Five Times Five: ...so you gave me your wings
Minako sat in her cell, specially guarded by four guards, two on each side. She sighed, thinking of all that she had done to deserve this. She was to be executed in four days. This is not how she wanted her life to end. She had gotten her revenge on Usagi and Rei. But then, what did they do to her? Minako sat on the stone bench that stuck out from the wall. *Usagi...all I ever wanted was to be her *only* best friend. I never even made it to the 'best friend' part. She was so cool, she barely talked, all the guys wanted her, and she was strong and emotionless. I wanted to be just like her, and what did I do? I turned on her and betrayed OZ, I killed Apollo, her best friend other than Rei, that was the thing that connected them. It liked both of them, it hated me. It wouldn't let me go near Usagi when he was around. Rei was the only one who it liked other than Usagi. Goddess, I hated that thing. * Minako cursed the day she ever saw that thing. When she was running up to Usagi, the thing ran in front of Usagi as if the shield her and when she got close enough, he clawed her leg. She then felt the sharp pain in her side leg; the scar was still there. It wouldn't go away. But then, she never let Usagi to herself. Even Rei didn't follow her the way she did. Minako gasped as she recalled the way Usagi told her to leave her alone.
*Flashback*
Usagi had pinned Minako up on the wall; her eyes were bright red with anger and hate, even more than usual. "Minako!!! Don't you get it? I want you to leave me alone! You never give me any privacy, you follow me everywhere, and you can't take a hint!! Can't you 'see' that I don't want you to follow me, always be involved with everything I am? I don't want to go on missions with you, once, fine, twice, maybe, three times, possible, fifteen, no, fifty, forget it! I'm sick of you!! You always talk me into things, you invade my space, I'm 'trying' to get away from you!! I need space! You never let me do anything ALONE!!! Just leave me alone! I hate you!!!!
*End Flashback*
Minako winced at her coldness. She had never out busted like that, she always had her emotions under control. Had she really aggravated her that much that she lost control? That was one of the few times Usagi did loose it. Minako saw red when she saw Rei behind Usagi with a smirk that said plainly, 'you got what you deserve so leave Usagi alone. I'm her best friend and there is nothing you can do about it.' It angered her, more than anything else.
She looked up as she heard the opening of the column door. She looked out of the barred window; a herd of OZ soldiers were escorting six new prisoners into the reserved cells. That could only mean one thing. The Gundam pilots were caught. Minako gasped. Her only hope of escaping her fate was lost. OZ was getting luckier and luckier. They had the Gundam pilots, they had her, and they had Dr. J. And they had the four best soldiers in the galaxy.
They put all the pilots in separate cells. The asphalt doors were slammed closed. The soldiers stood four to each cell, just like Minako's. The door opened again, a short while after, there was silence. It was Ami. Minako ran up to the barred window. "Ami!" Ami looked at her cell. She walked up to the cell. The guards tensed being in the presence in one of the higher- class soldiers. "Leave us." She commanded. All the guards, including the ones in charge of the GW boys left. Ami preferred it this way. "Well, what did you expect? That seeing as how we were friends once we would let you go? I don't think so. If you knew Usagi well, she never lets her enemies off easy. Treize is not going to sentence you though. Surprisingly, Usagi told him that she didn't want you to die.... yet." The quiet pilots just stood in their cells, motionless. Just as they always did when they were caught on a mission. They had failed, they were not used to failer. Wufei was throwing a mental fit because of his and the others predicament. Ami smirked. She walked over to the button by the door. She pressed it, the asphalt doors went up. Only bars remained the only things restraining them in the cells. They seemed surprised, all except Heero. They could see her now.
Ami walked over to Minako's cell. "For you, you got what you deserved. Usagi hid it but I know she is in despair inside. You killed Apollo, her only happiness, and the thing that kept her going. You deserve to die at her feet." She said coldly. Paused a minute, then added. "And I nor no one else has sympathy for you." That was when there was an interruption. "Hey!!! I have sympathy for her, how can you let a beautiful face like that die?" The outburst came from Duo. Ami looked surprised, but it was gone as soon as it came. She walked over to his cell, where Duo was clinging to the bars, trying to get as close to her as possible. "Beauty is in the eye of the destroyer." She whispered to him and pulled away. Duo looked shocked and tried to pull away as well, but his face was stuck in between the bars. "Ahh! Help, I'm stuck." Ami murmured something, Heero heard it. "Pathetic." The doors opened again. This time it was Usagi. She walked up to Ami not bothering to look at the pilots in the cells lining the column. She stopped, and not looking, she pushed Duo's head out of the binding of the bars with her shoe, and continued to walk. Duo had a heel mark on his forehead, but was in to much pain to say anything. Ami got a horrified look on her face. "U-u-usagi! What are you doing here? I-I thought you had a mission you said was going to take a long time." "I got lucky. What are you doing here?" Usagi answered, all her attention was behind Ami's back though, squarely at Minako. Usagi walked passed Ami, who stood stiff, and up to her cell.
"Enjoying you accommodations Minako? Don't worry, in four days you'll be out of your misery. Just like you took it upon yourself to put Apollo out of his." Usagi added icily. Minako winced. "Usagi, I..." "Silence." Usagi snapped. Minako shut up. Usagi walked away, right when she got to the end of the column, she looked to her left, right at Heero. He saw a longing look in her eyes, but she had great control, and restrained it. She walked out, slamming the door behind her. Ami sighed. She took one last look at all six of them, then pushed the button again, the asphalt came down again, and she left.
About 2 hours later, the door opened again, no one bothered to look who it was. They had learned they did not favor any guests in this place. The shadowed figure press a button on the opposite side from the other, all the doors opened completely, allowing them to get out. The figure was gone. The pilots looked at each other, and then ran for it.
***
Usagi was in the elevator. It was 9:00 at night. She got out and padded her graceful feet on the marble to her room. Then she heard it. The alarms were going off. She looked up as she heard the intercom. *The gundam pilots and prisoner 1194 aka Minako Aino have escaped the cells in special column 1. Report to scan deck now!!!* Usagi reconized Une's voice. She sounded angry. Even though Une was Usagi's step mother, since having adopted her to herself and to OZ, she still enjoyed hearing Une angry. But then brought her to a thought of who had done it. Ami was working on another hacking system to get to the colonies defence files, Rei was training in the gym. It had to be Makoto. Usagi swore she would tell off Makoto after she delt with the present problem. It was a one way hall all the way to the outside of HQ. The only way out was the hallway she was standing in. Usagi respected Treize but putting no doors on the exit hall was just plain crazy. The soldiers would have to run out of the base and onto the landing and wait for the elevator to get there, though she knew that was the way the gundam pilots were planning to escape. And she was right there waiting for them.
Usagi smirked, remembering that OZ had found their gundams and disabled them, making their escape from HQ utterly impossible unless they hi-jacked some of the reserved moble dolls. That would be an entertaining sight if it happened. But Usagi knew where they stashed the gundams. They were taking them apart and making replicas. But not today, they wouldn't have the tools.
Usagi turned as she saw the elevator door open. There were all six of the escaped prisoners. They ran out not seeing her and when they did they froze in their tracks. Minako looked overly terrified. She smirked. "Scared of me Minako?" She whispered, and whipped out her gun, and pointed it at the group making sure that whomever she wanted to shoot, she was in perfect range. Then Duo made a move, he stepped in front of Minako. Usagi eyes stayed right. "Did I not tell you not to move?" She said, quiet and cold. "I won't let you hurt the lady, do what you want with me, but I protect the innocent." He said, putting his arms around Minako. Usagi's eyes softened. Minako blushed and looked at the determined Duo.
Usagi still held her gun firmly. She was awair that the elevator had locked, not allowing any soldiers to enter until she unlocked it, but right now, that was not a option. She swallowed. "Even if you were tortured?" She said, managing to keep her voice, although she could feel that if she said another word, it would start to crack. "Yes." Duo narrowed his eyes. Usagi lowered her gun slightly, but still had a clear shot. She took a breath. "Why?" She whispered. The pilots noted the stillness in her voice, as if she didn't know what he was doing. And in a sense, she didn't. "Because, even the traitors deserve a second chance." Usagi narrowed her eyes, tears were welling up and rimmed her eyes with a flushed look. "I gave her a second chance, I gave her a lot of chances and she blew every one of them. She killed the only thing I ever loved since my family died." "That may be true, but you can't kill everything that hurts you, or are you that weak!?" Duo shouted at her. She was taken aback. The pilots never saw Duo show such compassion towards a girl before. Beautiful or not. Usagi let a single tear escape her eye. Heero saw it, as did everyone else. "You were brought up to see the universe as a bright and welcoming place. You don't see anything that I see every time I am sent to earth. A barren and brutal place indeed." She said, putting her gun at it's previous place, squarely in view of all of them. "And you were brought up to see it that way. Who do you think was responsible for killing your family? OZ. They attacked earth, and they killed your parents. The colonies seak freedom, just like you." Duo yelled at her face.
That did it. She cracked up and fell to her knees, crying. Heero gasped, as he watched her fall, and ran up to her, forgeting all his pride and training. Wufei, Trowa, Quatre and Duo threw him a shocked look, even though all his attention was on the depressed Usagi. Her gun was forgotten on the ground. Heero held her and let her cry onto him. He had the same look Duo had when he was willing to give up everything for Minako, but deeper. He pulled her close, and Usagi wept hard. His tight black muscle shirt was damp with tears. That's when Wufei jumped and grabbed Usagi's gun, and pointed it at her. "Yuy, stand back, this is perfect, she's harmless now. We can kill her now." Usagi looked up at Wufei. Her eyes clouded over, and she fainted. Heero held her to himself tight, blocked the gun's point. "No, let her go. We'll take her with us. She doesn't seem to want to hurt us anymore." "Yuy, your crazy, she's the enemy!!! You can't do this!" Wufei yelled angerly. "No!!! I won't let you. If you take her, you'll take me to." Now Heero was full hearty, he wanted to be with Usagi, even at the risk of her killing him. Wufei sighed in defeat, even though the hate in his eyes was still on Usagi, he put the gun in the pocket of his baggy white pants. "Then hurry. We've gotta get outta here." Duo said, taking Minako with him, he hurried along the hall. Heero took Usagi in his arms, her head on his shoulder, and ran with the rest of them.
*****
Well, I guess that was about as muchy as I could make it without cracking up. I'm not usually the romantic kinda person, but this seemed kinda fun. Maybe the next chapter will be a little more what you guys want. But that will only go up to a little kissing action and stuff. No NC-17 crap. That stuff just doesn't seem right to me.^_^ I'm young and innocent over here!!!
~mo
Minako sat in her cell, specially guarded by four guards, two on each side. She sighed, thinking of all that she had done to deserve this. She was to be executed in four days. This is not how she wanted her life to end. She had gotten her revenge on Usagi and Rei. But then, what did they do to her? Minako sat on the stone bench that stuck out from the wall. *Usagi...all I ever wanted was to be her *only* best friend. I never even made it to the 'best friend' part. She was so cool, she barely talked, all the guys wanted her, and she was strong and emotionless. I wanted to be just like her, and what did I do? I turned on her and betrayed OZ, I killed Apollo, her best friend other than Rei, that was the thing that connected them. It liked both of them, it hated me. It wouldn't let me go near Usagi when he was around. Rei was the only one who it liked other than Usagi. Goddess, I hated that thing. * Minako cursed the day she ever saw that thing. When she was running up to Usagi, the thing ran in front of Usagi as if the shield her and when she got close enough, he clawed her leg. She then felt the sharp pain in her side leg; the scar was still there. It wouldn't go away. But then, she never let Usagi to herself. Even Rei didn't follow her the way she did. Minako gasped as she recalled the way Usagi told her to leave her alone.
*Flashback*
Usagi had pinned Minako up on the wall; her eyes were bright red with anger and hate, even more than usual. "Minako!!! Don't you get it? I want you to leave me alone! You never give me any privacy, you follow me everywhere, and you can't take a hint!! Can't you 'see' that I don't want you to follow me, always be involved with everything I am? I don't want to go on missions with you, once, fine, twice, maybe, three times, possible, fifteen, no, fifty, forget it! I'm sick of you!! You always talk me into things, you invade my space, I'm 'trying' to get away from you!! I need space! You never let me do anything ALONE!!! Just leave me alone! I hate you!!!!
*End Flashback*
Minako winced at her coldness. She had never out busted like that, she always had her emotions under control. Had she really aggravated her that much that she lost control? That was one of the few times Usagi did loose it. Minako saw red when she saw Rei behind Usagi with a smirk that said plainly, 'you got what you deserve so leave Usagi alone. I'm her best friend and there is nothing you can do about it.' It angered her, more than anything else.
She looked up as she heard the opening of the column door. She looked out of the barred window; a herd of OZ soldiers were escorting six new prisoners into the reserved cells. That could only mean one thing. The Gundam pilots were caught. Minako gasped. Her only hope of escaping her fate was lost. OZ was getting luckier and luckier. They had the Gundam pilots, they had her, and they had Dr. J. And they had the four best soldiers in the galaxy.
They put all the pilots in separate cells. The asphalt doors were slammed closed. The soldiers stood four to each cell, just like Minako's. The door opened again, a short while after, there was silence. It was Ami. Minako ran up to the barred window. "Ami!" Ami looked at her cell. She walked up to the cell. The guards tensed being in the presence in one of the higher- class soldiers. "Leave us." She commanded. All the guards, including the ones in charge of the GW boys left. Ami preferred it this way. "Well, what did you expect? That seeing as how we were friends once we would let you go? I don't think so. If you knew Usagi well, she never lets her enemies off easy. Treize is not going to sentence you though. Surprisingly, Usagi told him that she didn't want you to die.... yet." The quiet pilots just stood in their cells, motionless. Just as they always did when they were caught on a mission. They had failed, they were not used to failer. Wufei was throwing a mental fit because of his and the others predicament. Ami smirked. She walked over to the button by the door. She pressed it, the asphalt doors went up. Only bars remained the only things restraining them in the cells. They seemed surprised, all except Heero. They could see her now.
Ami walked over to Minako's cell. "For you, you got what you deserved. Usagi hid it but I know she is in despair inside. You killed Apollo, her only happiness, and the thing that kept her going. You deserve to die at her feet." She said coldly. Paused a minute, then added. "And I nor no one else has sympathy for you." That was when there was an interruption. "Hey!!! I have sympathy for her, how can you let a beautiful face like that die?" The outburst came from Duo. Ami looked surprised, but it was gone as soon as it came. She walked over to his cell, where Duo was clinging to the bars, trying to get as close to her as possible. "Beauty is in the eye of the destroyer." She whispered to him and pulled away. Duo looked shocked and tried to pull away as well, but his face was stuck in between the bars. "Ahh! Help, I'm stuck." Ami murmured something, Heero heard it. "Pathetic." The doors opened again. This time it was Usagi. She walked up to Ami not bothering to look at the pilots in the cells lining the column. She stopped, and not looking, she pushed Duo's head out of the binding of the bars with her shoe, and continued to walk. Duo had a heel mark on his forehead, but was in to much pain to say anything. Ami got a horrified look on her face. "U-u-usagi! What are you doing here? I-I thought you had a mission you said was going to take a long time." "I got lucky. What are you doing here?" Usagi answered, all her attention was behind Ami's back though, squarely at Minako. Usagi walked passed Ami, who stood stiff, and up to her cell.
"Enjoying you accommodations Minako? Don't worry, in four days you'll be out of your misery. Just like you took it upon yourself to put Apollo out of his." Usagi added icily. Minako winced. "Usagi, I..." "Silence." Usagi snapped. Minako shut up. Usagi walked away, right when she got to the end of the column, she looked to her left, right at Heero. He saw a longing look in her eyes, but she had great control, and restrained it. She walked out, slamming the door behind her. Ami sighed. She took one last look at all six of them, then pushed the button again, the asphalt came down again, and she left.
About 2 hours later, the door opened again, no one bothered to look who it was. They had learned they did not favor any guests in this place. The shadowed figure press a button on the opposite side from the other, all the doors opened completely, allowing them to get out. The figure was gone. The pilots looked at each other, and then ran for it.
***
Usagi was in the elevator. It was 9:00 at night. She got out and padded her graceful feet on the marble to her room. Then she heard it. The alarms were going off. She looked up as she heard the intercom. *The gundam pilots and prisoner 1194 aka Minako Aino have escaped the cells in special column 1. Report to scan deck now!!!* Usagi reconized Une's voice. She sounded angry. Even though Une was Usagi's step mother, since having adopted her to herself and to OZ, she still enjoyed hearing Une angry. But then brought her to a thought of who had done it. Ami was working on another hacking system to get to the colonies defence files, Rei was training in the gym. It had to be Makoto. Usagi swore she would tell off Makoto after she delt with the present problem. It was a one way hall all the way to the outside of HQ. The only way out was the hallway she was standing in. Usagi respected Treize but putting no doors on the exit hall was just plain crazy. The soldiers would have to run out of the base and onto the landing and wait for the elevator to get there, though she knew that was the way the gundam pilots were planning to escape. And she was right there waiting for them.
Usagi smirked, remembering that OZ had found their gundams and disabled them, making their escape from HQ utterly impossible unless they hi-jacked some of the reserved moble dolls. That would be an entertaining sight if it happened. But Usagi knew where they stashed the gundams. They were taking them apart and making replicas. But not today, they wouldn't have the tools.
Usagi turned as she saw the elevator door open. There were all six of the escaped prisoners. They ran out not seeing her and when they did they froze in their tracks. Minako looked overly terrified. She smirked. "Scared of me Minako?" She whispered, and whipped out her gun, and pointed it at the group making sure that whomever she wanted to shoot, she was in perfect range. Then Duo made a move, he stepped in front of Minako. Usagi eyes stayed right. "Did I not tell you not to move?" She said, quiet and cold. "I won't let you hurt the lady, do what you want with me, but I protect the innocent." He said, putting his arms around Minako. Usagi's eyes softened. Minako blushed and looked at the determined Duo.
Usagi still held her gun firmly. She was awair that the elevator had locked, not allowing any soldiers to enter until she unlocked it, but right now, that was not a option. She swallowed. "Even if you were tortured?" She said, managing to keep her voice, although she could feel that if she said another word, it would start to crack. "Yes." Duo narrowed his eyes. Usagi lowered her gun slightly, but still had a clear shot. She took a breath. "Why?" She whispered. The pilots noted the stillness in her voice, as if she didn't know what he was doing. And in a sense, she didn't. "Because, even the traitors deserve a second chance." Usagi narrowed her eyes, tears were welling up and rimmed her eyes with a flushed look. "I gave her a second chance, I gave her a lot of chances and she blew every one of them. She killed the only thing I ever loved since my family died." "That may be true, but you can't kill everything that hurts you, or are you that weak!?" Duo shouted at her. She was taken aback. The pilots never saw Duo show such compassion towards a girl before. Beautiful or not. Usagi let a single tear escape her eye. Heero saw it, as did everyone else. "You were brought up to see the universe as a bright and welcoming place. You don't see anything that I see every time I am sent to earth. A barren and brutal place indeed." She said, putting her gun at it's previous place, squarely in view of all of them. "And you were brought up to see it that way. Who do you think was responsible for killing your family? OZ. They attacked earth, and they killed your parents. The colonies seak freedom, just like you." Duo yelled at her face.
That did it. She cracked up and fell to her knees, crying. Heero gasped, as he watched her fall, and ran up to her, forgeting all his pride and training. Wufei, Trowa, Quatre and Duo threw him a shocked look, even though all his attention was on the depressed Usagi. Her gun was forgotten on the ground. Heero held her and let her cry onto him. He had the same look Duo had when he was willing to give up everything for Minako, but deeper. He pulled her close, and Usagi wept hard. His tight black muscle shirt was damp with tears. That's when Wufei jumped and grabbed Usagi's gun, and pointed it at her. "Yuy, stand back, this is perfect, she's harmless now. We can kill her now." Usagi looked up at Wufei. Her eyes clouded over, and she fainted. Heero held her to himself tight, blocked the gun's point. "No, let her go. We'll take her with us. She doesn't seem to want to hurt us anymore." "Yuy, your crazy, she's the enemy!!! You can't do this!" Wufei yelled angerly. "No!!! I won't let you. If you take her, you'll take me to." Now Heero was full hearty, he wanted to be with Usagi, even at the risk of her killing him. Wufei sighed in defeat, even though the hate in his eyes was still on Usagi, he put the gun in the pocket of his baggy white pants. "Then hurry. We've gotta get outta here." Duo said, taking Minako with him, he hurried along the hall. Heero took Usagi in his arms, her head on his shoulder, and ran with the rest of them.
*****
Well, I guess that was about as muchy as I could make it without cracking up. I'm not usually the romantic kinda person, but this seemed kinda fun. Maybe the next chapter will be a little more what you guys want. But that will only go up to a little kissing action and stuff. No NC-17 crap. That stuff just doesn't seem right to me.^_^ I'm young and innocent over here!!!
~mo