Arizda: HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! I am soooo sorry for not writing in like, a whole NINE MONTH SESSION! And I'm sure that someone has has a kid by now x_x. Geez... NEway... **passes out snacks** Ooohh geeeez... I have SO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON! And I think that the character submission status is closed, so don't send me anymore! I've got to make due with the ones that I've got! And if you sent me a character by e-mail, please re-email it to this address if you still want them in: fluffychicken@survivormail.com . My last e-mail address started being stupid. :) NEway... ON WIT DA FICCY... after Reesesluver talks!!!

Reesesluver: *sleeping in the corner, collecting dust, wakes up eventually* Whoa, wait, we're writing again? *hoarse cheer, stretches* Alright, now that Arizda here is back on track (I hope), I'll do my part to KEEP HER THERE! *threatening roar, lapses back into usual half awake self* Now, it seems we've got snackzez. But no drinks. So, huzzah, here's a toast to writing on a regular basis. *gets clobbered by people that read my ficcy, smiles disarmingly and goes back to her corner after passing out liquidy beverages*

DISCLAIMER: Even after nine months, I still don't own Zoids... just MY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS. All the other characters belong to someone else. :P Even that newborn isn't mine... he just showed up nine months later...
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As the strange girl attended to Runa's accessable cuts and bruises, Fusion guarded Miyuki, and several zoids grew closer to the scene.

"Oh, come on, girl, wake up!" the girl snapped at the unconscious Runa, roughly nudging her with her foot. It was very clear that she wouldn't be waking up for quite some time. The girl stood up and observed the scene before the other zoids could rush in. It seemed to be that Runa was completely thrown from the cockpit and onto the ground, because there would've been a very noticeable trail of blood if she had crawled out with a bit of regained consciousness.

"HEY! YOU!"

The unfamiliar looked up at a purple panther-like zoid, unmistakeably Dalanette's Darkness Panther, which was looming over her.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?"

"Eeep... I'm guessin' this' gonna turn out to be one fuckin' big mess, Fusion..." the girl mumbled, with the growl of a response from her zoid.

"Wait, wait, hold on... lemme handle this..." D replied, barging through in her Starbuddy Penguin. "NOW... WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?"

The girl rolled her eyes at Runa's dysfunctional teammates, and folded her arms, trying to look like she knew what to say... even though she was still thinking.

"Listen... I didn't do anything!" was all she could come up with.

"Well... obviously not..." Dalanette replied. "What happened to Runa?"

"Err... well, I was just kinda... watchin' the battle n' stuff--"

"WATCHING THE BATTLE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR!?" Dalanette shouted, thinking this girl was crazy.

"Eh, I'm not exactly sane, a'ight? I watch battles, y'know, watch for wrecks to get some free custom pieces. They sell for a nice price. I just so happened to see this one happenin', and she was gettin' her ass kicked around the block so I jumped in to save her!"

"Do you even know who she is?" D asked.

"No! I was just watchin', cos I saw two kickass custom zoids, a'ight? ... and I saw her gettin' killed, and my short sense of dignity was a lil' miffed, so I barged in, thinkin that if one of 'em died, I could always scrap their zoid, and I'd be set for a few months..." she paused, smiling. "..though maybe that wasn't the best idea to tell y'all of that, but I did..." the girl answered, with pride. D cocked an eyebrow as she listened to the girl's story.

"Well then... who are you?" she asked. The girl smiled brightly, as if expecting the question. A swift mock bow, a gleeful grin and a tone of voice that was far too hyperactively cheerful for a battlefield ensued shortly, causing a few of the team to cringe.

"Well hiiii there, I'm Mallory Arasoi Genji! How goes et for ya?" Dalanette was taken quite aback with this girl's openness, but she didn't really care all that much.

"She saved Runa!" Kashie's voice broke in, the Slashback Spino running through the scene.

"Umm... not yet," Mallory corrected, losing the cheeriness quickly, glancing down at Runa. "She's still laying down in a puddle of her own muddy, bloody doom filth... so... let's get her out, alright?"

"Um, yeah, sure, but what are we going to do about this war? And--HOLY SHIT--what about the Beserker Dawn?!" Kashie wondered, looking down at the trashed zoid, which wouldn't be fixed for awhile.

"Who are allayou?" Mallory asked, back to the hyperactive speed talk, beginning to get confused, as things were going a lot faster, now. There were seconds of pause as Dalanette jumped out of her Darkness Panther to retrieve Runa.

Izumi responded, the scowl on her face unable for Mallory to see but painfully evident in her voice. "We'll tell you later."

Lewis chimed in, sounding equally annoyed. "Maybe, if identities can be trusted with a psycho that scavenges battles while the battles are still going on."

There was a roaring snarl and a volley of very fast gunfire. Dalanette flinched, resisting the urge to shield her ears from the sound. Mallory spun around in surprise, shouting an obscenity while the Star Team glanced between themselves.

"FUSION, GET YOUR RUSTED ASS AFTER THAT THING!" Mallory bellowed at the zoid, which snarled back at her then almost sullenly leapt to comply.

"Thing!? What thing?" Kashie inquired, looking around.

"There was nothing for that Zoid to attack!"

Another voice broke in, one no one was really expecting to hear or really recognized at first. Zero. "Yes, there was," he said grimly. "The Setsunakute Ii. It wasn't fully put out of commission." There was a pause and his voice seemed to falter a bit, either that or the communications links were fuzzy. "I'm going to go after it."

Mallory's zoid was by now in reluctant pursuit of the horse type zoid, swerving to avoid a wreck and in doing so, intercepting a missile launched by the Setsunakute Ii. It took the blast hard in the chest, recoiling and rolling back with the momentum, slamming to a halt in a massive explosion that sent red hot shrapnel flying. The Bahamut blazed by overhead, in far faster pursuit than a light assault/sniper ground zoid like Mallory's could ever hope to attain.

As a one, the Star Team sweatdropped. Runa half dead and bleeding in Dalanette's arms, Zero - a guy that was supposed to be with the enemy - coming out of nowhere and sounding as if he was worried about the entire situation, a psycho pilot with a zoid that could have an organoid system maybe, for a zoid to follow such direct orders unmanned was bizarre, then that zoid being blown up moments later.

This entire mess was bloody insane.

D-chan decided to take a hold of the situation for the moment, watching as Dalanette made her way back into the Darkness Panther with Runa. "Alright, Runa needs medical attention. Izumi, you're defense master, give us some defense -" she was interrupted briefly by aggressive cursing but it seemed to be only for show. She waited a moment for Izumi to quiet before continuing.

"We're going to need Mallory in someone's zoid, unless we want to leave the person that saved Runa's ass here."

"Never mind anyone volunteering," Mallory chimed in, sober for the moment and sounding authorative. "I'm goin' with the one that has a nice vocabulary, methinks I could learn somethin', eh?"

"Vocabulary?" Lewis echoed. "You mean Izumi?"

"The hell?! I didn't agree!" Izumi growled, miffed at being distracted while throwing together a strategy.

"Too late," Mal responded gleefully, greeting Shadow cheerily. "I don't need to be in the cockpit, leave me outside and I'll be fine. You're supposed to be decent at defense after all. If you're all talk and no action, then, no problem, I can hitch a ride with someone else."

The subtle jab was enough to get Izumi to open the cockpit, almost launch herself out wielding a loaded revolver and yell at the top of her lungs at the brunette standing by her zoid's paw. A stream of obscenities later, which were responded to in the same manner, Mal was sitting crosslegged on Shadow's canopy.

Dalanette spoke up before anyone else could. "This is all well and good guys, but Runa is DYING HERE AND WE'RE SQUABBLING ABOUT SEATING ARRANGEMENTS!"

There was a silence then Izumi barked out orders for the defense, stationing everyone in a circular formation around the Darkness Panther, including herself. It was a bit cramped until someone volunteered to go after Zero.

D let them go, then addressed everyone. "Someone that has local mapping capabilities installed on their system, pull up the nearest hospital that's friendly and send the coordinations to everyone. Then pick up the pace."

"Wait! Hang on!" Dalanette barked, feeling as if she were the only one who knew where to go. "What about the emergency base set up on the Tenquo Area? REMEMBER!? There's expert medics set up there just for this war! GO THERE!"

"You have Runa, YOU GO THERE!!" Kashie shouted. Dalanette sighed and took off in the direction of the base. "AND SEND US THE COORDINATES!" He wasn't sure if Dalanette had heard him or not.

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Arizda: It seems kinda short... oh well. See how GOOD THIS CHAPTER IS!? It's cos Reesesluver helped! I'm so grateful! Anyway, read and review, and we'll get the next chapter up, soon!