Prachi awoke hours later to find herself leaning against a cement wall, hands bound tightly by ropes behind her.

She glanced over at her kidnapper and squeaked in surprise.

It was Raven! Raven kidnapped her? But why? Did he know who she was? Did he know that when her dad found out who kidnapped her he would be blasted to the other side of Zi? And what happened to her horse…

She tried to stand up but Raven turned around and threw his knife at her. It landed in the ground, millimetres from her leg.

"Stay there," Raven growled, walking into the bush. He returned 10 minutes later with another guy.

"…Who does your hair?" Prachi heard voices coming back.

"So this is your girl? She's cute," The strange guy said.

"Your lying straight through your teeth, Derek," Raven said.

Prachi glared at him. He didn't she was hot? What a joker! Prachi thought.

"Your totally right," Derek said, flicking his wrist.

"Yeah whatever man. Just don't get too close," Raven said nudging Derek away.

Raven walked over to Prachi. "Get up."

Prachi ignored him.

"Get up," Raven repeated slightly annoyed.

Prachi ignored him again and glared at him.

"Stupid bitch!" he growled at her and hit her over her face with some force. His hit gave her a black bruise on her left cheek.

Raven griped her arm, yanked her up and dragged her along.

"Where are we going?" Derek asked, jogging along side Raven.

"I'm taking you to the car joint then you can figure it out," He answered. Raven didn't seem to happy about taking him.

Prachi's feet were tripping over themselves as she tried to follow his pace. She was still drowsy and she couldn't focus properly on what she wanted her legs to do.

"Are you gonna' kill me?" Prachi asked.

"Maybe, maybe not," he said blankly.

But Derek laughed. "Of course not love."

"But she's not your love" Raven said.

They walked for about an hour. They were heading for an old car wreckers then before Prachi knew it she got thrown forward and hit a car's bulbar.

Ow! That hurt! She thought. As she looked around she saw that they were at some kind of ruins.

"There. You here. You get a car that works and get out of here," Raven said.

Derek took a couple of steps forward then screamed like a girl and jumped up onto a car's bonnet. He waved his arms about like a girl and said; "Kill it! Kill it! No! Stop it!"

Raven looked at the ground. He saw a wolf spider. "It's just a spider you pussy!"

"I don't like pussy's either," He said jumping onto the roof.

Prachi raised an eyebrow at that. There's something wrong him, seriously. Prachi thought.

"You're an idiot," Raven said.

"Don't be thilly," Derek flicked his wrist again.

"I'm going now. I'll leave you to sort your own poofy problems.

Raven turned his back on Derek who was still dancing around on the roof and walked over to Prachi. She was still on the ground, leaning against the bulbar. He seized her by the scruff of her clothes and yanked her towards a shed.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Be careful!" she said in a high-pitched voice.

"Shut up," he said as he opened the sliding door of the shed. He flicked the light and uncovered a black convertible Porsche.

Raven opened the door and threw Prachi on to the seat on the passengers' side and shut the door behind her.

He walked around to the drivers' side and got in.

Raven shoved the key into the keyhole and stared the car.

"Raven?" Prachi asked.

He wasn't surprised that she knew his name. Almost everyone in the southern part of Zi knew him and his reputation as a brutal killing machine that couldn't be shut down. He knew it was true and he didn't deny it either. The news reporters described him as "cold" and "black-hearted". Raven didn't care what anyone thought of him. As long as he wasn't caught it would be all ok.

"What?" He snapped.

"Could ya untie me?"

"No," he answered blankly.

"Why not?"

Then Raven got a better idea.

"Fine then."

"What?"

"Well do you want to be untied or not?"

"Yes!"

Raven untied her wrists from behind her back and pulled them in front of her but didn't let got of them. He lent over her and flicked open the glove box. He grabbed a pair of handcuffs and chained her hands to the handle on the door.

"Wonderful," Prachi said sarcastically.

"Consider yourself lucky," He said coldly as he started the truck, pushed in the clutch and the accelerator and shoved the gearstick into first gear.

"Why should I consider myself lucky? I've been kidnapped by someone like…like… you!"

He pushed the clutch and pushed it into second gear.

"Because, if you weren't any use to me, you would have been dead by now." But that was a lie. He knew he'd only kidnapped her so that she wouldn't run back off to the military and tell them about his Zoid.

Raven pushed it into third… forth… fifth…sixth…

Soon they were speeding down a long abandoned freeway.

"Where are we going?" Prachi asked a little while later.

"To a town."

"Why? Wouldn't you want to avoid towns?"

"Just shut up! And why are you even concerned if I get caught?" he snapped.

"I'm not!"

"Well good then. Just sit there and shut up."

Why did Raven want Prachi anyway? What did she do to deserve this? Is it just because she was the 'colonel's daughter'?

Prachi put her head against the window and watched the scenery wiz past and the sky grow darker.

Raven looked over at her, He didn't know what he was going to do with her be he didn't want her running off and telling everyone that she saw his Zoid wreckage. If he didn't get another Zoid and Karl caught up with him he would be caught again.

Raven stopped the truck a few miles from the town so they had a while to walk. He got out and walked around the front of the truck and yanked open Prachi's door. She went flying out and she hit the ground with her hands still attached to the door handle.

She looked up at Raven with confusion.

He pulled out a key from a pocket of his leather jacket and unlocked the handcuffs. He grabbed Prachi's wrist, yank her to her feet and started walking towards the town.

This is the perfect time to escape Prachi thought.

She looked around, it was really dark and the only lights were in front of them from the town.

She started to struggle and pull back, then push forward, turn from left to right and basically go crazy. Raven's other hand came swinging out of nowhere and hit her over her face. She fell to the ground and Raven grabbed her wrist again. Prachi kicked Raven as hard as she could in the shins and Raven accidentally let go of her wrists.

She scrambled to her feet and bolted towards the bright lights of the town. She was fast but surprisingly Raven caught up with her. He made a leap for her and as he landed on her back and they both flew forwards into the dust.

Raven moved quickly and sat on Prachi's stomach so she couldn't go anywhere again.

"What the hell were you thinking!?" he yelled as he hit her over the face again which gave her a black eye.

He pulled out his handgun, leaned into Prachi and put the gun to her temple.

"Next time you try a stunt like that, I'll shoot you," he said in a low voice.

He pulled the trigger. It just clicked.

"And next time it will be loaded," he growled.

He got up off her and shoved his gun back in its holder that hung around his waist.

Prachi stayed in the dirt, with tears running down her bruised cheeks. Why was he doing this? Why didn't he just shoot her? Was he going to? Or did he normally carry unloaded guns?

Raven tore his eyes away from the starry sky and looked down at the sobbing mess on the ground. He walked over to her and nudged her with his foot.

"Get up," he said unsympathetically.

"Get up," he repeated and nudged her a bit harder.

She reluctantly got to her feet, still looking at the ground. Raven grabbed her wrist and yanked her along.