Time seemed to slow down as the boulders came down in the dozens right above the two of them. Both seemed to be slightly paralyzed with fear. Just as they were about to fall on top of him, Van snapped back to his senses and jumped out of the way. However, Fiona wasn't so lucky as the boulders collapsed on the command wolf burying it.

Van was stunned when he saw this happened and immediately jumped out of the blade liger and ran to the pile of rocks when they stopped falling. "No, no, no. I am not going to lose her when I finally found her again. I will not let her die because of this," said Van as he got as many of the smaller rocks as he could out of the way which sometimes caused some of the larger rocks to fall because of lack of support. "Please hang on Fiona," begged Van.

*****

It was dark out except for the light glow from the fire in a small camp. She hadn't opened her eyes yet but she could feel the warmth of it on her skin and also the sound of a small stream close by. 'What happened? Wasn't I about to be crushed?' Fiona asked herself as she slowly opened her eyes. She saw herself in a small cave but off to the side there was a small stream just like she had heard. There was something familiar about this scene that she couldn't quite understand.

"I see that you finally woke up," came Van's voice. Fiona turned around quickly and look at him in the eye. There was a scowl on her face at the mere sight of him because he was the reason that she caused the rockslide. She noticed a cup in his hand as well as a pot over the fire. He was drinking some coffee while waiting for her it say something to him. all that she could think of were some very colorful words to say.

She tried to stand up only to fall down very fast because of a problem with her foot. Looking at it, she saw her swollen leg with some bandages wrapped around them. She also noticed her upper arm in close to the same condition.

"You shouldn't move. You sprained you leg inside of the command wolf when all of the rocks fell on top of it. It is the same with you arm. Please just stay still so you won't make it any worse," said van with an expression of worry adorning his face.

"You! This is all your fault that I am like this," yelled Fiona as she once again tried to stand up only to once again fall right back down clutching her ankle in pain. "Why did you even bother to help me?" asked Fiona as she at least sat up.

"I don't care whether you believe it or not but you are Fiona. I saw it in you, Irvine and Moonbay saw it within you, even our daughter saw it inside of you," said Van down casting his eyes and looking deep into the heart of the fire that was roaring lively before his eyes.

"Daughter? Oh, that little girl that helped me out. What would she even know at her age? Not much if she couldn't see that I was deceiving her," said Fiona but when she remembered the look of hurt upon the young girls face it brought back that pain within her heart once again. 'Damnit, why exactly am I even feeling like this,' Fiona asked herself.

"She knows much more than you can even know of. You were all that she had in the first few years of her life. She loved you so greatly since you were all that she had. It built a very strong bond between the two of you that basically let her know that you are her mother," said Van as he looked up at Fiona and smiled.

"You are nothing but a fool since you continue to believe that I am her. Get over it. She is dead and you need to learn to accept that. I am not her and I never will be," said Fiona getting very tired of the conversation. She didn't want to be around Van so she stood up despite the pain that surged through her ankle and started to walk towards the exit of the cave.

Van was quick to react and he stood up and ran over to Fiona before she got outside. He grabbed her wrist when she tried to walk by him. Her free hand came back at Van but he also caught that one with minimal effort. He moved her quickly so that her back was against the wall of the cave.

When Fiona looked into Van's eyes at that moment she saw a passion within them that looked like they could start a fire. It made her seemed to melt within his grasp but she put up a strong front. That front collapsed when Van did the unexpected to her and kissed her with such passion that she was almost unable to resist him. She snapped back to her senses and pulled away and slapped him hard across the face. "How dare you!" Yelled Fiona but it didn't have much effect since a moment later she found her lips once again crashed against his but this time it was different. This time it was her that had kissed him for reason that she didn't know of. It was like another mind had completely taken over her body.

Through his halfway open eyes, Van could see deep into Fiona stunned and open eyes. They had changed; unlike that cold blue that Zack had turned them into they were once again their original crimson color.

A thought then struck Van hard as he remembered something that the dream Fiona had said, 'It can be overwhelmed at times to such an extent that even if it is for a short time I could return to my normal self,' He finally understood how it was to overwhelm the her dormant emotions that made him capable of bringing her back.

She didn't fight; she couldn't fight. Something was holding her back from struggling against this unwanted contact. 'Is it unwanted?' she asked herself. There was something boiling deep within her that was telling her that this was right. A strange force seemed to push the two to the ground sending Fiona right on top of Van. Now was her chance, she might have been able to get away if she didn't have this strange urge to stay there. She then did the unthinkable for her and once again leaned down and captured Van's lips in a kiss.

*****

"So what exactly are you telling us is going on?" asked Irvine a bit annoyed at having been woken up early in the morning by Crougar. He let off a loud yawn as he waited for a response from the old man.

"We have lost track of both the blade liger and command wolf. We went to the last known position to look for them but there had been a rockslide recently in the area. We found the remains of the command wolf covered under multiple rocks but there was no one inside and the blade liger wasn't around either. We were hoping that one of you might have known what exactly happened to Van since we haven't been receiving and signals from the blade liger," said Crougar looking between Irvine, Moonbay, and Thomas.

"Well I haven't heard from him since he left but I think that he is with Fiona right now. Without the zoid she wouldn't be able to get away so he is trying to get her to remember what was going on without anyone around. About the blade liger, I think Van turned off its signal to make sure you can't find him until he wants to be found and not until then," said Moonbay figuring that that was probably the most explainable explanation.

"That is definitely a chance. It does sound like something that Van would try to do if he wanted to accomplish a task on his own," said Crougar with a hand under his chin with a look of hard thought upon his face. "Alright, you are all dismissed. We just wanted a little help on trying to find Van," said Crougar earning a groan from the other three occupants in the room because of how early in the morning he had woken them up for this short meeting.

*****

Van let off a groan as his eyes opened to meet the darkness of the cave that he had chosen. He felt the cold air rush against his body reminding him of what had happened. 'Could I have finally have gotten her back?' Van asked himself. He planned to ask Fiona but when he looked around he saw no one around the place. One thought came to him, "Not again."

Van got up and quickly got dressed hoping that he would be able to find Fiona before she got too far away but he didn't know how long he had been sleeping or even when she had left. He felt that he had to try at least.

He left the cave very quickly and headed in the direction that he had hid the blade liger just in case she had managed to get away so that she wouldn't use it as her escape route. Sure enough, it was still there and he quickly hoped into it and took off at full speed.

He had to have looked for hours but he had not found a single clue as to where her current whereabouts were. 'Where could she be? She couldn't have gone too far by foot because of her sprained ankle, so I should have been able to find her by now. Maybe I should head to the closest town. Maybe someone there would have seen her around here," thought Van before turning the blade liger in the opposite direction and dashing off at full speed.

*****

Anyone that would have seen her would have thought that she was a zombie with how she was walking around. Her face held a clueless look to them. The strange thing was that even after what had just happened she couldn't find it in herself to be mad, yet at the same time she wasn't happy either. She was too confused at to what had happened actually. Ever since she could remember she had hated Van Flyheight and then she went and did it with him. It was like something had possessed her and she became incapable of controlling her own actions.

She had left as soon as was possible for her. She had been lucky to catch a ride from a local traveler so that she could get away from the place as fast as she possibly could. Now she was back in the place that had been her home for a short amount of time but she didn't want to see any of its occupants, especially Zack at that moment.

Questions clouded her mind. What exactly had happened to her in that cave, and why it was that everyone kept thinking that she was Fiona? She intended to do a little research in order to figure those questions out. She was mostly sure that she wasn't her but she no longer knew what to think.

She turned and walked into a door that led to a room with a lot of computers. With all that had been said she was very curious as to who this Fiona was. Maybe she could prove that she wasn't her by looking at the info that she would be able to get her hands on.

She sat down in front of a computer and immediately started to type up anything that she could think of but all she was seeing was the exact same thing every time. Stuff like how she was engaged to Van Flyheight, and the mother of his child based on some of the military reports that she managed to sneak into. It was nothing that she was looking for.

A voice seemed to pop up in her head telling her something that she was slightly confused about. Check the medical files for about two month ago until now,' said the voice before it disappeared.

Fiona was slightly confused but did as she was told by the strange voice. As typed as quickly as she could and soon a file popped up upon the computer containing exactly what she was looking for. She looked it over and gasped out loud at what she had read.

'Following the capture and escape of the criminal Zack, no last name known, Van Flyheight and Fiona Alisi Lynette had an encounter with the man that has left bad results. Van Flyheight has been seriously injuries, physically and emotionally, and will more than likely be out for many weeks. Among his injuries there was two bullet wounds to his legs and a wound opened up also given to him by Zack's right hand man. Fiona Alisi Lynette had far worse result that has left her dead. There was a hit in the back of her head and also a bullet wound within her chest.'

This scared Fiona greatly and her hands came up and clutched the area where her bullet wound had been. Along with the report were also pictures of the two at that time. All the wounds over Fiona's body were on her as well. 'No, it has to be wrong. Zack would never do that to me,' Fiona told herself but in the far reaches of her mind there was something telling her that she was wrong and she was also beginning to believe it.

Fiona stood up quickly throwing her chair back in the process and ran as fast as she could out of the room. Her recently healed wound on her chest felt like it was burning like a fresh wound as she clutched it. She remembered back to the first true memory that she had.

***Flashback***

Her eyes opened as she looked up at a perfectly white ceiling. In her current state it gave her a headache while she was trying to adjust to the light that was shining directly down onto her eyes.

"Oh I am sorry," said a voice as the bright light was turned to keep it out of her eyes. She looked up and saw Zack standing there with a smile on his face. "How are you feeling Megan? You have been out of it for a while but I see that you finally got up," he said as he stepped back from Fiona as she slowly sat up in the bed.

"Megan? Is that... my name?" asked Fiona in a confused voice because she had no idea at what was going on or who she was and where she was at. 'Maybe this man can help me,' she thought to herself.

So you don't remember what happened. It isn't very surprising considering what Van Flyheight had done to you. Your name is Megan and you are my Fiancée," said Zack as he showed her the ring that Van had actually given her. "Van Flyheight doesn't like me very much, so he tried to take you. He ended up shooting you and then he hit you hard in the back of the head. If I hadn't stopped him in time then he might have tried to take you from me," said Zack as he smiled once again. "I can help you though. Just trust in me and I will help you get your revenge on him," said Zack as he held out his hand and she took it after staring at it for a few moments.

***End Flashback***

'It's wrong, it has to be,' she told herself as she ran without seeing where she was going. She then remembered the ring that he had handed to her when she had woken up. It was definitely an engagement ring. She then remembered seeing that exact same ring on the hand of Fiona in both the picture at Van Flyheight's base as well as the picture that was placed on the report. She was so lost in thought that she ended up running into Zack.

"It is good to see that you are finally back from your mission. I must say that it took you much longer than I thought it would take you with your skills, said Zack with a placid look on his face that made reading any of his emotions very hard but she could tell that he was glad to see her.

"I... uh, just had a little trouble with Van Flyheight. He still has this strange notion that I am the Fiona person that he used to love," said Fiona finding it hard to look into his eyes.

"He just tends to live in the past. You have nothing to worry about because you are not Fiona. I hope that you aren't getting any ideas into you head though," said Zack in a joking matter.

"O-of course not," said Fiona laughing a bit nervously but it went by completely unnoticed by Zack. "What exactly is it that happened to this Fiona?" asked Fiona as she walked after him because he was signaling for her to follow him.

"She was shot by an enemy of his according to reports but I personally think he shot her himself out of madness. If you could remember then you would know that he is kind of crazy," said Zack making Van sound like the bad guy. He was still completely unaware that Fiona actually knew the truth.

Zack stopped and turned towards his room. He opened the door and Fiona followed him into it. "Listen there is something I would like for you to do for me," said Zack and upon seeing Fiona give a slight nod he grabbed her by her wrists and threw her onto his bed. Fiona struggled a little but soon she couldn't move. "I want you to create me an heir. One of pure zoidian blood," Zack whispered into her ear.

Fiona was in a panic. She was completely unsure of what was going on at that moment. She no longer knew who she was or who to trust. It all became too much for her and the last thing that she saw was his smirking face as he took off his shirt.