"What the hell was that?!" Blade yelled.
"Someone's attacking onna" Wufei said. Blade slapped him over the head, "I know that!"
"Then why the hell did you ask?"
"Load the gundams onto a shuttle and we'll take off" Heero ordered. Quatre ignored him and ran upstairs.
"Quatre! Sakura can take care of herself!"
"I don't care!" Quatre yelled. Kitty made to go after him but Trowa stopped her, "Just let him go"
They loaded five shuttles; two gundams fit on each shuttle.
"Take off" Heero ordered the other three shuttles. He and Viper were going to wait for Quatre and Sakura.
~* * *~
Sakura coughed as she inhaled smoke.
"Damn this smoke to hell!" she swore. Finally she sighed and a huge torrent of water shot out of her finger and her eyes were glowing an aqua blue.
"Thank god" she said to herself, clearing the rest of the fire. A gasp was heard.
"Quatre..." she said.
"Wha-?" he asked, "Never mind; we have to get out of here. Everyone else is waiting for us..." he grabbed her hand and ran as the building's rafters began to collapse.
"Hurry up!" Viper called to them.
"Viper, I'll ride with you" Sakura said, "I have to talk to you"
Viper nodded and they took off when Quatre and Heero were on the other shuttle.
"What did you want to talk about?" Viper set the autopilot for the base.
"Quatre knows" she said, "He saw me"
"WHA?!!!!!!" Viper yelled. It was a good thing the shuttle was on autopilot or they would've crashed.
"Yeah, he saw me put out a fire 'cause I had trouble breathing in the smoke and had no choice but I had no idea he was right there"
"Shit; he's going to tell the others..."
"I know, I just thought I'd tell you first"
"Ok..."
"But maybe he won't ask yet..."
"We can only hope...but Sakura? If he only asks you and nobody hears, don't tell him"
~Back at the base~
"Sakura?" Quatre walked up to the blonde girl, "What was that you did at the base?"
"...sorry but I can't tell you right now" she said sadly.
"You don't trust me?"
"No, more like..."
"SAKURA! QUATRE! GET THE FUCK DOWN HERE!" Kitty yelled. They ran down to the hangar. Kitty and the others were getting into their gundams.
"What's going on?"
"There was a tracking device on one of the shuttles; we have to leave"
"Where are we going?"
"We are going to stay at the place of the most sickening person on earth..." Blade paused for suspense, "Relena Peacecraft's"
Sakura gave a small scream of terror and everyone else shuddered in disgust.
"Why her?" Sakura asked.
"Uh...because she's loaded"
"Quatre is too!"
"But they probably tracked the shuttle to this base and they'll find out Quatre's housing gundam pilots and attack his other mansions"
"Fine" Sakura pouted and got climbed into Sky Demon's cockpit.
"Sky Demon, set auto pilot on Cinq Kingdom" she said using the voice controls. Then she sat back and slept for the rest of the three hours.
~A boy about the age of twelve was peering down at her. He had silvery blonde hair that looked like it hadn't been trimmed in quite a while and had pale blue eyes. He grinned at her.
"Hey, you; you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah..." she said reaching for the hand that he extended to her to help her out of the huge hole she had fallen into.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Sakura"
"My name's Kykito" he said smiling.~
'Kykito' Sakura thought when the beeping alerted her of Cinq Kingdom in the distance.
"Hey, Sakura; be nice when we meet her; if she lets us stay, then go and do whatever you want to her" Blade said, a screen with her face popping up out of nowhere.
"Fine"
They landed their gundam in the hangar that the Institute had underground. Apparently, one of the five boys had contacted Relena or whoever opened the hangar for them a while ago. They jumped out and was met with the face of Lucretzia Noin.
"Oh, I didn't expect ten of you!" she said, "When you said the gundam pilots, I just assumed it was you boys"
"Well, surprise then" Kitty said, sucking on a lollipop.
"Where did you get that?" Viper raised an eyebrow.
"Trowa gave it to me" she shrugged.
"You know that you're not supposed to have any candy or sugar...remember what happened last time?"
"Heh, I remember...Blade looked so funny," Kitty giggled than stopped when she saw the look on Blade's face. None of the guys noticed but sparks of electricity were going up and down Blade's pointer finger.
"Heh, heh...I mean...AHHHHHHHH!!!!" she ran off.
"Blade, you should really stop threatening her like that" Sakura sighed.
"Yeah..." Paine agreed.
"I think it's funny how she always runs off before anything happens" Viper grinned.
"Um...ok...time to go see Miss Relena..." Noin coughed, trying to hide a laugh. After dragging Kitty with them, they left the hangar and went up to Relena's office where she was waiting for a certain someone.
"HEEROOOO!!!" she screamed, glomping him.
"Relena..." he said.
"Aw, stop pretending to be the perfect soldier; I know you love me" she cooed. Everybody else began to feel sick. Viper shot Heero a sympathetic look while he was trying to get her off him.
"Um...Relena? I don't think any PDA is necessary..." Sakura finally said. Relena looked startled to find ten other people there. Noin coughed in embarrassment and she got off Heero.
"Oh...uh...here are your schedules, uniforms and room keys, have a nice day" she said hurriedly, and then she shoved them out of the office.
"Ok, let's go..." Kitty said. The rooms were all next to each other and Noin had arranged for them to all get their own room.
"Nice!" Paine said, looking around. It had a huge desk, a walk-in closet, a TV, and the entire room was richly decorated.
"Speak for yourself" Blade complained, "My room's pink! PINK!"
"Ha! Mine's dark blue!" Viper said.
"My room's red" Kitty said, "So is Sakura's"
"Why is MINE pink?!" Blade wailed, "I'm the one who can't stand pink!"
"Get over it..." Viper said.
"Yeah, we have to get to class" they all had a look of disgust on their place since uniforms were mandatory. Paine, Kitty and Viper were desperately looking for a way to make the uniforms look decent.
"That's it!" Paine yelled, "I'm not wearing mine!"
"Why didn't we just do that before?"
"I dunno...why didn't we?" They shrugged at each other and walked to their first class; English. The teacher glared at them when they walked in fifteen minutes late. The other pilots minus Kitty who was a year younger were in that class and Viper could hear them groaning at the sight of them not wearing uniforms.
"Where are your uniforms?" the teacher asked.
"In hell, where they belong" Paine said.
"I'm serious"
"So am I...they belong in hell!" Paine shot back.
"Don't talk back"
"Make me"
"How 'bout you?" the teacher chose to ignore Paine.
"I don't give a shit about wearing uniforms" Viper shrugged.
"Don't give me language"
"Well, how else am I supposed to speak but in a language?"
"Take a seat at the back; both of you!"
"Sure, leave me out of the fun..." Blade grumbled to them when they passed.
"That's what you get for leaving so early"
~* * *~
Meanwhile, Kitty was having some fun with her teacher. After getting sent to the back for not wearing her uniform, she was having fun at the back where she had two "small" ravens with her.
'Attack her...but don't kill her; this is just for fun' she ordered.
'Aww...but she looks so vulnerable...'
'Do you want to me summon some wolves in here?'
'Ok, no killing...god, you ruin all my fun' the ravens headed for the teacher and she shrieked. The class stared at the two ravens that were about one third their size but still pretty big for ravens. Kitty laughed silently, then sent the ravens away, the memory of the teacher screaming was enough to get her through the class without falling asleep.
~* * *~
After their classes, Relena summoned them all to her office, this time she refrained from glomping Heero but still kept insisting that Heero loved her.
'Uh...obsessed, anyone?'
'No kidding...'
"Anyway, I called you here because there's an upcoming ball and I want you to attend. Noin told me about UOC and they might appear there"
"Wait...ball?"
"Yes..."
"Meaning...dresses?"
"Basically..."
"NO!"
"...um...yeah. I'm taking you girls shopping right now" she grabbed her pink (AN: NOOOOOOOOOo! PINK IS EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) purse and dragged the complaining girls to the pink limo. Hours later, they came back with an angry Relena and five equally angry girls.
"Remind me to kill that bitch when she's old and retired" Viper grumbled to the others who agreed.
"It can't have been that bad..." Duo said.
"Oh really? And I suppose you'd like to step into a store full of pink frilly dresses and actually be forced to try them on?" Paine asked.
"No..."
"I didn't think so"
"You onnas are just weak!" Wufei said.
"WEAK?! I'LL GIVE YOU FUCKING WEAK!" Blade yelled, chasing after Wufei with a coat hangar.
~In Relena's office~
Relena sat back in her chair, congratulating herself. Her plan was set; she had seen that Viper girl with Heero and she didn't like it one bit. Heero wasn't pushing her away.
"If I can't have Heero, no one can" she said aloud. Pulling out the files she had had a friend of hers make, she smiled, "Soon...Heero will be mine...they actually thought UOC is going to be there..."
~* * *~
~At the ball~
The gundam pilots stepped out of the pink limo. The boys were all wearing tuxedos and the girls were all wearing the skimpiest dresses that a formal ball would allow.
Sakura wore a spaghetti-strap purple dress that reached the floor. Kitty wore a beige dress that was halter-top style and reached her knees. Viper was wearing an Ancient Greek-styled dress. Blade was wearing a kimono-like dress that was navy blue and Paine was wearing a sleeveless red dress that went down to the ground but unlike Sakura's, it clung to her body and there was a slit up both legs.
"Ok, keep a lookout for UOC" Heero ordered and everybody separated into different crowds.
"Heero, I have to talk to you" Relena said, for once, not glomping him.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"You know that girl, Viper?" she asked.
"Yeah?" he narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"I was on the internet when I found this"
Name: Viper Tang
Age: 10
Issue: Unstable. Panic attacks cause black outs. When left alone for a while, this girl goes crazy and kills everyone in sight. Killed two sisters, mother and father. Weak but deadly at the same time; beware when dealing with her.
Last seen: with OZ, rumored to be in league with Barton Foundation and to be the first to be connected to any new threat.
Heero looked up, "What?" It appeared to be some kind of profile but this couldn't be right; Viper never blacked out unless there was a reason and Viper's mind wasn't unbalanced...was it?
"I just wanted to show you 'cause I didn't want you hurt by this girl," Relena said. Then she slipped away to talk to somebody else and left Heero staring at the papers. Relena never seemed to be the type to lie about something like this...and he had known her longer...
Viper was in the garden next to the artificial waterfall when Heero came up behind her, a cold look on his face.
"What's wrong?" she asked. His eyes were distant and cold too.
"I want you to leave the team," he said.
"What?"
"Leave the team"
"If you're joking, this isn't funny, Heero!"
"I'm not joking. I think you're a threat to the gundam pilot's success"
"I'm a threat, huh? Then why did you kiss me if I was a threat?"
"Because you are weak and I just did it to give you motivation"
To Viper, that remarked felt like a slap on the face. Her eyes were angry. She couldn't even read his mind now that she was no angry. She could never read the mind of someone who wasn't close to her.
"So now I'm just somebody whose emotions you can manipulate, am I? Fine, you heartless bastard!" she stalked off back inside, and then left again through the main entrance. She didn't know where she was going to go and she didn't give a damn.
'Pyro...' she remembered her gundam and "borrowed" one of the many cars in the parking lot.
"Someone's attacking onna" Wufei said. Blade slapped him over the head, "I know that!"
"Then why the hell did you ask?"
"Load the gundams onto a shuttle and we'll take off" Heero ordered. Quatre ignored him and ran upstairs.
"Quatre! Sakura can take care of herself!"
"I don't care!" Quatre yelled. Kitty made to go after him but Trowa stopped her, "Just let him go"
They loaded five shuttles; two gundams fit on each shuttle.
"Take off" Heero ordered the other three shuttles. He and Viper were going to wait for Quatre and Sakura.
~* * *~
Sakura coughed as she inhaled smoke.
"Damn this smoke to hell!" she swore. Finally she sighed and a huge torrent of water shot out of her finger and her eyes were glowing an aqua blue.
"Thank god" she said to herself, clearing the rest of the fire. A gasp was heard.
"Quatre..." she said.
"Wha-?" he asked, "Never mind; we have to get out of here. Everyone else is waiting for us..." he grabbed her hand and ran as the building's rafters began to collapse.
"Hurry up!" Viper called to them.
"Viper, I'll ride with you" Sakura said, "I have to talk to you"
Viper nodded and they took off when Quatre and Heero were on the other shuttle.
"What did you want to talk about?" Viper set the autopilot for the base.
"Quatre knows" she said, "He saw me"
"WHA?!!!!!!" Viper yelled. It was a good thing the shuttle was on autopilot or they would've crashed.
"Yeah, he saw me put out a fire 'cause I had trouble breathing in the smoke and had no choice but I had no idea he was right there"
"Shit; he's going to tell the others..."
"I know, I just thought I'd tell you first"
"Ok..."
"But maybe he won't ask yet..."
"We can only hope...but Sakura? If he only asks you and nobody hears, don't tell him"
~Back at the base~
"Sakura?" Quatre walked up to the blonde girl, "What was that you did at the base?"
"...sorry but I can't tell you right now" she said sadly.
"You don't trust me?"
"No, more like..."
"SAKURA! QUATRE! GET THE FUCK DOWN HERE!" Kitty yelled. They ran down to the hangar. Kitty and the others were getting into their gundams.
"What's going on?"
"There was a tracking device on one of the shuttles; we have to leave"
"Where are we going?"
"We are going to stay at the place of the most sickening person on earth..." Blade paused for suspense, "Relena Peacecraft's"
Sakura gave a small scream of terror and everyone else shuddered in disgust.
"Why her?" Sakura asked.
"Uh...because she's loaded"
"Quatre is too!"
"But they probably tracked the shuttle to this base and they'll find out Quatre's housing gundam pilots and attack his other mansions"
"Fine" Sakura pouted and got climbed into Sky Demon's cockpit.
"Sky Demon, set auto pilot on Cinq Kingdom" she said using the voice controls. Then she sat back and slept for the rest of the three hours.
~A boy about the age of twelve was peering down at her. He had silvery blonde hair that looked like it hadn't been trimmed in quite a while and had pale blue eyes. He grinned at her.
"Hey, you; you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah..." she said reaching for the hand that he extended to her to help her out of the huge hole she had fallen into.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Sakura"
"My name's Kykito" he said smiling.~
'Kykito' Sakura thought when the beeping alerted her of Cinq Kingdom in the distance.
"Hey, Sakura; be nice when we meet her; if she lets us stay, then go and do whatever you want to her" Blade said, a screen with her face popping up out of nowhere.
"Fine"
They landed their gundam in the hangar that the Institute had underground. Apparently, one of the five boys had contacted Relena or whoever opened the hangar for them a while ago. They jumped out and was met with the face of Lucretzia Noin.
"Oh, I didn't expect ten of you!" she said, "When you said the gundam pilots, I just assumed it was you boys"
"Well, surprise then" Kitty said, sucking on a lollipop.
"Where did you get that?" Viper raised an eyebrow.
"Trowa gave it to me" she shrugged.
"You know that you're not supposed to have any candy or sugar...remember what happened last time?"
"Heh, I remember...Blade looked so funny," Kitty giggled than stopped when she saw the look on Blade's face. None of the guys noticed but sparks of electricity were going up and down Blade's pointer finger.
"Heh, heh...I mean...AHHHHHHHH!!!!" she ran off.
"Blade, you should really stop threatening her like that" Sakura sighed.
"Yeah..." Paine agreed.
"I think it's funny how she always runs off before anything happens" Viper grinned.
"Um...ok...time to go see Miss Relena..." Noin coughed, trying to hide a laugh. After dragging Kitty with them, they left the hangar and went up to Relena's office where she was waiting for a certain someone.
"HEEROOOO!!!" she screamed, glomping him.
"Relena..." he said.
"Aw, stop pretending to be the perfect soldier; I know you love me" she cooed. Everybody else began to feel sick. Viper shot Heero a sympathetic look while he was trying to get her off him.
"Um...Relena? I don't think any PDA is necessary..." Sakura finally said. Relena looked startled to find ten other people there. Noin coughed in embarrassment and she got off Heero.
"Oh...uh...here are your schedules, uniforms and room keys, have a nice day" she said hurriedly, and then she shoved them out of the office.
"Ok, let's go..." Kitty said. The rooms were all next to each other and Noin had arranged for them to all get their own room.
"Nice!" Paine said, looking around. It had a huge desk, a walk-in closet, a TV, and the entire room was richly decorated.
"Speak for yourself" Blade complained, "My room's pink! PINK!"
"Ha! Mine's dark blue!" Viper said.
"My room's red" Kitty said, "So is Sakura's"
"Why is MINE pink?!" Blade wailed, "I'm the one who can't stand pink!"
"Get over it..." Viper said.
"Yeah, we have to get to class" they all had a look of disgust on their place since uniforms were mandatory. Paine, Kitty and Viper were desperately looking for a way to make the uniforms look decent.
"That's it!" Paine yelled, "I'm not wearing mine!"
"Why didn't we just do that before?"
"I dunno...why didn't we?" They shrugged at each other and walked to their first class; English. The teacher glared at them when they walked in fifteen minutes late. The other pilots minus Kitty who was a year younger were in that class and Viper could hear them groaning at the sight of them not wearing uniforms.
"Where are your uniforms?" the teacher asked.
"In hell, where they belong" Paine said.
"I'm serious"
"So am I...they belong in hell!" Paine shot back.
"Don't talk back"
"Make me"
"How 'bout you?" the teacher chose to ignore Paine.
"I don't give a shit about wearing uniforms" Viper shrugged.
"Don't give me language"
"Well, how else am I supposed to speak but in a language?"
"Take a seat at the back; both of you!"
"Sure, leave me out of the fun..." Blade grumbled to them when they passed.
"That's what you get for leaving so early"
~* * *~
Meanwhile, Kitty was having some fun with her teacher. After getting sent to the back for not wearing her uniform, she was having fun at the back where she had two "small" ravens with her.
'Attack her...but don't kill her; this is just for fun' she ordered.
'Aww...but she looks so vulnerable...'
'Do you want to me summon some wolves in here?'
'Ok, no killing...god, you ruin all my fun' the ravens headed for the teacher and she shrieked. The class stared at the two ravens that were about one third their size but still pretty big for ravens. Kitty laughed silently, then sent the ravens away, the memory of the teacher screaming was enough to get her through the class without falling asleep.
~* * *~
After their classes, Relena summoned them all to her office, this time she refrained from glomping Heero but still kept insisting that Heero loved her.
'Uh...obsessed, anyone?'
'No kidding...'
"Anyway, I called you here because there's an upcoming ball and I want you to attend. Noin told me about UOC and they might appear there"
"Wait...ball?"
"Yes..."
"Meaning...dresses?"
"Basically..."
"NO!"
"...um...yeah. I'm taking you girls shopping right now" she grabbed her pink (AN: NOOOOOOOOOo! PINK IS EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) purse and dragged the complaining girls to the pink limo. Hours later, they came back with an angry Relena and five equally angry girls.
"Remind me to kill that bitch when she's old and retired" Viper grumbled to the others who agreed.
"It can't have been that bad..." Duo said.
"Oh really? And I suppose you'd like to step into a store full of pink frilly dresses and actually be forced to try them on?" Paine asked.
"No..."
"I didn't think so"
"You onnas are just weak!" Wufei said.
"WEAK?! I'LL GIVE YOU FUCKING WEAK!" Blade yelled, chasing after Wufei with a coat hangar.
~In Relena's office~
Relena sat back in her chair, congratulating herself. Her plan was set; she had seen that Viper girl with Heero and she didn't like it one bit. Heero wasn't pushing her away.
"If I can't have Heero, no one can" she said aloud. Pulling out the files she had had a friend of hers make, she smiled, "Soon...Heero will be mine...they actually thought UOC is going to be there..."
~* * *~
~At the ball~
The gundam pilots stepped out of the pink limo. The boys were all wearing tuxedos and the girls were all wearing the skimpiest dresses that a formal ball would allow.
Sakura wore a spaghetti-strap purple dress that reached the floor. Kitty wore a beige dress that was halter-top style and reached her knees. Viper was wearing an Ancient Greek-styled dress. Blade was wearing a kimono-like dress that was navy blue and Paine was wearing a sleeveless red dress that went down to the ground but unlike Sakura's, it clung to her body and there was a slit up both legs.
"Ok, keep a lookout for UOC" Heero ordered and everybody separated into different crowds.
"Heero, I have to talk to you" Relena said, for once, not glomping him.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"You know that girl, Viper?" she asked.
"Yeah?" he narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"I was on the internet when I found this"
Name: Viper Tang
Age: 10
Issue: Unstable. Panic attacks cause black outs. When left alone for a while, this girl goes crazy and kills everyone in sight. Killed two sisters, mother and father. Weak but deadly at the same time; beware when dealing with her.
Last seen: with OZ, rumored to be in league with Barton Foundation and to be the first to be connected to any new threat.
Heero looked up, "What?" It appeared to be some kind of profile but this couldn't be right; Viper never blacked out unless there was a reason and Viper's mind wasn't unbalanced...was it?
"I just wanted to show you 'cause I didn't want you hurt by this girl," Relena said. Then she slipped away to talk to somebody else and left Heero staring at the papers. Relena never seemed to be the type to lie about something like this...and he had known her longer...
Viper was in the garden next to the artificial waterfall when Heero came up behind her, a cold look on his face.
"What's wrong?" she asked. His eyes were distant and cold too.
"I want you to leave the team," he said.
"What?"
"Leave the team"
"If you're joking, this isn't funny, Heero!"
"I'm not joking. I think you're a threat to the gundam pilot's success"
"I'm a threat, huh? Then why did you kiss me if I was a threat?"
"Because you are weak and I just did it to give you motivation"
To Viper, that remarked felt like a slap on the face. Her eyes were angry. She couldn't even read his mind now that she was no angry. She could never read the mind of someone who wasn't close to her.
"So now I'm just somebody whose emotions you can manipulate, am I? Fine, you heartless bastard!" she stalked off back inside, and then left again through the main entrance. She didn't know where she was going to go and she didn't give a damn.
'Pyro...' she remembered her gundam and "borrowed" one of the many cars in the parking lot.