The Break Out
Kara and Miroki sat
across from the pilots, with Noin on one side and Milliardo on the other. The
two girls nodded to each other. After all, they would have to say something
sooner or later. The question was, would they get killed for doing so.
"Okay, first of all
you can't say anything till we're finished," Kara clasped her hands together,
resting her chin on them.
Miroki finished,
"And second, you have to promise not to do anything rash, this goes for mostly
you Heero."
Quatre nodded, "Then
continue."
Kara eyed Miroki
before getting back to the topic, "Well, you see we've always known, but just
like you, we didn't say anything about it."
"Maybe we should go
by telling you what we know," Miroki suggested.
Kara sighs, "Better
get it over and done with."
This was the point
of no return, not to mention probably (in my opinion) the stupidest thing
anyone could do.
Kara looks straight
at Heero, "Heero Yuy, a.k.a. Perfect Soldier. Your real name is Odin Lowe Jr.
Odin Lowe, an assassin, then later Dr. J, raised you. You came from colony L-1,
and have this nasty habit of pointing guns at people."
Had the people
listening been standing, Kara could have imagine them falling over right now. Of
course, she amended Heero was no doubt giving her one really nasty deathglare,
Heero style.
Miroki decided to
continue, she pointed at Duo, "Duo Maxwell, a.k.a. God of Death or Shingami. Doesn't matter, both mean the same thing.
Solo first took you in, then the Maxwell Church. Oz, leaving you the only
survivor, destroyed the church. You came from colony L-2, and you're pretty
well known for that long braid of yours and happy-go-lucky attitude."
Kara could just see
the shock on Duo's face. After all, is it everyday that someone could rattle
off stats of you this way? In Miroki's mind it was a good thing they didn't
include their height and weight, or else the boys actually might have a heart
attack.
"Then again, they
nearly gave us a heart attack when we first saw them," Miroki thought to
herself.
Kara took a deep
breath, "Trowa Barton a.k.a. Silencer. You were too young to remember your real
name, but if Catherine had told you, it is Triton Bloom. Catherine is your only
living family; she lives in the circus as a knife thrower. Before that
mercenaries raised you. You came from colony L-3, and your pretty much the
quiet type, not to mention have this neat gift for taming lions."
Trowa, and thank god
in the girls' mind, still have this mask of indifference on. Otherwise it would
be really hard to continue doing this. Though you had to admit, if it weren't
for the fact that three of them had guns, the results were pretty funny.
Miroki looked at
Quatre, Quatre eyed Miroki, "Quatre R Winner a.k.a. Noble in the Desert. Like
you have already said, you have 29 sisters, all test tube babies. Your mother
died giving birth to you, whether you know that, I don't know. Your father died
sometime after you became a Gundam pilot. You come from colony L-4, and you
have the gift of empathy. It seems that you can tell, or read other's emotions,
or as you consider it. The 'Heart of Outer Space' tells you about others."
Quatre was tearing
up, Kara wondered if it was because of his father, or because he wasn't a test
tube baby. Miroki went up to him, and gave him a tight hug. It was a feeling,
but it would seem that those two would need a talk later. Kara walked up to
Wufei.
Both girls continued
in unison, "Chang Wufei a.k.a. Solitary Dragon. You were a member of the Dragon
clan, and already married until Oz attacked. You are the only member of your
clan left. You come from colony L-5, bringing with you a strong sense of
justice, and a sense that women shouldn't fight."
The girls stepped
back, waiting for their reaction. It became very quiet, perhaps too quiet. A
few minutes later the sound of a gun went off, inside the hotel room.
Miroki and Kara hit
the floor that is until they realize the shot came from Heero. Both quickly got
off the floor, facing the confused, and not so happy solider. Duo and Quatre
were holding him back, probably from taking another potshot.
Duo tried to calm is
buddy down, "Come on Heero, ya don't want to shoot the people that save you. Do
ya?"
Quatre also tried to
calm Heero down, "The girls said not to do anything rash, I think they mean
shooting at them is rash."
Heero shrugged them
both off, and then walked towards the window. The gun still in sight, the girls
eyed at the gun. Putting his head against the cold glass Heero asked, "How did
you girls know all of that?"
Kara coughed,
"Remember that certain, anime site, there's a Gundam section, which was deleted
about 30 or so times before the owners gave up?"
Heero turned to
glare at Kara, "Yes…"
"Well… that was our
site you were deleting."
In probably one of
the few times, Heero was caught off guard, "That was your site?"
Miroki nodded, "Yea,
well I was ready to ask you about that the first day we met, but Kara stopped
me."
"Personally a death
on the first day of school is not a good thing," Kara amended, "Besides
I thought Miroki was hinting about that during the project you two had to do."
"I thought she was
talking about the personal homepage I deleted."
Miroki glared at
Heero, "YOU DID WHAT?"
Heero smirked.
Kara shook her head,
"Some things never change, and just hope this doesn't always happen."
"I agreed," Noin
added getting up, "Because I hate to see fellow pilots not getting along
together."
This time, it was
the girls' turn to be shocked; Kara stared at Noin, "Run that by me again."
Noin smirked, "I said
that I would hate to see fellow pilots not getting along together."
"Noin, are you
really suggesting…" Quatre asked, looking from Miroki to Kara and back again.
Milliardo backed
Noin up, "Why not? Miroki seems to specialize in hand-to-hand combat, as well
as hacking. Kara would take being sniper like a duck takes to water, she's a
good actor; probably no doubt can take recon missions. Both girls are quick
studies and you know them very well."
"Not to mention you
have worked with them a lot," Noin added.
Miroki glared at
them, "What in the hell are you talking about? Combat with me? Recon for Kara?
Is there something we do not know?"
Everything was quiet
again; the boys were looking at each other, trying to say something. Noin,
Milliardo and Sally were just grinning at each other. After awhile all eyes
were on the girls, which made them very uncomfortable. Heero finally just
started to smirk, Duo was just shrugging, Trowa was probably thinking about
something, Quatre nodded, and Wufei, well I don't think he took the news too
well, but he wasn't going to say anything. Quatre went up and took Miroki's
hand, "What Noin is saying, is that we have just found our two new Gundam
pilots."
"WHAT?"
After some calming
down, everyone was sitting, but Kara that is. She was pacing, trying to make
sense of the events that just took place. Every few minutes she would stop for
a few seconds, stare at them, before pacing again.
"Okay, so let me get
this straight. The Wing School was created so…"
Heero simply stated,
"So we could find two new recruits to be Gundam pilots."
"And you chose the
real world because…"
"Because a) Oz is
going to attack this world and b) if people from the real world are exposed to
our world they tend to become quick studies with different abilities," Sally
explained.
"And exposed us
how?"
Duo clear his
throat, "Well, it goes something like this, the teachers, and us are from our
world, that's part of the reason, the second would be that shot you girls got
on the first day of school."
"And Oz wants to
attack us because…"
"Because your people
do not have the same kind of technology, therefore are weaker than Oz. Will you
stop pacing onna?"
"No, so what is the
plan?"
Trowa gets up and
takes Kara's arm, stopping her pacing, "We need help of two more pilots.
Hopefully we can stop them before an all out war starts. A letter will be sent
to your parents saying that the Wing School is also a boarding school, and would
like some students to stay there, because they are gifted. Though in truth, you
girls will probably be traveling with us, most of the time. When we aren't
traveling the school will be our base."
Kara really wanted
answers; this was really starting to get to her, "And if we can't prevent an
all out war?"
"Then we tell your
parents the truth, and you travel with us, to our world."
Kara pulled away,
she looked over to Miroki. Miroki nodded, sure as ever, and Kara was glad
otherwise, she might have lost it.
"Okay then, we'll
help."
Duo jumped up,
"Thanks, we really own you girls."
"Speaking of which,
we better go," Wufei commented.
"Huh?" Miroki
frowned, "What's wrong?"
Heero got out his
gun; Sally gave the girls and other two boys guns. Heero stated, "Soldiers are
coming this way. It looks like we are going to have to leave now."
Kara checked her
gun, "How long?"
"Probably half an
hour, depends how long it takes them to search the whole hotel, we better get
packing and leave."
Everyone nodded,
going his or her own way to pack up, and getting ready to leave. After the
girls were finished packing, Noin was teaching them about the safeties on their
guns, not to mention, what they would need to learn and do.
"There's a good
chance we won't be heading, right to the school. We might have to take a detour
to somewhere else, maybe the nearby provinces before we can head back. Just act
like nothing's happened, meanwhile, we'll get you girls to learn how to pilot a
mobile suit, most likely a Leo first, then we'll see," Noin handed the girls an
extra pack of bullets.
Kara nods, "So which
province?"
"Not sure," Noin
turns to Miroki, "Each of you will be trained a bit differently. Unfortunately we
don't have enough time, you might be asked to join in on a battle very soon."
Miroki frowned,
"What about the mysterious e-mailer?"
"Probably someone
from the school, we're betting," Milliardo told them.
Kara shook her head,
"But then the school would have been attacked a long time ago."
"What do you think
all of those mobile suit attacks were about?" Duo asked grinned, "You see those
suits have been getting pretty close to the school, we just keep them at bay.
None of the personnel except us pilots, Lady Une, Noin, Sally and Milliardo
leave the school. So, in other words, the teachers live there, but they have no
idea exactly where they are. We make sure they don't."
"Talk about a tight
shift," Miroki murmured.
"How do you know
it's not a student?"
Quatre shook his
head, "It can't be, or else the school would have been attacked a long
time ago."
"Unless there's
something we all don't know," Kara countered.
"We don't have time,
we can debate about this later, we need to get out now," Sally pointed
to the door.
They could hear the
sound of footsteps, doors opening, and the not so pleasant sound of soldiers
talking. One by one everyone slipped through the door. Right about now, it was
out of the question to go out the lobby. They would have to take the back way.
The game plan was to act like normal people, who probably had to catch a late
night flight home. Unfortunately there were soldiers everywhere. This job was
just about to get harder, much harder. Milliardo tapped Heero on the shoulder,
Heero turned.
He thumbed the
ceiling; "There's a carrier, waiting for us on the roof. We're better off
taking the stairs."
Heero nodded, "Okay,
let's move."
Both Miroki and Kara
could swear they had never felt their hearts pound so much before. It was like they were going to leap out of
their chests. It was a wonder why the soldiers or anyone else for that matter
didn't hear. As they made their way up the stairs, the tension in the air began
to increase. Miroki hurried along, but just watching her posture, you could tell
she was on guard. Kara could hear the soldiers running through the hallways,
and yelling orders. Relief came, the minute they stepped out on to the roof,
and saw the carrier. Right there, in plain sight. The door was open, and the
pilot was waiting for them to get in. The girls allowed themselves to smile a
bit, but that was short lived as gunshots filled the air. Right behind them
were a dozen or so soldiers.
"Run!" Duo yelled.
Heero, Duo and
Milliardo took out their guns, and started shooting right back. While the girls
made a run for it, as fast as their legs could carry them. Bullets whizzed past
them, as they clamored into the carrier. Kara took out her gun, and started
shooting. Soon everyone was in, and they were out.
Duo grinned, "Now
that's one way, to check out."
Kara whacked him
over the head, "Get a life."
"Hey! Nice to be
working with you girls," Hilde laughed from the pilot's seat.
Noin handed the
girls a cellphone, "You better call your parents, just tell them you'll be
traveling for awhile, and won't be reachable for a few days."
The girls nodded.
Later that night,
Kara found Miroki in the back of the carrier.
"So, what do you
think?" Miroki asked, not looking at Kara.
Kara shrugged, "What
am I suppose to think? We're normal teenage girls turned pilots."
"……… I know it's
hard to believe, I wanted excitement, but this is crazy."
Kara sits beside
Miroki, putting her head against the wall, "You should talk to him."
She eyes Kara,
"Who?"
"Quatre of course!"
"Don't know why you
said that, Kara I'm not in the mood for setups right now."
"Miroki, it's not a
setup," Kara looks at the ceiling, "I maybe dense and naïve about a lot of
things, but I can see it."
"………"
Kara smirks at the
ceiling, "Don't have anything to say? It has nothing to do about setups anymore
Miroki. Everything after this, after busting the guys out, after telling them
what we know, after becoming pilots, everything is going to change."
"Since when did you
know so much?"
"I don't," Kara
looks at her friend thoughtfully, "I just know this: you should talk to him.
Who knows? Maybe this will be one of the few chances you'll have to seriously
talk."
"Am I interrupting
anything?" The girls look at the door to see Quatre there.
Kara gets up to
leave, "No, I was just leaving," she winks at Miroki.
As Kara leaves,
Quatre closes the door behind her. Then makes his way to sit beside Miroki.
"Miroki, we need to
talk," Quatre tells her in a soft voice.
Miroki looks at
Quatre, "About what?"
Quatre pauses,
collecting his thoughts, "About you… Being a Gundam pilot."
She sits up
straight, "Oh? Quatre, you probably saw this coming."
"Yes, and no."
"Yes and no?"
The Sandrock pilot
takes a deep breath, trying to find the right words, "The first month, we were
at the school… We knew, both you and Kara, along with some students had what it
took to be pilots, but…"
"But?"
"Miroki…" Quatre
started, "Did you ever had one of those times where you forgot what you are
suppose to be doing, or who the people you are talking to really are?"
"Yes… As Kara would
say, it was almost like you guys have been here forever…" Miroki closed her
eyes for a second, "It was almost as if you weren't pilots, just normal boys,
friends, people we could turn to."
"And it seemed like
we were normal boys, that is until something happens, or there's a mission or
an attack…"
Miroki didn't say
anything, just listened.
"It some ways I
hoped that you wouldn't be the pilot, because you don't need to know. What it's
like out there, to lost family, to kill…"
"Maybe, but if I
could do something, but I didn't do anything at all, and people I cared about
got hurt, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself."
Quatre looked right
at her, "Then, you don't regret anything?"
"Maybe I will regret
something, but there are some things I know I will never regret."
"I don't want to see
you hurt, emotionally or physically."
Miroki smiled, "And
you won't, not when I have my friends behind me all the way."
She gives Quatre a
quick peck on the cheek, before finally letting sleep take her. After all it
was probably 3 a.m. in the morning by then. Resting her head on his shoulder,
Miroki fell asleep, for the rest of the long journey ahead.
Author's Note:
Okay……… I have run
out of things to talk about or say. One thing though, I really hated loose
ends, so the shot, the mysterious e-mailer (which is my biggest loose end yet).
Don't worry. Everything will unravel.
Female Mewtwo, my
co-author (or my partner in crime) thanks you for your support, ideas, and your
character Miroki Sekkio. The bit about the girls saying a bit about the pilots
was her idea, and about Miroki and Quatre talking alone, but the works were
mine.
So… A little break
from the adventures for February *hint, hint*. Some training, some talking,
maybe some butt kicking. Next time on Wing School!
