*Movement behind a bush*
Kay: Like always, here are my author's notes, and I have to say that I'm quite pleased with the reviews I received on the last chapter and I will understand if you don't want to put a review for this chapter because it took me a month and a half just to post the dang thing. Oh, I wanted to tell you all one little thing. You will all understand soon enough why I called this "Twisted Fate" Ouch! *Beep* electrical cord. I'm not upping the rating yet. You are all probably wondering why I said ouch, well, it is because I'm trying to fix this *beep* laptop so that I can write this chapter faster. Ouch! *beep* I don't have a laptop for the record, I do when I'm writing this though, and NO, I'm not upping the rating 'cause it keeps me safe from the pain in which Bit and Leena would like to inflict upon me. Ouch! THIS THING IS A PIECE OF *beep* *beep*!!!!
*Gives Jack the murderous look, teeth clenched included in process along with brownish yellow eyes now gleaming a reddish color*
Will you stop with the *beep* beeping already?!?!? It is hard enough trying to fix this *beep* laptop. A girl should have the right to curse when she is mad at something without someone taking out the words. All right, I need to snap back to reality now, and forget about the piece of *beep* that I'm trying to fix and worry about Bit and Leena finding me *sigh*
To Okami: Yeah, I had finals. *Growls* they are the *beep* worst. Especially the geometric proofs, if you don't know what those are, you will find out. Many people either like Algebra or like Geometry, they don't like both. Maybe Algebra 2 will be easier for this becoming Sophomore. Maybe...I said maybe...didn't you hear me? I said maybe...
You are all probably wondering why I didn't post sooner. Well, I'm a lazy person in general. I was going to post it right before I left for Hawaii a week and a half ago, but I was unable to finish it. I was going to post a authors note, but couldn't do one in time. So if you don't want to review because I took so long, or you are displeased with my chapter, I will understand, but I will finish this story one way or another. I think that it will be about 2-4 more chapters for those of you that want to know. It may be longer if I think of more I want to add. Now on with the-
Owners of Zoids: *chorus* THE DISCLAIMER
Kay: You people are sneaky; mean...All right, on with the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I don't own zoids; otherwise, Bit and Leena would be together. THIS PLOT IS MINE, ALONG WITH SOME OF THE IDEAS. DO NOT MODIFY, CHANGE, OR MIX UP THE PLOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. You are free to use the ideas; someone must have come up with most of them before me, but the PLOT IS MINE! Thank you.
Kay: Enough waiting, READ!
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"41...42...43..." It had been two whole days since Harry had managed to find his way into the portion of the base in which Bit and Leena had access to. Two whole days that Harry had remained unconscious. Two whole days that Bit and Leena had grown closer than before. So close that even Leena couldn't understand why she was falling for someone she sometimes despised.
Bit and Leena had searched everywhere for any sign of an entrance, but soon failed. There was nothing. Every crack and cranny led to no opening to the outside world, which had began to annoy the two.
"44...45...46..." Yet, during their search for a way out, strange things happened to the two of them, and Leena seemed to be the only one to notice those changes. Whenever she was around Bit, it was not the same, carefree air that had always filled the room. It was, instead, replaced with a tense, awkward silence. Even when she wanted to question Bit the simplest thing, she stuttered, or did not ask the question at all. Every time he looked at her with his silly grin, she melted, like snow when it is exposed to heat. The cold walls she had built around her were melting, and it was all because of Bit, who remained clueless. The funniest part was, Leena didn't know why it was like that. Why did she like him?
"47...48...49...50...Done," Leena said, sitting up. She had been exercising more since Harry had come into the small world that she was spellbound to until she found a pathway out. She had just finished doing her sit-ups and was adjusting herself so she could do push-ups.
When she was about to start, the electronic door opened as a man stepped inside the heated room, "Hey Leena," said the voice.
Leena recognized the voice and looked up, "Hey Bit," she said cheerfully, and could not help but give him a warm smile, which he returned with his own. Leena's arms had gone weak again. "Have you found a way out yet?" Leena looked away, hoping Bit would not notice the light shade of red on her cheeks.
"Nope," he replied innocently, "But I'm starting to run out of good clothes."
Leena looked at what he was wearing and noticed that he was wearing his battle uniform.
"Ya know," came Bit's confused voice, as he screwed up his face to show that he was in thought, "I still don't understand how Harry got in. It's like he teleported his way in or something."
"That's strange, I would've thought Harry, of all people, would have left some kind of clue as of how he got in."
"I thought that too," he said with a small laugh.
"So what about Harry? Did he wake up yet?"
"Nope," Bit looked at Leena's saddened face, and then quickly added, "But he did move a little, and did say some stuff in his sleep."
"Like what?" she questioned anxiously.
"Well, it was more like mumbling. He mumbled something that sounded like your name. Must have been having a dream."
"Yeah, a dream about me," she said with a snort as she stood up and looked at Bit, crossing her arms, "The only reason he bothers all of us is because he's obsessed with me."
"You said it, Leena. Hm...Maybe we should get rid of you then."
Leena playfully hit him on the side of his head.
"Ouch," Bit lied, rubbing the spot on his head, and then giving a heartfelt laugh.
"What are you laughing at?" a new smile on her face as she looked at him.
"I don't think I would be able to get rid of you," he said sincerely.
"What do you mean?"
Bit hesitated for a moment, and to Leena's surprise, ignored the question, "Man, I'm starved! Lets get something to eat."
"O-Okay," Leena replied, confused, as they left the weight room.
After barely having lunch, because they almost burned their toast, spilled mustard all over the floor, and broke Leena's cookie jar, whom Leena herself clobbered Bit because he knocked it over, they went to check on the useless life form, Harry, whom lay unconscious on the couch in the main room.
As they entered the room, they soon realized that Harry was awake, because he glared at Bit as they entered.
"Hiya Harry," Bit greeted cheerfully with an innocent smile, "How ya been?"
Harry only glared more furiously at Bit than before, still thinking the same thought that Bit would steal Leena from him.
"Hey Harry," Leena greeted with a fake hint of pleasure in her voice, "How long have you been up?"
Harry brightened up when his eyes saw the image of Leena behind Bit, then happily replied, "About five minutes, my love."
Though Leena was ready to grab the lamp on the small table next to her, but restrained herself from doing so, and continued to question, "Do you remember how you got in?"
Harry ignored her pervious question, and instead, asked his own, "Leena, my love, would you like to go on a date with me? Somewhere romantic? I can afford anything for my Leena," he said as he stood up and took Leena's hands in his, "Anything for my Leena," he repeated.
'I thought he would bring that up,' Leena thought to herself miserably.
"Okay, Harry," Bit said, putting an arm around his waist and pulling him back, "I don't think that you need to touch Leena."
'Thanks Bit,' Leena thought as she smiled to herself. "Um..." and then it hit Leena, they could use Harry to escape, and she could get out of a date, "Well, you have to show us how you got in, in order for us to go on a date," out of the corner of her eye she could see Bit staring at her as if she had gone mad.
'What is Leena doing?' Bit thought nervously, 'She is just going to accept his request?'
"Like I said, anything for my Leena," he said dreamily.
"But let me go and change first," she said as she turned to leave. On her way out, she gave Bit a stern look, which gave him the impression that she wanted him to stay where he was. Bit nodded in agreement as she left.
"So Harry," Bit said coolly, adverting his attention to Harry, "How long where you looking for an entrance into the base before you found one?"
"A few days," then Harry added sternly, "only because Leena was in here and I had to save her from you."
"That's nice," Bit said, even though he didn't hear a single word Harry stated because he was too busy looking at the zoids picture behind him.
"Now listen here Bit," Bit lazily rolled his eyes, then focused them on Harry, "Don't go near my Leena. I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to take her away from me."
" Not really," Bit said in the same calm voice as before.
"WHAT?" Harry said shocked, "Don't lie to me, Bit Cloud. I know exactly what you are trying to do."
"Harry, she doesn't like me, and I don't like her," Bit lied as he felt his heart sink. He really did like Leena, not love her. But like her as a friend, even if he was still beaten up because he knocked over her cookie jar, but he didn't know if she liked him back.
There was an awkward silence after Bit's statement, which was disturbed by Leena entering the room in her casual clothes. "Okay Harry, show us the way out."
"Of course, my love," Harry said in a pleased, sickening voice as he turned around and headed for the nearest door that leads to the hall. Bit followed with Leena right behind him.
"So what's the plan?" Bit whispered to Leena.
"You'll see," she whispered in his ear.
They walked down the hall in silence after that until they passed Brad's room and were about to reach Jamie's. Harry then knelt down next to the wall and pointed at the vent cage, which was big enough for an adult to crawl through uncomfortably. The vent cage had an outward dent that looked as if the cage had been kicked from the inside of the vent, towards the hall.
"This was my entrance, and this is our escape, my love," he said dreamily, pointing to the vent then taking a screwdriver out of the inside of his jacket. He unscrewed each screw in the corners, then moved the vent to the side.
"Follow me," he said as he crawled into the vent.
Bit and Leena stared at each other before Bit broke the silence, "Who would have thought Harry, of all people, would get us out?"
"I HEARD THAT!" Harry yelled from the inside.
"That's a relief," Bit then crawled into the vent, with Leena smiling behind him.
The passage was dusty and dark, and hard to crawl through. There was a long white string, which lead the way. Leena could not see her own hand after they turned to the right; all she could do was follow Bit in front of her and the white string.
While they were crawling through, Bit couldn't help but open his mouth to ask, "Hey Leena, what's that clunking noise behind you?"
Leena knew perfectly well, what it was, but she was not going to tell Bit yet, "It's probably just the vents," she replied.
They soon reached the outside, and had to shield their eyes because the sun was so bright. They both inhaled the dry air of the desert they had tried to get to for the past week, and felt their lungs warm up. The hot atmosphere seemed to scorch their skin as they stood there.
"Whoa, I was almost beginning to forget how hot it was outside the base," Bit declared happily.
"Yeah," Leena agreed, taking another deep breath.
"Yes," came Harry's calm, dreamy voice, "Now Leena, my love, about our date..."
"Technically, Harry, I never agreed to your date in the first place," Leena quickly said.
"WHAT!" Harry yelled, outraged.
"I said that in order for us to go on a date, we would have to get out first, I never agreed to go out with you on a date."
Harry's mouth was hanging open with complete shock; he then turned his back towards them and looked at his whale king, which he landed not too far away. "But...you said..."
WHACK!
Whatever Leena had said, never came from Harry's mouth. Leena had whacked Harry on the back of the head with her frying pan.
"So that's what the clunking noise was?" Bit said surprised, "But what did you do that for anyhow?"
"I'm hoping that he really forgets all about that date this time."
"Why? It's not like a date with Harry can be that horrible, can it?"
"He boasts about himself for hours on end, and takes you to these expensive restaurants that you would never think about going to in the first place. It's enough to make anyone sick. Trust me, Bit."
"I do. Well," Bit thought for a long moment before he finally said, "We still need to get something to eat. I know this burger place near the park. Would ya want to go?"
"Um..." Leena blushed at the sudden question; she would still be going on a date, 'At least it is someone you love,' her mind reasoned, and "Okay," she agreed.
"All right, I'll take you," he smiled, "but we have to get the jeep out first if you haven't noticed. I don't think you want to walk."
"Yeah, and I know how," Leena said confidently, remembering what her father had said.
"Huh? How?" he questioned anxiously.
"We know how!" she snapped, bending down and retrieving the screwdriver from the unconscious Harry. "The vents. We use the vents to get to the statistic room, shut the system down, and then we can get our zoids and the jeep."
Bit was shocked by how much she had remembered, but soon shook himself out of the trance and said happily, "WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!?!?"
As soon as the words left Bit's mouth, two silver, human looking robots appeared from the direction of the red whale king. One was about Bit's height while the other was about two feet shorter. Both had extendable arms, and a tin head, but instead of legs, they hovered over the ground. It was Harry's two robot companions.
"Hey Sebastian, Benjamin," Bit called out to them.
"Hello," said the short robot, "What happened to Harry?" he asked, noticing Harry on the ground.
"He hit his head on the way out, and I think that he is unconscious again, because he is still breathing," Leena lied innocently, "You two should take him back to your base, and let him rest."
"Don't worry about it Ms. Leena, we'll be sure to take good care of Harry," replied the short robot as he and Benjamin each grabbed one of Harry's arms and pulled him towards the whaleking.
As soon as they were out of earshot, Bit quickly said, "Now that that's over, lets go Leena," as he pulled Leena's wrist towards the vent, and they began to make their way back to the hallway.
"So where do you reckon the vent is?" he asked as soon as Leena and him were out of the vent which lead out.
"Probably closes to the door," she replied calmly, as they walked down the hall towards the statistic room. As they approached the door, Bit reluctantly stopped a few yards away. "What's the matter Bit?" Leena asked.
"No, I'm not going near that door. This is the only okay clothes I have, and I don't want a sleeve missing."
"Fine, have it that way. But you can at least look for the entrance."
"It's right there," Bit said, pointing to the right side of the door. Leena knelt down and unscrewed the vent cage. Luckily, the vent lead right to the statistic room, so neither had to crawl far to get into the room. As soon as Leena took her first look of the room, she noticed that many things were different than before. A brown table had been brought in, and upon it laid papers of the system. There was also a rather large control panel with about a dozen different colored, shaped buttons. Leena walked over to the control panel, and Bit followed as soon as he entered.
"This must be it," Bit said over Leena's shoulder.
"Yeah, now which button do we press?" she asked as her eyes scanned the panel.
"Lets try the big red button, normally people put that as the shut down button."
Leena pushed the big red button, but regretted it immediately because of the loud siren that went off throughout the base. She quickly slammed the red button again and turned to face Bit.
"Lets push the big red button because people normally put that as the shut off button," she mocked him.
Bit had his trademark grin back on his face, and was scratching the back of his head, "I didn't know. All right, you choose."
Leena chose the smallest button on the panel and pressed it. The statistic room went dark.
"Leena, what did you push?" Bit asked as the lights turned back on.
"The small blue button, do you think it worked?"
"Only one way to find out," Bit said, looking at the door with horror.
Sensing the fact, Bit did not want to go anywhere near the door, she said, "Fine all try it." As soon as she was extending her arm to touch the door, she hesitated. 'Wait...What if that wasn't the right button?... What if I'm going to be electrocuted?...What if...' Nevertheless, Leena never finished the thought, because a warm body pressed itself on her back and placed one of its arms around her waist, and his other with her outstretched arm. Upon being touched, she felt a warm sensation in her body that made her light- headed and weak in the knees, but she didn't fall.
"Okay," Bit's voice tickled her ear, making her blood rush to her cheeks, "We'll touch it together."
Bit and Leena's hands moved closer to the door, three inches to go, two...They touched it, and did not regret it. The security system was off.
"All right," Bit said merrily to himself, "We did it, we can get out now," he pushed the door, and it flew open from the force. He looked at the clock on the wall to she that it was 20 minutes to six. "Hey Leena. Do you want to leave at six? I'm starving, but I need to go to the bathroom," he said as he made for the hallway, "So just wait a sec. Oh, and don't change, you're fine the way you are."
Leena blushed at his comment, and replied to this question, "Y-Yeah, sure," Leena agreed as she felt her cheeks burn hotter. 'I'm definitely going to enjoy tonight.' She thought as she sat on one of the navy blue couches in the room.
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Kay: Yes, I know, you are all probably going to ask, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO UPDATE?!?!?!? And I'm sure that some of you will come rampaging after me because I took so long. But, hey, I've been waiting a long time to do the things I want to do during the only available time I have without six teachers on my back forcing me to complete homework and such. If you include my mom that makes seven people on my back...that's a lot of people. I wonder why I haven't snapped in half yet. In addition, I'm sorry if some of you have been checking my bio page everyday to see if I've updated or not. I meant to post this about two weeks ago, or at least an authors note to tell you all not to hope for my story for the next week or so because I would be in Maui, Hawaii, which is beautiful, breathtaking, extraordinary, and magnificent in my opinion.
For everyone's information: Normally, I try to get the chapter done ASAP, and try not to post any later than a month, so that you people don't think that I'm dead. However, things happen, and I'm sure that everyone has something to do. Now, I know someone is going to complain about how fast I update, so I'm warning you now. I love this free time, and I work on these chapters when I can, but no matter how fast I update, I will promise you all this, this story will be fully completed eventually. So if you don't want to review because I took so long, or you are displeased with my chapter, I will understand.
Oh, some of you may have noted many mistakes in this chapter and I apologize for them. The reason I have so many is that I haven't been able to reread it with someone to check me. I will be-
Blond neighbor: I FOUND HER, I FOUND HER! *points towards bush*
Kay: Huh? What's going on? *stands up, sees Leena and Bit coming towards her, arms outstretched* that makes sense. NOW WHY DID YOU SNITCH ON ME!!!
Blond neighbor: We were playing a game of who could find you first.
Kay: *sighs, shakes head, mumbles* I'm glad you're not a writer, you *curses under breath*
Blond neighbor: Why? *confused*
Kay: Like you said yourself, you're too blond. *then sprints off in opposite direction of Bit and Leena, climbs up the nearest tree* so I got away from the love birds, whoopi. I hope that you've all had an excellent summer so far,*looks up at higher branches above herself and sees many reviewers staring down at her angrily* *beep* *beep*...bye-bye.
Kay: Like always, here are my author's notes, and I have to say that I'm quite pleased with the reviews I received on the last chapter and I will understand if you don't want to put a review for this chapter because it took me a month and a half just to post the dang thing. Oh, I wanted to tell you all one little thing. You will all understand soon enough why I called this "Twisted Fate" Ouch! *Beep* electrical cord. I'm not upping the rating yet. You are all probably wondering why I said ouch, well, it is because I'm trying to fix this *beep* laptop so that I can write this chapter faster. Ouch! *beep* I don't have a laptop for the record, I do when I'm writing this though, and NO, I'm not upping the rating 'cause it keeps me safe from the pain in which Bit and Leena would like to inflict upon me. Ouch! THIS THING IS A PIECE OF *beep* *beep*!!!!
*Gives Jack the murderous look, teeth clenched included in process along with brownish yellow eyes now gleaming a reddish color*
Will you stop with the *beep* beeping already?!?!? It is hard enough trying to fix this *beep* laptop. A girl should have the right to curse when she is mad at something without someone taking out the words. All right, I need to snap back to reality now, and forget about the piece of *beep* that I'm trying to fix and worry about Bit and Leena finding me *sigh*
To Okami: Yeah, I had finals. *Growls* they are the *beep* worst. Especially the geometric proofs, if you don't know what those are, you will find out. Many people either like Algebra or like Geometry, they don't like both. Maybe Algebra 2 will be easier for this becoming Sophomore. Maybe...I said maybe...didn't you hear me? I said maybe...
You are all probably wondering why I didn't post sooner. Well, I'm a lazy person in general. I was going to post it right before I left for Hawaii a week and a half ago, but I was unable to finish it. I was going to post a authors note, but couldn't do one in time. So if you don't want to review because I took so long, or you are displeased with my chapter, I will understand, but I will finish this story one way or another. I think that it will be about 2-4 more chapters for those of you that want to know. It may be longer if I think of more I want to add. Now on with the-
Owners of Zoids: *chorus* THE DISCLAIMER
Kay: You people are sneaky; mean...All right, on with the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I don't own zoids; otherwise, Bit and Leena would be together. THIS PLOT IS MINE, ALONG WITH SOME OF THE IDEAS. DO NOT MODIFY, CHANGE, OR MIX UP THE PLOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. You are free to use the ideas; someone must have come up with most of them before me, but the PLOT IS MINE! Thank you.
Kay: Enough waiting, READ!
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"41...42...43..." It had been two whole days since Harry had managed to find his way into the portion of the base in which Bit and Leena had access to. Two whole days that Harry had remained unconscious. Two whole days that Bit and Leena had grown closer than before. So close that even Leena couldn't understand why she was falling for someone she sometimes despised.
Bit and Leena had searched everywhere for any sign of an entrance, but soon failed. There was nothing. Every crack and cranny led to no opening to the outside world, which had began to annoy the two.
"44...45...46..." Yet, during their search for a way out, strange things happened to the two of them, and Leena seemed to be the only one to notice those changes. Whenever she was around Bit, it was not the same, carefree air that had always filled the room. It was, instead, replaced with a tense, awkward silence. Even when she wanted to question Bit the simplest thing, she stuttered, or did not ask the question at all. Every time he looked at her with his silly grin, she melted, like snow when it is exposed to heat. The cold walls she had built around her were melting, and it was all because of Bit, who remained clueless. The funniest part was, Leena didn't know why it was like that. Why did she like him?
"47...48...49...50...Done," Leena said, sitting up. She had been exercising more since Harry had come into the small world that she was spellbound to until she found a pathway out. She had just finished doing her sit-ups and was adjusting herself so she could do push-ups.
When she was about to start, the electronic door opened as a man stepped inside the heated room, "Hey Leena," said the voice.
Leena recognized the voice and looked up, "Hey Bit," she said cheerfully, and could not help but give him a warm smile, which he returned with his own. Leena's arms had gone weak again. "Have you found a way out yet?" Leena looked away, hoping Bit would not notice the light shade of red on her cheeks.
"Nope," he replied innocently, "But I'm starting to run out of good clothes."
Leena looked at what he was wearing and noticed that he was wearing his battle uniform.
"Ya know," came Bit's confused voice, as he screwed up his face to show that he was in thought, "I still don't understand how Harry got in. It's like he teleported his way in or something."
"That's strange, I would've thought Harry, of all people, would have left some kind of clue as of how he got in."
"I thought that too," he said with a small laugh.
"So what about Harry? Did he wake up yet?"
"Nope," Bit looked at Leena's saddened face, and then quickly added, "But he did move a little, and did say some stuff in his sleep."
"Like what?" she questioned anxiously.
"Well, it was more like mumbling. He mumbled something that sounded like your name. Must have been having a dream."
"Yeah, a dream about me," she said with a snort as she stood up and looked at Bit, crossing her arms, "The only reason he bothers all of us is because he's obsessed with me."
"You said it, Leena. Hm...Maybe we should get rid of you then."
Leena playfully hit him on the side of his head.
"Ouch," Bit lied, rubbing the spot on his head, and then giving a heartfelt laugh.
"What are you laughing at?" a new smile on her face as she looked at him.
"I don't think I would be able to get rid of you," he said sincerely.
"What do you mean?"
Bit hesitated for a moment, and to Leena's surprise, ignored the question, "Man, I'm starved! Lets get something to eat."
"O-Okay," Leena replied, confused, as they left the weight room.
After barely having lunch, because they almost burned their toast, spilled mustard all over the floor, and broke Leena's cookie jar, whom Leena herself clobbered Bit because he knocked it over, they went to check on the useless life form, Harry, whom lay unconscious on the couch in the main room.
As they entered the room, they soon realized that Harry was awake, because he glared at Bit as they entered.
"Hiya Harry," Bit greeted cheerfully with an innocent smile, "How ya been?"
Harry only glared more furiously at Bit than before, still thinking the same thought that Bit would steal Leena from him.
"Hey Harry," Leena greeted with a fake hint of pleasure in her voice, "How long have you been up?"
Harry brightened up when his eyes saw the image of Leena behind Bit, then happily replied, "About five minutes, my love."
Though Leena was ready to grab the lamp on the small table next to her, but restrained herself from doing so, and continued to question, "Do you remember how you got in?"
Harry ignored her pervious question, and instead, asked his own, "Leena, my love, would you like to go on a date with me? Somewhere romantic? I can afford anything for my Leena," he said as he stood up and took Leena's hands in his, "Anything for my Leena," he repeated.
'I thought he would bring that up,' Leena thought to herself miserably.
"Okay, Harry," Bit said, putting an arm around his waist and pulling him back, "I don't think that you need to touch Leena."
'Thanks Bit,' Leena thought as she smiled to herself. "Um..." and then it hit Leena, they could use Harry to escape, and she could get out of a date, "Well, you have to show us how you got in, in order for us to go on a date," out of the corner of her eye she could see Bit staring at her as if she had gone mad.
'What is Leena doing?' Bit thought nervously, 'She is just going to accept his request?'
"Like I said, anything for my Leena," he said dreamily.
"But let me go and change first," she said as she turned to leave. On her way out, she gave Bit a stern look, which gave him the impression that she wanted him to stay where he was. Bit nodded in agreement as she left.
"So Harry," Bit said coolly, adverting his attention to Harry, "How long where you looking for an entrance into the base before you found one?"
"A few days," then Harry added sternly, "only because Leena was in here and I had to save her from you."
"That's nice," Bit said, even though he didn't hear a single word Harry stated because he was too busy looking at the zoids picture behind him.
"Now listen here Bit," Bit lazily rolled his eyes, then focused them on Harry, "Don't go near my Leena. I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to take her away from me."
" Not really," Bit said in the same calm voice as before.
"WHAT?" Harry said shocked, "Don't lie to me, Bit Cloud. I know exactly what you are trying to do."
"Harry, she doesn't like me, and I don't like her," Bit lied as he felt his heart sink. He really did like Leena, not love her. But like her as a friend, even if he was still beaten up because he knocked over her cookie jar, but he didn't know if she liked him back.
There was an awkward silence after Bit's statement, which was disturbed by Leena entering the room in her casual clothes. "Okay Harry, show us the way out."
"Of course, my love," Harry said in a pleased, sickening voice as he turned around and headed for the nearest door that leads to the hall. Bit followed with Leena right behind him.
"So what's the plan?" Bit whispered to Leena.
"You'll see," she whispered in his ear.
They walked down the hall in silence after that until they passed Brad's room and were about to reach Jamie's. Harry then knelt down next to the wall and pointed at the vent cage, which was big enough for an adult to crawl through uncomfortably. The vent cage had an outward dent that looked as if the cage had been kicked from the inside of the vent, towards the hall.
"This was my entrance, and this is our escape, my love," he said dreamily, pointing to the vent then taking a screwdriver out of the inside of his jacket. He unscrewed each screw in the corners, then moved the vent to the side.
"Follow me," he said as he crawled into the vent.
Bit and Leena stared at each other before Bit broke the silence, "Who would have thought Harry, of all people, would get us out?"
"I HEARD THAT!" Harry yelled from the inside.
"That's a relief," Bit then crawled into the vent, with Leena smiling behind him.
The passage was dusty and dark, and hard to crawl through. There was a long white string, which lead the way. Leena could not see her own hand after they turned to the right; all she could do was follow Bit in front of her and the white string.
While they were crawling through, Bit couldn't help but open his mouth to ask, "Hey Leena, what's that clunking noise behind you?"
Leena knew perfectly well, what it was, but she was not going to tell Bit yet, "It's probably just the vents," she replied.
They soon reached the outside, and had to shield their eyes because the sun was so bright. They both inhaled the dry air of the desert they had tried to get to for the past week, and felt their lungs warm up. The hot atmosphere seemed to scorch their skin as they stood there.
"Whoa, I was almost beginning to forget how hot it was outside the base," Bit declared happily.
"Yeah," Leena agreed, taking another deep breath.
"Yes," came Harry's calm, dreamy voice, "Now Leena, my love, about our date..."
"Technically, Harry, I never agreed to your date in the first place," Leena quickly said.
"WHAT!" Harry yelled, outraged.
"I said that in order for us to go on a date, we would have to get out first, I never agreed to go out with you on a date."
Harry's mouth was hanging open with complete shock; he then turned his back towards them and looked at his whale king, which he landed not too far away. "But...you said..."
WHACK!
Whatever Leena had said, never came from Harry's mouth. Leena had whacked Harry on the back of the head with her frying pan.
"So that's what the clunking noise was?" Bit said surprised, "But what did you do that for anyhow?"
"I'm hoping that he really forgets all about that date this time."
"Why? It's not like a date with Harry can be that horrible, can it?"
"He boasts about himself for hours on end, and takes you to these expensive restaurants that you would never think about going to in the first place. It's enough to make anyone sick. Trust me, Bit."
"I do. Well," Bit thought for a long moment before he finally said, "We still need to get something to eat. I know this burger place near the park. Would ya want to go?"
"Um..." Leena blushed at the sudden question; she would still be going on a date, 'At least it is someone you love,' her mind reasoned, and "Okay," she agreed.
"All right, I'll take you," he smiled, "but we have to get the jeep out first if you haven't noticed. I don't think you want to walk."
"Yeah, and I know how," Leena said confidently, remembering what her father had said.
"Huh? How?" he questioned anxiously.
"We know how!" she snapped, bending down and retrieving the screwdriver from the unconscious Harry. "The vents. We use the vents to get to the statistic room, shut the system down, and then we can get our zoids and the jeep."
Bit was shocked by how much she had remembered, but soon shook himself out of the trance and said happily, "WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!?!?"
As soon as the words left Bit's mouth, two silver, human looking robots appeared from the direction of the red whale king. One was about Bit's height while the other was about two feet shorter. Both had extendable arms, and a tin head, but instead of legs, they hovered over the ground. It was Harry's two robot companions.
"Hey Sebastian, Benjamin," Bit called out to them.
"Hello," said the short robot, "What happened to Harry?" he asked, noticing Harry on the ground.
"He hit his head on the way out, and I think that he is unconscious again, because he is still breathing," Leena lied innocently, "You two should take him back to your base, and let him rest."
"Don't worry about it Ms. Leena, we'll be sure to take good care of Harry," replied the short robot as he and Benjamin each grabbed one of Harry's arms and pulled him towards the whaleking.
As soon as they were out of earshot, Bit quickly said, "Now that that's over, lets go Leena," as he pulled Leena's wrist towards the vent, and they began to make their way back to the hallway.
"So where do you reckon the vent is?" he asked as soon as Leena and him were out of the vent which lead out.
"Probably closes to the door," she replied calmly, as they walked down the hall towards the statistic room. As they approached the door, Bit reluctantly stopped a few yards away. "What's the matter Bit?" Leena asked.
"No, I'm not going near that door. This is the only okay clothes I have, and I don't want a sleeve missing."
"Fine, have it that way. But you can at least look for the entrance."
"It's right there," Bit said, pointing to the right side of the door. Leena knelt down and unscrewed the vent cage. Luckily, the vent lead right to the statistic room, so neither had to crawl far to get into the room. As soon as Leena took her first look of the room, she noticed that many things were different than before. A brown table had been brought in, and upon it laid papers of the system. There was also a rather large control panel with about a dozen different colored, shaped buttons. Leena walked over to the control panel, and Bit followed as soon as he entered.
"This must be it," Bit said over Leena's shoulder.
"Yeah, now which button do we press?" she asked as her eyes scanned the panel.
"Lets try the big red button, normally people put that as the shut down button."
Leena pushed the big red button, but regretted it immediately because of the loud siren that went off throughout the base. She quickly slammed the red button again and turned to face Bit.
"Lets push the big red button because people normally put that as the shut off button," she mocked him.
Bit had his trademark grin back on his face, and was scratching the back of his head, "I didn't know. All right, you choose."
Leena chose the smallest button on the panel and pressed it. The statistic room went dark.
"Leena, what did you push?" Bit asked as the lights turned back on.
"The small blue button, do you think it worked?"
"Only one way to find out," Bit said, looking at the door with horror.
Sensing the fact, Bit did not want to go anywhere near the door, she said, "Fine all try it." As soon as she was extending her arm to touch the door, she hesitated. 'Wait...What if that wasn't the right button?... What if I'm going to be electrocuted?...What if...' Nevertheless, Leena never finished the thought, because a warm body pressed itself on her back and placed one of its arms around her waist, and his other with her outstretched arm. Upon being touched, she felt a warm sensation in her body that made her light- headed and weak in the knees, but she didn't fall.
"Okay," Bit's voice tickled her ear, making her blood rush to her cheeks, "We'll touch it together."
Bit and Leena's hands moved closer to the door, three inches to go, two...They touched it, and did not regret it. The security system was off.
"All right," Bit said merrily to himself, "We did it, we can get out now," he pushed the door, and it flew open from the force. He looked at the clock on the wall to she that it was 20 minutes to six. "Hey Leena. Do you want to leave at six? I'm starving, but I need to go to the bathroom," he said as he made for the hallway, "So just wait a sec. Oh, and don't change, you're fine the way you are."
Leena blushed at his comment, and replied to this question, "Y-Yeah, sure," Leena agreed as she felt her cheeks burn hotter. 'I'm definitely going to enjoy tonight.' She thought as she sat on one of the navy blue couches in the room.
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Kay: Yes, I know, you are all probably going to ask, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO UPDATE?!?!?!? And I'm sure that some of you will come rampaging after me because I took so long. But, hey, I've been waiting a long time to do the things I want to do during the only available time I have without six teachers on my back forcing me to complete homework and such. If you include my mom that makes seven people on my back...that's a lot of people. I wonder why I haven't snapped in half yet. In addition, I'm sorry if some of you have been checking my bio page everyday to see if I've updated or not. I meant to post this about two weeks ago, or at least an authors note to tell you all not to hope for my story for the next week or so because I would be in Maui, Hawaii, which is beautiful, breathtaking, extraordinary, and magnificent in my opinion.
For everyone's information: Normally, I try to get the chapter done ASAP, and try not to post any later than a month, so that you people don't think that I'm dead. However, things happen, and I'm sure that everyone has something to do. Now, I know someone is going to complain about how fast I update, so I'm warning you now. I love this free time, and I work on these chapters when I can, but no matter how fast I update, I will promise you all this, this story will be fully completed eventually. So if you don't want to review because I took so long, or you are displeased with my chapter, I will understand.
Oh, some of you may have noted many mistakes in this chapter and I apologize for them. The reason I have so many is that I haven't been able to reread it with someone to check me. I will be-
Blond neighbor: I FOUND HER, I FOUND HER! *points towards bush*
Kay: Huh? What's going on? *stands up, sees Leena and Bit coming towards her, arms outstretched* that makes sense. NOW WHY DID YOU SNITCH ON ME!!!
Blond neighbor: We were playing a game of who could find you first.
Kay: *sighs, shakes head, mumbles* I'm glad you're not a writer, you *curses under breath*
Blond neighbor: Why? *confused*
Kay: Like you said yourself, you're too blond. *then sprints off in opposite direction of Bit and Leena, climbs up the nearest tree* so I got away from the love birds, whoopi. I hope that you've all had an excellent summer so far,*looks up at higher branches above herself and sees many reviewers staring down at her angrily* *beep* *beep*...bye-bye.
