This was gonna be apart of chapter one, but It was lengthy enough to make it a separate chapter. Again, don't own the Gundam Franchise.
Lacus was crawled up in a ball in the corner of the dark room her capture threw her in. Her hair was disheveled and tears continued to slide down the sides of her cheeks. She had been blind folded, her hands were tied behind her back since her ordeal began. Lacus was weak, her head throbbed, her leg hurt, and she could feel blood trickle down the side of her thigh.
Trying to ease her mind off the pain, Lacus began to think of how the situation started. Landing at the airport, she was separated from her father and placed in another vehicle in the convoy, for her own protection and safety apparently. The black four-door SUV she was in was a vehicle behind her father's, vehicle-four of the five-vehicle convoy. The convoy moved out of the airport with haste, hopping onto the highway at combat speed.
An Up-armored Humvee took the lead with Siegel Clyne's SUV following behind it. A second Humvee took position in the center, while one trailed behind Lacus' SUV. The vehicles were spaced out 50 meters apart, traveling at roughly 45 MPH. Everything seemed to be alright during the drive to Camp Freedom, until the gun truck in front of her SUV disappeared in a massive fireball.
"IED! IED! IED! Victor-Three is down!" Riding shotgun, the Convoy Commander, Commander Le Creuset, shouted into radio. The convoy screeched to a halt, as Lacus looked around and stared at the faces of her stone faced protectors. Looking over his shoulder Le Creuset barked instructions at the Soldier to Lacus' left. "Koenig, go ahead and dismount." Lacus looked over at the Soldier as he nodded and exited the vehicle, slamming the door behind him shut. Koenig brought his rifle up to his shoulder and rested his creek on the buttstock, his eyes looking down the sight of his weapon. He surveyed the immediate area and cautiously advanced away from the SUV. Movement attracted Lacus' attention back to the front of the vehicle as Le Creuset reached into the glove box and unfolded a chart of some sort.
Looking out the front windshield, Lacus could see at a distance Soldiers pulling out the wounded from the burning vehicle in front of them. "Freedom-Six… This is Justice-Three, over." Lacus tensed up at the Convoy Commander's voice. Becoming more aware and more afraid of the situation, something in her screamed that something wasn't right.
"Freedom-Six, our convoy just took a hit from an IED." Looking at the Commander, Lacus caught movement at the side of her peripheral vision. " We're currently on grid Echo Hotel One Zero Zero Five, Three…". Le Creuset never finished his sentence as he was enveloped in a flash of light. Lacus felt the heat of the blast as the SUV was flipped onto it's roof from force of the explosion.
Disoriented, Lacus faded in and out of consciousness. 'whats… happening?' She remembered being gently pulled from the vehicle and carried away from the SUV. Hearing muffled pops in the distance, Lacus tried to make sense of the situation 'is that, gunfire?'. She was gently laid on the ground as the Soldier who carried her took up a kneeling position, his attention on the people behind him. Lacus looked at the muzzle of his rifle, but shut her eyes from the flash that emitted from it.
The gunshots snapped her out of her Daze as the Soldier's yells brought her back to the reality of her situation. "Are you Alright?" Lacus glanced at the Soldier and realized it was Koenig, the soldier who dismounted earlier. Lacus attempted to prop herself onto her elbows, but was knocked back down her rescuer, who jumped on top of her. "Get down!" Koenig yelled as the dirt around them exploded around them. Whining noises from the bullets tearing though the air filled Lacus' ears. Sensing their dire situation, The brown haired soldier rolled off of her and propped himself on his elbows, his rifle pointed at the origin of the gunfire.
Lacus quickly muffled her ears with her hands as Koenig returned fire. "Shit! Shit! We need to get out here!" Lacus looked at the determined face of the young soldier as he locked eyes with hers. His voice softened up, attempting to ease the terrified girl. "Do you think you can run…" Like a punctuation mark ending his sentence, Koenig was cut off, a round penetrated the side of his skull. His eyes, still locked onto Lacus', went glossy as his head plopped on the ground, blood pooling around the top of his head. Lacus snapped her eyes shut and let out a horrified scream.
Hearing foot steps and yelling in a foreign tongue, Lacus opened her eyes as the convoy's attackers encircled her. Still disoriented, she glanced up at her impending captors. One of them chuckled and spoke in his native language towards his comrades. Quickly, they swarmed around her, bounding her hands and blindfolding her. Lacus started to scream, but was quickly silenced by the butt of a rifle to the side of the head.
Once again, she faded in and out of consciousness. She remembered hearing laughs and the hum of an engine. She heard echoes as she was carried though a hall. She smelled a distinct odor, something strong like ammonia. Most of all, she remembered being dropped like a rag doll onto the cold wet floor of the room she was in now.
Lacus' thoughts were brought back to the present when she heard footsteps and talking just outside the door. 'I wanna go home… I wanna go home". Fresh tears rolled down the side of Lacus' face as she broke into a sob. Her whimpers slowed when she heard a faint hum in the distance. The sounds was almost inaudible, but Lacus tuned into it like her life depended on it. Very slowly, it grew stronger and stronger, but it was still very faint. 'What is that?' Lacus wondered as she tried to identify the sound. Soon, the weak hum became a distinct oscillating thump. It was the whirling blades of a helicopter.
A/N - I f*ckin hate IED's.