Yumi and Aelita were going over the plan to rescue Lili. After briefing they grabbed the necessary equipment. Aelita would be away from the building, using the schematics of the building to guide her. When they were leaving point zero Yumi lifted up a large bag and dropped it immediately. Leaning down she rubbed her back that she had just thrown out.

" Son of a bitch." she said to herself.

" Maybe I should do this," Kat said picking up the bag.

" No. Trust me, I know what I'm doing better that you do. Your to young anyway."

" Well your too old," Kat said, pointing out the obvious.

" Look. If something goes wrong on this mission, you'll need to take care of them. And I'm fine." Yumi placed her hands on her back and leaned back hard and fast. She held it for a few seconds before feeling and hearing a loud crack.

" Gross," Kat said, not being able to stand cracking her own neck.

" It's fun being Japanese. I can dislocate several joints as well, wanna see that?"

" Rather not." Yumi giggled, picked up the bag, and threw it into the back of the car.

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At night fall, Yumi and Aelita were outside of the French department of defence. Yumi was wearing full tactical black clothing, complete with night vision goggles, and heat vison. She had a microphone planted on her and an ear piece directly connected to Aelita. At her hip was a silenced gun, at her other hip was a gun that could disable cameras temporarily.

Yumi got out of the car and stealthily made for the fence. Scaling it quickly and quietly she was soon outside of the air ducts. " Which one?"

" Third from the right," Aelita answered, who was driving away from the area, so not to strike suspicion. Aelita parked her car a block away and watched her progress. Yumi had a GPS locator on her and Aelita could see her exact location in the building. Yumi slid the screen to the ducts up and crawled into the vent.

" Moved down till you reach an intersection, take the right, and you'll be at the elevator shaft." Yumi crawled in her hands and knees till she reached the intersection as Aelita described. Taking the right, a few moments later Yumi reached a screen.

Pulling out a screw driver she unscrewed the screws and carefully pushed it off. Pulling in the vent she leaned it against the wall and looked down. She was three floor above the bottom of the basement, and she hated heights.

" Jump onto the elevator when it comes down," Aelita said to Yumi.

" No I'll just jump now. No shit Aelita."

" Just doing my job." Yumi waited for ten minutes before the elevator passed and she carefully jumped onto it without making a sound. " Now I'll hack into the system and make the elevator go up."

" You can do that?" Yumi asked curiously.

" Going up." The elevator began to go up and Yumi sat and enjoyed the fifty floor ride. When it stopped Yumi looked around for what to do next. " Vent above you." Yumi looked up and crawled into the vent that didn't have a screen.

" Shit." Yumi was looking into the vent that had red lasers running through it. " Um Aelita, there are motion sensor beams in here."

" I expected that. Hold on for a sec." Aelita began to type oh her lab top and began to hack into the buildings security system.

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In the security room an alert popped up on the screen. A man was leaning back reading a book, when the alert began to flash. Pulling his book down he put his feet on the ground and wheeled his chair closer to the screen.

" What the hell?" The man began to type and a second later he called someone.

A minute later his boss came in and asked, " What's going on?"

" We have a hacker."

" We have a hacker everyday, no one gets pass the firewall." Another alert popped up confirming someone had breached the firewall.

" Move." The man got out of his seat as the chief of security took control. The man typed fast and a moment later he found what the hacker was trying to do. " Sound the alert, we have a pro here. Whoever it is, is trying to shut off the motion sensors on the fiftieth. Which means, someone's on the fiftieth. Not to mention the bastard has the elevators, tell them to take the stairs."

" Can you trace it?" The lower ranked security officer asked.

" It is one of my job requirements."

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Yumi watched as the sensors disappeared. Moving quickly she made for the other end of the fiftieth floor and soon was unscrewing the screen to the vent of Toby Miller's office. Lili looked up when she heard noise and saw that it was coming from the vent. Suddenly the vent fell from the wall and a figure dressed in all black dropped down. Lili watched in fear as the figure stood up. She ducked behind the couch.

Yumi took off her mask and said, " Lili?" Lili knew the voice and pocked her head up.

" Grandma," Lili said as she jumped over the couch and hugged her grandmother. " Thank god, I couldn't stand this place anymore."

" How long have you been here for?"

" Three weeks. Are you here to get me out?" Yumi nodded and Lili hugged her again.

" Did he hurt you?" Lili shook her head, " Did he touch you?"

" He's a psychopath, not a pervert. Can we just go?" Suddenly every alarm in the building turned on.

" Aelita?" Yumi asked, waiting for a response.

" Oh no, they traced me. I need to get out before..." the Yumi heard a gun shot from Aelita's side of the line.

After a long silence a familiar voice said, " Tisk, tisk, tisk. Dear Yumi who'd thought you'd die last. By the way, get out of my office." It was Toby. Xana. Then Yumi remembered about the GPS and reached into her shirt and pulled it off. She smashed it and xana lost his location of her.

" We need to get out now Lili." Yumi said. Yumi helped Lili into the vent and a second later security broke into the room.

" Go!" Yumi said taking the gun from her waist hit before getting hit in the chest and falling to the ground. Three security officers walked into the room and went to the vent. One crawled in and one left the room. The last one looked at Yumi, then turned around and began to walk to the door.

" Hostile down. I need a body bag in here," The guard said into his radio. He felt a solid blow to the back of his head as he toppled to the ground unconscious.

" Yeah, but not for me," Said Yumi. " I'm in this get up and still they don't consider bulletproof vest."

Lili crawled through the vent as fast as she could. She looked back while crawling, before suddenly feel forward, with the upper half of her body hanging off the edge. Pulling herself back up she looked down and turned around again, and heard someone coming. She was thinking it'd be Yumi, but it was a security guard.

" There you are." the guard said. Looking down, Lili saw the elevator was docked, so jumped down and landed on the roof. When she landed Lili's momentum kept her moving forward and off the edge. Before she fell she grabbed the edge and hung on. Trying to pull herself up she heard someone land on the elevator. She slipped and fell, but a hand grabbed her wrist.

The security guard pulled her up and said, " That was close wasn't you little brat." He dropped her on the elevator, and Lili punched him in the stomach, and the man laughed. He grabbed her head as she tried to swing, but couldn't hit him.

Letting her go Lili groaned as the man leaned forward and said, " I'll tell you what, free shot. Come on." The man closed his eyes and waited for Lili to hit him. A boot hit the man in the face as he fell back, out cold. The boot was attached to Yumi's foot.

" You okay?" Yumi asked Lili who answered with a nod. Looking around, Yumi saw another vent and said, " Worth a try." Yumi jumped across the gab and grabbed the edge of the vent, and pulled herself in.

" Come on." Lili stepped to the ledge, and looked down. She shook her head. The elevator hatch opened and a hand grabbed Lili's ankle. Yumi pulled out her gun and shot the man in the head, and fell back into the elevator. Taking a deep breath, Lili leaped across the edge and Yumi grabbed her, and pulled her in.

They took that vent for about a minute before it opened into a twenty floor drop. " I'll go first, follow me," Yumi said.

" Your not serious are you?" Lili asked, not liking heights much either.

" I'm always serious. Hold your back against it firm, and kinda let yourself slid down. If you fall, I got you okay." Lili looked down again still looking uncertain. " Trust me." Yumi said, looking into her eyes. Lili nodded and Yumi climbed into the shaft.

Yumi placed her back against the wall, and supported weight with her feet. Moving down a few feet, Lili did the same. The two moved about twenty feet, before Lili had her legs to high and got her shirt caught on a screw. Her back slipped and she fell, but her shirt getting caught saved her.

" You okay?" To answer her question Lili's shirt didn't rip, her body slipped out of it. She hit Yumi full force and she lost her balance and fell. They fell twenty feet before Yumi managed to right herself, and catch Lili.

" Sorry," Lili said, her heart pounding out of her chest.

" It's okay, we just need to keep going. Are you cold?" she sarcastically when she noticed her shirt was gone.

" I want my shirt back," Lili said, because it was her favorite shirt.

" Look up, we don't have time to get it. It might be harder because your back will stick instead of slide, so stay closer to me."

It took about a half hour before they were low enough to drop ten feet to the bottom. Yumi Carefully dropped and looked up a Lili. " I gotcha, come on." Lili nodded and dropped before noticing her bra was caught on a screw, and she let go, and fell, felt a tight squeeze at her chest, then heard her bra snap. Yumi caught her and she quickly put her back to her, covering her breasts with her arms. Yumi saw why, looking up and seeing her bra hanging above.

" Oh my god. What else can go wrong?" Lili asked herself aloud.

" You stuff your bra?" Yumi asked, seeing some tissue paper in the cups.

" Yes I know, haha very funny. Let's all pick on Lili because she's flat."

"Your part Japanese. Let's just face it, we're naturally small."

" Well I don't want to be. Do you have an extra shirt?" she asked. Yumi took off the black jacket and took off the long sleeved shirt underneath and handed it to Lili. Yumi just looked at her as Lili turned around to see if she was looking.

" Don't look!" Lili shouted her.

" Can't help it, your so pretty." Placing the shirt over her body she gave Yumi a death glare, as Yumi shook her head, and turned the other way.

" What are you, a lesbian?" Lili asked her annoyed.

" I had your mother, so of course not." Lili put the shirt on and noticed it was several sizes to big.

Yumi turned around and said, " You look like your mother trying on my clothes when she was seven." Lili rolled her eyes and looked around the bottom of the shaft. It had two paths, both not showing any sign of being better than the other.

" Now where?" Lili asked.

" We'll take the this one, come on."

For another hour they took the vents, and eventually ended up...nowhere. It was a dead end. Yumi rested her back against the vent and looked at her granddaughter. Lili was exhausted, sweat was dripping from her hair and chin.

" Let's go back." Then they heard a gunshot from beneath them that almost hit Lili. Lili jumped back as more hole were blown into the vent. Yumi noticed the shots weren't being aimed toward them, but around them. A second later the vent gave way and Lili and Yumi fell to the floor.

Five guns were on them as they lay there waiting. The men parted to let one pass. They were both looking up at Lili's father, Toby Miller, or as everyone else knows him as, Xana.

Xana smiled and said, " It was a fun game, but I'm afraid I've never lost at hide and seek." Looking at one of the men he said, " Incapacitate them, and put them with the pink haired one."

" Right away sir." The agent took out a bottle and a clothe and put the contents of the bottle on the cloth. He tried to place it on Lili's mouth but Yumi didn't let him. A kick in the ribs made Yumi let his hand go and the agent gassed Lili. Lili closed her eyes and lay flat against the ground. He placed his hand over Yumi's mouth and said, " Sweet dreams." Yumi's head hit the ground and she was out.