Chapter 13
I quickly strapped into the transport that carried my gundam and supplies. I pushed the button to start the start up sequence, then as swift as I could I walked made a quick systems check. Everything was running normal. I opened the hanger bay doors and started the engines. I punched in the coordinates for the landing pad on Earth and started the flight sequence. The craft lifted off with a woosh of the engines. I supressed my feelings from the past three days down inside myself.
I quickly menuvered the craft out of the hanger and pushed the auto-piolet on. I left my past as I left the colony. "Goodbye," I whispered softly. I pressed some buttons and music laced the air. Evanescence, Understanding. I laughed softly at the irony of the song and laid back in the chair. I yawned and knew it would be atleast a four hour trip to Earth. I quickly fell into a fitful sleep.
Jedite looked down at Princess Mars and held her close. He then looked at me his eyes were clouded with some emotion I could not read. I saw something silver flash in his hand and I gasped as he plunged it into Mars's back. "NO!" I screamed and ran towards him.
"Stupid girl. So easy to manipulate." He laughed softly as he dropped her body into the rubble.
"You bastard!" I screamed at him. I threw a fire ball at him as I ran towards him. He quickly put it out and laughed at me.
"You are a weakling." He laughed maliciously. He then pointed his hand at me.
"You have yet to see my true powers." I growled softly as I ran towards him. I threw more fire balls at him to distract him and quickly sliped to the side of him and tackled him to the ground. I felt the blade bite into me before I realized that he had arleady anticipated my attack. "You..." I fell forwards on top of him feeling the blade go deeper. I reached around to my back and pulled the small dagger I kept there. I slipped it out feeling my right side start to go numb and plunged the blade into his kidney. He pushed me off as he screamed in pain. I fell back onto the rubble and groaned in pain. I saw the blood blossom on my dress and I groaned again. I watched him pull the knife out of his side. He slowly stood cradling his side.
"You bitch." He growled at me. "You are going to pay for this... with your life." He glared at me as he came towards me.
"You touch her again and I will finish what she started." A strong voice came from the distance. I tried to see who it was but the blood loss was starting to get to me.
"She will be dead before you could even reach me Red Knight." Jedite laughed manically.
"I doubt that." I suddenly knew who it was. Duo.
"Duo..." I whispered softly as I started to blackout from blood loss. The planet shook under me and I groaned in pain.
I sat up quickly, looking around for the source of my waking. The ship trembled violently agian. "Shit..." I muttered. I looked at the consol and noticed the master light had come on. I sighed softly and ran a quick systems check. The targeting systems were blown and so was the landing systems. I frowned at it, my eyebrows furrowed. "How could this happen?" I said softly. "I ran a systems check before I left base..." I shook my head and quickly tried to fix it. More systems began to go offline. "Shit!" I exclaimed softly. I suddenly knew what I had to do. I grabbed my duffle bag and ran to the back of the ship. I put my helmet on and pushed off towards my gundam. "Shini open." The door wooshed open and I slid inside. I quickly shut the door and started it up. I placed my hands on the controls and blasted the doors. I quickly left the malfunctioning ship and turned to watch it. It hit the earth's atmosphere and it disintigrated on contact. I shook my head and knew that the heat shields were on the gundam just incase something like this happened. I turned on the thrusters and pin pointed my trajectery towards the place I would be landing.