Chapter V: Ambushed
"If you think you're still safe, then you're wrong..."
***
Dive into the mind...
*"Has anyone ever told you that you look distinctly like old Lord Prozen did?"
A white-haired boy looked up into the eyes of someone his own age. She had short golden-brown hair pulled back in a headband with much longer bangs and shared his same silver eyes. "Y- What's it to you..." he muttered. What a stupid question! Of course he looked like Lord Prozen! He was supposed to. Kind of. Some people still believed that Prozen should have become Emperor instead of Rudolph; that Van Flyheight and his friends were fakes. But they hadn't heard the second half of the story. The part about how the Dark Kaiser had a successor (uh... was that a spoiler? I hope not). Not a son, but someone else. Another Kaiser. The Kage Kaiser, the Shadow Kaiser. The Shadow Emperor, Lord of Shadows, controller of so many happenings on Zi. Maker of the Berserk Fury. The man who should have been the real brains behind the Backdraft, since, after all, he had helped to create it. Could he help it if he happened to know that guy?
"I was just wondering." The girl giggled slightly in amusement, much to his annoyance. "So... what's your name?"
"Hitoshi..."*
"Snap out of it and get over here, Hitoshi!" shouted Akira, glaring.
"Sure..." Hitoshi stood up and walked over to her, sitting back down with his legs hanging over the edge of the abyss as Akira handed him the goggles. "Has it started yet? Can we trust him?"
"We don't know that yet," scoffed Neos, keeping a look out for a fourth Zoid. "Your normal mood has changed quite a bit. Something on your mind?"
"I don't see how you could possibly care."
"How silly of me; you're right, I don't."
"Is it too late to join the fun?" asked another voice. It was... so familiar. And so unfamiliar at the same time! ...could it be?
"Faye?!!" shouted Hitoshi, turning around so fast that he almost fell down the trench. He was now facing the ever-changing Ayumi, a ginger-haired terror.
"What the-?!!" asked Ayumi. "Who on Zi is Faye?!"
"I- never said that." Fortunately for Hitoshi he was somewhat like Ryss, from back before the Death Saurer had almost wiped out the Zoidian race. He had met her back then, and even though they were quite young he found himself wishing that he had the same kinetic powers. And it turned out that, well, he did. They were a little weaker than hers, but fairly similar. At least they worked on other Zoidians.
"What were we saying?" Ayumi frowned in confusion.
"Nothing," said Hitoshi, fighting to keep himself smiling from success. "Nothing."
"Anyways, I'm taking the Puffer, or whatever you want to call that darn Zoid, back to Kaiser. He wants me to do something for him. He said something about our little lover-boy's girl... that Kokoro." Akira stood back up and walked over to a massive sphere of a Zoid that sat in a special landing pod. "You know where to find me- if you need help."
"And we won't," Neos assured her, glaring. "Why would we need YOUR help?"
"Because I'm stronger than both of you put together when it comes to Zoid piloting, and you know it." Neos didn't see the satisfied smile on Akira's face. Her back was to him as a panel on the sphere opened and she stepped inside of it. Akira sighed happily and two boosters came out of panels on the bottom of the sphere, jettisoning it into the sky.
***
"Ahh! Pullmeup pullmeup pullmeup!!!" shouted Sephiroth, very much in distress. Vivian complied and her Lightning Saix-like Zoid gave a heave to pull the Gul Tiger back onto solid ground. Directly afterwards a black Storm Sworder, by the looks of it in need of a lot of maintenance, flew up out of the chasm. Sephiroth sighed in relief. "That was extremely close, wasn't it?"
"CHAO (not shouting; always in capital letters, like BEAK)," said Vivian, referring to her artificial intelligence program that was installed in her Zoid, "What's that Storm Sworder's registration number?" A few beeps and blips and Vivian nodded. "Sephiroth, that's a Backdraft Zoid..."
Sephiroth had a blank look on his face as the Gul Tiger turned around to watch the Zoid barrel-roll away. Immediately it turned around and activated the two blades hidden in its wings.
***
Dive into the heart...
"Listen, Harry..." coaxed Nanase, watching her newfound friend climb into his modified Dark Horn. Lightning cracked/flashed nearby again. "I don't KNOW what I am... I..."
"Nanase, I don't know what you are either." Harry turned to stare at her. "But right now I'm officially freaked out. It's like..."
"...I'm an organoid," finished Nanase. "It's like I'm an organoid or something."
"Don't get me wrong, I still think you're pretty and all," said Harry. "But- I mean- that's just UNNATURAL."
"This is Zi, Harry," replied Nanase. "Here, nothing's unnatural. Back on Earth..."
"Earth?" asked Harry nervously. "Where's "Earth?" Isn't that just, like, ground? Dirt?!!"
"I- don't really know... It just... popped into my head..."
Harry sighed and shook his head, sitting down in the cockpit of his Zoid. "I know I really shouldn't judge people right after I meet them, but I don't think I should stick around any longer before I learn anything else that'll pull me into your story. I hope you understand. I don't want to be involved with something like this."
Oh, I understand, thought Nanase. Sure. You don't think you should "stick around any longer?" Maybe I'm not completely human, but... "I'm a person too, you know!" she shouted after him. Lightning flashed between her and the Dibison and she cringed. Maybe she should've FORCED him to stick around. Lightning and Zoids didn't mix well. Come to think of it, why was she feeling so strongly about him when they had just met? It was strange, these feelings. She was amazed that he had stayed as long as he had. And the way he had spoken to her.. He thought she was PRETTY... The fact that someone thought about her like that was fascinating.
Soon the Dark Horn was out of sight. Nanase looked back at her newly revived Zoid and thought of Leena and Bit. This was Leena's Zoid. Nanase had found it in a junkyard and revived it for lack of having nothing better to do at the time. It had proved very suitable for her. After all she had been through, she had chosen to use the former Zoid of someone she knew fairly well? Couldn't she find some way to forget everything? To forget about Zoid Eve, Cid Marron, the black Geno Saurer, and Liger? How could she possibly forget about Liger...? As if it wasn't enough to know that you could have saved both of your parents... That you should have died seven years ago but you didn't... That you could have stopped all of this from happening...? If only you had known, then none of this senseless destruction would have been necessary.
"I always thought that it was the Backdraft's fault," she said to herself. "But it's not. It's mine. And now I'm alone... again..." She knew that his wasn't exactly true. If she wanted she could always find Bit, her brother, but what could they say? Bit had lost her twice now. She had lost him twice, as well, and the second time her life was changed.
Nanase stared at the horizon in the direction the Dark Horn had went in silence, thinking. What was the point of living if one person who cares about you doesn't even know you're alive? Make that two people. Someone had saved her from the black Geno Saurer's fire, and that someone must care about her...
... or so she hoped... She couldn't know for sure.
This hope was all that kept her hanging on.
***
"This," said Sephiroth Adrian Donovan, "Is definitely not good."
"Bad day?" asked Vivian, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes. Very much so."
***
Who is Kylie Cloud? Harry asked himself as he piloted the Dark Horn back towards New Helic City. The moment he had heard that name he had known that there was something special about Kylie, whoever she was. Maybe she was like Nanase. But if Harry had decided he didn't want to learn more about Nanase, he wouldn't want to learn more about Kylie? That wasn't true.
After all, Nanase had said that she was a person, just like Harry was. Waiting for someone to find her. Nanase was a flower who simply hadn't bloomed yet... And Harry was a jerk. A big fat jerk. Who did he think he was, anyways? Harry Champ? Wait, he was Harry Champ. But he was a different Harry Champ than he had used to be. He was much more mature. And he was going to go back and help Nanase out with whatever she needed.
***
Dive into the core of Zi itself... Zoid Eve.
Leena sighed and looked over to Spring, who had fallen asleep on the Hover Cargo's one and only couch (ha, a couch). The Death Stinger was coming? That was impossible. It had been destroyed years ago by Van Flyheight. The look on Spring's face had been so real that Leena couldn't help wondering if she was right. She WAS a Zoidian and Zoidians knew about things like this.
Then why didn't they know if Kylie Cloud was still out there? Bit had gone through so much misery and so much pain coping with losing his sister for the second time... No one in the Zoidian Guild had known anything concerning her whereabouts. Either that or they were all lying. Why would they lie, anyways?
"Zoid Eve..." mumbled Spring in her sleep. She turned over, falling off the couch and onto the floor. Leena smiled. Nothing could wake that kid up. Come to think of it, how old was she, anyways?!!
"Hard to think that Spring just turned sixteen years old," murmured Bit, entering the room and answering Leena's question. "So innocent... Jamie's that age, aren't you, Jamie?" he asked.
Jamie was sitting at the controls with a nervous look on his face. "I CAN handle it! I don't need the Doc to help me pilot this thing!"
"You sound very confident," remarked Brad from down the hall. "If you can't do it we'll just take the Zoids..."
"I can do this!" Jamie reassured him, if you could call it that. "We don't need to ask the Doc anything!"
"Jamie, Dad is still in a coma," said Leena quietly. Jamie bit his lip in frustration. "Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that," he whispered to himself.
"What's wrong with saying that?" asked Spring, popping up beside him.
"Ahh! where'd you come from?!! DON'T DO THAT!!!" shouted Jamie, letting go of the Hover Cargo controls. The Hover Cargo fell over onto its side.
'I never thought this thing was so hard to control," muttered Leena.
"Hey Jamie," asked Spring, trying to change the subject, "Why is Brad on the Hover Cargo? Isn't he on the Fluegel team now? Or whatever the team's called?"
"I can fix this! I know I can!" shouted Jamie. The others sweat-dropped. He eased the control joystick thingies to the right and the Hover Cargo slowly up righted itself (don't ask me how, ask Jamie. I don't know how it's possible).
"See?" said Leena, smiling with her eyes closed. "I told you not to worry,"
This time it was Jamie's turn to sweat-drop. "Uhh... no, you didn't."
"Of course I did!!!" shouted Leena. She began to chase him around the cockpit. Spring sat down in Jamie's place and maneuvered the Hover Cargo around an extremely large boulder.
***
Wake up and smell the roses, Robert. I'm not ordinary and you know it. But you're hiding something... The fact that I don't know anything about myself and you don't, either, is a little suspicious. Can't you tell that I want to know who I am? Am I Kokoro, or somebody else?
"Are you gonna sit there forever or are you going to answer me?" The taunting sound of Akira's voice interrupted Kokoro's thoughts. "I don't have all day, you know."
"How long do you have, then?" asked Kokoro, stalling for time.
"Argh!" shouted Akira in frustration. "I'm the one who's supposed to be asking questions!"
"Your Zoid is really fast, don't you think?"
"Come to think of it, much faster than either Neos' Orudios or Hitoshi's stronger version of Ms. Champ's Zoid- Are you trying to change the subject?!!"
"Ms. Champ?"
"Eira Champ, deceased- Hey!!!"
"Name: Eira Champ. Rank: A. Zoid: Pink Princess. Endurance: 130 p. Reaction time-" recited Kokoro. She wasn't quite sure where the information had come from or what it meant; it had just come out of the blue and struck her like an asteroid.
"How on Zi did you get Eira's stats (i like stats. hahaha, you'll have to put up with them) and know them so perfectly? Those are confidential Backdraft property!" yelled Akira. "Pink Princess?" she added. "What a stupid name for a Zoid.... but it makes sense, I guess."
Kokoro simply stared at the purple-haired girl in wonderment as she slowly made her way across the room. Distraction was a good idea. "Why do you insist that emotions are nonexistent when you have them yourself?"
"I- what do you mean...?"
"Curiosity, sarcasm, humor, criticism, lov-"
"Stop. Stop right there." Akira forced Kokoro down into a chair before she could get any closer to the door to the little room. "You will stop do as I say from now on, so shut up and listen to me."
Kokoro was forced to nod under Akira's cold stare. She sat there, to afraid to move.
"Right. Now, where is it?!!"
"Where is what?"
"You know what I'm talking about."
Kokoro shook her head and Akira slapped herself on the forehead. "Why am I the one who has to do this?!!" she asked herself.
***
Okay... I wanted to end it here, though this isn't really supposed to be the end of the chapter. I wanted to upload. Dates- the cable goes next Wednesday, but that's okay, 'cause starting today I've seen every episode of Zoids: Chaotic Century, except the last four. Also, AOL goes bye-bye October 6.
I got a Raynos model kit recently. I also watched my brother's DVD of "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack" today. My rating: it doesn't NEED a rating, 'cause I like it. My dad didn't understand it, so he wasn't very impressed.
This story is starting to get a little strange. This is why I put it in the Sci-Fi gender. Because it IS Sci-Fi. Anyways, next time will definitely be stranger with yet another new character. With the information I've given you in this chapter you should know who this character is. On another note, I didn't bother to go through this chapter for any mistakes, so bare with me. I REALLY, REALLY want to write one of my two original animes that have been circulating through my head... 'Cause I have cool character names and more bizarre stuff...
Next time on "Zoids: Renegade Shadow"- It's the first in a series of battles to decide who is the ultimate Zoid pilot- Neos, Hitoshi, Akira, Bit, Kylie, Harry, Vega, Sephiroth, Vivian, Robert, Ayumi, Cid, or even the Kaiser himself! Also, we should learn about the ten Chosen that were mentioned earlier, and more things dealing with that darn number. And, I'll be doing homework! Chapter VI: Ten Chosen. Zoid Eve awaits you... But mainly one of the Chosen. However, they don't make it in this story, sadly. BWAHAHAHA!!! Therefore, the Death Stinger awaits! If I want it to! (I always manage to bring that evil Zoid into things. HA!) And so, ja ne, I have lots of writing to do before October 6! Whoa, this is six pages in size ten font! Ahh! I didn't notice how loooong it was! Ah welll..... Ja ne again!
***
Dive into the mind...
*"Has anyone ever told you that you look distinctly like old Lord Prozen did?"
A white-haired boy looked up into the eyes of someone his own age. She had short golden-brown hair pulled back in a headband with much longer bangs and shared his same silver eyes. "Y- What's it to you..." he muttered. What a stupid question! Of course he looked like Lord Prozen! He was supposed to. Kind of. Some people still believed that Prozen should have become Emperor instead of Rudolph; that Van Flyheight and his friends were fakes. But they hadn't heard the second half of the story. The part about how the Dark Kaiser had a successor (uh... was that a spoiler? I hope not). Not a son, but someone else. Another Kaiser. The Kage Kaiser, the Shadow Kaiser. The Shadow Emperor, Lord of Shadows, controller of so many happenings on Zi. Maker of the Berserk Fury. The man who should have been the real brains behind the Backdraft, since, after all, he had helped to create it. Could he help it if he happened to know that guy?
"I was just wondering." The girl giggled slightly in amusement, much to his annoyance. "So... what's your name?"
"Hitoshi..."*
"Snap out of it and get over here, Hitoshi!" shouted Akira, glaring.
"Sure..." Hitoshi stood up and walked over to her, sitting back down with his legs hanging over the edge of the abyss as Akira handed him the goggles. "Has it started yet? Can we trust him?"
"We don't know that yet," scoffed Neos, keeping a look out for a fourth Zoid. "Your normal mood has changed quite a bit. Something on your mind?"
"I don't see how you could possibly care."
"How silly of me; you're right, I don't."
"Is it too late to join the fun?" asked another voice. It was... so familiar. And so unfamiliar at the same time! ...could it be?
"Faye?!!" shouted Hitoshi, turning around so fast that he almost fell down the trench. He was now facing the ever-changing Ayumi, a ginger-haired terror.
"What the-?!!" asked Ayumi. "Who on Zi is Faye?!"
"I- never said that." Fortunately for Hitoshi he was somewhat like Ryss, from back before the Death Saurer had almost wiped out the Zoidian race. He had met her back then, and even though they were quite young he found himself wishing that he had the same kinetic powers. And it turned out that, well, he did. They were a little weaker than hers, but fairly similar. At least they worked on other Zoidians.
"What were we saying?" Ayumi frowned in confusion.
"Nothing," said Hitoshi, fighting to keep himself smiling from success. "Nothing."
"Anyways, I'm taking the Puffer, or whatever you want to call that darn Zoid, back to Kaiser. He wants me to do something for him. He said something about our little lover-boy's girl... that Kokoro." Akira stood back up and walked over to a massive sphere of a Zoid that sat in a special landing pod. "You know where to find me- if you need help."
"And we won't," Neos assured her, glaring. "Why would we need YOUR help?"
"Because I'm stronger than both of you put together when it comes to Zoid piloting, and you know it." Neos didn't see the satisfied smile on Akira's face. Her back was to him as a panel on the sphere opened and she stepped inside of it. Akira sighed happily and two boosters came out of panels on the bottom of the sphere, jettisoning it into the sky.
***
"Ahh! Pullmeup pullmeup pullmeup!!!" shouted Sephiroth, very much in distress. Vivian complied and her Lightning Saix-like Zoid gave a heave to pull the Gul Tiger back onto solid ground. Directly afterwards a black Storm Sworder, by the looks of it in need of a lot of maintenance, flew up out of the chasm. Sephiroth sighed in relief. "That was extremely close, wasn't it?"
"CHAO (not shouting; always in capital letters, like BEAK)," said Vivian, referring to her artificial intelligence program that was installed in her Zoid, "What's that Storm Sworder's registration number?" A few beeps and blips and Vivian nodded. "Sephiroth, that's a Backdraft Zoid..."
Sephiroth had a blank look on his face as the Gul Tiger turned around to watch the Zoid barrel-roll away. Immediately it turned around and activated the two blades hidden in its wings.
***
Dive into the heart...
"Listen, Harry..." coaxed Nanase, watching her newfound friend climb into his modified Dark Horn. Lightning cracked/flashed nearby again. "I don't KNOW what I am... I..."
"Nanase, I don't know what you are either." Harry turned to stare at her. "But right now I'm officially freaked out. It's like..."
"...I'm an organoid," finished Nanase. "It's like I'm an organoid or something."
"Don't get me wrong, I still think you're pretty and all," said Harry. "But- I mean- that's just UNNATURAL."
"This is Zi, Harry," replied Nanase. "Here, nothing's unnatural. Back on Earth..."
"Earth?" asked Harry nervously. "Where's "Earth?" Isn't that just, like, ground? Dirt?!!"
"I- don't really know... It just... popped into my head..."
Harry sighed and shook his head, sitting down in the cockpit of his Zoid. "I know I really shouldn't judge people right after I meet them, but I don't think I should stick around any longer before I learn anything else that'll pull me into your story. I hope you understand. I don't want to be involved with something like this."
Oh, I understand, thought Nanase. Sure. You don't think you should "stick around any longer?" Maybe I'm not completely human, but... "I'm a person too, you know!" she shouted after him. Lightning flashed between her and the Dibison and she cringed. Maybe she should've FORCED him to stick around. Lightning and Zoids didn't mix well. Come to think of it, why was she feeling so strongly about him when they had just met? It was strange, these feelings. She was amazed that he had stayed as long as he had. And the way he had spoken to her.. He thought she was PRETTY... The fact that someone thought about her like that was fascinating.
Soon the Dark Horn was out of sight. Nanase looked back at her newly revived Zoid and thought of Leena and Bit. This was Leena's Zoid. Nanase had found it in a junkyard and revived it for lack of having nothing better to do at the time. It had proved very suitable for her. After all she had been through, she had chosen to use the former Zoid of someone she knew fairly well? Couldn't she find some way to forget everything? To forget about Zoid Eve, Cid Marron, the black Geno Saurer, and Liger? How could she possibly forget about Liger...? As if it wasn't enough to know that you could have saved both of your parents... That you should have died seven years ago but you didn't... That you could have stopped all of this from happening...? If only you had known, then none of this senseless destruction would have been necessary.
"I always thought that it was the Backdraft's fault," she said to herself. "But it's not. It's mine. And now I'm alone... again..." She knew that his wasn't exactly true. If she wanted she could always find Bit, her brother, but what could they say? Bit had lost her twice now. She had lost him twice, as well, and the second time her life was changed.
Nanase stared at the horizon in the direction the Dark Horn had went in silence, thinking. What was the point of living if one person who cares about you doesn't even know you're alive? Make that two people. Someone had saved her from the black Geno Saurer's fire, and that someone must care about her...
... or so she hoped... She couldn't know for sure.
This hope was all that kept her hanging on.
***
"This," said Sephiroth Adrian Donovan, "Is definitely not good."
"Bad day?" asked Vivian, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes. Very much so."
***
Who is Kylie Cloud? Harry asked himself as he piloted the Dark Horn back towards New Helic City. The moment he had heard that name he had known that there was something special about Kylie, whoever she was. Maybe she was like Nanase. But if Harry had decided he didn't want to learn more about Nanase, he wouldn't want to learn more about Kylie? That wasn't true.
After all, Nanase had said that she was a person, just like Harry was. Waiting for someone to find her. Nanase was a flower who simply hadn't bloomed yet... And Harry was a jerk. A big fat jerk. Who did he think he was, anyways? Harry Champ? Wait, he was Harry Champ. But he was a different Harry Champ than he had used to be. He was much more mature. And he was going to go back and help Nanase out with whatever she needed.
***
Dive into the core of Zi itself... Zoid Eve.
Leena sighed and looked over to Spring, who had fallen asleep on the Hover Cargo's one and only couch (ha, a couch). The Death Stinger was coming? That was impossible. It had been destroyed years ago by Van Flyheight. The look on Spring's face had been so real that Leena couldn't help wondering if she was right. She WAS a Zoidian and Zoidians knew about things like this.
Then why didn't they know if Kylie Cloud was still out there? Bit had gone through so much misery and so much pain coping with losing his sister for the second time... No one in the Zoidian Guild had known anything concerning her whereabouts. Either that or they were all lying. Why would they lie, anyways?
"Zoid Eve..." mumbled Spring in her sleep. She turned over, falling off the couch and onto the floor. Leena smiled. Nothing could wake that kid up. Come to think of it, how old was she, anyways?!!
"Hard to think that Spring just turned sixteen years old," murmured Bit, entering the room and answering Leena's question. "So innocent... Jamie's that age, aren't you, Jamie?" he asked.
Jamie was sitting at the controls with a nervous look on his face. "I CAN handle it! I don't need the Doc to help me pilot this thing!"
"You sound very confident," remarked Brad from down the hall. "If you can't do it we'll just take the Zoids..."
"I can do this!" Jamie reassured him, if you could call it that. "We don't need to ask the Doc anything!"
"Jamie, Dad is still in a coma," said Leena quietly. Jamie bit his lip in frustration. "Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that," he whispered to himself.
"What's wrong with saying that?" asked Spring, popping up beside him.
"Ahh! where'd you come from?!! DON'T DO THAT!!!" shouted Jamie, letting go of the Hover Cargo controls. The Hover Cargo fell over onto its side.
'I never thought this thing was so hard to control," muttered Leena.
"Hey Jamie," asked Spring, trying to change the subject, "Why is Brad on the Hover Cargo? Isn't he on the Fluegel team now? Or whatever the team's called?"
"I can fix this! I know I can!" shouted Jamie. The others sweat-dropped. He eased the control joystick thingies to the right and the Hover Cargo slowly up righted itself (don't ask me how, ask Jamie. I don't know how it's possible).
"See?" said Leena, smiling with her eyes closed. "I told you not to worry,"
This time it was Jamie's turn to sweat-drop. "Uhh... no, you didn't."
"Of course I did!!!" shouted Leena. She began to chase him around the cockpit. Spring sat down in Jamie's place and maneuvered the Hover Cargo around an extremely large boulder.
***
Wake up and smell the roses, Robert. I'm not ordinary and you know it. But you're hiding something... The fact that I don't know anything about myself and you don't, either, is a little suspicious. Can't you tell that I want to know who I am? Am I Kokoro, or somebody else?
"Are you gonna sit there forever or are you going to answer me?" The taunting sound of Akira's voice interrupted Kokoro's thoughts. "I don't have all day, you know."
"How long do you have, then?" asked Kokoro, stalling for time.
"Argh!" shouted Akira in frustration. "I'm the one who's supposed to be asking questions!"
"Your Zoid is really fast, don't you think?"
"Come to think of it, much faster than either Neos' Orudios or Hitoshi's stronger version of Ms. Champ's Zoid- Are you trying to change the subject?!!"
"Ms. Champ?"
"Eira Champ, deceased- Hey!!!"
"Name: Eira Champ. Rank: A. Zoid: Pink Princess. Endurance: 130 p. Reaction time-" recited Kokoro. She wasn't quite sure where the information had come from or what it meant; it had just come out of the blue and struck her like an asteroid.
"How on Zi did you get Eira's stats (i like stats. hahaha, you'll have to put up with them) and know them so perfectly? Those are confidential Backdraft property!" yelled Akira. "Pink Princess?" she added. "What a stupid name for a Zoid.... but it makes sense, I guess."
Kokoro simply stared at the purple-haired girl in wonderment as she slowly made her way across the room. Distraction was a good idea. "Why do you insist that emotions are nonexistent when you have them yourself?"
"I- what do you mean...?"
"Curiosity, sarcasm, humor, criticism, lov-"
"Stop. Stop right there." Akira forced Kokoro down into a chair before she could get any closer to the door to the little room. "You will stop do as I say from now on, so shut up and listen to me."
Kokoro was forced to nod under Akira's cold stare. She sat there, to afraid to move.
"Right. Now, where is it?!!"
"Where is what?"
"You know what I'm talking about."
Kokoro shook her head and Akira slapped herself on the forehead. "Why am I the one who has to do this?!!" she asked herself.
***
Okay... I wanted to end it here, though this isn't really supposed to be the end of the chapter. I wanted to upload. Dates- the cable goes next Wednesday, but that's okay, 'cause starting today I've seen every episode of Zoids: Chaotic Century, except the last four. Also, AOL goes bye-bye October 6.
I got a Raynos model kit recently. I also watched my brother's DVD of "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack" today. My rating: it doesn't NEED a rating, 'cause I like it. My dad didn't understand it, so he wasn't very impressed.
This story is starting to get a little strange. This is why I put it in the Sci-Fi gender. Because it IS Sci-Fi. Anyways, next time will definitely be stranger with yet another new character. With the information I've given you in this chapter you should know who this character is. On another note, I didn't bother to go through this chapter for any mistakes, so bare with me. I REALLY, REALLY want to write one of my two original animes that have been circulating through my head... 'Cause I have cool character names and more bizarre stuff...
Next time on "Zoids: Renegade Shadow"- It's the first in a series of battles to decide who is the ultimate Zoid pilot- Neos, Hitoshi, Akira, Bit, Kylie, Harry, Vega, Sephiroth, Vivian, Robert, Ayumi, Cid, or even the Kaiser himself! Also, we should learn about the ten Chosen that were mentioned earlier, and more things dealing with that darn number. And, I'll be doing homework! Chapter VI: Ten Chosen. Zoid Eve awaits you... But mainly one of the Chosen. However, they don't make it in this story, sadly. BWAHAHAHA!!! Therefore, the Death Stinger awaits! If I want it to! (I always manage to bring that evil Zoid into things. HA!) And so, ja ne, I have lots of writing to do before October 6! Whoa, this is six pages in size ten font! Ahh! I didn't notice how loooong it was! Ah welll..... Ja ne again!
