Hey this another jack chapter! And it's a little bit more interesting.
Basically we a chapters away from the immaculate Leena.... And I'll stop
there that's giving to much away already!
Enter ch. seven!
Frozen Soldier
I used to be an angel, then God condemned me. I'm sorry for the mistakes I've made though. And I hope one day you will be able to forgive me for them. It's not much but I'll give you my word, I trusted you with all my heart. But you left it on the floor, broken, the day you left us here.
"Ready! Fight!" The judge says and Leon runs forward tackling the zoid in front of him. Jamie and the opposing Tarace take off into the air and Naomi fires two shots making the opposing Command Wolf fall for a second.
"That's it! Get 'em!" Dad yells next to me. I watch the battle less enthused than before it had started. They had put me on the sidelines only because I couldn't walk ten minutes ago. Jamie takes two shots and almost falls out of the sky before he recovers and pulls a 'me' move as Brad had come to call them these days.
Leon and Naomi were allowed to fight as replacements for me and- well him. I close my eyes for a second and then open them again when someone yells they're down. Jamie. Figures. I watch as Naomi shoots down the Tarace that Jamie couldn't get and then shot down the Command Wolf she had been fighting along with the Saber Fang Leon was fighting.
The Judge calls the Battle to an end and I stretch, "Dad, I'm gonna run the spare Command Wolf back to the base OK?"
"Hum? Oh, OK Leena," He says and watches me leave the command room. I walk down to the launch room and find the Command Wolf that Brad used to pilot, or at least the zoid that had piece of the command wolf that Brad used to pilot in it structure.
I jump into the cockpit and activate the sleeping zoid, "Dad is the launch bay ready?"
A holographic image appears next to me, "Yep, Leena! It's all ready to go!" I nod and position the zoid on the catapult. It fires and I feel myself sink into the seat behind me.
"See you at home, Dad," I say to the holographic image and it disappears. I sit back and watch the hover cargo disappear back toward the base. When they are completely out of sight I wait a few more minutes then follow them at a slow run.
The zoid is graceful on the desert sand and doesn't seem to mind that I've never piloted a Command Wolf before. The rhythm of the running starts to get to me and my eyes start to sag. I haven't slept in three days. I know that, but I can't the dreams are getting to the point that it hurts to sleep and I always wake up tired.
To me there is no point to sleeping. Not when you are more tired when you wake up than when you go to sleep. It's just so stupid. That's all. Jamie is always yelling at me because I keep him up. I tell him to just stop worrying then and he laughs at my sad humor.
Leon say that what is happening is just inevitable. I listened to them talking the other day when I left the room. Sometimes I leave just to hear what they will say about me when I'm not listening, or so they think.
I worry about my Dad though. He's been too peppy lately and it's starting to scare me. Naomi has been dealing with it I guess. I think it's just that she has to keep everyone else in sanity until this all blows over. If it all blows over.
Then this brings me to Brad. What's there to say? We still haven't heard from him but if we have they are just not telling me. I don't really care though. Not like I expected them to tell me.
My control panel beeps and I look to my right. There, running parallel to me is a Lightning Saix. It's Jack. I push a button and a holographic image comes up.
"Well Sisco looks like we're just running into each other all over the place," I say. He laughs.
"Not really, Torose," I raise an eyebrow, "I was looking for you."
"Why," I say distastefully. He laughs again.
"Because I've seen the way you act when someone mentions the name Bit Cloud," I scrunch up my nose.
"What are you talking about Sisco?"
"I got a call this morning form one of my buddies up in Talic City. Said that your little friend has been up there, Hunter?"
"Brad?"
"Yeah him," He nods and slows down a little, I follow his lead, "He also said Cloud has been up there for just over five months. Hunter went in and met right up with him." I stop my zoid.
"What'd he tell him Jack!" the comlink ends and the Saix's cockpit opens and Jack gets out. I open the Command Wolf's cockpit and jump down. We meet somewhere in the middle and Jack flops down on the ground, "Jack?"
"Well compared to what I know he told him nearly," He pauses, "Nothing." I sigh and flop down next to him.
"Honestly, I don't get what the big deal is if Cloud knows."
"Honestly I don't give a shit what you think as long as...He doesn't know." Jack laughs, "So what I can't say it!!" He laughs harder.
"So what are you gonna do?" he asks.
"Can you call that 'friend' of yours back and ask him to give you or me a call when they leave town," Jack sits up, then he looks down at the ground thinking.
"Yeah but I'll have him call me. Another excuse for me to check up on you," I smile and he stands back up, "Well, Leena. I'd better get going." I nod.
"See ya later Jack." He climes back into the cockpit and disappears from sight. I sit there a few more minutes before heading back to the base. When I get back. Jamie is waiting in the hanger door. I walk up next to him and we look back out at the desert land.
"Brad called. He's in-"
"Talic? I know." Jamie looks up at me.
"How?"
"Let's just say men who can't leave unconscious women in bars have contacts where it counts."
"Who can't leave women unconscious in bars," I laugh and walk away, "Leena, who is he?!"
There is a reason I can't trust you with this information. You'll go after him. But I need him too much for you to kill him. He can drive you away. Far, far away.
'Where are you, Leena?' I freeze. I feel my feet give into the floor and Jamie's voice behind me. My head hits the floor and I see no more.
'Your words are cold.' The zoid is in my mind again.
"Why are you doing this?" I say unenthusiastically.
'I need you, Leena.'
"No!"
'You can't fight me much longer,' Its eyes glow with mechanical light.
"No, but I can still try. And I won't stop trying!" It looks at me knowingly.
'You are full of wronged hope. You can fight me no more that you could have fought the illness that killed your mother.' I freeze. It dropped ten degrees in the darkness. I scream.
I shoot up in the bed. Jamie enters the room carrying the phone. He hands in to me and goes back to standing in the door. I put the phone to my ear.
"Hello?"
"Leena? It's Jack. They're gone." I look at Jamie. He won't meet my eyes.
"Thanks." He mumbles something and the call ends. I look back at Jamie.
"How long you been talking to him." I look away, "That's what I thought."
"Brad's coming home, Jamie," He looks at me, "And he's with him."
Enter ch. seven!
Frozen Soldier
I used to be an angel, then God condemned me. I'm sorry for the mistakes I've made though. And I hope one day you will be able to forgive me for them. It's not much but I'll give you my word, I trusted you with all my heart. But you left it on the floor, broken, the day you left us here.
"Ready! Fight!" The judge says and Leon runs forward tackling the zoid in front of him. Jamie and the opposing Tarace take off into the air and Naomi fires two shots making the opposing Command Wolf fall for a second.
"That's it! Get 'em!" Dad yells next to me. I watch the battle less enthused than before it had started. They had put me on the sidelines only because I couldn't walk ten minutes ago. Jamie takes two shots and almost falls out of the sky before he recovers and pulls a 'me' move as Brad had come to call them these days.
Leon and Naomi were allowed to fight as replacements for me and- well him. I close my eyes for a second and then open them again when someone yells they're down. Jamie. Figures. I watch as Naomi shoots down the Tarace that Jamie couldn't get and then shot down the Command Wolf she had been fighting along with the Saber Fang Leon was fighting.
The Judge calls the Battle to an end and I stretch, "Dad, I'm gonna run the spare Command Wolf back to the base OK?"
"Hum? Oh, OK Leena," He says and watches me leave the command room. I walk down to the launch room and find the Command Wolf that Brad used to pilot, or at least the zoid that had piece of the command wolf that Brad used to pilot in it structure.
I jump into the cockpit and activate the sleeping zoid, "Dad is the launch bay ready?"
A holographic image appears next to me, "Yep, Leena! It's all ready to go!" I nod and position the zoid on the catapult. It fires and I feel myself sink into the seat behind me.
"See you at home, Dad," I say to the holographic image and it disappears. I sit back and watch the hover cargo disappear back toward the base. When they are completely out of sight I wait a few more minutes then follow them at a slow run.
The zoid is graceful on the desert sand and doesn't seem to mind that I've never piloted a Command Wolf before. The rhythm of the running starts to get to me and my eyes start to sag. I haven't slept in three days. I know that, but I can't the dreams are getting to the point that it hurts to sleep and I always wake up tired.
To me there is no point to sleeping. Not when you are more tired when you wake up than when you go to sleep. It's just so stupid. That's all. Jamie is always yelling at me because I keep him up. I tell him to just stop worrying then and he laughs at my sad humor.
Leon say that what is happening is just inevitable. I listened to them talking the other day when I left the room. Sometimes I leave just to hear what they will say about me when I'm not listening, or so they think.
I worry about my Dad though. He's been too peppy lately and it's starting to scare me. Naomi has been dealing with it I guess. I think it's just that she has to keep everyone else in sanity until this all blows over. If it all blows over.
Then this brings me to Brad. What's there to say? We still haven't heard from him but if we have they are just not telling me. I don't really care though. Not like I expected them to tell me.
My control panel beeps and I look to my right. There, running parallel to me is a Lightning Saix. It's Jack. I push a button and a holographic image comes up.
"Well Sisco looks like we're just running into each other all over the place," I say. He laughs.
"Not really, Torose," I raise an eyebrow, "I was looking for you."
"Why," I say distastefully. He laughs again.
"Because I've seen the way you act when someone mentions the name Bit Cloud," I scrunch up my nose.
"What are you talking about Sisco?"
"I got a call this morning form one of my buddies up in Talic City. Said that your little friend has been up there, Hunter?"
"Brad?"
"Yeah him," He nods and slows down a little, I follow his lead, "He also said Cloud has been up there for just over five months. Hunter went in and met right up with him." I stop my zoid.
"What'd he tell him Jack!" the comlink ends and the Saix's cockpit opens and Jack gets out. I open the Command Wolf's cockpit and jump down. We meet somewhere in the middle and Jack flops down on the ground, "Jack?"
"Well compared to what I know he told him nearly," He pauses, "Nothing." I sigh and flop down next to him.
"Honestly, I don't get what the big deal is if Cloud knows."
"Honestly I don't give a shit what you think as long as...He doesn't know." Jack laughs, "So what I can't say it!!" He laughs harder.
"So what are you gonna do?" he asks.
"Can you call that 'friend' of yours back and ask him to give you or me a call when they leave town," Jack sits up, then he looks down at the ground thinking.
"Yeah but I'll have him call me. Another excuse for me to check up on you," I smile and he stands back up, "Well, Leena. I'd better get going." I nod.
"See ya later Jack." He climes back into the cockpit and disappears from sight. I sit there a few more minutes before heading back to the base. When I get back. Jamie is waiting in the hanger door. I walk up next to him and we look back out at the desert land.
"Brad called. He's in-"
"Talic? I know." Jamie looks up at me.
"How?"
"Let's just say men who can't leave unconscious women in bars have contacts where it counts."
"Who can't leave women unconscious in bars," I laugh and walk away, "Leena, who is he?!"
There is a reason I can't trust you with this information. You'll go after him. But I need him too much for you to kill him. He can drive you away. Far, far away.
'Where are you, Leena?' I freeze. I feel my feet give into the floor and Jamie's voice behind me. My head hits the floor and I see no more.
'Your words are cold.' The zoid is in my mind again.
"Why are you doing this?" I say unenthusiastically.
'I need you, Leena.'
"No!"
'You can't fight me much longer,' Its eyes glow with mechanical light.
"No, but I can still try. And I won't stop trying!" It looks at me knowingly.
'You are full of wronged hope. You can fight me no more that you could have fought the illness that killed your mother.' I freeze. It dropped ten degrees in the darkness. I scream.
I shoot up in the bed. Jamie enters the room carrying the phone. He hands in to me and goes back to standing in the door. I put the phone to my ear.
"Hello?"
"Leena? It's Jack. They're gone." I look at Jamie. He won't meet my eyes.
"Thanks." He mumbles something and the call ends. I look back at Jamie.
"How long you been talking to him." I look away, "That's what I thought."
"Brad's coming home, Jamie," He looks at me, "And he's with him."