Night of Blue
By Perfect Soldier
Chapter 9: Rescue
The blur of blue and black were the only thing Heero could see of the soldiers that crowded in front of him. Quinze clapped his hands and the mass of colour advanced towards their target. Heero ran towards them shouting and swung his claws blindly at the people before him. Heero felt his claws scratch against the cold metal of the armour that the soldier wore. The young adult pushed his way through the crowd punching and kicking blindly, knocking down soldier after soldier.
Eventually Heero had knocked out every single one of them and walked slowly towards his last remaining enemy. Heero's breathing was deep and heavy, and Quinze noticed his tiredness.
"Worn out are we?" Quinze said mockingly.
"No!" Heero shouted back. The soldiers had put up a good fight, but had tired Heero out almost completely. Heero's wings spread and he beared his claws. The golden scales that lined his hand gleamed in the artificial light created by the lab equipment. Heero couldn't see Quinze clearly, which gave him a big disadvantage in this last fight. But he could see his claws shining. An idea struck him the moment he saw the white patches of light reflecting on his deformed hands.
"Well, what are we waiting for Yuy?" Quinze sounded confident that he would win this battle. Although he wasn't the greatest fighter, he had had Heero on the ropes before they had even started. Suddenly the bright light reflected from Heero's claws was blinding his own eyes. Heero had aimed the light directly into Quinze's face and it was impossible to see anything.
"Very clever Yuy..." But before Quinze could finish his sentence, Heero had punched him in the stomach. Quinze bent over and clutched his abdomen. Heero picked the blob on the floor by Quinze's shirt collar, and slammed him against the metal wall.
"Now listen here...this is for deforming me," Heero then punched Quinze's head. Blood was spat out of his mouth as he tried to turn his head back round to face the creature holding him up. "This is for trying to deform Relena..." Heero punched Quinze's stomach again. "...And this is for nothing in particular..." Heero then sent Quinze flying across to the other side of the room. A loud clash of his bones and the metal wall echoed across the room. Quinze slumped to the floor and lay in a heap on the floor. Groaning was the only sound in the room apart from Heero's heavy breathing. Quinze struggled to raise his head. Blood was dripping down the sides of his mouth.
"You'll always be a freak Yuy. You always were being a gundam pilot, and now you're even more of an outcast." A cruel smile spread across his face.
"Shutup!" Heero shouted across the other side of the room.
"You're a freak!" Quinze shouted again. He knew that he wouldn't last much longer. The strength in his body was fading quickly. The first time he had seen the boy in front of him, he knew that he must pay for destroying their plans.
Heero couldn't take anymore of the insults from Quinze. After that final shout, Heero lunged at Quinze and held him up by his neck in his clawed hands.
"Outcast!" That was the last thing Quinze said before Heero squeezed his neck with his claws. He spat blood from his mouth, and it landed on Heero's brilliant white wings, as well as his upper body. Heero tightened his grip around Quinze's neck, ever so slowly puncturing the skin underneath his golden hand. Blood dripped down Heero's hand as he slit Quinze's neck. He let out one last cry of pain, and then he fell limp in Heero's hand. The angel boy tossed aside the dead body onto the cold floor of the lab. He gaze averted to the sleeping figure in the middle of the room, who was completely oblivious to what had just taken place.
Heero's gaze softened as he gently walked over to the girl lying on the operating table. Her aqua marine eyes were shut and her golden blonde hair fell all around the headrest. Heero ripped off the restraints that held Relena down, and picked up the sleeping girl in his arms and carried her gently out of the room. As he held the sleeping princess in his arms, her eyelids fluttered open with the affect of the anaesthetic wearing off.
"Heero?" Her voice was soft and sounded tired.
"I'm here. Don't worry." Heero let Relena out of his arms, but she was still dazed from the drug. Her footing was unbalanced and she fell into Heero's chest. As she steadied herself with Heero's help, a deep red flush grew across her cheeks.
"Sorry." She apologised looking down to the floor.
"No problem." The reply caused Relena to turn an even deeper shade of red. She turned away from Heero, but was only found to be walking along side him as he led her out of the base.
Surprisingly they met no soldiers on their journey, which made an easy escape, but gave Relena a slight fear that they were all waiting somewhere for them. As they continued walking, the empty passageways and empty rooms gave even Heero a sense that his partner and himself were walking straight into an ambush.
"Doesn't this seem strange?" Relena said, finally breaking the eerie silence that had fallen between them. Heero didn't reply. Relena started to worry as he gave her no answer. But just then, Heero spoke.
"Everything will be ok." He said with, what Relena thought to be a hint of emotion.
'Maybe he's softened over the years that we've been apart...' Relena thought, 'He's changed so much...despite his appearance, and he seems to have a little more warmth in his actions than before. But I still don't know why he brought me here...He didn't mean for this to happen...I know that but...why did he come and take me away in the first place?'
Again the couple resumed their journey to the exit of the base. Every now and again Relena would have to redirect Heero, as his sight wasn't getting any better. After a few wrong turns by Heero's navigation, Relena took Heero by his clawed hand and led him following the correct signs to the exit. Slightly shocked by Relena's action in her pulling him back the way they came, Heero questioned her.
"Where are we going?" Heero asked as Relena pulled him along behind her.
"The right way following the signs."
"What signs?" Heero's bad sight had made the signs completely invisible to Heero's eyes.
"The signs on the wall! Can't you see them?"
"No..." Heero suddenly remembered that Relena knew nothing of his blind left eye, and she also hadn't said anything about his claws.
"...Heero? What happened?" Her eyes glanced towards his hands before quickly returned to his face.
"I don't know. I was like this," Heero held up his deformed hands, "when I woke up., and I also found that my left eye had been blinded." Heero said pointing to his lifeless face.
"Oh Heero...I'm sorry..." The only thing you could see on Relena's face was her concern.
"Sorry for what? You didn't do anything wrong." Relena let out a sigh.
Tears started to well up in her blue eyes as she turned away. Relena blinked away the tears that plagued her eyelids. Then without warning, she spun round facing Heero again and hugged him tightly. Heero was stunned by what she had just done, but reacted to her embrace, gently wrapping his arms around her small body, being careful not to hurt her with his sharp claws.
As she stood in Heero's arms, Relena thought about all the things she had just lost with that one sentence.
'I'll never be able to see those beautiful Prussian eyes of his again. They'll never be the same again. I'll be nothing to him but a blurred visio...and...I can't be with him anymore because of what happened to him...but where will he go? I have to take care of him. No one else will and he can't look after himself...I have to be with him, he needs me, and I need him because...'
Her thoughts were interrupted by Heero's voice.
"Don't cry..."
"Why can't I cry?...I've just lost everything including you..." Relena cried out.
"Lost me? But I'm still here with you..." Heero said stroking her head.
"I can't stay with you though..."
"I know..." Heero knew this moment would come sooner or later. He would have to leave the one thing he loved most because of himself.
"But...I don't want to leave you..."
"I need you..."
"I love you!" Relena cried into Heero's chest, not realising what she had just said.
"I love you too..." Heero said as he held her tighter. Relena hadn't seemed to hear him. Or if she did, she made on sign of it. "Come on...let's go." Heero let Relena out of his arms and let her guide him to the exit.
The two walked silently hand in hand, Relena leading the way. Eventually Relena saw the opening to the outside world at last.
"We're here Heero." She told him, but her voice sounded sad. Heero said nothing as Relena led him the last of the way.
"Have you got anything to contact the other pilots with?" Heero asked
"No..." But then Relena spotted the helicopter that had flown them here.
"The helicopter has to have a radio or something..." Her voice still was downhearted.
"Let's go and look." Heero's voice was also depressed and sad. Neither of them wanted to leave
each other. Together they found their way to the control deck, and sure enough there was a radio. Relena picked up the receiver and let Heero contact one of the gundam pilots. Once he was through, he handed the talking over to Relena.
"Yes?" The voice sounded like Trowa. Relena looked at Heero thanking him with a smile. Duo and Quatre would probably make a huge deal out of it, and Wufei had never liked Relena that much. She knew Trowa would understand.
"Hi Trowa. It's me...Relena"
"Relena?" She could hear Trowa moving away from what sounded like the others. "Where are you?"
"I'm..." She looked at Heero. She hadn't a clue where she was.
"Northern Asia." Heero said quietly. The sun wasn't shining and was fairly cold. It was only a guess though.
"I'm somewhere in Northern Asia I think."
"...How did you get there?" Trowa sounded surprised.
"Kidnapped" Relena said bluntly.
"Ok, I'll try to track your signal. Keep the receiver on and don't put it down. Wait where you are. We'll come and find you."
"Thank you. See you soon Trowa." Relena set the receiver down on the control desk and turned to face Heero. He motioned for them to go outside. Once outside, there was a long silence. After a few minutes, Heero finally spoke up.
"I guess this is it..."
"I guess it is..." Relena looked towards the ground trying to hide the tears that dared to fall down her cheeks. Suddenly a wave of warmth overcame her body as she found herself in Heero's arms once again. There she cried onto his chest as he too fought back tears.
"I don't want you to go!" Relena shouted out as her tears flowed more freely down her cheeks.
"Neither do I." Heero answered her.
"If you go, I'll never see you again..." Relena sobbed.
"Yes you will." Heero said angrily. At that moment he didn't care that he'd be seen a freak of nature. He didn't care what the world thought of him. He didn't care what anyone thought.
Relena gasped at his harsh words and looked up at his face. Heero then took his chance, and lowered his face, capturing her lips. He kissed her almost viciously as he knew that he didn't have much time left. Both of the held on to the kiss for as long as they could, knowing that the other would part with them soon. Relena responded with as much passion as Heero gave, but each of their air supplies were running low. Heero pulled back for breath as did Relena. Both of them were breathing hard as they looked at each other.
Heero tightened his grip around Relena once more as he pulled her to him and took to the sky. There he flew carrying her to a better look out point for her to wait for Trowa and the other gundam pilots. As they landed on the long grass covering the hillside Heero sat down with Relena leaning against him.
"I love you." He whispered into her ear from behind. He received the same reply as Relena turned to face him, kneeling on the grass. They lay there together for quite a while, each in each other's arms, happy in the silence that fell upon them. But soon their reverie was broken by the sound of a plane nearby.
Heero stood up and was about to take flight, when Relena put her hand on his shoulder.
"You will come back won't you..."
"Of course itooshi. I keep my word." Heero pulled Relena into one last hug, then he backed away and flew to the sky. Just then, Relena could see the plane landing and her friends walking out of the door. As she turned and walked down to meet them, a single tear slid down her cheek.
AN: Hello people!! Just to say that more chapter/s are still coming. This is not the end yet!
By Perfect Soldier
Chapter 9: Rescue
The blur of blue and black were the only thing Heero could see of the soldiers that crowded in front of him. Quinze clapped his hands and the mass of colour advanced towards their target. Heero ran towards them shouting and swung his claws blindly at the people before him. Heero felt his claws scratch against the cold metal of the armour that the soldier wore. The young adult pushed his way through the crowd punching and kicking blindly, knocking down soldier after soldier.
Eventually Heero had knocked out every single one of them and walked slowly towards his last remaining enemy. Heero's breathing was deep and heavy, and Quinze noticed his tiredness.
"Worn out are we?" Quinze said mockingly.
"No!" Heero shouted back. The soldiers had put up a good fight, but had tired Heero out almost completely. Heero's wings spread and he beared his claws. The golden scales that lined his hand gleamed in the artificial light created by the lab equipment. Heero couldn't see Quinze clearly, which gave him a big disadvantage in this last fight. But he could see his claws shining. An idea struck him the moment he saw the white patches of light reflecting on his deformed hands.
"Well, what are we waiting for Yuy?" Quinze sounded confident that he would win this battle. Although he wasn't the greatest fighter, he had had Heero on the ropes before they had even started. Suddenly the bright light reflected from Heero's claws was blinding his own eyes. Heero had aimed the light directly into Quinze's face and it was impossible to see anything.
"Very clever Yuy..." But before Quinze could finish his sentence, Heero had punched him in the stomach. Quinze bent over and clutched his abdomen. Heero picked the blob on the floor by Quinze's shirt collar, and slammed him against the metal wall.
"Now listen here...this is for deforming me," Heero then punched Quinze's head. Blood was spat out of his mouth as he tried to turn his head back round to face the creature holding him up. "This is for trying to deform Relena..." Heero punched Quinze's stomach again. "...And this is for nothing in particular..." Heero then sent Quinze flying across to the other side of the room. A loud clash of his bones and the metal wall echoed across the room. Quinze slumped to the floor and lay in a heap on the floor. Groaning was the only sound in the room apart from Heero's heavy breathing. Quinze struggled to raise his head. Blood was dripping down the sides of his mouth.
"You'll always be a freak Yuy. You always were being a gundam pilot, and now you're even more of an outcast." A cruel smile spread across his face.
"Shutup!" Heero shouted across the other side of the room.
"You're a freak!" Quinze shouted again. He knew that he wouldn't last much longer. The strength in his body was fading quickly. The first time he had seen the boy in front of him, he knew that he must pay for destroying their plans.
Heero couldn't take anymore of the insults from Quinze. After that final shout, Heero lunged at Quinze and held him up by his neck in his clawed hands.
"Outcast!" That was the last thing Quinze said before Heero squeezed his neck with his claws. He spat blood from his mouth, and it landed on Heero's brilliant white wings, as well as his upper body. Heero tightened his grip around Quinze's neck, ever so slowly puncturing the skin underneath his golden hand. Blood dripped down Heero's hand as he slit Quinze's neck. He let out one last cry of pain, and then he fell limp in Heero's hand. The angel boy tossed aside the dead body onto the cold floor of the lab. He gaze averted to the sleeping figure in the middle of the room, who was completely oblivious to what had just taken place.
Heero's gaze softened as he gently walked over to the girl lying on the operating table. Her aqua marine eyes were shut and her golden blonde hair fell all around the headrest. Heero ripped off the restraints that held Relena down, and picked up the sleeping girl in his arms and carried her gently out of the room. As he held the sleeping princess in his arms, her eyelids fluttered open with the affect of the anaesthetic wearing off.
"Heero?" Her voice was soft and sounded tired.
"I'm here. Don't worry." Heero let Relena out of his arms, but she was still dazed from the drug. Her footing was unbalanced and she fell into Heero's chest. As she steadied herself with Heero's help, a deep red flush grew across her cheeks.
"Sorry." She apologised looking down to the floor.
"No problem." The reply caused Relena to turn an even deeper shade of red. She turned away from Heero, but was only found to be walking along side him as he led her out of the base.
Surprisingly they met no soldiers on their journey, which made an easy escape, but gave Relena a slight fear that they were all waiting somewhere for them. As they continued walking, the empty passageways and empty rooms gave even Heero a sense that his partner and himself were walking straight into an ambush.
"Doesn't this seem strange?" Relena said, finally breaking the eerie silence that had fallen between them. Heero didn't reply. Relena started to worry as he gave her no answer. But just then, Heero spoke.
"Everything will be ok." He said with, what Relena thought to be a hint of emotion.
'Maybe he's softened over the years that we've been apart...' Relena thought, 'He's changed so much...despite his appearance, and he seems to have a little more warmth in his actions than before. But I still don't know why he brought me here...He didn't mean for this to happen...I know that but...why did he come and take me away in the first place?'
Again the couple resumed their journey to the exit of the base. Every now and again Relena would have to redirect Heero, as his sight wasn't getting any better. After a few wrong turns by Heero's navigation, Relena took Heero by his clawed hand and led him following the correct signs to the exit. Slightly shocked by Relena's action in her pulling him back the way they came, Heero questioned her.
"Where are we going?" Heero asked as Relena pulled him along behind her.
"The right way following the signs."
"What signs?" Heero's bad sight had made the signs completely invisible to Heero's eyes.
"The signs on the wall! Can't you see them?"
"No..." Heero suddenly remembered that Relena knew nothing of his blind left eye, and she also hadn't said anything about his claws.
"...Heero? What happened?" Her eyes glanced towards his hands before quickly returned to his face.
"I don't know. I was like this," Heero held up his deformed hands, "when I woke up., and I also found that my left eye had been blinded." Heero said pointing to his lifeless face.
"Oh Heero...I'm sorry..." The only thing you could see on Relena's face was her concern.
"Sorry for what? You didn't do anything wrong." Relena let out a sigh.
Tears started to well up in her blue eyes as she turned away. Relena blinked away the tears that plagued her eyelids. Then without warning, she spun round facing Heero again and hugged him tightly. Heero was stunned by what she had just done, but reacted to her embrace, gently wrapping his arms around her small body, being careful not to hurt her with his sharp claws.
As she stood in Heero's arms, Relena thought about all the things she had just lost with that one sentence.
'I'll never be able to see those beautiful Prussian eyes of his again. They'll never be the same again. I'll be nothing to him but a blurred visio...and...I can't be with him anymore because of what happened to him...but where will he go? I have to take care of him. No one else will and he can't look after himself...I have to be with him, he needs me, and I need him because...'
Her thoughts were interrupted by Heero's voice.
"Don't cry..."
"Why can't I cry?...I've just lost everything including you..." Relena cried out.
"Lost me? But I'm still here with you..." Heero said stroking her head.
"I can't stay with you though..."
"I know..." Heero knew this moment would come sooner or later. He would have to leave the one thing he loved most because of himself.
"But...I don't want to leave you..."
"I need you..."
"I love you!" Relena cried into Heero's chest, not realising what she had just said.
"I love you too..." Heero said as he held her tighter. Relena hadn't seemed to hear him. Or if she did, she made on sign of it. "Come on...let's go." Heero let Relena out of his arms and let her guide him to the exit.
The two walked silently hand in hand, Relena leading the way. Eventually Relena saw the opening to the outside world at last.
"We're here Heero." She told him, but her voice sounded sad. Heero said nothing as Relena led him the last of the way.
"Have you got anything to contact the other pilots with?" Heero asked
"No..." But then Relena spotted the helicopter that had flown them here.
"The helicopter has to have a radio or something..." Her voice still was downhearted.
"Let's go and look." Heero's voice was also depressed and sad. Neither of them wanted to leave
each other. Together they found their way to the control deck, and sure enough there was a radio. Relena picked up the receiver and let Heero contact one of the gundam pilots. Once he was through, he handed the talking over to Relena.
"Yes?" The voice sounded like Trowa. Relena looked at Heero thanking him with a smile. Duo and Quatre would probably make a huge deal out of it, and Wufei had never liked Relena that much. She knew Trowa would understand.
"Hi Trowa. It's me...Relena"
"Relena?" She could hear Trowa moving away from what sounded like the others. "Where are you?"
"I'm..." She looked at Heero. She hadn't a clue where she was.
"Northern Asia." Heero said quietly. The sun wasn't shining and was fairly cold. It was only a guess though.
"I'm somewhere in Northern Asia I think."
"...How did you get there?" Trowa sounded surprised.
"Kidnapped" Relena said bluntly.
"Ok, I'll try to track your signal. Keep the receiver on and don't put it down. Wait where you are. We'll come and find you."
"Thank you. See you soon Trowa." Relena set the receiver down on the control desk and turned to face Heero. He motioned for them to go outside. Once outside, there was a long silence. After a few minutes, Heero finally spoke up.
"I guess this is it..."
"I guess it is..." Relena looked towards the ground trying to hide the tears that dared to fall down her cheeks. Suddenly a wave of warmth overcame her body as she found herself in Heero's arms once again. There she cried onto his chest as he too fought back tears.
"I don't want you to go!" Relena shouted out as her tears flowed more freely down her cheeks.
"Neither do I." Heero answered her.
"If you go, I'll never see you again..." Relena sobbed.
"Yes you will." Heero said angrily. At that moment he didn't care that he'd be seen a freak of nature. He didn't care what the world thought of him. He didn't care what anyone thought.
Relena gasped at his harsh words and looked up at his face. Heero then took his chance, and lowered his face, capturing her lips. He kissed her almost viciously as he knew that he didn't have much time left. Both of the held on to the kiss for as long as they could, knowing that the other would part with them soon. Relena responded with as much passion as Heero gave, but each of their air supplies were running low. Heero pulled back for breath as did Relena. Both of them were breathing hard as they looked at each other.
Heero tightened his grip around Relena once more as he pulled her to him and took to the sky. There he flew carrying her to a better look out point for her to wait for Trowa and the other gundam pilots. As they landed on the long grass covering the hillside Heero sat down with Relena leaning against him.
"I love you." He whispered into her ear from behind. He received the same reply as Relena turned to face him, kneeling on the grass. They lay there together for quite a while, each in each other's arms, happy in the silence that fell upon them. But soon their reverie was broken by the sound of a plane nearby.
Heero stood up and was about to take flight, when Relena put her hand on his shoulder.
"You will come back won't you..."
"Of course itooshi. I keep my word." Heero pulled Relena into one last hug, then he backed away and flew to the sky. Just then, Relena could see the plane landing and her friends walking out of the door. As she turned and walked down to meet them, a single tear slid down her cheek.
AN: Hello people!! Just to say that more chapter/s are still coming. This is not the end yet!
