1 Part Three
Chapter Nine: The Street Fair
Chapter Ten: Halo's lover a pig? (Pun on Saint Tail Meimi's lover a hedgehog ep.3)
Chapter Eleven: For the love of a pig
Chapter Twelve: Dreams come true?
Chapter Nine: The Street Fair
Halo stuck out her tongue as she looked into the mirror. A good many things had been happening to her lately and she took the chance to relax. She was home from school and had done her homework.
Halo looked back to the empty goldfish bowel on her crowded dresser. She smiled and pushed more things away from it. She wanted a pet goldfish really badly, but didn't know if her parents would approve.
She was going to go to the fair that was uptown with Ayame, who was supposed to meet her in 15 minutes at one of the booths uptown. Halo looked back at the clock, 15 minutes… That wasn't that long at all.
Halo grabbed her coat and pulled it on as she ran down the stairs calling goodbye to her mother. She pushed open the door and started off to the fairgrounds. The sidewalk was crowded, people had to park far away and than walk to get to the street fair.
Ayame was already there. She turned and smiled when Halo called her name. "Late as usual." She noted.
"I got stuck behind some lady with an empty baby carriage." Halo said defensively.
"Sure you did." Ayame said giving Halo a hard time.
Halo ignored her sarcastic remark. "So what do you want to do?" She asked surveying her surroundings with interest.
Ayame shrugged. "I'd kind of like to go on some rides and hit a couple game booths."
"Sounds fun to me!" Halo said.
The guy that never spoke was with a couple of his friends waiting in line for a ride. It was a ride that Halo had seen before and wanted to ride, but the guy who never spoke was there…
"Hey!" Ayame said pointing to the ride. "You said you wanted to go on that one yesterday, but that kid threw up on it so we never got too, remember?" She said.
"Oh yes, I remember." Halo said her eyes growing wide, Ayame had suggested it, so than it wouldn't look weird if they were to-
"Do you still want to go on it?" She asked.
"Yeah!" Halo said enthusiastically and the two girls took their place in line behind the guys. Halo didn't know whether to say 'hi' or not, if she did, they probably wouldn't answer, if she didn't they would think she was rude. Either way she'd end up looking stupid.
"Hi Halo." Halo turned to see who was addressing her. It was Telinka.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" She asked pleasantly surprised.
"Am I not allowed to be here or something?" She asked.
Warning bells shot off in Halo's mind; Telinka didn't sound to happy.
"Just because no one invited me to come with them doesn't mean that I can't come here." She snapped.
Halo blushed, embarrassed about her friend's outburst. "I'm sorry Telinka." She said softly. "I didn't think you would want to come."
Telinka turned around and walked away giving Halo the famous 'ice' treatment. Halo's excitement for the day faded, tears began to grow in her eyes and she became even more aware of the guy who never spoke who seemed to be witnessing the whole event.
"I don't want to be here anymore." Halo said quietly. She rubbed her face with the sleeve of her jacket as the tears tumbled down. She turned away.
Again we are forced to wonder what the guy who never spoke thought, and once again we have no real answer.
He was at a fair. Halo and a friend showed up and ended up in the line behind him, Halo's friends Telinka came and said something mean to Halo, who than went away crying. What would you think?
Chapter Ten: Halo's lover a pig? (Pun on Saint Tail Meimi's lover a hedgehog ep.3)
Everything seemed to be going wrong for Halo. She had failed an important exam, she hadn't made it on the cheerleading team, and Telinka still wouldn't talk to her.
Halo was sitting on the steeps of the school later on that week when she felt like she was being watched. She looked up to see a small pink pig sitting at the bottom of the stairs gazing up at her intently. "Hey little guy." She said. It squealed its intelligible greeting.
"You sure are cute!" Halo said her voice sounded remarkably like the pig. "What are you doing at school though? Pigs really don't belong at school."
"Peach!" There came a shriek and an old lady came running up to the pig. She attached a leash to its collar. "Sorry if he bothered you."
"No, he seems like a nice pig." Halo said, sorry that the pig was to leave so soon.
"He is a really nice little pig, but the problem is that I'm moving out of the country and I don't know what I'm going to do with him." The woman said sadly. "If I don't find a home for him soon he might have to be put to sleep."
"That's awful!" Halo said heartbroken. "Can I ask my parents if I can keep him?" She said.
The old lady considered it for a moment than reached in her purse. "All right." She handed Halo her business card. "Here is where you can get a hold of me."
"Thank you so much!" Halo said. She looked at the card, Dr. Monroe…
"Please?" Halo said begging. "I'll clean the house for a month!"
Halo's mother looked at her stepfather. "I don't think it would hurt just so long as you took good care of your new pet."
"Great!" Halo said. She ran to the phone and dialed the number for Dr. Monroe. "Hi Dr. Monroe, this is Halo, the girl from the Catholic school. Yes I did, and it was all right with them. I would be more than glad to. Alright, thank you so much!" Halo set down the phone. "I'm going to meet her in the park to pick up Peach!" She said as she pulled on her jacket and rushed outside.
She barely heard her mother's faint good-bye.
Telinka sat in a swing at the park. She was observing the general public when suddenly she saw something that caught her attention. An old woman came into the park leading a pig on a leash that was attached to a rhyme stone ornamented collar. She was carrying a little basket that held a peach satin pillow and a towel. Telinka wasn't sure, but it looked like the towel had 'Peach' embroidered on it.
Telinka received even more of a shock when Halo came running up to the lady and gave her a big hug. Halo than took the pig's leash and gave it a big hug. She than took the basket, talked to the lady a bit, and than she waved good-bye and headed back the direction that she had come.
Telinka began to think. "Very interesting… Halo took the woman's pig… There was no money exchanged… Very interesting." She jotted a note into her little black book and went back to observing the general public.
"Well, you didn't say it was a pig." Halo's mother said.
Halo gave it a squeeze. "Look how cute it is!" She said. "How can you resist his charm?"
Halo's step dad gave it another look. "It would be nice to have another kid around the house. I don't mind." He smiled as he gave it head a pat. "It is kind of cute." He admitted.
Halo gave Peach a hug oblivious to the sound of police sirens as the house was surrounded.
Chapter Eleven: For the love of a pig
Halo was exceptionally tired the next day. She had a big night trying to sort out the whole pig-napping thing. She didn't know what on earth made an innocent bystander in the park think that she had traded drugs for a pig. Something's are just to confusing to explain.
Since the day was Saturday Halo decided to spend the day with her beloved Peach. Peach had decided that he wanted to sleep, so Halo was forced to dress him up and place in a baby carriage instead of taking him for a walk. She had a couple women coo about what a cute baby he was. None of them really got a look at his face though.
Halo stopped out side of the grocery store to feed Peach a can of applesauce when suddenly, out of the blue, a giant revolving saucer appeared overhead and a beam of light came down and took up Peach.
Needless to say Halo was rather shocked. "Come back with my pig! She screamed at the space ship as it disappeared.
Halo would never see the pig she loved again, but this is only the beginning. Halo wanted her beloved Peach back and she would do anything to save him.
Later that evening it was discovered that there was life outside of Earth. It was also discovered that a colony of people from the future were sent back into Halo's time to save the Earth from being destroyed. Mobile frame pilots were trained and commissioned from all corners of the world, each hoping to be the delivers that would save earth from the alien invaders, in accordance with the prophecy. Halo thought this was cool and everything, but she still wanted her Peach back.
Halo was walking home from another depressing day at school. The alien invaders had broken through the defense force and were set out to demolish the planet and take the humans as slaves, and Halo didn't even get out of school.
Suddenly an alien invader landed on the street before her, a mobile frame of the defense force followed it.
A long metal arm shot out of it and grabbed Halo around the waist, intending to take her captive. Halo screamed as she was lifted high into the air pursued by the mobile frame.
The mobile frame made one precise shot that killed the aliens inside of the alien war craft. The mechanical hand went limp leaving Halo to fall to a certain death. Halo fell screaming, but the mobile frame had other plans for her.
Faster than the speed of light it dropped beneath her and released its parachute. Halo fell into the soft pillow it provided and laid there wondering what had just happened. Meanwhile, beneath her, more alien invaders came and destroyed the now evacuated town.
Halo began to cry. It just wasn't fair.
She looked up as she heard a rustling sound and a face appeared over the edge of the parachute. "Hey!" The face said. It was hidden behind a large pair of goggles and a leather hat. "Are you alright?"
"Yes." She sobbed.
"That's good, want to come down from there before you fall off and die?" He asked.
"I guess." She said her sobs thinning.
He gave her his hand and carried her back into the cockpit of the mobile frame. Once inside he took off the hat and pushed the goggles up into the unruly mass of blonde hair that seemed to stand out straight in every direction. Suddenly something hit Halo; it was almost like she had been here before.
No she had never been kidnapped by alien invaders, or rescued by a hot pilot, but…
Than she became aware of what it was. She had seen this pilot before… It was like a dream come true, literally.
Chapter Twelve: Dreams come true?
Suddenly there was a jolt and Halo was sent of her revelry. The once the town had been destroyed the aliens had directed their attention to the mobile frame which they viewed as a direct threat against their corrupt and fascist dictatorship of terror.
Halo fell to the floor, and the pilot replaced his goggles. "Hang on for a bit won't you, we should get you back to the base.
The aliens were attacking.
They had managed to clear the atmosphere, but something was wrong. The boy said that the mobile frame was so beat up it would barley be able to survive the reentry, but it wouldn't be able to land once they got to the base.
The boy pointed out the base from a distance. He stood up and strapped on a parachute. It was obviously nowhere near the size of the one he had previously employed. "This is going to get rough, but be a good girl, and don't mind."
Halo's mouth was open. It was a while before she was able to respond. "What's going to happen to me?" She asked.
"I'm not going to leave you in here, you're coming with me if that's alright."
Halo barely nodded. What choice did she have?
As they entered the atmosphere of the base she could hear pieces being ripped off of the mobile frame. The boy shoved the leather hat he had been wearing onto Halo's head and buckled it under her chin. "Be brave and hang on." He advised as the heat grew. The mobile frame had started on fire.
Once they had cleared the atmosphere he pressed a button that opened a hole above their head. He jumped, and amazingly made it out. The frame seemed to ignite just as they left, sending back ashes into their faces. Halo didn't open her mouth, she had screamed to many times today.
When he pulled on the parachute it jerked both of them back, Halo felt as if she were going to fall, but she didn't.
Once they landed she wished to thank him, but that seemed impossible, for she could not speak.
He looked down at her and smiled. His eyes were hidden behind the giant goggles he wore, and when he pulled then up and set them to rest on his forehead the area around his face was white compared to the rest of his face which was very dirty.
His light blond hair spiked up in a most unnatural way. To put it shortly she was in love.
"Come fly away with me." He said.
She gave him a funny look; she was most defiantly not in love. "What?" She asked confused the mood spoiled.
"Will you be my co-pilot?" He asked.
Halo considered this. Would she be the guy's co-pilot, she owed him her life, or would she spend the rest of her life dreaming about the adventures she could have had. "That sounds cool to me!" She said.
The boy jumped up into the cockpit of the mobile frame and bent down to help her up. "Great! We're going to be the best team ever!"
Chapter Nine: The Street Fair
Chapter Ten: Halo's lover a pig? (Pun on Saint Tail Meimi's lover a hedgehog ep.3)
Chapter Eleven: For the love of a pig
Chapter Twelve: Dreams come true?
Chapter Nine: The Street Fair
Halo stuck out her tongue as she looked into the mirror. A good many things had been happening to her lately and she took the chance to relax. She was home from school and had done her homework.
Halo looked back to the empty goldfish bowel on her crowded dresser. She smiled and pushed more things away from it. She wanted a pet goldfish really badly, but didn't know if her parents would approve.
She was going to go to the fair that was uptown with Ayame, who was supposed to meet her in 15 minutes at one of the booths uptown. Halo looked back at the clock, 15 minutes… That wasn't that long at all.
Halo grabbed her coat and pulled it on as she ran down the stairs calling goodbye to her mother. She pushed open the door and started off to the fairgrounds. The sidewalk was crowded, people had to park far away and than walk to get to the street fair.
Ayame was already there. She turned and smiled when Halo called her name. "Late as usual." She noted.
"I got stuck behind some lady with an empty baby carriage." Halo said defensively.
"Sure you did." Ayame said giving Halo a hard time.
Halo ignored her sarcastic remark. "So what do you want to do?" She asked surveying her surroundings with interest.
Ayame shrugged. "I'd kind of like to go on some rides and hit a couple game booths."
"Sounds fun to me!" Halo said.
The guy that never spoke was with a couple of his friends waiting in line for a ride. It was a ride that Halo had seen before and wanted to ride, but the guy who never spoke was there…
"Hey!" Ayame said pointing to the ride. "You said you wanted to go on that one yesterday, but that kid threw up on it so we never got too, remember?" She said.
"Oh yes, I remember." Halo said her eyes growing wide, Ayame had suggested it, so than it wouldn't look weird if they were to-
"Do you still want to go on it?" She asked.
"Yeah!" Halo said enthusiastically and the two girls took their place in line behind the guys. Halo didn't know whether to say 'hi' or not, if she did, they probably wouldn't answer, if she didn't they would think she was rude. Either way she'd end up looking stupid.
"Hi Halo." Halo turned to see who was addressing her. It was Telinka.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" She asked pleasantly surprised.
"Am I not allowed to be here or something?" She asked.
Warning bells shot off in Halo's mind; Telinka didn't sound to happy.
"Just because no one invited me to come with them doesn't mean that I can't come here." She snapped.
Halo blushed, embarrassed about her friend's outburst. "I'm sorry Telinka." She said softly. "I didn't think you would want to come."
Telinka turned around and walked away giving Halo the famous 'ice' treatment. Halo's excitement for the day faded, tears began to grow in her eyes and she became even more aware of the guy who never spoke who seemed to be witnessing the whole event.
"I don't want to be here anymore." Halo said quietly. She rubbed her face with the sleeve of her jacket as the tears tumbled down. She turned away.
Again we are forced to wonder what the guy who never spoke thought, and once again we have no real answer.
He was at a fair. Halo and a friend showed up and ended up in the line behind him, Halo's friends Telinka came and said something mean to Halo, who than went away crying. What would you think?
Chapter Ten: Halo's lover a pig? (Pun on Saint Tail Meimi's lover a hedgehog ep.3)
Everything seemed to be going wrong for Halo. She had failed an important exam, she hadn't made it on the cheerleading team, and Telinka still wouldn't talk to her.
Halo was sitting on the steeps of the school later on that week when she felt like she was being watched. She looked up to see a small pink pig sitting at the bottom of the stairs gazing up at her intently. "Hey little guy." She said. It squealed its intelligible greeting.
"You sure are cute!" Halo said her voice sounded remarkably like the pig. "What are you doing at school though? Pigs really don't belong at school."
"Peach!" There came a shriek and an old lady came running up to the pig. She attached a leash to its collar. "Sorry if he bothered you."
"No, he seems like a nice pig." Halo said, sorry that the pig was to leave so soon.
"He is a really nice little pig, but the problem is that I'm moving out of the country and I don't know what I'm going to do with him." The woman said sadly. "If I don't find a home for him soon he might have to be put to sleep."
"That's awful!" Halo said heartbroken. "Can I ask my parents if I can keep him?" She said.
The old lady considered it for a moment than reached in her purse. "All right." She handed Halo her business card. "Here is where you can get a hold of me."
"Thank you so much!" Halo said. She looked at the card, Dr. Monroe…
"Please?" Halo said begging. "I'll clean the house for a month!"
Halo's mother looked at her stepfather. "I don't think it would hurt just so long as you took good care of your new pet."
"Great!" Halo said. She ran to the phone and dialed the number for Dr. Monroe. "Hi Dr. Monroe, this is Halo, the girl from the Catholic school. Yes I did, and it was all right with them. I would be more than glad to. Alright, thank you so much!" Halo set down the phone. "I'm going to meet her in the park to pick up Peach!" She said as she pulled on her jacket and rushed outside.
She barely heard her mother's faint good-bye.
Telinka sat in a swing at the park. She was observing the general public when suddenly she saw something that caught her attention. An old woman came into the park leading a pig on a leash that was attached to a rhyme stone ornamented collar. She was carrying a little basket that held a peach satin pillow and a towel. Telinka wasn't sure, but it looked like the towel had 'Peach' embroidered on it.
Telinka received even more of a shock when Halo came running up to the lady and gave her a big hug. Halo than took the pig's leash and gave it a big hug. She than took the basket, talked to the lady a bit, and than she waved good-bye and headed back the direction that she had come.
Telinka began to think. "Very interesting… Halo took the woman's pig… There was no money exchanged… Very interesting." She jotted a note into her little black book and went back to observing the general public.
"Well, you didn't say it was a pig." Halo's mother said.
Halo gave it a squeeze. "Look how cute it is!" She said. "How can you resist his charm?"
Halo's step dad gave it another look. "It would be nice to have another kid around the house. I don't mind." He smiled as he gave it head a pat. "It is kind of cute." He admitted.
Halo gave Peach a hug oblivious to the sound of police sirens as the house was surrounded.
Chapter Eleven: For the love of a pig
Halo was exceptionally tired the next day. She had a big night trying to sort out the whole pig-napping thing. She didn't know what on earth made an innocent bystander in the park think that she had traded drugs for a pig. Something's are just to confusing to explain.
Since the day was Saturday Halo decided to spend the day with her beloved Peach. Peach had decided that he wanted to sleep, so Halo was forced to dress him up and place in a baby carriage instead of taking him for a walk. She had a couple women coo about what a cute baby he was. None of them really got a look at his face though.
Halo stopped out side of the grocery store to feed Peach a can of applesauce when suddenly, out of the blue, a giant revolving saucer appeared overhead and a beam of light came down and took up Peach.
Needless to say Halo was rather shocked. "Come back with my pig! She screamed at the space ship as it disappeared.
Halo would never see the pig she loved again, but this is only the beginning. Halo wanted her beloved Peach back and she would do anything to save him.
Later that evening it was discovered that there was life outside of Earth. It was also discovered that a colony of people from the future were sent back into Halo's time to save the Earth from being destroyed. Mobile frame pilots were trained and commissioned from all corners of the world, each hoping to be the delivers that would save earth from the alien invaders, in accordance with the prophecy. Halo thought this was cool and everything, but she still wanted her Peach back.
Halo was walking home from another depressing day at school. The alien invaders had broken through the defense force and were set out to demolish the planet and take the humans as slaves, and Halo didn't even get out of school.
Suddenly an alien invader landed on the street before her, a mobile frame of the defense force followed it.
A long metal arm shot out of it and grabbed Halo around the waist, intending to take her captive. Halo screamed as she was lifted high into the air pursued by the mobile frame.
The mobile frame made one precise shot that killed the aliens inside of the alien war craft. The mechanical hand went limp leaving Halo to fall to a certain death. Halo fell screaming, but the mobile frame had other plans for her.
Faster than the speed of light it dropped beneath her and released its parachute. Halo fell into the soft pillow it provided and laid there wondering what had just happened. Meanwhile, beneath her, more alien invaders came and destroyed the now evacuated town.
Halo began to cry. It just wasn't fair.
She looked up as she heard a rustling sound and a face appeared over the edge of the parachute. "Hey!" The face said. It was hidden behind a large pair of goggles and a leather hat. "Are you alright?"
"Yes." She sobbed.
"That's good, want to come down from there before you fall off and die?" He asked.
"I guess." She said her sobs thinning.
He gave her his hand and carried her back into the cockpit of the mobile frame. Once inside he took off the hat and pushed the goggles up into the unruly mass of blonde hair that seemed to stand out straight in every direction. Suddenly something hit Halo; it was almost like she had been here before.
No she had never been kidnapped by alien invaders, or rescued by a hot pilot, but…
Than she became aware of what it was. She had seen this pilot before… It was like a dream come true, literally.
Chapter Twelve: Dreams come true?
Suddenly there was a jolt and Halo was sent of her revelry. The once the town had been destroyed the aliens had directed their attention to the mobile frame which they viewed as a direct threat against their corrupt and fascist dictatorship of terror.
Halo fell to the floor, and the pilot replaced his goggles. "Hang on for a bit won't you, we should get you back to the base.
The aliens were attacking.
They had managed to clear the atmosphere, but something was wrong. The boy said that the mobile frame was so beat up it would barley be able to survive the reentry, but it wouldn't be able to land once they got to the base.
The boy pointed out the base from a distance. He stood up and strapped on a parachute. It was obviously nowhere near the size of the one he had previously employed. "This is going to get rough, but be a good girl, and don't mind."
Halo's mouth was open. It was a while before she was able to respond. "What's going to happen to me?" She asked.
"I'm not going to leave you in here, you're coming with me if that's alright."
Halo barely nodded. What choice did she have?
As they entered the atmosphere of the base she could hear pieces being ripped off of the mobile frame. The boy shoved the leather hat he had been wearing onto Halo's head and buckled it under her chin. "Be brave and hang on." He advised as the heat grew. The mobile frame had started on fire.
Once they had cleared the atmosphere he pressed a button that opened a hole above their head. He jumped, and amazingly made it out. The frame seemed to ignite just as they left, sending back ashes into their faces. Halo didn't open her mouth, she had screamed to many times today.
When he pulled on the parachute it jerked both of them back, Halo felt as if she were going to fall, but she didn't.
Once they landed she wished to thank him, but that seemed impossible, for she could not speak.
He looked down at her and smiled. His eyes were hidden behind the giant goggles he wore, and when he pulled then up and set them to rest on his forehead the area around his face was white compared to the rest of his face which was very dirty.
His light blond hair spiked up in a most unnatural way. To put it shortly she was in love.
"Come fly away with me." He said.
She gave him a funny look; she was most defiantly not in love. "What?" She asked confused the mood spoiled.
"Will you be my co-pilot?" He asked.
Halo considered this. Would she be the guy's co-pilot, she owed him her life, or would she spend the rest of her life dreaming about the adventures she could have had. "That sounds cool to me!" She said.
The boy jumped up into the cockpit of the mobile frame and bent down to help her up. "Great! We're going to be the best team ever!"
