Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ To Understand ❯ Only the Beginning ( Prologue )

Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun and this fic has been nagging my brain for sometime now so please be nice! The timeline? Ten months after the final fight.

Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun and this fic has been nagging my brain for sometime now so please be nice! The timeline? Ten months after the final fight.

"I'll say it again! What is it that you want from me?" The tall brunette had her gun ready to take aim.

"It isn't you I want..." His gaze turned to the shorter of the two females, who was busying herself at her desk on the other side of the office typing up the last of her reports. "It's her I want." The figure said turning his gun at the female's head and he pulled the trigger. Surprising she had tilted her head at the right angle letting the bullet penetrate the wall behind her. She stood calmly with her back still to the two.

"Millie, I have an order ready at the store down the street for this week's groceries. Go get them for me please?"

"But..."

"Just go!" Her voice held more authority to it and despite the height difference. Millie stood there hesitantly for another moment before walking out and sprinting to the store so she could get back quicker.

"You were the one who sent the letter?" She asked picking up her cloak casually keeping the derringers inside concealed still.

"Not my, but my boss."

"I see..." She put the cloak on and took a few steps forward but the gun was aimed at her.

"You ran away from us Project AP..." He said and she frowned.

"I didn't run..." She said slowly. "I went to school. I made something of myself."

"You should return." He said. She licked her lips.

"If I refuse you kill me?" She asked gaining no answer. She saw something move outside meaning Millie was back already but wouldn't move.

"You'd die anyway... you and your friend."

"You leave Millie out of this... Unlike me she has no memory of what happened to us back then and my memories are still fuzzy. Compliments from my father I suppose."

"People will find out you aren't human." He lowered his gun and tore off the sleeve of his shirt. On his shoulder tattooed in black ink was a rose. "Like myself."

"You, Millie and I are nothing alike! You are a clone made from my DNA and I'm sure you've got a brother made from hers...."

"Clone? What a cruel word."

"It's what you are!" She opened her white cloak and pulled two derringers out and shot him quickly... too quickly to aim for anything vital and managed to cripple his right arm.

"Stupid, bitch!" He yelled getting ready to pull the trigger but the bag of groceries came flying in through the window and Meryl sprinted off running.

"Run, Millie!" Meryl yelled and she sprinted off. They got to a saloon and they took two of the five horses lined up outside and took off ignoring the protests they were getting.

"AP1 and AP2... you'll never get away."

Hours went by and the two females rode until they were just outside of a town... the town Vash had stolen off to just before the remnants of the ship fell to the ground. They sat down and decided to take a break. Millie searched through the bags that the men had left on their horses hoping for some sort of food. Luckily she found some emergency rations. They sat in silence eating the food. Meryl sighed wondering how long it would take for Millie to ask what had happened and wondered how much longer she would be able to lie to her partner.

"Meryl…" Millie spoke slowly. "What had that man meant when he said he wasn't human and what do we have to do with it?"

"Millie… It's a long story one that I have forgotten most of and one I don't want you to remember." Meryl spoke keeping her gray eyes on her food knowing if she gazed up she would see confusion all over Millie's face.

"Why?"

"It's just that… You and I met long before the Bernadeli job. Something happened to us many years ago and well… It's just best if we both forgot about it…"

"Idiot…" 'Vince' muttered for the twelfth time in the past five minutes while watching his brother Eriks cry over a box of doughnuts.

"Want one?" Eriks stopped feeding his face long enough to offer Vince a doughnut. Vince declined and looked away to stare at all of the spiders. He watched them all in disgust silently cursing his brother. The idiot should've just killed him, and then he wouldn't be here injured still and unable to do a thing about his disgust for those creatures.

"You really should just get to know AT LEAST one of them. They're not as bad as you seem to think." Eriks said in between bites almost as if reading his brother's mind. Vince threw a look at his brother that clearly stated that he had no intention of 'getting to know' those beings and he was only tolerating them because he was injured still. Although secretly he had no true intention of killing them just yet, only to see why his brother is so attached to such an inferior species.

"That hit the spot." Eriks smiled his bright as the double suns grin. "And I think it's time you go to see Dr. Shenanigan about those injuries, Vince!" Eriks stood the same time Vince had… Amazingly his legs healed quicker than his arms so the man was still disabled for a bit. They walked past the monument which had once been the ship SEEDS.

"Why do you insist I let that inferior woman touch me?" Vince looked at the ship but his steps did not slow.

"Because... She's a better doctor than I am!" He said

"Hi Vas… err Eriks!" Eriks looked at the receptionist and smiled at the brunette who was so deeply infatuated with him. "Vince is here for his weekly check-up?"

"Of course!" Vash said taking a seat in the waiting room while Vince leaned against the wall watching everyone in the room. There were too many people there and they were all annoying in his eyes. He glanced at his brother and wasn't surprised when he had his headphones in his ears tapping to whatever he was listening to.

"You can sit if you like…" A child no older than twelve politely offered the seat next to her. She jumped a bit when the electricity in the room flickered soon followed by thunder. The rain wasted no time following. The child then turned her eyes to a book she found on the table in the waiting room.

The people that had been there before Vince had gone in for whatever their reasons were and left. Vince's patience was wearing thin as she stood in the doorway still waiting for his name to be called. Just when he finally decided to sit down the door flung open and a tall brunette was standing there dripping wet and seemingly crying while carrying another being in her arms.

"I NEED TO SEE THE DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY!" She yelled drawing attention herself. Even his idiotic brother Eriks had taken off his headphones to see the girl standing in the door way.

"Insurance girl?" He asked gently.

"PLEASE I NEED TO SEE THE DOCTOR! MY FRIEND'S HURT!" Her voice cracked and now it was noticeable that her hands had faint traces of blood on them and more was seeping through the brown cloak her friend was covered in. The nurse had gotten up from her seat at the desk.

"Come with me." She told her and the tall woman followed her to a room and set her friend on the table. The nurse proceeded to remove the brown cloak she was covered in and instructed another nurse to go get the doctor. Millie watched as the nurse undressed her friend and gasped at the wound in her abdomen. The doctor came in shortly after. Then instructed another nurse take Millie into the waiting room, and get her something to drink and a blanket.

"No I want to stay with Meryl!!" Millie fought the male nurse that was pushing her out of the room. When the door closed after Millie looked the male nurse in the eye. He was as tall as she was but had twice the muscle. "If you know what's good for you, you better let me back in there." She threatened.

"I'm sorry, Miss, but I can't." The nurse said half amused that she threatened him.

"Let me back in!" Mille pulled her gun from out of nowhere.

"Miss, I can't do that." The nurse said. "Please put that away. You're frightening the other patients…" He grabbed her gun gently, only to be found on the floor after her fist made contact with his face.

"Let me back…" She was ready to strike him again when a hand grabbed hers.

"Stop that… All that screaming won't help." A voice said. Millie whirled around to look at the person who stopped her and gasped slightly.

"Mr. Vash?" Her voice was barely audible. She looked into his green eyes and frowned, before her face changed and she began to cry into his chest. Everyone watched in either confusion or fright, everyone but one person who was mildly entertained by the female spider with a violent streak.