Hey ppl!! I actually had this chapter done the day after I had the last chapter done, but go figure we had a huge forest fire and the Internet was down -_-;; so sorry for the delay!!
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Minako stared down at the floor. At the moment she was sitting in the back of a transport ship with twenty of her own army men. Each one was hand picked and was top of their class.
Up front where Minako should have been sitting but instead, her decoy sat wearing an orange dress, the colors of Venus. Her decoy's name was Melin. She had red hair and blue eyes. Okay so maybe Minako didn't like it because she felt like a coward sitting in the back with another person pretending to be her.
It didn't matter whether Melin looked like Minako or not. No one had ever seen the queen of Venus as it was.
Minako was dressed in a black suit with a strip of orange running down the sides and clung to her like a second skin. In her lap she held her helmet, which she would put on once they arrived.
Minako wasn't sure what would happen once they arrived. She hoped Relena would keep her end of the bargain and allow them to pass safely. Otherwise…
Minako shook her head and concentrated on working out a plan in her mind. Without thinking though, her thoughts turning to Itasha. She hoped the small child was all right.
"We've entered earth's atmosphere, preparing to land," Came the pilot's voice, interrupting Minako's thoughts.
"Ready your majesty?" Asked the man to Minako's left.
"Yes, please, call me Minako," Minako said quickly as she pulled her helmet over her head, as did everyone around her.
"Everyone stay on the alert," Minako told them as the ship began to rumble then pulled off into a stop. Silence hung in the air as Minako rose.
Light filled the ship as the ramp dropped. Ten soldiers, including Minako, filled out into the light.
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"Pleeeeease?" Itasha begged the man standing outside the door.
Itasha had made a lunch for her father and after much begging finally convinced Bruna to take her to were her father was working. Which happened to be Miss Relena's office. After arriving though, they had been told they were unable to see Itasha's dad.
While Bruna conversed with some person she knew, Itasha quickly escaped and was now faced with the impossible task of trying to get past this man. There was no way she was going to let the lunch she had made her father go to waste.
"I'll give you a cookie," Itasha tried to bargain. The man simply shook his head.
"Brent, you better keep a good watch. Relena will be mad if anyone gets through," said a black haired man to the man standing guard.
"I know, I know," The man standing guard said gruffly. He turned back to the girl in front of him to tell her to go away…. but she was already gone. He shrugged it off. She must have gotten tired and left.
Itasha smiled to herself as she skipped along the corridor. That was one advantage of being so tiny.
It was easy for her to remember the way to her father's office. She had been there millions of times.
She opened the door and poked her head in, "Daddy! Guess what…" Itasha faltered as she realized her father wasn't in the office. She stuck out her bottom in a pout. Where was her father?
Suddenly Itasha brightened up. Of course! He loved to sit out on the landing pad! Itasha immediately took off up the stairs. He had taken her up there a couple of times. He said he liked to go up there to think.
Itasha pushed to door open and the bright sun light hit her face. She took a few minutes to take in the warmth of the sun before noticing all the people standing around staring at a large space ship.
She scanned the crowd and felt disappointed when she didn't see her father. Itasha gathered her courage and began weaving in and out of the crowds. Suddenly she saw him, out at the front watching the space ship.
"Daddy! Daddy look what I brought you!" Itasha said gleefully as she hugged her Dad's leg.
Quatre looked down to see his daughter, "Itasha, what are you doing here? You need to leave, now," He told her urgently as he leaned down to her size.
"But I made you lunch!" she protested, holding up the picnic basket to show him. Quatre looked at her helplessly, trying to make up an excuse, "We'll eat it together when I get home," he tried to tell her.
"But it'll be cold by then," Itasha retaliated, angry that her father was brushing her off.
"Later Itasha," Quatre said sternly.
"Quatre, watch. It's about to explode," said a man standing beside them. Quatre looked around frantically, trying to find a reason to get Itasha out of here, when Itasha pushed past her father to stare at the ship.
People were filing off the ship, each one wearing a black suit with an orange strip down each side. Then, a beautiful woman climbed off. She wore an orange dress. The queen of Venus, Itasha summarized. Her father had told her each planet bore different colors and that was how you could tell them apart.
But it wasn't the queen that caught her attention. It was one of the women outside looking around. She looked so familiar. Suddenly Itasha reached into her pocket and pulled out a red bow.
Minako had said she had to leave to go to war. Trowa said something about her being a soldier. Maybe that woman…
Itasha practically jumped up and down with delight. It was Minako!
Suddenly two arms wrapped around Itasha and lifted her up. Itasha struggled, "No let me go!" she practically screamed as she wrestled around. Quatre held tightly to his screaming daughter.
"Itasha, you need to go now! You heard what that man said, that ship is going to blow up," Quatre told hurriedly. Suddenly Itasha stopped squirming. Quatre sighed and began walking back to take her to the door.
Without warning, Itasha pushed herself away from Quatre and fell to the ground. She cried out in pain as she hit the ground but that didn't stop her from jumping up and narrowly evading her fathers gasp.
"Itasha come back!" Quatre yelled as he dashed after her.
Itasha being as small as she wash, easily managed to dodge past all the people's legs. As she came nearer to the front line of people, two men reached down to grab her. Itasha ducked past their reaching arms and into the open.
Quatre pushed past people as he tried to catch his daughter. As he reached the front line, he felt himself being pushed back.
"My daughters out there!" he yelled frantically.
The men simply shrugged, "No one past this line," was all they said. Quatre began trying to get through but each time he got pushed back. Quatre saw out of the corner of his eye, his fellow gundam pilots pushing to get to him.
Minako scanned the area, more out of instinct than anything. Everyone else who had gotten out with her was waiting respectively for the 'queen' to get out of the ship.
Minako was beginning to get suspicious. All those people watching. They seemed to be waiting for something.
"Minako! Minako,"
Immediately Minako recognized the voice. Itasha. Fear gripped her as she spun around. Itasha was running towards her. Oh crap, Minako thought mentally.
Someone nudged her from behind. Minako turned her head and began walking again. Don't look back, Minako told herself as she tried to ignore the young child. Maybe she would turn around and walk away.
"Minako, It's going to explode!"
This was something Minako couldn't ignore. Everyone around her froze as well. Oh crap! Minako spun around to face Itasha, "Turn back!" She screamed at the young girl. But Itasha ignored her and continued running towards Minako. Minako felt her body slowly slip into a panic. No she hissed to herself as she forced herself to remain at least semi calm. She had been in worse situations than this without panicking. First things first…
"Everyone run!" Minako screamed to those people around her. Immediately everyone snapped into action. Someone grabbed Melin and pulled her away from the ship. People around her were running for cover. Someone made to grab Minako to pull her away to safety but Minako shrugged him off and began running towards Itasha.
Itasha stopped running as she saw Minako running towards her.
Minako gripped her helmet and threw it off; she needed to get to Itasha as quickly. The Helmet only slowed her down. She pushed herself to her limit as she dashed across the plat form. She could hear gun shot's from behind her, and people screaming her name, telling her to come back. No, she needed to get to Itasha. That was the only thing that mattered right now.
Just as she reached Itasha though….
…. A huge explosion went off in the air. The explosion threw Minako off balance. A huge urge to protect the child consumed her. She threw herself forward covering Itasha just as the explosion engulfed her. Suddenly everything went black.
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**Gasp**
Hehe ^-^ gawd I'm horrible! Okay I promise the second I get this up I'll start on the next chapter.
Damia – hehe that was almost what I had in mind. Actually I got your review just after I finished this chapter (Damn forest fires .) and actually that was very close to what I was planning on doing (mwhaha great minds do think a like (lmao)) close enough anyways. Sorry for the wait ^-^;; I was busy finishing off some other stories.
Kazzeh sodapop – of course there's going to be romance!! I'm such a sap for a romantic story hehehe. Thanks for the review!
Usagi Usa Maxwell – okay I think I spelt that right, sorry if I didn't! I'm so glad you thought it looked good! ^_______^ thanks for the review!
Joe – Thanks ^-^
Crystalgem2003 – Minako is going to met Quatre…**cough** next chapter **cough** I'm so glad you liked Itasha. I really wanted to make her a likeable character, but I keep thinking I'm making her too annoying -_-;; Thanks for the review!
Minako Winner – Lol don't worry about being demanding, I live to serve -_^ hehe okay so anyways, don't worry, Minako and Quatre are defiantly going to met ^-^ all will be well lol. Thanks for the review!
Thank you to everyone who read my story!!!! It means so much to me (Another emotional moment for me) lol ^-^
Also I'd like to point out, I already know some of the things that happened in this chapter aren't very realistic.
~CEso