The upcoming nights, and problems.
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The Ligra's green glow soon faded, although in place of the normal white zoid it was before stood a taller bigger and heavier armed zoid. There was also something different about it they just couldn't place.
The other three zoids just arrived there once the transformation was over.
"Lee! Lee wake up you lazy girl." Jill said over the com link only to find out she was knocked out.
"There's no use in trying to wake her now Jill." Savannah did a swirl in the sky, then came down to land.
Jill just sighed, then checked her radar for any other zoids in the area.
"Jill check your radar four and a half miles ahead of us." Said Ace over the com link.
Jill did as he said and noticed a flashing green light.
"Transporter?" Questioned Jill.
"No to big." Savannah watched it on her radar as well.
"Should be a bit bigger then a Whaleking." Ace noted, preparing his zoid.
"Can't be a zoid, to powerful."
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm not gonna stay here to find out." Ace edged his zoid backward as the blinking green light was approaching at fast speed.
Jill gritted her teeth, then glanced over at Leena.
"We have to wake Lee, its either all of us goes, or none of us goes." Jill jumped out of her cockpit, and tugged at the Ligra's.
Ace made a face at that but then was soon out to join her. With much effort, and little time left the cockpit finally gave revealing its unconscious pilot.
"Lee wake up." Savannah said softly shaking her.
With in a minute Leena came to, pressing the red button once more. A green light surrounded them all and the shaking began again.
Although Savannah got a glance at the radar, the big object that was coming toward them was gone.
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Fuma sat across from Nick, as Nick had his eyes on the ground. If one word of this slipped out to the committee of seven, he by far wished not to know what would happen to him. After a moment of silence he said.
"So are you going to tell them. I don't want to hurt you Fuma, I really don't, but that doesn't mean I won't if it is necessary to keep my secret."
Fuma remained silent looking down at him, then a smirk appeared on her face.
"Nick, why would I tell them? Why do you think I'd sell you out?" She asked breaking the awkward silence that was developing.
Nick glared up at you.
"Why wouldn't you?"
"I only work for them I don't trust them. I don't exactly want anything to do with the backdraft. If it were someone else I'd tell to save myself....but its not."
Fuma placed a hand on his shoulder.
"If you escaped, come back and take me with you."
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Mayu tugged at the controls as if they would make any difference, but no doubt her zoid was stalled, and didn't plain to move any time soon. She hopped out of her zoid, not forgetting to kick it on her way.
She'd hope she wouldn't miss them, or get caught in the next battle that will come around in this area.
Time slowly passed, Mayu dreading every moment of it, as she could do nothing about it. When her hopes were almost gone, and man drove passed in a convertible.
"Hey!" She waved her arms widely hoping to gain there attention.
As she hoped, the man turned around, and got out of the car.
He had brown spike in front, short hair, navy blue eyes, a short beard that matched his hair, and stood far above her at 6'3".
"Need some help?" He asked his voice indicated he was around the age of eighteen.
"Hey my zoid broke-" Mayu couldn't even finish, as he already invited himself over expecting the zoid.
"This is it, the forward command disk got knocked out. Its easy enough to fix, if you know what the problem is." He reconnected the disk without any trouble, then came back up to her.
"I was mechanic before, so I'm used to seeing these problem. What is a girl like you doing way out here?"
Mayu shrugged casually still getting the feeling to beat the ----(must remember its pg) out of her zoid for stopping on her like that.
"I was going to see Leon, Naomi, and doc and them." Cliff paused.
"Naomi? Flugel?" Mayu nodded again.
"I thought she was traveling."
"Yeah, I mean she is, around here that is. I went to go see them, or hope to see them in time when they were in the area."
"Do you know where?"
"Only the coordinates for their next battle, so they can't be that far away."
*************Backdraft headquarters.
"xg-891" A man with long gray hair asked gaining the attention of what looked like a somewhat normal 23 year old man with kind of spike black hair, with blue streaks running through. His eyes were green, and had the small numbers 4523 printed over his left eye.
"Your next mission will be coming up soon, you will be piloting the best Backdraft weapon yet." Xg-891 nodded.
The older man laughed, the shut the door once more leaving Xg-891 the Humanoid Artificial Pilot in the dark room alone.
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Ray shook her head as if she didn't want to answer these questioned but did anyway.
"When I was younger around the age of ten my parents were- murdered. Stabbed and shot. They used to be ZBC agents. I think that's why the two backdraft members went after them. They were going to kill me to, but my brother distracted one, and pulled me away from the other one before he could kill me, although he did leave this gash across my face." Ray brought her face down to the ground, in deep though.
Leon put his arm around her comforting her.
"Hey, I've lost someone to."
"Hmm?" Ray asked trying to snap out of her own little trance.
"Well I lost my mother, and my sister just left. We never talked that much, so I didn't know her to well. Still I knew she had a high sense of pride, and that's all anyone else would see, or care to look for. But if you look close enough she's a little bit broken. I think that was caused by our mothers death. Then she left, so I was hoping she wouldn't do anything you know, stupid or deadly to her health. Sure she can be a hot head to a lot of others, but she's not that bad of a person."
Ray's eyes glistered. "Sounds like a nice girl, I'd like to meet her some time."
"If- I mean when she comes back. I felt kind of guilty taking her spot on the team."
Ray nudged him in the ribs. "I'm sure she will, whatever happened to your mother?"
Leon flinched. "Ya really want to know?" He asked, Ray nodded.
"Then you'll have to wait until morning, you can stay in the guest room, my old sisters room if you don't mind."
Ray shook her head, and followed Leon to the empty room.
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Ray laid back in the flat bed staring at the ceiling, talking to Leon really made her think about what happened to her family. Terrible images replaying themselves in her mind. She tried to shake it off and think of something else. Like that dream, not something she took to much pride in, but it just scared her the radio message that the backdraft was coming. Wasn't the backdraft already defeated?
She was pretty sure of it. Rolling over in bed, she glanced down, small pieces of shattered glass were the remains of a picture frame. She reached down to pick it up, moving all the glass off to see the picture. It was of three very young kids, and a mother.
The mother looked much like the younger version which must have been her daughter. The other child was a boy with brown hair, Ray guessed as Leon. The other child looked somewhat like Leena, but not of the family. Ray could only wonder who it was, and couldn't help but notice the looks upon the faces. They weren't outstanding smiles like normal pictures, but more of dimmed depressed looks, with only a bit of cheerfulness. The background seemed to take place in a lab of some sort. Footsteps were heard right outside her room, as she quickly dropped the frame, shoved it under the bed, slid the picture in her pocket, and acted upon she was asleep.
It was the one she met before, Brad passed by her room with coffee in one hand, and had a disgusted look upon his face as he passed.
Perhaps because they thought she was going to replace Leena? By what Leon said, she wasn't to far liked by the others.
Ray just dismissed the thought from mind, and turned around to sleep.
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Kat slammed at the controls once more, completely pissed off that her zoid was stalling now. The bounty hunter did make a few good hits on her, and she wasn't to sure how much longer this zoid could hold its own. She was still high above the ground, and her zoid stalling would probably result in a nose dive then death.
Where was her team when she needed them, forget her team where was the backdraft members. Perhaps even though their notorious reputation on of them could help her in this predicament. She could think about landing, but not for at least another mile so that bounty hunter couldn't catch her once more. Kat wouldn't put it passed him.
Kat braced herself as the engine roared again trying to stay in the air, as it dropped a little.
Examining her radar, that little battle had taken her far off course, she couldn't tell where she was anymore. Although she did notice a zoid, and what seemed to be a car speeding toward a transporter. Kat hoped on her life they could help her, and slowly lowed the zoid down.
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Jill, Ace, Savannah, and Leena parked their zoids, in a circle where they started a camp fire.
"I guess this is where we are staying for the night. Its to dark to travel now." Jill said to herself kicking the dust.
Savannah stared out at the night sky, Leena sat by the fire, and Ace scanned his radar for anything else.
"There's nothing with in a 30 mile radius of us. That thing just disappeared. Its on alarm, it will wake us if something's coming." Ace told Leena after he hopped down from the cockpit.
"Kat's been missing." Savannah begin, which drew everyone's attention. "For hours...."
"She probably just went off on her own." Ace started too.
"Well if she wants that spot on the team she better not leave for good." Jill shot back at him.
Savannah chose to ignore those comments. "Shes been missing since around noon."
Leena gave a creped out glanced at the other to who merely nodded, yet listened to Savannah continue.
"That large object had been coming to, and disappeared."
"Come on Savannah, where are you getting at!" Leena swung her hands up, and looked over her back to assure herself they were alone.
"She's just stating the obvious." Ace said cracking open a coke he had, and taking a sip.
Jill also edged back, then glanced behind her.
"She means-" Jill said the end part quite loud. "-that we watch our backs. Be careful. That object appeared out of no where, and disappeared as quick as it came. Then Kat has been missing, no doubt probably involved in that fight we saw far off in our radar, and now she still hasn't been able to make it back. Now we are here with a major disadvantage that we do not know this area, and its night so any bandits can use it as a cover..."
"Hey don't dis bandits now Jill."
Jill rolled her eyes at Ace, then reached into her zoid pulling out a flashlight.
"The radars nice and all but I still think we should take shifts. The radar may not pick up that major object in time." Leena still wasn't happy, just as Jill tossed her the flash light.
"Yeah, time's something that we'd need. I'd say one does shift the other night patrol. One stays here watching out for stuff that can't be picked up by radar, night patrol will go around watching for zoids and buy us a little time." Jill collapsed back down on the floor.
"Well I'm still energetic, and Jill has as much caffeine as the coke company uses so we'll take first shift." Ace stood up dragging Jill with him. Leena, and Savannah nodded, and went to sleep in about half an hour.
"I'll take care of night patrol." Jill invited herself, already heading toward her zoid. Ace grabbed her by the shoulder and held it back.
"A girl alone in a distance area is bad enough, one wondering the desert is worse. I'll take night patrol."
Ace turned his back heading toward his zoid.
"Hey!" Jill protested. "I may be a girl, but a dangerous one. I'll make them think twice about taking me on."
Ace laughed.
"What and risk your own life. Think about it Jill what if something happened to you, what then?"
Jill gave him a strange look.
"Since when do you care? I have no family that knows I'm alive, or wants me that way."
"Jill, don't kid yourself. Besides you'd let down your friends that way."
"Don't get all your-so-good Ace, I have low self esteem and I'd like to keep it that way."
"No offense Jill but your not exactly sane, or good. Last time I checked you go solo, not evil, but not exactly always good. You'd see what was more appealing to you at the time."
"Like you don't have the same theory Ace!"
"Jill you've never changed, not even since the orphanage where I met you."
"I've yet to debate if that's a bad thing or not."
"Its not a bad thing."
"Then what's your point?!"
"You must be suicidal or something, bandits would just jump at the chance to take on a girl like you. Even if they don't win they still could do some series damage. And think about if they did win, what would happen to you then. You have to live and the firestorm team has to go on."
The conversation was just getting strange, but Jill could say no more as she barely dodged a flying coke can thrown by Savannah.
"Told you that would shut them up." Leena whispered loud enough that Jill heard, and then she received a glare. Jill sat down on the sand, and Ace took off in his zoid.
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Bit cloud shook his head quickly to remain awake. He was stuck in this rather big desert, at night fall, and had to keep awake to watch out from bandits.
After another half an hour, he gave up and staggered out of his zoid leaning against the leg.
Although his attention was distracted by a bunch of noise over behind Ligers leg.
Bit sprung up and ran over to see this girl behind the really. Right as she spotted him, she took off running in her hands full with stolen parts.
"Hey!" Bit hollered taking off after her far into the desert.
After zigzagging they came closer to a campsite with a bunch of part zoids.
'Maybe they can help me.' He thought. "Someone stop that bandit!" The members at the campsite moved, up so they could vaguely see them. Yet the girl knew they would help him by saying that and yelled.
"Murder! Its a murderer help me!!!"
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Voice in the distance alerted Jill. She hopped up, grabbing her gun throwing it into her jacket, and a pole getting ready to strike listening to hear where the voice come from. Then she could see to figures in the distance approaching at quick speed.
. "Someone stop that bandit!" one yelled "Murder! Its a murderer help me!!!" the girl screamed.
Jill bit her lip wondering what to do, but as the two entered the campsite *BANG!!* The girl went down, Jill flipped over her pole again.
"Good you knocked her out, that girl stole some-" The blond haired man, none other then Bit came into the camp site as well.
Jill just shrugged *BAM!!* Once again she knocked them out with the solid steel pole.
Once the two went down, Jill kicked Savannah to wake her then returned to the site of the two intruders.
"Who are they?" She asked briefly.
Jill just shrugged taking out her gun, just in case these people weren't playing.
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Kat's zoid landed with a thunk on the ground, a short second before the power drained, and lights went dead.
She struggled at her seatbelt which didn't want to open, seemed to be doing that much lately. This time it finally came undone she hopped out of her zoid to inspect the damage.
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Nick came down the halls his boots echoing noises on the steel metal floor. The sliding door opened upon his arrival, as he came up behind the gray haired man, the women Sarah looking upon a giant darken zoid, its red eyes glowing.
"This-" The man began. "This is yet to be the greatest zoid ever discovered. Once we have the right pilot chosen, this no doubt will defeat the others with ease." Nick glanced at Sarah to see her reaction was not half as confident. Why should she be, when the Berserk fury, and Vega were beaten by the same zoid that was causing them trouble all along.
"Do not forget captain that we do have a new threat. The Firestorm team. Mistress fire, Toros, and some other people. Although our spy is with them they will only prove as back up to our enemy's now."
"There are already bounty hunters up to CORE's traitor. None have caught her yet, that tells you something does it not." Nick said as Sarah slammed her high heel shoe on the ground, making a loud noise against the tile.
"Sir I would personally like to see this mission through." Sarah turned to the one who seemed to be the captain.
"Sarah you are far underestimating the zoids abilities yet are confident in your own to see it through. With a person like you in charge the Spinner zoid it by far could not reach its full potential."
Sarah narrowed her eyes. "Are you really trusting one of the lower ranks to control an operation with such importance as this."
Nick needed to stay in this conversation so he could perhaps get a good opportunity.
"Or maybe its that Sarah he doesn't trust you either, but you do not have the advanced experience he is looking for."
Sarah didn't even glance at him, but the captain nodded.
"And how are you the one to be speaking of great experience." Came a voice from behind them.
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Authors note: Alright I know this chapters kind of small, but I've been waiting for a reply from someone in the story but never got it so just left them out. Thats why it took longer then normal.
