1Chapter Five
A new friend and a mysteries disappearances

"Nice battle team!" Dr. Tauros said as he poured pop into everyone's glass.

"I say that we do that more often!" Mimi said as she took a sip of her drink.

"Now don't get your hopes up Mimi, we don't have a battle every day," Bit said as he grabbed a chicken leg from the dinner plate that was being passed around.

"By the way, great job on beating that other Blade Liger, Mimi," Leena said as she took Bit's chicken out of his hands.

"Thanks, I really enjoyed it. All that training with Harry really helped," Mimi said as she scooped up some rice and stuck it in her mouth.

"Yeah, cause every time you battle him, you would whoop him," Brad said as he took a sip of his pop. Mimi showed a smug smile and asked the most stupid question you would ask the Doc, "Dr. Tauros, where did you get my Blade Liger?"

"Um, well, that Blade Liger did not come cheap. It was said to be really old, was used in the olden days. Said was he best blade liger ever built"

"And how much money did you take out of our paychecks?" Leena said with a sigh.

"Battled some tough zoids along the way,"

"DOC!" Everybody yelled as he wrote the price on a napkin.

"Ninety hundred-thousand and five hundred dollars! Man I'm spoiled!" Mimi said as her eyes widen.

"Do I have to go," Mimi said as the school bus build up to the Blitz team's base.

"Mimi, first grade won't be so bad. You will get to meet a lot of other kids and won't have to stay with Bit the whole day," Leena said as she handed Mimi her blade liger printed lunch box. Bit glared at her.

"But I want to stay with Bit," Mimi said as she pouted.

"You'll have fun Mimi, trust me, I'll be here when you get back," Bit said as brushed back Mimi's bangs. Mimi smiled and nodded. She turned around and got on the bus. As the bus grew dimmer into the distance, the guilt in Bit's stomach grew.

"She'll be fine, don't worry," Leena said as she read the expression off of Bit's face.

"Hi, I'm Rachel Cole, you can sit with me," A little girl with brown hair and green eyes said happily and she scooted over. She looked about Mimi's age, but she was a little shorter. Mimi smiled and sat down. "My name is Mimi Cloud," Mimi said as she sat her lunch box on her lap.

"I like your lunch box. That's a cool, looking blade liger," Rachel said as she pointed to Mimi's lunch box.

"Yeah, I have a zoid just like it, its name is Blade because of his blades,"

"Is it blue?"

"Yeah, but I wish it was pink,"

"I have a red one, its name is Firebolt because he looks like fire bolting when it runs,"

"What team are you on?"

"The Bladers team with my sister and cousins. I haven't battled yet though. What team are you on?"

"Hmm that name sounds familiar," Mimi thought, then said, "The Blitz team with my older brother and his friends,"

"Wow, I heard that you guess are really good. You're the only team I have seen that has a liger zero. Isn't that your brother's?"

"Yeah, he calls it Liger, if it were mine, I would have named it snowball,"

"Are you two talking about zoids?" Said a girl with purple hair that was sitting in the seat in front of Mimi and Rachel.

"Yeah, do you have a zoid?" Mimi said as she should the girl her lunch box, "because I have o-"

"No I don't have a zoid because they are the most stupidest things that where ever created. Only losers talk about those," the girl said as she turned around and sat back in her seat.

"That was rude," Rachel whispered into Mimi's ear. Mimi nodded as she lowered her head.

"Don't worry about her, she's just a dork," said a familiar voice. Mimi looked in the seat behind her and saw Mark Sky sitting with his hands behind his head in the seat behind Rachel and hers. He was sitting with a girl who looked exactly like Rachel.

"Hi, Mark. Hi, Angel," Rachel said as she looked over Mimi's shoulder.

"Do you know him?" Mimi asked as she pointed to the black headed kid.

"Yeah, he's my cousin, and the girl sitting beside him is my twin sister, Angel, who is two minuets older than I am,"

"Nice to meet you, Angel," Mimi said as she shook hands with the duplicate of Rachel.

"Well, we better get off, or well be late for school. See you around Mimi," Mark said as he winked and got off the bus. From the seat she was sitting in, she could see Mark Sky's body vanish inside the building.

"Good morning class and welcome to first grade," An old lady said as she welcomed her students to her room, "I'm your teacher Mrs. Ryosan, and I am glad to see all of you,"

"Hello Mrs. Ryosan, My name is Mimi Cloud and I am seven years old," Mimi said as she smiled at her teacher.

"It's nice to meet you Mimi. You know... you remind me of someone I used to know... oh but that was way long ago. Well, let's sit down and start the class ok,"

"Who's your girlfriend Mark?" Mark's friend Noah said as he sat next to him in art.

"She's not my girlfriend, she's just a person I battle and now she is Rachel's best friend. I was just helping her out with Denise the snobby pants," Mark said as he dipped his paint brush into his paints and applied the paint to a small, plastic battle armor for his Blade Liger model.

"Whatever Romeo," Noah said as he got up and sat down to paint his Helcat model.

"That's a good picture of a blade liger, Mimi," Rachel said as she grabbed a red crayon from her crayon box.

"Thanks, that is a good picture of a command wolf, does your dad have one?" Mimi said as she colored blue shades into the Blade Liger's head

"He used to, but it got stolen, it was really cool,"

"How fast did it go?"

"Pretty fast, but when it would turn, it would usually slow down or slide to far, that's why I like Blade Ligers, they run very fast and they turn perfectly,"

"I know, and they really can turn tight corners,""Ok, class! Time to pick up all your things and you can go home! Hope to see you tomorrow!" Mrs. Ryosan directed her class as all the first graders scrambled out the door.

"Good, I'm going to go home and work on Firebolt's particle gun," Rachel said as she walked fast to the bus.

"Bye Rachel!" Mimi yelled as she got off the bus and waved her friend good bye. Rachel waved good bye and the bus faded in the distance. Mimi walked up to the base's door and entered the code to make it open. She stepped in the darkened base and turned on the lights.

"Is any one here!" Mimi yelled as her voice carried out throughout the house. She walked into her bedroom and lade down her stuff on her bed. She went into the kitchen and pulled out a tub of ice cream that read the label, LEENA.

"Yummy, ice cream!" Mimi said as she threw the top off and cobbled the ice cream with her hands. She went into Dr. Tarous's room and stared up at his zoids models. She crabbed the closets ones she could grab (which was a blade liger and a liger zero) and put them into the half-filled tub of ice cream. She walked into the middle of the family/living room. She played with the ice cream covered zoids models, until the blades on the Blade Liger fell off and the Liger Zero's head fell off.

"I think I'm done playing," Mimi said as she placed the two broken models under the couch.

"That was the most stupidest movie I have ever seen in my whole life!" Bit yelled as he stepped into the base.

"It's supposed to be Bit, it's a chick flick," Brad said as he hanged up his coat.

"Shut up Brad, Leena and I didn't want to see your stupid James Bond movie so we bought tickets to our movie," Naomi said as she glared at Brad.

"Stupid chick flicks... They should die," Bit mumbled.

"Why is your little sister sleeping on the floor, covered in ice cream?" Leena said with a laugh.

"What do they give those kids at school," Brad joked.

"Ok, for the thousandth time Brad, you are not funny," Naomi said as she laughed at her statement. Bit laughed along and picked up the sleeping child. Bit whipped her off with a damp cloth and changed her into her pajamas. He lade her in her bed and turned off the light. He would ask her in the morning how her day went.