Note: The scientist in Log 1 is not Persica. However, she was once work with her and indirectly be a part of creation of first Doll.

(Disclaimer: I don't own Girls' Frontline or any characters in it. I just own the OC)

Life 2: Third Party

"Status report. Can you hear me?" UMP45 said through communication radio.

"I hear you," UMP9 answered.

"Yes," G11 answered.

"Affirmative," HK416 answered.

"…"

"Alright… wait, Zero? Hello~? Can you hear me?" she asked again due one person didn't answer the call, "Hey! Are you alright there!?"

"Loud and clear," Zero finally answered through the radio, "Sorry, needs to "borrow" some uniform here."

"Well, you need to be hurry. The target is already entering the stage," 45 said as she looks through her binocular. It's already few minutes before the appointment time for the main course of the gathering, which is the presentation of the thing's 404 asked to take it from there aside from their main mission: protecting their supposed important person. 45 looks at there again as she found several women in dress near the target, which they are T-dolls designed as bodyguard for that person, "Seriously, why they need us when this guy has already heavily guarded by their own dolls?"

"Stop asking question and do your job," 416 said from her spot, "Remember, even if we are mostly asked for do dirty job for those clients, the fact we are called means the situation isn't normal. Not to mention we are here to protect and steal in the same time," she said before remembering something, "And Zero, are you already in a position?"

"Just watch and don't speak unless it was something important," Zero said before he heard the signal for his action, "Well, here goes nothing," he then step in toward the hall, dressed in waiter uniform he "borrow" from one of the worker that "unfortunately" meet him. He is bringing glasses on top of a plate like others waiter on the room and swiftly moving around while offering drinks for anyone who seems want it. His behavior is very calm and professional that everyone may mistake him as a real waiter.

"Damn… he's still good on his skills," 45 said while watching him through binocular, "He will be soon near the secondary goal. Everyone, get ready in case something happens—"

And almost like her words trigger the event, an explosion suddenly got off at one of the walls and gun firings can be heard from the hole. Everyone becomes panic as they try to escape from the place, while the important person was covered by T-dolls, who are already have their weapon and ready to shoot anyone who have intention to harm their subject.

"We got a situation here!" 9 said while giving a cover fire from her location.

"I know it!" 416 said while doing the same, "Where is Zero!? I can't see him due this chaos!" she tried to find him to see his current situation, but so far she didn't find him on there.

"Don't worry 416," 11 said through radio, "You know him well. He won't be killed that easily."

"I know… but—"

"Oi! Can you four hear me right now?" Zero shout at the radio, which surprising all of them.

"Zero! Where the hell are you!? We can't find you anywhere!" 416 shouted back with a bit of relief on her tone.

"Are you worried about me, 416?"

"W-who are worried about you!? Forget it, where are you right now?"

"Don't worry, I'm on the safest place you can ever think," he said while looking at the box on his hand, "And I got the item here. You just need to protect our client. I can get out from here by myself."

"Are you sure about it? The place is full of chaos now and I didn't see any way for you to get out from there."

"If there isn't one, I just need to make one," he said, which make 416 know what he tried to do, "Don't worry, I will come back alive like every time I do."

"Hm! Make sure you keep your promise," 416 said before continuing, "Everyone, you know what you need to do, right?"

"We are" 45, 9, and 11 said in unison.

"Then let's do it. Show them why we called Unknown."

Meanwhile…

"And there they goes," Zero said as he turn off the radio, "Alright, they do their job so I'll do mine," he then looks at the box on his hand and feels something wrong, "But, this thing… why it so light? Almost like… it can't be, right?" he then proceeds to open the box and see what the content is. However, when he sees the content, he surprised, "Are you fucking kidding me!?"

He then peeks through his hiding spot and see his client was being guarded by their T-dolls, which their condition isn't so good from how much damage they got. Whoever attacks them right now, they do a got job to cornering him, but they didn't ever consider another party is in there and he has an element of surprise. He saw one of the attackers, a man in terrorist-like uniform was passing his hiding spot and tried to attack the T-dolls. Sneaking from the behind, he immediately subdued him and knock him off before taking his weapons, which is an AK-74 with scope attachment and a Beretta.

"Well, better than nothing," he said before began to spurt out the bullet around him. He knows exactly where his client standing even in this heated situation, so he won't be worry about a wild bullet got into them. His actions are distracting the terrorists which make them become an easy target for 404's T-Doll to take them out. He then saw at one of the bodies, a small, cylinder object with a pulling mechanism on the top of it, "Just what I need."

He then took the item, which is a flash grenade before thrown it into the air. The effect of the grenade is enough to blind the remaining terrorists before they got struck down by him in lighting speed using his pistol on their head, and then headed toward one of the glass windows on that room. Before anyone can see him, he leaps out from that window to the outside, currently free falling due he was coming from fairly high building before took out something he has inside one of his hands all along.

It is a small grappler hook-shooter, but strong enough to carry one grown man's weight on its rope. Zero then shoot it toward the wall of the building to decrease his momentum of falling before swing around toward the nearest rooftop of the building. Once he lands on the roof, he immediately finds a hiding place out from the sight before contacting his friend, "416, what's the situation?"

"All infiltrator has been eliminated from the place," 416 confirming, "The client is safe too, so our job is clear here. How's yours?"

"Bad, really bad," he said which 416 didn't like the sound of it, "I check the box and the content is already gone from there. I suspect someone was taking it before it even been shown."

"But didn't it mean you're done too?" 45 said through radio channel, "We have tasked secretly to steal it, doesn't mean we must the one who does it, right?"

"No, they asked us to steal it because they may be asking it back when the time needed," he said with depressing tone, "If we aren't in possessing of it, then it was clear we are failed on this part of mission."

"Darn, looks like fortune isn't on us right now," 11 said through channel.

"Well, we can deal with it later," 416 said, "Let's go back. The longer we are here, the dangerous it may be for our situation. We are supposed to be not be known, right?"

"I agree, let's go back."

And so, Team 404 are coming back to their hideout. Even if they have completing the primary goal of their mission, the failure of secondary goal is pretty much depressing them. Their payment may be cut off a bit or more, but their pride is pretty much taking a quite blow, especially for 416 who always want made it perfect. In other hand, Zero was thinking, who was taking their supposed stolen object, when the security is very high before the gathering? He was though of mind it later as he needs to assess the current situation and tomorrow groceries he needs to buy later.

Later, Team 404 hideout, Zero's room

"Ah right, 45 said there's a package for me," he said as he was changing his clothes to his usual clothing, "Where is the package… ah! Here there is," he found the package near his bed, which is a small cardboard box that can certainly hold small things in it. He began to tear the seal to see the content of the mysterious package… only to be surprised afterward.

"What the… how did it be here!?" he said as he looks at the content. It was the same item his team asked to steal from the gathering. The ball-like crystal object that from how beautiful it is, it will cost fortune for anyone who can have and sell it, "What is going on… wait, what is this?" However, it's not the only thing inside the content. There is another ball-like object beside the stolen goods, which upon his close examination, it is a fake eyeball. It's a one that can be found from any T-Doll, which replicated the similar shape and function of the real eyeballs of human. Once he saw it, his face turn grimace.

He has lived a life full of secrecy and lies, and more than often people won't speak directly to each other. They will use other means to be communicate, such as signs or objects, which will represent the meaning of the sender. Thus, Zero right now is facing one of the situation that may appear on life similar to him. If someone sends him an eyeball, that means—

"Someone was watching me, but who?" he said as he looks outside of the window. He is not really like being watched, especially from a person he didn't know about, " "K.T."… Just who is this person goal from watching me?"

Unbeknown to Zero, out of his sight, a man in black coat was looking at him through a gun's scope part on his hand. He was smiling when he saw Zero is already see the package he has send beforehand, before he feels a presence behind him. The person behind him suddenly throw a dagger toward him, but he catches it easily without even see it.

"You know it won't work on me, right?" the man said as he plays with the dagger he catches.

"As expected, a normal approach won't be able to kill you," the person behind him, which is a woman dressing in black maid-like dress said as if she already know the outcome of her action, "Well, if you got killed by just this, I don't know why 'she' put her trust on low-life like you."

"Heh, still have that stingy tongue, right Agent?" the man said before turning toward the woman, which is Agent, one of Sangvis Ferri's High-Rank T-Doll, known as Grand Overseer of all SF's T-Doll movement and a direct subordinate to their leader. She's one of the most dangerous T-Doll among ringleaders of SF due nothing can escape from her, unless she is willing to let you go, "And why are you here? To be honest, you aren't type of person who likes to walk around without goal in mind."

"Shut your trap. Elisa was calling you for something that even I didn't told about," Agent said, "And for some reason, I can't contact you through our frequency radio."

"Well, how should I walk around this place if I let out something that may warn anyone in this city?" the man said before looking to other direction, "Anyway, she was calling me, right? I'll back then."

"And that's also my other concern. What are you doing here?"

"Nothing, just watching a potential element in my upcoming plan," he then walks away from there, "Alright, let's get out from here."

"You didn't need to tell me, Ka—"

"Please don't call me by that name," the man said, "You should know well about our little agreement, right?"

"Hah… alright. We better go,—"

"—Alter."