Hey! That review hurt. (Is speaking of the review on chapter five) :: does Duo's pout face:: ok; anyway I do want to explain: the pilots are traveling to earth, therefore their cover, the jackets, do not need to involve the colonies. They are posing as a moving company from earth. Does that make sense to you? (Besides, 'The best in the galaxy' or 'The Best in the Universe' might be taken already.)

Legato with vengeance

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AC 220

Eight: Ruination

The sirens wailed as Mack and Seiko rushed down the hall, each off them carrying a machine gun they had stolen from some guards that had been positioned outside of their cell's hallway.

Approaching an intersecting hallway, Seiko pressed himself flat against the wall pulling Mack into the same position as more soldiers rushed by, not looking down the corridor that they were hiding in. Waiting a second, Mack rushed across the hallway, Seiko right behind him, both of them stopping at a small armored door.

Thanking his captor's stupidity at not knocking them out or blindfolding them when they when taken to their cell, Seiko set a small explosive in the keyhole to the door. That door would lead them to the MS bay where they last saw their mutilated Gundams.

"Yes!" Mack quietly hissed out as the explosive silently destroyed the lock, Seiko only smirked kicking open the door, both of their guns poised to takedown whom ever blocked their path. No one, however, was guarding the dock, all of the soldiers searching for the escaped prisoners elsewhere.

"Damn they moved them," Seiko cursed, looking around the bay, hopping to find a door large enough to fit the Gundams through, only one presenting itself. Meeting Mack's eyes, they ran to the door. Finding it unlocked; they let themselves in.

"They're here," Mack commented, throwing the cover off his Gundam, hopping into the cockpit, finding it in restored condition. "Good, they wiped off the blood," Mack subconsciously touched his wrist, the red spot on it's bandage growing.

"Come on," Seiko's voice resounded on the intercom, his Gundam slashing through the door.

"I hear," Mack replied, standing his Gundam up and picking the Buster Rifle up off the floor where the work crews evidently left it when the warning went out.

Soon Seiko was running along the sea side dock trying to find a carrier port on the seemingly desolate base. "Seiko wait up, my Gundam has a flight mode," Mack shouted try to get Seiko's one track mind focused on getting out of there instead of whatever he was looking for.

"I know that, but there's not enough fuel," Seiko warned, "just look at the gage."

Looking down at the fuel gage realizing that Seiko had been right about the amount of fuel left, Mack asked, "How… how the heck do you know that?"

"Mine's low too," was all Seiko said as he kneeled down opening the door to his Gundam and running over to a shuttle that was sitting outside a hangar by the fueling station. "Get in."

Realizing what Seiko had in mind, Mack laid his Gundam down inside, as Seiko did the same, closing the hatch behind them, just before machine gun fire erupted from outside. "Sit down, I'm flying!" Mack ordered as Seiko ran into the pilot house just before Mack put the engines to full afterburner thrust, taking off down a field that the carrier had been facing before they got in.

***

"Good evening Mr. Winner," Seiko and Mack chorused out of habit when they were escorted into Quatre's dinning room where he, Kat and Sally sat at dinner.

"Oh my… you es… escaped, so soon?" Quatre turned around from his dinner to look at the two people behind him.

"Yes, Mr. Winner, sir," Seiko and Mack chorused an answer, taking seats after Quatre requested they sit down.

"So how did you escape from that prison?" Kat asked picking at a bowl of rice that she had put down when Seiko and Mack showed up.

"Well," Mack began his speech, eventually landing on each detail of their escape.

"Where's Ariel and Meiran?" Seiko cut off anyone that might have had a question about their story.

"They… well…" Quatre stammered out, looking at the floor, "I sent them out on a reconnaissance mission to a colony in the L6 cluster. Two days later communication broke off, and… later we found out that the colony imploded, there were no survivors. However the day before it… before it happened they sent us a last transmission. Scorpio has infiltrated the UESN and intends to stage a hostile take over within the next year," Quatre wiping the tears from his eyes. "I have informed the UESN through an anonymous source. They plan to find the perpetrators soon, I hope."

To be continued…