"You're supposed to be resting right!"
"I'm a general in the Helic Rupblic! I have work to do, even if i'm in this hospital bed!"
"I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE DAMN ABOUT YOUR JOB, YOU SENILE IDIOT!"
"SHUT UP, WOMAN!"
Our protagonist's group, the ones who were not Zoids just to be exact, just sweatdrop at the arguing of General Gordox Aldo Cannoneer and one of the nurses of the hospital they were in as if they were a old married couple. But why is General Gordox in the hospital? The reason was quite simple really as it was just the day after the giant meteor nearly hit the surface of Zi; The old general was in an meeting with both President Camford and Emperor Rudolph the III regarding about the issue of the Rare Hertz Infection that had slowly covered the entire continent of Europa and is speading to other part of the world before the meeting was then attack by an assassin before he sent out Sleeper Red Horns at the building that the meeting taken place. General Gordox got into Gorgon and manage to beat them with their superior skills while both President Camford and Emperor Rudolph the III were taken to safety in the one of Guylos Empire's Whale King. However, the assassin then shot an cannon shell from a faraway distance, damaging Gorgon's cockpit where General Gordox was sitting in and taking the left side of his armor off due to the gap, but the assassin was then forced to escape when some of the members of the Guardian Force, along with the Baron of Wings and Swords of Storm in their custom Storm Sworders, arrived to help, but were too late as the damage to both General Gordox and Gorgon have already been done and General Gordox was forced to be taken to the nearest hospital while Gorgon was being repaired. They did found the cannon and they knew that, whoever, it is must have a grudge against either the Emperor of Guylos or the President of Helic.
"For a old man, he is sure stubborn." Irvine comment.
"No kidding..." Moonbay said.
"That reminds me... what happen to Hen when you came back?" Fiona asked, as she notice that Hen was in a state that was like he was suffering from food poisoning.
(Oh yeah, that... you see...) Ambient growl as he explain what happen to Hen to Fiona. (After we've destroyed the meteor, well technially me and Hen, and after Van and Raven come back with their zoids and apologies to us about not being there at the right place at the right time due to the Merda, we were hailed as hero to Patton City and there were even some childrens that crawls around Hen's body. However, one of the childrens somehow accidentally give Hen a plug to the entire power grid of the entire city and it cause him to have an power surge, which later cause him to have a hangover.)
"So that's what happen?" Reese said.
(Yes.)
"HEY! We didn't know that there was a meteorite!" Van and Raven shouted at the same time. "We were busy of trying to kill that damn Hellrunner!"
"Right... I think you 2 might need some therapist." Moonbay said as she sweatdrop.
"No kidding..." Irvine comment before he remember something. "Speaking of the meteor, are you sure it didn't kill anyone?"
"Pfft, of course not. We didn't received report of anyone dying since it was blown over in the middle of the Deldaros Ocean, right?" Moonbay told the mercenary who was the lone wolf-type. "So nothing bad have happen... right?"
A day earlier... on one of the islands in the middle of the Deldaros Ocean...
On one of the island in the Deldaros Ocean, lay a tribe of primitive Ancient Zoidians, which were seperated from the rest of the world, were just minding their own business before they saw the metoer entering the atmosphere and it was struck by Charged Particle Cannon, which cause it to explode and cause one of the pieces to hit the island, killing all of the inhabients and sinking the island.
Back in the present...
"Speaking of which... what we going to do now... or you guys have something else to do?" Moonbay ask everyone a rather interest question.
"Well, me and Irvine are assigned to temporary guard both President Camford and Emperor Rudolph when the meeting resume, although with General Colonel Krueger is taking General Gordox's place in the meeting to discuss about the Rare Hertz Infection problems..." Thomas said before he drag away with him as they walk out of the hospital room.
"I want to checkup on Hen to make sure he's doing okay." Fiona said.
(I'll come with you.) Ambient said through his growl.
"Thank you." Fiona said before she and Ambient walked out of the hospital room also.
"Okay..." Moonbay said before she turned to Reese. "Hey, want to help me to get Van and Raven a therapist."
"... Eh, why the hell not?" Reese said as she shrugged.
"THANK YOU~!" Moonbay said happily while Van and Raven were in shock of what they just heard while Gordox was still arguing with the nurse.
"HUH?!"
Later... at the Zoids Hangar...
Fiona and Ambient walk into the hanger and saw... Hen laying on his back on the floor of the hangar, as he was having some sort of seizure, while his left arm was up in the air that make him look like he was having trouble breathing while having a suffering a stroke as he ranted about some company called Tomy that ruined a toyline's popularity due to their decision like he was drunk, which he kinda is. Fiona, along with the 2 other remaining Zoids in the hangar, Van's Blade Liger and Raven's Genobreaker, and the Organoids just sweatdrop at this. "He is still at it, isn't he?"
(Yep.) The Zoids and Organoid answered.
Meanwhile... in the hospital room where Gordox is staying at...
General Gordox was typing on the computer, more specifically, the assassin, of who he was and figuring out a strategy to counter him. He found what he was looking for and read it down... all before the nurse then came in and shouted at him for it. "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ASLEEP!"
"SHUT UP! I'M BUSY RIGHT NOW!"
Meanwhile... where the other 4 are...
Moonbay and Reese have took Van and Raven to a therapist, who then ask them. "So you two hate the Hellrunner, correct?"
"Yes/Yeah..."
"Why do you two hate the Hellrunner?"
"Oh, we'll tell you why that damn Hellrunner!" Van and Raven said as they ranted about how it is always played trollish tricks every single time on them when they were young until they were teenagers and it often run away from trouble thanks to its legendary speed, all while the therapist still calm and wrote it all down...
A day later...
Irvine and Thomas got to the building where the meeting is taking place in their Zoids. They notice the lack of guards in the area and realized that something is going on before a Gojulas suddenly erupted out of the sands.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Both of them shouted by surprised before the Gojulas then attack the back of Thomas' Dibison with its Hyper Bite Fangs, disabling the use of his zoid's own 17 cannons, before Irvine then fired his Lightning Saix's Long Range Pulse Laser Rifle at the cockpit area of the zoid, forcing the Gojulas to let go. Already, they've notice the different in the Gojulas due to its armored cockpit instead of the normal glass cockpit of an normal Gojulas and has a giant sword that could cut a Genosaur in half. That was when a transmission came from the pilot himself, who reveal himself to be the assassin. "You're trying interrupted my attempt again? Too bad for you, I knock out the guards with sleeping gas, but what more, someone was kind enough to give me some Reddlers to distract both the Baron of Wings and Sword of Storms and jammed the signals, so you're not getting help anytime soon... beside, you 2 are going to die anyways."
"Oh yeah?! Let's see about that!" Irvine said before he and Thomas then fight the assassin in the modify Gojulas. Already, he proven himself to be a challenge as he use a combination of his Zoid's only long-ranged weapon and the sword. However, Thomas was able to immobilize him by used his Dibison's Crusher Horn through one of the Gojulas' leg when Irvine districted the assassin before his Zoid was cut in half by the Gojulas' sword. Before the assassin could do anything else, his Gojulas was suddenly struck by a pair of cannon skell, causing the Zoid to topple over. Then a rather familiar voice came on the com-links.
"HA! TAKE THAT, GARRY!" General Gordox shouted with an cockly tone in his voice at this, revealing the assassin's true name and that he and Gorgon were the ones who fired the shells from the Republic Supercannons. "TOO BAD FOR YOU THAT IN TRUTH THE MEETING IS TAKING PLACE SOMEWHERE ELSE DUE TO THE FACT I'VE NOTIFY THE PRESIDENT AND EMPEROR!"
"Please calm down, all the shouting is going to make your voice hurt." The nurse said, who was hold Gordox's IV bag by its stand and was sitting in Gorgon's cockpit along with him while a Godo was holding Gorgon's own IV bag on its stand.
Later...
After arresting the assassin that was known as Garry and getting Gordox back to the hospital to make sure that he is healthy enough to walk out and Gorgon back to repairs, Irvine and Thomas, along with their primary Zoids on an Gustav, head back to the hanger at the Guardian Force base. That was when Fiona, the organoids, and the other Zoids, along with Hen, who is feeling much more better than he was previously, saw them as they enter the hangar. Fiona was justt shocked by the damage state of Thomas' Dibison. "What happen?!"
"We were surprised attack by the same assassin with a Gojulas, but he's arrested now and we've come out fine." Thomas said while he was sercetly enjoying the feeling of Fiona being concern for them, including himself. The feeling then intensify when Fiona smiled kindly and happily to them.
"I'm glad you're alright."
(Yeah...) Hen give a sickly growl as he still felt sick from 2 days ago while Van's Blade Liger and Raven's Genobreaker were comforting him.
That is when Irvine notice there was something missing in the hangar and spoke about it. "Hey, where's Van, Moonbay, Raven, and Reese?"
"Huh... good question. I don't actually know..." Fiona said as she, the 3 organoid, and the 2 Zoids look around the hangar. "I thought they would have been already back yesterday." As if summoned by her words, the 4 then appear and enter into the hangar through the back while Moonbay was just practically skipping as Fiona notice them. "Oh, there they are."
"HEY GUYS~!" Moonbay said in a chirpy tone of her voice.
"Hey, Moonbay." Fiona said politely as the other 4 came up to them.
"Why are you in a happy mood all of a sudden?" Irvine asked, hoping it is not what he think it is.
"Oh, you see... when we got Van and Raven to an therapist to be diagnostic tested by her." Moonbay explain, as both Van and Raven were glaring at her for suggesting that, as she told the others. "As it turned out, due to stress caused by the Hellrunner's actions during their childhood, it cause them to have a something similar to an stress disorder and an quarter-life crisis."
"WHICH ALSO MEAN YOU 2 SHOULD GET LAID!" General Gordox shouted as he walk by along with General Krueger with him as they talk about the discussing at the meeting, causing the 2 humans and 2 Zoidian to go silence as their faces goes deep-red from pure embarrassment while everyone else went silence.
"... Anyways..." Moonbay said, breaking the seriously awkward silence, before she then took out a map and point at one spot on the map with her index finger. "So, in order to help them with that issue, I've decide to book us an vacation spot in the most northern western part of Europa called the Nihonzaru Hot Springs to help them out with their issues."
Snapping out of her own embarrassment, Fiona look at the map and immediately recongized the place before she spoke. "Isn't this the area where both people and Zoids take a dip in...?"
"Yup."
"And it is also famous for a group that are comprised of both Hammerrocks and an Iron Kong subspecies called the Iron Kong Yeti during the winter months?"
"That's right!"
"Sound like a good place to take a vacation at."
(It actually does sound nice.) Hen comment, which the Zoids and Organoid agreed to.
A/N: This is just a filler chapter, so it is possible that it doesn't make sense to you guys. Also, before one of you asked, a Story of a Injury is just a one-shot and it is not actually part of this story. Anyways, the reason this chapter is kinda average is because, well, I was kinda lazy today. I don't know, but I didn't felt the drive to make it. In the next chapter, there is going to be something interest...
Also, the reason why Hen barely make any appearance, beside having an hangover of being drunk, is because I wanted to focus more on the other characters. But the result were... mixed to say the least...