Soldaten des Friedens, Part 2
 Soldiers of Peace
By: Trowa-kun

Thanks to Chibimora for letting me talk through my ideas with her and thanks to Angel-chan for helping me with code names...whether she knew she was doing it or not!

Dagda stood and looked around. Artemis walked across the gravel rooftop, the crunching sound causing Dagda to look over at her. "Where are Hermes and Prism?"

Artemis shrugged, "I'm sure they will be here soon." She looked down to check her gun.

A brilliant blue light flashed on the far side of the rooftop. "Whoa.." Prism lunged and caught Hermes before he collapsed. Artemis and Dagda looked over and ran over to them.

"Hermes...are you ok?" Artemis looked him over with concern.

He nodded weakly, sweat dripping off of his brow, "Just a lot more than I'm used to."

Dagda pushed his sister out of his way, "Let me take a look at him."

Artemis grumbled and moved out of the way. Prism followed her as Dagda took Hermes out of her arms. "He sure has a big ego, doesn't he..."

Artemis turned to look at Prism, then nodded, "From what I hear...he takes after our father in that aspect..."

Dagda looked down at Hermes, "Hold still, I'll get you fixed up really quick like..." Hermes just nodded and closed his eyes. A few minutes later, they both joined the girls. Hermes smiled as they walked up, "Good as new!"

Artemis rolled her eyes, "Gods...don't inflate his ego anymore!"

Dagda smirked, "Ok, we've hung around here long enough...how do we get downstairs and inside?"

Prism turned and pointed to a door, "I'd suggest using the door..."

Hermes frowned jokingly, "Darn...and I was just going to teleport us right into the middle of their living room." He smirked as Dagda punched him lightly in the arm, laughing.

Shaking her head Artemis walked towards the door, "Lets go..."

"Wait..." Prism frowned. Once the others turned to face her she continued, "We know he sent us back in order to stop whoever it was who was changing our timeline, but...how do we know what to do or who to stop...or for that matter...not stop?" The other three looked at each other then back at her. "I mean...if we aren't careful we could ruin our own time line even worse than what Scion said it was being damaged...we could...cause ourselves to never be born!"

"She's right...we should just observe for now until we figure out how to act. We don't have enough information." Artemis frowned.

Dagda pondered for a moment, "Hermes...can you teleport us into a nearby alleyway, ground level? We can at least rent a room in this hotel. That way we're close enough to observe."

"Sounds like a good idea." Hermes grinned. A few bright blue flashes and a couple of moments later, they were walking in through the front door of the hotel. "Pst...who's got money?" he whispered to Prism.

Prism frowned, "Hold on a second guys..."

Artemis and Dagda turned to look at them, "Yeah?" Dagda frowned, getting tired of Prism's interruptions which always meant they had to figure something out. Then again, it was better for her to be interrupting than for them to goof up majorly.

"Cash..." she frowned, "How are we supposed to pay?"

Artemis glanced around and saw an ATM, "Lets see what we can do...Scion was around at this time...maybe there is a way for us to get cash out of an account related to him." She walked over to the ATM and the others followed. She eyed the machine and pulled out a card that happened to have Scion's picture on it.

"Hey...where'd you get that?" Dagda blinked, confused.

"Umm... found it in some of Scion's old stuff...this should be ten years ago for us...he was twenty five at the time..." She eyed the card and then swiped it. She smiled when the machine asked her for a pin number, "Having the card is half way there..." she grinned and punched in a number she was pretty sure would work.

"Wow...look at all the funds in that account..." Dagda grinned.

Prism frowned, "Don't take too much...someone might notice."

Artemis nodded and took out enough to pay for several nights at the hotel and buy some food, but made sure it wasn't too much that it would draw attention. "Ok, I think we are set."

They paid for a four bedroom suite and went up to settle in. "We need to figure out what floor they are on." Hermes suggested once they were comfortable with the security of their rooms.

"Why don't we let the guys go check that out, and you and I go get some food and supplied?" Prism asked Artemis.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Artemis grinned and the two women hurried out the door.

Dagda looked at Hermes, "Why does that always happen?" Hermes just shrugged. "Oh well...they seemed to have a larger suite than us...at least according to the image Prism was showing us...so I would assume they are up a couple of floors from us..." He turned, "Lets take the normal route, shall we?"

Hermes nodded, "Perfectly fine with me!"