Three days later:
The attacks went on and this time the Galactic Alliance reacted immediately.
At this moment Task Force Sol, along with parts of the Fourth Fleet, was fighting a mixed force of Mercenaries and other scum in the Meastrinnar System.
Enemy forces had seized a communications center on the namesake planet of the System, Meastrinnar.
The fight in space was short lived as the bigger ships including the Far Side, collectively spat multicolored death from their turbo laser batteries into the formations of the enemy, reducing the enemy ships and fighters into star dust and molten slag.
Right now the battle was going on in the sky and on the ground. The communication center was located on the green-brownish plains on one of the temperate continents of the world.
It consisted of a medium sized domed building in the middle, the communication center per se, various other buildings housing the administration and barracks as well as some various sized dishes and antennas behind the domed building.
SunTzu was fighting a pair of TIE-Fighters a few kilometers away from the site. Because their design the iconic fighters were more maneuverable in the atmosphere than in space and therefore were harder to take on.
He had sent the Voyager away to give escort to the Taskforce's Gunships that were on their way to the communication center.
The first one, containing Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus and Team 3 already landed a few kilometers afar from the installation as the site was being to heavily defended to land there directly.
They were approaching through a forest when they were attacked from enemy infantry.
The ambush injured the team's heavy gunner and Sailor Venus along with the Team's Medic treated the soldier in cover behind a ditch while Sailor Mars and Team 3 returned fire from the ditch itself.
The enemy had an E-Web hidden in a makeshift bunker made out of wood and the heavy energy weapon prevented the Earthlings to advance.
"Venus, we could use your help up here!" Rei yelled back as she had to cover down, while laser fire drove into the ground before her.
"I'm busy here. The sergeant got hit pretty bad. I can't ."
The incoming fire was too much and too heavy to cast an effective attack, so the only thing she could do, was hurl small fire balls at locations where she expected the enemy, while ducking down in cover after every thrown Fire Soul.
The teamleader of Team 3 ordered one of his men to retreat the heavy weapon of the injured Gunner, a German made MG5 and to get it up to use it against the enemy.
As soon as the machine gun started rattling and sending death toward the enemy the E-Web shifted it's aim completely on it.
The team leader looked to Rei and both nodded. The whole Commando team opened up, suppressing the enemy while Rei casted a flaming arrow that hit the E-Web directly and made it and it's makeshift fortification explode in a bright, fiery ball of flame.
Team 3 used the distraction and now established fire superiority to quickly take out the rest of the enemy and soon four of the Commandos rushed down the ditch and advanced.
Overhead SunTzu was still dogfighting. The two pilots were good. And everytime he tried to get a lock on one of them the other one distracted him. He somehow enjoyed the little dance of death the three fighters had with each other though.
Rei joined the four advancing commandos, Minako had to stablilize the injured soldier first before he could be airlifted back to the Far Side for further treatment.
Soon they reached the tree line of the forest and saw the communication center before them. Behind a widespread broken down fence the buildings rose up and a trench had been dug between the fence and the buildings. And that trench was filled with bad guys that didn't want to give up their new communication center. It was at least 100 meters of uncovered plain between the tree line and the trenches. Not something you could just walk through.
Two of the commandos crawled up to the last trees to get a better look at things. They began observing the scene to get a better view of things but it was clear that the five of them we're not enough to attack the installation.
The assistant team leader that led the detachment called in for backup, while they lay in cover.
A few hundred meters behind, one of the troopers and the medic laid the injured gunner on a stretcher, and with Sailor Venus taking care of the injured, began to move back to their landing zone, where the man could be medevaced, meaning to be flown out to get further treated.
The rest of the team followed up to advanced group of theirs.
Over the tac-com came the request from Team 3 for an immediate Medevac. Team 3 was where Rei and Mina were attached too.
Although it distracted him somewhat from the dogfight he switched radio channels to the Senshi's frequency.
"SunTzu checking in. What's the situation with Team 3? You guys got casualties?"
Immediately after he spoke he had to turn AICA away hard because a salvo of green laser fire tried to eat away on her rear shield.
"SunTzu, Venus here. We have a man done injured. I'm on the way to the landing zone to get him out. Mars is up front with the rest of the team."
"We're seeing the compound but there's a trench filled with enemy soldiers between us and the building. Wait…" Rei fell abruptly silent.
Erupting blaster and gun fire was heard in the background.
"They detected us. We're under fire and can't advance." Sailor Mars got back on the radio a moment later.
Blaster bolts where hitting ground and trees left and right of them as Sailor Mars dropped next to the Team Leader of Team 3.
"Sergeant, I have an idea!"
Might not be my brightest and I might have spent too much time with a certain pilot, and his madness is rubbing off on me, but better than to get shot to shit in this forest, she thought.
"Can you lay smoke up the area in front of us? I'll take care of the rest!"
She had to yell over the volume of the firefight.
"Yes Ma'am, on it!" The Team Leader knew that the Senshi usually always had something up their sleeve when things got dire. He told the team to use smoke grenades to fog up the area between the forest and the trench.
Between a looping and some fast turning SunTzu saw that big clouds of smoke were rising from the area near the communication center, where a forest was located. He remembered that was the way Team 3 should take. Blaster fire from the trenches hailed into the forest.
Okay, that was Team 3. He took a turn to closer investigate while the two Ties veered away to regroup for an attack.
He raced over the smoke dulled plain in a height of one hundred meters and was greeted from blaster fire from the trenches while he saw the two TIEs closing in in his rear view. Just as he was about to turn into a looping he saw someone, dressed in white and red and with black hair step out of the forest and on the plain, hands full of fire.
Oh fuck, she took on my bad habits now.
He had to do something. Raising AICA up vertically and putting full thrust he turned into a looping. He didn't tap into the force till now, something told him, he should save that up for later, and he guess that later was now, as he ended the looping and was behind the TIEs that were about to break away.
"Sorry guys, It was fun but i got other things to take care off."
That said he shot down the first fighter that broke to the right and immediately steered to the left, right after the other TIE. The Tie accelerated over the forest and tried to dive away but SunTzu was in a hurry and didn't have time for any of that and reaching out with the force he could feel where the other pilot wanted to go and just shoot a salvo in the way. The Tie was hit in its wing and began to whirl, before the wing completely broke off and the TIE crashed to earth.
He veered back and took course to the communication center as fast as he could.
Sailor Mars stepped out of the forest and into the smoked up plain, blaster fire was hailing into the forest behind her but none of it seemed to be directly aimed at her.
The Senshi of War casted a Burning Mandala, trying not to give in to the feeling to immediately get back to cover, and sent it out, but not frontal as usual but rather sideways, hitting the trench on various different positions and making each Mandala explode, some of them with great effect on the enemy.
She was about to cast another one as the enemy began to shift it's fire towards here. She closed her eyes, the blaster shots would hit her before she could cast an attack.
Maybe that plan wasn't that well thought out but at least Sailor Mars didn't run from a fight till the bitter end.
Sailor Mars waited for the inevitable, to feel a stinging heat and pain while a blaster bolt would hit her. But nothing happened.
Rei could feel a kind of heat coming from before her and even heard something fly over her but nothing seem to hit her. She opened her eyes and saw AICA hovering some meters in front of her, deflecting the incoming fire and splitting the white smoke into two around here with the air from her engines.
Just as the first blaster bolt had come flown, aimed in her direction, quickly followed by a sheer storm of more AICA descended down in front of her. Shields completely up, she deflected the fire and began to fire on her own, filling the trench with laser fire.
The canopy opened and SunTzu got up, Rifle raised and sending more death into the trench.
Trenches exploded in laser fire as AICA started shooting back.
Who needs a white Knight on a horse when you can have TopGun and his talking A-Wing.
Rei sent a small thank you to the heavens and rushed up to AICA.
She rounded the starfighter towards it's front, as SunTzu was reloading when a blaster bolt just wizzed apart his neck a few centimeters. He dropped on his knee to take cover.
You didn't just shoot at my man, did you?
Rei casted a Fire Soul and hurled it into the mercenary that just shot at SunTzu, engulfing everything above the men's stomach into fire.
SunTzu jumped out the cockpit and landed in front of Rei, weapon drawn towards the enemy.
She walked up to him from behind and slowly put a hand around his upper body from behind.
"Please tell me you're okay." He said, while he scanned for targets. Meanwhile AICA beside them toned down her fire and shifted from cover fire to aimed fire.
"I'm good. I was just about to fuck up their day on my own, when you stepped in."
"Yeah? I got the opinion that I start to mark off to you. That was a little bit insane."
"Oh c'mon. I had everything under control." She replied with a snarky tone in her voice.
The Pilot found a target and fired around as around them Team 3 closed up to them, advancing towards the trench.
"Listen, we'll talk about this later." He said and carefully advanced forward.
The Senshi stood their, taking cover behind AICA and followed his advance with her eyes.
"Thank you for saving me AICA. But don't tell him that I said that."
"Promise. And If only so he can't brag about it." The ship answered.
SunTzu and Team 3 formed a line and advanced to the installation, quickly taking out the rest of the defenders in the trench.
One guy waited for SunTzu in the trench itself cowering down. He had a big knife in his hand but SunTzu managed to bring his subcompact rifle up in time and left the man dying with three holes in his upper body.
Just as the team took cover in the trench and aimed down the other buildings two Lartys touched down in front of them and Team 1, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Saturn and Team 2 got out. Over them the Voyager shot past.
Look who finally arrived to the party.
As he watched their backups arrival, Sailor Mars jumped into the trench beside him.
"Wow, now they show up." Rei stated. "You're welcome that we cleared the way for you!" She yelled into the direction of the newly arrived troops.
The reinforcements advanced on the installation and it's buildings. Team 3 left the trench and moved up to clear one of the administrative buildings while Team 2 took another one of the buildings.
Jupiter, Saturn and Team 1 stacked up in front of the communication center.
"What does Hotaru think she's doing there?" SunTzu asked, mostly himself.
He got out the trench and run up to the building, while the Larties took off again.
Sailor Mars sighed and followed.
Overprotective much lately?
SunTzu stacked up behind Hotaru as the first wave of Team 1 entered the building. Saturn leaned on the wall there, opposite of Sailor Pluto, both were wearing plate carriers and helmets over their uniform. Jupiter had a carbine in her hand and Saturn her Kriss Vector SMG, the Silence Glaive secured on her back.
"And what the hell are you thinking to do here Hotaru?" He asked her.
She turned around to him, looking surprised.
"Uh? Clearing this building with Team 1."
"Nope, you're not." He spoke in his chrono.
"AICA could you please pick up Cadet Meiou? She's on battlefield observation duty now. Part of her training."
Sailor Saturn was about to say something to protest but SunTzu just shook his head, order was order. "Maybe Sailor Mars want to participate in the exercise."
Mars who stood behind him just stared with an annoyed look on her face when he turned around to her. He shrugged and looked over to Jupiter and both nodded.
SunTzu cautiously moved cross Hotaru and followed Sailor Jupiter into the building, rifles at the ready.
Sailor Saturn followed their entrance with a sour expression.
"Don't be mad. He's just being protective." Sailor Mars told her from behind and laid a arm on her. "And there's worse places to be in than AICA."
Hotaru squeezed Rei's arm onto her with her own.
"Guess you're right." She looked up to Rei and smiled.
"But he shouldn't be the one talking about safety."
Rei started to smile too.
"I know sweetheart. I know."
Soon AICA landed near them and Sailor Saturn climbed into the cockpit, securing her weapons inside.
She checked if nobody was watching and when she saw nobody was, she took the chance to lift off on her own.
"This stays between us AICA, but I need the practice."
"Of course. I'm quite the keeper of secrets lately you have to know."
The installation was soon cleared and completely seized. After the trench had been breached, most defenders gave up their positions and fled.
Which led to the point that they attacked an village nearby on their getaway. Fighting wasn't over for today.
The Mercenaries possessed some speeders also but a few strafing runs from the Voyager as well as AICA, who of course acted on her own and was absolutly not controlled by Hotaru both swore later on, plus the firepower of the four 2-M repulsor tanks of the Task Force that came rushing in from a nearby lake and hit the flank of the fleeing enemy force made short work of most of the enemies.
Unfortunately a few of the mercenaries made it to the city and entrenched themselves there.
A lot of the residents of the village fled but some of them were locked down in their houses. Big guns would have risked hurting them so a good old fashioned house to house cleaning was needed.
While Team 1 stayed back at the communication center and covered Sailor Mercury and a Intelligence Detail that were searching for Intel inside the installation the LAAT/is came back and took Team 3 and Team 2 over to the village. The TF's dropship was already loading off regular troopers nearby. The Voyager and AICA escorted the Gunships on the small flight from the communication center over to the village. This time one of the doors of the Larty SunTzu, Mars and Jupiter were flying in was open and Rudy, Hulk and SunTzu were sitting on the edge of the craft, ready to fire from the craft. Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter stood two rows behind them, with Sailor Mars thinking about that she would give SunTzu so much shit for being overprotective to her and Saturn and then basically riding halfway outside of an aircraft into battle. She shook her head.
Makoto looked at her interrogatory but she just motioned with a wave off that it was nothing.
SunTzu enjoyed the ride in the open door and when AICA veered up next to them he waved back to Sailor Saturn who was sitting on his pilot seat.
After a few minutes they touched down in a bit of distance off the village and were greeted by some sporadic blaster fire. The tanks had formed a half circle around the landing zone, protecting the incoming ships.
The starfighters went on overhead and closed the battlefield, looking for any enemy movement out or into the village.
The commandos, Senshi and the pilot dismounted, partly jumping out while the Gunships didn't even touch down yet and immediately moved up to the defensive line the tanks and regular troops already had drawn in front of the village.
SunTzu followed Sailor Jupiter who sprinted up to Major Pierre Bernard. The French officer and former Foreign Legionist was the Commanding Officer of the regular ground forces of the Task Force. He nodded Jupiter appeared next to him.
"What's the situation Major?"
"Some of these connards dug in into the houses. There's still civilians inside so I didn't let the tanks advance so far.
As he said a missile rushed over from the houses and exploded on the shields of one of the tanks.
"Ah Putain! Captain, I let the tanks act as mobile shields and you and your troops advance behind them, till you can get entry in these houses." Both officers nodded and gave the respective orders over their radios. The tanks began to move and behind every tank was a small bunch of soldiers and commandos taking cover behind them. They carefully advanced towards the houses where the enemy now decreased it's fire.
Another missile swirled overhead and exploded in the air a few dozen meters apart, some of the shrapnel ricocheting off one of the tanks shields.
"Those tanks sure are nice. Maybe I should switch over to them." SunTzu stated as he watched the scene.
"As if you could live without flying." Rei replied.
"Yeah, it definitely would feel to safe for you to not get you bored after a while." Mako joined in.
SunTzu turned back to face the two Senshi and Mars motioned over to Jupiter. She was thinking the same but Makoto actually told it, not her.
As soon as they were near the houses the commandos and soldiers swarmed out. While some attacked through the windows, others cautiously moved around the houses, while two of the tanks covered them and the other two as well as some troopers moved up onto a street in the village
Makoto joined Team 2 as they stacked up on a wall of a big house with two floors.
Rei and SunTzu followed two soldiers of Team 3 around a smaller house. No gunfire came out of its windows before, so maybe it had been empty.
Fortunately the house behind it, didn't had windows into it's so they could sneak up on it without having to worry to get shot at from the other building. SunTzu motioned the two commandos to give overwatch nonetheless as he moved up to the door. He rushed to the other side of the door to open it, while one of the commandos covered him and opened the door.
Shots were heared from across the street.
He motioned the soldiers to stay put and got ready to entry. Rei came up beside him and he motioned her to stay where she was, what was answered with a frown and an energetic shaking off her head.
Well then, at least I tried.
He draw his pistol and sneaked into the small building. Rei followed him close behind and they soon came to an open door. He briefly glanced inside. It was the kitchen and beside the dinner table he could make out someone lying next to the table, he could only see a female shoe and parts of the leg tho. It didn't look like the clothes of a mercenary. He took a deep breather and motioned for Rei to stop, as he didn't wanted her to see what he feared would be in that room. He carefully entered the room and was greeted by a hit from an iron pan on his helmet. Good thing he changed to a combat helmet, but the attacker didn't let off and threshed the pan onto him more and more, he struggled and had to get to one knee, trying to grasp the attackers wrists.
Sailor Mars heard the noise and rushed into the kitchen. A mercenary, armed with a heavy iron pan tried to blow out SunTzu with it and beside them next to the table lay a dead woman. And she wasn't one of the combatants. Just someone who had to die because a bunch of cowards fleeing their defeat came along here.
Something in her mind switched off and like in slow motion she catched herself how her fist went up in flames and she drove with all her force into the mercenaries chest, burning a hole through it and charring his heart.
The attacker was dead before he hit the floor.
SunTzu shook his head to stop seeing stars, got up and grasped around Rei, turning her around and away from the woman that lay dead on the kitchen floor. Her eyes were wide in rage and she was breathing heavily as he basically carried her outside the room. On the corridor he hugged her and caressed her face. She needed a moment till she reacted and then looked in his eyes. Rage gave way to lack of understanding.
"That was not fair. She was just someone living here."
"Rei." He hugged her tighter. "It's not your fault." He kissed her forehead.
The sound of combat outside grew louder.
"I could use some help over here people." It was Makoto coming in over the radio. "I'm pinned on a house corner down the street. They also took down some of our guys on the main street. Venus if you could be so kind and get some medics down to here."
Rei took a very deep breather and looked up to SunTzu.
"Duty first, right?"
He answered through a nod with closed eyes.
She nodded too, slowly and they rushed out the house and towards the sounds of combat.
The last enemies had themselves dug in deep and it needed a tank to actually close up to Makoto. It also needed excessive amounts of both stun and smoke grenades thrown through windows to clear the last houses. Rei had to burn down parts of a stable that was used as fortification for a heavy blaster and Makoto electrocuted a guy attacking her with a staff in close combat two houses further. The mercenaries knew they were with their backs against the wall, so they fought to the bitter end.
In the end all of them were dead, as well as five inhabitants of the village and three troopers of the Taskforce.
The remaining inhabitants came back and cheered for the Taskforce's troops. The mercenaries had been harassing them for quite a while now and robbed them off their food and belongings. So even with three of his inhabitants dead that it was still a victory for the village and they would make it through the next winter now.
A hour later AICA was parking on a plain field near the village.
Sailor Saturn was standing guard over a neighboring field where the dead mercenaries had been brought and some guys from Intel had the pleasure to look for anything of value before they were taken into a mass grave. The three dead soldiers of the Taskforce were already back on board of the Far Side as well as the various wounded. Venus and Pluto arrived very shortly after Makoto's request with a medic team and took flew the injured out asap.
The dead civilians were brought to the village's version of a church and laid In state in there so that the village could say their goodbyes to their owns.
Sitting back to back on AICA's right wing were SunTzu and Sailor Mars. Both were a mess, dirt and grit in their faces and eyes blank with tiredness. He observed Saturn standing watch while she looked over to the village, where Soldiers were giving out rations for the civilians. Children were swarming the troops after they heard there was candy.
"You got cigarettes?" She asked, still staring at the village.
He pulled out a cigarette and handed it to her.
"Got fire?" He asked as he pulled out another one for himself.
Sailor Mars lighted her cigarette up with her finger and turned around, burning cigarette in mouth. She leaned in as SunTzu did, to light his cigarette on her burning one.
"What a fucked up day that was." She said as she leaned in closer, looking into his eyes.
"No shit." He answered as he leaned in and lighted his cigarette on hers. As soon the cigarettes touched each other he looked into her eyes too. They both took a deep draw and then parted, turning back again.
She leaned her head on his back and looked up, letting out the smoke.
"Damn, I'm so tired." She told.
He parked his right hand over hers, and she gently took it.
Sailor Saturn just had turned around to see her two friends light up their cigarettes. They had a strange way to show their feelings for each other.
Rei pressed SunTzu's hand.
"I'm glad we survived."
"Me too."
Today had been a bit too close for comfort.
The Guardian's Guardian stood on the Far Side's hangar deck and waited for his starfighter to arrive.
Hotaru had asked him permission to fly back and although he tried to do his best to decline her request he had to back down when Rei intervened on and was on Hotaru's side. She even insisted on flying along on the passenger seat.
This Point goes to you Black Hair Girl Gang.
SunTzu took one of the gunships up to the Far Side. He had been telling Hotaru to fly straight to the Star Destroyer and then let AICA land but of course, the two girls who left off at the same time he did, weren't there when he arrived on board.
SunTzu then had to wait for over five minutes till AICA glided into the hangar. And just from the approach he could see that AICA just took over when they entered the hangar.
He sighed.
Girls will be Girls.
The Pilot walked over to the star fighter and waited till the canopy opened and two raven haired girls greeted him with wide grins.
Like I just said.
A short time after, when everybody had some time to refresh and at least wash the dirt and blood off, the Senshi, except Pluto and Venus who were needed in the Med Bay, the Team Leaders and other high ranking commanders as well as SunTzu were in the Mission Control Center for a debriefing. The Senshi were transformed again.
The loss of three soldiers was a hard blow but everybody in the room knew that they were at war and tomorrow wasn't promised at all.
And today's victory was important for the safety of the whole Inner Rim. Fortunately the mercs couldn't extract out any of the important data out of the communication center as they counterattack was too swift for them to retrieve any data. The loss of the complete personnel of the Installation as well as the death of the five civilians was unfortunate but all in all the enemy lost almost triple the amount of what the GA lost.
SunTzu briefly caught himself thinking how easy it is to make numbers and statistics out of people and use it to euphemize the death of people.
After the briefing some of the Senshi and SunTzu gathered together on two of the tables. SunTzu was sitting on the edge of one of the table, Rei behind him, resting her head on her hands and looking tired and bored. Haruka was standing next to SunTzu, also leaning against the table, with Michiru sitting on the corner edge, resting her head on her girlfriend's shoulder. Hotaru was sitting besides Rei, balancing on her chair.
"What was that with those two Ties up there? Did you had problems to shoot them down or why you took so long?" Uranus asked him.
"I just enjoyed our little dance up there. Also I wanted to see how good I fly without using the force." He explained and then sighed, closing his eyes. "Unfortunately I had to end the party prematurely because someone channeled his inner SunTzu and did the most suicidal act of the day and I had to save her." He looked over to Rei.
Sailor Mars immediately jumped up and leaned forward, arms on the table. Hotaru almost lost her balance because of the sudden reaction and just because her good reactions she could pull herself up on the table in the last millisecond.
"What do you mean, safe me?!" Rei yelled. "I was perfectly fine down there. I would have breached that trench all alone without breaking a sweat."
He turned around, propping up his hands on the table too now.
"Oh yeah. And the bolts blasting off AICA's shields were just ricochet?"
"I had everything under control. I didn't need your help." The whole room was staring at them now.
"Diplomat Hino, Lieutenant, could you please continue your discussion outside!"
Artemis ordered them to leave the room, which made Haruka fell into a fit of laughter and she had to put her hand over her mouth to get not kicked out of the room also. Michiru just facepalmed over the complete situation and Hotaru asked herself again, why SunTzu and Rei had such a strange way to show their affection for each other.
Rei and SunTzu continued their fight on the way to the hangar. SunTzu had to take care of something there and Rei just followed along because of the discussion.
Ship personnel gave the yelling and wild gesturing couple a wide berth and every once in a while they would stop to talk to each other until a moment later one of them would start again.
What started as a discussions about SunTzu saving Sailor Mars today ended as principle debate about anytime one of them saved the other or did something risky.
It was dinner time, so when they finally arrived in the hangar, it was virtually empty of personnel. The walked next to each other, Rei on his left when they entered.
"So tell me, the month, week and year and how many times did you actually really had to save me from something TopGun!" She asked in a snarky tone while gesturing with her hands.
The two of them were passing rows of stacked boxes, making a few small rows.
At this point SunTzu was over to actually discuss something with meaning with her because she just wanted to fight right now and wasn't open to facts at all.
"You know what I'm not gonna answer this. I'm done discussing stuff with you. You're just being a Tsundere right now." He told her.
I. Am. A. What?! Oh! I'll give you Tsundere buddy.
Rei shoved him into one of the rows and literally jumped on him, fixing his hands up on the rows with her hands as she passionately started kissing him, letting her tongue wrestle with his.
When she started kissing his neck he freed his hands and put them around her butt, lifting her up and changing position with her. Now she was pressed against the boxes and they kissed again. After a long french kiss his lips wandered down her neck while his where still around her butt.
"Fuck me." She hushed into his ear before she gently bit his earlobe.
His hand wandered under her skirt and started to rub her between her legs.
She let out a moan and pressed her lips on his again.
"Fuck me! Please!" She purred out.
He opened his pants and pulled her underwear to the side before he entered her.
Their mouths were all over each other while the two lovers let out all the left over adrenaline, stress and anger that day brought them with their risky intercourse, discovering the sensation of we-survived-sex. It was a miracle nobody in the hangar noticed them.
It didn't took long but they both climaxed, together. Heavily breathing he still held her up in his arms while her head rested on his shoulder. For a moment none of them said a word and the just enjoyed the closeness of each other.
"Do you think, this war will end soon?" Rei asked after a while.
SunTzu kissed her forehead before he let his head rest on it.
"I'll do anything i can that it will."
Rei hugged him tighter.
Being so close to him made this cold galaxy feel a little bit warmer.
