Disclaimer- I don't own Zoids and probably never will.

(Author's note)  ahhhhh! Sooo long…. I hate writing… what's wrong with me anyway… stupid epic… read and review… lalalaaa.

Leena's Dark Horn

            Two months have passed since Naomi Flugal joined the Blitz team… And things are well, a mess.  Ah, Brad and Naomi are having the time of their life, (ya always knew they liked each other =)) unfortunately it's not quite as romantic as Brad had hoped.  His plan had succeeded in getting Leena and Bit to stop fighting on the battlefield.  The only problem was, that Leena didn't take part in the battles anymore.  Bit refused hands down, to be left out of a battle, and Leena now refused to go into battle with him.  So Bit always went out, Brad followed, and Naomi took Leena's place on the field.

            This was a very bad thing, because now it looked like the team was replacing Leena.  Bit didn't do anything to discount it, which left Leena alternately furious and miserable, Dr. Toros continually angry, and Brad up… Well you know what creek without a paddle.  Jamie did his best to stay out of everybody's way, which meant people only saw him once a week or so, and Naomi was trying to make peace with Leena, who seemed to blame this whole mess on her.  There has still been no word from Harry, and it seems even his parents are getting worried.

Leena was out of the Hover Cargo at last!  Jamie had made one of his rare appearances, stating they needed food.  Leena had gladly taken the opportunity to get out of that mad house.  It had obviously been Jamie's desire to get out, but that was too bad for him.  Some how he'd gotten around all this for months, and it was her turn for a break.  Besides, she needed to get a few items that weren't on the grocery list.  She figured she'd have to go halfway across town to find them, but the longer she was out the better.  Her Gun Sniper moved along at a determined pace, and she leaned back and let it steer itself for a while. 

It was an odd thing; this Zoid seemed to have a mind of its own sometimes.  She only noticed every once in a while, and never gave it much though.  She'd grown into her Gun Sniper so much that it seemed merely an extension of her.  She Leena sighed and closed her eyes, she didn't give up this chance to forget completely all the troubles she would be coming back to after she was done shopping.

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"Bit!  Hold on a minute, I want to have a word with you."  Brad called across the weight room.  Bit had been avoiding Brad since he and Leena had had their most recent big fight.  Most likely because Brad had been blamed as the cause, and the Doc was threatening to cut his share in the prize money.  Of course Brad wouldn't stand for that, since this was all Bit's fault anyway.

"What do you want Brad?"  Bit had gotten an awfully edgy tone to his voice over the past month.  It wasn't one to sooth the mercenary's mood one iota.  Bit recognized this as Brad closed the distance between them with amazing speed, and in a feat of amazing strength (as far as Bit was concerned) lifted him Bit by the back of the neck, and hung him by his T-shirt from the top rung of the Arm curls rack. (Note that the word hung, not 'hanged' was used here, though that was not the last thing on Brad's mind.)

"What's the matter with you Brad?  Have you gone completely psycho?"  Bit struggled to get a hold on the racks frame but failed.  Thus he dangled, feet barely off the floor.

"I think that's my line!"  Brad growled, "What's up with you and Leena huh?  Why wont you let her out on the field?"

"It wasn't my rule that she didn't want to fight by my side," said Bit defensively

"But it's always a competition when you two are out there, you always start a fight with her-"

"I do not! She's the one-"

"Shut up and listen to me!  I don't care if you don't want to marry Leena anymore but-"

Bit fumed, used a great deal of profanity and started to flail about.  He continued to yell and kick at Brad who was annoyingly just out of his range, until his T-shirt ripped and he fell with an indignant 'thud' to the floor.  The fall did something to cool Bit's temper but he continued to mutter as he got up and brushed himself off.  He had a feeling the Brad was right, and he'd have to talk to Leena sooner or later.  He just didn't want to get into what he really felt about this whole thing.  On the one hand he cared for Leena very much and he definitely didn't want to let her go.  On the other hand, there were some mixed emotions that continually made him angry for some reason.  He wanted to be on good terms with Leena again, that was for sure.

"Yeah," said Bit in a more passive tone.  "I'll talk with her."  He walked out of the weight room in the general direction of the hanger.  He'd need to get a peace offering before he approached Lenna after all of this.

Brad sighed and slid into the leg-press machine.  For a rare and totally vulnerable moment, he prayed to God there would be peace after all this. 

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Leena returned around ten o' clock that night.  It had taken her much longer to find the special items she was looking for than she had expected.  Mentally sighing when she saw the Liger 0 sitting in the hanger, she pulled in next to it.  She suddenly wished she could just run away.  She probably could have, she simply lacked the conviction to do it.  Ah well…

She trudged off to her room spare parts in hand.  Just before she entered she heard a loud crash inside.

"What the…" That was Bit's voice!  What was he doing in her room?!

BANG!!

"YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOWWW!!!!!"

"Oh NO!" Leena gasped immediately rushing into the room… she had a very bad feeling…

"W… What the hell is that thing??"  Bit yelled at Leena as something rustled beneath one of the tiles on her floor.

"Oh Bit!  Are you alright?"  Leena rushed over to Bit who was curled on the floor his hands covering his face.  "Oh sweetie…"

BANG!!

"AHHHHOWHOWHOW…"

"Bit!"  Bit's leg had been hit this time.  Leena whirled on his assailant.  "Harry!  Stop that right NOW!!"  The tile went still, and Bit didn't here much more.  Leena was rolling him over to get a good look at him.

Bit was in agony.  He tried to move his legs and was amazed as he actually saw stars.  As he fought to see past the brilliant colors he could just make out Leena's voice.  –"Harry!  Stop that right NOW!!"-  Harry?  So it's him!  He's come to get his revenge, I should have known…

"Bit?  Bit sweetie, please tell me your ok…" Leena attempted to roll Bit over.  The resulting pain was exquisite.  Bit now realized that he was holding his head, and it was hurting… very… badly.  What?  Is my skull cracked??

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhooooooooowwww…" Bit, groaned weakly.  He was feeling very tired, and the floor was so comfy right now…  The last thing he heard was Leena's voice fading into a cloud of dull pain.