Chapter 4
"Lily?" Duo stood up and all g-boys stared wide-eyed at her.
"What are you doing here?" asked Heero. He watched as Lily walked into the room and over to Mariemaia.
"My job." All the g-boys looked at her questioningly. "I get Mariemaia ever Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to watch her while Lady Une does other things. Really though, I guess you can say I'm like family. Lady Une raised me since I was five." The g-boys couldn't believe it. They had already known about her family. Maybe that's how Lily knew so much about them. "And no, Lady Une wasn't the one who told me about you five. I wasn't with her the month that I had to study about you. It was actually very easy and definitely very amusing. I swear Blondie, if you love Circus Boy so much why not tell him? Ne, Triton Bloom?" She laughed as Quatre's and Trowa's face went beet red.
"Don't call me that!" shouted Trowa. "My name is Trowa Barton. Not Tri..."
"Triton Bloom?" Veins popped out as he watched the other g-boys, Lily and Mariemaia all roll in laughter.
"SHUT UP!" But no one stopped. They all continued laughing so hard that they were crying.
"What's going on in here?" Everyone looked up as Noin walked into the room.
"Oh, Lucretzia." Lily bowed slightly. "I was just talking with these boys."
"Oh. And how many times must I tell you that everyone calls me Noin?"
"Well Lucretzia, as you know, old habits are very hard to break." Noin rolled her eyes, smiled and nodded.
"I guess you're right Lily." Happy about Noin giving up, she decided that it was finally time to go.
"I'll be taking Mariemaia now." She grabbed the handles of Mariemaia's chair and pushed her out of the room. "Ja ne minna!" Then the two girls were gone, soon followed by Noin.
"Ya know," started Duo, "I think that Yuriko and Lily are hiding something from us." The other g-boys agreed.
* * *
"Well Mariemaia dear," a smiling Lily said. "Where do you want to go?"
"Ice cream! Ice cream!" Lily laughed and the two headed to the nearest ice cream parlor.
Once there, Lily set Mariemaia at a table and said, "Wait here. I'll be right back." At Mariemaia's nod she left to go get some ice cream.
"Well, you must be Mariemaia." Mariemaia looked up to see a young man with black hair and violet eyes wearing an OZ uniform.
"What do you want?" asked Mariemaia. "Why are you here?"
"Well, as you can see, many OZ soldiers are out today." He motioned around and sure enough he was right.
"That still doesn't explain how you know my name. So tell me now, what do you want from me?"
"Dear Mariemaia, you are a very smart girl." Mariemaia snorted and glared at the guy. "You must come with me. There are things that need to be taken care of."
"What are you...?" But before she could finish, the guy snatched her up and started to run off. Mariemaia didn't know what to do except scream. "Lily! HELP ME!!" The guy placed his hand over Mariemaia's mouth and the two disappeared around a corner.
Lily had thought that she heard Mariemaia shout and ran out to see what was wrong. When she saw the abandoned wheelchair she dropped the ice cream and began to panic. She had no idea what to do, but she sure as hell had a good idea about where to look. She snatched up her bags and stormed off to the OZ base. Forget about asking for help. She was going to get Mariemaia back now. There would be no waiting.
* * *
Lady Une sat in her office going over some paperwork for Yuriko. She looked at her clock and sighed. "Lily and Mariemaia should be back by now. I wonder where they are." She sat back in her chair and thought for a moment. "Well it is Lily. I'd trust that girl with my life so I guess everything is alright." She smiled and went back to work.
* * *
"Damn OZ soldiers." Lily examined all the entrances and decided that she couldn't enter in any of those doors. She ran over to a wall and jumped over it. "Looks like the pool." She found a nearby tree and climbed it. Finding an empty room, she went in. "Now I just need to find Mariemaia." Turning on a computer in the room, she started to search each room in the base. "What the heck! She's not listed here."
"Of course not Lily-sama." She felt something poke her in the back of the head and then heard the click of a gun. Lily turned around and looked at a young boy who stood there before her. He looked about her age. He had short curly black hair and gray eyes. He was a little taller than her by three inches. He looked well trained and muscles could be seen through his uniform.
Lily arched an eyebrow. "Lily-sama?"
"Well, why not? That's your people call you isn't it?" The boy smirked. "That's what my parents called you."
"I do not know what you are talking about you idiot boy. I have no people. I do not own anyone and most certainly didn't know your parents."
"DON'T LIE TO ME DAMN IT!!" he shouted. "You used to prance around in your pretty little black or red dresses, letting everyone admire you. One toss of your head and you had every boy's attention."
"Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about." She calmed and took a hold of her anger. "Tell me, where is Mariemaia."
He laughed. "On her way to another OZ base in space. We knew that you would come and so we sent her off early."
"YOU WHAT?!" She balled up her fist and attempted to punch him only to be knocked down by his kick. She felt blood drip down her arm and growled. Bringing her feet around, she tried to knock him off his feet. He jumped over her feet and smiled down at her.
"You're pretty good Lily-sama, but not good enough." He flipped behind her and slipped a knife at her throat. He ran his free hand through her hair. "You're very pretty Lily-sama. Too bad you don't agree with OZ. We might have been able to get together."
"Who would want to be with an egotistical asshole like you?"
"Shut up!" He pulled the knife closer to her throat and drew blood. "You want to be with me. You just don't know it yet." He turned her around and forced his lips onto hers. Lily tried to push him away to no avail. Finally he pulled away and Lily threw him across the room, but he landed on his feet.
"What the..." Lily felt her panic start to rise. "Who the hell are you?" He started to laugh and Lily felt cold chills travel up her spine.
"You mean you don't remember me Lily-sama? Oh why would you? I look different now. Can you believe that it's been one whole year since we've seen each other?" Lily raised an eyebrow, still trying to figure out who this weirdo was. "Still don't know Lily-sama?" He got in close, gazing into her eyes and wrapped his arms around her waist. "How 'bout this Lily...chan." Lily's eyes went wide. This could not be happening.
"K...Koji? Koji-san?" The young boy smiled and brought Lily closer to him.
"Hai, my beloved."
"Iye! Get away from me!" Lily tried to push away from him. "Leave me alone. What about you precious wife, huh?" Koji pushed away and slapped her.
"Shut up! Don't you dare even bring her up. This is between me and you. Not me and her." Lily smirked knowing that she had struck a nerve. "Forget you. I don't need you anyway." He walked out leaving her to the room by herself. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked up. Then realization hit her. There on the table in front of her sat a small set of bombs already counting down.
Five
"Oh shit!"
Four
Lily jumped up.
Three
She ran to the window.
Two
Throwing it open, she jumped out.
One
BOOM!! Lily was thrown across the yard and in the wall that she had jumped over earlier. Rubble smacked against her and fire spread.
A helicopter hovered over her and a frightened little girl could be seen reaching for her.
"Lily! Lily!" Another guy, Koji, looked out and smiled at Lily. Then he grabbed Mariemaia and pulled her back in, the helicopter then speeding off.
"Ma...Mariemaia." Lily reached her hand out as everything went blurry and she fainted.
* * *
It was an hour later and Lily had a major headache. Opening her eyes, that night's events came rushing back to her. Slowly she forced herself up, using the wall to steady herself. She groaned in pain and cursed at herself.
"I'll get you back Mariemaia. I promise." She balled up her fist and growled. "And I'll kill that bastard Koji if it's the last thing I ever do." Using the wall she began her journey back to the base.
* * *
"Where the hell is she?" you could hear Lady Une shout through the whole g- base. Inside the room you could see five terrified g-boys slouched in a corner, a desperate Noin and Sally, and an angry Une.
"Look, I'm sure she'll be back soon," Noin tried to assure her. "There's nothing to worry about. They probably just had a lot of fun and lost track of time."
"Lost track of time?" shouted Une. "I don't think so. She always brings Mariemaia back at nine. It's almost eleven. I don't think that they lost track of time."
"Well I'm positive that they'll be back any minute now," explained Sally.
"Damn right..."a grunt then, "I'll be here." Everyone turned to the doorway and a battered Lily stumbled in. She made it in a collapsed.
Everyone ran over to her. Duo helped her up and they each helped her to the couch.
"Lily, what happened?" asked a now very worried Une. "And where's Mariemaia?"
"Mariemaia was kidnapped," Lily answered. "I went to go save her and ran into a certain someone. Koji." Une, Sally and Noin all gasped and the g- boys just stared, confused. "Anyway, we got into a fight and Lord knows he's the only one who can beat me. He tricked me and left, leaving a bomb in the room. I got out just in the nick of time but they got away with Mariemaia."
"Oh my. What could they possibly want with her?" asked Une.
"Only Lord knows but I swear that I will kill that damn bastard if it's the last thing I do."
"Well what do we do now?" asked Duo.
"You five will take your gundams and head to OZ base three. It's by colony L3."
"And what about you?" asked Heero, knowing that something was up.
"She'll go find Yuriko while we stay here and direct you in your mission," answered Une. "Now everyone, get going." Everyone nodded and went off.
Each g-boy went to their gundams. Pushing a few buttons, they each set off one by one in mobile suit carriers.
"Ok Lt. Noin. We're on our way now," explained Quatre. "We'll let you know when we arrive."
"Alright. I'll stand by till then."
* * *
"I'm ready to go." Back at the base Yuriko walked in and Noin smiled.
"Good. Your mobile suit carrier and gundam are ready for you. You should go now."
"Hai." Then Yuriko ran off and jumped into her carrier. Pushing an amount of buttons, she too took off.
"I just hope that they get Mariemaia back." Sally and Noin looked at their friend Une, not knowing what to do. They wished that they could comfort her but they had work to do. Obviously Une knew this because she shook her head at her friends and went off to do her own work for the six pilots. "They'll get her back. I trust them." Noin and Sally nodded, thought the same thing and went off to work.
"We're here." Duo's face showed up on the screen. You'd never be able to guess that Duo is always cheerful and happy go lucky. If looks could kill, Duo's look on his face would kill every bastard behind this whole mess.
"Good." Noin went up to the screen. "To the right there is an opening that no one uses or ever guards. Use that to get in."
"Got ya!" Duo's picture disappeared and Noin sighed. Sitting at a computer she began to type away.
* * *
"This is the opening. Let's go," instructed Duo. Everyone nodded and followed. Landing their carriers, three in front, three in back, they each climbed out and looked around.
"Let's find Mariemaia. Then we'll attack." Yuriko looked at all the g-boys, getting approving nods from each of them. "Good. Let's go."
"Lily?" Duo stood up and all g-boys stared wide-eyed at her.
"What are you doing here?" asked Heero. He watched as Lily walked into the room and over to Mariemaia.
"My job." All the g-boys looked at her questioningly. "I get Mariemaia ever Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to watch her while Lady Une does other things. Really though, I guess you can say I'm like family. Lady Une raised me since I was five." The g-boys couldn't believe it. They had already known about her family. Maybe that's how Lily knew so much about them. "And no, Lady Une wasn't the one who told me about you five. I wasn't with her the month that I had to study about you. It was actually very easy and definitely very amusing. I swear Blondie, if you love Circus Boy so much why not tell him? Ne, Triton Bloom?" She laughed as Quatre's and Trowa's face went beet red.
"Don't call me that!" shouted Trowa. "My name is Trowa Barton. Not Tri..."
"Triton Bloom?" Veins popped out as he watched the other g-boys, Lily and Mariemaia all roll in laughter.
"SHUT UP!" But no one stopped. They all continued laughing so hard that they were crying.
"What's going on in here?" Everyone looked up as Noin walked into the room.
"Oh, Lucretzia." Lily bowed slightly. "I was just talking with these boys."
"Oh. And how many times must I tell you that everyone calls me Noin?"
"Well Lucretzia, as you know, old habits are very hard to break." Noin rolled her eyes, smiled and nodded.
"I guess you're right Lily." Happy about Noin giving up, she decided that it was finally time to go.
"I'll be taking Mariemaia now." She grabbed the handles of Mariemaia's chair and pushed her out of the room. "Ja ne minna!" Then the two girls were gone, soon followed by Noin.
"Ya know," started Duo, "I think that Yuriko and Lily are hiding something from us." The other g-boys agreed.
* * *
"Well Mariemaia dear," a smiling Lily said. "Where do you want to go?"
"Ice cream! Ice cream!" Lily laughed and the two headed to the nearest ice cream parlor.
Once there, Lily set Mariemaia at a table and said, "Wait here. I'll be right back." At Mariemaia's nod she left to go get some ice cream.
"Well, you must be Mariemaia." Mariemaia looked up to see a young man with black hair and violet eyes wearing an OZ uniform.
"What do you want?" asked Mariemaia. "Why are you here?"
"Well, as you can see, many OZ soldiers are out today." He motioned around and sure enough he was right.
"That still doesn't explain how you know my name. So tell me now, what do you want from me?"
"Dear Mariemaia, you are a very smart girl." Mariemaia snorted and glared at the guy. "You must come with me. There are things that need to be taken care of."
"What are you...?" But before she could finish, the guy snatched her up and started to run off. Mariemaia didn't know what to do except scream. "Lily! HELP ME!!" The guy placed his hand over Mariemaia's mouth and the two disappeared around a corner.
Lily had thought that she heard Mariemaia shout and ran out to see what was wrong. When she saw the abandoned wheelchair she dropped the ice cream and began to panic. She had no idea what to do, but she sure as hell had a good idea about where to look. She snatched up her bags and stormed off to the OZ base. Forget about asking for help. She was going to get Mariemaia back now. There would be no waiting.
* * *
Lady Une sat in her office going over some paperwork for Yuriko. She looked at her clock and sighed. "Lily and Mariemaia should be back by now. I wonder where they are." She sat back in her chair and thought for a moment. "Well it is Lily. I'd trust that girl with my life so I guess everything is alright." She smiled and went back to work.
* * *
"Damn OZ soldiers." Lily examined all the entrances and decided that she couldn't enter in any of those doors. She ran over to a wall and jumped over it. "Looks like the pool." She found a nearby tree and climbed it. Finding an empty room, she went in. "Now I just need to find Mariemaia." Turning on a computer in the room, she started to search each room in the base. "What the heck! She's not listed here."
"Of course not Lily-sama." She felt something poke her in the back of the head and then heard the click of a gun. Lily turned around and looked at a young boy who stood there before her. He looked about her age. He had short curly black hair and gray eyes. He was a little taller than her by three inches. He looked well trained and muscles could be seen through his uniform.
Lily arched an eyebrow. "Lily-sama?"
"Well, why not? That's your people call you isn't it?" The boy smirked. "That's what my parents called you."
"I do not know what you are talking about you idiot boy. I have no people. I do not own anyone and most certainly didn't know your parents."
"DON'T LIE TO ME DAMN IT!!" he shouted. "You used to prance around in your pretty little black or red dresses, letting everyone admire you. One toss of your head and you had every boy's attention."
"Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about." She calmed and took a hold of her anger. "Tell me, where is Mariemaia."
He laughed. "On her way to another OZ base in space. We knew that you would come and so we sent her off early."
"YOU WHAT?!" She balled up her fist and attempted to punch him only to be knocked down by his kick. She felt blood drip down her arm and growled. Bringing her feet around, she tried to knock him off his feet. He jumped over her feet and smiled down at her.
"You're pretty good Lily-sama, but not good enough." He flipped behind her and slipped a knife at her throat. He ran his free hand through her hair. "You're very pretty Lily-sama. Too bad you don't agree with OZ. We might have been able to get together."
"Who would want to be with an egotistical asshole like you?"
"Shut up!" He pulled the knife closer to her throat and drew blood. "You want to be with me. You just don't know it yet." He turned her around and forced his lips onto hers. Lily tried to push him away to no avail. Finally he pulled away and Lily threw him across the room, but he landed on his feet.
"What the..." Lily felt her panic start to rise. "Who the hell are you?" He started to laugh and Lily felt cold chills travel up her spine.
"You mean you don't remember me Lily-sama? Oh why would you? I look different now. Can you believe that it's been one whole year since we've seen each other?" Lily raised an eyebrow, still trying to figure out who this weirdo was. "Still don't know Lily-sama?" He got in close, gazing into her eyes and wrapped his arms around her waist. "How 'bout this Lily...chan." Lily's eyes went wide. This could not be happening.
"K...Koji? Koji-san?" The young boy smiled and brought Lily closer to him.
"Hai, my beloved."
"Iye! Get away from me!" Lily tried to push away from him. "Leave me alone. What about you precious wife, huh?" Koji pushed away and slapped her.
"Shut up! Don't you dare even bring her up. This is between me and you. Not me and her." Lily smirked knowing that she had struck a nerve. "Forget you. I don't need you anyway." He walked out leaving her to the room by herself. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked up. Then realization hit her. There on the table in front of her sat a small set of bombs already counting down.
Five
"Oh shit!"
Four
Lily jumped up.
Three
She ran to the window.
Two
Throwing it open, she jumped out.
One
BOOM!! Lily was thrown across the yard and in the wall that she had jumped over earlier. Rubble smacked against her and fire spread.
A helicopter hovered over her and a frightened little girl could be seen reaching for her.
"Lily! Lily!" Another guy, Koji, looked out and smiled at Lily. Then he grabbed Mariemaia and pulled her back in, the helicopter then speeding off.
"Ma...Mariemaia." Lily reached her hand out as everything went blurry and she fainted.
* * *
It was an hour later and Lily had a major headache. Opening her eyes, that night's events came rushing back to her. Slowly she forced herself up, using the wall to steady herself. She groaned in pain and cursed at herself.
"I'll get you back Mariemaia. I promise." She balled up her fist and growled. "And I'll kill that bastard Koji if it's the last thing I ever do." Using the wall she began her journey back to the base.
* * *
"Where the hell is she?" you could hear Lady Une shout through the whole g- base. Inside the room you could see five terrified g-boys slouched in a corner, a desperate Noin and Sally, and an angry Une.
"Look, I'm sure she'll be back soon," Noin tried to assure her. "There's nothing to worry about. They probably just had a lot of fun and lost track of time."
"Lost track of time?" shouted Une. "I don't think so. She always brings Mariemaia back at nine. It's almost eleven. I don't think that they lost track of time."
"Well I'm positive that they'll be back any minute now," explained Sally.
"Damn right..."a grunt then, "I'll be here." Everyone turned to the doorway and a battered Lily stumbled in. She made it in a collapsed.
Everyone ran over to her. Duo helped her up and they each helped her to the couch.
"Lily, what happened?" asked a now very worried Une. "And where's Mariemaia?"
"Mariemaia was kidnapped," Lily answered. "I went to go save her and ran into a certain someone. Koji." Une, Sally and Noin all gasped and the g- boys just stared, confused. "Anyway, we got into a fight and Lord knows he's the only one who can beat me. He tricked me and left, leaving a bomb in the room. I got out just in the nick of time but they got away with Mariemaia."
"Oh my. What could they possibly want with her?" asked Une.
"Only Lord knows but I swear that I will kill that damn bastard if it's the last thing I do."
"Well what do we do now?" asked Duo.
"You five will take your gundams and head to OZ base three. It's by colony L3."
"And what about you?" asked Heero, knowing that something was up.
"She'll go find Yuriko while we stay here and direct you in your mission," answered Une. "Now everyone, get going." Everyone nodded and went off.
Each g-boy went to their gundams. Pushing a few buttons, they each set off one by one in mobile suit carriers.
"Ok Lt. Noin. We're on our way now," explained Quatre. "We'll let you know when we arrive."
"Alright. I'll stand by till then."
* * *
"I'm ready to go." Back at the base Yuriko walked in and Noin smiled.
"Good. Your mobile suit carrier and gundam are ready for you. You should go now."
"Hai." Then Yuriko ran off and jumped into her carrier. Pushing an amount of buttons, she too took off.
"I just hope that they get Mariemaia back." Sally and Noin looked at their friend Une, not knowing what to do. They wished that they could comfort her but they had work to do. Obviously Une knew this because she shook her head at her friends and went off to do her own work for the six pilots. "They'll get her back. I trust them." Noin and Sally nodded, thought the same thing and went off to work.
"We're here." Duo's face showed up on the screen. You'd never be able to guess that Duo is always cheerful and happy go lucky. If looks could kill, Duo's look on his face would kill every bastard behind this whole mess.
"Good." Noin went up to the screen. "To the right there is an opening that no one uses or ever guards. Use that to get in."
"Got ya!" Duo's picture disappeared and Noin sighed. Sitting at a computer she began to type away.
* * *
"This is the opening. Let's go," instructed Duo. Everyone nodded and followed. Landing their carriers, three in front, three in back, they each climbed out and looked around.
"Let's find Mariemaia. Then we'll attack." Yuriko looked at all the g-boys, getting approving nods from each of them. "Good. Let's go."