Arizda: Hihi, it's me again! I hope this chapter is to your likings, because I wasn't sure how good this would come out. ^_^ And on top of that, I've been doing a lot of running around and never got the chance to finish writing this. :D Oh well, thanks for all of the characters and reviews, everyone, I feel so happy! *pats herself on the back* Well, here it is! And if your character isn't in this chapter, it's just because they're probably going to get a surprise entrance, or a super-duper dramatic entrance, or an entrance that is somewhere, deeper into the plot. But don't worry, they'll be there! Remember, I said that I would take ALL CHARACTERS! :)

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As Runa sat on the ground, hugging her knees, being paranoid, Lewis approached her, with a sleepy look on his face, yawning, and stretching his arms.


"What's got you up all in a knot, this early, Runa?" he asked.


"Grrr......... WHY ARE WE STILL HERE WITH THAT MAD CHICK!? She's gonna KILL us, Lewis!" Runa whined. Lewis replied with a "pfffftt".


"Miyuki? Nah, she couldn't harm a fly........."


-BAM!-


It happened. She harmed something. After the loud *bam*, a shout was heard. Runa looked upa t Lewis's surprised face with anger.


"Couldn't harm a FLY, huh?! Well, NOW look what she's done!" she wailed in horror. She ran as fast as she could back behind the Lightning Saix to see two other Zoids--Ricky's Rev Raptor, and Miyuki's horse-like Zoid, the Setsunakute Ii. Next to the Rev Raptor was Ricky, clutching his left arm, dark red blood pumping from the fresh bullet wound. Next to the other Zoid was Miyuki, holding a pistol in her hand. Immediately, as if on instinct, Runa pulled out her vertically-stacked three-short-barrel gun and aimed it at Miyuki.


"DON'T MOVE!" she shouted, her hands shaking. Miyuki turned to Runa and smirked. Her gun was then aimed at Lewis. Runa bit her lilp so hard, she could taste the bitterness of blood flowing into her mouth. "Lewis, if we ever pull this one off, we're taking her in to have her questioned. She's obviously against us, and she must know that we're with the Alliance," she muttered to her partner.


"I'm surprised that you have not seen more trouble like me! I want information, and I want it now!" Miyuki shouted.


"Information about WHAT!?" Runa asked. Miyuki gritted her teeth.


"Shut up!" she snapped to a slightly whimpering and sniffling Ricky. "You know what I want! The Alliance knows about The Star Confederation, right?" Miyuki asked, harshly. Runa went blank. The Star Confederation? What was that supposed to be?


"I honestly haev no idea what you're talking about!" Runa replied. Miyuki sighed and tightened her grip on her pistol. She glanced at Ricky, who had eyes that were just waiting to let out tears of pain. Then, she saw something move behind her, but before she could turn around, she felt a great wave of pain, and then all went black.


Runa gasped when she saw the two figures that were standing behind Miyuki.


"Bit!" she shouted. She saw the other, older man that he was with bend down and pick Miyuki up. "W-where did you come from?"


"Well......... last night, you said that all I had to do was touch the glyph on the dead end wall to check up on y ou. I finally understood, and I took Brad with me to come and see if you were okay. Heh, I guess you got yourself into trouble again, huh?" Bit asked.


"Yeah! Thank you again! That's two that I owe you!" Runa replied. Lewis began to understand something.


"Ooooooohhhh......... so you're saying th at you owe him two, huh? Then HE must've been the one that saved your wanted ass last night, eh?" he asked. Brad's eyes began to narrow as he grew impatient, seeing Runa casually nod to Lewis's question.


"Listen, if ya don't mind--"


Once again, there was a loud BAM. This time, it wasn't from Miyuki, but instead, another, younger matriarch voice could be heard coming from the cockpit of a large, penguin Zoid. The loud BAM was from the entrance that it made with several other Zoids. A large hole was now placed in the cavern walls, which slowly began to crumble.


"HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I am D-CHAN THE CAKE BANDIT! Give me all your cakes before I cause you to trip over a cordless phone or bump into a fire extinguisher!!! Doing these actions myself has GIVEN ME THE POWER!!!!!!"


"Oh my fucking god........." Lewis said under his breath.


"Uh......... ahem...... uhhhh......... errr...... nevermind........." Bit muttered.


"WHAT!?!?!!?!??? WHAT WAS THAT!?!? WERE you gonna DARE yourself to SPEAK TO D-CHAN THE CAKE BANDIT!? STARBUDDY PENGUIN, LET'S TAKE THE CAKE!!!"


The voice was coming from a huge penguin-type Zoid (as was stated before) with a star in the center of it's head. Two other Zoids stood by it--one was a red, orange, and white Spinosaurus-type Zoid with a long and dangerous-looking tail, and the second one being a black panther-type Zoid, with large purple armor and two deadly particle cannons.


"Always at the fucking wrong times........." Lewis muttered again. Bit began to go somewhat crazy.


"T-t-t-t-t-the CAKE BANDIT!" he shouted. "SEEEEEEEE? I TOLD you Runa wasn't the Cake Bandit!" he told Brad, who only sighed and gently laid Miyuki on the ground.


"WOOO HOOOO! ALL RIGHT, D-CHAN!" Runa cheered. She figured that her little squirt of a brother hand come through, after all. She ran past the others in her way to grab Ricky, and th en ran to her Zoid and helped him get in. "Okay, you're coming with me!"


"Where is everyone going!??" Bit asked, watching Lewis jump into his heavily modified Lightning Saix.


"Wanna follow 'em?" Brad asked.


"I suppose this means she's tagging along?" Bit asked, referring to the presently unconscious Hinasaki Miyuki.


"We'll probably have to turn her in for interrogation when she wakes, though. She's......... a lot dangerous than I expected, Bit!" Brad replied. "Here, YOU take her. The Liger is more roomier than the Shadow Fox."


"No!" Bit snapped, jumping at least two feet away from Brad. "YOU take her!" he demanded. Brad glared at him with his icy blue stare and gave a heavy sigh.


"This is gonna cost you," he said silently. Miyuki was heaved into his arms and carried to the Shadow Fox. Before getting into the Fox himself, he glanced at Runa, who was trying her best to carry the wounded Ricky into the Berserker Midnight Land Marlin. Then he heard the roar of the Liger 0, and quickly jumped into Shadow Fox.


"OI! Bit, and......... uh, Bit's friend, where are you off to with Miyuki?!" Runa shouted. Bit sighed as the face of Arunamei in the Land Marlin showed up in front of him.


"I don't know WHY you would care, since you're baddies yourself! We're taking her in, and then we're gonna take you in, next!" Brad shouted.


"Wha!? Nonononono!" Runa shouted, obviously misunderstood. "We AREN'T BADDIES! D just has to make a name for herself! She doesn't actually... steal cakes! Uh, yeah! Y'see--"


"Runa, we gotta go, there's really no time for this!" shouted a young voice. Just a second later, another younger face appeared in front of Bit's face. It was the face of Runa's younger brother, Kashie.


"But Kash--"


"Dalanette's even going on about how we gotta be back at The Alliance!" Kashie shouted. "And ya KNOW that this mission was a failure, so--"


"Nananana!? No, this mission was a SUCCESS, Kash! Don't you get it!? I got what I came for, and I intend to--"


"Not only has Lewis failed to protect everyone at the scene, we've been MORE than discovered, and a spy almost figured out what was going on!" came the voice of who Bit guessed must've been Dalanette. She had short black hair, almost down to her shoulders, and peircing purple eyes, peircing like Brad's. Bit watched Runa grit her teeth and grip the controls of her Zoid so hard her knuckles turned white.


"Listen, I didn't fail my mission! I got the parts, Ricky was wounded BEFORE he was registered into The Alliance, and Miyuki didn't get any information! So I don't see the problem!" she shouted. "And we're coming back for the Rev Raptor and the Setsunakute Ii as soon as we can!" With that said, she pushed the controls forward. Everyone watched her dash off at incredible speeds, back to The Alliance. She was soon stopped, however.


"OKAY, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!? I've been WAITING FOR THREE HOURS! I expect a pretty DAMN GOOD EXPLANATION!"


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Leena.


"Shit...... we had a curfew?" Brad asked Bit.


"Leena was waiting for us! That's right, remember? She told us to be back in half an hour to pick her up from the ruins next to the base!" Bit replied.


"Too late to whine about things now, Leena is Leena, we can't stay to argue!" Brad said. Runa was now extremely enraged.


"Lewis, DID YOU NOT HEAR WHAT MIYUKI SAID ABOUT THE STAR CONFEDERATION!? SHE is the only one that we know who knows what that is! WE need to question her, dammit! HAND HER OVER!!!" she shouted.


"Uh......... sorry, that's a no can do," Bit replied.


"And why is that?" Runa asked, trying to keep her calm.


"BECAUSE WE NEED TO GET GOING!! THAT'S why!!!" Leena shouted. She was just ICHING to shoot something down with her GunSniper.


"Fine then, be that way! I'm not leaving you guys until I figure out what Miyuki has to say about the confederation!" Runa replied. Brad folded his arms.


"Is that what you think?" he asked. He wanted to laugh so bad at the way he was making Runa tick. She glared back at him.


"Yes, that is exactly what I tend to do!" she shouted. She folded HER arms and gave Brad the hardest stare she could give at the moment. He gave her a slight smirk. "Why are you smirking like that? HUH!? I AM GONNA STAY WITH YOU UNTIL I GET THE INFORMATION THAT I NEED!"


"Uh, Runa, maybe it's better if we--"


"Ooooohoho, no, I am gonna STICK to my word, and I'm gonna stick to it like some damn sticky glue!" Runa said. And that was the end of her words.


"Well, where do you expect us to go?" D-chan asked.


"Yeah, what do you want us to do? We aren't responsible for your reports, y'know," Lewis replied.


"What do you mean?! You guys are on my fuckin' team, of COURSE you're responsible for it! Unfortunately, I can't quite attend to this one, so that means that you guys get to! Err......... Lewis, you get to!" Runa said.



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Arizda: Oii! How was that? ^_^ Adding more characters, still! And I'm listening to Linkin Park's new CD! Whee! I think I'm in the mood to write another chapter! ^o^ :O Please tell me how ya like this and how it's coming along. Personally, I'm quite happy. I think all of the characters are very kewl, too! ^___^ Thanks to all of u and a bunch of KUDO BARS! :D v_v O yes, and btw, I don't own Zoids, so don't sue. I own Runa and her Zoid. I think that's it. : p Dalanette, Kashie, everyone else, they're all propertay of someone else. ^_____________^ Thanx ya'all!