Project Enneyac

Project Enneyac
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Scene Eighteen

The monitor directly across from her bed glimmered and displayed an array of symbols that informed the weather forecast outside as well as the time, it had all been set up since the day she moved in but it was only a moment ago that she noticed the radiating light sources.

It's morning already? Thought En. I've been up all night thinking back to these stupid memories? The guilt pulled at her stomach and dragging it down as if it was loaded with lead. Trying to ignore the feelings, she leapt out of bed, feeling the liberating thrill of being stark naked and not having to care about anyone intruding. It's going to be sunny today, in other words, no rain for the next few days, gotta love this planet, she thought to herself as she scanned across the screen. She walked to her wardrobe and grabbed a pair of underpants, a supporting brasserie and dress with a high waist cut, woven out of a mix of hem and calico fabric embroided with indegenous designs constituted out of brown and green thread.

After buttoning herself on the front, she grabbed a pair of trousers that was designed to be matched with the dress, its hems on the ankle area were embroided in the same fashion. She pulled out a pair of maroon boots with velvety texture on the outside, tugged them on and stomped her feet into place. She pulled out a dark jade green sash woven out of silk and was about to tie it around her waist before she stopped and pondered for a second, then coiled her tail into place instead of the sash. She then double-folded the sash horizontally before swinging it to the back of her head and bringing the two ends together to make a knot on the left side, where her left hair bang was residing which is now perched up from the new enhancement. The remaining sash that was left hanging from the knot enhanced the entire ensemble to resemble a fleshy flower bud that was still a long way from blossoming.

She walked to the bathroom and carefully cleansed her face with a proportionally soaked cloth, despite what she has heard about recent improvements on rain control, she did not trust the planet's climate nor the technology and refused to give into any risks of running into water shortage. En felt her skin soaking up the much needed moisture and felt the micro facial hair fuzz up, she gave a hearty sigh and cursed under her breath on the irony of having an air conditioned living quarter which the function of controlling the humidity may as well as dryness be non-existent.

Out of habit she reached for her scouter before heading out then paused her hand in midair.

I don't want them to find me. She thought to herself.

I could use with a bit of personal space now, besides from now on, I work alone. The thought made her feel better as she retracted her hand.

Oh really? Technically you never got the official statement from him, what you're doing is a violation against your captain's order.

Great, not you again.

Why do you think he's covering for you? You almost killed both of them for crap's sakes!

You know as much as I do that all these years he bitched about getting demerit points, if he still wants to be captain then be my guest.

Whoa whoa whoa missy, harsh much? If it weren't for him you'd still be burning corpses at that dump and gnawing fleas off your arm!

So? I may as well have died that day!

That's not what you were thinking before.

Yes, I do have feelings for him, so what? He'll always treat me like I was still a rookie who punches like a drunk!

See? His words exactly.

So what?

What? I'm not saying anything, I'm just your subconscious.

Why do you always remember the trivial things, you're supposed to just stick to what you're good at, remembering combat techniques and that's it!

Oh admit it, you totally saved the day that time.

Stop that.

Remember your first mission? They never thought you'd make it your first assassination just like that.

That's because I fucked up remember? He said he'd left me estranged on the planet along with the rest of that damn alien race if I don't shape up.

Yeah you did manage to mess the pace up pretty good.

My pod landed 50 kilometres away from the actual destination, what was I supposed to do?

You were too dumb to use your scouter 'cause you lost your head and Seripa had to find you while receiving orders from him.

She wasn't very happy.

You guys were way below the estimated kill toll that day.

What was I supposed to do? They were swarming from everywhere at us and I couldn't see anything.

Yeah you may as well have wet your pants, can't believe it took you a while to realise that they can't fly.

Hey, it wasn't my fault, he threw me into the air by the scruff of my neck!

You were pretty much a Saiyan ball, face it he used you as a weapon.

That's not the point. He was pissed off at me at the end of the day. Even Toma was quiet throughout the scolding.

Hey at least Seripa told him that was enough for the day.

Yeah but for someone who couldn't even land a hit on aliens that can't fly, that's pretty lame.

Hey, you've come a long way from then on out, if that planet's original inhabitants still exists it'd probably take you just half a day to make them extinct.

They are extinct, we wiped them out. I snuck into their leader's cavern and came back with his head, that's what prompted their decline in battle morale and why we were able to take over the planet.

Yeah but my point is, you're not someone whose ability he can sneer at anymore.

He never cared about me, all he gave a crap was being THE captain. I was a rookie for fuck's sakes and I fucking cut a leader's head off just for him! You think ANYONE would've done what I've done?! You have any idea how scared shitless I was while submerged under water, so they couldn't track me down? I couldn't figure out how to mute my scouter for crap's sakes I had to leave it at our camp and sneak out on them! I could have been killed! You should've seen how he was rubbing in the faces of the other captains the entire week but he never, EVER gave me that look that says that he's proud of what I've done!

Did you want him to?

En paused from her stream of thoughts and looked at her scouter.

You do realise that he could have disqualified you for disobeying orders and have you deported back to Planet Vegeta, and that you can never fight along side them again?

I never thought of that.

En blinked slowly and intensifies her look once more at the gadget.

What? You expecting a call from him to say that he's sorry for treating you like a reject amputee for all these years? Pull your head out of your ass! You're no more equal than Seripa and Toma! Isn't that good enough considering that they've been with him since they were brats and he still shoved you in front of their faces? Proving to them that you became what you are now?

I know that! Why and who do you think I've worked this hard for?! I have no one!

Then why did you run away?

I fucked up! OK?! It's not tolerable 'cause I'm not a rookie anymore and if anything the only penalty is death!

Fuck you're slow.

What?

Can't you see? Do I gotta spell everything out for you?

I'm not sure what you're saying.

This isn't about him, it's about YOU! He doesn't want you penalised for your 'friendly-fire' incident! Think about it! He's even threatened the medics on keeping their mouths shut just to keep you on board! And if you still can't get your head around it, he DOESN'T want you DEAD! He wants you alive and breathing, hello?!

I... I don't know what to say.

Dont' say anything, just pick up that damn scouter and call him, say that you're sorry for freaking out due to low blood sugar and been running around like a mad monkey and just say ya wanna come back!

But I've already talked to that freaky doctor.

Seriously? Just because he's above y'all doesn't mean he's the superior one, remember how he fawned at pansy? Besides, you can easily decapitate him with a single energy blade.

And you're the one calling me the mad monkey.

I kid, you know how troublesome it is to get rid of the body, why do you think Bardock taught you never kill anyone except when ordered to, even if they piss you off? Sticky situations that's why! You'll never hear the end of it once they find out you kill someone! It's tough enough to make it into the military these days let alone violating any conducts! It's not like the old days when they can just drag anyone from the street oops, I mean... you know what I mean?

Yeah.

The scouter radiated a bright pink hue and a familiar, crispy clear voice called out to her.

"En? This is Seripa, I know you're back so don't even try and avoid me!"

No!

Without giving another thought, En bolted for the door leaving the scouter behind.

Only to collide full on with Seripa.


End Scene Eighteen

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Cliff hanger~~~~!

Just want to say thanks to my first ever AFF reviewer, thank you Nelfie for reviewing my fic, though I dont' know what you like about it so far but I'm sorry that I didn't see it sooner as I thought at at this stage people are never going to review it, on AFF anyways, but thanks, I'll keep on writing this as I have planned to.

And Cathy, I hope you enjoyed this chapter ^^

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