Nanashi 3
Christi returned to the bridge from the communications room, upset that the Preventer didn't show. Suddenly her headset beeped.
"Captain Davis." She answered. "Trowa? …Another one? …Really? …Okay, send them up …Oh he's on his way already? …Alright." As Christi fumbled to turn off her headset she ran into someone carrying a box.
"Oh! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"
Christi looked up to see a boy her age with light brown hair holding out a hand to help her up off of the floor. Christi ignored the hand had got up herself.
"Not a very good first impression." The young man said. "Uh…I'm Alan James." The boy saluted Christi. "I'm the janitor. Uh…I brought up the uniforms."
Christi nodded and motioned that he follow her. While on her way to the bridge she called the whole crew on her headset and told them all to meet her in the bridge. When she arrived everyone was present.
"Finally I get some proper respect. This never happened on my other ship." Christi thought. She then motioned for Alan to place the box on the floor and open it. He did so, reviling the uniforms. "These are our uniforms. You will be expected to wear these at all times except when you are sleeping. If you are out of your cabin you will be required to wear one. I have been informed that the ship is ready to go so as soon as you get your uniform on we'll head out. Is this clear?"
"Yes ma'am!" everyone answered as they made their way to the box to get a uniform. The uniform was mostly white with a large orange stripe down the front and back. It had one blue line across the chest and then along the high collar that came up close to the chin. There were also blue strips on the sleeves. The letter "Z" was printed in black on the right side of the chest and a smaller "83" on the right side. Z-83 was also printed on the right arm in black.
"Can you pass the stuff in the big bowl?" Duo asked Wufei.
Wufei nodded and passed the bowl of food to Duo.
Dinner, so far, was going well and Alan, the janitor that was just recently assigned to the ship, we thankful for that. He would be the one who had the clean the mess left in the room. So far there wasn't much of one.
Christi chatted with Kari, Bria, and Leikela, the extra mechanic on the ship who had arrived shortly before dinner. Duo busied himself with eating and listening to the girls talk. Leikela noticed that Wufei and Bria kept giving each other these unreadable looks. She guessed the two had something for one another. While dinner was relatively quiet, the crew had a chance to study their new captain for the next month.
Quatre noticed as she talked with the girls, how under the tough personality she used when giving orders, she wasn't like that all the time.
Duo noticed her short spiky hair. It reminded him of Heero's, all messy like. Her hair was blond though, almost as light as Quatre's but more of a honey color, and the coolest part was the blue streaks that were present throughout the messy locks. And there were two long, blue pieces right in front of each ear.
Wufei's attention was brought to the small tattoo on her left arm. It was only half visible because of the short sleeves that were on her uniform but to Wufei it looked like a red dragon.
Trowa remembered the way her eyes flashed earlier when she didn't like what was happening; now he was free to study them as she talked. They were hazel. More green than brown but still hazel. Trowa could tell that she wasn't the tough person she appeared to be.
Heero, even though he wasn't too good at showing his own emotions he could feel others quiet well. Under the tough attitude and the smiling face she was hurting. She was scared but was trying not to show it. Heero would have to be careful.
"I'd like to propose a toast. A toast to our new captain and our ship." Quatre said as he stood.
Christi looked up with a surprised look on her face. Quatre smiled at Christi to reassure her and she nodded. Everyone raised their glasses in agreement and drank. When that was finished Christi stood up.
"Well I'd like to thank everyone here. I know I wasn't very nice earlier and I might have come off as pushy and mean but I wasn't too happy when I found out I was going to be piloting a "Z" ship!"
"You're not the only one!" Duo said.
Everyone around the table laughed. Christi smiled and continued.
"I'm going to try to be a good captain and not try to kill all of you like I did on my last ship."
"Did you really try and kill someone?" Duo asked, once again interrupting.
"You like to interrupt, don't you?" Christi asked.
"You better believe it!" Duo answered.
Christi smiled. "Well I'll have to remember that and yes I tried to kill someone on my other ship…it didn't help that it was a commanding officer either!"
"Looks like we have something in common after all!" Wufei said.
"No way? You killed someone before?" Bria asked and then realized what her choice of words implied.
" NO!" Wufei glared at Bria telling her that he noticed her mistake. Thankfully it seemed as if no one else had taken noticed or even cared. "I didn't kill him…I was just about too…all I did was break his nose."
"Man I wish I had gone out because I beat up a commanding officer! God knows he deserved it! I just didn't follow orders and got myself shot. What a lame way to go!" Duo said.
"Well if everyone is telling what they did to get here then I was caught playing video games when I was supposed to be working." Kari confessed.
"Way to go!" Duo said as he held up his hand for a high five.
"I left my post because I thought I'd be of better use somewhere else and…well lets just say I was wrong!" Leikela said.
Everyone laughed.
"Well I know how Yuy over there got here." Kari said. Heero looked up and raised an eyebrow at the girl. "He shot a fellow officer because, get this, he was in his way."
"Way to go dude!" Duo said also attempting to give Heero a high five. Heero ignored the hand and took a sip from his half empty glass.
"I didn't follow orders and got another officer hurt." Trowa offered.
"That's funny cause I didn't do anything to be sent here, and what's even weirder is that my cousin is here too!" Alan said.
"Wait, cousin?" Duo asked.
"Yeah, Bria is my cousin." Alan explained.
"That's right you both do have the same last name." Quatre said.
"His father is my dad's brother." Bria said.
"I bet your cousin never killed anyone!" Wufei whispered into Bria's ear.
Bria reached under the table and pinched Wufei's leg.
Kari watch as Wufei whispered something into Bria's ear and then Wufei jump and whisper something about Bria pinching him. "Uh! They could at least wait until after dinner!" Kari thought.
"So Quatre you haven't told us how you came upon this fate worse than death." Christi said tilting her head toward the blond pilot.
Quatre's face turned red. "I'd rather not talk about it. I was falsely accused and that's all you need to know!"
"Come one! Tell us!" Duo pleaded. Everyone joined in the begging until Quatre agreed to tell.
"Okay, I'll tell you! I came to my ship one morning and when I got there I found a large, inflatable lobster tied to my ship. At first I thought it was real but then I noticed the writing on it's back. It turns out it was an advertisement for a seafood restaurant that had just opened. Well I knew that my commanding officer would be arriving soon to see the ship so I tried to untie the thing by my self but when the officer got there it looked an offal lot like I had been tying it on instead of trying to take it off! I swear I'm innocent and I know that it was a couple of officers from my ship that pulled the prank but none of them fessed up so I got pined with the crime."
The group tried not to laugh but everyone lost it when Duo couldn't contain himself. As he laughed he made his way over to Quatre and gave him a hug. "I feel so sorry for you man!" Duo said in-between laughs.
"Okay people." Christi said when she had finished laughing. "We need to get to our stations. We'll be making our first dock with this thing at a colony and I want us all to be ready! I got a message that we will be getting yet another crewmember at this dock. We'll dock in 1 hour, be ready."
To Be Continued…
Authors note: well I hope you like it so far! This was kinda a transitional chapter! Hopefully in the next chapter it will pick up a little bit and get a little more exciting! Also, I got the idea for Quatre's lobster thing from my friend! He told me a story about one of the senior pranks played at his high school and one year they took a lobster from the parking lot of a Red Lobster that had just opened and set it up in the senior parking lot. Also, I still need a name! I have no clue what to name this and I hate it when fics don't have a name so I really need one! Also, (Man I keep remembering things! Sheesh!) I don't need any more characters! I have enough! Thank you all who emailed me! If you have an idea for a title then you can email me at, Christian.m.hall@att.net or you can put it in a review! Thankies and come back!
~Bishonen Chaser~