I dont own Gundam Wing
Chapter 2: Escape and a New Friend
When night finally came Meika crept silently to her cabin. Everyone should be asleep by now. She knocked quietly on the door. Ummi opened it and let her in. The younger girl needed no lights to find her belongings and pack them in a black duffle bag.
"You might want to change into something darker in case they go looking for you. You don't want to be seen until you are safe."Ummi suggested. Meika finished packing and nodded, grabbing a black tank top, and black skirt, and black knee high boots. She changed and grabbed her bag, and tied her long blonde hair into a loose braid. Ummi handed her a smaller bag.
"What is it?" Meika questioned.
"Money. You will need it if you're going to eat and afford a shuttle ticket." Meika hugged Ummi. "Thank you! I'll always be in your debt."
"I'm sure you will be." Meika froze and turned. Blake and the General were standing in the door way.
"Both of you are under arrest." The general said.
Ummi drew her gun and prepared to shoot the general but Blake was faster. Ummi went down in a burst of gun powder and a bloody hole in her chest. Angry, Meika grabbed Ummi's gun and shot Blake and then General. When she turned back, Ummi was already dead, eyes glazed over. Meika filled the gun with charges, grabbed plenty of spares, and tucked a knife into one of her boots. She then grabbed her bag and ran from the cabin, having no time to mourn the loss of her friend.
Running to the garage she took the first vehicle she found. The black motorcycle she hid behind earlier. Gunning the engine, she tore from the garage, before the awakened trainees got more than a yard from their cabins. Meika kept her speed at max as she drove across the black fields.
It was daybreak when Meika stopped. She figured she was about two hundred miles from the academy at this point. Meika pulled into a gas station to refill the nearly empty tank and to ask where the nearest shuttle port was.
"About forty miles from here, due east. Why? Heading to visit relativities?" Not wanting to revel her true predicament Meika nodded. "Something like that. Thanks!"
Meika drove the forty miles on back roads hoping to avoid any police.
It was around nine am when Meika reached the shuttle port. It was teeming with people, like she had expected. Getting in line to buy her ticket she gazed around the place. It wasn't anything fancy, mostly concrete and metal. All sorts of people were coming and going.
Her blood ran cold as she spotted an officer from the academy looking right at her. He shouted for her to stop as she ran from the line back to her motorcycle. She reached it and zoomed off.
Taking the back roads again she found her way into the mountains. It was cold and windy up here. A huge difference from the heat given off by the departing shuttles at the port. Meika's thoughts turned back to Ummi. It made her furious, thinking of what Blake had done to her friend.
Meika halted abruptly, looking at the young man that stood before her in the road. "Whoa! Watch out you crazy driver!" A male voice shouted.
"Hi!" She said cheerfully. She wasn't about to let her dark mood influence her impressions on other people. He stared at her.
"Un." He grunted and nodded his head at her. The man was taller than her with dark chocolate eyes and short brown hair. He looked to be in his 20's.
"Watch where you're going! You nearly ran me over!" He yelled with a scowl plastered on his face.
"Well you shouldn't have been crossing the road without looking! I'm sure you heard me coming!" Meika retorted. "Who are you anyhow?"
"That's not your concern." The young man proceeded to cross the road . Suddenly, he shouted in surprise and disappeared from sight. Meika raised her eyebrow. She walked her motorcycle to the side of the road and looked down. The man was lying at the bottom of a steep hill. Apparently he'd not realized that the hill was so steep. It was covered in snow, so maybe it had blended into the landscape beyond.
"Hey! Are you okay?" Meika yelled down. When she didn't get an answer she yelled again. He remained silent. Meika figured she'd drive down to check on him. She proceeded down a road that got her down the hill then she u-turned, driving slowly to where the stranger was. He hadn't moved. Meika parked the 'cycle and knelt beside him, the snow freezing her uncovered legs.
"Hey, are you hurt?" she asked. When he saw her, he stirred, and sat up quickly.
"I'm fine just leave me be."However, she noticed he was cradling his left arm.
"Yeah right." Meika noticed the tempture had dropped and she shivered noticeably. Night would soon fall and she could feel a storm coming. Standing up, Meika offered to help him, but he refused her hand standing on his own.
"Are you close to where you're going? Its gonna get cold." The man shook his head no. "Then hop on my motorcycle and I'll take you to your destination." Again he refused.
"You're awfully stubborn." She joked. The man stared at her expressionless. Meika sighed.
"You can't stay the night out here. You'll freeze to death!" She pointed out. He said nothing. "Oh boy." She said to herself exasperated. She heard a small laugh, sounding if there had been an attempt to hold it back. She turned but the man's mouth didn't hold a hint of the sound she heard, but his eyes were laughing. Meika scowled half-heartedly, then smiled.
"Where are you headed?" He asked her. She shrugged.
"Anywhere except Haru Pilot Academy." The man decided not to ask why she was avoiding that place. Meika looked to the sky, it was darkening fast and the tempture was plummeting. Shivering she glanced at the man.
"Are you sure you don't want a ride? It's freezing and it hasn't even hit rock bottom yet." He studied her for a moment, noticing a small blush appear on her cheeks as he studied her. Finally he nodded, agreeing to go with her.
"Good." Meika turned to her bike when a strong gust of wind whistled around them. It left a fog so thick that Meika couldn't see the man.
"Where are you?" She called. The stranger answered by placing his hand softly on her shoulder. She grabbed his hand and proceeded to lead him to where she thought the motorcycle was. She found it by banging her shin hard against the back tire. She climbed on and helped the other onto the bike, being careful not to injure his arm more. She then revved up the engine and pulled up the kickstand.
"You can drive in this?" He asked. Meika turned and grinned at him.
"Not really, but at least we'll be moving. Where are you headed?" she asked.
"To a hanger 180 miles south of the boarding school." Meika blinked at him.
"Why didn't you get a bus, or a cab, to take you there?"She wondered.
"Didn't want the public knowing where it was." Meika shrugged and moved the bike a few feet up the hill to the road.
"And you trust me?"
"Do I have a choice?" The stranger answered. Meika grinned to herself.
"No. Not really, unless you want to die out here." She got the bike moving down the road and sped up.
Around two hours later, the bike hit a rut in the road, sending Meika scrambling to get it under control. The motorcycle was fishtailing and swerving on the icy gravel. The man wrapped his good arm around Meika for the first time since they started their journey as Meika desperately tried to keep them from falling. It was no use, the bike hit another rut and the cycle with its passengers was sent cart wheeling over the rail guard and down the hill. Meika was glad when the bike hit the bottom and stopped flipping. Meika had landed a few feet from the bike but her passenger's legs were trapped underneath it, and it was slowly sliding closer to his head as he was attempting to escape from beneath it. Meika grabbed him and pulled him out from under the bike before it fell any farther. She helped him to his feet and sighed.
"Geez, were in a pinch now. I can't turn that thing over and you can't help me with your arm like that. Speaking of which, let me take a look at it." He cautiously held out his injured arm to her and Meika inspected it. It wasn't broken, but it was swelling around his elbow. He had sprained it at the least. Meika frowned thoughtfully. He put his arm back down to his side as Meika pulled her duffel bag from under the motorcycle.
She sat down on the snow and looked though her bag. Finding the first aid kit she pulled the gauze out and rummaged around the snow for two sticks. When she found them she motioned for the stranger to sit down across from her, which he did. She piled some snow and ice into a plastic bag and put it on his elbow to keep the swelling down. Then she gently extended his arm and used the two sticks as a brace and wrapped the gauze around them to keep his arm from moving. He watched her quietly as she moved to the deep scratch on his shoulder. Her touch was gentle and he found that it calmed him.
"What your name?" he asked, almost startling Meika into dropping the disinfectant. She glanced at him briefly and smiled.
"Meika, Meika Hou. And you? Or are you still not telling me?" She giggled lightly causing a small smile to appear on his face.
"I can tell you, seeing as you were going to give me a ride to the hanger anyways. I'm Heero Yuy." He said, making Meika smile happily.
The tempture was incredibly cold as Meika cleaned up the supplies and put them away in the duffel bag. She pulled down an overhanging pine branch and tied it with rope to the tree trunk, fashioning a slight over hang. She did this several times until there was little chance of snow getting on their heads. She pulled others over to make 'walls'. It wasn't warm but if a storm hit they would mostly be safe.
"How do you know to do all this?" Heero asked her, as Meika was fighting with a flint and steel to make a small fire.
"Survival training at the academy." A shower of sparks started the fire and Meika swiftly fed it some small twigs to get it going. When the fire was large enough, she sat back against the tree trunk. The warmth from the flames melted away the chill of the snowy climate.
"We must be pretty high in the mountain for it to be this cold." Meika observed, warming her hands. Heero nodded. Meika shivered in her tank top and skirt. Though her boots kept her feet and lower legs warm, the rest of her was freezing. The fire was helping but it would be awhile before she warmed up enough to sleep. She was envious of Heero, he was wearing jeans, a tank top, and a jacket. She closed her eyes and sighed. After a few moments she felt something warm across her shoulders and looked up. She found Heero's jacket wrapped around her, but when she looked over at him, she couldn't even tell that he had moved, he was looking away from her, his features impassive. A slight blush crept over her cheeks as she pulled the jacket closer to her.
"Thank you." Meika said. The only response she got was a slight nod from the boy next to her. She smiled. It was going to be a long night.