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A/N: Ok, here's the next chapter. It's longer than the last one. Thank you everyone who reviewed! Well, enjoy.
Introductions
As Heero entered the meeting room, he saw his old comrades. Duo, who had brought him in, went to annoy Wufei, who was standing near some tinted windows with his son Li. Trowa and his son Kevin were standing talking to Quatre and his son. Heero and TJ just stood by the door. That is, until Milliardo said, "Good. You're all here. Please take your seats." After they sat down, he began. "Now-" but he was interrupted by his son Michael and Duo's son Solo entering the room. He stopped.
"Father, mom said that you have to be home by dinner or you're gonna have to sleep on the couch," Michael said as he sat down next to his father. Milliardo paled slightly.
"So dad, what did I miss?" Solo asked as he sat down next to Duo with great enthusiasm. Duo laughed.
"Nothing yet. Did you show everyone to the hotel?" Duo asked as he ruffled his son's hair. Solo nodded. Milliard looked at his watch.
"Gentlemen, we will have to make this a quick meeting. Here is the problem. A Taurus mobile suit was seen outside the high school and junior high where my niece and Maxwell's daughter attend at one twenty-three pm. It attacked the school thirty-five minutes later at two fifty-eight pm. This lapse of time gave the students, teachers and everyone else inside the school time to escape."
"Dad," Michael said as his father paused, "Billy wants to know if they saved all the pets."
"Yes they did. As a matter of fact, when they got here, one of the seventh graders lost a hamster in basement."
"Oh, you mean this guy?" Duo asked holding up the missing Hamster. "I was wondering why there was a hamster in the basement." Milliardo rolled his eyes.
"As I was saying, this attack was initially interpreted as an assassination attempt on my niece's life. Luckily, she was smart enough to point out that if who ever orchestrated this attack had wanted to kill her, they would have attacked sooner. Instead, they let there be time to evacuate the whole population of the school." Milliardo paused.
"If it wasn't an assassination attempt, what was it?" Trowa asked.
"I don't know for sure. It might have been a type of warning. Something to make us realize that we're vulnerable. I'm not sure if you realize this, but my youngest niece, the one that this attack concerns, is the heir to the thrones of both Castalia and the Sanq Kingdom. She's the only one of Relena's kids that is ready to adopt pacifistic ideals," he paused as he thought of what would happen if either of his sister's other kids became ruler. "In any case, who ever is behind this attack had a Taurus. This implies that they're trying to start a war. Mobile suit production ended more than two decades ago. Anyway, we don't know who this new threat is, but I don't think that they're playing around."
"What do you want us to do about it?" Wufei asked.
"Find out who this group is, what they want, where they are and if any other member of the royal family is in danger. You're all dismissed." Everyone left the room except Heero, TJ and Milliardo.
"Did you check up on that lead I gave you?" Heero asked. Milliardo smiled wryly.
"You mean the one from eight teen years ago? Yeah, as soon as you told me the day after the wedding. The place was deserted. Who ever was there left in a hurry," Milliardo said. "There were some clues, but they all seemed to be false leads. The guys that investigated it were careless. Trampled all over the whole place! If there were any real clues, they're gone."
"Did Rodrigo pick the investigative squad?" Heero asked.
"You got it. He probably told them to destroy any real evidence." He changed the subject. "Yuy, I need you to keep a close watch on the royal family. All of them. Anything happens that's out of the ordinary, deal with it."
"I know a lot about Relena and Rodrigo, but what can you tell me about their kids?" Heero asked. The more he knew the easier he could stop this. He signaled to TJ to listen closely.
"Here," Milliardo said. He put a disk into the drive. Three names appeared on the large comp. screen. He clicked the first one. A picture of a tan young man with dark hair and serious gray-green eyes appeared. Milliardo scrolled down. "Name: Dorian Raúl Peacecraft-Combatiente. Age: 17 years, 10 months. Height: 5'11 ½". Weight: 185 lbs. Personality: Reckless, Greedy, Proper to a fault, Cunning, Conniving, and Arrogant." Milliardo paused and scrolled down. There was a picture of Raúl in a "normal" situation. In it he was dressed in a fancy school uniform reading a book under a tree. Milliardo clicked on the next name. A picture of a serious looking girl with light tanned skin, shoulder length medium brown hair and gray-green eyes appeared on the screen. They had to admit, she was beautiful in a cold way. Her eyes didn't seem to sparkle at all. "Name: Felicia Lucía Peacecraft-Combatiente. Age: 16 years, 7 months. Height: 5' 8". Weight: 132 lbs. Personality: Reckless, Greedy, Proper to a fault, Cunning, Conniving, and Arrogant." The "normal" picture of Lucía had her standing next to the same tree looking out in the distance, and holding some flowers. Milliardo went back to the main screen and clicked on the last name on the list. A picture of a girl with dark blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail and laughing blue-brown eyes appeared. Milliardo smiled. It was obvious that he liked Kammy more than her siblings. "Name: Kamilia Rosalía Peacecraft-Combatiente. Age: 14 years, 11 months, 3 ½ weeks. Height: 5'5". Weight: 115 lbs. Personality: Outgoing, Persuasive, Caring, Hates politics although she's very good at them, helpful, innocent, a little clumsy, and a tad quiet." Milliardo scrolled down to the normal pictures of Kammy. Unlike her siblings, Kammy had a lot of normal pictures and each one had a caption. Also, unlike her siblings, Kammy's pictures didn't look fake. Heero and TJ read the caption on the first group
"The Colony Relief Effort?" Heero asked questioningly.
"Yep. Remember how that terrorist group shut down L3's main power and they had to live on auxiliary power three years ago? Well, after a week or so they were almost out of food and water. They had just enough power to land one ship. We Preventers organized a crew and headed there. We'd caught the terrorists but the power needed to be fixed. Our chances of coming back had been slim because our people weren't sure if they could fix the problem. Kammy had insisted on coming anyway. She was a huge help. She helped cheer up the colony residents and passed out food. The biggest surprise was that when we were getting scared because the generator still wasn't working, Kammy found what the problem was. They'd switched a few of the wires around and disconnected a couple." Milliardo smiled as he remembered. The other groups of pictures showed Kammy when she was younger. In all of them she looked so happy. Then a group of pictures caught Heero's eye. They were pictures of Kammy with her Uncle Milliardo, Aunt Lucy, and her cousins Michael, Billy, and Fawna; Duo, Hilde, and their kids Solo, Sira, and Ria; and Relena. They were at a picnic and they all looked happy. Milliardo saw Heero's gaze and smiled.
"That was taken last week after the World Conference for Peace. Relena had been so worn out that Kammy decided we were all gonna go on a picnic in the public park. Rodrigo, Raúl, and Lucía thought it was scandalous so they refused to come." Milliardo smiled again. "She looks so much like her mother doesn't she?" Heero nodded.
"She does," he whispered. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" Milliardo yelled. His wife and eleven-year-old son entered.
"Zechs, I decided to personally assure your presence at dinner tonight," she stated. Then she turned to Heero. "Hello Heero. It's been a while." Billy ran over to Milliardo.
"Hey Dad! Look, Kammy bought me a new copy of the Pokémon First Movie and I got a Mewtwo Card!" He held up the movie and the card proudly.
"That's great Billy! Well, uh Billy, Lucy this is Heero Yuy and his son-" Milliardo suddenly realized that he didn't know Heero's son's name.
"TJ," Heero told them. They shook hands. Billy wasn't really listening though because he was preoccupied with his new Pokémon stuff. "We have to go review security plans with the others," Heero stated. Then he and his son left.
"He's exactly the same isn't he?" Lucy asked her husband.
"Yes he is. Don't forget, Lucy after dinner we have to go to Duo's."
Later that night at the palace, Kammy was carrying her laundry downstairs.
"Kammy! What do you think you're doing?" her father asked shrilly. Kammy rolled her eyes, pasted a fake smile on her face and turned.
"I'm carrying my dirty clothes to the laundry room."
"We pay people to do that! It is unfit for a PRINCESS to do SERVANT CHORES!!!"
"I'm bored," Kammy said as she turned and hurried down the hall. After she put her clothes in the wash, she headed to the kitchen. There cook, Engracia was baking brownies.
"Hola, Engracia. Something smells wonderful. Can I please help?" Kammy asked. Engracia turned and looked at her with a smile.
"Remember, Rosa, your father doesn't like you to do any work," the middle aged cook said. Kammy smiled. Engracia was the only one who called her by her middle name, even in shortened form.
"I don't care. I'm so bored. I mean, can I help it if I like to help people? And you know I love to cook. Especially brownies and cookies!" Kammy said smiling.
"Yes you do. And they always taste marvelous. Your Mamá used to help all the time too. Listen, I'll put these in the oven while you start the next batch ok?"
"Thank you!" Kammy said as she gave the cook a hug. Just then Relena entered.
"Hi girls. What are you doing?" she asked.
"Baking! Mom, Engracia said that you used to help her bake, too," Kammy said as she mixed the batter.
"Well I did. That is until, your father said that ladies of "class" didn't do any real work," she got out another bowl and started to mix ingredients. "You won't tell him will you?" They all laughed and talked as they baked a lot of brownies.
At Duo's house, while all the former Gundam Pilots talked on the deck and their wives were in the kitchen discussing the annoyances of their husbands, their kids were in were hanging out in Duo's sitting room.
"So, why doesn't he talk?" Solo asked Angel, gesturing toward Kevin.
"He's shy," Angel said blushing. Sira laughed.
"Solo doesn't understand that word. It isn't in his vocabulary." She looked toward her little sister who was playing Super Smash Bros. Melee against Billy.
"I'm gonna win!" Billy said.
"Ha! Dream on!" Ria said happily. Just then there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it," Sira said as she ran out of the sitting room. She opened the door.
"hi, is Hilde home?" asked the lady who stood outside.
"Uh, yeah, Mom!" Sira said. Hilde came running out of the kitchen.
"Oh my gosh! Lindsey!" she said as she hugged her friend. Then she noticed the other people with Lindsey. "Please, come in."
"Hilde, this is my husband Clark. I'm sure you remember Cathy and Dorothy. That's Cathy's husband Yamicho and Dorothy's husband Wesley." Lindsey pointed out the people.
"Uh, hi," Hilde said. Just then a boy with fair skin and light hair came into the house.
"This is my son Wesley Oscar Gustavo the fifth," Dorothy said proudly. Two girls entered the house. As the older girl walked up to him, she raised her fist slightly. He yelped, and hid behind his parents.
"Weak," the girl muttered. Lindsey shook her head.
"What did I tell you about scaring him?" Lindsey said.
"Sorry," the girl said.
"These are my daughters Serena and Nina," Lindsey stated. Immediately, the younger girl, Nina, saw the other two eleven-year-olds were playing Super Smash Bros. Melee.
"Cool SSMB!" she said. Then she turned out the door and yelled: "Hey Lance! They're playing SSBM!" A boy with very short red hair and glasses ran in and headed straight for the Nintendo Gamecube with Nina. Cathy laughed.
"That's my son. And this," she said as a girl with wavy brown hair entered the room, "Is my daughter Clara."
"Well, it's nice to meet all of you," Hilde said. "Sira, why don't you take these kids into where the rest of you are."
"Sure mom. Come on, this way to the sitting room," Sira led Clara, Wesley V and Serena to the fore mentioned room. Hilde turned to the grownups. "The men are on the deck. Go ahead and talk to them." The guys left. "Ladies, we were just discussing the um "wonderful" qualities of the Gundam pilots in the kitchen. Come on." Wufei, who had come inside from the deck to see who was there watched as Cathy, Dorothy and Lindsey followed Hilde into the kitchen. As she passed him, Lindsey smiled and said,
"I'll always be the best, Wuffie."
"Ha, never, baka!" he answered, more out of habit than anything.
In the sitting room, the four eleven year olds continued to play Super Smash Bros Melee but no one seemed to be winning. As the others talked, Heero pulled his son aside into the hall.
"TJ, try to find out more about Kammy. Milliardo just keeps telling how good she is. Try to see if he's telling the truth," Heero said.
"Mission Accepted," TJ stated, and he went back into the room.
"No way, my mom could beat your dad any day!" Serena was saying.
"Ha! Well at least I'm not named after a Sailor Moon character!" Li said. Serena raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, like being named after a Card Captors character is so much better," she said. He glared at her.
"So, what do you guys know about Kamilia Combatiente?" he asked. Sira laughed.
"You shouldn't call her that," she said.
"Why? It's her name," TJ pointed out.
"No, her full name is Kamilia Rosalía Peacecraft-Combatiente. You can call her that or Kammy Peacecraft or Rosa, but never use just Combatiente as her last name," Fawna stated.
"Why do you want to know?" Michael asked. He was always protective of his youngest cousin.
"It's a mission," TJ stated. Solo laughed.
"Now, TJ, if you like her, just say so. There's no point in lying," he said. TJ gave him the infamous Yuy Death Glare. This just made Solo laugh harder.
"Forget it," Sira said. "Listen, whatever her uncle told you is the truth. I've seen the file too. Kammy really is that good. She just doesn't get along with her family except for her mom's side of the family including her mom, of course and she's kinda stubborn." Then suddenly Sira looked at her watch.
"Oh, crap! I told her I'd call as soon as I found out if we could go to the party and I forgot!" She ran off to make the call. Solo laughed at everyone's confused faces.
"They're having a huge party on Friday in honor of Rodrigo's father's birthday. You're all probably invited." After Sira got back, they all talked until eleven o'clock. Then all the guests started to leave. As Cathy's, Lindsey's and Milliardo's families left, Ria ran to the door.
"We'll finish this next time!" she yelled. Apparently, none of them could beat the other ones at SSBM. They had all started at 99 lives and they'd all had only 83 lives when they left.
"So, did you like meeting all of them?" Sira asked her brother.
"Yep. Clara's a hottie," Solo said with a laugh.
Outside, as they left, Milliardo turned to Heero.
"Yuy, I want your son to look out for Kammy. They're sending all the kids from St. Francis Academy to Sanq Kingdom Public School. I want him to watch her there starting tomorrow."
"I will," TJ stated. Milliardo handed him a picture of Kammy laughing and talking to Sira as they walked down the hall at school.
"She'll look like that, except she'll be wearing normal clothes. And don't tell her your Heero's son. If she finds out, she'll mention it to her mom and then Relena will point out that you're probably guarding her. Kammy has a way to escape body guards…"
TBC…
A/N: There's chapter six. I hope you liked it! Please review.