(Hikaru and Shikon prepared to fight for their lives…)
Shikon- chan: WHERE'S SESSHOMARU WHEN YOU NEED HIM!?
Hikaru- chan: (sweat drop) um… not in Africa?
(ROAR)
Shikon- chan: Sorry! But I have no interest in becoming lunch!
(Then lion pride comes out)
Lions: A- wim- bo- wap, A- wim- bo- wap, A- wim- bo- wap, A- wim- bo- wap, A- wim- bo- wap…
Hikaru- chan: (sings) In the jungle, the mighty jungle! The Lion sleeps tonight!!!!
Shikon- chan: (shakes head) what did I do in a past life?
"In the mountain,
In the breeze,
In the forest in my dreams...
Lord Sesshomaru where are you?
Jaken is serving under you too...
I will wait for you on my own...
Please return to me...
Waiting all alone…"
Sesshomaru instantly stiffened. He knew that song….
He hasn't heard it in the longest time. She probably didn't know that he had in memorized by know (mostly because she wouldn't stop singing it…)
Sesshomaru slowly walked into the room. Rin suddenly cried out.
"GOD DAMN IT! How'd I do that!?"
Since when did Rin curse?
"Ah ha! Got it!"
Rin looked at herself in the mirror, very proud of the task she just completed. After 5 or so years without it, Rin had a hard time remembering how to do the side ponytail she wore growing up.
"If this doesn't trigger anything, then I don't know what will…" Rin said to herself.
She suddenly heard a loud buzzing noise.
"What is that?" Rin asked herself, pulling her boots back on.
"Darn it! How do you tie these again!?"
"You're hopeless…"
Rin looked up to find Sesshomaru heading towards her. He got down and one knee and quickly tied the laces for her. But then he harshly grabbed her arm and dragged her out of the room.
"Ow! Sesshomaru- sama! That hurts." Rin said.
"Where did you hear that song?" he suddenly asked.
So he did remember.
"Did someone in your family teach it to you?"
Ok… close enough…
"I made it up when I was seven…" Rin replied.
Sesshomaru suddenly stopped. The alarm was still going off, but that was the only sound heard in the barren hallway.
"Just who do you think you are?" Sesshomaru asked, hiding the hint of annoyance… and pain?
"I told you… I'm Rin. You saved me from a wolf attack… you even brought me out of hell itself when you were trying to strengthen Tenseiga!"
"You can't be Rin…" he said so sharply, that it made Rin jump.
"You can't be her. She died… a long time ago…"
Rin stood silent. What else can she do?
"Aw man… I'm probably missing out on all the action now!" Gogo whined, kicking back on her seat inside the Star Cruiser.
"Um… Gogo- san?" Naoki spoke up.
"What is it?" Gogo asked, yawing, as she twisted her ball cap over her eyes.
"Exactly how old are you?"
"14…"
"WHA!?"
Crash!
Gogo shot back up, turning her ball cap backwards again.
"Naoki! What on earth are you doing?" she called out, as Naoki was digging himself out of the pit of mechanical ruble.
"Funny… I thought you said you were 14…"
"I am…"
"But… but… you looked older…"
Gogo laughed. Not the girly flirty laugh, but Hyena like laughing.
"You have no idea how many people say that! Sure… I look 17, but I'm 14, the youngest mechanic here, not to mention the best! All that and the fact that I'm a girl shocks everybody!"
Naoki finally managed to get out of the mess he fell in. He managed to climb into the cruiser, into the second seat, right behind Gogo. Gogo placed some earphones on.
She really is pretty… Naoki thought to himself.
Then… Gogo started singing… rather loudly…
Everybody makes mistakes... Everybody has those days... Everybody knows what what I'm talkin' 'bout... Everybody gets that way... [x2
Sometimes I'm in a jam
I've gotta make a plan
It might be crazy
I do it anyway
No way to know for sure
I'll figure out a cure
I'm patchin' up the holes
But then it overflows
If I'm not doin' to well
Why be so hard on my self?
[Chorus
Nobody's Perfect!
I gotta work it!
Again and again 'til I get it right
Nobody's Perfect!
You live and you learn it!
And if I mess it up sometimes...
Nobody's perfect
As Gogo was jamming out to her MP3 player, she started to do a repair on the cockpit, at a really fast pace. When she tried out the engine, the star cruiser turn on immediately and started to levitate.
"YES! I knew it was the carburetor!" Gogo cheered happily.
"And which part is that?" Naoki asked, a little surprised with Gogo's antics.
"Ok… well go over the diagram again…" Gogo said.
But before she was able to pull out the map, the doors opened.
"Gogo! What the hell are you doing!?" Sesshomaru's been looking for you everywhere!" Haru shouted.
"Time to go!" Gogo said, grabbing Naoki's wrist and ran out the garage.
Haru stood there for a moment.
"Did she…? Does she…? Naw…" Haru shook it off and ran after the two.
Many people were gathered in the control room. Gogo released Naoki and went to her spot at the computer mainframe, and type in numerous codes. She placed her head set on. She managed to shut off the alarm and then started a scan on the area.
Suddenly, all the color drained from her face.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru asked, after finally getting through the crowd.
"They… they found us…" Gogo said.
"Right now… they're in the dormitories…"
Place everywhere else in lock down…" Sesshomaru instantly commanded. "And have every armed soldier ready to go…"
Gogo started adding the necessary codes while Sesshomaru was on his way out of the room.
Rin didn't know what to do. She felt helpless… yet again. She never found herself in a situation that she had to fight for herself. Sesshomaru- sama always fought her battles for her.
Rin turned her gaze to Gogo. She rapidly struck the keys to the computer. For once… she had a look of fear…
Haru ran off after Sesshomaru, as well as quite a bit of the men.
"All women and children, please stay here in the Computer mainframe…" Gogo said into the mic. Rin blended into the crowd and managed to escape out of the room. She ran into the garage.
"Ok… which of these things seem the less complicated one?" Rin asked herself.
She was crazy, thinking she could be able to master one of these comp tractions, but it couldn't hurt to try. Rin then heard footsteps running towards the garage. She ducked behind an oil barrel.
She spotted Haru almost instantly. He was tying his shoulder length hair in a low ponytail, placed on his helmet and jumped into the star cruiser that Gogo just finished repairing. Even Inuyasha got into one.
"All star pilots, report to the main chamber… all star pilots report to the main chamber…" Gogo's voice called out through out the intercom.
Rin, not want to get caught, suddenly snuck into the nearby cruiser. It didn't look as impressive as others around her. It didn't even look like it could fly. Rin got comfortable in the seat and hoped to go that no one was going to find her. Then, she felt herself being lifted off the ground.
"Pilot secure…" the machine said.
"Oh… crap…" Rin said. The glass cover was already closed. She was trapped in the cruiser.
"Where's Rin?" Sesshomaru asked Kagome, who was busy directing everyone into the emergency shelter. The entire room shook from the explosions outside.
"I haven't seen her…" Kagome said, pulling away for a moment.
Sesshomaru took off, trying to catch a scent. Then, he found it heading towards the main chamber.
"No she didn't…"
"Ok! How do you work this thing!?" Rin cried, as the ship started to exit the launch pad.
A headset similar to the ones Gogo wore in the Computer room fell out of the glove compartment. Rin placed them on. A frame formed in front of Rin's eyes (kind of like sailor mercury's from sailor moon).
"Oh… cool…" Rin couldn't help but say.
Then, the machine took a lurch and Rin was out in the open battle field.
"HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING!!!???" Rin screamed.
Gogo was trying to type in coordinates for the star pilots out there. Then she saw a plane number she didn't recognize.
"Identify…" Gogo said.
"Gogo!? Is that you!?"
Gogo nearly fell out of her chair.
"Rin!?" What are you doing!? Are you trying to get killed!?"
"I don't know! The thing acted on its own!"
Gogo got a closer look at the model.
"Well no wonder! It's a 1993 model. No one but my parents knew how to fly that piece of junk…"
"Some how… less than comforting…"
Just use the stick thingy that's in the shape of a u and fly back here!" Gogo said, speaking at a level that someone from the feudal era could understand.
"What's a u?"
Gogo smacked her forehead. Of course she wouldn't know English.
Rin began to panic. She started to mess around with a thing that looked like handle bars (not that she knew what it was). She figured out that how you steered the thing, as she was turning in multiple directions, miraculously dodging the incoming rockets and lasers.
Suddenly, Rin pulled the handle bars upward and suddenly, she started to head upwards in a twisting pattern.
Gogo, meanwhile, watched opened mouthed, as she saw a spiraling star ship zoom out of the smoke that was cause by the two code reds that crashed into each other.
"Holy Cow! Rin! How'd you do that!?" Gogo asked, getting excited.
"I have no idea…." Rin said.
"So you're name is Rin?"
"WHO SAID THAT!?"
"That would be me!" the flashing screen said.
"About time another female flew in this fleet… I'm The Intelligent Navigation Aviator, T.I.N.A for short…"
"O…k…" Rin said.
"I'll give you the tutorials on how to fly me!"
"Rin… who's that with you?"
"Shutting off!" T.I.N.A. suddenly said. All communications with Gogo shut down.
"Hey!" Rin cried. How else was she suppose to know if any enemy was going to sneak up on her?
"That visor you have on," T.I.N.A. continued. "Is a very enhance sensor. Click on the button on the left side.
Rin did so. She got a left side vision. A red star craft was heading straight towards her, machine gun out and ready to fire.
"Ok… not good…" T.I.N.A said boredly.
Rin looked horrified. Why do people trust computers!?
"Ok… now see the button on the stick?"
"What about it… since I'm going to die anyway!" Rin snapped.
"Just press it and I'll do the rest…"
Rin, willing to try anything at the moment, pressed the big button.
"Ok! Laser activated!"
Rin adjusted her visor, and was shock to see the star crafts behind her blowing up.
"I haven't done that in a decade!" T.I.N.A said happily.
"Ok… seeing that you had enough action for one day, let's head back to the chamber, we fought them off enough… see? All the other star craft is pulling away… listen to this submission…"
The talking screen then switched to some message Gogo made not too long ago.
"Everybody come back! They pulled back! Well done!"
"Cool…" Rin couldn't help but say.
"And I'll put you back with my old pilot's daughter so she doesn't worry her head off."
"You know Tina, for a computer, you sure have a lot of attitude…" Rin commented.
"That's how I was programmed…" T.I.N.A. said. "And I have a Yubari Gogo on the line for ya! Shutting down…"
The screen switched off, and then Gogo appeared.
"Rin! You're alive!" Gogo said happily.
"Yup… thank to… Tina?"
"Oh! So that's the ship you're in! That was my Dad's!" Gogo said. "I made T.I.N.A just for him so it reminded him of me so he always came home safely…"
"Well, whatever… saved my life! I was scared out of my mind!"
"Well come on home sister!"
Rin managed to shut off the screen.
What an adredelin rush…
Hikaru- chan: Come on! You know you want to sing along!
Shikon- chan: (gets on knees and shouts to the sky) WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS!?
Hikaru- chan: try a hostile take over on Inuyasha?
Shikon- chan: (glares at Hikaru) I didn't ask you!
Hikaru- chan: Any who… I think we have time for a Q&A…
Shikon- chan: (perks up) Q&A?
Hikaru- chan: First question…
He is going to have to admit it now! Hehe, oh and how is Kagome still alive
after 400 years? Anyway great chapter! Can't wait till the next one! Latterz
fire angel8
Well… to answer that… if you looked at the chapter before last, it explains that Kagome and Inuyasha went through the well… and thus… she lived four hundred years…
Shikon-chan: since when do we do an advice column?
Hikaru-chan: Since I just added it…
Shikon- chan: ok…
Hikaru- chan: Ok! So don't forget people, read and review. And ask questions if you have any!
Shikon- chan: oh! I got one!
Hikaru- chan: yes?
Shikon- chan: How are we going to get out of this jungle?
Hikaru- chan: ……