This is after finding Zoid Eve.
I wake with a start from my nap as I'm pushed out of bed and let out a loud scream I land heavily on my butt. Looking to what pushed me out of bed I see my sister and my organoid both on the bed and now waking up from my scream. I hear running footsteps and the door to my room bursts open with a loud bang.
"What's wrong? I heard a scream." The man who came crashing through the door spoke.
"Just fell out of bed." I replied
The man looks at me and then nods, a smirk dawned upon his face, "Well at least your up so we can start trai…"
The man was not able to finish as a blond woman came and said, "Is everything okay Van?"
"Yes, Drake fell just out of bed is all." The man who stood in the doorway now named Van said with a chuckle. (A/N: Did ya think MC was Van) I rolled my eyes at them and got up my sister now fully awake and looking between me and our parents. That's right our dad is Van Flyheight and if you couldn't guess the woman is our mom and nonother than Fiona aka Elisi Linette.
I am the eldest child of the Flyheight family with my sister Lily second and the youngest is in moms' belly still, though it's unknown if it's a boy or girl.
"Anyway, why is Lily in your bed?" Mom asked
I told her in a bored tone, "Probably a nightmare and came into my bed because you guys are gone a lot or she ended up sleep walking again and came here. Maybe a little of both? I don't know." I said truthfully.
"Oh, is that so? Well breakfast will be ready in an hour." Mom said and dad looked back at me and smiled "Plenty of time then." He said with a grin and giving me a thumbs' up.
They both left and I shooed my sister out the door she is a strange one like mom and looks like mom expect the two completely different eye colors her left one is red like mom's and her right one brown like dad's. My hair is brown but I have my mother's eyes and I wear a short-sleeved shirt, cargo pants and a vest that has a right shoulder guard and lots of pockets. I grabbed my machete that 21 inches long with a serrated back and a cord that attaches to my climbing harness I wear. (A/N: think back when Van and Irvine reunited and just before Van had to jump to the lower deck but had to use his knife to assist him to do so.)
Putting on my gloves I go for my boots only to see there not there. Aw crap where are they I thought as I went to the door and almost ran into the boots I was looking for. My sister Lily was holding them in front of me, though two years younger than me it feels like she reads my mind sometimes. They are combat boots that I designed, they look like your average steel toe boots but at the back of them a small blade comes out.
On the way, out I almost forget my double filter gas mask, makes seeing and breathing in sandstorms a whole lot easier. I should probably explain some details, the training my dad was talking about is zoid piloting. After the incident with zoid Eve more and more people started hearing about Van and how old he was when he started piloting. This caused a big problem for everyone as kids wanted to pilot zoids but that caused unwanted destruction so a new law was passed, those who wish to be a pilot must now be a certain age and have pass their piloting test.
I'm at the required age, 16, and my proctor is dad. This is my final test, of course people accused dad of playing favorites so he agreed to video tape my progress and if anyone at the PAA (Pilot Approval Association) thought I was being helped when shouldn't then I would be assigned someone else. Today I will be learning how to do an emergency landing in a populated area, that is the hardest part for a flying zoid pilots.
I must check for a clear landing spot without landing on anyone or crashing into a building, must find the cause and fix it and move on if not move out of the way, and last but not least land without moving forward or back or in short, a straight downward landing. Meaning no angle what so ever.
One hour later
I passed… I don't believe it I passed. I hopped into my zoid, a blue zoid with heavy armor, wings and four legs positioned under it like all mammals have theirs directly under them but this zoid is reptilian in nature. Most reptiles have their legs more out the side of them to provide stability instead of speed like a lot of mammals are capable of. If you have not guessed it's a dragon type zoid, long story how there is a dragon zoid, called the Dragobuster (drag-O-buster) (A/N: Someone I know read it and somehow, she got dragbuster and wondered why there was a O).
A 65 cal. Tri barrel multi-function machine gun (A/N: think how Van's Blade Ligers' blade guns can be changed out), slow fire rate but gets the job done. Swarm Stinger Missiles, or SSM for short, dangerous things fires multiple missiles and does low damage but able to do a near 360-degree turn. They also have a blade on the front to allow them to dig in and be used as timed explosives instead. She's fast on the ground because of some booster but in the air, they are not usable so she becomes slow in the air. The speed is faster than most zoids but if a speed type zoid comes along then it might be able to at least keep said speed type in her sights for a while before escaping.
Oh, and she is called Sapphire. Me and dad race home as had to leave the area around to do some training. As we are heading back a zoid comes out of nowhere and aims for dad, I did something I would not expect I pushed dad out of the way and took the hit. I fired up the machine getting the zoid and it received heavy damage. As it was stunned I fired a few SSMs and aimed for the joints and they exploded rendering said joints useless. Stealth viper a Stealth viper is what attacked us, we jump out of our cockpits and helped whoever was inside. The pilot came stumbling out and fell to the ground still conscious.
"Why did you attack us?" Dad asked holding the pilots' shirt.
"I didn't, I swear it just started moving on its own and then attacked you." The pilot said scared.
That's strange. I thought as there were people with similar cases who pleaded the same thing.
"Quite lying and tell us the truth, no way a zoid will attack on its own when they have a pilot." Dad shouted and I put a hand on his shoulder.
"There have been several cases of that happening and to military officers no less, Empire and Republic. I think someone has it out for them. Hiltz crew maybe? I mean it's the only common enemy that wanted to kill both Republic and Empire completely." I said.
"Your right… and you sound like your mother and me right there you know." He said.
Dropping off the pilot at the hospital we head home. Lily comes running out and tackles me along with my organoid, Shard, long story short I ended up in Zeke and because of being half zoiden I gained memories that were not mine such as how to make an organoid. Shard was a little shorter than Zeke but very feisty had very short spines on her head more like shard thus how she got her name. Lily hardly ever talks but she is very good at carrying her point across. We ate mashed potatoes with ham and egg sandwich. Mom like cooking things slowly as it helps keep the flavor more as Moonbay taught her to cook.
"I have been given job offer by the Guardian Force to recover anything that was the military when Hiltz attacked." I said after finishing my food, Hiltz attack with the Death stinger made a lot of military personal leave or loose important and dangerous equipment behind and we are still recovering from the war at the time so that doesn't help.
"That's great!" Dad said.
"Van!" Mom said, "That is not great and you know it. It's dangerous."
"And becoming a messenger with no back up isn't? With the increase of bandit and rouge military personal and you know I can't stay they only let me stay to train Drake and now that he passed I have to go." Dad said matter of fact.
"You have a point. With all the things going on they would send an official member of the GF at least." Mom said just realizing the situation.
"When do you start?" they both asked.
"Two days from now." I said only to get latched onto by my sister.
"Looks like someone wants to go with the big bad Dragon to keep him from hoarding." Mom joked using my nickname Dragon.
"Well I see nothing wrong with it, Lily studied to the point of exhaustion to learn how to fix zoids and Sapphire has three seats and a compartment to hold things (A/N: forgot to mention she's huge). What do you think Van?" Mom said. Wait what.
"She can go only if Drake promises to train her to the use the Anti-zoid rifle he has in his storage compartment." Dad nodded with his eyes closed as like he always does when he thinks something through deeply or hates to admit something he skipped over. The rifle was a gift from uncle Raven after dad and mom warmed up to him, dad and Raven have rival to the max friendship and always fight but they get along. I got some smoke grenades from Irvine and learned how drive something with wheels or treads from Moonbay.
Lily is looking at me with pleading eyes, "Fine but if you don't learn how to use the Anti-zoid rifle I'll have to leave you. Okay?" I laid out the deal.
She nodded vigorously, with that I taught her to use it and she was knocked on her rear a few times but after I told her spread her legs and turn slightly sideways she only stumbled until she got use to the recoil. Lily can now shoot a zoid sized target at a good distance with an accuracy of 71.5%. That's pretty high considering that you have to wear certain gear to keep you shoulder from getting dislocated and/or broken at her age.
The days past by and it was now time to head out. We said our good byes and headed off to the border where I would meet my partner. The first few days where uneventful then we came across a stretch of land that no one really uses because there are no stops to fill up on supplies, it may be shorter but unless you have a Gustave or a really fast zoid or fly. Halfway through we stepped on a land mine but the damage was minimal only causing the leg to lose 30% functionality.
"Lily mark this place for mines we'll have to come back when we special equipment to deal with it." I said
"Okay." Her voice sounding dry from almost no use.
I activate flight mode and we flew the rest of the way. We reached the border outpost and saw two Zaber fangs. Opening the canopy, I waved and theirs opened also. One was a boy the other a girl and somehow looked similar too each other.
"You must be Drake Flyheight." The boy said.
"I'm Tina that's Max." The girl said
"We will be on patrol to find anything that will be dangerous to the public." They both said.
"On our way, here we hit some land mines and getting really find the rest as we don't the gear to deal with it." I said pointing the damaged leg that is still being self-repaired.
