After doing the dishes, she walks up to her apartment and start to try to get in touch with Quatre.
After about an hour, she gets through and starts to talk to him, "Hey, I know you said three days, but I think you need to get back sooner to get to work on your partner."
Quatre groans, "But I don't know if I can. I mean, we're having some problems here as is."
Miko shrugs and replies, "But if we need you both, and you're not ready, it's going to be a bigger problem."
Quatre nods in understanding, "I'll be there around noon tomorrow. that's the best I can do."
She smiles, "Understood. Any estimate when Trowa will be returning?"
Quatre looks concerned, "You mean he's not there yet? He left kind of early this morning, even after only getting back here at 6:00 by your time, he left around 9:30. He should be there by now. Isn't it about 3:30 now?"
Miko nods, "Yeah, this isn't good. Do you have the shuttle registration that he left on?"
Quatre nods, "I'll send it to you. Please make sure he's ok. I'll be there as soon as possible."
"Understood, Miko out." Miko start trying to track down the shuttle that Trowa left in. After a few hours she finds the shuttle at a known former OZ base. "Shit, we have to go get him..." Miko curses.
Miko rushes down the stairs and out to the hanger and down to the work space. "I hope you guys are almost done. We have a situation." she gasps out.
Duo looks up in surprise, "What's goin' on?"
Miko replies, "Trowa should have been here several hours ago. The shuttle he left in is in the hands of OZ. It's at a known former OZ base."
Heero looks down, "You know he can take care of himself."
She nods, "But I'd rather not take the chance he's in serious trouble." Heero nods, "Mission Accepted."
A huffing Duo replies, "I can pilot it like this, I guess. What are you gonna go in?"
She hops over to Heavyarms and starts to power it up, "This. Both Trowa and I are highly skilled with this Gundam. This way either of us can get us out of there."
Heero half laughs, "That's pretty smart."
Miko smiles and replies, "I thought so. Now you both need to follow me to get to the Gundam elevator to get up to ground level."
After pushing aside the pilot ramp, she walks over to a platform just big enough for one Gundam at a time and pulls a lever with Heavyarms.
Instantly, the platform rises up very quickly and she's at the surface almost instantly. She walks Heavyarms off the platform and it descends. Duo is the next up. He walks Deathscythe off the platform and it goes down again. Heero finally ascends up and immediatly takes control.
"Send us the coordinates... Let's go!"
The base is in southern India, and it doesn't take long for them to get there from where the base is in Japan. When they finally arrive, Heero decides that a quick stealth infiltration would be best to learn the layout, and discover some information about where Trowa is and what's going on. Since Duo's the best at those, he goes in and is out less than an hour later.
Sweating and out of breath, Duo starts to brief Heero and Miko on the layout and where Trowa is being held.
Heero makes a decision, "Miko, you should go in on foot, Duo and I will cause a distraction on the other side of the base. We'll destroy as many mobile suits as possible. Get him out of there and into Heavyarms. We'll retreat after he's in the cockpit."
Miko nods and starts to get out of Heavyarms, with her gun just in case. Duo and Heero start to walk toward the other end of the base and Miko walks over to break into the complex. She breaks in quickly and easily finds Trowa's holding cell. The sirens start to go off and all but one of the guards rush off.
Miko drops down silently behind the guard and knocks him unconcious. Then, she unlocks the door to see a harshly beaten and unconcious Trowa. Sighing exasperatedly, Miko starts to carefully drag his body out of the complex.
She gets about halfway when she runs into a group of 5 guards. "Dammit!" she yells exasperatedly. She dives with Trowa's unconcious form into a side hallway and whips out her gun then starts to fire around the corner at the guards. After several minutes of firing her gun at them, all 5 of the guards are hurt just enough to keep them from firing back.
Finally she's able to get Trowa's body out of the base and to Heavyarms. She opens the commlink to Heero and Duo, "We need to go now! Trowa's hurt, and I can't tell how baddly, but I can tell you he's unconcious."
Heero and Duo start to retreat bringing with them several aries and leos. Miko starts to laugh maniacaly and fully powers up Heavyarms. She fires several missiles and starts to fire off the gattling gun and then starts to retreat herself. Duo and Heero both finish off the rest of the enemy MS.
When they finally arrive back at the base, Miko rushes Trowa to the Infirmary where all the medical supplies are stashed. She starts to wash the blood away from the wounds Trowa has while Heero and Duo put the Gundams back in the work area. Miko discovers that Trowa can only be unconcious from a loss of blood. Immediately after discovering this, she gets some type specific blood and hooks it into his veins after making sure to bandage his wounds.
Duo comes up a short time later. "Will he be okay?" he asks tiredly.
Miko nods then turns to look at Duo, "Oh, you're hurt too."
He has a pretty nasty slash down his left arm. "What, this? Heh, I'll live," he scoffs.
She walks over to him, "Please sit down, I'll take care of the cut."
Duo sits down and holds his arm out for her, "I don't know why you're so worried about me, I'm gonna live, easily! There's no reason to take your time with me."
Miko just sits in a chair next to him and starts to dab alcohol onto a sterile cloth, "This will sting a little. Just a warning."
Duo closes his eyes, "I'm not a little kid, I think I can handle it." Miko smiles and just starts to clean the blood off his arm and then starts to pour the alcohol on his arm. "YEOW! What is that stuff??"He yells.
"It's just rubbing alcohol... but it's about 20 times stronger than normal stuff." She continues to clean his arm and then bandages it up. Heero shows up a bit later just to inquire as to his comrade's condition.
"He'll be okay... He should wake up soon. They were pretty rough with him, they must have known he's a former Gundam Pilot."
Heero thinks for a few minutes, "I need to warn Quatre and Wufei. I'll be back soon." With that, he stomps off to the work room to contact Quatre and Wufei.
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