Disclaimer- why the hell do we have to do these EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER!? Anyway, I don't own transformers, I do own Max, James, Zord and Zordan.
Thx for the reviews, as soon as I got home from school I checked my email and I had 5!!!!! Wahoo!!
I was thinking about skipping 'link up' cause I've completely forgotten what happened, but decided to have a go at it….. thank god for TV tome, and transfandom even though its not online at the moment….. damn.
Alrightey then, on with the story….. Also, I'm only gonna stop this story either if people get sick of it or when I miraculously reach the end of the series…..
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Chapter 10- Go Zordan!
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Max was wandering about the base looking for something to do, and she was even on the verge of asking Scavenger for extra training when an alarm began to blare. The girl ran to the control room, pausing for a second in the doorway of the Med-bay to glance at Optimus.
"Don't worry, we all got this one." She whispered to the Semi who was surrounded by wires. Max ran the rest of the way and met Jetfire at the door of the control room.
"Time for some action!" He said, optics beaming, "It's been waaay to quiet round here!"
Max grinned, "Dude, I totally agree." She said before morphing to her transformer mode.
They entered the room together and found out off Highwire that Thrust had been flying around somewhere nearby. 'Nearby' meaning over the ocean.
All the Autobots talked about what they were going to do, however, even before a strategy could be offered, Jetfire began to walk to the warp room, "Well, me and Max here are the only ones who can fight this one… unless you wanna swim, so I'm going." He stated, ignoring protest from several of the others.
Max followed, but Jetfire thought she was going to slow, grabbed her arm and pulled her around the corner, "Oh, and bye the way…" He said, poking his head back into the control room, "Don't tell Optimus about this."
Max and Jetfire warped to Thrust's location and found the Decepticon flying around. "Let's tail him." Jetfire suggested, Max grinned back and they both transformed and flew off after Thrust.
After a few seconds of flying, something began to click in the back of Max's head, "Uhh… Jetfire?" She said.
"What's up? Don't worry, we're going to blast some Decepticon butt back to Cybertron!" The vice commander said, his glee practically dripping from his voice.
Max still couldn't shake that strange feeling, "As much as I hate to admit it, Thrust is smarter than the others… don't you think he planned this?"
"Planned what?"
Just as Max was about to reply, hundreds of lasers began to shoot at them, the two Autobots dodged as fast as they could but ended up back to back, trying to shield themselves.
"Oh… I see your point." Jetfire said.
Max and Jetfire began to fire back as best they could, however, the Decepticon minicons appeared from nowhere and started circling the two.
"We can't fire back without hitting the minicons!" Max suddenly realised, thinking out loud.
"Tell them to get out of the way then!" He yelled, trying to shoot at Cyclonus.
"It's not that simple!" Max said, "They're with the Decepticon team and won't listen."
Starscream and Cyclonus were pelting the two with lasers, Cyclonus let off a couple of torpedos but Jetfire and Max ducked under them. The femme heard Starscream call for his minicon and her metal equivalent of a stomach felt like it dropped into her feet.
"WATCH OUT MAX!!!" Alexis screamed into her com-link.
Max turned in the air and saw the huge laser come towards her, not knowing why, the femme extended her hands in front of her, palms together, then bent her wrists, moved her arms apart and shut down her optics in one quick motion.
She could hear several screams through the com-link and then they suddenly stopped. Max turned back on her optics and muttered, "Am I dead?"
Starscream's laser was still going, though it was passing around her. "…Huh?" was all she could say. The femme was surrounded by a sphere of partially transparent, sparking blue light.
She suddenly realised what it was, "Man, this is one cool shield!" She stated when Starscream's blast had died down, though she began to feel tired and knew she shouldn't hold it for much longer.
Max lowered her arms and the shield disappeared, Starscream looked slightly surprised but shook it off quickly and began to fire again.
"Everyone is warping to a nearby island." Alexis stated through the com-link.
Max looked down and saw the grounded Autobots fighting the rest of the Decepticons. She'd had just about enough of getting pelted by lasers, and so had Jetfire. They looked at each other, nodded and Jetfire zoomed downwards and Max shot straight up just as Starscream sent another huge blast flying their way.
Jetfire began to dodge the minicons as Max flew directly towards Starscream. "You are sooooo going down." Max yelled as she flew as fast as she could, like a transformer torpedo.
Starscream dodged the femme and shot at her as she went past. Max barely dodged the laser and turned to face Starscream again, however, she was suddenly surrounded by more minicons and lasers from Cyclonus.
"Max, I suggest you move." Came Scavenger's voice through the com-link. The femme flew backwards just as a flash of red fell next to her.
"Optimus?" She asked herself, and noticed Starscream was about to shoot the Autobot commander, "No!" she yelled and went to charge at him again, though she was stopped by more lasers.
All of the Autobots watched in partial horror as their leader zoomed straight towards the ground… all except Jetfire. The bot shot straight towards Optimus and just before they both crashed, the two began to combine in mid-air.
Max cheered her head off when she saw, floating above the water, was a larger Optimus with white 'pants' and a cape looking thing. The femme shot at a distracted Cyclonus and managed to break his propellers, sending him falling towards the water.
Optimus zoomed straight up towards Starscream, shot him straight out of the sky and then flew towards the island where the other Autobots and Decepticons were battling. Max followed and was just in time to see Optimus dispatch of the rest of the Decepticon team.
Defeated once again, the Decepticons warped out, leaving an extremely happy Autobot team to celebrate their victory.
When they all arrived back at the base, the talk turned to Optimus and Jetfire, the feeling was mutual, their power-link was extremely cool.
Just as the conversation wrapped up, Max got a shooting pain in her head that made her nearly cry out. Red Alert noticed that she was in pain.
"What's wrong? Did you get injured?" He asked.
"No," She replied, "I've just got a headache."
Red Alert advised her to change to her human form and lie down, which she did. Completely unaware that the headache was caused by more than stress.
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Once again, inside Max's mind.
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Zord was furious, it was one thing to be trapped inside a big, black place, though it was another to be sharing it with one of the beings she truly despised.
The evil ego was on the verge of shooting flames at Zordan when suddenly the air felt extremely heavy and some sort of shockwave passed by the two.
"What was that?" Zordan asked, getting to her feet and looking around.
Zord shot her an evil look, "How should I know?" She snapped, "And why are you looking around like an idiot? In case you didn't notice, THERE'S NOTHING BUT EMPTY BLACK SPACE IN HERE!!!"
Zordan rolled her eyes, "Well, actually I have a fairly good idea what it was."
"Spit it out then." Zord said.
"It could have something to do with the fact that YOU ARE THINKING SO FLAMING MUCH ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO TRY AND KILL ME!!!" Zordan yelled, "It's causing disturbances in our host's mind!"
Now it was Zord's turn to roll her eyes, "Spare me," She muttered, "Now I can't even think about how pathetic you are."
The two glared at each other, however, their arguing caused an even bigger shockwave that nearly knock them over.
"Do you see now?!" Zordan said, "Our arguing emits so much energy that it could be damaging Maxine's mind."
"Do I look like I care?" Zord growled, however, she did agree with the good ego but there was no way in hell that she was going to admit it.
The two shot each other one last menacing look before turning back to their meditation, Zord silently decided to concentrate on darkness surrounding them and not Zordan.
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Red Alert went into Max's room to check on her at about 1 in the morning, she was fast asleep with no traces of pain on her face. He closed her door to let her sleep.
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The next day.
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"Get back here human!" Came a booming shout that echoed through the forest.
Max ran as fast as she could between huge trees, diving through thorny bushes and jumping over logs or rocks, however, no matter how hard she tried to run, she could still hear the Decepticon hot on her trail.
"I HAD to go for a bloody walk, didn't I?!?!" Max almost screamed as she jumped another bush. The girl glanced behind her and noticed that she was a good way ahead of the Decepticon, though not for long judging by the loud crashing footsteps she could hear following her.
Max looked around and zoomed up the nearest tree, making sure she would be above transformer height, and listened as the footsteps stopped directly below her.
"Now where did it go?" came Cyclonus's voice, Max peered down and saw the copter look around him, "Come out come out wherever you are!" he sang, "Megatron wants a word with you!"
More loud footsteps, "Cyclonus! PLEASE don't tell me you lost her!?" Demolisher exclaimed.
Cyclonus scratched his head, "Define 'lost'…" He said.
"WHAT! Starscream almost yelled, he had just caught Cyclonus's last sentence as he caught up with the bot, "I just spent half of today waiting for that human to leave the Autobot base and you just lost her!? Do you realise how hard it was to stop the Autobot radar from picking me up?!"
"Gee, don't blow a circuit Starscream," Cyclonus said, "We'll find her and SQUISH her!!!"
Starscream raised his hand to the side of his head as if he had a headache, even from where Max was sitting she could tell that the seeker was ready to snap, "You seem to have forgotten what our orders were, Cyclonus. We are to find the human and not harm her. OR WEREN'T YOU SLAGGING LISTENING!!!"
Cyclonus sighed, "Fine, I'll check this way."
Demolisher headed off in a different direction, however, Starscream paused for a second as if thinking deeply and then disappeared from Max's sight.
Max waited in the tree for 5 minutes, none of the Decepticons came back so she decided to climb back down. The girl landed on the ground and was about to carefully make her way back to the base when she felt someone watching her.
"Don't move." Came Starscream's voice from behind her.
Max froze in mid step and then slowly turned her head. The Decepticon seeker had both of his cannons pointed directly at her. "What in hell are you planning on doing with those?" She asked.
Starscream smirked, "Shoot you if you try and run." He replied.
Max smirked back, "I think not Screamer," She said, watching Starscream's smirk die she added, "C'mon, I heard you yelling before! You're under orders not to shoot me. So, I'll be seeing you around." At that, Max started running again.
Max covered her head as a large laser hit a tree next to her, though she kept running, looking behind her the girl noticed that Starscream was catching up. Not seeing any other option, Max concentrated on her minicon form.
"Why didn't I do this earlier?" Max asked herself as she transformed and shot between the trees. "Is anyone there?!" She yelled through her com-link, "I'm being chased by several demented freaks!" A shadow passed over her and the femme looked up to see what it was. "Though I must say, Starscream isn't as stupid and demented as the rest of them."
Starscream had transformed and flown ahead of her, Max started flying straight up, avoiding several laser blasts shot by Demolisher and Cyclonus who had just noticed her. The femme was concentrating to hard on dodging lasers that she didn't notice Starscream fly directly at her.
"TRANSFORM!" She heard him yell. Max didn't even have time to think before Starscream grabbed her, the femme felt like she had just been hit by a bus.
The Decepticon seeker tightened his grip around Max as he flew back to the ground, only her head was poking out of Starscream's clenched fist because she managed to transform just after the seeker grabbed her.
Starscream landed and began talking into his com-link, "Megatron, I have her. We will bring her to you now." He reported.
Max tried to struggle but she could barely even move, Starscream looked down at her, "Don't even bother," He stated, "You will be taken to Megatron and he will decide what to do with you."
Max gave up trying to move and gave Starscream a rather annoyed look, "Dude, get Megatron to drag his big metal butt here! Because Optimus is going to be here VERY soon to kick it!" She growled.
As soon as Max had finished talking, she heard an evil laugh sound out from behind her. The femme turned her head as far as she could to look at the source.
"I believe Optimus is the one who will be defeated, my little friend," Megatron gloated, smirking at the femme in Starscream's hand, "And this time, you will not escape."
Max was about to open her mouth to say something extremely insulting that would surely get her crushed when suddenly…
"Let her go Deceptidummies!" Hot Shot yelled, his blaster aimed straight at Megatron.
The Decepticon leader laughed, "Do you really think you can defeat me by yourself you pathetic Autobot?" He gloated.
"He's not alone Megatron." Came Optimus's voice, he and Jetfire were linked up again and had all his arsenal pointed at the Decepticons.
Out of nowhere, the rest of the Autobots appeared, looking royally pissed off.
Megatron looked around, "Well, I'd love to stay and chat Prime, however we got what we came for." He said and then yelled, "Decepticons retreat!"
"Oh crud." Max muttered.
"No!" came several shouts from the Autobots. Hot Shot ran at Starscream, just managing to grab his arm before the Decepticon seeker warped, taking Hot Shot and Max with him.
They arrived in a dark and broken looking spaceship, the Decepticons suddenly realised Hot Shot was there also.
"Destroy that Autobot!" Megatron yelled as they all started firing upon Hot Shot. The yellow mech began dodging the lasers as best as he could, though he was outnumbered 6 to 1 as Thrust and Sideways appeared.
Max wanted to help, however Starscream was still holding her tightly. The femme smirked and formed two blasters on the side of her head, "Hey, Screamer!" she yelled.
The Decepticon seeker looked down and received two laser blasts in the face. He loosened his grip on Max and she took the opportunity to slip out of his hand and fly towards Hot Shot.
Max landed on his shoulder, "This is not good Max." He stated, getting hit by a couple more lasers, "You get out of here now and I'll distract them."
"No way dude," Max said, formed the blasters on her forearms and fired back at the Decepticons.
"There's to many of them!" Hot Shot exclaimed.
Max was suddenly hit by an idea, "You know that thing you do with the minicons? Where they join with you and you get more power?" She asked as Starscream drew his sword.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"How do they do it?"
"… I have no idea."
Neither did Max, though she decided to give it a try. The femme transformed and flew to Hot Shot's back.
"Powerlink!" He yelled, Max felt herself attach to his back and a part of her mind combine with the yellow mech's. However, that part of her mind happened to be occupied by Zord and Zordan.
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"What is happening now?!" Zordan yelled, feeling her spirit begin to take over another being. Zordan looked around, surprised, she was in an old spaceship, surrounded by robots, and was even more surprised when she looked at herself. She had somehow managed to take over the body of a large yellow robot.
A laser hit the yellow body, though Zordan was the one who felt it. Looking at the other robots she calmly asked, "Who did that?"
"That was me!" Said the robot with helicopter blades on his back, laughing like a maniac he shot at Zordan again. Suddenly all of the other robots began to shoot at her.
Zordan barely even noticed the lasers hitting the robotic body, 'The being that belongs to this body must have had a pure and good mind for me to be able to take over.' She thought, though was suddenly brought back to reality when one of the other robots hit her in the face. It didn't hurt, just aggravated her.
"That is getting slightly annoying." Zordan stated.
"You're going to wish you had never tried to retrieve the minicon when we're done with you Autobot." Said the largest robot, the one with treadmill things sticking out of his shoulders. He walked up to her and aimed a punch right at her face.
Zordan quickly raised her metal hand and caught the robots fist before it contacted with her face, "That wasn't very nice." She said, and threw the robot into a wall.
The big, horned robot looked shocked, another robot, this time a red and white one carrying a sword, ran at her and swung his sword hard and fast at her head. Zordan stopped the oncoming sword with one finger, grabbed the blade and threw it away.
Two other robots charged at her, the one with propellers and another one with strangely shaped eyes and four pointy things sticking out of his shoulders. Zordan disposed of them easily, throwing the propeller one into an oversized trashcan and sending the other flying into the largest who was still next to the wall.
The red and white robot joined up with a much smaller robot and two cannons folded over his shoulders, Zordan smirked as a rather large laser blast shot towards her, not even bothering to move.
'That had to have done something!' Starscream thought as he hit Hot Shot directly with his cannons, his optics widened when he saw the bot standing in the same position as the laser hit and stopped, smoke rising around his body.
"It's going to take a lot more than that to destroy me." Zordan said.
The red and white bot picked up his sword and ran at her again, Zordan moved aside, grabbed his arm and threw him hard into the growing pile of robots who had only just managed to pick themselves up.
Zordan nearly laughed at the tangled bots and turned towards the remaining two. One was greenish with a pointy head and the other was purple with wheels attached to his back. They both began shooting lasers at her so Zordan ran to the pointy headed one, picked him up and jammed the shocked robot's head into a wall.
The purple one began to back away from her, "You're not going anywhere." She said to him, just before he joined the pile of bots. Zordan had thrown the purple bot so hard that him and all the others were knocked unconscious.
Just before he went offline, Megatron whispered to himself, "How could a minicon create that much power?"
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"Well… that was easy." Zordan said out loud, turning her head to look over the yellow metal body she was in she noticed a plane attached to her back, sensing the spirit of the smaller robot (A.K.A. Max) she suddenly realised, 'That's the mind that Zord and I were inhabiting!' she thought, 'She must have somehow joined with this body and I was able to take control…'
'But how do I get back into Maxine's head? Pull her off this body's back?'
Just as Zordan thought about going back into Max's mind the link between the plane and the large yellow robot began to glow and Zordan felt herself floating back into Max's mind where Zord was waiting.
Max unlinked from Hot Shot and knew straight away that something strange had happened, she transformed and looked around.
"Uhh… Max? What just happened?" Hot Shot asked, "I mean, I remember that we just seriously kicked some Decepticon butt just now… but how?"
"Dude…" Max started, looking at the pile that Cyclonus, Starscream, Sideways and Megatron had formed, "…I have no idea…"
Both Max and Hot Shot could remember the fight that had taken place, however all the way through it, it had felt like they had both taken a backseat and let someone else do the battling.
The two suddenly noticed Thrust stuck in a wall and Cyclonus in a bin and nearly cracked up laughing. They stopped however, when the pile of Decepticons began to move.
"We'd better get going…" Hot Shot stated.
"I couldn't agree with you more." Max said.
They somehow managed to find the Decepticon warp room and miraculously worked out how to use it. Hot Shot and Max warped near the base and arrived without anything strange happening.
They entered the base and walked to the command room, standing in the doorway both Max and Hot Shot waited for their presence to be noticed as all the Autobots frantically searched the globe for the two.
Max walked over and stood behind Alexis just as she yelled out, "I've found something!" as almost every single computer began to beep.
"So have these ones." Red Alert stated, leaning closer to his computer.
"What have you found?" Max asked, curiously.
Alexis was to focused on her computer to notice the minicon femme standing behind her, "It says Hot Shot's signal is right on top of us! That can't be right!"
"Really?" Hot Shot asked, lowering his head next to Alexis and staring at her computer, "Let me take a look."
"Hot Shot!!! Max!!" Alexis yelled, all of the Autobots turned and looked in disbelief at the two.
"Where were you both!?" Almost all of them asked.
"Decepticon base." Max replied, grinning at Hot Shot who gave her a thumbs up.
The Autobots began pelting the two with questions, when it came to how they escaped, Hot Shot just winked at Max and answered, "Teamwork."
Max winked back at him and they both received strange stares off the rest of the team.
After answering nearly all of their questions Optimus came up to Max and whispered "Can I have a word with you?" Then he straightened up and walked out of the room.
Max followed the Autobot commander to his room, changing to her transformer mode as she walked to make it easier to talk to him.
Optimus shut the door behind her, "Max, there is no offence meant in my next statement, however, I must question how one Autobot and a minicon made it out of the Decepticon base alive." He said, "I'm glad yourself and Hot Shot are alright though."
Max couldn't find the right words to say, "Uhh… Well… I tried that linking thing with Hot Shot and…" Max proceeded to explain about the immense power Hot Shot acquired, yet how it didn't seem to be him using it.
Optimus listened to every single word, "It seems that there is something else different about you Max, something that you may not know about." He suggested.
Max agreed, then Optimus continued, "However, I am now thinking that it is not safe for you to leave the base in your human form without myself or one of the Autobots with you, do you understand?"
Max's heart sunk, she had been expecting him to say something like this, it meant she couldn't go riding by herself, go paint-balling, however, worst of all, it would feel like having a chaperone when she wanted to see James.
Looking into Optimus's optics she could see only concern and the femme knew it was best not to argue, "Alright then." She agreed.
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Back inside Max's head.
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"Man… That was weird." Zordan said when her spirit appeared back next to Zord's.
"Not like I care, but what happened?" Zord asked sarcastically.
Zordan looked at her strangely, "I just took over the body of a giant yellow robot…"
Zord scoffed, "Lucky you." she said before becoming quiet again.
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Later that night.
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Max had only just managed to fall asleep. As soon as she did, the girl found herself surrounded by darkness, though it felt like she was still awake.
"Is this a dream?" Max asked herself out loud.
"Looks like we have a visitor." A female voice came from behind her, making the girl jump. Max turned her head to see who had spoken, and when she did she gasped.
"You're… Zord?" Max stuttered.
The spiky haired being smirked, "The one and only." She said.
"Zord, what ARE you doing?!" Said another voice. Max turned to see another person who looked almost exactly like Zord, except she had bright green eyes instead of pitch black.
"Uhh… what's going on?" Max asked, "Who are you?"
The green eyed one smiled, "This is only a dream, do not fret, I am Zordan."
Zord was about to scoff when Zordan's voice came into her head, --Shut up, I'm getting information the easy way.--
Zord used their telepathic link to reply, --If you tell me to shut up again, I will blast your head off.-- she said, but decided to let her good side work her magic.
"This seems to strange to be a dream…" Max said, "Where are we anyway?"
Zord rolled her eyes, "I don't know, it's your dream."
Before Zord could say anything else, Zordan interrupted her, "We're here to listen to you," She started, "So you can tell us everything about your life."
--If anyone asks, I don't know you.-- Zord's voice said in Zordan's head.
"Uhh… That sounds a bit stupid… no offence or anything." Max said.
--I agree, except for the no offence part.--
Zordan ignored Zord's sarcasm and continued talking to Max, "There must be something you need to say out-loud, why you can become a small robot for instance."
Max's eyes widened, "How did you know about that?"
"We are a part of your subconsciousness, and only know about a small part of your life." Zordan lied.
"Err… ok… Well, I don't know how I can change into a Minicon or a Transformer… it happened when I touched these minicon panels." Max explained.
--Transformer… Why do I recognise that name…-- Zord and Zordan said to each other at the same time.
Zordan continued, "So, do you have any other… powers?"
"Well… they come and go…" Max started, "When I got angry with Megatron and Sideways I sent big blue balls of death flying at them, and this morning I made a shield using strange hand movements…"
--WHAT!-- Zord yelled inside Zordan's head, --The Blue Balls of Death are MINE!!!--
--So what? It makes sense, she was angry so she used one of your attacks. The shield would be mine, I wonder how she managed to do that…-- Zordan said back.
--Don't get smart with me.--
Zordan continued to talk to Max, and gained a little bit of information about the Transformers. Max was just about to tell them about Sideways when she suddenly started to go transparent.
"What's happening now?" Max asked, looking right through her hand at Zordan.
"I believe you are 'Waking up'." Zordan explained, "We will leave it at that."
"Alrightey then." Max said just as her entire body disappeared, "I'll see you round."
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Max sat up in her bed, "That was a very weird dream… it felt so… real." She said.
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Zordan smirked at Zord, "I told you I'd get information." She stated.
"You mean utterly useless information." Zord said, "Tell me what use does anything she said have to us?"
"We now know that she can use our techniques, but has no control over them. And, the species called Minicons must have something to do with us being here." Zordan said.
"Fine then," Zord snarled, "But why didn't we just take that opportunity to take over her body then?"
"Because," Zordan explained, "I am not going to trap her in here, there must be a different way."
Zord shook her head in disgust and walked away, muttering "Pathetic" "moron" and "I had to be stuck here with an honour-bound prat didn't I?"
"I heard that." Zordan said calmly.
"I know," Zord snarled, "You were meant to."
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This chapter DONE!!!!
Wow!!! This has got to be the shortest amount of time I've finished a chapter ever!!! This only took like less than a fortnight and one of my others took over 3 months!!!
I'm so excited! Double figures!!!
I'm going to shut up now and start on the next chapter!!! I'm on a roll!!!
(Actually, I just tried to start the next one and I can't write it. Anyway, I think cartoon network is gonna show some episodes of Armada again soon! They'd better! Though I think I'm gonna be away… damn.)