Jackie: Hmmm… This is getting long…
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Trigun
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Chapter 28;
An explosion sent dust and sand in waves over Nick and the girls. Nick growled, "That wasn't even close. None of their attacks have come close. It's almost like…"
"They are just trying to keep us here," Mira finished, "That machine they took the boys in, they are buying time for the machine to work."
"Yeah," Meryl said, "Whatever it does."
"I don't know," Nick said, "Knives never told me about it."
Mira rubbed her head. Knives didn't show me the machine… I thought he'd said he showed me everything… Mira's lips curved into a frown. She was quite sick of men telling her half truths, or omitted truths, or blatant lies. When I save you, Knives, you have got some explaining to do…
"Well, they are doing a good job of holding us here," Nick said with obvious frustration, "Just like the last two groups."
"It's like their teasing us," Millie said, "They let us get about 3 iles closer to the base and hold us, a little closer, hold us."
"So, if they are just holding us," Meryl started, "Have they been ordered not to kill us?"
Meryl stood up before anyone could answer. She roared out over the gunfire, "You couldn't hit a one-legged thomas!"
Wolfwood reached up and yanked her back by the cloak and a bullet whizzed over her head. If Wolfwood had been mere seconds later… Meryl said, "Well, there goes that theory."
"We had a policy in the Gung-ho-guns," Nick explained, "If it doesn't cooperate with the plan, kill it. I'm afraid we have no choice but to play by their rules."
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Monique slammed her fist into the wall. It was late in the third night she'd stayed up by that console, trying to break the brothers. Vash had gone downhill so quickly she was sure he would have cracked by now, but he held on by just one thread. If only she knew where to cut!
She had told the remaining remnants of the gung-ho-guns to hold the humans back for a week and then let them come. By then she would be able to watch as the brothers smote those pitiful creatures with their awesome wrath. By then, she would have also fully claimed her right as queen, bedding with her master and conceiving an heir.
She glared at Knives's brain wave readings. She could tell that she was close, but there was some element she was missing. What could it be? Both brothers had a key, that one thing that would crack their consciousness wide open. She thought that woman was Knives's key, and it had made a great difference, but there was something else…
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"Human wench!" Knives roared, "Where are the children you bore me? You dare to hide my blood from me?"
Flicker, flicker… What was that?…
Monique was rushed to the gung-ho-guns infirmary. She was full of bullet holes. Not that Knives cared. This time she would die for sure.
Flicker…
Why did he feel like he had done this all before? Standing by Mir--- Monique's side, marveling at her will to live. Weeks now she had survived, fighting off injury and infection…
Flicker…
"Monique," Knives announced to his loyal minions, "I have chosen you as the most worthy of your miserable race to bare me an heir."
Flicker, flicker…
Knives knew he should be excited. The human woman was giving birth to twins today. His blood would be born and help him to wipe out the human race, but why did he feel so empty, and so wrong. Beneath that, a deep sense that he had done this thousands of times before… Mira, Gabriel, Angela… Who are they?
Flicker, flicker, flicker…
"Human wench!" Knives roared, "Where are the children you bore me? You dare to hide my blood from me?"
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"Like I could ever love you" Meryl laughed, "Droopy eyed, ragged, torn up bit of a man, pretending to be human!"
Change.
"I just played you for a fool!" Nick shouted, "I'm a gung-ho-gun! I am a killer!"
Different scenes every time. Meryl dieing, Meryl leaving, Millie dieing, Nick killing, Nick dieing. It just kept blending together, but he knew it couldn't be true. Nick had changed, and Meryl loved him…
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Monique typed away furiously. What am I missing???
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Jackie: What do you think? Will the boys crack?