(Disclaimer: I don't own Girls' Frontline or any characters in it. I just own the OC)
Life 3: Special Assignment
"Alright… We got them all here," Zero said as he put down the final wooden box inside the room. After all the jobs Team 404 got for a month, they have good enough paycheck to buy necessary items and stuff such as bullets for their weapons and electronic parts, including Doll's part for maintenance the T-Doll's group, "To think we needs this much…"
"Well, considering those big jobs you guys do, I think we really need all of them," the one who said it Deele, the technician Team 404 hired. He is a boy with black hair, wearing a black jacket with yellow lines above white hoodie, black shorts and black boots. Beside his waist is a box where all of his equipment stay in case he need it immediately. Zero had been asked by him to help him bring those wooden boxes inside the storage room. Normally, the others will help them too, but they are currently updating their system so they are unavailable.
Being rogue T-Doll means they (except Zero) need to find a way to maintenance their own body and replace any broken part they got from the fight they got into. Even if Zero is well understanding about the structure and manufacture of a T-Doll and can fix them, but he isn't a professional or even an expert in this job. So, they need to hire a technician for that, and so they hire Deele and Zeele, his twin sister for this job. Even though, Deele is the one who is dealing with technical stuff while Zeele handle the paper and information they may need. These two, despite only hired by Team 404 are doing their job, even support them in case something happen to the team. Can be say, those two almost like a part of the team, but not directly related to them.
"So… do you have after this?" Deele asked to Zero.
"Me? Except waiting for those girls to wake up, nothing," Zero answered with carefree attitude, "We're really busy before, so I might go straight to the sofa to take a nap."
"You're really lazy, aren't you?"
"Are you the same too?"
"If I have a free time, I'll use it to finish my game I have abandon for this job."
"That's lazy, and I think you're still able to play your game from what I saw before."
"P-please don't tell my sister about it. She may angry for me being lazy again."
"No guarantee, unless you have some penny in your pocket."
After that, they are laughing together. Zero and Deele have good relationship, a friend if you may ask as they are the only boys in the group. Having a male friend that wasn't a 40-more-years old man with scar over their face is pretty much relaxing and a good thing for Deele. In other hand, Zero also needs a 'human' to talks and being with Dolls all of the time sometimes can be tiring to for him. This mutual friendship between these boys is one thing they are really want to keep up.
"Alright, I'll wait for the girls to wake up. So, see ya," Deele said as he leaves Zero behind toward the maintenance area.
"See you later," Zero said before his phone ringing, "Hm? A call? From who?" he then looks at his phone's screen and found a familiar name, "To think she would call me again after such a long time," he then answered the call, "Hello, Angelica. Do you have some business with me?"
[Still stiff as ever I see], Angelica said through the other end of the call, [I told you to be more relax, don't I?]
"Sorry, somehow I felt like I must be polite when talking to you," Zero said as he leans to the wall while still in phone, "It's been long since we last meet and you never call me again for… half a year?"
[9 months. I'm sorry if I can't meet you, but I was very busy at the time]
"With your work?"
[Yes, and another thing, which I would like you to investigate it for me]
"Well, I owe you my life so just ask, I will do it without any question."
[Hah… this is why I told you to relax when talking with me] Angelica sighed before continuing the conversation, [Listen up. In my past investigation regarding Sangvis Ferri, I found some strange information regarding their movements]
"And…?"
[This is where it sounds strange to me. In some of their movements, I found them seems taking an order from someone]
"Aren't they taking order from the ringleaders like everytime they do?" Zero said as he's bit confuse with Angelica's statement, "What so different from that?"
[In fact that the order they do is far more complex than somewhat "non-mechanical" like everything they do. Almost like—]
"They took an order from a human being," Zero said as he took some interest on the topic, "But didn't they try to destroy humanity? Why they took orders from human now?"
[That's the reason why I found it strange. What reason they are willing to take orders from a human, and who is this person that giving them the orders? There are so many questions unanswered and I need someone to help me investigate the matter if what I speculate is true or not]
"And no one very good for gathering the information better than us, right?" Zero said with a bit confident.
[No, I want you, alone to investigate this matter] she said with a bit seriousness in her tone.
"Huh? Wait a second. You want me to investigate this information, all by myself? What about Team 404?" Zero asked as he's a bit worried about the reason he needs to do it alone.
[I have other mission for them] she simply answered as she continued, [You will be moving in separate group from them. Don't worry, you will be with the best team 16LAB, which I have asked to provide some help]
"And who are they?" Zero asked.
[You sound pretty worried. Don't worry, they are directly created by Persica so you didn't need to worry about their performance]
"Their name?"
[The Anti-Rain Team, A.K.A. the AR Team]