Crazychickie4life: Okay I knew that there would be some angry reviews there for what I did to Relena. Don't worry though, Josh and Kayla will get their share of pain soon..... * laughs evilly *. Anyway, I was expecting some flames and I got em but hopefully as of now they won't be any more of those..... well maybe you might for this chapter, but after that no more! Would ya like me to give away a little portion of the story? Don't go ballistic over the ending of this chapter Relena is one of the main characters...and how am I supposed to write a sequel without her..This is NOT a death ficcy so you can be assured she will be alive and healthy like a bouncing baby boy by the end of this story if I have to hang myself in the process! You will be happy with the outcome! * smiles determinedly * Anyway here you go........

Chapter 17: Loosing grip

Heero's POV

It had thankfully taken less time then he had thought to retrieve the Gundam's. They were now on their way to the warehouse, all preparing for the worst. It had been a full day since Relena was kidnapped and they weren't sure if they were going to find her alive or not.

They were about to touch down on the colony when Quatre stopped them from going any further.

"Ok guys, what do we do know? Are we just going to hang around or are we going to barge in there?"

Heero immediately took charge as leader of the mission and began giving orders to everyone, quickly and putting it plainly.

"This is how it's going to work. Trowa and Wufei, I want you two to go and create a distraction. Shoot at the ground around the building I don't care just get there attention away from the east side of the building (where Relena was...East basement) Quatre and Duo I want you two to scower the place for them and when you find them, don't be afraid to use force. And I will go and find Relena."

Once everyone had agreed to the plans, they all set out to do their jobs. Trowa and Wufei instantly began shooting their weapons at he west side of the building, only using mild force, not wanting to blow up the building. Quatre, Duo and Heero all got out of their Gundam's and set out to do their jobs.

As soon as Heero was out of Zero he ran to the building as fast as he could and pulled out his gun. He began to carefully enter it and check around every corner for any signs of Josh or Kayla. He finally found the entrance for the basement and rushed down the stairs, chilled to the bone at how cold it was.

He searched in every room but couldn't find Relena. Finally he came to the door at then end of a very narrow and long hallway and opened it.

Nothing could have prepared him for what he now saw in front of him.

Relena's POV

Josh and Kayla had come in a few times during the day. Each time they had took turns beating on her as if she were their personal punching bag. Her body was drained and ached from the pain they had bestowed on her, but she dared not close her eyes in fear of one of them trying to do something she didn't want to even think about.

The door, which she hadn't seen until Josh had come in on their first encounter, opened to reveal Kayla alone. She looked at Relena with a disgusted look on her face and slowly pulled out a weapon from her pocket. The weapon was a gun. Relena realised but she felt relieved that after all this pain, her life was about to end and she'd never feel his type of pain again.

But Kayla only smirked at her as if reading her thoughts she said. ....

"Oh you think I would be kind enough to just kill you now? Why would I do that when I want to see you suffer first?"

With that Kayla shot a bullet into Relena's right side, just below her ribs and into her stomach. Most likely hitting a few organs on the way. Relena screamed in pain and her body yet again squirmed in a spasm she couldn't control. Yet again Relena blacked out shortly after Kayla left. She knew that she'd most likely die of blood loss now, and Josh and Kayla were getting their wish. She was being tortured until the last minute of her life.

Heero's POV

Heero ran to her side. She was chained to the floor. Her body spread out. She was also undressed and shivering. Her body contained several bruises and her face looked as if it had been punched a few times. A pile of blood was coming from her right side and she was as pale as a ghost. Her eyes were closed shut tightly and she was crying in her sleep.

Who would want to hurt such a beautiful creature? Why would anyone do such a cruel thing to such a smart, caring and funny person? She deserved to be treated like an angel and these people were treating her as if she were dirt. Heero began to feel very angry with the people who did this to her, and anger towards himself. He should not have left her alone, he should have been there watching her the whole time.

Heero took out a pair of bolt cutters (A.N it's a tool people, and let's pretend Heero carries one around with him just in case of situations like these *^ _^ ) and cut until the weak chains binding her to he floor came undone. When he released her from her tight bonds he saw that her ankles and wrist were all bruised and bloodied probably from her straining to release herself.

Heero examined Relena's bullet wound, but found that it was too deep to try and pull out the bullet, so he took off his T-shirt he was wearing, and quickly slipped it over her head. The shirt came down her fragile form to just above the knee.

Heero checked for a pulse and found one (A.N kind of obvious when she was shivering huh? ^ ^ ) He then picked her up bridal style, gently as to not hurt her more and cautiously moved to the stairway at the end of the hallway. He reached it without any encounters. When he got outside of the building, he found Wufei and Duo beating the crap out of Josh and Trowa restraining Kayla. Quatre rushed up to Heero and did a quick sweep over Relena. By now Heero's shirt was soaking in her blood and it was obvious that she was dying.

"We need to get her out of here now!" Quatre stated grimly "I know that, but how am I supposed to transport her from here to the nearest hospital in a Gundam that has no space?"

"We'll just have to manage, her life is on the line. You take her now and I'll stay here and call for preventors to come pick these two morons up." Quatre looked behind him to acknowledge the rest of the pilots and the two captors.

Heero wasted no time rushing to Zero and with Quatre's help, they had managed to put Relena in an 'as comfortable as it was going to get' position, which put Relena in Heero's lap, her head resting under his chin.

Heero called into the nearest hospital and told them to get staff on hand. He then flew Zero as fast as he could to the hospital and the whole time he prayed that she would survive. He could feel her slipping from his grasp as her blood flow increased onto his bare chest.

"Come on Relena stay with me!" Heero pleaded with her

But still she didn't answer to his calls. She was in a deep sleep and all he could hope for, was that she would eventually wake up from it. He would kill himself if she didn't make it out of this alive. It was all his fault, this would never have happened in the first place if it hadn't been for him.

Finally they made it to the hospital, and he landed as smoothly as he could in his Gundam. He then rushed Relena out and too an awaiting gurney and staff. They placed her on the gurney and wheeled her into the building. They had taken her away from him.

He wanted to be by her side, but he knew he wasn't allowed to. So yet again he was forced to sit on a hospital chair, cold and gross from all the people whom had sat on it before him, for who knew how many years.

The anticipation of finding out if she was alright or not was killing him inside. He was very angry now that Josh and Kayla had managed to hurt his Relena. He was going to make them pay for what they did to her. He vowed they wouldn't live for much longer especially if she didn't survive.

Relena's POV

Relena had awoken from a very deep sleep to bright white lights that nearly blinded her eyes. She tried to move but couldn't, it was like some unknown force was holding her down. She felt like she was on a cloud floating away and then suddenly she was on a rainbow slide, sliding down, down, down and on the way she was greeted with different objects such as a bird flying. She looked at the world in wonder the colours were so bright...oh look! There was a kite with a smiley face on it! She giggled at how silly it looked with a clown with a huge smile pasted on its face, chasing after it. Then she saw funny green men hopping around on soft grass.

Was she dead? She had the urge to ask someone, anyone, but no one she seemed to be able to talk to would stay near the slide for more then a few seconds before she went further and further down into another world.

'Oh well' she thought to herself 'If I am dead, it doesn't matter because for some reason I don't feel the pain anymore, and this ride is fun!'

But then all of a sudden the slide disappeared and so did all of the funny colourful objects that had once floated past her. She was suddenly falling into no destination in particular. Her world went dark and she drifted off into nothingness. Only to hear

"We're losing her!"

But she couldn't find the source of the voice, because she was suddenly numb and the darkness over took her.

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What's up with the Rainbow business you ask?

A.N ok you guys, your probably wondering what Relena was going through there.....like the Rainbow slide business. Well don't worry, it's alright to be confused. Have you ever gone to the dentist, and they put laughing gas on you when they pull some teeth or do cavities? Well have you ever thought you were on a rainbow slide...or is that just me? Because I know I've been on a rainbow slide before...SERIOUSLY! * mumble * and then I bit my dentists finger by accident ^ ^ * mumble *

Anyway, Relena was given some type of sedative that didn't exactly put her to sleep, but kept her from feeling any pain of the operation, kind of like laughing gas, because they didn't have enough time to inject that I.V stuff into her system. But don't worry, along with the laughing gas/type junk, they injected a wee bit of morphine, thus the results of her seeing funny object out of nowhere.

SO that's the explanation on that. And don't worry Justice will be served Josh and Kayla will get their pain soon!