"Oh really?"

Carie regonized that voice instantly. She looked up from the floor to see a pilot in a moss green pilot suit pointing a gun at them, or more specifically, Graham. The Union Major turned around slowly, glaring at the Gundam Meister. If he let the prisoner escape with all those valuable Celstial Being secrets, they would lose their only chance at deafeating the Gundams.

Graham was positive that if he could just extract enough information about the Gundams out of Carie, that then he could have an easier time of locating and dueling them.

But in his current position, Graham's only option was to hand Carie over to the Gundam pilot.

"Put her down nice and easy." the Gundam pilot odered softly, and Graham did as he was told. The pilot then motioned for Carie to come over to him. Carie walked over to him, and he proceeded to pick her up by the waist, slining her over his shoulder like Graham had done.

"This is starting to get old fast." Carie muttered, looking down.

'But at least I have a view of his nice ass! Man these suits are skin tight! But that's okay, I like it…hehehe…' Carie thought as Lockon carried her away. As soon as they cleared the first corridor, Lockon broke into a run and quickly arrived at a huge gapping whole in a wall at the end of a corridor, and right outside that huge hole was-

"It's a-" she began, but stopped, vowing not to say the cliched phrase 'It's a Gundam!' and instead opted for "It's a big shiny robot…oohhh…"

Lockon raised his eyebrows slightly, wondering just how weird this girl was. They had been given orders to take her back to the Ptolemaios as she had important information on Celestial Being that could cripple the organization if it fell into the wrong hands. Lockon opened up to cockpit automatically with a small message to Haro from his protable information terminal. The hatch to the cockpit on Dynames chest opened, revealing Haro who was eagerly waiting for his partner's return.

"Lockon wa kaerimashita! Lockon wa kaerimashita!" Haro's LED eyes flashed as he chirped. Lockon smiled and climbed, setting Carie down behind the pilot's seat. As the cockpit hatch closed and he gripped the controls he only spoke a few words.

"Hang on, Miss Carie."

"Okay, firstly this is really cool, secondly how did you know my nam-Aaaeeeeeiiiii!" she yelped, cutting off in mid sentence as the Dynames took off.

"I've secured the prisoner. Moving into phase C of the plan." Lockon said over the com link to his fellow Meisters.

"Roger. Kyrios and Exia are exiting via the designated course." Sestuna's voice responded over the com link.

Carie cluthced the back of the pilot's seat for dear life as the G-force hit her. She always used to call Graham a wimp when she saw him cough up blood in his Flag. If the Meisters could take it, why couldn't he! But Carie was now experiencing first hand what it felt like to have an uncomfortable amount of gravity pushing you down. This definitely looked a lot cooler and more comfortable in the show rather than in real life. If this was real life.

But as she was metally whinning and trying to restrain herself from bugging Lockon until they got back to where ever they were going, a small beeping sound came from the monitor.

"Enemy's approaching! Enemy's approaching." Haro beeped, flapping his 'ears'. Carie looked on the monitor and to her horror she recognized a squadron of Realdos. She just hoped to whatever fate or high power that was that those weren't the exploding kind from the Taklamakan Desert-the kind that tackled a Gundam then let the lower half drop away safely with the pilot while the upper half exploded.

"Watch out that they don't grab you!" she shouted, nearly bting her tongue as Lockon swerved and sharply manuvered the Gundam away, following her advice. Suddenly a voice came over the com as explosions were heard from a distance.

"Lockon, don't let those Realdos grab you! They explo-Crap!" Allelujah's voice sounded but was cut short by s tring of several explosions and more cursing. The sound of something being blasted could be heard, and then "I've taken care of them. I'm moving on with the plan."

"Roger." Lockon nodded, and then began taking out the Realdos with the Dyanames twin pistols. He dealed with them effectively and efficiently, each blowlanding on its mark good and true. In a matter of minutes, the sky was tainted black from the smoke of the machines. Lockon began to take off towards the sky again when a voice sounded.

"Not so fast, Gundam!" a voice cried out "Not only do we get to meet, but I believe you have my prisoner! So I'm just gonna have to beat you-" the Flag fired off several rounds from its Linear Rifle, its aim nearly as percise as Lockon's "and take Carie back!"

Carie might've been very flattered and sweetened by this statement, if not for the fact that she was currently using every bit of her physical and mental self to cling to Lockon's seat as the Meister tried to avoid Graham's Flag, but failed to do so, and was tackled violently. Carie was nearly ripped from the seat by the sheer force, crying out in real shock and fear. This looked a lot less scary in the anime and manga. She had a sickening flashback of when Lockon had been jostled in his Gundam when Graham had tackled him in the Taklamakan Desert.

She really hoped things wouldn't get that violent.

'Maybe I should've stayed with Graham and the Union…'

The Gundam shook again from the forceful exchange of blows. All was good and well for the pilots, but no for anyone clining to the seat from behind.

Graham managed to force the Dynames in a downward decent slowly, and finally kicked the Gundam a few more time while dodging Lockon's blows. He flew back and fired his linear rifle before chraging in with his Beam Saber and clashing blades with the Gundam and forcing it onto the ground skillfully. It wasn't through the sheer force, oh no, but the graceful and fast manuvering of his inferirior mobile suit that had allowed him to ground the Dynames.

"Damnit!" Lockon swore aloud as he fired seveal more shots at the flag. The pilot of that machine was damned good, good enough to survive and dodge nearly every shot Lockon had fired so far. Even in close range with his pistols, it was nearly impossible to land a shot on him.

"This guy is…" Lockon began quietly, concerntrating on the Flag. He pulled the trigger, but yet again it dodged skillfully, the shot just barely brushing its head.

"Time to be emraced, Gundam!" Graham cried, and litterally embraced the Gundam, forcing it back as he slipped through its defense. Lockon was forced to use his beam saber, slashing at the Flag as it jumped back. Lockon glared at the Flag.

"Haro, transfer all partical dispersal to the weapons." he ordered, then said to Carie "Carie, hold on, this is gonna be a bumpy ride!"

"…" there was no response. Not that he was expecting one…well he was…but the cockpit seemed unusally quiet.

"Carie?" he twisted in his seat, and saw that the girl was gone "What the-?"

"GRRRAAAHHHAAAAAAMMM!" a scream snapped his head back to the main monitor, where he saw the Flag still standing there…but standing before it was a girl wearing a bright orange jacket. Carie.

"How the-how did she-what the hell-?" Lockon stuttered, looking from behind him and in front of him in sheer confusion. How the hell did she get out?

"Uh…Lockon. I think Miss Carie is…um…" Allelujah said over the com.

"But how the hell'd she get out there?" Lockon cried, smacking his helmet.

"I'm guessing she slipped out when you weren't looking?" even Setsuna sounded puzzled and uncertain.

"This is such a mess. I knew I sould've taken care of the prisoner. I would've never made such a foolish blunder." Tieria said spitefully over the com.

"Well if you're so great then go and get her." Setsuna replied, a little bit of anger hinting his voice, which was pretty much the only emotion he ever showed aside from none.

"Well she's standing in front of a Flag you blind idiot!" Tieria snapped back.

"Hey guys…uh…guys…you might wanna-" Allelujah tried to interject, but went unnoticed.

"Break it up you two, we all need to cooperate." Lockon told the two Meisters who had begun to argue over the com link.

"Guys…" Allelujah tried "Guys…guys! Hey! …HEY LISTEN UP YOU ASSHOLES!"

"…" silence. Allelujah sighed, finally bale to get their attention "The 'prisoner' is proposing to that Flag."

"WWWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT?" both Lockon and Tieria screamed while Sestuna remained silent. But in a shocked way. You could sssoooo tell, seeing as it was Setsuna.

"GRAHAM!" Carie shouted, getting down on one knee. She patted her pockets, and searched her jeans and jackets for a minute, got up and turned around as she searched, but then located what she was looking for with an "Aha!" and then got down on one knee.

"WILL YOU, GRAHAM AKER, MARRY ME?" Carie nearly screamed, wanting to be sure that she would be heard. Inside the cockpit of the Flag, Graham was staring at the figure before him in absolute disbelief and shock.

"…" a minute passed.

"I'M TAKING YOUR SILENCE AS A 'NO'!" she screamed up at him, and then sighed "And I alrready bought the ring…granted it was 25 cents…but it was my last quarter."

Rejection could be cruel, but Carie took it well, and instead, turned to Exia who had just landed.

"SESTUNA F. SEIEI, WILL YOU MARRY ME?" she screamed, getting down on her knee again.

"…"

"I'M TAKING YOUR SILENCE AS A 'NO' AS WELL!" she screamed at him, and then turned to Lockon in the Dynames.

"LOCKON STRATOS, WILL YOU MARRY ME?" she screamed, getting down on one knee and offering the ring.

"…You're a bit underage." he said, the Gundam shifting awkwardly.

"Kusou!" she coughed lightly, all the proposing making her throat feel a bit sore.

Everyone stood awkwardly still and silent for a moment. But only for a moment.

Dynames launched instelf forward and somehow managed to grasp Carie without hurting her. Lockon threw her in as he opened up the hatch and closed it just as quickly. Lockon sighed as he looked back at the slightly dazed girl. Already knowing full well that she would be a handful.

"I'm taking off." He said over the com link and switch partical dispersal over to the trusters, taking off fast enough, too fast for the Union mobile suits to keep up. His fellow Meisters followed suit, retreating as well. The mission hadn't gone accorsing to plan exactly, but at least they had gotten Carie in one piece.

GUNDAMGUNDAMGUNDAMGUNDAM

Onboard the Ptolemaios, Carie was following Lockon around, clinging to his arm. But as soon as she felt the weightless sensation of hardly no gravity at all, she squealed in delight.

"Oh my god! This is so cool! Look! I'm flying!" she floated around, flapping her arms slightly. But then she bumped into a wall, and from there tried to manuever back to Lockon.

"Er…wait! Lockon, chotto matte kudasai! This is harder than I thought it'd be." Carie waved her arms in a futile attempt to correct her path and gain balance. She just bumped into another wall and rebounded off it lightly.

"Okay…I can do this…" Lockon watched the girl, slightly amused and asked "Haven't you ever been in zero gravity before?"

"Nope. It's really cool though! All floaty and weightle-" at that moment, the 'earth-type' gravity simulator came on, and Carie fell to the floor with a light thump.

"Are you okay?" Lockon asked, trying not to smile. It wasn't so much the fact thjat she fell flat on her stomach, but her expression and the words that followed.

"Oookkkaayyy, so who the hell turned on the gravity? That was not cool. Not at all."

"Here." Lockon offered her a hand and pulled her up. He lead her to the breifing room, were the rest of the crew was waiting. When they walked in, Carie noticed that all the attention was focused on her and became very nervous. Who wouldn't under all the looks from the totally badass, hardcore Ptolemaios crew. Okay, so not everyone was a hardcore badass, but the looks she was getting made her feel more than just a bit nervous.

"Hello everyone." she said, trying to smile.

"Carie." Sumeragi stepped forward "We need you."

GUNDAMGUNDAMGUNDAM

AN: okay, so that wasn't much of a cliffy, and not a lot happened, but I hope you enjoyed nonetheless. I know I promised spellcheck but bear with me as I'm on a limited time schedule and wanted to update as soon a possibe, as I have some night photography to work on so please pardon the typos and bad grammar/spelling. And to StormyMonday, sry bout the text breaks, but ffnet doesn't like my word underscore textbreaks, even when its just the under score. It also doesn't seem to like several other signs/figures from my word which would explain why some are missing like in the last chapter the heart 3 on Howard's face didn't show up, so it doesn't like the less or greater than signs either. Don't know why weird. Anyway, thank you to Carie, the star of the fic, who reviewed. And hey people, go check her stuff out as well, its all pretty good! Her user name GiantFlyingSquierell desu. No desu though. And why Haro spoke in Japanese puzzles me too, lol, but he said basically 'you came back, you came back'. So yeah. Please R&R or else your fave character might be tortured by me and Carie. As a bonus, I've dcided to inculde an extra thingy at the end of each chapter.

GUNDAMGUNDAMGUNDAM (yes this is the LAME text break because fanfiction hates my word tb)

"Man, this place sure is messy." Tieria said, walking around the 'huge' room. Of course, a normal bedroom appeared huge to a three inch tall chibi.

"Video games!" Lockon ran over and hugged a 'huge' controller. Allelujah was trying to avoid the Soma and Sergei chibis, and was hiding under a pile of clothes on the floor. Sestuna was just plopped down, looking around the room.

"Look! It's a Gundam!" Howard and Daryl gapsed, pointing at a model Gundam high up on a shelf. Graham looked at it excitedly "I''l get you yet Gundam!"

Billy smirked, but then caught sight of Kujo and decided to flirt with her, and drifted away from his friend's side. Patrik was following around Kati, who was trying to analyze the room. But it seemed just as messy, crazy, and unpredictable as Carie herself.

'Go figure.' Kati thought, tapping her chin.

But a sudden noise made everyone freeze, Ptolemaois crew, HRL, AEU, Union, and Meisters alike.

"Hey, mom, I'm home! I'm going to my room now!" Carie's voice sounded.

Aw crap.