Why Am I Here

Chapter Fourteen: I Was Part of the Project

(Name: Agent Mississippi, Age Fifteen-Sixteen, Occupation: Engineer, Status: Inactive) Theme: Electric Angel vocaloid 

I was about twelfth when I joined project freelancer but since I was so young I had to lie about my age luckily I was able to get unfortunately I didn't get the state I wanted. Welcome to project freelancer agent New Mexico. I pouted inside my helmet, "C-Can't I pick another state?" "I'm sorry but that's not a choice." "Oh O-Okay." I said shyly before sighing then leaving suddenly I bumped into someone, "Oof!" "Oh my god are you okay!" I heard a feminine voice scream out. I looked up to see a solider in light blue armor offering me a hand. "Um yeah, I'm okay." " Good. I was afraid that you were accidentally knocked unconscious. That happened once, it's a long story, Oh before I forget, I'm agent Mississippi." She then held out her hand so I awkwardly took it telling her shyly, "I-I guess my name's N-New Mexico." "Oh, you must be the new freelancer. Ihat's so cool! Ooh, it's almost lunch. Do you want to eat with me?" "Um.." However before I could finish my sentence Mississippi dragged me to the mess hall. There she gave me a quick tour, afterwards we sat with two male soldiers, one with dark yellow armor and the other had orange red armor. Mississippi introduced them to me as California and Kanas. "What's your name?" "I-I'm New Mexico." I told them before taking a sip of water. "Well if you need any help around here just get me." Kanas said with a smile but Mississippi said. "Come on guys. I'm sure he can handle himself right New Mexico?" "R-Right." I stated unsure as he shrugged then California said, "Hey Missi, did you showed him around yet?" "Oh no! I only showed him the mess hall. We still have our rooms, the day room, the showers the lockers-" "It's okay I can show him." California told her suddenly she calmed down a bit as he just sighed then began showing me around once we were done he asked, "So what do think?" "It's nice?" "No, I mean of Mississippi." "She's um..." I paused trying to think of the right words. He sighed, "Missi's always ruins her chances to make new friends because of her hyperness, nervousness and excitement but if you get to know her she's the sweetest girl most people don't even give a second chance to. I guess I'm telling you this because I'm worried you'll hurt her feelings like others have before you." "Actually, I-I wasn't planning on doing that even though Mississippi is-is like that. she's still has a kind heart." I told him with a smile he smiled back telling me, "Call me Cal, all my friends do." I just laughed knowing that these guys are going to the only friends I need. About maybe two weeks later we were eating dinner then suddenly a girl with a pale purple armor ran toward our table. "Missi! Missi! Guess who's back." Mississippi started squealing while Cal and Kansas rolled their eyes. "What's going on?" I asked confused Cal pointed toward the door. "The dream team are back from a mission." I looked to where he was pointing to see a group a soldiers dressed in a variety of colors. I then asked them, "Um, So who are they?" "Well, they're the best of the best!" "They're so cool." Nevada and Missi told me dreamily as Cal rolled his eyes then Kanas told me, "Top scores on leader board. The one in white armor is Wyoming, the blue one is Carolina, the one brown is Connecticut, the other white one is Maine-" The brown guy is New York." Nevada said cutting him off then Mississippi added. "And the two in the purple armor are the Dakota twins." Cal smirked telling me, These two have crushes on them. Nevada told them, "Well, maybe if you guys were a little bit better at what you do then maybe you'll be admired like them." "Or stalked." Muttered Cal causing Kanas to laugh. I then asked, "W-Why are they called the dream team?" "That's just a nickname everyone calls them as a joke but they're just like us." Kanas explained but Cal argued back, "Yeah right! Everyone practically worships them! Hell, I bet money Nevada can't even go up and talk to one." "I can too! She argued before adding, I-I just don't feel like it but I bet Missi can't." Wait what?" "Yeah, I bet she can't even talk to one of the twins. "A-Aww, come on guys. J-Just leave her alone." I argued shyly but it was too late. "Do it! I dare you." Cal said, "Why can't we just go back to eating quietly?" She asked scared. "Come on, If you go up there i'll give you half my pay for next mission." Kanas bribed as Nevada begged. "Please Missi?" She sighed defeated telling them, "I'll do it, but only if New Mexico comes with me." "Deal!" "What?" I asked confused. "Come on rookie, All you have to do is go with her, How bad can it be?" Cal urged as I sighed then followed her to their table. She shook fearfully while approaching the Dakotas. "U-Um hi." "Oh hello?" "Hey." "I'm Missi-Mississippi, I'm a real big fan of you guys, well of you two, not that you guy are not good it's just that that I like them better and-" "Oh no." I muttered worried suddenly Mississippi passed out, I quickly caught her then placed her only the ground I quickly took off her helmet as well as her armor to help her breath better. Suddenly a solider in grey amour asked me, "What happened here?" "She passed out due to hyperventilating." "Oh, is she going to be okay?" "i'm sure she'll be fine. She just needs to rest and catch her breath." "That's good, he said with a nod. Hey, can I catch your name?" "Call me New Mexico." I told him, "Oh you must be the newest rookie. Well if you need anything just-" "Are you serious? You got New Mexico that's as bad as Rhode Island!" Asked New York in surprise. I growled angrily asking, "Yeah, You got a problem with it?" As soon as I said that people started crowding around, "Not really, I mean I thought it wasn't really a state tha-" At that moment I punch him in the face causing the man in the grey amor to restrain me taking me away from the mess hall. One we were alone he asked, "Okay what was that about?" "He was insulting me!" "York was just trying to kidd with you. Granted that he shouldn't say those things but still punching his face was a bit too much." "I-I guess, but he shouldn't said that!" I argued he sighed, "If you want I could talk to him?" I smiled a bit, "Thanks." "No problem, by the i'm agent Washington." I frowned a bit since that's the name I wanted but shooked his hand, "I-It's nice to meet you." After our meeting I went to check if Missi was okay. Like I thought she just suffered from hyperventilation however when I checked on her she was up and alert. "Hey Missi, A-Are you okay?" "Why are you talking about me?" I was confused, "E-Excuse me?" "Rookie, you punched a member of the dream team in the face. Do you know how many people wish they could say that?" Cal told me as Kanas rolled his eyes but told me, "We were just worried that you might have gotten in trouble with New York." "Yeah, you disappeared for long time. What was that about?" Nevada asked curiously. "Oh Washington took me away-" "Ooh How so?" nevada teases as missi rapid fired questons at me, "Was it by the hand? Did you feel anything? Did you-" "M-Missi enough! We just talked!" I told them as my face burned with embarrassment. "What did you talk about?" Cal asked in a teasing manner then Kanas said, "Knock it off you guys! Besides the director is probably going talk to him about it." "That's not fair!" Cal argued as I shyly added, "I-It was his fault!" "Well, that's the dream team for you. Nobody ever gets in trouble with them here." "Cal, you know that's not true." Whatever." Cal said while getting up to answer the door. "Anyways, Rookie, Just ignore what Cal said they do get in trouble-" "Is this a bad time?" I heard a voice asked I quickly got up to see New York. Cal was glaring him down but I was confused, Why was he here? "C-Can I help you?" I asked unsure. "Yeah, I was wonder if I could talk to you. He quickly added, Alone." Since everyone started watching us. "Um, Sure. Why not?" I said shyly. After a while I asked, "S-So, What did you need?" "Well Wash told me that you didn't like my joke, that and the fact you have a really good left hook." I laughed a bit at that. "Too bad that got you to laugh." Sorry." I apologized quickly. "It's okay. but i've got a question for you, why didn't you like me talking about New Mexico?" "Well I-I'm from there so-" "Oh sorry." He apologized quickly. "I-It's okay. It suddenly became quite so I asked, Hey, um why-why do you call agent Washington Wash in-instead of by his full title? With a laugh he told me, "It's just a nickname like how everyone calls me York." "Oh." I said nodding my head suddenly he asked, "Hey do you have nickname?" "Not really, I-I'm just called New Mexico or rookie when they don't don't want to say my full name." He gave me a look but asked, "How about we come up together." "W-Why?" I asked confused as he smiled happily, "Come on it'll be fun. How about...nemeco?" I started to laugh. "That's sounds l-like a toy." Okay, how about mewco?" "Uh, that's sounds a-a little weird." "Hmm, Oh, How about, How about Nemo?" "Nemo?" I asked confuses. "Yeah, It kinda sounds cute." I smiled a bit telling him, "You know o-on the planet glaratin, Nemo means nobody?" "Who cares! I still think the names good because it gives you a goal." "W-What's that? "And that's where the goal begins." He answered with a wink. I huffed then smiled a bit who knew New York was actually a nice guy?