Necros: A War of Zoids

By THE Xenomorph aka familyghost

Zoids are © Tomy/Hasbro

DM & K2 © My close friend

Synopsis: A world with a secret past is about to get a wake up call from the metallic warriors.

Chapter 8: Madness of the Gojulas Pilot

"Nami wait!" Lycus shouted as Nami ran past him and into the elevator. "You need the Schneider armor first!"

"Later!" Nami shouted. "I'm gonna take out these other Ligers really quick, by the way what's an AI?" Lycus' face paled as the doors closed.

DM soon came running down the hall and plunged his sword into the wall next to the elevator. "Tell me you guys didn't move K2."

"No, we didn't." Lycus was obviously concerned. "He's still there."

"We might need you and the big guy." DM said as another door slid open.

"You know that's not going to happen." Lycus looked up at the large zoid that stood by him. "Hurry up or she'll be slaughtered."

"Right." DM nodded as he ran down a long narrow hall way to the center of a room that could hold twelve Gojulas Gigas with room to spare. "Initialize K2 Combat System!"

"System Initialized." An electronic voice rang as a small golden box in the center of the room began to glow.

"Fürher Mode!" DM shouted, but nothing happened

"Uh, we have a problem." The Zoid said.

"What now K2?" DM asked as he stepped on a platform that raised itself high.

"Your stupid weapon wiped 90 of my memory." K2 snapped, "Honestly how do you expect an AI system to function when you wipe it's freaking memory?"

"Fine, Geno-Mode then." DM said.

"Most of the weapons are damaged." K2 said.

"Just open the elevator doors and lets tear up those Blade Ligers ok?" DM snapped.

"Nakiro in trouble again?" K2 asked as he opened the doors and scanned the battle field. "Jeez! Where's the armor?"

"That's Nak's descendant, we've both been out for quite some time buddy." DM said. "Let's give her a hand shall we?"

"Charging main guns..." K2 said with a slight tone of mischief, but a sharp beep cut the tone desperate. "Or I would be if they weren't damaged!"

"Great..." DM groaned. "We'll have to melee, repair the CPC in the meantime.."

"Melee with Blade Ligers?" K2 asked. "We're gonna die."

"Don't worry, just wipe them out!" DM shouted as Geno Saurer crested over the edge of the elevator and DM caught his first look of the battle; Nami was faring terribly as the Blade Ligers bashed the Zero around like dogs playing with a ball. The smaller zoids had centered around a large Gustav M.A.D.E and were barely keeping themselves from being torn to shreds.

"Jeez!" K2 said in shock. "Brigades? I thought you never got around to making them."

"We made a small force, looks like only two are left..." DM said as he targeted several of the ligers and fired, only then did he notice his weapons were now completely depleted. "Only seven total, shouldn't be too bad." The remaining Blade Ligers then lowered their energy blades and charged the deadly weapons. "Oh yeah, forgot about those, maybe we should all re..." DM heard the sound of the elevator closing and descending. "Uh... K2..."

"IT'S NOT ME!" The AI insisted.

"Lycus?" DM opened a channel. "What's going on?"

"I don't know!" Lycus responded. "I'm trying to get the elevator back up and running but..."

"It's broken?" DM shouted, "How does it just break?"

"It's not broken, some idiot programmed a time lock onto it..." Lycus growled. "I can't open it for another... three minutes."

"Oh geez..." DM looked at the slowly approaching Blade Ligers. "We'll be kibble by then Ly..."

"Keep the defensive up, I'm going to activate the base defenses!" Lycus said as he bolted from the main room down a small corridor that broke off from it.

"Oh great..." DM groaned as he dodged a flurry of in coming blades. "These things are going to rip me apart."

"You're forgetting something..." K2 said. "I AM THE ZOID!"

"Well then we're going to be ripped apart." DM snapped.

Suddenly one of the blade ligers went flying into the distance and landed with a giant hole in the middle. DM looked to see the Cannon Tortoise's cannon smoking. Then a white blur came streaking in and smashed one of the ligers across the face, it stumbled and recovered. DM smiled as he realized he had at least some back up in the battle.

"Listen Nami, don't let those yellow blades catch you or you'll be in some serious trouble." DM advised.

"Yeah I know, they cut a huge hole in the Gustav." Nami snarled.

"Let's get it on." DM said as K2 roared in defiance of their enemies.

Meanwhile Lycus had come to a surprising discovery. The corridor he had followed was now crushed in and collapsed. The room he needed to be in to activate the bases auxiliary defense systems was inaccessible. He took a good moment to catch his breath and look in despair at the cause of his friend's possible defeat. He then quickly ran back to the main room in a desperate attempt to hack the systems and return the main defense systems.

"How the hell did they even get taken off line?" Lycus thought to himself.

Back on the battle field DM was busy forcing the jaws of the last liger that had challenged him open to a breaking point. It took a few moments but it eventually snapped under the great pressure. The other two ligers were also broken in similar manners, with other limbs ripped from their bodies.

DM then looked to see Nami was baiting several of the ligers into chasing her while the Cannon Tortoise would fire and strike them along their broadside. DM recognized the tactic and was not surprised when she brought the ligers into a sharp turn and the tortoise struck a direct hit and removed the head of one of the ligers. The second one then turned its attention to the tortoise and fired on the small zoid. Nami took that moment to rip the twin blades from it's back.

"Not bad..." DM admitted. "Good job Nami, but watch out fo..." DM was cut off as a brilliant light encased the Blade Liger and sent Nami and her Zero flying backwards. "... the shield."

"Charged Particle Cannon is repaired!" K2 announced.

"Finally..." DM smiled. "Man, we need to get you repaired pronto K2!" The Geno Saurer clamped itself into the ground and straightened itself as stiff as a board. It's tail then sprang open at several areas and it began to hum as it charged.

"I know that sound..." Nami looked up from inside her Liger Zero and saw DM's Geno Saurer fire it's beam weapon at the remaining Blade Liger. When the beam died down all that remained were the paws of the Blade liger.

"Huzzah!" DM shouted with joy, but was suddenly jerked to the side by a massive claw. "What the hell?"

"It's Torin!" Nami opened a communications window with DM. "He's dangerous and psychotic."

"Where is that blasted Necromancer?" Torin roared from within his zoid. The left side of the Geno Breaker was scarred by large amounts of acid damage. "I won't forgive him, not after this!" Torin tossed the smaller zoid with such force that DM had the wind knocked from him.

"Lycus!" Nami opened a channel to the small base. "Help us!"

"Yes Necromancer, help them!" Torin roared as he picked up and tossed the Liger Zero into the Gustav. "Help them Necromancer!"

In the base's main room Tari, Tsurellis and Lycus watched in horror as the zoids were tossed around with their friends inside. Lycus slammed his fists in anger.

"No..." He groaned.

"Lycus-Sensei... My sister... DM-San... the others..." Tari was crying in fear for the first time since Lycus had met her.

"I can't..." Lycus said forcefully. "Not again, I can't risk it..." A roar came from the elevator room and soon Wraith appeared. "Go help them!" Lycus jumped as he noticed the ghost.

"I can't." Wraith said. "My König was heavily damaged by your acid spell, remember?"

Lycus cursed as he remembered the night prior when Wraith cam charging in just as he released a torrential acid spell on their enemies. In the end it defeated the command wolves and seriously damaged the König.

"I'm still forcing the core to make it's own repairs and that takes time and strength." Wraith snapped.

"I... I can't go out there." Lycus sopped as he watched the Breaker stomp on the Cannon Tortoise.

"Your past?" Wraith growled. "You think you've had a bad past; think about it necromancer, you messed up ONCE and quit. You never even thought about getting back in the Giga did you?" Wraith tossed Lycus to the side. "I bet if I hadn't decided it would be fun to work with you, you would have given up Necromancy along time ago."

"Silence!" Lycus shouted. "You don't know a thing about me!"

"I don't huh?" Wraith's eyes glowed. "You're nothing but a quitter, a whining brat who stops trying when he doesn't get his way. Face it, you loose control of the Giga once and you don't pilot it. Your student betrays you and it takes centuries to even think about taking another one and then you come here and I bet you were just gonna turn around after waking your friend up too."

"Shut up!" Lycus shouted. "Firende untio." Lycus shouted. He was surprised when Wraith simply stayed in place.

"You don't command me." Wraith said. "Only the strong can command me, only those who never quit trying to command me can command me." Wraith narrowed his eyes. "You disgust me."

Lycus fell to the floor in shock. The absence of control shattered his ego and mind. Thoughts of his past came flooding back. Images of friends crushed in the jaws of an enemy Gojulas Giga. The traitor he crushed under foot in rage and so many bottled up angers once again came rushing back, and with them the long forgotten sorrows as well.

"Weak." Wraith scoffed an turned to Tsurellis. "You, there's a large Dibison at the elevator room. Get in it and keep him busy until I can repair my Wolf."

"Are you sure, I can't pilot anything but the Gustav..." Tsurellis gulped.

"Do it." Wraith snarled.

"Hey!" Tari snapped. "You need to apologize to Lycus right now!"

"What?" Wraith sniffed in amusement, "Why?"

"Because if he's afraid of something then he has to have a good reason!" Tari shouted "And loosing control is a good reason, especially if he's in something as big as Mr. Giggles!"

Wraith laughed. "The Giga is made for destruction kid, he's supposed to loose control."

"No he isn't!" Tari shouted. "Last night Lycus-Sensei said that a Zoid and it's pilot have to be perfectly centered or they won't work well."

"What do you know you little witch." Wraith grabbed Tari by the collar and raised her up. "I'm in charge now..."

"Firende untio." The words were soft and deliberate, but they did as they were supposed to and Wraith crumpled to the ground in agony. He looked up to see a seething and quite mad Lycus.

"Do not ever touch my student again." Lycus' voice rang with a rage he had not felt in years. It burned and consumed everything in his soul and the need to destroy would not be quenched. His eyes were pinpoints of rage and they became specks as he watched the feed of the breaker ripping the armor off of the Gustav. The Gojulas Giga's roar once again echoed in the halls and Lycus turned to face it.

"Once again..." His voice echoed with anger and his look soon reflected it as he spoke simple words. His robes stretched and rolled into different folds and soon he wore a black shirt and pants. His boots fit snugly under his pants and their buckles fastened themselves tighter. "My old friend."

"Lycus..." Tsurellis looked in awe at his old master, but Lycus ignored him. "Lycus..." He called again.

"I don't think Lycus-Sensei can hear us." Tari sniffled.

"Oh by the gods not this again..." Tsurellis whimpered as he recognized the look in Lycus' eyes.

Above the base Torin was tearing into the Gustav like a mad man. He was convinced that Lycus was hiding inside it. But when he could not get the necromancer to come out he began to turn his rage once more to Lycus' friends.

"Where is he?" Torin shouted. "Give him a zoid and get him to me!" He stepped on the Geno Saurer's head.

"This guy is pissing me off." DM groaned. "K2, can't you recover your Breaker data?"

"I was lucky to recover the CPC function data." K2 snapped. "Now let me concentrate on keeping us alive!"

"Give it up already!" Nami shouted. "He won't pilot a zoid just to fight you!"

"What was that you little whore?" Torin snapped.

"He doesn't need one to beat you." Nami blew a raspberry over the communications window.

"Why you little..." The ground shook lightly.

"K2, please tell me it's not shaking this much because of an excess of weight." DM gulped.

"Ok, I won't tell you." K2 gave an electronic shudder. "I also won't tell you that he's completely unarmed."

"This cannot end in any positive manner." DM groaned.

"What won't?" Nami asked.

"He pissed Ly off." DM said despondently. "It's pretty much a death sentence, magick or not."

Soon the head of the Gojulas Giga crested the rise of elevator. Soon it towered over the immediate area and the Geno Breaker. It moved slowly off of the elevator which quickly lowered and closed.

"So..." Torin smiled. "He has a big zoid."

"Buddy..." DM opened a channel to Torin. "I don't know what you're thinking, but trust me when I say 'Turn and run', or else you'll be Giga chow."

"Shut up fool!" Torin snapped and closed the channel. The he locked his breaker into place and the Charged Particle Cannon began to warm up. The Gojulas Giga did not even move.

"He's going to be killed!" Nami shrieked.

"Who, Lycus?" DM laughed. "Not a chance in hell."

"But that weapon..." Nami panted in worry.

"Will not get past his shield." DM assured her. "Then he dies."

Suddenly the cannon fired and Torin laughed like a freed maniac. He laughed until the dust his weapon kicked up settled and the Gojulas Giga stood with it's shield shimmering in the mid day sun.

"Thats not possible!" Torin gasped.

The shield of the Giga dropped and the massive zoid slanted to a more horizontal position. Then a channel opened, and though Nami knew it was Lycus in the feed she could have sworn she was staring at a demon.

"Torin..." Lycus' soft voice barely carried over the feed. "You've made my Giga and me very angry." The Giga growled as Lycus spoke. "You've hurt our friends and destroyed my home for the second time." The channel then closed as the Giga slightly reared and let out a massive roar that flung the remains of a blade liger against the destroyed Gustav.

"This..." Torin panicked and began to run away, but the large Giga quickly out paced it and lowered it's cockpit head down to it's prey's eye level. "This isn't a zoid, it's a demon!" The Giga roared as it turned it's head and ripped the side claw off of the Geno Breaker with a simple tug.

"Demon..." Lycus' voice came over a channel. "This is no demon, this is our power and you have incurred it's wrath!" The Giga toppled the smaller zoid with ease and quickly tore into it's body until it pulled out a gleaming rectangular cockpit. "The pressure's on Torin, think you can take it..." He was about to command the Giga to crush the cockpit, but Nami screamed.

"STOP IT!" She opened a channel and Lycus could see the fear on her face. "Don't kill him Lycus, please. I know he destroyed your home and he is a bad guy, but killing him won't fix those things. Nothing can, just let him run away so we can make repairs and get out of here. Please."

Lycus closed the channel and was about to ignore her when he felt a strange stirring. "You think she's right don't you?" He asked his large zoid. "She probably is, but it's so tempting..." Lycus could feel his rage building and subsiding all at once, and then his anger panned out. "And it would only create more problems. Drop the cockpit."

The Giga obeyed and after a long pause for DM and Nami it dropped the cockpit. DM sighed in relief as did Nami. Then a channel opened up.

"I'll carry everyone in one at a time. We can make basic repairs here." Lycus said softly. Nami was relieved to see the insane look on his face had vanished and he was seemingly back to his somber self. "After that..."

"After that you'll get your butt back in that pilot's seat and get us into Gorgon Repair station, if it still exists." DM shouted.

"We'll see." Lycus said.

In the main room Tsurellis watched as Wraith's green form rose once again.

"Shouldn't you be down for the count." Tsurellis asked in awe.

"No why would you think that?" Wraith chuckled, "Oh well at least he's not cowering behind his failures any more. Can't believe I had to wait so long to tell him how much of a pansy he's been."

"Just how old are you again?" Tsurellis asked.

"Old enough." Wraith said with a smile. "Now my König needs me, so if you'll excuse me." With that Wraith vanished.

"Was he trying to help Lycus-Sensei?" Tari asked.

"I wish I knew kiddo." Tsurellis blinked as he heard the elevator descend. "Come on kid, we got maybe a day to learn how to repair a zoid."

"Yay!" Tari yelled in amusement.