ZOIDS
CUSTOMKING
I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO ZOIDS
THIS STORY IS A FANFIC CREATED WITH
NO THOUGHT OF BENEFIT TO MYSELF
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Cyrus cursed as Jhese and David's dots reached the point on the map where the re-arming bunker was located, he peeled away from chasing the 'Raptors and angled for his teammates knowing that there would be war when he got there.
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Sure enough there were foes waiting for the Crew team pair as they reached the bunker; Keith Mack shifted his grips on the mechanical spider's controls, straining his eyes to see his teammates, not an easy task considering the camouflaged Guysacks had had ample time to hide themselves, even the lack of cover was a minor challenge to a zoid that resembled a rock formation when it stood on a showroom floor.
"Yo Keith, do I see some pigeons coming in to roost?" Keith gave up looking for the three Guysack zoids and looked for the 'pigeons' that Samuel had mentioned.
"Bonza mate. That's them alright; the Hound Soldier and Gogu Dragon, the 'Dragon must be coming in to change armour…we'll take the mutt while he's gone and blast him when he emerges"
Manny Tyler's voice came over the comm. unit "Aw c'mon Keith, I reckon w could take 'em both with no worries"
"That doesn't mean we need to mate, no need to tangle with two when we don't need to, why bother?" Jhonno Smith was probably the most level headed of the group, frankly Keith wondered why Jhonno couldn't be bothered being the leader; his planning skills were second to none among his teammates, his ability to think under pressure was phenomenal and women loved him, not that had a huge impact on leadership, Keith just wished that they wouldn't run straight past him into Jhonno's arms.
"He's in, let's knock his mate off and ambush him!" Keith charged, not exactly an accurate description for an eight legged zoid but no better term came to mind, over the short meadow that separated his zoid from his hidden teammates.
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David looked up as he heard the charging zoid and his zoid staggered as a laser bolt hit it in the back "Damn it!" David fed ion juice to the accelerator and the Hound Soldier lurched towards the black spider zoid.
Keith reared his zoid back to reveal the intimidating red paint that was hidden under his zoids fangs, lighting up the fang-blades in their red energy to further the effect, the 'Hound pulled up short and spun back to find escape cut off by the three Guysack zoids.
David spun his zoid in a tight circle; allowing him to look at all his opponents, three Guysacks and a big spider type zoid. They must have been one of the only teams left with a full line-up David reasoned, he knew he couldn't take all four of them; but he could stall for time.
Keith started in surprise as the Hound Soldier whirled and charged straight at his zoid; avoiding the attacks of the three Guysacks and leaving them in a cloud of discharged smoke. This can't be an amazed Keith wondered in disbelief everyone goes for the Guysacks when they're trapped like this, the Guysacks are the weaker zoids!
Recovering quickly Keith dropped his zoid in preparation for the charge.
A huge impact shook the Atraxrobustus Spider and hurled it sideways, Keith cried out as his zoid slid sideways, he looked about frantically, there had to be another zoid about. The Gogu Dragon was still in the bunker…a shadow passed over his zoid and Keith looked up to see the Buster Eagle soaring over, another shot laid out one of the Guysacks, its systems frozen by the powerful Buster Canon. Keith coaxed his 'Spider back to its eight legs and hit a button on the console; his harness tightened and his seat dropped back further until Keith was lying down, a system straight from the Gunsniper zoids rolled him over so that he was now facing backwards and hanging from his seat and gripping the net gun with his hands, he reached out and hooked his feet into the control handles, this would allow him to control the zoid on a minimal level, enabling him to make three hundred and sixty degree turns, giving him a far greater field of fire than any Gunsniper.
Cyrus whistled as he dove under the first electromagnetic net, his Buster Eagle making a similar crooning noise. Damn it Cyrus moaned just like Jhese, I'm loosing my marbles. He soared over another net and weaved past a third, the shots were coming far more frequently as this went on and Cyrus was forced away from the conflict. The Buster Eagle responded to its pilot's frustration by screaming furiously.
Jhese burst from the bunker, skating forwards on the Peacemaker Dragon's hover thrusters they must have been working on that like crazy thought Cyrus as the pair slid past a Guysack; the 'Dragon whipped its tail and three spindly legs were knocked out from under the scorpion type zoid, the 'Dragon then pirouetted and fired on the downed zoid, the electromagnetic nets stopped and Cyrus stole a glimpse of David dogging the spider zoid with his Hound Soldier's chest mounted beam canons.
Jhese's voice began yelling over the comm. he seemed to have hit the button accidently because Cyrus couldn't tell who he was talking to "Yeah, good shooting…no I didn't bump your controls on purpose…watch out here comes another-wait its two of 'em!...the gattling gun, are you nuts? Fine, we'll do it your way" suddenly the gattling guns on the Peacemaker Dragon's 'wings' lit up and the zoid went mad; it spun and dodged and sprayed everything in the area with hot lead.
Once again Jhese's voice came over the comm. "Aaaaarrrrgh! Whew, nice…spray, we don't need no bug spray, we just sprayed everything in sight" Cyrus caught sight of David having problems with the spider zoid and rushed to help, as he lined up the metal spider he heard Jhese again "That's three for us…good job partner!" Cyrus grinned, Jhese certainly wasn't suffering insanity; he was loving every second of it.
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Kat covered her face in her hand, even though her team had just put themselves in the final three, Jhese had spent the entire thing talking to his zoid using the comm. system, meaning that everyone watching their battle had heard his ramblings. She listened to David as he thanked Cyrus for the save and berated Jhese for his antics, then she flicked through the channels to find out what the other two teams were up to.
The first team she found was the Raptors team.
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Deino sighed, they had lost the Buster Eagle, for some reason the flying zoid had simply packed it up and flown off, the only real benefit of the whole encounter was the amount of ground they had covered unmolested. They had opened up the whole forest on the map, while it only counted for an eighth of the map; their previous conflicts meant that they now had three eighths of the map unrevealed.
Thera and Utah stood on either side of him as he studied the map and landscape "Okay, logically these two spots are where our enemies are. Depending on how many we actually have left they could be crawling with enemies, or there could just be that Buster Eagle remaining…the way I see it, where we stand now an enemy would have to be doing mach 4 to reach us within a minute, so what do we do, wait or hunt?" the two Rev Raptors shifted as they weighed their options, none of them liked the idea of facing the Buster Eagle without ranged weapons, and that bum mercenary Derik 'Stalker' Stiller had gone and got himself shot.
Knowing that the Buster Eagle had headed south the Raptor team headed north-east to the second unopened area.
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Cyrus watched the three dots that represented the Raptors team heading away from them to the north-east "Hey, David, Jhese the 'Raptors are getting away, I couldn't get them before because they were in the forest, but with you two on the ground we can bust 'em good"
"I dunno Cyrus" replied David "we don't have much idea about that area, it's probably their turf…they might have even made allies in that area"
"I kind of agree with David on this one" Jhese said as he piloted the Wraith Dragon out of the CAS bunker, the only armour remaining that hadn't taken damage "But we do need to check it out, we can't win without fighting at some point"
With that the three headed north-east.
Done done done! At least this chapter anyway...for anyone who cares, punch Atrax robustus into google to find out what the spider zoid is based on, for those who can't be bothered it's a Sydney Funnel Web and worth a look, thankfully they live in holes in Sydney two hours south of me, scary bits of mongrel spider like that can't be healthy, and that's before you think about the highly potent venom.
