The Replacement Assassins
Ch. 12: Escaping In One Piece
"The pictures are almost done, Heero." Usagi told him breaking him from whatever train of thoughts he was having. Heero opened his eyes and looked up when he noticed some one walking by about 20 feet away. He stood out from all the other kids in the arcade, for one thing he was dressed in all black and was carrying a briefcase, as was taller than almost everyone in here, but that's not what made him suspicious. He held uncaring, un relentless, murderous look in his green eyes. Heero's eyes went wide when he realized what he was, 'Is he willing to go this far to extract his revenge?' he thought.
Without even thinking about it, Heero grabbed Usagi and pulled her close to him. He put his calloused hands on her head and brought her head close to his, there faces were only a few centimeters apart. Usagi was speechless and blushing brightly 'Is he going to kiss me?' she thought. Heero moved his head slightly and brought his mouth close to her ear, his hot breath making her skin tingle.
"Don't turn around." He whispered into her ear. Usagi, immediately picking up on what he was saying, quickly regained her composure and her cheeks returned to their normal color.
"Cops?" She whispered back into his ear.
"No…assassins." Heero said. But it was too late; Trowa had already smelled blood in the water.
Trowa turned in the direction of Heero and Usagi and walked towards them. His briefcase had a small button on the handle, which he pushed. When he did a hail of gunfire came from the end of the briefcase and right towards Heero. Heero grabbed Usagi and dove out of the way just in time to avoid the gunfire.
Wufei, who was stationed on the second floor of the arcade to keep a look out, saw the pair run by. He immediately pulled out his machine gun and opened fire. Heero and Usagi ducked behind a couple pinball machines to avoid his fire. Trowa opened up his briefcase to pull out the machine gun he was firing from, and Wufei flipped off the second floor and landed gracefully onto the first, and removed his dark sunglasses to flush out Heero better with his naked onyx colored eyes. Trowa and Wufei slowly walked around in a sweeping motion searching for the AWOL assassin. Heero hid behind a pinball machine, with Usagi in tow waiting for the right time to duck out to the back exit and escape through the connected parking garage. But then he realized that he left his pictures behind at the photo booth and that he would have to go back and get them.
"On my count, follow me, and don't look back!" Heero whispered to Usagi. She immediately nodded. Heero waited for Trowa and Wufei to be out of view.
"Now!" He whispered and Heero quickly dashed over to the shot up photo booth with Usagi hot on his heels, narrowly avoiding being seen by the assassins. Heero and Usagi stood with their backs against the booth trying to avoid being seen, when Heero grabbed the strip of photos that had just been finished, and stuck it in his coat pocket. With one of his objectives complete, Heero now focused on getting out the exit in one piece. Heero took Usagi's hand and he led her through the maze of arcades machines, to the exit. They almost had made it when Wufei had seen then out of the corner of his eye and opened fire on them. Heero dodged the fire and returned fire with his gun and they ran through the exit, Trowa and Wufei hot on their trails.
Heero had told Usagi to run, and that she did, she quickly sprinted like a track star down the parking garage, with Heero a couple feet behind her constantly looking behind him. Trowa and Wufei had reached the parking garage and had a clear open shot at Heero's back. Right when they were about a fire, a woman, in a white Ford Expedition pulled out of her parking space. Usagi has ran pass it, but Heero was in front of it. Thinking quickly, Heero ran and slid under the car just in time to avoid the fire from Trowa and Wufei, but the woman wasn't as fortunate. The machine gun fire hit the woman in the car and died instantly.
Heero stopped himself from sliding with his gun and stood up to look back and see where they were. He was shocked to find that the woman who was in the car was murdered in cold blood by them. Heero glared at the 2 killers in a murderous rage 'Those animals!!!' he thought as he looked at the 2. Wufei could have cared less as reloaded, while Trowa merely stared back at Heero with empty eyes and he reloaded as well. Heero was about to go over there and kill them when Usagi stopped and yelled back at Heero.
"Heero lets go!" Usagi screamed, as she heard the sirens of a police car. Heero stopped in his tracks as well, as he heard the cop car. Heero, using his better judgment, tucked his gun back into his waist, and ran off.
The cop car was quickly approaching Trowa and Wufei from behind as they remained in the parking lot. Trowa sighed "Wont these pigs ever learn…" Trowa spoke in a low voice. He and Wufei turned around and proceeded to open fire on the police car. They managed to get both cops in the car, and then it crashed into a concrete pillar. One of the cops managed to fall out of the wrecked car and onto the ground he was still alive. Wufei walked over around the car to the downed officer, and eyed him with a look of contempt before shooting him with the rest of his bullets in his magazine.
Quatre was once again working late in his office, and wanted to call his wife to let her know that he was coming home a tad bit late. When he dialed the number, his son picked up the phone.
"Hello?" The small child spoke.
"Hey champ! How you doing?" Quatre asked his young son.
"Dad!!" He exclaimed. "What are you up to?" He asked.
"I'm making a shake. Listen to this!" Hey said, bringing the phone close to the blender.
"No, no, no. Let me talk to your—" Quatre was cut short as he took the phone away from his ear to avoid the loud buzzing of the blender. As he did this, a police officer came by and dropped a paper in front of him.
"Quatre, this just came it. We got 2 officers down in a shootout. We got to move now." The cop told him. Quatre sighed and brought the phone back to his ear.
"Hey, stop it for a minute, would ya?" Quatre asked. The noise soon ceased and Quatre spoke up again.
"Daddy's got to go to work now, OK?" Quatre said.
"Hey! Are you canceling tonight?" He complained.
"Come on. I only get to see you once a week. I wouldn't cancel." Quatre reassured.
"Because you promised we'd go to the movies." He wined.
"We are, we are." Quatre reassured again. "I'm going to take you to see the cartoon festival…" Quatre went on.
Mamoru smirked in delight; he had monitored the entire conversation with a directional microphone from outside his house.
"Well now, at least we know where to strike next." Mamoru said, as he got on the phone, to set up the assassination.