Confessions and Explosions

*Last Time: "You leave me no choice." He pulled the trigger.

This Time:

The two occupants of the room watched the bullet move in seemingly slow motion out of the barrel of the gun and straight towards the woman's head. The man holding the gun watched the woman as she stared up at him, no fear evident in her eyes. The bullet moved closer and closer to the woman and still she stared at the man, an almost disappointed, yet longing expression on her face. As the bullet finally was within a foot of the woman, time seemed to resume. It sped toward the woman and as it was about to strike and kill, a bright white light engulfed it and when it died down the woman was unharmed.

Heero stared at the woman, Cosmos, stunned. He had shot her, she hadn't moved, so why wasn't she on the floor dead right now? He dropped the hand holding the gun limply to his side. It's that white light. She has some sort of strange powers, like a psychic.' He watched as she took her eyes off of him and shook her head in disappointment.


"You can't kill Cosmos. No one ever could." She said with what sounded like regret. Did she actually want to die?

Cosmos lifted her eyes back to Heero's and was about to say something else when a beeping sound filled the room. It's source: the computer.

Heero was snapped out of his shock with the sound and could only stare as Cosmos turned around to retrieve the disk from the computer. Once again, his gun was up, pointing at Cosmos, and ready to shoot.

Cosmos grabbed the disk from the computer and put it into her sub-space pocket. When she turned around the shiny barrel of Heero's gun was again pointing at her. She couldn't help but giggle at the sight. He was a soldier, he was trained to do such things, even if he knew it would do no good.

"Are you going to shoot me again? Nothing will come of it. You can not kill Cosmos. You will just be wasting you ammunition should you try."

"Hnn."

"Taking a vow of silence now hmm? That's too bad, I had a few questions I wanted to ask you before I leave." She said, a fake look of hurt and disappointment shone on her face.

"You're not leaving without giving me that disk first." Heero all but grunted.

"Oh, so he does speak. While you're in a talking mood, could I ask you a question? Why are you here? What is a boy so young doing in a place so dangerous." She said with almost motherly concern. Her question confused Heero, she looked to be younger than he and she was calling him young?

"It is none of your business what I am doing here."

"I see, you came for the files. Cosmos, Saturn, and Pluto?" She hinted with a smile. Heero faltered. How could she know that?'

"Hand over the disk." Demanded Heero, his gun still pointed at her forehead.

"That I can not do Mr. Yui. Unless you can prove to me that this information wouldn't be in the wrong hands with you, I can not allow anyone but my colleagues and myself to view this information. Can you prove that, Mr. Yui?" She said in a kind voice that held a slight edge to it.

"What do you need to know?" He asked. If bargaining with her was the only way to complete this mission, then so be it.

"So cooperative. All I want to know is why you want this disk so badly. Tell me that, and the disk is yours."

"I am Gundam Pilot 01, pilot of Wing Zero. I work for Dr. J and am known as the Perfect Soldier. The disk is my mission." He stated in well practiced monotone.

"A Gundam pilot, I see" She trailed off. She looked to be lost in her own little world. "A Gundam pilot." She stated again. She opened her mouth to say more when an explosion suddenly rocked the base, knocking Cosmos out of the chair and into Heero's arms.

Kuso!' Heero swore to himself. He'd forgotten that the others were still out there and had orders to destroy the base at 18:45. He looked at the woman that had been thrown into his arms. It was her fault he didn't have the disk yet and he was still inside. And yet, as he looked at her, he couldn't help but notice how beautiful she was and how comfortable he was holding her in her arms. Another explosion knocked him out of that train of thought. What am I doing? Emotions are for the weak!' Cosmos was still in his arms. Actually, she was clinging to his shirt for dear life. Apparently, although bullets didn't scare her, exploding buildings did. He almost chuckled at the thought but reprimanded himself for being weak instead. Still holding onto the woman, he looked down at his watch. Shimatta!! We only have 30 seconds left until the entire base explodes. Wait!! WE?!!'

"There is only 30 seconds left until this base explodes. There is no time to escape. At least no one else got the information. I couldn't live knowing I had failed my mission and let the enemy get away with the files." Heero spoke unaware that he was speaking aloud. "At least the Colonies and Chikyuu won't be harmed because of the information if it's destroyed and if I'm destroyed with it, all the better. I have too much blood on my hands to live any longer."

Cosmos hung onto Heero for dear life. Although she couldn't die, the pain the explosions would cause her was something she was terrified of. As Heero went off into a world of his own she smiled. He would be worthy of the information, good thing she could make a copy of her disk with her powers of the Cosmos. She frowned slightly at the thought of Heero wanting to die. Although she had often felt she deserved to die, she couldn't bare the thought of Heero wanting and wishing to die. Perhaps it was because he was an innocent in her eyes. He was, after all, only doing as he was told. Perhaps she could save them both.

Explosions rocked the base while the two stood together, seemingly unaware. A white light enveloped the two just as the base was destroyed.*