Nanashi 5
Heero sat back in his chair as he ran a system check. His eyes focused on the screen looking for any problems. Suddenly he turned because something had gotten his attention. He looked around the bridge.
"No one." He thought.
Heero knew that most everyone had gone to the kitchen for a snack so he figured it must have been one of them making some noise that startled him.
Heero finished the system check and on impulse he took off the cover of the computer and searched through the wirers to see if he found what he feared might be there.
"She was right!" he whispered.
Something made a noise behind him. He was sure of it this time. He turned to find Nix standing to his left.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"What are you doing?"
"Looking at the computer like Captain Davis asked me too."
"She said you could wait until tomorrow."
"Well I decided to do it now."
"Well I can tell you now that there is nothing wrong with the ship or it's computer. Trust me, I looked at it earlier."
For some reason Heero had a hard time trusting Nix.
"You looked at it earlier?" Heero asked.
Nix nodded.
Heero tensed, something wasn't right.
Nix started walking toward Heero.
"What are you doing?" Heero asked, as Nix got closer.
Nix leaned over Heero and typed on the keyboard.
Heero turned around and watched what she typed. When he realized that she was deleting everything he had done and sending some sort of message he grabbed her hands and twisted them around as he stood up.
Nix's face was contorted in pain but when Heero reached his full height she kicked his legs out from under him and he fell to the ground and let go of her wrists.
Heero gasped for breath.
Nix looked down on her fallen opponent and smiled evilly.
All of a sudden Heero jumped up and punched the unsuspecting girl in the stomach.
Nix bent over in pain. She then punched Heero in the jaw.
Heero didn't even flinch and punched her back just as quickly.
Nix wiped blood from the corner of her mouth.
"What do you want?" Heero asked.
Again Nix smiled her creepy smile, blood staining her lips red, a stark contrast to her pale skin.
Heero shuddered inwardly. Suddenly his attention was brought to a small glint near Nix's hip.
"She has a knife!" Heero thought.
Nix quickly brought the knife up and aimed for Heero's throat.
Heero quickly turned and the knife cut his right shoulder. Swallowing a cry of pain, Heero punched Nix.
Nix stumbled backwards and the knife fell out of her hand. She reached for her headset.
Heero watched as she pressed the call button.
"It's me, Nix. We can't wait; we have to do it now. One of the crew has found out what we have been doing. I'll take care of him."
Nix released the call button and smiled again.
Heero had had enough so hit Nix with all he had. She fell to the ground unconscious. He destroyed her headset and ran off to find the others. As he left the bridge the ship moved and Heero stumbled and hit the wall. He fought the wave of darkness that hit him and pressed onward. A minute later the ship was plunged into darkness and red emergency lights came on.
Quatre rounded the corner to the crew cabins. Up ahead, on the right, stood Christi. She was trying to hold a stack of folders and punch in the code to get into her room at the same time. When Quatre reached her the door had just slid open and Christi turned to see who was in the hallway with her. While doing so she dropped one of the folders.
Quatre reached down and picked it up. When he did, he caught a glimpse of what was written on the papers. He realized that the folder she had dropped was her own. She quickly gathered the papers from Quatre but before she had taken all of them Quatre also read that the commanding officer that she had been in a fight with, had also been her former boyfriend.
Christi quickly put the papers back in place and thanked Quatre.
"It's nothing." Quatre replied.
The two stood in the hallway looking at each other.
Quatre leaned closer to Christi and Christi's eyes grew large. She quickly turned away and walked through the open door. She turned and looked at Quatre as the door to her room slid shut and he was obstructed from her view.
Quatre sighed and headed down the hallway toward his room.
Christi stared at the door for a moment before unzipping the front of her uniform revealing a white, spaghetti strap shirt. She pulled the front of her uniform down and tied the sleeves around her waist. As she finished doing this the ship lurched and she fell against the small bunk in the corner. A second later red emergency lights turned on and just as Christi got her balance back someone pounded on Christi's door.
"Open up! Christi, it's me, Bria! You have to see this!"
Christi lunged for the door and punched in the code to open it.
Bria ran in and shoved a piece of paper into Christi's face.
Christi looked at the paper and then at Bria. She reached out to touch the cut on the girl's forehead.
"It's nothing, I'm okay. Just read the paper."
Christi nodded and started reading. As she did so Quatre ran into the room.
"Are you girls okay?" He asked.
Bria nodded as Wufei's door opened from across the hall and he too came into Christi's small cabin.
"What's going on?" He demanded his fists clenched at his side.
Christi sank to the bed as she finished reading.
"Where's the rest of it? There has to be more!" she asked looking up in alarm.
Bria handed the other 3 pieces of paper that she had picked up.
As Christi tried to put the papers in order Heero ran into the room.
"Christi, something's happed!" he said pushing his way through Bria, Wufei, and Quatre.
"Well duh! Why else would the ships lights go out?" Duo said as he stood outside the door because the room was too small to fit him and his crutches.
"Shut up, Maxwell!" Wufei said.
Kari was the next to arrive followed closely by Alan and Leikela.
Christi looked around the room to make sure everyone was present.
"Where's Trowa and Nix?" she asked.
"Nix is lying unconscious in the bridge." Heero said.
"Well we have to get to her, we have to help her!" Christi stated.
"She could be hurt! I've had training as an EMT, I can help." Leikela said.
"I wouldn't bother." Heero said.
"Well why not?" Christi asked.
"It seems that she's been helping people on the outside do whatever they're planning on doing right now."
Everyone stood shocked and silent.
"While I was running a system check I decided to look in the computer itself because I had a suspicion that there might be a cloaking device that was messing up everything I had been doing. Well I looked in the computer and I found it. It was a very advanced cloaking device and made ship almost totally accessible to any hacker that new the right code. The only thing was that we would have no clue this was going on."
"She lied to me! Nix lied to me!" Christi fumed.
"I can't believe it! But that still doesn't tell me where Trowa is!"
The crew all looked at each other.
"No one's seen him?" Christi asked.
The crew shook their heads "no".
"We have to find him. What if he's hurt?"
"What if he's one of them?" Heero asked.
"You're right. I guess he's on his own."
"The question now is what are we going to do?" Quatre asked.
Christi looked down at the floor.
"I don't know!" she said after a minutes pause.
"I don't know…"
To Be Continued…
Authors note: ha ha!!! Now you have to wait to find out what happens!!! Okay, now because ff.net has taken off the review alert I won't get any of the reviews if you review unless I come to the site and look them up! I don't always have time to do that and I can't afford to pay for any of the support services cause I'm broke!!! * sniff sniff * so if there's anything you want me to see right away (like a title cause I still don't' have one and I kinda really need one!) I'd prefer that you emailed me, my email address is, Christian.m.hall@att.net but unless you say in the email that you want me to email you back I will not. You can review but realize that I might not get it for a while! Thankies!!! Hope you like it so far!
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