Deserve to Die
Hi all!!! I got a review saying I should make my chappies longer so I'll try my best!!! I also think that my battle scenes are all pretty stuffed up but there you go.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, only the girls.
Chapter 7 - Lies
The girls were viciously quiet all week. The thought that once again they would have to hurt someone they loved was too much to bear. They could feel the unstoppable hanging around their heads and swarming in the air, waiting to happen. The girls all dealt with their problems in the only way they knew how.
Kaiya withdrew into her shadowed shell. She refused to talk to anyone at all no matter who or why. The thought that lingered was that if she pretended she didn't know them and not be with them for a while, then she could forget who they were and what she was about to do to them. Not just the boys, but also the girls who they were linked with, whether they liked it or not.
Skye locked herself in her room and took to straying into the kitchen after dark. She was about to lose the only person in her life who understood her and was willing to talk to her about her problems, her fears and her happiness. She didn't understand how the world could be so unfair. Just how much was she willing to give?
Cillas payed no attention to anyone and walked straight past them as if they didn't exist. And she had resolved to walk, after nearly falling from the high ropes twice, due to her lack of concentration. Her head was filled with dark and unthinkable thoughts and they pressed into her mind like they would never disappear. All she could do was ignore them and ignore that she was alive to think them.
Yumi wandered around like she was a lost child, which was, in a way, what she was. Half the time she didn't hear you when you tried to talk to her and the other half of the time, she heard you but didn't answer. She was uncertain about what she had to do and even more uncertain about what would happen if she did.
Anike kept living her life but it was as if her soul had disappeared. She stopped laughing and smiling. She was quiet and desolate. She only spoke if she was talked to and avoided everyone and everything.
The boys noticed. It was impossible to ignore.
Heero was the first to become aware. Kaiya had walked into him on the stairs. She had backed away but then walked straight into him again. He could still remember the hollow look in her eyes, how you could look at them and straight into her head. The wall that defiantly blocked you out had disappeared. He'd shaken her gently and when she snapped out of it she had given him a frightened and pained look before she brushed past him and headed back the way she had come.
Duo was next. Anike had been avoiding him and when he cornered her to ask her why, she had warded him off as if he was the devil himself. She'd thrashed furiously at his touch and he'd noticed that she was very pale and lifeless. It had hurt him more than he'd ever imagined, it hurt more than death itself. But one evening, by the fire, she had pushed him away but then she had stopped and searched his cobalt eyes, as if looking for something important but then she'd looked away and walked out on him.
Trowa was sitting in his usual spot when Yumi had come in and sat next to him. He'd smiled warmly at her and she had looked at him, rather alarmed, but smiled back. He could still recall the anxiety that she smiled back at him. He'd put down the book and turned to face her. "What's the matter?" he'd asked, concerned.
She'd turned to look at him and started to cry. And looking back at her awkwardly, wondering what on earth he had done, she threw herself at him and buried herself in his shirt. He'd pulled her close, very aware of the fact that Kaiya was still in the room but somehow not caring. Whispering words of comfort, her sobbing had reduced to a whimper.
"Why do you have to be so nice to me?" she'd asked angrily. "I mean- I- I'm about to." but she couldn't bring herself to say it. She'd hung her head miserably and he'd continued to hold her. She'd taken a deep breath and said in an almost frightened way, "Yumi doesn't understand."
But Trowa had looked at her and shaken his head. "Yumi doesn't have to."
~*~*~*~*~
And in return the girls tried to hold off taking action for as long as they could, but still, they couldn't hold off the inevitable. Kaiya received another email telling them to hurry up with it and to report it as soon as they had 'completed the mission.'
They all knew what to do. They planned a day where they would 'go to the mall' but instead, carry out the first stage of the operation. They left a note. None of them could bring themselves to lie directly to the guys.
Cillas went first. She slipped quietly into the hangar. The girls waited anxiously until she returned.
When all five girls had gone and come back, they stole back into the house. The boys were looking rather surprised to see them but Cillas quickly covered up. They didn't question this and the girls were so relieved they went straight to their rooms.
The next day Kaiya walked in on the boys and jumped them with the news that she had found out where Oz were manufacturing new suits. Heero had nodded, speaking for all of them, and Kaiya had quickly walked out of the room, not wanting to answer any questions.
It was all a lie.
~*~*~*~*~
As the Gundams flew in a casual formation out to the snows, the girls were lagging behind, trying to hinder the rest of the group. The guys kept by them, slowing down to match their crawl as the blizzard roared making it increasingly difficult to fly. And so they walked. But they got there nevertheless and were greeted by a whole army of Leos and Aries.
As the whirling snow filled her vision, Kaiya wondered whether the boys would notice that there were no 'new suits' but they didn't, or if they did, they didn't say. The girls charged first, and quickly the numbers dwindled.
Kaiya's Gundam, the Psyche Raider, focused entirely on electricity. She had a basic knife that she used to cut through the middle of enemy mobile suits and the electricity took care of the rest. She used it now, destruction lying where her Gundam had stepped. She also had an uncanny way to predict opponent's moves and if the pilot was being attacked from behind or unaware of her surroundings then the Psyche Raider would move on instinct. This could be extremely helpful but many times had almost destroyed her.
Anike's Gundam, the Spirit Gripper, was an all attack Gundam. She had almost no defence items except the gundanium itself. Her strategy was to be quick and ruthless. Speed was the key to her piloting. She zipped along the mobile suits, the pilots didn't even have time to realise they were being assaulted before they exploded in painful red light.
Skye's Gundam, the Stormbreaker, was a long range Gundam. More than once she had been at a total loss when lured into close range combat. She stayed on the sidelines, firing rapidly at her uninformed enemies and one by one they disappeared into rising smoke and falling ashes. She was mostly seen airborne and now the Stormbreaker dipped effortlessly, at one with the storm.
Yumi's Gundam, the Boom Boom 70, suited her name. She was equipped with huge cannons that blasted her opponent's literally into space. The result was absolute when used up close but was made no less weak when shooting from a distance. She shot now, making her away quickly among the wreckages of the ex- enemies.
Cillas's Gundam was nameless. It needed no name. Those who laid eyes on it were blessed immediately into eternal silence. As Cillas said, there was no point in knowing, if there wasn't time to tell anyone about it. Cillas referred to it as simply 'Killer.' And the name was not given for no reason.
The guys stayed back, watching the girls as they danced through the battlefield. It was then that a Leo decided to 'sneak up' on Wing Zero. Heero turned with one swift movement.
"You ask for your death," he said and he brought down his blade. The Leo blew up.
But not before Wing Zero.
Kaiya jolted up as she saw the burning pile of gundanium that was Heero. Her eyes widened, the forest within lit by the flames she now saw. The Gundam was falling, falling into the depths of unknown below. She wanted to scream but bit her lip and said nothing. Her eyes stang and her fingers moved automatically to her controls and she tried to establish a link. But nothing happened and all that appeared on the screen was static. "No." she choked. "This isn't happening."
The other girls all knew. And suddenly everything seemed to happen at once. An Aries took upon the moment to attack Yumi, and Trowa pushed her out of the way before firing. The shot never reached its target. On the COM link Yumi could see his face. The expression was relief, then confusion and then pain. Flash. She saw him jerk forward in his seat and the electricity surrounding him, short-circuiting. Flash. Her own screen blurred. Flash. "Trowa!" she screamed and the link disconnected. All she could see was black. Another screen blinked and she glimpsed the Heavyarms for an instance before it exploded. The impact was huge, throwing her backwards. "Trowa!" she screamed again. "TROWA!"
But he never heard her.
Cillas suddenly darted forward towards Altron. Wufei instinctively blocked her, only realising after that he had just drawn his weapon and signed his death warrant. Cillas saw him on her screen, and he saw her. She paused, frantically looking for signs of fear or weakness in him but there was none. She saw him smile faintly in triumph and then there was nothing.
She dropped her head in her hands. "Oh God," she whispered, "What have I done?"
And no one answered her.
Duo stared up at Anike. "Hey Anny," he said sadly, "I guess this is the end." He brought up his scythe.
"DUO, DON'T!" Anike cried but it was too late. The blade seemed to come down in slow motion. But before the scythe could touch him, he disappeared into oblivion. "DUO!" Anike cried. "DUO! You can't leave me here, Duo!" She started to cry, the realisation sinking in that she would never see him again. Tears of anger at herself and the pain that Duo would ever feel, made tracks on her cheeks and she sat there numbly and cried her heart out.
"Duo, I." she whispered and stared down at her boyfriend's grave. "God, Duo," she said desperately, "I. loved you."
Quatre watched, as his friends all disappeared as quickly as if in a puff of smoke. Skye turned on her COM link. "Quatre." she said quietly, and her heart was aching as if someone had stabbed her there and was slowly turning the handle.
He looked up at her and she couldn't look at him. "You.lied to me," he said in hysterical disbelief and his face clearly showed all his hurt and agony. For a split second their eyes met and Skye shook as his eyes said to her, "How could you?" And then too late she realised he was clutching hard onto something and too late she tried to stop him. Her eyes widened.
"QUATRE, don't! What do you think you're doing? Drop that now!" she pleaded, absolutely bewildered. He looked at her again.
"How can. I. ever trust you again?" he asked but his voice wavered before he reached down and pressed the button.
"QUATRE!" she screamed and her voice echoed, to be forever ringing in the endless mountains. And it was as if all of the world's creation was crying for them. For Quatre and Skye, for Duo and Anike, for Cillas and Wufei, for Trowa and Yumi, for Heero and Kaiya and for all the world's hate and sadness. It started to pour. The rain came down in buckets. The snow melted into the ground. The leaves of the world's rainforests dipped as water filled their thirsty mouths and the flowers heads bowed, wondering if they would ever look up to see the sun again.
And that was enough. The girls burst into tears, cried for themselves, cried for their friends, cried for all the people they had killed.
Kaiya looked up through her blurry vision and saw Yumi looking at her through her own tears.
"I killed him," she whispered.
And Kaiya couldn't say anything. She closed her eyes to all the grief and viciousness and shuddered, as if she could feel the cold outside.
This is NOT the end.
Hi all!!! I got a review saying I should make my chappies longer so I'll try my best!!! I also think that my battle scenes are all pretty stuffed up but there you go.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, only the girls.
Chapter 7 - Lies
The girls were viciously quiet all week. The thought that once again they would have to hurt someone they loved was too much to bear. They could feel the unstoppable hanging around their heads and swarming in the air, waiting to happen. The girls all dealt with their problems in the only way they knew how.
Kaiya withdrew into her shadowed shell. She refused to talk to anyone at all no matter who or why. The thought that lingered was that if she pretended she didn't know them and not be with them for a while, then she could forget who they were and what she was about to do to them. Not just the boys, but also the girls who they were linked with, whether they liked it or not.
Skye locked herself in her room and took to straying into the kitchen after dark. She was about to lose the only person in her life who understood her and was willing to talk to her about her problems, her fears and her happiness. She didn't understand how the world could be so unfair. Just how much was she willing to give?
Cillas payed no attention to anyone and walked straight past them as if they didn't exist. And she had resolved to walk, after nearly falling from the high ropes twice, due to her lack of concentration. Her head was filled with dark and unthinkable thoughts and they pressed into her mind like they would never disappear. All she could do was ignore them and ignore that she was alive to think them.
Yumi wandered around like she was a lost child, which was, in a way, what she was. Half the time she didn't hear you when you tried to talk to her and the other half of the time, she heard you but didn't answer. She was uncertain about what she had to do and even more uncertain about what would happen if she did.
Anike kept living her life but it was as if her soul had disappeared. She stopped laughing and smiling. She was quiet and desolate. She only spoke if she was talked to and avoided everyone and everything.
The boys noticed. It was impossible to ignore.
Heero was the first to become aware. Kaiya had walked into him on the stairs. She had backed away but then walked straight into him again. He could still remember the hollow look in her eyes, how you could look at them and straight into her head. The wall that defiantly blocked you out had disappeared. He'd shaken her gently and when she snapped out of it she had given him a frightened and pained look before she brushed past him and headed back the way she had come.
Duo was next. Anike had been avoiding him and when he cornered her to ask her why, she had warded him off as if he was the devil himself. She'd thrashed furiously at his touch and he'd noticed that she was very pale and lifeless. It had hurt him more than he'd ever imagined, it hurt more than death itself. But one evening, by the fire, she had pushed him away but then she had stopped and searched his cobalt eyes, as if looking for something important but then she'd looked away and walked out on him.
Trowa was sitting in his usual spot when Yumi had come in and sat next to him. He'd smiled warmly at her and she had looked at him, rather alarmed, but smiled back. He could still recall the anxiety that she smiled back at him. He'd put down the book and turned to face her. "What's the matter?" he'd asked, concerned.
She'd turned to look at him and started to cry. And looking back at her awkwardly, wondering what on earth he had done, she threw herself at him and buried herself in his shirt. He'd pulled her close, very aware of the fact that Kaiya was still in the room but somehow not caring. Whispering words of comfort, her sobbing had reduced to a whimper.
"Why do you have to be so nice to me?" she'd asked angrily. "I mean- I- I'm about to." but she couldn't bring herself to say it. She'd hung her head miserably and he'd continued to hold her. She'd taken a deep breath and said in an almost frightened way, "Yumi doesn't understand."
But Trowa had looked at her and shaken his head. "Yumi doesn't have to."
~*~*~*~*~
And in return the girls tried to hold off taking action for as long as they could, but still, they couldn't hold off the inevitable. Kaiya received another email telling them to hurry up with it and to report it as soon as they had 'completed the mission.'
They all knew what to do. They planned a day where they would 'go to the mall' but instead, carry out the first stage of the operation. They left a note. None of them could bring themselves to lie directly to the guys.
Cillas went first. She slipped quietly into the hangar. The girls waited anxiously until she returned.
When all five girls had gone and come back, they stole back into the house. The boys were looking rather surprised to see them but Cillas quickly covered up. They didn't question this and the girls were so relieved they went straight to their rooms.
The next day Kaiya walked in on the boys and jumped them with the news that she had found out where Oz were manufacturing new suits. Heero had nodded, speaking for all of them, and Kaiya had quickly walked out of the room, not wanting to answer any questions.
It was all a lie.
~*~*~*~*~
As the Gundams flew in a casual formation out to the snows, the girls were lagging behind, trying to hinder the rest of the group. The guys kept by them, slowing down to match their crawl as the blizzard roared making it increasingly difficult to fly. And so they walked. But they got there nevertheless and were greeted by a whole army of Leos and Aries.
As the whirling snow filled her vision, Kaiya wondered whether the boys would notice that there were no 'new suits' but they didn't, or if they did, they didn't say. The girls charged first, and quickly the numbers dwindled.
Kaiya's Gundam, the Psyche Raider, focused entirely on electricity. She had a basic knife that she used to cut through the middle of enemy mobile suits and the electricity took care of the rest. She used it now, destruction lying where her Gundam had stepped. She also had an uncanny way to predict opponent's moves and if the pilot was being attacked from behind or unaware of her surroundings then the Psyche Raider would move on instinct. This could be extremely helpful but many times had almost destroyed her.
Anike's Gundam, the Spirit Gripper, was an all attack Gundam. She had almost no defence items except the gundanium itself. Her strategy was to be quick and ruthless. Speed was the key to her piloting. She zipped along the mobile suits, the pilots didn't even have time to realise they were being assaulted before they exploded in painful red light.
Skye's Gundam, the Stormbreaker, was a long range Gundam. More than once she had been at a total loss when lured into close range combat. She stayed on the sidelines, firing rapidly at her uninformed enemies and one by one they disappeared into rising smoke and falling ashes. She was mostly seen airborne and now the Stormbreaker dipped effortlessly, at one with the storm.
Yumi's Gundam, the Boom Boom 70, suited her name. She was equipped with huge cannons that blasted her opponent's literally into space. The result was absolute when used up close but was made no less weak when shooting from a distance. She shot now, making her away quickly among the wreckages of the ex- enemies.
Cillas's Gundam was nameless. It needed no name. Those who laid eyes on it were blessed immediately into eternal silence. As Cillas said, there was no point in knowing, if there wasn't time to tell anyone about it. Cillas referred to it as simply 'Killer.' And the name was not given for no reason.
The guys stayed back, watching the girls as they danced through the battlefield. It was then that a Leo decided to 'sneak up' on Wing Zero. Heero turned with one swift movement.
"You ask for your death," he said and he brought down his blade. The Leo blew up.
But not before Wing Zero.
Kaiya jolted up as she saw the burning pile of gundanium that was Heero. Her eyes widened, the forest within lit by the flames she now saw. The Gundam was falling, falling into the depths of unknown below. She wanted to scream but bit her lip and said nothing. Her eyes stang and her fingers moved automatically to her controls and she tried to establish a link. But nothing happened and all that appeared on the screen was static. "No." she choked. "This isn't happening."
The other girls all knew. And suddenly everything seemed to happen at once. An Aries took upon the moment to attack Yumi, and Trowa pushed her out of the way before firing. The shot never reached its target. On the COM link Yumi could see his face. The expression was relief, then confusion and then pain. Flash. She saw him jerk forward in his seat and the electricity surrounding him, short-circuiting. Flash. Her own screen blurred. Flash. "Trowa!" she screamed and the link disconnected. All she could see was black. Another screen blinked and she glimpsed the Heavyarms for an instance before it exploded. The impact was huge, throwing her backwards. "Trowa!" she screamed again. "TROWA!"
But he never heard her.
Cillas suddenly darted forward towards Altron. Wufei instinctively blocked her, only realising after that he had just drawn his weapon and signed his death warrant. Cillas saw him on her screen, and he saw her. She paused, frantically looking for signs of fear or weakness in him but there was none. She saw him smile faintly in triumph and then there was nothing.
She dropped her head in her hands. "Oh God," she whispered, "What have I done?"
And no one answered her.
Duo stared up at Anike. "Hey Anny," he said sadly, "I guess this is the end." He brought up his scythe.
"DUO, DON'T!" Anike cried but it was too late. The blade seemed to come down in slow motion. But before the scythe could touch him, he disappeared into oblivion. "DUO!" Anike cried. "DUO! You can't leave me here, Duo!" She started to cry, the realisation sinking in that she would never see him again. Tears of anger at herself and the pain that Duo would ever feel, made tracks on her cheeks and she sat there numbly and cried her heart out.
"Duo, I." she whispered and stared down at her boyfriend's grave. "God, Duo," she said desperately, "I. loved you."
Quatre watched, as his friends all disappeared as quickly as if in a puff of smoke. Skye turned on her COM link. "Quatre." she said quietly, and her heart was aching as if someone had stabbed her there and was slowly turning the handle.
He looked up at her and she couldn't look at him. "You.lied to me," he said in hysterical disbelief and his face clearly showed all his hurt and agony. For a split second their eyes met and Skye shook as his eyes said to her, "How could you?" And then too late she realised he was clutching hard onto something and too late she tried to stop him. Her eyes widened.
"QUATRE, don't! What do you think you're doing? Drop that now!" she pleaded, absolutely bewildered. He looked at her again.
"How can. I. ever trust you again?" he asked but his voice wavered before he reached down and pressed the button.
"QUATRE!" she screamed and her voice echoed, to be forever ringing in the endless mountains. And it was as if all of the world's creation was crying for them. For Quatre and Skye, for Duo and Anike, for Cillas and Wufei, for Trowa and Yumi, for Heero and Kaiya and for all the world's hate and sadness. It started to pour. The rain came down in buckets. The snow melted into the ground. The leaves of the world's rainforests dipped as water filled their thirsty mouths and the flowers heads bowed, wondering if they would ever look up to see the sun again.
And that was enough. The girls burst into tears, cried for themselves, cried for their friends, cried for all the people they had killed.
Kaiya looked up through her blurry vision and saw Yumi looking at her through her own tears.
"I killed him," she whispered.
And Kaiya couldn't say anything. She closed her eyes to all the grief and viciousness and shuddered, as if she could feel the cold outside.
This is NOT the end.