~Chapter There~

Surprises

\…to the morning…/

"Good morning, Relena." Noin smiled and rose. Relena looked over to Noin then at the guys.

"Have you decided?" Her tone stunned them. Relena was standing just in front of the now closed door to her quarters. Her hair was French braided just like the previous day and she wore tight black pants that disappeared behind black leather knee high boots which had two small silver buckles on the outside of the shaft. Two silver guns were contained on the outside of each thigh and two black leathered straps held them securely to her. A plain silver clasp connected the leather belt and there were some compartments attached to it on her right hip. Her top was a burgundy, fitted sleeveless. There was a thin black leather belt with a smooth simple clasp around her waist covering where her shirt converged with her pants, the belt to her gun holsters about three inches below it. The black leather was barely noticeably but the silver clasps stole your attention. Heero couldn't take his eyes from her. She was a sight to behold and that's exactly what he wanted to do. 'Ah, she's so different.' He looked to her side; in her hand were the small straps connected to her duffel bag. He ran his eyes up her arm to see her bicep fully flexed. 'What ever she's got in there is heavy or there's just a lot of stuff.' He pondered further trying to think of what she had in there and why.

"Heero?" Relena's sweet voice rang out.

"Huh?" He snapped to full attention. "What?" He asked deeply and coldly. He looked to where the voice had sounded from and realized it was Relena. He flashed her an apologetic look and lowered his head. He repeated his question with a quick look after a moment of silence.

"You're the only one who hasn't answered yet, though I'm pretty sure of your answer." She grinned; her voice was sweet like normal or what he had thought to be normal.

"Answer to what?" He asked bring his head vertical again.

"Heero?" She seemed puzzled.

"Ok. Well we have to get going." Sally looked at Relena; she nodded her answer. The girls stood followed by the guys and headed for the door. Relena and Heero did not move.

"We'll meet you there?" Hilde asked.

"Yes." She replied never looking away from Heero. A heartbeat later the group left leaving Relena and Heero by themselves. "Heero are you alright? You aren't acting like yourself."

"I'm fine, it's just all of this is a little hard to swallow."

"I understand but this is no time to loose one's head. You've got to stay sharp, Heero."

"Why? Who are you fighting?"

"An enemy thought long disbanded."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Do you know of Zion?"

"Yes they tried to have the colonies freed from Earth, Operation Meter was based on that."

"Well we're apart of Operation Stardust. We were the second part nobody knew about."

"But why you…and them?" Heero nodded to the door.

"Come on, 'somebody's' about to explain that to them." Relena picked up the duffel she had put down and exited the room with a hesitant Heero behind her.