Hi all! I'm back again. I've decided to delete "The Hunting Party" and have, in turn, replaced it with this. I hope that you like it!
Prolog
A shadow moves deep in the shadow of the trees, quickly followed by the sound of gears shifting and a sharp engine rev. A teenage girl walks out of the woods, her brown hair falling loose upon the girl's tangerine plaid shirt and tangling with the strap of her messenger bag. She takes a quick look around and gives a small smile before forcing her expression to become neutral once more. She speeds up and disappears once more into the shadow of a nearby building.
The girl walks out of the shadow and climbs up the two flights of stairs leading to the classroom labeled "Room 29." She's not the first one there, though. Another girl with black hair is leaning against the wall, drawing. "Good morning, Kala," they say without looking up. Kala flops down next to the girl and takes off the bag.
"How was your drive?" Abby asks, and Kala rubs her eyebrows with her thumb.
"Same as usual. There was lots of complaining, but that was to be expected given the mouth that it was coming from." Abby snorts.
"I'm surprised he didn't outright hurl insults at the Boss yesterday." She says, and Kala begins to drum her fingers against her shoe. "I can see that your roommate is rubbing off on you." Both girls smile and the watch the professor walks around the corner and unlock the classroom.
"Did you two have a good summer vacation?" She asks with a laugh.
"Yes! It was great, thanks for asking. Well, except for the whole getting captured part, you know." Kala says before spring forwards lightly to enter the classroom, Abby following at her tail. Abby looks back over her shoulder to check that no one is following before she continues into the room.
"The dean already told me about your… incident. But the two of you have made new friends, right?" The professor smiles, running a hand through her short blonde hair.
"Yes. I guess that you can call them that. Basically," Abby looks over her shoulder again, "we were told to not be afraid to talk to any professors. So I'm going to trust you to keep a secret. My twin here, Kala, is one of the aliens' best spies. She's part of their Ops team. I, however, am one of their scientists. I also am part of a specialized strike team that operates outside of Ops. Jennie and Sienna are part of it, too. Anyways, we're keeping tabs on any of the enemy aliens and are sending reports back to base. That's our mission for the next three months."
"Way to rub it in, Abby. There's only three more months until I get to see the aliens again!" Kala groans, thumping her head down onto the desk.
"You should be happy if we have to wait three months to see them, because otherwise we would most likely see them in a fight." Abby says, but it is clear that she knows that she'll miss her newfound friends as much as the other girl will.
"You know, Abby, I'm supposed to be the paranoid one here. Not that I'm anywhere as bad as the security director, but you seem overly worried today." Kala lifts her head only enough to be able to vaguely see her twin and the professor. The ticking of the clock is the only sound to be heard as Kala blinks in confusion and fully raises her head.
"Kala… you might want to see this. I think they're an Autobot."