First off- I cannot apologize enough to you all for taking so long to put this out--- as I have said before, there's a milion and one reasons why it takes me so long, but being lazy and a big procrastinator are probably the two biggest ones. I won't talk for long- I'm proud of this chapter. Read it! Don't hate me!
(THANKS to Bluejello, Squirrel, and Dragoanfly, who told me that the song I used in the last chapter was from a really great story called Tenshi's Lost Voice by a very talented author named bushoumomo. Since I didn't ask her for permission to use the song, everybody do me a favor and go read Tenshi's Lost Voice! Also to Diane, though I'm not sure I understand what she said!) There are a lot of great reviews I would like to address individually, but like I said earlier, I'm too damn lazy... Thanks to everyone, and there will be shoutouts later!
"Who's bright idea was it to put us all in the same classes again?" Wufei asked.
"Ummm, I think it was Hiiro over there." Duo spoke up. Hiiro shot him a death glare.
"I think it makes class fun!" Usagi exclaimed.
"But we'll never learn anything." Quatre said realistically.
"True, but since you five know everything already, I guess it's no biggie, right?" she replied.
"But you still need to learn." Trowa pointed out.
"So?" she retorted. They all laughed at her simplistic way of thinking as they entered the next classroom.
After recieving their textbooks, they made their way to the back row. It became an unspoken agreement that they sat in the back row and in the same order as the first class. In Chemistry, they were divided into two tables of three each. Hiiro, Trowa, and Quatre made up one table. Wufei, Usagi, and Duo sat at the other.
"Alright class, please open your books to page 167, and begin your experiment. I will need to see it completed before you leave for lunch. Get to work!" the teacher commanded. Usagi pulled her book close to her, opening the cover and flipping to the right page.
"Warning: Dangerous chemicals are involved in this experiment. Please be careful when mixing the substances." she read aloud. "Cool!"
"Okay, we need to start out with amonium hylocilate and gylersol." Wufei read aloud. Usagi grabbed one of the glass containers and Duo grabbed the other.
Usagi poured a precise amount of the liquid into the empty glass tube. Duo tipped his upside down and allowed the liquid to pour into the tube.
"Wow look at that!" Duo exclaimed. Wufei twisted in his seat to see what Duo was looking at. As soon as his back was turned, Duo dumped another chemical into the mix. Usagi stiffled a laugh as Wufei spun back around, not noticing that the tube was starting to foam. Keeping a straight face, Duo took the last container and poured the right amount in.
"Is it supposed to be doing this?!" Usagi asked hurridly. The glass of the tube was starting to melt, letting the chemicals inside run along the desk. The desk started to melt and smoke.
"NO!" the teacher exclaimed, running over with a large bucket of water. Pushing them out of the way, she dumped the contents of the bucket onto the desk.
As soon as the desk had stopped smoking, the teacher turned back to face them.
"Detention." she said simply.
Two weeks passed. They recieved missions more and more often. Every time, Unmei showed up but did not vetnure near enough to allow the other Gundams to use the tracking bullets.
Usagi couldn't be caught.
Or so she thought.
(AN: That ryhmes!)
It was a normal afternoon in the apartment. Usagi sat on Wufei's lap on the couch, being tutored. Quatre sat next to them, while Wufei sat in a recliner. Hiiro was at the kitchen table typing away at his laptop, and Duo was laying on the floor on the living room. They were all (with the exception of Hiiro) working on their homework.
"So the answer would be?" Wufei prompted Usagi, who was working hard at a math problem. Usagi hesitantly read her answer aloud.
"Is that right?" she asked.
"Yup." Wufei replied.
"Really?!"
"Really."
"Awesome!"
"We have a mission." Hiiro announced.
"Not awesome." Usagi corrected herself. She twisted to look at Wufei. "I don't like you going on so many missions. You're going to get hurt this time, I know it!"
"Usagi, I fight for you. I won't get hurt." Wufei promised before getting up and leaving with the others. Usagi waited a good five minutes before following them. She caught up quickly and found them already fighting the mobile suits. There weren't as many as there had been before, and once more Hiiro was not present in his Gundam.
How long has he been in there? Usagi asked.
"Fifteen minutes." Quatre replied.
Too long. I'm going in after him. she said.
No one argued. Unmei moved away from the group. Usagi reached for her Luna Pen in her subspace pocket.
"What?!" she exclaimed. Then she remembered- she had taken it out to use for a practical joke on Duo.
"Kisama..." she moaned. Quickly she pulled her hair down out of their odangos and braided it. Then Usagi climbed out of Unmei and raced across the ground to the entrance to the base. Luckily, the guards were already knocked out, so Usagi locked her empathy onto Hiiro and followed her instincts down the hallways. Her tennis shoes made a soft squeaking sound on the hard marble. She felt herself getting nearer to Hiiro and peeked around the last corner. There was a hallway full of soldiers banging on a steel door.
"Come out NOW!"
"Open up!" They called. Usagi assumed that they knew that Hiiro was inside.
She was about to move forward to try and take the guys out when the door that they were banging on opened. Just as Hiiro appeared and opened fire, and soldier grabbed her from behind and pushed her along in front of him so they came close enough for Hiiro to see. Hiiro didn't stop firing until the soldier put a gun to Usagi's head. There were only half of the soldiers left alive.
"What are you doing here, precious?" the soldier asked.
"I came to help my friend." Usagi replied carefully.
"Why would a Gundam pilot need any help?" Another voice asked. A man stepped around the corner. Hiiro recognized the uniform of a higher-ranking official.
The man, whose nametag read "Roanek", pointed his gun at Hiiro.
"Drop your weapons." Roanek commanded.
Hiiro had already gone through the decision-making process, quickly and silently. If it were only him, he would just shoot the guy and get it over with. But because Usagi had showed up and because he didn't know why or what was going on outside (though from the explosions that still rocked the building he assumed the others were still fighting), he was going to comply. Besides, if they tried anything, he could have a gun out of his subspace pocket and firing in less than a second. And there was something about the way Usagi was looking at him that he just didn't like.
So he knelt down slowly and set his gun on the floor, rising just as slowly as he went down. Roanek observed the two.
"Now, I'm not a dumb guy. I may not be top dog in OZ, but I didn't get to be head of this base because I'm a good dancer." he said, voice dripping with sarcasm. "I know that if I brought in a Gundam pilot, I'd get promoted. But, if I brought in someone who could get all five of the Gundam pilots, I'd be top-ranker in no time. So here's what I'm going to do- I'm going to give you three minutes to get out of my base and call off your friends. If you even move towards us, the girl dies." he concluded. "Well? Get going!" Hiiro picked up his gun and ran.
"Shimatta! Wufei! How the hell did she get in there?!" Hiiro demanded, closing the cockpit door.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Wufei shot back. All except Hiiro were puzzled when all of the attacking mobile dolls retreated.
"We have to get away from the base now!" Hiiro told them. Hearing the urgent tone underlying the monotone, they complied without qiestion. Then they saw a small transporter rising from the center of the base. Hiiro's computer told him that the other four had locked on.
"Iie! Don't fire! They'll kill her!" he tried to explain.
"Hiiro, what the hell are you talking about?!" Duo asked, exasperated.
"Usagi got in there and a commander named Roanek got a gun to her head. Now he's going to use her not only to get promoted but to get us caught!" Hiiro exploded.
"Usagi? Usagi's at home, Hiiro." Quatre corrected. Hiiro resisted to urge to scream. Duo was the first to catch on.
"Wait a minute..." he said. "Didn't Unmei's pilot go in there?"
"Yes, but he didn't come out." Wufei replied.
"But what if 'he' was a 'she'?" Duo asked.
"Are you saying Usagi was the pilot of Unmei?" Wufei retorted.
"Remember, the scientests hadn't helped the pilot, and he said he built it with his own hands. Usagi couldn't do that!" Quatre said.
"But she could!" the American exclaimed. "She can do almost anything with that Ginzuishou. She could have built it easily, not to mention that the pilot never linked with us. AND Hiiro says he saw her in there! What more proof do you need?"
"Hiiro, are you sure it was Usagi?" Trowa asked.
"If you know someone else with that silver-blonde hair and those eyes, you can speak up now." Hiiro replied. Since the transporter had disappeared from sight, Hiiro took off in the direction of the Peacecraft Academy.
The others were in shock. Their Usagi, their little innocent bunny, had been fighting. And now she had been kidnapped.
Duo: WHAT?!!!
Wufei: I'm gonna HURT YOU dagger! (Dagger is Aka's nickname)
Aka: Eeeps! Sorry! Stay tuned for chapter fourteen: Healing.
Quatre: Wow, compared to the last few titles, that one's pretty short and to the point.
Duo: What, no death threats this time?
Aka: That could be arranged... But I'm too busy trying to hide from the angry reviewers! (Ducks as rotten fruit is chucked at her.)
(THANKS to Bluejello, Squirrel, and Dragoanfly, who told me that the song I used in the last chapter was from a really great story called Tenshi's Lost Voice by a very talented author named bushoumomo. Since I didn't ask her for permission to use the song, everybody do me a favor and go read Tenshi's Lost Voice! Also to Diane, though I'm not sure I understand what she said!) There are a lot of great reviews I would like to address individually, but like I said earlier, I'm too damn lazy... Thanks to everyone, and there will be shoutouts later!
"Who's bright idea was it to put us all in the same classes again?" Wufei asked.
"Ummm, I think it was Hiiro over there." Duo spoke up. Hiiro shot him a death glare.
"I think it makes class fun!" Usagi exclaimed.
"But we'll never learn anything." Quatre said realistically.
"True, but since you five know everything already, I guess it's no biggie, right?" she replied.
"But you still need to learn." Trowa pointed out.
"So?" she retorted. They all laughed at her simplistic way of thinking as they entered the next classroom.
After recieving their textbooks, they made their way to the back row. It became an unspoken agreement that they sat in the back row and in the same order as the first class. In Chemistry, they were divided into two tables of three each. Hiiro, Trowa, and Quatre made up one table. Wufei, Usagi, and Duo sat at the other.
"Alright class, please open your books to page 167, and begin your experiment. I will need to see it completed before you leave for lunch. Get to work!" the teacher commanded. Usagi pulled her book close to her, opening the cover and flipping to the right page.
"Warning: Dangerous chemicals are involved in this experiment. Please be careful when mixing the substances." she read aloud. "Cool!"
"Okay, we need to start out with amonium hylocilate and gylersol." Wufei read aloud. Usagi grabbed one of the glass containers and Duo grabbed the other.
Usagi poured a precise amount of the liquid into the empty glass tube. Duo tipped his upside down and allowed the liquid to pour into the tube.
"Wow look at that!" Duo exclaimed. Wufei twisted in his seat to see what Duo was looking at. As soon as his back was turned, Duo dumped another chemical into the mix. Usagi stiffled a laugh as Wufei spun back around, not noticing that the tube was starting to foam. Keeping a straight face, Duo took the last container and poured the right amount in.
"Is it supposed to be doing this?!" Usagi asked hurridly. The glass of the tube was starting to melt, letting the chemicals inside run along the desk. The desk started to melt and smoke.
"NO!" the teacher exclaimed, running over with a large bucket of water. Pushing them out of the way, she dumped the contents of the bucket onto the desk.
As soon as the desk had stopped smoking, the teacher turned back to face them.
"Detention." she said simply.
Two weeks passed. They recieved missions more and more often. Every time, Unmei showed up but did not vetnure near enough to allow the other Gundams to use the tracking bullets.
Usagi couldn't be caught.
Or so she thought.
(AN: That ryhmes!)
It was a normal afternoon in the apartment. Usagi sat on Wufei's lap on the couch, being tutored. Quatre sat next to them, while Wufei sat in a recliner. Hiiro was at the kitchen table typing away at his laptop, and Duo was laying on the floor on the living room. They were all (with the exception of Hiiro) working on their homework.
"So the answer would be?" Wufei prompted Usagi, who was working hard at a math problem. Usagi hesitantly read her answer aloud.
"Is that right?" she asked.
"Yup." Wufei replied.
"Really?!"
"Really."
"Awesome!"
"We have a mission." Hiiro announced.
"Not awesome." Usagi corrected herself. She twisted to look at Wufei. "I don't like you going on so many missions. You're going to get hurt this time, I know it!"
"Usagi, I fight for you. I won't get hurt." Wufei promised before getting up and leaving with the others. Usagi waited a good five minutes before following them. She caught up quickly and found them already fighting the mobile suits. There weren't as many as there had been before, and once more Hiiro was not present in his Gundam.
How long has he been in there? Usagi asked.
"Fifteen minutes." Quatre replied.
Too long. I'm going in after him. she said.
No one argued. Unmei moved away from the group. Usagi reached for her Luna Pen in her subspace pocket.
"What?!" she exclaimed. Then she remembered- she had taken it out to use for a practical joke on Duo.
"Kisama..." she moaned. Quickly she pulled her hair down out of their odangos and braided it. Then Usagi climbed out of Unmei and raced across the ground to the entrance to the base. Luckily, the guards were already knocked out, so Usagi locked her empathy onto Hiiro and followed her instincts down the hallways. Her tennis shoes made a soft squeaking sound on the hard marble. She felt herself getting nearer to Hiiro and peeked around the last corner. There was a hallway full of soldiers banging on a steel door.
"Come out NOW!"
"Open up!" They called. Usagi assumed that they knew that Hiiro was inside.
She was about to move forward to try and take the guys out when the door that they were banging on opened. Just as Hiiro appeared and opened fire, and soldier grabbed her from behind and pushed her along in front of him so they came close enough for Hiiro to see. Hiiro didn't stop firing until the soldier put a gun to Usagi's head. There were only half of the soldiers left alive.
"What are you doing here, precious?" the soldier asked.
"I came to help my friend." Usagi replied carefully.
"Why would a Gundam pilot need any help?" Another voice asked. A man stepped around the corner. Hiiro recognized the uniform of a higher-ranking official.
The man, whose nametag read "Roanek", pointed his gun at Hiiro.
"Drop your weapons." Roanek commanded.
Hiiro had already gone through the decision-making process, quickly and silently. If it were only him, he would just shoot the guy and get it over with. But because Usagi had showed up and because he didn't know why or what was going on outside (though from the explosions that still rocked the building he assumed the others were still fighting), he was going to comply. Besides, if they tried anything, he could have a gun out of his subspace pocket and firing in less than a second. And there was something about the way Usagi was looking at him that he just didn't like.
So he knelt down slowly and set his gun on the floor, rising just as slowly as he went down. Roanek observed the two.
"Now, I'm not a dumb guy. I may not be top dog in OZ, but I didn't get to be head of this base because I'm a good dancer." he said, voice dripping with sarcasm. "I know that if I brought in a Gundam pilot, I'd get promoted. But, if I brought in someone who could get all five of the Gundam pilots, I'd be top-ranker in no time. So here's what I'm going to do- I'm going to give you three minutes to get out of my base and call off your friends. If you even move towards us, the girl dies." he concluded. "Well? Get going!" Hiiro picked up his gun and ran.
"Shimatta! Wufei! How the hell did she get in there?!" Hiiro demanded, closing the cockpit door.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Wufei shot back. All except Hiiro were puzzled when all of the attacking mobile dolls retreated.
"We have to get away from the base now!" Hiiro told them. Hearing the urgent tone underlying the monotone, they complied without qiestion. Then they saw a small transporter rising from the center of the base. Hiiro's computer told him that the other four had locked on.
"Iie! Don't fire! They'll kill her!" he tried to explain.
"Hiiro, what the hell are you talking about?!" Duo asked, exasperated.
"Usagi got in there and a commander named Roanek got a gun to her head. Now he's going to use her not only to get promoted but to get us caught!" Hiiro exploded.
"Usagi? Usagi's at home, Hiiro." Quatre corrected. Hiiro resisted to urge to scream. Duo was the first to catch on.
"Wait a minute..." he said. "Didn't Unmei's pilot go in there?"
"Yes, but he didn't come out." Wufei replied.
"But what if 'he' was a 'she'?" Duo asked.
"Are you saying Usagi was the pilot of Unmei?" Wufei retorted.
"Remember, the scientests hadn't helped the pilot, and he said he built it with his own hands. Usagi couldn't do that!" Quatre said.
"But she could!" the American exclaimed. "She can do almost anything with that Ginzuishou. She could have built it easily, not to mention that the pilot never linked with us. AND Hiiro says he saw her in there! What more proof do you need?"
"Hiiro, are you sure it was Usagi?" Trowa asked.
"If you know someone else with that silver-blonde hair and those eyes, you can speak up now." Hiiro replied. Since the transporter had disappeared from sight, Hiiro took off in the direction of the Peacecraft Academy.
The others were in shock. Their Usagi, their little innocent bunny, had been fighting. And now she had been kidnapped.
Duo: WHAT?!!!
Wufei: I'm gonna HURT YOU dagger! (Dagger is Aka's nickname)
Aka: Eeeps! Sorry! Stay tuned for chapter fourteen: Healing.
Quatre: Wow, compared to the last few titles, that one's pretty short and to the point.
Duo: What, no death threats this time?
Aka: That could be arranged... But I'm too busy trying to hide from the angry reviewers! (Ducks as rotten fruit is chucked at her.)