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Children of War
By,
Luna Dragon
Kaiya and Akiko ran out of the door and next to the car. But Akiko stopped suddenly, causing Kaiya to look at her strangely. "What is it? We have to go!"
"Where's Hotaru? We can't leave without her!"
Kaiya cursed under her breath. "Its like a maze in there Akiko, we can't go looking for her!"
"She came with me to help you, didn't she? We can't just leave her!" Akiko shouted.
"It's not like we have another choice. We'll get cleaned up and come back for her, but not now, we can't now . . ."
Akiko cursed and sat in the passenger seat of the car as Kaiya pulled out quickly and they both sped off. "What are we going to say to the Prof?" Akiko all of a sudden asked.
Kaiya moaned. "Shit, I hadn't thought of that." She said. "How about we tell him that we didn't have a choice but to surrender and leave because they had Hotaru."
"The earrings?"
"We'll say that they came off because of the Gundam boys, and that we're through playing around. We'll tell Professor Tomoe we except the mission to destroy the ex-boys because they've gone too far."
"My, my, you sure know how to make plans. It's a good thing you're the smart one or I would've ended up sleeping in a gutter on trying to figure out what to do."
Kaiya laughed. "I believe it."
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"That should do it," Sally said as she finished bandaging Wufei's arm. She and her medical team had been working on 'fixing the boys up' for about an hour now. She had already taken care of herself, Trowa, and Heero.
Quatre hadn't gotten hurt, and Duo was in the recovery room, getting stitches in his stomach and getting blood back in his system, apparently suffering a great deal after practically vomiting most of it out.
Wufei grumbled a thanks and left. Sally just rolled her eyes. No matter how much she tried, he would never open up to her. He was stubborn and had too much pride to do so. 'But at least he puts up with me.' Sally thought with a smirk of amusement.
"How's Duo doing?" Quatre asked.
"He'll be fine," Sally reassured. "I've known him to survive on worse things than this. He used to pilot Deathscythe remember?"
Quatre gave a smile and a thank you before returning to his room to sleep, just like everyone else had.
'Almost everyone,' Sally once again thought as she walked out of the room and saw the dim glow of Heero's laptop from the hallway. Silently she crept up to the doorway and peered through. "Don't tell me you're going to do research on those three?"
Heero just nodded.
"And what exactly are you going by? You don't know anything about them." Sally pointed out.
"Actually I heard one of them say Professor Tomoe. I know that name from somewhere, I just don't remember where." Heero replied.
Sally nodded. "Just get some rest, they'll most likely come back for their friend. And I don't know about you, but I had some trouble with them." She sighed and walked out to her room to sleep. Her men would keep watch, she was in no mood for a night shift after today.
'But who wants to kill them now?' She couldn't help but wonder. Their Gundams were destroyed by self-detonation, and Wing Zero had been destroyed beyond repair. 'There's always something someone's after, and once again it had to do with these five. They don't deserve this life . . . no one does.'
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Miles away from where Heero's friends were sound asleep, and where Hotaru was held, was Professor Tomoe's corporation.
Setsuna sat in her chair, behind her desk, typing like mad on her computer. 'Everything's going as planned so far.' She thought. 'All Rei and the others need to do is complete their parts, and I have to complete mine. Professor Tomoe suspects nothing . . . at least I hope so.'
She sighed and sat back in her chair. "Soon, Professor. Soon you will have your 'ultimate weapon,' and soon we will have something to kill it." Setsuna murmured to herself. "Then, you will pay for what you have done, and you will pay dearly."
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Heero sighed slowly. This was a lot harder than he thought it would be. A little too hard for his usual standards. Wherever the three girls were from was highly protected, and highly secret.
He had been up for five hours trying to hack into their base. He had found out some things at least. For one, Professor Tomoe was a retired scientist. The last heard of him, he had killed his wife in a science experiment gone wrong, leaving him and to care for his daughter.
Professor Tomoe had been charged for murder, but escaped trial and was never seen again or heard from again. People thought he escaped to one of the space colonies, but the Preventers or the police never found him or his daughter.
It was before the AC 195 war, and was all over the news for months. That's where Heero had heard it. Doctor J had shown it to him on TV once, saying that he knew Professor Tomoe and his daughter named Hotaru.
Heero sighed. 'Hotaru?' He wondered. 'Wasn't that one of the girls' names? There was Kaiya, the other girl . . . and one of them called Hotaru.' He smirked. 'So Hotaru Tomoe is handcuffed and guarded here. . .'
He sighed once more. Maybe it would be better if he got some sleep. They seemed to know everything about Heero and the others, and they had to know Heero was an expert at hacking. So they must've put extra protection onto it.
'Just a little while longer,' Heero concluded as he took a sip from his coffee. He never actually liked the stuff, but it usually kept him awake. 'Just a little longer.'
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Author's Note: Okay, maybe not as long as the other chapters . . . but I have some mean writer's block thing! It's annoying because I REALLY like writing this story. I liked Hotaru Yuy's idea and I might just use it. But you can still submit me ideas! Till next chapter, JA NE! Oh, right! READ AND REVIEW!
