Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Waltz Continues ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

_Chapter Two_

 

“Positions check?” Heero's voice came in through the walkie-talkies that him and his team had plugged into their ears so that they could easily communicate amongst one another.

 

“Wufei here, everything is clear from point Z.” Wufei was to be down on the ground level, standing beside Relena. He was more then likely the best man for the position. Heero studied everyone's weakness and advantages when it came to this mission and placed them accordingly. Wufei was always best with close hand-to-hand combat so Heero figured that Wufei would best suit the position of standing next to the nearly moments away from bring Queen of the world.

 

“Heero this is Sally and we are all good to go from where im standing.” Sally was assigned to be a scout plus a medic if anything happened. “Rodger that Wufei, Sally.” Heero got his gun ready in hand as time drew near.

 

“This is Tucker.” Tucker was one of the only other Preventors member, other then the Gundam Pilots and those that he knew previously from the war, that Heero truly trusted. He didn't always start off that way but during a training match Tucker was able to hold his own and remain strong when the others could not. Heero respected the man that was remotely around his age. Most likely the cause of Heero's respect for him greatly came from the fact they were really similar to one another.

“What's your position Tucker?” Heero awaited the young man's response.

“Point Delta secure.”

“Roger that.” Heero confirmed his position. Heero and Tucker were basically on all the same mission with one another, the only difference was that Tucker wasn't nearly as strict as Heero was when it came to the job. Sure he took it seriously, but he didn't spend all his time there, nor was he as restricted when personality came into play.

 

Heero waited for a moment for their final team member to check in but when he got no indication of the position being secure he thought he would take it upon himself to confirm much to his dislike. “Duo what's your position?” Heero got tired of waiting. “The fox is in the hole.” Duo's cheery voice came over breaking the silence that was bothering Heero. “I repeat, what's your position?” Heero did not have the patients for this kind of bullshit when things were so close to the commence time.

“And I repeat, Point Beta is locked down and ready for the show.” Duo laughed to himself when he heard Heero's snarl through the walkie-talkie before he got the acknowledge response.

“Well you could have just said that.” Heero pushed the earpiece further into his ear to make sure it didn't fall out if something happened. “Operation Crown Jewels all set and ready to commence.” Heero said to no one in particular. “Roger that Rubber Ducky, lets get this show started so we can eat at the after party.” Duo's smart-ass remark could be heard by the other four. `Rubber Ducky?' Wufei silently mouthed to himself as he waited for Relena to be ready to face the lights.

 

It wasn't just the five of them who were there for her protection. The others were just body guards and security who were there to make sure that if there was a sneak then it was them to get shot rather then Relena. However it was the five of them who truly mattered in this case. They would be the ones to make sure that it didn't come to the point where the guards had to jump in.

 

“This is Wufei here. We are ready to begin.” He informed the team that Relena was going to make her grand entrance. Heero held his breath in anticipation as he watched Relena walk out from behind a door dressed how any queen would be expected to be dressed. `The role fits you well Relena.' He thought to himself then darted his eyes around the area to see if anything seemed suspicious. He was still trying to convince himself that what he did was the right thing to do. It was not only the right thing to do for the world and the colonies, in a way, but also the right thing for her if anything else.

 

Relena walked out to the centre platform, which held a great wooden chair draped in red silk. This time around they were going to make her queen the old fashion traditional way, which was a great difference last time when she was forced to become queen thanks to Treiz. She then looked at the crowd of people who were standing around and then looked over at the cameras briefly, upon completing that she then moved over in front of the chair and gracefully took a sat upon the thrown.

 

Duo watched Relena from his hiding place on the balcony then looked across to Heero who was parallel to him watching Relena down low sitting awaiting the high bishop to approach her. Duo continued to watch Heero as he then lifted his head and scanned the room carefully and then made eye contact with him momentarily. Duo couldn't help but wonder what Heero was feeling knowing that the only person he ever really got close to was now becoming further out of his reach then before. With that on his mind he also decided that it was time to go back to scouting the area with his stealth like abilities he moved from his spot to another one with ease and being unnoticed by anyone.

 

Relena watched the bishop approach her then darted her eye contact to see if she could find Heero in designated hiding place. When she couldn't see the stoked soldier she glanced around the entire hall again to make it seem as though she wasn't looking for someone so that she wouldn't give away her hiding space. She then looked over at Wufei who was standing stone cold in features looking around at the lower level of people. Quickly she darted her eyes to her nephew who was standing on the sidelines with his caretaker. For some reason Relena couldn't place the nearly evil expression which was slightly shinning through on his face.

 

Taking a deep breath she returned her attention to the bishop who was now right in front of her. If anyone was going to try anything now was the opportune moment. Sally suspected that if anyone were going to try and kill her it would be before she became queen, which Heero also agreed on. Some people were objecting to there being another queen again even though the majority welcomed it with open arms.

 

The bishop said a prayer and a few words telling Relena her duties as queen. She held her breath awaiting the impact of anything that meant trouble, but nothing came.

 

Now it was her turn to say her vows as Queen of the world as she tried to keep her calm, still nothing came. The bishop then came up to her and placed the crown on her head carefully. `Maybe nothing is going to happen after all.' She begun to think as a small smiled began to crawl onto her lips. Relena then quickly moved her eyes to all the Preventors that were in hiding and eventually her eyes fell on Heero's at last, who only gave her a satisfied nod. Relena began to push herself out of the great wooden chair to show everyone their new Queen.

 

That's when the unexpected happened. A piercing noise rang though the air causing total mayhem. Heero whipped out his gun that he had just placed back in its holster and began to look around frantically for source where the shot was fired from. Wufei immediately lunged on top of Relena trying his best to protect her as her eyes grew wide and then fell shut. But when the sun shot finally registered to his ears it was too late to do any good to protect her. All Wufei could hope for was that the sniper had a bad shot, which was highly unlikely. If they, they being who ever sent him, had the guts to hire someone to do the deed they weren't going to get someone who was sloppy.

 

Heero looked around frantically for the sniper still with little success.

“How is she Wufei?” Heero growled into the earpiece. “Wufei!” Heero panicked at the lack of response from him as he continued to look around for where the sound came from.

 

“Relena.” Wufei called the girl that was under him with her eyes closed. “Relena are you hurt.” Wufei checked her over frantically. `no blood, that means no open wound.' Wufei thought to himself. “Don't move Relena, keep playing dead.” Wufei whispered to her so that the killer wouldn't try for a round two.

 

“Wufei say something!” Heero snarled. “She is fine Heero. There is no wound. I repeat, the Queen is still alive.” Wufei looked up to where Heero was.

“Well where the fuck is this guy?” Heero ran around the corner of the upper balcony looking for the shooter.

 

“God damnit, give me status reports people.” Heero grew frustrated when finally she saw it.

 

There only steps away from him stood a girl with a gun in her hand pointing down to the ground. Heero immediately had his gun aimed at her ready to fire no questions asked when that's when he caught a glimpse of a guy dressed in a Preventors uniform with a bullet hole square between the eyes, a pool of crimson blood drooling all over the ground and crawled its way to the shooter's feet.

 

That was it for Heero, he shot at her aiming to kill when his arm got knocked out of the way only allowing the bullet to pierce her in the right shoulder. Wasn't quite where he was aiming for but none the less he didn't miss her completely.

 

She flinched very little when the bullet connected with her shoulder but rather turned her attention to the person who was standing next to Heero. Heero also seemed to notice the presence beside him for he turned his attention towards the cause for his misfire.

 

“Heero stop it! She is on our side!”

“Sally?” Heero looked at Sally with confusion on his face.

“Our side?” He questioned her still not entirely sure what was going on.

 

Sally nodded to him and then looked over at the girl that had just been shot then over at the man on the floor.

“He's dead.” The girl said flatly.

 

“Wow good shot.” Duo said as he ran up to the quickly forming group.

“We underestimated the time.” Heero mumbled to himself.

“After she becomes Queen you fuck head.” The pissed off girl said before she turned to take a look at her shoulder which was causing the blood to seep down her arm and dripping onto the ground once it reached the end of her fingertips.

 

“Heero this is Bo.” Sally noticed Heero eyeing her trying to figure out what happened.

“She is part of the new team of Preventors who arrived yesterday.” Sally watched Heero's face as anger started to fill his eyes.

 

“Why the hell didn't you inform me of her joining this mission?” Heero snapped at Sally.

“She was issued to join by Commander Une if things got nasty she was to step in.” Sally looked over at Bo who was busy searching the body for any information, which could help them figure out who sent him.

 

“You sent a rookie to do a high operation mission like this?” He grew more and more testy by the moment.

“Now isn't the time to talk about this, Bo you should go and see a medic about that shoulder, the rest of you search this guy for any clues as to where he came from.” Sally ordered.

“And Heero, meet me in my office now!” She got very agitated at the conflict that seemed to be forming.

 

With that said the other members of Preventors went to what they had to do to get this thing fixed between the connections this assassin was dealing with.

 

Heero watched them work still dazed over what happened just moments ago. Duo noticed Heero's look and walked up beside him breaking him out of his lost state of thought.

“You have to admit, she has a good shot.” He pointed to the dead guy and Bo who was busy listing to Sally who was saying something to her. Heero quickly diverted his attention to her not really noticing anything other then his hate towards her and hers to him.

 

He continued to watch as Sally shook her hand and walked off probably to check on Wufei and Relena.

 

Bo started in their direction only making brief eye contact with Duo and himself. She appeared nearly not as deadly as the look she gave Heero.

 

Heero was almost expecting her to stop in front of them and pull some rude remark, but rather she passed by Heero in a spine chilling cold manner. She was pissed, much like he was and there was no way he was going to apologize for something he wasn't sorry he did, even if she wasn't the assassin.

 

He turned his head along with Duo to watch her walk towards the exit of the balcony area so that she could make her way outside and to the transportation that awaited her.

 

Heero noted how she didn't even pay much mind to her arm as she took her gun and placed it back of her pants.

 

“Rookies eh?” Duo laughed while slapping Heero on the back. “Lets just hope that they are all like her, then you wont have any problems with them out in the field.” Duo looked at Heero who was still watching the direction Bo walked off to.

“She is one tough bug huh Heero?”

“A bug for sure.” Heero snarled to Duo.

“Duo, Sally Po requested a meeting with you after she is done talking to Heero.” Some two-month rookie ran up and informed Duo.

“Me? What did I do?” Duo scratched his head in confusion.

“Oh alright, tell her I'll be there, tell her that first I'm going to check to see how things are going with Wufei.” He waved the rookie away but he didn't leave. He was looking forward to catching the next shuttle to L2 so that he wouldn't keep Hilde waiting any longer.

 

“And Heero Yuy, she said get a move on it, a jeep is waiting outside to take you back to HQ.” The young boy told Heero her words with fear in his eyes, like he was about to say `oh please don't kill me, I'm only the messenger.' But Heero had other things on his mind other then killing the messenger.

“Hn” He grunted and started off towards the awaiting Jeep outside.

 

He wasn't the slightest bit impressed that the one person he disliked the most was sitting in the passenger seat of the Jeep waiting along with the driver for him to get in.

 

Heero didn't want to be anywhere near this Rookie but didn't really have much of a choice seeing how HQ was too far away to walk. `Should have brought my car.' He thought bitterly to himself when she didn't even pay him one bit of her attention.

She just kept her head straight ahead and read the piece of paper that was before her. `Would they just hurry up and get this ride over with.' He was in the Jeep now so what was the driver waiting for. He wanted so desperately to focus on anything else other then the rookie, which was sitting in the seat in font of him.

 

She agitated Heero for some reason. First she shows up mid way through mission, his mission at that, takes his seat in the Jeep, pays no mind to him or much else at that, meanwhile she was shot, not caring and losing blood to top it off. `who does she think she is being all commando?' Yah, she was pissing him off.

 

He was relieved when the Jeep started and they were finally on their way back to HQ. `With any luck,' Heero begun to think to himself about her again, `I wont have to deal with her all that much after today.' He crossed his arms and stared blankly out the window diverting his thoughts to Relena and what was going to be done with her now that there was this new threat at hand.

 

-TBC-

 

 

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