Anrui Lethenanashi (8-13/?)

[Anrui]

<b><center>Anrui Lethenanashi</center></b>
<center>Chapter Eight</center>

Disclaimer: I don?t own Gundam Wing, it belongs to a bunch of awesome people! Who are not me? ;_;

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Ann found her way through the hotel the next morning relatively easy. As she was drinking her coffee, a strange thought occurred to her. What happened to Isabelle and Louis?!? She remembered watching them get on the second plane that arrived, but after that it was a complete mystery. She rushed out of the room and down the hall, where she ran into Andrew.

?Whoa! What?s the rush? We don?t have to be back at the office for another three hours!?

?What happened to Isabelle and Louis??

Andrew suddenly went pale. ?Oh, dear? I think we ditched them! Remember when the planes landed? We hurried off in such a rush that I think we left them there!?

?Well, let?s go find them!? Ann grabbed the boy and they ran out of the hotel so fast that several onlookers thought that they were crazed!

After driving back to the airport where they had landed, the two teens ran up to the service desk and sought out the woman who had been working there when they landed.

?Ma?am? I doubt that you remember us, but we landed her yesterday with the President and we seem to have lost some of the people flying with us. A woman in about her late twenties and a man in his early thirties? Their names are Isabelle and Louis.?

?Yes, I know where they are. They got off the plane and couldn?t find you so we gave them a room and they?ve been helping us out around here. They?re both very helpful.? Ann and Andrew both heaved a sigh of relief.

?Can you tell us where they?re at right now??

?I?ll go get them for you.? A few minutes later, the woman returned with Isabelle and Louis following her. ?Here they are!?

?Well, Master Andrew, have you had fun?? Isabelle asked cheerily.

?Not in particular, but I have a question. Why didn?t you just call father on his cell??

?Oh, we didn?t mind staying here, did we Lou??

?Not really. Plus, I got to cook for these fine people. They loved it! I enjoy making people happy with my cooking!?

?Well, I?m glad we found you.? Ann smiled. ?C?mon, let?s go back to the hotel.?

?All right. Goodbye everyone!? Isabelle waved and Louis laughed. ?See you again on the return flight!?

Once back at the hotel, the President forced the two teens into another discussion in his office, along with Sora and Yuy. He wanted more information OZ.

?Well, well. Aren?t you impatient? I?ll give you more info., don?t worry. Now, what exactly do you want to know??

?Everything you know.?

?Now, now, make it a doable request. There?s no way that all the information I have will fit into your puny brain.?

?Why you little bitch!? He shot up and moved to slap Ann, but she caught his hand and twisted it backwards. The President struggled, but could not get free. Ann twisted harder and harder; finally she could see the pain in his eyes.

?Now, give me a precise question.? Ann demanded as she let him go.

?I?ll enjoy meeting you in battle.?

?Better hope your whole army is behind you. You couldn?t beat me otherwise.?

?Shut up, insolent child. Where and when will they next attack? Tell me that, wonder girl.?
?Actually, by intercepting a communications radar of theirs while all of you were sleeping last night, I?ve deciphered that they will attack this building in about four and a half hours. Give or take a few minutes.?

?What! Why didn?t you tell us this earlier??

?Well, Andrew and I had to find Isabelle and Louis, and then we were forcefully taken into this office of yours. I didn?t feel like being very nice.?

?If you don?t quite smarting off to me, you?re going to wind up in the building when it is attacked!?
?What, you mean you aren?t even going to take an offensive? You are just a weak man, then. I thought you had at least some guts. Why not stick it out and surprise them by attacking before they get the chance to.?

?Because I don?t know where they will be attacking.?

?You could always ask me, but that would be below you, wouldn?t it??

?You are really getting on my nerves.?

?The feeling?s neutral.?

?Did you know that I could put a bullet right through your head right now if I wanted to??

?Really? Hmm? Is this cause for me to be frightened? Or am I supposed to beg for forgiveness??

The President pulled out a gun. ?Don?t push it! I will shoot you, information or not! Little bitch!?

Ann sighed. ?You really are hopeless. I could dodge that bullet with ease, even if you fired three shots in rapid succession all around me. I?d still be able to get out of the way. Or don?t you remember that from the last time we met??

?Just shut up.?

?If I shut up, who will give you information??

?Your dear friends here, you?re bound to have told them a few more things than you?ve told me.?

?Nope, sorry. I haven?t told them anything.?

?Damn you! Get out of my office!?

?Fine.?

?No, stay exactly where you are. I need more information. Where will they attack the building??

?Northeast docking port. They already have men situated there preparing for the attack. There are also twelve bombs situated all around the inside of this building. Luckily for you, I know where each of them is.?

?All right, give me the bomb locations and the names of the soldiers already inside.?

?Nope. You?re going to try and remove the bombs, you don?t want to do that.?

?Why the hell not??

?Trust me, you just don?t. They?ll activate and explode if you touch them.?

?Then how do we disengage them??

?Wrong question. A more appropriate one would be: How do we use them to our advantage??

?Fine. How do we use them to our advantage??

?First off, use an electromagnetic laser and fire at the blue wires on each of the bombs, this will make them removable, they can?t be disengaged unless you want me to take the time doing that instead of getting us ready??

?Why can?t someone else disengage them??

?Because nobody else knows how. I invented these bombs; I know everything about them. OZ stole my records in order to build them, the bastards!?

?Fine. Continue.?

?Second, we have to replace the bombs all over the Northeast docking port. When the time comes for OZ to enter, we evacuate all of the Federation soldiers from the docking port and watch them get blown up by their own bombs. This will distract them, I hope, and we will be able to shoot down their air attackers.?

?What happens if they aren?t distracted??

?Run like there?s a ghost chasing you out of the building.? Ann smiled. ?If we do have to evacuate, I have another plan for after we have. Unfortunately, it doesn?t include any of you. This is something I must do, whether they get distracted or not.? She looked directly at Andrew. ?Don?t try to follow me.?

?I?m sorry, but you aren?t allowed out of my sight!? The President declared.

?Just try to stop me. You won?t even know I?ve gone. You could stare at me the whole time and I?d still escape. The only one I?m worried about is Andrew. He?s never seen anything like this before.? She looked him in the eye. ?Will you be alright??

?Yes, I?ll be fine. But where are you going??

?I?ll be infiltrating OZ?s base. I doubt that anyone here really wants to join me? Also, I doubt that anyone here has the skill to join me.?

?Of course I have the skill!? Joe yelled.

?Calm down, I?ll be sure to send you the information straight away. Joe, once I enter that base, this will be my own personal mission. You have to understand that.?

?Well I don?t.?

?Then you are less human than you even make yourself out to be.?

?What do you mean??

?I have to do something inside of that base, then you can take over. I?m not going to destroy it or kill them all. This is a recon mission to me. Don?t worry, I won?t steal your limelight.?

?Why is it a recon??

?Because I must recover something from the base.?

?That?s usually the definition of recon, but what, or who, are you recovering??

?That?s not really any of your business. Plus, you?ll never find out what it was because I?m giving it to someone right afterwards. If that?s what you want to call it, anyway.?

?I want to know what you are retrieving. You cannot go otherwise.?

?Like you can stop me. You sound like a disgusted parent!?

?I don?t care. What are you going to recon??

?A person. A person that you don?t need to know about. They don?t have anything at all to do with you or the Federation. This is between us and OZ.?

?I think I understand something here. It?s you OZ is after, no one else. They went through a lot of trouble to track you down obviously. They?re even attacking this building. They just want you.?

Ann laughed. ?Well, give the man a cigar!?

?What!?? Andrew shrieked. ?Why would they be after you??

?Probably the same reason we were after her.? Joe grinned. ?She probably went and blew up some of their important facilities.?

?Wrong. It?s a personal reason. They just want information out of me. Nothing else. The person they took hostage also knows this information, but we are two of the few people lift that actually know. He wouldn?t tell, so they?re after me now. Kind of funny if you think about it.?

?What is??

?OZ is after me, you?re after me, practically every organization on the planet is either after my skill or my brains, and I?ve defeated all of you so far. Same with him, except for the being captured part. Well, I guess OZ is the only organization he?s fought, but he was six when we first fought them, he didn?t have a chance. In fact, I?m only rescuing him because I owe him my life.?

?Who is this young man?? Yuy asked.

?I guess it wouldn?t hurt to tell you, but you can?t go looking for him. Promise me. Even you, Joe.?

?Fine. We all promise.? Joe replied. The other three just nodded.

?He is the sole survivor of the Lowe accident. Lucas Lowe.? Ann grinned. ?Well, I guess that?s not completely true, but I don?t know if the other is really alive or not. All I?ve heard is rumors.?

?You told us that all of the Lowes died. Were you lying??

?Of course.?

??? Joe just glared.

Ann pressed a few buttons on her laptop and a sheet printed from a nearby printer. ?Those are the locations. Have twelve of your men go and remove them the way I told you. Electromagnetic laser. I need to go down to the Northeast docking port and decide where to put the bombs so that the least amount possible of damage is done to the main building. Then I shall cause the data on where to put the bombs to appear out of that same printer there that just printed the locations. Then I shall vanish. Don?t worry; I?ll hurry back. Luke won?t be with me, though. I don?t want him to be here. It?s not safe.?

?Fine. Let?s get started.? Joe called up twelve of his best men and gave them each a location. They hurried off to do their general?s bidding. Ann grabbed her notebook and ran out of the
office. She knew her job well.

Ann rushed down the stairs to the docking port and surveyed the area. The twelve men from OZ were all pretending to be Federation officers, so they were at their posts like good little boys and girls. Ann quickly sat down and opened her notebook. She looked around once more and typed in twelve locations. She set them to print in a half and hour. Then she added a little note to the bottom. Since it should be about lunch when they were to place the bombs, Ann wrote that the men should pretend that the group of them were just coming down to have lunch, as it wasn?t quite as hectic down there. They were to sit where the bombs were to be placed and pretend to eat. Ann put that they should be inconspicuous in their doing so and even stay down there for a while when they were done. She wrote that Joe should give them each individual times to go back up to the office, at random intervals as to not rouse suspicion. He should then call in all his officers from the bay; Ann had already given him the list of officers that were with OZ, right before it exploded. Now that she had finished her good dead for the day, Ann had work to do. She tucked her notebook into her pants and scanned the soldiers for one that was away from the group a bit. When she found one, she slowly snuck up behind him, waited until the time was right, and knocked him out. She pulled the soldier?s limp body into the bathroom, stole his uniform and went out to take his position. One of the soldiers was glaring at her when she got back out.

?Where did you go?? Ann recognized him as the leader of the group.

?I took a restroom break, sir.? Ann replied. The soldier she had mugged had been female.

?Fine.? The soldier went back to his post. ?It?s almost time.?

Ann hadn?t chosen this woman for no reason. She had known that she would be slightly off from the group. That was for a reason. This woman had to go outside to wait for the troops. She was to signal the commander when they arrived. Ann was going to go outside when told to, but they weren?t going to get any warning.

?It?s quarter to eleven, sir.?

?All right. The soldiers should be coming in an hour and fifteen minutes. That?s good.?

Half an hour later, Joe?s undercover soldiers came in for lunch. The OZ soldiers thought nothing of it, except for Ann. She wanted their disguise to work perfectly. So she tested it.

?What did the group of you some down here for?? She asked the closest soldier. He was obviously good, because he gave the perfect answer.

?It?s rather hectic upstairs, so the group of us came down here to peace and quite. There aren?t to be any dockings today, so we knew it?d be nice here. We came down here for quite, so we decided to sit apart. We see enough of each other at our positions anyway.?

Ann noticed a few OZ soldiers relax. None of them were suspicious anymore. After a while, the soldiers started leaving. Perfectly random intervals. She had to give credit to Joe. He knew how to train them. Ann barely noticed the commander walk up to her.

?This is perfect. With them leaving like this, no one?s going to notice you leaving. Watch your watch now. Five more minutes, then go watch for the troops.?

?Yes Commander Walker.?

?Good. You will be rewarded if you come in handy.?

?Thank you, sir.? Ann was getting sick of saying sir.

?And Dawn, be sure to tell us right away when they get here.?

Ann was about to reply when she remembered that the woman she was portraying?s name was Maia. ?My name is Maia, sir.?

?Good. Just checking to see if you were a spy. No spy would know your real name.?
?Probably not, sir.?

?Go, it?s close enough. I don?t want you to get out there too late. Better to be early than never.?

?Yes, sir.? She left the building. She was not undetected, though. The soldier she had questioned saw her go, and when it was his turn to leave, he sprinted up to the General?s office and told him.

?You mean that one of them left??

?Yes, sir. She left right before I did. Her and one of the other soldiers were conversing right before she left.?

?How do you know it?s a she??

?She questioned me on why we had come down there.?

?All right, get your team and surround her, don?t let her communicate to her leader.?

?Do you want us to destroy her, sir??

?No. Call for me once you have her.?

?Yes, sir.?

?Go quickly, you only have twenty minutes!?

?Yes, sir.?

The soldier collected his team and left quickly. He was out on the grounds in no time at all. He and his team caught Ann by surprise and surrounded her quickly. Ann was not exactly happy with this. The soldier called for Joe. ?Sir, we have her surrounded. She has made no move to contact whoever?s in charge. She will probably be punished. Those are my thoughts.?

?All right. We?ve still got twelve minutes. I?m coming.? Joe was there in less than three minutes.

?Well, well. Trying to attack us were you??

?Joe. You are an annoying little piss head! I?m trying to do something here!? Ann took off her hat and Joe just glared.

?Ann. What the fuck are you doing??

?I took the uniform and position of the woman who was supposed to relay the message to the team once the troops got here. I?m not going to relay them, and I don?t get killed. Now leave before the troops get here, spot you, and fire early!?

?Fine. Men, back inside quickly.?

?Yes, sir!? They said in unison and ran back inside.

?Ann, you are a royal pain in the neck!?

?Arigato, baka!?

Joe ran inside and Ann went back to waiting.

Five minutes later the OZ troops arrived, she flagged them and looked at her watch. Perfect. The bombs would go off in ten seconds. Ann made it look as though she was talking to her boss. She stopped when it hit two seconds and started to give them the OK. The bombs went off. Ann hoped that the Federation men had gotten out. But if they hadn?t, well, they hadn?t! It wasn?t really Ann?s concern. Ann was thrown off her feet into a tree. She was fine, but she pretended to struggle to get up. She knew OZ?s chivalrous manner. They come down to get her, and they did. They came with one of the med units. She heard the commander of the unit tell them to head back to base. They had their passenger. Ann doubted that he wanted to be around since the enemy had somehow known about their attack. Ann hoped they didn?t get shot down.

Once out of the firing zone, the commander of the unit relaxed and started to check Ann out. ?Well, Miss Walker, you?re lucky. You aren?t badly injured and you didn?t get killed in the explosion. However, we just received confirmation of the deaths of all officers within the building. I?m afraid that your father was one of them.? Ann just stared at him. She was both faking disbelief and in real disbelief. She had taken over the commander?s daughter! She had only found the girl?s first name. Ann clasped her hands in prayer for the man who had died. He had obviously given the job of messenger to his daughter because it was the least dangerous. Even the members of OZ had souls. Ann wondered why she had thought that they didn?t. They were human, that was all that they needed to be. Just being human gave them souls. ?I?m very sorry Miss Walker. I?m sure your father went to heaven.?

?Yes, I know he did.? Ann smiled lightly.

?Now, we?re going back to base. You can spend your next month relaxing. I?ll talk to General Whittaker. He?s a nice man.? The commander smiled. ?But you already know that, don?t you Maia??

?Yeah.?

?I wonder who moved the bombs though. I thought that we were the only ones with that knowledge besides?? He dropped off. ?Oh, no. The Federation must have the Lowe girl working for them! We don?t have a chance!? He looked directly into Ann?s sad eyes. Ann was glad that when she had first seen the girl, she had noticed how much alike they looked. He would have caught her for sure by now if they hadn?t looked alike.

?Well, we should be arriving soon. I?ll escort you to your chamber, Miss Walker. I know that it may feel empty without Mike, but you?ll get used to it.? The man sighed. ?Sometimes I wonder if this war is worth fighting if it kills so many good people.?

?You must think of the greater purpose of the war.? Ann whispered.

?I don?t think that something that results in death has a greater purpose.?

?It does, you just have to look hard to find it. Thought our era has many great heroes and people with the strength, I don?t think that we will be the ones to end the eternal struggle of war. I don?t think that anyone besides God himself can end the wars. The only way to do so would be to reform all of humanity. That would take an act of God.?

?All right, if you say so.?

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Too submissive, sorry! Ack...I like my characters, though! *hugs them all* Okay, enough girly stuff...*achem* Wait...the non-girly stuff ain't 'til Chapter Fourteen. (Which is WIP, as of now...five pages...but I've got more for it. Sad story...real sad.)