C 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.
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Jaaku na Gundam
(English Translation: the Evil Gundam)
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Chapter 40
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Trapped
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Her first shots went wide still Jaaku na drew back from the assault. Jules ran out after his wife, before Heero and Trowa were able to escape the ruined doorway. Trowa got up easily but Heero was trapped. Part of metal frame that held the door had fallen on his legs. He probably could have lifted the door but he was having a hard time getting the right leverage.
"Get his other arm," Wufei said.
Suddenly he was surrounded and being pulled from the wreckage. Three plants workers grabbed the door while Duo and Wufei pulled him free. Heero never got the chance to thank his helpers for just then Nile came out. He and a few others walked right pass them. He was holding a large halogen lamp. It was shaped like a bucket with a hood.
The old guy stepped briskly out what was left of the front door holding the bright lamp up, like a beacon. In the shotgun blasts, Heero had only glimpsed Jaaku na's outline. It was just a large dark bulky shape with two huge orange eyes. Now Heero could see clearly what Jaaku na had become. It was still humanoid in shape and smaller than a gundam, much smaller. Almost half the size it was when he had first seen it. It was black, its skin burnt from its fall through the atmosphere. Only in some spot were the outer skin had scrapped away a bright raw reddish pink flesh showed.
"What the hell is that?" cried Pol.
"More lights," Jules Tope yelled and suddenly everyone was yelling and searching for lights bringing the whole suit into view.
The plant workers stared at it frightened and shocked. Mrs. Tope's wild and crazed firing hadn't stopped in fact the woman seemed to have gotten control of her initial panic.
"Dear lord," Niles whispered.
He wasn't alone. Shouts of fear and surprised echoed all around and the men stumbled back trying to get away from the sight of it. The old man stood there routed in place.
Jaaku na turned on him. Those two huge orangish eyes were fixated on the old man and the hole that was once an elegant mouth and nose open wide hungrily.
"No," Lorine screamed.
The old guy trembled in fear but still he didn't move. He stared at that gaping black hole that was shiny with blood. Pieces of metal glinted from the burnt flesh and there were also pieces of jagged white sticks projecting out of what looked like gums.
For a terrible second Heero thought Jaaku na was growing teeth. Then he realized it was not teeth, it was something worst. The white sticks were parts of a ribcage, a skull and femur. It had human bones sticking out of its mouth.
The suit totally ignored Lorine Tope. As Jaaku na lurch towards Nile, its intent was clear. It wanted the old man. That is where all the missing plant workers went. That is what had happened to Duo's sweeper and Quatre's wounded guard. Jaaku na had wanted them and they had all ended up as placement parts.
"Leave us alone," Lorine screamed.
With Nile's light, her aim became more accurate and Heero saw a spark as a bullet ricocheted off of the suit. It didn't stop. She fired again. The suit was seconds reaching for Nile when Lorine hit it in the face.
It drew back raising an arm to block her next shot. A horrible screeching noise came from it. It sounded like a sharp nail being dragged across glass. Everyone covered their ears at the high pitch squeal.
That didn't stop Lorine, half crazed with fear and determined to protect her love ones she kept firing. A barrage of shots hit the suit and it stumbled back. Its cowering gave the plant workers courage and the men with rifles joined her. The ones that didn't have rifles grabbed lamps and flashlights.
"Wait, don't follow it away from the house," Quatre yelled frantically.
The trio had not followed the others. As unarmed outcasts, they did their best helping to find more lamps. Pol was just about to run out after the group when Quatre caught him.
As each shotgun blast tore away more and more pieces of soft tissue from it. Jaaku na had backed away screeching horribly. For the briefest of moments Heero thought, that maybe they could kill it.
Heero realized how wrong that thought was when Jaaku na killed Lorine Tope. In a single sweep of its hand it knock the life right out of her. One minute the woman was standing there, the next, she was gone. In the lamplight a fine mist of blood had exploded from her body with the impact.
She flew through the air hitting the building. She was just a foot shy of the second story window. Instead of going through the window, her body slammed into the wall with a wet splat and then dropped lifelessly to the ground.
"You bastard," Corbin screamed.
Those were his last words. Jaaku na snatched him up and shoved him into its mouth greedily. As one, the men started running back to the house. Faster then they were lead to believe the suit came after them. It grabbed Tope senior and another man. The other man flew free from its grasp as his arm tore off. The Jules Tope wasn't so fortunate. He was shoved into its mouth kicking and screaming.
His scream was cut off quickly and Heero saw that some of the metal in Jaaku na's face disappear under a new layer and pinkish red skin. The next time it opened its mouth there were more pieces of bones sticking out of its gums.
It grabbed two of the men that had road with Nile in his truck. Jaaku na ate them whole. They seemed to scream for a while, but only a while. It didn't stop to pick up what was left of the man that had fallen from its grasp. It walked passed intent on the ones trying to escape. It just kept grabbing up one man after another man and stuffing them down.
"Come on, old man," Heero heard Duo yelled.
Heero suddenly realized that only Niles was left. Duo was urging the little old man to go faster. Jaaku na had either killed or eaten everyone else.
"Faster, Nile," shouted Quatre.
"How do I use this," Duo asked.
Heero glanced at Duo and saw that he had one of the grenades in his hand. That little thief had pocketed a few of the small hand-size bombs. Heero glanced back and saw that the old man was too close to the suit. Just then, Jaaku na reached out and scooped him up.
"Pull the pin and throw it," Trowa told him.
"Duo do it," Wufei hissed.
Duo pulled the pin and threw it. The bomb landed a little behind the suit. Nothing happened. They all stared and watched in horror as the suit gently held the old man. It cradled him in its hand like an egg.
"Fuck you," Nile shouted at the thing.
For a second the suit just looked at him. It didn't eat him and Heero realized Nile was not going to be used for replacement parts. He felt a waved of horror as he stomach clenched in reaction.
Its mouth didn't open instead he and the others watched as the hatch flipped down. They didn't get a clear view of what was inside but Heero didn't need to see it to fear it or to feel cold sweat break out across his body. It was going to put Niles inside of the cockpit. Niles was going down the hatch.
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TBC
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Happy Halloween -- Ani