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Frowning, Fiona thought of what she could say to make Raven leave them alone. She could say that Hiltz was hiding in a cave or something where the Genobreaker couldn't fit so he would have to go on foot..but knowing Raven he'd take the zoid anyways and just blast the cave into smithereens, regardless of who was in the cockpit with him. Or she could somehow convince him that bringing Jade was a bad idea because that was exactly what Hiltz wanted him to do. If she said that, Raven's pride would immediately take offense and the little girl would be thrown out of the cockpit faster than you could say, "hey baby hey baby hey".
"Hiltz thinks I owe him money?!" Raven fumed from inside the cockpit of the Genobreaker.
He turned to something behind him and Fiona realized Reese was there. The blue haired ancient Zoidian shrugged.
"Well, did he give you any money?" she asked.
"What?! Well..I.." Raven trailed off thoughtfully while everyone sweat dropped. Perhaps he did owe the guy money afterall, what were the odds of that happening?
The Blade Liger pawed the ground anxiously and growled, looking up at the Genobreaker every once and the while. It appeared as Zeke was asking Shadow something. Shadow growled his response and the Liger paused and glanced around at the other zoids. It growled again but the pilots in each zoid didn't even notice the conversation going on between the two organiods.
"Did he or did he not, Raven?" Reese asked in annoyance. She was getting bored and somehow doubted that Hiltz would raise out of his grave just to get some money, unless he knew it would piss Raven off..with Hiltz one never knew. She glanced at the com link at Alicia Lynette a.k.a Fiona, she assumed that the blonde was never one to lie about visions. Well, she never did before. The com link was shut up abruptly and further increased her growing suspicions.
"..What exactly are you trying to get at, Reese?" Raven asked finally, glaring at her to the best of his ability because that pesky seatbelt was preventing him from turning all the way.
"Who's Hiltz?" inquired a certain midnight haired seven year old.
Jade had her arms folded indignantly over her chest and was glaring at each of them in turn.
Raven returned the glare with one of his own. "A evil guy, are you happy now?!"
"Hiltz was a bad guy, like Raven put it. He was really smart and tried to kill your uncle, me, Raven and all of humanity," Reese explained with the turn of her wrist.
Jade lips parted into the shape of an 'o'. So this Hiltz guy was another one of the people who knew her uncle before she did, could this all have happened before she was born? She doubted that, because if Van didn't lose his memory they would have never met and he would never her uncle. She bit her lower lip at the thought of being without him. As mad as she was at him, she couldn't imagine her life without him. He always made her feel better and made her laugh when she was down.
"What happened to him?"
Reese and Raven exchanged looks, well she looked at him while he rolled his eyes. Why was this child so full of questions? But he chose to ignore her.
"Van!" Raven snapped. "I want to talk to your girlfriend."
In the com-link, Van blinked. His girlfriend? Did he mean Fiona? Was she his girlfriend? He wondered, well she was three years ago..and they did make out, but did that technically make her his girlfriend?
"Er.Raven..she's not my girlfriend..."
"I don't care!!"
With a sigh, Van made contact with the Zaber Fang with Moonbay and Fiona inside. He wondered why Raven couldn't just do it himself but just sighed again, his rival had a funny way of doing things to say the least.
"Fiona," he sighed again. Man he was too tired for this. "Raven wants to talk to you about your vision."
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"What do you mean Raven's been spotted?!"
Thomas Richard Shubaltz had his hands flat against the smooth wood surface of his desk, his green eyes wide with disbelief. Just minutes earlier Anderson walked into the room, announcing that that Raven was on public television. He couldn't believe his ears; could Raven be that dense? What could he possibly being doing to get a spot on the six o'clock news?
Anderson ran her hand through her medium length auburn hair and nodded. "Sir, what I'm trying to say there was a battle earlier with a red Genobreaker and a blue Blade Liger. Since Raven's only known zoid is a red Genobreaker, I assumed it was him."
"There's only one red Genobreaker in the whole world, Lt," parts of what she said suddenly clicked. "Did you say something about a blue Blade Liger?"
She nodded dumbly. Thomas gasped and suddenly cursed; he couldn't believe Van was fighting with Raven already. When would two stop going down each other's throats already? Why couldn't they fight some other time? He sighed when he remembered that Van never listened to him in the past, some things never change.
"Is something wrong, sir?" Lieutenant Anderson asked with concern. What was so important about a stupid Blade Liger, a common zoid?
Thomas shook his head and rummaged for something in his neat, organized drawers. Well they would have been organized if it weren't for him being lazy and not putting back everything where they belonged. From his peripheral vision, Thomas could tell Anderson was still there and wanted desperately for her to just 'poof' and disappear forever. Unfortunately she didn't, she just stood up there and stared at him with concern. And it irritated him, couldn't she take a hint? He mentally sighed, guess not.
"Your excused, Lieutenant."
"Yes but, sir?"
"Can it wait? I don't mean to be rude, but Lieutenant, I'm very busy right now. You ask me later, is that okay?"
"Yes sir," she saluted and walked out of the room with a defeated sigh.
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There was no sign of them anywhere. All was quiet and the wind blew tumbleweeds in various directions regardless of what had happened. A certain red organiod trudged along meaningfully for it's young master, but found no sign of her anywhere. What kind of organiod was he? It thought angrily. It couldn't even protect it's master.
It continued on it's way, retracing it's master's footsteps so to speak. Actually it was following the big red Genobreaker tracks. Tracking came easily to the organiod, it probably came easily to all organiods. But this one went on even though something growled from somewhere near it.
There it was again, the growl. And this time it was louder than before. Ambient looked over it's shoulder to see..nothing, absolutely nothing. Shaking it's head, it continued following now faint smell of another organiod. This scent it didn't recognize, but Zeke had told it that that was the smell of an organiod called Shadow, Zeke's sworn enemy.
Just as Ambient lifted it's head to take another whiff to make sure it was going to the right way, a blue organiod appeared in front of it. This organiod had a long elegant neck and two spikes on it's head. It was also a she. She cocked her head to one side and let out a throaty growl at the red organiod.
* What are you doing here? *
Ambient tried to walk past her and so he could find his master, who needed him right now. But she persisted, the jets on her hindquarters propelling her off the ground.
-* None of your business, now if you'd excuse-- *-
The blue organiod let out a shriek and craned her head to the dirt path in front of them. Needless to say she was desperate. Fire exploded in the horizon followed by the sounds of zoids in pain. Both organiods exchanged looks and raced to the scene.
-* What's your name? *- Ambient looked intently at the mysterious female organiod.
-* Specula. And I already know yours, junior *-
-* How? *-
Ambient stopped just to make a point, even though he wanted desperately to get there faster. His master needed him.
Specula stopped as well and tossed him an annoyed look. -* Come on, we all know who you are. Even though you were reborn, we still know who you were *- With that she shot off into blue lightening.
Growling, Ambient followed the fashion.
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"Ancient Zoidian, I demand you tell me exactly where that red-haired freak Hiltz is this instant."
Fiona mentally sighed at the hotheaded warrior's attempts to frighten her: although he had succeeded in intimidating her in the beginning, but now it was just like whatever. She took in a deep breath and looked him straight in the eye.
"Raven, if you keep pestering me then I won't tell you," she said coldly.
"Grrr.. I'm NOT pestering you, dammit! I just think I should finish what was started all those years ago, if Hiltz isn't dead then he will be soon when I get through with him."
Fiona thought of something to say that could discourage him from talking that way, but nothing came to mind. What could she do to make him leave them alone? Something crossed her mind, the full dress rehearsal for her concert was tonight and then the concert itself would be the following night and she had hardly prepared! Oh no! Her past had come back to haunt her and now it threatened her future, what was a girl to do? She had to do something quick, but with no idea how to keep the two worlds apart (the two being the past and present).
She looked wearily at the Blade Liger and briefly wondered if all this was worth it..worth falling in love with Van again. She mentally shook herself, it was because of her that Van had his memories back. They were now even. And she had never stopped loving him, just learned to live without him.
Without even thinking, Fiona pressed a button that released the canopy and jumped out. She didn't even realize what she was doing until she heard herself call to Van and Zeke.
The Liger lowered it's head curiously at her and growled softly. Fiona smiled and stroked it's chin. Zeke purred like a cat would as the canopy opened.
"Fiona?" Van blinked.
She didn't reply just smiled, hopped in and made herself comfy in the co pilot seat. It had been a long time since she had been in here last. And it felt like seeing an old friend for the first time in years. Everything was still in order. The repair group did one hell of a job fixing it up.
"Er..Fiona? What are you doing?"
"Turn off the com links, I have something important to tell you," she said simply.
Fiona saw the little girl on Raven's lap wrinkle her nose and stick her tongue out like she had tasted something rotten. She made disgusted sounds and gagged.
"Eww..they're gonna kiss again. GROSS!"
Then her image disappeared with the rest of them. The Liger set it's hindquarters down and brought it's paw to it's chin before setting it down again, oddly enough the Genobreaker did almost exactly the same except it put one skinny arm to it's face and then moved it's tail irritably. Fiona wondered what exactly the two organiods were doing, even though Zeke refused to say.
"So what's up?"
Van turned to her, well to the best of his ability, and looked over her curiously. Whatever she had to say it must have been really important if she didn't want anyone else to know..or did that mean it was not important? Hmmmmm. (a/n: sorry, it's five in the morning and I'm half asleep)
"Well, I have a confession to make."
Fiona suddenly found it amusing to stare at her hands that were folded on her lap. She couldn't believe she was actually saying this. She thought for sure, Van would get mad and spoil everything by telling Raven it was a hoax.
She met his eyes briefly. He was bewildered but nodded nonetheless. "Um..okay.."
"It's about what I said to Ra-" suddenly there was a large explosion that sent the zoids flying backwards. The last thing Fiona saw before she fell into the darkness was a blinding red light.
*&*&*&*&*& Author's Note: sorry it's so short but this is all I could think up at the moment. I'm a creature of the night as such I work better at night, so that's why I'm like half asleep lol I know that's not a good excuse or anything but please bear with me here. Please tell me what you all think, okay? I'm going to try my best to update this story as fast as I can, but if I'm going to do that I need you all *indicates at readers* to review. You know the deal just one review and your wish is my command.
I just wanted to add one thing.make that two things. One) I'm a sucker for kawaii puppy eyes, sad but true. So starheart you know how make me update faster, *shakes head and sighs* And Taltos, thank you that was one of the kindest things anyone's ever said to me. And I'll try my best to follow my heart, but I have a good feeling about this story. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Ok, shutting up now. R AND R EVERYONE! Lol.
*Mi ChElLe13*
Frowning, Fiona thought of what she could say to make Raven leave them alone. She could say that Hiltz was hiding in a cave or something where the Genobreaker couldn't fit so he would have to go on foot..but knowing Raven he'd take the zoid anyways and just blast the cave into smithereens, regardless of who was in the cockpit with him. Or she could somehow convince him that bringing Jade was a bad idea because that was exactly what Hiltz wanted him to do. If she said that, Raven's pride would immediately take offense and the little girl would be thrown out of the cockpit faster than you could say, "hey baby hey baby hey".
"Hiltz thinks I owe him money?!" Raven fumed from inside the cockpit of the Genobreaker.
He turned to something behind him and Fiona realized Reese was there. The blue haired ancient Zoidian shrugged.
"Well, did he give you any money?" she asked.
"What?! Well..I.." Raven trailed off thoughtfully while everyone sweat dropped. Perhaps he did owe the guy money afterall, what were the odds of that happening?
The Blade Liger pawed the ground anxiously and growled, looking up at the Genobreaker every once and the while. It appeared as Zeke was asking Shadow something. Shadow growled his response and the Liger paused and glanced around at the other zoids. It growled again but the pilots in each zoid didn't even notice the conversation going on between the two organiods.
"Did he or did he not, Raven?" Reese asked in annoyance. She was getting bored and somehow doubted that Hiltz would raise out of his grave just to get some money, unless he knew it would piss Raven off..with Hiltz one never knew. She glanced at the com link at Alicia Lynette a.k.a Fiona, she assumed that the blonde was never one to lie about visions. Well, she never did before. The com link was shut up abruptly and further increased her growing suspicions.
"..What exactly are you trying to get at, Reese?" Raven asked finally, glaring at her to the best of his ability because that pesky seatbelt was preventing him from turning all the way.
"Who's Hiltz?" inquired a certain midnight haired seven year old.
Jade had her arms folded indignantly over her chest and was glaring at each of them in turn.
Raven returned the glare with one of his own. "A evil guy, are you happy now?!"
"Hiltz was a bad guy, like Raven put it. He was really smart and tried to kill your uncle, me, Raven and all of humanity," Reese explained with the turn of her wrist.
Jade lips parted into the shape of an 'o'. So this Hiltz guy was another one of the people who knew her uncle before she did, could this all have happened before she was born? She doubted that, because if Van didn't lose his memory they would have never met and he would never her uncle. She bit her lower lip at the thought of being without him. As mad as she was at him, she couldn't imagine her life without him. He always made her feel better and made her laugh when she was down.
"What happened to him?"
Reese and Raven exchanged looks, well she looked at him while he rolled his eyes. Why was this child so full of questions? But he chose to ignore her.
"Van!" Raven snapped. "I want to talk to your girlfriend."
In the com-link, Van blinked. His girlfriend? Did he mean Fiona? Was she his girlfriend? He wondered, well she was three years ago..and they did make out, but did that technically make her his girlfriend?
"Er.Raven..she's not my girlfriend..."
"I don't care!!"
With a sigh, Van made contact with the Zaber Fang with Moonbay and Fiona inside. He wondered why Raven couldn't just do it himself but just sighed again, his rival had a funny way of doing things to say the least.
"Fiona," he sighed again. Man he was too tired for this. "Raven wants to talk to you about your vision."
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"What do you mean Raven's been spotted?!"
Thomas Richard Shubaltz had his hands flat against the smooth wood surface of his desk, his green eyes wide with disbelief. Just minutes earlier Anderson walked into the room, announcing that that Raven was on public television. He couldn't believe his ears; could Raven be that dense? What could he possibly being doing to get a spot on the six o'clock news?
Anderson ran her hand through her medium length auburn hair and nodded. "Sir, what I'm trying to say there was a battle earlier with a red Genobreaker and a blue Blade Liger. Since Raven's only known zoid is a red Genobreaker, I assumed it was him."
"There's only one red Genobreaker in the whole world, Lt," parts of what she said suddenly clicked. "Did you say something about a blue Blade Liger?"
She nodded dumbly. Thomas gasped and suddenly cursed; he couldn't believe Van was fighting with Raven already. When would two stop going down each other's throats already? Why couldn't they fight some other time? He sighed when he remembered that Van never listened to him in the past, some things never change.
"Is something wrong, sir?" Lieutenant Anderson asked with concern. What was so important about a stupid Blade Liger, a common zoid?
Thomas shook his head and rummaged for something in his neat, organized drawers. Well they would have been organized if it weren't for him being lazy and not putting back everything where they belonged. From his peripheral vision, Thomas could tell Anderson was still there and wanted desperately for her to just 'poof' and disappear forever. Unfortunately she didn't, she just stood up there and stared at him with concern. And it irritated him, couldn't she take a hint? He mentally sighed, guess not.
"Your excused, Lieutenant."
"Yes but, sir?"
"Can it wait? I don't mean to be rude, but Lieutenant, I'm very busy right now. You ask me later, is that okay?"
"Yes sir," she saluted and walked out of the room with a defeated sigh.
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There was no sign of them anywhere. All was quiet and the wind blew tumbleweeds in various directions regardless of what had happened. A certain red organiod trudged along meaningfully for it's young master, but found no sign of her anywhere. What kind of organiod was he? It thought angrily. It couldn't even protect it's master.
It continued on it's way, retracing it's master's footsteps so to speak. Actually it was following the big red Genobreaker tracks. Tracking came easily to the organiod, it probably came easily to all organiods. But this one went on even though something growled from somewhere near it.
There it was again, the growl. And this time it was louder than before. Ambient looked over it's shoulder to see..nothing, absolutely nothing. Shaking it's head, it continued following now faint smell of another organiod. This scent it didn't recognize, but Zeke had told it that that was the smell of an organiod called Shadow, Zeke's sworn enemy.
Just as Ambient lifted it's head to take another whiff to make sure it was going to the right way, a blue organiod appeared in front of it. This organiod had a long elegant neck and two spikes on it's head. It was also a she. She cocked her head to one side and let out a throaty growl at the red organiod.
* What are you doing here? *
Ambient tried to walk past her and so he could find his master, who needed him right now. But she persisted, the jets on her hindquarters propelling her off the ground.
-* None of your business, now if you'd excuse-- *-
The blue organiod let out a shriek and craned her head to the dirt path in front of them. Needless to say she was desperate. Fire exploded in the horizon followed by the sounds of zoids in pain. Both organiods exchanged looks and raced to the scene.
-* What's your name? *- Ambient looked intently at the mysterious female organiod.
-* Specula. And I already know yours, junior *-
-* How? *-
Ambient stopped just to make a point, even though he wanted desperately to get there faster. His master needed him.
Specula stopped as well and tossed him an annoyed look. -* Come on, we all know who you are. Even though you were reborn, we still know who you were *- With that she shot off into blue lightening.
Growling, Ambient followed the fashion.
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"Ancient Zoidian, I demand you tell me exactly where that red-haired freak Hiltz is this instant."
Fiona mentally sighed at the hotheaded warrior's attempts to frighten her: although he had succeeded in intimidating her in the beginning, but now it was just like whatever. She took in a deep breath and looked him straight in the eye.
"Raven, if you keep pestering me then I won't tell you," she said coldly.
"Grrr.. I'm NOT pestering you, dammit! I just think I should finish what was started all those years ago, if Hiltz isn't dead then he will be soon when I get through with him."
Fiona thought of something to say that could discourage him from talking that way, but nothing came to mind. What could she do to make him leave them alone? Something crossed her mind, the full dress rehearsal for her concert was tonight and then the concert itself would be the following night and she had hardly prepared! Oh no! Her past had come back to haunt her and now it threatened her future, what was a girl to do? She had to do something quick, but with no idea how to keep the two worlds apart (the two being the past and present).
She looked wearily at the Blade Liger and briefly wondered if all this was worth it..worth falling in love with Van again. She mentally shook herself, it was because of her that Van had his memories back. They were now even. And she had never stopped loving him, just learned to live without him.
Without even thinking, Fiona pressed a button that released the canopy and jumped out. She didn't even realize what she was doing until she heard herself call to Van and Zeke.
The Liger lowered it's head curiously at her and growled softly. Fiona smiled and stroked it's chin. Zeke purred like a cat would as the canopy opened.
"Fiona?" Van blinked.
She didn't reply just smiled, hopped in and made herself comfy in the co pilot seat. It had been a long time since she had been in here last. And it felt like seeing an old friend for the first time in years. Everything was still in order. The repair group did one hell of a job fixing it up.
"Er..Fiona? What are you doing?"
"Turn off the com links, I have something important to tell you," she said simply.
Fiona saw the little girl on Raven's lap wrinkle her nose and stick her tongue out like she had tasted something rotten. She made disgusted sounds and gagged.
"Eww..they're gonna kiss again. GROSS!"
Then her image disappeared with the rest of them. The Liger set it's hindquarters down and brought it's paw to it's chin before setting it down again, oddly enough the Genobreaker did almost exactly the same except it put one skinny arm to it's face and then moved it's tail irritably. Fiona wondered what exactly the two organiods were doing, even though Zeke refused to say.
"So what's up?"
Van turned to her, well to the best of his ability, and looked over her curiously. Whatever she had to say it must have been really important if she didn't want anyone else to know..or did that mean it was not important? Hmmmmm. (a/n: sorry, it's five in the morning and I'm half asleep)
"Well, I have a confession to make."
Fiona suddenly found it amusing to stare at her hands that were folded on her lap. She couldn't believe she was actually saying this. She thought for sure, Van would get mad and spoil everything by telling Raven it was a hoax.
She met his eyes briefly. He was bewildered but nodded nonetheless. "Um..okay.."
"It's about what I said to Ra-" suddenly there was a large explosion that sent the zoids flying backwards. The last thing Fiona saw before she fell into the darkness was a blinding red light.
*&*&*&*&*& Author's Note: sorry it's so short but this is all I could think up at the moment. I'm a creature of the night as such I work better at night, so that's why I'm like half asleep lol I know that's not a good excuse or anything but please bear with me here. Please tell me what you all think, okay? I'm going to try my best to update this story as fast as I can, but if I'm going to do that I need you all *indicates at readers* to review. You know the deal just one review and your wish is my command.
I just wanted to add one thing.make that two things. One) I'm a sucker for kawaii puppy eyes, sad but true. So starheart you know how make me update faster, *shakes head and sighs* And Taltos, thank you that was one of the kindest things anyone's ever said to me. And I'll try my best to follow my heart, but I have a good feeling about this story. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Ok, shutting up now. R AND R EVERYONE! Lol.
*Mi ChElLe13*