Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids. I wish I did. Anything that you don't
recognize the name to such as The SnowHusky (later in the story) or my
character Samantha or the CommandFox is mine. Other things will be
mentioned in later chapters. Don't sue me. I promise that I don't own
Zoids so get off my back.
A Mysterious Zoid
Part one
"Bit Cloud! Come back here with my cookie!" Leana Tauros yelled as she raced after Bit cloud while wielding a candle stick holder.
"I didn't eat your cookie Leana! I swear! Heeeelllppp!!!!!!! Bit yelled as he ran as fast as legs could carry him through the hanger.
"Leana did it with the candle stick in the hanger." Brad said as he watched two of his teammates running around the hanger from the top of his Shadowfox. A faint smile crossing his lips. He really didn't smile that often but for some reason, he was in extremely good spirits. "What do you think Jamie, am I right?"
"Yeah, really." Jamie said as a smile crossed his face as well.
"Hey team, we just got word of our next battle." Doctor Tauros said walking into the hanger. "We're up against the Champ Team again."
"When do we fight and am I getting paid extra? I mean Harry is a level lower than us and it wouldn't do us any good to fight him unless he's paying us extra." Brad stated calmly.
"Yes we are getting extra payment. You'll get your fair share, Brad so don't worry."
"Oh joy." Bit said. "Let me guess, his words were 'Leana! Oh Leana! Where are you, my sweet Leana? I want you to join me! Leave that guy Bit and come join me my darling Leana! I'm a man destined to be king and you'll be my queen, Leana!'" Bit said in a very bad impression of Harry Champ.
"Close Bit, but not quit. That is the reason and that's what we're fighting for, so do your best." Doc said as her turned to go out of the hanger.
*Next Day*
"Area scanned. Battlefield set up. Battle mode 0990. The Blitz team vs. the Champ team. Ready… Fight!"
The battle goes as usual. Bit shows off the speed of the Ligar 0 Jager. Leana's ammo happy and Brad is as calm as ever up until a huge explosion over by the judge capsule.
"Why do they always come in when I'm about to finish the enemy off with my Weasel Unit?" Leana asked impatiently as the dark judge landed.
"Don't know, don't care. Let's just beat their butts into the ground and finish Harry off." Brad said calmly.
"This battle's been-"
"Shut up! We know the drill already. Can we just start the fight?" Bit yelled over the COM link at the Dark judge.
" A little impatient aren't we?" It replied curtly. "Battle mode 0999. The Blitz team vs. the mighty Elephander. Ready…fight!"
"So where is the Elephander?" Brad inquired.
"Don't know." Jamie replied.
As Jamie said this Leana was shot down from behind. "Behind us obviously." Bit said turning the Ligar. The Elephander walked forward to confront the remaining two members of the Blitz team.
"Let's take him down." Brad said sending his ShadowFox into an all out run towards the Elephander. As he neared the enemy zoid he deployed the smoke screen.
The pilot of the Elephander knew this trick though. He shot Brad's ShadowFox down with just a few shots.
"Damn! I'm hit! Bit, you've got to get rid of this moron." Brad growled.
Bit raced forward. The zoid's trunk came down and slammed the Ligar 0 to the side.
"This ain't going to feel good, is it?" Bit asked as the Elephander slowly paced toward Bit. It was soon right in front of the Ligar 0. It swung its trunk around and was about to hit Bit when it was knocked over by an unseen force. As the team looked for the source of the interruption the Elephander was sent soaring.
"There it is!" Jamie cried when he had seen the zoid. The rest of the team kept searching until they found it. What they saw was a zoid that they had never seen before. It looked surprisingly like Brad's old CommandWolf only more fox-like.
Leana moved her Gun Sniper up next to Bit and the Ligar as soon as the system rebooted.
"What type of Zoid is that?" Bit asked.
"Haven't got a clue," Brad stated moving his ShadowFox next to Bit and Leana.
They watched in fascination as the strange Zoid crushed the Elephander. It seemed to have no flaws: offensive or defensive.
As the Elephander finally limped back onto the Whale King, the strange Zoid turned to the Blitz team.
"Who are you?" Bit was the first to ask the question on everyone's mind.
The entire teams' COM links showed only a black space where the pilot's face should have been.
"Just a friend," is all the Blitz team heard before the COM link was broken and the Zoid trotted off.
*Two Weeks Later*
The team was gathered around the television watching the Zoid battle news.
"And now for other news," the announcer was saying, "there's a new mercenary in town. She and her CommandFox are highly sought after. It seems that every Zoid team wants her to join them. She's known only as Samantha. She is currently unemployed. The next team that gets her will have a great advantage. You had better look out Jack Cisco. You may just be outranked by this girl."
"You suppose she's that girl that kicked the Elephander's butt?" Leana asked. "I mean the Zoid we saw was a lot like Brad's CommandWolf but more fox-like."
"Could be, you never know." Brad said leaning back and losing himself in his own thoughts.
"I guess we'll never know." Leana said. She was silent for a moment. "Hey Brad?"
"Hmm?" He said without opening his eyes.
"Will you pull the car out so I can go get the ammo for my Gun Sniper?"
"Sure. I think I'll go with you. I need to get out of the Hover Cargo any way." Brad replied getting up.
*In Town at a Store Called Pop's Zoid Shop*
"All right Miss Leana. Just give me a moment and I'll get that ammo for you. If you'll just fill out these papers." The owner of the store voiced. Brad was just looking around at all the equipment daydreaming of new parts for his ShadowFox.
As he was looking at a model of an ion thruster, the bell above the door to the store jingled. Brad, being who he is, took no notice of it and the one that followed.
"Hey Pop." The new customer said as she walked up to the counter. "How's my 'Fox doing?"
"Well hello there, Samantha. He's doing just fine. Finished him up this morning. I don't see why you needed him tuned up though. He was in perfect condition. You must not take that into battles." Pop said.
"Actually Pop, I take him into battle constantly. I hardly have any time to finish fixing it up at times." The girl, Samantha, said. That voice sounded very familiar but Brad couldn't figure out where he had heard it before.
"Here's the paper work. I'll go have someone load up the CommandFox for you." Doc said and he walked through a door behind the counter.
No sooner had he left than the two thugs that had followed Samantha in started to harass her.
"Hey cutie. Why don't you come join my team? We could become the hottest couple in the Zoid world." The first thug said.
"Sorry bubba. I don't mix anything with Zoids." Samantha replied calmly.
They kept on harassing her. After one of them made a very obscene gesture towards the young lady Brad stepped into this without even have looked at the girl. "Listen sir. I think the girl said 'no.' why don't you leave her alone? If you have a problem with that, take it up with me."
"Why don't you butt out of this. You aren't concerned here."
"I am when I can't block out what you're saying. Trust me, I usually can do such things except for when some one is causing a young woman trouble." As an after thought, Brad stated, "I really hope you'll leave her alone. I don't want to cause you boys pain." He put a world of scorn into the word.
The first thug didn't appreciate this remark. He swung his right fist at Brad who leaned back slightly then rammed the heel of his hand into the thug's chin, knocking him unconscious. As the second thug rushed toward Brad, he bent over, catching the thug off guard, and stood up straight quickly, causing the thug to fly into a nearby wall.
He went over to the first one. "Anything broken?" he asked.
"Huh?" was all the thug could say. He was too dazed to even focus on Brad.
Brad haled him up and checked his chin with quick efficiency that told of long practice. When he finished, he checked the one he had thrown into a wall.
"Good. Nothing broken. Next time you boys talk to a girl, if she says 'no' she means 'no.'" Brad said as he turned to walk out of the store. Samantha had finished and followed him out.
"Excuse me sir," she said.
He turned and looked at the girl that had hailed him. "Yes, what is–" he broke off. The girl looked surprisingly like him. She was his height, build, and her face was the exact shape as his down to the ears. The differences were what had caught his eye though. Silver hair and black eyes with a silver crescent moon and star in each eye. He had never seen anyone that looked in such a way. "It?" He finally finished what he was saying.
"Where did you learn how to fight like that?"
Brad shook his head clearing his mind. He had been trying to figure out how someone could get silver hair. "I'm sorry. What where you saying?"
"Let me guess, the hair's what's got you distracted." The young lady said.
"Yes, it is."
"I'm sorry. I guess I should dye it so that I don't get this as much but I'd rather be my normal self."
"If you don't mind my asking, you say that is your real hair color?" This astounded Brad.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I was born with it this way. In case you're wondering, the eyes are contacts. That is usually the next question." Samantha said smugly.
"Sorry. I guess you're getting tired of people asking you this." Brad said while bowing his head.
"Hey, it's no big deal. I'm used to it." She turned and whistled. "Brontie, Dawson, come on boys!" Two Great Danes trotted up to her. "I'm sorry. I need to leave. I have a battle in a few hours. It was nice talking to you." With that, she turned and left without even getting her first question answered.
*That Night Three Miles from the Hover Cargo*
Brad and Leana where both silent on their way back to the Hover Cargo. Brad had some unsettling thoughts about the girl that he had defended earlier that day. The two thugs had disappeared while he had been talking to her outside. He also had a bad feeling about them.
A few moments later Brad slammed on his brakes giving Leana whiplash.
"What are you doing, Brad?" Leana asked angrily.
"There's something in the road." Brad stated leaping out of the car and quickly checking the pulse of the body. Good, there's still a pulse. Now, let's see what you look like. Brad thought.
As he pushed the body over, he gave a strangled cry. It was the girl Samantha from earlier. He quickly picked her up and put her in the back seat of the car. He headed back to the Hover Cargo at over one hundred miles per hour.
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A Mysterious Zoid
Part one
"Bit Cloud! Come back here with my cookie!" Leana Tauros yelled as she raced after Bit cloud while wielding a candle stick holder.
"I didn't eat your cookie Leana! I swear! Heeeelllppp!!!!!!! Bit yelled as he ran as fast as legs could carry him through the hanger.
"Leana did it with the candle stick in the hanger." Brad said as he watched two of his teammates running around the hanger from the top of his Shadowfox. A faint smile crossing his lips. He really didn't smile that often but for some reason, he was in extremely good spirits. "What do you think Jamie, am I right?"
"Yeah, really." Jamie said as a smile crossed his face as well.
"Hey team, we just got word of our next battle." Doctor Tauros said walking into the hanger. "We're up against the Champ Team again."
"When do we fight and am I getting paid extra? I mean Harry is a level lower than us and it wouldn't do us any good to fight him unless he's paying us extra." Brad stated calmly.
"Yes we are getting extra payment. You'll get your fair share, Brad so don't worry."
"Oh joy." Bit said. "Let me guess, his words were 'Leana! Oh Leana! Where are you, my sweet Leana? I want you to join me! Leave that guy Bit and come join me my darling Leana! I'm a man destined to be king and you'll be my queen, Leana!'" Bit said in a very bad impression of Harry Champ.
"Close Bit, but not quit. That is the reason and that's what we're fighting for, so do your best." Doc said as her turned to go out of the hanger.
*Next Day*
"Area scanned. Battlefield set up. Battle mode 0990. The Blitz team vs. the Champ team. Ready… Fight!"
The battle goes as usual. Bit shows off the speed of the Ligar 0 Jager. Leana's ammo happy and Brad is as calm as ever up until a huge explosion over by the judge capsule.
"Why do they always come in when I'm about to finish the enemy off with my Weasel Unit?" Leana asked impatiently as the dark judge landed.
"Don't know, don't care. Let's just beat their butts into the ground and finish Harry off." Brad said calmly.
"This battle's been-"
"Shut up! We know the drill already. Can we just start the fight?" Bit yelled over the COM link at the Dark judge.
" A little impatient aren't we?" It replied curtly. "Battle mode 0999. The Blitz team vs. the mighty Elephander. Ready…fight!"
"So where is the Elephander?" Brad inquired.
"Don't know." Jamie replied.
As Jamie said this Leana was shot down from behind. "Behind us obviously." Bit said turning the Ligar. The Elephander walked forward to confront the remaining two members of the Blitz team.
"Let's take him down." Brad said sending his ShadowFox into an all out run towards the Elephander. As he neared the enemy zoid he deployed the smoke screen.
The pilot of the Elephander knew this trick though. He shot Brad's ShadowFox down with just a few shots.
"Damn! I'm hit! Bit, you've got to get rid of this moron." Brad growled.
Bit raced forward. The zoid's trunk came down and slammed the Ligar 0 to the side.
"This ain't going to feel good, is it?" Bit asked as the Elephander slowly paced toward Bit. It was soon right in front of the Ligar 0. It swung its trunk around and was about to hit Bit when it was knocked over by an unseen force. As the team looked for the source of the interruption the Elephander was sent soaring.
"There it is!" Jamie cried when he had seen the zoid. The rest of the team kept searching until they found it. What they saw was a zoid that they had never seen before. It looked surprisingly like Brad's old CommandWolf only more fox-like.
Leana moved her Gun Sniper up next to Bit and the Ligar as soon as the system rebooted.
"What type of Zoid is that?" Bit asked.
"Haven't got a clue," Brad stated moving his ShadowFox next to Bit and Leana.
They watched in fascination as the strange Zoid crushed the Elephander. It seemed to have no flaws: offensive or defensive.
As the Elephander finally limped back onto the Whale King, the strange Zoid turned to the Blitz team.
"Who are you?" Bit was the first to ask the question on everyone's mind.
The entire teams' COM links showed only a black space where the pilot's face should have been.
"Just a friend," is all the Blitz team heard before the COM link was broken and the Zoid trotted off.
*Two Weeks Later*
The team was gathered around the television watching the Zoid battle news.
"And now for other news," the announcer was saying, "there's a new mercenary in town. She and her CommandFox are highly sought after. It seems that every Zoid team wants her to join them. She's known only as Samantha. She is currently unemployed. The next team that gets her will have a great advantage. You had better look out Jack Cisco. You may just be outranked by this girl."
"You suppose she's that girl that kicked the Elephander's butt?" Leana asked. "I mean the Zoid we saw was a lot like Brad's CommandWolf but more fox-like."
"Could be, you never know." Brad said leaning back and losing himself in his own thoughts.
"I guess we'll never know." Leana said. She was silent for a moment. "Hey Brad?"
"Hmm?" He said without opening his eyes.
"Will you pull the car out so I can go get the ammo for my Gun Sniper?"
"Sure. I think I'll go with you. I need to get out of the Hover Cargo any way." Brad replied getting up.
*In Town at a Store Called Pop's Zoid Shop*
"All right Miss Leana. Just give me a moment and I'll get that ammo for you. If you'll just fill out these papers." The owner of the store voiced. Brad was just looking around at all the equipment daydreaming of new parts for his ShadowFox.
As he was looking at a model of an ion thruster, the bell above the door to the store jingled. Brad, being who he is, took no notice of it and the one that followed.
"Hey Pop." The new customer said as she walked up to the counter. "How's my 'Fox doing?"
"Well hello there, Samantha. He's doing just fine. Finished him up this morning. I don't see why you needed him tuned up though. He was in perfect condition. You must not take that into battles." Pop said.
"Actually Pop, I take him into battle constantly. I hardly have any time to finish fixing it up at times." The girl, Samantha, said. That voice sounded very familiar but Brad couldn't figure out where he had heard it before.
"Here's the paper work. I'll go have someone load up the CommandFox for you." Doc said and he walked through a door behind the counter.
No sooner had he left than the two thugs that had followed Samantha in started to harass her.
"Hey cutie. Why don't you come join my team? We could become the hottest couple in the Zoid world." The first thug said.
"Sorry bubba. I don't mix anything with Zoids." Samantha replied calmly.
They kept on harassing her. After one of them made a very obscene gesture towards the young lady Brad stepped into this without even have looked at the girl. "Listen sir. I think the girl said 'no.' why don't you leave her alone? If you have a problem with that, take it up with me."
"Why don't you butt out of this. You aren't concerned here."
"I am when I can't block out what you're saying. Trust me, I usually can do such things except for when some one is causing a young woman trouble." As an after thought, Brad stated, "I really hope you'll leave her alone. I don't want to cause you boys pain." He put a world of scorn into the word.
The first thug didn't appreciate this remark. He swung his right fist at Brad who leaned back slightly then rammed the heel of his hand into the thug's chin, knocking him unconscious. As the second thug rushed toward Brad, he bent over, catching the thug off guard, and stood up straight quickly, causing the thug to fly into a nearby wall.
He went over to the first one. "Anything broken?" he asked.
"Huh?" was all the thug could say. He was too dazed to even focus on Brad.
Brad haled him up and checked his chin with quick efficiency that told of long practice. When he finished, he checked the one he had thrown into a wall.
"Good. Nothing broken. Next time you boys talk to a girl, if she says 'no' she means 'no.'" Brad said as he turned to walk out of the store. Samantha had finished and followed him out.
"Excuse me sir," she said.
He turned and looked at the girl that had hailed him. "Yes, what is–" he broke off. The girl looked surprisingly like him. She was his height, build, and her face was the exact shape as his down to the ears. The differences were what had caught his eye though. Silver hair and black eyes with a silver crescent moon and star in each eye. He had never seen anyone that looked in such a way. "It?" He finally finished what he was saying.
"Where did you learn how to fight like that?"
Brad shook his head clearing his mind. He had been trying to figure out how someone could get silver hair. "I'm sorry. What where you saying?"
"Let me guess, the hair's what's got you distracted." The young lady said.
"Yes, it is."
"I'm sorry. I guess I should dye it so that I don't get this as much but I'd rather be my normal self."
"If you don't mind my asking, you say that is your real hair color?" This astounded Brad.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I was born with it this way. In case you're wondering, the eyes are contacts. That is usually the next question." Samantha said smugly.
"Sorry. I guess you're getting tired of people asking you this." Brad said while bowing his head.
"Hey, it's no big deal. I'm used to it." She turned and whistled. "Brontie, Dawson, come on boys!" Two Great Danes trotted up to her. "I'm sorry. I need to leave. I have a battle in a few hours. It was nice talking to you." With that, she turned and left without even getting her first question answered.
*That Night Three Miles from the Hover Cargo*
Brad and Leana where both silent on their way back to the Hover Cargo. Brad had some unsettling thoughts about the girl that he had defended earlier that day. The two thugs had disappeared while he had been talking to her outside. He also had a bad feeling about them.
A few moments later Brad slammed on his brakes giving Leana whiplash.
"What are you doing, Brad?" Leana asked angrily.
"There's something in the road." Brad stated leaping out of the car and quickly checking the pulse of the body. Good, there's still a pulse. Now, let's see what you look like. Brad thought.
As he pushed the body over, he gave a strangled cry. It was the girl Samantha from earlier. He quickly picked her up and put her in the back seat of the car. He headed back to the Hover Cargo at over one hundred miles per hour.
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