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Chapter III
by Tenshi no Tsuki
* Dark. Cold. The gloomy environment inside the cell made the pilot shudder. He rubbed the spot behind his head looked around. He spotted three of his companions laying on the floor still out cold. Then he stood and leaned against the wall.
"It was a trap"
He turned to the figure leaning against the bars of the cell. Heero grunted, signaling his agreement. Trowa pushed himself off the bars and sat besides him.
"They took the disk" Trowa nodded.
~*~
*beep* *beep*
"Hai?"
"You have a mission."
"Where?"
"Winton's passage. There is an underground base in one of the warehouses at the outsides of town. The Gundam pilots have been captured"
"Mission?"
"To retrieve the information taken and re-take the pilot's former mission."
"Understood. Chaos out"
Usagi closed the transmission. She walked into the living room of her apartment. A raven-haired woman and a silver-haired man sat before the television.
"Where's V?" the raven-haired woman looked up.
"In her room"
"Thanks."
Usagi entered the room, and saw her twin sitting behind the computer.
"Ooi V, we have a mission" Minako looked up grinning.
"Sugoi!, this goddess needed some action"
Usagi rolled her eyes at her twin but smiled non-the-less. Both grabbed their outfits, and weapons. Both of them were dressed in black. Minako preferred to wear tight black boots while Usagi wore black sneakers. They both wore black pants, and tank tops, while Minako wore a turtle neck tank-top, Usagi wore a shirt leather jacket. Their guns inside their holsters around their tights. Daggers on their hair which they used as holders to hold the buns at the top of their head. And explosives on the push around their waists.
"Mission?" the silver-haired man asked.
"Hai. We'll be back by midnight." Minako said.
"Jya. Arty, Luna!" Usagi called as both girls walked out.
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*The security system was state-of-the-art to say the least, and if someone broke in, the alarm would go off, locking down the entire base. Nothing seemed wrong at all. They hadn't noticed the line of static that had slipped across the monitor screens for less than a second.
The person who was waiting for the static heard it loud and clear. She smiled beneath her ski mask. She had never met a security system she couldn't beat.
A hundred yards down the air vent, her partner waited. As soon as she heard the static, she glanced up at her. They were perfect partners.
"Ready girl?" Chaos whispered into the com.
"Ain't I always?"
She could almost see the grin in her partner's face as they separated. It was better to take separated routes than have them both go together. Practice had taught them the best way to get around ventilation shafts. The layout of the base was etched into both of their minds making navigation a simple exercise.
Venus was supposed to localized the cell in which the pilots were captured, while Chaos got the information.
Chaos slipped silently through the vent, she spotted the room where the main computer was contained, and slid in. Using the darkness as a camouflage she placed a small microchip, under the processor . The chip would allow her to enter the mainframe and download the data required. In seconds the info laid in the silver disk inside her pouch. She set the timer in the chip so the computer blew at her signal.
Within minutes she meet her partner at the tryst point. Venus lead Chaos to the vent above the situated cell. She slid the cover quietly and placed it next to her. She shifted so that her legs sustained her as she dangled upside down. She narrowed her eyes and survived the area.
It was dark all over, surveillance cameras well placed at the corners of the room. Two cells were at opposites sides, squinting her eyes, she could see five to ten figures.
There wasn't a guard in the room that housed the room. Instead, a laser-beam grid covered the floor, but not in the usual square pattern. This was far more complex with circles and waved lines that were invisible to the naked eye. They were also on a separate circuit that could not be accessed by an outside source. Whoever had designed the base's security was clever. The motion detectors were on one circuit, with the laser on another. If one were taken, the other would still be in place. What they didn't count on was one being taken and the other out-maneuvered.
The pair regarded the lasers as more fun than a problem. They both reached into a small pouch on their belts and pulled out a small pair of lenses. They looked like sunglasses without the ear bends. Except these allowed for infrared vision. The room took on the cool blue and green tones of infrared while the lasers glared out an angry yellow and orange in comparison. They weren't hot enough to feel on the skin, but now they could see the pattern clearly. This was going to be tight, but still very doable.
Shifting she flanged herself back into the vent. Were Chaos was waiting for her.
"Well?"
"Two cameras, lasers, no guards, but I'll bet they are watching every minute"
Her partner narrowed her eyes in thought. Chaos took out her palm-top and opened the system , into the security room. Several displays appeared showing the monitored sectors in the base. Chaos selected the one showing the cell and downloaded. She grabbed a silver disk from her pouch and copied five minutes of the video.
"Alright we'll have five minutes to disarm the lasers, unlock the cells and get out before the tape return to real time. Think we can do it?"
Venus grinned. "Let's do it"
They nodded at each other, and then Venus opened the vent cover that she had so graciously deactivated the alarm on. As soon as it was removed, Chaos slid into position, balancing just on the edge of the vent, both of their hearing perked for the slightest sound of a problem. Most of the reason they were so good was that they hadn't gotten cocky. Confident, yes, but not cocky.
Her hands wrapped around her partner's wrists and Venus lowed her down, their bodies moving in a perfect synch so that she would be hanging by her legs, and herself would be dangling, keeping perfectly still.
She took a deep breath, and then planned the moves. Her leg muscles flexed smoothly, and then with a series of flips and jumps, she twisted through the laser maze easily, moving with an easy coordination that any athlete would pray for. Her final back flip landed her inches from the target. Perfect. She signaled she was fine and her partner pulled herself back into the shaft to prepare the equipment.
Chaos looked back where her partner was still hanging. Training had taught them that the best positioning was for one to stay back and be ready to get the other out if a situation went bad. Whoever was best suited went in, and in this case, the better gymnast was going to be needed. She was smaller and would fit better in the tight patterns. It was a scary feeling to be out there all on your own, but backup was just a thought away for them.
Her hand raised, and a dull hiss of a carbon dioxide canister firing reached her ears. A fraction of a second later her fingers snapped shut around a staff that had been fired at her. She grinned. Neat trick if you could pull it off. She touched the edge of the staff carefully to the floor, and long legs popped out to balance it. She looked back up and nodded. A small bag slid down the nylon cord that had followed the staff that was keeping the cord high enough to not activate the lasers.
From it she pulled out a devise , a palm-top and two cables, one blue and one black. The blue one was the connector the black one the receiver, she connected one end of the blue one into the panel before her in the wall, she plunged the other into the devise, then she took the black one and repeated the process.
Her fingers moved fast over the small board, as she hack into the mainframe, she grinned when she found what she was looking for, she deactivated it, and took the cables off. There was a small almost inaudible sound and the lasers, all of them, turned off.
They both breathed a sigh of relief at that. Venus slid down the rope and stood next to her partner. Chaos cheek her watch, two minutes had go by. She signaled her partner to move to the farther cell.*