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Still don't own GW, but I do own Shou Mei-Ling. So there. XD
bMisplaced in Space - Chapter Three; Unusual Girl/b
"Nicole, watch you back!" Anna shouted. She wrenched the controls around, sailing towards her friend.
Nicole whirled her gundam around just in time to watch the image of the doll dissipate into nothingness. In it's place stood Anna's mechanical armor. Her sword gleamed dangerously.
A split second later another batch of dolls were upon them. The brunette imp wheeled about, brandishing her machine gun. As she unleashed a volley of shots, forcing more dolls to disappear. She grinned, whooping with excitement and firing her thrusters, sending her sailing up and around. Ahead of her floated the ship that continued ejaculating doll suits after them.
She fired up her thrusts once again, propelling her towards the ship at breakneck speed. In mid-flight she hit one of the main buttons on her controls, causing a small missile to come out the wrist of her machine. She fired, sending the missile sailing towards her target. Up through the open hanger it flew, past the exiting dolls. It was an inch from colliding within the ship. She grinned, watching the missile's flight path on screen. The explosive met a stopping point and-
Space fizzled out.
"What the hell is this?!" Ashley shouted, throwing off her VR helmet and storming out of her simulation chamber. "We almost won! What's going on?"
Squawks and shouts from Kriss and Anna agreed, while Nicole only groaned, her eyebrow twitching angrily.
Zechs voice came over the intercom to the simulation room. "We're stopping for supplies. We're low on food, toiletries, and our water pressure tank needs to be looked at. We'll probably let the pilots take out their gundams to make sure they're in working order, and we're getting a tune up on our gravity controls while we're at it. We'll be stopped for a few hours, so feel free to look around."
"Where are we anyway?" Anna asked.
"Colony ship. 02." Then Zechs vanished from the window above them.
Ashley took her turn to groan. "I don't want to stop! We were just about through that level! If they don't let us finish the simulation exercises we'll never get to use real gundams!"
Kriss nodded in agreement, but smiled perkily. "Look at it this way! We get to see Duo's natural habitat! Maybe we'll figure out what's wrong with him."
***
Nick exited the Peace Milion and blinked, rubbing his eyes. He blinked a few times more and slapped his cheeks thrice. It was as though he'd stepped into a little slice of America. Buildings were all over. It was like he was standing before another New York. A sort of dome hung in the 'sky,' and many lights hung above everything like many tiny suns.
Behind him her heard the running footsteps of a few people and Kriss' excited squeals. "You guys saw out the window! It's so much like New York! Come on, come on, let's look around! NICK!" Obviously she'd spotted him. "Nick, are you gonna come look around with us?"
He thought for a moment before shaking his head. "No, I think I'm gonna look around by myself a little bit. But how about in an hour and a half we meet right there?" he pointed to a big purple billboard that stood rather low to the ground. "I'll even buy you all lunch!"
The thought of food appealed nicely to the girls, whom all nodded in agreement. Kriss yanked her roommates forward, calling back, "Bye Nick!" as she dashed off into the city, her friends waving as they were dragged away.
The Quatre-look-alike decided to walk towards a park-like area off in the distance. He took to the sidewalk, looking around, taking in everything as he meandered about. He noticed so many accents of home: birds singing in trees, people walking dogs, squirrels darting hither and thither in the grass, butterflies, flowers. So many things he'd never imagined being on a hollow chunk of steel floating in space.
It was almost a little sad. Everything reminded him so much of Earth, with the exception of the silvery metals here and there...that and the planets visible through the huge dome, all the stars and the blackness, despite all the light.
Once he'd reached the center of the park, he sat in the grass under a tall tree. He ran a hand through his sandy hair, staring out at the somewhat small lake spread out before him. He then noticed that there was no wind. The water's surface was perfectly still, besides the splashing of the handful of children playing down by the shoreline.
He sighed, pulling his knees up to his chest, resting his knees upon them. He half-wished he was still on Earth. Sure, it wasn't that great, but it was home to him. Though he had to admit, the last week and a half had been amazing. He was staying on the Peace Milion and could become a pilot, though he wasn't incredibly interested. He had enjoyed learning about the onboard systems and the gundams. Maybe he'd become a professor or something. Why not? Professor Q. It had a nice ring to it.
What was he going to do? He had to earn his keep somehow. He hadn't taken a great interest in doing the simulation exercises. Ah, well. There wasn't much use in worrying about it. Besides, it wasn't like they'd just kick him off the ship if he didn't become a pilot, and if they tried the girls wouldn't let them.
"They may be somewhat abusive friends, but they're still my friends," he said, projecting his thoughts aloud, smiling to himself.
"Abusive friends? If they're abusive, why are you friends with them?" a gentle voice inquired.
He blinked, looking behind him. Near the sidewalk stood a young girl, not much younger than him. She wasn't terribly tall, maybe five foot two, nor was she too intimidating with a somewhat lean build, though she appeared to be able to kick an ass or two. Her hair was a glossy black, cropped off at her chin and covering the left half of her face. Her eyes were a blue-black shade, almost purple. He found himself rather enchanted by those eyes.
"Uh...hello?" The girl stepped closer, snapping her fingers in his face.
Her shook his brown-haired head, blushing. "S-sorry! It's just your eyes are such an unusual color. They're really pretty. I've never seen anything like it."
She blinked then smiled. "Thank you. So, what was that about your friends?" she asked again. "This seat taken?" She pointed to the patch of grass at his right.
He gestured for her to sit, saying, "They can get rather violent once in awhile, and I'm usually the one that gets caught in their wake. It's not often that they're that angry, though. Last time I got beat was when we were jettisoned off to this place. It was PARTIALLY my fault, but they're the ones that pushed me..."
"Huh?" She raised an eyebrow, staring at him quizzically.
"Oh, well, we're not from around here. See, the lot of us was born on Earth, in America, but we had to leave the planet. They stuffed everyone in America on spaceships and were going to put us in cryo-stasis, but Kriss, Nicole, Anna and I were getting our luggage and we put it on an escape pod... Well, we were getting our stuff when we accidentally shot ourselves into space. Then we ran out of life support and passed out, but thank God we were picked up by this passing ship, and that we had our stuff on the pod. They're letting us stay with them, so that's cool. Right now, we're stopped for supplies."
She nodded. "So are we. Wow, I've never met someone from Earth before, though! Is it nice there?" Her violet eyes sparkled with curiosity.
"Yes," he replied, sighing. "I miss the wind especially. All this still air is kind of creepy."
"Mm, yeah. I've never felt the wind, 'least not natural wind, only the kind from fans. What's your name?"
"Nick Dubrovin. What's yours?"
"Shou Mei-Ling. Pleasure to meet you, Nick." She smiled and shook hands with the taller boy. "But just call me Mei," she added.
"Pleasure's mine. So, where're you from?" he asked, twirling a blade of grass between his thumb and forefinger.
"05 colony, though my mom was American. My dad met her here, I think, at this park... Actually, she used to live right around there!" She pointed back towards the city buildings. Her new friend gazed in the direction she pointed, then blinked and frantically checked his watch.
"OH, CRAP!" he yelped.
"What, what?" Mei stood up, quite confused.
"I'm gonna be late! I'm supposed to meet my friends by that billboard in like five minutes! I really have to go, sorry!" With that he darted off at full-tilt boogie toward the large purple rectangle.
Mei-Ling was not one to be left in the dust, so she dashed after him, shouting for the boy to slow down.
***
Kriss stared at her watch irritably. "He's late. I'm hungry. He promised us lunch. If he's not here in five minutes, I'll..."
"KRISSANNANICOLEASHLEYI'MSORRY~!" Nick shouted, running across the street and collapsing at their feet, breathing hard.
Ashley gave him the fish-eye. "We've been waiting. You promised us food, remember?"
He twitched. "Oh, yeah...Eh-heh..."
From across the street came another shout. "DAMN YOU, NICK, I TOLD YOU TO WAIT UP!"
A girl the four roommates did not recognized bounded up and shot their friend a glare.
He twitched. "Sorry...Guys, this is Shou Mei-Ling. I met her down at the park. Mei, this is Kriss, Nicole, Anna, and Ashley." She waved.
"Call me Mei, please," she added.
The other girls all smiled and greeted her. Then Kriss announced boisterously, "I'm hungry! Nick, buy us food now. You promised! And you have to buy for Mei-Mei, too!"
"Mei-Mei?" the Chinese-American girl puzzled.
No one else seemed to take notice of the blonde imp's nickname for the new girl. "Erg, what if my money doesn't work here?" Nick wondered.
"It's an American colony, they gotta take American Earth money!" Anna said. "Let's just go eat! Mei, do you know any place good?"
"Well," she said contemplatively, "I know killer sushi bar-"
Nicole and Kriss screeched with delight.
"...that my aunt Ming owns. She moved her business here from 05 a few years ago, after..." she trailed off.
"After...?" Ashley asked.
"Oh, nothing! Mei said brightly. "Come on, it's this way!"
***
TO BE CONTINUED! XD KEEP READING, DAMN IT! oo;
Still don't own GW, but I do own Shou Mei-Ling. So there. XD
bMisplaced in Space - Chapter Three; Unusual Girl/b
"Nicole, watch you back!" Anna shouted. She wrenched the controls around, sailing towards her friend.
Nicole whirled her gundam around just in time to watch the image of the doll dissipate into nothingness. In it's place stood Anna's mechanical armor. Her sword gleamed dangerously.
A split second later another batch of dolls were upon them. The brunette imp wheeled about, brandishing her machine gun. As she unleashed a volley of shots, forcing more dolls to disappear. She grinned, whooping with excitement and firing her thrusters, sending her sailing up and around. Ahead of her floated the ship that continued ejaculating doll suits after them.
She fired up her thrusts once again, propelling her towards the ship at breakneck speed. In mid-flight she hit one of the main buttons on her controls, causing a small missile to come out the wrist of her machine. She fired, sending the missile sailing towards her target. Up through the open hanger it flew, past the exiting dolls. It was an inch from colliding within the ship. She grinned, watching the missile's flight path on screen. The explosive met a stopping point and-
Space fizzled out.
"What the hell is this?!" Ashley shouted, throwing off her VR helmet and storming out of her simulation chamber. "We almost won! What's going on?"
Squawks and shouts from Kriss and Anna agreed, while Nicole only groaned, her eyebrow twitching angrily.
Zechs voice came over the intercom to the simulation room. "We're stopping for supplies. We're low on food, toiletries, and our water pressure tank needs to be looked at. We'll probably let the pilots take out their gundams to make sure they're in working order, and we're getting a tune up on our gravity controls while we're at it. We'll be stopped for a few hours, so feel free to look around."
"Where are we anyway?" Anna asked.
"Colony ship. 02." Then Zechs vanished from the window above them.
Ashley took her turn to groan. "I don't want to stop! We were just about through that level! If they don't let us finish the simulation exercises we'll never get to use real gundams!"
Kriss nodded in agreement, but smiled perkily. "Look at it this way! We get to see Duo's natural habitat! Maybe we'll figure out what's wrong with him."
***
Nick exited the Peace Milion and blinked, rubbing his eyes. He blinked a few times more and slapped his cheeks thrice. It was as though he'd stepped into a little slice of America. Buildings were all over. It was like he was standing before another New York. A sort of dome hung in the 'sky,' and many lights hung above everything like many tiny suns.
Behind him her heard the running footsteps of a few people and Kriss' excited squeals. "You guys saw out the window! It's so much like New York! Come on, come on, let's look around! NICK!" Obviously she'd spotted him. "Nick, are you gonna come look around with us?"
He thought for a moment before shaking his head. "No, I think I'm gonna look around by myself a little bit. But how about in an hour and a half we meet right there?" he pointed to a big purple billboard that stood rather low to the ground. "I'll even buy you all lunch!"
The thought of food appealed nicely to the girls, whom all nodded in agreement. Kriss yanked her roommates forward, calling back, "Bye Nick!" as she dashed off into the city, her friends waving as they were dragged away.
The Quatre-look-alike decided to walk towards a park-like area off in the distance. He took to the sidewalk, looking around, taking in everything as he meandered about. He noticed so many accents of home: birds singing in trees, people walking dogs, squirrels darting hither and thither in the grass, butterflies, flowers. So many things he'd never imagined being on a hollow chunk of steel floating in space.
It was almost a little sad. Everything reminded him so much of Earth, with the exception of the silvery metals here and there...that and the planets visible through the huge dome, all the stars and the blackness, despite all the light.
Once he'd reached the center of the park, he sat in the grass under a tall tree. He ran a hand through his sandy hair, staring out at the somewhat small lake spread out before him. He then noticed that there was no wind. The water's surface was perfectly still, besides the splashing of the handful of children playing down by the shoreline.
He sighed, pulling his knees up to his chest, resting his knees upon them. He half-wished he was still on Earth. Sure, it wasn't that great, but it was home to him. Though he had to admit, the last week and a half had been amazing. He was staying on the Peace Milion and could become a pilot, though he wasn't incredibly interested. He had enjoyed learning about the onboard systems and the gundams. Maybe he'd become a professor or something. Why not? Professor Q. It had a nice ring to it.
What was he going to do? He had to earn his keep somehow. He hadn't taken a great interest in doing the simulation exercises. Ah, well. There wasn't much use in worrying about it. Besides, it wasn't like they'd just kick him off the ship if he didn't become a pilot, and if they tried the girls wouldn't let them.
"They may be somewhat abusive friends, but they're still my friends," he said, projecting his thoughts aloud, smiling to himself.
"Abusive friends? If they're abusive, why are you friends with them?" a gentle voice inquired.
He blinked, looking behind him. Near the sidewalk stood a young girl, not much younger than him. She wasn't terribly tall, maybe five foot two, nor was she too intimidating with a somewhat lean build, though she appeared to be able to kick an ass or two. Her hair was a glossy black, cropped off at her chin and covering the left half of her face. Her eyes were a blue-black shade, almost purple. He found himself rather enchanted by those eyes.
"Uh...hello?" The girl stepped closer, snapping her fingers in his face.
Her shook his brown-haired head, blushing. "S-sorry! It's just your eyes are such an unusual color. They're really pretty. I've never seen anything like it."
She blinked then smiled. "Thank you. So, what was that about your friends?" she asked again. "This seat taken?" She pointed to the patch of grass at his right.
He gestured for her to sit, saying, "They can get rather violent once in awhile, and I'm usually the one that gets caught in their wake. It's not often that they're that angry, though. Last time I got beat was when we were jettisoned off to this place. It was PARTIALLY my fault, but they're the ones that pushed me..."
"Huh?" She raised an eyebrow, staring at him quizzically.
"Oh, well, we're not from around here. See, the lot of us was born on Earth, in America, but we had to leave the planet. They stuffed everyone in America on spaceships and were going to put us in cryo-stasis, but Kriss, Nicole, Anna and I were getting our luggage and we put it on an escape pod... Well, we were getting our stuff when we accidentally shot ourselves into space. Then we ran out of life support and passed out, but thank God we were picked up by this passing ship, and that we had our stuff on the pod. They're letting us stay with them, so that's cool. Right now, we're stopped for supplies."
She nodded. "So are we. Wow, I've never met someone from Earth before, though! Is it nice there?" Her violet eyes sparkled with curiosity.
"Yes," he replied, sighing. "I miss the wind especially. All this still air is kind of creepy."
"Mm, yeah. I've never felt the wind, 'least not natural wind, only the kind from fans. What's your name?"
"Nick Dubrovin. What's yours?"
"Shou Mei-Ling. Pleasure to meet you, Nick." She smiled and shook hands with the taller boy. "But just call me Mei," she added.
"Pleasure's mine. So, where're you from?" he asked, twirling a blade of grass between his thumb and forefinger.
"05 colony, though my mom was American. My dad met her here, I think, at this park... Actually, she used to live right around there!" She pointed back towards the city buildings. Her new friend gazed in the direction she pointed, then blinked and frantically checked his watch.
"OH, CRAP!" he yelped.
"What, what?" Mei stood up, quite confused.
"I'm gonna be late! I'm supposed to meet my friends by that billboard in like five minutes! I really have to go, sorry!" With that he darted off at full-tilt boogie toward the large purple rectangle.
Mei-Ling was not one to be left in the dust, so she dashed after him, shouting for the boy to slow down.
***
Kriss stared at her watch irritably. "He's late. I'm hungry. He promised us lunch. If he's not here in five minutes, I'll..."
"KRISSANNANICOLEASHLEYI'MSORRY~!" Nick shouted, running across the street and collapsing at their feet, breathing hard.
Ashley gave him the fish-eye. "We've been waiting. You promised us food, remember?"
He twitched. "Oh, yeah...Eh-heh..."
From across the street came another shout. "DAMN YOU, NICK, I TOLD YOU TO WAIT UP!"
A girl the four roommates did not recognized bounded up and shot their friend a glare.
He twitched. "Sorry...Guys, this is Shou Mei-Ling. I met her down at the park. Mei, this is Kriss, Nicole, Anna, and Ashley." She waved.
"Call me Mei, please," she added.
The other girls all smiled and greeted her. Then Kriss announced boisterously, "I'm hungry! Nick, buy us food now. You promised! And you have to buy for Mei-Mei, too!"
"Mei-Mei?" the Chinese-American girl puzzled.
No one else seemed to take notice of the blonde imp's nickname for the new girl. "Erg, what if my money doesn't work here?" Nick wondered.
"It's an American colony, they gotta take American Earth money!" Anna said. "Let's just go eat! Mei, do you know any place good?"
"Well," she said contemplatively, "I know killer sushi bar-"
Nicole and Kriss screeched with delight.
"...that my aunt Ming owns. She moved her business here from 05 a few years ago, after..." she trailed off.
"After...?" Ashley asked.
"Oh, nothing! Mei said brightly. "Come on, it's this way!"
***
TO BE CONTINUED! XD KEEP READING, DAMN IT! oo;