It has been two months since the attack. She was still a little weak, but there was too much responsibility weighing on her shoulders. Despite of her brother and Noin’s pleadings to take a few more weeks to rest, she decided that she was tired of laying in bed and have everyone treating her as if she were an invalid. She realized that the amount of bodyguards with her went from two to six. She decided not to argue about it for she knew of her brother’s paranoia, and would let him have his way…just for now. She would confront him later. His brother seemed to have a lot on his mind, but she knew her brother well enough. She wasn’t going to prod anything until he was ready to talk to her.
Other changes, the more pleasant ones, were that she began to see all of the gundam pilots, well, almost all of them. They seemed to be very concerned about her, but then they were like her brothers…paranoid brothers. She was seeing lots of Trowa too, the usually silent pilot. ‘This must be another one of Milliardo’s plot to protect me…’ she thought to herself. She didn’t mind it that much, for she enjoyed their company. She was most surprised about the plans Milliardo had told her:
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“Relena, now that you are better, I thought of a new away to amuse your life. Since you always think that all politics is no fun” Zechs had said.
“What do you have in mind brother?” said Relena staring at her brother and the other four gundam pilots Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei.
“Well, they have all decided to teach you a little about self defense, it might be fun and … well… it might be good for you. Duo will teach you target shooting, Trowa will teach you how to throw daggers with the help of Catherine, Wufei will teach you some martial arts, and Quatre, well…he won’t be teaching you self defense skills, but he will teach survival skills at the boring political meetings…” Zechs finished.
“Oh, after various assassinations attempts you decided that I needed to learn some survival skills. That sounds great, I would love it. Thank you guys.”
“Yeah ojousan, it’s always been a dream of mine to teach my skills to a pretty lady like yourself. Since I’m quite the ladies man, I’m sure you’ll enjoy my company like the rest of them…” said Duo while putting his arms on Relena’s shoulder…
“Like the rest of them Duo? You must mean like the only woman that could stand you, Hilde, am I right?” said Relena with a wicked smile…
“Oh man…you are cruel ojousan…”
everybody laughed.
“Miss Darlian” said a voice over the intercom on her desk “Colonel Zechs and Miss Noin are in the conference room waiting for you.”
“Thanks Nell, I’ll be right over.”
At the conference room:
“Milliardo, Ms Noin you were looking for me.”
“Yes Relena, we have a situation…the Amazon’s have been taken over.” Said Zechs directly. He was the type of man that got right to the point. People appreciated that, especially those close to him.
“I see.” Replied Relena calmly “I can also see that they have not broken through the codes yet since they are still alive and coming after me. They will not be able to get to it without me, and even if they do, they will not live to see what is inside.”
“Relena, we need to get to it first. If the base was to blow up, only a minor portion of them will die, there are still many of the rebels behind it, and they have the weaponry to start another war, the only way to prevent it is we getting to the Amazon base first.” Noin said.
“How do you know about their weaponry.” Inquired Relena…
Noin was about to say it but Zechs interrupted, pursposely “it doesn’t matter how we found out, we just did, we have enough professionals to find things out easily, don’t forget that we have the Preventers. They are coming after you Relena, we need to take all the precautions. That base and what it contains is our only chance to prevent another bloody war to break loose. We need to get there.”
“That’s why you decided to train me, because I need to go there…” replied Relena, her expression always stoic…she has learned to be calm even in the most strenuous moments, something she’s learned the past four years serving as a political figure.
“You’ll have escorts with you, but it’s always better if you can defend yourself just in case.” Continued Zechs “also, don’t forget the next Earth Alliance meeting will be held at the Peacecraft Palace, I decided on that already. I will not risk you to attend the meeting at the Alliance Tower, so I took the liberty of changing the location to a place where I take care of the security.”
“very well then, I presume that Duke Dermail will be there as well.” Replied Relena.
“I’m afraid so, all the leaders from the colonies and militia will be attending this meeting. Some are very concerned about your welfare, but none of them know about the Amazon matter.” Said Noin.
“Duke Dermail, I’m sure he is disappointed that the bullet did not kill me.” Said Relena as she narrowed her eyes.