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Come Back to Me

By:  Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 16:  Disappearances

Bevin wiped the sweat that was forming on his dirty forehead.  The past couple hours he has been working on his Shadow Liger to make sure it's in perfect working order when they will have to fight.  Across from him on the other side of the hanger Mark who was working on his mother's zoid, the Genesis.

"Bevin?" Mark said loud enough for Bevin to hear.

"Yes?" Bevin asked as he dug through the tools box for the right tool.

"I've been thinking," Mark said as he yanked on a socket to tighten it but it didn't budge, Bevin looked up from his work at his cousin.

"Aren't there laws against that?"  Mark sent Bevin a glare for the comment, while Bevin smiled at him.

"Well, this war thing," Mark started.  Bevin frowned at the thought of the war.  Mark noticed that and shut his mouth returning to his stubborn piece of tool.  Bevin laughed, jumped off his zoid, climbed up the Genesis, and helped Mark turn the socket.  "Wow, thanks cuz!"

Bevin smiled, "Anytime.  What else do you need help on?"  Mark tapped his chin in thought then smiled.

"Now that you mention it," Mark said opening a compartment with a bunch of wires.  "I do need help doing some wiring."  Bevin cracked his knuckles and kneeled down next to Mark and started helping him.

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Typing away at her computer, Ashley let a loud yell of success.  'That girl didn't make it easy for me; I had to decode all the data on the file.' Ashley thought.  She had finally decoded the damn thing after 15 long years…well more like 5 cause she had to be a mother of two children instead staying cooped up in a computer lab.  She smiled her all too familiar goofy grin and pressed the enter key on the keyboard and watched all the data roll down on screen.

"YERIKA!!!!!" She said as she tossed her arms in the air.  She blinked and went back to the screen that was still scrolling down it.  "Oh my god!!"  She tossed her chair aside and ran for the door.  Hastily opening it she quickly made her ways through the hallway.  She turned the corner and ran right into someone, but she ran into someone, thankfully the person wrapped their arms around her.

"Ashley!"  She looked up to see Leon's worried face.  "Is there something wrong?"  Ashley held the guilt in her eyes, so she quickly closed them.

"umm……" she thought of some wild excuse but Leon was a sensible man and would never believe it.  So she just went with, "I really need to talk to Bit!  Bye hon!!"  She quickly pecked him on the cheek and continued down the hall.  Leon watched her run off wondering what she was wrong.  Ashley ran out in the garage looking wildly around for the blonde man.  She failed to notice the two teenagers on top of the Genesis.

"Mom?" Mark asked, but Ashley didn't hear him and quickly ran out to the elevator that led up to the surface.  The teens looked at each other both confused.  "I think we should follow her."

"Agreed," Bevin said as he nodded his head.  They both jumped off and ran over to the elevator once it down to them they quickly got in it.  Once on the surface they can see that they're vision clouded from the dust storm that was blowing around now.  "shh," Bevin said as he put an arm out in front of Mark to stop him.

"What is it?" Mark asked, listening as well.

"I can hear someone shouting."  They both strained their hearing to listen through the blowing wind.  Eventually they did hear some shouting.

"What are you doing with him!?!" called a voice.  "Give him back!!!  HEY!!!  Get back here!!!  I know why you want him and I'm not going to let you have him!!!"

"Oh, you must be Ashley Tauros we have a special thing for you!" Came a male's voice.  A second later a gunshot rang through the air and then the screeching of tires was heard.  A car just fled the scene.  Both boys panicked and ran through the sand storm, until they came upon a body on the ground unconscious and with blood pouring out of the bullet wound in her shoulder.

"MOM!!!!!!!"  Mark cried out as he rushed to his mother's side, not too far behind Bevin came running.  Worry written on his face when he noticed how bad the wound was.

A/N:  Sorry bout the cliff hanger couldn't help it! ^-^  But it's late and I needed to wrap this thing up quickly….so there's your chapter!

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