Author notes: Hello again. Sorry it took so long for this chapter. I've been having a life ( gasp!) and I've had some emotional problems that sorta make writing kinda hard. Things are starting to pick up somewhat, but I'm still trying to establish all the relationships between Solo n' friends. Thank you to everyone that reviewed, it means a lot to me.
Special thanks to Li-chan because she actually e-mailed me and had that lovely comment about the T-shirt that I just had to use. Kudos to her.
Disclaimer: HA! I bought them all on E-bay! That's right! GW belongs to me, myself and Lok.* sweatdrops as the lawyers man their brief cases* Okay, I don't own them or any reference to movies mentioned in the fic. The plot and all the children belong to ME! If you take them I will skin you alive. ^_^V Have a nice day and enjoy the fic.
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Chapter two- Agent I'mOhSoSexy!?
They'd been studying forever.
Solo frowned, glaring at the textbook in front of him. He placed his head in his hands and tried to continue reading. No good though, the words still kept blurring together and he doubted that his brain was processing any of the information.
The braided teenager glanced up at Okatami and Kendra. Both where staring down at their textbooks and notes in a similar fashion that Solo was.
That was all he needed. It was indeed break time. Grinning, Solo gasped grabbing his head as if he were in pain and fell out of his chair dramatically.
" 404 Error!" Declared the braided boy, when his friends looked over at him oddly. " Solo's brain is no longer found, please click your back button or retype today's studying schedule."
Kendra laughed. She got up from her chair and started poking Solo, who tried to squirm away from the girl. " I dun see the back button!" She observed, still torturing Solo.
" Guess he's trying to say we should take a break, huh?" Okatami closed his books and yawned, stretching his lanky form over the chair. He was dressed in comfy clothes, as where Solo and Kendra. Today his shirt read, " Don't piss me off- I'm running out of places to hide the bodies!" As strange, and humorous, as it was; it clearly expressed how most of the students felt during the hectic days before exams.
Solo climbed back into his chair after swatting Kendra away from him. She sat down in the chair next to him and leaned on the table, cupping her chin in her hands while her elbows rested on the table. " I hate books," She sighed, " Hate textbooks even more. I can't wait until I'm done with this."
Okatami grinned, absently tapping his pencil on the table. " Yea. Next year we finally graduate."
" And yet you still have no idea what you're going to do?" Solo asked, noticing the sad look on his friends' face.
Okatami shrugged. " Yep."
" Figures. You dun know what your gonna do until you've
gone and done it," Kendra said.
The dark haired boy laughed, " Well at least life is more exciting then!" He said.
" Idiot," was Kendra's only reply.
" Ha! You know you love me!" Okatami winked.
" I certainly don't!" Professor Kim's head poked over the book self as she spoke. " I've been looking for you two forever. Tell my why you must hide in the farthest part of the library?"
" It's either that or hide more bodies!" Solo pointed at Okatami's shirt.
Kim rolled her green eyes. " Meeting in my office. You have fifteen minutes, or else."
Solo grinned at the teacher. He and Okatami had been her favorite students for a while. Teachers weren't supposed to play favorites, but that didn't stop any of them. " Or else what?"
" I'll tell that pre-teen fan club of yours that you think one of them is cute," Kim snickered.
Solo winced, then glared at Okatami as he started laughing. " That's not funny. I didn't get a moment of peace in the hallways after I asked that girl for some change."
Kim glanced over at Okatami who was still laughing. " And I'll give the laundry washers some special instructions for your stuff."
That stopped Okatami in mid laugh.
" We'll be there. What for anyway?" Okatami asked.
" Someone stole my grade sheet again. You'd think they'd stop after I planted the false one," she grumbled. " See you there."
Kendra shook her head. " Looks like I'm studyin' all by myself, eh?" She asked.
" Sorry." Solo said sheepishly.
" Ah, it's okay," she smiled.
" She's evil…Evil woman is she," Okatami stood up and
started shoveling his books into his backpack. Solo did the same.
" We'll catch up with you later!" Solo said cheerfully as the two boys left their friend. She waved back absently, starting to get back into her study mode again.
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" Ten bucks it isn't about a stolen cheat sheet," Solo murmured as he and Okatami stepped into the elevator outside of the library.
" No way. I'm poor enough, besides it's a given it isn't. Kim had 'scary look' on."
" Didn't notice," Solo pushed the button for the third floor. " You sure? 'Scary look' and
'I'm 'friggin annoyed look' seem very alike."
" It was 'scary serious mission' look," Okatami said. " And I thought we'd get off this week because of exams."
" No rest for the weary," Solo sighed, exasperated. The elevator doors opened. They stepped out and started walking down the hallway. Kim's classroom was only a few paces down from the hallway, so it didn't take the boys that long to reach it.
When they entered they found that they were not the only one's called by Kim. Though that wasn't uncommon, she tended to handle larger missions better than most of the other professors.
Solo nudged Okatami and gestured over to the brunette sitting against the wall next to an Asian girl. " That's the girl who smacked McNarther down yesterday," He whispered as he plopped down in the seat on the other side of the room.
" Must be new." Okatami said. He waved to one of the other students he knew, a pigtailed girl sitting not far from the two.
" Dude, there're like a whole bunch of newbies here," The pigtailed girl grumbled shaking her head. " They're all supposed to be really good too. I looked up on them."
The girl was an extraordinaire hacker, and the Garden's biggest gossip. Her name was Heather. It was astounding that she was actually chosen for the Preventer training, but it was presumed that she hadn't spilled anything about it yet.
Heather quickly moved over to the seat next to Okatami and started giving him almost to much info on the newbies in question. Solo took the moment to look at them himself. New people moved into the Garden and left all the time, but it was rare that any of them where in the training program.
" Ikiiki Yuy, Meiran and Yusuke Zhen," Heather pointed over to the brunette and the Asian pair next to them.
Both of them had similar facial features, and dark eyes. Meiran had ebony black hair that hung down slightly below her shoulders. She wore a pair of jeans and a soft blue shirt. Yusuke's hair was also black with soft light brown highlights. It was pulled back into a tight ponytail.
" Ikiiki's from Japanese decent, and from what I can tell has no relation to either of the Heero Yuy's. Weird ne? The other two are from China, they went to the Garden in Europe before they were transferred here," Heather informed.
She moved over to another pair sitting a few rows in front of them. A girl with long platinum blonde hair, and a boy with striking blue hair that cascaded down his back to his waist.
" Niji and Kazen Peacecraft," Heather said, she pulled out a purse and started to rummage through it. " Niji's nice, she moved into my dorm room. I asked her if she was related to the Peacecrafts and she said she didn't know. Pretty odd. I think Kazen's actually supposed to move into your room today too, Solo."
" Really?" Solo quirked an eyebrow.
" Yep."
" There were a few more students that came in, but none of them are in the program. So, ya know they can't be that interesting."
Okatami snorted shaking his head. " Where's Kim? She's gonna end up being late for her own meeting."
Heather shrugged. " She was here, then rushed out wailing about forgetting to call someone. She should be back soon."
As if on cue, the classroom door opened. Kim stepped in and slammed it before stalking over to her computer without even a glance at the students in the room.
" Glad you all made it, on time. I had to phone someone, sorry that I'm late," She sat down at the computer and started to type.
" First let me start by saying that this mission is strictly voluntary. And it won't be held against you if you don't want to do it. So if you have to study for some exam, or just don't feel like it, don't raise your hand."
Solo grinned at Okatami and both of them raised their hands. So did Yusuke, Ikiiki, two other students and Meiran. There were fifteen students in the room, so a fair number had volunteered.
Kim glanced up from her computer. " Thanks. Now for you that don't want to go, get out. Forget I ever called you."
Heather smiled and waved goodbye to Okatami. " If I don't pass my math exam I'll fail. Heh, guess I can't sleep in class anymore.."
With that the students who hadn't volunteered left the room. As soon as the door closed a map of the flat region not far from the Garden appeared on the large screen in front of the classroom.
" Please, remain silent until I'm done speaking," Kim said.
" Yesterday myself and some of my colleagues stumbled across this, which we had been searching for, for a number of months."
On the map a picture of a small, compact city appeared. It was golden in color, looking almost like a fairy tale castle with its tall spiraling towers. There was a dome covering it, making the city look fuzzy in the view.
The students looked at each other, shifting in their seats. The same question ran through all of their minds. What the hell was that?
" Believe it or not," Kim continued, " that is what we like to call an alien spaceship. The dome around it is a force field, which has successfully kept us from noticing their presence here. So far it's impossible to penetrate it. But…"
The image on the screen zoomed in, showing a small opening in the side of the force field.
" That's an opening as you can tell. They seem to have had some contact with humans, using that to go back and forth from the ship to the city. We'll enter the area through there."
Kim sighed, looking up from the computer. " We've found evidence that these aliens can literally blast us into dust without too effort. Even worst, there's a possibility that they're gearing up for an invasion of Earth."
" The goal of this mission is to contact them. See what they want and if indeed they are hostile against us. If so, we shall retreat and plan a defensive effort with the help of the other Preventers. If they attack, we will retaliate and then basically get the hell out of there as fast as possible. It'll be necessary to find out if our weapons have any affect on their technology. "
She stood up from her desk and walked around it, to the front. A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, as she leaned against the desk. " Operation MIB will commence promptly at 11:15 tonight. We'll meet in the garage area like usual."
Kim paused, looking over the room. " Any questions?"
Every hand in the classroom shot up.
Kim frowned. " Any questions not pertaining to the thought that I've gone insane watching old Sci-Fi movies?"
Every hand dropped save one. Soft snickers came from a few of the students. They where quickly silenced by a sharp glare from the Professor.
"Ikiiki?" Kim addressed the only student who had their hand up.
" Has this been approved by HQ?" The Japanese girl asked.
Kim sighed, knowing that question would come up sooner or later. " You probably wouldn't believe me if I said yes. So, no it has not been approved. In fact I just got off the phone with one of the ruder board members. They hung up on before I could explain anything."
" So we're doing this with no authorization," Another student asked.
" That's right," Kim nodded. " Are you all still in?"
All of the students rapidly proclaimed that, yes they were still in.
" A chance to save the world!" Okatami laughed, singing some dramatic music after he spoke.
" Alright, alright. Settle down people," Kim waved her hands bringing order back to the room. " I thank you all for sticking with me, even though this does sound a bit odd. You're all dismissed until the mission. Don't be late."
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" So…Uh.." One of the Chinese siblings Heather had pointed out mumbled as the students filtered out of Kim's classroom. " Does stuff like this happen normally?"
His sister came up behind him, Ikiiki standing behind her, glaring at nothing in particular.
" I new it was a mistake coming here," Ikiiki grumbled.
" Ah, it sounds interesting," Kazen, the blue haired newbies laughed, walking
out of the classroom.
Solo shrugged. " Only time to time. Most of the things they send us on aren't that extreme. It sorta depends how good you are."
" But it is just a lovely welcome to the Garden isn't it?" Okatami rolled his eyes. " Ah yes, here's your dorm room key, and oh later tonight you'll go searching for aliens! Welcome to the Garden," He gave a cheesy grin.
More laughter. The older students introduced themselves to the newer ones. Most of the people at the Garden population were almost too friendly for their own good, but it made it much easier for those who just transferred in to feel at home.
" Okay, there is a rumbly in my tumbly and it demands food," Okatami whined, once they had left the group of students.
Solo sweatdropped at the black haired boy. He blinked, and glanced down at his watch. " Oh man…" He moaned, stopping dead in his tracks.
" What?" Okatami raised an eyebrow.
" I promised to visit Muzai, today and I should have been there an hour ago!" Solo smacked his forehead with his hand before taking off down the hallway towards the dormitories. " She's gonna be so angry!"
Okatami sighed. "That girl's got you wrapped around your finger Solo," He called and started after his friend. " And I'm still hungry…"
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" Your late Solo-chan!"
Solo winced looking down at the girl in front of him. " I'm really sorry Muzai," He apologized.
The six year old girl 'hmph'd at Solo putting her hands on her hips. " You're so forgetful."
" I know," Solo laughed, going down on to one knee so he was eye level with the little girl. " I still get a hug though?"
Muzai made a face, her dark brow eyes crinkling up at Solo. " No!" She giggled and zoomed past Solo. She tackled Okatami who was standing behind Solo, minding his own business.
" Gyah!" Shrieked Okatami, as he was tackled. He waved his arms, trying to keep himself on balance, but had a rather hard time since Muzai was hanging onto his shoulders. After a few seconds he fell over, with a happily giggling girl sitting on his stomach.
" Hi Okatami!" She hugged the boy quickly.
Okatami groaned, that had hurt. " Hi…" He wheezed out. He glared up at Solo who was snickering silently at him.
" Muzai, haven't I told you not to tackle the old man like that," A girl walked out of the room in front of the two boys. She was around the same age of Solo and Okatami.
Her name was Arisa Fujita; she was Muzai's older sister. She was pretty with short black hair that was cut short to frame her face; she also had dark brown eyes like her sister. Solo had been a close friend of both girls ever since they were transferred into the Garden. He'd dated Arisa for a few months but their relationship ran smack into a wall quickly. They broke up, but were still pretty good friends despite the uncomfortable situations they ran into while being together.
Okatami grumbled sitting up, once Muzai had gotten off of him. " I am not a old man," He said.
" Sure sound like one!" Muzai laughed again. She looked over at Solo. " Soooo?"
" You're taking her out again?" Arisa crossed her arms over her check giving Solo an annoyed look.
Caught red handed, Solo grinned laughing nervously. Arisa had one hell of a screech when she was annoyed. It was best to keep her happy. " Well..yea..just for lunch though," He said, he glanced down at Okatami who was trying to crawl away unnoticed. He stomped his foot in front of his friend, effectively stopping him from going forward.
After a second of silent looks and glared both boys looked back at Arisa. They smiled, giving her their best innocent looks.
Arisa sweatdropped. " That's pitiful," She looked down at her sister " Alright, Muzai go get your coat," The younger sister scurried off to do so.
Arisa looked back at Solo. " Don't come home with another video game system," She pleaded.
Solo looked shocked. " What ever do you mean by that?!"
" I think she means buying Muzai that Playstation 53 last month." Okatami suggested. " You'd think they'd stop after number 20…"
" Well…its was a whole 'nother, what?" Solo shrugged, thinking for a second. " Seven months until her birthday. Besides, she liked it and that's all that's important."
" Not to mention you get to play it also..." Arisa snorted. " You spoil her horribly."
" Yea…yea…you always say that."
Muzai came back out into the hallway, quickly pulling on the blue jacket she'd found. " Ready!"
Solo smiled picking up the girl. " Alright then let's go!"
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Solo grinned into the mirror of his room. " Lookin' good, if I don't say so myself," He preened. He yanked down the sleeves of his black shirt and pulled on a pair of gloves. He was dressed entirely in black from head to toe. It was the standard Preventer trainee uniform for night missions.
" Solo lets go!" Okatami yelled from outside of the bedroom. " My god what the hell are you doing in there, putting on makeup, curling your hair maybe?"
Solo made a face, he muttered under his breath sticking his braid down the back of his shirt. The last thing he needed was to get it snagged on something like it had before in previous missions. That was unbelievably dangerous and painful. He swiped his sunglasses from the desk and walked out of the bedroom, sliding them onto his face.
" Okay! Agent I'mOhSoSexy is ready to go," Solo declared.
Okatami and Kazen, who had just finished settling into his room, looked at him. They where both also dressed in the standard uniform. Kazen had his long blue hair tied up in a ponytail.
" Why are you wearing sunglasses?" Kazen asked. He blinked his light blue eyes in confusion. " Isn't it dark enough?"
Okatami grabbed a pillow and threw it at Solo. " Dork," he said, standing up. " C'mon we're gonna be late."
" Your just jealous you know," Solo protested hastily ducking the pillow.
" Oh I'm just green with envy Solo," Okatami replied dryly. He opened the door. " Can we go now…The last thing I wanna deal with is Professor Kim having a spaz attack because we're late."
" Your still jealous! I can see it in your eyes," Solo accused walking out the door after Kazen.
" That's annoyance Solo," Okatami replied. " You really should not of had those three cups of coffee in that café."
" Had to stay awake somehow," Solo replied. He looked over at Kazen. " So umm…" He tried to find something to talk about with the newbies.
They walked for a few minutes in a slightly uncomfortable silence. Kazen finally broke it by glancing over at Solo and asking, " What kind of shampoo do you use?"
Solo grinned widely. Okatami groaned.
" God no…Not another one," he sweatdropped listening to Solo start to chatter away about all the hair care products he used, all the uncomfortable tension disappearing between the two boys.
In what felt like an eternity later to Okatami, the three boys reached the garage around of the Garden. They were the last to walk in though, so they got a short speech about being prompt from Kim.
" We were still five minutes early too," Solo grumbled as Kim walked off to grab something.
All the students where lined up in a row in front a couple of jeeps. Most of them were in various degrees of trying not to yawn out loud, or thinking about something they'd rather be doing at the moment than standing around.
Okatami nudged Solo. " Check it out," he leaned back looking down the line at Meiran. " Cute chick."
" You didn't notice her before?" Solo asked.
" Well, yea sorta. And I was like 'cute chick' before, but now I'm saying it."
" Oh." Solo nodded. " Yea. Not my type though."
Okatami grinned. " She's got cute boobs."
Yusuke who happened to be standing next to Okatami looked over at him with a death glare that had 'over-protective brother' written all over it. " That's my sister," he snarled in a clipped tone.
Okatami's eyes widened, he blinked at Yusuke panicking for a few seconds.
" Switching places Solo!"
Smirking the long haired teen did so. " Sorry about that," he said to Yusuke, who was still giving Okatami an evil glare.
" Alright guys," Kim walked back into view, carrying a box in her arms. " Two to a jeep, save one group who will have three. You will all have a walkie-talkie so we can still communicate," and she started to call out names of the groups.
Solo had been put with Ikiiki and one of the students he didn't know very well. Okatami had unfortunately been picked to go with Yusuke's sister Meiran. The rest of the students where also paired up. They all picked up their walkie-talkies and started getting into the Jeeps.
Laughing at his friend Solo waved bye and walked over to his Jeep. He greeted Ikiiki and the other student who were getting in too. The other student was a boy, who looked at least a year younger than Solo. He had blonde hair and brown eyes.
He started the car and grinned his trademark grin. " Ladies and gents let's get ready to roll!"
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Phew! Chapter two one! Rejoice! * waves flags* I got really frustrated with this chapter but it ended up writing smoothly at the end. I'm glad about that. Lesee, oh yea forgot the translation for the word last chapter.
Zmngaefh- Computer
Nothing to hard to figure out there. Please, please, please, I beg of you review. I crave to know what my readers think if my fic. Tell me what you don't like, what you do like, if you found something funny or not funny. Anything! Hell, tell me if you have a favorite character so far! * makes chibi face* Kazen will cry if you don't! And I will tooooo! *snickers evilly* Angst warning for the next chapter.
