Disclaimer: I don't own zoids. I truly wish I did just like everybody else almost. I am new at typing up fanfics but I'm working on it. So R&R and be nice about any changes I need make and things I need to work on. Thanks a lot. Just another note on the Kerodayvanian, they can hold their breath for a few hours if necessary. They are also immune to nuclear radiation.

Waking Dreams

Part 6

(Sam)

I skated next to my older brother, Naithen. Everything was going my way. This was the life. No worries, no possibilities. Nate and I just rollerbladed around the Green Belt. I tripped over a rock and fell, scraping my knees. Tears formed in my eyes. My knees stung.

"Are you all right?" I nodded. There was no way I was going to show a weakness to my big brother. I may only be six hundred eighty-three years old, but I'm just as strong as he is. I thought. My brother knelt down next to me and helped me to my feet. "That's my little sister." He smiled.

An explosion sounded a fair distance away. "Oh dear." Nate said as his beeper went off. "Sam, jump in the river. Stay there. The Sight just blew up. Unless it was the far end there's going to be a bigger explosion. A nuclear explosion. I want you to stay in the river. I've got to go help."

"But-"

"GO! You can come out when I shoot up a flare!" He ran toward his car, I stood where I was. He looked back at me after a few paces. When he saw me standing there, he turned back and trotted up to me.

"Look, take my bandana. I'll come back and get it when this is over. If I don't, you can keep it. You can have it to remember me by. I promise I'll do my best to come back. When and if I do come back, I'll take my bandana back."

I trusted him. He left and I leapt into the deep Snake River and tread water waiting for some sign that I could come out. I waited and waited. An hour later I heard a louder explosion. Nate had warned me of this when the Sight had first shown signs of weakening. I ducked under water. Another explosion happened a few moments later. It had to be the nuclear explosion because the explosion spread to all around me. The river would be the only bit of safety. Anything above it would be blown to bits. The next time I surfaced a little less than four hours later, there was nothing left. The buildings had been disintegrated. I cried. I leapt out of the river and started to look around. There was nothing. I cried. I started out towards the nearest city, about twenty miles away. I then realized that there would be no city there. It too, would have been destroyed.

I sat down and cried. I had lost my older brother. The only family I had. He had been there for me. Always. I was scared. I was tired. I had no way of getting to civilization. I cried. I was going to die here. I cried myself to sleep.

I sat up in bed. I still had the bandana. Mostly it stayed on my top left arm. When it wasn't there, it was tied around my hair, keeping it out of my face. That was my living nightmare. My brother had died twelve hundred eighteen years ago. I was alone. I wanted to come here and search for any signs of him. I also wanted to find out how in the world I had gotten out of there. When I had woken up, I had been on another planet; Zi.

"You okay? You're crying. What's wrong?" Leon was leaning over me. He looked at me concern shining on his face.

"Just an old memory." I said sitting up. "How bad am I hurt?"

"Not badly. You just have a concussion."

"Good, where's my dogs?"

"They've been taken care of. Just rest now."

"I don't want to rest. I don't need to rest. I need to find something out."

"What ever it is, it's going to have to wait. If you don't rest you're going to pass out from loss of blood."

"I don't give a damn! I need to know or else this waking nightmare is going to keep plaguing me!" Unwanted tears started t trickle down my cheeks. I turned and hid my face from him. He gently turned me onto my back again.

"What ever these memories are, I'm sure they can wait. I'll tell dad not to except any battles until you're ready to leave this planet." He gently wiped away the tears that where coursing freely down my cheeks. "I insist you rest."

I opened my eyes. He just watched me sincerely. "I need to know." I whispered closing my eyes again.

"Just sleep for now. You need to rest." Was the last thing I heard before I passed out.

The next time I woke up I felt much better. "Welcome back." Leon was still sitting next to me. "Feel better?"

"Yep. Hungry, too. When do we eat?"

"You're almost as bad as Bit. We ate a few hours ago. I'll have Jamie bring some in for you. But first, do you want to tell me what's so important about this place?" I shook my head. "No? Well, I'll get Jamie."

He left leaving me with my thoughts. What am I going to find? Am I going to be sorry I returned to this place or will I find out that Nate escaped some how? Will I find anything for that matter? Did anyone else survive the blast besides me? Was all that just a dream? How did I get to Zi? When will these questions be answered? Are any of my hypotheses correct? All these questions and many more circled through my head. It wasn't until later that I realized that Leon was back with some food.

"Sorry." I murmured thinking that he had probably been waiting for some time. "You could have told me you where back."

"I knew you where thinking of something important so I didn't want to interrupt your thoughts." He said. "Your dogs are going crazy." He stated after a moment.

I looked up from the food I was eating so vigorously. "Not surprised. When I'm hurt they know it. They want to make sure I'm safe." I went back to eating. Leon had left a few moments ago. I leaned back and went back to my thoughts. They skipped around a lot until they came upon another memory.

"Samantha! Come back here you little snip!"

"Catch me if you can, dad!" I yelled as my papa came racing after me. He was a middle-aged man, about forty-nine hundred thirty-three, with black hair, cut short around his head, that was slowly graying. He was five feet and eight inches tall. His beard was short and scraggily in the style of a goatee. His Ice blue eyes usually laughed inside, but now they where stern. My education was very important to our family. If I didn't go to school, think of what my uncle, King Jacob, would think.

"Samantha! You need to come here. You're going to miss school!"

"That's the whole point!" I yelled. I hated school with a passion. The teachers where all rude and mean.

"Samantha Elizabeth Koran! Come back here this instant!"

I kept on running. I could out run dad. He was an old man. I was a sprightly kid.

"Sam, come back here or I'll send Shadow Spark on you!" I kept running. My favorite pet was our panther. He was faster than I was, but not by much. He wouldn't hurt me either. He would just snatch the end of my shirt in his teeth and tow me back to dad.

"Shadow! Get Samantha!" I heard my dad command. A few moments later I felt the end of my shirt getting tugged rather sharply on.

"Okay Shadow you win." I said half-heartedly, letting the oversized kitty pull me towards my dad.

"Samantha, I know how much you hate school. I'll see if I can't find a way to get you out of it. I know those old fusspot teachers of yours. They only sought favor with your uncle. They always treated me as an ignorant fool that would never learn a thing. I bet it's about the same way with you and your cousin Rachael."

"Yes papa." I said while looking at the floor.

"I bet you would make a great warrior. I'll see if I can't in list you into the army. You can go scout planets for future concurring if it is possible."

"You mean It?! I can be a soldier like you and Nate?!" I had always wanted to be like my dad and eldest brother.

"Yes Sam. I'll do what I can in getting you on the scout force."

The picture faded away. I remembered what had happened after that. I had gone to school and within the first hour dad had come to get me. I was to go with Nathan in two days for field training. Before I left, dad had given me two dogs; Brontie and Dawson.

I came out of my thoughts as something wet and slobbery touched my face. "Dawson, Brontie! Stop that this instant." I pushed my dogs away from me. Leon stood off to the side, laughing.

"You twit." I grumbled to him.

"I don't care. I know I'm a twit."

"Can I get moving now?" I wanted to find out about Nate.

"I can't stop you can I?"

"No."

"Fine, I'm going with you than."

"Why?"

"What if you break a leg, or twist an ankle? What are you going to do without a way back to the Hover Cargo?"

"Good point. Fine, come on. I want to go now."

"Let's go."