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She had made it , it had been a long time of cutting ties and sinking down as far as she could but now no one could find her , she had managed to get and keep a small basement apartment , working odd jobs under the table with what she now called her friends , no one ever really did know her name , she just went by Angel , it was one of the things she had kept , a nickname from long ago. It had been difficult hiding her trail , even if the cops couldn't find her the others could which only left their efforts she had to avoid and knowing that group it was not an easy thing to even attempt but somehow she had managed so far.
Of course she had to leave almost everything behind , when she left she took a few pictures , her V-box , lap top , and her old duffel bag which was only half full of clothes , the other things she had taken took up the rest of the room.
She had managed to hit a bank machine on her way out of town and drained it , best she did it now cause when they found out it was likely to be traced or worse , she had decided the lesser of the two evils and walked out of town , knowing that sooner or later they would be searching the town but didn't dare take the risk of hitching a ride as that would give them a direction in which to look for her in so she quietly kept out of sight of the passing cars , and slipped out of all existence.
The first bit had been rough , she didn't dare go online as she knew that there was a chance they might trace her by her uplink , but no one had found her yet and even the news had lost interest in the chase which was a good thing , of course after a year her hair no longer looked blond , she had changed that to a copper red color to keep eyes from her , keeping it done up in a braid and under her hat just in case.
Then all her online activities was mainly learning , learning how to hack accounts so she could atleast let the rest of her team know she was all right , course she would have loved to have seen their faces when they found out that every time she had contacted them she was still hiding far away , but it was for their protection as well , lord only knew what the cops had found out during the time she had been gone.
She kept this up , contacting them once a week and a few months ago she had even created an account in case they had wanted to return the communications , by now they had been told what had happened , or atleast the public story as to what happened but any mention of what had happened or questions as to why she was acting like this had been ignored , that was not something she was willing to discuss and it had been dropped by all.
Her apartment had been decorated with the pictures that had been taken when they had first met , what a way to make friends , they had been total strangers thrown together in a place they were all sure couldn't exist , handed cars , guns , Gundams and even got to spend time with the group. Now she knew that sounded crazy but there had been 4 others there with her that could attest to the fact that it really happened which she was sure was the only reason she stayed sane after it all , and had worn her communicator that Amy and her had worked so hard to make , of course with a few modifications it had come in handy in more then one instance but now it was mainly sentimental , she no longer had her built in relay station , of course it had been built into Ocasta.
Poor Ocasta , when she had made it back from the GW world she had started checking over the designs and modifying them to suit an opponent like the Epyon but had been careless about it and had drawn the attention of another kid that had walked by her in the park , it had been unfortunate but the wind chose that moment to blow her design away and the pair raced to catch the wayward page which brought about a long conversation about the show.
On the first chance she got that was free the real work began ,she couldn't ask for a better structure but had added the active cloaking system on which would greatly confuse the enemy and an electrical field generator which she hoped could be useful in disabling mobile suits in a close up battle once activated , of course she would have to upgrade the fusion reactor to increase the amount of energy it could output at one time or else the whole thing could shut down with the lack of power but over all she liked the system as it was and was not about to go playing with what was widely known as the Zero system , the last thing she needed was it's mind bending effects messing with what little she had already sorted out so far in this life.
The finished picture she had drawn and outlay schematics of the modified version she shared with no one , but she remembered the next day the same girl had showed up at the same place with a model all her own , she had gotten the idea from what Trel had the day before and suposedly she just couldn't stop thinking about it which made Trel curse herself , the design the girl had chosen was a green version of the Black Plauge , it could change to a bear form and had gatlin guns as the weapon , with a lack of the wings it was bound to be another ground machine but man it brought back bad memories.The kid (which seemed roughly the same age) seemed lost in her own world with her mind stuck on a pilot all her own , if she ever did make it back there it was going to be some fun and as with all things it didn't take long for the two to become friends , as much as she hated to admit it she kind of missed having friends that she could just talk to instead of waiting for e-mails and IM's so she tried to keep her own self doubt down and start over with someone she hoped she could trust.
Every day it was the same , they usually met at the park or near by , Trel always with her lap top as she refused to leave either it or her cell behind and Nikita usually in some funky kind of fighting outfit , they'd sit at the arcade or somewhere and then they'd split for the day , some times it would be a visit to each other's house where Trel had found out her friend had a serious crushin on Wufei , that just made her laugh , remembering the same pilot going keaster first into the lake after the jump he had made. Boy did she wish she had a copy of that video now.
For the 4th time that day she checked her e-mail waiting for her friends to get on but all that was there was some junk mail from "The Force" , good lord if she saw one more piece of junk mail come in before she got hold of her friends she was gonna crash their server , she opened it up and was about to hit the delete button but the first line caught her attention just in time
Dear American Pilots,
You are needed once again in the Gundam Dimension. The Bin Laden has returned with someone else and is planning on teaming up with Mariemaia Khushrenada and Dekim Barton. They are going to try to take over the world again. You will be now transported. Good-bye.
From,
The Force
She blinked and read that again , starting to smile and then breaking out in laughter , one more time Jay was puling their leg , well that synched it , he was definitely at home ..... but how did he send that thing blindly she thought but never did get to finish that thought as the concrete fell out from under her and a white vortex was left in it's stead , but even that ended in a pain filled thud and the ride was over just as suddenly as it had once began.
It was Matthew's voice she heard and now she knew she was dreaming , it had been a year since she had heard any of their voices but Jason's voice soon followed , then Savanna yelling at Jason , but that can't be right can it she thought as she opened her eyes to look up.
" Would some one mind explaining to me! What the in gods name is going!" shouted Trel as she finally got up.
She looked over as Amy complained about a head ache and her face lit with the sheer joy that had come from keeping the faith , it looked like once again all five were together again , face to face , now if they could just do this every year it wouldn't be so bad she thought as she laughed , getting right involved in the social gathering till Jason had to play the bearer of rational thought asking questions
" What a sec how did we get here?"
She wasn't sure if the question had stunned her more or the fact that
he had a very valid question without pulling a gun or a prank ..... and
both suddenly worried her. That was when they heard the clapping and when
they looked to investigate there stood the doctors which really did not
please her , had it been Bin Laden himself he may have received a warmer
greeting from her then these nut jobs , she just wished she had her sword
from home , it was a nice piece she had picked up , double bladed with
the handle dead center of the two , beautiful balance and all black
, they'd never see it comming till it was to late but for now she just
sated herself with moving between the docs and the rest of the group ,
wishing it had been the creaters of their Gundams over this kind of greeting.