Ace smacked Hana across the face, sending her flying into the nearby fountain. There was an enormous splash as the girl hit the clear blue waters. She pushed herself up slowly, rubbing her forehead. She moaned softly and looked down at the crystalline fountain. She saw her face in the water and blinked her eyes. then she narrowed her eyes fully and clenched her teeth. She screamed shrill. Ace grimaced, covering his ears.

"you smudged my eyeliner," Hana growled darkly, "you bastard!" she screeched. Her guns appeared on her belt and she grabbed hold of them, aiming them sharply. Ace cleaned out his ear absently as he looked at Hana with a casual gaze.

"god, could you be any vainer? Or dramatic?" he muttered. Hana glared.

"I dare you to say that again!" she barked loudly. "oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no," she repeated over again, putting away her guns and fiddling around in her pockets to find her makeup case. Ace wandered over and held out a hand. Hana glanced from him to his hand and cautiously grabbed it. Ace smiled and began to pull her up. suddenly there was a flash of water and sky and almost immediately Hana landed on her butt in the middle of the dirt. She blinked her eyes, registering what had just happened. When she did she scowled and groaned loudly, curling into a ball. A flash of red appeared and a blonde, long haired woman landed in front of Hana. She gave Hana a disappointed look. Hana looked at her and rubbed the back of her neck, laughing awkwardly.

"hi Mala," she mumbled.

"Hanabachi, with that kind of vanity you'll never progress as the supposed "greatest underaged female assassin in the world"" she commented, "sometimes I wonder if you care more about your new hair dye more than your training," she added. Hana giggled, twiddling her purple bang around her index finger.

"lovely isn't it, I knew purple looked fantastic with my clothes, so why not my hair colour," she explained. she saw Mala's irritated face. Hana rolled her eyes and dropped her arm.

"oh come on Mala, I'm allowed to be physically self aware aren't i?" she asked. Ace scoffed. Hana looked up at his handsome face and glared sharply.

"honestly, Bumblebee, physically self aware is completely different from vanity," Ace said, glancing down at her.

"how so?" Hana demanded, leaping up and holding up her fist at Ace threateningly. Ace ignored it.

"well, for one thing, self awareness is not to do with screaming your lungs out and almost fainting when you break a nail," he explained casually. Hana glared at him and growled sharply.

"bastard!" she shrieked. Ace looked at her and grinned.

"plastic," he teased.

"Loser!" Hana shouted.

"Princess!" Ace retaliated. Mala rolled her eyes as the two shot daggers at each other and spat insults out like bad milk.

It was night time. The moon was high in the sky above Lucifer Manor. It was one of the biggest and richest buildings in the entire city. Hana leaped down from a nearby tree and slithered softly and stealthily around the courtyards, being as obvious as a leaf. No one, not even the security cameras, saw her slim silhouette bouncing off the walls.

"remember, Hana, it's just a thieving mission, no need to go crazy," Mala advised.

"I know, I know, no killing, no waking people up, no spying on cute boys and blabbity blabbity blah," Hana responded, irritation on her silver tongue. She felt and electric charge shoot through her. "hey, quit with the zapping for bloody hell's sake!" she snapped.

"focus, Hana," Mala seethed. Hana heaved out an annoyed sigh and slipped onto the back patio. She grabbed her pocket knife from her belt. Feeling the smooth, glass door, she cut a perfect circle in one of the glass panels. Quickly she reached in and unlatched the door lock and slipped inside.

"operation stealo is a go!" she joked.

"stop wasting the batteries on your speaker, idiot," Ace barked. Hana snorted. She pulled out her heat sensor detectors and put them on. Thousands of heat sensor beams were in this room, starting about half a centimetre in front of her.

"wow, I must be getting really good," Hana boasted.

"or maybe your just lucky," Ace mocked. Hana growled. She stepped backwards. Quickly she grabbed a small mirror and placed it carefully in front of one of the beams. The beam bounced off the mirror and hit a different beam, and the whole thing shut down. Hana smiled and lifted the mirror up, checking her hair over and facing the mirror up and down her body.

"looking good, bumblebee," she told herself. she felt another electric charge run through her.

"will you quit it?!" she quietly shouted. Mala would've glared at Hana if she could.

"can you please complete one mission without looking at yourself?" Mala barked. Hana rolled her bright green eyes as she put the mirror back into her bag.

"just let me work," she pleaded, "my way," she added, grabbing hold of a stray dollar and flipping it, grabbing it and stuffing it in her pocket. She wandered around the room casually, picking up some valuable item as she wandered about. Then she saw it. her eyes flew forward and locked onto something. It was a beautifully designed beauty mirror. The edges were decorated with golden hearts and silver swirls. She picked it up with leather gloved hands and ran her other hand along the beautiful designs.

"Hana, if your going to steal it, then steal it, no sense in hovering," Ace demanded. Hana flipped the mirror in her hand and found the face. She saw her beautiful face and was instantly mesmorised. She pushed up her hair again and again, twiddling her finger around her bangs. Then she frowned a second and gasped.

"oh no!" she cried quietly.

"what is it?" Mala asked urgently. Hana looked her face over closely.

"I think I have a spot..." she complained sulkily. "oh crap, I need to redo my mascara..." she muttered. Mala felt like wringing her neck.

"focus Hana, you can redo your makeup when you get home!" she shouted. Hana sighed.

"don't worry, I'm finished anyway," she mumbled as she began to head out. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain on her head and everything went blank.

Mala POV

Suddenly, Hana's microphone went off. Mala gasped.

"hana? Hana?" she cried, "are you still there? Hana?" Ace clenched his hands into calloused fists.

"damn it," he muttered, "I'm gonna go find her," he announced, heading out. Mala grabbed his arm. Ace turned to her and raised an eyebrow.

"be careful, kiddo," Mala advised. "her time is near," she said. Ace grinned and ran out.