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"Can I open my eyes yet?" Lilly asked as she and Marvin walked down a long hallway.

"Not yet." Marvin said still keeping his gloved hands over her eyes.

"Okay stop." He said. He gently took his hands off her eyes. "Okay now you can look." Lilly opened her eyes to see a shining hover board contained in a glass case. It was sort of a square shape but a little rounder on the sides, and it was a beautiful silver color that she was sure could blind her in the right light.

"All Martian Commanders get one in case of an emergency. So what do you think?" Lilly didn't respond to the question. She just kept staring at it with wide eyes.

"Lilly? Are you all right? Lilly?" She closed her eyes, and remembered…

"That was the coolest movie EVER daddy! I want to go see it again!" The tiny Lilly said to her father.

"You liked it that much huh?"

"IT WAS TOTALLY AWSOME! 'Treasure Planet' was such a good movie, and some day in the future I wanna be like Jim and ride on one of those solar surfers."

"Well Lilly don't forget that, that kind of traveling is light years a head of our time."

"Well I think it'll be built in OUR time, and when it is I'm still gonna see one, I'm gonna ride it, and I'm gonna be the best flyer in the entire UNIVERSE!"

Lilly eyes slowly opened. She pressed her hand against the glass case. I was so close…but it seemed so far.

"Incredible." Lilly said.

"So you like it?"

"It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen Marvin." There was a moment of silence.

"I-I don't suppose you'd wanna go you know for a…ride, do you?"

"DO I?! I-I mean…yeah sure you know whatever." Lilly said stuffing her hands in her pockets, trying to not act so eager, but Marvin only smirked at her eagerness.

"X-25!"

"Yes Commander?" Lilly looked around for the monitor, but the voice just seemed to be coming from the entire ship.

"Take us above the Imperial City."

"With pleasure Commander." Suddenly Lilly could feel the ship making a sharp turn, and heading on a different course. Marvin then pushed a red button that lay next to the glass case. The glass moved into the right side of the wall. Marvin gently picked up the hover board and laid it on the ground, and stepped onto it.

"Well are you coming?" Marvin asked. Lilly furrowed her brow with confusion but decided to play along, and stepped onto the board.

"Marvin I don't see how were…you know flying."

"You'll see."

"Commander we are above the Imperial City."

"Excellent! X-25 open hatch 4 in hallway 9-X."

"Marvin I still don't see how…" But before she could even finish her sentence the door below them opened, and they began falling.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Was all Lilly was able to say. Marvin pushed the blue button the board and it stopped in mid air.

"Lilly, you okay?" He asked as he looked down at her. She was clinging to the board for dear life with her eyes shut so tight he thought she might burst.

"Lilly it's alright."

"NO! It's not all right. We just dropped out of a spaceship going 70 maybe even 80 miles per hour!" She said as she still clung to the board.

"Lilly you can open your eyes now." He said as he pulled her up.

"No, no way! We must be 500 feet above ground, and if you think for even one second that I'm going to open my eyes then you…" Marvin gently forced her eyelids open.

"You…you…wow." Lilly couldn't believe what she saw. As expected most of the building were red, but the bright lights were all sorts of colors. Lilly looked down to see all the Martians scurrying around like tiny ants. Some of the building reminded her of Earths architecture, but many were far more advanced looking. They looked thin, yet strong, and sturdy.

"It's…beautiful." Lilly said.

"I thought you might like it." Marvin said. Then he pressed the back part of the hover board making it larger, and then he pushed on an arrow that was pointing down, and adjusted the speed to 10 mph. He plopped himself down leaving is feet to hang over the edge.

"Care to sit?" He asked. Lilly gave a look of uncertainty.

"Is it safe?"

"Don't worry, it's on auto pilot." Lilly gently sat down next to Marvin, as the hover board continued to slowly move through the city of beautiful sky scrapers and lights.

"This is really incredible Marvin."

"Yeah well it's okay." Lilly couldn't help but chuckle at Marvin.

"Listen…I just wanted to say thanks…for everything. You've been really nice to me Marvin, and I appreciate it a lot. I really do."

"I know you do…and I know your parents would have been proud to see you grow into a such a fine girl." Suddenly Lilly's blue eyes shot open.

"W-What's that supposed to mean?" She asked.

"Lilly I…I know that you're an…orphan." He said. Lilly looked down for a moment watching as the Martian men, women, and children went about their own business.

"So how'd you find out?" Lilly asked as she continued to stare down at the city.

"It's not that big a ship." Marvin said. There was a moment of dead and utter silence between the two.

"So go ahead." Lilly said.

"I beg your pardon?"

"Look down on me feel sorry for me. 'Poor little orphan girl' your probably thinking, 'she's completely helpless'. Go ahead you can say it. It wouldn't be the first time." Marvin starred at her for a moment. Finally he spoke.

"That's not at all what I was thinking. It would be stupid of me to think you helpless. Especially since you have proven other wise by deafeating giant mutant spiders." Lilly chuckled at Marvin trying to cheer you up.

"You really mean that Marvin?"

"I really mean it." Lilly gave him a small smile.

"Lilly…"

"Yeah Marvin?"

"May I ask how…you know…your family…"

"It was a fire. My father had written a column in the newspaper about Michael Jane, a gangster who had been cleared of all charges for murdering his wife. My father said he should have gone to prison for life. Well you can imagine that Michael wasn't too happy about that. So he burnt down my house…while my parent were inside. I was walking home from my friend Emily's house when I heard the sirens, and when I got there…there was nothing left." Marvin only remained silent.

"I knew they would put me in the orphanage since I didn't have any other family, but I didn't want to go. I had heard to many stories about it. So I tried to stay on the streets as long as I could avoiding the cops. But finally after three months they caught me, and sent me to Madame Brochy's Orphanage. Well I was 13 at that time, and no one adopts anyone over 12." She said as she chuckled trying to cut the tension, and failing miserably.

"Lilly I…I am so sorry."

"Don't be it wasn't your fault. Anyway it doesn't matter because tomorrow I'll be 18 years old, which means the old hag will have to throw me out, and I can start a new life.

"What do you mean by 'hag'?"

"Well…she's evil. I mean she treats me like dirt, she always makes the kids work, except when the parents come so it looks like a 'happy place', and I'm pretty sure what she feeds us is rocks."

"You should stand up to this retched woman!" Marvin said.

"Believe me I have…a lot!"

"So you've called the local law enforcement?"

"Well not exactly…"

"You should!"

"Oh come on Marvin. What would I say? And who would back me up? The kids are scared of her. Look I want to help…but I just don't think there's much I can do. Besides like I said, I'll be 18 tomorrow, and I can begin a new life, without HER."

"Where will you go?" Marvin asked with concern in his voice.

"I don't know…I just figure that anywhere is better then there." Another moment of silence fell over the two.

COME ON! Ask her! You know you want to!" Marvin said to himself. He looked at Lilly for a moment. He had only known this girl for two days yet he felt as though he had known her his entire life. She shared his love of music, maybe not all the same kind of music, but she had enjoyed the Martian pieces he had played for her. She was extremely sarcastic, yet had a layer of sweetness in her. He felt in his gut what he wanted to do.

"You know…that guestroom your using…nobody ever uses it." Marvin said.

"Yeah so." Marvin gulped, and even shook a little but continued.

"The ship is very big, and when the centurions aren't working on it, it gets very lonely."

"Marvin…are you trying to make a point here."

"Lilly what I'm trying to ask here is would you perhaps…

"Yes…"

"I mean would you want to…"

"Yes..." She said as she leaned forward pushing the gravity button.

"Sta…" Suddenly beeping went off.

"What was that?" Lilly asked. Marvin looked at the hover board frantically. Suddenly he saw at the end of the board a red light flashing.

"The anti-gravity as been activated!"

"Is that b…" Suddenly the hover board began to fall. Marvin and Lilly both screaming as they hurtled toward the ground. Suddenly Lilly saw the button she had been sitting on. Using all her strength she reached toward it, the wind blowing in the opposite direction.

"AAAAAHHHHAAAA!" Marvin kept screaming.

"ALMOST…" She tapped the button. Suddenly as the hover board was just one inch from the ground it began t fly up…at 100 mph. Lilly and Marvin still clinging for life onto the board. Lilly managed to get onto the board she stabilized herself on it, and accidentally stepped on a button which managed to cuff her feet to the board. She pulled Marvin up from off the edge of the board.

"HOLD ON!" She screamed. He grasped her tightly, as they flew through the skyscrapers. She dodged one then another, and then she seemed to be on a long road with no skyscrapers in their way.

"THIS ISN'T SO HARD!" Lilly screamed. Suddenly Marvin looked up and his eyes shrunk to the size of beads.

"LOOK OUT!" He screamed. Lilly turned around to see she was heading toward a huge skyscraper. She adjusted her weight, and before she knew it she was flying upwards, and scaling the building.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die." Marvin kept saying as they continued to fly upwards, and he continued to grasp onto Lilly. Soon they were above the entire city, and the board stopped right there in mid air.

Out of gas. It announced. Lilly and Marvin looked at each other for a moment. Marvin's brush on his helmet was completely messed up, and Lilly's hair looked like the bride of Frankenstein's.

"That…was…SO COOL!" Lilly screamed with excitement.

"I-I don't understand. How did you manage to do that?!"

"I don't know, but it felt AMAZING! Let's do again!"

"NO! Let's not."

X.X.X

Marvin and Lilly reentered the ship. Marvin placed the hover board back into the glass case. Suddenly X-25 entered the room as well,

"Ah Commander, miss Lilly, how was the…" But she stopped once she saw the Commander's brush, and Lilly's hair, and torn jeans.

"Never mind!" She said as she left the room. Marvin and Lilly looked at each other.

"AAHHAA!" They both busted into laughter.

"Y-You should…you should see how silly you LOOK!" Lilly said

"ME!" Marvin said as he continued to laugh.

"AT least I'M NOT the one with the AFRO!" They continued to laugh for several minutes, until their sides finally hurt, and they had to stop laughing. Lilly tried to push her hair down, partially succeeding but still leaving it a bit frizzy.

"Marvin…

"Yes Lilly?"

"Thanks for the ride." Suddenly without warning she leaned in and gently gave him a kiss on his cheek. His whole face turned red with embarrassment, but only after she walked away.

"So I take it that it actually went well." A voice said.

"Oh X-25…yes it was…interesting."

"I hope you don't think I'm getting to personal Commander, but I must ask…do you truly want miss Lilly to stay." Marvin tuned away for a moment so that she could not see him. He truly did want her to stay. She was by far the best friend he had ever had.

She doesn't belong here. He thought to himself. She lives in another world. Suddenly his eye grew dark. He turned to face X-25 with an angry look on his face.

"That is getting to personnel." He said to X-25, and with that he walked to his room leaving X-25 a lone in the hallway.

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