A.N. so much feedback! I is sooo happy ^^ lol
Her breathing came in shallow breaths.
How could this be the wild girl I had gotten from the woods? Treated like a pet in the early years, and soon treated as a sister?
Where was she?
I held her fragile hand while Touma wept on the other side of her. She was hooked up to all sorts of wires, and she was nearly covered head to toe in bandages.
"Don't do this to me Kitten.. please…wake up." Touma wails and I feel my own tears pouring out of my eyes.
It's not fair! I want to scream. She can't die! She's my best friend, she's my overprotective little sister!
I want her back.
I burry my head into her hand.
It's so big and muscular.. so warm…still. How can her hands be so warm?
They were always warm… so very warm….
I will miss these hands.
No! Don't think like that!
She's going to make it!……. Wont she?
Her heart beat.. it's so slow! Damn it wake up!
"Wake up!…wake up…" I sob, as I burry my face in the blankets next to her side. I pound on the bed railing.
"Wake up! Wake up damn it!" I scream in utter anguish. Touma is now wailing as he holds her hand.
It's getting colder.
"No! NO!" I squeeze my eyes shut and shake my head back and forth slowly. When I open them, her breathing is rapid and Touma is screaming her name over and over.
The beeps are getting slower.
"It can't be! It can't be! IT CAN'T BE!" I scream at the ceiling and drop her hand as her breathing begins to slow.
"CLOUD!!" the resounding 'beep' resounds through my ears and I begin to scream and thrash, holding my head in my hands.
Everything hurts, and Touma is screaming along with me, he's crying, he's saying none sense.
Family.
Children.
Marriage.
I feel my knees crumble under me, and I pound on the marble floor.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! IT'S NOT FAAAAAIIIIRRR!!!!"
"CLOUD!!!!"
003 buries her face into 009's chest hearing the anguished screams, and there is a silence, only filled with tears and sobs.
One of their own…. One they barely knew… show could she be gone?
An explosion rocks the house and it's up to full alert. Suddenly, new screams fill the air, coming from downstairs.
It's an ambush, and both Mitsuko and Touma have been taken hostage.
"Let's go!" 004 yells and gets out his blaster.
"Where the hell is 002? As if loosing a member isn't bad enough, he's not even here to help!" 006 spouts in anger.
"Forget him, for now! Let's go! We can't loose another!" fighting back tears and anger at not being able to grieve, 009 forces the team to assemble, and they run out the door.
"Be careful!" Dr. Gilmore yells after them.
It is time to fight.
~*~
"So… how many are there?" 008 asks, his eyes narrowed as he holds his blaster close. 003 wipes her eyes and her eyes widen, using her radar.
"A hundred.. no two hundred!" her voice is choked and strained in anguish. 009 gently hugs her.
"It'll be alright."
"I just want peace."
"We all do.." 007 said softly.
"We have to fight now, but soon.. very soon, we will live in a perfect world.." 004 said, eyes downcast.
"let's get the job done right this time!" 006 says loudly and blasts a few of the cyborg drones with his fire.
A sudden scream catches their attention and they stare as another bug type cyborg holds 0015 and Touma in the air. They are bound in a silkish cocoon type wrap, and both are still crying.
"Let them go right now!" 009 says with a frown, his eyes narrowed.
There is only so much one can take in a day!
"Ha.. foolish cyborg." A new voice penetrates their ears and 004 pushes the safety switch from his hand gun and holds it.
"Now."
"Lord Giovanni wishes to claim the cyborg." He separates Touma from 0015 and snarls at him, throwing him carelessly. 009 uses his supper speed to catch him and gently set him my 003 who checks to make sure he isn't hurt.
She is startled to find his eyes… they are clouded over, glazed, and he is obviously in grief.
"Who the heck is Lord Giovanni?" 007 asks, scratching his head.
"Listen and you might find out." 008 smirks a little.
"Foolish cyborgs, leave and we will not harm you." The insect cyborg states, holding 0015 in a claw and dangling her over the edge of the cliff they were on.
"Your choice." He says, and the two hundred or so cyborg drone ready their weapons in unison, aiming it at the small circle of cyborgs.
"We could really use 002 right about now!" 007 says and readies his blaster. 003 wipes her eyes once more before taking her own blaster from its holster.
"Attack!" the insect bellows and the drones begin to close in.
"Hold them off as long as you can! I'm going to try to clear a path so 009 can try and rescue 0015!" 004 yells and begins to fire his hand gun, using his other hand for the blaster.
He clears a line of soldiers with 009's help.
"Thanks 004!"
"No problem!" 004 gives a thumbs up and then sets his face into that of determination as he begins to shoot the drones, wincing as a bullet grazes his left side.
"There's too many of them" 003 yells as she watches 009 disappear, while trying to keep the drone cyborgs at bay while at the same time trying to protect Touma.
"Keep trying 003!" 007 calls, one eye closed and swelling where one of the drones had punched him. He slams his fist through another one's stomach and then blasts another's head off. He winces and presses his belly button, transforming himself into a bigger 007, and starts to fight them that way.
006, meanwhile, is switching on and off with blowing distress signals to 002 and blowing enemies into cinders as they try to enter the mansion through the hole they had burrowed to get to Touma and 0015.
"You wont get past me!" he blew another stream of fire, melting the metallic cyborgs on the spot.
Suddenly, a high pitched scream erupted and there was a pause.
009 had been impaled by a claw, and 0015 was slipping from the other.
"This is the end of you cyborgs!"
TBC
A.N. did I REALLY kill off one of my favorite characters? Will 009 die? What bout 0015? Are they ALL going to die?!
