Quatre and Noin entered Heero's room; Heero had just finished on his laptop.
"They have a probable location on Silverburg and a probable location of the Gundanium." Said Heero while both looked over his shoulder.
Quatre shook his head "I don't like this...I have an uneasy feeling this might be a trap, its too convenient. Besides didn't Lady Une mention a leak?"
Heero nodded "Possibly but nevertheless we have to check this out. This is the best lead we have."
Quatre sighed and nodded his silent agreement.
"Yes...Yes I understand, Thank you." Silverburg said as he disconnected from his informer.
Heero stopped the car in an alley just near the warehouse where Silverburg and the Gundanium were supposed to be. He got out and waited for Noin and Quatre to show up. For some reason he had a bad feeling about this mission.
Quatre was driving towards the destination while Noin sat beside him lost in thought. She had been trying to concentrate on the mission but her thoughts kept drifting back to Heero.
"Are you alright,"?
Quatre's words suddenly brought her back to reality "Yes I'm fine, just a little distracted that's all,"
Quatre smiled "Thinking about him,"
Noin blushed a bit "A little bit,"
"You should be honoured,"
"Why's that," Asked Noin
"Because Heero is hardly ever open with anyone, in fact I've never seen him express his thoughts as he did with you to anybody else,"
Noin's eyes opened wide "Wow...I didn't know that,"
Quatre glanced over at her "You like him don't you,"
Noin blushed some more "Yeah I do, he's so different from Zechs, but in a good way, I feel like I can really trust him,"
Quatre smiled "Well there isn't a person alive I would trust more than him,"
"That's good to know, well I better try and concentrate on the mission,"
Quatre put a hand on her shoulder "Don't worry, everything will be alright,"
Noin nodded her head and looked out the window. Quatre continued to drive, but he too was troubled about the mission. He had a bad feeling that they could be driving into a trap.
Heero looked up as Quatre and Noin pulled up and stepped out of the car. Heero walked over to talk to them.
"As you both may know this will not be easy, Silverburg is a very dangerous man and will resist us fiercely. Our mission is to retrieve or dispose of the Gundanium in here and capture Silverburg. Now it is moderately guarded so Quatre, first things first, did you bring the equipment,"
Quatre nodded and opened the trunk, inside were guns grenades and other items.
"Everything you need is in here,"
Heero walked over and picked up a Machine gun, two Desert-Eagles, a couple of grenades, and some rope.
"Don't you think that's a little to much?" asked Quatre
Heero looked at him "Trust me."
Quatre shrugged his shoulder "Okay," He picked up a shotgun and an H&K.
Noin picked a sub-machinegun and a berretta "What's the plan?" she asked.
Heero picked up a map of the place "There are 5 doors into this facility each one is well guarded. Quatre, You'll take the south-east door on the 3rd floor, Noin, you'll take the west door on the 2nd floor,"
"Where will you go?" Asked Noin.
"I'll becoming from the roof, it'll make a good distraction,"
"Oh man," Mumbled Quatre.
"Alright, when I give the signal, you two storm in, remember shoot to kill,"
"What's the signal?"
Heero cocked his machine gun "You'll figure it out," He turned around and walked off toward his destination.
Quatre smiled and shook his head "That's Heero for you, come on Noin, we have to get into position,"
Noin started to walk with Quatre but turned around and looked back "Please be careful Heero,"
Heero had just dispatched of the guards on the roof and was now preparing to make his entrance. He only hoped that the others would be all right especially Noin. He quickly pushed the thoughts out of his mind; there would be time for thinking later. He attached the cord to a buckle on his belt and checked it to make sure it was sturdy. He took a deep breath, kicked the window, and jumped down feet first. As he was falling he started shooting at the surprised guards. Even though his decent was fast he still managed to kill 7 of them before his roped had reached its limit. He quickly pressed a button on the buckle, which released him from the rope. He hit the ground, fired some more rounds at the men on the railing, and ran for cover.
As soon as Quatre heard the gunshots he kick open the door and blasted the first person that came into view he saw two more coming at him but he managed to shoot them first. He looked down from the railing and saw Heero pinned down by 3 men. Quatre quickly ran down the stairs too help him.
Noin kicked open the door and ran inside. She spotted some people running up the stairs at her, but after some quick burst from her SMG they all lied on the ground dead. She looked across the area to see Quatre helping Heero out. She ran over to help but was stopped when bullets hit all around her. She raised up her gun and quickly shot the man in the shoulder. He clutched his shoulder, stumbled a bit, and fell over the railing. Noin watched as the man fell 4 stories, and splattered all over the ground.
Noin quickly turned around and saw Heero walking up to her with a disgusted look his face
"All of the men have been taken care of, I just sent Quatre to locate the Gundanium,"
Noin gave him a slight nod and look at the body "That's going to be in my head for awhile,"
Heero reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder causing her to jump slightly.
"You okay?"
Noin nodded "Yeah, just a little shaken, that's all,"
Suddenly Quatre came running back at them "Guys we have a problem,"
"What is it?" Asked Heero
"There is no Gundanium here, from the look of things it's been moved,"
Heero's eye's narrowed "That's not good,"
"And that's not all, Silverburg is not here either. Somebody tipped him off,"
Heero snarled "Damn it, we better get out of here fast!"
Suddenly all the windows in the warehouse shattered, armed men swung in from all direction and fired upon them. Heero, Quatre, and Noin ran for cover and returned fired.
"It's an ambush!" yelled Quatre
The tree of them blasted everything insight but there was to many of them. They had already exhausted their primary weapons and were shooting at them with their pistols.
Heero saw about 5 of them take cover behind a stack of equipment, he pulled out a grenade and threw it in there direction. It exploded killing all of them. He then pulled out his pistol and resumed firing.
"Heero, what do we do now, were running low on ammo," said Quatre as he gunned down two more.
Heero inserted another magazine in his gun and looked at Quatre and Noin
"Quatre is there a back entrance in the Gundanium storage area,"
"Quatre, I want you to take Noin and get out of here, I'll cover you,"
"No Heero, I won't leave you behind, they'll kill you," cried Noin
Heero picked off a few more with his pistol "Look, if you don't leave now you'll be captured, or worse killed. I can't let that happen, I won't allow it. So get out of here now before it's too late,"
"But Heero I can't..."
Suddenly Heero saw a man coming right at them from the side "NOIN MOVE," Heero pushed Noin down and dove in front of her, the man and Heero fired at the same time. Heero hit him in the head but he received a bullet to the shoulder, one in his side, and two in his ribs, Heero collapsed on the ground as a pool of blood formed around him.
Quatre and Noin quickly rushed up to him. Noin put an arm around his neck to support him while Quatre knelt down beside him and shot some men who were coming in close.
Noin began calling out his name "HEERO...HEERO, can you hear me? Please hold on,"
Heero spit up a little blood and looked at her, he could tell that she was on the verge of tears. Heero reached up a hand and touched her face "N...Noin," Heero glanced over at Quatre who was reloading his gun. He reached over to him and grabbed his arm. He brought him closes so he could whisper something to him, "Q...Quatre, get....No...Noin out...out of here...now,"
Quatre opened his mouth to try to protest but nothing he then nodded sadly and grabbed Noin's arm and stood up "Let's go Noin,"
Noin shook her head and grabbed Heero's hand; she looked at him with tears running down her face.
"No... not without you, I can't,"
Heero grasped her hand tightly "You... m...must go...please Noin...t...the...there's no way I can make it, I'll only slow you down...Please...Lucrezia..."
Noin looked him in the eye and slowly nodded. Heero gently squeezed her hand and permitted a tear to fall from his face. Noin took one last look at him, released his arm, and ran off with Quatre towards the escape route.
Heero used what was left of his strength and grabbed on one of crates to support himself up. He then trained his pistol on the incoming men and fired. He managed to pick a few more off before his pistol ran out of ammo. He then slumped to the floor, and faded into unconsciousness.
Noin and Quatre managed to escape from the warehouse and make it back to the van. They quickly piled in a drove off. Noin buried her face in her hands and cried. "I shouldn't of left him...why did I...?"
Quatre put a hand on her shoulder "Look if you would of stayed, you would've been captured just like him. And that's the last thing Heero wanted."
Noin remained silent but did look like she was taking Quatre's words to thought.
Quatre squeezed her shoulder "Look don't worry about Heero, they'll probably try to get what he knows so they'll keep him alive there are opportunities..."
Noin, who had calmed down a bit, nodded her head. But the events that had just happened were still etched in her mind. She was stilled deathly afraid of what might happened to Heero. As she looked out the window another tear fell from her face. "Heero...I'm so sorry,"
Silverburg and a few of his men had watched the whole event unfold from their safe house on surveillance cameras.
"We captured one of them, sir. Shall we kill him?" Said another
Silverburg shook his head, "No, get him patched up, Menshikov wants to know how the Preventers knew where the Gundanium it was a good our informer warned us in time!"
Silverburg rewound the tape as Menshikov came into the room and as they watched it they both smiled.
TBC