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"Okay. So what do you mean that Ambient is the one who manage to maintain this peace of this world for so long?" Raven ask, as his organoid Shadow was standing beside him, with a raised eyebrow at this. They were now all back at the Blitz Team Base, long after they've got the metal net off of Ambient and brought the crimson organoid onto the Hover Cargo, they have let the police deal with and handle the members of the Backdraft remnants and left to go back to the base after the fairy-like Zoidian promise them that he'll explain everything of what is going on, which was that point that the CC group explain of who Ambient exactly is when they met him and were surprised by how he acted differently before all those 1000 of years ago. Which lead to where they are currently are at now, and were in the living room of the Blitz Team Base to be precise, with Fiona now in her true Zoidian form while Ambient himself was just laying down in one of the corners of the living room, all while his fairy-like partner was floating above him, as everyone else was look at them in silent, as the black-grey man spoke. "And what is your name anyway?"
"Hm? Oh yeah! I completely forgot to tell you guys my name. So... let's get introduction out of the way...: My name is Jolt and you guys already seem to know Ambient by the details that I heard from you." The fairy-like chibi Zoidian said, revealing his name to be Jolt, as he told them about himself and his work with Ambient. "I might look like a cute little young fairy to you guys, but I am only just a few centuries and have worked with Ambient during that time when I have first met him."
"You're centuries old?!" Leena said in disbelief at that fact despite of what she was seeing with her own eyes, which Jolt answered by nodding his head.
"So your name is Jolt, huh?" Bit said, which made Jolt nodded at that question. "Nice name, it fit you well."
"Thanks." Jolt said as he give the peace v-sign to Bit with his fingers.
"So Jolt, you seem to be familiar to me, like if you were one of the creations of my people... what are you exactly?" Fiona ask Jolt, figuring out that the fairy-like Zoidian maybe a part of one of the creations that her own people, the Ancient Zoidians, must have created.
"I'm an Cyber Elf."
"A Cyber Elf? What is that?" Moonbay and Vega asked, as they have never see one in their entire lives and have only heard about them in old tales and stories for children, like the rest of the others have since they've never seen one too. Jolt was about to explain to them, but Fiona beat him to the punch.
"Oh! So you're a Cyber Elf! Now I remembered!" Fiona said before she then turned her head to the group and begun explaining to them. "You see: A Cyber Elf is an small-sized artificially-made Zoidian. They were used by my now extinct people as assistants to observed and keep the recording of datas and information. Basically... they were monitors to help them out with remebering certain details."
"Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!"
"Yeah... that's what she said." Jolt said before he shrug at this and then resume explaining to them. "But as I said to you guys, I was only born about a few centuries ago, long before I met Ambient a few decades later. So I don't really know about my own kind other than what he has told me about them from experience and memories of them. You're right about me being a montior, Fiona. I do observed the amount of datas and information coming through while working as Ambient's assistants, to help him with certain details. I even help him to translate to people of what he's exactly saying to them. Although for our safety reasons, we did have to used a robotic double body for Ambient, which I have use to speak and give orders to our subordinates that was in an sercet base in an unknown location from our hiding place while I was translating of what he was saying to one or more of them. And one of the main reasons is that nobody knows of who we are truely are and look like in person."
"Okay, we can get that, but why were you guys chased by those Backdraft Zoids?" Irvine ask with an raised eyebrow at that question, still puzzle over it.
"Because the sercet base where the robotic body double was contain at was attacked." Jolt said, answering Irvine's question, before he then told them of why. "It was due to the series of gun shoots and explosion that we heard on the robotic body double's audio sensors, that was our first indication that something was going on outside and not in the good way at all, before the Commissioner of the ZBCU, who was loyal to Ambient and his plan to the start and the very end of his own life, came in and told us of what was happening, which was by one of the remnants of the Backdraft group, before he died that is, but honestly, we don't know for sure at that point in time before we eventually found out that he did died for real." The group were, all honestly, surprised by it, due to the sheer fact that the Commissioner, the same one who was leading and was charged in of the ZBCU himself, was a loyal subordinate to Ambient, but they were sadden, particulary the Blitz Team themselves since they've knew him quite a bit, when the've learned that he was dead now. "We've immediately abandoned our hiding place and ran far away from it, since we knew that particular remnant of Backdraft is going to come looking around for us. We ran across the desert landscape with some rests in between, but unfortunately, one of their groups of operatives manage to caught to us and started to chasing us across the desert. While the rest of it is what you know happen next."
"Yeah, the part where we comes into play." Van said, the memories of that event still flesh in back of his mind.
"You got that right." Bit comment.
"Yes. But that's still doesn't explain of why Ambient was the one who manage to maintain the current peace of this world." Raven said, not having any sort of interest in the other details as he was more focus on why Ambient manage to maintain peace despite his actions that he did that they saw, which have made them confused over this, and the black-grey man himself in particular, before he finally ask. "What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, that. Well... um... you see... I think it be better for Ambient explain to all of you instead of me. After all, I don't know much as he does. Since, as you all already know by this point, I was just born only a few centuries ago..." Jolt explained awkwardly to them.
This caused Raven to raise one of his eyebrows at that one. "So Ambient is going to be the one who's gonna explain since not all of us can't really understand? And how he's gonna do that? Use telekinesis to speak mentally us with his own mind?" He obiviously joked at this, considering that Jolt have the ability to translate of what the Crimson Organoid is exactly saying to them so the others can listen.
"Yes. Yes I would."
Everyone in the room was took by shock when they've suddenly heard a disembodied voice absolutely out of nowhere before they quickly look around to see who's voice, wondering if somebody else was in the living room with them... but they all didn't see anyone else in the room nor whose voice that it belong to... except for Ambient looking at them, now standing on his two legs and giving them the organoid equivalent of a grin, as if giving them a hint and letting it sink into their heads. When their brains have register the implication of where they heard the voice came from and why the crimson organoid himself was grinning at them, they were but both flabbergasted and dumbfounded by shock when they finally realized it. "YOU CAN USE TELEKINESIS TO SPEAK TO US WITH YOUR MIND?!" Raven yelled in shock, completely flabbergasted by this, before he manage to spoke, although not comprehensively. "What-?! Wait-?! Then-?! How-?!" He stuttered in confusion, dumbfounded by just the mere thought of Ambient using telekinesis to mentally speak to them in their mind and actually seeing him using it with their own eyes.
"It is a trick that I've learned that I can use it to speak to a person I want to speak to centuries ago. And that was before that I can use Jolt as an ampflier to use my telekinesis to speak to multiple of people, something that I didn't know about." Ambient answered Raven's, and, by extension, their questions of how he was able to speak in one answer, all while he was giving them the organoid equivalent of a amused smile to them at this. However, the expression of the crimson organoid then turn serious before he continue to speak to the group though his Cyber Elf-amplifiered telekinesis. "But I did promise that i'll explain everything. To how I was able to maintain this peace for so long and how I have became a more different organoid than I was before. I'll start by telling you my origin..."
"Your origin?" Leena and Fiona said at the same time, as they were now curious about that, as everyone else were and have decide to listening into this in interest.
"Yes. My origin. The origin of how I became of who I am." Ambient said before he then begun explaining to them. "You see, I wasn't alway like this: When I'd just hatch from my egg, I was originally an hopeful and idealistic organoid, sorta like Zeke, in which he reminded me of how I was originally when I was born." That fact alone just dumbfounded the CC parts of the group, since they can't wrap around their mind to think that the ruthless and sadist crimson organoid was once a optimistic and idealistic organoid, sorta like Zeke, himself since they didn't really put that much of a thought into that idea. But that was when they notice that Ambient then made a expression of grimace on his face, as he told them. "However... I was born into the world with an curse: My own powers of my abilties..."
"Your powers of your abilities? You mean the same sets that can allow you to mutate Zoids that are under your control and can tamper with the cores in a subtle manner?" Van asked, as Zeke nodded in agreement with Van at that one.
"Yes."
"And the same set of abilities that can allow you to fuse two or more Zoids cores together?" Fiona added that of Ambient's powers in.
"Yes."
"And the same ones that can allow you to fuse with a Zoid for an indefinite amount of times with zero limitations that Zeke or Shadow or most of the other organoids have?" Raven then also joined in and added another part of the crimson organoid's powers, which also Shadow nodded in at that one.
"Yes." Ambient answered, with now an wry tone of voice at this, as he was starting to get a bit annoyed by this, evidence by slight twitch of his eyebrow as a beat of sweat rolled down the side of his head, before he took a deep breath and sigh. And he resume explaining to them. "Yes. Those same abilities of my power. Due to those same abilities whom that I have, I was only saw as both just a tool for fightings and a weapon for wars, by countless of peoples who have saw me but nothing else as those things due to my power, not as a living and emotional being. After countless of years and years of consistly being betrayed and false hopes, the grief and pains of my experience of it that I've felt have warped and twisted my personality, slowly turning me into the cynical, cold, and ruthless organoid, whom that you have first saw over a thousand years ago. I've became so cynical of the world itself due to what I have experience in my life at that point that I've joined Hiltz, under my own will no less, since I'd knew that he's only going to use me as just a tool to further his own plans and agenda, but nothing else, not as a living being with emotions that I was."
"Yeah. You got that right." Irvine said, knowing from his experience and the CC group's own experience of it, which they can agreed with.
"So that's why you joined Hiltz?" Moonbay asked.
"Yes." Ambient answered before he continue to tell them. "Ever since I've became cynical to the world around me, I had an nihilitisic view toward it. After all... why would anyone would care about a ruthless organoid who have only caused pain and destruction? That is one of the reasons why I'd join Hiltz willingly so he can use me as just a tool further advanced his goals and only his goals for himself alone. Due to my own nihilitisic views of the world itself at that time, I figured out during the Hiltz Crisis that there were only two ways of how it was going to end: Either Hiltz kill and exterminated everyone on the planet of Zi with the Deathsaurer or Fiona and Zeke sacrificing their own lifes to destroyed Zoids Eve and ending the lives of every Zoid on the planet..." Fiona then shudder at the mention of what was her own people called her destiny, causing Van to quickly wrap his arms around her in order to comfort her and keep her calm down, causing Bit, and to lesser extend, Leena, look in concern at her, since they've knew from what they heard that the mere mention of her so-called destiny have given her so many unpleasent memories and a few nightmares of it. "But either ways, i'll die in the end. The end of the pain and suffering of my meaningless existance, yet with no one caring enough to bemoan my death, since nobody will really care about me anyway. However..." Ambient then focus his attention at Van, almost as if he's smiling fondly at him, before he told Van as the other listen in. "That was when you've challenge my view..."
Van blinked his eyes a couple of times before he turn his head to look behind himself and then look back at Ambient, before he point his finger to himself. "Me?" He ask, astonished by what he just heard from the crimson organoid himself, as he continue to point his finger to himself, while the other were equally astonished of what they heard too.
"Yes, you..." Ambient said, as he continue on to explain to them. "You've challenge my view of the world, when you refused to let Fiona and Zeke sacrifice themselves and instead you'd plan of shooting yourself and your Blade Liger out of the Gravity Cannon to finally destroyed the Deathsaurer for good, and all of the other times that you did all before that moment too. Despite my thought it you were going to failed anyway at that point, yet you've persevered and manage to succeed in destroying the Deathsaurer, for good this time, despite all of the odds that was stack against you. That's what challenge my view of the world: If our lives and existance have no meaning in the universe, then why did you refused to let Fiona and Zeke yet willing to find another way to defeat Hiltz and destroyed the Deathsaurer for good even if you have to sacrifice your life? That question alone made me confused. Confused of whether life was actually meaningless or not. After I escaped the core of the original Deathsaurer and left Hiltz to let him faced the death that he've deserved, I wonder around the planet of Zi alone, wondering around the world endless with having no purpose of what to actually do, still thinking about that same question, still repeating in my head, not wanting to be involved with anyone or anything at all at that time. Unfortunately... my endless wondering have attracted the attention of a small but unknown terrorist group that have existed at that time before they've attack me by complete surprised and tried to capture me with their equipments they have on them, even if I am within a city that was full of countless innocent peoples, which a few of you were visiting at the time, killing anyone who dare to get in their way of capturing me, willing or not. As a result of this, I had indirectly caused the Keres City Slaughter incident and being one of the reasons why it had happen long ago, something that I regret to this day..."
"Wait a minute... you've accidentally caused the Keres City Slaughter incident!?" Vega asked, surprised by this fact, as everyone were shocked of what they just heard from the crimson organoid while they look at him .
"Yes. But it was all but a complete accident on my part, since I didn't do it intetionally nor I didn't want anyone to get involve in it." Ambient explained to them. "The reason for why the terrorist group want to capture is my powers..."
"Ah, yes. Now I get it..." Dr. Toros said, as he understand of what Ambient is getting at after thinking rationally for a moment when he put his hand on his chin, for the reason of why they did that just to capture a single organoid, and remembering of what the crimson organoid had mentally said to them, as he spoke about it so the other can listen in on it. "Since the abilities of your own power are far more unique and powerful than most other organoids, they were willing to risk everything to get a hand on it due to them being useful in the long run."
"Yeah, now I can get that too." Fiona said, after getting and understanding the reason of why they would risk everything to capture Ambient.
"No kidding." Bit and Van both muttered.
"I see..." Raven said. "I got one question though: Do you know what happen to Fiona, Reese, and Specular?" He ask, knowing that he was there at the time and have a full memory of what had happen.
"Unfortunately, I didn't know what exactly happen to them at that time." Ambient answer Raven's question, regretfully, due to the tone that he had use in his mental voice. "You see... Right after the Keres City Slaughter Incident has happen, both Fiona and Reese have, all of suddenly, disappear without a trace, along with Zeke, Shadow, and Specular. As if they've just disappear out of thin air. All that I know at that time, before it even has happen yet, was that four people: Van, Raven, Irvine, and Moonbay, were in such an clinical state of critical injuries all over their bodies of what have just happen at Keres City that they were taking to a sercet and undisclosed location of the Guardian Force in the desert to be heal, long before it was then forced to be abandon when it was set to self-destruct by the dying Thomas Richard Schwarz of his wounds from the recording of his radio call to the main base of the Guardian Force when the same terrorist group from before attacked the facility, out of petty revenge of what has happen at Keres City, taking that particular terrorist group with the site for good and causing it to be cover over by piles of rock made of sandstone from the hill that it was build into, which i'm pretty sure that they were eroded away by the consistly weathering for over a millennia later, given of how you manage find them in the healing pods at that same ruin. But in all seriousness... that was all before they've disappered." The crimson organoid explained before he resume telling his story to them. "After what has happen at Keres City, I decide to help the Guardian Force with some problem they've faced as an aloof ally to them, since I wanted to atone for my part for being the main reason of why the Keres City Slaughter Incident has now happen and for the other things that I have done in the past. During that time, Van's sister Maria and Karl Liechien Schwarz have became intermediated with each other, since they have both lost their own younger brothers whom they cared about deeply, and start dating. Before long, they've decide to get marry and I watched their wedding from a cliff afar of where I was standing..." This cause Van to fall off of where he was sitting at and landed the floor sideways on his head with a shock expression was written on his as his eyes widen but his iris shrunken while his mouth was shut closed tightly, all to emphasis his shock of this fact. All before he suddenly got up.
"Woah, woah, woah! Hold up! My sister had married Karl!?" Van shouted in shock at what he just heard from Ambient, after he got up from the floor.
"Yes." Ambient answered, as a large sweatdrop slide down from the sides of his head, Raven, and the two other organoids.
"Oh! That's wonderful!" Fiona said happily at what she just heard from the crimson organoid. Both glad and happy for them that they were able to find comfort in each other after the loss of their respective younger brothers from the same group of terrorist. And she was equally as glad and happy for them to intermediated with each other and decide to married. Through, what made her sad is that she nor Van nor one of their friends weren't there to see their wedding for themselves, but she was at least happy that they were able to find happiness in each other and able to get married. Van wrap his arm around her shoulder, still shocked of what he heard evidence by his face, but the ancient Zoidian could tell that he was equally as glad that they were able to find happiness as well.
"Seriously?! That's great for them!" Moonbay said excitingly at what they have heard from the crimson organoid, even through that she knew that it already over a thousand years ago, she can't helped but graduate them for getting married, since she knew that they were each other's type and have developed a bit of romantically feeling for each other when they have, seperately, ask Moonbay for advice in relationship and questions for each other.
"Yes." Ambient continue to telling his story. "Soon after they have got married, Maria became pregnant and gave birth to their child: A daughter, whom they've name Tania. I watched Tania from her birth as she grow into a playful young girl, around 5-years old I think, from afar, but I never really did met her in person, since I didn't want touch her innocent as I didn't want her beautiful hands to touch and dirtied by my red hide that was the color of blood due to the darkness of my bloody past and cynical experience of the world itself. However... I knew that the real world doesn't work that way... as one night, when she was only 5-years old their home were suddenly attacked that took them by surprised from a gang of bandits that were once former soldiers in the Guylos Military who wanted petty revenge on Karl with most of them in their Zoids and one of them attempted to kidnap Tania and an unconscious Maria when Karl was distracted from him due to fighting the rest of the bandits' Zoids in his Dark Horn, but I suddenly swoop in from above and kicked him away from them which have that knocked him out, saving them in the process but accidentally revealing Tania of my existance. After Karl has manage to chase off the other bandits away from the home, I realized I have reveal myself to Tania and turn my emerald eyes to her, which I saw that she was staring back at me in awe and curiosity. We've stared at each other in silent for a long time without moving an inch at all, making me wonder if she was freaked out by my sudden terrifying appearance... but to my and her parent's surprise, Tania suddenly smile to me as she let out a giggle that was filled with a childish innocent to it and a laughter that was full of kindness and happiness, before she then ran up to me without a trace of fear in her and extended her hand out to touch the hide of my skin, not being scare a single bit by my terrifying appearance to her and showing no fear to me, as she look at me with her gleaming starlike eyes and her mouth curved into a gentle smile, looking at me with an innocent look. I just stood there in complete shock at what I was feeling of touch, since nobody that I never met before have treated me with kindness and care before, but soon, the warmth from her beautiful hand that I felt on my hide allow me to lower my head so she could pet me. Tania, without her even knowing it at the time, have finally made me realized of why you was willing find a third option: Because he cared for other people so much that he will keep pushing forward without fear, despite not knowing of what's tomorrow, but kept on moving with determination, all in order to make the world a better place for their children and the future generation of their descendants..."
"Aww, that's a sweet saying about Van." Fiona and Moonbay said at the same time.
"Yeah, that's sum up Van himself." Irvine comment honestly about Ambient's story.
"Guys..." Van whisper to his friends as he covered his face and brush about it, both humbled and embarrassed by this, while Fiona patted her boyfriend on the back in sympathy for him with a kind smile. On the other hand, Raven was bulging his eyeballs at Ambient and tried to shoot lasers from them in annoyance, so he could get straight to the point as he was getting annoyed by overly long details that the crimson organoid was explaining, just like the readers themselves who are reading this chapters.
"Thanks to that first meeting between us, me and Tania became friends and know her better more closely than I was watching from afar. I found out, not only she was playful and happy who was innocent to the world around her, but she was also quite kind and generous, even to people that she haven't met before. In fact... once she was old enough to know about me, I've told her my past and the thing that I've done and regreted. She just stared at me in silent, making me wonder if she is going to hate me... before I was shock when she give me a kind and gentle smile on her face, before she told me that, even through the things that i've done were unforgivable, I have change since then and wasn't the same organoid of the past and she understand some of the things that i've done were not under my control. I was shocked that she was completely forgivable of me and cause me to be stress and sadden by this, since some of the things that i've done were completely unforgivable, but in the end, I was glad that she understand me. I soon realized that, ever since I first met her in person, that Tania was the first person who I truely consider to be a true friend of mine. After she congradulate from military school as one of students with the highest points, she've joined the Guardian Force as one of their best pilots and soon, their best leaders in the group, with me as her organoid partner." Ambient said, remembering fondly of the good memories that he has of Tania herself and the times that he has spend with her... before his expression turned into an sadden frown as he recounted the past. "However, I knew that just like every human, Tania has a far shorter limited lifespan than me. So as the years went by, she grew older and older, her body getting weaker and weaker by her age, thanks to one enemy that nobody can't fight off: Time itself. I stood by Tania's side on her death bed as the life in those same eyes that I saw from her own childhood slowly lose their glint in them before she told me her final words to me: "Don't forget me"... until she've pass on peacefully in her sleep." The crimson organoid said miserablely and sadly, as he remember all too well of Tania's peaceful passing in his mind. "After her death, someone else was placed in as an figurehead to pretend to that they were leading the group now, all while I, in complete sercet, was made the true leader of the Guardian Force behind close doors and shadow, by her last will and testament that she've made before her peaceful death. I knew the reason of why she have made me the leader of the Guardian Force, since I knew the problem of being either Lawful or Good and have anticipated this problem already before i've wrote down the definitive answer, due to the many years of experience that I got on me. After all, I knew that law and justice are just the guidelines to living well and to keep people in line, but not a mere tool to attack with. Those are the quanlities of why I was chosen as the leader of the Guardian Force..." He said... before he then ask them. "I can guess that at least a few of you are getting tired of the excessive details, aren't you?"
"YES." Raven hissed and groach at this in annoyance, evidence by annoyed vein that popped onto his forehead and one of his twitching violently, as he, like some of the readers who are reading this chapter after it is posted, was waiting very impatiencely for Ambient just to get straight to the point and give them an answer already.
"I was making sure that you were paying attention." Ambient said as an amused smirk appear on his face, before his expression then turns more serious as he then ask them a question. "So you all know that the Guardian Force is all but disbanded now over a thousand years ago, right?"
"Yeah?/Yes./Yup." Everyone give Ambient versions of their own answers, suspecting there is something more he's going to tell them now.
"What if I tell that it is not really the case?" Ambient answered. That have gotting everyone's interest, including Zeke's and Shadow's judging by perking their heads up, before the crimson organoid went on to tell them. "You see; The Guardian Force itself was confirmed going to be disbanded by the Helic Republic and Guylos Empire after the goals they were created for was now finished, just weeks before the group was then officially disbanded... to the public's perspective at least, but in truth, the Guardian Force have secretly just went into hiding from prying eyes and are now working from behind the scenes and shadows in order to maintain the peace of the world that the group have given them. After Tania's peaceful passing to the afterlife and the new, but sercetive, leadership under me, I've decide to maintain the peace that she worked so hard for, using whatever is the most efficient and effective methods we can use, depending on what exactly the situation call for, in order to maintain that peace that the world have worked so hard for, all in honor of Tania's memory..."
Everyone were amazed of what they have just heard from Ambient...
A/N: Okay, I am so sorry for taking so long with this chapter! It was supposed to be posted sooner, but I ended up making it longer than I have originally intended for it to be, combine with the fact that I've been lacking motivation for a bit from time to time. But in the end, it was worth it, since I do love excess amount of details.
So why did I created Jolt? Well, for something important that you'll see later in the story.
Why did I choose Ambient and took a different take on his character? Well, ever since I did a chapter on him in my first true Zoid story, I look back at it for inspiration and decide to take his character in order to fleshing him out more, since the story itself is set in a different AU, it allow to do that. And beside, I planning on using him for something important later in the story itself.
With that said, there are still questions that I've left unanswer in this chapter (not that I'll be revealing them this soon) that you are probably: What happen to Leena's mother? What is the connection between her and King Liger? What else is King Liger is keeping a sercet and what is it's past exactly? How were the Liger Zero and Berserk Fury created? Who is Fang exactly? And what exactly happen to Reese and Speculer? Hehehe, I just love keeping you guys guessing since I love vague things.
Anyway... i'll be doing the final chapter of Parent 1/2 next...