ZT: Hey peeps! Well, not much to say today so- (Notices a braid sticking out from under the table) Uhh, hold that thought. (Lifts table cloth to see Duo in a Dracula costume) You're still hiding?
Duo: Gah! Leave me alone you crazy, headless psych lady!
ZT: For the last time, that was Neko Starr dressed up as me in the profile!
Duo: Yeah well, how do I know you're not her now? Hmm? You could just be waiting for the perfect moment to scare the crap out of me again.
ZT: I have a story to post now; I don't have the time to scare you like she did in my profile.
Duo: Psh! Yeah right!
ZT: Whatever. (Drops table cloth) I don't own Gundam Wing. Oh, and before I forget, there was a typo in the beginning of the last chapter; Alex has the makeup, not Allison. Enjoy!
Review Responses:
Dark Devotions- Uhh, the girls make all their stuff, and they don't like to give it away either; i've been trying to get Alex's Compact since who knows when...
Calli Maxwell- Glad I could be of sevice ; ) The murderer is that "reliable resource"; that person who talks to Vingt who's not part of LAVA. Any way, you've been waiting patiently...Night Star will be revealed in the next chapter (Well, kinda has to be; it's the last chapter...unless i decide to be really evil ;p)!
aj- Ok ok, sequel will come!
Gundam Gurl- Heh heh, we'll just have to wait and see. And I guess I didn't clarify right; Alex has the glittering lipstick, Laury has subpocket thingies (Alot of people got mixed up so it was my bad...) Bobo and Lala? Hmm...they have chicken dander that can make any person have allergies. New evil dude is the "reliable resource" that's always talking with Vingt. Oh yeah, and like I told Calli, Night Star will be revealed next chapter!
Fate Sucks
Chapter 40
"Okay, I know we said Vingt is a little sloppy, but is anyone else getting the feeling that this is a little too easy?" Alex asked, scanning the area. The two teams had gotten to their separation area with ease. Actually, ease was not the word to explain it; they had yet to run into a single guard!
"I agree, where is everybody? Usually there is at least one guard in every corridor unless otherwise stated…but never have I seen this place so vacant," Allison added.
"Well, whatever the reason, they're not there. Let's go!" Duo nudged the pondering girls in the direction of the five way split.
"Okay, so we go in the teams we were at in the Gundams, right?" Laury clarified.
Before anyone could agree, Vanessa stepped up, "No, I'm going with Sai. No one knows how to get through here better than I do, and Sai is the best hacker of us all. I'll get her down there as fast as I can; the rest of you cover our backs in the other corridors should someone trigger the alarm; meet us there when you can."
Alex shrugged, "Fine, then just choose a partner."
Everyone agreed on this and took off down the separate corridors, not noticing the figure smirking in the shadows, "Perfect."
"So Ness, I forgot to ask earlier, what did you say to Duo when he gave you the donut?" Sai asked as the two sneaked down the hall.
Vanessa raised an eyebrow, "The donut? What're you talking about?"
Sai grinned, "Oh? He didn't find you? Laury decided to propose to Quatre with a donut ring." She paused as she heard a little scoffing noise come from the woman in front of her, "I know, totally Laury. But, surprisingly enough, Quatre agreed. Well, Duo witnesses all of this and, after being in shock for a few minutes, went to find a donut ring and try it out on you."
"Huh, what an idiot," Vanessa sighed.
Sai shrugged, "I dunno, I thought it was kinda cute."
"Shit!" Duo hissed as he ducked back behind a corner.
"Lemme guess, there's guards around the corner?" Laury asked, tapping one of the rhinestones on her shirt, making a wine bottle appear in her hand.
"Yeah…" Duo glanced behind at her and blinked, "You're drinking at a time like this?"
She shook her head, "This isn't alcohol."
"Then what is it?" he asked.
"First, better put this on," she said, tapping another rhinestone and producing two gas masks. After the two put them on, Laury threw the bottle in the hall with the guards. As they heard the bottle smash, Laury whipped around the corner, producing a flamethrower, and ignited the pink liquid that was once contained in the bottle. It went up in a pink cloud of smoke, a knockout gas. The two quickly ran past the unconscious guards and through another corridor towards the main computer.
"I think someone ratted on you four…" Quatre said, ducking for cover behind a wall as bullets whizzed past him. Alex nodded and pulled out a small bottle of glittering clear nail polish. Opening the bottle, she threw it in the direction of the guards, the clear liquid spewing out as it flew, landing on the guards and their weapons. She pulled out a small compact with jewels around the mirror and cover. She pressed on the top, diamond looking gem, "Activating micro-decomposers."
The guards blinked in surprise and dropped their guns as they started to disintegrate.
Quatre looked questioningly at Alex who grinned, "It targets metals and decomposes them. Makes it easy when ya don't usually work with fire arms." With that, she took off towards the guards with Quatre behind her.
Trowa shot at the oncoming soldiers as Allison worked at a locked door. Of all days for the corridor to the main computer to be locked, it had to be today? She had tried burning through the lock with her laser, however it didn't work. So now she was trying to over ride the password.
"Any luck?" Trowa asked reloaded his gun.
Allison sighed, "Not much." She pulled a small grenade from her pocket and tossed it to him, "This should keep them busy."
Trowa threw the grenade at the oncoming guards before turning back to Allison, "Want me to try?"
She shook her head, "I still have one more thing to try…" She pulled out what looked like a pocket-sized slot machine and connected it to the lock, "This still has some bugs in it, but it's supposed to crack lock codes. I don't know how well it works; however it should be enough to crack Vingt's codes.
The two waited a few seconds before they heard the lock click and the door open. "Hmm…guess it works." Allison mused before she and Trowa ran inside, closing the door behind them.
They didn't see the figure come out of the shadows and click a button on a small remote, re-locking the door.
"Whose idea was it to come down THIS corridor?" Wufei growled, shooting at the oncoming soldiers. He had been using his katana earlier, however as more guards came, he sheathed his trusted blade and donned his gun in order to keep the small army at bay.
Heero continued shooting, "Yours." He pulled a smoke bomb from his jacket and threw it in the direction of the guards. It erupted and the two ran past the temporarily blinded guards to the other side of the corridor, to the other door they needed to get to the main computer.
"Finally!" Sai sighed as she and Vanessa entered the room with the main computer. The two quickly knocked out the guards in the room and knocked out the guards. Sai ran to the computer and began to work at the main frame. She growled in frustration as she realized the trick to the computer, "Ness, take that keyboard over there; it takes two people to crack this first part."
Vanessa nodded and got to work. Within tow tries, they got pat the first code. "Looks like you're on your own on this part," Vanessa said, looking at the screen.
Sai nodded as she saw the others come in, "Okay, just keep an eye on the door, make sure no one else comes in." Allison looked over at Sai, "Need some help?"
Sai shook her head, "I'm good; just set your watch for the Gundams coordinates, just in case we need to make a fast getaway."
Allison nodded and quickly started pushing buttons on her watch.
Quatre looked at the two in confusion, "Set the watch?"
"My watch has a teleportation device set in it," Allison explained, still pushing buttons on the watch.
"Not that we need to worry. We knocked out all the guards that came our way," Laury pointed out, "Plus we'll take out all people that come this way before they can set off the alarm."
The figure hid in the shadows and listened to Laury's little quote. 'Really?' he thought. 'Well, you shouldn't jump to conclusions like that…' he smirked and pushed a button, setting off the intruder alarm.
Vanessa cringed as the alarm suddenly started beeping, "You and your big mouth."
The nine took their positions at thefive doors as they opened, revealing many soldiers. Laury produced a machine gun and got to work taking down the soldiers that came through her door. Wufei and Heero crouched near the computer and shot at the soldiers as they entered.
Allison used her wand to send a huge smoke mixture of knockout and tear gas into the door in front of her before finding a way to close off the door, "That gas stays for a while; this corridor's off limits for an escape route."
Sai ducked as a bullet whizzed past her. She didn't realize she had hit the enter key until she heard "Access Denied". She cursed under her breath and got to work again.
Alex threw a grenade in the door she was working on. She ran over to Sai just in time to hear "Access Denied" again. "Is it that hard?" she whispered incredulously, pulling out her compact and pushing a ruby to make a force field around the hacker and herself.
"Not at all. The first time was an accident," Sai whispered.
Alex raised an eyebrow, "And now?"
Sai gave her a look, which Alex seemed to understand perfectly. Alex tossed her watch to Sai and ran out of the barrier and to Allison, "Time to work some magic. Sai's command."
Allison nodded handing Alex her wand, "Cover for the guys!" Vanessa and Laury glanced at her, before nodding in understanding and working on covering the other doors along with Alex. She beckoned for Trowa, Quatre, and Duo to join her near Heero and Wufei.
"What's up?" Duo asked.
"There're too many soldiers to take care of at once. If we go out the way we came in, we'll be done for…we've gotta teleport out of here," she explained, handing them her watch. "We'll cover Sai till she cracks the codes, then we'll teleport to the Gundams."
"No way!" Wufei spoke up stubbornly, "It's injustice to leave comrades behind."
Allison sighed and handed him her watch, "You don't have a choice." She pushed a button and the five were gone.
"Wh-wha-? How did they-? How did we-?" Duo tried to speak, as he realized he was in Deathscythe Hell's cockpit.
"DAMN THAT ONNA!" Wufei exclaimed.
"No use complaining about it now!" Quatre pointed out, "Let's get out of here and they'll teleport to us when they're done."
Sai glanced around the room. The girls had finally managed to barricade themselves in, and were now all sitting in remorse. "You didn't tell them, did you?" she asked gently.
Allison shook her head, "Even if I did what I did, they would've fought their way back in…if they knew that teleporter only took five people…and was the only one we had that actually worked."
Vanessa rubbed her temples, "Let's just finish what we came here to do."
Sai nodded and went back to typing. She had already been denied three times…however only one was not on purpose. Alex knew what she was doing, as did Laury, Allison, and Vanessa. Had she not grazed the wrong key, she would have got it the first time. However, Sai had seen the figure leave when she ducked, and realized just how bad they had been toyed with. The person knew her style far too well to be just anyone, and the person knew she could crack the code…which meant that the person purposefully set it so that Laury would discover the five tries thing. She had a good feeling that this was the same person who repaired the Gundams and made it seem like it was Night Star the whole time, knowing fully well that she would jump to the conclusion that the boys wanted to know Night Star's identity for help with just New Oz rather than to ask how to take down LAVA, thus setting up some meaningless wild goose-chase. If the person were going through so much trouble, why would he practically give her the codes to the computer? She knew the answer to that: the codes would bring up something other than the main frame, something that would most likely ruin them…
The figure glanced at his computer screen and sighed, "You figured it out." He stood, "You have me in checkmate this time…but we'll play again sometime." He turned and headed toward his ship.
The words "Access Denied" could be heard. She glanced at LAVA, "Well, what d'ya think?"
Vanessa sighed, "Go for it."
Sai nodded, fiddling with Alex's compact, "Who'd have thought it'd go down like this…" Playing with Alex'scompact with one hand, she typed in her last code. She tossed thecompact to Vanessa, "See ya." She presses enter and there was a quick flash in the room.
"Access Denied"
Quatre gasped as he and the other pilots watched the base explode from a safe distance in space, "No…"
"Th-they couldn't have, could they?" Duo's voice trembled as he watched debris fly off into space."
Trowa shook his head, "They didn't have another one…" He cried out harsher, voicing his pain, "HOW DID WE NOT SEE THAT!"
"You damn onnas!" Wufei exclaimed, slamming his fist onto his console, tears running down his cheeks, "Why…?"
Only Heero said nothing; he just looked at the destroyed base, his mouth slightly open in shock.
Eh heh…you're gonna kill me, aren't you? Well, before you do…just know that I HAVE ONE MORE CHAPTER ON THIS SO DON'T KILL ME UNLESS YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW WHO NIGHT STAR IS!