Chapter Two, Act One: "I married my superior?! Part One."

Part One: "Explanations"

Kei and Mizuho found themselves sitting beside each other in the living room as Minoru and Konoha lectures them both. "Alright Kei, Miss Kazami, we would like a clear explanation on what is going on around here and we want it now, isn't that right, Konoha?" Minoru looked at her wife.

"I have no part of this." Konoha looked back.

"Well whatever, so what is going on with you two together in on all places the bathtub of our house?"

"Um... you see it's kind of like this-"

"Hey what are you Kei, a politician?" Minoru interrupted him "I want a clear explanation, and don't leave out any details." he smiled.

"Uh... we... um..." Kei thinks of a proper explanation until Mizuho sent a "telepathic" message.

"Please, don't tell them." Mizuho sent the message "You must not tell them."

"But I… uh ..." Kei replied "I... I don't know what to say."

"You can't tell them, please, don't."

"Er... uh..." Kei struggles to speak.

Meanwhile, Minoru and Konoha were looking at them "Hm... it seems they are talking through eye contact." Minoru whispered to Konoha.

"I wonder when they both get so close?" Konoha's question brought both Kei and Mizuho to the real world.

"No, it's not like that." Kei denied "I was helping her move in when she realized her bathtub is not working so I thought it could be okay if we could-"

"That is such a lie." Minoru interrupted him again "I mean you know look at her, she is so-"

"That's enough dear." Konoha gave out a warning.

"Understood..." Minoru sighed and looked down.

"Well, then I suppose we'll just continue this tomorrow after flight training okay?" Konoha smiled.

"Understood." Kei and Mizuho said in unison.

The next day, Kei was flying his fighter with Hyosuke on a F-15 trainer "Well, Kei." Hyosuke spoke through the radio "Shall we begin the mock dogfight?"

"CYNDI, Please use call-signs, am I clear?" the flight instructor (not Ms. Kazami) spoke through the radio "That also includes you Archer-250."

"Understood tower," Kei replied "Hey, Hyo- er... I mean CYNDI, I'm always ready." Kei then pulled up his tinted visor on his helmet "Let's get this over with, Tower?"

"This is tower." a male radio operator responded.

"We are ready to do the mock dogfight." Kei said "Interrogative, shall we proceed?."

"This is Tower, go ahead." his flight instructor, Mr. Sawaguchi, approves "Proceed with caution, there are TV choppers all over the place, they are covering about that UFO that appeared on Lake Kizaki."

"Understood" Hyosuke replied "Let's get goin'!" he pushed the throttle and pulled the stick. The plane then rose to the clouds "Here's my secret attack!" he then dove for Kei's Kawasaki T-4 "Hellstorm!!" he pressed the trigger, spraying Kei's plane with targeting lasers. The Kei then pulled the stick down, dropping the plane to a 60 degree drop. Then a soft clunk shook the cockpit "Warning." the T-4's female-emulated computer voice spoke "Foreign object entered port engine. Minimal damage but not fatal, recommend decreasing speed to 600 knots." Kei simply shook his head "Oh dear," he then made two barrel rolls. The dogfight went on for a few hours, Kei then pulled a 180 degree turn and faced Hyosuke "Target locked, firing lasers." he then pressed the trigger, pointing the laser on the F-15's canopy, to Hyosuke's helmet before T-4 flew over him. "CYNDI's canopy shot, survival of pilot... unclear, Archer-250 wins the dogfight exercises." the computer of both planes announced.

"So where did I hit?" Kei then pulled his stick then went into formation with Hyosuke "Damn you Kei." Hyosuke smirked "You're just lucky." he looked at him "I'll get you next time." Kei simply chuckled. "Hey, want to go for an another try?" he then asked

"Why hell yeah!!" Hyosuke's fighter then swerved to the right, with Kei's fighter following.

Part Two: "Secrets"

After landing and a small scalding from Mr. Sawaguchi because of not using callsigns, it was time for lunch. After the two slipped out of the flight suits, Kei and Hyosuke went with their friends and formed up a circle at the grounds of the air base, Hyosuke pulled out his lunch "Hey, guess what I have... SEAWEED!!" he placed the plastic bag on the grass and showed the lunch box to everyone, he then looked at Matagu's lunch box then to Ichigo's box "You know, Matagu I am wondering why your box is so small..." he then looked at Ichigo's box "While hers is too big?"

Kaede then brought out a basket "It seems I made so much sandwiches, feel free to get some." she smiled. Kei then stood up "Hey, Kei what's wrong?" Koishi asked "Do you have your lunch?"

"Well, things were chaotic last night, so I didn't had the time to make lunch." Kei smiled meekly

"Hm... okay then, I insist you share it my lunch with me then just say 'Ah'!" Koishi then offered her chopsticks to him.

"Oh, no thank you." he then picked up his peaked cap and wore it then walked off to the hangar.

Meanwhile, at the instructor's department, Mizuho has her eyes glued on the Plasma TV hanging on the wall, as the news program report about the UFO that was sighted at the lake caught her, at her desk, there are three boxes (one left unopened) boxes of chocolate-flavoured Pocky stacked in a uniformed manner "Oh dear." Mizuho thought "If this reaches the Federation, then I will be forced to return to my planet." she then stood up, reached for the remote and turned the TV off and walked outside.

"Oh man..." Kei fixed his glasses as he looked at one of the chipped-off turbine blades of his fighter. "...it seems the damage is really real." he picked up a blood-stained feather "Oh, so that's how it is. I even thought that was semi-realistic damage program installed by Mr. Sawaguchi." he threw the feather off his hands and called the technician "Mr. Kojiro. I was wondering if you could repair the port engine? Some of the turbine blades are broken."

"I'll take a look at it." Mr. Kojiro said softly and smiled Lucy will be fine."

"Lucy?" Kei raised an eyebrow.

"That's what your fighter being called by the technician group." he looked at the fighter and pointed at the amine maid girl on the body of the plane. "That's Lucy."

Kei slowly smiled "That's a good name." he chuckled "I'll leave Lucy up to you." he walked away from the hangar as the technician called for more personnel to assist.

"I wonder what's going on?" Kei thought "Problems seem to pile up every minute" as he made a face palm, he thought how to explain about what happened last night, while he was thinking, he did not noticed that he is transported from his current location, the fields, to a spare parts warehouse. "Huh? Where?" he looked around "Where am I?"

"First Class Cadet?" Mizuho emerged from an organized pile of canopy parts.

"Ma'am." Kei saluted "Is there anything you need?"

"I have nothing." Mizuho sat on a box of stabilizer blades "I just wanted to have a chat with you, Kusanagi-kun." she smiled.

Then the doors of the warehouse opened then two logistics officers, one in the forklift truck and the other one guiding it entered the building. "Come on, let's hide." he grabbed Mizuho's hand and hid behind the canopy parts.

"Kei? What's wrong?" Mizuho asked.

"Shh... they might get a bad idea when they saw us both together." Kei said in a low tone.

"You know, last night's dinner was great." said the one of the officers on the forklift as he lowers the cargo down. "Your wife is not only beautiful, but she really knows how to make a perfect Kaiseki."

"Yeah..." the other one placed a check mark on the pad he held on his hand "Thanks man." he rode the forklift and closed the door behind them.

As Mizuho emerged from the canopy parts, Kei got up first and tried to open the doors but it would not open "Darn it, seems that we are locked in." he looked up at the door hinges.

"Don't worry, Kei-kun." she smiled "We could just use my technology to get us out of here, Marie?"

Just left of them, Marie materialized "Nooh?"

Mizuho's confident face slowly disappeared when he suddenly appeared "Marie?! What are you doing here? You are not supposed to be here!!" However, Marie's only response is a salute, the inner tube fell off, then collapsed while saluting, frozen.

"Marie? Marie?! What's wrong with you? Why are you acting so odd these days?!" Mizuho poked Marie's head then his body.

Then all of a sudden, Kei remembered when he swatted Marie from the control module to the floor sixty feet below. "Eii..." Kei muttered.

"Did you say something?" Mizuho asked.

"Oh nothing." he smiled "So can you fix whatever that is?"

"Unfortunately, no." she shook her head "Marie is the quasi-organic life form linked to my ship and is maintenance free. Well, that is what I only know about him."

"Well, I guess we are going to be stuck here eh?"he climbed on a crate and looked at the window. He then looked below and saw a titanium roll bar "Ma'am, can you reach that for me?" he pointed at the roll bar.

"Of course." she grabbed the roll bar and gave it to Kei.

"Well, here goes..." he jammed the roll bar against the window bars and pulled, but the weakened reinforced glass (since it was first placed in sixty years ago) shattered, he lost his grip and fell to the floor, and the roll bar fell to the other side of the wall.

"Ouch..." he muttered as he tried to stand "... that hurt."

"Are you alright Kei?" Mizuho asked.

"Yeah," Kei stood up "I guess we are not going out of here for a while."

"Oh dear me." Mizuho dusted off Kei's uniform. "I am sorry for bringing you into this."

"It's all right." Kei assured her "It's okay."

Night slowly rolled by and Kei and Mizuho are both still trapped inside the warehouse. The silence was then interrupted when Kei's stomach grumbled "Oops." he placed a hand on his abdomen, "I didn't eat yet."

"Here." Mizuho offered a stick of Pocky to Kei. "Take one, that's an order." she smiled.

Kei pulled one from the box "I'm surprised you like this, ma'am."

"Really? For an alien?" Mizuho looked at him "This maybe surprising but I am half-human."

"What?" Kei nearly choked on his Pocky "How..."

"Do you remember the date of humanity's first warp experiment?" Mizuho asked.

"April 27, 1986." Kei remembered "That was when the first Phoenix first launched."

"Yes," she replied "Humanity's space technology advanced at an exponential rate. My father was one of the crew."

"Shirou Kazami?" Kei sat straight "I remember he was the pilot of the craft, NASA lost contact of the craft 17 hours later."

"That's when my mother came in." Mizuho continued "Just 260 kilometers from the Sol Kuiper Belt, a Galactic Federation space ship received a distress communication from the Phoenix." she smiled "It was love at first sight for both of my parents, then few months later, they got married and settled at the capital."

"Oh, I see." Kei looked down, staring at the floor and settling the stick of Pocky on the box. "Um, ma'am?"

"Yes?" she asked

"Do you remember when I suddenly fainted on your apartment?" he sat beside her.

"Why yes, if I remember it correctly, you called it a standstill." Mizuho looked at him with an undisturbed attention.

"I had my first standstill few years ago when I reached senior high." Kei looked down "My older sister is just two years ahead of me."

"Where were you studying?" Mizuho asked

"At Tokyo, before I enlisted to the air force." he continued "At the last days of my freshman years..." he suddenly fell silent, holding back his tears


Come on, tell her....

Tell her...

Damn, I have to tell her...

I have to get even with her...

Alright... here I go...


A tear dropped from Kei's eyes...

"... she committed suicide."


END OF PART ONE, TO BE CONTINUED IN PART TWO OF CHAPTER TWO


A/N: Hehehe, cliffhanger... LOLZERz. Well, I hope you like this so far, I am having fun writing this despite of some delays.

SHOUT OUT FOR THE REVIEWER: Cylon One, thanks for reading my version of the series. Hope you like this fanfic series.

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FANFICTION CREATED BY: Durante Alighieri

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