"What happened to her?" Quatre asked once Duo was in the cockpit of his gundam.
"I don't know." Duo answered as the vidscreen in his gundam was taken over by Shadow. "She'll follow us."
"What?" Quatre asked as he looked at Duo like he was crazy.
"Shadow will follow us. So we need to take Serena somewhere safe." Duo explained as he looked at the other three.
"We can take her to my mansion, it's not far from Sanc and we can get ahold of Sally." Quatre told him as they started their trek to Quatre's. Shadow followed after the group slowly as she stayed wary of the others. It was the information that she was given when System 10 merged with Serena's brain, so that Shadow would still know what to do even if the pilot was out cold or dead. That was when the Zero System would kick in so that the gundam could anticapate its opponates moves when the pilot couldn't. Her pilot didn't trust any of them completely and Shadow picked that up from the System.
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"You know that Gundam is sweet." Duo comented as they continued to work on their gundams.
"She's been scaring some of the Maganacs." Quatre told him as Duo stuck his head out of the cockpit of Scythe, where he had been rerouting circuit boards. "They've been saying her eyes blare to life every once in a while."
"She's turned off!" Duo yelled back as he went back to work.
"Since when is this weak gundam considered female?" Wufei grumbled as Duo threw him an uneasy glance.
"Since Serena's scary as fuck. She says her gundams are girls, they're girls no questions asked." Duo yelled back as he heard Wufei mutter injustices under his breath as he passed below on the cat walk.
"Miss Serena you shouldn't be up! You should be resting in bed like the doctor ordered!" one of Quatre's maids yelled as she followed Serena into the hanger. Shadow's eyes blared to life as she leaned down to help her pilot into the cockpit.
"Serena get back to bed!" Duo yelled as he watched Serena walk into the cockpit. "I've said it once, I'll say it again. Heero she's exactly like you."
"I'll kill you." Heero replied when he came into Duo's view. Duo shook his head as he jumped onto the catwalk.
"Did you put a tracker on Shadow?" Trowa asked as he appeared next to them to watch Shadow walk out of the hanger then blast off.
"It's disorted slightly but it can still point out her location." Heero answered as Wufei and Quatre walked up to them.
"So what did happen to Serena?" Duo asked the maid that was standing in the doorway trying to figure out what to do since her charge had left.
"About two hundred lashes and numerous injections." She told him before turning to flee the room, the gundams and pilots still unnerved her.
"Who'd do that to her?" Quatre asked as he looked up at the others.
"OZ." Heero intoned as he turned an gave his computer an uneasy glare. The tracker reading was now clear as day, a few miles away from the mansion, when in fact Serena's hidden hanger was at least twenty miles away from Quatre's house, and it was stationary. Trowa looked over his shoulder and took in what the reading showed, he showed no emotions as he continued on to his room. Shutting his laptop Heero went into the den where he set about taking the laptop apart to make sure that it was working funtionally and that there were no bugs in it.
"I was wondering about all the blood, it was just with the catsuit she had on you couldn't see any wounds." Duo muttered as he shook his head, walking towards the kitchen he went to raid the fridge. Quatre took a look around before heading for his office to get some work done.
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"Alright, time to go back to the dorms." Serena muttered as she put a sweat shirt on over her catsuit. Hopping in her jeep she took off towards the academy, where she was certain to get glomped by the girls and yelled at. That was the last thing that she needed with these damn drugs still running through her system and wounds left by the whips still fresh and new.
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"Serena where in the hell did you take Rini?" Raye screamed when she noticed Serena walked through the school commons to shorten the distance that it would take to get to her dorm. Serena didn't even exnollege her friends as she pushed open the doors on the other side of the room to finish her trek to the dorm hall.
"Raye, leave her alone. Remember last time she had to place Rini in hidding she wouldn't talk for a week." Mina whispered as she and Lita pulled her down into her seat. "Taru do you have anyway of getting ahold of the guys?"
"I may." Hotaru muttered as she opened her address book and scanned through the contence. "I've got Heero's pager number, but I can only use a cell phone to get ahold of him with."
"Uhh, hold on, I've got one somewhere in this purse." Lita mumbled as she dumped the everything in her purse onto the table. "Here ya go."
"Thanks." Hotaru smiled as she started punching in the number.
"Lita you have a toothbrush in your purse?" Mina squeeked as she went through everything that had been dumped on the table infront of her.
"Lita why do you have these?" Raye asked holding a black box up. Hotaru turned away as she started typing the cell number back in and then the number that allowed Heero to know that it was her.
"Well, it's better to be safe then sorry." Lita told them as she snatched the box from Raye's hands. "It's days like these when I shouldn't even leave my room."
"Why?" Mina asked as she looked up, confusion obvious on her face.
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Umm, I don't put down exact dates in here as you can tell, but in the next few chapters to come it'll be a little confusing. Serena came in early January, Rini came around May and was with them until September, it'll be early Febuary of the next year in chapter 26 if I remember correctly.
This is just to help with the confusion that the last two chapters of this story will probably end up bring. I wrote them well in advance. You can call me a backwards writer if you wish. Since I've had them done for a month or so before this chapter was even written.
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