Hey all! I'm back again! This is just something I thought of a few months ago and only now have time to sit and write, so I hope y'all enjoy it!

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As her feet pounded along the floor, the only thought running through Sam's mind was to get to the hanger and complete the upgrade on the gundams in the fastest time possible. Libra had managed to break through the defense and one of the thrusters had blow, throwing the whole ship into chaos. As people ran past her and knocked into her in their mad panics, all Sam cared about was that her ears were ringing from the alarms blearing overhead and her legs were aching from running the length of the ship.

She turned a corner and ran straight into something solid, but before she hit the floor, a pair of hands caught her. She looked up and gave her savior a grateful smile, fighting the blush on her face as she recognized the piercing green of the visible eye on his face.

"Trowa, thanks." She gasped out.

Trowa simply helped her to her feet before turning to look out of the window, a grim expression on his face as he watched Libra moving closer to the Peacemillion. Sam also glanced outside and her eyes widened. She let out a curse and fled down the corridor, anxious to get to the hangar, not noticing that Trowa watched her go with a look of vague curiosity in his eyes.

As she burst through the door, she was aware of Duo looking at her and yelling something but she was unable to hear it over the racket of the alarm. Instead, she chose to simply flip him the finger and rush over to the first gundam that came into sight, ignoring the look of indignation on the braided teenagers face. She glanced to one side and could see that Howard had already finished Shenlong's upgrade and it had already gone. Wing Zero's upgrade was also complete and Heero was just climbing in to take his seat. He looked at her and she gave him a small yet scared smile. He acknowledged it with a nod of the head before blasting out to join the battle. Howard moved on to Sandrock and Sam swiftly moved to Deathscythe. Duo joined her and gave her a playful shove, but the steely look in his eyes told Sam that it was merely a bluff and that he was as worried as the rest of them were about this. She gave him an encouraging hug and quickly finished the upgrade.

"Be careful!" she yelled in his ear over the alarms.

Duo gave her a half hearted smile before he too was in his suit and gone. Sam turned to the last gundam and saw Trowa clicking on the computer next to it. She ran over to him and he stepped out of the way to let her take over, showing her he trusted her with his machine. Sam frowned at the screen, knowing it would take too long and typed in the override to finish the work herself. She jumped into the pilot's seat and took out one of the compartments, replacing it with the new one with an almost inhuman speed. She grasped the side to pull herself out and found herself surprised when Trowa was already there and helped her out. She stumbled at the last second and pressed up against his chest, her face inches away from his. She gave him an embarrassed smile and he smiled back.

"You should be more careful" he said in her ear.

Sam found herself unable to contain her blush and felt him chuckle. He looked at her, his eyes sparkling in amusement and she playfully pushed him. The alarm suddenly stopped, snapping them both out of their trances. They pulled apart and Trowa hopped into his seat. Just before he shut the hatch, Sam's face hovered above it.

"Promise you'll come back" she said.

"I promise." He reassured her. "You be careful too, okay?" he asked.

Sam nodded and jumped down from the gundam. As it blasted out of the hanger, she brushed away a tear that had escaped and tried to recompose herself. The last thing she needed right now was a breakdown right when she was needed to be there should any emergency repairs be needed. She caught Howard looking at her and when she turned to face him, he simply signaled he was heading back to the cockpit before disappearing out of the room. Sam sighed and shook her head, trying to rid herself of the ringing in her ears, left behind from the alarms.

It wasn't long before there was a sudden blast, jolting the ship and causing it to vibrate. Sam was thrown to the floor and covered her head as tools fell from their shelves, hitting her body and causing her to yell with shock and pain. When the shaking stopped, she looked up, wandering what just happened. She had barely reached the hangar door when the alarms once more burst to life. She let out a growl of annoyance when her ears were once again blasted by the noise and as she stepped back into the corridors, people were yet again making mad dashes to who-knows-where. Sam saw one of the other mechanics racing towards her and he indicated for her to follow. They ran to the main engine room and when Sam saw the smoke and flames coming from it, she gasped, knowing immediately that one of the thrusters had blown. Five other men stood by the door, waiting for her instructions. Fortunately, the alarms once again shut off, enabling Sam to call and for them to all hear her.

"Two of you get the hoses. The rest of you, come with me. We need to stop the fire and try to fix the thruster now or it could blow and we're in serious trouble if it does!"

Everyone burst to action and Sam could faintly heard Howard's voice over the intercom instructing all spare people to get to the engine room and help. Sam grit her teeth and pushed into the room, immediately recoiling at the intense heat and smoke that hit her. Still, she moved forward, determined to fix the damage before it was too late.

She found the source of the fire quickly and once the flames had been doused in that area, she and one of the others set to work on the damage. By the time they finished, the flames were almost out but Sam could feel her lungs burning through the effort of breathing and her eyes were watering from the smoke in them. She turned to give the thumbs up to say the repair was complete but a yell from one of the others stopped her. She turned just in time to see a burning piece of rubble fall from above and land straight on the thruster, immediately reigniting it into an uncontrollable inferno.

"Everyone get OUT!" Sam screamed.

There was a mad rush to the door and Sam thrust it open, seeing Duo and Trowa running towards them. She opened her mouth to tell them to stay back but before she could utter a syllable, the thruster exploded and the next thing she knew, she let out a piercing scream as a blast of heat and shrapnel threw tore into her back and threw her across the room, towards another thruster that had also begun to ignite…