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Summary: Lena's been having some weird dreams lately. So, it's up to her friends and some new technology to help her find the man of her dreams. The thing is, time of the essence and their biggest problem. Warning-not a B/L fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids.
This is who's talking...
Lena-L, Augusta-A, Moonbay-M, Fiona-F, Maria-Ma, Leigh-Le Irvine-I, Thomas-T, Harry-H, Van-V, Dr. D-D, Kelso-K, Izzy-Iz Tentomon-Tmon
Chapter 2: Predicaments Galore
That night Lena paced behind the Hover-Cargo. "Hurry up, Izzy."
He was setting up a circular platform with a lot of strange controls on the bottom.
Izzy: "Lena, I repeat, you're so impatient. This takes a bit of finessing. It's very delicate." Izzy bent back over his strange contraption. Lena watched him for a while but soon became bored. She took to wandering and found an unmarked container near Izzy's jeep. She carefully pried the lid up. Expecting to find something valuable, she was very disappointed. Under the lid was two very strange looking bracelets. They were strange because they were about an inch thick and high tech looking. The only thing vaguely interesting about them was the multitude of buttons and flashing lights. Lena held up the clunky bracelets and called to Izzy over her shoulder.
L: "Hey, Izzy. What the heck are these things?"
She waved the bracelets at him. Izzy finally looked up from his contraption. His eyes got huge and he jumped up. He ran towards her as fast as she could.
Iz: "No! Lena, put those down!"
He took a flying leap and grabbed the devices out of Lena's in mid-air.
Iz: "Whew. These are delicate. They're not toys, Lena."
L: "Well, what are they? They kind of look like bracelets. But why are they so ugly?"
Iz: "Hold on. Hey, Tentomon!"
Tentomon's red, metallic head peeked over the top of Izzy's purple jeep. He spread his wings and flew over to join Izzy and Lena. As soon as he touched down Izzy shoved the 'bracelets' into Tentomon's arms.
Iz: "Here. Explain these to Lena, Tentomon."
Tentomon: "But, Izzy, I don't want to. Why can't you?"
Iz: "Because."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because I can't."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because I'm busy."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because Lena wants to go back to the past and I have to finish building that!" Izzy spilled it out in one breath and pointed vehemently at his time machine.
T-mon: "Oh. Okay." (Iz – ()*)
Izzy stalked over to his machine and plunked himself down. He seemed just a little mad. Tentomon handed Lena one of the clunky devices and indicated for her to put it on.
T-mon: "Are you right or left-handed?"
Lena held up her right hand.
T-mon: "Then put it on your left."
L: "Why can't I put it on my right? It'll get in the way of my watch if I put it on my left."
T-mon: "Then take your watch off. It'll get in the way of the facilitator."
L: "Huh? Whatever you say."
She took off her watch and stuffed it in the knapsack at her side. She slid the bracelet over her hand noticing how much it clashed with her outfit. As soon as she set it in place it clamped down on her wrist. It wasn't painful but she couldn't take it off.
L: "What the hell?"
Tentomon didn't look too worried. At least she didn't think so. She couldn't really tell.
T-mon: "Just push that button on the right side of it."
She complied and the whole thing extended up her arm almost all the way to her elbow and down to her knuckles, leaving just enough room for her to flex her thumb and fingers. There were even more lights and buttons to dazzle her eyes.
T-mon: "Now this unit is directly linked to the main computer."
Tentomon pointed over her shoulder. Lena looked to where Tentomon was pointing as she adjusted to the new weight that had been added to her left arm.
T-mon: "Now the main computer just conducts the electrical current. The bracelets actually facilitate time travel."
L: "English, please."
T-mon: "Meaning you could turn on the machine, stand on the platform, and not go anywhere. You have to have a bracelet to actually travel."
L: "Oh, okay."
T-mon: "Now Izzy has only started fiddling with time for about a year. Um...Have you ever seen that movie, what's it called? Back To the Future."
L: "Yeah. Excellent movie."
T-mon: "Well, he can't send you back to an exact date, like in the movie. He can only send you back so many years. So, you'll go back a hundred years. That's about three months before your Irvine guy disappeared.
L: "So I'll get three whole months with Irvine. I've only got three months? I would have preferred the rest of our natural lives. But, oh, yes, yes, yes!" Lena was so happy she was almost jumping for joy. Tentomon quickly silenced that emotion.
T-mon: "But..."
L: "And you had to ruin the whole moment with a but thrown in there."
"But," Tentomon continued, "whatever amount of time you spend in the past, for example, three months, you will be gone in the present. So you'd better have a good excuse for your absence to tell your father."
* * *
Two days passed before Lena found what she thought was an excellent reason to be gone. A very fortunate call came.
L: "Hello?"
"Hey, girl! What's up?"
L: "Gus! Is that really you?"
A: "Hey, Le. Long time, no see."
L: "Yeah. It's been, what, two years."
A: "More like two and a half since you've been to Waterfall Colony. I should be seeing your scrawny ass up here more than once a year, if even that."
Lena clapped her hands over her ears and rolled her eyes sarcastically. L: "Oh, my poor virgin ears."
A: "Sure, Lena. Whatever you say."
(L - ^J^ [cheeky face]) L: "I never thought I'd hear something like that come out of your mouth, Augusta Samurai."
A: "Hey, what can I say? People can change."
L: "Sometimes not enough or too much."
As Lena and Augusta's conversation went from old times and friends to what was new, Lena rolled an idea over in her head a couple of times.
L: "Gus, I need help."
A: "Le, you know I'll do anything to help."
L: "It's kind of a long story. But I don't want to impose..."
A: "Impose, shmimpose. Spill!"
Lena told Augusta everything from her dream to Izzy's time machine.
A: "Wait a minute! Let me get this strait. What you're telling me is, you've never met this guy but you're completely in love with him?"
L: "That's about the whole of it."
A: "Well, I was never one to believe in blind love, but there's a first time for everything. And this kid, Izzy...you don't mean Rojo do you?"
L: "Yep. The short brainy kid, with red hair, who couldn't be separated from his laptop if his life depended on it."
A: "Gee! I knew that he was smart from the get go, but we're talking about time here, like the fourth or fifth dimension. He's got to be a genius."
L: "Thereabout."
A: "Wow! Well, back to the subject at hand. You want to haul this time machine out here so you can go back in time without anyone but you, me, and Izzy knowing?"
L: "Could I?"
A: "Yeah...I guess. But you have to promise me that you will spend some time out here."
L: "I am."
A: "No. I mean, actually spend time here. Not stop here and then go to the past. And you have to introduce me to your Irvine. He sounds like such a hottie."
L: "Hands off!"
A: "Obviously."
* * *
Man that was a long chapter. Didn't take me long to come with the idea for the chapter but it took me forever to write. R&R please.
And to Zapper Zaku, no this will not be a L/H fic, it's gonna be a I/L fic. You'll just have to figure out what that means.
Summary: Lena's been having some weird dreams lately. So, it's up to her friends and some new technology to help her find the man of her dreams. The thing is, time of the essence and their biggest problem. Warning-not a B/L fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids.
This is who's talking...
Lena-L, Augusta-A, Moonbay-M, Fiona-F, Maria-Ma, Leigh-Le Irvine-I, Thomas-T, Harry-H, Van-V, Dr. D-D, Kelso-K, Izzy-Iz Tentomon-Tmon
Chapter 2: Predicaments Galore
That night Lena paced behind the Hover-Cargo. "Hurry up, Izzy."
He was setting up a circular platform with a lot of strange controls on the bottom.
Izzy: "Lena, I repeat, you're so impatient. This takes a bit of finessing. It's very delicate." Izzy bent back over his strange contraption. Lena watched him for a while but soon became bored. She took to wandering and found an unmarked container near Izzy's jeep. She carefully pried the lid up. Expecting to find something valuable, she was very disappointed. Under the lid was two very strange looking bracelets. They were strange because they were about an inch thick and high tech looking. The only thing vaguely interesting about them was the multitude of buttons and flashing lights. Lena held up the clunky bracelets and called to Izzy over her shoulder.
L: "Hey, Izzy. What the heck are these things?"
She waved the bracelets at him. Izzy finally looked up from his contraption. His eyes got huge and he jumped up. He ran towards her as fast as she could.
Iz: "No! Lena, put those down!"
He took a flying leap and grabbed the devices out of Lena's in mid-air.
Iz: "Whew. These are delicate. They're not toys, Lena."
L: "Well, what are they? They kind of look like bracelets. But why are they so ugly?"
Iz: "Hold on. Hey, Tentomon!"
Tentomon's red, metallic head peeked over the top of Izzy's purple jeep. He spread his wings and flew over to join Izzy and Lena. As soon as he touched down Izzy shoved the 'bracelets' into Tentomon's arms.
Iz: "Here. Explain these to Lena, Tentomon."
Tentomon: "But, Izzy, I don't want to. Why can't you?"
Iz: "Because."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because I can't."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because I'm busy."
T-mon: "Why?"
Iz: "Because Lena wants to go back to the past and I have to finish building that!" Izzy spilled it out in one breath and pointed vehemently at his time machine.
T-mon: "Oh. Okay." (Iz – ()*)
Izzy stalked over to his machine and plunked himself down. He seemed just a little mad. Tentomon handed Lena one of the clunky devices and indicated for her to put it on.
T-mon: "Are you right or left-handed?"
Lena held up her right hand.
T-mon: "Then put it on your left."
L: "Why can't I put it on my right? It'll get in the way of my watch if I put it on my left."
T-mon: "Then take your watch off. It'll get in the way of the facilitator."
L: "Huh? Whatever you say."
She took off her watch and stuffed it in the knapsack at her side. She slid the bracelet over her hand noticing how much it clashed with her outfit. As soon as she set it in place it clamped down on her wrist. It wasn't painful but she couldn't take it off.
L: "What the hell?"
Tentomon didn't look too worried. At least she didn't think so. She couldn't really tell.
T-mon: "Just push that button on the right side of it."
She complied and the whole thing extended up her arm almost all the way to her elbow and down to her knuckles, leaving just enough room for her to flex her thumb and fingers. There were even more lights and buttons to dazzle her eyes.
T-mon: "Now this unit is directly linked to the main computer."
Tentomon pointed over her shoulder. Lena looked to where Tentomon was pointing as she adjusted to the new weight that had been added to her left arm.
T-mon: "Now the main computer just conducts the electrical current. The bracelets actually facilitate time travel."
L: "English, please."
T-mon: "Meaning you could turn on the machine, stand on the platform, and not go anywhere. You have to have a bracelet to actually travel."
L: "Oh, okay."
T-mon: "Now Izzy has only started fiddling with time for about a year. Um...Have you ever seen that movie, what's it called? Back To the Future."
L: "Yeah. Excellent movie."
T-mon: "Well, he can't send you back to an exact date, like in the movie. He can only send you back so many years. So, you'll go back a hundred years. That's about three months before your Irvine guy disappeared.
L: "So I'll get three whole months with Irvine. I've only got three months? I would have preferred the rest of our natural lives. But, oh, yes, yes, yes!" Lena was so happy she was almost jumping for joy. Tentomon quickly silenced that emotion.
T-mon: "But..."
L: "And you had to ruin the whole moment with a but thrown in there."
"But," Tentomon continued, "whatever amount of time you spend in the past, for example, three months, you will be gone in the present. So you'd better have a good excuse for your absence to tell your father."
* * *
Two days passed before Lena found what she thought was an excellent reason to be gone. A very fortunate call came.
L: "Hello?"
"Hey, girl! What's up?"
L: "Gus! Is that really you?"
A: "Hey, Le. Long time, no see."
L: "Yeah. It's been, what, two years."
A: "More like two and a half since you've been to Waterfall Colony. I should be seeing your scrawny ass up here more than once a year, if even that."
Lena clapped her hands over her ears and rolled her eyes sarcastically. L: "Oh, my poor virgin ears."
A: "Sure, Lena. Whatever you say."
(L - ^J^ [cheeky face]) L: "I never thought I'd hear something like that come out of your mouth, Augusta Samurai."
A: "Hey, what can I say? People can change."
L: "Sometimes not enough or too much."
As Lena and Augusta's conversation went from old times and friends to what was new, Lena rolled an idea over in her head a couple of times.
L: "Gus, I need help."
A: "Le, you know I'll do anything to help."
L: "It's kind of a long story. But I don't want to impose..."
A: "Impose, shmimpose. Spill!"
Lena told Augusta everything from her dream to Izzy's time machine.
A: "Wait a minute! Let me get this strait. What you're telling me is, you've never met this guy but you're completely in love with him?"
L: "That's about the whole of it."
A: "Well, I was never one to believe in blind love, but there's a first time for everything. And this kid, Izzy...you don't mean Rojo do you?"
L: "Yep. The short brainy kid, with red hair, who couldn't be separated from his laptop if his life depended on it."
A: "Gee! I knew that he was smart from the get go, but we're talking about time here, like the fourth or fifth dimension. He's got to be a genius."
L: "Thereabout."
A: "Wow! Well, back to the subject at hand. You want to haul this time machine out here so you can go back in time without anyone but you, me, and Izzy knowing?"
L: "Could I?"
A: "Yeah...I guess. But you have to promise me that you will spend some time out here."
L: "I am."
A: "No. I mean, actually spend time here. Not stop here and then go to the past. And you have to introduce me to your Irvine. He sounds like such a hottie."
L: "Hands off!"
A: "Obviously."
* * *
Man that was a long chapter. Didn't take me long to come with the idea for the chapter but it took me forever to write. R&R please.
And to Zapper Zaku, no this will not be a L/H fic, it's gonna be a I/L fic. You'll just have to figure out what that means.