She wandered aimlessly until she was barreled over by a girl with dirty blonde hair. "Could you at least apologize?" Mako called out angrily to the retreating girl's back. "NO TIME!" She hollered back. "RUN!" She shouted at Mako. Mako was about to ask why when she saw the soldiers hot on the girl's tail.
"Oh crud." Mako sighed and took flight. She managed to catch up with the girl, who forcefully pulled her into a dark alley.
"Keep quiet," the girl demanded in a hushed voice. They heard the footsteps and clinking of guns. The soldiers scanned around for a few minutes, then skipped over the alley where the two women were hiding. The girl's features came into the light. Mako's eyes widened. "Usagi-chan!" She called joyfully.
Usagi looked at he skeptically then on closer inspection did a double take. "Iie, is it you Mako? You're not dead?" She shook her head and hugged her best friend happily.
"I managed to survive I thought you were the one who died!" Mako grinned.
Usagi returned her embrace, but soon went back on the alert. "Mako-chan, we need to get out of here. Oz is after me, and it's not safe to stay here."
She looked at Usagi curiously, but nodded. "Okay, how do we get out of here?"
Usagi scanned the terrain. "We're going to have to use a lot of back roads Trowa showed me, be very quiet, no talking that might tip them off." She nodded and followed Usagi obediently. She made sure to make her footsteps as quiet as possible. They finally reached the outskirts of town, where Mako noticed a fire was going lowly. "Trowa must want coffee." Usagi muttered. She'd heard very briefly about the other Gundam pilots from her time with Duo. She wasn't expecting to be greeted by a very handsome very exuberant blonde man.
"Usa-ko you made it back! I was about to come after you!" Concern shone in his eyes and Usagi seemed embarrassed by his sudden attention.
"Iie, Quatre-kun I'm fine really." Usagi grumbled
Quatre kept examining Usagi with a critical eye. "I don't care, I don't like you going out there hardly protected! What if Oz captured you?"
A second man stood up, indeed holding a mug of black coffee. "Quit fawning over her, you're embarrassing her." He said in a monotone voice. Mako inspected this man closely as well. He wore a haircut Mako had more frequently seen on women. He wore a poker face and didn't seem at all concerned Oz troops had almost pummeled Usagi.
"Couldn't you show an ounce of concern, would it kill you Evil Kinevil?" Quatre frowned.
Usagi laughed at Quatre's last comment. "You've been hanging with Duo too much." Mako's ears perked up. "Duo's been here?" She glanced around as if hoping to spot him. "He's not here right now." The other guy answered her dully.
"Usa-ko, who's this?" Quatre asked pointing to Mako.
"This is Makoto Kino, or Mako as she insists on being called. I thought she'd died but we literally ran into each other in the city. Mako this is Quatre Raberba Winner and that is Trowa Barton." Usagi introduced. She recalled Duo's comment that both men were chasing after Usagi relentlessly. Another man appeared from the throng, he was of Chinese decent.
"Don't tell me you've taken in another stray. And a woman no less, women are so weak" He scowled in supreme dislike.
"Don't be such a stiff Wufei, you're just mad because I beat you at fencing." Usagi smirked and Wufei huffed and disappeared into a tent. Trowa looked at Usagi. "Would you like some coffee?" He asked. She walked over and he handed her a steaming cup. "Doomo arigato." Quatre showed all the signs of killer jealousy as he sat promptly at Usagi's other side. Mako took the only available space left. She declined Trowa's offer for coffee. "I heard your Gundam self-detonated." Usagi addressed her attention back to Mako. "Hai, it did. Now I feel pretty much naked."
Usagi sipped her coffee and said to her, "I happen to know a Gundam you could use, not as good as the one you had before, but at least you'll have something. Although WuFei hates it I've gone out helping these guys when they go on missions."
Quatre cast a nasty glare in Trowa's direction. "And I have to be there to protect her." Trowa snorted. "She's perfectly capable of taking care of herself, but yes I do like being there to back her up should any harm befall her." Mako glanced at the two men who seemed to be mentally sparring off, and Usagi sighed. She wasn't used to two men dueling for her affection. It was both endearing and annoying to her. She wandered where she was going to sleep. "Uh what tent do I get?" Mako questioned.
Usagi pointed to the middle tent. "I sleep there so feel free to bed down if you're tired." She whispered in Mako's ear. "I know you're going to ask so I'll tell you later. First I have to make sure they don't kill each other." Mako nodded and ambled over to the tent. She yelped in surprise to be greeted by that overbearing Chinese man, WuFei. "What are you doing here?" WuFei's lip curled.
She glared at him. "I'm a pilot and Usagi's friend so why shouldn't I be?"
He still observed her with dislike. "You're a woman, women have no place in the battlefield, Usagi included. She has those two idiots fawning over her and is distracting them from their mission."
She scoffed. "Have you ever tried it? Maybe it wouldn't hurt if you did." With that, Mako vanished into Usagi's tent and began trying to make herself comfortable on the makeshift bed. She heard Usagi outside the opening as well as the jumble of Trowa and Quatre's voices.
"I'll see you guys in the morning." Usagi managed to fend off the two men and sighed as she entered the tent. "Must be your animal magnetism." Mako joked.
"Really this is getting ridiculous. They're both fighting over me and it's sweet in a way, but childish in another. They act like I'm the only woman in the world."
Mako sank her head into a pillow. "That's because you probably are to them. You do like one of them?"
Usagi bit her lip. "You can't have both of them." Mako rebuked.
"I know that, but I like both of them for different reasons. If I pick one I hurt the other, I'm not sure what to do." She got up gave Usagi a hug and a pat on the shoulder. "You'll figure it out, for now let them trip over themselves to impress you," Mako smirked evilly. "That's really horrible Mako." Usagi laughed along with Mako. "
So, what is going on with you and Duo?" Usagi asked.
Mako blushed. "We're trying to start a relationship."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I felt that one coming a while back. You two are going to be so gushy it's going to give me a toothache."
Mako felt herself embarrassed again. "We're not that far yet."
Usagi let her hair fall loose. "You will be if I know you." Usagi took down a spare pallet and made herself a bed. "You've just been here this whole time, after we were separated?" Mako asked.
Usagi fluffed a pillow. "No, I wondered around for a while. I'd lost all my memories for a short time, which was until Quatre found me. I was a mess, I had the same clothes as when I'd crashed and I hadn't cleaned up since before then. He took me here and cleaned me up, caring for me. Trowa wandered in, and eventually WuFei. It took me a couple months, but I regained my memories and found my Gundam. With Trowa's help, I was able to repair it. I then remembered you'd been sent on a mission in Siberia. I heard from the wire you'd been killed when your Gundam caught fire." Usagi crawled into her makeshift bed.
"What actually happened?" She looked directly at Mako.
Mako ran her fingers through her hair nervously. "I was hurt badly, oozing blood in the snow and I must have ambled around. When I awoke I was in a very expensive upper-class bed. My wounds had been cared for. That's when I found out it was Treiz Kusronada who had found me and cared for me. I had to stay there over the course of a few months until I was entirely healed, he managed to manipulate me and conned me into a bad romance with him. He kicked me out after he found Unne. I met Duo when I went to Howard. Howard couldn't build me a Gundam, but at least I've found Duo." She finished her tale and Usagi surveyed her. "Would you be ready to try out your new Gundam tomorrow?"
Mako nodded. "Hai, Usagi-chan. I need to keep my mind occupied." The two women bade each other goodnight and succumbed to the deep realm of sleep.