Scarlet Love
Chapter Twelve:
Revealed Capture
By: NightChild
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As Heero listened, shoving everything from his mind--pain, worries, everything--he discovered (by listening to his captors talk) that he was being held prisoner by an organization of angry, misled, soldiers calling themselves "Neo Romefeller Foundation". It was obvious to Heero, they had to have had someone behind their masses pulling strings…someone who had been in the original Romefeller Foundation; probably someone whom had been in the higher ranks and had a fair amount of finances to toss around.
Just when he thought that they were going to leave the room and let him be, he heard one of the men turn. "You can quit playing possum, Heero Yuy, we know you're not asleep or unconscious." Said the oily voice of the man Heero heard stop and turn.
Eyes snapping open, Heero glared a glare that promised death, a slow, painful death. He looked at the men in the room, one waiting silently in shadows by the rusted, but strong-looking, metal door, the other standing halfway between the medical-like table that Heero was strapped to and the door. Both had the black-and-white uniforms on, complete with the beret-like hat. The man that had spoken (the one in the middle of the room), had dark, tanned skin and near-white-blond hair, the combination setting off the uniform more with added contrast. Before Heero could get a clear view of his eyes, the man turned and left the room.
Losing his forced mental focus, Heero screwed his eyes shut with pain as it ripped through his body [1]. With a great effort, he somehow managed to smash it down and began to think of a plan to destroy NRF, and escape.
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When Duo was able to collect himself and speak without his voice trembling, he looked at Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei. "We need to save him." He stated simply, but the look in his eyes told them all that he was on the brink of sanity, one small push would send him over.
Stepping closer to Duo, Quatre said with all the certaincy he could muster, "We will get him back, Duo." Trowa and Wufei nodded in agreement. Those words and gestures brought a spark of hope back into the crushed, broken violet eyes that were Duo Maxwell's. Seeing this, Quatre continued, "We need to think of a plan to rescue him."
With careful deftness, they set their minds to the task of rescuing one Heero Yuy, currently held captive by Neo Romefeller Foundation, probably being tortured, drugged, and in a great amount of pain.
They had their task cut out for them.
After a few hours of planning, they returned to Heero's house for the weapons they knew he somehow had kept together and then left in the jeep-like vehicle they had arrived in. The former pilots set out, armed as much as they could be with a few grenades, hand-guns, rifles, machine-guns, and some other odds-and-ends, to the location where Duo estimated NRF's current base was; all hoping that they'd reach their destination in time.
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A sharp, short pain in his left arm brought Heero back to consciousness, his eyes flashing open as cobalt lightning. He glanced over to his left arm and saw that a medical needle hung loosely in one of his veins.
Quickly disregarding it, he looked around the room to see if anything had changed. It hadn't. The room was still dingy, dim, the rusted-yet-strong-looking door still shut…he blinked his eyes as the door seemed to flutter like a flag would in a heavy breeze. 'They've…drugged me…' were his last coherent thoughts before his mind became too foggy to form thoughts.
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AN: This chapter is just a little longer that the last one. Wow, 100+ reviews! This chapter is dedicated to Duo Lover 2x1 for being the 100th reviewer, much glomps and chocolate to Duo Lover 2x1.
Please leave excuses for any errors you see in this chapter because I wanted to get it out asap and edited it myself.
[1]: Many thanks to Lynds for helping me with that troublesome sentience.
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Until next time…
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