After two hours, the other four were still sitting in the total darkness, trying to figure out where they were going. They had vaguely heard Julie yell something back to them, but hadn't understood it.

"Weren't we supposed to go back to the hotel?" Shiris asked, confused and annoyed. Both her butt and back hurt from the cold, hard floor and all the jarring.

"I think its safe to assume that we are not," Mayumi sighed, having had enough of the van as well.

"Do you two have any idea where Duo could be taking us?" Shiris asked the two boys. Trowa was leaning on the wall next to her, and Hiiro was next to him.

"No idea. I thought we would go back to the hotel as well," Trowa said.

"You three didn't have any bags at the hotel, did you?" Hiiro asked suddenly. His voice had turned harder.

"Of course we did. Do you think we go without clothes for days?" Mayumi muttered.

"No, I mean equipment. Computers. Things like that."

In the dark, the girls' eyes opened wide.

"Oh no…" Shiris murmured, "We did…"

"We had a computer with our connection to Jane," Mayumi finished, fear starting to creep up. And she thought things were starting to look up…

"Then I know where Duo is going. And you better pray we get there in time."

"And that would be?" Mayumi questioned.

"Japan," Trowa supplied. "It's where they take all enemy equipment, break it down, and learn how to use it."

"So in other words, they could find Jane," Shiris muttered.

"Yes."

"Okay, so are we heading to the airport? 'Cause we have to get that laptop back."

"I think so. It's been about two hours, so we should be there soon," Hiiro replied.

The van came to a stop.

"Nice timing," Shiris smiled, blinking in the sunlight as the door slid open.

"Hey! Are you guys okay?" Duo asked cheerfully as he helped Shiris out. She stood up straight for the first time in three hours, and bones cracked in places she didn't even know she had bones.

"Oh, yeah, we're fine, aside from all the bumps, and jolts, and swerves, we're fine," Mayumi grumbled, following Shiris and stretching with a grimace.

"Just be glad I got you here in one piece," Duo replied, smile not leaving his face. Mayumi began to wonder if it was pasted on there.

"So you know we're going to Japan?" Julie asked as they started walking towards the airport. Duo had parked in the farthest area of the enormous parking lot, just to make sure many people didn't see them. It might look strange to see six teenagers getting out of a van riddled with bullet holes.

"We figured it out. How much time do you think we have?" Hiiro asked, walking at the head of the group. He seemed to naturally take charge. /a lot like Mayumi/ Julie thought as she walked behind him.

"If they got your bags at 3:00AM this morning, left on, oh, lets say a 5:30 flight, takes 15 hours to get there, and three hours to get it to the lab, I'd say we have about 12 hours." Duo guessed.

"You have no idea how much time we have, do you?" Mayumi asked.

Duo shrugged. "It sounded good!"

"And just how are we going to pay for this?" Trowa asked as they entered the international terminal.

Everyone stopped. All around them people busily ran this way and that, hurrying to catch their flights out of Russia. Directly in front of them were the check-in counters, the line moderately long.

"Anyone have a credit card?" Hiiro suggested, feeling around in his pockets.

"No, something called the Federation took everything I have," Mayumi muttered, folding her arms across her chest, a frown on her lips.

"I have three dollars and…27 cents," Duo chipped in after emptying his pockets.

"Okay, this is not going to work. You can't ask your agency for help, since you aren't working for it anymore, and we can't ask ours for help because we have no way of contacting it. What do we do?" Mayumi asked pessimistically, walking over and sitting in a chair.

The other two girls followed her, while the boys remained standing. Julie put her head in her hands. "How could we be so stupid?" she whispered. How had a simple mission gone so wrong? Where had it started to go wrong? She didn't want to admit it, but once they had met the boys, it had gone downhill from there.

"This is all your fault," Mayumi said suddenly, as though reading Julie's mind.

"What?" Hiiro muttered, anger creeping into his face.

"You heard me! Once we met you, everything went wrong! You messed up my and Shiris' mission, you kidnapped us, you caused our stuff to get taken!" she exclaimed, standing up.

"Wait a minute! You interrupted our missions!" Hiiro yelled back. Mayumi clenched her fists together, unable to speak.

"She's right," Julie added quietly. "You did cause all this. But I'm not blaming you."

"Yeah, maybe we did do this. But you had your share of it too!" Duo told her, coming to his team's aid.

"Maybe we should go our separate ways, try to figure this out on our own," Mayumi said angrily.

"I completely agree," Hiiro muttered, his voice low and menacing.

"Wait! What are you saying? That after all this we just split up?" Duo cried, then lowered his voice as people going by began to glance at him oddly. "We just split up? Why?"

Hiiro and Mayumi erupted with complaints against each other, Duo and Julie began to argue about separating, and Shiris and Trowa just stood there.

"We're starting to crack," Shiris whispered sadly. She had known it was inevitable and had hoped that they were strong enough to get through it together, but they obviously needed help. Everyone had not slept in days, nerves were strained, and pride was hurt. Not mention the anxiety coursing though the girls about the laptop.

"We do have to find a way to get on a plane to Japan," Trowa said quietly to her, "the next one leaves at 10:20."

She glanced over at the clock on the wall, which read 7:23.

People began to stare at the heated argument. When someone stopped altogether, she and Trowa stepped in.

"Stop it!" Shiris hissed, stepping in the middle and putting a hand on Mayumi and Hiiro's shoulders.

"Calm down," Trowa ordered Duo and Julie.

"You're acting like little children, and people are staring!" Shiris muttered.

The two looked at the curious passerby and turned slightly red from embarrassment.

"Now, if we want to do this, we have to work together. We are not separating; that would only make it harder." Trowa said.

"And we are both to blame for where we are now. Arguing won't help anything. We are in a situation, and lets act like the people we are. We take charge, figure it out, and complete it." Shiris added, glaring at both of them.

Mayumi looked away while Hiiro glared back, his bright blue eyes looking like pointed icicles.

"So do you want to keep arguing and getting no where fast, or figure out a way to get on this plane?" Trowa whispered, releasing Duo and Julie.

They looked down, feeling very stupid.

"Of course we want to get on the plane. Sorry about the outburst, Duo. I think it was nerves and strain talking." Julie apologized, smiling slightly.

"Hey, me too. I didn't mean anything I said." He smiled widely, putting his arm over her shoulders and pulling her in for a hug.

"Hiiro? Mayumi?" Shiris asked coldly, not releasing them.

"Fine," Mayumi said after a moment, relaxing. " Fine. Lets do this."

Shiris looked at Hiiro. He avoided her glare, and then jerked out of her grasp. "Fine. But we can't even get on the plane; we don't have any money."

Shiris sighed thankfully. She had been afraid for a moment that he would just walk away.

"About that part, I think I have an idea," Julie whispered, subtly pointing to a door marked EMPLOYEES ONLY. Her eyes glinted mischievously.

Duo eyes immediately lit up.

"I get to be the pilot!" he said excitedly, heading for the door, the others slipping in after him.