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Macross Frontier

8:17

By

Raymond Cooper

The following takes place between 8.17 and 8.18 on the final morning to hand in the final Drama assessment.

8:17:00

The cable car continued on its path away from Michael, heading towards his school, while Michael spun around looking for some sign of Alto. He caught a momentary flash of colour – someone that looked like Alto's build in one of the school uniforms! – and pelted off down another side street.

All the while, the cable car containing Alto pulled away further from Ranka's home.

8:17:08

A moment after Michael ducked into the morning crowds again to follow who he thought was his target, Sheryl's limousine drove slowly along the street, tailing the railcar.


8:17:13

Luca looked up from the ground, and saw Nanase ahead of him. His day brightened, and he picked up his pace to reach her before they reached the school. She was attractive, and although she was considerably taller than him, she didn't seem to hold that against him like some other women his age did. Judging by their respective walking speeds, he figured he'd reach her in a minute or two.


8:17:18

Klan looked around from her vantage point – at a touch over forty metres, she towered over most of the smaller buildings in the area. She saw Ozma's house not far from where she stood now, in fact she saw Ozma running up the street, making sure his gun was secured firmly in his shoulder holster. She saw the cable car, running up a central street half a kilometre to the south of where she stood – seeing from the side, and blessed with far stronger eyesight than a human, she spotted Alto sitting inside it, on the side nearest her, waiting on the edge of his chair, anxiously. An expensive black limo followed the car, but it seemed whomever was behind the blacked-out windows was looking for someone else, rather than the railcar.

And, down a side street leading off this main road, she saw Michael turn a corner into yet another road, shadowing the main road heading in the same direction as the cable car.

Being very careful, she stepped over the road, aware of how her size could disrupt the smaller lifestyles of the far smaller humans if she hurried. But still, a fifteen metre stride meant what most people covered in fifteen or twenty seconds, she was covering in a tenth the time. She'd catch him in moments.

Then, he could answer her questions about what he was doing trying to get his commanding officer's little sister into bed, and just how that could be such a bad career move.


8:17:41

"Have we lost them?" Sheryl asked Grace.

"Neither of them are making phone calls at present, and their phones aren't responding to the network," Grace replied after a slight pause, frowning. "Perhaps you could call one of them."

8:17:56

"You're right," Sheryl said, pulling out her phone and hitting the activation stud.

8:17:59..

8:18:00

To be continued..