Chapter 8: A devosion beyond Reason
It had been days since the kidnapping and it was the topic of the week on everyplace in the world and colonies. No leads, no traces, nothing nadda zilch! It left people perplexed and confused. Everyplace was put on high alert as every colony searched high and low for any trace of the girl's, but all leads ended dead.
Shasta slowly opened her eyes to a dark prison cell. She acked all over her body from the pain of the kidnapping. Aileen huddled still unconcious in a corner. Shasta's vision was blurry as she looked around trying to keep conciousness. All she could make out were, a bed, a sink, and a door.
Shasta tried to stand but screamed and fell to the ground as pain sugered from her body. Her ribs hurt so bad along with her leg. The doctor told her not to have anything hit her head incase of her going back into a coma for any reason, just to be safe. She heard footsteps comming near to the door.
It opened and revealed a guard. He was at least 6 foot three! His hair was red and had a black fatigues on. His eyes were cold and emotionless.
"Who screamed?" asked the guard apparent annoyence in his voice.
"What's it to ya!?" shot back a glaring Shasta as she got up gripping her ribs tightly. The guard approached her.
"Brat! You don't say that in here!" yelled the man as he smacked her face across her right cheek.
"You have no right to hit me!" yelled a now flaming Shasta as her right cheek with the deep cut reopened as blood came pouring down her cheek. Someone stepped into the cell and walked toward the two that were about to claw eachothers eyes out.
"Captain wants to see the girls right now," said the man, the other man nodded as he grabbed Shasta spun her around and pinched her shoulder making her fall unconcious. The other man picked up Aileen interrupting her slumber in the process.
'Where am I?' thought Shasta as from unconciousness she slipped back into a coma,' Was that Aileen screaming for help? I can't help though not in here...I need to rest, my head hurts so bad.'
Shasta fell limp in the mans arms. The man had swung her onto his back and was holding her by her legs. Aileen on the other hand was in an up roar she hated it all.
"LET. ME. GO! LETMEGOLETMEGOLETMEGO!" screamed Aileen as they walked down a hall. Aileen had gotten to the climax of her temperment. She hated being treated like this. She couldn't take it. She started kicking trying to get to something.
"Having some trouble Granher?" cackled the man that was holding Shasta.
"Shut it!" yelled back the other man. That was her chance! Aileen kicked the man's left shin causing something to go off. The man fell down to the ground. The sound of the gun going off was sent through the halls. Shasta was shaken out of a coma by the ringing noise in her ear. Aileen picked up the gun from the man's jeans.
"Hey you! Drop my friend!" yelled Aileen as she aimed the gun at the man. Shasta knew all to well what she wanted her to do. Shasta wrapped her legs around the man's neck and flipped him. She learned the trick in self defence. The man was unconcious. Shasta dug until she found a gun.
"Thanks Aileen," said Shasta, she put the gun on safety, as she approached her friend.
"No problem, now how you suppose we get out of here?" asked Aileen as she thought of it. Shasta was examining the gun in interest.
"I don't know. Maybe the way we got in this joint. But hold up look at this gun, I've never seen this gun anywhere. It's got this odd carving on it in gold, like a cobra," said Shasta as the two stared at the gun.
"We'll think about that later, the important thing is right now not to get caught," coolly said Aileen. Her attitude was different now since the accident.
"Hold up Ail! Why do you think they brought us here?" asked Shasta as Aileen shook her head," Our dads! Duh! They must be here in this base!". They heard rapid footsteps comming toward them from the left hall and the right hall. Shasta grabbed her friends arm and they headed in one of the doors.
"Where are we?" whispered Aileen as she glandsed around. It was dark except for a little light.
"Perfect.." whispered Shasta as she spotted two uniforms hanging in a storage closet. Aileen caught on since she was still in the dress she left in. They dressed swiftly, they knew they'd still recognize them in the uniforms but at lest they could run now.
"Come on we have a mission to complete!" said the now determined Shasta. Aileen nodded in return as they put an extra gun and rounds in their side belts. They cautously exited the room. Shasta looked around and spotted no one. Not even a movement. Aileen looked around and then a siren went off.
"Great now we're a dead give away!" annoyedly said Shasta as she shot a button. The power flickered off in the halls.
"How'd you know that, that was a power fuse?" asked Aileen in pure curiosity.
"Easy, power fuses are in a every hall, It's in mission building one oh one," laughed Shasta at her friend," Actually it was a pure guess. I guess I was going on my dumb luck!". Shasta gave a silly smile either know that Aileen could barely see it.
"Your unbelievable! You know that!? Now how are we supposed to-" Aileen's statement cut short by a bullet sizzling past them. How could they see? She felt someone put something on her head. Everything was green and she could see Shasta in some sun glasses as well.
Shasta jerked her out of the way as another bullet came out of no where. They started to run in the direction of a hallway. Shasta took out her gun and put it off saftey. She turned and shot the gun. It hit the guy shooting at them. Shasta shot the gun upwards and part of the ceiling came down. It revealed a ventilation system.
"Come on! It's our only chance to make it out of this hall in one place!" yelled Shasta as she heard more feet. She grabbed Aileen and put her hand in a position to toss.
"Okay....only if your not going on your dumb luck!"sarcasticly said Aileen trying to tick off the american preteen. Shasta crossed her heart. Aileen put her foot in Shasta's hand and Shasta launched her up. Aileen grabbed the ceiling and flipped over into it. She gave the okay sign and put her hands down ready to catch Shasta. Shasta launched herself and Aileen caught her outstreched hands.
After they hauled eachother up, they smiled at each other in disbelief that they made it. They peered around at their surroundings. They're were two ways to go.
"I think we should split up Ail. If we split we can cover more ground. I grabbed some talkies while you were changing just incase this happened," said Shasta in a dead serious tone. This was a mission now, one where they wouldn't be spanked but be killed. But they had gotten this far on luck and skill.
"I don't know...what if something happens to you or me? And we can't do anything? But I am the only daughter of the famous Heero Yuy and your the one and only child of Duo Maxwell. This mission if accomplished will benifit us and the world, I guess what I'm sayin' is let's get going," hesitated Aileen as she flipped on her talkie.
The talkie was a ear peice only going out to one station and only one talkie it went out to. They nodded and started on their own ways. Shasta going back and Aileen going front. They agreed they would call if anything happened or if they were in trouble.