Okay so this is my first Cyborg 009 multiple chapter fic. I'm a bit nervous about it so I may have messed up on the characters' personalities a bit. Thankfully I started a notesheet with each characters' personality traits :D Anyways I hope you enjoy this first chapter of this story!
" " - Regular talking
' ' -Thinking
" " - Ivan/001 talking
Cyborg 009 and its characters belong to Shotaro Ishinomori and any other rightful owners. Nanu belongs to Nanu.
Three years. It had been three years since the Black Ghost organization was no longer in existence. It had been three years since 002 and 009 fell from space with each other back to earth.
The rest of the cyborg team remembered 001 telling them that 002 and 009 were safe and alive. The only problem was that 001 fell asleep after telling them about 002 and 009. They had no idea where the two fellow cyborgs were now.
After a string of bad words from several of the cyborgs, the group decided it would be best for 007 to transform into a lifeboat for Dr. Gilmore, 001, 006 and 003 while 008,005 and 004 would swim along side 007. Despite 003's offer to trade being in the 007 lifeboat so her teammates could rest for a while from swimming, 008 politely reminded her that they were cyborgs who could swim longer than a human could.
It was nearly an hour before they found a ship and they climbed aboard, answering only a few of the captain's questions. One of the questions they ignored was how did 007 suddenly appear in front of their eyes and what happened to the lifeboat they had just climbed out of.
001 woke up then, completely unaware of his surroundings and asked for a bottle of milk.
While 005 went to the kitchen to ask for some milk, 003 begged for 001 to tell them the location of their missing teammates, 009 and 002. 001 immediately told them, sensing the worry from all of his teammates. It was a suppressing emotion and the infant cyborg didn't want to feel such a thing after having a quick nap.
They immediately made plans once they found out the location of their teammates as soon as they got off the boat. Luckily, for them, their teammates were not that far, possibly about 200 miles away.
003 remembered when they found 002 and 009. Her heart leapt with joy, seeing them almost perfectly in tact. They looked worn out though and had a few marks scattered across their bodies.
But no one expected how the near death experience would change the cyborgs' leader.
When they got back to Dr. Kozumi's house in Japan, 009 hardly spoke a word to anyone. He would only answer simple yes or no questions but he did his best to do any errands for any of his teammates.
Then one day, 009 started changing into a happier man. He smiled often and even pulled a few jokes or pranks with 007 along the way.
Everyone that decided to stay in Japan was curious about what was making 009 so happy and so full of life. That's when they decided that they should send the best cyborg for the job on one autumn day: 003.
So the only female cyborg received acting lessons and a disguise by 007, the "spy expert".
Yet with all the training 007 gave her, 003 didn't expect to find what she did.
She had followed him all the way to a small local park. All the trees had many shades of yellow, red and even orange. But the colors didn't stand out to her that day; it was the girl who Joe would embrace then would give her a small kiss on the lips.
From where 003 was standing, the girl appeared to be 18 and she was probably about three to four inches taller than she was. 003 thought the girl had a unique blonde hairstyle; one side was shorter than the other side. 003 thought that maybe if she was looking at the girl right in the eye, then the longer side of hair was on the right. It looked like the girl had a white stripe on the right side. The girl's name she heard from Joe was Nanu and 003 had to admit that Nanu had beautiful green eyes with specs of brown tinting them. 003 noted that the girl had a pear shaped body and knew how to dress well. She had dressed herself in a dark forest green long sleeved cowl neck t-shirt that fit her perfectly. To go with the shirt, Nanu was wearing a midnight blue pair of boot cuts jeans and a jean jacket of the same color that was waist length.
As much as 003 wanted to loathe this girl, she found herself congratulating Nanu. 003 realized long ago that the 009 she loved was gone and never coming back. The new 009 was her best friend and she wondered if the girl named Nanu would someday be one too. Nevertheless, at that moment, 003 decided to leave the couple alone as she started heading back home to tell 007 and 006 she lost track of the ruby-eyed cyborg.
Present Day
"003 my dear girl. Can you come into my study please?" Dr. Gilmore murmured, knowing the female cyborg would hear him perfectly well.
003 came in, returning from working at 006's restaurant while still in her uniform. She now was the head waitress because she could hear the costumers better if they needed something thanks to her enhanced hearing. In addition, 003 never called in from food poisoning after trying a new dish of 006's. To cease 006's pleading she gave into the idea of the head waitress having a special Chinese dress though she made a few requirements for it. The head female server's uniform had a unique design. The dress was ankle length and it was two toned, with a white a-line skirt at the bottom. The dress had a FengXian collar, something 006 insisted that must come with it. Most of the uniform was a deep sapphire blue with intricate white plum blossom designs. At the left side of the sapphire part of the uniform was a slit, exposing the white a-line skirt.
"What is it Professor?" 003 asked, removing a few white flower pins from her bun. Her hair cascaded down shortly below her shoulders in waves. 003 noted that she should have her hair worn like this more often.
"We are expecting some guests soon. Can you prepare the spare bedrooms?" Dr. Gilmore asked, looking up from his notes to look at the French cyborg.
"Sure Dr. Gilmore." 003 were about to head out of the study when she turned around again. "Do you want me to make the room furthest away from the other rooms Joe and Nanu's?"
"Yes if that isn't too much trouble for you. I recently had that room get specially designed walls that don't let sounds out but 009 and Nanu have surprised me quite a few times. You should take a nap afterwards 003. I know today must have been a busy day at work with the holidays drawing near."
"Only a little Dr. Gilmore. I'll get out of this outfit first and then I'll prepare the rooms." Before Dr. Gilmore could reply, 003 headed out of the study to go to her room.
After the beach house was in ruins, everyone decided that a new house should be built. The new house was large and looked like the original house but more westernized. The house now consisted of two floors and a basement for Dr. Gilmore to make any necessary repairs for the cyborgs. Dr. Gilmore remembered the little amount of rooms they had for all of the team so Dr. Gilmore wanted ten rooms for the house even though he knew that his cyborgs would most likely be returning to their homelands. 006 specifically asked for a state of the art kitchen just like his restaurant's. The cyborgs had added a few extras that the restaurant didn't have and it was now hard for 007 and 003 to get 006 out of the kitchen. Everyone in the house had their own favorite part of the house such as Dr. Gilmore and his study or 007 with the recreational room. Yet 003's was her balcony she had received as a special gift from her teammates. She enjoyed seeing the sunrise before she began her day and seeing the sunset when she wanted to relax.
003 walked into her room, reaching for the zipper on the back of her outfit when a small little clap stopped her from her movements. 003 smiled, turning towards the side of her room where a black crib stood out against the pale blue wall. She saw 001 standing up.
"You're back!" 001's telepathic voice cried out, his arms reaching out towards 003. He was dressed in a simple green footies pajama with yellow ducks. His yellow pacifier was in its usual location, his mouth. 003 went over to the crib, grabbing the infant out of crib and placed him on her hip. 001 no longer had to be held in someone's arms as he had started to grow mysteriously. The only conclusion Dr. Gilmore could think of was that the part of 001's brain didn't allow the suppressed natural physical and mental development of an infant to grow properly from the stress of Black Ghost. Now that Black Ghost was gone, the part of the infant's brain was suppressed for allowing natural development processes could begin. Despite this finding this out about this last year, 001 was beginning to grow into a body of a seven month old. They had noticed the mental development first. It all started when 003 had put 001 down for his usual long sleep. 001 started crying, refusing to lie in his bassinet until he fell asleep in 003's arms.
"Would you mind if I put you on the floor so I can change into some regular clothes?" 003 asked the blue haired infant. Her closet doors sprang open, exposing all of her clothes that were hanging.
"What would you like to wear?" 001 asked, his tiny hands gripping onto her dress.
003 peered into her closet, examining each article of clothing."The ivory long sleeved v neck shirt and the dark blue pair of jeans would be nice to wear today. Will you be okay with being by yourself?"
The clothes floated towards the bathroom, being gently set on the bathroom counter. With 001's slightly shaggy hair from the nap he had taken, 003 could see the infant almost roll his eyes at her question.
"I'll be fine. Just turn on the TV please before you go into the bathroom."
003 turned on the TV before she sat 001 on the carpeted floor. 003 headed into the bathroom, looking over her shoulder one last time to find 001 had turned the channel to Animal Planet about Bigfoot.
"How is that proof? That looks like something I could make with play doh."
003 bit her lower lip from laughing, amused by the infant's reaction to the TV show.
003 quickly went into the bathroom, pulling down the zipper on the dress. She quickly changed into the shirt and jeans, setting her uniform neatly aside. 003 put on a simple necklace with a jadestone on before she left the bathroom, finding 001 still criticizing the TV show.
003 scooped him up into her arms, ignoring his little whines about being torn away from the TV show.
"Dr. Gilmore needs me to prepare the guest rooms and I'm not leaving you alone," 003 explained even though she already knew that 001 would know why she wouldn't leave him alone. 003's motherly instincts to never leave a child kicked in even though 003 knew that 001 could take care of himself. But 001 didn't complain as he enjoyed 003's company. She was pretty much a mother to him.
"Christmas isn't for another three weeks. It's too early to have the rest of the team back." 001 commented, watching 003 head towards the first floor where all the guest rooms were.
003 nodded, opening the door to one of the rooms. "It is a bit early. Maybe Dr. Gilmore has missed everyone so he wants everyone to come sooner," 003 set 001 down onto the ground and headed to the closet to pull out the bed sheets, "He does call everyone at least twice a week."
001 was silent as 003 prepared the bedroom, looking around the room. The room had pale cream-colored walls with only a few paintings hanging upon them. The room also only had the necessities for a bedroom. There was a full sized mahogany wooden bed in the center of the room with silver and white sheets. Striped pillows were on the bed, ranging from brown to white. To match the bed, there were two nightstands on each side with two silver lamps. Across the bed was a mahogany vanity table three drawers on each side. There was a simple white stool to go with it while to the far right of the room was a mahogany dresser.
"Whose room is this going to be for 003?"
"This is Joe and Nanu's room. Only their room has the vanity table." 003 scooped up the infant when she noticed he was sucking on his fist. "Are you hungry?"
001 pulled out his fist, looking at 003. "Well I am a bit peckish."
003 smiled, heading towards the kitchen. She set him in the blue high chair before pulling out a few vegetables, some raw chicken breasts, some uncooked pasta and other ingredients to make a chicken and tomato pasta she found in a cookbook before. 003 had taken cooking lessons from 006 to help him out since 007 was usually at the restaurant with 006 and 009 was now living on his own with Nanu. With the restaurant's booming business, 003 offered (even though she really did not have a choice) to be left the task of making meals for everyone. She picked up the basics quickly, beginning with the simple dishes first then she began expanding her abilities further. She wasn't as good as 006 when it came to the Japanese or Chinese dishes, but she was excellent with French cuisine, different types of American cuisine, German and even some recipes 008 had told her about.
Now she was working on 001's meal of pureed vegetables and some pieces of pasta. She would start making some pasta for herself once 001 was eating.
003 heard the TV in the kitchen turn on, most likely caused by 001 as she heard the episode about Bigfoot. She quickly went to cutting the vegetables, losing herself into a memory when she first helped 006 prepare a meal on the Dolphin.
'I had that memory when 006 first opened up his restaurant-' Someone's hands suddenly covered 003's eyes.
"Hey Françoise!" the brash voice of 002 came from behind her when 003 felt her hand in pain.
"002 you made her cut her hand!" 001 commented, watching as 002 quickly removed his hands from 003's eyes.
"Shit! I was only just trying to see if I could play a joke on you 003" 002 said, grabbing 003's hand and examined it. There was a long gash across her index finger, pink liquid pouring from the wound.
003's hand was taken away from 002's hand, into the machine gun hand that belonged to the German cyborg they knew, 004.
"002 you should have listened to me. Now look what you done," 004 commented, leading 003 to the cabinet where the first aid kit was located.
003 was staring at her two teammates, listening to them bicker for a few moments.
"When did you two come here?" 003 asked, causing the two boys to stop their bickering.
"About ten minutes ago. I wanted to catch a bite to eat after we've been flying from China to here," Jet quickly plucked up a piece of vegetable 003 had cut and began to eat it.
"Oh. Wait you flew from China to here? Why in the world did you do that?" 003 asked, deciding not to chastise the aerial cyborg.
"Well I actually flew to from New Work to Germany to pick up 004. We made a bet with 007 over the phone that we could make it to Japan by today before he could make it here once he was off work. He owes us each $100," 002 smirked at his win.
003 turned her gaze onto 004, noticing he was putting some gauze on her finger.
"Why are you getting $100 Albert?"
004 applied the final additions to 003's bandages. "007 didn't think we could make the trip without killing each other first. It was a gamble at first but we managed with a few pit stops along the way. All done Françoise. You go relax while I'll finish making 001's dinner."
"I can't relax. I haven't finished preparing the guestrooms though."
004 looked over to 002, who raised an eyebrow at the German cyborg.
"What?"
"Go take care of the remaining guest rooms," 004 ordered, heading over to the counter to finish preparing 001's meal and begin 003's meal.
"Why do I have to? I'm the one who flew halfway around the world!" 002 argued, folding his arms across his chest defiantly.
004 sighed, turning towards the aerial cyborg. "I don't want to do this 002 but I'll call Cathy."
002's face blanched at 004's threat. "You wouldn't dare."
004 sent a 'Do you think I'm joking?' look at him.
"That's fucking low Heinrich. Threatening to call my girlfriend on me," 002 snarled before leaving the kitchen to head to the guestrooms.
The kitchen was silent; the only sounds filling the room were the TV and the sizzling sounds of the chicken.
"He's spending Christmas and New Years with us this year?" 003 asked, breaking the silence.
004 nodded, putting some of the now boiled vegetables into a blender to puree.
"Cathy called me when 002 was on his way to Germany. She noticed that the past two years 002 hasn't exactly had the best time while staying at her parents' house for Christmas and New Years. And even though he won't admit it, 002 missed all of us," 004 explained, scooping the pureed mix of vegetables from the blender and onto a small plate with the cooked pasta. He grabbed a small baby spoon for 001 before setting the plate on 001's tray.
"Have fun eating 001," 004 said, heading back over to the stove.
"Thank you 004," 001's spoon lifted itself into the air then it scooped up some of the vegetables. The spoon levitated towards the open mouth of 001, allowing the infant to keep his hands free.
"Now that's something you don't see very often," A surprised female voice said, causing everyone to turn around. 003 smiled, waving her injured hand.
"Hey Nanu, Joe."
009 waved back while Nanu smiled. 009 was wearing his brown trench coat and jeans despite there being snow on the ground. Nanu on the other hand, was wearing the appropriate clothing for the weather as she was wearing a nice wool charcoal colored jacket and a green turtle neck underneath it. She took off her matching gloves and hat off as they made their way to the small table, joining 003.
"What do you mean something you don't see very often Nanu?" 004 asked, finishing the sauce for the meal.
"You're cooking 004. We don't see it quite often," 009 answered for Nanu who nodded in agreement.
004 harrumphed, focusing his attention back to the cooking meal.
"003 got injured while cooking so I finished a meal for 001 and now I'm working on 003's while I sent 002 to prep the guest rooms."
"NO! You guys made it!" 007's cry startled them all, making 004 nearly drop the meal.
"Frannie, I think you need maintenance for your hearing. That's the second time you haven't noticed people coming," 002 called out from the guest rooms.
A big vein mark appeared on 003's forehead, a frown on her face. "Shut it Jet! I recently had maintenance about a week ago Jet. I just had a tiring day at work. Anyways hello Pyunma and Geronimo."
The rest of the cyborgs turned, finding 005, 008, 006, 002 and Dr. Gilmore coming into the kitchen.
"Ah good. You all are here," Dr. Gilmore said, taking a seat next to 009.
"Yes but Dr. Gilmore, why did you want us here a week early for the holidays?" 008 asked, leaning against the frame of the entrance of the kitchen.
Dr. Gilmore pulled out a thick white envelope and handed it to 009.
004 handed 003 a bowl of the pasta then he went behind 009, peering over his shoulder.
"What's in the envelope Dr. Gilmore?" 004 asked as 009 opened the envelope.
009's ruby eyes widen, nearly dropping the envelope.
"Joe?" Nanu shook her boyfriend's shoulder, snapping him out of his surprised daze.
"They're plane tickets. We got plane tickets," Joe whispered, turning to all of his former teammates.
"Plane tickets to where?" 005 asked, taking 001 out of his high chair as he was done with his meal.
"They're plane tickets to Las Vegas," 004 answered, his eyebrow arched at the idea of going to Sin City.
Everyone was silent, frozen in his or her spots.
"LAS VEGAS?" Everyone screeched all at once.
So how was it? I'm curious to here what you readers think of it already :) (I hope it's good things...) Anyways I was going to post this up on the 17th but I ended up falling asleep so I decided to post it up today!
Just to let you all know now, I update every three weeks, usually on Saturdays. Why? Well I've tried different methods of creating a schedule and they didn't seem to work until I started trying this one out. One week is for another story I'm working on, one week will be for this story and the week after that is for working on other projects I'm working on or any one-shots that come into my mind.
I'll end this little AN note now. Please some type of love but not the stalkerish kind unless I know you. That's okay love 8D
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