Author's note: I made this chapter extra long for my reviewers; thank you so much for the support!
Kidnapped by Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)
Mount Everest. The tallest mountain in the world that was over twenty six thousand miles up. The height was still growing and as soon as the teenager by the name of Heero Yuy stepped onto the soil of Nepal, people and many reporters greeted him as well as cameras and video cameras.
With all the publicity, Heero began to understand what Relena had to go through every time that she went to a conference to obtain and keep her peace. He wasn't quite sure if he could get used to this. He shook his head, letting the small snowflakes falling melt in his disheveled chocolate locks.
"How do you expect to climb?" A reporter shouted above the crowd as a few reporters nodded, pens poised and ready to write.
Dasnic grinned slightly at them, turned to face the crowd as she stepped out from the plane. She glanced at Heero, head turned to the side of the crowd and arms crossed.
"Good question." Burton, his publicist and expeditionary organizer shouted back, a hush falling over the crowd as they were eager to devour the information. "Heero's team will be climbing up the north face of the mountain."
Heero quirked an eyebrow and looked slightly at Dasnic as she bit her lip. 'The north face?' He questioned mentally.
The mountain Everest has many routes up, the south side being more common and more used for its safer guarantee. The north face was the cliffs and drop-offs of the mountain. Climber's tried to avoid this route since a percentage still was high for just trying to climb the mountain.
"Is it true that you're going to snowboard down the south side?" A reporter shouted at Heero.
Heero turned, remembering the whole 'training' session he had on how to be different from his cold self. He had to act a different person, someone who he wasn't. "Sure as hell am." He smirked coldly as he pulled on his black ski vest onto his hoodie. They were going to get a team and then head to base camp.
"Mr. Yuy!" Another reporter shouted as the camera began flickering and flashing as lights went on and off to catch glimpses of the world youngest climber.
"That's enough questions now." Burton shouted as he opened his arms to hold back the mob of hungry reporters why Heero walked by towards a black SUV that would take them to town.
Burton and Dasnic followed, bags already in the vehicle during the little chat with the reporters that were trying to get more pictures by shoving their camera's at the window, shouting names and trying to get attention.
"That went well." Burton grinned as he looked over at Heero.
Said boy just snorted and looked at the man. He ran a hand through his hair and sighed, prussian eyes glancing as they took in the scenery.
"We'll have to stay in base camp for at least a week, we can't have you getting altitude sickness." Dasnic commented as she pulled off her warm hat, letting the heater in the car warm her up slightly.
Many climbers who climbed too quickly found themselves no adjusting to the temperature and different changes when gaining altitude, thus causing altitude sickness. A decompression chamber would have to be used but even with the technology, it wasn't to be taken lightly.
"We've already got the supply's." Burton declared as he gazed at Heero who looked at him with a glare.
"What?"
"Well, you're gonna be the youngest kid to climb Everest. Excited?"
"No." He replied sharply and coldly. He didn't ask to do this after all.
Burton sighed heavily. "Look, I know you don't want to do this."
"No really." Heero said with sarcasm dripping his words.
"Well, at least you're acting like more of a teenager." Burton mumbled. "We're here." The car jerked to a stop, the hustle and bustle in the tight streets of the city reminding them of where they were.
"It's a little cold outside." Dasnic declared as she opened the door and a small gust of cold wind swept into the warmth of the vehicle.
"It's foot now, too narrow streets to try and get through." Burton said as he grabbed his duffel bag, throwing it over his shoulder as he gave the driver orders to drop their stuff off at base camp. The chauffeur nodded and drove off.
Heero sighed as he let his body adjust to the temperatures of the place. His body adapted quickly. "Let's go." He commanded.
"Good, now you're starting to sound like a commander of your team." Burton added with a smile as he tossed the teen his black with blue flame snowboard. "You're gonna need it when you meet the other two."
"Just two?"
"Well, the sherpa's also." The guides of the lands, Sherpa's, were adapted to survive the harsh conditions of the mountain and were well climbers as well as guides.
"Well, we had better go. I have to do a diagnosis and report to headquarters with the stat report." Dasnic shivered as a gust came down, blowing her mountain coat even more against her.
"We'll be fine." Burton soothed as he lead them off, waving in the direction of a building with his hand.
"How ya holdin' up kid?" The wind blew around them and the shouts and cries of people around them muffled the voice somewhat.
"Fine." He replied numbly. A few women that were on vacation had run up to him, asking for his phone number and other crap. Why the hell people would want to come to vacation in a cold place like this was beyond him.
"Put this on." Dasnic put a warm jet black coat around him, on the back it had a giant 'X' with Xtreme's name in smaller letters behind it. Much as he despised to wear any of the company's crap, he shrugged it on reluctantly.
"Good day." Burton greeted with a quick smile as he walked up to the desk of the building they just walked into. "We are the Xtreme crew."
"Ah!" The secretary gasped as she looked at Heero, flashing a brilliant smile and nodding. "Ya, ya." She said as she typed so things in her computer and then pressed enter and a red button.
"Hello." A cool voice came from double doors that opened suddenly and a man in a business suit walked out. "I'm glad to see your face again, Burton. Jake today?"
"No, not this time. Crazy little bastard got to stay this time, sudden change in plans."
"Oh." The man said in a quiet expression. "You came for tea then?" He laughed lightly.
"Like hell I would." Burton joked back as he strode forward before drawing the man in for a hug, which the man returned. "Got a new one. Fresh meat."
"Where?" The man questioned with a blank look before landing eyes on Heero who snorted and crossed his arms, looking away with a look of irritation on his face.
"Him?" The man squeaked. "He's just a kid!"
"Sixteen." Burton reminded lightly as he nodded to the statement.
"You're really starting to get desperate."
"He's good."
"You don't need 'good' in a climb. You need skill and experience." He walked up to the kid, looking him over in one swift look. "I'm Warn."
"Heero Yuy, it's a pleasure." Heero said, shaking the man's hand.
"Youngest climber, eh?" Heero nodded. "Bloody bastards are insane." The man muttered.
He sighed. "All right," He looked back at Burton who grinned like a maniac. "I'll get you a team." He nodded at the girl at the desk who typed some quick keys before another door opened.
Some people from the country walked out and one thinner man that was obviously a foreigner. "The best." Warn waved his hand as if displaying a collection.
"We'll take 'em."
"You didn't even look them over!" Dasnic shouted in outrage as she peered warningly at the burly looking men to approach them.
Burton shot her a glare. "I trust these men, I know them except skinny there." The skinny one stiffened.
Warn looked at the man. "Howard." The skinny one nodded. Heero looked over at the man, noticing he did look somewhat familiar.
"Heero?" The skinny one named Howard lowered his sunglasses and looked at the teen with shock. What was a Gundam pilot doing on a climb?!
Heero said nothing but looked at the man before remembering the face. "Howard?" He questioned, getting a nod from the man and a cheeky smile. No wonder Duo was the way he was.
"You know one another?" Dasnic growled lowly as Burton's eyes narrowed slightly, a look that Warn took an edgy step back at.
Heero opened his mouth but closed it again, deciding not to speak. He bit his tongue before opening his mouth again. "No." He said and threw Howard a look.
"We have to go," Dasnic informed. "Do as you wish Burton, but if anything happens to my charge," She warned with venom. "It'll be your ass that is skinned." Her threats were not to be taken lightly and Burton knew it.
Dasnic gripped the youth's shoulder as she steered him towards the door. "We'll be at Base Camp." She said as she closed the door sharply.
"What bee stung her butt?" Burton growled as he paid the men half their share and half later. They grinned happily when they felt the money. Nepal was a poor country in many cases as the climb as one of the ways that people got to earn money.
"To Base Camp or bust!" Burton declared as the men nodded, soon taking off with all the essentials.
Off at base camp, Dasnic was busy giving a medical exam in the small house that had been supplied to her by the company.
"You have a slight fever." She murmured as she took out a syringe and pushed it into his skin after rubbing alcohol on it. She drew some blood and withdrew the needle. Heero flexed his arm to get the tingling feeling out of it.
"Step on the scale." She commanded as she turned towards her desk and put the blood in a vial and took up her notepad with numerous shorthand notes scribbled on it.
Obliging, the teen lightly stepped on it, wearing nothing but black boxers and socks. The room was heated and was very luxurious.
The woman 'tsked' slightly while biting her pen slightly as she wrote down some things. "You've lost a pound or two."
"Surprise." Heero mumbled as he rolled his eyes.
"You'll have to gain it back, it's probably because of all the exercise you've been doing." Heero shrugged, not really caring.
"Alright, I want to see your abdomen." She requested as she pulled up her glasses to the bridge of her nose, making her look even more like a doctor with her loose bun with wisps of hair stringing about it.
"You already can." Heero stated calmly as he jumped up onto the observation table.
"Lie down." She ordered, ignoring the snippy little comment he made under his breath. She lightly prodded the wound mark and bruised area.
"It's healed." Heero said as he moved to get up, moving the muscles of his wounded area slightly to make it tense.
"It's not." Dasnic growled as she pushed her charge back down onto the table. "Look," She sighed as she took off her glasses. " Who is this Howard person and how do you know him?"
"I already told you, I don't."
"Right." Sarcasm was editable. "And I'm the Queen of the Sanc Kingdom." She smiled a little when she saw Heero tense at the words. "How?"
"Why now? You seemed quick to judge back there?"
"We were wired." She stated as if an everyday fact.
"Who? Warn?"
"Yes, he's a very strong supporter of the company." She said. "He didn't know exactly who the new person was and was probably surprised when he saw you." She looked back at the brunet. "My turn." Heero sighed heavily, knowing what was coming. "How do you know him?"
"He repaired my Gundam, during the war." Dasnic nodded, happy she gained more information.
"Oh," She remembered, moving towards the teen. "I have to check your collar." The youth growled at being reminded about that damned collar. The now plastic collar was switched due to the freezing temperatures, which would hurt his skin if affected with the metal.
After looking at it for a minute or two, she nodded, throwing him his T-shirt and baggy black pants. "Here." She tossed him his belt and belt loops.
"Where am I going to be staying?" Heero questioned, looking at his snowboard besides the door.
"In here, room to the left. I'll have a cot in there for me and Burton to sleep in there with you." Dasnic relied. "If you haven't caught on already," She turned to look at Heero seriously. "I don't like Burton. At all." He cautioned.
"Why?" Curiosity killed the cat, but he wasn't a cat after all.
She sighed as she turned around while fumbling for some things. "I don't agree with his methods." She said, turning to look at him serious. "I think that it's not right that he takes as many risks as he does. It's your life he's toying with."
"Life has risks." He reminded with a sigh, throwing his shirt on easily over his body. He gazed at the white bandaging around his bruised abdomen.
"Not the kind he recklessly makes." She sighed. "Plus…"
"Yeah?" Heero questioned as he reached for his boots.
"We're divorced." Heero blinked but said nothing, not knowing what to say in a case like this. He mumbled a quiet apology to fill up he silence.
"It's not your fault." She declared as she turned around, throwing him a Xtreme shirt and a jacket with the logo and his name on it. She gave him a ID card. "Don't loose it. This is how you'll be known here."
Heero smirked. "Girls here?" He added grimly.
"Teenager's from other expeditions. Lots of boys who don't give a care about them. They might be chasing you for a while." Dasnic warned with a smile.
"Thanks." He grumbled as he jumped to the floor. "This might actually be interesting." He commented. "J always put me in the most dangerous scenarios."
"J?"
"No one." He said sharply, mentally berating himself for letting something about his past slip like that so easily.
"You might as well spill it, we're going to be with each other for a long time." Dasnic replied tersely as she guzzled a bottle of spring water.
"My mentor." Heero said softly as he grabbed his black ski jacket and threw it over his many layers to keep warm. The area was getting colder the higher you went and base camp was the lowest point for camps for the climbers to go to. Almost like a colony of tents and some temporary buildings for the company's associates.
"Don't get lost. Be at the mess hall in an hour. We'll spot you out and get you to the area where you'll meet the rest of the team."
"All right." He opened the door and let the cold wind wash over him as he stepped out, some snow whipping him in the face as he threw over a black hat. Xtreme thought that black and blue colors looked good on him.
Heero closed his eyes, letting the cold freeze away the memories of his friends and a certain blue-eyed pacifist with long golden locks.
"Hey!" A man's voice called over the slight wind. The teen turned, looking over his shoulder to look at Howard wearing a heavy coat and boots as well. If Heero didn't know how his face looked like with his photographic memory, he was certain that he wouldn't even recognize the person.
"Howard." Heero greeted with the nod of his head.
"Funny see you here." He got a nod from Heero's head, his brown bangs being blown in his face slightly. "Why are you here in the first place? You never seemed the kind of person to do crazy stuff like this."
"Neither do you." He retorted, avoiding the question.
"Right." The older man nodded. "I came here for some adventure." Heero raised his eyebrow. "And to see the moon."
"Just look up in the sky."
"Yes, but Everest has the best view. It's the closest to heaven man'll ever get." He shifted slightly, a dreamy look in his wise eyes. "Let's go inside, see what they got for entertainment."
"Sure." Heero said, knowing that he wouldn't have to worry about time. He'd easily make it and Howard was also on the team.
They walked off, Heero easily and Howard flowing in suit with few difficulties, he wasn't proclaimed a Sherpa for nothing after all.
"Wanna email the others?" Howard questioned as he looked at Heero.
"No." Heero said quickly. "I'm not allowed on any CPU." He growled softly, Howard raising an eyebrow at this.
"But, if you're climbing here, why can't—" He saw Heero take off his jacket and got the first glimpse at the collar around him. "Since when do you wear chokers?"
Heero's eyes clouded over and Howard could notice how the teen's body tensed visibly at the words. Something just didn't make sense here and Howard knew.
"Hey," A girl shouted as she rushed over to the teen. "You don't see a lot of sexy guys like you 'round here." Howard nearly choked on the hot chocolate he was guzzling at the moment.
"Why is that?" Howard saw the teen smile. 'Something's really different.' He thought, noting as he saw how the smile didn't reach the youth's eyes.
"Dunno. Most of 'em are old." She giggled as she leaned in towards Heero. "Name's Sammy."
"Heero Yuy." She gasped, a blush forming on her cheeks.
"Y-You're the guy who's gonna climb the North?"
"Yeah." Heero grinned. "Look danger in the eye and nothin' but it."
"You're simply awesome!" She said with excitement as she called some of her friends over. "Are you going to eat in the mess hall?"
"Yeah, no where else really to eat unless you like snow." She grinned, laughing as she lightly punched his muscular arm.
"Wanna eat with us?" Another one of her friends questioned. "I'm sure that they'll let you, right?"
"Yeah!" Another girl shouted merrily as the other girls chorused in happily.
"I'll ask Burton." Heero told them with a heart-stopping smile. Howard noted that even Yuy didn't smile that much for Relena. Maybe he was blackmailed?
"Hey, ya wanna go and hit the slopes 'round here and see our moves? We can see yours too." Someone suggested.
"'Kay, I don't mind. There's a ski resort down the hill and we can eat at the lodge." He turned to Howard now, "Can you tell Burton and Dasnic that I'll be at the lodge down in the resort or on the slopes." He told him with a small smile. Howard, furrowing his eyebrows at the youth's sudden change, nodded to the request numbly.
"Sweet!" Sammy proclaimed happily. "We got a spare board, you can borrow it. Hopefully it's your size."
"All right, let's get goin'." The smiled and soon Howard left to go and tell the people Heero told him to explain where he was.
Meanwhile, at the slopes after Heero and the girls showed one another moves they had some free time and fun with one another.
"Wow!" They breathed after seeing Heero do some moves and all of them having fun. "You rip!"
"Thanks, you guys aren't half bad either." They giggled. "You wanna go on another slope? Running Deer this time?" He suggested, not noticing the pair of eyes watching with binoculars watching intently.
"Yeah, which one is it?" Heero pointed, not noticing the pair of eyes follow his hand to the slope and read the sign quickly before pulling out a radio.
"Looks nice." Heero nodded.
"I dunno." The other girls mumbled against Sammy's choice. "How 'bout we meet you in the lodge?"
"All right, save us a table!" Sammy grinned as she shot her friends a peace sign and smiled at Heero. "Let's go and break this baby in!"
Heero chuckled lightly as he nodded, following Sammy to the ski lift as they got into the gondola.
"So, why are you here?" Heero found himself questioning her.
"Always do the most dangerous things." She smiled as she looked at Heero and blushed. "I'm also here for my brother." She snuggled closer to him, shivering slightly. "He always loved climbing."
"Where is he now?" She looked relieved somewhat that he asked her, wanting him to share her pain.
"He's dead." She said softly, bowing her head before raising it. "He died during a bombing raid when Romefeller was taking over Montana."
"I'm sorry." Heero said as he wrapped an arm around her against his will, knowing it would make him seem cold if he didn't. She welcomed the arm, support giving her strength. "I shouldn't have prodded so much into you're life."
She brushed off his apology with the raise of her hand. "I chose to tell you. I'm going to get this picture of him onto Everest. He's going to see the top of the world."
"Perhaps, I'll take one also." He questioned as she shot him a smile, hastily nodding as she took a picture and handed it to him after kissing the face on the photo.
"Thank you."
"After this, you should go to the Dead Sea and bury a picture of him in it." Heero looked up at the sky, noting that it was almost time for them to get off the gondola. "From the top of the world to the lowest point in the world."
"That's interesting." Sammy commented as she and him gracefully got off the gondola and made their way to the slope.
"Good jumps." Heero nodded, a smirk forming on his face. He had realized that snowboarding wasn't that bad after all.
"Shall we go?" Sammy hopped on her board, leaving the snow a little bit as she readied herself. She looked at him like he was insane for even asking something like that. He grinned back evilly and she giggled.
They both took off down the slope, Heero taking the first ramp as he did an arial flip and gripped the board slightly, tipping it up and easily bending and then landed as he turned sideways sharply with his board, facing straight ahead. Turning as he saw Sammy do a grind on one of the frozen rails, she shouted at him, "Nice moves, Heero!"
"Not bad yourself, Sam." He shouted back as they both made their way towards one another. She took off down the slope and Heero following slightly behind. She moved towards a ramp, not seeing a skier making his way down the slope, straight at her.
"Sam!" He shouted, the wind catching his shout back in his mouth. He sped down towards his new teen friend, diving at her to get her out of the way from the speeding man. He whizzed by, going up the ramp without a second glance back.
The seconds that Heero was in the air, he twisted his body so that Sam was on to of him and wouldn't be injured.
"Ugh…" She groaned, her eyes fluttering open as her emerald eyes opened to look into Heero's eyes. She had a dazed look in her eyes. "Did ya get that truck that hit me, 'Ro…?" She muttered almost incoherently.
Wincing as he sat up, he managed to pull Sam to her feet and drag himself up as well. He could already feel the sharp pain in his back. He stretched the best as he could with his board on.
"I think we've had enough boarding." Heero nodded as they made their way down the rest of the slope.
The glided over to the lodge, undoing their boards from their feet and deciding to bring them in and look for the others.
"HEY!" A large shout and a table full of waving hands motioning them over greeted them as they walked into the warm building with a cozy appeal to it.
"You go on, I'll go and get some food. Fries and a burger?"
"Sure, McDonald's, please." She thanked his again as she walked over to the table, sinking into her chair.
"What's with that gloomy face? You'd think you'd be happy if you just went boarding alone with the sexiest guy, not to mention soon-to-be famous if he completes his goal."
"Not exactly." She placed her hands over her eyes, trying to hide the embarrassment.
"Why not?"
"I made a total fool of myself." They gasped slightly, thoughts running through their head of what could have happened or gone wrong. "A person skiing was making their way down the slope. I was gonna make a jump and couldn't see him behind me."
A girl, Jesse gasped. "He saw you and stopped, right? The skier stopped, right?"
"No." Sammy said sadly. "Heero jumped and landed on me, pushing me out of the way and I landed on top of him."
"Oh," Veronica, another one of her friends crooned. "At least it wasn't that bad."
"What wasn't that bad?" The girls screamed in surprise. Heero was standing next to them, taking the chair next to Sammy since it was the only one available. He handed her the stuff that she wanted and started eating his own food.
"Oh nothing!" Veronica said as she rubbed a spot on her neck that seemed to itch ironically. "Y'know, you can't just do that to people, we're too young to get a heart attack."
"Not if you keep eating McDonalds like that." Heero laughed as well as the others as they continued to chat.
"That was fun." Sammy smiled as she and Heero made their way back to Base camp, the other's having already gotten to their tents.
They walked over to the building labeled with Xtreme and Heero walked into the door, letting Sammy in also.
"So great for you to finally join us." A cold voice said as the lights were turned on and Heero blinked.
Dasnic stood there with arms crossed next to Burton who was shooting glares at her. "We happened to miss you at dinner."
"I got some food at the lodge at the Big Boulder ski resort." Heero said with just as much coldness in his voice.
"I see you've already met your other teammate, Sammy Nule." Burton grunted as he put on a smile for the other teen.
Sammy gave a mocking bow as she looked at Heero with an apologizing look in her eyes. "I didn't know you were my teammate. Xtreme fails to say who the youngest climber and newest teammate is going to be." Heero nodded, accepting her apology.
"I need to give you a check up." Dasnic said shortly. "We've made arrangements. Chris is going to be your other teammate. A boy with blonde hair that looked to be about twenty-five gave a short wave. "Guys are sleeping with Burton and the girls get their own room."
"I'm cool with that." Sammy grinned as she headed off to the room that Dasnic gestured to and closed the door, ready to change into her nightclothes.
"This way. 'Night Chris. Burton." She pulled Heero off to the medical room and then pulled his shirt off.
He looked down and saw that he had torn his scab a little bit from the attack he received on the kidnapping. She looked at him with a furrowed look.
"You really need to stop going against Xtreme's orders." She warned him as she pulled out some utensils and then looked at his back with a frown on her face.
"It's not my fault if an idiot skier didn't stop. He almost killed Sammy." Heero grumbled as he ran a hand through his ruffled hair.
Dasnic sighed as she finished and pulled out a needle. She put it into the teen's arm, getting a grunt as she emptied the contents.
"What the hell did you do?" He asked wearily, vision swimming in front of his eyes as his voice no longer held the bite it usually had.
"Morphine." She said simply as she threw the needle away into the hazardous waste trashcan. "You're going to need a lot of sleep so that you're ready for the climb tomorrow.
"You…" His vision went black and his body pitched forward, prepared to fall off the observation table he was sitting on. Dasnic caught him.
"He's light." She muttered as she picked him up and walked out the door. Burton was already lying on his cot when she put him onto his bed and tucked him in.
"What did you give him his time?"
"Morphine." Dasnic growled as she walked out of the room, hitting the light switch off and sharply closed the door, making sure not to wake the already slumbering Chris.
"Got your stuff ready?" Heero nodded, Dasnic had asked the safe thing after so many times and they had already left base camp. She was obviously trying to break the silence. Even Sammy was quiet.
Heero looked up at the ice cliff towering over him. He had a radio under the thermal cloth covering his mouth and nose. The Sherpa's had already agreed to meet at Camp point one. They had to take a different route with the yaks that they had brought along.
Taking his ice ax and a hinge (a/n: I'm sorry, I forgot what they were called) and looped it with his harness, hammering it into the ice as he scaled the wall, putting more hinges into the ice for his teammates. Easily they made it to Camp One with little difficulties.
"You were great today." Sammy said, wiping some sweat off her brow. She patted him on his shoulder, smiling underneath her scarf as she adjusted her goggles.
Their bodies were completely covered and they felt nice and warm in the cold weather. "Heero!" Sammy's voice drew him from his thoughts and he turned to look at her.
Some girls shouted from their groups as some people raised their head to look at the new arrivers.
"Let's set up the camps."
"Sure, commander." Sammy chirruped as she saluted and ran off to the flag that waved a giant 'X' and got their supplies, getting the tent supplies.
"How was the climb?" Howard questioned.
"All right." Heero said.
"That Chris guy makes me uneasy." He commented as Heero looked at him and sighed heavily. "What?"
"Howard, I can't do anything." Heero admitted. "My hands are tied and I can't do anything."
"What does that mean?" He had a foreboding feeling and before he could open his mouth again, the teen turned away instead of answering the question.
"Look, I'm going to go for a short climb with Sam, all right?" Heero walked away, grabbing his climbing equipment as he talked with Sam who nodded her head, grabbing her stuff and walking off with him.
However, Howard failed to notice the little snippets of rope pieces from Heero's equipment that had been cut slightly…
The wind howled around them but it was perfect weather. They had climbed during the right time when storms were rare. Hopefully they wouldn't be hit by any. After all, Everest had the most unpredictable weather.
"This is going to be lots of fun." Heero nodded as he took his hinge and hammered it into the wall, Sammy wanting to go last again like the last climb.
After they had climbed at least twenty feet up, Heero began to have a gut feeling something was wrong. He didn't know what it was and looked below him, the flat surface they had found swirling in the mist.
"Hey, Heero—!" Sammy called above but when he looked down, he heard something. Heero's eyes widened as they snapped upward when he heard an odd noise after the wind began to die down slightly. It sounded like the rope's nylon strings snapping.
Over the howling wind he had realized it was too late. His harness snapped, making him plummet the twenty feet down to the ground.
"Heero!" Sammy screamed as she tried grabbing for him as he fell. Her rope was still securely tied to the hinge.
His body was swallowed by the mist as she yanked her body toward her rope, quickly cutting the rivet (or hinge) loose.
She held back a scream and let her body fall as well until she was five feet above the ground when she jammed her ice hammer into the wall and came to a jerky stop.
She ripped off her equipment, rushing over to the prone body of Heero Yuy.
She checked his pulse; relieved when she felt a slow one and she quickly fumbled around and pulled out her radio.
"Dasnic!" She yelled over the line. She looked down at the rope that had snapped and her eyes narrowed. She saw the smooth edges on about one third of the rope. Someone had cut the line before hand.
"Sammy?" Dasnic's voice relayed over the radio.
"Get some sherpa's over here quick!"
"Why?!" Dasnic yelled back over the line, sensing danger in the girl's tone of voice. "What's wrong?"
"Damnit! Did you NOT hear me?!!!" She shouted back. "NOW!!!!!"
"Location?" The voice crackled over the line slightly.
"South face, 100 feet up, north 10 degrees and east slightly 25 degrees." She relayed. Getting an affirmative over the communication network.
"Bring medical supplies." She ordered and severed the link to see what she could to for Heero.
Turning him over since he had managed to twist and land on his chest, she brushed away pieces of snow on his mahogany locks.
"You're going to be okay." She whispered as she cradled his head.
"Relena…." He mumbled in his unconscious state and she drew away. She knew that name and there was only one girl in the whole world and colonies with the name Relena and that was the Vice Foreign Minister, Relena Darlain-Peacecraft.
Gasping, she didn't have any time to react as the sherpa's came, quickly whisking the two of them back to base camp.
Dasnic met them as they entered the Xtreme camp instead of passing other places; they didn't want any trouble or cause any commotion.
Taking one look at the teen, Dasnic hurried him inside her tent where she blasted the heater and took off his soaked shirt and other articles of clothing until he was clad only in boxers.
"What happened?" She mumbled as she bit her lip at the blood on his body. She took out her utensils again and stuck a needle in his arm and also and electronic thermometer on his forehead to measure his temperature. "Well?" She said with exasperation, brushing some pieces of hair that escaped her bun away from her view.
"Sabotage." Sammy said with growing anger.
"What?" Dasnic whispered.
She produced the rope that was wrapped around Heero's harness. "It was cut."
TBC
Author's note:
Whew! Holy crap that took a while to write, this will keep y'all happy hopefully with such a long update. I think that the only chapters that I make that are so long would be for Standing in the Shadows (SITS).
My reviewers, this chapter was so long for you all! I love you and I hope to write more. To the reviewer that asked that it be more challenges than Everest, there certainly will be I'm planning on making Heero have a little trip to the Mariana Trench near Japan, the deepest Trench on earth and can fit Everest in it.
If anyone has any suggestions on Xtreme things Heero should do, please write it! I'll probably use it Perhaps he'll meet up with Relena and they find him after he starts getting famous. Maybe I'll put him as one of the fifty sexiest stars of the world…
I think that the hinges are actually called rivets, I know that it's something like that. I go through obsessions and all and Everest and climbing was one.
Thank you everyone for the reviews! They make me so happy! Maybe if I'm lucky this story will reach twenty! That'd be cool. Okay, well, happy holidays everyone!!
-Red Tail