"I guess I better get dressed.," the girl muttered.
She quickly stood and smiled as she hung her head out the window waving to some soldiers driving a truck below. Then she frowned when she recognized the shape of the lump they were carrying.
"Wait right there buckos!" she yelled down to them.
The soldiers stopped the truck and looked to each other with questioning looks.
The girl at the window shrugged on her robe and bunny slippers and ran down to the truck waiting on the dirt road below.
"Where do you think you're going with that?!" she yelled pointing to the cargo.
"It was Master Quatre's orders Ms. Kawa."
Kawa frowned. "Oh and he didn't think that it would be WISE to ask it's pilot first?!"
The soldiers blinked. "But he did..this is Ms. Hanami's gundam."
Kawa blinked. "It is?"
The soldiers nodded.
Now that she thought about it the Nebulae did have about the same shape as the Orion, but just to make sure Kawa peeked underneath the blanket covering the gundam. The soldiers had been right, underneath the gray tarp lay a shiny purple and silver gundam.
The pilot blushed with embarrassment once realizing it and returned to the front of the truck.
"I'm sorry, where are you taking it then?"
"To be destroyed.."
"To be...what?!"
"The pilots decided on it this morning.."
"WHICH pilots?!"
"The guys.."
Kawa fumed. "Do NOT move from THIS spot!!" and with that she stormed off toward the breakfast room; forgetting she was still in her purple pajamas with pink stars, and moons.
"OK who made the stupid decision to destroy the gundams?!" Kawa yelled as she ran in.
Quatre and the other boys looked up at her. "Uh we did.."
"Why?!"
"Because Oz wants them, we can't just very well hand them over.." Duo said, "oh and nice pj's"
Kawa ignored his last comment and joined them at the table. "Why destroy them? We can hide them..we have for quite some time. No one has found them yet."
"Yet" Heero muttered while sipping a cup of coffee.
"Look you guys, I know the colonies have been threatened, but if we destroy our gundams how are we going to fight Oz? Without our mobilesuits, Oz'll take over and our efforts would have been in vain."
"Not exactly, we can still sneak into their bases and sabotage them within." Trowa pointed out.
Kawa sighed. "Does Ikasu and Hanami know about this?"
"Hanami does...sorta." Duo said.
"Sorta?" all the pilots turned to him.
"Well, I asked her through her bedroom door...she was still asleep...kinda."
Kawa sighed yet again. "So neither of them know?"
The boys shook their heads.
"We didn't want to wake you." Quatre said offering her a cup of coffee.
Kawa took the mug and thanked him.
"And we started on this operation long before you women stepped in." Wufei growled.
The blonde haired pilot slammed her fist on the table, "So just because we are WOMEN makes us stupid? And that we don't know squat about fighting or mobile suits?! Well, listen to me you sexist buncha jerks! WE are perfectly capable of THINKING and fighting! And WE should decide what happens to OUR gundams!! They don't belong to YOU they belong to US!"
The five boys had all stopped sipping from their mugs and stared blankly at Kawa, who was fuming and had spilt her coffee all over the table and floor. Wufei even looked a bit scared.
"Well, good morning to you all," she muttered angrily and then she turned and walked out.
"Way to go Wu-man! With you and that sexist tongue of yours we all could never get married!"
Wufei glared over at Duo and then turned to Heero. "What are we going to do?"
Heero sipped his coffee calmly and his Prussians were locked on the doorway. "We'll do nothing until we talk with the girls, and get their opinions."
"She did bring up a good point." Quatre added beginning to clean the spilt coffee. "We did act without their consent."
The other boys agreed, apart from Wufei, who still thought women were insignificant.
~*~*~*~*~
"So they decided to destroy the gundams?" Ikasu asked.
The three girls decided to hold a secret meeting of their own to discuss their plans. They all sat cross-legged on the floor in Hanami's room each holding a steaming cup of hot chocolate, and each of them still in their pj's.
"Yea," Kawa nodded. "it was lucky that I woke when I did."
"I thought I heard someone talking this morning!" said Hanami setting down her mug. "I just thought it was in my dream."
"Well, what do you suggest we do?" Kawa asked them.
"I propose that we keep our gundams, cause as you said Kawa we need them to fight."
"Good idea Ikasu-chan, but what if the boys don't agree?" Hanami questioned.
"Then we will fight alone."
"So it's decided then?"
The two others nodded.
"All right, lets leave today..and get back to the Green Dagger."
"OH hang on you guys. I discovered some new news last night."
Kawa and Hanami turned to Ikasu. She now held her lap top in her hand and was beginning to open it, and quickly typed a few keys.
"It's gonna be a bit tricky..but I think if we go to this base here, " she points. "On the Galapagos, we can sneak in and retrieve the mission plans AND blow up the base!"
"Do you think we can do that?" asked Kawa peeking over Ikasu's shoulder.
Hanami grinned and twirled a pistol around her finger. "Just leave it to me guys! When it comes to stealth and high tech explosives I'm the babe ya want!"
"We're gonna need a copter." Ikasu said typing a few more keys. "Kawa you're good at driving different sorts of transportation right?"
Kawa nodded and beamed a bit, "Name any vehicle, boat, or flying contraption that I can't fly, and I'll give ya my gundam!"
Ikasu grinned and typed a few more keys. "OK then, we'll have to wait till next Friday night."
"Why?" Hanami and Kawa asked together.
Ikasu grinned. "Cause the only people there..will be us, and a few guards. 45 to be exact. It'll be as easy as pie!"
A few moments later the three girls emerged from their barraks. Each of them wore a short pair of shorts and a colorful tank top; their light travel bags held at their sides, or over their muscular shoulders.
"Leaving already ladies?" Quatre asked as he strode up to them.
"Yea, I'm afraid so Quatre." Ikasu said pushing her shades up. "Thanks for the rooms, and the service."
"Yea the food was great!" Hanami added.
"So what have you guys decided to do?" Heero asked from behind them.
"We're going to keep our gundams, what you do with yours is your business." Kawa said as she loaded a truck near by with her things.
Heero nodded.
"Aww man the babes are leavin?!"
The girls, and the two gundam boys looked toward the sound of the disappointed Duo.
"Yes, they are Duo." Quatre said.
Hanami blushed a bit and held out the jacket, and the recorder out to Duo. "Here's your jacket Duo, and I think you will be needing this." she added a hint of anger into the last few words.
Duo laughed nervously. "Oh I wonder why that's in there..."
"Next time you shouldn't be so loud, " Ikasu muttered. "We could hear you through our open windows. Plus since that's an older model it makes static."
"All three of our gundams are packed and rearin to go!" Kawa reported as she joined the party from behind the three cargo trucks.
"Lets get a move on then." Hanami said, and she clasped Quatre's hand. "Thanks for everything."
Quatre smiled and blushed a bit. "It was nothing Hanami, come back anytime."
"You thank him like we've been here for weeks." Kawa muttered.
"It never hurts to be polite Kawa-chan." Hanami waved her finger.
The blonde pilot nodded. "I suppose you're right, thanks Quatre."
Quatre nodded and blushed again, he was not used to all this womanly attention.
After all the girls had said their thanks they boarded their trucks and roared off down the dirt road and into the desert.
"Kawa! You're going 20 miles over the speed limit!!" Hanami yelled.
Kawa stuck her head and looked backward at Hanami's truck behind her and a cupped a hand to her ear. "What?!"
Ikasu shook her head, "This is gonna be a long trip.."