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Chapter 3 As the door opened 06 flung herself around it and stunned Solo with a blow to the temple. In the same movement she swept up his gun and opened fire on the guards outside. They scattered, moving out of the way of the door, but keeping their guns trained on it. None understood exactly what had happened, it had been too fast, but they understood that the pilot was now armed and dangerous.
'Sir, this is guard teem one requesting backup at 06's cell. We have a situation'
'Gotcha, sending in backup. What's happening?' crackled the reply.
'General Solo's unconscious, and 06 has a gun.'
'Well, 06 is expendable. When he came in we were given orders to execute him if there's trouble. Permission to open fire.' The line closed, and the commanding guard ran back to his troops.
'We have permission to open fire, and to kill the pilot. However, try to avoid killing him if possible' he told them. They nodded, and took their positions around the cell door. The commander peered cautiously around it.
'Hey, it's a girl' he yelled in surprise, and was answered with a bullet in the head. He fell to the ground, dead. The others didn't know what to do. Were they expected to fire on a girl? Another guard took charge, moved in and opened fire. The others followed suit. 06 was pinned down in the cell, but she made it impossible for the guards to get a clear aim, firing relentlessly upon the door. It was a stand-off; neither side had the advantage.
'Oh, Heero. Are you off fighting your war?' Relena sighed, gazing up at the vast blue ocean that was the sky. When would he come back to her? She was sure he would, even if it was only to kill her. Would he return when she returned to the Sank Kingdom? No - he wouldn't risk the peace of that nation to kill her. He would wait. She smiled, remembering their first meeting.
'My name's Relena Dorlin'. Her hand reached out, as it had done then. 'What's yours?' She smiled again.
'Hey, what's with all the racket?' complained Duo, who had been jolted awake by the gunfire. It sounded close. He opened his eyes to see Wufei standing by the door, and slowly sat up. 'Wu-man?' Wufei did not respond. 'What's going on? Who's shooting?' he asked again. There was a long pause.
'I don't know' he slowly answered. 'But I can tell you that there's something happening behind our cell. Probably the guy we saw earlier'. He turned away from the door and returned to his spot next to the wall. In reply Duo stood up and walked over to the door.
'You won't see anything, I've been standing there for a while. You're quite a heavy sleeper, you know that? You also snore' Duo turned and glared at him.
'I do not snore!' he said indignantly, before his attention was drawn back to the door by the sound of people approaching hurriedly. He watched as several Oz soldiers ran past and disappeared around the corner, a couple carrying very heavy weaponry. Then there were shouts. 'He's right, it's that other pilot' he thought as he stepped away from the door 'he's gonna escape, and that means we're getting out to!'. Duo almost started dancing, he had to remind himself that the other prisoner might not be Quatre. 'But if it is' he thought with a grin 'then we're blowing this joint!'
06 was heavily pinned down, it was all she could do to prevent the Oz soldiers from getting a good shot at her by pelting heavy fire through the door, and her ammo wasn't going to last for ever. It was time to move. She started to edge towards the door
'Move in the beam gun' Suddenly a large cannon-like weapon appeared in the doorway. 06 barely had time to fling her out of the way before it fired. The blast narrowly missed her, plunging straight through the back wall of her cell. Without hesitation she scooped up her mask, putting it back on, and dived through the hole. She also grabbed two magazines that had been hidden in her cloak. More ammo.
'Hah, I knew it! Wufei, come on, lets blow this joint!' 06 turned to see two other people in the room, which was another small cell. She recognised them as two gundam pilots, 03 and 02. Well, she didn't have time to deal with them now, there was heavy fire pouring through the hole in the cell wall. She concentrated on keeping the hole covered whilst moving towards the door. She had to get out before the soldiers blocked that off too.
She reached the door and exposed her back just long enough to blast the lock. Already she could hear guards coming that way. Kicking open the door she fled down the corridor, shooting over her shoulder. Wufei and Duo, who took out a couple of the guards, taking their guns, followed her. The three sprinted towards the hangers, pursued by Oz soldiers.
Zechs looked up and around the hanger as he boarded the small shuttle.
'Goodbye' he said softly. He sat behind the controls, and initiated the launch sequence.
At the storage facility 06 went one-way, Duo and Wufei another. She entered one of the sub-hangers, and cast about for her gundam. She couldn't see it. It wasn't in the next hanger either. In the third one she got lucky. There it was, tall and dark. She entered the cockpit, and her fingers flew over the controls. Nothing happened. The suit had been immobilised, and it would take too long to disable the immobilising device. She had to find a different suit.
'Hey, our gundams!' Duo ran up to his new, improved Deathscythe. Oh yeah, Oz was really gonna pay! He turned to Wufei, who was activating the lock on the bay doors. 'We're outta here!' he yelled.
Suddenly there was a loud bang as one of the doors took a heavy blow.
'What the.' Duo trailed of as the lock turned green, and 06 ran in. 'Hey, Quatre, over here' he waved. 06 turned and started shooting, as Wufei and Duo dived for cover.
'Still think that's Quatre?' Wufei shouted over the noise as he returned fire. Duo shook his head grimly as he did likewise. Whoever it was certainly wasn't very friendly. Duo stopped firing and dropped down behind storage boxes he was using as cover. He had to create a distraction so that he and Wufei could get into their gundams. He had a brainwave.
'Wufei, stop a moment, till I give you a signal' he whispered. 06 was still firing. He turned and shot into a small shuttle in front and to the right, near to the doors and 06's cover. It worked. 06 was thrown sideways by the blast, and Wufei sent a bullet through her leg, and another through her shoulder. O6 didn't get up. Then the two pilots climbed into their gundams and took off.
'Shall we escape?' Duo asked, grinning.
'After we pay them back, eh?!' came Wufei's reply. It was time to test out their new suits. Duo grinned even more.
'Get ready for hell!' he yelled, and launched into attack.
'Hey, we've found 06. In here.' The guard yelled, waving to signal the other soldiers. The Lunar Base was in chaos; 02 and 03 were attacking in their gundams, which had apparently been modified and improved, and 06 had apparently disappeared. The guard smiled. Well, one thing was going right. They had located 06, who was in no condition to fight back. The pilot was bleeding heavily from fresh wounds in her leg and shoulder, and also from the wound in her knee, which had re-opened. All the same, he kept his distance.
Soon 06 was surrounded by several heavily armed guards, and was transported back to her cell. Outside she could hear the sounds of heavy fighting. Several times the ground shook as buildings and mobile suits exploded. She lay against the cell wall as an Oz doctor bound her wounds. No use struggling, in her condition she'd only get herself shot. Better to wait.
'How is she?' a voice outside asked.
'I don't know sir, but the medic's in there now with her' came the reply.
'Fine. Let me in' the first voice commanded. The door opened, and Trowa entered. He watched the doctor finish bandaging 06 up and leave, then turned to her.
'Can you walk?' he asked her. She slowly rose to her feat, showing no signs of pain. 'Good, come with me. And don't try anything foolish'. She followed Trowa out of the cell, and was escorted by him and two other guards to the main control room. Solo was standing, talking to Dr Lyre who was on screen. There was a bandage on his right temple where she had struck him earlier, but otherwise seemed fine. 'Thank you Trowa. I want you to go and find Zechs now, I want to know why he didn't inform me about this' he motioned to the screen. Trowa nodded and left, accompanied by the other two guards. Solo motioned to 06 to take a seat. She didn't move, and her eyes were fixed on the image of Dr Lyre. He turned back to the screen also. 'Well, here she is. I don't know if I really trust you, so if you try anything funny we'll have 06 executed' he turned and took a seat at the back of the room. Dr Lyre nodded.
Thank you, General. As for your brother, I think you'll find that he is no longer on the Lunar Base. He left in a shuttle twenty minutes ago. I was monitoring the base, and I've been trying to contact you ever since. I wouldn't expect him back any time soon - and I thiinnk you'll be in for quite a shock.' she paused, and turned to look at 06. 'You can take off her cuffs, she won't try anything' she said. Solo looked at 06, who had turned now to him. He got up slowly and unlocked the cuffs, tensed against an attack. None came, 06 simply dropped her hands and turned back to Dr Lyre. Lyre's expression softened as she looked at the girl before her. 'You can remove the mask now' she said. 06 did so.
Heero drifted slowly through space. His damaged gundam was slowly leaking fuel, and the thrusters were damaged. He needed to find somewhere remote to stop and check the damage, and to see what parts would be needed. He checked his view screen for a likely landing spot. Still nowhere. He had been hunting for Quatre since he had left Solo. There was nothing. The new gundam had just disappeared. Heero looked at the radar. Nothing. He turned Mercurius and headed in the direction of Earth. Quatre had to be found - before any more colonies were destroyed.
Solo stared. He had found out from Dr Lyre that 06 was a girl, but it was still a shock. She was quite young, the same age as the other gundam pilots, with long, wild brown hair and blue eyes that were like ice. And there was something familiar about her, he felt like he had seen her somewhere before. He continued to study her as Lyre spoke.
'General Solo, this is Storm, or in your terms Pilot 06. She will help you to defeat the other gundam pilots' she said. Solo nodded. Storm. It was easy to forget that people had names when you gave them numbers instead. Lyre continued to talk, this time to Storm.
'I'm sorry I didn't tell you about this, but I thought that you wouldn't go if I told you. Your orders are to help Oz destroy the other pilots. You are to wok under General Solo. Understood?' Storm nodded. Destroy the other gundams? She was planning to do that anyway. Not a problem. Solo was not so sure, but he kept silent. 'Good. You're dismissed, go and work on your gundam.' Storm turned and left.
'Why are you doing this? What do you get in return for giving us 06?' Solo asked Lyre. There had to be a catch. A new gundam pilot just appears, and it wasn't fighting Oz? It was too unreal to be true.
'It's simple. I want to help Oz, for the colonies. Those pilots are not what the colonies need. And Storm wants that too. If you don't trust me, fine. Just give her a chance, and you'll understand. You need her to defeat the gundams.' She looked at the door, as if expecting someone to come in, then suddenly remembered something. 'By the way, she doesn't speak. I forget, I'm so used to it. But if there's something important, she'll let you know. She'll follow any orders she's given, to the death, but only if they are issued by you, those are the orders I've given her. A warning though, she's her own master, she may listen to you and me but she won't listen to anyone else. And she hates having to rely on anyone else. You've been warned' she smiled.
That was Storm, no one controlled her. But, no matter how cold and distant Storm could be, Lyre still cared for her, like a daughter. She looked back at Solo. 'Remember, she's a trained soldier, she can do anything a guy can do, and she can probably do it better. She's there to fight. Just.' she trailed off, unsure. 'Just. don't let her get killed. I'll be in touch.' The transmission ended.
Well, that's it so far - please review - I need input!
Chapter 3 As the door opened 06 flung herself around it and stunned Solo with a blow to the temple. In the same movement she swept up his gun and opened fire on the guards outside. They scattered, moving out of the way of the door, but keeping their guns trained on it. None understood exactly what had happened, it had been too fast, but they understood that the pilot was now armed and dangerous.
'Sir, this is guard teem one requesting backup at 06's cell. We have a situation'
'Gotcha, sending in backup. What's happening?' crackled the reply.
'General Solo's unconscious, and 06 has a gun.'
'Well, 06 is expendable. When he came in we were given orders to execute him if there's trouble. Permission to open fire.' The line closed, and the commanding guard ran back to his troops.
'We have permission to open fire, and to kill the pilot. However, try to avoid killing him if possible' he told them. They nodded, and took their positions around the cell door. The commander peered cautiously around it.
'Hey, it's a girl' he yelled in surprise, and was answered with a bullet in the head. He fell to the ground, dead. The others didn't know what to do. Were they expected to fire on a girl? Another guard took charge, moved in and opened fire. The others followed suit. 06 was pinned down in the cell, but she made it impossible for the guards to get a clear aim, firing relentlessly upon the door. It was a stand-off; neither side had the advantage.
'Oh, Heero. Are you off fighting your war?' Relena sighed, gazing up at the vast blue ocean that was the sky. When would he come back to her? She was sure he would, even if it was only to kill her. Would he return when she returned to the Sank Kingdom? No - he wouldn't risk the peace of that nation to kill her. He would wait. She smiled, remembering their first meeting.
'My name's Relena Dorlin'. Her hand reached out, as it had done then. 'What's yours?' She smiled again.
'Hey, what's with all the racket?' complained Duo, who had been jolted awake by the gunfire. It sounded close. He opened his eyes to see Wufei standing by the door, and slowly sat up. 'Wu-man?' Wufei did not respond. 'What's going on? Who's shooting?' he asked again. There was a long pause.
'I don't know' he slowly answered. 'But I can tell you that there's something happening behind our cell. Probably the guy we saw earlier'. He turned away from the door and returned to his spot next to the wall. In reply Duo stood up and walked over to the door.
'You won't see anything, I've been standing there for a while. You're quite a heavy sleeper, you know that? You also snore' Duo turned and glared at him.
'I do not snore!' he said indignantly, before his attention was drawn back to the door by the sound of people approaching hurriedly. He watched as several Oz soldiers ran past and disappeared around the corner, a couple carrying very heavy weaponry. Then there were shouts. 'He's right, it's that other pilot' he thought as he stepped away from the door 'he's gonna escape, and that means we're getting out to!'. Duo almost started dancing, he had to remind himself that the other prisoner might not be Quatre. 'But if it is' he thought with a grin 'then we're blowing this joint!'
06 was heavily pinned down, it was all she could do to prevent the Oz soldiers from getting a good shot at her by pelting heavy fire through the door, and her ammo wasn't going to last for ever. It was time to move. She started to edge towards the door
'Move in the beam gun' Suddenly a large cannon-like weapon appeared in the doorway. 06 barely had time to fling her out of the way before it fired. The blast narrowly missed her, plunging straight through the back wall of her cell. Without hesitation she scooped up her mask, putting it back on, and dived through the hole. She also grabbed two magazines that had been hidden in her cloak. More ammo.
'Hah, I knew it! Wufei, come on, lets blow this joint!' 06 turned to see two other people in the room, which was another small cell. She recognised them as two gundam pilots, 03 and 02. Well, she didn't have time to deal with them now, there was heavy fire pouring through the hole in the cell wall. She concentrated on keeping the hole covered whilst moving towards the door. She had to get out before the soldiers blocked that off too.
She reached the door and exposed her back just long enough to blast the lock. Already she could hear guards coming that way. Kicking open the door she fled down the corridor, shooting over her shoulder. Wufei and Duo, who took out a couple of the guards, taking their guns, followed her. The three sprinted towards the hangers, pursued by Oz soldiers.
Zechs looked up and around the hanger as he boarded the small shuttle.
'Goodbye' he said softly. He sat behind the controls, and initiated the launch sequence.
At the storage facility 06 went one-way, Duo and Wufei another. She entered one of the sub-hangers, and cast about for her gundam. She couldn't see it. It wasn't in the next hanger either. In the third one she got lucky. There it was, tall and dark. She entered the cockpit, and her fingers flew over the controls. Nothing happened. The suit had been immobilised, and it would take too long to disable the immobilising device. She had to find a different suit.
'Hey, our gundams!' Duo ran up to his new, improved Deathscythe. Oh yeah, Oz was really gonna pay! He turned to Wufei, who was activating the lock on the bay doors. 'We're outta here!' he yelled.
Suddenly there was a loud bang as one of the doors took a heavy blow.
'What the.' Duo trailed of as the lock turned green, and 06 ran in. 'Hey, Quatre, over here' he waved. 06 turned and started shooting, as Wufei and Duo dived for cover.
'Still think that's Quatre?' Wufei shouted over the noise as he returned fire. Duo shook his head grimly as he did likewise. Whoever it was certainly wasn't very friendly. Duo stopped firing and dropped down behind storage boxes he was using as cover. He had to create a distraction so that he and Wufei could get into their gundams. He had a brainwave.
'Wufei, stop a moment, till I give you a signal' he whispered. 06 was still firing. He turned and shot into a small shuttle in front and to the right, near to the doors and 06's cover. It worked. 06 was thrown sideways by the blast, and Wufei sent a bullet through her leg, and another through her shoulder. O6 didn't get up. Then the two pilots climbed into their gundams and took off.
'Shall we escape?' Duo asked, grinning.
'After we pay them back, eh?!' came Wufei's reply. It was time to test out their new suits. Duo grinned even more.
'Get ready for hell!' he yelled, and launched into attack.
'Hey, we've found 06. In here.' The guard yelled, waving to signal the other soldiers. The Lunar Base was in chaos; 02 and 03 were attacking in their gundams, which had apparently been modified and improved, and 06 had apparently disappeared. The guard smiled. Well, one thing was going right. They had located 06, who was in no condition to fight back. The pilot was bleeding heavily from fresh wounds in her leg and shoulder, and also from the wound in her knee, which had re-opened. All the same, he kept his distance.
Soon 06 was surrounded by several heavily armed guards, and was transported back to her cell. Outside she could hear the sounds of heavy fighting. Several times the ground shook as buildings and mobile suits exploded. She lay against the cell wall as an Oz doctor bound her wounds. No use struggling, in her condition she'd only get herself shot. Better to wait.
'How is she?' a voice outside asked.
'I don't know sir, but the medic's in there now with her' came the reply.
'Fine. Let me in' the first voice commanded. The door opened, and Trowa entered. He watched the doctor finish bandaging 06 up and leave, then turned to her.
'Can you walk?' he asked her. She slowly rose to her feat, showing no signs of pain. 'Good, come with me. And don't try anything foolish'. She followed Trowa out of the cell, and was escorted by him and two other guards to the main control room. Solo was standing, talking to Dr Lyre who was on screen. There was a bandage on his right temple where she had struck him earlier, but otherwise seemed fine. 'Thank you Trowa. I want you to go and find Zechs now, I want to know why he didn't inform me about this' he motioned to the screen. Trowa nodded and left, accompanied by the other two guards. Solo motioned to 06 to take a seat. She didn't move, and her eyes were fixed on the image of Dr Lyre. He turned back to the screen also. 'Well, here she is. I don't know if I really trust you, so if you try anything funny we'll have 06 executed' he turned and took a seat at the back of the room. Dr Lyre nodded.
Thank you, General. As for your brother, I think you'll find that he is no longer on the Lunar Base. He left in a shuttle twenty minutes ago. I was monitoring the base, and I've been trying to contact you ever since. I wouldn't expect him back any time soon - and I thiinnk you'll be in for quite a shock.' she paused, and turned to look at 06. 'You can take off her cuffs, she won't try anything' she said. Solo looked at 06, who had turned now to him. He got up slowly and unlocked the cuffs, tensed against an attack. None came, 06 simply dropped her hands and turned back to Dr Lyre. Lyre's expression softened as she looked at the girl before her. 'You can remove the mask now' she said. 06 did so.
Heero drifted slowly through space. His damaged gundam was slowly leaking fuel, and the thrusters were damaged. He needed to find somewhere remote to stop and check the damage, and to see what parts would be needed. He checked his view screen for a likely landing spot. Still nowhere. He had been hunting for Quatre since he had left Solo. There was nothing. The new gundam had just disappeared. Heero looked at the radar. Nothing. He turned Mercurius and headed in the direction of Earth. Quatre had to be found - before any more colonies were destroyed.
Solo stared. He had found out from Dr Lyre that 06 was a girl, but it was still a shock. She was quite young, the same age as the other gundam pilots, with long, wild brown hair and blue eyes that were like ice. And there was something familiar about her, he felt like he had seen her somewhere before. He continued to study her as Lyre spoke.
'General Solo, this is Storm, or in your terms Pilot 06. She will help you to defeat the other gundam pilots' she said. Solo nodded. Storm. It was easy to forget that people had names when you gave them numbers instead. Lyre continued to talk, this time to Storm.
'I'm sorry I didn't tell you about this, but I thought that you wouldn't go if I told you. Your orders are to help Oz destroy the other pilots. You are to wok under General Solo. Understood?' Storm nodded. Destroy the other gundams? She was planning to do that anyway. Not a problem. Solo was not so sure, but he kept silent. 'Good. You're dismissed, go and work on your gundam.' Storm turned and left.
'Why are you doing this? What do you get in return for giving us 06?' Solo asked Lyre. There had to be a catch. A new gundam pilot just appears, and it wasn't fighting Oz? It was too unreal to be true.
'It's simple. I want to help Oz, for the colonies. Those pilots are not what the colonies need. And Storm wants that too. If you don't trust me, fine. Just give her a chance, and you'll understand. You need her to defeat the gundams.' She looked at the door, as if expecting someone to come in, then suddenly remembered something. 'By the way, she doesn't speak. I forget, I'm so used to it. But if there's something important, she'll let you know. She'll follow any orders she's given, to the death, but only if they are issued by you, those are the orders I've given her. A warning though, she's her own master, she may listen to you and me but she won't listen to anyone else. And she hates having to rely on anyone else. You've been warned' she smiled.
That was Storm, no one controlled her. But, no matter how cold and distant Storm could be, Lyre still cared for her, like a daughter. She looked back at Solo. 'Remember, she's a trained soldier, she can do anything a guy can do, and she can probably do it better. She's there to fight. Just.' she trailed off, unsure. 'Just. don't let her get killed. I'll be in touch.' The transmission ended.
Well, that's it so far - please review - I need input!