The Zoids Continuum: Fusion Organoids
Chapter V-Discoveries
"C'mon Wolf! Run, so we can get to these Imperial zoids before they find my home!" Alaya said to her beat-up Command Wolf. She had found him on an expedition, to picnic on a small near-by oasis, when her hoverboard bumped into something sticking out of the sand. When she had followed the line of parts, she found her Command Wolf. She had put back all the parts she could, loaded her hoverboard into the back seat, and walked it to her house with the extras. Some parts needed replacement, and they had gotten to most of them, but a few were still in bad shape. She knew she would never beat an Imperial zoid with him, but she could give time for her tracks and any other evidence leading to her home to go away. She just hoped she would last that long.
Alaya kept whispering encouragement to her zoid in hopes that he would respond to her urgings. But of course he didn't. Then on impulse, the muttered, "Two become one and one becomes two."
She was astonished when she started to glow yellow, then gold. She felt something leave her, and some part of her melted away. She knew that there were parts in bad shape, but she could no longer identify them. She was left with only her barest instincts. And she gasped. She was a transform organoid! Those instincts that told her zoid information had been part of her organoid part, but she never realized because she had never been in need to use her Wolf like she was now. Then her Command Wolf was in top condition, all his parts were healed, and he howled his joy to the sky. Alaya smiled. Now there was no doubt she would win.
"Okay, Wolf, lets gettem!" she shouted and her Command Wolf leapt into action. She sped across the desert, nimbly jumping over little hindrances and sometimes jumping from dune to dune. Alaya felt as if she had been born to her zoid. Then there were five zoids on her monitor. Three Command Wolves like hers, a Gun Sniper and a strange, faster, wolf-like creature that was ahead of all four. "That must be a Shadow Fox, the zoid Lika told me about."
Alaya then had another three flying zoids on her screen. She cocked her head in confusion. Then the ground zoids came into her sight. The other four were chasing the Shadow Fox, but the flying zoids were completely unaware. Alaya shot down two before the last one noticed her, but by then he was down and out. Now to take care of the other five. She ran up a dune and jumped over the Shadow Fox, shooting down the Gun Sniper and a Command Wolf before the other two knew what hit them.
"Damn! Out of missiles!" she said. Then the other two were down for the count.
"Thanks for the help, Wolf." She pilot said on her external speakers. Then the cockpit opened and she jumped out. The girl had copper eyes flecked with green, and pale green hair, cropped short. Alaya opened her cockpit and jumped out as well. "I saw you take out those Reynos. Pretty good."
"Thanks, you weren't that bad either." Alaya said, then a comment slipped out of her lips. "But your eyes...they're copper."
"Yours are gold." She said. Alaya blushed. "I wonder if I've met you...you look just like a woman I've seen."
"I do?" Alaya asked.
"But her eyes are purple and black-flecked." The girl said. "Still, they say she was brought in with silver eyes. And an old Blade Liger was said to be hers before she chose a Zaber Fang. One of her partners now pilots a Rev Raptor, and the other pilots a Geno-braker. I never got their names, but they all have the same eyes."
Alaya's hope died in her throat. Her mother piloted a Blade Liger, not a Zaber Fang, her dad used to pilot a Zaber Fang and her parent's friend, Crow, piloted a Sword Stormer. "Well, you seem to know a lot about the Empire."
"I used to be a pilot for them." She said icily. Alaya was immediately on her guard.
"Used?" Alaya asked suspiciously.
"Yah, used. They used me in their little game. I can't believe that those pilots enjoy working for them!" she said. "By the way, I'm Eri."
"I'm Alaya." Alaya said. Then she touched her Command Wolf and felt her organoid part flow into her like a small stream. She felt the girl, Eri, was telling the truth. Or most of it. Enough to trust. Alaya decided it was okay if she brought Eri to her home. "Follow me."
Alaya jumped into her zoid, and so did Eri, and they were off. Alaya led the way, doing almost all she had done on the way there, but slower. Eri caught up to her.
"Your zoid was a lot faster before. What happened?" she asked. Alaya didn't know if she was ready to tell her newfound secret. "Well?" she prompted.
"I was born a transform organoid, so my organoid part was fused with my Wolf during the battle." She said.
"You, too?" she asked, alarmed. "I mean, I'm one too. A transform organoid, I mean. But I'm not that great at controlling it yet."
"I just did my first fuse today." Alaya admitted.
"You were great! A lot better than me. Now that I think about it, the three unbeatable pilots are also transform organoids." Eri said thoughtfully. Again hope flared in Alaya's heart, but she kept it to herself. Eri and Alaya talked about arbitrary things, getting to know each other better, the rest of the time. Finally they reached the house. Brian's Reynos was still smoking. It was a miracle it didn't blow up when it crashed.
"We're here!" Alaya said. Then parked her zoid next to Lika's Lightning Saix. Then she walked in the door with Eri following behind.
"I'm home!" Alaya yelled into the dim room, then threw off her dress to reveal a pair of shorts and a no-sleeved T-shirt.
"You wear that under your dress?" Eri asked, shocked.
"Yah. Lika believes in comfort rather than costom." Alaya said contentedly. "If you want, you can have some."
"Sure, okay." She said unsteadily. Then Lika walked in the room. She looked at Eri.
"Okay, Alaya, picking up abandoned hoverboards and zoids is fine, but picking up people is crossing the line, don't you think?" she asked with mock seriousness.
Alaya laughed. "Lika, this is Eri. Eri, meet Lika."
"Nice to meat you Lika." Eri said shyly.
"Pleasure, I'm sure." Lika replied. "Anyway, I'm happy you came back in one piece. Brian and I didn't think you'd make it with that beat-up Command Wolf."
Alaya and Eri looked at each other. "I think I've got a short story to tell."
They walked into the room where Brian was so that he could hear, and Lika went to fetch water. Then Alaya began. She told of how she had run off and muttered the phrase under her breath. How she discovered that she was a transform organoid like her mother and father. She told of the short battle between her and the Imperial zoids. Then Eri described the fighter that had carved the offense of the Empire.
"She has mid-back long, brown hair and black-flecked purple eyes. One of her friends has the same eyes with green-streaked blonde hair. Her other male friend had black hair and plain purple eyes." Eri said. It was Brian and Lika's turn to look at each other.
"That's Citri, all right." Lika whispered.
"But my mom had silver eyes!" Alaya protested.
"And Ambient with her. Crow, too." Brian said.
"My dad would never do that by his own choice!" Alaya said.
"You're right, Alaya. Their will has no play in this. Except maybe Crow's." Lika said.
"Crow has this power he was born with. When he gets mad, his eyes'll glow purple. And with them he is able to more or less control the people who look into them. But he never used his power after that one day." Brian said.
"What one day?" Alaya and Eri chorused.
"The day when Citri and he fought, and Citri used her life to save his." Lika said.
"But if my mother used her life to save Crow, how could she still live?" Alaya asked.
"To this day, I don't know. Two years after she was supposed to have died, she appeared in our camp." Brian said, then moved his head from side to side. "It's a mystery."
"Mystery or none, I'll get her and free her from the spell!" Alaya said, that cold flame burning behind her golden eyes again.
Lika sighed. "I can't take care of Brian by my self here. We'll go back to the colony."
"I'll take Brian in my zoid, and take him ahead. We'll meat you there." Alaya said.
"I'm coming too!" Eri said. Lika nodded. Then she lifted Brian up, but had to immediately set him down as a small scream escaped his lips.
"Wait." Alaya said. She touched her hands to his chest and absorbed some of the pain, then she touched his arm. She had to sit down and take a couple of deep breaths as she got accustomed to the pain by her breasts and in her right arm. Brian looked at her in wonderment.
"What did you do?" he asked. Alaya didn't answer; the pain was sharp. Now Lika helped him to the Command Wolf.
"Wolf, head down, cockpit open." She whispered. She felt Brian get situated and gave the pain in her arm back to him slowly. Now she was able to get up and walk to her Wolf herself, with assistance now and again from Eri. Finally she made it and took it up. She put her Command Wolf on auto- pilot and told it to go to the colony, which was now Oasis Colony. Then she sat back and whispered, "Two become one and one becomes two." The pain sharpened when her organoid part left her and then the Wolf started to run so fast that even the Lightning Saix couldn't keep up. They passed over miles of the desert and Alaya felt tempted to give this pain back to Brian, but didn't. After a quarter-hour, they made it to the Oasis Colony. Alaya had almost fainted on the way. She lowered the cockpit and handed Brian to astonished gate-guard. Then she fainted, but somehow managed to keep the pain in her chest till Brian was safely on a bed.
Alaya woke slowly, only to feel a pair of curious eyes on her. "What?" she asked thickly, her voice still sleep-laden.
"How did you do it?" Eri asked.
"What?" Alaya asked again. She was too tired to think.
"Take Brian's pain, that's what!" Eri said.
"I don't know, I just wanted to help him...Hey! How did you know what I did?" Alaya asked, fully awake now.
"Well...I can sense peoples pain and feelings, and once I transferred pain from one thing to another." She said.
"We sound alike, then." Alaya said.
"You sure do." Came an old voice from the door.
"General Dernhelm!" Eri said and stood to attention. Jack waved it away.
"Jack, please. Anyway, I have a friend who just recently arrived here who can tell about a person. If you can imagine, he's even older than me!" Jack said. "He's supposed to be here about now-"
"And I'm here!" came an even older male voice. Yet this one thirsted for knowledge, yet held great knowledge already. It had a young edge to it. "My name is Drear Comptner. I, you can say, have mystical powers like yourselves, but different."
"Umm...can you repeat that please?" Alaya asked. Drear laughed.
"I wish your mother had been more like you. But she had such a horrible past..." Jack commented.
"No matter," Drear said. "I'm not here to discuss Citri."
"Why are you here?" Eri asked.
"Ah, young one, patience." He said and sat down. "Hmmm...It's been a long time since I met one of you."
"One of us?" Alaya asked.
"A fusion organoid." Drear said.
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ooooh! We found out something(s) in this loooooong chap. I think this is the longest one I've written.
~*DarkDragon*~
Chapter V-Discoveries
"C'mon Wolf! Run, so we can get to these Imperial zoids before they find my home!" Alaya said to her beat-up Command Wolf. She had found him on an expedition, to picnic on a small near-by oasis, when her hoverboard bumped into something sticking out of the sand. When she had followed the line of parts, she found her Command Wolf. She had put back all the parts she could, loaded her hoverboard into the back seat, and walked it to her house with the extras. Some parts needed replacement, and they had gotten to most of them, but a few were still in bad shape. She knew she would never beat an Imperial zoid with him, but she could give time for her tracks and any other evidence leading to her home to go away. She just hoped she would last that long.
Alaya kept whispering encouragement to her zoid in hopes that he would respond to her urgings. But of course he didn't. Then on impulse, the muttered, "Two become one and one becomes two."
She was astonished when she started to glow yellow, then gold. She felt something leave her, and some part of her melted away. She knew that there were parts in bad shape, but she could no longer identify them. She was left with only her barest instincts. And she gasped. She was a transform organoid! Those instincts that told her zoid information had been part of her organoid part, but she never realized because she had never been in need to use her Wolf like she was now. Then her Command Wolf was in top condition, all his parts were healed, and he howled his joy to the sky. Alaya smiled. Now there was no doubt she would win.
"Okay, Wolf, lets gettem!" she shouted and her Command Wolf leapt into action. She sped across the desert, nimbly jumping over little hindrances and sometimes jumping from dune to dune. Alaya felt as if she had been born to her zoid. Then there were five zoids on her monitor. Three Command Wolves like hers, a Gun Sniper and a strange, faster, wolf-like creature that was ahead of all four. "That must be a Shadow Fox, the zoid Lika told me about."
Alaya then had another three flying zoids on her screen. She cocked her head in confusion. Then the ground zoids came into her sight. The other four were chasing the Shadow Fox, but the flying zoids were completely unaware. Alaya shot down two before the last one noticed her, but by then he was down and out. Now to take care of the other five. She ran up a dune and jumped over the Shadow Fox, shooting down the Gun Sniper and a Command Wolf before the other two knew what hit them.
"Damn! Out of missiles!" she said. Then the other two were down for the count.
"Thanks for the help, Wolf." She pilot said on her external speakers. Then the cockpit opened and she jumped out. The girl had copper eyes flecked with green, and pale green hair, cropped short. Alaya opened her cockpit and jumped out as well. "I saw you take out those Reynos. Pretty good."
"Thanks, you weren't that bad either." Alaya said, then a comment slipped out of her lips. "But your eyes...they're copper."
"Yours are gold." She said. Alaya blushed. "I wonder if I've met you...you look just like a woman I've seen."
"I do?" Alaya asked.
"But her eyes are purple and black-flecked." The girl said. "Still, they say she was brought in with silver eyes. And an old Blade Liger was said to be hers before she chose a Zaber Fang. One of her partners now pilots a Rev Raptor, and the other pilots a Geno-braker. I never got their names, but they all have the same eyes."
Alaya's hope died in her throat. Her mother piloted a Blade Liger, not a Zaber Fang, her dad used to pilot a Zaber Fang and her parent's friend, Crow, piloted a Sword Stormer. "Well, you seem to know a lot about the Empire."
"I used to be a pilot for them." She said icily. Alaya was immediately on her guard.
"Used?" Alaya asked suspiciously.
"Yah, used. They used me in their little game. I can't believe that those pilots enjoy working for them!" she said. "By the way, I'm Eri."
"I'm Alaya." Alaya said. Then she touched her Command Wolf and felt her organoid part flow into her like a small stream. She felt the girl, Eri, was telling the truth. Or most of it. Enough to trust. Alaya decided it was okay if she brought Eri to her home. "Follow me."
Alaya jumped into her zoid, and so did Eri, and they were off. Alaya led the way, doing almost all she had done on the way there, but slower. Eri caught up to her.
"Your zoid was a lot faster before. What happened?" she asked. Alaya didn't know if she was ready to tell her newfound secret. "Well?" she prompted.
"I was born a transform organoid, so my organoid part was fused with my Wolf during the battle." She said.
"You, too?" she asked, alarmed. "I mean, I'm one too. A transform organoid, I mean. But I'm not that great at controlling it yet."
"I just did my first fuse today." Alaya admitted.
"You were great! A lot better than me. Now that I think about it, the three unbeatable pilots are also transform organoids." Eri said thoughtfully. Again hope flared in Alaya's heart, but she kept it to herself. Eri and Alaya talked about arbitrary things, getting to know each other better, the rest of the time. Finally they reached the house. Brian's Reynos was still smoking. It was a miracle it didn't blow up when it crashed.
"We're here!" Alaya said. Then parked her zoid next to Lika's Lightning Saix. Then she walked in the door with Eri following behind.
"I'm home!" Alaya yelled into the dim room, then threw off her dress to reveal a pair of shorts and a no-sleeved T-shirt.
"You wear that under your dress?" Eri asked, shocked.
"Yah. Lika believes in comfort rather than costom." Alaya said contentedly. "If you want, you can have some."
"Sure, okay." She said unsteadily. Then Lika walked in the room. She looked at Eri.
"Okay, Alaya, picking up abandoned hoverboards and zoids is fine, but picking up people is crossing the line, don't you think?" she asked with mock seriousness.
Alaya laughed. "Lika, this is Eri. Eri, meet Lika."
"Nice to meat you Lika." Eri said shyly.
"Pleasure, I'm sure." Lika replied. "Anyway, I'm happy you came back in one piece. Brian and I didn't think you'd make it with that beat-up Command Wolf."
Alaya and Eri looked at each other. "I think I've got a short story to tell."
They walked into the room where Brian was so that he could hear, and Lika went to fetch water. Then Alaya began. She told of how she had run off and muttered the phrase under her breath. How she discovered that she was a transform organoid like her mother and father. She told of the short battle between her and the Imperial zoids. Then Eri described the fighter that had carved the offense of the Empire.
"She has mid-back long, brown hair and black-flecked purple eyes. One of her friends has the same eyes with green-streaked blonde hair. Her other male friend had black hair and plain purple eyes." Eri said. It was Brian and Lika's turn to look at each other.
"That's Citri, all right." Lika whispered.
"But my mom had silver eyes!" Alaya protested.
"And Ambient with her. Crow, too." Brian said.
"My dad would never do that by his own choice!" Alaya said.
"You're right, Alaya. Their will has no play in this. Except maybe Crow's." Lika said.
"Crow has this power he was born with. When he gets mad, his eyes'll glow purple. And with them he is able to more or less control the people who look into them. But he never used his power after that one day." Brian said.
"What one day?" Alaya and Eri chorused.
"The day when Citri and he fought, and Citri used her life to save his." Lika said.
"But if my mother used her life to save Crow, how could she still live?" Alaya asked.
"To this day, I don't know. Two years after she was supposed to have died, she appeared in our camp." Brian said, then moved his head from side to side. "It's a mystery."
"Mystery or none, I'll get her and free her from the spell!" Alaya said, that cold flame burning behind her golden eyes again.
Lika sighed. "I can't take care of Brian by my self here. We'll go back to the colony."
"I'll take Brian in my zoid, and take him ahead. We'll meat you there." Alaya said.
"I'm coming too!" Eri said. Lika nodded. Then she lifted Brian up, but had to immediately set him down as a small scream escaped his lips.
"Wait." Alaya said. She touched her hands to his chest and absorbed some of the pain, then she touched his arm. She had to sit down and take a couple of deep breaths as she got accustomed to the pain by her breasts and in her right arm. Brian looked at her in wonderment.
"What did you do?" he asked. Alaya didn't answer; the pain was sharp. Now Lika helped him to the Command Wolf.
"Wolf, head down, cockpit open." She whispered. She felt Brian get situated and gave the pain in her arm back to him slowly. Now she was able to get up and walk to her Wolf herself, with assistance now and again from Eri. Finally she made it and took it up. She put her Command Wolf on auto- pilot and told it to go to the colony, which was now Oasis Colony. Then she sat back and whispered, "Two become one and one becomes two." The pain sharpened when her organoid part left her and then the Wolf started to run so fast that even the Lightning Saix couldn't keep up. They passed over miles of the desert and Alaya felt tempted to give this pain back to Brian, but didn't. After a quarter-hour, they made it to the Oasis Colony. Alaya had almost fainted on the way. She lowered the cockpit and handed Brian to astonished gate-guard. Then she fainted, but somehow managed to keep the pain in her chest till Brian was safely on a bed.
Alaya woke slowly, only to feel a pair of curious eyes on her. "What?" she asked thickly, her voice still sleep-laden.
"How did you do it?" Eri asked.
"What?" Alaya asked again. She was too tired to think.
"Take Brian's pain, that's what!" Eri said.
"I don't know, I just wanted to help him...Hey! How did you know what I did?" Alaya asked, fully awake now.
"Well...I can sense peoples pain and feelings, and once I transferred pain from one thing to another." She said.
"We sound alike, then." Alaya said.
"You sure do." Came an old voice from the door.
"General Dernhelm!" Eri said and stood to attention. Jack waved it away.
"Jack, please. Anyway, I have a friend who just recently arrived here who can tell about a person. If you can imagine, he's even older than me!" Jack said. "He's supposed to be here about now-"
"And I'm here!" came an even older male voice. Yet this one thirsted for knowledge, yet held great knowledge already. It had a young edge to it. "My name is Drear Comptner. I, you can say, have mystical powers like yourselves, but different."
"Umm...can you repeat that please?" Alaya asked. Drear laughed.
"I wish your mother had been more like you. But she had such a horrible past..." Jack commented.
"No matter," Drear said. "I'm not here to discuss Citri."
"Why are you here?" Eri asked.
"Ah, young one, patience." He said and sat down. "Hmmm...It's been a long time since I met one of you."
"One of us?" Alaya asked.
"A fusion organoid." Drear said.
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ooooh! We found out something(s) in this loooooong chap. I think this is the longest one I've written.
~*DarkDragon*~