AC 201 Heero and Wufei are preventors called in for an accident on a sweeper ship captained by Duo. However it was no accident there's a killer on board and it isn't human. If you like suspense and gore you'll like this horror story. (At least I'm hoping to create suspense I believed I managed it.)

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I only get my jollies off on torturing them and my readers with horrible gory stories like the one below. Bandia and a bunch of other rich and talented folk own these characters. Please don't' sue me.

Warnings: Rated R just to be on the safe side. Contains yaoi, gore and minor amounts of smut.

Secondary warning: Personally, I don't think that my stories are scary. However, I have received feedback from a small amount of reviewers claiming that they were. "Don't change your style of writing, it's yours. There are people out there who will appreciate it." I thank that person. I decided to take their words to heart and I have not toned down or changed how I write. However, I am giving fair warning.

Jaaku na Gundam

(English Translation: the Evil Gundam)

Chapter 38

A Monster

Her whispered words echoed in the stillness and the stillness deepened. Like a passionate lover's nighttime confession, the darkness listened. Heero breathed slowly fighting fear.

"It was a monster," she whispered again. "It was black so I couldn't see it but I could smell it."

"Maybe it was a new war machine?" Mr. Tope pressed.

"It wasn't a machine," she cried. "It had eyes. I saw them glowing in the darkness—two great big yellow eyes, glowing in the darkness as it walked around the house."

That is when she started to really cry. Her voice seemed muffled and Heero envisioned her face pressed into her husband's chest. The men were probably surrounding her. He glanced up what was left of the stairs. The railing was gone and so was a few steps in some spots. From the dorms above, the bedding had been strewn about. Inside the house, there was debris everywhere from the wreckage. As Heero looked up the damaged stair well he glimpsed Wufei.

Heero made his way up the stairs. The floor above had been swept clean. All the windows were broken and the dark night beyond pressed down on them. Heero looked around and carefully made his way past all the rooms. It was easy to see they were empty.

Heero went to the exercise room. There equipment was everywhere. The door to the sauna and hot tub was broken and room beyond destroyed. There was a hole in the floor and when Heero peered through, he heard the voices of the group in the kitchen below.

The emergency lights blinked on and a few parts of the house were lit. The rooms that were damaged remained dark. It seemed either and wires or their light bulbs were destroyed. Heero could now see the group in the kitchen through the floor. They were surrounding Mrs. Tope.

"My man is missing from the infirmary," Quatre said joining the group in the torn kitchen area.

He had to carefully step over mattresses springs and other bedding parts. Duo was close behind him also stepping over the debris. Quatre left the group and headed towards the stairway.

"Missing from what is left of the infirmary," Duo added as they joined him.

"Where's Trowa?" Heero heard Duo ask Quatre.

"He climbed up the side of the building and joined Wufei," Quatre told him.

"Lorine, I need you to concentrate," Mr. Tope told his wife. "Was there an army?"

Heero heard a noise by the front of the room. It was Wufei and Trowa. They both looked distraught.

"No one's not up here," Wufei said as he carefully made his way towards him.

"The other rooms are empty," Trowa said as he glanced around. "It's like everything had been swept down stairs."

The two joined him and listened to the group below. They could hear Lorine Tope easily. With grim expressions, they listened.

"It wanted the men," she rambled. "'It was after the men. It walked around the house its great big eyes looking. It's eyes. It looked right at me but it just walked on.

"Mom there are no monsters," Corbin said sounding exasperated.

"There was, I saw it," she said starting to cry again. "It was after the men. That woman that was with them—she tried to stop it. She could barely move."

Sally, Heero thought frantically. She had to have left the room but where the hell was she?

"She could barely move. I heard her screaming to the men," Lorine continued. "She tried but it found them…"

Heero didn't hear the rest of what she said. In sudden inspiration, he went back to the stairs he had just climbed, 'everything had been swept down stairs,' Trowa had said.

He looked down that stairs and saw what he had missed before. Peeking from under one of the mattresses was a mass of fine red hair. Heero yanked the mattress away.

"Sally's here," he yelled.

She had managed to crawl about five steps down. Heero learned forward and slowly put two fingers to her throat. He noticed instantly that she was warm to the touch and was quickly relieved to feel a strong pulse.

"She's alive," he told them through a throat that had gone tight.

Heero stared down at Sally. One of her braids had come lose and the other was half undone. She was wearing the soft cotton shirt and pants they had slept in. She looked small at that moment. Seeing her wounded and helpless finally made him realized how much he cared about her. He wasn't in love with Sally but she was one of his true friends. There were few women whom he respected as a soldier and equal. Sally was one of them.

"Can we move her," Wufei asked. "These stairs are in bad shape."

"Yes, I think so," Quatre told him. "But first we should try and see if we can revive her."

Heero looked up and realized that some of the men from the other group had surrounded them. He rose to step back but hesitated when he noticed Sally's eye lids flutter open. She blinked slowly and smiled at him.

"Heero," she said softly.

He smiled thoughtless to the impression he was making to the others. He was too relieved to remember the anger and suspicion Sally's dependency on him had caused. Weakly she reached for him and he gathered her in his arms.

"I'm alright," Sally mumbled. "You have to help him."

Heero looked past her and saw that she wasn't alone. Under the stuffing that had come free from the mattress there was another body. It was Ace. Heero now understood why Sally had said help us. She had succeeded in hiding one of the men even at great risk to herself. Courageously she had thrown herself on top of him hiding him.

She called on him like the time Oz had left her and her men for dead in order to destroy the Gundams and their fighters. It wasn't meant as a compliment or as an insult, Sally was too practical a woman for that. She believed she needed something inhuman to fight something monstrous.

"The infirmary was useless. We weren't be able to put Mabel in there," said James. "We put her in the entertainment center."

"It should be big enough to hold all of them," Quatre said. "Heero pass her to us."

Heero realized he was still holding Sally. Gently he lifted her and passed her to the group below. Quatre and Duo took her first.

"It was Jaaku na," Sally whispered. "It came for the men."

She had spoken very softly so only they could hear her. He saw glance around at the others. They too shared his alarm at her whispered exchange.

Quatre went with the men who gently carried Sally to the entertainment room. He came back a few moments later and checked for Ace's pulse. It was done only as a confirmation. He glanced at Duo sadly.

"I'm sorry Duo," he said softly. "He's dead."

"That's probably why it didn't fight her for him," Wufei growled.

Heero glanced towards the entertainment center and saw that the men gathered there hadn't heard him. He was surprised at Wufei's lack of discretion.

"Wufei," he warned.

"They should know," Wufei told him boldly. "I was never one for hiding things and sneaking around."

Heero stiffened at his tone and choice of words. He looked at the others and saw that they were having a hard time meeting his eyes even Duo. Heero's next breath nearly choked him. He was more than just hurt, he was angry.

TBC