Authors note: Hey! Once again, thanks for the great reviews. I had a hard
time trying to write that last chapter because I wasn't sure on how to
explain the MCME. Heres chapter 10!
CHAPTER 10
The hover cargo made its way silently through the burning desert sands, heading in the direction that Cloud had instructed.
The entire group was in the hanger, each working on their respected zoid, preparing for the battle that would undoubtedly be ahead. Cloud sat n the cockpit of his Blade Ligar, checking the controls. He had just inputted a shield into the Ligars system, just in case, when Tyra walked up, wiping grease off of her hands with a rag.
"Hey Cloud," Tyra said.
"What's up?" Cloud asked, jumping down out of the cockpit.
"Well I was wonderin, why didn't you tell us about all this sooner?"
"Because I wasn't sure it was if it was my aunt Gabrielle or not... not until the last battle, where they were only interested in taking Rain and Ryuu."
"Oh."
Jemie came walking up to them, "We're almost there you guy's, so I suggest that you finish up on your zoids."
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Zack sat in his cockpit, on his head was the MCME helmet. The helmet really wasn't much of a helmet, but was a half-circled earpiece, covering one side of Zacks head. Extending from it were various wires that connected to a shoulder/neck piece he was wearing, the wires also connecting to the back a small band around his head. Over one eye was a small clear piece of glass, a scope of some sort, that was tinted yellow.
"Prepare the tests." Gabrielle stated.
All around zack various zoids appeared, there where a few Rev-raptors and Zabats, but there was also 2 Dibisons, and at least 50 Guysacks.
"Your crazy!" Zack yelled, "There's no way I can beat that many zoids by myself!"
"Just relax Zero." Gabrielle stated, appearing on a com-link in front of him, "Just wait until the MCME is activated."
"Just what is this MCME anyway!?" Zero demanded.
"You'll find out soon enough." Gabrielle replied, closing the com-link.
The Admiral turned to one of her soldiers, "Activate the MCME unit now."
"Yes ma'am." The soldier replied, running into the WhaleKing.
The first thing Zack felt was pain. His head felt like it would tear apart, and his body felt burning hot. Then he blacked out, but not completely, he was still conscious in a way. He could see, but he could not talk, act, or even think. He was basically like a lifeless shell.
"Zero." Gabrielle's voice filled his thoughts, "Destroy all the units you see before you."
Zack attacked, not feeling any thought or emotion, and he soon wiped out half of the existing zoids. He continued his carnage, receiving various hits, but paying no attention to them. The only thing he could do was fight.
"Hmmm," Gabrielle stated as she watched from the sidelines, "He's doing much better than I expected."
Orihime watched in shock, Zero had taken out over 50 zoids, and was still fighting. She turned to the Admiral, "Stop! Please! This isn't right!"
"Shut up commander." Gabrielle stated, according to her calculations, there where only the 2 Dibisons and 10 Rev-Raptors left.
Copper also watched in amazement, not even he could destroy that many zoids in under 10 minuets. He watched as the last zoid, a Dibison, was demolished, the cockpit crushed by the Bahamut.
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The Hover Cargo was only a few miles away, as it began to distribute its 11 zoids. Once all the zoids were out, they began to head toward the base at full speed. The Raynos and the Stormsworder were out in front, followed closely by the three Ligars. The others followed at a short distance.
"Hey guy's" Jemie said, "I've just gotten a visual,"
"Yeah..." Tyra shuddered, "Me too."
"What do you see?!" Cloud demanded, "Is it Ryuu?"
"No..." Jemie answered, "Its the Bahamut... and according to my readings, he just took out a total of 65 zoids."
"No way!" Leena yelled, "That's impossible!"
"No." Cloud stated, "Its not. He's using the MCME system."
They made their way quickly to the base, soon coming face to face with the deadly Bahamut.
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Gabrielle stared at the oncoming zoids, grinning excitedly, "Oh good! More practice for my new pilot!"
"Admiral!" Orihime yelled, "I've read that if the MCME unit is used to much at one time, it could be dangerous for the pilot!"
"Im aware of that commander," Gabrielle stated, "It also starts to wear off until the pilot starts to get used to it.... I don't even think he'll win this fight, but I want to see how far I can push him..."
Orihime bit her bottom lip as she turned towards the battlefield. She watched as the zoids approached, and stopped. They were waiting.
Copper grinned, his commander was far too soft, "Admiral... I have a question."
"Yes Copper. What is it?"
"When Zero falls, can I join the battle?"
"If you want." She answered, "But as you know I can't use the MCME on you."
"I know, I just want to kill those pilots out there." Copper replied, actually after reading up on all the side-effects, he didn't want the MCME system.
Gabrielle nodded as she turned back to the battlefield, "Zero, I command you to destroy all the new zoids that have come."
The Bahamut roared as it dashed toward the group. Everyone except Lavender was able to dodge. The dragon tore into the MadThunder, crushing the two electro-charged horns in a single swipe.
Izumi came up from behind, ready to attack, only to be surprised when the Bahamut turned, swinging its tail, and hitting the side of the ShadowDancer, causing it to topple over.
"Damn it!" Izumi yelled, pushing her zoid back on it's feet. Unfortunately, one of its wings had been damaged. "You'll pay for that."
The Bahamut took off into the air, and it's chest plates opened, letting loose a barrage of missiles half of them heading toward the ShadowDancer, and the rest toward Lavender and the MadThunder.
Both girls closed their eyes as they felt the missiles hit, opening them to a flashing screen, "Command system freeze"
"NO WAY!" Izumi yelled.
The Bahamut roared again as it began to fire down on the renaming zoids. It shot down the ShadowFox only a few moments later.
"Take this!" Leena screamed, "Total weasel unit assault!"
The Bahamut dodged easily as it flew down and tackled Leenas GunSniper. She screamed as the glass on the cockpit broke, and the GunSniper went down. Luckily, she escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.
"Leena!" Bit yelled as he jumped into the air, "Strike Laser Claw!"
The Bahamut attempted to dodge, but was unsuccessful, as it's back leg was torn completely off. It began to fire madly at the Ligar 0, giving the chance for Leon and Cloud to strike from both sides, finally bringing it down. The battle only lasted about 5 minuets.
"You ok Bit?" Leon asked.
"Yeah... thanks allot you guy's." Bit answered.
"No problem..." Leon said.
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"Very impressive! Even after taking out all those test units, he still managed to endure the stain long enough to take out four of them." Gabrielle stated, "Abort the MCME system."
"Yes ma'am!" A soldier said, pushing a small button on a control panel in front of him.
"Go get in your zoid Copper." Gabrielle stated, "You can kill the rest of them if you want."
Copper smiled evilly as he turned toward the WhaleKing, and walked inside. He headed into the hanger, and climbed into his zoid.
Orihime ran out to the Bahamut, wanting to make sure that Zero was all right.
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The group watched as the cockpit of the Bahamut opened. Zero stumbled out of his zoid, the MCME helmet still on his head. He collapsed onto the hot desert sands, breathing heavily.
Orihime ran up and worked quickly to remove the helmet, "Zero are you ok?"
Zack coughed slightly, trying to push himself up, but to no avail. His head was pounding, and his chest hurt. He felt sick.
"Don't..." he gasped, "Don't let her use...that thing again..."
Just then Izumi, Brad, Leena and Lavender ran up. They stopped at the two, and looked down on them.
"Is he ok?" Lavender asked.
"My head hurts..." He replied, "and.... my whole body feels.. numb..." with that he passed out.
"Who are you!" Izumi demanded from Orihime, "Why the hell are you using that MCME system if it does that to people!?"
Orihime frowned, "Im a commander of these forces... and for your information," She glared up at Izumi, "I would definitely feel better if that stupid system was destroyed!"
Just then a large explosion was heard. The remaining zoids looked around quickly, trying to figure out where it was coming from.
"Guy's watch it!" Jemie yelled from up above them, "Charged particle beam coming your way!"
The group took off in separate directions as the beam passed harmlessly by, and the GunGyarados came into view.
Jemie and Tyra took off at once, toward the monstrous zoid. Together, they had formed a plan on how to distract the GunGyarados long enough for the others to take it out.
Jemie went into a dive, as he shot at the legs of the GunGyarados. In return it roared, and aimed its head in the Raynos' direction, and fired a charged particle beam. Jemie veered right, forced to break the sound barrier. "Yeah!" The Wild Eagle yelled, "Bring it on!"
While the GunGyarados was distracted with the Wild Eagle, Tyra circled around behind it, and began firing various arsenals. She extended one of the blades on the StormSworders wings, and turned right before colliding with the GunGyarados. The blade sliced through the wings of the GunGyarados, limiting it to ground combat.
"Damn it!" Copper yelled, as he turned to deal with the StormSworder. He charged another particle beam, aiming directly at Tyra. Unfortunately, he had failed to notice that the other's had also approached from behind.
The Temjin X brought its sword down on the back of the GunGyarados, completely crushing the intake fan, and causing it to jerk to the right as it fired it's last charged particle beam.
"How the hell did you get behind me!" Copper yelled, turning to face Goji.
"Ah come on..." Bit said, "You don't think we didn't learn from when you attacked us before?"
The Ligar 0 seemed to approach from out of nowhere, as it brought a strike laser claw down on the side of the GunGyarados.
"Im not going to lose damn it!" Copper yelled as he charged head on into the Temjin X. He tackled it, pushing it back into the side of a cliff, causing it to leave a nice imprint in the rocks.
"Tisk tisk..." Naomi said, she was directly above and to the left of the GunGyarados. She aimed and fired, making a direct hit with the neck of the zoid.
"NO!" Copper yelled as the words, 'command system freeze' began to flash on his screen, "How!?"
"You got to cocky." Leon stated coming up from behind, "You could have beaten us if you wouldn't have been so overconfident."
Copper jumped out of his zoid, and began running in the opposite direction. Goji followed, soon catching up and tackling him from behind. He forced him to the ground, and turned him around, about to punch in in his face, but stopped, shocked by who he saw.
"Ryuji?" Copper asked, staring at his one time friend, he looked down at his necklace. He recognized it right away, "The Deathsoarer!"
Copper grinned as he took Goji's shock to his advantage and swung a punch in his direction. It hid Goji in the side of his head, knocking him off of his captive.
The GunGyarados pilot took of again, with Goji at his heals. This time, Goji reached out and grabbed the chain around his neck as he tackled Copper. It snapped.
"NO!" Copper yelled reaching up at the necklace.
"What's up Ryuji?" Goji asked angrily, his eyes flashing, "Why do you want a thing like this anyway!?"
"I am not that fool Ryuji!" Copper yelled, still trying to reach the GunGyarados piece.
"You not?" Goji asked, "Then who the hell are you!?"
"Give it to me!"
"Screw you!" Goji yelled, "Tell me what the hell is going on!"
"I need that damned thing before he wakes up!" Copper yelled, suddenly regretting what he had just said.
Goji suddenly realized what had happened, as he had a flashback of the small restaurant, and how Ryuji said he had kept blacking out, "This damn thing caused all those black outs didn't it!?"
Copper remained silent, he had lost this time and he knew it. Goji punched him in the gut, causing him to fall into unconsciousness.
"Hey Cloud!" Goji yelled, standing up, and holding up the necklace.
"What is it Goji?!"
"Its an eye piece of the DeathSoarer... do me a favor and come have your blade Ligar crush it."
The Blade Ligar approached as Goji threw the DeathSoarer piece at it. It landed in the sand as Cloud brought up the front leg of the Blade Ligar. He brought it down, crushing the small necklace into hundreds of tiny pieces.
The group then headed back toward the base, there was now only Cloud, Bit, Jemie, Tyra, Leon and Naomi still able to pilot their zoids.
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"What a pity..." Gabrielle stated, grinning evilly, turning to a soldier at her side "Bring out Ryuu."
"Yes ma'am." The soldier replied...
End of Chapter ten
Authors note: Watcha think? Hope ya liked it... I'll put the next chapter up as soon as possible... now go review!
CHAPTER 10
The hover cargo made its way silently through the burning desert sands, heading in the direction that Cloud had instructed.
The entire group was in the hanger, each working on their respected zoid, preparing for the battle that would undoubtedly be ahead. Cloud sat n the cockpit of his Blade Ligar, checking the controls. He had just inputted a shield into the Ligars system, just in case, when Tyra walked up, wiping grease off of her hands with a rag.
"Hey Cloud," Tyra said.
"What's up?" Cloud asked, jumping down out of the cockpit.
"Well I was wonderin, why didn't you tell us about all this sooner?"
"Because I wasn't sure it was if it was my aunt Gabrielle or not... not until the last battle, where they were only interested in taking Rain and Ryuu."
"Oh."
Jemie came walking up to them, "We're almost there you guy's, so I suggest that you finish up on your zoids."
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Zack sat in his cockpit, on his head was the MCME helmet. The helmet really wasn't much of a helmet, but was a half-circled earpiece, covering one side of Zacks head. Extending from it were various wires that connected to a shoulder/neck piece he was wearing, the wires also connecting to the back a small band around his head. Over one eye was a small clear piece of glass, a scope of some sort, that was tinted yellow.
"Prepare the tests." Gabrielle stated.
All around zack various zoids appeared, there where a few Rev-raptors and Zabats, but there was also 2 Dibisons, and at least 50 Guysacks.
"Your crazy!" Zack yelled, "There's no way I can beat that many zoids by myself!"
"Just relax Zero." Gabrielle stated, appearing on a com-link in front of him, "Just wait until the MCME is activated."
"Just what is this MCME anyway!?" Zero demanded.
"You'll find out soon enough." Gabrielle replied, closing the com-link.
The Admiral turned to one of her soldiers, "Activate the MCME unit now."
"Yes ma'am." The soldier replied, running into the WhaleKing.
The first thing Zack felt was pain. His head felt like it would tear apart, and his body felt burning hot. Then he blacked out, but not completely, he was still conscious in a way. He could see, but he could not talk, act, or even think. He was basically like a lifeless shell.
"Zero." Gabrielle's voice filled his thoughts, "Destroy all the units you see before you."
Zack attacked, not feeling any thought or emotion, and he soon wiped out half of the existing zoids. He continued his carnage, receiving various hits, but paying no attention to them. The only thing he could do was fight.
"Hmmm," Gabrielle stated as she watched from the sidelines, "He's doing much better than I expected."
Orihime watched in shock, Zero had taken out over 50 zoids, and was still fighting. She turned to the Admiral, "Stop! Please! This isn't right!"
"Shut up commander." Gabrielle stated, according to her calculations, there where only the 2 Dibisons and 10 Rev-Raptors left.
Copper also watched in amazement, not even he could destroy that many zoids in under 10 minuets. He watched as the last zoid, a Dibison, was demolished, the cockpit crushed by the Bahamut.
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The Hover Cargo was only a few miles away, as it began to distribute its 11 zoids. Once all the zoids were out, they began to head toward the base at full speed. The Raynos and the Stormsworder were out in front, followed closely by the three Ligars. The others followed at a short distance.
"Hey guy's" Jemie said, "I've just gotten a visual,"
"Yeah..." Tyra shuddered, "Me too."
"What do you see?!" Cloud demanded, "Is it Ryuu?"
"No..." Jemie answered, "Its the Bahamut... and according to my readings, he just took out a total of 65 zoids."
"No way!" Leena yelled, "That's impossible!"
"No." Cloud stated, "Its not. He's using the MCME system."
They made their way quickly to the base, soon coming face to face with the deadly Bahamut.
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Gabrielle stared at the oncoming zoids, grinning excitedly, "Oh good! More practice for my new pilot!"
"Admiral!" Orihime yelled, "I've read that if the MCME unit is used to much at one time, it could be dangerous for the pilot!"
"Im aware of that commander," Gabrielle stated, "It also starts to wear off until the pilot starts to get used to it.... I don't even think he'll win this fight, but I want to see how far I can push him..."
Orihime bit her bottom lip as she turned towards the battlefield. She watched as the zoids approached, and stopped. They were waiting.
Copper grinned, his commander was far too soft, "Admiral... I have a question."
"Yes Copper. What is it?"
"When Zero falls, can I join the battle?"
"If you want." She answered, "But as you know I can't use the MCME on you."
"I know, I just want to kill those pilots out there." Copper replied, actually after reading up on all the side-effects, he didn't want the MCME system.
Gabrielle nodded as she turned back to the battlefield, "Zero, I command you to destroy all the new zoids that have come."
The Bahamut roared as it dashed toward the group. Everyone except Lavender was able to dodge. The dragon tore into the MadThunder, crushing the two electro-charged horns in a single swipe.
Izumi came up from behind, ready to attack, only to be surprised when the Bahamut turned, swinging its tail, and hitting the side of the ShadowDancer, causing it to topple over.
"Damn it!" Izumi yelled, pushing her zoid back on it's feet. Unfortunately, one of its wings had been damaged. "You'll pay for that."
The Bahamut took off into the air, and it's chest plates opened, letting loose a barrage of missiles half of them heading toward the ShadowDancer, and the rest toward Lavender and the MadThunder.
Both girls closed their eyes as they felt the missiles hit, opening them to a flashing screen, "Command system freeze"
"NO WAY!" Izumi yelled.
The Bahamut roared again as it began to fire down on the renaming zoids. It shot down the ShadowFox only a few moments later.
"Take this!" Leena screamed, "Total weasel unit assault!"
The Bahamut dodged easily as it flew down and tackled Leenas GunSniper. She screamed as the glass on the cockpit broke, and the GunSniper went down. Luckily, she escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.
"Leena!" Bit yelled as he jumped into the air, "Strike Laser Claw!"
The Bahamut attempted to dodge, but was unsuccessful, as it's back leg was torn completely off. It began to fire madly at the Ligar 0, giving the chance for Leon and Cloud to strike from both sides, finally bringing it down. The battle only lasted about 5 minuets.
"You ok Bit?" Leon asked.
"Yeah... thanks allot you guy's." Bit answered.
"No problem..." Leon said.
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"Very impressive! Even after taking out all those test units, he still managed to endure the stain long enough to take out four of them." Gabrielle stated, "Abort the MCME system."
"Yes ma'am!" A soldier said, pushing a small button on a control panel in front of him.
"Go get in your zoid Copper." Gabrielle stated, "You can kill the rest of them if you want."
Copper smiled evilly as he turned toward the WhaleKing, and walked inside. He headed into the hanger, and climbed into his zoid.
Orihime ran out to the Bahamut, wanting to make sure that Zero was all right.
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The group watched as the cockpit of the Bahamut opened. Zero stumbled out of his zoid, the MCME helmet still on his head. He collapsed onto the hot desert sands, breathing heavily.
Orihime ran up and worked quickly to remove the helmet, "Zero are you ok?"
Zack coughed slightly, trying to push himself up, but to no avail. His head was pounding, and his chest hurt. He felt sick.
"Don't..." he gasped, "Don't let her use...that thing again..."
Just then Izumi, Brad, Leena and Lavender ran up. They stopped at the two, and looked down on them.
"Is he ok?" Lavender asked.
"My head hurts..." He replied, "and.... my whole body feels.. numb..." with that he passed out.
"Who are you!" Izumi demanded from Orihime, "Why the hell are you using that MCME system if it does that to people!?"
Orihime frowned, "Im a commander of these forces... and for your information," She glared up at Izumi, "I would definitely feel better if that stupid system was destroyed!"
Just then a large explosion was heard. The remaining zoids looked around quickly, trying to figure out where it was coming from.
"Guy's watch it!" Jemie yelled from up above them, "Charged particle beam coming your way!"
The group took off in separate directions as the beam passed harmlessly by, and the GunGyarados came into view.
Jemie and Tyra took off at once, toward the monstrous zoid. Together, they had formed a plan on how to distract the GunGyarados long enough for the others to take it out.
Jemie went into a dive, as he shot at the legs of the GunGyarados. In return it roared, and aimed its head in the Raynos' direction, and fired a charged particle beam. Jemie veered right, forced to break the sound barrier. "Yeah!" The Wild Eagle yelled, "Bring it on!"
While the GunGyarados was distracted with the Wild Eagle, Tyra circled around behind it, and began firing various arsenals. She extended one of the blades on the StormSworders wings, and turned right before colliding with the GunGyarados. The blade sliced through the wings of the GunGyarados, limiting it to ground combat.
"Damn it!" Copper yelled, as he turned to deal with the StormSworder. He charged another particle beam, aiming directly at Tyra. Unfortunately, he had failed to notice that the other's had also approached from behind.
The Temjin X brought its sword down on the back of the GunGyarados, completely crushing the intake fan, and causing it to jerk to the right as it fired it's last charged particle beam.
"How the hell did you get behind me!" Copper yelled, turning to face Goji.
"Ah come on..." Bit said, "You don't think we didn't learn from when you attacked us before?"
The Ligar 0 seemed to approach from out of nowhere, as it brought a strike laser claw down on the side of the GunGyarados.
"Im not going to lose damn it!" Copper yelled as he charged head on into the Temjin X. He tackled it, pushing it back into the side of a cliff, causing it to leave a nice imprint in the rocks.
"Tisk tisk..." Naomi said, she was directly above and to the left of the GunGyarados. She aimed and fired, making a direct hit with the neck of the zoid.
"NO!" Copper yelled as the words, 'command system freeze' began to flash on his screen, "How!?"
"You got to cocky." Leon stated coming up from behind, "You could have beaten us if you wouldn't have been so overconfident."
Copper jumped out of his zoid, and began running in the opposite direction. Goji followed, soon catching up and tackling him from behind. He forced him to the ground, and turned him around, about to punch in in his face, but stopped, shocked by who he saw.
"Ryuji?" Copper asked, staring at his one time friend, he looked down at his necklace. He recognized it right away, "The Deathsoarer!"
Copper grinned as he took Goji's shock to his advantage and swung a punch in his direction. It hid Goji in the side of his head, knocking him off of his captive.
The GunGyarados pilot took of again, with Goji at his heals. This time, Goji reached out and grabbed the chain around his neck as he tackled Copper. It snapped.
"NO!" Copper yelled reaching up at the necklace.
"What's up Ryuji?" Goji asked angrily, his eyes flashing, "Why do you want a thing like this anyway!?"
"I am not that fool Ryuji!" Copper yelled, still trying to reach the GunGyarados piece.
"You not?" Goji asked, "Then who the hell are you!?"
"Give it to me!"
"Screw you!" Goji yelled, "Tell me what the hell is going on!"
"I need that damned thing before he wakes up!" Copper yelled, suddenly regretting what he had just said.
Goji suddenly realized what had happened, as he had a flashback of the small restaurant, and how Ryuji said he had kept blacking out, "This damn thing caused all those black outs didn't it!?"
Copper remained silent, he had lost this time and he knew it. Goji punched him in the gut, causing him to fall into unconsciousness.
"Hey Cloud!" Goji yelled, standing up, and holding up the necklace.
"What is it Goji?!"
"Its an eye piece of the DeathSoarer... do me a favor and come have your blade Ligar crush it."
The Blade Ligar approached as Goji threw the DeathSoarer piece at it. It landed in the sand as Cloud brought up the front leg of the Blade Ligar. He brought it down, crushing the small necklace into hundreds of tiny pieces.
The group then headed back toward the base, there was now only Cloud, Bit, Jemie, Tyra, Leon and Naomi still able to pilot their zoids.
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"What a pity..." Gabrielle stated, grinning evilly, turning to a soldier at her side "Bring out Ryuu."
"Yes ma'am." The soldier replied...
End of Chapter ten
Authors note: Watcha think? Hope ya liked it... I'll put the next chapter up as soon as possible... now go review!