Well it feels good to be back. My sincere apologies for the long awaited update, I had planned on writing the last few chapters of this fic before I went and celebrated my 22nd birthday in Las Vegas. But seeing as how I was going to Vegas, my mind wasn't in the right place. And then while in Vegas I entered a poker tourney and happened to get second place, resulting in a 250,000 cash prize. So I took my quarter mil, came back to LA and had one kick ass summer. Well needless to say when I blew all my money, and got off my hangovers I tried to return, but then FF.net had their hardware issues. You know, not that im complaining, this is a great website. But who are the dumbasses that run the place? I mean, really! There times where I see web pages run better than this place. Oh well, your back up and that's all that matters. Ok now that I've posted my editorial :P, let me wrap this story up.
The Replacement Assassins
Ch. 16: Heero's Final Stand.
Treize was in his office quickly packing up his business documents and packing them into his briefcase. After receiving word that Quatre's boy was saved Heero. And that one of the 2 assassins had been killed as well, Treize was not going to take anymore chances. If you want things done, sometimes you just have to do them yourself.
"I believe he'll come here next." Mamoru said to Treize and he pulled his gun out and checked it for bullets, waiting for him to finish packing up.
"Yes, so will Winner." Treize reasoned, closing his briefcase.
"I don't think we should wait around for either one of them." Mamoru said.
"Of course not." Treize answered, picking his briefcase up and walking towards the exit. "Call the airport, then our men in L-1. We will handle his mother and sister personally before Heero gets to them."
"And me?" spoke a third voice in the room that belonged to Wufei awaiting orders from his employer.
Treize stopped in his tracks and glared over in Wufei's direction. "Stay here. Earn what you were paid for." He said in a low tone of voice before walking out the door, Mamoru not far behind him.
Treize made his way downstairs with Mamoru and some other heavily armed bodyguards surrounding him, and exited the building into the corner of a large "L" shaped alley way. A black stretch limosouine with even more armed bodyguards surrounding it awaited Treize in alley as he along with Mamoru hopped in the car. Once they were seated, 2 body guards hopped in the driver and passenger side as the car slowly took off down one of the long alleyways, that were brightly lit due to the dozens and dozens of neon signs that hung above alley on thin wires and fire escapes. As the car reached the end of the alley 2 more body guards stood in front of them as well as an old wooden gate that led to the street. The car stopped as the 2 bodyguards proceeded to open up the wooden gate. As they opened the gate there were greeted by quite shocking and menacing figure standing in the shadows
Treize and Mamoru looked up to see none other than Heero Yui standing in front of them, armed to the teeth with small amounts of blood dripping from his right hand and a look of pure hatred in his normally empty eyes. Treize didn't even have a chance to blink as Heero quickly ran forward and opened fire on the car showering the hood with bullets. Heero quickly crossed his arms and shot both bodyguards on his left and right sides. The driver took this small chance and threw the car in reverse, as he tried to get away from Heero. Heero looked forward and quickly continued his assault on the retreating black car, unrelenting as he riddled the car full of bullet holes.
The car continued to swerve back and forth scraping between the solid brick walls until it finally reach the corner of the alley and crash into the wall, coming to a violent halt. Heero continued to run forward and he jumped on top of the hood and unloaded everything he had into the front 2 passengers of the car. Treize then decided to exit out the car in the middle of the entire melee but he didn't go unnoticed by Heero as he saw him out of the corner of his eye. Heero pointed his guns at Treize and Treize looked back in fear…then relief. Heero then looked down at his guns and growled in frustration as he realized why Treize was so relieved, he was empty. Treize saw this as a chance to get away and he quickly took off down the other long alleyway. After the initial shock, most of the bodyguards have collected themselves and have come out from hidden doors, popping out from fire escapes, and running down the alleyways.
Heero dropped his empty guns, pulled out 2 more and proceeded to unload on wave after wave of gunmen amazingly without getting shot once. Once all the men had been dispatched, Wufei popped out from above on a fire escape and opened fire down on Heero with his machine gun. Not having a chance to return fire, Heero covered his head and dove off the top of the hood and behind the car.
Treize proceeded to run as fast as he could down the alley, with gun in hand, trying to escape Heero's wrath. Treize stopped for a moment to catch his breath when he was more than half way down the alley. All of a sudden a loud crash was heard down the end of the alley a what appeared to be a linen truck sped down the alley right towards Treize. Treize looked close at speeding truck trying to make out who it was. He was shocked to find Heero's new partner in crime Usagi Tsukino driving the large truck towards him and judging by the loud scream she was yelling out, she had no intentions of stopping. Thinking fast, Treize looked up of see a fire escape ladder. He jumped up to pull it down and proceeded to climb up the ladder until he reached the fire escape narrowly avoiding the speeding truck below.
Though she missed him Usagi continued to speed down the alleyway until she reached the corner of the alley. Usagi crashed the truck into the black car, where Mamoru was still trapped inside, causing him to bang his head and get a nasty gash. Heero, who was occupied with Wufei at the time, was surprised to the person who had rammed into the car was none other than Usagi. Heero looked up at Usagi and gave her a reassuring smirk, which she returned in kind. Wufei proceeded to open fire with machine gun on the newly arrived roof of the truck. Usagi got out of the driver seat and ran down the middle of the truck avoid the gunfire. Wufei then stopped firing for a brief moment and loaded up a grenade launcher and fired into the truck. Usagi opened the back of the truck and dove out just in time to avoid the explosion of the truck.
Heero got up in the middle of the explosion and climbed up the fire escape ladder right underneath Wufei, and proceeded to climb up the fire escape while trying to avoid getting shot by Wufei, but wasn't having much luck as he was doing a pretty good job containing him. Heero looked up as he backed up against wall trying to find a way to get him, when he felt a window. Heero smirked as an idea popped into his head, so he climbed into the window.
Mamoru tried to shake out the cob webs as he climbed out the back of the demolished car. Usagi was trying to do the same thing after dodging that explosion. As she rose up, she saw Mamoru out the corner of her eye, and it seemed that he noticed her. Usagi looked around and quickly noticed an open back door to what appeared to be a restaurant. She didn't waste any time making a mad dash for the exit while Mamoru chased after firing shots in her direction. Usagi ran through the door and moved through some hallways and entered in a kitchen that was full of Chinese chefs. Mamoru ducked through the hallways and into the room she saw Usagi run into which happened to be a kitchen, Mamoru shot at Usagi right as she ducked behind a counter missing her head just barely. All the chefs ran out the kitchen as soon as the shots were fired which just left him and her, Mamoru smirked as he turned the lights off. Usagi continued to crawl behind the counters as quietly as possible and trying to stay away from Mamoru.
"Usa?" Mamoru spoke up "I going to find you." He said, as he slowly walked around the kitchen counters, trying to fish out Usagi. Usagi crawled around the opposite end with her gun drawn.
"But you could save me the time, and put a bullet in your head." Mamoru offered, in an amused tone of voice. "If the position were reversed, I'd do the same for you." He lied. Then he heard a loud noise of a pan dropping nearby. Mamoru smirked as he ran over to where the noise came from, and pointed the gun down at the person who caused the noise expecting it to be Usagi. Mamoru was surprised to find that it was only one of the Chinese cooks who were too scared to run away.
"Well are you?" Came a feminine voice from behind Mamoru's shoulder.
"Excuse me?" said Mamoru with a nervous laugh. She had him and he knew it.
"Going to put bullet in your head now that our positions are reversed?" Usagi clarified with a smirk.
Mamoru was now laughing nervously and began to turn around and at least try and get one shot off, but that was never the case. As soon as she saw the whites of his eyes, Usagi proceeded to shoot Mamoru with everything she had in her clip, when she stopped firing, Mamoru dropped to his knees and looked at Usagi with a smirk.
"Usa, does this mean you love Heero more than me?" He coughed out.
Usagi smiled and pointed the gun back at him. "You tell me…" she said as she fired her last shot into his head. Mamoru closed his eyes and fell down on his face dead. Usagi reloaded her gun and walked out the kitchen "Don't call me Usa." She said back to Mamoru dead body as she exited.
Wufei was getting confused. He hasn't seen or been shot at by Heero in a few minutes and we was starting to wonder if he had killed him. When suddenly he felt the familiar feel of cold steel pressed against his head. Heero had "trapped his king". Wufei's eyes went wide as to just how did he get behind him and just as soon forgot about it as he realized it didn't matter.
Wufei smirked as he dropped his gun. "Checkmate." He spoke in an amused tone.
Heero merely smirked. "Checkmate." He replied as he pulled the trigger, and Wufei's world went black.
Heero looked up quickly as he heard the footsteps of somebody climbing stairs. Heero knew who it was, and he quickly climbed up the rest of the stairs of the fire escape which led to a catwalk between 2 buildings, where Treize would be no doubt.
Treize was constantly looking back as he wasn't sure if Heero was hot on his trail or not. When he reached the catwalk he started backing up keeping a look out for Heero. Heero ran up the stairs and quickly and reached the catwalk in no time. When he got to the top he found the man he was looking for. Treize turned around just in time to find Heero Yui staring him down. Without even thinking both men drew their guns at the same time and pointed it at each others heads. As both men looked down the barrels of each others guns, they both realized that there guns were empty. Then at the same time they both pressed a button that released their empty clips and proceeded to reload. While Treize was searching his body for a clip, Heero was doing the same, then he remembered the last clip he loaded, it had the hallow point bullet and it was in his pocket. Heero grabbed the clip, loaded it into the gun, and slid the lock back with, the hallow point bullet loaded into the chamber. Heero then rose the gun back up at Treize's head before Treize had a chance to slide his clip back in. Treize looked back up shocked to find Heero had already reloaded and was just about ready to kill him. Treize was a proud man and he wasn't about to beg to Heero not that it would help anyways.
Treize sighed in defeat, but then glared back at Heero with pure hate and Heero returned the gesture.
"The boy will die, Heero…as well as your family." Treize stated rather confidently.
Heero gritted his teeth "Not in your lifetime!" Heero stated in his default monotone voice, and he pulled the trigger shooting Treize in the head. Treize staggered for a moment and then fell over the catwalk plummeting down 7 or so stories to the hard concrete of the alleyway.
Heero looked down were Treize corpse just fell, and breathed a sigh of relief. Right as he had done so, thunderclouds roared through the sky, as the rain that seemed to have ceased during all the fighting, resumed and poured down on Heero's head. Heero looked up into the sky and let another sigh go and the rain hit his face. After a few moments, Heero collected himself and walked off the catwalk and back downstairs.
Quatre looked down at the bloodied and shot up corpse of Treize. 'Looks like a missed all the action.' Quatre said to himself as he surveyed the alley to find it littered with bodies and mangled cars. Quatre looked up from where Treize's body lay as the rain once again resumed, and was surprised to find some one up there. Quatre quickly put 2 and 2 together and realized that Treize fell off that catwalk and that he was the one who did it. 'Ghost?' Quatre said to himself, as he ran through a door and climbed up stairs that Heero was no doubt going down.
Heero quickly ran down the stairs to find Usagi, he wasn't even sure if she survived the explosion from the truck. As he climbed down, Quatre continued to climb up, as the footsteps he heard were getting louder. Heero was hearing footsteps that were getting louder and louder as he was making his way down, he slowed down to a stop. Quatre ran up the stairs and looked up surprised to find the "Ghost" that has been eluding him all this time. At the same time they both rose their guns up at each other in a standoff. Heero looked into the bright blue eyes of Quatre and saw the restraint in his eyes and he knew that he didn't want to shoot him, just as much as he really didn't want to kill him. Quatre looked back into Heero's empty blue eyes and couldn't make out what he was thinking, as he had never seen some as stoic as this "Ghost" was.
Not long after Heero and Quatre met. Usagi decided to make her presence felt as she stepped in and pointed her gun at Quatre. Quatre saw her out of the corner of her eye but there was nothing he could do, as Heero internally sighed in relief to see that Usagi was OK before going to staring Quatre down. Quatre, having enough of the tension, sighed and closed his eyes and then he shook his head in a "no" manner and lowered his gun. Heero kept his gun pointed at Quatre wondering what he was doing, but then realized that they may be on different sides of that law but this wasn't right. Heero slowly lowered his gun, and motioned for Usagi to do the same. Quatre then stepped to one side and allowed to pass by. Heero accepted his gesture and made his way down stairs but right as he was just about to pass him Quatre stopped him by putting his hand on his chest. Heero looked at Quatre and he stuck his hand out and made a motion for the gun in his hand. Heero nodded and spun the gun around and allowed Quatre to grab it by the handle, allowing him to continue on his way. Once Heero made his way over to where Usagi was, he looked at her and motioned for her to do the same. Usagi complied, and tossed the gun over to Quatre.
"Hey…Ghost" Quatre spoke up grabbing Heero's attention, but he didn't turn around. "What's your name?" Quatre asked
Heero over his shoulder back at Quatre and paused for a moment before answering. "Heero…Heero Yui." He answered.
Quatre nodded. "Thank you Heero, thank you for saving my son. I don't care what you eyes tell me, I know deep down in your soul, you're a good person."
Heero looked back at him for a moment, before smiling and nodding and walking off with Usagi in tow. Not long after they left, the cops arrived on the scene. Quatre casually walked down the stairs as he ran into the SWAT team.
"Where are they?" One of the officers asked. Quatre never broke stride and he continued down the stairs. "They're gone." Quatre said as he left the building.