(This take's place on the L-5 colony, still.)


A horrid smell came from an alley running between a weapons shop and a tanning salon. Li and Lisa, currently enjoying some ice cream, were walking down the sidewalk, which just happened to go past that alley. "Do you smell that? Aw, Li you didn't!" Lisa yelled, jumping away from him. "I didn't fart! I swear!" Li protested, then his voice trailed off. "What! You think I farted?" Lisa exulted. Li only pointed and Lisa spun, both of them staring now into the alley. Lisa wanted to scream, but her voice wouldn't obey. For at the end of that alley, chained to a cheap chain-link fence, were Quatre and Wufei. Almost transfixed, Li and Lisa sprinted down the alley. When they were at Quatre and Wufei, the bodies came alive. "Gotcha!" Wufei yelled, in a voice completely unlike him, much too high for a guy's voice, and the two of them slipped out of the chains. Li ducked under Wufei's too-high kick and took to moment to blissfully kick Wufei in the groin area, causing him to stagger. Lisa, meanwhile, blocked every single rapid-fire punch that "Quatre" threw at her, and then threw a deft haymaker punch to the jaw line, causing the imposter Quatre to stagger back against the fence. Li slipped out of the imposter Wufei's grasp and around behind him, his combat knife pressed against Wufei's jugular vein. Lisa had her high-caliber pistol up under Quatre's chin when she realized it. The features were all wrong and the body was too. Li had also figured this out. "Come out! Or I'll kill her!" he shouted at the ominous shadows. Slowly several burly men slipped out of the shadows. "I knew this was a bad idea." One of the men murmured. "Lucrezia Noin, and if I'm not mistaken, Miss Relena Dorlin, it has been awhile." Li said, smirking. "Indeed, that is who we are." Miss Noin spoke. "We want no part of you." Lisa fumed, hurling Relena into the nearest man. Li released Noin, letting her leave. The men simultaneously raised their guns and fired, but Li and Lisa were already in motion. Holding his hand over his mouth and nose Li opened a vial of tear gas and hurled it back into the alley. "We'll meet again!" Noin called, but the two pilots were already gone and the men ran in pursuit. Li took out a tiny remote and pressed a button. Down the block a black convertible came to life, reversing rapidly towards where Li and Lisa were about to be overtaken by the men. As it sped past Li jumped into the driver's seat while Lisa landed soundlessly in the passenger seat beside him. He let the car reverse all the way to the corner before he flipped a toggle on the dashboard, shutting off the autopilot, and took off down another street. Their pursuers gave chase in a white van, but the two pilots had vanished.