Disclaimer: Uh.. Nope. Ain't mine.
A/N: It seems I'm writing this fairly fast! Gah! Better slow down before I screw up the plot somehow.. (I have a tendency to do that. .;; )
Anywho, I probably should have put this in with the last chapter. .;;
"It's been a month since the Royal Cup and the Backdraft's defeat. But the Backdraft that fought in the Royal Cup and headed the way in unsanctioned battles was nothing like the real thing. The real Backdraft remained hidden, lurking in and out amongst the common people. Waiting for it's day...Waiting for the day it would reign supreme over all."
Restaurant in that city we'll never know the name of!
"So, who was that kid I noticed you with earlier?" Brad took a seat at the table beside Bit.
"Some girl. She went off with Jamie to get some clothes." Leena drummed her fingers on the table, deep in thought.
"Jamie?" Brad raised his brow. "Shouldn't Leena have taken her being a girl and all."
"Yeah well, the kid obviously had brains. She wouldn't let Leena take her."
"Bit!" Leena waved her fist around threateningly in Bit's face. "She didn't go with you either."
"Then she most definitely had brains if she didn't go with either of you." Brad ducked as two fists flew over him and slammed into each other.
"Ow! Brad! What was that for?" Bit sucked on his red knuckles.
"That wasn't funny Brad!" Leena nursed her bruised fist.
"I'm not laughing." The three Zoid warriors looked up from their mundane conversation and noticed Jamie standing there.
"What did you do? Lose the girl!?" Leena couldn't see the small kid from where she was sitting.
"No.." Jamie picked the small girl up from under her arms and set her down beside Leena. He slid into the seat beside her.
"Jamie, did she ever tell you her name?" Bit snatched the salt shaker away from the girl just as she was about to turn it upside down.
"No. But she has started talking more. Do you think maybe she has amnesia?" Jamie smiled and handed the girl a napkin off the table to keep her entertained.
"Am-knee-see-uh? Whus dat?" She set the napkin down on the table and began folding it in several directions.
Leena stifled a small giggle. "It's where you can't remember anything."
"But I remember! Leena, Jamie, Bit, and Brad." She listed off the Blitz team's names on her fingers, this time adding in Brad.
Brad raised a brow and gave the small girl a questioning glance.
"She can remember people's names really good. I referred to you as Brad earlier, so now she knows you as Brad." Bit explained.
Brad shrugged. "Well, good memory or not. It isn't any good if she doesn't know her name. How about Allie? You know, for albino?"
"Allie, sounds nice. But isn't that insulting her?" Leena looked down at the small kid beside her, it seemed kind of cruel to call her that.
"I doubt she knows what albino is."
The pale child glared at Brad. "Do too! The man in the lab coat always called me albino. It means I have pale skin and hair, right?"
"Pretty much.. What man in a lab coat?" Bit leaned forward attentively, was the kid remembering something?
"The one that woke me up every morning."
"Anything else?" Jamie grinned. The Blitz team sat on the edge of their seats staring at the small child intently.
Her head drooped down in despair. "Nope.."
The team sighed and slid back in their seats in unison. "Well how about it, can we call you Allie?" Bit sat back up.
The girl looked up at Jamie, signaling the silent want of his opinion. "I like it. It fits nicely."
The girl smiled. "Allie it is!"
"Now, how about some food, Allie?" Jamie held out a menu for her. "You can have anything you like."
"Really!? Umm. Whus it say?" She eyed the mixed jumble of scribbles on the piece of laminated paper.
Jamie blushed, he hadn't taken into consideration that she probably couldn't read. "Well uh. Why don't we just order everything?" He looked around at the rest of the team.
"'S fine with me..."
"I'm starved!"
"Food!"
Jamie blinked at the quick responses. "Well, it's settled. We'll order everything." Hopefully with all the food they were ordering Bit and Leena wouldn't try and kill each other.
Noticing a full group of people sitting at the table a waiter walked over. "May I help you?"
"We'll take everything!"
The waiter eyed them suspiciously, wondering if they had the money to pay for it all. "Ah, the winners of the Royal Cup." Of course they could pay. "Very well then." The waiter stalked off to the back kitchen.
"Done!" Allie held up a small origami Raynos that had once been her napkin.
"Wow! That's cool! I pilot one of these!" Jamie gingerly took the paper Raynos from Allie's small hands.
"Have it!"
"Really? I can have it?" Jamie blushed and set the Raynos safely inside his shirt pocket. He had special plans for the small paper Raynos.
Allie took another napkin and began folding it, humming to herself.
"Cause I'm as free as a bird now. And this bird you can not change." Bit sung the words to the tune to girl was humming. "But, how did you know that song. It's older than I am."
Allie looked up from her new origami project. "I heard it today. On the ray- dee-oh. At least that's what Jack said it was."
"Jack's here?" Bit looked about the restaurant. If Jack was here he was going to challenge him to another shooting challenge.
"Jack Sisco? He left." Allie finished up the little paper Zoid and held it out.
"But how do you know Jack Sisco!? And whoa! Is that a Liger?" Bit's turquoise eyes focused in on the transformed napkin. (Well, sometimes his eyes look blue, and sometimes they look green. So, I'm calling them turquoise!)
"Same way I remember Leena, Jamie, Bit, and Brad." Allie held the Liger Zero replica out to Bit. "Take it!"
Bit took the mini Liger, noticing two deep round scars set right in the middle of her palm. He wasn't going to ask about it, not yet.
Several waiters walked by the table, each setting down two or three plates of food. Once all the food was delivered the waiter who taken their simple yet somehow complicated order stepped forward. "Is there anything else I can get you?"
"Naw, I think we're fine." Bit replied, licking his lips at the sight of the food.
"Very well then." He bowed and walked off, muttering to himself.
"Wow! This looks good!" Allie's red eyes gleamed with excitement as she looked over the table trying to pick what to eat first. "It all looks so yummy!"
"Dig in!"
Unknown
(and for the sake of myself, I'm now calling the "it" creature a "him")
He stood along the outside edge of the city, watching and waiting. He could feel it. That other presence like his own. The minute night came about he would move in. It would be best not to be seen than to be forced to kill anyone who saw him. Even with his unique human adaptations he still sometimes forgot to change back his ears or claws. The other creature was far more talented than he at looking human. "I'll get you. Be happy while you can still breathe properly."
"Sir, are you sure we can trust that thing to return? What if it runs off like the other one?" An obviously new Backdraft member asked the lead man.
"Have you no faith?" He rubbed his throbbing head; what a migraine! Why couldn't his workers be as loyal and unquestioning as his creations.
"I have faith, sir. But since that last one ran off what makes you sure this one won't too." He twiddled his thumbs behind his back nervously.
"If you have that much faith then stick your head in that hole." A long finger pointed out of the darkness towards a hole in the wall.
"Sir?" The hole did seem very inviting, and his curiosity sure was scratching at him.
"Well, faith or no faith?"
The man gulped. "Faith." He stepped up to the wall putting his hands firmly on the rim of the hole. Behind the man's back his boss held up a two fingers. "Here I go." The man squeezed his eyes shut and forced his head through the hole.
An instant later the man's body fell back to the ground, blood streaming from where his eyes should have been. "If you have faith, then trust my eyes."
Yup, it's that time again. "It's that time of the chapter for ending." (Gah, my head can make it's own radio with all the songs it knows.)
Anywho, during that last little bit I kept thinking to myself that I should reward the faithful servant with a nice vanilla coke. But things don't work that way in the Backdraft, so nyah! XP And uh, I'll probably change that last section. Sticking his head through a hole? I find it more funny than anything else.. And it shouldn't be funny! Well, I could give the Backdraft leader a bad sense of humor, I guess.
Well, uh, it might be awhile before I update. I never update over the weekend, and on Monday I'm goin' sailing for the first time! Yahooo! ^.^
A/N: It seems I'm writing this fairly fast! Gah! Better slow down before I screw up the plot somehow.. (I have a tendency to do that. .;; )
Anywho, I probably should have put this in with the last chapter. .;;
"It's been a month since the Royal Cup and the Backdraft's defeat. But the Backdraft that fought in the Royal Cup and headed the way in unsanctioned battles was nothing like the real thing. The real Backdraft remained hidden, lurking in and out amongst the common people. Waiting for it's day...Waiting for the day it would reign supreme over all."
Restaurant in that city we'll never know the name of!
"So, who was that kid I noticed you with earlier?" Brad took a seat at the table beside Bit.
"Some girl. She went off with Jamie to get some clothes." Leena drummed her fingers on the table, deep in thought.
"Jamie?" Brad raised his brow. "Shouldn't Leena have taken her being a girl and all."
"Yeah well, the kid obviously had brains. She wouldn't let Leena take her."
"Bit!" Leena waved her fist around threateningly in Bit's face. "She didn't go with you either."
"Then she most definitely had brains if she didn't go with either of you." Brad ducked as two fists flew over him and slammed into each other.
"Ow! Brad! What was that for?" Bit sucked on his red knuckles.
"That wasn't funny Brad!" Leena nursed her bruised fist.
"I'm not laughing." The three Zoid warriors looked up from their mundane conversation and noticed Jamie standing there.
"What did you do? Lose the girl!?" Leena couldn't see the small kid from where she was sitting.
"No.." Jamie picked the small girl up from under her arms and set her down beside Leena. He slid into the seat beside her.
"Jamie, did she ever tell you her name?" Bit snatched the salt shaker away from the girl just as she was about to turn it upside down.
"No. But she has started talking more. Do you think maybe she has amnesia?" Jamie smiled and handed the girl a napkin off the table to keep her entertained.
"Am-knee-see-uh? Whus dat?" She set the napkin down on the table and began folding it in several directions.
Leena stifled a small giggle. "It's where you can't remember anything."
"But I remember! Leena, Jamie, Bit, and Brad." She listed off the Blitz team's names on her fingers, this time adding in Brad.
Brad raised a brow and gave the small girl a questioning glance.
"She can remember people's names really good. I referred to you as Brad earlier, so now she knows you as Brad." Bit explained.
Brad shrugged. "Well, good memory or not. It isn't any good if she doesn't know her name. How about Allie? You know, for albino?"
"Allie, sounds nice. But isn't that insulting her?" Leena looked down at the small kid beside her, it seemed kind of cruel to call her that.
"I doubt she knows what albino is."
The pale child glared at Brad. "Do too! The man in the lab coat always called me albino. It means I have pale skin and hair, right?"
"Pretty much.. What man in a lab coat?" Bit leaned forward attentively, was the kid remembering something?
"The one that woke me up every morning."
"Anything else?" Jamie grinned. The Blitz team sat on the edge of their seats staring at the small child intently.
Her head drooped down in despair. "Nope.."
The team sighed and slid back in their seats in unison. "Well how about it, can we call you Allie?" Bit sat back up.
The girl looked up at Jamie, signaling the silent want of his opinion. "I like it. It fits nicely."
The girl smiled. "Allie it is!"
"Now, how about some food, Allie?" Jamie held out a menu for her. "You can have anything you like."
"Really!? Umm. Whus it say?" She eyed the mixed jumble of scribbles on the piece of laminated paper.
Jamie blushed, he hadn't taken into consideration that she probably couldn't read. "Well uh. Why don't we just order everything?" He looked around at the rest of the team.
"'S fine with me..."
"I'm starved!"
"Food!"
Jamie blinked at the quick responses. "Well, it's settled. We'll order everything." Hopefully with all the food they were ordering Bit and Leena wouldn't try and kill each other.
Noticing a full group of people sitting at the table a waiter walked over. "May I help you?"
"We'll take everything!"
The waiter eyed them suspiciously, wondering if they had the money to pay for it all. "Ah, the winners of the Royal Cup." Of course they could pay. "Very well then." The waiter stalked off to the back kitchen.
"Done!" Allie held up a small origami Raynos that had once been her napkin.
"Wow! That's cool! I pilot one of these!" Jamie gingerly took the paper Raynos from Allie's small hands.
"Have it!"
"Really? I can have it?" Jamie blushed and set the Raynos safely inside his shirt pocket. He had special plans for the small paper Raynos.
Allie took another napkin and began folding it, humming to herself.
"Cause I'm as free as a bird now. And this bird you can not change." Bit sung the words to the tune to girl was humming. "But, how did you know that song. It's older than I am."
Allie looked up from her new origami project. "I heard it today. On the ray- dee-oh. At least that's what Jack said it was."
"Jack's here?" Bit looked about the restaurant. If Jack was here he was going to challenge him to another shooting challenge.
"Jack Sisco? He left." Allie finished up the little paper Zoid and held it out.
"But how do you know Jack Sisco!? And whoa! Is that a Liger?" Bit's turquoise eyes focused in on the transformed napkin. (Well, sometimes his eyes look blue, and sometimes they look green. So, I'm calling them turquoise!)
"Same way I remember Leena, Jamie, Bit, and Brad." Allie held the Liger Zero replica out to Bit. "Take it!"
Bit took the mini Liger, noticing two deep round scars set right in the middle of her palm. He wasn't going to ask about it, not yet.
Several waiters walked by the table, each setting down two or three plates of food. Once all the food was delivered the waiter who taken their simple yet somehow complicated order stepped forward. "Is there anything else I can get you?"
"Naw, I think we're fine." Bit replied, licking his lips at the sight of the food.
"Very well then." He bowed and walked off, muttering to himself.
"Wow! This looks good!" Allie's red eyes gleamed with excitement as she looked over the table trying to pick what to eat first. "It all looks so yummy!"
"Dig in!"
Unknown
(and for the sake of myself, I'm now calling the "it" creature a "him")
He stood along the outside edge of the city, watching and waiting. He could feel it. That other presence like his own. The minute night came about he would move in. It would be best not to be seen than to be forced to kill anyone who saw him. Even with his unique human adaptations he still sometimes forgot to change back his ears or claws. The other creature was far more talented than he at looking human. "I'll get you. Be happy while you can still breathe properly."
"Sir, are you sure we can trust that thing to return? What if it runs off like the other one?" An obviously new Backdraft member asked the lead man.
"Have you no faith?" He rubbed his throbbing head; what a migraine! Why couldn't his workers be as loyal and unquestioning as his creations.
"I have faith, sir. But since that last one ran off what makes you sure this one won't too." He twiddled his thumbs behind his back nervously.
"If you have that much faith then stick your head in that hole." A long finger pointed out of the darkness towards a hole in the wall.
"Sir?" The hole did seem very inviting, and his curiosity sure was scratching at him.
"Well, faith or no faith?"
The man gulped. "Faith." He stepped up to the wall putting his hands firmly on the rim of the hole. Behind the man's back his boss held up a two fingers. "Here I go." The man squeezed his eyes shut and forced his head through the hole.
An instant later the man's body fell back to the ground, blood streaming from where his eyes should have been. "If you have faith, then trust my eyes."
Yup, it's that time again. "It's that time of the chapter for ending." (Gah, my head can make it's own radio with all the songs it knows.)
Anywho, during that last little bit I kept thinking to myself that I should reward the faithful servant with a nice vanilla coke. But things don't work that way in the Backdraft, so nyah! XP And uh, I'll probably change that last section. Sticking his head through a hole? I find it more funny than anything else.. And it shouldn't be funny! Well, I could give the Backdraft leader a bad sense of humor, I guess.
Well, uh, it might be awhile before I update. I never update over the weekend, and on Monday I'm goin' sailing for the first time! Yahooo! ^.^