Arizda: Oi, finally this is done! I'm back to mai home in Cali :) So I did this chapter in a hurry, since I started it at like, 8:00 PM. Whee, the luv polygons have begun to make their shape known to the world! Wheeeeeee! *passes around snacks* Okay, REEEEAAAD! :D
Disclaimer: I own NOOOOOTHING except what I've already stated. :) There. I said it. Blah.
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8:30 AM
"WHERE IS SHE!?" Paul shouted, holding a gun to the side of Zero's head.
"She... she's in 'the room', isn't she?" Zero replied. Miyuki folded her arms, while Paul, at her side, shook his head. She glared at him.
"Not ONLY has my Zoid been taken by The Alliance, because of you, might I add, but YOU LET HER GET AWAY!? How could you have let her escape!?" Miyuki shouted.
"She's gone!? I didn't know that!! I was here, standing in front of the door the whole time! I had no idea she was getting out!" Zero yelled back. Suddenly, Paul's eyes narrowed.
"You helped her get out, didn't you? That's the only way possible! You HELPED her get out!!" he shouted, enraged.
"N-no! I... I did no such thing! I didn't make any kind of contact with her since the time we were trying to get answers from her!" Zero replied.
"Then we go back and get her. This time, she will die if we don't get answers. We'll hold her hostage. Definately a better plan than our last one. We'll also get Setsunakute Ii. But something tells me that YOU should stay behind..." Miyuki growled.
"Seriously. This should knock your rank down quite a bit..." Paul mumbled. Zero narrowed his eyes.
"You want me to bring her back? Fine, I'll get her back. Just watch me," he replied with a snarl. He readjusted his glasses, and began to march out of The Confederation.
"Grr... HEY, YOU GET BACK HERE!" Miyuki shouted, clenching her fist.
"Let him go. He won't be coming back," Paul replied. Miyuki glanced at Paul. "He'll fail. We'll send him out of The Confederation."
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'So you really have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?'
'Please, leave me alone. I need to rest. I have four arm wounds, and The Confederation will be attacking soon, and they'll be after me.'
'Runa, I swear. If you knew what was good for you, you'd--'
"FINE!"
Runa opened her eyes up, surprised that she had yelled aloud. She slowly closed her eyes, once again.
'You're in lo-ove, with two peeps! I might add that one has continued to save your hide, and he has fallen for you, while the other has taken pity upon you, but is on the opposing side. What do you think?'
'What do you mean, "what do I think"? What am I supposed to think...?'
'Well, am I right?'
'I dunno, I thought YOU were in charge of deciding all of that.'
'Well, okay, maybe I am. Bit seems to care for you an awful lot. He's... sweet. While, you seem to be coming onto Zero. I feel rather sorry for Bit.'
Tears welded up in Runa's eyes. It would all go away soon, she would hope. Everything would just clear up on itself. Well, she knew that it wasn't going to happen that way.
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Jamie woke up, quite tired, and went to the front door, where a loud knocking was going against the door. He opened it to see a friendly, familiar face, smiling. It was the older, female face of The Red Comet.
"G'morning, Jamie, is Brad awake, yet? You look really tired," Naomi replied. Jamie blinked a few times to clear his eyes up, and then gave a sarcastic smile.
"Hah. You'll probably be able to get him up. Just about everything else has..." he replied.
"Everything else? What else has been going on?" Naomi asked.
"Myeeeeeeeh, ask Brad, I'm gonna go back to sleep..." Jamie said, tiredly. He walked back into his room, inviting Naomi into the hover cargo.
"So... so this girl just got you involved?" Naomi asked.
"Well, something tells me that she wasn't trying to, but it happened. Bit just had to keep tagging behind her, making sure she was okay. Something ELSE tells me that he's 'getting into her', if you catch my drift," Brad replied. Naomi slightly giggled, and nodded.
"By what you've told me, it certainly seems that way," she answered. She was seated next to Brad on the couch in the living room of the hover cargo. "And I'm sorry that I came so early this morning--I wouldn't have come till the afternoon if I knew what had been going on with you guys..."
"Not a problem, Naomi. What did you need, anyway?" Brad wondered. Naomi bit her tongue. She raked her mind to figure out why she had come in the first place.
"Uh... hehe, I can't remember...!" she said, sheepishly. Brad slightly rolled his eyes.
"Now that I think about it, why did we let D-chan in the hover cargo?" he mumbled.
"Huh?" Naomi asked. Brad shook his head mildly.
"Nothing. Just thinking. I didn't have much of a say on whether to let her in or not. She came to the front door... Doc talked with her for a few minutes, and let her in. Why? I bet she has a bug somewhere..." he went on.
"Don't ya think you're overrating her just a little bit?" came the sleepy voice of Bit, who had walked into the kitchen, getting something to drink.
"Hey, go snoop into someone else's conversation," Brad replied. Bit shrugged, and walked off with a steaming cup of cider. He rather liked the bitter taste of it, compared to most other things. He walked down the hallway, down to his own room, brushing up against Leena on the way.
"Whoops, sorry," he mumbled, meekly. Leena gave him a bright smile.
"That's okay," she muttered back to him. Bit was confused. The NORMAL Leena would snap back at him He had to figure out why she was being so... *nice*.
"Leena," he began, following her out to the kitchen, "you've been awful... nice to me in the past few days."
"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.
"Err, I was just wondering... is there something wrong? Did... did I do something?" Bit asked. Leena turned to him and smiled.
"I still don't know what you mean," she replied, giving him a small kiss on the cheek.
'So THAT'S what it was... what am I gonna say to Leena about Runa...?' Bit thought. Leena stared at Bit's face for a few seconds, giggling at the way his face was turning red.
"Hehe..." Bit muttered, walking back to his room. Leena smiled once again, and proceeded to the kitchen.
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"Umm... Runa? Are you gonna be okay?" Izumi asked, watching her friend run from the bathroom back to her own chambers. Runa resettled herself back in bed.
"Oh yeah, sure, I'll be fine," she answered, sarcastically. "I just saw what little breakfast I had in a regurgitated form fall from my mouth into the toilet..."
"If you're throwing up, I wouldn't suggest fighting the war, Runa," Izumi replied.
"Nah, it's just through stress. I shouldn't be doing it again..." Runa said back, snuggling up underneath her bed sheets. Izumi sighed.
"Oooookay..." she said. She began walking down the hallway when someone jumped out and grabbed her from a storage closet and pulled her back in. He had his hand over her mouth, and held her tightly, making sure she wouldn't run away.
"Listen," he began in his deep voice. "I need to know where Runa is." Izumi was yelling muffled yells through the hand over her mouth. Just then, something black, hairy, and about the size of her own head dropped from a thin silvery line from the ceiling. She froze. Then, she let out a blood-curdling, death-defying, loud scream that sent shivers down the man's spine. Izumi broke free of his grasp and ran out of the closet. She didn't get far, however, for the large spider she had seen scared her to the point of fainting. The young man--Zero--stepped out of the closet, sighed, and when the spider reached the ground, he stepped on it, hearing it crunch.
Upon close observation, Zero found Runa's room to be not far from the hallway storage closet. He stood in the doorway to see her snuggled up, the blankets tightly wrapped around her figure and in a pile of soft, plush pillows. He slowly approached her.
"W-why are you here!?" Runa asked, slowly awakening. Her eyes quickly fluttered open as Zero stood in front of her. Runa sat up. There was something about the way that Runa didn't reach for the gun two feet away from her on the night table next to the bed that made Zero feel a bit strange.
"So you aren't even going to arm yourself?" he asked her. Runa lightly nibbled on her index finger's knuckle out of nervousness. Then she glanced at the gun to her left, sighed, and shook her head.
"It's something about you..." she started. "I don't know what it is... but... it's something... and I get this weird sense... I... maybe it's almost... that... I *trust*... you aren't here to take me, are you?" she asked, looking up at him. Zero was at a loss for words. He didn't know how to say that he didn't know why he was here anymore. Was he going to take her in? Or was he going to stay and fight with The Alliance against The Confederation. He had a feeling in his gut about Runa. He just couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Runa... I..."
That right there told Runa that he wasn't about to do anything to hurt her. She was a little confused, however. She didn't know what he was trying to say.
"I have something to say to you... and... I really think you should know this. It might mean a lot to you, or it might make you shoot me when you piece it together," he replied. Runa was going to take her chances. She slowly stood up.
"Zero, I have something to tell YOU... don't tell me anything until I finish," she replied.
'So, that search party finally found your courage, eh?'
'Not now, please not now. I'm doing this for YOUR sake.'
Runa slowly slid her arms around Zero's neck, and gave him a short, but passionate kiss. Something she'd been wanting to do for a while now.
"I think I love you," she said slowly, placing her hands on his shoulders. He looked down at her and stared into her blue eyes.
"Runa... what you piece together is going to hurt you... it's going to hurt a lot... I can tell you that much right now," he said, sadly. Runa didn't have the slightest idea what he meant.
"Tell me... what do you mean...?" she asked. She wanted to fall into his arms at the moment, but instead, fell back on her bed.
"Where's the console room...? I'll show you. You might not like it..."
Runa led Zero to the console room, where he promptly typed in his ID#. Runa almost choked on the air she was breathing when she saw the screen.
ZACK "ZERO" COOPER
RELEASED
AS OF THREE PAST YEARS, MARCH 22ND
"Y-y-you mean that YOU used to work for The Alliance?!" she screamed. Zero turned away from her and sighed.
"They sent me away to the Confederation... because the work I was doing here wasn't good enough for them. I was failing..." he replied. Runa raked her mind to figure out what else that could possibly mean. I didn't seem to come to her.
"So what else are you trying to say...?!" she asked.
"I can't tell you... that just wouldn't be right... you've got to figure it out, Runa. And please... don't fight in the war. Don't. You... you mean a lot to me, too..." Zero replied. He couldn't believe that he had just said that. It was true, he had turned his ways.
Then, a few female screams were heard, obviously from a few girls running down the hallway. Dalanette ran into the console room, and sat at her special seat in front of her screen, barely noticing Zero.
"RUNA!! What is he doing here?!" she shouted, finally wanting to know. The three girls were out of breath, and each seated themselves at their own seats in the console room. D-chan had begun preparations for adding her piece of starbuddy armor to the Midnight. Izumi was getting ready to send commands for the defense line, and Dalanette was also beginning preparations for the Midnight's upgrade.
"Uh... uh, Dalanette... D, I'll explain later... I guess," Runa replied.
"EXPLAIN NOW!" Izumi shouted, furious.
"I can't!" Runa cried, and then sat down at her seat in the console room, beginning the upgrades on the Midnight.
"Don't do it, Runa... please, I don't want you to fight in the war!" Zero told her. Runa shook her head.
"It's my war, too. I gotta fight next to my team! Where's Lewis and Kashie?! They need to help with the Berserker Midnight Landmarlin's upgrade! We're gonna have to fully arm everything and set the--"
"WE KNOW THAT!" Dalanette shouted. She ran a hand through her short black hair, trying to get her bangs out of her focoused eyes.
Just then, Kashie and Lewis ran through the doors as the whole place shook.
"Oho, yeah, look, we're hit again. Why aren't the defenses putting up a fight!? They should be protecting us!" Kashie shouted.
"WELL NO SHIT!!! YA THINK IT's *EASY* BEING THE DEFENSES MASTER!?" Izumi shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Sorray!" Kashie replied, sitting down in front of the main console, helping upgrade Midnight with Lewis.
"Sorry, Zero. Promise I'll be careful, okay?" she whispered.
"Good..."
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Arizda: Hope ya liked it! Sorry it took me so long... I've been doing a lot of things lately. I have a whole lot of projects on mah back n' stuff. NEway *passes out snacks* r x r!
Disclaimer: I own NOOOOOTHING except what I've already stated. :) There. I said it. Blah.
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8:30 AM
"WHERE IS SHE!?" Paul shouted, holding a gun to the side of Zero's head.
"She... she's in 'the room', isn't she?" Zero replied. Miyuki folded her arms, while Paul, at her side, shook his head. She glared at him.
"Not ONLY has my Zoid been taken by The Alliance, because of you, might I add, but YOU LET HER GET AWAY!? How could you have let her escape!?" Miyuki shouted.
"She's gone!? I didn't know that!! I was here, standing in front of the door the whole time! I had no idea she was getting out!" Zero yelled back. Suddenly, Paul's eyes narrowed.
"You helped her get out, didn't you? That's the only way possible! You HELPED her get out!!" he shouted, enraged.
"N-no! I... I did no such thing! I didn't make any kind of contact with her since the time we were trying to get answers from her!" Zero replied.
"Then we go back and get her. This time, she will die if we don't get answers. We'll hold her hostage. Definately a better plan than our last one. We'll also get Setsunakute Ii. But something tells me that YOU should stay behind..." Miyuki growled.
"Seriously. This should knock your rank down quite a bit..." Paul mumbled. Zero narrowed his eyes.
"You want me to bring her back? Fine, I'll get her back. Just watch me," he replied with a snarl. He readjusted his glasses, and began to march out of The Confederation.
"Grr... HEY, YOU GET BACK HERE!" Miyuki shouted, clenching her fist.
"Let him go. He won't be coming back," Paul replied. Miyuki glanced at Paul. "He'll fail. We'll send him out of The Confederation."
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'So you really have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?'
'Please, leave me alone. I need to rest. I have four arm wounds, and The Confederation will be attacking soon, and they'll be after me.'
'Runa, I swear. If you knew what was good for you, you'd--'
"FINE!"
Runa opened her eyes up, surprised that she had yelled aloud. She slowly closed her eyes, once again.
'You're in lo-ove, with two peeps! I might add that one has continued to save your hide, and he has fallen for you, while the other has taken pity upon you, but is on the opposing side. What do you think?'
'What do you mean, "what do I think"? What am I supposed to think...?'
'Well, am I right?'
'I dunno, I thought YOU were in charge of deciding all of that.'
'Well, okay, maybe I am. Bit seems to care for you an awful lot. He's... sweet. While, you seem to be coming onto Zero. I feel rather sorry for Bit.'
Tears welded up in Runa's eyes. It would all go away soon, she would hope. Everything would just clear up on itself. Well, she knew that it wasn't going to happen that way.
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Jamie woke up, quite tired, and went to the front door, where a loud knocking was going against the door. He opened it to see a friendly, familiar face, smiling. It was the older, female face of The Red Comet.
"G'morning, Jamie, is Brad awake, yet? You look really tired," Naomi replied. Jamie blinked a few times to clear his eyes up, and then gave a sarcastic smile.
"Hah. You'll probably be able to get him up. Just about everything else has..." he replied.
"Everything else? What else has been going on?" Naomi asked.
"Myeeeeeeeh, ask Brad, I'm gonna go back to sleep..." Jamie said, tiredly. He walked back into his room, inviting Naomi into the hover cargo.
"So... so this girl just got you involved?" Naomi asked.
"Well, something tells me that she wasn't trying to, but it happened. Bit just had to keep tagging behind her, making sure she was okay. Something ELSE tells me that he's 'getting into her', if you catch my drift," Brad replied. Naomi slightly giggled, and nodded.
"By what you've told me, it certainly seems that way," she answered. She was seated next to Brad on the couch in the living room of the hover cargo. "And I'm sorry that I came so early this morning--I wouldn't have come till the afternoon if I knew what had been going on with you guys..."
"Not a problem, Naomi. What did you need, anyway?" Brad wondered. Naomi bit her tongue. She raked her mind to figure out why she had come in the first place.
"Uh... hehe, I can't remember...!" she said, sheepishly. Brad slightly rolled his eyes.
"Now that I think about it, why did we let D-chan in the hover cargo?" he mumbled.
"Huh?" Naomi asked. Brad shook his head mildly.
"Nothing. Just thinking. I didn't have much of a say on whether to let her in or not. She came to the front door... Doc talked with her for a few minutes, and let her in. Why? I bet she has a bug somewhere..." he went on.
"Don't ya think you're overrating her just a little bit?" came the sleepy voice of Bit, who had walked into the kitchen, getting something to drink.
"Hey, go snoop into someone else's conversation," Brad replied. Bit shrugged, and walked off with a steaming cup of cider. He rather liked the bitter taste of it, compared to most other things. He walked down the hallway, down to his own room, brushing up against Leena on the way.
"Whoops, sorry," he mumbled, meekly. Leena gave him a bright smile.
"That's okay," she muttered back to him. Bit was confused. The NORMAL Leena would snap back at him He had to figure out why she was being so... *nice*.
"Leena," he began, following her out to the kitchen, "you've been awful... nice to me in the past few days."
"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.
"Err, I was just wondering... is there something wrong? Did... did I do something?" Bit asked. Leena turned to him and smiled.
"I still don't know what you mean," she replied, giving him a small kiss on the cheek.
'So THAT'S what it was... what am I gonna say to Leena about Runa...?' Bit thought. Leena stared at Bit's face for a few seconds, giggling at the way his face was turning red.
"Hehe..." Bit muttered, walking back to his room. Leena smiled once again, and proceeded to the kitchen.
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"Umm... Runa? Are you gonna be okay?" Izumi asked, watching her friend run from the bathroom back to her own chambers. Runa resettled herself back in bed.
"Oh yeah, sure, I'll be fine," she answered, sarcastically. "I just saw what little breakfast I had in a regurgitated form fall from my mouth into the toilet..."
"If you're throwing up, I wouldn't suggest fighting the war, Runa," Izumi replied.
"Nah, it's just through stress. I shouldn't be doing it again..." Runa said back, snuggling up underneath her bed sheets. Izumi sighed.
"Oooookay..." she said. She began walking down the hallway when someone jumped out and grabbed her from a storage closet and pulled her back in. He had his hand over her mouth, and held her tightly, making sure she wouldn't run away.
"Listen," he began in his deep voice. "I need to know where Runa is." Izumi was yelling muffled yells through the hand over her mouth. Just then, something black, hairy, and about the size of her own head dropped from a thin silvery line from the ceiling. She froze. Then, she let out a blood-curdling, death-defying, loud scream that sent shivers down the man's spine. Izumi broke free of his grasp and ran out of the closet. She didn't get far, however, for the large spider she had seen scared her to the point of fainting. The young man--Zero--stepped out of the closet, sighed, and when the spider reached the ground, he stepped on it, hearing it crunch.
Upon close observation, Zero found Runa's room to be not far from the hallway storage closet. He stood in the doorway to see her snuggled up, the blankets tightly wrapped around her figure and in a pile of soft, plush pillows. He slowly approached her.
"W-why are you here!?" Runa asked, slowly awakening. Her eyes quickly fluttered open as Zero stood in front of her. Runa sat up. There was something about the way that Runa didn't reach for the gun two feet away from her on the night table next to the bed that made Zero feel a bit strange.
"So you aren't even going to arm yourself?" he asked her. Runa lightly nibbled on her index finger's knuckle out of nervousness. Then she glanced at the gun to her left, sighed, and shook her head.
"It's something about you..." she started. "I don't know what it is... but... it's something... and I get this weird sense... I... maybe it's almost... that... I *trust*... you aren't here to take me, are you?" she asked, looking up at him. Zero was at a loss for words. He didn't know how to say that he didn't know why he was here anymore. Was he going to take her in? Or was he going to stay and fight with The Alliance against The Confederation. He had a feeling in his gut about Runa. He just couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Runa... I..."
That right there told Runa that he wasn't about to do anything to hurt her. She was a little confused, however. She didn't know what he was trying to say.
"I have something to say to you... and... I really think you should know this. It might mean a lot to you, or it might make you shoot me when you piece it together," he replied. Runa was going to take her chances. She slowly stood up.
"Zero, I have something to tell YOU... don't tell me anything until I finish," she replied.
'So, that search party finally found your courage, eh?'
'Not now, please not now. I'm doing this for YOUR sake.'
Runa slowly slid her arms around Zero's neck, and gave him a short, but passionate kiss. Something she'd been wanting to do for a while now.
"I think I love you," she said slowly, placing her hands on his shoulders. He looked down at her and stared into her blue eyes.
"Runa... what you piece together is going to hurt you... it's going to hurt a lot... I can tell you that much right now," he said, sadly. Runa didn't have the slightest idea what he meant.
"Tell me... what do you mean...?" she asked. She wanted to fall into his arms at the moment, but instead, fell back on her bed.
"Where's the console room...? I'll show you. You might not like it..."
Runa led Zero to the console room, where he promptly typed in his ID#. Runa almost choked on the air she was breathing when she saw the screen.
ZACK "ZERO" COOPER
RELEASED
AS OF THREE PAST YEARS, MARCH 22ND
"Y-y-you mean that YOU used to work for The Alliance?!" she screamed. Zero turned away from her and sighed.
"They sent me away to the Confederation... because the work I was doing here wasn't good enough for them. I was failing..." he replied. Runa raked her mind to figure out what else that could possibly mean. I didn't seem to come to her.
"So what else are you trying to say...?!" she asked.
"I can't tell you... that just wouldn't be right... you've got to figure it out, Runa. And please... don't fight in the war. Don't. You... you mean a lot to me, too..." Zero replied. He couldn't believe that he had just said that. It was true, he had turned his ways.
Then, a few female screams were heard, obviously from a few girls running down the hallway. Dalanette ran into the console room, and sat at her special seat in front of her screen, barely noticing Zero.
"RUNA!! What is he doing here?!" she shouted, finally wanting to know. The three girls were out of breath, and each seated themselves at their own seats in the console room. D-chan had begun preparations for adding her piece of starbuddy armor to the Midnight. Izumi was getting ready to send commands for the defense line, and Dalanette was also beginning preparations for the Midnight's upgrade.
"Uh... uh, Dalanette... D, I'll explain later... I guess," Runa replied.
"EXPLAIN NOW!" Izumi shouted, furious.
"I can't!" Runa cried, and then sat down at her seat in the console room, beginning the upgrades on the Midnight.
"Don't do it, Runa... please, I don't want you to fight in the war!" Zero told her. Runa shook her head.
"It's my war, too. I gotta fight next to my team! Where's Lewis and Kashie?! They need to help with the Berserker Midnight Landmarlin's upgrade! We're gonna have to fully arm everything and set the--"
"WE KNOW THAT!" Dalanette shouted. She ran a hand through her short black hair, trying to get her bangs out of her focoused eyes.
Just then, Kashie and Lewis ran through the doors as the whole place shook.
"Oho, yeah, look, we're hit again. Why aren't the defenses putting up a fight!? They should be protecting us!" Kashie shouted.
"WELL NO SHIT!!! YA THINK IT's *EASY* BEING THE DEFENSES MASTER!?" Izumi shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Sorray!" Kashie replied, sitting down in front of the main console, helping upgrade Midnight with Lewis.
"Sorry, Zero. Promise I'll be careful, okay?" she whispered.
"Good..."
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Arizda: Hope ya liked it! Sorry it took me so long... I've been doing a lot of things lately. I have a whole lot of projects on mah back n' stuff. NEway *passes out snacks* r x r!
