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Marron the Spy

Chapter 4: LFA Sonar

Coming home even for a few days was a treat for her, but it jeopardizes her career since her parents asked way too many questions, some of which she couldn't answer. At least she received a much-deserved rest over the couple of days. Alas, her anxieties were working overtime as she prepared for a trip to…where was she heading? She soon found out that Captain Ginyu had a vindictive way of welcoming back one of his employees.

Suddenly, an impulse shrugged Marron out of her reverie. Keith plopped himself beside her seat and held out two airplane snacks: crackers and bag of peanuts. "Sorry but these are the only kinds I could get my hands on. Pick one"

Lifting her hand from her chin, her hand rested indecisively between the two goodies, finally choosing the crackers, she began munching on them. Keith, being the gentleman he was, settled for the bag of peanuts and began devouring his. With his other free hand, he reached under his seat to his bag and fished out a tan folder for Marron to view while he finished his snack.

From her lack of knowledge on technology, she couldn't figure out the drawing of the device. "It's called a Low Frequency Active Sonar a.k.a. LFA Sonar. It's known that the Navy developed this device to use it underwater, but they never did since the effect could damage the underwater creatures, mainly the Blue Whale's habitat," Keith answered her unvoiced question.

"Excuse me, but do you have any trash?" interrupted the attendant.

He took Marron's and his trash and threw them inside the white plastic bag.

"Thank you, sir" smiled the woman. "Just to let you guys know, the plane will be landing shortly," she added before continuing behind them.

Neither spoke immediately; knowing full well that once the plane landed their conversation wouldn't be so private.

Marron had an idea. "After I told Paresu where we were going yesterday, she told me of a new café opening up and asked me if I will call her. I told her I should go over there during our lunch, but they sell individual eateries. We'll have to change our tasks even though once is enough if we want to make that deadline and get that promotion. Before I get into details, a bug crawled on the cord and I didn't get a chance to call the hotel," she said, emphasizing on each words.

Grabbing their duffle bags from the above compartment, Keith made note of her secret message with a nod of understanding. They both exit the plane in hope of luck on their sides. Neither ever worked during the daylight when not going undercover. They were told to get in, grab the item, and get out.

~*~

After going over their procedures in their hotel room, they prep themselves as the vehicle, driven by one of Ginyu's associates cruised to the Cerulean City of Technology. The building was widely known for its advance technology of the sea.

Although it had been hours since Captain Ginyu explained the assignment to her, Marron couldn't suppress the butterflies in her stomach. "If we do get caught in there, I'm going to make him pay," she huffed, putting on her safety harness and making sure she had all her equipments with her. She'd always gone undercover in assignments like this; it was a sure chance that no one could recognize her.

"Don't worry, Jade, I'd like to wring his neck as well, all the more reasons why we need to get out alive," Keith reassured her, using her codename. He finished strapping his harness as well and slide open the van. Since the van was hidden a few blocks from their actual destination, avoiding any cost of them being conspicuous, the two must run from rooftops to rooftops, using their ropes, to the museum.

The blonde pigtailed couldn't hold it in any longer. "This is crazy! I'm going to be mistaken as Spider Man," Marron huffed.

Keith smirked. "Venom Woman to be exact," he said, noting her black attire. It was a good thing the building soon loomed over them; he couldn't do this task alone. It was difficult enough to break in during daylight hours, but doing it alone was suicidal.

~*~

Inside the building was filled with tourists. To just walk in with their black attire was like shouting, "Hey, we're spies and we're wandering where you guys keep your apparatus because we would like to take them off your hands" so the two settled for the vents. The procedure was over-redundant by now. Crawl through the vent, find the room, grab the item, and if the securities was still jammed, courteously of Mandel the driver, they had a better chance of escaping without notice. If they do get cornered and caught, well…based on their trainings, they were told to die before their enemies had a chance of interrogating the captives. Marron knew getting caught wasn't an option, for she would like to live through her wedding days, have kids, and die old.

A sudden impulse from behind her jerked her out of her reverie. "Don't touch my butt!" she called over her shoulder.

Although inside the vent was dark, she knew her more experienced partner was smirking by her statement based on his tone of voice. "I'm sorry but you stopped." His voice became serious. "Is anything wrong up there? You do know we're in a time limit and if we exceeds it before getting out of this place, Mandel will terminate the security resistance, making it extra hard for us to escape."

Marron had already begun moving. "Yeah, yeah, I know." It was times like this she wished whoever built the vent could make it bigger.

~*~

Inside the room containing the item they were searching for, they wasted no time in attempting to crack the code in order to open the vault. Keith, being the technical genius of the two, pulled out his laptop and began working. Something off to the side caught Marron's attention, but before she could dwell on it, the silent bleeping sound to her side interrupted her.

"I got it!"

With the gray vault opened, the LFA Sonar in the duffle bag, they silently slipped out from the way they came in.

~*~

Beep, beep

An incessant noise rang throughout the room, follow by a blinking red light. "What's this?"

"Seems like someone broke through our security system," a man nearby answered. "I'll try to block them." He began typing away.

"You do that and find out who the perpetrator is," the man who seemed to be in charge ordered. Off to the side, he muttered, "Whoever this is, is either bold or stupid. And how does he know about our objective?"

~*~

A/N: Thanks for all your reviews! Trunks will appear later. Right now I'm showing you why Marron will act different later base on her new life.