"Lacus, what are you doing?"
"Oh, hi Athrun! I'm making a painting!" Lacus said smiling.
"Me too!" said Cagalli. She pointed to her painting. It was covered in green and blue lines and dots. "This is me, this is Kira and that's you and this is Lacus!" she said pointing to the different shapes on the paper.
Kira walked over and smiled. "I made a box for memories!"
"That's a great idea! We could put their pictures in to remember each other!" said Athrun cheerfully.
"Yeah!" they all said.
The two girls put their paintings in the box. That's when it happened… there was a bang and a flash of light. A voice came over the P.A. system: "A war has been declared so school is closed."
The four friends looked at each other shocked but before they could say anything the teacher rushed them to the door to get to the bus. They were about to get on when their parents came and called them over. They took them all to one car, talking about some new technology all the way there.
"Are you sure it's safe? I mean, don't you put it inside them?"
"Quiet!" said Athrun's Dad pointing at the kids. "It's perfectly safe! You just point it at them and then..." he whispered.
"They forget, I know," said another parent.
Once they were in the car, the children started asking questions and the parents decided to answer.
"What were you talking about Daddy?" asked Lacus.
"Well… everyone's fighting and, we have to… erase your memories…"
"No!" said Athrun. "You can't! We're friends!"
"I know but we have to, or the war will be too hard for all of us." Said Mr. Yamato, taking out a silver pen. The others did the same and pointed them at their children. They pressed a button and a white light flashed.
The four kids went unconscious and their Dads carried them into their houses. Mr. Yamato explained that when they woke up they wouldn't remember each other. Even Kira and Cagalli were seperated so they wouldn't remember. Only one thing could make the memories come back… if they ever saw a photo of the others, or a painting, they might remember…
When the four children woke up, they were lying in their beds as if they'd woken up from a nap, and they didn't remember anything from their lives except for the pens had simulated, to replace their missing childhood memories.