Part 11
"We know where they are! They're in that damned city!" Kaden threw the glass he had been drinking from against the wall of the staff quarters at Garderville Security, listening to the satisfying sound of it cracking into several pieces. His dark green eyes were furious, contrasting to his pale blonde hair.
Mamoru shrugged at Kaden's foul attitude, a sour look crossing his face."This is all you and Ryder's fault."
"Me?" Ryder questioned arrogantly, glaring at Mamoru. "Had you remained silent we would have had them before the damn civilians interjected!" He ran both his hands through his light brown hair in a frustrated manner, his pale blue eye burning with fury.
Laughter filled the room, as the agent known as Dominic appeared. "Hey morons, I heard what you did today. How are we doing? Did the boss men upstairs lay down the law? How embarrassing for 'Garderville security'."
"Shut up Dominic!" Ryder responded, Kaden glaring.
"We even know where they went after we attacked them but our leaders wouldn't listen!"
Dominic's ears perked. "You know where Jupiter is staying?"
Mamoru rolled his eyes. "They don't; they only know the neighborhood that the pilot, Barton, drove them to."
"Trowa Barton?" Dominic questioned, his eyes also hardening as he remembered the man who had been with Jupiter the day she escaped.
"Who?" Two new men appeared in the room, one with his gold eyes shining with interest and the other who just looked bored.
"Great. Cole, Anthony, join the pity party," Dominic said, his violet eyes connecting with Cole's gold ones. Dominic shook his dark-haired head, smirking and returning to his careless attitude.
"He was talking about one of the pilots," Kaden said irratibly, not in the mood to see all of the agents after their embarassing public attack on the Senshi that day. Anthony turned to look at Kaden, smirking superiorly.
"Don't beat yourself up. I hope you didn't injure Mars too bad though," he added tersely, his black eyes searching for any word of a lie in Kaden's face.
"Or Venus," Cole added.
"If anyone would listen to us, you would have them in a second," Ryder interrupted. "I told you, we saw which neighborhood they drove into. We're just not positive about the house! It's a rich area! Not too overcrowded."
"Sounds interesting," Cole agreed, Anthony nodding as Dominic laughed.
"Sounds like our chance at the Senshi and you three rejects chance at getting back in our leaders' good graces," Dominic agreed, all of the men looking up as a chance finally arose.
"Should we tell anyone else?" Mamoru asked, a tense expression on his face. Kaden and Ryder turned to look at him, the other three agents exchanging glances.
"You know which side you're on?" Ryder questioned.
Mamoru glared. "I know."
"Well you're acting odd lately," Kaden snapped. "I know that when they brainwashed you, they allowed you to keep all of your memories but gave you a different mindset. It's changing."
"Nothing's changed," Mamoru stated, standing and staring Kaden and Ryder down. "I was asking if we should get the other four agents who have an interest in the Outers. With all of them along though, the situation might get out of hand. Forget it, we can handle bringing all of them. Let's go get the Senshi."
"It really will only take about ten minutes creeping around that rich neighborhood to find the right house," Ryder finally agreed, everyone disappearing from the room.
Ami tried to shift where she lay, awakening and attempting to get out of the bed. Where was she? Remembering that she and Heero had come up to the third floor to talk and that she had suffered an attack, she turned her face to the left and saw Heero sleeping soundly near her on the bed, facing away from her. He had likely fallen asleep waiting for her to get better. What time was it? She looked at the clock, seeing that it was one o'clock in the morning.
Everyone else had likely gone to sleep. She wondered if she should head down to a room downstairs and let Heero sleep peacefully, but still didn't feel she had the strength to get up.
Shivering slightly and turning away from Heero, she tried to relax and go back to sleep, but for some reason felt a little insecure. Before she could ponder why she wasn't comfortable and why the room was cold, a hand completely covered her mouth, roughly pulling her backwards on the bed. She squirmed and tried to scream, but realized that it was useless thanks to the strength of the person holding her. Kaden pulled her to rest against his chest where he sat by the headboard, bending down and whispering in her ear.
"I'm sure you know it's useless to struggle. I already knocked out your boyfriend over there."
Ami's eyes darted to the edge of the bed where Heero laid. He hadn't been sleeping- he had been attacked?
A breeze blew through the open window in the room, also explaining why it had been cold, as Kaden spoke again.
"The others are collecting your friends as we speak. If you don't scream when I release your mouth, I'll consider sparing your pilot's life."
Heero wasn't moving, and she was worried and almost positive that Kaden had hit him in the head. Kaden removed his hand and naturally Ami screamed loudly, hoping she would at least wake someone up.
One floor below, Haruka sat up in bed, glancing at Michiru.
"What was that?"
"What was what?" Michiru asked, her voice filled with sleep.
"You didn't hear that?" Haruka questioned, standing and grabbing her henshin wand.
Michiru shook her head tiredly, watching as Haruka headed out of the room and into the hall. "Where is everyone sleeping? We all went at different times...I didn't see. Where's Hotaru?"
"In the next room."
"How about Setsuna?"
"She left hours ago."
Michiru got to her feet, grabbing her wand as well, if only for the panic in Haruka's voice.
Minako padded down the hall of the second floor hesitantly. Her stomach was not fully healed yet and it was killing her, but she had heard a noise and was alone in the room she had been laid in after the accident. Since they had only been free from the Dark Alliance a little over two days and she had spent one of the nights at Ami's apartment, she was very unfamiliar with Quatre's estate...and in the dark everything looked the same.
Spotting the darkened figure of Makoto at the end of the hall, she smiled and approached.
"So it was you making all of that noise?"
When she was about five feet from Makoto and her eyes began to adjust to the dark Minako froze, eyes widening as she gasped. An arm was around Makoto's waist, a hand covering her mouth where she stood stiffly, her eyes warning Minako not to come a step closer.
Minako backed up unsurely, knowing her henshin wand was in her purse and hoping that whoever had carried her inside after the accident had brought it into the room they set her in.
She wondered why the man holding Makoto, the agent Dominic, allowed her to until she backed into someone else. Scared, she spun around wildly, meeting Cole's gold and amused eyes.
"Hello my dear," he said quite sincerely, his hand moving quicker than her legs carrying her away as he caught her arms, speaking. "I'm still a bit injured from when you and Mars attacked me at the base but I'm willing to play nice."
Rei groaned, shifting in her bed. Even though she had woken up a few hours before and sat with everyone she was still in a lot of pain from the accident. The sound of someone padding down the hallway reached her ears and she frowned. Odd. The clock read just past one.
Sitting up slightly, Rei tried to get a better look, but saw nothing unusual, just darkness outside her door. Swinging her legs over the side of the bed carefully, she stood a bit unsteadilly and approached the doorway. Just as she neared it, it swung closed, and she jumped back, immediately spotting the Dark Alliance agent who had been hiding behind the door.
"Anthony?" She questioned, her voice dripping with venom. Where was her purse? Her eyes darted around the room and a smile took over his face as he lifted her henshin wand, clutched in his other hand. Her shocked eyes moved from the wand to her discarded purse on the floor.
Many ideas of what to do went through her mind, none of them very good. Doing the most reasonable and intelligent thing she could think of, she gave her best and loudest scream.
At the sound, Anthony lunged towards her viciously, knocking her to the floor and silencing her.
Ryder stalked down the hall, searching for Usagi's room. He smiled as he found her sleeping in a room on the first floor of the house, the area quiet and deserted.
"Perfect," he whispered to himself, entering her room and approaching the bed where she lay. The moon's light streamed through the window, giving her skin an almost ethereal glow.
He touched her cheek lightly, leaning next to her face and speaking softly. "Let's go princess. Time to wake up. We're going back to the base."
Usagi's eyes flew open, her eyes widening as she opened her mouth to scream. He covered her mouth and pinned her arms against her sides, smirking.
"Come my princess," he told her, smirking.
"That's my line."
"What?" Ryder demanding, turning at Mamoru's voice. Mamoru's cane bashed him the face as soon as he turned, the force of the blow knocking him to the floor with a strangled scream.
Usagi leapt to her feet, gasping as she had forgotten that her ribs were broken.
Mamoru was transformed, in his Tuxedo Kamen garb, and staring at her.
A sudden movement from Ryder caught his attention, and the two made eye contact once more, words useless at this point, before Usagi grabbed her broach with her crystal from the dresser. Mamoru scooped her up and took off into the hallway of the house, Ryder furious shouting behind them.
"I told you not to scream!" Kaden said furiously, his hand not covering her mouth but not needing to be over it as she was blacking in and out from the hit he had given her in the head. She had forgotten how strong he was for a while there...
"You've honestly been so much more trouble than you're worth," he accused, shoving her to the floor on the opposite side of the bed and approaching Heero's limp form.
"I'm going to kill him and rid myself of his bullshit."
Ami hid a sob, knowing that her henshin wand was downstairs in the room she had been laid in that afternoon. Kaden prepared a small red blast in his hand, releasing it on Heero's back and watching smugly as his shirt became soaked with blood.
Ami screamed but he ignored her, knowing the rest of the agents had already infiltrated the entire house by now. No one was free to help
Almost uninterested, he shoved Heero's body off of the bed and on the floor next to Ami. He landed roughly, Ami scrambling over to him and checking on him. The wound in his back was pretty bad and she immediately pulled off the sweatshirt she had layered on top of her tank top, bunching it and applying pressure to the wound on his back.
"No need to strip down for me," Kaden said with a smirk, watching her attempt to stop the bleeding from where he sat on the bed. "Anyways, why are you wasting your time? You think you can stop me? You think someone will come help you? They have their own problems."
Ami ignored him, her hands shaking. Why did these things always have to happen? She tried to control her emotions and stop stressing, knowing she was likely about to have an attack. Setsuna had warned her not to stress but...
Kaden's shadow loomed above her, and her hands shook more as she could only keep them applying pressure on Heero's wound.
"You're pathetic."
Tears burned at her eyes, feeling more than pathetic without him saying so. A familiar feeling of pain began to spread through her midsection to the rest of her limbs and she was sure she was about to have an attack, them now occuring as often as Setsuna had thought that they might.
Kaden crouched next to her, continuing to speak and watching smugly as she clearly began to have an attack. She went white, arms shaking more violently but refusing to fall and remaining sitting up. "Yes, you just keep making me feel bad for you. Poor you. I'm beating on the man who has saved you from me the last three weeks, and you are so weak that you can't even defend him."
She continued to blink back her tears, her arms shaking violently as the pain began to get unbearable. She refused to move, not knowing what to do but hoping that if she achieved anything from remaining where she sat than she would at least have stopped Heero's bleeding before Kaden took her away.
"Defend him Ami."
Kaden hit Heero in the side of the head again, Ami moving forwards to stop him and receiving a hit to the face. She fell sideways but Kaden wouldn't let her off easy. He grabbed her shoulders roughly, forcing her to sit up again, and grabbed her arms, taking her hands and reapplying them on the sweater. He pushed down on her hands, making sure she was putting pressure again, smirking at how much she shook.
"I just wanted you as you were. You are trying to stop his bleeding, aren't you? You're not doing a great job but that's none of my bussiness," he explained, grabbing her hair and straightening her when she threatened to pass out from her attack. "I mean, you don't have your henshin wand, so you're useless. What kind of power is that? Plus even if you had it, you'd be ineffective thanks to your constant attacks." He paused, smirking as a couple of tears made their way down her cheeks, her resolve fading quickly. "What have you honestly done for this pilot? Ever since you entered his life it's been a living hell. You really must not care about him if you keep putting him through this. So selfish."
"Shut up!" Ami shouted, her head swimming as she turned back to look at Heero, still limp. She continued to cry, not sure if she was more bothered by the pain from her attack or the situation or even Kaden's words.
"Me?" Kaden remained scarily calm, smirking. "Okay."
He reached out and grabbed her face, not needing to put any effort to make her look at him. "We don't need to speak, you and I."
His other hand grabbed Ami's wrists, holding them together and disentangling them from the sweater she was using to put pressure on Heero's wound. More tears soaked her cheeks but he didn't care as he pulled her away from Heero.
"Please. Please leave me alone," she begged, and he shook his head, leaning over her and bringing his face by her ear. "No way, this is the best of situations for me. I have five other agents downstairs and we're not here under orders- but on our own accord."
Ami groaned as he put his full weight on her, her pained cries not bothering Kaden too much at first as he captured her lips, silencing her.
Struggling was, as usual with Kaden, almost useless. She felt unfocused and the pain from the attack was agonizing, the situation almost surreal as Kaden's lips trailed down to her neck. Her breathing was erratic and her cries grew louder and he sighed with irritation. "Be quiet."
Raising his hand, he balled it into a fist and gave her a swift but forceful hit on the side of her head. Ami instantly grew silent, blacking out and just barely coming to to feel Kaden lifting her tank top over her head, revealing her bra underneath. She fell back against the wall, her head hitting it with a dull thud as she could only stare at her discarded shirt on the floor, feeling Kaden's cold hands pulling her towards him.
Tuxedo Kamen, carrying Usagi, was running down the hall, the sounds of Ryder at his heels. He turned to look behind him, sure that Ryder was close and ready to kill him for the betrayal, before Usagi screamed, the two nearly colliding with Sailor Neptune and Sailor Saturn.
"Let go of her!" Neptune demanded, Tuxedo Kamen setting Usagi down and raising his hands in defense. "I'm on your side right now! We've got Ryder to worry about!"
Usagi nodded, transforming.
"He helped me against Ryder, where's Sailor Uranus?"
"She ran into Wufei and the two went searching for everyone else. Pluto didn't come back, did she?"
"Not that I saw," Sailor Moon responded. The sound of Ryder's furious shouts grew closer, and Sailor Neptune stepped forwards with Saturn.
"Well then if you're on our side my King, allow us to help you out," Neptune said. Before Ryder could fully round the corner, she attacked.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
Ryder screamed at the surprise attack, but responded fast with one of his own.
"Saturn Silence Shield!" Saturn deflected the attack, Sailor Moon stepping forwards. "Thanks you two. Silver Moon Crystal Power!"
Ryder gasped and barely managed to dodge, the attack only partially hitting him as he collapsed to the floor, bleeding severely.
"My...God...that would have killed me," he muttered in disbelief, disappearing before anymore damage could be done.
Minako screamed as Cole felt her up, kicking to no end although he seemed unaffected, sitting on top of her in the hall. A few feet away, Dominic was getting pretty physical with Makoto, having hit her more times than she wanted to see or count.
"Mako!" She shouted, her friends safety priority number one.
Cole snickered, grabbing her face. "Worry about yourself."
Makoto got one good hit in, elbowing Dominic in the groin and watching as his hands released her slightly, giving her all the chance she needed to escape. Stumbling to her feet, she dashed towards her room to get her henshin wand, not realizing just how injured she was and collapsing halfway there. Expecting to hit the floor, she was surprised when she felt a pair of arms encircle her, catching her. Thinking it was Dominic, she went to push away, surprised when the arms held her steady. Looking up, she gasped as she found herself in Trowa's hold. He wasn't looking at her, his face solemn but his eyes showing fury. He was watching Dominic, who was simply smirking.
"Ah, Barton, we meet again," Dominic noted. Raising his hands, he held them flat, a sudden wind blasting Trowa and Makoto into the opposite wall. Trowa protected her head, helping her up.
"Are you strong enough to get your wand?" He muttered. She nodded, hurriedly slipping into her room's door as Trowa looked up from the floor and began to fire his gun at Dominic.
Dominic dodged most of the bullets, a few hitting him and enraging him as he got past the barrage and in front of Trowa, creating a black electricity with his hands and releasing it on him. Trowa gasped, never having been attacked by anything like it, the pain suddenly ending as Dominic was attacked as well.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"
Dominic gasped, falling back, as Trowa got to his knees and began to shoot at him again when he was down. Jupiter rushed over to help Minako but saw that she already had some help.
The sound of gunfire came closer to Minako as Cole suddenly stopped his assault, falling off of her. She scrambled backwards, scared and irritated, as Quatre came into view.
He rushed towards her, helping her up off the ground. "Are you alright?" He asked. Minako suddenly screamed and pointed, as Cole was suddenly behind Quatre, hitting him and knocking him to the ground.
Quatre turned, gun drawn, and brought it right up to Cole's stomach, firing relentlessly.
Cole gasped for a breath, blood filling his mouth. He collapsed, disappearing from the hall around the time Dominic was able to.
"Get off of me," Rei demanded, her voice much less forceful after how many times Anthony had hit her in the head. He ignored her weak pleas, running his hands down her figure and running his lips freely over her face and neck.
"No, stop," she continued, blacking in and out. Anthony suddenly halted, a pair of arms pulling him off of her and throwing him against the wall.
"She said stop, do you have a hearing problem?" Duo demanded, looking more angry than Rei remembered him ever looking.
"Who the hell are you?" Anthony questioned.
"The names Duo Maxwell," Duo responded, raising his gun. He wasted not time in firing at Anthony but he dodged, seeming to disappear before he reappeared in front of Duo's face, striking him down. Rei found her wand, discarded on the ground, and transformed, wasting no time in attacking.
"Marc Celestial Fire, Surround!"
Anthony collapsed momentarily, Duo beginning to fire at him while Mars prepared another attack.
"Mars Fire Bird!" Anthony screamed in pain, the second fire attack combined with the bullets too much as he made a quick escape. Mars sighed, turning to face Duo and thank him.
"Your welcome," Duo told Mars with a smile before she spoke, immediately returning to his happy attitude. She nodded, hesitating a second before kissing Duo on the cheek.
"I don't have the words to thank you."
"N-no," Ami murmured, physically unable to do a thing as his hands roamed her trembling body. Ami found some strength and tried to push his arms off of her as he reached for the clip of her bra.
"Stop pushing me, you're only causing painful delays for yourself!" He said furiously, spotting the wound from her accident earlier and striking it, a searing pain spreading from the area was it began to bleed again. Ami screamed loudly, the pain mixed with her attack unbearable.
She turned away from Kaden, her eyes burning from all of her crying, and met a furious pair of Prussian blue eyes. Heero had apparently awakened from her scream, and he looked beyond angry as the sound of gunfire reached her ears. Kaden fell off of her momentarily before jumping Heero, his gun clattering to the floor. Ami tried to catch her breath, horrified at the situation as she realized that it was up to her to help Heero.
Trying to find the strength to move let alone stand, she dragged herself over to Heero's gun, taking it unsteadily in her hands and trying to aim at Kaden from where she lay on the floor. He and Heero were rolling around on the ground, both now injured and neither one keeping the upper hand for long as Heero was currently kicking Kaden in the face while he lunged at him. Ami wasn't sure how Heero was doing this with how severe his injury was, but tried to focus lest she pass out or aim improperly. She removed the safety, waiting for her chance.
Kaden suddenly took the upper hand, shoving Heero's face into the ground and beating on his injured back. Before Ami could over-think her actions she fired the gun, watching as her aim was precise and Kaden was hit in the chest. She didn't stop, continuing to shoot in hopes of at least knocking him out. After the sixth bullet Kaden fell backwards, gasping in pain and breathing heavily as he cursed at her. Ami wanted him dead and wanted to fire more, but the gun was evidently out of bullets. She allowed it to clatter to the floor uselessly, watching as Heero turned and tried to grab a hold of Kaden's arm, who was disappearing from the ground and clearly running back to his base.
Heero gave a furious shout of rage, quite uncharacteristic of him, as he began to get off the floor. He got to his knees, dizzy from how much Kaden had hit him in the head. Blood dripped down his back and he wasn't too sure when that had happened either. Turning to where Ami laid, his anger died and he crawled over to her. Her tank top was on the floor about five feet from where she laid, her back to him and shaking. It didn't seem like she had the strength to get it so he did, crawling back over to her and holding it out to her without a word. She took it from his hands, turning onto her back agonizingly slow and pulling it on over her bra, allowing her head to hit the floor again.
Beyond anything Kaden had done to her, it was clear she had suffered an attack. He touched her arm lightly, watching with a frown as she jumped. She turned her face slightly to look at him, her face stained with tears and her eyes completely bleary. Almost tiredly, she turned away from him again, her head falling back against the floor. Heero rubbed her shoulder, not knowing what to do as neither one of them could walk.
Finally she spoke, her voice soft. "Sorry."
He grew still, speaking. "Why?"
She didn't answer, and he sighed, touching her forehead. Her temperature was high and she was pale white, her breathing extremely uneven.
The sound of rushed footsteps reached his ears and he froze, dropping his guard when he saw it was just Wufei. Wufei took one look at them before turning to look down the hall.
"Uranus! Over here!"
He entered the room, Uranus at his heels and running over to Ami. "Let's get you out of here," she said, picking Ami up swiftly.
"You don't look so good. We'll get you help when we get to the apartments," Wufei told Heero, picking him up.
"Apartments?" Heero questioned.
"We're all staying in you and Ami's apartments. This location is compromised and we don't all need to be driving to different houses and being followed. We're staying in one spot from now on," Wufei explained.
"Yes, just for a couple of days- until we go in and kill those assholes," Uranus stated, her tone more than unpleasant as she stalked out of the room with Ami in tow.
Sorry for the delay, i had this chapter written a very long time ago and just never had time to edit and post it.