Ayashi no Yuugi
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Chapter 2
Sakura and Kotori stand in front of the mahogany desk, looking at the screen of the computer in front of them. There is a layout of the OZ base the Gundam Pilots are being held in. A red dot marks the spot where they are, courtesy of the transmitter on the Shinigami's communicator.
"Your objectives are to free the pilots, help them complete their mission and see them safely back to the base for treatment. There is information on the mainframe about the pilots, the two of you included, which must not remain in their hands. Accept or decline?" asked the dark haired woman with red eyes.
"Mission acknowledged," Kotori and Sakura said together.
"First you must free the pilots, get the information from the mainframe, and destroy the base. Leave no survivors. Then, you will go to the Peacecraft Academy in Sanq and enroll yourselves there. You will play the part of normal students and protect Relena Peacecraft until new information about your next mission arrives."
The two girls nodded and left the room.
The Gundam pilots were awake now, and broken bones had been reset and dislocated shoulders were popped back into place. All five boys had moved into the shadows, conserving their energy and waiting for the chance to break out and complete their mission. Considering that they didn't collapse halfway down the hall of course.
They heard footsteps, and an OZ soldier came in and threw a bleeding and battered girl in a black cat suit with waist length black hair and grey eyes into the cell.
"You can stay with the Gundam Pilots," he said sneering evilly, amused when she curled into a fetal position, whimpering, "They might just treat you better than my comrades." He laughed and walked away.
When he was gone, Quatre moved to the girl's side and said, "Don't believe that idiot. None of us will hurt you. My name is Quatre. The one with the braid is Duo, the one with the ponytail is Wufei, the one with only one eye visible is Trowa, and the last one is Heero. Now, what is your name?"
The girl sat up, and said, "I'm Gaia." She smiled and pulled out a black cylinder and threw it at the door, and flattened herself on the ground. The explosion blew the door off its hinges and Gaia got to her feet and said, "My partner Cosmos is in the heart of the base right now downloading the files. Your mission has been aborted. This base will self destruct in five minutes and my job is to get the five of you out of here!" and ran out the door, grabbing her guns off the table where the OZ officer had left them and shoved three into their holsters, keeping the fourth in her hands, and slung her daggers back on her hips and in her boots.
She smiled at the pilots and said, "Anyone having trouble walking?" Quatre shook his head and Gaia nodded. "Fine, follow me." Gaia left the room, ignoring Wufei's mutterings about "Injustice," and "Weak onnas."
She walked calmly and as soon as they came to a corner, they came across a group of thirty soldiers racing toward them. The G-boys dove behind the wall as the OZ soldiers saw them and started firing. Gaia cocked an eyebrow when none of the bullets came even remotely close to hitting her and raised her gun and shot each soldier between the eyes and when she ran out of bullets, she slipped the gun into the holster, pulled out a loaded one, and started shooting all over again. When the last soldier fell, she smirked. "What were they aiming for, anyway? I was only four yards in front of them."
The pilots each took two guns from the soldiers and the group moved on. They came to the heart of the base and Gaia shot the electronic lock and the doors slid open and the group walked in. Gaia left the pilots to guard the door and slipped into the chair next to Cosmos.
Cosmos, who was quickly downloading the information the Gundam pilots were originally trying to get, didn't look up as her partner slid into the chair beside her and simply said, "You're late."
"We got held up," Gaia said calmly and she began hacking into the mainframe, quickly deleted certain files from the hard drive, leaving only the files that had to be downloaded, and slipped a disk into the driver and began downloading the second half of the files to make the job easier. Soon, both drives beeped and the two girls took the disks, slipped them into pouches and stuck them into their pockets and proceeded to delete the remaining files.
They left quickly, and the two girls shooed the boys down to the hangers where their Gundams were being kept, and they quickly navigated their way out of the base. They jumped on their motorcycles just as the Gundams blasted their way out of the base. The girls roared off and after an hour, the two girls stopped, turned and grinned. They pulled out two detonators and pressed the button. The base roared into oblivion, and the two laughed, put on their helmets, and rode off.