Chapter Four

"Captain, we have new information from our spy at the base." A man in a crimson uniform stated silkily.

"Well what is it?" The only other person in the room, a middle aged man, demanded.

The younger man twitched slightly at the harsh voice, but made no other visible reaction. "It seems that the Preventers have recently began sending different teams on recon missions to many of our factories and bases, sir. As it stands sir, one of our factories is currently under observation. Factory ten I believe, it has been sent into silent mode and will not resume construction until the suspicion over it has been lifted."

"What other factories have been found?"

"Factories one, seven, fifteen and seventeen sir."

"And what of these recon teams? Do we know anything about them?"

"The two teams out right now consist of Lieutenant Colonel Sally Po, Sergeant Chang Wufei, Sergeant Trowa Barton and Corporal Senshi Heiwa. Po is a former Alliance Military doctor, and as you know, one of the creators of the Preventers. Unfortunately there is no information on Chang..."

"No information!?"

"No sir, there is also no information on Barton, Duo Maxwell or Heero Yuy."

"Have our mole dig deeper into their pasts."

"Of course sir. Heiwa is a former police officer, she has just recently joined the Preventers, accompanying Lieutenant Chi Midori, former Alliance Military, and Sergeant Cleo Nekoheron who joined at the same time."

"I want upfront information on anymore of the investigations, and information on anyone who has joined the Preventers in the last six months."

"Yes Captain." The young man saluted, and left the room.

"It is only a matter of time." The man whispered to the empty room. "Only a matter of time until my dreams are reality."

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When Chi woke up from the nap the painkillers had forced her into, the room was quiet, save for the ticking of the antique clock that sat on Ally's nightstand.

Looking groggily over at the clock, Chi flopped back down. 1900 hours, no wonder the room was so dark.

Groaning Chi hauled herself up and grabbed her boots. "Stupid bums." She muttered. "Going to go get food without me." Getting to her feet, she padded slowly to the end of her bed and pulled out a clean shirt from her footlocker before heading down to the mess.

Chi entered the mess and headed over to where she usually sat, the group was already there along with Relena and Zechs.

"Sleepy." Chi muttered, dropping into the seat next to Duo and put her head on his shoulder.

"It's about time you got up snoring beauty." Duo teased, pulling her ponytail softly. "You had us worried."

"Yeah, we almost had to restrain Sen when she found out." Hilde added.

"Sen's here? Where?" Chi asked, looking around sleepily.

"Right here silly." Senshi said from across the table from the other woman.

"Hey Sen-Chan." Chi mumbled. "Missed you." She yawned, putting her head on the table.

"Hey, hey." Duo said giving her a shake. "No more sleeping girly."

"Duoooooo." Chi whined. "Leave me alone!"

"Nope, time to wake up. Talk to Sen, do anything, but no more sleep related activities."

"Meanie." Chi muttered.

"Suck it up." Duo grinned.

Chi made a face at him and turned her attention to Senshi. "When did you get in?" She asked through a yawn, fighting the urge to drop her head back onto the table and fall asleep.

"About half an hour ago. It was just a simple recon mission, nothing too complicated."

"Except for dearest Senshi there, being quiet. Wufei must have told her to 'shut her infernal trap' about, oh what was it Trowa, a hundred times?" Sally teased.

"Pretty close." Trowa agreed with a small smile. "It was refreshing."

"It was annoying." Wufei groused.

"She's better now than she used to be." Chi informed them. "At least she was just talking and not singing... or saying the times tables in her sleep."

"Shut up Chi." Senshi glared.

"It's true and you know it."

"Okay this I must hear. Spill." Kirou demanded.

"Nothing to it really, just that Senshi recites the times tables in her sleep. And that will never cease to amuse me."

"Wow, lover of math are we Sen?" Ally giggled.

"No. I hate the stuff." Senshi pouted. "But it was being drilled into my head so hard that that was all I thought about." There were stifled snickers around the table at her declaration. "Oh shut up."

"Someone close the fecking blinds." Chi whined when she woke up the next morning to bright autumn sunlight shining into her eyes. "Please?" She added hopefully when no one answered her plea.

Heaving a sigh when no one answered her after a minute, she hauled herself out of bed and looked around the room, spotting Meiko sitting on her own bed on the other side of the room. "Meiko..." She said after a moment. "Why didn't you close the blinds?"

"Can't talk, working on a speech." Was the only thing she muttered without even looking up from her laptop.

Chi just looked at her for a moment before shaking her head and making her way into the bathroom.

"WE! Need to do something tonight." Chi declared when she stormed into the common area in the female barracks half an hour later. "It is a Saturday and we are young."

"Chi is missing the clubbing scene." Senshi snickered.

"No, Chi is missing the sexy guys that come along with the clubbing scene." Chi stated, dropping down on the couch next to her best friend, and looking around at the others. "You guys in?"

"I know a pretty good one in Soho." Kirou spoke up from her spot on the floor. "Good patrons, you don't have to worry about the normal shit that you would find at clubs."

"Says the former Underground Raver." Tenshi muttered.

"Yeah and even then I wasn't into the shit. I like my job thanks."

"Moving on!" Chi yelled, drawing glares from the other assorted women in the room. Chi just glared back. "I'm going to take that as you being up for it Otama?" Chi asked.

"Count me in Chika." Kirou agreed, giving her a thumbs up.

"Good-o. Tenshi, Sen?"

"We're in." Senshi agreed.

"Yeah, I need to get laid." Tenshi agreed.

Chi just rolled her eyes. "Cleo, you in?" She asked, spotting the other woman in the corner of the room, so far back in the shadows that it was almost like she was trying to merge herself with them.

"I don't think so."

"PLEASE!!!" The other four chorused loudly earning even more glares from the other women.

"Fine! FINE! Just shut the hell up."

Chi grinned at them. "Be ready at eight, I must go search out other people to drag with us."

"Make sure you get Duo and Hilde. It's not a party without them." Kirou called at her retreating back.

"We have victory!" Chi exclaimed, bouncing into her room.

"Who all did you get?" Ally asked sitting up. "You only had Tenshi, Kirou and Senshi when you got me."

"All the girls except the Lieutenant General, she's doing something with Marimaya tonight. Heero and I had a glaring contest that lasted about an hour until Relena told him he was coming to protect her, Duo was no problem, Trowa apparently likes the night life, go figure. Quatre I sweet talked into it, Wufei is being dragged physically by Sally and Zechs said he would come as long as I promised not to replace his message announcer thing on his e-mail with me singing." She stated proudly.

"Wow, you're good." Meiko admired.

"No, she's just annoying." Cleo commented. Chi just flipped her the bird.

"I am a fucking goddess. Admit it Cleo."

"No."

"Admit it."

"No!"

"Admit it or I'll tell all the guys that you were having an erotic dream last night."

"I was not!"

"Oh so you don't sound like this when you're pre-orgasmic." Chi asked, and proceeded to do a shockingly accurate recreation of Cleo the previous night.

Cleo felt her face go red. "You're a goddess Chi Midori."

"THANK YOU!"

"She worries me." Ally whispered to Senshi.

"I fucking love her." Senshi managed between bouts of laughter.

TBC