The next day around noon, Quatre arrives as was planned. He immediately goes to see Trowa with Miko. After announcing besides a few bumps and bruises and minor cuts, he's fine, all three of them start down to the hanger to work on the Gundams. Miko helps Trowa into Heavyarms cockpit.
Suddenly, the perimeter alarms go off, and Miko rushes to a computer to check out what just crossed the perimeter. It was a small motor bike.
"Wufei is here," she announces with a smile.
Duo pokes his head out of the cockpit of Deathscythe and hollers, "Really? Wuffy is here?"
Howver Miko has already made her way up the stairs to meet him outside. He parks his bike and gets off of it. Miko bows and he returns the bow.
"My appologies for mistaking the you for the assasin, it was Miko right?" he inquires with a low bow.
Miko replies with an equally low bow, " Yes, there is no need, it was an easy mistake to make." After standing back upright, she asks, "What has Heero told you?"
Wufei informs her that he just told him that she was not the assasin, and that they needed the fifth Gundam pilot.
Miko nods and starts to fill him in. "I've been rebuilding the Gundams. Since the end of the war, I've been watching many underground factions form and arm themselves. I decided that we should be prepared just in case."
This comes as such a shock to Wufei that he even appears surprised. "You rebuilt Nataku?"
Miko nods then explains, "I rebuild it exactly how it was before you made any modifications. Also, I built and upgraded version."
"You must be a skilled engineer to have rebuilt all the gundams," compliments Wufei.
Miko just smiles, "I was raised by engineers."
She leads him down to the hangar and then shows him the Altron gundam she rebuilt. He hops in and starts to work on it almost immediately.
While the guys work on their gundams, Miko decided to start to work on lunch for the whole crew. She starts to make grilled cheese and tomato soup for everyone. She then sets the table and sets out cheese, sour cream, crackers, spices and other things for the soup. Then she gets out six sodas and sets one at each place.
She makes her way down to the hangar and shouts down, "Is anyone hungry? Lunch is ready!"
In reply all five of the pilots come up the stairs and Quatre starts trying to prepare tea for everyone. They sit down and start to eat their lunches and Miko sits down and eats her own.
After lunch, everyone goes back down to the hangar to work on their gundams, including Miko, she starts to build the gundam she designed. After a while, Duo comes over to help.
"Need any help with that crane?" he smiles at her as he asks.
Miko nods, "That'd be great... Thank you."
Duo hops into the crane booth and starts to lift the pieces of gundanium into place. After they get to the knee of the gundam, they stop putting the gundanium together and Miko hops in and starts to do some wiring work and mechanics. Duo hops in with her and asks what he can do.
"Um, ok can you wire up the knee joint?" Miko asks.
After a few hours, Miko looks at her watch and it's reading about 7:30 and she decides to get dinner ready for everyone. She climbs out of the leg and Duo does the same.
"I'm gonna start to make dinner ok?" She asks Duo.
In reply Duo nods and walks over to Heero. They both hop in Heero's cockpit to "test some of the operating systems."
About two hours later, Miko calls down the stairs that dinner is ready and all five of the boys, nearly men now, march up the stairs to eat.
At dinner, mostly the guys make conversation amongst themselves. However Quatre suddenly asks Miko, "So how'd you become such a good engineer again?"
Miko starts, "My, well as Heero and Duo already know, Everyone should be on even ground. I was adopted. My adoptive parents were engineers and so I grew up around large scale projects and complicated things too. I was taught engineering from the time I was very young. So I grew up naturally to be an engineer myself and went to more schooling for it. As I've said though, they were my adoptive parents. My real name is Elfein Peacecraft."
Wufei breaks in, "You look nothing like any of the Peacecrafts, how do we know you're not lying?"
Miko continues, "I've already consented to a blood test, but I am, in fact, Relena's youner twin. I have all the latent, or weak Peacecraft genes. I was hidden away from the world for my own protection and to protect the family line. I have always gone by the name Miko Heiten, and I do not intend to change that now."
Trowa speaks up, "If you publically announced this with the blood results, you could probably unify everyone again."
"But then she'd be targeted," Quatre protests
Miko sighs, "I don't know any of the Peacecraft teachings anyway, besides, I always found Relena to be a bit of a fanatic about the whole thing. I understand there must be some violence for peace to prevail. Besides, if Milliardo would step up, I'm sure the people would follow him, and he'd be much harder to kill."
After a bit of an uncomfortable silence, Heero is finally the one to speak up, "I've been doing some research on the video. The girl seems to be a professional. I can't find anything on her."
Trowa speaks up again, "I think perhaps we should send in an undercover operative. I will volunteer for the job."
Quatre of course protests that he's still too hurt and Wufei decides that he needs to work on Nataku. Which leaves Heero or Duo, neither of which want's to be away from the other. Miko thinks for a minute and decides she's the best option.
"I'll go," she informs them, "I'm the best candidate. My face isn't known, I'm skilled with many weapons, I could pass as an assasin. Besides, she may work for some all girls mercenary troop, or even some fat old slob of a man who likes pretty girls. I'm not sure I could infiltrate that last one as easily, but I am the best choice."
Heero nods and finishes eating. "Duo, you've been aweful quiet," Heero comments.
Of course Duo has been stuffing his face with as much food as possible and couldn't really talk at all. Once Heero sees this, he just laughs loudly and gets up to go to the hangar to finish working on Wing.
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A/N: I hope you like my little camp comedy moment at the end there. Oh, and the hints of 1x2... Review let me know how you like!!!