I thank you all who reviewed. I absolutely love you
I do not own Gundam Wing.
NOW ON TO THE CHAPTER...
Chapter 6
All that is gold does not glitter;
And not all those that wander are lost
J.R.R. Tolkien
When next Relena came to she became aware of enraged yelling and others urgently talking. Still half asleep and body aching Relena was ready just to fall asleep again no matter the yelling or the talking when Relena became aware that Milliardo her brother was the one yelling.
Quickly becoming alert Relena turned her head toward the conversation and perked her ears after all it wasn't every day that Milliardo PeaceCraft was seen or heard yelling like a maniac.
Still laying in the uncomfortable hospital bed her body unmoving and pain still tingling throughout her sore body.
Relena became aware that her eyes felt like heavy eights and she didn't have the energy to move her head from its position so Relena was forced to use her ears and sense of smell to identify who was in the room and what everyone was yelling about.
Deciding to identify who was in the room first Relena caught the sent of Milliardo, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa, Duo and Heero.
Now knowing who was in the room Relena then decided to concentrate on what was going on and what the hell the yelling was about.
Listening carefully she became aware of Lady Une's voice echoing throughout the room which meant that she was talking over a vidcom but no matter how hard Relena tried she couldn't make out the words.
Her mind still a little fuzzy from the drugs that were currently circling around in her bloodstream Relena had to concentrate for minutes at a time.
And finally her efforts paid off because next she heard her brother yell "What do you mean he's dead, how is that possible."
"It's simple really," said Lady Une's voice over the speakers "he had some sort of poison on his person."
"Didn't you check him, didn't you search him to see if he had anything on him before you emitted him into your holding cell," snapped Milliardo.
"We did," Lady Une answered.
"Then how is it that he's dead Lady Une," came Trowa's quiet voice.
That's exactly what I want to no," Milliardo's answered back.
Relena listening intently heard Lady Une sigh in regret, "To tell you the truth we have no idea how the prisoner was able to sneak poison into the Preventer's head quarters."
"What do you mean you have no idea," said Quatre's pacifying voice.
"Exactly what she said, we have no idea how he was able to bring the poison in. We also have no idea how he was able to take it with guards outside his door twenty-four seven and we have no idea how we weren't alerted that he was dieing until he was already dead," Wufei said impatience in his voice.
"In all truth," came Lady Une's voice, "what happened should never have happened or been possible? We had guards look in on him every five minutes. We had him in a room with a glass wall on one side of his cell that guards were stationed at. We had video cameras on him at all times, we had him searched before he was allowed into the holding cell, we even had him drugged so he couldn't endanger any of the guards or himself."
"So let me get this straight you all no basically nothing, and what this guy did are in human terms almost impossible," Duo's voice rang out in irritation.
"Not almost impossible, but impossible," Lady Une answered back," not to mention the poison that was found in his bloodstream and was ultimately found to be the cause of death has never been seen before."
"So wait they found a poison in his bloodstream that has never been seen before, what does that mean," asked Quatre.
"It means that whatever this new poison is it's either never been seen before or it's brand new," came Wufei's voice.
"So did you test it," came Milliardo's still annoyed voice.
"Yes we did, and the results we found were mind blowing. Whoever created this poison was a genius to say the least. The poison works like a virus attacking cells and breaking them down and destroying them but unlike a virus that takes weeks maybe even months to break cells down and kill them this poison does it in a matter of seconds. In a matter of mere seconds of this poison entering the bloodstream the victim dies quietly almost without any pain," Lady Une's voice rang out.
"The question is who out there has the knowledge and the money to create that kind of poison and what is there main purpose," Trowa said quietly.
"Who cares about the damn poison right now, what we should be focusing on is who wants Relena dead and how the bastard who did this to her is now laying in a mortuary after being so carefully watched by the Preventers," Duo said angry.
Relena holding her breath listened for a moment as complete silence ruled over the room and then, "Agreed," Lady Unes voice echoed through out the hospital room, "Relena is our first priority in this ordeal, we will worry about the poison later but for now we need to worry about who is after her."
"So were do we start," came Quatre's voice.
"We start with how it was possible for one individual to not only get close to Relena to harm her, but how was it possible for one ordinary man to have poison of this magnitude on his person," Milliardo said.
"And lets not forget how he was able to get it past the guards to swallow it," Duo added.
"Unless of course he didn't have it on him," voiced a voice that startled Relena for it seemed Heero who so far had been quiet throughout the conversation was going to put his two sense in.
"What do you mean," came Lady Une's quiet voice.
"Exactly what I said," Heero replied, "so far we no the poison is a fast worker and it kills its victims in a matter of seconds, so that crosses off the idea that he took the poison before hand and we no that the Preventer's searched him thoroughly. So that stands to reason that someone helped him achieve his most current status as being quiet dead."
"But that would have to mean that," Duo stopped in mid sentence.
"That would mean that someone was helping him someone who was not only close but had able opportunity to slip him the poison," Heero finished for him.
Silence once again reined over the room and then with a heavy sigh that seemed to last for eternity Lady Une said, "I don't want to believe what you're telling me Heero but unfortunately that's the only thing at this time that makes sense."
"So what we interview everyone who came into contact with the prisoner," Duo said in irritation.
"No not yet, whoever set this up is smart, very smart and he probably knows we've figured out the facts so far and by now has his tracks covered," came Heero's voice again.
"So what the hell does that mean, we just let the bastard whoever he is get away with what he's done," Duo said in clear anger.
"Of course not idiot, this just means were going to have to figure out who did this from a different angle," Wufei said irritated.
"I agree, but where do we start, what other evidence is there," Quatre added.
"What was he wearing," Trowa spoke up.
"Who the hell cares what the guy was wearing Trowa. Were not here to talk fashion, were here to find out who wants Relena dead," Duo said in annoyance.
"Please don't insult my intelligence Duo. You forget I was a soldier just as you were now please let me finish before you insult my methods," Trowa said his voice calm as ever.
A grunt was his reply a sure sign of apology from Duo and also the go a head.
"Now as I was saying what was on him when he was taken into custody, did he have a wallet, pictures, a necklace, did he have anything on him that might give us a clue as to who he really was and what his intentions were?" Trowa asked.
"Where are you going with this Trowa," Quatre asked clearly puzzled.
"Simple really any person even an assassin has some sort of identification or keep sake that he or she carries with them were ever they go, it's there to remind them of something but it's always there."
"You're a genius Trowa," breathed Duo.
"Yes that is good thinking, and in truth we did confiscate something from the prisoner, however what we did recover we have no idea what its meaning is," Lady Une said.
"What did you find," Milliardo asked and Relena could almost hear the frown that was on his face.
"We found a watch or something that resembles a watch," Lady Une supplied.
"A watch," came Quatre's voice clearly puzzled.
"What appears to be a watch yes, however were not entirely sure. But if it is a watch it most certainly is no watch we've ever seen," Lady Une replied.
"What's so different about it," Duo asked.
"Well for one it doesn't open, not that we can see anyway also it's made entirely of gold and is a perfect circle. It also has symbols on it that our scientists have never seen or heard of before but what truly amazes us is that this watch ticks," Lady Une said.
"Excuse me if I'm wrong but don't watches usually tick," came Quatre's polite inquiry.
"Yes they do but that's not what baffles our scientists."
"Then what the hell baffles them," came Milliardo's impatient voice.
"What baffles them is we can find no technology no mechanical device in the watch. There's nothing in there, yet it ticks."
"There's nothing in there," Quatre said clearly shocked, "but it ticks."
"Yes I believe I said that," came Lady Unes annoyed voice.
"How is that possible," Trowa asked.
"We truthfully have idea but were working on it."
Relena by this time was feeling the effects of tiredness due to the fact that the drugs that Sally had pumped into her were still in her system and though all her body really wanted to do was go back to sleep she new she couldn't, at least not until she heard the whole conversation.
So blocking out everything she forced herself to listen to the rest of the conversation so concentrating she was just in time to hear Lady Une say "This whole mess has been nothing but one mystery after another and I have a feeling that it's only going to get more mysteries before we get any answers."
An with that final saying of insight Lady Une signed off with the promise that she would be in touch as soon as she came into contact with more or new information.
Relena breathing deeply, trying to appear as though she was still asleep felt the first stirrings of panic coursing through her body to mix with the pain.
Counting to ten and repeating to herself that now was not the time to break down especially in front of witnesses and preferably not in front of the x-Gundam pilots Relena stayed calm by the barest of her teeth until everyone of them filed out of her room.
An as soon as the door closed to her room Relena sprang up and breathed in deeply as though she had just come up from being under water to long.
Ignoring the pain that was spreading throughout her body Relena widely looked around her almost expecting someone to jump out at her at any moment.
Breathing deeply trying to calm her nerves Relena looked down at her lap. Counting to ten Relena was able to calm her widely beating heart.
Thinking a mile a minute Relena couldn't help but go over the conversation she had just heard.
They had found a watch a watch that ticked but there was no mechanism in the watch to make it tick.
It wasn't possible she had killed them, she had destroyed them but no matter how long or how much she repeated those simple phrases in her head the evidence was there right in front of her.
Some how, some way the bastards had found away to come back. Which meant they would be up to their old games, games that if they had their way would cost millions of people their lives.
And whoever had brought the Shizuka back together meant only one thing war was upon them again and this time Relena new there was no way in hell that she was going to able to stay out of this battle not with the Shizuka involved.
Which meant only one thing she would have to return to the military, she would have to return to fighting and bloodshed and to leading men into battle, it was enough to make a girl cry?
But she would never cry, she would never give anyone the pleasure of seeing her cry, not ever again, for crying made you weak and Relena PeaceCraft was far from weak.
No Relena PeaceCraft was a fighter, she was a soldier.
She had been trained from a young age to no nothing but death and how to survive.
And she had been surviving for twenty years and she would be damned if some fucking bastard and his organization broke her record.
Whoever was behind the Shizuka resurfacing meant they new who she was; the assassination attempt proved that much at least which meant that she would have to work fast and hard to get out of here before they found her location.
Thinking like a strategist and a soldier Relena realized that she couldn't move until she was healed moreand she was contacted by her commanding officer since she had no doubt that Pagan had already had contacted home base and filled them on what was going on.
Which also meant they already new what was going on and would be contacting her any day now with her first orders in eight years?
But until then Relena new she was stuck even if she somehow managed to get out of the hospital without anyone noticing her or her body giving out on her and somehow was able to escape from Heero and the others.
There was still the little matter that she had no where to go, of course she could call her Gundam but it would take days until her Gundam arrived and then what.
She couldn't go back to base without clarence and she sure as hell couldn't hide an 18 meter Gundam in a city.
And that left only one option open to her, only one thing to do she had to pray, pray that the base contacted her with orders and a means to escape before the enemy found her first.
Shizuka means quiet, and you will find out later why they were given that name.
Now I really do wish to give all those that reviewed a big thanks, I really do appreciate it.
Also just as a little teaser I just would like to let everyone no that the next scene will have a fight scene in it and it should be pretty cool.
The next chapter I'm hoping will be out in a couple of days, so stay tuned.
P.s.- REVIEW
