Part Ten: False Bounty

Wufei felt a slight draft up his legs and blinked awake. He found his girl gone. Quickly slipping on
a robe he walked out and looked around. Heila was heading towards the river, he nodded and
went back inside the tent and got dressed more properly. Locating the food rations he quickly
prepared breakfast. He never did see her reenter the area. Placing her hands over his neck she
rested agaist his back and whispered in his ear.

"Morning!" he said energetically.

"What'cha making?" she asked.

"Breakfast."

"Umm... How very sweet of you. I'm going to get into some real clothes and I'll be right out."
She nibbled on his ear lobe and then left.

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the light of the fire came ever closer, Quatre could feel his happiness over whelm him. He ran and
ran but when he cam to the camp, it wasn't at all what he was hoping for.

"Bounty hunters..." he whispered when he realized who they were. Stopping in some under brush
he listened.

"So Jack! How much do you reckon we'll get for those three?"

"I dunno, maybe. 15,000,000,000,000, at the least."

"I dunno were that fourth got off too... maybe we killed him, we'll have to search tomorrow."

"Yeah."

Quatre made his way around the side to a large tent, he carefully listened inside of it. Hoping it
was his friends. After all he was their only hope.

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Three boys sat gaged and tied to a separate pole looking at each other they made faces and tried
to lighten the mood but that didn't happen. Trowa's Shoulder was in the most pain than ever. His
face was pale and his head hung low. Duo squirmed constantly, after all, he didn't like that his but
kept falling asleep. Heero, who was the perfect one, sat completely still, a stoic expression on his
face, duo kept trying to make his at least smile but nothing worked. A soft shuffling in the fabric
of the tent could be heard, all three looked up assuming the worst. A boy wit ha gun walked in a
struck a small flashlight and waved.

"Hold on a sec and I'll un gag you." Quatre quickly un-gaged his beloved and then Duo and
Heero. They smiled great fully at him.

"How did you-" Duo was silenced by the placing of Quatre's finger over his lips.

"Shh, they might hear you, don't talk. I'll explain later." So as quickly as he could he untied Duo
and Duo went to untie Heero as Quatre untied Trowa. Quatre handed them a small hand gun and
waved for them to follow him, they quickly exited under the floor flap and in to the woods. They
didn't get far when a gun shot rang out and Duo flee over clutching his leg.

"Dang!! They know we're gone..." Duo cringed as he felt his blood oozed through his fingers.
Heero bent over and ripped his shirt apart and tied a quick and tight knot around the wound.

"Thanks..."

"Any time." Heero helped him to his feet and supported Duo as they began to run off. A few
more gun shots rang out missing them. Trowa returned a few fires but they kept running. Quatre
pulled them into a nice cave and pulled brush in front of it.

"Settle your breathing as soon as you can." Quatre said breathing deeply trying to regain his
breath. The others followed suit. They saw a light flip on and it searched, that area a long time.

"Nothing hear Jet! They escaped!! DAMNED!"

"Don't worry Jack! We'll get them next time. Winner is gonna be a dead Weiner next time
around!" With that the two voices walked off grumbling and cursing. The four breathed a sigh of
relief and relaxed. Quatre then snapped on his tiny flash light and flashed Duo.

"Lets see your leg."

Heero was supporting a near blacked out braided boy.

"He's losing blood and fast..." Heero replied pointing to the floor, already there was a large
puddle of blood around Duo's foot.

"There isn't enough pressure..." Trowa looked at the lost shirt. The three boys quickly pitched in
and wrapped their strands of shirt around it as tight as they could. Duo was now gone in never
land still leaning agaist Heero.

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"How about we go help your friends?" Heila asked after She and Wufei finished breakfast.

"What?" he asked blinking.

"Lets go! We're going to earth! And there we're gonna find your friends and save them!" Heila
stood up smiling.

"I love your way of thinking!" He to stood up, as they read each others mind they quickly packed
up camp and got in the black car and drove away after Heila explained that she is borrowing this
car from a friend, and it wasn't the car he thought it was. The team of two was off!

Fin.