Chapter 11
"Iye..." Lily tossed and turned in the bed, poor Duo left only to watch her. There was no way he could help and so he felt helpless. Here his friend was having a nightmare, of what he didn't know, and yet all he could do was just stand there.
"Erik...no...not Koji...iye...IYE!!" Lily shot up out of the bed, landing hard on the ground. "Itai." Duo quickly ran over and looked at her.
"Lily-chan...are you alright?" Lily just sat there though, with her pain filled eyes staring straight at the ground. It hurt Duo to see her like this, but he just didn't know what to do.
"I'm scared of him...very scared." Lily buried her face in her hands and started to cry. Duo just hung his head and pulled her close, embracing her tightly and trying to comfort her.
"Daijoubu Lily-chan. I won't let anyone hurt you, I promise. Nothing will ever happen to you as long as I'm around." Lily clung tightly to his shirt and continued to cry. Duo rocked her back and forth, and hummed softly into her ear. Slowly, Lily's crying died and she was soon asleep in Duo's arms. He leaned against the bed and fell deep into sleep too.
* * *
"Domo Nikki," a voice said over the phone. It was Timmy. Nikki had obviously called Lily's brother just to let him know that Lily was alright. He had sounded worried at first, but now he sounded very much relieved.
"No prob Tim. Had to let ya know you're little sis was okay. Anyway, I should head back now. Ja." Nikki hung up the phone and stepped out of the small booth that she was in. "Time to go. Hope he got her to sleep. That Lily can be stubborn at times." She shook her head, slung a few bags over her shoulder, and headed back to Duo's apartment.
* * *
"I'm back," Nikki shouted, but quickly stopped when she saw the two on the floor sleeping. "Well...at least I know he got her sleep." She looked over at the clock. "Twelve." She pulled a blanket off of the bed and covered the two up. She thought that they looked so adorable and smiled.
Nikki walked out Duo's living room and laid down on his couch. "I have a feeling that those two won't be getting up anytime soon. Might as well get some sleep before I have to head to the base." Her eyes slowly closed and she was soon fast asleep.
* * *
"Nikki, wake up." The sound of Duo's voice broke her from her dream, causing her to roll off the couch and crash to the ground.
"Wah! What the heck? Duo, what's the big deal?" She got up and sat back down on the couch. She rubbed her sleep filled eyes and slowly looked at him. Everything was blurry, but slowly her vision cleared.
"We have to be at the base in less than half an hour."
"What?" Nikki's eyes widened and she looked over at the clock. Sure enough, it was already six fifteen. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier and where's Lily?" She was wide awake now.
"What are you talking about? I've been trying to wake you up since five thirty. Lily was gone this morning when I woke up." He handed her a glass of water. "You should get dressed. I doubt that Yuriko would want us to be late."
"Hai." Nikki took the glass of water and gulped it down. Then she took her few bags and went into Duo's bathroom to get ready. Ten minutes later the two pilots were ready and headed to the base. If they were lucky, Yuriko wouldn't get them for being late.
* * *
"You're ten minutes late," explained Heero, who raised an eyebrow. "What happened?" It was usualy for Duo to be late, but Nikki was also late, not to mention the fact that they showed up her together. He felt like he had missed out on something, but thought better of it.
"Leave them be Heero. I'll let them slide for the day." Yuriko looked at both Nikki and Duo. "I'm sure they have their reasons." Under her viels, she grinned, knowing the exact reason as to why they were late.
"Yes ma'am," said Duo, "we do." Yuriko nodded to him in understanding.
"Today's training isn't like a normal training. I want everyone to clean this base up top notch and no one is leaving till every inch of here is clean."
"What? That's injustice. What type of training is that?" demanded Wufei.
"My kind of training," responded Yuriko in a voice that clearly said 'argue with me and you die'. Wufei gulped and nodded his head. The six pilots each ran off to do their 'cleaning'. Yuriko just smiled and went to go work on her gundam. It was after all, a very good thing to have a clean base. She didn't want slobs for pilots.
* * *
Weeks and weeks of training had finally gone by. It had been a month and a half and Yuriko had decided that it was time. The g-boys had all completed their training, day in and day out of non stop work. Three times they had cleaned up the base, ten times their gundams. Then they had to plant a garden and jog through a forest for an entire day. Other times they fought with Nikki or they were taught new fighting skills. They also learned how to use knives, daggers and swords better than before. And the rest of the time they meditated.
Yuriko and Nikki examined the five boys, who stood in one straight line. Timmy and Daichi stood off to the side, and Noin, Une and Sally each sat at computers. Mariemaia sat in her wheelchair next to Yuriko.
"Finally, all five of you have completed your training. You're finally strong enough to beat me or Nikki as a team." Yuriko stood tall and proud of her 'students'. "I'm glad that all of you have worked this hard and not given up. The day has come when our mission will take place. For Lily, we must stop Koji. It's too bad that we haven't seen her since that day that Koji had decided to attack her. I know that she is safe though and will return soon. Now, I would like everyone to get into their positions and set off to attack OZ."
Each pilot nodded and everyone ran off to do their jobs. Duo and Nikki got into a mobile suit carrier with Timmy, and Heero and Trowa went with Daichi. Yuriko, Quatre and Wufei got in their gundams and flew off. Finally, the mission would take place. They trained long and hard for this, and they just couldn't believe that they day had finally arrived where Yuriko would let them go. For Lily, they had to get Koji back.
"Timmy, if you and Daichi have any problems getting in let me know," ordered Yuriko. "We'll head back and figure a new plan."
"Don't think so Yuri-chan," came Daichi's voice. "This would be the only good way to get in. If this fails then we fail. We will get in."
"I understand." Yuriko looked ahead and smiled. She knew that she could trust in all of them. They were the best fighters that she had ever worked with, all of them: Nikki, the g-boys and both Timmy and Daichi. She was very happy to have them all around. "Wufei, Quatre, heads up. Leos!"
"What?" Quatre appeared on Yuriko's screen. "Do you think that they were expecting us?" He doubted on it, but you could never be too sure.
"Iye. They couldn't have been." Wufei's picture appeared right next to Quatre's. "How would they know?"
"It doesn't matter if they were or weren't. We need to destroy them now," ordered Yuriko. So what if there Leo's, and so what if they had known. There was no point in worrying about it now.
"Hai." The two boys agreed.
"All right!" Yuriko pulled a few triggers in her gundam and it pulled the silence glaive off of it's back. "They better like the afterlife." She flew forward and sliced through three Leos. Sandrock pulled out it's two weapons and sliced through two other Leos. Nataku outstretched it's arm and busted through one Leo. On and on this continued, and always more Leos would be sent.
* * *
"Ok you guys," started Timmy, "we're in." He landed the mobile suit carrier on a platform and watched as Daichi landed behind him. "Ya'll are on your own now. Me and Daichi have to find Koji." He leapt out of the huge spacecraft and landed on the platform. "Good luck." The four pilots watched as the two soldiers ran off.
"Well, time to split ya guys," Duo said. "Me and Nikki go this way. We'll meet up when it's time to fight." Duo and Nikki ran one way, Heero another and Trowa the other way. It was their turn now, and they weren't going to let Lily or Yuriko down.They trained to long for that.
* * *
"What the heck?" shouted Yuriko. "They just don't seem to stop coming." One after another they kept showing up. No matter how many of them they destroyed, there was always more. The three pilots were getting tired and wanted to stop. They couldn't hold up much longer and their weapons were running out of power and amunition.
"YURIKO!!" Sandrock crashed into Fire Storm, sending it back so that it could take Fire Storm's hit.
"QUATRE!!" Yuriko, wanting to go help Quatre, was caught up by five other Leos. "Damn it." She turned to see two Leos holding onto Sandrock and eight trying to contain Nataku. Yuriko sighed and shut down her gundam. They were out on this one.
* * *
"Yo Nikki! I think this is the room." Duo and Nikki entered a mobile suit room to find it empty. "Where are all the Leos?" It was the Leo room. They could tell by all the suits around and the computers.
"Gone." The two pilots turned to find a soldier holding a gun at them. Both pilots looked at each other, sighed and slowly raised their hands. Five other pilots entered the room, smirking.
"Looks like you two have failed," a soldier said. "Throw them in the prisoner room." They were out on this one. They couldn't believe it though. How did they know that they were coming?
* * *
Heero stood at the computer facing ten other soldiers. To him, this just wasn't right. They were ready for him to arrive and had planted this trap for him, but how would they have known? They led him out of the room and threw him into another room, where he also found Nikki and Duo. After him they threw in Trowa.
"Great. Just great," exclaimed Nikki. "Now what? I sure hope that Yuri..." At that very moment, Yuriko, Quatre and Wufei were thrown into the room. "Cut that. Never mind. We're all doomed. Our only hope was also captured! Great! Why did you guys have to go and get caught as well?" But she stopped as she watched Yuriko.
"Yuriko!" Quatre caught Yuriko, as she collapsed and almost hit the ground. "Yuriko, are you alright? He beat you pretty bad."
"Hai. Daijoubu." But she wasn't. Blood was dripping everywhere. She was seriously wounded, and they had no way to stop the bleeding.
"Iye." Duo got up and ran over to them. He took Yuriko from Quatre and sat her on the ground. "Yuriko, don't try to do anything."
"Duo...I'm fine..." She looked up at him, into those bright cobalt eyes of his. He was so warm. She felt so warm against his body. She felt so safe.
"Iye. Stop lying to us." It was her nature though. Lying just came so easily. It was the only way that she could hide everything from them.
The door opened and Koji walked in, followed by Timmy and Daichi. Yuriko looked up.
"Timmy...Daichi..." They both kneeled next to her, quite concerned. They had failed as well, and now they had nothing to fall back on. The whole thing was a complete mess. They didn't know what to do anymore.
"Yuriko, are you okay?" Timmy asked her.
"Hai." She screamed when Koji grabbed her by the arm and threw her up against the wall. She was in enough pain as it was and now he was throwing her around everywhere.
"YURIKO!!" Duo got up and got ready to run towards her, but Koji pulled out a gun and pointed it at him. Duo just glared at him, and watched as Koji tuned back to Yuriko.
"Who are you?" He kneeled next to Yuriko and reached for her veil.
"Iye." Yuriko pulled away fast as best she could. "Stay away." She couldn't let them find out, any of them, about who she was, her identity. It just wasn't allowed.
He jumped on top of her and grabbed her veil. "I will find out who you are." Despite all her screaming and kicking, he pulled it off, and there laid a lavender haired girl with matching eyes. Gasps echoed throughout the room and Yuriko, or Lily, felt sick to her stomach. Koji stared wide eyed at her. "L...Lily?"
Tears filled her eyes and she looked at all the g-boys. They looked hurt and deceived. She had deceived them. The tears spilled and she turned away from all of them. Koji snorted and got off of her. Timmy ran over to his sister and hugged her. Daichi and all the g-boys stood there, mouths agape. Nikki got up and went to comfort Lily.
"The two of you knew?" Duo asked Timmy. "Who else knew?"
"Sally, Une, Noin, Queen Relena and Mariemaia," Nikki answered. "But she had good reason. You don't know the full story."
"Who cares about the whole story?" asked Duo, who was obviously hurt the most. "It's the fact that she didn't trust us enough to tell us." All the g- boys nodded and Lily just cried even harder. She hated this. She was going to lose all the friends she ever had, all because of one stupid secret that she should have told them.
"You STUPID BITCH!!" they heard Koji shout. He took his gun and shot Lily in the stomach.
"LILY!!" All five g-boys ran over to her. They had to help her even though she had decieved her. She might actually have good reasons. You never know. And even is she did decieve her, they couldn't help but care about her now. Nikki jumped up and kicked the gun out of Koji's hand.
"How dare you! After what you did to her, it's all your fault that she hates you so much. It would have been fine had you not of done what you did." It was true. Lily did love him and it would have worked out, but he ruined that. He destroyed the happiness that they once could have had.
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Koji. He did know, but he didn't care. All he knew was that he wanted Lily, more than anything.
"I do," Timmy spoke up. He looked up at Koji, their eyes burning into one another's. "I do."
"Iye..." Lily tossed and turned in the bed, poor Duo left only to watch her. There was no way he could help and so he felt helpless. Here his friend was having a nightmare, of what he didn't know, and yet all he could do was just stand there.
"Erik...no...not Koji...iye...IYE!!" Lily shot up out of the bed, landing hard on the ground. "Itai." Duo quickly ran over and looked at her.
"Lily-chan...are you alright?" Lily just sat there though, with her pain filled eyes staring straight at the ground. It hurt Duo to see her like this, but he just didn't know what to do.
"I'm scared of him...very scared." Lily buried her face in her hands and started to cry. Duo just hung his head and pulled her close, embracing her tightly and trying to comfort her.
"Daijoubu Lily-chan. I won't let anyone hurt you, I promise. Nothing will ever happen to you as long as I'm around." Lily clung tightly to his shirt and continued to cry. Duo rocked her back and forth, and hummed softly into her ear. Slowly, Lily's crying died and she was soon asleep in Duo's arms. He leaned against the bed and fell deep into sleep too.
* * *
"Domo Nikki," a voice said over the phone. It was Timmy. Nikki had obviously called Lily's brother just to let him know that Lily was alright. He had sounded worried at first, but now he sounded very much relieved.
"No prob Tim. Had to let ya know you're little sis was okay. Anyway, I should head back now. Ja." Nikki hung up the phone and stepped out of the small booth that she was in. "Time to go. Hope he got her to sleep. That Lily can be stubborn at times." She shook her head, slung a few bags over her shoulder, and headed back to Duo's apartment.
* * *
"I'm back," Nikki shouted, but quickly stopped when she saw the two on the floor sleeping. "Well...at least I know he got her sleep." She looked over at the clock. "Twelve." She pulled a blanket off of the bed and covered the two up. She thought that they looked so adorable and smiled.
Nikki walked out Duo's living room and laid down on his couch. "I have a feeling that those two won't be getting up anytime soon. Might as well get some sleep before I have to head to the base." Her eyes slowly closed and she was soon fast asleep.
* * *
"Nikki, wake up." The sound of Duo's voice broke her from her dream, causing her to roll off the couch and crash to the ground.
"Wah! What the heck? Duo, what's the big deal?" She got up and sat back down on the couch. She rubbed her sleep filled eyes and slowly looked at him. Everything was blurry, but slowly her vision cleared.
"We have to be at the base in less than half an hour."
"What?" Nikki's eyes widened and she looked over at the clock. Sure enough, it was already six fifteen. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier and where's Lily?" She was wide awake now.
"What are you talking about? I've been trying to wake you up since five thirty. Lily was gone this morning when I woke up." He handed her a glass of water. "You should get dressed. I doubt that Yuriko would want us to be late."
"Hai." Nikki took the glass of water and gulped it down. Then she took her few bags and went into Duo's bathroom to get ready. Ten minutes later the two pilots were ready and headed to the base. If they were lucky, Yuriko wouldn't get them for being late.
* * *
"You're ten minutes late," explained Heero, who raised an eyebrow. "What happened?" It was usualy for Duo to be late, but Nikki was also late, not to mention the fact that they showed up her together. He felt like he had missed out on something, but thought better of it.
"Leave them be Heero. I'll let them slide for the day." Yuriko looked at both Nikki and Duo. "I'm sure they have their reasons." Under her viels, she grinned, knowing the exact reason as to why they were late.
"Yes ma'am," said Duo, "we do." Yuriko nodded to him in understanding.
"Today's training isn't like a normal training. I want everyone to clean this base up top notch and no one is leaving till every inch of here is clean."
"What? That's injustice. What type of training is that?" demanded Wufei.
"My kind of training," responded Yuriko in a voice that clearly said 'argue with me and you die'. Wufei gulped and nodded his head. The six pilots each ran off to do their 'cleaning'. Yuriko just smiled and went to go work on her gundam. It was after all, a very good thing to have a clean base. She didn't want slobs for pilots.
* * *
Weeks and weeks of training had finally gone by. It had been a month and a half and Yuriko had decided that it was time. The g-boys had all completed their training, day in and day out of non stop work. Three times they had cleaned up the base, ten times their gundams. Then they had to plant a garden and jog through a forest for an entire day. Other times they fought with Nikki or they were taught new fighting skills. They also learned how to use knives, daggers and swords better than before. And the rest of the time they meditated.
Yuriko and Nikki examined the five boys, who stood in one straight line. Timmy and Daichi stood off to the side, and Noin, Une and Sally each sat at computers. Mariemaia sat in her wheelchair next to Yuriko.
"Finally, all five of you have completed your training. You're finally strong enough to beat me or Nikki as a team." Yuriko stood tall and proud of her 'students'. "I'm glad that all of you have worked this hard and not given up. The day has come when our mission will take place. For Lily, we must stop Koji. It's too bad that we haven't seen her since that day that Koji had decided to attack her. I know that she is safe though and will return soon. Now, I would like everyone to get into their positions and set off to attack OZ."
Each pilot nodded and everyone ran off to do their jobs. Duo and Nikki got into a mobile suit carrier with Timmy, and Heero and Trowa went with Daichi. Yuriko, Quatre and Wufei got in their gundams and flew off. Finally, the mission would take place. They trained long and hard for this, and they just couldn't believe that they day had finally arrived where Yuriko would let them go. For Lily, they had to get Koji back.
"Timmy, if you and Daichi have any problems getting in let me know," ordered Yuriko. "We'll head back and figure a new plan."
"Don't think so Yuri-chan," came Daichi's voice. "This would be the only good way to get in. If this fails then we fail. We will get in."
"I understand." Yuriko looked ahead and smiled. She knew that she could trust in all of them. They were the best fighters that she had ever worked with, all of them: Nikki, the g-boys and both Timmy and Daichi. She was very happy to have them all around. "Wufei, Quatre, heads up. Leos!"
"What?" Quatre appeared on Yuriko's screen. "Do you think that they were expecting us?" He doubted on it, but you could never be too sure.
"Iye. They couldn't have been." Wufei's picture appeared right next to Quatre's. "How would they know?"
"It doesn't matter if they were or weren't. We need to destroy them now," ordered Yuriko. So what if there Leo's, and so what if they had known. There was no point in worrying about it now.
"Hai." The two boys agreed.
"All right!" Yuriko pulled a few triggers in her gundam and it pulled the silence glaive off of it's back. "They better like the afterlife." She flew forward and sliced through three Leos. Sandrock pulled out it's two weapons and sliced through two other Leos. Nataku outstretched it's arm and busted through one Leo. On and on this continued, and always more Leos would be sent.
* * *
"Ok you guys," started Timmy, "we're in." He landed the mobile suit carrier on a platform and watched as Daichi landed behind him. "Ya'll are on your own now. Me and Daichi have to find Koji." He leapt out of the huge spacecraft and landed on the platform. "Good luck." The four pilots watched as the two soldiers ran off.
"Well, time to split ya guys," Duo said. "Me and Nikki go this way. We'll meet up when it's time to fight." Duo and Nikki ran one way, Heero another and Trowa the other way. It was their turn now, and they weren't going to let Lily or Yuriko down.They trained to long for that.
* * *
"What the heck?" shouted Yuriko. "They just don't seem to stop coming." One after another they kept showing up. No matter how many of them they destroyed, there was always more. The three pilots were getting tired and wanted to stop. They couldn't hold up much longer and their weapons were running out of power and amunition.
"YURIKO!!" Sandrock crashed into Fire Storm, sending it back so that it could take Fire Storm's hit.
"QUATRE!!" Yuriko, wanting to go help Quatre, was caught up by five other Leos. "Damn it." She turned to see two Leos holding onto Sandrock and eight trying to contain Nataku. Yuriko sighed and shut down her gundam. They were out on this one.
* * *
"Yo Nikki! I think this is the room." Duo and Nikki entered a mobile suit room to find it empty. "Where are all the Leos?" It was the Leo room. They could tell by all the suits around and the computers.
"Gone." The two pilots turned to find a soldier holding a gun at them. Both pilots looked at each other, sighed and slowly raised their hands. Five other pilots entered the room, smirking.
"Looks like you two have failed," a soldier said. "Throw them in the prisoner room." They were out on this one. They couldn't believe it though. How did they know that they were coming?
* * *
Heero stood at the computer facing ten other soldiers. To him, this just wasn't right. They were ready for him to arrive and had planted this trap for him, but how would they have known? They led him out of the room and threw him into another room, where he also found Nikki and Duo. After him they threw in Trowa.
"Great. Just great," exclaimed Nikki. "Now what? I sure hope that Yuri..." At that very moment, Yuriko, Quatre and Wufei were thrown into the room. "Cut that. Never mind. We're all doomed. Our only hope was also captured! Great! Why did you guys have to go and get caught as well?" But she stopped as she watched Yuriko.
"Yuriko!" Quatre caught Yuriko, as she collapsed and almost hit the ground. "Yuriko, are you alright? He beat you pretty bad."
"Hai. Daijoubu." But she wasn't. Blood was dripping everywhere. She was seriously wounded, and they had no way to stop the bleeding.
"Iye." Duo got up and ran over to them. He took Yuriko from Quatre and sat her on the ground. "Yuriko, don't try to do anything."
"Duo...I'm fine..." She looked up at him, into those bright cobalt eyes of his. He was so warm. She felt so warm against his body. She felt so safe.
"Iye. Stop lying to us." It was her nature though. Lying just came so easily. It was the only way that she could hide everything from them.
The door opened and Koji walked in, followed by Timmy and Daichi. Yuriko looked up.
"Timmy...Daichi..." They both kneeled next to her, quite concerned. They had failed as well, and now they had nothing to fall back on. The whole thing was a complete mess. They didn't know what to do anymore.
"Yuriko, are you okay?" Timmy asked her.
"Hai." She screamed when Koji grabbed her by the arm and threw her up against the wall. She was in enough pain as it was and now he was throwing her around everywhere.
"YURIKO!!" Duo got up and got ready to run towards her, but Koji pulled out a gun and pointed it at him. Duo just glared at him, and watched as Koji tuned back to Yuriko.
"Who are you?" He kneeled next to Yuriko and reached for her veil.
"Iye." Yuriko pulled away fast as best she could. "Stay away." She couldn't let them find out, any of them, about who she was, her identity. It just wasn't allowed.
He jumped on top of her and grabbed her veil. "I will find out who you are." Despite all her screaming and kicking, he pulled it off, and there laid a lavender haired girl with matching eyes. Gasps echoed throughout the room and Yuriko, or Lily, felt sick to her stomach. Koji stared wide eyed at her. "L...Lily?"
Tears filled her eyes and she looked at all the g-boys. They looked hurt and deceived. She had deceived them. The tears spilled and she turned away from all of them. Koji snorted and got off of her. Timmy ran over to his sister and hugged her. Daichi and all the g-boys stood there, mouths agape. Nikki got up and went to comfort Lily.
"The two of you knew?" Duo asked Timmy. "Who else knew?"
"Sally, Une, Noin, Queen Relena and Mariemaia," Nikki answered. "But she had good reason. You don't know the full story."
"Who cares about the whole story?" asked Duo, who was obviously hurt the most. "It's the fact that she didn't trust us enough to tell us." All the g- boys nodded and Lily just cried even harder. She hated this. She was going to lose all the friends she ever had, all because of one stupid secret that she should have told them.
"You STUPID BITCH!!" they heard Koji shout. He took his gun and shot Lily in the stomach.
"LILY!!" All five g-boys ran over to her. They had to help her even though she had decieved her. She might actually have good reasons. You never know. And even is she did decieve her, they couldn't help but care about her now. Nikki jumped up and kicked the gun out of Koji's hand.
"How dare you! After what you did to her, it's all your fault that she hates you so much. It would have been fine had you not of done what you did." It was true. Lily did love him and it would have worked out, but he ruined that. He destroyed the happiness that they once could have had.
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Koji. He did know, but he didn't care. All he knew was that he wanted Lily, more than anything.
"I do," Timmy spoke up. He looked up at Koji, their eyes burning into one another's. "I do."