A Reason To Love

Disclaimer: Iun own zoids. Nor do I own Gee Golly Whiz. it's Augustina's and I took it without her knowing. I'm sorry. I give Gee Golly Whiz to Augustina.

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"Moonbay's back!" Fiona exclaimed.

"For real?!!" Van ran outside to greet the oncoming Genosaurer. Fiona let out a sigh of relief. She had been worried ever since Van came back without her. Anxiety grew when she didn't return.

Moonbay jumped out of the cockpit and landed on the ground next to Van.

"Moonbay! What took so long?!" Van said.

She shrugged and looked around. "Hey I'm starving. Got any food around here?" she started to walk towards the kitchen.

"...Moonbay?" Fiona asked cautiously.

"Yes?"

"Is... anything... wrong?" Fiona clutched the bottom of her sleeve, as she always did when she was worried.

"No. Why do you think so?" Moonbay answered calmly while entering the kitchen.

Van and Fiona looked at each other before following her.

"Well... erm... you were gone the entire night... and we couldn't contact you." Van said.

"I'm here now, aren't I?" Moonbay asked while getting out two pieces of bread. She turned around and looked at Van in the eye. "I'm fine."

Van was surprised at the lack of the usual warmth he saw in her eyes. "You sure?" he could help but ask.

"Yes I'm perfectly fine! I'm feeling so damn great! And know what? Irvine's still gone! But I'm SURE that the people that took him would give him back real soon! Golly Gee Whiz!" she snapped back.

Fiona and Van stood there in stunned silence. Sure, Moonbay had been sarcastic several times, but this time was different.

Fiona gave Moonbay a forced smile. "Well then... umm... I'll get going and let you finish making your sandwich, k?" she practically ran out of the room.

Van took a forward. "What's with you?!"

Moonbay glared at him. "I told you I'm fine! Why are you so bitchy all of a sudden?!"

"Bitchy?! Me?! Well EXCUSE ME Queen of the world I was just worried about my friends!" Van stomped out after Fiona.

Moonbay stood there for a few minutes, unmoving. Then she sighed and put her hand on her forehead.

"What's wrong with me?" she asked herself. She sighed again and dropped the lettuce she was holding.

"I'm gonna go apologize..."



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"Piece of stubborn shit."

Irvine was thrown onto the ground by a man with more than twice his muscles. The man walked off and slammed the door behind him, leaving Irvine in complete darkness once again.

He groaned softly, barely able to move his own fingers. He laid there on his stomach on the cold ground, coughing up blood with the little energy he had left from taking all those beatings. Irvine winced at the sudden pain coming from his arm.

'It must be broken...' he thought. Closing his eyes, he considered the option of giving in and telling them what they wanted.

'If you tell them, it would mean less pain for you!' a voice in his head cried out.

'No! It would mean *more* pain later on! And Moonbay and the others would probably resist the power of it... and then they'll die...' the other voice said.

"Moon... bay..." he murmured softly. Then he slowly drifted off to sleep.

Sei frowned from the shadows. All this time, she had been watching his every move (with night goggles cuz you can't see in the dark ^^;). And she saw that name upon his lips. So he did have a love interest after all.

"Heh, that makes it more interesting." she whispered. With a flashlight in her hand and a first aid kit in the other, she slipped closer to him while taking off her goggles and throwing them to a corner.

She shone the flashlight in his face.

'He's pretty handsome, despite all that blood and bruises on him.' she thought. She mopped up some of the blood, pressing alcohol pads on his wounds.

Slowly, he opened one tired eye and looked up at her.

Sei gave him her most charming smile.

"Hey." she whispered.

Irvine just frowned and glared into her eyes.

Her smile grew wider. 'Intense eyes. I bet he looked back at Tero. So that's why he was so pissed.'

Sei shifted her glance to his arm, which was sticking out at a weird angle. Taking a bandage from the kit, she pressed her hands on the arm.

"Wah?!" he exclaimed.

"Shh... you're gonna feel some pain. Don't worry, it'll all be over soon." Sei pushed the broken bones together, causing Irvine to bite his lip until it bled.

'I'm not gonna scream I'm not gonna scream I'm not gonna scream' Irvine chanted inside his head.

"My name is Sei." Sei said as she quickly wrapped the arm up. She looked back into his eyes.

"I saw them torturing you."

Irvine looked at his arm. "So you pity me." he said in a weak, quiet voice.

She gave him a sad smile. "Too many people are hurt." Sei then stood up. "They'll give you some time to recover. Tomorrow I'll bring some food and I'll think of a plan to get us out of here." Before he could say anything, she ran out of the room, but not before giving him another smile.

Irvine stared at the closing door. Then he looked down at his arm again, which was throbbing with pain.

"...what the hell...just happened..." Slowly, he closed his eyes again.

"Maybe I'll make it out of here. Maybe God pities me, just like that girl does." he whispered. Then he drifted back to sleep again, trying to ignore the hurt.