The Search
"Where does
Releena live, anyway?" asked Quatre, quickly flipping through the phone book.
Trowa was calling some of the politicians that had seen her recently while
Quatre searched for her address in the phone book.
"Do you
seriously think she'd put her number and address in the phone book? With the
life she lives? Think about it." Wufei said (optimistic as usual
[kidding!])
"Wait a
minute…" Heero mumbled, still waking up from his moment of shock.
"What? What
is it?" asked Duo.
"I think I
know where she lives. She lives on that colony we landed on." That got him a
few skeptical looks.
"…and how
would you know that?" asked Wufei, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh… I don't
wanna talk about it." Heero replied, sweating.
"Ooohh….."
said Duo as he started to chuckle. "Did you visit her when we were on that
colony? Ha! Oh boy, you just can't get enough o' that girl, can ya?"
"Leave him
alone, he knows where Releena is!" Quatre said excitedly. "So she's on Colony…
L2-883, then?"
"I guess so.
That is the colony we landed on, right?" Heero asked.
"Yeah, but
how are we gonna get there? We were so lucky when we had our Gundams…" Quatre
sighed.
"Wait a
second. Releena doesn't live on that colony. She was staying in an apartment
there. General Greyson of the United Nations Federal Office said she was there
for a short time before she came here, to Chicago. If that's true, then Lady
Une probably didn't assume her identity until then, because Lady Une was last
seen here, too. The General said Releena was staying in her mansion before she
moved in with us. Her mansion is… somewhere in Illinois. That's all I know,"
said Trowa.
"Heh….
That's probably the most Trowa's ever said in one conversation in his life!"
said Duo.
"Can't you
take this seriously? Releena could be dead for all we know! Do you have any
respect in the fact that we are trying as hard as we can to find someone who
could be anywhere in the whole freaking state of Illinois?!" Wufei shouted with
impatience. "If you're not going to help, then why don't you just go somewhere
else so you can talk to yourself or something?" There was a pause as Duo
sweatdropped and everyone blinked. Did Wufei just stand up for Releena? Or
maybe he stood up for everyone else… But then again, maybe he was just sick of hearing
Duo's annoying voice.
"Well, um… I
guess we'd better start making some more phone calls…." Quatre said, trying to
break the silence.
"Yeah. But
who is there to call?" Heero wondered out loud.
"What about
Lady Une? Why don't we just go and find her?" Duo suggested.
"Wait a
minute. Releena's an important political figure. You'd think there'd be
something in the news about her if they found out she was missing." Wufei said.
"But they
don't know she was missing. Lady Une filled in for her," Trowa replied.
"Hey, that's
a good idea, though. We could search through realty records to find out where
she lives!" Quatre recalled triumphantly.
Yeah! Good
idea, Quatre! Alright then, Releena's records would be stored in a government
office somewhere. Looks like we've got ourselves a mission, guys!!" Duo
grinned.
"We'll have
to break into the United Nations Government office somehow. It's located in….
somewhere. I'll call General Greyson again. He seemed like the kind of moron
who would reveal something as suspicious as that." Trowa picked up the phone
again and dialed the number of General Greyson's office at the United Nations
Federal Office.
"I was gonna
ask how you convinced someone you had a good reason to know where Releena
lives," Heero said, standing up for the first time since he had passed out
earlier. "Let me see if I can hack into their base first. It might work better,
especially if I can get into their security system. I'll be right back."
The rest of the day was spent planning on how to get into the United Nations Federal Office Building. That night, however, was when the Gundam pilots put their plan into action.
It was a depressingly simple mission, though. The guards had pitiful fighting skills and were easily removed, and the security system was nothing they hadn't been through before. Finally, the records of political workers were practically laid out right in front of them.
The only thing that was left for our heroes was to get Releena, and no one knew what to expect when they got there.
Author's Note: I originally planned for everyone to find Releena in this chapter, but the search for her mansion started to take up a lot of the chapter itself, so I decided to save that for Chapter Nine. By the way, Chapter Nine is going to be my FAVORITE part!! I hope you like it, too. I also hope it doesn't take me so long to write it… *sweatdrop* Thank you for being patient!! I know it took me forever to finish Chapter Eight…