Chapter 9: Calling for Life

Aileen had been only crawling in the ventilation when she heard voices comming ahead of her. They were so familiar to her but for an odd reason she felt a sting of pain strick her heart as she quietly crawled. She felt tears stream down her face. They were warm, and kept comming refusing to stop for nothing.

She tried her best not to say anything as she looked down from a ventlation opening screen. She saw soldiers everywhere guarding the doors and the windows. Two men were strapped to a chair. Another man sat across in a cherry wood desk.

"I'll ask yo-" the man was interrupted as another man burst into the room, he had blood running down his arm and face.

"Sir, the prisoners, they have excapped! One reportedly blew up some fuse boxes heading toward the western wing of the base. One officer dead, 13 wounded and one unconcious. The one dead and the one unconcious had Cobras and both guns are missing. Only one has been reported on the onslaught the one who killed officer Oliver Burham has not been seen since they disapeared after shooting another officer," the officer went silent so he could take a breath,"They are considered the worst of masacres. We are lucky that the 13 wounded are not dead. They had faint pulses, they all said she had said something about finding her father."

"Well what do you want me to do about it? I have no idea where they went! Send all officers after the one blowing fuse boxes and locate the other one once this one is captured and delt with!" cammanded what seemed to be the person incharge. Aileen silently moved inside the ventalation. The room had turned their heads to the vent.

The general got up and walked over to the ventalation. Aileen sucked in her air as she cocked her gun. It wasn't on safety and the thing shot a bullet through the ventalation. Aileen knew she had given herself away.

The whole room cocked their guns as the general neared the ventalation. He kicked it open only to see a very scared girl. Aileen forgot about bravery but wanted to run and find a familiar person. She scooted down farther into the vent.

"Get away from me!" yelled Aileen as she pointed the gun toward the general. The general grabbed her by her arm and threw her out of the vent. She landed hard. She looked like a normal soldier. She had tears streaming down her face. She was so scared and Shasta wasn't there to help her," Shasta, help me....I can't do it, I failed my mission. The perfect soldiers daughter failed her mission."

She noticed the gun had slid out of her hand and across the room. She grabbed the second and pointed it at the general. She could feel her blood run cold at the sight of a whole room pointing guns at her.

"So, how did such a young lady like yourself get all the way down here kill one of my guards, and not even get scratched," said the general as he shot the hat off of the girl. Her chocolate brown hair fell from it. This didn't fase her a bit. She had dark long hair. Everyone shushed at the sight as they looked at one of the men in the chairs and back to her.

"Forget the plan open fire on my mark!" yelled the general as he saw the men's faces drain from color as they figured out who it was.

"Shasta h-help, where ever you are help!" cried Aileen as she talked into her talkie.

"Ail! Don't worry I'm comming!" said Shasta as she headed toward Aileen's direction. The men in the chairs tried at once to free themselves trying to get to Aileen. Aileen on the other hand rose and pointed her gun toward the general.

"You shoot me and I'll kill you," threatened Aileen, her tone dead serious and a death glare on her face," And I swear I won't miss."

Shasta heard a gun shot and she didn't care about noise anymore she just ran toward the room the noise came from. She found it and saw someone had shot Aileen in her right shin. Shasta burst into the room and held her gun shooting the person who dared to shoot her best friend.

"Don't you dare, ever shoot my friend," said Shasta between grited teeth. She was fuming nobody dare shoot anyone dear to her. The general smirked and pointed the gun at her. Shasta's eyes widened at the sight that the general would dare shoot her. She glandsed at Aileen who was on the ground unconcious and all the men pointed their guns at her.

"Shoot me, but your army was cut short by at least 15 men when I was on my way here. I didn't take pity this time, they're all gone. Besides no demon would fail a mission," she removed her hat and let her long braid fall to her mid back.

Shasta couldn't do anything but she would never let them kill her friend. One of the men then shot the bullet. It was all slow motion as Shasta launched herself infront of the blullet. Aileen cried as she saw her friend fall to the ground. She heard glass shatter as the two men from the chairs had gotten loose.

"Shasta...SHASTA! Wake up! Come on girl! You've been through worse than this! come on Shay!" yelled Aileen as she shook her bleeding friend. The bullet had hit her elbow and looked like it cracked the bone. Aileen still crying turned and shot the general square in the heart.

"No one hurts my friend!"Screamed Aileen as her eyes darkened. She didn't care what she just did, it was for her friend. Shasta grunted in pain as she stood up as pain surgered through her intire body. Mainly from her broken ribs. She picked up her gun letting go of her ribs that acked badly.

She smirked and shot a guy or two and wounded 3 others. But it was hard for her to keep awake as her vision blurred and she fell. Everyone had been delt with and Aileen ran to her friend ignoring the throbbing in her leg. The two men approached the girls.

"Shay...? Shay you can't die now! Not after what you've been through! Please don't die now...." Aileen trailed off as a familiar hand touched her shoulder. She turned and started crying.

"Dad...? Is that really you?" asked Aileen as she cried even harder. Her father stood there with open arms welcoming her. Aileen flew into them. For the first time in months she cried tears of joy.

Shasta stiffened as she opened her eyes to a familiar crying face,"Dad?". She cried as she tried to get up to her father. Her father scooped her up and hugged her tightly in his arms.

"Yea babe, it's me," said Duo as he continued to hug her.

I'd like to thank the people who didn't flame me! I know this fic was short but it's complete right? I'm going to start a new Gundam Wing fic soon! Actually I think I'll start as soon as this is put up! So please satayed tune on channel 9 for more Gundam Wing action here at station 9. By the way, if your wondering how everything turned out they all had a very happy ending!