Chapter 21 - Relena Attacks

Once the message was received, the teen pilots rushed back to head quarters to get changed and board their gundams.

They rush towards the enemy colony as fast as they could, fearing the worst. They were a little worried. Especially Ashley. She feared that the zero system would take her captive again.

The huge mechas piled onto the colony one by one.

"Okay. We split up and look for Relena and the senator." Heero commanded as the cockpit of wing zero opened up.

"Contact us when you they are found." Wu-fei said as he jumped out of his mecha after Heero.

"Yah yah sure sure." Steph said and waved her hand.

The ship shook and they all struggled to keep standing.

"They're moving into the Saturn region. There are asteroids to watch it."

Ashley, Kim and Steph put on their helmets and jumped down from the cockpits of their gundams.

Duo, Heero and Wu-fei went to the north wing towards the control center. Trowa and Quatre went to the West wing. Sally and Steph went the south rout. Kim and Ashley looked at each other and sighed.

"I guess we're taking the east wing." Kim said. Ashley nodded and the two girls ran off.

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"I see you..." A weak, familiar smile full of vengeance crossed a woman's face.

"Sound out the troops. Split up evenly and corner them . Bring them to me!!!" the woman commanded.

Kim and Ashley quietly scouted the area. Then, soldiers filed out of the elevator and down the stairs towards them. Kim and Ashley were surrounded by the armed guards.

Ashley stood in from of Kim and pointed to a wooden crate to their left. Kim nodded and slowly backed up and slipped behind it.

"Come with us peacefully and we'll spare you life." a soldier smirked and held his gun in her direction.
Ashley smiled evilly. "You want me??? You're gonna have to catch me." With that she quickly jumped up and disappeared into the vents. The guards shot relentlessly at the vents. Kim watched with terror filled eyes.
"Ashley..." she muttered.

Ashley's head hung down from the elevator and smiled. She signaled for Kim to keep quiet. She laughed at the trigger happy guards who were still shooting the vents. She jumped down and tossed a grenade with her left hand and caught.

"Hey guys."

The guards turned around to see the weapon.

"You lose." she simply said and pulled back her arm. She pulled the pin and threw it hard at the soldiers. It tinked across the floor until it stopped next to one of the soldier's feet. He frowned and looked up at Ashley who was waving sarcastically.
"Bye bye." she said with a grin as the bomb exploded. Blood flew everywhere and body parts were engulfed in flames. Ashley ran over to the crate and saw Kim crouched back against the wall with her hands over her ears. Ashley laid a bloody hand on her sholder.

"Hey, ut's ok." she said.

Kim's eyes slowly opened as she looked up at Ashley. Her hands lowered and she frowned when she saw blood splattered all over her suit. It was not Ashley's but the guard's. It still made Kim uneasy.

Ashley helped her up and Kim seemed to sigh in relief.

Ashley's eyes widened when she saw three guards sneak up behind Kim and push her to the ground. Another guard grabbed Ashley and held his gun up to her shoulder. He pulled the trigger and the girls stopped struggling. She fell back to the ground as she watched a guard drag Kim off. Her vision blurred as she stood up quickly and came face to face with a solder. She glared at him and spit in his face. Then, she blacked out when another smacker\d her over the head with the butt of the gun.

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Ashley stirred and her eyes flicked open. She soon realized that she was chained up with large, iron chains. She tried to free herself.

"It's useless." Kim said and Ashley reluctantly gave up.

Just then, the door swung open and a woman's figure was the only thing they could see standing in the door way.

"Merry Christmas." she said in a threatening voice.

"Relena!!!!" Ashley shouted.

"Yes!!! And you, Ashley, are in the wrong position to start pissing me off." she walked up to Ashley and ran her fingeres through her black hair. " I only wanted Kim." she said evilly.
" Such pretty hair. Shut up if you want to keep it.' she finished and raised her hand to hit Ashley.

"Don't touch her." Kim said.

"What???!!!!"

"You heard me. Don't tough her you bitch!!!" Kim shouted a second time.

Relena's hand came down hard on Kim's left cheek.

"Keep your mouth shut you slut." Relena smirked.

"No wonder why Heero hates you." Kim said in a low voice.

"NO!!! He don't! Yo made him think that!!!' Relena yelled.

"No Relena, You accomplished that one on your own.' Kim said in a voice filled with hatred.

"That's it! I have the power here!!!!"

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Sally and Steph heard the shrill screams of Kim as she and Ashley were dragged off.

"Hey! That's Kim and Ashley!!" Steph pointed out.

"I wonder where they are taking them' Sally asked herself. The two girls ran in the direction the guards went. The girls were armed with guns, smoke and gas bombs.

"Please be ok." Steph said in her mind as she ran down the dark hall.

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Kim screamed as Relena hit her again and again. With every strike, Kim held back the tears. Ashley watched her friend helplessly being beaten. Relena stopped a few minutes later that seemed like eternity to the captured girls. Kim's face was welted and her body fell limp. Blood slowly escaped from various cuts. Ashley looked away in despair and silence fell upon the room. Kim's eyes closed and she soon rested motionless in the dark, quiet room.

Relena straightened up and fixed her hair. "Now, you see??? This is what happens when you talk back." she said and kneed Kim in the stomach before sending a satisfied smiled at the girls. She walked of and that was that. Ashley's eyes looked to her friend.

"Kim...?" she waited for a response before calling out again."Kim...!!!"

"Uh...Wha???" Kim said as her eyes flicked open and looked up at Ashley.

"Don't worry. I'm not dead."

"Ashley smiled in relief. "Thank god for that. Heero would have shot me."

"No, there was nothing you could do." Kim said and smiled weakly.

Ashley sighed and her eyes fell upon her wounded shoulder. She frowned as she watched the blood that still poured from it. She was bleeding pretty bad. Her entire arm was covered with it and there was a small spot on the floor. The strain on her arms made things worse.

"Come in...04 come in." Duo's voice came over Ashley's walki talkie.

"We have found the senator. Relena is no where to be found and we have to depart. Meet at the hangers in 10." Then the message crackled out.

"Oh! Damn it!!!" They're going to leave without us!!!!!!" Ashley bellowed and struggled frantically with the iron chains that bore into her wrists. She sighed and relaxed.
"They can't leave." she said.

"We're gonna die down here!!!" Ashley yelled.
"My teddy bear collection! I never got to name them all yet," Ashley pouted.

Kim was about to open her mouth to say something but was distracted when the cell door swung open. Ashley and Kim's eyes lit up when Sally and Steph ran in, a ring of keys in hand. They freed them from the chain, tossed Ashley a gun and helped Kim to her feet. Two guards lay on the ground, gassed.

The boys waited for the girls patiently I their gundams. When they rounded the corner to the mobile suit hangers, Heero frowned.

"Miss us??????" Ashley asked Duo in a smart ass tone.

"What happened to you???? You took long enough." Duo said and crossed his arms.

They boarded their gundams and prepared to depart. Heero made Kim get in with him because she was too beat up to pilot.


"Why do we have to leave so soon??" Ashley asked.

"We're leaving a little surprise for them." Duo said.

"Party Poopers." Ashley pouted.

Duo and Trowa laughed as the door opened and the stars were once again visible.

The colony was far behind them when Wing Zero and Death Scythe stopped and glanced back at the colony.

"Hey, what's..." Steph was cut off when the colony began to rumble and erupted in red flames as it exploded. Ashley stared wide eyed at where the colony once stood.

"That's my kind of man." Ashley said.

"Good job Duo. " Heero commented.

"Where's the senator?????" Steph asked.

"We sent him back to earth in a ship. He should be arriving soon." Quatre said smiling.

Steph smiled and nodded.

Trowa's face showed up on the monitors of all the gundams.

"What happened to Miss Relena." he asked. "She wasn't there."

Ashley's image replaced all the others. She leaned into the monitor with an angry expression.

"Damn right she was there.? I hope the bitch blew up! She snapped!!!!! She's not so timid now."

"What??" Duo asked surprised. "But Relena is a pacifist! She don't fight." Duo protested.

"Well, she sure did a good job on Kim." Ashley pointed out and crossed her arms.

Heero looked to Kim who was not passed out in her chair. He sized her up and noticed for the first time the cuts and bruises that had began to for on her face. He frowned and regretted not going with her.

"She's right Duo. Kim's pretty messed up."

"Ok." Duo sighed and accepted defeat.

"We're going back to colony X34566.

"Roger..." Quatre said as he joined they others. They all followed behind Wing Zero and headed back to headquarters.