(A/N: For the beginning of the story, I'll use the events of episode 13 'Driver's Seat' as the beginning for this story.)

Intro

The never before told life of Kiva's 'past' and 'present' lives (remember she's from future) and what she must do to survive and fight another day. Especially if she has to learn to work with others and better understand the past and the people from it are not to be forgotten.

Jaime on the other hand has issues about not being brave enough and to make matters worse, he's started to take a liking for Kiva! Just how will he manage both problems?

Chapter One

Man…

Bummer…

Geeze…

Jaime sat in despair in the Glorft cell. Everything here was freaky and alien looking. While coming aboard the Glorft mothership, he, his best friend Coop, and Kiva got themselves captured, along with their powerful mech Megas. The Glorft were a race of technologically advanced slug/squid-like creatures bent on eradicating Earth and humanity from the future, about one-thousand years from now, to be precise.

"Thanks a lot, Kiva" he finally said breaking the silence between them and the armed guards, right outside.

"Of all the things I could be doing right now, sitting in a Glorft prison isn't high on my list. Especially with you."

"Would you stop whining?" she said to him, not appreciating his comment.

Kiva came from the same era the Glorft did. She was a red haired lady with long bangs on her forehead and a pair of ponytails that somehow grew from her otherwise short-cropped hair on the backside. From what Jaime knew, she was a soldier fighting in an increasingly desperate, losing war against the Glorft in her time. She, along with Coop and himself had been on a number of adventures together that either spanned across the galaxy or took place right on Earth, in New Jersey to protect the world from evil monsters and giant robots. Kiva always seemed to be very focused on the mission and didn't appear to be too used to chilling out or having fun.

"This isn't my idea of an ideal situation, either. But at least I'm not crying about it" she added.

"Man, a few months ago, no one was trying to kill me. I mean it was just me and my pal hanging… and then you show up."

"So, hang with your other pals" KIva suggested sarcastically.

"I don't have any other friends, okay? You take Coop on this save the world gig and I get left with nothing" he replied.

Not knowing what else to do, Jaime just continued to sit there, his head leaning on his arms, which he wrapped around his legs. Then a few moments later, he heard sounds of metal colliding and bodies collapsing. Then, the next he knew it, Kiva was there, right outside the cell door. She pressed the open button.

"You coming?" she asked with a brief smile.

Jaime jumped up to excitement and relief and saw the Glorft guards unconscious on the floor.

"How…?" he was about to ask.

"These guys weren't so tough" Kiva said.

"But you-"

"Come on, let's go find Coop" she then insisted, eager to get back to their objective.

"Yeah, but we'll never be able to find him in this crazy ship…" he noted.

Just then, something crashed through from the wall behind them and there was Coop's red car charging and honking. It almost hit Jaime, but the car stopped soon enough.

"I've been looking all over for you guys" Coop said, genuinely glad to see them from the driver's seat. He was a pretty big guy with short, blond hair gelled and combed up. He was also the pilot of Megas and the car he was driving formed the head and cockpit of it.

Before their brief reunion could continue, an explosion from another side of the wall opened the way for a group of Glorft mobile carriers. Jaime and Kiva immediately got inside the car and Coop stepped on it as the carriers pursued and attacked with rockets. Coop drove backwards and accelerating as he did. He drove all the way back to a ramp where he had enough speed that he flew in the air when he got off of it and then finally landed on a bridge, just at the right place. As if knowing where to go, he took a certain path inside the ship.

Jaime was sitting next to Coop on the front side and Kiva at the back as usual. He shrieked and covered himself as the carriers continued to fire rockets at them accurately, but thanks to Coop's masterful driving skills, they kept missing. Coop was always playing video games which somehow let him adapt easily into piloting Megas, especially with his deep modifications to it, so that it would basically function like a console. In addition to that, Coop knew a considerable deal about mechanics and engineering, so he was always making upgrades to Megas with Kiva's guidance.

"Where's Megas?" Kiva asked after Coop took a passageway that was too narrow for the carriers to go under.

"The green dude's still got it" Coop said. Kiva understood who he meant. Gorrath was the leader of the Glorft and had been leading his kind in the war against humanity in the future. He and his fleet followed Kiva when they went back into time and had been trying to reclaim Megas. Like Kiva, they needed it to get hold of the time drive to return to their time. But unfortunately, something happened to it when Coop was making his modifications…

"How'd you fly in here?" Coop wondered, then having a question of his own.

"Actually, Jaime was a big help" Kiva explained with a bit of twinkle in her eyes to Coop's disbelief.

"This 'Jaime'?"

"Yeah…I got us out…well, Kiva did most of the work" Jaime confirmed and looked back at her, wanting to give credit to her where it was due… especially since she was the one who did all of it. Actually. He and Kiva then gently collided their fists into each other's and then pulled them back, erecting their index and little fingers straight. It was a buddy gesture he and Coop often did with each other. It only added to Coop's reluctance to believe Jaime even did anything useful.

For just a few moments when Kiva wasn't looking, Jaime looked back at her again. But he wasn't sure why. Was it her exotic hair? Her creamy, tan skin? Those shiny, green eyes? No, it couldn't be. He'd known her for a few months now and if it was her pretty features that caught his attention, it would've worked by now. So what was he doing and why?

He then felt slightly soft inside.

'Wait a sec… am I?…Could it be?…Kiva…' Jaime thought to himself.

'Nah.'

The three of them had to worry about escaping from the Glorft mothership now and Jaime decided he would think about this later.

If they survived.

Shortly after…

They were below the Earth's atmosphere.

The Glorft mothership had transformed into a mech form and was preparing to fire its very large mega, anti-particle cannon right at Earth, so Coop was busy trying to find a way to stop it, now that he was flying in Megas, his giant robot, which the three had succeeded in recovering from the Glorft. Then Coop did something and the cannon was now backfiring at the ship itself slowly. It was starting to explode.

"You think you've won?!" Gorrath said appearing on screen in front of Coop. His blood-red eyes were burning passionately.

"I'll finish this if I have to tear this very universe apart with my bare-"

But the Glorft ship blew up in a great, ultimate explosion before Gorrath could say another word and the image of him died out instantly.

"Coop, you just destroyed the Glorft!" Kiva said very impressed. Never before had she, a young, though decorated and experienced soldier could believe someone like Coop could ever do such a thing. After all, all he did was eat, play video games, or watch TV.

"So, what'd you think was gonna happen?" was all he could say.

Megas, the blue and red giant robot with a car as its head flew over New Jersey triumphantly.

(To be continued…)

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