Callisto watched as Violet sat next to her frowning cousin and the grinning brown haired boy named Duo. At the moment, the self proclaimed Great Destroyer was talking a mile a minute only stopping to grab a snack here and there. Shaking her head, the black haired girl turned around and went back into the room she and Violet would be sharing.

For some strange reason, she trusted these five strangers as if she knew them her whole life. Of course, she had grown up with people she didn’t trust as far as she could kick them. But Callisto felt safe around those boys and there was no doubt that sparks would definitely fly.

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Zechs Marquise frowned at the blueprints of the Epyon and the nearly identical copy he had stumbled upon. "Could this have something to do with the Nigerian base being attacked?" He muttered. As the blond man looked through the files, he couldn’t help but be impressed by the newest threat to OZ. "The Gundam StarBlade…" He mused thoughtfully.

"Lieutenant Zechs?" An OZ soldier looked in and said, "Lady Une would like to see you." Looking closer at the computer screen and the blueprints, he asked, "May I inquire to what that’s for?" Zechs quickly shut off his computer and stuffed the papers into his desk. "Nothing, Jackson. It’s nothing."

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Heero studied the two girls sitting on the ragged couch. Callisto was like an odd mix of the five of them, cool and deadly but with a gentle side. Violet, on the other hand, was sweet but the Japanese pilot could see a fiery disposition that could put even Relena in her place without shame. He snorted as he turned his cobalt gaze back to the dark haired girl. According to Dr. J, Callisto was Dr. L’s version of the Perfect Soldier, and yet she had emotions and feelings that Heero believed had been burned out of himself years ago. She certainly smiled more than he did, which wasn’t *that* much.

Heero snorted again and smirked as his chestnut haired lover babbled on and on about only Shinigami knows what. //I wonder how they’ll react when they find about the four of us. //

Apparently Trowa had been thinking the same thing when the French pilot raised an eyebrow at him from across the room. Either that or he wanted to know if Relena was going to stalk them to this safe house too.

It was about then Heero’s laptop went off, indicating there was a new mission. The cobalt-eyed boy read the mission carefully, shut off the laptop, and turned to his teammates. "The OZ base and research center in the Arctic region. Let’s go." As Trowa, Duo, Quatre, and Wufei headed out the door, Callisto followed, only to be stopped by Wufei’s sword. "You two stay here. Onna have no place on the battlefield." The Chinese boy then ran out the door to his gundam.

Callisto crossed her arms over her chest and grinned rather smugly at Violet. "Told you he was-" "A loudmouth chauvinistic ass, I know." The other finished, tossing her pale hair over one shoulder. Callisto grabbed her friend’s hand and headed for where StarBlade had been hidden. "Let’s go." Violet grinned as both her jet and the silver gundam rose into the air.

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Heero turned around in time to see another mobile suit coming at him. Wing Zero’s beam saber flashed and the Leo split in half. Trowa’s face appeared onscreen and the Japanese boy asked curtly, "What are the statistics?" The French pilot continued to shoot down Leos and Aries suits as he responded, "We miscalculated. There are too many suits and we’re tiring out." "Has the base been destroyed?" "Negative. Duo’s been working on it."

Wufei cursed as Altron cut down suit after suit. He turned around in time to see a Leo shoot at him. It was too late to move or even block. A black jet zoomed in front of him and blocked the blast. Violet’s smiling face appeared on his screen. "Hey Wu, still think we onna have no place on the battlefield?" The Chinese boy glared at his cousin and snapped, "Okay, okay, I was wrong. Can we talk later?"

Elsewhere, miles away, Duo Maxwell cursed as he tried to destroy his target. "OUTTA MY WAY!!!" Just as he finished cutting down a Leo, the base exploded in an explosion of flames. Duo squinted through the smoke to see which of his fellow gundam pilots had finally gotten through the hordes of mobile suits and completed their mission. In the white snow and glaciers, the American boy could just make out the shape of StarBlade standing in the ruins of the demolished base, holding a double-sided beam saber in one gundanium hand. He blinked and rubbed the back of his neck. "Callisto? Violet? I thought Wu-man told you guys to stay at the safe house." Epyon II stepped out of the rubble and closer to DeathScythe Hell. "Do you think we should’ve stayed?"

Quatre’s Sandrock approached and the blond Arabian said, "There’s no point in saying you should’ve stayed behind now. Besides, if you two didn’t come, we’d probably still be fighting." Wufei glowered at his comrades. "Okay, you two saved the day. Can we go home now?"

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"Admit it Wu, we saved your butt when you didn’t think we could!" "I’m not admitting anything!" Violet’s face showed very little emotion but it was quite easy to tell by the smug gleam in her gold eyes. Quatre looked at the cousins and asked, "Just how are you two related?"

Violet’s neutral face split into a huge grin and she glomped onto the blond Arabian. "His *Chinese* aunt married my *American* dad. Get it?" "So you’re half-Chinese?" Violet tightened her hold on him and practically purred. "E~XACTLY!!!"

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"Damage report, Jackson?" The soldier shrugged at his superior. "What damage report, sir? Both the base and the research center were completely obliterated." "Hm…" Zechs dismissed Jackson and propped his chin up in his hands. His ice blue eyes flicked from the blueprints of Epyon and the strange new gundam. "Could it be?"

Pushing the papers away, he booted up his computer. His fingers ran over the board, the sound of keys clicking filling up the silence. The screen flickered and a silver mobile suit appeared. It was quite similar to Epyon but at the same time, it looked like a silver angel, sleek and dangerous. Long graceful wings that Epyon lacked were spread wide, giving the gundam the look of an angel. "A *deadly* angel."

His fingers continued to click against the board. The screen popped up two images, one of a young Chinese woman and an Asian girl. "Hm… Dr. Ling… an engineer on L6…" Zechs typed another command but all other information on her was classified. "Dammit." He muttered as he tried to find information on the girl. "06, classified." Zechs read the bold letters off the screen and suddenly, it all came together. His eyes gleamed from under his mask. "Pilot 06."

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"WHY THE *BEEP* CAN’T YOU JUST ADMIT IT, YOU LOUDMOUTH, CHAUVINISTIC, GUNDAM-UP-YOUR-ASS, SWORD CRAZED ASS?!" Violet shouted at her cousin, who was covering his ears from the force of her yell. Callisto sighed and rolled her dark eyes. Her friend had been yelling for a good ten minutes but as always, her face depicted no emotion whatsoever. The dark haired girl couldn’t tease her about it, she had the same problem herself. Duo scratched his head and looked curiously at Violet. "You’re pissed off, aren’t you?" "AAARGH!!!"

A violent jolt rocked the shack, followed by a blinding explosion. "It’s OZ!" Trowa shouted, "They’ve found us!" "You sure it’s not just Relena?" "Move it, Maxwell!" Seven figures ran out of the safe house and to the camouflaged gundams. "How many are there?" "Ten Leos, three prototype Virgoes." "You guys go, I’ll take care of it." "Heero! Come on!" "I’ll stay with him, go on!" "Callisto! I told you to go!"

Altron, Deathscythe Hell, Sandrock, HeavyArms, and Violet’s jet flew through the air, leaving StarBlade and Wing Zero behind. Callisto and Heero locked glares as the girl snapped, "We don’t have to fight. They’ll never catch us if we leave now." Her statement fell on deaf ears as Wing lunged forward, beam saber in hand. "You stupid…" Callisto muttered as she jumped into the fray. The silver whip on StarBlade’s wrist glowed red-hot as it sliced through Leos. Before Wing could destroy the rest of the mobile suits, StarBlade grabbed Zero by its wings and flew through the air after the others.

Heero’s acid glare might’ve melted the gundam itself had it been possible. "I told you to go! Why didn’t you let me destroy them?" Callisto glared right back as she answered coolly, "It wouldn’t make any difference. We’d just give OZ an easier way to find us, am I right?" The fire in the other’s cobalt eyes died down slightly. "We needed to get to our next position anyway. Come on."

The two gundams streaked across the sky, like shooting stars. From afar, Zechs Marquise, the Lightening Count, watched the sky and wondered about the curious silver blur that vanished before his eyes just as quickly as it had come.

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