Amy's First Kiss
Chapter One: Insertion
By: Sci-Fi-Raptor
Disclaimer: I Don't own Zoids
How can you see into my eyes
like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I've become so numb?
Without a soul;
my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold,
until you find it there and lead it back home.
(Wake me up.)
Wake me up inside.
(I can't wake up.)
Wake me up inside.
(Save me. )
Call my name and save me from the dark.
(Wake me up. )
Bid my blood to run.
(I can't wake up. )
Before I come undone.
(Save me. )
Save me from the nothing I've become.
-Evanescence (Bring Me Back to Life)
Hi! My name is Amy Rose. I'm an average girl that lives in a quiet town, called Providence, near the mountains, which is near New Helic City. All right… the town isn't quiet. There's this gang that always bullies us around, but they haven't done anything drastic. Well… lately they've been wanting stuff from us, but we're not gonna give it to them. Nothing drastic yet anyway…
Well, enough about not me, on to me! I was born here and grew up with many friends. My family is loaded, and I get a lot of stuff. I have pair of gorgeous gray-green eyes, and flowing red hair with picture perfect bangs. What's really great about my looks is that I don't have to spend too much time on them, its all natural, and I don't use much makeup. I just finished the 11th grade, and am now a senior! I can finally drive and everything, and my parents gave me all these freedoms. They also gave me an expensive new car to drive. It's the latest from Fiari, the new FXG101.
Since the 7th grade, I've had this HUGE crush on this guy. I never told anyone, but it accidentally slipped while I was talking to my girlfriends last week, and then they somehow set me up with him. Man, those girls are something. Well, here I am, off to meet him in this romantic restaurant. If he's anything like I've heard, he's gonna give me a romantic dinner with a nice car ride. But best of all, he's a great kisser! And cute too, of course, but I've never been kissed, and always wondered what it was like. So, now I'm headed to the restaurant we're supposed to meet in, in my new car of course, which I'm parking now. Now I'm going inside. But as I walked in, I stopped; I heard my name, and realized that he (Matt) is talking to his friends about me.
"So, why'd you agree to go out with her?" asked Matt's friend.
"Duh! Cause she's hot." He replied. He thinks I'm cute too. I think I'm gonna faint… "But I know a lot of hot girls. The only reason I'm going out with her is cause she's LOADED! Man, her parents have enough money to buy this whole town!"
"Ya, you're right about that dog" said another friend, and they all started laughing. Be cause I'm loaded? Why that no good shallow… that jerk! He doesn't deserve me! I thought. I grabbed a nearby vase and threw it at his head, and ran away crying.
"Ow! What the hell was that?" said Matt
"I think it was the chick"
"Oh snap! Did she just hear me? Damn, there goes all that money…" said Matt.
I just kept on running until I reached my car. Then I put the pedal to the metal, and headed off into some direction. After a while, I cooled off, and I stopped. I looked around, and realized that this was the area that the meteor was supposed to have crashed into. So I looked around for it, trying to keep my mind off that jerk.
I'm no great hiker or anything, so I stayed inside my car, and just drove through the area. Then I spotted this thing in my path, and stopped a few yards away. I got out of my car, and went up to it. When I took a closer look, I realized it was a guy, and he was unconscious. He was wearing this weird looking black over all with these weird symbols and emblems on it. He was also cute…
"Oh my god" I gasped, and I brought my car closer. I struggled to get him inside my car, and drove him to the hospital. When I got there, I checked him in, and waited for what the doctor would say.
CHOAM online… repair status… 35% complete. Status of Crass… unconscious. Not in any apparent danger. Activating resuscitation mode via CORE module.
Back in the hospital:
"Miss…" said the doctor.
"Rose… Amy Rose" I said, taking my cue.
"Miss Rose. Do you have any relation with the person you brought in?"
"No"
"Do you know anyone that knows him?"
"No"
"I was afraid of that"
"Why? Is he gonna be alright?"
"Well… he's alright physically, but he has amnesia."
"Oh that's bad. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Yes. He wasn't seriously injured, so it should wear off in a few days, so it would be helpful if you could take care of him until he gets better."
"Alright," I said "but I have to ask my parents first"
"Sure" he said. I called mom and dad, and they Okayed it, so I said I could. So they put him under my custody, and I went home with him.
"So… what's your name?" I asked him.
"Um…Crass. I think"
"That's a good start. My name is Amy Rose. Do you know where you come from?"
"I'm not sure…"
"That's okay. Do you know what happened to you?"
"No"
"That's okay too." I said. "You'll remember eventually. But first, we gotta get you new clothes. You need to wear something normal." I loved shopping, and this was a perfect excuse. And if daddy asked me why I spent so much, I would innocently say that the poor kid needed clothes. So we went to the mall, and got him some clothes. I picked out a few for him, and let him loose in the changing room. Then he came out… and I could barely contain my laughter. He was wearing his pants on his arms, and his shirt on his legs, and a pair of underwear on his head. "Lucky" for me, he still had that overall on.
"You wear it like this" I showed him a picture of a guy wearing the outfit he was wearing. "And you have to take off that thing you're wearing." I giggled as a saw him going back into the changing room… he was like a little kid.
He came back shortly, and he looked normal… and cuter than before. Those clothes were made for him. He walked up to me.
"Like this?"
"Yes" I said.
"Now what?"
"Now we get you into school." I said. Just cause he had amnesia didn't mean he would get to miss school, especially if I had to suffer through it.
"Okay" he said, and started walking out of the store.
"Hey! We have to pay for that first."
"Pay for it?" I didn't say anything, just charged it all to my card.
"What does that mean?"
"I'll tell you on the way"
"Okay" As we left, I saw Matt, so I held onto Crass' arms, to make it look like he was my boyfriend. Crass asked me what I was doing, and I said I'd explain to him later.
We went to my car, and headed to school, and I attempted to explain why we had to pay for his clothes. I ended up explaining the whole economy of Zi, since he could only understand it that way, but it was okay, since that's my specialty. Luckily, he forgot about the arm thing. Then we pulled up to the school.
We got to the main office right before it was going to close, but the receptionist was a friend of mine, and let us do our business.
"What's your name, son?"
"Crass… Fisheye"
"Alright, where do you live?"
"Well, I'll have to explain that" I told her about his situation, and got him in. He had to take a test to see where he stood, and I waited for him while he took it.
"So, Mr. Gordon (our principle), how'd he do?"
"Well… Mr. Crass here is an exceptional student. It seems he won't need any math or science courses. Just History, English and electives."
"What?! He doesn't have to suffer through math or science with me? No fair…"
"Well, since you're the only one he knows, we put him in all the classes you're in, except the math and science. We'll let him choose electives to take their places" he took him to his room, and they decided what classes he would have. When they were done, it was decided that he would take Cooking and Electronics.
"Well, now that that's done, you can meet my parents" I said to him. He started walking to my car.
"Amy…"
"Yes?"
"How come you're not holding my arm this time?"
"Umm… it's not that important."
"Oh. Well, I liked it" he said, and continued to walk with me. So it took his arm. Hey you cant blame me… he was really cute, and he sounded so innocent when he said that. It was then that I noticed the patch on his hand. It was gold, and had the shape of an arrowhead, and had one of the symbols that were on the overall he had.
"Hey, what's that?" I pointed out to him
"Um… I don't know."
"That's what I figured…" We got to my car, and we went home
"Mom! Dad! We're home!" I yelled when we got home. Our home is quite large, so you have to yell to be heard.
"Hello dear" said my mom. "And hello to you young man" she said to Crass with a big smile on her face. This seemed to scare him, so he cowered behind me.
"Um… h-h-hello…" he managed to say.
"So this is the young man that you found?" said my dad, coming from behind my mother. He wrapped his arms around her, and she put her arms over his. I know my parents love each other a lot. I've never seen them fight before, and I don't think I ever will. Its as if they were made for each other. I guess that's rubbed off on me. We've never really fought before. The only time we did was when they tried to get me to date this weird guy from our school. That guy still tries to hit on me… But I still love my parents to death, and find it hard to be mad at them for too long.
"Daddy, is it okay if Crass and I go to the Zoid match tomorrow?" I asked as nice as possible.
"Well, tomorrow is a Saturday, so I guess it's alright."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I said and hugged him and mom. (He's never let me go to one of those, since he thought it was too dangerous.)
"Well, you two should go to bed now, it's getting late, and you'll have to get up early to go to the match on time" said mom.
"Alright, thanks again mom and dad!" I said, and hugged them again. I tried to get Crass to come with me, but he was messing around with a really old grandfather clock we had. It hadn't worked for years, and no one could fix it, so it just stayed there, one minute away from 10 o'clock. When he was finally done, I dragged Crass upstairs, and showed him to his room. A minute later, the Grandfather clock chimed.
"You can sleep here until your memory comes back to you." I said. But he was already asleep by then. He fell asleep so fast, he didn't have his blanket on, and so I put it on for him. Then I looked at him; he was so lovable! After my dreamy gaze wore off, I realized that I would have to get up early, and went to bed.
CHOAM repair status…45% complete. Status of Crass… no immediate threat. Location… 25E45W at 5 clicks. Within reaction range… Power levels… 80% and rising. Cloak…optimal. Shields…70% and rising. Weapons… optimal. Possible location of Xi'an pilot…UNCONFIRMED. Launching probes.
I woke up to a beautiful morning, with the warm sun's rays on my face. I got up and stretched a bit, and looked at the clock; 9:45. 9:45! The match is in two hours, and that's how long it takes to drive there! I rushed out of bed and used the bathroom. Then I ran to Crass' room and was about to wake him up, when I saw the patch on his hand. It was glowing, and there seemed to be some kind of writing moving around on it. I was about to touch it, when all of a sudden his hand grabbed mine. Hard. At first it hurt, but then he loosened his grip. What was weird was that he didn't seem to be awake until he loosened his grip. He opened his eyes, and had this dreamy look on his face. I retracted my hand, and rubbed it to ease the already fainting pain. I'd never noticed it until now, but he had bright aquamarine eyes. Wait… they were turning green! I was about to scream, but then he got up.
"Good…morn…ing…" he said slowly. It was as if his mind was somewhere else.
"Good morning" I said in a trance. His eyes were slowly taking control of me. Finally, I got out of it. I snapped back to reality, and said: "Common! We gotta hurry, go use the bathroom, and get changed!" Thank God he knew how to use the bathroom. And he still remembered how to wear clothes, so I went off to change. Then we ran downstairs and to my car.
"Dear, what about breakfast?" my mom called out.
"We'll get a bite to eat mom! We're late!" I said, and went to my car. The drive lasted two hours, but Crass didn't seem bored. It was as if he's never seen a planet before. I stopped at a normally fast-food joint that had a fast pick-up service, and got something to eat on the run. We finally arrived, and I managed to somehow get some okay seats. Well… they were all the way at the top, and we were the only ones there.
"Amy?"
"Yes Crass"
"Why are we up here?"
"Because we came late"
"Is this some form of punishment?" I was about to say no, but that match was about to start, and I wanted to watch it.
"Yes"
"Your people have some strange ways"
"I know…" then the match started. The Judge landed, and said his speech, saying that it was the Blitz team versus the Dino team. The Blitz team had the Shadow Fox, Gun Sniper, and Liger 0 Panzer. The Dino team had the Gogulas, Gun Sniper, and Rev Raptor.
"Battle set. Ready… fight!" said the Judge, officially starting the match.
The Shadow Fox, both Gun Snipers, and Rev Raptor charged at each other. The Liger and Gogulas stayed back. The Gun Snipers fought each other, and the Shadow Fox fought the Rev Raptor. A black cloud suddenly surrounded the Rev Raptor, and all of a sudden, the sound of metal being sliced could be heard. Then the Shadow Fox leaped out of the cloud, and ran towards the Gun Snipers.
The Black Gun Sniper just kept on shooting all its ammo at the green one. Then it seemed to be out of ammo, and started running away to their base. The green one took the chance and started shooting it down, and scored a lot of hits on its legs. The black Gun Sniper fell over, and couldn't move. With its victory, the green Gun Sniper was about to go after the Liger, but it was engulfed in a cloud of back smoke. Then the sound of metal being sliced could be heard, and the Shadow Fox came running out, and headed to the Gogulas. Unfortunately for it, the Gogulas saw that in advance, and picked it off with one of its CPC's. The Shadow Fox lost two legs on its left.
The only ones left were the Gogulas and Liger now. They just stood there for some time, maybe talking to each other. Then they charged up their twin cannons, and fired them. The two emissions smashed into each other, and they joined into a swirling mass of energy. Then it exploded, and beams of energy came out in two directions, one away from us, and one right at us! I screamed, and held onto Crass' arm, and started crying, and scolded myself for never listening to my dad about this. The beam hit us.
CHOAM repair status…47% complete. Status of Crass… threat detected! Initiating HES. Initiating energy shield.
I had my eyes closed the whole time, and then started getting impatient. Then I felt a lot of shaking, then nothing, and then my feet touched the ground. Wait a second. I'm supposed to be dead right now. What's going on? I looked at Crass, and he was standing upright, supporting me, and looked like nothing had just happened to us; and he had this weird look on his face. I looked to where we were just sitting, and saw a BIG hole. Then a crowd of people surrounded us, and kept on asking how we survived. All I could say was "I don't know…"
The match was cancelled, and the pilots of both Zoids came up to us to apologize, but had the same question: How did we survive? I got sick of all the questions, and said it was an act of God. Then we went to my car and went home. Hopefully it wouldn't get on the news.
We got back home at around 9, and I was very tired, so I went to bed. But I heard dad talking to Crass.
"So, how did you manage to fix the clock?"
"Oh, I just did this"
"I see! Why didn't I think of that?"
"I dunno…"
"Can you see if you can fix something else for me?"
"Sure" and that was the last thing I heard from them.
Next morning, I woke up nice and early. It was about six in the morning. I had told Crass earlier that we would go to the beach today, and I had already bought something for him to wear the other day. I got dressed, and went to his room to wake him up.
"Crass…"
"Ugh…" he opened his eyes and they were red, as if he stayed up all night or something.
"Did my dad keep you up too late?"
"I stayed up till five fixing that hovercraft of his" he said
"You what?!" I said, pissed off at my dad for keeping him up so late, and amazed that he got that old thing to work. It was a custom made vehicle that my grandfather made when I was a little baby. My parents say that he'd take me on rides with it, but it broke down the day he died, and no one could ever fix it.
"So… did you manage to fix it?" I said.
"Ya, I even made a thing your car could pull it with so we can take it to the beach.
"Really? Cool! But lets go now so we can get a good spot." I got the rest of the stuff we would bring with us, while Crass rigged the hovercraft to my car. When we were done, we got into our beach clothes, and headed to the beach. I was in a nice and comfortable neon yellow swimsuit, and he was in a pair of baby blue swim shorts. I couldn't help but blush when I first saw him in it. He just had that dumbstruck stare on his face.
"Don't come too late dear, you have school tomorrow" said my mom as we left.
"We won't!" I said, and we left.
It took about half an hour to reach the beach, but we didn't have any problems. All Crass did was sleep the whole time. That's what you get for sleeping for an hour…
When we got there, the ocean amazed him, even though it took a few nudges/slaps to wake him up. It seemed to me that he had never seen it in his life. Well, if someone had amnesia maybe they wouldn't remember it?
We unpacked, and set up our little camp near the water. Then I heard a few familiar voices.
"Hey Amy!" said one of my friends.
"Hi July!" I called back. She was with her boy friend, Ron.
"Who's that?" she pointed to Crass.
"His name is Crass" I said.
"Is he your boyfriend?" I was about to say no, but then I saw Matt and his gang trailing after her.
"Um… yes, yes he is, aren't you Crass?"
"Yes" he said, as naturally as any normal boyfriend would. Then he wrapped his arms around me. I was about to punch him in the face, but I remembered that he was supposed to be my boyfriend, and then he whispered something to me. "This is what I saw your parents do in that picture when your dad said that he was her boy friend."
"Oh" I whispered back. He learns quickly. Maybe too quickly… I think he's enjoying this too much.
"Well, Crass, how bout a quick swim?" said Matt, obviously jealous of my new "boyfriend"
"What does that mean?" Crass asked me. If he doesn't know what it means, he probably doesn't know how to do it.
"Well, he doesn't know how" I said. All the guys laughed at this.
"Actually, I think I do" said Crass.
"What do you mean?" I whispered to him. He pointed to a bunch of people swimming in the ocean
"Well, at least you know what it means" I whispered again. "Well, he just hasn't done it in a while, let him have a warm up first."
"Okay" said Matt.
We got on the hovercraft, and I chose a place to teach him how to swim. We drove it there, and we both went in. At first, I had to hold him up, but it seemed like he could do it himself; so I let him go. I swam away from him, so he would come to me.
"Amy! I don't think I can do it" he said.
"Of course you can you big baby" I said playfully. He started thrashing, but I still thought he could make it; I was so wrong. The thrashing stopped, but he suddenly went under. I frantically swam to where he was, but he had gone too deep by the time I reached there.
CHOAM repair status…74% complete. Status of Crass… threat detected! Initiating HES. Initiating aquatic mode.
Oh no! I thought. I just killed someone I was responsible for. I was on the verge of tears, but then I felt someone wrap his arms around me. I looked back and it was Crass.
"You idiot! I thought you drowned!" I said, and slugged him in his chest; I managed to hold back my tears, working off my anger.
"I'm sorry. But I just learned how to swim while I was underwater, and then I saw you all sad, so I was trying to comfort you."
"Well… just don't do something like that again." I said. Satisfied that Crass could swim, we went back to the shore.
"Is he ready?" said Matt impatiently.
"Yes" I said
"He can talk for himself, can't he?
"Yes" said Crass.
"All right, we start here, go up to the reef, swim through the shelf, and come back here. The rules are simple: first one back wins" said Matt. The people that were going to swim were Matt, Ron, Tim, Eric, and obviously, Crass.
"On your mark, get set, go!" said the girl Matt came with. Everyone had a good start, and everyone reached the reef at the same time. I'm not sure what happened when they got there, but everyone but Crass made it out of there. When Crass finally did get out, everyone was at the shelf. Then the most unexpected thing happened. Crass started swimming like mad, and beat everyone. By the time the other boys were halfway between the shelf and the shore, Crass was walking up to me. Everyone stared in amazement, while I beamed like a mother who's child had accomplished something great.
When the rest of the guys came up, I gave them a piece of my mind, thinking that they did something to him at the reef.
"I bet you guys tried to cheat, just so you could beat Crass." I said.
"No we didn't" said Matt. "If anyone cheated, it was your boyfriend. Who can swim that fast?"
"Why you little" I was about to smack him in the face, but Crass caught my arm.
"They didn't cheat" said Crass. "I was just seeing how this fish swam" and showed me a squid.
"Ekk!" I screamed, and ran away. Like the numbskull he was, he kept following me with the squid outstretched in his hand, telling me how and why it was such a fast swimmer. Everyone just laughed, and we had a great time for the rest of the day. But I could tell that the girls were jealous about Crass, and the guys felt intimidated by him. Good thing they didn't know how innocent he was, or they might have taken advantage of him.
At sunset, almost everyone left, but we stayed, and had a walk on the beach. We were holding hands as if we were a real couple, and I was starting to get used to it. And Crass didn't seem as shy as he was when we first met. Too bad it'll be all over when he gets his memory back. What if he already has a girlfriend? Maybe a wife! No. Don't ruin the moment. I was distracted by these thoughts, and I tripped on a rock I didn't see.
"Oww!" I said as I fell on my face. Crass looked down at me with this huge smile on his face.
"Well… HELP ME UP!" I yelled, mad that he thought it was so funny. He held out a hand, and helped me up. When I put my whole weight on the foot I was tripped on, I felt this jolt go up my leg, and I moaned in pain.
"Are you all right?" he asked me.
"I think I sprained my ankle" I complained.
"Let me carry you then, I don't think its good to walk on a sprained ankle."
"Me too" I said, and he held me up like a baby. I don't know why, but I think I fell asleep on the way to the car. It was nice to be cradled in his arms.
One, two… ya, just making sure. Well, that's my first girly chapter for this fic… sheesh… I scare myself sometimes…