It was early in the morning when they got the call. Shute stood next to Captain half asleep. He was trying to get the last bit of his homework done so that his friend wouldn't be mad at him later that day. He was catching up on some lost sleep, when Captain and the others started to wake him up. From what he heard as he tiredly got dressed, was that the Dark Axis had let loose some Bagu Bagu in a neighborhood late in the night and that they were going to see what kind of damage was done. Shute yawned as he stretched and stood up straight. "Maybe when we get done this, we might be able to stop at my friend's house earlier then planned." Shute said as he started to wake up more. He and his friend from school had been planing this meeting for a while now. They were finally able to work something out. Hopefully she wouldn't mind them stopping by sooner then they planned for that day. Shute's face fell as the gunperry flew towards the place that they were going to check out. "What's wrong Shute?" Captain asked his friend when he looked over and saw the terrified look on his face. "This... this is where my friend lives. I hope she is okay." Shute told him nevously. It ha been 10 minutes since the gunperry landed. All they saw were kids between the ages of 8-17 out in the open. All of them were petrified to stone. Shute led the group to some of the safe houses that he knew of. The fifth one that they were checking out, made Zero stop in his tracks as he was walking around the side of the building. "It can't be. I.. I've failed her again..." he said as he just stood there staring. "Failed who Zero?" Shute asked as he walked up to stand next to Zero. He gasped at what he saw. "Alice!" Shute yelled as he took off running. "Oh Alice, not you too. I should have told you about this, About the Bagu Bagu and what they do." Shute looked down at his feet sadly. He really wished that he had told her about the Bagu Bagu. He had been writeing about his adventures with the Gundam Force, though the teacher and Alice thought it was made up, for an English project. Alice had been helping him for a while now. Now he wished that he got to the part about the Bagu Bagu and that he told her that all of it was real. To think that he was standing there looking at the girl that he has had a crush on for a long time, standing there in stone. It was a real downer. "Do you know this person Shute?" Baku asked as he observed the girl standing there. "Yeah, It's my friend Alice. I was planning on introducing you guys to each other. Although she knows a lot about you already." "How dose she know so much about us? Is she a spy?" Baku asked defensively. "I've been writing about our adventures so far for a school project. Since her penmanship is really good and easy to read, so she has been helping me out. She listens to me tell her all of the adventures and she would write them out. My mom set it up with my English teacher and Alice and I are getting graded on it together. It would have taken me forever to write it out myself since I would get distracted." Shute explained. "Alice is really nice and I wanted you guys to meet her in person. But I guess that's a little difficult now, isn't it?" "Don't worry Shute, once we figure out how to reverse the petrification process, you can introduce us then. But right now, we need to make sure that this area is secure." Captain said as he checked out the foundation in and around the area. "Zero, are you alright? You've been just standing there for a while now." Baku asked as he looked at Zero and then at what Zero was staring at. He was still looking at Shute's friend Alice. " She just, looks so much like the princess of Lacroa that I could have sworn that it was her." Zero said, still too afraid to look away or to step forward. Hopefully they could defeat the Dark Axis soon. Zero had so many questions running through his head that he wanted to ask her. Why dose she look like the princess? Was she from Lacroa? Is she related to the royal family in some way? It was going to drive him mad until then.