Author's note: Just a random comment passing through... But that doesn't mean this is written by me. I'll let CC take over now~ (-Jydaria)
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Chapter 4: 4:00 P.M., December 20, Location: Magnolia.

Juvia's stalking, uh, sneaking skills were incredibly well-practiced, err… fine-tuned from previous experience stalking Gray-Sama… eh, previous experience playing Metal Gear Solid, which made Juvia the ideal candidate to shadow Lucy for Gajeel's plan. Juvia was to shadow Lucy in order to ensure that Lucy did not return to her apartment, and considering the proximity of Lucy to her apartment, it was probably time to radio Gajeel on the plan's progress. "Raining Blood to Iron Man, repeat, Raining Blood to Iron Man, do you copy?" Juvia spoke into her walkie-talkie. "Oh; and Gajeel, why is Juvia's code name 'Raining Blood' anyway?" "Well, I couldn't find any cool sounding song names with 'Crazy' 'Stalker' and 'Blue' in its title, so deal with it, oh AND STICK TO THE PLAN! Remember, don't use our real names." Gajeel growled, after he finished his transmission, Gajeel reached for a smoke signal, and as Gajeel activated his smoke signal, he decided to test his team mates' progress on Operation Nimrod Dancer. "Iron Man to Thumbelina, Iron Man to Thumbelina, do you copy?" "I DEMAND TO KNOW WHY MY CODE NAME IS THUMBELINA!" Levy roared into her walkie-talke. "Well, you like books and all Shorty, and you are small, so Thumbelina is a perfect fit for you." Gajeel chortled. Levy was less than amused at this reply.

"This is The God of Hellfire responding to your smoke signal Iron Man," Natsu radioed in for Gajeel, "Me and Stone Cold Crazy here," as Natsu nudged Gray, "are ready." "Did you two get the headband camera?" Gajeel responded. "Yeah, and we are ready to move in and attach it to Lucy." Gray stated, then after pausing for a moment of thought, Gray asked, "But how exactly is Lucy supposed to get into the woods?" "That's easy," Gajeel replied, "Holy Diver will charge in and knock Lucy out." "Ready to charge in." Erza responded. "Then Aces High will airlift Lucy to the location, whilst Fish Heads attaches the camera to Lucy's headband. Are you two ready?" Gajeel queried to the two. "Ready to roll," Pantherlily responded, "Aye Sir," Happy added.

As Gajeel checked over the outline of the plan, he suddenly remembered something, he hadn't checked Levy's role in the plan. After all, all the other roles where right on progress, Natsu and Gray got the equipment, Erza was ready to charge Lucy, Juvia had shadowed Lucy, and Pantherlily and Happy were ready to transport Lucy to the location and set up the final stages of the plan. But Gajeel hadn't checked Levy's important role of marking out the note's location, which had to be next to the drop zone for convenience and rapid response. Well, no time like the present. "Alright, Thumbelina, did you mark out the drop zone?" Gajeel inquired. "Yeah, I set it out, the drop zone is a large + sign, Panther…" "AHEM!" Gajeel interrupted. "SORRY, Aces High and Fish Heads can't miss it, and by the way Iron Man, AREN'T OUR CODENAMES A LITTLE TOO SELF-EXPLANATORY FOR ALL THIS SECRECY NONSENSE?!" Levy yelled. "Details details," Gajeel grumbled, "All is going according to plan, and if luck has it, Bunny Girl will wake up in the woods, find the note, read what it says, and confess that she likes insert Bunny Girl's confession here." "Raining Blood to Iron Man, Lucy is about to enter her apartment, we must start the plan." Juvia reported. Gajeel, grinning, opened all the frequencies and channels on his walkie-talkie "Roger that, Holy Diver, you know what to do, Aces High, Fish Heads, get ready for the drop, rendezvous with The God of Hellfire and Stone Cold Crazy, Thumbelina, direct them to the drop zone, I do NOT want this plan to fail now, AM I CLEAR!" A lackluster chorus of affirmatives and one aye filled Gajeel's ears.

To call Gajeel's plan a success would be analogous to calling the Star Wars Prequels amazing movies. To follow Murphy's Law, everything that could go wrong did go wrong. First off, Erza's mad charge at Lucy to stealthily knock Lucy out only succeeded in tearing up Magnolia's streets, causing five heart attacks, alerting Lucy of Erza's presence, and shattering the fourth wall, which put I, the author at considerable peril. In fact, I am still marveling at the fact that Erza's sword blade just barely missed my face. But you know what they say; they just haven't built "strong effective walls" "successfully" since Berlin, Helm's Deep, or perhaps Korea and/or Asia, and even then the labels of "strong effective walls" and "successfully" are debatable at best. That and the fact that computer screens are remarkable fragile, but that is beside the point. After Lucy was alerted to Erza's presence, Lucy did the sensible thing, which was screaming, pissing your pants, and running in any direction where Erza wasn't. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, Juvia just happened to have a crowbar, and said crowbar was labeled for usage against head crabs, zombies, and, strangely enough… love rivals. Somehow, somewhere, in the imaginary limbo that is Half-Life 3, a certain Dr. Gordon Freeman is searching desperately in every single lost and found, and this Dr. Freeman just might be "assisted" by a snarky, malevolent, and iconic female computer program created by a certain company named Aperture. After catching up with Lucy and using the crowbar to bonk Lucy on the head with slightly excessive brute force, Juvia paged Happy and Pantherlily to set up the camera in Lucy's headband and transport Lucy to the drop zone. However, en route to the drop zone, Levy's directions to Happy and Pantherlily were confounded by interference and static, and to make matters worse, Levy's communicator ran out of batteries. The following is the exchange that I happened to pick up through a patched through link up with the signal. "Remember, Static, drop Lucy off at the Static Symbol, Repeat, drop her off at the Static Symbol, it looks like a Static in a Static Sign." Levy managed to transmit. "Uh, so is the drop zone this weird circle with an X symbol inside it in the middle of the woods?" Happy enquired as he glanced around the forest floor. Dead silence was the only response. Happy and Pantherlily, upon receiving no further information, decided to just go with the symbol that Happy spotted. As the two exceeds dropped off Lucy, they noticed that an abandoned flashlight was in the area, along with a broken video camera, a twenty dollar bill, a glow stick, and a burnt out lantern. "Ah well, probably nothing." Pantherlily muttered as he and Happy flew back to Gajeel.

Yes Constant Reader, this plan was doomed from the start, but the matter of a headband camera was certainly interesting, luckily Gajeel revealed the reason for the camera in the following exchange. "Thumbelina, I told you, the camera is so we know that Bunny Girl found the note and safely found her way out of the woods." "And how will we access the camera's data?" Levy retorted. "Well obviously, when Bunny Girl finds the note and gets out of the woods, we take the camera from her headband and access its film, and then we know if she found the note and safely got out of the woods." "Isn't there a logical flaw in that plan Iron Man?" Levy sarcastically replied. "Uh, well, now that you mention it…" Gajeel stammered, "Maybe we should have created a link up with the camera before we attached it to her headband, so that we could access the camera's data without actually having the camera… well I am sure it will be alright, after all, Bunny Girl should wake up any second now, find the note, and be home shortly." Little did Gajeel know, Lucy took a rather powerful blow to the head, in fact, Lucy would not wake until around 1:00 A.M., December 21, according to the camera's data. So, as the day drug on, Lucy lay unconscious in the middle of Magnolia's woods, not to awaken until much later.

The Radio exchange ends there, I was able to patch myself into the Gajeel's "Secret" radio transmissions and piece together this turn of events, not without the aforementioned risk and dangers. Further information is needed and will be analyzed.

I hope you enjoyed.

-Comrade Carlin