Yes, yet another fic off-spring from the end of NV Episode 11! Aren't I creative?!

This is my first time writing under the Bakugan section, so feel free to give me some pointers.


"When the Dimension Portal is fixed, you are so out of here."

Lync looked up to the face of Alice, a girl often described for her kind hearted nature, but as he stared up, all he could see were daggers.

Cold eyes.

Loath.

Hatred.

She left him alone in front of the fire with some dinner, the dinner he forced himself to eat. As his mind soaked in on his current situation, the wondrous taste of the food just escaped him. He ate, but he had no memory of doing so. All he could remember of what occurred that night were the tears he shed.


He concluded that Alice's lines of pure hatred would haunt him until the day he died, but sometimes,

discouragement is exactly what we need to put us in the right place.

Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Missing Link


It was the third day he was stuck on Earth. He tried continuously to forget about the events of his first night there, but it was just one of those moments that you'll always remember, even at the happiest of times.

Of course, no one had ever found out about the incident. The only interactions Lync had with the Gehabich's were his constant whining of, "Why is it so cold out here?!", "I'm bored, there's nothing to do!", "Don't you people ever eat something else?!", and of course, "Fix that thing faster old man!"

It was hard to tell he was even depressed underneath it all.

"I'm bored!" He whined as usual as soon as Alice began to pass him by.

"Then go read or something," she groaned as she quickly buttoned up her jacket. "I'm gonna get firewood. Stay out of trouble while I'm gone."

SLAM!

A small moment of silence.

Guess there's nothing else to do, he thought as he took Alice's advice and walked over to the small bookcase nearby. He didn't really like to read, but it wasn't like there would be any other way to entertain himself.

"… Why the hell is this comic book backwards?" He pondered grumpily as he began to flip through the first book he grabbed. "Earth is weird!" He shouted off before throwing the book to the ground.

The process of criticism to each novel carried out for almost five minutes before he had grown tired of the activity. Fed up, he stormed outside, cussing as soon as he discovered that snow had begun to fall again. "Damned planet," he began as he trudged off with no aim in mind of where he was going. "Stupid planet… Stupid snow… Stupid…stupid Alice!"

He stopped in his tracks as soon as the last bit of his rant escaped his tongue. Stupid Alice.

"What am I doing?" He sighed. "I mean, she did give me food and shelter and all, but…"

Before he even knew it, the tears started coming out again and he wasn't going to let it stop any time soon. I…I thought everything would be better once I became a member of the Vexos, but…

Not too far off, Alice, a small pile of lumber resting in her arms, began walking back towards home. Maybe I've been too hard on him, she thought, reminiscing the past few days of her treatment towards Lync. I mean, even though he's evil doesn't mean he has no feelings…

She quickly shook it off as her thoughts became conflicting with a new side to the dilemma. No, he's been nothing but a whiny baby these past few days. Why should I take pity on him? It's not like he's going to act nicer if I do anyways… Oh god…

Alice stopped in her tracks as she stared at Lync, fresh tears falling down to the snow below like a rain fall.

"L-Lync?"


"Feeling any better?" Alice asked as Lync mindlessly began to stir his cup of hot chocolate. "Um, if you want, I can order you some food."

"No thanks," he replied, barely audible to the human ear.

"Hey Alice," a young waitress came by, a worried voice in tone. "Your boyfriend feeling any better?"

"Not really Becky… B-boyfriend?!"

"W-well," Becky began as she playfully began to toy around with the strap of her apron. "I just kind of assumed since…well…you know… Er, you want to get him a sundae or something. They really calm down the nerves."

"It's freezing cold outside Becky," Alice sighed in slight annoyance at her friend's ignorance. "I think he just needs to think for a bit."

"He's been doing nothing but thinking for the past half hour," Becky grumbled as she walked off to greet a small group of customers into the quaint café.

"Um, you know, your hot chocolate's getting really cold."

"Don't care."

"Look," she sighed. "If you're not going to drink it, then at least talk to me. Tell me what's wrong."

"Nothing," he groaned. "Just leave me alone."

"Look," Alice began, her tone getting a bit more irritable. "You're not going to feel any better if you just keep on shutting me out like that. If it's private, just say so, but if you just keep on acting like this, then nothing's going to be resolved!"

"…"

"… Well?"

"… I'm sorry."

Huh? Alice's seriousness was soon blocked out. Her face was now full of a mix between both confusion and concern. "W-what are you talking about? What do you need to be sorry for?"

"You don't even know the answer?" He grunted in response, finally making eye contact with the former Brawler. His eyes were swelled up and as red as a dying flame, startling Alice a bit. "Last time I checked, you and gramps weren't exactly happy to have me around."

"Um, true, but…your constant whining really didn't help matters."

"See what I mean?" He whispered slightly before going back to his serious tone. "And…sorry if I did anything to make you say that the first night."

"Say what? What did I say?"

He just stared at her deeply into her eyes in response. At that moment, she may have fully understood the pain and hurt that he had been hiding through his annoying demeanor these past few days…and with that, it finally clicked to her:

"When the Dimension Portal is fixed, you are so out of here."

"Oh, Lync, I-I'm so sorry. I-I didn't know!"

"Save it," he sighed as he slowly got up from his seat, his face indicating no resolve from the conversation. "I'm heading back."

As he slowly began to walk to the exit, his depressed look still intact, he made a sudden stop in his tracks and turned his head over to Alice. She wasn't sure what to expect with the depression showing from his expression, but as he slowly lit up a small smile, she felt relief with some of her newly found guilt leaving.

"Thanks for helping me out," he happily said before running off.

Shaking her head with a smile, Alice got up from her seat as well. After placing the due price of the hot chocolate, every drop of it never entering the Vestal's mouth, on the table. She began to follow suite to exit the café.

"Boyfriend's all better?" Becky laughed happily as she walked past Alice with two trays full of orders resting on her palms.

"H-he's not my boyfriend!" Alice shouted with a flustered face. "Really, he's just not my type, okay?"

"That stinks," Becky chuckled as she placed the platters of food down on the table of a small family of four. "You guys would have made a really cute couple."

Shaking her head with disgust towards her friend's constant teasing, Alice quickly stepped outside with sudden realization that she had left the firewood from earlier right at the grounds of her discovery of Lync's melancholy.

"Better get some more firewood," she laughed as she ran towards the forest.