The Sniping Master
Chapter 3.
Disclaimer: *Roles in in a wheelchair* Unfortionatly TOMY's President RES-Q forces read my Disclaimer, and got back the President, fortunatly he liked what I did with the American market so he let me off with having my arms and legs broken. Also he wanted me to say that I don't own Zoids. Never did. But I will... you'll see... YOU'LL ALL SEE!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!*hack, coughcough, hack, wheeze*
The Alarm went off at 0630 precisely.
Sev had slept better than usual being that it was an actual bed, not the stiff cockpit of a zoid or the hard ground.
He got up and walked, refreshed down into to the small bathroom and took a his first warm shower in a while, he'd been bathing in lake and streams for the most part.
After he dried off he found the new pilot suit, with a blitz team emblem sewn into the shoulder. He smiled a bit as he got a refreshing taste of what his life used to be, and was was once again.
Two hours later Sev was making an inspection of his zoid's new configuration. He had studied the capabilities of the Champ team, which consisted of a Hel Digunner, a Dark Horn and a Stealth Viper. He decided that he would put a pair of booter rockets e had found in the spare-parts garage to the legs to give it the ability to jump much higher than normal.
The Hel Digunners cannon was powerful, but fixed for the most part, making it difficult to hit a moving target. It would be a sitting duck though as its armor was mediocre at best. The Stealth Viper was much more mobile yet lightly armored.
The Dark Horn would be the main threat, it was fast tough and heavily armed. Champ was a good pilot too. He was the standard rich-boy, he always had enough for everything.
He then added a single devise to the tail just behind where it met the body. This would give him time enough to get to a good point.
The two Teams faced each other. The area designated for the match was a bombed-out city.
Bit's Voice chimed in over the comm, "Well, Sev, time for you to show us what you've got."
"Don't disappoint us or your off the team," Leena chimed in jokingly, he hoped.
"I won't let you down. This is gonna be a piece of cake."
Just then, Harry Champ, the leader of the other tem spoke up.
"Well Leena, I hope this stunning display of my Battling Prowess will open your eyes and show you how much a great guy I really am."
"In your dreams, Harry," she responded, sounding jded to the pilot's constant passes at her.
"Arrogent Sob, isn't he?" Sev said to Bit and Leena over a private channel.
"Tell me about it," Leena said, "Every time I see him he's hitting on me. Guess he figures eventually I'll get tired of it and give up turning him down."
"Hold on, here comes the Judge," Bit said as a bright orange freball hit the ground just outside of the city.
Sev powered up his Snipe Master's main systems as the Judge deployed and read off the rules to them.
"The area withing six miles has been designated as the battlefield, only zoid warriors and personel are allowed. Ready.... FIGHT!!!"
Sev knew Harry knew the Snipe Master's capabilities and would probably plan on the zoid running away to find a good vantage point. Sev did the exact oppisite.
He pushed the Sniper Master as fast as it would go in an all out frontal assault against the three enemy zoids, gatling cannons blazings. He looked over to his left and saw that he was leaving even the Liger behind in charge.
He counted down the distance between him and the Champ Team.
Three-hundred meters, two-hundred meters, one-hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty-five meters.
At twenty meters he dropped he devise attached to his tail, and it exploded covering the area in a thick inky smoke. He triggered the jets and jumped straight over the Champ Team, disapearing past him into the city. During the entire echnge Harry's team hadn't been able to fire a shot.
Approximatly a second later liger caught up to the Dark Horn and the begn to go at it, meanwhile Leena's Gunsniper was firing sporadically t the other two, but Sev payed only half mind. He was searching intently for a good place to set up his sniping post.
He found it near the center of the city, an old sky scraper, nearly 20 stories tall. Using his leg jets in controled bursts he was able to jump from roof to roof of lower buildings before making one last jump up onto the Top of sky the sky scraper.
He could see the entire battlefield from here. Sev quickly spotted Leena's Gunsniper, she knew her zoids capabilities and was wisely staying out side of the city and firing every time one of the Champ Team zoids appeared.
Bit was another case all together, his short range zoid was chasing down Harry's Dark Horn.
Then Sev spotted it: The HelDigunner and was waiting at one end of a "T" shaped intersection while the Stealth Viper was waiting in a Alley not far up the center road from it. And the Dark Horn was leading him straight into it.
"Bit, break off the Dark Horn!"
It was too little too late. The Dark Horn brought the Zero right into the trap, and before Bit could even bring his Liger around to face it he was hit by a salvo of missles from the Viper and a direct hit from the HelDigunner's beam cannon. They hit with such force as it actually threw the Liger into the building at the dead end of the "T"-intersection.
Sev heard Bits cry of pain as the Liger was hit but mmazingly it got up, battered and bruised, with the entirety of its starboard flank armor gone.
He could tell it wasn't going to last much longer and took a shot at the Viper. The bullet pierced its mid-section, causing an explosion that literally blew it in half and the Liger was already on the HelDigunner ripping savagely at the beam cannon on top.
Fortunatly, the Dark Horn was too big to turn around in the narrow street, so it wouldn't be a problem for a little while yet. Bit needed back up though. The Gunsniper was already on the way but wouldn't get there in time for the nearly crippled Liger.
"HAHA! Bit Cloud I will finally defeat you and win over Leena!" The Dark Horn was Closing it was winding its way around a block.
"Leena, how long until you get her, I'm in a bad way, over here."
"On my way, Bit. ETA thirty seconds."
"Too long, Sev, time for you to earn your part of victory."
"On my way."
Sev Triggered the jets on the Sniper's legs and glided down towards the Liger. But nearly three quarters of the way he found the fuel wouldn't last long enough he directly over a building no more than fifty feet below him which would be a perfect area to touch down, but he woulnd't be able to get to Bit quick enough that way. He kept his glide going but was nearly a hundred and fifty feet in the air when the jet fuel ran out.
Nearly 70 tons of metal crashed to the ground, landing on its feet. Red alarm lights went of and on his Zoids staus screen the legs glowed a bright red. The shock absorbing pneumatics were shot, along with some structural damage in the feet.
"The calvery has arrived, Bit." And just in time he Harry rounded the corner just as Sev was able to turn around. As soon as he got the chance Sev fired everything he could at the Dark Horn, but it wasn't enough, the flurry of bullets just bounced off the Dark Horns tough frontal armor.
Now it was the Dark Horn's turn to fire. A flurry of short range missles shot out towards the Snipe Master. Sev tried to dodge but his zoid refused to move, a triple beep signaled that his legs were out of commsion, they would hold him up but thats about all.
The missles impacted all over the Snipe Master. Red lights went off all over the cockpit.
He could see the Liger had already ran off, and he couldn't blame him.
Sev kept his arm guns running and was putting everything he could into the Dark Horn but knew it was hopeless, one more salvo and it was system lock.
He could almost count down the time it would take for the rockets to cycle then relock onto his zoid.
He would need a miracle to get out of this. Fortunatly enough, he got Leena.
A streak of missles and a hail of bullets slammed into the Dark Horn, putting it into system freeze.
"Leena, my love, why did you do that?"
"Well, Harry," Sev said mockingly, "you know what they say: You always hurt the ones you love."
He could hear Bit laughing over the comm as Leena's voice came up. "Don't encourage him, Sev."
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Short this time, sorry. But unlikely as it is I Do have a life outside of the internet, and unfortunatly for my loyal readers, I spent most fo the day at the mall. Anyway, Next time on "The Sniping Master" Backdraft has been sighted in the area, and what will happen when the Champ Team is ambushed by a Genosaurer? Is this the same pilot that ruined Sev's life three years ago? Next time on "Zoids: The Sniping Master," "The Past Lives Again."
Ready... FIGHT!!!