Title: Return to Innocence
Chapter Four
Disclaimer: Don't own anything. Except this sad little plot.
Grey metallic doors opened to show a large robot. The frown marring Heero's face was enough to convince everyone of the seriousness of the situation. Heero never frowned. In fact, she didn't think she had ever seen him smile either. Emotions were just foreign to his face...well except for that trademark glare of his.
"That is Quatre's gundam." Heero never even turned around, his monotonous voice carrying loudly in the room. The tan robot – gundam – stood glinting in a room full of bridges and stairs. The obscene amount of gleaming metal in the room would have been enough to blind her, if Heero hadn't been glaring and frowning.
Usagi and three of her four new bodyguards continued to follow the emotional Heero to the ro – gundam in the centre of the room. He finally stopped and turned around to face the group. His eyes were no longer glaring and his mouth was back into its regular straight line.
"We believe that Quatre was kidnapped between the hours of 0300 and 0400. There was also a break-in at the compound where a young nurse was kidnapped as well."
Duo raised an eyebrow, "How do we know that the nurse didn't just go outside of the compound to get some, ahem, action?"
"Not once in her year long residency at the compound has she left the compound. This would indicate an anomaly, as well as the fact that she did not check out with the guards to let them know she had left. An acquaintance of hers went to check in on her at 0600 hours, as per usual, and found that she was not in bed and a possible experiment had been haphazardly left in her lab corner. She was noted for being meticulous as well as extremely punctual."
Usagi stood with wide eyes. Had Heero actually just said all that? "What does all of that have to do with me?"
Heero's eyes narrowed, preparing for a glare, "There is a kidnapper out to get people for unknown reasons. You are going to help us find the reason. You must also know that people may possibly be after you as well."
"Well..."
"Hn..." Heero turned away and walked toward the gundam, fully expecting everyone else to follow him. The clack of their boots echoed loudly against the metal walls. "There is blood on the gundam. It has been tested, and it is positive for the nurse's blood. What she was doing in here, no one knows. The cameras were turned off for an indeterminate amount of time as of now. We will know in two hours."
"What –"
"In the meantime, make sure you don't get killed."
"What was the name of the nurse?"
"Setsuna Meioh. A common Japanese boy's name. Oddly, this nurse was a woman."
Usagi's eyes welled with tears and she ran from the harsh and ugly room. The remaining pilots stared. The mechanical lights hummed with artificial life.
AN: The next chapter will be longer, I swear! I just felt bad about having nothing lately. Sorry, I've been busy with life. So I hope you enjoyed this short little sad chapter. Also, the next chapter will deal with Quatre, Setsuna, and the people from the interlude. And maybe a little of Heero and Usagi.