I DO NOT OWN ZOIDS; I ONLY OWN THE SHADOW AND STRIKER TEAMS (TOO MANY NAMES TO LIST, CHARACTER PROFILES WILL BE ADDED AS THE FINAL CHAPTER).
The Shadow Blitz Returns
Ch. 1 The Shadow Blitz Six Years Later
It's been six years since the Blitz and Shadow teams joined together. Still in class S the Shadow Blitz team is now made up of two Konig Wolves, the Liger Zero, Leena's Gunsniper, and Jamie's Raynos. Brad and Naomi have teamed up and gotten married after dating for a year.
Bit and Leena to Harry Champ's massive disappointment got married shortly after Brad and Naomi. Their wedding was held in the church and went without a hitch even when the minister asked if anyone have any objections, Harry was an invited guest on the condition he behaved himself so he didn't risk getting beat up by the bride by objecting. Mike stood as Bit's best man while Naomi stood as Leena's Maid of Honor.
Barrett got out of battling and was a full time mechanic for the team, he held on to his Konig Wolf for parts runs and the like but his battle registration went un-renewed. David fought in Jamie's place when flying Zoids were not permitted and worked as a mechanic off the battlefields and Mike filled Brad's old place on the team when he decided to leave to join up with Naomi and Leon.
Brad repainted the Shadow Fox a deep shade of red, even though he hated the color, to make it more part of the Red Comet team. The Red Comet's had been on a winning streak, enough of one to get them into Class S without the Royal Cup title. They have fought against the Shadow Blitz team several times in class S loosing every time to Bit and Mike, and they held no grudges against them for it and were quiet often seen eating or enjoying a movie night with their oldest friends, and family in Leon's case.
Harry Champ and his two robotic team members had managed to get into Class S after winning the Royal Cup Tournament four years after the Blitz team won against the Berserk Fury. Though Bit and Leena had gotten married Harry still regularly visited the base trying to "win" Leena over and challenging Bit to a one on one battle here and there
On a distant battle field
Gun fire could be heard for miles around and the explosion of dirt and dust flying into the air from missed shots could be seen for a few hundred yards. In the middle of the battle field stood a white Judge who was referee for this battle while a Dark Horn and the ever famous Liger Zero were battling it out in the desert heat.
"Harry haven't we done this enough already," the blonde haired green eyed pilot of the Liger asked as he continued to play with dodge the feeble attack with Harry and his Dark Horn.
"No, not till I've got Leena," the spiky brown haired man shouted as he continued to fire his Beam Cannon.
After about ten more minutes of Harry shooting wildly at him, Liger had had enough, and charged straight at him with claws glowing.
"Strike Laser Claw," Bit shouted as the Liger's claws dug into the back of Harry's Dark Horn.
"Battle Over, Battle Over, The Winner is the Liger Zero of the Shadow Blitz team," the Judge said as he closed in his capsule and launched back to the satellite.
As they loaded the Liger Zero into the Whale King the Blitz team had bought to hold all the Zoids after the Shadow team joined them, Harry wrote yet another check for the ridiculous amount of money he had agreed to pay if Bit won. Bit took the check from him with a grin from ear to ear.
"Harry you lost your chance with Leena a long time ago, while it is good for our finances since you insist on paying ten times the normal prize money amount, it's getting old battling with you every other week since you never changer your tactics," Bit said as Harry grew more and more enraged at him over loosing yet again.
"I will not give up on MY Leena!" the brown haired man shouted emphatically as Leena came up to her husband.
"Harry, I don't belong to you I'm Bit's wife now, Get that in your head for your own sake before I beat it into you again," the fuchsia haired woman said in a tone cold as ice, making both Harry and his robotic partners visibly flinch.
"Let's go babe," the blonde man said wrapping an arm around Leena's shoulders and turning back towards the blue and white Whale King, leaving a shocked Harry standing in the dust cloud that was kicked up by the carrier.
Back at the Shadow Blitz Team, Jamie was once again in the computers room making up battle plans thinking about a girl he'd met in town a few days before; he had given her the number for the base and was hoping to hear from her. Mike and Bit were out on "runs" with the Liger and Konig Wolf known as Shadow. Leena, David and Barrett were all working on the Zoids. Doc Toros was in his work room playing with his Zoid models.
"Hey Bit, dinners about to go on the grill back at base, what say you and I head back," Mike Devil, a man standing 5'9" tall and 160 pounds with short blonde hair worn typically in spikes currently wearing a pair of dark jeans and a white t-shirt, asked as they sat on the paws of their Zoids.
"Sure thing, race you back to base, first one there gets first dibs on the steak they get," the green eyed pilot called as he jumped into Liger's cockpit and taking off towards the base.
"Alright then," Mike said with a devilish grin as he bounded ahead of the Liger using every bit of speed his Konig Wolf had to offer him. After running through the desert surrounding the base the two arrived in record time with Mike's Zoid ahead by a paws width.
"You boys and your Zoids, always trying to see whose is faster," said a brown haired man with a grin as they entered the hanger.
"Yeah and neither of them win twice in a row, so what does that that tell you Barrett," a man with shoulder length black hair called out walking towards the three men after Bit and Mike had gotten out of their Zoids.
"Leena mind giving your dear, sweet husband a hand out of this situation," Bit begged.
"Nope I'm with David and Barrett on this one," Leena said as she walked up and gave her husband a hug and a kiss. "You two should really knock off the toying around before one of you gets hurt."
"Who won this time," Doc and Jamie asked at the same time, making Mike and Bit sweat drop.
"Mike did this time, but Bit's getting closer it was only a paws width win for him this time," Barrett said before either of them had a chance to respond.
"Mike, come pick your prize then," the black haired young man said as he flipped the steaks he was cooking.
Mike, being the honest man he was, chose the second largest leaving the biggest for Doc. Ten or fifteen minutes later they were at the dinner table eating some of Jamie's finest cooking yet. After the meal was over David and Barrett washed dishes, Bit and Leena were curled up on the couch together watching a movie with Jamie and Mike, Doc was back in his workroom. The phone rang and Jamie picked it up.
"Hello, Shadow Blitz team base, Jamie speaking," He said rather formally, apparently listening to the other person talk for a moment his eyes lit up, "Oh hey, how are you, I was about to call you a bit later."
Bit looked to Leena and Mike who both shrugged and continued on with the movie as Jamie walked out of the room with the phone. Down the hall in his bed room Jamie was still on the phone.
"So how you been Alisa?" he asked and after listening to her for a few minutes, he went into a lengthy explanation of the one on one battle Bit and Harry went through and the rest of his day. Ten minutes later Jamie finally got to the question he really wanted to ask her.
"Alisa, would you like to go out with me on a date sometime?" He sat nervously as he awaited her answer, praying to all that was holy that she said yes.
"Yeah, how about tomorrow, say around eight," The voice on the other end of the phone asked.
"Yeah sure," Jamie said trying to contain his excitement.
"We've got a battle in the morning, but it shouldn't take long," The voice of Alisa said.
After setting up a meeting place they left the conversation with a mutual 'see you then.' Jamie was having to using a massive amount of effort to hide his excitement about his date the next day, but it seemed to work as he went to tell the Doc.
"Doc, David is going to cook tomorrow, and I'm going to be out for the evening, just so you know," the black haired young man said as Toros waved dismissively.
David and Barrett had joined Bit and the rest of the team, and were enjoying the movie when Jamie walked back into the lounge.
"David, can I talk to you for a minute," Jamie said walking towards the kitchen. David looked to the others who just shrugged or shook their heads.
"What's up Jamie, something wrong?" David asked as he entered the kitchen to find Jamie getting some food out for tomorrow's dinner.
"Nothing's wrong, but I'm going out tomorrow night and I didn't want the others to know about it, you know how Bit gets when David and I say we have a date or something. Anyway you need to cook tomorrow night," Jamie said as casually as he could manage, still trying to hide the fact he was ready to jump through the roof out of pure happiness.
"Sure thing and I promise I won't tell the others either," David said as he exited the kitchen.
The next day seemed to fly for the entire team, David and Barrett spent most of the day fixing the Zoids up, and tuning the engines on the Whale King. Bit and Leena were on a double date with Brad and Naomi, Doc and Mike were working out the new weapons mounting system for Shadow, the Konig Wolf belonging to Mike, it would allow the Konig to carry pretty much any weapons system and have a 360 degree firing circle.
Jamie's day went by quickly simply because he couldn't wait for his date. Jamie stepped out of his room wearing something a lot different from his usual basketball type blue shirt or the yellow coat and grey shirt that made up his battle outfit. He was wearing a black pair of jeans and a dark green polo shirt.
David approved by saying, "Looking good Jamie, have fun tonight," as the slightly older man walked down the hall, leaving Jamie smiling at his choice of cloths.
Bit and Leena were just coming back into the hanger as he was walking out to his Raynos to leave for his date. Bit didn't seem to notice that he was wearing a different outfit, for that he was grateful, Leena did notice though and all she did was give him thumbs up as she walked past. Jamie left the base breaking the sound barrier as he went; he was way too excited to hold back on the speed. Twenty minutes later he made it to the meeting point; a small diner on the out skirts of a small city, there he waited about five minutes before hearing.
"So how long have you been waiting?" A voice came from behind Jamie as he sat on the curb of the agreed meeting place.
"Not too long," the black haired young man responded as he turned to face his questioner automatically recognizing the voice. Jamie was now face to face with Alisa Basten, a twenty two year old auburn haired girl (same age as Jamie, younger by only weeks), standing 5'4" tall wearing a blue leather jacket over a pale blue t-shirt with a black mini skirt, and one of the founding members of the Striker Team, and her sky blue Gunsniper.
"How was your battle this morning?" Jamie asked as they walked to the diner where they would get dinner.
"Not bad, Aaron got shot down again, Eric and I won it for us though," the auburn haired girl said in a seemingly annoyed tone.
"Aaron gets shot down a lot?" Jamie asked as they got to the entrance of the diner, Alisa just nodded, "Why do you keep him on as a pilot then?"
Alisa went into a long story that lasted pretty much through dinner. They spent hours talking after dinner about all kinds of things until one of the managers came to the table and let them know the diner was closing for the night.
"Well I'll call you later in the week, and we can get together again," Jamie said as they climbed into the cockpits of their Zoids.
"Well I don't have to be back on base till day after tomorrow, so why don't you introduce me to your team," Alisa paused, making Jamie nearly jump out of his skin, "Tomorrow night," she finished laughing after seeing the disappointment on Jamie's face through the com link.
Back Toros base
While Jamie was out on his date David and Mike had decided to cook big for the team, burgers and every kind of topping you can think of. Everyone was enjoying their simple dinner while watching the Zoid battles that had gone on during the day.
"So, why was Jamie all dressed up when he left tonight?" Leena asked as she and David cleaned up after the others.
"Umm, I promised him I wouldn't say anything to anyone about it, so I'll keep it to myself until he says it's okay, sorry no intel from me tonight," David said looking rather nervous about not sharing gossip with Leena as he normally would, and waiting for the worst from the short fused woman.
"Oh, well if you made him a promise I won't make you break it," the typically hot headed woman said as she walked out of the kitchen to gather more of the dishes.
'That was new,' David thought as he went back to washing the dishes. By the time Jamie came back to the base the only people awake were David and Mike who were working on the Konig Wolves that belong to them.
"Hey Jamie, have fun tonight?" Mike asked as Jamie jumped out of his Raynos.
"I did indeed, closed down the diner we went to," Jamie said realizing his slip a second too late.
"Well good for you, head for bed man it's late and we were on our way in," David said as he headed for the living area of the base.
Jamie and Alisa spoke on the phone nearly every day for a week after she had met the team, even going as far as telling him she loved him once. Both knew it was too soon for something like that but hey they were having fun together so he returned the sentiment under the agreement they wait to say it again.
Mike, David, and Barrett had finished working out the kinks in Shadow's new weapons mount and all of them prayed Doc wouldn't go overboard with new "shiny weapons" for the Zoid. Bit and Leena along with Brad, Naomi and Leon had started a weekly poker game at the base which was open to all team and family members. Harry was even invited as long as he brought his checkbook, simply because he never won, but he rarely showed. During all this at Toros Base, the Striker team was on a winning streak that put them in Class A, giving them the ability to fight against whoever they chose.