6
"Great, now where the hell are we?" asked Milliardo who was looking down on the strange world.
"I don't think were in Kansas anymore." Quoted Akiko. Milliardo looked at her oddly, raising an eyebrow. "Dorothy, Wizard of Oz." She waited for any sign of a response from him. None came. "Oh yeah, that was back in the day." He shrugged.
"Milliardo?" asked Quatre. "Do you know where we are? It looks like Tokyo, but there are these plant things all over the place." I am seeing something, but I don't know what it is, or they, correcton." He said to the screen that was now connected to Tallgeese Three.
"Quatre! Quatre!" screamed Milliardo at the now blank screen, it had gone off suddenly, and when he looked toward Sandrock, it wasn't there. Something had pulled it down, toward the ground below. He looked again and saw what looked like a plant wrapped around Sandrock's left leg. As the rest of the people followed Quatre to see what happened, Akiko pointed out something'
"What are those blue things? They look like little jewels on their heads."
All of a sudden the plant died. A blast hit it...
'Quatre, are you all right? Amy asked breathlessly. He stood up, dusted off and answered that he was all right, a little shaken up was all, not a hair misplaced (ok, that's a big stretch). They looked around, only to find people wearing jackets with bands of color on them and carrying equipment from plant base to plant base scurrying about, not having enough time to look at them. Then, flying above them they saw a man with blades sticking out of his back, arms and even his knees!
"What the fu..." Heero couldn't finish the sentence because he felt a tap on his shoulder. "What Duo!? What do you want now!?" Duo turned and looked at Heero oddly. Heero's eyes bulged as he turned around only to find Sarah. Heero screamed.
"What? What? I just saved what's his name over there, you aren't glad to see me?" her red hair fell perfectly again as she went out of her Super Saiya-Jin form.
"No, not another stalker!" Heero yelled. "No more Relena wannabes!!!!" he yelled louder.
"Fine, I'll leave" she said as she turned away from him.
"No, it's aight, you stay with me, just," he paused, "no more sneaking up behind me like that."
As they watched the people in white colored jackets with different bands of color on them, they started to notice that another thing was coming their way. This time, the thing wasn't a plant looking thing; it looked like an insect. "What the..." said Quatre in a state of shock as he watched the oncoming insect.
"Umm, y'all, I think we should be running right about now!" finished Duo who had started calmly, then ended in a yell as he took steps back, hoping the others would get his hint.
"Yeah, lets go." Stammered Sarah who was powering up again just to be on the safe side.
They all started moving backward, away from the largest butterfly they have ever seen. The winds that the flapping wings were causing were like the winds caused by a cyclone or typhoon. They turned a corner and ran as fast as their legs could possibly go until"
"Hey! Who are you! Why aren't you in a shelter?!" bellowed a deep voice. They looked around and as their eyes adjusted to the dim light they noticed tanks galore and part of the Japanese Army hiding from what was going on outside in the street. "All civilians should be in the shelters!" growled the same burly man in the tank that was closest to the street.
"But sir..." stammered Akiko. "We don't live here-" she got interrupted.
"I don't care, the aragami are on the loose and we can't afford to have casualties."
"You didn't let me finish!" she yelled, feeling very frustrated. "We came here by accident and our gundams are right out there!" she finished hurriedly so that she could say it all to him without getting interrupted.
"Nooooo! Deathscythe Hell!" yelled Duo. "Noooo! I forgot about you!" he shouted and took off running toward his gundam. "I'm a comin' buddy! Origami or no origami, I'm not gonna leave you behind."
'Hey! Kid, kid!" the woman in pink yelled as she chased him. "Hey kid come back here! Aghh! Damn kids! Never listen, even if it is a matter of life and death!" she continued yelling at Duo while chasing him down, shooting at any aragami she could see in her line of view. She chased him with another girl, this time in a short blue skirt and a white with a red stripe jacket, the stripe in a v-shape.
"Hey! Hey you! Listen to me! You don't know what's goin on here! You need to go inside! Hurry before you die!" she screamed at him, almost catching up with him.
"Momiji Fujimia! Get your ass to safety and let me worry about this little brat!" the woman in pink yelled.
"No! I am not a mere sacrifice girl Koume! I will not hide! You go fight and I will help these people!" Momiji yelled while trying to pull her long brown hair from her eyes and mouth, the bow at the end of her hair
wasn't working like it was supposed to. Koume looked at her and decided that she was right, she stopped and turned back, aiming her gun at anything that moved anything that looked aragami like anyway.
Now Duo was scared and he ran faster than ever toward this Deathscythe Hell. When he reached it he immediately jumped inside and headed toward the others in an insane frame of mind.
"No Duo no! Don't do anything!" Quatre shouted, "Put your gundam down! Lets just get to shelter and we will all be fine!" he continued to yell, but all was futile because it was apparent the Duo would not stop his stark raving mad attitude until someone got hurt, and even then he still wondered.
All of a sudden, as if he just woke up and found out what had happened, Heero started out for Duo's low flying gundam.
"Hey! Look at him go!" Amy said while pointing at Heero who was running around toward the back of the gundam.
"Sarah! Pick me up!" he yelled she obeyed and flew to him, grabbed him and took him to the very back of the gundam. "Ok, put me down right there and get the hell away!" he screamed, formulating a plan. Again she obeyed. Where is it? He thought. Ahh, here it is. Duo wont stop 'til I make him, so I will make him stop. He laughed evilly and then pushed the self-distruct button.
The siren went off and the self-destruct countdown began.
"Hey Heero! What have you done?!" Duo shouted. He had already begun to land the gundam and look to see if it was possible that he could somehow stop the self-destruction process. But it wasn't possible from inside of the cockpit. He landed the gundam and in consequence Heero fell on his head and bounced.
Sarah came to his aid, but instead Duo took hold of her and told her to take him up to where Heero had gone.
"Self-destruction in one minute and thirty seconds." A toneless computerized voice announced.
"Oh shit!" yelled Duo who was now in a state of panic. "Drop me there!" he screamed at Sarah. She put him down and he searched for the button quickly. "No! Where is it?!" he yelled again. He looked for help, but found only people staring at him. So, he found no one to help him. "No buddy, I won't let you die." He spoke to his gundam and rubbed his hand over the spot where the button is.
'One minute to self-destruction." The same computerized voice stated calmly, but sharply, annunciating each syllable.
"Ok buddy, here it goes." Said duo quietly, almost insanely. He pressed the button waiting for the would-be disaster to be over. The sirens stopped the lights stopped and the voice sounded.
"Self-destruction aborted, self-destruction aborted." The last part of the sentence was not a sound of the brisk computerized voice emerging from the gundam, but it sounded as it had been on a tape and the tape
had slowed down so much that it was terribly slow. A dark, depressing sound, but it was uplifting to everyone that overheard it, Especially Duo.
A shout of joy came from the crowd of staring people as they realized that they were not in any immediate danger, well, any more immediate than what was already going on around them anyway. Duo rubbed his hand across the gundam and patted it the way someone would pat a car. "I knew we could get through this
buddy." Duo told the inanimate object.
He jumped to earth and went to Heero. "Hey man, don't ever do that again, you coulda killed us all and destroyed the whole city." He said calmly.
"I was doing it as a favor to you, you were going insane inside that thing. You were the one putting our lives on the line ya' know." Heero responded.
"Well, then..." He trailed off. "Umm, thanks I guess." He mummered the inaudible last words.
"Oh how sweet!" said a high-pitched voice, an obviously fake cry. They looked around only to find a girl with shoulder-length brassy-blonde hair listening in on the conversation. "That's so sweet!" she cried again, still using the fake cry technique. She wrapped her arms around Quatre (who was very freaked out by this action) and began to fake sob. "That is so sweet that I think I am gonna lose whatever food I ate earlier." The faking stopped at this time, but her grip on Quatre didn't loosen.
Watching this scene between Quatre and the unknown woman was hilarious. Quatre was trying to get away from the girl, but couldn't. He struggled very comically, but to no prevail. It was like watching an old Bugs Bunny cartoon when a girl grabbed hold of him and he couldn't get out of her arms. The guys were laughing at him, but they also felt sorry for poor old Quatre. Well, that wouldn't exactly describe him, for one thing, he was far from poor and he was not old at all.
"Please, let me go." Quatre choked out. "I can't...... Breath." He managed to say, just barely able to move now from the lack of oxygen.
"Oh, sorry Your Blondeness"
"Hey!" interrupted Milliardo offendedly. "I am The Blonde One, Your Blondeness, The Great Blonde, or a mixture of those names. Do not offend me when you call other people my names." He finished with pride. Amy and WuFei rolled their eyes and Sarah choked back a laugh, but Akiko smirked. By this time the excitement was over and most of the people went back into shelter or hiding, but a few remained. Among these few were the two girls that had chased after Duo, one of which was still holding her gun. This was no ordinary handgun she was holding either, so of course, it attracted Heero.
"That's a nice gun, Koume was it?"
"Yes, and no you may not have it, touch it or ogle it in any way unless it is looking only." She told him with authority. "It is my favorite gun and no one..." she looked at Momiji "No one may touch it. Isn't that right Momiji?"
"Yes Koume." She said in a kind of disappointed or ashamed way. Her cheeks blushed a bit making everyone wonder what had happened with the gun in the past.
'All I said is that it was a nice gun, well, gun is an understatement for this thing, huh?" Heero continued. "Yes, It is..." he said while walking around in deep thought. "I think it would be considered more like a bazooka than a gun, but I'm not very good at the whole gun subject." He said modestly.
"Yeah? Then get outa my way; we have aragami to kill! Come on Momiji, let's find Mr. Kunikida and the others! Wait, yall have them machine things, so, y'all wanna come along with us?"
"Sure!" said everyone but Quatre and the girl that was there. They all left to fight the aragami, but Quatre stayed where he was sitting while the girl tended to him.
"Will this ever end?" asked an exasperated Quatre who then fell on his back in frustration. "Who are you anyway?" he asked the girl.
"My name is Hikari Konoshi, friends call me Heather... I think it is an English name or something."
"Well you know what Heather..." he got really close to her, almost like they were gonna kiss. "You almost choked me to death!" he raised his voice at her. "You know, kill me, me die, you know, fall down go boom and never get up again?" he explained so that she could get the hint on what he was talking about. "Do I need to say it again?" he asked irratedly.
"I'm sorry Quatre. I didn't mean to...do that..." she trailed off, muttering random apologies. It was clear that she was embarrassed, her cheeks turned tomato red and she shied away from his presence. Yes, it was clear she was embarrassed, or ashamed. She started to cry softly for some unknown reason.
"Umm... Damn, how am I supposed to handle this? ...Heather, stop crying, I'm ok." He said gently. How can I get her to stop this hideous blubbering? He asked himself. I can't stand it! Even though he was thinking this, he was still being nice on the outside. "Maybe you should get back to a shelter." He
suggested as he watched the butterfly die from Sarah's powerful blast. Unfortunately, the blast also took out a nearby building. He watched her look around to see if anyone had noticed, when she didn't find anyone, she went on her merry way. "Umm, if you could possibly go to a different shelter in a different town, you might be a little safer." He showed what "little" meant by using his thumb and forefinger, putting them about a centimeter apart.
"No, I don't want to. I'm tired of being in a so-called "shelter" (uses quotation mark finger movement things) they aren't really working. Sometimes the aragami will just bust through the walls and we would have to evacuate the "shelter" (same finger motion)." She explained to him.
"Hey Quatre buddy! This is fun, come on! Join us!" yelled Duo as he aimed Koume's bazooka gun thing at an aragami. Before he could shoot he looked back only to find Koume running at him full speed.
'Give me back my gun! It's mine! You stole it from! GIVE IT BACK!" she came yelling and screaming and once she caught him, she gave him a few swifties. (Editor's note - a swifty is a good swift kick in the ass, it solves all
problems) The two had to laugh at Duo's predicament. He was jumping and yelling and finally fell and gave Koume back her gun. "Here, if you want a gun, take this one then." She reached back and felt around for her spare gun that she kept on the small of her back. An odd look crossed her face as she searched more frantically.
"Looking for this maybe? Or how 'bout this?" he asked slyly taking out a shotgun and an automatic pistol, both fully equipped and loaded.
"How did you get those?" she asked while checking her right pant leg. "I had them a minute ago!" she started yelling again.
He smiled slyly and answered: "well, I pick-pocketed you, what else did you expect? I'm not one to go
asking before I take things, especially guns." He twirled the pistol and put it into his jacket holster in one
smooth action. She fumed with hate now. "Hey Koume, don't blow a gasket."
"Give me them back you ass! Give them back to me! They are mine! You do not need them! You might kill
someone! So give them back to me NOW!" she demanded, giving poor Duo more swifties.
"You are gonna bruise my beautiful butt!" he exclaimed trying to block the swifties he was getting. "Ouch!
Ow! That hurts! Stop! Ouch!" he yelped like a helpless puppy.
She only laughed, then carefully got back her guns. "Serves you right ass! Ja ne!"
Duo waddled over to where Quatre and Heather sat. They were laughing so hard at him, especially when he
walked over to them. He walked bow-legged holding his butt and whining about the pain. They were
laughing so hard they were crying from the stomach pain and cramps they got from it. "Hey guys, I'm hurt.
My butt hurts really bad now. I think she broke my tailbone or whatever bone is in my butt." He was
serious.
"I'm sorry Duo." He laughed wildly, wiped the tears from his eyes and tried to calm down before continuing.
"I feel bad for you, I really do…" the laughing started again. "…But I can't forget that you, Duo Maxwell,
Shinigami, got beat by a girl in pink!" More wild laughing commenced.
"Koume is no ordinary girl Quatre man, she's strong. Trust me on this." He rubbed his butt and winced at
the pain. "And man can she kick." He ended, then watching them crack up in laughter made him do the
same, alternating laughs and whines, whimpers, and ouches. Now even Duo had to wipe his eyes from the
laughter and some from the pain he was putting himself through. "So, what's her name?" he asked after
the laughing finally stopped.
"My name is Heather, Hikari anyway, and why didn't you just ask me yourself?" he just shrugged his
shoulders.
"So y'all two gonna get together like Heero and Sarah, Milliardo and Akiko and WuFei and Amy did?"
"I don't know, I guess it depends on if she wants to and if we can take her really."
"What, you mean you don't care if you don't like me or somethin'?"
"Well, I thought that would be a given. I am certainly not gonna let you travel with us if I can't stand you, I'm
not that nice." Quatre answered back.
"Ok then. Yeah, I think you are pretty good lookin, so I wouldn't mind goin with you guys and girls."
"Really? That's cool, but only good lookin? Not hot or breathe taking or anything more?" he said as he
gave Duo the leave signal. Duo took the hint and went of to find the others and see if they had killed
anything yet.
"Don't push your luck." She snapped. He was taken aback by this comment. "What do you think about me?
See, I happen to like blondes, which is why I picked you. I was gonna pick that other blonde, you know, the
tall one, but that chic with him gave me the death glare."
"Well, I do find that you are rather attractive." He kind of turned his head when he said that, she supposed
to make sure no one overheard him say it. "And I wouldn't mind having you with me, I mean, I don't want to
be the only person left without a girl. It looks like Duo wants that Koume girl to go with him."
She smiled. "Ok, I'll go. But, where?"
"Oh, we were sucked through this little portal thing and it brought us to all these different places and we
are just gonna travel it until we get back home." He finished, but all she did was look at him cock-eyed,
unbelievingly. "No! Seriously! Ask the others!"
"Uh huh, sure, whatever you say Quatre-dear." She added sarcastically.
All of a sudden Quatre got up in a state of fear and panic. He tried to call out to Heather, to tell her to get
up too, but he couldn't breathe, the fear he held had engulfed him completely. Suddenly his legs felt like
rubber and Heather felt a strong wind to her back. Quatre fell down, but still tried to remain moving
backward. His legs felt like nothing but two rubber bands, going so numb from the lack of oxygen in his
body that he couldn't even tell that he had legs without looking. He wasn't breathing because he was too
scared of the thing that was coming.
It looked like a man, only this man had long purple hair and eight blade-looking things coming out of his
skin. Not only that, but behind him was an insect, a flying insect. This must be an aragami. It has to! But
what is he! This does not feel right at all! It isn't natural! He thought. It was his only thought, a broken
record playing over and over again in his brain. He looked at the man and realized that the blades were
very sharp and tough too. They were attached to the back of his hands, his knees, four on his back, and
the last two jetting out from his shoulders. Each blade was long, and sharp, and looked like it was
handcrafted just for him. No hilts, just a blade…a double-edged blade at that with a pointed tip, all silver.
Yet, even with all eight of his blades, he wore pants and a shirt, they were ripped and tattered, but that is
what made him look like a man. His long purple hair was surprisingly still considering how much his insect
was creating.
The insect behind him, that can't be the one that Sarah killed could it? Oh no, don't tell me that these
things can't die. Nothing is immortal, not even this. But… he thought, his mind conflicting with him, telling
him the things that he knew were true but didn't want to know. He thought about ignoring his pacifist
beliefs and just shooting it, But he didn't carry a gun and he was sure that Heather didn't have one.
Besides, what good would it do, if this was the one that he had seen Sarah blast then a mere gun certainly
wouldn't work against it. The butterfly thing was overly large, but that was the only difference between this
butterfly and a regular butterfly, well, that and it's urge to kill. It flapped it's wings, then it started to create
a cocoon like thing around them. It built up a huge dome and sealed them off inside with the man. Now
they were both frightened, the sunlight had been blocked and it was darker inside and then there was the
aragami and the man…
"Murakuma! You shall die!" announced another man, but this man also had blades coming out. He had
them on the knees, and four on the back and two of them jetted from his shoulders.
"Ahh, Kusanagi how nice to see you again. I'm sure that you will be no match for me, again." He bragged,
not even looking at Heather and Quatre now. Quatre looked around to see where he had come from. Then
he noticed light being swallowed or something, he looked in the direction and found that
this…Kusanagi…had ripped a hole in the cocoon wall to get inside and now the butterfly was sealing it up
again. Quatre tried to move toward the dimming light but couldn't, he was paralyzed with fear, or so he
thought. He wanted to scream, but the fear welled up in his throat and he couldn't do anything but try to
swallow it, nothing worked right, not his voice, legs, arms, even his mind seemed to be dysfunctional.
Meanwhile, his still looked at the two men with vivid interest, sheer curiosity… and morbid fear. "Kusanagi,
you know you can't beat me, I am better than you in every way, I am stronger, faster and I have eight
matabas. You should know that I am superior to you in every single way. Fight me and you will die, oppose
me and you will die an awful, painful death, join and you shall become a servant to Susannah-Oh.
"Murakuma! I will never join you and Susannah-Oh and you two shall die before I do! So…" he whispered
the last part… "You might as well start the process of surrendering to me and the rightful Kushinada,
Momiji!" he finished dramatically, his arms making an "L" shape, the right arm a little to the side of his
head, and the left corssed underneath it. He started to scream in pain as his matabas started to glow blue,
then Quatre watched in horror as his skin split. Two blades ripped out of his arms and stuck out in a faint
moon-look shape.
"Ahh, Kusanagi…" Marakumo chuckled. "You still believe you can defeat me? All you do is futile. I cannot
be destroyed, for I have the power of Susanna-Oh and Kaede with me, you can't destroy your beloved
Kaede can you?" he asked slyly, very sure of himself.
"I will… I will…I will…I WILL DESTROY ALL EVIL AND PROTECT ALL OF JAPAN WITH MOMIJI AT MY SIDE!!"
he finished as he flew at the still calm man opposite of him.
Now that those blade like things have extruded from his for arm he become… oh… a different person it
seems. He is no longer the calm man that he was before, he isn't as cool and collected and he might get
killed in here… like us…Quatre thought. He looked back at Heather who had fainted with all the action
going on in this bubble thing that the thing had created. And why can't I move?! Quatre yelled in his mind
as he frantically started to struggle to get up, or even move, but he couldn't. He felt like a deer, staring into
the headlights of a fast oncoming car on the longest, darkest night of the year. He could do nothing at all,
couldn't move, and he sure as hell didn't want to draw attention to himself, so he didn't even want to think
about talking, he didn't even want to think for fear that these two men could read minds. He struggled
again to move without making the slightest sound. He tried to pick his arms up and lift his body, but
couldn't do it. Oh man, oh no. Why can't I move!? I not feeling pain or anything…wait…I'm not feeling
anything at all! I can't even feel the ground I am on; I can't feel the slight weight of my clothes shoes… and
can't even feel the dagger! It's still there; it has to be though!! I don't see it anywhere and I know that I had
it when this cocoon was made, but I cant feel it now! He started screaming silently. Voiceless screaming was
all the sound that was made by him. His thoughts rushing into his head more and more, the though of
dying in this God-for-saken place, the thought of him never seeing his friends again, it all came to him in a
rush of fear. Fear for his friends, fear for Tokyo, fear for the people outside, fear for the earth and universe,
fear for heather, and fear for his life, sanity, and him…
Once more he struggled to get up, but, again, he failed in accomplishing this simple task. Then somethin
caught his eyes… a transparent film over Heather. Had that been there before or am I just going insane?
Is it really there? He contemplated the weightless film to himself. No, it has to be there, maybe that's why I
can't move! That's it! Now, I f I could just get this stuff off me I could help her and get the hell outa here!
The first sign of hope shown on his pale, sullen, sunken, frightened face. He struggled soundlessly, unable
to get any gain on the transparent film on him.
"Ahh, Kusanagi! That's it, let it out, kill yourself for the sake of Japan. It will do no good in the end though,
the country is under our command." Marakumo said while blocking Kusanagi's dagger-like things on his
arms and knees.
"Marakumo!! Just give it up! This world would be nothing if you ruled! You kill..." right then Kusanagi was
stabbed and he fell to the ground, gasping and heaving, trying to hold his stomach in its place. He looked
at Quatre then, for the first time and acknowledged his presence, then looked back at a smirking Marakumo
with a string of blood coming out of his mouth and smiled before struggling to stand up again.
"Oh no, I'm dead now." Whispered Quatre insanely. His eyes were wide with fear as he realized that now
both of the men knew that he was there… if they didn't already know before.
Kusanagi struggled to get up without letting his hand stay away from his open wound, only he knew how
bad it was. The others in the cocoon didn't, although he suspected that by the way Marakumo was grinning
he had an idea of to the size of his stomach wound. He took his coat and wrapped it around his stomach
tightly, like a makeshift bandage would be wrapped around a wounded chest. Then, as his already red
trench coat soaked with blood and soon started to drip on the ground, he struggled to stand, wincing in
pain as whatever was left of his stomach muscles tightened and contracted as he stood up on shaky,
unstable legs. Then, focusing all of his energy, he was able to walk forward, dripping blood from he
stomach as he went. He looked deeply into Marakumo's eyes and whispered: "Marakumo. You will be killed.
But, it won't be quick and painless, no, no it won't. It will be long, drawn out, and filled with pain. Every limb
will be torn from you, every extremity will be cut off your helpless body." He stumbled, but caught his
balance and continued to walk forward. "You will be in pain for what you are doing to this country, these
helpless people." He waved a hand toward Quatre and Heather. "All these animals… Kaede!" he started to
yell, wiping the blood from his mouth as he did so. "You will pay! Mark my words..." and with those final
words he flew toward a stunned Marakumo and impaled him, sliced his arms off as promised and
repeatedly stabbed him with his own bio-daggers. Then, with the lifeless body on the cold, hard floor, he
concentrated on the aragami. Quatre could do nothing but lay there and look at the dead man with the long
purple hair once known as Marakumo, then, lost reality all together and fainted out of nervousness, the
heat, and the fear that swelled in his throat.
"HEY! HEY! Put the Q-Man down!" Quatre recognized Duo shouting. "I repeat, put the q-man down!"
Quatre looked up to find that he was no longer on the ground, he was in the wounded man's arms.
"Hey! Kusanagi! Put him down!!!" screamed Momiji as she ran to him, but, ungracefully, tripped and fell.
"Ooh, look it's the rabbits today!" Kusanagi gleefully teased as he put Quatre on the ground and helped
Momiji up.
"You pervert!" Momiji said laughing lightly at her own klutziness and weird animal panties. She tried to slap
him for his comment, but he was able to catch her hand, then kiss it like a gentleman would kiss a lady
before a dance back in the medieval ages. (wait yall, I didn't get the wrong era, did I? sorry if I did…) she
blushed and he all of a sudden turned and went off into the distance, killing aragami as he went.
"Heather? Heather? Where are ya babe?" Quatre started asking frantically.
"Hey Q-man, she right here, you didn't se that?" duo said, pointing to Trowa who held her safely in his
arms. "She's fine, how are you and what happened in there? That man wouldn't tell us anything!"
"I feel a little weird right now." He put a hand to his head to see if he had a fever. "Hey!" he realized. "I can
move again! So I'm not paralyzed!" he moved his arms and legs for good measure then carefully sat up
and used his hands for support. He grabbed Momiji who was the closest and hugged her tightly. "I can
move again! I can move! I'm not paralyzed after all!"
"Hey, lemme go." Choked Momiji.
"Gomen ne, Momiji-sama. Wait! This is not a Japanese speaking fic! I'm sorry Momiji." He said, startling
others around him. He looked at the sky again and yelled, slapping Momiji hard on the arm and shoulder
repeatedly in his discovery. "Look yall! There it is! Right there! Come on! Where is Sandrock?! Lets go!!!!"
the other guys followed Quatre's gaze and found the psychedelic ring in the sky.
They piled into their respective gundams, Quatre got a little help from everyone and so did Heather.
The monitor in everyone's gundams came on and Heero asked where Milliardo and Akiko have been.
Suddenly, they came on and Heero recognized their presence with some questions that the two refused to
answer, but instead blasted off into the psychedelic ring in the sky with the others following closely behind.
"Great, now where the hell are we?" asked Milliardo who was looking down on the strange world.
"I don't think were in Kansas anymore." Quoted Akiko. Milliardo looked at her oddly, raising an eyebrow. "Dorothy, Wizard of Oz." She waited for any sign of a response from him. None came. "Oh yeah, that was back in the day." He shrugged.
"Milliardo?" asked Quatre. "Do you know where we are? It looks like Tokyo, but there are these plant things all over the place." I am seeing something, but I don't know what it is, or they, correcton." He said to the screen that was now connected to Tallgeese Three.
"Quatre! Quatre!" screamed Milliardo at the now blank screen, it had gone off suddenly, and when he looked toward Sandrock, it wasn't there. Something had pulled it down, toward the ground below. He looked again and saw what looked like a plant wrapped around Sandrock's left leg. As the rest of the people followed Quatre to see what happened, Akiko pointed out something'
"What are those blue things? They look like little jewels on their heads."
All of a sudden the plant died. A blast hit it...
'Quatre, are you all right? Amy asked breathlessly. He stood up, dusted off and answered that he was all right, a little shaken up was all, not a hair misplaced (ok, that's a big stretch). They looked around, only to find people wearing jackets with bands of color on them and carrying equipment from plant base to plant base scurrying about, not having enough time to look at them. Then, flying above them they saw a man with blades sticking out of his back, arms and even his knees!
"What the fu..." Heero couldn't finish the sentence because he felt a tap on his shoulder. "What Duo!? What do you want now!?" Duo turned and looked at Heero oddly. Heero's eyes bulged as he turned around only to find Sarah. Heero screamed.
"What? What? I just saved what's his name over there, you aren't glad to see me?" her red hair fell perfectly again as she went out of her Super Saiya-Jin form.
"No, not another stalker!" Heero yelled. "No more Relena wannabes!!!!" he yelled louder.
"Fine, I'll leave" she said as she turned away from him.
"No, it's aight, you stay with me, just," he paused, "no more sneaking up behind me like that."
As they watched the people in white colored jackets with different bands of color on them, they started to notice that another thing was coming their way. This time, the thing wasn't a plant looking thing; it looked like an insect. "What the..." said Quatre in a state of shock as he watched the oncoming insect.
"Umm, y'all, I think we should be running right about now!" finished Duo who had started calmly, then ended in a yell as he took steps back, hoping the others would get his hint.
"Yeah, lets go." Stammered Sarah who was powering up again just to be on the safe side.
They all started moving backward, away from the largest butterfly they have ever seen. The winds that the flapping wings were causing were like the winds caused by a cyclone or typhoon. They turned a corner and ran as fast as their legs could possibly go until"
"Hey! Who are you! Why aren't you in a shelter?!" bellowed a deep voice. They looked around and as their eyes adjusted to the dim light they noticed tanks galore and part of the Japanese Army hiding from what was going on outside in the street. "All civilians should be in the shelters!" growled the same burly man in the tank that was closest to the street.
"But sir..." stammered Akiko. "We don't live here-" she got interrupted.
"I don't care, the aragami are on the loose and we can't afford to have casualties."
"You didn't let me finish!" she yelled, feeling very frustrated. "We came here by accident and our gundams are right out there!" she finished hurriedly so that she could say it all to him without getting interrupted.
"Nooooo! Deathscythe Hell!" yelled Duo. "Noooo! I forgot about you!" he shouted and took off running toward his gundam. "I'm a comin' buddy! Origami or no origami, I'm not gonna leave you behind."
'Hey! Kid, kid!" the woman in pink yelled as she chased him. "Hey kid come back here! Aghh! Damn kids! Never listen, even if it is a matter of life and death!" she continued yelling at Duo while chasing him down, shooting at any aragami she could see in her line of view. She chased him with another girl, this time in a short blue skirt and a white with a red stripe jacket, the stripe in a v-shape.
"Hey! Hey you! Listen to me! You don't know what's goin on here! You need to go inside! Hurry before you die!" she screamed at him, almost catching up with him.
"Momiji Fujimia! Get your ass to safety and let me worry about this little brat!" the woman in pink yelled.
"No! I am not a mere sacrifice girl Koume! I will not hide! You go fight and I will help these people!" Momiji yelled while trying to pull her long brown hair from her eyes and mouth, the bow at the end of her hair
wasn't working like it was supposed to. Koume looked at her and decided that she was right, she stopped and turned back, aiming her gun at anything that moved anything that looked aragami like anyway.
Now Duo was scared and he ran faster than ever toward this Deathscythe Hell. When he reached it he immediately jumped inside and headed toward the others in an insane frame of mind.
"No Duo no! Don't do anything!" Quatre shouted, "Put your gundam down! Lets just get to shelter and we will all be fine!" he continued to yell, but all was futile because it was apparent the Duo would not stop his stark raving mad attitude until someone got hurt, and even then he still wondered.
All of a sudden, as if he just woke up and found out what had happened, Heero started out for Duo's low flying gundam.
"Hey! Look at him go!" Amy said while pointing at Heero who was running around toward the back of the gundam.
"Sarah! Pick me up!" he yelled she obeyed and flew to him, grabbed him and took him to the very back of the gundam. "Ok, put me down right there and get the hell away!" he screamed, formulating a plan. Again she obeyed. Where is it? He thought. Ahh, here it is. Duo wont stop 'til I make him, so I will make him stop. He laughed evilly and then pushed the self-distruct button.
The siren went off and the self-destruct countdown began.
"Hey Heero! What have you done?!" Duo shouted. He had already begun to land the gundam and look to see if it was possible that he could somehow stop the self-destruction process. But it wasn't possible from inside of the cockpit. He landed the gundam and in consequence Heero fell on his head and bounced.
Sarah came to his aid, but instead Duo took hold of her and told her to take him up to where Heero had gone.
"Self-destruction in one minute and thirty seconds." A toneless computerized voice announced.
"Oh shit!" yelled Duo who was now in a state of panic. "Drop me there!" he screamed at Sarah. She put him down and he searched for the button quickly. "No! Where is it?!" he yelled again. He looked for help, but found only people staring at him. So, he found no one to help him. "No buddy, I won't let you die." He spoke to his gundam and rubbed his hand over the spot where the button is.
'One minute to self-destruction." The same computerized voice stated calmly, but sharply, annunciating each syllable.
"Ok buddy, here it goes." Said duo quietly, almost insanely. He pressed the button waiting for the would-be disaster to be over. The sirens stopped the lights stopped and the voice sounded.
"Self-destruction aborted, self-destruction aborted." The last part of the sentence was not a sound of the brisk computerized voice emerging from the gundam, but it sounded as it had been on a tape and the tape
had slowed down so much that it was terribly slow. A dark, depressing sound, but it was uplifting to everyone that overheard it, Especially Duo.
A shout of joy came from the crowd of staring people as they realized that they were not in any immediate danger, well, any more immediate than what was already going on around them anyway. Duo rubbed his hand across the gundam and patted it the way someone would pat a car. "I knew we could get through this
buddy." Duo told the inanimate object.
He jumped to earth and went to Heero. "Hey man, don't ever do that again, you coulda killed us all and destroyed the whole city." He said calmly.
"I was doing it as a favor to you, you were going insane inside that thing. You were the one putting our lives on the line ya' know." Heero responded.
"Well, then..." He trailed off. "Umm, thanks I guess." He mummered the inaudible last words.
"Oh how sweet!" said a high-pitched voice, an obviously fake cry. They looked around only to find a girl with shoulder-length brassy-blonde hair listening in on the conversation. "That's so sweet!" she cried again, still using the fake cry technique. She wrapped her arms around Quatre (who was very freaked out by this action) and began to fake sob. "That is so sweet that I think I am gonna lose whatever food I ate earlier." The faking stopped at this time, but her grip on Quatre didn't loosen.
Watching this scene between Quatre and the unknown woman was hilarious. Quatre was trying to get away from the girl, but couldn't. He struggled very comically, but to no prevail. It was like watching an old Bugs Bunny cartoon when a girl grabbed hold of him and he couldn't get out of her arms. The guys were laughing at him, but they also felt sorry for poor old Quatre. Well, that wouldn't exactly describe him, for one thing, he was far from poor and he was not old at all.
"Please, let me go." Quatre choked out. "I can't...... Breath." He managed to say, just barely able to move now from the lack of oxygen.
"Oh, sorry Your Blondeness"
"Hey!" interrupted Milliardo offendedly. "I am The Blonde One, Your Blondeness, The Great Blonde, or a mixture of those names. Do not offend me when you call other people my names." He finished with pride. Amy and WuFei rolled their eyes and Sarah choked back a laugh, but Akiko smirked. By this time the excitement was over and most of the people went back into shelter or hiding, but a few remained. Among these few were the two girls that had chased after Duo, one of which was still holding her gun. This was no ordinary handgun she was holding either, so of course, it attracted Heero.
"That's a nice gun, Koume was it?"
"Yes, and no you may not have it, touch it or ogle it in any way unless it is looking only." She told him with authority. "It is my favorite gun and no one..." she looked at Momiji "No one may touch it. Isn't that right Momiji?"
"Yes Koume." She said in a kind of disappointed or ashamed way. Her cheeks blushed a bit making everyone wonder what had happened with the gun in the past.
'All I said is that it was a nice gun, well, gun is an understatement for this thing, huh?" Heero continued. "Yes, It is..." he said while walking around in deep thought. "I think it would be considered more like a bazooka than a gun, but I'm not very good at the whole gun subject." He said modestly.
"Yeah? Then get outa my way; we have aragami to kill! Come on Momiji, let's find Mr. Kunikida and the others! Wait, yall have them machine things, so, y'all wanna come along with us?"
"Sure!" said everyone but Quatre and the girl that was there. They all left to fight the aragami, but Quatre stayed where he was sitting while the girl tended to him.
"Will this ever end?" asked an exasperated Quatre who then fell on his back in frustration. "Who are you anyway?" he asked the girl.
"My name is Hikari Konoshi, friends call me Heather... I think it is an English name or something."
"Well you know what Heather..." he got really close to her, almost like they were gonna kiss. "You almost choked me to death!" he raised his voice at her. "You know, kill me, me die, you know, fall down go boom and never get up again?" he explained so that she could get the hint on what he was talking about. "Do I need to say it again?" he asked irratedly.
"I'm sorry Quatre. I didn't mean to...do that..." she trailed off, muttering random apologies. It was clear that she was embarrassed, her cheeks turned tomato red and she shied away from his presence. Yes, it was clear she was embarrassed, or ashamed. She started to cry softly for some unknown reason.
"Umm... Damn, how am I supposed to handle this? ...Heather, stop crying, I'm ok." He said gently. How can I get her to stop this hideous blubbering? He asked himself. I can't stand it! Even though he was thinking this, he was still being nice on the outside. "Maybe you should get back to a shelter." He
suggested as he watched the butterfly die from Sarah's powerful blast. Unfortunately, the blast also took out a nearby building. He watched her look around to see if anyone had noticed, when she didn't find anyone, she went on her merry way. "Umm, if you could possibly go to a different shelter in a different town, you might be a little safer." He showed what "little" meant by using his thumb and forefinger, putting them about a centimeter apart.
"No, I don't want to. I'm tired of being in a so-called "shelter" (uses quotation mark finger movement things) they aren't really working. Sometimes the aragami will just bust through the walls and we would have to evacuate the "shelter" (same finger motion)." She explained to him.
"Hey Quatre buddy! This is fun, come on! Join us!" yelled Duo as he aimed Koume's bazooka gun thing at an aragami. Before he could shoot he looked back only to find Koume running at him full speed.
'Give me back my gun! It's mine! You stole it from! GIVE IT BACK!" she came yelling and screaming and once she caught him, she gave him a few swifties. (Editor's note - a swifty is a good swift kick in the ass, it solves all
problems) The two had to laugh at Duo's predicament. He was jumping and yelling and finally fell and gave Koume back her gun. "Here, if you want a gun, take this one then." She reached back and felt around for her spare gun that she kept on the small of her back. An odd look crossed her face as she searched more frantically.
"Looking for this maybe? Or how 'bout this?" he asked slyly taking out a shotgun and an automatic pistol, both fully equipped and loaded.
"How did you get those?" she asked while checking her right pant leg. "I had them a minute ago!" she started yelling again.
He smiled slyly and answered: "well, I pick-pocketed you, what else did you expect? I'm not one to go
asking before I take things, especially guns." He twirled the pistol and put it into his jacket holster in one
smooth action. She fumed with hate now. "Hey Koume, don't blow a gasket."
"Give me them back you ass! Give them back to me! They are mine! You do not need them! You might kill
someone! So give them back to me NOW!" she demanded, giving poor Duo more swifties.
"You are gonna bruise my beautiful butt!" he exclaimed trying to block the swifties he was getting. "Ouch!
Ow! That hurts! Stop! Ouch!" he yelped like a helpless puppy.
She only laughed, then carefully got back her guns. "Serves you right ass! Ja ne!"
Duo waddled over to where Quatre and Heather sat. They were laughing so hard at him, especially when he
walked over to them. He walked bow-legged holding his butt and whining about the pain. They were
laughing so hard they were crying from the stomach pain and cramps they got from it. "Hey guys, I'm hurt.
My butt hurts really bad now. I think she broke my tailbone or whatever bone is in my butt." He was
serious.
"I'm sorry Duo." He laughed wildly, wiped the tears from his eyes and tried to calm down before continuing.
"I feel bad for you, I really do…" the laughing started again. "…But I can't forget that you, Duo Maxwell,
Shinigami, got beat by a girl in pink!" More wild laughing commenced.
"Koume is no ordinary girl Quatre man, she's strong. Trust me on this." He rubbed his butt and winced at
the pain. "And man can she kick." He ended, then watching them crack up in laughter made him do the
same, alternating laughs and whines, whimpers, and ouches. Now even Duo had to wipe his eyes from the
laughter and some from the pain he was putting himself through. "So, what's her name?" he asked after
the laughing finally stopped.
"My name is Heather, Hikari anyway, and why didn't you just ask me yourself?" he just shrugged his
shoulders.
"So y'all two gonna get together like Heero and Sarah, Milliardo and Akiko and WuFei and Amy did?"
"I don't know, I guess it depends on if she wants to and if we can take her really."
"What, you mean you don't care if you don't like me or somethin'?"
"Well, I thought that would be a given. I am certainly not gonna let you travel with us if I can't stand you, I'm
not that nice." Quatre answered back.
"Ok then. Yeah, I think you are pretty good lookin, so I wouldn't mind goin with you guys and girls."
"Really? That's cool, but only good lookin? Not hot or breathe taking or anything more?" he said as he
gave Duo the leave signal. Duo took the hint and went of to find the others and see if they had killed
anything yet.
"Don't push your luck." She snapped. He was taken aback by this comment. "What do you think about me?
See, I happen to like blondes, which is why I picked you. I was gonna pick that other blonde, you know, the
tall one, but that chic with him gave me the death glare."
"Well, I do find that you are rather attractive." He kind of turned his head when he said that, she supposed
to make sure no one overheard him say it. "And I wouldn't mind having you with me, I mean, I don't want to
be the only person left without a girl. It looks like Duo wants that Koume girl to go with him."
She smiled. "Ok, I'll go. But, where?"
"Oh, we were sucked through this little portal thing and it brought us to all these different places and we
are just gonna travel it until we get back home." He finished, but all she did was look at him cock-eyed,
unbelievingly. "No! Seriously! Ask the others!"
"Uh huh, sure, whatever you say Quatre-dear." She added sarcastically.
All of a sudden Quatre got up in a state of fear and panic. He tried to call out to Heather, to tell her to get
up too, but he couldn't breathe, the fear he held had engulfed him completely. Suddenly his legs felt like
rubber and Heather felt a strong wind to her back. Quatre fell down, but still tried to remain moving
backward. His legs felt like nothing but two rubber bands, going so numb from the lack of oxygen in his
body that he couldn't even tell that he had legs without looking. He wasn't breathing because he was too
scared of the thing that was coming.
It looked like a man, only this man had long purple hair and eight blade-looking things coming out of his
skin. Not only that, but behind him was an insect, a flying insect. This must be an aragami. It has to! But
what is he! This does not feel right at all! It isn't natural! He thought. It was his only thought, a broken
record playing over and over again in his brain. He looked at the man and realized that the blades were
very sharp and tough too. They were attached to the back of his hands, his knees, four on his back, and
the last two jetting out from his shoulders. Each blade was long, and sharp, and looked like it was
handcrafted just for him. No hilts, just a blade…a double-edged blade at that with a pointed tip, all silver.
Yet, even with all eight of his blades, he wore pants and a shirt, they were ripped and tattered, but that is
what made him look like a man. His long purple hair was surprisingly still considering how much his insect
was creating.
The insect behind him, that can't be the one that Sarah killed could it? Oh no, don't tell me that these
things can't die. Nothing is immortal, not even this. But… he thought, his mind conflicting with him, telling
him the things that he knew were true but didn't want to know. He thought about ignoring his pacifist
beliefs and just shooting it, But he didn't carry a gun and he was sure that Heather didn't have one.
Besides, what good would it do, if this was the one that he had seen Sarah blast then a mere gun certainly
wouldn't work against it. The butterfly thing was overly large, but that was the only difference between this
butterfly and a regular butterfly, well, that and it's urge to kill. It flapped it's wings, then it started to create
a cocoon like thing around them. It built up a huge dome and sealed them off inside with the man. Now
they were both frightened, the sunlight had been blocked and it was darker inside and then there was the
aragami and the man…
"Murakuma! You shall die!" announced another man, but this man also had blades coming out. He had
them on the knees, and four on the back and two of them jetted from his shoulders.
"Ahh, Kusanagi how nice to see you again. I'm sure that you will be no match for me, again." He bragged,
not even looking at Heather and Quatre now. Quatre looked around to see where he had come from. Then
he noticed light being swallowed or something, he looked in the direction and found that
this…Kusanagi…had ripped a hole in the cocoon wall to get inside and now the butterfly was sealing it up
again. Quatre tried to move toward the dimming light but couldn't, he was paralyzed with fear, or so he
thought. He wanted to scream, but the fear welled up in his throat and he couldn't do anything but try to
swallow it, nothing worked right, not his voice, legs, arms, even his mind seemed to be dysfunctional.
Meanwhile, his still looked at the two men with vivid interest, sheer curiosity… and morbid fear. "Kusanagi,
you know you can't beat me, I am better than you in every way, I am stronger, faster and I have eight
matabas. You should know that I am superior to you in every single way. Fight me and you will die, oppose
me and you will die an awful, painful death, join and you shall become a servant to Susannah-Oh.
"Murakuma! I will never join you and Susannah-Oh and you two shall die before I do! So…" he whispered
the last part… "You might as well start the process of surrendering to me and the rightful Kushinada,
Momiji!" he finished dramatically, his arms making an "L" shape, the right arm a little to the side of his
head, and the left corssed underneath it. He started to scream in pain as his matabas started to glow blue,
then Quatre watched in horror as his skin split. Two blades ripped out of his arms and stuck out in a faint
moon-look shape.
"Ahh, Kusanagi…" Marakumo chuckled. "You still believe you can defeat me? All you do is futile. I cannot
be destroyed, for I have the power of Susanna-Oh and Kaede with me, you can't destroy your beloved
Kaede can you?" he asked slyly, very sure of himself.
"I will… I will…I will…I WILL DESTROY ALL EVIL AND PROTECT ALL OF JAPAN WITH MOMIJI AT MY SIDE!!"
he finished as he flew at the still calm man opposite of him.
Now that those blade like things have extruded from his for arm he become… oh… a different person it
seems. He is no longer the calm man that he was before, he isn't as cool and collected and he might get
killed in here… like us…Quatre thought. He looked back at Heather who had fainted with all the action
going on in this bubble thing that the thing had created. And why can't I move?! Quatre yelled in his mind
as he frantically started to struggle to get up, or even move, but he couldn't. He felt like a deer, staring into
the headlights of a fast oncoming car on the longest, darkest night of the year. He could do nothing at all,
couldn't move, and he sure as hell didn't want to draw attention to himself, so he didn't even want to think
about talking, he didn't even want to think for fear that these two men could read minds. He struggled
again to move without making the slightest sound. He tried to pick his arms up and lift his body, but
couldn't do it. Oh man, oh no. Why can't I move!? I not feeling pain or anything…wait…I'm not feeling
anything at all! I can't even feel the ground I am on; I can't feel the slight weight of my clothes shoes… and
can't even feel the dagger! It's still there; it has to be though!! I don't see it anywhere and I know that I had
it when this cocoon was made, but I cant feel it now! He started screaming silently. Voiceless screaming was
all the sound that was made by him. His thoughts rushing into his head more and more, the though of
dying in this God-for-saken place, the thought of him never seeing his friends again, it all came to him in a
rush of fear. Fear for his friends, fear for Tokyo, fear for the people outside, fear for the earth and universe,
fear for heather, and fear for his life, sanity, and him…
Once more he struggled to get up, but, again, he failed in accomplishing this simple task. Then somethin
caught his eyes… a transparent film over Heather. Had that been there before or am I just going insane?
Is it really there? He contemplated the weightless film to himself. No, it has to be there, maybe that's why I
can't move! That's it! Now, I f I could just get this stuff off me I could help her and get the hell outa here!
The first sign of hope shown on his pale, sullen, sunken, frightened face. He struggled soundlessly, unable
to get any gain on the transparent film on him.
"Ahh, Kusanagi! That's it, let it out, kill yourself for the sake of Japan. It will do no good in the end though,
the country is under our command." Marakumo said while blocking Kusanagi's dagger-like things on his
arms and knees.
"Marakumo!! Just give it up! This world would be nothing if you ruled! You kill..." right then Kusanagi was
stabbed and he fell to the ground, gasping and heaving, trying to hold his stomach in its place. He looked
at Quatre then, for the first time and acknowledged his presence, then looked back at a smirking Marakumo
with a string of blood coming out of his mouth and smiled before struggling to stand up again.
"Oh no, I'm dead now." Whispered Quatre insanely. His eyes were wide with fear as he realized that now
both of the men knew that he was there… if they didn't already know before.
Kusanagi struggled to get up without letting his hand stay away from his open wound, only he knew how
bad it was. The others in the cocoon didn't, although he suspected that by the way Marakumo was grinning
he had an idea of to the size of his stomach wound. He took his coat and wrapped it around his stomach
tightly, like a makeshift bandage would be wrapped around a wounded chest. Then, as his already red
trench coat soaked with blood and soon started to drip on the ground, he struggled to stand, wincing in
pain as whatever was left of his stomach muscles tightened and contracted as he stood up on shaky,
unstable legs. Then, focusing all of his energy, he was able to walk forward, dripping blood from he
stomach as he went. He looked deeply into Marakumo's eyes and whispered: "Marakumo. You will be killed.
But, it won't be quick and painless, no, no it won't. It will be long, drawn out, and filled with pain. Every limb
will be torn from you, every extremity will be cut off your helpless body." He stumbled, but caught his
balance and continued to walk forward. "You will be in pain for what you are doing to this country, these
helpless people." He waved a hand toward Quatre and Heather. "All these animals… Kaede!" he started to
yell, wiping the blood from his mouth as he did so. "You will pay! Mark my words..." and with those final
words he flew toward a stunned Marakumo and impaled him, sliced his arms off as promised and
repeatedly stabbed him with his own bio-daggers. Then, with the lifeless body on the cold, hard floor, he
concentrated on the aragami. Quatre could do nothing but lay there and look at the dead man with the long
purple hair once known as Marakumo, then, lost reality all together and fainted out of nervousness, the
heat, and the fear that swelled in his throat.
"HEY! HEY! Put the Q-Man down!" Quatre recognized Duo shouting. "I repeat, put the q-man down!"
Quatre looked up to find that he was no longer on the ground, he was in the wounded man's arms.
"Hey! Kusanagi! Put him down!!!" screamed Momiji as she ran to him, but, ungracefully, tripped and fell.
"Ooh, look it's the rabbits today!" Kusanagi gleefully teased as he put Quatre on the ground and helped
Momiji up.
"You pervert!" Momiji said laughing lightly at her own klutziness and weird animal panties. She tried to slap
him for his comment, but he was able to catch her hand, then kiss it like a gentleman would kiss a lady
before a dance back in the medieval ages. (wait yall, I didn't get the wrong era, did I? sorry if I did…) she
blushed and he all of a sudden turned and went off into the distance, killing aragami as he went.
"Heather? Heather? Where are ya babe?" Quatre started asking frantically.
"Hey Q-man, she right here, you didn't se that?" duo said, pointing to Trowa who held her safely in his
arms. "She's fine, how are you and what happened in there? That man wouldn't tell us anything!"
"I feel a little weird right now." He put a hand to his head to see if he had a fever. "Hey!" he realized. "I can
move again! So I'm not paralyzed!" he moved his arms and legs for good measure then carefully sat up
and used his hands for support. He grabbed Momiji who was the closest and hugged her tightly. "I can
move again! I can move! I'm not paralyzed after all!"
"Hey, lemme go." Choked Momiji.
"Gomen ne, Momiji-sama. Wait! This is not a Japanese speaking fic! I'm sorry Momiji." He said, startling
others around him. He looked at the sky again and yelled, slapping Momiji hard on the arm and shoulder
repeatedly in his discovery. "Look yall! There it is! Right there! Come on! Where is Sandrock?! Lets go!!!!"
the other guys followed Quatre's gaze and found the psychedelic ring in the sky.
They piled into their respective gundams, Quatre got a little help from everyone and so did Heather.
The monitor in everyone's gundams came on and Heero asked where Milliardo and Akiko have been.
Suddenly, they came on and Heero recognized their presence with some questions that the two refused to
answer, but instead blasted off into the psychedelic ring in the sky with the others following closely behind.