Raven walked across the grassland, he could finally see the mine where Prachi was. He just needed to get over the hill and he would be there. He started running up the hill. Raven stopped when he got to the top and stared down on the mine. He spotted Reese standing outside. Raven figured she must have been waiting for him.

He stared descending down the hill.

"Where is she?" He said, dumping his bag.

"Don't I get a 'hallo' or 'how are you?' anymore?" Reese asked.

"If I don't see her then I'll hurt you."

"Puha, fine then, be that way. Hiltz, he's here," she called into the mine.

"It's about bloody time too!" he said walking out.

"Where is she?"

"You're here Rabbit, I thought you were never coming."

"Hiltz don't play games with me! I wont ask again," growled Raven.

"Ambient, bring her out!" He ordered.

He roared then Prachi screamed at the sight of the organoid.

When the organoid brought out Prachi Raven gasped at the sight of her. She had blood running down the side of her face, a bruise over her cheek and one over her eye on the other side. Also her clothes were ripped and she seemed almost too weak to stand on her own two feet.

"I'm gonna tear you to pieces, Hiltz!" Raven yelled.

"Oh shut up Raven. Just be thankful that's she's still alive," Hiltz said.

"Prachi…" Raven started, walking over to her. "What have they done to you?" He said, raising a hand to her battered face.

"Raven, I- I'm sorry," she started.

"Shhh… it's ok now. Everything will be alright," Raven said softly.

"Awww, how cute. Your reunited to your love, only to be ripped apart again because the only way she goes is that you stay," Reese said wickedly.

"What?! Why do you want me?" he asked.

"You'll see sooner or later," Hiltz said.

"If you think I'm gonna stay here with you two then you've got another thing coming!"

"It's really up to you if she lives or dies. You stay, she goes. You go, she dies,"

Hiltz smirked.

Raven glared at Hiltz then sighed and walked back over to Prachi.

"You need to go now. You go back to the camp, get the Zoid and go to your base, okay?"

"Good choice Rabbit," Hiltz said, throwing the keys to Raven.

Raven unlocked the chains and threw the keys back to Hiltz.

"But Raven. I can't leave you here. I-I just can't," Said Prachi.

"Yes you can. You have to. Now go!" He said, giving her a hug. "Go. Now!"

Prachi stared at him for a second and then turned and headed for the camp. Raven turned and watched her walk away from him.

Click

Raven swung around to see Reese pointing a gun at Prachi. She took a moment to focus and aim.

"Crap!" Raven yelled, jumping up.

Reese fired. The bullet went zooming out of the gun and straight into Raven's stomach.

His hand instantly jumped up to his stomach. He took a couple of steps backwards and peeled back his hand a bit. There was blood dripping all over his hand and soaking his shirt and fall backwards onto the grass.

Owww," Raven moaned twisting around on the grass.

Prachi twisted around to see Raven lying on the ground with a blood-soaked shirt.

Prachi ran back to Raven and kneeled down beside him. "Jesus Raven, your hurt real bad."

"No, I'm alright," said Raven, straining his voice, trying to ease the pain.

"No your not. Your bleeding real bad," She said shakily.

"It's alright I'll fix it. But now you have to go. Now!" he said trying to hide his pain, but failing miserably.

"Raven…" Prachi said, standing up.

"Go!" Raven yelled.

She started walking away and looked back at Raven lying on the ground.

"Don't look back!" He yelled at her.

She burst out in tears and ran off.

"Raven, why did you?" Reese asked walking towards him. She bent down and put a hand out to touch him.

"Don't you dare touch me," He snarled, his voice strained.

"Raven, I-I didn't mean to. It was your fault anyway for getting in front of that bullet."

"C'mon Reese, Leave the little boy to weep over his wounds," Hiltz said, walking over and pulling Reese to her feet. "Go inside, I'll meet you in there."

Reese walked away and into the cave.

"Now look what you've done Rabbit. You've gone and got yourself shot," Hiltz said kneeling beside him on one knee.

"You should pay more attention to your surroundings," Raven said.

"What?"

"You know Reese likes you. She probably doesn't show it because she thinks your too busy for her!" Raven scratched out.

"Right Rabbit," Hiltz said, patting Raven's side.

He got up and started walking away. Raven started crawling towards his bag that he dumped on the ground earlier. He pulled out his gun. He shot it at Hiltz's heel. It caught the back and tripped him over. He fell flat on his face.

Raven laughed weakly at him as he got to his feet again. Hiltz turned around with anger in his eyes.

"Ambient! Get that gun!" His organoid rushed at Raven and knocked his gun out of his hands with its tail. It went flying away and landed about ten metres away.

Then Hiltz walked up to him and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, dragged him to his feet and pinned him to a tree.

"If you try that stunt again, it'll be the last thing you'll ever do," Hiltz growled.

He was pushing against Raven's wound and was really hurting him. Raven had blood dripping over Hiltz, and blood was dipping from his mouth.

Hiltz glared at Raven and said, "You watch yourself, kid. Because one of these days someone's gonna' get hurt, and it ain't gonna be me." He let go of Raven and he fell to the ground.

"Get up, you lousy piece of shit," Hiltz said, kicking Raven with his foot.

Raven knew he was only the kid in their group, and he knew Hiltz would go as far as killing him to get what he wanted. He wiped the blood from his mouth, watching Hiltz watch him.

"Why do you want me here, anyway? You've got what you wanted, so why don't you let me go?" Raven coughed, still lying on the ground.

"You'll see rabbit, you'll see," Hiltz said, smirking.

Raven moaned and leaned back on the wall. He felt like he was dying. His pain was almost unbearable to stand.

Reese thought it would bee amusing to watch him so she sat opposite him and watched his every movement.

"Reese, come over here," Hiltz called to Reese about ten minutes later. "Leave the kid alone."

Reese got up and walked over to Hiltz. Raven looked up to see where they were going.

"What?" Reese asked.

"Your damn lucky Raven jumped in front of that bullet," Hiltz said.

"Why?"

"Do you know who that girl was?"

"Who?"

"That was Karl Shubaltz's daughter," Hiltz said.

"So?"

"So that means she will run back to the base and get the army out looking for us."

"But isn't that a bad thing?" Reese asked.

"No, because when they come we can kill Shubaltz. Remember last time? He was the one that fired the gravity cannon shell and flattened the Death Stinger."

"…And you want revenge?"

"Exactly," Hiltz said.