TRANSPORTATION
"Oh man, my freaking head hurts!" Annelda whimpered exclaiming as she felt a sharp pain in her head. There was pain everywhere on her body as well, almost as if she had fallen. "Even my bruises have bruises." She mumbled rubbing her arms and legs. She sat up and blinked. But all around her was darkness. She began to panic. "What the hell is going on? Where am I? What the hell is this place?" She got to her feet and frantically looked around, suddenly a small circle of bright lights appeared and snaked its way toward her, she moved quickly and felt something large, and hid behind it. The light passed over whatever the large object was protecting her. "I swear I heard something." A familiar voice said echoing slightly. Annelda guessed that must've meant she was in a large enclosed building, like a hanger or something. She frowned and focused on the voices. It sounded so familiar. "Maybe your hearings off, Tieria." Another voice said teasing the first one slightly. Annelda tilted her head to the side. "Tieria Erde? Wait those voices belong to, but that's impossible" Annelda whispered to herself. "There, I heard it again!" Tieria exclaimed shining the flashlight in the direction he heard the sound. Annelda clamped a hand over her mouth as her heart beat faster. 'Damn, he's got good hearing!' She thought, panicking slightly. Okay so if she was in the world of Gundam 00, what the hell was she going to do? Sure Annelda loved anime and manga and had her favorite characters, and always thought it'd be pretty cool to be transported into their world, but thinking about it and having it actually happen were two totally different things. 'I wonder what would happen if I tried to talk to them.' Annelda wondered hoping they wouldn't shoot her. Annelda knew Tieria was an Innovator and that he probably carried a gun but never used it and she'd seen Lockon with a gun before in the show which meant that the two men were each quite capable of shooting her. I mean let's face it Lockon is a sniper for crying out loud of course he could shoot her if he wanted to. Annelda peeked out from behind the large object but couldn't see anything due to the darkness except for the faint figures of Tieria and Lockon partially illuminated by their flashlights. Annelda tried to think of the best way to approach them. She narrowed her eyes and ran her fingers through her hair trying to think of something to say. "Um, Hello, I'm an innocent civilian, and lost but I can't come out, I've seem to have lost my clothes." She called out from behind the large object cautiously, and almost instantly there was a bright light in her direction. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" She heard Lockon demand as she shielded her eyes from the light peaking around from the object she was hiding behind, trying to blink her eyes slowly focused on the two shadowy figures. "Stay where you are!" Tieria ordered, "No problem there!" A minute later the lights came on in the hanger and Lockon turned off his flashlight and Annelda noticed she was in the Gundam Hanger and was hidden behind a Gundam. Annelda looked up at both men from behind the Gundam, who half glared at her. She felt a little intimidated under their semi-menacing glares, but that aside, she couldn't believe it. 'Tieria and Lockon, but mostly Tieria! I can't believe it! But, damn I'm in a pretty bad situation to say the least. One wrong move and I could be dead. I wonder if I would be better off with the Union!' Annelda tried to imagine her first meeting with Graham. All she could picture was the young solider pointing a gun at her, come to think of it if he pulled the trigger half the times he pointed a gun at someone as far as she'd seen, he could be considered trigger happy.
Annelda was so deep in thought that she almost didn't notice Tieria and Lockon descending from the upper level and approach her. She fidgeted a bit, biting her lip as they came closer to her, and then a couple thoughts came to her mind. 'What does Tieria smell like, and what does he actually look like as a human being?' It took all of Annelda's willpower and sheer force to not screw her face up in absolute amazement at the prospect of seeing Tieria Erde in person, and a mix of horror at her stupid girlish thoughts. "What's your name, who are you?" Lockon asked, narrowing his eyes at her. "I'm, um." 'I should probably give them a fake name, but what? Something cool and epic but seriously, I need to think of something, ha-ha that's it!' "My name is Zero." She said priding herself for her quick remembering of her nickname. A few seconds went by and then Lockon burst out laughing nearly doubling over as he held his sides. "Zero, Are you serious?" He laughed while Tieria just raised his eye brows at her. "You can't seriously expect us to believe that is your real name. First, Zero is more a boy's nickname than a girl's nickname and you don't look like a boy to me." Tieria's words were true, Annelda was pale and had no boy like features what so ever but she still liked the name, and she thought it was cool. It didn't matter if it was a boy's nickname anyway besides how did Tieria and Lockon even know that is a boy's name to begin with; it could be a girl's name. This was so confusing. It made sense though, considering I got that name because of my obsession with Wing Zero and The Zero System from Gundam Wing. "Well it's my name." She said pushing her chest out a little and feeling little less afraid but still hiding behind the gundam. Lockon was done laughing, reduced to only a few chuckles now and Tieria smiled at her making her heart skip a beat. "Alright Zero, Would you mind telling us what you're doing here?" "Well I, I." She tried to think of a reasonable explanation for why she was here. She finally decided to tell them the truth, after a few moments of thought. "Well I was in my room watching Gun…" she thought about the statement that was about to come out of her mouth… "A movie on my laptop and I guess I fell asleep but when I woke up, I was here, and I have no idea how I got here." She said honestly. She fell asleep and when she woke up she felt her head hit something and she opened her eyes to blackness and the sounds or Tieria and Lockon. "HAHAHAHAHAHA" Lockon began laughing again and this time Tieria joined him, shaking his head sadly. "You'd think spies now a days would be able to come up with better lies!" Annelda glared at Lockon for his statement through narrowing eyes. "So says the man who can't get a date with Feldt and wont' let go of someone who obliviously doesn't want to be courted by you!" She snapped at Lockon, who immediately stopped laughing, his face freezing. Annelda instantly regretted her remark. 'Shit, I shouldn't have said that.' She thought nervously as she watched Lockon. Tieria had stopped laughing too, and watched his friends face. "She's a pretty lousy spy." Tieria commented breaking the tension in the room as he stuck his hands in the pockets of his uniform. Annelda felt a wave of anger surge again, but instead of an insult, she asked a question. "Tieria, have you told anyone about what you are? Have you told anyone why you joined Celestial Being?" She asked thinking to herself 'who's the lousy spy now?' Tieria's face twisted in horror at every question she asked horrified. "What the hell is wrong with you? Of course I've told somebody." "Well I was under the assumption that you were keeping it a secret from your fellow Meisters after you met with Regene Regetta, and didn't tell anyone that you met, and that your exactly the same, INNOVATORS!" Tieria stared at her blankly. "Who the hell are you and how do you know so much?" "Oh come now, you actually think I would give myself up that easily on how I know these things, beside I wouldn't be mad if you told me or someone else about you, you shouldn't have to worry about your fellow Meisters, Lockon here already knows about you, you shouldn't have to carry this secret alone. I know all too well what it means to keep a secret and have it eat away at your very soul." Both Tieria and Lockon gave her odd looks. "So what do we do with her?" Lockon confusingly asked. "Listen, I'm just as confused about all this myself…." And before she could finish her sentence, Annelda felt something bump here thigh and she looked down to see it was her messenger bag that she forgot was hanging over her shoulder and down to her hip. It had a bit of weight to it and she opened it up, her eyes widened. Inside was the Gundam 00 manga. Annelda took it out and flipped through the pages
Several chapters of events were there clear as day. Maybe showing this to Tieria and Lockon, it would convince them of her story. "Um, I have something to show you." She held up the manga, both men looked at it in confusion. Tieria accepted it from her, skimming through the pages. "Hey Lockon, look at this and both men looked at the novel, but slowly their looks became frozen and still as they realized what was on the pages. "This, this was the day we first…" Lockon breathed as they came to a page that displayed the four meisters meeting each other for the first time. "What the hell?" Tieria breathed, looking up at Annelda. "Who are you really? How do you have this?" "
I will tell you if one of you could lend me your jacket, because like I said before I'm half naked over here I only have on a bra and shorts and it's freezing in here. Lockon took his jacket off first and threw it to Annelda, who slipped it on and came out from behind the gundam. The jacket swallowed her as if it were a dress. Well, you see, I come from the year 2011, and in my world, or time, we have manga, anime series called Gundam and what you're looking at is the latest installment, Gundam 00, which features a different world, setting, story, and characters. So basically you're both anime characters from a fictional universe, and either I'm dreaming, because even though meeting my favorite anime characters isn't cool and all, this is actually really bad and I pose no threat to you, if anything I'm on your side in all this." She explained to the men, they gave her blank looks, soaking up her words very slowly. Tieria was the first to take action. "If what you say is true…" he smiled at her, "then you must know quite a bit about the Gundams and the Union themselves, right?" Annelda froze and her mind began to panic, 'oh shit!' "Um, I'll just take that back." She tugged gently at the novel, but Tieria didn't let go. In a matter of seconds, Annelda realized she was no longer looking at Tieria but the floor.
"T-Tieria! Put me down I can walk ya know!" She shouted, afraid of falling. "Just be quiet for a bit will ya, Annelda!" "DAMN! Wait, how did you know my real name?" "I figured it out when you gave us that fake name and it's written in the book of secrets you carry." He glanced at the inside of the novel and smirked. "Annelda, that's a nice name." "So is Tieria Erde." She retorted, but Tieria only chuckled a bit at this. Annelda looked at Lockon who shrugged as Tieria carried her away. He followed behind them. "Don't worry too much Annelda; we aren't going to hurt you. Though, you could aid us in our investigation of the Union and the Innovators." He said as they climbed up the stairs.
"So your saying that you won't hurt me as long as I give you answers about them?" She questioned frowning. "No, but it would be beneficial to you if you did help us." Lockon said, and Annelda had a sickening feeling of despair. A comment from the person who had slung her over his shoulder shook off herself pity.
"You know for a captive you're not putting up much of a fight." Annelda didn't have to see Tieria's face to tell he was smirking. "Should I be putting up a fight, even though I know how to fight but in knowing I would lose, what would the point?" She said dryly. "Nope, this makes things easier for us." Annelda sighed and hit her head softly against Tieria's shoulder, but then she breathed in, and caught his scent. Tieria smelled of manliness, clean uniform and other good things. Annelda kept her head against his upper back to hide her blush. 'Well at least I got to smell him.' "Wow that's quite a blush. I think someone has a crush on you Tieria." Lockon said in a teasing voice. Annelda snapped her head up to glare at him, wondering how he could see her blushing. At the sight of her face, Lockon ignored her glare and burst out laughing, "Oh, now I can see a blush!" Annelda just groaned quietly and plopped her head against Tieria's back again while wondering just how they are going to deal with her.