Chapter Ten

By Raven

Email: SandDruid@aol.com

Disclaimer: I don’t own any Gundam characters or Gundam anything for that matter. Please don’t sue me. On to Part Ten.

In Africa:

The Gundam girls (with the exception of Relena) were in the storage helping Valise finish the mechanics on their Gundams, the boys Gundams were done since they had the professors to help them. Misty was standing on Canic’s forearm trying to tighten a loose wire. "Stupid, retarded, piece of shit!"

She hit the armor with the pliers. Quatre, Trowa, and Duo had come into the storage, Trowa watched Misty kicking her Gundam, Valise was helping Hilde with hers, she had her back to Misty but heard her fighting the Gundam. "Misty! You break it you bought it."

Misty rolled her eyes at Valise. "Ha, Ha, you should be thankful, I’m working for free, for the peace of the world."

Morgan shook her head and looked to Meltam. "There she goes thinking she’s GOD’S GIFT." Morgan yelled the last part so Misty could hear it. Misty turned to Morgan and yelled so she could hear her.

"What did you say?"

Morgan smiled at Misty and yelled back, "I said you are a GOOD pilot and very GIFTED."

Misty smiled. "That’s what I thought."

Morgan looked down. "Conceited idiot."

Misty turned once again to Morgan. "Did you say something else?"

Morgan shook her head innocently. "No."

Misty gave her a bored look. "Liar."

Hilde yelled to both of them. "Don’t you guys ever stop fighting?"

Morgan looked over at Hilde like it was a stupid question. "No."

Duo decided to make their presence known. "Hilde do you need any help?"

Hilde looked out to the ground from the cockpit of her Gundam. "Yeah, Valise and I would love some help."

Duo went over to Hilde. Something caught Trowa’s and Quatre’s attention. "Son of a Bitch!"

Trowa watched Misty beat her Gundam once again as another wire short circuited. He turned to Quatre. "I’m going to go help Misty."

Quatre nodded his head. "I think that would be a good idea, I’m going to see if Morgan needs any help."

Meanwhile in Europe, at the conference of the New Kingdom:

Relena had landed the plane in a small airfield, and hailed a cab to take her to the conference. She looked up at the huge doors and saw the butlers checking invitations. She quickly thought of a plan, she ran to the doors and started to talk hysterically.

"Quickly! I saw someone trying to break in through a window in the east wing, if you go fast you can still catch him!"

One of the butlers went off to find the person trying to break in, he told the other butler to stay there. The remaining butler asked Relena, "Miss, do you have an invitation?"

Relena still acted like she was upset about finding a person trying to break in. "Oh my god! I can’t believe I saw someone trying to…my heart’s in my throat, I’m sorry you said something about my invitation? I must have dropped it while running, I simply can’t go back there, my father is from the L2 colony, you know, Jameson Randal. Don’t I look familiar?"

The butler looked into Relena’s eyes. "You do look familiar……go on."

Relena gave him a puppy look. "Thank you, I’m very grateful to you."

The butler blushed at her look. Relena stepped through the doors, she thought to herself, "Too easy."

Relena looked around and saw the room filled with the leaders from the colony. She stopped scanning the crowd when she found who she was looking for, her brother. Relena saw Noin right by his side, she smiled. "Some things never change."

She walked away from them so they wouldn’t spot her, but not so far so she could keep an eye on Milliardo and the people around him.

In Africa, the living hall:

The rich girls were trying to talk to the Gundam boys, and Valise, Derrick and the professors were talking with each other. Misty, Morgan, and Hilde came in, they looked around the living hall, Morgan talked to everyone. "Where’s Sage?"

Heero spoke up. "Why, what’s wrong?"

"I can’t find her, she’s gone."

Duo leaned back in his chair. "Don’t tell me she’s run away again."

Misty glanced at him. "She wouldn’t do that, not at a time like this. Valise?" 

All eyes in the room turned to Valise, who gave a half smile. "She had to go somewhere."

Hilde stepped closer to Valise. "Where?"

Valise sighed and told them the whole truth. "She went to the conference of the New Kingdom, she said this was something she had to do herself. She’s already there."

Morgan looked confused. "I thought we decided that there was going to be enough security on the premises, and it wasn’t sure if anyone was going to try to kill Milliardo Peacecraft."

Valise looked at everyone. "She said it was too much risk, she was going to make sure."

Heero shook his head, Quatre gave a solemn look. "She’s incredibly courageous."

Mary spoke up to get the talk off Relena. "Or incredibly stupid."

The rich girls giggled at her forwardness. Morgan got very angry at the statement. She went over and sat down across from Mary. "I’m going to tell you a story Mary."

Mary gave a tired look. "I don’t like stories."

Morgan gave a knowing smile. "You are going to hear this one, and if you try to leave, I swear to God I’ll pin your ass to the chair."

Morgan had all the Gundam boys' and the room’s attention on her. "Not so long ago Misty, Sa..Relena, and I were at a prison that the CWD’s called Hell’s prison. This prison kept many people, most of them innocent that just happened to get in the way."

Morgan paused and looked at Mary’s drink, she grabbed it and pointed to it. "Every two days they bleed about this much blood from us."

Misty came over. "Come on Morgan."

Morgan looked sharply at Misty. "NO! they have to hear this, I’m tired of being insulted by these people."

Misty let Morgan continue. Mary gave her a look. "I don’t understand."

"They took our blood, by rape and torture everyday."

Morgan looked at Quatre for a moment, and saw his sad look. Misty who was leaning against the wall, walked off because she couldn’t hear anymore. Trowa wanted to go after her, but he wanted to hear the rest. Morgan went on with the story and told the group about Adrian, and Maci, she told them of the escape and how Relena changed and became respected with the other inmates. After she said everything, the whole room was on shock with the exception of Valise who had already known the story. Derrick spoke first. "I had no idea, how long was Sa..Relena there?"

Morgan looked at the table. "She was there when I got there, I think about three years. I better go see Misty."

Morgan got up and went out of the room. The group stayed, to say the least Mary actually felt guilty. Trowa turned to Valise. "Relena could get killed, she shouldn’t have gone alone."

Valise nodded her head. "I know, but she didn’t want any help. She’s done a lot for me, I had to honor her wish."

At the Conference:

Milliardo started to speak to the leaders, with Noin by his side. Relena stayed in the upper balcony so she could stay out of sight and to have a good view of the crowd. The speech went on for two hours, and the audience stood up and applauded, Relena took out a hand gun and looked around for anyone suspicious. After her second look, she saw a man on the balcony to her right take out a gun. She quickly thought of something and changed her target to the podium that her brother was on. "I have to get him safe first, in case I miss."

She pulled the trigger before the man on the balcony had targeted her brother. The place erupted into a panic as Relena’s shot hit right next to her brother, Noin immediately pushed Milliardo down and soldiers came in trying to find the culprit. Relena aimed her gun next at the man, she just wanted to wound him, the man saw her and fired. Relena quickly hid behind a column, she waited until he finished shooting at her then she returned fire. The man slipped away. "Damn!"

Some soldiers came to the balcony and yelled at Relena. "You there stop!"

Relena turned to look at them and ran, Milliardo looked up to the balcony and saw a girl running away, she looked behind her then at her brother for an instant. That was all that was needed. "That’s Relena…stop your fire! I command you to stop your fire!"

The soldier got in a couple of last shots, one hit Relena in the back and one in the leg. She fought against the pain something she learned in prison and made it down the stairs and outside. Relena looked around trying to find something to escape in, she turned at the sound of a gun being cocked, she turned to look at the man who tried to shoot her brother. "You spoiled my plans, I had to kill Peacecraft. I’ll kill you instead."

Relena closed her eyes, she couldn’t run, she was bleeding bad. A shot rang out and Relena jumped thinking she was hit, she opened her eyes and saw the man on the ground, she looked up to see the shooter. "Sally!"

Sally Po smiled. "It looked like you needed some help."

"Thank you, what are you doing here?"

Sally put her gun away. "Noin wanted some security and she wanted the best, so she called me. What are you doing here Relena?"

Relena held her side where the bullet went through, she was starting to get dizzy. "Sally, I need you to trust me. Please can you take me to Africa I’ll give you the coordinates."

Sally looked taken back. "Africa?"

Relena heard from the building other soldiers coming. "Please, I don’t have much time."

"Alright."

Sally came over and helped Relena walk. "I have a plane not to far away, if you could fly that. The people I work with will recognize it." Sally and Relena walked away right before soldiers came out and started to look around the premises.

In the conference room:

Millardo and Noin were talking.

"Are you sure it was Miss Relena?"

"Yes, I’m sure. She saved my life."

"I wonder where she went, the soldiers said they couldn’t find her anywhere."

Milliardo went to the window and looked out.

"I will find your sister."

The Next day:

Everyone had heard from the news on the television of the attack on Milliardo Peacecraft. Misty spoke what everyone was thinking. "I hope she’s alright."

In Storage:

Valise was putting new information in Polartic, when she heard the call from the plane. She went into the living hall and told everyone that Relena was coming in. Heero was in his room when Duo came and told him about the news. Every one made it to the storage as the plane landed, everyone waited. The door opened and Sally came out helping Relena. Valise ran to the girls. "What happened?"

"She got shot. But she saved her brother."

Valise gave her a quick check. "We need to get her to med. lab, she’s starting to run a fever." Heero heard Valise and walked over, he gently picked Relena up and walked to med. lab followed by Valise. Sally came down and smiled at Wufei.

"Hello Wufei."

In Med. Lab:

Heero gently put Relena on the table, she was unconscious by now. Valise worked on her for a long time and stitched up all the wounds. Heero didn’t leave her, Valise went to talk to the others about her condition. Relena woke up to find Heero by her. The first thing she felt was pain, she groaned and looked over at Heero.

"You stayed with me?" Heero nodded his head. Relena looked at her wounds. "So it really did happen."

"What you did was stupid Relena. You shouldn’t have gone alone."

Relena turned her head to look at Heero. "What does it matter?"

Heero leaned down closer to her, his eyes betraying some emotion. "It matters to me."

Relena searched his face. "Why?"

Heero’s face turned to the stone mask. Relena got upset. "Why?…why can’t you say it, Heero?" Heero remained stubbornly silent. Relena got even more upset. "Why?!"

Heero got up from the chair. "Get some rest."

Relena watched him walk out, a tear escaped her eye and fell down her cheek, She looked up at the ceiling to gain her composure back.

A couple of hours later:

Wufei and Sally were talking, mostly he was asking her questions and she was answering them. He didn’t look very happy that she was risking her life. Everyone was emotionally exhausted from worrying about Relena. Heero was in the gym working out, Misty came in and saw him, she knew where he was all she did was ask Trowa. "You know I went to see Relena, she was pretty upset. I bet 10 to 1 that your at the heart of her distress."

Heero stopped his work out and looked at Misty. "What goes on between us is none of your business."

Misty looked at him with a mellow look. "She is my friend, when she gets upset I also become upset."

Heero got up and grabbed a towel. "How very noble of you."

Misty stared at him. "What is with you?"

Heero didn’t answer, and went to walk out of the gym. Misty called to him. "Are Mobil Suits the only thing you can handle?" Heero stopped walking for a moment and looked at Misty for a moment, then continued walking.

In Med. Lab:

Damon was sitting on the edge of Relena’s bed. "Are you going to get better?"

"Yes, I be walking around in no time."

Damon looked Relena in the eyes. "Are you going to fight people?"

Relena’s eyes softened. "Oh Damon, I have to."

He started to tear up. "Are you going to die?"

Relena hugged him. "No, I’m not going to die. When I get back, we’ll go around the world and see many things. Would you like that?"

Damon smiled at her. "Yeah!"

"Okay then."

In Space:

"Sir we are awaiting your command."

The leader looked at the colonies one last time. All of his ships were in their stations and waiting for the order. "Attack!"

END OF PART 10

Part 11-The war begins!