Author's Notes
Okay, I'm sorry for taking so long with this chapter, but it's longer than most of them. And the
next chapter might take a while, sorry! This chapter is not one of my better chapters, in other
words I think it's bad. WARNING: this chapter contains a battle and you will soon find out I
CAN NOT WRITE BATTLE SCENES! I'm sorry! Anyway, thank you for all of your reviews so
far, I love knowing what people think of my story.
Disclaimer: I don't own zoids, but the idea of the RaeKuma and the story behind it is mine.
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"Alright Leena, the RaeKuma is still a very experimental zoid. You'll need to wear this when
you go into combat." Doc handed his daughter a pile of silver garments.
Leena unfolded and inspected them. Her father smiled, "They were your mother's, I think they
should fit you now."
She smiled and hugged her father. "She would be proud of you." He whispered to her.
"I know." Leena replied.
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Leena examined herself in the mirror. The silver suit was nothing she would have picked out
herself. It was a form-fitting jumpsuit, one piece with a purple zipper. There were matching
silver gloves and boots trimmed in purple. The boots had a heal to them that her normal shoes
didn't. There wasn't any head covering to go along with the outfit; something that Leena was
quite happy about. And on the right side of the collar, there was a small lily with the initials LT.
Leena's fingers brushed the small symbol, overall, she liked the outfit, mostly because it had
belonged to her mom.
(A/N Okay, real quick, if Leena goes shopping so much why does she usually only wear one of
two outfits?)
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"Okay, I think it's this button." Leena pressed the button.
The RaeKuma reared up on its hind legs. Suddenly the armor on the chest and forearms slid
away to revel an array of arsenal.
"Leena..." Doc Tauros shook his head. The RaeKuma had a lot of special features, but was
relatively simple to operate once you got the hang of it.
Leena hadn't quite gotten the hang of it.
"...you were suppose to be preparing for close-range combat!"
Leena laughs nervously, "Oops."
The RaeKuma roars encouragingly. It could respond to verbal commands from Leena, but when
it came down to the spit-second decisions in battle, Leena needed to have the controls
memorized. Which is why she was training with the RaeKuma before they went into battle. She
was also training far away from Bit and Brad. Getting angry and frustrated because of their
teasing would not help her learn. All it would do is waste the arsenal of the RaeKuma.
"Alright Leena, try to put up the energy shield."
"Okay."
Leena pulled a lever on the side.
"Excellent." said Doc Tauros.
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"Alright team, we have another battle tomorrow. We're up against the Delco team."
All of the Blitz team was seated in the common area.
'YES!' Leena thought to herself. She was anxious to take the RaeKuma into battle and test
herself.
Jaime began to talk about the team they were up against and strategy, but Leena was a million
miles away.
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The Blitz team launched onto the battlefield opposite the Delco team.
"I've got dibs on the Iron Kong!" called out Leena, she wanted a challenge and she could already
see that the Iron Kong was well equipped with ammunition and it would be difficult to get close
enough to do a good amount of damage.
"Area scanned, battlefield set up, the Blitz team verses the Delco team, ready... FIGHT!"
Brad went ahead after the Dark Horn and Bit took the Lightning Siax with the Zero Jager. Leena
was surprised and happy at the same time, for once they had listened to her.
"Okay Leena, you got what you wanted, now how am I going to win?" She dodged a few shots
from the Iron Kong and then an idea came to her.
"Okay, shield up." the RaeKuma's energy shield appeared.
"Now, charge!" The RaeKuma began running toward the Iron Kong trusting that its warrior knew
what she was doing.
Whatever the other pilot had been expecting, it was definitely not a full on frontal assault, but he
began firing at the RaeKuma anyway, thinking its pilot stupid for charging at him. To his great
surprise the shied of the RaeKuma held and deflected all of his shots.
Meanwhile, Leena was extremely nervous praying that the shield would hold. Closer, closer,
closer... The RaeKuma was a few yards from the Iron Kong when it reared up on its hind legs
and plunged its claws into the waist of the Iron Kong where Leena had assumed it would be the
most vulnerable because there couldn't be any armor there because the zoid needed to be able to
turn.
A few seconds later the Iron Kong was pronounced out of the battle. So the RaeKuma carefully
withdrew its claws from the fellow zoid.
"What do you know, it worked." Leena stared off into space and then began celebrating, "It
worked! No one can beat us!" The RaeKuma roared its agreement.
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The young girl sat alone, an inhuman glow radiating from her, her eyes were shielded by a white
hat.
"Mistress, should we gather a team to do a preliminary test?" The man questing the girl had no
such glow about him.
"Gather them, but do not send them yet; I will decide when the time is right."
The young girl's voice held authority despite her age.
"Yes, Mistress." The man bowed and backed out of the room.
The young girl looked to her left where a photograph of a woman and her young daughter was.
The young girl smiled as the photograph burst into flames, as the flames began twisting the
photograph into ash she laughed, soon the only piece of the photograph that could still be made
out was that of the young girl with violet eyes and red hair.
As this piece too gave way to the unmerciful flames, the little girl laughed, "Soon my revenge
will be complete," The photograph was now nothing but ash and was slowly being blown away
by a unearthly wind.
"Very soon."
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Author's Notes
Can you guess who the little girl is? She was in the zoids series but only in one episode which
they never really finished, at least, I think so. Anyway, guess in your reviews and if you want I'll
go ahead and tell you next chapter. Thank you and REVIEW!