Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Pilot's Only Weakness ❯ Michelle's Folly ( Chapter 4 )

A Pilot's Only Weakness pt4.

Disclaimer: I don't the Gundam Wing characters.

A/N: I forgot to fill this in last time. Oops. Anyhoo, this may be the last chapter for quite a while since I NOW HAVE A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK!! Maybe a few more reviews would get me going. Hint, hint. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Oh and I'm assuming since people have the technology to send people to go and live in space that they've made aeroplanes that go much faster than the ones we have. ^_^

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The phone rang continuously as Quatre and Michelle slept. Quatre put a pillow over his head to ignore it but Michelle slept through it. He finally decided to pick up the phone.

"Geez, she sleeps like her brother." Quatre muttered. He rubbed his eye sleepily. "Hello?"

"QUATRE! Why in the hell did it take you so long to pick up?" Duo yelled.

"Gee I dunno. Maybe it's because it's 1am." Quatre replied.

"This is no time for sarcasm. Hilde's been kidnapped."

"Are you sure?"

"WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?!"

"Sorry. I'll meet you at your house." They hung up. "Michelle, wake up hon."

"Why?" Michelle asked, asleep.

"I got pancakes." Quatre said popping his pants on. She woke up in an instant.

"Hey!" Michelle exclaimed whacking him upside the head. "Never trick me with breakfast!"

"What was I thinking?" Quatre asked sarcastically.

"You're not a morning person are you?"

"Hilde's been kidnapped." There was a long silence.

"Oh my gosh…I see the pattern!"

"Pattern?" Quatre asked.

"Well what have all five of you Gundam pilots got in common?" Michelle asked getting dressed.

"Um…why don't I let you answer that? It's a little too early for me." Quatre replied.

"Okay, you all have someone you care about that can't defend themselves in battle. Duh! That's why he 'killed' me. Of course, he might try to get Sally too." Michelle said exasperated.

"What about Hilde? She was an OZ soldier for a while."

"She can't fight in her condition."

"Huh?"

"Oops."

"You mean she's pregnant?!"

"You know, with that whole empathy thing going on it's like you have a backstage pass to my mind."

"This just made things a whole lot more difficult."

"This is all my fault."

"Why?"

"Um. HELLO!! Ex FBI agent in the house! Most probably my fault!"

"No one thinks that. Don't be silly."

"You'd be surprised what people think when they're angry."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

An old military base in New Edwards…

Hilde and Relena both woke up around the same time. They looked at their surroundings and it looked like they were in an abandoned mobile suit hanger.

"Ah! You're awake. How pleasant of you to join me!" Baron Catorce said emerging from the shadows.

"You! This is all your fault!" Relena yelled.

"Guilty as charged." Catorce chuckled. "So, this is the woman that the Perfect Soldier has chosen to settle down with."

"I thought Duo's codename was Shinigami." Hilde said.

"I'm not talking about you." Baron Catorce said.

"Well you're mistaken. Heero doesn't mean anything to me." Relena lied.

"Well that may be so, but can you say that he feels the same." Catorce smirked. Relena fell silent.

"They'll figure out where we are you know. Then you'll be sorry." Hilde curtly said.

"Hmm? Why's that?"

"You're no threat to them." Hilde said bitterly. Anger grew in Catorce's face as he struck his hand across her cheek.

"Shut up." Catorce said as he walked away from them, leaving them with a guard.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Sally and Noin had hopped on the first flight to Boston and had gotten there within two hours. Zechs was already at Duo's as were the rest of the G-boys along with Michelle. Lady Une had decided to stay at the Preventer headquarters just in case.

"Does anyone have any ideas as to whom this could be?" Quatre asked.

"Une said she recognised the voice when he called us." Noin said. "So, we're assuming that it's an old OZ soldier."

"Yeah, he even tried to run me down in a parking garage." Sally said.

"You outrun it right?" Wufei asked, concerned.

"If I didn't I wouldn't be here." Sally replied. "Why?"

"No reason." Wufei quickly replied. Sally just smirked.

"But why would they want Relena and Hilde? It doesn't make any sense." Zechs said angrily.

"Well, maybe he knows that he's struck a nerve. Having all of you angry like this doesn't exactly mean you're gonna be in a calm state of mind." Michelle said.

"Oh really! Well just because you're an ex-agent doesn't mean you can tell me what state of mind I'm in!" Zechs yelled.

"Zechs, please calm down." Noin said.

"I wasn't being condescending you know! I was just telling you my opinion!" Michelle said sternly.

"How do we know that this isn't your fault?!" Zechs yelled back.

"Excusé moi, huh?" Michelle asked.

"It could all be some looney from your old organisation trying to get even with you." Zechs said.

"That is enough Marquise!! Back off!" Duo said, standing in front of his sister.

"Make me you braided baka!" Zechs yelled.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Heero yelled, standing between the two of them. "This is exactly what he wants. You want to give him that satisfaction?"

"Well he shouldn't yell at her like that." Duo replied.

"But he's right." Michelle said. Everyone turned to look at her. "It's a strong possibility that this is my fault."

"Don't say that…" Quatre said trying to put an arm around her but she shook it off.

"No! I have to because none of you will listen. It's a possibility whether you want to hear it or not." Michelle walked off and slammed a room door.

"Wow, for once a woman was pissed off and I wasn't the cause of it." Wufei smirked. Sally gave him an elbow in the ribs. "What?!"

"There. Are you happy now?" Duo asked Zechs as he sat down frustrated.

Michelle sat in the room and looked up at the ceiling. Zechs' shouts of accusation were all that was running through her head. Then it hit her. She quickly walked out of the room, went into Duo's and got his laptop that Heero got him for Christmas since he wouldn't stop touching his. She quickly grabbed a bag that she had left at Duo's. There was a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Michelle asked.

"It's Trowa." Trowa replied. She quickly hid as much stuff as she could under the bed.

"Come in." He sat next to her on the bed.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Fine. Just overreacted, you know how it is." Michelle replied.

"Sure, I have a sister." Trowa said. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Fire away."

"Where do you think you are going?" Trowa asked holding up her bag.

"Quatre taught you that thing he does, didn't he?"

"You didn't answer my question." Michelle sighed.

"You have to promise me you won't tell anybody."

"Miche…"

"Please Trowa! You have to promise me." She said looking him directly in the eye. He sighed.

"Ok, I promise."

"I'm gonna go find them."

"You can't go, it's too dangerous. Besides, Duo would kill you."

"I have to try something! It kills me just sitting here when this could all be my fault."

"Don't you think that everyone else in this house is thinking the exact same thing?"

"Not Zechs…"

"Don't pay any attention to him. Ever since he got married to Noin he's been such a hothead."

"Trowa I've got to do this."

"Have you at least thought this through?"

"Yes."

"How long?"

"Two minutes?"

"You know that isn't long enough."

"Trowa! You promised you wouldn't tell!"

"But I didn't promise that I wouldn't stop you. Quatre's like a brother to me, I can't lie to him!"

"I never said lie, I just said to avoid talking. It's not like you talk that much anyway…" Trowa smirked slightly.

"But it's too dangerous."

"Fine. I won't go rescue them."

"Thank you."

"I'll just go and find their location so you guys can get them."

"Michelle…" Trowa sighed. "You are one stubborn girl."

"Thanks Trowa." Michelle said, giving him a hug. She grabbed her stuff and climbed out of the window.

"Ay, I'm beginning to reconsider Wufei's 'all onnas are evil' thing."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Michelle walked to a toll bridge and knocked on the window. A blonde woman poked her head out and smiled.

"Wow! M&M! How can I help you?" The blonde woman asked.

"Jools, I need your help. Have there been any planes rented lately?"

"What kinda planes honey?" Jools asked.

"Military planes."

"I thought you were finished with that sort of stuff."

"It's different now, family's involved."

"Say no more, there was one big one rented. It went to New Edwards. Don't know what for."

"New Edwards? What's there?" Michelle asked.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Can I at least have a glass of water?" Hilde asked.

"I have been told not to leave this post." The guard replied. Hilde sweat dropped.

"Geez!" She muttered. "How are you doing Relena?"

"Okay I suppose." Relena smiled. "I suppose I could rest easier if I knew why we were here."

"I just hope someone comes to rescue us. I never thought in my lifetime that I would rely on the boys to bust me out of a jam." Hilde smirked.

**Oh Heero…** Relena thought to herself.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"So, how's Michelle doing?" Quatre asked.

"Kinda absent." Trowa said.

"What do you mean?" Duo asked.

"She's gone. Out the window." Trowa replied.

"Oh hell no!" Duo cried. "Do you know where she could've gone?"

"Sorry." Trowa said.

"This is so irresponsible!! How could she just leave?" Zechs yelled.

"With the way you're going on I'm not surprised she did leave." Wufei retorted. Quatre remained silent.

He thought to himself. Trowa saw the pained expression on his best friends face and felt his pain too.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"An old military base?" Michelle asked herself. "Wait, duh! Where else would he go? Now the question is, how am I going to get there?……… Jools!!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Is the phone plugged in? She might call." Sally asked. Duo nodded solemnly. All of them sat there in silence until the phone rang. Except Heero, they all dashed towards it and landed in a big pile two feet from the phone. Heero calmly walked towards it and picked it up.

"Any one of us could've done that you know." Duo said.

"Hello?" Heero answered.

"Well hello there pilot currently known as Yuy. How are you?"

"Enough with the pleasantries. Where have you taken Relena and Hilde?"

"All in good time. But first, I want to know how much time it will take me to drive you all to insanity." Catorce chortled.

"You mean the kind of insanity you're at? That may take a while."

"I wouldn't say that if I were you. That might get the head of a certain blonde woman…hurt."

"You wouldn't dare…"

"I'm a very daring man."

"I wouldn't call you a man. Kidnapping innocent women and using a voice synthesiser so I wouldn't recognise you."

"How…"

"You think I didn't know?! I'm a Gundam pilot damn it!"

"Well then, you should be very familiar with the term 'detonation device'. Have a nice day." The phone line went.

"What did he say?" Zechs asked.

"He hasn't hurt them. Yet."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Jackpot! Thanks Frankie!" Michelle yelled as she leapt off the plane.

"Wait! You might need this!" Frankie yelled tossing her a gun.

"Again I thank you." Michelle smiled.

"Sure! Just make sure you let me meet this brother of yours." Frankie said. "I'll be in a hanger near here, so buzz me when you need me."

Michelle walked quite a long time before she found the building. She walked in the back entrance and started down a corridor, watching out for security cameras and guards. She found a room and to her surprise there were Relena and Hilde tied up with no guard in the room.

"Jackpot!" Michelle cried softly. "I'd better call home." But before she could do anything a blow was struck to the back of her head.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Nnng, my head…" Michelle groaned. "Where the heck am I?" She looked over and saw Hilde on her left and Relena on her right.

"You're finally up." Hilde tried to smile but grimaced in pain. Her face was bloody and bruised. Relena also looked a bit beat up but nowhere near as much as Hilde.

"Oh my God! What happened to you?" Michelle asked, concerned.

"She opened her mouth to much." A voice said as she looked up to see her kidnapper.

"You! Are…are you the one that has been causing us all this grief?!" Michelle demanded.

"In a word yes." He replied. A low growl emitted from Michelle's throat. "I'm not sure how you managed to escape death…but then again my officer only checked the pulse of Wufei Chang. I guess you cowardly hid so that we wouldn't know."

"What do you want with us? We haven't caused you any harm and yet you just callously beat us up and all we asked you was why? So if you're going to kill me then at least give me the satisfaction of knowing why you're doing this." Relena said staring him in the eye.

"For the Lady." He replied.

"Lady…you mean Lady Une?!" Michelle exclaimed. "That was unexpected."

"All I ever did for her was fight and put up with her mood swings…and then what did she do? Praise the pilots who she was fighting so hard against. It angered me to no end that she never paid any attention to me or what I was doing for her." He said, his face becoming more solemn as he recalled the memories. Hilde and Relena sweat-dropped.

"So, what your basically saying is boo hoo Lady Une likes the mean pilots better than me. I am so heartbroken." Michelle replied sarcastically. He turned to her and struck her across the face with the butt of his gun. It was a miracle she wasn't unconscious, just a bruise on her face.

"How dare you say that?" He asked. "What gives you the right?"

"You striking my two friends. You terrorising my family. You just breathing gives me the right to say that you bastard." Michelle uttered with such contempt and hatred that the other two girls felt fear creeping upon them. He grabbed her face in his hand and put his face in front of hers. They were almost nose-to-nose when he let go and stared her in the eye.

"Why can't I kill you?" He asked. She moved so that she was at the side of his head.

"Because you can't kill the sister of death." She whispered. He backed away from her as she leaned back on her chair with a very Duo like smirk. He regained his composure and looked at her with a cocky grin.

"So, imooto no Shinigami, how do you presume that you'll survive my wrath?" He asked.

"Because she knows what happens when you piss off former Gundam pilots. That's how." Hilde said bitterly.

"I don't care if the former Gundam pilots are displeased with me. The fact is that they are former pilots which means they haven't been in combat for years. If they're something to fear then why was I able to kill Wufei?" He asked. Michelle scowled. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"

"Maybe I'm just sick and tired of talking to a maniac." Michelle muttered. He left the room laughing sadistically.

"I can't believe he left us in here without any guards!" Relena said.

"Just see it as a lucky break." Hilde replied.

**C'mon! C'mon!!** Michelle said to herself as she tried to undo her rope. Luckily, he had only bounded their arms.

"Michelle, do you have anyway that the boys can get to us?" Relena asked. Michelle's face suddenly lit up.

"Lena, you are a genius." Michelle smirked. "If only I could get my hands free…"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"So, Lady Une recognised the voice…" Quatre pondered. "But, we really never knew any of the other OZ soldiers that well."

"Right now I think we need to concentrate on finding them rather than who it is." Trowa said.

"You're right." Zechs agreed. "If there was only someway we could track them…" Quatre's face lit up.

"Track them!! That's it!!" Quatre exclaimed. "Do we have any equipment that can detect cell phones?"

"Quatre, you are just lucky that I have a lot of free time on my hands." Duo said grinning as he pulled out a cell phone detector.

"I swear, you guys just get weirder and weirder." Noin smirked.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"But what are you gonna do with a cell?" Relena asked.

"Well if I phone Duo hopefully they can track it to where we are. Something about radio waves…I never really cared for physics." Michelle squirmed to get her hands free. "Bingo!" She quickly got her cell out of her pocket and dialled Duo's number. She held the phone between her shoulder and neck as she untied the other girls.

The phone rang at Duo's and everyone, except Trowa, clambered to the phone only to land on a big heap. Trowa calmly walked to the phone and picked it up.

"Not again…" Noin moaned, as she was on the bottom of the pile.

"Show off…" Wufei muttered.

"Hello?" Trowa answered.

"Trowa! It's Miche." Trowa's eyes widened.

"There's something you don't see everyday." Sally commented.

"Michelle!! Are you alright?! Where are you?" Trowa asked frantically. Cries of 'put her on speaker!!' came from the dog pile.

"We're not as good as we'd like to be…listen, we don't know where we are but it looks like an old base. I think we're still on the colony."

"Listen, keep on the line as long as you can. We've got a tap on the phone."

"Sure. So, how is everybody?"

"They're kind of top of each other." Trowa smirked as the others tried to get up. "Do we need to bring an ambulance?"

"Definitely. Hilde's beat up pretty badly and so is Lena."

"What about you?"

"I got a bruise on my face for watching too many 9 'o' clock movies."

"I know this is a weird question to ask but…did he say anything weird?"

"Now that you mention it, he did say that he was doing all this for Lady Une."

"Well that cinches it."

"Let me guess. Jinkies, Trowa's found a clue."

"Exactly. Well we've got the trace…we'll get there as soon as we can. Michelle? Michelle!"

"Her phone line has been disconnected." A male voice rasped as the line went dead. Trowa turned around to the others.

"We need to get there fast. That man is very unstable." Trowa stated.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"What in the hell do you think you are doing?" Catorce demanded.

"What does it look like? Geez, for a criminal mastermind you sure are stupid." Michelle replied nonchalantly. Catorce growled in anger.

"Sit down." He ordered.

"Like hell I will." Michelle said blowing a roundhouse kick to his head. "Quick, try and help Hilde while I get his gun!" Relena slung Hilde's arm over her shoulder and proceeded as Michelle said to do. Unfortunately for them, Private Johansson was waiting for them outside the door.

"You'd better do as he said to. Or else he might kill you." Johansson said.

"What? Are you afraid of him? He's unconscious! Will you just let us go? Can't you see how much pain she is in?!" Relena asked in despair. Johansson wore a look of guilt for a split second but then straightened up and pointed a gun towards the two.

"Get back in there. No one is leaving." They sat down, defeated.

To Be Continued…