I have to apologize for the last chapter. It could have been better written. But I was rushed. You understand, right? Anyway, my colleague and co-writer has given me a solution to my 'should I write a lemon' question. There will be a separate chapter at the end of all this, written as a separate story, so that I don't have to move this to the R section. ^_^ It's so the decent people can read their story unhindered and the . . . more selective readers can go read that part if they so wish. Be wary, as you know by now, I can get pretty graphic. Careful, it will have much detail. Anyway, I am rather disappointed with myself because of the fact that the ending was rather insufficient. I think I'll go in and fix it... Later. Yes. Later. Anyway, I think you'll get a kick out of this one. 'Truth Be Told' is a mixture of things, and I swear, it WILL be better written, because I'm not on a time constraint put on by my parents or my co-author. *Glares and whaps him* By the way, he isn't helping me write this current story. This is a published version of a story we wrote quite a long time ago, but with some minor adjustments. You know, the details and the like. Mostly the purpose of the last chapter was to give you a peek into Kyle's past. Don't you feel sorry for him? You should. If you don't you are a sad and pathetic person! Now that I'm done ranting, here it is, Truth Be Told.
P.S. I'm sorry for the time it took! I got stuck by the Uber-Writer's Block.
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"No no, it's this color."
"Oh come on! You're a liger, like me! Dark colors suit you best."
The child nodded sagely, thumbing his chin knowingly. Newt kept trying to convince his mother to wear black armor, but that wasn't going over very well. The armor shop owners watched him and his mother carefully, the Godos pair wary of the younger of the two. Just like in a ritzy clothing shop in a rich neighborhood, they didn't trust children in their perfectly arranged shop. Wraith stared down at her son with a look of amused displeasure.
"But it's a wedding! What's Audrena going to say if I come in there dressed for a funeral?!"
"Good point." Newt said, shrugging in slight defeat. The older liger poked at a pair of white shoulder pieces with silver inlay.
"Besides, when you're the maid of honor, don't you think you should abide by a simple tradition?"
"Um, mom? You aren't a maid." He said, sitting down on his haunches. Wraith blinked, somewhat embarrassed.
"How do you know that?"
"Well, I'm here, aren't I? That kinda proves it." The full grown liger snickered.
"How do you know your not adopted?"
"Because dad already gave me the details on how I was conceived." He said shamelessly. Wraith sweatdropped heavily, donning a very sour look.
"Nitric, you are dead." She shook her head and sighed, growling under her breath.
"But what have you gotten out, ring bearer?"
"Don't call me that. I'm not a hobbit."
"You look like it."
"Bleh."
They weren't the only ones looking around for new armor. After the good news had been announced, the whole base went into an uproar, attempting to prepare for the upcoming event. Walls were being repainted, whole floors were being renovated, and quite a few zoids were paying special attention to Audrena's bedroom. After all, that's where all fun would start.
Well, until Audrena got wise to what they were doing.
With half-lidded eyes from lack of sleep, she opened the thick wooden doors, only to have her eyes fly open from the pungent smell of fresh paint. The black brown orbs traveled around the abruptly changed room, roving over the various modifications, then to the two zoids.
"Oh my god…I've been vandalized by druids…'
Her eyes instantly narrowed.
"What the hell have you two done to my room!?" The two miniaturized Lightning Saix glanced up and gave her identical smiles.
"We just thought we might spruce things up! After all, this is where all of the best stuff will start." The one on the left stated, glancing to the right as his twin began to speak.
"Yeah! You know, the wedding night and all?"
"I mean, come on, it's going to be the end of your physical purity! The room has to give a memorable feel."
"As there will be other memorable feelings in here too. That's why we put in blood-resistant sheets, because they say it hurts and bleeds when you screw the first t-"
CRACK!!!
The mammoth wreaking hammer caught the twin on the left in the head, knocking him and his twin end over end.
"YOU TWO ARE ZOIDS WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT REAL PAIN IS LIKE!" Audrena raged, her eyes now shading a incredibly dark crimson in her wrath. The two gulped backing away very slowly, as not to invoke her anger any further.
"NEITHER OF YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED WHAT TRUE SUFFERING WILL EVER BE LIKE! TAKE A STEP IN MY SHOES FOR ONCE, AND YOU'LL GET AN IDEA OF WHAT SORT OF MENTAL PREPARATION GOES INTO THIS!!!!"
She hated when people pried into her up-coming love life, and the fact that she would be sleeping with Kyle within a year was a rather touchy subject for her. She had been thinking about that for a while now, ever since she had regained her eyesight, and it hadn't gotten much better all around.
Either way, this had invoked her rage, which was not easily dealt with.
"YOU KEPT DIGGING AND NOW YOU'RE BOTH GOING TO PAY FOR IT!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Even though she enjoyed the fact that now she had moss for carpet, her bed had moved to right under a willow tree and had been upgraded to a king size, and the fact that half of her room was now a birch-filled wood with a rather nice lake toward the end of it, she could have easily done that herself. She wasn't exactly happy about that, especially the blood-proof sheets they had put in. That was the clincher, a slap in the face…and HOW they wee gonna pay….
(Audrena's main room is on the second floor, and takes up about half of the floor itself. The secondary is in the hanger, and looks more like a prison cell then anything else. O.o? Don't ask.)
The pair took off out the door, the growling Audrena in hot pursuit with hammer in hand. Every single zoid the twins passed immediately felt extreme pity, getting out of the way as the twins tried to escape, heading for the first floor. . .
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So, by the time Kyle emerged from his own room, he almost tripped over the many scattered zoid parts as he stepped off the elevator to the hanger floor. His eyes traveled over the numerous frayed zoidian parts, sweat dropping as he went. Rolling his eyes at his fiancée's work, Kyle shook his head. What a temper. They must've done something horrible in her books to receive such punishment.
Then again, it could be something as simple as taking the last slice of pizza. . .
Eyes blazing blue, each part flew back together at Kyle's direction. Eventually, 2 Lightning Saix darted back together, each a brilliant yellow. Energy surged through their cores, restarting them again. Kyle watched nonchalantly as they jerked to life, getting up slowly.
"Ah yes, the twins." Kyle said, a smile creeping up his face. "What did you this time, Yin and Yang?"
The two cats, being about the size of panthers, glanced at each other with a pair of innocent expressions on their faces. Those two were known for causing trouble around the base. The last trick they pulled involved taunting a Dark Horn into a rampage and watching it wreak the floor for fun. That got them shrunk down to their current size. Each used to be normal size, and gloated in the fact that they were twins and both were larger then the Audreniliger in mass.
Audrena, however, knew their biggest weakness. The only thing they could brag on. Their size. So they were now stuck as miniatures, and hated it.
"Well. . ." The one on the right stared at his sibling warningly. It was impossible to tell them apart, so the base just referred to them as left and right, according to where they stood in relation to each other.
"We decided to trim up Audrena's room!" Left confirmed enthusiastically.
"Yeah, because it just wasn't as amorous as it should be." Right put emphasis on the word 'amorous', giving it a French sound.
"I mean, come on," Left rolled his eyes, as though it was obvious. "She's going to be losing her virginity in there by your intercession. It's gotta be special!"
Kyle immediately blushed a shade of red so dark it was almost black and sweat dropped heavily. The very thought of sex, although he knew it would happen eventually, made him blush. Well, only if something of his fantasies had been accidentally and unknowingly mentioned in public. He had been thinking about that for a while now, actually, as it would be part of the inevitable if everything went correctly. . .
He shook his head violently to get Audrena's imagined moaning out of his ears, turning back to the twins, who were snickering by now.
"Bet he just enjoyed the image he got." Left muttered under his breath.
"Yup, he's probably a little horny right now." Right replied, sending them both into a titter.
"Well, the scan says that too!"
That was the last thing they said for a while. The pair's parts flew every which way, clattering on the hard steel floor as Kyle ripped them apart, a electric blue glow encompassing each piece as it blew out in every direction. The human looked down on the scattered parts and snorted.
"Audren had the right idea." He muttered, walking towards the elevator again, now in a very sour mood. . .
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"Are you sure of this Troden?" It wouldn't be the first time the fox had given the partial truth, even to his new master. . .
"Of course master. I have pictures of the rings!"
"What is this all of a sudden?" Malone muttered to himself. "LOTR?"
He had gotten quite frustrated with the failure of his first attempt to get them to come easily. Malone had hoped to convince them to come along without any struggle or minimal resistance at the worst.
But he still thought it was quite entertaining to hear Audrena whimper in excruciating pain and Kyle cry out in his suffering. . .
But no matter, they were still alive, he had a second chance to tell them the truth.
He knew that their life was nothing but a lie, a fabrication. He knew everything that could be known about those two. And their engagement only complicated matters. Now they wouldn't be separated from each other so easily anymore. . .
He swung down from the rafter, smiling to himself. He'll just have to devise another strategy, another tactic. His first idea, of trying to get them to come quietly hadn't worked out so well. Malone hadn't planned on Kyle boring a hole through his teleportation shield, nor had he planned on them even staying alive after their rather grievous injuries either.
He would have to set up his plan very carefully. . .
Malone's eyes swung around the large estate he had come to call home, and every one of the priceless treasures inside. He had been alive for millennia, and each one of those had it's own piece of history he had claimed for his own. The purple orbs turned back to his chandelier, almost completely full. That had taken him even more time to stock up, accounting to where his life had been spent in the last few hundred years. . .
Malone heaved a heavy-hearted sigh, looking out at the thousands of artifacts in his home, all of them he would have to give up in order to get himself to full power. It wasn't as though he was attempting to rule the world, as he had already done that. After all, all Audrena and Kyle only saw what he wanted them to see.
He would have to make sacrifices in order to bring this pair in, but it would be well worth the effort if he could harness their power. . .
Especially with the rest of the world's souls at his disposal. . .
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Kyle promptly flopped into the nearest armchair, sweat dripping off of his chin. He had been undergoing rigorous cardiac training to repair his heart strength, and it was a little short of torture. Every pulse of his heart stung like a bee sting, and when it accelerated. . .
He glanced around the study, huge to the extreme of the word. From glass floor to domed stained glass ceiling, shelves lined with thousands upon thousands of books, all but one wall out of the 6 in the circular room. That one wall was lined with more stained glass, cathedral-like and letting in the evening sunlight so that the whole room was lit with red and orange. Three thick leather chairs and a mahogany desk were the only furniture in the large room, other then the rolling ladder, but that was a must for such a large library.
Kyle's pulse now down to normal, he was rather comfortable, nothing but a slight twinge in his chest. About to stand, the black double doors opened with a long drawn out squeak, he sat down again, sticking a couple of jelly beans in his mouth. Audrena giggled, closing the doors behind her.
"Going for Dusty Baker are we?" Kyle chuckled lightly, shoving the half chewed candy to one side of his mouth, the plastic bagging that had been holding the beans crinkling his fingers.
"Oh god! The goat won't affect us this year! But we're too superstitious to win a world series! Oh no, there goes Alphonsaco! Let's put him in as the starter!!"
He shrugged a little, watching his fiancé recover from her laughing fit. "Well, it apparently works." He put the rest of the beans into his jeans pocket. "I've never seen you laugh that hard."
Audrena cocked an eyebrow in return, taking her time in walking towards him. "And I've never you make such a fool of yourself before either."
"Ouch." He winced with a signature smile. "I've been stung. Somebody get the antiseptic, I'm gonna die from a hemorrhaging ego."
He promptly shut up when Audrena sat in his lap. The chair had no trouble supporting them both. Kyle gave her an eyebrow, his heart beat starting to speed up again.
"So!" She said cheerily, stretching out and putting her feet up on the arm rest. "What do I get for Christmas?" Another blink. He was starting to like this sudden reversal in attitude.
"Aren't we feeling frisky today!" Again, his chuckle was silenced by a rather sudden kiss. There hadn't been much affection other then loving glances between the two since the proposal, as they both had been pretty busy, so Kyle had just gotten used to the lack of physical contact. It wasn't like he wasn't enjoying himself…
"I'll give you a lot more then that for Christmas." He murmured thickly, his lips directing themselves to the base of her neck. Now occupied with something other then his heart rate, which was now starting to skyrocket all over again, he smiled through it.
'My god,' He thought thickly, his excitement starting to cloud his judgment. 'I'm onna get laid in the Study's lounge chair! What the hell is going on here?!'
"My goodness Audrena, what's gotten into you?" He muttered from the crook of her neck. He didn't understand what was going on, but he was thoroughly enjoying it. Audrena leaned her head into his skull, feeling her own pulse rise, despite the fact she knew what all this was about. . .
Just as his hands was attempting to remove the shoulders of her peasant tunic with a pair of shaking hands, she gave him a chaste kiss and pulled away, almost jogging towards the door.
"Bye!" He was still recovering from the sudden arousal and breathlessness when the door closed with a squeak and a woody slam. He stared after her incredulously, shocked and a little disappointed.
"What on Zi was that for?" He whispered to himself, standing slowly and moving towards the double doors. At least his chest didn't hurt anymore.
As he closed the doors behind him, he caught a thread of conversation further down the hallway. Much further down the hallway, as at least one of the party was yelling at the other. He crept closer to listen, poking his head around a corner to see Audrena yelling at Barkeep. One was livid, the other impassive.
"Why did you have to pull me out right THEN?! I was enjoying that!" Ah yes, the classic Audrena rage.
"I can tell." Barkeep said dryly. "Your hicky stands out quite well against the rest of your neck."
That didn't help matters at all. Kyle blushed a little; he had NEVER meant to give her a hicky.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT!?!?!?!?"
"Just think about it this way, how it 'sounds'. -Audrena Void nearly lost her virginity in the Study's lounge chair.- Your only job was to test his heart strength by arousing him a little."
'A little?!' Kyle thought to himself, suddenly feeling as though he was standing on no-man's land.
"Bullshit." Now her tone was condescending. "You just didn't want to see us screwing in a library. You would prefer somewhere more provocative." Barkeep gulped mentally. Ok, so she had seen right through that. On to plan B.
"I'm only looking out for your fiancé's health."
"By installing cameras in my bedroom?"
Audrena pulled a small spider from her canvas cloth pants, the lens gleaming like a diamond amongst the metal legs. Barkeep sweat dropped suddenly. Uh oh. . .
"I've never seen those in my life." He rushed. Giving her famous glare, she stepped closer to the hologram, holding up the little camera so the evidence could clearly be seen.
"Don't bullshit me Barkeep." She hissed. Kyle soundless slid down the wall nearby. He knew that tone, and it usually meant parts were about to fly. Now listening intently, he started to understand what was really going on here.
"I know you better then half of the zoids running around in my base. I build you, I gave you your mind, your personality, and your habits. I guess it was my accident to turn you into a sex fiend!" Raising her hand, she paused in throwing the spider-like camera to the floor, which would easily shatter it. She could feel it quivering in her hand, terrified. Opening it again, she stroked the miniscule spider zoid in her hand, calming it as it crawled around, still keeping her eyes on the sex-obsessed zoid.
"You placed this camera in my room, didn't you." She hissed, glaring at him. "You were waiting for the wedding night, so you could watch. By yourself perhaps, or maybe sell tickets as though it was A GOD DAMN SPORTING EVENT!!!"
"You don't understand! Hundreds of zoids want to see this! They've been waiting, some of them, for 10 years for you to be tamed! They want to see the transition from the roaring and tormenting tiger to the gentle and submissive lamb!"
There was silence in the hallway.
Kyle frowned immediately on hearing those words. Oh no, oh hell no. That was NOT about to happen to her. Ok, so sometimes she could be a roaring exploding demon, but not all the time! Those qualities were one of the many reasons he loved her, how could they think she'd just pull a 180 after one night?!
"SUBMISSIVE LAMB!!!?!?" Audrena roared, causing Barkeep to cringe. "LIKE HELL I'M GOING TO BE A SUBMISSIVE LAMB!"
Kyle chuckled quietly. 'That's my Audren.'
Barkeep heaved a sigh. "I didn't mean it that way…" He said, mentally considering how it wasn't his fault that he was programmed like this.
"Of course not. And I'm a banana slug."
"I didn't say that. I'm simply reporting on how the base feels about you. Hundreds of them want to see what happens after. . .err. . ."
"The big night?"
"Yeah! That's it."
"Sickish zoids."
"I don't think that's a word…"
"You're trying to get off the subject." Audrena sighed, rolling her eyes and walking away. It was impossible to argue with that idiot…
Kyle paused, then retreated immediately into the shadows of the hallway to avoid being seen. She walked right by him, completely oblivious, and stuck her head into the study, leaning further in to get a better look around. She blinked, raising an eyebrow as she surveyed the empty room.
'Strange, I left him in here…'
"Kyle?"
Stepping out of the shadows quietly, he stuck his hands in his pockets and tried to look as innocent as possible as he tiptoed behind her and his arms encircled her waist in a fluid movement.
"You called?"
She stood straight up, jumping forwards and crying out from shock, raising her fists before she realized who it was. A slight red tinge came to the bridge of her nose and she lowered her hands with a jerk, leaning into him with a 'God-I-feel-really-stupid' grin on her face.
"Sorry about that. I just wish you would stop sneaking up on me!" Kyle shrugged, the corners of his mouth curving upwards ever so slightly.
"Just a force of habit."
Audrena grinned slightly, crossing her arms and staring up at him.
"You got any cameras?"
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"Audrena! Come 'ere and take a look! This has much more value to it."
"No way Kyle. This is so much older! By at LEAST a thousand years!"
"Oh who cares! We're taking it all, so what's the-whoa! Look at THAT! That's going in my room."
"You mean OUR room, right?"
"Of course!"
This was the general exchange happening inside of Malone's home, because that was exactly where they were. Completely unharmed. They didn't exactly care though. They were getting a kick simply out of loitering and looting in a hated enemy's home.
And gawking at the thousands of priceless treasures Malone had pirated over the millennia was also involved in it.
Despite this, Malone never emerged from his hiding spot, biting his lip to keep from ever making a sound as his favorite artifacts were stolen away. Memories of how he had attained such objects flashed before his eyes as they were teleported away, thankfully kept in the same atmospheric capsule.
The couple, completely oblivious, went on with their looting.
"My god…Kyle! Come here!"
Cleopatra's original bust, suspended in an antigravity cube, hovered behind the male pilot for a moment before it disappeared with a light hearted pop. The two were almost skipping, for each of these artifacts were worth easily trillions of credits…
Audrena's face looked rather hard and hateful as she stared up at an old tapestry, then down to an old black and white photo, framed and meticulously centered on a small bookcase. Kyle stopped, looking over her shoulder at the yellowed picture, his expression quickly darkening.
"He makes me ashamed to be part German." Audrena blinked, picking up the old photograph and glancing over her shoulder into his troubled eyes.
"You never told me you were part German. That's. . . that goes really far back to be able to say something like that. Back to Old Earth."
"Well, my mother was big into our family history. Always bragging about it."
Audrena grinned at him menacingly. Uh oh. . .
"Wilkich?" Kyle grinned sheepishly at this, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I said that I had German lineage, not that I knew how to speak the language." She punched him playfully, grinning up at him.
"Fine. Ruin my fun."
"But I'm not trying to ruin your fun!"
Audrena simply snickered, turning away from him in mock anger.
"Well you did. So for punishment?" She paused, trying to think of a good 'punishment' that actually sounded like real punishment.
"I know, I'll put you in an 'Iron Maiden.' Make you stay in there in the dark for a few hours…" She said, drawing a finger along his jaw line. She could feel the stubble of an hour's growth.
"You need a shave…" She muttered greedily. He didn't mind, simply caught the innuendo and busied him with a book he had taken from the nearest table. He found that it was an excellent way to get his mind off of the mental image he had just gotten. Flipping open the book, he pretended not to have heard his fiancée, taking a look inside the aged pages.
Noticing his lack of response, she leaned to look over his arm, since his shoulder was too high to look over.
"Err…Kyle?"
He snapped the thick book shut suddenly, gracing the ancient leather cover with his fingertips as it gave a momentary blue flash, disappearing.
"Time to set the charges and go home." He sighed and stretched suddenly, looking towards the various walls. Audrena nodded, her expression slightly troubled.
"We are going to save the library for later use, right?"
"Of course love! You doubt me?"
"No. I doubt the explosives."
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A fireworks display of color erupted from the old home, forcing it's way into the atmosphere in the form of a mushroom cloud, decorated with pieces of rock and flaming chemicals. Audrena leaned on Kyle's arm, staring at the blossom of destruction rather proudly.
"Isn't it beautiful?"
He chuckled, hazel eyes dancing in victory before gazing down at his fiancée lovingly. "No, you are."
"Oh shut up!" She muttered, trying to wipe the emerging smile from her face as the two love-birds watched what they thought was the last remnants of their enemy blow sky high…
Oh how wrong they were…
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MOOOOO!!! ^^ End chapter! Start chapter …my god, I've lost count, but we'll get to see some doom and destruction and death! We all like death! Especially my kind of death, painful and emotional. ^^ See you next chapter in 'The Newlydead'
P.S. I'm sorry for the time it took! I got stuck by the Uber-Writer's Block.
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"No no, it's this color."
"Oh come on! You're a liger, like me! Dark colors suit you best."
The child nodded sagely, thumbing his chin knowingly. Newt kept trying to convince his mother to wear black armor, but that wasn't going over very well. The armor shop owners watched him and his mother carefully, the Godos pair wary of the younger of the two. Just like in a ritzy clothing shop in a rich neighborhood, they didn't trust children in their perfectly arranged shop. Wraith stared down at her son with a look of amused displeasure.
"But it's a wedding! What's Audrena going to say if I come in there dressed for a funeral?!"
"Good point." Newt said, shrugging in slight defeat. The older liger poked at a pair of white shoulder pieces with silver inlay.
"Besides, when you're the maid of honor, don't you think you should abide by a simple tradition?"
"Um, mom? You aren't a maid." He said, sitting down on his haunches. Wraith blinked, somewhat embarrassed.
"How do you know that?"
"Well, I'm here, aren't I? That kinda proves it." The full grown liger snickered.
"How do you know your not adopted?"
"Because dad already gave me the details on how I was conceived." He said shamelessly. Wraith sweatdropped heavily, donning a very sour look.
"Nitric, you are dead." She shook her head and sighed, growling under her breath.
"But what have you gotten out, ring bearer?"
"Don't call me that. I'm not a hobbit."
"You look like it."
"Bleh."
They weren't the only ones looking around for new armor. After the good news had been announced, the whole base went into an uproar, attempting to prepare for the upcoming event. Walls were being repainted, whole floors were being renovated, and quite a few zoids were paying special attention to Audrena's bedroom. After all, that's where all fun would start.
Well, until Audrena got wise to what they were doing.
With half-lidded eyes from lack of sleep, she opened the thick wooden doors, only to have her eyes fly open from the pungent smell of fresh paint. The black brown orbs traveled around the abruptly changed room, roving over the various modifications, then to the two zoids.
"Oh my god…I've been vandalized by druids…'
Her eyes instantly narrowed.
"What the hell have you two done to my room!?" The two miniaturized Lightning Saix glanced up and gave her identical smiles.
"We just thought we might spruce things up! After all, this is where all of the best stuff will start." The one on the left stated, glancing to the right as his twin began to speak.
"Yeah! You know, the wedding night and all?"
"I mean, come on, it's going to be the end of your physical purity! The room has to give a memorable feel."
"As there will be other memorable feelings in here too. That's why we put in blood-resistant sheets, because they say it hurts and bleeds when you screw the first t-"
CRACK!!!
The mammoth wreaking hammer caught the twin on the left in the head, knocking him and his twin end over end.
"YOU TWO ARE ZOIDS WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT REAL PAIN IS LIKE!" Audrena raged, her eyes now shading a incredibly dark crimson in her wrath. The two gulped backing away very slowly, as not to invoke her anger any further.
"NEITHER OF YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED WHAT TRUE SUFFERING WILL EVER BE LIKE! TAKE A STEP IN MY SHOES FOR ONCE, AND YOU'LL GET AN IDEA OF WHAT SORT OF MENTAL PREPARATION GOES INTO THIS!!!!"
She hated when people pried into her up-coming love life, and the fact that she would be sleeping with Kyle within a year was a rather touchy subject for her. She had been thinking about that for a while now, ever since she had regained her eyesight, and it hadn't gotten much better all around.
Either way, this had invoked her rage, which was not easily dealt with.
"YOU KEPT DIGGING AND NOW YOU'RE BOTH GOING TO PAY FOR IT!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Even though she enjoyed the fact that now she had moss for carpet, her bed had moved to right under a willow tree and had been upgraded to a king size, and the fact that half of her room was now a birch-filled wood with a rather nice lake toward the end of it, she could have easily done that herself. She wasn't exactly happy about that, especially the blood-proof sheets they had put in. That was the clincher, a slap in the face…and HOW they wee gonna pay….
(Audrena's main room is on the second floor, and takes up about half of the floor itself. The secondary is in the hanger, and looks more like a prison cell then anything else. O.o? Don't ask.)
The pair took off out the door, the growling Audrena in hot pursuit with hammer in hand. Every single zoid the twins passed immediately felt extreme pity, getting out of the way as the twins tried to escape, heading for the first floor. . .
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So, by the time Kyle emerged from his own room, he almost tripped over the many scattered zoid parts as he stepped off the elevator to the hanger floor. His eyes traveled over the numerous frayed zoidian parts, sweat dropping as he went. Rolling his eyes at his fiancée's work, Kyle shook his head. What a temper. They must've done something horrible in her books to receive such punishment.
Then again, it could be something as simple as taking the last slice of pizza. . .
Eyes blazing blue, each part flew back together at Kyle's direction. Eventually, 2 Lightning Saix darted back together, each a brilliant yellow. Energy surged through their cores, restarting them again. Kyle watched nonchalantly as they jerked to life, getting up slowly.
"Ah yes, the twins." Kyle said, a smile creeping up his face. "What did you this time, Yin and Yang?"
The two cats, being about the size of panthers, glanced at each other with a pair of innocent expressions on their faces. Those two were known for causing trouble around the base. The last trick they pulled involved taunting a Dark Horn into a rampage and watching it wreak the floor for fun. That got them shrunk down to their current size. Each used to be normal size, and gloated in the fact that they were twins and both were larger then the Audreniliger in mass.
Audrena, however, knew their biggest weakness. The only thing they could brag on. Their size. So they were now stuck as miniatures, and hated it.
"Well. . ." The one on the right stared at his sibling warningly. It was impossible to tell them apart, so the base just referred to them as left and right, according to where they stood in relation to each other.
"We decided to trim up Audrena's room!" Left confirmed enthusiastically.
"Yeah, because it just wasn't as amorous as it should be." Right put emphasis on the word 'amorous', giving it a French sound.
"I mean, come on," Left rolled his eyes, as though it was obvious. "She's going to be losing her virginity in there by your intercession. It's gotta be special!"
Kyle immediately blushed a shade of red so dark it was almost black and sweat dropped heavily. The very thought of sex, although he knew it would happen eventually, made him blush. Well, only if something of his fantasies had been accidentally and unknowingly mentioned in public. He had been thinking about that for a while now, actually, as it would be part of the inevitable if everything went correctly. . .
He shook his head violently to get Audrena's imagined moaning out of his ears, turning back to the twins, who were snickering by now.
"Bet he just enjoyed the image he got." Left muttered under his breath.
"Yup, he's probably a little horny right now." Right replied, sending them both into a titter.
"Well, the scan says that too!"
That was the last thing they said for a while. The pair's parts flew every which way, clattering on the hard steel floor as Kyle ripped them apart, a electric blue glow encompassing each piece as it blew out in every direction. The human looked down on the scattered parts and snorted.
"Audren had the right idea." He muttered, walking towards the elevator again, now in a very sour mood. . .
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"Are you sure of this Troden?" It wouldn't be the first time the fox had given the partial truth, even to his new master. . .
"Of course master. I have pictures of the rings!"
"What is this all of a sudden?" Malone muttered to himself. "LOTR?"
He had gotten quite frustrated with the failure of his first attempt to get them to come easily. Malone had hoped to convince them to come along without any struggle or minimal resistance at the worst.
But he still thought it was quite entertaining to hear Audrena whimper in excruciating pain and Kyle cry out in his suffering. . .
But no matter, they were still alive, he had a second chance to tell them the truth.
He knew that their life was nothing but a lie, a fabrication. He knew everything that could be known about those two. And their engagement only complicated matters. Now they wouldn't be separated from each other so easily anymore. . .
He swung down from the rafter, smiling to himself. He'll just have to devise another strategy, another tactic. His first idea, of trying to get them to come quietly hadn't worked out so well. Malone hadn't planned on Kyle boring a hole through his teleportation shield, nor had he planned on them even staying alive after their rather grievous injuries either.
He would have to set up his plan very carefully. . .
Malone's eyes swung around the large estate he had come to call home, and every one of the priceless treasures inside. He had been alive for millennia, and each one of those had it's own piece of history he had claimed for his own. The purple orbs turned back to his chandelier, almost completely full. That had taken him even more time to stock up, accounting to where his life had been spent in the last few hundred years. . .
Malone heaved a heavy-hearted sigh, looking out at the thousands of artifacts in his home, all of them he would have to give up in order to get himself to full power. It wasn't as though he was attempting to rule the world, as he had already done that. After all, all Audrena and Kyle only saw what he wanted them to see.
He would have to make sacrifices in order to bring this pair in, but it would be well worth the effort if he could harness their power. . .
Especially with the rest of the world's souls at his disposal. . .
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Kyle promptly flopped into the nearest armchair, sweat dripping off of his chin. He had been undergoing rigorous cardiac training to repair his heart strength, and it was a little short of torture. Every pulse of his heart stung like a bee sting, and when it accelerated. . .
He glanced around the study, huge to the extreme of the word. From glass floor to domed stained glass ceiling, shelves lined with thousands upon thousands of books, all but one wall out of the 6 in the circular room. That one wall was lined with more stained glass, cathedral-like and letting in the evening sunlight so that the whole room was lit with red and orange. Three thick leather chairs and a mahogany desk were the only furniture in the large room, other then the rolling ladder, but that was a must for such a large library.
Kyle's pulse now down to normal, he was rather comfortable, nothing but a slight twinge in his chest. About to stand, the black double doors opened with a long drawn out squeak, he sat down again, sticking a couple of jelly beans in his mouth. Audrena giggled, closing the doors behind her.
"Going for Dusty Baker are we?" Kyle chuckled lightly, shoving the half chewed candy to one side of his mouth, the plastic bagging that had been holding the beans crinkling his fingers.
"Oh god! The goat won't affect us this year! But we're too superstitious to win a world series! Oh no, there goes Alphonsaco! Let's put him in as the starter!!"
He shrugged a little, watching his fiancé recover from her laughing fit. "Well, it apparently works." He put the rest of the beans into his jeans pocket. "I've never seen you laugh that hard."
Audrena cocked an eyebrow in return, taking her time in walking towards him. "And I've never you make such a fool of yourself before either."
"Ouch." He winced with a signature smile. "I've been stung. Somebody get the antiseptic, I'm gonna die from a hemorrhaging ego."
He promptly shut up when Audrena sat in his lap. The chair had no trouble supporting them both. Kyle gave her an eyebrow, his heart beat starting to speed up again.
"So!" She said cheerily, stretching out and putting her feet up on the arm rest. "What do I get for Christmas?" Another blink. He was starting to like this sudden reversal in attitude.
"Aren't we feeling frisky today!" Again, his chuckle was silenced by a rather sudden kiss. There hadn't been much affection other then loving glances between the two since the proposal, as they both had been pretty busy, so Kyle had just gotten used to the lack of physical contact. It wasn't like he wasn't enjoying himself…
"I'll give you a lot more then that for Christmas." He murmured thickly, his lips directing themselves to the base of her neck. Now occupied with something other then his heart rate, which was now starting to skyrocket all over again, he smiled through it.
'My god,' He thought thickly, his excitement starting to cloud his judgment. 'I'm onna get laid in the Study's lounge chair! What the hell is going on here?!'
"My goodness Audrena, what's gotten into you?" He muttered from the crook of her neck. He didn't understand what was going on, but he was thoroughly enjoying it. Audrena leaned her head into his skull, feeling her own pulse rise, despite the fact she knew what all this was about. . .
Just as his hands was attempting to remove the shoulders of her peasant tunic with a pair of shaking hands, she gave him a chaste kiss and pulled away, almost jogging towards the door.
"Bye!" He was still recovering from the sudden arousal and breathlessness when the door closed with a squeak and a woody slam. He stared after her incredulously, shocked and a little disappointed.
"What on Zi was that for?" He whispered to himself, standing slowly and moving towards the double doors. At least his chest didn't hurt anymore.
As he closed the doors behind him, he caught a thread of conversation further down the hallway. Much further down the hallway, as at least one of the party was yelling at the other. He crept closer to listen, poking his head around a corner to see Audrena yelling at Barkeep. One was livid, the other impassive.
"Why did you have to pull me out right THEN?! I was enjoying that!" Ah yes, the classic Audrena rage.
"I can tell." Barkeep said dryly. "Your hicky stands out quite well against the rest of your neck."
That didn't help matters at all. Kyle blushed a little; he had NEVER meant to give her a hicky.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT!?!?!?!?"
"Just think about it this way, how it 'sounds'. -Audrena Void nearly lost her virginity in the Study's lounge chair.- Your only job was to test his heart strength by arousing him a little."
'A little?!' Kyle thought to himself, suddenly feeling as though he was standing on no-man's land.
"Bullshit." Now her tone was condescending. "You just didn't want to see us screwing in a library. You would prefer somewhere more provocative." Barkeep gulped mentally. Ok, so she had seen right through that. On to plan B.
"I'm only looking out for your fiancé's health."
"By installing cameras in my bedroom?"
Audrena pulled a small spider from her canvas cloth pants, the lens gleaming like a diamond amongst the metal legs. Barkeep sweat dropped suddenly. Uh oh. . .
"I've never seen those in my life." He rushed. Giving her famous glare, she stepped closer to the hologram, holding up the little camera so the evidence could clearly be seen.
"Don't bullshit me Barkeep." She hissed. Kyle soundless slid down the wall nearby. He knew that tone, and it usually meant parts were about to fly. Now listening intently, he started to understand what was really going on here.
"I know you better then half of the zoids running around in my base. I build you, I gave you your mind, your personality, and your habits. I guess it was my accident to turn you into a sex fiend!" Raising her hand, she paused in throwing the spider-like camera to the floor, which would easily shatter it. She could feel it quivering in her hand, terrified. Opening it again, she stroked the miniscule spider zoid in her hand, calming it as it crawled around, still keeping her eyes on the sex-obsessed zoid.
"You placed this camera in my room, didn't you." She hissed, glaring at him. "You were waiting for the wedding night, so you could watch. By yourself perhaps, or maybe sell tickets as though it was A GOD DAMN SPORTING EVENT!!!"
"You don't understand! Hundreds of zoids want to see this! They've been waiting, some of them, for 10 years for you to be tamed! They want to see the transition from the roaring and tormenting tiger to the gentle and submissive lamb!"
There was silence in the hallway.
Kyle frowned immediately on hearing those words. Oh no, oh hell no. That was NOT about to happen to her. Ok, so sometimes she could be a roaring exploding demon, but not all the time! Those qualities were one of the many reasons he loved her, how could they think she'd just pull a 180 after one night?!
"SUBMISSIVE LAMB!!!?!?" Audrena roared, causing Barkeep to cringe. "LIKE HELL I'M GOING TO BE A SUBMISSIVE LAMB!"
Kyle chuckled quietly. 'That's my Audren.'
Barkeep heaved a sigh. "I didn't mean it that way…" He said, mentally considering how it wasn't his fault that he was programmed like this.
"Of course not. And I'm a banana slug."
"I didn't say that. I'm simply reporting on how the base feels about you. Hundreds of them want to see what happens after. . .err. . ."
"The big night?"
"Yeah! That's it."
"Sickish zoids."
"I don't think that's a word…"
"You're trying to get off the subject." Audrena sighed, rolling her eyes and walking away. It was impossible to argue with that idiot…
Kyle paused, then retreated immediately into the shadows of the hallway to avoid being seen. She walked right by him, completely oblivious, and stuck her head into the study, leaning further in to get a better look around. She blinked, raising an eyebrow as she surveyed the empty room.
'Strange, I left him in here…'
"Kyle?"
Stepping out of the shadows quietly, he stuck his hands in his pockets and tried to look as innocent as possible as he tiptoed behind her and his arms encircled her waist in a fluid movement.
"You called?"
She stood straight up, jumping forwards and crying out from shock, raising her fists before she realized who it was. A slight red tinge came to the bridge of her nose and she lowered her hands with a jerk, leaning into him with a 'God-I-feel-really-stupid' grin on her face.
"Sorry about that. I just wish you would stop sneaking up on me!" Kyle shrugged, the corners of his mouth curving upwards ever so slightly.
"Just a force of habit."
Audrena grinned slightly, crossing her arms and staring up at him.
"You got any cameras?"
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"Audrena! Come 'ere and take a look! This has much more value to it."
"No way Kyle. This is so much older! By at LEAST a thousand years!"
"Oh who cares! We're taking it all, so what's the-whoa! Look at THAT! That's going in my room."
"You mean OUR room, right?"
"Of course!"
This was the general exchange happening inside of Malone's home, because that was exactly where they were. Completely unharmed. They didn't exactly care though. They were getting a kick simply out of loitering and looting in a hated enemy's home.
And gawking at the thousands of priceless treasures Malone had pirated over the millennia was also involved in it.
Despite this, Malone never emerged from his hiding spot, biting his lip to keep from ever making a sound as his favorite artifacts were stolen away. Memories of how he had attained such objects flashed before his eyes as they were teleported away, thankfully kept in the same atmospheric capsule.
The couple, completely oblivious, went on with their looting.
"My god…Kyle! Come here!"
Cleopatra's original bust, suspended in an antigravity cube, hovered behind the male pilot for a moment before it disappeared with a light hearted pop. The two were almost skipping, for each of these artifacts were worth easily trillions of credits…
Audrena's face looked rather hard and hateful as she stared up at an old tapestry, then down to an old black and white photo, framed and meticulously centered on a small bookcase. Kyle stopped, looking over her shoulder at the yellowed picture, his expression quickly darkening.
"He makes me ashamed to be part German." Audrena blinked, picking up the old photograph and glancing over her shoulder into his troubled eyes.
"You never told me you were part German. That's. . . that goes really far back to be able to say something like that. Back to Old Earth."
"Well, my mother was big into our family history. Always bragging about it."
Audrena grinned at him menacingly. Uh oh. . .
"Wilkich?" Kyle grinned sheepishly at this, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I said that I had German lineage, not that I knew how to speak the language." She punched him playfully, grinning up at him.
"Fine. Ruin my fun."
"But I'm not trying to ruin your fun!"
Audrena simply snickered, turning away from him in mock anger.
"Well you did. So for punishment?" She paused, trying to think of a good 'punishment' that actually sounded like real punishment.
"I know, I'll put you in an 'Iron Maiden.' Make you stay in there in the dark for a few hours…" She said, drawing a finger along his jaw line. She could feel the stubble of an hour's growth.
"You need a shave…" She muttered greedily. He didn't mind, simply caught the innuendo and busied him with a book he had taken from the nearest table. He found that it was an excellent way to get his mind off of the mental image he had just gotten. Flipping open the book, he pretended not to have heard his fiancée, taking a look inside the aged pages.
Noticing his lack of response, she leaned to look over his arm, since his shoulder was too high to look over.
"Err…Kyle?"
He snapped the thick book shut suddenly, gracing the ancient leather cover with his fingertips as it gave a momentary blue flash, disappearing.
"Time to set the charges and go home." He sighed and stretched suddenly, looking towards the various walls. Audrena nodded, her expression slightly troubled.
"We are going to save the library for later use, right?"
"Of course love! You doubt me?"
"No. I doubt the explosives."
(2 hours later)
A fireworks display of color erupted from the old home, forcing it's way into the atmosphere in the form of a mushroom cloud, decorated with pieces of rock and flaming chemicals. Audrena leaned on Kyle's arm, staring at the blossom of destruction rather proudly.
"Isn't it beautiful?"
He chuckled, hazel eyes dancing in victory before gazing down at his fiancée lovingly. "No, you are."
"Oh shut up!" She muttered, trying to wipe the emerging smile from her face as the two love-birds watched what they thought was the last remnants of their enemy blow sky high…
Oh how wrong they were…
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MOOOOO!!! ^^ End chapter! Start chapter …my god, I've lost count, but we'll get to see some doom and destruction and death! We all like death! Especially my kind of death, painful and emotional. ^^ See you next chapter in 'The Newlydead'
