Author's note: Wow! Took forever for me to update, neh? Sorry for the long wait everyone, for this story I was struck with a writers block and well, wasn't really inspired to update it. Sorry again for the long wait! I'm really trying hard to get some updates going and stuff! Spring Break is here so hopefully it'll be easier before I have to go back to school.
Happy holidays everyone (if you celebrate Easter or not, enjoy Spring!) and enjoy the chapter!
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Point ZeroBy: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)
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Chapter Five:
They walked quickly down the halls, the tiles making the heels of Une and Noin's shoes click rapidly as they strode as fast as they could without running towards the medical wing.
"Why didn't I realize this before!" Une muttered under her breath as she ran her hand through her loose light brown hair. She closed her eyes momentarily, ignoring the glance Noin shot at her during this time.
"You shouldn't blame yourself, we just didn't think that maybe the group starting to rebel could have the zero." The purplish haired woman glanced at her watch to see the time. Signs seemed to fly by, words jumbled except the arrows pointing to the medical wing.
"I still should have taken it in a possibility." Une mumbled, not listening to Noin's whole argument as to why it wasn't her fault when it was. "I'm supposed to be the leader of this organization!" She hissed, clenching her fists into balls so that her fingernails pierced her skin yet didn't make them bleed, luckily.
"Their attacks were disorganized, they lack what it takes to try and take over the world, which is exactly why we overlooked that." Noin added, pushing open a swinging door before Une walked into as they strode into the medical bay.
"Noin, don't try to deter me."
"I'm not," The woman replied back rather roughly before sighing with exasperation as they both slowed near the door leading into the room of patient Heero Yuy. "Besides, we all thought the zero was destroyed."
"Maybe we have files in the mainframe. Lord knows what Heero put in them any ways." Une said, opening the door and motioning towards the bed before stopping in her tracks, hand raised in the air and not moving besides a twitch of the finger or two.
The bed was empty, sheets thrown at the end of the bed as if he kicked them off himself. The IV drip line was dangling, swinging back and forth because of the light breeze.
"Damnit!" Une said, throwing her hands up as she pressed an intercom button on the wall near the door to call for Sally.
"I knew we shouldn't have put him in a window room." Noin sighed, biting her lip as she walked over to the edge and looked out. Luckily, this was only the fifth story floor and there was a field of grass below to cushion his fall. Hopefully, if Heero had jumped he would be all right. Then again, from what Sally told her about when he jumped off the twenty-third floor or what not and survived, she somehow figured he would. Nothing less than perfect from the Perfect soldier, neh?
"Someone called?" A panted voice replied, Sally having hands on her knees with a white lab coat on as she straightened out her uniform and stood up when she saw Une and Noin in the room.
Of course they decided to block her view of the bed so she couldn't see the bed and it's vacancy. She tilted her head and a worried expression came over her face, "What's wrong?"
Une stepped aside, heels clicking once more as they connected sharply with the flat surface. She gestured to the bed and her posture stiffened. "We have a problem."
Sally raised an eloquent eyebrow and a confused look crossed her features. "What sort of problem?"
"Can you not see that the bed is empty?" Une questioned, Noin deciding to keep to herself and remaining silent while watching her friend. She didn't seem too concerned if she thought so herself.
"Yes, but what does this have to do with anything?" She grabbed the few charts there were hanging in a small box on the outside of the door and looked at them before tucking them under her arm.
'Weren't there more papers last time?' Noin wondered, trying to peer at the papers tucked securely under the braided girl's arm. 'Why is she acting so calm?'
"He's gone!" Une shouted, huffing up rather angrily at the thought of Yuy jumping out of a hospital again to go back to work the next day.
He never did have the word 'rest' or 'day off' entered into his mind or the perfect soldier training. Not that they would anyway, he had to be perfect after all. Did they expect him to try to end the war and simply die…? They never thought of the effects on the teen after the war.
Luckily the Preventers were formed and the former OZ executive managed to convince him to come and join the forces. With much arguments and locking of doors to keep him in the room to listen to her.
After the war, Heero didn't have much to do with his life so he was somewhat lost in the world without a real purpose. The first part of the year was fine, until the depression started kicking in, as if Dr. J was alive and messing with the 'programming' everyone claimed he had.
"Oh," Sally said with a nod of her head and turned before throwing over her shoulder, "I know."
"What do you mean by you know he's not here?" Noin questioned, causing her friend to halt mid-step. "Aren't you the least bit worried?"
"No." Sally said, "Because currently he's in the same room as Zechs." Une and Noin stared at her before she turned around, "I thought that it would make it more secure."
"More secure?" The two rushed up beside the doctor as she continued to make her way past rooms towards the one now housing Zechs and Heero. Quatre was going to be picked up soon, slowly making his way towards the Preventer Headquarters, hopefully.
Sally sighed heavily as she brushed one of her golden braids on either side of her face over her shoulder and smiled weakly at the two. "There was an attack here earlier."
"What! When!" Time seemed to speed up, the day's events hitting the two rather roughly like a bullet or speeding train. Since when did life get so complicated?
"It was a little over thirty minutes, but luckily Duo was here to help me and everything got taken care of. Except…" Her eyes clouded and she trailed off, bending over to grab a paper she dropped as the braid thrown over her shoulder fell over to be identical with the other side.
"…Except?"
Sally ignored the question for the moment and withdrew keys from her pocket easily and then opened a thick door, letting the two into a large room with no windows that was rather welcoming and not as foreboding as the other rooms. They seemed to reek of medicine, antiseptic and the smell of blood or death in some parts.
"They got away." Duo said, walking out from one of the more shadowed corners where he had dragged a chair over and then watched over the silent former soldiers.
"That's not good." Une rubbed the bridge of her nose and sighed heavily. It was already a long day… and it was already about one o'clock in the afternoon so she still had a lot of hell to go through.
'Perfect,' Her mind dryly thought as she inwardly rolled her eyes and fell back into a chair, Noin following her example as Sally decided to do a small check up on her patients condition.
"Why was the window open?" Noin questioned, referring to back in the room. "Isn't it unsafe with these people still around?"
"We had to air out the room for the next patient and the assailants can come in any window they choose. Look at the one in Milliardo's former room. They certainly did a number on that.
"But that's bullet proof glass!" Une proclaimed, jumping out of her seat so fast it teetered precociously on its four limbs before settling back down.
"Bullet proof, but what about lasers and all that over stuff they used on it?" Sally snorted, taking out a flashlight to gently open Zech's eyes and see if the pupil dilated, stayed the same, or did when the light was shone in his eyes. The pupil got smaller, making Sally smile. This was good, his brain still reacted to light and wasn't brain dead.
She did the same procedure with Heero and smiled when she saw his condition the same as Zechs. Perhaps she was paranoid, but then again, she had a reason to be. The Zero system messes with peoples minds, so it could effect how they function, maybe even killing him like that Trant person or whoever.
"The IV?"
"Heero woke up for a short period and freaked when he thought he was in some testing facility." Her eyes softened and she brushed one of his bangs out of the way before it moved back into place. His hair was just as stubborn as himself.
"So that's why you've moved them here, so it doesn't look so much like a hospital?" Noin questioned and smiling when she got a nod from Sally. "Good thinking."
"Thank you." Sally said, "But it was really nothing. Compared to what these two are going through, we're only still on our way to getting to square one."
"I know." Noin lowered her head and her shoulder slumped forward as if in defeat as she sighed and stretched the knots out of her tight back muscles.
"This is only the beginning." Une whispered, "Things are going to get a lot tougher now. We need to gather the Gundam pilots and make sure Relena stays near them as much as possible. Luckily they weren't as exposed to the system as Heero, Zechs, and Quatre."
"We can't let the public now about this, we can't let anyone know about this." Duo stood from his chair in the darker part of the room and looked at them seriously in the eye, "If anyone finds out what's going on it can mean serious trouble for any rebellious groups laying low."
"Right." They all nodded their heads.
"Sir," The large business chair moved slightly to show the occupant was listening to what the lower soldier had to say.
"…Yes?" The voice was cold, sending shivers down the cadet's spine and at the same time earning the leader a sense of respect.
"The team was unable to capture and secure 01 and 06. 04 is en-route to the building, Preventer's HQ." The man said, looking up from his clipboard and held his breath.
"I figured somehow it wouldn't work. Three pilot's is enough though, to be held under the system."
"Sir?" The soldier questioned again, standing somewhat at ease in the semi darkness. "What orders shall I give to the scientists and others?"
"Tell them to stop the system, turning down the lowest it will go yet don't completely turn it off. We have to have them under our grasps." The Leader said in a firm voice. "There is no room for failure now."
"Yes sir!" The man saluted smartly before walking out of the room with a stiff looking position while he went to go and give orders to the men in charge of the Zero system.
A girl giggled in the room, dark brown, almost black hair cascading over her shoulders as she stared at the man in the chair with her deep cobalt eyes. "I take it you know what you're doing."
"Yes." The man snapped rather gruffly, "They'll get "better" and when they're alone, not watched, and loosely guarded we'll activate the system up to more power so they'll weaken." Nirimu said with a sigh, turning his chair to face the girl.
"Really, as long as the Doctor gets what he wants he's perfectly fine with whatever you do with the others. Perhaps he'll even lend you some help to start your crazy little war."
"It's not a crazy little war," Nirimu retorted as he turned to her with an evil smirk on his face, "It'll be one of the biggest marked down in history."
"Well then, I just can't wait until we have our moment of victory and claim the earth in the name of the colonies."
"Yes, I can't wait until that day arrives either." He said, throwing in his two sense worth to her sentence. He got up gently from the chair and spun it back around before turning to face the girl sitting atop of his filing cabinet.
"Someone once said 'outer space has a bad habit of sending menacing things to earth' or something of the sort." The girl giggled, "Well, we'll just have to see how well the people of Earth will fight or how they will act under servants of the colonies."
"Yes, and it will all be tangible thanks to Heero Yuy, Quatre Winer and Zechs Marquise." He laughed coldly as well as the girl.
"This whole era's just going to end in a loud bang."
"I concur." The girl smiled wickedly, showing off her pure white teeth as she ran her tongue over her parched lips.
They both laughed, "And the Queen of Peace, Relena Peacecraft's heart will be served to us on a gold platter by the one she's always loved."
TBC
Author's note: Thanks for the reviews people! You're all so nice (even though I've been mean and haven't updated since whenever).I can't wait until I start wrecking havoc in the Gundam Universe! Muahahah!
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