Chapter 6: First Mission Complete
The sound of ripping cloth, and the girl's useless, pitiful, cries and protests could be heard. The next thing she knew Heero had broken down the door to the hotel room. He shot two of the men instantly. Blood poured out of the open gashes in their temples. Both lay dead. Her small, young, body was beaten and battered with multiple bruises and gashes to her face and her yet to have developed chest, as her pained glazed eyes locked with her brother's. She tried to whisper the words help, but before her mouth could respond the man, who's body had been stretched out over hers, fell bloodied and dead next to her. At that point she passed out to the feeling of her brother lifting her up and holding her close telling her that everything was all right and that never again would the mission go awry. The police began pounding on the door trying to get in to investigate the sounds of gunfire. Pound. Pound. Pound. Pound. Pound. "Jade! Jade! Jade wake up!" the sound of Lily's voice and the knocking on her door woke Jade out of her slumber. "Damnit." she grumbled and rolled out of her bed to answer the door. "Yes Lily?" she asked somewhat irritably poking her head outside her door. "Drop time is in two hours. We have to meet the boys in one." She turned her heels and left after that. Mentally, Jade groaned. "Lily thanks." She closed her door and leaned her back against it. She rubbed her forehead with the pads of her fingers. "Tormented by your own mind," she said out loud. She shook her trying to clear it and headed for the shower.
Exactly fifteen minutes later she emerged from the shower and threw on a pair of leather pants and a white t-shirt. She pulled her hair back away from her face and twisted it up and snapped it in place with a claw. She still was trying to get used to the shortness of her hair. But she had to admit it was easier to move her head now. She smiled for a moment and then made her way out her door. In the living room the other girls were dressed normally except for Steph. She was in daisy dukes that clung to her butt and legs. She wore the top of a string bikini that was a size too small. She had on boots and her hair had been let down. She looked pretty pissed. "Yeah just give me the whore part of this mission," she grumbled angrily as she moved to grab her long black coat, which would hide her entire body from view. They all moved out the door and quietly made there way to the park. "Look Steph it won't just be you. Duo agreed to dress in drag for this mission just in case the guard has a preference for the male sex." Lily said quietly to her. Steph fumed silently.
They only had to wait a couple of minutes until the other half of the team arrived in an old junky van. Not surprisingly Duo was completely covered in a black jacket and didn't look too happy. The girls all jumped inside the van and made themselves comfortable. Wufei drove to the northern pole of the colony. They drove for forty minutes and then hopped out and began to walk. Soon they reached the base. The first thing to do was getting rid of the outer guards on the Southeast Entrance.
"You know guys I don't think this is a very smart idea." Duo began. "Look we don't want to kill them. The gunshots would be detected and if we did it the other way it would take too long." Wufei whispered. Duo groaned. Steph looked angrily at Jade. "I am so getting you back." Jade just smile pleasantly. Steph looked at Duo. "Shall we?" They both moved out of view to the guard post a few feet around the bend. They all heard a whistle and a "Darlin'" and then two thuds. The next thing they saw was Steph and Duo dragging the two unconscious guards around the corner and into the wooded area while the others came out of hiding. They all went to the Southeast Entrance and, Steph took the keycard she had took off the knocked out guard, swiped its through the card reader to unlock the gate. Steph and Duo had taken the guards' uniforms and had changed their cloths. They all split up. Wufei went with Woo, Quatre went with Steph and Lily. Trowa, Jade, Heero and Duo all headed toward the other end of the compound. The computer they needed to access was near the Southeast entrance but it had a laser security system that couldn't be deactivated in the Southeast area. Basically you had to shut down the power controls in the other areas of the compound before they could get into the computer system.
Jade quietly inched around the corner and spotted three more guards. She signaled to Heero, and Trowa and nodded to Duo on her left. In a few seconds the guards were on the ground knocked out by ether inhalation. They came to the first laser system. In a few seconds Jade's small pager vibrated and the laser system was shut down. They turned the corner and found the second system also shut down. Jade swiped the key card and Heero went straight for the computer, while Trowa guarded the door, Duo assembled the explosion and Jade stood over her brother helping him. In a few minutes the information had been downloaded and the bomb assembled and they all quietly made their way through the ventilation system to a large janitor's closet. The others where there waiting on them. Woo had a scratch on her left cheek and she told them there had been a fight but Wufei had gotten the guy down before he made a sound. Duo smiled, "Everyone ready for the real party?" he asked. Duo pressed the detonation switch and the entire base rang, shook, and jolted. The explosion was massive and rocked everyone and everything. Steph and Duo put hand cuffs on the rest of them and in the mass flood they told all of the officers they ran into that they were the new guards and that they were trying to get the war prisoners out of the building. No one looked to closely in the panic and they were all able to get out of the base safely and they were able to slip away unnoticed into the crowd and back to the van.
"My god that was amazing!" Lily shouted once they were all back inside the van safely.
"I can't believe those stupid officers thought we were prisoners!" Quatre remarked.
"Hey um Steph do you think you could take my cuffs off now?" Jade looked at her pleadingly.
"No way I told you I was going to get you back!" Steph said from the front seat.
"Never worry I can get them off." Duo said to Jade. And true to his word in a few seconds her wrists were not confined to the cuff any longer. Heero remained silent all the way back to the guy's safe house. Jade saying that she didn't feel well went into Heero's room to catch up on some sleep and the others stayed out into the living room and talked about their families and people they had met and what was in store for them now. Heero on the other hand remained quiet throughout most of the conversation. He seemed content in staring at the door that lead into his bedroom and he could only imagine the tortured soul that was crying herself to sleep just a few feet away from him.