The Petite Rebel 9/12

[Little Green Miko]

Chapter Nine: Hilde?s Heero and The Next Attack

?So Hilderine is there-? Rodney?s voice asked over a vid-link to the commander. The commander leaned back and flipped her hair over her shoulder.

?Yes, she is. Just as I said she would be and she is helping the Peacecraft woman just as predicted as well.?

?Ah, so the next move is the device that I implanted in her head and the control with it.? Rodney said.
The commander nodded. ?Then our colony shall be free of the Sanq?s rule and we can take over from there.? She grinned. ?She was wonderful, even more than perfect. Her speed was that of light and her movements were as smooth and quick as milk. She is the ultimate soldier Rodney; you should get a raise for this.?

?Mm.?

?But as for now, we must set a new plan. A new battle must be set and I should have three times the troops I did this run. The Sanq will fall to my hand and Relena will die at it.? She said. ?Tomorrow we will attack the Sanq with it all, and tomorrow Hilde will be back as us, I will crush the Sanq, kill Relena and her pretty little Gundam pilot protector, Heero Yuy. Ready the troops Mr. Lewis!? She cried and he nodded as the screen went dead leaving her alone again. ?Just you wait...?

~*~

The hanger doors spread open allowing the Gundams and left over Sanq Special forces into the garages. Trowa and Wufei came in and dropped the majestic Wing Zero onto the concrete floor of the hangers. Immediately mechanics got to work on all the damage that had been done to the suits during the battle, and the pilots leapt out to the floors with all their grace, landing on their feet, Duo clutching the unconscious Heero as not to drop him. Hilde meandered with the rest to where Duo stood peering at the perfect soldier with pure bewilderment etched in his face. ?He?s-really very frail...? He mumbled as Hilde came up to them and placed a hand on Heero?s chest, which was lifting up and down shallowly.

?I know...? She responded, even though she didn?t have a clue how she knew. Somewhere deep inside she?d known that he wasn?t as strong as he appeared. Duo looked at her as Trowa came up behind her and placed a wary hand on her shoulder and Quatre, Wufei, Zechs and Noin joined them, standing around looking at the boy in Duo?s arms, most wondering how he?d managed to get as far as he had.
Heero choked then, and began to hyperventilate, his chest rising and falling quickly, his closed eyes squinting tight as he coughed. Blood fell from his mouth and Hilde took a step back at the sudden movement he?d made. ?Oh shit! Someone get someone here fast!? She cried and quickly covered his mouth up, getting blood on her hand.

?I already called Sally...she should be here any moment.? Quatre said.

?Well she better get her ass here faster! Heero is dying damn it!? Hilde cried.

Just as she yelled this, the doors to the hanger opened and in came Relena-closely followed by Sally with her portable equipment. The tiny crowd parted for them and as Relena saw Heero in Duo?s arms she moved quicker and arrived at his side placing her hands on his pale cheeks. ?Oh Heero...? She whispered, not letting tears escape her blue green eyes. Heero hacked harder then ever, his breath coming faster if possible. She wrapped her arms around the boy and Duo gently placed him down, Relena followed sitting on the floor and cradling Heero to her like a baby. ?Please-don?t die, not now...not when I need you most...? They could hear her whisper into the wild hair as Sally knelt beside them and began to silently check him through.

Hilde couldn?t watch this-it reminded her of something-again... ?Oh god...not again.? She hissed but it was too late, her mind whirled and was full of pictures, times, places, events, a time where-who was that? Her? She saw a girl with raven-blue black hair loose blood and hyperventilate like Heero was...She saw a boy with a braid clutching at her and yelling for-what was he saying, Sally? But it was too much-she blacked out again.

?Hilde!? Duo cried noticing just a bit late as she tumbled backward into oblivion. Last thing she felt was warm arms encircle her to stop her from falling, and bangs lightly brush her cheeks as she drifted away from consciousness.

~*~

She woke up in the room again. By now she had gotten used to seeing the same things above her when she regained thought. She lay there this time, not bothering to move. She was getting awfully sick of blacking out at the most inconvenient moments and all the pictures that plagued her mentally, causing her irritating collapses. She pondered on the visions she?d seen between her conscious and unconscious periods. The most recent had been of a girl, very strikingly like her-and the boy. It had been Duo...She sat up abruptly and grabbed her knees to steady herself. Had that been a past memory?! Something that happened long before she had woken in White Fang?s basement? Why this was just dawning on her now she had not the slightest clue why, but now, there was the possibility, wide open.

?Fuck you Rodney,? she hissed under her breath. ?You lied to me you conceited bastard.? Now as she thought about it, more vague images crawled into her mind. All of the same people from a time she could just barely grasp. The life she had had before the fateful awakening. Suddenly in a flash of hot white light she remembered dim training rooms-long raven-blue-black bangs, sweat, a woman?s voice shouting commands, people called her mother, and two bodies beside her...the persons looked strangely familiar...She slapped her mouth with one of her hands, bringing her quickly out of her reverie. They had been Heero and Trowa! Dear lord! Another memory quickly moved in; she was staring at a beautiful boy, and he at her with the most charmingly innocent, yet enticingly wicked, lopsided grin on his lips and he was slowly pulling down a pair of sunglasses revealing his stunning violet eyes to her. His long roped hair hung wildly over his shoulder, as he stood up to face her. Duo...So they had known each other before.

She mentally slapped herself and broke away; breathing raggedly and harshly, it hurt to remember this...Why? What had Rodney done to her? Her eye flicked open when she haltingly remembered something much more recent, and of a more prominent issue. ?Heero!? She mentally cried, ripping herself from the bed and rushing out into the large empty hallway. What had happened to him? Was he alive? Was he dead? She didn?t know. The flash of the memory burn had put her out, so she never had found out. She burst through the hall and quickly rode the grand staircase railing down and scrambled to the infirmary. She bust in with out breaking a sweat and spotted Heero on a bed in a corner. No one else was in the infirmary, but she entered, slowly and cautiously anyway.

She approached the still boy and carefully sat on the edge of the cot, looking at him. In sleep he looked like he hadn?t the world on his shoulders, instead he looked innocent. Even though he wasn?t. ?Oh Heero,? She whispered ?I?m so sorry...I shouldn?t have come back.? To her surprise Heero?s Prussians opened slightly to look at her under heavily lidded eyes.

?You--remember--?? He asked in a labored whisper.

Hilde bit her lip, and nodded. She couldn?t cry. She felt like she wanted to, but no tears would spill. ?I remember-nearly everything...I remember you and Trowa...and the Oz training-Oh I shouldn?t have come back! You wouldn?t be here in the infirmary and Duo wouldn?t be breaking his heart and Trowa wouldn?t be trying to cope and, and...Oh I shouldn?t have...? He stopped her speaking with a finger to his lips.

?Hilde...it?s good that you came back-Duo would have gone insane if you hadn?t and most probably most of us would be dead after that last battle. I know I can?t go out to the next fight-and I have a favor to ask you...? He grimaced.

?Don?t talk too much!? She hissed. ?I want you to recover.?

Heero smiled a very small smile, reserved for her. ?It?s like having a sister?? he mumbled. Hilde didn?t respond. He sighed a little. ?Hilde pilot the Wing Zero.? She spun and stared at him with large disbelieving eyes.

?What?!?

?I can?t do it-and this war has to end...? He muttered. ?It?s been two years Hilde...it has to end and you?re the only one capable enough to finish it off...Pilot Zero One for me.? Even in his monotone he sounded crazy to her. How could she possibly pilot Wing Zero? Wasn?t the serum enough? The Zero System would send her too far over the edge. She may end up killing those she now chose to protect.

?I-I can?t do that Heero. I?ll go insane.? She told him.

Heero grunted and shifted a bit. ?You can handle it Hilde...I know you can...win this war for me, us. Relena is becoming so tired...She?s so strong, but even she has a limit...? He shut his eyes.

Hilde saw the longing in his face as he said Relena?s name, and sighed, feeling resigned. ?That?s all I?m good for now...winning wars, it?s what the White Fang wanted of me and it?s what they got. The Ultimate Soldier, the perfect human weapon.?

Heero reopened his eyes to look at her and took her hand. ?In their eyes yes, but you?re on the right side now and after this is over you can take your braid-brained boy back home and live peacefully again.?

Hilde glanced at him. ?Home?? The word brought more and new dim memories of a colony in outer space and a run down little house with a junk filled backyard. She dimly began to remember a day when she and that boy with a rope sat on the couch yelling at the TV while a football game played across the screen. She looked at Heero again. ?All right, I?ll do it. You?ve got yourself a pilot, Yuy.?

Heero let the barest smirk cross his features. ?I knew you wouldn?t back down.?

She sighed. ?You?re right-you and I are very, very much alike.? She leaned forward and kissed his forehead and slipped out.

Heero shook his head. ?How a baka like Duo got her is beyond me.? He muttered and rolled over.

She ran up the hall. She had to find Miss Relena. Coming to a double large oak door she knocked. A soft ?Come in.? Resounded from inside and Hilde tentatively opened the door to find the honey blonde leaned forward on her desk her head in her palms.

?Miss Relena?? She asked stepping in and shutting the door. Relena looked up, wiping away stains on her cheeks left by the water rivulets from her aquamarine eyes.

?Miss Hilde-!? She said rather startled, as she quickly stood up.

?No, no, don?t get up...? Hilde admonished. ?You might want to stay seated for this.?

Relena plopped back down again and stared at the slightly older but smaller girl moving silently up to her desk. ?But-you were unconscious, Duo left you in the room-?

Hilde made a slightly disgusted face. ?Yes, well, Duo didn?t stay to make sure I didn?t leave this time did he??

Relena sighed slightly. ?No-none of them could. After they got-? she gulped a bit here ?Heero situated in the infirmary, they were called out to battle again. Zechs and the rest under the command of Lady Une, this was something she had to be in too.?

Hilde?s eyes widened. ?They what?!? She hissed.

?It appears that the White Fang?s new colonel was with the next group trying to attack the Sanq, and they figured that if they brought her down then it?d all be over. Seeing as she is the one who started the new White Fang in the first place.? Relena related lightly tapping an idle pencil on the oak desk.

Hilde?s features hardened a great deal at the mention of the White Fang?s colonel. That woman was the woman who had started it all; she made all the Ultimate soldiers call her ?mother?. The memories of the training with Trowa and Heero came back, people begging ?mother? to let up. To Hilde she was the devil in all its glory. ?Miss Relena I came here to tell you I?m going back out to battle, in Wing Zero.? She said with menace in her face.

Relena looked up suddenly, shocked. ?What? Miss Hilde, you don?t mean that do you? -How-how can you go and battle in Wing Zero??

?I can, and will. This war must end, Miss Relena. You want peace back and I want a life. Ever since White Fang?s experiment on me, I haven?t had one. Two years, Miss Relena, two years without a thought of my own till I escaped and my instincts led me here, and found Duo. Two years since peace obliterated, two years since you?ve been able to rest. It?s time it ended, and I feel I need to end it-and with Wing Zero.? Hilde said earnestly. ?I want to go home, you want your peace, and it has to end.?

Relena looked at her and slowly stood up. ?You?re right, Miss Hilde. It has been far to long. So...this will be the final battle then??

Hilde looked at her with a fire in her eyes, the greenness slowly evaporating into a fresh, glowing pink instead. ?I certainly hope so. The White Fang dies this day.?

Relena nodded and walked up to Hilde extending her hand. Hilde grabbed it, tossing her white bangs back. ?Good luck, Hilde Schibecker. Let peace drive you to victory.?

Hilde nodded. ?You too Miss Relena.? They let go and Hilde made for the door, but before she went out she turned back to the blonde diplomat. ?Go see your Heero. He misses you.? And with that she disappeared behind the doors, leaving Relena slightly baffled.

~*~

When had it ever taken half so long to get down to the hangers and bay 1? Hilde grumbled and kept her feet moving. She felt very impatient. Finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, but really had only been five minutes, the elevator doors slid open and revealed to her eyes the majestic Wing Gundam. She sighed and stepped into the hanger. She approached Wing Zero and pressed a button to allow the guy-wire to descend and for her to get on and shoot up to the cockpit.

She opened it hesitantly, and climbed in, getting a feel for the controls surrounding her. She sighed and used a control to open up the hanger doors. ?Well, here goes nothing.? She mumbled as Wing Zero blared to life, his green eyes glowing brightly and it?s fingers flexing as she made a couple test movements. Once she was satisfied with the mecha?s outlying responses, she revved up the thrusters and shot off toward the new battle. ?Late again,? she mused inwardly as she unsheathed Zero?s beam saber.
~*~

Relena watched the Gundam go from her large picture window and sighed. ?Good luck, and win it for us all, Hilde.? She muttered and turned as Sally came in to give her the update on Heero?s condition.

?He?s alive still. He took really awful hits, but I do believe he?ll pull through. He?s asleep now.? Sally told her.

Relena looked up at her. ?I want to see him.?

Sally smiled. ?This way Miss Relena.? She said and led Relena out the doors and to the infirmary.
Relena entered alone, Sally said she had some things to get from storage. She approached the boy whose eyes immediately flew open when he sensed her. ?Re-lena...? He muttered sounding absolutely miserable to her. She bent next to the cot he was in and placed her hand on his.

?Hilde?s gone.? She mumbled.

?I know, I sent her out.? He said in a whisper.

?Why? She might die out there.?

?No, she won?t.?

?How can you be so sure??

?She exceeds even me in combatant skills.?

?But what if she fouls up??

?Duo and Trowa won?t let her.?

?I hope your right, for everyone?s sake.?

?Peace is left in her hands; she won?t screw up.?

Relena sighed. ?Heero??

He looked at her.

?Do you love her? Ever since she came back-you-I...?

He didn?t smile, but he ran his fingers through her hair. ?Relena, have I not kept my promise I made two years ago about being more open??

?You never answered me then.? She said and looked away.

?I said I?d try, and I have...yes, I love her-?

Relena looked back at him a muted ?I knew it!? In her face, but he stopped her.

?But not like that. That was in the dark past Relena. Now she?s more like a sister.? He sighed not able to get the words he wanted to say out. ?I can?t-really love, and neither can she any more. Rodney Lewis made sure of that.?

?Heero, how can you say that? You?re human and capable of any feeling you want, I thought you had figured that out.? She admonished him.

Heero sighed and shook his head, and sat up, grimacing.

?Oh! Don?t do that! It?ll make it worse!? She tried to push him back, but he grabbed her wrists and pulled her up onto the cot with him. ?Heero?? She asked incredulously.

His rough calloused fingers caressed her cheek as his deep Prussian, ice blue eyes bore into hers with an intensity she?d never witnessed in him. His fingers trailed down lower and her breath caught in her throat. Then slowly, attentively, as if trying it for the first time, he placed his lips on hers. She gasped but slowly she returned it. Her hands snuck around his torso, caressing his bare back and his did the same, lifting up her blouse as he went. His eyes stayed open watching her reaction as his hands explored her and hers him. His hands began to undo her blouse and he lay back taking her with him as light gasps and moans of pleasure came from them both as they explored each other openly for the first time since they had met four years hence.

?Don?t leave me Heero...?

?I?ll try.?

~*~

Duo grunted as the mobile suit slashed at him from behind, being to quick for even his DeathScythe to turn and face off to. He flew forward, and was tripped by the suit he was fighting. ?Shit!? He screamed out just rolling away in time before the saber came down through DeathScythe?s torso. He whirled around only to be slammed down again by the suit as it made to slice off its arms. Duo made an up-cut with DS?s scythe and just missed the opposing suit?s arm. The suit backed off a bit and DS stood up and came at the other suit. It twirled and wound up beside Duo as he came past. The suit stabbed DeathScythe through the head and Duo?s left vision was lost. ?This is not good.? He mumbled as he swung around to face off with it again.

Wufei made his own attempts at killing the suits that he was battling. Using the troops from Noin?s infantry, he attacked with all he could. Four suits came at him at once, sweat poured from his face as he did a triple axle with his Nataku, in a fine but failing attempt to slice through all four with his double ended triton. They all dodged it, jumping back, then as soon as he was done coming at him again. ?AAARGH!? He screamed jumping up into the air, thrusters flaring as the four suits skidded to a halt below him and looked up. He immediately made a downward swoop and came down upon the four with his triton blaring. Again they dodged and one made a sideswipe at his right wing, cutting it in half letting circuitry fly out. ?These men are strong...? He muttered, standing his Nataku up again and making another swipe, barely nipping their balance modulators. They came barreling at him again after this hit and knocked him down on the ground.

Trowa was having problems of his own. The suits he was fighting were sending missile after missile at him, and he was being forced to waste ammo and shoot them all down so they wouldn?t hit him. Quatre had joined him and they were battling the suits to the best of their ability. ?These ones keep you on your toes constantly!? Quatre huffed as he rammed a suit trying to slash it with his sickles but missing entirely because the suit rolled away and up.

?Mm, I don?t know how long we can last. They seem to just keep coming.? Trowa muttered as he made a blow at the closest suit to him with his wrist knife. It dodged. Duo fell into the circle of suits fighting with HeavyArms and SandRock just then, as he kicked the suit on him off, trying desperately to scramble DeathScythe away and out of the line of the suit?s fire.

?This is crazy!? He yelled over the com-link, his braid flying into his face.

Wufei came rolling into the middle of it too, after just managing to throw off two suits that had been on him. ?I hate to say this-but we need help. There is just no beating these men.?

Noin and Zechs were battling to no end as well, this time separated by a long mine of mobile suits-but they could hear the conversations. ?I agree with Wufei,? Noin said as she made a long-range fire at a suit she saw coming at her with her beam cannon. ?But there?s no one left to ask! All the Preventers are here on the battle field, as well as what?s left of the Sanq Special Forces! The way I see it is...we?re sunk.?

?Looks like we?re fighting another loosing battle.? Quatre said with a half smirk as he made another swipe at a suit near Trowa.

?Don?t give up yet, it?s not over till it?s over.? Zechs said spinning and firing another shot at three suits coming up behind him.

?It?ll be over soon!? Duo muttered. ?Heero couldn?t beat these guys-he is in the hospital because of them, and we all nearly died ourselves! What could we do?? He grunted being shoved backward in his suit and hitting his head on the backboard.

Trowa shot down the suit that attacked DeathScythe, actually hitting it. It flew back sideways and he thought of something. ?We can?t defeat these guys on our own.? He said firing again at the suit he?d hit as it tried to regain balance.

?No, really?? Duo yelled sarcastically, slicing at another suit.

?Duo shut up; it sounds like Mr. Barton has an idea.? Zechs rebuked Duo.

?Well, what is it Barton? Spill it before we all get sacked.? Wufei growled as he dive-bombed another suit.

?We can?t defeat these guys one on one, so let?s use teamwork.? He said and immediately went and ransacked a suit that was about to slice SandRock?s head off. The suit stumbled and fell, and Trowa stabbed it through with his wrist knife, stepping back as the pilot evacuated and the suit exploded.

?Thanks Trowa.? Quatre said.

?Well it?s better than nothing, lets give it a whirl!? Noin said and went after a couple suits trying to remodel Wufei?s Nataku.

?Good plan, Barton.? Zechs said and attacked a few suits that had leapt up behind HeavyArms.

~*~ Chap. 9 fin.~*~