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the story Everything that's copyright, I don't own it! I only own the plot.
This has the normal pairing: HY/RP, DM/HS, TB/MU, WC/SP. This is my first
fanfic so don't flame me.
Cyberwing: Hihi! I updated once again! Isn't this weird or what? I am typing out new stuff. Bahhaahhaah~~ (what does this have to do w/ anything is beyond me). Anyways, here's the next chapter.
Illusion or Reality-chapter 11
Midii and Relena were walking down the dark hall; the only sound that could be heard was the echo of their footsteps. It had been awhile since the Osteosis' last attacked and the heat detector didn't pick up any more heated bodies except them two.
Midii kept on looking for anything suspicious, she insisted to run over the opened gates whenever they have to pass one. Relena nodded absent-mindedly. She would never run over any closing gates. This was real life, at least which this was the closest thing that came to it. She was not in some sort of matrix movie where she would be able to jump over buildings and come back to life for about ten billion times. Besides, having a gate closing was highly unlikely.
The base shook as a loud rumble sound was getting closer from behind. Midii turned around, using her flashlight to see what's going on. The gates from behind was closing, and it closing doors were coming were closing in their direction. It won't take long before gates in front were closed also.
Midii quickly dragged Relena along. Even so, Relena heard the gate which they've just past through closed behind them.
"We can't get through that!" Relena exclaimed. Not far in front, a metal gate was only a meter away from the ground.
"Dive!" Midii ordered, she quickly plunged forward through the gate and rolled to stop the momentum.
Relena hesitated and dove.
Because of her hesitation, she didn't have much time before the gate touched her back.
Screams could be heard throughout the base.
Herro stood there, dumbfounded. How was Relena able to take his revolver away without him noticing? He could find thousands of reasons to answer that, but he couldn't answer this.
Why was Relena following Misalead's order? Wasn't she supposed to be on their side?
Then he saw it.
"Clones." Herro said as the realization hit him. "They are clones."
Misalead smiled, "Bingo." He wrapped his arm around Relena's waist, giving her a peek in the cheek as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Her glance focused on Herro.
"Are you crazy?" Midii yelled at Relena who sat beside her. "You could have gotten crushed!"
At the last minute, Midii grabbed both of Relena's hands and pulled with all her might. The gate closed as soon as Relena's leg had gotten through.
Relena ignored Midii, she touched herself, checking for any unseen wounds and found none. She let her breath out. Boy she'll never do that again. She thanked God and hoped that her luck would stay with her. With a few more of these kinds of things, she would wind up having a heart attack soon.
She'll have to worry about these kinds of things later. They got a major matter to take care of. How could they get themselves out of this compartment?
Midii sat down beside Relena, exhausted; although she hated to admit it, her body was showing signs of fatigue that should not have happened no matter what. With her like this, she and Relena would have a smaller chance of getting out of here alive.
"There's something I needed to say," Midii said uneasily, moistening her lips. "It's about Merian. We promised each other that if one of us died, the other one would pass on their last words. She wanted to tell her family that she have disgraced them. Stuff like that. Also her husband, Wufei; well she wanted to say that she's sorry for not listening to him, if she did then she would never have gotten here. However, she never regret a minute spend here. She said that she learned a lot here, in this place. That is basically it, if you wanted to make it sound more emotional, be my guest."
Relena nodded, she knew what Midii was trying to say. If Midii died, then Relena would have to be the one to pass on the message. But that would never happen, she is sure of it.
"What about you?" Relena questioned.
Midii shook her head and gave a bitter laugh, "all of my family members are dead. I can 'talk' to them when I died. So I don't have to, what about you?"
"I got nothing to say," Relena said smiling. "I am not going to die."
"I envy you," Midii said quietly, "you got this attitude about not giving up even when you are in the worst situations."
"You don't know when I do for a living that's all." Relena stated. "You got this freedom in life. Not getting tied down to anything and live as what your will tells you to. Rather you believe it or not, my life was predetermined.
I would go to school, graduate from some famous university around twenty- four years old. Then get myself married to a man that my parents have chosen, take care of my kids; and be a good wife. I wanted an exit, at least something that can change my life. I am bored of my life; it's like a story with no rising action; not to mention without a climax. When that change did come -- I wished that the change never occurred.
If the cost of my freedom is my family, then I don't want it. I would rather be locked inside somewhere forever if it means that my father would come back alive." Relena laughed, "I was so stupid. I didn't know what I have in front of me until I lost it completely. I can't believe I am crying over this." She rubbed her eyes."
"Relena the real freedom is when there's a place that you could return at all times." Midii corrected. "What I have is not freedom, it's exiled. And if you think that putting your life on the line; betraying people that trusted you then be betrayed yourself is a good thing. Then I have nothing to say. There's only three things that are true: One, never trust someone completely, no matter how sincere they appeared to be. Two, never follow the mission unless you think it's worth it. Three, never give anyone a chance on taking a revenge on you. That's what I've learned from my instructor and he taught me well. No matter what my enemies are; I'll continue to kill or destroy any one or thing that's in my way because if I die, I am going to take something down with me as souvenirs."
"I guess we both have a life we don't want. However, the problem is that I am no tin control of my life. Politicians may sound pretty but all they do is talk. Guess I am a hypocrite myself also; but you can't blame a girl for at least trying. People just don't understand, peace is never a bargain. It is about people working together to make it work. However, people misinterpret that. You want peace, sure, I want this much stuff from you. If you don't give me those by the end of next month, I am going to terminate this and cancel that. What is wrong with people nowadays? They are not willing to give much but they wanted a lot in return." Relena gave a small sigh, "Who am I to care anymore. I might not make it out of this alive. Yet-"
"I have been wondering," Midii said thinking. "How did you become a politician? I mean you are only."
"I know,' Relena said, "The Darlian family turned out to be my adopted parents. My real last name is Peacecraft, not Darlian."
"Princess of the Sank Kingdom."Midii said giving a small smile, "Come to think of it, I am glad that I didn't kill you when I was ordered to or you wouldn't be here today."
Relena blinked.
Midii explained, "Oz knew who you are a long time ago. It's just that they never thought you as a threat. Later they wanted me to kill you, after they located you at the Darlian's mansion. Knowing Mr. Darlian, he would tell you everything sooner or later. It's the better off killing you while Oz still had the change. Even so, luck seems to be with you all times. Mr. Treize dismissed the mission after he found out you were a little girl. You owe him one big time."
Relena shook her head, "he's dead."
Relena didn't know what to think of Treize. Was he a good guy or a villain? In some ways, he seemed to be the perfect gentleman, looking as if he wasn't the one that caused the bloodshed and wars. Yet on the other, he was the one who wanted-oh she didn't know what he wanted. His actions always confused her. Or was it that the truth about live was that there is no border between black and white; that all of us lived within a grey shaded area?
What's worse? Something frightened her; Oz knew who she actually was way before the death of her father. Midii was the one ordered to kill her. She knew that with Midii's skill, no matter how good her father's security would be, Midii would be able to bypass it and kill her. It wasn't as if Relena felt that Midii would still follow her ex-orders and kill her. If she wanted, she would've done it a long time ago. Why wait up till now?
Even so, Relena began to worry. How long did Oz plan this? If Oz was only executing its plan which had been planned a long time ago-Relene involuntarily shivered. She had seen how Oz slowly took power of the government. She knew its power well and that people were not afraid to abuse it. She began to worry whether Oz had a back up plan. What if they do? It would be difficult to detect when Oz were going to attack. After all, they were in hiding while the Preventers were out in the open.
Relena remembered a saying which stated that 'if you encountered a close-to- death situation, problems and worries in life would mean nothing to you'. Yet she disagreed, even after all the death she had seen and the experiences she went through; to her, death was a terrifying matter.
And it still was.
Splat!
Relena touched her forehead as something warm and wet landed there. Blood. She quickly jumped up; Midii raised her eyebrows as she realized what was happening.
Blood were coming into the room, soaking the girl's shoe. Soon blood was sprayed through the water sprinklers above, covering Midii and Relena with the liquid. It didn't take a long time for the level of blood raised to their knees. At this rate, it wouldn't take long before the whole cell to be flood.
Relena was running around, trying to find a loose metal wall tile, like last time. Midii bit onto the handle of the flashlight as she typed on the computer keyboard, which located beside the metal gate, with both of her hands.
"There's no way out!" Relena screamed, by then blood had already reached her waist.
"Break the code. Damn it!" Midii pointed her index finger on the wet computer screen, trying to decipher the codes.
"Sinner." Letter by letter the words appeared on the computer screen. "Does the scent of blood smell make you feel excited? Of course it does, you thrive to kill remember? You are the Judas after all, betraying everything you can get your hands on for enjoyment. You were the one who ruined your family and friends lives. No, destroy isn't even close, cause of their death would be better word for you. I bet you feel a sense of satisfaction when you watch your family dying one by one in front of you.
Yes? For some weak human emotion called love, you watched your family suffer a painful death; for an unnamed group of mercenaries, your lover deserted you. Do you remember how people pleaded for you help and how you turned the other way? You can't run away from your lust for blood, it is inside of you. You enjoyed hearing people scream in pain, it is like an addiction, a drug; it is something which you cannot live without. You will never be able to get enough of that first night; the night when you turned into Lucifer; the night, where you became a fallen angel and massacred. It happened once, it will happen again so-"
Midii collided her fist with the screen.
Relena jerked her head toward Midii as she half-swam toward her.
Sinner-Judas-- Lucifer. The words on the computer screen seemed to echo in Midii's brain. She gave a bitter laugh, guess it was true, these words do fit her well. Suddenly, Midii felt rage burning inside her. She had never felt so angry before. She hated the world; she hated how things turned out. She tried so hard to let the past bury itself through time, but it didn't work. It never worked. No matter what, it came back to haunt her. No matter wh-
"Midii!" Relena called out and shook the girl. "We have to get out of here, or else we are going be drowned!" The level of blood had already reached her neck.
Midii screamed once again. Relena flinched, so much pain and rage. How can anyone live with these feelings within them?
The liquid was covering Relena's head; she took a deep breath before she grabbed Midii by the shoulder, yanking her to get above the surface also. The flashlight that Midii had fell out of Midii's hand and sank into the bottom part of the liquid. It gave an eerie red glow to the room. Relena closed her eye for a bit, trying to calm her unsettled stomach. She hated the metallic smell and in some sickening ways she could almost swore that the blood was still warm.
At that time, there was only half a centimetre left before the entire cell was flooded.
Relena stuck her head to the top, trying to get as many air in her stomach. She could no longer care about Midii. How could she when she couldn't do so herself? She took one last breath as the room was finally flooded with blood.
I can't believe this! She thought with disbelief, trying to keep her eyes opened. Alls he could see was red, nothing else. Blood was not even transparent! Of the entire place where I can die in, I am drowning in other people's blood!
Relena's lungs was starting to hurt, aching for oxygen. She swimming around under, trying to find some ways of escape in her last effort. Just when she was about to give up, white light shone through the red liquid from above. Relena, in her last effort, swam toward the light and broke through the surface. Taking a large breath of air and had never felt so alive in her life. The level of blood was decreasing why? It was until much later did she realize that someone was opening the gate.
It didn't take a long time before Relena was to be able to stand on two feet. Midii was on her left, she body lied flat on the ground, unmoving. Relena felt a presence and took out her revolver and pointed to the figure, preparing to pull the trigger if she needed to.
Relena had her index finger ready to pull the trigger when someone came into view.
Sally?!
Relena let out the breath she was holding and quickly turned to Midii. She kneeled beside Midii as she put two fingers near Midii's nose.
"Oh god, she's not breathing!"
"Let me take a look." Sally said as she rolled up her sleeves. She tried to felt for Midii's pulse, muttering a curse she started performing CPR on Midii.
Cyberwing: Hihi! I updated once again! Isn't this weird or what? I am typing out new stuff. Bahhaahhaah~~ (what does this have to do w/ anything is beyond me). Anyways, here's the next chapter.
Illusion or Reality-chapter 11
Midii and Relena were walking down the dark hall; the only sound that could be heard was the echo of their footsteps. It had been awhile since the Osteosis' last attacked and the heat detector didn't pick up any more heated bodies except them two.
Midii kept on looking for anything suspicious, she insisted to run over the opened gates whenever they have to pass one. Relena nodded absent-mindedly. She would never run over any closing gates. This was real life, at least which this was the closest thing that came to it. She was not in some sort of matrix movie where she would be able to jump over buildings and come back to life for about ten billion times. Besides, having a gate closing was highly unlikely.
The base shook as a loud rumble sound was getting closer from behind. Midii turned around, using her flashlight to see what's going on. The gates from behind was closing, and it closing doors were coming were closing in their direction. It won't take long before gates in front were closed also.
Midii quickly dragged Relena along. Even so, Relena heard the gate which they've just past through closed behind them.
"We can't get through that!" Relena exclaimed. Not far in front, a metal gate was only a meter away from the ground.
"Dive!" Midii ordered, she quickly plunged forward through the gate and rolled to stop the momentum.
Relena hesitated and dove.
Because of her hesitation, she didn't have much time before the gate touched her back.
Screams could be heard throughout the base.
Herro stood there, dumbfounded. How was Relena able to take his revolver away without him noticing? He could find thousands of reasons to answer that, but he couldn't answer this.
Why was Relena following Misalead's order? Wasn't she supposed to be on their side?
Then he saw it.
"Clones." Herro said as the realization hit him. "They are clones."
Misalead smiled, "Bingo." He wrapped his arm around Relena's waist, giving her a peek in the cheek as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Her glance focused on Herro.
"Are you crazy?" Midii yelled at Relena who sat beside her. "You could have gotten crushed!"
At the last minute, Midii grabbed both of Relena's hands and pulled with all her might. The gate closed as soon as Relena's leg had gotten through.
Relena ignored Midii, she touched herself, checking for any unseen wounds and found none. She let her breath out. Boy she'll never do that again. She thanked God and hoped that her luck would stay with her. With a few more of these kinds of things, she would wind up having a heart attack soon.
She'll have to worry about these kinds of things later. They got a major matter to take care of. How could they get themselves out of this compartment?
Midii sat down beside Relena, exhausted; although she hated to admit it, her body was showing signs of fatigue that should not have happened no matter what. With her like this, she and Relena would have a smaller chance of getting out of here alive.
"There's something I needed to say," Midii said uneasily, moistening her lips. "It's about Merian. We promised each other that if one of us died, the other one would pass on their last words. She wanted to tell her family that she have disgraced them. Stuff like that. Also her husband, Wufei; well she wanted to say that she's sorry for not listening to him, if she did then she would never have gotten here. However, she never regret a minute spend here. She said that she learned a lot here, in this place. That is basically it, if you wanted to make it sound more emotional, be my guest."
Relena nodded, she knew what Midii was trying to say. If Midii died, then Relena would have to be the one to pass on the message. But that would never happen, she is sure of it.
"What about you?" Relena questioned.
Midii shook her head and gave a bitter laugh, "all of my family members are dead. I can 'talk' to them when I died. So I don't have to, what about you?"
"I got nothing to say," Relena said smiling. "I am not going to die."
"I envy you," Midii said quietly, "you got this attitude about not giving up even when you are in the worst situations."
"You don't know when I do for a living that's all." Relena stated. "You got this freedom in life. Not getting tied down to anything and live as what your will tells you to. Rather you believe it or not, my life was predetermined.
I would go to school, graduate from some famous university around twenty- four years old. Then get myself married to a man that my parents have chosen, take care of my kids; and be a good wife. I wanted an exit, at least something that can change my life. I am bored of my life; it's like a story with no rising action; not to mention without a climax. When that change did come -- I wished that the change never occurred.
If the cost of my freedom is my family, then I don't want it. I would rather be locked inside somewhere forever if it means that my father would come back alive." Relena laughed, "I was so stupid. I didn't know what I have in front of me until I lost it completely. I can't believe I am crying over this." She rubbed her eyes."
"Relena the real freedom is when there's a place that you could return at all times." Midii corrected. "What I have is not freedom, it's exiled. And if you think that putting your life on the line; betraying people that trusted you then be betrayed yourself is a good thing. Then I have nothing to say. There's only three things that are true: One, never trust someone completely, no matter how sincere they appeared to be. Two, never follow the mission unless you think it's worth it. Three, never give anyone a chance on taking a revenge on you. That's what I've learned from my instructor and he taught me well. No matter what my enemies are; I'll continue to kill or destroy any one or thing that's in my way because if I die, I am going to take something down with me as souvenirs."
"I guess we both have a life we don't want. However, the problem is that I am no tin control of my life. Politicians may sound pretty but all they do is talk. Guess I am a hypocrite myself also; but you can't blame a girl for at least trying. People just don't understand, peace is never a bargain. It is about people working together to make it work. However, people misinterpret that. You want peace, sure, I want this much stuff from you. If you don't give me those by the end of next month, I am going to terminate this and cancel that. What is wrong with people nowadays? They are not willing to give much but they wanted a lot in return." Relena gave a small sigh, "Who am I to care anymore. I might not make it out of this alive. Yet-"
"I have been wondering," Midii said thinking. "How did you become a politician? I mean you are only."
"I know,' Relena said, "The Darlian family turned out to be my adopted parents. My real last name is Peacecraft, not Darlian."
"Princess of the Sank Kingdom."Midii said giving a small smile, "Come to think of it, I am glad that I didn't kill you when I was ordered to or you wouldn't be here today."
Relena blinked.
Midii explained, "Oz knew who you are a long time ago. It's just that they never thought you as a threat. Later they wanted me to kill you, after they located you at the Darlian's mansion. Knowing Mr. Darlian, he would tell you everything sooner or later. It's the better off killing you while Oz still had the change. Even so, luck seems to be with you all times. Mr. Treize dismissed the mission after he found out you were a little girl. You owe him one big time."
Relena shook her head, "he's dead."
Relena didn't know what to think of Treize. Was he a good guy or a villain? In some ways, he seemed to be the perfect gentleman, looking as if he wasn't the one that caused the bloodshed and wars. Yet on the other, he was the one who wanted-oh she didn't know what he wanted. His actions always confused her. Or was it that the truth about live was that there is no border between black and white; that all of us lived within a grey shaded area?
What's worse? Something frightened her; Oz knew who she actually was way before the death of her father. Midii was the one ordered to kill her. She knew that with Midii's skill, no matter how good her father's security would be, Midii would be able to bypass it and kill her. It wasn't as if Relena felt that Midii would still follow her ex-orders and kill her. If she wanted, she would've done it a long time ago. Why wait up till now?
Even so, Relena began to worry. How long did Oz plan this? If Oz was only executing its plan which had been planned a long time ago-Relene involuntarily shivered. She had seen how Oz slowly took power of the government. She knew its power well and that people were not afraid to abuse it. She began to worry whether Oz had a back up plan. What if they do? It would be difficult to detect when Oz were going to attack. After all, they were in hiding while the Preventers were out in the open.
Relena remembered a saying which stated that 'if you encountered a close-to- death situation, problems and worries in life would mean nothing to you'. Yet she disagreed, even after all the death she had seen and the experiences she went through; to her, death was a terrifying matter.
And it still was.
Splat!
Relena touched her forehead as something warm and wet landed there. Blood. She quickly jumped up; Midii raised her eyebrows as she realized what was happening.
Blood were coming into the room, soaking the girl's shoe. Soon blood was sprayed through the water sprinklers above, covering Midii and Relena with the liquid. It didn't take a long time for the level of blood raised to their knees. At this rate, it wouldn't take long before the whole cell to be flood.
Relena was running around, trying to find a loose metal wall tile, like last time. Midii bit onto the handle of the flashlight as she typed on the computer keyboard, which located beside the metal gate, with both of her hands.
"There's no way out!" Relena screamed, by then blood had already reached her waist.
"Break the code. Damn it!" Midii pointed her index finger on the wet computer screen, trying to decipher the codes.
"Sinner." Letter by letter the words appeared on the computer screen. "Does the scent of blood smell make you feel excited? Of course it does, you thrive to kill remember? You are the Judas after all, betraying everything you can get your hands on for enjoyment. You were the one who ruined your family and friends lives. No, destroy isn't even close, cause of their death would be better word for you. I bet you feel a sense of satisfaction when you watch your family dying one by one in front of you.
Yes? For some weak human emotion called love, you watched your family suffer a painful death; for an unnamed group of mercenaries, your lover deserted you. Do you remember how people pleaded for you help and how you turned the other way? You can't run away from your lust for blood, it is inside of you. You enjoyed hearing people scream in pain, it is like an addiction, a drug; it is something which you cannot live without. You will never be able to get enough of that first night; the night when you turned into Lucifer; the night, where you became a fallen angel and massacred. It happened once, it will happen again so-"
Midii collided her fist with the screen.
Relena jerked her head toward Midii as she half-swam toward her.
Sinner-Judas-- Lucifer. The words on the computer screen seemed to echo in Midii's brain. She gave a bitter laugh, guess it was true, these words do fit her well. Suddenly, Midii felt rage burning inside her. She had never felt so angry before. She hated the world; she hated how things turned out. She tried so hard to let the past bury itself through time, but it didn't work. It never worked. No matter what, it came back to haunt her. No matter wh-
"Midii!" Relena called out and shook the girl. "We have to get out of here, or else we are going be drowned!" The level of blood had already reached her neck.
Midii screamed once again. Relena flinched, so much pain and rage. How can anyone live with these feelings within them?
The liquid was covering Relena's head; she took a deep breath before she grabbed Midii by the shoulder, yanking her to get above the surface also. The flashlight that Midii had fell out of Midii's hand and sank into the bottom part of the liquid. It gave an eerie red glow to the room. Relena closed her eye for a bit, trying to calm her unsettled stomach. She hated the metallic smell and in some sickening ways she could almost swore that the blood was still warm.
At that time, there was only half a centimetre left before the entire cell was flooded.
Relena stuck her head to the top, trying to get as many air in her stomach. She could no longer care about Midii. How could she when she couldn't do so herself? She took one last breath as the room was finally flooded with blood.
I can't believe this! She thought with disbelief, trying to keep her eyes opened. Alls he could see was red, nothing else. Blood was not even transparent! Of the entire place where I can die in, I am drowning in other people's blood!
Relena's lungs was starting to hurt, aching for oxygen. She swimming around under, trying to find some ways of escape in her last effort. Just when she was about to give up, white light shone through the red liquid from above. Relena, in her last effort, swam toward the light and broke through the surface. Taking a large breath of air and had never felt so alive in her life. The level of blood was decreasing why? It was until much later did she realize that someone was opening the gate.
It didn't take a long time before Relena was to be able to stand on two feet. Midii was on her left, she body lied flat on the ground, unmoving. Relena felt a presence and took out her revolver and pointed to the figure, preparing to pull the trigger if she needed to.
Relena had her index finger ready to pull the trigger when someone came into view.
Sally?!
Relena let out the breath she was holding and quickly turned to Midii. She kneeled beside Midii as she put two fingers near Midii's nose.
"Oh god, she's not breathing!"
"Let me take a look." Sally said as she rolled up her sleeves. She tried to felt for Midii's pulse, muttering a curse she started performing CPR on Midii.