Chapter 12 Bitter Bonds Leads to Treason

Rio sat up, his nose was throbbing, but thanked his morpher ability because it could have been a whole lot worse. He smelt the dry and stale blood. Raheb walked in, "Good to see your awake." He shot a glare at Raheb, "Calm down. What has your panties in a twist?" Rio cocked an eyebrow, "Boss spends waaayyyy to much time in here if your starting to use her phrases." He chuckled, "Well when you mix someone as mule headed as A.D. in a situation with explosives, of course she's going to wind up in here." Raheb sighed, "You must have faith."

"Faith in what?"

"That A.D. will come back. Wither it is in one piece or several pieces is up to her. But she will come back to you."

"Why me?"

"I maybe old, but I'm far from stupid. I've seen the way you look at her."

"But she doesn't even acknowledge my presents most of the time."

"There are many layers to A.D..Remember she didn't have a childhood like you did. She grew up having to have a very hard exterior. Because if she didn't, do you think she'd be around?"

Butch was writing several notes to self. One being blowing A.D. up himself if she ever got the bright idea to do this ever again. He wasn't made for these situations. He was meant to calm A.D. down when she was throwing a temper tantrum or when she was chewing on heads. But never in his wildest dreams did he ever believe he would be in a mess like this. The base had been underground for several hours. No one came in, no one left. And Butch had a feeling that the situation wouldn't blow over. In fact when A.D. threw a temper tantrum when she had her weapons seized, well that was going to appear cleaner than this situation. It was going to be a full on bloody mess, with heads every where.

Noin entered the room, "I was able to get Relena to sleep." Zechs had his head resting on his hands, "I have never seen her act this way."

"Something happened there, but what?" Une looked at them, "We shouldn't trust the Rebels anymore." Duo held up his hands, "Alright, we all agreed awhile ago, A.D. isn't the most pleasant person to be around, but she set laws. You heard Luna, anyone who disobeys will end up dead. They won't come near us." Une crossed her arms, "If they get fed up enough with us, there will be a coup."

"I honestly don't think that. They'd have to be insane to trample on that psyco's toes."

"But she's dead." Heero snorted, "Death was always D's prized possession. He figured out that even with the majority of her bones broken and severe blood loss, she was far from dying. She's almost vertually immortal. If anything she's probably digging herself out. Death isn't the one to throw in the towel and quit. The only time she'd do that is if she had your head in her hand. Than maybe she'd retreat."

"How do you know so much about her?"

"D would test new drugs on her. He wanted to see how they affected her when she was normal, and when she was ready to kill. Him and J used to pin me and her against each other."

"Why are you still alive? She could have killed you."

"She always had a collar on. He was able to subdue her. A few times through, she did move in for the final blow. If he realized what he does now the power she holds, he would have killed her himself." He looked at Une, "I agree with Maxwell. As long as there is some fear that she'll come back and start taking heads, no one will harm Relena."

"How can you be certain of that?"

"You've never seen her truly pissed have you? Ask D about the time he restricted her movements and refused to let her leave. Ask him why he can't see out of his left eye."

Rio came into the room and Butch looked at him, "Not taking revenge?"

"And what? Get sent to my ass again by Luna? Besides I don't make it a habit of hitting women." Butch just grunted at that. Rio crossed his arms, "What's the status?"

"Boss is still gone. And Relena is wearing out her welcome quickly."

"We need them to understand."

"No. Relena needs a reality check. I mean we didn't get turned because our lives got boaring or dull. Hell I prefer my old life, at least it was predictable!"

"What should we do?"

"Secure the area Boss was in and start digging and pray that we find her or find her trail."

"Alpha Squads A and B should be able to take care of that, they are the best."

"But how do we get them out. We're underground, and if Boss thought we're going to be under attack, it wouldn't be bright to raise the base."

"I'm sure Boss was up to something, and built a tunnel we have yet to discover. Because if she didn't do something behind out backs, the world would have blown up. And since the planet is still in tacked, she probably did built something."

"Good point. But what about Relena?"

"As long as there is even a sliver of a chance Boss is still alive, they'll behave. Besides not only that we can always put our foot down." Butch did what Rio had suggested. He made Alpha teams aware and gave the orders to shoot anything that moved. Be it a normal bear, or a turned one that was out for a kill. Now all they would have to do is keep Relena on the other side of the base and far away from them. Maybe to help chill her out, send her to the Antartic. Butch smirked at that one. That is what A.D. would definitely do. Butch was right, A.D. had been a busy bee and had made an labyrinth of tunnels. He smirked, not only to throw the enemy off, but to throw him off as well. Well that explained why A.D. managed to disappear and none of them was the wiser. It also explained how she was able to get the material to remake the gundams in and none of them had known. There was a small aircraft hanger and runway. When A.D. put that brain of her's to work, she could accomplish anything. He had a feeling that she wanted them to find this secret tunnel. Sometimes it was nice for someone who didn't listen or obey regulations.