My Last Breath
Chapter One: You Know I Can't Stay Long
By Princess of the Monkey
~*~
He woke up the next morning on the couch. He couldn't remember having getting on the couch, but he figured it was for the best. He wouldn't settle to have the girl sleep on the couch, or the floor. He got up and stretched. He realized he was wearing only an undershirt and boxers, he silently wished she would sleep in, so she wouldn't see him in his boxers. He grabbed a shirt and some pants from his room, being as silent as he could so he wouldn't wake her.
He looked down at her, and smiled. She looked peaceful, and younger than when they first met three days ago at the office. He grabbed a few other needed items, and walked to the bathroom to take a shower.
~*~
Trunks knocked on the door of their apartment. He could hear the sounds of pipes running above him. 'One of them is taking a shower.' His face burned hot with anger at the thought of Goten and ChibiUsa working together. He waited a few moments, before he heard a voice telling him to wait.
The door opened, and ChibiUsa stood before him, wearing a tank top and baggy sweat pants. She saw him and opened the door wider. "Come in," she closed the door behind him, and walked into the kitchen, to the refrigerator to see if there was any juice. Seeing there was none, she sat down at the table and turned on the laptop.
"Where's Goten?" He asked as she typed in the computer desktop password quickly.
"I donno," she started, she clicked on the Internet Explorer button, and typed in a combination of ALT characters, and clicked Enter. "You woke me up."
Goten walked in the room, wearing jeans and a long sleeve white shirt. His wild black spikes were droopy because of the water. He paused. "What are you doing here?"
"I've brought you the supplies you'll need to break in." Trunks said as he pulled a suitcase up on the table.
"Oh." Goten said with a nod. "Ok." He moved over to ChibiUsa and sat down.
ChibiUsa's eyes widen slightly as she checked her email. "Trunks, you're mom is asking a lot this mission."
Trunks nodded. "That's why she put you two together. The best in you're areas." Goten nodded at this statement, Trunks shuddered. "ChibiUsa in sneaking in and out of top security buildings, with valuable information and items. And Goten in assassinating, and memorizing anything." They both nodded.
"She wants us to sneak into the CIA?" ChibiUsa asked surprised.
"No," Trunks said with a laugh. There's a small underground CIA building here. "There's a captured spy in there from our organization. And one of the Most Wanted men alive, we need them both to get some information."
"Have they been torturing our spy?" ChibiUsa asked as she clicked into another email, she read the first line, then blushed and closed the window.
Goten gave her a questioning look, but dismissed it.
Trunks nodded. "Bulma believes so. But we're not entirely sure yet. If she was tortured, she might have let them know a few things they shouldn't know about."
They both nodded; Trunks began to go through the assorted weapons they had to use, and costumes.
~*~
A woman with long black hair pulled back in a sloppy braid walked into a door underneath a highway bridge. She wore thick black glasses; a white collared shirt with long sleeves, black tights, and a black skirt that went up to her knees. She walked down a hall, and typed in a password into a little box she had to unlock with a key. The door opened, she walked in to see people walking around, she was awestruck, how could the CIA keep something so simply accessed to such a secret?
Large computers and machines were set up throughout the room, it was large, and each had a person working on it. Except one, it was off to the side, in a cubical, just as Trunks had promised. She walked in; making sure no one saw her. There was a computer, she smiled to herself, and the desktop was already open, it would save her time.
She pushed the small desk lamp on, and then she began her search. 'Where is Goten?' she thought to herself. At that moment, her headset began to buzz. "Black Flame?" she asked, her voice was low as she continued her search.
"Pink Raven, get the codes quick, we don't have much time."
"I know." She clicked open another window, it began to scan though files. "Found Firefly's code. It's #Kiqrv5093." ~*~
'#Kiqrv5093*' the repeated in his mind. "DCI sent me for inspection." He stated to the guards of Firefly's cell. He flashed them a pass and they moved aside and opened the gate. They walked with him, quietly, taking him to Firefly's cell.
The young girl's wrists were bound, and her hair was cut short, almost bald. Her deep purple eyes had lost the glow they once held. He dismissed the guards with a nod, telling them he was to report on all the prisoners' mental condition, so the DCI could decide whether to keep them or not. They left.
Apart from the girl's cut hair and dull eyes, the girl seemed much different than he remembered. Her arms and legs were bruised to a dark purple, like her eyes. Her skin was much paler than he remembered, and her body seemed to be nothing but skin and bone. She was missing a part of her ear. And some of her teeth were gone. She limped over to the glass so she could look at him.
"Goten-san." she whispered, her voice was hoarse from lack of water. He turned away from her. She shivered.
"I found her, did you turn the system off yet?" he whispered.
"Yes," ChibiUsa's voice. "You have 30 seconds to get her out, then I'm going to undo the other prisoner's security system."
"Thanks." Goten said, as he turned around and began typing the code in.
'#Kiqrv5093' he typed in quickly. The cell door opened, her face seemed to brighten, but she was so bruised and swollen, he couldn't tell. He grabbed her arm and helped her to the next cell, making sure his silent gun was ready to fire if needed.
~*~
ChibiUsa swore under her breath, seeing the other prisoner's cell was much farther than Bulma thought. "Black Flame, it's the last cell down." She muttered.
She typed quickly, her fingers flying across the keyboard.
Something jabbed her bottom. She froze. "How are you today, Elizabeth?" she heard a man's voice say behind her.
How would the woman she had taken the place of act towards this man and his PDA towards her. "Fine." she muttered.
"What?" Goten asked in her ear.
She looked behind her. "Now go please, I have lots of work." The man's face fell, and he walked away. She sighed. "Some guy just poked me in the butt." She muttered. "You're almost there."
She typed in the security code Trunks had given to her, which was written on the palm of her hand. She smiled as the code was accepted. "You're good to go, the code for this one is '_+YrtlFjre55810'"
~*~
"Ok."
He walked up to the gate and slide is pass through it. It opened. He walked in and saw a man, his body was strong and muscular. He moved the headset closer to his mouth. "Is he dangerous?"
"Gray Rat said he wasn't. Tell him who you are, and I think you should be fine. Good luck, Black Flame."
He heard her click the computer off. "I'll be at the park, there's an exit to the park to the left of his cell, he have to type in another code, I'll give it to you in a moment."
"Ok," he walked up to the cell. He typed in the code. "_+YrtlFjre55810" he repeated to himself." The door opened, he smiled, and walked in to help the man out of his handcuffs. "I'm Son Goten, I'm hear to get you out of here." He whispered, "Come on, we have our pick up waiting in the park."
"Pink Raven, give me the code."
"It's '$55KLMtar.'" She said.
"Ok." He slipped his card through a few other doors, and typed in the code. "$55KLMtar." He said as he typed it in.
"There should be a door to your left, slide the key in and walk out, it will look like a power room. There's some clothes in there I want you to put on. For you and the other man, wrap Firefly in a blanket we have in there, carry her out and act like she's just a tarp. Be careful."
"Thanks." he whispered. He slid his card through the lock. The door opened, inside were the clothes she was talking about. Both men put them on over their clothes. 'Firefly' quietly let them wrap her.
They walked out.
~*~
ChibiUsa sighed, as she drove the pickup truck close to the parking lot. She saw them and smiled. How alike they looked. 'It's funny,' she mused. 'To see them together, and for Goten to have no idea at all.' She opened the door and helped them set the girl in the blanket in the back of the truck. She moved to the middle, between the two men, waiting for Goten to drive off.
Goten moved the stick, and the truck moved forward and out of the parking lot.
"Did you set off any alarms?"
"None." Goten said, with a smile.
ChibiUsa looked at the other man, she smiled at him, though he continued to look forward.
"Pull into that lot there," ChibiUsa said, pointing to a lot on their left. "We need to get 'Firefly' out of the blanket."
They pulled over, and helped the girl out. ChibiUsa shuddered at the thought of being tortured. But something about her being in America, and to have been tortured made ChibiUsa wonder. Wasn't it against the law to torture anyone in America. if so, why was the CIA doing it? Did this girl hold valuable information, and ideas that neither she nor Goten could have ever conceived.
Now, 'Firefly' took ChibiUsa's space, and ChibiUsa was stuck lying down in the trunk, under a blanket to remain unnoticed.
But she didn't mind. It was better than having to sit between Goten and the big, scary man, or even the girl, who looked so fragile, she was afraid to put her in the car between the two.
~*~
Trunks sighed to himself as he saw them all off at the airport. "Bye Usa!" He shouted. She smiled at him, and waved goodbye.
'It'll be so long before I see you again.' He thought to himself, as their small jet plane took off. He began walking away as soon as they were in the sky. 'Goten's one lucky guy.'
~*~
In the plane sat the small group. ChibiUsa, Goten, 'Firefly', and the other man, who Goten still didn't know the name of. He also knew that 'Firefly' was not the girl's real name, just her alias.
There was another woman on the plane, but she wasn't the pilot or flight attendant, she was Ami, the weapon expert in his area. She always gave him the tools and supplies he would need to get his mission done. They had worked together for three years.
Ami walked up to the group.
"As you know, ChibiUsa and Goten, this mission was very important. So important, I'm afraid even I don't know half of it's significance. But that doesn't matter. Bulma-san can tell you all about it." She looked over at the man. "You are Gohan, right?"
The man nodded, he had dark eyes, that ChibiUsa said made her feel uneasy, and dark, wild hair like Goten's, but shorter.
"Gohan, this is Goten, and ChibiUsa." Ami looked over at the young girl, who was known as 'Firefly', as she was sleeping on a chair. "And this young lady here." She started with a smile. "Is Hotaru Tomoe, she was caught three months ago in Europe, but the Americans took her away. Now we have her back. She was the best in weapons, better than me." She smiled. "It's amazing the weapons this girl has created."
Goten nodded, he looked over at ChibiUsa, who was looking intently at Gohan, then at Goten. He saw a smile play on her lips, then she pulled out a book and began reading.
The rest of the flight was uneventful.
~*~
End Chapter One: You Know I Can't Stay Long
Chapter One: You Know I Can't Stay Long
By Princess of the Monkey
~*~
He woke up the next morning on the couch. He couldn't remember having getting on the couch, but he figured it was for the best. He wouldn't settle to have the girl sleep on the couch, or the floor. He got up and stretched. He realized he was wearing only an undershirt and boxers, he silently wished she would sleep in, so she wouldn't see him in his boxers. He grabbed a shirt and some pants from his room, being as silent as he could so he wouldn't wake her.
He looked down at her, and smiled. She looked peaceful, and younger than when they first met three days ago at the office. He grabbed a few other needed items, and walked to the bathroom to take a shower.
~*~
Trunks knocked on the door of their apartment. He could hear the sounds of pipes running above him. 'One of them is taking a shower.' His face burned hot with anger at the thought of Goten and ChibiUsa working together. He waited a few moments, before he heard a voice telling him to wait.
The door opened, and ChibiUsa stood before him, wearing a tank top and baggy sweat pants. She saw him and opened the door wider. "Come in," she closed the door behind him, and walked into the kitchen, to the refrigerator to see if there was any juice. Seeing there was none, she sat down at the table and turned on the laptop.
"Where's Goten?" He asked as she typed in the computer desktop password quickly.
"I donno," she started, she clicked on the Internet Explorer button, and typed in a combination of ALT characters, and clicked Enter. "You woke me up."
Goten walked in the room, wearing jeans and a long sleeve white shirt. His wild black spikes were droopy because of the water. He paused. "What are you doing here?"
"I've brought you the supplies you'll need to break in." Trunks said as he pulled a suitcase up on the table.
"Oh." Goten said with a nod. "Ok." He moved over to ChibiUsa and sat down.
ChibiUsa's eyes widen slightly as she checked her email. "Trunks, you're mom is asking a lot this mission."
Trunks nodded. "That's why she put you two together. The best in you're areas." Goten nodded at this statement, Trunks shuddered. "ChibiUsa in sneaking in and out of top security buildings, with valuable information and items. And Goten in assassinating, and memorizing anything." They both nodded.
"She wants us to sneak into the CIA?" ChibiUsa asked surprised.
"No," Trunks said with a laugh. There's a small underground CIA building here. "There's a captured spy in there from our organization. And one of the Most Wanted men alive, we need them both to get some information."
"Have they been torturing our spy?" ChibiUsa asked as she clicked into another email, she read the first line, then blushed and closed the window.
Goten gave her a questioning look, but dismissed it.
Trunks nodded. "Bulma believes so. But we're not entirely sure yet. If she was tortured, she might have let them know a few things they shouldn't know about."
They both nodded; Trunks began to go through the assorted weapons they had to use, and costumes.
~*~
A woman with long black hair pulled back in a sloppy braid walked into a door underneath a highway bridge. She wore thick black glasses; a white collared shirt with long sleeves, black tights, and a black skirt that went up to her knees. She walked down a hall, and typed in a password into a little box she had to unlock with a key. The door opened, she walked in to see people walking around, she was awestruck, how could the CIA keep something so simply accessed to such a secret?
Large computers and machines were set up throughout the room, it was large, and each had a person working on it. Except one, it was off to the side, in a cubical, just as Trunks had promised. She walked in; making sure no one saw her. There was a computer, she smiled to herself, and the desktop was already open, it would save her time.
She pushed the small desk lamp on, and then she began her search. 'Where is Goten?' she thought to herself. At that moment, her headset began to buzz. "Black Flame?" she asked, her voice was low as she continued her search.
"Pink Raven, get the codes quick, we don't have much time."
"I know." She clicked open another window, it began to scan though files. "Found Firefly's code. It's #Kiqrv5093." ~*~
'#Kiqrv5093*' the repeated in his mind. "DCI sent me for inspection." He stated to the guards of Firefly's cell. He flashed them a pass and they moved aside and opened the gate. They walked with him, quietly, taking him to Firefly's cell.
The young girl's wrists were bound, and her hair was cut short, almost bald. Her deep purple eyes had lost the glow they once held. He dismissed the guards with a nod, telling them he was to report on all the prisoners' mental condition, so the DCI could decide whether to keep them or not. They left.
Apart from the girl's cut hair and dull eyes, the girl seemed much different than he remembered. Her arms and legs were bruised to a dark purple, like her eyes. Her skin was much paler than he remembered, and her body seemed to be nothing but skin and bone. She was missing a part of her ear. And some of her teeth were gone. She limped over to the glass so she could look at him.
"Goten-san." she whispered, her voice was hoarse from lack of water. He turned away from her. She shivered.
"I found her, did you turn the system off yet?" he whispered.
"Yes," ChibiUsa's voice. "You have 30 seconds to get her out, then I'm going to undo the other prisoner's security system."
"Thanks." Goten said, as he turned around and began typing the code in.
'#Kiqrv5093' he typed in quickly. The cell door opened, her face seemed to brighten, but she was so bruised and swollen, he couldn't tell. He grabbed her arm and helped her to the next cell, making sure his silent gun was ready to fire if needed.
~*~
ChibiUsa swore under her breath, seeing the other prisoner's cell was much farther than Bulma thought. "Black Flame, it's the last cell down." She muttered.
She typed quickly, her fingers flying across the keyboard.
Something jabbed her bottom. She froze. "How are you today, Elizabeth?" she heard a man's voice say behind her.
How would the woman she had taken the place of act towards this man and his PDA towards her. "Fine." she muttered.
"What?" Goten asked in her ear.
She looked behind her. "Now go please, I have lots of work." The man's face fell, and he walked away. She sighed. "Some guy just poked me in the butt." She muttered. "You're almost there."
She typed in the security code Trunks had given to her, which was written on the palm of her hand. She smiled as the code was accepted. "You're good to go, the code for this one is '_+YrtlFjre55810'"
~*~
"Ok."
He walked up to the gate and slide is pass through it. It opened. He walked in and saw a man, his body was strong and muscular. He moved the headset closer to his mouth. "Is he dangerous?"
"Gray Rat said he wasn't. Tell him who you are, and I think you should be fine. Good luck, Black Flame."
He heard her click the computer off. "I'll be at the park, there's an exit to the park to the left of his cell, he have to type in another code, I'll give it to you in a moment."
"Ok," he walked up to the cell. He typed in the code. "_+YrtlFjre55810" he repeated to himself." The door opened, he smiled, and walked in to help the man out of his handcuffs. "I'm Son Goten, I'm hear to get you out of here." He whispered, "Come on, we have our pick up waiting in the park."
"Pink Raven, give me the code."
"It's '$55KLMtar.'" She said.
"Ok." He slipped his card through a few other doors, and typed in the code. "$55KLMtar." He said as he typed it in.
"There should be a door to your left, slide the key in and walk out, it will look like a power room. There's some clothes in there I want you to put on. For you and the other man, wrap Firefly in a blanket we have in there, carry her out and act like she's just a tarp. Be careful."
"Thanks." he whispered. He slid his card through the lock. The door opened, inside were the clothes she was talking about. Both men put them on over their clothes. 'Firefly' quietly let them wrap her.
They walked out.
~*~
ChibiUsa sighed, as she drove the pickup truck close to the parking lot. She saw them and smiled. How alike they looked. 'It's funny,' she mused. 'To see them together, and for Goten to have no idea at all.' She opened the door and helped them set the girl in the blanket in the back of the truck. She moved to the middle, between the two men, waiting for Goten to drive off.
Goten moved the stick, and the truck moved forward and out of the parking lot.
"Did you set off any alarms?"
"None." Goten said, with a smile.
ChibiUsa looked at the other man, she smiled at him, though he continued to look forward.
"Pull into that lot there," ChibiUsa said, pointing to a lot on their left. "We need to get 'Firefly' out of the blanket."
They pulled over, and helped the girl out. ChibiUsa shuddered at the thought of being tortured. But something about her being in America, and to have been tortured made ChibiUsa wonder. Wasn't it against the law to torture anyone in America. if so, why was the CIA doing it? Did this girl hold valuable information, and ideas that neither she nor Goten could have ever conceived.
Now, 'Firefly' took ChibiUsa's space, and ChibiUsa was stuck lying down in the trunk, under a blanket to remain unnoticed.
But she didn't mind. It was better than having to sit between Goten and the big, scary man, or even the girl, who looked so fragile, she was afraid to put her in the car between the two.
~*~
Trunks sighed to himself as he saw them all off at the airport. "Bye Usa!" He shouted. She smiled at him, and waved goodbye.
'It'll be so long before I see you again.' He thought to himself, as their small jet plane took off. He began walking away as soon as they were in the sky. 'Goten's one lucky guy.'
~*~
In the plane sat the small group. ChibiUsa, Goten, 'Firefly', and the other man, who Goten still didn't know the name of. He also knew that 'Firefly' was not the girl's real name, just her alias.
There was another woman on the plane, but she wasn't the pilot or flight attendant, she was Ami, the weapon expert in his area. She always gave him the tools and supplies he would need to get his mission done. They had worked together for three years.
Ami walked up to the group.
"As you know, ChibiUsa and Goten, this mission was very important. So important, I'm afraid even I don't know half of it's significance. But that doesn't matter. Bulma-san can tell you all about it." She looked over at the man. "You are Gohan, right?"
The man nodded, he had dark eyes, that ChibiUsa said made her feel uneasy, and dark, wild hair like Goten's, but shorter.
"Gohan, this is Goten, and ChibiUsa." Ami looked over at the young girl, who was known as 'Firefly', as she was sleeping on a chair. "And this young lady here." She started with a smile. "Is Hotaru Tomoe, she was caught three months ago in Europe, but the Americans took her away. Now we have her back. She was the best in weapons, better than me." She smiled. "It's amazing the weapons this girl has created."
Goten nodded, he looked over at ChibiUsa, who was looking intently at Gohan, then at Goten. He saw a smile play on her lips, then she pulled out a book and began reading.
The rest of the flight was uneventful.
~*~
End Chapter One: You Know I Can't Stay Long