Notes: This
is a crossover with the Gundam Wing universe... without an Earth... ^_^;;
Ehh.... you'll get it later!!! You'll understand the title later
as well... XD If anyone wants to be adventurous and look it up... it's
Latin ^_~
Warnings: Sanosuke + Saitou, AU
Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation
By: Emmy and Anji
"We have been here forever, and this is all we know. This is all you know, and I know it will remain that way for generations upon generations. It will hurt the masses and anger the superiors, but in this case we are helpless. Alone. As humans were meant to be. We will always be alone, and love is only a blindfold that holds our eyes from the truth. Humanity will always be alone without hope for a better tomorrow."
I was born on colony 35-2457-94394 and grew up there without any knowledge of my origin. Many people were led to believe that the origin was nonexistent, but as I dropped in on a secret meeting, unknown to my betters, I learned of one place that only 1% of my people acknowledged.
Earth.
They had spoken that world like a curse, and that's what I had initially thought it was. A curse. But after listening for a while, I began to learn that Earth was not a curse, but the planet of which the human race upon my colony, as with all other colonies, were once derived from. From an air duct overhead, I counted my breaths slowly as their meeting became more and more serious. If they knew I was there, and heard the discussion, I hadn't a thought in the world what they would do to me. The way they spoke of this place... Earth... it seemed like the type of friendly conversation to kill for, and I might have been a causality on it's behalf.
Deciding that my adventurous nature might has been a bit misplace in my current situation, I gulped and began crawling back to my quarters through the duct's system. It was significantly hot in the air duct from the office's quarters' heating since someone had decided to give the colony a nice little snow storm a day prior through the climate control. The facility had spent an arm and a leg heating the place back up to its spring weather. And that spring weather had came so suddenly that I was caught in the middle of all that heat inside an insulated, metal air duct.
This sucked.
Quickly falling back down into my quarters I looked around with a sigh. Mission successful! My friend looked at me with a certain annoyance when I walked out of my room into the kitchen. He sighed and lowered his head back to the table, where I assumed it had been previously. "Kenshin, how is my homework going?"
"You can do it for yourself now that you're back."
"Aww, c'mon man!"
"I was very kind to do this much for you as it is! Now get to it! Your education is important, that it is!"
"Yeah, so I can do some commanding on this goddamn colony."
"Yes, as a matter of fact you can!"
I glared at him, but set down at the counter and looked through my books. It all seemed so pointless-- how in the hell was relating the curvature of space-time to the principal of gravity going to help him command a ship? If it was, then he would suck at commanding cause he had no idea how to do it. It didn't take much before my mind started to wander. I began searching for something in the room to entertain myself with, but it was pretty bare. I had just begun listening to the different sounds you can make by pressing your ear to the table and then knocking on it when I heard a door open and then Kenshin gleefully shout, "Master!" Whatever the hell that could mean.
I blinked a few times, and then closed my eyes to concentrate on what the hell Kenshin was doing. Master? Was that kinky or what? I concentrated harder.
"I come by to tell your little friend Sanosuke Sagara that his presence is required in sector 23."
"But Master! Couldn't you stay a little longer and have supper... or something?"
Woah, woah, woah! 'Little friend?' And why the hell did Kenshin sound so damn desperate? I stood up and quickly turned the corner with a quick jump and glared. It was Seijirou Hiko! But why the hell was Kenshin calling that asshole master...? Oh well. I guess it didn't really matter anyway.
"I heard my name, what the hell am I needed for?" I questioned sharply, and Hiko merely laughed at me as I glared at him.
"Well if you heard your name you -should- have heard where you presence is needed."
"Sector 23, right?"
"So why the hell did you ask? Get your ass over there." He said calmly and Kenshin 'oro'ed to himself quietly.
I was glad to oblige; any reason to get away from stupid, pointless, quantum mechanics.
Sector 23... that was, like, a mile away. Screw that. I was definitely too lazy to walk a mile, I was too lazy to even stare at a book. There had to be a shorter way. In fact, if I made a short 'detour' through the restricted area, I could cut right through the center of the colony instead of walking all the way round the perimeter. The restricted area wasn't open to everyone, you had to know a code, but I had connections. Actually I had looked over Commander Aoshi's shoulder as he entered the code, but that was beside the point. The fact was, I had the code; I had access.
Entrance 47 was right outside of my room, so I didn't have to go very far. The difficult part was making sure no one sees me going where I was obviously not supposed to be. I had to wait about five minutes for the hall to be cleared and in the meantime, looking like a complete idiot. I walked up and down the hall a couple of times, but that defeated the whole purpose. Wasn't I going through the restricted area to avoid the long walk? Luckily, though, I only had to wait for a minute for the place to be empty after I stopped pacing. It was nearly dinnertime, so everyone was heading to the cafetorium (who came up with that fucked up word?).
It took a couple of tries to get through. First, I couldn't figure out how to work the damn code-pad, and then second, I couldn't remember the fourth digit, so I had to go through a couple of numbers before I got the right one. Every time I hit a wrong number it beeped loudly and said "access denied." The damn thing was so loud I was expecting Kenshin or Hiko to come out and ask what I was doing.
Anyway, I finally got in. I had only been in here once, but I had seen floor plans for the entire place, so I knew exactly where I was going. There was no one around, luckily, and there weren't any major problems until I was more than three-quarters through the maze of hallways. I must have made a wrong turn somewhere because I saw a sign that read "Corridor 69" and if I remembered correctly, that was way off where I was supposed to be. As if that wasn't enough, I heard a voice mutter, "Ahou," and turned around to see Hajime Saitou.
This was great. Now I was caught. Saitou would go tell Aoshi and before I knew it I would be sent off to some prisoner colony to do public labor or whatever the hell they had convicts doing. Breaking into the restricted area was a serious offense.
"Trespassing, Sanosuke?" Came his cold, dangerous, quite frankly sexy, voice. "You're not authorized to be here, if my memory serves me."
"I-- I was just, uh, running an, uh, errand... for, um, Hiko." I stammered in response.
Saitou definitely did not buy it. He raised one eyebrow before stating, "I was just on the way to see Hiko myself. Walk with me."
This last part wasn't a question, it was a command with no room for argument. I had no choice but to follow him; the tone of Saitou's voice had been so final that I followed submissively.
I didn't know where he was taking me, the dread of what was to come had drowned out any previous knowledge I had of the area. Saitou led me quite a way before we came to a door with a hand print sensor which accepted him without doubt, opening a door to a place I had often dreamed about going. It was the commander's private corridor, the place where the top-secret running of the colony took place. Someday I am going to live in there. But for now it scares the hell out of me.
Saitou knew exactly where he was going and went straight through the halls to the far side. He knocked on a strange door and waited. No answer. He knocked again and when he still didn't get an answer, he punched a code into a pad like the one that had taken me into the restricted area. He entered and looked around. I could tell it was Hiko's room from the picture on the desk, but Hiko wasn't in it, thankfully. Saitou murmured something that sounded like "odd" and then left the room, beckoning for me to follow.
I did. I trailed behind him through another labyrinth and finally we heard voices from inside some sort of meeting hall. Saitou was about to walk in when he began to hear what they were saying.
"We'll just have to kill him! We can't have someone like that causing problems!"
Saitou stopped in his tracks. Obviously this wasn't a conversation we were supposed to be hearing. I stopped quickly behind the man and held my breath as I continued to listen.
"What would we tell his relatives? That he knew too much about the Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation!?"
"We could have him meeting an unfortunate end that's completely accidental."
"We've done that too many times!" A voice scolded and I began to suffocate, afraid of being found. Saitou grimaced and turned back to me with yet another aggressive voice.
"Ahou, walk to my left to room 82, the pass code is 2-4-5-2-5-2-5-6-9-1-1-6-3-8-8."
I hesitated however he then barked in a low voice, "Ahou, turn! 2-4-5-2-5-2-5-6-9-1-1-6-3-8-8."
I growled and popped the numbers in as he continued. I was, then, forcefully shoved into the darkened room. I hit the floor and the door closed swiftly behind me. I glared and reached up to the wall, groping around for a light switch. I couldn't find one, and slapped the place where the light switch should have been mounted. The lights suddenly flicked on, and I groaned. It was one of those clapper things! As the light finally flooded the room, I found myself looking around Saitou's quarters. Shit, I was getting a little carried away with checking the place out, especially the bed chambers...
God, I really didn't understand how much my train of thoughts wandered. It sure sucked being a horny teenager some times.
But then I realized what had happened, and the discussion I had been hearing. I frowned and looked to his ceiling, grinning as I found the ventilation system. I reached into my breast pocket and pulled out a little gadget that allowed me to do anything from pick locks to open vents. I spotted a chair and pulled it under the vent and reached up to do my own little operation. I was in his bed chambers and as I pulled the metal sheet down silently down to the midnight silk bed sheets I couldn't help fantasizing about... goddamnit! If I kept that up I would get a fuckin' hard-on.
With one excellent jump, I gripped the cold metal and pulled myself up into the ventilation system. I looked down the tunnel that went two ways. It was dark, the only lighting coming from the room below. There weren't any slits in the metal yet. As I looked further, a jail door of trimmed light flooded the area in columns. That, judging from where the voices were, must have been where the conversations were coming from. Yeah... that was it...
I crawled on my palms and the balls of my feet without a sound and heard some voices coming closer as I moved; and then I reached the light. I took a peak down and to my assumption, Saitou was there, leaning against the door; listening to what I wanted to hear. I grinned and crawled a bit more ahead, just enough to pause and hear the voices, but not too far to allow Saitou to see me. I would be in deep, deep shit if that happened.
I listened to the voices.
"We have to follow through with it now! We're too far to turn back!" A voice I didn't recognize boomed.
"We're not that far off course!" Returned Commander Aoshi. "If we turn back now and stop chasing after myths, we would only loose a year and a half in our fantasy!"
"What do you mean myth?" Yelled the other voice. "Earth exists, and so does the key to Reverse Anti-Matter Fusion! If we can find the Explantium, the universe will be at our fingertips! We could control weapons powerful enough to destroy the galaxy, invent systems to locate anything in the universe. We could make everyone our slaves, or whatever we want! Think about it… are you willing to give that up?"
"It's a MYTH, Hiradake!" Roared Aoshi. "An old wives tale, a story women tell their children when they can't fall asleep! There is nothing remaining of Earth, and the Explantium is lost forever! It was destroyed thousands of years ago when the nuclear war destroyed the planet."
"You're wrong, Commander." The other man's, Hiradake's, voice was quiet and dangerous. "It exists. The tracking devices-- they found Explantium, they will lead us to unlimited energy and unlimited power. If you trust me, I believe we can find the remains of Earth." He drew in a long breath and then whispered, "Power. That's all that matters now. We have nothing else left. If we do not find the secret to Reverse Anti-Matter Fusion, we will all die."
I drew in a sharp breath, and froze as Saitou's eyes shot up into my hiding quarters. I was in deep, deep shit... But these commanding bastards! Earth...? The planet that I had heard of before? Like, an hour before? The Operation? What was it called... the Reperio ac something or other project...? This was all giving me a fucking headache!
"Hiradake, we will continue this meeting in private. The rest of the people are dismissed."
I listened to the faint squeaking noises of the chairs on the tile and gulped, there wasn't anything else to hear. Saitou quickly fled from the area, punching in the code to his room and leaving. Shit, he was expecting me in there too! I cursed to myself and began to back out along the vent way, not as quiet as I should have been.
It was lucky for me that I had chosen the vent right above his bed so I could jump back down to the ground with a soft landing. But where would he be!? I finally reached that area, only to hear footsteps falling underneath where I was in the air.
How the hell was I going to do this!?
I figure that he already knew where I was, so why the hell was I so worried? I was just delaying the inevitable. With a calming, deep breath I slid out of the vent, and crashed to the bed below with a thud. As I opened my eyes I was facing the crossed gaze of the wolf-like man looking me over. "You little bastard." He mumbled and I blinked a few times, wondering what the hell he was going to do. He continued in his speech, tearing me down with every other word.
"Do you know what would have happened if they were to catch you!? Do you have any idea how much trouble you would be in!? They would have killed you ahou." He regained his calm exterior and continued in a low voice.
"They would have no hesitations about slaughtering you, just like the first subject of their conversation. What do you think makes you're special?" His words were hard, and I ran a hand through my hair, contemplating my answer.
"Well uh..."
He glared at me. This was bad. Very bad. Saitou was high in rank, but somehow it seemed that he wasn't supposed to know about this operation either, and that worried me. From the sound of it, both of us were in trouble if we were found out; it was too dangerous for us here.
As if reading my mind, Saitou turned away and said hesitantly, "We have to leave. Its only a matter of time before someone checks the surveillance cameras, and at that point we face death. Space doesn't put us in a much better situation, but its our only hope. I think-- just think-- that we could find this energy source they were discussing that you no doubt heard about," he turned and glared at me, "And destroy it. Its too hazardous to leave it in tact. It seems that they are on its trail."
"You mean that Explant-thingy?"
"Explantium, ahou. We don't have time to discuss it now. Any moment we could be discovered. The tracking devices they speak of are on every standard ship, if I can figure out the code, we could locate it, use the energy, and then destroy the planet."
"Umm… I guess I'll go."
"You don't have a choice! Pack ONLY necessities. Meet me in twenty minutes at the loading dock. That leaves you until 7:30."
I stood there staring at him.
"NOW!" He shouted.
Snapping out of my trance, I ran out of his room and blindly found my way back to my room. 7:20. I packed clothes, bathroom stuff, books, radio. 7:25. This was it; I ran from my room and made it to the docks by 7:31.
At first glance, when I looked around I couldn't tell where he was, and that made this nervous feeling in my stomach intensify. This was great, where the hell was he?! I casually walked around the patrol ships and avoided the guards around the docks. From the way he spoke, a ship would be ready to go as soon as I got there, but I couldn't hear any engines. Everything was so quiet...
"You're late ahou."
I spun around to a figure masked in the shadows between two patrol ships. There he was in the doorway of a certain ship. I looked over the ship, the MJU-8739. He said that we could locate the place from every patrol ship if we knew the code... are we going to start this journey without a map and make it up as we go along? I held my bags tightly as I walked into the ship which is about the size of my quarters, and set the items down. The door shut tightly behind me and Saitou walked to the front, taking the pilot's seat.
I hadn't thought twice before, but as I hear the guards shouting behind and the engines taking off, I shut my mind off any possibility that I had done something wrong. After all, it was too late now!
End of part one
Warnings: Sanosuke + Saitou, AU
Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation
By: Emmy and Anji
"We have been here forever, and this is all we know. This is all you know, and I know it will remain that way for generations upon generations. It will hurt the masses and anger the superiors, but in this case we are helpless. Alone. As humans were meant to be. We will always be alone, and love is only a blindfold that holds our eyes from the truth. Humanity will always be alone without hope for a better tomorrow."
I was born on colony 35-2457-94394 and grew up there without any knowledge of my origin. Many people were led to believe that the origin was nonexistent, but as I dropped in on a secret meeting, unknown to my betters, I learned of one place that only 1% of my people acknowledged.
Earth.
They had spoken that world like a curse, and that's what I had initially thought it was. A curse. But after listening for a while, I began to learn that Earth was not a curse, but the planet of which the human race upon my colony, as with all other colonies, were once derived from. From an air duct overhead, I counted my breaths slowly as their meeting became more and more serious. If they knew I was there, and heard the discussion, I hadn't a thought in the world what they would do to me. The way they spoke of this place... Earth... it seemed like the type of friendly conversation to kill for, and I might have been a causality on it's behalf.
Deciding that my adventurous nature might has been a bit misplace in my current situation, I gulped and began crawling back to my quarters through the duct's system. It was significantly hot in the air duct from the office's quarters' heating since someone had decided to give the colony a nice little snow storm a day prior through the climate control. The facility had spent an arm and a leg heating the place back up to its spring weather. And that spring weather had came so suddenly that I was caught in the middle of all that heat inside an insulated, metal air duct.
This sucked.
Quickly falling back down into my quarters I looked around with a sigh. Mission successful! My friend looked at me with a certain annoyance when I walked out of my room into the kitchen. He sighed and lowered his head back to the table, where I assumed it had been previously. "Kenshin, how is my homework going?"
"You can do it for yourself now that you're back."
"Aww, c'mon man!"
"I was very kind to do this much for you as it is! Now get to it! Your education is important, that it is!"
"Yeah, so I can do some commanding on this goddamn colony."
"Yes, as a matter of fact you can!"
I glared at him, but set down at the counter and looked through my books. It all seemed so pointless-- how in the hell was relating the curvature of space-time to the principal of gravity going to help him command a ship? If it was, then he would suck at commanding cause he had no idea how to do it. It didn't take much before my mind started to wander. I began searching for something in the room to entertain myself with, but it was pretty bare. I had just begun listening to the different sounds you can make by pressing your ear to the table and then knocking on it when I heard a door open and then Kenshin gleefully shout, "Master!" Whatever the hell that could mean.
I blinked a few times, and then closed my eyes to concentrate on what the hell Kenshin was doing. Master? Was that kinky or what? I concentrated harder.
"I come by to tell your little friend Sanosuke Sagara that his presence is required in sector 23."
"But Master! Couldn't you stay a little longer and have supper... or something?"
Woah, woah, woah! 'Little friend?' And why the hell did Kenshin sound so damn desperate? I stood up and quickly turned the corner with a quick jump and glared. It was Seijirou Hiko! But why the hell was Kenshin calling that asshole master...? Oh well. I guess it didn't really matter anyway.
"I heard my name, what the hell am I needed for?" I questioned sharply, and Hiko merely laughed at me as I glared at him.
"Well if you heard your name you -should- have heard where you presence is needed."
"Sector 23, right?"
"So why the hell did you ask? Get your ass over there." He said calmly and Kenshin 'oro'ed to himself quietly.
I was glad to oblige; any reason to get away from stupid, pointless, quantum mechanics.
Sector 23... that was, like, a mile away. Screw that. I was definitely too lazy to walk a mile, I was too lazy to even stare at a book. There had to be a shorter way. In fact, if I made a short 'detour' through the restricted area, I could cut right through the center of the colony instead of walking all the way round the perimeter. The restricted area wasn't open to everyone, you had to know a code, but I had connections. Actually I had looked over Commander Aoshi's shoulder as he entered the code, but that was beside the point. The fact was, I had the code; I had access.
Entrance 47 was right outside of my room, so I didn't have to go very far. The difficult part was making sure no one sees me going where I was obviously not supposed to be. I had to wait about five minutes for the hall to be cleared and in the meantime, looking like a complete idiot. I walked up and down the hall a couple of times, but that defeated the whole purpose. Wasn't I going through the restricted area to avoid the long walk? Luckily, though, I only had to wait for a minute for the place to be empty after I stopped pacing. It was nearly dinnertime, so everyone was heading to the cafetorium (who came up with that fucked up word?).
It took a couple of tries to get through. First, I couldn't figure out how to work the damn code-pad, and then second, I couldn't remember the fourth digit, so I had to go through a couple of numbers before I got the right one. Every time I hit a wrong number it beeped loudly and said "access denied." The damn thing was so loud I was expecting Kenshin or Hiko to come out and ask what I was doing.
Anyway, I finally got in. I had only been in here once, but I had seen floor plans for the entire place, so I knew exactly where I was going. There was no one around, luckily, and there weren't any major problems until I was more than three-quarters through the maze of hallways. I must have made a wrong turn somewhere because I saw a sign that read "Corridor 69" and if I remembered correctly, that was way off where I was supposed to be. As if that wasn't enough, I heard a voice mutter, "Ahou," and turned around to see Hajime Saitou.
This was great. Now I was caught. Saitou would go tell Aoshi and before I knew it I would be sent off to some prisoner colony to do public labor or whatever the hell they had convicts doing. Breaking into the restricted area was a serious offense.
"Trespassing, Sanosuke?" Came his cold, dangerous, quite frankly sexy, voice. "You're not authorized to be here, if my memory serves me."
"I-- I was just, uh, running an, uh, errand... for, um, Hiko." I stammered in response.
Saitou definitely did not buy it. He raised one eyebrow before stating, "I was just on the way to see Hiko myself. Walk with me."
This last part wasn't a question, it was a command with no room for argument. I had no choice but to follow him; the tone of Saitou's voice had been so final that I followed submissively.
I didn't know where he was taking me, the dread of what was to come had drowned out any previous knowledge I had of the area. Saitou led me quite a way before we came to a door with a hand print sensor which accepted him without doubt, opening a door to a place I had often dreamed about going. It was the commander's private corridor, the place where the top-secret running of the colony took place. Someday I am going to live in there. But for now it scares the hell out of me.
Saitou knew exactly where he was going and went straight through the halls to the far side. He knocked on a strange door and waited. No answer. He knocked again and when he still didn't get an answer, he punched a code into a pad like the one that had taken me into the restricted area. He entered and looked around. I could tell it was Hiko's room from the picture on the desk, but Hiko wasn't in it, thankfully. Saitou murmured something that sounded like "odd" and then left the room, beckoning for me to follow.
I did. I trailed behind him through another labyrinth and finally we heard voices from inside some sort of meeting hall. Saitou was about to walk in when he began to hear what they were saying.
"We'll just have to kill him! We can't have someone like that causing problems!"
Saitou stopped in his tracks. Obviously this wasn't a conversation we were supposed to be hearing. I stopped quickly behind the man and held my breath as I continued to listen.
"What would we tell his relatives? That he knew too much about the Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation!?"
"We could have him meeting an unfortunate end that's completely accidental."
"We've done that too many times!" A voice scolded and I began to suffocate, afraid of being found. Saitou grimaced and turned back to me with yet another aggressive voice.
"Ahou, walk to my left to room 82, the pass code is 2-4-5-2-5-2-5-6-9-1-1-6-3-8-8."
I hesitated however he then barked in a low voice, "Ahou, turn! 2-4-5-2-5-2-5-6-9-1-1-6-3-8-8."
I growled and popped the numbers in as he continued. I was, then, forcefully shoved into the darkened room. I hit the floor and the door closed swiftly behind me. I glared and reached up to the wall, groping around for a light switch. I couldn't find one, and slapped the place where the light switch should have been mounted. The lights suddenly flicked on, and I groaned. It was one of those clapper things! As the light finally flooded the room, I found myself looking around Saitou's quarters. Shit, I was getting a little carried away with checking the place out, especially the bed chambers...
God, I really didn't understand how much my train of thoughts wandered. It sure sucked being a horny teenager some times.
But then I realized what had happened, and the discussion I had been hearing. I frowned and looked to his ceiling, grinning as I found the ventilation system. I reached into my breast pocket and pulled out a little gadget that allowed me to do anything from pick locks to open vents. I spotted a chair and pulled it under the vent and reached up to do my own little operation. I was in his bed chambers and as I pulled the metal sheet down silently down to the midnight silk bed sheets I couldn't help fantasizing about... goddamnit! If I kept that up I would get a fuckin' hard-on.
With one excellent jump, I gripped the cold metal and pulled myself up into the ventilation system. I looked down the tunnel that went two ways. It was dark, the only lighting coming from the room below. There weren't any slits in the metal yet. As I looked further, a jail door of trimmed light flooded the area in columns. That, judging from where the voices were, must have been where the conversations were coming from. Yeah... that was it...
I crawled on my palms and the balls of my feet without a sound and heard some voices coming closer as I moved; and then I reached the light. I took a peak down and to my assumption, Saitou was there, leaning against the door; listening to what I wanted to hear. I grinned and crawled a bit more ahead, just enough to pause and hear the voices, but not too far to allow Saitou to see me. I would be in deep, deep shit if that happened.
I listened to the voices.
"We have to follow through with it now! We're too far to turn back!" A voice I didn't recognize boomed.
"We're not that far off course!" Returned Commander Aoshi. "If we turn back now and stop chasing after myths, we would only loose a year and a half in our fantasy!"
"What do you mean myth?" Yelled the other voice. "Earth exists, and so does the key to Reverse Anti-Matter Fusion! If we can find the Explantium, the universe will be at our fingertips! We could control weapons powerful enough to destroy the galaxy, invent systems to locate anything in the universe. We could make everyone our slaves, or whatever we want! Think about it… are you willing to give that up?"
"It's a MYTH, Hiradake!" Roared Aoshi. "An old wives tale, a story women tell their children when they can't fall asleep! There is nothing remaining of Earth, and the Explantium is lost forever! It was destroyed thousands of years ago when the nuclear war destroyed the planet."
"You're wrong, Commander." The other man's, Hiradake's, voice was quiet and dangerous. "It exists. The tracking devices-- they found Explantium, they will lead us to unlimited energy and unlimited power. If you trust me, I believe we can find the remains of Earth." He drew in a long breath and then whispered, "Power. That's all that matters now. We have nothing else left. If we do not find the secret to Reverse Anti-Matter Fusion, we will all die."
I drew in a sharp breath, and froze as Saitou's eyes shot up into my hiding quarters. I was in deep, deep shit... But these commanding bastards! Earth...? The planet that I had heard of before? Like, an hour before? The Operation? What was it called... the Reperio ac something or other project...? This was all giving me a fucking headache!
"Hiradake, we will continue this meeting in private. The rest of the people are dismissed."
I listened to the faint squeaking noises of the chairs on the tile and gulped, there wasn't anything else to hear. Saitou quickly fled from the area, punching in the code to his room and leaving. Shit, he was expecting me in there too! I cursed to myself and began to back out along the vent way, not as quiet as I should have been.
It was lucky for me that I had chosen the vent right above his bed so I could jump back down to the ground with a soft landing. But where would he be!? I finally reached that area, only to hear footsteps falling underneath where I was in the air.
How the hell was I going to do this!?
I figure that he already knew where I was, so why the hell was I so worried? I was just delaying the inevitable. With a calming, deep breath I slid out of the vent, and crashed to the bed below with a thud. As I opened my eyes I was facing the crossed gaze of the wolf-like man looking me over. "You little bastard." He mumbled and I blinked a few times, wondering what the hell he was going to do. He continued in his speech, tearing me down with every other word.
"Do you know what would have happened if they were to catch you!? Do you have any idea how much trouble you would be in!? They would have killed you ahou." He regained his calm exterior and continued in a low voice.
"They would have no hesitations about slaughtering you, just like the first subject of their conversation. What do you think makes you're special?" His words were hard, and I ran a hand through my hair, contemplating my answer.
"Well uh..."
He glared at me. This was bad. Very bad. Saitou was high in rank, but somehow it seemed that he wasn't supposed to know about this operation either, and that worried me. From the sound of it, both of us were in trouble if we were found out; it was too dangerous for us here.
As if reading my mind, Saitou turned away and said hesitantly, "We have to leave. Its only a matter of time before someone checks the surveillance cameras, and at that point we face death. Space doesn't put us in a much better situation, but its our only hope. I think-- just think-- that we could find this energy source they were discussing that you no doubt heard about," he turned and glared at me, "And destroy it. Its too hazardous to leave it in tact. It seems that they are on its trail."
"You mean that Explant-thingy?"
"Explantium, ahou. We don't have time to discuss it now. Any moment we could be discovered. The tracking devices they speak of are on every standard ship, if I can figure out the code, we could locate it, use the energy, and then destroy the planet."
"Umm… I guess I'll go."
"You don't have a choice! Pack ONLY necessities. Meet me in twenty minutes at the loading dock. That leaves you until 7:30."
I stood there staring at him.
"NOW!" He shouted.
Snapping out of my trance, I ran out of his room and blindly found my way back to my room. 7:20. I packed clothes, bathroom stuff, books, radio. 7:25. This was it; I ran from my room and made it to the docks by 7:31.
At first glance, when I looked around I couldn't tell where he was, and that made this nervous feeling in my stomach intensify. This was great, where the hell was he?! I casually walked around the patrol ships and avoided the guards around the docks. From the way he spoke, a ship would be ready to go as soon as I got there, but I couldn't hear any engines. Everything was so quiet...
"You're late ahou."
I spun around to a figure masked in the shadows between two patrol ships. There he was in the doorway of a certain ship. I looked over the ship, the MJU-8739. He said that we could locate the place from every patrol ship if we knew the code... are we going to start this journey without a map and make it up as we go along? I held my bags tightly as I walked into the ship which is about the size of my quarters, and set the items down. The door shut tightly behind me and Saitou walked to the front, taking the pilot's seat.
I hadn't thought twice before, but as I hear the guards shouting behind and the engines taking off, I shut my mind off any possibility that I had done something wrong. After all, it was too late now!
End of part one