Even the Strong Must Cry

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing…I do own the girls and the Tokinami and all of their affiliates. But…if you want to use any of them ::shrugs:: I don't mind. Just don't take their exact personalities please.

AN: Hello all! Sorry that I took so long to get this chapter up. I'm kinda not happy with this story any more. It is no where near what I thought it would be or how I thought it would turn out. Don't worry, I'm not going to abandon it, I couldn't do that to the few people that actually like this. I just have so many ideas for other fics, it's hard to get motivated enough write this. If any of you have suggestions don't hesitate to tell me. I already have how its going to end in mind, and certain scenes I do want to do. But other than that…whatever. I haven't the slightest idea yet.

(Well…I usually write the notes before a chapter, and I just finished this chapter. I had to add that I think my writer's block for this fic is finally lifting and I have a few notes typed out for where this is going. So hopefully the chapters will be coming out sooner! Oh if you have ideas, still feel free to share! I just might incorporate it into the fic!)

A special thanks to my new beta-reader- Aivame. She's found every mistake that I've made in this story and offered to beta this for me. How could I saw no? Plus she's already helped me lots with this fic. Oh read her fic!!! (shameless plug I know, but her fic is really good) Aivame is her pen name on ff.net as well.

Questions/Answers/Comments:

Tenshi no Yami: lol! Your reviews always make me laugh! Thanks! And no…Heero you can't destroy the gundams, they are on your side remember? lol! Hi Jason…muses…can't live with them…can't write without them. What can you do? Glad you liked last chapter!

Sailor Angel: lol, no sorry. No kitty is going to bite my He-chan…maybe Wufei if you begged enough? ^_^ lol, I think that "Sarah" can read this review Angel dear…I think she'll find some reason or another to kill you anyway. ::sigh:: That is the way of things though. Gomen nasi for taking so long to get this up! Please don't whack me!

Onimegami: I know…poor Duo. Thanks for the vote of confidence! Hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

Lady Tykeria: lol! I think Duo is too mad to be any help right now…::Duo off in some little corner gripping that it was Sarah and not Angela or Joanna to be a traitor:: Heh…heh…

Cloud: ::pries off leg and smirks:: Cause cliff-hangers are my specialty! Hehe! Gomen for making you wait so long…I hope that your legs didn't get too cramped staying in your little ball there. ^_^

LunaDragon: Suspense is my forte…gomen that it effects you…::evil smile:: As for Children of War…I say revise if you wish to revise. I have recently revised a few things, and I intend to revise this fic and fix all of the tiny details and such when it's finished. (main thing is converting it to html from text). So if you feel that Children of War should be revised then ::thumbs up:: go for it!

channie !: lol, thanks! Mitsu and Joanna will be coming back into the picture soon…don't worry!


Last Time (chapter eight):

"Just show us the spy." Heero said in his monotone. Howard nodded and pointed to a hallway.

"The holding cells are down here, follow me." The pilots all followed. When they reached the cell, they couldn't see much of anything because the lights were out. They were able however; to make out the outline of someone tied to a chair. Howard ordered a soldier to turn the lights on. The room was quickly illuminated with a phosphorescent glow. The pilots turned to the person, and all gasped out in shock.

"Sarah?" Duo whispered painfully.



Chapter Nine: Traitors and Betrayals


"Duo?" Sarah gasped looking up at her boyfriend.

"Sarah? How could you? I trusted you…and you do this." Duo hissed at her. "I don't even know what this is!" He crossed his arms over his chest and glared at the teen for all he was worth. Kaiya and Angela just stared at the girl in shock. Quatre looked beyond shocked, and Wufei looked pissed. If Trowa felt anything he hid it and Heero slanted his eyes and drew his gun. Sarah looked like the child who was caught sneaking the cookie before dinner.

"At least you have the decency to look guilty, onna." Wufei growled at the girl.

"Sarah? What's going on?" Quatre asked looking at her, the confusion evident on his face. The two girls were unable to speak. To think that someone so close to them could be a traitor like this…

"What about Joanna and Mitsu?" Kaiya asked quietly.

"NO!" Quatre shouted turning to her. "She is not involved in this at all!" Kaiya shook her head.

"We don't know that anymore."

"How do we know that we can trust you?" Trowa hissed almost inaudibly. Angela glared at the pilot,

"How do we know that we can trust you?" Heero's glare lowered another inch, if that was possible.

"We were pilots first." Heero said with a growl.

"They aren't involved." A meek voice said. All the occupants of the room turned to look at the spy they had seemed to forget was there. Sarah looked up at Duo with tears in her eyes. "I know that this is going to sound…unreasonable but you have to trust me!"

"Trust you! How the hell can I trust you now? I think you need to get a dictionary and look up the meaning of that word!" Duo screamed. Sarah glared at him.

"Fine. Forget it! You don't understand why I'm here or why I'm doing what I'm doing. Like I thought you ever could? How do you know that your side is the right one? Everything has two sides, I'm just on the flip side."

"Oh the flip side. That makes it all better!"

"Duo! I'm trying to…"

"To what? Explain why the great Tokinami should rule the world? And space? Hell the whole God damn universe?" Duo said the sarcasm quite evident in his voice. Sarah looked like she had just been slapped, hard.

"I have nothing else to say to you people."

"Oh, I think that you are wrong. Who sent you here and why?!" Heero said speaking to her for the first time. Sarah just narrowed her eyes and turned her head the best she could. Heero walked up to her and grabbed her chin in his hands. "You will answer me. If you value your life that is."

"Wait a minute." Quatre said walking up to the girl. None of them had noticed it before, but the young spy was sporting a nice shiner. "How did you get that?" he asked gently brushing his fingers over the painful looking bruise. Sarah winced and tried to get Heero to release her head.

"No where." She said quietly.

"Probably in a fight." Wufei said from the corner. He was leaning back on the wall, his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. Sarah didn't answer; her gazed stayed focused on the wall that no one was standing near.

"That doesn't matter. What does matter is how you got in here and why you are in here. Since you obviously work for the Tokinami." Angela said glaring at the girl. Sarah still refused to even look at the people who were interrogating her. Kaiya sighed and shook her head.

"Guys, this isn't getting us anywhere. Look, she's obviously not going to talk anytime soon. And she's obviously not going anywhere anytime soon. So let's just get back to training. We need to be as prepared as we can when we go up against the Tokinami. If she wants to twist the knife into Duo's back like that…then there's really nothing we can do."

"I agree." Wufei said, pushing himself from the wall. "If the onna wants to kill Maxwell, that's her business. I'm gone." And he was. Wufei left the cell and headed back upstairs to where their gundams were.

"I…I'm going after him." Angela said looking at Sarah one last time before following Wufei. Sarah closed her eyes tightly, allowing a few tears to fall down her flushed cheeks. She swallowed, trying to steady her raging emotions. Trowa looked at her for a second before following in the direction Wufei and the others had left. Quatre glanced at Sarah sadly before leaving to catch up with Trowa.

Kaiya stood where she was when she had spoken earlier, Heero had somehow ended up standing next to her. Duo sat on the cold, wet floor of the cell. His knees were bent, his elbows resting on his knees. Duo held his head in his hands, his fingers entangled into his hair. Kaiya sighed deeply before turning to look at Heero. Her gaze spoke in volumes, even if she herself did not voice it. Heero shook his head and put his weapon back from where he had drawn it.

"Come upstairs when you're finished here." Heero said emotionlessly, before turning and leaving the cell, Kaiya on his heels. Sarah opened her eyes and chanced a look at Duo. He looked so…destroyed.

"I'm sorry Duo. This has nothing to do with you." Sarah whispered quietly.

"Oh? What was your mission? Get close to the most unsuspecting fool that you could, seduce him and then when he least expected it, destroy him!" He thundered trying his hardest to stop the flow of tears that demanded be let loose. Sarah uttered a choked cry,

"That's not it! Please…I don't know what to say that will appease you." She finished in a whisper.

"I don't think there is anything that you could say." Duo said slowly climbing to his feet. "I can't even look at you without feeling this overwhelming sense of disgust rise in the pit of my stomach. I never want to see you again…ever. You stay away from my friends and me. Or you will regret it." He hissed before glaring at her one last time and stalking out of the cell. He heard the sounds of her cries echoing in the hollow room, and tried to ignore his contorting heart.


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When Heero and Kaiya walked into the hanger that held the gundams, they saw that the others were sitting on the floor. Wufei and Angela were sitting in the lotus position, Trowa sat with his arm resting on his bent knee, the other leg sprawled out, and Quatre was leaning back on his arms, his legs out straight. Trowa noticed them first.

"How is he?" At Trowa's almost silent question, the other pilots turned to look at the two newcomers.

"Not too good." Kaiya said moving to sit next to Angela. Heero sat next to her, completing their mini circle. "I've never seen anyone, much less him take something that hard." The large room was filled with silence after her comment.

"What are we going to do now?" Quatre asked, breaking the uneasy calm that had closed in on the hanger.

"I say we still train as planned, we can't afford any more surprises." Kaiya said shrugging her shoulders. Heero nodded.

"Let's get started." The pilots all stood and stretched; a yawn even escaped a few mouths.

"What about Duo?" Angela asked.

"What about me?" A voice said from behind the group. They all turned to face the topic of their discussion who was looking rather unhappy.

"Are you okay to train?" Quatre asked. Duo blinked at him.

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Well…umm you're…she, and well." Angela started to explain. Duo shook his head.

"Guys, I'm a gundam pilot too. I think I can handle myself. All this 'incident' does is steady my resolve to kick the Tokinami off the face of the planet and out of our universe." The comment itself was one that was expected of any soldier, however, it was the way that he had said it, and the look in his eyes that caused the other pilots to glance at him with worried looks on their faces.

"Okay now…shall we continue where we left off then?" Kaiya said her eyebrows raised at the young pilot. Duo nodded.

"Still girls verses boys?" he asked. He received nods in the affirmative from all of the pilots. "Very well then, let's go." He said placing his helmet on his head and walking over to Deathscythe. The other pilots nodded and their helmets were soon on their heads as well. Wufei paused a moment longer, starring after Duo's retreating form quizzically before he too placed his helmet on his head and followed the others.

"01 locking in." Heero's monotone voice rang through the system headphones.

"02 locking in." Duo said, his words limited to only the necessary commands, no other words were heard from the usually chipper pilot.

"03 locking in." came the quiet response from the gundam Heavy Arms.

"04 locking in…" the words trailed from Quatre's gundam as though he wanted to say more, yet was not sure what he should or shouldn't say.

"05 locking in." Was the curt reply from Shenlong's master and pilot.

"06 locking in." the quiet voice chilling a certain Prussian eyed pilot's bones.

"07 locking in, let's kick some ass!" Angela said quite perkily considering what had just occurred in the cell not too long ago.

"Figures an onna would say something so weak."

"Wufei, after Kaiya and I finish kicking your virtual ass to the ground, I would like to have a few words with you."

"Guys…" Came the pleading voice of one Quatre Winner. "Let's not start. Save it for the real enemies." Duo snorted and was about to respond when Heero's icy voice broke the chatter.

"The mission starts now. Standard operation 12, extract and retreat. Pilots 06 and 07, sneak into base Alpha, download the file "Test" and set a perimeter of explosives. Then return to home base to conclude the mission."

"Sounds easy enough." Angela said.

"You have to get through us first onna." Wufei's biting voice shot back.

"Mission accepted. Game activated." Kaiya said pressing the big green button on her visor. A bright flash of light and a soft whirring sound were all that indicated that the simulation had begun. Once the pilot's had re-opened their eyes and adjusted to the simulations surroundings, the mission began. Kaiya and Angela were standing on what was supposed to be grass, their giant gundams towering behind them.

"How is this going to work?" Angela asked her partner. Kaiya pressed a button on her watch and a virtual map materialized a mini screen from the watch face. Two blinking lights symbolized their current location. "Wow, that thing is awesome."

"Thank you, I just finished creating it. Of course as of right now, it will only work in a virtual simulation but I soon hope to remedy that. Anyway, base Alpha is located about 10 clicks south of our current location. According to my scanner, the pilots are separating now and appear to be waiting to ambush us. Now, they don't know where we'll be coming from and I plan to use this to our advantage.

"It appears that 01 is left alone as the last defense to the base. I assume that to be 02 guarding from the south, 04 has the west, 03 the east and 05 the north. Now, I'm going to sneak into the base and download the information, that is if you don't mind acting as a distraction."

"No, I don't mind at all. I say that we avoid south if at all possible…"

"I don't know about that. I mean we have to think who's going to be trying to figure out our plan. Heero, perhaps Trowa or Quatre, but Duo is too depressed at the moment and Wufei is letting his ego get in the way. We especially cannot form a pattern at all. Heero would figure that out for sure. I assume that the zero system is an option but I'm going to try without it, as I'm sure Quatre will. Heero is anyone's guess. He's going to be the real obstacle."

"Okay, we need to act fast. Does your gundam have stealth mode or anything of the like."

"Sort of, I can use some of my power from the weapons to 'hide' my gundam from radar for a short period of time, however it's still visible and uses too much energy, you?"

"Yea, I sort of neglected to mention it to the other pilots." Angela said with a smile. Kaiya smiled and shook her head.

"Okay, now just attack at random patterns for 30 standard minutes, wear them down as much as you can. Always keep our channel open so you can tell the other where you are headed next. I'm going to start by coming in from the west."

"I'll take east then. Let Duo and Wufei sweat it out at first. I'm going to be operating in continual stealth mode, you should at least use it to get away from our current location."

"Hai, I planned on using it for about 2 clicks before switching it off, and 'appearing' like a ghost, confuse him of my techniques and abilities before arriving there. I'll call you periodically but once I reach the base I will terminate contact until I have left the base. Then just high tail it back to home base and we have won the prize." Kaiya finished with a grin. Angela nodded and the two girls suited up and climbed into their gundams.

Angela's gundam advanced towards Trowa's gundam, hers still in stealth mode. Trowa's gundam was facing away from Angela's quickly approaching gundam. Silence crept up to her prey, not even her booster engines making a sound. However, HeavyArms turned quickly and blocked the thermal sword with one of his own.

"How did you know?!" Angela screamed to the pilot in front of her.

"How could I not with you making all that noise?" Trowa answered her before severing the link and attacking her gundam head on. They clashed, blow for blow, hit for hit, neither quite having the advantage. Both pilots were obviously very skilled. Angela opened a link to Kaiya's gundam to see how her friend was doing.

"06 this is 07 how do ye fair?" She asked with a hint of a smile on her face. Kaiya returned the smile, using one of her arms to wipe the sweat off her face.

"Rather well, 07. 04 is better than anticipated. I love the challenge."

"03 isn't bad himself. Ready to switch?" Angela asked. Kaiya nodded and checked her wrist.

"01, 02, and 05 have remained inactive. Either they haven't noticed our battles, which I doubt or they've chosen to linger where they are. I'm going to hit the north, you take the west."

"We've missed 05…" Angela said her eyebrows arched. Kaiya smirked.

"Yes, can't form a pattern now can we?" Angela shook her head,

"Girl, you are too much. Well, I'm going to be going now…" and with that the link was cut from visual to voice only. The entire conversation was held whilst the girls were fighting in their respective battles. Angela smirked a very evil little smile before whipping open her right hand. Ice shot from the hidden gun, freezing the HeavyArms pilot in his spot. She smiled again and took off towards her next target.

This went on for almost thirty minutes before Kaiya re-opened the link to Angela.

"Hey, it's about time to begin. I'm going to get closer to the base and then hop out."

"Okay…?" Angela asked. Kaiya laughed.

"My gundam has an auto-pilot mode that reacts to motion. I'll just send it to one of the locations and have it attack the pilot. As long as they fight back so will the gundam."

"Cool!" Angela said smiling. Kaiya nodded.

"Just avoid the south. I'll send my gundam there it will be easier."

"Roger that. 07 out."

Kaiya re-activated her "stealth" mode and moved towards Heero's location. When she was about two clicks away from the base she slowed her gundam down enough to hop out, after programming it to stay its course and turn "stealth" mode off after two more clicks. Once she jumped out she began the few story fall and started to tuck for her summersault.

She landed on her feet much like a cat and broke into a run towards the base. When she was a few feet away from said base, she hide behind a large oak tree. Peering around the tree she spotted Heero's gundam standing as guard to the entrance of the base. Kaiya smirked to herself.

"If he thinks that's the only way to get in…" She ran along the tree line until she was facing the west side of the base. She searched the side for any way that she could get in. There were a few windows but they were at least four stories up. She scanned down and barely made out the shape of a door. Squatting down in the brush, she activated her map-watch and called up the map of the base.

Checking to make sure that what she thought was a door was actually a door, she then had the map of the inside blown up. Mentally planning her main path and a few back up routes she turned her watch off and again peered over the leaves. Checking to make sure that it was still clear in all directions she began to serpentine her way to the base entrance.

Once she reached the door she pressed herself against the frame and checked both ways before attempting to hack into the door lock. Once she was satisfied that there was no one around she began the tedious task of taking apart the wires and re-positioning them in the way that allowed her entry into the immense structure.

Entering the building she slowly made her way along the mental path that she had memorized and traveled down the long, dark corridors. Taking the second left, first right and finally the third left she arrived at the heart of the base, the command center. Smirking at how easy this was, she proceeded to the main computer and began the daunting task of hacking, decoding, searching and copying. Once the disk was complete and her tracks covered, she headed out of the room, ready to set the explosives and leave.

The sound of a safety un-locking however stopped her dead in her tracks. She felt the cold steel of a gun pressed against the back of her skull. Freezing in fear, she raised her hands above her head, the universal sign of surrender.

"The bag." Came the curt voice of the owner of the gun. She rolled her eyes and slowly lowered the bag of explosives to the ground and slid it away from her. The person put the gun in the waist of their pants and reached for Kaiya's wrists. Taking them behind her back, he missed the smirk on her face. Whipping her right foot around in a sweeping motion, Kaiya knocked the soldier off his feet. Heero still had a look of shock on his face that she would try a move such as that.

Kaiya leaned her knee into his chest, pressing down while her hand was wrapped around his throat. She smirked at him, and mentally chuckled at his current position. The glare that he was sending her would have frozen even the most seasoned soldier in his tracks. However, it only served to widen her smirk.

"Why, hello there. Didn't expect to see you." The only answer was a growl, and a kick flip. She soon found herself in much the same position as she had, had him. It was his turn to smirk.

"Ditto." Kaiya's face mirrored his, and she twisted her body in such a way that Heero swore that she had no spine. In his current state of distraction she pushed him off her and stood in her ready stance. Heero quickly righted himself and lowered into his stance as well.

"You're going down…" Kaiya said launching herself at the teen. Heero dodged her first blow and spun to counter her right jab. However, she hit him with a left jab, jarring a few of his teeth. He growled and punched her in the stomach. Hissing in anger, she shoved him away from her and kicked the back of his knees causing him to fall. Trying to stop himself from hitting his knees, he tried to grab something near. Unfortunately, in his frantic attempt not to collapse, Kaiya saw an opportunity.

Chopping him swiftly on the back of his neck, he continued this fall, his eyes rolling back in his head and his body landing unceremoniously on the cold, hard floor. Shaking her head, she looked at the fallen teen one last time before moving her way to the first bomb drop zone. Running around her previously planned route; she set the explosives up in just the right locations so that the damage that would be inflicted would be the maximum. Making sure that her remote detonator was there; she headed towards the exit.

Once she was about a half mile away from the base, she smirked and hit the big red button that all button pushers crave. Inside the base, a blinking red light soon stopped it's constant blinking and beeped. As soon as it beeped for three seconds, the explosives went off, setting off a chain reaction. The base was soon nothing more than smoldering ashes in less than ten minutes. Kaiya smirked to herself again, and pressed a button on her wrist watch.

Nearly twenty minutes later her Gundam was hovering above her. Pressing another button on her watch the Gundam lowered enough that she could climb onto the leg and into the cockpit. Strapping herself in she contacted Angela.

"Girl was that you?" Angela asked as soon as Kaiya opened the link. Kaiya smiled at her comrade,

"You betcha Ruff Rider. Now let's high tail it out of here and show these boys not to mess with us!"

"Definitely!" Kaiya smirked at her enthusiasm.

"Now hurry and get there before they figure out what we did and try to formulate a plan." Angela saluted her and cut the link. Angela had been fighting Wufei before she got the call from Kaiya telling her to retreat. Wufei was fighting rather sloppily considering his normal almost flawless style. During one of their earlier skirmishes, Angela had managed to freeze his gundam long enough for her to get away. Under Heero's orders he had to hold his position so he was forced to allow her to leave unabated.

His ego was in worse condition than his gundam, although if it were in real life, his mecha would definitely be spending about a full work day in the shop. He was not about to let her leave again…however she was not about to let him detain her victory either. So using the dirty tactic of "whatever worked once will work again…" she froze his gundam mid-strike and high-tailed it back to base. Of course…with all of the freezing she was doing, her stealth mode wasn't as strong, and she was forced to lower the shields or face a shut down. Angela shrugged as she hit the button for her hyper mode. Thus was the price of victory. Using the last of her energy, she propelled herself back to the base in record time.

When she arrived, Kaiya was standing on the shoulder of her gundam waiting for her. Kaiya waved once she saw her friend approaching. With the boys right on her tail, Angela made it just passed the "finish line" as both Wufei and Duo shot her gundam out of the sky. Her gundam fell to the ground, with a resounding boom and Kaiya winced. Game or no, any serious injury caused in the game, reflected the mind of the user for a good two hours or more. With an injury like that, Kaiya did not envy the headache Angela would have once outside of the simulation.

Climbing down from her gundam, she raced to Angela's gundam to make sure she was still "alive" and saw that the other's were doing the same. Unfortunately, her gundam landed belly down, so extraction would be difficult. Nodding to Trowa who was closest, she proceeded to walk over to the gundam. Trowa, getting the silent request, walked back to his gundam and climbed back into the cockpit.

"07, this is 03 do you read? 07 this is 03 do you read?" Trowa spoke into his com-link. There was no answer from the downed pilot. Trowa was just leaving the cockpit to tell the others that there was no word when his com-link began to blink. There was a soft steady pulsing noise, indicating that he had an incoming call. "03 here…"

"Trowa? Urgh…it's Angela. Remind me not to piss Wufei and Duo off again." She grumbled rubbing her head. "It's a damn good thing that this is only a simulation. Other wise I'd be aching for weeks!"

"Your gundam is face down at the moment. Can you right it?" Trowa asked her. Angela appeared to be looking around at her controls and other computer readings. Finally, after a few minutes she nodded.

"I think so…but you may want to tell the others to back off." She answered. Trowa nodded.

"Wait for my signal then." Getting up out the chair, he made his way to the entrance to the giant mecha and used the cable to slide to the ground. Walking over to the group he was shocked to find Kaiya holding Wufei up by the scruff of his shirt. He raised one eyebrow curiously before walking over to stand by Quatre. When Quatre noticed the new presence, he turned to his friend to explain.

"Wufei mentioned something about doing it on purpose and knowing that it was excessive and Kaiya exploded. They have been fighting for a few minutes now, although it looks as if Kaiya has had the upper hand the entire fight. She is fighting on rage alone…I'd hate to be Wufei right now." Quatre surmised. Trowa chuckled a bit, nodding in agreement, before moving to stop the "bloodshed"

"I got a hold of her." He said, knowing that it would stop them, well Kaiya at least. He was right, she dropped Wufei like a bad habit and rushed over to his side.

"Well? How is she? Does her gundam still function? Can she get herself out?" She rambled on oblivious to the stares she was receiving from the other pilots. Trowa blinked several times before answering the ranting pilots questions.

"She's alive, her gundam is still working as far as she can tell, and I came down to tell everyone to back up so that she can use her thrusters to get herself righted." Trowa said with a sweatdrop forming on his head. Kaiya blushed.

"Oh...heh. Okay then." She said embarrassed at her outburst. She walked quickly over to her gundam and climbed in the cockpit. Figure it the safest place to be when Angela righted herself. The other pilots following her example also moved to their gundams. Once they were all inside Trowa gave Angela the signal to begin.

"You do know that this is a simulation right?" Quatre asked Kaiya through the com-link. "She would have been fine if you had just voided the game." Kaiya blushed, but shook her head anyway.

"No…not really. You see, grandfather and I created a new VR system that is almost life like. I'm sure you were wondering why you guys felt pain and fatigue. Well we figured that what good is a simulation if you don't get the real experience? So, you do feel anything and everything that happens and any major injury carries over into the real world in the form of anything from soreness to fatigue, even coma's if one is killed in the simulation." Kaiya explained.

"But that's not the VR simulation that we have here." Heero growled at her. Kaiya sweatdropped.

"Heh…heh…well you see. I kind of sort of switched the software earlier this week…" Kaiya said sheepishly.

"And you didn't tell anyone? Someone could have gotten seriously hurt or killed!" Quatre said flabbergasted.

"You are not worthy to wear the name 06." Wufei snarled at her. Kaiya recoiled as if she had been hit with a two by four.

"You really think that I would purposely endanger my own comrades lives?" The look on the other pilots faces said it all. Angela who had been listening the whole time and was finally righted decided to add her two cents.

"You didn't even tell me…"

"Angela? Are you okay?" Kaiya asked changing the subject not so discreetly.

"Yea…no thanks to you. I thought that this killer headache and broken arm would go away when the simulation ended. Now you're telling me that I get to suffer with it for an un-known amount of time during which we may have to go into an actual battle?" Kaiya closed her eyes and clenched her teeth.

"No…" she ground out.

"Then what are you saying?" Duo interrupted. Everyone looked at him with shock that he had entered in the conversation, which was more of an attack on Kaiya than anything else.

"Look…let's talk about this out there." Kaiya said pressing the button on her helmet that would end the simulation. The other pilots shook their heads and followed suit.

"How could you do that?" Angela shouted at her friend once all pilots were out of simulation mode.

"I was under grandfather's orders not to tell you! This was a test run to see how the gundam pilots held up. I was the only pilot they could have tested it on, and since I helped design the program the effects would have been lost on me!" Kaiya cried in her own defense. Heero snorted.

"And the lives of your comrades meant nothing right?" Heero said softly. He said it with such a calm voice that Kaiya was worried. No one is that calm and collected when in an argument…it was just time before he exploded.

"No…the doctors wanted me to use the real version. However, I re-coded it to only cause slight injuries and headaches." She whispered quietly, her head bowed in both shame and apology.

"That's not the point." Angela snapped. Kaiya looked up at her and narrowed her eyes into small slits.

"What then is the point?" she hissed at her friend. Angela glared right back at her.

"The point is that you betrayed our trust for a simple experiment. I'm not sure that we can trust you on the battle field. What guarantee do we have that you will not exchange our lives for a simple test!" Angela shouted back, however all of the screaming was doing nothing for her headache save making it worse. After that little tirade, she was forced to fall to her knees or the pain in her head would have caused her to pass out. And she wasn't sure if she didn't want the welcoming darkness to envelop her.

Wufei knelt down next to her, asking her with his eyes if she was all right. Receiving a nod from her, Wufei nodded as well and stood.

"I'm taking her to the room to sleep. If anyone of you makes any exceptionally loud amount of noise I will personally kill whoever it is slowly and very painfully." That said, he helped Angela stand and let her lean on him as he led her from the room and down the hallway hidden by the secret door. The others looked after their retreating forms with different emotions playing on their faces.

"Well, that certainly was odd." Quatre commented before shrugging and turning to Kaiya. "Look, I forgive you. I understand that it was not your choice to betray us." He gave Kaiya a weak smile before turning and following Wufei to the rooms to get some rest. Trowa just looked at her disapprovingly before he too left the room.

"I hope that you're happy." Duo spoke with unusual calmness. "I trusted you. You were my last hope in the female species after earlier. I guess I was wrong about believing in women then." He whispered with deadly accuracy. His target being her heart. Kaiya clenched her teeth together in effort to stop herself from saying what she desperately wanted to say. Once he left she turned to Heero.

"What? No snide remarks? No cutting insults? Don't you want to add your own pinch of salt?" she hissed, the hurt obvious in her voice. Heero just shook his head and left the room. Unable to take the pressure of everything that had happened, she ran from the room not even caring of her destination. After a few minutes her run became the slow dejected walk of one who has her heart broken. Refusing to cry, even with all that had happened she simply heaved a huge sigh of sorrow and kept up with her almost funeral like march. Not paying attention to where she was walking, she was surprised when a voice called out to her.

"Come to interrogate me already?" a horse voice whispered. Jerking up she looked around, seemingly just realizing that she had wondered into the holding area. "Why so sad? You draw the short end of the stick? But I thought that there would be volunteers just waiting to rip a piece out of me."

"I'm not here to talk to you, so shut up already." Kaiya said barely above a whisper. Sarah gasped and walked up to the bars.

"What happened? Was there a battle? Is everyone okay?" she asked each question in rapid succession of each other. Kaiya looked up and saw the concern in her eyes; her hands were gripping the bars as if they were all that was keeping her from falling into a hellish pit. Kaiya shook her head,

"No, Duo's fine. I don't know about his mental condition right now though, but there was no battle." Kaiya couldn't help but smiling when she said it. Through it all, Sarah remained loyal to her lover. Oh if only life were as easy as that. If only love could solve every problem in the world.

"Oh." Sarah said, sitting down on the floor next the bars. Kaiya sat down with her back against the wall next to Sarah's cell; she turned her head to the left and looked at the girl in the chamber. Sarah sat with her knees bent, her head resting on her bent knees, tears leaking out of her eyes.

"I thought you were tied up when we left?" Kaiya asked, her eyes giving away her confusion. Sarah smiled a wry smile.

"I was."

"I don't want to know." Kaiya said with a laugh. Sarah couldn't help but unleash one of her own. Although anyone could tell that it was more of a release for her tears than her joy.

"So why are you down here then?" Sarah asked after a few minutes of silence. Kaiya shrugged, although she was sure that Sarah probably couldn't have made out the movement in the dark, dank cell.

"I have no idea. I…I just needed to get away from everyone for a while and I just let my feet do the walking. I ended up here. Where I belong…" she whispered the last part bitterly but Sarah heard her.

"Now why would you belong in here? I know why I do. I am a traitor to the one I love and my friends. I don't deserve to live…" she said choking on her tears. Kaiya sighed and patted the girl's head through the cell bars.

"You don't deserve to die. They deserve to die for treating you that way. For not letting you explain. Gomen for earlier."

"What made you change your mind about me?" Sarah asked in an amazed voice.

"Let's just say I got a taste of my own medicine a little while ago. Hey, I bet you're starved. Why don't I go and see what I can scrape up for you in the kitchen." She said changing the subject. Sarah recognized it as such and let it go.

"That would be great! Thanks." Kaiya nodded and went to stand to bring the girl her dinner. However, Sarah's hand held fast to her wrist. "I don't mean just for the food." Kaiya looked down at her and nodded.

"I know." She said with a smile. Sarah smiled a weak smile of her own before letting her arm go and leaning her head back against the wall. She closed her eyes and a wider smile broke out on her smudged face.

Kaiya was feeling a bit better after talking to Sarah.

"I guess the old adage about you don't know how good you have it till you see someone else is true." She whispered aloud as she made her way up the stairs. She was so preoccupied in her thoughts that she didn't notice the hand snake out and grab her by her upper arm. "What the fu…" she started but a hand stopped her from continuing any further.

Her eyes wide with fright, she tried to turn her head to see who her attacker was, but it was to no avail. Whoever held her, held her steadfast and she was not moving anytime soon. Before she could even blink she was turned around and her attackers lips descended on her own with an almost brutal force. The last thing she remembered before everything went black were a pair of deep blue eyes staring back into her own.


TBC!

AN: I hope you enjoyed this long awaited chapter! Gomen for making you all wait so long! So how did you like it? Please do not hesitate to read and review!!! So…any guesses as to whom the mysterious attacker/kisser is? I give you three guesses and I bet you still won't get it right! ^_^