Title: No Matter What
Author: x1-TaKeN-oVer
Chapter 6
"Come on, Heero!" Lina yelled as she made a mad dash through the apartment lobby to the waiting cab outside.
Heero ran as fast as he could in his 3-inch heel boots as he possibly could without risking himself bodily injury. Really, there was no reason to rush; the cab sure as hell wasn't going anywhere and the restaurant didn't close until 1:00 in the morning and it was only 8:03.
"Move your ass, Yuy!" She yelled as she slid into the yellow taxi, "we're late enough as it is...MOVE IT!"
Heero shuffled faster and finally made it to the car. He got himself situated as Lina told the directions to the driver.
"Great, now we're gonna be late. Thanks," she huffed and fell back into the seat.
"Late for what?" Heero questioned loudly. "The damn restaurant doesn't close until 1 o'clock in the morning and its only 8:05. What the hell is the big rush?"
Lina could only stare at Heero. "Duh, Heero. Everyone knows that they put out the fresh food for dinner at 8 o'clock. Gosh, you're so friggin' dumb sometimes." She rolled her eyes and turned to the window.
Heero then decided that it would be in everyone's best interest if he sat on his hands for the rest of the ride. If he didn't the unthinkable might happen and he might, just might strangle the hell out of Lina. He blew out harshly and counted to ten...slowly. After he had managed to catch his head a bit he turned to his own window and watched as the sun slowly set.
The 3 occupants of the car had no idea that they were being followed by 3 large black trucks. Each truck had a minimum of 2 cars between them so as to not draw attention to themselves. Inside the first vehicle sat Captain Brawnsfield with his eyes staring intently at the taxi cab just a few cars in front of them.
Suddenly, he saw the cab take a left and turn down an alley. 'What in the hell?' He wondered to himself. "Granger, where the hell are they going?"
Granger looked down at the map sitting in his lap. "It seems like another route to the restaurant."
"You're sure?" He questioned and turned around to look at the officer sitting behind him.
"Yes sir; if you take the left that we just took, head straight down then make a right and then another right at the stop lights we should be coming along the restaurant from the left. This route cuts off about 20 minutes of traffic."
Brawnsfield nodded as he processed the information. 'Not exactly the go-plan be we can work with it.' "Right then, Granger inform the others of our finding but tell them to keep route. It'll look strange with 3 'Burbs following a taxi down an alley."
"Yes sir." He spoke before picking up his headset and relaying the message to the other officers.
"Someone get me HQ," he spoke as an afterthought as they continued to ride along. Not a minute later did he feel a walkie talkie being pushed into his hand. He pressed the big red button to begin communication, "HQ this is Big Brawny. Come in HQ."
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The nearest person, which happened to be A.I.T (Agent in Training) Collins picked up the corresponding walkie talkie and pushed his own big red button. "Big Brawny this is HQ. Status?"
Static. "HQ I've located 01 and he is on his way to the blow out. We're tailing him as we speak."
Collins nodded his head. "That's great, Big Brawny. Keep up the good work and keep your lines open. HQ out."
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Brawnsfield didn't bother responding and threw the device down to the floor with disgust. "What do they think this is? A damn daycare? I gotta check up with 'mommy' every time I turn and scratch my ass."
The officers began to chuckle at their captain's words.
Collins looked across the room and caught Duo's eye. He motioned him over and stated, "Sir, Captain Brawnsfield just called and they are now following 01 to the spot."
"That a fact?"
"Yes sir." He nodded.
"Good job, Rookie." He clapped the young man on his back before making his way back towards his station.
"What was that about?" Quatre questioned tiredly as he stared dully at a heap of reports laying in front of him.
"Brawnsfield is currently following 01 to the spot," he paused, "it should be any minute now."
Relena looked up from her own stack of reports and smiled slightly. "I'm sure it'll all fall into place Duo. Everything will work out just fine."
Duo snorted but still smiled gratefully. "I doubt it but whatever you say Princess." He looked around the room, at what had to be at least 40 people running around with their heads off, and sighed.'Well, it's go time.' "Let's bring 'im home."
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"Oh, wow! I told you Heero, this place is so fucking nice." Lina said a little too loudly as the hostess led them towards a table.
Heero blushed slightly at the looks that flew their way after Lina's outburst. He hurriedly sped up to where he was walking beside Lina. "Lower your voice, Lina. You sound..."
"Slightly out of place?" She filled in helpfully.
"No, fucking stupid." Heero smirked at the slightly put out expression and continued to follow the hostess.
"Well, here you are. I hope this seating is to your liking." The hostess, Sandy-they gathered from the name tag, smiled politely.
"This is just fine, thanks." Heero smiled and sat down.
"Yes, thank you." Lina followed.
"Y'all are quite welcome and your server will be right with you to..."
"A server? I thought this was buffet?" Lina cried loudly.
Sandy couldn't help but giggle at the girl's antics. "It is, the server is just here to get you your drinks and any necessities you may need."
"Oh," Lina rightfully blushed.
"Thank you very much," Heero thanked her once more.
Sandy smiled and nodded. "No problem, I hope you two have a wonderful night."
"You too," Lina spoke and turned to find Heero staring dead at her. "What? What did I do now?" She threw her hands in the air.
Heero paused before saying cryptically, "There are no words for you."
She smiled, "Wow, that's..."
"Not a compliment," Heero finished before picking up the small menu for drinks and tuning out the pitiful whining that was located across from him.
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"Sir, that's them." A voice stated to his right.
"Yeah," he agreed. Him and his men were stationed across the street behind a large fountain and trees, no one could see them for they all wore black and green camouflage. "Ready boys," he questioned as he looked through the restaurant window at the couple seated next to it.
"Sir," they all replied affirmatively.
He nodded once before leading off, "then let's go." He walked his men across the street at a red light and onto the paved driveway of the restaurant. He made his way through the entrance and hardly noticed the young hostess' shocked expression or that of the rest of the occupants of the restaurant. He made a direct beeline to the table sitting next to the street window and came to a stop once he was standing behind the young ladies' chair.
Lina felt a large shadow fall over her and frowned. 'The hell,' she thought to herself and took a glance at Heero, what she saw shocked her. Lina saw that Heerohad an unreadable expression on his face and she gulped loudly. 'This is definitely not good,' she thought. Slowly she turned around and almost fainted at the sight. At least 10 big, bulky men were standing behind her dressed in army camouflage with stern looks painted on their faces. Lina got the distinct impression that the men weren't here for the good food. She didn't know just how right she was.
"01, I presume," Brawnsfield stated as he looked upon the young man. The boy was breathtaking, and that was putting it very lightly. He was nothing short of sexy deliciousness with his small yet muscular frame encased in a tight black tank top with a long-sleeve mesh shirt covering it. Brawnsfield couldn't help but lean forward slightly as he caught a glimpse of pale thighs; good LORD those shorts of his just had to be illegal in all the colonies and earth. Wow, it looks like he had 2 reasons to pick him up now. 1
Heero slowly looked up at the voice addressing him and felt his heart suddenly make its way into his throat. The leader, he presumed, was at least 6'4 with an impressive set of guns on him, and he wasn't talking about his weapons, although those looked pretty damn impressive as well. Behind him stood a small group of 10, all men, all big and all not so nice looking. 'Damn it,' he swore mentally, 'this can't be good.'
He got his answer. "01, we have strict orders to have you come with us to..."
Heero felt the breath being knocked out of him. No one had called him that for years and he didn't miss it in the least. Bad things happened when he was referred to as that name.'Whothe hell are these people and what do they want? One thing's for sure-I'm goingnowhere with them.' "You're out of your mind, man. I am not going anywhere with you."
Brawnsfield practically smiled. "You are refusing, then?"
"Lookslike it." Heero leaned back in his chair to feign nonchalance. He added after a moment, "And 'strict orders'from who?"
This time Brawnsfield couldn't help but let the smile take over. 'Finally some fun.' "I'm sorry but we can not disclose such information at the moment. We can tell you everything you want to know if you'll just follow us out..."
"Can you not hear or what? No?Then read my fucking lips, G.I. Joe. I. AM. NOT. GOING. ANYWHERE. WITH YOU." When he noticed that "Mr. Joe" and his posse seemed a little amused at his display, he felt cold fear race through his body. Shit, shouldn't they have been just a little intimidated? Heero started as he saw the leader take a step forward and stood up. "Lina, get over here," he spoke gruffly and Lina all but flew out her seat to stand behind him, watching the scene unfold with fear in her eyes.
Brawnsfield took notice of the action and felt his hands start to twitch slightly. His men behind him saw this and thought excitedly, 'Show time.'
"Look, I don't know who you are or where the hell you came from but I'm leaving alright..." Heero cursed himself for sounding scared which he definitely but they didn't need to know that.
"I'm sorry 01 but I can not allow you to do that. We can do this the hard way or the easy way," he looked down his nose at Heero as he cracked his fingers slowly, "I recommend you take the easy way but knowing you...I doubt you'll do that."
"You know me?" Heero asked confused.
"Yep, I know all about you 01. Probably more than you know about your damn self. That's why I know you're not going to cooperate with us and most likely fight back but," he paused, "I want you to know that I'm really, really looking forward to it."
Heero took a step back at his words. "Lina," he whispered.
"Yes," she breathed shakily.
"Run," he breathedbefore grabbing her hand and sprintingin the direction of the kitchen. He ran at top speed, with Lina surprisingly keeping up with him in her stilettoes, and steered them both in-between the buffet tables and other patrons of the restaurant. He bust through the kitchen door just as he heard a gun shot go off and shut it quickly, finding a broom he shoved it through the handle of the door to try to lock the men out and buy them some time.
Heero grabbed at Lina's hand again and ran towards the backdoor in the empty kitchen. He payed a passing thought as to why the kitchen was so empty when he ran into something hard. Just as he entered through the back door he heard Lina scream and felt her hand being ripped out of his. He felt himself lifted off the ground as steely arms wrapped around him tightly; Heero felt old instincts begin to kick in. He worked an arm free and elbowed the man repeatedly in the face until he dropped him. He delivered a mean kick to his head and watched coldly as the man fell to the ground unconscious.
"Heero!" Lina yelled as two men were walking her into a corner. But just as he was going to help her he felt an arm wrap around his chest and a white cloth held against his nose. 'No,' he thought and tried squirming to get the cloth away from his nose; he tried holding his breath but even the ex-Perfect Soldier could only hold his breath for so long. He breathed in the sharp scent and helplessly felt the effects begin to take. Slowly his world began to darken and the last thing he saw was Lina's scared eyes staring into his.
Brawnsfield felt 01 finally slump in his arms and gave a sigh of relief. "Shit, I didn't think the kid was ever gonna go under." He spoke aloud referring the 01's battle with the chloroform. He handed the cloth over to Jones and swung 01 over his shoulders. "Okay, that's it boys. Let's pack it up and get the hell outta here." He started to walk towards the alley entrance but was stopped by Drake.
"Sir, what do we do about the girl?"
Brawnsfield looked towards Drake and saw the young man holding the girl in his arms.
"What happened to her?" He asked once he noticed she was unconscious.
"She just fainted sir, after you took down 01."
"Well, I guess just bring her along. Let the others deal with her, it's not my problem and she's seen too much to just leave her here." He replied indifferent before turning to the rest of them, "Let's go home boys." He continued his way to the entry of the alleyway and quickly jogged across the street hearing his men following him.
He handed 01 to Granger as he got into the driver seat. Once everyone was situated he turned to him, "Granger, tie him up and blindfold him. Radio Drake and tell him to do the same with the girl. Also let them know that we are going straight to the shuttle port and flying our precious luggage home."
"Yes sir," he responded and got to work on tying 01 up. He smirked as a thought came to him, "Too bad we couldn't have a little fun with 'em first, hey Captain."
Brawnsfield laughed out right. "You got that right kid." He started the car and looked in the rear view mirror to see if the other 2 trucks were ready. As he saw the signal, a thumbs up out the window, he put his foot on the gas and sped into traffic, the others not far behind.
Adams spoke up beside him in the passenger seat. "Sir, what about HQ should we inform them of our success?"
"But Adams, how are we to inform them if we don't have our walkie talkies? You know how bad the rush was with going outand retrieving 01, as a matter of fact I do recall seeing them laying on the side of the street, all broken into tinypieces." He said with a sly smile.
Adams, as well as the others, got the hint and promptly through the radios out the windows. The trucks behind them saw and followed in pursuit.
Brawnsfield's loud laugh filled the air as they sped their way to the shuttle port.
Wow...they finally caught him. You like it?
1 - Get it? Heero's shorts are so short that it's illegal...Brawny is somewhat of an enforcer of the law...illegal...law... Get it? No? Okay bad joke...
