Title: The Secret
Chapter 2 The Threat
Disclaimers: I don't own Zoids, I do, however own: Mr. Richell, Tom, and Waterwings with all of its attachments.
Rating: PG
Dedication: To my cousins who got me watching Zoids in the first place!
"Yee hah! Full weasel assault!" Leena shouted, as 123 guns fired out of Waterwings gray mode. All but five hit their target, the red blade liger in front of her. "Take that, loser!" she teased.
Waterwing's gray mode was all gray armor with no wings. It was equipped with 123 guns, and a long tongue that electrocuted anything it touched. It was Leena's favorite mode.
"Good job Leena!" Bit said over the radio link, "I'll go and mobilize Panzer!"
"No need to. There's only one Zoid left." Brad informed him from Shadow Fox.
"Ugh! No fair!" Bit yelled disapprovingly. "To bad!" he said, and then rammed the Cannon Tortoise that was wobbling over to him.
"The battle is over! The battle is over. The winner is; the Blintz team!" The judge announced.
Later…
"Great job team! Now we can enjoy the rest of the night!" Dr. Toros happily said, (he had bought the Zoid models Judge and Red Gunsniper the day before) seating himself at the table.
Everyone reached for plates and grabbed some food. "This is delicious Jamie!" Bit said with his mouth full of pepperoni pizza.
"Don't complement me, its take out." Jamie said grinning.
"It is? Were did you get it?" Leena asked him.
"Tom's, you know that new restaurant." Jamie answered.
"Well, maybe we should eat there sometime." Leena said reaching for the barbecued chicken. "Mmmm".
"I wonder what happened Mr. Richell." Bit said. It had been two months since Leena had fallen off the cliff and found Waterwings, two months since Mr. Richell escaped.
"Good question." Jamie said through gritted teeth, he still hadn't forgiven Mr. Richell for locking him up, even if it was only for a few minutes.
There was complete silence for a while as everyone thought about what had happened.
Finally Leena broke it, "I heard there's a Halloween special on tonight. With it almost being Halloween and all maybe we should watch it."
"Neat." Bit said and they ran to the living room and turned on the television.
Dr. Toros watched them "They are really getting along." he said.
"Um… Doc, you didn't notice that they're dating?" Brad asked.
"What do you mean their dating?" he said back, looking bewildered.
Four hours later…
"I'm going to bed, see you in the morning." Brad said as he walked to his room with his coffee.
Jamie checked the clock. "It's eleven thirty already? I should go to bed too." he said and left for his room.
That left Bit and Leena who were sitting on the couch still watching TV. (Dr. Toros had already gone to sleep.)
"I baked brownies this morning, want some?" Leena asked, eager to break the silence.
"Sure." Bit answered as he kissed her lightly on the cheek.
Leena blushed and ran to the kitchen to get her brownies.
When she entered the kitchen there was a red envelope on the table. She looked closely at it and it said: To Leena Toros in bold black ink.
She picked it up and ripped it open. Bringing out a note, she started reading it.
Dear Leena:
Give me the Zoid. It belongs to me. Hand it over or I will eliminate one of your team members.
Sincerely;
Mr. Richell.
Leena screamed for Bit. She stared at the red marks on the side of the paper, they looked like blood. Who's blood? She wondered.
Bit came running to the kitchen and found Leena sitting on the floor crying. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"Read… the… letter." She managed to say through her uncontrollable sobs. He picked it up and read it.
"This doesn't look good." He said helping her up.
They woke everyone up and had a meeting even though it was midnight.
Everyone sat there thinking about what the letter had said, if they didn't hand Waterwings over it could cost a life, but if they did, who knows what he would do with it…
"We should leave." Dr. Toros suggested.
"No daddy. We give him Waterwings, if we don't some one is going to die!" Leena shouted.
"But the battles." Dr. Toros protested.
"You're talking about risking someone's life just for some stupid battle? If that's all you care about, I still have my Gunsniper!" Leena said.
Dr. Toros stared at his daughter.
"Sorry." She said.
"Either way, we have no proof that any one will be safe. Sure, if we keep Waterwings one of the TEAM might die. But, if we give the Zoid up, Mr. Richell might as well go gray mode and destroy the world." Jamie said. He was right (of course).
"We leave." Dr. Toros said, taking charge once again. "Pack some of your things, cooking supplies, and your Zoids then go to the hover cargo, but stick together."
Brad, Jamie, and Dr. Toros went to their rooms as a group and Leena and Bit went to their rooms together. They gathered their things and went to the hover cargo.
Once everyone was in the hover cargo they took off.
Next Morning…
"Who slept well?" Leena asked as she walked into the only room with couches.
"Not me." Everyone answered.
"I didn't sleep at all, I was busy installing a system on the Liger, so it can transform into any of its modes any time." Dr. Toros said.
"Why don't we get breakfast?" Jamie asked.
"Yah. I could go for that, how about Tom's?" Bit replied.
So Jamie steered the hover cargo in the direction of Tom's.
When they were half way there, they saw a Black Whale King.
"Not him again!" Brad shouted.
Sure enough, Dr. Layon appeared on the screen. "Morning Toros." He said nastily.
"I want to test my new guns… on you! Hahaha!" He said, and true to his word, tons of BIG guns fired and shot the hover cargo down.
.
The hover cargo landed with a deafening bang, and it was totaled.
"Is everyone ok?" Jaime asked everyone.
"Layon! I paid a lot of money for this!" Dr. Toros yelled at the insane man.
Leena walked over to the screen. "Dr. Layon, please don't continue firing at us, we're in enough trouble already." She said.
"What do you mean?" he asked, then added hopefully, "did Toros do something stupid?"
Leena explained everything to Dr. Layon as Bit mobilized Liger Schneider.
"Buster slash!" Bit shouted as he sliced through the Whale King.
"I'll get you Toros!" Dr. Layon yelled as he drove the damaged Whale King out of sight.
Jamie looked at the hover cargo. It was scrap now. It wouldn't hover anymore, and could hardly mobilize the Zoids. "We have to get a new cargo carrier." He announced.
Dr. Toros frowned, and then noticed something on the screen. "We have to abandon ship in exactly twenty-three minutes!" he shouted.
On the screen was a timer, counting backwards, and in twenty-three minutes the hover cargo would lock up and explode.
Everyone ran for their stuff, loaded it under the seats in their Zoids and took off.
Dr. Toros hitched a ride in Jamie's Zoid since it had two seats.
They left the hover cargo just in time. It exploded in a spectacular ball of flame that shot 50 feet up in the air.
They had been traveling for a half an hour when Bit said, "I'm still up for brunch at Tom's."
So they went to Tom's. This time they made it without further disturbances (which isn't exactly a good thing).
A man greeted them as they walked in. He had blonde hair with light brown bangs, and green eyes.
"Hi. Is this a private party?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess." Dr. Toros answered.
The man led them to a small room in the back. "My name is Tom and I will be your server." He said handing them menus.
When he left, Jamie said, "He looks familiar, I think we've met him before."
"He didn't look like anyone we know Jamie, your probably just imagining things." Brad said.
Tom came back about five minutes later. "What would you like?" he asked. So they ordered, ate, and paid.
They left the building feeling a lot better than when they had started, but that feeling wouldn't last for long.
As Leena was about to climb into Waterwings, she saw a note taped on her front paw. Tearing the note off she read it.
Leena,
Time is running out, tick tock, tick tock.
It had a picture of a bloody knife next to it.
"Ahhh!" she screeched.
"What is it?" Brad asked running up to her.
"Another… note." She choked out.
"Another one?" Bit asked.
"Yes, can we go now?" She cried, tearing the paper in half.
They took off. "Who wants to stay in a hotel?" Dr. Toros asked.
"Are you crazy?! That's just the perfect way to get us all killed!" Leena yelled. "I say we leave the state!"
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea." Brad said.
That's when Tom walked out of Tom's. "Nice Zoid, what is it?" he asked Leena.
"It's called Waterwings!" She answered.
"Where are you guys going?" he asked Dr. Toros.
"Someone is after that Zoid. So we're on the run." He replied.
"Well, why didn't you tell me? The staff and I love helping people!" he said.
He told them to park their Zoids in the garage, and follow him into the staff room.
The people they saw didn't look so friendly in fact they were armed.
"Tom, this doesn't look like the nice staff you told us about." Leena said.
"It isn't. It's the Richell Gang, RG for short." Tom said turning to face them.
"I'm surprised you didn't figure it out sooner. I'm Mr. Richell, Tom is my first name." Tom explained.
"Told you he looked familiar." Jamie muttered.
"I set up this restaurant as a trap for you. Like I said, I WANT THAT ZOID!" Mr. Richell continued.
"If this was a trap, then what were the letters for?" Leena asked.
"The letter was to scare you, and keep you from suspecting my restaurant." Tom said.
"Yeah. Well your two letters almost scared us out of the state." Leena said.
"What do you mean two letters? I only wrote one!" Tom yelled.
"Then who wrote the other one?" Leena asked herself.
"I did." Said a female voice. They turned to see Naomi.
"I overheard them talking about stealing a Blintz team Zoid when I ate here the other day. I stuck around to find out what they meant. When I learned what they were up to, I took a picture of a knife that they had used to cut up steak, wrote a letter and placed in Leena's Zoid, hoping that it would scare you away before Tom sprung his trap. It almost worked too." Naomi explained.
"Well you were late! Hahaha! I win, I get my Zoid, and I rule world!" Tom shouted like a maniac.
"Not in my life time buddy." Leena said dangerously, it seemed that everyone but the RG knew what she could do.
"Okay, then your life ends now." Tom said grabbing a knife from the counter.
He tried to stab at her several times, but missed. Leena walked over to the sink, and ripped it out. "Take this!" she shouted as she hit him over the head with it. He slumped unconscious to the floor. "Anyone else want a piece of me?"
The RG all stepped back against the wall.
"To bad." She said kicking one on the side of his head.
"She's insane." Someone whispered.
"Yes, I am!" Leena admitted kicking him in a place were men don't like to be kicked.
Brad used this time to call the cops, and the RG were thrown into jail. The police assured them that the RG should get 15 years in prison for trying to steal a Zoid and attempted murder.
They returned to the Toros base very tired, but happy. "That's the last we'll see of them." Leena said.
Bit sat down to watch some TV. But when he turned it on, a reporter was reporting late breaking news.
"Exactly thirteen minutes ago, a cop discovered the cell that held the Richell Gang was empty. If you sight them, call the cops immediately, just don't try anything stupid. They are considered very dangerous. That is the end of tonight's report." She said
Bit turned off the TV. "Guys! I am afraid we haven't seen the last of them!"
TBC.. But I NEED, WANT feedback – this is my first story that I have posted and want to know what you think. Thanks so much for the reviews I already have gotten, have changed things due to your great ideas!!
Chapter 2 The Threat
Disclaimers: I don't own Zoids, I do, however own: Mr. Richell, Tom, and Waterwings with all of its attachments.
Rating: PG
Dedication: To my cousins who got me watching Zoids in the first place!
"Yee hah! Full weasel assault!" Leena shouted, as 123 guns fired out of Waterwings gray mode. All but five hit their target, the red blade liger in front of her. "Take that, loser!" she teased.
Waterwing's gray mode was all gray armor with no wings. It was equipped with 123 guns, and a long tongue that electrocuted anything it touched. It was Leena's favorite mode.
"Good job Leena!" Bit said over the radio link, "I'll go and mobilize Panzer!"
"No need to. There's only one Zoid left." Brad informed him from Shadow Fox.
"Ugh! No fair!" Bit yelled disapprovingly. "To bad!" he said, and then rammed the Cannon Tortoise that was wobbling over to him.
"The battle is over! The battle is over. The winner is; the Blintz team!" The judge announced.
Later…
"Great job team! Now we can enjoy the rest of the night!" Dr. Toros happily said, (he had bought the Zoid models Judge and Red Gunsniper the day before) seating himself at the table.
Everyone reached for plates and grabbed some food. "This is delicious Jamie!" Bit said with his mouth full of pepperoni pizza.
"Don't complement me, its take out." Jamie said grinning.
"It is? Were did you get it?" Leena asked him.
"Tom's, you know that new restaurant." Jamie answered.
"Well, maybe we should eat there sometime." Leena said reaching for the barbecued chicken. "Mmmm".
"I wonder what happened Mr. Richell." Bit said. It had been two months since Leena had fallen off the cliff and found Waterwings, two months since Mr. Richell escaped.
"Good question." Jamie said through gritted teeth, he still hadn't forgiven Mr. Richell for locking him up, even if it was only for a few minutes.
There was complete silence for a while as everyone thought about what had happened.
Finally Leena broke it, "I heard there's a Halloween special on tonight. With it almost being Halloween and all maybe we should watch it."
"Neat." Bit said and they ran to the living room and turned on the television.
Dr. Toros watched them "They are really getting along." he said.
"Um… Doc, you didn't notice that they're dating?" Brad asked.
"What do you mean their dating?" he said back, looking bewildered.
Four hours later…
"I'm going to bed, see you in the morning." Brad said as he walked to his room with his coffee.
Jamie checked the clock. "It's eleven thirty already? I should go to bed too." he said and left for his room.
That left Bit and Leena who were sitting on the couch still watching TV. (Dr. Toros had already gone to sleep.)
"I baked brownies this morning, want some?" Leena asked, eager to break the silence.
"Sure." Bit answered as he kissed her lightly on the cheek.
Leena blushed and ran to the kitchen to get her brownies.
When she entered the kitchen there was a red envelope on the table. She looked closely at it and it said: To Leena Toros in bold black ink.
She picked it up and ripped it open. Bringing out a note, she started reading it.
Dear Leena:
Give me the Zoid. It belongs to me. Hand it over or I will eliminate one of your team members.
Sincerely;
Mr. Richell.
Leena screamed for Bit. She stared at the red marks on the side of the paper, they looked like blood. Who's blood? She wondered.
Bit came running to the kitchen and found Leena sitting on the floor crying. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"Read… the… letter." She managed to say through her uncontrollable sobs. He picked it up and read it.
"This doesn't look good." He said helping her up.
They woke everyone up and had a meeting even though it was midnight.
Everyone sat there thinking about what the letter had said, if they didn't hand Waterwings over it could cost a life, but if they did, who knows what he would do with it…
"We should leave." Dr. Toros suggested.
"No daddy. We give him Waterwings, if we don't some one is going to die!" Leena shouted.
"But the battles." Dr. Toros protested.
"You're talking about risking someone's life just for some stupid battle? If that's all you care about, I still have my Gunsniper!" Leena said.
Dr. Toros stared at his daughter.
"Sorry." She said.
"Either way, we have no proof that any one will be safe. Sure, if we keep Waterwings one of the TEAM might die. But, if we give the Zoid up, Mr. Richell might as well go gray mode and destroy the world." Jamie said. He was right (of course).
"We leave." Dr. Toros said, taking charge once again. "Pack some of your things, cooking supplies, and your Zoids then go to the hover cargo, but stick together."
Brad, Jamie, and Dr. Toros went to their rooms as a group and Leena and Bit went to their rooms together. They gathered their things and went to the hover cargo.
Once everyone was in the hover cargo they took off.
Next Morning…
"Who slept well?" Leena asked as she walked into the only room with couches.
"Not me." Everyone answered.
"I didn't sleep at all, I was busy installing a system on the Liger, so it can transform into any of its modes any time." Dr. Toros said.
"Why don't we get breakfast?" Jamie asked.
"Yah. I could go for that, how about Tom's?" Bit replied.
So Jamie steered the hover cargo in the direction of Tom's.
When they were half way there, they saw a Black Whale King.
"Not him again!" Brad shouted.
Sure enough, Dr. Layon appeared on the screen. "Morning Toros." He said nastily.
"I want to test my new guns… on you! Hahaha!" He said, and true to his word, tons of BIG guns fired and shot the hover cargo down.
.
The hover cargo landed with a deafening bang, and it was totaled.
"Is everyone ok?" Jaime asked everyone.
"Layon! I paid a lot of money for this!" Dr. Toros yelled at the insane man.
Leena walked over to the screen. "Dr. Layon, please don't continue firing at us, we're in enough trouble already." She said.
"What do you mean?" he asked, then added hopefully, "did Toros do something stupid?"
Leena explained everything to Dr. Layon as Bit mobilized Liger Schneider.
"Buster slash!" Bit shouted as he sliced through the Whale King.
"I'll get you Toros!" Dr. Layon yelled as he drove the damaged Whale King out of sight.
Jamie looked at the hover cargo. It was scrap now. It wouldn't hover anymore, and could hardly mobilize the Zoids. "We have to get a new cargo carrier." He announced.
Dr. Toros frowned, and then noticed something on the screen. "We have to abandon ship in exactly twenty-three minutes!" he shouted.
On the screen was a timer, counting backwards, and in twenty-three minutes the hover cargo would lock up and explode.
Everyone ran for their stuff, loaded it under the seats in their Zoids and took off.
Dr. Toros hitched a ride in Jamie's Zoid since it had two seats.
They left the hover cargo just in time. It exploded in a spectacular ball of flame that shot 50 feet up in the air.
They had been traveling for a half an hour when Bit said, "I'm still up for brunch at Tom's."
So they went to Tom's. This time they made it without further disturbances (which isn't exactly a good thing).
A man greeted them as they walked in. He had blonde hair with light brown bangs, and green eyes.
"Hi. Is this a private party?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess." Dr. Toros answered.
The man led them to a small room in the back. "My name is Tom and I will be your server." He said handing them menus.
When he left, Jamie said, "He looks familiar, I think we've met him before."
"He didn't look like anyone we know Jamie, your probably just imagining things." Brad said.
Tom came back about five minutes later. "What would you like?" he asked. So they ordered, ate, and paid.
They left the building feeling a lot better than when they had started, but that feeling wouldn't last for long.
As Leena was about to climb into Waterwings, she saw a note taped on her front paw. Tearing the note off she read it.
Leena,
Time is running out, tick tock, tick tock.
It had a picture of a bloody knife next to it.
"Ahhh!" she screeched.
"What is it?" Brad asked running up to her.
"Another… note." She choked out.
"Another one?" Bit asked.
"Yes, can we go now?" She cried, tearing the paper in half.
They took off. "Who wants to stay in a hotel?" Dr. Toros asked.
"Are you crazy?! That's just the perfect way to get us all killed!" Leena yelled. "I say we leave the state!"
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea." Brad said.
That's when Tom walked out of Tom's. "Nice Zoid, what is it?" he asked Leena.
"It's called Waterwings!" She answered.
"Where are you guys going?" he asked Dr. Toros.
"Someone is after that Zoid. So we're on the run." He replied.
"Well, why didn't you tell me? The staff and I love helping people!" he said.
He told them to park their Zoids in the garage, and follow him into the staff room.
The people they saw didn't look so friendly in fact they were armed.
"Tom, this doesn't look like the nice staff you told us about." Leena said.
"It isn't. It's the Richell Gang, RG for short." Tom said turning to face them.
"I'm surprised you didn't figure it out sooner. I'm Mr. Richell, Tom is my first name." Tom explained.
"Told you he looked familiar." Jamie muttered.
"I set up this restaurant as a trap for you. Like I said, I WANT THAT ZOID!" Mr. Richell continued.
"If this was a trap, then what were the letters for?" Leena asked.
"The letter was to scare you, and keep you from suspecting my restaurant." Tom said.
"Yeah. Well your two letters almost scared us out of the state." Leena said.
"What do you mean two letters? I only wrote one!" Tom yelled.
"Then who wrote the other one?" Leena asked herself.
"I did." Said a female voice. They turned to see Naomi.
"I overheard them talking about stealing a Blintz team Zoid when I ate here the other day. I stuck around to find out what they meant. When I learned what they were up to, I took a picture of a knife that they had used to cut up steak, wrote a letter and placed in Leena's Zoid, hoping that it would scare you away before Tom sprung his trap. It almost worked too." Naomi explained.
"Well you were late! Hahaha! I win, I get my Zoid, and I rule world!" Tom shouted like a maniac.
"Not in my life time buddy." Leena said dangerously, it seemed that everyone but the RG knew what she could do.
"Okay, then your life ends now." Tom said grabbing a knife from the counter.
He tried to stab at her several times, but missed. Leena walked over to the sink, and ripped it out. "Take this!" she shouted as she hit him over the head with it. He slumped unconscious to the floor. "Anyone else want a piece of me?"
The RG all stepped back against the wall.
"To bad." She said kicking one on the side of his head.
"She's insane." Someone whispered.
"Yes, I am!" Leena admitted kicking him in a place were men don't like to be kicked.
Brad used this time to call the cops, and the RG were thrown into jail. The police assured them that the RG should get 15 years in prison for trying to steal a Zoid and attempted murder.
They returned to the Toros base very tired, but happy. "That's the last we'll see of them." Leena said.
Bit sat down to watch some TV. But when he turned it on, a reporter was reporting late breaking news.
"Exactly thirteen minutes ago, a cop discovered the cell that held the Richell Gang was empty. If you sight them, call the cops immediately, just don't try anything stupid. They are considered very dangerous. That is the end of tonight's report." She said
Bit turned off the TV. "Guys! I am afraid we haven't seen the last of them!"
TBC.. But I NEED, WANT feedback – this is my first story that I have posted and want to know what you think. Thanks so much for the reviews I already have gotten, have changed things due to your great ideas!!