Rebellious

Chapter Thirty Six – Battle resumed

Sapphire had to block out Fiona for the moment. Currently she knew that the blonde knew nothing on the past, until it has been revealed to the blonde, she could do nothing until then. Now she knew who Fiend really was instead of false names that he claims to identify himself. Rafael was the one she was facing. A demon who had wanted her existence, and all like her, to be wiped from existence altogether! But she knew better than to allow herself to be distracted for a fraction of a second. Raven was obviously busy with the boys, who had wanted to assist her, but currently she saw them standing still, watching her and Rafael battle it out. What they were thinking at this current stage, she had nothing to do with it. Without turning back to her organoid, she regarded her through mind contact that Mai felt grateful for.

Sapphire's fingers were taping away on the keyboard before she spoke. "Mai, soon I'll need your assistance, but I'll call upon you when we're going to show our true colours." She turned to face her, she saw the bright life inside those emerald eyes, and she knew she really was a supreme organoid. The first one to ever be made and to actually be given life, thoughts and emotions of her own… It was just amazing that this organoid had actually been made by her very hands. "Okay?" Mai nodded, her eyes seemed to smile. Sapphire replied with a small smile before turning back to the front. "I wonder what my connections to the other organoids are… let's see…" She closed her eyes for a split second and she knew Zeke had reacted.

Her zoid was zapped, the core waking to the powers of the organoid that had entered and merged with it. She felt Rafael's bafflement and instead of taking triumph from it, she closed her eyes and allowed her brain to remember Zeke's power that flowed through the zoid. The Energy Liger grew in a bright light and when it came out, it was silver with red lines that glowed. Mai remained behind the pilot's chair; her hands gripped the top of it as she peered at the screen. She pushed up the acceleration stick that moved the zoid forward, building speed and when she jumped, she had disappeared from sight, she was literally too fast for the human eye. Blades came out from the sides and then she struck, taking down a gun that was on the King Liger's shoulder. She heard him mutter a curse.

Making her zoid dig its claws into the sand and pull herself into a hundred and eighty degree turn, she faced Rafael again. Where his gun was electricity flared around the broken part. Zeke's power of increased speed, power and all the attributes that comes with being part of a zoid pilot was just far better and everything enhanced. But to have someone else's organoid give a perfect synchronization with her zoid core that had thrown her off in surprise. Sapphire suddenly felt her eyes land upon the green organoid who actually stood there facing his master but his head turned towards her. His yellow eyes seemed to be speaking to her and defying his master, but that doesn't make sense. Sapphire had thought he had run over to her when her zoid's power acted in order for his master to go further with his plans. But now that she thinks about the way he seems to be standing against his master, she might have been wrong about this organoid from the start.

She had completely forgotten about the backup from the Republicans, but when the bombs came off from the flying zoid that passed over and the bombs exploded on Rafael, she then smiled, grateful for the help. "You in the Energy Liger, you're Sapphire right?" It was the speakers that allowed her to hear before the intercom appeared. He was a blonde haired man with the typical marking that everyone appears to have, but obviously in a different shaped form. "My name's Herman, we'll discuss what will happen after the battle. Is he...?"

"That's him. You've been referred to him as Fiend, but he's really called Rafael, watch yourself though. He's not angelic like his name sounds."

He nodded. "He doesn't appear tough. But I'll heed your words, ex imperial military officer."

"I'd rather you not address me in such ways, Republican." Sapphire's tone was tainted in anger. "I do not mean to make threats, but retain me in such a mannerism that is prejudice against me because I was once a part of something, then I really would turn rogue and decide to do things alone and appear as a criminal to both different militaries."

Herman silenced himself, knowing and hearing that there was true anger behind her words. His intercom screen switched off and suddenly she was focused on Rafael, who still stood standing with a weak shield around him that was powerful enough to block aerial attacks. Sapphire thought that maybe this was going on a little far too long, so she disabled Zeke from the core. Zeke stood on the ground a moment later, looking up, refreshed and ready for more action that he knew wouldn't be coming to him now. Sapphire closed her eyes, focusing intently because she knew it would be harder than the others, but she was surprised to find out that it came to her so easily.

Terror, want to do the honours with me?

The growl in reply that appeared in only her head as it was their mind conversation was all she needed. Terror had decided to go against his owner. She didn't know that he had always had a hatred towards his demonic master. But for some reason, she knew the truth deep within herself. Terror wasn't Rafael's organoid at all. She watched as his wings came out of his metallic back and reached high. The way he beat them and flexed them made him look like an actual dragon instead of an organoid. When he shot up in a bright green light and merged into the core of her zoid, his power hummed through everything. Green electricity surrounded the whole organoid before a ball appeared and the electricity continued there until they were out of the ball and an entirely different looking zoid. A zoid coated a dark green with yellow lines going through it entirely, and the Energy Liger was of a merged zoid with a Energy Liger with a Laser Storm zoid.

An Energy Storm Liger…

Unable to understand any of her connections between any of the organoids, minus Mai, she was simply amazed by how they reacted and listened to her when she was just asking them. Terror's power was incomplete but she knew he was near enough at his heightened ability. He was nowhere near Mai's ability and she was far from complete. It was like Mai was still simply, broken, still slowly mending, but not quite mending. Now she knew why Mai was always able to keep up with her current skills. She reacts to Sapphire's need for her zoid and organoid to be on the same level otherwise they would slow her down. Her zoid and organoid just seemed to be so close to her heart and brain that they have a deep connection that they do everything together and at the same time. Correspondingly, simultaneously or synchronized, whatever word can be used to describe that they are like clockwork.

Sapphire had allowed Terror some lead to controlling the zoid, which dodged and pounced onto the back of the King Liger. Claws that extended slashed into the back before pouncing off. Skidding around a hundred and eighty degrees, Sapphire felt Terror begin to draw power. The horn on the Energy Storm Liger brightened, lightning surrounding it in a sudden electricity static charge and soon formed into a ball of electricity, the same intensity and velocity in the spinning rotation like a lightning bolt that struck down towards the earth. Terror was giving no chance to Rafael. Since he connected with her zoid she knew why he had always hated Rafael, but had obeyed him. Rafael had brainwashed the organoid using his demonic powers to gain complete control.

Terror allowed his powers out which the ball of rotating voltage the same intensity and velocity of the real lightning striking earth sped towards him and cloaked him. Exploding out into a large smoke mushroom with fire as its base, Sapphire watched with amazement. Although his King Liger went up in destruction, he did no as his presence still lingered in the earth's atmosphere. Using his demonic powers to escape his demise, Sapphire gritted her teeth and clutched the controls tightly. Her eyes narrowed dangerously and she nearly screamed out in frustration. Terror broke connection with the zoid and turned it back to the simple Energy Liger. According to the signatures on the radar, Nia remained standing but avoiding to attack, Raven was with the two boys who also didn't attack each other, and the rest were in the village. Rafael was nowhere to be found; only his zoid that had taken the damage of the blast was reduced to blackened rumble in front of them. Its core permanently destroyed, the King Liger's mainframe no longer existing to be repeated for future preferences.

It was Van who was by her side a while later.

Herman was with Irvine, trapping Raven between them, who had been pinned beneath Irvine's Command Wolf's paw. The village was safe, for now. Sapphire was just glad that she was here to stop the village from being destroyed, and with the help of the backup that had come in and bombarded him with bomb after bomb after bomb, Sapphire might not have been able to hold it together to defeat him. But he wasn't defeated. He was out there, but trying to find a way to break the news to the rest of the group, which would most likely be the most difficult thing she's ever done.

"Hey, Sapphire, you did it. You defeated him! You're absolutely amazing!" Van boasted out with excitement inside his Blue Shield Liger.

Sapphire knew this was the only time to get it out into the clear. "Van, can it will you. He's not been defeated completely, yet. He's simply retreated."

"What!" He screamed. "How... how is he... what the hell…? You can't be serious!"

"Van, what's going on?" Irvine asked, keeping Raven pinned underneath his zoids foot, but his distraction was enough for the experienced pilot to get himself out of it.

"Sapphire says Rafael hasn't been entirely defeated."

Even through the speakers that boasted the voices into the surrounding air, Sapphire felt Irvine stiffen in his seat. No one had expected Rafael to actually survive that attack. Well they do not yet know that he is a demon instead of being a human being. Not only must the knowledge of Angels and Demons be out in the open, but so must her past with the village and possibly some of the things about her. Of course they need proof to understand anything relating to Angels and Demons, but she had none to give, except her word and history that she had been given to her by her ancestors, two Cherubim who weren't as high as her in the Angelical Ranks. She closed her eyes and opened them to have them shifted onto the keypad in front of her. What was she going to do about her sudden new found knowledge? She was unprepared for all of this, and if her ancestors were speaking the truth – no, they were definitely speaking the truth – then she's going to have to get passed this and face these demons that have their eyes set on her. But there is a harder part.

She must awaken her power and it is said that her power might be that of love.

Discover the many forms of love there is, a bond between something or someone, friendship, precious people or items, or a lover. There could even be more forms of love, but so far that is all she has been known to have existed. But to unlock these individual feelings of love, she must first understand them to an extent before it is unlocked and revealed to her. The power of each love, to see what she can accomplish with such things and how she is going to use it when she has been given its power, the decision is hers once she has gotten down to it. Bonds, she knows she currently has that. Mai falls into many of the categories and then there's her bond with all the so far found organoids. She rubbed her temples. This was going to be a hell of a lot of research she was going to have to do.