How could he of let Van get so close to let him totally trash his Geno Breaker? It was a total accident on Van's side.

Raven Looked up at his mangled metal that was quite recently a Zoid and kicked it.

"You worthless piece of junk," he growled at it.

He sat down on the ground and waited for Shadow to come back. Raven put his head in his hands. I'll get you for this flyheight. He thought.

Raven looked up a couple of minutes later. He could hear rhythmic beats in the distance. A horse, galloping full-pelt at his wreckage.

As it got closer he could see that there was a young girl riding the stunning black. Raven moved behind a piece of trash-Zoid so she wouldn't see him.

The Friesian halted to a stop and the girl dismounted.

"Wow," she said to herself but loud enough for Raven to hear. "Someone wasn't paying attention when their Zoid got trashed."

Raven's eye twitched. Was she making fun of him? Surely she didn't know it was his Zoid?

She walked over to the mangled Zoid and examined it.

"Defiantly some new type of Zoid…Geno Saurer maybe," she thought aloud.

How did she know it was a Geno Saurer? Raven thought. The only people that know about them are the army, Hiltz and Reese. He couldn't just let her wander off now.

He had a suspicion he'd seen her around somewhere before.

Raven moved to get a better look at her.

She was a nicely formed girl with pale skin and her long, brown hair was tied back into two ponytails with bits hanging out the front. She was wearing a short black t-shirt (kinda like a crop-top) and a pair of black flares. She had beautiful emerald eyes… He thought he had seen her eyes somewhere else…

He couldn't just let her leave now, He was sure that she was from Shubaltz' base.

Without a Zoid, he might actually be able to catch him.

Raven slid off his mangled mess without a sound and pulled out a knife.

She bent down for a second to pick up something interesting. When she came up, two strong arms wrapped over her shoulder and mouth. He held his knife to her throat.

Her eyes opened wide with surprise and shock.

She tried to struggle but he held her to tightly.

"Who are you?" He whispered as he took his hand off her mouth reluctantly.

"Prachi," the girl said firmly.

Raven tightened his grip from around her shoulders and searched her for any weapons. He found an I.D card and some keys.

She struggled so he pressed the knife harder to her throat.

"Prachi Shubaltz… Hmmm… So that means you're Shubaltz's kid," he said.

She started struggling again and managed to elbow her attacker in the stomach.

It didn't hurt him but the shock of her actually doing it loosened his grip.

She snatched her I.D off him and made a run for her horse. She boosted herself into the saddle but before they could gallop off Raven made an enormous leap over the horse's back. On the way he grabbed Prachi around the waist and they landed with a 'thud' on the ground.

Prachi coughed as the dust floated up.

"Get up!" Raven yelled at her as he picked himself off the ground.

As Prachi was getting up, something hard hit her on the head and she fell back to the ground- out cold.

Raven grabbed her by the scruff and walked off into the distance.