Arizda: Oik, yes, I'm back once again to bring you chapter... umm... I'm pretty sure that this is chapter eight. Yeeeaaap..... well, anyways, thanks for all the reviews! It always makes me feel HAPPEEE! *throws Kudo bars around to those that reviewed* And I would like to thank all of those who let me use their characters, which is a lot of people, bcos I still have TONS of characters to use. :) Not only did people send them in with reviews, but I got lots from e-mail's, too. ^_^ Well, enough of ME TALKING, you're probably here to READ THE FICCY, so as I would usually say with other ficcy's, ON WIT DA FICCY!


Disclaimer: Zoids I own not, Kudo Bars are good, but I own them not. Things I do own: A blanket, Runa, her Zoid, and Tsuki.



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"Hmph, I still can't believe he punched me," Runa replied. Jamie looked at her and laughed.


"Hey, it's just like Bit said--Brad isn't afraid to do anything!" he said back. Runa frowned and folded her arms as she followed him back to the kitchen.


"Yeah... but, still... won't this mean that I'm not gonna owe him one?" she asked.


"Brad won't need one, trust me," Jamie responded. Runa got mad just thinking about him.


"The nerve of him... well, he's gotta sleep sometime... payback's a bitch," she muttered. "And... and where's Miyuki?"


"The one girl you said shot Ricky, you mean?" Jamie asked. He watched Runa nod. The two entered the kitchen to find that burnt or not, the food had already been taken and served onto plates. Bit, Leena, and Doc seated themselves at the table, while Brad wandered off into his room to eat in silence.


"Those pigs... do they always do this, Jamie?" Runa asked, scouring the pots and pans for traces of food.


"Yeeeeaaaah... most of the time, they do. What do you want to eat?" Jamie asked Runa, who was still looking for food in the obviously empty pots and pans.


"I dunno... anything is fine, really. HEY! BIT! WHERE'S MIYUKI!?" Runa yelled. She turned to Bit, who was at the table, and smiled.


"I'm only three yards away from you, Runa... you don't have to yell at me..." Bit replied. "And... and I think she's still in the Shadow Fox. Would you go get her out, please? Wouldn't want her waking up and stealing it."


"YOU GET UP AND DO IT! Besides, Brad would probably hit me again for touching his Zoid. Nyah... he's so mean," Runa wailed.


"Overprotective and ego-driven is more like it," Leena said. "Hey, Jamie, these potato pancakes are pretty good. I don't remember you ever making them before!" Jamie gave an akward smile to Doc, who burnt the originally mashed potatoes.


"Yeah, and these steamed veggies have... some... smoky flavor. I like it," Bit replied. Once again, Jamie gave the akward smile to Doc. "And ANYWAY, I'm eating, I can't go and get her. You get her and put her on the couch where we can all keep an eye on her."


"Ooookay, but if I end up getting hit again, I'm gonna say it's YOUR fault," Runa replied, walking back to the hangar, leaving Jamie to make dinner for him and her. Before she got to the hangar, she passed Brad's room. He gave her a sharp look in the eye before asking her a question.


"Where are you going?" he asked. "Back to the hangar? Why?"


"U-uh... daaaa... err, Bit told me to get Miyuki," Runa replied, rather intimidated by the older man. Brad narrowed his icy blue eyes.


"You do know where she's at, don't you?" he asked, trying to warn her.


"Daahh... no," she lied. She didn't want to make it seem like she KNEW she was going to go into Brad's Shadow Fox. Brad set his silverware down on his plate, which he set on a desk.


"It's in my Fox," he replied. Runa bit her lip. She was surprised when Brad gave her a surprise, yet amused look. Small traces of a grin appeared on his face. "Why are you... blushing?" This only caused her face to redden more.


"I-I'm not blushing!" she said. She felt like that was her honest reseponse, but something inside of her told her that it wasn't. She felt her cheeks, which were a little bit warm. "Omigod!" she squealed. "Wai? Why am I blushing?"


"And after I punched you, yet. What's wrong with you?" Brad asked, knocking her upside the head.


"I dunno WHY you abuse me so, Brad," Runa said. "It's ridiculous. You yell at me, you punch me, and now--"


"Hey, in case you were too blonde to figure it out, I was trying to be a little playful," Brad replied. This made Runa feel quite stupid.


"Oh. Well then..." Runa said meekly, slapping him on the side of the head playfully. She gave him a toothy grin, but was a little bit disappointed when Brad began to stare at her icily again. "What?" she asked.


"Don't touch me," he replied. "And I'LL get Miyuki, seeing as how she's in MY Zoid," Brad said to her. Runa began to follow him.


"Well, seeing as how I was ASKED to do it, and not you, I'll follow!" she replied, happily. Brad just grunted in disgust.


"You don't know how to leave one alone, do you?" Brad asked.


"I can leave one alone whenever I want to. Ja? Okey. I don't feel like leaving you alone. So I won't. Maybe I WANT to be annoying right now, y'know?" Runa answered.


"You're certainly doing a good job of it," Brad muttered.


"I'm gonna be nice and not take that offensively," Runa told him. They wandered off to the hangar to climb into the Shadow Fox. Miyuki was still cold out. Runa heaved Miyuki into her arms and began to climb down the Fox. She then placed her in Brad's arms just as she slid off of the Fox's front left leg.


"Did you really hit her that hard?" Runa suddenly asked Brad as they were walking down the hallway, just passing Brad's room.


"Think about it, Runa. About how hard did I hit you? I hit her a great deal harder than that..." he answered. He tried to put it simple. They walked into the living room of the hover cargo, just next to the entrance and the dining room, and dropped Miyuki on the couch.


"Wow, you guys are actually... err... getting along," Jamie replied. He had done his best with what was in the fridge at the moment--cooked cabbage and pork chops. Runa nodded and did her little happy skip to the kitchen to eat with Jamie.



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Zero was wandering the desert plains in his Zoid, the Bahamut, in search of his female partner, Hinasaki Miyuki. From what he saw in the empty plains, Miyuki-chan and Setsunakute Ii were no where in his sight. Zero and the Bahamut were traving rather sluggishly on ground. The Bahamut was nothing short of an Ultimate X. This Zoid had pretty much everything going for it. It was a Zoid that could walk on all fours, and stand on it's hind legs, and had blade-like wings. The Bahamut was quite heavily armed, and could outrun most Zoids on it's hind legs, but it was really sluggish on all fours, and a little sluggish in flight. Zero frowned--the horse-like Zoid was nowhere to be found. Yet there was still a blip on the radar. He made a small grunt as he followed the blip, which led him to a cavern.


The cavern was a little shaken up, but standing, nonetheless. Something began to worry him when he saw a black and white Helcat-looking-ish Zoid standing not too far from the blip. This Zoid was white with black armored stripes, and a huge gun was perched on the back of it. Zero stared at it for a few moments before the Bahamut roared. The Setsunakute Ii was standing alone, all right. Miyuki was no where in sight, and from the looks of it, she wasn't even in her Zoid. Zero jumped out of the Bahamut and looked around the eerily silent cavern. There was something about it that made him think he wasn't alone. It was just some kind of a sense. His eyes darted back and forth a few times, but saw nothing. So, Zero proceeded to the cockpit of the Setsunakute Ii.


In a blinding instant, a few things happened all at once. Zero was thrown to the ground, shards of ice were thrown into the side of his face, and someone had pinned him onto the ground. He opened up his eyes to find that his sunglasses had been tossed aside. He looked up at the younger teen face in front of him. It was a young female, who looked around 14 years old. She had shoulder-length black hair with white streaks, bright green eyes, and a wide smile from her rose-colored lips. She was wearing a zebra-striped top, with a strap only over one shoulder, while the other shoulder was bare. She had short shorts, and knee-high leather boots. Her gloved hands were placed on Zero's chest, and each foot was planted firmly on a hip.


"Hello, there," came her young voice. "Who might you be?"


Zero tried to throw her off of him, but failed. 'Damn... she's too heavy, she's got me pinned better than I thought.' He still refused to answer him.


"See these ice shards in your face?" she asked, brushing them away. "They hurt, huh? I can do that again, y'know. Who are you?" Zero grunted again. The girl stared him down with a bitter look in her green eyes.


"My name is Zach," he replied truthfully.


"Well, then, you must be the Zack 'Zero' Cooper I've heard about, ya?" the girl asked, moving her hands up to his collar. Zero gave her a piercing gaze. How did she know?


"Who are you?" he asked.


"My name is Tigra. That's right, Tee-gra! I know a lot about you and that confederation. What are you doing here, anyway?" she wondered.


"An assossiate of mine needs help. Why do you care, you aren't--"


"YAY! Then I'll follow! You don't know how long I've been waiting to hook up with someone, whether it's for a short time or a long time! Yessir, I've been waiting for over four years to be able to have a reason to go somewhere," Tigra replied.


"But you DON'T have a reason to go somewhere. You're just following without a cause," Zero replied. He could tell that this slightly angered Tigra.


"See, there's my reason: I'm just following with a cause. Eh!" she said. Zero smirked.


"But if you weren't following me, you could have just said that you were looking for somewhere to go. That's a better reason, in my opinion," he told her. Tigra's expression saddened.


"But y'see... I would've been travelling alone. I suppose travelling with TerraCat isn't necessarily being 'alone', but I always wanted someone else to travel with me... I'm an orphan, for crying out loud! I have no one!" she explained.


"Well, I might not be going to a nice place. Rememer, I'm trying to rescue an assossiate of mine. Then I'm going back to where I came from, and that's not a place for you, okay?" Zero asked.


"Okay..." Tigra answered.


"And everyone else calls me Zero, so why don't you?" he asked. Tigra slid her hands off of Zero's collar and put her feet on the ground. She let him stand up. To her surprise, he was about a foot taller than she was.


"Sure thing..." she said. "Some people like to call me 'Ti', while with others, I have a reputation of 'Blade'," she informed him. She wandered off into her Zoid, the TerraCat, while Zero climbed into the Setsunakute Ii to get the coordinates of Miyuki's wherabouts.


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Arizda: Oooh, Zero has teamed up with this mysterious orphan named Tigra! By the way, her name is pronounced 'Tee-gra', in case you didn't get that. :) The next chapter is on it's way! ^___^ Yay! Kudo bars to everyone! Me is in a happy m00d. And a new day means new time, and new time is most likely more time, and more time = more chappies!