[00-Raiser]

Originally Posted by Yasanagi

Spoiler for Extra MD:

Verossa Acous wasn’t accustomed to getting up early in the morning. He set his own schedule and chose when to come into work or if he would skip work for the day. As long as he got worthwhile results on his investigations, his superiors never had any complaints. So it was surprising for him to be waiting in the cafeteria at this early hour with a coffee in hand and another cup sitting by for the person he was supposed to meet.

‘Geez, where is that guy anyway?’ Just as he took another sip of his coffee, he saw a paper airplane land quietly in front of him. The writing on the folds instructed him to open it up and underneath was a perfectly illustrated map of where his contact was waiting along with a message.

“I am currently holding at this position. P.S. This message will self destruct in-”

‘Is that guy obsessed with writing that self-destruct message every time?’ The investigator crumpled up the paper before looking around the area. He managed to trace the source of the plane to another table not as out in the open. With a small disgruntled sigh, he moved to the other table quietly with the drinks. “Did you have to call me for a meeting this early? It better be important, Skyhawk.”

Agent Skyhawk was one of the more efficient officers of the Bureau’s intelligence division although he was rather eccentric thanks to years of service in other secret service agencies. He looked like a plain sort of man with brown hair and a conspicuous looking white trench coat over his uniform. “Don’t worry; this piece of info is pretty hot and relevant to your latest investigation.”

“Then let’s hear it.”

Skyhawk looked around him to make sure that nobody was listening before leaning in to whisper. “The jam is moldy in the kitchen and the rolling rabbit gathers no moss.”

“Huh?”

“The monkeys are restless and my dog has fleas.”

This was going to be one of those times where Verossa wished for one of two things: Either Skyhawk becomes a magic user so he could just tell him what he wanted over telepathy or someone gave Verossa a crash course in ‘Spy Speak’. “What are you talking about?”

“If you can’t stand the heat, go to the dentist and get it fixed.”

“Good grief, man… SPEAK NORMALLY!” Normally Verossa was a calm person but dealing with the other agent on a regular basis when he did his ‘Spy Speak’ often drained his patience quite quickly.

“I can’t! Who knows if there’s an enemy spy among us?” said Skyhawk as he carefully kept an eye on the people surrounding their table in the cafeteria. “We need a better spy check system around here to dispel transformation magic. I’m thinking fire would be good to flush them out so maybe a squad of professional spy checkers with flamethrowers should do the trick.”

“But we’re in a heavily guarded military base. It’s not likely-”

“That won’t stop them,” hissed the agent in as quiet a tone as possible. “You don’t know enemy spies like I do. They’ll infiltrate any base, kill any personnel, disguise themselves to obtain top secret enemy information and worst of all… seduce our mothers to the point where they become presidents of their fan club!”

Verossa rolled his eyes. “Look, I know a few people up in the higher ranks so I’ll speak to them about implementing that ‘spy checker’ squad you wanted. Now can you tell me why you summoned me so urgently?”

Satisfied that at least someone would look into his concerns, Skyhawk began to speak. “Last night, a contact of mine told me that subspace communications went offline at one of them off world prisons. At the same time, someone broke in and caused a helluva mess there.”

“Which prison was it? How bad is the situation?”

“I believe it was ‘Lubsoulim’ Orbit Prison’s 6th branch on Uninhabited World 17. The latest casualty count is eight dead with twenty three heavily wounded. The internal structure is apparently quite a mess with several walls having been blasted through. And surveillance footage did manage to get a good picture of that intruder…”

Verossa took a moment to absorb the information in. “This has been reported to the main branch, right?”

Skyhawk took a sip of his drink. “My partner’s already reporting it. Of course, I betcha those admirals wouldn’t appreciate hearing such bad news before they had their morning coffee. The odd thing is that eyewitness accounts are reporting that the only thing that the intruder wanted was food… and a sidekick.”

“Say what?”

“Yeah, she’s a weird one alright. Looking exactly like that Fate chick you got running around in your base.”

‘So this is something related to the Materials,’ thought Verossa to himself. “You mentioned a sidekick earlier? What did you mean by that? And who did she take?”

“Hey, that’s their words, not mine. As for the prisoner that she swiped, it was that tall pink haired Combat Cyborg with a huge rack and-”

*CRASH*

Their conversation was interrupted by someone dropping a breakfast tray nearby, spilling the contents on the white tiles. And there were only three words that the shocked Sein could say in response to her sharp hearing picking up the description of one of her incarcerated sisters. “Sette… is out…?”

Guess they needed to worry about eavesdroppers after all

That 'spy speak' stuff... I remember hearing it on some TV show or something somewhere but I can't remember what specifically...