I couldn't leave it at that so I thought I would be nice and post a whole 2 chapters this evening. I know how some of you hate cliffhangers and I'm a nice person so I'll give you a different cliffhanger instead! :P Enjoy!
Disclaimer - If you had bothered reading the last few chapters you would know by now that I am sorely disappointed about the fact that I don't own Gundam Wing. So there :P
Chapter 4 : Recovering
Duo opened his eyes blearily. God but his nose hurt. He struggled to get up and then realised that to his dismay that he could not get up, for one very good reason. All the other boys were on top of him.
"Aaarrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled as he shoved them all off. All the others were awake after that scream and were looking around simultaneously perplexed and embarrassed. "How the hell did we get like that?" cried Duo.
"I think it was the Furies idea of a joke," replied Heero calmly, rubbing his neck.
"Well if their idea of a joke is a human dog pile then they are sick!!!!!" shouted Duo, shaken. Wufei, who had been fidgeting trying to find a sitting position that didn't hurt, suddenly blanched.
"That's not all they have done."
"What do you mean?" asked Quatre, concerned.
"I mean, that the key to my room has gone," said Wufei grimly. "And with that, I'd bet you my laptop is gone as well."
"You mean whatever they wanted from us, is in your laptop?" queried Trowa seriously.
"What they wanted was information, about Zechs," remarked Heero, standing up "probably his whereabouts."
"It's coded, but its possible that they could find it out," said Wufei, grudgingly.
"Well then we have to find them," said Trowa gingerly getting to his feet.
"Oh yeah? And how do you suppose we do that Einstein?" asked Duo sarcastically. He was still pissed off. "Besides, why do we want to save Zechs anyway, its not like we owe him anything."
"You would condemn a man to death Duo?" asked Quatre quietly, looking solemnly at a now squirming Duo.
"Well no, " he blustered.
"He has a point," commented Heero. Everyone looked round. "How are we gonna find them?"
"I had Trowa put a tracker on one of them when he placed the bug," declared Wufei, pulling a device from his trousers. He flicked a switch and a small beeping noise began. "There." Wufei smiled like a shark.
"Great," said Heero dryly, "but before we go anywhere, Wufei, please get that plait out of your hair."
"What?????" he screamed, suddenly catching sight of the new hairpiece by the side of his face. What he said after this is not worth repeating.
After removing said item they slowly followed the remote out of the house and into the nearby forest. They got deeper and deeper into the undergrowth; Wufei in the lead, Heero and Duo second, and Trowa and Quatre falling back. Suddenly, the beeping stopped. All five held their breath as Wufei gently pulled the creepers back. All five of them gasped.
A huge ship stood before them, a beauty in white, royal and ice blue. It looked like any other Earth craft, but when one noticed the detailed thrusters at the back you got a feeling that anything that tried to keep up with this would be left in the dust, literally.
The boys walked around it (each of them having at least some knowledge of engineering) and admired the fine workmanship and care gone into the building of the ship. Quatre was the first to notice the neat silver characters on the wing.
"Oujiro" he read with awe. The name sounded almost holy in the silence. Duo was the first to break it.
"All right. Let's bust this ship."
The Furies were currently in the medical room, gathered around the figure on the bed. Emma, being hurt the worst (technically the only one hurt at all) was on the bed connected once again to the ship's computer, the program's nanobots working furiously on her injuries. Tasha, ever impatient, was pacing up and down the room like a caged tiger, every so often casting an inscrutable look at Emma. Lauren appeared to be gazing in Emma's direction, but never really seeing her, rather at some mysterious image inside her eye. Louise was tucked up in a chair peevishly, sulking to herself. She had been muttering to herself for sometime but now decided to make one of her more common sentences louder.
"It's not fair!"
"What isn't?" bit Tasha, whirling round to face her smaller partner.
"Leaving them there like that!" snapped Louise, her hair visibly getting bigger. "We could have kept them!" she cried standing up and looking Tasha square in the throat.
"Oh for crying out loud it's the puppy episode all over again!!!" cried Tasha, grinding her teeth.
"Be quiet,"
Both girls stiffened and looked at Lauren, whose eyes were back in focus again. "She's waking up."
The silvery cords attached to Emma fell away, and the lights on the monitor dimmed. The girls leaned over in anticipation. Emma's eyes fluttered open, and then darted around taking in the scene above her.
"Okay everyone a little too close!!!" she shouted.
The girls jumped back.
"She's back all right," commented Tasha.
Emma promptly stood up off the bed and went striding out of the room. Everyone else followed. "Are you sure you're all right?" asked Louise, skipping beside her.
"I'm fine," said Emma harshly.
"Your ribs haven't healed yet," observed Lauren.
"I'll go back in a minute," replied Emma, turning into another room sharply. It didn't look a particularly important room. White and circular, it had windows making up two of its walls, giving a majestic view of the front of the ship. There was a flat, semicircular desk in the middle of the room, with a single chair at it centre. Emma sat in this chair and plonked a complicated-looking headset on her head.
"Are you sure you are up to this?" asked Lauren, the others gathered behind her.
"I told you I'm fine," repeated Emma roughly, leaning back in her chair. A minute later, she was gone.
Meanwhile, the boys had managed to sneak in through an entry door (any alarms being hastily shot afterwards). They were now slowly making their way through the ship. It was perhaps a safety feature built into the ship that it had so many rooms i.e. any intruder would get lost in a matter of minutes.
"We've been down this corridor before," Duo pointed out.
"No we haven't," claimed Wufei strongly, on the warpath.
"We have," agreed Heero, "I recognise the doorways,"
Wufei then opened his mouth to give a rather cutting reply when suddenly the ship gave a jolt and all five were thrown to the floor. The ship had taken off, and they were stuck on board.
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