Viper opened her eyes to find Heero staring at her.
"What're you doing?" she yelped, surprised.
"You were yelling in your sleep," he said.
"Oh...sorry 'bout that"
"What were you yelling about?"
"Memories..." she said.
"You want to tell me about them?" Heero asked.
Viper curled up in a ball on her bed and was silent for five full minutes and Heero assumed she didn't want to talk so he got up to leave.
"I was five" she started, "Me and Kitty were on the streets after both my parents died. We were all alone until one day; we met a boy named Solo who became my best friend. The three of us were like real family and stuff, but one day, it all went wrong. We went to steal some food from the military but they had tighter security than we though. Solo threw us over the fence and told us to run. I didn't want to but he said he would be okay and he'd come back to help us but he never did. But I always kept a look out for him, just in case. That's how I met Ryo. He looked a lot like Solo when we first saw him, only a lot older. He acted just as nice too..."
~memories in Viper's pov~
~twelve years ago~
"Ryo?" I asked. I was six then, Ryo was older than me by seven years but he was my training partner at the Institute and I was the only person who could come close to beating him.
"Why do you look like Solo?"
"Who's Solo?"
"He's gone...he was my best friend..."
"Oh..."
~six years later~
"Ryo...what are you doing?"
"Testing your powers..." he said, resting his mouth on mine. I backed away.
"Stop it..." I said, "What are you trying to do?"
"Don't you get it Viper?"
"No, I don't" I said. I really didn't get it back then; I was ten, how was I supposed to know what he wanted?
He leaned closer, "You never wondered why I tried so hard to keep looking like your childhood best friend? Or why I'm so protective of you?"
"N-no..." it was the first time I was ever afraid.
He leaned even closer, "Viper, I like you. You fascinate me; I made myself look like Solo to get close to you..." he said and began ripping my clothes. I started to scream but no one could hear me. Ryo made sure of that. He had locked me in his room too; I couldn't escape.
"No! Let go of me! Please!" I began to sob but he ignored me. After what seemed like hours of torture, he finally got off me. I clutched my body, sobbing violently into my knees. He looked at me with pity and then slapped me.
"You'll tell no one about this; ya hear?" he started to beat me harder until I nodded. But I wouldn't have nodded if I knew that it wouldn't only be the only time that he raped me.
~a few months later~
"Viper, your concentration is off; what's wrong?"
"I can't say..."
"Does it have anything to do with these bruises?" Maia asked. I looked at her surprised; I had covered the bruises pretty well, I was sure of it. My healing powers weren't so great back then; all I could do was cover the sight of any injury.
"Don't be surprised; I can see past that flimsy healing" she smiled grimly at me.
"Oh..." was all I said. She stared me in the eye.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"I can't say..." I started to cry. This was practically an invitation for her to read my mind. My mental defenses were down after all.
"I see..." she said after a while, looking a bit pale and sick, "RYO!" she called into the intercom. Ryo came into her office looking confused but when he saw me, he got this angry look on his face. If Maia wasn't there, I was sure he'd have punched me.
"Don't look at her like that; I read her mind, that's all" Maia said, her voice all icy, "Ryo Parker Roberson, you are expulsed from this Institute...don't expect to come back here or you'll face a punishment more horrible than death!"
"NO! You can't!" Ryo yelled at her.
"I can and I will; Get out of my sight now! How could you make such a young girl go through this? This is low, even for you Ryo!"
"FINE!" he stopped to glare at me, "You WILL pay..." and he left. I always thought of that moment to be the happiest moment in my life.
Maia turned to me, "Viper, he'll be back for you one day...I'll give you a choice; I can change your appearance and erase your memories or I can train you even further than anyone's trained in this Institute; you have the potential...and if you train, then you can beat Ryo no matter how much his skills grow over the years"
I thought about this and I came to a decision. I wouldn't be weak anymore; I wouldn't cry, I wouldn't depend on others. I would train. And I told Maia that and she nodded in approval. She was probably the only decent trainer at the Institute.
"Good, you have the right idea..." she said and then my training begun...
~Years later~
"Hey, MM, who's this new mechanic you were talking about?"
"He's right here girls!" I leapt down to meet the new guy and was stopped dead in my tracks. Ryo; I'd recognize that face anywhere.
"Viper" apparently he recognized me too. I glared at him defiantly, showing that I wasn't afraid of him anymore and a familiar look came over his eyes. Lust.
At the end of that week, he cornered me in my room.
"You don't know how much I've wanted you" he purred into my ear. I looked at him with disgust.
"Get away from me you sick pervert" I pushed him away. He growled at me but I just glared at him.
"I'm not ten years old anymore; you can't scare me"
"Wanna bet?" he pinned me against the wall and began to rip my clothes. I kicked at him and he grunted in pain.
"Ya little bitch" he growled. I smirked at him for a second before he pinned me against the wall again and continued what he was doing. His tongue was forced into my mouth and I could feel hatred and anger throughout my whole body. Suddenly, I just lost it; before I knew what was happening, this wave of energy had passed through me and he was forced back against the opposite wall. I glared at him and another wave of energy passed through me and he was pushed even harder against the wall. I could hear him yell in pain but I didn't care. All I wanted to do was to finally get my revenge for all the hell he put me through.
Someone stopped me though. It was Dr. J. He shook his head at me and I stopped the attack. Ryo slumped down against the wall. He gave a smile to Dr. J. Dr. J glared at him.
"Get out of here Ryo!"
"B-but..."
"Get out and don't come back, you sick son of a bitch" Dr. J spat out. Ryo looked at me, "You're the biggest burden anyone can ever have" and ran out and that was the last time I saw him in three years.
~End memories...normal pov~
Heero stared at her, dumbfounded. He never expected all this.
"I never told the others about this" she told him, "I didn't want to be a burden, like Ryo said I was..."
"Viper, you have seriously got to stop hiding all these secrets from your friends"
"Hey guys, what's up?" Paine greeted, coming into the room.
"Were you eavesdropping?" Viper glared suspiciously.
"No, but I could feel your pain...so I came to check it out"
"Oh...everything's okay now...get some sleep; we're leaving tomorrow morning"
"YEAH, GET SOME FUCK ASS SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kiyo yelled from the guest room.
"Hey, you heard the man" Viper shrugged and fell back onto the bed. The others left her room and she was awarded with a peaceful sleep until 6:00 am the next morning.
"INNNNNNJJJJJJJJJUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!" Wufei was yelling.
"What now?" Viper groaned.
"Blade...um...told him something important..." Paine said and then ran off somewhere.
"HOW CAN THIS BE?! I AM NOT SO DISHONORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT!"
Blade felt tears come to her eyes, "Oh, I get it. Fine, if that's the way you feel, go to hell!!!!!!!!" she yelled stomping off. Viper and Sakura found her in her gundam, crying silently.
'I can't believe I was so stupid; I thought he loved me...well, apparently, he doesn't since he calls the fact that I'm pregnant with his child injustice...'
"Blade, it's okay..." Sakura reassured the girl. Blade looked up.
"I really thought he loved me. How can anybody act so cruel? Calling his own unborn child injustice?"
"How far along are you?"
"About a month or so" she said.
"Ok, I just didn't want to send you into battle with a child"
"You shouldn't worry about me; Paine's the one you should worry about..."
"I knew about her...I could feel the life readings off of her..." Viper said.
"God, why did this have to happen before the battle?" Blade mumbled.
"Blade, you'll be fine and when it's all over, you can come back and give Wufei hell for this"
Blade nodded and the two girls left for their own gundams. The flight to the base was in complete silence. When they got there. The boys were to cause a distraction in his mobile suit while the girls went inside and did what they were supposed to.
"Kiyo...be careful" Viper warned. Kiyo's mobile suit was a custom design, as strong as one of the gundams but smaller. The nine pilots left.
"Be careful..." Quatre told everyone else but looking directly at Sakura. She nodded and said the same thing.
"Don't die on me or turn against me for that matter..." Duo said to Paine. She nodded, "I promise"
"Viper..." Heero said, "Fuck this, I'm not good with words" and with that he kissed her. Everyone else took the hint and began to hug and kiss their respective partners.
"Onna" Wufei said to Blade. Blade was apparently still pissed off and ignored him, "ONNA!" he yelled as she walked away, "I have something to tell you!"
"I don't want to hear it!" Blade stomped off to fume on the other side of the room. Wufei gave a sigh and walked over to where she was and bent down to talk to her.
~* * *~
"They're coming, sir..." Ryo stated.
"Good..."
"Shall I go get the girl?" Katia asked.
"Yes...go get her..."
Katia left, 'They're coming; what the hell are they thinking? They know that Nathan and Ryo have Kitty...damn it...I'll do all I can to help though...'
She reached the girl who was now filled with hatred for the ones that were coming to rescue her.
"Kitty, you really have to remember...for your own sake," she said softly under her breath so that only Kitty could hear. Kitty stared at her, her eyes void of her usual emotions.
~* * *~
"Alright...let's go..." Paine said. They hadn't even taken a step into the base when they saw soldiers coming toward them, "You know what to do" she said to the others. The three girls nodded and used their elemental abilities to direct their attacks just like Ryo's internal attacks. Paine began to glow that purplish color and the soldiers around them dropped, clutching their heart and body at this new type of pain.
"Um...guys...I think we just took care of about half of their attack force..." Blade commented.
"And you won't be doing anymore damage" a voice said angrily from behind them. Before they could turn their heads, everything went black.
~outside~
"Something's wrong! These can't be the only mobile suits they have!" Quatre yelled.
"Yeah! I wonder what they're trying"
"The girls..." Trowa said suddenly as if a light bulb had turned on in his head.
"A trap..." Quatre said.
"To get all the girls..."
All six boys stared at each other in horror through their screens.
"Maybe...we're just imagining things..." Quatre said unconvincingly.
"Maybe...but if they're not out soon, I'm going in" Duo said.
"Hai" everyone agreed.
~* * *~
"Oh god, what the fuck happened?" Blade complained, clutching her head. She suddenly realized the position she was in. All four of them were sitting in metal chairs that were floating in the air, due to the lack of gravity in the room. The others were awake and were trying all they could to get out but to no success.
"I wouldn't try if I were you" Ryo said coming in shoving in five familiar boys.
"Not again guys..." Paine groaned.
"This is all I get for trying to save you ass?" Duo complained.
"Keyword: trying"
"Yeah...well...ungrateful..."
Paine stared at him, 'This would be a good time to tell him...I mean, captured with no hope of escape...about to be turned against him...yep, perfect time to tell him I'm three months along with his child...'
'Paine, you didn't tell him?!'
'Stay out of this Viper'
'Are you gonna tell him?'
'I'll tell him after...'
'If we live...'
'We'll live...we have to!'
"What're you doing?" she yelped, surprised.
"You were yelling in your sleep," he said.
"Oh...sorry 'bout that"
"What were you yelling about?"
"Memories..." she said.
"You want to tell me about them?" Heero asked.
Viper curled up in a ball on her bed and was silent for five full minutes and Heero assumed she didn't want to talk so he got up to leave.
"I was five" she started, "Me and Kitty were on the streets after both my parents died. We were all alone until one day; we met a boy named Solo who became my best friend. The three of us were like real family and stuff, but one day, it all went wrong. We went to steal some food from the military but they had tighter security than we though. Solo threw us over the fence and told us to run. I didn't want to but he said he would be okay and he'd come back to help us but he never did. But I always kept a look out for him, just in case. That's how I met Ryo. He looked a lot like Solo when we first saw him, only a lot older. He acted just as nice too..."
~memories in Viper's pov~
~twelve years ago~
"Ryo?" I asked. I was six then, Ryo was older than me by seven years but he was my training partner at the Institute and I was the only person who could come close to beating him.
"Why do you look like Solo?"
"Who's Solo?"
"He's gone...he was my best friend..."
"Oh..."
~six years later~
"Ryo...what are you doing?"
"Testing your powers..." he said, resting his mouth on mine. I backed away.
"Stop it..." I said, "What are you trying to do?"
"Don't you get it Viper?"
"No, I don't" I said. I really didn't get it back then; I was ten, how was I supposed to know what he wanted?
He leaned closer, "You never wondered why I tried so hard to keep looking like your childhood best friend? Or why I'm so protective of you?"
"N-no..." it was the first time I was ever afraid.
He leaned even closer, "Viper, I like you. You fascinate me; I made myself look like Solo to get close to you..." he said and began ripping my clothes. I started to scream but no one could hear me. Ryo made sure of that. He had locked me in his room too; I couldn't escape.
"No! Let go of me! Please!" I began to sob but he ignored me. After what seemed like hours of torture, he finally got off me. I clutched my body, sobbing violently into my knees. He looked at me with pity and then slapped me.
"You'll tell no one about this; ya hear?" he started to beat me harder until I nodded. But I wouldn't have nodded if I knew that it wouldn't only be the only time that he raped me.
~a few months later~
"Viper, your concentration is off; what's wrong?"
"I can't say..."
"Does it have anything to do with these bruises?" Maia asked. I looked at her surprised; I had covered the bruises pretty well, I was sure of it. My healing powers weren't so great back then; all I could do was cover the sight of any injury.
"Don't be surprised; I can see past that flimsy healing" she smiled grimly at me.
"Oh..." was all I said. She stared me in the eye.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"I can't say..." I started to cry. This was practically an invitation for her to read my mind. My mental defenses were down after all.
"I see..." she said after a while, looking a bit pale and sick, "RYO!" she called into the intercom. Ryo came into her office looking confused but when he saw me, he got this angry look on his face. If Maia wasn't there, I was sure he'd have punched me.
"Don't look at her like that; I read her mind, that's all" Maia said, her voice all icy, "Ryo Parker Roberson, you are expulsed from this Institute...don't expect to come back here or you'll face a punishment more horrible than death!"
"NO! You can't!" Ryo yelled at her.
"I can and I will; Get out of my sight now! How could you make such a young girl go through this? This is low, even for you Ryo!"
"FINE!" he stopped to glare at me, "You WILL pay..." and he left. I always thought of that moment to be the happiest moment in my life.
Maia turned to me, "Viper, he'll be back for you one day...I'll give you a choice; I can change your appearance and erase your memories or I can train you even further than anyone's trained in this Institute; you have the potential...and if you train, then you can beat Ryo no matter how much his skills grow over the years"
I thought about this and I came to a decision. I wouldn't be weak anymore; I wouldn't cry, I wouldn't depend on others. I would train. And I told Maia that and she nodded in approval. She was probably the only decent trainer at the Institute.
"Good, you have the right idea..." she said and then my training begun...
~Years later~
"Hey, MM, who's this new mechanic you were talking about?"
"He's right here girls!" I leapt down to meet the new guy and was stopped dead in my tracks. Ryo; I'd recognize that face anywhere.
"Viper" apparently he recognized me too. I glared at him defiantly, showing that I wasn't afraid of him anymore and a familiar look came over his eyes. Lust.
At the end of that week, he cornered me in my room.
"You don't know how much I've wanted you" he purred into my ear. I looked at him with disgust.
"Get away from me you sick pervert" I pushed him away. He growled at me but I just glared at him.
"I'm not ten years old anymore; you can't scare me"
"Wanna bet?" he pinned me against the wall and began to rip my clothes. I kicked at him and he grunted in pain.
"Ya little bitch" he growled. I smirked at him for a second before he pinned me against the wall again and continued what he was doing. His tongue was forced into my mouth and I could feel hatred and anger throughout my whole body. Suddenly, I just lost it; before I knew what was happening, this wave of energy had passed through me and he was forced back against the opposite wall. I glared at him and another wave of energy passed through me and he was pushed even harder against the wall. I could hear him yell in pain but I didn't care. All I wanted to do was to finally get my revenge for all the hell he put me through.
Someone stopped me though. It was Dr. J. He shook his head at me and I stopped the attack. Ryo slumped down against the wall. He gave a smile to Dr. J. Dr. J glared at him.
"Get out of here Ryo!"
"B-but..."
"Get out and don't come back, you sick son of a bitch" Dr. J spat out. Ryo looked at me, "You're the biggest burden anyone can ever have" and ran out and that was the last time I saw him in three years.
~End memories...normal pov~
Heero stared at her, dumbfounded. He never expected all this.
"I never told the others about this" she told him, "I didn't want to be a burden, like Ryo said I was..."
"Viper, you have seriously got to stop hiding all these secrets from your friends"
"Hey guys, what's up?" Paine greeted, coming into the room.
"Were you eavesdropping?" Viper glared suspiciously.
"No, but I could feel your pain...so I came to check it out"
"Oh...everything's okay now...get some sleep; we're leaving tomorrow morning"
"YEAH, GET SOME FUCK ASS SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kiyo yelled from the guest room.
"Hey, you heard the man" Viper shrugged and fell back onto the bed. The others left her room and she was awarded with a peaceful sleep until 6:00 am the next morning.
"INNNNNNJJJJJJJJJUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!" Wufei was yelling.
"What now?" Viper groaned.
"Blade...um...told him something important..." Paine said and then ran off somewhere.
"HOW CAN THIS BE?! I AM NOT SO DISHONORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT!"
Blade felt tears come to her eyes, "Oh, I get it. Fine, if that's the way you feel, go to hell!!!!!!!!" she yelled stomping off. Viper and Sakura found her in her gundam, crying silently.
'I can't believe I was so stupid; I thought he loved me...well, apparently, he doesn't since he calls the fact that I'm pregnant with his child injustice...'
"Blade, it's okay..." Sakura reassured the girl. Blade looked up.
"I really thought he loved me. How can anybody act so cruel? Calling his own unborn child injustice?"
"How far along are you?"
"About a month or so" she said.
"Ok, I just didn't want to send you into battle with a child"
"You shouldn't worry about me; Paine's the one you should worry about..."
"I knew about her...I could feel the life readings off of her..." Viper said.
"God, why did this have to happen before the battle?" Blade mumbled.
"Blade, you'll be fine and when it's all over, you can come back and give Wufei hell for this"
Blade nodded and the two girls left for their own gundams. The flight to the base was in complete silence. When they got there. The boys were to cause a distraction in his mobile suit while the girls went inside and did what they were supposed to.
"Kiyo...be careful" Viper warned. Kiyo's mobile suit was a custom design, as strong as one of the gundams but smaller. The nine pilots left.
"Be careful..." Quatre told everyone else but looking directly at Sakura. She nodded and said the same thing.
"Don't die on me or turn against me for that matter..." Duo said to Paine. She nodded, "I promise"
"Viper..." Heero said, "Fuck this, I'm not good with words" and with that he kissed her. Everyone else took the hint and began to hug and kiss their respective partners.
"Onna" Wufei said to Blade. Blade was apparently still pissed off and ignored him, "ONNA!" he yelled as she walked away, "I have something to tell you!"
"I don't want to hear it!" Blade stomped off to fume on the other side of the room. Wufei gave a sigh and walked over to where she was and bent down to talk to her.
~* * *~
"They're coming, sir..." Ryo stated.
"Good..."
"Shall I go get the girl?" Katia asked.
"Yes...go get her..."
Katia left, 'They're coming; what the hell are they thinking? They know that Nathan and Ryo have Kitty...damn it...I'll do all I can to help though...'
She reached the girl who was now filled with hatred for the ones that were coming to rescue her.
"Kitty, you really have to remember...for your own sake," she said softly under her breath so that only Kitty could hear. Kitty stared at her, her eyes void of her usual emotions.
~* * *~
"Alright...let's go..." Paine said. They hadn't even taken a step into the base when they saw soldiers coming toward them, "You know what to do" she said to the others. The three girls nodded and used their elemental abilities to direct their attacks just like Ryo's internal attacks. Paine began to glow that purplish color and the soldiers around them dropped, clutching their heart and body at this new type of pain.
"Um...guys...I think we just took care of about half of their attack force..." Blade commented.
"And you won't be doing anymore damage" a voice said angrily from behind them. Before they could turn their heads, everything went black.
~outside~
"Something's wrong! These can't be the only mobile suits they have!" Quatre yelled.
"Yeah! I wonder what they're trying"
"The girls..." Trowa said suddenly as if a light bulb had turned on in his head.
"A trap..." Quatre said.
"To get all the girls..."
All six boys stared at each other in horror through their screens.
"Maybe...we're just imagining things..." Quatre said unconvincingly.
"Maybe...but if they're not out soon, I'm going in" Duo said.
"Hai" everyone agreed.
~* * *~
"Oh god, what the fuck happened?" Blade complained, clutching her head. She suddenly realized the position she was in. All four of them were sitting in metal chairs that were floating in the air, due to the lack of gravity in the room. The others were awake and were trying all they could to get out but to no success.
"I wouldn't try if I were you" Ryo said coming in shoving in five familiar boys.
"Not again guys..." Paine groaned.
"This is all I get for trying to save you ass?" Duo complained.
"Keyword: trying"
"Yeah...well...ungrateful..."
Paine stared at him, 'This would be a good time to tell him...I mean, captured with no hope of escape...about to be turned against him...yep, perfect time to tell him I'm three months along with his child...'
'Paine, you didn't tell him?!'
'Stay out of this Viper'
'Are you gonna tell him?'
'I'll tell him after...'
'If we live...'
'We'll live...we have to!'