This is classified information. Project SKAIA is dedicated to taking down terrorists of the alien race called trolls. There are an unknown number of them that arrived in the year 2012. They have only just begun to make their presence known. They have already bombed many facilities, yet some informants have revealed that this is only the beginning. The public do not know of the threat yet, and hopefully they never will. A collection of governments have volunteered special agents to take on the task of protecting the world from these mysterious terrorists. These agents are all young in age and related, because some will have limited contact to the outside world, hence SKAIA: Specialized Kindred Acquiring and Imprisoning Aliens. The collection of 8 agents form to make one unit, all with one goal, to accomplish one mission: Project SKAIA.
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His feet echoed down the barren white hallway. It was yet another monotonous day. As he made his way to the main room he passed many of the heavily armored doors to either side of him. This was where the prisoners were held. Not just any regular prisoners, but especially dangerous ones. One could say the danger they possessed was… out of this world.
John scoffed at that awful joke, shaking his head at his corny thoughts. But hey, a person could get bored in a place like this. Even though the prisoners were aliens, the job of a guard was just as boring as a guard any other place. Well, except for the occasional outbursts. John knew his job would eventually get more exciting as more prisoners came in, but so far there was only a few.
Just as he thought that, a shout sounded from down the hall. Well, more like a series of shouts, all possessing crude curse words. John quickly made his way to the corner of the hall and looked down. There he saw a furious alien being detained by his best friend. As Dave moved swiftly down the hallway John stepped back, not wanting to get in the way. He immediately recognized the alien, or troll, to use the formal term. His flurry of cursing and small stature gave him away as the leader of the trolls, Karkat.
They had all been briefed on the known aliens and asked to memorize them. There were only six trolls seen so far, and four, now five, captured. The team knew of three trolls who had not been seen yet. As for others that they might not even know about, who knew how many more there were?
As the two walked past, the shorter struggling as they did, John caught the troll's eyes. They were blood red, vibrant and filled with fury. John felt himself being pulled into his gaze, mesmerized by it. The trolls began focusing his cursing on John instead of Dave. John continued to be pulled in by those eyes, not even hearing what he was saying. It wasn't until the two passed that John realized he had been staring.
He shook his head to clear his thoughts and walked to where Dave was shutting a heavy vaulted door. Once it was securely locked Dave turned around to lean on the door, his head resting on it as he let out a long sigh.
"Difficult catch?" John inquired, revealing his usual dorky grin. Dave glanced over, his shades hiding his expression.
"He wouldn't fucking shut up" John smiled widely up at him until Dave finally gave in and cracked a smile as well.
"I haven't seen you in ages, what have you been up to? Rose never tells me anything. Hey, that was Karkat right? Isn't he the leader of the group or something? Does that mean this whole operation is almost over?" Dave quickly interrupted before John could continue.
"Nah, man. That guy is like the puppet of this whole thing. It's like someone else is pullin the strings, bein all 'I got this, bro, just do this puppet thing and I'll do my take over the world thing'." Dave slowly began walking towards the main room, with John close behind.
"Rose will explain it better when we debrief. She always does." John huffed, annoyed.
"That's what you always say now. It's like you've changed Dave, you never tell me anything anymore. And hey, why didn't those two help you out with the catch?" Dave visibly stiffened, then mechanically started walking again, as if it was a struggle.
"Oh. Never mind, I'm sorry I brought it up." John wrung his hands in silence as they walked into the main room. They both took a seat at a large glass table, the walls around them illuminating white light much like every other room in the facility. Dave stared straight ahead, his face devoid of emotion, much like it always was these days. It wasn't always like this though. Before the project, before the aliens, before… them. John sighed heavily right as a disgruntled Rose walked into the room.
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Jane sighed as she pushed a meddling hand out of her way.
"Roxy, I need to work. You keep distracting me." Roxy had been bugging her for the past hour, alcohol evident in her breath. She was leaning on one of the lab tables as Jane finished typing up her report. Jane was a biochemist, specialized in pharmacology. Her job at the headquarters was to find create drugs to help detain the trolls, though most of her work went into 'taming' Gamzee, the troll that had the most outbreaks.
She finished typing a sentence and leaned back away from the computer. Roxy was picking up various chemicals in the lab and swirling them around in their bottles carelessly, a stupid grin plastered on her face.
"Oh Janey, don't you like my distraptions?" Roxy burst out into a giggle, and Jane rolled her eyes. She stood up and snatched the bottle of potassium fluoride away from her.
"If you are not careful with these you will harm yourself" Roxy gave her a sly smile.
"Oh reely? Well what would ya do if I was hurt hmmm?" Roxy stood up and came closer, putting her hands on Jane's slender shoulders. As she giggled Jane could smell the alcohol on her breath.
"Don't you have work to do?" Roxy worked as a security guard, but since she was clearly irresponsible she just watched the security cameras. Well, at least most of the time.
"But Janey that's so booooring! I'd rather have fun in here with you" with that she placed a sloppy kiss on Jane's lips, and Jane rolled her eyes. She knew they were in a relationship, but she sometimes couldn't for the life of her understand why she was attracted to her. She was so irresponsible and idiotic and… refreshing. After all they were foils of each other and balanced well. Jane was hesitant when they were at work, but hell, that report was long and she was dead tired. She did deserve a… reward.
She leaned into the kiss, guiding Roxy's lips to an actual kiss and deepened it. Roxy moaned then moved her hands to Jane's back. This is fun.
"I'm sorry. Am I interrupting something?"
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Rose was furious. Her day was already not going well and now she walks in on this? Her voice was cold and piercing.
"I can come back later when you two feel up to doing work. This relationship is obviously more important and it's not like we are detaining dangerous criminals in this facility anyway. This is the perfect place to get to second base isn't it?"
Jane quickly pushed a dazed Roxy away from her as her face rapidly turned scarlet.
"I, I'm so sorry ma'am, I don't know what came over-" Rose came up to her, glowering down at her.
"My sister is a recovering alcoholic. I will not have you taking advantage of her. Especially not in this facility. Understood?" Jane quickly nodded.
"Yes ma'am" Rose stared at her a moment longer, then turned on her heels to face Roxy.
"As for you, I gave you this job to help your recovery and to keep an eye on you. And you repay me with this?" Rose stepped close to her still tipsy sister.
"You reek of alcohol. I cannot believe-" Her phone messaged her, and she quickly glanced at it. She grumbled, then glanced up at Roxy.
"I will deal with you later. Dave has detained another criminal; I need to deal with that. Go back to your station Roxy. Now." With that she quickly spun on her heels and swiftly walked to the main room. It was good news, yet it was the last thing she wanted to deal today. Not after what happened this morning.
The sliding glass doors opened as she made her way into the main room, seeing that John and Dave had already taken a seat.
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A/N So this will be a long series and I will try to update regularly, but it might not happen very well. I'm sorry if some of the characters are OOC, some I cannot do well. The first chapter doesn't give much, more like a taste test for the future! ;) There will also be a lot of pairings in this series, it's my goal to have as many as possible. :3 There will be a lot of things unexplained at first, but it will all come with time! Please tell me what you think! The more reviews the faster I update! Thanks for reading!