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Chapter 6: Catching up

Previously:

A couple of minutes into the flight, Relena finally spoke up. " It's about time we both made time for this Hime."

"Yes, it is Mina."

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Cosmos landed and set Relena down.

"You've changed you know."

"I know and so have you Mina." Cosmos replied as she removed her helmet and sat on a log. "And it is not just the fact that you are decked out in pink, but that you made everyone else wear it too. Eughhhh!"

"Misery loves company. You've changed you know."

"I know," Serena started on a more serious note. "It is hard to do the things that I've been doing for as long as I've been doing them."

"Yet you haven't lost that look in your eye. That sparkle that all of us saw in you."

"Thanks Mina, sometimes you and that sparkle are all that keep me from giving up. Well that and the fact that if Ray found out, I would never hear the end of it." Mina giggled. "So what about you, fearless leader of the inner senshi? Chasing after 01 and advocating peace like no ones business from what I hear."

"Girls change."

"But friends stay the same," they chorused together.

After Serena extracted herself from her suit, she raised her eyebrow in challenge. "So Relena," she drawled. "Are you ready to dance?"

"As always." Mina replied as she caste off her cloak and pulled the Sword of Artemis from her subspace pocket. Serena reached into her pocket and grabbed her katana. Wrapping the sash around her waist and securing the sheath to it like she had done continuously over the eons. Easy in to ready stance, "Let's dance."

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"You know Mina."

"Sere, you really should keep calling me Relena."

"Sorry. you know when you guys hide my locket to protect me from chaos?

"Yeah, I remember."

"I was so mad at you guys because you took me out of the fight, endangering yourselves. I never really thanked you for it. By the time I was over it, you guys were gone. Stardust. Even after my wish on the Gisinshou, I wasn't sure if it came true or not. Thank you for always protecting me Venus."

"At first none of us were really sure why we followed you. You were klutzy, cried all the time and clingy. Amy kept sighing over you poor marks, Ray was always pissed at you and you couldn't cook for beans but we fallowed you anyway. You had earned our support and protection not just because you were then princess but because there was just something about you that made a person want to be a better person. You always came through for us and did it better than Amy estimated. Sometimes I wondered if the ditzy Serena was just a façade for the benefits of your family and friends, to fool the Negaverse. What I'm trying to say is that it was an honour to protect and die for you Hime."

"Relena, you don't have to call me that anymore. I absolved you from your duties to me when I wished for your immortal rebirth." "It doesn't matter, you will always be my princess, my queen."

The girls walked back to Serena's hardsuit. "You know Serena?" "What?"
"That first night you were here and you got shot."
"Yeah."
"Here's a complete copy of the hitman's file. I highlighted the important stuff. And Sere?"
"Uh Huh?"
"Can you make me a hardsuit?"
Serena raised a brow. "Peacecraft, Relena. PEACEcraft."

Relena just stared back at Sere with a resolve face.

Serena sighed. "I'll get my team on it. You really have changed you know."

"I am Relena Peacecraft, Princess of the Sanq Kingdom, one time Queen of the World and current Vice Foreign Minister to the colonies. Change comes with the job. I however delight in regressing to my teenage boy stalking self to ensure that the opposition continues to underestimate me." Serena smiled at that revelation.
"I hear that to stalk someone as effectively as you do that it helps to have feelings towards said prey."
"That's true. Ah.. Serena!!!"

"Sorry Relena couldn't pass it up. So you like Heero huh? Not just using him to mislead the enemies?"

"Yes, if you must know."

"Just making sure you knew. And if you need to get something off your chest from work, you know how to contact me, or hell just drop over. I know how it is. By the way, thanks for the files.
Opening of the folder, Serena briefly perused it. "What do you know about Red Star? And the energy source, I take it that it is me?"
"Red Star is an Upgraded version of OZ. It wants both Earth and the Colonies and not necessarily with all of the citizens inhabiting them."
"What do they have that Oz didn't?"
"They are using upgraded versions of the mobile suits. No mobile dolls, which is a relief. They are using something else as a type of unmanned drone. But my spies haven't been able to discover what they are, their fighting capabilities and other relevant stats."
"Okay that's something at least. How do they plane to use me?"

"Heero and the rest of the pilots are running that mission right now. We aren't even sure if they realize that the energy is in fact a human. Actually I think only Sally and I know that you are actually the source of energy.Serena?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you know what a boomer is?"

"Where does it say that?" Serena demanded as Relena pointed to the excerpt.

"Right here"

Serena looked to where the finger was pointing then read the paragraph that the point was found it. "Shit. We are leaving right now." Snapping the file shut, she shoved the file into her pocket and scrambled into her suit.

"Okay, why?"

"The Boomers."

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