AUTHORS NOTE: Hey, did all of you like my nice little cliff hanger? ^__^.
Anyways... heres the next chapter... hope you like it!
CHAPTER 8
Rain closed her eyes the moment the gun was raised at her head. She clenched her fists, ready to take the pain of the bullet 'this is it' she thought. Keeping her eyes closed tight, she waited several seconds. Then she heard it. She heard the click, and the bang.
Several seconds past, and when Rain didn't feel anything she opened her eyes. What she saw shocked her. Directly in front of her was a hand. Not a normal hand, but a huge, robotic hand. She looked up at the Temjin X in pure relief.
"Goji!?" Rain said, surprised.
"You ok?" Goji asked.
Rain nodded, still dumbfounded by the whole incident. Goji raised the hand away from Rain and the Temjin X stood strait up. "Good. Go get your zoid."
Rain hesitated a few moments, then took off running. She ran as fast as her legs would take her.
Goji looked sternly at Rains attacker. He was climbing into the GunGyarados by this time, and he hadn't gotten a good look at his face. He only caught a quick glance of his back before the cockpit closed.
"You will regret that!" Copper yelled, bringing the GunGyarados to life. It roared in agreement.
"I have never regretted anything I've done." Goji replied, drawing the sword off the Temjin X's back.
"There's always a first time!" Copper answered.
Meanwhile, Rain kept running along the back of the whaleking, finally reaching the front. She kneeled and looked over the edge. The ShadowFox and ShadowDancer had already been unloaded, and there where at least 30 Rev raptors surrounding them.
Just then, she saw Ryuu being dragged out below her. Rain thought to herself, 'its a long jump but...' She stood up and looked down at the head of her zoid, 'I've got no other choice.'
She jumped, and fell, landing on the back of her dragon zoid. She stumbled a bit, then scrambled up the neck and to the head. Opening the cockpit, she climbed in, and pushed various buttons.
Ryuu sprang to life, and roared, as Rain began to tare into any of the nearby Rev Raptors. She destroyed any close ones, and then headed into the WhaleKing. Once inside, she destroyed everything and anything in her path, looking for the jail cells.
Izumi and Brad began to hear the explosions, when suddenly, the wall crumbled revealing Rain and Ryuu. Rain carefully smashed the bars on the cells, and had Ryuu kneel. The cockpit opened and Rain stood up.
"Yeah!" Izumi said as she ran up to the black dragon, "Damn! You did it!"
Rain smiled, "I had a bit of help. Hurry. There's not enough room in the cockpit, so your gonna have to hang on tight."
Brad and Izumi climbed onto the dragons shoulders, both getting a tight foot and hand hold. When they where ready, Ryuu took off, back through the way it came.
Various Rev Raptors tried to stop them, but Rain plowed through them, folding Ryuu's wings so that Izumi and Brad were protected from any extra shelling.
They broke their way through, and made it outside. Rain fist went to the ShadowDancer, as it was closest. Izumi jumped into the cockpit as Rain took Brad to the ShadowFox.
"Listen you two." Brad said, appearing on their com-links, "Im going back to the hover cargo. Im going to tell them where you are. You go and help that mercenary."
"What!? Your not going to stay and help us?!" Izumi yelled, "Coward!"
"He'd help us more if he went and got the others!" Rain stated, "Besides, Goji's going to need some air support, after all, the GunGyarados can fly, remember?!"
Izumi sighed, "Fine, but you better hurry!"
Brad nodded as he turned the ShadowFox and took off. Only seconds after he left, Rev-Raptors and Zebats began to appear seemingly out of nowhere. The ShadowDancer and Ryuu had a good advantage though. They where both pitch black, and it was pitch black outside.
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Orihime jumped in surprise as she began to hear the explosions all around her. She quickly closed the files on her laptop, and ran out the door. Peering down the hallway, she could see that her prisoners had escaped.
"What the hells going on!?" She said aloud to a nearby soldier.
"Ma'am." He saluted, "Apparently one of the prisoners escaped, and freed the others. They took their zoids, and now they are battling our forces outside."
Orihime ran though the Whaleking and out into the fresh night air. Looking around she noticed Ryuu and the ShadowDancer had destroyed most of there troops, and where headed to the back of the whaleking.
She ran out further, and looked on top of the huge transporter. What she saw surprised her. On top of the Whaleking, the Temjin X was doing battle with none other than Copper.
'Wait' she thought, 'Copper couldn't possibly still be in control unless.....' She then realized that Copper had played her as a fool. 'Damn!'
***********************
The Blitz, Flugle, and others where all sitting in the main room, each worrying about various things. Suddenly Brad appeared on the main screen.
"Brad!?" Bit said, standing up.
"Listen," Brad said, "Here are the coordinates to the place where the others are. You where already headed in the right direction. It's only about fifteen minuets away at top speed. Let me in and lets go!"
The hover cargo opened the side panel, and the ShadowFox jumped in. The huge snail like transporter began to travel in the direction that Brad had given them.
The ShadowFox pilot walked into the main room, everyone starting to ask him various questions, about various people.
"Quiet!" Doctor Tauros yelled, "Let him talk."
Brad nodded as the room became silent. He cleared his throat, and began, "Let me start by saying," He stated, turning toward Cloud, "You've got one hell of a sister."
Cloud nodded," Is she ok?"
"Yeah, for the time being. But her, Izumi, and that mercenary guy..."
"Goji?" Cloud asked, a confused look on his face.
"Yeah him." Brad answered, "They're alone against the GunGyarados. We have to hurry."
Everyone nodded and set to work, the pilots went to their zoids, ready to dispatch the moment they arrived at the battlefield. Cloud ran up to Brad, "What did you mean about Rain?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll tell you all about everything afterwards." Brad answered, his normal calm startling Cloud a bit.
"Common LightStrike." Cloud said, turning to his organoid partner, "be ready to fuse when we get there."
LightStrike roared as they ran up to the Blade Ligar.
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Rain and Izumi had both taken into the air, and had begun to drop various shelling on the monstrous GunGyarados. Unfortunately, it seemed to no effect.
Goji brought his sword down, full force. As the GunGyarados dodged, the sword struck the armor of the Whaleking, and opened a large gash.
"You'll have to do better than that." Copper said, as he maneuvered around the Temjin X and took off into the air. He headed toward the ShadowDancer, about to ram strait into the stomach of the wolf zoid.
Rain saw Copper take off into the air, and prepared to charge at it. Just before the GunGyarados struck the ShadowDancer, Ryuu rammed head on into the side of the monstrous zoid.
"Not you again!" Copper yelled, "This ends now!"
The Gungyarados turned, and grabbed onto the tips of Ryuu's wings. Copper grinned, "You where terrified before, when you weren't in the safety of your zoid."
He turned, so that Ryuu was now below him, its wings pulled up over the sides, so that its back was facing the ground, "You going to die once and for all!"
He pulled down on the controls, causing the GunGyarados to drop like a stone, with Ryuu stuck underneath it. Rain's eyes widened in horror as they began descending at an alarming rate, they were very high up, and they where now free-falling. She glanced to her left and saw the hover cargo, and all the warriors she had met running out in front.
She saw all of her new friends, all of those who she would never forget. She saw them all running toward the battlefield, all of them at top speed.
She saw the silver Blade Ligar in front. She watched it run, as fast as it could... she saw Clouds face in her mind, as the ground rushed up at her. She was then plunged into darkness.
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Goji cursed in shock, he couldn't reach them in time, he wouldn't be able to stop them. He tried anyway, running toward the area where the two zoids where bound collide with the ground.
Izumi had gone into a dive, truing to reach Copper and Rain, so that she could stop their fall, but to no avail. They where to far below her, and Goji was to far away to help.
**********************
Cloud skidded to a stop... along with all the others. They all sat and stared, even the fastest zoid wouldn't have been able to get their in time. Cloud watched in horror, as he pushed up on his controls, pushing it's zoid to full speed, "RAIN!"
The dragon collided with the ground, back first, creating a small crater, and causing everyone on the battlefield to stop what they where doing. The gunGyarados jumped out of the crater, roaring violently, as Coppers voice could be heard, menacingly laughing.
Cloud and LightStrike ran as fast as the Blade Ligar would take them, to the edge of the crater. What they looked down upon horrified them. Ryuu lay, literally crushed, in the burning desert sands. Sparks of electricity bolted around it, and a fire had started in the pit of the crater.
**********************
Zack cringed as he witnessed the sight. He had managed to escape, along with the Bahamut, because of all the chaos around. Zero had gotten out of the hover cargo, just in time to see the crash.
"No one could survive that..." he said to himself, as he headed toward the Whaleking.
**********************
Ori stared in shock, and horror, at what she had just witnessed. She barley recognized the Bahamut flying toward her, and she hardly noticed her cell phone had begun to ring.
"Yes." She said, barley above a whisper. Her eyes widened as she soon heard who was on the other line.
"I have come to understand..." The voice said, "That you have both of the MCME zoids in your grasp at this point... along with their pilots."
"Yes.... but unfortunately, I don't think that the girl could have survived." Ori stated, still a bit in shock at what she had just witnessed, "and Zero is headed this way at the moment."
"That doesn't matter... if the girl is dead, bring me her body. Bring both the Bahamut, and Ryuu to me." The voice said, "I want both pilots and their zoids."
"But... there's no way." Orihime whispered.
"You will do it if you don't want you family to be harmed, commander!" The person on the other line hung up.
Orihime ran into the WhaleKing, and to the main computer room. She pushed a few keys, causing a screen of Copper, and one of Zero to pop up.
"Bring my the Dragon zoid now. Drag it inside. Don't lose the pilot, even if she is dead." Orihime stated.
Copper frowned at the commander, "I want to finish the rest of them off."
"Forget it Copper. This is an order from the Admiral." She yelled. Copper frowned again, but followed her orders.
The GunGyarados and Bahamut flew into the crater, and dragged out the battered Ryuu. Cloud ran up, trying to stop them, suddenly finding himself in a barrage of missiles from the WhaleKing itself.
The others all tried to get to Rain, but none of them could get close enough to stop the two from taking Ryuu. They all watched helplessly as the tow zoids dragged Ryuu, and Rain, into the mouth of the whaleking. It lifted into the air, and took off. Leaving everyone in the dust.
End of chapter 8.
Authors note: What do you think? Hehe, to tell the truth, I think its almost finished.... but im not sure. Anyways, hope you liked the chapter, R+R!
CHAPTER 8
Rain closed her eyes the moment the gun was raised at her head. She clenched her fists, ready to take the pain of the bullet 'this is it' she thought. Keeping her eyes closed tight, she waited several seconds. Then she heard it. She heard the click, and the bang.
Several seconds past, and when Rain didn't feel anything she opened her eyes. What she saw shocked her. Directly in front of her was a hand. Not a normal hand, but a huge, robotic hand. She looked up at the Temjin X in pure relief.
"Goji!?" Rain said, surprised.
"You ok?" Goji asked.
Rain nodded, still dumbfounded by the whole incident. Goji raised the hand away from Rain and the Temjin X stood strait up. "Good. Go get your zoid."
Rain hesitated a few moments, then took off running. She ran as fast as her legs would take her.
Goji looked sternly at Rains attacker. He was climbing into the GunGyarados by this time, and he hadn't gotten a good look at his face. He only caught a quick glance of his back before the cockpit closed.
"You will regret that!" Copper yelled, bringing the GunGyarados to life. It roared in agreement.
"I have never regretted anything I've done." Goji replied, drawing the sword off the Temjin X's back.
"There's always a first time!" Copper answered.
Meanwhile, Rain kept running along the back of the whaleking, finally reaching the front. She kneeled and looked over the edge. The ShadowFox and ShadowDancer had already been unloaded, and there where at least 30 Rev raptors surrounding them.
Just then, she saw Ryuu being dragged out below her. Rain thought to herself, 'its a long jump but...' She stood up and looked down at the head of her zoid, 'I've got no other choice.'
She jumped, and fell, landing on the back of her dragon zoid. She stumbled a bit, then scrambled up the neck and to the head. Opening the cockpit, she climbed in, and pushed various buttons.
Ryuu sprang to life, and roared, as Rain began to tare into any of the nearby Rev Raptors. She destroyed any close ones, and then headed into the WhaleKing. Once inside, she destroyed everything and anything in her path, looking for the jail cells.
Izumi and Brad began to hear the explosions, when suddenly, the wall crumbled revealing Rain and Ryuu. Rain carefully smashed the bars on the cells, and had Ryuu kneel. The cockpit opened and Rain stood up.
"Yeah!" Izumi said as she ran up to the black dragon, "Damn! You did it!"
Rain smiled, "I had a bit of help. Hurry. There's not enough room in the cockpit, so your gonna have to hang on tight."
Brad and Izumi climbed onto the dragons shoulders, both getting a tight foot and hand hold. When they where ready, Ryuu took off, back through the way it came.
Various Rev Raptors tried to stop them, but Rain plowed through them, folding Ryuu's wings so that Izumi and Brad were protected from any extra shelling.
They broke their way through, and made it outside. Rain fist went to the ShadowDancer, as it was closest. Izumi jumped into the cockpit as Rain took Brad to the ShadowFox.
"Listen you two." Brad said, appearing on their com-links, "Im going back to the hover cargo. Im going to tell them where you are. You go and help that mercenary."
"What!? Your not going to stay and help us?!" Izumi yelled, "Coward!"
"He'd help us more if he went and got the others!" Rain stated, "Besides, Goji's going to need some air support, after all, the GunGyarados can fly, remember?!"
Izumi sighed, "Fine, but you better hurry!"
Brad nodded as he turned the ShadowFox and took off. Only seconds after he left, Rev-Raptors and Zebats began to appear seemingly out of nowhere. The ShadowDancer and Ryuu had a good advantage though. They where both pitch black, and it was pitch black outside.
********************
Orihime jumped in surprise as she began to hear the explosions all around her. She quickly closed the files on her laptop, and ran out the door. Peering down the hallway, she could see that her prisoners had escaped.
"What the hells going on!?" She said aloud to a nearby soldier.
"Ma'am." He saluted, "Apparently one of the prisoners escaped, and freed the others. They took their zoids, and now they are battling our forces outside."
Orihime ran though the Whaleking and out into the fresh night air. Looking around she noticed Ryuu and the ShadowDancer had destroyed most of there troops, and where headed to the back of the whaleking.
She ran out further, and looked on top of the huge transporter. What she saw surprised her. On top of the Whaleking, the Temjin X was doing battle with none other than Copper.
'Wait' she thought, 'Copper couldn't possibly still be in control unless.....' She then realized that Copper had played her as a fool. 'Damn!'
***********************
The Blitz, Flugle, and others where all sitting in the main room, each worrying about various things. Suddenly Brad appeared on the main screen.
"Brad!?" Bit said, standing up.
"Listen," Brad said, "Here are the coordinates to the place where the others are. You where already headed in the right direction. It's only about fifteen minuets away at top speed. Let me in and lets go!"
The hover cargo opened the side panel, and the ShadowFox jumped in. The huge snail like transporter began to travel in the direction that Brad had given them.
The ShadowFox pilot walked into the main room, everyone starting to ask him various questions, about various people.
"Quiet!" Doctor Tauros yelled, "Let him talk."
Brad nodded as the room became silent. He cleared his throat, and began, "Let me start by saying," He stated, turning toward Cloud, "You've got one hell of a sister."
Cloud nodded," Is she ok?"
"Yeah, for the time being. But her, Izumi, and that mercenary guy..."
"Goji?" Cloud asked, a confused look on his face.
"Yeah him." Brad answered, "They're alone against the GunGyarados. We have to hurry."
Everyone nodded and set to work, the pilots went to their zoids, ready to dispatch the moment they arrived at the battlefield. Cloud ran up to Brad, "What did you mean about Rain?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll tell you all about everything afterwards." Brad answered, his normal calm startling Cloud a bit.
"Common LightStrike." Cloud said, turning to his organoid partner, "be ready to fuse when we get there."
LightStrike roared as they ran up to the Blade Ligar.
********************
Rain and Izumi had both taken into the air, and had begun to drop various shelling on the monstrous GunGyarados. Unfortunately, it seemed to no effect.
Goji brought his sword down, full force. As the GunGyarados dodged, the sword struck the armor of the Whaleking, and opened a large gash.
"You'll have to do better than that." Copper said, as he maneuvered around the Temjin X and took off into the air. He headed toward the ShadowDancer, about to ram strait into the stomach of the wolf zoid.
Rain saw Copper take off into the air, and prepared to charge at it. Just before the GunGyarados struck the ShadowDancer, Ryuu rammed head on into the side of the monstrous zoid.
"Not you again!" Copper yelled, "This ends now!"
The Gungyarados turned, and grabbed onto the tips of Ryuu's wings. Copper grinned, "You where terrified before, when you weren't in the safety of your zoid."
He turned, so that Ryuu was now below him, its wings pulled up over the sides, so that its back was facing the ground, "You going to die once and for all!"
He pulled down on the controls, causing the GunGyarados to drop like a stone, with Ryuu stuck underneath it. Rain's eyes widened in horror as they began descending at an alarming rate, they were very high up, and they where now free-falling. She glanced to her left and saw the hover cargo, and all the warriors she had met running out in front.
She saw all of her new friends, all of those who she would never forget. She saw them all running toward the battlefield, all of them at top speed.
She saw the silver Blade Ligar in front. She watched it run, as fast as it could... she saw Clouds face in her mind, as the ground rushed up at her. She was then plunged into darkness.
**********************
Goji cursed in shock, he couldn't reach them in time, he wouldn't be able to stop them. He tried anyway, running toward the area where the two zoids where bound collide with the ground.
Izumi had gone into a dive, truing to reach Copper and Rain, so that she could stop their fall, but to no avail. They where to far below her, and Goji was to far away to help.
**********************
Cloud skidded to a stop... along with all the others. They all sat and stared, even the fastest zoid wouldn't have been able to get their in time. Cloud watched in horror, as he pushed up on his controls, pushing it's zoid to full speed, "RAIN!"
The dragon collided with the ground, back first, creating a small crater, and causing everyone on the battlefield to stop what they where doing. The gunGyarados jumped out of the crater, roaring violently, as Coppers voice could be heard, menacingly laughing.
Cloud and LightStrike ran as fast as the Blade Ligar would take them, to the edge of the crater. What they looked down upon horrified them. Ryuu lay, literally crushed, in the burning desert sands. Sparks of electricity bolted around it, and a fire had started in the pit of the crater.
**********************
Zack cringed as he witnessed the sight. He had managed to escape, along with the Bahamut, because of all the chaos around. Zero had gotten out of the hover cargo, just in time to see the crash.
"No one could survive that..." he said to himself, as he headed toward the Whaleking.
**********************
Ori stared in shock, and horror, at what she had just witnessed. She barley recognized the Bahamut flying toward her, and she hardly noticed her cell phone had begun to ring.
"Yes." She said, barley above a whisper. Her eyes widened as she soon heard who was on the other line.
"I have come to understand..." The voice said, "That you have both of the MCME zoids in your grasp at this point... along with their pilots."
"Yes.... but unfortunately, I don't think that the girl could have survived." Ori stated, still a bit in shock at what she had just witnessed, "and Zero is headed this way at the moment."
"That doesn't matter... if the girl is dead, bring me her body. Bring both the Bahamut, and Ryuu to me." The voice said, "I want both pilots and their zoids."
"But... there's no way." Orihime whispered.
"You will do it if you don't want you family to be harmed, commander!" The person on the other line hung up.
Orihime ran into the WhaleKing, and to the main computer room. She pushed a few keys, causing a screen of Copper, and one of Zero to pop up.
"Bring my the Dragon zoid now. Drag it inside. Don't lose the pilot, even if she is dead." Orihime stated.
Copper frowned at the commander, "I want to finish the rest of them off."
"Forget it Copper. This is an order from the Admiral." She yelled. Copper frowned again, but followed her orders.
The GunGyarados and Bahamut flew into the crater, and dragged out the battered Ryuu. Cloud ran up, trying to stop them, suddenly finding himself in a barrage of missiles from the WhaleKing itself.
The others all tried to get to Rain, but none of them could get close enough to stop the two from taking Ryuu. They all watched helplessly as the tow zoids dragged Ryuu, and Rain, into the mouth of the whaleking. It lifted into the air, and took off. Leaving everyone in the dust.
End of chapter 8.
Authors note: What do you think? Hehe, to tell the truth, I think its almost finished.... but im not sure. Anyways, hope you liked the chapter, R+R!