Chapter 5: Moon's recovery and-NICK?!

Dusty's POV:

No! NO! Moon Please!

I stood over Moon's unconscious form, I don't know how or why, but a bomb went off and Moon is now injured and dying. A paramedics came and looked at her then me, I couldn't move. I felt like it was my fault, if I stood closer to her she wouldn't have been injured.

"Kid, we need you to move so we can get the girl," the ambulance told me and I obliged shock, "Thanks kid."

"Heartbeat….alive…..she's unconscious….hospital….save her leg," I could only hear a few words as I looked at Moon. Moon was alive but unconscious for how long? I was out for five days from a crash!

"Dusty, she'll be fine," I heard Dottie tell me, but I focused only on Moon. Oh Chrysler! BLADE IS GOING TO KILL ME!

"I'm Dead," I muttered to myself, "Blade is going to kill me."

Moon's POV:

Welp, I'm dead.

I looked around me and saw a helicopter that I known all to well, "Nick Lopez?!"

"Hey," he looked at me and I stared at him in shock, "Are you okay?"

"I don't even know," I murmured, "I just got hit by debris, twice now. How am I talking to you? I thought you'd be with your partner haunting his rotors?"

"No, I've been trying to keep him alive!" he shouted, "But no one can see me, so I follow him around in circles. Now that you are here, I swear, he acts like a father to you."

"So you've notice too," I murmured, "Since well, I don't have a REAL father."

"You don't?" he asked, "How and Why?"

"The How is still a blur the why I don't know either," I murmured, "All I remember is my mother screaming at me to run, but you already knew that because you are in my mind."

"You are a smart kid," Nick smiled, "Well then, you know you aren't dead. Live ghost is talking to you and…?"

"This isn't at all weird," I commented remembering, "I have people tell me I do weird stuff all the time but I don't mind."

"Well, welcome to strange and beyond," I smirked at Nick's comment.

"Do you know how long I've been out?" I asked.

"A couple of Days," he replied, "You should be up by now, Blade's going to kill Dusty."

"Welp, Fun's over," I groaned, I looked at Nick, "Do you think i'll see you again?"

"Maybe?" he question himself, "I don't know the rules of a ghost!"

"There are none!" I shouted at him, laughing my head off.

Then I woke up, it was very white. I closed them again, and slowly opened them to see Blade and Skipper arguing and Dusty looking over at me. I groaned and everyone stopped, my head was throbbing, "Will you guys shut up over there?"

"Moon," Blade sighed in relief, Skipper smiled. Dusty sighed in relief.

"I guess a welcome back to reality will be a no-no," I growled as I sat up slowly, my leg was stiched and wrapped. Nothing broke which is a good sign, "So? How was waiting for me to wake up like?"

"Right now, i'm too glad that you aren't dead to start yelling about what you did," Blade reply was sharp like a blade.

"Really? How was I supposed to know that there was a BOMB. B-O-M-B. At the fudging CORN FEST?!" I shouted and everyone cringed at my tone, Blade winced but that is a new thing, "At least I thought you would like to know, that first off i'm alive. Second off I'm in pain. Third off, I feel like I drinked out a river of fire. Fourth off, how have you been?"

There was complete silence, then Skipper chuckled, "Well, Blade was right. You are a bit snappy."

"Well, I feel like I was living in a black hole," I growled, remembering Nick.

Blade grumbled, "Well at least you are alive. One of us can get Pain killers and another will go get a glass of water."

"Thanks, yet you didn't answer the last question," I thanked him, "How have you been?"

"Me, I'm fine," Blade answered, I quirked an eyebrow.

"So, you didn't try to kill Dusty?" I asked with my best 'really?' face.

"Okay, I might've tried and Skipper was telling me it wasn't his fault," Blade replied and I giggled, "But other than that we're fine."

"Great," I yawned, "I'm going back to bed."

"You just woke up!" Dusty exclaimed, I smiled in his direction.

"Yeah, but I've been awake talking to a ghost in my own mind for two days straight," I scaractically told Dusty, "I think I have a right to sleep."

"Fine," Blade ushered them out and I closed one of my eyes, "Sleep tight kid."

"Aye, Aye Captain Overprotective," I answered. Just as the last of my eyes closed I saw a smile on his lips. Then I let Sleep claimed me.

Dusty's POV: (Before Moon woke up)

"Where is Dusty?" I heard a gruff voice ask me. I was in the hospital waiting room, waiting for Moon surgery to be done with.

Strange that we never knew about humans, but a hospital that took care of planes and cars, learned to save humans?

"I'm here Blade," I muttered, oh this is gonna be the death of me.

Blade rolled in, his eyes blazing with anger, "What have I told you about her protection?"

I lowered my eyes, I knew what he said, "Take care of Moon, she's fragile." Replayed again and again in my head. I sighed, "That you would do the impossible."

"Exactly, it scared you then," he smiled evilly, "It'll scare you now."

I didn't react and this caused Blade to frown, I remembered everything. The bomb going off, the shrap mail flying in the air. Moon's injury because I didn't shield her enough. If she died, I would feel like it would be my fault. No one can replace her.

"Champ?" Blade asked looking at me, I faced him, "You alright?"

It was just us, Skipper had to get some Coffee and Sparky went with him. Chug and Dottie were cleaning up the mess from the bomb. No one else was injured. Just Moon, because she was the closest.

"I'm fine," I murmured, "Just worried."

"Were all worried," Blade told me, "Who ever set that bomb up, knew what he or she was doing. We all have enemies, I know a few of yours Ripslinger, Ned, Zed, and Cad are just a few. Yet we don't know anything about Moon's."

"She'd came from another world," I commented to Blade lost in my depressing thoughts, "Who knows what enemies she has, 12 to 20?"

"That's the problem, it could be her past," Blade told me, I thought of it and I agreed with a nod, "Or yours trying to get back at you. But I agree with the first one."

"Who knows," I muttered when a doctor came out.

She walked towards us in white, "Mr. Ranger. Mr. Crophopper. Moon is now stable, her arteries were not severed but her leg was nearly cut off. We recovered it but it would take a long time. Proximally two to three months."

TWO TO THREE MONTHS! I wanted to scream but I composed myself quickly, "Can we see her?"

"Of course," the nurse smiled, "Just go straight ahead to room B103."

"Thanks," Blade told the nurse and she rolled away.

We walked down the hallway and when we entered, I nearly pummeled Blade in the progress to get to her. Her arms were laid out in a sleeping position and her black hair was cleaned and shining. Her eyes were close and a pipe was slipping in fluid to her.

I stood by her bed as Blade stood by her closely. I wanted to hear her laughter, see her smile- "DUSTY!"

Skipper and Blade were going at it head to head but I didn't care, I was lost. Confused. She was a need I needed. She was my light.

I heard a groan and looked down to see Moon's silver eyes, "Will you guys shut up over there?"

Moon. She was awake. Awake and Alright.

Moon's POV:

I was standing on the border again, I sighed, "Is this how we are always going to meet Nick?"

"Well, Maybe?" he asked, "I don't know at all, I'm just a ghost! I don't make the rules!"

"Ha, ha, ha, Very funny Nick," I replied, "Everyone makes rules and plus how can you read if you are a ghost?"

"Umm, I can read if a book's left open," he replied with a eye roll, I chuckled a bit.

"Great, Nick, Great," I chuckled out, "Anyway, I'm not dead so why do you always pop up in my head?"

"I'm a ghost, I wanna check on you," he replied again, "Often."

"Pervert," I grunted.

Nick smirk widen, "Tells you what you know…."

I stopped, "Thanks for that image so much Nick!"

"It's my job," he replied, then he became serious, "So do you wanna talk?"

"Talk about what?" I asked, looking straight at him.

He sighed, "You know what."

"No I don't," I replied.

"Your past?" he asked me with a roll of his eyes. I stopped, my past? Well, he's a ghost they can't tell anyone, I guess? I looked at him, "I won't tell anyone, I swear."

"Well, fine," I grumbled. Fumbling a bit with my fingers, "It's not a pleasant tale, just warning you."

"I'm ready," Nick replied, I took a deep breath and explained my story.

Dusty's POV:

Blade is pacing outside of the door when I return with a glass of water, a nurse and a doctor were racing by grabbing every medicine I could see. I looked to Blade, "What's going on?"

"She went into a coma," Blade replied, "They are scared that if she goes back she might never….wake up again."

The sentence stung, a lot, "You can't be serious?!"

"I am, Champ," he replied, "We need to pray and hope."

I stayed by the door, even when the doctors came out with the news that she was safe, even when Blade tried. Emphasize on the TRY, to get me to leave. I stayed. I can't help it, she's a part of me.

It was midnight when she woke up again, smiling. I sat by her bed for two hours straight not moving. Not sleeping. I just waited.

"Welp, I guess I'll always have to watch out for your face when I go into a hospital, eh?" joked Moon.

I smiled, "You bet."

"Okay, Dusty what's wrong?" she asked looking straight at my eyes.

Oh dear, "Well, you worried me and-um-Blade. You were the only one injured in the blast, I was worried sick. Blade nearly killed me. Skip tried to COMFORT me."

"That's worrying," Moon told me and I laughed with her. Then I saw a glimpse of a small tear fall down her cheek.

"What's wrong and why are you crying?" I asked surprise. Moon never cried, at least while I was alive.

"It's nothing," she replied, "You better get some shut eye Dusty, otherwise it'll be a really short trip home."

Home? Oh, she means Piston Peaks. That's her home, I smiled, "As long as you promise you won't die on me?"

"Of course you dummy," she playfully poked my propeller. As I closed my eyes I heard her whisper, "Good night Dusty."

"Goodnight, Moon," I replied. Then I went to sleep.

Moon's POV:

As I saw him sleeping, I grew suddenly aware that something was healing. I looked down at my leg and saw it completely healed?

"There you go partner," I heard Nick's voice and looked up to see him on the other side of me, "Guess will see each other more huh?"

I whispered, "I guess, I'll see back home Nick."

"See you Moon, and I'm sorry."

"Don't be, I'm home. With you, Blade, Propwash, Piston Peaks, and Dusty. I'm free, Nick. I'll be okay."

For now I'll get some sleep. I closed my eyes to Nicks smirk.

Something's never change.