Years Later…
"Avane!-"
"EEEvane. Yes?"
"We've finally got a completion date? May 15!"
"Okay. I suppose you'll want them to be done by then?"
"Yes, if at all possible."
"What about the upgrades though? The space-friendly changes we made on the blueprints?"
"We'll have to do those later, keep working on them though."
"Okay."
May 15…
"Avane?"
Evane. "All systems green, the other four have already taken off and are on their way, shouldn't we send him already?"
"One moment I have to tell him one last thing, besides he can catch up easily."
No thanks to you. "What are you going to tell him anyway?"
"A code name, and last minute instructions."
The doctor descended to the hanger via the elevator. She watched aimlessly from behind the tinted control windows, unclad feet propped up on the newly emptied chair. The doctor conversed a bit with the pilot before waddling back behind one of the steel doors. A video screen to her left flicked to life. The Doctor materialized.
"Okay send him on his way."
She nodded. Finally! The headset on the control pad slid onto her head easily. Her hands subconsciously manned the controls as she relayed the flight status to the cockpit of the craft. "Area sealed, all systems green, airlock opening. Bay door clear, clearance for take off." The engines heated to white hot, it shot out through the open hanger doors becoming indeterminable in moments. That's why we have radar. Well tracking devices anyway.
The screen portrayed five dots steadily moving at a blue green circle. The door hissed open behind her.
"So?"
"His code name is officially Heero Yuy."
That is supposed to be inconspicuous? "You WHAT?"
"It's only fitting to give him the code name for a person that will change the future?"
"It's the name of a person that died? You want to give him the same name as someone who got shot?"
"-and Heero, we must start calling him that now, will indeed change the course of the future…"
"Hello class I am your new student, coincidentally the same name as the assassinated leader of the colonies!"
"-plus it will encourage him to live up to the predecessors achievements…"
"Are you even listening to me?"
"What? Beg your pardon?"
Oh man! "Nothing, nothing. Well now that he's gone and we're finished I'm going to get some sleep okay?"
"You remember your duties right? The other doctors and I-"
"Will be too busy with other stuff, mainly hiding and hacking, yes I know." You've only told me a million times.
"Very well then, you've as hard as the rest of us on them, get some sleep. I'll wake you should anything happen."
"Okay then. G'night."
She stuffed her feet into worn sneakers and trudged out of the control room. Into the elevator and down a corridor to one of the many faceless doors. She punched the access code and walked in. A simple bed of mussed covers and a pillow with a impression in the middle from many nights of use. She kicked off the sneakers noting their positions as they bounced along the floor and wriggled into the covers. They had been working like crazy to get the outer shell finished on time and she hadn't slept a good ten hours in weeks. She inhaled the scent of her pillow and sighed.
A familiar hiss raised her hackles. GoAway GoAway GoAway GoAway!
"Avane?" Evane.
"Time to work."
She stuffed her face into the pillow. "You've gotta be kidding."