Zoids: A New Beginning

Disclaimer: In a past life I do think I owned zoids...but not in this one. Waaaaahhhhhhh! I do own my own characters though.

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"Okay team, lets hit 'em fast and hard" A guy of about 16 commanded from inside a zoid cockpit.

"Roger blue leader"

"Got it"

"Blue 3 standing by"

"Blue 4 here ready to rock"

"Let's kick some backdraft butt"

The first pilot smiled to himself. His name was Will Scarlet and he was the best soldier the ZBC army had even though he was the youngest. His team was out here to fight a small skirmish with a group of Backdraft zoids. The reason: the enemy was trying to shift stolen weaponry through the truce zone. Will scanned the controls of the zoid he had been given today, a Black Orpheus Assault-Style Gun Sniper. 'Not to shabby' he thought to himself 'some decent guns not to mention the mortar cannons and rocket box'.

Will then opened the visual screens and looked back at his regiment. There were 5 of them total. Joey, Aaron, Myokou, Link, and Sara. All of them were outfitted with standard Gun Blasters and AI's, a type of artificial organoids, developed by Dr. Schubaltz a direct descendant of the genius Thomas Schubaltz himself. Will never excepted the AI's help, he had a dream of finding a real organoid one day. Will tensed as he saw what was coming over the horizon.

"Brace yourself team, here they come" Will warned as he flexed his fingers.

The army of Molga's was climbing the last rise before the battlefield. There must have been at least 100 in all. Will could tell his team was nervous, they had never faced odds like this before. Then again they had never had zoids this powerful before either. Will almost felt sorry for the resurrected Neo-Backdraft Group.

"Okay everyone, use your Gun Blaster's Megalo-Max Blast dispersed attack" Will commanded.

The cannons on the back of every Blaster started charging and glowing. Then all of the sudden golden beams of energy shot out and hit Molgas all over the place. At the same time, Will fired every weapon his Gun Sniper possessed into the thick of them. In the end the enemies numbers had been reduced by more than half.

"Right Joey and Aaron use your body spikes to smack the rest around, Link and Sara hang back and pepper them with your cannons" Will's second-in- command, Myokou, ordered.

The team hastened to obey her orders and soon the enemies were all but annihilated. Will was about to jump up and cheer but his alarms started going off.

"What?!" Will demanded as a large dinosaur shaped zoid landed right in front of him. It was black and Will recognize it from the history books as a Berserk Fury.

"Now you really didn't think I was going to make it that easy did you" a video-com channel opened and Will saw a boy about his age sitting at the controls "the name is Jamal and of course I already know who you are Will Scarlet, leader of the Blue team 5th Regiment and ZBC's finest".

"You seem to know an awful lot about me while I have never even heard of you" Will was really stalling for time as his hands reached for the firing controls of his Sniper.

"Ah ah ah, don't touch that dial" Jamal laughed "Charged Buster Claws"

The two claws on the Fury's back unfolded and started charging. Will knew there was no time to do anything but tried to power up his guns anyway.

"Nice try hotshot, Buster Claws go!" Jamal commanded.

The glowing drills plunged into the front of the Gun Sniper BOAS until it reached the zoid core.

"Noooooo! You actually beat me!" Will cried out in defeat.

"Oh but I'm not done yet" Jamal said slyly "total energy drain, Fury!"

The claws started pulsating as it sucked the energy from Will's zoid into his own. The cockpit around Will got completely dark as his power totally shut down.

"Bye bye, hotshot" Jamal teased. He made his Fury lift the Sniper completely off the ground while it was still skewered and tossed it into the ravine. Will remembered the sense of falling and the feeling of impact and then it was only blackness.

Meanwhile, up top, Jamal and his Berserk Fury were moving in on Will's remaining team members. They never had a chance.

The last thing they ever heard was Jamal crowing "Hail Emperor Obscura and the new order of power!"