Chapter 1: The Briefing
"Exorcists Allen Walker, Kanda Yuu, Lavi, and Lenalee Lee please make your way to the Supervisor's Office for a Mission Briefing. You have thirty minutes. I Repeat-"
"You have got to be kidding me!," Lavi whined, barely dodging a hit from Mugen. Kanda skidded to a stop before rerouting, spinning on his heel in such a way that would make a ballerina green with envy.
"Che, Stupid Rabbit! Stop your complaining!" Lavi ducked as the irate samurai swung again. Suddenly, a flash appeared in the corner of the cafeteria as a dark haired girl snapped up out of her seat.
"Enough!" Lenalee immediately took out her clipboard. "Kanda stop trying to kill Lavi and finish your soba-"
"Tch! I was trying to, but the Stupid Rabbit here-"
"And Lavi stop annoying Kanda-"
"But Yuu is my best friend! How cou-"
"No!" Both the samuri and pirate-wannabe stopped dead in their tracks. "One more word out of you and my clipboard might be embedding itself in both of your heads!" Everyone who was still in the hastily emptying cafeteria sweatdropped at her words, silently begging the two exorcists to stop fighting. You did NOT want to be on the receiving end of Lenalee's clipboard. Lavi reluctantly took the hint, and even Kanda seemed to rush to sit back down.
"Ne, Ne, you have to admit though, it is frustrating that we have a mission so soon after our last one! We just got back last night!", Lavi said, waving his hands in the air to prove his point.
"Yeah, but our injuries... are healed, and you know…. the Order's short-staffed...", Allen said in between mouthfuls, seated next to where Lenalee had been moments before breaking up the fight. Honestly, he had been enjoying the show Lavi and Kanda had put on- he enjoyed anytime Bakanda was annoyed- not that he would say anything of course. He had already felt Lenalee's patented 'Punch of Love' and wasn't crazy enough to challenge her with a clipboard too. "As far as Central sees it we're spiffy as a new teapot and ready to keep doing their bidding." Lavi laughed and the white haired boy could see him cracking up at the boy's rarely spoken accent. He sighed. "I'm going to bring my dishes up."
Lenalee jumped up. "Let me help you with that Allen." She sent two pointed glares at both Lavi and Kanda before helping Allen gather the unfathomable number of plates, bowls, and silverware.
~o0o~
The four exorcists walked down one of the corridors of the Black Order, eventually stopping in front of the doors to Komui's office. They all shared a brief glance- well, everyone except Kanda, the grumpy child- and cautiously opened the door.
"Supervisor." A hand repeatedly shook Komui's shoulder. "Supervisor." The shaking became more vigorous and the exorcists could see Komui's desk shaking from the movement. "GET UP!" The scene in front of them appeared to be nothing new, but at a closer glance something was wrong.
"Supervisor! Lenalee's getting married."
…Silence?
"What the hell is he dead or something…" Reever muttered under his breath as he continued trying to wake up his superior. "I might not mind…" A collective shiver went through the room at Reever's murderous intent.
"Uhh... is something wrong Reever?" Lenalee asked, scared of what she was seeing.
"Ohh! Hello! No, nothing's wrong except that fact that KOMUI ISN'T DOING HIS JOB!"
She heard Lavi lean in conspiratorially, before whispering, "Ya know, I'm just gonna take a guess here, but I have a hunch that last part was directed at Mr. Komui."
A soft slap and a screech of pain, before a distinctly Kanda voice hissed back, "No way, Sherlock."
Blinking out of her thoughts, she looked up to see a light bulb appear over Reever's head and his eyes turn into stars as he looked in Lenalee's direction. "Lenalee, dear, would you mind lending me your clipboard?", he asked, a dangerous hue to his voice. The exorcists sweatdropped, and for lack of more PG words, Lenalee agreed to Reever's 'terms'.
"Good then…" Satisfied with his answer, he slunk over to Komui. Deciding to give his boss one last mercy before promptly bashing his head in, he whispered something that sounded suspiciously like "Some men are catcalling Lenalee". Komui sat up as fast as puppy who'd gotten into gallons of straight caffeine. Anonymous witnesses say that Reever could be seen dejectedly handing a clipboard back to an understanding Lenalee.
"NO MY DEAR LENALEE, MY SWEET, INNOCENT, PRECIOUS, AMAZING, AND STRONG-" He was suddenly cut off by a swift kick to the head.
"Brother…"
"Ehem," he said, straightening up behind his desk, adjusting his hat to cover his new bruise, and looking to the four apostles. " I assume you are here for your mission briefing." Despite being a question, it was not said in a questioning manner, so Komui continued with a sigh as Reever passed out the mandatory mission briefings. "Before I continue, I would like to apologize for sending you on a mission so soon after you have gotten home from your last one, and for sending you on such a… dangerous mission as well."
He looked them each in the eye, curious stares all he got in return, "I'm sure you are aware of the mysterious door on the ark, the unknown one?"
The exorcists all nodded in response, it was a well known fact in the Order: The door dubbed #'2018' was a mysterious door that no one had dared to explore yet. When the door had first been opened by a few of the Order's scientists, one of them had gone through out of curiosity while the other two stayed behind. The scientist who chose to explore hadn't been heard from in months, and the remaining two had reported hearing awful roaring and obnoxious grating sounds that were not unlike an Akuma Alert.
"Central is adamant about solving this mystery, and as such, they have selected you four to do their detective work. That would be entering the ark door. As you already know, Link left this morning for Central. The reason was to work behind the scenes of this mission."
"Since this is such an unknown, you will have communicators with you at all times, and they will be on throughout the entirety of your mission. Link, Bak and I- and many others- will be listening in on the communicators and talking with you four the whole time. If anything goes wrong we will pull you out immediately, and should things go well you will be expected to stay there until you gather the necessary information. Any questions?"
"Why the hell are those Central snowflakes sending us on this mission? Can't they send some worthless Finder instead of wasting my time?" Lenalee hit him. Komui continued, not at all fazed by the blunt statement.
"It should be obvious why Allen is going, being that he does possess the Musician's abilities." Frowning, they nodded. "Lavi, I'm sure you have no questions about why you're going." Bookman did need someone to record what happened. "Kanda, to answer your question, you and Lenalee are going along just in case..." Komui respected Allen too much to say it; Central didn't trust him.
"What if our communicators go out of range?" Lenalee said, mercifully breaking the tense silence.
"Central seems confident in these new communicators, and everyone in our personal science division has run all of the necessary tests to confirm that they will work all around the world."
Seeing that Komui was finished Allen spoke up,"When do we leave?"
"Immediately."
~o0o~
"Are you ready?" Johnny held a weird panel in his arm as he asked this. All of the exorcists agreed- well, everyone except Kanda who just glared. Johnny shivered.
"Communicators….weapons?" he asked, and at their confirmation, Reever checked something off on a chalkboard.
"Good Luck."
As they walked through the ark to the mysterious door, they could hear the whirring of systems being checked on the other end of the communicators, and busy scientists and branch heads scurrying about.
"How close are you?" a voice on the other end asked. Link, no doubt.
"We can see the door, two spots. It's about 10 doors down from us," Bookman Jr answered. They could swear a low grumble of 'Don't call me that' came from the other end of the line, but if it did, they ignored it.
"We're here." They paused, looking at each other once again before turning back to the door.
"You have permission to enter." And as they did, a booming screech rang through their ears, and the world around them faded to black.
A/N: I have the next chapter somewhat typed up, but it may take awhile. ADV classes keep me busy! Questions, Comments, Concerns?
Thanks for reading,
Hopetabby
Ps. There are not enough of these kinds of fics in the DGM fandom! Mission, pairingless, and future fics are all practically non-existent?!