The day has come at last. Love is in the air and so is consummation! Let's see how things turn out.

-SSJ

"Wow a month went by so fast." Bit said to himself as he straightened out his suit in the mirror. The big day was finally upon them.

"I wonder what Leena's thinking right now."

"I wonder what Bit is thinking about right now" was her exact thought. "Well, it's probably me" she smiled as she too adjusted her wedding dress.

"My god you look beautiful sweetheart" Toros said as he came into the tent.

"Thanks dad."

"Hah, those are the same words you said to me when you saw me in that dress, Steve" said a voice from the side of the room.

"Well if it isn't my darling wife." Toros responded.

"I can't believe my baby grew up so fast." She said starting to get teary eyed.

"Aw mom c'mon none of that" Leena said trying to console her.

"I hope that brother of yours arrives soon, the wedding is in an hour!" Toros added. Outside, a familiar figure was creeping.

"This is Armstrong, the location of the girl has been obtained, it is directly in front of me, marking my coordinates…"

"Roger that Lt." A voice came from the other end. "Get back to your machine and standby."

"Roger that, over and out." Armstrong snuck out of the area. A while later the ceremony had started, Bit was standing where he was going to say his words to his beloved. The minutes ticked by while the bride's music repeated three times over.

"I think something's wrong, Jamie, go check on what's keeping her." Bit whispered to Jamie. Jamie nodded and jogged out, heading to Leena's tent. He arrived to see a giant Zoid hovering above a torn roof above the tent with Leena in its mechanical grasp. The culprit in the machine was a familiar foe.

"Brannigan!" Jamie yelled. The evil Commander looked down at the new arrival and laughed.

"Hahaha! Just what I needed, a witness, now that you know, go back and tell the groom what I've done." Brannigan then took a closer look.

"You…you're the one who shot me!" He then moved the gun of the machine to point at Jamie and fired. Jamie who had the reflexes of an eagle, quickly ran back. Brannigan who wanted his revenge on Jamie as well, knew that it was imperative to leave the area immediately if his plan was to work.

"…Soon enough, I'll make you pay too, boy." Brannigan said and left the area. Meanwhile Jamie had just made it back to the others. Without stopping, he made his way past Bit and the others yelling "To your Zoids now!" Nothing more had to be said to convince Bit, there was trouble and Jamie's word were all he needed. The two of them and Brad sprinted for the closest vehicle that would take them to their Zoids.

"Jamie, what happened?" Bit inquired angrily.

"It's Brannigan. He's alive, and he took Leena!"

"Shit, this is a trap for sure; we're going to have to think on our feet guys!" Brad responded. They took the first jeep they came across and Bit hit the pedal. Meanwhile Brannigan had made it to his hideout close by, he didn't have the funds from the Backdraft anymore but that didn't mean he didn't get rich while working for them. The hideout was a reconstruction of the ship that the Blitz team had annihilated, but with upgrades. Camouflage, more guns, more speed, the works. But the best part of this plan was going to be how badly he would humiliate Bit as well as the rest of the Blitz team...before he destroyed them. Brannigan landed on the ship and the restrained Leena was transferred via armed guards alongside Brannigan.

"Well, girl, I hope you enjoy this as much as I do." He said to Leena.

"The hell do you want?" Leena yelled.

"In due time you will see." He had the guards put her in a holding cell. He then went to the deck. The Blitz team had made it back to the Hover Cargo. Bit furiously changed into the Jager and launched. Jamie and Brad weren't far behind.

"Bit don't charge off, we don't know what Brannigan has planned." Jamie warned.

"Don't be dumb, the best he'll manage is an ambush in this terrain."

"Yeah, you're probably right, but the details are what matter in this fight."

His words weren't enough to stop an enraged Bit. He took off at full speed in the direction Jamie predicted Brannigan came from.

"Brad, I'll be able to cover him in the air, you should stay a bit farther behind on sniper detail."

"Yeah alright, let's get there before he gets himself killed."

They left soon thereafter, not too far behind but quickly being outpaced. Bit and Liger made it to rocky terrain; the ambush would likely be behind one of the larger rocks. He moved around them fast so as to not be an easy target. He then came at the top of a hill; below him was a single Bear Fighter. Liger leaped up and came down on its head with a laser claw.

"So predictable." Brannigan said. "Fire missiles."

The missiles were launched from four different directions. From behind Liger on top of the cliff, and from the front on the ground. Bit hit the boosters but was hit from behind by one of the missiles. The impact jarred loose one of the jet packs, sending Liger out of control and crashing form the lack of balance.

"Crap, hang in there Liger!" Bit yelled. Brannigan then spoke over the radio.

"Now you will know the taste of defeat and humiliation, boy." One of the missile launchers, an Elephander, approached. A series of bombs exploded between it and Liger, courtesy of Jamie.

"Don't think I wasn't prepared for you." Brannigan whispered to himself. He then gave the command.

"Fire the SAMs."

A series of anti-air missiles launched at Jamie, most of them missed but one was on a direct collision course with the Raynos. It exploded before it hit.

"I got you covered Jamie." It was Brad.

"Get a lock on that sniper position, take him out too." Brannigan said. He was prepared for all of their Zoids. One of the other missile launchers, a Gun sniper, relinquished its lefty load for the precision of the sniper rifle and took aim. The bullet it fired ricocheted off a nearby rock; Brad also knew to expect this and took cover.

"We're going to need that surprise soon, Jamie."

"Roger that deploying flares, everybody, put your sunglasses on." Bit and Brad complied, instituting a transitions lens, Zoid size. The flare exploded, blinding everyone else.

"Now Brad!" Jamie yelled. Brad came out from cover and took out the Gun Sniper and two other Zoids surrounding Bit, the Elephander however was still in cover, not about to come out until Jamie was gone. Bit relinquished most of the Jager attachments and took off after it. The Elephander was no easy foe, but Bit knew his stuff. Instead of jumping straight at the foe, which would result in a quick stomping without the Jager's full speed, he walljumped off the clifface and laser clawed it from the side. The mammoth was defeated. Now the only thing remaining was Brannigan's ship, or so they thought. Bit then went after the ship, which was just starting to take off, not wanting to waste precious seconds.

"Well it seems that flyboy thinks things through much better than you, Bit Cloud. But you have lost this round." Brannigan said over the air.

"That's what you think!" Bit then activated the remaining Jager booster. He hadn't relinquished everything, but this part alone would only last a few seconds before failing without all of the other parts, it was not meant to work alone. A turret on the ship fired at the incoming Liger. Because of the lost parts, Liger had less maneuverability in this makeshift form, and couldn't move out of the way fast enough. The booster was shot and then exploded. The damage wasn't severe but with the recoil, Liger wouldn't make it in time to the ship.

"Shit! Shit!" Was all Bit could manage.

"Jamie, after him!"

"I'm on it Bit." The Raynos zoomed after the fleeing ship. Brad also fired, taking aim at the on board missile launchers. Only two of the six was hit, the ship being too fast and distant for the Shadow Fox. The Raynos closed in and fired the beam cannon. Two more of the missile launchers were taken out, but the remaining two, and the four machine gun turrets fired on Jamie. The missiles missed but the precise machine guns hit the fuselage, forcing Jamie to retreat. The ship then engaged its cloak.

"Crap, don't let him get away!" Bit yelled.

"Sorry Bit…my Raynos can't take on that defense alone…but I was tracking the direction of travel before it disappeared." Jamie replied sullenly but reassuring.

"But it will take some time to repair and prepare ourselves, I'm sorry we couldn't get her Bit."

"I…know you tried." Was all Bit could manage. He knew that if Brannigan wanted to hurt Leena, he would want to do it in front of him. But he was wrong, on board the ship, Brannigan entered the holding area.

"Well well, what do we have here?"

"Just let me go you creep!"

"I think I've got a better idea. Guard, hold her down." The guards entered the cell and subdued her, grabbing her arms and pinning them to the floor.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Believe me I have little interest in you anymore, but this will hurt you a lot, and more importantly your boyfriend." Brannigan said as he walked over with a wicked smile and began to unbuckle his belt. When he was close enough, he lowered himself. He hadn't planned this part well enough and was met with blinding pain. He toppled over, unconscious. The impact hurt Leena's foot, but not nearly as much.

"Don't fuck with me!" Leena exclaimed. The two guards who were a bit dumbfounded pulled themselves together and carried the Commander out, not particularly sure what else to do. The Commander was taken to the medical bay. The sole remaining guard had a non-composed look on his face, Leena was beautiful, but to him she looked like the Angel of Death. Leena demanded to be given regular clothes and the guard obeyed immediately, not sure if the cell bars would do their job well enough to protect him. It was only a couple of minutes before Brannigan came around.

"Change…of plans…turn the ship around, we're going back." He said with a shortness of breath and limped his way to the Bridge. The ship made it back to the scene of the battle.

"Bring the girl here; I want her to see this." An armed escort of five men brought Leena to the bridge.

"Take a good look girl; this is the end of your boyfriend." The ship uncloaked and Brannigan opened a private channel to Bit.

"Bit Cloud, I've decided not to spare you or your girlfriend. First it's her turn…" A video popped up inside the Liger, it was a live feed into the ship's bridge. Leena was next to Brannigan, tied up and bound by duct tape on a chair.

"You let her go!" Bit replied back through the radio.

"Absolutely." Brannigan replied, he then pulled a gun out and kicked the chair over off screen and fired three shots.

"There's she's gone now. And now it's your turn, Bit Cloud." Brannigan said with condescending look. Bit didn't have time to respond but only look in horror. The ship adjusted its missile launchers and both fired at Liger.

"Get us out of here pilot." Brannigan ordered, and the ship began to leave.

"Yes, it's not the end for you, girl." Brannigan said setting the chair back up.

"…but it is the end of your husband to be." Leena had tears rolling down her face, she had seen the whole thing, Bit thought she was dead and now he was too.

"Put her back in the cell, I've got to think of something much worse to do with you now…" The guards complied and carried her off. Meanwhile, a Shield Liger sped its way over to the scene of the battle.

"Shit, is that Bit? We've got to get him out of there!" Leon exclaimed. A few minutes later, they were able to open the cockpit. He was in bad shape and was rushed to the nearest medical care center.

"Whoa….where am I?" Bit said, waking up from his bed.

"Bit? Bit, this is Jamie, how do you feel?"

"Like I just slept for a week."

"More like two weeks, you're lucky you even survived." Toros said behind Jamie.

"Damn, what happened? I thought I was getting married." The others in the room looked at each other.

"Bit, don't you remember what happened? We were attacked by Brannigan, he kidnapped Leena." Brad said stepping up.

"WHAT?" Bit said getting up.

"AGH!" He yelled falling back.

"Don't move Bit, you've yet to recover completely, it'll probably be another two days." Jamie said.

"Crap, do we know where they went?" Bit asked.

"Yeah, but that was just the general direction, who knows where they are by now…"

Meanwhile, Brannigan paced back and forth in his quarters. He wanted to kill Leena, but there was something more pressing on his mind. He clutched his chest at an old wound. The boy named Jamie had gotten away, he was now target number one. He would pay for what he had done to him. The girl was in captivity and could wait for her punishment.

He reached for the intercom "Lieutenant McKay, I want you to find out the location of the remaining Blitz team and report back to me with your findings ASAP."

They had enough time to suffer the loss of two of their comrades, now it was time to finish them off. It was a couple hours later that the findings were reported back. Apparently the Blitz team had gone low profile, not participating in the latest high stakes tournament. It made sense; they had lost two of their team and morale.

"McKay, Armstrong, I want you two to meet me in my ready room." It was time to make a plan, instead of powering his way through the stragglers, he was going to do this infantry style. The two soldiers entered and they began discussing how they would destroy the Blitz team once and for all.

"We proceed at 9 pm tomorrow, understood?"

"Yessir!" The two soldiers were then dismissed. They stepped out of the door.

"Hey Catherine…mind if I talk to you for a minute?"

"We're on duty, that's Lieutenant McKay to you."

"C'mon, we're off the clock since five minutes ago officially."

"Fine, what do you want?"

"Let's have a seat in the lounge first." Armstrong motioned.

"Doesn't the Commander seem…misguided?"

"How so? He wants to destroy an enemy who destroyed the first organization we worked for." McKay replied.

"No way, this is bloodlust. Personal revenge. You can't be telling me this is a routine operation. He wants to torture these people!"

"Maybe you're right…but we're soldiers, we do as we're ordered."

"The Blitz team is the enemy...so let's just kill them when we run into them, there's no need for all that extra nonsense. It's inhuman."

"Fine, whatever, just leave the boy for the Commander, he wants to deal with him personally."

"…" Armstrong didn't respond immediately.

"Well if we're done here, I'm going to eat dinner." McKay got up to leave. Armstrong watched her walk off. She was an attractive woman, a femme fatale if he'd ever met one. But at least she had some level of moral decency. Mark Armstrong on the other hand had some more thinking to do. Was it ok to let the Commander go through with this plan?

"Damnit, I'll just do whatever comes naturally to me in the field." He concluded and went to join McKay.

"Bit, are you sure you want to do this?" Toros inquired. Bit had insisted that he be released, that he'd be fine sleeping at their base.

"Don't worry about me; we've got to find Leena!" Toros didn't argue further.

"Jamie will try to dig up what he can, see if any of our connections have seen this ship…Don't worry son, we'll get her back." Toros said reassuringly.

"I know." Bit said, smiling a little.

There we have it, the world has flipped upside down and the wedding day went as far astray as it could. But what is Brannigan's plan, will he succeed? Will Mark and McKay obey him to the letter? Nobody knows who's alive after the exchange and Bit has had some amnesia, but one thing is for sure, the upcoming confrontation isn't going to be pretty.

Be sure to review. Till next time.

-SSJ