This is an angst episode, minna. I hope it's good as this is my first time
writing an angst episode.
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Noin paced outside the operating theatre. Somehow, she managed to handle things though it all happened so quickly and suddenly. She was still confused. She heard footsteps approaching, it was Zechs. She stood, with tears in her eyes and cried on his chest.
Zechs could do nothing but just comfort her. Then, Zechs whispered, "Zero was found by the Maguanacs floating a few kilometers away from L2," Noin suddenly stopped and looked into his eyes.
"Zero...? Wing Zero? The gundam?"
Zechs smiled and brought her to the bench and sat her down, "Yes, a gundam, the Zero. Not Wing. Its pilot is still in there," he tilted his head into the operating theatre. Noin then narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment.
"Then... who...?" she asked.
As she finished her sentence, Quatre emerged from the elevator with the asian girl whom Noin saw in the New Year's party, "Hera?" she stared in disbelief. Not only the thought of the 7 year old girl piloting Zero was scary enough but looking at her current state was just as bad as looking at Heero bloodied half an hour ago. Noin walked to her and bent down.
"Are you all right?" Noin asked. Hera stared at her, hard. Finally, she closed her eyes and said,
"Where's father? Mr. Winner said he's here." Her emotionless stare could have parred Heero and Trowa's. Noin swallowed a big lump in her throat.
"He's in there," Zechs replied.
She walked past Noin and Zechs towards the operating room. Before anyone could say anything, she opened the door and entered. The 3 adults outside rushed in to pull her out but she locked the door from the inside.
In the operating room, stood an astonished Sally. She recognized the girl.
"Hera?"
Hera nodded and approached the white, bloodied bed and looked at the man on it.
Outside, Quatre, Zechs and Noin thought of kicking the door open but decided to ditch the idea. So, they sat, waiting, praying.
A few minutes later, the elevator opened and Trowa, Duo, Wufei and (to both Noin and Zechs' dismay) Relena appeared.
"Relena!" Both (stunned people) said.
"Lucy... is he all right?" Relena asked.
Zechs glared daggers at Wufei, "I said the Gundam pilots. Is she one?"
Wufei hung his head. Trowa turned to Quatre, "What's his status?" Quatre shook his head.
"Not good. Sally said he's been injured by multiple bullet-wounds inserted with a lethal dose of Cyanide. To make things worse, it seemed that he moved around too much subsequent to the shots, causing the cyanide to circulate around his body faster than it should be and it particularly damaged his lungs," he paused, gulping, "His chance of surviving is very slim... and... even if he made it... he'll be... b... bodily pa... paralyzed..." as he finished his last sentence, he was quivering.
Relena's eyes welled with uncontainable tears as she heard this, leaning against the wall for support. "How can this be happening?" she asked in an undertone, unheard to the others but a small whimper of sorrow.
Everyone there was thinking of the same thing. This shouldn't have happened anymore. It didn't have to. Everything's peaceful now. No more wars. No more evil plot anywhere. They've killed all crazy people there was. So, why does Heero suffer like that? Was he going crazy and paranoid or... were they mistaken in misunderstanding him?
"Can't be..." Duo was heard saying, shuddering, "This is all a joke..." he tried laughing and looked up at everyone who pretended to not hear him.
"It's a joke right?" His voice cracked. Nobody said anything.
"THIS IS ALL A SICK, FUCKIN' JOKE, RIGHT??!!" He boomed, "Whoever's in there could not and I mean NOT be my best pal! NEVER! He's too tough for this!" Duo practically screamed with tears; unexpectedly to him; streaming down his cheeks.
Trowa, Wufei and Quatre looked away, hiding their faces in a hope they won't break down as Duo did. Duo's sudden outburst only caused the 2 women to cry harder. Zechs said nothing.
When no response came to him, Duo, like Relena, leaned against a wall opposite to her, "It's not fair..." he said, as he slid down the wall. He hung his head, sobbing, "It's just not fair!" Duo bawled and looked up, "He was supposed to live happily ever after as a normal human being just as he always dreamt of becoming! He'd settle down, marry Relena, have kids, get a decent job, celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, Holloween, New Year, everything, together. In other words, just be human! Not a freakin' killing machine or a 'peacekeeper' who dies just like that..." his voice trailed away, "Just... Fuck... Fuck it all to hell..."
Silence hung in the air as nobody wished to say anything or even if they did, simply can't.
So, that was it? No matter if he made it or not, he's as good as gone already. Wufei sighed sadly as he reminisced the time when he and Heero crossed swords 3 years ago. He turned to the operating theatre where his lady love is, working as hard as she could to bring their dear comrade and friend back to them – knowing it'd make no difference.
Wufei suddenly; more like an impulse; instinctively walked towards the operating theatre. As he pondered to try the door, it flung open and before him, stood a red eyed Sally. She has been crying and Wufei knew what the outcome was. She cried into his arms. He comforted her with the warmth he has and hoped, in exchange, to receive the comforting warmth from her for him. The others, expecting this, stayed still, confused and unable to move.
Relena felt guilty over everything hence was the first to stand and approached the theatre. All she wanted was to see him, in a hope he will spring back to life like he always do. Hoping he would forgive her. Hoping he'd know how much he meant to her. Hoping he'd live to return her love for him...
She entered the theatre and saw Hera next to the bed where the frozen body of Heero laid. She approached her and touched the young girl's shoulders. Hera was giving her back to Relena, holding Heero's hand.
"Hera?" Relena called. No response came and Relena turned her just to see the usually emotionless face twisted in unimaginable pain.
"Father..." she cried, turning to her foster father, "It was only a dream, Ms. Relena..." she told her, shaking her head. "He held me and then..." she covered her face with her hands as she sobbed harder. Relena, who's heart felt like shattering and was feeling guiltier by the minute, only brought Hera in a hug.
Behind her, stood the 4 former gundam pilots. They looked at their comrade's lifeless body heartrendingly. They have always been prepared for this sort of thing happening but not now. They wanted to turn away and leave but, they'd feel guilty to not bid him goodbye.
This is the least they could do for him.
"Injustice..." Wufei remarked bitterly. Quatre was crying, Duo's cheek had tears stain and eyes were all puffy.
It would always have sounded funny to Duo and the others whenever he said that but not anymore – at least, not at the moment. Wufei fought the urge to cry as it was unmanly to cry. His ego won't allow it.
Suddenly, Zechs entered the room. The 4 ex-pilots turned to see him as he stood looking at his sister comforting the Asian girl.
"Une just contacted me and..." he paused, looking at their faces carefully, "Zeimer has captured all the colonies as well as earth with mobile suits as we speak," he stated.
"That's impossible!" Relena cried, bewildered. Suddenly, Duo, Quatre and Trowa snapped up in alarm, "Zeimer'd never do such a thing!"
Zechs said nothing but Relena knew her brother won't simply make up something like that – not at a time like this.
"Then, what about Hilde, Dorothy and Cathie?" Duo asked.
Zechs closed his eyes, "He got them too."
"Oh no... Dorothy..." Quatre stared at the floor in disbelief. They all just lost a friend, are they supposed to lose their loved ones too? "Never..." Quatre suddenly looked up to see both Trowa and Duo look at him with an understanding look in their eyes. They nodded.
"They took my best pal away from me..." Duo started, clicking his knuckles.
Trowa took out a knife from his side pocket, "Betrayed us and made us look like fools."
"Took away our loved ones..." Quatre added, fire blazing in his eyes.
"And endanger humanity once again..." Wufei finished, "As Mariemaia once said, the beats of peace, war and revolution is to continue forever..."
"Guess there could never BE peace..." Duo said, narrowing his eyes, blood oozing from the corner of his lips as he gritted his teeth too hard in a vein attempt to control his temper, "Someone will die..." he promised.
Suddenly, Hera pulled away from Relena, "I'll go too..." she announced. All eyes stared at her.
Relena turned to see her face, "Hera, I understand what you're trying to do, but you are just too young for this... Please understand, Heero wouldn't have wanted you to be hurt..."
"No... it's you people who don't understand..." Hera replied harshly. That was when they fixed their gaze at the girl. She wasn't as bloodied as she looked when she first entered with Quatre although plasters covered practically 90% of her face. She looked up at them.
"Who are you really?" Zechs breathed.
Hera's eyes soften a bit, "I am the a 'New Year present' for father," she started, "I am currently the pilot to Gundam Wing." This earned her shocked faces from the women around her and if the men were surprised, (save Quatre) they didn't show any sign of it.
"I am the 2nd Perfect Soldier..." she proclaimed.
Silence. It took a while for everyone to digest this piece of information but it somehow sank in.
"It won't be wise to rush headlong as you people no longer have your gundams," she explained, "we need a solid plan and the more effective and faster it is, the sooner can we get on with all this..."
Everyone pondered at this for a moment. She sure sounded convincing; plus the fact that Heero's been with her, they don't see any reason to not believe her.
"Ok, kiddo, we believe ya'," Duo finally said folding his arms, "But, you're missing a point here. Although we don't have our gundams, we could always..."
"Unacceptable." She suddenly muttered, "You're trying to say that you'll simply steal some of the mobile suits. Well, I'll tell you one thing, what we're facing now is far more complicated than what you've all gone through."
Everyone knitted their eyebrows, "Explain." Wufei piped in.
She glanced around and her gaze finally fell on her late foster father. She took a few steps towards him and started explaining, "Zeimer Wargon, the mastermind of all this, seeks world and colonies domination not with oversized brute force," she turned to them once again, "He doesn't want revolution as Treize Kushrenada once intended. He wants conquest. By means... of PBV – Poison, Bacteria and Virus."
That was unexpected. "The manufacturer, or researcher is a dangerous man known as Pierre Wallace... he was my mentor as Odin Lowe was Heero Yuy's," she elaborated. Everyone understood everything perfectly now. "And he's out there, on the loose, commencing his crazy scientific researches. He should've been dead but somehow stayed alive..." she said and turned to Heero.
"Father is their test subject and by succeeding in killing the perfect soldier... they've achieved their greatest goal... next to world conquest..."
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'As the final few leaves flew in the Autumn wind, the tree wasted away in dismay...'
Please read and review – Lavender Gemini-
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Noin paced outside the operating theatre. Somehow, she managed to handle things though it all happened so quickly and suddenly. She was still confused. She heard footsteps approaching, it was Zechs. She stood, with tears in her eyes and cried on his chest.
Zechs could do nothing but just comfort her. Then, Zechs whispered, "Zero was found by the Maguanacs floating a few kilometers away from L2," Noin suddenly stopped and looked into his eyes.
"Zero...? Wing Zero? The gundam?"
Zechs smiled and brought her to the bench and sat her down, "Yes, a gundam, the Zero. Not Wing. Its pilot is still in there," he tilted his head into the operating theatre. Noin then narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment.
"Then... who...?" she asked.
As she finished her sentence, Quatre emerged from the elevator with the asian girl whom Noin saw in the New Year's party, "Hera?" she stared in disbelief. Not only the thought of the 7 year old girl piloting Zero was scary enough but looking at her current state was just as bad as looking at Heero bloodied half an hour ago. Noin walked to her and bent down.
"Are you all right?" Noin asked. Hera stared at her, hard. Finally, she closed her eyes and said,
"Where's father? Mr. Winner said he's here." Her emotionless stare could have parred Heero and Trowa's. Noin swallowed a big lump in her throat.
"He's in there," Zechs replied.
She walked past Noin and Zechs towards the operating room. Before anyone could say anything, she opened the door and entered. The 3 adults outside rushed in to pull her out but she locked the door from the inside.
In the operating room, stood an astonished Sally. She recognized the girl.
"Hera?"
Hera nodded and approached the white, bloodied bed and looked at the man on it.
Outside, Quatre, Zechs and Noin thought of kicking the door open but decided to ditch the idea. So, they sat, waiting, praying.
A few minutes later, the elevator opened and Trowa, Duo, Wufei and (to both Noin and Zechs' dismay) Relena appeared.
"Relena!" Both (stunned people) said.
"Lucy... is he all right?" Relena asked.
Zechs glared daggers at Wufei, "I said the Gundam pilots. Is she one?"
Wufei hung his head. Trowa turned to Quatre, "What's his status?" Quatre shook his head.
"Not good. Sally said he's been injured by multiple bullet-wounds inserted with a lethal dose of Cyanide. To make things worse, it seemed that he moved around too much subsequent to the shots, causing the cyanide to circulate around his body faster than it should be and it particularly damaged his lungs," he paused, gulping, "His chance of surviving is very slim... and... even if he made it... he'll be... b... bodily pa... paralyzed..." as he finished his last sentence, he was quivering.
Relena's eyes welled with uncontainable tears as she heard this, leaning against the wall for support. "How can this be happening?" she asked in an undertone, unheard to the others but a small whimper of sorrow.
Everyone there was thinking of the same thing. This shouldn't have happened anymore. It didn't have to. Everything's peaceful now. No more wars. No more evil plot anywhere. They've killed all crazy people there was. So, why does Heero suffer like that? Was he going crazy and paranoid or... were they mistaken in misunderstanding him?
"Can't be..." Duo was heard saying, shuddering, "This is all a joke..." he tried laughing and looked up at everyone who pretended to not hear him.
"It's a joke right?" His voice cracked. Nobody said anything.
"THIS IS ALL A SICK, FUCKIN' JOKE, RIGHT??!!" He boomed, "Whoever's in there could not and I mean NOT be my best pal! NEVER! He's too tough for this!" Duo practically screamed with tears; unexpectedly to him; streaming down his cheeks.
Trowa, Wufei and Quatre looked away, hiding their faces in a hope they won't break down as Duo did. Duo's sudden outburst only caused the 2 women to cry harder. Zechs said nothing.
When no response came to him, Duo, like Relena, leaned against a wall opposite to her, "It's not fair..." he said, as he slid down the wall. He hung his head, sobbing, "It's just not fair!" Duo bawled and looked up, "He was supposed to live happily ever after as a normal human being just as he always dreamt of becoming! He'd settle down, marry Relena, have kids, get a decent job, celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, Holloween, New Year, everything, together. In other words, just be human! Not a freakin' killing machine or a 'peacekeeper' who dies just like that..." his voice trailed away, "Just... Fuck... Fuck it all to hell..."
Silence hung in the air as nobody wished to say anything or even if they did, simply can't.
So, that was it? No matter if he made it or not, he's as good as gone already. Wufei sighed sadly as he reminisced the time when he and Heero crossed swords 3 years ago. He turned to the operating theatre where his lady love is, working as hard as she could to bring their dear comrade and friend back to them – knowing it'd make no difference.
Wufei suddenly; more like an impulse; instinctively walked towards the operating theatre. As he pondered to try the door, it flung open and before him, stood a red eyed Sally. She has been crying and Wufei knew what the outcome was. She cried into his arms. He comforted her with the warmth he has and hoped, in exchange, to receive the comforting warmth from her for him. The others, expecting this, stayed still, confused and unable to move.
Relena felt guilty over everything hence was the first to stand and approached the theatre. All she wanted was to see him, in a hope he will spring back to life like he always do. Hoping he would forgive her. Hoping he'd know how much he meant to her. Hoping he'd live to return her love for him...
She entered the theatre and saw Hera next to the bed where the frozen body of Heero laid. She approached her and touched the young girl's shoulders. Hera was giving her back to Relena, holding Heero's hand.
"Hera?" Relena called. No response came and Relena turned her just to see the usually emotionless face twisted in unimaginable pain.
"Father..." she cried, turning to her foster father, "It was only a dream, Ms. Relena..." she told her, shaking her head. "He held me and then..." she covered her face with her hands as she sobbed harder. Relena, who's heart felt like shattering and was feeling guiltier by the minute, only brought Hera in a hug.
Behind her, stood the 4 former gundam pilots. They looked at their comrade's lifeless body heartrendingly. They have always been prepared for this sort of thing happening but not now. They wanted to turn away and leave but, they'd feel guilty to not bid him goodbye.
This is the least they could do for him.
"Injustice..." Wufei remarked bitterly. Quatre was crying, Duo's cheek had tears stain and eyes were all puffy.
It would always have sounded funny to Duo and the others whenever he said that but not anymore – at least, not at the moment. Wufei fought the urge to cry as it was unmanly to cry. His ego won't allow it.
Suddenly, Zechs entered the room. The 4 ex-pilots turned to see him as he stood looking at his sister comforting the Asian girl.
"Une just contacted me and..." he paused, looking at their faces carefully, "Zeimer has captured all the colonies as well as earth with mobile suits as we speak," he stated.
"That's impossible!" Relena cried, bewildered. Suddenly, Duo, Quatre and Trowa snapped up in alarm, "Zeimer'd never do such a thing!"
Zechs said nothing but Relena knew her brother won't simply make up something like that – not at a time like this.
"Then, what about Hilde, Dorothy and Cathie?" Duo asked.
Zechs closed his eyes, "He got them too."
"Oh no... Dorothy..." Quatre stared at the floor in disbelief. They all just lost a friend, are they supposed to lose their loved ones too? "Never..." Quatre suddenly looked up to see both Trowa and Duo look at him with an understanding look in their eyes. They nodded.
"They took my best pal away from me..." Duo started, clicking his knuckles.
Trowa took out a knife from his side pocket, "Betrayed us and made us look like fools."
"Took away our loved ones..." Quatre added, fire blazing in his eyes.
"And endanger humanity once again..." Wufei finished, "As Mariemaia once said, the beats of peace, war and revolution is to continue forever..."
"Guess there could never BE peace..." Duo said, narrowing his eyes, blood oozing from the corner of his lips as he gritted his teeth too hard in a vein attempt to control his temper, "Someone will die..." he promised.
Suddenly, Hera pulled away from Relena, "I'll go too..." she announced. All eyes stared at her.
Relena turned to see her face, "Hera, I understand what you're trying to do, but you are just too young for this... Please understand, Heero wouldn't have wanted you to be hurt..."
"No... it's you people who don't understand..." Hera replied harshly. That was when they fixed their gaze at the girl. She wasn't as bloodied as she looked when she first entered with Quatre although plasters covered practically 90% of her face. She looked up at them.
"Who are you really?" Zechs breathed.
Hera's eyes soften a bit, "I am the a 'New Year present' for father," she started, "I am currently the pilot to Gundam Wing." This earned her shocked faces from the women around her and if the men were surprised, (save Quatre) they didn't show any sign of it.
"I am the 2nd Perfect Soldier..." she proclaimed.
Silence. It took a while for everyone to digest this piece of information but it somehow sank in.
"It won't be wise to rush headlong as you people no longer have your gundams," she explained, "we need a solid plan and the more effective and faster it is, the sooner can we get on with all this..."
Everyone pondered at this for a moment. She sure sounded convincing; plus the fact that Heero's been with her, they don't see any reason to not believe her.
"Ok, kiddo, we believe ya'," Duo finally said folding his arms, "But, you're missing a point here. Although we don't have our gundams, we could always..."
"Unacceptable." She suddenly muttered, "You're trying to say that you'll simply steal some of the mobile suits. Well, I'll tell you one thing, what we're facing now is far more complicated than what you've all gone through."
Everyone knitted their eyebrows, "Explain." Wufei piped in.
She glanced around and her gaze finally fell on her late foster father. She took a few steps towards him and started explaining, "Zeimer Wargon, the mastermind of all this, seeks world and colonies domination not with oversized brute force," she turned to them once again, "He doesn't want revolution as Treize Kushrenada once intended. He wants conquest. By means... of PBV – Poison, Bacteria and Virus."
That was unexpected. "The manufacturer, or researcher is a dangerous man known as Pierre Wallace... he was my mentor as Odin Lowe was Heero Yuy's," she elaborated. Everyone understood everything perfectly now. "And he's out there, on the loose, commencing his crazy scientific researches. He should've been dead but somehow stayed alive..." she said and turned to Heero.
"Father is their test subject and by succeeding in killing the perfect soldier... they've achieved their greatest goal... next to world conquest..."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'As the final few leaves flew in the Autumn wind, the tree wasted away in dismay...'
Please read and review – Lavender Gemini-
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