Chapter 13: "Let's Play Ball!"

*now we go back to our friends on the archangel and there stay in Lunamaria.*

Ray: "Hello, so how are you today?"

Artemis: *sleepily answering the door* "Its 5 in the morning! Can't you let us sleep?"

*everyone but him was wide awake and dressed behind ray… *

Artemis: "… fine… give me 5 minutes…" *the door closes behind him. 5 minutes later he came out in his LEP flight suit, seeing as he saw need to go on pretending to be the (Old)Artemis in this time.*

Shiro: "were going into town, hey ray you got any idea why skull 1 was there in that blitz? Didn't he always like that old MS of his?"

Ray: "All I know is he was supposed to be on the Archagel, at least that what it said officially. Come to think of it, I don't think I ever heard who he was, or seen him outside of combat sim's, or training. And even then it was only when we were training in MS… he's quite the mystery."

Artemis: "so what did you need to do in town that we all needed to come along?"

Shiro: "Hey lighten up a little man, we are just going o=into town for some fun, maybe well even catch a game."

Artemis: "well sorry if I'm not good at being social!"

?: "Hey shiro! Going out for a bit? Mind if we tag along"

*A tall blond girl with short hair wearing a black and grey uniform, with a knife tied around her waist and a chevron on her shoulder appears. In front of her was a tall red haired girl with the same uniform but she had a gun instead of a knife, and she had 2 chevrons instead of 1 chevron on her shoulder.

Shiro: *His calm composure now in complete disarray* "C...C…Cagali what are you doing here I thought you were back on earth"

Cagali: "Look who's talking you were supposed to be on earth too you know. And my location was not known by almost any of our superiors, how would you know?"

Ray: "So what were you doing on the archangel?"

Cagali: "Yeah, yeah, changing the subject. Any case what are you guys doing?"

Artemis: "were supposedly going "into town" as the Lt. Over there said. I would still prefer to go back to earth and finish following Koboi, but if Koboi is up here there's nothing I can do about it…."

Lunamaria: "Yeah… who the heck are you guys anyway, I don't remember any of you guys beign part of the ECOAS…"

Atremis: "Because we are not, we were forced on the archangel because of Shiro over there" *pointing at Shiro*

Shiro: "I dint think you would see me! I said I'm sorry didn't I!"

Cagali: "we'll were going to play ball, you guys want to join?"

Shiro: *without thought of anyone else immediately replying* "Sure!"

Cagali: "great race you to the field!"

Ray: "you do realize that Artemis, holly, and root don't have a clue how to pilot an MS right?"

Artemis: "I'd be interested in learning, assuming its anything like flying an aircraft."

Holly: "as would I, something new to fly might be fun!"

Shiro: "it's settled then, we'll show you after we get to the field."

*The group follows the 2 girls to a large green field about the same size as 5 football fields, on each end were platforms, with a large hanger next to them. The girls split the group into teams, as a man with sunglasses covering his eyes so no one could see all his face; he was in a older white uniform with blue accents and 3 chevrons with a star on his shoulder. This man climbed up to the team Artemis and Luna was on, and got into the 13th unit, saying nothing as they prepped the units for launch. *

*As Artemis climbed into the 3 5 unit, he got in and saw a large seat in the center of a black orb with nothing there. He sat down in the seat, and closed the hatch. As he did this, the suit's 360 degree cameras started up and the black circle became a screen showing everything around the unit. He did have 1 major problem with the controls. There are 6 direction to go…. Why are there 12 pedals?*

*As soon as they had all gotten the hang of moving with the units, they began playing the game, Artemis had more trouble with playing by this sports rules then he did piloting the suit as he was never very good with sports. As he threw the ball across the field to the # 13 unit, 13 caught it but Artemis had overcompensated and forced him to move towards the end zone to soon revealing his position completely to Cagali who rushes to intercept him.*

*A screen pop's up from the 13th unit as a direct line to Artemis's unit.*

Man with glasses: "I hope your better with actual combat then you are with this game." *Artemis scowls at his humiliating actions in the game* "Hah, so you know you're doing badly. I was listening earlier, you said Koboi right? If you are talking about the Koboi I think I saw, then I may know where she is."

Artemis: "Opal Koboi a pixie turned human, who time traveled and is messing with the timeline. And who are you may I ask."

Skull 1: "for now you can just call me Skull 1"

*After all 4 quarters were up the game ended with Lunamaria, Artemis and skull 1's teams victory 21-20 Cagali was beating herself up about the missed extra point.*

Cagali: "that was so not fair the wind blew it out of the goal!"

Ray: "There was no wind, were in space remember?"

Cagali: *Shrugging* "Details!"