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Chapter 2: The Depository Assault

~~~~~Gundams~~~~~

Ami Mizuno awoke the next morning a bit later than usual, though still at a relatively acceptable hour. Her time at the club and her fun with Heero the night before had left her exhausted, but the few hours of quality slumber had done wonders to restoring her energy. She turned her head to find that, as usual, Heero was already gone from the bed and was probably up and already doing something productive. She had never quite figured out how he was always up before her, no matter how early she woke up, or how he could always untangle himself from the embrace they always fell asleep in and so smoothly slip out from under the covers, without ever waking her in the process. But as always, those thoughts didn't last long, and Ami sat up in the comfortable bed and stretched out her arms and legs before hopping out from under the sheets and making her way to Heero's bathroom to take a shower.

Once she was showered and dressed, Ami went downstairs and into the kitchen, where she found Minako and Duo sitting at the kitchen table. “Good morning,” Ami greeted with a smile.

“Slept in a little late,” commented Minako with a smile as she looked up from the papers she was reading. “Guess you must have worn yourself out last night.”

“I'm sure Heero gave her a great workout,” added Duo with a laugh. He was sitting across the table from Minako, and had paused in his gun cleaning when Ami had entered the room.

“No more exercise than I'm sure you had last night,” retorted Ami with a smirk, causing Duo to laugh even more. “Did Heero go out to the depository to check on things?”

“Yeah,” answered Minako. “He left about half an hour ago.”

“Are those the Police reports in regards to last night?” asked Ami as she gave Minako a good morning hug from behind and glanced over her shoulder at her reading material.

“Yeah. But they aren't very useful.”

“The Police don't know anything?”

“Not exactly,” answered Duo since he had already read the reports. “It's a little difficult to get a handle on just how much the Police might know. Lau, that new Lieutenant that is in charge of the anti-gang division, seems to have purposely not filed a completed report yet. It appears as though he knows that Police intelligence is not as secure as they would like, so he is keeping his intel on this situation very well guarded. I believe he is reporting directly to the chief and is only giving his subordinates just enough information to do their job. They even moved Okita out of the hospital to some undisclosed safe house for further interrogation and to keep him from being found and possibly taken out.”

“Duo's right,” confirmed Minako. “This Lau is quite competent, for a cop anyway. I almost can respect him for his strategy in handling this case.”

“Did Heero say what he wants to do about it?” asked Ami.

“He said not to worry,” answered Minako. “Right now, our main concern is with the Captors, not with the Police.”

Ami would never say anything to anyone but Heero himself, but in her mind, she often felt that Heero sometimes took the Police a little too lightly. Not that she was really afraid they could come up with anything that could really do them any damage, but the little things that Heero let slide could eventually add up to drastic consequences. “Duo. When you get the chance today, I want you to look more closely into what the Police have discerned about last night. Use whatever contacts you must, but find out what they know, especially in regards to what Okita may have told them about Heero.”

“No problem, Ami,” answered Duo, who knew Ami had a few misgivings about how much Heero was allowing the Police to learn about him. Duo knew that Heero didn't care much if the Captors did find out who he was, but he also knew that when the Captors did figure out he was the one that was responsible for murdering Touya Kinomoto, they would be gunning not only for the Gundams gang, but especially for him in particular. And while this thought did not worry Heero at all, Duo was certain that it was often in the back of Ami's mind, as she was easily the closest to Heero out of all of them. “The others said they have the depository covered for whenever the Captors may attack without needing my help, so I have plenty of time to get our contacts to dig something up.”

“Thanks, Duo.”

“Now,” stated Minako suddenly as she loudly closed the last of the Police report folders. “Ami, you and I are going shopping.”

Ami had almost completely forgotten about the promise she had made to Minako the night before about going shopping to cheer her up after her busted night at the club. “Alright, Minako. Let's go.” In truth, Ami wasn't really in the mood to go shopping, but a promise was a promise, and Minako was a dear friend to her, so she was not about to do anything to upset her. And besides, Ami found that shopping with Minako always turned out to be a good time, so she was sure she'd get into a shopping mood quick enough.

~~~~~Captors~~~~~

“This is completely useless,” fumed Meilin Li in annoyance as she walked through the front door of the Captors main house and threw a pile of papers roughly down on the table.

“Is that the Police report?” questioned Syaoran since he was too far from the messy stack of papers to see for himself.

“Yup,” answered Meilin with a huff as she let her body fall into a plush leather chair. “But they don't say anything.”

“Looks like the Police are keeping a tighter lock on their information than usual,” commented Kurama, who had picked up the papers discarded by Meilin and was scanning them at almost unnatural speed.

“Probably due to that new Lieutenant heading their organized crime division,” said Syaoran.

“There is one useful thing in here,” interrupted Kurama. “It says Okita survived the bombing.”

“Where are they keeping him?” asked Syaoran.

“Looks like he was in Tokyo Memorial Hospital with a broken leg,” answered Kurama. “It seems, however, that last night the Police moved him to a safe house and the location isn't in the report.”

“We can probably find out where they are keeping him,” commented Eriol. “It will just take a bit of time.”

“It's too bad Hiei isn't here,” added Yusuke. “He was always good at finding people. Although, somehow Sakura is pretty good at finding people too.”

“Speaking of whom,” said Meilin. “Where is Sakura?”

“Still sleeping,” answered Syaoran.

“Still?” repeated Meilin as she checked her watch. “This is late, even for her.”

“Apparently she had a pretty good time last night at the club,” said Tomoyo. “I guess she's just sleeping off the aftereffects.”

“Oh really?” came the response from Meilin. “She actually come home with a guy?”

“No,” answered Syaoran.

“Apparently she just had some fun dancing with a guy at the club last night,” continued Tomoyo. “But the details are a little sketchy since she wouldn't tell Syaoran anything, and nobody else was up when she got back last night.”

“Speak of the devil,” interrupted Keiko Yukimora as Sakura appeared at the bottom of stairs, still dressed in the light pink silk tank top and short shorts she had slept in.

“Morning,” Sakura said happily as all eyes in the room turned to her.

“Morning Sakura,” responded Tomoyo with an amused smirk on her face.

It wasn't until Sakura saw the grin on her best friend's face that she noticed that all the eyes in the room were on her, and the majority of the other people present had the same amused look that Tomoyo had. “Huh?” was all that came out of Sakura's mouth.

“We hear you had yourself some fun last night,” said Meilin, who was probably sporting the widest grin of all the Captors.

Just at Meilin's mentioning the previous night, Sakura couldn't stop the corner of her mouth from turning up in a slight smile as she unconsciously touched her finger to her lips, remembering the electric feeling that had shot throughout her body when Heero had kissed her on the dance floor of the club. When she came back to her senses and again realized that everyone was still staring at her, Sakura just shrugged her shoulders and hopped her way over to the sofa and plopped into the open space between Keiko and Rika.

“So what happened, Sakura,” asked Tomoyo. “You finally loose your cherry in the men's room of the club or something?”

Sakura stuck her tongue out at her friend. “Of course not,” she answered. “Only you and Eriol would do something like that.”

Everyone, even the always serious Syaoran, had a hearty laugh at Sakura's joke. “Seriously, Sakura. What did happen to you last night?” repeated Tomoyo.

Once again, Sakura just winked and shrugged her shoulders. “Guess that's for me to know, and the rest of you to only attempt to find out.” At this point, Sakura finally took notice of the files in Kurama's hand. “Is that the Police report from last night's incident?”

After having been distracted by the arrival of Sakura, Kurama got back to finishing up reading the documents. “Yeah,” he answered Sakura. “But as we were discussing before you came down, it isn't very useful.”

Sakura just shrugged off the bad news, not really all that interested in what the Police knew about last night. “Is last night's incident going to effect our plans?”

“No,” answered Syaoran. “I sent Chiharu, Yamazaki, and Kuwabara to pick up some weapons from our storage to replace those we were picking up from Okita. All it means is that we will have to replace some of our stores.”

“Hey, hey, hey,” interrupted Meilin. “You're not getting off that easily. Now spill about what happened last night.”

“You should really be asking Syaoran,” answered Sakura as she looked at Syaoran and gave him an devilish grin. “I'm sure he's got a much more interesting story to tell.” Syaoran glared back at Sakura in slight annoyance, knowing she had cleverly diverted the subject towards him to keep everyone from digging further into her own experience the night before.

As everyone's head turned away from Sakura and toward Syaoran, Syaoran saw the grin on Sakura's face turn into a full on smile as she had to force herself to keep from laughing at the success of her diversionary tactic. “So what happened?” asked Meilin.

Luckily for Syaoran, someone up there apparently liked him, for at that exact moment Chiharu chose to walk through the door. “You get the gear?” Syaoran asked to change the subject.

“Yeah,” Chiharu answered as she sat down in an empty chair. “Takahashi and Kuwabara could probably use some assistance bringing it all in.” Syaoran nodded back to Chiharu and then left through the same door Chiharu had entered through, followed by Eriol and Yusuke, to bring in the weapons and other equipment picked up from one of their many storages.

“I think I'll go get dressed now,” said Sakura as she stood up and happily skipped back up the stairs to her bedroom.

When Sakura was gone, Meilin looked around the room a bit. It was at that point that she realized that both Syaoran and Sakura were no longer in the room, leaving her without her previous source of entertainment. “Aww man,” she whined. “They got away.” Everyone else just laughed before getting up to do numerous personal tasks before they got to work on prepping for the mission later that night.

~~~~~Captors~~~~~

As night fell on the city of Tokyo, Syaoran Li, Sakura Kinomoto, Meilin Li, Tomoyo Daidouji, Eriol Hiiragizawa, Yusuke Urameshi, Keiko Yukimora, Yoko Kurama, Rika Sasaki, Takashi Yamazaki, Chiharu Mihara, Yukina Jaganeshi, Kazuma Kuwabara, and about a dozen other associates of the Captors gang, were driving through the streets of downtown in a caravan of SUVs, sedans, and sports cars, on their way to their target; the Gundam controlled cash depository.

“We're coming up on the checkpoint,” said Syaoran into his intercom to the other gang members in the cars following him. “Everyone check in.”

“Car two,” came Eriol's voice through the radio. “We're all set.”

“Car three, we're set,” this time came the voice of Kurama.

“Car four,” said Meilin. “Ready to rock and roll.”

“Car five, we're a go,” responded Yamazaki.

“Car six,” radioed Kuwabara. “All green.”

“Car seven,” Yusuke's voice could be heard. “Let's get this show on the road.”

“Everyone be careful out there,” said Sakura through her radio from the other seat in Syaoran's sports car.

“Keep safe,” came the response from Keiko, who was with Yusuke and four others in a black SUV at the end of the caravan.

“Radio back in when you've reached your positions,” said Syaoran.

“Roger.”

“Roger.”

“Roger.”

“Roger.”

“Roger.”

“Roger.”

One by one, over the next three blocks, each different car turned to approach the target building from their respective preplanned direction.

~~~~~Gundams~~~~~

“Anything?” Heero said through his radio to the other dozen or so people at the Cash Depository.

“South is clear,” responded Trowa, who was in charge of the unit watching the alleyway behind the Depository.

“All quiet on the East.” This comment came from Wu-Fei who was watching the armored car delivery bay on the East side of the building.

“Nothing on the West side,” said Makoto. Makoto was in charge of the unit watching the main street next to the building and the only entrance into the underground parking garage.

“Roof's clear,” radioed in Rei. “No snipers visible.”

“Nothing out front either,” said Heero. “Keep alert. It may not be tonight, but they are coming.”

“Hold it,” interrupted Rei. “Got something here.” There was a few seconds of pause before Rei continued. “Got a sniper. Building straight across the street. Second from the top floor, seven windows from the left. Looks like.” Rei paused for another moment. “Yup, definitely. Looks like it's Kuwabara.”

“The big dolt in the Captors?” asked Makoto to confirm. “So I guess they didn't find someone better than him to replace Yanagisawa after Heero and Ami killed her.”

“Pay attention everyone,” ordered Heero. “If Kuwabara's here, then there must be more on the way. Rei, does it look like he made your position?”

“Definitely not,” replied Rei. “I checked my position from that exact window and where I'm positioned right now, there is no way he can see me. Although, I must give him credit. That is the exact spot I would have picked if I wanted to give sniper support for an attack on this facility.”

“Give him his credit later,” interrupted Trowa. “I see a black SUV stopping at the West rear corner of the building, and a sedan at the East rear corner.”

“I've got another vehicle at the entrance to the garage,” reported Makoto.

“And there is one more SUV heading into the delivery bay,” added Wu-Fei.

“I have a sedan and a sports car stopping at the front,” stated Heero. “All together, that makes six assault teams and the sniper back-up. How many men do you count?”

“I count five heading into the West rear door, and another four into the East,” said Trowa. “I'm splitting up my team and moving into position to intercept.”

“Looks like four heading underground,” added Makoto. “I'm heading off to join my team in the garage.”

“I see six coming out of the SUV at the delivery bay,” said Wu-Fei. “Heading down to take them out now.”

“I count what looks like four in the sedan and probably two more in the sports car out front,” finished up Heero. “My team can handle the front without me. Trowa's outnumbered so I'm heading to the rear to assist.”

“Go to the West entrance,” responded Trowa. “I have enough men to handle the East.”

“Roger that,” answered Heero.

“What should I do about the sniper?” asked Rei, who had Kuwabara's head right in her sights.

“Keep an eye on him,” responded Heero as he was running full speed to meet up with Trowa's team at the rear of the building. “Wait until he is about to take a shot, and then take him out.”

“Roger that, Heero. Be careful.”

“You too.”

Had Heero stuck around at the front of the building for just a few seconds longer, he would have been met with quite a shock. Merely by coincidence, moments after Heero had left his lookout position, Sakura stepped out of the passenger side of Syaoran's sports car. She methodically checked each of her two signature SIG 9mm guns, making certain they were loaded and the safeties were off.

“Everybody confirm you are in position,” Sakura heard Syaoran's voice through both her earpiece and her open ear.

“Kurama. My team's ready to rush the West entrance,” stated Kurama through the radio.

“We're set at the East entrance as well,” added Meilin.

“We'll be set to blow the gate to the underground garage in ten seconds,” reported Yukina while Yamazaki, Chiharu, and Rika were busy finishing up their portion of the task of setting the explosives on the heavy metal gate protecting the underground entrance to the building.

“Keiko and I are ready when you are,” said Yusuke from his team's position at the Delivery Bay.

“Kuwabara here. I've got no snipers or roof lookouts in sight.” Kuwabara had no idea that he was being watched by Rei, who's lips curled up in a smile when she read Kuwabara's lips report he had no snipers in sight.

“Alright,” said Syaoran. “We go on Eriol's count.” Eriol and Tomoyo's team were with Syaoran and Sakura at the front entrance of the building.

“Roger,” reported all the teams in unison.

The reason Syaoran left the countdown to Eriol, was his and Sakura's positions in this particular mission was more as coordinators and backup. “Counting down,” stated Eriol into his intercom. “Five, four, three, two, one. Go now!” All at once the heavy steel gate of the underground parking lot, the metal sliding doors of the delivery bay, and the doors at the front and two back entrances, all blew open from the different explosives used at each entry point.

“They're coming in,” reported Heero to Rei on the roof. “Take out the sniper now.”

Without responding, Rei immediately took the shot. With Kuwabara already in her sights, all she had to do was pull the trigger and watch as the perfectly aimed shot went right through the forehead of the unsuspecting Kazuma Kuwabara. “One down,” Rei reported. “Area's clear. I'm heading down to assist.”

“Meet up with Makoto in the basement,” Rei heard Heero say whilst hearing a couple shots from his powerful Desert Eagle handguns. “I'm sure the Captor's don't know the money is gone, so they will probably attempt to grab the money, and then take out the support columns in the garage to bring down the entire building, so I need you're A game down there.”

“Affirmative, Heero,” answered Rei. “I'll be at Makoto's position in thirty seconds.

The strike by Rei was supposed to be as covert as possible, hopefully keeping the Captors from ever realizing their sniper backup was down. Unfortunately, unseen by Rei, when Kuwabara was hit, his gun fell out through the open window and landed loudly on the street, not far from Syaoran's car. Both Syaoran and Sakura shot their bodies around with guns drawn and ready to fire when they heard the noise. Syaoran was the first to realize the fallen sniper rifle belonged to Kuwabara, and when he noticed the giant blood splatter all over the scope, it was pretty easy to figure out that he had been sniped himself.

“Shit,” Syaoran swore to himself. Then speaking into his radio, he checked in on each of his teams. “Heads up everyone, the Gundams knew we were coming. Kuwabara's been taken out. All teams, report your status.”

“Garage team,” reported Yamazaki. “We're in a bit of a standoff down here. No backup necessary, but there is no way we are going to have time to set the explosives on the - Shit! Watch behind! Another gun from the stairwell.” After a couple seconds of pause, Yamazaki continued. “We're all still here. Nobody's hit yet, but we are stuck. Explosives mission is a failure.”

“We're fucked over here too,” said Yusuke next. “Two of my guys are down. They have the high ground on us and picked off my advance team as they went through the entry door to get to the vault. Delivery Bay is also a failure.”

“My team's gone,” said Kurama in a strangely calm voice considering the situation. “I know I took out one guard myself, and another of my team took out one too. But as we were advancing, a third showed up and nailed three of my four in one stroke. My guess is it has to be a Gundam. The last one just got taken down and my position is safe for now, but further advancement is impossible.”

“We are all clear in the front,” came Eriol's report, the only good news so far. “However, the Gundams have booby trapped the route to the vault. It will take some time to disarm.”

“Dammit,” swore Syaoran. “Alright. All teams regroup, and retreat. Meilin, what is your status?” Syaoran waited for a couple seconds, but no response came. “Meilin, report in.” Again, Syaoran waited a couple seconds. “Meilin isn't reporting in,” Syaoran told the rest of the gang. “Sakura and I are heading in to check on her. The rest of you, when you get out of the building, meet back at the alternate retreat site. Eriol, you and Tomoyo go check out Kuwabara's position. Hopefully he is still alive.”

“Roger,” responded Eriol from within the building.

“Let's go, Sakura,” said Syaoran as they both jumped into Syaoran's sports car and sped around the block to the entrance that Meilin had entered through.

Jumping out of the car before Syaoran had even come to a complete stop, Sakura ran to the door, and jumped and rolled through the opening. In a single fluid motion, she popped to her feet, while inhumanly quickly scanning the room. In her scan, Sakura caught sight of Meilin, who thankfully seemed perfectly fine, ducked behind a wall, and two other people with guns that she didn't recognize. Before the guards in the room had a chance to react to her presence, Sakura took aim and fired six total rounds, three from each gun at each figure. One of the guards was definitely slower to react than the other. The slower of the guards took all three rounds center mass, and soundlessly crumpled to the ground. The other had reacted to Sakura's entrance much faster, and had managed to do a flip backwards through a doorway, causing two of the bullets to miss, but unfortunately for him the third shot had caught him in the leg.

While Sakura kept the guards busy, Syaoran had rushed through the door and went immediately over to his cousin's position. “You alright?” Syaoran asked.

“Fine,” answered Meilin. “We got ambushed by automatic weapons fire as we came through the door. My whole team got wasted in the attack, and I barely got out of the way, but when I landed, I smashed my radio. That's why I've been out of contact.”

“Understood,” said Syaoran. “The Gundams were expecting us. It is likely they have taken out Kuwabara, and the other teams are all pinned down. We're retreating.”

“You two ready to move?” asked Sakura from across the way, where she was hiding behind a pillar and firing shots to keep the one remaining shooter at bay.

Syaoran and Meilin nodded in response, and all three Captors let loose a barrage of gunfire as they retreated back through the door and made their way to their cars.

As soon as the volley of shots had ended, Trowa Barton took a peek out from behind his cover and watched three bodies expertly slipping out through the door. At that same time, he also heard Heero's voice through his radio. “Everyone report in.”

“Wu-Fei. Delivery Bay's all clear. I lost one, and one more is hit, but the remaining Captors are retreating.”

“Garage is clear,” reported Makoto. “We lost one man. No other injuries.”

“East entrance clear,” said Trowa. “My team is down, and I took one in the leg. Not serious, just a flesh wound.”

“Makoto,” said Heero. “Call Ami, we'll need her medical skills. Wu-Fei, have your team check the structure to make sure the Captors didn't leave any surprises behind, and Makoto, have your team assist. Also, you and Rei get over to Trowa and check on his injury.” Heero waited for a second before continuing. “Front team, report in.” He was greeted by silence. “My team isn't responding,” Heero told the others. “I'm going to check on their situation. Everyone meet at Trowa's position after the building has been swept.”

“Roger that,” came numerous voices simultaneously.

Heero then stood up and checked the vitals of the two downed Gundam associates whom he had been backing up, only to find they were both indeed dead. He then checked the vitals of the four dropped Captor associates in the room, putting a bullet in the head of one who was about to die, but wasn't quite there yet. Then he finally left the area and made his way back toward his original team to see what had happened.

~~~~~Yangs~~~~~

Unbeknownst to either the Captors or the Gundams, there were two more people who witnessed the entire incident at the Cash Depository. Watching from the roof of a building two blocks away, using extremely high powered electronic binoculars, were the two leaders of the notorious Yangs gang. The commander, Yang, and his second in command and twin sister, Yin, were both twenty-two years of age. If anyone had not known who they were, it would be impossible to guess they were even related, much less twins. Yang was tall, almost six and a half feet, with a muscular build, spiked black hair, and a set of intense piercing sliver eyes. Yin, on the other hand, was only a tad over five feet tall, had a thin petite frame, and had long glowing silver hair and cold and ruthless pitch black eyes.

“You were right, brother,” commented Yin as she set down her binoculars after the last Captor vehicle left the area.

Yang had a menacing smile on his face as he too placed his binocular down. “I think it's about time for phase two.”

Yin's facial expression turned to an exact match to her brother's as the two twins turned around and walked away from the building edge and toward the stairs to make their way back to their hideout and set the next stage of their plan into action.