Author's Note: Many thanks to all who reviewed ^^
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The Sixth Pilot
Duo knew that something was wrong as soon as he got into the door. For one thing, the apartment is never so quiet. Spotting an envelope on the table, he picked it up and started reading it.
Duo, there are so many things I want to say right now but a long farewell and a short farewell are still farewells in the end. I want to thank you for all you have done for me the past few months. Your friendship I will always keep in my heart. Please do not try to find me. If I want you to find me, I would not be writing this right now. I will not tell you why I'm leaving but you'll probably find out before soon. Look after yourself Duo. I am not the only pilot trained by OZ to kill you and your friends. As far as I'm aware of, there are two others like me. I don't know if they have completed their training or not so I cannot give you a time as to when they'll come after you and the other pilots. However, I can tell you that they will not be easy to defeat. Like me, they have been training from childhood to be assassins for OZ. Good luck Duo. I will always remember you.
~Alita.
Duo let the letter drop from his hand and stared blankly at the wall. He didn't understand. She seemed so normal when he left this morning. *Maybe... maybe something happened after I left...* Duo dashed to the videophone and started going through the day's messages. Nothing. He went into her room. She hadn't taken much with her. He noticed that her gun was missing... and the jacket she usually hang on the back of the door. But nothing else seemed to have changed. *Why didn't she take anything with her?* He sat down on her bed. On the bedside table was a picture they had taken a few weeks back when they went rowing in the park. She was smiling so happily. Was she planning on leaving him then? Anger exploded over him. WHY? Why did she leave like this? She didn't even give him an explanation. Just a note. A note. Is that all their friendship had been worth? A note? Duo threw the picture against the wall. The glass frame shattered into pieces.
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"Hey Stan!" Eirene forced on a smile as she entered the dark room.
"Ah. Eirene. I thought I might be seeing you soon." He gestured towards the paper in front of him.
"Nothing gets past you, huh?" Eirene sat down opposite him.
"My child, I have known you since before you can remember." Stan looked at her with a fatherly kindness. "I'm assuming you didn't just come here to visit your old friend?"
"No. I need a new identity. If OZ wants to kill me, I'm not going to let them find me too easily." Her voice was hard.
Stan chuckled. "Yes. Yes. I expected you would have wanted that. Well, I've never let you down before have I?"
Eirene smiled appreciatively. "No. You never have."
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Eirene found herself looking at a girl she didn't even recognize. Her usually tied up brown hair was now raven black and flowed freely down her back. Her normally warm brown eyes were now a piercing shade of blue. Her entire face looked different. The way Stan had changed her is simply amazing. She has become almost Asian in complexion. Stan has surely outdone himself this time. she looked down at the ID in her hand. Alita Maxwell's smiling face looked back up at her. Perfect.
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Duo shot him once, twice, three times. The OZ soldier crumpled into a miserable heap. He placed the last explosive on the wall and started the timer. Shooting the soldier one last time to make sure that he's dead, Duo ran for the entrance.
Outside, Duo climbed into the Deathscythe and flew up in the air. Below him, the entire building burst into flames. The smile of the satisfaction at a job well done was lost behind the ice cold gaze of his eyes.
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Medea watched as 02 flew away. Flying low, she followed him. Freya might have been stupid enough to follow orders and go after Eirene, but the gundam pilots are much easier and better rewarding targets.
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A/N: okay, tbh, i don't like the names i picked that much. so if i change them in the future, sorry? ^^"
