Something Worth Leaving Behind
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids Shinseiki / Zero. MBS played it in Japan. Tomy made the toys. I'm also not making any money off of this. I also do not own the song "Something Wort Leaving Behind." Leanne Womack sings it, I don't know who wrote it.
Note: As before, this will not be a deathfic, the Japanese names are used, and the story's written from Jiemi's point of view. Also remember, song lyrics are written between // (meaning: //(lyrics)//). As an added note, Leanne Womack's album, "Something Worth Leaving Behind," was just released on August 20th (I did start writing this part before it was out, but not having it out's gonna be important to the story, 'cause Jiemi never hears the entire song).
~~~~~ What has come before... ~~~~~
Jiemi, fed up with how no one appreciates him, left in the Reinosu. He decided to land the Zoid and get some sleep, and began to wonder if anyone would remember him, or even realize he was gone.
~~~~~ Chapter 2- Worth ~~~~~
I opened my eyes, and immediately closed them again against the orange light that I was bathed in. Where am I? I thought, before realizing that I was in the cockpit of my Reinosu. The shield above me was causing the oddness to the color of light. Checking the scanners to make sure no one had followed (or found) me, I tuned the radio to a news station, to make sure no one had discovered the Reinosu and I missing and reported it. They're more likely to report a stolen Zoid than a missing person, I thought dejectedly. Powering up the systems, I took off, toward the closest town I knew of. I didn't know where I was going to go, but I knew I needed supplies.
~~~~~
In town, the store I stopped at to buy food supplies had the radio tuned to the same station I had found the night before. The same song was on, too.
//I'll prob'ly never hold the brush That paints the masterpiece I'll prob'ly never find the pen That writes the symphony//
As the shop owner turned the radio down to help me, I asked him, "What song is that?"
"The one just on the radio?" he asked. "It's a new song. 'Something Worth Leaving Behind', or something like that. That Womack girl sings it."
"Do you know where I can get a copy of it?" I asked, as he put the supplies I'd bought into a bag.
"Don't think the album's been released yet, son. But they play it all the time on this here station, so ya can listen to it there."
I thanked the man, and paid him, and put the food supplies into the back of the Reinosu and flew off.
~~~~~
Back at the Blitz Team base, the others had just realized that I was no where to be found.
"Dad, where's Jiemi?" Rinon asked her father.
"I haven't seen him today. Did you check his room?" Rinon nodded. "The kitchen?" Another nod. "The laundry room?" Nod. "The computer room?" Nod. "The hangar?"
"I haven't checked the hangar yet... He COULD be there..." Rinon trailed off as she left the room. Dr. Torosu looked at the clock. It was around lunchtime, and while I did sleep in occasionally, or go off on my own for a while, it wasn't like me to not be seen all morning.
~~~~~
When Rinon got to the hangar, she found Bit and Ballade working on their Zoids, but not me. No one had noticed that Reinosu was also gone.
"Have you guys seen Jiemi?" Rinon asked the boys.
Bit looked up. "Isn't he inside?" Rinon shook her head.
Ballade looked over toward the corner of the hangar, and noticed that Reinosu was gone. "It seems he went out. But Bit and I have been in here since just after breakfast, and he wasn't in here then."
"Maybe he went out before breakfast?" Rinon suggested, trying to find a logical reason for me not to be on base.
"He could've," Ballade replied, "but Jiemi knows better than to pilot on an empty stomach. And when Doc and I got into the kitchen this morning for coffee, no one had been in there. If Jiemi had've gotten something to eat, his washed dishes would at least be in the strainer."
Rinon mulled over this information. "But if he's not on base, and he didn't leave this morning, where could he be?"
~~~~~
I, on the other hand, was completely unaware that the others had even noticed I was missing. I was, however, starting to realize that my ill- planned vacation wasn't exactly my best idea. What if something happened to me? If I got hurt, and no one knew where I was, I didn't want to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere. I have to let SOMEONE know what's going on. But who? I can't tell Dad, 'cause he'll wanna know why I left, and then he'll get on Doc, and Doc'll get all upset, and then Dad'll make me go back, and Doc'll've told everyone how I'm feeling, and then they'll all be nicey-nice to me. No, I can't tell Dad. But who else am I close enough to to trust? LEON! Leon and me've been friends since as long as I can remember. And he's always believed in me and my abilities. HE'll keep the secret. But what about Naomi? Naomi'll want to know why I'm off by myself, and I don't know if I can trust her to keep it a secret. She's never done anything to hurt me before (outside of battle, that is, and that's just trying to freeze the Zoid), and that time we teamed up we did make a good team... I really don't have a choice. I'm all on my own out here, and I'm gonna need help. Leon's her teammate now, and teammates have to have some sort of trust between them. If Leon'll trust her, then I guess I will too.
~~~~~ Song Lyrics from Chapter 2 ~~~~~
I'll prob'ly never hold the brush That paints the masterpiece I'll prob'ly never find the pen That writes the symphony
~~~~~
Yup, Leon and Naomi'll be in the next chapter. I wanna really build up the relationship between Leon and Jiemi, 'cause I feel it's something that not enough writers touch upon. I mean, they're two guys, maybe about 5 years apart (I place Leon about 19, and Jiemi's 14), and they obviously would've grown up together, given that their dad's are best friends (I have to see the Japanese scene from episode 13 with Jiemi's dad, though, 'cause it still doesn't explain the fact that Rinon doesn't seem to know Jiemi's dad... but if Torosu and Hemerosu didn't get together after Hemerosu's accident, which I place when Jiemi was 7, from the picture, that's 7 years before /0... and Jiemi and Rinon have obviously been together longer than just in the team, so it still works), so I'm gonna touch upon the fact that Jiemi probably feels like Leon's almost a big brother to him.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids Shinseiki / Zero. MBS played it in Japan. Tomy made the toys. I'm also not making any money off of this. I also do not own the song "Something Wort Leaving Behind." Leanne Womack sings it, I don't know who wrote it.
Note: As before, this will not be a deathfic, the Japanese names are used, and the story's written from Jiemi's point of view. Also remember, song lyrics are written between // (meaning: //(lyrics)//). As an added note, Leanne Womack's album, "Something Worth Leaving Behind," was just released on August 20th (I did start writing this part before it was out, but not having it out's gonna be important to the story, 'cause Jiemi never hears the entire song).
~~~~~ What has come before... ~~~~~
Jiemi, fed up with how no one appreciates him, left in the Reinosu. He decided to land the Zoid and get some sleep, and began to wonder if anyone would remember him, or even realize he was gone.
~~~~~ Chapter 2- Worth ~~~~~
I opened my eyes, and immediately closed them again against the orange light that I was bathed in. Where am I? I thought, before realizing that I was in the cockpit of my Reinosu. The shield above me was causing the oddness to the color of light. Checking the scanners to make sure no one had followed (or found) me, I tuned the radio to a news station, to make sure no one had discovered the Reinosu and I missing and reported it. They're more likely to report a stolen Zoid than a missing person, I thought dejectedly. Powering up the systems, I took off, toward the closest town I knew of. I didn't know where I was going to go, but I knew I needed supplies.
~~~~~
In town, the store I stopped at to buy food supplies had the radio tuned to the same station I had found the night before. The same song was on, too.
//I'll prob'ly never hold the brush That paints the masterpiece I'll prob'ly never find the pen That writes the symphony//
As the shop owner turned the radio down to help me, I asked him, "What song is that?"
"The one just on the radio?" he asked. "It's a new song. 'Something Worth Leaving Behind', or something like that. That Womack girl sings it."
"Do you know where I can get a copy of it?" I asked, as he put the supplies I'd bought into a bag.
"Don't think the album's been released yet, son. But they play it all the time on this here station, so ya can listen to it there."
I thanked the man, and paid him, and put the food supplies into the back of the Reinosu and flew off.
~~~~~
Back at the Blitz Team base, the others had just realized that I was no where to be found.
"Dad, where's Jiemi?" Rinon asked her father.
"I haven't seen him today. Did you check his room?" Rinon nodded. "The kitchen?" Another nod. "The laundry room?" Nod. "The computer room?" Nod. "The hangar?"
"I haven't checked the hangar yet... He COULD be there..." Rinon trailed off as she left the room. Dr. Torosu looked at the clock. It was around lunchtime, and while I did sleep in occasionally, or go off on my own for a while, it wasn't like me to not be seen all morning.
~~~~~
When Rinon got to the hangar, she found Bit and Ballade working on their Zoids, but not me. No one had noticed that Reinosu was also gone.
"Have you guys seen Jiemi?" Rinon asked the boys.
Bit looked up. "Isn't he inside?" Rinon shook her head.
Ballade looked over toward the corner of the hangar, and noticed that Reinosu was gone. "It seems he went out. But Bit and I have been in here since just after breakfast, and he wasn't in here then."
"Maybe he went out before breakfast?" Rinon suggested, trying to find a logical reason for me not to be on base.
"He could've," Ballade replied, "but Jiemi knows better than to pilot on an empty stomach. And when Doc and I got into the kitchen this morning for coffee, no one had been in there. If Jiemi had've gotten something to eat, his washed dishes would at least be in the strainer."
Rinon mulled over this information. "But if he's not on base, and he didn't leave this morning, where could he be?"
~~~~~
I, on the other hand, was completely unaware that the others had even noticed I was missing. I was, however, starting to realize that my ill- planned vacation wasn't exactly my best idea. What if something happened to me? If I got hurt, and no one knew where I was, I didn't want to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere. I have to let SOMEONE know what's going on. But who? I can't tell Dad, 'cause he'll wanna know why I left, and then he'll get on Doc, and Doc'll get all upset, and then Dad'll make me go back, and Doc'll've told everyone how I'm feeling, and then they'll all be nicey-nice to me. No, I can't tell Dad. But who else am I close enough to to trust? LEON! Leon and me've been friends since as long as I can remember. And he's always believed in me and my abilities. HE'll keep the secret. But what about Naomi? Naomi'll want to know why I'm off by myself, and I don't know if I can trust her to keep it a secret. She's never done anything to hurt me before (outside of battle, that is, and that's just trying to freeze the Zoid), and that time we teamed up we did make a good team... I really don't have a choice. I'm all on my own out here, and I'm gonna need help. Leon's her teammate now, and teammates have to have some sort of trust between them. If Leon'll trust her, then I guess I will too.
~~~~~ Song Lyrics from Chapter 2 ~~~~~
I'll prob'ly never hold the brush That paints the masterpiece I'll prob'ly never find the pen That writes the symphony
~~~~~
Yup, Leon and Naomi'll be in the next chapter. I wanna really build up the relationship between Leon and Jiemi, 'cause I feel it's something that not enough writers touch upon. I mean, they're two guys, maybe about 5 years apart (I place Leon about 19, and Jiemi's 14), and they obviously would've grown up together, given that their dad's are best friends (I have to see the Japanese scene from episode 13 with Jiemi's dad, though, 'cause it still doesn't explain the fact that Rinon doesn't seem to know Jiemi's dad... but if Torosu and Hemerosu didn't get together after Hemerosu's accident, which I place when Jiemi was 7, from the picture, that's 7 years before /0... and Jiemi and Rinon have obviously been together longer than just in the team, so it still works), so I'm gonna touch upon the fact that Jiemi probably feels like Leon's almost a big brother to him.