Oh! Hello again! ^.^ Well, this will most probably be the last time I'll be updating in a while because my school starts next week...and...well....you get the picture. DEATH TO THE HOMEWORK, I SAY! DEATH!!!! Well, unless I don't get any h/w...and the fact my mums kicking me off the computer on weekdays so, uh, yeah. But! If i PASS maths this year I can get a labtop! YAY! Which means I can sit there and type all I want! ^.^

Oh!!! It's Australia Day on the 26th!!! HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!!! *hands out little australian flags* hehehehe! ^.~

Y'know what? They're going to show American Idol 3 here in Aus. Now I think that's kinda stupid!

Hmm...and to reply to some of me *cough*loyal*cough* reviewers:

Lady Jayde Une: The beginning was a dream sequence...what's wrong with that? :P

Coffe Luv:Y'know I don't ONLY stalk pigeons, it's just that there's only pigeons to stalk at school. When I'm at home I can also stalk Spotted Turtle-Doves, Rainbow Lorikeets, Eastern Rosellas, Noisy Miners, Australian Magpies, Cockatoos, and the occaisional King Parrot or Grey Butcherbird....okay! SHUT UP! I know lotsa 'bout birds!!! ^.^;;;

Anyway! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*

Flyer suddenly bolted upright, breathing heavily. 'That WAS a dream, right...?' She thought to herself. She looked around. Complete darkness. Except for a feeble flickering light somewhere to her right.

Her head throbbed a little, and a voice said dryly, causing her to flinch,

"Good morning, sleepy-head!" It was Reja. "You've been asleep for almost three days now. Oh, and by the way, that whole bomb-thing wasn't a dream." She added.

"Where are we...?"Flyer asked groggily.

"Being held prisoner in some cell in a bandit HQ apparently." She replied bluntly.

"Wh-where's Mystic?" Fly asked worriedly.

"Across the hall." She answered.

Flyer's eyes slowly became more accustomed to the gloomy light. She was being held in a cell by herself, with Reja in one next to her. She could see Reja clearly through the bars lying on her bed, staring at the roof. It seemed that these were the only two cells in the off-branch of a hall.

She looked into the lighted hall to across the other side to see another darkend corridor. That was where Mystic was being kept, no doubt.

"She okay?" Fly continued.

"I'm not too sure."

"...What are they doing to her?"

Reja hesitated. "I...don't think you want to know that just yet."

"It's something bad, isn't it?" Flyer sounded frightened.

The two became silent as footsteps walked just across the hall.

"Kane, where's that organoid?" A gruff voice asked.

"In here." Kane answered. He sounded like he was only eleven...

"C'mon, you..." Kane sounded like he was wrestling with something. Then an organoid's roar could be heard. Mystic was struggling.

After thirty seconds, Mystic must have realised it was futile, for two footsteps soon faded away with an organoid following behind.

"Mystic..." Flyer whispered sadly to herself.

"What are they doing to her?!" Flyer demanded.

"Sheesh...I didn't know you cared about her so much! Well...at first they tried to get her to fuse with something...don't ask me what, I don't know...and they found out that she can't. I don't know what they're doing to her now. But..." Reja stopped. It would be better to shut her mouth if Fly cared so much about the organoid...

"What!! Tell me!" Flyer sounded agitated now.

"Sometimes you can hear an organoid's scream echoing down the hall." She finished quickly.

"Well, we're going to have to get out of here!" Flyer hissed in a whisper as a pair of bandits wandered past.

"You don't know how many times I've already tried." Reja replied. "These guys don't fall for anything. It's HOPELESS."

"Well I'm sure I can think of SOMETHING."

And at that, a door somewhere burst open, and an organoid roared. Organoid foosteps began to race down the coridoor.

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I raced down the hallway. There was no way in HELL I was letting them catch me. I couldn't take any more!!! Foosteps pounded after me. I quickly raced around the corner hoping nobody was there...

Nobody. Phew. But I couldn't stop here. I chose a random off-branch and ducked in there. Hopefully...hopefully...they didn't see me....

I came to another hallway. Well, at this rate I was going to run around in a circle. Oh well. The longer I run away, the longer they'll put me into that cell for me to "cool off". Which means I won't have to go back out there...

"I got you now!" Kane yelled from an off-branch. He leapt out from the shadows I jumped, missing him by millimeters...

He staggered back up and the chase resumed. I ducked into a feebly-lit hall. This is where about my "cooling-off" cell is...

I passed under one light, and back into the darkness. Suddenly, Kane tripped over. "MFFF!" He yelled. His mouth must have been covered. I checked back, to see what I least expected. An eleven-year-old boy dragged the pitch black-as black as a raven's feather-haired Kane away. Hunter was helping me!

I slowed down. To my left a sudden hiss was heard.

"MYSTIC!"

I stopped. It had come from behind me a little, to a cell in an off-branch. I backed up, and poked my head in. To my surprise, in the two cells were Reja and Flyer!

I crooned happily and walked over.

"Could you...maybe...unpick that lock with that scythe on your tail?" Flyer asked in a whisper.

I obeyed, and tried....but I couldn't do it!

"Here, lemme help." Flyer came over, but realised that her hands were bound. She turned around, and on cue I slashed the bounds off.

"Thanks..." She used my tail as a pick and tried to unpick it. After minutes of trying, she stopped. "Damn it! They make it so easy in the movies!" She grumbled.

"Let me have a go. You're probably all thumbs." Reja said.

Once Reja's bound were off, she too tried. She was almost there...when a figure stood in the door way. Crap. We had been discovered!

Everyone froze. He chuckled.

"Sorry to scare you like that!" I sighed in relief. Well, as much as possible for an organoid anyway...

"Who are you!?" Flyer spat, startled.

"Woah...easy! I'm trying to get poor old Mystic here out too. Name's Hunter." He stepped in a little further. He really dark brown hair, so dark you'd think it was black, except in full sunlight. He also had friendly green eyes.

"Oh..." Reja eyed him up. "But you're just a kid!"

"I'm Flyer, and that's Reja." Flyer replied.

"Okay. Well, you can stop using Mystic's tail, y'know. I have KEYS." He took them out of his pocket, and quickly unlocked the cells.

"Do you know where are zoids are?" Reja asked, finally getting out.

"Yep. With mine, in the hangar. They're thinking of selling them." Hunter led them out, and through the corridoor.

"The Werewolf!" Reja almost yelled. Flyer covered her mouth. "Do you want to be caught? SHUT UP."

Flyer paused. "But what about everyone else then?"

"Heh. You don't have to worry about them. I ended up creating a diversion, and they got out. I don't know where they all went. So really, the only people left in here, are me, you and Mystic." Reja said, taking Flyer's hand off her mouth.

"That'd be right...." She muttered under her breath.

"So you guys are friends with Mystic?" Hunter asked.

"Yeah. We only got her out of her pod a few nights ago." Flyer replied.

"We're almost at the hangar. Try to be as silent as possible." Hunter warned.

As we sneaked around, we got a glimpse of the massive amount of zoids there. "I'll be back in a moment..." Hunter told them, as he lead them behind a row of parts in the corner. "Stay here." And he left.

He ran into the ocean of zoids, and a blue Blade Liger began to move out. He ran outside for two seconds, then something hit him.

"Hand over the organoid, Hunter. You're not leaving. Let alone with the organoid." It was Kane!

"I'm afraid I'm leaving, Kane. But you're not going to get Mystic! Especially the fact that she's fused with the Blade Liger!" He yelled back.

=Oh! I get it! He's creating a diversion! Those two always fight. They've been brought up together here. They never knew about their parents. And sometimes, they fight so hard, that they have to get a lot of people on them to stop it! And since he's fooled them into thinking that I've fused with him...= I informed them.

"You figured out to talk to a select group of people, have you? Or have you just blown or cover?" Reja whispered to me.

=Hunter taught me.= I replied smartly.

"W-what?! Heh. Well, thanks. But unfortunatly I have to take it back now." Kane brought his zoid into view, and readied it for combat.

I almost fell over! He had a Geno-Breaker! Oh, yeah that's right...I forgot. Heheh. Well, Hunter wasn't really in danger. The Geno-Breaker was so old that the Charged Particle Cannon had been totally fried. Actually, now that I think of it, both their zoids are really old...

The two started a vicious battle. They were both equally good pilots. It seemed that the zoids weren't taking any damage. So in other words, Hunter could keep up this diversion for a long while. Long enough to get us outta here.

"HEY! WIlL YOU TWO STOP IT!" One of the Lightning Saix's began to move. Within five minutes, they commanded supreme attention at the base. For, if they were to accidently to start fighting in the hangar, that's one very big large number of zoids that will become destroyed...

"C'mon! This is our chance!" Flyer yelled over all the noise.

She ran. She could tell her zoid from a mile off. Its colours and the shape of it just seemed to stick out amoungst the other zoids.

Flyer hopped in, and Reja climbed in her Werewolf, which was right next to it. But where was I going to go?

=Um...What about me?= I asked, a little panicked. =I can't just ride, I'd be seen and blown off or something!=

"You've got a point..." Flyer said as she started the Dragon Fire. "I don't think I have enough space here. Well, maybe. If you squeeze into the sniper conpartment. What about you, Reja?"

"Nup." She ran up to the entrance and waited. Flyer opened up the cockpit and let me fly in. Within all this confusion, nobody cared to look for a second look at us.

I squeezed down past her. "This could've been easier if you could fuse, but noooo..." Flyer mumbled to herself. It was really squishy down here, but at least I felt more safe than riding out on the Gunsniper.

We had managed to pass the walls, and a sea of sand now stood there.

"Well now what?" Reja asked.

"What about that village ZZ had-" Flyer began.

=We wait for Hunter. He'll be out soon.= I cut in.

"Well...are you sure?" Reja asked me.

=Yeah.=

"Then lets go find a hiding place. If we're in the place I'm thinking of, there's a sink in the dunes somehwere, and that should give us some cover." Fly suggested.

=Okay then.=

The Dragon Fire immediatly walked off. She stopped a far way off from the Werewolf and then called back to her, "It's here!"

When Reja arrived, she couldn't see anything. "What are you talking about?" She said, stepping forward. "There's no di-AHHH!" The Werewolf slid down a meter, and landed at the bottom. "Okay...I'll shut my mouth then."

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The earth shook next to us, and something stood up the top of the hole. "Ahah! Found ya's! You sure know you're way around, Flyer!" Hunter called down, with the Blade Liger peering down at us.

"Well, I haven't really left this area. Not in my whole life." Flyer replied quietly.

"Seriously?! Man, you need to get out and see the world!" Reja exclaimed.

The two zoids hauled themselves out, much to squishing me even further...

"Have you figured out where we're going?" Hunter asked the two girls.

"We're heading to a village on the North-East border of the desert. It shouldn't be too far from here." Flyer told him.

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You could see the village by now. About twenty minutes of crossing flat desert, and we would be there...A black shadow came across us.

"AHH! WHO'S THERE..?!" Flyer turned the Dragon Fire around suddenly.

To her (and my) relief, a black bipedal dragon zoid towered behind us. It was Konran, Ryu's zoid.

"Oh, geez, Ryu! It's only you...Don't scare us like that!" Flyer yelled at him.

"Sorry...Oh, and by the way, you guys have a Geno-Breaker chasing after you." Ryu informed.

"What?! Kane's following us?!" Hunter exclaimed. "Well, we had better get to that town, and QUICK!" And with that he sprinted off.

"Wait!" Ryu called. "Oh...I was going to add, it's still half-way across the desert."

Flyer sighed to herself, and continued on.

"Cat's over there. She's been driving me NUTS!" Ryu complained.

"Don't worry. We'll ALL have to put up with her once we get there..." Reja helped complain.

"So how come you guys have a kid with you?" Ryu asked.

"He helped us to break out with Mystic." Flyer explained.

"Oh...and Mystic is WHERE...?" He added.

=Right here, being squashed.= I replied unhappily.

"Okay. Well it's better than being DEAD."

=I suppose...=

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"Hey!!!! You guys FINALLY came!!" Cat yelled upon arriving at the hotel they were staying in. It was already afternoon so we ended up staying for a night.

"Great...." Reja muttered.

"Ryu's no fun." She pouted.

"Hi Mystic!" She grinned evilly, noticing me.

=Yeah....HI.=

"Well, you n' me get to buy some strawberries tomorrow!!"

=Oh...I'm looking forward to it...=

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Well...how'd ya like it? I've cut the characters down to make sure people will get more to say, and it will probably stay this way. NO, not as in the same characters!! To be fair, people will be swapping in and out. :) Except for the very end, but let's not worry about THAT far away so soon in the fic!

I suppose there's nothing left to say, really. Just the fact that you're going to move your mouse over the 'Submit Review' button and click. And leave a review! It'll make da Pigeon Stalker very very happy. ^.^

*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*