Thread: A Chance Encounter (Hahvy and I)

It took about an hour or so to get to her fathers work and the facility still had lights on in various parts of the building, but that wasnt exactly where she was headed. She needed to find a certain door. There were guards hanging out in various spots but she knew how to get around undetected. Even with the incident from earlier and the amped up security, she knew this place like the back of her hand. She had snuck into it more times than she could remember and they still didnt know how she did it. They never would either. Feeling along the south wall, soon she found the niche in the stonework and pressed the button. A door soon slid open on oiled tracks to her left, a small space becoming visible. Glancing around, she made she wasnt followed as she slipped into the facility, the door sealing up behind her. An old engineer who had helped build the facility had told her about the door he had created since he had liked to sneak out to have a smoke break or have private conversations. She wasnt above bribery so she had often brought him sweets so she could hear his stories of Earth and the other colonies. Space had seemed like a beautiful dream back then. But I can go there She said into the darkness as she pulled her goggles on and clicked the night vision mode. Soon the room was bathed in a green light in her line of vision as she walked amongst the various machines and large components. She had to be careful. Guards usually didnt monitor this area as well as the other parts of the facility because there wasnt an exit except for where the gundam could be loaded or unloaded and so she had to turn the alarm off. It would take some finesse to turn the alarm off to one single door but it could be done. She knew the code and the back up code to make sure that the security system didnt register the turning off of the alarm. Moving quietly amongst the farther wall, she moved around various objects to find the security panel that was hidden under a set of stairs. Taking out her small tool kit, she selected a small screwdriver and very carefully removed the screws holding the panel cover in place. Popping that off, she placed it on the ground before taking out a small code puncher from her pocket. It had a connection cable that had to be plugged in to a tiny component on that panel. Locating it in the upper left corner, she clipped the cable into place and let the screen on her code puncher light up. Very quickly, she punched in the new seven digit code that had been upgraded for the day and then the back-up code that had been imbedded into the system once it had become active. It was a tricky process because you had to wait exactly five seconds before punching in the second code. If you were off by even a second- Gotcha, the light on her code reader turned green then red and she unclipped it from the panel, putting it back in her pocket. Screwing the cover back into place, she put her tools away and slipped out from under the stairs, carefully looking around for any guards. She couldnt be too careful. She wanted off this piece of garbage colony. Heading towards the assembly hanger, Huo set her eyes on one of the most beautiful sights she had ever seen. She smiled as she looked up at the prototype that had been codenamed Epyon. The black and red armor sparkled in her vision as she touched the giant foot that was before her. The cool metal was smooth beneath her hand, already making her fall in love. She hadnt seen any pictures of the prototype, just the schematics when she had broke into her fathers office and rummaged through his files. The interior was a different kind of system from what some of the mobile suits had been given so it was about body movement with a computer system that read the signatures the body produced. It was complicated, but it was also simple at the same time. At leastI hope it is, she murmured to herself. Suddenly, the lights went on in the bay and she swore before diving under a nook made by a bunch of boxes. The silence in the hanger made her able to hear all the voices. Man, I hate doing night watch sometimes. This hanger only has action during the day. Footsteps were above her head from at least forty feet up as people walked along the metal bridgewalkway that connected all the hangers together and made it easier for the engineers to work on the gundams. From the sounds of it, it sounded like either two or four people. They bitched about their job and then talked about the latest happenings in their lives, yaddah, yaddah, until eventually the voices faded. She didnt relax though. She stayed silent until the lights went off about fifteen minutes later. If she hadnt been able to hide under something, she would have definitely been caught. That was too closebetter make this fast, quickly, she find the stairs that led up to the walkway that connected to Epyon. Eventually she made it to the machine and stared at its face. How did she get it to open again? Staring at it for a moment, scratching her head, she tried to remember where in the schematics it said how to open up the--- Oh.thats how, I guess. The chest of the gundam opened up, showing her the interior of the cockpit. She would have to jump to get into the machine, but she wondered how it had happened. Looking at the face, the eyes werent lit so she didnt even know if it was on. Staring at it for a few more seconds, she nodded her head at it before taking a leap off the walkway. Landing on the open hatch, she slipped into the cockpit as the hatch closed behind her. Depositing her things inside the cockpit, she glanced around in awe. The inside glowed as it came to life at her touch, pressing various buttons to get the machine running. She disengaged the locking mechanism that held the gundam in place and settled herself into the body reader as she liked to call it. Her feet were set into the foot grooves and her hands gripped the joysticks that controlled the arms of the robot as the straps secured her arms and legs. As the screen before her came to life after she had slipped off her goggles her eyes took in all the component read outs and view of the world through the gundams eyes. It was like being in another world. All right, EpyonYou ready to break out of here and get off this garbage bin? As the locks fully disengaged, she felt the gundam lurch at her touch before she evened out, knowing that if anyone heard that, they would be fucked. Murmuring things to herself, she used her code reader to open the bay door to let the gundam out. It was too loud for her to handle and as soon as it was open, she marched the gundam out of the door. It was tough on her body to move the gundam, but eventually she got used to the motions. Yet she knew that as much as she wanted to be quiet, she had the feeling that she was definitely going to be followed. Oh well! As she piloted the gundam, she found the controls acted like an extension of herself, much like how she felt when she was riding her hoverboard. She found the right combination to get it into the air and was soon flying, the wings unlocking and spreading out. She screamed inside her cockpit at the feeling of flying, heading towards the spaceport. It wouldnt take long for the authorities to catch wind of a stolen gundam so she made sure to make haste. Once at the spaceport, she disengaged the wings, managing to make at least a decent landing as she looked for a suitable ship. Where was she to go? Seeing a kind of piece of shit ship that was within range, she had Epyon fly over and land in front of it. Hoping someone was there, she projected her voice with the microphone program. HEY! WHOEVER IS IN THERE! TAKE ME TO SPACE PRONTO!