Here I am again with another update on my story, hope you like it! Great job to the few of you who guessed it right. Well which is basically all of you actually. Yay!
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Kai typed on the computer's keyboard with lightning speed. He did not even need to look at the keys and his eyes were fixed on the large screen in front of him.
It was a routine check of the base's security. He had to check stability, air levels, and other things that could change without warning. It was very dull, because to check the computer's security, he had to read pages and pages of binary and computer codes.
He sighed and leaned back on his chair a bit, closing the code screen – his eyes hurt to look at it even. Too many days wasted watching those stupid numbers.
Rei popped into his head. Kai shook his head; the black haired boy could never do a job like this. He would grow to bored, to quickly. Thinking of the black haired boy, he remembered how he mentioned his planet being on the destruction list.
Kai opened up the Destruction list to the screen. Thousands of planets were listed in no particular order. No one checked the list, so why order it? Kai frowned; this was not going to be the quick task he thought it would be. Sighing, he began scanning over the names looking for the Celeste planet.
Adrix II, Cention, Keshiar, Newspar, Appenon, Yellox, Hephinon…
The list went on and on, almost never ending. Kai cursed the morons that decided that there did not need to be an order for the names listed here. He grunted, everything needed some sort of order, or everything would fall out of place.
Brobrostar 4, Felatron, Bleastrial…
Sighing and propping his head on one arm, Kai closed his eyes. "This could take days." He mumbled miserably. "Why do I even care?" He opened his eyes again, running them over the screen.
Clicking the little down arrow on the right of the screen once again, he continued with his task. It was very dull, but he was used to ponderous tasks. Even so, this was testing his limit.
"Tiltian."
Click.
"Vapendoes."
Click.
Mashing his head into the keyboard with a frustrated groan, he stopped. Banging his head several times. "This," blam, "is blam, "pointless!" blam!
A voice from outside rang through the door, "Kai?" It was Rei, "Are you ok in there?"
"Yes." Kai muttered, his lips pressed against the cold metal keys.
"Can I come in?" Rei asked hesitantly.
"Yes." Kai said, sitting up quickly and punching in the code from his computer, making the door whoosh open.
"What are you doing so late at night?" Rei asked as he walked in. He looked across the well-kept room and orderly bed, which was something he could never accomplish. He sat down on the bed behind Kai and got comfortable.
"Checking the destruction list…" Kai said then hesitated as he thought of something else to say, "so that I can prove you're lying about your planet being on it."
Rei raised a fine black eye brow, "Oh really?" He smirked to himself, "Well you're not going to find it that way." Silly Soldier…
"What?" Kai asked confused. What did the boy mean?
"Oh nothing." Rei smiled sweetly, "I just assumed that you knew about ghost files."
"Ghost files?"
"Yeah, they're files hidden in--" Rei started but was cut off by Kai.
"I know what they are!" Kai snapped crossing his arms, of course he knew! For years, he was drilled on computers. "But what the hell do they have to do with the list?" Kai tried to hide his interest.
"My planet is hidden…" He stood up and typed a few numbers and letters into to computer. To Kai it seemed like a password. Another window popped up with several planets on it. One of them, in bright electronic letters, read 'Celestion.' Rei smiled, "in this file."
"Oh." Was Kai's response. Simple and dumb. He would later punish himself for being such an idiot. Why did he think of ghost files? They were in his basic training!
"Still think I lied?" Rei asked sitting back down on the bed. He swung his legs over the edge, pleased with himself for outwitting the confident man before him. He could almost hear the confusion in the other's head.
"No…" Kai began hesitantly, drawing his eyes back to the screen, "But why is it on there?" He eyed the names, with their pixel letters lit up almost innocently.
"Are you honestly asking me that?" Rei asked with wide eyes. "Isn't it obvious that I don't know either? Otherwise I would have dealt with the people who caused it."
"Well yes… But that's not the point!" Kai snapped. "It's there for a reason, and the fact that it's on a hidden file means that it is meant to be kept secret." He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it slightly. "Wait, how did you know that password?"
Rei sighed, knowing that the question was unavoidable. "After my planet was destroyed, I did a little… snooping." Biting his lip to find the right words. "One of the men who assisted in the attack was caught by my friends a few days after. That's the only information we got out of him before he…" Rei trailed off, eyes lingering on the floor. He pretended to find Kai's combat boots fascinating.
"He what Rei?" Kai asked firmly.
"Killed himself." Rei whispered. "He had a needle…"
"I get it." Kai sighed. "The information was too valuable to loose, at all costs."
Rei nodded a bit, no longer swinging his legs. "Apparently…" He looked back up at Kai, "he was more afraid of someone finding out of him telling me or anyone else any info."
"So he was a pawn there's a larger person in charge of this." Kai tapped a finger on his desk thoughtfully, "An organization or sorts."
"That would make sense." Rei agreed.
"So we'll need to figure out who this head man is, and what his motives are." Kai glared at his computer, "It's not going to be easy, only a few have access to that list."
"Well the fun part is that it's someone in the government." Rei smiled with sarcasm.
"Fun?" Kai raised an eyebrow, not catching the sarcasm.
"I didn't mean it like that you moron." Rei chuckled a bit. So smart yet so sheltered!
"I am not a moron you insignificant peon." Kai glared hotly at the boy on his bed.
"Hey calm down will you." Rei raised his hands, mocking the surrender position that he had seen in oh so many movies.
Kai huffed, glaring at him a tad still.
"Alright I get it; I'll leave now so you won't bite my head off." Rei rolled his eyes.
"It's not possible for me to--" Kai started, looking at Rei as if he was a fool.
Rei cut him off as he was leaving the room, "It's a figure of speech soldier boy. Don't hurt yourself straining your brain over it." And with that, Rei left Kai's room leaving him alone again.
"Why would I want to bite you anyway?" Kai scoffed, glaring at the door.
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Rei went back out into the living area of the ship where Tala and co. where. Rei sat down on the hard, military issue couch and looked around bored. No one was talking, just working, or tinkering on something in a corner.
Tala screwed another bolt into a contraption in his lap, meticulously checking it repeatedly.
"What are you doing?" Rei asked, scooting closer to the red head.
"Tuning this, it's for the engine of Kai's ship." Tala flipped it over and unscrewed a bolt. "It needs an upgrade."
"Can I help?" Rei asked quietly, just hoping for something to do. The entire ship was clean, dinner packed away in the fried in neat little left over containers, and nothing left.
"Actually, you can't." Tala said quickly, not thinking on the subject long. "You probably won't understand what I'm doing or why so it'll just slow me down." He reached for a screw and quickly twisted it into the contraption.
Rei frowned, "How do you know I won't understand I've been working with ships all my life."
Tala ignored Rei, to engrossed with his work to prefect Kai's engine. He waved his hand at Rei, like shooing away a bug or a small child that was chattering too much.
Rei sighed and got up from the couch, he saw Brooklyn reading over by a large pile of books. Smiling, he walked over. "Brooklyn can I read something?"
"I'd rather you didn't." Brooklyn said flipping the page, of his book. "I have them in a certain order and marked the pages to help with my research. You'll only mess them up."
"How do you know that?" Rei asked, putting a hand on his hip.
"Because you don't know." Brooklyn said simply, putting his book down. "Now can you move, you're right in the way of the light I need."
Rei moved to the side, and watched with an annoyed glance as Brooklyn carefully pulled out another book from the massive shelf.
Garland was on an important call with the main military staff at another base so there was no way he could do anything with him.
Rei huffed and stuffed his hands in his pockets as he headed down the brightly lit hallway. He came across the gym, seeing Bryan inside pressing weights. Rei crossed his fingers and walked into the room, over to Bryan. "Bryan can I--"
Bryan cut him off before he could finish. "No, and leave."
Rei's eyes narrowed but obeyed the lilac haired man. He leaned against the wall in the hallway. There was truly nothing to do on this entire ship. Or maybe that it was the fact that there was so much to do, and he could do any of it.
He kicked the white wall, stepping back ass he saw the black scuff mark it left there. "Serves you right." He muttered, not really meaning it. He knew that he'd end up cleaning it later.
The only way to get through these block head's skulls was to be better at something than them. Fat chance of that.
Rei walked into the docking bay and sat on his ship.
His ship.
Rei snapped his fingers as a brilliant idea entered his mind. "Race!"
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There you have it. And guess what, I figured out the plot finally! Yes! Everything is figured out and I just need to write it now.