Even The Strong Must Cry
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AN: Hopefully, FanFiction.net is fixed for good, or at least awhile. I am really dissappointed in the lack of response I'm getting with this fic. I know that, right now it's because fanfiction.net isn't letting readers review, and I understand this, but my reviews have been decreasing over time. I don't know whether it's because the readers don't like where it's going, or what. But if you don't like where it's going you have to review and let me know! I don't read minds, I can't tell why you do/don't like this. So, PLEASE read and review! Thank you.
Last Time (Chapter Seven):
"Hey, move it or lose it pal!" Kaiya said. Sally looked up and started laughing.
"Watch what you say kid. I could beat you any day." Sally said smiling.
"Hey what happened to the M'lady stuff?" Kaiya said, not noticing the pilots surprised stares. Sally just shrugged and walked the rest of the way down the steps. Kaiya followed her still laughing. She stopped mid laugh when she saw the look the others were giving her. "Um, hi guys."
Chapter Eight: The Unforseen Enemy
"Kaiya?" Angela asked, squinting her eyes, trying to asertain if it was really the girl she thought it was standing in front of her.
"Yea…it's me." She said sheepishly.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Quatre asked concerned. Kaiya rolled her eyes.
"Please, you think that a little bullet is going to stop me from welcoming my gundam, or my friend when she gets here? No way. Besides, the fact that I allowed that spoiled bitch to shoot me, means that I'm rusty and I really need to train."
"But, you'll just injure yourself further." Trowa said quietly. Kaiya shook her head.
"Nah, I've had worse when grandfather was training me. Besides I passed Sally's poke test with flyinig colors."
"Didn't even blink." Sally agreed. Duo shook his head.
"Well, then damn, you could have just come with us in the first place." Kaiya laughed,
"No, Sally needed someone who she could trust to fly the other craft. Couldn't have some lowly soldier knowing the location of all seven gundams now could we?" She said smiling.
"Who's coming?" Heero asked, speaking for the first time. Kaiya set her eyes on him and stared. Her eyes narrowed and she glared at him for all she was worth.
"What the hell are you talking about Yuy?" Heero inwardly winced at the name she called him.
"You said that you wouldn't miss greeting your gundam and your friend when she gets here, who is she?"
"Envious?" Kaiya asked, sarcastically.
"Of what," Heero ground out. "I just think it would be best for us to know the history of anyone you invite here. We wouldn't want a traitor in our midst now would we?" Kaiya looked over to Angela who was laughing so hard that she had tears leaking out of her eyes. Kaiya met her glance and smiled.
"Are you talking about Lily?" Angela finally managed to gasp out. Kaiya just smirked. Angela burst out in more peels of laughter. "Heero, trust me, Lily is the last…friend you would need be concerned of."
"Hey, let's get these gundams unloaded, I'm starved." Duo said smiling. Everyone nodded glad for the intermission of Heero and Kaiya's latest 'episode'.
"Where am I staying? I wanna unpack." Kaiya said.
"I'll take her." Angela said, still trying to control her laughter. Kaiya nodded and followed Angela to the hidden door. Kaiya pressed the right spot and the door opened. Angela looked at her shocked. "How did you know where that was?"
"I could see, it. Besides, we're in a room with no doors, how do you think you would get out?"
"How could you see it?" Angela asked amazed.
"You see this slight discoloration here? Well that showed me that there was a door, or something there. The different color goes all around the outline of the door. When a door like this is used a lot, the color fades on the door itself because of the way it slides into the top. Grandfather had doors like this in his lab."
"Wow." Angela said, impressed.
"Oh, plus Sally told me on our way here." Kaiya said smiling.
"Hey!" Angela laughed, smacking the girl playfully on the shoulder. Kaiya shrugged.
"The first part was true."
"Yea, I bet. Come on our room is over here. We have to share with the boys, but I told Howard that we don't mind."
"No, we don't. It makes sense to have all of us in the same room anyway. I just wonder what the others are going to think when Lily and Midnight get here. I doubt that Heero will be all that happy with us." Kaiya said walking into the room that Angela indicated. Angela shrugged.
"I don't know and I don't give a shit. As long as no one hurts my baby I don't care. But I swear to you, that if one of them tries to lay a hand on Midnight, they can kiss their assess goodbye!" Angela nearly shouted. Kaiya laughed.
"Okay, okay, I get the picture. No need to scream." Angela blushed and bowed her head,
"Sorry."
"No prob. Don't even worry about it. Now I assume that you took the top bunk?" Kaiya asked.
"Yea, hope you don't mind."
"Nah, I like the bottom bed better anyway." Kaiya said nonchalantly.
"Okay, well hurry up and unpack, I'm starved as I'm sure the rest of them are." Angela said quite impatiently.
"Alright already, keep your pants on." Kaiya growled at her friend. She hurriedly finished putting all of her clothes and such in the drawers or closet space that was hers and turned to Angela who was standing with her arms crossed and was currently taping her foot with irritation. Kaiya rolled her eyes. "You might want to go find a belt because you're losing your pants right now."
"Very funny, now come on, I'm sure they're already eating without us!" Angela said grabbing Kaiya and dragging her out of the room. They made their way to the room that was labeled 'dining room' and Angela opened the door. All the pilots sat around the table anxiosly awaiting food. "Where's the food?" Angela asked while still dragging Kaiya into the room.
"I think you can let me go now!" Kaiya said laughing. Angela blushed and let her go.
"Howards making it now." Quatre answered Angela's previous question. They nodded and sat down at the table. Angela sat next to Wufei and Kaiya sat next to her. Which unfortunately for her was across from Heero. The room was silent. The only sound heard was the occasional rumbling stomach.
"I wish he would hurry. I'm dying!" Duo whined.
"Would you like some cheese?" Kaiya said smiling. Duo nodded vigoriously.
"Yea, where where?" He said looking around for the cheese. Everyone else laughed or chuckled at him.
"She was insulting you baka." Wufei said shaking his head. Duo furrowed his eyebrows in confusion but before he could respond the door that led to the kitchen opened and Howard emerged with a cart that was stock piled with food. The group began to drool as the food was laid out on the table. They waited only until Howard at set all of the dishes down before filling their plates at an inhuman speed.
The entire meal and dessert was devoured in record time.
"Man, that really hit the spot." Duo said patting his now bloated stomach. Everyone else nodded in agreement and made similar gestures. "Well, I'm exhausted. I'm going to hit the sack."
"Good idea." Quatre said standing up and stretching.
"Yea, we have to get up early for training tomorrow." Angela said yawning.
"Hey what's the schedule going to be like while we're here?" Kaiya asked looking around.
"Well, I'll answer that. First…" Howard was cut off mid sentence by Angela's shout.
"No!" He looked around and saw all the other pilots with the exception of Heero who was glaring at Kaiya and Kaiya who looked confused, with analogous expressions on their face. "I mean, I can give her the run down tonight. Quickly. In less than five hours."
"Um, yea. I'm going now." Duo said moving towards the door.
"Yes, I am tired." Quatre said giving an exaggerated yawn and moving after Duo.
Trowa and Wufei just stood and followed the first two out the door. Angela pulled Kaiya out, who was still sputtering confused, and Heero followed the girls still glaring at Kaiya.
"Well, I never…" Howard sunk down in his chair and pouted, sticking his lower lip out and crossing his arms.
~~~***~~~
The next few days were uneventful. Training continued, although the two females decided that they were going to do their own training and locked themselves in a separate training facility with the strict orders not to enter unless their gundams had arrived. That day came almost a week after they first arrived at the compound.
A knock interrupted the girls mid-fight. They were currently working on their hand to hand skills since their gundams hadn't arrived yet. Their VR systems were in their gundams so that left mobile suit training out of the question.
"I guess they're here." Kaiya said in response to the knock at the door.
"Either that or someone is going to get their ass kicked." Angela said with a smirk. Kaiya laughed and walked over to the door. She opened it and saw Duo standing at the entrance. Angela walked up behind Kaiya and glared at Duo. "Well?"
"They're here." Duo gulped. "Well they will be in about an hour. You said that you wanted to know the minute that they would be here, and Quatre thought that it would be nice to give you a warning in case you wanted to freshen up for your friend…" Duo's rambling was stopped with Kaiya's finger.
"Okay, okay. We get the picture. We're on our way." A laughing Kaiya said removing her finger from his lips. Duo nodded and turned making his way to the large docking bay where the other pilots were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the girls gundams, each for a different reason. Angela and Kaiya emerged from the hidden hallway a few minutes later each with a towel draped across their shoulders and a water bottle in their hands.
"That's fresh?" Duo asked raising an eyebrow at their attire. They were still in their training clothes, and sweaty. They shrugged.
"Our friends won't mind." Angela said.
"Wait. You have one too?" Wufei asked. Angela nodded.
"Yup." He just shook his head,
"Anything else you would like to tell us?"
"Nope." Angela said. Kaiya rolled her eyes.
"I miss her. I can't wait to see how much she's grown." Kaiya said to Angela. She meant it to be heard by Angela only, but Heero overheard her.
"I thought she was dead." He whispered coldly. Kaiya turned to glare at him.
"Different Lily." She hissed. Angela crossed her arms and glared at him.
"You know, you might want to go talk to Sally before she leaves." Heero didn't answer, but just looked at her questioningly. "Yea, she might be able to help you remove that giant stick from your ass."
"Bitch." Heero hissed at her before stalking off to stand next to Wufei who was looking at the group curiously.
"What did you say to her?" he asked.
"Who?"
"Kaiya. She looks like someone just told her that her dog was run over by a mack truck." Wufei said. Heero turned to look at her and sure enough, she looked sad enough to cry. Or was that anger that he saw? He didn't know but didn't like it. He didn't mean to sound so cold when he said that. ~Wait…what am I thinking? I did want to sound that cold. I have to keep her away from me. No attachments.~ he told himself over and over and over. He kept repeating that phrase until it became like a mantra to him.
He was only awakened from his little pep talk by the sounds of a large craft's landing thrusters. He heard the sound of the landing gear opening and operating. Oh how he loved the sound of a good mecha.
"They're here. And early too." Quatre said pointing to the landing plane. Angela and Kaiya both raced over as close as they dared to where the ship would be landing. They were both anxious to greet their friends.
The plane landed smoothly on the pad indicated with paint. The top hatch of the building slowly slid closed after the plane descended. The plane's back hatch opened with a hiss, and it slowly slid to the ground. Two large beasts raced out of the back and ran to where the girls were standing.
"Lily!"
"Midnight!" The two girls screamed at the same time. Lily raced over to Kaiya and jumped on her, licking her face with her giant pink tongue. Angela was receiving the same treatment from Midnight. The boys had pulled their guns out when they saw the two wild cats jump from the plane, but now all were frozen in shock, their guns still held out in front of them.
"What the hell? Your friends are wild animals?" Duo burst out. The girls looked up at the sound of Duo's voice. They began to laugh when they saw the guys expressions. Even Heero's cold mask had slid off and the shock was quite evident on his face.
"Yea, this is my Siberian tiger, Lily. And that is Angela's Black Panther Midnight. Oh, just a warning they are very protective of us, as we are of them." Kaiya finished with a smile. Angela had stood up, Midnight standing loyally at her side.
"Silence." She whispered looking at her gundam which had just been unloaded. It was slightly shorter than the other gundams and looked as if it were lighter as well. The suit was obviously outer space compatible as well as air compatible. There was a large set of folded wings on the back of the gundam. The gundam's overall color was blue. However, the wings were black as well as the chest armor. The arm and leg armor was green, almost aqua in color depending on the light.
"Wow." Kaiya said, in awe of the giant mecha in front of her. The other pilots were also surprised at the beauty of it.
"There's a machine gun in the left arm. Much like HeavyArms. There is a buster rifle also that attaches to the back of the suit, then to the right arm when it reaches back. There's a hidden beam saber in the left leg compartment. The saber can also fire the energy pulses, and convert into a scythe like shape.
Then there are the advancements, of course. I couldn't have mine lacking in any department. The left hand retracts to become a flame thrower and the right hand retracts to become an ice thrower. Grandfather and I experimented and came up with a new chemical mix that allows us to basically freeze things on contact of the substance."
"What about the pack for the flame thrower?" Wufei asked awed at the mecha.
"Yea, we also discovered a way to use the energy not used during battle and convert it to heat energy. That way nothing is wasted. It's basically recycled energy."
"That's amazing, Angela." Kaiya whispered.
"It's not that great." Heero grumbled.
"Your just jealous." Kaiya said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Well, where's your gundam then?" Heero asked. Kaiya pointed to the gundam that had just been unloaded and was standing next to Silence.
"Boys, and Angela may I present Washi. My eagle." Kaiya said smiling proudly.
Her gundam was about the same height and weight as Angela's. Her suit was also compatible to outer space and the air. Instead of black wings, she had large white wings that looked like they belonged to an angel. Each individual feather in the wing was in actuality a blade that could be shot out and returned to its original place. Her gundam's main colors were blue, aqua, white and silver. The wings and chest were white. The legs and arms were aqua, with blue and silver armor pieces. On the chest was a round armor piece that looked like the other pilots'. There was a Japanese symbol painted in silver on the blue armor piece.
"What does that mean?" Duo asked referring to the symbol.
"Forgiveness is the top symbol and behind it is the symbol for eagle." Kaiya answered.
"What of your weapons?" Wufei asked generally curious.
"Two thermal sabers, one in each arm. There are two machine guns in the shoulders. The wings in themselves are weapons, as I'm sure you noticed. Like Angela's my gundam can also shoot the freezing compound, I however do not have the flame thrower. I use any extra energy to power the thermal chain that I have hidden in the left leg. It's like the thermal sabers only a bunch of them linked together in a chain. It's not something that I fall back on, thus I only hooked it up to use the extra energy, so it is there and does come in handy.
"There is a buster canon, but I really do not like using it. It also attaches to the back and then the arm as Angela's does, but I only use it as a last ditch effort."
"That's amazing. How come our gundams aren't that cool?" Duo whined.
"Because you two have first generation gundam models. We have second generation. The second is almost always better than the first." Angela answered him.
"Do you both have the zero system?" Trowa asked.
"I do. I don't know about Angela." Kaiya answered.
"I do, but I've never used it in battle. I would rather use my own mind and abilities than to cheat in battle like that." Angela answered. Wufei nodded in agreement.
"I have it as well as Heero, but none of the other gundams are equipped with it." Quatre said.
"Well, let's get back to training then." Kaiya said.
"Yea, we'll take Lily and Midnight to our room, then we can start the VR training." Angela said walking towards the door. Kaiya followed, as did the two cats.
"Wow, can you believe that?" Duo asked his eyes following the girls on their way out.
"Believe what Maxwell?" Wufei asked.
"That they have two wild cats, and two kick ass gundams. Maybe I should have waited to be second generation." Duo said wistfully.
"Yes, but then you wouldn't get to pilot Deathsycthe and be the god of death now could you?" Quatre said.
"True…" Duo said.
"And look, their gundams are smaller." Quatre said.
"Yes, but they are guaranteed to be much faster than ours." Heero said speaking for the first time.
"Hey! He's alive!" Duo said looking over at the boy who had remained silent.
"What do you mean Heero?" Quatre asked. Heero walked over to Washi and touched it.
"Just like I thought. The doctors found another way to heat the gundanium. They are lighter and make for a quicker mobile suit. Kaiya is smart about that, she didn't pile her gundam up with weapons. Angela on the other hand, lost some of the speed that Kaiya's has, although it is still faster than ours is. Even though she has all those weapons, they could prove to be dangerous later."
"I see." Wufei said looking up at the two gundams. The girls returned not five minutes after Heero's little speech. This time they were wearing space jump suits.
"It is time to go VR mode!" Angela said jumping up and down. Wufei raised his eyebrow at her. "Hey, I haven't been in my baby for awhile now, I miss her." Wufei just shook his head and left to go put his jump suit on.
"Why are you guys putting that stuff on? It'll just be hot and weigh more. It's not needed to do the VR mode." Duo asked them.
"Because, this is how we'll be dressed most of the time when we pilot the gundams. Why should we give ourselves the break now? It will only hurt us during the mission." Kaiya explained. Wufei rolled his eyes and continued to the other room.
"Honestly Maxwell, how do you survive this job?" Wufei grumbled. Heero had already left and was just returning as Wufei reached the door.
Twenty minutes later, all the pilots were suited up and the gundams were prepped for VR mode. Heero was finishing putting the final touches onto the VR network that they would all use so that they could be in the same game at the same time. They had made teams and decided to have the girls against the guys. Angela only grumbled for a minute before Kaiya explained that the boys were insecure and wanted to see them pilot first hand. Besides, where else would they get the chance to kick their butts? This seemed to calm her down, and everyone was getting ready to enter their gundams when Howard came running into the room.
"Pilots, come quick!"
"What? What's wrong?" Angela shouted.
"There was an intruder. A Tokinami spy! They were caught sneaking away. They had a camera." Howard shouted back. The pilots didn't need to be told twice. They all ran from the room, following Howard to the location of the spy. "We put 'em in on of the holding cells." Howard said. "Man is this one feisty. I'm warning ya'll now."
"Just show us the spy." Heero said in his monotone. Howard nodded and pointed to a hallway.
"The holding cells are down here, follow me." The pilots all followed. When they reached the cell, they couldn't see much of anything because the lights were out. They were able however; to make out the outline of someone tied to a chair. Howard ordered a soldier to turn the lights on. The room was quickly illuminated with a phosphorescent glow. The pilots turned to the person, and all gasped out in shock.
"Sarah?" Duo whispered painfully.
TBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AN: Evil cliffie again. Hehe. I was reading through this fic, most of it, and I found some mistakes. Like I forget which chapter, but Quatre says that their gundams are already at Howards…opps. Well, ignore him, he's blonde. They weren't there yet. My latest chapters haven't been as interesting as my first few. I guess I no longer have to wonder why I have no reviews, ne? Well, the action is starting either in the next chapter or the one after it, and it will be action till the end pretty much. Plus I'm going to be throwing in a whole bunch of plot twists and stuff. Well, that's enough rambling please READ and REVIEW!!!
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Lia: Sorry that Heero isn't being nice enough…he's not nice enough for me either! But unfortunately, the plot needs him to be cold…::sigh::
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Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. I do own the bad guys, but again, if you want to use them in a fic, go ahead, I'd appreciate that you give credit where credit is due, but you don't have to ask or anything.
AN: Hopefully, FanFiction.net is fixed for good, or at least awhile. I am really dissappointed in the lack of response I'm getting with this fic. I know that, right now it's because fanfiction.net isn't letting readers review, and I understand this, but my reviews have been decreasing over time. I don't know whether it's because the readers don't like where it's going, or what. But if you don't like where it's going you have to review and let me know! I don't read minds, I can't tell why you do/don't like this. So, PLEASE read and review! Thank you.
Last Time (Chapter Seven):
"Hey, move it or lose it pal!" Kaiya said. Sally looked up and started laughing.
"Watch what you say kid. I could beat you any day." Sally said smiling.
"Hey what happened to the M'lady stuff?" Kaiya said, not noticing the pilots surprised stares. Sally just shrugged and walked the rest of the way down the steps. Kaiya followed her still laughing. She stopped mid laugh when she saw the look the others were giving her. "Um, hi guys."
Chapter Eight: The Unforseen Enemy
"Kaiya?" Angela asked, squinting her eyes, trying to asertain if it was really the girl she thought it was standing in front of her.
"Yea…it's me." She said sheepishly.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Quatre asked concerned. Kaiya rolled her eyes.
"Please, you think that a little bullet is going to stop me from welcoming my gundam, or my friend when she gets here? No way. Besides, the fact that I allowed that spoiled bitch to shoot me, means that I'm rusty and I really need to train."
"But, you'll just injure yourself further." Trowa said quietly. Kaiya shook her head.
"Nah, I've had worse when grandfather was training me. Besides I passed Sally's poke test with flyinig colors."
"Didn't even blink." Sally agreed. Duo shook his head.
"Well, then damn, you could have just come with us in the first place." Kaiya laughed,
"No, Sally needed someone who she could trust to fly the other craft. Couldn't have some lowly soldier knowing the location of all seven gundams now could we?" She said smiling.
"Who's coming?" Heero asked, speaking for the first time. Kaiya set her eyes on him and stared. Her eyes narrowed and she glared at him for all she was worth.
"What the hell are you talking about Yuy?" Heero inwardly winced at the name she called him.
"You said that you wouldn't miss greeting your gundam and your friend when she gets here, who is she?"
"Envious?" Kaiya asked, sarcastically.
"Of what," Heero ground out. "I just think it would be best for us to know the history of anyone you invite here. We wouldn't want a traitor in our midst now would we?" Kaiya looked over to Angela who was laughing so hard that she had tears leaking out of her eyes. Kaiya met her glance and smiled.
"Are you talking about Lily?" Angela finally managed to gasp out. Kaiya just smirked. Angela burst out in more peels of laughter. "Heero, trust me, Lily is the last…friend you would need be concerned of."
"Hey, let's get these gundams unloaded, I'm starved." Duo said smiling. Everyone nodded glad for the intermission of Heero and Kaiya's latest 'episode'.
"Where am I staying? I wanna unpack." Kaiya said.
"I'll take her." Angela said, still trying to control her laughter. Kaiya nodded and followed Angela to the hidden door. Kaiya pressed the right spot and the door opened. Angela looked at her shocked. "How did you know where that was?"
"I could see, it. Besides, we're in a room with no doors, how do you think you would get out?"
"How could you see it?" Angela asked amazed.
"You see this slight discoloration here? Well that showed me that there was a door, or something there. The different color goes all around the outline of the door. When a door like this is used a lot, the color fades on the door itself because of the way it slides into the top. Grandfather had doors like this in his lab."
"Wow." Angela said, impressed.
"Oh, plus Sally told me on our way here." Kaiya said smiling.
"Hey!" Angela laughed, smacking the girl playfully on the shoulder. Kaiya shrugged.
"The first part was true."
"Yea, I bet. Come on our room is over here. We have to share with the boys, but I told Howard that we don't mind."
"No, we don't. It makes sense to have all of us in the same room anyway. I just wonder what the others are going to think when Lily and Midnight get here. I doubt that Heero will be all that happy with us." Kaiya said walking into the room that Angela indicated. Angela shrugged.
"I don't know and I don't give a shit. As long as no one hurts my baby I don't care. But I swear to you, that if one of them tries to lay a hand on Midnight, they can kiss their assess goodbye!" Angela nearly shouted. Kaiya laughed.
"Okay, okay, I get the picture. No need to scream." Angela blushed and bowed her head,
"Sorry."
"No prob. Don't even worry about it. Now I assume that you took the top bunk?" Kaiya asked.
"Yea, hope you don't mind."
"Nah, I like the bottom bed better anyway." Kaiya said nonchalantly.
"Okay, well hurry up and unpack, I'm starved as I'm sure the rest of them are." Angela said quite impatiently.
"Alright already, keep your pants on." Kaiya growled at her friend. She hurriedly finished putting all of her clothes and such in the drawers or closet space that was hers and turned to Angela who was standing with her arms crossed and was currently taping her foot with irritation. Kaiya rolled her eyes. "You might want to go find a belt because you're losing your pants right now."
"Very funny, now come on, I'm sure they're already eating without us!" Angela said grabbing Kaiya and dragging her out of the room. They made their way to the room that was labeled 'dining room' and Angela opened the door. All the pilots sat around the table anxiosly awaiting food. "Where's the food?" Angela asked while still dragging Kaiya into the room.
"I think you can let me go now!" Kaiya said laughing. Angela blushed and let her go.
"Howards making it now." Quatre answered Angela's previous question. They nodded and sat down at the table. Angela sat next to Wufei and Kaiya sat next to her. Which unfortunately for her was across from Heero. The room was silent. The only sound heard was the occasional rumbling stomach.
"I wish he would hurry. I'm dying!" Duo whined.
"Would you like some cheese?" Kaiya said smiling. Duo nodded vigoriously.
"Yea, where where?" He said looking around for the cheese. Everyone else laughed or chuckled at him.
"She was insulting you baka." Wufei said shaking his head. Duo furrowed his eyebrows in confusion but before he could respond the door that led to the kitchen opened and Howard emerged with a cart that was stock piled with food. The group began to drool as the food was laid out on the table. They waited only until Howard at set all of the dishes down before filling their plates at an inhuman speed.
The entire meal and dessert was devoured in record time.
"Man, that really hit the spot." Duo said patting his now bloated stomach. Everyone else nodded in agreement and made similar gestures. "Well, I'm exhausted. I'm going to hit the sack."
"Good idea." Quatre said standing up and stretching.
"Yea, we have to get up early for training tomorrow." Angela said yawning.
"Hey what's the schedule going to be like while we're here?" Kaiya asked looking around.
"Well, I'll answer that. First…" Howard was cut off mid sentence by Angela's shout.
"No!" He looked around and saw all the other pilots with the exception of Heero who was glaring at Kaiya and Kaiya who looked confused, with analogous expressions on their face. "I mean, I can give her the run down tonight. Quickly. In less than five hours."
"Um, yea. I'm going now." Duo said moving towards the door.
"Yes, I am tired." Quatre said giving an exaggerated yawn and moving after Duo.
Trowa and Wufei just stood and followed the first two out the door. Angela pulled Kaiya out, who was still sputtering confused, and Heero followed the girls still glaring at Kaiya.
"Well, I never…" Howard sunk down in his chair and pouted, sticking his lower lip out and crossing his arms.
~~~***~~~
The next few days were uneventful. Training continued, although the two females decided that they were going to do their own training and locked themselves in a separate training facility with the strict orders not to enter unless their gundams had arrived. That day came almost a week after they first arrived at the compound.
A knock interrupted the girls mid-fight. They were currently working on their hand to hand skills since their gundams hadn't arrived yet. Their VR systems were in their gundams so that left mobile suit training out of the question.
"I guess they're here." Kaiya said in response to the knock at the door.
"Either that or someone is going to get their ass kicked." Angela said with a smirk. Kaiya laughed and walked over to the door. She opened it and saw Duo standing at the entrance. Angela walked up behind Kaiya and glared at Duo. "Well?"
"They're here." Duo gulped. "Well they will be in about an hour. You said that you wanted to know the minute that they would be here, and Quatre thought that it would be nice to give you a warning in case you wanted to freshen up for your friend…" Duo's rambling was stopped with Kaiya's finger.
"Okay, okay. We get the picture. We're on our way." A laughing Kaiya said removing her finger from his lips. Duo nodded and turned making his way to the large docking bay where the other pilots were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the girls gundams, each for a different reason. Angela and Kaiya emerged from the hidden hallway a few minutes later each with a towel draped across their shoulders and a water bottle in their hands.
"That's fresh?" Duo asked raising an eyebrow at their attire. They were still in their training clothes, and sweaty. They shrugged.
"Our friends won't mind." Angela said.
"Wait. You have one too?" Wufei asked. Angela nodded.
"Yup." He just shook his head,
"Anything else you would like to tell us?"
"Nope." Angela said. Kaiya rolled her eyes.
"I miss her. I can't wait to see how much she's grown." Kaiya said to Angela. She meant it to be heard by Angela only, but Heero overheard her.
"I thought she was dead." He whispered coldly. Kaiya turned to glare at him.
"Different Lily." She hissed. Angela crossed her arms and glared at him.
"You know, you might want to go talk to Sally before she leaves." Heero didn't answer, but just looked at her questioningly. "Yea, she might be able to help you remove that giant stick from your ass."
"Bitch." Heero hissed at her before stalking off to stand next to Wufei who was looking at the group curiously.
"What did you say to her?" he asked.
"Who?"
"Kaiya. She looks like someone just told her that her dog was run over by a mack truck." Wufei said. Heero turned to look at her and sure enough, she looked sad enough to cry. Or was that anger that he saw? He didn't know but didn't like it. He didn't mean to sound so cold when he said that. ~Wait…what am I thinking? I did want to sound that cold. I have to keep her away from me. No attachments.~ he told himself over and over and over. He kept repeating that phrase until it became like a mantra to him.
He was only awakened from his little pep talk by the sounds of a large craft's landing thrusters. He heard the sound of the landing gear opening and operating. Oh how he loved the sound of a good mecha.
"They're here. And early too." Quatre said pointing to the landing plane. Angela and Kaiya both raced over as close as they dared to where the ship would be landing. They were both anxious to greet their friends.
The plane landed smoothly on the pad indicated with paint. The top hatch of the building slowly slid closed after the plane descended. The plane's back hatch opened with a hiss, and it slowly slid to the ground. Two large beasts raced out of the back and ran to where the girls were standing.
"Lily!"
"Midnight!" The two girls screamed at the same time. Lily raced over to Kaiya and jumped on her, licking her face with her giant pink tongue. Angela was receiving the same treatment from Midnight. The boys had pulled their guns out when they saw the two wild cats jump from the plane, but now all were frozen in shock, their guns still held out in front of them.
"What the hell? Your friends are wild animals?" Duo burst out. The girls looked up at the sound of Duo's voice. They began to laugh when they saw the guys expressions. Even Heero's cold mask had slid off and the shock was quite evident on his face.
"Yea, this is my Siberian tiger, Lily. And that is Angela's Black Panther Midnight. Oh, just a warning they are very protective of us, as we are of them." Kaiya finished with a smile. Angela had stood up, Midnight standing loyally at her side.
"Silence." She whispered looking at her gundam which had just been unloaded. It was slightly shorter than the other gundams and looked as if it were lighter as well. The suit was obviously outer space compatible as well as air compatible. There was a large set of folded wings on the back of the gundam. The gundam's overall color was blue. However, the wings were black as well as the chest armor. The arm and leg armor was green, almost aqua in color depending on the light.
"Wow." Kaiya said, in awe of the giant mecha in front of her. The other pilots were also surprised at the beauty of it.
"There's a machine gun in the left arm. Much like HeavyArms. There is a buster rifle also that attaches to the back of the suit, then to the right arm when it reaches back. There's a hidden beam saber in the left leg compartment. The saber can also fire the energy pulses, and convert into a scythe like shape.
Then there are the advancements, of course. I couldn't have mine lacking in any department. The left hand retracts to become a flame thrower and the right hand retracts to become an ice thrower. Grandfather and I experimented and came up with a new chemical mix that allows us to basically freeze things on contact of the substance."
"What about the pack for the flame thrower?" Wufei asked awed at the mecha.
"Yea, we also discovered a way to use the energy not used during battle and convert it to heat energy. That way nothing is wasted. It's basically recycled energy."
"That's amazing, Angela." Kaiya whispered.
"It's not that great." Heero grumbled.
"Your just jealous." Kaiya said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Well, where's your gundam then?" Heero asked. Kaiya pointed to the gundam that had just been unloaded and was standing next to Silence.
"Boys, and Angela may I present Washi. My eagle." Kaiya said smiling proudly.
Her gundam was about the same height and weight as Angela's. Her suit was also compatible to outer space and the air. Instead of black wings, she had large white wings that looked like they belonged to an angel. Each individual feather in the wing was in actuality a blade that could be shot out and returned to its original place. Her gundam's main colors were blue, aqua, white and silver. The wings and chest were white. The legs and arms were aqua, with blue and silver armor pieces. On the chest was a round armor piece that looked like the other pilots'. There was a Japanese symbol painted in silver on the blue armor piece.
"What does that mean?" Duo asked referring to the symbol.
"Forgiveness is the top symbol and behind it is the symbol for eagle." Kaiya answered.
"What of your weapons?" Wufei asked generally curious.
"Two thermal sabers, one in each arm. There are two machine guns in the shoulders. The wings in themselves are weapons, as I'm sure you noticed. Like Angela's my gundam can also shoot the freezing compound, I however do not have the flame thrower. I use any extra energy to power the thermal chain that I have hidden in the left leg. It's like the thermal sabers only a bunch of them linked together in a chain. It's not something that I fall back on, thus I only hooked it up to use the extra energy, so it is there and does come in handy.
"There is a buster canon, but I really do not like using it. It also attaches to the back and then the arm as Angela's does, but I only use it as a last ditch effort."
"That's amazing. How come our gundams aren't that cool?" Duo whined.
"Because you two have first generation gundam models. We have second generation. The second is almost always better than the first." Angela answered him.
"Do you both have the zero system?" Trowa asked.
"I do. I don't know about Angela." Kaiya answered.
"I do, but I've never used it in battle. I would rather use my own mind and abilities than to cheat in battle like that." Angela answered. Wufei nodded in agreement.
"I have it as well as Heero, but none of the other gundams are equipped with it." Quatre said.
"Well, let's get back to training then." Kaiya said.
"Yea, we'll take Lily and Midnight to our room, then we can start the VR training." Angela said walking towards the door. Kaiya followed, as did the two cats.
"Wow, can you believe that?" Duo asked his eyes following the girls on their way out.
"Believe what Maxwell?" Wufei asked.
"That they have two wild cats, and two kick ass gundams. Maybe I should have waited to be second generation." Duo said wistfully.
"Yes, but then you wouldn't get to pilot Deathsycthe and be the god of death now could you?" Quatre said.
"True…" Duo said.
"And look, their gundams are smaller." Quatre said.
"Yes, but they are guaranteed to be much faster than ours." Heero said speaking for the first time.
"Hey! He's alive!" Duo said looking over at the boy who had remained silent.
"What do you mean Heero?" Quatre asked. Heero walked over to Washi and touched it.
"Just like I thought. The doctors found another way to heat the gundanium. They are lighter and make for a quicker mobile suit. Kaiya is smart about that, she didn't pile her gundam up with weapons. Angela on the other hand, lost some of the speed that Kaiya's has, although it is still faster than ours is. Even though she has all those weapons, they could prove to be dangerous later."
"I see." Wufei said looking up at the two gundams. The girls returned not five minutes after Heero's little speech. This time they were wearing space jump suits.
"It is time to go VR mode!" Angela said jumping up and down. Wufei raised his eyebrow at her. "Hey, I haven't been in my baby for awhile now, I miss her." Wufei just shook his head and left to go put his jump suit on.
"Why are you guys putting that stuff on? It'll just be hot and weigh more. It's not needed to do the VR mode." Duo asked them.
"Because, this is how we'll be dressed most of the time when we pilot the gundams. Why should we give ourselves the break now? It will only hurt us during the mission." Kaiya explained. Wufei rolled his eyes and continued to the other room.
"Honestly Maxwell, how do you survive this job?" Wufei grumbled. Heero had already left and was just returning as Wufei reached the door.
Twenty minutes later, all the pilots were suited up and the gundams were prepped for VR mode. Heero was finishing putting the final touches onto the VR network that they would all use so that they could be in the same game at the same time. They had made teams and decided to have the girls against the guys. Angela only grumbled for a minute before Kaiya explained that the boys were insecure and wanted to see them pilot first hand. Besides, where else would they get the chance to kick their butts? This seemed to calm her down, and everyone was getting ready to enter their gundams when Howard came running into the room.
"Pilots, come quick!"
"What? What's wrong?" Angela shouted.
"There was an intruder. A Tokinami spy! They were caught sneaking away. They had a camera." Howard shouted back. The pilots didn't need to be told twice. They all ran from the room, following Howard to the location of the spy. "We put 'em in on of the holding cells." Howard said. "Man is this one feisty. I'm warning ya'll now."
"Just show us the spy." Heero said in his monotone. Howard nodded and pointed to a hallway.
"The holding cells are down here, follow me." The pilots all followed. When they reached the cell, they couldn't see much of anything because the lights were out. They were able however; to make out the outline of someone tied to a chair. Howard ordered a soldier to turn the lights on. The room was quickly illuminated with a phosphorescent glow. The pilots turned to the person, and all gasped out in shock.
"Sarah?" Duo whispered painfully.
TBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AN: Evil cliffie again. Hehe. I was reading through this fic, most of it, and I found some mistakes. Like I forget which chapter, but Quatre says that their gundams are already at Howards…opps. Well, ignore him, he's blonde. They weren't there yet. My latest chapters haven't been as interesting as my first few. I guess I no longer have to wonder why I have no reviews, ne? Well, the action is starting either in the next chapter or the one after it, and it will be action till the end pretty much. Plus I'm going to be throwing in a whole bunch of plot twists and stuff. Well, that's enough rambling please READ and REVIEW!!!
THANKS:
Lia: Sorry that Heero isn't being nice enough…he's not nice enough for me either! But unfortunately, the plot needs him to be cold…::sigh::
Onimegami: It's more like open your heart…but again…not happening yet! Glad you liked last chapter.
Sailor Nova: LOL that's okay. I understand that ff.net was being…um bad earlier. Hopefully it will work now!
