AC 201 Heero and Wufei are preventors called in for an accident on a sweeper ship captained by Duo. However it was no accident there’s a killer on board and it isn’t human. If you like suspense and gore you’ll like this horror story. (At least I’m hoping to create suspense I believed I managed it.)
Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters I only get my jollies off on torturing them and my readers with horrible gory stories like the one below. Bandia and a bunch of other rich and talented folk own these characters. Please don’t’sue me.
Warnings: Rated R just to be on the safe side contains yaoi, gore and minor amounts of smut.
Secondary warning: I don’t think my stories are scary, not to me personally but I have gotten that in my feedback (few as there was but there was some). A kind reviewer wrote to me and said, “don’t change your style of writing. It’s yours. There are people out there that will appreciate it.” I thank that person. So I haven’t toned it down or changed how I write but I am giving you fair warning.
Jaaku na Gundam
(English Translation The Evil Gundam)
Chapter 6
Jaaku na
“What!” Quatre nearly shouted. “Was anyone hurt?”
“Yes there were several casualties.”
“What did Duo report,” Heero asked.
Rasshid looked at Heero without answering easily saying without words who he answered to. Heero crossed his arms in frustration. He turned to Quatre annoyed.
“Rasshid please,” Quatre said softly. “They are all my friends.”
Rasshid never cared much for Heero or Wufei. He had gotten to know Trowa and Duo during the war. Quatre’s personal favor of Trowa told Rasshid that he should and would treat the man with the utmost respect. Duo however was a different story. Rasshid truly liked Duo. He reminded him of some of his own men during the war. He also would never forget how Duo stayed just a moment behind firing from above to give Rasshid and his men have a chance to escape into the desert.
“There has been no word from the captain,” Rasshid was sorry to say. “The report came in from a Heidi Schebecker. It said the Jaaku na fired on a small crew ship.”
“The Jaaku na?”
“That’s what they are calling the suit, master Quatre.”
Heero shuttered at the name. How did it fired on a crew ship, Heero thought wildly? What was Duo thinking? He was supposed to keep that suit in the hangar. Quickly following those thoughts Heero realized the most important thing.
“It had armaments?” Wufei said out loud echoing exactly what he was just thinking.
“We are leaving immediately and we’re going to take that,” Heero told them indicating the brief case by the side of the bed.
“I’m going with you,” Quatre said firmly hushing Rasshid’s and Trowa’s protests quickly.
“Duo is my friend and he is an important member of a large labor force,” Quatre told them. “If something was to happen to him and I didn’t show up or get involved there would be just as many questions.”
“Quatre the problem isn’t Duo or the sweepers,” Rasshid said. “It’s that Jaaku na Gundam.”
“I know,” Quatre told him. He then turned to Heero and Wufei. “I also know your chief has kept the public from knowing there was a Gundam suit found.”
Heero’s gave him a brief nod. “This is now a preventor issue the ship has been impounded.”
“I am going to send to your chief that the area should be quarantine,” Quatre said suddenly going from political activist to military leader in seconds. “I’ll have a report drawn up saying that space mines were found in the area. That a sweeper ship unfortunately stumbled across them during a routine pick up.”
“How are you going to explain your presence,” Wufei asked.
“I am going to be there to help investigate where the mines came from and give support to the men,” Quatre said easily. “It is something I would do for a friend and a important labor supporter.”
“We can’t take orders from you,” Heero told Quatre without offense.
He knew that Quatre had more political clout than their chief. He also had more man power, money, just about everything still they couldn’t take orders from him.
“I will make sure Chief Une gives you directions,” Quatre said easily. He then turned to leave, as he passed by Rasshid he said, “Rasshid ready a squad of men with detonators and encasements.”
“Master Quatre that could take weeks,” Rasshid told him.
“You have one week,” he replied continuing through the door. “I have another summit meeting by then.”
He was gone from the doorway a few moments when his disembodied voice called out. “Trowa you coming?”
It wasn’t really a question. Trowa sighed and followed Quatre through the door. Rasshid followed next without giving Heero and Wufei a second look.
“That guy is really scary sometimes,” Wufei said plopping down on the bed. “It’s probably because he keeps hooking up to things like this.” Wufei kicked the brief with disgust written all over his face. He glanced at Heero when he got no response. “What is it?”
“I don’t believe it is anything but human fault,” Heero told him.
“Really, so why don’t I believe you.”
Heero was quiet for a few seconds. “Wufei that suit did not have armaments. I’m sure of it.”
“It could have picked up something like a lazar cutter.” Wufei didn’t sound like he believed that either.
“True, but then who was piloting the suit?” Heero asked with a frown. What he didn’t ask was who would get into that suit?
They were waiting for orders to clear the space dock when Chief Une’s com came through. Their directives were slightly changed. They were to escort the space rep and any of his personal staff to the Martian second moon Phobos.
Wufei again took the driver’s seat as Heero poured through the Zero system and the files given to them by Quatre. He monitored the transmissions coming from the sweeper ships for now there were two. Heidi’s Peniwali was also in orbit of the moon.
Thankfully Heidi had been wise enough to send out coded and vague transmissions, Heero thought as he block interception to outside sources. They couldn’t keep that up for long but they didn’t need the real reason getting out to the public.
In route they met with another preventor ship this one had medical personnel. As Heero answered a hail from their fellow ship Sally’s voice filled the shuttle craft as her face appear on the small monitor used for transmissions.
“Wufei—Heero is the line secured?” Sally asked. “I have some private medical information.”
“What information?” Wufei asked her.
“The autopsy report on the first victim,” Sally told them. “Also, we didn’t get a call for medical assistance. That means that they didn’t have anyone seriously injured only deaths.”
“Did you get a number of casualties?” Wufei asked Sally glancing at Heero from the side.
“I can’t say,” Sally said. “The transmission was cut off.”
“I’m blocking their transmissions except for emergency signals. That wasn’t an emergency signal,” Heero told her. “We’ll have find out more once we get there.”
TBC