Scourge of Backdraft
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids©… I wish I did, if I did you could bet that some of these Japanese Zoids© would be out on the American market faster than Harry can run to a naked picture of Lina. And also, what's up with these American boxes? On the Japanese boxes they have everything you could possibly want to know about the Zoid©… That's be another thing I'd change if I owned Zoids.© Any I'm done with my rant on how Zoids© should be in America, I will now commence with my mediocre at best story telling…
Backdraft was at it again. In the valley below three Black zoids were duking it out with a white Liger of some kind, and a Gun Sniper
He watched contently as the battle went back and forth between the two groups, sometimes it looked as though the Backdraft may win, other times the group under attack looked as though they might beat them back.
Just as it looked like the Liger and the Gunsniper would win the back draft group seemed to call in reinforcements. A giant heavily armed Dark Horn arrived on the scene, down below. At this point he decided to lend them a helping hand.
He flipped a switch and his entire pilots chair flipped upside down in a similar fashion to a Gunsniper, then again, of course, this Zoid was similar to a Gunsniper in many ways.
He stared through the scope down at the battle below, the features magnified nearly ten-fold he centered his sights on the Dark Horn nearly seven miles distant at first his sight centered on the head of the zoid, he imagined that he could see the pilots zoid inside and knew that if he wanted to he could send a hypersonic armor-piercing round through that person's cockpit, to spray their guts along the inside of that armored cockpit, he pushed that thought away.
He tracked it back along the armored hide searching for the perfect point at which he could put a bullet through. He found it at one of the front leg joints, an area no more than a meter square.
He breathed slowly letting himself get used to the rate at which the enemy zoid was running, where that one spot would be in the second it would take for the bullet to cover the distance.
He then gently squeezed the firing stub. He could almost see the bullet as it arched out along it's route with dead-on accuracy.
In the distance he could see that area of the dark horn flare, and then something exploded causing the leg to just fall off. Now unbalanced by the forth leg in its all out gait its over-sized metal head hit the ground with a bone-jarring impact. It momentum carried it along for a dozen yards or more before it came to stop.
At this point the other Backdraft Zoids paused for just a second, probably wondering what had just killed they're main asset.
That second was a second too long, as a combination of one of the Liger's fearsome electron striker claws threw one to the ground while the gun sniper's missles tore another one apart the he took his second shot, this one blowing the leg clean of of one of the enemies saurian zoid.
He put his command couch back into the regular piloting position before turning on local radio chatter.
"-id you hit that Dark Horn back there, Lina?"
"No, I thought you got it…"
"Hold on there's a faint scanner sign, off to my right… about 6 and a half miles."
"I see it…"
They saw him. He thought for a second about just running… hes zoid could easily outpace anything short of a Lightning Saix, but then he remembered that needed ammunition badly, even more so after he had wasted half of his remained tail-rifle ammo in that duel.
"Unknown Zoid pilot, with extreme redundancy I ask whether you are friend or foe, and invite you back to our hover cargo."
"I accept, Liger Pilot, however I am low on ammunition and would like to take anything you can spare."
"You saved our butts back there, it's the least we can do to give you some of our supplies and ammunition."
"I thank you."
He turned the Zoid around and marched it off down the valley towards the other Zoids.
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Hmmm, that turned out better than I expected. Coming on the next exciting episode, our Hero's powerful zoid. (Brownie Points and your name in my next Fic to anyone who can guess what zoid it is… ) An Invitation to join the Blitz Team, and more sensless massacring of Backdraft Zoids.
Ready? FIGHT!