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WAR OF THE ROSES

Hel paced the lab still on edge on why she hadn't heard from Sarge or even Cleo for that matter. Her thoughts toyed with scepticism of what Sarge might have done with Cleo. She knew the two never got along to well, and it bothered her that they would just run off in the middle of the night without waking her. 'Is there a mission? No, Voice would have contacted me for it. But what if she didn't maybe she thought it wasn't to hard for Sarge and Cleo to handle? Still, she would have told me by now. Dammit! Come on Sarge where are you?' The look in Hel's eye's read the need to search for her friends then suddenly a swoop through the door caught Hel's glaring eye. She turn to face with such compelling effort to run hold them close. But Hel remained composed with such pose waiting to hear the words of where the two had been lurking all this time. She faced them with such reveling thoughts on her mind, "What? What's wrong Hel?" Sarge says, with that curious look on her face. Hel glares in her strongest forum of gesture. "I was just about to ask you the same thing?" Hel replied with her eyebrow in a sceptic position. Sarge looked away avoiding what she knew evidently to be true if her face showed any emotion towards Cleo. Sarge glanced away from Hel's questioning then walks to the labs table to do some tinkering on her gauntlet as she say's, "I don't know what you are talking about." Hel fallowed Sarge with her eye's, as Cleo looks over knowing Sarge didn't really mean to hurt her, but she wasn't ready for Hel to know about them just at that moment. Cleo glanced at Hel then back at Sarge she folded her arms over her chest made a huffing sound then stomp softly away.



Sarge looked over at trying to keep her cold shoulder composure, although knowing it was hard to not run after her like she had earlier while Hel wasn't around. Sarge closed her eye's for merely a second when Hel caught the glimpse of her. "What happened out there with you and Cleo tonight? I was worried you hadn't been back by now, you could have at least sent out a response when I called." Sarge turned her head to face Hel looking partially over he shoulder then she say's, "We didn't get no message I only had one gauntlet I left the receiver gauntlet here with you. Cleo didn't take hers I saved her from tying to fall to her death. We just had a long talk is all." Hel gave her a slight strange look when Sarge mentioned they had a long talk, this is Sarge and oddly enough does she not just like Cleo but to have a long talk. "You, and Cleo have a long talk now that's original. You know Sarge I have heard many things come from you, but, sadly enough this one just sounds like pom scum." In that instance Sarge turned to her and then she say's, "Are you calling me a Liar?" Hel finally walks closer giving her the stare of I know what you have just done now admit look, "Well isn't you who said that talking is just a waste of air?" Sarge gave a direct look into Hel's soft dark dreadful eyes if she would only tell the story of what happened. "You know Hel I don't know what you are implying but I sure as hell don't care either. If you want to call me a liar then go ahead, but don't run around in circles trying to figure something out that isn't even worth figuring out. If you want to know so badly enough talk to Cleo she was the one who ran off. " With those stunning words that even Sarge wasn't sure was true she walked away to her quarters. After she made her way inside she touched her wall that stood next to Cleo's wall. Hoping that she new she really didn't mean a word she had said to Hel. Just it wasn't fair that she had been with Hel the longest and now she had these enormous feelings for someone she hadn't know but a few measly months. But Hel wasn't the type to given in to her feelings the way Cleo was so inclined too, or even how provocative Cleo was around her. Hel in doubtingly knew there where more than just what Sarge was inclined to tell. She raced into Cleo's room she was getting undressed as she caught the silvery tail coat of Hel waltz though her door. Cleo covered the excessive nudeness then say's, "You could have knocked fist Hel." Hel then just flips her head to the side then with a small sigh she say's, "Just forget it." Hel walked back out of the door as she let out the loudest sigh of all then walked over to her quarters.





Cleo turned to the door and looked at it so longingly waiting, hoping, even the anticipation was killing her to see Sarge walk through her door. "Get a grip Cleo it was a one night stand. You know you and Sarge can never be, she has been with Hel the longest would she give Hel up for her. Are the two together Sarge never said that they we're ?" Tears seem to cloud Cleo's eyes again, only it was for Sarge she cried this time Needing to have her touch again the one that would set her body into flames like she had made her feel earlier. Cleo ran her fingertips over her lips remembering the way Sarge's lips felt against her's. Closing her eye's she ran her hand down her neck stilling in the illusion of Sarge's Lips on her neck line. The wall seemed to disappear as if someone was staring right through it. Sarge laid her head against the wall looking upwards at the ceiling, inclined to wonder what Cleo was thinking of.. Sarge closed her eye's as a small tear drop fell from her eye. "What have I done? You knew better Sarge, Cleo isn't one to take advantage of. Why didn't you just tell Hel and get it over with?" Sarge gently slammed her head back on the wall in such pain of how she was feeling. As the wall fades a new one opens on Hel's room. Hel stood in her main stance of leadership, "I was brought up this way. I was alone now I have Sarge and Cleo. But why won't Sarge just level with me? Can't she just come out and say anything she needs too? We are a team, right? Well she needs to trust me as her team member I am not her enemy." Hel turned sat herself down on her bedding table, then ran her hand over her forehead with such tension and stress on her mind. Hel stared off into a picture of a old tattered sunset something she desired on seeing when she got to the surface one day. That was the whole point, not to get emotionally involved with other team mates. The view changes back to Cleo's room but this time there is a small nock on the door of her quarters, Cleo runs to the door, hoping to see her Rose at the doorway. There was no one but a note laying at her foot, she picks it up in a hurrying grasp to read what was on it. She fumbled to open the small piece of paper, finally opening it she reads the medium soft penmanship. The words on the sheet read.



Cleo, Im sorry about what I said to Hel I didn't mean it. I do want to be with you right now, so please come back to our secret place. Let's start this over again, I miss your touch . I will be waiting remember meet me in the dark level. I need to see you again.

Love, Your Rose





Cleo through the note on the bed and then grabbed her gauntlets she ran out of her room softly trying not to make a sound for Hel to hear. Cleo jumped of the level trying to keep herself from screaming although she knew should would never get use to just falling from one place to another. Cleo finally got to the secret hideaway point that Sarge and Cleo had made for themselves. In the morning Hel and Sarge gave each other glances then went on in their own small business is business way. They waited around a couple of hours then Hel has an incoming message from Voice. The one who is always there to tell them about a mission at hand., "Hel we have a situation. There is something going on the elevation level, we received a warring signal from the level. I think you need to check the perimeters for any unexpected guest." Hel glanced at Sarge then over to Mauser, mapping the coordinates as she say's, "Voice has something." Sarge ran to Cleo's door to get her, and say's "Hey Cleo shake a tail feather!"





Hel looked at her quizzically, puzzled that Sarge got the quote right. But for an odd reason Cleo never answered no did she come out of her room. Sarge looked at the door then she opened it. No one was there nothing but a note laying on her bed, Hel fallowed. Sarge took the note off her bed then with a terrified look on her face she read the note. Hel reached her then she said, "What is wrong Sarge?" Sarge turned to face Hel as if she had seen a ghost, "It's Micky my twin sister." Hel gasped a little at the remark from Sarge, a twin, another Sarge was out there and her name was Micky. There was a moment of silence "You know Sarge I think it is time you came straight wit me. Lets start with why you and Cleo were gone so long?" Sarge walked away from her for a moment, then with a small crake in her voice she said, "We talked we made up. That's all we did, we became closer is all Hel." Hel gazed past Sarge and said, "Mauser, are the maps' ready." Sarge glanced over at Mauser then back at Hel and said, "No we need to find Cleo." Hel looked at her curiously then with a sight movement of the hand she grabbed Sarge's arm, and say's, "Your sister is good like you right?" Walking away from Hel and Mauser she said, "No she is more evil then Creegan and Raina put together." Sarge sprinted out the doorway with the black thoughts that would enter Micky's mind, 'I will kill her my damn self this time if she lays a finger on Cleo' , Sarge descends through the air across to the shaft near by, she had mange to put a tacking device on Cleo if anything should ever happen to her Sarge would find her with no problems. But the signal was week, to Sarge that meant Cleo was week and if Cleo was week she was hurt. Running as fast as her legs could carry her she found and entrance way the signified the place of origin that Cleo was at. She braced her self knowing this was a second part of her that she would be on the top of her with every moment and counting her arrival.





Laser fire came out of the dark corridors, "Shields up!" Sarge said as she dashed through the air from the fire, Sarge tumbled past the door way and into the darkness. Sarge got up an fired back, looking around trying to see where Micky was hiding in the dark, Cleo's voice came out of nowhere, "Sarge behind you!" It was week but it gave Sarge the firm belief that Cleo was alright. She quickly swings her body around her heart pounding fiercely in her chest, the slowness of her body didn't seem fast enough. There in the darkness with a mass glow of blue around them stood her twin identical in every way, shape, and forum. Staring at one another Sarge seemingly out of breath, looked at her sister from old times. "It's been what? Seven long years since we last saw one-another, right Rose? You know I waited and I waited for you to brake me out of that psycho lab of the bailey's. But Ooh no, big sis doesn't need my help she can take care of herself right Rose? Enough of this so did you mis me, cause you know I missed you. I took your new girlfriend for a test drive. She was so good and ever the willing one." Sarge draws her upper lip up in anger with a draw back of air more pressing the gauntlet up in her face slightly some more. "If you have laid a finger on her, I will chop you kidney up and leave you rotten carcass to the bailey's." Micky gave her a small smirk, that was identical to Sarge's. "Ooh feisty aren't we? Well I hate to burst the prelude deep confessions of love, but, your lover was more then willing to let me do anything that my heart desires. You know me I love to do everything." Micky walked away from Sarge over to a bedding table, yanked Cleo up by her hair and Cleo screamed, "SARGE!" Sarge felt the burst of anger and the adrenaline pumping through her veins. She gave out the most horrendous warrior yell from deep within her gut began shooting. Running to meet up with her twin a dead air flip out of nowhere, Micky returns fire. Although Sarge had caught her off guard, the laser fire hit Micky in the chest several times. She feel into a passage way, as Sarge went to recover her dead body there was nothing there. Sarge knew she at least got 2 laser shots in her. But it would never be the end of Micky just like Sarge knew it would never be the end of her.

Sarge turned ran back to Cleo, the bouses that covered her face the small scratch wounds on her body was to much for her to handle. Sarge untied her arms, Cleo grabbed her and held as tight as she could. "It is you right Rose!" Sarge looked at her then said, " I thought I never told you to call me Rose." Cleo smiled at her friend so lovingly, softly Sarge kissed her lips. As she laid her forehead against Cleo's she say's, "Cleo Im sorry, I hope you can forgive me for treating you that way back at the lab. I will tell Hel, just not right now." Suddenly a light shines in their direction and in it a voice say's, "I think this actually say's enough. Next time try to be more understanding that we are not just friends, we are also team mates." Hel came into view then she looks at Cleo, "How do you feel?" Cleo looks at her strangely then say's "Ok!" Hel looked at Sarge in a fury of the moment the she turns her gauntlet light towards the door. "We better get moving she could come back? We will deal with her another time. Are you two coming?" Hel said as she walked out the door, Cleo looked at Sarge then got up as if still scared of Sarge. Sarge got up behind her then Cleo turns quickly a lays a very passionate kiss upon Sarge's lips. They stop and Cleo gazes into Sarge's eye's, Sarge picked her up and carried her back to the lab. Cleo was talking as they were leaveing, "Sarge enquireing minds want to know, what is Micky's real name?" Sarge smiled and say's, "Magnolia!" Cleo laughs uncontrolably , as you could hear the mumbled soun of, "Your parents loved flowers, what were they florist." Sarge's voice came out of no where and said, "How did you know that?"