Chapter 4
Part 1
Author: Chihiro-sama
And now, a commercial break.
*girly music plays*
*Chairman Durandal appears*
Durandal: Don't you wish you had beautiful hair, like me?
*he swishes his luxurious black hair*
Durandal: I use Pantene Pro-V to make my hair shiny and silky.
*images of him posing model-like with his hair blowing behind him*
Rey Za Burrel: Me, too. I love Pantene Pro-V.
*images of him posing next to Durandal with his hair blowing behind him*
Durandal: In fact, almost all of the Gundam SEED leads have used Pantene Pro-V at some point. Le Creuset, Meer Campbell, Neo Roanoke, even Athrun Zala.
(a voice comes from offscreen): Hey, I do not!
Durandal: (continuing calmly) There's no other way we could get our hair so long, beautiful and manageable. So buy it. You'll be glad you did.
*a final swish of his hair*
*commercial ends*
Chapter 4
Part 2
Author: Shihiro Hitohana
Of course, the crew of the Archangel weren't so foolish as to not have a security system installed where the prisoners were kept; unfortunately, however, it was primarily a video system, and as the Archangel was seriously understaffed, it had been neglected. So it was that during the hourly check on the camera, the maintenance worker saw that all the cells were empty, and that the crazy man in the dark outfit had bent the cell to step out of it. He promptly ran to inform his superiors, who instantly put the ship at battle readiness.
On Duo's ship, Han was glancing around the hangar when he just happened to get a glimpse of Flay (who was peaking out from the lifepod) out of the corner of his eye. "Oh, yeah, Duo, there's this girl over there in the lifepod. She's in some sort of uniform; maybe she knows what's going on. But last time she just kept ranting about a key."
Duo sauntered up to her, and she looked at him; she seemed slightly off her mental balance, he noted, but she seemed fairly safe.
"Kira?" she said hesitantly.
Duo blinked, but before he could deny it, she, with happy tears in her eyes, exclaimed, "KIRA! I was so scared..." and lunged to hug him. He was surprised and didn't want to hurt the girl, so he let her. "Kira, what have you done with your hair? It's gotten so long...Le Creuset gave me a key. Or wait, maybe that was my dad..."
Chapter 4
Part 3
Author: Dragonwiles
Duo groaned. "Look, I'm not Kira. And what's your name?" He asked her as he tried to pry her off of him.
Flay, however, after having been in one lifepod or another for hours, and having been captured by her late father (or so she hallucinated) and given odd looks by that silver-haired "Yzak" Coordinator, was not about to let go of Kira.
"My name is Flay," she said, bending back slightly to look at him. "You don't remember me?" she said in concern. "Kira, don't joke with me like that," she said urgently, "I'm so nervous already."
"This is no joke," Duo said, deciding the situation had gone on long enough, and this time he managed to disengage from her. "I'm not Kira, I'm Duo."
"Okay," Flay said distantly, "but, here, can I, can I at least rest awhile? And do you want this key, Kira?" She held out some sort of computer disk, pleading with Duo with her eyes to accept it.
"I'll take it, Flay," Duo said, rolling his eyes, "but I'm not going to pretend to be Kira for you. I'm Duo Maxwell - I may run and hide, but I won't tell a lie." He asked the Bermuda-shorted captain to get Flay some quarters, while Flay followed him like a lost puppy. Once they finally managed to separate her from him, he started analyzing the data on the disk.
Meanwhile, aboard the Archangel, Naruto and Darth Vader had ended up in the same elevator car to the bridge, and now they were at the bridge, with the elevator door open, but Naruto was jostling with Darth Vader, trying to keep him from coming onto the bridge. Naruto had managed to wedge most of his body in the door, but Vader grabbed the neck of his jacket and flung him back against the back of the elevator. Darth Vader strode ominously onto the bridge while Murrue and the others leveled guns at him, which they had acquired from the small-arms locker after being alerted of the prisoners' escape. Naruto followed him out, saying, "Ow! Hey, hold on a minute, Mr. Weirdbreath!"
The Archangel crew fired their pistols at Vader, and he held up his palm to intercept them, but he was used to blaster bolts, not actual guns. There was only a chance, however, for him to take one wound before Naruto tackled him and began to try to bring Vader's hands behind his back, saying, "You're really out of control, you know that? I can't even tell if you're my client behind that mask!"
"Put your hands up!" Murrue Ramius demanded, trying to cover both Naruto and Darth Vader with her gun.
Naruto didn't seem to have heard, declaring, "It's coming off, believe it!" He reached for Darth Vader's helmet.
