Chapter 2: Be Prepared
Molly screamed. She just had another nightmare, about her mother, but this time the nightmare of the crash of Rick and Jordan came with it.
She heard someone knocking on the door, probably someone who wanted to ask why she screamed.
She yawned, and sat up.
Molly went downstairs. There, Don Wei was ruling the silence.
"Rick would probably not race for a few weeks. We have been granted a rematch today, and we need a replacement pilot. Any volunteers?"
Molly replaced herself.
"Maybe I could.." Don Wei interrupted her.
"Jordan, until further notice you have been promoted to temporary pilot for the earth team." Jordan shocked.
He got in the Arrow 2, pushed the wrong button, all in one a total failure. He flew fast over the lake, almost ran over Molly, and crashed for Molly with the reactors on each Molly's side, while Molly was sitting on the ground, scared. Jordan himself, was upside down in the pilot seat.
"Sorry guys, I'm a gunner, I break things.." He said sadly to Koji and Stan.
"Don't worry about it, it was a good first try.." Koji tried to cheer him up.
Molly couldn't let a giggle away, a good first try? Even her first try was better, and the first time she did it, she was.. well.. she had no idea.. as long as her memory can go back the first time was 13.
She didn't listened what Don said, but she did saw Koji and Stan shocked.
"Oh no, we're jus simple mechanics, we weren't meant to fly." They responded quickly.
"I guess that only leaves me!" Molly said happily after a moment silence.
"Let me fly it, I'm a great pilot, honest. Though I never been in a real star-racer, but a machine is a machine is a machine! Right guys?"
Silence.
They looked doubtful. Don Wei sighed.
"Molly, I appreciate your loyalty, but I cannot let an outsider, let alone a girl, be pilot of the Arrow 2, if there is a chance for you to die." Don Wei said stern.
Molly leaned to the wall again.
"At least try me out, you won't be disappointment!"
"I said no Molly. Well, the only chance we got is to go to the council, and ask for a reprieve."
Molly sighed annoyed, she didn't came here to have the same time as on her boarding school.. and she walked outside, where she lay down in the grass when the team left.
"Well what's your problem, Molly?" a voice said above her, and the head of Satis showed himself.
"I came her to find my father, and the only thing I find out is that he's changed in a huge way.."
"Whose problems are we talking about, yours, or your fathers?"
Molly thought. She had no idea.
"Just go away!" she said angry to him, as she turned around, to find only that the alien was gone.
Then she had an idea, and sneaked to the hangar, where she got in the Arrow, and sat in the pilot seat.
But it was way to big for her, her feet didn't even reached the pedals.
"This could be a problem.."
She climbed out, walked a circle, and spotted her Rocket-Seat. She grinned and walked to it.
Don Wei and the others came back. Don Wei was muttering angry in himself, while the others tried to convince him not to race.
He stopped when he saw the Arrow 2 started, and Molly was waving out off the pilot-seat.
"Molly, get down from there! Jordan, stop her!" Don Wei shouted.
Jordan ran up the stairs, and jumped on the glass that surrounded the pilot-seat's area, and knocked on it.
"Molly, get out of there now!"
"No Jordan, we can still win this race! Now are you with me or are you with me?"
Jordan doubted, but then nodded and crawled to the gunner-seat.
Molly started the Arrow again, and flew past Don.
"Don't worry! I will be home soon!" she said in herself.
She didn't past the entrance hanger so easy as she thought, when she realized she almost crashed in front of the judges.
She popped the glass away, and stood up. "Pilot Molly, reporting for the Earth-Team!"
The 3 aliens looked at each other.
"No Molly on the list here."
"Well, she looks quite human."
"That settles it. Racers, on your places!"
Molly did a good job, but she also rammed Grooor's craft.
"Why is that ship so unstable?" Don Wei said to Koji and Stan.
"It appears to have a rocket-seat installed, sir"
"Molly, listen to me. You are not the earth team's pilot!"
Molly didn't listened, she focused to hard on the race.
"Molly, if you can hear me, boost the side thrusters, which should increase stability." Koji said suddenly.
Molly sighed relieved, happy that someone helped her.
"Koji, you're a genius!!" she yelled happily when his advice worked.
"I'm just a normal mechanic." Koji said while replacing his glasses.
(AN: Okay, I am really not gonna do all the race-information, im sure everyone saw it, else, see the eps first for reading all stories. Deal with it;))
Molly sat down against a tree.
Unbelievable. They had won, and still it wasn't good enough for that manager of theirs.
How could her dad ever turned that way?
It was just scary.
Strangely enough, she didn't cried. However she did felt them coming up.
She stroke her hand through her hair, and breath in deeply.
Molly froze. Her head.. why did she had those horrible flashbacks sometimes?
The last 2 years she had seen flashbacks of the 7 years she lost, and it hurt huge. Molly remembers while she had one in a lesson, well, she knew it passed long, so long that she had seen a doctor cause of the headache.
But now, she had the feeling her head exploded, and it was just a single picture.
She didn't even saw it good, only a blue color.
"Are you okay?" a soft voice said.
Molly froze. She knew that voice, and she turned around, when she saw Prince Aikka.
She didn't blushed this time, she was far to angry, and stressed.
"O, hey.."
Prince Aikka looked confused at her, he knew she suffered in something, and he placed a hand on your shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
Molly didn't said anything, it was non of his business.
Aikka smiled cause of her willfulness, but felt that the girl wanted to be alone, so he left.
Molly sighed.
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When Molly knew the team would be gone, she sneaked in again. Today she would inspect the area here.
She got her bag out, but on her favorite clothes (a brown cloth bonded as a skirt on her hips, and a beige t-shirt.. xD), and for all security, she bonded her belt with the 2 swords on her hip.
Molly walked through the.. city, as the people on Alwas called it. Molly herself found it more like a.. little village, though there where nice things to buy, in fact that she didn't had any money.
She grinned as she saw some kids playing, who immediately stopped when they saw her, what caused that she lost her smile. She did looked frightening for children with that clothes and weapons.
The children walked over and played again, and Molly secretly watched it for a minute.
She walked through, till she reached the end, where a part of the forest began.
She walked through it, till she reached the spot she discovered the day before, it was a beautiful lake. There she sat down.
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Meanwhile, Aikka dropped his bow. He already fired some arrows, and he didn't had any mood for it actually. So, he could relax anyway, if he just told his fencing-master he did trained. He grinned. Here he could do that, at home, even when he sleeps he got guards.
Is eyes felt over the area, till they spotted a girl, who was sitting on the ground, facing the water.
Molly.. he thought after inspecting the girl from a long distance, though it was not hard to recognize the red-black hairs, but this time she had different clothes, which noticed him.
He stood up, and made his way to her.
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"Where is that goddamn girl?" Don Wei yelled when he came off the stairs.
Koji and Stan didn't looked up, they answered that question before; We don't know sir.
Jordan didn't answered it.
"Uhm.. I have no idea.. somewhere to the city?"
"Fine, Jordan, go look for her, tell her that we got another race."
"man, why do I always have to do the nasty things.." he said quiet enough to Koji and Stan so Don Wei wouldn't hear it.
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Molly closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.
Finally, some nature.
Though it was not so nice here as the place she can hardly remember, she loved it better then Earth. On Earth you can hardly find a little piece of nature, who isn't taken by tourists.
Sound behind her.
She opened her eyes.
They just really thought people could surprise her with any spying?
Before she realized, she stood up in no time, grabbed her sword, and held it next to her, on a way she can attack from any side.
Aikka scared.
Wow, she was quick.
"I'm sorry to scare you, Lady Molly, but I didn't realized you thought I might be a.. enemy?"
No sound of Molly's mound. She knew it was the Prince, and that he was no fatal danger to her, but she kept her position.
It made Aikka uncomfortable. This girl must have been through allot.
Molly replaced herself a little bit.
"I did not scared, really. I just heard some one, and in every security, as you know the Croggs are here, I just grabbed my swords."
Prince Aikka slowly nodded.
Weapons lower again.
"But, otherwise, I do not trust people so easily."
Aikka wanted to respond.
"That I was gentle the time before, was because I knew for sure that you wouldn't hurt me, with all those people around. Now, we are alone in a forest, so I might be more.. careful."
Though he didn't really liked the respond, he did understood her.
Molly putted her swords on their places again, and sat down, still a hand on one of them.
She just.. felt that she could trust him. Like she met him before. Like she knew just everything about him.
So did Aikka.
He sat down next to her, while they both where still silent.
"Why are.. how.."
Okay, now she had to smile.
"I have those for security, I told."
"but.."
"I didn't knew where I learned it from, since I lost.."
She doubted. Would she tell him?
She looked in his eyes, searching for a sprinkling of trust.
What she found scared her. It was a deep warmth, full trust, its just..
Then she had to smile, he also looked like he was desperate for information.
"I lost 7 full years of my past, it really sucks.."
"Aha.."
Okay, that sounded sarcastic, Aikka thought. He quickly smiled.
Again Aikka opened his mouth to say something, and again he was broke off by a voice.
"MMMMOOOOLLLLYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Molly shivered and looked disgusted.
She stood up and turned from the water, as she faced Jordan who just came out of the trees-mania.
"yes Jordan?" she asked even more sarcastic as Aikka said 'aha'.
Jordan's eyes felt on the prince.
"what are you doing here? Especially with him." He said as he watched at Prince Aikka who raised himself up to.
"Him, has a name!"
"so what?"
Molly sighed.
"Come on Molly, I do not want to hang out with the lapdog of the Croggs!"
This caught Aikka's attention.
"Lapdog?" he asked angry as his hand moved itself to his knife, and Jordan already stood for fight-position.
Boys.. Molly slowly thought, as she stood between.
"Quit it." She said fast and angry, just the way like; do not protest me or else..!
Aikka's hand removed itself, and he bowed to Molly.
"It was a pleasure, my Lady." And he walked back to his train-place.
Molly turned to Jordan, and stared at him.
Jordan stared back. "What?"
"Well, why are you searching for me?"
"Oh, of course. Don wants you to race."
"That's not funny."
"it is, Molly."
Molly looked next to her, to the trees. She could swear..
"Okay, fine. Come." And she dragged Jordan with her to their pit.
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Tadáá!! BTW: Thanks for the reviews! And Yuppy, I made you to a total idiot, sorry, but the way you acted on the chat room (somewhere else;)) just drove me nuts, and now I am hyper, and I blame you. Key? Though I do not mind, but my parents do.. hehe..-.-.
Chappie was short, but I didn't felt for long chap! So? Sue me!
Anyway, I am having study week next week! Yaay, and Ugh. I have free after 2 hours.. HOEHOEHOE!
NEXT: Race with Flint, and I like to keep the rest secret! MUWHAAAA:)!