The Road I Can no Longer See
Chapter 1
By: SilverRose82
A.N.
Not much that I have to comment on, thank you all that reviewed, I was going to continue this any ways but it's good to know that people in this genre still enjoy everything. :: Glares at SM X-over section. :: There's been a sense of abandonment in the world of Fan Fiction. Any answers are at the bottom of the page, for questions and responses or just acknowledgments.
Rin = sounds like Rhine
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"Rin, get out of here and don't look back!!" the bellowing cries of a man desperate to make sure that the door to his backroom stayed shut as he watched the girl he had taken care of before the beginnings of the Eve Wars sprinted out of the building and down the ally ways, her arms wrapped securely around a black leather briefcase. Turning around he stared hard at the thick wooden door he had been thankful for installing not even two months prior to this attack. He could hear the orders being given out as soldiers worked on getting the door open, he did not think about escaping himself knowing that with his injured hip he would not be able to make it very far before being shot down and killed. His only hope lay in the nearly seventeen-year-old girl that he had sent running to find safety and a place to hide should the soldiers find out that the information was no longer in the building.
Information that held the blueprints to weapons that could even puncture Gundamium Alloy, blueprints to building headquarters, blueprints and instruction on everything that needed to stay out of the greedy hands of OZ. Most were things that even the Gundam pilots their selves did not even need to know. But the girl did not know what lay in the briefcase that she grasped, all she knew was that the building she worked at had been attacked and that she needed to get this briefcase down to Sanc Kingdom where the material in it would be granted to the eyes of the Gundam pilots for the first time.
Gasping for air, Rin slowly lowered her speed from a dead sprint to a comfortable jog, after a few more minutes she was able to get enough air in her lungs to no longer feel as though she was going to keel over and die from lack of oxygen. Clutching the briefcase to her chest she gazed around the neighborhood she had come into slowly, her eyes taking in the abandoned houses with their broken windows and chipped paint. Looking closely at the neighborhood she made sure that no soul had followed her before making her way slowly into a small-whitewashed one-story house with no door, cracked windows and faded red roofing tiles. It was a scene that she had not seen in a long time, no longer having to use abandoned houses as refuge.
Tossing the briefcase, which had caused her and her life so much heartache, to the floor she began to take in her surroundings. The house was still equipped with a couch, however even she would have rather taken to the sewer than to place even a particle of hair on the cut and tattered thing that people had once sat upon. Holes covered most of its structure and where there were no holes there were dark stains of things she did not want to try and comprehend. Shaking her head she got ready to settle down for the time being, knowing that once darkness fell it would be easier for her to stow away on a shuttle heading down for the Earthsphere.
Staring at the briefcase with contempt she turned her thoughts onto the middle-aged man that had taken care of her since she had turned fourteen. She a fourteen years old girl that had been wondering the streets since she could remember had finally found a place to call home. In her home she had seen many dealings go on within its four dank walls, her home was the one place where sides were forgotten and people were just people. Rin grinned suddenly as she thought about the other girls and how they always took care of her when the boss could not, but her thoughts suddenly darkened as quickly as death reins down on un-expecting souls. What would she do now, she knew deep in her heart that the boss was dead, her benefactor was dead, and she was once again on the streets without a job and place to sleep. Growling she slide down the blackened wall behind her, her eyes never wavering from the briefcase that had come into her unwanted care.
She would have to set off at the beginning of dusk when the streets were the most crowded, less chance that she be caught by an OZ soldier. She was certain that they did not know who they were hunting for, if they had already figured out that the information was long away from the building. She would just have to make due with the uncertainties, she did not know if they were finished searching the building, she was not certain they knew they were chasing after someone who held the material because she knew that no one had followed after her as she ran. They had all been preoccupied trying to get the backroom door open.
Night came all to soon for her as she stood from her position against the wall, her legs aching from the lack of use as she stumbled towards the black briefcase. Turing to glance around her once more she gazed out a nearby window, torn and moth eaten drapes fluttered in the wind. Her eyes studied the street, no light shown down allowing her the knowledge that this neighborhood had been abandoned long before, probably from the virus that had rained down on the people in terror killing all that were unable to buy the antidote. Growling to herself she began to make her way towards the main part of town, her body ridged and on high alert as she listened for any foreign noise that would alert her to being followed. It would not due for her to be raped while trying to finish a job, at least without getting paid. Her eyes narrowed as she made her way into the main district to the colony, holding on tightly to the briefcase she began to make the tireless journey to the docking area. There she would have to wait for her chances to board a shuttle heading to the Earthsphere, or for now any colony other than L2.
Pushing her hair back, she glared at the men that catcalled and whistled at her, she knew them, she knew most every man on the damnable colony, as was her life. Growling again she turned to glare at the last man to whistle at her, sapphire eyes flashed dangerously as she began to run through the desolate streets her legs carrying her as quickly as possible to the only escape she could get. She would return, her life was for the girls and she knew that no other place would ever become home to her, her life was the colony L2 and Rin knew that if she were to die it would be here on this fake earth.
Smirking Rin began to creep her way through the dock bay, her eyes watching each man who loaded cargo, all speaking loudly to one another as they loaded the cargo that would go to other colonies and the Earthsphere. All she knew was that she needed to find the information mainframe, her eyes sparkled with mirth as she melded into the shadows. She would wait and watch nothing would keep her from her destination she needed to get to the Earthsphere and the Sanc Kingdom where the Gundam pilots were last rumored to be located her life depended on it.
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unspoiled rini : Don't worry, I plan to continue this. As my focus is now solely on this section and my one Sailor Moon story.
Damia - Queen of the Gypsi's : Yes I am going to try and finish this, I will just have to find the time.
Blazes purple fire : That unpulled together thing confused me. Detail came to me during my stay in the SM x-over section, it was something my earlier stories lacked.
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Toshi-Chan
Airlady
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Ending Note: Eh so it's another set up for the true beginning of the story. Which should start to happen around the fourth chapter. There will be more commentary in the next chapter, I promise that. Relena will make an appearance, as will a few of the pilots.
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