Woo! I'm on a roll! Two updates in two days! And if I get this up when I plan too, it'l be three days in a row!!! Woot! Well, now to get rid of your suspense from the last chapter, heres the next chapter of Secrets and Knightmares!!!!
Chapter 9--
"Dai!!" Zero and Kallen screamed franticly
"Dai! Dianna!" Zero used her Britannian name, one he used when they were little, without thinking. He jumped out of his knightmare and yelled again. "Dai?!" 'Damnit, where is she?!' He thought to himself in a panic.
"Dai?! Please answer!" Kallen cried from her knightmare.
"Dai!!" Zero screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Would you stop screaming, I'm right here!"
Zero turned to see Dai walking out from the trees, a little burnt, but alive. He was flooded with relief, and with out thinking embraced her in a hug.
"Uh…" Dai stared at the masked man, a little confused, and little red in the face.
"Oh, sorry," he said pulling away. It was then he noticed something. "What happened to your hair?" he pointed at her hair, which was now only just below shoulder length.
She grabbed a lock of hair and played with it a little bit. "Yeah… this…"
"Dai..!" Kallen cried jumping out of her knightmare, embracing the crisp girl in a hug. "I thought you were dead…!"
"I did too for a minute there," she said, laughing a little as Kallen let go.
"How did you get out?" Zero asked.
"Well, the eject seat was stuck, so I tried to get out of one of the little escape doors at the bottom of the cockpit. That's when my hair got stuck… so… I had to chop it off," she said holding up her pocket knife.
"That's what you get for having twenty mile long hair!" Kallen joked through tears of relief.
"Yeah, guess so," she laughed without much feeling.
"There's something I don't get," Zero said, "You're a really good pilot in your knightmare, but you seemed to have trouble in this one. What's the big difference?"
"I'll show you when we get back."
When they got back…
"Rakshata what are you doing!?" Dai screamed frantically, shooing the blonde woman away from her knightmare.
"I was just trying to fix it's hand. It got pretty bashed up during your last battle," she said, chewing on her pipe. "I have to ask, who made this knightmare? It wasn't me, and I'm sure this isn't the Earl of Pudding's work."
"Of course not, its my work, and no one else is allowed to work on it!" she snapped.
"Your work?" Zero asked, confused. She never was the brightest girl, so how'd she make this BA knightmare?
"Yes, my work. I designed it, and built it by myself," she said, looking at its hand. "This is my ShiranaiKumo. Don't bug me about the name. Some one just said it reminded them of a spider, and it's a knightmare that's unfamiliar to everyone, so...yeah."
"Hmm.. it looks like it has way more advanced weapons than the Guren… Can I take it apart?" Rakshata said, looking at the knightmare with a strange, twisted fascination.
"NO!! You are not allowed anywhere near my baby," Dai said, hugging her knightmare. "Hey, where'd Kallen go?"
They looked around, but the pink-haired girl was no where in sight.
"What kind of knightmare is this?!" Kallen shouted from inside the Shiranai. "There's no cockpit—OW! Something just stabbed me!" and as she said this, the knightmare lit up, and began rubbing its back.
"Damnit..! Kallen! Don't move!" Dai yelled, as she stared to scale the knightmare.
"Whoa… this thing is cool! I can see all of you!" The knightmare pointed at Zero and Rakshata.
"Damnit, Kallen I said don't move!!" Dai yelled, hanging onto the knightmare.
"Fine, fine," she said. The head of the knightmare swiveled, as though it was staring at something on the ceiling.
Dai clambered up to the head of the knightmare. It looked like she pressed a button, and the top of the knightmare's head popped open, and she clambered inside.
"What the hell do you think your doing?!" Dai yelled at Kallen as he climbed down into the large, open chest of the knightmare.
The rounded walls were covered in screens, enabling them to se everything around them, even the floor and ceiling had them. And the room was so large, you could put your arms straight up and still have room to jump.
"What, I was just trying it out," Kallen said.
"Well, your lucky that I was here when you did, or you could have died," she said, tapping on some sort of keyboard that was there. "Okay, you have to stay in here for about an hour. Don't panic, just relax."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't the Sakuradite in your system will kill you," Dai said bluntly. Kallen's eyes went wide, then she nodded. "I'll come and get you when it's done." Dai said climbing out.
"Wheres Kallen?" Zero asked.
"She has to stay in there for an hour to radiate the Sakuradite out of her system," she said casually hopping off of the knightmare.
"Wait, you mean there's Sakuradite in her body?" Rakshata said.
"Yeah. The knightmare reads the Sakuradite as it flows through the blood stream, and copies the movements," Dai said.
"But wont that kill you?" Zero asked.
"Yes he's right. The Sakuradite would solidify in the veins and kill you." Rakshata said.
"Ahh!!" Kallen's voice came from the knightmare; its arms flailing about. "Why the hell am I floating?!"
"I said relax!" Dai yelled back. "No it wont solidify as long as you keep the blood flowing through your body at a certain rate. And I have a radiation system that clears the system of Sakuradite when you're done, without harm to the body. Takes awhile though…"
"Couldn't you have found a safer way..?" Zero asked.
"Like what..?" Dai said.
He shook his head. "Never mind."
About half an hour after Kallen got done being radiated…
Zero walked through the knightmare hanger turning off lights (since it was almost midnight). Before turning off the last light he heard a clank from over by the Shiranai.
"Hello? Someone there?" he said walking over to it.
Dai popped out from behind the knightmares hand, covered in grease. "Oh, hey Lelouch."
"Don't call me that, someone might over hear," he hissed.
She looked up for a minute. "Nope. Its just us here." She said resuming repair on her knightmare.
"Well, I'm heading home," he said starting to walk away.
"Oh yeah, I cant be here tomorrow. I have to accompany Princess Euphemia to go meet someone. Dunno who though…" she said wiping grease across her forehead without noticing.
"Yeah, I figured," Zero smiled under his mask. He waved goodbye as he walked off, leaving the girl to her work.
The next day; Suzaku's party…
"Suzaku!" Dai waved at her brother as she made her way through the crowd.
"Dai, I'm glad you could make it," he said.
"Nice party Mr. Knight," she joked jabbing him hard in the gut, making him cough.
"Dai, what happened to your hair?" Suzaku asked.
"Oh, I just felt like I needed a hair cut, you know, to freshen up my look," she said laughing a bit. "I'm gunna go get a drink," she said walking over to the table covered in drinks. Sighing, she leaned up against the table, letting her mind waneder.
"Dai. Dai..!" Eve tapped on the girl's shoulder. Dai looked up at her. "Its time to go," Eve said, pointing towards the door where Lloyd and Suzaku stood
Later; Shikina Island…
Dai was standing there spacing off, when the sound of the Lancelot racing off snapped her back to reality. "Wait what's going on?"
Euphemia laughed. "We need to work on your attention span. Suzaku went off to help the base."
Dai looked at the pink haired girl, confused.
"How long have you been out of it?"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…Never mind." Euphy looked back towards the rising smoke.
Dai spaced off again, but not for long. She heard Euphy arguing with the general about giving Suzaku up to die. Damn. That guy's stupid.
The general flew to the ground as Dai punched him straight in the jaw. "Like hell you'll let him die!" She looked up just in time to see the princess heading for a knightmare. Dai quickly followed. Euphemia took control of the knightmare and Dai rode on its hand.
"Princess Euphemia!" the General yelled. "Officer!" he yelled at the other knightmare that was there (piloted by non other than Eve) "Stop the princess!"
"Finally something to do…" she said racing off after the Pink-haired-Princess.
"Damnit… this is why I hate wearing dresses!!" Dai yelled trying to hold down her skirt as the wind blew past.
"Tell me about it!" Eve's knightmare raced alongside their own. "I'm in a mini-skirt! Do you know how uncomfortable it is to pilot one of these things in a mini-skirt?"
"Are you going to stop us?" Euphy said, defensive.
"No," Eve said as if it was obvious. "I'm not gunna let that dumbass-General allow one of my subordinates to be killed."
Without another word they raced off towards the battle field.
At the sand-pit thingy-ma-jiggley-bob that everyone else is at…
"Suzaku..!" Dai didn't wait for Euphy to stop before she jumped off of the knightmare's hand. She ran as hard as she could to the Lancelot, where both her brother and Zero were.
Eve looked up at the sky to see the Avalon flying above them. "Shit… Dai!! Get in the knightmare!!" but before Dai could react something from the Avalon fired.
And, well, if you've seen this episode, you kinda know what happened. Sooo, TIME SKIP!!!!
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Suzaku woke up on the beach, staring up at the sky. Sitting up he looked around him. "Where am I..?" Something on the beach a ways away from him caught his eye. "Is that… a person?" then he registered the crimson colored hair. "Eve..?!" Running over to her, he knelt down next to the motionless body. "Eve…?" he put his ear next to her mouth.
She wasn't breathing.
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End…I guess….
Yeah, weird chapter I know…. But I'm kind of in a writers block….. so … moo. REVIEWS!!!!