Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Bloodlines ❯ Hit Me! I'm a target ( Chapter 10 )

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Chapter 10

The boys were flustered - there was no other way to put it... well there probably was, but anyway. Flustered was usually not a word one associated with the Gundam pilots, five of the most dangerous teens in the Solar System, but it is what they were - and it was all Quatre's
sister's fault!

Their normal monthly debriefing had been anything but, with Une looking slightly harried, and Sally not bothering to chase them around with instruments of alien torture; well that's what Duo called them, he just didn't like needles too much - rather strange considering he usually _liked_ sharp pointy objects, and explosives.

They had a mission... it was just a pity nothing was going to plan.

Currently they were waiting for Quatre's sisters to get home - an extremely common occurrence that was fast turning into a male bonding session. Today they were later than usual, much later, and they hadn't pulled one of their disappearing acts for a few days. Quatre appeared far more anxious than usual. He had been pacing for the last hour or so, throwing worried looks at the study door and massaging the area near his heart for the last hour or so, and no amount of coaxing would get him to sit down - he was starting to make the other boys dizzy.

The five of them looked up sharply as the study door slammed open. Blonde sister: check, the one they were after: negative, it wasn't one of the two sisters they were waiting to chew out. It was just Haruka, a slightly stressed looking Haruka, but Haruka none the less.

Her eyes swept the room as she quickly stalked over to where Quatre was standing, if she was any tenser she would snap in half, "Where are they?"

Duo rolled his eyes at what appeared, to him, to be an overreaction, "Don't sweat it! They _always_ disappear."

Haruka turned, gave a contemptuous sniff, and turned back to her brother - who was starting to look even more worried, if that was possible, "Can you sense _either_ of them? 'Cause at the moment I'm getting nothing from the wind and they're not answering their communicators."

Now it wasn't only the Winner siblings who were worried, the rest of the pilots were starting to become concerned - they had _never_ seen Haruka like this before, it just wasn't like her... then the end of her sentence sunk in.

"They have communicators," Heero stated. It was not a question. His tone was flat, as was his voice, and the others found themselves unconsciously mimicking him.

**K'so** Haruka cringed at her slip up.

"Having their communicator frequency," said Wufei in a dry tired tone, "Would have been much easier than chasing them all over the city."

Haruka, still cursing her slip, cringed and did a surprisingly good imitation of Minako or Usagi when they were trying to avoid a subject, "The frequency... well, uh... it can't be picked up by normal means... as such... heh heh." She sweatdropped slightly and almost kissed the vidphone when it started to beep, saving her from further interrogation.

Quatre, who didn't know whether to be angry or alarmed leapt to answer it, hoping that it would be one of the girls. Unfortunately he did not get his wish, it was a blonde though; Zechs was on the other end of the line, holding a piece of paper and looking rather uncomfortable.

"Ahh, Quatre. Good. You haven't left yet. We have an... interesting not here that might concern you - regarding your sisters."

Both Haruka and Quatre tensed, **Not good**

Quatre quickly leant towards the screen, "Which ones?" he demanded.

Zechs frowned down at the note and angled it around to try and see it better in the light, muttering to himself. Quatre fidgeted while Haruka looked ready to reach through the phone and throttle the long haired man.

"If I read the handwriting correctly - it's worse than Sally's... the youngest ones."

He blinked as Quatre was literally thrown off-screen. An angry blonde replaced him, glaring fiercely, "Where are they? And who the _hell_ are you?!"

Zechs gave the blonde, who looked a little like Quatre, a quick once over, **Guy or girl???** He raised one aristocratic eyebrow, and coolly answered the question with a question, "Who might you be?"

Quatre reappeared on screen as he manhandled his sister out of the way, " 'Ruka, intro's later," With one last shove Haruka disappeared from the screen. Turning one of his fiercest stares on Zechs he tersely stated, "Talk. _NOW_."

**Ahh, Girl. Winner girl. The one who disappeared if I'm not mistaken** "Your current mission has been put on hold, this has been given a higher priority," Zechs began, "Some ex-OZ extremists have taken the two youngest Winner females captive. The Winner family is one of the more influential in the UNESA and they may attempt to use that to their advantage. I think it would be easier if I sent the details to Heero's laptop." Quatre's glare was really beginning to unsettle the platinum blonde, "Go get your sisters Quatre." ~*Click*~

Haruka was storming around the room, her expression decidedly ominous. An unfelt wind was whipping her hair about - and all of the loose paper in the room, the boys pitied whoever had to clean up - and her eyes were flashing like lightning, "Those bastards are goin' down!"

Quatre looked at his older sister with concern - not for her though, the last time she'd been this mad they had to refurbish the entire room, her abilities had probably grown stronger since then and he didn't feel like fixing the entire wing, "We're going to get them back 'Ruka," he said placating and gestured to his fellow pilots.

Haruka didn't feel very comforted, not that surprising really - every time Usagi got kidnapped bad things had a habit of happening. **If we knew where they were we could teleport in and get them, but if they don't have their henshin wands we won't be able to find them... and we won't be able to teleport them out if they're unconscious. _DAMN_!!** Drawing her Space Sword in frustration she turned to the pilots, "Of course you are, and I'm coming with you!" [1] She knew, even before Heero spoke up, that this was out of the Sailor Senshi's league.

"_We_ will get them back, we're far more qualified. You would only be a liability."

Haruka winced, did he have to be so blunt about it? **I _could_ help, but then again our fuku's are sort of a 'Hit me! I'm a target!' sign [2]. Damn this! I'll just have to make sure everyone is prepared if we're needed**

She stormed from the room, tossing her sword from hand to hand, muttering to herself about Setsuna keeping secrets, would Michiru's mirror be _any_ help at all, and how to keep Hotaru under control.

The pilots watched her storm out of the room, to any one of Usagi's friends Haruka's mutterings would have made perfect sense, but it just confused the boys, though the last comment had made some sense.

Duo turned to Quatre with a raised eyebrow, "Q, man, your sister has a sword... that she pulled from _nowhere_! Can everyone in your family do that? Can you do that? Did they teach Heero that, or did he teach them? Can I learn? It's not FAIR!!!" he pouted, but his eyes were twinkling with suppressed mirth.

As usual, when Duo was in one of those moods, Quatre ignored him, "Heero, do you have that information yet?" At Heero's affirmative nod he walked over to the laptop, "Let's get them back, we still have another mission to take care of."

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Getting in to get Quatre's sisters had been easy, almost too easy, so easy it was almost guaranteed that something was going to go wrong. And something did. It was only a minor, tinsy wincy little problem, barely worth mentioning really... their escape route was cut off.

Duo was casting his eyes about frantically for an escape, he spotted something that could be of some use, "Guys, there's a garbage chute, we could escape through that."

"Duo!" Wufei looked horrified, "The last time we did that it wasn't a garbage chute, it was an _incinerator_!"

"But Wu, you put garbage in it! How was _I_ supposed to know? It worked in Star Wars!"

"Just shoot!!!"

The girls barely noticed the exchange between the two lovers, they were busy pestering their would-be rescuers - who were in turn trying to shoot the people intent on turning them into swiss cheese.

Minako was trying to get _anyone's_ attention, **It would be good if Q would be good if Q would remember that both of us can shoot reasonably straight... I wonder if I have a gun in my subspace pocket? Let's see... food, hair tie, cat food, chocolate - I'll have to remember that for later - Artemis sword... well it's a weapon, just no use here. Where's my Henshin wand? Oh yeah, those weirdoes took it** "OI!! Didja remember to grab out stuff?"

Wufei threw her a brief, incredulous glance over his shoulder, "You're worried about a broach, two watches and a pen at a time like _this_?!?"

They had them of course, Quatre had been very adamant about picking them up --

~~Q, IF THAT'S YOU, GET OUR STUFF OR DON'T BOTHER GETTING US~~

He winced, she _really_ had to work on her volume, "Somebody grab their things, they'll want them back."

Heero looked at him, "The mission was to get your sisters, _not_ retrieve their belongings."

"Get them," Quatre looked resigned - and not quite there, Minako was obviously yelling at him again, "Or we'll be coming back for them, I can see it."

~~DAMN RIGHT!!~~ They all heard that.

Duo was the one to pick up the small pile of belongings on his way to the girls cell. ---

Usagi sent her best glare to the back of the boys heads, "You have _no_ idea, Gimme that broach!"

Duo paused to reload his gun, again, and tossed the broach and the yellow watch to her. To Minako he tossed the pink watch and the yellow pen.

Usagi looked at the watch for a moment and mentally shrugged, no need to comment about the colour - at least it was what she was after. Deftly, she flicked it open and hit the 'all call' button.

It barely flashed once before an extremely irate Haruka appeared on the small screen, "Minako?... USAGI!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU PAIR?!!!"

Usagi blink-blinked at this and then replied thoughtfully, "We decided to go sightseeing care of Wacko Tourist Company. I think Rubeus was their manager. Don't go anywhere with them, the service _sucks_. No in-house movies, complimentary drinks or peanuts or anything!"

The small screen divided itself into several segments, "_USAGI_!!" Rei growled.

Usagi rolled her eyes, they really needed to work on their sense of humour. She shrugged, "Well they were weird enough, and the service _did_ suck."

An assortment of growls and groans issued from the communicators speakers. while they were not amused by Usagi's flippant attitude, they were relieved at the same time, if she was cracking jokes things couldn't be too bad. Right?

Ami was the first person to notice something wasn't right, "Usagi-chan, why can I hear gunfire?"

The Senshi stopped to listen, then frowned expectantly at their princess.

Usagi glanced sideways at Minako, who simply shrugged - no help was obviously going to come from that corner, and then back to the communicator, "Because people are shooting at us." It was a simple answer and straight to the point.

The Senshi nodded, it was a perfectly logical answer really, given what they could hear, it made sense. They froze.

"_WHAT_?!?"

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Trowa glanced over to where the two sisters were huddled and frowned slightly at the sight, "Uhh, Quatre, Usagi is having an animated conversation with her watch."

Quatre shrugged. They were his sisters, nothing much about them phased him anymore, "So, she talks to her cat too, so does Minako for that matter. I've seen her having a conversation with the fridge, the television... and she beats up her computer occasionally.[3]"

Duo overheard the two and glanced over at the sisters, "Yeah, but the cats answer back."

"That's beside the point," Quatre hadn't really been paying attention, then what Duo said sunk in, "What?!" He stopped what he was doing to turn and stare at Duo, remembering to take cover after a bullet hit close to his head.

Duo chuckled and shook his head, snapping off a quick shot at the idiots shooting at them - their aim was worse than that of an Imperial Stormtrooper [4]. **So he _didn't_ know about that** "Just remind me to tell you about it one day." He put a new clip in his gun and swore vehemently, "Damn, I think we've contracted Trowa's disease."

Both Trowa and Quatre looked at him curiously, "What?"

He gave a cheeky grin as he turned back around, "We're running out of bullets."

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Usagi glared down at Minako's communicator, by the sound of the things going on around them they needed out, and they needed out _fast_. **If the others can teleport themselves here I can supply enough energy to get us out of here. I think**

"Just teleport yourselves here yesterday!" When no-one appeared to move she barked, "Now!" A bullet impacted just above her head, spattering her with dust and shrapnel, "CHIK'SO."

_That_ snapped the Senshi out of their stupor, their princess and closest friend was in danger, "We'll be right there."

Minako cringed, that was too close a call her sister had just had, "Usagi, would you get _down_!" Spinning towards the door she shoved Heero behind it, "Shut the door."

Trowa looked at the double reinforced, 4 inch thick steel door and then back at Minako, "We will be trapped."

"Believe me," Usagi snorted, "That's going to be the least of our troubles. Now would somebody please SHUT THE BLOODY DOOR?!"

The voice was powerful and commanding, they had to suppress the urge to salute as they re-shut the door.

Minako waved to a corner of the room, "Everyone into the corner."

Wufei looked at the girls, usually you did _not_ open a prison cell just to lock yourselves back inside. The aim was to get _outside_ and away from the prison, "_Onna_, we want to go _that_ way," he pointed out the now closed and barricaded door, "Not trap ourselves inside."

Minako gave him an odd look, it made him feel like there was something he was missing - but what it was he would not have a clue, "It's not that we don't enjoy your lovely company Fuwei," she began, mixing up his name on purpose, "But those uninvited guests you bought with you are not so nice."

Usagi could see this degenerating very quickly into a knock-down-drag-out argument [5]. Grabbing the boys before it could get any worse, she pushed them into the corner, "Get in the corner or you'll get squooshed... it won't be pretty." **Not to mention what the magic field
might do** [6].

As everyone was jammed into the corner Heero looked at Usagi, suspicion clearly evident in his eyes, "Squooshed by _what_ exactly?"

Usagi managed to look both smug and uncomfortable at the same time, "Uhhh... you'll see."

Heero stared at her, almost at glare intensity making her feel even more uncomfortable, and muttered half to himself, "I don't _like_ those answers, it's almost as bad as 'trust me'." [7]

Bright sparkly lights filled the center of the room. Seven Sailor Senshi appeared and slumped to the ground groaning.

Duo glanced at the group before him with more than a little trepidation, the history between the Gundam pilots and the Sailor Senshi wasn't exactly what you could call friendly. Actually he got the feeling that they didn't like them helping them out very much at all, "Oh _goody_. Do we get to be soaked, electrified, frozen or fried today? Or are you going for a bit of variety and try to blow us into walls?" He'd seen that happen to the Senshi a couple of time and it looked painful.

Jupiter looked up from the floor where she had slumped and glared at the long haired Gundam pilot who, as far as she was concerned, had _far_ too much energy, "Shut up, Duo." She looked at the other Shenshi, who were in similar positions, "Well that was _fun_. Let's not do it again."

The Senshi were beginning to compose themselves, teleporting without their full compliment was draining. The pilots were trying to figure out what the Senshi were doing there. The people outside had given up on trying to open the door by conventional methods and seemed to have found something to use as a battering ram if the constant thumping was anything to go by.

Uranus looked up from where she was sitting, "They need a new interior decorator," She muttered, then swore at herself for spending too much time with her little sisters before turning her gaze on the two un-transformed females in the room, "Don't meant to rush you or anything, but can you pair transform so we can get the hell out of here before your friends out there get in?"

There was only one possible conclusion to be drawn from this statement, and a brief glance at the Senshi confirmed that there was two missing. All five boys came to it, then some discarded it, there was no possible way that it was true, was there? All of them went into various states of surprise as the two girls became engulfed in bright flashy lights and emerged as Sailors Cosmos and Venus.

Cosmos Quickly began pushing everyone into the centre of the room as the door began to shake on its' hinges, "Everyone who wants out in the middle please."

Quatre's brain had temporarily short-circuited, it had shut down as his sisters began transforming, "But you just said to get in the corner."

Uranus snorted at him as the banging on the door got louder, "We an argue about this at home. Get your butts in gear and get in the circle, that means you 30."

The use of his sisters favourite nickname snapped him back to reality, " 'Ruka?!?"

"Later 30. Everyone ready?"

"No."

Mars rolled her eyes, "You don't count, Duo. You're just baggage."

Duo drew himself up with mock indignence, "Oh, so now we've been..."

Bright lights filled the room.

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The Manguanacs who were unlucky enough to have training duty in the arena started as it filled with bright sparkly lights. Had the origins of the lights been paying any attention they would have found themselves with a variety of weapons pointed at them for a brief moment.

"...reduced to baggage have we?!" Duo glanced around, "Oh, fast trip. Can we go _anywhere_ with this?" He smirked at the thought. The possibilities were endless, especially for an ex-theif and practical joker extraordanaire.

The Manguanacs relaxed. It was just the Sailor Senshi with the Gundam pilots. The did a double take. Sailor Senshi and Gundam pilots? Last time they had checked the two groups had not been getting on too well.

Deciding that Rashid could deal with it, they returned to their practice - but they each kept an ear on the proceedings.

Quatre looked around the circle trying to see if he could place any of the other Senshi; it wasn't working. He wished he and the other pilots didn't have to leave as soon as they had picked up some more ammunition for their guns, "You have a _lot_ of explaining to do when we get back Usagi, Minako."

Two of the younger Senshi, Venus and the leader Cosmos if the Manguanacs had it right, nodded miserably.

Venus decided that she wasn't going to go down without a fight, "What about Haruka?!" If they were going down, they were _all_ going down. The Winner females were going to face their little brother together - safety in numbers and all of that.

Uranus, the Manguanacs identified, looked at the Senshi of love, horrified, "'30 knows better." There was a slightly desperate note to her voice, "Don't bring me into this!"

The Manguanacs weren't paying attention to this because they were interested, no definitely not - well not completely anyway. Captain Rashid would want _all_ the details later. Especially since Quatre-sama had left to rescue his sisters without them... again.

Quatre turned his... _slightly_ upset gaze on the Outer Senshi of Uranus, "Too late," He stated. His voice was cold, he was obviously _not_ happy with the turn of events, "I want you _all_ here when I get back, understood?"

Uranus glared at Cosmos and Venus, she was _not_ impressed with this turn of events, "Gee, _thanks_ you pair."

They gave her a weak smile.
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-tbc-.

[1] S: ^_^ Don't you just love Samwise Gamgee.
[2] M: Yes. I like Mercedes Lackey
[3] M: I do that ^_^ and i _swear_ it's not my fault it's broken again.... why does noone believe me?
[4] S: Seriously, who here has seen Star Wars? How bad is their aim?
[5] S: Been in a couple of these... not fun, they can get nasty.
[6] S: If you've ever watched the Sailor Senshi teleport they crack the concrete _and_ put a _HUGE_ dint in it. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to get caught in it.
[7] M: And David Eddings