Rei managed to get out of the building in fairly short order. She knew she had to make it quick. Once the enemy, still unknown at this point, had found she had left to get herself killed by Hiiro, they would swoop down and get Usagi without delay. From sheer necessity at this point, her speed had nearly exceded human capabilities. She vaguely remembered someone offering to teach her to break through security locks and hotwire cars. Man, she wished she hadn't turned them down. But, now, she was here, and she was actually thankful for the teary screams coming from the rubble that had once been their 'house'.
"USAGI! Hold on, I'm coming!" She hit a state of overdrive, and removed her gun from her holster, starting a flame in her left hand at the same time. Usagi was doing her best against the favored choice of a tentacled monster, this one digustingly gooey, dragging her into some vortex or portal of some kind, but there was only so much she could do. She summed up the creature with a glance, and decided her gun would be of little use. She holstered it quickly, shooting her left hand forward simultaneously, a jet of hot yellow fire emerging from her palm. As soon as the monster had let up on it's pull on Usagi, she ended the fire and prepared for a Flame Sniper, releasing multiple arrows into the massive slimeball at once. A tentacle shot at out her immediately, and she jumped. A drop of ooze was flung onto her pants, and a hole was immediately burned through them. Obviously, this thing used two different types of appendage for fighting and capturing. Midair, she became aware of another presence, right before three men entered her range of vision. One with a long chestnut-colored french braid, another with a black ponytail, and the last, Hiiro Yuy, cold eyes not a bit wide in surprise.
"What in the hell is that thing?" the man with the braid exclaimed, too astounded to do anything but stare, the chinese one, stared as well, but remained silent. It was Hiiro who noticed the tentacle that snuck towards Rei while she was distracted, hitting it with a perfect shot. The bullet didn't really do any hard to the monster, but it gave chance for Rei to jump out of the way. Before she hit the ground, she had fired off a long series of attacks, that still hadn't helped Usagi's situation in anyway. Hiiro noticed the blond girl's presence, and ran to aid Rei in her rescue, but he had been so distracted by Rei's fireworks display, that he failed to notice one of those ubiquitous tentacles, which grabbed him by the ankle and used his own momentum to fling him into the black vortex. Rei's eyes flamed again. Why had the monster taken Hiiro? It would be Usagi they wanted, or even her, Rei. She lept toward the center of the creature, and a long sword appeared suddenly in her hand. she dove, and plunged the blade deep into the heart of the creature. It gave a horrible cry and was gone, leaving a collapsed Usagi sobbing on the ground. The vortex remained, ominous and demanding, and Rei knew her responibility even as the black haired man spat it in her face.
"Stupid onna, you were too weak! It is an injustice that a soldier like Hiiro Yuy should be taken in your dumb fight. You must go find him and bring him back, it is what is right." Rei did not cringe at the man's harsh words, but did not anger either. It had been her fight, and now Hiiro's disappearance was her problem. The braided man spoke more kindly, but still bluntly.
"I have to agree with Wufei here. You're the one that's gotta rescue Hiiro. But I seem to remember you made a deal with our friend Quatre involving this blonde. So, to be fair, we'll take care of your friend while you take care of ours. Don't worry, she'll be in good hands."
Rei didn't know why she trusted him. It seemed to reason that she wouldn't trust him, this person she had never met and had a distinctly, well, rakish look to him. But it seemed she had no other choice. She only nodded, turned, and lept into the seemingly eternal darkness.
A/N: Alright, I finally got this chapter out. Thanks for all the reviews. I think I might have the other senshi, but I haven't really decided if they're dead or not. That won't affect whether they're in it, but it might affect the way I insert them. Heh, I also don't like a lot of the common portrayals of Duo. I mean, he is more well, light-hearted than some of the other pilots, but he isn't a clown or anything. I like having Duo as a very down-to-earth, somewhat sarcastic kind of person. Anyways, a lot of people may not agree. Also, I might mention, that Usagi isn't going to end up with a pilot, since the entire reason Rei has it so hard is that Usagi's grieving so hard, she's hardly good for anything. Er...so next chapter: Rei looks for Hiiro in the lair of the enemy.