Hm...well....here's the next chapter. I hope you guys are still reading this. I've gotta go over some of my other stories and write more for them too. Maybe, quite possibly actually, there will be a sequel to this. But let me finish it first before I start to think about that. I've got two other fics I intend on finishing: Angel of Mine and Yorkdale Mall. Those should be finished soon. Angel of Mine has only two or three more parts left. I then have to do a Zelda one, which will be big, and a couple originals. Plus the manga I'm working on, plus another four or five Gundam ones until I"m out of ideas...and a Card Captor Sakura one. So, as you can see--

Chibi-Duo: She's busy, don't hound her

--I've got a lot of work. **rolls eyes** I need to be hounded to finish.

Chibi-Quatre: She accepts bribes...**blushes at the astonished looks he recieves for the comment**...look, I'm out of Kool-Aid...I'm not in a good mood.

Lol, I'll get more, promise. Read this people, and enjoy.

Chapter 10

Heero got out of the car, followed by the rest of the Gundam pilots. Duo told the girls to stay where they were for a minute while the guys talked about what to do.

Reena, Ami, and Lys nodded silently and watched the guys gather in front of the van. Lys and Ami were looking out the windows at the five Gundams that lined the walls.

"They're huge!!!" gasped Ami, her eyes wide as she looked at them with a mixture of fear and awe.

"Hai..." agreed Lys, trailing off as she tried to see the top of one of the MS. Reena glanced at the Gundams, not terribly surprised. She had seen them before, while the little war was going on. Her friends and her were in a group of people captured by some Aries MS and one of the Gundams had helped them out. Looking to her left she saw one that looked vaguely familiar. Lots of guns on it and it was red and orange, she remembered it running out of ammo too. Wondering which Gundam belonged to which pilot, and wanting to hear the conversation going on ten feet in front of the vehicle, she unbuckled her seat-belt and leaned forward. The window opened quietly and the two girls pulled her back from it. She pushed their hands off her and motioned for them to keep quiet.

"I'm not going to get out! I thought we were trying to figure out what's going on. Listen." she whispered and gave them both looks that meant 'no arguing, or else' as she turned around and pretended to be staring at the Gundams.

"How would they know if we found the tape by the 27th? It's the 24th now!" asked Quatre.

"They might have spies." Heero said coldly, he was in a bad mood, very bad.

"Or they would've just blown it all up, if we found it in time or not." stated the cheerful Duo, "They might've just been hoping for a fight."

"Either way," WuFei stated calmly, "we have to save that onna, Relena, and Colony L1 from destruction."

Hai, Heero thought, that's my Colony.

All the guys agreed with WuFei on that and Duo brought up the subject of the girls. "What's going on with Lys and Ami? What use will Reena have in this?" he asked, "I don't want her to get hurt."

"Reena will come with us and manipulate some computers." Heero told him, "Bring them out now."

Duo walked back over to the van as Reena climbed into the front seat and casually put her hand on the window button, causing it to rise back up before he got back. Duo opened the door and helped her out. Opening the back door, Lys and Ami were let out too.

"C'mon." he said and led them over to the rest of the guys. Ami ran over beside Trowa and grabbed his arm, looking up at him unsure. He smiled comfortingly and slid his hand around her waist.

Lys stood beside Quatre, who awkwardly put a comforting hand on her shoulder. She looked over at him, surprised. Flashing her an encouraging smile and blushing, he looked at Heero, "Well, the girls?"

"They stay out here or they can go into that room." Heero gestured towards and old looking part of the building that had an open door and a couple beds. Obviously, that was where the pilots stayed when they were planning all night. Heero looked pointedly at Lys, "Don't touch anything." Lys looked down at her feet. "Reena is coming with us to strategize for the mission." with that he turned and walked down the middle of the warehouse and through an old door. Trowa and Quatre told the girls to stay put, but they could feel free to look at the Gundams. They pointed out their own and warned them not to get to close to the one on the far right with the big red shield. Duo pointed out his Gundam, "Deathscythe-Hell." he said proudly, pointing to the big black one.

Reena noted this, as well as the names of the other Gundams. Quatre's Sandrock and Trowa's Heavyarms. It was Trowa's, she realized, that saved our group.

Trowa and Quatre then followed Heero and WuFei into the room at the other end of the building, Duo and Reena behind them.

"Trowa!" yelled Lys after him, "I think we'll both just go to bed. Sayonara in advance you guys!"

Trowa nodded and Quatre looked back and smiled. Reena waved as Duo gave the 'thumbs up' sign and they both walked into the room and shut the door.

Lys waited a few minutes and walked down into the room they were supposed to go to. She flicked on the light and grabbed some pillows from the beds. Ami lied down on one and watched her, confused.

Lys stuffed the pillows under the covers and made a body-like shape that looked surprisingly real, "Ok." she said and went over to Ami's newly claimed bed.

"What are you doing?" asked Ami as Lys motioned for her to get up.

"We're not staying here while they get to have all the fun." she said and made a second 'body' out of pillows.

Ami looked at the shapes critically, "You're very good at that." she finally said.

"I get a lot of practice." Lys shrugged and went over to the door. She popped her head around the corner and checked to see if any of the guys were out. They weren't. She whispered to Ami, "Come on!" and flicked off the light, Ami followed her as they silently ran across the building and climbed the stairs to the big platforms for entering the Gundams. Lys looked at Ami, "Remember which one is Trowas'?" Ami nodded, "Ok, follow me into Quatres'." Lys climbed over the guard rail and hopped onto the platform of Gundam Sandrock, looking back she motioned to the other girl, who quickly scrambled over as well. Lys walked in.

The inside was lit a bit from the lights of the warehouse so the two girls could see what was in the cockpit. A big chair with a harness, a lot of buttons and three big screens in the front. Lys was looking for something.

"What are you looking for?" asked Ami, irritated with the girl and afraid of getting caught. Lys sighed exasperatedly and jumped around the floor in her anger, causing a small door to pop open, revealing a storage space. She looked in.

"This." she stated as she moved a couple things out of the way and looked in, "Do you think this is big enough for two people, or do you want to go hide in Trowa's?" she asked.

Ami realized what she meant and smiled at Lys as she left for Trowa's Gundam.

Satisfied that Ami would be Ok, Lys climbed into the little box and waited for Quatre.

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"What we have to do," stated Heero, who was studying a map of the base on the disk Reena had gotten to work, "Is blow up this place here." He pointed to a dome shaped part of the largest building. "My guess is that's where the missile that will take out the colony is. I figure Relena is somewhere in the main corridor, probably close to the main part. Reena and I will take care of that. Reena, you'll be in charge of disarming the missile and getting Relena out of there while I fix the locks on the automatic doors and take out some of the guards. You will then exit through this door here," Heero pointed to a door between where the main corridor and the dome met, "and meet me. Relena comes with me and you'll be picked up by Duo, got that?" Reena nodded.

"Good." Heero continued, "You guys will be out here fighting the MS and protecting Wing. I plan on there being at least 100 Aries, at least 200 Taurus and a batch of Leos thrown in, be ready for them." The pilots nodded. "We'll leave tonight, and camp out." he brought up a new screen with a detailed map of the Sahara desert and clicked on the surrounding area, bringing up five spots on the screen, "Here, here, here, and here. I take here. Make sure you've got these co-ordinates down." The boys each committed their spot to memory. Trowa was between sand dunes, Quatre by some rocks, Heero on the south side of the base, with desert behind him, WuFei also in the sand, and Duo on the outskirts of the desert, in a lightly forested area.

"We camp here and attack together in the morning as soon as WuFei gives us the go ahead over the comm. unit. We'll ambush the base from all sides and attack that way. If my calculations are correct, we should be just out of range of their radar, if not, we'll find out. Reena, you're riding with Duo." Reena nodded, "Do you have any combat skills?" he asked.

"Not with a MS," she answered, "but I'm dead accurate with a gun and I'm good with a sword. I'm also highly ranked in hand to hand." Reena thought back to when her father insisted on lessons for things like that. She was very good at everything he got her into, though he never encouraged her or showed interest past her ability. It didn't matter if she had wanted the lessons or not, she had gotten them. Not lessons like piano or ballet, lessons for skills that a soldier would be trained for, shooting, swordplay, riding was even taken away from being fun to drills and jumps and other soldier-like activities. He wished his only child was a boy! she thought, and he left because I wasn't good enough at it for him! Kuso yaro! she mentally cursed him, Oh well, I'll probably see you soon enough oto-san.

Heero nodded approval and threw her a gun, a .38 revolver, "You'll be able to use this then." he said coldly, "Don't let emotion get in the way, kill whoever you need to to save that girl and the Colony, got it?"

She nodded and everyone got up to leave. Heero walked out first and noticed the girls weren't around, he looked at Trowa and Quatre questioningly, "In bed." they answered. Heero went over to the door and opened it quietly, he saw the still forms of the two girls asleep in the beds and closed the door. He nodded to the Gundams.