quickly retreated
to other mobile suits. "And may I remind you, girl. In space, NO ONE can hear
you scream." The last thing that could be seen from the inside of the suit
was Serena's scared blue eyes. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, she
lay on the floor inside the dark machine, her body wracked with sobs.
All in vain...no one ever heard.
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The pilots returned a few hours later looking quite winded. It didn't help
that more bad news was waiting for them. Each frowned when Relena ran up to
the group, wringing her hands.
"Heeroooooo! Serena's gone!" The annoyed look on Heero's face changed
immediately
to what was his version of worry.(AN: one eye twitched.)
"What do you mean?"
"Oz soldiers! They knocked out our security system! It was still recording,
luckily. But, Heero, we couldn't see what was going on! And almost all of
our soldiers had left..."
Relena quickly led the group into the security room for that level
and said something to the maitenence officer that was currently tinkering
with a particular machine. He nodded once, then walked over and entered a
code into a security box. Static crackled on the large TV in the center of
all of the smaller ones. The pilots turned to look.
*************
"Most of the soldiers are already going to fight OUR leos in outer space.
They'll never notice if a few extra suits leave." The pilots
watched in horror as the soldier that had been talking grabbed
Serena and roughly shoved her inside of an unoccupied mobile suit, gagging
her mouth with a cloth. The tape then showed the other men quickly
retreating to mobile suits.
"And may I remind you, girl. In space, NO ONE can hear you scream."
************
Heero's eyes hardened. He didn't like what had happened, but....
"What am I supposed to do?" he asked harshly, glaring at Relena.
"Well, uh... go rescue her, or... something!" Relena didn't
know what to say.
Wufei scowled. "Foolish girl! We can't just run off everytime someone
is captured! Especially to rescue weaklings like her."
Heero turned the corner and walked angrily back to his room. 'I'm not
going to do anything! Doing something without orders shows emotion,
and emotion is weakness,' he thought while sitting down on his bed. Heero
glared at his intercom when it began to go off, but thought the better of
shooting it until it looked like swiss cheese. He grabbed the intercom and
hit the'recieve' button.
"What?" he asked angrily, looking straight into
the face of Dr. J, who, however; was not at all fazed by Heero's look or
tone.
"Ah, Heero. I need to speak with you, about that girl. Serena, was
it? I found out something about her unusual energy readings." Heero was
silent for a moment before speaking. "Go on."
"Well," Dr. J continued, "the energy is indeed coming from inside her, but
a person, no matter how advanced, could not draw so much energy straight
into themself. My theory is that she must have some sort of material device
that allows her to harness so much power. She could prove to be a powerful
ally,"he paused, "by the way, where is she?"
Heero tried to look disinterested as he replied. "Oz soldiers took her."
"Oh. What?!?! When? How?!" the man exclaimed. He looked as if he were blaming
Heero.
"They took her when *YOU* sent us on that mission. Apparently it was just
a distraction," he finished, a hint of irony in his voice.
Dr. J looked worried. "Heero, you must save her!"
No response came
from Heero for several seconds, until...
"Mission... accepted."
Heero ran from his room to the storage area where Wing-Zero was held. This
required him going past the security room, where the other
pilots still resided.
"Was that Heero?" asked Duo in a state of shock.
"I think," answered a slightly confused Quatre.
"Then where the HELL is he going??!!!"
The other pilots ran after Heero, following him into the storage area for the
gundams.
"Heero! Where are you going?!" yelled Quatre. He thought he would recieve no
response, when Heero turned around to look at him, before stepping into
the cockpit.
"To save her."
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Mwahahahahahaha!!! ha! .......um, sorry. Anyways, he he, I hoped you liked
Chapter 2... And please review.