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Gundam:
The dark era:
Chapter 12:
Friends and enemies...:
Fex was screaming.
"WHERE THE FUCK DID SHE GO?" He pounded the wall. "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!"
Rapter was standing in the doorway watching the way Fex was behaving. It was definitely proof that his hunch was right...
"Hey, Fex..." Rapter asked. "...How where you and Kat related?"
Fex stopped punching the wall. His lip twitched. His fist's quivered with anger. He turned slowly toward Rapter. His lip came up, making his face a sneer.
"Perhaps... Did you and Kat have a sexual relationship?"
Fex was very mad. "You better mind your own fuckin' business, Rapter..." He growled.
"You could get in a lot trouble if you did... Believe me, if I find out that you did, you will get into a lot of trouble..." Rapter was messing with Fex.
"You know what we could do?" Doc. suggested. "If we find Kat, we could give her a pregnancy test."
Fex went nuts. He grabbed Doc. by the neck. "Kat is NOT fuckin' pregnant!"
"Hands off!" Howie shoved his gun between Doc. and Fex.
Rapter took that comment and ran with it. "So you and Kat did have sex!"
"NO! DON'T GET EXCITED RAPTER! I HAVEN'T ADMITTED ANYTHING YET!"
Rapter thought for a second. How could he get Fex to do something that he didn't want to do?
"Then why are you so upset?" He asked.
"BECAUSE! KAT IS A COMRADE! IT MAKES ME UPSET! AREN'T YOU?"
Rapter paced back and forth. "Oh, I don't know..."
"You lying son of a bitch! Tell the truth! You know it hurts to lose a comrade!"
Rapter shrugged. "Was Kat really a comrade?"
"DAMMIT! SHE WAS AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"Know what? It's hard to tell who your friend's are in this day and age..."
"YOU BASTARD!" Fex raised his gun and pointed at Rapter.
Rapter was very calm. "Lower your weapon, Fex. You'll get yourself in more trouble than you already are... You just brought up another subject altogether... Your loyalty issues... Not Kat's... Though it may have something to do with this... Is your frustration merely an act? Does her disappearance have anything to do with you, or... Are you directly responsible for her disappearance?"
"FUCK, NO!"
Rapter concocted an elaborate story to scare Fex with."Maybe Tom and I know something... Perhaps I struck a deal with him to hand Kat over to the Blood Curlers to pay him back for killing one of his men..."
It worked. Fex got scared. "LIAR! YOU DIDN'T DO THAT, YOU FUCKING LYING BASTARD!"
"I can see it now... They would have some fun with her..."
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! YOU DID NOT FUCKING DO THAT!"
Rapter stood down. He had no more comments to scare Fex with. He started to leave the room.
"I don't trust you, Fex. I will be watching you."
? later...
Kat was staring down at the handcuffs that she had on. She had become very familiar with the jingling sound that they were making. They only made that sound when she was walking.
"Hurry up!" The old man in front of her ordered. And the sad truth was that she knew the man...
Kat sped up to catch up him. She had no idea where she was now. It appeared to be a Rebel encampment of some sort. The soldiers were obviously trying to keep their distance from Kat and the man leading her, with the exception of the man's personal guard. Where were they going?...
They reached a tent and stood outside for a second. A female was making groaning noises inside. The old guy up front peeked into the tent.
"VIRGIL! STOP FUCKING THE GIRL! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!"
(This is from Kat's point of view. She can't see what's going on in the tent, although it is pretty obvious.)The girl stopped groaning. Then Virgil moaned.
"GET OUT FROM HERE, WENCH!" A brunet was practically thrown out of the tent with no pants on, but the pants followed and they were thrown on top of her.
The General entered the tent.
"Me and Virgil are going to talk. Take the girl to my tent. And if I hear that any one of you so much as grabs your wiener..." The General made a quick turn towards his personal guard's. His gun was drawn. He fired the bullet struck the bodyguard on his right in the head. Blood splattered all over his comrade as his body fell over. The General holstered his gun.
"I'll blow your fuckin' head off." He went into Virgil's tent. The remaining bodyguard knew he should follow the General's instructions...
Virgil poured himself some coffee. "So... Does she know if 'Red's' strategy is working?"
The General nodded. "Yes. It is working."
Virgil sat back and took a sip of his coffee. "Are you sure we can trust 'Red'?"
"...Yes. I am positive we can trust 'Red'."
Silence. Virgil took another sip of coffee.
"That's the reason I killed the last 'Red'..." The General continued. "I couldn't trust him. I replaced him with a 'Red' that I could trust. This also brings up the matter with the current 'Blue' ghost..."
"The leader of the so called 'Phantom' forces?"
"Yes..." The General lit a cigar. "I'm actually thankful to him."
"Are you? I don't trust him either. Why are you thankful to him?"
"Well... Before he became 'Blue' ghost, we really had a tough time keeping the 'Red' ghost's identity secret. The previous 'Blue' didn't have much political influence. 'Blue' noticed this and did something about it..."
"...And that's why I don't trust him."
"I understand why. But when you really think about what he did, it was really genius. He orchestrated the death of the old 'Blue' ghost to become the 'Blue' ghost."
"I remember being on the receiving end of that..."
"However, there were some great advantages to this. His political influence is doing the job. He's doing a great job keeping 'Red's' identity secret. And second, his 'Phantom' insignia is confusing to the higher ups in the Alliance government. They have no idea how powerful the 'Phantom' forces are..."
Virgil picked up some of his document's. "The last communication from him mentioned something about being the 'wizard of Oz'. Any idea what the hell that means?"
The General took a puff of his cigar. "No idea..."
? later...
It was lunch time at the camp. Kat had gotten away from the General for a while. Now, she had to find something. Anything...
She walked by Virgil's tent. Virgil wasn't there. But somebody was...
Kat walked in. It was the girl that Virgil had thrown out the day Kat had arrived. She had a knife to her stomach...
She saw Kat and gasped. She dropped the knife and staggered back into the corner.
"GET OUT OF HERE!" She yelled at Kat. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Kat had a feeling she should help this girl. Maybe, maybe, if they became friends, they could find a way to escape...
"What were you doing, trying to kill yourself?" Kat asked. She was just starting here. The girl nodded her head. "Why?"
The girl pointed at her stomach."The bastard... I'm carrying his child... I don't want it... I won't have it... FUCK! I WON'T HAVE IT!"
The girl dove for the knife. In response, Kat rolled over next to the knife. The girl got her hand on it first, but Kat grabbed her by the wrist so she couldn't do anything with the knife.
"FUCK OFF!" She yelled and looked up at Kat. She was really surprised when she looked up and saw kat holding a gun to her face.
"...Where did you get that?" The girl asked Kat. She lessened her grip on the knife and Kat took it.
"First, let's start over..." Kat put the knife against the girl's throat. "What's your name?"
"Jessica." She answered.
"Alright. Jessica. Good name. My name is Kat... Nice to meet you... Let's be friends, Jessica... Even though... I guarantee that if you fuck with me I will not be good one..."
"Alright..."
"Glad we understand each other... Now... What did you want to know again?"
"...Where did you get the gun?"
"Oh? This? I got this when the General wasn't looking. He trusts me too much..."
"Why... Why does he keep you in his tent? Is it..."
Kat slapped Jessica across the face with her gun. Then she pointed the gun back at Jessica.
"Now... Next question..."
"Why did you hit me?"
Kat hit her again. "For stupid questions that I don't want to answer. I told you. I can be a total bitch if you fuck with me... Just because we're friends doesn't mean we're best friends... You don't get to know everything... Because in the end, it's every bitch for herself... I'm sure you can understand that..."
"Yes... I understand..."
"Now... Let me tell you one of the reasons why I'm speaking with you... Maybe with your help we can escape... But understand this... If you slow me down, I will forget faster than you can say fuck."
"...Right..."
"Good." Kat put the knife back where it supposed to be.
They heard footsteps outside. They were getting closer.
"Oh, shit! Virgil's coming!"
Kat and Jessica stood up and Kat shoved the gun into her pocket. Virgil came right then. He looked back and forth at them. He was wondering what Kat was doing in there. He walked up in front of Jessica and stared Kat down. It was obvious that he wanted her gone.
"Fuck off." He growled. He turned his attention back to Jessica. He shoved her back into the corner. "On the ground." Virgil commanded. Jessica submitted. Then he walked over to her and stood over her. He assumed the riding position. He took Jessica's shirt and began to pull it off. But then he noticed something...
Kat had never left. In fact, she was watching what was happening right now.
"WENCH! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO FUCK OFF!" He got up and approached Kat. He was very angry. Kat had one advantage...
She pulled he gun on him quickly. He reacted very calmly, almost nonchalantly. He quickly grabbed her wrist with his right hand, and while she was preoccupied with that, he brought his left hand up very fast and into her elbow. He broke her arm back towards her shoulder and she screamed in pain. She dropped the gun. Virgil let go of her and let her crawl around on the ground in pain. Then he added to it. He brought his foot up and down on her back. Kat sprawled out on the ground. She staggered up slowly. Virgil came over to her side and kicked her in the stomach. Kat vomited blood all over the ground.
"IT PAYS TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE'S PRIVACY!" Virgil bent over and picked up Kat's gun. Then he reached over, grabbed Kat's throat, and pulled her up by it. He shoved her gun into her mouth. "...Because, as you can see, violating it can have very serious consequences..."
"Even for the person whose privacy you're violating..." Said the General, standing at the tent entrance.
"'Black'!" Virgil let go of Kat.
The General pointed outside. "Leave, Kat. Me and Virgil here need to talk."
Kat distanced herself from Virgil and wiped the bloody vomit from her mouth. Kat looked back at Jessica to see if she was okay. Jessica nodded in confirmation. Kat also looked at her in a way to suggest a different meeting place next time. Then Kat left like the General had told her to do.
Virgil started off explaining himself. "'Black', she had this gun..." He held it up to show it to him.
"That's the one she had when we took her in..." The General mumbled. "I'll hide it from now on, Virgil, if that is okay. But also understand, Virgil... Do you remember what I did to general Albert?"
Virgil nodded.
"Well, that's exactly what I'll do to you if I see you do that to her again..."
And after that, Virgil never so much as acknowledged Kat.
? later...
Kat and Jessica where meeting in low activity area of the camp. It was no coincidence that they were there...
"How did you know to come here?" Jessica asked Kat.
"...The General set this area aside for me. Like I've said before, he trusts me too much..."
"I guess so..." A soldier passed nearby. He kept an eye on them. They said nothing while he was walking nearby. When he had passed them, they resumed their conversation.
Jessica had another question for Kat. "What were you doing before you came here?"
Kat smiled. "What did you do?"
Jessica laughed. "Are you kidding? What did you do? You tell me first."
"Well...I'll tell you what got me here. I killed some of the General's men and he's punishing me for it."
"Man... I can see you killing someone... You almost killed me that one time."
Kat chuckled. Then she asked. "What did you do before this?"
Jessica frowned. She started her story. Tears started trickling from her eye's. "I helped my mother in a nursery. Taking care of babies and that shit. On the weekends, I help to give dogs owners at a store called 'Adopt a puppy'. I'm not really a dog fan, but I did it because my mom wanted me to. But then it happened. The Rebels attacked our town and took it in less than a day. They killed all the Alliance soldiers, without exception. The ones that they captured, they just took them all out into the open one day and shot them all in the head. Then they took their bodies, piled them up in the square, and said that if any one of us resisted them, they would do the same thing to us. So, life continued under the Rebel's rule. Until one night... A drunken group of soldiers staggered into our nursery one night. They only wanted two things... Me and my mom." Jessica stopped. She didn't want to any farther into that. "After a few hours of humiliation... I took one of their gun's and killed them all... I bashed one of their head's in... Good on their word, the Rebels committed slaughter... They went into the nursery and killed all the children, then burned the place down... They killed my mom right in front of me... BUT THE BASTARDS KEPT ME ALIVE BECAUSE I WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED THEIR SOLDIERS! THEY SAID IT WAS TO LET MY CONSCIOUS BURDEN MY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! AND HOLY FUCK! IT IS SO FUCKING WORKING!" Jessica broke down and cried.
Kat picked a stick up from the ground. She started drawing something in the dirt.
"What are you doing?" Jessica asked.
"How are we going to escape?" Kat responded with the question. She finished her drawing. It was of her choking a guard to death.
"I don't know..." Jessica answered.
"Fuck..." Kat brought her hand down on the drawing and ruined it.
? later...
Thump.
Thump.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
..., ..., ... What the fuck?
"WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT FUCKING RACKET!"
Fex woke up to complaining soldiers and some sort of loud sounds. The sounds were so loud that they woke everybody up. The sounds resembled music.
Rapter came into Fex's room. "You awake, kid?" Fex nodded. Rapter turned his head and yelled. "WHERE THE FUCK IS HOWIE?" He turned back to Fex. "Come on. If this racket isn't the enemy, and right now it looks like it isn't, I'm gonna' be so fuckin' pissed."
Fex rubbed his head. "What time is it?"
"ONE IN THE FUCKIN' MORNING!"
"ONE?"
Fex heard Tom yelling in the hall. "RAPTER! HOWIE'S COMING UP YOUR WAY!"
Rapter yelled back. "HEY, TOM! GET TINA TO COVER US WITH HER SNIPER RIFLE AND MY NIGHT VISION! YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT LAST TIME?"
"YEAH, IF I CAN KEEP HER AND FIRENZE FROM FUCKING!"
Rapter laughed. "YEAH! WE CAN TAKE HIM WITH US!"
Howie finally arrived. "Yeah, Rapter?"
Rapter pointed at Fex. "You take him and go down to the Underground. See if you can find what's making this fucking racket. We're all going on the search, so if you see some of our guys searching in one area, don't search in that area because it's already being searched. Understood?"
Howie nodded. "Yes, sir."
"Alright. TOM! LET'S GO!"
They set out to find the source of the continuous loud sounds, first through the dark alleyways of early morning Paris...
Rapter and Tom started moving down an exceptionally dark alleyway.
"Hey, Tina..." Tom requested over the radio. "Cover us. We can't see shit down here."
"Okay. Got ya'." She responded.
They walked slowly down the dark alleyway. The furious sounds continued. It sounded more and more like music...
Tina shouted over the radio. "MOVEMENT!"
Rapter and Tom kneeled down in the alleyway. "Where? What is it?"
"In the building next you!"
Rapter slowly stood up out of kneeling to peek through the building's window. Tina stopped him.
"Hold it, Rapter. Whatever you do, don't move. It seems like whoever this guy is, he's looking through that window."
Rapter stopped. He looked over to Tom, seeking some form of hint on what he should do. He got a knife. Rapter looked at and wondered why he had got it. But then it suddenly hit him...
The window crashed out. Rapter's hand got cut and the knife throw into the air.
"FUCK!"
Tom quickly drew his gun and fired at the dark figure as it jumped from wall to wall and took refuge on top of the building.
"TINA! CAN YOU SEE HIM? SHOOT HIM!"
"NO LUCK! I LOST HIM ALREADY!"
Tom kicked the wall. "Damn..." He turned and faced Rapter. Rapter was nursing the cut he had received. Tom heard a whooshing sound. He reached out and caught a falling object. It turned out to be his knife. "Who... was that?"
Rapter tore some cloth off of his uniform. "How the fuck should I know?"
Tom looked at the cut Rapter got. "How did you get that?" He asked.
"I be DAMNED if I know! It happened so fuckin' fast. I swear..."
"I think I saw glint... Like from a sword or something..."
Rapter gave Tom and odd look. "You've gotta' be fuckin' kidding me."
"No, I'm not. You sure you have no idea who that was?"
"Not a fucking clue."
"Did you see anything that could give you an idea who it was?"
Rapter finished wrapping the cloth around his wound and sighed. "I saw... something red."
"Ha-ha. Your own blood?"
"No, dumb ass. He was wearing red..."
Tom looked as though he had seen a ghost...
"Red?"
"Yeah, Red. So fuckin' what?"
"Did you see how fast he moved?"
"Yeah... Or it's more like I didn't see it..."
"Rapter... I think that may have been the 'Red Ghost'..."
"Don't be stupid..."
"NO! I'M SERIOUS!"
"Think about what you're saying, Tom. Why would..."
Tom yelled out. "FEX!"
Rapter got chills down his spine. He couldn't show it. He couldn't show Tom how scared that made him. He needed to be an emotionless commander with no regard for human life. The truth was Rapter was quite different. He had seen people he cared for die. It was never fun. He had a long, sad story about that. He had never told anyone about it... And he never would.
"Have somebody track Fex down..." Rapter said. "Tina, call Howie. Call Taylor, too. Tell him there's something else we have to do tonight..."
The sounds got even louder. "And speaking of our other job tonight..." Rapter and Tom went into the Underground...
They finally found out what it was. There was a heavy metal concert going on. The artist singer on the stage had no hair...
Blood Curler...
This was a Blood Curler concert...
This was a surprise. This was something that hadn't been documented before. Blood Curlers weren't know for being musical...
But they were know for being violent...
The Blood Curler's song was violent. And he sang furiously, too. His voice sounded like a machine. The lyrics were basically "fuck, fuck, fuck".
His concert wound up. At the end, he threw his mic down on the ground and yelled out. "BRING OUT THE SACRIFICES!" He walked off stage with his arm's outstretched, like he thought highly of himself.
Rapter and Tom were scared. They couldn't hide it on their face's.
Chris and Lee found them with their jaws agape.
"What is it?" Lee asked. "What was all that noise?" Tom pointed out towards the stage. They had brought out a line of people...
Suddenly, the audience charged, sharp objects such a knives in hand. They started slashing the people that had been brought out savagely...
Lee screamed in fear. "AHHHHHHH! HOLY FUCK!" He ran. "AH! FUCK! DON'T FUCKING DO THAT!" Lee ran fast. He did not want to see that.
"BROTHER!" Chris called. He ran after him. "BROTHER!"
Lee was running as fast as he could. He was running faster than what he thought was humanly possible...
"BROTHER!" Chris kept on trying to get through to him, but it wasn't working. Lee couldn't hear him at all...
When Lee got out of the Underground, he fell face first onto the ground. Then he started talking to himself.
"No... Don't show us that... We don't want to see that..."
Chris caught up to Lee. "Lee... Lee... You okay, bro?" He put his hand on Lee's shoulder. Lee exploded off the ground.
"FUCK, NO! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING? I SAW HELL, YOU DUMB FUCK!" Chris recoiled. This wasn't his brother. Sometime in the last minute or so, something had happened to him. Something had disturbed him. He would never recover...
He would never be the same person ever again...
Rapter and Tom met up with them. "How is he?" Tom asked. Chris looked at him and shook his head.
"Hey, Rapter!" Tina said over the radio. "We got Fex!"
Meanwhile...
Kat was looking for Jessica. She hadn't met her when she was supposed to. Kat had a bad feeling...
The bad feeling was justified...
Kat walked into the infirmary and found that Jessica had stabbed herself in the stomach with a scalpel...
In your review, tell me what you think is going to happen to Fex. In fact, tell me what you think is happening and what is going to happen to Kat now that Jessica has stabbed herself. What effect will the mass sacrifice have on Lee? Keep reading and find out if you were right or wrong.