(Enter in at a coffee house, with Duo and Heero sitting at a booth in the corner.)

Duo: So, Hee-chan, why did you call me here?

Heero: Because, I don't think we totally got rid of Romefellar.

Duo: We didn't? Are you sure?

Heero: Not really. But I've noticed some suspicious events going on.

Duo: Like what?

Heero: Well, last night, my computer crashed, and I've been getting weird e-mails lately.

Duo: Oh, well, this morning, I heard this weird beeping coming from my shoe. I checked it out, and found this. *pulls out a tracking device* What do you think it is?

Heero: *takes the bug* A tracking device.

Duo: Oh yeah, I also noticed some of my stuff is missing.

Heero: What are you missing?

Duo: Well, I found my self destruct button missing.

Heero: What were you doing with your self-destruct button?

Duo: Oh, I was trying to fix it. 'Cause you know, it never works anymore.

Heero: Hn. Maybe there's a reason for that.

Duo: What are you getting at?

Heero: Maybe someone made it malfunction, so you wouldn't be able to self-destruct.

Duo: Well, than maybe whoever did that, I have to thank with my life. 'Cause if I ever did self-destruct, I probably wouldn't be here now.

*********

Kiche Namenio walked down the street, looking for her comrade.

Kiche: *looks at watch* He should be here soon. *sighs* Well, he's 30 minutes late, that's to be expected.

????: Hey, Kiche, sorry I'm late!

Kiche: Don't worry about it. Got any new information, Jack?

Jack: Well, not that much, because they had more guards posted than the other nights. But I got some information on some of the troops locations. There's one around the Perry Hill apartment complex. They're underground, and there are about 50 of them.

Kiche: All right, we'll evacuate the building then demolish it. The troop won't even know what hit them.

Jack: Yeah, we'll get rid of those Hell's Gate bastards!

Kiche: Shh! We don't want anyone to know!

Jack: Right, sorry.

Little did they know, but a person standing by the nearby tree overheard their conversation, and his face was expressionless as he went off to find the others.

Kiche: *pauses* Did you hear that?

Jack: Hear what?

Kiche: Hmm.. someone overheard our conversation.

Jack: You sure?

Kiche: Yeah, let's just make sure that person doesn't spoil our plans. Wait by the complex, I'll meet you there in 2 hours. We'll think of how to evacuate everyone then. You planted the explosives, right?

Jack: Don't worry, *pulls out detonator* it's all taken care of.

Kiche: Good, see ya in 2 hours. *turns around and runs off*

*******

Trowa ran to the coffee house where Heero said he would be.

Trowa: I wonder who those people are. And what they talked about, troops from Hell's Gate, I wonder what that is? Maybe Heero will know something; he's pretty good at hacking into stuff. Ah, there it is. Finally.

Trowa walked into the coffee house, and found Heero and Duo in the booth in the corner.

Duo: Hey Trowa, what's up? Is Quatre around?

Trowa: No, he isn't. Although I wish he was. Heero, I need to talk to you.

A couple minutes later...

Heero: Perry Hill? You sure?

Trowa: From what I heard, yes.

Duo: But they're evacuating it first? How are they going to do that?

Trowa: I don't know. *to Heero* So, do you think you could look into Hell's Gate? Because they said there was a troop of about 50 hiding under the apartments.

Heero: Do you know why they want to get rid of the Hell's Gate?

Trowa: No, I don't know. *looks at his watch* We better get going if we're going to try and stop them from destroying the complex.

Heero: Right.

All three of them leave, and head back to their safehouse, one of Quatre's mansions.

******

Kiche walked up to complex. So big. It's gotta have a pretty big basement too. No wonder those troops are hiding here.

Jack: Hey Kiche, who's late now?

Kiche: No one. I'm fifteen minutes early. I've got an idea for how we can get everyone out.

Jack: Really, how?

Kiche: I started a fire on the roof, so we can tell everyone to evacuate. We'll blow it up afterwards.

Jack: I'm surprised I didn't think of that. It's a good plan.

Kiche: Well, the fire's burning away. Let's proceed with our plans, *gestures towards the complex* shall we?

Jack: *rubs hands together* Let's. *both run off to the complex entrance.

******

Meanwhile, at Quatre's place…Heero: *on his laptop* I found something.

Duo: Whatcha find, Hee-chan?

Heero: Hell's Gate. It says here that the organization used to be called Romefellar, but changed after they got a new leader. The leader is now, *types a little more on the computer* Timonya Rike. *on the screen is a picture of a woman about 31 years old, with purple hair and green eyes.* She was responsible for gathering what remained of Romefellar and building a new mobile suit to reinforce their success. The new mobile suit is: *more clicking* Scorpio. *on the screen is a picture of a turquoise suit with a machine gun.* Looks like it has an optional beam cannon too. These are being made into mobile dolls as well.

Trowa: Looks pretty powerful.

Heero: I'll try and find the battle records. Wha? *a message came up on his laptop* Get off now. You don't need to know this information? *he read it over*

Trowa: Whose it from?

Heero: Doesn't say.

Duo: Don't you think we should go to the complex now? It's been about 2 hours. They might have done something already, right?

Trowa: He's got a point. Let's go.

Heero: Right. Come on Duo. *tugs on Duo's braid*

Duo: Ow! Okay, okay! I'm coming!

******

A little while before that...

Kiche and Jack quickly got everyone out of the complex, and made them go across the street. They also got the people in neighboring buildings out, saying the fire could spread.

Kiche: Got the detonator?

Jack: *pulls out a video-game sized communicator with a large red button on it.* Right here.

Kiche: Good. Go ahead.

Jack: The honors mine. *gets ready to push the button*

Heero: Stop!

Jack: *looks up*

Kiche: Don't worry about him.

Jack: Right. *presses the button, and the building starts to crumble as it blows up.*

Kiche: *looks at Heero, Trowa and Duo running over to them* Let's get out of here.

Jack: *puts the detonator away* My pleasure. *they both run off*

Heero: Dammit! We couldn't stop them!

Duo: They're getting away! C'mon, we gotta stop them! *he runs off, followed by Heero and Trowa.

Duo: Hey you two! Stop!

Heero: It'll do no good yelling, they won't listen.

Duo: Well than what do you suggest?

Trowa: I suggest you guys stop talking, because you'll only slow down.

Duo: *looks at Trowa, nods, then speeds up*

Heero: *just speeds up*

After about 15 minutes, Trowa, Heero, and Duo had to stop running, because it was about 9:00 pm and just about pitch-black. So, they headed back to their safehouse to get some sleep.

******

Meanwhile...

After losing Trowa and his company, Kiche and Jack went their separate ways. Jack went to his house (which just happened to be underground), and Kiche went to her little campground (which was basically a tent, a fire pit, and her stuff). When she got there, she didn't bother starting a fire. Because she was so tired, she went right to her tent and got into her sleeping bag and looked at the picture of her brother. He had medium brown hair and large violet eyes, and always wore a huge grin plastered on his face.

Kiche: Cody Namenio...or rather Duo Maxwell, you'll learn my secret soon enough.

And with that last thought, Kiche surrendered herself to sleep.

~End Part 1~

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