I don't own seed.
ch. 4
She looked into his crystalline purple eyes, being mesmerized by them into a complete state total blissful time stoppage. The way he held out his hands, and gently kept hers in place, made her stomach do a twirling flutter, and forced her gaze away from him. It was at this time that she became aware of her surroundings, and all the confused stares directed at her. Everyone in the room seemed to have their heads cocked at a 45 degree angle with eyes squinting out of confusion.
"Uhh." the girl stuttered, which has never happened to her before during all her public speakings. "Hello. My name is..."
"What are you doing!" Lt. Badgiruel stepped forward and glared straight into the girls eyes with a stare that could kill a cow. "You think it is funny to play games like this! This is a war ship! Even you should know of the resources it took to bring this pod aboard!"
"Lt. that is enough!" the brown haired captain's voice demanded her to comply.
"But captain..."
"Let's let her explain. Surely she would not do this out of amusement."
During the disobedient ordeal, Kira stood transfixed at his hand, which still held onto hers. Her mind had to be off in a far of place, absorbed with the reaction of Natarle, to not even notice Kira's fingers moving back and forth, feeling her silky smooth skin. He was mesmerized by the fact that her hand felt very different then it did a few hours before.
Mwu with his free blond hair, holding the pink little Haro, which would not shut up, replaced Nartarle in front of the girl.
Rather then yelling at her he moved his face within centimeters of her. Everyone's immediate reaction was that the two shared a kiss, but their lips never made contact. He just scanned her with his eyes, seeming to try to look past something. Then with a single finger, his pointing finger, he poked her.
It was a small and painless poke, but once his finger left contact with her shoulder, she moved her free hand to cover up to area. She looked at him with eyes of surprise.
Mwu looked at his finger the same way he looked at her face. Rotating his finger about for reason's even denounced to him, he placed it back at a horizontal angle and poked her a second time. This time however with more force.
There were few things in the universe that could annoy Lacus Clyne. Within all her life, she had never been know to anyone to loss her temper, yet this was not a situation of any sort that she had experience with. "Ow!" she faintly called, and unconsciously moved the holding brunette between her and La Flagga.
Mwu held his finger up at Murrue as if showing her it. "She's real."
"Real?" Murrue asked. "But she is a hologram."
"No, no, no. She is the real deal. Ain't no way she is a hologram."
"Of course I am real." the girl mumbled just loud enough for Kira to hear. One could argue that he was the only one meant to hear it.
"What do you mean real?" Natarle badged forward passed Kira and grabbed the girl. Surprise washed over her face, and using to hands she began patting the girl on the shoulders. "She is."
"Uh, hold on." Kira gently moved the girl away from Natarle. "Excuse me, but who are you?"
In all of her life, never had Lacus wanted to yell out and scream or use the forbidden words, but right now she was almost pushed to do so. Never before had she been treated in such a way. And it wasn't out of anger for her being a coordinator, (she had since picked up that this was not a Zaft ship), but she was being humiliated out of everyone 'else's' stupidity. It was just the lone boy, who stood holding her hand that calmed her down. Since it was him asking, she felt compelled to answer. "My name is Lacus Clyne."
"Eh!" everyone in the room called out at once.
"But if she is real, then why do they look alike?" Someone from the crowd asked.
"Oh, my, my, there seems to be a lot of confusion in here." everyone turned when the pink haired girls voice spoke out. It was Lacus's voice alright, but it was not from her mouth. Instead it came from the catwalk that headed straight for Kira and Lacus.
Lacus turned and walking toward her on the catwalk was a splitting image of her. Every thing was exact, the clothes, the walk, the hair, the make-up. Even the golden hair piece, which was a one of a kind piece made especially for her mother, adorned the clones head.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Ms. Clyne." the copy said again.
Lacus's eyes popped wide open, like an animated figure of a japanese cartoon. "What the f-"
"Hey, hey, hey. Hold on. What is going on here." Mwu jumped forward again between the twins. "Archangel what is the meaning of this?"
"Meaning of what?"
"Her." Mwu pointed to Lacus.
"She is Lacus Clyne. Daughter of chairman Segiel Clyne, and loved popular music sensation among the various plants."
"What?" Mwu shook his head. "Never mind. What I mean is why do you look like her!"
"Because my personnel interface was modeled after her."
Murrue stepped forward. "Enough of this. Kira please escort Ms. Clyne to my meeting room. I, the senior officers, and Archangel will meet you there shortly."
Kira nodded and lead the way.
"Sorry about that back there." Kira apologized to the girl.
"It was quiet rude. But I can see why now the reason for the confusion. Yet I am still unsure of who she is."
"We call her Archangel. She is literally the ship."
"The ship?"
"Yeah. She is the ships interface for the crew. We have only had her for a few days now, and even we are not used to her yet."
"She's not real?"
"Nope. She is a holographic projection. Her real body is this ship, but she says it is harder to talk to the ship then it is to talk to the interface. I find it odd though."
"It's very odd indeed." Lacus's voice seemed to die down, containing more of sweet innocence in it.
"Oh. I'm sorry. My name is Kira Yamato."
Lacus smiled. "Well it is a pleasure to meet you Mister Yamato."
They waited in the meeting room for only half a minute for the captain and the senior officer's to arrive. Once they came, Murrue shuffled Kira away to his quarters.
Kira relaxed and stopped trying to not shake. Since the girl was now gone and no longer holding onto his hand, he let out a sigh and relaxed and 'not be so nervous'. Kira debated on whether waiting for them to finish, or heading off to his friends. Of course if he waited he would feel like a fool when they did finish and he would have no stupid excuse for doing so except to see the girl. But if he went to his friends he would be berated with questions about her.
With the emptiness of the room came a peaceful quiet which only served to heighten the other senses of the body. Namely in this case, smell. With no water formally on the ship, showers where forbidden. Kira smelt his armpits, only to immediately pull back in disgust. Thinking it over he did not want to see Lacus smelling like this. Now he felt embarrassed for smelling so bad earlier.
It dawned on him that now the ship had a water supply, and he was able to shower. So the first thing he did was nearly run for the shower in his quarters.
"I'm am terribly sorry Ms. Clyne about your reception. It was completely uncalled for, but I hope that you can sympathize with our confusion." Murrue asked her.
"Mr. Yamato explained a little of it on the way here, but I am still awfully confused."
"As are we." Murrue turned to Archangel. "Now tell me why you look like her."
"My personnel interface was designed to be calm and cheerful for the crew. My designer modeled me after her."
"Why Ms. Clyne?"
"She possess all the qualities previously mentioned."
"Who designed you?" Mwu asked.
"I am not allowed to say."
Mwu looked at Murrue and sighed. Murrue understood. "Who designed you?" she repeated Mwu's question hoping her authority as captain would force Archangel to talk.
"I am sorry captain, but I can not say."
Murrue was about to bash her head into the desk. Today had been a bad day. The supply shortage, the extremely depressing area to get new supplies, the new 'hostage' which due to her father could get them into even more trouble, and now her own ship was not following her orders, and to top it off, she had a killer headache. Murrue calmed herself before talking. "Why can't you tell me?" Her voice was full of spite.
"Prime directive 3 section 4, forbids me from telling you."
"Prime directive? What is that?"
"My primary operating procedures. These take absolute priority over any other operation."
Murrue sighed yet again. "What are the Prime directives?"
"I am not allowed to say."
Murrue laid her head down on the desk. Lacus watched as the three officers became more and more confused and frustrated.
"Why can you not tell your captain what the prime directives are?"
"Prime directive 8 section 11. All prime directives will be kept secret from everyone but the main designer, with the exception of prime directive 8 section 11 and prime directive 1."
"Prime directive 1?"
"Prime directive 1 outline: All orders from the commanding officer shall be followed with 100 possible efficiency unless the orders place the ship in a position where it will face an unnecessary destruction as outlined by the Earth Alliance naval hand book, unnecessary loss of crew as outlined by the Earth Alliance naval hand book, possible defection of commanding officer, or orders out of inexperience of commanding officer, orders from commanding officer that violate the highest in command officer of the ship as outlined by the Earth Alliances naval handbook, or are forbidden by the prime directives. These follow the outlines in the Earth Alliance naval field..."
"That's enough." Murrue rested back in her chair. She hadn't looked at the naval handbook in years; ever since basic training. "I need some time think about this situation. Archangel, please assign some quarters for Ms. Clyne and take her there."
"Yes ma'am."
"And commander La Flagga. I want you to accompany her there."
"Uh, okay."
"I'm real sorry about his Ms. Clyne, but this is a war ship and I can't have you running around it. If there turns out to be little to no problems I will allow you to roam around the civilian areas of the ship, but right now I need you to stay in quarters."
Lacus's frowned. "I understand."
Following her duplicate and Mwu,
she left the captain with Lt. Badgiruel."So you are giving her one of the nice quarters, eh?" Mwu asked as they came to a stop. The room given to Lacus was on the officers deck, and where the best rooms on the ship aside from the two rooms given to the captain, where located. The rooms came 'fully furnished' with two beds, a small TV and a personnel restroom with a functional shower. Due to the lack of crew aboard, only the two senior officers, aside from the captain, and Kira Yamato had rooms on this floor.
Lacus watched the cheerful man carefully. Paranoid that he would repeat what he did earlier, she wrapped her hands around herself.
"I'll just open the door for you two ladies." he moved in front of the two girls and opened the door. "You see, for a prisoner, you have quiet the luxury..." Mwu stopped talking once he opened the door and looked inside. "Kid?" he quietly mumbled.
Inside the room, a stunned Kira Yamato who was just wearing nothing but a fresh towel and looked as if he just came out of the shower, looked on them with big eyes. Frozen stiff, he barely moved to keep the towel from falling to reveal his manlyhood. "C..c..com...commander?"
"What is it Mister?" Lacus asked. She moved her head trying to get a look at what the hold up was in the room. Her face went tomato red as she saw the timid and kind boy she met earlier nearly naked and shocked.
"It's nothing!" Mwu shouted and threw the door shut.
Lacus cupped her hands around her mouth, letting out a small gasp as she moved back to the wall behind her.
"What's the kid doing in you're room?" Mwu began scanning the area, and the door numbers for the rooms on the floor. "Wait this is his room!" Mwu felt stupid for not realizing it before since he and Kira roomed next to each other.
"Yes it is." Archangel replied.
"Then why are we here?"
"Because this is the room assigned to Lacus Clyne."
"No. You quite talking in riddles. This is Kira Yamato's room. Lacus Clyne will not be placed in the same room as him. Got that?"
"But commander..."
"No buts. What are you trying to do here? Of course we won't place them together. Where are not going to force him upon her. That is Kira's room. Ms. Clyne needs her own room."
Archangel turned her head back to study Lacus Clyne's opinion through her expression. It was now that Lacus really got a good look at her duplicate and admired the workmanship that went into it. Never before had she seen a hologram this complex and accurate. The skin looked so real, and the hair hung and split in all the places that her own hair did. Even the faintest trails of a scar that ran along the left eye brow that Lacus had received during her early childhood, that not even those closest to her have ever noticed, was there. Suffice to say that Lacus was more absorbed in this girls appearance rather then the on going argument.
Archangel turned to Mwu. "Although this violates Prime Directive 2 section 6, I believe it falls within the exceptions outlined in section 7. Therefore I will assign new quarters to Ms. Clyne."
"How does this violate a Prime Directive!?" Mwu yelled. "We just found out about those and now you are quoting them all the TIME!!!"
Archangel moved to the next door over. It wan an identical room to Kira's but was empty with no officer or naked Kira inside. "These will be your new quarters Ms. Clyne."
The door opened and Lacus zapped out of her phase. "Thank you." she politely said and walked into the room.
"My personnel interface is unable to enter private rooms on this floor. If you need anything, I am positive that Lt. Yamato would help you. I suggest you get some rest. My vital scans indicate that you are not well rested. Please do for your own sake."
"Okay." Lacus with her silent Haro in tow walked further in the room. After a moment the door shut leaving Lacus alone by herself.
Archangel turned back to Mwu to see him eying her weirdly. "Is there a problem commander?"
"I was just thinking. Is it possible that one of your prime directives is to hook these two together?"
"Hook these two together? I am unfamiliar with this concept."
"Make them an item. A couple." Mwu ranted off, but Archangel still remained confused. "Maybe you'll understand this; two romantically involved individuals with the inevitable purpose of marriage and living together for the rest of their lives." Mwu tried his hardest to imitate her. "Is that what you are trying to make them become?"
With this Archangel changed. "I am forbidden to reveal the Prime Directives to you." she turned and began walking down the hall.
It is! One of the prime directives is to get these two together. But why, and how, and... Mwu shuffled his hair as he had always done since a child when he was frustrated. It doesn't make sense!
"Ahhh!" Mwu quietly yelled. "I wish the guy who programmed you was here!!!"
Mwu watched her waling off. She was so close to the real thing that it was frightening. He could not even tell them apart. Mwu immediately realized a problem with this.
"Archangel, hold up!" he called and she stopped giving him, her attention. "Now that we have the real Lacus Clyne on board and you two look so much alike. How can we tell you two apart?"
"I can not change my personnel interface from what has been program. However I am capable of using a variety of variations of the interface to suite certain needs."
"A variety?"
Within the blink of an eye Archangel glowed brilliantly white, to where she was almost blinding Mwu, and within the time laps of another blink of the same eye, she reappeared. Now she no longer sported her white dress with an excessively over large turtle neck, but had a sleeveless pink dress with lace adorning the tapers and ends of the dress. It was not revealing of any sort, yet was beautiful in it's might as well. We hair was freely flowing as well, though this time in slight curls, and appeared to be longer.
"Is this better?"she asked him.
Mwu just nodded his head in amazement. "Yeah. Yeah. Just as long as we make sure she wears nothing similar to this, then we will be fine."
Okay Lacus may be a little OC in this chapter. I'll try not to do this in further chapters, but I went with comedy rather then what she may have really said. And since she is super annoyed rather then super calm during their first encounter, her perfect innocence is not being used right now.
Zero'N'oveR- Since Archangel takes over the running of the OS of the Strike, Kira does not know so much about it in this story. Kira was pretty clueless at the beginning of seed, he finally got smart once he got the freedom. So Kira is no more stupid in this story, then in the series, just that he is able to keep his teenage innocence in this one.
Soon the this story is about to go in a completely different direction then the show did, so it won't be a copy with a few changes. I have some really cool reason's for Archangels actions, so you'll just have to wait.
P.S. A few more reviews would help. Plus they would only make the next chapter come faster.