JackalGod: Just thought I'd warn you that I've only actually watched Full Metal Panic? fumoffu. So I'm pretty much making most of this up as I go. If I write something that contradicts something in the story please for the love of cheese tell me. Thank you for your co-operation.
Shortly after leaving, Shinji behind Suzuhara's cell phone rang
"Hello Suzuhara speaking"
"Suzuhara where have you been!?" demanded the voice
"Commander!" cried Suzuhara in shock
"Sergeant Suzuhara you better have a good excuse for disappearing like that!"
"I'm currently on a job Sir. Check with Lieutenant Midou. I know I should have informed you but I..."
"I know you're on a job you pathetic excuse for a soldier I want to know why you are not here standing in front of my desk presenting your report to me." snapped the Commander
"Well I haven't got anything to report Sir. I haven't completed the assignment."
"As much as I despise giving you a compliment but someone of your skill should have had this job over and done with already."
"Forgive me Sir but I have been preoccupied." said Suzuhara
"You had better stop being preoccupied and start doing your job or so help me I'll beat the living crap out of you!" and with that he hung up leaving Suzuhara standing in the middle of the street more than slightly nervous
The next day at school Suzuhara noticed that Shinji was missing from school, and it looked like Sousuke hadn't slept again
"Sergeant Sagara" he hissed cornering Sousuke in the hallway
"Lieutenant Suzuhara!" cried Sousuke
"Keep your voice down you numbskull!" snapped Suzuhara "Actually I wanted to speak with you. I haven't been with MITHRIL for very long and I was wondering exactly how efficient they are in getting the job done."
"Very efficient Sir. Everyone works to the best of his or her abilities."
"And what about your commanding officer?"
"Captain Testarossa although young, is an exceptional commanding officer." replied Sousuke
"I see and MITHRIL uses AS units, am I correct?"
"Yes we do."
"And you're a pilot?"
"Yes I am. Other than myself there's Kurtz Webber, Melissa Mao and..."
"That's fine. Now to be honest I've never seen an AS unit. I've read about them, but I've never seen one."
"Really? I suppose on next weekend I could take you to where they're kept and show you mine." said Sousuke thinking about it
"I was thinking perhaps you just tell me about them, but I prefer your idea. The only problem is that I can't just walk in for no reason. I am after all not supposed to be here." said Suzuhara grinning to himself, finding this all too easy
"I have clearance, I can get you in there easily with out anybody noticing." said Sousuke eager to help his superior officer
"Wonderful. You know I was wrong about you Sagara, you are an exceptional soldier."
"Your praise is appreciated Sir!" cried Sousuke just as the bell went
"I'll speak with you after class. If this goes well, I might just write a letter of recommendation for a promotion for you."
"You'd do that?"
"You've helped me a lot so far. I think it's only right I should do something for you in return. By the way, you might want to gets some more sleep, it not healthy to skip."
"Yes Sir." said Sousuke before hurrying off to class. Once he'd left Suzuhara laughed
"This is to easy."
The weekend came and Sousuke had everything worked out. He was slightly uncomfortable about sneaking into MITHRIL but he was sure that as he was helping Suzuhara that it was all right.
"Already this far with out a problem, your ability to get things done is amazing"
"Thank you Sir." said Sousuke leading Suzuhara down one of the hallways leading to where the AS units were kept
"By the way, being that this base is so huge you'd have a secure area where all the important records and things are right?"
"But of course. Everything of importance is close at hand so in the event of an emergency we're not lacking in information."
"Very good but do you use hard copy or computer data as storage."
"We use both. We have a hard copy of everything but computers are faster so we have everything in data a well."
"Do you keep profiles of criminals as well as your own personnel?"
"Of course, it's important to keep track of everything"
"What about records of the AS's like their schematics and such?"
"There would be no point of using the AS's if we didn't have those. Everything we have here is kept secure and guarded by strong firewalls so no one can break in from outside and for inside it's password protected and to get into all the computer areas you need clearance."
"Could you do it?"
"I'm afraid I don't have high enough clearance to access something that important." replied Sousuke
"I didn't really expect you to, never mind it doesn't matter. Where are the main computers?"
"South wing." replied Sousuke "I know where everything is here."
"I expected nothing less from you. Could you show me before we go outside?"
"Of course." said Sousuke and immediately changed route leading Suzuhara through the maze of corridors. A couple of times they had to take a longer route to avoid being seen by anyone, but eventually they made it and were standing outside the main information storage area. "Here we are"
"So everything is in there including all the information about you AS units?"
"Yes Sir. And the security is tight, I'd like to see anyone break into here."
"Oh really?" said Suzuhara his face breaking out into a feral grin. Pulling a card key out of his pocket he swiped it through the reader next to the door and waited until it had found a password it liked
"What was that?"
"Hacking program." replied Suzuhara "Goes through every possible password until one is excepted and it does it so fast that it can't be caught by any anti-hacking program."
"That's amazing. But wait a minute!" said Sousuke as Suzuhara walking into the room "What are you doing!?"
"I'm doing exactly what I was hired to do." said Suzuhara pulling out a gun and pointing it at Sousuke "Now hand me your gun and knife. I know for a fact you're not carrying anything else."
"Lieutenant why?" asked Sousuke doing as he was told slightly surprised that Suzuhara had know that his gun and knife had been his only weapons
"I'm not a Lieutenant." said Suzuhara "I'm a mercenary hired to infiltrate this compound and retrieve some information about the AS units."
"You lied to me?"
"It's your own fault for believing me. You are far to gullible when it comes to things like this. If I was a Lieutenant then why would I need are sergeant like you to sneak me in?"
"So what now?" asked Sousuke
"You're going to follow my instructions and hack into the system and get me the information I want. Then your going to let me go."
"Negative!"
"Oh you'll do it. If you don't I'll kill you and then I'll kill everyone else in this base one by one."
"You'd be caught!" said Sousuke confidently
"Don't be so sure. I work for a group that manages mercenaries. They organise us so clients can find the person they want to work for them and also so, we've got a better chance of being hired. You could say we're kinda like MITHRIL although we don't do the goody, goody work you do."
"Then what sort of work do you do?"
"Recovery work like what I'm doing now, but then we also do Transport work, protection service, or bodyguards if you want to put it another way. Assassinations are usually what I'm hired for, it is after all what I'm best at."
"You're sick"
"It's a paying job and I'm not complaining. So how about it? You gonna be the stubborn soldier and be responsible for the death of however many people are here or are you gonna get me what I want?"
"I'll do it." said Sousuke "Usually I wouldn't but I have no idea what you're capable of and I still want to be able to bring you down at a later date."
"Keep dreaming Sagara now." Suzuhara handed him a disk "It fairly simple, I'm only having you do it so I don't get jumped from behind. Run this hacking program and it will find what I want and burn it to the disk over-writing the hacking program as it goes." Sousuke nodded and did as he was asked. Soon all the Schematics and other info involving his own AS including profile of pilot came up on the screen
"What's this?"
"What I was hired to get, Kashim." replied Suzuhara making Sousuke tense "That's right, he hired me to do this. Bet that pisses you off?"
"How could you work for someone like him?" asked Sousuke
"Quite easily." said Suzuhara as his phone rang "Hello Suzuhara speaking"
"Aren't you done yet. Your client is getting impatient"
"Look I'm almost done. Also you can tell my client that I ran into his little friend."
"You better be right! I'll see you tonight at the agreed time, if your late so help me!"
"Yeah I know. This is Sergeant Suzuhara saying see ya!" and with that Suzuhara hung up "That asshole can't he just give me a break."
"So you were hired to just get the information on me and my AS?"
"Sure, why?"
"Never mind" said Sousuke watching the computer screen as the data transfer ended and the disk ejected
"Perfect." said Suzuhara pocketing the disk "Well I guess my job is done, by the way, that friend of yours Shinji?"
"Yeah what about him?"
"You might wanna be careful around him, he owes me a favour." with that Suzuhara knocked Sousuke out with his own gun before running out the door. "Hope to see you again soon, Sagara."