Chapter 5

Melody had gone back to her dorm and changed out of her work-out cloths. She was now roaming the halls looking for her brother. She suddenly became very aware of the fact that she was hungry when her stomach growled rather loudly.

"Guess I had better get something to eat." She said to herself as she turned and headed for the lunchroom.

"I swear she looks exactly like her!" Joel exclaimed to the people sitting around the lunch table with him in the cafeteria.

"I really doubt that she could look that much like her" Jason Yuy said threw a mouthful of food

"Sorry Joel but I have to agree with Jason." Helen Maxwell-Brown said as she gently placed her hand over Joel's, "Maybe being here again is messing with you."

Joel sighed "Maybe you're right; I'm going to go and get myself some more coffee" he said as he stood up. Then he just froze. Jason noticed that Joel was staring at something behind him so he turned himself around in his seat and looked to see what it was.

"Ah…Helen" he whispered "look"

"What's wrong?" she asks as she too turned to see what had her friend in shock. If it were humanly possible her jaw would have hit the floor. Standing in the doorway was a beautiful young girl with long brownish-red hair and deep green eyes. She was wearing a pair of short black shorts, a black tank top and a Preventor's jacket that was several sizes to big.

"It can't be" Helen whispered "Noin would have told us"

They watched as the girl looked around then walked up to the counter. After she got her food she stood looking for a place to sit. They then watched as she walked over to an empty table and set down.

Melody had this weird feeling that someone was watching her. Slowly she glanced around her. That is when she saw three people at one of the tables in the back of the room. One of the men looked like the guy that had carried her to the infirmary. She slowly got up and approached the small group of people.

"Excuse me." She said in a soft voice. So soft that if they hadn't been looking at her they most likely wouldn't have even known that she had spoken. "Um, are you Joel Chang?"

"Yes" said the Asian man

"Um I would like to thank you for helping me out earlier." She stood looking at her feet and fidgeting with her fingers.

"Hey no problem" he replied

Melody turned to walk away when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Slowly she turned back around, still watching her feet.

"Why do you look so scared of us?" the other guy asks.

"I've never been scared of anything in my life." Melody responded defiantly.

"Then what's so interesting about your shoes?" Joel asks

"Ummm"

The woman that was sitting with them started to chuckle but she saw Melody's face grow red with embarrassment and anger. She reached over and hit the two guys in the back of the head.

"Hey what was that for?" the one guy asks

"Stop being an ass" she said "Sorry about them, you can ignore them. Everyone else does. My name is Helen Brown and this idiot is Jason Yuy." She said pointing the guy with short brown hair and Prussian blue eyes.

"Please to meet you." Jason said giving a low bow, all the while keeping a sly grin on his face.

"I am Melody Winner. It's nice to meet you." She responded in a very sarcastic voice. She then turned to walk away from the group, but was stopped once again by a hand on her shoulder.

"Would you like to join us for lunch?" Jason asked. Melody glanced over her shoulder at his face trying to make up her mind as per what she should do.

"That's ok I don't want to be any trouble" she replied softly

"Its no trouble at all, really." Helen smiled reassuringly at the younger woman.

"Ok"

Melody set talking with Helen, Joel and Jason for an hour. Melody learned a great deal about them and the Preventor.

"Joel, there you are." Called a voice from behind them, they all turned to see Jasmine running up to the table. "Joel, I need your help. You know that girl you carried to the infirmary? Well she played a Heero on us."

"What does that mean?" Melody whispered to Jason.

"She means you ran away before you had time to fully get better." He whispered back, "shh lets see how long it takes her to notice that you are sitting here." Melody smirked; Joel also apparently had the same idea.

"I haven't seen her, have you guys?" he asked the group.

"What does she look like?" Helen asked looking at Jasmine with concern.

"Sorry Jazz, I've been with Joel." Jason said

"Have you looked in the gym?" Melody asked

"Yea that was the first place I looked." Jasmine moaned

"Um ok, lets see where else it there that you could look?" Joel said as he looked at melody out of the corner of his eye and smiling.

"Have you looked in the shower?" Jason asked "If not I'll be glade to look for you."

"Stop being a pervert; try to remember that you do have a wife." Helen said as she hit him in the back of the head.

Jasmine had stop paying attention when Jason had said shower. "Good thinking Jas" she yelled as she took off to the showers.

"40 bucks says she doesn't get what we did for about an hour" Melody smirked. Jason reached over and hand Helen two 20s.

"Anyone else?" Helen asked as she took the money from Jason and Melody.

"I'm in" Joel said handing over his money, "just don't tell my sister, ok?"

Just then the loud speaker popped signing that someone was going to make an announcement.

"Will everyone involved in NG7864 project please report to training hanger L536."

"Looks like lunch is over," Jason said as he stood up and throw his tray in the trash.

"Yea we got to go; we'll see you later, Melody." Joel said as he stood up as well.

"Yea I have to run too." Melody said a she quickly turned and left the room.

45 minutes later Melody walked in to L536. She looked very calm to everyone in the room but James and David. Melody recognized some of the people in the room, like her grandfather who was sitting between her brother and father and Jason was sitting with Helen and Joel. She was surprised to see Scott, Tia and Taylor. In the front of the stood Heero with two other people at looked familiar.

Now that she thought about it a lot of the people in the room seemed familiar to her as if she had seen them before.

"Oh my god, Indy!" a man with a long braid said irrupting her train of thought.

"Mel, hey what are you doing here?" Scott asked almost at the same time.

"I'm here t become a Gundam pilot. What…." She replied but was irrupted by the man that was standing to the right of Heero in the front of the room. He was so what taller than Heero and had long hair that looked almost white. He looked like he was 35 but Melody could tell he was older due to his rank.

"My apologies" Melody replied and before anyone could say a word, she had turned and left the room.

Zechs just stood where he was in shock. He had never thought that he would get that kind of reaction from Indigo.

"Nice job, Zechs." Heero mumbled under his breath.

"Nice one Uncle Z" Jason called from the front row only to get glared at by both his father and Uncle. James got up and left the room to fallow his sister.

It only took James 15 min to find Melody in the library. She was working on one of the computers in the back of the room.

"I don't think that you can change your grade in that class." He said as he pulled a chair up next to her.

"Damn, well I had to try." She replied as she thought back to the time when she was nine and had hacked in to the school computers. "In truth I was watching the meeting."

"Do I even want to know how you hacked the preventor security systems."

"Umm….no I don't think you do."

"I hope you know that I think you are nuts."

"Hn, who is that man" She asked; as she zoom the camera to the man with the long.

"That would be Zechs Merquise." Her brother replied "and that is his wife Lucrezia Noin-Merquise." He said pointing to the woman that was standing next to Zechs.

"Do you know who any of the others are?" she asked as she zoomed the camera back out to show the whole room.

"Well I know that is Chang Wufei and that one is Duo Maxwell. Then there is Papaw Winner, Dad, and Heero Yuy. But those are the only ones that I know for sure." He replied as he pointed to each person.

For the next 30 min they watched the meeting.

Hey guys Sorry about the wait I've been having a really hard time with life and it sucks.