"Ah…kusou, atama ga itai desu…OW MY FREAKIN HEAD HURTS!" Carie whimpered, exclaiming as she felt a sharp pain in her head. She closed her eyes tight and whimpered at the pain. There was pain elsewhere in her body as well, almost as if she had fallen.
"Ouch…my bruises have bruises." She mumbled, rubbing her sore arm. She sat up and blinked, but all around her was darkness. She then began to panic.
"Oh my god, what the hell is going on? Where am I? Oh god where the hell is this place?" she got to her feet and frantically looked around. Suddenly a small circle of bright light appeared and snaked its way towards 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. Carie guessed that must've meant that she was in a large enclosed building…like a hanger or something? She frowned and focused on the voice. It sounded so familiar.
"Maybe you're hearing's off, Graham." another voice said, teasing the first one slightly. Carie tilted her head to the side.
"Graham? Wait…those voices belong to…but it's impossible…" Carie whispered to herself.
"There! I heard it again!" Graham exclaimed, shining the flashlight in the direction he heard the sound. Carie clamped a hand over her mouth as her heart beat a little faster.
'Damn he's got good hearing!' she thought, panicking slightly. Okay, so if she was in the Gundam 00 world…what the hell was she going to do? Sure, Carie loved the manga and anime, and had her favorite characters, and always thought it'd be neat to be transported into the Gundam world, but thinking about it and having it happen were two totally different things!
'I wonder what would happen if I tried to talk to them…' Carie wondered, hoping they wouldn't shoot her. Carie knew that Graham, as a soldier, probably carried a firearm with him at all times, and she'd seen Billy with a gun in the second season, which meant that the two men were each quite capable of shooting her.
Carie peeked out from behind the large object, but couldn't see anything due to the darkness, except for the faint figures of Graham and Billy, partially illuminated by their flashlights. Carie tried to think of the best way to approach them. She narrowed her eyes and stroked her chin, which was basically her thinking pose. Finally, she decided on a course of action.
"Er…hello? I'm an innocent civilian…and lost." she called out, stepping out from the large object cautiously, and almost instantly there was a bright light in her eyes, blinding her "Ah…"
"Who are you! What are you doing here!" she heard Billy demand as she shielded her eyes from the light, trying to blink as her eyes slowly focused on the two shadowy figures.
"Stay where you are!" Graham ordered, and a minute later, the lights came on in the hanger and Billy switched off the flashlight. Carie looked up at both men, who half glared at her. She felt a little intimidated under their semi-menacing glares, but that aside, she couldn't believe it.
'Omg Graham and Billy…but mostly Graham! Aaahhh, 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'd be better off with Celestial Being…' ,Carie tried to imagine her first meeting with Setsuna. All she could picture was the young Meister pointing his gun at her. Come to think of it, if he pulled the trigger half the times he'd pointed a gun at someone as far as she'd seen, he could be considered trigger-happy.
Carie was so deep in thought that she almost didn't notice Graham and Billy descending from the upper level and approach her. She fidgeted a bit, biting her lip as they came closer to her, and then a sudden thought came into her mind.
'What does Graham smell like?' it took all of Carie's willpower and sheer force to not screw her face up in absolute amazement at the prospect of smelling Graham Aker, and a mix of horror at her stupid fan girlish thoughts.
"What's your name? Who are you?" Billy asked, narrowing his eyes at her.
"Er, I'm…" 'I should probably give them a fake name…but what? Something cool and epic and Japanese…Bushido-chan? Lol, a mockery of what Graham WILL become…haha, but no. And did I just think 'lol'? Ugh…but seriously, I need to think of something…ah! That's it!'
"My name is Tadashi Yukino." she said, priding herself for her quick remembering of Japanese names. A few seconds passed in silence, and then Graham burst out laughing, nearly doubling over as he held his sides.
"Tadashi Yukino? Are you serious?" he laughed, while Billy just raised his eyebrows at her.
"You can't seriously expect us to believe that's your real name. Firstly, Tadashi is a boy's name, and as for your surname…well, you don't look the slightest bit Japanese."
Billy's words were true. Carie was very pale and had no Asian features whatsoever, but she still liked the name. And she thought it was cool. It didn't matter if it was a boy's name anyway…besides, how did Graham and Billy even know Japanese? This was so confusing…it made sense though, considering nearly all anime was Japanese based, though.
"Well it is my name." she said, pushing out her chest a little, feeling a bit less afraid. Graham was done laughing, reduced to only a few chuckles now. He smiled at her, making her heart skip a beat.
"Alright Tadashi. So do 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, 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 had fallen asleep in her room, and when she woke up she felt her head hit something and she opened her eyes to blackness and the sounds of Graham and Billy.
"Pffftttt." Graham and begun to chuckle again, and this time Billy joined him, shaking his head sadly "You'd think spies nowadays would be able to come up with better lies."
Carie glared at them, narrowing her eyes.
"So says the man who can't get a date with Kujo and won't let go of someone who obliviously doesn't want to be courted by you!" she snapped at Billy, who immediately stopped laughing, his face freezing. Carie instantly regretted her remark.
'Uh-oh…I shouldn't have said anything…' she thought nervously as she watched Billy. Graham had stopped laughing too, and watched his friend's face.
"She's a pretty lousy spy." he commented casually, sticking his hands in the pockets of his uniform. Carie felt a wave of anger surge again, but instead of an insult, she asked a question.
"Graham, are you gay? Do you like shoen ai? Boy's Love? Some good man-on-man action? A bit of yaoi? Are you gay for Billy? Are you a pedophile?" Graham's face twisted in horror at every question she asked, horrified.
"What the hell is wrong with you? Of course I'm not gay and why the hell would I be a pedophile?"
"Because I was under the assumption that you enjoyed raping young men and teenage boys and possibly small children. So are you bi then?"
"…" Graham stared at her blankly "…Who the hell are you? And what kind of sick person-"
"Oh come on now, I wouldn't be mad if you were gay…or bi. Preferably-oohhh, never mind, haha…CHORISU!" she chirped.
Both Billy and Graham gave her odd looks.
"So what do we do with her?"
"I'm still under eighteen you pedophiles!" she exclaimed, backing away from them, but then stopped "Though if it was Graham I wouldn't mind so much…ah…I just said that aloud~ Chorisu!" Carie felt something bump against her thigh, and looked down to see her small messenger bag. It was slung across her shoulder, hanging down to her hip. It had a bit of weight to it, and as she opened it up, her eyes widened. Inside was the first Gundam 00 manga novel. Carie took it out and carefully flipped the pages. Several chapters of events were there, clear as day.
Maybe showing this to Graham and Billy would convince them of her story…
"Er…I have something to show you." She held up the manga novel. Both men looked at it in confusion, and Graham accepted it from her, skimming through the pages and smiling.
"Hey Billy, look at this." he nudged his friend, and both men looked at the novel, but slowly, their looks became frozen and still as they realized what was in the pages.
"This…this was the day that we first saw…" Billy breathed as they came to page that displayed two men standing, observing a mobile suit. A Gundam.
"What the hell?" Graham breathed, looking up at Carie "Who are you really? How do you have this?"
"Well…you see, I come from the year 2011, and in my world, or time, we have a 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 manga characters from a fictional universe. And either I'm dreaming, or something really screwed up happened. I'm kinda hoping that I'm dreaming, because even though meeting my favorite manga characters is cool and all…this is actually really bad." she explained to the men. They gave her blank looks, soaking up her words slowly. Graham was the first one to take action.
"If what you said is true…" he smiled at her "then you must now quite a bit about the Gundams themselves."
Carie froze, and her mind began to panic.
"Um…what makes you think that? And I'll just take this back…" she tugged gently and the novel, but Graham didn't let go. In a matter of seconds, Carie realized that she was no longer looking at Graham, but at the floor.
"G-Graham! Pu-Put me down!" she stuttered, afraid of falling "Kowai desu! Kowai desu!"
"So you can speak Japanese as well. I figure when you gave us that fake name…" he glanced at the inside of the manga novel and smirked "Carie. That's a nice name."
"So is Graham Cracker." she retorted, but Graham only chuckled a bit at this. Carie looked at Billy, who shrugged as Graham carried her away. He followed behind them.
"Don't worry too much Carie. We won't hurt you. Though you could aid is in our investigation of Celestial Being." he said as they climbed up the stairs.
"Are you saying that you won't hurt me as long as I give you answers about Celestial Being?" she questioned, frowning.
"No, but it would be beneficial to you if you helped us." Billy said, and Carie had a sinking feeling of despair. But a comment from the person who had slung her over her shoulder shook off her self-pity.
"You know, for a captive, you're not putting up much fight." Carie didn't have to see Graham's face to tell that he was smirking.
"Should I be putting up a fight?" she asked dryly.
"Nope. This makes things easier for us." he chuckled. Carie sighed and hit her head softly against his shoulder. But then she breathed in, and caught his scent. Graham smelled of manliness, clean uniform, and other good things. Carie kept her head against his upper back to hide her blush. Well, at least she got to smell him…
"Wow, that's quite a blush. I think someone has a crush on you, Graham." Billy's teasing voice said. Carie snapped her head up to glare at him, wondering how he could see her blushing. But at the sight of her face, Billy ignored her glare and burst out laughing.
"Oh, now I can see a blush!"
Carie just groaned quietly and flopped her head against Graham's back again while wondering just how evil her two of her favorite characters could be.