Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam SEED, its characters, etc…
For this fan fiction, the names you may or may not recognize due to how it might be differently spelled. For example, Athrun, Yzak, Dearka, Cagalli, Nicol, and any others I have forgotten to mention, is how it will be spelled. Also, all this takes place right after Heliopolis one blown up and before the first battle in space with the Archangel. The Archangel is trying to get to Artemis.
The control room's technology beeped and blinked as the people tried to locate the destination and location of the Archangel. One of the soldiers present told Le Crueset that a heat source was slowly approaching the Vesalius, but certainly not the ship they were looking for. It was an escape pod, most likely from Heliopolis.
"What do we do, sir?"
Before he could respond, Yzak did. "We leave them. This ship isn't a place for civilians. And they're from that so-called neutral Heliopolis. A number of them could be with the Earth Alliance for all we know. It'd be too risky."
"Yzak, we can't just leave those people to drift through space and die. We should help them. We did blow up their homes…" Athrun said, looking slightly guilty for the trouble and damage he and the rest of them caused.
"Well Athrun," Le Crueset said calmly, "if you feel sure that the civilians will not cause any harm of any sorts, I'll leave you and Yzak to handle and keep an eye on them."
"What?" Yzak
yelled out. "Why do I have to baby sit too?" He was
ignored.
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The ship was retrieved easily. People scrambled out
nervously, looking at their surroundings, noticing the people's
uniform, the ship, everything. They were on a ZAFT ship. Whispers and
conversations about their situation were exchanged. An infant was
crying and some children were clinging onto their parents.
In the back of the line, was Cagalli. Yzak, Athrun, and a few other people, all with guns guided them to their rooms to make sure none of them snuck off anywhere in their ship. Almost immediately, Cagalli began to shout. "Hey, where the hell are we? You can't point guns at us; we're civilians! Dammit."
Yzak looked like he was about to yell when someone else cut in. "Calm down." A black, short haired girl with red eyes said, standing in front of Cagalli in line. She was wearing a strange outfit. Her elbows, ankles, and her neck each had a thin, black ribbon tied around it. The heels of her shoes and many other random parts of her clothing were black while the rest was white. She said calmly, with her black backpack around only one shoulder. "Do you want them to shoot you?"
Cagalli
pouted a bit and gave her a sort of angry look and continued with the
others.
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Despite being with people whom they trusted-whether
or not they were related, the children cried because felt the
soldiers pointed weapons at them were hostile.
After the others were in their rooms, only Cagalli and the girl remained. The rest of the soldiers and Yzak had left all thinking they had better things to do and Athrun can surely handle two girls. They stood outside the door to their new room. Before opening it, Athrun spoke to Cagalli in a warm but warning voice.
"You shouldn't be so loud-mouthed here. It's dangerous. Hardly anyone here wanted you people here and they'll be happy to find any excuse to get rid of even one, if not all of you."
"Well, stop treating a bunch of civilians as fugitive or prisoners." Cagalli's voice softened.
"This is exactly what he's talking about." The girl shook her head and tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for Athrun to open the door.
"I'm just warning you all. Be careful." He kept staring at Cagalli as he spoke, making Cagalli feel slightly uncomfortable.
"'you all?'" the girl asked playfully. "Well, she seems to be the only one you're really warning." She smirked. Ignoring her, Athrun opened the door. After the girls got insides, he locked it and left.
The room was pretty basic. A bed on both sides of the wall and a small table, with a chair, in between, pressed against the far wall. Another chair stood on the right of the door, below a light switch. More on the right was a small bathroom. The bedroom was a pretty cozy place for a prisoner.
"Great, we're all captured by ZAFT. Who knows what they'll do with us?" Cagalli asked the wall more than the girl.
"Kill us-though that'd be unlikely, throw us at headquarters or a base somewhere where a some council or some sort will decide what'll happen, or the ship will get blown up and we're all screwed."
"Jeez. It was a rhetorical question. And the answer doesn't make me feel any better."
"It wasn't supposed to." She said, laying her backpack on the bed on the left-side of the room and took a deep breath and let it out.. "We're probably gonna be here a while. We need to stop arguing about useless topics and think about what we're going to do here.
"…Okay…" Cagalli hesitated in making friends with such a sarcastic and pretty rude girl, but she figured the girl was right about them staying for a while.
And as if the girl read her mind, she immediately said,"But this doesn't mean we're friends or anything. My name's Naomi. Naomi Takashi."
"My name's Cagalli…"
"Neither one of us are very thrilled with being trapped here so I say we try and escape."
"What? How can we?"
"With this..." She took keyboard out of her backpack. She pushed a button and a virtual screen appeared over it. It looked like a normal, ordinary, everyday computer. Cagalli peered at the screen. Nothing special about that either.
Naomi began clicking some screens, typing some passwords, and soon enough the screen was decorated with information, files, secrets, records, and a wide variety of who knows what else.
"W-what the heck is this?"
"Meet a hacker's greatest dream come true. I made it myself. It has the appearance of a normal computer, but with a few secret passwords and codes, it goes into what I call 'Hack Mode'. It really comes in handy."
Naomi got up and took a cable out of her backpack. She went over to the device on the wall that had them locked in. She pried open a part under the number buttons. It revealed a series of beeping lights, wires, and more importantly, a place to plug a cable in.
"Hey. What are you planning to do?" Cagalli inquired.
Naomi ignored Cagalli's question. "Do you know how many civilians are here?"
"Hmm…I think so. Earlier I counted the number of people that boarded this ship from the pod. There were fourteen, not including us. Three girls that seemed to be together without their families, three children, each with at least one parent, one old man, three men and four woman."
"I'm willing to bet there are 5 or so rooms being occupied. This is only a guess assuming everyone was put with families or friends, or are in pairs of two like us."
"If we can get the codes for every room, we could think of an escape plan and get everyone out of here." Cagalli looked excited. "This is great! I'm pretty sure we're not very from Earth. If we escape while we're close to it, we can get to Orb and the civilians will be safe like the rest who escaped Heliopolis."
Naomi closed her eyes for a few moments, thinking about Cagalli's plan. Her face looked serious. She opened her eyes and continued working without answering Cagalli. She suddenly looked incredibly annoyed.
"There's already a problem?"
"I can only get the codes from the rooms that are being locked and not to mention there are two codes each, one to get in and one out. We'll need both and that'll be double the work and time."
Suddenly, there was some commotion. People outside were running around. The speakers screamed "Level Two Battle Alert."
Continue on with chapter two please.
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