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"Uhhh.where the hell am I?" Reese groaned as she groggily came to.
She found herself in a small musty room with no windows; damn, she was still in that cursed manor. Reese rose to her feet as she realized this was not the room where she had been attacked. She felt her shoulder blade and to her horror she found something sticking out of it. She yanked it out; it appeared to be some sort of cartilage with a piece of paper around the barrel.
The note read: Do not stray where you do not belong. Ancient Zoidian this is not you're place. Though destiny has glided you here to solve the mystery, your presence will not be tolerated for long. Get out while you still have the chance. For when true loves kiss strikes before dawn and you are not gone you will be lost.
"What kind of sick joke is this?" Reese said out loud, arching a blue eyebrow. "Even I'm not THAT superficial."
This was insane; who does this person think he/she is? Whoever it was didn't bother to even sign it! How the hell was she supposed to know who it was that was threatening her? But Reese was not afraid, why should she be? This poet has a way with words and writes her a threatening note.oohh she's scared now! Oh yeah, she's trembling with fear. Hn. Yeah right like that's ever gonna happen.
"I demand you show yourself, coward! If it's one thing I know about mind games is that it's no fun unless you have your intended victim in sight and in mind!"
"Hold it right there!" from out nowhere a door opened at the wall before her, it slammed to the side revealing an imperial soldier with long hair.
Reese nearly jumped out of her skin; she had not been expecting a response like that so soon!
"What are you doing here?!" they shouted at each other in unison.
"Let's play a little game," Reese said smirking seductively. "I tell you my reason only if you tell me yours."
The soldier blinked and stared at her, as he turned pink, even the tip of his ears turned pink. He just continued to stare at her, his jaw open, just gawking at her.
Reese cocked her head to one side and arched an eyebrow. What the hell was he staring at? She looked behind her but saw only dust and a wooden button on the side of the wall.. whoa. Rewind. A button? She pressed it with all her might until it screeched open.
Specula tumbled out of the wall a cloud of dust following her. She stood up and shook off all of the dust her metallic body.
"Specula!" Reese cried incredulously.
Specula growled and then titled her head, as if saying, "What is that guy staring at?" Reese looked back at the soldier and sure enough he was still gawking at her. She felt naked, exposed under his intense stare, and she hated every minute of it. He was making her feel like a 25-cent prostitute who couldn't do anything right, and that she hated the most. She was no prostitute. No doubt Raven and Xena would have a good laugh about this, mostly Xena while Raven chuckled softly but never a true smile.
"That is what I'd like to know, Specula," Reese said through clenched teeth.
She was ready to walk up to him, smack him across the face and walk away. Then it hit her.she could read minds! Why didn't Reese think of it sooner?! DUH!
"I almost forgot!!" Reese exclaimed.
Specula smacked her forehead. Reese closed her eyes and cleared her thoughts, almost immediately she could feel the guys thoughts: he was indeed staring at her. Shocked that such a body was in such a place. 'Why?' Reese thought. 'Why is he so upset about this place? Not to mention my body?'
Reese felt a draft, she looked down at herself expecting to see her dark blue t-shirt that the sleeves went to her elbow but instead to her complete horror she found she was not wearing a shirt. Just her black satin bra from Veronicas Treasures (AN: sound familiar? Hehe. Victoria Secrets.) not to mention her cleavage showing bra. Great. Just great. No wonder he was staring at her!
Other than her shirt missing Reese had all her other clothes, thank goodness. She angrily turned to the Imperial Soldier. How dare he destroy her FAVORITE blouse! Damn him to hell for that!
"Damn you, let's just demean the woman, why don't we? She's just a goddamn woman, let's act like she's a slut that's it, let's knock her unconscious with new age drugs and steal her shirt afterwards when she comes to lets all gawk at her breasts!" she snarled, which succeeded in snapping the soldier out of his trance.
"Huh? No! I'm sorry ma'am it's just." his voice trailed off.
"It's just what? She's a woman and she has no goddamn rights?!?!" Reese grew more infuriated by the second. She turned to Specula, who knew the drill. "Get him Specula! Make that bastard pay for women's scrutiny!"
Before the guy knew what happened he found the blue organiod's tail knocking his face sending him flying backwards. Specula snarled and proceeded to rip the unlucky guy into pieces. Reese smirked but she was determined to figure out what he meant by "this place is haunted" it was in his thoughts before she snapped. And now it sparked her curiosity, but it was a little too late to ask him to clarify.
"I want my shirt back," she whimpered. She liked that shirt too!
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"Well, you see I had a vision. You and Xena were in it and." Fiona's voice trailed off.
Raven narrowed his eyes, deciding how he should kill her: beat her over the head with his book or maybe have that good for nothing organiod of his rip her stupid head off. But if he beat her over the head with the book she'd just blood all over the precious papers. Decisions. Decisions.
"And?" he demanded with anger he didn't feel.
He heard a low growl and from the corner of his eye he saw Shadow snarling at him, wait.at him? He shot the organiod a 'we'll discuss this later' look. Shadow shook his head wildly and indicted to Fiona, why couldn't Raven use his head and listen to what she had to say? It was something really important to bring her here or why else would she be here?
Fiona swallowed and soon found a lump in her throat, she numbly met Raven's eyes. "And Xena."
She searched for the words inside of her head, they seemed to be farther and farther away and the clock was ticking. If she didn't hurry it up she could end up dead, dead with a good deed in mind that is.
"And, your in great danger!" she grabbed his arm and held it tightly against her chest.
"What the-?" Raven exclaimed, stunned.
Fiona used all of her strength to pull him off the couch and onto the floor, and to her surprise he didn't do anything, he didn't scream or fight. His face was completely shocked, never before had anyone ever had the courage to boldly touch him let alone grab him. Just then a giant explosion sounded from the back area of the cabin, sending it ablaze. Fiona shut her eyes tightly and held on to his arm as though her life depended on it, the warmth of his arm made her feel a little safer. She didn't know why, but it did.
She opened one eye and gasped: flames slowly engulfed the ancient stove and crusty wooden floor. They had to get out of there, and out of there fast. The only problem was: how was she going to convince Raven to come with her?
"Raven! Get up!" Fiona struggled to lift him to his feet only he weighed far too much; finally he stood up making her life a lot easier.
Raven turned around, with Fiona still attached to his arm, and stared into the growing orange and yellow flames. His lips contorted into a fierce scowl, this was more than just coincidence. This was much more than just coincidence. Someone had tried to kill him and obviously failed, no someone had sent a hit man on him. On him or Fiona, most likely him.
"See! I told you so!" Fiona said breathlessly.
He shot her a weird look. "Told me what?"
"Told you, you were in danger."
Raven bent down to pick up his book when he found he couldn't move right arm, it was squeezed in between something warm and soft. He looked up his arm and saw Fiona was clutching it against her bosom. He felt his cheeks burn and quickly shook it off.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked finally, getting his book with his free arm.
She ignored his question and pulled his towards the front door. "C'mon Raven, it's only a matter of time before this place explodes."
"Who said I'm going with you? Did you forget a little detail? We're enemies, do you know what that means? We're not fri-e-n-d-s."
"Don't be ridiculous, Raven. It doesn't matter if you're my enemy or not, right now all that matters is that we get out safely. The two of us," she replied.
Raven was stunned; no one had ever tried to save his life before. No one had ever cared enough to even entertain the thought. Why now? Why now did his arch nemesis' girlfriend want to save his life? What did he do that gave him the privilege of the possibility of being rescued? He wondered.
Scaring even himself, Raven let the blonde Ancient Zoidian lead him out of the giant ball of fire and to a white and gold Zaber Fang.
"C'mon!" Fiona pushed him into the cockpit of the now thoroughly confused Zaber Fang. "Get in, the back seat."
Raven wondered what the hell possessed him as he did as he was told, why was he doing this? He could easily get rid of her if he wanted to. He quietly sat in the back as Fiona maneuvered her zoid to get away as fast as possible. The Zaber Fang howled and dashed off into the desert.
"Hey!" Fiona screeched. "We don't want to go that way! We want to go over there, away from the desert!"
To her surprise, the zoid talked back to her. Did it have an organiod in it? She didn't know.
~*Correction. You want to go that way. I want to go this way and that's exactly why we're going this way*~
Fiona gasped. "What a rude zoid!"
Raven stared mutely at the thick hard backed book titled 'Unwanted', his mind going a million miles an hour. Why was he doing this? What ever happened to Reese, Xena and that miserable piece of scrap metal that called himself an organiod? He glanced out of the canopy and unsurprisingly enough, Shadow flew gracefully beside them.
"What are you doing, Shadow?" he asked quietly.
Shadow turned and shrugged, then tilted his head at Raven in a questioning manner. Raven just shrugged and continued to fiddle with the book in his hands.
"Umm, Raven?"
Raven was snapped out of his thoughts as he realized Fiona was talking to him. What the hell would she have to talk to him about? He wondered in annoyance. Now that he thought of it, why was he even with her in the first place?
"What do you want?" he hissed.
"The zoid is refusing to listen to commands, how do I make go the way I want it to?" Fiona asked in a small voice, feeling the heat rise in her cheeks.
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"Hey! Any of you guys see Fiona?" Van asked as he walked into the cafeteria area of the base, where Moonbay, Thomas, Colonel Shubaltz were seated.
Moonbay shook her head while the two brothers shrugged. Van pulled the free seat on the circle table and sat down, eyeing everyone's bacon eggs and hash browns jealously. He was starving, the smell was so intoxicating he wondered how much longer his self-control would last before he went haywire and ate everyone's food.
"Van? Van? VAN!"
Van shook his head as if coming out of a trance as he realized Moonbay was shouting at him. "Yeah?"
"I said, when was the last time you saw her?" Moonbay repeated, waving her fork accusingly in his face.
"Well?" Thomas asked with the markings of a faint smirk.
Van felt heat rise in his face; he knew he must have been a bright red. Oh great, now he had to tell them he spent the night in Fiona's bedroom. but nothing transpired! Honest! He had fallen asleep before anything else could happen.
"Um, well. you see, the last t-time I saw her." he stuttered as his cheeks burned.
Moonbay exchanged sideway glances with Colonel Karl Shubaltz. How cute, Van's stuttering because he doesn't want to say what he did last night, she thought.
"Yes Van? Do continue," Moonbay said, grinning ear to ear like a Cheshire cat.
Van looked at each one of their faces, debating whether or not he should tell them he was in her bedroom. Wait, why was he acting this way? Nothing happened! He was innocent!
"NOTHING HAPPENED!! I swear to God! Nothing happened!" Van cried suddenly. "I just spent the night in her room. but nothing happened!!!! Honest!"
"What?!" Karl Shubaltz and Moonbay shouted in unison.
"So that's why you weren't in your room last night!" Thomas said fiercely. "You were sleeping with Miss Fiona!" his eyes teared up.
"Literally!" Van said loudly that way everyone would listen to him.
"What?" Moonbay arched an eyebrow.
"Literally, I slept with Fiona l-it-e-r-a-l-l-y. Not figuratively, it was all-innocent. I swear to God. And why the hell am I telling you guys this? It's not important! C'mon! Fiona's not gonna find herself!"
As if the answer to his question, a black haired solider walked up to the table and tapped Van on the shoulder.
"What do you want?" he growled.
The solider whispered something in his ear.
"Really? The ancient Zaber Fang, eh?" Van looked up at the guy, who nodded. "Alrighty then, tracking it down is gonna be a piece of cake then."
With that said, Van stood up and walked briskly out of the cafeteria leaving a confused crowd.
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"WOHOO! This is the life baby!"
Xena maneuvered her black Liger like zoid to do many twists and turns in the barren desert. It did a series of flips. The sun was shining brightly and it was a beautiful day indeed. What a way to start of the day, sneak into Major Hottie's military base and steal a totally kick ass zoid. Man, she should do this more often. She couldn't wait to show Raven how much better her zoid was then his stupid Genobreaker.
The only question was, what was this zoid? She had never seen anything like it before; it had the body of the Blade Liger and the speed and markings of the Lightening Saix only in shades of black. The golden blades were tucked safely on it's sides, and there was a gun on the very tip of it's tail. All and all this zoid was the ultimate fighting machine, having both great strength and incredible speed, a hard combination to find.
Now, the only thing this zoid needed was a name. Xena thought of many different names for it, but nothing seemed to fit. Black Liger..nah too cheesy. Blacky Doo.nope sounds like a name for a dog.
The unnamed zoid shook it's mighty head at the sound of each name and growled as though urging her on.
Xena threw her hands up in exhaustion. "Ah! I give up! No matter what name I try to give you, you and I both hate them. What am I supposed to call you, zoid for the rest of your life? I think not! That's a dumb name! ACK, where's Raven when you need him?"
The zoid shrugged and stopped dead in it's tracks, bringing Xena to a rather painful stop. It growled threatening low.
"Huh? What is it? Why did you stop?"
She looked up and saw a dragon like zoid standing a good distance away from them. The zoid was a metallic blue color, from the looks of things it must have flown in on them with those mighty wings on it's back. Xena smirked; finally she could get a decent battle under her belt.
"Hold it right there little missy," the dragon zoid said firmly.
Xena snorted with laughter. "Ha ha ha no. How about not a chance, what are you gonna do about it..say what's that?" she indicated to the zoid.
An image of Draco, a.k.a the new and improved Evan Matters, appeared on her com link, he wore a thin smirk.
"The Bahamut," he replied, his dark hazel eyes sparkling. "What about this zoid? I've never seen anything like it before."
Xena suddenly snapped her fingers. "I got it! I know what to name you!" the zoid jumped up and down enthusiastically. "I'll call you Mini Me!"
A large sweat drop formed on the Bahamut's head as Mini Me howled with delight, Xena gigging in the cockpit.
"Riiight, Mini me? What an um interesting name.." Draco muttered. "I think she's been spending too much time with Raven."
"That has to be about the gayest name I have ever heard!"
Both Mini Me and the Bahamut whirled around to see a blue Zaber Fang walking smugly up to them. The cannon on it's back locked on the Bahamut. The desert wind howled past them, pushing a giant tumble weed into the Zaber. An image of none other than Raven himself appeared on both of their com links.
Mini Me turned to the intruder and pounced on it without Xena even moving the controls.
"Easy Mini Me! Easy now!"
Meanwhile inside the cockpit of the Zaber..
"Raven, I thought we were going back to the base," Fiona said meekly, peering over Raven's shoulder in the back seat.
"This zoid obviously wanted to come here there was no use in fighting the controls, the Zaber is in charge now. What is up with all these zoids having minds of their own anyways?"
Fiona shrugged. "I was wondering the same thing myself maybe it has something to do with the pilots I don't know, but I don't think it's safe here Raven."
"Ah tell it to someone who cares."
"Hmph!" With that Fiona folded her arms across her chest and slid into back of her seat, glaring daggers at the back of Raven's head.
Xena narrowed her eyes, how dare that stupid excuse for a man say Mini Me's name was bad? To her faint amazement her zoid seemed to have taken offense, it liked its name! How cool! As far as Xena was concerned Raven was going to pay big time.
The Zaber Fang managed to slip out from Mini Me's iron grip. It aimed it's cannons at Mini's Me front leg and fired.
"Damn you, Raven!" Xena barked, stumbling over the controls for anything that looked remotely similar to weapons.
She cursed and cursed but still no weapons showed up. How was she supposed to take Raven off of his high horse with any weapons? No matter how many times she begged Mini Me to find some weapons she refused.
"Come on Mini Me, come on! We have to beat him!" she urged.
Mini Me threw her head up and howled in agreement, there was no way Shadow was going to win. Wait a second.Shadow wasn't fused with the Zaber he was still standing on the sidelines waiting for his queue. Mini Me pointed this out to Xena.
"Genius! Pure Genius! Now all we gotta do not give Shadow the opportunity to get in the Zaber."
Being an Ancient Zoidian had it's perks and this was one of them, being able to communicate with all zoids including organiods. She cleared her mind; she couldn't afford to have Raven know ahead of time. Shadow.Shadow can you hear me? Would you be a doll and kinda NOT help Raven for me please? If you do that I'll smack Raven upside the head every time he says something mean to you. She glanced up and saw Shadow nodding his dark head. A smirk crossed her lips.
"Your as good as mine," she said to the image of the Zaber Fang.
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"Alright Zeke, are ya in the mood for some tracking?"
Zeke tilted his large head in a thoughtful manner and minutes later he nodded. Van smirked and jumped into the cockpit of the nicely waxed Blade Liger. The zoid roared to life.
"K, now let's see. this is where the two zoids made their escape and we're gonna assume that Fiona is piloting one of those zoids. I'd eat the Liger if she weren't. God, I hope she is.eating the Liger looks painful." Van winced at his own words while Zeke nodded in agreement.
Ten minutes later, Zeke in the Blade Liger led them into the desert thanks in part to his excellent tracking skills and to the shellfire coming from the north. Mostly the shellfire though. Whomever it was must have not cared about wasting ammo.
"Alright Zeke, any ideas what is up ahead?" Van asked, placing the boosters on.
The Blade Liger roared and battle information flashed on the screen, there were three zoids all up ahead. Only two appeared to be in combat, the ones that were stolen the Zaber and the hybrid zoid Dr. D had created two years ago by combining the zoid cores of a Blade Liger and the early remnants of the Lightening Saix. Van had heard that the zoid was a complete failure because it didn't function properly; it'd work okay then seconds later shut down and send the pilot flying. "Zeke, do a background check on that unknown zoid."
More information flickered onto the screen, crowding all the battle info. The unknown zoid was known as the Bahamut, one of a kind. From all the information Zeke had gathered it was quite a powerful zoid and that was about it. Other than that, it was a basically unknown zoid.
The view of the zoids edged ever closer, it seemed as though the Liger couldn't run fast enough. A shell grazed the top of the Ligers head.
"EEP! Hot dog, you okay?" Van burst out.
Zeke nodded fired some shells of his own which judging by the angry shouts hit the Zaber.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!" a very familiar voice boomed.
Van snickered softly. "Raven."
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Authors Note:
I'm done with chapter ten, whew man I'm scared to think how much time chapter 11 will take! Lol. Well, what did you guys think? I'll try real hard to finish this story, I promise. Hopefully chapter 11 will be up real soon, okay? Read and Review like the good people I know you all are.
PEACE OUT
~*MiChElLe*~
"Uhhh.where the hell am I?" Reese groaned as she groggily came to.
She found herself in a small musty room with no windows; damn, she was still in that cursed manor. Reese rose to her feet as she realized this was not the room where she had been attacked. She felt her shoulder blade and to her horror she found something sticking out of it. She yanked it out; it appeared to be some sort of cartilage with a piece of paper around the barrel.
The note read: Do not stray where you do not belong. Ancient Zoidian this is not you're place. Though destiny has glided you here to solve the mystery, your presence will not be tolerated for long. Get out while you still have the chance. For when true loves kiss strikes before dawn and you are not gone you will be lost.
"What kind of sick joke is this?" Reese said out loud, arching a blue eyebrow. "Even I'm not THAT superficial."
This was insane; who does this person think he/she is? Whoever it was didn't bother to even sign it! How the hell was she supposed to know who it was that was threatening her? But Reese was not afraid, why should she be? This poet has a way with words and writes her a threatening note.oohh she's scared now! Oh yeah, she's trembling with fear. Hn. Yeah right like that's ever gonna happen.
"I demand you show yourself, coward! If it's one thing I know about mind games is that it's no fun unless you have your intended victim in sight and in mind!"
"Hold it right there!" from out nowhere a door opened at the wall before her, it slammed to the side revealing an imperial soldier with long hair.
Reese nearly jumped out of her skin; she had not been expecting a response like that so soon!
"What are you doing here?!" they shouted at each other in unison.
"Let's play a little game," Reese said smirking seductively. "I tell you my reason only if you tell me yours."
The soldier blinked and stared at her, as he turned pink, even the tip of his ears turned pink. He just continued to stare at her, his jaw open, just gawking at her.
Reese cocked her head to one side and arched an eyebrow. What the hell was he staring at? She looked behind her but saw only dust and a wooden button on the side of the wall.. whoa. Rewind. A button? She pressed it with all her might until it screeched open.
Specula tumbled out of the wall a cloud of dust following her. She stood up and shook off all of the dust her metallic body.
"Specula!" Reese cried incredulously.
Specula growled and then titled her head, as if saying, "What is that guy staring at?" Reese looked back at the soldier and sure enough he was still gawking at her. She felt naked, exposed under his intense stare, and she hated every minute of it. He was making her feel like a 25-cent prostitute who couldn't do anything right, and that she hated the most. She was no prostitute. No doubt Raven and Xena would have a good laugh about this, mostly Xena while Raven chuckled softly but never a true smile.
"That is what I'd like to know, Specula," Reese said through clenched teeth.
She was ready to walk up to him, smack him across the face and walk away. Then it hit her.she could read minds! Why didn't Reese think of it sooner?! DUH!
"I almost forgot!!" Reese exclaimed.
Specula smacked her forehead. Reese closed her eyes and cleared her thoughts, almost immediately she could feel the guys thoughts: he was indeed staring at her. Shocked that such a body was in such a place. 'Why?' Reese thought. 'Why is he so upset about this place? Not to mention my body?'
Reese felt a draft, she looked down at herself expecting to see her dark blue t-shirt that the sleeves went to her elbow but instead to her complete horror she found she was not wearing a shirt. Just her black satin bra from Veronicas Treasures (AN: sound familiar? Hehe. Victoria Secrets.) not to mention her cleavage showing bra. Great. Just great. No wonder he was staring at her!
Other than her shirt missing Reese had all her other clothes, thank goodness. She angrily turned to the Imperial Soldier. How dare he destroy her FAVORITE blouse! Damn him to hell for that!
"Damn you, let's just demean the woman, why don't we? She's just a goddamn woman, let's act like she's a slut that's it, let's knock her unconscious with new age drugs and steal her shirt afterwards when she comes to lets all gawk at her breasts!" she snarled, which succeeded in snapping the soldier out of his trance.
"Huh? No! I'm sorry ma'am it's just." his voice trailed off.
"It's just what? She's a woman and she has no goddamn rights?!?!" Reese grew more infuriated by the second. She turned to Specula, who knew the drill. "Get him Specula! Make that bastard pay for women's scrutiny!"
Before the guy knew what happened he found the blue organiod's tail knocking his face sending him flying backwards. Specula snarled and proceeded to rip the unlucky guy into pieces. Reese smirked but she was determined to figure out what he meant by "this place is haunted" it was in his thoughts before she snapped. And now it sparked her curiosity, but it was a little too late to ask him to clarify.
"I want my shirt back," she whimpered. She liked that shirt too!
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"Well, you see I had a vision. You and Xena were in it and." Fiona's voice trailed off.
Raven narrowed his eyes, deciding how he should kill her: beat her over the head with his book or maybe have that good for nothing organiod of his rip her stupid head off. But if he beat her over the head with the book she'd just blood all over the precious papers. Decisions. Decisions.
"And?" he demanded with anger he didn't feel.
He heard a low growl and from the corner of his eye he saw Shadow snarling at him, wait.at him? He shot the organiod a 'we'll discuss this later' look. Shadow shook his head wildly and indicted to Fiona, why couldn't Raven use his head and listen to what she had to say? It was something really important to bring her here or why else would she be here?
Fiona swallowed and soon found a lump in her throat, she numbly met Raven's eyes. "And Xena."
She searched for the words inside of her head, they seemed to be farther and farther away and the clock was ticking. If she didn't hurry it up she could end up dead, dead with a good deed in mind that is.
"And, your in great danger!" she grabbed his arm and held it tightly against her chest.
"What the-?" Raven exclaimed, stunned.
Fiona used all of her strength to pull him off the couch and onto the floor, and to her surprise he didn't do anything, he didn't scream or fight. His face was completely shocked, never before had anyone ever had the courage to boldly touch him let alone grab him. Just then a giant explosion sounded from the back area of the cabin, sending it ablaze. Fiona shut her eyes tightly and held on to his arm as though her life depended on it, the warmth of his arm made her feel a little safer. She didn't know why, but it did.
She opened one eye and gasped: flames slowly engulfed the ancient stove and crusty wooden floor. They had to get out of there, and out of there fast. The only problem was: how was she going to convince Raven to come with her?
"Raven! Get up!" Fiona struggled to lift him to his feet only he weighed far too much; finally he stood up making her life a lot easier.
Raven turned around, with Fiona still attached to his arm, and stared into the growing orange and yellow flames. His lips contorted into a fierce scowl, this was more than just coincidence. This was much more than just coincidence. Someone had tried to kill him and obviously failed, no someone had sent a hit man on him. On him or Fiona, most likely him.
"See! I told you so!" Fiona said breathlessly.
He shot her a weird look. "Told me what?"
"Told you, you were in danger."
Raven bent down to pick up his book when he found he couldn't move right arm, it was squeezed in between something warm and soft. He looked up his arm and saw Fiona was clutching it against her bosom. He felt his cheeks burn and quickly shook it off.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked finally, getting his book with his free arm.
She ignored his question and pulled his towards the front door. "C'mon Raven, it's only a matter of time before this place explodes."
"Who said I'm going with you? Did you forget a little detail? We're enemies, do you know what that means? We're not fri-e-n-d-s."
"Don't be ridiculous, Raven. It doesn't matter if you're my enemy or not, right now all that matters is that we get out safely. The two of us," she replied.
Raven was stunned; no one had ever tried to save his life before. No one had ever cared enough to even entertain the thought. Why now? Why now did his arch nemesis' girlfriend want to save his life? What did he do that gave him the privilege of the possibility of being rescued? He wondered.
Scaring even himself, Raven let the blonde Ancient Zoidian lead him out of the giant ball of fire and to a white and gold Zaber Fang.
"C'mon!" Fiona pushed him into the cockpit of the now thoroughly confused Zaber Fang. "Get in, the back seat."
Raven wondered what the hell possessed him as he did as he was told, why was he doing this? He could easily get rid of her if he wanted to. He quietly sat in the back as Fiona maneuvered her zoid to get away as fast as possible. The Zaber Fang howled and dashed off into the desert.
"Hey!" Fiona screeched. "We don't want to go that way! We want to go over there, away from the desert!"
To her surprise, the zoid talked back to her. Did it have an organiod in it? She didn't know.
~*Correction. You want to go that way. I want to go this way and that's exactly why we're going this way*~
Fiona gasped. "What a rude zoid!"
Raven stared mutely at the thick hard backed book titled 'Unwanted', his mind going a million miles an hour. Why was he doing this? What ever happened to Reese, Xena and that miserable piece of scrap metal that called himself an organiod? He glanced out of the canopy and unsurprisingly enough, Shadow flew gracefully beside them.
"What are you doing, Shadow?" he asked quietly.
Shadow turned and shrugged, then tilted his head at Raven in a questioning manner. Raven just shrugged and continued to fiddle with the book in his hands.
"Umm, Raven?"
Raven was snapped out of his thoughts as he realized Fiona was talking to him. What the hell would she have to talk to him about? He wondered in annoyance. Now that he thought of it, why was he even with her in the first place?
"What do you want?" he hissed.
"The zoid is refusing to listen to commands, how do I make go the way I want it to?" Fiona asked in a small voice, feeling the heat rise in her cheeks.
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"Hey! Any of you guys see Fiona?" Van asked as he walked into the cafeteria area of the base, where Moonbay, Thomas, Colonel Shubaltz were seated.
Moonbay shook her head while the two brothers shrugged. Van pulled the free seat on the circle table and sat down, eyeing everyone's bacon eggs and hash browns jealously. He was starving, the smell was so intoxicating he wondered how much longer his self-control would last before he went haywire and ate everyone's food.
"Van? Van? VAN!"
Van shook his head as if coming out of a trance as he realized Moonbay was shouting at him. "Yeah?"
"I said, when was the last time you saw her?" Moonbay repeated, waving her fork accusingly in his face.
"Well?" Thomas asked with the markings of a faint smirk.
Van felt heat rise in his face; he knew he must have been a bright red. Oh great, now he had to tell them he spent the night in Fiona's bedroom. but nothing transpired! Honest! He had fallen asleep before anything else could happen.
"Um, well. you see, the last t-time I saw her." he stuttered as his cheeks burned.
Moonbay exchanged sideway glances with Colonel Karl Shubaltz. How cute, Van's stuttering because he doesn't want to say what he did last night, she thought.
"Yes Van? Do continue," Moonbay said, grinning ear to ear like a Cheshire cat.
Van looked at each one of their faces, debating whether or not he should tell them he was in her bedroom. Wait, why was he acting this way? Nothing happened! He was innocent!
"NOTHING HAPPENED!! I swear to God! Nothing happened!" Van cried suddenly. "I just spent the night in her room. but nothing happened!!!! Honest!"
"What?!" Karl Shubaltz and Moonbay shouted in unison.
"So that's why you weren't in your room last night!" Thomas said fiercely. "You were sleeping with Miss Fiona!" his eyes teared up.
"Literally!" Van said loudly that way everyone would listen to him.
"What?" Moonbay arched an eyebrow.
"Literally, I slept with Fiona l-it-e-r-a-l-l-y. Not figuratively, it was all-innocent. I swear to God. And why the hell am I telling you guys this? It's not important! C'mon! Fiona's not gonna find herself!"
As if the answer to his question, a black haired solider walked up to the table and tapped Van on the shoulder.
"What do you want?" he growled.
The solider whispered something in his ear.
"Really? The ancient Zaber Fang, eh?" Van looked up at the guy, who nodded. "Alrighty then, tracking it down is gonna be a piece of cake then."
With that said, Van stood up and walked briskly out of the cafeteria leaving a confused crowd.
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"WOHOO! This is the life baby!"
Xena maneuvered her black Liger like zoid to do many twists and turns in the barren desert. It did a series of flips. The sun was shining brightly and it was a beautiful day indeed. What a way to start of the day, sneak into Major Hottie's military base and steal a totally kick ass zoid. Man, she should do this more often. She couldn't wait to show Raven how much better her zoid was then his stupid Genobreaker.
The only question was, what was this zoid? She had never seen anything like it before; it had the body of the Blade Liger and the speed and markings of the Lightening Saix only in shades of black. The golden blades were tucked safely on it's sides, and there was a gun on the very tip of it's tail. All and all this zoid was the ultimate fighting machine, having both great strength and incredible speed, a hard combination to find.
Now, the only thing this zoid needed was a name. Xena thought of many different names for it, but nothing seemed to fit. Black Liger..nah too cheesy. Blacky Doo.nope sounds like a name for a dog.
The unnamed zoid shook it's mighty head at the sound of each name and growled as though urging her on.
Xena threw her hands up in exhaustion. "Ah! I give up! No matter what name I try to give you, you and I both hate them. What am I supposed to call you, zoid for the rest of your life? I think not! That's a dumb name! ACK, where's Raven when you need him?"
The zoid shrugged and stopped dead in it's tracks, bringing Xena to a rather painful stop. It growled threatening low.
"Huh? What is it? Why did you stop?"
She looked up and saw a dragon like zoid standing a good distance away from them. The zoid was a metallic blue color, from the looks of things it must have flown in on them with those mighty wings on it's back. Xena smirked; finally she could get a decent battle under her belt.
"Hold it right there little missy," the dragon zoid said firmly.
Xena snorted with laughter. "Ha ha ha no. How about not a chance, what are you gonna do about it..say what's that?" she indicated to the zoid.
An image of Draco, a.k.a the new and improved Evan Matters, appeared on her com link, he wore a thin smirk.
"The Bahamut," he replied, his dark hazel eyes sparkling. "What about this zoid? I've never seen anything like it before."
Xena suddenly snapped her fingers. "I got it! I know what to name you!" the zoid jumped up and down enthusiastically. "I'll call you Mini Me!"
A large sweat drop formed on the Bahamut's head as Mini Me howled with delight, Xena gigging in the cockpit.
"Riiight, Mini me? What an um interesting name.." Draco muttered. "I think she's been spending too much time with Raven."
"That has to be about the gayest name I have ever heard!"
Both Mini Me and the Bahamut whirled around to see a blue Zaber Fang walking smugly up to them. The cannon on it's back locked on the Bahamut. The desert wind howled past them, pushing a giant tumble weed into the Zaber. An image of none other than Raven himself appeared on both of their com links.
Mini Me turned to the intruder and pounced on it without Xena even moving the controls.
"Easy Mini Me! Easy now!"
Meanwhile inside the cockpit of the Zaber..
"Raven, I thought we were going back to the base," Fiona said meekly, peering over Raven's shoulder in the back seat.
"This zoid obviously wanted to come here there was no use in fighting the controls, the Zaber is in charge now. What is up with all these zoids having minds of their own anyways?"
Fiona shrugged. "I was wondering the same thing myself maybe it has something to do with the pilots I don't know, but I don't think it's safe here Raven."
"Ah tell it to someone who cares."
"Hmph!" With that Fiona folded her arms across her chest and slid into back of her seat, glaring daggers at the back of Raven's head.
Xena narrowed her eyes, how dare that stupid excuse for a man say Mini Me's name was bad? To her faint amazement her zoid seemed to have taken offense, it liked its name! How cool! As far as Xena was concerned Raven was going to pay big time.
The Zaber Fang managed to slip out from Mini Me's iron grip. It aimed it's cannons at Mini's Me front leg and fired.
"Damn you, Raven!" Xena barked, stumbling over the controls for anything that looked remotely similar to weapons.
She cursed and cursed but still no weapons showed up. How was she supposed to take Raven off of his high horse with any weapons? No matter how many times she begged Mini Me to find some weapons she refused.
"Come on Mini Me, come on! We have to beat him!" she urged.
Mini Me threw her head up and howled in agreement, there was no way Shadow was going to win. Wait a second.Shadow wasn't fused with the Zaber he was still standing on the sidelines waiting for his queue. Mini Me pointed this out to Xena.
"Genius! Pure Genius! Now all we gotta do not give Shadow the opportunity to get in the Zaber."
Being an Ancient Zoidian had it's perks and this was one of them, being able to communicate with all zoids including organiods. She cleared her mind; she couldn't afford to have Raven know ahead of time. Shadow.Shadow can you hear me? Would you be a doll and kinda NOT help Raven for me please? If you do that I'll smack Raven upside the head every time he says something mean to you. She glanced up and saw Shadow nodding his dark head. A smirk crossed her lips.
"Your as good as mine," she said to the image of the Zaber Fang.
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"Alright Zeke, are ya in the mood for some tracking?"
Zeke tilted his large head in a thoughtful manner and minutes later he nodded. Van smirked and jumped into the cockpit of the nicely waxed Blade Liger. The zoid roared to life.
"K, now let's see. this is where the two zoids made their escape and we're gonna assume that Fiona is piloting one of those zoids. I'd eat the Liger if she weren't. God, I hope she is.eating the Liger looks painful." Van winced at his own words while Zeke nodded in agreement.
Ten minutes later, Zeke in the Blade Liger led them into the desert thanks in part to his excellent tracking skills and to the shellfire coming from the north. Mostly the shellfire though. Whomever it was must have not cared about wasting ammo.
"Alright Zeke, any ideas what is up ahead?" Van asked, placing the boosters on.
The Blade Liger roared and battle information flashed on the screen, there were three zoids all up ahead. Only two appeared to be in combat, the ones that were stolen the Zaber and the hybrid zoid Dr. D had created two years ago by combining the zoid cores of a Blade Liger and the early remnants of the Lightening Saix. Van had heard that the zoid was a complete failure because it didn't function properly; it'd work okay then seconds later shut down and send the pilot flying. "Zeke, do a background check on that unknown zoid."
More information flickered onto the screen, crowding all the battle info. The unknown zoid was known as the Bahamut, one of a kind. From all the information Zeke had gathered it was quite a powerful zoid and that was about it. Other than that, it was a basically unknown zoid.
The view of the zoids edged ever closer, it seemed as though the Liger couldn't run fast enough. A shell grazed the top of the Ligers head.
"EEP! Hot dog, you okay?" Van burst out.
Zeke nodded fired some shells of his own which judging by the angry shouts hit the Zaber.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!" a very familiar voice boomed.
Van snickered softly. "Raven."
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Authors Note:
I'm done with chapter ten, whew man I'm scared to think how much time chapter 11 will take! Lol. Well, what did you guys think? I'll try real hard to finish this story, I promise. Hopefully chapter 11 will be up real soon, okay? Read and Review like the good people I know you all are.
PEACE OUT
~*MiChElLe*~
