Legacy of the Ancients

Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids… (pout, pout, pout…) But everything else is, I guess.

By: Sci-Fi-Raptor

In the beginning, there was one…

50 years after the last Republican-Imperial war, in a small, mild mannered colony near an Ancient's "temple" (it was really a base, but people respected the Ancients so much, they thought the title of temple was more fitting) a small child was born to a pair of prominent archeologists. His parents gave him the name Rio, since it meant River, and he pissed on his dad the first time his dad held him. As he grew up, he grew interested in his parents work, and studied it at an early age (on the account of him being by himself, since there were very few people, none of them married or with children), and when he became a man, he decided to follow in his parent's footsteps.

He turned out to transcend his parent's talents, since he acquired both of theirs'. When his parents died, it hit hard since they were his only close friends and family. He was very isolated when he grew up, something his parents regretted a lot. But he believed that if he accomplished something worthwhile in his life, his parents work would not be in vain, and he was sure he'd be content for the rest of his life.

This new aspiration soon became an obsession that started to control and change him; it had brought him to the brink of madness. But one day, while he was talking to himself, he pointed out something to himself that he had never seen before. On it was the directions to some Ancient's technology that was tucked away at the most secret crevices of the "temple", places he knew he would never find in his entire lifetime. He knew that if he could excavate the technology, he would have definitely accomplished something to be proud of. He tried excavating the technology himself, but his actions were futile; he was not enough by himself, so he had to hire a team, but to do that, he needed a sponsor.

Rejection after rejection took its toll on Jani, and the anxiety of being able to grasp his dream made him take a sponsorship from the Back Draft Organization out of desperation. But it did not matter; all he cared about at that moment was making a name of himself, unaware of the possible aftermath…

After a few years of searching the temple for technology, Jani finally found something. His team went into a room with two containers. One was completely broken, while the other had a small crack. He inspected the first container which said it contained "bots". He looked into the other container, and found an odd looking organoid, and it was a special organiod. He read the information on the container that told him that the organoid's name was Z. It also told him something that made him very happy. It was one of the original organiods the Ancients made!