Authors note: Hey people! I have only been playing it for 2 days and I
have 50 stars in Mario sunshine whoo hoo (im a total game freak, go read my
bio to see how many games I own!) ! Its 8 in the morning and Im already
hyper due to all the sugar I put in my lemonade! Anyways, sorry the last
chap was so short, I wanted to make it longer, but that would mean less
chapters, and then the story would end sooner (Lame excuse I know.) And to
the two of you who won the little riddle thing, Im still trying to find a
friend with a scanner I can use, since mine doesn't work... I had a friend
but she's mad at me for God knows why ( I honestly don't know why) and she
won't let me use it! @_@ sorry!.
CHAPTER 14
"Are you ok Zack?" Orihime asked.
Zack walked into the main computer room, the small silver organoid walking in behind him, "Im fine," He said irritably, "They were expecting us. Copper's piloting the BlackDeath now."
Leena, who had been leaning back in her chair shot a glance over at Zack, "Copper?" She gave out a slight cry as the chair fell backward, "He's here?"
"Yeah... and he's working for Luke..." Suddenly the computers began to beep and an image of Copper appeared on the screen in front of them.
"Hello, all of my greatest friends, how are all of you this fine evening?" Copper menacingly asked, a look of hatred and anger filled his eyes.
"Shut up, Copper." Bit said, "What the hell do you want now!?"
"Well you stupid idiot, you demanded me to shut up, so I can't answer you question." Copper taunted.
"What do you want!?" Zack demanded.
"I only want you to look at the central tower of the castle, my dear boss wishes to show you something." Copper replied.
The group opened a screen showing the central tower, then zoomed in. The watched and waited, soon the be surprised when Luke appeared on top of it. His face appeared on another screen to the side, "Welcome! I have been waiting for this very day for a very long time. Now you shall see my creations." He smiled, "I call them the Demi-humans." Luke pressed a small button on a small controller he had.
On the Left and Right towers two tubes covered in wires and cords appeared. In the darkness nobody could see what was in them. Luke gave out a spine chilling laugh then called out, "Come to me! I command you!" He pressed another small button on the controller. Suddenly the tubes began to crack, and a soft greenish liquid began to flow through the cracks. The wires began to retract, revealing more of the tubes. Cords burst and hot steam poured out of them.
"What the hells going on!?" Goji demanded. He looked over at Hiro.
"He's releasing them. He's going to use them against us!" Hiro answered worriedly.
Suddenly both tubes exploded into bright red flames, sending a wave of smoke over the towers. The smoke began to clear, just as the first figure emerged from the smoke. The grouped gasped. The figure had long blond hair, and wore a low cut crimson red dress the reached just to her upper thighs. Her skin was deathly white, and her breathing was ragged... but no one was paying attention to that...
The woman had crimson red armor, except it wasn't armor, it was actually part of her. Her chest had a small piece of armor shaped like an v, that connected to two crisscrossing shoulder plates. The shoulder plates had three holes in them, revealing her pale skin. Her spine had small wires running in and out, merging with her skin. She had red gloves that were graced with long yellow claws, and she held a long skinny flame colored sword. Her legs were bare and pale, except for the occasional patch of scale-like mettle, and her feet were bare. Around her neck was a ruby choker. The group was amazed by two metallic crimson wings that merged into her body below her shoulder-blades. They were separated into three sections, making it look like she had three wings on each shoulder.
"This," Luke stated, "My dear friends, is my demon!"
The groove then realized how much the woman represented a demon. Luke let out a cruel laugh, turning toward the other tower "and this... this is my Ryuu"
Out of the smoke appeared a young man. He had silver hair, and was tall. He wore no shirt, but a pair of baggy chestnut colored pants. The pants came down to his knees, then were replaced by gold armor. It covered his knees and lower legs, and also his feet. His pale skin was reviled in various holes in the armor.
His chest was bare, except for a plate of mettle that came around his shoulders, and formed a diamond shape in the center of his chest. His strong arms had various patches of scale like mettle, and at his elbows, two long golden blades merged into his skin. The backs of his hands had golden plates, reaching to his fingers first joints. His wrists had golden rings wrapped around them. His wings were much like Ryuu's old wings. They were gold at the supports, and silver on the inside. At the tips were long silver blades. They were large, and touched the ground as he walked. At the joints were fine, small strands of mettle, forming a spider-web type look.
His spine had one long piece of mettle covering it, with various cords running in and out, and long blades running all the way down. His head hung low, much like the womens. and around his neck was a gold choker.
"Oh my God." Leena stated, "It's.."
"Gabrielle and Cloud." Zack said, "The Demon and the Ryuu..."
"What does Ryuu mean?" Tyra asked, still shocked by what she saw.
"Dragon." Rei answered, "It's in a different language. It means Dragon."
Luke let out a menacing laugh, "And both of them are under my complete control!"
Copper snickered. 'Not for long' he thought, 'they will soon be under MY complete controlled.'
"Everyone get in your zoids." Zack demanded. Everyone obeyed, not waiting for an explanation as to why. They all unloaded, and watched, waiting for whatever would happen next. Zacks new zoid was the Bahamut Zero, and looked allot like his old one.
LightStrike, Orihime, Hiro, and doctor Tauros sat inside the hover cargo, waiting and watching. Luke laughed again then smiled, "My Demi-Humans! Kill these miserable eyesores. I want them all dead!"
The demi-humans heads slowly lifted, reveling the two's emotionless, cold eyes. They began to walk forward, then jumped off of the towers, spreading their wings. They headed strait for the oncoming zoids.
LightStrike suddenly gave out a roar as he crashed through the hover- cargo's window, heading strait for Cloud. The organoid flew in a flash of light, coming in contact with the flying demi-human. It resulted in a brilliant flash, blinding even Gabrielle, who had stopped mid-air to watch. Everyone stared, wondering what had happened.
When the light had faded everyone was surprised to see Cloud lying on the ground with LightStrike sprawled next to him. Clouds Blade had opened a gash down the organoids side, and sparks flew from it. But LightStrike still managed to stand, walking over to his old master. In his mouth he held something.
Izumi looked at LightStrike, trying to figure out what was in his mouth... then she realized it. It was the Choker that Cloud had had around his neck. She watched as LightStrike began nudging Cloud gently, growling softly as he did so.
"No!" Luke yelled, "No! How did he get that!" He stared at the organoid, "He can't take the choker! I... No!"
Cloud began to stir slightly, moaning as he did so. He opened his eyes, looking slowly over at the organoid, "Light...LightStrike?" His voice sounded hollow and weak. The organoid roared happily as Cloud sat up, rubbing his head... he suddenly remembered everything that had happened, and he turned angrily to look at Luke.
Luke gasped, "No!" He demanded, "I command you to kill them now!"
Cloud shook his head, "That won't work anymore. Now that that damned choker is off."
Izumi gasped, suddenly realizing what had happened. Luke controlled the Demi-Humans through the chokers they wore, "Cloud!?"
Cloud looked over at the ShadowDancer, his eyes now filled with emotion, "Im... Im ok Izumi." He paused, "I want you all to leave... now."
"I won't" Rei stated simply, "Luke has Rain."
Clouds eyes widened, "What!?" He faced Rei, "Who are you!?"
"There's no time to explain now Cloud." Zack said, opening the cockpit to his zoid and looking down at Cloud, "We have to stop him."
"So you managed to get away?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah, with some help from you..." Zack stated, a small smile coming to his face, "Thank you."
Cloud nodded and faced Luke once again, his gold armor illuminating in the darkness and giving him a strange aura. Luke suddenly gave out a spine chilling laugh, "I wasn't completely unprepared for this! I regret doing this, for I can only do it once... but I guess this is a good enough situation for it!" He pressed another small button on his controller, and Cloud gasped out in pain. Electric currents flowed around his body as he collapsed onto his hands and knees. Tears formed in his eyes as the electricity flowed through his body.
"Cloud!" Orihime yelled.
"Gabrielle! Kill him now!" Luke ordered, "I can always get another replacement."
Gabrielle, who had been hovering slightly a distance away, turned and flew strait for Cloud. The electric currents stopped flowing through his body and he let out gasping, raspy, breaths. He was on his hands and knees, and sweat was dripping down his face and chest. He shot a glance to his left, watching as Gabrielle came strait for him, her flame colored sword ready to strike.
He held his breath and turned, bringing his arm up to protect him. The blade on his elbow struck Gabrielle's sword, sending sparks flying everywhere. Gabrielle shrieked, swinging her free hand around at Cloud, and striking him in his other arm. Her claws struck and deep gashes opened as hot, crimson red blood poured freely from his upper arm. He gasped and faltered, causing his blade to slip, and causing Gabrielle's sword to pierce him through the shoulder...
"Cloud!" Izumi yelled, she watched as the blood stained the desert sands below him a crimson color. He let out a painfilled gasp as he brought his arm back, slicing Gabrielle's leg.
"Copper!" Luke yelled, "You destroy the zoids."
"Yes sir." Copper said cruelly, a grin appearing on his face... 'this' he thought 'is going to be fun.'
The BlackDeath roared loudly as it opened it's mouth. Charged particles began to form inside, glowing a bight white. He fired directly at the now scattering zoids. He missed all of them, but they were not his target. The beam struck the Hover Cargo's shields, sending a wave of smoke over the battlefield. The smoke cleared, and the pike shield of light faded. Orihime appeared on everyone's com-links. She had hit her head in the explosion, and a small trickle of blood seeped down the side of her face, "We can't take another hit like that!"
"Ori!" Jemie cried, "Are you all right!?"
"Yeah, but you guy's gotta stop him." Orihime said, "There is no way we can take another hit like that and still survive."
"You can't stop me!" Copper yelled, swinging his tail at the approaching Temjin X, and sweeping it off it's feet.
"Damn!" Goji said, putting the Temjin X back on it's feet. He drew the long sword and tried to bring it down on the monstrous zoid. Copper laughed, "You truly believe that little sword will hurt me!?" He once again swung the tail around to hit the humanoid zoid. This time Goji dodged and from behind him came Lavender, in her more feminine human zoid. She fired some shots at the BlackDeath, but to seemingly no effect.
Tyra and Jemie flew overhead, dropping shells on the monstrous zoid. The Raynos and StormSworder were both easily visible in the now pitch black sky. A huge battle raged out as all the zoid warriors began their assaults on the evil zoid.
Izumi and Rei were the only ones not attacking the BlackDeath. They were busy headed toward the spot where Cloud and Gabrielle were fighting, which was now quite a distance away.
Cloud was still extremely weak from the electric shock he had received earlier, and he was fighting a loosing battle. He blocked a barrage of attacks from Gabrielle. She brought her sword down on him, and he grabbed it in his hand. The mettle plate of armor protected his fingers, but the palm of his hand was uncovered. A gash opened, and blood poured down his arm and onto the stained sands. Gabrielle suddenly jerked the sword, causing it to open a gash in the armor on Clouds hand. Sparks flew. She then spread her wings and flapped them, throwing sand into his eyes, and blinding him.
He kicked up at her, missing completely now that he couldn't see. Cloud cursed as he felt Gabrielle kick him in his ribs. He felt them break as she continuously kicked him. She then sliced at the armor on his chest, opening a slick, deep gash, and causing sparks and wires to fly.
Suddenly Gabrielle was forced off of Cloud by the small silver organoid. LightStrike headbutted her, then roared as he swung his tail at her. She flew back and her back hit a rock, she collapsed in a heap. Cloud groaned as he felt LightStrikes cold mettle nose touch him. His wings fluttered slightly as he tried to sit up, still blinded by the sand. He suddenly felt weak, both from his wounds on his armor, and from blood loss.
"Cloud!" Izumi called, coming to a halt. She opened the cockpit and jumped out, running over to where Cloud was struggling to sit up. He was even more pale than before, and he had blood covering his body.
"You have... to stop Luke..." Cloud said.
"Im going to get you to the Hover Cargo." Izumi stated, ignoring Clouds statement. Rei soon came up from behind her. He looked at Cloud and said, "So that's Rain's brother."
"Come on Rei, help me out here." Izumi said, "We have to get him back."
"Right." Rei bent over and began helping Izumi try and get Cloud to his feet.
"Damn! Cloud, you weigh a ton!" Izumi said, all of Clouds new armor was weighing him down, "LightStrike, can you come help?"
LightStrike roared and helped. Rei ran back to his zoid and relayed a message to the hover cargo saying that they would send Cloud to them in Izumi's zoid. He then helped carry Cloud to the ShadowDancer, where LightStrike fused with the core and took off, since there was only enough room in the cockpit for one person. LightStrike then made a mad dash to the hover cargo.
Rei looked at Izumi, strait in the eyes, "What do you say we go pay my uncle a well deserved visit?"
Izumi smiled, "Hell yeah!" They both ran up to the Sky Runner and climbed in, Izumi in back and Rei in front. The zoid sprang to life and took off towards the castle.
Meanwhile the group was having a hard enough time with the BlackDeath. Lavender, Tyra, Jemie and Naomi had all been taken out already and had retreated to the hover cargo. Bit and the Ligar 0 had taken an exceptional amount of damage, and Leena had no ammo left. Goji couldn't get close, and Brads vulcan canon had no effect. Leon couldn't get close enough to attack, and Zack's attacks had no effects.
"We can't beat this thing like this!" Bit stated as he tried a Strike Laser Claw. He was batted away by the BlackDeaths arm, and he opened he eyes to a battle system freeze, "Damnit! My battle system is done... Im heading back to the hover Cargo. Suddenly Doc's face appeared on everyone's screens, "Everyone, I've been informed that Rei and Izumi are going after Luke. I want everyone to retreat back to the hover cargo. They want us to meet them at the SkyRaiders base."
"But!" Leena protested, "What about Copper?!"
"We'll worry about him later!"
"We have to stop him now!" Brad stated, "If we don't he'll just come after us!"
"No. Izumi and Rei plan on causing trouble for Luke. More than Likely he'll call Copper back to his base. Everyone listen... this is an order!" Doctor Tauros said, "Cloud agrees."
Everyone nodded and retreated, dashing as quickly as possible to the hover cargo. It began to retreat and Copper smirked, "No you don't." He began charging up his charged particle canon when suddenly Lukes face appeared on a com-link, "Copper come back. I need you here because They have begun to destroy the base from behind! I need you to stop them!"
"Damn it!" Copper stopped his charged particle canon and took off toward the base. 'Why the hell do those people have so much damn luck?' he thought.
~~~~~~~~~~END OF CHAPTER 14~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Hey! Long chapter! Hope you enjoyed it. Now the story is almost over... I can't believe it... only a few more chaps. Clouds back (Yaaaay finally)! Don't forget to review and tell me what u think!
Luna
CHAPTER 14
"Are you ok Zack?" Orihime asked.
Zack walked into the main computer room, the small silver organoid walking in behind him, "Im fine," He said irritably, "They were expecting us. Copper's piloting the BlackDeath now."
Leena, who had been leaning back in her chair shot a glance over at Zack, "Copper?" She gave out a slight cry as the chair fell backward, "He's here?"
"Yeah... and he's working for Luke..." Suddenly the computers began to beep and an image of Copper appeared on the screen in front of them.
"Hello, all of my greatest friends, how are all of you this fine evening?" Copper menacingly asked, a look of hatred and anger filled his eyes.
"Shut up, Copper." Bit said, "What the hell do you want now!?"
"Well you stupid idiot, you demanded me to shut up, so I can't answer you question." Copper taunted.
"What do you want!?" Zack demanded.
"I only want you to look at the central tower of the castle, my dear boss wishes to show you something." Copper replied.
The group opened a screen showing the central tower, then zoomed in. The watched and waited, soon the be surprised when Luke appeared on top of it. His face appeared on another screen to the side, "Welcome! I have been waiting for this very day for a very long time. Now you shall see my creations." He smiled, "I call them the Demi-humans." Luke pressed a small button on a small controller he had.
On the Left and Right towers two tubes covered in wires and cords appeared. In the darkness nobody could see what was in them. Luke gave out a spine chilling laugh then called out, "Come to me! I command you!" He pressed another small button on the controller. Suddenly the tubes began to crack, and a soft greenish liquid began to flow through the cracks. The wires began to retract, revealing more of the tubes. Cords burst and hot steam poured out of them.
"What the hells going on!?" Goji demanded. He looked over at Hiro.
"He's releasing them. He's going to use them against us!" Hiro answered worriedly.
Suddenly both tubes exploded into bright red flames, sending a wave of smoke over the towers. The smoke began to clear, just as the first figure emerged from the smoke. The grouped gasped. The figure had long blond hair, and wore a low cut crimson red dress the reached just to her upper thighs. Her skin was deathly white, and her breathing was ragged... but no one was paying attention to that...
The woman had crimson red armor, except it wasn't armor, it was actually part of her. Her chest had a small piece of armor shaped like an v, that connected to two crisscrossing shoulder plates. The shoulder plates had three holes in them, revealing her pale skin. Her spine had small wires running in and out, merging with her skin. She had red gloves that were graced with long yellow claws, and she held a long skinny flame colored sword. Her legs were bare and pale, except for the occasional patch of scale-like mettle, and her feet were bare. Around her neck was a ruby choker. The group was amazed by two metallic crimson wings that merged into her body below her shoulder-blades. They were separated into three sections, making it look like she had three wings on each shoulder.
"This," Luke stated, "My dear friends, is my demon!"
The groove then realized how much the woman represented a demon. Luke let out a cruel laugh, turning toward the other tower "and this... this is my Ryuu"
Out of the smoke appeared a young man. He had silver hair, and was tall. He wore no shirt, but a pair of baggy chestnut colored pants. The pants came down to his knees, then were replaced by gold armor. It covered his knees and lower legs, and also his feet. His pale skin was reviled in various holes in the armor.
His chest was bare, except for a plate of mettle that came around his shoulders, and formed a diamond shape in the center of his chest. His strong arms had various patches of scale like mettle, and at his elbows, two long golden blades merged into his skin. The backs of his hands had golden plates, reaching to his fingers first joints. His wrists had golden rings wrapped around them. His wings were much like Ryuu's old wings. They were gold at the supports, and silver on the inside. At the tips were long silver blades. They were large, and touched the ground as he walked. At the joints were fine, small strands of mettle, forming a spider-web type look.
His spine had one long piece of mettle covering it, with various cords running in and out, and long blades running all the way down. His head hung low, much like the womens. and around his neck was a gold choker.
"Oh my God." Leena stated, "It's.."
"Gabrielle and Cloud." Zack said, "The Demon and the Ryuu..."
"What does Ryuu mean?" Tyra asked, still shocked by what she saw.
"Dragon." Rei answered, "It's in a different language. It means Dragon."
Luke let out a menacing laugh, "And both of them are under my complete control!"
Copper snickered. 'Not for long' he thought, 'they will soon be under MY complete controlled.'
"Everyone get in your zoids." Zack demanded. Everyone obeyed, not waiting for an explanation as to why. They all unloaded, and watched, waiting for whatever would happen next. Zacks new zoid was the Bahamut Zero, and looked allot like his old one.
LightStrike, Orihime, Hiro, and doctor Tauros sat inside the hover cargo, waiting and watching. Luke laughed again then smiled, "My Demi-Humans! Kill these miserable eyesores. I want them all dead!"
The demi-humans heads slowly lifted, reveling the two's emotionless, cold eyes. They began to walk forward, then jumped off of the towers, spreading their wings. They headed strait for the oncoming zoids.
LightStrike suddenly gave out a roar as he crashed through the hover- cargo's window, heading strait for Cloud. The organoid flew in a flash of light, coming in contact with the flying demi-human. It resulted in a brilliant flash, blinding even Gabrielle, who had stopped mid-air to watch. Everyone stared, wondering what had happened.
When the light had faded everyone was surprised to see Cloud lying on the ground with LightStrike sprawled next to him. Clouds Blade had opened a gash down the organoids side, and sparks flew from it. But LightStrike still managed to stand, walking over to his old master. In his mouth he held something.
Izumi looked at LightStrike, trying to figure out what was in his mouth... then she realized it. It was the Choker that Cloud had had around his neck. She watched as LightStrike began nudging Cloud gently, growling softly as he did so.
"No!" Luke yelled, "No! How did he get that!" He stared at the organoid, "He can't take the choker! I... No!"
Cloud began to stir slightly, moaning as he did so. He opened his eyes, looking slowly over at the organoid, "Light...LightStrike?" His voice sounded hollow and weak. The organoid roared happily as Cloud sat up, rubbing his head... he suddenly remembered everything that had happened, and he turned angrily to look at Luke.
Luke gasped, "No!" He demanded, "I command you to kill them now!"
Cloud shook his head, "That won't work anymore. Now that that damned choker is off."
Izumi gasped, suddenly realizing what had happened. Luke controlled the Demi-Humans through the chokers they wore, "Cloud!?"
Cloud looked over at the ShadowDancer, his eyes now filled with emotion, "Im... Im ok Izumi." He paused, "I want you all to leave... now."
"I won't" Rei stated simply, "Luke has Rain."
Clouds eyes widened, "What!?" He faced Rei, "Who are you!?"
"There's no time to explain now Cloud." Zack said, opening the cockpit to his zoid and looking down at Cloud, "We have to stop him."
"So you managed to get away?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah, with some help from you..." Zack stated, a small smile coming to his face, "Thank you."
Cloud nodded and faced Luke once again, his gold armor illuminating in the darkness and giving him a strange aura. Luke suddenly gave out a spine chilling laugh, "I wasn't completely unprepared for this! I regret doing this, for I can only do it once... but I guess this is a good enough situation for it!" He pressed another small button on his controller, and Cloud gasped out in pain. Electric currents flowed around his body as he collapsed onto his hands and knees. Tears formed in his eyes as the electricity flowed through his body.
"Cloud!" Orihime yelled.
"Gabrielle! Kill him now!" Luke ordered, "I can always get another replacement."
Gabrielle, who had been hovering slightly a distance away, turned and flew strait for Cloud. The electric currents stopped flowing through his body and he let out gasping, raspy, breaths. He was on his hands and knees, and sweat was dripping down his face and chest. He shot a glance to his left, watching as Gabrielle came strait for him, her flame colored sword ready to strike.
He held his breath and turned, bringing his arm up to protect him. The blade on his elbow struck Gabrielle's sword, sending sparks flying everywhere. Gabrielle shrieked, swinging her free hand around at Cloud, and striking him in his other arm. Her claws struck and deep gashes opened as hot, crimson red blood poured freely from his upper arm. He gasped and faltered, causing his blade to slip, and causing Gabrielle's sword to pierce him through the shoulder...
"Cloud!" Izumi yelled, she watched as the blood stained the desert sands below him a crimson color. He let out a painfilled gasp as he brought his arm back, slicing Gabrielle's leg.
"Copper!" Luke yelled, "You destroy the zoids."
"Yes sir." Copper said cruelly, a grin appearing on his face... 'this' he thought 'is going to be fun.'
The BlackDeath roared loudly as it opened it's mouth. Charged particles began to form inside, glowing a bight white. He fired directly at the now scattering zoids. He missed all of them, but they were not his target. The beam struck the Hover Cargo's shields, sending a wave of smoke over the battlefield. The smoke cleared, and the pike shield of light faded. Orihime appeared on everyone's com-links. She had hit her head in the explosion, and a small trickle of blood seeped down the side of her face, "We can't take another hit like that!"
"Ori!" Jemie cried, "Are you all right!?"
"Yeah, but you guy's gotta stop him." Orihime said, "There is no way we can take another hit like that and still survive."
"You can't stop me!" Copper yelled, swinging his tail at the approaching Temjin X, and sweeping it off it's feet.
"Damn!" Goji said, putting the Temjin X back on it's feet. He drew the long sword and tried to bring it down on the monstrous zoid. Copper laughed, "You truly believe that little sword will hurt me!?" He once again swung the tail around to hit the humanoid zoid. This time Goji dodged and from behind him came Lavender, in her more feminine human zoid. She fired some shots at the BlackDeath, but to seemingly no effect.
Tyra and Jemie flew overhead, dropping shells on the monstrous zoid. The Raynos and StormSworder were both easily visible in the now pitch black sky. A huge battle raged out as all the zoid warriors began their assaults on the evil zoid.
Izumi and Rei were the only ones not attacking the BlackDeath. They were busy headed toward the spot where Cloud and Gabrielle were fighting, which was now quite a distance away.
Cloud was still extremely weak from the electric shock he had received earlier, and he was fighting a loosing battle. He blocked a barrage of attacks from Gabrielle. She brought her sword down on him, and he grabbed it in his hand. The mettle plate of armor protected his fingers, but the palm of his hand was uncovered. A gash opened, and blood poured down his arm and onto the stained sands. Gabrielle suddenly jerked the sword, causing it to open a gash in the armor on Clouds hand. Sparks flew. She then spread her wings and flapped them, throwing sand into his eyes, and blinding him.
He kicked up at her, missing completely now that he couldn't see. Cloud cursed as he felt Gabrielle kick him in his ribs. He felt them break as she continuously kicked him. She then sliced at the armor on his chest, opening a slick, deep gash, and causing sparks and wires to fly.
Suddenly Gabrielle was forced off of Cloud by the small silver organoid. LightStrike headbutted her, then roared as he swung his tail at her. She flew back and her back hit a rock, she collapsed in a heap. Cloud groaned as he felt LightStrikes cold mettle nose touch him. His wings fluttered slightly as he tried to sit up, still blinded by the sand. He suddenly felt weak, both from his wounds on his armor, and from blood loss.
"Cloud!" Izumi called, coming to a halt. She opened the cockpit and jumped out, running over to where Cloud was struggling to sit up. He was even more pale than before, and he had blood covering his body.
"You have... to stop Luke..." Cloud said.
"Im going to get you to the Hover Cargo." Izumi stated, ignoring Clouds statement. Rei soon came up from behind her. He looked at Cloud and said, "So that's Rain's brother."
"Come on Rei, help me out here." Izumi said, "We have to get him back."
"Right." Rei bent over and began helping Izumi try and get Cloud to his feet.
"Damn! Cloud, you weigh a ton!" Izumi said, all of Clouds new armor was weighing him down, "LightStrike, can you come help?"
LightStrike roared and helped. Rei ran back to his zoid and relayed a message to the hover cargo saying that they would send Cloud to them in Izumi's zoid. He then helped carry Cloud to the ShadowDancer, where LightStrike fused with the core and took off, since there was only enough room in the cockpit for one person. LightStrike then made a mad dash to the hover cargo.
Rei looked at Izumi, strait in the eyes, "What do you say we go pay my uncle a well deserved visit?"
Izumi smiled, "Hell yeah!" They both ran up to the Sky Runner and climbed in, Izumi in back and Rei in front. The zoid sprang to life and took off towards the castle.
Meanwhile the group was having a hard enough time with the BlackDeath. Lavender, Tyra, Jemie and Naomi had all been taken out already and had retreated to the hover cargo. Bit and the Ligar 0 had taken an exceptional amount of damage, and Leena had no ammo left. Goji couldn't get close, and Brads vulcan canon had no effect. Leon couldn't get close enough to attack, and Zack's attacks had no effects.
"We can't beat this thing like this!" Bit stated as he tried a Strike Laser Claw. He was batted away by the BlackDeaths arm, and he opened he eyes to a battle system freeze, "Damnit! My battle system is done... Im heading back to the hover Cargo. Suddenly Doc's face appeared on everyone's screens, "Everyone, I've been informed that Rei and Izumi are going after Luke. I want everyone to retreat back to the hover cargo. They want us to meet them at the SkyRaiders base."
"But!" Leena protested, "What about Copper?!"
"We'll worry about him later!"
"We have to stop him now!" Brad stated, "If we don't he'll just come after us!"
"No. Izumi and Rei plan on causing trouble for Luke. More than Likely he'll call Copper back to his base. Everyone listen... this is an order!" Doctor Tauros said, "Cloud agrees."
Everyone nodded and retreated, dashing as quickly as possible to the hover cargo. It began to retreat and Copper smirked, "No you don't." He began charging up his charged particle canon when suddenly Lukes face appeared on a com-link, "Copper come back. I need you here because They have begun to destroy the base from behind! I need you to stop them!"
"Damn it!" Copper stopped his charged particle canon and took off toward the base. 'Why the hell do those people have so much damn luck?' he thought.
~~~~~~~~~~END OF CHAPTER 14~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Hey! Long chapter! Hope you enjoyed it. Now the story is almost over... I can't believe it... only a few more chaps. Clouds back (Yaaaay finally)! Don't forget to review and tell me what u think!
Luna