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Post by overcast on Jul 17, 2007 21:16:48 GMT -5
A Different Point Of View
XR looked around the corner suspiciously, “Okay, the coast is clear.” He whispered dramatically. Mira Nova, princess of Tangea, also peaked around the corner and gave her friend an annoyed look.
“XR, is there a reason why we’re sneaking around Star Command?” She asked with an eyebrow raised, XR wheeled around the corner and turned to her with arms spread out and a big grin on his face.
“I don’t know, to make you ask questions!” He said the big grin still on his face. He turned from her and started down the hall; Mira walked out from behind the corner and sighed. “Hey, you comin’? Or do I have to tell dad you were too busy with ‘princess duty’ to come to briefing?” He stopped as he said this with his head being the only thing to actually turn around. She sighed again.
“I’m comin’; you don’t need to blow a circuit or… something.” She said as she started walking up to the little bot, they soon found themselves walking side by side. He looked up at her with an annoyed look of his own.
“Who? Me? Like I would ever blow a circuit!” He said putting a hand to his chest. Mira rolled her eyes.
“Oh? How about all the times you’ve actually blown up?” She said with a smile as she looked down at her friend, he had a rather large frown on his face. He pointed at her angrily.
“Hey! Being blown up day in and day out is not as easy as it seems! You know what! You couldn’t last a week… No! A day as me!” He said glaring up at her. She leaned down to glare at him.
“Oh and you think my life is so easy? I’d like to see how well you’d do having to deal with royalty?” She snapped. They stood there glaring at each other for another moment; Mira stood back up and crossed her arms over her chest, as did XR. “Come on, we don’t want Buzz to snap at us for being late… again.” She said, looking down at XR accusingly. He did the same up at her.
“Yeah, yeah… blame it on the robot… just like everyone else…” They started walking again. This wasn’t the first time this had happened. They’d been arguing a lot that week for some reason. They had been bickering on breaks and missions alike. They needed a distraction, anything. Which is, hopefully, what this next mission was supposed to do, at least that’s what Booster, Buzz, and Commander Nebula had hoped. They were supposed to take care of someone that would be coming from a pretty long distance. Where? They weren’t sure, but pretty far. They finally came to the door of the briefing room when XR broke the silence. “Let’s just hope we don’t have to take care of a cranky old person!” He said somewhat jokingly. Mira had to smile at this, she just nodded in agreement. Holding her tongue on a sarcastic comment. They entered the briefing room, arms folded behind their backs, looking professional. XR giggled, then tried to hold it in, he then burst out laughing. Mira looked down at him with a raised eyebrow.
“XR…?” She started when Commander Nebula butted in.
“What are you laughing about, ranger?!” He said loudly. XR stopped laughing after that, wiped a tear from his eye, and stood up straight, a small laugh escaping here and there.
“Sorry dad…” XR said, laughing a bit.
“I am not your dad!” Nebula practically growled. XR waved his hand.
“Right, right…” He still didn’t get it. “I just can’t see how people can do that all the time! That’s all.” He started laughing again. Mira crossed her arms over her chest again.
“Yeah, cause you acting professional just doesn’t seem right to me.” The two rangers looked over to their fellow rookie, Booster. He was talking to a, considerably, short person. The girl he was talking to seem to take a sidelong look at the two new occupants of the room, with, what they thought, was a small smile. She was wearing a black, long sleeved shirt and long black pants, what looked like a utility belt, a black backpack and a hat and sunglasses. Buzz walked up to the two.
“Rangers, this is Ruby. Though we all will remain as a team, the two of you are in charge of making sure nothing happens to her.” He said to them. They saluted.
“Yes, sir!” They said simultaneously. Booster and Ruby must have been walking towards them when Buzz had started to talk to them because they just suddenly appeared behind Buzz. Booster ran to join his comrades and saluted.
“Hey guys! You two weren’t held up again because you were fighting, did you?” He asked was they went ‘at ease’. The bot and princess looked at each other for a moment, biting their lips. They didn’t want to upset the big guy by telling him that they had indeed been late because they had been fighting. But lying wasn’t the best choice. “Guys?” Booster said, looking somewhat sad at what he suspected. XR and Mira looked at each other for a moment, then at Booster, then back at each other. They looked back at Booster with pasted smiles on their faces.
“No, no! In fact we were… ah…” XR started trying to think of something that would seem plausible.
“We were hanging out in the break room!” Mira interjected. XR nodded rapidly in agreement.
“Yeah! We’re getting along fine!” XR said in a hurry. Mira put her hand on XR’s shoulder while XR leaned against her leg, both smiling.
“See?” Mira asked. Booster put his hand under his chin, contemplating the scene. Finally he smiled.
“Alright! I sure am glad to see you guys getting along.” He said then walked over to talk to a group of LGM’s. The two sighed and resumed their ticked off glaring. Ruby took a few steps towards them, looked down at XR and looked up at Mira. By looked up I mean, Ruby is very short. In fact there are seventh graders taller then her at 5’1”. She gave them an almost invisible peculiar look thanks to the sunglasses and hat.
“I may be wrong but… that doesn’t exactly look like getting along to me.” The girl said, crossing her arms over her chest. XR scooted up to her; he had his legs ‘grow’ so he could be in her face. He didn’t have to go up that high.
“Yeah! Well maybe we like glaring at each other!” He said, she raised an eyebrow. Mira looked at the girl, she sounded young. She took notice of the black stripes on her face. Tatto’s?
“Hey, why are you wearing sunglasses?” She asked, Ruby gave her a nervous looking smile.
“Well… ah… they’re cool!” She said with a smile and a shrug. XR wheeled back to Mira.
“You know, she’s got a point.” XR said. “In fact…” He opened up his chest and started digging around, looking for something. He pulled out a pair of sunglasses and put them on. “See, cool. But I make them look cooler!” The two females gave him a strange look.
“He doesn’t have ears… or anything to hold up the glasses… He’s defying the laws of physics!” Ruby exclaimed, she pulled a small notepad out from her belt along with a pen and started writing stuff down. XR huffed and put his hands on his nonexistent hips and glared up at her.
“Yeah, well so are you sister! I didn’t see any ears on the sides of your head, either.” He said. Mira turned back to her.
“Yeah, and what’s up with the pointy teeth?” She asked with a raised eyebrow. Ruby cleared her throat.
“Well, I’d have to show you sometime. Your not idiots.” She put a hand on the brim of her hat and on the brim of her glasses. She pulled then both off.
“Aaaaaaaah! You’re adorable!” Booster said as he raced back over to them. She was a cat like humanoid. She had brown fur and black stripes, a triangular cat nose, dark blue cat eyes, short hair a bit darker then her fur, and cat ears on the top sides of her head. She had a surprised look on her face. XR nodded in agreement.
“I am not adorable! I’m ferocious!” She said, she crossed her arms over her chest again, brought her head back towards her shoulders and put a pout on her face. “There’s a difference.” XR wheeled back over to her.
“No, you’re cute! Nothing ferocious that I can see.” He said, she growled and bared her teeth at him. The teeth ended up being pretty long and quite sharp. “Okay, now that looks ferocious.” She stopped growling.
“Thank you. I mean, how am I supposed to get respect if people keep on thinking I’m a push-over! I hate that! Just because they’re taller then me! You know what I mean?” She asked looking down at XR. He nodded, the sunglasses mysteriously gone.
“I sure do, sister. Just because you’re a bit shorter then normal they walk all over yah!” He said throwing his arms up. Ruby nodded.
“Okay, we’re bonding. That’s good. Now I hear we have a mission, can we get this over with?” Mira asked. Commander Nebula cleared his throat, getting everyone’s attention.
“That was exactly what I was thinking, ranger Nova. Now, since you’ll have a guest with you, you’ll only go on patrol, if you find danger stop it. So… nothing big.” He said, folding his hands behind his back. Ruby narrowed her eyes and had a small frown.
“Hey! Your just doing this because I’m a kid aren’t you?” She practically accused him. “I’ve been in rough spots, before!” She said glaring at the Commander.
“Yeah, well, have you ever fought against robots? Eh, little girl?” He said glaring at her. She got in his face.
“I’ve torn some to pieces if that counts!” They continued to glare at each other for a moment, then Booster came and grabbed Ruby’s backpack and pulled her in the air. “What the…?” She exclaimed in surprise. “Hey… Let me down! Or I’ll… I’ll… make threats I don’t intend on going on in the first place. Dang it!”
“Are you calm now?” Booster asked she only answered with a ‘eh’. “Good enough!” Buzz walked up to the other rangers.
“Come on team, let’s get to 42. We’ve got patrol to be on.” He said. They all saluted, even Ruby, though for her it was jokingly. They rushed out of the room and towards their ship. XR wheeled up next to Booster who was still holding Ruby up. He ‘tched’ at her.
“You really shouldn’t talk that way to dad. He has a bit of a temper!” He said. Ruby rolled her eyes.
“I don’t exactly do well with authority figures. Why do you think I’m here to begin with?” She said throwing her arms out and accidentally whacking Booster in the face.
“Ow! That hurt!” Boost said letting Ruby go and rubbing his face. Ruby grimaced.
“Ah, oops, sorry bout’ that Booster. It was an accident.” She said. XR got in her face again.
“Was it! Was it! No I’m asking you, was it?” He started out accusingly, then changed to confused. The rest of them stopped, a few feet from where 42 was sitting, and looked at him. “What? I’m just asking? Who’s to say she isn’t what we think she is?”
“XR, how about we talk about it on the ship. We can get to know her more, how’s that sound?” Buzz asked. XR crossed his arms over his chest and pouted. Ruby had, once again, a surprised look on her face which faded to an indifferent look as she shrugged. “Sorry bout’ that… ah… XR doesn’t always like people right away.” She just waved.
“Don’t worry, I’m used to worst. At least no ones trying to kill me yet. That happens sometimes.” The cat told them while XR wheeled himself over to the ship. “Besides me, I think something’s bothering him. Though I just met the little guy, so what do I know? I didn’t even know robots acted so… so… human?” She looked to them. “Do all robots act like that?” Ruby asked. The remaining three rangers looked at each other.
“Actually no, most robots only act the way they were programmed, XR doesn’t. He’s pretty much the only of his kind.” Mira answered the cat’s question. Ruby must have been surprised again. Though the only thing she said was an understanding ‘hm’. Then they boarded the ship. Though as it turns out, all the arguing and moodiness from XR had started after the incident with 42. And it was always between him and Mira, no one else.
This is for the XR/Mira brainswap fic, okay nothing but a lot of talking so far, but there will be action later. Hopefully next chapter. I hope its okay, this is my first try at BLoSC. I'm also introducing my character Ruby, I hope you like her as well.
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Post by Alohilani on Jul 17, 2007 21:25:45 GMT -5
Ooh, nice.
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Post by levy120 on Jul 18, 2007 0:13:02 GMT -5
Makes me grin xD Like it x3 You described Ruby well, I have a... picture of her in my head... that's pretty rare for me... I don't even know of pictures from chars in my head even if there are my own... xD And well... as far as I can tell the crew acted pretty In-Character... :3 hm... yeah ^^°
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Post by overcast on Jul 18, 2007 0:22:02 GMT -5
Ah yeah! Thanks! That's what I was trying to do! My main thing was to keep everyone in-character and to keep it intertaining! I tried to give a good description of Ruby so you guys could get a picture of her in your heads. Also I thought the begining would be entertaining. Heh, heh, heh.
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Post by overcast on Jul 18, 2007 13:14:43 GMT -5
Part two, sorry no action yet.
As they entered the cot pit they noticed XR was already in place, arms crossed and tapping his foot impatiently. “Well… I was beginning to wonder if you guys would ever get up here!” He snapped. Everyone went to their seats Mira stopped and patted the dome over his head to get his attention.
“Okay what is your problem?” She asked leaning down to get in his face. “You’ve been acting like this ever since 42 left.” She frowned down at him. He frowned back.
“Oh what? I’m supposed to just bounce back from having my heart broken into itsy bitsy pieces? Hm, Mira? HM?” Mira stood up straight again and sighed. Her look of disgust replaced by worry.
“Listen, as your friend I’m just worried about you! But if you wanna ignore any help we’re trying to give you, fine!” She practically yelled at the little guy, who actually cringed. As did Booster and Ruby.
“Oh, they’re fighting again!” Booster said to the short cat girl, she nodded.
“Then I am to assume they do this a lot, them?” She said as Mira and XR kept on arguing with Buzz trying to quell the fighting. She turned to the bickering rangers with a frown. “Hey she’s got a point; self-isolation is not a good thing! Believe me, I know, I tried. Didn’t work to well. Especially if you’re around a lot of people a lot of the time!” She said trying to stop the fighting between the two. XR just looked to her in a ticked off manner.
“Oh and why did you try to isolate yourself? Was your heart broken?” He asked her, her face looked pained a moment. She closed her eyes and sighed, she looked away from them.
“In a manner of speaking, yes. But it turned out to be a bad decision on my part that just hurt me and the people I care about.” She said in a mournful voice, the four rangers looked at each other a moment then back at their guest. “I doubt you wanna hurt the people you care about either.” Mira looked down at XR who seemed to be contemplating this.
“All right! Maybe you’ve got a point… Maybe.” He crossed his arms stubbornly. This was followed by an awkward silence. Buzz cleared his throat.
“So… ah… Ruby, where do you come from?” He asked.
“Another universe. And I don’t mean space wise, I mean dimension wise.” She said. She crouched down on the floor like a cat.
“Ah… bit more specific?” He asked, rolling his hand. Ruby smiled.
“Oh, why didn’t yah say so? Earth, The United States Of America, the city of Boston, South 14th/Main Street, floors…” She seemed to think about this, she even counted on her fingers. “25 and 26… I think. I don’t really remember it’s been awhile.” Mira gave her a strange look.
“Don’t you think that was a bit, I don’t know, too specific?” She asked wit a bit of an awkward smile, Ruby’s face fell. Though now it looked like she was trying to think of something else to say.
“You weren’t specific on how specific I should’ve been?” She offered with an awkward smile of her own. Buzz, Mira, and XR whacked their faces with their palms. Booster just nodded.
“She’s got a point. You weren’t specific on how specific you wanted her to be. Right?” He said smiling down at the teen. She nodded.
“Exactly! See, he gets it!” She said as she stood up again and leaned against the console. The three other members of Team Lightyear gave her and Booster a strange look for their answers. “What? Dudes, you’ve got a teenager on board. A lot of stuff I say doesn’t make sense, though at the same time it can… Like that! And, probably till I get to the age of twenty-five, which is when most people are completely matured, I’m still not going to make sense!” She said nodding and crossing her arms. XR nodded skeptically and rolled his eyes.
“Intelligent, ain’t ya?” XR said to teen. They glared at each other, but that ended when Booster worriedly tapped Ruby on the shoulder, she turned to him with a questioning ‘Hm?’
“Please don’t get mad at XR. It’s not his fault; really, he just doesn’t make friends easily. But he’s really a good guy; you just gotta give him a chance to give you a chance.” He whispered to her. Ruby really didn’t like it when people she just met started mouthing off to her, but, as she recalled a few of her friends had done that when they had first met! In fact a very good friend of hers, Chad as she called him, had actually mouthed off to her in another language and thrown her into a cactus! A cactus for Pete’s sake! She sighed.
“Okay, big guy, I’ll give him a chance. But you’ve got to help me out though, I ain’t do’ in this alone.” She said with a cat like grin. Booster put on a really big smile of his own.
“Okay! Maybe Mira could help, too!” He exclaimed a little loudly. Mira turned in her chair at the sound of her name.
“What? Are you guys pulling me into something without asking me first?” Booster and Ruby looked at each other a moment, then a Mira. They shook their heads no and tried to talk their way out of it, rather badly though. She gave them a stern glare; they both tried to look away and whistle to look innocent. Ruby couldn’t really pull it off, possibly the fur. They finally gave in and nodded nervously. “Not again…” She said sighing leaning her chin against hand. Ruby and Booster looked at each other for a moment. Buzz turned around in his seat.
“Okay, glad to see most of us are getting along. But remember, we have a job to do.” He said. Ruby sat back on the ground.
“I still have trouble with authority…” She said. XR gave her a look.
“What kind of trouble?” He asked. Ruby looked as though she were recalling something that had gotten her in trouble, and probably had.
“The kind of trouble that landed me here. No offense.” She said. This is the part where we go to a flash back.
Ruby was lying on the ground on her stomach reading a book thicker then her head. In a chair next to her was a green oriental dragon in a robe like uniform of some type, he had a rather large bag hanging from his shoulder, he was messing with a paddle ball game and doing pretty well. “Okay, that cracks it, I’m bored!” Ruby pouted as she sat up, this caused the dragon to mess up in his game and actually get hit in the face by the ball. He rubbed his snout.
“Wanna go through Embar’s ‘secret’ library?” The dragon asked, he sounded like a teenage boy with a bit of a mix of different accents. Ruby shook her head.
“Nah, I got caught last time. I get caught again, and Orm will severely beat me!” She said skeptically. “What do we do now, Besshi?” She asked the dragon, he put a talon to his bottom jaw in thought. He snapped his taloned fingers as an idea hit him.
“I know! Let’s pull a prank on your old man!” He said rather enthusiastically, she looked at him as though he was crazy. Then thought about it a moment and got an ornery smile.
“What’d ya have in mind, Bess?” She asked.
Ruby shook her head. “I really shouldn’t have done that?” XR seemed to be listening for a change.
“So… what’d ya do?” He asked, he seemed pretty curious too. She grinned.
“We ended up tar and feathering him! He’s okay; he’s got heat resistant scales! It didn’t hurt him any! Well… except his pride! It wasn’t even steaming hot! More like luke warm!” She said in her defense. XR started laughing; Buzz and Mira gave her a stern look. She tried to look innocent. “It wasn’t even my idea! It was Besshi! I don’t even know where he got the tar! Where did he get that?” She started thinking about it, murmuring a few names.
“Why would you do something like that to your own teacher?” Buzz questioned. Ruby smiled nervously to him and shrugged.
“It was funny?”
“Oh man I would pay money to see his face when you did that!” XR laughed, which got Ruby laughing to. Buzz still didn’t ease up on his stern look, but Mira had started to laugh at the idea of a big dragon being covered wing to toe in tar and feathers. XR and Ruby finally stopped laughing out loud, but a few still escaped.
“Oh come on, I already paid for it. Master Orm believes in corporal punishment, I’m afraid…” She said, somewhat nervously. She let a small laugh escape from her as she rubbed behind, as though it were sore. “Here I thought I was too old for paddling. Ow.” She stopped smiling and grimaced.
On the most evil planet in the galaxy an evil villain was almost finished with his latest evil plan that was sure to get rid of Lightyear. Though there were a lot of plans that were sure to get rid of Lightyear and had failed. This self-proclaimed Evil Emperor was Zurg. He was stalking outside of what would be the equivalence of the Science Bay on Star Command. What was he waiting for? Only the most evil thing he had ever created to come out, good as new. Funny, he mused, this was the second time he had done this for this certain creation. They had found one of his better inventions, one of the most respected villains in the galaxy, in pieces. “Is he done yet? I’m becoming inpatient to get my revenge on Star Command!” He yelled. A grub poked his head out the door; the poor little thing cleared his throat.
“He is complete your evilness, we have yet to turn him on…” The grub was interrupted by another one that stuck its head out the door.
“…We were leaving the honor to you, your purpleness.” The grub said. They got out of the way quickly as Zurg pushed his way into the room and strode over to the robot that lay on the table before him. Nos-4-A2, the energy vampire and the only one besides Zurg who rule Planet Z. Sure he had betrayed him, but he probably wouldn’t after having been blown up. The grubs knew, of course, that this probably wasn’t the case. But hey, Zurg would have to learn, one way or another. Zurg turned his creation on; the red eyes flickered on, Nos’s normal eye blinked. He then flew up in the air, wings extended and sparking, he started laughing manically. He floated down towards Zurg and scowled at him a moment, it was replace by an evil smile.
“Well, now that you have that out of your system…Heh, heh, system…” He chuckled to his joke; Nos rolled his eyes, though who could tell. “Alright, I’m good, I okay…” Zurg took a deep breath after his chuckling had turned to laughing. He straightened up and was all business. “I bet your wondering why I, Evil Emperor Zurg, have brought you back even though you betrayed me, aren’t you?” He asked, the vampire sighed.
“I just assumed you were an idiot…” He said to the now angry Evil Emperor. He chuckled. He looked himself over and smiled. “Lovely. Your grubs did a good job, but I’m afraid I will be leaving you. Revenge and all, so no hard feelings?”
“So you’re off to destroy Lightyear?” Zurg asked cluelessly. Nos sighed.
“No, I’m going to change my ways and become a hippie. What do you think?” He gave the purple clad… thing an annoyed look. Zurg put his hands on his hips.
“Well aren’t we snippy? After all the trouble I went to, to find you, you act like this? Fine, go ahead; break your father’s heart again!” He said crossing his arms and turning away from the energy vampire. Nos-4-A2 sighed.
“Fine, I’ll make Lightyear’s demise more painful and or humiliating for you.” Nos said as he spread his wings out, ready to fly out of there.
“Don’t forget to pick up milk!” He said to Nos, who cringed before taking off. Zurg sighed. “They grow up so fast.”
XR, Mira, Booster, and Ruby were all sitting on the ground, playing cards. XR had some sort of poker cap on. They all looked at each other suspiciously; they all put down their cards. Mira, Booster, and Ruby gasped when they found XR had the royal flesh… again. Mira slammed her hand on the ground. “Okay, you’ve won every game we’ve had so far! How?” XR smiled.
“I’m just lucky, I guess. In cards and looks.” He said looking at his fingers. Ruby raised an eyebrow and looked to Booster.
“No one wins at a game of chance that much…” She said setting the trap.
“Chance nothing, I’m cheat…” Walked right into it. XR quickly put a hand over his mouth, the three other players glared at him.
“XR, give us our stuff back!” Mira ordered. XR backed up against the wall as the other advanced.
“Oh, come on! What’s some stuff compared with your good friend, XR’s life?” He said pleadingly to them as they continued their advance. “Guys? Guys?” Some one was going to get it.
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Post by eez on Jul 18, 2007 14:17:03 GMT -5
That was pwnsome! Really, it was! You made Zurg the idiot that he is! I love it! XD
Oh, and the whole tidbit with NOS-4-A2 coming back sounds interesting. I never liked it how they finished him off in Revenge of the Monsters.
Can't wait to read the next chapter!
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Post by overcast on Jul 20, 2007 1:53:00 GMT -5
Part three After Mira and Ruby shook XR down for all their stuff things seemed to be back to normal. Booster whistling, Buzz working, Mira trying to pay attention to work, Ruby studying her notes that she had ignored while she took them, and XR reading his questionable ‘Victoria’s Circuits’ magazine. Besides Booster whistling and the occasional flap of a page being turned, it was quiet. “I’m hungry.” Ruby said breaking the silence. “You guys got anything to eat on this thing?” She asked. Buzz turned around in is seat to look at her. “Why didn’t you eat before we left Star Command?” He asked with a raised eyebrow. Ruby thought for a moment. “Low attention span?” She offered with a shrug. Everyone but Booster sighed. Buzz shook his head. “Teenagers…” He said he said before he turned back to his work. “Hey Booster, show Ruby where the food is, will you?” Booster stood up and saluted. Mira stood up as well. “Uh, Buzz weren’t XR and I supposed to do these sorta things?” She asked, XR looked up from his magazine, he sent a begging look over to Buzz that said ‘I don’t wanna do it!’ Buzz looked back at Mira. “Alright, go ahead. XR, you stay here.” XR shot him a grateful look. The three left the room and went the fridge, Booster opened the door and the three looked in it. Ruby raised an eyebrow; there were some things in the fridge that looked familiar, others… not so much. Mira picked out what looked like a peach while Booster picked out some grapes. Ruby sniffed while scanning the fridge for something. “You guys got any meat in here?” She asked, looking up at them. They shook their heads. “Sorry, Ruby, we usually don’t bring meat with us. Well not since the microwave exploded.” Booster said to the cat, she raised an eyebrow at the ‘exploding’ comment. “Don’t ask.” Mira said after taking a bite of the fruit. Ruby sighed and picked out a fruit for herself. “What’s the matter? Don’t like fruits?” She asked. Ruby shook her head and bared her teeth. “My teeth weren’t made for chewing fruits, I’m afraid. Its not that I don’t like fruits, it’s just that I prefer meat. I’m mostly carnivorous.” Ruby said shrugging. She took a bite out of the fruit, then looked at it. “It tastes like a lemon and a pineapple! What’s up with that?” She said. She gave it another strange look and shrugged and started to eat it again. “Weird. Good, but weird.” They left the room to find XR and Buzz playing cards. They all looked at each other. “Hey guys, XR challenged me to a card game. If he wins I have to but him as much oil as he wants. But I’ve always been good when it comes to chance.” Buzz laughed and went back to looking at his cards. XR looked over to them with a devilish smile and raised his eyebrows a few times then went back to looking at his cards. Booster leaned down a bit. “Do you think we should tell him?” Booster whispered, Mira looked at him. “We should…” She started but stopped when she noticed the devilish smile on Ruby’s face. “Okay, what are you thinking?” Ruby tried to look innocent. “How bout’ we just let him find out himself. Besides this could be fun to watch.” She said as she sat down, then took a bite out of her fruit. “Man, what is this thing?” Nos-4-A2 looked around him, looking for any sign of his adversaries who had lead to his destruction. Lightyear, and lets not forget the little robot ranger XR. Oh, he couldn’t wait to destroy them, to cause them the pain he had been put through. He smiled evilly at this last thought, others pain is what kept him alive. Metaphorically speaking. He started to ponder on what he would do after that. Hm, maybe he could take over Planet Z again; rub his so called ‘fathers’ face in it. That would be fun. Or the destruction of Star Command, sending in one of their own to destroy them. The ultimate irony. He chuckled. To fun, to fun. He was heading into an asteroid belt, he heard engines. He quickly hid behind one of the many asteroids and looked around to see what it was that had disturbed his peace. A space ranger ship, with the number 42. “Lovely.” He said out loud, he let it pass by and grabbed on of the fins on the end. They were heading towards a space ship graveyard. Even better! He chuckled; this was, for lack of a better word… Lovely. “So are you sure you want to keep playing, Buzz?” XR asked after winning who knows how many times and now had the deed to Buzz’s house. Buzz made a fist. “I’m determined to get my stuff back! Or… ah… at least my house.” He said. Mira, Booster, and Ruby were multitasking. Watching Buzz get his butt kicked in a game of cards and doing their jobs. XR’s smile faded suddenly. He had a bad feeling, no a horrible feeling. It seemed to engulf him, this feeling. “Ah, XR… you okay? XR?” He didn’t even hear it. He let the cards slip from his grasp, as the most horrible feeling of impending doom seemed to sink into every crevice of his being. Every bolt and wire of him seemed numb in some unknown fear. “Mira! Booster! Something’s wrong with XR!” He practically shouted. The other rangers were by XR in a heart beat, along with Ruby. Mira lightly put her hand on XR’s shoulder and shook him gently. “XR? Are you okay? XR if this is another joke…” Mira started but she knew this to be false. XR may play pranks, but never anything like this. Besides, his eyes showed pure terror. Ruby’s ears perked up a bit, she sat bolt up. One ear acting like radar, the other one seemed pinned against her head. Mira raised an eyebrow at this action. “What is it?” She asked the cat. “I think something’s on the ship, I could be wrong I mean we just entered an asteroid belt, but something doesn’t feel right. I don’t’ know, maybe I’m just paranoi…” She was interrupted by a siren when it started to sound. Ruby held her head as Buzz rushed to check what was wrong. “The ships running out of energy!” He ran back up to where everyone else was. “Booster, you’re with me. We’re going to check if something is causing problems for the ship. Mira, you and Ruby try and figure out what’s going on with XR!” And with that the two rangers were off. Ruby made an animalistic sound as she continued to clutch her head. Mira grimaced. “Uh… maybe I should turn that off…” She rushed over to the controls and turned it off. Ruby sighed in relief. They both sat down next to XR and tried to coax him. Buzz and Booster shot out of ship like they always did. The peered around there dismal surroundings then head towards the back of the ship. Though unbeknownst to them, Nos-4-A2 was hiding on the other side of the ship after draining its power. He chuckled softly and headed into the ship through those tube things. “Buzz! Does that look like what I think it looks like?” Booster asked, while he was close to hysterics. Buzz nodded. “This means we were drawn out of the ship on purpose! We’ve got to get to back inside!” Buzz exclaimed. They went back to the tubes but found that they were sealed off. “We’re locked out, Buzz!” Booster exclaimed. He then tried ramming it a few times but the metal didn’t give. Buzz furrowed his brow. “We have to alert them, Nos-4-A2 is back.” He said. Poor Booster was still near hysterics for his friend. “But Buzz, didn’t Nos-4-A2 blow up? Shouldn’t he be…? Gone?” Booster asked. Buzz nodded and tried his wrist communicator. The screen was fuzzy, they couldn’t get through! “Craters! We’re being jammed!” Buzz exclaimed. “XR, c’mon are you okay?” Mira asked once again. The robot seemed to be doing better, especially after Ruby found a can of oil for him. He sipped it quietly. “I… I… I’m not sure. But something is wrong…” XR started. Ruby was looking at the door out of the cot pit. She’d been staring at it and growling for the past few minutes, her ears folded and pointed. “You feel the same as me, kid?” Ruby nodded. Mira looked sentimental. “I’ll go and check the ship out.” Ruby said but was stopped by Mira. “Oh, no your not! If anyone is going to check the ship it’s me.” Mira said. Ruby furrowed her brow. “You don’t get it; I should go and check it out. I’ll have a better chance at finding something because I have super hearing, I have a super sense of smell, and I have night vision. IF anything is coming I’ll hear…” She started but stopped short. She was listening again. “Something’s right outside the door…” She said in a quiet voice. Mira and a still freaked out XR hid behind chairs. The two rangers pointed their lasers at the door. Ruby was actually hunched on the ceiling waiting for the intruder. Ruby heard a calm cold voice, with a slight English like accent. “Hear me, little one…” the voice said. XR’s eyes turned red, he lowered his laser and wheeled towards the door. “XR! No!” Mira cried as she grabbed him and tried to stop him. “ I serve my dark master...” He said blankly. Ruby jumped down from her spot on the ceiling. “There’s only one person who could be doing this!” Mira exclaimed. The door slid opened to our favorite vamp. “Who in the multiverse are you?” Ruby exclaimed pointing at him. He chuckled. “I am your doom. I am Nos-4-A2! And also, pointing is quite impolite.” He said crossing his arms. Ruby raised an eyebrow. “Okay, now you sound like my sensei. Wait! Nos-4-A2? Noferatu? You’re a vampire of some sort!” She exclaimed. “Okay, that explains the fangs…” Ruby said, rubbing her head. “A brilliant deduction, little one.” He turned his attention back to XR. “Hear me, little one. Come to me.” He said motioning. XR broke away from Mira and started towards Nos. Mira tried to fire at him but he flew out of the way. Ruby lunged at him, teeth and claws bared. He dodged again but she stayed on him and tackled him, along with Mira. “Little one! Assist your master, immediately!” He hissed. XR pulled a whole lot of guns out of no where. “Ah, this is bad.” Mira said. “Please tell me he has bad aim!” Ruby seemed to beg, Mira shook her head. They moved quickly, letting Nos up. He dove for XR. “XR!” Mira cried, she dove as well and managed to push XR out of the way of the energy vampire. He hit his head against the inside of his helmet, He blinked a few times, his red eyes went back to their normal yellow. “Ow, what happened?” He said as he sat up and rubbed his helmet. He saw Nos. “GAH! Nos-4-A2! You!” He tried to crawl away. “You can’t be here! You’re supposed to be dead! You blew up!” He stopped and thought for a second. “Although come to think of it, I blow up an awful lot…” He started but was interrupted by the horrifying image of Nos-4-A2 about to sink his teeth into his neck. Mira kicked Nos away from her little friend, Ruby came up behind her. “Ruby, you take XR and get out of here, find Buzz and Booster! Go!” She said as she pointed to the door. Ruby was about to argue but XR started to pull her away. “Come on, kid! Good old Mira can take care of herself!” He said as he pulled the cat out of the cot pit. She had a blank and surprised look on her face. Mira turned back to the energy vampire. He frowned at her. “You dare to take on Nos-4-A2, alone. You must be very brave… or very stupid.” He said to her. She took aim with her wrist blaster. “Yeah, how about we go with that first one…” Mira said. Sorry about the wait everyone. The power in my house went off for almost an hour... while I was working on this chapter. It saved most of it but I had to redo a bit and write the rest of it. I promised myself I'd have the reason why I'm writing his story at the end of this chapter. I'm disapointed with myself! It just wouldn't work as of yet! But next chapter, I promise!
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Post by levy120 on Jul 20, 2007 11:18:30 GMT -5
So... I read the second part today during work... (when I got ordered to take a break... hum xx") and the last part now... xD I love it x3 You're working with so much things, that it becomes a rather complex FF... :3 Makes me wonder a little bit, when the brainswap part'll come xD (I don't want to rush anything, I like it how it is now ^^)
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Post by overcast on Jul 20, 2007 12:23:06 GMT -5
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Like I was in that last chapter, I was going to put the brainswap at the end of it, but it just wouldn't work. Sides, I'm thinking of introducing a few new characters. Oh, boy this otta be fun. Do you really think its complex? Hm, I wasn't really going for that, but I guess if it works...?
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Post by Shauni on Jul 20, 2007 12:37:04 GMT -5
Very nice fanfiction. I'm really loving this, and your style of writing. You keep the characters in-character well, and I can't wait to see how it turns out. Especially the brain swap part.
Zurg=rofl. I loved his lines. xD
Keep up the fantastic work!
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Post by Alohilani on Jul 22, 2007 13:20:44 GMT -5
I really wasn't expecting so much.. fan character in this, as my idea was to focus nearly exclusively on XR and Mira... but it's very creative.
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Post by overcast on Jul 22, 2007 14:16:55 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't really plan it out. Once my fingers hit the key board they have a mind of their own! It just comes to me. Although I'm thinking of returning Ruby back to her universe in a little while. Besides if I didn't have Ruby, XR and Mira wouldn't switch bodies... Its not really her fault though... I blame XR... Next chapter I'll be bringing in another character from Ruby's universe. Heh, heh, heh...
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Post by overcast on Jul 24, 2007 11:24:37 GMT -5
Part Four
“Out, out, out, out, out…” XR seemed to chant as he continued to pull Ruby through the ship. He looked around frantically; Ruby finally pulled free of his grasp and shook her hand a few times, trying to get feeling back in it. “Come on, kid! If Nos-4-A2 finds us he’ll…” Ruby whacked his helmet.
“Get a hold of yourself, man!” She said grabbing his shoulders and shaking him a bit. “Sorry ‘bout that, I’ve been looking for an excuse to use that line.” She said calmly as she stopped shaking him. XR waved a hand.
“Ah, that’s okay. I’ve used a few lines like that too!” He said, now seemingly back to normal. He got his panicked look back. “Hey! Stop trying to distract me!” He exclaimed. Ruby shook her head.
“Come on XR, if this guy is really as bad as you make him out to be, why leave Mira to what seems to be certain doom?” She said with a fierce look in her eyes. XR opened his mouth but then shut it, he felt ashamed. He left one of his best friends with his worst enemy. His! Not hers, so why was she back their fighting him while he ran. XR’s sullen look was replaced by a look of determination.
“You know what, your smarter then you look kid, sorry you don’t look smart to begin with.” He said with a fierce smile. Ruby smiled jokingly.
“Well I’ve never gone to school…” The two started laughing, then got serious again. “Now all we need is a plan!” She said. They both started to think but was interrupted by an explosion and the sound of jets. Buzz and Booster burst through the door and closed it, both breathing heavily. Booster looked into the room they had just entered and spotted his little robot chum.
“XR! Buddy!” He exclaimed and ran towards his friend, he grabbed him and hugged. XR looked like he was choking.
“Ah, okay… I feel the love now buddy… Booster your sorta crushing my torso!” XR let out. Booster stopped hugging him put him down.
“Sorry…” Booster said sheepishly. Buzz walked up to them.
“XR, status report!” He ordered. XR saluted.
“Nos-4-A2, he’s back. Mira stayed behind to fight him… so I could get away…” He said mournfully. He got back his fierce determination. “We gotta go back!” Buzz nodded. Everyone had sentimental looks.
“Let’s go and help Mira, team! Move, move, move, move, move!” HE shouted and kept on pointing towards the cot pit while everyone ran towards the joint. Buzz followed.
Why did this stuff always happen? Mira thought as she kicked her own suit to the ground, Nos-4-A2 chuckling behind her. She turned to the vampire, fists raised. This was not a very good situation for her, no suit, no lasers, no hope. Great, just great! “You, of course must realize that you’re doomed?” Nos asked her.
“You, of course must realize I don’t give up?” She said as she lunged at him, he dodged her and sent an energy blast at her. She managed to ghost through the wall so it didn’t hit her. She turned to look behind her, then turned to the hall and started to run. She didn’t go far when she tripped over something. She sat up after she had fallen, she heard someone moan like they’d been tripped as well. She looked to where it was coming from and saw XR lying on the ground. Oops, make that tripped on. “XR, are you okay?” She asked as she went over to him and lifted him up to his feet. He glared at her.
“Well, until I was tripped on…” He said putting his hands on his still nonexistent hips. His frown turned to a small smile. “But I’ll let it go since you stayed behind so me and the kid could get away.” No sooner had he said this then said ‘kid’, Booster, and Buzz appeared from the curve in the hall. Mira smiled, then remembered the energy vampire.
“Guys!” She said but was interrupted by maniacal laughter. She and the others looked up to see Nos above them; he once again dove for XR. Mira grabbed the small bot and jumped away before Nos could get his clawed hands on him. She put him back on the ground once they were away from him. XR gulped, then seemed to suck it up and pulled out his laser. Buzz and Booster took aim with theirs as well. Mira and Ruby just stood there, laser less, but keeping a careful eye on him.
“Do you really think you can defeat Nos-4-A2?” He asked them. XR gulped again.
“We’ve done it before!” He said somewhat shakily. Nos looked down at him, an evil grin creeping onto his face.
“Scared, little one?” He asked in an intimidating voice. XR scooted away a bit and his hand that held the laser started to shake. Buzz cleared his throat.
“We don’t know how you got back but you’re not winning. XR’s right, we have beat you before and we’ll do it again!” He exclaimed. Nos started his maniacal laughter again.
“Not this time, Lightyear! I shall have my vengeance!” He said and launched a series of blasts at them. They all jumped out of the way and took cover and began to shoot back at him. Ruby was by Booster, she looked at her hands a moment.
“Dang, sometimes it stinks to fight hand to hand…” She muttered. Booster ducked behind the thing they were hiding behind, good timing too. Nos-4-A2 sent a pretty powerful blast at the thing and sent it flying. Ruby and Booster had ducked, but now found themselves without shelter. They looked at each other.
“Oh, craters!” Booster exclaimed. Ruby had a look on her face that said ‘You can say that again!’ Nos floated towards them menacingly.
“Now is the time of you’re… Gah!” He exclaimed as he was suddenly shot and sent to the over side of the room. The two of them looked over to where the shot had come from and saw XR, looking less shaky and he had his laser pointing towards the ceiling still smoking. He blew the smoke away.
“Hey, you okay, buddy?” He called to them. They nodded. XR grinned triumphantly. Nos burst away from the debris that was on top of him, he roared as he did so.
“You are becoming an annoyance, little one!” He hissed. XR gulped again, looks like he wasn’t over his fear. He dove for him again; XR seemed to forget his laser and how to move his legs. This time Nos succeeded in getting XR. Once the little guy realized he’d been picked up he started to thrash around and kick, hoping to get free. Nos-4-A2 grinned evilly. “Not this time, little one…” He said as he was about to sink his fangs into XR’s neck, the poor little guy gasped and started to thrash even more. Then, right before he was going to bite him, he got hit in the head with a sharp piece of wood. He dropped XR, startled a bit. Mira ghosted through the floor, grabbed XR, and ghosted them through the floor. Nos growled and picked up the piece of wood to examine it. He looked over to where it came from. He saw Buzz, Booster, and Ruby standing together. Then Mira ghosted her and XR next to them. He growled.
“Man, I guess it’s a good thing I had that stake in my backpack, eh guys?” She said. She then looked over to Buzz. “Nice throw.” She said to him.
“Heh, I’ve had practice.” He said. Now Nos was really starting to get angry. No one made a fool out of Nos-4-A2! No one! He floated up in front of them and made a really big energy blast.
“Any last words?” They didn’t seem to be looking at him, more like behind him. He wasn’t in the mood to wonder why or even look behind him; it could just be a trick. Unbeknownst to Nos, it wasn’t a trick. Some water started to gush out of a pipe, it then start to take the form of an oriental dragon in a kimono like robe; it had wings that were folded on its back. It seemed to become physical, the scales of this dragon where blue and he had green eyes, he stood at ten feet tall. He growled.
“That’s my student and her friends you’ve got cornered there, little one.” He said in a voice that sounded like a man somewhere in his thirties. Nos turned around in surprise, he was only looking at its stomach, he looked up to see the dragon glaring down at him. The dragon seemed to smile. “This may hurt…” He said as he turned about and whipped the vampire with his tail. The group ducked to avoid being hit by him. Ruby looked rather excited to see him.
“Master Orm! What are you doing here?” She asked with a look of confusion. He chuckled.
“I had some free time, and I Embar told me you and your friends were in trouble, so who else was he going to send? Besshi?” He offered, both of them laughed at this.
“Bess couldn’t fight his way out of an open paper bag!” Ruby said. Orm nodded in agreement.
“I know, he tries to hide behind you! Not exactly the best hiding spot. But back to business.” He said as Nos started to get up. He turned to Buzz. “You all need to get out of here. Ruby, do you have that book of spells our friend let you borrow?” She nodded yes. “Good, page 194 has a transportation spell, its beginner level you should be able to handle it.” He said, then was tackled by Nos-4-A2. He threw the vampire off of him. “Also, when she finishes the spell none of you can be touching at all!” Nos sent a whole bunch of energy blasts; Orm spread his wings and glided out of the way.
“Why?” XR asked, seemingly ignoring the fact that the dragon was trying to fight. Orm turned to answer his question but was hit by a blast. He glared at the little bot.
“Just trust me when I say, don’t.” He went back to distracting the energy vampire. During that time Ruby had taken a book out of her backpack and set it on the ground and came to the page.
“Okay guys, just stay there! While I read this thing!” She said, she started muttering what sounded like gibberish. XR was watching the fight. The energy blasts seemed to have little effect, succeeding in only pushing him back a bit and scorching whatever it was that he was wearing. The dragon grinned at the energy vampire who seemed to be fuming.
“Why is it my attacks no so little affect against you?” He asked. Orm’s smile only got bigger. He put one hand in one of the pockets in his clothes and held his other hand in front of his face, as though he were looking at it with mild interest.
“You must not know very much about dragons, young one. The thing is, our hides get more resistant through the years, and I just happen to be 2041 and a half! So I’ve had time for my hide to toughen up!” He told the now, thoroughly surprised vampire. So, that’s why he called him young… that would explain it. XR had gotten a big foam finger and little flag that had the name ‘Orm’ on it. Mira looked down at her little friend who was now cheering his head off. Where did he get that stuff? XR poked Mira a few times.
“Come on Mira! Watch! This is great!” He wouldn’t stop poking her; she looked down at the little robot in annoyance.
“Okay! Okay, I’m watching! Geesh!” She said, but XR wouldn’t stop poking her and pointing out ‘cool stuff’. She rolled her eyes, he needed to get over these issues he had with Nos-4-A2. Ruby finished the spell just as Orm threw the vampire about twenty feet away from them and rushed over to the just in time to get caught in the spell and taken who knows where!
Eh, it felt weird. It felt like her body… wasn’t her own. It felt alien to her, she felt cold and like all her blood rushing through her veins seemed to pulse like electricity now. She also felt lower to the, now non-existent, ground and she even felt heavy. How weird. Mental note to self, never take another spell to somewhere, she’d stick with a ship any day.
XR was thinking something quite similar. He knew his body, sure he’d been blown up a few times but that didn’t mean anything. Others weren’t to sure about that, but who needs em’! It was quite strange, heh; I wonder if every transportation spell is like this, he mused. Probably. Hm, now what was it Orm had told them not to do when the kid was finished? Something that began with a‘t’ I think? He tapped his chin, and found that he didn’t have the helmet on. And his chin felt… soft? Now that he mentioned it, he did feel weird. It felt like his body may have malfunctioned, cause it felt like reaction time was off. That and he felt quite warm, he felt sorta like he did when he stretched his legs out to get in peoples faces, except he wasn’t having to focus on trying to keep his balance. Was something on his head? He could have sworn there was something on his head, hm, kinda soft. That was nice at least.
Commander Nebula paced nervously; they should have been back by now. Team Lightyear, one of the best, no. The best team they had at Star Command. “Shouldn’t they be back by now?” He asked a group of LGM’s that nearby. One of them had a clipboard; he lifted up a paper to look at another one.
“Yes, Commander.” The whole group answered.
“Maybe they got sidetracked?” On of them suggested.
“Or they stopped at Cosmo’s to get something to eat? That sounds good.” They all looked at this LGM; it was the ‘free thinker’. “What? It could have happened!” He said defending himself. The group of LGM’s shook their heads.
“Free thinker…” They said as though this was a bad thing. The ‘free thinker’ shrugged.
“Well, either that or got attacked by villain…” He stopped and looked away. That’s right, the Commander thought, there was always that possibility. Even the best had off days… No! No, he wouldn’t, couldn’t think like that. The LGM poked him a few times to get his attention. He looked down at him. “Worried for XR?” He asked. Nebula looked a bit shocked at the question. That annoying little ranger who constantly called him ‘dad’. He was on Team Lightyear anyway, but it was true whether he admitted it or not, XR was one of the best to come out of Star Command. Ugh, but if that little tin-can found out that’s actually what I think he’d never let it go. He shook his head.
“No, the whole team. Not just XR. I just had a bad feelin’ when they left. That’s all.” He said. The LGM nodded and rejoined the group. Suddenly there was a flash; he held his hand up to his eyes so not to be blinded. He heard the LGM’s yell simultaneously. When the light faded and he could see again he saw Team Lightyear standing in front of him. With an extra, a large lizard thing, known as a dragon. “Sweet mother of Venus! What was that?” He asked the team. Buzz walked up to him.
“Uh, magic apparently…” He said motioning towards the cat and dragon. Ruby looked like she’d shoot off if she didn’t calm down.
“I did it master! I did it without us getting killed or horribly disfigured!” She said excitedly.
“Whoa! No one said anything about being killed or horribly disfigured when you started!” XR exclaimed. Everyone looked at him strangely. “What? Do I have something on my face?” He asked. Hm, his voice didn’t have that metallic sound like it usually did. Better get that checked out. Orm sighed and whacked his head with his palm.
“You may have spoken to soon child…” He said. Ruby’s eyes were wide.
“Opps…” She cleared her throat. “Uh… Mira… XR… you guys should look at each other.” She said. That was weird, he looked around to try and see Mira, finally he looked down… To see his own face looking up at him. It was likewise for her. After a few seconds of staring they yelled out in shock. Orm turned to Nebula.
“Well… They took that better then I thought they would!” He said as they continued to yell out.
Uh..... Sorry for the wait........ I have no excuse but laziness........ So what do you think?
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Post by levy120 on Jul 25, 2007 14:50:02 GMT -5
omg, WHAT R U DOING? xD Now I AM on a Mushu trip and stuff and you have to put in a dragon in your FF... shame on you xD Well they finally "brainswapped" WITH a comprehensible eh... reason? <- is awaiting the next part! x3
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Post by overcast on Jul 25, 2007 14:54:45 GMT -5
Uh... I'm sorry? I'll be taking Ruby and Orm out of the story early next chapter. Like I said real sorry about having you wait forever. But hey, at least I'm not like some authors who leave you waiting for months, I'm sure they have a good reason though.
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