A good nights rest was all that they needed to clear their heads a bit so
that they could think clearly and come up with some sort of plan as to what
they were going to do with Van.
"It would probably just be best to take him with us the way that he is at the moment. The wedding is in a little over a week and that is about how long it is going to take us to get there. So we really shouldn't be wasting time talk like this," said an annoyed Irvine since no one was able to really think of anything and they were wasting time by sitting there and thinking.
"The problem is if Crougar will actually let us take Van even in the state that he is in. I don't think he would let us just because we don't want Fiona to marry someone else," said Thomas finding the one flaw in that plan.
"Let me deal with that, but for now lets just go and grab Van so that we can get moving as fast as we can," said Moonbay as the three of them stood up and started to walked towards the door to Van's room in the medical wing.
"I'll grab Van, you two go and plead with Crougar," said Irvine and the other two just nodded and the three of them separated with Irvine walking up to Van door. He quietly opened it up and walked into the room but there was no one in there. "That's odd. He was just here last night," he told himself as he turned around.
After walking out of the door he ran directly into Moonbay, Thomas, and Crougar. "Oh, there you are Irvine. These two told me what you wanted to do but I don't think I can approve of something like that. It would just put Van in a bit of danger at being out there in his injured state," said Crougar calmly as Thomas and Moonbay hung their heads low in defeat.
"Uh, yeah. I was wondering if maybe anyone had moved Van anytime in the night," said Irvine, which earned him many curious stares from the three others. "Well?" asked Irvine when no one was answering.
"No one moved him. Why did you ask something like that?" asked Crougar but Irvine just moved out of the way for him to see. He cautiously walked into the room to find that no one was there. The sheets on the bed were a mess but other than that it looked like no one had been in the room in the first place. "Either someone must have moved him without my knowledge or he had woken up but I doubt the second one because of his injuries he should have been out for a much longer amount of time," said Crougar quickly brushing past the three of them and walking down the corridor to get answers.
He didn't really get too far before a young soldier appeared out of nowhere startling him a little. "I am sorry sir but we have a bit of a problem at the moment. It appears that we are missing a zoid as well as some data had been stolen from another. You are needed to come and take a look at it," said the soldier with a salute before he ran off.
The three of them watched as Crougar walked off to take care of the task. "Stolen data... stolen zoid... missing Van," said the three of them before the pieces seemed to fit directly into place. The three of them looked at each other before they all scrambled to see if their assumption was correct.
The three of them ran into the hanger where they found Crougar talking with the same soldier as before while many other were searching all over the place and also within Moonbay's gustav.
"What the hell do all of you think that you are doing within my gustav? Get out of there now!" yelled Moonbay making all of the people scatter every which way in order to escape their wrath. "Old Man! What were they doing in my Gustav?" Moonbay yelled at Crougar.
Crougar remained unflinchingly calm. "The data that was stolen came out of your gustav. While we may not know who did it because of a sandstorm distorting the camera's last night. Someone saw someone get into you gustav while all of the lights was turned off at that moment. We were just trying to figure out what it was that they either took or were looking at," said Crougar with a placid expression on his face as he turned to look at the furious Moonbay.
"Why not just ask me to do it? It is my gustav after all!" yelled Moonbay shoving him out of the way and jumping into her gustav. She spent at least a good ten minutes in there typing at everything and growling in a frustrated way whenever she didn't find what she was looking for. After a while she had a smirk on her face and jumped out of the gustav and ran to Irvine, Thomas, and Crougar. "Nothing really big was taken except for the direction to the place where Fiona is getting married. Good thing I had it memorized. You do know what that means, don't you?" asked Moonbay with a smile which made Irvine and Thomas smile as well.
"You bet! Sorry old man but we have to chase after Van, since it is now obvious that he had woken up last night, taken the data as well as the zoid to get out of here," said Irvine with a smirk as he ran towards his lightning saix as Moonbay ran towards her gustav.
"With the zoid that was stolen being a storm sworder, we have wasted too much time as it is and we have to catch up with him," said Thomas also running off to his dibison. It wasn't long before the three of them were off at full speed away from the base leaving a speechless Crougar.
*****
A storm sworder flew through the air at its top speed but the pilot inside of it didn't even seem to feel the extreme forces that it was placing upon his body. His eyes held an emotionless feature to them as if he wasn't quite there. His mouth moved but only one word continued to come out of it. The name of the person that had plagued his mind in his long years of torture, the one that he had thought of to keep him alive through all of the pain, "Fiona."
Being in one of the fastest known zoids on the planet, Van knew that it wouldn't take very long to reach the destination that he had in mind. After all, he did have to worry about mountains, lakes, and forests, anything that would block his path and delay him from reaching his destination.
He had already been flying for about a day and he knew that he was very near his beloved Fiona. He could see the town fast approaching him off in the horizon and was already slowing down the speedy zoid to prepare for landing.
Deciding against raising a commotion by landing inside of the town, Van landed it just on the outskirts and decided to walk the rest of the way. He couldn't really go to fast or very far though. Over the years of his torture, Van had seemed to build up a slight immunity to the physical pains that he had to go through. Although he couldn't feel the pain, Van felt the weakness that went through his body with having it be under pressure for such a long period of time because of the forces of flying the storm sworder at full speed the whole way.
Van continued to walk despite his body's weakness at the moment. His strong will to see Fiona was enough to keep him moving despite his body's obvious objection. He knew it would last much longer but he felt that he had to keep moving.
Many stares came his way as he weakly walked through the town. He really couldn't blame them either because he had many bandages wrapped around his body and he also looked like he was going to collapse at any minute, which he had a good feeling like he was going to.
Suddenly everything started to go blurry all around him. 'I pushed myself too hard,' Van told himself as he stumbled to the side of a building to help him keep balance. He knew it wouldn't help for long and he was right when darkness surrounded him and he collapsed onto the street.
***Fiona's Dream***
Fiona was definitely not too happy to hear that Van had to leave her when he told her what Crougar wanted him to do. "Do you have to go?" Fiona asked in a saddened voice as she looked up at Van as the two of them walked towards the blade liger.
"Unfortunately I do. I promise that I will come back as soon as possible," said Van with a smile as he looked into the depressed face of Fiona. For some reason Van has this strange feeling inside of him like something was going to happen. "Do you think that you can wait for me to come back? If you can then I will have something special for you," said Van with a bright smile on his face.
"I promise that I will be patient until you come back but please make it quick," pouted Fiona as she looked up as him with sad eyes. Van responded with a kiss to her forehead and then to her lips before he reluctantly walked away and entered the blade liger and set off. Fiona stared at him as the blade liger walked further and further away. Fiona could help but think that for some reason it was like he was walking out of her life, like she would never see him again. She quickly shook off the thoughts and headed back into the base as she touched her lips where Van had just kissed her. 'I will wait,' Fiona promised herself.
***End Dream***
Fiona shot up in her bed with sweat dropping down her face. 'It is that dream again,' thought Fiona as pain shot through her heart like it did whenever she had the dream. She knew the pain that she felt was guilt, but she didn't know why when it was Van that had abandoned her. She wouldn't have felt as bad about it if he had talked to her about it.
To tell the truth she had all faith in him returning for a while after he had disappeared. She had waited patiently but he never sent anything to her, never tried to make contact with her. At the time she had thought that something bad might have happened it him.
It didn't happen that way though. Time after time she would hear rumors of his appearance in places all over the continent. She had searched for him as her patience started to wear thin. When they came across his blade liger, a shock came to her that started to break her confidence.
They found his blade liger in the middle of the desert unharmed. There wasn't even the slightest scratch on it at the moment, almost like it was brand new. They had taken it back to the base to look through it to find what Van was up to. That was when the shock came to her.
In one of the compartment of the blade liger, they found many photos of Van, Fiona, and their friends that Fiona remembered having been taken over the years. Every single one of the pictures that had Fiona in them was sliced up in the area where she was, or her picture was covered up to hide her from view.
Fiona refused to believe it even after that that Van had abandoned her. More and more rumors of his appearances kept coming up and little by little it continued to break her until eventually she just accepted the fact that he had abandoned her. Moonbay and the others tried to convince her that she had to be wrong but eventually they started to see the truth as well.
Yet somewhere in the back of Fiona's heart, there was something telling Fiona that there was something wrong about the whole situation. Even until this day, that very small piece of her heart was still waiting and not accepting all of the facts that had been placed before her.
Fiona looked out of the window to her hotel room at the already risen sun and could hear a bit of a commotion going on not too far from her room. She quietly got off of her bed and walked over and took a look out at the people down below. Very faintly she could see a large crowd forming a few blocks from her location. She was curious as to what was going on but decided to not let it get on her mind because she had a wedding in a mere week to get ready for.
Thinking about the wedding once again sent the pain throughout her heart. The small piece of her heart felt like this was betraying her promise to Van. 'How could I be betraying Van when it was him that betrayed me in the first place?' Fiona asked herself a little bitterly before she got dressed and walked out of the room.
*****
"Damn it! We are way too far behind. We have to hurry up a little bit!" yelled Irvine wanting to go full speed with the lightning saix but it would leave the other two behind.
"Well we are going as fast as we can, so will you please shut up and stop complaining?" yelled an annoyed Moonbay. "I am just as eager to get there as you are but my gustav and Thomas's dibison can only go so fast. They aren't really for speed like yours is," growled Moonbay slamming her fist onto the controls.
Preferring to keep his life going for a little while longer, Irvine decided to keep his mouth shut for the time being. "I wonder how it is that Van managed to do what he did while he was that badly injured. As Crougar had said, his injuries should have kept him in that coma for a while," said Irvine.
"We will just have to ask him when we find him. I am also very curious as to how he managed to pull it off. Then again, he has done many things in the past that were thought impossible," said Thomas with a slight smirk.
"I would like to know as well but lets focus on what we are trying to do. We have to get there as fast as we can. Irvine, why don't you go ahead? When you get there see if Van had already come by but don't say anything to Fiona because I want him to be there with us when we tell her or she might not believe us," said Moonbay hoping to speed things up a little.
"Maybe I should have done that from the beginning," said Irvine with a slight frown. "Oh well, I guess I am off then. I will meet you guys there," said Irvine taking off like lightning leaving the two others moving as fast as they can to keep up.
"It would probably just be best to take him with us the way that he is at the moment. The wedding is in a little over a week and that is about how long it is going to take us to get there. So we really shouldn't be wasting time talk like this," said an annoyed Irvine since no one was able to really think of anything and they were wasting time by sitting there and thinking.
"The problem is if Crougar will actually let us take Van even in the state that he is in. I don't think he would let us just because we don't want Fiona to marry someone else," said Thomas finding the one flaw in that plan.
"Let me deal with that, but for now lets just go and grab Van so that we can get moving as fast as we can," said Moonbay as the three of them stood up and started to walked towards the door to Van's room in the medical wing.
"I'll grab Van, you two go and plead with Crougar," said Irvine and the other two just nodded and the three of them separated with Irvine walking up to Van door. He quietly opened it up and walked into the room but there was no one in there. "That's odd. He was just here last night," he told himself as he turned around.
After walking out of the door he ran directly into Moonbay, Thomas, and Crougar. "Oh, there you are Irvine. These two told me what you wanted to do but I don't think I can approve of something like that. It would just put Van in a bit of danger at being out there in his injured state," said Crougar calmly as Thomas and Moonbay hung their heads low in defeat.
"Uh, yeah. I was wondering if maybe anyone had moved Van anytime in the night," said Irvine, which earned him many curious stares from the three others. "Well?" asked Irvine when no one was answering.
"No one moved him. Why did you ask something like that?" asked Crougar but Irvine just moved out of the way for him to see. He cautiously walked into the room to find that no one was there. The sheets on the bed were a mess but other than that it looked like no one had been in the room in the first place. "Either someone must have moved him without my knowledge or he had woken up but I doubt the second one because of his injuries he should have been out for a much longer amount of time," said Crougar quickly brushing past the three of them and walking down the corridor to get answers.
He didn't really get too far before a young soldier appeared out of nowhere startling him a little. "I am sorry sir but we have a bit of a problem at the moment. It appears that we are missing a zoid as well as some data had been stolen from another. You are needed to come and take a look at it," said the soldier with a salute before he ran off.
The three of them watched as Crougar walked off to take care of the task. "Stolen data... stolen zoid... missing Van," said the three of them before the pieces seemed to fit directly into place. The three of them looked at each other before they all scrambled to see if their assumption was correct.
The three of them ran into the hanger where they found Crougar talking with the same soldier as before while many other were searching all over the place and also within Moonbay's gustav.
"What the hell do all of you think that you are doing within my gustav? Get out of there now!" yelled Moonbay making all of the people scatter every which way in order to escape their wrath. "Old Man! What were they doing in my Gustav?" Moonbay yelled at Crougar.
Crougar remained unflinchingly calm. "The data that was stolen came out of your gustav. While we may not know who did it because of a sandstorm distorting the camera's last night. Someone saw someone get into you gustav while all of the lights was turned off at that moment. We were just trying to figure out what it was that they either took or were looking at," said Crougar with a placid expression on his face as he turned to look at the furious Moonbay.
"Why not just ask me to do it? It is my gustav after all!" yelled Moonbay shoving him out of the way and jumping into her gustav. She spent at least a good ten minutes in there typing at everything and growling in a frustrated way whenever she didn't find what she was looking for. After a while she had a smirk on her face and jumped out of the gustav and ran to Irvine, Thomas, and Crougar. "Nothing really big was taken except for the direction to the place where Fiona is getting married. Good thing I had it memorized. You do know what that means, don't you?" asked Moonbay with a smile which made Irvine and Thomas smile as well.
"You bet! Sorry old man but we have to chase after Van, since it is now obvious that he had woken up last night, taken the data as well as the zoid to get out of here," said Irvine with a smirk as he ran towards his lightning saix as Moonbay ran towards her gustav.
"With the zoid that was stolen being a storm sworder, we have wasted too much time as it is and we have to catch up with him," said Thomas also running off to his dibison. It wasn't long before the three of them were off at full speed away from the base leaving a speechless Crougar.
*****
A storm sworder flew through the air at its top speed but the pilot inside of it didn't even seem to feel the extreme forces that it was placing upon his body. His eyes held an emotionless feature to them as if he wasn't quite there. His mouth moved but only one word continued to come out of it. The name of the person that had plagued his mind in his long years of torture, the one that he had thought of to keep him alive through all of the pain, "Fiona."
Being in one of the fastest known zoids on the planet, Van knew that it wouldn't take very long to reach the destination that he had in mind. After all, he did have to worry about mountains, lakes, and forests, anything that would block his path and delay him from reaching his destination.
He had already been flying for about a day and he knew that he was very near his beloved Fiona. He could see the town fast approaching him off in the horizon and was already slowing down the speedy zoid to prepare for landing.
Deciding against raising a commotion by landing inside of the town, Van landed it just on the outskirts and decided to walk the rest of the way. He couldn't really go to fast or very far though. Over the years of his torture, Van had seemed to build up a slight immunity to the physical pains that he had to go through. Although he couldn't feel the pain, Van felt the weakness that went through his body with having it be under pressure for such a long period of time because of the forces of flying the storm sworder at full speed the whole way.
Van continued to walk despite his body's weakness at the moment. His strong will to see Fiona was enough to keep him moving despite his body's obvious objection. He knew it would last much longer but he felt that he had to keep moving.
Many stares came his way as he weakly walked through the town. He really couldn't blame them either because he had many bandages wrapped around his body and he also looked like he was going to collapse at any minute, which he had a good feeling like he was going to.
Suddenly everything started to go blurry all around him. 'I pushed myself too hard,' Van told himself as he stumbled to the side of a building to help him keep balance. He knew it wouldn't help for long and he was right when darkness surrounded him and he collapsed onto the street.
***Fiona's Dream***
Fiona was definitely not too happy to hear that Van had to leave her when he told her what Crougar wanted him to do. "Do you have to go?" Fiona asked in a saddened voice as she looked up at Van as the two of them walked towards the blade liger.
"Unfortunately I do. I promise that I will come back as soon as possible," said Van with a smile as he looked into the depressed face of Fiona. For some reason Van has this strange feeling inside of him like something was going to happen. "Do you think that you can wait for me to come back? If you can then I will have something special for you," said Van with a bright smile on his face.
"I promise that I will be patient until you come back but please make it quick," pouted Fiona as she looked up as him with sad eyes. Van responded with a kiss to her forehead and then to her lips before he reluctantly walked away and entered the blade liger and set off. Fiona stared at him as the blade liger walked further and further away. Fiona could help but think that for some reason it was like he was walking out of her life, like she would never see him again. She quickly shook off the thoughts and headed back into the base as she touched her lips where Van had just kissed her. 'I will wait,' Fiona promised herself.
***End Dream***
Fiona shot up in her bed with sweat dropping down her face. 'It is that dream again,' thought Fiona as pain shot through her heart like it did whenever she had the dream. She knew the pain that she felt was guilt, but she didn't know why when it was Van that had abandoned her. She wouldn't have felt as bad about it if he had talked to her about it.
To tell the truth she had all faith in him returning for a while after he had disappeared. She had waited patiently but he never sent anything to her, never tried to make contact with her. At the time she had thought that something bad might have happened it him.
It didn't happen that way though. Time after time she would hear rumors of his appearance in places all over the continent. She had searched for him as her patience started to wear thin. When they came across his blade liger, a shock came to her that started to break her confidence.
They found his blade liger in the middle of the desert unharmed. There wasn't even the slightest scratch on it at the moment, almost like it was brand new. They had taken it back to the base to look through it to find what Van was up to. That was when the shock came to her.
In one of the compartment of the blade liger, they found many photos of Van, Fiona, and their friends that Fiona remembered having been taken over the years. Every single one of the pictures that had Fiona in them was sliced up in the area where she was, or her picture was covered up to hide her from view.
Fiona refused to believe it even after that that Van had abandoned her. More and more rumors of his appearances kept coming up and little by little it continued to break her until eventually she just accepted the fact that he had abandoned her. Moonbay and the others tried to convince her that she had to be wrong but eventually they started to see the truth as well.
Yet somewhere in the back of Fiona's heart, there was something telling Fiona that there was something wrong about the whole situation. Even until this day, that very small piece of her heart was still waiting and not accepting all of the facts that had been placed before her.
Fiona looked out of the window to her hotel room at the already risen sun and could hear a bit of a commotion going on not too far from her room. She quietly got off of her bed and walked over and took a look out at the people down below. Very faintly she could see a large crowd forming a few blocks from her location. She was curious as to what was going on but decided to not let it get on her mind because she had a wedding in a mere week to get ready for.
Thinking about the wedding once again sent the pain throughout her heart. The small piece of her heart felt like this was betraying her promise to Van. 'How could I be betraying Van when it was him that betrayed me in the first place?' Fiona asked herself a little bitterly before she got dressed and walked out of the room.
*****
"Damn it! We are way too far behind. We have to hurry up a little bit!" yelled Irvine wanting to go full speed with the lightning saix but it would leave the other two behind.
"Well we are going as fast as we can, so will you please shut up and stop complaining?" yelled an annoyed Moonbay. "I am just as eager to get there as you are but my gustav and Thomas's dibison can only go so fast. They aren't really for speed like yours is," growled Moonbay slamming her fist onto the controls.
Preferring to keep his life going for a little while longer, Irvine decided to keep his mouth shut for the time being. "I wonder how it is that Van managed to do what he did while he was that badly injured. As Crougar had said, his injuries should have kept him in that coma for a while," said Irvine.
"We will just have to ask him when we find him. I am also very curious as to how he managed to pull it off. Then again, he has done many things in the past that were thought impossible," said Thomas with a slight smirk.
"I would like to know as well but lets focus on what we are trying to do. We have to get there as fast as we can. Irvine, why don't you go ahead? When you get there see if Van had already come by but don't say anything to Fiona because I want him to be there with us when we tell her or she might not believe us," said Moonbay hoping to speed things up a little.
"Maybe I should have done that from the beginning," said Irvine with a slight frown. "Oh well, I guess I am off then. I will meet you guys there," said Irvine taking off like lightning leaving the two others moving as fast as they can to keep up.