A special thanks to piper5381 for helping me beta reading/ structure the story with the English mistakes thank you for the help.

I do not own Mai Hime / Mai Otome or any of the characters sunrise does.

Here we go!

Chapter 1

The Mission

Around the grassy outlands of trees, there was no civilian in sight. Being in a forest near the end of Wind bloom, no one would suspect to find a secret base in there... and that's where the story begins.

Just around, midnight there is silence throughout the place because the forest it was foggy and one cannot see clearly. Then suddenly, a loud explosive could be heard as well as metallic doors being smashed open. A Smokey substance came through the doors and just barely, a figure started walking through, a slow and graceful walk. It was silent until one hears their communication going off.

"…..this is the Bewitching Smile Amethyst reporting in. We have infiltrated the base." Walking out the smoke dressed in purple suit, the hazel hair and red ruby eyes appears with a graceful smile.

Command base Chie Hallard speaks. "Roger that. Please stay cautious. There still could be alarms or traps which would probably have sensed your presence by now."

"Roger." As the smoke disappears, she turns around to see her three comrades that she has been assigned with for this mission, and one of them is starting to lose patience.

"Geez bubuzuke, hurry up! We haven't got all day! Let's despise this place!" the woman said with a grunt, crossing her arms over her chest. The long, blond haired otome giving her old friend/rival a glare with her purple eyes.

"It's destroy, Haruka-Chan." Yukino shouted, her shy voice in from the command base which is currently held in Garderobe. Along side of Yukino was Natsuki, Yohko and Mashiro watching through screens.

"Ara…Haruka-san shouldn't be so impatient. We still need to find more about this base and we can't destroy it until we checked inside and collected the data it has stored in there." Shizuru replied, keeping her smile while trying to calm her down.

Bouncing up and down, Arika went to Nina's side. "Ne... Nina Chan, do you know about this base and what's in there?"

Nina turned to look at her and sighed,

"No... I do not know, Arika. Though I was Nagi's otome, I did not know any of his plans or know any of his bases, therefore I have no information about this base."

Whilst gazing around the base, she tried to figure out where to find any alarms, keeping her eye out for anything suspicious, but so far...

"It looks like it was deserted not too long ago because I'm not seeing any guards so far."

Everyone turned around and looked at the based.

"You're right Nina, but we must still be cautious. Though they may have deserted it, they could still leave traps around so people wouldn't find information about it." Shizuru said calmly, smiling at them. Nina and Arika were awe by how Shizuru could stay calm throughout this mission and also were both excited that they were on a mission with her.

"Shizuru-oneesama is so awesome, and always so calm." Arika said. Smiling at Arika's statement, Nina smirked a bit thinking the exact same thing. She, of course, wouldn't be obvious about it and say it unlike Arika. Though, Nina was glad to still have a friend like her.

Meanwhile at command based

Yukino sat down for awhile, her mind on mission she wondered...since the base had been abandoned now, how did they find the information about this place?

"Gakuenchou, how were you able to find out about this base? Did the Duke nagi tell you this information himself?" Yukino knew that Natsuki was the one who knew more about this mission seeing she asked for assistance from both Aries and Windbloom.

Natsuki looked at her and shook her head sideways.

"No he did not actually. The one who told us about this base was in fact Miyu. She came into my office, told me about this base, and she asked me to check it out as soon as possible. She found this base whilst on her travels so she sent me this infomation. She also told me to have medical assistance on standby as well." Natsuki turned and look back at the screen.

Yukino "How did Miyu found out that this based belongs to the duke?" Yukino asked. "It could belong to any of the other nations because it based is in an unknown area."

"When Miyu went to investigate it during the time it was heavily guarded, she saw a symbol on one of the guards and she remembered it being belong to Artai." she answered.

"Do you believe that the Schwartz was also involved in this, too?" Yukino asked.

"I'm not certain that the Schwartz is involved in this, but I do know that John Smith is somehow involve because he was Nagi's right hand man. They were an alliance together, but we cannot rule out that the Schwartz was there, too."

"Ok, I believe that the best solution for now is to split up and search for anything you can find, more specifically a control room. If you do find something, let me and Haruka know and we'll come and find you. Nina, you and Arika will stay together."

"That sounds like a plan to me, bubuzuke. Let's go." Haruka turn around and headed in the other direction.

"It's plan, Haruka." Shizuru said, lightly giggling but still kept her composure at the same time. Shizuru then followed Haruka down the same path, leaving Nina and Arika. Together, they turned and started walking in another direction.

Shizuru and Haruka headed down a small narrow trail and is all pitch dark but with a bit of a light shinning down they made it too there first door and slowly open it.
As she open it the room to appear to look like an operating room where there is still the equipment hanging around with different needles and drugs in the cabinets.

"It looks like they were doing experiments of some sort and also some research there still a bit of blood on the tables" examining the table as she also got close too it and then turned to her side and look at some of the research they left behind.

"Looks like they were in a hurry to leave if they still left there equipment we'll ask the medical team to come and take these drugs and start examining the place" shizuru turn round and face the other otome.

"So what will they be experimenting on this is frustrating they didn't leave a clue behind all that's left here are some papers with weird markings on them" haruka waving her arms in the air with the papers she was currently holding onto.

"Haruka, let me see those papers they could help us."

Haruka huffed and then handed the papers over to shizuru "these markings look like some sort of symbol but of what I'm not sure of but there are different types of the symbol what could this all mean" as shizuru was thinking the communicator set off with a worried on the other side.

"SHIZURU…SHIZURU THIS IS ARIKA CAN YOU HEAR ME COME HERE QUICLKY WE FOUND SOMETHING!".

"Arika calm down were on our way" as soon as shizuru told her she and haruka quickly then pick up the papers and flew through the corridors trying to locate on where arika and nina went too and what could cause arika to panic it must have been something important that could clear up on what's been going on.

At Arika's and Nina's side of the story, they were now walking down a corridor when they noticed a solid door at the end. Arika immediately went to try and open it while Nina checked round for a security lock that she could possibly hack into. After a few moments, she managed to find one and started typing away on it.

"Arika, get away from the door, otherwise your going to get hit." Arika stuck her tongue out at her before walking over to the girl's side. Nina was having a bit of trouble accessing through the security checks.

"There's a lot of passwords and high security on this door. Whatever is in there, they wanted to really make sure that we didn't get inside. I'm going to contact Irina to see if she could help us out with it."

She touched earring and contacted the command base.

"Irina, we need your help. Can you help get this door open? It seems that they have something in there which must be important for us to not get in".

A speaker came out through the earring. "Leave it to me."

I'll hack it for you." she told them. As soon as Irina cut her off she started on the passwords "Ok, if I bypass this and use another code..." irina started to mutter to herself. After a few seconds, she was able to hack in. A light on the door turned green and opened itself.

"Awesome Irina-chan, you hacked it. Thank you."

"Anytime, Arika." Irina replied.

Nina then walk through, leaving Arika at the entrance.

"Hey Nina wait for me... honestly". As they walk through it was still a bit dark but still clear to see. They reached a computer and Nina wasted no time in turning the computer on and immediately typing away again. After a few seconds, lights came on in the room and what they saw shocked both of them very much.

"ARIKA CONTACT SHIZURU ONEESAMA AND TELL HER TO COME HERE!" Nina shouted.

"RIGHT!" Arika then went up to her earring and contacted Shizuru "SHIZURU…SHIZURU THIS IS ARIKA CAN YOU HEAR ME! COME HERE QUICKLY WE FOUND SOMETHING!" After a few seconds, Shizuru's voice came up.

"Arika, calm down were on our way." As soon as heard the voice, she remained a bit more calm, but was still shocked at what she seeing. Looking at Nina, she looked shocked, too.

It just can't be... this is wrong." Nina muttered. Moments later Shizuru arrived, haruka entering not long after.

"Ok, what's so important that you two found? It better be something good." Haruka saying as she and Shizuru walked over to Nina.

"You might want to see this, Oneesamas." Nina told them. She then she clicked another button and the room brightened up more. At the sight, both Shizuru and Haruka were shocked as well.

Inside the room were different giant test tubes which plugged up too many machines with computer screens. What shocked them the most was the three small living beings inside of them? They were surrounded by liquid, wearing an oxygen mask connecting to them and heart monitors connecting to them. The heart monitors kept making beeping noises showing they were still alive even though they looked like they were in a deep sleep.

Haruka then snapped out of her trance and started barking orders out and figuring out what going to happen.

"Nina, hack into the computer now and see if you can find anything about this."

"I'd tried, Haruka - Oneesama, but the system is hard to crack into." Nina replied. "We'll need Irina to hack into this again. She was the one who helped us open the door"

Shizuru stayed quiet for some time. She was too shocked with what she seeing now, slowly becoming angry at what had happened to them. After a few moments, Shizuru returned back to normal self and got her determined face on. She quickly touched her earring and contacted Natsuki

"Natsuki, this is Shizuru. We need medical assistance immediately along with the investigation teams too please. Bring yohko and Irina down with you. We found something in the base and they urgently need medical attention."

"What is it, Shizuru? What have you found?" Natsuki asked. "We cannot see anything. The screens went as soon as you entered the base. It's jamming up our systems."

Natsuki was glad that communications was still working from the outside

"We have found three small children in test tubes. They look like they are still alive, but I think we need yohko to come and examined them and get them out of it. Also amongst here, Haruka and I have found some papers with strange markings on them, too"

"We're on our way now. Both teams have set off and we'll be with you soon."

"Arigato, Natsuki"

As soon as she finished talking to Natsuki, she turned around and looked back at the three test tubes with both worry and curiosity.

"Don't worry... help is on the way... you're safe now." She looked up to them and smile. Little did she know that one of the children heard her voice and the eyebrows twitched?

Back at command base

"Right, gather everyone up now and head out. This is a mission to go in and retrieve the children and to investigate the base, but the top priority now is to get those children out as quickly as possible. Irina, you and professor Gal will assist the investigation team while Doctor Yohko will assist in getting the children. Nina and Arika will return back to Garderobe and stay with Queen and Haruka will stay and wait for the teams to arrive and too assist Yohko in helping the children and escorting them back to Garderobe. Chie you'll also go with the investigation team and will be put in charge of that team while Irina and Professor Gal hack into the computer mainframe to retrieve any information about it. President Yukino, please assist me into talking with the other leaders for a quick phone meeting to be discussing the issue with Nagi and to discuss what the situation is now. A,s I said before the main priority is the children, and those markings we'll need to do as quickly as we can. Does everyone understand the situation"

"YES, Gakuenchou." All screens stoped blinking and returned back to normal. Natsuki then turned around and faced Yukino. She also looked worried about what was happening and also with those children. Natsuki returned back to her seat and sighed. She then looked back at the screens, trying to figure out what had just happened and thinking.

What's going to happen now I wonder I hope trouble won't start again after these peaceful times?