Chapter 1: "We're Lost"
"Victor! He can't die, he just can't!" Anita yelled. After being trapped in the woods for two years straight, Victor Volt and Anita Knight have finally given up here. They dealt with survival for so long that Victor couldn't stand it any longer.
It was just a normal day for U.Z.Z. Agents Victor Volt and Anita Knight. They were flying in the sky on their sky-bikes chasing Doctor Doctor on the back of a T.H.E.M. sky-bike. She was, yet again, trying to steal The Secret Thing.
"You'll never catch me this time!" Doctor Doctor yelled.
"After her!" Anita yelled.
Doctor Doctor had a speed booster on her THEM-bike and suddenly pressed the button on it, flying away at top speed from the highly trained agents. Smoke that came from it caused Victor and Anita to go blind, coughing. As Anita stopped her sky-bike she didn't see Victor coming at her. Victor couldn't see a thing and he couldn't see Anita anywhere in the smoke.
"Anita!" Victor cried before, CRASH! Victor had crashed into Anita's sky-bike with his. When the big crash happened Victor was thrown off of his sky-bike bumping into Anita, sending her down with him. They screamed out of the smokey sky hundreds of feet away from land til they landed in a strong current, flowing river. They fell in the water and Anita came up trying her best to swim for her life as the strong river was pulling her downstream. She looked around and realized that Victor was nowhere to be found.
"Victor!" Anita cried coughing out loud. Victor rose up and responded with coughing out water.
"Over here!" Victor yelled before drowning back into the water. He held up arm waving at her. "Help!" He cried out. He was drowning! Anita tried to swim over to him as the water was taking them both downstream.
Anita reached with her arm trying to grab Victor. "Grab my hand!" Anita yelled. Victor peeked from under the water and saw Anita's arm out reaching for him. Then, he felt some rocks under him and jumped on one of them and caught Anita's hand. "Gotcha!" Anita pulled Victor towards her and held on to him as they were being pushed downstream. Victor saw a fallen tree up ahead and reached his other hand for the roots.
"Hang on." Victor said and he grabbed one of the tree's big roots. Anita held on to Victor as he pulled them both on the tree. Anita grabbed the trees roots and they both climbed over it to dry land.
"Phew! That was close." Victor said once they got on land.
"I know." Anita said brushing herself off from the tree's dust. Victor and Anita both looked around and saw that they were in the middle of a forest.
"Uh oh." They both said. They were in trouble now. Even worse! Their communicators were in their sky-bikes probably miles away from the upstream river.
"We've got to go back and find our sky-bikes." Anita said before walking upstream.
"But, they might have blown up when they hit the ground." Victor said walking behind her.
"Well, if so then we'll still need to head towards the way we came."
"Okay." Victor replied and he sighed. "Great! Now Doctor Doctor has the Secret Thing for sure. What are we gonna do?"
Anita looked down and realized that they just lost a battle with T.H.E.M. "I... I don't know, Victor." Anita frowned and said no more. "I just hope Ray and his team could find Doctor Doctor before she opens the Secret Thing." Anita said.
"Me too. I just hope that we don't stay out here too long." Victor said and Anita turned around and looked at him.
"Me too. If we can't find our sky-bikes with our communicators then we still have our belts with the microchips in them so that they could locate us."
"Yeah." Victor said. And they kept walking and walking, not knowing what to say to each other. Victor had always loved Anita since the very beginning, therefore in situations like this, he was to shy and never really knew just what to say to her. Anita was actually feeling the say way. She's very fond of Victor and appreciates what he does for her every now and then, but she's just not sure if she loves him or not. Just as friends, or more? The wind started blowing and they were soaking wet. Victor and Anita tried to cover their bodies with their arms and started shivering.
"Boy, it's-s-s-s-s-s getting cold-d-d-d-d out here." Victor shivered.
"We c-c-c-can't stop n-n-now, V-V-V-Victor." Anita said between her shivers. "We have to keep m-m-m-moving and f-f-f-find a-a-a-a-a a cave."
"We n-n-n-need to get tree branches for a f-f-f-fire... r-r-r-right now!" Victor stopped and looked on the ground for any branches. They needed warmth now, or they will both become sick and freeze to death. Anita grabbed Victor's arm.
"Victor, look." Anita pointed in a direction and Victor looked to where she was pointing to. It was a cave! Victor didn't look very pleased with it cause he was worried of what kind of wild animals would be in there.
"Great, but what if there's a bear or a wolf in there?" Victor worried.
"Well, lets go check it out." Anita walked towards the cave while Victor stayed behind covering himself up shivering. "Are you coming or not?" Anita turned around and asked.
Victor looked down and then back up at Anita. "Yeah." Victor whispered. He still wasn't so sure about the little cave, but he slowly walked behind Anita anyway, not wanting to stay outside frozen. Although it was still summer the wind that was blowing their wet bodies made it seem to them they were further up north. Anita knelt down on her knees and peeked into the cave. They both crawled in there and looked around. It was bigger in the inside, but big enough for them to stand up a little bit.
"This is perfect." Anita whispered. "We'll have to stay in here tonight til we are dry enough to face the cold wind tomorrow." Victor looked to Anita. He had to admit, it was warmer in the cave and there were no animals. Not even a sign of one was in there. "Now, lets go find some twigs and start a fire." Anita crawled out of the cave with Victor behind her. Around the cave were a bunch of dead tree branches. Enough to make a couple fires. They grabbed as many branches as they can and crawled back into the little cave. Victor went back out to find a blueberry bush he found near the river.
"Where are you going? We have enough twigs." Anita asked.
"I saw some berries near the water while ago. I'm gonna go get some for us to eat." Victor said and he took off. Victor found the bush and started picking. He knew very well that these were not poisonous berries, so he picked and picked, putting them bottom part of his blue jumpsuit that he made like a little basket out of. When he was done he grabbed the bottom of his shirt with both hands and carefully walked back to the little cave with the berries in it.
"I got em'." Victor said as he sat down next to Anita who got a fire going. "That feels so much better." Victor said as he felt the warmth of the fire. He then took a few berries out of his shirt and handed half of them to Anita.
Anita looked to her berries as Victor started eating his. "Are you sure these aren't poisonous?" Anita asked.
"Positive." Victor said with a mouth full of berries. The juice of the berries that was in Victor's mouth started leaking out and making him drool. Anita giggled at him when she saw the juice. "What?" Victor asked.
"You might need a napkin." Anita chuckled and she wiped Victor's blue lips and chin on her sleeve. Victor couldn't help but blush when she did. "There." She said as she looked into his eyes.
"Ummm uhh... thanks." Victor said and he suddenly looked away from Anita.
How embarrassing! He's had a few other embarrassing moments with Anita, but this, he thought, might be the most embarrassing he's ever done. Anita loved the way how he will sometimes make her laugh in tough situations. That was one of the things she loved about him. She also loves how he cares about her, but she never knew if he loves her more than partners. Victor was thinking the same thing as she was at that moment. One thing he knows for sure, she loves a sculptor named, Alphonse. Anita loved him, but he seemed to be more interested in showing her his work than her. She figured that out sometime ago. Then she finally realized that Victor was more caring than he was and she was starting to fall in love with him. Anita yawned and looked out the cave and saw the darkness take over the woods.
"I think we should get some sleep if we're gonna get an early start back home in the morning." Anita said and she lied down, feeling the warm fire on her body. Victor laid down on the other end of the fire but head to head with Anita.
"I guess so." Victor yawned and he closed his eyes. "Good night, Anita." Victor whispered.
"Good night, Victor." Anita whispered.
'I love you'Victor thought. He wished he could say that to her, maybe he could, maybe he'll tell her how he feels about her during the trip back home, but before he got a chance to think about it he fell asleep. It was going to be a long day for them both in the morning. Hopefully someone will find them and bring them safely back home. Little do they know, this is how they'll be living for the next few months. As big as the forest was and the mountains so high, they might never make it back home.
to be continued...