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since I'm posting this own FANFICTION.NET I don't know anyways. .
Paige, Nero and John were sitting in a club enjoying dinner. It was Nero's treat. His recent client had been paying huge amounts of money for very little runs back and fourth to Lopen city. In light of his new fortune he offered everyone dinner at his favorite club, Moontop. Paige and John agreed but Jayde and her Dad were swamped with work and had to stay behind.
"Hey, check it out John." Nero nodded to the left. "I'll be right back." John turned around as Nero got up and walked over to the bar where a young lady sat taking shots. She was a dirty blonde with braids and tan skin. She wore a silver turtleneck, trench coat, and knee-high boots. He took the seat next to her. "Hello there." She took one last shot and turned to face him.
"Does he have to talk to every girl in this bar I mean he is the one taking us out to dinner." Paige leaned back in her chair. "But I have to admit this is a pretty nice club."
"Yeah, and I like the music too." John took another sip out of his drink. Across the bar a short man got up on the stage.
"May I have your attention?" Everyone looked at him. "Get your hands up for the beautiful and talented Miss Korie Landers." The crowd cheered. A slender lady in a white dress that stopped short at mid-thigh came onto stage. She walked up to the mike and with her left hand she moved her ruby hair out of her face behind her ear.
"Pretty." Was all John could say. He just continued to stare into her chocolate eyes.
"Oh please," Paige smacked him in the head while everyone was listening to her sing.
New Edwards Imperial Base -
At the briefing room two soldiers entered the room. The first was a man a average height and the second was a woman with a black bandanna. A general was waiting for them.
"Lt. Nicholas Hatsuharu and Private Rei Neko reporting."
"Ah you're here. Let's begin the debriefing."
The dark haired man handed him the report. "Attack was successful, with the assistance of the mercenary Jarred A.K.A. 'The Black Dragon', all republican forces were eliminated with in the time table allowed for the assault." The general opened the folder to examine the report while hearing the Lieutenant.
"Good what about the zoid that got away?"
"I sent three of my men to track it down. They haven't returned yet and after this briefing I wish to take my unit and go search for them."
"Permission denied, its too big a security risk they are more likely dead by now."
"But sir, our sources report that the Republic still has no idea who attacked them I can only assume that my men took down the zoid but are now stranded."
"Fine you may go but only take one other subordinate. I do not want an entire unit out there right now wondering the land. Now moving on, what is the status of the objective."
"We didn't find it sir. When we entered the base we found nothing."
"What do you mean nothing?"
"Its all in my report."
"Very well. Dismissed." The general leaned back into his seat while the two officers left.
Outside the office in the launch bay Nicholas and Rei looked at each other.
"Something doesn't add up Rei why would the General order us to attack a base just to steal one zoid."
"I don't know and I don't care. It was our mission and we did." Two Redlers came down and onto the platform.
"Your right lets just find them and worry about it later."
Back in the office the general continued going through the report. Flipping through the pages thoroughly going through each statement. A woman in black leather boots and a black hooded cloak came out of the shadows behind him.
"What do you think?" The general put the report down but kept his back to the Lady.
She put her hand on the back of his chair. "I don't know, this was an unexpected turn of events. But nevertheless the objective remains the same." And with that the lady left the room.
-Back at the bar-
"So Miss what are you doing in a place like this?" Nero inquired at the blonde sitting next to him.
"I don't have to put up with this. A good friend of mine just died so if you don't want to die I suggest you leave." She gave him a glare that could level mountains. Nero took the hint and returned to the table. When he sat down Paige just smirked.
"What happened, lady not like your style?"
"Funny haha." At that moment the song ended and everybody clapped. The red head took a bow and went back stage. When she got to her dressing room she slumped into her chair. She was exhausted, singing was her passion but it was also drained her after every performance. The short man knocked on the door and stuck his head in.
"Great job they loved you. Your on again in 10 minutes so take a brake." And he left. She reached over and grabbed her water bottle. After chugging it she dropped it on the table.
"Now, now a pretty lady like you shouldn't drink like that you know." A fairly tall girl with long dark brown hair and dark blue eyes came out of the dressing rooms closet.
"Mya! Oh my god what are you doing here." The red head jumped up and hugged the brown haired girl. Mya returned the hug and then let go. They looked at each other, still in each other's arms. Then they hugged again. "I can't believe you're here." She smiled. They finally let go and Mya took the couch.
"Its good to see you too Korie." She took a look around the room and smiled. "I'm glad you're still singing."
"How can I not?" She sat back down in her chair. "Hey I'm only performing until 9:30 wanna do something afterwards."
Mya's eyes lit up. "I thought you'd never ask. I spotted this club across town when I got here that I've been dying to go to."
Korie just laughed. "Remember the last time we went to a bar together." Mya looked up at the ceiling trying to recall it then let out a huge grin. "Yeah exactly. How about we go back to my place and just catch up instead. I haven't seen you for like two years. I wanna know everything."
"Oh come on, we weren't that drunk." Mya sat up on the couch. "And you didn't exactly hated that fellow what was his name."
"George and that's not the point." The girls just stared at each other for a minute before bursting in laughter. "Fine one drink that's all."
"Excellent." The short man returned.
"2 minutes."
"I got to go just wait for me here ok." Korie got up and proceeded back to the stage.
"Hey she's back." The dark haired boy put his drink down. Paige just looked over to the stage behind her. "What's the matter with you, Blue?" That instant Paige shot a glare at him. John backed off immediately.
As the night went on both Nero and Paige got drunk. Paige wasn't that bad but Nero had pasted out. John who was voted two to one was elected the designated driver of the even was really annoyed and thought it best that they go home. Besides the miss Landers had left the stage hours ago. He more or less carried Nero to the car on his shoulders staggering.
'Dude, loss some weight.' "In you go." He laid him in the back of the Jeep and turned around and headed back into the club, a few seconds later he exited with Paige, one arm slung around his neck. He put her in the front seat. They drove a about a good twenty minutes before they got to Nero's house. John found it odd that the streets were quite deserted except for two girls that he past by. They were singing and yelling obliviously drunk. (A/n: three guesses on whom they were and the first two don't count).
John laid Nero on the couch and threw what seemed to be a blanket on him. Before he returned to the car. He found Paige there sitting and giggling a little.
"What's so funny Blue?" He asked while starting the car. She just pointed to the ball she had in her hand.
"Its round." She whispered. John only nodded as they headed home. "You know wha'? If I look at you this way." She turned her head sideways. "You're pretty cute." She slung her arm on his shoulders. He moved it.
"You're drunk."
"No I'm not. I am not." She leaned over to his side of the car. He could smell the alcohol. "Ok maybe a little." She moved her hand across his cheek, down his chin and neck.
"Would you quit it, I'm trying to drive."
"Fine." She threw her hands in the air and huddled up against the other door and fell asleep. A few minutes later they got home. John had to carrier her to the door. Mr. Adare was still awake reading so he opened the door for them to enter. He looked at the sight and let out a small laugh. John was in the doorway with Paige in his arms.
"You guys looked like your married."
"Oh yeah. Now if you'll excuse me I got to get the bride to her room." John walked past Mr. Adare without so much a word.
"Kids."
The following day Paige, Jayde and John were out in the desert. John was in the Black Liger and Jayde was in her Zaber Fang. Paige had nothing better to due and when she heard Jayde was going to battle John she opted to tag along and watch.
Ready
Ready as I'll ever be
Now remember even though we're only using paint try and avoid them as best you can
Gotcha
The black liger took off to the right with the zaber right behind him. John was doing his best to dodge the bullets but kept getting hit. The liger now multiple colors circled around and returned fire. Only three out of the 8 shots came remotely close.
Come on John, I know you can do better Jayde jumped up and dove at him. The liger barely moved back in time. 'He's getting better; I wasn't expecting him to dodge that.'
The battle carried on. Jayde would dodge an attack and hit him with a paint bullet. After an hour John managed to hit her 4 times. Paige was amused and laughing at the battle. Then she heard something in the distance. Thinking it was bandits she quickly grabbed the radio.
Hey check your scanners I think we got company Jayde did so.
Your right we got two bogies. Lets get out of here. John, swing by and pick her up
Right The liger turned around and headed over to where Paige was. Jayde then pressed I few switches that switched the ammo to real ammo.
"Move I'm piloting." Paige pushed John to the back. They were ready to get out of there when they saw a liger jump out of the pushes and heading toward them. It had considerable damage around its legs and it seemed to have only a headpiece for its armor. The zoid was completely bare. The zoid traveled a few feet before taking a nosedive into the sand. Both zoids then rushed to it. The cockpit opened and a man fell out covered in blood. Jayde got there first.
"JACK!" She did a complete stop and jumped out of her zoid. She ran to the body and check for a pulse. "Thank god." Paige got there recognizing the body opened her cockpit and was about to join her. "No Paige stay there. John get down here now." He did.
'So this is Jack.'
"Help me get him up there." They both got him to the back seat behind Paige. "Paige get him to a hospital now."
"Right." She closed the cockpit and made a running dash back to the city. Just them a Rev Raptor appeared. It let out a scream. Jayde eyed it with an intense glare. "John take this thing and get back to the shop. I'll handle this pile of dren." John hoped into the damaged bare liger while Jayde got back into her zaber. The bare liger managed to get back up. Electricity was running back and fourth along its body and legs.
"Come on you frelling thing. Move." He got the liger to go a little faster than a walk. On the other side of the desert, Jayde tore the raptor into pieces and didn't stop even after the pilot cleared.
By nightfall they all sat around the waiting room in the hospital. Everyone sat in silence waiting for the doctor. Mr. Adare though was leaning against the wall wondering about what happened as he fingered the disk they found inside the liger. After hours of waiting the doctor came in. Everybody looked at him and he shook his head.
"I'm sorry, he didn't make it."
A/n:
And so ends act 1, there will be a fifteen-minute intermission. The next chap is an interlude. I always wanted to write one of those.
Paige, Nero and John were sitting in a club enjoying dinner. It was Nero's treat. His recent client had been paying huge amounts of money for very little runs back and fourth to Lopen city. In light of his new fortune he offered everyone dinner at his favorite club, Moontop. Paige and John agreed but Jayde and her Dad were swamped with work and had to stay behind.
"Hey, check it out John." Nero nodded to the left. "I'll be right back." John turned around as Nero got up and walked over to the bar where a young lady sat taking shots. She was a dirty blonde with braids and tan skin. She wore a silver turtleneck, trench coat, and knee-high boots. He took the seat next to her. "Hello there." She took one last shot and turned to face him.
"Does he have to talk to every girl in this bar I mean he is the one taking us out to dinner." Paige leaned back in her chair. "But I have to admit this is a pretty nice club."
"Yeah, and I like the music too." John took another sip out of his drink. Across the bar a short man got up on the stage.
"May I have your attention?" Everyone looked at him. "Get your hands up for the beautiful and talented Miss Korie Landers." The crowd cheered. A slender lady in a white dress that stopped short at mid-thigh came onto stage. She walked up to the mike and with her left hand she moved her ruby hair out of her face behind her ear.
"Pretty." Was all John could say. He just continued to stare into her chocolate eyes.
"Oh please," Paige smacked him in the head while everyone was listening to her sing.
New Edwards Imperial Base -
At the briefing room two soldiers entered the room. The first was a man a average height and the second was a woman with a black bandanna. A general was waiting for them.
"Lt. Nicholas Hatsuharu and Private Rei Neko reporting."
"Ah you're here. Let's begin the debriefing."
The dark haired man handed him the report. "Attack was successful, with the assistance of the mercenary Jarred A.K.A. 'The Black Dragon', all republican forces were eliminated with in the time table allowed for the assault." The general opened the folder to examine the report while hearing the Lieutenant.
"Good what about the zoid that got away?"
"I sent three of my men to track it down. They haven't returned yet and after this briefing I wish to take my unit and go search for them."
"Permission denied, its too big a security risk they are more likely dead by now."
"But sir, our sources report that the Republic still has no idea who attacked them I can only assume that my men took down the zoid but are now stranded."
"Fine you may go but only take one other subordinate. I do not want an entire unit out there right now wondering the land. Now moving on, what is the status of the objective."
"We didn't find it sir. When we entered the base we found nothing."
"What do you mean nothing?"
"Its all in my report."
"Very well. Dismissed." The general leaned back into his seat while the two officers left.
Outside the office in the launch bay Nicholas and Rei looked at each other.
"Something doesn't add up Rei why would the General order us to attack a base just to steal one zoid."
"I don't know and I don't care. It was our mission and we did." Two Redlers came down and onto the platform.
"Your right lets just find them and worry about it later."
Back in the office the general continued going through the report. Flipping through the pages thoroughly going through each statement. A woman in black leather boots and a black hooded cloak came out of the shadows behind him.
"What do you think?" The general put the report down but kept his back to the Lady.
She put her hand on the back of his chair. "I don't know, this was an unexpected turn of events. But nevertheless the objective remains the same." And with that the lady left the room.
-Back at the bar-
"So Miss what are you doing in a place like this?" Nero inquired at the blonde sitting next to him.
"I don't have to put up with this. A good friend of mine just died so if you don't want to die I suggest you leave." She gave him a glare that could level mountains. Nero took the hint and returned to the table. When he sat down Paige just smirked.
"What happened, lady not like your style?"
"Funny haha." At that moment the song ended and everybody clapped. The red head took a bow and went back stage. When she got to her dressing room she slumped into her chair. She was exhausted, singing was her passion but it was also drained her after every performance. The short man knocked on the door and stuck his head in.
"Great job they loved you. Your on again in 10 minutes so take a brake." And he left. She reached over and grabbed her water bottle. After chugging it she dropped it on the table.
"Now, now a pretty lady like you shouldn't drink like that you know." A fairly tall girl with long dark brown hair and dark blue eyes came out of the dressing rooms closet.
"Mya! Oh my god what are you doing here." The red head jumped up and hugged the brown haired girl. Mya returned the hug and then let go. They looked at each other, still in each other's arms. Then they hugged again. "I can't believe you're here." She smiled. They finally let go and Mya took the couch.
"Its good to see you too Korie." She took a look around the room and smiled. "I'm glad you're still singing."
"How can I not?" She sat back down in her chair. "Hey I'm only performing until 9:30 wanna do something afterwards."
Mya's eyes lit up. "I thought you'd never ask. I spotted this club across town when I got here that I've been dying to go to."
Korie just laughed. "Remember the last time we went to a bar together." Mya looked up at the ceiling trying to recall it then let out a huge grin. "Yeah exactly. How about we go back to my place and just catch up instead. I haven't seen you for like two years. I wanna know everything."
"Oh come on, we weren't that drunk." Mya sat up on the couch. "And you didn't exactly hated that fellow what was his name."
"George and that's not the point." The girls just stared at each other for a minute before bursting in laughter. "Fine one drink that's all."
"Excellent." The short man returned.
"2 minutes."
"I got to go just wait for me here ok." Korie got up and proceeded back to the stage.
"Hey she's back." The dark haired boy put his drink down. Paige just looked over to the stage behind her. "What's the matter with you, Blue?" That instant Paige shot a glare at him. John backed off immediately.
As the night went on both Nero and Paige got drunk. Paige wasn't that bad but Nero had pasted out. John who was voted two to one was elected the designated driver of the even was really annoyed and thought it best that they go home. Besides the miss Landers had left the stage hours ago. He more or less carried Nero to the car on his shoulders staggering.
'Dude, loss some weight.' "In you go." He laid him in the back of the Jeep and turned around and headed back into the club, a few seconds later he exited with Paige, one arm slung around his neck. He put her in the front seat. They drove a about a good twenty minutes before they got to Nero's house. John found it odd that the streets were quite deserted except for two girls that he past by. They were singing and yelling obliviously drunk. (A/n: three guesses on whom they were and the first two don't count).
John laid Nero on the couch and threw what seemed to be a blanket on him. Before he returned to the car. He found Paige there sitting and giggling a little.
"What's so funny Blue?" He asked while starting the car. She just pointed to the ball she had in her hand.
"Its round." She whispered. John only nodded as they headed home. "You know wha'? If I look at you this way." She turned her head sideways. "You're pretty cute." She slung her arm on his shoulders. He moved it.
"You're drunk."
"No I'm not. I am not." She leaned over to his side of the car. He could smell the alcohol. "Ok maybe a little." She moved her hand across his cheek, down his chin and neck.
"Would you quit it, I'm trying to drive."
"Fine." She threw her hands in the air and huddled up against the other door and fell asleep. A few minutes later they got home. John had to carrier her to the door. Mr. Adare was still awake reading so he opened the door for them to enter. He looked at the sight and let out a small laugh. John was in the doorway with Paige in his arms.
"You guys looked like your married."
"Oh yeah. Now if you'll excuse me I got to get the bride to her room." John walked past Mr. Adare without so much a word.
"Kids."
The following day Paige, Jayde and John were out in the desert. John was in the Black Liger and Jayde was in her Zaber Fang. Paige had nothing better to due and when she heard Jayde was going to battle John she opted to tag along and watch.
Ready
Ready as I'll ever be
Now remember even though we're only using paint try and avoid them as best you can
Gotcha
The black liger took off to the right with the zaber right behind him. John was doing his best to dodge the bullets but kept getting hit. The liger now multiple colors circled around and returned fire. Only three out of the 8 shots came remotely close.
Come on John, I know you can do better Jayde jumped up and dove at him. The liger barely moved back in time. 'He's getting better; I wasn't expecting him to dodge that.'
The battle carried on. Jayde would dodge an attack and hit him with a paint bullet. After an hour John managed to hit her 4 times. Paige was amused and laughing at the battle. Then she heard something in the distance. Thinking it was bandits she quickly grabbed the radio.
Hey check your scanners I think we got company Jayde did so.
Your right we got two bogies. Lets get out of here. John, swing by and pick her up
Right The liger turned around and headed over to where Paige was. Jayde then pressed I few switches that switched the ammo to real ammo.
"Move I'm piloting." Paige pushed John to the back. They were ready to get out of there when they saw a liger jump out of the pushes and heading toward them. It had considerable damage around its legs and it seemed to have only a headpiece for its armor. The zoid was completely bare. The zoid traveled a few feet before taking a nosedive into the sand. Both zoids then rushed to it. The cockpit opened and a man fell out covered in blood. Jayde got there first.
"JACK!" She did a complete stop and jumped out of her zoid. She ran to the body and check for a pulse. "Thank god." Paige got there recognizing the body opened her cockpit and was about to join her. "No Paige stay there. John get down here now." He did.
'So this is Jack.'
"Help me get him up there." They both got him to the back seat behind Paige. "Paige get him to a hospital now."
"Right." She closed the cockpit and made a running dash back to the city. Just them a Rev Raptor appeared. It let out a scream. Jayde eyed it with an intense glare. "John take this thing and get back to the shop. I'll handle this pile of dren." John hoped into the damaged bare liger while Jayde got back into her zaber. The bare liger managed to get back up. Electricity was running back and fourth along its body and legs.
"Come on you frelling thing. Move." He got the liger to go a little faster than a walk. On the other side of the desert, Jayde tore the raptor into pieces and didn't stop even after the pilot cleared.
By nightfall they all sat around the waiting room in the hospital. Everyone sat in silence waiting for the doctor. Mr. Adare though was leaning against the wall wondering about what happened as he fingered the disk they found inside the liger. After hours of waiting the doctor came in. Everybody looked at him and he shook his head.
"I'm sorry, he didn't make it."
A/n:
And so ends act 1, there will be a fifteen-minute intermission. The next chap is an interlude. I always wanted to write one of those.
