AttackOn A New Suit—Part 2
As she predicted, Duo started school in about two weeks, getting his schedule in the mail, along with a note to Keli. The note said that she should try and translate everything, since she had supposedly taken a bunch of Japanese courses at her "old school in California."
She pretty much had to agree to it, and didn't care too much about it. He had agreed to at least try and act foreign, and not use English too well.
Just a regular Monday morning, Keli actually managed to get up on time, and threw on the usual pair of old jeans, green baggy shirt, sneakers, and jacket, not having to rush like usual. She had already let Duo borrow one of the motor cycles she had, and he picked a black, red, and gold one, which was a big difference from the green, silver, and black motor cycle she drove.
"You know," Keli mumbled as the two walked into the garage, still a little tired from never getting enough sleep, "people are gonna make fun of you at school."
"Why?" he asked, looking out from under his black hat. He also had on a pair of black baggy jeans, a black shirt with a few words on it, and a pair of what looked like very expensive Nikes.
"Well, not too many people at school have long hair. Matter of fact, I'm considered weird, partly cause of my attitude towards everything, but also cause I look like some reject from an anime." she told him. She pulled on her usual green Nike hat, then put most of her hair up into it, so that only a few strands were hanging down in the front.
"I thought you didn't care about stuff like that."
She shrugged, "Don't, but still, it's annoying to have a senior come up to you while you're in the middle of switching classes and say, 'what cartoon did you pop out of; Sailor Moon?"
"And I care, why?"
"I just thought you might wanna know. Oh and also, some of the people at my school think they know everything, or are just assholes. If I were you, I would just ignore them, or start cussing them out in Japanese. It's what I do, anyways."
Keli got on her motor cycle, and took off. She got into the parking lot, and parked. She got off, and walked up to the building, early for once.
She saw Duo drive into the lot, and kept walking. She reached a group of my friends who had gotten to school already, and said hello.
Emily, one of her close friends, burst out laughing, "What Starr; did the world collapse or something? You're here early!"
Keli grinned, "Yeah, well, it's Monday, and I might as well get to school early one day this year. People will think I try and be late everyday."
John stared at her, "But don't you do that?"
She grinned again, "You've got a point..."
They saw Duo come walking up, and he introduced himself to everyone, including a confused Kassy, in semi-English. "Konnichiwa. I'm Duo."
Keli laughed at Kassy's expression just as Emily replied, "Konnichiwa. I'm Emily."
Keli glanced at her, and remembered that she knew some Japanese, along with Karen and Kassy. She introduced him for Angelina and John, who had no idea what he had just said.
"You guys, I'd like you to all meet Duo Maxwell. He's a transfer student from Japan, and he'll be staying here for awhile."
Angelina and John nodded, and Keli spoke to Duo in Japanese ((which will be done in italics cause I don't know how to say all this stuff, except for the stuff I actually know how to spell)), "I'd like for you to meet Emily, Karen, Angelina, and John. You already know Kassy."
"They can all speak Japanese?"
She shook her head, "Angelina and John can't, but Karen, Emily, and Kassy know a little."
He turned to them, and spoke in English, trying to make it sound difficult, "Hello, pleased to meet you."
Angelina nodded, "You too."
The bell rang, signaling that we had to go first period. "Well, I gotta go now guys," Keli told everyone, "byebye. I got a long walk ahead of me." Her first period was English, and the class was in the drama room, which was by the gym, which was a five-minute walk away from the main building.
"Come on, Duo," she told him. Everyone else had advanced English for now.
Kassy snickered, "Haha, you have English in the drama room. All cause you flunked your finals last year."
Keli glared at her. "It wasn't my fault! We didn't learn anything all year!" She began walking, and was followed by Duo, who looked a little confused.
Once we were away from them, he started talking, in perfect English, "You flunked your finals?" He snickered.
Keli nodded, "Well, I can't exactly study 24/7. I've got stuff to do. Hang on for a second. I gotta stop at my locker."
She grabbed both of her English books and notebook, and headed through the commons area quickly. They reached the back door, and went outside onto a sidewalk that led to the gym.
"Umm, why are we walking towards the gym? I thought my first class is English."
"We're not going to the gym, we're going to the drama room, which is behind the gym."
"Oh."
"Yeah, oh," she answered, looking down at her watch, "Damnit. I'll be late as usual."
"So? Just say you were showing me around the school."
She grinned, "I could skip first period if I did that, but it's not necessary. I'm always late, they've pretty much given up on me."
Keli didn't even start rushing when the bell rang, just walked slowly to the room, and entered a minute late.
"Miss Williams," the teacher began, "this makes the...how many is it?" He looked down at his role book, oblivious to the fact that she had come in with another person. "Why don't you tell me how many times you've been late since the beginning of the year."
She shrugged, and replied with a smart-assed comment, "I dunno, Mr. Peterman. I lost count after thirty." The class erupted into laughter at her little comment, and the enraged look on the teacher's face.
"Miss Williams!" he yelled at her, "you've got detention after school today!"
She looked over at Duo, and spoke to him in Japanese, "Meet Mr. Asshole. I haven't made it a week without getting at least one day of detention. By regular standards, I'd have been expelled by now."
The teacher stared at Keli, then at Duo, then down at his roll-book. "I suspect that this is Duo Maxwell." He turned to Duo, and stared speaking in what the thought was Japanese. It ended up sounding like garble. Keli couldn't even figure out what it was. The best she could make of it was something said about his enormous emu, or something.
Duo snckered, "Did you happen to get what he said?"
"The part abou this enormus emu I got. What else?"
"Oh, he just told me that I looked like a beutiful girl."
Keli snickered, and the teacher looked at her funny.
She looked back at him. "I've been dubbed translator for the year. So many people think they can speak foreign languages because they sound so easy, but most of it ends up into garble." The comment made the class burst into laughter again, which pissed him off even more.
He stared at her, "Just for that, you're in detention until four."
Keli turned back to Duo, "See what I mean; Mr. Asshole."
"You know, I can just tell him what you said."
"But you can't speak English too well yet. Much less big words like asshole." she grinned evilly, and walked over to her seat.
Mr. Peterman addressed Duo by talking really loud and really slow, which was just dumb, "Why don't you just sit down in one of the desks."
He didn't move, and Keli 'translated'. "Obey the son-of-a-bitch before he gets me in more trouble for no damned reason."
"Or what?" he asked her, just to try her patence.
"Or else you'll find out what it's like to breathe through a hole in your neck."
"On second thought," he muttered looking over at her, "Starr, if you will behave like a teenager, I'll put you in the back."
She stared at him, mouth open and ready with a comeback, but then decided she'd better not blow it, "Sure."
He nodded, "Okay then. I trust you to translate everything I say. Oh, and another thing, you know that you're not allowed to wear hats in the building."
Keli nodded, and took off the hat, letting my hair fall down, "No problem." This is gonna be so much fun, she thought to herself, grinning.
She walked back to the end of the classroom, and dumped all of her books onto a desk. "Now class," Mr. P. instructed, "if you'll take out your homework from this weekend..."
Before the end of the class was over, Keli had said almost everything bad she could about the teacher, and had explained a little about the school's way of punishment. The other classes were the same, probably because she only had math, technology, and keyboarding applications with any of her friends, and math with everyone.
During math, Emily caught most of the stuff Keli was telling Duo, and tried as best she could not to laugh, along with Kassy and Karen.
Keli had keyboarding applications with Kassy, Karen, and Angelina, and technology with Kassy, Emily, and John. As usual, they were doing crap that she had known how to do since she was five in KA. As soon as the teacher passed her by, she started playing games, along with all the other people at her little group of people, who were just Kassy, Karen, Angelina, and Duo.
In technology, the class was studying some advanced software, and how to do a little programming work, which interested her slightly more, but was still child's play. After that class was over, it was almost time for school to be over, but there was one more period to go, which was boring as hell to Keli; gym.
She didn't even bother to dress out, like always, and went upstairs and sat down, pulling her laptop out of her backpack and starting to type.
It's not that she didn't like sports, because she did. It was just the fact that the class was always in the gym, andeveryone was always playing basketball, and there were never enough basketballs to go around. So she just stayed in the bleachers listening to her diskman, or working on her laptop, which she got permission to bring to school, as long as she only used it during free time.
Duo walked upstairs, and sat down on the other side of the bleachers, and pulled out a laptop as well, only unlike Keli's silver and green computer, his was black and gold.
She looked back at the screen, and started typing, then plugged in a pair of headphones as she hit the play button of a recording at the Base.
"MS lab. Day one-oh-five of construction of Orion suit. So far, the construction has been getting along quite well. The beam cannon, which is to be stronger than that of Wing Zero, is approximately fifty-five per cent complete.
"The scythe; which will be twenty per cent larger and more powerful than that of the remodeled zero two, is now ten percent complete.
"The extendible arm; which is the same as the one on remodeled zero five, is ten per cent complete.
"The blades; which have been taken from zero four, are thirty per cent complete, while the guns; modeled after zero three, are five per cent complete.
"The zero system has been fully installed into the cockpit. That is all to report for now."
The recording ended, and she began writing down a bunch of notes in konji. She would have to give them to Duo later, but for now she was just going to keep them with her. She typed further into the system, and got to some video footage that looked interesting.
Keli opened the files, and downloaded them, so she could look at them later.
She got up, and walked out of the gym, with Duo following her.
"Why did you leave class?" Duo asked her, catching up.
She grinned, "I found a few of the recorded logs on the new suit, and some video footage. I haven't seen it all yet, but I've heard so far, this thing will be better than anything made yet."
Keli took out the computer, and played the video, which she had yet to see. It had sound as well. The movie pretty much was from a surveillance camera, and the quality was really bad, making it hard to see anything.
"Hang on a second. I'll get the view better in a second," she told him, working with the controls. After a minute or so, the video was in full color, and top quality sound, along with a full-screen view.
The footage came in clear now, and they could see that the suit was very powerful, even though it was barely halfway finished. The suit was completely blue, and had different parts that looked like the main weapons of all five main Gundams. No parts looked like the ones ShootingStarr had had, which was good or bad, Keli wasn't sure.
The clip ended, and he stared down at her, "We'll all be in deep shit if this thing ever gets to space."
Keli nodded, "Hai. It has to be destroyed as soon as it's done. So far, I think it is about eighty per cent complete, and at the rate of construction, it should be done in one month."
He nodded, "We'll attack the base one month from now, exactly."
"Sounds good," she told him, "now, I really don't want to deal with detention today, so I'm going to ditch the rest of last period and go get some food. Wanna come?"
He shrugged, "Sure, but won't that just get you into even bigger trouble tomorrow?"
Keli grinned, "Don't worry about it. I can talk my way outta anything."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
She grinned evilly, "Trouble's my middle name."
One month passed without incident. They checked the records once more, just to make sure it was complete. The two read the reports, and they all said that the new suit would be shipped into space for testing in exactly one week.
They had decided to attack the base during the week, so that security wouldn't be as heavy. That day, the two went to school like normal, and skipped the last two classes, to plan a few things.
"Okay, so we go in through this door, and we go directly to the MS lab, after I make a little visit to the security room," Keli explained, pointing to a map that was spread out on the floor of her room. She had dyed her hair back to it's original brown for the occasion, and wore no contacts. Her hair was still the same length though.
"And then we use the explosives, and blow the suit to hell," Duo continued on.
Keli nodded, "We'll leave at midnight, and when we get there, we count down till the security systems' times are reset, and then go in. You go down to the MS lab, and wait for me to turn off the security cameras and everything. Then we place the bombs, and get a far away as we can."
"Got ya."
She got up, "Good. It's only three, so I'll go down to the lab, and make final adjustments to the heat sensors." She had begun work on a second one for Duo to use, and it was now finished. It just needed a few final adjustments.
She finished the work at seven, and walked back upstairs. She reached Duo's room, and went inside, putting the sensor on a desk, and then walking back out. His was black, with a gold visor, while hers was sliver, with a green visor.
She walked back to her room, and found him in it, holding some clothes. "What's that?" she asked.
He turned around, "Your grandfather told me to put this in here. I was just about to leave."
She took the clothes, and looked at them. It was a green tank top, a pair of black baggy pants, and a silver trenchcoat.
"Oh, he must want me to use this for the mission," she stated.
"What for?"
Keli shrugged, "I don't know, but it look's kinda cool. Sorta like a terrorist outfit."
He left, and she put on all the stuff. The trenchcoat went down a little past her knees, and the pants were just the way she liked them, very baggy. She decided to leave her hair down, and walked into her closet, and found a pair of knee-length back leather boots that fit perfectly.
She walked downstairs, and saw Grandfather in the kitchen, "So you got the clothes," he stated when he saw what she was wearing.
Keli nodded, "Yup. Thanks. My favorite colors."
He smiled, "I keep forgetting how much you've grown in the past few months, but you changed drastically."
"I know that," she replied softly, "I can't be the same person I was anymore."
"You're right, you can't, but that doesn't stop you from having fun with the life you have now."
She winked at him, "I know that, and I'm trying to do just that." She grinned the evil grin she was famous for.
He smiled, "That's better."
Keli walked back upstairs, grabbed a backpack, and began to stuff in everything she needed for the mision. After a few minutes, it contained: a laptop, a cell phone, a few of the small bombs that she had built for the attack, and the three large bombs that were to go on the Orion suit. The three wouldn't be enough to destroy it, so one of them would have to throw the self-destruct switch as well.
At around ten, Duo walked out of his room, in a full priest outfit, black pants, black shirt, priests' collar, and a cross necklace. Keli didn't bother to ask.
She walked back down to the lab, and into a room off the side of main area--the weapons' room. She looked around trying to find something useful. She then found what she was looking for; a small but powerful gun. It was a new model that wasn't available on the market yet, and was very high-tech for a gun.
Keli grabbed it, and a few other guns, and put the better model in her pocket, while she put the other three into a holster that was hidden by the coat. She also grabbed a few for Duo, and went back upstairs.
At midnight, they both left on the motor cycles, then parked the bikes a ways away from the building, and walked up to the fence encasing the whole military base.
Duo reached into the backpack and pulled out a bomb. He attached it to the fence and walked away. "Why am I not surprised you know how to do this?" Keli asked him.
He shrugged as the bomb exploded, leaving a hole in the fence, "Why am I surprised you don't?"
She groaned, and ran onto the property. They got to the door, and Keli put my hand over the scanner. "What are you doing?" he hissed at her, "that'll just let them know who you are!"
She grinned as the door opened, and showed him her hands, which had no fingerprints, "You think I'm so dumb as to go back to school with the same fingerprints as a wanted criminal? Think again. I burned off my fingerprints, and burned on a special code that will wipe out any of these sensors." She walked inside. "We have approximately five minutes to turn off the security systems. If we don't they'll all go off, and we'll be dead."
He nodded, and pulled the visor over his ear, and turned it on. Keli did as well, "Good luck," he said, waving as he ran off down the halls towards the MS lab.
She ran in the other direction, to the security control room. She walked inside, and hooked up her computer to the cameras. After a minute, the same video footage would repeat itself. She just hoped no one would notice that the time was never moving forward.
A red dot appeared on the screen in front of her face as she unhooked the computer. "Damnit," She whispered to herself. She ducked into another hallway as the soldier passed her by, and then turned back to the hallway that led to the MS lab.
She saw Duo scrunched in a corner, waiting for her. He saw her, and muttered, "We don't have all night you know."
Keli nodded, and opened the MS lab door. They walked down the stairs leading to the suit, and the visors started to beep.
"Get down!" Keli hissed, ducking down just as a flashlight swept over the area they were in.
She held up the gun, and he pulled out one of his, "Ready…"
"Go!" Keli yelled out, getting up, and firing at the guy. He fell down, not even knowing what had hit him.
She pulled the backpack off of her back, and tossed one of the bombs to Duo. He put it over near the suit, but not on it directly. Keli ran around, and put the other two around the corners of the wall, just as the alarm started ringing.
"Damnit!" Duo yelled out as the lights in the lab dimmed.
Keli leapt up into the cockpit of the suit, and found the self-destruct switch, and pressed it, after she delayed the explosion for twenty minutes.
"Let's get out of here!" she yelled, leaping from the cockpit.
They ran to the top of the stairs, just as their sensors started going off again. According to them, three people were heading towards the two, on a direct rendezvous point. "No way we can stop going now!" Keli told Duo. "If they get in our way, we'll just have to shoot them!"
He nodded, and cocked his gun.
She held up hers as well, and ran faster. She could see the figures at the end of the hall they were on. From what they could see, the soldiers didn't look like the people in the base.
Keli yelled out, "Stop right there if you don't want to get shot!" She aimed the gun at the people running towards her and Duo.
One of them pulled out as gun of his own, and aimed it at them, while halting. "Get out of our way or we'll shoot you!" Keli couldn't see then too well, but saw enough to know that they were all women, with two that were short, and one taller.
The visor beeped again--this time with at least twenty new red dots on the screen. "Oh shit," Duo muttered as they all rounded the corner, guns cocked and ready to fire.
"All five of you freeze right now!"
Keli glanced back, and shot without warning, hitting four of them before her gun ran out of bullets. Duo turned around, and also opened fire, along with the three soldiers. That just confused the pilots more. Duo ran out of ammo as well.
Keli waved to the three who were busy shooting, "Sorry we've got to run like this, but we'll thank you by letting you clean up for us!"
They began running again. One of the girl soldiers yelled out, "HEY!"
Bullets were now everywhere, and one grazed Keli's arm. Duo stopped running, and returned fire, by throwing one of the small bombs, then continued running.
Keli ran outside, with Duo right behind. They were both tackled by two more people, also not military personnel. Keli was flung onto her stomach in the dirt, and had handcuffs put over her wrists.
"What the fuck is this?" she yelled out.
The person who had grabbed her yanked her back up, and held her so she couldn't see her assailents face, "I am a special agent for Peace Legacy. You two have been caught attacking a military base. You are now subject to prosecution, should we decide to turn you in."
Keli grinned suddenly, and threw her over her shoulders in a quick motion that the woman wasn't expecting. She landed hard on the ground. Keli glanced down at her, and pulled apart her hands, breaking the cuffs.
The person was wearing an OZ issued uniform for women, but it didn't look exactly like the old ones. It was the same basic style, but instead of being a color of OZ, it was purple. There was a hat covering part of her face. My God! Those were the stongest handcuffs at the base! The girl thought as she got back up, and watched the girl run.
The person who had gotten ahold of Duo was a guy--Keli could see that. His outfit was navy though, and he was taller than the person who had grabbed her.
She ran over to the guy that had gotten Duo, and tackled him, knocking him down. Duo got back up, and Keli felt a bullet as it through her shoulder as she flipped away from the guy.
"Stop right there!" the same woman yelled again, this time with a gun cocked and aimed, with smoke coming out of the barrel. Who is this girl? She thought, that was enough to knock down a full-grown man!
Keli started running again, and felt another bullet, this one hitting her in the leg, which made her fall forwards, onto the ground.
Hmm, that's a little better, the soldier thought, walking towards her fallen victim.
Keli looked up at Duo, who was staring down at her, "Get out of here now!"
He turned towards the parking lot, but was tackled again by the same guy. "I don't think you'll be going anywhere!"
The woman grabbed Keli's jacket, and turned her around, so she was looking up at the sky. The other three soldiers came out of the base, just as the clouds moved past the moon, lighting up the sky with brilliant moonlight.
Keli was ready to punch Kassy, who looked as freaked out as she did. John got off of the ground, and stared at Duo. Emily kind of gasped, and looked shocked, while Karen and Angelina did nothing.
Keli groaned, and grabbed her leg, "Thanks Kassy. I never thought my friends would try and kill me."
"I-I-I..."
John reached the conclusion first, "You're two of the Gundam pilots!"
Keli nodded, "Yup. I'm suprised that the five of you couldn't figure that out."
Duo got up, and started yelling, "What the HELL is going on here?!?"
Angelina stared at him, "I thought you only knew how to speak Japanese!"
"This isn't the time for that!"
"Yeah, and if SOMEONE wouldn't have SHOT ME IN THE LEG I could have told you that the Orion suit will explode in less than a minute!"
Duo picked up Keli and began running, with the soldiers right behind him.
"What are you doing in a trenchcoat, and what is Duo doing in whatever that is?" Kassy asked Keli, running up beside Duo.
Keli glared at her, "I would come up with a really really smart-assed answer to that if I wasn't bleeding from my shoulder and leg." She glanced at her wrist, which had a small bracelet on it. She took it off, and hit a red button.
They could hear a loud sound that signaled that the two motor cycles had exploded. That happened at the same time as the base erupted into flames, and a shock wave sent the seven flying onto concrete.
John stood up, and looked around as everyone got up except for Keli.
Kassy took control, "Everyone, meet back at PL base in thirty minutes. I've got these two to deal with."
They all nodded, saluted, and walked away from the base. She turned to Keli and Duo, "Now, you guys come with me."
"Where are we going?" Duo asked her, while helping Keli up.
"To Peace Legacy." She sighed, "Great. Now I'm gonna have to fill out a ton of forms about this!" Keli and Duo followed her to a car by the highway. She got in, and Duo got into the front seat, while Keli climbed in back.
"First of all, I'm sorry I shot you," she muttered, after they were on the road, "I thought you were an undercover cop or something."
"Does an undercover cop break into a military base and blow up a mobile suit?" Keli asked sarcastically--still pissed off.
She sighed, "I said I was sorry damnit!"
Duo glanced at her uniform, "Are you a part of OZ?"
"Our group isn't a part of OZ anymore. I'm working for PL."
"What's that?"
"It's the shortened form of Peace Legacy. We're a group of secret agents who investigate stuff like this. Screw-ups, and things like that. Our department is highly successful. We've never had a casualty to happen, and we've never been caught."
Keli couldn't take it anymore, "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOMETHING LIKE THIS?!?"
"I was following an order," she stated.
"And you couldn't even tell me about it?" Keli demanded.
She nodded, "Yeah."
Keli glanced down at her leg, and then craned her neck so she could get a glimpse of her shoulder, "I'm gonna ruin all the upholstery."
"It's not my car, and we should get you to a doctor."
"What? And let them find out that the infamous Gundam rebel girl is staying in this city? I'd rather die from blood loss," Keli muttered with a small voice. She was getting really tired, and it was getting hard for her to stay awake. She slumped down in the seat, knocked out.
She woke back up in a small room. Bandages were now around her shoulder, arm and leg where she had been shot. No one was in the room besides her.
She didn't do anything, just laid there, waiting. After awhile, she started hearing people's voices outside of the room. She could tell that her friends were there, along with someone she'd never heard before.
"Is she going to be okay?"
"Yes. She'll be fine, but I would suggest that she stay here for a few days, just to recuperate. To me it's amazing that she's not dead, and what's more, she's not even too badly hurt. And we all know how good of a shot Kassy is. The way she bullet went in, you can tell she was trying to take out a major artery."
Keli glanced at the wall, and noticed a clock. It was tomorrow. They all walked into the room at that moment, and saw that she was awake.
"Good," a gray-headed man in a labcoat stated, "although, this is even more astounding."
Keli glanced at him, and then at everyone else, "Can someone tell me what's going on?"
Kassy explained, "You're in the medical unit of the PL base. After you passed out, we got to the base, and took you here."
She winced, "Can you guys explain all of this to me?"
Duo started talking. "I'll do it. They told me everything last night-er-this morning." After he was done explaining the situation, he walked out of the room.
Keli stared at everyone, "So you guys are all secret agents for PL huh? What a twist."
"Yeah," Karen stated, "And you know, if you really want to, you can-" she was silenced by Kassy, who covered her mouth with her hand.
"Get her demoted a rank," John finished for her.
She let go of Karen and grabbed him by the collar of his outfit, and shoved her fist in his face, "I told you not to say that damnit!"
She let go of him, and he glared at her, "Damnit Kassy. You've sure gone overboard."
Keli started laughing, and they all glared at her, "What's so funny?" Kassy asked her, with a really weird glare.
"Umm...nothing. So I can really get you demoted..." she trailed off, with a smirk.
Kassy stared at Keli, "You wouldn't!"
Keli stared back, "Who are you to tell me that? You shot me!"
"I said I was sorry!"
"And here you are yelling at me! Where's your boss? I wanna talk to him..."
"Don't! I like my title!"
"What are you ranked, anyways?" Duo asked them all.
Angelina began explaining, "Well, I'm a Captain, Emily's a Major, Karen's a Colnel, John's a Leutennant Genral, and Kassy's a Genral." Kassy beamed, "I'm the highest-ranking officer in the PL agency right now, besides my boss."
Keli sat up. "At least I know a few things now. And I also know that it's gonna look funny that all seven of us are out of school."
"Oh yeah, that reminds me," Karen stated. "We've alerted your grandfather of the situation, and he agrees that you'll stay here a few days for the wounds to heal."
Emily nodded, "Yeah, and it's only seven, so we're all going to school." As she said that, John walked out of the room.
"In OZ uniforms?" Duo asked.
She laughed, "God no. We have some plain clothes here."
"Oh, okay."
Karen turned to Duo, "So you can speak English after all."
He nodded, "Of course."
"So Keli really didn't have to translate all that stuff for you."
"No, but it was kind of fun hearing her talk trash about all her teachers."
Karen stared at Keli, "No wonder I heard you say baka so much in math class. I didn't think you would translate like that."
Keli grinned, "Count on me cuss out my teachers right in front of them, just in another language."
Emily laughed, "Maybe you should be glad that there aren't any Japanese teachers at school."
Keli shrugged, "It was fun while it lasted, but the mission's over now."
Duo nodded, "Yup. And I didn't even have to use my Gundam. I'll get a carrier, and leave in a few days."
"And leave me making up a really lame excuse for you," Keli finished for him.
"Actually, yeah."
She rolled her eyes, "Baka."
He stared at her, "I'm not baka. And at least I wasn't shot by one of my friends!"
"I heard that you were almost killed by one of them," she muttered so he wouldn't hear her.
John walked back in, in a pair of jeans and a navy shirt, "It might be a good idea if you guys changed now. School starts in thirty minutes."
They nodded, and left the room. They came back in in a few minutes, dressed in normal clothes. After saying goodbye, they left, leaving Duo to fend for himself in the ways of a ride.
"Damnit," he muttered, looking down at his clothes.
Keli smirked, "No, why don't you go to school like that? It may become a fashion statement."
He glared at her, "Very funny, but I wouldn't be talking." She looked down. All her clothes were still on, but really messed up. The coat had been taken off, and the rip in her shirt was bigger at the shoulder, and the same thing happened to her pants.
"At least I have a reason for skipping."
"Being shot by your friend counts as a reason?"
She sighed, "Call a cab or something. Or just ask and see if you can borrow a car."
"Right. Good idea." He walked out.
After a few days, Keli was let out of the base, and stayed out of school for a little while after that. It was easy coming up with an excuse, though. Duo left a week after that, but only after he stole one one of the carriers from the military base.
Keli went on leading a semi-normal life, as best she could, with her knowledge and a cash reward on her head.