Author Notes:
Kay: Hello Everyone! This is my first Zoids fic. And I can tell you right now that it is a Bit AND, notice the word "and," Leena fic.
Bit: NO WAY YOU'RE PAIRING ME UP WITH HER!
Kay:!?!?!?!?! HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?!?!?!?!?! I just locked every entry to this room.
Bit: Well, I accidentally tripped on the mat and found this key. *shows her the key* I think you should hide it a better place. *puts key down on desk*
Kay: *slowly moves her hands towards his neck* I'm...going...to...
Leena: THAT'S MY JOB!
Kay: !?!?!?!?! *looks towards door* BIT CLOUD!
Bit: On with the DISCLAIMER! *takes off running*
Kay: I'll chase him later.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids! If I did...let me put it this way. Things would be a lot different. This plot however is mine. MINE, MINE, MINE! If you want to use it, then ask me first.
Kay: ON WITH THE FIC! "Twisted Fate"
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An air-conditioned base in the middle of the desert, on planet Zi, was the only place that two people could stay in, and somehow, they could not get out of. In the main room of this large, old base sat a blond-haired man, on a couch, crouched over with his elbows rested on his thighs. On another couch, across this green-eyed warrior, sat a violet-eyed woman with her arms and legs crossed, glaring at the warrior across from herself. Neither looked away from one another for moments on end.
The blond-haired man finally said, after this eternity of silence, "You don't have to be mad." The redheaded woman gave him one of the coldest looks. "What? It's not like you're stuck with Harry Champ," he said coolly.
"BIT CLOUD," she roared, standing up, her fists shaking with anger by her side, "If I didn't have to chase you around at one in the morning to get my cookie back I-" but he too now stood up.
"IT WAS MY COOKIE!" he lied.
"Then why were you taking it out of my jar?" she confused him. He stared at her with his same trademark, cocky grin, eyebrow arched, and the same defeated laugh as he started to move back.
"I got a little hungry that's all, and-"
"THAT'S NO EXCUSE," the redhead roared back and then tackled him hard so that he was on the couch with her on top, holding his arms down. She held him down tight, and no matter how much he struggled, he could not free himself of her grip.
"Leena," he barely said, gasping for air, "I.can't.breathe."
"YOU HAVE YOUR OWN JAR OF COOKIES! YOU SHOULD HAVE EATEN OUT OF YOURS!" she screamed.
"I.I'm.sor.sorry," he said with most of his breath, breathing hard afterwards, trying to get air. Leena didn't understand why, but she suddenly picked up her body weight on his chest, keeping her knees on both sides of his stomach and holding a tight grip on his arms, ready to sit on him if he tried to escape. She could not understand what made her let him have air, maybe it was because of his plea to live, but whatever made her do it, she did, and she continued her rage.
"BIT CLOUD! YOU'RE THE CAUSE OF THIS!" she yelled as the memory of earlier that morning flooded her mind.
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It was about one thirty in the morning when Leena Toros woke up. She heard something fall gently to the ground and then immediately scramble to its feet, and continue walking just outside her door. The footsteps faded towards the one room in this large base that she knew better than any other. She slowly sat up in the darkness of her room, and looked at the door. "No you don't," she whispered to herself, removing the covers and sleepily getting up from the bed. She quietly made her way to her wardrobe and saw in the darkness her battle uniform. Since they had a battle later on, and was the only thing clean, she took off her nightwear and quickly put on the black and pink bottom, and the tight pink, purple, black top on that showed her slim figure nicely. She then slipped on the gold band around her arm, gloves, shoes, and her head ornament before going to the door and opening it. She looked down the hall where she had heard the footsteps fade away. She saw no one, and slipped out of her room and walked down the lighted hall in that direction.
It seemed odd to her to be walking in her battle uniform when the battle wasn't for another ten hours, but no one was around, which made her feel more comfortable. She finally reached the end of the hall and heard behind the door someone eating. She manually opened the electronic door and peered in. A blond headed man, in his battle uniform, was holding a large jar under his arm while he pulled a cookie out of it. The redheaded warrior quickly saw it as her own cookie jar, and slammed the door open.
The shocked man slowly turned to see who had come in. His face filled with terror when he saw it was the hot-tempered Leena, and he quickly put the jar on the table.
"Hey Leena," he said with a nervous laugh and silly grin, "What are you doing up this early?"
"Catching you for the third time this week!" she said, raising her voice near the end of the sentence and taking a step closer to him.
"Yeah," he said nervously, taking a step back. "Night," he finished then took off with her cookie.
"COME BACK HERE BIT CLOUD! YOU THIEF!" she yelled, taking off after him.
"HEEEELLLLPPPPP! MANIC ON THE LOSE!" he yelled as he ran through the kitchen door and down the hall screaming with a fiery Leena right behind him.
"COME BACK HHEERREE!" she yelled after him as they passed two doors.
A man with long brown hair looked sleepily out the door at them as they ran by, "Why did I even get up," he whined, "It's the same thing every night," then put his head back in.
Another male, with black hair and younger than Bit and Leena, also stuck his head out of his room with disgust. "WILL YOU TWO GO TO SLEEP?" he yelled after them, and then sighed, "Why do I try? Its not like they ever listen," then put his head back into his room.
"COME ON LEENA," the blond haired man yelled back at her, "CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT THIS OR SOMETHING."
"NOT A CHANCE!" she yelled back, picking up speed and almost grabbing his jacket, but missing slightly, letting him escape.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" the emerald-eyed warrior's masculine voice screeched as he turned into the hangar, nearly escaping Leena again.
He ran past a massive white lion zoid, which laughed down at him as he ran. 'When will Bit learn?' then laughed a little more.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY LIGER!" Bit screamed at his zoid making it only laugh more. Bit continued his run for life by making a left turn around a box larger than him and then sprinting in that direction. Bit didn't hear Leena behind him; looking back to see if she was there. Leena wasn't there, and due to Bit's lack of common sense, he stopped.
"Where did she go?" he said even more nervously, "She must of missed the turn," he chuckled, "she must have been so mad," he said picturing her face in his mind, then laughed. He turned to the direction that he was originally running, and there, about three yards away was the angriest fixed stare Leena had ever given him. She was furious, and Bit could tell, even after the two years of knowing her, he had never pushed her this far.
Leena looked so annoyed with him that you couldn't see the pupil in her eyes anymore, nor the color, and they were about twice the size of her normal violet eyes only white. Her fists were clamp together tightly by her side, shaking from rage, with her white teeth clenched together with the look to kill.
Bit's eyes widened, and the same troubled, toothy grin formed on his lips. "Its not like you would miss the turn or anything."
Bit could now hear her soft growling of anger in her throat, and began backing away slowly, still keeping eye contact. Every step that Bit took, Leena took one step closer. Finally, Leena became irritated enough that she launched herself at him. Bit quickly dodged her by diving to his left, missing her by a hair. He hit the ground hard, crumbling some of the cookie in his grip, but that didn't stop him. He could hear Leena's raging screams, making him get up and run. He made it out of the hangar with Leena a little ways behind. He ran down the hall to his room, opening the electric door and diving into the room, locking the door behind himself.
"BIT CLOUD!" came his name from the redheaded warrior, "OPEN THIS DOOR," she demanded as she pounded her fists in the door, putting small dents where she hit.
"IN YOUR DREAMS," he yelled back. 'Uh ho,' Bit thought, 'Come on, THINK! Perfect,' Bit quickly moved to his wardrobe and pushed it in front of the door, 'that'll hold her for a while, I hope.' He then took off his battle shoes and got into bed without changing his clothes. Eventually Leena's pounding began to die out and was more bearable to Bit's ears, letting him sleep.
Two hours went by until Bit awoke. He tiredly sat up and looked at the door. Many dents were in it from earlier, but the wardrobe still stood triumphantly in front of it. Bit slowly got up, put on his battle shoes, and pushed the wardrobe out of the way. Once that was in place, he opened the door. A sleeping redheaded warrior fell towards him and he caught her pulling her onto her feet and having her lean her head against his chest. She was still in her battle uniform, which helped Bit understand why it took so long to fall asleep. Only one thing stung Bit at that moment as he looked over Leena's body. He had just realized that he had never seen her so calm and peaceful; most of the time it was because he had stolen her food or made her mad in a way.
Bit softly rubbed her back while his other arm held her up, "Leena," his gentle voice tickled her ear.
Leena slowly blinked and pulled herself nearer to Bit, trying to stay warm. Bit tried again, "Leena," but to no advantage. He finely shook her gently making her eyes to half open. She blinked a few times then unfocusedly looked at Bit, blinking a few times more, then fell onto him once more. "Come on Leena," Bit urged, but to no avail. "Don't make me carry you," she did not reply. "Fine," he then tenderly picked her up and walked towards the main room. Leena lay motionless in his arms, resting her head against his chest. She was lightweight, and this made it easy for Bit to walk straight down the hall. He finally made it to the main room, turned on the light, and laid her delicately on a couch in the pit. He then sat down on the edge of the couch. He gazed at her for a few moments then looked down to her gloves. He removed one carefully; her hand was a little red from the pounding she had done on the door. Bit slowly put her glove back on, and took her hand, rubbing it slowly in his.
'Leena is one heavy sleeper if I had to say anything about her. Now the question is, should I wake her? Yeah,' "Leena," he said once again. This time she opened her eyes halfway and then all the way. She gazed into Bit's sea green eyes with confusion shining in hers.
"How.how.how did I get here?" came her gentle voice.
"You were pounding like mad on my door," he explained, "you wore yourself out," then yawned stretching his arms.
"Oh." she said sitting up. "But then.why was I banging on your door?" she questioned.
"Um, I, um." he stumbled, confusion showing on his features.
"You stole my cookie!" she said grabbing for his neck. Just as she grabbed him, a cheery masculine voice could be heard in the distance down the hall.
"LEENA," it called, "LEENA MY LOVE, WHERE ARE YOU?"
"No, not Harry," she sighs, "When will he learn?"
Walking footsteps could be heard coming down the hall, and the voice was still heard, "LEENA, MY LOVE, WE ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER!"
Bit felt a tinge of guilt hit his stomach as he heard Harry's voice. He never liked Harry, and the only reason he came here was because he was madly in love with Leena for some strange reason. Just as he began to get up, Leena grabbed his hand, pulling him back down.
Leena stared at him with a small idea in her head. She did not like the idea that she had tried before, but it was worth a shot. "Bit," she whispered, "I have an idea," he stood there looking at her face, as if examining every detail.
"Huh?" he questioned. He would go along with whatever Leena's idea was if it got rid of Harry, but he didn't want to do it with Leena, not after she chased him.
"What if we pretended to be going out?"
"WHAT?" Bit blurted out loudly. "It's not like Harry is my problem."
"Just until Harry leaves," she said holding his hand tighter, "Please," she urged, "I don't want him to keep bothering me, but maybe if he thought I was already taken then-"
"So you want me to pretend to be your boyfriend, is that it?" he asked sighing.
She nodded her head.
"You tried that before. Why do you think it will work this time?"
"I don't know. Maybe it will," she said giving him her puppy dog eyes.
He looked at her face sternly, and spoke words that he never thought he would say," Okay, only because I want to get rid of Harry."
"Well, we can test this idea right now," Leena said pushing him on the couch so his back was on the seat of the long couch with her on top as the footsteps came closer.
"If it doesn't work-" but he was cut off by her finger on his lips.
"Shhhh.then I won't do it again," she whispered.
She flipped him so that his back was to the back of the couch and her back was in his chest. Bit reached up and hit the switch on the wall on the pit where the couch was, turning off the light, then gingerly slipped his arms under Leena's arms and around her waist; holding her firmly. "This convincing enough," he whispered in her ear.
"Yeah," she whispered back, "Just pretend to be asleep."
Bit did as he was told and closed his eyes, pulling her closer for warmth.
Something about this to Leena felt comforting and secure. The whole world seemed to disappear with the warmth coming from Bit, all the lies, problems, and fights seemed to never exist, that is, until the electric door opened.
The man who had been walking down the hall in search of Leena finally found her. The lights turned on with the sound of a switch being hit, and the sound of something dropped, which Leena assumed to be chocolates or flowers, hit the ground. The man then yelled, "TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY LEENA!" he demanded. Bit and Leena both lifted their heads to look at who had just entered the room. A shocked brown-haired man stood in the doorway with his fist at his side, and anger showed on his features. His blue crystal eyes glared dangerously at Bit who still held Leena.
"Hiya Harry," came Bit's cheery voice, "How 're you doing?" he asked as Leena yawned a real yawn.
"TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY LEENA," he repeated moving closer.
"Don't tell him what to do Harry!" Leena shot back, "Bit is what I've been looking for, a real warrior," she said looking up at Bit and kissing his cheek. Bit only looked back at her with great shock on his face at how far she was going with pretending.
"So Harry," he continued, ignoring the kiss and blush that was pushing its way up to his face, "why are you here so early?"
This only made Harry even angrier, "LEENA AND I ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER," he screamed and was about to launch himself at Bit and pull Leena away from him when two pairs of arms grabbed him. A man that was older than him with brown hair, and a younger man with black hair had just grabbed him.
"I MUST SAVE MY LEENA," Harry yelled, trying to reach her.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" the younger man yelled.
"We're saving them from you," the long brown haired man said coolly, as they began to drag him away.
"NO! LEENAAAA!" Harry screamed extending his arm from their hold to reach her as he was dragged out of the room.
Leena looked up to Bit once again, making sure she had contact with his sea green eyes. "Okay," he sighed, "I'll do it."
Leena put her head near his ear, "You sure?" she whispered, sending a warm feeling down his abused spine.
"Yeah," he responded with depression in his voice. Bit removed his arms from her waist and got up. Leena did the same. The two men that had dragged Harry away now reentered the room.
"So.you guys going out," came the sleepy voice of the brown-haired man.
Leena looked at him with the death look and then responded, "YOU DID NOT JUST ASK THAT! GOING OUT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BETWEEN US!"
Bit could feel some water coming to his eyes, but pushed the feeling away and, "Yeah Brad," came his cocky voice, "Who would ever want to be Leena's boyfriend? I mean, look at her, she a hot-headed girl."
Leena glared at him and was about to pounce on him when a brown haired, brown-eyed man entered the room. He was much older than the other four people in the room by about eighteen years. His eyes had small light gray rings circling them and small creases had just begun to form, but his hair was still the rich chocolate color. "Good MORNING TEAM," came the man's optimistic voice.
"Maybe you should get your eyes checked Doc," came Bit's drowsy, disheartened voice.
"Since everyone is here, I may as well tell you that there is a near vacation in the future." Everyone now looked at him surprised. A vacation would be nice for them, they had not had a vacation since they won the Royal Cup two years ago. "But, the battle is cancelled today." Bit now paid attention even more.
"Why Doc?" Bit asked as he yawned.
"Because there are some bandits in the area and the ZBC (Zoids Battle Commission) is saying that no one should leave their base until they catch them. That's why you and Leena will be staying here for a while, watching the base, and Jamie and Brad will come with me."
"Why me?" Brad and Jamie, the black haired person, asked in unison.
"The ZBC meeting will take about three days to get to, that's why I'm taking you two. Jamie can fly above the hover cargo and make sure that no one is planning a sneak attack, and you can help Jamie if we are in trouble."
"But why can't I go dad?" Leena asked surprised that she was not going and that Brad was.
"You and Bit have to stay here and watch over the base," he said simply. "If there is an attack, you can stay at the base and fire from a distance while Bit attacks head on."
"No, I'm not going to stay with Bit," she firmly refused.
"And I'm not going to stay with her Doc," Bit added.
"Only a week," Doc tried to convince them, "Think of the vacation."
Bit and Leena thought for a second before giving their responses.
"NEVER!" Leena yelled, "Why can't Jamie stay and I go?"
"Because Jamie pilots an air zoid."
"But what about Brad," she continued, "Can't Bit just go in his place?"
"Yeah," Bit added his comment.
"I'm meeting a friend where the meeting is. That's why I have to go," Brad stated simply.
Leena thought for a moment, "Fine," she agreed unwillingly. 'I have a feeling that I'm going to regret this,' she thought to herself.
"NO!" Bit said forcefully, "I'm not staying with this manic. I want to live longer than eighteen Doc."
Leena now glanced toward him thinking of another way to make him wish he never said that.
"Sorry Bit," the Doc said happily, "You don't have a choice."
Bit sighed in defeat, "fine, but it's not because I chose to."
"Um, Doc."
"Yes Jamie."
"Good plan and all, but how do you know that we will be able to hold them off? There could be about a hundred of them."
"Come on TEAM! To the statistic ROOM!" he said pointing to the door and walking out of it.
The four Blitz team members looked at the door with confused looks, but soon followed.
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Kay: I hoped you all liked it! Unfortunately,. I have to go into hiding now. *dives under bed in room*
Bit: Now where did she go?
Leena: Five dollars says I find her first.
Bit: You're on! *leaves room*
Kay: *whispers* see ya next time. They'll never find me here...
Kay: Hello Everyone! This is my first Zoids fic. And I can tell you right now that it is a Bit AND, notice the word "and," Leena fic.
Bit: NO WAY YOU'RE PAIRING ME UP WITH HER!
Kay:!?!?!?!?! HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?!?!?!?!?! I just locked every entry to this room.
Bit: Well, I accidentally tripped on the mat and found this key. *shows her the key* I think you should hide it a better place. *puts key down on desk*
Kay: *slowly moves her hands towards his neck* I'm...going...to...
Leena: THAT'S MY JOB!
Kay: !?!?!?!?! *looks towards door* BIT CLOUD!
Bit: On with the DISCLAIMER! *takes off running*
Kay: I'll chase him later.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids! If I did...let me put it this way. Things would be a lot different. This plot however is mine. MINE, MINE, MINE! If you want to use it, then ask me first.
Kay: ON WITH THE FIC! "Twisted Fate"
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An air-conditioned base in the middle of the desert, on planet Zi, was the only place that two people could stay in, and somehow, they could not get out of. In the main room of this large, old base sat a blond-haired man, on a couch, crouched over with his elbows rested on his thighs. On another couch, across this green-eyed warrior, sat a violet-eyed woman with her arms and legs crossed, glaring at the warrior across from herself. Neither looked away from one another for moments on end.
The blond-haired man finally said, after this eternity of silence, "You don't have to be mad." The redheaded woman gave him one of the coldest looks. "What? It's not like you're stuck with Harry Champ," he said coolly.
"BIT CLOUD," she roared, standing up, her fists shaking with anger by her side, "If I didn't have to chase you around at one in the morning to get my cookie back I-" but he too now stood up.
"IT WAS MY COOKIE!" he lied.
"Then why were you taking it out of my jar?" she confused him. He stared at her with his same trademark, cocky grin, eyebrow arched, and the same defeated laugh as he started to move back.
"I got a little hungry that's all, and-"
"THAT'S NO EXCUSE," the redhead roared back and then tackled him hard so that he was on the couch with her on top, holding his arms down. She held him down tight, and no matter how much he struggled, he could not free himself of her grip.
"Leena," he barely said, gasping for air, "I.can't.breathe."
"YOU HAVE YOUR OWN JAR OF COOKIES! YOU SHOULD HAVE EATEN OUT OF YOURS!" she screamed.
"I.I'm.sor.sorry," he said with most of his breath, breathing hard afterwards, trying to get air. Leena didn't understand why, but she suddenly picked up her body weight on his chest, keeping her knees on both sides of his stomach and holding a tight grip on his arms, ready to sit on him if he tried to escape. She could not understand what made her let him have air, maybe it was because of his plea to live, but whatever made her do it, she did, and she continued her rage.
"BIT CLOUD! YOU'RE THE CAUSE OF THIS!" she yelled as the memory of earlier that morning flooded her mind.
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It was about one thirty in the morning when Leena Toros woke up. She heard something fall gently to the ground and then immediately scramble to its feet, and continue walking just outside her door. The footsteps faded towards the one room in this large base that she knew better than any other. She slowly sat up in the darkness of her room, and looked at the door. "No you don't," she whispered to herself, removing the covers and sleepily getting up from the bed. She quietly made her way to her wardrobe and saw in the darkness her battle uniform. Since they had a battle later on, and was the only thing clean, she took off her nightwear and quickly put on the black and pink bottom, and the tight pink, purple, black top on that showed her slim figure nicely. She then slipped on the gold band around her arm, gloves, shoes, and her head ornament before going to the door and opening it. She looked down the hall where she had heard the footsteps fade away. She saw no one, and slipped out of her room and walked down the lighted hall in that direction.
It seemed odd to her to be walking in her battle uniform when the battle wasn't for another ten hours, but no one was around, which made her feel more comfortable. She finally reached the end of the hall and heard behind the door someone eating. She manually opened the electronic door and peered in. A blond headed man, in his battle uniform, was holding a large jar under his arm while he pulled a cookie out of it. The redheaded warrior quickly saw it as her own cookie jar, and slammed the door open.
The shocked man slowly turned to see who had come in. His face filled with terror when he saw it was the hot-tempered Leena, and he quickly put the jar on the table.
"Hey Leena," he said with a nervous laugh and silly grin, "What are you doing up this early?"
"Catching you for the third time this week!" she said, raising her voice near the end of the sentence and taking a step closer to him.
"Yeah," he said nervously, taking a step back. "Night," he finished then took off with her cookie.
"COME BACK HERE BIT CLOUD! YOU THIEF!" she yelled, taking off after him.
"HEEEELLLLPPPPP! MANIC ON THE LOSE!" he yelled as he ran through the kitchen door and down the hall screaming with a fiery Leena right behind him.
"COME BACK HHEERREE!" she yelled after him as they passed two doors.
A man with long brown hair looked sleepily out the door at them as they ran by, "Why did I even get up," he whined, "It's the same thing every night," then put his head back in.
Another male, with black hair and younger than Bit and Leena, also stuck his head out of his room with disgust. "WILL YOU TWO GO TO SLEEP?" he yelled after them, and then sighed, "Why do I try? Its not like they ever listen," then put his head back into his room.
"COME ON LEENA," the blond haired man yelled back at her, "CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT THIS OR SOMETHING."
"NOT A CHANCE!" she yelled back, picking up speed and almost grabbing his jacket, but missing slightly, letting him escape.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" the emerald-eyed warrior's masculine voice screeched as he turned into the hangar, nearly escaping Leena again.
He ran past a massive white lion zoid, which laughed down at him as he ran. 'When will Bit learn?' then laughed a little more.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY LIGER!" Bit screamed at his zoid making it only laugh more. Bit continued his run for life by making a left turn around a box larger than him and then sprinting in that direction. Bit didn't hear Leena behind him; looking back to see if she was there. Leena wasn't there, and due to Bit's lack of common sense, he stopped.
"Where did she go?" he said even more nervously, "She must of missed the turn," he chuckled, "she must have been so mad," he said picturing her face in his mind, then laughed. He turned to the direction that he was originally running, and there, about three yards away was the angriest fixed stare Leena had ever given him. She was furious, and Bit could tell, even after the two years of knowing her, he had never pushed her this far.
Leena looked so annoyed with him that you couldn't see the pupil in her eyes anymore, nor the color, and they were about twice the size of her normal violet eyes only white. Her fists were clamp together tightly by her side, shaking from rage, with her white teeth clenched together with the look to kill.
Bit's eyes widened, and the same troubled, toothy grin formed on his lips. "Its not like you would miss the turn or anything."
Bit could now hear her soft growling of anger in her throat, and began backing away slowly, still keeping eye contact. Every step that Bit took, Leena took one step closer. Finally, Leena became irritated enough that she launched herself at him. Bit quickly dodged her by diving to his left, missing her by a hair. He hit the ground hard, crumbling some of the cookie in his grip, but that didn't stop him. He could hear Leena's raging screams, making him get up and run. He made it out of the hangar with Leena a little ways behind. He ran down the hall to his room, opening the electric door and diving into the room, locking the door behind himself.
"BIT CLOUD!" came his name from the redheaded warrior, "OPEN THIS DOOR," she demanded as she pounded her fists in the door, putting small dents where she hit.
"IN YOUR DREAMS," he yelled back. 'Uh ho,' Bit thought, 'Come on, THINK! Perfect,' Bit quickly moved to his wardrobe and pushed it in front of the door, 'that'll hold her for a while, I hope.' He then took off his battle shoes and got into bed without changing his clothes. Eventually Leena's pounding began to die out and was more bearable to Bit's ears, letting him sleep.
Two hours went by until Bit awoke. He tiredly sat up and looked at the door. Many dents were in it from earlier, but the wardrobe still stood triumphantly in front of it. Bit slowly got up, put on his battle shoes, and pushed the wardrobe out of the way. Once that was in place, he opened the door. A sleeping redheaded warrior fell towards him and he caught her pulling her onto her feet and having her lean her head against his chest. She was still in her battle uniform, which helped Bit understand why it took so long to fall asleep. Only one thing stung Bit at that moment as he looked over Leena's body. He had just realized that he had never seen her so calm and peaceful; most of the time it was because he had stolen her food or made her mad in a way.
Bit softly rubbed her back while his other arm held her up, "Leena," his gentle voice tickled her ear.
Leena slowly blinked and pulled herself nearer to Bit, trying to stay warm. Bit tried again, "Leena," but to no advantage. He finely shook her gently making her eyes to half open. She blinked a few times then unfocusedly looked at Bit, blinking a few times more, then fell onto him once more. "Come on Leena," Bit urged, but to no avail. "Don't make me carry you," she did not reply. "Fine," he then tenderly picked her up and walked towards the main room. Leena lay motionless in his arms, resting her head against his chest. She was lightweight, and this made it easy for Bit to walk straight down the hall. He finally made it to the main room, turned on the light, and laid her delicately on a couch in the pit. He then sat down on the edge of the couch. He gazed at her for a few moments then looked down to her gloves. He removed one carefully; her hand was a little red from the pounding she had done on the door. Bit slowly put her glove back on, and took her hand, rubbing it slowly in his.
'Leena is one heavy sleeper if I had to say anything about her. Now the question is, should I wake her? Yeah,' "Leena," he said once again. This time she opened her eyes halfway and then all the way. She gazed into Bit's sea green eyes with confusion shining in hers.
"How.how.how did I get here?" came her gentle voice.
"You were pounding like mad on my door," he explained, "you wore yourself out," then yawned stretching his arms.
"Oh." she said sitting up. "But then.why was I banging on your door?" she questioned.
"Um, I, um." he stumbled, confusion showing on his features.
"You stole my cookie!" she said grabbing for his neck. Just as she grabbed him, a cheery masculine voice could be heard in the distance down the hall.
"LEENA," it called, "LEENA MY LOVE, WHERE ARE YOU?"
"No, not Harry," she sighs, "When will he learn?"
Walking footsteps could be heard coming down the hall, and the voice was still heard, "LEENA, MY LOVE, WE ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER!"
Bit felt a tinge of guilt hit his stomach as he heard Harry's voice. He never liked Harry, and the only reason he came here was because he was madly in love with Leena for some strange reason. Just as he began to get up, Leena grabbed his hand, pulling him back down.
Leena stared at him with a small idea in her head. She did not like the idea that she had tried before, but it was worth a shot. "Bit," she whispered, "I have an idea," he stood there looking at her face, as if examining every detail.
"Huh?" he questioned. He would go along with whatever Leena's idea was if it got rid of Harry, but he didn't want to do it with Leena, not after she chased him.
"What if we pretended to be going out?"
"WHAT?" Bit blurted out loudly. "It's not like Harry is my problem."
"Just until Harry leaves," she said holding his hand tighter, "Please," she urged, "I don't want him to keep bothering me, but maybe if he thought I was already taken then-"
"So you want me to pretend to be your boyfriend, is that it?" he asked sighing.
She nodded her head.
"You tried that before. Why do you think it will work this time?"
"I don't know. Maybe it will," she said giving him her puppy dog eyes.
He looked at her face sternly, and spoke words that he never thought he would say," Okay, only because I want to get rid of Harry."
"Well, we can test this idea right now," Leena said pushing him on the couch so his back was on the seat of the long couch with her on top as the footsteps came closer.
"If it doesn't work-" but he was cut off by her finger on his lips.
"Shhhh.then I won't do it again," she whispered.
She flipped him so that his back was to the back of the couch and her back was in his chest. Bit reached up and hit the switch on the wall on the pit where the couch was, turning off the light, then gingerly slipped his arms under Leena's arms and around her waist; holding her firmly. "This convincing enough," he whispered in her ear.
"Yeah," she whispered back, "Just pretend to be asleep."
Bit did as he was told and closed his eyes, pulling her closer for warmth.
Something about this to Leena felt comforting and secure. The whole world seemed to disappear with the warmth coming from Bit, all the lies, problems, and fights seemed to never exist, that is, until the electric door opened.
The man who had been walking down the hall in search of Leena finally found her. The lights turned on with the sound of a switch being hit, and the sound of something dropped, which Leena assumed to be chocolates or flowers, hit the ground. The man then yelled, "TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY LEENA!" he demanded. Bit and Leena both lifted their heads to look at who had just entered the room. A shocked brown-haired man stood in the doorway with his fist at his side, and anger showed on his features. His blue crystal eyes glared dangerously at Bit who still held Leena.
"Hiya Harry," came Bit's cheery voice, "How 're you doing?" he asked as Leena yawned a real yawn.
"TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY LEENA," he repeated moving closer.
"Don't tell him what to do Harry!" Leena shot back, "Bit is what I've been looking for, a real warrior," she said looking up at Bit and kissing his cheek. Bit only looked back at her with great shock on his face at how far she was going with pretending.
"So Harry," he continued, ignoring the kiss and blush that was pushing its way up to his face, "why are you here so early?"
This only made Harry even angrier, "LEENA AND I ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER," he screamed and was about to launch himself at Bit and pull Leena away from him when two pairs of arms grabbed him. A man that was older than him with brown hair, and a younger man with black hair had just grabbed him.
"I MUST SAVE MY LEENA," Harry yelled, trying to reach her.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" the younger man yelled.
"We're saving them from you," the long brown haired man said coolly, as they began to drag him away.
"NO! LEENAAAA!" Harry screamed extending his arm from their hold to reach her as he was dragged out of the room.
Leena looked up to Bit once again, making sure she had contact with his sea green eyes. "Okay," he sighed, "I'll do it."
Leena put her head near his ear, "You sure?" she whispered, sending a warm feeling down his abused spine.
"Yeah," he responded with depression in his voice. Bit removed his arms from her waist and got up. Leena did the same. The two men that had dragged Harry away now reentered the room.
"So.you guys going out," came the sleepy voice of the brown-haired man.
Leena looked at him with the death look and then responded, "YOU DID NOT JUST ASK THAT! GOING OUT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BETWEEN US!"
Bit could feel some water coming to his eyes, but pushed the feeling away and, "Yeah Brad," came his cocky voice, "Who would ever want to be Leena's boyfriend? I mean, look at her, she a hot-headed girl."
Leena glared at him and was about to pounce on him when a brown haired, brown-eyed man entered the room. He was much older than the other four people in the room by about eighteen years. His eyes had small light gray rings circling them and small creases had just begun to form, but his hair was still the rich chocolate color. "Good MORNING TEAM," came the man's optimistic voice.
"Maybe you should get your eyes checked Doc," came Bit's drowsy, disheartened voice.
"Since everyone is here, I may as well tell you that there is a near vacation in the future." Everyone now looked at him surprised. A vacation would be nice for them, they had not had a vacation since they won the Royal Cup two years ago. "But, the battle is cancelled today." Bit now paid attention even more.
"Why Doc?" Bit asked as he yawned.
"Because there are some bandits in the area and the ZBC (Zoids Battle Commission) is saying that no one should leave their base until they catch them. That's why you and Leena will be staying here for a while, watching the base, and Jamie and Brad will come with me."
"Why me?" Brad and Jamie, the black haired person, asked in unison.
"The ZBC meeting will take about three days to get to, that's why I'm taking you two. Jamie can fly above the hover cargo and make sure that no one is planning a sneak attack, and you can help Jamie if we are in trouble."
"But why can't I go dad?" Leena asked surprised that she was not going and that Brad was.
"You and Bit have to stay here and watch over the base," he said simply. "If there is an attack, you can stay at the base and fire from a distance while Bit attacks head on."
"No, I'm not going to stay with Bit," she firmly refused.
"And I'm not going to stay with her Doc," Bit added.
"Only a week," Doc tried to convince them, "Think of the vacation."
Bit and Leena thought for a second before giving their responses.
"NEVER!" Leena yelled, "Why can't Jamie stay and I go?"
"Because Jamie pilots an air zoid."
"But what about Brad," she continued, "Can't Bit just go in his place?"
"Yeah," Bit added his comment.
"I'm meeting a friend where the meeting is. That's why I have to go," Brad stated simply.
Leena thought for a moment, "Fine," she agreed unwillingly. 'I have a feeling that I'm going to regret this,' she thought to herself.
"NO!" Bit said forcefully, "I'm not staying with this manic. I want to live longer than eighteen Doc."
Leena now glanced toward him thinking of another way to make him wish he never said that.
"Sorry Bit," the Doc said happily, "You don't have a choice."
Bit sighed in defeat, "fine, but it's not because I chose to."
"Um, Doc."
"Yes Jamie."
"Good plan and all, but how do you know that we will be able to hold them off? There could be about a hundred of them."
"Come on TEAM! To the statistic ROOM!" he said pointing to the door and walking out of it.
The four Blitz team members looked at the door with confused looks, but soon followed.
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Kay: I hoped you all liked it! Unfortunately,. I have to go into hiding now. *dives under bed in room*
Bit: Now where did she go?
Leena: Five dollars says I find her first.
Bit: You're on! *leaves room*
Kay: *whispers* see ya next time. They'll never find me here...