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Bit came to in a world full of strange and confusing sounds. His head felt like it had been put through the blender for a couple hours and placed in the freezer then back into the blender. He strained to open his eyes but the sun blinded him, he lifted his head up and fell back again. Voices sounded from somewhere around him.
"Is he dead?"
"Hn, beats me."
"Gee, do you think we should do something, Raven? I mean, we can't get leave him here and we definitely can't continue with the battle even if he is dead."
If he didn't know any better, Bit could have sworn he heard a zoid growl. It didn't sound like any zoid he had ever heard before. Mustering all of his strength he sat up, getting a major head rush. To his right was big red zoid he had never seen before, it looked like a Genosaurer only much bigger. To his left, a blue Blade Liger.
Bit vaguely heard someone gasp.
"Oh My God! My God! He-he's alive!!" the Blade Liger leaned cautiously towards Bit.
"Oh shut up Van, no one could have survived a fall like that. I mean, for God's sake he fell from the friggin sky! No one could have.." The red zoid took a step back.
The Blade Liger glanced up at the zoid and laughed. "I told you so! I told you so, Raven! Ah ha!"
"That's impossible.it has to be! What are you pulling Van? Your delusion is spreading to me."
"That's because it's not it a delusion dumb ass, hey you kid. Are you okay? Hop in!"
The canopy of the Blade Liger opened up revealing a boy who looked no older than 18 with jet black hair that was spiked in the front and had a ponytail in the back. He smiled a concerned sort of smile that did nothing to mask the confusion in his gray eyes.
"Thanks man, I seem to have lost my way." Bit placed his hand behind his head and laughed nervously.
He jumped in the back seat and the canopy closed with a low buzz. What the heck was going? He wondered, something told him that he definitely was not planet Zi anymore. That's for sure.
"What's your name, kid?"
Bit looked up as he realized the pilot was talking to him. "Bit. Bit Cloud."
"The name's Van Flyheight," Van said with a wave of his hand. "And that guy over there," he indicated to the red zoid. "His name is Raven."
"Er. okay. What kind of zoid is that? I've never seen one like that before, the closest thing I've seen is a Genosaurer," Bit said uncomfortably.
That name, Van Flyheight, sounded so familiar he couldn't put his finger on it. The name sounded like something straight out the history book, if only Bit had paid more attention to his grandma when she was teaching him then maybe he wouldn't be in this mess.
"Oh that's because the Genobreaker is the evolved form of the Genosaurer, both zoids are incredibly rare and there are few around. Raven got lucky enough that Prozen made that zoid for him," Van said dully, a hint of anger in his voice.
Prozen, yet another name that rung the bell. Damn, Bit wished he could just remember why did all these names sound familiar.
Van wrinkled his nose. "Ugh, what is that smell? It smells like Thomas' cooking only a hundred times worse."
He turned around, sniffing, and to his horror the smell was coming from the stranger named Bit Cloud. Van coughed and covered his nose and mouth with his hand.
Bit frowned and sniffed his sleeve, which sent him into a coughing fit. "It's me! Ah! I think it's because I ran over a skunk."
"A skunk? What is this madness?"
The Genobreaker let out a booming roar to get everyone's attention that shook the Blade Liger. With a loud 'beep' a com link appeared in the cockpit with the image of boy about the same age as Van who was unlike him in every aspect. He had shaggy shoulder length raven colored hair, incredibly pale skin and dark purple eyes that burned with hate.
"Van," the boy said narrowing his purple eyes. "I'm losing my patience with you. This battle would have finished with a long time ago and I could have been on my merry way, but no. This little pest had to choose now to fall from the sky! Delaying everything and you want to delay them even more? Shame on you, Van."
Van growled. "I don't get what your problem is! We'd still be here no matter what happened, because I'm not going to let you win. You're not going to kill anymore, not if I have anything to say about this. I thought you changed, Raven what happened? I thought you stopped your mass massacre when the Deathstinger appeared. And Hitlz decided he was too good to need you.
To be honest, I don't really want to fight you. I didn't come here looking for a fight. I came here for find whatever is left of my friend. This has nothing to do with you! Listen, Moonbay and the others are going to be here any second now. You can still get away and escape detection if you leave now."
Bit blinked, what were they talking about? All of these names kept ringing the bell and quite frankly the bell got tried after a while. Why did Van want that Raven person to leave, Bit had thought they were friends from the way they were talking but obviously not anymore. Talk about your love/hate relationships. He decided not say a word and just continue to watch the show, maybe if he heard enough he'd finally remember where he had heard all these names.
"Ha ha ha no. What kind of fool do you take me for, Van? Your stupid little friend isn't alive! Not after that missile that rid Zi of the likes of Hiltz and his ridiculous excuse for a zoid. He's dead and gone, thank goodness. If you ask me I think he ruined your and Irwin's little attack group. Plus a Dibison is quite easy to destroy mind you, it's all fire power only people who rely solely on arms pilot a weak miserable little zoid like that!" Raven replied with a smirk.
Bit thought vaguely of Leena and the Dibson she had when they had first met and she had relied solely on its incredible firepower.
"Shut up. Shut up," Van said, his voice trembling with rage. "Thomas is alive, I don't care what you say. He's alive dammit, he's alive. And when we find I'm going to ring his little neck for all the hell he's put us through. So he's annoying, I admit he is very irritating, but it's so quiet without him. Even if he has a crush on my girlfriend. But I don't care! As long as he doesn't make a move on her, I'm happy. I don't understand how you can just stay smug when you know Hitlz is dead."
"Are you suggesting that he was my friend? Hitlz? My friend? How many pounds of crack did you smoke this morning, Van? Honestly, the day that red haired pain in the ass would be considered to be close to me would be the day that Shadow talks!" he glanced down at the zoid controls muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'shut up Shadow'.
Van, who took no notice of this, said, "No. I was suggesting that maybe since you and Hitlz had contact and he was your boss you would have at least cared! You cared about Reese, you nursed her back to health after what Hitlz did to her.wait a second! I get it!"
Raven arched a dark eyebrow, the flame in his eyes vanished. "What ARE you talking about." It was more of a demand than a question.
"I get why you don't like Hitlz!"
"Um right. Whatever."
"You don't like Hitlz because he tried to kill Reese! And you're obviously close to her, am I right? Score one for Van! WOHOO!" Van did a little victory dance as the Blade Liger nodded its great head in agreement.
Bit just stared at the com link, now he was sure he didn't want to know what was going on. Things had just taken a turn for the freaky deky weird. He watched as Raven's face contorted into a mixture of anger and shock.
Raven opened his mouth to say something but no sound came out and closed it again, he did this several times. He was completely speechless; the words just seemed to slip from his head.
"NO!!! EW NO!!!" Raven burst out. "EW!! THAT'S GROSS! ME AND REESE?!?!?! I THINK I'M GOING TO JUMP OFF A CLIFF RIGHT NOW!!"
"What's so bad about Reese? She's um, okay I guess."
"VAN! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? THIS IS REESE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND! THAT'S SOOOO GROSS! SHE'S GIVES ME THE CREEPS! SHE READS MINDS, DISAPPEARS AND REAPEARS AT WILL. IT'S UNNATURAL. She's not safe. Plus I don't like her! NEVER have never will. It was all that dumb dinosaur's idea!" Raven folded his arms indignantly across his chest.
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"Come on, I'm fine really I am. Just give me the directions to the cafeteria and I'll be perfect," Bit said, gently massaging his growling stomach .
"Oh I don't know Bit, from what I heard you fell out of the sky and landed on the hard ground. You're bound to have some injuries. And then you can go to the cafeteria," said a tan skinned woman with long black hair and black eyes. Her name was Moonbay.
During the um, interesting battle between Van and Raven, a Lightening Saix leading a small Republican army with a Gustav out in back. Raven in his Genobreaker took only seconds to annihilate the army leaving only the Blade Liger, Lightening Saix and the Gustav. Bit knew that if he were back home he would have never seen such skilled zoid warriors before; the Backdraft Group couldn't do anything that could even come close to what Raven did. After the stand off between Van and Raven, (the blade liger's tail was destroyed and the Genobreaker's arm was sliced off) it became very clear their strength was almost equal, with Raven having the upper hand. But then just as Raven destroyed the Lightening Saix and was just about to finish off the Blade Liger, he stopped and then ran away. He just suddenly decided to leave.
"Ugh, what on Zi is that smell? It smells like Thomas' cooking only a hundred times worse!" Moonbay exclaimed, clamping her hand over her nose.
Bit couldn't help but blush, if only Moonbay knew it was him... "Yeah. Um so, I think I'll listen to you where's the Hospital Wing around here?"
"Right this way."
Moonbay led him down the hall on his right, past a series of unmarked doors. I wonder how people find their way around this place, Bit thought. He knew this place was a military base somewhere in the Republic, only he didn't know where in the Republic though. Maybe he could steal a look at a map and see how far away he was from New Helic City, Doc and the others couldn't have gotten all the back to the Blitz Team base by now.he hoped.
Minutes later Moonbay kicked open a steel door that read in big bold letters "HOSPITAL WING: DO NOT ENTER UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE TO".
"Hmm, friendly crowd you got here."Bit muttered quickly.
"Yo Doc!" Moonbay called out, pulling a chair and sitting on it with the back in front of her. "You got a patient."
"Moonbay? Zat you? Are you my patient?"
From behind closed curtains came a rather plumb woman with red unruly hair and bright purple eyes. She looked to be in her early thirties and just from the look of her Bit wanted to open that door and run like the wind as far from her as possible. He noticed she had a French accent.
"Zis Thomaz back from ze battle? I zhink I'z zmell his a cooking."
Bit smacked his forehead and ran his hand down his face.
Moonbay leaned over to Bit and said, "That's Madame Prombley, the best doctor any one could ask for. She's from Urgaria, you know the French colony up north? So her English isn't all that great."
Bit nodded and watched unhappily as Madame Prombley approach them with a warm smile.
"Easy Doc, I ain't your patient," she jerked her thumb at Bit. "He is. His name is Bit Cloud, Van found him when he was fighting with Raven this morning. Says he fell out of the sky."
"Ze sky? How very interezting, you fell from ze sky?" Madame Prombley asked Bit.
"Yeah, I guesso. I don't remember tho-"
Before Bit had a chance to finish his sentence, Madame Prombley grabbed his arm and dragged him behind the curtains and placed him flat on the cold sterile bed. She began to check his vitals with stuff he had never seen before. She ripped his white button up shirt open and pulled out a stethoscope and began checking his heart.
"Ow!" Bit cried out suddenly, just as the cold stethoscope slid across one of his ribs.
"Ah, youz broken three of ze ribs," Madame Prombley said in a less than comforting tone.
Bit lifted his head to inspect the damage; the two top ribs and one below them were indeed broken, they were a lovely black and purple color and hurt like hell. He bet he broken broke them when Madame Prombley, the giant, slammed him on the cold steel table. Or why didn't he notice sooner? Bit was beginning to think he was losing his mind.
Moonbay, apparently must have heard Bit's shouts, opened the curtains. She wore an expression of concern.
"What happened?" she asked quickly, her eyes darting from Bit to the Madame Prombley the big boned and big belled. Then they fell upon Bit's well- muscled chest and the lovely shades of purple on it.
"He haz ze three broken ze the ribs," Madame Prombley explained in annoyance.
"Do you mind?" Bit squeaked out.
One of Madame Prombley's beefy hands was on two of his broken ribs and it hurt even more than hell and a another hell combined. She murmured a quick apology in rapid French and removed her hand. Bit let out a large sigh of relief.
"Much better."
"I must get ze bandage to fix ze bones and special recipe, 'cuse me."
A loud buzz told them that Madame Prombley had gone into the back room with all the medicine and stuff.
"Bit! You numbskull!" Moonbay slapped him across the face angrily.
Bit's cheek tingled and he couldn't believe what had just happened . "What was that for?"
"For not telling me you were in pain!" she raised her hand for another strike but just then the main door in the Hospital Wing opened revealing Van and a girl with long blonde hair and sunset eyes.
"Van!" Bit jumped and hid behind Van. "She's gone crazy!"
Van tried to get Bit where he could see him but he refused to let go of his back.
"Bit, what's your problem? That's just Moonbay, you know that."
"She attacked me! I got the scars to prove it!"
No matter how many turns Van did, he couldn't shake Bit, he followed him like his shadow and then some. Man, now he knew how it felt to have a little brother. Bit acted just like him, only since he was blonde in the hair, he was blonde at heart.
The blonde girl giggled and watched them with amusement. "Is that true Moonbay?"
Moonbay shifted her weight uncomfortably and suddenly found it amusing to stare at her feet. Well, she didn't really attack him, just kinda brought him back into reality..er, gave him something else to focus on before Madame Prombley put all of her weight on his broken ribs. Yeah, that's it.
"No! Of course not.I just, uh, did him a favor!"
Bit stuck his head up over Van's shoulder. "Liar!"
Van tried to grab Bit's head but missed, the kid was too quick. He sighed; there was no use trying to fight it, Bit was just going to continue to cower behind him no matter he did. No certain degree of fame could save him now.
"Psst!"
"Hmm?" Van blinked and looked around.
"Stop that! Don't move! Who's the blonde?" Bit asked in a high whisper.
"Huh? Oh yeah, Bit this is Fiona. Vice versa.
Fiona smiled warmly at him and man did she have a pretty smile. "How do you do?"
"I'm fine, except I got three broken ribs and I'm lost!" he replied brightly, grinning at her.
This Fiona was kinda cute, if he did say so himself, but there was something about the way she stood next to Van that said they were very close. Now that he thought of it, when he was in the back seat in the Liger Van was rambling on about how some Thomas dude liked his girlfriend.could this be his girlfriend? Bit wondered.
"What iz ze you doing?!" Madame Prombley boomed, apparently she got everything she needed and was no longer in the back room. Great. Just great.
Bit laughed nervously. "Erm, exercising?" he suggested hopefully.
"No exercizing for you monsieur! Not with ze broken ribs!"
Madame Prombley shot him a look at that said do-as-I-say-or-else-your-dead. Bit nodded sheepishly and glanced helplessly at Fiona, who nodded sadly.
"Do as she says, Bit. Afterwards we can all over dinner in town, how does that sound? My treat," Fiona promised, smiling that pretty smile of hers.
Bit was beginning to like her more and more, she was his hero er, heroine. If he valued his life, and if she was in fact Van's girl, he'd stop what he was doing right now but he couldn't. There was something about Fiona that made him trust her. He trusted Leena, but of course, but not off the bat like this, no no that took time. Eight hours to be exact. But Fiona was different; different than Leena is almost everyway. Just the thought of Leena made him sad, he hated to say it but he missed the she-devil.
Bit did as he was told and laid back down on the still cold sterile steel bed, where Madame Prombley shoved everyone out of the curtained room with some French curses that made both Fiona and Moonbay laugh, but left Van bewildered.
"What are you going to do with that?" Bit asked, nervously.
In her hands was what looked like a giant steel hammer, she laid it beside the bed and with black ink felt pen made big dots where the crack was in each of his broken bones. Bit was not liking what he was seeing. He'd bet the Liger Zero she was going to hit those dots with that big hammer like thing and it was going to hurt like a mother--
"Ancient Zoidian recipe for ze broke bones, make ze them much better. Amazing how you ze can walk ze around with ze bones," Madame Prombley added thoughtfully.
Bit gulped but found there was a lump in his throat, Ancient Zoidian recipe somehow that didn't sound very painless. Come on! Whatever happened to the technology that fixed broken bones in a snap! Hm, maybe he wasn't off Zi after all, very likely he was still on his beloved planet Zi but not in the right timeframe. It was obvious he wasn't in his time, or for that matter the future because all the technology they use is outdated but the military uses up to date stuff. Maybe, they didn't know the technology was outdated because it was still new in their time.that could only mean one thing.
"Ze Fiona!" Madame Prombley called out, opening a crack in the curtain.
"Coming," just like that Fiona appeared in the room and when the big boned one wasn't looking she waved at Bit.
"Now you need my help with the instructions, correct?" she asked matter-of- factly, as though she knew the answer already.
Madame Prombley nodded. "Yes I need ze recipe for ze broken bones but as you ze know I cannot read ze Ancient texts."
"Okay," Fiona scanned the piece of papyrus and began saying something in a language Bit could not understand. She nodded to herself as she read. "Ah, okay here we are."
She pointed to a section on the paper to Madame Prombley, who nodded as Fiona said something only she could hear. Bit just watched them as his brain grew increasingly numb, numb from fear or from something he didn't know. His head was spinning slowly, apart of him wishing he'd just wake up from this nightmare while another part was curious. Curious of what the past was really like, of course when he got back home everyone would think he was crazy-that is assuming he'd ever get home.
"Will it ze be ze painless?" Madame Prombley was saying to Fiona. "He ze is ze very zenstitive."
"It won't matter, he's passing out just like he's supposed to. It should only take thirty minutes maximum; he'll be a little sore afterwards. But that's normal, according the ancients. Just use the potion and sprinkle it over the dots and then gently apply pressure with the hammer, okay?" Fiona replied simply as if she was just talking about a science project.
Bit vaguely noticed Madame Prombley walk up to him with a small bowl with a apple green colored liquid and dipped her beefy fingers in it and massaged the liquid on his ribs, but it didn't hurt just felt very cool very refreshing. The last thing he remembered before he fell asleep was Madame Prombley raising the steel hammer off the ground.
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"Doc, have you seen Bit anywhere?" Jamie asked as Steve Taurous, his daughter Leena, and Brad walked into the command room in the Blitz team base.
Steve shook his head. "Nope, he left the BBQ early I guess he didn't know the party ended at midnight," he yawned and stretched. "But the least Bit could have done was leave a note that he was going to take the convertible."
"So then how did you guys get home?" Jamie spun his chair in the big monitor controls to face them.
All three of them looked exhausted hitching a ride in this day and age was no easy task. Leena was falling asleep on her feet. Brad was gone but Jamie could hear the hot water running in the bathroom from across the hall, barely though. Doc was exhausted but very happy, looked as if he had the time of his life with the folks of S Class.
"Bit's girlfriend Jade was decided to take us home," it was not Doc but Leena who replied, anger in her sharp tone.
Jamie glanced at Doc to see if this was true and he nodded. "Well, the reason I asked was.well, look at this."
The two Taurous' exchanged confused glances as Jamie typed commands on the keyboard, the monitor turned on revealing the red convertible, that Doc had spent his share of the Royal Cup money on, being pushed out of the blue ocean by a Warshark. The same Warshark that had in fact found the wreck.
Leena gasped in horror at the sight before her eyes, guilt crashing into her because the last thing she ever said to Bit was something like 'the more Bit free time the better'. Oh dear God. She clasped her hand over her mouth; she didn't know how to react the whole meaning of the situation. Did this mean she would never see Bit again, that she would have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life? She didn't know whether to scream in anguish or to break down and cry.
"Oh My God," Doc muttered. "My poor convertible..oh and Bit too."
"Did they find a body?" Leena managed to whisper. Two single tears fell down her cheeks but she didn't have the energy to whip them away.
Jamie shook his head, a look of renewed hope in his brown eyes. "No, but they did find dent marks on the hood that's about it."
"Do you think he's still alive? I mean, he has to be! This is Bit here, he can't die, not him not like that. He can't," Leena said with a little more confidence and more tears falling down her cheeks.
"If he's out there Leena, we'll find him," Doc said pulling her to him, but she resisted and ran out of the room and retreated into the sanctuary of her bedroom.
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Author's Note: Well what do you guys think? Here's the well awaited the next chapter to It's 1975 Baby! I hope you guys enjoyed it. Now read and review like the good people I know you are.
Peace OUT!!
*Mi*ChElLe*
Bit came to in a world full of strange and confusing sounds. His head felt like it had been put through the blender for a couple hours and placed in the freezer then back into the blender. He strained to open his eyes but the sun blinded him, he lifted his head up and fell back again. Voices sounded from somewhere around him.
"Is he dead?"
"Hn, beats me."
"Gee, do you think we should do something, Raven? I mean, we can't get leave him here and we definitely can't continue with the battle even if he is dead."
If he didn't know any better, Bit could have sworn he heard a zoid growl. It didn't sound like any zoid he had ever heard before. Mustering all of his strength he sat up, getting a major head rush. To his right was big red zoid he had never seen before, it looked like a Genosaurer only much bigger. To his left, a blue Blade Liger.
Bit vaguely heard someone gasp.
"Oh My God! My God! He-he's alive!!" the Blade Liger leaned cautiously towards Bit.
"Oh shut up Van, no one could have survived a fall like that. I mean, for God's sake he fell from the friggin sky! No one could have.." The red zoid took a step back.
The Blade Liger glanced up at the zoid and laughed. "I told you so! I told you so, Raven! Ah ha!"
"That's impossible.it has to be! What are you pulling Van? Your delusion is spreading to me."
"That's because it's not it a delusion dumb ass, hey you kid. Are you okay? Hop in!"
The canopy of the Blade Liger opened up revealing a boy who looked no older than 18 with jet black hair that was spiked in the front and had a ponytail in the back. He smiled a concerned sort of smile that did nothing to mask the confusion in his gray eyes.
"Thanks man, I seem to have lost my way." Bit placed his hand behind his head and laughed nervously.
He jumped in the back seat and the canopy closed with a low buzz. What the heck was going? He wondered, something told him that he definitely was not planet Zi anymore. That's for sure.
"What's your name, kid?"
Bit looked up as he realized the pilot was talking to him. "Bit. Bit Cloud."
"The name's Van Flyheight," Van said with a wave of his hand. "And that guy over there," he indicated to the red zoid. "His name is Raven."
"Er. okay. What kind of zoid is that? I've never seen one like that before, the closest thing I've seen is a Genosaurer," Bit said uncomfortably.
That name, Van Flyheight, sounded so familiar he couldn't put his finger on it. The name sounded like something straight out the history book, if only Bit had paid more attention to his grandma when she was teaching him then maybe he wouldn't be in this mess.
"Oh that's because the Genobreaker is the evolved form of the Genosaurer, both zoids are incredibly rare and there are few around. Raven got lucky enough that Prozen made that zoid for him," Van said dully, a hint of anger in his voice.
Prozen, yet another name that rung the bell. Damn, Bit wished he could just remember why did all these names sound familiar.
Van wrinkled his nose. "Ugh, what is that smell? It smells like Thomas' cooking only a hundred times worse."
He turned around, sniffing, and to his horror the smell was coming from the stranger named Bit Cloud. Van coughed and covered his nose and mouth with his hand.
Bit frowned and sniffed his sleeve, which sent him into a coughing fit. "It's me! Ah! I think it's because I ran over a skunk."
"A skunk? What is this madness?"
The Genobreaker let out a booming roar to get everyone's attention that shook the Blade Liger. With a loud 'beep' a com link appeared in the cockpit with the image of boy about the same age as Van who was unlike him in every aspect. He had shaggy shoulder length raven colored hair, incredibly pale skin and dark purple eyes that burned with hate.
"Van," the boy said narrowing his purple eyes. "I'm losing my patience with you. This battle would have finished with a long time ago and I could have been on my merry way, but no. This little pest had to choose now to fall from the sky! Delaying everything and you want to delay them even more? Shame on you, Van."
Van growled. "I don't get what your problem is! We'd still be here no matter what happened, because I'm not going to let you win. You're not going to kill anymore, not if I have anything to say about this. I thought you changed, Raven what happened? I thought you stopped your mass massacre when the Deathstinger appeared. And Hitlz decided he was too good to need you.
To be honest, I don't really want to fight you. I didn't come here looking for a fight. I came here for find whatever is left of my friend. This has nothing to do with you! Listen, Moonbay and the others are going to be here any second now. You can still get away and escape detection if you leave now."
Bit blinked, what were they talking about? All of these names kept ringing the bell and quite frankly the bell got tried after a while. Why did Van want that Raven person to leave, Bit had thought they were friends from the way they were talking but obviously not anymore. Talk about your love/hate relationships. He decided not say a word and just continue to watch the show, maybe if he heard enough he'd finally remember where he had heard all these names.
"Ha ha ha no. What kind of fool do you take me for, Van? Your stupid little friend isn't alive! Not after that missile that rid Zi of the likes of Hiltz and his ridiculous excuse for a zoid. He's dead and gone, thank goodness. If you ask me I think he ruined your and Irwin's little attack group. Plus a Dibison is quite easy to destroy mind you, it's all fire power only people who rely solely on arms pilot a weak miserable little zoid like that!" Raven replied with a smirk.
Bit thought vaguely of Leena and the Dibson she had when they had first met and she had relied solely on its incredible firepower.
"Shut up. Shut up," Van said, his voice trembling with rage. "Thomas is alive, I don't care what you say. He's alive dammit, he's alive. And when we find I'm going to ring his little neck for all the hell he's put us through. So he's annoying, I admit he is very irritating, but it's so quiet without him. Even if he has a crush on my girlfriend. But I don't care! As long as he doesn't make a move on her, I'm happy. I don't understand how you can just stay smug when you know Hitlz is dead."
"Are you suggesting that he was my friend? Hitlz? My friend? How many pounds of crack did you smoke this morning, Van? Honestly, the day that red haired pain in the ass would be considered to be close to me would be the day that Shadow talks!" he glanced down at the zoid controls muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'shut up Shadow'.
Van, who took no notice of this, said, "No. I was suggesting that maybe since you and Hitlz had contact and he was your boss you would have at least cared! You cared about Reese, you nursed her back to health after what Hitlz did to her.wait a second! I get it!"
Raven arched a dark eyebrow, the flame in his eyes vanished. "What ARE you talking about." It was more of a demand than a question.
"I get why you don't like Hitlz!"
"Um right. Whatever."
"You don't like Hitlz because he tried to kill Reese! And you're obviously close to her, am I right? Score one for Van! WOHOO!" Van did a little victory dance as the Blade Liger nodded its great head in agreement.
Bit just stared at the com link, now he was sure he didn't want to know what was going on. Things had just taken a turn for the freaky deky weird. He watched as Raven's face contorted into a mixture of anger and shock.
Raven opened his mouth to say something but no sound came out and closed it again, he did this several times. He was completely speechless; the words just seemed to slip from his head.
"NO!!! EW NO!!!" Raven burst out. "EW!! THAT'S GROSS! ME AND REESE?!?!?! I THINK I'M GOING TO JUMP OFF A CLIFF RIGHT NOW!!"
"What's so bad about Reese? She's um, okay I guess."
"VAN! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? THIS IS REESE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND! THAT'S SOOOO GROSS! SHE'S GIVES ME THE CREEPS! SHE READS MINDS, DISAPPEARS AND REAPEARS AT WILL. IT'S UNNATURAL. She's not safe. Plus I don't like her! NEVER have never will. It was all that dumb dinosaur's idea!" Raven folded his arms indignantly across his chest.
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"Come on, I'm fine really I am. Just give me the directions to the cafeteria and I'll be perfect," Bit said, gently massaging his growling stomach .
"Oh I don't know Bit, from what I heard you fell out of the sky and landed on the hard ground. You're bound to have some injuries. And then you can go to the cafeteria," said a tan skinned woman with long black hair and black eyes. Her name was Moonbay.
During the um, interesting battle between Van and Raven, a Lightening Saix leading a small Republican army with a Gustav out in back. Raven in his Genobreaker took only seconds to annihilate the army leaving only the Blade Liger, Lightening Saix and the Gustav. Bit knew that if he were back home he would have never seen such skilled zoid warriors before; the Backdraft Group couldn't do anything that could even come close to what Raven did. After the stand off between Van and Raven, (the blade liger's tail was destroyed and the Genobreaker's arm was sliced off) it became very clear their strength was almost equal, with Raven having the upper hand. But then just as Raven destroyed the Lightening Saix and was just about to finish off the Blade Liger, he stopped and then ran away. He just suddenly decided to leave.
"Ugh, what on Zi is that smell? It smells like Thomas' cooking only a hundred times worse!" Moonbay exclaimed, clamping her hand over her nose.
Bit couldn't help but blush, if only Moonbay knew it was him... "Yeah. Um so, I think I'll listen to you where's the Hospital Wing around here?"
"Right this way."
Moonbay led him down the hall on his right, past a series of unmarked doors. I wonder how people find their way around this place, Bit thought. He knew this place was a military base somewhere in the Republic, only he didn't know where in the Republic though. Maybe he could steal a look at a map and see how far away he was from New Helic City, Doc and the others couldn't have gotten all the back to the Blitz Team base by now.he hoped.
Minutes later Moonbay kicked open a steel door that read in big bold letters "HOSPITAL WING: DO NOT ENTER UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE TO".
"Hmm, friendly crowd you got here."Bit muttered quickly.
"Yo Doc!" Moonbay called out, pulling a chair and sitting on it with the back in front of her. "You got a patient."
"Moonbay? Zat you? Are you my patient?"
From behind closed curtains came a rather plumb woman with red unruly hair and bright purple eyes. She looked to be in her early thirties and just from the look of her Bit wanted to open that door and run like the wind as far from her as possible. He noticed she had a French accent.
"Zis Thomaz back from ze battle? I zhink I'z zmell his a cooking."
Bit smacked his forehead and ran his hand down his face.
Moonbay leaned over to Bit and said, "That's Madame Prombley, the best doctor any one could ask for. She's from Urgaria, you know the French colony up north? So her English isn't all that great."
Bit nodded and watched unhappily as Madame Prombley approach them with a warm smile.
"Easy Doc, I ain't your patient," she jerked her thumb at Bit. "He is. His name is Bit Cloud, Van found him when he was fighting with Raven this morning. Says he fell out of the sky."
"Ze sky? How very interezting, you fell from ze sky?" Madame Prombley asked Bit.
"Yeah, I guesso. I don't remember tho-"
Before Bit had a chance to finish his sentence, Madame Prombley grabbed his arm and dragged him behind the curtains and placed him flat on the cold sterile bed. She began to check his vitals with stuff he had never seen before. She ripped his white button up shirt open and pulled out a stethoscope and began checking his heart.
"Ow!" Bit cried out suddenly, just as the cold stethoscope slid across one of his ribs.
"Ah, youz broken three of ze ribs," Madame Prombley said in a less than comforting tone.
Bit lifted his head to inspect the damage; the two top ribs and one below them were indeed broken, they were a lovely black and purple color and hurt like hell. He bet he broken broke them when Madame Prombley, the giant, slammed him on the cold steel table. Or why didn't he notice sooner? Bit was beginning to think he was losing his mind.
Moonbay, apparently must have heard Bit's shouts, opened the curtains. She wore an expression of concern.
"What happened?" she asked quickly, her eyes darting from Bit to the Madame Prombley the big boned and big belled. Then they fell upon Bit's well- muscled chest and the lovely shades of purple on it.
"He haz ze three broken ze the ribs," Madame Prombley explained in annoyance.
"Do you mind?" Bit squeaked out.
One of Madame Prombley's beefy hands was on two of his broken ribs and it hurt even more than hell and a another hell combined. She murmured a quick apology in rapid French and removed her hand. Bit let out a large sigh of relief.
"Much better."
"I must get ze bandage to fix ze bones and special recipe, 'cuse me."
A loud buzz told them that Madame Prombley had gone into the back room with all the medicine and stuff.
"Bit! You numbskull!" Moonbay slapped him across the face angrily.
Bit's cheek tingled and he couldn't believe what had just happened . "What was that for?"
"For not telling me you were in pain!" she raised her hand for another strike but just then the main door in the Hospital Wing opened revealing Van and a girl with long blonde hair and sunset eyes.
"Van!" Bit jumped and hid behind Van. "She's gone crazy!"
Van tried to get Bit where he could see him but he refused to let go of his back.
"Bit, what's your problem? That's just Moonbay, you know that."
"She attacked me! I got the scars to prove it!"
No matter how many turns Van did, he couldn't shake Bit, he followed him like his shadow and then some. Man, now he knew how it felt to have a little brother. Bit acted just like him, only since he was blonde in the hair, he was blonde at heart.
The blonde girl giggled and watched them with amusement. "Is that true Moonbay?"
Moonbay shifted her weight uncomfortably and suddenly found it amusing to stare at her feet. Well, she didn't really attack him, just kinda brought him back into reality..er, gave him something else to focus on before Madame Prombley put all of her weight on his broken ribs. Yeah, that's it.
"No! Of course not.I just, uh, did him a favor!"
Bit stuck his head up over Van's shoulder. "Liar!"
Van tried to grab Bit's head but missed, the kid was too quick. He sighed; there was no use trying to fight it, Bit was just going to continue to cower behind him no matter he did. No certain degree of fame could save him now.
"Psst!"
"Hmm?" Van blinked and looked around.
"Stop that! Don't move! Who's the blonde?" Bit asked in a high whisper.
"Huh? Oh yeah, Bit this is Fiona. Vice versa.
Fiona smiled warmly at him and man did she have a pretty smile. "How do you do?"
"I'm fine, except I got three broken ribs and I'm lost!" he replied brightly, grinning at her.
This Fiona was kinda cute, if he did say so himself, but there was something about the way she stood next to Van that said they were very close. Now that he thought of it, when he was in the back seat in the Liger Van was rambling on about how some Thomas dude liked his girlfriend.could this be his girlfriend? Bit wondered.
"What iz ze you doing?!" Madame Prombley boomed, apparently she got everything she needed and was no longer in the back room. Great. Just great.
Bit laughed nervously. "Erm, exercising?" he suggested hopefully.
"No exercizing for you monsieur! Not with ze broken ribs!"
Madame Prombley shot him a look at that said do-as-I-say-or-else-your-dead. Bit nodded sheepishly and glanced helplessly at Fiona, who nodded sadly.
"Do as she says, Bit. Afterwards we can all over dinner in town, how does that sound? My treat," Fiona promised, smiling that pretty smile of hers.
Bit was beginning to like her more and more, she was his hero er, heroine. If he valued his life, and if she was in fact Van's girl, he'd stop what he was doing right now but he couldn't. There was something about Fiona that made him trust her. He trusted Leena, but of course, but not off the bat like this, no no that took time. Eight hours to be exact. But Fiona was different; different than Leena is almost everyway. Just the thought of Leena made him sad, he hated to say it but he missed the she-devil.
Bit did as he was told and laid back down on the still cold sterile steel bed, where Madame Prombley shoved everyone out of the curtained room with some French curses that made both Fiona and Moonbay laugh, but left Van bewildered.
"What are you going to do with that?" Bit asked, nervously.
In her hands was what looked like a giant steel hammer, she laid it beside the bed and with black ink felt pen made big dots where the crack was in each of his broken bones. Bit was not liking what he was seeing. He'd bet the Liger Zero she was going to hit those dots with that big hammer like thing and it was going to hurt like a mother--
"Ancient Zoidian recipe for ze broke bones, make ze them much better. Amazing how you ze can walk ze around with ze bones," Madame Prombley added thoughtfully.
Bit gulped but found there was a lump in his throat, Ancient Zoidian recipe somehow that didn't sound very painless. Come on! Whatever happened to the technology that fixed broken bones in a snap! Hm, maybe he wasn't off Zi after all, very likely he was still on his beloved planet Zi but not in the right timeframe. It was obvious he wasn't in his time, or for that matter the future because all the technology they use is outdated but the military uses up to date stuff. Maybe, they didn't know the technology was outdated because it was still new in their time.that could only mean one thing.
"Ze Fiona!" Madame Prombley called out, opening a crack in the curtain.
"Coming," just like that Fiona appeared in the room and when the big boned one wasn't looking she waved at Bit.
"Now you need my help with the instructions, correct?" she asked matter-of- factly, as though she knew the answer already.
Madame Prombley nodded. "Yes I need ze recipe for ze broken bones but as you ze know I cannot read ze Ancient texts."
"Okay," Fiona scanned the piece of papyrus and began saying something in a language Bit could not understand. She nodded to herself as she read. "Ah, okay here we are."
She pointed to a section on the paper to Madame Prombley, who nodded as Fiona said something only she could hear. Bit just watched them as his brain grew increasingly numb, numb from fear or from something he didn't know. His head was spinning slowly, apart of him wishing he'd just wake up from this nightmare while another part was curious. Curious of what the past was really like, of course when he got back home everyone would think he was crazy-that is assuming he'd ever get home.
"Will it ze be ze painless?" Madame Prombley was saying to Fiona. "He ze is ze very zenstitive."
"It won't matter, he's passing out just like he's supposed to. It should only take thirty minutes maximum; he'll be a little sore afterwards. But that's normal, according the ancients. Just use the potion and sprinkle it over the dots and then gently apply pressure with the hammer, okay?" Fiona replied simply as if she was just talking about a science project.
Bit vaguely noticed Madame Prombley walk up to him with a small bowl with a apple green colored liquid and dipped her beefy fingers in it and massaged the liquid on his ribs, but it didn't hurt just felt very cool very refreshing. The last thing he remembered before he fell asleep was Madame Prombley raising the steel hammer off the ground.
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"Doc, have you seen Bit anywhere?" Jamie asked as Steve Taurous, his daughter Leena, and Brad walked into the command room in the Blitz team base.
Steve shook his head. "Nope, he left the BBQ early I guess he didn't know the party ended at midnight," he yawned and stretched. "But the least Bit could have done was leave a note that he was going to take the convertible."
"So then how did you guys get home?" Jamie spun his chair in the big monitor controls to face them.
All three of them looked exhausted hitching a ride in this day and age was no easy task. Leena was falling asleep on her feet. Brad was gone but Jamie could hear the hot water running in the bathroom from across the hall, barely though. Doc was exhausted but very happy, looked as if he had the time of his life with the folks of S Class.
"Bit's girlfriend Jade was decided to take us home," it was not Doc but Leena who replied, anger in her sharp tone.
Jamie glanced at Doc to see if this was true and he nodded. "Well, the reason I asked was.well, look at this."
The two Taurous' exchanged confused glances as Jamie typed commands on the keyboard, the monitor turned on revealing the red convertible, that Doc had spent his share of the Royal Cup money on, being pushed out of the blue ocean by a Warshark. The same Warshark that had in fact found the wreck.
Leena gasped in horror at the sight before her eyes, guilt crashing into her because the last thing she ever said to Bit was something like 'the more Bit free time the better'. Oh dear God. She clasped her hand over her mouth; she didn't know how to react the whole meaning of the situation. Did this mean she would never see Bit again, that she would have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life? She didn't know whether to scream in anguish or to break down and cry.
"Oh My God," Doc muttered. "My poor convertible..oh and Bit too."
"Did they find a body?" Leena managed to whisper. Two single tears fell down her cheeks but she didn't have the energy to whip them away.
Jamie shook his head, a look of renewed hope in his brown eyes. "No, but they did find dent marks on the hood that's about it."
"Do you think he's still alive? I mean, he has to be! This is Bit here, he can't die, not him not like that. He can't," Leena said with a little more confidence and more tears falling down her cheeks.
"If he's out there Leena, we'll find him," Doc said pulling her to him, but she resisted and ran out of the room and retreated into the sanctuary of her bedroom.
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Author's Note: Well what do you guys think? Here's the well awaited the next chapter to It's 1975 Baby! I hope you guys enjoyed it. Now read and review like the good people I know you are.
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