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Chapter 3: The Enemy

The same time:

A secret OZ base

A knock sounded at the Commander's door.

"Yes!" The Commander barked from his chair. This was starting to annoy him. How many young people would he have to see about this problem, and then tell thier families they had died!

"Commander! Lieutenant Reid, as you requested?" A young voice called through the door apprehensively.

"Come in!" The Commander answered back. "You're late Lieutenant!"

"Yes, I'm very sorry sir but there was something I had to take care of first. I deeply apologise." Reid hung his head low expecting to be reprimanded for his tardiness.

"Yes well, these things can't be helped. Just don't let it happen again. Please sit!" The Commander waved a hand to the chair in front of him. He'd seen too many young officers like this one who had high hopes only to have them smashed or sliced to pieces by the fugitive they were after. The only thing that made this young man any different was that he had experience from during the war and was just as ruthless and the one they're after.

"Tell me what did you find at that hanger last week?" The Commander asked as he leaned forward, the grizzly scar on his cheek gleaming in the light.

"Uh," gulped the Lieutenant "Nothing sir we found nothing! It was completely empty." Reid could feel sweat forming on his forehead. 'Why is he asking me this? It was all in my report. Is he so mad at me that he's going to get rid of me? It's not unusual at times like this that they'd kill someone if he got their plans exposed. Ever since Vice Foreign Minister Darlain created the UESN, we had to sneak around like a bunch of rats.' He thought as he clenched his fists on his lap.

"Hmm strange, I was certain the salvage logs said that they had shipped gundianium to that location."

"Sir may I ask a question?" Reid asked in a calm tone, trying not to express how nervous he was.

"Yes you may." The Commander answered leaning back in his chair while studying the young man in front of him.

"Why would they send a whole shipment of gundianium to a location like that? The hanger was rundown and about to crumble. It could have fallen on the shipment, they would never be able to get it all out of the rubble without anyone noticing."

"You are right Lieutenant! But my informant told meit was a small shipment andthey often did this a bit at a time. Therefore no one would even notice what was really going on there, and if it fell only a fraction of the shipment would be lost." The Commander looked back at the young Lieutenant "You must have found something, one of your men is missing, isn't that so?"

"Oh… I'm sorry Sir. I forgot to mention, aside from finding nothing in the hanger we did find two of the preventers sneaking around the hanger as well. We think they were looking for the same thing as we were." Reid finally calmed down. The Commander just wanted to know from him what happened.

"Which ones were they?"

" The ex-pilots 01 and 02 Sir." Now he was starting to question why he was dragged out of a good night's sleep for this.

"Did you dispose of them?" The Commander asked as he opened a ratty file that was sitting on his desk.

"No Sir, someone interfered!"

"Did they have any back up?"

"No Sir, none that we saw, whoever they were, they hung to the shadows." Just remembering that day sent shivers down his spine. No one could move like whoever it was. It was as if every bullet had hit them, but made no difference; they just wouldn't die.

The Commander looked up from the file he was reading and stared at the young Lieutenant. 'He's a very lucky one, he might just pull through.' The Commander thought, as he looked at the young man even closer. "Well then lieutenant Reid, you are a very lucky young man. Most of my people never live to tell about it."

"Sir?" Reid now looked at the Commander with a confused look. 'What's he talking about? Has he finally cracked?'

The Commander pulled a small picture from the file and handed it to Lieutenant Reid "Do you know who this is?"

Reid took the photo carefully as if expecting the old Commander to lash out at him and looked at it more closely. The girl in it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. She must have been in her late teens around 17 or 18. The feature that caught his eye first was her white hair. 'Who is she? Why does she look like that? What the hell does this have to do with me?' Reid looked up at the commander, " No sir I don't. I've never seen her before."

"Good, but you will in time. Her name is Ray. As far as we know she has no last name, so she'll be a hand full to find." The Commander leaned forward again. "Lieutenant, take a good look at that picture, the next time you see her it might be your last!"

"Commander, why?" Reid asked handing the photo back.

"As I had said before most don't live to tell about it" He answered back placing the photo neatly back into the file.

"You think it was her who helped the preventers?" Reid asked narrowing his eyes.

"I'm certain of it, she's the only one who can help them right now. Lets just say that she doesn't follow the rules." The Commander leaned back and pulled out another file from his drawer, this one was much thicker and looked as if it were about to burst. Written on one of the tabs was Maxwell in bold balck letters.

"What does all this have to do with me?" Reid asked skeptically. He knew he was going to hate the answer. He always seemed to get the worst assignments, most of them messy.

"Well you have two choices. One I'm going to advise you to do more than the other." The Commander looked through the file, to make sure nothing was missing. 'It took me months to find ex-pilot 02. To think the whole time he was right under my nose. I'm sure Lieutenant Reid can handle either one but 02 will be easier than the girl.' " What I want you to do is find this young man" The Commander handed Reid the photo of ex-pilot 02. "He's far easier to find and capture. The real problem is the girl might try something drastic to keep him out of our reach." He said as he handed the Lieutenant another photo.

Reid studied the photo and nodded.This was a recent photo of 02.The young man had long brown hair, tied back in a briad which, in the photo looked as if it never ended. 'I've seen him somewhere just a few days ago! He was a real pain in the ass two weeks ago. I was more worried about 01 than him, but he managed to wound five of my men. I'll be happy to settle the score with him.' "Sir is that it? You want me to get rid of him?"

"No, I want him alive, he's a very useful young man. Also if there's any way of capturing the girl, it would go a long way! But I want them both alive." The Commander folded his hands on his desk, "Is that clear?"

"Yes Commander Morgan! I'll make sure myself that they make it here alive." Reid answered. 'Finally I get something worth doing. Hopefully either one won't put up a fight.'

"Good then you may go, and take these, they'll help you more than you think." He said as he handed Lieutenant Reid the two folders.

As the Lieutenant took the folders and walked proudly out the door, Commander Morgan turned his chair to look out the window. " I hope he pulls this off. It would be a waste if he ends up dead like the others. That girl is a menace to our plans of throwing Vice Foreign Minister Darlain out of the UESN and eradicate the fake feeling of pacifism." He sighed heavily. "Soon I will have to retire" He sighed again as he turned to look at a photo on his desk."hmm... soon."

...TBC

A/N:Well i hope you enjoyed this one. Commander Morgan plays a really short yet important role in this story So you'll be seeing more of him.

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