Shattered Reality Part 6
Great Escape
by
Sailor Janus
Hotaru stood completely frozen in front of the gun Heero had aimed at her heart. However instead of looking afraid like he expected, she actually appeared to be pretty perturbed.
Taking a deep breath, she stared into his cold deep blue eyes. "I did not set this up, Heero. Do you even realize how much my life is on the line right now because I led you two here? If they find out I betrayed them, there is no telling what they might do. But if you are so insistent that I arranged this whole thing, then go ahead and pull the trigger, I won't move, but you two will not last 10 minutes out there. Security is very ugly and malicious. I know that for a fact because I watched a man who committed treason, being ripped apart by the guard dogs, which are starved for several days at a time to make them extremely bloodthirsty. I'd rather cut my own head off with a butter knife than be found by them," the dark-haired girl bluntly said never removing her gaze from Heero's. "You better think fast Yuy, because security is going to be here within minutes if not seconds."
The perfect soldier, kept his eyes focused on Hotaru's as he lowered the gun. "Fine, I'll believe you this time, but you better not double-cross. I still do not trust your intentions as pure, and if you are lying, I will not hesitate to pull the trigger next time."
"Permission granted," the girl simply said, with a small nod of her head.
"Um, can we please discuss this later because I really do not want to be a doggie chew toy!" Duo said as he shifted the heavy bag of weapons on his shoulder, looking very uneasy after hearing Hotaru's story about the killer guard dogs. This place just was not people friendly.
Hotaru turned to the braided-haired boy and realized he was right. They really were cutting it close. "Okay, follow me, but do not question my methods or else you are on your own," she roughly spoke, pushing the door open as she pulled her bag's strap more securely over her shoulder. With her back to the wooden doorframe, Hotaru surveyed the corridor, before signaling for Duo and Heero to follow; soon they were racing down the hall as fast as they could.
"Oh shit!" Hotaru cursed after rounding a corner and nearly collided into several armed men in security uniforms before abruptly stopping in her tracks. The two ex-pilots skidded to a halt behind her, all three teens looked very nervous. There were way too many officers for even all three of them to handle, not to mention more were probably due to arrive. Sure enough, the opposite end of the hall also filled with guards, blocking both exits.
"Oh great. We're surrounded," Duo, sighed as he stared wide-eyed at the guards, beginning to feel sick to his stomach. They were so out-numbered, that it wasn't even funny.
"Now what?" Heero inquired of Hotaru, who was trying to figure out a way to escape. Finally she had an idea.
"Listen carefully. If you take this hallway straight down, you'll come to an air conditioning duct, which has no screws holding it in place. Go inside and take it all the way until you can't go anymore. Then turn left and you'll come to another duct, break through it and you'll find yourself outside. Be as cautious as possible. There may be guards out there as well," she whispered to Heero and Duo who nodded their heads, accepting the plan.
"What about you?" the perfect soldier questioned the girl as he reached slowly for his gun.
"I'll distract them. Don't worry. I know several ways out of here. Please trust me on this one. As soon as I fire my gun, go and do not look back."
"Firefly, what is the meaning of this?" a tall, lanky guard with light brown hair asked the girl, as he approached her.
"I captured them on my way back to the lab, Sir. Shall I dispose of them?" Hotaru clearly said, with almost a robotic tone to her voice as the two ex-gundam pilots watched.
"Good job, Firefly," the man praised as he stepped closer, to apprehend the intruders.
"Thank you Lieutenant," the violet-eyed girl said with a small smirk, as she aimed her pistol and fired, shooting the man at point-blank range as everyone stared in horror, including the two boys. "Don't just stand there! Get out of here!"
Exchanging glances, Heero and Duo began sprinting across the hall, barrowing through the crowd of still stunned guards in the process.
"She shot him!" one of the guards yelled, as he came to realization that the pretty little assassin had switched teams. "Kill her!"
'At least they'll be okay. Time for some fun,' Hotaru thought, dropping her bag to the floor, taking a deep breath as her reflexes took over.
Two very stupid men chose this moment to try rushing the girl, which resulted in a spinning kick to one's face and a sidekick to the other's gut and knee. Instant disablement.
'Okay, if I remember right. The parking lot is down that hallway through the east wing. Now just how do I go about this without dying?' she tried to decide, taking out two more men by sweeping their feet out from under them as they too advanced on Hotaru.
Getting fed up at the girl, the guards began firing their guns, one almost hitting the girl in the arm. "Amateurs." she muttered, reaching in her pocket, pulling out her favorite instant escape item, a can of tear gas.
Quickly the violet-eyed girl shot her gun into the ceiling for a diversion, as she threw the open can across the floor, then took off running as fast as possible before diving to the ground as it exploded, spewing tear gas throughout the hall.
"TEAR GAS!" the guards shouted covering their mouths as they coughed, gasping for air as the gas entered their lungs. The men's attempts to not breath in the fumes were futile. Before long, the security guards found themselves unconscious on the dirty floor.
With a groan, Hotaru stumbled up to her feet, and began racing down the hall before the gas could even reach her, turning at the corner heading towards the east wing.
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Heero and Duo managed to safely make it to the air conditioning duct without too much trouble and were now crawling through the ventilation system heading to the left as Hotaru had instructed them.
"Ugh! Man, this thing is heavy!" the chestnut brown-haired ex-pilot grunted as he struggled with the bag the dark-haired girl made him pack.
Heero glanced at his friend behind him. "Why are you still carrying her stuff? What did she do? Pack her rock collection or something?"
"No, not exactly. She has a much cooler collection than a bunch of rocks." Duo grinned shifting the bag on his shoulder. "The girl seems to have a pretty extensive weapon collection. We are talking 'Weapons R Us' here! Everything from clips and bullets, to tear gas and even a crossbow!"
"Hn." Heero replied deep in thought now. 'Well, I guess that shouldn't surprise me too much. Perhaps I've been wrong.'
The boy behind him smirked as he continued, "Seems Hotaru likes things of destruction."
"Shut up, Duo. We're getting close," the Perfect Soldier motioned to his friend as they stopped in front of another vent, which leads outside.
"About time! I'm starting to feel claustrophobic in here!"
"Shh!" Heero silenced the talkative boy behind him as he carefully broke open the duct, feeling the breeze of the night air blow across his face, playing with his dark hair. 'So, she didn't trick us after all.'
Inspecting the area, quietly, the two teens jumped out of the small enclosed space and began walking fast away from the building.
"Now what?" Heero said briefly, searching for any sign of Hotaru or the guys for that matter.
Suddenly, a black sports car screeched to a halt in front of the two ex-pilots, who were about to whip out their guns, when they recognized whom the driver was.
"Hurry up and get in!" Hotaru ordered urgently from the driver's seat of the black car.
"You swiped a car?! A sports car at that?!" Duo exclaimed as both boys stared at the girl.
"And you two have never stolen a car before?" she asked arching an eyebrow. "Get in now, or you're gonna be walking home."
The boys exchanged glances and climbed into the car as quickly as possible. Duo in the back and Heero in the front as Hotaru peeled out.
"Wow, we actually made it!" the braided-haired teen grinned as he sat back.
"We're not out of the woods yet," the girl sighed as she accelerated. "Make sure you have your seatbelts on. I don't want to lose anyone…. oh damn, hang on because here they come."
Just as Hotaru spoke, the rear window shattered into a hail of glass courtesy of one of the three cars speeding behind them.
"Hey!" Duo cried out as he leaned forward to protect his head.
"Shit. They're shooting at us," Heero growled as he turned around.
"You think?!" the cobalt blue-eyed teen grumbled. "Damn it! There's a chunk of glass stuck in my hand!" Duo winced as he slowly pulled the clear object out of his skin, and then ripped off the sleeve to the janitor's uniform to bind the wound.
The Perfect Soldier chose this moment to roll down his window and began firing at the assaulting cars behind them, successfully, blowing out a tire, forcing the driving to pull over. "One down."
Hotaru was too busy trying to keep control of the car to pay any attention as to what was going on in the passenger and back seats. The road they were speeding on was deserted, completely out in the middle of nowhere, which for their situation, was a very bad thing.
'Okay, if I turn through this dirt trail... oh no, huge bump,' the violet-eyed girl thought as her eyes grew huge. "Brace yourselves. Big bump ahead," she said through gritted teeth to the teens, which dropped their guns as the car suddenly went airborne.
"AHHHHH!"
With a thud, they safely landed without tipping over, and once again, Hotaru's foot was glued to the accelerator as she flew down the extremely rocky trail in the middle of the woods.
"Do you even know where you going?" Heero questioned the girl who nodded.
"That was cool!" Duo snickered as the other two cars behind them tried to do the same exact thing, but one ended up toppling over. "Hey! Only one car left!"
"Good, hold on real tight. This should lose him," Hotaru said as she quickly spun the car around in a 180, spraying dirt in the process, and then sped off. The other driver also turned, but ended up crashing into a tree since his eyes were on the black sports car instead of where he was going. 'Wow, that actually worked.'
Heero raised his eyebrows as smoke filled in the engine of the other car while the driver began spouting curses at the three teens. 'Not bad,' he thought as Duo bounced up and down in the backseat cheering.
Pulling back up on the road, the girl speed off once again, tires squealing, down the street. "Heero, do you have your cell phone with you?"
"Huh? Yeah, why?"
Pushing a strand of hair out of her face she answered the dark blue-eyed ex-pilot. "Call Trowa and ask him to meet us at the at the downtown diner off of 53rd. I want to get rid of this car."
"But aren't our fingerprints and everything in this car to begin with?" the braided-haired boy asked, as he scratched his head. "What good would getting rid of it do? They could track us down and accuse us of carjacking."
"Yes, but this is actually the professor's car so it wasn't like I stole the keys or anything. I guess he never thought I'd revolt as long as his little toy was properly affixed to the inside of my ear. Anyway, the self-detonation device is going to go in oh, ten minutes so we really don't have to worry about fingerprints and such," Hotaru shrugged as something sparked in her eyes.
"WHAT?!" the two ex-pilots yelled as they gaped at the girl.
Heero looked at Hotaru as if she were insane. "Why the hell is the car going to explode?"
"There is a self-detonation device in this thing and it has just been activated. See the little flashing red button on the dashboard? The faster it goes, the less time we have. I'm just surprised they hadn't applied it earlier," the dark-haired girl sighed as she rounded a corner onto the highway before taking a quick exit off it again. "Don't worry, I'm know where exactly to take it."
The three teens drove in silence until Hotaru finally pulled up in a vacant lot of a convenience store that had gone out of business several months ago, which made sense because it was practically the only sign of life for at least a mile.
'"Two minutes," Hotaru weakly announced as they quickly gathered their things and rushed out of the car, running to the opposite side of the street, before throwing themselves to the ground as it exploded.
Slowly, the teens got to their feet, looking back at the wreckage. The nice little black sports car, which practically saved their lives, was now reduced to charred scrap metal, barely resembling what it once had been, an expensive sports car.
"That was fun," Duo dryly said as he dusted the dirt off his pants before realizing that he was still wearing the janitor's uniform. With a shrug, the boy quickly, began tearing the clothing off.
Heero, decided to do the same, since he wasn't about to meet his friends or walk into a restaurant looking like he came specifically to fix their toilets.
As the boys stripped off the uniforms, Hotaru, kneeled back on the ground, and checked her bag, making sure nothing was broken. 'Good, everything is still intact and I still have the disks. Mission successful.'
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Author's Notes: Don't worry the story isn't over yet. I just figure stopping at this part would work well otherwise; it'll be a really long chapter, lol. I'm just now starting to get into the plot of the story, which is going to happen, um, I'm thinking the Chapter 7 or 8, perhaps will be signaling the R rating. From there, the ex-pilots and Hotaru's lives will be hell, as my summary states, as reality begins to shatter like glass.
As far as the coupling goes, I just wrote the scene. (writes scenes whenever they come to her even if it's not going to take place until later in the story) I think you'll like how I did it even though the circumstances for it are really; um bad would be a good word. You'll learn more later. But let's just say there is trouble.
At the same time that part goes into play, I'll have another fic, which has another pairing in it. The other one you guys have mentioned, I may not do b/c then I'll have eight stories I'd be working on, lol.
Um, if you're curious, yes, I am playing around with a few parts to the Sailor Moon world. I'm just twisting them around so yeah, I put that Hotaru likes destruction on purpose, (senshi of destruction) which with that much arsenal, you'd have to think she was destructive! ^_^
That's it for now. I have finals next week, so be surprised that this chapter made it! The next may not be out until following weekend, I'll warn you, but after that updates should be much more frequent.
Oh! By the way, as far as the action scenes go and there will be a lot of them, I've done martial arts for quite a few years, 5 to be exact, so I know when certain things will work or not. (you'll find this out later on. I actually had to act out one part, lol.) The only problem is trying to figure out what to call the move because I've done taekwondo, and it's Korean, lol.
Thank you for the reviews! I'm obsessed with reading them now, lol. And I hope you enjoyed this chapter ^_^