Damia walks in with a fabulous tan.
Damia - "I have been in Jamaica all christmas break visiting my brother and sister in law. My bro's a marine biologist down there, and he married one of the locals. Her names Khunita and she is absolutely gorgeous. I would wish to look like her, but I know that will never happen. Oh well, I'm just letting you know that I'm back now. Please review. Now where is that muse?"
Wren - "Behind you, and for those who care, Damia doesn't own GW or SM and now you may read the story,"
The center of the building blew first, and gradually worked it's way outward. It seemed to the girls that it was taking forever. Rei and Ami had gone back to sit with Usagi.
"Blow your way out," Usagi suddenly said.
"What?" Ami asked.
"You have Grenades, use one on the door," She explained quickly. Ami and Rei pulled three grenades and tossed them so that they would land directly in front of the door, the ran as far back as they could. Both ends of the hall blew at once. A piece of ceiling landed on Ami, the smallest of them all, and knocked her unconscious, another piece landed on Usagi's already hurt ankle, and the bone came out of her leg. She gritted her teeth against the pain. Rei had scooted up against the wall and was relatively fine, just bruised up a bit, and a sprained ankle and wrist,
"Ami?" Quatre asked.
"Ami's knocked out," Usagi said hoarsely.
"Usagi? Heero asked over the link up.
"The cavalry is here," Duo called, coming through the door that the girls had blown open. he was with Trowa and Makoto. Duo searched and found Ami, lying unconscious on the floor, and saw Rei, pushing against a piece of wall that she was under.
"Makoto, help Rei," Trowa ordered, taking in Usagi's injury with a glance. She had a broken ankle, bleeding profusely, a gash on her forehead, her arm was pinned beneath a piece of wall, and her hair was tangled all over.
"How much do you love your hair?" Trowa asked her.
"Not as much as I love my life," She told him, handing him a razor sharp knife. He cut her hair at about shoulder length and moved the wall off her, they were the last ones out. He carried her to his Gundum and then the building erupted in flames.
"I need to be in Shadow," She told him.
"You are in no condition to pilot Moon's Shadow," he told her.
"I am in any condition that I say I am. now let me go, I need to get Shadow away from here."
"Heero, talk some sense into your sister," Trowa said over a link.
"How bad is she?" Heero asked.
"A broken leg, possible concussion, what looks like a dislocated elbow,"
"Usagi, I you aren't flying Moon's Shadow," Heero informed her.
"I out rank everyone here, you can't tell me what to do. Anyway, how would she get back to the hanger?"
"Usagi, I could move Shadow for you bye remote," Minako answered.
"Last time I let you do that I had to replace her laser sword," Usagi growled.
"I will move her then," Makoto shouted at her from her own Gundum.
"Take me to Makoto," she said to Trowa, who carried the small girl over to her friend.
"Usa, you can't have everything that you want," Makoto told her.
"Let me have a keypad," she demanded. Makoto gave it to her.
"You do realize that the only reason I'm letting you have the keypad is because your the only one that knows all our codes, right?" Makoto asked.
"Hn," she typed in the codes and handed the pad back to Makoto, "Let's go back to my mansion" Quatre said over the speaker.
"you have a mansion?" Minako asked.
"Minako, God damnit, I told you to leave, you really need to learn to follow orders," Usagi said weakly.
"I'll follow orders when they're important,"
"you could have been killed,"
"you almost were killed,"
"that's beside the poi-" Usagi passed out from pain and lack of blood. Makoto looked up ay her brother sharply.
"Get the hell out of here and save her life," he raised an eyebrow and ran to his own gundum. He managed to fit them both in, but he wasn't sure how. He made his Gundum go faster than it ever had before and landed in the woods near Quatre's mansion and ran the rest of the way as best he could.
"Heero, my gundum isn't hidden at all, it's at coordinates J-3, L-9," he kept running.
"I'll take care of it," came the response.
"thanks." he came to the mansion and ran in the garden door.
"Master Trowa," a maid said in surprise.
"Get the Physician and tell him two more like this are coming. As are the rest of the guys, I'll put her in the game rom. he moved to the left and put her on top of the pool table. the doctor came in and looked at her leg.
"Master Trowa, I think that you should have taken her to the hospital," The man told him.
"can you take care of this Maynard?" Trowa asked, locking the double doors to the room and pocketing the key.
"yes, but it will be extremely painful."
"That's fine, fix it quickly." he said the man started to cut and do other things. half an hour later, he was finished.
"She's lost a lot of blood, she may need an infusion,"
"She is Heero's sister,"
"ah," the doctor said as someone pounded on the door. Heero's voice could be heard yelling on the other side. Trowa walked over, and opened the door. Heero ran to his sisters side and looked at her. Her pant leg had been cut off so that the doctor could work, and there were stitches running up it.
"She needs a cast, but I want to make sure that it isn't infected," the physician told him.
"All right, is there anything else that she needs?" Heero asked.
"I am to tired to put her elbow back into place," the man said. Heero nodded and walked around the table. he grasped his sister's arm and tugged. She screamed in pain.
"Oh my god, poor Usagi," Minako cried, burying her face in her brothers chest.
"I thought she was unconscious," Rei said.
"Semi-unconscious," the physician told her, then looked closer. She was limping and holding her right wrist.
"We need you to look at another girl as well, her name is Ami, she is Quatre's sister," Rei told him.
"Let me see your wrist," he asked her.
"If you don't see to my friend this instant, I will kill you," she told him, letting go of her wrist, pulling a gun and pointing it at his head. He complied. They led him to another room. Ami was layed out on a couch in the living room. She looked pale and worn. Her lip was split, she had a lump forming on her forehead, and her clothing was ripped in multiple places. Quatre looked up at the man with troubled eyes. The man knelt and checked the girls pulse and heart rate. He did a once over and then gave Quatre his diagnosis.
"Nothing seems to be broken, but her ribs are cracked and she has a concussion. Keep her quiet and move her to a bedroom." He stood and looked at Rei, "Now, let me see your wrist." she held her right arm out to him and he examined it.
"Well?" she asked impatiently.
"It is sprained, now sit and let me see the ankle." she held out a slim ankle, and he started to check it.
"That hurt," Rei accused when he prodded her flesh
"yes, well, that can't be helped, your ankle is sprained as well. Does anything else hurt?" se shook her head, "good, then that's it, I must look at the other girl again," he walked back to the room where Usagi was. Heero was by her side, holding her hand, no emotion showing on his face. Makoto ran in. It had taken her longer to hide three gundums than she had thought it would be.
"How is she?" she asked. The physician looked at her.
"She is unconscious at the moment, but could wake up at any time," as if on cue, Usagi started to moan.
"Heero," she called softly, "don't leave me alone, I can't be alone, everything is dark,"
"your alright, I wont leave you alone," he told her quietly.
"Usa? are you alright?" Makoto asked.
"Lightning, save yourself, I told you to go, it was an order, he'll hurt you like he hurt me," she muttered irritably.
"Alright Usa," Makoto said. Usagi was quiet once more.
"What was that about?" Heero asked the Physician.
"She may be reliving memories, she may be dreaming, who knows?" the doctor replied.
"can't you give her something for the pain?" Makoto asked.
"not as of yet," the physician told her.
"why not?" she asked.
"I do not know if her leg is infected,"
"So?"
"So if I give her pain reliever, and it's infected, I can't give her the medication to make her leg get better because I could cause unwanted side affects,"
"oh," Makoto sat and looked at her friend. In the living room, Quatre was picking up his sister and taking her to a bedroom, and Duo was checking out Rei, who was the only female now in the same room as him, who was not related. Minako was sitting on a couch, wringing her hands.
"This is not good, why'd S send us on a mission if it was a trap? The square wasn't even in the building," She said to her self. She put her head in her hands, "How am I supposed to fix Cupid?"
"What happened to your Gundum?" Rei asked, sitting on a seat across from her. She had taken of her coat and her brother was now glaring at the outfit she was wearing.
"The new Leo's disabled one of her wings, and ruined her left laser blaster,"
"Did they hit Shadow, or Wrath?"
"Not that I know of," Minako told her friend.
"What about Death Strike?"
"I think her back up boosters are off line, as well as her shield," Minako answered. Heero came through the door with Usagi in his arms.
"I'm putting her in my room," he told the girls, walking out, Maynard following after him.
Minako nodded, "how was Peacekeeper?"
"No damage,"
Heero came back in a few minutes later and looked at the girls. "I think you owe us an explanation," he said evenly.
"Where should we start?" Makoto asked.
"How about with why you didn't tell us that you were the other pilots," Duo asked his sister, accusingly.
"Maybe because we weren't allowed," She told him with unaccustomed spirit.
"Why don't you just ask us questions that you want to know, and we'll answer them," Rei told them as Quatre came in.
"Who do you work for?" he asked them.
"Dr. S," Makoto answered.
"When did you get your gundums?" Duo asked.
"When we were ten," Minako told him.
"when did you find out that we were the other gundum pilots?" Heero asked.
"When Relena told us in the hall," Makoto told him.
"Why didn't you tell us who you were then?" Wufei asked.
"because we didn't feel like it," Rei answered.
"what did Usagi mean when she said that she out ranked everyone there?" Heero asked.
"Usagi is about a level under the doctor, she helped to create the zero system, and she is our leader," Minako answered.
"An Onna helped create the zero system? Injustice," (if I have to say who said that, I will be very disappointed)
"If you keep calling us Onna's and don't start using our names, you will be hurt," Rei told him.
"a weak Onna like you?" he asked.
"that's it," she pulled a gun and pointed it at him, "brother or not, I do not like being called weak, and I will hurt you more than you can imagine," she lowered her aim to between his legs, "I don't have to kill you, I can just make you sing soprano for the rest of your life,"
"whoa, isn't that a hitting a little below the belt?" Duo asked.
"Duh, that's where she's aiming," Minako told him while Makoto muttered something about them definitely being related.
"Can you please put the gun away so that we can ask more questions?" Quatre asked.
"Like what?" Rei said sitting down.
"Like who gave you the mission last night?" Heero asked.
"Dr. S," Makoto answered.
"yeah," Rei said, turning to her friend, "but there is something that has been bothering me,"
"Like what?" Makoto asked.
"The compound was pretty much empty, and when Usa told Ami to check and see why, Ami found out right away that it was a trap, and that the whole place was being run by a skeleton crew of expendables. Ami didn't even have to try. So the Doc should have found out easy,"
"Dr. J told us that our mission was to destroy the base at 2300," Heero told her.
"WHAT? that means you were late, not early," Minako cried.
"What do you mean?" Duo asked, looking at her.
"I mean, the Doc told us that you would be there at 2430," she told him.
"something isn't right," Duo muttered.
"no shit," Rei said.
"has anyone ever told you to be nice?" Duo asked her.
"Has anyone ever told you to shut your overly large mouth?" Rei shot back.
"Many times," Duo replied.
"not surprising," Rei muttered.
"PMS at it's best," Duo muttered.
"Excuse me?" She yelled.
"Are you sure that Dr. S was the one that sent you the email? because Dr. J usually talks over a cam," Quatre interrupted the two.
"Who else knows that we're pilots?" Minako asked.
"Yeah," Makoto added, "We're the best kept secrets in the entire war,"
"Not anymore," Rei muttered.
"Dr. Q," Minako said suddenly.
"Dr. Q?" Heero asked.
"Dr. Q was this evil bitch that nobody liked." Rei said.
"yeah, she sold secrets to OZ and when the Doctors found out, she was sentenced to death," Minako explained.
"BUT," Makoto said suddenly, "For some reason, on the day of her execution, someone changed the order and decided she only needed to have her memory erased,"
"Then, like two days after her memory was erased, she disappeared and no ever saw her again," Ami concluded, coming through the door. Quatre and Heero, who were next to the door, helped the girl sit down. "thank you," she told them. Quatre smiled and Heero glared.
"Why would this Q sell out her partners?" Trowa asked, speaking for the first time.
"Wow, it spoke," Minako said. She got glares from Trowa and Makoto.
"We're not entirely positive, only Usa knows for sure, and she's out of it at the moment," Ami informed them.
"Why is Usagi the only one that knows?" Quatre asked his sister.
"Usagi was the one she kidnapped to give to OZ," She told him.
"Why did someone kidnap my sister, and why didn't she stop it herself? She seems able enough to take care of herself," Heero asked.
"She was only eleven," Rei said quietly.
"She couldn't stop her, because Q used drugs," Makoto added.
"She was gone for three weeks, and when she came back, she was different. Like she didn't care what happened to herself as long as we were all safe. She killed a man who suggested selling Rei and myself to OZ. Point blank range, in the middle of a peace conference, without a thought and then told the rest of the council that she would not hesitate to kill anyone with like thoughts," Minako said.
"First, why would they want to sell you to OZ, second, why would she kill the man for a suggestion," Duo asked.
"Because OZ officials are monsters who do not deserve to live. The man thought that if he gave or sold some of us to OZ that it would show OZ that we were interested in peace and equality. Usagi knew that it wouldn't work," Makoto said.
"What exactly happened to Usagi," Duo asked.
"things that should never happen to any girl, and especially not a child," Rei growled.
"What the hell happened to my sister?" Heero asked.
"Use your fucking imagination, think of the worst in your mind and it was probably done more than once," no one had ever seen Ami so mad before, "Usa fought with the man that she was supposed to go to, so he gave her to his guards as a play thing. That was two days after she had been taken and we couldn't rescue her until three weeks later. She still has nightmares."
"Did she ever talk about it?" Quatre asked.
"She talked to Dr. S, and none of you are to talk to her about it, or I will personally see you go to hell," Rei told them.
"Cranky," Duo muttered.
"omega o Koreas," Heero said, pulling his gun out and pointing it at Duo's head, "She only gets to send you if I don't get you first,"
"I get it," Duo said, hands raised.
"Poor girl," Wufei said, much to everyone's surprise, "What?" He asked, getting defensive at the weird looks he was getting.
"Wu-mans getting soft," Duo crowed.
"MAXWELL! your braid is mine," he pulled out his ketana and started to chase Duo around the room. Duo hid behind Minako.
"Hiding behind a weak onna Maxwell?" Wufei cried, "injustice,"
"hey," Duo started, "my sister's not weak,"
"is that why you hid behind her?" Ami asked. Wufei glared at Minako.
"BOO," Minako giggled and moved out of the way.
"That's not fair," Duo shouted, running around the room in circles, trying to keep his precious (not to mention adorable ^_^ ) braid from Wufei's ketana.
"omae o korosu," Heero said, pointing a gun in Duo's face. Duo cringed and jumped behind Rei's chair.
"help," he whimpered.
"Braided Baka," Rei muttered with a smile.
"Duo, do you really think I would let him kill you?" Minako asked with a smile.
"you were going to let Wu-man cut off my braid," Duo accused.
"MAXWELL, repeat after me, W-U-F-E-I, WUFEI," the man with the ponytail yelled.
"yeah, I get the picture Wu-man," Duo said.
"THAT'S IT, you cannot have the braid," they started the chasing thing again, this time to be stopped by a loud scream.
"USAGI," Ami yelled, running in the direction of the scream. Heero was right behind her, and when another scream came, he sped up and passed her. She followed hard on his heels. When they came to a bedroom, Usagi was being held down by two men, and Maynard was trying to put a needle in her arm. Heero pulled the men off his sister while Ami knocked the syringe from the physician.
"What were you doing?" Ami demanded.
"I was going to give her sedative," the man replied.
"Why were those men holding her?" Ami asked as Heero threw the second of the two men out the door and turned to the physician.
"When I was going to give her the shot she woke up and started to fight me, I had to have Manny and Jon come in to hold her down so that she wouldn't hurt herself more, but she started to scream when they came in," he told them while wringing his hands.
"Get out, I'll give her the shot," Ami ordered.
"but," the man started to argue.
"I am a fully qualified Emergency Medical Technician, no matter my age, now get out," She ordered, steel in her voice. The man left quickly. She closed and locked the door, then knelt and picked up the siring. Usagi was sobbing in Heero's arms. Ami put the needle on the table and sat next to the girl and her brother.
"Don't let them hurt me," She cried brokenly.
"I wont," Heero promised.
"Usa, I am so sorry that that happened," Ami told her friend. Ami had been the one that had gone in for Usagi. She herself had seen what was happening to her friend.
"Ami, you're always there when I need you most," She sobbed, turning to her friend.
"Oh, Usa, I'm sorry about that, I mean," she was cut off by Heero.
"Usagi, Koneko, Ami was unconscious until about ten minutes ago, She didn't even know that the doctor was male," He told his sister.
"Ami," Usagi said, suddenly mad, "how dare you come running in here when your hurt yourself? Am I going to have to handcuff you to your bed again?" she wiped tears from her eyes.
"Again?" Heero asked. Ami made a face and Usagi giggled.
"She caught pneumonia and kept trying to go out on missions with us. Finally, I got fed up with her showing up halfway through a battle because she had to bypass the security and doctors. Plus, she ended up worse than any of us in the end," Usagi told him.
"I did not," Ami said. There was a knock at the door.
"Are you guys all right?" Makoto called through the door.
"We're fine," Heero called back. They heard the sounds of retreating feet.
"Ami, you did to,"
"Well, maybe so, but I had pneumonia," Ami protested.
"That was my point in the first place," Usagi said.
"yeah, well, you have a broken leg and you were trying to pilot Moon's Shadow," Heero told her.
"I couldn't feel it anyway," Usagi told her.
"How badly broken?" Ami asked.
"The bone went through the skin, but she also had a dislocated elbow," Heero told her.
"And you were trying to fly!? Usagi, your worse than I am," Ami told her.
"Moon's Shadow protects me, she keeps me safe, she's strong," Usagi said quietly.
"Usa, you need to sleep, here," she picked up the syringe, "I'm going to give you the shot, and then you'll be fine," She gave Usagi the sedative.
"Stay with me, please? Don't leave me alone," She asked them, fighting to keep her eyes open.
"We wont go Usa,"
"Promise?" She asked.
"We promise, Koneko," Heero told her.
"Will you keep me safe?" She asked.
"Of course," Ami answered.
"Heero?" She asked.
"yes?"
"Will you make sure that Ami keeps safe? Don't let anyone hurt her?"
"yes," he answered. She fell asleep and Ami stood with a groan.
"Are you okay?" Heero asked her.
"ow, fine," she said.
"Here," he went to her side and helped her over to the chair.
"AAAHHHH," she cried loudly as she put her hands to her ribs. Heero picked her up and laid her down next to his sister on his king size bed. He walked to the wall and pressed an intercom.
"Maynard, come up to My bedroom," Heero ordered.
"yes Mr. Heero," came the reply. In two minutes there was a knock on the door. Heero opened it and Maynard came in, with his bag.
"Ami," Heero said pointing at the girl. Ami was now extremely pale, and her hands fluttered over her ribs. Maynard walked over to the blue haired girl and felt her sides softly. She cried out in pain. He looked up at Heero.
"It seems that I may have made a mistake," he told the boy, "I thought her ribs may have been cracked, but now I think they were fractured ar had thin breaks."
"What does she need?" He asked.
"First, I will have to bind her ribs, then I will need to give her a sedative,"
"Alright," Heero answered.
"No sedative, I'm allergic," Ami said hoarsely.
"No sedative," Heero told the doctor.
"Fine," he sat the girl up, ignoring the grunts of pain, and cut off her top with a pair of scissors that he had in his bag, she was only wearing a powder blue strapless bra. Heero turned and pulled out a button up blue shirt. Maynard looked at the girls lower chest. It was a mass of purple and black bruises. "This is going to hurt quite a bit." he told her.
"Just do it," She told him quickly. He pulled out a large bandage roll and started. Ami clenched her teeth and balled her fists until the knuckles were white.
"Done," The man said shortly.
"Thank god," Ami said, falling back against a pillow. Heero looked at Maynard and then pointed to the door. He took the hint and left. Heero walked over to the girl with the shirt.
"uh," he looked at her and frowned. She looked up at him weakly, with pain filled eyes. He sighed, this was really not his day. He leaned her up a bit.
"What?"
"I'm putting a shirt on you," She relaxed and put her arms through, but her arms collapsed at her sides after that.
"Are you okay?" he asked her.
"It hurts when I breath," she told him. He started to button up the shirt, red tingeing his cheeks slightly.
"done," he said quickly.
"Heero? Are you blushing?" she asked softly.
"What are you talking about?"
"You are," she smiled and said something to soft for him to hear.
"What?" he asked. She said it again, but it was still to soft to hear. He leaned down next to her so that he could hear.
"You really are cute when your embarrassed," she said, smiling softly.
"yeah, well black and blue don't go well together when you're wearing it on your skin,"
"I'm touched that you would care,"
"of course, you are my sister's friend,"
"but so are the other three,"
"they're not here right now," he said gruffly.
"And if they were?"
"I don't know,"
"will you stay until I sleep?"
"Fine,"
"Sit next to me," She scooted a little closer to Usagi so that there was more room. He sat down on the bed. She yawned and put her head on his shoulder.
"Heero?" She asked a few minutes later.
"What?"
"Did you mean that?"
"Mean what"
"When you said that you wouldn't let anyone hurt me?"
"yes,"
"really?"
"Hn,"
"good," he looked down at her in surprise as she snuggled against his arm.
"go to sleep," he told her.
"you first,"
"I don't need any," he told her. she started to shiver. He picked her up, pulled the covers back, and put her back down, then he went around and did the same to Usagi.
"Heero?" Ami asked softly.
"Hn,"
"I thought you were going to stay with me," She said. He sighed and got back on top of the covers and sat down next to her. she snuggled against him and quickly fell asleep. A few minutes later, he followed suit.