WOW. I had REEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAALLY bad writer's block because I've been distracted. Why you ask? Because I GOT FINAL FANTASY X!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!! I loooooooove it!! ::hugs Tidus:: Hehehehehhehehehehehehehehehehhee.
DISCLAIMER: ...Do I really hafta say it again? I DON'T OWN ZOIDS!!!!
Leena woke up in the best mood she had been ever since she got her new Zoid. She also woke up in the arms of the man she loved: Bit Cloud.
She turned her head slightly to see him still asleep. She smirked and then blew cold air on his face. He moved his face and Leena started giggling. Bit, awaken by the sound, started to tickle her sides. Leena erupted with shrill laughter and it took two elbows smashing into his chest to make Bit stop.
"Good morning Leena," he greeted. Leena kissed him quick on the lips.
"Yo."
"Do you think anyone heard us?"
"No, I think we were quiet enough."
They were silent as they looked at each other for a moment and then the two burst out laughing. Leena then sat up and grabbed her bathrobe off of the floor. She got up and put it on, tying it tightly. She turned back to Bit.
"C'mon. Let's go eat breakfast. As much as I love seeing you in my bed, I'm hungry."
"As always," murmured Bit with a smirk. Leena tilted her head.
"Quiet you."
Leena crept around the corner, and saw Harry, Leon, and Jamie at the table. She motioned for Bit to wait, and then she strolled into the kitchen.
"Morning boys!" she said cheerfully. Too cheerfully…
"Why are you so happy?" asked Jamie. Leon looked up from his pancakes, awaiting Leena's answer. Leena already thought of what she would say if they asked anything.
"Because I knew that you were back, and I knew you were gonna make pancakes, and I knew that they were gonna be GREAT!" she exclaimed, raising her fist for emphasis. Jamie smiled at the complement and then Leena sat down. Harry gobbled down his meal.
"Hey Leena, why don't you go wake Bit up?" he suggested. Leena looked at him flatly.
"And risk loosing pancakes to greedy fools like you three? No way!"
"You know that *I* would never steal your pancakes!" pleaded Harry, looking at Leena with big eyes. She smirked.
"Fine. Then I can't trust those two. And anyway, who knows if Bit's hiding, just waiting for one of us to leave the room so he can come out and snatch our food?"
That was Bit's cue.
"Aw…you figured me out!" he said, striding into the kitchen and sitting down. After a while, one sacred pancake was left. Jamie didn't want it, but he never gave it to anyone. Knowing that he would get caught up in the fight if he gave it to someone, he dashed out of the room to let them fight it out themselves.
Bit, Leena, Harry, and Leon's eyes were on the one last pancake. Leena hunched over, preparing to pounce like a tiger. Bit readied himself, as did Leon and Harry. Then, out of the blue, a hand reached over and plucked the pancake. The four Zoid pilots whirled around to see the stealer. He simply ripped the pancake in half and gave the other half to the person next to him.
It took a moment for everyone to register who the two people were.
"Brad! Naomi!" exclaimed the four pancake-lovers. Brad smiled and Naomi smirked.
"Hey y'all!" she greeted. Leena bounded over and grinned widely to her rival pilot.
"Damn…couldn't get rid of you."
"I'm not that easy girl."
"But how did you two escape from the Backdraft Group?" asked Bit.
"When you guys traded Isaac, we used the distraction to get the hell outta there," explained Brad vaguely. Leon looked puzzled.
"So what were you two doing the whole night?" he asked. Leena giggled.
"OOOOOOOOOH! Getting some-"
Brad and Naomi gave her a stare and so she backed up slightly.
"We were getting some backup. We have the Tiger Team and the Lightning Team with us now," answered Brad.
"Backup?" asked Harry.
"For the upcoming battles. You just KNOW that we're gonna have to face the Glow Fox and Gun Sniper Nightmare X. Who knows? Maybe our good pal the Elephandor will make an appearance," answered Naomi.
"I certainly hope not," said Bit. There were no arguments there.
"So what exactly are we gonna do when we complete the GS Nightmare? I know that we have to put it onto the Liger, but how? The frames are no where near each other in similarity," Naomi wondered aloud.
"I think that the Zoids themselves do it," suggested Leena. Everyone looked at her. She continued, "Well yeah, I mean my Zoid can do lots of stuff on its own, and I'm sure the Liger can too."
"But the Liger is totally trashed. We could sell it if it wasn't for this whole mess," replied Brad.
"And me! I wouldn't let you sell my partner!"
"Yeah, you too Bit. Anyway, how will the Liger get the parts? It seems way too impossible to me."
"No, what's impossible is how my mother is here, piloting the Zoid that could kill us all," said Leon. Leena looked down.
"None of this makes any sense…but we have to keep as much hope as we can. We can't let the Backdraft Group win this. This isn't *just* about the Blitz Team or the Flugal Team or the Champ Team. Maybe this even goes further than the Zoid Battle Commission. We don't know what the Backdraft Group really wants, but whatever it is, we have GOT to stop it."
Later that night, the Hover Cargo stopped near the half demolished temporary base of the ZBC. The base was deserted for fear of another attack. But Dr. Steve Tauros knew that the Backdraft Group never strikes the same place twice, so he decided it was safe to hide near it. Oscar, Leena, Dr. Tauros, and Jamie prepared dinner for all of the guests, and then once dinner was put out on the table, everybody dug in happily.
Except for Leena, who just looked at her food. Bit watched her as he nibbled on his steak, then after he couldn't wait any longer he leaned to her.
"What's wrong?" he asked. She looked at him.
"I'm scared."
"Of what?"
"Tomorrow. The day after. The next day after. The next-"
"Okay I get it. You're afraid of the future?"
"I'm afraid of what's gonna happen with all this. I don't know what's going on…All I wanted to do was get a powerful Zoid so I could show you that I could be powerful too. It was fine until THIS all had to happen."
"So it's basically all my fault."
"What? How is it your fault? I'm the one with the cursed Zoid!"
"If my ego wasn't all the way to the sun then you wouldn't have gotten a different Zoid. If I had told you about the Lightning Saix that was behind you, you would still have your old Gun Sniper."
"It's not either of your faults. Let's just say that it was destined that Leena would get the GS Nightmare," corrected a familiar voice. Everyone looked over to a chair where a man was sitting, slurping up noodles. Dr. Tauros and Oscar fell out of their chairs.
"LAYON?!"
"Yes?"
"How did you get in here?" asked Dr. Tauros. Layon smirked.
"Well, I heard about the whole situation and I came to stop you."
"Stop us?" asked Leena, getting up from her chair and glaring at the man.
"Oops! Sorry. I'm used to trying to stop you, Tauros. I meant to say that I'm here to help you," repeated Layon. Oscar rolled his eyes.
"How will you help us?"
"I know that the GS Nightmare needs more parts to be complete, so I went out undetected and got the separator units for you. The parts are in my Whale King. Also, I know that you'll have to get into Aroch Mountain, so the best way would be to fly into the middle depression. My Whale King can definitely help you out there."
"But aren't you with the Backdraft Group? Why do you want to help us?" asked Bit.
"Because I know exactly what happened between the Gun Sniper Nightmare and the Gun Sniper Nightmare X," Layon answered. "The place the Backdraft Group created both of the Gun Sniper Nightmares was at the base of the Aroch Mountains. Everything Isaac told you all was a lie. The Backdraft Group wasn't happy with the power that the first Nightmare contained, so they created the Nightmare X. Lalia was the pilot of the GSN, NOT the pilot of the GSNX. The original pilot of the Gun Sniper Nightmare X was Bruce Farber, a man with black hair, and a scar across his right cheek.
"Bruce was so power hungry, that he eventually went mad because of the GSNX's power. Lalia tried to stop him with her Nightmare, but the Nightmare X was far too powerful. So, in risk of going mad herself, she stole the Gun Sniper Nightmare X and destroyed the base it was created in. Then she headed up to Aroch Mountain to destroy the GSNX by piloting it off one of the cliffs. It did work, the GSNX was demolished, but Lalia had given her life to destroy it.
"But her effort was in vain, for the GSNX healed itself, and then was later found again by the Backdraft Group. For some unknown reason, Lalia's spirit was trapped in the GSNX, and so the Backdraft Group is using it against us. Lalia went mad as she piloted the Nightmare X, but her goal to destroy the Zoid was the same."
"How are they using a ghost?" asked Leon. Leena's face was white with all of the talk of ghosts.
"Why is it always ghosts?"
"The Backdraft members themselves aren't using the ghost, but it's the Gun Sniper Nightmare X that's keeping Lalia around. So if we destroy the GSNX, Lalia *will* disappear, but its for the best," replied Layon. Bit sighed.
"So the whole story comes out. Now we know who that man is who gave us the information about Brad, Naomi, and Jamie being captured. He'll pay for all of this."
As everyone was loading the Zoids into the Whale King, Leena couldn't stop thinking about all of the information that Layon gave them. After her Zoid was loaded, she crept off to one of the rooms in the large transportation. She sat on the couch and then hummed the song her mother hummed her, with her voice shaky. Her eyes were tearing up, and her nose was getting stuffy.
Bit had a good knack for knowing when someone was feeling sad, so he soon found Leena hugging a pillow while humming weakly.
"Leena?"
Leena looked up after a sniffle and saw the man she loved most. She couldn't bear to look at him when she was feeling so awful inside, but when she looked down again, he kneeled down in front of her, placing his head on his arms on the armrest of the couch.
"Leena, look at me."
She kept her head down.
"All right. Tell me what's wrong then."
"I can't do this."
"What do you mean?"
Leena wiped at her eyes and finally looked up at him.
"I mean I'm too scared and I just can't do this. You can't imagine how scared I am right now. My mother is trying to kill me, so is that Bruce guy, and the whole Backdraft Group wants me dead too. They might want you dead too, because you always kicked them out of commission whenever they challenged us. Like the time I was captured by the Backdraft Group, you totally demolished the Cold Team."
"Brad helped."
"That's not the point."
"I'm just as scared as you are. You at least have a Zoid. I have nothing. And I promise that I will protect you."
"But who will protect you? I can't, I'm too weak."
Bit looked deep into her eyes.
"First off, you're not weak, and second, I will make sure that no one is killed. No matter what, I'll protect this team, and I'll protect myself."
"But what if-"
"Don't worry Leena. Please don't worry. If you worry, then I worry, and then I don't function right. Let me see you smile."
Leena looked at him. She couldn't. Bit's eyes saddened, then sparked up with amusement.
"Don't make me have to poke your boob again."
Leena's eyes smiled, but her lips didn't change. Bit got onto the couch and held her, wishing he could see her smile.
He feared he would never see it again.
ICK!!! I don't like this chapter. It's too short, but it was hard to come up with something. ARGH. They need like a medicine for Writer's Block. ARGH!!! I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Oh, um, anyway, I'm sorry if this chapter really sucks, but this is an "Info Chapter." No action, just info. Well, I gotta eat wonderful dinner, so I'll see ya in the next chapter! TOODLES! Ooops! I copied Boogiepop. I mean, B-BYE!! ::bows and runs away::
DISCLAIMER: ...Do I really hafta say it again? I DON'T OWN ZOIDS!!!!
Leena woke up in the best mood she had been ever since she got her new Zoid. She also woke up in the arms of the man she loved: Bit Cloud.
She turned her head slightly to see him still asleep. She smirked and then blew cold air on his face. He moved his face and Leena started giggling. Bit, awaken by the sound, started to tickle her sides. Leena erupted with shrill laughter and it took two elbows smashing into his chest to make Bit stop.
"Good morning Leena," he greeted. Leena kissed him quick on the lips.
"Yo."
"Do you think anyone heard us?"
"No, I think we were quiet enough."
They were silent as they looked at each other for a moment and then the two burst out laughing. Leena then sat up and grabbed her bathrobe off of the floor. She got up and put it on, tying it tightly. She turned back to Bit.
"C'mon. Let's go eat breakfast. As much as I love seeing you in my bed, I'm hungry."
"As always," murmured Bit with a smirk. Leena tilted her head.
"Quiet you."
Leena crept around the corner, and saw Harry, Leon, and Jamie at the table. She motioned for Bit to wait, and then she strolled into the kitchen.
"Morning boys!" she said cheerfully. Too cheerfully…
"Why are you so happy?" asked Jamie. Leon looked up from his pancakes, awaiting Leena's answer. Leena already thought of what she would say if they asked anything.
"Because I knew that you were back, and I knew you were gonna make pancakes, and I knew that they were gonna be GREAT!" she exclaimed, raising her fist for emphasis. Jamie smiled at the complement and then Leena sat down. Harry gobbled down his meal.
"Hey Leena, why don't you go wake Bit up?" he suggested. Leena looked at him flatly.
"And risk loosing pancakes to greedy fools like you three? No way!"
"You know that *I* would never steal your pancakes!" pleaded Harry, looking at Leena with big eyes. She smirked.
"Fine. Then I can't trust those two. And anyway, who knows if Bit's hiding, just waiting for one of us to leave the room so he can come out and snatch our food?"
That was Bit's cue.
"Aw…you figured me out!" he said, striding into the kitchen and sitting down. After a while, one sacred pancake was left. Jamie didn't want it, but he never gave it to anyone. Knowing that he would get caught up in the fight if he gave it to someone, he dashed out of the room to let them fight it out themselves.
Bit, Leena, Harry, and Leon's eyes were on the one last pancake. Leena hunched over, preparing to pounce like a tiger. Bit readied himself, as did Leon and Harry. Then, out of the blue, a hand reached over and plucked the pancake. The four Zoid pilots whirled around to see the stealer. He simply ripped the pancake in half and gave the other half to the person next to him.
It took a moment for everyone to register who the two people were.
"Brad! Naomi!" exclaimed the four pancake-lovers. Brad smiled and Naomi smirked.
"Hey y'all!" she greeted. Leena bounded over and grinned widely to her rival pilot.
"Damn…couldn't get rid of you."
"I'm not that easy girl."
"But how did you two escape from the Backdraft Group?" asked Bit.
"When you guys traded Isaac, we used the distraction to get the hell outta there," explained Brad vaguely. Leon looked puzzled.
"So what were you two doing the whole night?" he asked. Leena giggled.
"OOOOOOOOOH! Getting some-"
Brad and Naomi gave her a stare and so she backed up slightly.
"We were getting some backup. We have the Tiger Team and the Lightning Team with us now," answered Brad.
"Backup?" asked Harry.
"For the upcoming battles. You just KNOW that we're gonna have to face the Glow Fox and Gun Sniper Nightmare X. Who knows? Maybe our good pal the Elephandor will make an appearance," answered Naomi.
"I certainly hope not," said Bit. There were no arguments there.
"So what exactly are we gonna do when we complete the GS Nightmare? I know that we have to put it onto the Liger, but how? The frames are no where near each other in similarity," Naomi wondered aloud.
"I think that the Zoids themselves do it," suggested Leena. Everyone looked at her. She continued, "Well yeah, I mean my Zoid can do lots of stuff on its own, and I'm sure the Liger can too."
"But the Liger is totally trashed. We could sell it if it wasn't for this whole mess," replied Brad.
"And me! I wouldn't let you sell my partner!"
"Yeah, you too Bit. Anyway, how will the Liger get the parts? It seems way too impossible to me."
"No, what's impossible is how my mother is here, piloting the Zoid that could kill us all," said Leon. Leena looked down.
"None of this makes any sense…but we have to keep as much hope as we can. We can't let the Backdraft Group win this. This isn't *just* about the Blitz Team or the Flugal Team or the Champ Team. Maybe this even goes further than the Zoid Battle Commission. We don't know what the Backdraft Group really wants, but whatever it is, we have GOT to stop it."
Later that night, the Hover Cargo stopped near the half demolished temporary base of the ZBC. The base was deserted for fear of another attack. But Dr. Steve Tauros knew that the Backdraft Group never strikes the same place twice, so he decided it was safe to hide near it. Oscar, Leena, Dr. Tauros, and Jamie prepared dinner for all of the guests, and then once dinner was put out on the table, everybody dug in happily.
Except for Leena, who just looked at her food. Bit watched her as he nibbled on his steak, then after he couldn't wait any longer he leaned to her.
"What's wrong?" he asked. She looked at him.
"I'm scared."
"Of what?"
"Tomorrow. The day after. The next day after. The next-"
"Okay I get it. You're afraid of the future?"
"I'm afraid of what's gonna happen with all this. I don't know what's going on…All I wanted to do was get a powerful Zoid so I could show you that I could be powerful too. It was fine until THIS all had to happen."
"So it's basically all my fault."
"What? How is it your fault? I'm the one with the cursed Zoid!"
"If my ego wasn't all the way to the sun then you wouldn't have gotten a different Zoid. If I had told you about the Lightning Saix that was behind you, you would still have your old Gun Sniper."
"It's not either of your faults. Let's just say that it was destined that Leena would get the GS Nightmare," corrected a familiar voice. Everyone looked over to a chair where a man was sitting, slurping up noodles. Dr. Tauros and Oscar fell out of their chairs.
"LAYON?!"
"Yes?"
"How did you get in here?" asked Dr. Tauros. Layon smirked.
"Well, I heard about the whole situation and I came to stop you."
"Stop us?" asked Leena, getting up from her chair and glaring at the man.
"Oops! Sorry. I'm used to trying to stop you, Tauros. I meant to say that I'm here to help you," repeated Layon. Oscar rolled his eyes.
"How will you help us?"
"I know that the GS Nightmare needs more parts to be complete, so I went out undetected and got the separator units for you. The parts are in my Whale King. Also, I know that you'll have to get into Aroch Mountain, so the best way would be to fly into the middle depression. My Whale King can definitely help you out there."
"But aren't you with the Backdraft Group? Why do you want to help us?" asked Bit.
"Because I know exactly what happened between the Gun Sniper Nightmare and the Gun Sniper Nightmare X," Layon answered. "The place the Backdraft Group created both of the Gun Sniper Nightmares was at the base of the Aroch Mountains. Everything Isaac told you all was a lie. The Backdraft Group wasn't happy with the power that the first Nightmare contained, so they created the Nightmare X. Lalia was the pilot of the GSN, NOT the pilot of the GSNX. The original pilot of the Gun Sniper Nightmare X was Bruce Farber, a man with black hair, and a scar across his right cheek.
"Bruce was so power hungry, that he eventually went mad because of the GSNX's power. Lalia tried to stop him with her Nightmare, but the Nightmare X was far too powerful. So, in risk of going mad herself, she stole the Gun Sniper Nightmare X and destroyed the base it was created in. Then she headed up to Aroch Mountain to destroy the GSNX by piloting it off one of the cliffs. It did work, the GSNX was demolished, but Lalia had given her life to destroy it.
"But her effort was in vain, for the GSNX healed itself, and then was later found again by the Backdraft Group. For some unknown reason, Lalia's spirit was trapped in the GSNX, and so the Backdraft Group is using it against us. Lalia went mad as she piloted the Nightmare X, but her goal to destroy the Zoid was the same."
"How are they using a ghost?" asked Leon. Leena's face was white with all of the talk of ghosts.
"Why is it always ghosts?"
"The Backdraft members themselves aren't using the ghost, but it's the Gun Sniper Nightmare X that's keeping Lalia around. So if we destroy the GSNX, Lalia *will* disappear, but its for the best," replied Layon. Bit sighed.
"So the whole story comes out. Now we know who that man is who gave us the information about Brad, Naomi, and Jamie being captured. He'll pay for all of this."
As everyone was loading the Zoids into the Whale King, Leena couldn't stop thinking about all of the information that Layon gave them. After her Zoid was loaded, she crept off to one of the rooms in the large transportation. She sat on the couch and then hummed the song her mother hummed her, with her voice shaky. Her eyes were tearing up, and her nose was getting stuffy.
Bit had a good knack for knowing when someone was feeling sad, so he soon found Leena hugging a pillow while humming weakly.
"Leena?"
Leena looked up after a sniffle and saw the man she loved most. She couldn't bear to look at him when she was feeling so awful inside, but when she looked down again, he kneeled down in front of her, placing his head on his arms on the armrest of the couch.
"Leena, look at me."
She kept her head down.
"All right. Tell me what's wrong then."
"I can't do this."
"What do you mean?"
Leena wiped at her eyes and finally looked up at him.
"I mean I'm too scared and I just can't do this. You can't imagine how scared I am right now. My mother is trying to kill me, so is that Bruce guy, and the whole Backdraft Group wants me dead too. They might want you dead too, because you always kicked them out of commission whenever they challenged us. Like the time I was captured by the Backdraft Group, you totally demolished the Cold Team."
"Brad helped."
"That's not the point."
"I'm just as scared as you are. You at least have a Zoid. I have nothing. And I promise that I will protect you."
"But who will protect you? I can't, I'm too weak."
Bit looked deep into her eyes.
"First off, you're not weak, and second, I will make sure that no one is killed. No matter what, I'll protect this team, and I'll protect myself."
"But what if-"
"Don't worry Leena. Please don't worry. If you worry, then I worry, and then I don't function right. Let me see you smile."
Leena looked at him. She couldn't. Bit's eyes saddened, then sparked up with amusement.
"Don't make me have to poke your boob again."
Leena's eyes smiled, but her lips didn't change. Bit got onto the couch and held her, wishing he could see her smile.
He feared he would never see it again.
ICK!!! I don't like this chapter. It's too short, but it was hard to come up with something. ARGH. They need like a medicine for Writer's Block. ARGH!!! I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Oh, um, anyway, I'm sorry if this chapter really sucks, but this is an "Info Chapter." No action, just info. Well, I gotta eat wonderful dinner, so I'll see ya in the next chapter! TOODLES! Ooops! I copied Boogiepop. I mean, B-BYE!! ::bows and runs away::