Petite Rebel 8/12

[Little Green Miko]

Chapter Eight: The New White Fang Attacks

In another part of the Sanq?s palace, two figures stood; conversing in the massive office that was Relena?s. Heero looked at the woman standing in front of the huge window, one hand gracefully holding back a heavy deep purple curtain that was obscuring her view. She turned then to look at Heero. ?It?s been just four days Heero. She just barely got here and you?re asking her to fight with us? I just don?t know if that?s the right thing to do.?

?What other choices are left? Her kidnapping in the first place over two years ago was what triggered us in knowing. I know she?s got the potential to fight. She was trained that way...? He watched Relena come around the oak desk carefully and sit on the edge.

?I know that Heero, it?s just...After all she?s been through you?d think she wouldn?t want to fight anymore. I know that?s what all of you pilots want. And I, I want peace as well.? She sighed. Heero sat next to her, she gasped and looked up.

?That?s the thing, she doesn?t remember 95% of her life. She only remembers the last two years due to the serum-and it hurts her to try to remember more. This is all she knows...quite like it had been all I had known, and Trowa. We were born into training and fighting tactics-she was as well...All of 18 years ago. And if we use her in battle we have a bigger substantial chance at succeeding and destroying the new White Fang. We all want peace, that?s why we must destroy White Fang again.?

?Yes, we all want peace. Although it never seems to last for long does it? I?m not a very good leader. I wish I was as strong as you Heero. I could run this pacifism and have no worries...? Heero stared at her and then grabbed her hands.

?Don?t ever say that. You are stronger than I will ever be, now don?t make me repeat myself.? Relena smiled a bit then it faded as she looked out the window.

?More mobile suits are moving in on the front, aren?t they? They?ll be here within a couple hours won?t they??

Heero made no reply. She looked back at him.

?And what of Duo? He does not wish Hilde to fight. He lost her nearly twice now Heero, what of that?? Heero looked out the window now.

?Duo is a fool.?

?What?!?

?He has been blind for far to long. For four years to be exact.?

?What are you talking about??

?It was quite apparent when he brought the girl in from the attack before Libra that he had strong feelings for her. I couldn?t discern them then. They might have been deep fear, devotion, love...Either way he obviously had no knowledge of how deep those feelings ran, and they just resurfaced and exploded when she came back after being kidnapped-so now he knows.?

Relena was silent for a moment, she looked at Heero again and pressed her lips together, pushing a lock of hair from her face. ?How do you know this??

Heero glanced back at the girl sitting on the oak desk. ?He told me what happened downstairs after the Mobile Suit testing I had with Hilde. He?s in his room now, lamenting and meditating on his rash actions with her when it happened.? He peered at her for a longer thoughtful moment then added, ?It?s blinding him. He?s lost sight of our major objective to destroy White Fang. I would ask to quarantine him, but we need all the men we can spare in these battles. The ultimate soldier serum given to these soldiers is much more then we expected.?

?So Hilde will fight.?

?She has no other choice. Unless she wishes to go back to White Fang.?

The door had opened then, and closed quietly. The tall figure outline of Milliardo Peacecraft, better known as Zechs Merquise, stood by and by behind the couple in front of the window. ?But we can not allow that to happen, now can we, Heero Yuy?? He asked. Heero spun around and Relena?s head snapped to attention. Heero?s eyes and brows narrowed at the man with white-blonde hair. Heero did not let his deep-seated distaste for Relena?s brother get the better of him.

?What do you want, Zechs?? He asked.

?How rude. Before I state my business; answer me this: What will we do if the young Hilde wants to go back to the White Fang? We have no power to stop her in her quest. She beat you, I hear, in a Mobile Suit battle earlier this morning. And the infamous Chang Wufei at his own sword plays yesterday morning. She is clearly the better soldier.? He said eyeing Heero.

?Please do not fight in this room.? Relena said wearily resting her head in her palms.

?I had no intention of doing such a thing, Relena. I only wished to know how we would be able to stop Miss Schibecker from leaving the premises.? Zechs stated, still eyeing the young boy.

?Hope is all we can count on, Zechs.? Heero responded monotone. ?You are right that we can not let her leave, she knows far too much and it would be a threat to everything Relena has worked for as well as a tremendous threat to all of our lives. But I do not know how we could keep her here, hope is all we can use.?

?Hn.? Zechs replied.

?You said you were here for other business as well Milliardo, pray tell what is it?? Relena asked looking up.

?I came to inform Commander Yuy, that Mobile Suits and Dolls have arrived on the horizon. They have been confirmed as White Fang Leo and Taurus suits. About 1,000 of them in all. We need to get out there and destroy them before the Sanq goes up in flames for a third time.? Zechs answered.

Relena gasped and Heero?s eyes went wide. ?Hit the code red!? He called to Relena as he and Zechs bolted from the room.

Relena immediately ran behind her desk and hit a button. Sirens went up in the entire kingdom, warning anyone and every one of the impending dangers and any soldier with a mobile suit that it was time for a battle. The intercom flew up and Noin?s voice penetrated the ears of all soldiers who could listen. ?ATTACK ON THE SANQ! ALL SOLDIERS TO HANGER BAY 1-6 AND 9 PREPARE FOR BATTLE! REPEAT: ATTACK ON THE SANQ! ALL SOLDIERS TO HANGER BAY 1-6 AND 9 PREPARE FOR BATTLE!? There was a tremendous explosion of people in Sanq uniforms running to the hanger bays to get mechas and await the orders of Lt. Noin.

Hilde heard the call for arms and her head popped out of the room, her brow furrowed. Soldiers that had been standing guard in the halls hurried to the mobile suit bays. She came out, she was in a uniform as well. She hurried along with the soldiers, seeking out a specific MS hanger. ?One through six and nine,? she thought as she ran. ?That means that all five Gundam pilots, Peacecraft?s brother, Zechs-or Milliardo...whichever, and the woman Lieutenant, Lucrezia Noin are going into battle with their troops. I must find bay 1, the Wing Gundam will be in it and I must see Heero.? With this goal in mind she rushed along with the troops and followed them till they came to the Mobile Suit hanger bays.

She went with the troops that went toward the garage door with the 1 next to it and hurried past them all in. She frantically searched around and spotted Wing Zero standing alone in all its glory above the rest of the suits. It was having wires yanked from it in the preparation for the coming battle. She stared at it, it was grander then she had imagined. This was the infamous Wing Gundam that did so many terrible and great things during the Federation war in A.C. 195-196. It was a magnificent piece of machinery art.

Her gaze quickly broke from the massive humanoid suit as she spotted Heero riding up an elevator to get to its cockpit. Her brow furrowed again and not caring of the danger that faced her, she ran up to the scaffolding and fast as lightning climbed the 12 meter rods of metal to where the cock-pit of the suit was. ?Heero Yuy!? She called out as she reached her destination.

Heero looked up instantly, stunned for a moment that someone had come up behind him. But within a blink of the eye his surprise ceased to be on his face and he stared at Hilde. He stood up removing his foot from entering the cramped space of the cockpit. ?Hilde?? He asked.

?Heero, I have decided.? His brow arched. ?I will fight with you. I have no use for the White Fang even if they have one for me.?

He looked at her with a drawn face. ?What made you change your mind?? He asked monotone once again. Her face was an emotionless one as well, she threw back her white bangs and one word, or name answered his question.

?Trowa.?

Heero nodded. ?Good. We could really use you, these ultimate soldiers of White Fang?s have taken many of our men?s lives already. A few more battles and we would have lost.?

Hilde nodded and turned to jump off. Heero grabbed her arm before she did. She gasped and hot flashes of Duo came back, but were instantly gone as he said her name instead. ?Hilde,-? She turned to face him. He pulled her close, their noses nearly touching, she could feel his breath on her cheeks. ?Thank You.? He said and let her go turning himself and getting into Wing Zero. Hilde stared after him bewilderment etched on her face, she turned then and leapt off the scaffolding to find herself a Mobile Suit to fight in wondering what the hell he?d meant by that.

She ran through the Bay 1 doors and quickly found another elevator, she had to find a mobile suit and fast. Looking at the floor choices on the elevators button board-she took note that it only listed for bays 1-6 and 9. 7 and 8 were missing. She searched the board until she uncovered a little flat covering, behind it were the two buttons 7 and 8.

She reached out a slim finger and pressed the 8 button. There was a creak and the doors shut on her; the elevator began to go down.

When the doors to the elevator slid open and Hilde pushed the white locks of hair from her face as she poked her head out and peered around. It was dark, and smelled of oil. She quickly stepped out and pulled a flashlight. Looking around it was another hanger but with only one mobile suit in it. ?Good enough.? She thought and ran to the scaffolding controls to remove them to make it possible to get the suit out. Loud creaking was heard as the scaffolding moved on its tracks and aside, the lights in the hanger switched on revealing a beautifully crafted red and black suit. Hilde stared at it and then quickly pulled up the suit?s stats.

?Hmm... Two times Vulcan cannons, four plus stealth mechanism, an energy beam glaive-beam cannon. This baby is loaded.? She said to herself. Switching off the computer, up above her she heard the roar of the other suits leaving base. She ran to the mysterious suit and climbed up into it, strapping herself into the cockpit she flipped the switch. The engine hummed and roared to life below her. The eyes began to glow an iridescent blue color; she took to the controls and made it stand. ?Smooth...All right, lets see what you?ve got.? She muttered to it as she flexed it?s large metallic fingers and extended the beam glaive that glowed electric blue. The doors to the hanger creaked open and revealed an opening out of a mountainside. She grinned maniacally and hit the thrusters and flew off in the direction of the New White Fang

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Six magnificent Gundams flew in to join a battle already in progress. The Wing Zero, the DeathScythe, the HeavyArms, the SandRock, the Nataku, and the Tallgeese; these had been the hope for peace during the war between the colonies and the Earth. Now once again another evil calls them into need reborn.

?All right, we?ll take this out with as little bloodshed as possible.? Heero pulled up a link and ordered his troops out. ?Duo, you take the right flanks,?

?Gotcha!?

?Trowa, you take the left-?

?On it.?

?Quatre, you take what you can of the above troops.?

?Whatever you say.?

?Wufei, you and your brigade try to get behind them and get a back attack,?

?Hn...This better work.?

?Zechs-You take your troops and Noin to the sea faring troops, and try to stop them from coming to port. I?ll take my regiment and go for a frontal.?

?Right...listening to Yuy?s orders grr...?

?Zechs Merquise! Just do as the boy asks!?

?Hnm...Yes Noin...?

?All right, go!?

On the other side sat the White Fang?s commander, in a white suit with gold lining. She leaned on the control panel of the cockpit and watched the Sanq?s attempts to fend off her troops. She laughed quietly to herself. ?Oh my, Mr. Yuy, you should know it?s quite useless to even try this. My ultimate soldiers can out do your flanks any day. But I cannot kill such a beautiful face.? She smirked evilly. ?But, you know I will kill you. I?d take you for my own plaything. Erase your memory like I did to my darling Hilderine and have you for myself, if you were not enamored with that Peacecraft woman. Relena doesn?t deserve you; of course soon she will be of no consequence anyway. Once we?re through here. I?ll have my precious secret weapon, Hilde, back and Relena will be dead, and we will take over the Earth Sphere Alliance. I?ll rule as Queen. Ooo, what fun!? She laughed again and watched the battle press on. She had given strict orders for them to kill all the pilots. No one questioned why. No one knew the commander had an ulterior motive for killing Relena, so for now she just sat and watched the battle grinning as she fantasized about her victory.

Heero made shot after shot fly at the suits that surrounded him. His flanks were nearly gone, these people could move like water in these suits. Another one came up behind him; he quickly spun to whap it away with the butt of his beam cannon. But the suit was faster and it dodged, he missed and because of that lost his balance. Wing Zero tumbled away sideways and hit the ground with an enormous THUD that caused the very ground to shake.

?Wha-?? He got Zero to sit up, and blocked an oncoming barrage from the opposing suit just in time. Wing Zero?s foot went into the enemy suit?s torso and its hands grabbed the other suits forearms. Heero made a motion on his controls and flipped the opposite suit off of him and upside down to the ground on the other side. The suit fast as lightning put it?s thrusters up and turned right side up, and hovered there. Heero made a grab for his beam saber and went for its head, but it was far to quick and dodged all his moves. The enemy lifted up a gigantic metal foot then and kicked Wing Zero back. Heero lost his balance again and fell backward, loosing orientation. He lay there and the other suit?s pilot took it upon himself to put a foot on Zero?s torso and point his own saber at Zero?s cockpit opening.

Everyone else seemed to be in a slightly similar predicament. The ultimate soldiers proved their names and took nearly all the pilots and their troops to lunch. Wufei was even flailing at the superiority of the ultimate White Fang soldiers. The suit he was fighting with his Nataku was far too fast in its movements, and it?s pilots skills were beyond compare. Every move Wufei made, it some how predicted and either dodged or countered it with something better. Wufei took up his trident and made a swirling hit to the back of the enemy suit but the enemy suit ducked and went between Nataku?s legs and lifted him up letting the great machine fall head first to the ground, scrambling some circuits in it?s head.

?Shit, my vision is screwed.? Wufei hissed to himself. He stood up and used his extending arm and tried to hit the opposed suit square in the middle. Surprisingly the other suit grabbed the arm instead and took to using it against Wufei. ?What the-hell?!? He cried as the opposite suit sent the arm back at him, making Nataku hit itself instead. The opposite suit jumped behind and took Nataku by the neck and made ready to slash it through the center where it would explode.

HeavyArms stood at a face off. Most of Trowa?s troops had been blown to uselessness and the ones that hadn?t were fighting off the leader of this squadron's troops, so now it was just him and the apparent leader. With mostly only ammo to get him through battles, Trowa knew this wouldn?t last long. He sighed and watched the other suit precariously. With a sudden flick of his wrist HeavyArms? chest plate opened up and revealed the concealed machine guns. Pulling out the hand held machine gun he pointed at the other suit and without warning opened fire on it. This suit dodged all his attacks with equal grace and ease as all the others.

It leapt behind Trowa?s line of fire and tripped the mighty suit with its whip, causing Trowa?s HeavyArms to loose itself and stumble forward in attempt to not fall. The torso flew around to fire again at the attacking suit but the suit moved like sound and jumped up with it?s whip bared, brandishing it and then whirling it about HeavyArms? head, and holding him there, he snapped it off-cutting all communications for Trowa.

?This is bad...? Trowa whipped around tripping the other suit up, but the other suit had already leapt away and made to have it?s whip encircle HeavyArms? waist and snap the area with the cockpit into two pieces.

Zechs and Noin were having no less trouble. Even though they were paired up with equal fighting skills, it was not helping them any. One suit was obviously enough to give both of these able pilots lots of trouble. However, working as a team, they lasted much longer then the pilots that were by themselves. ?Noin!? Zechs called out as the suit that was attacking them took a back attack swing at Noin?s white Taurus suit. Zechs used his Tallgeese and rammed the opposing suit away and off of Noin?s back. Her Taurus flipped around to a sitting position.

?Thanks Zechs...? She responded just as she took out her beam cannon- ?Zechs! Don?t move!? She screamed and made a blast at the same suit that?d jumped her and was now jumping the Tallgeese. Zechs stopped dead and Noin?s blast hit dead center, knocking the suit away. The Tallgeese helped up the White Taurus as more suits came up on them. The one Noin had just blast ended had called for backup, and here it was. The two went back to back and began to fend off whom they could, helping each other when needed.

Quatre made a double slice at the suits attacking him. They dodged, and made kicks at his suit to make it fall. He jumped up and spun kicked the suits? heads, making an oval slice with his sickles. SandRock?s feet hit, but his razor sharp sickles missed and one of the suits pulled him down and to the ground with a huge shudder resounding from the force of the collapse. One of his sickles snapped. ?I?m not going to last much longer...? he panted as he whipped his unbroken sickle around to slice at the feet of the other suits making his Gundam creep to a stand. He made another fatal attempt to slice at the attacking suits but they again got the better of him. One leapt behind the other in front and the one behind held the SandRock as the suit in front pulled out its beam saber and made to slice straight through the cockpit again, like all the rest. SandRock struggled against the hold, but it was running out of energy and Quatre was running out of steam. ?Not even Heero?s zero system can help us now...? He thought as the beam saber came ever closer to the cockpit.

Duo took up to slicing at another suit. It dodged and came up behind him hitting the back of DeathScythe?s neck, causing the great machine to stumble and nearly fall. ?Damn! These shits play dirty!? He hissed rubbing his forehead that had just been bloodied by it hitting the controls in front of him. He quickly took the controls and spun DeathScythe around to block an oncoming onslaught from the suit that had knocked his suit off balance. The beam saber that clashed down on him nearly sliced through his beam scythe?s pole; he threw the offender off with a mighty thrust and picked himself up off the ground. ?You bitch!? He screamed and hauled off after the suit. But the suit was faster, quicker in it?s responses and movements, avoiding all his attempts to slice it to kingdom come with seemingly controlled ease.

Duo stopped near it then, it hovered in the air just near him. He looked at it and his beam scythe scraped the ground as he sat in the cockpit. Sweating and panting, he watched as the enemy suit lifted it?s massive hand and it transformed into a machine gun, about to blow DeathScythe?s face off. ?These things-they can?t have humans in them...They?re too fast-too skilled. They have to be mobile dolls...This is impossible.?

A COM opened up then to all the suits; a female face with ice cold blue eyes stared at them all and smiled an evil twisted glint. ?I?m sorry Duo, but you are wrong. These are not mobile dolls they are people. These are my ultimate soldiers, and it appears they have out done even the legendary Gundam pilots.? There was slight laughter from voices not recognizable to any Sanq kingdom soldier, but the voice of the woman was familiar.

?Bitch!? Wufei?s voice called out from somewhere.

?Tsk, tsk, tsk...Now, now, no need for such vulgar language Wufei my dear. We are here on the pretexts of killing Miss Relena Darlian Peacecraft and taking back what is rightfully ours. Three things actually.? The woman smiled and sat back in the shadowy confines of her mobile suit. ?With the exception of Heero Yuy, kill them all.? She waved her hand and the link went dead.

?What?! What does she want with Heero?? Duo asked. ?Heero! Heero! You there?? He tried contacting the Wing Zero, but all there was, was static. Duo looked up at the suit hovering near him and could feel the insane grin of the pilot inside as he or she peered upon the DeathScythe. ?God help us...? He mouthed as the suit opened fire to blast Duo back to Hell.

But the blast never came. Instead there was a muffled scream and a yell of- ?what the fuck-?! What-who is that?!? Then an explosion and nothing. Duo chanced to open his eyes, and saw the wreckage of the mobile suit and suits around him and nothing else. All around him he heard the same screams, and heard someone yell ?there?s something on my radar-but it?s moving at the speed of LigAAGH!?

The COM link shot open again, and the woman?s voice blared out. ?It?s her! Retreat for now! We know she?s here now! Retreat!? And the few White Fang suits that were left after the fast as light attack left with great speed, and the Gundam pilots were left alone with whoever had helped.

Suddenly all around the Gundam pilots there were White Fang mobile suit wreckages. No one of them seemed to be left. SandRock stood up, Nataku regained balance and stood, DeathScythe stood up to full height, the Tallgeese and Noin?s white Taurus stood and looked around. And lo and behold, there in front of the HeavyArms suit, removing an electric blue beam glaive from the suit that had been about to kill Trowa was a magnificent black and red mobile suit, that of which none of the pilots had ever seen before. The strange mobile suit turned to HeavyArms and helped the gun armored suit to its feet. Quatre?s face popped up on the vid-links all around, as did the rest of the pilots faces, they all looked into the strange suit?s cockpit to see who had been so fast and so quick as to destroy all these suits in less then ten seconds. ?Thank you stranger, for helping us when we were in need.? Quatre said, his diplomatic side taking over so as to become friends with this pilot.

The pilot leaned forward exposing her face to the glow of the cockpit lights, her white hair a greenish color do to the dim lighting, and her green eyes, greener than ever. ?No need Quatre.? She said in her masculine like voice. ?I would have done it anyway.?

They all bit back a gasp as Hilde revealed she was the one in the suit that none had ever set eyes on. Duo bit back the biggest gasp of them all. ?Hilde...? He hissed. Hilde?s sharp green eyes turned to Duo?s vid-link picture and narrowed at him.

?I told you; you couldn?t stop me Duo.? She growled at him. ?I?m as much a part of this war as you are, maybe even more so. But as it stands, I cannot just sit back and watch you get obliterated by the White Fang while I have the power to stop them. They know I?m here now...But I feel like I can take them with your guys? help- Trowa helped me understand that I can?t rely on myself all the time.? Duo said nothing and looked down at his controls, gripping and un-gripping them tightly in his palms. Hilde?s eyes then softened at him. ?Will you help me?? She asked. ?Help me get rid of the White Fang-for Relena?s sake of peace if not for the sake of mine?? Duo looked up at her, with little rivulets of tears traveling down his face. He said nothing but nodded solemnly. She smiled at him and then turned to the rest-and stopped.

?What?s the matter Hilde?? Trowa asked when he saw her stop dead.

?Where is Heero?? She asked, once again devoid of emotion.

This sent up a royal ruckus. Everyone leapt from their suits and searched the wreckages for any sign of the stoic boy. Duo and Hilde found the Wing Zero, lying motionless on the ground. ?Oh my god...? Hilde hissed. ?Duo-get everyone else.?

?Holy shit...he can?t be dead...he just can?t. He?s the perfect soldier...? Duo muttered. He then turned and yelled as loud as he could for everyone to come quick, they?d found the Zero.

Hilde, Duo and Trowa climbed to the suit?s cockpit and all together ripped open the door while everyone else checked the surrounding area in case he?d flown the coop. Dropping into the cockpit, Trowa felt about and found a limp body inside. ?Heero...? He whispered and bent down undoing the clasps about his torso to free him from the confines of the chair straps. ?Help me here.? He called up to the other two and they lifted him out. Unconscious as he was, he was covered in blood. Hilde tenderly laid him out on Wing Zero and kneeled next to him, placing her hand on his throat checking for a pulse just as Quatre came up panting behind them with Wufei, Zechs and Noin in tow to report that they had found nothing.

?Oh good Allah!? Quatre cried out instead when he saw the unconscious Heero and Hilde over him. ?What happened??

Hilde looked up sharply, her eyes burrowing into whomever they came across. ?He is alive-but not for long if we don?t get him back to base...? She said quickly and stood up. She looked at Duo and he nodded vaguely and stooped to pick the boy up in his arms.

?All right everyone, back to the Sanq!? She called and they all leapt off the suit and headed to their own. She stopped Trowa and Wufei. ?Could you two manage to carry the Wing Zero back between you? The last thing we need is for the White Fang to get a hold of the strongest of our Gundams.?

They both nodded at her and headed to their suits and prepared to tow the Wing Zero back to the Sanq?s mobile suit hangers.

~*~Chap. 8 fin.~*~