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"Here! Pass it!" Hizoku shouted, "I'm wide open!"

The ball came to the athletically muscular, yet beautifully feminine 5 foot 5 girl with her waist length black
cherry hair, that appeared black in shade and red in light, in a high ponytail. Her eyes shone emerald green
with the fury of competition and joyous sport. She expertly and gracefully caught the ball, dribbled it
temptingly around and between her legs and body, just daring her guard to try and steal it from her before
she took off running toward the basket. Making an easy lay-up without any troubles from the opponents,
she scored another two points for her team, The Rebels.

"We are whoopin up on them!" her blue haired teammate shouted as she gave Hizoku a double high five.
The score was now 115-93, Rebels over Westlake late in the fourth quarter.

"Yeah! We're kickin some major ass!"

"You said it Hizoku!" shouted her dark haired teammate.

After the last five minutes of the game, Hizoku scored another 7 points and her teammates scored 10 all
together. When the final buzzer went off, she lined up with the rest of her team and shook hands with
Westlake, congratulating them on a great game. The score was 132-97 Rebels took the glory.

"Hey yall, good game!" Hizoku shouted back over her shoulder as the other team sulked off the court and
headed for home.

"Man Hizoku! You were all over 'em! How did you get to be so good?" bounced the blue haired girl.

"Oh, I started playing a long time ago Ayana. But, I still need to get better."

"You already leave all of us in the dust! How do you suppose you need to get better?" Mai asked as she
wiped some sweat off her brow with the black Rebels towel.

"Yeah! You're great! I'm sure you're even better than the professionals now!" said Fierra, her dark haired
teammate.

"I highly doubt that." Hizoku laughed at the thought of her, playing better than the professionals did.

"I can see it now." She prophesized and held her hand up to her mouth like she was holding a microphone.
"And here we are where Hizoku Tomizawa has played her first game with the professionals. And let me say,
boy she was out of league. The highlights show her scared, and uncertain about how to dribble the ball
correctly and where too. She slipped, causing a personnel foul while guarding her opponent. As she reach
in for the ball, and on accident, she slipped in some of her own sweat. Yes, a very bad day for Hizoku
Tomizawa indeed. Now, back to you Chang."

Her teammates were in stitches, falling over one another, laughing wildly at her reporter act.

"You know that's not true!" shouted Anaya as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"Yeah! You will be the best there is!" Fierra giggled, trying to clam down. "And if not in basket ball, then
definitely improv!" she let go a loud laugh before patting Hizoku on the back.

"Not to sure about that either!" now even Hizoku was holding her stomach as she was laughing so hard at
her own act. She made the same motion with her hands, intending to do another reporter act. "Yeah, and
here we have… umm…. What's her name, uh…. Oh well." they all began to laugh again as the walked
toward the nearest store to get something to eat.
* * *

While in the little burger joint to celebrate their victory over Westlake, Hizoku looked out the window and got
a glimpse of the tail end of a teal gundam-like figure.

"Hey girls, let me out, I have to go do somethin real quick."

"What, is your man home?" Ayana sarcastically asked, making the other three girls stitch up with laughter
again.

"Ha ha, very funny. You of all people know damn well he is not "somethin" and it's not real quick either."
Hizoku said, using sarcasm as her weapon of choice. "You should know that by now."

The other girls made the "burn" sound (you know, the "ooh girl" sound). "Yeah, I should know that by
now. I mean all those times I've called and you guys were together and all. How long can you guys stay with
each other?! I mean really!"

"That is left better unsaid" more laughing erupted from the crew of teen girls. "And now, I must leave on
that. Bye!"

"Later!" shouted Feirra and Ayana and the other two.
* * *

Hizoku walked out of the joint and went to the nearest landing station to ask if six mobile suits had landed.
The man behind the glass reported a no, but he reported to have heard about some gundam models come
in through the south port. Hizoku thanked the suited man kindly and went to the south port.

When she got there, she saw covered figures that stood almost to the roof of the spaceport.

"That has got to be them!" she whispered in triumph. She smiled and ran her finger through her tangled
mess of hair and proceeded to snoop around the covered figures. As she got up to the foot of the figure,
she peaked under the covering and saw a black foot base. "It is them!" she whispered as she let the
covering droop and cover the exposed part of the mecha.

"Ok, I want this out of here! Take it somewhere else!" shouted an unknown voice. Sounds of a heavy-duty
machine belt were heard, but nothing seemed to move.

"Oh, we just got back! I could use a nice big breakfast, it's been a long… well, it's been a long time since
I've last eaten!" said a familiar voice.

"Let it go Duo, were all hungry."

"Duo! You guys are back!" Hizoku ran toward where the voice was coming from to see Duo, Milliardo,
Heero, Trowa, Quatre, and WuFei standing in a circle with *big gasp from Hizoku* girls she had never seen
before! The five unknown girls were dressed differently, looked and certainly acted differently thank any
person she had ever seen before!

"Trowa!" she called out.

He looked around and after seeing his beautiful graceful girl running toward him, he braced for impact,
which happened almost immediately.

"Oh your back!" she said glomping him. Milliardo, Heero, you better have not hurt him or I'm gonna be
pissed."

"Nope, you won't believe what happened!"

"Huh? From what I heard, you guys were fighting and they were sent to stop you. Is that wrong?"

"Well… that's not the whole truth…" said Trowa quietly.

Hizoku looked around, seeing each of the girls standing by one of the guys, all but Trowa at least. "What
happened, I bet it has to do something with these girls doesn't it Trowa dear?" Hizoku shot out in an acid
tone. She narrowed her eyes into little slits and began to back away, tensing for the moment that he would
tell the truth about them."

"Well, kinda of, but I didn't do anything! Really! The girls, well, they are with those guys, not me!"

"Uh huh, I'm gonna believe that while you were away with all these girls, you were being a good little school
boy."

"No really! He didn't do anything!" said the blonde

"What are you talking about Akiko, none of us did anything." Said Lisa.

"I wouldn't say that…" Amy said very slyly.

"WuFei!" shouted Trowa "in the cockpit of you gundam?! That's disgusting!"

"Say what?!"

"Whatever yall, I was only kidding!!!!!" Amy protested.

"Look, maybe we should sit you down and tell the whole story, k yall?" Milliardo said, being the mediator.

"Yeah, that would be nice." Spat Hizoku.
* * *

So they did, it took about an hour, but everything was told, every last detail of every place they visited. The
only way she actually believed the incredulous story is because everyone told it, with different points of view
of course, but nothing was contradicting. The girls' presence was very convincing too though.

Hizoku became accustomed to seeing the other five girls with the other five guys and believed the story
they told.

"Ok, now can we get some food?" duo complained, his stomach snarling at the group.

"Yeah, were hungry!" said heather and Akiko at the same time.

"Hey, I skipped lunch for you people, don't thing you guys are the only ones hungry."

"Then lets eat!" shouted Trowa as he pulled up Hizoku and kissed her.

"Finally! Where to?" Duo asked anxiously.

"Get a room!" shouted WuFei.

"You shut up WuFei, why don't you and Amy there head back to your cockpit or somethin?" teased Sarah.

"Alright we will!" Amy replied, pulling the ponytail out of WuFei's hair.

"You drive me insane onna!" he screamed as he put back up his hair.

"Will you shut up already! Were tryin to have a private moment here!" shouted Hizoku, embarrassing the
hell out of Trowa.

"Like, Wu-man said, get a room! Or at least a cockpit!" Duo laughed as WuFei began chasing him around
the circle of friends.



… they didn't get anything to eat until four hours later, when they finally all decided on one thing…
pizza…