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AN: Well, you may have noticed the little numbers on the chapter titles, so I'll explain. I don't know about you, but I hate it when a story has been updated lots and I can't remember which one I read last, so I decided to put up the dates for my chapters. It goes Chapter title, Month Day. Hope it helps! On with the story!
'thoughts'
"speaking"
More Than Meets The Eye
Chapter 10 (AN: I hit the double digits ^-^)
Zechs came up behind Heero to check out the commotion. "Hilde? But you're with Duo!"
The dark haired girl rolled her eyes and sighed. "I am, let me explain first. But after we get in the tunnel, I don't want us to get caught." She then opened the cellar and walked in. After that, she walked to the right of the stairs and opened an old rusty door, well hidden in the darkness.
"You see," Hilde began as she walked into the dug tunnel behind yet another door, which made the first room look like a regular closet. "Relena wanted to come along too, so she intercepted the call and planned the whole thing with the girls and me. She said that she'd be easily reconized if she walked out in the open, and asked me if we could trade places.
I wanted to go with Duo though, but there was no other place as secluded as the woods. So she let me in on a little secret. In the tunnels, they all cross eachother in some point. On each of those points are nearly hidden doors used in case people followed them and the people getting out needed another way out. Kinda confusing but you know what I mean.
The door I'll be going through and switching places with Relena is the first door. It's actually a window since the two tunnels are exact duplicates. It should be easy enough to find, we just gotta keep tapping on the walls."
So Hilde started to tapping on her left every few seconds. Between those seconds, she hit her right.
"She could've just asked anyone of us to come." Zechs muttered.
"Yeah, but would you of let her go?" There was no answer, but instead a glass-like sound. Hilde frowned and held her lantern up towards her left.
Duo's face was hardly reconizable as he shoved it up against window. Hilde, Zechs, and Heero jumped a little bit at the sight of a human face pressed up against the wall, but quickly relaxed as Duo jumped back from the sudden light.
Relena's laughter could be heard as the glass was slowly wedged from it's spot in the ground. Hilde stood on the opposite side as it was opened as well and the two were brought to their respective groups. Still laughing, she waved goodbye to her friends and turned around to face the other two men, who were looking at her quizzically.
"What?" The two Peacecrafts obviously had similar minds because Relena's hair was also pulled into a quick ponytail and tucked under her Oz jacket too. She raised an eyebrow at her older brother and smirked. "Zechs, you look really odd like that, you know?" With Zechs sputtering she turned and began to make her way down the tunnel alone.
The others soon realized that she was leaving, with their only light source, and ran up after her.
*~*~*~*~*
Hilde waved to her friend and looked over to her cousin and boyfriend. "Well? What are you waiting for? Come one, let's go!" The two looked at the other and shrugged.
"So, when does this tunnel meet with Trowa and Midii?" Duo looked at Hilde from his place on her left.
"It doesn't. Theirs is just a doorway to the top floor. But it takes them longer to get to the main room, so that's why they had to go at the same time as us." Duo's mouth formed a little 'o' and they continued to walked in peace.
*~*~*~*~*
After a while of walking, the tunnel's ceiling began to sink farther, and farther down. The surrounding environment also went from dirt and roots, to cave-like, to a steel coated tunnel. Soon enough, the tunnel grew so low that the three were reduced to crawlling through it, though the width hadn't been reduced at all..
Heero wanted to keep his eyes off the object infront of him, but he needed to watch out in case Relena stopped or he went too fast.
"Relena." His voice was rough and the word seemed too forced.
Relena continued without even a sound. "Relena." Heero repeated.
"Hn?" She still didn't stop.
"Could you move over a bit so I can see where I'm going?" That was when Relena stopped.
"Heero, you do know that this tunnel is oddly big enough for the three of us to," She sighed, "Crawl side by side comfortably?"
"Hn." Heero had the decency to blush as he went up to Relena's right, where he was right between Zechs and her. He heard a growl from Zechs, but ignored it and continued to crawl aimlessly in the long, long tunnel.
*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, what's that?" Hilde, Duo, and Noin stopped in their tracks. They listened carefully. The tunnel was now bricked everywhere except the roof and floor, which were paved.
From where they were, the soft sound of water flowing could be heard, as well as voices. "Maybe we're near another tunnel?" Noin suggested and walked over to the left wall. Her fingers scraped the bricks slightly until she was about two feet infront of Duo. That was when her fingers seemed to go through the wall.
"A button?" Hilde, who had been at the opposite wall, began to walk over to Noin.
"Uh, guys!?" Duo suddenly lost his balance and fell.
There was a startled gasp, though not from any of the three on the floor.
"Duo? Are you ok?" Hilde jumped over the hole and cradled Duo's head in her arms.
"Hey? Duo? If that's you, learn how to tie your shoes!" Dorothy's voice was clearly heard through the tunnel. Noin looked into the hole in the ground.
"Catherine?" The redhead nodded and waved slightly. Noin smiled and waved back. "Umm, Dorothy, could I have Duo's shoe?" Her hand was outstretched and waitng.
"Well, if you think I want it, you're sadly mistaken. Skunks probably wouldn't be able to stand it." Hilde's laugh could be heard. Dorothy took the shoe out of the surprised Quatre's hand and gave it to her.
"L'odour de la pied de Maxwell." She smiled and fitted Duo's shoe back on his foot before helping him up.
"We gotta go but you're explaining about this later." Noin nodded and walked off to close the hatch.
*~*~*~*~*
Relena, Heero, and Zechs reached an opening that looked oddly like the inside of a heater.
"They stuck us in a heater?" Zechs hissed.
"No, it only looks like a heater, it's not actually used." Relena hissed back as she watched the patrolling guards just outside. "Okay, on the count of three, push. Get readt to climb out too." Relena moved around a little bit, ready to jump out, and the other two copied her move. "One, two, THREE!" All of them pushed and jumped out, landing on a guard.
"Intruders!" Relena groaned at the outburst. They would have to fight now, and she'd also have to get rid of other things.
Heero got up quickly and kicked the nearest officer running for him. The three split up and began clearing the halls of the guards.
Three gunshots were heard and Heero knew that Relena had just destroyed the three security cameras. He continued to fight, oblivious to everyone he hit, though making sure that he didn't accidently knock out or kill the two Peacecrafts.
Zechs punched and kicked as hard as he could, making sure to knock out one for ever shot he took. In the middle of the fight, he heard a distinctive "I'm sorry." before blacking out.
Relena moved slowly from where Zechs lay in the corner to the other preventor across the room. She knocked out as many as she could on the way, and shot anybody that went even near to her brother. But all too soon, the guards lay unmoving on the ground. Relena whirled around to see Heero staring at her.
"Give me the gun." His hand was outstretched towards her.
"What? Why?" She gripped the gun tightly, and turned the safety on.
"You're supposed to be a pacifist, and a leader. The people aren't going to listen to someone who killed her own people like this. Now give me the gun." Without another word, he snatched the gun from her hands before she could react.
Okay, to plan B. "But how am I suppose to defend myself?" she asked, as she pressed the length of her body against his, reaching for the gun. He didn't seem to be responding, but she thought she saw his eyes close, trying to control himself. Smiling inside, she stopped reaching for the gun and her hand went to his face. "Heero, you're hurt."
For a moment, he didn't do anything but Relena persisted. Finally, he seemed to give in and turned into her hand slightly, never taking his eyes from hers. She then stood on tiptoe, and his head bent down. Their lips met, and they had a blissfully pleasuring kiss.
They broke away for air soon enough, and Relena managed to speak before he dove back for more. "Sorry." Before their lips met, he slumped over her body.
Relena dragged the two bodies into the heater and closed up the door. She then walked around and stripped the guards of their weapons. "You two may be some of the best, but you're still human."
She dragged the bodies into a few closets, placed most of the weapons with her partners, and ran off towards the girls' meeting place, shooting cameras along the way.
*~*~*~*~*
Hilde's group came out at the masterbedroom's closet, directly below Midii's entrance. She could hear fighting above and below her, which wasn't surprising considering there were guards all over her floor, some spotting her group as they opened the door.
Duo apparently didn't care about being discreet right then and there. "Hiya! How are you?" Hilde and Noin decided to come out right then and do a double-team attack on the closest four guards.
Noin then went off to the right and began to knock out as many as she could. Some got close to hitting her, but she was known for her agility. In the process, Noin shot out the two security cameras. She was still at large when someone came up from behind and knocked her out.
Hilde continued to fight off the guards around Noin after she had knocked her cousin out. Soon enough, all the guards were down for the count and only she and Duo were still standing.
"Duo." The braided preventor turned around and gave her a questioning look. Obviously, he hadn't seen her knock out Noin. "Help me stuff all these guys in the bathroom, then move Noin into the closet." He did as she requested and locked the bathroom door too. As he was just standing up from moving Noin into the closet, he, too, blacked out.
"Sorry guys, I love you both but this is for your own good, trust me." With that she left her partners behind and ran out the door.
*~*~*~*~*
After Trowa and Midii helped Une jump up onto the roof of the shed, Trowa stepped back and jumped up too. Midii followed their lead and landed on the shed moments after Trowa. They all scrambled up the little shed and stood by the door.
"Okay, after this door is still another. The room inbetween is a closet. Don't enter the second door until the count of three. We'll split up and fight off everyone in that room before continuing. Got that?" Trowa and Midii nodded.
They entered the room on the count of three, as planned, and split up before a guard could possibly get a focused aim on them. The only camera was blown out quickly
Midii slowly fought her way towards Trowa, making her path seem by accident. No one noticed when she struck him, only when he fell over, unconcious. She finished off the rest of the guards around Trowa, and ran over to the group against Lady Une. Two by two they fell to the ground, until the last one standing with Midii was Une herself. She looked over to Trowa.
"What happened to Trowa?" she looked back at Midii who also looked over to her fallen comrade.
"I don't know, he was fighting one minute and the next, he was sprawled out on the ground. I went over there to help, and by then, he was unconcious." Midii lied.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course." Une nodded and began to walk over to him.
"We'd better leave him in the closet, can't let him get hurt when these guys wake up." Midii nodded and helped Une, to the point they got Trowa in the closet. She struck Une as well, and caught her as she fell.
"Sorry, no hard feelings?" She closed the doors and and grabbed a few fallen guns. She checked the time. The girls should be all done by now. She smiled and ran down the halls. 'I hope you planned this out right, or we're all going to lose our jobs.'
*~*~*~*~*
Heya! I'm really getting to like this. R&R please! I hope I don't give out too many hints, I want to keep everyone guessing for a bit. Next chapter: Meiran and Dorothy, Invasion and... Betrayal? Part 2
AN: Well, you may have noticed the little numbers on the chapter titles, so I'll explain. I don't know about you, but I hate it when a story has been updated lots and I can't remember which one I read last, so I decided to put up the dates for my chapters. It goes Chapter title, Month Day. Hope it helps! On with the story!
'thoughts'
"speaking"
More Than Meets The Eye
Chapter 10 (AN: I hit the double digits ^-^)
Zechs came up behind Heero to check out the commotion. "Hilde? But you're with Duo!"
The dark haired girl rolled her eyes and sighed. "I am, let me explain first. But after we get in the tunnel, I don't want us to get caught." She then opened the cellar and walked in. After that, she walked to the right of the stairs and opened an old rusty door, well hidden in the darkness.
"You see," Hilde began as she walked into the dug tunnel behind yet another door, which made the first room look like a regular closet. "Relena wanted to come along too, so she intercepted the call and planned the whole thing with the girls and me. She said that she'd be easily reconized if she walked out in the open, and asked me if we could trade places.
I wanted to go with Duo though, but there was no other place as secluded as the woods. So she let me in on a little secret. In the tunnels, they all cross eachother in some point. On each of those points are nearly hidden doors used in case people followed them and the people getting out needed another way out. Kinda confusing but you know what I mean.
The door I'll be going through and switching places with Relena is the first door. It's actually a window since the two tunnels are exact duplicates. It should be easy enough to find, we just gotta keep tapping on the walls."
So Hilde started to tapping on her left every few seconds. Between those seconds, she hit her right.
"She could've just asked anyone of us to come." Zechs muttered.
"Yeah, but would you of let her go?" There was no answer, but instead a glass-like sound. Hilde frowned and held her lantern up towards her left.
Duo's face was hardly reconizable as he shoved it up against window. Hilde, Zechs, and Heero jumped a little bit at the sight of a human face pressed up against the wall, but quickly relaxed as Duo jumped back from the sudden light.
Relena's laughter could be heard as the glass was slowly wedged from it's spot in the ground. Hilde stood on the opposite side as it was opened as well and the two were brought to their respective groups. Still laughing, she waved goodbye to her friends and turned around to face the other two men, who were looking at her quizzically.
"What?" The two Peacecrafts obviously had similar minds because Relena's hair was also pulled into a quick ponytail and tucked under her Oz jacket too. She raised an eyebrow at her older brother and smirked. "Zechs, you look really odd like that, you know?" With Zechs sputtering she turned and began to make her way down the tunnel alone.
The others soon realized that she was leaving, with their only light source, and ran up after her.
*~*~*~*~*
Hilde waved to her friend and looked over to her cousin and boyfriend. "Well? What are you waiting for? Come one, let's go!" The two looked at the other and shrugged.
"So, when does this tunnel meet with Trowa and Midii?" Duo looked at Hilde from his place on her left.
"It doesn't. Theirs is just a doorway to the top floor. But it takes them longer to get to the main room, so that's why they had to go at the same time as us." Duo's mouth formed a little 'o' and they continued to walked in peace.
*~*~*~*~*
After a while of walking, the tunnel's ceiling began to sink farther, and farther down. The surrounding environment also went from dirt and roots, to cave-like, to a steel coated tunnel. Soon enough, the tunnel grew so low that the three were reduced to crawlling through it, though the width hadn't been reduced at all..
Heero wanted to keep his eyes off the object infront of him, but he needed to watch out in case Relena stopped or he went too fast.
"Relena." His voice was rough and the word seemed too forced.
Relena continued without even a sound. "Relena." Heero repeated.
"Hn?" She still didn't stop.
"Could you move over a bit so I can see where I'm going?" That was when Relena stopped.
"Heero, you do know that this tunnel is oddly big enough for the three of us to," She sighed, "Crawl side by side comfortably?"
"Hn." Heero had the decency to blush as he went up to Relena's right, where he was right between Zechs and her. He heard a growl from Zechs, but ignored it and continued to crawl aimlessly in the long, long tunnel.
*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, what's that?" Hilde, Duo, and Noin stopped in their tracks. They listened carefully. The tunnel was now bricked everywhere except the roof and floor, which were paved.
From where they were, the soft sound of water flowing could be heard, as well as voices. "Maybe we're near another tunnel?" Noin suggested and walked over to the left wall. Her fingers scraped the bricks slightly until she was about two feet infront of Duo. That was when her fingers seemed to go through the wall.
"A button?" Hilde, who had been at the opposite wall, began to walk over to Noin.
"Uh, guys!?" Duo suddenly lost his balance and fell.
There was a startled gasp, though not from any of the three on the floor.
"Duo? Are you ok?" Hilde jumped over the hole and cradled Duo's head in her arms.
"Hey? Duo? If that's you, learn how to tie your shoes!" Dorothy's voice was clearly heard through the tunnel. Noin looked into the hole in the ground.
"Catherine?" The redhead nodded and waved slightly. Noin smiled and waved back. "Umm, Dorothy, could I have Duo's shoe?" Her hand was outstretched and waitng.
"Well, if you think I want it, you're sadly mistaken. Skunks probably wouldn't be able to stand it." Hilde's laugh could be heard. Dorothy took the shoe out of the surprised Quatre's hand and gave it to her.
"L'odour de la pied de Maxwell." She smiled and fitted Duo's shoe back on his foot before helping him up.
"We gotta go but you're explaining about this later." Noin nodded and walked off to close the hatch.
*~*~*~*~*
Relena, Heero, and Zechs reached an opening that looked oddly like the inside of a heater.
"They stuck us in a heater?" Zechs hissed.
"No, it only looks like a heater, it's not actually used." Relena hissed back as she watched the patrolling guards just outside. "Okay, on the count of three, push. Get readt to climb out too." Relena moved around a little bit, ready to jump out, and the other two copied her move. "One, two, THREE!" All of them pushed and jumped out, landing on a guard.
"Intruders!" Relena groaned at the outburst. They would have to fight now, and she'd also have to get rid of other things.
Heero got up quickly and kicked the nearest officer running for him. The three split up and began clearing the halls of the guards.
Three gunshots were heard and Heero knew that Relena had just destroyed the three security cameras. He continued to fight, oblivious to everyone he hit, though making sure that he didn't accidently knock out or kill the two Peacecrafts.
Zechs punched and kicked as hard as he could, making sure to knock out one for ever shot he took. In the middle of the fight, he heard a distinctive "I'm sorry." before blacking out.
Relena moved slowly from where Zechs lay in the corner to the other preventor across the room. She knocked out as many as she could on the way, and shot anybody that went even near to her brother. But all too soon, the guards lay unmoving on the ground. Relena whirled around to see Heero staring at her.
"Give me the gun." His hand was outstretched towards her.
"What? Why?" She gripped the gun tightly, and turned the safety on.
"You're supposed to be a pacifist, and a leader. The people aren't going to listen to someone who killed her own people like this. Now give me the gun." Without another word, he snatched the gun from her hands before she could react.
Okay, to plan B. "But how am I suppose to defend myself?" she asked, as she pressed the length of her body against his, reaching for the gun. He didn't seem to be responding, but she thought she saw his eyes close, trying to control himself. Smiling inside, she stopped reaching for the gun and her hand went to his face. "Heero, you're hurt."
For a moment, he didn't do anything but Relena persisted. Finally, he seemed to give in and turned into her hand slightly, never taking his eyes from hers. She then stood on tiptoe, and his head bent down. Their lips met, and they had a blissfully pleasuring kiss.
They broke away for air soon enough, and Relena managed to speak before he dove back for more. "Sorry." Before their lips met, he slumped over her body.
Relena dragged the two bodies into the heater and closed up the door. She then walked around and stripped the guards of their weapons. "You two may be some of the best, but you're still human."
She dragged the bodies into a few closets, placed most of the weapons with her partners, and ran off towards the girls' meeting place, shooting cameras along the way.
*~*~*~*~*
Hilde's group came out at the masterbedroom's closet, directly below Midii's entrance. She could hear fighting above and below her, which wasn't surprising considering there were guards all over her floor, some spotting her group as they opened the door.
Duo apparently didn't care about being discreet right then and there. "Hiya! How are you?" Hilde and Noin decided to come out right then and do a double-team attack on the closest four guards.
Noin then went off to the right and began to knock out as many as she could. Some got close to hitting her, but she was known for her agility. In the process, Noin shot out the two security cameras. She was still at large when someone came up from behind and knocked her out.
Hilde continued to fight off the guards around Noin after she had knocked her cousin out. Soon enough, all the guards were down for the count and only she and Duo were still standing.
"Duo." The braided preventor turned around and gave her a questioning look. Obviously, he hadn't seen her knock out Noin. "Help me stuff all these guys in the bathroom, then move Noin into the closet." He did as she requested and locked the bathroom door too. As he was just standing up from moving Noin into the closet, he, too, blacked out.
"Sorry guys, I love you both but this is for your own good, trust me." With that she left her partners behind and ran out the door.
*~*~*~*~*
After Trowa and Midii helped Une jump up onto the roof of the shed, Trowa stepped back and jumped up too. Midii followed their lead and landed on the shed moments after Trowa. They all scrambled up the little shed and stood by the door.
"Okay, after this door is still another. The room inbetween is a closet. Don't enter the second door until the count of three. We'll split up and fight off everyone in that room before continuing. Got that?" Trowa and Midii nodded.
They entered the room on the count of three, as planned, and split up before a guard could possibly get a focused aim on them. The only camera was blown out quickly
Midii slowly fought her way towards Trowa, making her path seem by accident. No one noticed when she struck him, only when he fell over, unconcious. She finished off the rest of the guards around Trowa, and ran over to the group against Lady Une. Two by two they fell to the ground, until the last one standing with Midii was Une herself. She looked over to Trowa.
"What happened to Trowa?" she looked back at Midii who also looked over to her fallen comrade.
"I don't know, he was fighting one minute and the next, he was sprawled out on the ground. I went over there to help, and by then, he was unconcious." Midii lied.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course." Une nodded and began to walk over to him.
"We'd better leave him in the closet, can't let him get hurt when these guys wake up." Midii nodded and helped Une, to the point they got Trowa in the closet. She struck Une as well, and caught her as she fell.
"Sorry, no hard feelings?" She closed the doors and and grabbed a few fallen guns. She checked the time. The girls should be all done by now. She smiled and ran down the halls. 'I hope you planned this out right, or we're all going to lose our jobs.'
*~*~*~*~*
Heya! I'm really getting to like this. R&R please! I hope I don't give out too many hints, I want to keep everyone guessing for a bit. Next chapter: Meiran and Dorothy, Invasion and... Betrayal? Part 2