"There must've been a better way to have done this." Jordan heard Jeffery Bradley complain to his pilot.

She just grinned at him. "Nope. I like her idea. It's fair."

Eva had proposed that the pilots play rock, paper, scissors in order to determine who would pilot the Whizzing Arrow III.

Jordan heard Eva ask the Erridian girl, "Ready?"

"Ready."

"Rock."

"Paper."

"Scissors."

"Shoot!" Both girls yelled together. Then they pulled their signs.

Eva gave rock. Kezi gave paper.

So now they had a definite pilot for the Whizzing Arrow III.

"Excellent." Jeffery Bradley said. "Now we'll have to test run you and Zack in the-"

"What are you talking about?" Kezi interrupted. "Zack's not gunner for the Whizzing Arrow."

Jordan felt the shock he saw on everyone's face. Only Eva was unsurprised.

"What..." Jeffery stammered.

Eva smirked. "Don't tell me that's not teamwork."

Kezi put in, "Rick is also going to be my manager this race. And one of the Earth mechanics is going to take care of the Falcon."

Jordan looked at the managers as Rick just smirked at Eva while Jeffery looked like he would turn purple from holding his breath.

Both girls nodded, as if ending the conversation there. Then they walked back to their own pits. Jordan darted after Eva.

"Molly! What were you-"

"Jordan, you'll be fine. I saw Kezi race her first race here. She's incredible."

"But Molly!"

"Just go! You have to go practice with her."

Jordan gave up. He knew Molly; nothing could change her mind once it was set.

So he walked back over to the Erridian pit. He almost walked in on the Erridian girl's and gunner's conversation. He ducked around the corner before they could see him.

Zack was waving his arms at her. She just stood there with a gentle smile on her face.

"Kezi, are you crazy? You are trusting your victory in the hands of Earthlings?"

"They're trusting their victory in our hands." she quietly replied.

"They're from Earth, Kezi! They've killed hundreds of us!"

"And we've killed hundreds of them!" she shouted.

Zack stood back. Jordan kept listening.

The girl took a deep breath and continued. "Look. I know that they haven't been our best friends. I know that our worlds haven't seen eye-to-eye-"

Zack rolled his eyes and muttered, "You think?" at that.

She continued. "But like it or not, we are from them. We are part of them and they are part of us. I refuse to let one conflict erase our connections."

Jordan was shocked at what she had said.

"Kezi...you feel this way? Even after the way they flew at you with missles and bullets in battle?"

"I did the same thing to them." she reminded him. "And so did you. You wanted peace between us as long as I have. Remember?"

"I just don't trust him..." Zack said. And with that, he walked off in the opposite direction.

He saw the puzzled look on the Erridian pilot's face before it grew soft as she turned around from her vanishing gunner.

Jordan turned and headed away from the girl. He thought he understood enough about the situation.

Kezi knew Zack was just worried about her. He had been that way since they'd been positioned together against that star fleet from the Earth Coalition.

Kezi walked back toward the pit of her home planet. She thought of Keni.

'I know what Keni would say...' She smiled to herself. 'He would say he agreed one hundred percent.'

She turned the corner to find Kaleb talking to the Earth team gunner.

They saw her before she could get out of view.

"Hey, Kez!" Kaleb shouted. Kezi was annoyed. "Hey." she responded with a martyred expression.

The Earth gunner, whose name she recalled to be Jordan, stepped forward.

"Your other mechanic is going to work on the Whizzing Arrow III. He's already at our pit."

Kezi relaxed. She'd get a break from Kaleb sarcastic attitude. "Alright."

"Well, let's get this started."

Kezi nodded and walked back to the Earth pit with him.