StudioPC wrote:

Moments later, she walked in, wearing a sweat-soaked one piece outfit  
that left nothing to the imagination, and a towel around her neck.  
Her hair was tied back from her forehead and she was mopping her face  
with a small hand-cloth.

"Wha!" Hiroshi gaped. "Mirai!" He loved his sister, but she had a  
tendency towards casual nudity that shocked him. 

immodesty (she isn't nude)

"We'll get straight to the point," Smith said.

"We know about Moldiver," Jones said. "We know that Amagi was  
Machinegal, and did not, as Amagi Corp said, die in a jetcoptor  
accident."

I think it would work better for them to start with what they want and 
then give the explanation for why they think the Moldiver pair can 
provide it when asked.  After all, them knowing about Moldiver is not in 
fact the point.

Mirai's face was as hard as stone and and she had slipped one hand  
into her pocket.

Smith held up a hand. "We're not here about that. We know what he was  
up to and the world's better off. Quite frankly, you should be  
commended."

"What do you want?" Hiroshi said, grabbing his sister's wrist. "Like  
you said, get to the point."

"Are either of you familiar with the writings of Richard C.  
Hoagland?" Jones asked.

"I've seen him cited on a few conspiracy theory sites," Hiroshi said.  
"He popularized the face on Mars theory, didn't he?"

Smith nodded. "He and his team were considered crackpots, but they  
maintained their position until the very end. The point, Mister  
Ozora, is that he was right, and we need Moldiver's help."

"But there is no face!" Hiroshi said, "I've been to the Cydonia  
plain. There's no face there."

"No, you haven't," Jones said. "The real Cydonia is about a hundred  
miles southeast. You should both feel special, you're about to be let  
in on one of the biggest secrets in history."

"There is a face?" Mirai asked.

Smith nodded. "A face, a city under the Martian Ice, evidence of  
ancient astronauts, the whole thing. Fact is that so far, Hoagland  
was one hundred percent right, and there's just one thing left to  
prove, which is where the two of you come in."

Mirai removed her hand from her pocket as the siblings exchanged  
glances.

"Go on," Hiroshi said in a guarded tone.

Jones opened the case, revealing a holo projector.

"July Twentieth, Nineteen Sixty-Nine," Smith said. "Neil Armstrong  
and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings on the Moon. During  
their moonwalks, they found the remains of a structure several miles  
north of the landing site. Radioing back to Earth for instructions,  
they were instructed to take photos and then return immeditly to  
Earth. Under the mandate of policies in effect at the time, as the  
goverment believed that the public would be unable to handle the truth."

Doesn't really make sense.  The public wouldn't be alarmed at all at the 
idea of long dead people who once lived on the moon.  It would be more 
likely that they kept it secret in the hopes that they could loot the 
ruins for technological secrets without competition from the Soviets.

Also, they didn't and couldn't have gone miles from the landing area.
I'd suggest they would have seen it during the landing process and the 
next expedition was faked to cover the fact that the crew was really 
investigating the ruins.

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