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Chapter Five: Final Destination

The windows were already blown out in the warehouse, from some former explosion. There was still glass on the floor and the assembled six were wary of it, picking their paths in.

"Kaia, Duo and Quatre; upstairs, Trowa, Wufei and I will guard the staircase, no casualties." Heero commanded and then they all dispersed.

The lights were out upstairs and the windows were boarded up, the only light came from the staircase that led up to the trap door. This put the three at a disadvantage as they could only come up one by one and could easily have been picked off had Kaia not gone up first.

He set two rounds off into the room before sticking his head in, there was no return fire, and they came up into the darkness. A low whimpering issued from one corner, then a hiss to silence it. Heero handed up a flashlight and Quatre located the corner where a little boy sat, quivering, and holding a machine gun, next to him was another, older, boy who had a pistol.

"Shoot!" This came from their left and the flashlight beam swung around to reveal the leader.

Kaia hit the flashlight so that it switched off and there was the sound of a clumsy gunshot and a scuffle, then a skylight opened up in the roof with a pull down ladder, the leader raced up that, with Kaia in hot pursuit. "Take care of the others." He called.

"You." The leader grimaced.

"Me. You remember my sister and I, don't you Cyprus? We joined you little gang when we were, what? Twelve and ten?" Kaia circled, stalling till his eyes adjusted, and then he lunged.

Cyprus wasn't so quick to recover; he was caught in the stomach by Kaia's blow. He managed to move out of the way before the fatal second blow could crush his spine. "You were always a two move kinda' guy." Cyprus delayed. "It always got you into trouble 'cuz you couldn't finish it quick enough."

"Well lets see how far you get without your gun." Kaia threw his gun down.

Cyprus, being the cheat that he was, fired. But Kaia wasn't there anymore, he was behind him.

"Cyprus, you were always a dirty one shot kinda' guy, it got you into trouble." There was a crack and Cyprus went limp. And as the blood rushed in his ears he heard the last thing ever…

"For my sister."

"Done." Kaia climbed down from the roof to find the lights on. The remnants of the gang huddled in the corners, all the weapons in the middle of the room.

"Good, so are we!" Duo was back to his cheerful self.

"They surrendered immediately." Trowa recounted to Kaia as a side note.

"That's good, lets get out of here." He moved to the door.

"Wait." Heero stopped him. "Where's Cyprus?"

"He's dead."

"Kaia! You know the charges!" Quatre cried. "Why?"

"I had to." I had to… He said it as much in defense as to convince himself.

"So they're clearing the charges?" Duo asked as he watched Kaia pack what meager possessions he'd brought to the jail colony. It'd been a month since the mission and Cyprus's death and the charges against Kaia had come and gone. He'd killed Cyprus in self-defense. It was final.

"Yes."

"What'll you do?"

"Nothing, everything, I'll see the stars and watch the ground." Kaia turned around. "I don't care just as long as I get off this damn colony."

"You won't return to X1435 will you?" Duo inclined against the doorframe and sighed.

"No."

"…"

"Once I knew where I was supposed to go, what I was supposed to do, now, its different." He slammed shut the suitcase. "I just know I'm not going back there either."

"Alright, I can't stop you." Duo threw up his hands in apology.

"I know." Kaia picked up the suitcase off the bunk.

"G'bye, Kaia." Duo said as the man passed him.

Kaia stopped. "I didn't tell you."

"What?"

"She had a name."

"I won't ask you if you don't want to tell me."

"It was Ankishuchuu. Fate in other's hands." And then he was gone, never to be seen again by Duo or any of the other Ex-Pilots.

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There, it's done, finito. Finally. I'm sorry to those of you who wanted a happy ending and to those who'd waited so long. Thankee for the support, R&R please. A penny for your thoughts!