THE CONVENTION
By: Matt Taylor
Disclaimer: I own none of these characters, they all belong that company in Japan that I've mentioned before.
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CHAPTER FOUR
OPENING CEREMONIES
Horns wrung through the air.
Banners rippled in the air.
Crowds of excited people milled around a large stage in the front of the hotel.
It was time to open the Imperial City Zoid Convention.
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"Would you calm down, Leena." Bit asked his companion.
Leena Toros stood with the rest of her team, along with her brother Leon, and his teammate Naomi Fluegel in the crowd.
"I can't calm down, Harry could be anywhere! Anywhere! He could be over behind those people, who could be behind that stand! Gaah! He could be under that manhole cover!!" Leena said, pointing to the cover imbedded in the street. Bit came over and put his arm over her shoulder.
"Leena, calm down, okay. Even if Harry did show up, all of us are here, so you don't have to worry about it." Bit said reassuringly to her. Leena calmed down a little but she still seemed to look around a lot. Brad couldn't help but notice that Bit had not removed his arm from her shoulders, and didn't look like he was going to anytime soon, nor did Leena look totally uncomfortable with it there.
"What time is it, dad?" Leon asked his father.
"Only a few more minutes." Dr. Toros said as he looked at his watch.
"How are you feeling this morning, Brad?" Naomi asked.
"Better, my headache's gone." Though Brad did not say that his headache had disappeared the minute Naomi had suggested that they stay in his room and order room service instead of eating with the rest of the team, but there was no reason for her to know that.
"You really shouldn't drink that much, not that certain people where lax in trying to stop you." She threw a meaningful glance at Leon, who suddenly saw something incredibly fascinating on the other side of the parking lot.
"It's okay, I was the one who drank them, don't blame Leon for it."
"I don't, I suppose it's my fault. You mercenaries always did take things too seriously." She said, smiling in a way that made his toes tingle. Brad wondered, not for the first time since meeting this girl, whether or not women knew that they had this kind of power over men?
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"Gee sir, can't we go down and join the festivities?"
"No Sebastian, it's easier to spot her from the roof." Harry Champ was currently positioned on the top of the hotel, his special custom made binoculars scanning the crowd beneath him. "Besides, it's only fitting that he who is to be king be positioned above the common people."
"Yes but your "ahem" queen is down among those "Common People."
"I'm aware of this Sebastian. All the more reason why we should find her soon."
Harry's gaze spread over the entire crowd, until he finally laid eyes on the Blitz team. Or, to be more specific, his gaze fell upon Bit with his arm around Leena!!! Harry continued to stare impotently at the scene, trying to wrap his mind around the image that was playing out in front of him. Harry stood there for ten minutes, until his robotic servants noticed.
"Uh, sir? Are you okay, Boss."
"Yeah you look a little stiff." Said Benjamin, laughing at his own (rather poor) joke.
"He....."
"Yes sir?"
"He......." Harry said again.
"Yes?"
"He.....has....his.....arm.....around......my.....LEENA!!!!!!" Harry yelled at the top of his lungs. Steam poured from his ears, and flames flew from his eyes, and nostrils.
"HOW DARE HE!! WHAT DOES THAT DECEITFUL, WICKED PUNK THINK HE IS DOING!!!!????" Harry continued to yell, his tirade drawing the attention of several in the crowd below. Harry stomped over the roof, until the fire finally wore out. Harry began to laugh.
"I....I know what's going on? He's forced himself on her! Yes, my Leena would never do such a thing willingly. Y...yes that's it."
"I think the boss has finally lost it."
"Totally." Harry ignored his servants talk, and turned back to the crowd with his binoculars. Yes, that foul Bit Cloud was taking advantage of his Leena! He could see the scene now.
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HARRY CHAMP'S MIND.
"Finally, my dear Leena, you are mine, Mwahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!" Stay away you deceitful wicked punk!"
Leena Toros was dressed in a white dress, designed in the "old western way," and lying on the ground. Bit Cloud stood over her, dressed in a black suit, black trenchcoat, and high black top-hat, for some reason he was also wearing a fake black mustache. Both of them where on what looked to be a speeding train, charging recklessly through an old mountain pass.
"Now that I have you, my dear Leena, I shall have my way with you. Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"Oh, you foul beast! I shall never submit to you, and you shan't have your way with me."
"Oh! And who will stop me? Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"I will!" Bit turned in shock. Standing behind them was a man, a man in white, and holding a six-shooter. "That's enough out of you varmit. I'm here to take back miss Leena, and put an end to you."
"Gasp! It's Harry Champ! He who is destined to be king!!" Said Bit, drawing back on horror.
"Oh Harry!!! I knew that you would come and save me!!"
"That's right, Miss Leena. You just sit right there while I deal with this side-winder."
"I think not Harry Champ," Suddenly Bit had a revolver in his hand. "Once you are out of my way, my nefarious schemes will no longer fail, and I shall have Miss Leena as well! Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
"No way, buckaroo!" Harry immediately pulled his six-shooter, and in a second, six bullets where put into the "evil" man's body, forming a perfect circle on the stomach. Harry lifted his gun up, and dramatically blew the smoke off the top of the barrel. Leena got up and threw her arms around him. As they did this Bit reached one hand towards the sky dramatically, before falling down.
"Did you kill him?"
"Nah! Wouldn't be proper for a good guy like myself. None of those bullets hit anything serious, as soon as this train stops we'll turn him over to the police."
"Oh, you're so heroic. Kiss me, boss."
"Well golly, you don't have to call me boss."
"Boss...boss....Boss..."
(Fade-out)
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"Boss! Boss! Are you in there?"
"BOSS!!!!"
"What? Who? Where?" Harry Champ snapped back to reality, zipping his head around to be sure of his surroundings.
"You okay Sir?" Sebastian asked.
"Fine, fine." Harry stood up, and brushed off his shirt. With this, he began marching off to the elevator door.
"Sebastian! Benjamin! Come. My Leena needs me!"
"Uh-oh." The two robots said under their breath.
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Below them, a man dressed in a fashionable suit and tie, stepped up on the platform in front of the huge crowd. He raised his hands and everyone went quiet.
"My friends! I am Allen Croul, the owner of this hotel, and your host for this event." His words where met with a great cheer. "I must say how proud I am, that my hotel will host our annual Zoid Convention. We have exhibits of everything from new weapons systems, new control systems, thrusters, new model Zoids, games and events, dinners, discussion groups, and anything else having to do with the sport of Zoid fighting!" Once again there was a great cheer.
"So, I'm certain you've all heard enough of me, so then...I am proud to open, the Twentieh Annual Imperial City Zoid convention!"
Cheers roared up from the crowd, as horns began playing behind him, and balloons were let loose in the air. After taking in it all, the crowd dissipated back into the hotel and to their own preferred exhibit.
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"Okay you guys, where you wanna go first?" Bit asked.
"I'm headed off to the Zoid arena to see the opening match, wanna join me, Brad?" Naomi asked.
"Um...sure." He said, as she led them away from the group. Leena chuckled as she watched them go, before grabbing Bit's arm.
"Come on Bit, I wanna see the new weapon system."
"Why do I have to go?"
"COME ON!!!" Bit was literally yanked off the ground as she pulled him towards the display area. Dr. Toros chuckled slightly, and turned to Leon and Jamie.
"Well boys, it's just the three of us, want to help me open up my exhibit?"
"Sure Dad, why not." Said Leon.
"Actually, I was hoping to check out the schedule." Jamie said.
"You sure, Jamie?" Leon asked.
"Yeah....there's a certain team I want to take a look at."
"Okay then, see you later." With that, the two men left, and Jamie walked up to a viewscreen near the back of the entrance area. Jamie pressed a few buttons and the list of Zoid teams came up. Jamie moved downward through the list until he found the one he was looking for.
"Here it is, the Striking Stars Team." Jamie let the teams bio come up, showing a picture of Dr. Miles Drogan, and beneath that, a list of names, and stats.
"Let's see. Specialty: Aerial battle. Team members: Three. Transport: Nebulous class Whale King. Nebulous class?" Jamie had never heard of that before. "Team members. Darren Solar, Team leader. Harold Strong, second in command...What?" For some reason there was no third member listed. "There's no third member?"
"Actually there is." Jamie jumped slightly, and turned around. Behind him was Darren Solar once again, but he was not the one who spoke. No those words were said by the emerald haired woman standing besides him.
"Jamie, I'd like you to meet the third member of the Striking Stars team, A young lady known as..." Said Darren before Jamie interrupted him.
"Pierce!"
"Well well well. Wild Eagle, it's nice to see you again." She said, smiling.
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TO BE CONTINUED
By: Matt Taylor
Disclaimer: I own none of these characters, they all belong that company in Japan that I've mentioned before.
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CHAPTER FOUR
OPENING CEREMONIES
Horns wrung through the air.
Banners rippled in the air.
Crowds of excited people milled around a large stage in the front of the hotel.
It was time to open the Imperial City Zoid Convention.
********************
"Would you calm down, Leena." Bit asked his companion.
Leena Toros stood with the rest of her team, along with her brother Leon, and his teammate Naomi Fluegel in the crowd.
"I can't calm down, Harry could be anywhere! Anywhere! He could be over behind those people, who could be behind that stand! Gaah! He could be under that manhole cover!!" Leena said, pointing to the cover imbedded in the street. Bit came over and put his arm over her shoulder.
"Leena, calm down, okay. Even if Harry did show up, all of us are here, so you don't have to worry about it." Bit said reassuringly to her. Leena calmed down a little but she still seemed to look around a lot. Brad couldn't help but notice that Bit had not removed his arm from her shoulders, and didn't look like he was going to anytime soon, nor did Leena look totally uncomfortable with it there.
"What time is it, dad?" Leon asked his father.
"Only a few more minutes." Dr. Toros said as he looked at his watch.
"How are you feeling this morning, Brad?" Naomi asked.
"Better, my headache's gone." Though Brad did not say that his headache had disappeared the minute Naomi had suggested that they stay in his room and order room service instead of eating with the rest of the team, but there was no reason for her to know that.
"You really shouldn't drink that much, not that certain people where lax in trying to stop you." She threw a meaningful glance at Leon, who suddenly saw something incredibly fascinating on the other side of the parking lot.
"It's okay, I was the one who drank them, don't blame Leon for it."
"I don't, I suppose it's my fault. You mercenaries always did take things too seriously." She said, smiling in a way that made his toes tingle. Brad wondered, not for the first time since meeting this girl, whether or not women knew that they had this kind of power over men?
********************
"Gee sir, can't we go down and join the festivities?"
"No Sebastian, it's easier to spot her from the roof." Harry Champ was currently positioned on the top of the hotel, his special custom made binoculars scanning the crowd beneath him. "Besides, it's only fitting that he who is to be king be positioned above the common people."
"Yes but your "ahem" queen is down among those "Common People."
"I'm aware of this Sebastian. All the more reason why we should find her soon."
Harry's gaze spread over the entire crowd, until he finally laid eyes on the Blitz team. Or, to be more specific, his gaze fell upon Bit with his arm around Leena!!! Harry continued to stare impotently at the scene, trying to wrap his mind around the image that was playing out in front of him. Harry stood there for ten minutes, until his robotic servants noticed.
"Uh, sir? Are you okay, Boss."
"Yeah you look a little stiff." Said Benjamin, laughing at his own (rather poor) joke.
"He....."
"Yes sir?"
"He......." Harry said again.
"Yes?"
"He.....has....his.....arm.....around......my.....LEENA!!!!!!" Harry yelled at the top of his lungs. Steam poured from his ears, and flames flew from his eyes, and nostrils.
"HOW DARE HE!! WHAT DOES THAT DECEITFUL, WICKED PUNK THINK HE IS DOING!!!!????" Harry continued to yell, his tirade drawing the attention of several in the crowd below. Harry stomped over the roof, until the fire finally wore out. Harry began to laugh.
"I....I know what's going on? He's forced himself on her! Yes, my Leena would never do such a thing willingly. Y...yes that's it."
"I think the boss has finally lost it."
"Totally." Harry ignored his servants talk, and turned back to the crowd with his binoculars. Yes, that foul Bit Cloud was taking advantage of his Leena! He could see the scene now.
********************
HARRY CHAMP'S MIND.
"Finally, my dear Leena, you are mine, Mwahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!" Stay away you deceitful wicked punk!"
Leena Toros was dressed in a white dress, designed in the "old western way," and lying on the ground. Bit Cloud stood over her, dressed in a black suit, black trenchcoat, and high black top-hat, for some reason he was also wearing a fake black mustache. Both of them where on what looked to be a speeding train, charging recklessly through an old mountain pass.
"Now that I have you, my dear Leena, I shall have my way with you. Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"Oh, you foul beast! I shall never submit to you, and you shan't have your way with me."
"Oh! And who will stop me? Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"
"I will!" Bit turned in shock. Standing behind them was a man, a man in white, and holding a six-shooter. "That's enough out of you varmit. I'm here to take back miss Leena, and put an end to you."
"Gasp! It's Harry Champ! He who is destined to be king!!" Said Bit, drawing back on horror.
"Oh Harry!!! I knew that you would come and save me!!"
"That's right, Miss Leena. You just sit right there while I deal with this side-winder."
"I think not Harry Champ," Suddenly Bit had a revolver in his hand. "Once you are out of my way, my nefarious schemes will no longer fail, and I shall have Miss Leena as well! Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
"No way, buckaroo!" Harry immediately pulled his six-shooter, and in a second, six bullets where put into the "evil" man's body, forming a perfect circle on the stomach. Harry lifted his gun up, and dramatically blew the smoke off the top of the barrel. Leena got up and threw her arms around him. As they did this Bit reached one hand towards the sky dramatically, before falling down.
"Did you kill him?"
"Nah! Wouldn't be proper for a good guy like myself. None of those bullets hit anything serious, as soon as this train stops we'll turn him over to the police."
"Oh, you're so heroic. Kiss me, boss."
"Well golly, you don't have to call me boss."
"Boss...boss....Boss..."
(Fade-out)
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"Boss! Boss! Are you in there?"
"BOSS!!!!"
"What? Who? Where?" Harry Champ snapped back to reality, zipping his head around to be sure of his surroundings.
"You okay Sir?" Sebastian asked.
"Fine, fine." Harry stood up, and brushed off his shirt. With this, he began marching off to the elevator door.
"Sebastian! Benjamin! Come. My Leena needs me!"
"Uh-oh." The two robots said under their breath.
********************
Below them, a man dressed in a fashionable suit and tie, stepped up on the platform in front of the huge crowd. He raised his hands and everyone went quiet.
"My friends! I am Allen Croul, the owner of this hotel, and your host for this event." His words where met with a great cheer. "I must say how proud I am, that my hotel will host our annual Zoid Convention. We have exhibits of everything from new weapons systems, new control systems, thrusters, new model Zoids, games and events, dinners, discussion groups, and anything else having to do with the sport of Zoid fighting!" Once again there was a great cheer.
"So, I'm certain you've all heard enough of me, so then...I am proud to open, the Twentieh Annual Imperial City Zoid convention!"
Cheers roared up from the crowd, as horns began playing behind him, and balloons were let loose in the air. After taking in it all, the crowd dissipated back into the hotel and to their own preferred exhibit.
********************
"Okay you guys, where you wanna go first?" Bit asked.
"I'm headed off to the Zoid arena to see the opening match, wanna join me, Brad?" Naomi asked.
"Um...sure." He said, as she led them away from the group. Leena chuckled as she watched them go, before grabbing Bit's arm.
"Come on Bit, I wanna see the new weapon system."
"Why do I have to go?"
"COME ON!!!" Bit was literally yanked off the ground as she pulled him towards the display area. Dr. Toros chuckled slightly, and turned to Leon and Jamie.
"Well boys, it's just the three of us, want to help me open up my exhibit?"
"Sure Dad, why not." Said Leon.
"Actually, I was hoping to check out the schedule." Jamie said.
"You sure, Jamie?" Leon asked.
"Yeah....there's a certain team I want to take a look at."
"Okay then, see you later." With that, the two men left, and Jamie walked up to a viewscreen near the back of the entrance area. Jamie pressed a few buttons and the list of Zoid teams came up. Jamie moved downward through the list until he found the one he was looking for.
"Here it is, the Striking Stars Team." Jamie let the teams bio come up, showing a picture of Dr. Miles Drogan, and beneath that, a list of names, and stats.
"Let's see. Specialty: Aerial battle. Team members: Three. Transport: Nebulous class Whale King. Nebulous class?" Jamie had never heard of that before. "Team members. Darren Solar, Team leader. Harold Strong, second in command...What?" For some reason there was no third member listed. "There's no third member?"
"Actually there is." Jamie jumped slightly, and turned around. Behind him was Darren Solar once again, but he was not the one who spoke. No those words were said by the emerald haired woman standing besides him.
"Jamie, I'd like you to meet the third member of the Striking Stars team, A young lady known as..." Said Darren before Jamie interrupted him.
"Pierce!"
"Well well well. Wild Eagle, it's nice to see you again." She said, smiling.
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TO BE CONTINUED