A/N: I'm baaaack. :D hopefully you'll love this one like my most read story, 'Home Sweet Home'.

For a while, the government had assumed that their heroes simply did what they did because they enjoyed it more than anything else. Why else would they risk their lives saving citizens not hurting citizens. One day, the Commander has an idea; what if they did a social experiment on those who were supposedly bound to their task by agreement duty? They'd be able to see who functioned with the job and without the job and send their findings to the President.

'It's brilliant!' The commander thought. 'Then we could order our men to contact the ones most likely to be stuck to their job to do our dirty work! The military would save millions on troop deployment, equipment and supplies! It's the least those furry cretins owe us after all their criminal damage done trying to stop all the villains.'

So, within the next few weeks, the whole team were contacted in order to be the guinea pigs for the experiment.

With the test subjects sorted, they were called into the military headquarters.

"Now, you all know why you're here, don't you?" The Commander addressed the group as he brought a presentation onto view on a large screen.

"Is it for counting fractions, sir?" Duck asked as he stared at the various pie charts on the screen.

The rest of them stared at him with faces that said, 'Shut up.'

Tech had to break the awkward moment, remarking, 'It was to do some experiment that y'all are testing, right?"

"Exactly. We want you to partake in a little experiment; for three weeks, you will be relieved of your work and be forced to spend time off. We will send in replacements to do your jobs while you are on this break. We will also provide unlimited funding for your two weeks, so you will be completely financially secure."

Duck had to fight to stifle a yell of joy.

"How do you know some of us won't go spending it on…ahem…frivolities?" Ace asked. The Commander gave an understanding nod.

"While there is unlimited funding, there will be prohibitions on what some of you may purchase. For a start, none of you will be allowed to buy pure gemstones or guns, for post-period security reasons. Aside from that, Tech, you are restricted from purchasing or possessing anything advance technology. Kiko and Ace, you two are prohibited from purchasing or possessing anything related to Ninjutsu or martial arts. Danger, you are prohibited from purchasing or possessing anything related to sovereignty. Furthermore, you are all prohibited from formal meditation."

Kiko cleared her throat and spoke up, quite irritated at that. "I don't understand! Surely I was being dismissed solely from my job as a hero?"

"The experiment entails being dismissed from all duties, Kiko. When you dedicated yourself to practising Ninjutsu, you had to agree to certain conditions of application, did you not? You may hone your skills separately to your official career, but it is a duty, nonetheless."

Kiko simply sighed at this circular reasoning and lowered her head. This was going to be a long two weeks, whether she didn't want to be there…or not.

-o-

When the Loonatics arrived back at HQ, they had to pack up their special and most used possessions.

Kiko resumed the packing of his Ninjutsu equipment in time for the start of the experiment, which was the next morning. As she was moving one of the last boxes out of the building.

She noticed Ace putting his Guardian Strike Sword on the table.

"Are you really considering to give them your sword?"

"What? Hell no. I'm giving it to Zadavia for the two weeks."

When he said that she just shrugged and went to the elevator.

'Somehow, it feels like those soldiers are really out to get me…'

Kiko thought as she went to the kitchen after to check up on food stock. When she got there, however, she got another shock; the soldiers had apparently removed all of their proper food, and there were only snacks left!

"What the…" Kiko noticed a note laying in the cabinet. She read out the note that was left by the soldiers, aloud through gritted teeth. "Loonatics, as much as it pains me to inform you of this, we have made the decision to remove all cooking foodstuffs from your vicinity. We have taken this action on the basis that some of the ingredients used may be used in conjunction with the practice of Ninjutsu and therefore be in breach of — oh, you've got to be kidding me!" She ripped up the note furiously and tossed the pieces up in the air carelessly.

Rev, who had a small box in his hands, could only watch as Kiko aggressively snatched up the last box of possessions, carried it and dumped it unceremoniously in the helicopter that was waiting with the rest of her Ninjutsu equipment. As soon as everyone was out of range, the helicopter then took off rather quickly into the twilight sky.

Kiko made a audible sigh and walked back to inside.

She decided to take a shower, in order to try and relax her muscles a bit, and relieve some stress off her mind. She went to the bathroom but, like the kitchen, there were some things missing, namely washing products.

"Oh, this is just super." She grunted sarcastically.

By this time, she was exasperated by all the restrictions put in place, but she decided to put up with it and just go without the suds. Unfortunately, they had an even bigger setback.

"Hmm, funny, the shower doesn't seem to be working." Kiko went to the sink in the kitchen, only to find the same thing.

She searched around for some time for the fault. The plumbing to the building had been all but wrecked. Trying her very best to conceal her fury, she dashed to the bathroom again. Once there, she searched around and found another note saying pretty much the same thing as the last note, only with 'water and using a shower to try and meditate' in place of 'cooking foodstuffs and ingredients may be used in conjunction with Ninjutsu.'

Not being able to take much more, she let the note fall to the ground, before stomping on it and treading it into the floor as she marched back to the main area.

Rev, Ace, and Duck was now sitting on the couch. The television was on, but Rev was busy glancing up at his girl who was stomping into the room.

"What the hell are they thinking?" She huffed. "Is washing clothes suddenly considered a deadly martial arts ritual?!" tossed off his gloves, feeling completely dejected.

Everyone, having simply observed Kiko going into a meltdown the entire time. Rev decided to comfort her and reassure her that things weren't so bad.

"Relax, baby!" He said with a confident grin, although he was somewhat worried that Kiko might instead strangle him. "We - may - not - have - any - water, - but - we - could - go - downtown. I - mean, - there's - nothing against - buying - some - pre-made - healthy dishes - or - using - the - launderette, - is - there?"

Kiko gave Rev a glance of skepticism. "You know, you're right. I should just calm down by doing…" Kiko realized she couldn't do any meditation.

"Doing what?" Ace interrupted.

"Give me a moment." Kiko was still thinking. "… reading." She walked out the living room.

"That was a close one." Ace said.

"Yeah, - it's - only - been - thirty - minutes - and - Kiko - is - already - going - through - a - mental - breakdown."

"I wonder how Tech is reacting right now?" Ace scratched his head.

"He's probably going through a mental breakdown as well." Duck said, no longer looking at the television. "It must have something to do with them being coyotes."

"NOOOOOO!"

Everyone froze.

"Rev, are you gonna check on your girlfriend?" Ace asked.

"I'm - not - sure - if - I - should." He sank down on the couch.

"REEEEV!"

"Looks like you have to."

"Aye." He got up. "The joy of dating Kiko." Rev said walking out.

Rev came in the room and saw Kiko standing at the book case.

"What's - wrong?"

"Look." Kiko pointed to the book case.

Rev turned to the book case. All the books were gone.

"What - the…"

"Read the note." She handed him the sheet of paper.

"I am sorry to inform you, but reading anything with martial arts, or anything scientific has been taken away!" Rev looked at the book case and back at the note. "They took my science books!"

"This is torture, and it hasn't been a hour yet."

Kiko's head was on the wall.

"Well, why don't we catch some sleep?"

"Okay. At least I can have peace and quietude in my sleep." She walked over to the bed and plumped down with a loud sigh.

"It'll be okay Kiko." Rev whispered getting in the bed with her.

How is it so far? It's great writing in Loonatics fanfiction again when you haven't in a while. Review!