It's time for the next round of Next, don't brace yourself, don't buckle up, whatever you do, don't buckle up.

Chiriko-chan

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"So, we're stuck here with a wrecked car and two little kids?" Vash tried to grasp the full scope of the situation.

"Yep, for about the… lets see there was that time… ah… about the third time… without the kid part," Wolfwood murmured counting off the times on his fingers.

"… You know, maybe, I need to take driver's training some day… maybe even get my license…" Vash released a tremendous yawn.

"Ya mean t' tell me ya haven't ever had a driving license?" Wolfwood turned around staring bug eyed at Vash.

"Yeah," Vash blinked in response to Wolfwood's intensity, "the way you're talking I'd almost think you though that you had to have a diver's license to drive." Vash chuckled to himself leaning back gazing at the stars.

"That's cuz ya do," Wolfwood gave Vash a sideways glance.

"… Heh… I-… I knew that…."

***

"Hey, Vash, what's up?" Knives walked into Vash and Wolfwood's camp smiling.

"Knives!" Vash stood up his gun fixed on Knives' chest. "Why, Knives, why go back?"

Vash looked him in the eye just before Chibi Vash ran up clinging onto Knives' leg, "Uncle Knivesu!" Chibi Vash continued to ramble on to Knives about what he and Nick and been doing.

"That sound great kid," Knives smiled down at him genuinely, "but I've got to go talk to your dad," Knives walked over to where Vash was standing dumb founded. "Hello Vashu, I thought that I'd find you here."

"… What are you doing here?" Vash threw his arms in the air looking very frustrated.

"Well, after Meryl realized that you had run off, she called me over to go track you down. However, before I could leave, she went into labor and I and to get her to the hospital." Vash starred bug eyed at knives explanation. "So, seeing as Wolfwood was with you, I figured that you had gone to his house like a kindergartner. When I got there Milly told me that you had taken this road to go to New Oregon, and here I am…. With a car."

"… You, have a car?"

"Yep."

"Can I see it?"

"Sure," Knives answered not realizing who, he had given permission to get into his car, was.

"Gee, Nick, I wonder how fast this thing goes?" Chibi Vash sat in the driver's seat to the car as Nick stood at the foot pedals.

"Well… the keys are in, so, let's try it out," Nick turned the key and stepped on one pedal, finding the brake he pressed the other pedal, the car zooming off, Chibi Vash at the helm.

"Knives, yer car!" Wolfwood shouted pointing towards the fading dust cloud.

"Yah, I know, cool or…. My car, my brand new car!" Knives proceeded to chase down the road for a few (y)ards (well, I assumed that since there's a unit of measurement called an 'ile' that's similar to a mile… well you get the picture) until he realized it was hopeless and turned back.

"So, Tongari brothers, let me get this strait, we're trapped here with no means t' get away, and the chibis just took off with Knives car?" Wolfwood asked calmly, a sense of frustration radiating from Wolfwood.

"Yeah…" Vash timidly answered

"Well then, pick up yer stuff Tongari, cuz we're hoofin' it," Wolfwood picks the cross punisher up and begins walking back down the road, towards the fading dust cloud.

***

"Vash when I find that kid of yours," Knives makes strangling motions in the air, as they walked along the road.

"Amen t' that," Wolfwood seconded, Vash assuming the heat had gone to his brain. Then Wolfwood stopped, and starred at a sign.

"Hey, Wolfwood, what's up?" Vash turned around, looking at Wolfwood's shocked position.

"R-read the sign," Wolfwood hardly managed to stutter out, pointing to a road sing on top of a cliff that bordered the valley that the road was passing through.

"Ok, '50 iles to nearest town, please, make sure you have sufficient amounts of water, car radiators have been known to blow up'…. Knivesu, what's a radiator?" Vash turned to his brother.

"You don't know what a radiator is?" Knives raised an eyebrow.

"No…."

To be continued…