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After what felt like hours, Raven finally landed.  Moonbay was tired, hungry, and all the moving around had caused the ropes to rub against her wrists.  She stifled a groan as he pulled her out of the Pteras.  She quickly looked around.  Once again they were in some sort of deserted valley.   He half walked, half dragged her to a rock, shoved her into her sitting position and then walked off.

"If you're going to keep dragging me all over the place, how about undoing the ropes.  They're starting to hurt."  she said.

Moonbay frowned when Raven completely ignored her.  He was too busy digging through some loose sand.  She watched as he pulled out a box.  Raven always kept supply stashes hidden in the desert.   The stashes came in handy when he couldn't get supplies.  He opened the box and looked through it.  There was a blanket, a change of clothes, a camping stove, some dried food, and coffee.  He moved aside the blanket and almost smiled at what he saw there.  These will come in handy, he thought as he looked over at Moonbay.  

"Don't just look at me, untie me.  Or are you afraid that I'm going to hurt you if I'm loose?"

"Shut up."  he said picking up the items he was just looking at.

Raven walked over to her and pulled out a knife.  Moonbay instantly shut up.  With a quick movement, he cut the ropes around her wrist.  She began rubbing them.

"That feels so much better.  They were beginning to...."

She stopped mid sentence when he replaced the rope with handcuffs.  He then did her legs.  Where in the world did he get this stuff?  Was kidnapping a common thing for him now?  Raven set up the small camping stove and started making coffee.  Moonbay pretended to stretch to see how far she could move her hands and feet with the cuffs on.  It would still be hard to move with them but they were one hundred percent better than the ropes. 

"Here."  Raven said suddenly throwing a small package in her lap.

Moonbay picked it up and hesitantly opened it.  It was some kind of jerky.  It wasn't exactly a nice juicy hamburger but it would have to do.  A few minutes later, he handed her a cup of the coffee.   For a brief second, she thought about throwing it in his face.  But the jerky had been dry and salty so now she was thirsty.  Besides, she was going to need to keep up her strength.  At the perfect moment, she was going to try to escape.  She let the coffee cool slightly and then drunk it.  After a few minutes, she sat the empty cup down and looked at Raven.

"Why are you putting off fighting Van?  I doubt you're afraid of him."  she asked.  "Or is it possible that the rumors of the GenoBreaker being destroyed true?"

"I could've killed Van at the base.  I was right there under his nose and he didn't even know it."  he said ignoring the question about the Genobreaker.   "And I actually was going to kill him until I heard Van confess his love to someone.  Then I saw that he was saying it to you and well..."

Van confessed his love to me?  Raven must be truly crazy.

Moonbay ignored him as she thought over her conversation with Van.   She suddenly remembered Van saying the word love.

"Yeah I love you...like a hole in the head."  she remembered Van saying.

That answered her question of why he thought she was Van's girlfriend.  Moonbay groaned inwardly as everything began sliding into place.  She was sitting in the desert, cold, hungry and in the company of the last person she wanted to be with all because Raven had jumped to conclusions about a partial conversation he overheard.  This whole situation would be funny it wasn't so serious.  One thing stuck out in her mind though.  Raven had said that he was going to kill Van at the base until he saw that Van had confessed his love to her.  So this did have something to do with her.

"I'm not here just as bait."  she said out loud.  "What do you have planned for me?"

Raven ignored her and drunk some of his coffee.  Moonbay nearly screamed.   She hated being ignored. 

"Is your plan to let Van kill me and then leave him to live with it?"

She watched slightly horrified as Raven actually thought over her suggestion.

"That would be interesting, but no."  he finally said with a smirk.

"Then you want me to kill him?"

"No one is going to kill Flyheight except me." 

"Then why am I here?"  she asked slightly irritated.  "Know what, it doesn't matter what you have planned.   I won't do anything to hurt Van."

"It's not what you're going to do but what you've already done."

What I've already done?

I've haven't done anything, she thought happily.  Suddenly a chill ran down her spine.   He couldn't mean....  Moonbay's head snapped up.    She watched a wicked grin spread across his face and a lump formed in her throat.   That's exactly what he meant.  She lowered her head as questions ran through her head.    Had Raven already told Van?  And exactly what had he told him?  What was Van's reaction?  What about Irvine and Fiona?  Why was Raven doing this?   I'm sorry guys, she thought miserably.  I should have told you from the beginning.  Raven watched the emotions flash across Moonbay's face with amusement.  Confusion, shock, sadness, guilt and finally anger.  He mentally counted down the seconds before she exploded.   5...4...3...2...1

"I hate you!"

She lunged at him but he made no move to get out of the way or stop her.  The force of her body knocked them both back.   Despite the cuffs, she knew she got in a few good hits.  But that didn't make her feel any better because Raven was smirking through it all.  After a minute of what he saw as her pitiful struggle, Raven rolled and in an instant she was on her back.  He straddled her legs to keep her from kicking at him.    He then grabbed the chain that connected the handcuffs and held it against her stomach so she couldn't move her hands.   Raven then slowly lowered his head until he and Moonbay's face were practically touching.  Her eyes widened.  Was he going to kiss her?

Van, Fiona, and Irvine went to the nearest base they could find.  Once they gained access, they went to the computer room.   They walked over to a technician.

"We need to know what these numbers mean."  Van said as he handed the man the piece of paper with the numbers on it.

"Those looks like some kind of coordinates."

"But they're not.  We already checked.  They don't lead anyplace."

"It could be some sort of number puzzle.  Let me see what the computer can do with them."

The technician typed the numbers into the computer.

"This is going to take a few minutes."

Irvine looked at Van.

"Can we be sure that Moonbay is still alive?"

"Don't say that.  Raven wouldn't have taken her just to kill her."

"Okay but why would he take Moonbay?"

"Maybe she was the only one he could get too.  He had to take her sometime after the guards found us."   Van said. 

"Let's say that she was the only one he could get to, but why?"  Irvine asked.

"He wants to hurt Van."  Fiona said.

"That's nothing new."  Irvine said.  "If he wants to attack Van why not come after him like he always does?  We'll never figure out what Raven's thinking."

"You know, that's what Moonbay said."  Van said with a sigh.  "She said don't try to figure him out otherwise I'd end up as crazy as him."

"I'm getting a weird feeling about all this."  Irvine said.

"Me too.  We're missing a big piece of the puzzle."

"Guys, I have something over here."  the technician said. 

They went back and looked at the computer monitor.   An extremely grainy, black and white picture was downloading.  Once it was finished, the technician put it on a bigger monitor for them to see.     

"That's Moonbay."  Van and Irvine said at the same time.

"You sure?  I'm surprised that you can see anything."  the technician said.  "The picture quality is horrible."

"Yes, they're sure."  Fiona said.  "We know our friend."

Moonbay was kneeling beside an older blonde haired guy who had his arm around her.  They were both wearing some type of uniform.

"Why is Moonbay in a uniform?"  Fiona asked.

"And why does it look so familiar?"  Van asked.

"That's an Imperial soldiers uniform."  Irvine said pointing to the guy.  "But Moonbay's isn't.  I don't even think it's hers.  Look at it, it's too big for her."

"You're right Irvine.  Hold on, what's that?"

Van pointed to a dark blob not too far away from Moonbay and the guy.

"It looks like someone else.  I can try to make that clearer."  the technician said.

He highlighted the blob and typed on the keyboard.  The picture flicked a few times. 

"That's as clear as I can get it."  the technician said looking at them.

It didn't need to get any clearer because they recognized the person in the picture.  For a few seconds they just stared at the picture because they were completely in shock.  

"Shit, it can't be."  Irvine finally said.

"B-b-but that's..."  Fiona whispered.

"Raven."  Van finished angrily.

Kaoru-  thank you for reading.    Yes, he's clueless to his mistake.  For now.   She's pissed at him so there will be more arguing between Moonbay and Raven.  Who knows, their anger might lead to more.  :D  As for him being innocent, not even close.  I like Moonbay with anyone too.  But since Raven is my favorite, I couldn't resist. 

Red Baroness-  :)  Thanks for reading.  Your welcome.  I love Little Raven.  I hope you're going to finish it. 

AniGirl 7-  No, I haven't forgotten.  I'm very glad you like it.  I didn't even know I changed it.  More soon.  

Mysterious-Traveler-  :D  I'm glad you loved it.  

Sanity-Stealing-Lawn-Gnome-  Thanks. 

Taltos-  Don't worry, Moonbay has just begun to fight.