Julie waited another 10 minutes, and then hightailed it out of there. She went to the ladies room and turned on her watch to the map setting. It gave her a full blueprint of the mansion, along with a red dot for where the main control room was. Waiting until the hallway emptied, she ducked down the hall and turned right. Turning on the heat signature mode as well, she was able to see where the guards were stationed. Only once did one surprise her, and that was because she had just knocked another one out.

"Who are you?" he demanded, and drew his gun when he saw her standing over the unconscious guard.

"Oh, help, this man has been injured! I lost my way to the bathroom and I came across him…" she whimpered in a high-pitched voice. The guard rushed over, completely believing her act.

"And he was like this?" he asked, putting his gun away.

"Oh, yes!"

"Wait here, ill call for back up,"

His hand went to his waist and he turned around.

"I don't think so," she muttered, and hit him in the back of the neck, hard. He went down without a sound.

"Gotcha!"

Looking both ways and checking her watch, she made it to the computer room. According to her watch, there were three guards. Also, the door was locked with a code access.

Out of her purse she took an eyes shadow case and fit it up against the code board. Flipping open the top, she pressed a red button where the eyes shadow should have been. In place of the brush, a screen was visible. Quickly, four numbers appeared on the screen.

"That was sooo easy," she whispered, and dialed in the four numbers.

Shiris went to the bathroom 10 minutes after Julie had left, or at least when she was supposed to have left.

Turning on her watch, she found the nearest guard. Se prayed it was a female so that she wouldn't have to wear a man's uniform. Fortunately, it was a woman she found when she turned the corner.

"Excuse me, but you cant be down here," the woman said immediately. Noting the gun hanging from a strap on her shoulder, Shiris said, "oh, I'm sorry, which way to the bathroom?"

"It's straight down this hall and to the right," the woman replied, pointing and walking over. When she was within reach, Shiris did a left to right spin kick followed by a punch in the stomach. The woman dropped immediately and Shiris dragged her into a closet. Assured that the woman wouldn't be waking up for a while, she stepped back out in her new uniform. The sleeves and skirt were a little short, but other than that it was fine. The shirt was a white blouse with a fitted dark green button down jacket with a gold trim. The skirt was dark green as well, with green flats. Very practical shoes for a guard.

Shiris left the dress balled up in a corner of the closet and slung the gun over her shoulder. As a last touch, she took a hair band form her purse and pulled her hair back into a high ponytail. Then she glanced at her watch and headed for the mess hall. Surely there would be guards there.

Mayumi and Charkovky wound their way around the halls for a little before coming to a closed door. By this time, Charkovky had tried to feel her up numerous times, once tired to kiss her, and once tried to grab her butt. Mayumi was ready to shoot him, mission or not.

"Here we are, my lovely," he murmured, as they stepped into a large room with a humongous bed in the center. Mayumi shuddered and waited until he was in the middle of the room before taking her gun out of her purse.

"Why don't you come over he-" Charkovky began, and then turned.

"Don't move," Mayumi warned. At the same time the door on the other side of the room burst open.

"Don't move! Lady, leave the-!" the man that Julie had seen was standing opposite Mayumi, holding a gun. He stopped mid-sentence when he saw Mayumi, also holding a gun. He had thought she was a civilian! Who the hell was she?

"Who are you?" Mayumi demanded, pointing the gun at him, and then back at Charkovky, unsure of whom was more dangerous. Who the hell could he be? The boy couldn't be older than 18, with messy, un-kept hair that obscured his bright blue eyes. He was in good shape, lean and trim.

"Who are you?" the boy demanded, equally confused. How could someone else have known about the party?

"Put your gun down!" Mayumi ordered. The boy simply glared at her.

"You first," he hissed.

"No way," she retorted.

"Who are you?" Charkovky whimpered, reduced to a scared little boy. Having one gun trained on you was bad enough, but to have two guns held by two very unstable people was 10 times worse.

"I need information, right now. Come with me," the boy ordered.

"No, come with me. I need the information." Mayumi countered.

"I'm not telling wither of you anything!" Charkovky bravely shouted.

"Tell me about the Federation!"

"Tell me about the Alliance!" the two assassins shouted at the same time.

"What do you need to know about the federation?" the boy demanded.

"What do you need to know about the alliance?" Mayumi responded, very curious. Was this boy form the federation? If so, why were they working for the same cause?

"I'm not telling you anything!" Charkovky repeated, shaking.

"Fine," the boy said, and shot him once in the head.

"What the HELL did you do that for?" Mayumi almost shrieked, advancing on the man with her gun. "I needed him!"

"He wasn't talking. And I'm sure you can tell me all I need to know about the alliance."

"I have no idea what you're talking about. But clearly, you know a lot about the federation. So start talking."

"No."

"I will shoot you."

"I'll shoot you too."

"I'll shoot you and live."

Why wasn't she just shooting the boy? She wondered. He knew who she was; he could ruin her. But she could also ruin him. So why wasn't he shooting her? He obviously had no qualms about shooting people.

"Okay. We obviously came here for the same thing, so there's no point in killing each other. Lets just leave and go our separate ways, since I cant get any information now." Mayumi said, backing out of the door while keeping her gun trained on the boy. He didn't blink but started backing out of his door as well.

"Okay. Goodbye."

"Goodbye." She stepped swiftly to the left of the door and out of sight. Lowering the gun, she leaned against the wall. She had to get out of there. His body would be discovered soon. But who was that boy? He was a spy, obviously. And most likely for the federation. But he was too cute to be in the federation!

Julie stood in the doorway as the door whisked opened. Three guns were trained on her a second. Unperturbed, she said, " hello! Can you all help me with something?" They stared at her, unsure of what to do. "Can you tell me which is the main computer? The minister said it was fine for me to know." She didn't expect an answer, but one of the guards glanced to his left, at a lone computer along the right wall. Following his gaze, she found the computer he was looking at.

"Thank you," she muttered, and pulled out her gun. She managed to jump into the room, shut the soundproof door, and shoot one guard before the others noticed what had happened. Rolling away form the shots, she hid behind a desk. Peering over the top, she saw one guard go for his radio. Quickly focusing, she shot it out of his hand and then shot him in the chest. Ducking back down as another stream of fire shot over her, she rolled to the right side of the desk and hit the remaining guard.

Standing and straitening her dress and smoothing her hair, she walked over to the computer. On the screen a little box came up.

"Okay, so we need a password. His date of birth? Nope. Name of wife? Nope."

Suddenly she cocked an ear. Hearing footsteps outside the room, she dashed over to stand beside the door. She heard someone fiddling with the lock outside, and then the door slid open. As the man walked in, she chopped him in the neck. She was surprised when he only stumbled and didn't fall; that chop would have felled any normal man.

She went for a second punch, but the boy spun around and blocked it, trapping her hands in his.

"What are you doing here?" he asked in surprise. It was the boy that Shiris had seen at the party. His braid was over his shoulder and his bangs were blown to the side, uncovering pale blue eyes. He let go of her hands when he saw the girl standing before him. He didn't think he'd ever forget her. Wow! That's the second amazingly hot girl I've seen tonight! He mentally congratulated himself.

"What are you doing here?" she answered, surprised at how cute he was. And how nice he was. He didn't sound like he wanted to kill her at all. In fact, he seemed like he was sneaking around as well. In his hand was a code cracker.

He glanced over at the computers.

Shit! She had forgotten to turn the screen off! He could clearly see the password box and the PASSWORD DENIED signs.

"Hey, what are you trying to do? Crack the code?" he asked, going over. She said nothing, afraid he would report her. But he was so cute…

"No! Of course not."

"Well, that's too bad."

"Why?"

"'Cause that's what I was gonna do. It would've been nice to have company, but…" he shrugged and aimed his gun at her.

"Okay, I give in," she said quickly with a little nervous laugh, "I was trying to crack it."

He put down the gun with a smile.

"Thought so. Nice work on the guards, by the way."

"Thanks!"

"This would go a lot faster if we worked together," the boy suggested. Julie was fine with that. "Sure!" she replied, smiling widely. Maybe should would meet a nice, handsome, charming boy on this mission!

"So, would you like to type?"

"Sure!" She went and sat down.

"Did you try birthdays and names?"

"Yep. No go."

"Hmm…how about combinations of the two?"

She started typing.