Parents, pissing, me, off. Ugh!You can thank them for this not being out today(10-3) because they insisted on draggin' me across town for a phone charger when they could've dropped me and lil bro at home. Then I could've typed this some more!

Anywho, venting aside, I adore the comments I did get, and I encourage them, even if to say "Change this? Maybe swap this?Throw this story in the incinerator?" Time to type~Naruto pose~ Wow, haven't done that since I actually watched Naruto(more than 2-3 years ago).

Warning: TWO cuss words. Can you handle the heat?


A Glance: Chapter 12 Standard Edit(Completed 9-2-11)

She passed the first few doors by, cautiously in case one might open to spew forth a human. Plus it was never any fun to just systematically explore. It was all about the randomness and seeing what, by chance, was seen. The first few doors were to be saved for last, to save a prize for the end and also to have a reason to find the way back.

The first door to catch her interest as she passed was huge, and only the second such door she'd happened upon. Unlike the other door she had seen, this one had no human sized door. It was just the oversized one. The fact that there was no human door pinted to an all mech residency. Without humans around. None. That was good. Sounded like the perfect place to start. She should have known that it was too good to be true.

On her approach, small though she was, the door slid aside to accommodate her entrance. It only took a peek within to send her careening away as though she'd been whipped and to the side of the door. Inside was a mech who was as conspicuous as the sun was. it was the giant eyesore who had knocked her out the night(or was it two?) before. That impromptu nap automatically put him on her bad side, if not her utter shit list. It also put him into the first of the set of categories used by her to rate the 'Bad' level of a person. He was a level two, the second highest level. [Anyone who can tell me what the whole 'Bad' level thing is from will get a cyber cookie!]

She made it to the wall just in time, because barely a second or two passed before he turned ont he spot to stare at where she had just been standing. She prayed to whatever gods weren't ever listening that he hadn't spotted her, her eyes so tightly squeezed shut that it almost hurt. Whatever gods weren't usually listening apparently weren't going to start anytime soon, it seemed. After a tense few seconds of feverish not prayer, footsteps sounded the movement of the one inside the still open room. Belatedly she realized that moving away so that the door would close would've probably helped him think she was gone, or better yet, had never been there in the first place.

It was too late now. She was there, he was coming, and she would surely die upon discovery. The blunt steps grew closer still and a shiver of fear and anxiety passed through her. He stepped through the door a moment later and looked around in confusion. he glanced around, and upon seeing nothing, turned. She thought he was dismissing the event as nothing more than coinidence and sighed in relief. 1)This relief was unfounded and 2)sighing was a bad idea. She should've remembered, "When in doubt, stay quiet." It'd worked before. He decided to look down and lo and behold, he saw her. His eyes widened owlishly and he made a noise, or said something, though all she caught was a low and slow warble with a pinched chirp stuck in the middle.

He took a step forward towards her,a nd she reacted as she had once been taught to as a child. She screamed loud and clear and definately high pitched. She moved with a speed the older mech didn't think her capable of in the opposite direction, down the hall further. She heard him take off after her, and though he had stood there dumbfounded for a good fifteen seconds, he was bigger. Much bigger, with longer legs. He began to gain and all she thought of was to get away.

The halls passed in a blur of gray and black, and she took so many turns she knew that she would be hopelessly lost if she ever managed to lose her persuer. Speaking of him, in the meantime, he was keeping up well, barely, with the black and purple little one. He followed with legs and voice, calling for her to stop; to wait, that there was nothing to fear. The calls fell upon deaf ears. and they were indeed deaf to the quick, changing language that was spoken out frantically. If anything it egged her on, pushed her forward as if physically so, and made her run all that much faster in escape.

The chase gave way some minutes later. By this time, her frame felt like it was on fire, and she was pretty sure she could suck in all the air in the place and still be running hot enough to quick fry an egg on her armor. Her body shook with the strength of the fans trying fruitlessly to cool her overheating. And still her major problem remained. She was still being followed and though the yelling after her had slowed to a shout every once in a while, the footfalls beating after had never faultered in their intense rhythm.

She couldn't keep this pace up for much longer, and she knew for a fact that her stalker could. Her body was actually starting to hurt, and each step was fire in her legs. Why had it set in so soon? They had only running for a few minutes. She cursed her minute frame, what as a human was in near peak condition was like running as a child as a robot!

Suddenly she couldn't think on it anymore because a flash of blue ahd jetted in front of her and ground was no longer underfoot. Why did they all have to be so damned tall?


Not much to say, other than I actually managed to type this in less than an hour! Woot! Hope you like it, and remember, reviews and even flames feep me burnin' bright! -Neko^^