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Light Your Face With A Smile

Chapter 2

I

Jr. stood in the nicely furnished room at the Kukai Foundation. The building he was staying at was privately owned by Gaignun, as everything else was. It wasn't a permanent home, but it served it's purpose. The main colors of this room he was staying at were, of course, red. He stood on the nicely polished wooden floors while he packed the rest of his stuff together. Him and antiques, this room would be the only room with wooden flooring. He insisted when he first saw the room. He didn't want his room to seem so hi-tech and fancy like everyone else's.

The room consisted of a bed, which sat in the far corner. It's satin red sheets were neatly made as long fluffy pillows sat comfortably on the bed. His desk was next to the bed, which had stacks of endless paper work that he really didn't want to look at, or seemed to not care to do. He also had shelves filled with books. Why not? After all, reading is good for you, it expands your mind. Although not many people read books these days, main reasons being that it was made from paper...not something mechanical...

A small wooden case also sat in the room. At the moment, nothing laid inside it, making someone ponder what kind of object had been there. Said object had been tucked away neatly in it's own case, which Jr. intended on bringing with him once the Durandel had docked. At the moment, Jr.'s trench coat had laid discarded, leaving him only with his red and black sweater on. Jr. looked around, making sure nothing was missing as a knock came at the door. He looked towards the door as Gaignun walked in, briefcase in one hand as the other was holding a few folders.

"We better get going, the Durandel has already docked...Jr.?" Gaignun questioned as Jr. sighed, looking out the high raised window, looking out at space.

"You know, I'm going to be very pissed with you today..."

"Why the warning?"

"Just letting you know, once we get on that ship...where will Mary be stationed?"

Realization dawned on Gaignun as he was reminded of the conversation he had with Jr. a couple of days ago. Gaignun then frowned as he caught onto Jr. sentence and what he was talking about. Gaignun adjusted his suit and placed the folders on Jr.'s desk, catching his attention. Jr. then narrowed his eyes and starred at the new contents on his desk.

"Do you really want me to do more paper work?"

"Once were on the Durandel, please do not ask me any questions, I will refuse to answer them."

"Excuse me?"

"It's Mary's business, not mine."

"Then how did you get into it?"

"Things happen..." Gaignun finished off as he left the room. Gaignun had known about her fondness towards Jr. To him, she didn't hide it so well, although, Jr. was blind to see it. It could have been his thoughts mostly lost on a certain pinked haired girl. He promised Mary he wouldn't say anything to Jr. Either way, she couldn't hide it forever. Plus, if Jr. found out how miserable she had been looking lately, as Mary says, Jr. was sure to have a fit.

And anyway, it wasn't his fault that Jr. didn't know what was going on with her, Mary kept it to herself because she had a ting of jealousy when it came to the two. But...he should have told Jr. anyway, he had a right to know.

Jr. looked at the door for awhile and sighed. Screw Gaignun, he'll do whatever he feels like. Jr. picked up his unusual shaped case and draped his trench coat over his shoulder as he walked out of the room and gave the keys to a man waiting outside. Someone had to take his stuff to his room on the Durandel...right? Cause he damn well wasn't going to do it.

Lazy...

She felt fuzzy all over. She could hear voices coming from somewhere. Some sort of substance touched her everywhere, and she began to hate the feeling of it. It suddenly dawned on her as to where she was and what had happened. She blacked out after Mary had left. And as to where she was...

Cords were attached to her arms, legs, and one on the side of her neck as she floated in a large tank filled with a light green liquid. Well, green seemed to be the favorite color around here... The voices became clearer as she began to focus and slowly open her eyes. She immediately closed them back, as they stung against the green liquid. She then began to squirm around in the tank, making the voices stop and get their attention.

"Ah, your finally awake MOMO, you seem to have recovered." A male voice called. MOMO opened her eyes again, letting her eyes get used to the liquid as to look at the male who had been talking. He seemed to wear a long white lab coat. Actually, all the people inside the room where wearing white coats. He also wore glasses and had black short hair. Every time she blacked-out, they would put her here, in this big tube like thing she hated so much. She suddenly looked down at herself, to find that she was only wearing tight shorts and a sports bra.

"Don't worry, it's procedure." A female voice called out, as if reading her thoughts. Not only was she half naked, but the cords attached to her body were beginning to bother her, hacking into her systems without her permission. That's how she seemed to fit her role, being used goods ( Not like that people!! =D ). These cord like things left scars on her body...it made her feel weak. These cords connected to an computer outside the tube like container, keeping an eye on her statistics. She hated her time here, not able to do anything. Well, not anything... MOMO had learned how to hack into the staff's computers. Every time she did so, they would find out quickly...too quickly. So as a punishment, hoping it would stop her habit of hacking into their computers, they attached a head gear to her. This head gear shocked her systems, making her black-out once again.

The reason for her hacking in the computer's in the first place was to send out a message. Any message, telling anyone to save her from this prison, since he never came. Him...she wouldn't let her thoughts wonder to him...She wasn't sure if she could ever depend on him now.

She touched the contraption on her head...yep, it was there like always. The hand she used to touch the head gear usually held the bracelet that he gave to her. At the moment, it was missing, making MOMO panic and squirm again. "MOMO! Cut it out, stop moving!" The man wearing glasses yelled as she fell still again.

She really wanted to send an e-mail out. Going through all this trouble, why didn't she just tell Mary? Was she afraid that Mary didn't believe her? Or something more behind the reason? Well, no matter the reasons and the true goals of these people in front of her, she wouldn't get discouraged. She would just try again...she had to until her own goal had been reached, and she figured out a better plan on doing so.

Four figures sat around the main office, which was Gaignun's private office. Gaignun, of course, sat at his desk, typing away at his computer. Shelly and Mary sat by the couch, were a coffee table stood in front of it, chatting away about god knows what...when they should be working. And Jr., sitting on the leather arm chair across from Gaignun , was doing some paper work. Although from time to time, he would be glaring daggers at Mary. Ever since they got on the ship, Mary's been avoiding him more then usual, like she knew what he was up to. He couldn't get Mary to himself so he could talk to her. He was starting to get pissed off.

He suddenly got up from his seat and paced around the room. He looked at the window as his mind came across a thought sitting in some deep part of his brain. "What happened to the crying I heard once before?" It had been a few days, not one peep from the weeping girl he heard every night. The last time he heard it was when he was on the private beach. Had something happened once again that he wasn't aware of? Gaignun watched Jr. carefully from the corner of his eye as he stopped typing. He could feel the uneasiness coming from him. He must have been thinking of her again. It must have been hard on him to leave her...

And he bet that Jr. was tired of waiting...

"Screw this!" Jr. thought quickly as he walked over to Mary and crossed his arms as Mary looked up at him questioningly.

"Is the world against me or something? Or have I really been a bad person?"

"Little Master? Is something wrong?" Mary questioned.

"You know exactly what's wrong!' Jr. shouted, catching everyone's attention.

"What?"

"There's something up isn't there? Something your not telling me about!"

"Little Master! Calm down! What are you talking about?"

"MOMO!" He shouted once again.

He hadn't spoken her name in such a long time...it felt strange to hear it roll off his tongue so easily. Did things really feel that different when she wasn't around? But, how else would he say it? He had to get his point across, he needed to know...

Mary fell silent...

"I ask you all the time how MOMO is and you don't tell me one damn thing!! You tell Gaignun everything and not me! I demand to know what the hell is going on that it has to be kept behind my back!?"

"Please...it's that..."

"Little Master, please try to calm down..." Shelly intruded as Jr. glared at her.

"I will NOT calm down!!"

Everything went silent once again as Mary bowed her head downwards...she didn't want to deal with this right now...

...

Someone from above must have heard her prayers and loved her for it, for her beeper had gone off, breaking the silence and signaling her to get back to work. She stood up and quickly straightened out her outfit. "Well, if you'll excuse me Little Master, duty calls." She said in a cheery but nervous tone as she headed for the door. Hearing Mary say something so smoothly as if nothing had happened just made him more angry.

Ohhhhh no, he wasn't going to let her get away with it this time.

Gaignun looked at the situation amusingly as he thought to himself. " Hmph, he'll probably go after her and cause a scene outside in front of all the employees. As of now...we have enough problems with the gnosis. I don't need to worry about another one, Jr. will only make things worse. I do not feel like dealing with one of his tantrums." With that, Gaignun stood up from his seat and cleared his throat.

"Now Jr. let's g-"

BANG!

Mary was about to open the door, but instead stood frozen in place. A bullet hole laid embedded on the door, which was only a few inches away from Mary's head...She swiftly turned around and starred at Jr. in shock. Shelly stood up from the couch as Gaignun looked in, surprise written all over his face.

Now that wasn't excepted...


MOMO looked around and noticed an empty computer at the far side of the room. No one seemed to be using it, maybe the occupant of the machine was out at the moment...

This was her chance.

She had to remember, she couldn't look dazed or in a trance. She couldn't close her eyes either, they'd know that something was up. She also practiced going into their systems undetected...Hopefully all that practice would pay off now. She began to let the information and data enter her systems. It became an overwhelming feeling, but she would have to get used to it.

She began booting the computer that was unused...if she could pass some codes and encryptions, everything would go fine...for the first part.

"Computer No. 02384651 now booting in 5 No. 02384651 now operational..." A mechanical voice said as MOMO noticed some light showing off the swivel chair that sat in front of the computer. Ok...

"Please enter password for Computer No. 02384651 and registration..."

"Great..."

"5 minutes until system will shut down, enter registration immediately..."

Darn, no one said it would be that easy. MOMO started doing background check on the person using the computer. After a few minutes of more passwords, she finally came up with the staff members names. She looked through each profile, seeing which name would match with the computer number. After having 3 minutes passed, she found what she was looking for...

"Name: Luca Kinaki...Age: 31...=Scroll= Password: Crimson39frq!w..."

"What kind of password is that? Got to hurry!" MOMO thought as she hurriedly typed the information in. The keyboard key's moved on their own, as if someone was typing there. MOMO didn't realize that her fingers were twitching the same time the keys moved rapidly. Luckily, no one noticed...yet...

"20 sec...registration No. 02384651 now completely functional and operational...you may proceed..."

MOMO sighed mentally as she began to work more faster, she had to hurry it up...

"What's the update?" The man in glasses went up to one of his staff members as the said member was currently sitting at his station.

"Well, everything seems to check out, everything is normal...well, her pulses have increased for some reason though..."

"Really...hmmm...look more into it, one little thing that's amiss always signals me that she's up to something..."

"Yes, sir." The man sitting down as he looked towards MOMO. He then noticed her hands moving.

"Uh, sir? Her hands, why are they moving like that?" The man questioned as the man in glasses looked up at MOMO. No doubt about it, her hands were moving rapidly...

"Jr.!?"

"Your duties can wait, I want to talk about this here and now." Jr. replied smoothly as he simply placed his gun back in it's holster.

Well now, the air seems tense...

"Please...tell me." Jr. asked Mary as she narrowed her eyebrows together.

"Why should I?" Mary spat out as she received a confused expression from Shelly.

Jr. suddenly crossed his arms and tapped his foot on the floor.

"That's a stupid question, don't you think?"

"MOMO's business isn't-"

"I've made her my business ever since the day I first saw her dammit." Jr. spoke out as if his words were acid, Mary stood her ground.

"Well, I'll tell you when the time's right."

"Which is now! Stop playing games Mary!"

"I'M NOT!"

"Then why won't you tell me!?"

"Because...it's..."

"What's wrong Mary? What the hell are you hiding!?"

"It's because I'm jealous!!!"

Another tense silence suddenly set in...

"What?" Jr. questioned dumbfounded by her response.

"That's all you ever do, talk about her. Think about her! It's like you can't shut up once you started talking about her! It's just like that time when you talked to Gaignun about-"

"Don't you dare say her name! MOMO and HER are two different people!" Jr. yelled. How dare she bring her up at a time like this!? ( Wonder who the mystery girl is?! =O)

"And what's with this jealousy bull!? It's not like you like me!"

"That's the POINT! I DO!" Mary shouted as Jr.'s eyes grew like saucers.

Jr. looked at both Gaignun and Shelly, who seemed calm at the moment. Damn them! They must have known about this!! He finally stood straight, letting the words sink into his mind. Mary then folded her hands behind her back and smiled weakly...

She had never gotten this far...

"Entry accepted....opening main frame for mother computer...you may proceed."

She had finally accessed the main computer. Her objective now was to look for an address...any person she could think of...She began typing in more keywords.

The doors to the room automatically opened as a 30 year old looking women walked in as she wore a white lab coat and had light red hair. Another women, seeing kneeling against her station began counterstaining with the women who had just walked in.

"Hey Luca, didn't think you'd show up today."

"Nah, just went to get me some coffee."

"Oh, alright, well...since you're here, let's do a full scan of the systems, eh?"

"Sure..." Luca replied as she headed over to her own station.

MOMO checked more files as she heard the new voices. She looked up and found that the women who had just entered was heading to the computer MOMO had just hacked into! MOMO began to panic, and her undercover work was starting to become sloppy. Just enough for the computers to notice.

"Sir! There's signs of activity showing in her systems!"

"What!?"

"Everything is increasing!"

"What the hell is she doing!?" The man with the glasses shouted as everyone went to their stations.

"Great, she just had to act up when I walk through the door eh?" Luca chuckled as she placed her coffee down next to her computer and sat down in her swivel chair. She then looked down at her keyboard, and was quite surprised to see the keys moving on their own.

"What the hell??" She looked over to MOMO and noticed how her fingers moved around at the same time as the keys. Put two and two together... " Dr.! She's hacked into my computer and entered the main frame!"

"WHAT!?"

"Not again..."

"They found me out!...I'm so close! I just found the files for the addresses...please..." MOMO thought as she speeded up. They might activate this machine on her head...

"Set the voltage meter to 5.25 volts1 Now!" The Dr. ordered. Say it to soon...

"Setting voltage to 5.25 volts"

"Changing charges in 10 seconds."

As the women counted down, MOMO had finally found out the address she was looking for. It wasn't the correct one, but it was the closest she could find. She began squirming around in the tank as she felt the head gear switch on.

"And...now!" The Dr. yelled as suddenly MOMO felt a sudden pain on her systems, she tried to fight off the sudden feeling...She began to struggle under the shocks as she opened an e-mail box.

"Disconnect that computer!"

"I'm trying!"

"TRY HARDER!" The Dr. yelled as Luca ran behind the computer, hoping to shut it down.

"MOMO always talked about you at the beginning when I started going to the meetings...but every time I went after those to visit her, it's like she was diminishing...the smile she had that lit up her face, I never saw it again...I can never make her laugh either. I always thought that it was the relationship with Juli getting her down, or that she missed you so much. But then again, I always thought that there was something more to it...but why should I? After all, you never cared to send her anything or talk to-"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Jr. questioned as his anger began to rise again.

"I noticed her playing with a rabbit...it was so cute. I found out it was a gift from you. She clung to it so much every time I saw her, it was the only reminder of you she had...Aside's from that, she never really heard from you either...not a single word, what was I suppose to tell her?

"Wha-" Jr. cut himself off as he looked towards Gaignun. Gaignun looked at him confusingly.

"What?" He questioned

"I...that can't be true...I sent her letters everyday..." Jr. whispered as he sat down, confusion seeping into his mind. "I never received one reply back...after awhile, I stopped writing...Gaignun?"

"I called Juli Mizhari personally on the information Mary had given me on MOMO. She told me nothing was wrong...She sent me over information on the facility MOMO was staying at. I wanted to make sure she was getting the best possible care...not unless..." Gaignun trailed off.

"She was covering the Sub Committee's tracks about something...but what about MOMO's behavior?" Shelly finally spoke up as Gaignun looked towards her.

"She said she had been very moody and depressed lately..."

"Her excuse for that?" Jr. asked, his expression showing annoyance.

"Bad relationship problems. Not on a good communication basis either..."

"Someone's lying here..."

"Juli Mizhari, a mysterious women indeed." Shelly said as she walked over to Gaignun's deck. "Did any of you try hacking into the Sub Committee's main frame?"

"Well...uh, no..." Jr. replied, feeling quite stupid for not doing so.

"Why not?"

"Hey, Gaignun told me not to do it! He promised he wouldn't do it either! We...trusted the Sub Committee to take care of her...even though I was uncomfortable with it...."

"Hmmm...it seem that we can't anymore..."

"Damn, what is the Sub Committee up to?" Jr. thought as he bit he bottom lip. He hoped that she was safe... "I'm supposed to be protecting her..."


"Almost there...please..." MOMO begged as she was starting to feel faint. Why did they have to keep increasing...this...this machine on her head. She was in pain all over...

"WARNING! OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! VOLTAGE METER SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY!" The mechanical voice wailed over and over as tears began to sting MOMO's eyes. The tears reacted with the liquid, making her eyes sting more. She quickly closed them as she felt half of her body shutting down...

"Hearing sensors shutting down..." She couldn't hear anything anymore...

"All other sensors shutting down..." She couldn't taste the liquid anymore. Through all this, she kept going. She was typing the last few words...

"Dr.! Half of her systems are shutting down! We can lose the Y-data if this continues!"

"Shit!"

"Got it!!" Luca yelled out as she finally shut down her own computer. The computer screen went completely blank...as well as everyone else's computers went off. The lights surrounding the tank immediately shut off as well as the head gear shocking MOMO. Everyone looked around in silence, analyzing the damage as the backup systems began to reboot, due to the sudden shutdown Everyone then looked towards the tank...

MOMO floated there lifelessly. One of her eyes remained open as the other fell closed. The cords had completely been shattered, due to the overloading of shock waves...

She looked completely broken and lifeless...like an unwanted doll...

How was that!? HUH!? I think I might have rushed this chapter abit...which got me mad...but hey! It didn't come out SO bad...I tried. I'm not the greatest author out there. To bad I couldn't fit the flashback...darn..I didn't want to make the chappie to long.!Well, who is this other girl Mary had been talking about!? What about the weeping girl!? CO KOO! More questions and less answers to come!! =D lol...See you in the next chapter!!! Gotta go clean!!= puts on cleaning gear and starts slaving away= ugh...