Chapter 5: Escape and Pain
The door opened and in came Dr. J, Heero's trainer walked into the room. "Well hello there." He smiled cheerfully at them and Duo fell off the bed in shock. It was true that everyone was expecting Lethe, not the Doctor.
"Doctor!" Relena cried. "They got you too?" She exclaimed.
"Yes and no." He said. "They got me here, and I can roam around with freedom. Like you all, I take it?"
The others nodded their heads. "Well..." The doctor said. "I take it that you all are trying to escape?" The doctor asked.
"Yeah..." Duo said quietly.
"You have to come with us!" Sally yelled and Lady Une grabbed him and then pulled him into the hall as everyone else followed her. Sally had Heero piggyback style on her back. He slowly opened his eyes Sally stopped running. His eyes were unfocused and then he shut them as he winced when she shifted his weight.
He muttered a barely audible groan as his wound was now pouring blood more. It was very deep and the stitches that had been used to sew them together were pulled off, ripping some of his skin along with it, causing more pain. They had removed his tank top and now his blood was pouring on Sally's green dress giving it an almost brown color on her back.
"Hurry! I don't think Heero's body can take this!" She yelled as they rushed down the hall, some soldiers opening fire on them, one hit Heero in the arm and another in his back. His face showed no expression. He drifted in and out of unconsciousness.
His breath was even more labored and then he went limp again in her arms, his breath becoming even shallower. He muttered "ugh!" as a bullet grazed his arm, hanging limply over Sally's shoulder.
He opened his eyes but everything was blurry and shadowed. He tried taking steady breaths to make everything come into focus, but everything protested against him. He collapsed again after trying to raise his head. He muttered something that only Sally could hear, which sounded a lot like: 'What does it matter?' But his voice was so low and soft over the gunfire, she could quite make sure that was what he said.
"Hang on Heero!" She shouted hoping what she heard wasn't what he said. "You can't give up yet!" Relena looked at Sally as she shouted this to him, and worry crossed her eyes, but she continued running.
"Here!" Wufei shouted as they jumped into a nook in the wall, using it as a shield. He took the gun Heero still had pocketed (the one that he used to point at Relena and Duo) and started shooting at the soldiers and then they made a break for the nearby door that would release them from the building.
They rammed the door open and all of them jumped into the van that they had ridden in just two days or so before. They opened the doors and floored the foot petal. Luckily, the soldiers WERE stupid enough to leave the keys on the dashboard.
Meanwhile, back in the hall, Lethe walked around. The sounds of the CD player were still bouncing off the walls. Now, 'Haunted' was playing in a hauntingly sweet tone synthasized to make it sound even creepier.
She closed her eyes and took deep breaths to enjoy the music, twisting around her body as she swayed lightly to the music.
Lethe switched the song. "'Hello', is number nine...hm..." She switched the dials to number nine. When the part that she liked came, she twisted and turned while looking around for Heero. "He said that he was going to be taking a nap." She looked around and furrowed her brow. "Where is he?" She said angrily, "Is he testing my patience?" She tapped her foot angrily on the floor and her thoughts were voiced aloud.
She turned and left the room angrily as she heard the screeching of tires and the stray sound of bullets. She ran down the hallway and then the captain of the squad came rushing up to her.
"What the hell is going on?" She yelled after the soldiers saw their leader and then stopped firing. It was pointless.
"They got away, Miss." He Captain said angrily. "They got away all of them including the doctor and 01's pilot too."
"What!" She yelled and then, masking her emotions she turned to go to the medical center where all the research was. She saw the equipment all in disarray and everything was destroyed.
"Damn!" She yelled in frustration. "They did turn out to be more pests than I thought they would."
She quickly turned and left, then stood in front of a looming picture of Quinze, who had organized the White Fang in vengeance for Heero Yuy.
She touched the frame lightly, then pushed a concealed button and then it swung open to reveal a secret passageway. "He isn't going to like this at all..."
The dark bulk of the van shone on the highway as headlights reflected on its metal sheen. "Hurry! We have to get to the closest unguarded hospital!" Lady Une said who was sitting next to Heero, trying to stop his wounds from loosing anymore blood. He needed all his strength to fight off the drug, but he was already exhausted and was suffering from blood loss.
"I don't know if he can take the pressure, he has the will but his body isn't that strong!" Sally said.
Relena looked at him, his face was peaceful because he was unconscious, but the moment he woke up, he would struggle in their hands. "Please, God. Please, let him live!" She cried.
"Don't worry." Quatre placed a hand on her shoulder for comfort. "He could have died so many times from the war, but he didn't." He reassured her but he still had a bad feeling about this.
"This is the exit!" Wufei shouted as Duo swerved off towards the exit.
"Gotchya!" Duo said quickly as he sped off, dodging other cars while doing this.
"The hospital is about fifteen minutes away." Trowa said calmly, but he was getting slightly nervous. If the brunet-haired soldier didn't pull through, it would be a great loss on them all and he didn't even want to think of the impact it would have on Relena.
"Fine." Duo said sharply. "We'll make it in ten then!" He said confidently. They were five minutes away now.
Then sirens could be heard from behind them. Multiple police cars were following them, and they had the advantage of knowing the area.
"Damn!" Trowa muttered. "Duo, the police!" He shouted up front at the frustrated braided pilot.
"Dammit, I know! What are we gonna do? We can't stop at the hospital or they'll catch us!" Duo said, asking his companions for advice. "I could use some plans right about now!" He hit the accelerator as far as it would go.
"Pull over, now!" Wufei commanded. "They'll let us go since we have Heero." He stated to the point.
"'Right! What ever you say." Duo said. He hit the brake and the car screeched to a stop, making skid marks on the asphalt.
The police car stopped too and the officer got out quickly. "Your way beyond the speed limit." He said sharply, fingering his gun, then he recognized the faces in the van. "Y-You're the soldiers from the Eve wars!" He exclaimed. The Gundam pilots had gotten great praise for defending peace and also for stopping the long and bloodiest war.
"We have to get to the hospital! We've got someone really injured in the back!" Duo said quickly, not wasting a moment's hesitation.
"Then go!" The officer shouted. "I'll follow you!" He exclaimed. He jumped back into his car and sped off with the car.
"Quick!" Sally shouted as they lifted the limp Heero and rushed him into the hospital wing, and the doctors quickly rushed him into the ICU.
"Hurry! Get him into the critical area! We need to get some blood into him quickly he's lost too much!" the doctor cried as nurses and orderlies were scrambling about, getting all the things they need ready for the critically injured patient.
"Let me help!" Sally cried. She herself was a skilled doctor during the war.
"No. We can't." The doctor said firmly.
"I'm a skilled doctor from the war!" She stated quickly at the gurney that was being pulled into the ICU.
"Please stay here, in the waiting room." He ordered. He turned and left quickly to the room where the other doctors and nurses were in, trying to get Heero's condition stabilized.
A dark haired figure walked in, surrounded by two to three bodyguards. "Well hello." Said the voice slyly.
Relena turned, recognizing the voice, and glared at the figure as it threw off the coat's hood to reveal her dark bluish hair and her burning crimson eyes which were out for blood now. "You." Relena snarled angrily, clenching her fists so tight that they drew blood. She didn't even wince at the pain of her nails boring into her flesh.
"Yes. 'Tis I Relena and you lot." She snickered.
Trowa looked at her and her bodyguards, but noticed that one of the bulkier figures wasn't one itself and it looked familiar, then something clicked in Trowa's mind.
"Sogran..." He hissed at the figure that grinned evilly.
TBC
Author's note: Yeah, it hasn't really changed a lot other than me adding a couple things here and there and changing the format somewhat. I didn't really like how some of the songs came out so I took them out most of the times.
