Petite Rebel 4/12
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:16 pm
CHAPTER FOUR: AN ESACPE AND COMING BACK TOGETHER
The year is now After Colony 198, two years since The New White Fang has made moves to create the ultimate soldiers. Now in this year they have deployed some of their ultimate soldiers to fight for the colony?s rule over Earth which, the New White Fang felt, was stolen from the colonies. The battles have ranged all over space and the Sanq and Preventers corps have been very busy trying to defeat them. So far few have succeeded in beating the soldiers.
Battles rage in and out of space, mechas are being placed all over by both sides of the battle and soldiers are being used in great numbers. At the secret base for training the soldiers the Greatest secret weapon they have, as well as the best and first they succeeded with, is still enduring the brash training set up for her standards. The time draws near to when they will use her and win the war against Earth and rule the colonies alone.
~*~
Hilde sat in the mecha cockpit simulator and instantly hit all relevant targets on her screen, receiving a perfect score on the test and higher. She removed the helmet from her head as it finished. Her white bangs flipped up as she pulled it off, and her lime green eyes opened. Her face held that expressionless poise as she stoically pulled off the simulator gloves and put them aside pushing her bangs back with her hand.
?Simulation and score recount complete-? the computer babbled. She exited the machine and stood just outside it waiting for her score. ?Score recount equal to 4,000%, highest score standard of 3,100% beat. Pilot status: Unable to comply.?
Hilde nodded her head and looked toward the rest of the training course. She was done for the day, but she didn?t want to go back to her bunk yet. For the past two years she had been vigorously trained to become the ultimate perfect soldier, the one soldier who would win the war for the colonies, by numerous trainers, except usually only the ?Mother?. But she was told that?s all she was alive for. She had no other purpose. She had started to wonder what would happen to her after she filled her purpose. She supposed they?d kill her, seeing as she was no longer needed. She?d rather not have that happen.
On top of that, she?d been having strange dreams...She could never remember them properly in the morning-and it hurt excruciatingly every time she tried. They seemed to be dreams of people she some how knew, and places she?d some how been to, but how could that be? She was made here and had been here since she had been made, right? This is the only place she knew the people here were like-oh what was that word-family to her. Or were they? If she filled her purpose and they killed her, that wouldn?t be much of a family act.
Her mind was suddenly screaming with images from somewhere. People, places, things-and it hurt! ?AHHH!? She screamed and held her head. ?Why, why does it hurt so badly when I try to remember?!? She fell to the floor and clutched at her white curls till her mind stopped trying to remember and the pain subsided.
She sat there panting. ?Oh god...? She muttered. ?What does this mean?? She sat up slowly. ?I don?t want to do this...? She mumbled to herself looking around. ?This suddenly feels so wrong somehow...I feel like I don?t belong here anymore...Like someone is out there in the world looking and waiting for me...Like I was someone else before this.? She pulled at her hair as she said that. She slowly stood up and again surveyed the training course. She wanted to get her mind off of everything for the moment and the course provided some distraction.
Her lime greens fell upon the obstacle course. She nodded her head and started at a run to take it on. As she reached the mats, guns popped up out of it and she began to front flip and back flip and cartwheel out of their line of shot and at the end made a final back flip landing perfectly. She spun around as kick bags shot up and she kicked them all till they dropped and she moved to the next thing. Reaching a tight crawl space she crammed her tiny body into it and emerged very quickly at the other side where she disarmed a phony practice bomb in less then ten seconds. Then she ran and leapt up on the monkey bars making fancy maneuvers to avoid being shot at by more laser pistols from below. She climbed through the rungs and got on top of the bars and walked across them, grabbing hold of a fly line at the end and shooting it across the way to a place where it could hook and sliding on it to safety.
She then grabbed a pistol and ran through the part of the course where she had to shoot people. As she left that she leapt onto a platform and climbed up a fake training mecha and into the cockpit to begin the hands on simulation to take out enemy mechs. When it finished she ripped her helmet back off and sat in the cockpit. Her score was announced again as beyond record, but she didn?t care. She decided there and then that she wanted out.
She knew there was more out there for life then this training and winning White Fang?s personal war with Earth. Plus somehow she felt she didn?t belong here. She knew they?d never let her leave because supposedly she was the best of the best of the best, the first drone and the one that came out beyond perfect. So she had to escape. She?d do it tonight...What better time then the present?
With this decided she exited the mecha and climbed down and went to the showers to change. Once in her leather jacket, leather pants, blue halter-top and gray knee high boots, she left for her bunk to begin the plans and preparations for escape from the White Fang training/military base. The only problem was, she had no idea where the base was located, so it would be hard to get around because she had no idea where she would be going.
After thinking about this her fingers suddenly snapped and she grew a grin on her face. ?That?s it!? She hissed to herself. ?I?ll just have to get into the main control room and download a map and blueprints to where I am and I?ll be able to get away and start my life!? For some reason she wanted to add ?again? to that, but it wouldn?t be again, would it? ?Damn! I have to find out who I really was before this...? She muttered as she packed the necessities. ?Somehow I know I wasn?t this way! They?ve been lying to me.? She wasn?t able to finish because Rodney came to the door to escort her to the mess hall then.
?Ah, my dear Hilde! You look beautiful tonight, as always.? He said as he opened the door and bowed slightly.
Hilde quickly spun around and hurriedly and very slapdash like shoved her half packed bag under her bed and nervously pushed her bangs behind her ear. When she saw whom it was she scowled and her hand dropped to her side. ?Rodney.? She acknowledged coldly and stood up straight and began to walk past him. She, for some reason, had hated him since the day she woke up in the cell.
?Same as always.? He smirked and closed the door behind her. ?You will never change and become nice to me will you my dear?? He asked as he caught up with her.
She didn?t even give him a side-glance as she began to move faster. ?No.? She answered plainly.
?My, you are quick! Slow down, I came to escort you.? He said lightly.
?Yes, I am quick. It?s because of your training and ultimate soldier serum Rodney, you know that. You remind me almost everyday.? She snarled.
?Hmm, Well anyway, I must tell you you?ll be sent off into battle very soon Hilde darling. Your training is nearly complete. Another couple weeks and you?ll be beyond ultimate; you?ll be exquisitely perfection itself in being a soldier. You?re nearly there.? He said proudly.
?Yay.? She responded.
?Why so sarcastic? You?ll be beyond perfection, no one can stop you after the final training sessions are complete, and doesn?t that excite you?? He prodded as they turned the corner to the mess hall.
?To be honest, no. I don?t feel like I belong here. I feel like I had a life before this-but I can?t put my finger on it, and every time I attempt to remember it hurts my head like hell!? She said seriously.
?I see-well I?m to take you to see your mother after dinner.? Rodney retorted and fell silent as if in thought. Hilde thanked her stars; she hated his voice, his face, and his presence-hell she hated every aspect about him. She didn?t know quite why, but she knew it had something to do with the past she was told she never had but somehow pieces of were falling back into her mind. She had to get out of here and find out all she could tonight. But it would be incredibly hard, even for her. Plans had to be made.
Rodney oddly enough left her alone for a couple hours, telling her he?d come back to bring her to Mother soon. She found it strange but she welcomed the change and finished her packing and planning. Late that night at midnight she adorned a totally black outfit that covered her nearly entirely. She slipped out of her bunk and around the corner. A guard stood watch and she came up and hit two of his pressure points. He fell immediately without more than a groan from him. She didn?t stop to check if he was still alive. She moved on down the hall making sure to keep to the walls and shadows and to stay out of the camera?s field of vision and made her way to the elevator.
Quietly, quickly she picked the lock on it and crept in and started it to take her to the third floor where all the main computers were and the armory as well. She?d need a real good pistol for this trip.
When the door noiselessly slid open for her she snuck out. ?Damn!? She thought to herself, as she crept along the hallway to an alcove not too far from the elevator. ?This floor is crawling with MPs during the night hours!? She dug in her duffel bag and pulled out some suction cups for her hands and knees and proceeded to climb onto the ceiling to make her way to the main control room.
She crawled along the ceiling with her duffel bag on her shoulder hanging down somewhat until she spotted the room. ?Drat, if I?m to get in I?ll have to be really quick and time it right.? She thought as she watched MPs come in and out of the room. ?On top of that, looks as if I?ll have to knock out a bunch of MPs-hnn.... Well here goes nothing!? She scooted across the ceiling and waited for the doors to slide open and then quick as a flash found herself inside with around 20 MPs sitting at consoles. She carefully took out a gas mask from her duffel bag and placed it over her face before she very quietly dug around and pulled out tear gas and dropped it in on them.
All the MPs started choking and holding their mouths and rushed out of the room. The alarms went off and Hilde knew she now had to be incredibly quick. She leapt off the ceiling and quickly hacked into the computer database and downloaded all information she needed onto a disk. Right before the air grates pulled out the gas she finished and ripped open an air vent climbing in and shutting it before the MPs came back in shouting orders and such with their guns looking for the ?intruder.? She deftly crawled along the air vent looking for the armory. After a short time she found it and carefully dropped in. ?Not that it matters anymore!? She laughed to herself. ?The alarms are already going off. But I really am pressed for time now. They?ll realize I?m missing very soon-I gotta get out now and fast!? Thinking this thought she grabbed a pair of Uzi?s an MP5 and a gun holster and ripped back into the air vent seeking the way that led out.
She was incredibly lucky; she found an air vent that led to the outside of the compound a short time later. Her head emerged and she pulled off her facemask to taste air which seemed as if she?d never breathed before. As she did her hair blew back in the wind as she closed her eyes and drew in a breath of freezing air. Opening her eyes she extremely carefully pulled herself out. She wasn?t out of the woods yet. Even though the base was an underground compound there were still cameras and men prowling the premises. She acted quickly and shoved her black facemask back on and got out and ran as fast as her legs would carry her to the deep woodland surrounding the area that was covered with snow.
Once she was a good mile away from it she turned back and ripped off her facemask again, breathing so that her chest fell up and down quickly but not heavily and her lips parted slightly. The brisk cold wind whipped her bangs around her face, framing it as she smiled. Her breath came out in white puffs, but she was immune to the cold and heat now so the weather did not bug her. She had done it she was free, away from the training and the constant push that she was to be the best they had and the one they would win the war with. She was now free, finally, to discover who she really was and find out what those dreams meant and if she had a life before the training base. She turned and ran off down the road to find out if she had a life.
~*~
A week later-Duo rubbed his head and continued walking down the street as it sprinkled little driblets of rain here and there. Sure it was after all hours of the night, but what the hell did he care? He couldn?t sleep. He hadn?t been able to sleep for a very long time now anyway. Even though it had been a couple years since he lost-?her?-he gulped as he thought of her face-he still couldn?t get over it. He ran his fingers through his matted spiky bangs as it started to pour.
?Aw man!? He groaned and pulled his jacket cuffs closer around his head and started to sprint to the canopy cover of an Italian restaurant. He stood there with red rimmed eyes watching the rain fall...He blew into his hands and rubbed them together to make them warmer.
He and the rest of the pilots had had a lot of battles in the past few months. The New White Fang was larger than first thought and tougher then nails. The Sanq had lost a lot of men to the new breed of ultimate soldiers, but they had yet to come across Hilde. Duo rubbed his hands together and blew in them again as he moved his tired violet eyes skyward to look into the endless gray oblivion from which the water was searing the air in pieces and thought of Hilde.
He had to leave home base sometime soon with Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Noin, Zechs and the rest of the Sanq?s military unit to go fight a battle on the front and hopefully win this time. He shook his head and closed his tired eyes again. Why did this Rodney character have to call his house oh so many moons ago and ruin his life all over again? He didn?t want to be back in war again...he just wanted to live his life out now, peacefully with his Hilde and his small business back on L2. But Rodney had ruined that chance of ever happening by calling and kidnapping Hilde-then making the move to destroy the Sanq and the rest of Earth with his new breed of soldiers. Why did he have to be the cursed Shinigami? Why him?
He groaned and reopened his eyes looking back into the gray nothingness. ?Why me God?! WHY?? He suddenly burst out and sank to his knees on the sopping wet cement. ?Why...why me? What did I do to deserve any of this? Why,...Why, why, why, why me?? He cradled his forehead in his hands as he scrunched into a fetal ball in the pouring rain, his hair coming loose and snaking across his black trench coat and wisps of it stringing into his face. No one was even awake to notice or try to give comfort to this wretched man?s soul.
Suddenly Duo felt a sharp kick in his side and then a yelp as he felt then someone or something fell on top of him then a screech of pain as they hit the cement on the other side. He whirled around sitting up straight now. With his now chocolate colored hair streaming into his eyes, and the rope in back swinging around so fast it fell over his left shoulder he stared at the slight, tiny framed black clad figure that was slowly picking themselves up off the cement and nursing a scrapped palm.
?Oh my lord! I?m sorry!? He said putting a hand on the persons shoulder and quickly wiping away tears that could not have been seen anyway due to the downpour. ?People aren?t usually out at this time of night and in this type of torrential downpour-I didn?t think I?d be tripping anyone...? He slowed his speech and then he stopped talking entirely as the figure turned to face him nursing the palm that had been scraped.
Duo found himself staring into and getting lost in the fathomless, endless depths of the most beautifully stunning lime-emerald green eyes he had ever seen. Pure white wisps of wet hair fell into the eyes as they stared intently back into his own-almost like they were scrutinizing them. His hand moved before he could even think to stop it, and reached out to move the white hair from obscuring the view of the eyes. The pretty face that belonged to them flinched away from his hand and scooted back.
Duo realized what he had done with his hand and dropped it immediately turning a nice cooked lobster color. ?S-sorry...? He said and rubbed his hands again.
The person, obviously female from the feminine curves and features she pertained, stood up slowly and nodded slightly. In a voice Duo swore up and down he recognized she looked down at him and said ?its all right...It was my fault for not seeing you there...?
Her voice was soothing, and deepish with a slight male tangy sound to it. She smiled a little reserved smile and held out her hand to help him up. He took it still entranced by her gorgeous odd colored eyes. ?I?m really sorry about that-? She said offhandedly looking past him and off down the road. ?I must get going now...? She started to turn and was about to sprint away again when he found his voice and called out to her.
?Wait! Wait Miss...? He said as he held out his hand imploring her to stop. She turned her head slightly, her white hair flipping about her features, letting droplets of water fly off the ends. ?I?m really sorry to stop you when your in such a hurry...but you remind me of someone-and you remind me very strongly of her...had you of had blue eyes and navy-blue hair, I?d swear you were her...?
The girl arched her eyebrow and stared at him. ?Oh--do I?? She asked not quite sure. ?And who do I remind you of??
Duo looked at his feet, then back at the girl. ?Someone I lost a couple years ago. I?m sure you never met her, she was kidnapped by an organization called the New White Fang, and used as an experimental variable. I?m sure she?s probably dead now...?
At the mention of the New White Fang her eyes grew wide and she stared at him slack jawed. ?The New White Fang?? She stumbled out.
Duo?s eyes met hers again in a questionable glance. ?You?ve heard of them...? He stated.
She nodded slowly. ?Yes, I escaped their training compound a week ago and traveled here. They?re hot on my trail after realizing I escaped and I?ve been running for a while.?
Duo?s turn to have his eyes grow wide and his jaw slacken. ?You were actually in the compound?!? He asked. She nodded again. Duo looked around and grabbed her by the arm. ?Would you mind coming with me to a more private place? I have questions I want to ask you.?
The girl looked at him severely. ?I can?t for long...They will find me if I stay in one place for to long...?
Duo nodded ?I?ll take that into consideration, but for now come on.? He said and dragged her off down the street.
He led her to an abandoned warehouse in the city and brought her in. She held her nose from the stench of rotting bird and rat carcasses strewn carelessly across the wooden planks. Once in a room he closed the door and turned to her. She faced him with her hand on one of her Uzi?s tucked away on her back in case he planned to do something. ?Can you tell me where the base is?? He asked her placing his hands out in emphasis.
She looked at him and studied his features. He was just a little taller than she was, with a long beautiful rope of plated brunette hair, lean and muscular-not to much muscle but just enough to make him look lithe. He had a beautifully crafted face and beautiful azure-violet eyes to go with it. The face was vaguely familiar now that she looked and thought about it. The long, soaking wet, black trench coat that covered up all but the frontal view of him looked magnificent. He wore a priest type garb with a small silver cross that hung from a chain around his neck and a little gold earring placed in his right earlobe.
As she studied him she shook her head at his question. ?No, I don?t. I have no idea where I am now. All I know is that it?s in a very cold mountainous area. I never stopped to find out where exactly...?
His shoulders drooped a bit and he averted his eyes to the floor. He sighed tiredly and leaned against the wall, rubbing his face with his hand and lifting up his bangs slightly as he thought. Something suddenly struck her in her thoughts and she looked at him. ?Mr. tell me, who was the girl you lost a couple years ago? What was her name??
Duo suddenly looked up at her as if pulled harshly from his thoughts. ?What??
?What was the girl?s name...? She restated trying to stay calm.
?Why do you want to know that? You probably don?t know her...? He said with his eyebrows raised.
?Just tell me her name! What was it? Tell me damn it!? She said fiercely.
Duo stared at her. ?Ok, ok babe-settle down! I?ll tell you-don?t get all hysterical. Her name was Hilde Schibeker, why?? Duo watched carefully as the girl?s eyes became as round as saucers and her hand flew to her mouth. She started backward and stumbled almost falling, but catching herself on a deserted desk.
?H-Hilde Schibeker? That was her name?? She said almost whispering.
Duo pushed off the wall quickly. ?Yes-did you know her? Do you know her? Is she still alive? -Tell me!? He said but it didn?t make any difference to her. The girl before him-her eyes turned from green to a searing pink and she lost consciousness and began to topple to the floor. Duo gasped and ran to catch her just before she hit.
Her head lolled back in his arms and he looked at her face. She was as white as a sheet. She hadn?t eaten in a week obviously. She was so beautiful...He pushed the wet hair back from her face and realized something as he looked at it. On top of that he realized something sticky and liquidly was coming from her. He lifted up his hand and it was covered in red goo, blood obviously enough. His mouth shut and opened a couple times before he managed to stumble out the words ?Oh my god...no...? He hissed under his breath his eyes again growing wide. He quickly scooped the girl up into his arms and rushed from the warehouse into the rain of the early morning, but still night, and away back to the Sanq?s palace, not surprised at how light she was.
~*~ Chap. 4 fin.~*~
The year is now After Colony 198, two years since The New White Fang has made moves to create the ultimate soldiers. Now in this year they have deployed some of their ultimate soldiers to fight for the colony?s rule over Earth which, the New White Fang felt, was stolen from the colonies. The battles have ranged all over space and the Sanq and Preventers corps have been very busy trying to defeat them. So far few have succeeded in beating the soldiers.
Battles rage in and out of space, mechas are being placed all over by both sides of the battle and soldiers are being used in great numbers. At the secret base for training the soldiers the Greatest secret weapon they have, as well as the best and first they succeeded with, is still enduring the brash training set up for her standards. The time draws near to when they will use her and win the war against Earth and rule the colonies alone.
~*~
Hilde sat in the mecha cockpit simulator and instantly hit all relevant targets on her screen, receiving a perfect score on the test and higher. She removed the helmet from her head as it finished. Her white bangs flipped up as she pulled it off, and her lime green eyes opened. Her face held that expressionless poise as she stoically pulled off the simulator gloves and put them aside pushing her bangs back with her hand.
?Simulation and score recount complete-? the computer babbled. She exited the machine and stood just outside it waiting for her score. ?Score recount equal to 4,000%, highest score standard of 3,100% beat. Pilot status: Unable to comply.?
Hilde nodded her head and looked toward the rest of the training course. She was done for the day, but she didn?t want to go back to her bunk yet. For the past two years she had been vigorously trained to become the ultimate perfect soldier, the one soldier who would win the war for the colonies, by numerous trainers, except usually only the ?Mother?. But she was told that?s all she was alive for. She had no other purpose. She had started to wonder what would happen to her after she filled her purpose. She supposed they?d kill her, seeing as she was no longer needed. She?d rather not have that happen.
On top of that, she?d been having strange dreams...She could never remember them properly in the morning-and it hurt excruciatingly every time she tried. They seemed to be dreams of people she some how knew, and places she?d some how been to, but how could that be? She was made here and had been here since she had been made, right? This is the only place she knew the people here were like-oh what was that word-family to her. Or were they? If she filled her purpose and they killed her, that wouldn?t be much of a family act.
Her mind was suddenly screaming with images from somewhere. People, places, things-and it hurt! ?AHHH!? She screamed and held her head. ?Why, why does it hurt so badly when I try to remember?!? She fell to the floor and clutched at her white curls till her mind stopped trying to remember and the pain subsided.
She sat there panting. ?Oh god...? She muttered. ?What does this mean?? She sat up slowly. ?I don?t want to do this...? She mumbled to herself looking around. ?This suddenly feels so wrong somehow...I feel like I don?t belong here anymore...Like someone is out there in the world looking and waiting for me...Like I was someone else before this.? She pulled at her hair as she said that. She slowly stood up and again surveyed the training course. She wanted to get her mind off of everything for the moment and the course provided some distraction.
Her lime greens fell upon the obstacle course. She nodded her head and started at a run to take it on. As she reached the mats, guns popped up out of it and she began to front flip and back flip and cartwheel out of their line of shot and at the end made a final back flip landing perfectly. She spun around as kick bags shot up and she kicked them all till they dropped and she moved to the next thing. Reaching a tight crawl space she crammed her tiny body into it and emerged very quickly at the other side where she disarmed a phony practice bomb in less then ten seconds. Then she ran and leapt up on the monkey bars making fancy maneuvers to avoid being shot at by more laser pistols from below. She climbed through the rungs and got on top of the bars and walked across them, grabbing hold of a fly line at the end and shooting it across the way to a place where it could hook and sliding on it to safety.
She then grabbed a pistol and ran through the part of the course where she had to shoot people. As she left that she leapt onto a platform and climbed up a fake training mecha and into the cockpit to begin the hands on simulation to take out enemy mechs. When it finished she ripped her helmet back off and sat in the cockpit. Her score was announced again as beyond record, but she didn?t care. She decided there and then that she wanted out.
She knew there was more out there for life then this training and winning White Fang?s personal war with Earth. Plus somehow she felt she didn?t belong here. She knew they?d never let her leave because supposedly she was the best of the best of the best, the first drone and the one that came out beyond perfect. So she had to escape. She?d do it tonight...What better time then the present?
With this decided she exited the mecha and climbed down and went to the showers to change. Once in her leather jacket, leather pants, blue halter-top and gray knee high boots, she left for her bunk to begin the plans and preparations for escape from the White Fang training/military base. The only problem was, she had no idea where the base was located, so it would be hard to get around because she had no idea where she would be going.
After thinking about this her fingers suddenly snapped and she grew a grin on her face. ?That?s it!? She hissed to herself. ?I?ll just have to get into the main control room and download a map and blueprints to where I am and I?ll be able to get away and start my life!? For some reason she wanted to add ?again? to that, but it wouldn?t be again, would it? ?Damn! I have to find out who I really was before this...? She muttered as she packed the necessities. ?Somehow I know I wasn?t this way! They?ve been lying to me.? She wasn?t able to finish because Rodney came to the door to escort her to the mess hall then.
?Ah, my dear Hilde! You look beautiful tonight, as always.? He said as he opened the door and bowed slightly.
Hilde quickly spun around and hurriedly and very slapdash like shoved her half packed bag under her bed and nervously pushed her bangs behind her ear. When she saw whom it was she scowled and her hand dropped to her side. ?Rodney.? She acknowledged coldly and stood up straight and began to walk past him. She, for some reason, had hated him since the day she woke up in the cell.
?Same as always.? He smirked and closed the door behind her. ?You will never change and become nice to me will you my dear?? He asked as he caught up with her.
She didn?t even give him a side-glance as she began to move faster. ?No.? She answered plainly.
?My, you are quick! Slow down, I came to escort you.? He said lightly.
?Yes, I am quick. It?s because of your training and ultimate soldier serum Rodney, you know that. You remind me almost everyday.? She snarled.
?Hmm, Well anyway, I must tell you you?ll be sent off into battle very soon Hilde darling. Your training is nearly complete. Another couple weeks and you?ll be beyond ultimate; you?ll be exquisitely perfection itself in being a soldier. You?re nearly there.? He said proudly.
?Yay.? She responded.
?Why so sarcastic? You?ll be beyond perfection, no one can stop you after the final training sessions are complete, and doesn?t that excite you?? He prodded as they turned the corner to the mess hall.
?To be honest, no. I don?t feel like I belong here. I feel like I had a life before this-but I can?t put my finger on it, and every time I attempt to remember it hurts my head like hell!? She said seriously.
?I see-well I?m to take you to see your mother after dinner.? Rodney retorted and fell silent as if in thought. Hilde thanked her stars; she hated his voice, his face, and his presence-hell she hated every aspect about him. She didn?t know quite why, but she knew it had something to do with the past she was told she never had but somehow pieces of were falling back into her mind. She had to get out of here and find out all she could tonight. But it would be incredibly hard, even for her. Plans had to be made.
Rodney oddly enough left her alone for a couple hours, telling her he?d come back to bring her to Mother soon. She found it strange but she welcomed the change and finished her packing and planning. Late that night at midnight she adorned a totally black outfit that covered her nearly entirely. She slipped out of her bunk and around the corner. A guard stood watch and she came up and hit two of his pressure points. He fell immediately without more than a groan from him. She didn?t stop to check if he was still alive. She moved on down the hall making sure to keep to the walls and shadows and to stay out of the camera?s field of vision and made her way to the elevator.
Quietly, quickly she picked the lock on it and crept in and started it to take her to the third floor where all the main computers were and the armory as well. She?d need a real good pistol for this trip.
When the door noiselessly slid open for her she snuck out. ?Damn!? She thought to herself, as she crept along the hallway to an alcove not too far from the elevator. ?This floor is crawling with MPs during the night hours!? She dug in her duffel bag and pulled out some suction cups for her hands and knees and proceeded to climb onto the ceiling to make her way to the main control room.
She crawled along the ceiling with her duffel bag on her shoulder hanging down somewhat until she spotted the room. ?Drat, if I?m to get in I?ll have to be really quick and time it right.? She thought as she watched MPs come in and out of the room. ?On top of that, looks as if I?ll have to knock out a bunch of MPs-hnn.... Well here goes nothing!? She scooted across the ceiling and waited for the doors to slide open and then quick as a flash found herself inside with around 20 MPs sitting at consoles. She carefully took out a gas mask from her duffel bag and placed it over her face before she very quietly dug around and pulled out tear gas and dropped it in on them.
All the MPs started choking and holding their mouths and rushed out of the room. The alarms went off and Hilde knew she now had to be incredibly quick. She leapt off the ceiling and quickly hacked into the computer database and downloaded all information she needed onto a disk. Right before the air grates pulled out the gas she finished and ripped open an air vent climbing in and shutting it before the MPs came back in shouting orders and such with their guns looking for the ?intruder.? She deftly crawled along the air vent looking for the armory. After a short time she found it and carefully dropped in. ?Not that it matters anymore!? She laughed to herself. ?The alarms are already going off. But I really am pressed for time now. They?ll realize I?m missing very soon-I gotta get out now and fast!? Thinking this thought she grabbed a pair of Uzi?s an MP5 and a gun holster and ripped back into the air vent seeking the way that led out.
She was incredibly lucky; she found an air vent that led to the outside of the compound a short time later. Her head emerged and she pulled off her facemask to taste air which seemed as if she?d never breathed before. As she did her hair blew back in the wind as she closed her eyes and drew in a breath of freezing air. Opening her eyes she extremely carefully pulled herself out. She wasn?t out of the woods yet. Even though the base was an underground compound there were still cameras and men prowling the premises. She acted quickly and shoved her black facemask back on and got out and ran as fast as her legs would carry her to the deep woodland surrounding the area that was covered with snow.
Once she was a good mile away from it she turned back and ripped off her facemask again, breathing so that her chest fell up and down quickly but not heavily and her lips parted slightly. The brisk cold wind whipped her bangs around her face, framing it as she smiled. Her breath came out in white puffs, but she was immune to the cold and heat now so the weather did not bug her. She had done it she was free, away from the training and the constant push that she was to be the best they had and the one they would win the war with. She was now free, finally, to discover who she really was and find out what those dreams meant and if she had a life before the training base. She turned and ran off down the road to find out if she had a life.
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A week later-Duo rubbed his head and continued walking down the street as it sprinkled little driblets of rain here and there. Sure it was after all hours of the night, but what the hell did he care? He couldn?t sleep. He hadn?t been able to sleep for a very long time now anyway. Even though it had been a couple years since he lost-?her?-he gulped as he thought of her face-he still couldn?t get over it. He ran his fingers through his matted spiky bangs as it started to pour.
?Aw man!? He groaned and pulled his jacket cuffs closer around his head and started to sprint to the canopy cover of an Italian restaurant. He stood there with red rimmed eyes watching the rain fall...He blew into his hands and rubbed them together to make them warmer.
He and the rest of the pilots had had a lot of battles in the past few months. The New White Fang was larger than first thought and tougher then nails. The Sanq had lost a lot of men to the new breed of ultimate soldiers, but they had yet to come across Hilde. Duo rubbed his hands together and blew in them again as he moved his tired violet eyes skyward to look into the endless gray oblivion from which the water was searing the air in pieces and thought of Hilde.
He had to leave home base sometime soon with Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Noin, Zechs and the rest of the Sanq?s military unit to go fight a battle on the front and hopefully win this time. He shook his head and closed his tired eyes again. Why did this Rodney character have to call his house oh so many moons ago and ruin his life all over again? He didn?t want to be back in war again...he just wanted to live his life out now, peacefully with his Hilde and his small business back on L2. But Rodney had ruined that chance of ever happening by calling and kidnapping Hilde-then making the move to destroy the Sanq and the rest of Earth with his new breed of soldiers. Why did he have to be the cursed Shinigami? Why him?
He groaned and reopened his eyes looking back into the gray nothingness. ?Why me God?! WHY?? He suddenly burst out and sank to his knees on the sopping wet cement. ?Why...why me? What did I do to deserve any of this? Why,...Why, why, why, why me?? He cradled his forehead in his hands as he scrunched into a fetal ball in the pouring rain, his hair coming loose and snaking across his black trench coat and wisps of it stringing into his face. No one was even awake to notice or try to give comfort to this wretched man?s soul.
Suddenly Duo felt a sharp kick in his side and then a yelp as he felt then someone or something fell on top of him then a screech of pain as they hit the cement on the other side. He whirled around sitting up straight now. With his now chocolate colored hair streaming into his eyes, and the rope in back swinging around so fast it fell over his left shoulder he stared at the slight, tiny framed black clad figure that was slowly picking themselves up off the cement and nursing a scrapped palm.
?Oh my lord! I?m sorry!? He said putting a hand on the persons shoulder and quickly wiping away tears that could not have been seen anyway due to the downpour. ?People aren?t usually out at this time of night and in this type of torrential downpour-I didn?t think I?d be tripping anyone...? He slowed his speech and then he stopped talking entirely as the figure turned to face him nursing the palm that had been scraped.
Duo found himself staring into and getting lost in the fathomless, endless depths of the most beautifully stunning lime-emerald green eyes he had ever seen. Pure white wisps of wet hair fell into the eyes as they stared intently back into his own-almost like they were scrutinizing them. His hand moved before he could even think to stop it, and reached out to move the white hair from obscuring the view of the eyes. The pretty face that belonged to them flinched away from his hand and scooted back.
Duo realized what he had done with his hand and dropped it immediately turning a nice cooked lobster color. ?S-sorry...? He said and rubbed his hands again.
The person, obviously female from the feminine curves and features she pertained, stood up slowly and nodded slightly. In a voice Duo swore up and down he recognized she looked down at him and said ?its all right...It was my fault for not seeing you there...?
Her voice was soothing, and deepish with a slight male tangy sound to it. She smiled a little reserved smile and held out her hand to help him up. He took it still entranced by her gorgeous odd colored eyes. ?I?m really sorry about that-? She said offhandedly looking past him and off down the road. ?I must get going now...? She started to turn and was about to sprint away again when he found his voice and called out to her.
?Wait! Wait Miss...? He said as he held out his hand imploring her to stop. She turned her head slightly, her white hair flipping about her features, letting droplets of water fly off the ends. ?I?m really sorry to stop you when your in such a hurry...but you remind me of someone-and you remind me very strongly of her...had you of had blue eyes and navy-blue hair, I?d swear you were her...?
The girl arched her eyebrow and stared at him. ?Oh--do I?? She asked not quite sure. ?And who do I remind you of??
Duo looked at his feet, then back at the girl. ?Someone I lost a couple years ago. I?m sure you never met her, she was kidnapped by an organization called the New White Fang, and used as an experimental variable. I?m sure she?s probably dead now...?
At the mention of the New White Fang her eyes grew wide and she stared at him slack jawed. ?The New White Fang?? She stumbled out.
Duo?s eyes met hers again in a questionable glance. ?You?ve heard of them...? He stated.
She nodded slowly. ?Yes, I escaped their training compound a week ago and traveled here. They?re hot on my trail after realizing I escaped and I?ve been running for a while.?
Duo?s turn to have his eyes grow wide and his jaw slacken. ?You were actually in the compound?!? He asked. She nodded again. Duo looked around and grabbed her by the arm. ?Would you mind coming with me to a more private place? I have questions I want to ask you.?
The girl looked at him severely. ?I can?t for long...They will find me if I stay in one place for to long...?
Duo nodded ?I?ll take that into consideration, but for now come on.? He said and dragged her off down the street.
He led her to an abandoned warehouse in the city and brought her in. She held her nose from the stench of rotting bird and rat carcasses strewn carelessly across the wooden planks. Once in a room he closed the door and turned to her. She faced him with her hand on one of her Uzi?s tucked away on her back in case he planned to do something. ?Can you tell me where the base is?? He asked her placing his hands out in emphasis.
She looked at him and studied his features. He was just a little taller than she was, with a long beautiful rope of plated brunette hair, lean and muscular-not to much muscle but just enough to make him look lithe. He had a beautifully crafted face and beautiful azure-violet eyes to go with it. The face was vaguely familiar now that she looked and thought about it. The long, soaking wet, black trench coat that covered up all but the frontal view of him looked magnificent. He wore a priest type garb with a small silver cross that hung from a chain around his neck and a little gold earring placed in his right earlobe.
As she studied him she shook her head at his question. ?No, I don?t. I have no idea where I am now. All I know is that it?s in a very cold mountainous area. I never stopped to find out where exactly...?
His shoulders drooped a bit and he averted his eyes to the floor. He sighed tiredly and leaned against the wall, rubbing his face with his hand and lifting up his bangs slightly as he thought. Something suddenly struck her in her thoughts and she looked at him. ?Mr. tell me, who was the girl you lost a couple years ago? What was her name??
Duo suddenly looked up at her as if pulled harshly from his thoughts. ?What??
?What was the girl?s name...? She restated trying to stay calm.
?Why do you want to know that? You probably don?t know her...? He said with his eyebrows raised.
?Just tell me her name! What was it? Tell me damn it!? She said fiercely.
Duo stared at her. ?Ok, ok babe-settle down! I?ll tell you-don?t get all hysterical. Her name was Hilde Schibeker, why?? Duo watched carefully as the girl?s eyes became as round as saucers and her hand flew to her mouth. She started backward and stumbled almost falling, but catching herself on a deserted desk.
?H-Hilde Schibeker? That was her name?? She said almost whispering.
Duo pushed off the wall quickly. ?Yes-did you know her? Do you know her? Is she still alive? -Tell me!? He said but it didn?t make any difference to her. The girl before him-her eyes turned from green to a searing pink and she lost consciousness and began to topple to the floor. Duo gasped and ran to catch her just before she hit.
Her head lolled back in his arms and he looked at her face. She was as white as a sheet. She hadn?t eaten in a week obviously. She was so beautiful...He pushed the wet hair back from her face and realized something as he looked at it. On top of that he realized something sticky and liquidly was coming from her. He lifted up his hand and it was covered in red goo, blood obviously enough. His mouth shut and opened a couple times before he managed to stumble out the words ?Oh my god...no...? He hissed under his breath his eyes again growing wide. He quickly scooped the girl up into his arms and rushed from the warehouse into the rain of the early morning, but still night, and away back to the Sanq?s palace, not surprised at how light she was.
~*~ Chap. 4 fin.~*~