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Once Again

Chapter 3

The Pick-up

Molly sat in the passenger seat of the truck, her feet propped up on the dash, something Dom had scolded her about time and time again. However her earphones were jammed firmly in place and she feigned ignorance to his incessant muttering. As skull splitting techno blasted into her ears she examined her nails in a bored way, giving a gusty sigh she scanned the horizon.
"I've been in this freaking truck for ever! I'm bored! And there's a funny smell coming from that air vent." She thought to herself as she absently chewed on her thumb nail.

Violently yanking her headphones off she suddenly exclaimed,
"are we there yet??" as the truck took yet another corner onto yet another long and deserted stretch of road. It seemed Dom had forgot she was in the cab as the truck jerked to the right and he gave a startled jump. Not wanting to look flustered he pretended nothing out of the ordinary had happened (a difficult feet when you almost drove a 10 ton truck into a ditch) replying,
"The pick up sites just a few miles down this road"
Giving another sigh Molly turned to watch the trees whip by through the passenger side window and reinserted her headphones. She proceeded to kick a beat on the dash earning a glare from Dominic. She sniggered behind her hand and turned it into a cough before continuing much to her guardians annoyance.

A few minutes later Molly was interrupted from her dashboard kicking. She was poked in the shoulder. Hard.
"ouch!" she gave the culprit an evil glare before yelling "what!!??" and again yanking her earphones out with such force they ricocheted of the dashboard.
"we're here!" Dom exclaimed in a sing song voice earning him another glare as he pulled the hand break and smiled across it at his cheerful companion. He received a scowl in return.

Kicking the door open and jumping out the cab Molly surveyed the desolate clearing before turning back to the road to see John and Darren jumping out a smaller truck. As they headed towards her she gave them a wide smile before shading her eyes with her hand and looking skyward. She scanned the skies for the transport ship for a few moments, "nope, no joy" she thought to herself impatiently, "just have to wait" she gave another deep sigh at the prospect of waiting around with nothing to do. "If sighing was an Olympic sport you'd be a gold medallist" Dominic commented mildly giving Molly a hopeful smile. Molly felt bad, it wasn't fair to take out her frustrations on him. He shouldn't have to curry her favour, he hadn't done anything wrong. She was just nervous, and when she got nervous she tended to develop some what of an attitude problem. She returned his smile before wandering over to stand at his side. Both of them now silent watching out for the contact ship.

Patience was not one of her strong point she reflected as she kicked at the dirt track, covering the toes of her boots in reddish brown dust. "The ship is late, 1000 years of planning and the god damned ship is late? That just smacks of bad organisational skills" Molly thought "then again the avatar probably has more important things to worry about, like the fate of the universe, that's kinda important……"

"crack"

"What the hell was that?" John yelled. As a loud "thump" was hear from the same direction and a large quantity of dry leaves and dust were thrown into the air.
A muffled "ouch" was heard as a messy head of hair appeared from behind a scraggy bush at the side of the road.

"Did you just fall out that frigging tree?" Darren questions "that's got to be like 15 feet up!" John added The figure stood up and blew the hair out of their face before fixing their gaze firmly on Molly "She does not look happy" the intruder thought nervously "not happy at all" "what the hell are you doing here Kimi?" Molly all but screamed at what was now revealed to be a teenage girl. Stepping around the bush the somewhat dishevelled girl cautiously approached the party of four. If it was possible Molly's expression became even more murderous, causing the girl to take a step back and give an audible gulp of fear.

"Well I just thought maybe you guys could use my help, I mean an extra pair of hands for repairs and……." She tailed of as Molly took a sharp breath.
"Here it comes, volcano Molly" Dom though wearily,
"Kimi, I already told you no! We do not need another team mate! Especially not a gunner who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, you are the worst student the academy has ever had, if we needed a gunner do you honestly think we'd pick you? And as for repairs, my god! You managed to blow up a model racer"
"But" Kimi tried to interrupt but Molly was on a roll,
"I mean the god damn thing was made of plastic! How on earth did you even manage to…..anyway the answer was no, is no and will always be no so just go home!"
As Molly came to the end of her ranting speech she took a few ragged breaths, rage can really take it out of you.

After taking a few more calming breaths she looked up at the girl who had hounded her for the last three months. After overhearing Molly and Dom discussing the invitation to Oban she had followed Molly around obsessively, begging to be put on the team. And no matter how many times Molly told her they were using an automatic targeting system and didn't need a gunner (especially a really bad one) the girl would not give up. In the end Molly had exploded at her, having a somewhat short temper, sending the girl weeping to the girls bathroom where she locked herself for several hours refusing to speak to anyone. Sure Molly felt bad about it but it had to be done, the end seemed to justify the means as it appeared Kimi had given up on the idea, but alas it seems the girl was rather sneaky. Molly assumed she had planned to hide until the transport ship arrived and stow away with them to Awass.
"Impressive, it's the kind of thing I would do, the kind of think Eva did do actually" Molly thought grudgingly as she surveyed the girl in front of her. Kimi did not cry, she gave here credit for that. Although her eyes were filmed with unshed tears.

"go home Kimi" Molly repeated turning away from the girl and intending to walk back toward the truck, case closed as far as Molly was concerned, Kimi would go home and they could be on their way. But before she could take a step she felt the ground fall away from under her and a strange weightlessness overtake her body.
"like falling into the sky" Molly muttered and she remembered a line from Eva's diary "she was totally right"

Looking down she could see her team and the trucks following suit, slowly rising into the sky bathed in a golden light. Looking up she could make out the three stone hatches that made up the bottom of the egg like structure slowly opened to reveal a black abyss. Fear momentarily gripped her heart before an odd sense of dazed peace washed over her. She felt herself gently touching down on a hard surface. Looking lazily around she caught sight of a shaggy red head of hair tumbling over its sleeping owner ,
"sneaky little shi…" she said tiredly before passing out.

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