Chapter 3: Are You Afraid of Dying
The next morning, Van was looking over his map. To his knowledge it would take at least five days to get to Capital City. By that time Hiltz could have brought back the Ultimate Deathsaurer. Van folded up his map and began to think. He had to do something he promised himself he wasn't gonna do. Wake up Irvine and Moonbay from their cryo pods. He previously lied to Brad saying they were dead. Van would rather say they were dead rather than wake them up during another war. Van knew he could trust everyone around him, but he needed two very trust worthy friends. Bit walked into the kitchen sneaking one of Leena's cookies.
"Good morning caravan." Bit chewed.
"Morning." Van spoke softly.
Bit walked out of the kitchen into the bathroom. Fiona came out fixing her hair. She kissed Van on the forehead and sat down. Van didn't respond to the kiss, he was too busy thinking. Fiona was trying her hardest to get Van to love her the way she wants him to. She knew he loved her, but not the way Bit loved Leena or how Brad loved Naomi.
"Fiona, I think we need to wake Irvine and Moonbay." Van spoke.
"Are you sure?" She asked.
"Yeah, I don't want to, but we have to." Van put his head down.
"I understand." Fiona nodded.
"I don't know how Brad might take it." Van said.
"Why?" Fiona asked.
"I told him Irvine and Moonbay are dead, I shouldn't have lied to him." Van sighed.
"Lied to who?" Brad walked in.
"You." Van spoke. "How so?" Brad shrugged. "I told you Irvine and Moonbay were dead, and their not. Their still in a cryos." Van looked down.
"What you think I'm angry, so you want to protect your friends so what." Brad sipped his tea, huh tea this time.
By the afternoon the warriors began making their way to Capital City, but with one pit stop. In his room Jamie was deep it thought. He had never been in war before, sure he's a good pilot but is he good enough. The other thing that was circling his mind was the thought of getting killed. Raven and Shadow walked passed his room. Raven backed up and looked at Jamie. Jamie was biting his fingernails very nervously.
"What's eating you?" Raven asked.
"Nothing." Jamie lied.
Raven squinted his eyes a bit and prepared to walk away. "I'm afraid of dying ok I said it!" Jamie said.
Raven turned around and stood in Jamie's room. Shadow lied down on the floor next to Jamie's bed.
"I would say I know how you feel, but I don't. There are so many times in my life where I should have died. But I don't fear death, it's just another chapter of my life. You're gonna die one day, just the question of when. Well I'm not gonna tell that lie, with cryogenics these days you could live for a long time, but who would want to go into an ice box for a century. I'm never going back into that chamber, and I hope you don't either. Shadow let's go." Raven got up.
To be a former mass murderer, Raven sure was giving a lot of good advice. The group came to a colony, a very familiar colony. For Van it was home, the Wind Colony. He family was also apart of the cryo project so he was happy they were alive. This was also the place Irvine and Moonbay were held. Van and Fiona hopped out of the Hover Cargo walking to his house. The rest of the warriors spread out and observed the colony. Bit saw a cart of papayas and turned away from them, brought back to many bad memories. Brad was looking at a man making hand blown glass figures.
"I wouldn't mind living here." Toros said touching the hot springs.
"I know, it's so peaceful and clean." Jamie said.
Van knocked on the door and waited it to open. The door opened and Maria smiled that it was Van. Bit was in the background observing.
"It's so good to see you little brother." Maria hugged.
"Little brother!" Bit laughed.
"Who is that?" Maria asked.
"The village idiot. Look I wish I could be here on better terms, but I need to wake Irvine and Moonbay." Van spoke.
"Well you know where they are, and you're not going anywhere, you and your friends can spend the night." Maria smiled.
"Thanks, we'll like that." Van stepped inside.
Van and the others gathered in a barn looking place behind the house. Inside were two cryo pods. Van looked over them at his two sleeping friends inside. Van activated a vapor gas to flood the chamber waking them instantly. Van opened the pods as a hand touched his hand. Moonbay's eyes opened looking at Van. Irvine stood up stubbling a little.
"Welcome back guys." Van smiled.
"How long have we been in there?" Moonbay asked holding her head.
"Uh, maybe around over a hundred years." Van shrugged.
"That long!" Irvine heard.
"Yeah." Van nodded.
"Moonbay." Fiona hugged.
"Excuse me I need to say this. Are you a pirate?" Bit asked looking at Irvines eye.
"Van who is this?" Irvine asked.
"I'll explain later, let's just get you guys up to date." Van smirked.
After an hour of introducing everyone and explaining everything, Moonbay and Irvine were astounded that another war has sprouted.
"Well this is just sucks!" Moonbay stood up.
"This is beyond sucks." Irvine crossed his legs. "When do we go to Capital City?" Irvine asked.
"We head out tomorrow, let's just relax for now." Van went outside.
Bit was outside playing soccer with a few of the children in the colony while the rest of the Blitz Team watched. The kids decided just to kick balls at Bit rather than play. They laughed as Bit was being hammered with soccer balls. Leena got up to socialize with this Moonbay. Fiona was already catching up on good times. Leena was on her way to the chattering girls, but then a missile flew over her head into a windmill. She turned around at three Iron Kongs. The children stopped kicking Bit and ran.
"Team get to the zoids." Toros ordered.
Zabats began flying over head dropping small bombs. Bit hopped in the Liger in the transformation deck.
"Ready to mobilize Liger Phoenix." Bit confirmed.
The Shadow Fox began firing into the sky. The Phoenix flew into the sky taking down Zabats.
"Who would be attacking this colony? They haven't done anything to anyone." Bit fired.
"Their the Backdraft, they don't care." Brad fired his Vulcan Gun.
The Kongs began punching the windmills sending them down. "Not my home!" Van shouted.
The blue Blade Liger sliced the Kong's left arm off. Van sped around to finish him off. "Blade Attack!" He shouted.
"Leena lock on to those Kongs." Naomi spoke. The female warriors locked on the Kong's chests and fired. The Kongs fell to the ground.
"Alright Liger, let take them outta the sky! Phoenix Fury!" The Liger expelled hundreds of bird shaped blasts across the sky, destroying all of the Zabats. The Rayons flew by and took down the straglers.
"Brad, we got Rev Raptors!" Leena shouted.
"I got'em!" Leon fired his shock cannon.
Raven stood in the background charging his cannon. "Everybody move out the way!" Raven shouted.
A whole army of Rev Raptors came over the hill. Raven fired his cannons. The force from the blast glued Raven to his seat. Every single Rev Raptor was destroyed. As the dust settled the villigers cheered around the heros. The warriors though weren't focused on the praise.
"What did you think they wanted?" Brad asked.
"Probably trying to capture this colony, doesn't matter anyway, we stopped them." Van spoke.
Moonbay and Irvine stood in awe of the zoids they had never seen before. The Liger Zero, Shadow Fox, Konig Wolf, Raynos, and the Berserk Fury. Bit hopped out of the Liger and stood by Leena. "That was fun." Leena smiled.
"Aint it always. See Leena, there's nothing to worry about." Bit hugged Leena.
That night, Van was standing over his father's grave site. He took some flowers out of Maria garden to replace the dead flowers. Bit walked up behind him wondering why he was still awake. "Are you half bat or something?" Bit asked. "No I just come here to pay my respects." Van smiled. "I can understand that. I do the same with my mother." Bit smiled. "What about your dad?" Van asked. "I don't know. I don't even know what he looks like let alone his name." Bit shrugged. "Maybe he's looking for you, you just don't know. You could have met him, but who knows." Van walked away.