The Black Team Chapter 9: The Ancient Demoness of Zi and the Barrierspike Liger

"All that in one night?" Brad stood in front of his Shadow Fox in amazement. The team was inspecting their zoids, finding out that Tesability had done all the zoids in one night and thoroughly, too. In fact, she gave the Gun Sniper a Strike Laser Claw in case she has to do some close-range combat. She wanted to make up for nearly totaling the Gun Sniper, but wasn't expecting a GRAND hug from Leena.

"Thank you so very much for the Strike Laser Claw!" Tesability started to turn blue in the face.

"Help...can't...breathe..." That startled Leena into letting go of Tesability. In a few minutes, Tesability regained her natural color.

"Sorry about that, Tesability. It's just that I've never had a laser-charged weapon before." Tesability weakly smiled.

"Understood. Doc, don't we have some place to go?" The doc nodded.

"Yes, we do. We have to be at that excavation site in 7 hours. It's going to take 5 hours to get there and an hour to load all of the zoids. We're bringing them all in case you two need some help." Ligrina nodded in agreement.

"That would be a wise idea, doc. Who knows what Layon might do. He might use so many zoids that you and I would be out in the first few minutes, Tesability." Tesability nodded in agreement.

"There are times that I hate it when you're right, but this is not one of them. Let's load them up!" At that moment, everyone went into the cock pit of their zoids and started to load them into the Hover Cargo and the Shadow Cargo. In thirty minutes, they were loaded and ready to go. The Hover Cargo took off first and led the Shadow Cargo to the battlefield.

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"And...I see Layon hasn't arrived YET!" Tesability and Ligrina were in their zoids, ready to fight. They had been waiting for thirty minutes, not seeing a sign of Layon or the Backdraft group. Tesability was losing her patience. At that moment, a black Whaleking flew into sight. Layon. "About time!"

"I agree, Tesability. Shall we take 'em?" Tesability nodded.

"Oh, yes. And where's the...?" At that moment, the Dark Judge appeared, laughing his head off at who-knows-what. "That answers my question." That's when they heard the doc's voice over the comm system.

"Tesability, Ligrina, remember that the Backdraft group doesn't usually follow the rules in an unsanctioned battle, so be careful." Ligrina and Tesability smirked.

"He's not the only ones..." Ligrina nodded.

"Who can break the rules..." That took the doc by surprise.

"This may get interesting. I suggest that everyone hangs onto something. This is going to be rough." That's when a zoid jumped out of the Whaleking. It had the head of a while Shield Liger, the body of the Liger Zero, and the blades of the Blade Liger. It also had the same blades as the Liger Zero's Schnider armor. It looked a lot like...

"What the?" Jamie stood up in surprise. "That's the legendary Barrierspike Liger! How did Layon get that zoid?!" That's when they heard demonic laughter from over the comm system.

"What the...who was that?" Bit and Brad looked up toward the white liger. That's when they recognized the zoid. Brad grabbed hold of the transceiver in his pocket and contacted Tesability directly.

"Tes, that zoid is the one that destroyed your family! Watch out!" Bit stared at Brad.

"How do you know that? I was the one that..." That's when it struck them both like lightning. Brad and Bit had met before. Bit had met Tesability before. That's when they heard the voice again. This time, they were able to tell that a female was laughing demonically.

"So you recognized me, Brad." Brad jumped.

"What the?"

"Why don't you come out to play as well? Both you and Bit." That frightened the two pilots. How she knew their names, they will never know. Bit took hold of the transceiver and started talking.

"Who are you, demoness?" Bit did NOT sound happy. The demonic laughter was heard once again.

"You know, I'm getting tired of that laugh." The doc nodded in agreement.

"I know what you mean, Leena."

"You want to know my name, Bit?" Bit growled.

"Why do you think I asked!" A tsk, tsk, tsk could be heard.

"So young, so angry. I'm not going to tell you unless you defeat me. Now, Dark Judge, are we going to start the battle or what?" That startled the Judge.

"Okay, then. The Blitz team vs. the Barrierspike Liger. Battlemode 0999. Ready...fight!" At that moment, the Shadow Liger and the Barrierspike Liger started charging at each other.

"If you want Tesability, then you're going to have to go through me!" At that moment, the wings and front claws of the Shadow Liger started to glow. The blades on the Barrierspike Liger straightened out, ready to attack.

"You ask for death, then. Rainbox Blade Attack!"

"Strike Laser Rage!" The blades on either side of the Barrierspike Liger started to glow with the colors of the rainbow. The two zoids struck home with the attacks at full force, which created a HUGE explosion. When the smoke cleared, the two zoids had their shields up, but the Shadow Liger lost a leg. At that moment, Shadow Liger fell on its side, with Ligrina falling out of the zoid. Tesability gasped.

"Oh, no! Ligrina, what happened?" Ligrina sighed, then placed her right paw on the right side of her collar, which allowed Ligrina to talk to Tesability, even through Tesability was in a zoid and Ligrina wasn't.

"That pest took out my front-left leg. The Shadow Liger's now a three legged zoid. ." Tesability sighed.

"Ligrina, get out of here and get to the Shadow Cargo. This will prove to be a dangerous battle."