Shattered Rain
By: Crystal of Psyche
Chapter 6: First Meeting
Author's Note: Thank you for all the reviews. Do you really think I should put Leon and Ashley together? I'm not sure, but this is a B/L so I guess I don't want to leave Ashley out of it. Brad has his love moments in this story too, with Naomi! *smiles* Review me and I'll try to get through this chapter. Hope you enjoy! By the way their in the Hover Cargo thingy.
"I can't believe I lost to her!" Leena threw her towel on her bed and walked out of the bathroom fully dressed.
"Knock, knock," someone said from the hallway.
Leena grunted, "Who's there." The door opened to reveal Ashley.
"Hey roomy!"
"Terrific."
"There are no rooms left and I don't wan to room with any of the guys, so your dad suggested to stay with you. Do you mind?"
"No it's perfectly fine," Leena lied.
"You're lying."
"I guess your one of those people who can tell if someone's lying."
"Living with Bit when we were young taught me to do something like that," Ashley smiled.
"If you lived with him before why don't you stay with him?"
"That's a great idea!" Ashley turned toward the door and started walking.
Leena grew pale, "W...wait! I was just joking!" Ashley swiftly turned around with a huge smile on her face, then burst into laughing fits.
"Was it something I said?" Leena was now confused.
"Exactly!" Ashley pointed a finger directly at Leena's face, still with smiles. "I know your secret."
"But I have no secret." Leena a bit stunned.
"Fine, just keep telling yourself that and you'll lose him to someone else," Ashley shrugged and went to go get her bag, but quickly returned to see how she was making progress.
"Lose who?"
"Please don't make me repeat myself. You know exactly who am talking about!" Leena jumped at this sudden out burst.
"Bit?" Leena said weakly. Ashley smiled once again.
"The way you were treating me told me something...you were jealous."
"Jealous? Jealous of what?"
"My relationship with Bit." Leena was quiet. "Now listen. Bit is like my brother, which I haven't seen in about ten years! But that's beside the point, he's a brother to me...not a love."
Leena was so happy that she ran up to Ashley and hugged her very hard. All Ashley could do was pat her on the back with the one free hand she had. She let go and had a question to ask.
"But I don't know if he likes me in return. Do you know if he does?"
"We're talking about Bit here. He's so hard headed that he doesn't think about that sorta thing."
"Yeah, maybe that why we have so much in common." Leena said as she went into dream world.
Ashley scratched the back of her head while she thought, Yep, their perfect for each other.
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(In the Control Room)
"The tailbone is connected to the foot bone the foot bone is connected to the toe bone..." A figure was huddled over a broken computer. Jamie walked in.
"What are you doing to my computer!?!" Ashley's head turned around from the chair she was sitting in.
"Well there was something wrong with it, and I needed it to run this program, sooooo I decided to fix it!" Ashley made with a simple sigh and went back to her work. But Jamie rushed to her side.
"But it's too complex! Not even the Doc knows how to fix it!"
"Hmm...That's too bad." Ashley once again went back to her work.
"No! You don't get it! Please stop before you break anything!"
"Done."
"Wha."
Ashley put all the wires back into the computer, shut it, and turned on the computer. "See I told you I know what I'm doing!" Ashley said with a huge smile. (Author's Note: I guess she's kinda acts like Ed in Cowboy Bebop. But not as weird and goofy all the time. Ashley doesn't walk on her hands and etc. Ed is so cool! I just love her! Watch Cowboy Bebop every Saturday night and you'll see what I mean.)
"Wow you don't have to hit it to make it start." Jamie pulled up a chair to see what Ashley is doing.
"Yeah I noticed the bumps on the side of this computer," Ashley said as she began to type.
"Oh..." Jamie said sheepishly, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm working on something that I have been working on for forever." Ashley pulled out some weird helmet thing and put it on her head. It went over her eyes but pulled it up slightly to see.
"What's that for?"
"I trying to make something that I can use on my zoid. It's a device that let's you move like your the zoid."
"I never knew something like that can be done."
"It can't"
"Huh?"
"That's why I'm trying to make it."
"Yeah, I guess," Jamie shrugged. Ashley plugged it into the computer and put the visor thing down. And began typing.
"What are you doing?"
"Starting the program," Ashley got up and moved the chair out of the way and stood there in front of the computer.
"Is it working?"
"Yes, I think it's doing good so far. Now to try to move," Ashley tried to move but quickly stopped, "Shoot."
"What?" Jamie said a little edgy at what she said.
ZZZZZAAAAAAAAPPPPPPP!!!
"OH MY GOD!" Jamie yelled as Ashley fell on the floor. The helmet fell off and little dizzies were in her eyes and her braids were frizzed but were still in braids. (Author's Note: Kinda like Peppi LongStocking's. Okay I misspelled that but I really don't care.)
"Ashley are you okay!?!"
"...Yeah I'm fine except that I can see six of you."
"Hag on let me go get someone!" Jamie ran out but Ashley lost consciousness.
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Bit was so happy, having his long lost friend back, he was giving the lyger a wash. Making it all shiny. Lyger liked that.
"Lyger your gonna meet her soon. She's really cool. And she has a zoid that is a cat-like zoid like you." The Lyger roared in response.
"Yeah your gonna meet her zoid too. Its name is the Genesis, she's one of a kind, just like you." The Lyger growled softly. Bit laughed out loud.
"And what may I ask is so funny?" Bit turned around to see...
"LEON!!"
"Hey Bit how's it going?"
"Great. An old friend is on the team now. She's around here somewhere," Bit said looking around.
Leon's eyebrow twitched, "She?"
"Yeah, she's a friend I grew up with. But I haven't seen her in a long time, and then she suddenly appeared out of nowhere. It's great having her back."
"Well I guess I have to meet her."
"Come on let's go find her." Bit motioned towards the door of the hangar and left.
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"Bit! Ashley got electrocuted; she's in the control room. I'm going to find Doc," Jamie yelled as he ran down the hall.
"I wonder how she did that," Bit said as he ran to control room. They ran into the room to find Ashley on the floor.
"What happened?" Leon said checking her pulse.
"Not again."
"What?" Bit walked over to her and knelt down next to her. "Hope this still works." Leon just let Bit do what he wanted to do. Bit reached into his pocket and took out a cookie. And held it our in front of Ashley. Her eyes snapped open.
"COOKIE!!" Her head shot up and hit Bit in the head they both clung to their heads.
"OWW!! Why did you do that!?!" Bit yelled holding his head.
"Well I didn't know that you were sitting over me like that."
"Are you guys okay?" Leon asked.
"We're just peachy," they both said. They all stood up and were now perfectly fine. Except for some huge headaches.
"Hey Bit whose he?" Ashley asked pointing at Leon.
"Right! Leon this is Ashley, Ashley this is Leon."
"Nice to meet you," Ashley said politely.
"Ashley, this is Leena's brother."
"Oh! That's why he looked so familiar."
"By the way. Ash, gotta love the hair," Bit pointing at her mop on top of her head.
"Ha ha," Ashley started taking out her braids which made her hair look very wavy.
"So Ashley," Leon trying to start a conversation, "How did you and Bit meet?"
"Well you see my mom and his dad were partners in...." She was stopped in the whole place started shaking.
"What's this," Ashley yelled as she tried to keep her balance, but couldn't. She started to fall but someone caught her.
"You okay?" Leon asked.
"Yeah...uh...thanks," Ashley said with a slight blush. (Author's Note: For all those who wanted A/L.) The rumbling stopped and they all stood up, Bit looked over at Leon and Ashley to catch the "moment". A sly smile came on his face.
Doc's voice came in the room, Sorry but the area we just went over was a bit rough.
"Just a bit," Ashley said.
"Thanks for the for warning Doc!" Bit yelled at the speakers. He turned his attention back to Leon, "How long are staying here?"
"I don't really have any plans."
"Great then we can hang together," Ashley chirped.
"Aren't you excited," Bit said with a smile.
"Yeah I know, I have the perfect thing for movie night tonight."
"Gee, with all your crazy ideas I wonder how it's going to turn out."
"Just wait and see," Ashley said with a big smile. He won't know what hit him, she thought to herself and her smile grew bigger.
"Are you two related?" Leon asked pointing the two.
"Sadly, no," they both sad.
Author's Note: Well that didn't take that long. Tell me if I should continue with the Leon/Ashley thing. The next chapter will be about the movie night. It's going to be fun! Bye for now!