Hey guys! So here is chapter two! I hope ya like it!
Rini sighed impatiently. Her last class of the day had ten more minutes left, and it was beginning to feel like a century. She glanced out the window and grinned. Mina and Lita had already arrived and where seated in their car talking about something. A shrill ring sounded, and Rini quickly stood up, ignoring what the teacher had to say. She raced out of the room, her strawberry blonde pigtails whipping around her. She grinned as she got closer to the two.
"Hey guys!"
"Hey there Rini! How was school?" Lita grinned at the younger girl and got out of the car so she could get into the back.
"Meh, it was ok."
"What, no good gossip?" Rini laughed.
"No good gossip Mina." The older blonde pouted.
"And I was hoping to get some juicy info on you latest crush or something." Lita laughed.
"Don't torment her too badly."
"Ah, she knows it's all in good fun." Mina gave Rini a wink through the rearview mirror.
"So, are we going to Rei's and Amy's house?"
"Yup! Your sister said she'd be getting there around dinner time, and wanted to make sure that you got all of you homework done." Rini made a face a Lita's words.
"Yesh, you'd think she's my mom!"
"She also said something about getting Amy to help you on a problem?" Lita glanced at the girl to see if what she was saying made sense.
"Yea, we're working on something in math that doesn't make sense." Mina snorted.
"Well, Amy's the one to ask!"
The girls kept a light hearted conversation as they drove. The fifteen minute drive quickly passed, and the girls found themselves at an old shrine. Still chatting, the three made their way up the long flight of stairs. Rei stood waiting at the door, smiling.
"Hey Rei!" Rini ran a head of the group to give the dark haired woman a hug.
"Hey there Rini. How have you been?" The younger girl grinned.
"Great! And you?"
"I've been doing well. Come on in, I've just made some ice tea." Grinning, Rini kicked off her shoes and ran down the entrance hall to the living room. Lita chuckled as she heard Rini shout a greeting to Amy.
"She really does act like Bunny." Rei gave a soft smile.
"Yea, although I think Rini is a bit more of handful."
"Nah, you're wrong about that Lita. Bunny was always getting into way more trouble! Rini can at least curb her curiosity."
"I think Mina might be right about that one, Lita. Bunny always did manage to get herself into trouble." The three made their way into the house.
"Was Amy able to find anything new Rei?" Lita glanced at the priestess who nodded her head.
"Amy got past the B.E.H. firewalls. She's been trying to locate their research files, but is having a bit of a tough time. She also found something that was indicating a live specimen."
"What?!" Lita and Mina look horrified.
"Can she get any more information?" Mina's face began to look worried.
"She's been trying too, but things aren't looking too good right now." Rei sighed and looked towards Rini who was seated at the low table, a glass of ice tea and a cookie in hand, watching TV. "I just hope that Bunny is wrong, and that things won't get out of control.
Atten. 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
WRONG PERSON: decoy!
Find S. (B.) R. L. M. R. A.
On your side!
Code: sm11gw
N.
Duo's brows furrowed in concentration. He had figured that the numbers were meant for him and the pilots; it was their call numbers after all. But the rest… Who was "N", and did they mean that the killer was the wrong person? Could they be trusted? Better yet, who were "B., R., L., M., R., A"? And what the hell was the code for?! Growling, he re-folded the paper. Loud music made him look up to see a car pulling next to his at the light.
"Nickelback? I had no idea that people still listened to them! Let alone knew the band." Duo chuckled to himself. He had found the band when he was searching for some music to listen too. They were old, from back when the Colonies weren't around. But they sounded good, and Duo took a liking to them much to his companions dislike. Grinning, Duo lowered his window, allowing the music to blare into his car. He honked his horn.
"Hey! Great music!" Duo flashed a grin to the startled driver, who smiled back.
"Thanks! I had no idea that someone new this band! I thought I was the only one who listened to dead bands!" The woman laughed, and Duo joined her.
"No way! Nickelback rocks! My name is Duo! What's yours?"
"My name is Serena, but friends call me Bunny! It's nice to meet you!"
"Likewise!" The light changed to green and Duo playfully revved his engine. Laughing, the petite blonde haired woman turned her music up and matched his playful nature.
"Oh yea?!" She flashed him one more smile before zipping ahead of him. Duo flicked on his music player and plugged in his music holder. Grinning, he flipped through the bands before settling on Nickelback.
"Time to play!" Grinning, Duo raced after her, keeping his eyes on her red car. He pulled up next to the blonde haired woman, who glanced over to him and grinned before accelerating and pulling quickly ahead of him just before the two lane road became one. Still grinning, Duo pressed on the gas, getting extremely close to her cars' bumper.
He watched as the woman's pale blue eyes flashed playfully at him from her rearview mirror, before she made a hard right. Duo grinned.
"Not getting away that easy!" He made quick work of following her, only to find that she had parked and was leaning on her car laughing. Duo blinked before he pulled up next to her and got out.
"Well damn! I haven't met anyone that could have as much fun as me in ages!" The blonde laughed and pushed herself away from the car, her hand held out.
"I suppose that since I won, you get to buy me an ice cream!" Duo grinned and took her much smaller hand into his and shook it.
"As the lady commands!" Laughing the two made their way into the ice cream parlor.
"So how did you find out about Nickelback?" Bunny, as Duo came to realize was quite an animated character, asked.
"I was looking online for some good, old music and I came across them. It was love at first note." Duo grinned as the young woman tossed her long hair back and laughed. "What about you?"
"A friend introduced me to it a long time ago, and I really liked it. Chocolate chip ice cream please!" Duo nodded, and studied her while she ordered. She had a childlike face and wide eyes, and rather intriguing to watch.
"What will you be having Duo?" Duo glanced at the flavors.
"Mint, please." He offered a smile to the waiter. After paying for their treat, Duo motioned towards the park. "Care to walk while we eat?"
"Sure!"
The two wandered aimlessly around the park sharing little random facts, and laughing over simple things. A sudden beeping had Bunny searching her pockets. Pulling out her phone, she flipped it open and smiled.
"Bunny here!" Duo watched as the petite woman's face lit up in recognition before slowly falling into confusion and then worry.
"Alright, I'll be there in a jiffy." Hanging up she sighed and gave a small smile to Duo. "Sorry, but I need to get going."
"Nothing bad?"
"Naw, my sister and four friends are waiting up for me, and Rei, the one that I was just talking too, was saying that I needed to hurry up." Duo nodded and smiled, but didn't fully believe it.
"Alright. Well it was nice meeting you."
"Like wise! Maybe we'll meet up again sometime." Waving, Bunny jogged across the street to her car. Duo couldn't help but smile at her carefree nature. Shaking his head, Duo pulled out his cell phone and called Heero.
"Yes?"
"It was last used at the park."
"Your sure?"
"Yea. So basically this lead is a dead end." Duo frowned as Heero cursed and hung up the phone. Putting his cell phone into his back pocket he glanced around the park. Go figure, their one lead on where the first caller could of come from was in an extremely public place.
"Why the hell would a person call from a park to Relena's office…" Duo's gaze fell over a small restaurant. His eyes narrowed, and pulled out his cell phone and called Heero again.
"Heero, what time did Relena and the Chiba guy arrive at the restaurant for lunch?"
"Sorry I'm late!" Bunny flashed a sunny smile to her friends as she made her way into the living room. Rei raised an eyebrow and glanced over at the clock.
"Ten minutes… not too bad."
"Aw, leave me alone Rei." Bunny gave her a playful pout and sat next to Lita and Rini. "Did you get all your work done Rini?"
"Yes mom." Rini stuck her tongue out and Bunny just ruffled her hair. The others watch in amusement as the two playfully bickered.
"So once you two are done, may we start?" Bunny glanced up to Amy and grinned.
"Oh all right! So what did you find out?" Amy took a breath and pulled out a folder.
"This. The B.E.H. has been hiding out for almost forty years, and is basically a branch off of from the organization that created us, Ginzuishou."
"Wait a minute, I thought we completely destroyed that organization after we learned that they wanted to create that 'Crystal Tokyo'." Lita gave a confused glance to the short haired woman.
"That's what I thought too, however it seems that government at that time had collected data and kept it secured. A group of scientist who were experimenting with DNA were tipped off by some anonymous person about the Ginzuishou organization and they began to get curious."
"So they started to look into it?" Mina bit her lip in worry.
"Yes. They managed to get into the government files and pull information up on the Ginzuishou research."
"Do you know if they have our files?" Amy looked over to Bunny, who's normally carefree disposition was hardened.
"We managed to burn all of our information. However, the governments data at the time was enough for the B.E.H. to get a basic idea of what was created."
"Us." Amy nodded in confirmation to Bunny. "What are they doing now?"
"They are trying to base their work off of the data they have to make more of people like us. So far they have had several successful creations of altered animals"
"Why?" Mina leaned towards the comfort of Lita. Amy frowned and ran a hand through her hair.
"That's what I've been trying to figure out. So far, all that's come up is something called N.E.O."
"Do what we know that that stands for?"
"No."
Trowa frowned as he looked over the information Duo had left for him to review. Frowning, he opened a search engine to look for information on something called The S. Soldiers. His frown deepened when nothing turned up. A soft hand rested on his shoulder.
"Anything?"
"No. I cannot find anything on The S. Soldiers." Trowa felt his lover sigh, and turned towards him. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. But something feels wrong…" Trowa stood and wrapped his arms around the smaller blonde. Quatre leaned back and sighed. The shrill sound of the phone interrupted their moment. Quatre picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Quatre, it's Wufei."
"Hello Wufei, any luck?"
"Yea. I managed to get into some old government files about an organization called Ginzuishou. Supposedly they first started to look into DNA testing."
"Ginzuishou?"
"Yeah, they were around almost 200 years ago."
"But earth didn't have the technology for DNA testing back then!"
"That's what I thought. Apparently we were wrong. They created six successful altered organisms."
"Six?! What happened to them?"
"That's the strange part. No one knows. The group suddenly disappeared off the map."
"So they could of gone into hiding and kept their work going? But for 200 years?!"
"That's the thing, a law was passed banning the alteration of DNA a month after known documents on Ginzuishou stopped being printed."
"So something major occurred, and it must have scarred the public."
"That's what I'm thinking."
"But what…" Quatre suddenly had a thought. "Trowa, see if you can find anything on a law passed 200 years ago on a law passed preventing DNA testing. If it was such a major scare, the media would have covered it."
Trowa nodded and quickly began a search. A surprised look crossed his face. "Quatre, there's over two hundred thousand results. All of them are media articles, documents written by major politicians at the time, and military personal."
Quatre looked over his shoulder, blue eyes wide. Wufei's impacient voice brought him back to reality.
"Sorry Wufei. Trowa found something… let me call you back." Hanging up the phone, Quatre glanced over the documents. "There. Click that one."
Trowa opened up a document titled, 'Humanity; The Day We Almost Died'. Both of their eyes widened as they read further and further down the page.
"I think it's safe to say that we just found out why DNA testing was banned…"
Heero glanced out the window as Relena finished up a conversation on the phone. His gaze fell over the people walking in the streets, blissfully unaware that their peace was being threatened. A sigh from the sandy blonde haired woman had him look towards her.
"It's connected somehow, isn't it Heero?" His blank gaze fell on her and she offered him a small, sad smile. "I know that you're not just shadowing me because of the possibility of an assassin. The others are working on something as well. What's going on Heero?"
"I cannot tell you." A frown came over her face.
"Why not?"
"It's classified information. You no longer have a clearance after you stepped down from power and took over as CEO for this company." Relena fought the urge to yell at him. Instead she sat back down and turned the news on.
"In other news, Darien Chiba has donated a large sum of money to St. Andria's Metal Institute after the break through in…"
Relena smiled as the handsome man appeared smiling as media pestered him with questions. She watched as he calmly handled their questions before walking into St. Andria.
"He is a remarkable man. A true noble man at heart. He's been work alongside the researchers and doctors ever since his step daughter, Noah is her name I think, lost her mother in the war. She was in some accident and had severe mental damage. She apparently died a few months later."
Heero's eyed the picture of the screen before suddenly pushing himself from the wall and walking quickly out of the room.
"Heero? Is everything alright?"
"I need to make a call."
Quickly stepping into the hall, Heero flipped open his phone and called Trowa.
"Trowa. I need information on Darien Chiba's relationship with St. Andria's Metal Institute, and his step daughter Noah."
"Rodger. I have some information that needs you attention immediately."
"What?"
"I'm sending you a file with the information, but it's about an organization called Ginzuishou, as well as why their research was stopped. I think we need to regroup, and soon."
"Tonight, 5 pm at Quatres." Heero hung up the phone and made his way to a computer. Pulling up the files sent to him, his eyes widened. He quickly read through the information.
"Over fifteen hundred humans and over two thousand animals killed while undergoing testing…" A sick feeling began to grow in Heero, but he kept reading.
Original DNA testing was done in order help science cure illnesses, however became out of control as military personal came up with the idea of using biologically altered organism for war far during the conflict of… The military idea evolved when the scientist Dr. Mamoru witnessed the brutal death of his girlfriend and her sister during a military raid. In a fit of anger, he declared that he would not allow humanity to cause harm to innocents any more. He led the rebellion, called Ginzuishou, of zealous religious followers in the idea of creating a 'heaven on earth' after successfully creating six biologically altered humans, which he called 'Angels', and claiming the power of God. However his plan back fired after the undercover government agents got a hold of the 'Angels' and…
Heero sat back, and took in the information. It was almost unbelievable, yet here it was; the cold hard facts of science, religion, and politics being abused for an ideal. The read further, finding out the so called 'Angels' were told the truth of their purpose and put an end to Dr. Mamoru's ideas. As he began his own search on more information, his phone rang,
"Yes?"
"The facts are true. During the war a mobile suit battle waged over a small town in South America. Several bombs were dropped and killed hundreds. Mr. Chiba's newlywed was killed upon impact, and his daughter-in-law was close to death. He brought her back to North America where he put an immense amount of funding into her health care and research for a cure to mentally disturbed and ill people as a result of birth defect or accident. The girl, Noah, was comatose for over five months before she died."
Heero remained silent as he thought over the information Quatre had just relayed to him. It was aligned with what Relena had briefly mentioned, however that didn't mean much. "Any information on the actual research?"
"Nothing. They're not really disclosing much data." Heero gave an annoyed grunt.
"See if you can't find anything out."
"OK. Wufei is on his way back from the government data base, and I think Duo is on his way to my house."
"Good. I'll be there in an hour." Hanging up the phone he made his way back into Relena's office. She stood on the phone, a content smile on her face.
"Ok, I will be. Thanks Darien." Hanging up the phone, she offered the silent man a bright smile. "Is everything ok?"
"Yes." He glanced at the clock. "I'm leaving now. If you need anything, call Quatre." With that said, he turned and left the room. Relena blinked and then shook her head.
"Somethings never change."
Hah! Done! So there is your history lesson of this complicated group!
Hope you enjoyed it, cause it took me a bit to come up with that stuff! (Not to mention it's kinda hard to keep up with where I put the characters lol)
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