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/Run. Shoot. Check your ammo. Run and stay low. Watch the doorways and corners for any sign of enemy action. Your right. Fire. Check your ammo. Reload/

This about summed up Heero Yuy’s thinking while he dashed down a darkened corridor. The alarm had run in the southern section but thanks to Duo’s "taking care of the power" the rest of the base was inert to the actions going on in the southern half. It was a typical mission, except they were on foot, all except Quatre who stayed at the safehouse.

/Wait a sound!/

With stealth Heero stepped up against a wall and listened, his pistol leveled at a door only nine yards across the hall. Another sound, as if somebody entering a code. Heero waited, a calm sweat slowly trickling down his cheek. Of course he didn’t move to wipe it away, it was merely a distraction from finishing the mission. In his mind it was only himself, the 8 bullets left in his clip and the poor bastard about to open the door that was distracting him from getting to 3^rd South Lock and opening the door for Duo and Wufei. A little time passed and Heero thought maybe the baka OZ soldier had luckily decided to not open the door when a beeping and then the mechanical whir of the door made him clench his pistol hold. As the door slid open Heero’s mind was something like a mechanized bull, ready to charge.

/Wait, wait/ His brain calmly instructed him as the door slid open. /Wait, shimatta its dark in here, wait, huh? Targets strange, aim lower, fire/

A gunshot sounded through the night and was followed by a soft, delicate thud.