ZoidsX.: The Battle For Planet Zi
Chapter One.: ~ The Arrangement ~
*Western Desert*
After returning to their separate parties, Li and Kimiko explained what had been said as both groups move towards the hanger of the Slashers base.
"Ok, let me get this straight" Daisuke said trying to grip why they weren't running away while they still had a chance. "We're going to meet them at their base and fight them? Are you fucking mental!? Its six on two, we can't win that type of fight man!" The red haired teen said freaking out in the cockpit of his snow-white zoid.
"Well not exactly." Li said as he rubbed the back of his head and tried not to laugh as he saw his younger brother's reaction on the communicator screen in his cockpit. "We're only gonna fight two of them and don't worry I made sure whoever Rana is, she's out, so you can rest easy about the fight, but Kimiko did tell me that they all are really good pilots so, there's that to worry about.
"Are you kidding me, that's not any better man, we could still lose man and then what?" Daisuke yelled as his face started to turn red.
Li hesitated but knew he had to tell his younger brother the truth. "Well um if we lose…"
"So, I get to kill them huh." Rana said as Kimiko was briefing her side on the deal.
"What happens to the kitties?" Misa asked from the back seat of a pink Gustav.
"You and Blaze can keep them as trophies if you like." Kimiko replied.
"Yay!" Misa yelled with joy at the thought of getting a new cat to play with.
"Speak for yourself cat girl." Blaze said as she scolded the girl sitting next to her.
Razor and Zach rode in the teams purple Gustav. "So what did your big sis say we were to do when we got to the base?" Razor asked.
"She didn't say anything, she just told me to ride with you so the girls could talk in private." Zach said as he kicked his small legs in the passenger seat.
Back in the pink Gustav the girls finish there discussion and the two of them chosen to fight prepare for the battle ahead. "Are you sure about this? I mean, what do we do if they actually win?" Rana asked Kimiko as she lay back in her seat and propped her legs on the dash.
"Like I said, IF they win, we let them join up, but if they lose, which they will, you take them out and then"
"We get to keep their kitties!" Misa yelled cutting off Kimiko before she was able to finish.
"Right Misa." Kimiko said very agitated that she was cut off . "When we reach the base you two get in your zoids and go to the training field and when I start the match you know what to do."
"Got it." Misa and Blaze said in unison.
The two brothers reach the base first, climb from there Ligers, and wait for the Slashers to arrive. "After this is over I'm gonna kill you! How could you agree to let them kill us if we lose?" Daisuke said as he waved his arms wildly and yelled at his older brother, "What was all that about protecting me until we get to mom, huh? Was that just a lie?" Daisuke said angrily as tears welled up in is light hazel brown eyes and he grabbed Li by the collar of his vest "Why!"
Li pushed his younger off, "Because it was the only way, it was the only way to keep us alive! If we don't fight we're dead anyway, at least now we have a fighting chance, we can't back out now and we can't lose here, so are you with me?" Li said in a tone that bordered on harsh and hateful as he extended his hand to Daisuke and helped him to his feet.
"Yea, I'm with you." Daisuke said as he got up and dusted his self off.
"We can't show weakness anymore Daisuke, so no more tears got it?" Li feigned a toothy smile as he and his brother embraced "I love you bro." Li said as they let go.
"Who's crying now?" Daisuke said in a cheerful tone mocking his elder brother.
Li straightens his face as he notices the Slashers have arrived, he tells Daisuke to quickly return to his Zoid. After he was sure that his brother was out of sight Li started to relax and put his hands into his pants pockets as the pink Gustav stopped in front of him and the other kept going and parked inside the hanger. "What now?" Li said as four women exited the pink Transport Zoid. He was speechless as he saw the four beautiful women walking towards him, the only one from the group he recognized was Kimiko Slash. There was a tall woman standing to Kimiko's left, she had long silver hair that she wore in ponytail and violet eyes, she wore a white jacket over a brown sleeveless top with a low neckline, she had black cargo pants that looked like they were tucked into her clearly old boots that look as if they had seen much combat and black fingerless gloves, her whole outfit seamed to cling to her well-proportioned body. The other two girls were on her right, they both really caught Li's attention and he couldn't take his eyes off them. The first girl was the same height as Kimiko (5'6"); she had a soft round face and fair skin, she had long auburn hair that seemed to be three different shades the lightest in bangs, and her eyes were a light hazel with a hint of green. She wore a camouflage tank top (that made it hard for Li not to stare at her breasts), baggy dark khaki cargo pants, and blue sneakers that looked brand new. The last girl was a bit shorter (5'4"), she had a heart shaped face, with golden brown eyes and dark brown hair with streaks of turquoise blue, crimson red, and light caramel blonde. She had an hourglass shape that she shows off in her black tank top and pink mini skirt; she also had white fingerless gloves with black cats on them, and black and white skater sneakers.
"Are you ready?" Kimiko asked as the group finally met up with the young Liger pilot that she had almost killed earlier for staring at her when they first met.
"Yea." Li said as if he wasn't about to fight for his life. "Are you gonna introduce me to your friends before the fight?
"No, but if you win I might." Kimiko said "Follow the redhead and shorty here to the training grounds, there your fate will be decided." The young gang leader spoke as if she was leading him to his doom.
"Hey! Who are you calling short? I'm only two inches shorter than you!" Misa said in a tone that almost sounded like a whine.
"Come on and let's just get this over with." Blaze groaned in boredom.
"Yea, and make it quick." Rana said losing her patience "If it weren't for the cash I was making here, I would have dumped these losers and moved on a long time ago." Rana thought to herself while her teammates climbed into their Zoids.
"It's a shame that we have to kill him." Misa said as she climbed into her custom Zaber Fang AT (a large raspberry red saber tooth tiger with black joint guards, and assorted weapons.)
"Yea, he's cute too." Blaze replied as she was climbing into her black and blue Konig Wolf with gold accents. "Oh well, he better at least put up a good fight." Blaze said to herself.
"Li, I have to ask you something before you go." Kimiko said as she motioned for him to come to her.
"What do you ugghh?" Li was halted as Kimiko kneed him in the chest and he collapsed on the ground. "What the hell was that for? You psycho!" He said in a mixture of anger and pain and a look in his eyes that screamed for vengeance.
Kimiko whispered into his ear as he stood up holding his ribs. "I saw you staring at us as we walked to meet you. I didn't like how you smiled fang boy."
"I hope the rest of them aren't as crazy and violent as that chick." Li thought to himself as he walked back to his Liger.
*In The Hanger*
After parking in the hanger Razor and Zach began searching for the member of their team who was to be watching the base. "Tyson, where are you!" They both yelled as they walked through the base and made their way to the control room. "Wait won't he be in his room?" Zach said as he and Razor made it to the large control room full of computers and camera monitors.
"Yea, that makes sense." Razor replied, as he was looking at a large video screen. "And since it was your idea you get to go wake up the old guy." Razor said as he turned the screen to the training field. "And make it quick or you're gonna miss the fight."
"Right." Zach said as he bolted out the door and headed to Tyson's room.
*The Training Field*
The four Zoids reached the old military training field, evidence of weapons testing was everywhere, parts of shattered rock and even the corpses old Zoids lay scattered and eroding, it seemed more like a graveyard than a battlefield, "but what are battle fields anyway, nothing more than a resting place for those weak enough to die there." Li thought as he and his brother were about to fight for their lives. "Daisuke, are you ready to show these ladies what we can do?"
"Yea, Frost and I are ready to put them down!" Daisuke said cheerfully as his Liger roared in approval.
"You don't go until I say so." Kimiko's voice boomed from the speakers around the field. "Besides I have to tell you the rules first you idiots. Ok, this is a two on two battle, there are no weapon restrictions and the team with the last Zoid standing wins. GO!" Kimiko screamed over the loud speaker.
"So which one do you want Daisuke?" Li asked his younger brother as they watched the female pilots that they were about to go to war with.
"Ummm, I'll take the big cat." Daisuke answered with a wide grin. "Let's go get'em Frost!" The white Liger roared
and began to move.
"I guess that means the doggie's for us buddy." Li said. The Ligers ran toward their opponents who literally were standing still.
"I know they don't think they can beat us with guts alone." Blaze said as she and her teammate laughed at their opponents' blind charge.
Misa smiled and jumped with joy in the spacious cockpit of her Zaber Fang AT, "Yay, those kitties are as good as ours!" She yelled with a childish joy.
"Let's just blow them away! The pilot with hot auburn hair screamed as her blood began to boil. At that, she and Misa began to fire rockets at their adversaries, in an attempt to end the battle quickly and avoid any damage to their own machines.
With the barrage of missiles headed for them, the brothers had no choice but to take evasive maneuvers and avoid being taken out of the fight. "These crazy bitches are trying to kill us, I guess Li was right." Daisuke thought to himself as he dodged projectiles. "Let's show them what we can do guys!" Daisuke and Frost seamed to roar with one voice and they charged for the big red cat.
"Well we can't let those two show us up, now can we? Let's show this dog girl wh… agh" Li was cut off when a missile hit Shadow's side and knocked him over. "Damn you!" Li yelled as Shadow got back to his feet and began running towards his target.
"Here they come Blaze, I think they're mad." Misa giggled as the two Ligers rushed wildly in their direction and she began to charge the white Liger, "This one is mine." She said in a harsher tone of voice showing that she was getting serious.
"Fine, I was getting bored anyway. It's time to put you boys down." Blaze said and she activated her Konig's targeting systems and CP-22 Dual Sniper Rifle and locked on to the black Liger Zero. "Bang" Was all she said when she had her sights lined up on the Liger's cockpit and fired.
Blaze wore a mixed look of anger and confusion when she realized what happened, the black Liger had activated an Energy Shield and stopped her attack, and she saw her ammunition caught in the E-Shield. "You're gonna have to do better than that to bring down Shadow and me!" Li yelled as he rammed the black and blue wolf Zoid hard, knocking it to the ground. "Do you surrender?" Li asked the female pilot.
"Never you weak bastard!" Blaze screamed in extreme anger at her opponent. She quickly repositioned her Konig's rifles and prepared to fire again.
"That's too bad, I kind of liked you." Li said in a chilling tone that froze Blaze and stopped her from firing. "Strike Laser Claw!" Li howled as Shadow severed the barrels of the affixed rifles and they fell to the sand with a loud thump.
"You son of a bitch!" Blaze yelled at Li when she realized that her weapons systems had frozen and she had lost the battle.
"I wonder how Daisuke and Frost are." Li thought to himself. As he turned around he saw a cloud of smoke and sand, when it cleared he was shocked to see both Zoids on the ground, Frost's armor was very badly damaged and the Zaber Fang was missing its front left leg. "Daisuke? Daisuke!" Li shouted, attempting to contact his younger brother. He leaped from his Liger and ran to his brother's still smoking Zoid "Daisuke! Are you alright? Answer me!" Li screamed out of anger and pure fear for his brother.
*Slasher Base*
After the battle the Zoids were taken back to the hanger and damage calculations were done by Zach, Rana, and Tyson. Kimiko, Li, Razor, and Blaze were in the command room talking. Daisuke and Misa were in the infirmary resting, they were both still unconscious from their clash.
"So we have two new recruits huh? Tyson asked as he adjusted his specially designed steam-punk goggles as he tended to the battered Zaber Fang.
Zach sat next to Tyson, readjusted his goggles and helped the silver grey haired man reattach the large Zoid's leg. "Yea, Misa and the younger brother went all out on each other, that's why they're in the infirmary and their Zoids are in such bad shape. Blaze is really mad too." The young Zoid mechanic said.
"I'd be pissed too if that little bastard got a lucky shot and took out my guns leaving my immobile and screwed in a real fight." Rana added as she worked on Blaze's Konig Wolf. "It's gonna take some time and cash to make all these repairs before our next job." She said while pinning up her hair.
"Me and Tyson can get it done if you can get the parts." Zach yelled across the hanger.
"Whatever you say brainiac." Rana said with a slight smile on her face as she complimented the young mech genius.
"I'm with ya kid, as long as I can get some sleep before we start." Tyson said as he left the hanger headed for his bedroom.
"Congratulations on your victory Li. I really underestimated you and your brother. We welcome you to our team." Kimiko said to the eldest brother in a tone that almost sounded rehearsed.
"Uh, thank you for letting us join and not blowing our heads off." Li said half joking. Still not sure if he and Daisuke were safe.
"Yea kid, you're lucky. I don't know what you and your brother did to get the redhead demon queen and the flame princess to not kill you guys." Razor said to his new teammate as he tried to fight an urge to challenge him just yet.
"Shut it!" Blaze screamed as she hit Razor and knocked him on his ass. She screamed again and then marched out of the room.
"Wow." Li said as he watched the beautiful monster storm out.
"Yea, she likes you." Razor said as Li helped him to his feet. "You are one lucky bastard." He said as he held his bruised jaw.
"Some how I doubt that." Li replied.
"That's enough Rally." Kimiko barked. "Just show him to his room and keep your mouth shut." She warned him as they left her in the control room. "They are good fighters, but I'm not sure what their intentions are just yet, so I'm gonna have to keep an eye on them for a while." Kimiko deliberated on her choice of letting the brothers joined her squad. "I just hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass, because if it does those two are dead." Kimiko announced to the empty room and pounded her fist into a board panel, breaking several of the glass buttons.
"Ok, so this is your room." Razor told Li as he pointed to room at the end of a corridor that branched off from the kitchen. "Tomorrow is sure to be a weird day for you so try to get some sleep dude." Razor patted Li on the back and walked off humming with his hands behind his head.
Li took a deep breath and opened the door to his room. He was shocked to see Blaze standing there, "Hey Blaze what are you..." Li started to speak but stopped as the hot redheaded leaned in very close and reached around him to push in a lock code on the door. "This is gonna be really good or really bad." Li thought to himself as he looked into her hazel eyes. "I gwwuaaah!" Li groaned in pain as Blaze delivered a hard punch to his gut, grabbed his hair and rammed the back of his head into the door, slightly denting it. "What the fu.." Li was silenced as Blaze's lips touched his and for a few seconds they shared a kiss.
As she let him go she threw him on his bed. "My name is Jinjer. If you tell anyone what happened here…I'll kill you! Bye." The girl said as she began to blush and ran out of the room.
Li collapsed on his bed, "What the fuck have I gotten us into?" He ran his hand through his hair and sighed.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Voice Cast
Eric Vale Li Ukami
Matt Charles Daisuke Takamori - Submitted by: Lightning Assassin Phoenix
Laura Bailey Kimiko Slash - Kimberly S.J.
Will Friedle Zacheron (Zach) Schubalts - Jonathan Z.G.
George Grant Rally (Razor) Fuuzaro - Submitted by: Truth of the Chosen
Cristina Vee Rana Takeba - Submitted by: lordoftheRoses
Luci Christian Jinjer (Blaze) Williams - Tabitha P.
Jessica DiCicco Misa Yukari - Submitted by: Ambercatlucky2
Johnny Yong Bosch Tyson (Remmy) Remington - Submitted by: Barrett M107
~Preview~
Li: Tomorrow can't be any worse than today. Oh, Hi Jinjer.
Blaze: *whispers in his ear* If you tell anyone what happened, you'll regret it.
Li: *Swallows hard* Got it.
Kimiko: So, what are you two talking about?
Blaze: Nothing, *grabs Li's hand and squeezes hard* right Li?
Li: Ow, yea! Next time on ZoidsX.: The Battle For Planet Zi Chapter Two.: ~Just the Beginning~
Razor: Dude that looks so painful! *laughing*
Li: *wincing in pain* That's because it is!
