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"I don't care. All my life I felt that I don't belong here, that I need to be some place else. And with this trip offered . . .Look I saved enough money to live on my own." Slam! John ran out of the house and headed for the park across the street.

A few minutes later his uncle found him and sat next to him.

"Listen I know we can't stop you so here." He threw an envelope into John's Lap.

"What's this?"

"Money. There's enough for the ticket and a little extra for a meal." Without a word John just hugged his uncle. "Don't thank me yet. You only got a few days left so go on home and pack."

"Thank you Uncle Peter. Thank you."

Suddenly John felt something hit his face. 'What was that?' He body became heavy.

"Hey sleepy head wake up." Paige hit him in the head with his pillow again.

"I'm up, I'm up." John grabbed the pillow back from her.

"Mr. A told me to wake you, breakfast is on the table." She started to walk out of the room.

"Who's Mr. A?" John was rubbing his eyes and yawning.

"Jayde's dad, stupid." And she left.

John sat up and stretched, before he got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast. As he was approaching the kitchen he could here them talking.

"No he's not, I had to scream into the comlink to get him to fire at the dam zoid."

"Give him a break, up until now he had never seen a zoid let alone try and pilot one. Yeah dad you should of seen him at the ship. He was literally stunned at the sight of an Iron Kong."

"Hehe I bet, now what I'm more concerned about are the bandits from what you said they seem to be getting more aggressive. I think you guys shouldn't stay out that late any more."

"Come on Mr. A, we took care of them easy as pie. Besides this would of never happened if Jack took care of them like he was supposed to."

"Speaking of which where is he, he's been gone for a week now? Dad?"

At that moment John walked in.

"Ah, John Auden isn't it?" A large man was sitting at the table across from Jayde and Paige. "I've heard a lot about, and I have to admit you sure are brave coming all the way out here by yourself." He pulled out the seat next to him and John slowly took it. They all sat there all morning enjoying the food and chatting. John did most of the talking because they all wanted to here about Earth but John kept trying to change the subject to Zoids. Then Paige would go off on how great she was at piloting her liger. John would say something about it and Paige would hit him. All the while Jayde and her dad would smile and watch the two strays go at it.

Later that day John was walking around the garage while Mr. Adare was working on a gun sniper.

"So what's this one called?"

"This is a gun sniper, if you look at its tail it straitens out and the whole zoid becomes a gun. Its mainly used for long rang combat, with one shot it can rip through the thickest armor."

"Cool. Hey if its not too much to ask in all, would it be ok if you know."

"Teach you to pilot one, sorry it's been years since I even touched the controls you'll have to ask one of the girls." The machine arm then lowered the right arm of the gun sniper so Mr. Adare could re-attach it.

"Dam, Jayde's working on the, the, now what did she call it again." John had his hand on his temple trying to remember the name. "It had a large barrel and looked like a, it was the ones that attacked us last night."

"The command wolf, yeah that needs a complete overhaul it'll take her all day and tomorrow." He thought about it some more and smirked. "I guess that means your only choice is Paige unless you want to wait a couple of days if you know what I mean."

John crossed his arms and thought about it for a few minutes then relaxed.

"Oh well, I guess I can wait a few more days. I can take this time to explore the city." And with that he left to get his boots from the door.

Mr. Adare laughed at John's solution, smacked his own leg and got back to work.

-In the city-

A man was sitting at a table outside a coffee shop, just enjoying his cup and the view. Just a little shy of six feet with short and spikey light brown hair and dark violet eyes. He wore matching black boots and pants and had a light green sleeve-less shirt with a black ? on the front and the word "What?" on the back. He put his coffee down and rubbed his scar on his left cheek. He looked over at a lady passing by intrigued by the word cruel written on her chest although I don't think that was all he was looking at, decided to meet this girl. He ran up and stopped in front of her.

"Hello there. I just ran up to say hello."

Paige somewhat startled looked into his eyes. "Hello." The two just stood there awkwardly for a few minutes not knowing what to say. "Well it was nice meeting you, I think I'll go now." And she continued on her way.

"Wait." She did. " Can I get you a cup of coffee you know to drink?" She turned around.

"Sure."

"I'm Nero."

"Paige."

As the two sat down and got coffee, John was on the other side of the street looking at all the buildings and staring at the food. 'Dude, this is going to take some getting used to. Note to self ask Jayde why some people have markings on their faces.' Suddenly three men bumped into him. "Hey watch where you're going dude." John gave the three men a weird look.

The girl on the left turned around. She had a black bandanna around her forehead, black hair and dark blue eyes.

"What did you say kid."

Now John looking at her and noticing that she's around the same age as her just started to laugh. She didn't take it to kindly.

"I'm sorry, 'Mam'." He said sarcastically. Her two comrades both laughed inwardly to themselves at his words.

"I am a soldier for the imperial army and if I were you I would stop laughing now."

"Yes 'sir'." And with that she grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the ground. He was still laughing by the way.

People around them started to pause and watch. This caught the attention of a certain blue haired girl across the street.

"What has that idiot done now?"

"What are you talking about? What idiot?"

"Come on I'll explain later." She threw down a couple of coins and they ran over to where John was.

The girl threw a punch at John but he caught it. "Geez if you're that upset about it I'm sorry." He blocked another kick. One of her comrades held her back.

"That's enough Neko." She shrugged him off and glared at John before walking off.

"You know for a new guy you sure do get in trouble a lot." Paige comes up behind him followed by Nero. "Oh this is Nero. Nero this is John." They both nodded at each other.

John looked at her shirt and then at Nero's. 'Go figure.'

"I might not be able to pilot a zoid but I can take care of myself 'Blue'."

Paige slightly annoyed just looked at Nero. "Ok then, I see you don't need me idiot. Come on let's go back to our table."

"Sure, later Auden." They then split up.

Two days later by the airport. Nero was running checks on his Whale King when a woman in black leather boots walked up to him.

"Excuse me but are you Mr. Keros?" Nero turned around to face the auburn haired girl. He could feel the coldness from her silver eyes, especially her left with that X shaped scar over it. (A/n: Whats with you guys and scars? Just wondering.)

"Yes I am Ms."

"Not important. I need deliver a number of items to Lopen in three days. Are you interested?" She shifted her weight to her left foot and handed him a chart of the manifest. Nero looked over running his left hand over his scar. "I also mention that we are willing to double the normal fee for this job."

'Must be important for a person like this to come to me. Hmmm.' "Sure."

"Pleasure doing business. All the info you need to know is on that chart. I look forward to doing business with you in the future." She walked away at that.

After she got into her car she picked up her phone and dialed a number.

"This is Shadowind, first step is complete."

A/n: Sorry if this chapter is a little boring but I needed to set up a few things for latter chapters.