CHAPTER ONE:
SUZUHARA HIGH SCHOOL (January 3, A.C. 199)
Makoto quietly stared out of her classroom's window, watching a pair of Preventers
test the boys running team.
'It's your mission to finish off the governing group of this dimension without letting
any suspicion come upon you.' Makoto remembered, glancing back at the board.
Akira Makoto a.k.a. Akira Tsubame in this dimension is no ordinary girl. She is
actually a member of an elite Mobile Suit group of the Mediators, a secret army composed
of young people who jumps dimension to keep the balance of peace and justice.
"For tomorrow, class, please wear your PE uniforms. The Preventers are going to
hold another set of tests," the teacher announced as soon as the dismissal bell rang.
She softly cursed under her breath. She knew that tomorrow will be a bad day. She
has to leave town and report to their base.
"Excuse me, miss. But if I were absent, would there be another chance that I can
get the exams?" She raised her hand.
"I'm afraid not, Miss Akira." A voice chanced into her question. Everyone turned
around and were surprised to see a blond-haired Preventer at the back of their classroom.
Makoto cringed inwardly as the man looked at her coolly.
"Why, Commander Peacecraft. It's a surprise to see you here." The teacher sweated.
"And it is a bigger surprise that you know our star student."
"I was just at the other classroom so I decided to drop by." He smirked, studying
the young girl intently. "It's so nice to finally met the topnotcher of this term's
academic exams. Now, you wouldn't mind coming tomorrow. After all, you haven't attended
a single exam since you transferred here."
"I'll try." She gritted her teeth.
"That's not enough." The blonde frowned slightly. "I'll pick you up tomorrow."
Makoto entirely turned pale.
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"Then what in the hell am I going to do?!?!" Makoto wailed in front of her
companions. Isis Myers, her commanding officer, is already a college student at her first
year, so is her second- in-command, Elaine Bates.Two of her other companions, Lilliane
Kenneth and Kristine Marks are high school students like her.
"It's your fault, Makoto," Isis said dispassionately as she pored over her books.
"You were not careful enough."
"Nani?" Makoto shrieked, panic showing in her dark brown eyes.
"She's just making fun of you." Elaine patted the terrified brunette, glaring at
her auburn-haired companion.
Isis just shrugged in indifference to their surprise. They knew that she would
normally order them around after being defeated in an argument.
"So, when's dinner?" Lilliane asked the black- haired second-in command.
"In about an hour." Elaine said, tousling Lilliane's pale blond hair only to have
her hand slapped away. "We're going to wait for Asaka and Toji."
Himura Asaka and Nagata Toji are the last two members of the seven-member team sent
to Osaka to monitor the activity there. They're also the oldest members even though they
are just lieutenants compared to Makoto, Lilliane and Kristine's ranks as lieutenant
colonels and Elaine being a commander of the Mediators Elite Force. And having the highest
rank of them all, Isis as the brigadier general in-charge of all operations in that
dimension.
Kristine quietly watched her companions without them realizing it.
Makoto is a Japanese with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Elaine ,in the meanwhile,
is a British with her ebony black hair and metal-gray eyes. Lilliane is a French girl
with pale blonde hair and deep blue eyes as Iris is Russian- British, inherited her
auburn hair and her father's sea green eyes. She was, in the meanwhile, American with
brown hair and blue- violet eyes.
"What are you thinking about, Kristine?" Lilliane asked her, plopping right beside
her.
"Nothing," Kristine shrugged.
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Isis was preparing Makoto's lunch along with everybody's breakfast when the doorbell
rang.
"Coming," she half- announced as she wiped her hands on her apron before heading
to the front hallway and opening the door.
"Good morning," Quatre greeted her with Captain Duo Maxwell, Captain Chang Wufei and
Lieutenant Trowa Barton in tow. "I'm here to pick up Miss Akira Tsubame."
"She's still asleep," she said nonchalantly, coldly glaring at them. "You came too
early."
"Isis, why are you letting them stand out there? Let them in." An ebony- haired girl
spoke up from the stairs.
"Isis gave out a soft grunt of disagreement before letting the three men enter.
"You must excuse Isis. She woke up from the wrong side of the bed." Elaine quickly
apologized when Isis left the three standing in the hallway to return to the kitchen.
"Moody, I might say." Duo smiled at the ebony-haired girl. "You are?"
"Elaine… Elaine Bates." She shook hands with him. "I'm a fellow boarder."
"I see," Quatre nodded before Elaine led them to the living room.
"Lilliane!" Elaine gaped at the sprawled figure on the floor when she entered the
living room.Lilliane opened one bleary eye before sitting up slowly.
"You're drunk!" Elaine exclaimed when she caught sight of a scotch bottle sticking
from under the sofa.
"I'm not!" Lilliane drawled, yawning loudly as she did. "But they are."
Elaine turned and gaped at what seems to be a heap of clothes.
"Oh, brother." She promptly smacked her forehead. It was Himura Asaka and Nagata
Toji.
Isis frowned slightly when she entered the living room with a basin of cold water.
"They're still not awake?" She asked.
"Nope! I'm afraid not," Lilliane stretched.
Isis immediately frowned and dumped the basinful of cold water on the two.
"You're both going to be late for work." She grumbled as soon as the two adults
woke up, sputtering out water.
"For crying out, it's still six-thirty in the morning." Duo muttered after Isis
left to prepare breakfast. "How come she can do that to you guys?"
"It is because she is the niece of the owner of this boarding house and she does
most of the cooking around here." Lilliane yawned as Toji and Asaka went up to their rooms.
"Plus she's also the one who makes our lunches."
Lilliane stretched until she felt her joints pop. Then, she half-glared at Wufei.
"Who let the curtains open?"
"What?!?!" Wufei glared at her.
"Cool it, Wu-chan." Duo drapped over his colleague'shoulders.
"So El, what's for breakfast? I'm hungry." Lilliane grinned at her friend.
"It's the fourth Tuesday of the month right?" Elaine thought deeply. "I think it
would be pancakes for today."
"I decided to have bacon and eggs instead." Isis spoke up from the kitchen archway.
"Tsubame-chan needs all the strength and energy for her physical exam today."
"Oh,well." Lilliane shrugged before calling Makoto/Tsubame and Kristine. A sleepy
Makoto in cute teddy bear pajamas stumbled down the stairs, still clutching her pillow
with an irritated Kristine just behind her.
"What is it now, Lilliane?" Kristine demanded as Makoto proceeded to the couch
and plopped down on it. Makoto was immediately asleep as soon as her head touched her
pillow. She had a very good reason to be tired since she was up all night devising a
way not to go to the physical exam and to get to their base in the correct time.
"Tsu-chan?" Elaine shook the brunette. "Wake up. You have to get dressed for your
physical exam."
"But I don't want to." Makoto muttered, hitting Elaine with her pillow. "Go away.
I want to sleep."
"Tsubame, the people who are going to pick you up are here already." Elaine gently
removed the pillow from her.
"But I still want to sleep." Makoto yawned widely only to have a donut shoved in by
Lilliane.
"Ha! Gotcha!" Lilliane exclaimed, rushing out of the room.
Makoto spat out the donut and started to cough. "You all right, Miss Akira?" Someone
asked her.
"Ha... hai." Makoto managed to cough out before her brown eyes connected with a pair
of blue eyes. She immediately blushed furiously.
"Breakfast's ready." Isis interrupted them. Quatre gave Makoto a small smile before
Elaine led him out and his companions for breakfast.
Makoto gulped when her commanding officer frowned at her. "I'll pick you up later
after your test." Isis said before proceeding back up to her room.
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Isis quietly watched as a couple of Makoto's classmates slipped and fell in the tire
course. She knows that their group would be in deep trouble if they ever found out
about Makoto's unusual genetic code.
It's been due to the failure of a pair of their spies to cover up the mysterious
death of one of Preventers that their plan to assinate Deputy Prime Minister Relena
Peacecraft was uncovered. Since the two spies were found to have unususal physical
characteristics at a very young age of 14 ,the Preventers decided to run some tests on
students from grade school up to high school. It is due to their belief that their enemies
were recruiting children, but what they didn't know that the Mediators have already
infiltrated their ranks.
Makoto frowned slightly as her classmates began to stagger due to the grueling route.
She was in deep shit, she realized. If she were to slow down now, she knows that they will
know that she's not using her maximum strength but in the other hand, the mission could be
placed in jeopardy if her identity would be uncovered.
Suddenly, her eyes lighted when she passed by the gate. Isis was standing beside her
car, smoking while she patiently waited for her. She knew that Isis could bring up a
commotion if she felt that Preventers were becoming close to finding out about her.
Trowa was carefully watching Tsubame when he saw her face lighten up as she passed
by the gate for what was like the 10th time. He immediately looked at the direction she
looked at and recognized the woman standing beside a dark sea green car. It was Isis
Myers, the college student who was in-charge of the boarding house.
"Well... That's that." Duo sighed as he pushed the stop button of the timer at
exactly 30 minutes since the start of the exam. Makoto made a show of staggering with the
remaining four students of her class when they came to a stop. She believed that the
Preventers would take the bait but they didn't.
Isis made a signal for Makoto to hurry up as soon as Captain Chang announced that
the exam was finished. Makoto was just about to leave when four shadows covered her.
"Miss Akira, we would like to ask you to stay for a few more minutes." Trowa spoke
up in his usual monotone voice, leaving no space for excuse in his tone.
"She would love to but I'm afraid we're going to be late." Someone uttered from
behind the 4 Preventers. Makoto gave out a loud sigh of relief when she recognized Isis
standing behing the four males.
"Where's the fire?" Wufei asked sarcastically at the redhead. Isis gave him one of
her iciest looks before approaching Makoto.
"Hurry up." She said to the brunette. "We have to get the cake for Asaka's
birthday."
"All right." Makoto nodded before disappearing to the locker room to change her
clothes. Isis turned around and faced the four Preventers. She took out a cigarette pack,
got herself a cigarette and lighted it.
"That's bad for the health." Duo said pointing to her cigar. "You should really give
it up."
Isis raised a eyebrow before removing the cigarette from her mouth. "I believe that
it's my business if I want to smoke or not." She shot back at him.
"Isis?" Makoto said as soon as she stepped out of the locker room. Isis half-turned
her head and nodded before making her way to her car without any farewell. Makoto took the
chance and said farewell to them before running after her commanding officer.
"I think we better start investigating." Wufei eyed his companions as Quatre tallied
the results. "I've got a gut feeling that Tsubame is a probable candidate."
The other three former GW pilots nodded in agreement.
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