Zoids: After Death
"Doc what should we do?" Bit questioned as he looked across the kitchen table at Doctor Taros and the rest of his team.
"I don't know Bit." Doc looked back at Bit as the door to the kitchen opened and Mercutio stepped in.
"Where am I?" Mercutio said clutching the cut on the side of his face.
"You're in the hover cargo." Bit said as he looked astonished at him.
"What day is it?"
"It's about three days after that battle we had."
"Battle? What happend?"
"I defeated you."
"Hey boy how old are you?" Doctor Taros said as he stared across the table.
"Fifteen." Mercutio shot Doc a glance.
"Bit,a fifteen year old boy beat you? How long have you been battling I mean you're what, thirty-fivenow, a hahhahah!!" Doc couldn't hold back his laughter as he pointed at Bit.
"Hey shut up! He beat leena shes thirty-three and brad he's ulmost thirty eight." Bit said as he shrinked himself into a ball and sat in the corner staring at Doc.
"No bit thats not what I meant, I meant he's got great talents and I was wondering if he would like to join our team?"
"Join your team? I don't even have a zoid how would I battle?" Mercutio said as he slammed his fist down on the table.
"Boy Harry Champ."
"Harry champ, I fought his team once."
"Then you already know Harry champ is one of the richest people around here, and he has a hole garage filled to the brim with zoid. I'm sure we could get a zoid from him."
"I can't I already have a team."
"But, but, we need you we need a better team-mate!" Doc pleaded.
"Hey doc we can still hold our own." Bit said as he stuck out his chest.
"Oh Bit you wish you had the spunk to beat this Boys, but the answer is you don't."
"Doc you're right I think I should retire we havn't had a victory in two years. Our team fell apart four years ago when Docs son Leon was killed in a zoid battling accident and the doc hasn't quite been the same. He keeps giving our money away or getting drunk and wondering off for days. We havn't been the same since that." Bit shrugged as the Doc stocked away keeping back his tears.
"Wow thats really bad and all, but I have a team." Mercutio walked out of the room.
"Team or no team we need you!" Shouted Bit as he followed Mercutio down the hall.
"Bit I can't, is there a phone around here?"
"Yeah it's right in there." Bit pointed to a small room of of the main hall.
"Sir, i've been defeated and the person that defeated destroyed my zoid and knocked me out for three days." Mercutio said as he looked around the mainly empty room.
"Hmmm defeated you I thought I would never see the day that you would be defeated in a zoid battle, that reminds me WHY THE HELL DID YOU CHALLENGE SOMEONE WITHOUT A JUDGE?!?!?!"
"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking right."
"Thtas what I was afraid of and i'm afraid it might happen again, come back to the whale king and we'll see whta we do." The other line hung up.
Mercutio was picking up his stuff and leaving a Bit entered the room.
"Where you going?" Bit stood in the doorway looking at Mercutio.
"Going home, gonna see what punishment I get."
"Need a lift?"
"Na I just walk it's not to far from here."
"Alright see you later, and remember the offer still stands if you need a team."
"Yeah, I heard you the first time." Mercutio walked out of the room and out through the garage.'Wonder whats gonna happen this time?' He thought to himself as he crossed through an almost deserted city and through a thick forest until he came upon the whale king.
"I don't know what to do with him, I mean should we get rid of him?" Questioned a man.
"Yes dispose of him he's falty, no way something that we trained for that long could lose." Another man said as Mercutio crept up closer to the door listening more intently.
"Yes, Sir." Said the first voice as Mercutio dashed out of the Whale king and his eyes started to water. He kept running until he reached the Hover Cargo, and started pounding on the door of the hanger.
"Hello, oh hey Mercutio, whats wrong." Doc said as he stared at him thorugh the tiny camera.
"Let me in and i'll tell you." Pleaded Mercutio, the hanger door opened up and Mercutio was met by Bit who helped him down the hall and layed him on the couch.
"Hey so what happend?"
"They said they were gonna k-k-kill me because I lost against you." Mercutio's eyes let out small tears that rested on his cheeks.
"Man it's ok ain't nobody gonna kill you." Bit said as he closed the door behind him.
"Right, I guess i'm on the team." Mercutio said as Bit turned out the lights and left one of the many spare bedrooms.
"Bit, Mercutio? Where did those two go?" Questioned Doc as he stepped into the hanger.
'Hey Doc,
Took Mercutio to harry's for a Zoid, I'll tell leena you said hi.
Bit'
Doc read the note aloud, alone, to himself.
"Harry we need a zoid." Bit said as he walked into a large living room.
"Oh hey Bit." Leena said as she lept up and welcomed her guest. "Who's this Bit?"
"This is Mercutio." Mercutio out stretched his hand as leena grabbed and shaked it wildly.
"Geez lady come down." Mercutio said as he grabbed his hand and felt the blood rush back into it.
"So leena wheres Harry?"
"He went out, but I can help you. What do you need?"
"Weeelll you see this guys the kid we battled a few weeks ago and then he challenged me again and I fought him with the Ultra Saurus and I won and then he was in acoma for three days........." Bit trailed off until leena had to smack him and get the info she wanted."We need a Zoid because I blew up his."
"A zoid, we don't just hand those out, after all we are one of the best zoid sellers around. It all started that day when I married Harry and we made Champ zoid products, yeah thats when the big bucks came in."
"Shit come on we'll just go pick one out." Bit whispered as he and Mercutio snuck into the giant hanger that housed all the zoids.
"Anyone kid anyone." Bit said as Mercutio eyes widened and he stared at the endless amount of zoids.
"I don't know, but I think I do that the Lightning Saix."
"A Lightning Saix, Nice choice." Taunted a Female voice from behind a crate full of zoid ion thrusters. "The blitz team you've got to be kidding me." A girl popped out from behind the crate and peared at the t-shirt Mercutio wore."Haven't seen you guys in a while." The lights from above reflected of her tanned skin that was covered bya pair of khaki shorts and a black t-shirt.
"Who are you?" Questioned Mercutio.
"Ness? geez how you've grown. How old are you know?" Bit said as he leaned against the crate.
"I'm nearly fourteen."
"Wow and you already know all this stuff about zoids?"
"Yeah daddy taught me." Bit held in his laughter about harry knowing anything about zoids.
"So do you battle yet, Ness."
"No not yet I need a team."
"Need a team? Well i'm starting a team." MErcutio managed to finally get out.
"Oh yeah? And whats it called?"
"Um the, um, The Bebop Team." Mercutio smiled as thoughts of his favorite anime, Cowboy Bebop, danced through his head.
"Odd name, i'll only join if you and your Lightning Saix can beat me." Ness said as she ran and hoped in her own zoid. "Sinker power up." The lifeless stingray zoid came to and fluttered into the air hovering a good five feet off the ground.
"Lets show her how it's done Lightning Saix." Mercutio pushed the commander unit into the slot and waited while it was updating the Lightning Saix to its new owner."Lets go we ain't got time to waste." Shouted Mercutio as the downloading finished and he stormed out of the garage into the cool mourning air.