AN: This one is creepy short. It was a lot of writing the two organoids fighting though!

Disclaimer: I don't own zoids.


Specular and Shadow were sizing each other up, wanting the other to make the first move. Raven lost his patience and lunged at Specular who grabbed them by the throat and slammed them into the ground. The blue organoid tried to bite in again but Shadow flipped over and shot his wings out, upper cutting the blue one and knocking her off balance. The black organoid then swiftly bit into Specular's arm and pulled her down in front of him.

Specular tried to use Shadow's attack, rolling onto her stomach and opening up her wings, but Shadow moved behind her and stepped down on her back. His jaw grabbed her neck and slammed her into the wall, pouncing on the fallen frame as it tried to get up.

Specular and Reese let out a cry of agony as the other two bit into the neck armour and shook like a dog. They threw the two over the other side of the room and leaped after them as they scampered to get up. Roaring as they skidded in front of the two menacingly, Shadow and Raven scared the injured pair more.

We have to get away! Specular realised in fear. Reese, we must!

The zoidian understood this too but did not like it one bit. If Prozen found out they ran, he'd be more pissed off than anyone had ever seen him.

Raven snapped at their neck, not wanting to kill them but wanting them gone. Specular backed off a few quick steps and half turned to the door.

Reese, please!

The zoidian gave in and let Specular take them away, fleeing back to the battle.

Shadow gave a proud roar as the blue one left.

Now to fight. Raven didn't waste any time.


"Van!"

Both zoids looked to Irvine's aerial zoid. The man had been away roaming the town when the Empire's bounty hunters had struck, and so avoided being caught in the hangar.

Hiltz smirked and fired off his 'Burning Big Bang' again.

"NO!" Van screamed, seeing his friend crash to the ground.

"And back to you." Hiltz laughed wickedly and the Liger's jaws opened up to kill Caesar.

There was a roar and the Panzer's face was knocked away from the injured neck. Both Hiltz and the Zero Panzer watched the organoid then fly into Raven's zoid.

Hiltz growled and slammed the dashboard with his fists.

The Fury charged forward at full speed, only projecting the shield at the last second. Caesar weakly rose as the Panzer was knocked down.

The BFSE let out a battle cry and spun around. Caesar removed the Panzer's large weaponry with its fangs, blades and claws and then left the final attacks to Raven who picked up the now relatively light Panzer in the Fury-type's mouth and flung him into the canyon.

The red zoid pushed itself up, the strength very slowly draining. Ambient gave a weak growl but stayed fused. The yellow eyes of the zoid focused on the Berserk Fury Shadow Edge. Letting out an angered roar the Panzer ran towards the black zoid.

"Hiltz!" Reese called from on top of the canyon. "We need to leave, now."

The man growled but still launched himself at the Fury only to get knocked down by the zoid's tail. Hiltz finally gave up, growling and retreating to Reese and Specular, Hanna beside them.

"We'll be back." The Knight warned, glaring at the Liger Pilot. "And you'll regret everything!"

With that they left, flying away on the organoids.

The tension seemed to lift, and it was as if the whole town let go of their breath and for a few moments there was nothing but silence.

"Good timing." Van sighed, finally able to pull up a communications link with the BFSE's pilot

Raven smirked, and Van saw for the first time there was no malice in it. The Liger pilot smiled at him.

"Hopefully Herman realises there's no point to locking you up."

"Even if he doesn't, once Blue's healed I'm out of here."

"You're not going to leave her with us, again?"

He shook his head. "You can't fend these guys off."

Van sighed again. "Here I was thinking you'd changed."

Raven switched off the link and laughed. "Did you hear that Shadow?"


AN: All hale character development.