Tawanos: We have a special guest her today, you haven't heard from her in… a long time. Welcome back my sister!!
HinoMitsukai: Well, it's certainly been a while. Who missed me? *crickets chirping*
Tawanos: *looks out* Do I even have readers any more?
HinoMitsukai: I'm pretty sure. More than I do, at any rate.
Tawanos: More than you? You don't have any stories.
HinoMitsukai: My point exactly.
Tawanos: I'm not going to ask for your input anymore. That's it. You're done.
HinoMitsukai: *sarcastically* I love you too, bro! Well, this was a relatively short and painless cameo.
Disclaimer: Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight: I WANNA OWN ZOIDS! But until then, I own nothing.
Chapter 21: Panzer
"Battle mode 0982," the Judge said. "Blitz Team vs. Steel Team, Ready FIGHT."
The Blitz team had not launched its zoids before the battle, but now they came out flying.
"Brad ready... GO!" The Shadow Fox launched onto the field.
"Katie ready... LAUNCH!" The Lightning Siax bounded out on to the field.
"Leena and Panzer ready." The front of the Hover Cargo opened and the Gun Sniper walked out with Panzer at her side. "Let's do this Panzer."
Panzer let out a little roar and blasted into the air, it arched and flew down at the Gun Sniper hitting it in the back. They both glowed and the GS changed. It grew larger. The armor grew at least a foot thicker, and looked scaled like a very large lizard. The arms grew larger to support the two Hybrid Cannons that were taking the place of the smaller wrist guns. Along the sides of the body and tail missal pods grew, large missal pods. When all was done, it looked like it should have collapsed, but it stood, it even started walking. It walked slowly and the ground under it cracked, but it walked.
"Very impressive little girl, but it still doesn't match up to the power of mine and my brothers' Steel Spike Kongs." A figure appeared in front of Leena, broad, muscular body, no neck and a baldhead. "I am Connor, head of the Steal team. My brothers and I have only been defeated once, by the best team there is in the S Class, you do not compare with them. We will crush you into dust.
"We'll see. Brad, Katie, go find them so I can lock on and BLAST THEM TO HELL!" Leena's evil laugh made even Connor shiver. Brad and Katie headed out in opposite directions and curved towards where they guessed where the other team was.
"Found one." Katie said. "My gods, it's HUGE!"
"I've got one over here too." Brad said. "But where's number three?"
"We'll worry about him later, there's one thing I've wanted to say for a long time." The arms raised and locking spikes slammed into the ground from her feet. Each arm pointed at a different SSK. "HYBRID CANNON FIRE!!" Leena laughed maliciously as the energy beams lanced through the air and struck their targets.
When the dust cleared Leena was astonished. The cannons should have disabled the enemy zoids. They should not, definitely not, have made giant holes through their chests, all the way though, you could admire the mountains on the other side through the gaping holes.
"Was that... supposed to happen?" Katie asked as she, just for the hell of it, fired her gun straight through the hole.
"You may have take out my brothers, but you will never take me down, not now that the cannons are used up." He was right. The cannons could not be fired again without a full day to recharge.
"Brad, Katie, find him and distract him while Leena prepares the missals." Jamie said over the COM.
"Right!" They said together, and again they headed off to find the last remaining enemy zoid. Unfortunately, he found them first. They both yelled as their zoids were each hit with a barrage of missals freezing the command systems in both zoids. Suddenly on the edge of Leena and the Hover Cargo's sensors loomed a massive form. It was larger than all the other zoids on the field put together.
"Some old friends gave me this upgrade." Connor said over the COM. "They wanted me to get revenge on you for destroying them."
"The Dark Draft." Bit said he had been watching the fight from the Hover Cargo. "Why would you work for them?"
"Because they pay me, what other reason do I need?" They could now see the zoid, it was a version of the SSK, but larger with many more weapons. "Enough talk, now I finish you."
"No I finish you." The missals were ready. The missal pods all over the Panzer Gun Sniper opened. "BURNING BIG BANG!" In a very un-Leena like manner she aimed the missals, they flew true, each hit, but unfortunately he raised an energy shield. The missals exploded on the shield, as the last one hit the shield flickered and disappeared.
"You destroyed my shield, I am very impressed. Now you have no weapons left." He didn't know that a message was appearing on the screen in front of Leena. Leena's eyes shone brightly as she read about the new weapon.
"Leena, Panzer, get out of there, you have no way to defend yourself if he attacks."
"Not a chance dad." They could hear Leena's smile, and it scared them. "We have one more trick." The scales, that they thought were armor, flipped up. Under each one a smaller version of a charged particle cannon appeared and pointed sky ward. "HEAVEN'S WRATH!" The beams fired. Forty small charged particle beams united into one massive one.
It was a beautiful sight, sparkling energy swirling around as it rose through the air. The beam curved through the air and flew at Connor, he thought he was looking at a chorus of angles come to strike him down.
At the last moment the energy changed. It split into three beams. Each one struck a different part of the zoid. Each arm fell off as beams cut through the shoulders. The last beam struck the center of the chest and burned all the way through.
Leena laughed and laughed as the zoid fell to the ground.
"Never underestimate the Blitz team." Leena looked quite pleased with herself as she jumped out of the Gun Sniper Panzer. The green zoid raised its head and screeched in triumph, and then a brilliant light surrounded it. When the light faded Panzer was disengaged from the Gun Sniper and looking very pleased with himself. Leena ran up and hugged the organoid as the Hover Cargo approached to pick them up.
*** After everyone had been picked up from the field ***
Katie and Brad had fixed their zoids in the HC and now they were all headed towards the Heliac Mountains. Brad, Katie, Pierce, Leena, and Dock were in the living room celebrating their most recent win. Jamie was at the controls of the HC driving them to the mountains. Bit was nowhere to be found, at one point he had been having fun with the rest of them, but had quietly left in the middle. Leena was beginning to wonder where he was when he walked in, rather pale.
"Bit? Are you ok?" Leena asked as she rushed to his side.
"I... I can feel them." He saw the looks on their faces. "The organoids, I can feel them under the mountain." He took a deep breath. "There are so many of them there, some asleep, some awake, most are asleep but not for long I think." Jamie's voice came over the loud speaker, he sounded urgent.
"Hey, everyone you had better come up here. I've got an odd reading from the organoid detector, I think you should see this." Everyone looked at Bit for a second before racing to the control room. When they entered the room there was a screen just to the side of Jamie. It looked like a Radar screen and as the arm swung around red dots flared into existence, more and more as they drove on.
Bit took Jamie's place at the wheel and guided the HC down a rocky path. The number of red dots continued to increase, and then suddenly they stopped. The pattern that the dots made was roughly circular, a counter on the screen said that there were around 300 of the little red dots, and each dot was an organoid. As they approached the edge of the organoid circle they had to stop, because the path did. It ended in an enormous rock slab larger than the HC leaning up against an enormous domed hill covered in grass and trees.
"Well wonder boy, what now?" Pierce asked, but Bit didn't answer. Bit was looking out at the backs of the three organoids as they marched out of the front of the HC and to the large slab of rock.
"What are they doing?" Katie stared to ask, but everyone hushed her before she could finish. The organoids walked together to the base of the slab, then each raised its head and roared. Then they were quiet, for a second nothing happened, then a sound came from the other side of the slab, and it sounded like a lot more than three organoids answering them back. Then the ground began to rumble, the grass and trees on the hill began to tremble and fall. As the shaking continued all the ground on the hill began to break up and fall away. They all gasped in awe as the plants and soil that had built up over the centuries fell off.
After a few minutes the shaking stopped, there was no longer a hill in front of them, but a large metal dome. It was huge, maybe a mile in diameter, they realized that it was not just a building but also an entire base.
A little light behind them began to blink, the silent alarm tried in vane to warn them of a large group coming up behind the transport. Everyone was watching as the great slab lowered into the ground. Behind the slab two massive iron doors swung open. At first there was darkness on the other side of the doors, then lights flickered into life.
There was a mass of organoids on the other side, by the looks of it, they had all awakened and gathered at the door. Three organoids faced off against 300 in dead silence.
Then chaos broke loose. A shower of missals slammed into the side of the Hover Cargo catching everyone unaware. Everyone suddenly realized that there was a light blinking behind them. Curses flew around the room as another barrage hit them.
"Bit!! Look!" Doc shouted as he pointed at the doorway in front of them. Bit looked, all the organoids were gone, only the three armor organoids stood in the entrance beaconing them to enter. Bit didn't question he just drove in. Another missal barrage caught them partially as they moved forward, but they made it inside. The doors closed behind them just in time for another attack.
They were inside, they continued to follow the organoids down the passage, and they turned and found themselves in what looked like a large parking area. An organoid was waiting for them, it was tan with large eyes and long delicate looking arms and fingers, the armor organoids were talking with it. Schneider turned and made a noise up at them.
"He says it's safe, and we should come down." Bit translated. He turned and started to leave, everyone followed right behind him. When they exited the HC the four organoids started walking away and they had no choice but to follow. The tan organoid made no sounds as it led them through the passages. Everyone had questions as they walked but no one said anything, and by the look in Bit's face he and Liger were at a loss to explain what exactly was going on.
When they emerged from the passage they were startled to find themselves in, what looked like, a control room manned completely by organoids. They chirped, whistled, barked, and growled at each other, Bit didn't need to tell them that the organoids were worried, the main screen told them what was going on. Zoids were coming from everywhere. They were all black with a red insignia on their sides. Rows of Rev Raptors followed by Dark Horns and Saber Tigers, even a few Iron Kongs were in the mix that was making it's way to the base that they were in.
The tan organoids turned to them and started to bark and growl, he pointed at the screen as he did.
"Yes, we will help you, but it looks like we're going to need help of our own." Bit said he turned to Doc and Jamie. "Doc, I need you to call in to Gramps that we need help. Jamie, you help get a shield or weapons online, I'll help translate for you."
"You need not translate." A metallic computer like voice said. Bit turned to see the tan organoid wearing a pendant around its neck. "This will allow me to speak and all to understand, I will translate while you defend us." The sounds that the organoid made were instantly translated. Bit nodded and turned to the armor organoids.
"We'll need your help to defend this place." The three nodded and followed as Bit, Leena, Brad, Katie, and Pierce headed back to the HC to get their zoids. Doc and Jamie set to work. Doc was taken to the radio system, while Jamie went to tactical to see what kind of defenses the base had.
"Priority One message for Nimbus One, (AN: the ZBC Chairman) Cloud 9 had found a Base, I repeat a Base, of the one's we've been searching for. But we are now under heavy attack and in need of assistance, send reinforcements immediately. We cannot afford to lose this. Cloud 9 out." Doc waited and listened to the reply before turning off the radio. He turned to Jamie and smiled. "Put on your winter clothes, we've got an Ice Box coming."
HinoMitsukai: Well, it's certainly been a while. Who missed me? *crickets chirping*
Tawanos: *looks out* Do I even have readers any more?
HinoMitsukai: I'm pretty sure. More than I do, at any rate.
Tawanos: More than you? You don't have any stories.
HinoMitsukai: My point exactly.
Tawanos: I'm not going to ask for your input anymore. That's it. You're done.
HinoMitsukai: *sarcastically* I love you too, bro! Well, this was a relatively short and painless cameo.
Disclaimer: Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight: I WANNA OWN ZOIDS! But until then, I own nothing.
Chapter 21: Panzer
"Battle mode 0982," the Judge said. "Blitz Team vs. Steel Team, Ready FIGHT."
The Blitz team had not launched its zoids before the battle, but now they came out flying.
"Brad ready... GO!" The Shadow Fox launched onto the field.
"Katie ready... LAUNCH!" The Lightning Siax bounded out on to the field.
"Leena and Panzer ready." The front of the Hover Cargo opened and the Gun Sniper walked out with Panzer at her side. "Let's do this Panzer."
Panzer let out a little roar and blasted into the air, it arched and flew down at the Gun Sniper hitting it in the back. They both glowed and the GS changed. It grew larger. The armor grew at least a foot thicker, and looked scaled like a very large lizard. The arms grew larger to support the two Hybrid Cannons that were taking the place of the smaller wrist guns. Along the sides of the body and tail missal pods grew, large missal pods. When all was done, it looked like it should have collapsed, but it stood, it even started walking. It walked slowly and the ground under it cracked, but it walked.
"Very impressive little girl, but it still doesn't match up to the power of mine and my brothers' Steel Spike Kongs." A figure appeared in front of Leena, broad, muscular body, no neck and a baldhead. "I am Connor, head of the Steal team. My brothers and I have only been defeated once, by the best team there is in the S Class, you do not compare with them. We will crush you into dust.
"We'll see. Brad, Katie, go find them so I can lock on and BLAST THEM TO HELL!" Leena's evil laugh made even Connor shiver. Brad and Katie headed out in opposite directions and curved towards where they guessed where the other team was.
"Found one." Katie said. "My gods, it's HUGE!"
"I've got one over here too." Brad said. "But where's number three?"
"We'll worry about him later, there's one thing I've wanted to say for a long time." The arms raised and locking spikes slammed into the ground from her feet. Each arm pointed at a different SSK. "HYBRID CANNON FIRE!!" Leena laughed maliciously as the energy beams lanced through the air and struck their targets.
When the dust cleared Leena was astonished. The cannons should have disabled the enemy zoids. They should not, definitely not, have made giant holes through their chests, all the way though, you could admire the mountains on the other side through the gaping holes.
"Was that... supposed to happen?" Katie asked as she, just for the hell of it, fired her gun straight through the hole.
"You may have take out my brothers, but you will never take me down, not now that the cannons are used up." He was right. The cannons could not be fired again without a full day to recharge.
"Brad, Katie, find him and distract him while Leena prepares the missals." Jamie said over the COM.
"Right!" They said together, and again they headed off to find the last remaining enemy zoid. Unfortunately, he found them first. They both yelled as their zoids were each hit with a barrage of missals freezing the command systems in both zoids. Suddenly on the edge of Leena and the Hover Cargo's sensors loomed a massive form. It was larger than all the other zoids on the field put together.
"Some old friends gave me this upgrade." Connor said over the COM. "They wanted me to get revenge on you for destroying them."
"The Dark Draft." Bit said he had been watching the fight from the Hover Cargo. "Why would you work for them?"
"Because they pay me, what other reason do I need?" They could now see the zoid, it was a version of the SSK, but larger with many more weapons. "Enough talk, now I finish you."
"No I finish you." The missals were ready. The missal pods all over the Panzer Gun Sniper opened. "BURNING BIG BANG!" In a very un-Leena like manner she aimed the missals, they flew true, each hit, but unfortunately he raised an energy shield. The missals exploded on the shield, as the last one hit the shield flickered and disappeared.
"You destroyed my shield, I am very impressed. Now you have no weapons left." He didn't know that a message was appearing on the screen in front of Leena. Leena's eyes shone brightly as she read about the new weapon.
"Leena, Panzer, get out of there, you have no way to defend yourself if he attacks."
"Not a chance dad." They could hear Leena's smile, and it scared them. "We have one more trick." The scales, that they thought were armor, flipped up. Under each one a smaller version of a charged particle cannon appeared and pointed sky ward. "HEAVEN'S WRATH!" The beams fired. Forty small charged particle beams united into one massive one.
It was a beautiful sight, sparkling energy swirling around as it rose through the air. The beam curved through the air and flew at Connor, he thought he was looking at a chorus of angles come to strike him down.
At the last moment the energy changed. It split into three beams. Each one struck a different part of the zoid. Each arm fell off as beams cut through the shoulders. The last beam struck the center of the chest and burned all the way through.
Leena laughed and laughed as the zoid fell to the ground.
"Never underestimate the Blitz team." Leena looked quite pleased with herself as she jumped out of the Gun Sniper Panzer. The green zoid raised its head and screeched in triumph, and then a brilliant light surrounded it. When the light faded Panzer was disengaged from the Gun Sniper and looking very pleased with himself. Leena ran up and hugged the organoid as the Hover Cargo approached to pick them up.
*** After everyone had been picked up from the field ***
Katie and Brad had fixed their zoids in the HC and now they were all headed towards the Heliac Mountains. Brad, Katie, Pierce, Leena, and Dock were in the living room celebrating their most recent win. Jamie was at the controls of the HC driving them to the mountains. Bit was nowhere to be found, at one point he had been having fun with the rest of them, but had quietly left in the middle. Leena was beginning to wonder where he was when he walked in, rather pale.
"Bit? Are you ok?" Leena asked as she rushed to his side.
"I... I can feel them." He saw the looks on their faces. "The organoids, I can feel them under the mountain." He took a deep breath. "There are so many of them there, some asleep, some awake, most are asleep but not for long I think." Jamie's voice came over the loud speaker, he sounded urgent.
"Hey, everyone you had better come up here. I've got an odd reading from the organoid detector, I think you should see this." Everyone looked at Bit for a second before racing to the control room. When they entered the room there was a screen just to the side of Jamie. It looked like a Radar screen and as the arm swung around red dots flared into existence, more and more as they drove on.
Bit took Jamie's place at the wheel and guided the HC down a rocky path. The number of red dots continued to increase, and then suddenly they stopped. The pattern that the dots made was roughly circular, a counter on the screen said that there were around 300 of the little red dots, and each dot was an organoid. As they approached the edge of the organoid circle they had to stop, because the path did. It ended in an enormous rock slab larger than the HC leaning up against an enormous domed hill covered in grass and trees.
"Well wonder boy, what now?" Pierce asked, but Bit didn't answer. Bit was looking out at the backs of the three organoids as they marched out of the front of the HC and to the large slab of rock.
"What are they doing?" Katie stared to ask, but everyone hushed her before she could finish. The organoids walked together to the base of the slab, then each raised its head and roared. Then they were quiet, for a second nothing happened, then a sound came from the other side of the slab, and it sounded like a lot more than three organoids answering them back. Then the ground began to rumble, the grass and trees on the hill began to tremble and fall. As the shaking continued all the ground on the hill began to break up and fall away. They all gasped in awe as the plants and soil that had built up over the centuries fell off.
After a few minutes the shaking stopped, there was no longer a hill in front of them, but a large metal dome. It was huge, maybe a mile in diameter, they realized that it was not just a building but also an entire base.
A little light behind them began to blink, the silent alarm tried in vane to warn them of a large group coming up behind the transport. Everyone was watching as the great slab lowered into the ground. Behind the slab two massive iron doors swung open. At first there was darkness on the other side of the doors, then lights flickered into life.
There was a mass of organoids on the other side, by the looks of it, they had all awakened and gathered at the door. Three organoids faced off against 300 in dead silence.
Then chaos broke loose. A shower of missals slammed into the side of the Hover Cargo catching everyone unaware. Everyone suddenly realized that there was a light blinking behind them. Curses flew around the room as another barrage hit them.
"Bit!! Look!" Doc shouted as he pointed at the doorway in front of them. Bit looked, all the organoids were gone, only the three armor organoids stood in the entrance beaconing them to enter. Bit didn't question he just drove in. Another missal barrage caught them partially as they moved forward, but they made it inside. The doors closed behind them just in time for another attack.
They were inside, they continued to follow the organoids down the passage, and they turned and found themselves in what looked like a large parking area. An organoid was waiting for them, it was tan with large eyes and long delicate looking arms and fingers, the armor organoids were talking with it. Schneider turned and made a noise up at them.
"He says it's safe, and we should come down." Bit translated. He turned and started to leave, everyone followed right behind him. When they exited the HC the four organoids started walking away and they had no choice but to follow. The tan organoid made no sounds as it led them through the passages. Everyone had questions as they walked but no one said anything, and by the look in Bit's face he and Liger were at a loss to explain what exactly was going on.
When they emerged from the passage they were startled to find themselves in, what looked like, a control room manned completely by organoids. They chirped, whistled, barked, and growled at each other, Bit didn't need to tell them that the organoids were worried, the main screen told them what was going on. Zoids were coming from everywhere. They were all black with a red insignia on their sides. Rows of Rev Raptors followed by Dark Horns and Saber Tigers, even a few Iron Kongs were in the mix that was making it's way to the base that they were in.
The tan organoids turned to them and started to bark and growl, he pointed at the screen as he did.
"Yes, we will help you, but it looks like we're going to need help of our own." Bit said he turned to Doc and Jamie. "Doc, I need you to call in to Gramps that we need help. Jamie, you help get a shield or weapons online, I'll help translate for you."
"You need not translate." A metallic computer like voice said. Bit turned to see the tan organoid wearing a pendant around its neck. "This will allow me to speak and all to understand, I will translate while you defend us." The sounds that the organoid made were instantly translated. Bit nodded and turned to the armor organoids.
"We'll need your help to defend this place." The three nodded and followed as Bit, Leena, Brad, Katie, and Pierce headed back to the HC to get their zoids. Doc and Jamie set to work. Doc was taken to the radio system, while Jamie went to tactical to see what kind of defenses the base had.
"Priority One message for Nimbus One, (AN: the ZBC Chairman) Cloud 9 had found a Base, I repeat a Base, of the one's we've been searching for. But we are now under heavy attack and in need of assistance, send reinforcements immediately. We cannot afford to lose this. Cloud 9 out." Doc waited and listened to the reply before turning off the radio. He turned to Jamie and smiled. "Put on your winter clothes, we've got an Ice Box coming."