"What do you mean by you need some help? Also, what is it that you some
help with?" asked Reese a little suspiciously because she wasn't sure why
he was asking them for help after what they had done in the past.
"You two are my only hope of getting there in time. Fiona is getting married soon to someone else because she thought that I had abandoned her for four years. The truth was that I was held captive and tortured for all that time," said Van finding that he was saying the one thing he refused to say a few minutes ago.
Reese and even Raven were startled by what Van had just said. They never thought that something like that would happen to him of all people. "How the hell did that happen?" asked Raven trying to remain calm but it still startled him a little bit.
"To tell the truth, I don't really understand how it happened myself at times. All I was doing was picking something up for Colonel Crougar and I was ambushed," said Van while thinking back to what had happened.
Flashback
Van was basically sprinted through the town that he had been sent to in order to pick up the object. He didn't want to waste any time, he wanted to get back as soon as he could, back to Fiona. He never got to tell her what he wanted to before they were interrupted. He wanted to get back to tell her that he was in love with her as well.
Van ran into the small shop to see an elderly man sitting behind the desk. Van walked up quietly until he was right in front of the desk but the elderly mans back was turned to him and it appeared that he wasn't. "Excuse me," said Van in a quiet voice but the man didn't seem to hear him at all. 'Excuse," me Van repeated a little louder but yet again he received no response. "Excuse me!" Van yelled almost at the top of his lungs. Yet again he received no response from the man. Van got annoyed and reached out and tapped the man on the shoulder.
The elderly man nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt someone tap him on the shoulder. He spun around quickly holding his chest. "Don't sneak up on me like that! You could have at least announced that you were here! What are you trying to do, kill me?" he asked quickly.
Van couldn't help but let off a small chuckle. "I tried calling you three times but you didn't even hear me at all," he said before he calmed down. "I am here to pick up a package," said Van but he looked at the man to see a disgusted look on his face.
"You're here to pick your nose, disgusting. If you are going to do that then please go someplace else and do it. Just do it any place from here," said the old man while scrunching up his nose in disgust.
Van smacked his hand on his forehead because of how senile the old man was being. "No! I am here to pick up a package, pack-age," said Van announcing it slowly so that the man would actually understand it this time.
"Oh why didn't you say so earlier?" asked the old man with a smile causing Van to chuckle again. The old man finally got a good look at Van a second later and his eyes seemed to grow with recognition. "Ah, your Dan Flyheights boy aren't you?" asked the man with a toothless smile.
"Uh, yeah," said Van wondering how he knew. 'How can he know my father when it is probably very likely that he can't even remember what he had to eat last night?' thought Van watching the man with a little amusement. He turned his head away for a second to look at some of the things around the place but when he turned back around the old man had disappeared.
"You know," said the old man appearing behind Van causing Van to jump a few feet into the air. "I once had a few dealings with your father and your mother years ago. It is a terrible shame what happened to the two of them. They were very nice people. They gave me something though," said the man holding out a dusty package.
Van couldn't help but wonder how it was that he managed to get it so quickly. "Um, thanks but I came here to pick something up for Crougar," said Van scratching the back of his head as he looked at the package wondering what was inside of it.
"He sent you to pick this up. You specifically, because it was meant to be given to you, it is a gift from your parents only to be given at a specific time. It is a gift much like that knife that you wear," he said pointing to the knife.
"This," said Van taking the knife off of his belt and looking at it closely. He saw the man nod while handing him the gift. Van set the knife down for a moment to grab the package and looked at it for a second.
"I created the contents inside of the package myself for your father when he was younger and still dating your mother. When she died, he gave it to me to hold onto until you were in the same predicament that he was in at the time. He was in love as I am sure that you are in at this moment," he said and was confirmed when Van nodded his head. "Glad to hear that. Then I won't have any worries about giving this to you," he said with a smile.
Van figured that he knew exactly what was inside the package so he didn't have to even bother to open it till later. "It's my mother engagement ring isn't it?" he said rather than asked.
The old man just nodded his head at that moment. "I used to create stuff like that all the time as a business but my old hands can no longer make such things. This one had to be one of if not my finest creations," he said very proudly. "When you are ready to use it then I want you to use it but don't do it until you are positive that it is what you want," he said because he didn't want to see his creation put to waste.
'Do I really want to get into something like this right now? I know I have fallen in love with Fiona but I am not completely sure that I would be ready for it,' Van told himself slightly confused on what to do.
"I suggest that you take a bit of time to think about something like this," the old man said pushing Van towards the door and out of it before he could protest. "You won't get any thinking done by standing here," he said before closing the door leaving a confused Van outside.
Van walked towards the blade liger. He wasn't sure what he was planning on doing. He didn't really want to take things too fast with Fiona. he just found out that he loved her. He quickly hopped into the blade liger and carefully put the package into a small compartment.
"Oh no!" yelled Van realizing that he had left his father's knife back at the shop. "I can't leave it here," he yelled jumping out of the blade liger and running to grab it. He was nearly there before someone stepped into his path. The man wouldn't move and Van was getting impatient. He took a step forward only to be hit hard in the back of the head making him lose consciousness.
End flashback
"I didn't expect for something like that to happen and I was unprepared because I forgot my fathers knife. Four years. For four years I was constantly tortured living only with a hope that proved false," said Van sadly lying back against the sand.
Raven and Reese seemed kind of stunned as they heard all that Van had told them about the day that he was captured. Although they thought of Van as their greatest rival, they still held some respect for him and his abilities.
Raven knew what he had to do if he wanted to fight Van again. He wanted an opponent at full strength and not moping around because he lost someone. "Fine! I don't want to fight you when you are moping around anyways," said Raven as he turned around and walked towards his genobreaker.
Van couldn't help but smile. 'Sure, Raven puts up a front but I actually think he cares a lot,' thought Van with a smirk as he watched Reese turn around and leave. He walked after them. "Um, how are we going to get there with only one zoid?" asked Van realizing the one problem with it all.
Suddenly, Specula appeared out of nowhere and Reese got on her back as it took off. "That's how," muttered Raven hoping into the blade liger. "Lets just not talk because I don't feel like arguing the whole way there," he muttered when Van hopped into the genobreaker. The cockpit closed and the genobreaker took off into the sand at great speed.
It felt very weird for Van to be in the cockpit of his rival's zoid, the zoid that he had faced in battle so many times before. 'As long as I can get there quickly then I would do anything,' Van thought with a determined look on his face.
Moonbay, and Thomas jumped out of the gustav to be greeted by Fiona and Irvine since he arrived sooner then they were able to. Irvine had a look on his face that told them that something was wrong at that moment.
"Moonbay, Thomas it is so good of you to finally get here," said Fiona with a smile as she walked up and gave both of them a hug. She had a smile on her face that told them that if Van had come would be different. It would both confuse her and make her feel bad if he came and nothing happened between them because she was still planning to get married. Or it would make it larger if she got back together with Van. She always seemed to have this special type of smile whenever she was with Van.
"Sorry we're late," said Moonbay as they started to walk to the hotel. She fell behind a little bit along with Irvine as Fiona led the way. "So, did Van show up?" asked Moonbay figuring that she already knew the answer.
"No," said Irvine in a worried voice. "I am kind of worried because he should have gotten here a few days ago. I only got here yesterday and he wasn't here. Fiona doesn't know yet so we will wait for a little while for him to show up. It is best for him to see her," said Irvine as they walked far enough behind so Fiona wouldn't hear.
"I already know that. How is it that he can't be here yet when he was piloting a freaking storm sworder?" asked Moonbay trying to think of all possibilities for this situation.
"I have some sort of feeling like he did get here but he never was able to see Fiona. Van tends to have a one track mind so when he gets an idea in his head, he will try to go through with it at any cost. I am worried though, what if he doesn't turn up until it is too late?" said Irvine letting the worry go through his voice.
"I want Van and Fiona to get together as much as you do because I have this strange feeling about Fiona's fiancé. It is something I have had ever since I first met him but I can't quite place what it is," said Moonbay quietly so that anyone that was trying to listen in wouldn't hear them.
"The wedding is tomorrow. We will give Van that much time before we just go ahead and tell Fiona what it is that we know. She will probably hate us afterwards but I feel it is something we have to do," said Irvine as if it was the simplest thing to do.
The genobreaker was fast but Van felt that it wasn't fast enough. It took very close to a day for them to get back to where Van had been forcefully taken from. He was beginning to have some serious thoughts as to why they did what they did back then.
Van was wondering what he was going to say when he saw Fiona. He thought he had it figured out before but now he didn't know what to do. 'What if she rejects me and still gets married. I won't stand in her way as long as who she is marrying is good for her,' thought Van sadly.
He was pulled from his thoughts when the genobreaker came to a sudden halt throwing Van forward a bit as Raven didn't even say a word to him. "What's going on?" asked Van straightening himself up a bit.
"Nothing, just a minor bit of interference," said Raven while looking through the monitors at about a dozen zoids blocking their path into town. Raven didn't even seem to hold any type of emotion on his face while he watched them.
A screen popped up revealing a face Van had seen multiple times during his time of being captured. "You are not going a step further Van Flyheight," said a bald man with a scar just under his eye to the end of his jaw. Van had given him it actually when he was first brought there.
"You again?" growled out Van as he narrowed his eyes dangerously at the man he had come to loath a long time ago. "Why are you blocking me from getting in? It is clear that you don't want me to get in there so why is it that you are doing this?" he growled with clenched fists.
"We are trying to kill someone and we can't have you interfering with it," said the man with a smirk on his face as his saber fang took a few steps towards the unmoving genobreaker.
This made Van worry that they might be after Fiona. It would make sense too. They get him out of the way so that Fiona main protector wasn't there to protect her. "If you harm Fiona in any way then I swear I will make you sorry that you ever crossed my path," he said before he shoved past Raven and jumped out of the cockpit.
"We want nothing to do with that stupid girl. It is her fiancé that we are actually after," said the man but Van had a very serious time trying to believe him at that moment because something in his words proved false in Van's mind.
"I don't have time for this!" yelled Van as he made and attempt to run past as many of the zoids as he could. He nearly got stomped on a few times by some of the zoids but thanks to Raven he managed to get by because as a zoid was about to hurt him, Raven came in a the last second and took them down helping to clear out Van's path so he didn't have to face too many obstacles.
The bride to be was happy, the groom was happy, the friends... weren't happy. 'Where the hell can he be? If he doesn't show up in the next ten seconds then I am going to tell Fiona myself,' Moonbay told herself since the wedding had already started. 'Maybe I should have stopped it before it began,' she told herself as she listened to the priest talking.
"If there is anyone that feels that these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace," said the priest as he looked over the number of people in the room looking for any objections.
Van still hadn't shown up so Moonbay decided to take things into her own hands. Moonbay took a step forward from her maid of honor position making many others look at her. "Fiona, I can't let you do this. There are so many things that you don't know that you should. You should be marrying Van, not him," said Moonbay earning her even more stares.
Fiona just looked at Moonbay with a slight look of hurt in her eyes. She thought her friends would support her through this. "How can you say that Moonbay? You know what he did. How can you say those things after what he did?" Fiona nearly yelled.
"The reason I said this is because..." said Moonbay but she was unable to get the last little bit out of her mouth as the doors to the place opened and slow steps were heard but Fiona either didn't hear or just didn't want to look. "Look Fiona," said Moonbay pointing towards the door as she saw Van walk into the room.
"You two are my only hope of getting there in time. Fiona is getting married soon to someone else because she thought that I had abandoned her for four years. The truth was that I was held captive and tortured for all that time," said Van finding that he was saying the one thing he refused to say a few minutes ago.
Reese and even Raven were startled by what Van had just said. They never thought that something like that would happen to him of all people. "How the hell did that happen?" asked Raven trying to remain calm but it still startled him a little bit.
"To tell the truth, I don't really understand how it happened myself at times. All I was doing was picking something up for Colonel Crougar and I was ambushed," said Van while thinking back to what had happened.
Flashback
Van was basically sprinted through the town that he had been sent to in order to pick up the object. He didn't want to waste any time, he wanted to get back as soon as he could, back to Fiona. He never got to tell her what he wanted to before they were interrupted. He wanted to get back to tell her that he was in love with her as well.
Van ran into the small shop to see an elderly man sitting behind the desk. Van walked up quietly until he was right in front of the desk but the elderly mans back was turned to him and it appeared that he wasn't. "Excuse me," said Van in a quiet voice but the man didn't seem to hear him at all. 'Excuse," me Van repeated a little louder but yet again he received no response. "Excuse me!" Van yelled almost at the top of his lungs. Yet again he received no response from the man. Van got annoyed and reached out and tapped the man on the shoulder.
The elderly man nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt someone tap him on the shoulder. He spun around quickly holding his chest. "Don't sneak up on me like that! You could have at least announced that you were here! What are you trying to do, kill me?" he asked quickly.
Van couldn't help but let off a small chuckle. "I tried calling you three times but you didn't even hear me at all," he said before he calmed down. "I am here to pick up a package," said Van but he looked at the man to see a disgusted look on his face.
"You're here to pick your nose, disgusting. If you are going to do that then please go someplace else and do it. Just do it any place from here," said the old man while scrunching up his nose in disgust.
Van smacked his hand on his forehead because of how senile the old man was being. "No! I am here to pick up a package, pack-age," said Van announcing it slowly so that the man would actually understand it this time.
"Oh why didn't you say so earlier?" asked the old man with a smile causing Van to chuckle again. The old man finally got a good look at Van a second later and his eyes seemed to grow with recognition. "Ah, your Dan Flyheights boy aren't you?" asked the man with a toothless smile.
"Uh, yeah," said Van wondering how he knew. 'How can he know my father when it is probably very likely that he can't even remember what he had to eat last night?' thought Van watching the man with a little amusement. He turned his head away for a second to look at some of the things around the place but when he turned back around the old man had disappeared.
"You know," said the old man appearing behind Van causing Van to jump a few feet into the air. "I once had a few dealings with your father and your mother years ago. It is a terrible shame what happened to the two of them. They were very nice people. They gave me something though," said the man holding out a dusty package.
Van couldn't help but wonder how it was that he managed to get it so quickly. "Um, thanks but I came here to pick something up for Crougar," said Van scratching the back of his head as he looked at the package wondering what was inside of it.
"He sent you to pick this up. You specifically, because it was meant to be given to you, it is a gift from your parents only to be given at a specific time. It is a gift much like that knife that you wear," he said pointing to the knife.
"This," said Van taking the knife off of his belt and looking at it closely. He saw the man nod while handing him the gift. Van set the knife down for a moment to grab the package and looked at it for a second.
"I created the contents inside of the package myself for your father when he was younger and still dating your mother. When she died, he gave it to me to hold onto until you were in the same predicament that he was in at the time. He was in love as I am sure that you are in at this moment," he said and was confirmed when Van nodded his head. "Glad to hear that. Then I won't have any worries about giving this to you," he said with a smile.
Van figured that he knew exactly what was inside the package so he didn't have to even bother to open it till later. "It's my mother engagement ring isn't it?" he said rather than asked.
The old man just nodded his head at that moment. "I used to create stuff like that all the time as a business but my old hands can no longer make such things. This one had to be one of if not my finest creations," he said very proudly. "When you are ready to use it then I want you to use it but don't do it until you are positive that it is what you want," he said because he didn't want to see his creation put to waste.
'Do I really want to get into something like this right now? I know I have fallen in love with Fiona but I am not completely sure that I would be ready for it,' Van told himself slightly confused on what to do.
"I suggest that you take a bit of time to think about something like this," the old man said pushing Van towards the door and out of it before he could protest. "You won't get any thinking done by standing here," he said before closing the door leaving a confused Van outside.
Van walked towards the blade liger. He wasn't sure what he was planning on doing. He didn't really want to take things too fast with Fiona. he just found out that he loved her. He quickly hopped into the blade liger and carefully put the package into a small compartment.
"Oh no!" yelled Van realizing that he had left his father's knife back at the shop. "I can't leave it here," he yelled jumping out of the blade liger and running to grab it. He was nearly there before someone stepped into his path. The man wouldn't move and Van was getting impatient. He took a step forward only to be hit hard in the back of the head making him lose consciousness.
End flashback
"I didn't expect for something like that to happen and I was unprepared because I forgot my fathers knife. Four years. For four years I was constantly tortured living only with a hope that proved false," said Van sadly lying back against the sand.
Raven and Reese seemed kind of stunned as they heard all that Van had told them about the day that he was captured. Although they thought of Van as their greatest rival, they still held some respect for him and his abilities.
Raven knew what he had to do if he wanted to fight Van again. He wanted an opponent at full strength and not moping around because he lost someone. "Fine! I don't want to fight you when you are moping around anyways," said Raven as he turned around and walked towards his genobreaker.
Van couldn't help but smile. 'Sure, Raven puts up a front but I actually think he cares a lot,' thought Van with a smirk as he watched Reese turn around and leave. He walked after them. "Um, how are we going to get there with only one zoid?" asked Van realizing the one problem with it all.
Suddenly, Specula appeared out of nowhere and Reese got on her back as it took off. "That's how," muttered Raven hoping into the blade liger. "Lets just not talk because I don't feel like arguing the whole way there," he muttered when Van hopped into the genobreaker. The cockpit closed and the genobreaker took off into the sand at great speed.
It felt very weird for Van to be in the cockpit of his rival's zoid, the zoid that he had faced in battle so many times before. 'As long as I can get there quickly then I would do anything,' Van thought with a determined look on his face.
Moonbay, and Thomas jumped out of the gustav to be greeted by Fiona and Irvine since he arrived sooner then they were able to. Irvine had a look on his face that told them that something was wrong at that moment.
"Moonbay, Thomas it is so good of you to finally get here," said Fiona with a smile as she walked up and gave both of them a hug. She had a smile on her face that told them that if Van had come would be different. It would both confuse her and make her feel bad if he came and nothing happened between them because she was still planning to get married. Or it would make it larger if she got back together with Van. She always seemed to have this special type of smile whenever she was with Van.
"Sorry we're late," said Moonbay as they started to walk to the hotel. She fell behind a little bit along with Irvine as Fiona led the way. "So, did Van show up?" asked Moonbay figuring that she already knew the answer.
"No," said Irvine in a worried voice. "I am kind of worried because he should have gotten here a few days ago. I only got here yesterday and he wasn't here. Fiona doesn't know yet so we will wait for a little while for him to show up. It is best for him to see her," said Irvine as they walked far enough behind so Fiona wouldn't hear.
"I already know that. How is it that he can't be here yet when he was piloting a freaking storm sworder?" asked Moonbay trying to think of all possibilities for this situation.
"I have some sort of feeling like he did get here but he never was able to see Fiona. Van tends to have a one track mind so when he gets an idea in his head, he will try to go through with it at any cost. I am worried though, what if he doesn't turn up until it is too late?" said Irvine letting the worry go through his voice.
"I want Van and Fiona to get together as much as you do because I have this strange feeling about Fiona's fiancé. It is something I have had ever since I first met him but I can't quite place what it is," said Moonbay quietly so that anyone that was trying to listen in wouldn't hear them.
"The wedding is tomorrow. We will give Van that much time before we just go ahead and tell Fiona what it is that we know. She will probably hate us afterwards but I feel it is something we have to do," said Irvine as if it was the simplest thing to do.
The genobreaker was fast but Van felt that it wasn't fast enough. It took very close to a day for them to get back to where Van had been forcefully taken from. He was beginning to have some serious thoughts as to why they did what they did back then.
Van was wondering what he was going to say when he saw Fiona. He thought he had it figured out before but now he didn't know what to do. 'What if she rejects me and still gets married. I won't stand in her way as long as who she is marrying is good for her,' thought Van sadly.
He was pulled from his thoughts when the genobreaker came to a sudden halt throwing Van forward a bit as Raven didn't even say a word to him. "What's going on?" asked Van straightening himself up a bit.
"Nothing, just a minor bit of interference," said Raven while looking through the monitors at about a dozen zoids blocking their path into town. Raven didn't even seem to hold any type of emotion on his face while he watched them.
A screen popped up revealing a face Van had seen multiple times during his time of being captured. "You are not going a step further Van Flyheight," said a bald man with a scar just under his eye to the end of his jaw. Van had given him it actually when he was first brought there.
"You again?" growled out Van as he narrowed his eyes dangerously at the man he had come to loath a long time ago. "Why are you blocking me from getting in? It is clear that you don't want me to get in there so why is it that you are doing this?" he growled with clenched fists.
"We are trying to kill someone and we can't have you interfering with it," said the man with a smirk on his face as his saber fang took a few steps towards the unmoving genobreaker.
This made Van worry that they might be after Fiona. It would make sense too. They get him out of the way so that Fiona main protector wasn't there to protect her. "If you harm Fiona in any way then I swear I will make you sorry that you ever crossed my path," he said before he shoved past Raven and jumped out of the cockpit.
"We want nothing to do with that stupid girl. It is her fiancé that we are actually after," said the man but Van had a very serious time trying to believe him at that moment because something in his words proved false in Van's mind.
"I don't have time for this!" yelled Van as he made and attempt to run past as many of the zoids as he could. He nearly got stomped on a few times by some of the zoids but thanks to Raven he managed to get by because as a zoid was about to hurt him, Raven came in a the last second and took them down helping to clear out Van's path so he didn't have to face too many obstacles.
The bride to be was happy, the groom was happy, the friends... weren't happy. 'Where the hell can he be? If he doesn't show up in the next ten seconds then I am going to tell Fiona myself,' Moonbay told herself since the wedding had already started. 'Maybe I should have stopped it before it began,' she told herself as she listened to the priest talking.
"If there is anyone that feels that these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace," said the priest as he looked over the number of people in the room looking for any objections.
Van still hadn't shown up so Moonbay decided to take things into her own hands. Moonbay took a step forward from her maid of honor position making many others look at her. "Fiona, I can't let you do this. There are so many things that you don't know that you should. You should be marrying Van, not him," said Moonbay earning her even more stares.
Fiona just looked at Moonbay with a slight look of hurt in her eyes. She thought her friends would support her through this. "How can you say that Moonbay? You know what he did. How can you say those things after what he did?" Fiona nearly yelled.
"The reason I said this is because..." said Moonbay but she was unable to get the last little bit out of her mouth as the doors to the place opened and slow steps were heard but Fiona either didn't hear or just didn't want to look. "Look Fiona," said Moonbay pointing towards the door as she saw Van walk into the room.