CHAPTER 1

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Alarms sounded within the OZ base, red lights blinking on and off as men ran down the halls quickly as some game out orders.

"Where did she go?"

A young girl ran down a narrow hall way, red hair flowing behind her as she rounded a corner quickly. Stopping from the bright light in front of her the girl closed her eyes. Opening her eyes a few moments later, she looked directly at the light.

*CRASH*

The light shattered, glass littering the ground around the hallway.

"Over there!"

Looking back at the sound the girl continued down the hallways once more, her feet lightly touching the ground as she moved.

"Where did she go?"

"Did she escape!?"

The alarms continued on as the girl made her way out of the base and into the forest. Breathing heavily she leaned against one of the trees. Looking back she only hesitated for a moment before she continued to run until the alarms could no longer reach her ears, and vanishing into the darkness of the night.

*8 years later*

The sound of tapping made it's way through the dark room that was only lit by the light of a small computer screen. A man with short brown hair sighed as he brought the tapping sound to a stop.

"Finally finished."

"Heero, dinner is ready!"

Standing, Heero left the room and started down the stairs. The safe house they had come across was a fairly big house compared to many of their other hiding locations. There were four bedrooms, all upstairs which the pilots shared.

Heero, Duo, and Wufei all had their own rooms, while Trowa and Quatre had agreed to share a room together. As Heero made his way through the living he remembered the terrible state it had been in when they had first arrived.

When they had arrived, the entire house had looked like it hadn't been occupied for at the very least a good ten years. Though much of the furniture still looked out of date; the house looked better than it had then.

"MAXWELL!"

Heero stopped at the door way to the kitchen as he returned from his thoughts. What could that braided baka have done this time? Slowly he walked into the kitchen as he watched Duo hiding behind Quatre who was attempting to speak to Wufei.

"He didn't mean it Wufei."

"Stay out of this! He's been having this coming for a long time."

"I was just having some fun!"

"Fun? FUN? YOU PUT STICKERS ON MY SWORD!!"

Heero raised an eyebrow as he looked from Wufei to Duo, then at the other two as they shared similar looks. Sighing heavily, Heero sat down at the table. Lately they'd been stuck in the safe house and away from any towns or cities cept when they needed to stock up on some food. Duo unfortunately, had not taken too well to this and spent most of his time goofing off, or as the case would be, tormenting Wufei.

Quatre glanced over at Heero, then at the others before he tried to rush everyone into sitting down. "If we don't eat soon everything will get cold."

Grumbling, Wufei sat down and both Quatre and Trowa made it a point to take seats between him and Duo. As they began to eat Quatre looked out the kitchen window briefly as he noted the rain outside. The rest of the dinner went quietly, and like most days the group separated in different directions after dinner.

Trowa and Heero both returned to their own rooms, while Duo and Quatre sat down on the couch to relax and watch some T.V. Wufei, who was still angry, quietly left from the house and headed out into the rain to try and calm down in his own way.

"I think you went too far Duo."

"I was only having a little fun." Duo grumbled. "It's not like he's got anything better to do. We haven't had a mission in almost four months." he flopped back against the couch. "What are they thinking anyway! We're going to waste way out here!"

Quatre tried to hide a small snicker, but Duo had already caught him

"What's so funny!?"

"Nothing." Quatre replied quickly.

As the two of them argued, the person standing outside in the rain went unnoticed as she watched from between a couple of trees. Red hair laid flat against her back as the rain continued to beat down against the ground harshly, a few cracks of thunder and lightning drowning out the sound of the rain.