To all my readers,
I am terribly sorry for the long delay on this story. I've been restricted from my beloved computer for months now cause of a bad grade I received…^^; but all is well and I plan to finish this story soon!! Again I am terribly sorry… I hope you enjoy the rest of my story and return to read others I write in the future.
Arigatou,
Kawa
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Kawa walked down the dark hallways of the base her coffee mug in hand. The sound of her footfalls echoed in the darkness. She had been waiting for hours for her beloved Trowa to return from his mission with Heero. They had secretly gone into Rolthen's secret hideout and had been gone since noon.
She sighed heavily reaching her bedroom door, and stood in front of it for a moment deciding whether or not to go in and go to sleep, and then she jumped hearing the doors to the hanger open. She let out a little squeal of joy spilling some coffee on her shirt. She cursed under her breath, and set her mug down next to her door and then ran her blue sneakers screeching on the metal floor to the hanger.
Trowa walked out of the Heavy Arms and smiled seeing Kawa running toward him. Her brown hair had fallen from its ribbon and was flying in front of her sparkling brown eyes and soft lips. When she reached him Trowa picked her up by the waist and twirled her around in the air, they were both laughing happy to see one another. Kawa wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him softly. Heero smiled a bit at the two and then cleared his throat. Trowa smiled and set his girlfriend down and they both looked to Heero.
"I hate to interrupt you two, but we have more important matters at hand." Heero said.
Trowa nodded and explained to Kawa what had happened at Rolthen's base as they walked to a drawing room. Once they reached their destination, Heero laid the prints out on a large table in the center of the room along with the mission outlines.
"I can't believe they are so organized." Kawa said, "And that they have it all written down…I guess they never expected that someone would steal their plans."
"Unless it's all fake" Neko said (yes its spelled Neko…I know I spelled her name wrong in my other chapters..gomen!)
The three pilots in the drawing room turned to see the smiling mechanic standing in the doorway wiping oil off her hands.
"Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt I was just checking on the Orion and I over heard you're conversation…"
Kawa smiled at her sister. "It's alright Neko, maybe you can be of some help."
"Heh I'll try!" Neko said walking in.
"You could start by getting us some coffee and some food!" Kawa said smiling.
Neko's smile went to an annoyed expression as she turned on her heels and out the door, "Yes your majesty.."
Kawa grinned at the two-gundam boys. "I love younger siblings."
Trowa and Heero smirked and then looked back to the prints.
"These are obviously the lay out for their new gundam model, the one we recently saw in our last battle." Trowa said, "It shows all it's weaknesses and the material it's made out of."
Heero pointed to the lower part of the gundam's chest. "That's one of its major weak points, the Orion would be able to penetrate it in one blast."
Just then Neko walked in holding three mugs on a tray with some sandwiches. She frowned at Heero while setting the tray down.
"Heero I told you that suit hasn't be tested yet! It's a wonder you made it back here in that suit!!"
Heero glared at her a bit. "I can fly it."
"No sir you cannot until it's been properly tested!"
"Just watch me.." he growled.
Neko and Heero glared at each other for a moment and then looked back to what they were doing.
"Oh my god.." Kawa said in a horrified whisper, "They're planning to destroy nearly half the space colonies.."
"What?!" Neko yelled. "Let me see that!" she grabbed the white paper from her sister's hands and looked at it.
Neko's eyes filled with tears. "They really are planning to blow them up…why that little rat!!"
"We have to stop him now before it's too late!" Kawa said looking to Heero.
"Not right now we don't." Trowa said from behind her.
Kawa turned to him her brown eyes angry and her muscles flexed and ready to sprint for her gundam and a moment's notice.
Trowa placed a hand to her cheek stroking it. "Hold that hate and anger for the battle my love…you will have your time soon."
The hate vanished from Kawa's eyes and she hugged Trowa barring her face in his green t-shirt and strong chest.
The quiet gundam pilot returned the hug. "You should go to bed." he suggested.
Kawa nodded and sniffed wiping the few tears that had spilled forth from her eyes.
"You too Neko." Heero said looking to the mechanic who had started to nibble on the sandwiches while reading over the attack plans.
She nodded and stuffed the rest of her sandwich in her mouth and joined her sister in the hall.
Trowa turned to Heero taking a coffee mug from the tray and one of the sandwiches.
Smiling he asked, "What's the plan?"
Heero grinned evilly and unfolded the plan that had accumulated in his mind.


The following morning all 7 gundam pilots sat around a table in the kitchen. Each of them were eating a plateful of eggs, sausage, pancakes, and bacon with cold orange juice to drink it down courtesy of Hanami and Kawa.
"So let me get this straight." Duo said through a mouthful of sausage. "Instead of blowing up their whole base from the outside with our EIGHT gundams, we're
going to send Heero and me into the base to plant bombs that we can detonate from here?"
"That's correct." Trowa said.
Duo laughed, "Why?"
The forever kind Quatre answered the braided pilot's question, "There are too many civilians on that island Duo, if we attacked with our gundams we would put their lives in danger."
Hanami nodded agreeing and added, "And also Trowa and Heero don't know the exact location of the base entrance so if we attacked we might be hitting the wrong area and totally alert our presence."
"Wait a second. If they don't know where the entrance is then how are they going to get in?" Duo asked after gulping his orange juice.
Duo's answer was answered, not by a gundam pilot, but from the enemy alarm.
Heero grinned as he rose from his seat. "That's how." he simply said and he sped off toward the hanger.
Duo shrugged throwing down his napkin and jumping from his seat. "Oh." He then ran out of the room pecking a kiss on Hanami's head as he ran out.
Hanami smiled and yelled, "Be careful Duo!!"
"Good luck you guys." Quatre whispered.

Heero and Duo emerged from the shadow's a few feet away from the secret entrance to Rolthen's base. Both of the young men were clad in black tight muscle shirts, black pants, and black shoes.
"Get ready to sprint.." Heero whispered into Duo's ear.
The two were crouched low in the foliage, their faces inches away from the green grass beneath them. Duo's blue eyes were squinted against the morning sun. as he looked toward the opening hatch from underneath his black cap. His muscles were flexed and ready to sprint on Heero's signal. He was growing a bit impatient, it had been awhile since he had seen some real action and the sun was making him sweat in his black clothes. Then the signal came, Heero tapped Duo on the shoulder and they were off. The two agile young men ran to the closing hatch with surprising speed and slipped into the dark chamber below before it closed. Heero found himself falling down the same shaft that he had fallen down the night before when they obtained the blue prints. He quickly felt along the sides of the shaft for the vent opening. His fingers slid down the cold metal surface not revealing any vent opening. Duo looked down at Heero his braid flying up in his handsome face.
"He didn't forget did he?" Duo thought beginning to panic.
The two-gundam pilots fell down deeper and deeper into the shaft as if it went on forever. Heero began having second thoughts.
"I didn't pass it. I know I didn't, I know it's here…but why is it taking so long to find it?!"
Still the two men fell and both were beginning to panic though Duo expressed it far more openly.
"We're gonna die!" Duo said in a half whisper half yell.
"Shut up" Heero said. "We are not going to die."
"We are if you don't find that opening!!" Duo said a little louder than he should.
Heero looked up at Duo with a look that could of killed him if it wasn't so dark. Just then Heero's fingers grasped onto a ledge. Heero smiled in triumph and climbed in quickly, while grabbing Duo's braid and hauling him in.
Duo bit his lip and glared at Heero. "I appreciate you saving my life and all Heero, but touch my braid again and I'll hurt you so bad you'll actually cry."
Heero just smirked quietly to himself and crawled along the ventilation shaft planting bombs here and there. Duo followed behind him grumbling to himself while he set the bombs to 10 minutes.
"Stupid Heero grabbing me by the braid like that." He mumbled as a bomb beeped that it was ready. "He's done bad things before, but this by far is the worst."
"eep" bomb set. "I'll show him…" "eep" "He'll be sorry the next time he grabs Duo Maxwell's braid, yes sir." "eep"
Heero laughed a bit to himself in his mind listening to Duo grumble as he crawled on his hands and knees. He knew Duo would never try such a thing on him, but thought he better leave his hair alone just in case. As the two began to near Rolthen's office they heard a familiar voice.
"I'll die before I tell you anything you bastard." An angry voice said.
Duo and Heero looked to each other puzzled and then looked into the vent in front of them. It was, as they had feared, Hanami, who had recently come to. She was strapped in a chair her hands clasped behind her in two large, heavy handcuffs. Bruises and cuts covered her arms and her beautiful face and she winced as a soldier in the room slapped her across the face for her remark.
Heero grabbed Duo's arm and shook his head.
"If you go in now you'll only get your self caught or even killed. Then what good would you do Hanami?"
Duo looked at Heero and then back at his hurting girl friend. He sighed and relaxed.
"I'm going back to unset the bombs." Heero said, "don't try anything."
Duo nodded and glared down at Rolthen's slick brown head.
"The God of Death will return for you." Duo promised his voice like a dagger pierced the silence around him.
But when Rolthen looked up all he saw was darkness and nothing more.