Hi everyone! Another one of those experimental fics of mine… And its sooo hard to come up with a summary so just read it! I know that you want the summary but please read this, I had fun writing this and of course, the plot WILL thicken!
Notes: The italics are MOMO's personal thoughts. ^_^ And there's some Japanese words too. The ages and their grades of the characters are taken from Japanese school system. Also, MOMO is a bit OOC.
Coupling: Jr./MOMO (MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!), possibly chaos/KOS-MOS and Shion/?
Their ages are:
Jr. and MOMO: 15, freshmen
Tony, chaos and Hammer: 16, sophomores
Shion: 17, senior
Disclaimer: I don't own Xenosaga.
Amber Cradle
My life is so stupid…
Why do you ask? Let me tell you.
I attend this school in Second Miltia, which was a very expensive school but then…
Everyone in our school sucks at piloting A.G.W.S. that was the 'sport' nowadays. I guess no one had interests in piloting those machines except me, the daughter of the owner of the school…
And because of that, whenever we, the students of Kaiou Highschool go out in public, students from the other schools bully us…
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, I was also bullied but I fought back… and because of that, my schoolmates were bullied too.
It all started when…
3rd person point of view…
"Momo, let's eat here!" a girl with black hair said excitedly, pointing at the fast food.
"That café? Aya, I think this café is owned by one of the school directors of the other school, Toukai Highschool…"
"What do they care? We have the money, right? Let's go!" Aya Ishikawa grabbed her friend's hand and they entered the café.
Minutes later, a limousine pulled up into the restaurant and the driver got out of the car, opening the passenger door. A 15-year-old boy got out of the car, wearing shades and he entered the fast food restaurant, with two of his companions opening the door for him… They all headed to the upper floor…
"Sir!" his schoolmates bowed at him as he passed by.
"H-hey, j-just sit down, you don't need to stand up and bow!" the 15-year old said and they complied with his request…
"How's it going?" he asked as they all sat at their usual place.
"Nothing much, Jr.-san. About our A.G.W.S. units…"
"Oh, don't worry about those. We're the best in Second Miltia, right? And even the Second Miltian Government is funding our school!" Jr. said.
Minutes later, two girls started to go into the second floor but some students from the same school Jr. attended stopped them. "Hey, you can't come here."
"And why not?" Aya asked haughtily.
"We just said so! Go down the stairs and eat there! That's where you all Kaiou students belong!" the boy pushed Momo's bestfriend down the stairs…
"Aya-san!" Momo rushed down the stairs to help her friend. "Are you alright?!"
"And you…" another guy said. "You're her friend, right? Well… get ready for some punishment…" and minutes later, Momo found herself surround by EVERY Toukai student in the café…
"Hey, where are Souichirou and Akira?" Jr. asked as he looked around the café but found no one in sight. He had just been to the bathroom and when he got out, his schoolmates were gone. The red head went out to the balcony to find all his schoolmates bullying two girls. Much to his amusement, the pink-haired one was fighting back by drenching his friends, Souichirou and Akira with some soda… He knew that those guys wouldn't back down from challenges even if their enemy were a girl… Jr. ran down the stairs and went outside.
"What's happening here?" he asked everyone. The two girls being bullied looked at him but the pink-haired one with amber eyes glared at him angrily.
"These friends of yours pushed my best friend down the stairs!" Momo yelled angrily.
"Hey, we told you not to proceed."
"Fine! If you don't want us to go to that café, then don't! Even though we go to Kaiou doesn't mean you can bully us around you arrogant idiots!" the girl yelled. "Aya-san, let's get going to Papa's hospital… its near."
"Hospital? The Mizrahi Hospital? You're his daughter?" Jr. asked.
"What if I am? Aya-san, let's get going. Can you walk?" she asked and her best friend nodded her head, looking a bit tired.
"Wait! Let me take you there." 'Rubedo' volunteered.
With Aya just hiding behind her, she got a nearby glass of soda and poured it over Jr.'s head. "No thanks."
Everyone gasped in horror as Jr. shut his eyes. After Momo poured half of the contents, he got the glass. "Soft drinks are made for drinking, not for pouring over one's head." And drank the rest of the content.
"Whatever." With that, she walked off.
And because of that, the Toukai students made their move to bully my fellow schoolmates just because I spilled that soda on Gaignun Kukai Jr.'s head! And why the hell are they taking their anger on my schoolmates?! And so, I took Aya-san;s advice after visiting her in the hospital today: Apologize to Gaignun Jr.
'Fine!' I said but I won't say sorry… 'I'll make a proposal instead!' There's no way I'll go down on my knees and beg…
So, with a letter in my hand, I headed Toukai Highschool and headed to their 'A.G.W.S. practice room'.
Momo entered the practice room where the students said Gaignun Jr. was… When she started to walk around, she felt the ground shake and knew bullets headed her way… She rolled on the floor to prevent the bullets from piercing her frail body. "Hey!"
"Nice dodging!" a voice remarked and she looked straight ahead. To her irritation, his two clowns were with him… And had triumphant smiles on their faces!
"Whatever." She said. Her pose was quite silly; her right foot just slid a bit sideward in a 45-degree angle while her left was supporting all her weight…
"You're the first person to dodge my bullets." Another person said. She stood up and came face-to-face with Gaignun Jr., who just came down from his A.G.W.S. His school uniform was all wrinkled now and his necktie was loose. His polo shirt was opened up to his chest, showing his broad chest.
"Really now? I'm flattered." She said sarcastically.
Jr. grinned and asked, "So… why did you came here?"
Momo gave him an envelope. "Here."
"What? You just came here to give me a love letter?" Jr. looked like his birthday had come early. His sapphire blue eyes were gleaming happily.
"Idiot. It's a challenge letter." She said.
The 15-year-old boy's smile faded but nonetheless opened the envelope and unfolded the letter. "You're challenging us to an A.G.W.S. battle next week?"
"Of course. 3-on-3 battle to be exact. If we win, you promise not to bully the students of Kaiou anymore. If you win, that café belongs to you."
"Sure, why not? I also have a proposal as well."
"What?" Momo crossed her arms.
"If either of us win…" he eyed her. "I'll announce to everyone that I'm going to court Momo Mizrahi and make her my girlfriend." Jr. smiled.
In anger, she slapped him on the right cheek. "Sorry but I'm not your 'flavor of the week', you playboy. Bother someone else with your jokes." The pink-haired girl stomped out of the 'practice room'.
'What nerve that guy has! Does he think I'm an easy girl?! There's no way I'll fall in love with such a guy! Of all the people that I hate, it's him. Who does he think he is? Even though he's the son of the owner of the Kukai Foundation, he can't boss me around!'
"Momo, what are we going to do? We can never find A.G.W.S. pilots that easy!" Hammer said few days later, 2 days to be exact.
"We can! You, Tony and me can handle it! I'm good at piloting!"
"Me? I can only do strategies but never pilot! And Tony can wreck his A.G.W.S. before the battle starts! We should find some people who are fit for the job. Maybe Shion Uzuki, a 3rd year, can do the job. They say she's good at piloting A.G.W.S." Hammer suggested.
"She's… a senior, right?"
"Yup." Tony said.
"That settles it! I'll find her right away! See you guys later!" Momo left the room and dashed away.
Momo ran up the stairs to the third floor, where the seniors' classrooms are located… She needs to find Shion Uzuki… and fast before classes start that morning.
"Um… excuse me." She said to a passing female student.
"Yes?"
"Um… what section is Uzuki-sempai?"
"She's in 3-A."
Momo blinked. The A.G.W.S. pilot was in section A, the best class…? Wow, her sempai must be really that intelligent! Finally, she went to the classroom that says '3-A'…
"Can I help you with something?" a woman wearing eyeglasses asked.
"C-can I please speak to Uzuki Shion-sempai?"
"You're speaking to her right now." The girl smiled. "What is it?"
"Well… I-I challenged Toukai Highschool to an A.G.W.S. fight and… I still need two pilots…"
"You challenged Toukai? Wow, you must be really confident to beat them."
"Its because I can't stand the way they treat us Kaiou students. I made a proposal that if we win, they won't bully us anymore."
"I see… Two more pilots, right? I'll ask my friend in 2nd year if he can pilot his A.G.W.S. for us."
"Thank you, sempai." Momo bowed gratefully.
"No problem." The girl wearing eyeglasses winked at her.
"Wait, Uzuki-sempai." Momo said as Shion was about to enter her classroom. "What A.G.W.S. will you use?"
"Um… VX-10000."
"A prototype, right? Do you… bring it to school?"
"No…"
"Will it be alright for me to call your house right now and ask if they could bring it to school, sempai?"
"Really? Thank you!" Shion said. "The 2nd year boy I'm telling you about always brings his A.G.W.S. to school so there's no problem."
"Alright. Please go to the practice field after class, sempai. We'll start practicing today."
Shion nodded and proceeded to enter her classroom. Momo went to the principal's office and called up her sempai's home to ask for the A.G.W.S. Then, she called her father at the office to ask for her prototype VX-4000…
After classes…
Many students gathered around the trucks as A.G.W.S.s were brought to school that day. Shion herself got the red A.G.W.S. while Momo tried hard not to jump to the cockpit and try out the prototype her father gave her…
After classes that day, everyone was excited to see A.G.W.S.s being delivered here in Kaiou by Papa's company! Uzuki-sempai was surprised to see her own mecha at school and she thanked me with a hug and a kiss… Sempai is so nice… The boy she was talking about was named chaos and he got an AG-02. Even though it wasn't a Vector one, it was a nicely made gear. I heard that Hammer made it for chaos because the silver-haired boy saved him once from some bullies. Uzuki-sempai and chaos-sempai were good pilots but I'm no good! I only tried the simulation but I haven't piloted the real VX-4000!
As Uzuki-sempai started to practice with chaos, little did we know someone would pay us a visit…
"chaos-sempai, please aim your guns properly." Momo Mizrahi yelled through the practice field and suddenly, the guns fired without warning. The people within the 500-meter vicinity, including the pink-haired girl fell to the ground from the impact.
"Sorry about that, Momo." chaos said sheepishly.
"Its alright, sempai!" she said and stood up, dusting her skirt. "I'm fine."
The AG-02 suddenly disappeared and chaos stood in its place. "Momo, why don't you start piloting your VX-4000 now? If you can't, me and Shion can help you pilot it properly."
"Thank you!" With that, Momo jumped up and got into the cockpit.
While Momo was piloting, a 15-year old boy wearing shades entered the campus. He was wearing the Toukai School uniform for boys. He wore a long sleeved polo with a necktie hanging loosely on his neck with matching charcoal colored pants. On his feet were black leather shoes…
"Hey, you can't enter here. Momo-san's practicing her A.G.W.S. here!" male seniors told him.
Momo-san…? "Actually, I want to talk to her…" he said and took off the shades.
"You're a Toukai student? Let's see what I can do." A blonde sophomore said. "Hey peaches, someone's looking for you!"
"Tony, stop calling me 'peaches'!! I have a name and its Momo!!!!!" a familiar voice said. "And who's looking for me?" the amber-eyed girl turned her gear to Tony's direction. "Gaignun Jr.?!?!" she yelled in surprise. She forgot that she was piloting an A.G.W.S. and before she knew it, her head slammed hard against the cockpit.
"Momo, are you all right?!" Shion asked, kneeling near the cockpit. At once, the head part of the VX-4000 opened and the pink-haired girl crawled out.
"I'm fine…" she said and stood up at once.
"You have a wound! Hey, someone get a first aid kit! Momo's bleeding!" she yelled and one sophomore started to run towards the clinic.
"I'm fine, really! Its only a wound!" she said.
"Hey Momo." A masculine voice said.
The girl turned around and saw a goofy smile on Jr.'s face. Immediately, she had the sudden urge to punch him in the face and wipe off the smile from his face. "What do you want? And don't call me Momo! We're not THAT close yet!"
"Is it bad to visit your school? I don't see anything wrong with that."
"Whatever, just leave! We're practicing here!" she yelled.
"Practicing? You're practicing in THAT?" he pointed at her skintight clothing.
"Its called a plug suit if you don't know." She said, looking at him angrily. "And it's the proper wear for piloting an A.G.W.S."
"I call it slutty." He commented.
Momo didn't reply but she just smiled a painful smile. Jr.'s comment was too much… She didn't look like a slut!
"You have no right to call my fellow student a slut. Please leave the school grounds now." Shion commanded.
"Fine, if that's what you want. I'll wait for you, Momo. I'll give you a ride home." He winked at her and left the practice field…
"…"
"Don't let him bother you, Momo. Its nice that you wear a plug suit, unlike us." Shion said, trying to cheer her up. She nodded in agreement and waited until the first aid kit arrived.
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Momo Mizrahi sighed in relief as they finished the practice… No more than 5 times, she fell and slammed her head repeatedly into the cockpit, earning some bruises in her forehead and 3 plasters covered the wounds.
"Hey."
She turned around and saw Jr. looking at her through his sunglasses. "How was your practice?" he asked.
Momo ignored him and continued her way but he grabbed her arm. "I'll take you home." He said.
"No thank you. You don't like 'sluts' as your girlfriend, right? Don't bother, Gaignun Jr." she said coldly and walked away.
The nerve of him to say 'I'll take you home.' after he called me a slut! Who does he think he is?! Does he expect me to bow down and beg sorry to him? No way! Damn him, there's no way I'll be his girlfriend!
Next day, I never expected such a thing to happen…
End of Chapter 1
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