Before I begin this chapter I would just like to apologise because sadly enough the two international thieves that were going to star in this chapter would not appear. Why? Because the chapter would become too long! But don't worry they will appear later and will most likely become the first anime character cameos (see author's notes). Anyway on with the story!

Disclaimer: I wish I own CCS or Charlie's Angels but sadly I do not (sigh).

Syaoran's Angels

Chapter 4: Midnight Raiders

Location: Los Angeles a.k.a. City of Angels, America

Sakura flipped over the last cable and grinned before taking off her blindfold.

"Alright! I did it!" she crowed triumphantly.

"Finally." Meiling grumbled. Sakura glared at her and stuck her blindfold back on and without much trouble made it back to her.

"Done." Sakura confirmed yanking off her blindfold and grinning at Meiling, "All I have to worry about is the glass case surrounding the artefact."

"I figured out a way to get past that," Tomoyo walked down the stairs, "Here I'll show you."

Sakura nodded and ran up the stairs as Meiling slowly followed.

The speaker box flickered to life as the girls quietened down and waited.

"Good morning Angels," Syaoran greeted them.

"Good morning Syaoran!"

"I've dug around and came out with the identity of your assassin," Syaoran told them, "Look at the video screen."

The girls looked to their left as the decorated wooden panels on the way slid down smoothly into the wall to reveal a large blank screen.

A picture appeared onto the screen. Meiling shuddered seeing the blank-eyed woman staring back at them.

"That is Rika Sasaki. She's a relatively new assassin but she's one of the best," Syaoran began, "She is a very skilled fighter however she uses her clawed gloves to kill her quarry as well as using weapons of various sorts."

"Why has she got those creepy eyes?" Sakura asked staring at the screen.

"From what I gather, Rika as a child had a split-personality. There is Rita, who is the 'normal' one and Rika the mindless conscienceless killer. Unfortunately Rita is the weaker personality and Rika dominates. Rita/Rika was admitted into a mental ward nine years ago but the trauma of their stay caused Rita's personality to all but disappear and Rika took control. She then broke out of the ward and disappeared for four years before remerging as an assassin."

The Angels blinked at the speaker box not understanding a word of it. Even Tomoyo only understood half of what Syaoran said.

"It doesn't matter," Syaoran told them," Are you ready?"

The question was directed towards Sakura.

"Of course," Sakura grinned, "I'm confident I can get through all of the detectors and steal the artefact without triggering the alarms."

"Good. So everything is on schedule?"

"Yes," Tomoyo replied, "We leave this afternoon and we touch down in Paris tomorrow. We have one day to check out the museum and then we do it."

"Very good. Good luck Angels."

"No worries," Meiling told the box with a grin.

"I didn't think I have to worry. Goodbye Angels."

"Goodbye Syaoran."

The girls got up and went to pack.

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Location: Paris, France

The flight attendant smiled at them and motioned for them to go.

"Merci, monsieur," Sakura said flashing him a grin as they walked through customs.

"Flirt," Meiling muttered.

Sakura merely grinned at her as they went to pick up their bags.

"Okay, this is the plan," Tomoyo told them getting down to business, "We check in at the hotel, remember I'm Madison Avalon, Meiling you're Victoria Avalon and Sakura is Cherry Avalon and we're cousins on holiday. In the afternoon we're going to the National Museum of Paris and tonight we're carrying out the raid. Any questions?"

Meiling and Sakura shook their heads.

"Good," Tomoyo smiled at them, "For now let's have some fun!"

Sakura and Meiling exchanged devilish grins as they quickened their pace.

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Meiling blinked as tears flowed into her eyes. She rubbed the back of her hands against her eyes and growled in frustration.

"Why do we have to do this?" she muttered to Tomoyo wondering why on earth she had agreed to wear contact lenses.

"It disguises us," Tomoyo whispered back.

Meiling's ruby eyes were hidden beneath a pair of contact lenses and her coal-black hair was covered from view by a baseball cap. Tomoyo was wearing a pair of sunglasses and a cream-coloured hat covered her long smoky-grey hair.

Sakura who was talking to the hotel clerk was wearing a blonde wig and blue contact lenses. Meiling envied the way all the men walking past their eyes were drawn immediately towards either Sakura and Tomoyo. Meiling sighed.

Who needs to be beautiful when they can be tough? she thought rebelliously.

But still... a treacherous part of her mind thought.

Meiling shook her head and concentrated on her friend.

"Oui, je m'appelle Cherry Avalon et mon cousines elles s'appelle Madison et Victoria," Sakura told the clerk in perfect French.

My name is Cherry and my cousin's names are Madison and Victoria Meiling translated mentally proud of herself for being able to understand what was being said.

The clerk handed over a few envelopes and smiled at Sakura as the Angel thanked her and turned back to her friends.

"Here you go," Sakura handed over an envelope to Tomoyo and Meiling, "we're on the fifth floor. Leave your bags here someone will take them up for us."

Tomoyo nodded but still grabbed one of her bags as Meiling did the same.

"What's in those?" Sakura asked curious.

"Equipment."

"Weapons."

"Oh."

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"Here it is," Tomoyo whispered.

"And in this room," their guide told them English, "is where the ancient artefacts from China are displayed for the general public."

The rest of the tour group ooh-ed and ah-ed as they walked into the room. Meiling felt slightly wistful seeing so much of her own country's proud heritage being displayed here.

She had removed her contact lenses, which had already put her in a slightly better mood and seeing this made her feel a lot better. Smiling at Sakura, who returned her grin they got to work studying the room checking for any surveillance cameras.

"There," Sakura murmured.

Meiling nodded.

"This is slightly bigger than the trainer room," Tomoyo noted, "But that shouldn't be a problem."

Sakura nodded and glanced at the room noting the decorative marble tiles and pillars as she casually looked around searching motion detectors.

"Before you begin you're going to have to put a special camera on the floor," Tomoyo told her, "That camera is connected to my computer and allows me to see the beams of the detectors. I can tell you what to do if you're unsure. Sakura, you have thirty minutes to steal the thing and get out. The patrol guards pass this place every half an hour."

Sakura nodded.

"I can make it," she said confidently.

"And you can be sure I'll be outside kicking butt," Meiling grinned.

Her smile fell.

"If there is anybody to fight in the first place," she added.

Tomoyo smiled back at her knowing her friend's ability to beat anybody in a fight and pretended to look at one of the displays so she didn't look suspicious.

"I'm going to see what I'm stealing," Sakura whispered.

Meiling nodded and the two girls walked towards one of the display cabinets set in the opposite wall.

Sakura gasped seeing what she was stealing.

"Wow." Meiling said breathlessly.

Sakura silently agreed with her.

Nestled on a piece of red velvet lay a thick red leather-bound book. Sakura gasped as she studied this mysterious artefact, gold had been inlaid into the hard cover it was glittering in the artificial lighting as gems of all kind and description winked at her. A picture of a snarling winged lion with ivory fangs and ruby for eyes glared up at her as Sakura tried to decipher the strange writing beneath it.

"What is this?" she murmured spellbound by this mysterious book.

"I've heard of it in legends back in China," Meiling whispered in awe," the Book of Fei Lao Shi."

Sakura looked at her quizzically.

"Flying Lion," Meiling translated before turning back to look at the book almost reverently, "it is written in a language no one can decipher but many believe it holds the secret to many mysteries."

"Like what?"

"Immortality."

Sakura stared at the book in awe.

"It's beautiful," she whispered.

"It's one of a kind."

Sakura grinned at her.

"It's ours."

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Sakura grimaced seeing what she was wearing.

"Is this really necessary?" Sakura asked picking at her clothing.

"Yes," Tomoyo told her distractedly as she began hacking into surveillance camera system.

The girls had already stolen into the now empty museum, Meiling look down the corridor one last time before closing the door and flicking on her flashlight.

"I love this job. The surroundings are so luxurious," she smiled wryly flashing her light around revealing mops, brooms, buckets and cleaning agents of all colours and types.

Tomoyo ignored her as she continued typing away rapidly. Sakura sighed and looked down and grimaced seeing what she was wearing. It was a one-piece suit made completely out of some kind of black material that was a cross between leather and plastic. It covered her whole body from her feet up to the top of her head but it had a large circle in it so it didn't cover up her face as well. Sakura sighed and wished she could just get this over and done with.

"Okay, I'm in and all cameras are now under my control," Tomoyo smiled impishly, "Inside and outside."

"Good. We can go then."

Tomoyo nodded.

"Here," she handed Sakura a small black backpack-like bag, "Put this on."

Sakura strapped the bag onto her back tightly as Tomoyo handed her two more things.

"Put this in you ear," she instructed handing her a small communication device, "and this is the camera."

Sakura gingerly held the camera after she put the device into her ear.

"Place that on the ground before you try to get through the motion detectors," Tomoyo told her, "Now we'll test our com-link."

She shoved a pair of headphones onto her head and spoke into the microphone attached to it.

"Testing... 1... 2... 3... testing."

"I can hear you loud and clear," Sakura flashed her a grin.

"Good luck," Meiling told her.

Sakura smiled and squeezed past Meiling and opened the door and left.

"I'm leaving," Meiling told Tomoyo.

"Be careful and put on your com-link," Tomoyo said looking at her laptop screen.

Meiling nodded and shoved the device into her ear before leaving as well. Tomoyo tapped a button and the screen split into a dozen different screens each showing a different part of the museum. By taking control of the cameras, Tomoyo now saw what each camera was seeing.

"Good luck," Tomoyo whispered as she sat down and prepared herself for a long wait.

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The museum guard glanced casually down at the TV screens, which showed what each camera was looking at. He sighed and checked to see if there was anything out of ordinary.

Nothing.

He yawned and lay back into his chair and waited for a long boring night.

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Sakura gently placed the camera onto marble floor and waited.

'It's working,' Tomoyo said through their com-link.

The auburn-haired Angel winked at the camera and immediately whirled around and got to work.

Closing her eyes, Sakura concentrated and let her body do the work. After the long hours spent in practice, Sakura's body was able to remember every single move it had to make to get through the motion detectors. Sliding along the ground she passed under the first beam and rolled to her side to slip in between another two.

She got up and flipped over the next with feline grace. Tomoyo, watching through the camera smiled seeing her friend's body move like water: slow, deliberate and graceful. Sakura kept her eyes closed as she made her next move passing over another beam.

So far so good.

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Meiling hummed softly to herself as she sat on the museum's front stairs and inspected her nails. She sighed and half wished that something would happen so she could at least have something to do.

Five seconds later her wish was fulfilled.

'Meiling, one of the cameras in the north-eastern corner has suddenly been taken out,' Tomoyo informed her through their link.

"Finally," Meiling smirked.

Gracefully she got up and immediately sprinted around the building. What she saw made her stop.

A group of people dressed in military-like uniform with night-vision goggles, black Kevlar gearing and each carrying a weapon were silently making their way to the across the grass to museum complex.

Whoever these guys were they weren't here to protect the artefact. That was for sure. Meiling smirked and studied her new battlefield.

Seeing a row of trees, she stealthily made her way over and leapt up into the air grabbing onto one of the branches and climbed up into the foliage. Leaping from tree to tree, Meiling made her way unnoticed until she was directly above the invaders. From her vantage point she could hear them all talking.

"Team Alpha, is in place," one of the military-like men said into a black radio he was holding in his gloved hands, "Repeat Team Alpha is in place."

The man listened for a while and turned to the rest of the group.

"Okay, Team Beta is in place and Spinnel Corporation has given the green light. Fan out men!"

"Well, Team Meiling is also in place!" Meiling swung down from the trees and in less than a second had taken the leader down.

"Come on, boys," Meiling grinned, "Who wants to play with little old me?"

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Tomoyo bit onto her bottom lip and hoped that Meiling was all right. She glanced at her screen and saw that Sakura was making good progress through the beams.

"Right leg a little higher," she told her fellow Angel through their communication, "Left arm a little lower."

Sakura obeyed and slipped past another two of the motion detectors. Tomoyo watched the screen in concentration and glanced at her wristwatch.

Twenty minutes left and counting...

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Meiling knew that the Team Alpha or whatever they called themselves were too close together to use their guns safely without hitting a fellow teammate. She took full advantage of this knowledge and moved quickly trying to take out as many as possible.

Her fists were a blur as she backhanded one of them and grimaced as her knuckles smacked into the hard plastic of the night-vision goggles. She ignored the pain instead opting to kick the man in the ribs and follow up with a quick spin kick to the face.

Hearing sudden movement behind her, she whirled around and introduced one of them to Mrs. Elbow. The man roared in pain and clasped his nose as blood poured down his face. Smiling sympathetically, she swept him of his feet with a quick leg sweep and jumped up for more.

"Man, whoever's training you must teach you more about hand-to-hand combat," she said conversationally as she leapt into the air and splitting her legs far apart as possible, she kicked two commandos in the chest with incredible force sending them flying backwards into their own teammates.

"Get her!" one of men cried.

Meiling shook her head as two of them charged at her like bellowing bulls.

"All brawn and no grace," Meiling sighed as she attacked, "This is so pitiful."

She socked one of them in the stomach and as the man keeled over in pain and began coughing and gasping in pain, she grabbed his shoulders and leapt into the air. She whipped her legs to the side and kicked the other charging commando in the chest. The man sprawled backwards into an unconscious heap.

Meiling leapt of the man's shoulders and landed lightly in front of him.

"Thanks," she said with a grin.

One swift karate chop to the neck and he was down for the count.

"Fire!" the man who had spoken before cried, "Shoot her!"

Meiling's eyes widened as the rest of the depleted group hefted their weapons and pointed the barrel straight at her.

"FIRE!"

Meiling moved into action immediately, she charged right at the group knowing they were not expecting that at all. They faltered and made a fatal error. Instead of shooting at her, they hesitated not knowing what to do with this crazy suicidal woman charging at them.

Their hesitation cost them dearly, Meiling reached them and knocked one of the guns away as she elbowed the gun's owner in the chest causing him to stagger backwards slightly. She whipped both of her arms around and grabbed two of the men's collars and brought them together smiling in satisfaction as the two heads connected with a loud crunch. Both men slumped to the ground as Meiling let go of their clothing.

"Wow, only one left," Meiling fixed her most evil glare at the man who had commanded for them to shoot her.

He brought his gun up and fired but Meiling was already in motion. Leaping to the side, she dodged the path of the speeding bullets. In one smooth motion, she landed and immediately went into a cartwheel timing it so her foot collided with the man's head. She landed lightly and smirked as the man collapsed.

"Problem has been neutralised," she told Tomoyo.

'Good, stay alert,' Tomoyo warned.

Meiling nodded and began walking away. It was only when she reached the steps of museum, she realised something.

The man had said something about another team... Team Beta

Her ruby eyes widened as she began talking frantically into her com-link.

"Tomoyo! We've got a problem!"

'What?'

Meiling opened her mouth to speak but was stopped as she heard a muffled 'boom'. The museum itself literally shook as some of the windows shattered.

"That problem," Meiling said wryly.

Without another thought, Meiling ran to the front door and with a mighty kick shattered the glass door and calmly walked in. The security guard woke up suddenly and jumped up staring at her.

"Sto... sto... stop! Fre... freeze!" he stammered drawing his gun.

A gloved fist put him back into dreamland as Meiling ran as fast as she could to the exhibition room.

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Sakura gasped in shock as all the alarms went off and a group of commando-like people stepped through the smoking hole in the wall.

"Son of a..." Sakura growled.

She leapt up and raced to the glass case housing the book.

"Shoot her!" a voice yelled from behind her.

Sakura leapt behind one of the marble pillars just in the nick of time as bullets shattered glass and sent chips of broken marble flying up into the air.

She was pinned.

"Tomoyo! Get Meiling here right now!" Sakura bellowed.

'She's coming! Hold on!'

"Holy..."

"FREEZE!"

Sakura risked a peek as she stuck her head out from behind the pillar. She swore as she saw the platoon of security guards standing at the doorway. The commandos turned around to study them.

"Shoot them," their leader commanded.

Sakura looked wistfully at the glass case holding the book one last time and knew that she would rather give up the artefact then see innocent people get slaughtered. Taking a deep breath, she made her choice.

Well, it looks like storyline B has won out in the end. And the answer to ms.evil's questions is that if A had won in the end, I would have redone all the chapters to suit the storyline but since B won it doesn't really matter does it?

And to the people who reviewed don't worry this is going to turn out to be an E/T fic! Syaoran should appear in the near future so keep any eye out for him.

Next chapter:

The Angels' plans have hit a slight hitch and now Sakura and Meiling have to steal the book whilst defeating the Spinnel corporation commandos and keeping the security guards safe. Will they succeed or will they fail? Find out in... All Out Angel Assault

A/Note: Okay, maybe I should have explained it better. Anime character cameos are when characters from another anime (eg. Sailor Moon) are put into story for a short amount of time (eg. one chapter). Of course these anime characters won't be exactly the same as they would be in their own shows instead they will be changed to suit the story. So, do you like the sound of that?

And should Sakura find out her mother, Nadeshiko was an ex-Angel who was killed when a fellow teammate betrayed her?