"Man, I have this bad feeling that we've made this trip before." Duo said putting the shuttle into autopilot. "But this time we don't have that stupid suit of yours with us." He added looking over at Heero. Hilde poked her head up from the back.
"We don't have to worry about that now." She informed him.
"From what Sally told me about this new situation, it seems that someone hacked into our computers somehow." Heero explained.
"But we just put them all in." Hilde mentioned.
"I really don't know what happened too well. I'm sure she'll explain it better once we get there." He answered her shutting his eyes and leaning against the side of his seat.
Once they got there, Quatre practically knocked Duo over when he saw him.
"It's so great your okay. You wouldn't believe how boring things have been at the office without you visiting. You're never aloud to scare me like that again." He told him.
"You? What about me." Sally said coming into the control room where they were.
"I'm the one that had to try to find someone to take his place." She added.
"Oh come on, you should know that no one can kill a Gundam Pilot." Duo smirked. "Oh yeah you might be getting a really big bill from a hospital on L3." He added.
"We'll pay it but it'll come out of your paycheck." She replied. Duo dropped his shoulders and let out a sigh when she said that.
"Well she won that one." He admitted sitting down next to Hilde. She just laughed at both of them. Once he had taken his seat and looked back up at Sally she smiled and added.
"It's not coming out of your paycheck, don't worry. We'll take care of it.. I'm just glad you're alright." He straightened in his seat at that point..
"That's a relief, I don't get paid that much." He said almost in a whisper to Hilde. Sally heard him and turned back to the both of them as he was still leaning over.
"Now the condition you left Wing Zero in, that's another matter." She said seriously. He practically fell over. "Une wasn't too happy about that either." She also said. He had always been kind of afraid of Une so the thought of her not being happy with something and holding him responsible wasn't a good thing to hear. Trowa and Wufei came in and took their seats.
"I heard you missed me Wufei." Duo said as Wufei sat as far away from him as possible. He just smiled a little and answered.
"Yeah, cause there wasn't anyone to blame your mess on." Duo just sank in his seat.
"You asked for that yah know." Trowa leaned over and told him. He just nodded back. Sally got everyone's attention.
"Okay I know that you all have alot to catch up on but we have a serious problem here. Whoever hacked into our computer system was looking for instructions to rebuild Wing Zero. Also it would appear that the left over parts to it are missing." She informed them. No one really spoke up, they were all in shock that this matter wasn't caught until now.
"Are there even any plans for Wing Zero on the computer system? I didn't see any before." Hilde asked referring to when she had helped them a while back.
"The only plans on there are for the weapons and resources but still that's alot of information we didn't want out there for anyone to use." Sally explained.
"Yeah, but was it in one of the locked files or what?" Heero asked. Sally shook her head.
"No it got put into the wrong file. So it wasn't locked." She answered.
"Hey is it possible that someone changed the program around?" Trowa mentioned. "That's the best idea so far but when would anyone have the chance to get in here and do that without getting caught?" Wufei brought up. Duo just leaned back and put his hands behind his head.
"Did yah check the security tapes?" He suggested.
"Nothing seemed to have happened in here and this would be the room to get that information." Sally replied.
"But there are computer's in other rooms besides the control room though." Trowa reminded her. Duo sat up suddenly.
"Just a sec. What about that guy that whiped out the system the first time?" He brought up. Sally stood there and thought about it.
"We didn't bother checking those tapes now that I think about it. And there was a moment that no one was with him. That was when he messed up the system. He could have moved the file then, without us knowing about it." She realized. It made alot of sense to everyone else as well.
"So we'll have to track this guy down and find out what he knows." Heero decided.
"Okay I want you Heero, to see if you can trace this hacker and see what information was taken. Then I want Trowa and Quatre to take that information to devise a strategy. And then Heero and Duo can sneak in and get back the parts to Wing Zero." Sally decided. Duo slouched in his seat.
"I can't believe we're going through all of this for that suit." He muttered. Heero glanced over at him but didn't say anything. Sally, Wufei, and Hilde all left the room to go to the bridge in order to check the tapes from when Wufei was training the new guy. Heero stood up and went over to one of the desks nearby and started checking the files. It was taking him quite a long time since this was the new system and he didn't know it as well as the other one. Trowa decided to help him out on one of the other computers nearby.
"Did you check this section?" Trowa asked him. Heero glanced over at the other screen.
"Yeah, it was a dead end." He answered. "Quatre, there wasn't anything left of the cockpit when you got it back, correct?" Heero asked Quatre who was leaning over Trowa to see what he was doing. He looked over at Heero.
"Yeah pretty much. I mean all the important parts were unsalvageable." He explained. Heero stood up and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" Duo asked him.
"We don't have to worry about finding this guy. Even if he does rebuild it, he doesn't have any of the parts required to start up the Zero system so it'll be useless."
He explained heading out the door towards the bridge to let Sally know.
***
"But didn't they get the needed information about the Zero System?" Sally asked Heero after he had told her about what he had found.
"There weren't any plans of the system on the computer. There was only the plans for the actual suit but not the Zero system." He explained. Hilde came up behind Sally.
"We checked the tape and it seems that he knew what he was doing afterall. He had just enough time to steal the information." She said to Heero.
"Well it won't do him any good though without the Zero system instructions." Wufei said standing up and walking over to them. Heero nodded in response.
"And I'm the only one with that information so they can forget getting it from our computers." He added. Sally looked over at him a bit concerned.
"But that means that they might come after you, depending on how serious they are about completing Wing Zero." She remarked. Heero shrugged and headed for the door.
"I'll just have to go where they can't find me. I'm not the easiest person to find anyway." He pointed out and left to go to the shuttles. Trowa, Quatre, and Duo all entered the room as if they had overheard the entire thing.
"So he's leaving I take it." Duo said referring to Heero. Sally nodded and looked down.
"I still think we should track down this guy but considering he had no useful information, we can just drop the case for now. I need to go to New York anyway. There's a meeting there that I have to attend with Noin and Une. I'll leave Wufei in charge, the rest of you don't have to stay here either." She told them. They all gave her a look.
"Don't you think that we should stick around just in case?" Quatre asked her.
"If I need you, I know where to find you three." Wufei reminded them.
"Somehow that's not very reassuring." Duo said back.
"You don't have to worry about things here, I can handle it." Wufei answered back a little mad that Duo would question whether or not he was able to.
"I wasn't talking about that. I'm talking about the fact that you can reach us whenever you want." He replied, yawning. Sally left the bridge and headed to her room to get packed. Everyone else went their separate ways.
***
When Duo and Hilde got home, they had just gotten through the door when the phone rang. Hilde had already sat down on the couch so Duo grabbed the phone.
"Hello?" He called into it. "Oh hey Heero, I wasn't expecting you to call us." He added.
"I just wanted to let your wife know that I arrived here safely." Heero explained.
"Well it's good that someone does that around here. But of course you won't let us know where you are." Duo answered grinning at Hilde. She just shook her head and smiled to herself.
"You know I can't tell you anyway." Heero remarked.
"I'll let her know you called I don't think she's up for conversation right now. We just got home. Send us a postcard or something." Duo explained to Heero. They ended their conversation shortly after that.
Duo joined Hilde on the couch.
"That's kinda weird, him calling here to let us know he's okay but he won't tell us where he is." Duo mentioned sitting back.
"Oh I know where he is. But I'm not telling you." She said to him. He gave her a look that said: 'and why not'.
"You get captured too much and you might tell them where he is. Sally said they could go after him. I'm not letting anyone else know." She remarked. He looked disappointed.
"And that's not going to work on me either." She added. He stopped looking at her that way.
"It's not right the two of you having inside jokes." He sniffed crossing his arms infront of him.
She just shook her head and got up to go to the kitchen.
***
Heero finished unpacking his clothes and went out into one of the sitting rooms. Relena sat there waiting for him. He had definitely missed being with her but didn't say anything about it. He just took a seat across from her.
"So I guess this time I'm kinda protecting you, right Heero?" She asked shifting in her seat and taking a sip of her tea. He smiled slightly and nodded his response.
"Guess so. But it's nice getting to come here. I was getting tired of space." He admitted. Relena let out a soft sigh and just smiled back. It had definitely been too long since they had enjoyed each other's company. She wasn't sure how long he was going to stay but that didn't matter to her. She was just glad to have him there.
*The*End*
Writer's insight-So I hope everyone enjoyed it. This is where most writers would threaten you to review. But I don't need to say any of that. I just have to death glare.-_- If yah'd like check out my other stuff.^.~
"We don't have to worry about that now." She informed him.
"From what Sally told me about this new situation, it seems that someone hacked into our computers somehow." Heero explained.
"But we just put them all in." Hilde mentioned.
"I really don't know what happened too well. I'm sure she'll explain it better once we get there." He answered her shutting his eyes and leaning against the side of his seat.
Once they got there, Quatre practically knocked Duo over when he saw him.
"It's so great your okay. You wouldn't believe how boring things have been at the office without you visiting. You're never aloud to scare me like that again." He told him.
"You? What about me." Sally said coming into the control room where they were.
"I'm the one that had to try to find someone to take his place." She added.
"Oh come on, you should know that no one can kill a Gundam Pilot." Duo smirked. "Oh yeah you might be getting a really big bill from a hospital on L3." He added.
"We'll pay it but it'll come out of your paycheck." She replied. Duo dropped his shoulders and let out a sigh when she said that.
"Well she won that one." He admitted sitting down next to Hilde. She just laughed at both of them. Once he had taken his seat and looked back up at Sally she smiled and added.
"It's not coming out of your paycheck, don't worry. We'll take care of it.. I'm just glad you're alright." He straightened in his seat at that point..
"That's a relief, I don't get paid that much." He said almost in a whisper to Hilde. Sally heard him and turned back to the both of them as he was still leaning over.
"Now the condition you left Wing Zero in, that's another matter." She said seriously. He practically fell over. "Une wasn't too happy about that either." She also said. He had always been kind of afraid of Une so the thought of her not being happy with something and holding him responsible wasn't a good thing to hear. Trowa and Wufei came in and took their seats.
"I heard you missed me Wufei." Duo said as Wufei sat as far away from him as possible. He just smiled a little and answered.
"Yeah, cause there wasn't anyone to blame your mess on." Duo just sank in his seat.
"You asked for that yah know." Trowa leaned over and told him. He just nodded back. Sally got everyone's attention.
"Okay I know that you all have alot to catch up on but we have a serious problem here. Whoever hacked into our computer system was looking for instructions to rebuild Wing Zero. Also it would appear that the left over parts to it are missing." She informed them. No one really spoke up, they were all in shock that this matter wasn't caught until now.
"Are there even any plans for Wing Zero on the computer system? I didn't see any before." Hilde asked referring to when she had helped them a while back.
"The only plans on there are for the weapons and resources but still that's alot of information we didn't want out there for anyone to use." Sally explained.
"Yeah, but was it in one of the locked files or what?" Heero asked. Sally shook her head.
"No it got put into the wrong file. So it wasn't locked." She answered.
"Hey is it possible that someone changed the program around?" Trowa mentioned. "That's the best idea so far but when would anyone have the chance to get in here and do that without getting caught?" Wufei brought up. Duo just leaned back and put his hands behind his head.
"Did yah check the security tapes?" He suggested.
"Nothing seemed to have happened in here and this would be the room to get that information." Sally replied.
"But there are computer's in other rooms besides the control room though." Trowa reminded her. Duo sat up suddenly.
"Just a sec. What about that guy that whiped out the system the first time?" He brought up. Sally stood there and thought about it.
"We didn't bother checking those tapes now that I think about it. And there was a moment that no one was with him. That was when he messed up the system. He could have moved the file then, without us knowing about it." She realized. It made alot of sense to everyone else as well.
"So we'll have to track this guy down and find out what he knows." Heero decided.
"Okay I want you Heero, to see if you can trace this hacker and see what information was taken. Then I want Trowa and Quatre to take that information to devise a strategy. And then Heero and Duo can sneak in and get back the parts to Wing Zero." Sally decided. Duo slouched in his seat.
"I can't believe we're going through all of this for that suit." He muttered. Heero glanced over at him but didn't say anything. Sally, Wufei, and Hilde all left the room to go to the bridge in order to check the tapes from when Wufei was training the new guy. Heero stood up and went over to one of the desks nearby and started checking the files. It was taking him quite a long time since this was the new system and he didn't know it as well as the other one. Trowa decided to help him out on one of the other computers nearby.
"Did you check this section?" Trowa asked him. Heero glanced over at the other screen.
"Yeah, it was a dead end." He answered. "Quatre, there wasn't anything left of the cockpit when you got it back, correct?" Heero asked Quatre who was leaning over Trowa to see what he was doing. He looked over at Heero.
"Yeah pretty much. I mean all the important parts were unsalvageable." He explained. Heero stood up and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" Duo asked him.
"We don't have to worry about finding this guy. Even if he does rebuild it, he doesn't have any of the parts required to start up the Zero system so it'll be useless."
He explained heading out the door towards the bridge to let Sally know.
***
"But didn't they get the needed information about the Zero System?" Sally asked Heero after he had told her about what he had found.
"There weren't any plans of the system on the computer. There was only the plans for the actual suit but not the Zero system." He explained. Hilde came up behind Sally.
"We checked the tape and it seems that he knew what he was doing afterall. He had just enough time to steal the information." She said to Heero.
"Well it won't do him any good though without the Zero system instructions." Wufei said standing up and walking over to them. Heero nodded in response.
"And I'm the only one with that information so they can forget getting it from our computers." He added. Sally looked over at him a bit concerned.
"But that means that they might come after you, depending on how serious they are about completing Wing Zero." She remarked. Heero shrugged and headed for the door.
"I'll just have to go where they can't find me. I'm not the easiest person to find anyway." He pointed out and left to go to the shuttles. Trowa, Quatre, and Duo all entered the room as if they had overheard the entire thing.
"So he's leaving I take it." Duo said referring to Heero. Sally nodded and looked down.
"I still think we should track down this guy but considering he had no useful information, we can just drop the case for now. I need to go to New York anyway. There's a meeting there that I have to attend with Noin and Une. I'll leave Wufei in charge, the rest of you don't have to stay here either." She told them. They all gave her a look.
"Don't you think that we should stick around just in case?" Quatre asked her.
"If I need you, I know where to find you three." Wufei reminded them.
"Somehow that's not very reassuring." Duo said back.
"You don't have to worry about things here, I can handle it." Wufei answered back a little mad that Duo would question whether or not he was able to.
"I wasn't talking about that. I'm talking about the fact that you can reach us whenever you want." He replied, yawning. Sally left the bridge and headed to her room to get packed. Everyone else went their separate ways.
***
When Duo and Hilde got home, they had just gotten through the door when the phone rang. Hilde had already sat down on the couch so Duo grabbed the phone.
"Hello?" He called into it. "Oh hey Heero, I wasn't expecting you to call us." He added.
"I just wanted to let your wife know that I arrived here safely." Heero explained.
"Well it's good that someone does that around here. But of course you won't let us know where you are." Duo answered grinning at Hilde. She just shook her head and smiled to herself.
"You know I can't tell you anyway." Heero remarked.
"I'll let her know you called I don't think she's up for conversation right now. We just got home. Send us a postcard or something." Duo explained to Heero. They ended their conversation shortly after that.
Duo joined Hilde on the couch.
"That's kinda weird, him calling here to let us know he's okay but he won't tell us where he is." Duo mentioned sitting back.
"Oh I know where he is. But I'm not telling you." She said to him. He gave her a look that said: 'and why not'.
"You get captured too much and you might tell them where he is. Sally said they could go after him. I'm not letting anyone else know." She remarked. He looked disappointed.
"And that's not going to work on me either." She added. He stopped looking at her that way.
"It's not right the two of you having inside jokes." He sniffed crossing his arms infront of him.
She just shook her head and got up to go to the kitchen.
***
Heero finished unpacking his clothes and went out into one of the sitting rooms. Relena sat there waiting for him. He had definitely missed being with her but didn't say anything about it. He just took a seat across from her.
"So I guess this time I'm kinda protecting you, right Heero?" She asked shifting in her seat and taking a sip of her tea. He smiled slightly and nodded his response.
"Guess so. But it's nice getting to come here. I was getting tired of space." He admitted. Relena let out a soft sigh and just smiled back. It had definitely been too long since they had enjoyed each other's company. She wasn't sure how long he was going to stay but that didn't matter to her. She was just glad to have him there.
*The*End*
Writer's insight-So I hope everyone enjoyed it. This is where most writers would threaten you to review. But I don't need to say any of that. I just have to death glare.-_- If yah'd like check out my other stuff.^.~