Author's Note: I don't own Zoids.
"talking"
/thinking/
Chapter 14
Could things be any worse?
The trip back to the base was made in silence. Van and Fiona hadn't said a word. Irvine and Thomas notice that and decided that it was best to be quiet. Fiona notices that they weren't going to back to the town, but she didn't have the courage to ask Van why. She knew Van was mad, really mad. Sure Van and her had some fights before like any other marriage, but this time it was really serious. She was scared of the consequences for her actions.
/What am I going to do? I know that Van is really angry at me. How will I explain to him that it meant nothing to me. What did I get myself into? I'm so stupid. What in the world was I thinking at that moment?/ Fiona yelled at herself in her mind. Her eyes showed the sadness that she felt.
Van tried to keep his mind focus on anything but Fiona. Unfortunately it didn't work. He kept remember what happened. Just remembering Zain and Fiona kissing made his blood boil. /Why did she do this? Doesn't she love me? If she did she would have never betrayed me with him. I mean of all the people it had to be him. The one who almost killed me./ Thought Van angrily.
Soon the Guardian Force base was coming into view. After hours of silence Van finally spoke, "The kids were already brought to the base." Said Van in a rather cold voice. He didn't even bother to turn to see Fiona.
Fiona only nodded. She didn't dare say anything. By judging the way he spoke he was still very mad. Finally they were inside the base. Van got out first and then Fiona. Van didn't even bother to help her. Irvine and Thomas came from behind them.
"I'm glad you all came back safe and sound." Said Crougar as he approached them. Suddenly four little kids came out from behind him.
"Mommy Daddy!" Yelled Dan and Samira.
"Daddy!" Yelled Irvine's kids.
Dan and Samira came and hugged Van and Fiona. "Mommy you're back." Said Samira as she hugged her mother. Fiona didn't say anything she just hugged her. Van on the other hand hugged Dan and then left without saying anything to anyone. Everyone turned to face Fiona with a look that said 'What happened' but Fiona didn't say anything. Fiona got up and walked after Van. She needed to talk with him. She needed to explain to him what had happened.
Van walked to where is old room use to be before he was thought dead. He just hoped no one had taken it. Van got there and opened the door. Just as he thought. The room was the same as the last time that he was there. He just sat on the bed. He put his hand on his head and tried to think.
Fiona knew where he would be and she was right. He had come back to his old room. Slowly she opened the door and walked in. She saw Van sitting on the bed with his head between his hands.
"Van we need to talk." Said Fiona gathering all the courage she could. Van slowly rose his head and gave her a very harsh glare. His eyes reflect the anger that was within him. Fiona knew that this wasn't going to be easy, but she needed to try at least. "Van I'm sorry. What happened before-" But he didn't let her finish.
"What are you going to say, that he force you! Because from what I remember you didn't even try to deny it! So what's your freaken excuse!" He yelled at her as he got up from the bed. Fiona controlled her tears. No she wasn't going to cry, she had already shed to many tears before.
"I know what I did was wrong. But I never meant to hurt you." Said Fiona trying to keep her voice as calm as she could.
"You never meant to hurt me. Well that's weird. How do you fucking think that I would feel knowing that my wife is cheating on me! Oh and not only that, but with the guy that had almost killed me!" Yelled Van losing his temper. He saw how Fiona was shocked by how he was losing his temper, but he didn't care.
"Van please calm down." Said Fiona. With him like this it would be impossible to fix things.
"Calm down! You want me to calm down!" Yelled Van. Then all of the sudden he began to laugh. Fiona just stared at him shocked. Van stopped laughing and stared at her. "You know what Fiona. When ever I would talk to some friends. I would always say how an angel my wife was. How I could trust her. How innocent she was. That she would never hurt a fly. They would always say that I was a very lucky man. But everything was a big lie, wasn't it? I mean you are not an angel. Angels don't cheat on their husbands. Then how can I trust you? Your innocence is nothing but a lie. Tell me Fiona. How many men have you been with since my suppose death?" Asked Van as he stared at Fiona shocked face.
Fiona never knew that Van could be that mean to someone. Especially if that someone was her. She tried as best as she could so that she wouldn't cry, but it was really to hard for her.
Seeing that she wouldn't answer Van continued with his torture. "Too many that you can't even remember." He said. Her expression showed the sadness and the pain that she was feeling, but he didn't notice. Or was it that he didn't want to notice? "Tell me Fiona. Was I really your first? Or did you do some zoidian trick to fool me." That did it. Fiona went up to Van and slapped him hard on the face.
"How could you say that! You know that you have been the first and only man in my life." Said Fiona as she let a few tears fall down her face. Slowly Van turned his face to look at her. In a quick move he grabbed her and pushed her down on the bed. Fiona had a surprised look. Van was on top of her.
"Really Fiona? Are you sure that you and Zain haven't shared some special moments while I was gone? How about the day at the lake. Were you really disgusted by him or did you actually enjoyed it." Said Van with pure venom in his voice. He saw how Fiona expression changes from a hurt one to an angry one.
"You think that if had actually enjoyed it I would have screamed for help. While I thought that you were dead I was still loyal to you because I love you. I would never love anyone that isn't you." Said Fiona as more tears feel from her sadden eyes.
"How touching. You know what, you almost got me there." Said Van in a cold and harsh tone. He lower his head to her ear and whispered, "How about we share some special time together. I mean if you did it with Zain, why not with your husband." He started to kiss her neck. But not in a loving way, it was in violent one. Fiona pushed him of her. She got up from the bed, but Van grabbed her hand pushed her down again.
"Stop it Van!" She said while trying to free herself from him. Van released her and she fell on the bed. Fiona couldn't take it anymore. She didn't get up from the bed. She laid there crying. Van felt guilty, but he didn't stop. He just watched her cry.
"Why are you the one crying! I'm the one who was betrayed!" Yelled Van as anger controlled him. He didn't know what to do. Part of him wanted to forgive her and just hold her, but the other half was angry, jealous and wanted her out of his sight.
Fiona just kept on crying. She didn't know what to do. What could she say to him? He was right, she did betray him.
"How long have you been cheating on me, huh?" Asked or rather yelled Van. Seeing that she wouldn't answer he grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the bed. Fiona was still crying. "I asked you how long have you been cheating on me with that bastard of Zain!" Fiona was to upset to answer. Her crying were the only thing that could be heard.
Unknown to both of them Samira was watching the whole thing. /Why are mommy and daddy fighting?/ She mentally asked herself. She was scared. Samira had never seen her parents fighting. Her dad was scaring her. He seemed so mad. She had to get out of there. She couldn't stand watching anymore of it. She backed away from the door and ran far from there.
Fiona stopped her crying and turned to look at Van. How could he be treating her like this? She had only kissed Zain to clear out her doubts that she had. But what about him? He was gone one year and had a girlfriend while he was gone. He wasn't lonely, but she was, and even then she stayed loyal to him. Fiona used as much strength as she could gather and free her arm from Van's torturing hands.
"How could you say that! You know that I love you. I always had. The only reason that I had kissed Zain was to make sure that I no longer had feelings for him." Explained Fiona. She hope that with that he would understand.
"No longer had? So you actually had feelings for that bastard!" This shocked Van even more.
"Van I knew Zain before I was frozen in the capsule." Said Fiona. She had forgotten that Van didn't know of her past with Zain.
This took Van by surprised. Then a thought came to him. "So you've been cheating on me from the beginning!" He yelled.
"Van you're not understanding anything. In this state I can't talk to you." Said Fiona who had giving up. He was too angry to think. Without saying anything else she left.
"Sir, we are ready." Said a soldier. He waited for his master's response.
"Good." Was all Zain said. The soldier left to proceed with the plan. /If I can't have you back on your own free will then I'll have to force it. I don't care what I have to do. I will have you back. As for Flyheight, his fate will be much worse./
His organoid stood next to him. "Be ready. I will need to use you." Said Zain. His organoid only nodded.
Samira ran into her room crying. Dan was there with Padme.
"Samira what's wrong?" Asked a worried Dan. He left Padme in her bed and ran to Samira.
"Mooomy aannd daaddy weere figghting." Said Samira while she kept on cying. Dan became worried. Why in the world would they be fighting? He hugged his sister.
"Don't worry. I'm sure that it was nothing serious." Said Dan. After all his parents loved each other dearly.
"But Daddy was saying mean things to Mommy." Said Samira. Images of the fight that she had witness kept coming into her head.
"Don't worry I'm su-" but he wasn't able to finish. A loud explosion was heard.
"What was that?" Asked Irvine. He ran into the control room. "What's going on?"
"We're being attacked." Said Thomas. They watched from the screen all the enemy zoids that were approaching. Some were attacking.
"I bet there Zain's. Well I guess its time to teach that guy a lesson." Said Irvine as he cracked his knuckles.
"I agree with you." Said Van from behind him. Irvine turn to see him and notice that there was something different about him. He didn't have time to ask him what was wrong because right after Van had said that he left towards the hangar.
Van got inside the Blade Liger. /I'll make you pay for all that you have done to me. You destroyed my family, my life./ Zeek was outside the Blade Liger waiting its owners orders. The Blade Liger left the base and attacked the enemy zoids. Soon Irvine and Thomas were outside fighting too.
"So he has taken the bate." Said Zain as he watched Van fighting his soldiers. "Now its your turn." Said Zain to his organoid.
Fiona ran to the room were her children were. She found all three of them together. Dan had Padme in his arms and Samira was next to him hugging him. Fiona was about to reach them when the window broke. A dark green organoid stood before the kids.
"Get away from them!" Yelled Fiona. But the organoid ignore her. Its chest opened and a bunch of cables came out. Those cables grabbed the kids and pulled them in.
"Ahhhhhhh!" They screamed.
"Noooooooo!" Yelled Fiona as she ran to try and save them, but it was too late. The organoid growled at her. Then it jumped out of the window taking the kids with it. "No, this can't be happening." Fiona fell to her knees.
Van notice a light coming out of the base. "What's that?" He heard Zeek growl at it and then it went after it. "Hey Zeek wait up."
The Blade Liger followed the Zeek who was running at really fast speed. Zeek flew to the light and hit it. It knocked it over releasing someone. Zeek quickly caught him, but it lost track of the organoid.
Van notice that and ran to where Zeek was. He stared shocked at the person that Zeek had. "Dan!" Van got out of the liger and ran towards his son. Zeek gave Dan to Van. "Dan wake up." But it seem he was out cold. Then a thought came into Van's mind. /If he had Dan, then… Oh no!/
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Author's Note: Happy birthday Cyberdemon! Now you are a proud 18 year old man. Enjoy your birthday and your gifts.
