Chapter 2: Raven's return. Reese's confession.
Raven was sitting in the Geno saurer staring at the desert base that he had followed Van and the others too. He was sitting there making up a plan to destroy Van once and for all. He turned when he heard a low growl at his side. "Don't worry Shadow." He said mildly laughing. "The Van Flyheight will be dead soon." He said turning back to the base. He was waiting for the cover of night before he moved in.
"Hey gramps?" Rain said from the helldiver's cockpit. "So what d you think?"
"I can't believe you!" He screamed. "This poor zoid has been through so much damage that the armor protection has gone down 40%! Let alone the speed has decreased by 60%! What have you been doing?"
"Well fix it then!" She screamed back at him while jumping out of the cockpit. "I haven't been able to get good parts to try and fix her up. And after you finish I'm gonna give her a new paint job."
"Paint job?" Dr. D asked. "Isn't the black and light blue snazzy enough as it is?"
"Fuck those colors old man." She replies. "I'm gonna give her a purple coat with light blue trim. My two favorite colors."
"You want you zoid to match your eyes?" Van asked walking into the hanger. "Or do you just want the zoid to be pretty before it gets scuffed up in battle?"
She sat down and pulled out a mirror to look at what he meant. Her eyes were a beautiful dark purple color with a tint of light blue in them. "I never thought of it that way Van. I just like those colors. Hey doc? How are the repairs coming?"
"Were accelerating the speed now. One more hour and she'll be good as new." He said glaring down at her.
"I think he's gonna kill you Rain." Van said laughing. "That's the look he gave me after I totally made scrap metal out of one of his test zoids. He's gonna be out for your blood."
"Why should he?" She asked. "He never built the helldiver. Me and my brother did, so why should he be pissed?"
"Cause you asked him to fix it." Someone said from the doorway. "You should have seen his face when I almost totaled the lightning saix."
"Hey Irvine." Van squeaked. " I didn't know you were there."
"Train tracks." Rain teased. "Train tracks need some oil."
"What?" Irvine asked. "What does that mean?"
"It means that I squeaked." Van said softly. "It's her joke on me when I squeak, her way of saying that I need oil to talk normally." He said while glaring at her. She just smiled back simply and stood up to leave till a strong arm grabbed her. "You can't leave yet, the helldiver isn't finished getting repaired."
"I was just going to get a drink Van." She screamed. "I'm not allowed to get a drink. I'll just be in the other room. Damn." She stalked out of the room leaving Irvine and Van staring at the door.
"She seems a little pissed." Irvine finally said to break the silence. "What do you think pissed her off?"
"I have no idea." Van said. "Maybe she sensed something."
"Sensed something? Both Dr. D and Irvine asked. "What do you mean?"
"You don't know." Van asked simply. "Rain is special. Irvine, did she now exactly where the desert bandits were when you two were looking?"
"Yeah." Irvine replied. "But I thought nothing of it except as that it was sheer dumb luck."
"I can't believe you." Van said. "You've been around here for over half a year and you never knew."
"Damn you Van!" Dr. D yelled. "Just spit it out already!"
"Rain is well…" He started. "She has telekinesis and telepathy."
"She's Telekinetic?" Dr. D and Irvine asked in bewilderment. "And telepathic. Yeah right."
There conversation was cut short by a shrill scream heard from outside. "That was Rain!" Van screamed as he ran for the door. When they got to the other side a chair and water jug were knocked over and Rain was no where in sight. They looked around a little more and found that a wall had a huge hole in it like something had crashed through it at full force. "Rain?"
Meanwhile we find Rain outside face-to-face with Reese. "Well, well, well." Reese said. "The young girl comes back. How long has it been Rain?"
"Long enough for me to forget that face." She cried back. "Specula! Let me go!"
Specula refused to let her go until a bright light came shining through and hit Specula with full force knocking her and Rain down. "SPECULA! What was that?" Reese said furiously. "Willow? So that organoid is still following you around, huh Rain?"
"This organoid is my friend Reese. What do you want with me anyway?"
"Simply to see if my feelings were correct. I had a feeling that our lovely bounty hunter Rain was back and I had to see for myself. But I still can't believe my love came back."
"Your love? I told you Reese. I'm not your love. I don't love you. I don't love you at all. You were the one who kissed me. I made no move on you. Why do you think I ran away after that day? I'm not in love with you Reese!"
They hear a loud growl and then a thud as they see Specula hit the ground hard with Willow standing over her triumphantly. "Specula! Rain, your going to pay for this!"
"Come on Willow. Let's go before this gets really ugly. She jumped onto Willows back as Willow flew off towards the base. When they returned they found Van and the others outside frantically looking for her. When her and Willow landed Fiona and MoonBay mauled her to the ground. "Guys, come on. I'm fine."
"What happened Rain?" Fiona asked wide-eyed. "I want to know right now."
"Not here." She said grabbing Fiona and dragging her inside. "Reese is here."
"Reese!" Everyone shot up and said with a squeak. "You think that Raven is with her?"
"Train tracks, train tracks need some oil." She replied laughing. "I didn't see him, but we can't be to careful. Come on guys. Let's get inside."
They all head inside and Rain heads straight for hanger twelve. She wanted to see the progress on her helldiver. Thomas was the only one following her. Everyone else stayed behind to talk about why Reese was there and maybe if Raven was there than why he hadn't attacked yet. Rain and Thomas finally made it to the hanger and Rain fell over when she saw her helldiver. "What do you think Rain?" Dr. D asked walking up to her. "Do you like it?"
"It's." She choked out. "What did you do to my zoid old man? It's got more parts on it than when I brought it in here! What did you do? And for fucks sake it's bright YELLOW!" She screamed as Thomas tried desperately to hold her back from killing the doc. "That's my helldiver! And it's yellow! I hate Yellow! You're dead gramps!
"Calm down Rain." Thomas said quietly. "I don't think that's your zoid. Look carefully."
Rain took a second off of trying to tear the old mans throat out to look at her zoid. After a minute she noticed the paint job wasn't a paint job after all. It was a holographic image. "Spill it old man." She screamed. "What are you doing? Where the hell is my zoid?"
"That's it." He said happily. "We did something special to it. I used the hologram to project a yellow color to make it look like I painted your zoid yellow. Turn off the hologram."
They shut off the hologram projector and Rain just about passed out. "You…" She tried to choke out. "You painted my zoid. The way I wanted it. Thanks gramps."
"It was nothing." He said rubbing the back of his head chuckling to himself. "We had some spare time to do that."
"What's the catch?" Rain asked looking up at him. "I know you better than that. When you do something extra like this it means you want something."
"Yeah old man." Thomas piped up. "What do you want?"
"For you two to fight Raven with Van." He said smiling. "I upgraded your zoids so you can fight along side Van and Thomas."
"Fight Raven?" Thomas said wearily. "What are you talking about?"
"He's right outside." He replied gruffly. Making the silver haired beauty want to kill him again. "I think he's waiting for the cover of night before he attacks."
"OLD MAN!" She screamed. "HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS INFORMATION?!"
"Uhh." He said grimly. "For about two hours now."
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?" She screamed at the top of her lungs. "YOU KNEW THAT LONG AND YOU NEVER SAID ANYTHING?!"
"Calm down Rain." Someone said, she turned around to face Van, Irvine, and Thomas all in uniform getting ready to go. "This is your uniform Rain. Get dressed and we'll meet you outside."
They tossed her a uniform and her face went white. "Is there a jacket to this guys? Like a long one?"
"Why Rain?" Van asked. "Why do you need a jacket?"
"This uniform doesn't have back." She cried out. "Does a jacket come with it or not?"
"Scared of someone seeing your back or something?" Irvine said smugly. "Whatever. You're a girl, they're all weird. Here's take my jacket."
"Thanks Irvine." She said while walking out of the room to get dressed. "I'll be out in a minute." She walked into the bathroom and took off her shirt. She didn't know MoonBay was standing right behind her.
"Oh my god." MoonBay said with a quiet tone. "Rain? What happened to your back?"
"Nothing." Rain scoffed as she slipped on the rest of her uniform and put on Irvine's jacket and started to leave the room. "Nothing at all."
"That didn't look like nothing Rain."
"Leave it alone MoonBay." She left the room and went back to the hanger to get in her zoid. "Come on Willow. We have a fight to win."
"Rain. Tell me what's wrong with your back!"
"Go away MoonBay! I'm busy!" She yelled back at her as she shot out of the hanger as quick as she could.
"Oh Rain." MoonBay said to herself. "Something happened to you and I want to know what."
TBC
Rain) Mwahahahaha. I left off at a good part. Go away MoonBay.
MoonBay) Now I know I saw something bad. Now what did I see?
Kena) Her back. Ahhh, scary thought. (THUD) OUCH!
Rain) You are such a prick Kena.
Kena) Coming from my little sister I'll take that as a compliment.
Rain) Who would miss him. I really want to know. By the way. Is anyone going to miss Kena. I know it's not right to kill your own brother, especially since he's your other half of your mind, but he's going to die! By the way, warning for the readers. There is going to be some Yaoi and Yuri later on in this story. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. DUN DUN DUN!
Van) Who's the Yaoi between? And the Yuri too?
Rain) Ahhh, where'd you come from? And I'm not telling you. Ahhh. Kena's pissed his pants!