YAWN!! I was up until the wee hours of the morning, writing and downloading... Jeez I am tired... Ok, I will be using acronyms, so just try and get their general meaning (BL = Blade Liger, GS = Genosaurer), cause I can't write too much. Oh yeah, if you play Empire Earth, have an AMD processor computer and a nVidia video card, remember to load the Detonator 12.41 drivers. But the highest res you can get is 1024x768. :( I was on 1160x960. It all looks too big...
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The blade liger leaped through the air, slicing the leg off of the Command Wolf stationed over the other side. Van asked "Thomas, there's a stealth zoid out there. Can you find it?"
"That's affirmative. Beek, calculate the stealth zoids pattern to all known audio signatures."
Beek whistled and placed an overlay grid on the HUD (Heads up display). The grid slowly dissipated to show the outline of a Hellcat.
"I've gotcha now" Van yelled "Mobilise, Liger!"
The twin blades slid out of the side of the liger, and fixed outwards. The twin ion boosters flared, giving the liger more speed, while the blades energised. The zoid quite literally flew through the left legs of the hellcat, shearing them off with a sharp yowl from the hellcat. The hellcat command system froze.
"Alright, got it!" Van and Thomas simultaneously yelled. Van gave Thomas a high five. In retaliation, Thomas messed up Vans hair. Swiping at Thomas, Van missed dismally, while Thomas laughed at the pilot. In response to that, Van said, playfully, "Thanks Beek, we couldn't do it without you."
"Hang on, what about me? I created Beek, where's my recognition!"
Van said absentmindedly "Oh yeah, thanks Thomas" Van smirked, knowing how much that annoyed him.
A COM link appeared, with Major Robert Hermann's beaming and slightly flustered face on it. (A/N I do not have a thing for Hermann, maybe... Nah. That's too weird...) "I need you boys over to the debrief room ASAP. Good job" Hermann shut off the COM link.
"Time to work, O'Connell" Hermann walked out.
"What's up with him? He's never like that" Van remarked at the empty comm. panel
"Who knows, but we'd better do what were told..." Thomas trailed off.
On a cliff overlooking the basin where they were working was a young lady and an organoid (It's the Hiltz factor, I know...). The wind tossed her hair, making it look as if it was alive. The silver organoid growled. "Soon Zeke, we will get him" Fiona turned and walked away, slowly and with precisely measured steps. Zeke stood there, torn between going back to his old master or leaving with his Zoidian companion. "Zeke, come on!" Zeke trundled off with Fiona, knowing that Van was now his enemy.
Or is he?
~~ Meanwhile... ~~
Hermann was still trying to straighten up his uniform, when the two Guardian Force members entered and saluted at their superior.
Hermann returned the salute and gestured them to sit as the door closed behind them.
Van and Thomas giggled. "What's wrong with you two?"
"Uh," Thomas looked at Van, "your shirt is on inside out". Indeed he had incorrectly dressed. Unfortunately they could also see the small embroidered name tag that was on the inside of his shirt.
Van laughed so hard he fell off his chair. Thomas soon followed him. Robert went a deep shade of red. "Break it up you two! That's an order!" Robert yelled.
Barely composing themselves, they re sat down. "As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted, you did a fantastic job out there. You were able to synchronise better with the liger, Van, and Beeks processing power was admirable. Thomas, you should be congratulated."
They both stammered thank-you and kept listening to the debriefing. "Now Van, I heard that you did not like some technicians outfitting the liger with stealth gear."
"Damn sure of it! Why didn't you tell me?" Van jumped out of his chair, slamming his fist down on the table.
"Hey temper..." Thomas rested his hand on Vans upper arm and lightly pushed him back into his seat.
"It is necessary if we are to fight the TC, because its stealth can only be neutralised with stealth."
Going onto several pages of technical readouts and data collected, Van and Thomas's minds were elsewhere.
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(I like tildes they look so cool! :) I'm so silly today…)
The blade liger surged forward, fully hidden optically and heat signature was barely noticeable. Van mobilised the liger, ready to split the cockpit in two of the Command Wolf inside. Fiona was sitting there, different than before. She fired the pulse gun directly at the cockpit of the liger. The liger, even with Zeke would never have had the shields up in time. The glowing beam slowly disintegrated the cockpit, and slowly inched its way to the fragile occupants...
Van woke up with a start, a cold sweat drenching his whole body. He stammered, and whimpered, breathing deeply. It was only a dream... but was more like a nightmare. No worse than that, it felt so real...
Van felt someone grab his hand, slowly. Van flinched. Thomas was beside him, awake, holding his hand. Van calmed noticeably.
"Sshhh, it was only a dream..." Thomas tried to calm his companion
"But it felt so real" Van said as he told Thomas about his dream
"But I'm here. Nothing happened to us. Come on, time to sleep."
"I can't" Van stammered "what if it comes back..."
Thomas smiled that lop sided smile that Van can do so well. "Ill be here, always"
With that, Thomas wrapped his arms around the younger officer and held him close. He started to slowly rock the whimpering man, until he started to fall asleep. To aid the process, Thomas started to sing...
* Yet another song! This time it's Two-Mix's White Reflection (Endless Waltz). Now I know it is really a fast song, but this is sung really slowly, emphasizing the words. Now go and download it, it is one of my favourite songs (Note: I included the English translation, but it's sung in Japanese*
~Kanashimi mo itami mo furikiru you ni habataku
~Anata ga kureta tsubasa wo kono mune ni hirogete...
~Aa Kakegae nai ai no kodou wo
~Setsunaku kuruoshiku kanjite itai
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Atsuku yume wo kasanete
~Ayamachi osorezu ni motomeau seishun!!
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Mitsumekaesu hitomi ni
~Egaite haruka na "NEVER ENDING STORY"
~Afuredasu omoi wo suppada de sotto tsutaeru
~Yasashiku nareru tsuyosa wo dakishimeru mitai ni...
~Aa Hageshiku yureugoku jidai wo
~Kedakaku shinayaka ni koete yukitai
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Yurushiaeru shinjitsu
~Kuchizuke kawashitara mou nani mo iranai!!
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Akiramenai jounetsu
~Shinjite tsuranuku "NEVER ENDING STORY"
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Atsuku yume wo kasanete
~Ayamachi osorezu ni motomeau seishun!!
~I FEEL YOUR LOVE REFLECTION
~Mitsumekaesu hitomi ni
~Egaite haruka na "NEVER ENDING STORY"
*English Translation*
~I feel your love reflection
~A far away, never ending story is painted in your eyes as you gaze back at me
~The wings (courage) you gave me, I spread open in my heart;
~Their fluttering seems to shake off the sadness (despair) and pain (scars).
~Aa, I want to feel the pain of the pulsing (shining) of irreplaceable love
~I feel your love reflection.
~Pile up the dreams (ideals) thickly
~Young ones who desire each other, fearless of mistakes.
~I feel your love reflection
~A far away, never ending story is painted in your eyes as you gaze back at me.
~I want to softly communicate to your bare skin
~the feelings that are spilling over
~As if hugging close the strength (purity) to become gentle
~Aa I want to nobly, lithely, overcome this unstable age (these unstable days).
~I feel your love reflection
~The truth of our acceptance of each other
~Kiss me, and there is nothing else I need!!
~I feel your love reflection
~Believe in the passion that will not give up
~Our piercing-through (fighting) "never ending story."
~I feel your love reflection
~pile up the dreams (ideals) thickly
~Young ones who desire each other, fearless of mistakes
~I feel your love reflection
~A far away, never ending story is painted in your eyes as you gaze back at me
Thomas looked down. Van was asleep. Thomas bent down and kissed him on the forehead.
"That's not how you do it..." Thomas looked down, into the never-ending brown eyes of Van.
Van drew himself, locking his lips with Thomas. Thomas sighed, contently.
Withdrawing from Thomas after an eternity, Van settled down and went to sleep, his hair falling all over the pillows. Thomas lied on his warm pillow and let the rhythmic rise and fall of Van's chest drag them both away, to sleep...
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Now before you all think I'm completely mad, I've never kissed someone else before (bar mum...) so I have no idea how to write it. That makes me sad that I can't really write the scene. But you get the drift. Anyways, please review, it makes me and the Command Wolf happy that you review. Flame me and die! Were in the middle of bushfire season, so if you want to burn down a forest because of redirected flames, be my guest. But don't let that stop you
Anyways, onwards to the next chapter... Command Wolf AC vs. The Blade Liger (That was going to be this chapter, but I it didn't work : -) Oops, I wasn't going to tell you that, btw.
CYA all
Maelgwyn