Information warfare

Hi again!

Just a quick note, sorry for all the delays, and by the way, this and the first side story were inspired in part by how Attha's Villa was portrayed in Maderfole's Golden Age trilogy.

As a gesture of gratitude for my reviewers, I will send to anyone who will post a review of my story, a small sneak peak of the next chapter. But hey guys, please try to post something a bit longer, will ya ;-)

Now up to the story !

Disclaimers

I don't own Gundam SEED. Falcon and CO are the property of Solid Shark. I own only my own plot.

xxx

It was silent, as silent as night might be, as Cagalli, in her spec-ops sleeping bag reflected on her plans. She wasn't out of the woods yet. Still a good planning was the first step to the success. She smiled like a cat. It did take her three weeks to prepare this stunt, but she was sure it would be hard to track her back.

As soldiers looking for her left the palace garden, she could only hear distant noises and the nature. It was a silent night with stars. Stars that were now a battlefield someone was risking to bring here. She had to get there, she had to see it for herself…

But to do that, she had to get out of Orb. And it wouldn't be easy. It was extremely hard for here, not to go hotheaded straight to Helipolis. Hell she would use her authority but nobody would risk getting her in space. So she had to do it alone and with a spec ops on her tail. They were the best of the best but she wasn't some flimsy girl in a gown. She had a plan.

First, they didn't know she was here, Kisaka must had thought that she would escape on foot by now, not hide in the garden till morning. Well, getting out of the garden with the schoolchildren and visitors will be difficult if the guards will give them too much scrutiny, but they will probably be fewer of them than usual. She made sure that Kisaka would be preoccupied with searching for here all night and beyond before the day of the monthly "open day at the palace". Very occupied.

She was sure that she left enough clues to make him waste efforts on a lot of fronts. Since in her very small backpack, there were not less than twenty tickets to all of types of communications outgoing in the next 2 hours, and twenty for the morning plus a dozen vouchers for as much transport companies. All for two of her legally illegal fake identities: Margareth Ashford and Serena Mass. Still, since Kisaka new about them, she was sure he would find the tickets even if he wouldn't discover what she purchased using her computer or one of her accounts. Then again, she planted evidence that she bought tickets outside of that way and indeed she bought two tickets using her test-pilot friends Yuri, Asagi and Mayura. Finding those will take Kisaka at least a few hours. And if they miss a single ticket they will have to split people to track it. Win-win.

The real problem was with obtaining an identity that nobody would know or at least that Kisaka would not know. Well, that was the hardest task since she wasn't as good at forging documents, and most of all, they were biometric and electronic safeguards if she was going to space. Oh, about that, she left enough traces of interest in getting to the desert Kisaka mentioned so often or just as far away as possible from this golden age that the real deal shouldn't be so easy to find out.

And her identity was a masterpiece. She was Cagalli Youla, a test pilot. All it took, albeit with a lot of effort was to convince chief Simmons that she wanted to walk the streets with her fellow girls without a bodyguard and all the inconveniences. And the best part, was that Erica was now on a 14 day tour on Ame-no-Mihashira, so nobody that knew was on the hand. Kisaka should put two and two when she exploits all other escape routes, but then again there were the traces of a forged documents for one Ellen Vianno. Looking for that name should take time too.

And to make a closing move after a check with transportation, she did a checkmate with her false bank accounts. Since she could get enough money (from a fund from her father, then a part of her mother trust-fund and her "allowance") she did create at least two dozens false accounts on her false identities and her real one to make them look for her. Since she did place at least a hundred remote transactions with a delivery to a few dozen strange places with essentials, food, clothing and transportation tickets for the next week, she was sure the security detail of Kisaka will have a few hard days. And there was that little trick of hers. A simple way to make them distracted - she left yesterday 5 wallets with her various cards in the city. If only half of those cards will be used, Kisaka will have a hard time tracking small thefts in the capital.

She had money, because once again as Cagalli Youla she was a test pilot, and as such she got paid. And since she got the same pay as the girls and she didn't spend any of it, it was apparent that she had the identity and means to make a trip to Heliopolis. And only person knowing about that she was Cagalli Youla was in space for another week. Even if they recall Erica it will be too late. in 24 hours she will be out of her!

Falling deeper and deeper into sleep she once again was drowned to why she was going to such extremes. She had to lead her people, because how could they follow her, if the queen didn't move against injustice.

xxxx

As a bonus for this OVA there are two hints on a crossover I'm working on. It will be about a few people cast into the Falcon's team way and how could they change the destiny. The first person that PM's me with a good answer will get a sneak peek of my work. And any review of this OVA will get a sneak peek of the next OVA I'm currently working on.