I don't own Zoids, if i did this wouldn't be fanfic :P
Chapter 1
It was turning out to be a very bad day on planet Zi, at least for a young five year old boy, as he ran crying to the ruins near his village. Some kids in his village had taken a liking to picking on him because he was smaller than average and couldn't really fight back.
The young boy had an unhealthy appearance to him, his arms weren't muscular at all, he was shorter than the other kids his age, and he was underweight, pale skinned and his blue eyes didn't have the same shine of a regular child. His black hair was cut just under his ear; he had a scar that went across his right eye from an accident when he was three. He ran into the ruins and hid for a while crying into his torn and dusty clothing.
Twenty minutes or so later he was walking around the ruins seeing if he could find anything to fight the bullies with, the boy walked over to a door he didn't remember seeing in the few times he'd been to these ruins, his curiosity got the better of him and he pushed the door open. He found a single pod standing in the center of the room; he looked around it and saw the panel attached to it. He curiously hit a few buttons and the pod began to hiss and the glass began to crack. The small boy took a short step back out of nervousness but never took his eyes off the pod as it continued to hiss and crack.
The glass shattered causing the young boy to fall backwards in surprise. Standing in the pile of shattered glass and wires was an Organoid with black eyes staring at him as water dripped off its nose. The Organoid's claws, throat, and the four slicked back spikes on his head were a smoky black but the rest of it was red. The spikes were over each eye and one on either side of its upper jaw. The Organoid stood over the startled young boy with a look of curiosity in its eyes.
"Well I found you, let's see if you're friendly," the young boy said as he slowly got to his feet and extended his hand to touch the Organoid.
The Organoid took a half step back, his metal toes dragging across the metal floor, before leaning forward and pressing his snout to the boy's hand.
"Okay, I guess you're safe since you came to me. My name is Mike Wolfgang Novis, everybody calls me Wolf though, even my mom and brother," the black haired boy said extending his hand towards the Organoid's claws taking one in his hand and shaking it slightly, "What am I going to call you though, let's see your red and black like fire and smoke," Wolf paused for a moment trying to think of a name, "What about Blaze? What do you think of that?"
The Organoid thought a second before nodding with a growl of agreement at the name. An hour after running to the ruins Wolf left with Blaze only a step or two behind him heading towards the small colony he had run from.
"Stay here for a minute, I'll come back and get you," Wolf said while pointing to a spot where Blaze could stand out of the way.
Blaze stood where his new master told him to while Wolf ran to his home in the village. When he reached his house, a small three year old boy with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes and a blue line just under his eye as his Zi mark opened the door.
"Daniel, you need to come with me for a minute," the older boy said as he grabbed his little brother's arm.
"Hey, wait, slow down, your pulling my arm off Wolf," the smaller boy half screamed as his brother pulled him along behind him.
"Blaze, this is my little brother Daniel, kind of cute isn't he," Wolf said with a chuckle at the annoyed look on Daniel's face, "He hates it when people call him cute."
The young blonde tried to climb up Blaze's leg, only to slip as he got his foot on top of the joint. Blaze turned and quickly caught him by the collar before lifting him on to his back with a growl, as if asking "Is that what you wanted to try?" Blaze walked behind Wolf as he led him towards their house, Daniel was riding on his back with a huge grin on his face, like he never wanted it to end as three of them walked down the dusty roads of the village.
'Wonder what's going on for dinner,' the black haired boy thought as stomach growled at him.
They were about five doors from their house when the bullies that liked to pick on Wolf decided to show up. The four bigger boys stood in a line across the path staring down at the smaller boys and the Organoid from ten feet in front of them.
"Hey Wolf, where you been, and where did you get the big ugly lizard looking thing behind you?" one of them asked sarcastically while pointing at Blaze.
Blaze turned and put Daniel on the ground and gave him a nudge in a direction away from trouble. The young blonde slowly moved away from the group of bullies and his brother before running off in the direction Blaze had pushed him.
"His name is Blaze, and I found him in the ruins, too bad for you guys 'cause I don't think he would let me get beat up," the black haired boy responded sounding much more confident than he ever had before, he liked that feeling a lot.
Blaze let out a low growl from the back of his throat confirming what his new partner had said while widening his stance and lowering his head as if to charge the group of bullies.
One of the boys drew back his fist to swing and started running towards Wolf, and in the blink of an eye the charging boy hit the ground because of a tail swipe to the leg from the black and red Organoid. Wolf took off running to find Daniel with Blaze hot on his heels, both of them laughing as they ran. The bullies were all too scared to move until the Organoid and their black haired target were well out of sight.
When Wolf and Blaze found Daniel at the side of the village elder, the blonde haired boy was smiling away as if the bullies had never existed. The two boys and the village elder, followed closely by Blaze, walked back to their home. Once they arrived Wolf's mother had a fit about getting into fights with bigger kids while Daniel climbed all over Blaze like he was a jungle gym. Blaze didn't seem to mind it at all, he even had himself a laugh or two when the blonde haired child slid down his back and off his tail whether it was deliberate or not. Once everything had calmed down from a totally off day, Wolf and Blaze settled down in his room, Blaze curled up on the floor. Wolf sprawled out on the bed and fell quickly into a sweet dream filled slumber.
The next day the bullies tried once again to get Wolf to cry but, having Blaze with at his side gave him a certain confidence that he never would have thought he had. The black haired boy leaned against Blaze's red metal hip as if he were a wall and smirked at the comments being made as if they had no affect on him at all, this annoyed the bullies even more, and seeing him smirk sent the "leader" over the edge. The large boy took a step up and swung, Wolf easily ducked under the punch forcing the bully to hit Blaze's hip. The boy screamed out in pain as he clutched his hand.
"You're going to regret that Wolf," he screamed as he went into a fight stance.
The black haired boy simply turned his back and walked away instead of fighting with the other boy and getting his butt kicked while the others watched laughing.
"I think I'm going to call this one a loss for them. What do you think Blaze?" Wolf asked looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face. Blaze growled in agreement, with a slight chuckle to the growl.
"You'll pay for that," One of the other boys screamed as he ran up and tackled Wolf to the ground and began trying repeatedly to punch him.
"Blaze, help me out here," Wolf said trying to push the boy off of him while blocking the punches.
Blaze bent down and picked the bully up by his collar and gently threw him away from the rest of the group, this also sent the other boys running away for fear of what the Organoid would do to them.
From then on Wolf had more self confidence then he had ever had before, he started working out and standing up for himself and others, even when Blaze wasn't at his side. He stood up to the bullies without Blaze at his side; they left both him and his brother alone from then on.
Daniel followed his brother everywhere; he looked up to this new version of his brother. People started to respect his big brother for the helpful young man he was, and for his new found confidence in himself. Wolf was finally happy about the path he was taking in his life. He was also proud that his little brother had come to look up to him instead of looking at him as a coward.