Jamie was working on the computer in the strategist room, searching for informations on the internet, with no luck on his part, before Leena came into the room. "JAMIE!"

"ACK! Don't scared me like that, Leena!" Jamie said, startled by her shouting and was caught by suprise.

"Sorry, but I needed to get your attention somehow." Leena said as she apologize to him and then sat by the strategist of the Blitz Team in another chair before she told and explained to him. "I found a few files on King Liger... well... King Liger actually give them to me, really. But I got them on a flash card."

Leena give Jamie the flash card and he put it into his computer before he then looked over the files. "Let's see... GU-04 Winglider, a unit perfect for King Liger, and... EZCAS5402-01X 'X'?"

"You heard about it?" Leena asked, which Jamie answer by shaking his head left to right.

"No, I haven't." Jamie said as he told Leena. "But I'll research it on the internet, to see if there is anything on it."

"Thanks, Jamie. You're the best. But you do have to promise me that you're gonna tell anyone about this, not even our teammates, as I wanted it to be a surprised, espacially for Bit."
Jamie raised an eyebrow at that. "Why?"

"Because I want to show my boyfriend my thanks in my own way." She answered. "So we can't tell anyone about this. Except for my dad, since he does have both the knowledge and experience of how to build them, we can tell him about them."

"About what?"

Leena and Jamie jumped in surprised and turn their head to see Dr. Toros standing behind, the expression on his face looking mildy confused as he only heard the end of what his own daughter said. Leena just blankly look at him before she sighed and proceed to tell him of what she found of what King Liger haven given her and the files being on the flash card itself. After she have told her father of this, he immediately grin happily like if he was a little kid that been given a present as his eyes were gleaming with stars. "You found a new equipment unit for the King Liger and a new possible CAS for the Liger Zero?! YAY!"

"DAD! Calm down! We don't want anyone to know about the new CAS for the Liger Zero yet." Leena said. After Dr. Toros has calm down now, she spoke to him. "Could you build this CAS unit?"

"Hmm..." Dr. Toros scratch his chin as he ponder for a moment before he give a answer. "I really don't know yet." He said before he then told his daughter and explain it to her. "Since I haven't look into the design of this unknown CAS yet, I am not hundred percent sure of what sort of parts that is needed to build it. But the GU-04 Winglider, on the other hand, is quite easy for us to build. Sure, it's going cost us quite a lot to buying the parts for it, but since we have the money that Harry left you, that is going to be a minor problem."

"Thanks, dad!" Leena said before she bear-hug her father, crushing his ribs in the process as his face started to turn a blue. After a moment, she let him go and told him with a serious glare at him. "But if you tell anyone about this, i'll maim you."

Realising she was serious about this, he immediately nodded at this. With that done now, Leena smiled at this before she skipped out of the room joyfully, happy at this development. After regaining his breath, Dr. Toros watch his daughter skip out of the room before he shook his head at this. She started remind him a bit of his wife when he and his two friends have first met her back then, back when he was still friend with Laon.. He decide to begin the process on building the GU-04 Winglider...


Later... at the hangar bay of the Blitz Team Base...

Bit, Fiona, and Van were currently in the hangar area of the team base. Van have manage to regained enough of his strength in his body, specifically, his legs to walk, allowing him to at least walk around the base, even though he's still not at 100% just yet, but he's getting there. The three were currently standing in front of Fiona's currently inactived Zoid body, in its white standard armor to be precise, before Van decide to finally ask. "So... this is your Zoid body, Fiona?"

"Yes."

"Oh yeah."

The two blonde answered his question before Bit then told him. "As you already know, me and my partner were best buddy, ever since we've first met in this same hanger and helped the Blitz Team into winning many battles, including the championship itself... before I found out my buddy was actually a girl." He said, embarrassed by that fact. This Fiona cause to giggle as Van just narrow his eyes at him and give him a questioning look to the blonde man before he decide to ignore it for now as he was wondering over something else.

"So how is Fiona is suppose to get into her Zoid body?" Van ask, confused by this and wonder about it.

"Huh... I didn't think about that to be honest." Bit sheepishly said as a sweatdrop appear on the side of his head.

"Hmm... I think I got idea of how it work." Fiona said, before she took a few steps forward her Zoid body and extended her hands toward it as she open the palm of her hands, while Bit and Van just watch and look at her in silence. Instantaneously, the chest of her Zoid body open up before about several dozens greenish glowing tendrils suddenly came out of it, much to Bit and Van's shock at this as they've never seen this before, and wrapped around her true body before pulling Fiona into the body of her Zoid form and the chest closed behind her.

The eyes glowed all before Liger Zero suddenly stood up all of her four legs and let out a roar at this. Van jolted with shock at this, being the first time that he saw Fiona im her Zoid form now, before Bit, already got used to it, walk over to the Lion-type with a smile on his face and spoke to his partner. "Hey, buddy! Happy to be back in your Zoid form, huh?" Liger Zero turn her head and give a growl of affirmation to him. Van, still shock by this, just stood in silence before he manage to find his voice and spoke.

"Fiona? Are you still you?" Liger Zero turned her head toward Van and give him a growl of comfirmation to him before she lowered her head to his level and begun nuzzling him, gently due to their differences in sizes. "Yep. You're still you, Fiona."

"Aaawww, isn't that sweet?" Bit comment.

"Shut up."

Liger Zero put her head on the floor and beside before then opening the hatch of the cockpit, which reveal the two-seat. Van expressed his confusion at this, not sure of what she wanted, but Bit have quickly figure out of what his partner wanted. "I think she want you to pilot her. You know, to quickly check your piloting skills and to see if you're rusty." The blonde pilot explained to the black-haired soldier. "Since you were in that pod for a long time. Plus, since there's two seat, I can get to see your skills while I'll give you intruction."

"Good idea. Now I get of where she is getting at. Well, thanks to you, of course."

"Thanks."
"You're welcome."

With that, Van and Bit got into the cockpit, with the blonde warrior letting the former soldier have the pilot seat as he sat down in the backseat of the cockpit. Once they've seated, Liger Zero closed the hatch of the cockpit and stood right up on its four legs before walking out of the hangar and out into the endless landscape of the desert surrounding the Blitz Team Base to test out and see Van's skills and ability to see if they were rustly or not.

Soon, they were doing the basic parts of the training to start it off, as they want to take it easy and slow so they can see Van's skills as a Zoid pilot and didn't want to rush him, Liger Zero giving him the controls. They slowly advanced through the basic parts of the training until the former soldier was done with the basic part of the training, passing it with flying colors. Bit was, to say the least, quite impressed by the skills of him as he compliment him. "Not bad, Van! Look like your skills and ability as an Zoid pilot, as well as the basic understanding of piloting a Zoid, haven't lost its edge. Something most definitely expected out of a member of the Guardian Force... well, former member of the Guardian Force really." Liger Zero growled in agreement with him. "I have to say, you'll be one heck of a Zoid warrior."

"Thanks." Van said as with a smile.

"Now then... how about I give you a bonus round to challenge you." Bit said. He look around before he see one, a gorge that was about over 5 miles wide and across with a river below it, and told Van. "See that gorge over there?"
"Yeah?"

"I want to see if you can jump over it with Liger Zero and land on the other side... without topping Liger Zero over. So if you do landed ot on the other side without topping Liger Zero over, then I own you some ice cream."

"Oh, you are so on!" Van said with a confidence smirk on his face as he pushed the throttle to the max. Liger Zero reply with an all mightly roar before dashing forward... and right toward the gorge itself. Her speed slowly but surely climb up until it was now at her maximum speed of over 307 km/h (190 mph) before it was one step away from the edge of the cliff. "NOW!" With just one jump from the edge, Liger Zero leaped into the air like a pouncing cat that was on the hunt as Van then actived the boosters, causing the lion-type Zoid to go even higher in the air, as she soared through the air like a glider as Bit and Van let out howls of amazement at this while Liger Zero let out a roar of excitment, as she feel like the wild and untamed wind that blew across the landscape of Zi, before she landed on the other side of the gorge on all of her four legs. Van took a deep breath and blew an whisper at this as he rub his forehead with one of his arms before he turn and spoke to the blonde pilot. "So, how was that?"

"Okay, okay. You got me..." Bit said as he joked around... before he give Van a grinning face as he told him. "But in all seriousness, it was awesome! You've definitely left an impression on me." He said before he then ask him. "So tell me... how was it and what do you think?"

"Hmm... it was pretty easy for me to learn it and get a idea on how it works, since I've already done before." Van answered as he told Bit about it. "And beside the awkward fact that Fiona is the Zoid that we are piloting, it's pretty great!"

"Good."

"So what about the promise of getting ice cream?"

"Well... there's a town nearby of where we can get some before we can then begin the more advance part of the training. I'll give you the direction of where to go so you can head toward it."

"Okay. Sound good to me."

Van piloted to turn Liger Zero around and headed toward the town, as Bit gave the intruction and the direction for him to follow. In all honestly, Van knew that he was going to like this new form of the world that they live in. Sure, many of the people that he and his few friends both knew and loved were all but long gone, but he and them have new friends to help him out. He was glad that the Guardian Force, at least, have made the world a mostly peaceful one without them despite being long but gone now. And he still have Fiona with him. He was happy of he have now.


Meanwhile... somewhere else...

Jamie, Vega, Raven, Irvine, and Moonbay were searching for books that have the recording of the history during the beginning and the earliest years of ACCE itself in one of the sections of the liberty, looking for any books that have information that was on the Keres City Slaughter incident itself. And... well... they were having a bit of difficult time on that one.

"Aaaahhhhh... this is so damn difficult, more difficult of searching for information on just one incident that is recorded." Moonbay muttered to herself at this as she and the others were all looking through the piles and piles of books that they have put on the table. "With so many book on this table, you think you would at least find one book, or even one page at least, that would explain the Keres City Slaughter Incident? But nope. Every book that I have read so far mention about but yet there is barely anything else on it other then what Jamie have already mention to us."

"Quit, complaining Moonbay." Irvine said to the dark-skinned girl beside him, leaning against her chair, as he told her. "It would get you anywhere faster."

"Yeah, yeah. I know... it's just so annoying of trying to find anymore details on it!" Moonbay said in annoyance with a pouty look on her face as she lay her head on the table. "It's so damn annoying..."

Raven just look at them before he huff at this and turn to Jamie, who was reading one of the books at the moment, before he ask him. "So Jamie, what about you? Did you find any pages or books that explain the incident in greater details?"

"Nope. Not having any luck of finding those on it, either." Jamie answered... before the two turn their head toward Vega. "Vega? What about you?"

"Well, I did found one book the discuss about it, which is the one i'm reading now..." Vega answered while he was holding a very large book, which have gotting the other's attention, before he told about it. "In the early part of it, it has some useful informations of what did likey happen at the Keres City Slaughter Incident thanks to the insight of it and what events lead it to transpired, before the book then later go into the theories of what exactly cause it and what exactly happen afterward, ranging from the most realistic theory to the conspirary theories and all to the most outlandish and farfetched ones, like it was cause by either aliens, vampires, or even zombies that was behind it all."

"Either aliens, vampires, or even zombies...?" Irvine said with a sweatdrop appear on the side of his head as he raised at an eyebrow at that statement, couldn't believe at what he just heard from him as it was the most ridiculous things that he have heard in his life yet.

"Yep."

"Okay." Raven said, shaking his head at this, can't believing of what they were coming with. People. Before he then ask him. "So what are the more realistic theories?"

"Well, there's plenty of them, but there's one that just stood out to me and might interest you: The theoy that the whole incident was the end result of a trap set for the Guardian Force by a terrorist group or some other unknown organization."

That definitely got their interest peeking at this theory, since they've knew that it happened multiple times before due to their experience, before Irvine spoke. "So you think this theory suggest that it is what possibly happen at Keres City?" He asked.

"Maybe. Since there's several amount of evidence backing it up." Vega said. "However, since it happen over a 1000 years ago, we may never know the answer to that question as it was a long time ago and the Keres City is long abandoned, nothing but ruins nowadays."

"You're right..." Raven comment as he cross his arms together and thought about it. "So look like we might have hit a dead end at this point, with scarce and what little information on the Keres City Slaughter incident, all we got is just guesses now..." Everyone agree Raven on that one, since they could only found scarce informations on it. They were all but silence at this... until Jamie spoke.

"Speaking of Keres City being ruins now. Those same ruins, the Keres City Ruins, is one of the places that we fought Dr. Laon." Jamie said. "The same place where he, Doc, and my dad met Leena's mom at when they were still friend togethers and the same place where their rivally with each other begun."

"You're serious?" Moonbay asked, as the others were now listening in interest, keening on how Dr. Toros, Dr. Laon, and Oscar first met Leena and Leon's mother.

"Oh yeah... From what I heard, from my own dad no less, they've first went to the Keres City ruins themselves when they were still in college..."


Later... at the Blitz Team Base...

Bit, Leena, Fiona, and Van were eating ice creams of various kind of flavors (after Van and Bit have already finished the advanced parts of the training and decide to get ice cream for them and their girlfriends) in the hangar of the Blitz Team Base, near Fiona's inactived Zoid body, with Zeke laying by them. They ate their ice creams for a while before they've finished it and after they have finished them, Dr. Toros suddenly came into the hangar and notice them.

"Ah, there you are, Leena!" Dr. Toros said joyously as he walked over to them and then told his daughter. "I've came to tell you that the GU-04 Winglider is now done since i've already decoded, look at, and build it already."

"OH!" Leena said, surprised by that news, before she thanks her father. "Well, thanks dad." She turn her head to those who are rather confused of what is exactly going on and explained it to them. "I've found a few files on a flash card from King Liger."

"Aaaahhhh..." The three reacted rather casually to this, as it didn't really surprised them since they suspected that the King Liger was involved, one way or another.

"So the Winglider is done?" Leena asked after she turn her attention to her father.

"Yep." Dr. Toros answered before he told his daughter. "In fact, it is ready to be put on the King Liger and tested to see if it will work."

"Great!" Leena said before she turn and ran toward King Liger as she called out to her Zoid while her father was preparing to equip the unit to the Lion-type Zoid. "KING LIGER! Let get the Winglider equipped to you so that we can see if it work!" King Liger immediately respond to its partner's call by drooping down its head inches above floor and opening the hatch of its cockpit, letting Leena jumping into the pilot seat of its cockpit, before then closing the hatch completely and dropping the restaints onto its partner. Next, the King Liger stood up on all of its four legs before Leena piloted her Zoid right underneath the spot of where the overhead crane of the hangar is usually at, as the Zoid doctor control and moved the overhead crane itself to get the GU-04 Winglider by using a remote to control the device before a section of the floor splitted apart, revealing it to be a pair of horizontal sliding doors built into the floor, before lowering it into the open section of the floor that lead right dwon to the basement, located below the Blitz Team Base and the place where Dr. Toros created the CAS units for the Liger Zero, to get it. Once the crane has clamp down right onto the GU-04 Winglider, Dr. Toros put in the commands for the crane to lifted it out of the basement and into the hangar, revealing its true appearance to them: It was white-colored unit that was shape sorta of like a box with four golden wings jagging out in different direction, a pair of two wings on the side of the unit and another pair on the top of it, and a quartet of golden cannons attached to the top front of the unit.

Now that it was out of the basement, Dr. Toros put in the commands onto the remote for the crane before the overhead crane then moved toward the King Liger with the unit in its grip. Once it was over the Lion-type Zoid, it begun to lower the GU-04 Winglider unit onto the Zoid and placed it on the back of the King Liger, just behind the four laser blades of the Zoid were, where a empty space on called a port socket was located on the back of the neck of the Zoid, allowing the crane to put it into the port socket and attaching the unit to the King Liger. Once the GU-04 Winglider was connected to King Liger's port socket, the Zoid doctor give the go to his daughter. "Alright, Leena! The Winglider is now connected! Time to test it out!"

"OKAY!" Leena said before she then told her partner. "King Liger! Let's do this!" She said as she pumped herself up by punching the air with her fists. King Liger gave a roar of affirmation to its partner at this before then walking out of the hangar.

The others decide to watch the test outside from inside of the hangar as Leena and King Liger were prepared to test out the new equipment. Leena slowly pushed the throttle as the King Liger slowly begun to run until she push it to the max, causing her Lion-type Zoid to go up and running at its maximum speed of 280 km/h as the Zoid itself ran across the landscape of the desert, giving a majectic and magnificent appearance to the Lion-type Zoid. "King Liger! LET'S GO!" Leena shouted as she actived all of the boosters on her Zoid, including a pair of them on the GU-04 Winglider, accelerating the King Liger even faster than Leena have experience before and beyond its maximum speed... until she guided her Zoid as she shouted. "NOW!"

All before with one mighty leap, the King Liger jumped into the air... and flew. Not gliding in the air. But actually flying and soaring through the air of the sky, all under its own power from the boosters of the Winglider. Everyone down on the ground just look in awe and marvel at it as the striking and awe-inspiring Lion-type Zoid flew around the landscape where the Blitz Team Base was at, under its own power no less. Bit said one word that everyone agree that said it best. "Incredible..."

"Wow..." Leena said, as she look down at the desert landscape inside the cockpit of her own Zoid. Sure. It wasn't her first time piloting a flying Zoid. Like the time when she've piloted Jamie's previous Zoid, a customized Ptera, to chase after Bit when he was running away from her in his jeep (a fact that she was still embarrassing to her), but she never really did took in the beauty of it since she was chasing Bit in his jeep at the time. Now that she is, in her own Zoid no less, Leena was taking in the scenery of the landscape of the desert down below that would took your breath away too, as it was just simply breathtaking from above in the air, as the King Liger soar through the air above the earth with its Winglider backpack, before Leena spoke to her Zoid. "King Liger. This is simply amazing. I have never been able to enjoy it since other things happen that didn't allow me to, but now that I am, my own breath is just simply tooking away. And thanks to you, King Liger and the Winglider unit. Thank you for this, King Liger. You're an awesome Zoid. Something that I don't regret."

The King Liger just simply give a growl of approval at this, glad that its pilot was enjoying this. Leena just smiled calmly as she lean down in her seat, taking in the tranquillity of it. It made her wonder. What could wrong? Well, fate itself, however... has other plans for them...


Meanwhile... at the sercet location of the sercet base...

The Commissioner of the Zoid Battle Commission Union came in and stumble into the room with his wobbly legs, this time being bloodied, bruised, and injuries all over his body, as the door closed behind him while the sercet base was shaking due to the various explosion and gunfires were heard outside of the room, before his superior spoke in concern, evidence by his words despite his monotone voice. "What is going on?"

"We're... we're being attacked... from one of the remnants... of the Backdraft group." The Commissioner answered his superior's question in between taking his breath to soften the pains from his wounds, as he steady himself on his wobbling legs. However, that was when the door suddenly glowed before exploding, causing the Commissioner to be send through the air and down to the floor by the resulting kinetic shockwave from the explosion, causing him to cough up some blood from his mouth. That was when a middle-aged man in a black-coat with black hair and broad-looking appearance came out of the smoke, having an insane grin on his face with his eyes being just as equally insane and holding a pistol in his left hand, from the resulting explosion, which the Commissioner recongized of who he exactly is due to the report of his description before he spoke his name. "So you're Enriol, huh?"

"Yeah, tat's-a my name..." Enriol answered, with a slight Italian-American accent... before he then aimed his pistol to the Commissioner's superior's head as he told him, still grinning with bloodlust in it. "Say nighty-night to your boss!" He pressed the trigger of his gun, firing the bullet from its barrel, sending toward the Commissioner's superior's head. When the bullet itself struck the head and ripping it off, he immediately stopped grinning... when instead of blood, there was sparks coming from the body, revealing it to be just a robotic body attached to a bunch of cables to the wall behind it. He was momentary confused by this before he promptly growled at this and turned to the Commissioner. "What de fucking hell is this?!"

"You didn't realized?! I thought you would be smarter than that!" The Commissioner laughed at Enriol, couldn't believe that he was easily tricked by this, with a shit-eating grin on his face. "My superior didn't want anyone know what he truely look like, so he opt for a fake robotic body to speak to me and my predecessor. Like look you're going to need to intensify your search for him since he's already running away from his hiding place when you blasted down that door!"

"I'M. WILL. FUCKING. MURDER YOU!" Enriol growled at him in seething rage at this, couldn't believe he was tricked by this easily.

"Whatever..." The Commissoner said with a laugh, taunting the former Backdraft member, despite the fact that he is injured and doesn't have a weapon on him. Enriol just growled at him before he prompty aim his pistol and fired at the Commissioner of the ZBCU, ending his long life on Zi for good. Enriol then stepped out of the room as he grab a walkie talkie from the pocket of his coat and begun shouting orders angrily to the other units that were outside of the base. "ATTENTION ALL UNIT! The guy's superior turned out to be using a robotic body double to distract us! I don't care what method you used, BUT FIND THIS GUY'S SUPERIOR AND KILL HIM ON SIGHT IF YOU FIND HIM!"


A/N: SUPRISED! Didn't expect that, did you? Man, i'm just full of surprised. Sorry for taking so long, but I was sorta of... well... lacking motivations for finishing up this chapter sooner. But hey! At least I'm done, that's count, right? Yeah, it's another filler chapter, but I need to give details, right?

And in case if you were wondering. No. He's not the guy who shot Jamie. They're originally the same guy, but I decide to make two completely different character since it doesn't make sense to me.

Okay, from what I judge from my current output of making chapters for this story, I can estimate it is going between about 4 to 11 more chapters for each week or sooner, depending on how many chapters that it is going to be before I finished this story, but at any rate, if I do finish this soon. Then I would go work on other thing, like making a couple of one-shots or planning something else. I just really don't know at the moment. I just have to wait and see for this story to be finished.

But the question remains: Who is the true identity of the Superior? And what other sercet that the King Liger is keeping? What actually happen at the Kere City Slaughter Incident? And what did happen to Leena's mom? You'll have to wait and see...