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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 1:27:31 GMT -5
Dai entered the room slowly, arms at her sides with no visible weaponry.
"I'm not here to fight, not yet anyway," the bioweapon said, looking straight at Zero, "I just want some answers. Your antics have left me with quite a few questions..."
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Otomi sighed slightly at the mention of not being trusted, but quickly passed a small sealed note to Yumi, "This is the message. I don't know what it says, just read it whenever you have a chance and give me a reply to take back."
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The young man who had been at Dai's meeting sighed, "You know, hiring that bioweapon wasn't part of the plan, General."
The cybernetically enhanced General just glared at the black haired man, "Nor was your sudden arrival today. Why are you here, Kyte?"
Kyte Soran shrugged, "I'm here for a lot of reasons, really. Nice weather, fine beaches, beautiful women... but at the moment, I'm here to make sure you don't screw up."
General Khall, commander of operations at the Atlas sites, didn't seem happy with that answer, "And tell me, exactly HOW have I 'screwed up'?"
"You haven't, yet. I just happen to make sure I get a return on my investments. You never would have gotten the supplies you needed for your little side project without my help, after all," Kyte turned and looked out a nearby window, "But I must say, hiring a mercenary, and a bioweapon no less, wasn't very smart. Especially one with Dai's reputation. She's not like your little toy soldiers, she can actually think for herself."
"If you didn't want me to hire her, you could have stopped me. Besides, I have safe-guards in place..."
"I don't think you have enough. This is a very sensitive phase. If things go wrong now, we may not be able to recover."
"Then what do you propose we do?"
"Simple. I'm going to the site immediately. You are to continue operations here as ordered, no more deviations."
"But the inspectors-"
Kyte whirled around and stared General Khall down, eyes shinning slightly with an odd blue light, "I don't give a crap about those inspectors! They are your responsibility. Deal with them as you see fit, but no more deviations from our plan! Understood!"
Khall just nodded.
"Good, that's all I needed to make clear. I will be departing for Atlas in a few minutes. Anything else you think I need to know?"
Khall shook his head as Kyte's eyes returned to normal.
Kyte grinned, "Very good. I'll see you after I've taken care of matters at the construction site. Good day, General."
He turned and walked out of the room, sighing and shaking his head as he made his way to the docks.
Such a short sighted fool, he would have never even gotten this far without the help of my master.
A few minutes later, Kyte was onboard a transport heading out to the Atlas site...
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Post by Airmaster on Sept 21, 2004 1:37:48 GMT -5
Zero sighed and the got a bit mad and shook her fist at Dai. "Why the F*** are you following me?!"
She thought about what Dai said. "Listen... I am not gonna hurt you, cuz my boss told me not to, and I do as I am told just like you are Dai... If you want answers fine but I will be unable to answer some of them... You of all people should understand that... So lets go what are some of your questions?" Zero leaned against the wall.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 1:40:36 GMT -5
Dai shrugged, "Well, you weren't exactly hard to follow. You caused a ruckus in the hotel before you even got off my floor, then you just sat around and drank for a couple hours. As for questions, you already answered my first one. So next, why are you out here? Is there really anything that interesting about a big elevator?"
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Post by Airmaster on Sept 21, 2004 1:45:05 GMT -5
"My Boss wants me to kep a eye on it... It's easy to hide things in something people think is only a mere elevator don't you think? As for why I am here... Girls just want to have fun... Plus I had to come pick up something, and no I can't tell you what that is... so next question." Zero said.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 1:48:39 GMT -5
"Fine, next question. You keep mentioning your 'boss'. I figure you won't tell me who that is, but maybe you won't mind telling me just what this 'boss' is trying to pull off," Dai heard a noise in the alleyway outside and risked a quick glance to see what it was.
A cat walked by the door.
She turned back to Zero, "Also, if you're so suspicious of Atlas, would you just so happen to have some kind of proof of something going on out there?"
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Post by Airmaster on Sept 21, 2004 1:59:04 GMT -5
"I've only ben ordered to keep a eye on the goings on... I have done nothing to teh project and don't intend to..." She glanced at the cat.
"Also you want proof? well then fine... " she went to a small bag near by and opened it pulling a part of some kind out.
She walked over to Dai and put it in her hand. "Boss says I can trust you so I'll do so for now... That part your holding is a weapon grade power trasnfer unit, ment to help shift power flows from one area to the cannon and some such....." Zero went back to teh bag and brought back another part.
"This is some type of part to a large targetting computer.... Now you tell me why would a elevator need one of those? And of such high class... Your should know damn well those type of parts are not your run of teh mill parts... so what do you think then?" Zero asked.
She glanced out the windowless wall and spoted a trasnport heading off.
"Hmm... Didn't know there was any transports takign off at this time of day?.... Wonder what's up... I'll have to ask teh boss about it when I get a moment." She thought to herself.
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Post by Cybaster on Sept 21, 2004 11:33:52 GMT -5
Souffle nodded, and took off once more in the direction that Wind pointed her to with Wind in tow. As she did, Souffle was silent; she remembered that Wind used to have an armor that could fly by himself, that could transform into a plane. And for some reason, Souffle realized to her confusion, Wind wasn't using that. Why? Souffle didn't know and didn't really want to ask, feeling that if she did she would regret it somehow, but Souffle still couldn't help but wonder if Wind ever missed the freedom of flying.
As she and Wind reached the clouds and levelled off, Souffle shook the thoughts out of her head, concentrating on looking out; she could only hope that Wind knows how he wants to live his life, and Souffle could also only hope that if there really was a battle, Yumie wasn't going to get hurt in it...
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"------Fingaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
With a massive clash and the searing of burning red light, it was over; in the middle of a now-crowded street in London, a red-clad John Bull Gundam trooper flew, hit in the chest and beaten unconscious, sliding and reeling back a few meters above and onto the pavement behind him. The crowd gasped and clapped as they saw this, as the light faded; the fight was over, and the victor was apparent.
And that victor of one more street fight, one certain Kouji Kamishima, was smiling at the other side as he stood in his God Gundam armor, looking at his downed opponent. So far, his record had been really good --- and 81 wins to 12 losses in three years was something to feel good about, no doubt about it --- and so far, he was doing pretty well for himself. Spartan, sure, but well; it wasn't as if he needed much to begin with.
But there was one thing Kouji couldn't live without.
Looking around once, Kouji sighed in fulfillment and walked over to his opponent, checking his welfare. He'll live. Not even physically hurt much, Kouji realized, and at once he was relieved. He stood back up. The crowd could only look on as he then walked away and into the crowd, towards that one thing that Kouji couldn't live without: a Mobile Horse, radiant in white and red paint and standing taller than he was, stood waiting regally for him.
"Fuunsaiki," Kouji nodded, smiling; Fuunsaiki whinnyed once, nuzzling Kouji's head. For more reason than one, Kouji and Fuunsaiki were now more than the best of friends, easily family; and for more than one reason the human soul that lived on inside Fuunsaiki had grown really fond of that name, so much that she nearly insisted Kouji call her by that from now on. She was patient; she had many decades to live yet, if not centuries, and she had all the time to watch Kouji grow up and make something even better of himself. "Sorry to keep you waiting. You ready to go?"
Fuunsaiki snorted once in agreement.
With that, Kouji got onto Fuunsaiki's back and, looking back at the awed crowd, waved once with a wide smile. It was time to say goodbye. "Thank you, everyone! You've been a great crowd!" Then, Fuunsaiki pushed upwards and, with her powerful rear legs, kicked her and Kouji into the air. Soon, both she and Kouji were high above London, into the blue skies.
Kouji looked down. "Well, that's all of Europe, really," Kouji sighed. He had been travelling for three years, vowing to fight for happy endings and to inspire others through street fighting with opponents honorably; he had no plans to stop now, but where should Kouji go next? He's already been around the world once, except... "Do you miss our friends, Fuunsaiki?" A soft whinny. "Me too...I wonder where everyone is..."
There was silence for awhile. "Fuunsaiki, want to go back to New Mexico? Cybrionne-sama's grave is there, as is Atlas and Millenium; maybe we'll run into some old friends, too. That'll be nice to see, yes..."
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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 13:55:45 GMT -5
Dai was honestly surprised by the parts, the only things she'd ever seen them on were warships.
No wonder the UEG is in such a rush to catch her. These are definately battleship grade, no... even more powerful, parts.
"Okay then, say I believe you about all this. What now? Is there any possibilty these things are just being stored there and not going into Atlas or did you actually find where they're being installed?"
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Post by Aegis on Sept 21, 2004 14:26:07 GMT -5
Yumi held the letter in her hand, and broke the seal. Eyeing her somewhat suspiciously, Yumi scanned the message and became motionless, her expression almost unreadable.
"Yumi..." WeiLi whispered, showing a hint of concern over the Hi Nu Girl's sudden frozen expression.
"Winnie..." Yumi quietly replied. "I need to find Souffle..."
"What's going on - "
"I need to find her. NOW."
"Wait, what's going on - "
"Keep an eye on both Otomi and Delilah," Yumi said.
"Now just a minute - "
"I have no time to explain, just do as I tell you!" Yumi gritted her teeth. "Otomi, is it? You and I will need to talk afterwards. For now, I trust that you'll stay a little while?"
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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 16:14:55 GMT -5
"Not a problem," Otomi replied, "I can wait around at least until you have your reply ready."
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Post by Airmaster on Sept 21, 2004 17:49:03 GMT -5
"You'd think one of the inspectors would find something like this if it were only being stored there... And you said it yourself, It's a elevator... Why in the world would you store parts like this in a place like that?" Zero turned her head so it looked like she was looking at Dai.
"True is I'm not sure what is going on... I am only ordered to keep an eye out for things like this... But a UEG trasnport shuttle just left and seems to be headed to the Atles site.... And I know for a fact there were no normal transported headed there from this place for at least 2 weeks..."
The sound of boots hitting the stairs well coudl be heard.
"Hmm looks like thay are tracking me again... Well then Dai I'm sure I'll see you at the Atles site..." She jumped to the open wall and stood there for a moment.
"Well then Dai... I'll be seenin ya!" With that she fall back out of the open wall.
A moment later Dai heard a motorcycle rev and by the time she got to the opening all that there was to se of a trail of smoke.
About the same time a unit of UEG trooper stormed in and pointed there weaposn at Dai.
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Post by Cybaster on Sept 21, 2004 20:31:39 GMT -5
"Hey, Yumie's coming!" Souffle cried out happily all of a sudden with her and Wind still in mid-air, and at once she unconsciously sped up her airspeed; Yumie was always someone she could count on to be able to find, and sensing her was very easy for Souffle as long as they didn't stray too far away from each other. That, and she wanted to see Yumie again, ASAP, to tell her who else she found. Her eyes began peering in earnest left and right to look for her 'sister' at that. "Let's go meet her, Wind! She'll be glad to see an old friend!"
Then, eventually, Souffle saw an approaching form in the distance and at once knew it was Yumie. What Souffle could sense was where Yumie was, that she was looking for her; what Souffle couldn't sense, though, was that Yumie seemed hurried about something. Souffle waved in excitement, taking care not to drop Wind accidentally.
"Yumie~~~~! Hi! How're you?" Souffle yelled excitedly. "Guess who I found visiting Cybbie?"
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Post by Mega Raptor on Sept 21, 2004 22:08:03 GMT -5
Dai just glared at the troopers, "Damn, talk about taking your sweet time."
She sighed and started walking past them, but the soldiers tried to keep her from leaving.
"What the hell is your problem?" she started.
"You're coming with us," the person Dai guessed was the squad leader said.
"Yeah right, I'm working for you guys, idiots, here," she reached into her pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. It was her contract with General Khall to assist with guarding the Atlas site, "You try taking someone down without your armor, now, if you'll excuse me..."
She took the contract back and walked out of the room, heading back for the hotel. The soldiers did their best to gather information from the site, but once again were left with no new leads.
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Post by Aegis on Sept 21, 2004 22:16:16 GMT -5
Hearing Souffle's voice, Yumi quickly flew towards her direction.
"Souffle, land!" she cried out, not noticing Wind at all. Somewhat confused, Souffle landed on the ground, with Yumi immediately following suit. Before Souffle could say anything else, the Hi Nu Girl quickly approached the Xi Gundam Girl, and examined her with her hands like a worried mother. Finding nothing wrong, Yumi embraced the girl in her arms, all the while muttering to herself 'thank god...'
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Post by Cybaster on Sept 22, 2004 0:05:54 GMT -5
"Y---Yumie..." Souffle could say nothing; she couldn't, didn't and, for the moment, didn't want to, just letting Yumie hold her and holding Yumie back as if it was all that mattered to them. Usually, Souffle found that silence was good enough in times like this, and she liked it that way. However, Yumie's urgent tone soon had her worried, and the pivotal question came back to Souffle: What's happening?
Breaking the hug and looking from Yumie to Wind to everywhere else and back to Yumie, Souffle shrugged in confusion, not quite understanding. "Yumie, what's wrong? I'm fine, and I ran into an old friend, too, so there's no need to worry about me. What's troubling you, though?"
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