Amy's First Kiss
Chapter Two: The New Kid
By: Sci-Fi-Raptor
Disclaimer: I Don't own Zoids
Do you believe in life after love? (after love, after love, after love, after love…)
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough (no)
-Cher (Believe)
I awoke with the sun on my face again, and the annoying alarm. Ugh. Another day in school… Hey, wait a minute; I was in the beach last time. How'd I get here? I went to the bathroom, and got changed. I could smell toast and eggs, and I was wondering how mom was up so early. I went to the kitchen, and it turned out to be Crass. Did he? No, he can't… but what if he did?
"Good morning" said Crass
"Um… good morning…" I said back.
"Help yourself" he said, and pointed to a plate of eggs and toast. He can cook? I can't cook, and I don't have amnesia… that can't be good. I slowly ate my breakfast, and then waited for Crass to finish. We were done, and went to my car to head to school. But there was no car…
"OMG! What happened to my car?" I screamed.
"Oh, its still back at the beach" he said in a natural way.
"Why is it still in the beach? Didn't you drive us back with it?" I said frantically
"Well, I didn't know how to drive your car, so I used the hovercraft" he said, and pointed to it.
"Daddy is sooooo gonna kill me" I said, and fell to my knees.
"Don't worry, we can go to school with the hovercraft, and go get your car back after school" he said.
"All right…" I said, still sure daddy was gonna kill me. We went into the hovercraft, and went to school. That day, we had all the same periods. English, History, lunch, Band, and flight simulation. I got him his locker, and we headed off to period one. I went up to Mr. Griffin, and told him about our new student while he waited outside.
"I see…" he said, and I went into my seat. "Well class, we have a new student it seems." Crass went into the room. "What's your name, son?"
"Crass… Fisheye" he said nervously.
"Well Mr. Fisheye, you can sit next to Miss Rose until you feel comfortable here" Mr. Griffin said.
"T-t-thank you" he said.
"Well class, isn't life full of surprises? We have Mr. Crass joining us, and we also have a pop quiz!"
"Ugh…" said the class in unison.
"Mr. Griffin gives such hard tests…" I said as Crass and I went to History. "But Mrs. Cho is an awesome teacher. You'll love her class" And we went through the same thing this time, but minus the pop quiz.
"So Crass, can you tell me who won in the battle of Jehovah's Hill?" asked Mrs. Cho.
"No" he said in a very tiny voice.
"Speak up Crass, old age has robbed my once keen ears from me" she said and put her hands on her hips, and shifted her weight to one leg.
"No, ma'am" he said a bit louder
"And why not?"
"Because I don't know…" he said weakly.
"Well, at least you're honest" she said with a smirk. "Well, since you are behind, I guess you can take this period to read the chapter during class."
"Okay" he said a bit more confidently.
"What was that?"
"Okay?"
"No fight? No squabbling?"
"Do you want me to?" said Crass. This made Mrs. Cho laugh.
"You know what Crass, you're a funny kid. Now go to the history center and read the chapter" she told him. I was about to say that I wanted to take him, but Anna Marie got to him first. I didn't trust her, and I wasn't sure if Crass was ready to meet people by himself, but I knew he would learn fast; it was a full fifteen minutes before she came back.
"Did you get lost Anna?"
"No ma'am" she said in a freaked out voice.
"Then what happened?"
"He didn't know what chapter we were on."
"And it took you 15 minutes to show him it?"
"No ma'am"
"Then what took you so long?"
"Um… bathroom?" she lied.
"All right Anna, I'll let you off the hook for now" she said. "But you better explain after class.
"Yes ma'am" she said, and took her seat. Then she sent a note to me that said: Is he really in our grade? I nodded yes, and she looked dumbstruck.
Well class went by as usual, so when it was over I went to get Crass and take him to lunch. But he wasn't in the history center. So I looked around the school, and when I failed to find him, I went to the cafeteria hoping he had somehow found his way there. And when I went there, lo and behold, I found him sitting with my so-called girlfriends. They were all trying to steal him from me, that much I was sure of, but lucky for me, he had no idea what they were trying to do to him, so he just gave them weird looks when they tried to make a pass at him. So I went up to him and rescued him. First thing he did was hug me, and held me up in the air. That made me blush, but then he whispered in my ear "Thank you", and it explained why; he was at least a foot taller then I. I hugged him back, and from where I was, I stuck my tongue out at my friends, and took him to a table outside.
"Well, how was school so far?"
"English was easy." He said.
"What? That was one of the hardest tests he ever gave!"
"Well, maybe I got them all wrong then?"
"Okay, how about history."
"Well, I didn't understand the chapter the first time I read it, but after I read all the chapters before it, it started making a bit of sense"
"Oh, that's go… you read all the chapters before it? HOW!" I said. We were on chapter 15, and there was no one that could read that fast.
"Well, I dunno, I just read." I couldn't believe him, so I quizzed him on all the other chapters, and he actually got them right. I was starting to get freaked out by him. But just to be sure he wasn't lying, I got another book that was just released that I just read. I told him to read it in front of me. What he did was so unreal; he just flipped through the pages like how you shuffle a deck of cards! Testes him real quick on random pages, and he actually got them! Maybe he was a super genius, and he was thinking so hard one day, that he got amnesia…
We finished out lunches (which mom packed the night before), and headed to the Band room when the period was over.
Mr. Kalman said that since I was a flute player, he should try it, so that I could help him. He tried it, but he really sucked. But he didn't know how to read music, so I got to spend the first half of the period teaching it to him. He caught on fast, and he could read music as easily as he read words (which is scary). But he still couldn't play the flute, and he gave up. Then he saw Matt playing the trumpet, and asked Mr. Kalman if he could try that. Mr. Kalman agreed after he saw how horrible he played the flute, and gave him a trumpet, and he rocked at it. He was so good, that Mr. Kalman put him in first chair; Bringing Matt down to second. That made me feel good about myself.
This pissed off Matt, so when we were leaving, he tried to trip Crass. Instead, his foot got crushed, and Crass just kept on walking, as if he didn't notice a thing. Matt was on crutches for the next few days. Then we went to the computer room to try our hand at the flight simulation programs. Everyone was basically at the level of a Zabat, but Crass was so good, that he skipped the Zabat, Raynos and Petras, and went straight to the Storm Sworder. Mrs. Matsumi said that with his skill, he could get a scholarship the aerial Zoid academy of his choice. All Crass did was laugh as he shot down another group of Zabats.
And that was his first day in school. I have to admit, though, that I was jealous that time I was all my "friends" were trying to steal him from me. But it's not like I like him or anything… really.
Well, we kept on going to school for the week, and nothing crazy happened, except for a few things. First of all, my car was totaled. It seems that someone wanted a new car radio… Second, Crass has been bringing all these crazy things home from school that he made during electronics class. Me dad seems to really be getting close to him, and they've been making a lot of cool stuff together. My mom likes him too, but isn't as close to him as daddy is. That, and I've had trouble being near him; I get all nervous. But I think any day now he's gonna get his memory back. But today is a Saturday, and I plan on going to the water park with him. And oh yeah, my girlfriends apologized for hitting on him, and for some strange reason are pressuring me to ask him out. I wonder what's their deal…
CHOAM repair status…89% complete. All systems optimal. Status of Crass… no immediate threat…
This time I wore this cute orange swimsuit I got last summer. He wore the same baby blue swim shorts. My face was red the whole ride to the park (my car was fixed by now).
When we reached the park we met up with my friends, who were on their way to the water slide, so we tagged along. We split up into guys and girls, and we talked among ourselves. I could hear Crass' voice, and then all the guys would laugh. I felt bad for him, since he was embarrassing himself, but knowing him, he probably had no idea what was going on.
"So Amy, are you two going steady yet?" said Cynthia.
"Um… no." I replied
"Why not?" said Melanie
"I don't like him like that" I said
"Yes you do" said everyone in unison
"No…"
"Oh come on. You always go goo goo when ever you're near him. And you even pretended to be his boyfriend when we first met him" (by now everyone had found out about his amnesia, and didn't hit on him anymore, but the guys for some reason became friends with him real quick)
"No! You girls have some issues"
"Then can I ask him out?"
"No!"
"See, I told you."
"I meant, why are you asking me? I'm not his mother or anything…"
"Sure"
"Really"
"What. Everrr" (ß that weird thing girls do). Then we all went on the slide, and we had a pretty good time the rest of the day. We all went home in a big caravan. A big caravan of newly waxed expensive cars. We got home around six.
When we got to Amy's house, her dad was on the phone, and her mom looked worried.
"What's going on?" Amy asked her.
"Its those darned gangsters again. They say they're gonna do something bad if our town doesn't pay up."
"Why's dad talking to them?"
"Because they are making people pay one by one"
"Oh… those people are very dirty."
"Yes they are honey. Now go and wash up."
"Yes mom" said Amy, and we both washed up and got changed. That's when we felt it.
"Mom!" Amy screamed. "What is that?"
"I don't know dear!" she replied, trying to stay calm. Everyone went outside, and we saw a Guysack outside.
"You better pay up old man" the pilot of the Guysack said from his loudspeaker.
"No way. Our town has told you time and again that we won't!"
"Then I guess I'll have to make an example of you then." It was unlocking its tail gun, readying it to fire. But right when it was about to fire, something shot it. We looked at the direction it came from, and saw a group of Saicurtis.
"Town guard" said Amy's dad, with a smirk on his face. The group quickly overtook the Guysack, and they were going in to capture it's pilot. But all of a sudden, they were being picked off by missiles. We looked in the direction of the missile source, and saw a group of Sinkers. The Saicurtis were quickly overtaken, since their ballistic weaponry were no match for the Sinkers' missiles.
CHOAM repair status…98% complete. All systems optimal. Status of Crass… Immediate threat detected… Engaging HES. Initiating medium assault platform. Threat does not need reinforcement.
The sinkers were heading for us. Then the weirdest thing happened. I saw Crass raise his hand, with the patch on it glowing red, and then these metallic scales started coming out of it and covering him. When they were done, he looked like a mix of an Iron Kong, Godos, and Salamander. He had the head and arms of an Iron Kong, the legs of a Godos, and the Wings of a Slamander. The rest of him was this black metallic stuff that looked like very heavy armor. He had these huge guns on his legs, and things that looked like a pair of missile pods on his shoulder, with boosters attached to their bottom, and ovals that were on his wrists.
He went into the air, and he took his guns from his legs, and started blasting the Sinkers away. It took them a while to find him, but when they did, they locked onto him and launched their missiles at him. By now, half of them had been knocked out and he was shooting down most of their missiles. Some got close to him, but he skillfully dodged them. Then he went at full burn towards the Sinkers, and made their missiles hit them. By now, they'd had enough, and they rescued all of their fallen brothers, and got the hell out of here.
Then Crass fell into the ground, and his armor started turning into scales, and retracted into that patch on his arm, whose bright light eventually faded away. He was knocked out…