ZOIDS

CUSTOMKING

I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO ZOIDS

THIS STORY IS A FANFIC CREATED WITH

NO THOUGHT OF BENEFIT TO MYSELF

ENJOY!

Cyrus flew low to the ground; hoping against hope that the four Zabat zoids hadn't noticed his Buster Eagle; they had been cruising around between him and his teammates for the last hour. Of course they knew he was there, they were stalling him; keeping him from reaching Jhese and David. Cyrus knew that if Kat had been with them the trio would have been fine, Kat was as good as anyone in the business, but David and Jhese made an awkward team at best. By himself Jhese was an exceptional pilot, but the grappling nature of his zoid; the need to grab an opponent to attack limited his mobility.

The Zabats dropped from the air towards Cyrus's zoid, snapping him out of his thoughts and into action.

Cyrus pulled the controls back and the Buster Eagle shot skywards. The move was risky as it brought him within the Zabat's sights, even if it was only briefly. Cyrus tugged the controls to the right and corkscrewed upwards. Beams whizzed past his zoid as the Zabats opened fire with their laser canons; not a single shot hit and all the Zabats took off after the bigger, slower zoid.

Cyrus knew the zoid well and knew that in a race that went strait up the raw power of the Buster Eagle would prevail; the Zabats dropped behind, their thrusters unable to climb with the speed of the 'Eagle. When he had the space he needed Cyrus stall turned the zoid and dropped past the floundering Zabats, the G-forces pressed Cyrus back in his seat and he felt the pressure on his chest increase.

The Zabats plummeted behind the pilot as the ground rushed up towards his zoid, its embrace open and eager. Cyrus pulled back on the controls, he felt the insane G-forces on his chest, pushing and squeezing; the pilot used every trick at his disposal; tilting his neck to reduce the blood flow and holding as much oxygen as he could.

Gravity released its hold on Cyrus as his zoid reached finished its turn and he looked back to the Zabat flock and smiled as he watched two of them sinking earthwards; the pilots had blacked out. Raynos zoids were on them in an instant; collecting them in their talons and winging them off to safety where they would be informed of their defeat.

The remaining two Zabats dropped back and simply started firing at anything and everything. Rookie move Cyrus noted and headed for the sky again. The two remaining Zabat pilots actually employed a creative move; the two began corkscrewing around each other as they fired, keeping out of each others way and widening their hit range. Cyrus appreciated the inventiveness of the tactic but the fight was over, he was almost sad to drop the AZ missiles on the gutsy pair.

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The Hound Soldier weaved its way through what seemed to be the only section of woodland on the island, the pilot looked over his shoulder at his pursuers; three Black Rhimos zoids barreled through the trees in a headlong charge after their quarry. David steered his zoid off to the side to avoid the electrical charges that the big zoids seemed capable of generating from their horns; he veered again and shuddered as an old oak that had been directly in line with his previous path exploded into splinters.

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A cottage by the beach was something that most humans aspired to; a quaint, quiet getaway where the most important issues were whether surfing or fishing was the activity of the day.

Frankly Shads didn't get it. He could feel the salt entering his joints and servos; mixing with the lubricants and grinding away at moving parts, the beginnings of corrosion.

Jhese could feel his zoid's frustration as it hunkered down on the beach so he could watch the ocean; he had seen the Warshark take to the waves, he knew it had the ability to swim and that in the water it had the edge on his Gogu Dragon, but he couldn't for the life of him figure out how to make it pop up without going in after it, he couldn't use the Electro Talon; it would work, but it would kill everything in the area too.

David burst into the area followed by the three Black Rhimos zoids and Jhese cursed "Damnit David, you were supposed to lead them away from me!"

"What? Is the fish too hard to catch? I guarantee my bait works better!" the older pilot cut a hard turn; forcing Jhese and Shads to leap to safety as the three heavy zoids slid through the sand and into the water. David opened fire on them; his Hound Soldier shooting them with missiles, bullets and laser beams, one of the zoids began arming its own missiles and Jhese pushed the Gogu Dragon to cover his teammate.

He needn't have worried; two of the Black Rhimos pilots took the faster option and attacked with their volt canons.

The sea lit up as electricity raced over the wet zoids and through the water, circuits sizzled and even the Warshark rose to the surface where it sat smoking and frozen like the Black Rhimos.

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Kat sat in the cafeteria poking at her iced juice but not really touching it; her focus lay on the big screen that took up a whole wall four teams left reaching over another table she grabbed a console from another warrior.

"Oi!" snarled the pilot "who do y-" his sentence was cut short as Kat's fist slammed into his mouth he staggered back and looked at his teammates for support; only to find them pointing and laughing at him. Thinking quickly the warrior grinned and waved "well that sucks, but if you're ever looking for a date give me a yell yeah?"

Kat's lip quirked in a fast grin, smooth. Her eyes flicked back to the console and she brought up the data on her teammates remaining competition.

The Raptor team; the team consisted of three Rev Raptors and a Gun Sniper. The Gun Sniper caught Kat's eye black!? Only one person that Kat knew of had a custom black Gun Sniper-

"He's already out" Colby stated as he flopped down in the chair beside Kat's "Cyrus nailed him about twenty seconds after he got you" Colby sunk back in the chair and sighed.

"Guessing from the fact that you aren't staying ready to hare it, I'm guessing you have some reason for me not smashing your face?" Kat asked mildly.

Colby lifted an eyebrow and looked up at Kat "I guess you don't really have a violence quota to meet" he caught Kat's eye "fine, I'll spill. There's this thing called 'Grave Wars' long story short, eight zoids apiece, no restrictions on arsenals and huge prize money. You want in?"

"Not when the catch is putting your zoids on the line, now get lost" she watched the pilot walk away and focused her attention back on the console.

The Monkeys team??? Kat re-checked the name and found she hadn't misread; four Hammer Rock zoids, small and maneuverable but incredibly powerful, one carried a long range canon, two carried powerful machine guns and one was set up solely to tangle in close combat. A formidable combination in anyone's language.

The final team in the competition was called the Arachnattack team; three Guysack zoids and a new type of zoid known as the Atraxrobustus Spider, an eight-legged monstrosity that could be described as a cross between a Shadow Fox and an Elephander; two blades pointed down from the head, but could be pointed forwards for charging attacks, they were said to rival those of a Blade Liger, a double barrel 45mm rotating beam gun sat between the thorax and abdomen, fixed to the same mount, but unable to rotate with the beam gun were two .45mm machine guns, finally the abdomen boasted an inbuilt gattling cannon that fired Electromagnetic Nets.

She looked up at the big-screen to find that Cyrus had found the Raptor team.

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Cyrus cursed as the Rev Raptors ran into the trees and out of his sights. He caught glimpses of them every now and again, but as long as they stayed in the forest and kept moving he couldn't touch them, the bright side though was their inability to fire back making it a stalemate that Cyrus could walk away from, fly away from at his leisure, besides, while chasing the Raptors team was great fun it had the added bonus of opening up the forest area of the map.

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'Kong' stared through the sights of his long range rifle as his teammates argued with each other on either side of him, their topic of gripe seemed to be their highly successful but incredibly boring sniper tactic.

"C'mon dudes, this sucks; I say we blow this job and find a fight" 'Diddy' whined.

"Stay put!" 'Ban' commanded "this method works just fine, like Gokuwa said it would"

The plan was rather simple and the Monkey team was executing it perfectly by anyone's standards; Gokuwa in the Hammer Rock that had been modified for close combat had been circling a small area to carve out a circle in the map that extended only to the limits of Kong's long range cannon, since completing that task Gokuwa had been cruising the area as bait while Kong with Diddy and Ban guarding him in their mid-ranged zoids had waited on the hill for anyone to come within gunshot.

So far they had removed three teams and were waiting for a fourth to fall into their trap.

Yep, Chapter 50. Some people consider this a milestone, but since I'm probably not going to be updating much while I'm at Uni it probably warrents some commiseration.

Frankly I can't be bothered with that either so I'll torture you with my new little section I call 'Taken Out Of Context'

Jhese wandered the compound, he could remember parking his partner out the front of the house, but the zoid simply wasn't there, after a final lap Jhese headed to the hanger to use the phone, he needed to call Cyrus and the Z.B.C. he needed to report his missing zoid. As he reached for the door he noticed the water creeping out from underneath. Jhese flung the door open "What th-" his partner looked down at him; soaking wet and covered in soap suds "What the HELL are you doing?" Jhese yelled as he noticed the four bikini clad women washing his zoid.

Well I noticed that Kat seems to be becoming the main character in the story, I'm positive she won't steal our thunder after she sees this!

"What do you mean after-?" Jhese's voice trailed away as a shadow fell over his own, he whirled to see Kat standing behind him gazing up at the four girls crawling over Jhese's zoid.

No, this has nothing to do with the story, Kat is not leaving, hence the name 'Taken Out Of Context' this will not become filler and will only be present when I can be bothered...unless of course the majority of you hate it, in which case it will cease by my next update.

Reviews are always appreciated!