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A/N: Hehehe…sorry for the late update…Chapter 1 UP!
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In a quiet room inside an apartment, there were five men waiting patiently for someone. Four of them were wearing similar black clothes, and the last one was wearing a light blue coat and a gold pin on the right side of his chest to mark his importance.
Then the door opened, there entered a brunette boy wearing casual clothes and dark glasses covering his eyes, and beside him, a blonde girl wearing a red T-Shirt and dark green cargo pants. Her hair was tied up and being held by a brown cap, her eyes were covered with dark shades, too. They both walked inside the room, the brunette closed the door behind him, and then the girl speaks.
"Well, what's the business here? We don't have all day." The girl impatiently demanded.
The four men were surprised by the blonde's words, but the man with a blue coat seemed to smile.
"You haven't changed a bit." The man said.
"What is it you want? You're wasting my time" the blonde said.
The man smiled even wider." Then I won't be wasting your time anymore." one of the men handed her a brown envelope. "This will be your next assignment"
The blonde took the envelope then immediately opened it and took the contents inside. She read it and placed it back in the envelope."Another assignment?" She asked, looking straight at the man through her glasses.
"Yes, I think you're perfect for this." The man smiled "You are our greatest creation, it would be impossible for you not to succeed"
"Shut up!" The blonde shouted clenching her fists. The man stood up and walks pass the blonde and her brunette companion.
"If you don't leave me alone, you'll be my next target." She whispered only for the man to hear, he only smiled and walked out of the room with the others leaving the two alone.
After a long silence.
The blonde suddenly stretched her hands in the air, walked to the nearest table and placed the envelope above it.
"Well, I seem to have another assignment." she said placing both her hands on her hips. The brunette went to the table where the envelope was and took the contents out of it. He scanned every paper there and after he was done, he sighed and took of his glasses revealing his violet eyes and placed it on the table, then shifted his eyes on the blonde.
"This might be tough for you" He said, his voice full of concern. "Do you want me to come with you?"
"Nah, Don't worry, it's just a little trip there, then finish the business" she said confidently "I might even bring home a souvenir."
"This isn't like your other assignments; you might bump into a situation even you can't handle..."
"Dude, you're over reacting, they're just Coordinators…." She said but was cut off.
"Well this guy isn't just a Coordinator; He's the leader of the Coordinators. The Chairman of PLANTS"
"So?" she responded raising an eyebrow.
"Don't make this sound easy, coz its not" The brunette said getting a little frustrated with their conversation. "I've heard so many assassination attempts on the chairman and from what I've heard so far, no one was able to get near him"
"You're being naïve, it's like you don't trust me." The blonde frowned.
"It's not like that….." He pulled the girl into a hug "It's just that I don't trust Fate, that's all"
"But isn't it fate that led me to you?" The blonde smiled and closed her eyes. The comfort and the hug he gave her made her feel like she was secured and at peace. The brunette smiled at what he has heard. After a while the blonde pushed away slowly from the brunette.
"Why don't we go home?" The blonde smiled softly. He nodded slowly in agreement and placed the envelope on his left hand, took his glasses from the table and went out of the room with the blonde.
"Let's go to the arcade again, O.K" a silhouette of a young boy said extending his hand to someone. A girl with pigtails nodded then waved her hand.
"Bye Bye" The girl said, and then ran away.
The girl skipped happily to her house when she reached it she opened the front door and saw two silhouettes sitting on the dining chairs.
"Mommy, Daddy!" the girl said, ran to the dining table and sat on a vacant seat.
"How was the arcade, dear?" The woman asked.
The girl nodded "It was great!" she replied happily.
"Then we should talk about it later, right now we should eat first" The man said.
The girl nodded happily.
Then the vision changed into another scene…
"What happened?!" A man who just entered a dark room asked worriedly.
"Sir, the pressure inside is getting higher by the minute." A man who was in front of a computer said "If this keeps up her nerves might not function anymore!"
"Her pulse is getting slower!" one said.
The tension in the room increased.
"The pressure reached critical level!"
"Nerves are not responding!"
"Increase the electric waves!"
"Her brain cells might get damage!"
"I don't care! Increase it now!"
"Increasing electric waves"
"That's too much!"
"Brain cells are dead!""…!"
"No…." a man said softly while placing his hand on the cylindrical glass tube and looked at the person inside it (A/N she's floating because of the green liquid inside it) who has several wires attached all over her body and an oxygen mask covering the lower part of her face, she was curled hugging her knees.
"No..!" He clutched his fists "This can't happen!" he shouted banging his closed fists on the glass. He turned around leaving his sight from the girl and looked at the people behind him.
"Give her the stimulants!" ordered the man."We can't do that! It's too strong, she might not have a chance on living." a woman said.
"She's a human being too!" said another.
"If this is the only way, I don't care!" he shouted angrily, but none of them moved. "If you don't want to do it then I will"
He walked to a small cabinet took a small cylindrical glass tube with red liquid inside and thrust it to one of the cords that is connected to the girl inside the large glass. The liquid inside the large glass tube suddenly went red, and then one of the computers started to make a faint beeping sound.
"Her heart rate is increasing"
"Brain cells are now functioning"
Everyone sighed in relief letting the tension flow away, when suddenly…
"Something's wrong…" someone said scanning his monitor "The drugs are too strong, her body can't stand it's effects."
Everyone's chatter died.
"She won't last long" Everyone looked at the cylindrical glass.
Then suddenly the girl inside shot her eyes widely open, she parted her lips shakily then…
She screamed….
Cagalli shot her eyes open; slightly shivering she reached her bag, took a bottle of water and drank it.
When she's done, she put the cap back and placed it inside her bag again. She laid her head back on the cushion and looked outside the small window of the space shuttle observing the stars and the endless dark sky.
"What a strange dream..." she thought, still absorbing the shock from her dream.
"Please fasten your seatbelts for landing" a voice on the speaker said. When the shuttle has stopped, the passengers started to depart from the shuttle, the blonde girl went out of the shuttle still thinking of her strange dream and floated to a room where they would be inspected. When she was done, she then went out of the room and stepped into the Coordinator's territory, PLANTS. She only took a few steps from the exit of the station when two people blocked her way, one, a girl, with blonde hair wearing a long baby blue satin dress that reached below her knee's, the other one a boy about 19, has shoulder length orange hair and is wearing a black T-shirt under a red coat and jeans. Both are wearing shades concealing their eyes.
"Hey!" the blonde stated. "You're blocking my way!"
"Tsk..Tsk..Tsk, you're late Missy." said the orange haired guy, waving his index finger in the air.
"Yeah, it's not right for a girl to be late." said the girl twirling around and playing with her dress.
Surely they were not talking to her. "Sorry. You got the wrong person." Cagalli started to walk again.
"We're here to fetch you, Ms. Cagalli " The guy said, making her stop on her tracks. No one. No one knew what her name was except for Kira. Knowing that he got her attention he showed her a folder and handed it to the blonde. She took it and read its first page.
"This is not happening…"Cagalli grunted.
"He sent us to help you succeed on your mission."
"What, he doesn't trust my skills now?"
"Don't say that. It's just that, as you have heard, our target is one of the most powerful people living today so he thought you might need help. By the way, my name's Heine Westenfluss" he introduced, placing his hands on his chest before bowing his head like a gentleman. "But Heine will be fine, and of course my comrade Stellar Louissier" Stellar whom was beside him bowed and curtsied like a lady.
"Well, I don't need it" she said returning the folder and walking away. But was stopped when the blonde girl stood in front of her, held her hand and raised it on eye level.
"I'm hoping we could get along on this mission, and be more like best friends" she said cheerfully.
The blonde girl was shocked on what she has heard, but even more shocked because of her smile. "Uhh…."
Stellar let go of Cagalli's hands and stood straight, her bright smile at its fullest. "My names Stellar Louissier. And I have a request." She suddenly bowed her head. "Please be my friend!"
"This has got to be a joke."Cagalli thought. She looked at the orange haired person who was beside them watching with an amused grin. "Uhh… Sure. Um, nice to meet you."
Stellar shot her head up revealing the joyous state she was in. "Really?! Yay!" She took both of Cagalli's hands and squeezed them. "Heine! I made another friend!"
"Don't be fooled by her childishness, she's one of our elite Extended MS pilot" the guy said as he now made his way from his spot and stood beside Cagalli. The girl's eyes widened. This person can smile like that even though she's an Extended?
"An Extended?! A Mobile Suit pilot?! Why'd you bring her here? We aren't going to use Mobile Suits, are we?"
The orange haired guy laughed, then slowly placed his index finger infront of his mouth. "Shhh… You're not thinking of attacking him without any armor, do you?"
When the girl didn't respond, the guy laughed even louder "You won't be able to lay a strand of hair on Zaft's military headquarters with or without any Mobile suit, what made you think on even laying a hand on the Chairman without it."
The girl's eyebrows twitched. The guy saw it, then stopped and cleared his throat."What I mean is if it is that easy to sneak in the Zaft military HQ, we should've done it a long time ago, but as what I've said a while ago, it would be hard to get pass the HQ with or without mobile suits. That's why they send you to do the job and us to cover you up using our armors."
"Is it really that tight?" Cagalli asked. Heine nodded, there was silence for a while.
"My names Cagalli" The blonde nodded slightly. "Cagalli Yula Athha"
"Athha, huh" Heine smirked.
"Stellar is hungry" said Stellar while pulling Cagalli's hand like a child to a mother "There's a hotdog stand outside the building, let's eat there and celebrate!"
Cagalli smiled at this, even though the girl is an Extended she can still smile like that, and that smile made Cagalli feel comfortable. Heine who is watching at the two followed them from behind.
The next morning, a blonde haired girl whom is on the bed opened her eyes, briefly rubbing them before shifting her head to look at the clock on the bedside table. It was already 6:14 in the morning.
She quickly got out of bed, took some clothes inside her bag and went to the bathroom to change. After some time she got out wearing a dark green cargo pants and red T-shirt, then she went to her bed taking a pair of shoes from her luggage and dropping them to the floor. She was tying the last string on her shoes when suddenly the door burst open.
"Good morning Cagalli!" a cheerful Stellar ran inside the room and hugged the blonde. Cagalli was surprised but then gave Stellar a gentle pat on the head.
"Uhh…Good morning too…" she said gently.
"Hey, let's eat breakfast." Stellar said as she tugged on Cagalli's arm and pulled her out of the room.
In the Kitchen
Cagalli was being pulled by Stellar down the stairs and into the kitchen. They were greeted by Heine who was already seated on the dining table. Stellar let go of Cagalli's arm and went to Heine's side.
"Good morning, Heine." she greeted while taking a seat beside him.
"Good morning, Stellar. I see you had a good night sleep" The orange haired guy said. Then he looked at Cagalli who was standing on the entrance of the kitchen and gave her a smile.
"Good morning to you too, have a seat, you don't want Stellar to eat your food, right?"
The blonde narrowed her eyes "What are we going to do about the mission?" she said with a hint of impatience in her voice.
"We'll talk after breakfast, Ok?" Heine said calmly. Cagalli sighed, there's no point on arguing in the morning so she just sat on a chair on the opposite side of the two and started to eat her sandwich.
"Heine, let's go to the shop I told you about" Stellar said excitedly.
"Ok, Ok but after breakfast" Heine answered.
Cagalli watched them suspiciously from her spot "Is this some kind of a joke that guy is playing on me?" She thought looking from Stellar, then Heine.
"Heine Westenfluss, age nineteen, blood type AB, birth date unknown, extensibly trained in long range combat, certified hacker, has superior mobile suit piloting skills, race Coordinator…" Why did they send a Coordinator with her? Then her eyes shifted from Heine to Stellar.
"Stellar Louisser, age sixteen, blood type unknown, birth date unknown, is highly trained in melee and stealth combat, race Extended" She said mentally while taking a bite from her sandwich.
"This two as written in their profile's are capable of handling a mobile suit to its highest extent" She looked at them as they talk carefree like father to its daughter. "Impossible" that one was aloud.
"What's impossible Miss Cagalli?"Heine asked.
"Well the fact that you two would accompany me on this mission, that's all.." Cagalli answered without hesitation then took a sip of her orange juice.
"Tsk…Tsk…Tsk…, already jumping into conclusions aren't we?" Heine said while waving his index finger in front of him "How can we work together as together if you're already like that?"
The blonde suddenly stood up "Who asked for our help anyway?! I can finish this job without any delay." she started to leave the room. Heine only took a sip of his coffee.
"Cagalli!" Stellar suddenly called her "You can't leave the kitchen until you're finish eating!"
"I'm already full!" She was about to leave the room when she suddenly felt someone tugged on her arm and pulled her back.
"Even so, you can't waste you're food and besides we're going to have a very long day ahead of us, so you have to be extra full." Stellar said as she continued to drag the blonde back to her seat.
Heine smiled at the sight of them.
The Park was crowded given it was a weekend. The grassy areas were covered with families having picnics, children's playing and some people who are only passing some time. Everything was peaceful except for a blonde who's having a heated battle with her phone beside the fountain on the park's center.
"Damn you phone! Of all the times you don't have a signal, why now?!" Cagalli heavily punched at the keys then pressing send it was her nth time but still met the same failure. Giving up, the blonde angrily shoved her phone on her pocket and scanned her surroundings in search for her two other companions.
"Why do I have to come?" she asked herself, then heard someone call her name.
A girl with blonde hair was running towards her. "Cagalli!" Stellar said "Heine and I found something you will like!" She took Cagalli's arm and dragged her to a crowded place far from where she was standing. There she saw Heine leaning on a silver convertible on the sideway.
They went closer to him. "Heine, we're here!" the blonde said smiling.
"Good, then let's get a move on." He said opening the door of the passenger seat.
Cagalli, who has no idea where they are going asked "Where are we going?"
Heine smiled and looked at her "To one of the most secured place here in Plants... The Zaft main headquarters"
Cagalli smiled.
All who read pls review…..
Sorry for the late update, coz there's so many things to do at school; I don't even have time to eat!
Well, I think ill be updating again by the end of March or so….
And for all, Please read my next fic "Another Short Story", I'll be posting it on March, It's a one chapter fic only.
Anyway, Thanks again for the past reviews! I appreciate it….