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| After receiving quite a beating from a group of soldiers, Mina fell to the ground. This was one of the times where she decided to take on a mission solo; the others were safe and sound, sleeping in their beds while Mina was being pummeled on. |
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| "Is that all you got?" She scoffed to the group, grabbing onto her side and winking with one of her swollen eyes. |
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| "As if you haven't suffered enough already," The biggest one said, as he took a step over to her; bringing his fists up to batter her more. |
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| "My- you ARE quite the warrior- you sure you aren't a guy?" He brought his fists down on her back, slamming her hard into the gravel beneath her. |
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| She coughed up blood- her mouth half open as she looked at the crimson pool building beneath her. Dizziness came over her; the tired and severely beaten girl raised her head just in time to receive another blow. This one caused her to scream, her ribs cracked from the hit; any minute now she expected to pass out- or die, either one would be acceptable to the careless girl. |
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| "You want more?" The soldiers sneered. This time, they all loomed above her- limbs ready to beat her senseless. |
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| Well- let's see...do you want to die here? I know the others will be greatly disappointed... |
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| Mina coughed up a bit more and struggled to sit up, her hand digging into the dirt. The idea she had would only work on one of the soldiers- so she had to make up her mind- and make it quick. |
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| "Only if I can give you yours first!" Mina quickly sat up and chucked the handful of dirt into the closest man's eyes. He stumbled around for a second- that was enough time for Mina to whip out the spare gun she had and shoot him point-blank in the forehead. In 5 minutes flat, the rest of the group was on the floor either severely wounded or dead. |
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| Mina let out a sigh and fell back onto the ground, holding her ribs as she did so. |
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| "That was a close one...I almost bit the dust there." In the irony of her own words, she laughed- at her own jokes, of course. |
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| "Beautiful..." Clapping interrupted Mina's almost cheerful laughter. Jake opened the door and took a step out into the night to applaud Mina. |
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| "That was indeed a great way to make them pay." By the time he was finished with that sentence he was kneeling over her- the gun she used to kill his comrades already knocked from her hand. |
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| "But what I don't get...is why you let them beat you so." He picked up the gun, playing with the handle of it in his hand. |
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| "Get lost. I don't need you around here-" Mina spat, sitting up to get in his face. She was about to reach for her other gun when he hit her over the head. |
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| "Shhhhh..." Letting out gasp, she fell to the ground, her body went limp in his arms. |
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| Picking up the wounded girl in his arms, he walked her into the building, hopping over the bodies she left. |
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| Duo sat up quickly in bed. Hair messed up slightly from sleeping; he looked around, expecting Mina's warm body to be next to him. He patted the sheets around him- hoping to hit her leg or something. With no prevail, he punched the pillow and cursed. He just knew she went out by herself on a mission again. The last time this happened, Duo and Heero were almost too late- Mina was half dead, lying on a building that was going to blow in a matter of seconds. Mina's suicidal tendencies were well known by the group- so they tried to keep her from as many solo missions as they could. |
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| Letting out a sigh, Duo stood up and ran out into the hall. He didn't bother knocking on Heero's door- but what he saw was quite surprising. |
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| Heero and Amy were lying in the same bed... |
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| Flabbergasted, Duo stood in the doorway; wide eyed and stuttering. He knew how Heero felt about Amy- but this was just unexpected. |
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| "Okay...I was just on my way out anyway..." With a tiny sweatdrop, he began to close the door. |
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| Wait a minute...I have what everybody likes to call a "big" mouth...now would be the perfect time to use it! |
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| "EVERYBODY! MINA'S IN TROUBLE! LET'S GET OUR ASSES IN GEAR AND GO HELP HER!" Duo yelled, loud enough to wake the dead. |
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| The call made all of them jump out of their beds, all scuttling out into the hall, half-asleep, of course. |
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| "What in the? Duo- what's wrong now?" Sean mumbled, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. |
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| "I thought Mina was with you," Amy added, trying to cover up the fact that she came out of Heero's room. |
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| "Well- THAT'S why I got up! She's gone- and I bet I know where she is too..." Duo turned around and stomped off into his room to get clothed. |
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| "You guys get ready too," Amy demanded to the others. |
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| "Duo's worried about her and I have to admit I am too. Let's go!" |
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| Mina groggily opened her eyes when she felt a wet cloth on her forehead. The thing seemed to be ice cold, it shocked her to attention the moment she felt the tiny drops of water fall into her ears. |
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| Slapping the hand that held it away, Mina sat up- holding onto her side. |
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| "Get lost," She growled to what seemed like a maid who was caring for her. |
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| "Y-Yes ma'am..."The young girl stammered before gathering the bowl full of water and many bloodied cloths. Noise from out in the hall of where Mina was held could be heard when the girl opened the door. She shyly nodded before leaving Mina in the room alone. |
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| "What in the hell is going on?" Mina said to her self as she threw her legs over the side of the bed. |
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| Now try to remember...what the hell happened before you got here. Slapping her hands down on the bed she was laying on, Mina prepared to stand up, slowly remembering her mission. |
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| "Geez...everything's slowing me down today." She mumbled, unaware of her whereabouts. Mina padded to the large door and rested her hand on it. She was just about to open it when the door swung open, hitting the wounded girl in the face. |
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| "Itai!" She shrieked, holding to her nose; a tiny trickle of blood coming down her chin. |
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| "Dude! Watch where you're going!" |
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| Mina was surprised to see a very short boy, black haired, large goggles neatly placed on his forehead. The look on his face changed from angry to stunned; he wasn't aware that he'd hit one of his patients. |
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| "You okay?" He asked the bleeding girl, leading her back to her bed so she could sit. |
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| "I really didn't mean to hit you- or be so rude, excuse me." Holding onto her bleeding nose, Mina shook the boy from her free arm. |
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"It's okay- all you have to do is show me how to get out of here…" She reassured him, cringing slightly when he held up his clipboard.
"You're Mina Andrews, right?" He scanned his clipboard, reading the girl's stats to himself quietly.
"Um, yeah. Why?" She waited for her nose to stop flowing blood before she moved her hand away from her face.
"Well, you see-the boss said you couldn't leave until the test results come in."
Mina scoffed and stood up, reading herself for running to the door. She just realized she had not only NOT completed her mission- but she was still on it. The bombs weren't set, the place wasn't in a pile of burning brick and wood- and she was definitely NOT holding the button she used to blow the place sky high and laughing maniacally. None of those things were happening like they should have, and she knew exactly why.
Jake was there. After I blew those other guys their new assholes, Jake showed up and- THAT BASTARD KNOCKED ME OUT AND BROUGHT ME HERE! He brought me directly to the enemy. MY enemy- what the hell was he thinking?
"It was…Jake who brought me here, right?" Mina walked to the door, placing her hand on the tiny reinforced window; peering out into the hall at all of the workers scurrying around.
"Yeah…he brought you here earlier. You were almost dead when he did so- what did you do? I think you owe him a thank you…" Looking at the girl walk to the door, he knew that she would be gone the minute he would turn his back. And he didn't care what the boss would say if he did so, either.
"You know, you're right- I DO owe him something…" Mina opened the door quickly and turned around, her index finger held in front of her lips- trying to calm the boy behind her.
"It's alright- I can tell you don't want to be here. I'm giving you the option to choose to come with me and live," The words that came out of her mouth stunned the boy; he gasped and held tightly on to her arm.
"Or stay here and die. It's your choice. But-" Mina tried to shake him off her arm, a tiny sweatdrop forming on the side of her head.
"By the way you're grappling onto my hand for dear life- I take it you want to come with me…" It was in the most unlikely places such as this, that Mina made friends. She met Doris at Miz, ran into Sean in the halls while trying to find help for Abbey, Saved Duo's life in her home colony- all the many ways she thought "god" wanted to fuck her over.
"I'm Mina," She mumbled after wrenching her hand away from the kid.
"And I'm Devin." Adjusting his large white lab coat, he nodded intently and smiled. His features hardened from the smile it was in and took his place next to Mina when he heard commotion in the halls.
"You any good with guns?" Mina smirked at him as he tossed her a gun and walked to the other side of the door.
"I don't know…" Mina said sarcastically as she checked to see if it was loaded. For some odd reason, whenever people gave her a gun, it was ALWAYS either unloaded or only had one bullet. But to her surprise, it was fully loaded. She smiled and leaned up against the doorway.
"Make room for the big guns, fellas!"
Mina's head shot up, a smile on her face as she recognized the voice. She poked her head out the door just in time to see Tatalia blow about 6 soldiers each and every way. It was nice to see her British friend was there- and if she was…then so were the others.
"C'mon- let's go help them!" Mina grabbed Devin by the back of the neck and dragged him out into the hall, bullets just barely missing the two. She lost her footing and fell to the ground, letting Devin go and sliding down the rest of the way and stopping with a thump at none other than Duo's feet.
"How nice of you to drop in. Come to join the party?" He grinned, holding out a hand to help his koi up.
"So this thing is like the "holy hand grenade?" Jake asked Rose as he played with the little item she handed to him. There was always the question of how and WHERE Rose got her "supplies" like this, but being her second hand man, he just didn't ask.
"It is. Now just shut up and throw it. I want Mina along with…. Hmmm…. a few of her friends." Rose shrugged and walked off to her office. She was looking forward to "speaking" with Mina- having great wealth and power most of her life; Rose always liked to manipulate her way to the top. This will be nice…if I say the right thing, not only will I have the Gundams in my hands; I will also have destroyed the "invincible" Mina Andrews. She continued down the hallway, and before going down the elevator, she yelled once more down the hall.
"I want all of those fools dead- bring Mina to me."
Without a second thought, Jake pulled the little tab from it and chucked it down the hall.
"This ought to be good…"
"Ouch!" Tatalia rubbed the back of her head after receiving quite a blow from behind.
"What in the hell was that?"
Everything seemed to go by in slow motion as Mina looked over to Tatalia and the rest of the group huddled around something on the floor.
This is already looking bad…. what are they- Mina's eyes widened once she got closer. The tiny item on the floor was none other than a grenade that was going to blow her- and her friends who came to get her, sky high.
"SUNUVABITCH!" Mina swore as she literally dove into the middle of the circle, her hands flailing wildly in the air as she searched for a place she could throw it in order to somewhat deaden the blast.
"DAMNIT YOU GUYS!!! RUN! RUN LIKE HELL!!"
All of the kids scrambled like mad to the doors of the facility, all pushing and shoving each other out of the room, most of them not bothering to look back at the one who remained in the room with it- Mina.
In fear of being blown to kingdom come, Doris still stood next to Mina, holding out her hand to help her up.
"Come on! We don't have much-"
JUST GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!" Mina stood, preparing herself for throwing the grenade further down the hall. She was not trying to hide her anger from her friend; with a grunt, Mina shoved Doris back against the doors, slamming the pacifist hard against the wood.
Doris was too shocked to reply to her friend's urgent act; placing a shaking hand on the doorknob, she opened it and soon stumbled out of her way.
Mina…I trust you not to make the wrong choice… She ran a bit more before she felt a rumbling, the walls of the building shaking with the explosion behind her. It was then that she figured out that Mina's plan wasn't going to work. She looked back to see where she just came out of, smoke lifting off the melting doors- exactly like the fear in her. She lost Mina once, and if she didn't open these doors, she wouldn't know if she lost her again. The blast obviously didn't hit where it was supposed to- thanks to Mina's good throw, it hit far down the hall- but it hit her with hard impact. Doris gasped and knelt next to her mangled friend.
"Mina!" She shook the girl lightly, gathering her up in her arms to scoot her up against a wall. Using the remains of Mina's jacket, she wrapped her bleeding arm. Soon after, the others joined Doris, and gathering up the severely wounded girl. |
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