Chapter 5
The alarm bells were ringing. "Hurry get a doctor!" The old nurse said to the young intern. The slightly panicked girl ran into the hall.
"Code Blue! Code Blue!" The girl shouted into the hall. Sally Po ,who had been down the hall suddenly leapt into action.
"Get the crash cart!" She shouted. The young girl nodded her hands shaking a little as she wheeled the machine into the room. "Charge it to 50." The older nurse nodded taking over.
"Charging."
"Clear!" Sally yelled as she applied the paddles to the young girls chest. The girl's body jumped into the air as electricity ran through through it. "Anything?"
The young nurse watching the monitors shook her head.
"Okay give me 2 ccs of Epi." She turned leaning down beside the girl's ear. "Come on Relena don't do this to me. We need you here. Breath you can do it"
"2 ccs of Epi." The nurse intoned as she gave her the shot.
"Okay again. Clear!" Another head shake. "Charging...Clear!" A pause "Come on Relena! Your stronger than this." She pleaded. " If you die, Heero will have my ass!" She applied the paddles again.
"Wait!" The nurse said indicating a blip on the monitor.
"That's it. Come on...you can do it." She encouraged as there was a long pause. Then another blip and another.
"Her pulse is starting to stabilize." The old nurse replied smiling.
Sally let out a relieved sigh "That was too close."
"You said it yourself. Anyone else would be dead with injuries like that. She's definitely got something that's tying her to this world."
Sally nodded smiling. "Change her drip to 25 per minute." She lightly took Relena's cool hand in hers. "That she does." She replied crypticly.
"Doctor?"
"I'll stay with her for a while."
The two nurses nodded their understanding and left the room.
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"There they are!" A man shouted.
"Shit!" Duo cursed as men on the balcony opened fire. They took cover behind a large drum. "Damn! We're still pretty far away from the front gate. From their position they'll pick us off pretty fast." He flinched from a near miss.
"I'm out." Heero said calm as ever. Trowa calmly handed him another clip before returning fire himself.
"We're going to need some sort of distraction...I know..."
"I'll do it." Trowa said following the same line of thought. "You just get Heero out of here."
"Trow..." Duo began, but Trowa was already up and into motion. "Wait! Trowa!" Duo cried after him.
"Go! Quatre's waiting..." The rest was drowned out by the sound of gunfire. Heero knocked him out of the way of a new barrage of bullets. As he blinked the dirt and dust from his eyes, he frantically looked back for Trowa, but he was gone.
"Duo!" Heero shouted to get his attention. "We have to make it out of here." His voice still as irritatingly calm as ever.
"No. No Way!" Duo shouted suddenly angry. "I won't leave him, you uncaring bastard!."
Instead of answering, Heero roughly grabbed him tugging him away from the shelter to better cover. The firing had eased up a little and they could hear cursing from some of the guards as they were taken down from some unknown assailant. Seeing their chance Duo and Heero took off for the gate turning around occasionally to trade bullets with the remaining guards. Surprisingly more guards appeared from somewhere. The duo pulled up at the last lone barrel before the seemingly vast open ground separating them from the gate. "I'm out. You?" Duo queried.
"One left."
"Shit! This sucks." There was no more cover the rest of the way. They'd have to run for it and hope that none of the gunmen got lucky. "Okay, there's no stopping until we get past the gate on 3? 1...2...3!" They both took off in a zig-zag ducking and dodging bullets. We're not going to make it, Duo despaired as the bullets got closer and closer to their mark. Suddenly there was an explosion, the shock wave knocking them both off their feet. Duo glanced around frantically the whole front of the prison was gone including the watch towers. "Trowa!!!" He screamed.
At that moment a van burst through the gate. "Quatre?" Heero said surprised as he swayingly got to his feet. Duo noticing the state of his friend, forced his full attention to the one that he could actually help. He lifted Heero's arm over his shoulder and ran for the van.
"Go!" Duo commanded as they got in.
"But Trowa..."
"Just go!" Duo emphasized his order by slamming Quatre's foot onto the gas. They were a few blocks away when Quatre spoke again.
"He's gone, isn't he." Silence was his only answer. Quatre nodded to himself his face already wet with tears. Duo briefly put a hand on Quatre's shoulder to comfort him. "Somehow...somehow Duo, we have to make it all stop. " Duo nodded. He glanced over at Heero, who was was looking back behind them. Probably making sure that we aren't being followed, he thought. Then he saw it, the streetlight reflecting off of the moisture in his eyes.
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Sally Po leaned up against the door to Relena's room, struggling to keep her own emotions in check. Noin walked down the hall towards her. Her serious face fell further as she saw Sally's expression. She knew it must be bad if the stalwart medic was showing distress.
"How is she ? " she asked dreading the answer.
"Bad. We almost lost her again."
"Damn those two faced colonists!"
"Noin, we still don't even know if it was the colonists. And if it was we're gonna need proof. They... "
"The Colony has been making threats. They're pissed at the assasination of their duke and they're even more pissed at Heero's escaped. Lady Une and Dorothy are having a time of it trying to keep the confederation under control. "
"Any word from Wufie or ..."
"No. Not yet." Noin sighed.
"Don't worry. If there's something out there. They'll find it."
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Wufie had reached the area that Noin had indicated. She had been recieving reports of unusual activity in the area so she had requested that they take a shuttle at check it out. He had been searching the area for over half an hour and still hadn't found anything out of the ordinary. "There's nothing here. What does that woman want us to find?" He said frustration evident in his voice.
The ice blue eyes behind him, narrowed at the way he referred to Noin. However, when he spoke his voice was calm. "Perphaps, there is something there. We're just not looking for the right thing." Wufie glared at him irritated by his inability to get a rise out of the other man. Zech ignored him. He was very well aware of the other man's frustrations and his tendency to take use it to cause conflicts with others. "Switching to spectral.Maybe there's fuel exhaust...." He broke off suddenly whistling.
"What?" Wufie asked puzzled as he leaned over to look at the display. He suddenly felt a sinking feeling. The area that they were traveling in was a rarely used area. It was prone to stray asteroids and other space debris making it a dangerous place to navigate. Occasionally, a ship would dare to use this use route, but it was very rare. Certainly not enough to show the level of exhaust that they were detecting now.
"Set course to follow that trail. I'll notitfy Noin."
"Do you think..."
"God I hope not or this may well be the end of our era of peace."
Tbc...
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