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Chapter One: Violet Eyes…

Solo walked down the Garden's halls, looking outside and wondering if it was going to rain. Dressed in a pair of jeans and a black long sleeved shirt, he felt quite comfortable. His waist length braid was tied off with a black ribbon.
/Man, I really hope there isn't a long line at the cafeteria./ He thought, continuing to stroll along.
A Garden is a boarding school of orphan's mostly, usually found outside of large cities. They're covered in plants and flowers, letting them live up to their names. The sight of one at a distance is quite breathtaking. Yet the sight of one at night is even more beautiful. The Garden's house kids and adults of all ages, the younger ones going to school and tending to keeping the Garden in shape. The older ones, teaching and training with mobil suits, unknown to the rest of the world. In fact those who knew that there were still mobil suits in working order, where sworn to silence, on the penalty of death if they told.
/Damnit./ Solo cursed seeing the line in the cafeteria. /I'd love to wait in line all day, but I've got stuff to do./ He sighed.
" Hey Solo!" A student sitting at one of the table's near the door called.
Solo blinked and waved at him. " Hey Okatami! I'm going out to the city today! Catch ya later!" Solo yelled at him.
Okatami got up and quickly walked over to Solo, before he could leave. " The professor asked a few of us to meet her at the South Gate at midnight tonight." He said softly so he wouldn't be overheard.
Solo narrowed his violet eyes. " For what reason?" He asked.
Okatami shrugged " Who knows with that lady in charge, she's got quite the brain on her shoulders. But I think she has a feeling that something going we should know about."
Solo inwardly groaned in annoyance. Professor Kim got a ' feeling' about something. She usually ended up sending her best students out on some top secret mission, to who knows where. Even with her record of being slightly…off…she was an extremely smart woman, and as pretty as she was smart too.
" So you'll be there right? I don't wanna go this alone." Okatami asked.
Solo nodded flashing one of his infamous grins. " I'll be there. This'll be cool. Who knows what that quack has planned for us."
" This quack has detention planned for you two, if you don't shut up right now." A voice said from behind Solo.
Solo sweatdropped and turned around, looking at Professor Kim. " Ahh…Gomen Nasai.." He said bowing to the red haired woman quickly.
She laughed. " Had you scared there ne?" She giggled. " Well I'm not going to give you detention but I'd really like it if you stop talking about our missions where everyone can hear." She gestured to the large cafeteria.
" H-Hai! We'll shut up about that!" Okatami stuttered.
Professor Kim smiled at them both. " That's nice to hear. Well see you two tonight, just don't get in to much trouble before then, I'm sure we'll get in enough after this" And with that the redhead professor walked off, her light blue sundress brushing at her ankles.
" What did she my by ' After this?'" Okatami asked.
Solo shrugged and headed out of the room. " Who knows. Who cares. See ya later!" He called.
" I care!" Okatami protested to his braided friend. He sighed and went back to his table seeing that Solo just waved his hand, signaling that he still didn't care.

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" Ooh I can't believe I'm already lost." A short blonde girl wailed. She looked down at the map she was holding and sighed. " This place is huge!"
She pulled back the sleeve of her green sweater and glanced at her watch. " And know I'm late for class!" She wailed again before taking off running down the hallway….
…. And promptly plowed over some unfortunate soul.
" Oh my goddess. I'm sorry" The girl said helping up Solo.
Solo gladly accepted the help from the girl and got up. He looked at the blonde, with pale skin and bright blue eyes, in front of him that was apologizing so fast it'll make your head spin. She wore a heavy green sweater and a jean skirt. Her pale blonde hair was pulled back into a ponytail that reached to her mid back.
" Whoa..back up a sec. It's okay, you get ran over every day around here so I'm used to it." He said smiling.
The blonde stopped and smiled back. " Thanks. Hey are people around here as nice as you are?" She asked.
Solo grinned. " To tell you the truth." He looked around as if checking to see if anyone else was around. " I'm the nicest and cutest guy around here." He said.
The blonde rolled her blue eyes at Solo. " Gimme a break. You may be nice but your not all that cute" She said.
Solo drew back, as if being really hurt. " My, mystery girl you hurt my feelings." He sniffled.
The girl stuck her tongue out at Solo. " Now your just plain old silly." She giggled. Then stuck her hand out. " I'm Misora, I'm new here at this Garden. And you happen to be?" She asked.
Solo blinked. /Why does that name sound so familiar/ He thought. A brief image of a blonde five-year-old with blue eyes sticking her tongue out flashed though his mind. He shook his head trying to clear his thoughts.
" Are you okay?" Misora asked.
Solo nodded and shook her hand " I'm fine and I'm also Solo" He said cheerfully.
"Cool. So um…do you know where this place is?" She said handing Solo a piece of paper.
Solo looked over the paper. " Mm…." He looked back at Misora. " The South Gate is in the south…all you've gotta do is take the elevator down to the base floor then walk around to the back." He said.
Misora blushed. " Of course. I always get confused with the easy stuff." She sighed.
" Professor Kim told you be there tonight?" He asked. Misora blinked.
" Yea that's what the lady at the office said, and the note I got." She said.
/Damn.. I didn't know someone like her would already be called the best by Professor Kim so soon./ Thought Solo.
" Have you meant any of the other new people yet Solo?" Misora asked.
Solo shook his head tossing his braid to and fro. " Nope. You seem to have the honor of meeting the great Solo first." He said.
Misora rolled her eyes again. " Well Mr. Great Solo. Miss. Misora has to go now. Maybe I'll run you over again sometime soon." She took back the papers and walked off.

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Solo walked down the streets of the city looking into the windows of stores that where open. /Café, another Café, restaurant…restaurant that rips you off…ack there's nothing good to eat around here anymore./ Solo thought counting off the food placed in his mind.
He blinked noticing a large crowd gathered around the local arcade. /Wonder what's going on over there./ He thought walking over to the arcade.
Solo promptly ducked to his left, narrowly avoiding getting stepped on by the guy that had just been punched. The guy fell back into the wall and got up glaring at a light brown haired girl with cobalt blue eyes. She wore a pair of black bellbottom's and a blood red tank top.
" You ever try to get near me again, I'll kill you." She said coldly, giving the man a death glare™.
The girl calmly walked over to the guy, pointing a gun at him she asked, " Got it?"
Solo boggled. Yesh talk about psycho. He thought. The girl glared at the man again as he scrambled out of the arcade.
She looked at Solo. " What are you staring at?" She asked.
" N-nothing! Don't shoot me!" Solo cried raising his hands in a defensive position. The girl smirked then laughed.
" What? What's so funny!? And could you point that gun somewhere else!?" Solo yelled.
" Alright, alright don't get all worked up." The girl said sliding the gun into one of her boots. She walked over to Solo and blinked at him. " What's your name?" She asked.
" Solo"
The girl nodded. " I'm Ikiiki." She said.
/Please don't tell me she goes to the Garden. Please don't tell me she goes to the Garden./ Solo pleaded mentally.
" I just got transferred to the Garden outside this city." Ikiiki continued.
/Damnit! Damnitdamnitdamnit!! Now I get to go to school with a female psychopath, who carries a gun! Double damnit! Note to self: never try to hit on her, if you value your life./
Ikiiki bowed to the braided boy. " I'll look forward to running into you again." She murmured walking out of the arcade.
Solo blinked then looked around at the crowd of people that were either staring at him or Ikiiki. Solo sighed.
" This is going to be a hell of a long year."
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" Solo! There you are! I thought you weren't going to show." Okatami said approaching the violet-eyed boy.
" Me? Not show? Okatami I thought you knew me better!" Solo said sounding offended.
Okatami whacked Solo over the head. " I know you enough to guess, that you completely forgot about the meeting tonight till five minutes ago." He grinned.
Solo sweatdropped rubbing the spot on his head that had been whacked. " Bingo! You guessed right! So where's the Professor?" Solo asked.
" She's not here yet." A dark brown haired boy said, he was leaning on a wall near Solo and Okatami.
" Let me guess, this is your first day in this Garden" Solo asked.
The boy nodded. " I'm Yusuke. Is it some tradition here, to send new students on some mission? I find it quite odd." He said.
" Ah…nah. This is one of Professor Kim's plots." Oatami said.
Yusuke nodded again. " Strange." He said.
" No kiddin. I'd like actually getting to sleep not going on these damn missions" Okatami complained.
Solo looked around. A small group of 20 students had gathered at the South Gate. They where talking, in-groups waiting for the professor to arrive.
" Who is this you're talking to, Yusuke." A girl with yet black hair and light blue eyes said walking up behind him.
" I'm Okatami and this is Solo." Okatami said.
" This is Merian my sister." Yusuke said glancing at the black haired girl.
Okatami stuck his hand out gesturing for a friendly handshake. Instead Merian just stared at him, nodded then walked over to a familiar brunette with cobalt blue eyes. The two girls started talking and Okatami sweatdropped.
Yusuke rolled her eyes. " My sis isn't much of a people person, don't mind her too much." He said.
/Of course she gets right along with kowai onnas…/ Solo thought.
" Alright people. Shut up and get over here!" Professor Kim yelled standing on top of a flight of stairs. She was dressed in all black and her red hair was tied back in a bun. Her green eyes seemed to sparkle in the dim light.
The group moved over to the bottom of the stairs and grew silent.
" Good to see you all here, I'm sure your all wondering what exactly our mission is tonight." She started. " I've briefed one of your classmates today about this. Now if she would just come forward we can start the presentation." The Professor scanned the crowd.
" I'm…. over ..here!" a voice cried from the back of the group. Misora waved her arms jumping up and down, her blonde hair flying around her head.
" You…people…are… way too tall!" She yelled running around the group and up the stairs.
Professor Kim smiled and started a short conversation with the blonde, who nodded and turned back to the students. " This is Misora Winner. She has come up with a plan for the mission and spilt you all up into teams." P. Kim said.
Misora fumbled around with her purse for a second then brought out a piece of paper. She started reading off the teams.
" Team A will consist of Ariana, Akuma, Akumu, and Araumi. ( Author: Pun intended minna ^.~) The team will be lead by myself. They will scout the area around our objective before the two other teams head out." Misora said.
" Team B will consist of Kazen, Niji, Lina, and Rouge. Team B will be lead by Professor Kim. They'll provide back up for Team C as they go in if our subject seems hostile."
" Team C will consist of Okatami, Ikiiki, Yusuke, Merian and will be lead by Solo." Misora looked over at our group. " Your job is the most important. You all will contact the subject and if they reply by attacking you will attack back." She said.
Solo blinked. /And I'm suppose to lead this?!/ He thought.
" What exactly is this ' subject ?'" One of the member's of Team B asked.
Professor Kim took the question. " There have been more incoming reports from the mountains that there is a big something up there. The people in the near by town have reported to us that most of the mobil suit building materials have been stolen, yet they have no idea who could have taken them." She said.
" Then later last week the scanners of our Garden picked up some kind of large alien ship."
The group broke out into low murmured and whispers.
" I don't believe this.. She's sending us out in the middle of the night to look for some supposedly alien space craft?" Yusuke muttered.
Okatami shook his head. " She really has truly lost it." He said.
" Hey…lighten up guys! This is better than studying anyway." Solo grinned.
"Who'd be up studying at this hour other than you Solo?" Okatami asked.
Solo sweatdropped. " Well I dunno.." He said.
" Excuse me….Hello? Guys…..attention back here…" Misora said looking slightly annoyed.
The students ignored her still going on with their conversations.
" People! Shut the hell up! Good goddess this is a mission not a social chat!!!!" Misora yelled.
The group immediately shut up and turned their attention back towards the stairs. " Thank you!" Misora grinned.
" I know what your all thinking.." Professor Kim said.
"…… What that you're a quack." Yusuke snorted.
" This does sound very out there, even for me. But I want you all to trust me and go on with this mission." She said. " Besides, if you don't I'm not gonna help you all explain why your not in your dorm rooms right now." She laughed evilly.
Okatami winced. " She got us there." He muttered.

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" Hey Solo….." Yusuke's face appeared on the screen of the Serpent suit Solo was piloting. Yusuke blinked. " Solo…?" He asked.
Solo's head laid back against the back of his piloting chair. His hands still on the controls to the Serpent suit, he peacefully slept on.
" No wonder his suit's on auto pilot." The Chinese pilot sweatdroped.
Okatami's face appeared on, Yusuke's screen, catching the end of Yusuke's sentence. " What?" He asked.
" Our 'leader' seems to be sleeping on during the mission." Yusuke muttered.
" Good lord we're all doomed. Why the hell did Professor Kim pick him!?" Okatami cursed.
Yusuke shrugged. " I don't know but it's time for Solo to get another wake up call." He said.
" Solo!!! Wake up now where under attack and the brain sucking aliens are going to kill us all!!!" Yusuke screamed looking as panicked as he could manage.
Solo bolted upright and looked around fearfully. " What!? Where!? They won't get me!!! I don't want to have my brain sucked by some ugly alien!!!" he blinked noticing that his screen was displaying regular moonlight landscape and not a gory battlefield with brain sucking aliens.
His screen also displayed a laughing Okatami and a smug looking Yusuke.
" Maaaaan you should of seen the look on your face. That was priceless.. Just priceless." Okatami said grinning like an idiot.
Solo scowled at him. " That wasn't funny at all." He muttered.
" I'm sorry to ruin your beauty sleep, oh wise and honorable leader." Yusuke smirked.
" If your joking, that's cruel." Solo said glaring at the screen.
Merian's face appeared on all three of the guys screens. " I don't believe you all. Fooling around like that. Sheesh. And your suppose to be leading us all and your sleeping!" She muttered.
" Unlike you I'd rather not be a grouch all day, so I get some sleep." Solo replied lazily.
Merian scowled and glared. " Stuff it braid boy." She muttered.
Solo gasped. " I like my braid thank you!" He yelled.
Okatami snickered. " Merian's being pretty damn emotional." He grinned. " Is it around that time of the month?"
Merian sputtered. " What!? No it isn't around that time of the month damnit! We're only on a mission and you three are clowning around."
Yusuke grinned thoughtfully. " It's the second week of the month right?" He asked.
Solo nodded grinning just as much. " So what does that mean?" He asked.
Yusuke looked grave. " It's …" He drawled. Then broke out into another grin. " that time of the month."
If looks could kill, Yusuke would probably be six feet under, headstone set, and funeral over.
" Yusuke…when this mission is over….you are very very very dead.." She said glaring before her image disappeared from the screen.
" Boy, you guys know just how to piss off that girl." Ikiiki said, her image appearing on all the screens.
Yusuke shrugged. Solo smirked, Okatami stifled his chuckles.
" Anyway. Turn on your heat seeking sensors and look at what's ahead of us." Ikiiki said calmly.
Solo blinked, then shrugged and started typing in the heat seeking sensor command on his serpent. Yusuke and Okatami did the same.
Solo looked back at the screen having typed the whole command out. The screen blinked out for a second then returned in a red shade.
" Oh..my god.." Okatami exclaimed.
Yusuke blinked. " Please tell me, that is not the thing we're after."
Solo sweatdropped. " And we have to attack this!? And I'm in charge!?"
" That's right Solo is in charge, and of course this is our target." Ikiiki said still as calm as ever.
Yusuke and Okatami both sweatdropped at the same time. " We're doomed!" They exclaimed.

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" Princess Talia! What do you think your doing!?" A middle-aged woman said running to keep up with the teenaged princess. The woman stopped running, long enough to regain her breath and tuck a strand of her dark purple hair behind her, tinted blue elf like ears. Her light blue face was flushed from running down three sets of stairs and down ten hallways.
The teenage girl stopped and turned around. " I saw some mobil suits outside, looking out of my telescope. I wanna check it out." The princess said simply.
The woman blinked looking at the Princess in surprise. " You mean like human mobil suits? Where they heading directly this way?" She asked worriedly.
The princess nodded and walked over to a window. She pushed the silk curtains aside and pointed too the moonlight landscape. " Look. Their at least 20 miles away and still coming? Isn't this interesting?" She said.
The woman shook her head looking out the window. " This is horrible. I must go now and inform your parents about this." She said before running around the corner again.
" Demo…" The princess called after the woman. " I thought…." She looked confused, then started running after the woman.

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" My god, I thought I was wrong. And look I'm right!" Professor Kim squealed happily.
" Um…hate to burst you bubble but….that ship looks like it could take down all of us easily. What are we going to do anyway?" One of the students asked appearing on all the suits screens.
The image of Professor Kim frowned for a second. " Well we'll just have to find out if their peaceful or not." She said brightly.
" Look at that! If it's got that much fire power put into those building I'm sure it's not peaceful damnit!" Another student cried.
" Stay calm all of you all." Misora said her image appearing beside the Professor's. " We've confirmed the belief and we now have to carry out the rest of this thing. The last thing we need is panicking going on." She said.
Professor Kim nodded. " She's right. Team C are you still with us." She asked. " Solo? You've got to make a plan for your team now."
Yet Solo didn't respond. For he was to busy staring at the giant structure in front of him. The ship looked like it had been painted into the real world from a fairy tale book, but concealed within it's elegance lurked cannon's and missile's capable of destroying a large country.
Giant buildings connected to one another forming something that looked like a crescent moon from the front of it. All of them where brightly lit, the sight was enough to take your breath away, but lurking still in the middle of the crescent was a ugly looking building with beam cannon's, laser cannon's, missile launchers, sticking out from it. And goddess knows what else lurking inside.
" Solo! Snap out of it!" Misora yelled. Solo blinked and shook his head, coming out of the spell the ship had woven.
" What?" he asked looking slightly dazed.
" You need to decide wither to attack or make contact…like…now…" Misora demanded her blue eyes gleaming with anticipation for something.
" So.. I guess saying 'I don't know' is a bad answer." He asked.
Misora nodded. " The worst of them all."
" Uh….. I don't think we need to worry about Solo's answer anymore.." Yusuke said looking mildly worried.
Solo looked back at his screen and paled slightly.
Professor Kim muttered a lovely string of curses while Misora started barking out orders.
" This is wicked." Ikiiki breathed grinning like crazy.
" Easy for you to say." Okatami muttered.
" Team C fall to my left and stay away from that main building! We don't want any casualties. And if they fire at all I want you to unload all of your missiles on that building!" Misora yelled.
" Party time.." Ikiiki grinned.
" Alright.." Okatami sighed.
" Whatever.." Yusuke said.
" Gotcha." Solo confirmed.
" Right." Merian muttered. And they all did as they were commanded.