Gundam Wing Fanfiction part 3
Starlight Sisters Chapter 3: The Star FallsQuatre ducked for cover they same time Janice had if that was even the girl's name. He knew that the girls who had just sang on stage and were just about to play pool with them were also the terrorist group of females Poe had been talking about. Up close and without the blurry images of the screen the girl was just plain gorgeous. But there was something about her looks that reminded him of someone. He just couldn't put his finger on who or where. Janice's cobalt blue eyes were on him and were suddenly confused as if she were trying to make a choice. Her eyes finally narrowed and she looked beyond him. "Woo you ready to rumble?"
Confused Quatre looked behind him. The Oriental girl behind him simply nodded her head and reached into her shirt pulling out what looked like a barrel to some sort of gun. Then she pulled up her boot and there on the heel of her boot was the outline of a compartment that could be slid on and off. She slid the cover off and pulled out bullets and the rest of the gun parts. As Woo proceeded to assemble the gun the rest of the girls pulled guns out of hidden purses and the one named Janice pulled charms off of her leather jacket and began assembling her own gun. Soon there were four armed female terrorists hiding behind a pool table and firing off at the Dawnty soldiers.
"Shit Jade there is too many of them! I don't think we can defeat them."
"Jade! Who the fuck is Jade." came Duo's loud response
Janice leaned against the now side ways pool table, released a clip from her gun and reached into her boot for her last clip. "I'll introduce myself properly later Duo Maxwell but for now she is Woo," motioned her gun towards the Oriental girl firing off over the table," the girl with the blonde hair beside me would be Lily and the girl with light brown hair is Steph," she leaned over the pool table fired three shots and ducked back under the table," and I am Jade."
"I just hope Wufei and Heero are here somewhere," Duo said covering his ears.
Woo turned to Duo with shocked eyes, "Heero Yuy and Wufei Chang are here?"
Duo just turned to her with confused eyes, his hands still covering his ears, and nodded. Woo looked at Jade with a look of pure shock. Jade's eyes just narrowed. "We will deal with them later Woo." Deal with them? How could these girls know Heero and Wufei? What did they have against them? Quatre didn't know. All he knew was that if these girls even thought about messing with either of them they were in for a rude awakening because there wasn't any way two girls like them could possibly beat either of them in any combative way.
"So what are we going to do?" Lily said.
Jade just stared into space for a second and then looked at Trowa. "Trowa Barton. Can you still do that jump spin kick?" Trowa nodded. Jade quickly looked over the pool table and seem to find what she was looking for. "Good. Then listen. I want you to jump off the edge of this pool table and land behind the bar on the left end of the club. While you do that Steph and Lily will take Duo and Quatre and run low so they can slide under the stage. Once you're under the stage Lily and Steph know where the trap door is so you guys can get out safely."
"But Jade what about you and I" Woo said.
"You are going to take the bar trap door with Trowa. You can do the same spin kick can't you?"
Woo nodded but said, "What about you? I figure that the shooters will try for Trowa and I but will have a hard time trying to hit us which will give the others time to run to the other trap door and everyone gets out safely but you and the other two Pilots."
"I am banking on the chance that maybe the other Pilots got out of here before the gunshots rang out. I am going to bring up the rear for the others. Any other arguments?"
No one said anything.
"Kay then I will take that as a yes. On my mark ready.... set.... GO!"
At that moment two figures could be seen leaping off the side of a pool table and a five other people running low in front of a girl with a long braid. But only the trained eyes would have seen the platinum blonde head carefully take aim at the five running to the stage. Luckily for Quatre a trained eye was watching.
"Quatre get down!" The Arabian slowed, but Jade quickly slammed him to the ground. Quatre looked up to see her face cringed in agony as the bullet continued to rip apart the insides of her shoulder. She clutched her shoulder and brought herself up using mostly just leg power. Quatre was stunned. Then it finally became clear. "You took a bullet for me?" he whispered. She reached into her back holder and found her gun. She slightly wobbled and the gun dropped. The firing had ceased and everyone just watched the girl collapse onto the ground.
Quatre quickly moved to pick up the gun and defend him and the girl as best he could. At that moment two figures descended from the iron beams supporting the roof. The Chinese boy firing of an automatic gun and the dark hair boy quietly scooping up the injured girl. She didn't even stir. "Quatre are you alright."
"Yes Heero I am. What about you and Wufei?"
"We're alright but we've got to get out of here. Wufei! Lets go I got her."
Wufei just nodded. He fired off a few more rounds and quickly began to run to the wall on the other side of the room. They all dropped as Wufei threw a grenade at the opposite wall. The wall disappeared and they made their escape into the streets of one of the colonies and the L3 colony cluster. Quatre told Heero and Wufei what happened as they quickly made their way back to the safe house. When they reached the door Quatre was saying, "and that is when the two of you show up."
"Quatre, Wufei, Heero, where have you been and why are you carrying her?" Trowa said while putting his feet on the floor and moving quickly to check the girl's pulse. All through the dash back to the safe house her eyelids never even fluttered. The girl was losing a lot of blood. "Duo, bring the first aid kit. We are going to have to get that bullet out of her flesh and then we can at least bandage the wound up." Duo's head popped out of the kitchen with a Twinkie in his mouth and quickly ate it and said, "Hey it's that Jade girl."
"Yes Duo that is quite noticeable." Came Trowa's response as he followed the other three boys into Heero's bedroom where she was placed on the bed her wounded arm covered with already blood stained towels. Duo rushed into the room with the first aid kit. The kit had everything in it except a respirator. Heero torn the girl's shirt off as Trowa got the painkiller ready to inject into the girl's skin while Duo and Quatre talked to the girl trying to reassure her that everything would be alright even though she was unconscious. The silken skin of her stomach and chest quickly rose and fell as the girls gasped for air. With out warning a tear fell from the girl's eyes and she gasped air in her lungs and arched her back and a blood-curling scream emanated and echoed in the room. They were all dumb-founded. Her eyes opened and you could see that the pupil of her eye was much bigger that her iris. The bullet must have been tipped with some sort of drug because she was clearly hallucinating. "Jade, can you hear me?" was Heero's response. The braided girl's eyes just narrowed and she whispered, " Heero am I going to die. It hurts so badlAAAAAAHAHAAHHHHHHH!" The girl never finished that sentence because in that moment she arched her back again and let out a pain filled scream. Just as she did Wufei noticed large red welts appear on the skin of her stomach just below her sports bra. "Heero I think they injected her with Nightmare Shade. Look at her stomach."
"I have been around the block Wufei but run it by me again about what exactly
Nightmare Shade is?" was Duo's desperate response as he tried to hold the girl's body down because she was thrashing about wildly.
"Nightmare Shade was a new drug that the Assails created. If a drop of it is placed in the blood stream it affects you mind and body. First you mind begins to remember either a horrible nightmare or a terrible memory. Once that process happens it creates a chemical imbalance in the mind and in nicer words you experience the same ordeal over. For instance Quatre when your father was killed it was a terrible pain or memory. If you were to be injected with this stuff you would experience your father's death over again. For this girl though she is also going through the physical affects as well.
"What do you mean Wufei, by physical affects."
"I mean that since your mind is going through it again so is her body. For Heero, if he were to be injected then he might go through the self-destruction of 01 in Siberia. If that were to happen not only would his mind have to go through it all of the old injures would happen. His mind would make it real and his body would be shattered. The worse part of all of this is that if the antidote isn't found then the mind will just continue to go through that experience until either the mind breaks down or the body is injured to badly that they would die from suffering through the injuries so many times."
"So what are we going to do about it? I don't think that we have the antidote for her in the first aid kit because this is the first time I have ever even heard of it." Duo said desperately trying to hold the withering body down so she wouldn't harm herself. Quatre just look sadly at the beauty literally dying before his very eyes. She was no longer the elegant girl he had first met. She was wild with the same amount of strength as Heero. She only wore her tight jeans and a black sports bra. Her hair was frazzled in its braid. Her face and stomach were coated in sweat. Her arm and chest were spattered with her own blood. Blood she gave up to save him. Quatre couldn't just let her lay there and die knowing she had sacrificed her self to save the life of a complete stranger: him. Quatre asked, "Heero is her name really Jade?"
He look uncertain for a moment then responded, " Jade is her code name. Its the only name she has ever known or been called though."
"Listen Jade I know you can hear me. You're going to have to be strong and fight back. You need to give me time to find and contact my sister who will have the antidote for you. I don't know you but neither will I let you die after what you did for me. You probably saved my life. I need a chance to do the same for you. You're a friend of mine now and I don't let my friends die without doing everything I can to save their lives. I don't know what you have gone through in your life, but I know you can get through it. You're strong you proved that to me tonight. I don't know you very well, but I want to get to know you. Don't give up. You must have something to live for other wise why are you still in existence. Please I am asking you not to give up, not yet, not now, not ever." Her cobalt eyes opened for a fleeting moment and she nodded her head. Quatre moved to the computer in the corner room and within twenty minutes he located his sister. In another fifteen he had located an underground medical facility and told them he was going to need the antidote immediately. They told him a messenger would be there to give him the package.
Within the next hour Jade went through what seemed like years of abuse and neglect. She was so cold that clouds came out of her mouth when she breathed. She shook with either pain or fear and at one point her hair was sliced in half. Enormous bruises appeared on the side of her face, legs, and arms. Duo was scared and kept saying it was a ghost. Heero was hurt, and when he saw her hair get cut his eyes widened. He shook his head and said under his breath, "I thought they reprogrammed that memory out of her." Trowa looked him straight in the eyes, "You know her from somewhere. Where?"
"It is only half my story to tell. I swore never to tell anyone without her permission." He said uncomfortably. Trowa finally was able to remove the bullet and bandage the gunshot wound on her shoulder. Trowa heard the front door open and close and a rustling sound of money being exchanged and the front door closing. Quatre walked into the room and quietly handed the bottle to Heero. Heero in turn handed it to Trowa. Trowa handed to Wufei. Wufei nodded his head. "Duo hand me a needle from that first aid kit." Duo reached over the girl and grabbed one from the first aid kit. Wufei filled the needle and injected the blue liquid into the wrist of the girl's arm. "If she pulls through till morning she should be alright in a day or so." With that he turned and left the room. "I need my sleep to check on her in the morning. One of you should stay with her tonight just in case if she wakes up or something." With those final words the door close. Heero looked at the other three and said, "I'll stay with her tonight."
The other three retired to their rooms with Quatre being the last to leave. She was alive in the morning, even though she wasn't conscience. For three days the Gundam Pilots kept watch on the young girl, with Quatre and Heero being the most concerned. Heero fed her and kept a close eye on her progress. Quatre talked to her telling her about the other Gundam Pilots and all of their adventures in the wars and how they had all grown close together. He told her about how Heero was their leader, how Trowa was the silent one, how Duo was the loud one, and how Wufei was the one who believed in justice.
Three days later the young star awakens.
Her eyes open. Pain began to instantly shoot to her brain. The slashes on her stomach ached and it hurt to breath. She didn't know where she was. She didn't know whose clothes she was wearing. She slowly raised herself up on the one arm that didn't hurt as much as the other one. She threw off the coverlet and swung her slim legs off the bed. She inspected where she was.
The room was blue with limited furniture. There was a drawer, one full-length mirror, the bed, and one window. She looked out the window and quickly came to the conclusion that she was still on the colony in the L3 cluster. It was night too. She inspected her body. She wore a large, white, T-shirt, that didn't have sleeves. On her legs were blue-checkered, men's, boxers. Her legs had numerous scratches and bruises each one she looked at seemed to reminded her of one she had had before in the exact same place. She lifted up her shirt and found the slashes. The ends of the shirt fell from her hands and her hands swung up to cover her mouth. She knew those slashes. Dr. J sent us on that mission. I was to infiltrate the base. But I was caught. NO MORE!!
The palms of her hand smashed her temples into skull. Her faces scrunched up to try and keep her mouth from shouting out in a scream. She took several deep breaths to try and calm her down. Her hands slowly relaxed and fell to her sides. She shoulder began to throb with pain so she moved it into a more comfortable position. Her mind was still racing. "What happened to me? I remember the angel talking to and telling me not to die, but after that it was like old bad memories." She looked down at her stomach. "Only these are just as real and just as painful as the originals."
She gingerly placed weight on her feet and slowly stood. She wobbled a little bit, but was able to make it to the mirror without falling or making too much noise. Her left eye was purple, swollen and ugly. Half of her hair was cut off and the long locks fell around her like a glowing brown halo. She carefully reached up and lightly touched her black eye that almost made it impossible to see out of her left eye. Her eyes grew sad and her whole face fell into a small and sad expression.
She heard a violin being played. A slow, sad melody emitted from the door to the room. She slowly and quietly opened the door out of the room. Then a flute joined the violin. She stopped for a moment hoping that she hadn't made a noise before proceeding. Using all of the stealth she had ever been taught by Dr. J she made her way down a hallway. There was no door at the end of the hallway just an arch so she plastered herself against the wall and craned her head so she could look out the arch without anyone seeing her. The Deathsythe's pilot Duo had his legs swung over the back of a couch with his head upside down hanging off the couch. Wufei was sitting on the couch next to him with his elbows leaning off his knees. Both of them were looking at the other two pilots who stood on the balcony. Trowa was playing the flute, Quatre the violin. The harmony between them was spellbinding. They played the notes over and over in a seemingly endless melody. Each time they played them though the notes seemed to take on a stronger and stronger meaning being played with more happiness each time. The Sandrock's pilot with his blonde head looked so familiar to her. The beauty of which they played was soothing and happy. She was awestruck by them and for a moment Quatre, his violin, and herself were the only ones in the room. "Man you two really know how to make an old young soldier feel loved." Duo sighed. Wufei and Trowa just smile at Duo's sarcasm and Quatre chuckled. Jade shifted her weight from one foot to another and the board beneath creaked. The music stopped and Jade quickly plastered her entire body out of sight of the Pilots. "What was that?" Wufei responded and she could hear the creaking of the boards and he stood up from couch. She heard Quatre and Trowa put down their instruments and a ruffle of fabric as Duo somersaulted off of the couch. Jade knew she was going to have to attack if she had any hopes of keeping her secret.
Duo was the first one she saw pass through the archway. Quickly her left foot shot up and connected with the American's jaw. He landed on the floor crying out loudly and cradling his wounded face. Jade cringed slightly at the pain she felt run through her foot. She gingerly placed it on the floor and stepped out of the corner and took a fighting stance looking at the floor before facing her opponents. Trowa threw a kick at her stomach. Wufei snapped a palm strike for her face. Jade scissor block and both attacks were cancelled out. She bent her legs and curved her back and jumped, kicking both of them in the chest. They both fell back and Jade landed on her right hand, but her left hand shot out from underneath her and she landed on her back. She resisted the urge to cry out in pain and rolled backwards onto her toes and stood up. She took a fighting stance and ran straight at Trowa plowing into him causing him to fall back again.
Duo rammed his shoulder into the small of her back. Wufei pinned her arms down and Duo pinned her legs. She screamed. "Duo, Wufei, let her go." Quatre said as he watched her cry out. "Why should we Quatre? She attacked us. She could be a spy. Heero should have never had brought her here." Wufei yell.
"Wufei let her go." Came Heero's response as he closed the door and shrugged off his jacket.
"Why should we?" Wufei yelled at him.
"Don't tell him anything Heero!" Jade screamed. She struggled against them but it didn't help.
Wufei brought her up so that she was on her knees with him holding her arms behind her. "Heero she attacked us. So give me one good reason why I should trust her and let her go." Heero looked at Jade with a sort of pleading hope in his eyes.
"Jade I trust them. They trust me. I promise that you can depend on them."
She just looked into Heero's eyes for a moment, searching them trying to see if what he said was the truth. "I don't know Heero. I just can't be sure of anything anymore. I-I-I'm tired of being betrayed. I won't make that mistake again."
Wufei loosened his grip on her. His eyes softened a little when he heard those words. But he didn't let her go.
"Jade you once asked me never to tell anyone about our past. But if I am to convince them to trust you then I must tell them."
"Do you truly trust them Heero?"
"Just about as much as I trust you."
That rocked her to her very core. She knew now that he truly did trust them. This had become his family. But they didn't know that they had an extension to their family. That extension was her and her family.
"Excuse me, but who exactly is she Heero?" Duo gestured to Jade.
Jade nodded her head. Heero and Jade said simultaneously, "Sister." Quatre was stupid. "She is your what." He asked dumbfounded.
Jade looked directly at him. "My full code name is Jade Yuy. I am Heero's only living blood relative. We know for a fact that we are twin brother and sister."