Disclaimer: I do not own the Battle Force 5 but I do own the two new characters and this plot line to the fullest of my knowledge.
Rated: T
Zoom- 17
Stanford-19
Agura- 19
Grace- 18
Sherman- 19
Vert- 20
Spinner- 20
Chapter 1
A small diner sat smack dab in the middle of a large expansion of desert dirt, a large sign stuck up behind the old styled restaurant reading 'Zeke's Diner' another neon one hung in the window read pizza in neon blue lights. A group of different shaped and sized people sat in a half circle booth inside. Every single one of them wore odd jump suits different colors per person, they seemed to have worn expressions on their faces and it seemed as though every movement caused them pain as though their muscles were fighting against them. A girl wearing a long pale pink button up shirt that reached down to her mid-thigh, grabbed hold of her order book, straightened her ebony hair that was in a low hanging ponytail and made her way toward them with a wide grin on her face.
"Hey guys," She greeted the group like always as she placed one of her hands on the clean table top, and leaning on it and placing the other on her hip.
A man with orange hair spiked up on top of his head in that of a fohawk was the first to respond, "Well 'ello there love," The red-head purred in his thick British accent.
The waitress just smiled kindly at him, he wasn't that bad really. After she gave him a chance she was surprised how charming he could really be. He wasn't as conceded as most thought he was, he was sweet and put her needs before her own. They had been going steady now for almost a year and she was having a blast, even though there were something's they were keeping from one another. To bad neither was about to tell the other.
"So are we still on for tonight?" Grace asked with a broad smile on her face as she stared at him.
Stanford just stared at her like he had no clue what she was talking about but it broke into smirk, "Pick you up around 8," and before she could respond a boy with golden blonde hair broke in.
"Um Grace can you take our orders now?" He asked trying not to sound rude but by the way Stanford's emerald green eyes bore into the blonde he knew that the Brit wasn't the least bit happy with his interruption and shot him a broad smile.
"We were having a conversation if you haven't notice Vert," Stanford snapped.
A scrawny man with spiky light brown hair decided to pipe in, "Well talk later, right now I want me some ZA!" The man fist pumped before cringing at how his muscles ached as he did so.
"Get over yourself Stanford," A girl with mocha colored skin said rolling her caramel eyes as a boy with dark raven colored hair and looked to be of Asian decent nodded his head in agreement wincing as he did so.
Stanford narrowed his emerald eyes before turning and flashing a brilliant smile at Grace before saying, "Love do you think you could get us a round of pizza's on Agura and the drinks on Zoom?" He batted his eyelashes at her making her giggle and disappear into the back kitchen.
Stanford leaned back in the booth with a content smile on his face as he tried unsuccessfully to put his arms behind his head and appear oh so cool. Instead he let out a yelp and jumped a little.
"Ugh when is the new recruit getting here?" Zoom groaned just letting himself go limp in the booth accidentally hitting a very muscular very built man who looked as though he at the bare minimum could bench press was 350.
Sherman turned to Zoom and raised an eyebrow at the young male, "Well if you stop flailing your limbs around I'll tell you," He spoke calmly making Zoom smile sheepishly.
Sherman opened his mouth to explain about who he thought Sage had recruited for the team but he was harshly interrupted when the smell of garlic and greasy cheese wafted their way stopping Sherman mid sentence and sent his older brother into a tizzy of a fit. Spinner's bright moss green eyes shot wide and his mouth stared to water along with slight drewl trailing down from him mouth, Sherman rolled his eyes. He always wondered if maybe his parents accidentally switched there birthdays. Sherman reached for a slice of the greasy cheese that Grace had set down on the table and had once again disappeared to get the drinks.
"So who do you think Sage got to be as the 7th member?" Stanford asked around a bite of pizza he had forced his hand to grab.
Vert turned to glare at Stanford to quiet him but he couldn't force his entire body to turn by how stiff and sore he was, "Will you keep it quiet about Sage?" Vert snapped making Stanford just roll his eyes and ignore the leader of their team, "I talked to Sage before the Battle Zone opened to day and since she say's that the Vandals and Sark are growing stronger by some unknown force present in the Battle Zones. So she had thought that to help up our she would go and get another recruit to help us out." he tried shrugging but was incable of doing so without crying out in achy muscle pain.
Groaning Stanford added, "Well whoever it is they need to hurry the bloody hell up I'm sick of getting our asses handed to us!"
Zoom rolled his eyes, "Will you zip it. It wasn't that bad, and we got the battle key how is that getting our asses handed to us?"
Stanford just narrowed his eyes, "Just because you got the key doesn't mean you rub it in,"
Zoom couldn't help but smirk, being the youngest it always made him feel great inside when he retrieved the key. He was always striving for acknowledgement, but he hardly ever got it. Normally it was Spinner and Stanford and everyone else minus Agura and Vert that called him Kid. Well that just left Sherman and he really didn't do it all that much. So this was a rare occasion that he was slightly cocky about what he did, normally when he was doing good he screwed up but not this time. He actually saved the earth this time by stealing the battle key right out from Kalus's paw, hand things.
"I didn't say a thing about me getting the key now did I?" Zoom asked smirking harder at the pissed off face of Stanford who didn't respond just glanced over at Grace who was bringing them their drinks.
She quickly set each drink down in front of each person precisely as to who would want what. Vert, Coke Cola, Agura Diet Pepsi, the Cortez Brother Mountain Dew, Zoom Dr. Pepper and Stanford iced tea.
"Gah!" Stanford shouted as soon as he took a sip of his tea, the glass was already frosted on the outside on how cold it was.
"What?" Grace panicked quickly when she saw the disgusted look on his face.
He looked up at her with a wrinkled nose and holding his glass far away from him, "W-what is this!" he half shouted pointing at the glass.
"Well that would be something you put liquids in. Also known as a cup in America, what do you call those in British?" Spinner asked smiling wilding getting groans.
"Its not British big bro, its Great Britian," Sherman said correcting Spinner who blushed slightly.
Ignoring the brothers Stanford turned to his girlfriend frowning deeply, "Wrong tea love. You know I hate regular iced tea," His voice was flat as he spoke to her like he had explained it to her a million times, she just crossed her arms and glared at him as he prattled on about what he liked in his tea.
Before he could finish she had walked off not wanting to deal with it at that moment. He watched as she walked away, a faint ringing could be heard in the background but no one paid any mind to it.
"Could you have been any harsher on the girl?" Zoom asked with Vert and Agura nodding along with him, Sherman and Spinner where arguing which was right, on whether or not it was Great Britian or British.
"And you would care why?" Stanford snapped in return running a hand through his orange hair sighing, everyone had regained movement and could at least lift a limb without wincing every time.
Zoom's dark eyes zoned in on Stanford, "Because I did date her for a while if you don't remember," Was his only response.
Stanford only scoffed, "yeah well that was for a week and it was because she was pissed at me for burping in her ear over the phone," He placed his hands behind his head and leaned back in his part of the booth on the outer side of the half circular table.
Everyone remembered about a year and a half ago when Zoom had gone out with Grace because Stanford being Stanford was trying to rush the mission and got Zoom knocked around and he missed the jump. This was between the time that Vert and Stanford both had the hots for Grace, Vert's ended up fading while Stanford just kept at it. So in Zoom's free time he had gotten a date with Grace and they had dated for exactly 7 days and then they broke it off. There was nothing there between them.
"Hey she gave me a chance before you so that's gotta count for something. Plus a girl as to be really blind to defiantly see pass that giant ego of yours," He quickly took a sip from his Dr. pepper not meeting Stanford's eyes but just looked out at the cluttered walls of the diner.
Stanford rolled his eyes, "Well apparently you haven't met all the girls that through themselves at me daily," he spoke firmly.
"Oh really because for the two years we've been here the only girl that's given you the time of day besides Agura would be Grace so no that doesn't count," Spinner piped up adding in his input smiling when he saw the death glare Stanford was sending his way.
Stanford opened his mouth to say something when a loud beeping sound interrupted him, everyone groaned inwardly knowing exactly what that sound meant but what surprised them was a voice that always seemed to ampliphied the space around them.
"Battle Force 5 you are needed back at the hub, the new recruit is on her way," And with that Sage's voice beeped off.
"So it's a she," Spinner mused slightly.
"thank god I won't be the only girl," Agura muttered under her breath.
"Ok guys lets head on back to great our new teammate," Vert finalized clapping his hands and ushering everyone toward the waiting vehicles outside the diner.
Spinner made a quick grab for the pizza before rocketing out of the door an toward a car that resembled much to a tank but it was a deep royal blue and had six different wheels. He scrambled up to the top of the tank and slipped inside and closing the hatch noisily behind him. With one quick shout from Vert they were off and heading back toward the hub to meet the new teammate they would be acquainted to very soon.
So what did you guys think? Good bad? Well either way I'm continuing and yes there will be major problems for Stanford and Grace a little later on. Who is this mysterious new teammate? And what are Grace and Stanford keeping from one another, well more reviews accounts to how fast I update and this is a Stanford/OC Zoom/OC story. So yeah…. Zoom being my favorite character and all…. So um…. Review please :D