"Marvin, prepare the landing gears, Roz, get the cloak ready to activate, Waynehead, get the shields down, and Mo, make sure everything is held down in the launch room, we don't want anything to move around and make a hole in the ship while were landing. I'll set her down in the usual space." I said.
The Black Avenger streaked across the blue sky and it went into the outskirts of the city. We were preparing to land and everyone was really excited to go back to the scout's dimension again. I didn't want Tuff to do anything mostly because he was so excited that he might do something on accident and mess something up. I was glad that everyone was happy again. At lease this gave me joy to be called the leader by them because of this. The gang needed to get away for Tenchi's place anyway, I guess. It was too quiet up in the mountains. Plus it been a while that we did a gig in this dimension. We knew our fans had been really impatient for our next performance.
When we finally landed, we all got out of our stations and went to the hatchway to get off. Before I went to the elevator, Mo stopped me.
"Look, I want to say I'm sorry man," he started while looking at the floor. " I guess I was just was angry about not seeing Raye for so long it just got to me you know. I didn't want to hurt you that way, you one of my boys man. I'll never do that to you on purpose man."
"Yeah I know, that's because you know I'll blow and kick your ass all over the ship for that." I said.
He looked up at me as we both laughed and got on the elevator. Everyone got ready to see the girls. Mo and Marvin had on their players' clothes on and was checking for bad breath and seeing if everything was perfect on them. Tuff had done the same except that he had on his regular clothes that he usually have on. He had a big grin that went ear to ear on his face like this was the best day of his life. Waynehead and Roz were planning what to do together when they left the ship and be alone with each other. It looked like I'm the only one not doing anything with anyone, I thought. The anger inside of me began to inch up my spine toward my brain. No, I thought. This is the team's day. You already have another thing to do with your time.
The elevator stopped and the doors opened to the launch area. All of our vehicles were in this room, the X-wings, the jets, ours cars, the hoverboards, everything we needed to travel with when we were in any dimension or planet was in this room. We all headed for the hatch and were ready to go out. I touched the communicator on my watch. I needed to talk to Akye before we go. "Akye, they getting ready to go, get my X-wing prep up to go. After I'm gone you can go and get the preparations ready for the gig. If it goes through call me and let me know when to come back and do it."
Everyone turned around when I was just said " get my X-wing prep up to go." . They all seemed surprised at me. I didn't say that I wasn't going with them yet. I guess it just slipped my mind. I looked at all of them with a serious face on. It seemed like a perfect day for them and I didn't want to ruin it for them with the feelings that I got for Amy.
"I'm sorry guys, I can't do it." I said. "This is a day for you guys not to be screwed up by me. I already called Tenchi and he said that I could come over. I'll be O.K, really. You all just go and have a good time with the girls. I'll be back in time for the gig we'll do."
But nobody moved. They all stood where they were. Most of them hadn't said anything except Marvin and Mo.
"Well, looks like it going to be five instead of six couples and a hang over, but that's O.K. See yea D.J." Mo said.
"Yeah, have a nice time at Tenchi's." Marvin said.
Both of them turned and headed for the hatch door but Roz grabbed them both by their collars. Marvin and Mo turned and automatically started to scream at her.
"Woman you know how long it took me to iron this thing! You better let me go right now!"
"Waynehead, get your girl before she gets hurt."
They both continued to scream off their lungs at her but she didn't let them go. Waynehead had came over there and tried to tell Roz to let them go. Tuff was getting a little agitated and was yelling along with everyone. I just stared at them for a minute and tried to figure out what was all the fuss was all about. Finally I stepped in and stopped everyone for yelling.
"Come on guys, just go and have a good time!" I said pushing them to the door. "This is your day go on now."
Roz just turned around and stared me right in my eyes. It looked like she was going jump on me now. She grabbed me by the front of my shirt and pulled me to her face and started to yell at me.
"Look you knuckle-head," she said with anger in her voice. "You are going to go with us and have a good time also, you are going to talk to Amy and like it you understand!!"
I was too stunned to say anything. It was probably my fear too. But I still had a little courage to say something about it.
"O.K., what if I went with you guys and then I see Greg with Amy." I started." No doubt I'll go and have a break down and either kick his ass or drown myself in tears. I can't do it Roz. I don't want to ruin the team's day."
Everyone looked at me with amazement. I guess they never thought that I would do anything like that. I just had to get it out. I needed to tell them that so they would know why I can't see her anymore.
"O.K., can we go now?" Tuff asked.
"Tuff!!" we all yelled.
"You all can go, D.J go tell Akye to prep up my X-wing too." Roz said.
I was again stunned to what Roz had said. Everyone else had begun to talk loudly again. Waynehead had begun to try and talk Roz out of it but it was no use she bent what she said.
"If D.J not going, I'm not going." she stated.
I was getting a little annoyed at this. Didn't they see that all I wanted was to see them happy and to stay away from Amy as long as possible.
Then all of a sudden Waynehead got with Roz and held her by the hand.
"If you're not going, I'm not going. Plain as that." he said.
I couldn't take it anymore. This was getting ridiculous. I wasn't going and that was final.
"Would you just go, just forget about me!" I said angrily.
Marvin, Mo, and Tuff had been looking at the scene for a while now, and Tuff was getting more impatient by the second. He looked like he was going to bust and kill us all in a minute. Waynehead and Roz just looked at me with determination to bring me with them. It looked like I had a situation on my hands again. I either go with them and possibly face mental breakdown or go and fight it out with the team and get nothing done today and everyone more miserable than ever. Well, I thought. What should I do now? I wanted to fight it out but with my own teammates? Then I remembered what I said when we were still rookies in the business. It was the day that the Black Avenger was just finished and we were ready to take off and everyone declared that I was the official leader of the team. "A leader has to make sacrifices in this job, no matter if they're little or big they always determine the fate of your team." I knew what I had to do. "O.K., I'll come." I said.
Roz and Waynehead then came up to me and put both of their arms around me. I told Akye to cancel my other plans and go on with trying to get a gig for us. Marvin and the others were just happy that they finally were going. I just headed to the hatch door with the others and hoped not to have a breakdown. This is going to be a long day. I thought.