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goes for this chapter and all of the other ones in this fiction.
Note from the author:
Thank you for reading my Fiction, and I hope that you can enjoy it to the fullest. (Or close to it anyway)
LockeLink
Chapter 1 - Recollection and Reconstruction
The streets were no longer flat, nor visible, as zoid wrecks were everywhere, and everyone in panic. The Death Saurer continued its rampage, the entire planet was almost completely destroyed, and the several (as in 7 - 8) thousand Zoidians that were left were being disintegrated by a single charged particle beam by the hundreds. Miles away, in the last stronghold for Zoidian kind, Hiltz was walking slowly with a grin on his face dragging along two children, both of them over his shoulder. One of them was a boy, and one was a girl, both about the age of 6 or 7.
"Mister! Let go! What did you do to Mommy?!?" Yelled the little girl
"Will you shut up already?" Yelled Hiltz back, he had been listening to the whining since he 'kidnapped' her and was getting sick of it, he already had knocked out the male because he was having to many problems with him, and now the girl was beginning to act up. "If you don't want to have an ouchy like him, I would stop that if I were you." But she had already begun to cry, she had been kidnapped from her parents arms, and then, after they were almost out the door, Hiltz had turned around and shot them, the look of agony of pain on her parents face would probably scar her for many years if not life. The next thing she knew, she was put into a zoid with a pilot along with the boy (who was still knocked out) and they rode off. After that, it was all blurry; she couldn't remember anything beyond that.
* * * * *
Ryss woke up with a fright. That vision was more then just some nightmare, but here past as well. She knew that Hiltz had kidnapped her because she was an important asset to his plans. The only reason she went along with his plans after she came out of the capsule was because she thought they were her duties. It was only after Hiltz went rampant over the land with the Death Stinger had she realized he was trying to destroy humanity altogether, and would oppress all, whether they were in the way or not. There were only 4 Zoidians to her knowledge that had been saved from the Death Saurer's destruction spree. Herself, Hiltz, Alysee (Fiona), and the final one, the male that had been kidnapped along with her, and Hiltz had knocked out. Except now there were only 3 Zoidians left, unless Hiltz had some how escaped from the explosion without an orgaonid, Ambient had permanently fused with the zoid core of the Death Stinger to give it the full potential that Hiltz needed.
Specula came over to her; she had finally awakened since they fused together. They looked at each other in silence and stayed that way for a while. After the Death Saurer had been destroyed at the hands of Van Flihiet, Specula had brought the two of them to some ruins she had no idea where. But then she began to wonder if Specula had any reasons for sending her here. She felt compelled to get up and start moving.
She started going down hallways that felt right. She actually had no idea where she was going, but something seemed to tell her to turn at some places and keep going at others. Finally she came to a room with a capsule that had already been open, and she felt disappointment come over her. Still, she felt that there was something here that was useful. But the room was pretty bland. It was just a small blue room with a tile decoration on the walls that had a capsule in the middle of it, already open. She looked around for a while, and then came to a control panel, on the screen; there were words on it that said, "Ready for Organoid dispatch." She was rather pleased to find that an organoid was still in its pod. She reluctantly but firmly initiated the opening sequence of the capsule. A wall began to open up from one end of the room, and she found a capsule was in a corner of this newly found space. She started to wonder how long this would take, but it wasn't too long until she spaced out again.
She saw herself coming out of the capsule and seeing Nicolo, she remembered how friendly he was toward her, however, this was not a memory she wanted to come back to, and returned to reality. Assuming that the organoid capsule would take a while to open up, she sat, waited quietly, and tried to remember what she had fought for in the first place.
* * * * *
The Death Saurer was finally defeated. Van, Fiona, Zeek, and the Blade Liger came barreling toward the Ultra Saurus, with a thundering roar. Only Moonbay was dancing for joy, everyone was in a shock, but still quite joyful in there own, shocked ways. The wrecked, unknown city of the Zoidians sank into the sand, along with the head of the Death Saurer, with the expression of what seemed vengeful sorrow.
Van hopped out of the Liger, and started walking toward everyone till he finally came to Thomas, who kept yelling at him saying things Van tuned out and just chuckled about. Frankly, Van was the hero and would go down in the history books, so he got a lot of congratulatory hand shakes and so on that he was flattered to receive, but was soon very tire some. Van and Fiona never said anything to each other that night.
The days went by a little to slowly for everyone's taste, but soon a week went by. At the Red River base, Irvine was heading toward his zoid, and almost as if she were reading his thoughts, Moonbay was doing the same thing with the same thing in mind. The two zoids happened to be parked beside each other, so it was pretty hard to avoid each other. They just stared for a while at each other, then their zoids, and were like this for they didn't know how long. Just when they were beginning to move, two voices behind them called their names, Van calling Irvine, Fiona calling Moonbay.
"Irvine, you planning on leaving again?" Asked Van, rather sad.
"You don't think you and the boring military is going to make me stay do you?" Responded Irvine, rather seriously.
"I see, and I don't think your going to come back either? Now that there is no threat that is in an immediate need for back up, you have nothing to come back to, do you?"
"Yeah, your right, took it right out of my mind, didn't you?"
"Well then I guess this is good-bye isn't it, thanks for everything, and take care of yourself."
They Shook hands and he was off, about the same time Fiona and Moonbay were done talking, Van watched with a reluctant but expressionless face.
"Moonbay, please don't go, we have had so many good times, and work very well together. Your positive you want to leave?" Pleaded Fiona?
"Look, I know that you want me to stay so bad, I'm sure just about everyone does, but the thing is, I want my old way of life, not all this soldier stuff, but the open road, with some priceless cargo at my back for me to deliver." Responded Moonbay.
"I understand. Be careful."
"You don't need to worry about me."
They hugged each other and Moonbay turned around, and got into her zoid. Fiona just watched with a reluctant, but expressionless face and waved her final goodbye. Before either of them left however, Fiona did say good-bye to Irvine and Van to Moonbay like wise.
All four of them were pretty sure that they would never meet again, but the future was always unpredictable, so that comforted them a little bit.
It was about mid afternoon then. After Irvine and Moonbay were out of site, Fiona looked at Van, but he continued to look out into the desert.
"Van." Fiona stopped. This wouldn't be easy, and she was sure he was thinking the same thing. "Van, I -"
"You don't need to say anything." He responded, knowing basically what she would say. The Death Saurer was destroyed a week ago, and neither of them even desired to see the other, let alone talk. It was rather painful now to talk, but it was also necessary. "I'm sorry how things have turned out too."
The fact was, neither of them wanted to part. They didn't hate each other, despise each other, or were the slightest bit mad at each other. It's just that the love they had for each other disappeared.
"Van, I'm sorry, I didn't want things to happen this way, I really didn't." They were both short of words; they both wondered what the problem in their relationship was. Zeek came up behind them, and that was the final straw. Fiona began to sob, Van cried his way to the Liger and left the base, after finding an isolated spot, he cried for about an hour before going back.
* * * * *
"It's only been a week since all the action settled down, and I'm beginning to get restless, how about you Shadow?" Asked Raven. Ever since the Death Saurer was destroyed, Raven went back to his parents' house, and had been living there ever since. He found himself a job in a pretty far village, and was working for a minimum wage doing handyman things around a small food market. The only thing that kept him going and hidden was Shadow being his transportation to and fro.
His hatred for Van had died, completely, and was really the only man he respected, for his bravery and strength. His new life style was hard at first, but it was an easy change to get used to. Mostly after he was done working, he would fix up his house a little bit, day by day.
He had lost much over the years. He was always unsure just how he was able to keep his sanity at times. The only things he still had were his zealous attitude, his organoid and his home. And for the first time, ever since he was a small child, he felt happy. The stars actually comforted him now and he felt more satisfied then ever. Still, he was a born fighter, the one thing he was good at was fighting with Zoids, but the world had to move on, and so did he.
Responding to Raven's question, the organoid growled an agreement, it wanted the thrill of a fight, not the thrill of destruction anymore. The organoid had been originally sour, but its attitude had mellowed down now that Raven's attitude had done the same. Raven was really looking forward to his new life. Even his job provided him news of the world. He just needed to change his name. But that would be changeable at another time. For now, he needed to do his part in the reconstruction of Zi, as well as his life.
* * * * *
As for everyone else, many stayed in the military, knowing that their job still wasn't done. Dr. D however, retired. He was done, he had said that 'My duties have kept me youthful, but now that there is only tidy work to do and no emergency, you won't need me to get in your way, and even in an emergency, I won't help you, I just can't take it anymore.' The effects of age were really beginning to ware on him a lot. The other person ready for retirement was the madam president. Another election would soon take place in the Republic, but she was determined to rebuild her Republic before she left as she 'wanted to leave the youth with something other than ash and rubble'. Other than that, nothing changed. Thomas didn't really see Van, and to his 'misfortune', he didn't get to see Fiona at all either. He had his orders and duties, and carried them out respectfully.
Of course, Rudolph was busy helping the reconstruction of the Empire and the Republic, having to recount the population ever since the charged particle beam had been unleashed all over the continent. When the count came in, they discovered that in all, the population of Zi was cut nearly in half, mostly from the Imperial side. But they needed to suck up their tears and move on, there would always be something to do for many years, as crime rates were being predicted to rise, and hospitals needing to be rebuilt.
* * * * *
Ryss thought about what had happened when Nicolo died. For some reason, it was completely unmemorable to her. She just couldn't think about what had happened to her. Her train of thought was broken when the capsule began to glow. "It's time." She said aloud. All she could do was hope that it wouldn't lash out at her.
The case began to crack. Steam came pouring out, and the glass shattered. An organoid stepped out; surprisingly it was unphazed after being in there the whole time. Almost as if it were awaiting her orders, it stood before her, just staring. She stared back, though it seemed loyal to her, she was still a little uncertain if it would attack her. It took her a bit, but she was finally satisfied that it was tame enough to trust.
* * * * *
Thomas Shubaltz was on his way to the Red River base, mostly just for kicks. He didn't have anything to do, but he almost felt as though he needed to go there. He finally entered, rather tired from his journey, he was anxiously waiting to park the Dibison. He exited out, and at that moment saw Fiona, sitting on a bench in tears. "FIONA! What's wrong, are you alright?!?"
Note from the author:
Thank you for reading my Fiction, and I hope that you can enjoy it to the fullest. (Or close to it anyway)
LockeLink
Chapter 1 - Recollection and Reconstruction
The streets were no longer flat, nor visible, as zoid wrecks were everywhere, and everyone in panic. The Death Saurer continued its rampage, the entire planet was almost completely destroyed, and the several (as in 7 - 8) thousand Zoidians that were left were being disintegrated by a single charged particle beam by the hundreds. Miles away, in the last stronghold for Zoidian kind, Hiltz was walking slowly with a grin on his face dragging along two children, both of them over his shoulder. One of them was a boy, and one was a girl, both about the age of 6 or 7.
"Mister! Let go! What did you do to Mommy?!?" Yelled the little girl
"Will you shut up already?" Yelled Hiltz back, he had been listening to the whining since he 'kidnapped' her and was getting sick of it, he already had knocked out the male because he was having to many problems with him, and now the girl was beginning to act up. "If you don't want to have an ouchy like him, I would stop that if I were you." But she had already begun to cry, she had been kidnapped from her parents arms, and then, after they were almost out the door, Hiltz had turned around and shot them, the look of agony of pain on her parents face would probably scar her for many years if not life. The next thing she knew, she was put into a zoid with a pilot along with the boy (who was still knocked out) and they rode off. After that, it was all blurry; she couldn't remember anything beyond that.
* * * * *
Ryss woke up with a fright. That vision was more then just some nightmare, but here past as well. She knew that Hiltz had kidnapped her because she was an important asset to his plans. The only reason she went along with his plans after she came out of the capsule was because she thought they were her duties. It was only after Hiltz went rampant over the land with the Death Stinger had she realized he was trying to destroy humanity altogether, and would oppress all, whether they were in the way or not. There were only 4 Zoidians to her knowledge that had been saved from the Death Saurer's destruction spree. Herself, Hiltz, Alysee (Fiona), and the final one, the male that had been kidnapped along with her, and Hiltz had knocked out. Except now there were only 3 Zoidians left, unless Hiltz had some how escaped from the explosion without an orgaonid, Ambient had permanently fused with the zoid core of the Death Stinger to give it the full potential that Hiltz needed.
Specula came over to her; she had finally awakened since they fused together. They looked at each other in silence and stayed that way for a while. After the Death Saurer had been destroyed at the hands of Van Flihiet, Specula had brought the two of them to some ruins she had no idea where. But then she began to wonder if Specula had any reasons for sending her here. She felt compelled to get up and start moving.
She started going down hallways that felt right. She actually had no idea where she was going, but something seemed to tell her to turn at some places and keep going at others. Finally she came to a room with a capsule that had already been open, and she felt disappointment come over her. Still, she felt that there was something here that was useful. But the room was pretty bland. It was just a small blue room with a tile decoration on the walls that had a capsule in the middle of it, already open. She looked around for a while, and then came to a control panel, on the screen; there were words on it that said, "Ready for Organoid dispatch." She was rather pleased to find that an organoid was still in its pod. She reluctantly but firmly initiated the opening sequence of the capsule. A wall began to open up from one end of the room, and she found a capsule was in a corner of this newly found space. She started to wonder how long this would take, but it wasn't too long until she spaced out again.
She saw herself coming out of the capsule and seeing Nicolo, she remembered how friendly he was toward her, however, this was not a memory she wanted to come back to, and returned to reality. Assuming that the organoid capsule would take a while to open up, she sat, waited quietly, and tried to remember what she had fought for in the first place.
* * * * *
The Death Saurer was finally defeated. Van, Fiona, Zeek, and the Blade Liger came barreling toward the Ultra Saurus, with a thundering roar. Only Moonbay was dancing for joy, everyone was in a shock, but still quite joyful in there own, shocked ways. The wrecked, unknown city of the Zoidians sank into the sand, along with the head of the Death Saurer, with the expression of what seemed vengeful sorrow.
Van hopped out of the Liger, and started walking toward everyone till he finally came to Thomas, who kept yelling at him saying things Van tuned out and just chuckled about. Frankly, Van was the hero and would go down in the history books, so he got a lot of congratulatory hand shakes and so on that he was flattered to receive, but was soon very tire some. Van and Fiona never said anything to each other that night.
The days went by a little to slowly for everyone's taste, but soon a week went by. At the Red River base, Irvine was heading toward his zoid, and almost as if she were reading his thoughts, Moonbay was doing the same thing with the same thing in mind. The two zoids happened to be parked beside each other, so it was pretty hard to avoid each other. They just stared for a while at each other, then their zoids, and were like this for they didn't know how long. Just when they were beginning to move, two voices behind them called their names, Van calling Irvine, Fiona calling Moonbay.
"Irvine, you planning on leaving again?" Asked Van, rather sad.
"You don't think you and the boring military is going to make me stay do you?" Responded Irvine, rather seriously.
"I see, and I don't think your going to come back either? Now that there is no threat that is in an immediate need for back up, you have nothing to come back to, do you?"
"Yeah, your right, took it right out of my mind, didn't you?"
"Well then I guess this is good-bye isn't it, thanks for everything, and take care of yourself."
They Shook hands and he was off, about the same time Fiona and Moonbay were done talking, Van watched with a reluctant but expressionless face.
"Moonbay, please don't go, we have had so many good times, and work very well together. Your positive you want to leave?" Pleaded Fiona?
"Look, I know that you want me to stay so bad, I'm sure just about everyone does, but the thing is, I want my old way of life, not all this soldier stuff, but the open road, with some priceless cargo at my back for me to deliver." Responded Moonbay.
"I understand. Be careful."
"You don't need to worry about me."
They hugged each other and Moonbay turned around, and got into her zoid. Fiona just watched with a reluctant, but expressionless face and waved her final goodbye. Before either of them left however, Fiona did say good-bye to Irvine and Van to Moonbay like wise.
All four of them were pretty sure that they would never meet again, but the future was always unpredictable, so that comforted them a little bit.
It was about mid afternoon then. After Irvine and Moonbay were out of site, Fiona looked at Van, but he continued to look out into the desert.
"Van." Fiona stopped. This wouldn't be easy, and she was sure he was thinking the same thing. "Van, I -"
"You don't need to say anything." He responded, knowing basically what she would say. The Death Saurer was destroyed a week ago, and neither of them even desired to see the other, let alone talk. It was rather painful now to talk, but it was also necessary. "I'm sorry how things have turned out too."
The fact was, neither of them wanted to part. They didn't hate each other, despise each other, or were the slightest bit mad at each other. It's just that the love they had for each other disappeared.
"Van, I'm sorry, I didn't want things to happen this way, I really didn't." They were both short of words; they both wondered what the problem in their relationship was. Zeek came up behind them, and that was the final straw. Fiona began to sob, Van cried his way to the Liger and left the base, after finding an isolated spot, he cried for about an hour before going back.
* * * * *
"It's only been a week since all the action settled down, and I'm beginning to get restless, how about you Shadow?" Asked Raven. Ever since the Death Saurer was destroyed, Raven went back to his parents' house, and had been living there ever since. He found himself a job in a pretty far village, and was working for a minimum wage doing handyman things around a small food market. The only thing that kept him going and hidden was Shadow being his transportation to and fro.
His hatred for Van had died, completely, and was really the only man he respected, for his bravery and strength. His new life style was hard at first, but it was an easy change to get used to. Mostly after he was done working, he would fix up his house a little bit, day by day.
He had lost much over the years. He was always unsure just how he was able to keep his sanity at times. The only things he still had were his zealous attitude, his organoid and his home. And for the first time, ever since he was a small child, he felt happy. The stars actually comforted him now and he felt more satisfied then ever. Still, he was a born fighter, the one thing he was good at was fighting with Zoids, but the world had to move on, and so did he.
Responding to Raven's question, the organoid growled an agreement, it wanted the thrill of a fight, not the thrill of destruction anymore. The organoid had been originally sour, but its attitude had mellowed down now that Raven's attitude had done the same. Raven was really looking forward to his new life. Even his job provided him news of the world. He just needed to change his name. But that would be changeable at another time. For now, he needed to do his part in the reconstruction of Zi, as well as his life.
* * * * *
As for everyone else, many stayed in the military, knowing that their job still wasn't done. Dr. D however, retired. He was done, he had said that 'My duties have kept me youthful, but now that there is only tidy work to do and no emergency, you won't need me to get in your way, and even in an emergency, I won't help you, I just can't take it anymore.' The effects of age were really beginning to ware on him a lot. The other person ready for retirement was the madam president. Another election would soon take place in the Republic, but she was determined to rebuild her Republic before she left as she 'wanted to leave the youth with something other than ash and rubble'. Other than that, nothing changed. Thomas didn't really see Van, and to his 'misfortune', he didn't get to see Fiona at all either. He had his orders and duties, and carried them out respectfully.
Of course, Rudolph was busy helping the reconstruction of the Empire and the Republic, having to recount the population ever since the charged particle beam had been unleashed all over the continent. When the count came in, they discovered that in all, the population of Zi was cut nearly in half, mostly from the Imperial side. But they needed to suck up their tears and move on, there would always be something to do for many years, as crime rates were being predicted to rise, and hospitals needing to be rebuilt.
* * * * *
Ryss thought about what had happened when Nicolo died. For some reason, it was completely unmemorable to her. She just couldn't think about what had happened to her. Her train of thought was broken when the capsule began to glow. "It's time." She said aloud. All she could do was hope that it wouldn't lash out at her.
The case began to crack. Steam came pouring out, and the glass shattered. An organoid stepped out; surprisingly it was unphazed after being in there the whole time. Almost as if it were awaiting her orders, it stood before her, just staring. She stared back, though it seemed loyal to her, she was still a little uncertain if it would attack her. It took her a bit, but she was finally satisfied that it was tame enough to trust.
* * * * *
Thomas Shubaltz was on his way to the Red River base, mostly just for kicks. He didn't have anything to do, but he almost felt as though he needed to go there. He finally entered, rather tired from his journey, he was anxiously waiting to park the Dibison. He exited out, and at that moment saw Fiona, sitting on a bench in tears. "FIONA! What's wrong, are you alright?!?"