Hey I lied. This isn't the last chapter after all!
To many pees were confused, so I'm putting up another chapter, and a big
ass explanation of all the crazy shit I didn't get a chance to explain in
the story.
The next chapter will be the last.
OK? Love u. buh-bye.
Vex
enter ch. seventeen
Frozen Soldier
I used to be an angel, then God condemned me. Scared with these crimes I can't complain. They all keep away from a broken thing such as I am. I had once dared to try a thing such as love now I think it can only tear a person away from what they were then. I am torn.
"Leena? Are you sure you're up to this, "Jamie asks over the comlink.
"Shut up Jamie. You just want to come in! I can fight. Why wouldn't I be able to?"
"I don't know?" the comlink shuts off and I look over at the Liger. It roars as the enemy comes into view. Bit comes up on a comlink to my left.
"You ready?" I nod in reply and he smiles, "Luck, poop-head."
"You too, crap-face." He laughs and the comlink ends. The judge lands to the right and the enemy stops in there advance.
The judge goes through the basic protocol and I watch the opposing team. There are two Saber Tigers and a Lightning Saix. They all have strange rods on their heads. They almost look like swards or lightning rods.
"Ready? Fight!" the judge calls starting the battle.
The two saber tiger shoot at Bit who runs to his right and Brad and me start to shoot pointlessly at them. Brad pops up to my left.
"This is pointless. Take the one on the right I'll take out the one on the left."
"OK. I'm right behind you." He charges at the saber tiger on the right just as he said only the Saber Tiger on e the left starts to run toward me.
"Leena! What are you doing?! Fire!" Brad yells but I can't move.
"Leena!" Bit yells on my left, "What the hell are you doing! Don't just sit there! You'll get killed." I snap out of it and grab the trigger button and the Saber Tiger falls off to the side.
"Bit! Don't you ever yell at me like that again!"
"Well you were gonna get yourself killed!" "Oh please!" I shut off the link and look back at the battle. Brad is fighting in front of me. I fire one shot and nearly knock out the Saber Tiger out of commission. It falls and bounds back up running at me. Brad fires at it but his shots are behind and the Saber tiger gains distance. I fire three shot while I can.
Then all I hear is glass shattering and I can see the rod break through the cockpit glass and I can feel a pain in my chest. I look down and see the tip of the rod disappear into my stomach. I look up and see the pilot in the cockpit of the Saber tiger. He's unconscious.
"Leena! What happened? Are you OK? Leena! Respond! Leena!" Jamie calls over the comlink. I sit back and listen to my breath.
I hear the Judge, "End battle! End battle! This battle is over! Personal take immediate action! I repeat! Take action now!" I listen to my breath quicken and then I have to cry out. Someone smashes the glass of the cockpit in and slides into the smaller than usual space.
"Leena," its bit, "Can you hear me? Leena?"
"Yeah," I chock out.
"Just listen to me Leena. Your gonna be OK. They're gonna get you out."
"Leena? Someone respond. Bit," Jamie calls over the comlink.
"Jamie. It's Bit. The blade went clean through," If Bit wasn't holding my head up it might be falling off right now, "Leena? Jamie she going to pass out."
"Try to keep her awake. We have to get to zoid away before we can even think about getting her out of there! Hold on Leena. You're more of a man than I'll ever be. Just by being conscious now!"
"My Gun Sniper's totaled right?" Bit shakes his head.
"No. Only the cockpit is totaled." I laugh but move to much and almost scream but I feel something wet run down my cheeks. I can feel my mind tugging me to unconciouness, "Leena. You have o hold on," he sounds like he's about to cry, "Leena?"
"Can I change my name," He laughs but I just smile. I look at him. His face is lined with tears, "Am I gonna die?" he looks a little scared now.
"No your not gonna die. I won't let you. It'll all be OK." He sounds like he's trying to convince himself not me.
"Are you talking to yourself or me?" he doesn't have a chance to answer. I scream as the rod is slowly pulled from my stomach. Bit quickly unbuckles me and pulls me out of the cockpit. The zoid wasn't pulled back far so he had to move carefully.
That's when I noticed the gash in his side, "Bit, you're bleeding." He hands me to the man from the hospital and looks down at is side. Brad walks over to him as he looks at his hand. He falls forward and Brad catches him. I can't hear what they say but I watch as the hospital men run over and carry him over to the other ambulance.
They close the doors then and in the little space I can't breath and I slip into the black world for the first time.
I sit up on the couch. I look around. Bit is asleep across the room. I look at the clock. It's only nine o'clock. What was that? Bit sits up and walks over.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know," I look up at him. He looks confused, "I guess it was just a dream. But it seemed do real." He sits down next to me.
"What was it about," he asks.
"Well, I don't know. I don't remember it but it seemed like it had already happened and," I stop, "When you got that scar what type of zoid was I fighting?"
"A Saber Tiger. Why," distaste was ringing in his voice.
"That was it!"
"What was what?"
"I had never remembered what happened and now I do. That dream, it was a memory. Of that day," I think for a second, "How far from the base were we that Day?"
"Not very far we didn't really need to take the Hover Cargo. But we did because Doc said we might need it for transformation parts. Again why?"
"That zoid .I can see it from my bedroom window." He looks at me stupidly.
"What?"
"The Saber Tiger. I can see it from my window," I say slowly so I don't have to say it again. "Come on," I grab his sleeve and walk to my room. I walk over to the window and drag him behind me.
"There. Right there. Can you see it," I point to the little bit of light refracting form the zoids armor.
"How can you tell. It could be anything," he says sitting back on my bed.
"Because not anything can drive me crazy, Bit!"
"Can we put money on that?"
"Bit," I say punching him in the arm, "I'm serious." He looks out of the window at the light refracting to the window.
"Come on," he says grabbing my hand, "We're gonna settle this." He drags me to the hanger and I follow him into the Jeep. He drives and I sit next to him.
"Where is everyone," I ask.
"They went into town with your dad. Brad stayed behind though but I don't know where he went to." I think about it a second.
"Brad knows."
"About what?"
"Us," I say plainly. Bit looks over at me.
"When'd he find out?'
"This morning."
"How?"
"When I left your room this morning after you went back to sleep. He came around the corner as I was leaving."
"Tough luck," He says still watching the road, "But he's Brad. He won't say anything." I nod.
"Yeah and I made him promise he wouldn't. He knows I can black mail him." He laughs.
We drive for a while longer before we come o a huge crater in the ground, "Judge capsule," he says as we stand at the edge of the crater. I look across the crater.
"Look," I say not really thinking.
"I see it." We walk around the crater but he won't come up to the zoid.
I walk up to the head of the zoid and there it is. The large horn or lighting rod that I know my stomach to be well aquatinted with. I touch the part on my stomach where I can feel the scar. On the tip of the rod is a small red spot. I laugh.
There I something comical about seeing what has driven me insane. But at the moment I don't quite remember what it is. But I know as I laugh myself to sleep at night I can rest a little easier and know that I was never crazy, I just wasn't all there. But now I am.
"I'm whole. And you can't hurt me anymore."
enter ch. seventeen
Frozen Soldier
I used to be an angel, then God condemned me. Scared with these crimes I can't complain. They all keep away from a broken thing such as I am. I had once dared to try a thing such as love now I think it can only tear a person away from what they were then. I am torn.
"Leena? Are you sure you're up to this, "Jamie asks over the comlink.
"Shut up Jamie. You just want to come in! I can fight. Why wouldn't I be able to?"
"I don't know?" the comlink shuts off and I look over at the Liger. It roars as the enemy comes into view. Bit comes up on a comlink to my left.
"You ready?" I nod in reply and he smiles, "Luck, poop-head."
"You too, crap-face." He laughs and the comlink ends. The judge lands to the right and the enemy stops in there advance.
The judge goes through the basic protocol and I watch the opposing team. There are two Saber Tigers and a Lightning Saix. They all have strange rods on their heads. They almost look like swards or lightning rods.
"Ready? Fight!" the judge calls starting the battle.
The two saber tiger shoot at Bit who runs to his right and Brad and me start to shoot pointlessly at them. Brad pops up to my left.
"This is pointless. Take the one on the right I'll take out the one on the left."
"OK. I'm right behind you." He charges at the saber tiger on the right just as he said only the Saber Tiger on e the left starts to run toward me.
"Leena! What are you doing?! Fire!" Brad yells but I can't move.
"Leena!" Bit yells on my left, "What the hell are you doing! Don't just sit there! You'll get killed." I snap out of it and grab the trigger button and the Saber Tiger falls off to the side.
"Bit! Don't you ever yell at me like that again!"
"Well you were gonna get yourself killed!" "Oh please!" I shut off the link and look back at the battle. Brad is fighting in front of me. I fire one shot and nearly knock out the Saber Tiger out of commission. It falls and bounds back up running at me. Brad fires at it but his shots are behind and the Saber tiger gains distance. I fire three shot while I can.
Then all I hear is glass shattering and I can see the rod break through the cockpit glass and I can feel a pain in my chest. I look down and see the tip of the rod disappear into my stomach. I look up and see the pilot in the cockpit of the Saber tiger. He's unconscious.
"Leena! What happened? Are you OK? Leena! Respond! Leena!" Jamie calls over the comlink. I sit back and listen to my breath.
I hear the Judge, "End battle! End battle! This battle is over! Personal take immediate action! I repeat! Take action now!" I listen to my breath quicken and then I have to cry out. Someone smashes the glass of the cockpit in and slides into the smaller than usual space.
"Leena," its bit, "Can you hear me? Leena?"
"Yeah," I chock out.
"Just listen to me Leena. Your gonna be OK. They're gonna get you out."
"Leena? Someone respond. Bit," Jamie calls over the comlink.
"Jamie. It's Bit. The blade went clean through," If Bit wasn't holding my head up it might be falling off right now, "Leena? Jamie she going to pass out."
"Try to keep her awake. We have to get to zoid away before we can even think about getting her out of there! Hold on Leena. You're more of a man than I'll ever be. Just by being conscious now!"
"My Gun Sniper's totaled right?" Bit shakes his head.
"No. Only the cockpit is totaled." I laugh but move to much and almost scream but I feel something wet run down my cheeks. I can feel my mind tugging me to unconciouness, "Leena. You have o hold on," he sounds like he's about to cry, "Leena?"
"Can I change my name," He laughs but I just smile. I look at him. His face is lined with tears, "Am I gonna die?" he looks a little scared now.
"No your not gonna die. I won't let you. It'll all be OK." He sounds like he's trying to convince himself not me.
"Are you talking to yourself or me?" he doesn't have a chance to answer. I scream as the rod is slowly pulled from my stomach. Bit quickly unbuckles me and pulls me out of the cockpit. The zoid wasn't pulled back far so he had to move carefully.
That's when I noticed the gash in his side, "Bit, you're bleeding." He hands me to the man from the hospital and looks down at is side. Brad walks over to him as he looks at his hand. He falls forward and Brad catches him. I can't hear what they say but I watch as the hospital men run over and carry him over to the other ambulance.
They close the doors then and in the little space I can't breath and I slip into the black world for the first time.
I sit up on the couch. I look around. Bit is asleep across the room. I look at the clock. It's only nine o'clock. What was that? Bit sits up and walks over.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know," I look up at him. He looks confused, "I guess it was just a dream. But it seemed do real." He sits down next to me.
"What was it about," he asks.
"Well, I don't know. I don't remember it but it seemed like it had already happened and," I stop, "When you got that scar what type of zoid was I fighting?"
"A Saber Tiger. Why," distaste was ringing in his voice.
"That was it!"
"What was what?"
"I had never remembered what happened and now I do. That dream, it was a memory. Of that day," I think for a second, "How far from the base were we that Day?"
"Not very far we didn't really need to take the Hover Cargo. But we did because Doc said we might need it for transformation parts. Again why?"
"That zoid .I can see it from my bedroom window." He looks at me stupidly.
"What?"
"The Saber Tiger. I can see it from my window," I say slowly so I don't have to say it again. "Come on," I grab his sleeve and walk to my room. I walk over to the window and drag him behind me.
"There. Right there. Can you see it," I point to the little bit of light refracting form the zoids armor.
"How can you tell. It could be anything," he says sitting back on my bed.
"Because not anything can drive me crazy, Bit!"
"Can we put money on that?"
"Bit," I say punching him in the arm, "I'm serious." He looks out of the window at the light refracting to the window.
"Come on," he says grabbing my hand, "We're gonna settle this." He drags me to the hanger and I follow him into the Jeep. He drives and I sit next to him.
"Where is everyone," I ask.
"They went into town with your dad. Brad stayed behind though but I don't know where he went to." I think about it a second.
"Brad knows."
"About what?"
"Us," I say plainly. Bit looks over at me.
"When'd he find out?'
"This morning."
"How?"
"When I left your room this morning after you went back to sleep. He came around the corner as I was leaving."
"Tough luck," He says still watching the road, "But he's Brad. He won't say anything." I nod.
"Yeah and I made him promise he wouldn't. He knows I can black mail him." He laughs.
We drive for a while longer before we come o a huge crater in the ground, "Judge capsule," he says as we stand at the edge of the crater. I look across the crater.
"Look," I say not really thinking.
"I see it." We walk around the crater but he won't come up to the zoid.
I walk up to the head of the zoid and there it is. The large horn or lighting rod that I know my stomach to be well aquatinted with. I touch the part on my stomach where I can feel the scar. On the tip of the rod is a small red spot. I laugh.
There I something comical about seeing what has driven me insane. But at the moment I don't quite remember what it is. But I know as I laugh myself to sleep at night I can rest a little easier and know that I was never crazy, I just wasn't all there. But now I am.
"I'm whole. And you can't hurt me anymore."