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CHAPTER 2...i think...again
Voices floated ovehead.
"Do you think he'll ever wake up?" A womans voice, someone firmilliar...
"You better hope he does! He's funding a lot of this team AND he's paying for your new Zoid."
Another firmilliar voice, a new Zoid...what's a Zoid...?
"I know that! What the hell happened to him anyway? And where'd the Liger go? We can't continue using Jamie! At the rate we've been going, we won't even make into class B before the end of the year!"
Liger...Jamie...B Class?....Liger....Names with no place.
"Whatever. If I don't get paid it doesn't matter."
I mentally..grinned.
"Why am I here again?" Someone...walked across the....room...
"Cause I haveta check up on him and it's too creepy being in here with just a...body."
Him...? Who...is him? Was he...?
"Oh get over it. Look, he's just the same as he was the last time you came in here. I'm getting out of here, there's some adjustments on the Fox I wanted to make for our next battle."
Fox...? The...man...he had a...Zoid...it was a Fox...a Shadow Fox...he was he was...
The wheezing of the mechanical door sounded through the room.
"Brad! Wait! Little bastard."
The woman...sighed and walked...over to...me. Who is...me?
"So what the fuck happened to you anyway? I go looking for Liger to tell you about the next match, 'cause that's where you usually are and he's not even in the garage. So you went out for a run with him. So what? Lunch, diner, still no Bit. Finally I get w--sick of waiting for you to show up so I go look in your room to see if you left a note or something. What a surprised when I find you sprawled out on the bathroom floor, unconscious. HOW IN HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR THOSE PARTS???" She...stomped over to....me and leaned...down so....close I could feel her...warm breath on...my face. She stood there for...several seconds....then jerked back....abruptly, the warmth leaving...my...face. I....could hear...her pacing again.
Bit...who is...? The...words...came too...slow.
"Oh fuck this. You can't even hear me. You're just a body with Bit's face." I heard the wheeze of the door open and shut again.
I....I...
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Liger had waited long enough. The Dragonis was coming today, and the team needed Bit. He had done the stupid thing and had forced his way through, and in consequence had stripped himself of all mobility-mind and body alike-till Li could pull him back out. +The man...heh he's such an idiot. I don't know why I put up with him.+ Liger sighed, a scraping of nails on a chalk board, then stood and shook his new armor, something that had managed to make the trip back from nothing. The new wing/boosters were fun to play with but the problem with them was that he couldn't stay in air long enough to do any damage with out a pilot. Clenching the wing/boosters down as close to his body as he could he stepped out of his cave. +Stupid kid. Who knows when I'll get enough power to wake him back up. And who knows when the Dragonis will attack again. Humans! Better go check up on him, who knows when Leena will learn to use the Death Saurer. A Death Saurer and a Dragonis. I don't like this.+ Boosters fanning to life Liger ran a few hundred meters then lept to the air, the Tauros's garage already in sight. +Better go in small....+ Liger had played with the new forms he had been given, and chose the cramped human one he had first used. Landing lightly on the roof, the man with white/silver hair, odd tattoo's, and weird black and white armor stared out over the empty plain. Something was coming.
"Shit. Bit you better be ready, it's time to wake up." The beautiful armor matching wings that seemed to flicker from black to white flared into being and LiGer(Lee-ger, the names change with the form) drifted down into the garage, greeting each of the Zoids except for the Death Saurer who was too wrapped in it's own brooding to notice him.
"Bastard." He muttered and went by.
#Just wait.#
LiGer stopped in his tracks, and turned back to face the Saurer.
"For what?"
#You'll see.# A strange flickering of light made the eyes of the Geno Saurer seem to burn.
"What aren't you telling me?"
#Do I really need to tell you? I thought you would have already known.#
"What that the Dragonis is coming?" The Saurer laughed, an evil slithering sound that even made the Shadow Fox shudder even though their voices were almost the same.
Brad emerged from Shadow's pit and looked around. LiGer melted into the shadows and dashed along the hall. towards the room where Bit was kept.
# 'Ware Liger, we're coming for you!# The evil slithering laugh shivered through LiGer's bones as he dashed down the halls to Bit's room. Not waiting for the door to open all the way LiGer squeezed through the crack and stopped amazed to see Leena sitting in front of Bit. She spun around at the sound of the door opening and stood there gawking at Li till she suddenly found her voice.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? GET OUT BEFORE I--" She grabbed the chair and swung it at him, hitting him so hard on the head that the chair leg broke off(it was wood).
"Owww!! Oh shut up Leena! I don't have time for this!" Li pushed her into Bit's bathroom as she tried for another swing then bent the doorknob down so that it couldn't be opened from the inside or out. Several large dents appeared in the door and threats even a sailor would have blushed at came through loud and clear. +Good thing I'm made of metal or that would have really hurt.+
"How do they live with her?" He shook his head and studied the prostrate form of his partner. Only the slow rise and fall of his chest told Li that he was still alive. "Well...what to do with you..." He walked over to Bit and ran a hand down the bedspread, not daring to touch him. The banging stopped. Li shrugged, she probably just got tired and went to see if she could find another way in, though he couldn't quite shake the feeling of impending doom that seemed to surround her. "Well, time to wake up lazy ass. The Dragonis is coming." He touched Bit's hand shoved the gathered power into Bit. The body writhed and shook for but a moment, then stilled as if nothing had happened.
"Damnit! I knew it wasn't going to be enough!" Summoning some of his reserve power, the stuff that powered the Strike Laser Claw and Burning Blade Barrage attacks he jolted Bit again with a fleeting +I hope this works...+ The body jerked and the mouth worked, but no sound escaped his lips then he was quiet again.
"Craaaaaap!!" He felt the Saurer greet the Dragonis and call it's warrior. Then the steady rise and fall became labored as if something fought to be free. Anchoring his memories and all that made him in place Li plunged into the utter chaos of Bit's mind. Grabbing the chain made of memories he was pleased to see that their first meeting(the one where Bit finds the Liger halves) was at the top. +Good, this way I don't have far to go till I find him.+ Li had had to do this only once more with a warrior who had been even more thick headed than Bit, but it didn't make it any easier to sort through these roiling emotions and memories. Now he had to try and keep his own from tainting the memories too. Standing on a 'ledge' he hauled with all of his might, but there seemed no end to the memory chain. He pulled on the memory of the first time they had used Jeagar. Wild elation and smugness with a touch of disappointment painted its way across his vision. Momentarily blinded by such strong emotions he nearly dropped his hold o the chain. He shook his head and hauled faster. The snitch, why me?, frustration, cupcakes, Leena, Liger, the shop, Liger, components, all link in the memory chain, then finally the Dream, the Nothing, and there he was swinging at the end, unconscious. Or so Li thought till he saw the head turn and look at him with all black eyes. *free...* he whispered. Li grabbed Bit around the middle, hauled him onto the 'ledge', then almost fell back in utter exhaustion, barely remembering in time that there was no time left to waste. He dragged Bit to his feet and pulled the loop out so that only held his wrist, not his entire being. Bit stared 'up' with those black drowning eyes seeing nothing. +Now. We have work to do. Li will be there to meet you, and if you look long and hard, so will Liger.+ Li pulled back into himself and opened his eyes not realizing he had shut them and grinned. It faded fast when he realized there still wasn't anyone home. The base shuddered.
"Damn damn and double damn!" Li smashed his hand into the wall in utter frustration and made a nice imprint of his fist in the wall.
Bit's eyes snapped open and he inhaled sharply.
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"Wha--where am I?" With every nerve tingling I sat up and waited for the world to stop sliding in and out of focus, then groaned when it finally did. Li grinned.
"Thank god. Get--" The building shook as if someone was firing multiple cannons at one time, but that was suicide for anyone inside the building...*What the hell is going on?*
"--Dressed. The base is under attack." He offered me a hand up, which I took gratefully, I didn't actually think I could stand. I wobbled over to my closet and dressed in record time, only pausing briefly to try and stay on my feet when the building shook from the heavy shelling. Thank god for small miracles.
"How long have I--"I began to cross the room but there was an extra big hit and I fell over onto Li.
"Bit! I hardly know you!" I pushed off him, stood, and made kissey faces at him then snickered.
"Pucker--" The base shook. "Shit." I gave him a hand up and started out the door. "Let's go." I called over my shoulder not bothering to look back to see if he was following. I ran down the hall as fast as I could, and actually managed to make it to the bay without any base shudders. The scene that lay unfolded in front of me was a ghastly thing. A pair of odd shaped gattelers and various cannons of all shapes and sizes had been thrust through a very large hole in the ceiling and all of them were shooting at random objects. The bay itself was in ruins, smoking holes pitted the whole place, but there was only one dent adoring the door out. The Shadow Fox was hiding behind my component boxes, there was a new one, I noted absently, and a dark green and black Death Saurer was tearing apart Leena's struggling Gunsniper. There was no sign of the Rainos,*Good, he musta gotten away before the fun got started.*...and there was no sign of the Liger either. As I watched the Fox popped up and got off a shot at the guns, but with only cannons and guns to shoot at the Zoid itself couldn't be damaged and kept on firing with out pause.
"Liger! This was some time to go on a joy ride with out me!" I flung open the door leading to a set of stairs that led to the operations room, and took them two at a time..., well tried to, till I got to the top. One of the windows had been shot out, and there was a chunk of metal lodged in the remaining one, with spider-webbing cracks branching out from it, twisting the scene below into an even more grotesque. I opened a link to a very startled Brad.
"Brad! If you give it some cover I can get the door open and you and who evers in Leena's Gunsniper can get out. What the hell happened to Leena?" His initial shock faded fast. I knew there was another reason Tauros was keeping him on the team.
"I dunno what happened to her. I was making some adjustments to the Fox and she walked in all zombied out. Then something blew a hole in the roof and she started destroying stuff--"
"That's nice and all, but do you want to get out of there or not?" He snarled something out that I didn't hear, and continued to frown.
"You have six seconds to get out of there at most. It knows the layout of the entire base, and'll know where the person would have to have opened the door. I'll smoke the room and launch my net and try to tie his guns up. 6 seconds after that he'll break the net. I already tried it once, but the door was too thick and I only managed to dent it."(A/N: Brad tried to go open the door with out the Shadow Fox and almost got himself killed. He then decided it might be easier shooting his way out and was in the process of doing so when Bit popped up.)
"All right. On three shoot, on two I'll start the door open. 1..., 2!,..." Brad filled the room with smoke and I typed in the access code that starts the door open and hit the button. "3!" The Fox leaped around the component boxes and under the door then fired the net. I ran for the door and felt rather than saw the glass shatter as the force of the shot struck the already cracked window.
"AGGGGGGHHHHHH!!" I fell to my knee's as I felt the icy kisses of cold sharp glass pierce my back and arms.
I grabbed the nearest shard of glass and pulled it out, stareing at it dimly as it dripped sticky red blood. Overhead something roared. I pulled another out. It roared again. Another. Again. Another. Again. Again and again till there was a neat little pile of bloody shards. I stared at them duly and felt blood trickle down my back. I looked up. The Geno Saurer's green eye stared back. It turned to face me, opening it's maw and ejected a long silverish tube that spewed purple/blue shining light. The nearly destroyed Gunsniper on the floor moved and tried to take one last shot, but it went wild and all it did was knock a very large slab of the ceiling down onto the Saurer's head. The attack had been paused. I looked up into the empty hole that had been the ceiling and saw what appeared to be a cat shaped head. No that wasn't right, it looked like the Geno Saurer's, more elongated and less blocky. (A/N it's like a Lightning Saix's, but longer and leaner, with one long tooth sticking out and one short one, alos like a lightning Saix's. no ears, but it has the same head thing as Liger has.)
"The Dragonis." It's long head plunged in through the hole and a blank blue eye studied me dispassionately. The Geno Saurer stirred and whirled on the Dragonis. Screeching it flew out the open door and snapped at the Shadow Fox which lay sparking at it's gate. The Dragonis snarled and snapped at the air the Saurer had just vacated then narrowly missing me snapped at the air in front of my face. As I fainted I felt something come crushing down on me, then the world went black.
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Liger snarled. This was not good. Brad was out cold, and the Fox was out of commission; Leena was off with her new Saurer, Jamie was who knew where, and Tauros was out cold and had no extra Zoid to pilot anymore. The worst part was he couldn't find Bit. After almost being hit by the Dragonis as it vacated it perch on the top of the base, he'd benn immobile for several minutes as several blinding pains shook through his body. It was bigger than Liger remembered. He shivered at the thought of it, then continued his search for Bit. He'd resumed the human form after his breif run in with the Dragonis, and still didn't feel secure, even though the Dragonis wouldn't recognize him in this form...he hoped. Briefly checking in and around the fallen Gunsniper to make sure that Bit wasn't trapped underneath it and to make sure the Doc was ok he noticed that the operations room had been destroyed. +He isn't in there, he's probably still wandering around the base somewhere. I bet he didn't even make it here., what with not using any of his limbs for a couple months. But still...better check just in case.+ Padding over to a nearly ruined set of stairs he took what steps were left two at a time, fear pushing him forward ever faster. Getting the door open was another matter completely. It was wedged shut from the inside, and there were several large dents in the door where it had been struck. Hard.
+Damnit.+ Li frowned at the door thoughtfully then grabbed the handle and pulled as hard as he could. The handle pulled out of the door leaving a hole as big as his fist in the place where the handle had been.
"Piece of crap." He grabbed onto the door and pulled it opposite the way it normally opened, and after a few moments of grinding indecision the door bent in half just wide enough to admit a small child. Gritting his teeth he hefted on the door again and managed to pull it open just wide enough to pull himself through, though what lay on the other side proved to be more dangerous than his breif run-in with the Dragonis. I-beams and tile and all other assortment of sharp objects cluttered most of the small space the room entailed. More than once he narrlowly missed puting an eye out while trying to make it to the clear space in the right corner.
"Well, haven't seen him yet. That can only be a good thing I suppose." After clearing the left corner of some of the smaller debris he found he could not lift some of the debris and had to result to extreme measures. Jumping out on of the broken windows and returning to Liger he very slowly cleared the heavier peices out and moved onto the smaller ones that had been hidden underneath. Returning to the human form once again, he paused as he began removeing the rubble. There was a smear of red along the floor, then a small puddle of blood. Bit's. It couldn't be anyone elses, everyone else had been accounted for. Except Bit. Throwing peices out randomly, not careing the nics and cuts he was getting he focused getting deeper into the pile. It wasn't long before he found him, only fifteen minutes or so.
"NO!" Li's face went if possible, even whiter in shock. Bit lay face down in a pool of his own blood.The only sign that he was still alive were the small bubbles that appeard every few seconds as he slowly breathed in and out. Li pulled Bit out of the rubble and as gently as possible, so as not to harm him further picked him up with out touching any of the acheing area's that were mirrored and only slightly less painfull on Li's own body. Jumping out the winodw and flying were completely different things when he had a load Li realized too late. He landed hard on his kness and almost dropped Bit in the process of getting back onto his feet. +I have to waken the other's. I better leave something to tell the them where we're going. If we make it.+ The last thought made Li grin, but it wasn't a pleasant grin, it was just a bareing of teeth. Li looked around and then remember3ed the fallen Gunsniper underfoot.
"Good. I can take the Sniper's first aid kit and put it out of misery all at the same time. I wonder who ho was..." He shook himself and took off his cloak makeing a temporary pad for Bit to lay on. He would return to his other self to take Bit away, but he would have to tell him the truth sooner or later. Li climbed back into the shattered puit of the fallen Gunsniper and grabbed the kit from under the seat where Doc stil lay unconscious. He studied the still form for a moment then crawled down to what was left of the midsection of the Sniper. A faint light shown from a small crack and pulsed very weakly.
"It's alright. If you will do one last thing for me then I will release you from the broken form so you may go and inhabit a new one." The light around the crack pulsed strongly once then went back to it's weak pulsing. "Thank you. Record a message and leave it for all to see, it is a simple task and once it is done you shall go to your next fate, this one been played out." Without staying to see if it would or not he climbed back to Bit then picked him up, balanceing him precariously with one arm, and holding tightly to the first aid kit with the other. The cloak vanished and returned to Li's shoulder's with out disturbing any of them.
"You may start. Doc Tauros, Brad, Leena has run off and Bit and I are going to bring her back. Find Naomi and Jack. We'll need them when the time comes. Watch out for shady people who propose false deals." He returned to his other shape and was surprised to find Bit already in the cockpit strapped in with the kit on the floor between his knees. Liger rumbeled a farewell one last time his friend and released him from the world.
okey okey here is ANOTHER revision. if i get 2 reviews then I'll try to write more, but i'm not promising anything, stoopid writer's block can't even be cracked by Goku's head.
oh and i don't own nothing 'cept a really cute Liger and and Zaber Fang.^_^
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CHAPTER 2...i think...again
Voices floated ovehead.
"Do you think he'll ever wake up?" A womans voice, someone firmilliar...
"You better hope he does! He's funding a lot of this team AND he's paying for your new Zoid."
Another firmilliar voice, a new Zoid...what's a Zoid...?
"I know that! What the hell happened to him anyway? And where'd the Liger go? We can't continue using Jamie! At the rate we've been going, we won't even make into class B before the end of the year!"
Liger...Jamie...B Class?....Liger....Names with no place.
"Whatever. If I don't get paid it doesn't matter."
I mentally..grinned.
"Why am I here again?" Someone...walked across the....room...
"Cause I haveta check up on him and it's too creepy being in here with just a...body."
Him...? Who...is him? Was he...?
"Oh get over it. Look, he's just the same as he was the last time you came in here. I'm getting out of here, there's some adjustments on the Fox I wanted to make for our next battle."
Fox...? The...man...he had a...Zoid...it was a Fox...a Shadow Fox...he was he was...
The wheezing of the mechanical door sounded through the room.
"Brad! Wait! Little bastard."
The woman...sighed and walked...over to...me. Who is...me?
"So what the fuck happened to you anyway? I go looking for Liger to tell you about the next match, 'cause that's where you usually are and he's not even in the garage. So you went out for a run with him. So what? Lunch, diner, still no Bit. Finally I get w--sick of waiting for you to show up so I go look in your room to see if you left a note or something. What a surprised when I find you sprawled out on the bathroom floor, unconscious. HOW IN HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR THOSE PARTS???" She...stomped over to....me and leaned...down so....close I could feel her...warm breath on...my face. She stood there for...several seconds....then jerked back....abruptly, the warmth leaving...my...face. I....could hear...her pacing again.
Bit...who is...? The...words...came too...slow.
"Oh fuck this. You can't even hear me. You're just a body with Bit's face." I heard the wheeze of the door open and shut again.
I....I...
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Liger had waited long enough. The Dragonis was coming today, and the team needed Bit. He had done the stupid thing and had forced his way through, and in consequence had stripped himself of all mobility-mind and body alike-till Li could pull him back out. +The man...heh he's such an idiot. I don't know why I put up with him.+ Liger sighed, a scraping of nails on a chalk board, then stood and shook his new armor, something that had managed to make the trip back from nothing. The new wing/boosters were fun to play with but the problem with them was that he couldn't stay in air long enough to do any damage with out a pilot. Clenching the wing/boosters down as close to his body as he could he stepped out of his cave. +Stupid kid. Who knows when I'll get enough power to wake him back up. And who knows when the Dragonis will attack again. Humans! Better go check up on him, who knows when Leena will learn to use the Death Saurer. A Death Saurer and a Dragonis. I don't like this.+ Boosters fanning to life Liger ran a few hundred meters then lept to the air, the Tauros's garage already in sight. +Better go in small....+ Liger had played with the new forms he had been given, and chose the cramped human one he had first used. Landing lightly on the roof, the man with white/silver hair, odd tattoo's, and weird black and white armor stared out over the empty plain. Something was coming.
"Shit. Bit you better be ready, it's time to wake up." The beautiful armor matching wings that seemed to flicker from black to white flared into being and LiGer(Lee-ger, the names change with the form) drifted down into the garage, greeting each of the Zoids except for the Death Saurer who was too wrapped in it's own brooding to notice him.
"Bastard." He muttered and went by.
#Just wait.#
LiGer stopped in his tracks, and turned back to face the Saurer.
"For what?"
#You'll see.# A strange flickering of light made the eyes of the Geno Saurer seem to burn.
"What aren't you telling me?"
#Do I really need to tell you? I thought you would have already known.#
"What that the Dragonis is coming?" The Saurer laughed, an evil slithering sound that even made the Shadow Fox shudder even though their voices were almost the same.
Brad emerged from Shadow's pit and looked around. LiGer melted into the shadows and dashed along the hall. towards the room where Bit was kept.
# 'Ware Liger, we're coming for you!# The evil slithering laugh shivered through LiGer's bones as he dashed down the halls to Bit's room. Not waiting for the door to open all the way LiGer squeezed through the crack and stopped amazed to see Leena sitting in front of Bit. She spun around at the sound of the door opening and stood there gawking at Li till she suddenly found her voice.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? GET OUT BEFORE I--" She grabbed the chair and swung it at him, hitting him so hard on the head that the chair leg broke off(it was wood).
"Owww!! Oh shut up Leena! I don't have time for this!" Li pushed her into Bit's bathroom as she tried for another swing then bent the doorknob down so that it couldn't be opened from the inside or out. Several large dents appeared in the door and threats even a sailor would have blushed at came through loud and clear. +Good thing I'm made of metal or that would have really hurt.+
"How do they live with her?" He shook his head and studied the prostrate form of his partner. Only the slow rise and fall of his chest told Li that he was still alive. "Well...what to do with you..." He walked over to Bit and ran a hand down the bedspread, not daring to touch him. The banging stopped. Li shrugged, she probably just got tired and went to see if she could find another way in, though he couldn't quite shake the feeling of impending doom that seemed to surround her. "Well, time to wake up lazy ass. The Dragonis is coming." He touched Bit's hand shoved the gathered power into Bit. The body writhed and shook for but a moment, then stilled as if nothing had happened.
"Damnit! I knew it wasn't going to be enough!" Summoning some of his reserve power, the stuff that powered the Strike Laser Claw and Burning Blade Barrage attacks he jolted Bit again with a fleeting +I hope this works...+ The body jerked and the mouth worked, but no sound escaped his lips then he was quiet again.
"Craaaaaap!!" He felt the Saurer greet the Dragonis and call it's warrior. Then the steady rise and fall became labored as if something fought to be free. Anchoring his memories and all that made him in place Li plunged into the utter chaos of Bit's mind. Grabbing the chain made of memories he was pleased to see that their first meeting(the one where Bit finds the Liger halves) was at the top. +Good, this way I don't have far to go till I find him.+ Li had had to do this only once more with a warrior who had been even more thick headed than Bit, but it didn't make it any easier to sort through these roiling emotions and memories. Now he had to try and keep his own from tainting the memories too. Standing on a 'ledge' he hauled with all of his might, but there seemed no end to the memory chain. He pulled on the memory of the first time they had used Jeagar. Wild elation and smugness with a touch of disappointment painted its way across his vision. Momentarily blinded by such strong emotions he nearly dropped his hold o the chain. He shook his head and hauled faster. The snitch, why me?, frustration, cupcakes, Leena, Liger, the shop, Liger, components, all link in the memory chain, then finally the Dream, the Nothing, and there he was swinging at the end, unconscious. Or so Li thought till he saw the head turn and look at him with all black eyes. *free...* he whispered. Li grabbed Bit around the middle, hauled him onto the 'ledge', then almost fell back in utter exhaustion, barely remembering in time that there was no time left to waste. He dragged Bit to his feet and pulled the loop out so that only held his wrist, not his entire being. Bit stared 'up' with those black drowning eyes seeing nothing. +Now. We have work to do. Li will be there to meet you, and if you look long and hard, so will Liger.+ Li pulled back into himself and opened his eyes not realizing he had shut them and grinned. It faded fast when he realized there still wasn't anyone home. The base shuddered.
"Damn damn and double damn!" Li smashed his hand into the wall in utter frustration and made a nice imprint of his fist in the wall.
Bit's eyes snapped open and he inhaled sharply.
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"Wha--where am I?" With every nerve tingling I sat up and waited for the world to stop sliding in and out of focus, then groaned when it finally did. Li grinned.
"Thank god. Get--" The building shook as if someone was firing multiple cannons at one time, but that was suicide for anyone inside the building...*What the hell is going on?*
"--Dressed. The base is under attack." He offered me a hand up, which I took gratefully, I didn't actually think I could stand. I wobbled over to my closet and dressed in record time, only pausing briefly to try and stay on my feet when the building shook from the heavy shelling. Thank god for small miracles.
"How long have I--"I began to cross the room but there was an extra big hit and I fell over onto Li.
"Bit! I hardly know you!" I pushed off him, stood, and made kissey faces at him then snickered.
"Pucker--" The base shook. "Shit." I gave him a hand up and started out the door. "Let's go." I called over my shoulder not bothering to look back to see if he was following. I ran down the hall as fast as I could, and actually managed to make it to the bay without any base shudders. The scene that lay unfolded in front of me was a ghastly thing. A pair of odd shaped gattelers and various cannons of all shapes and sizes had been thrust through a very large hole in the ceiling and all of them were shooting at random objects. The bay itself was in ruins, smoking holes pitted the whole place, but there was only one dent adoring the door out. The Shadow Fox was hiding behind my component boxes, there was a new one, I noted absently, and a dark green and black Death Saurer was tearing apart Leena's struggling Gunsniper. There was no sign of the Rainos,*Good, he musta gotten away before the fun got started.*...and there was no sign of the Liger either. As I watched the Fox popped up and got off a shot at the guns, but with only cannons and guns to shoot at the Zoid itself couldn't be damaged and kept on firing with out pause.
"Liger! This was some time to go on a joy ride with out me!" I flung open the door leading to a set of stairs that led to the operations room, and took them two at a time..., well tried to, till I got to the top. One of the windows had been shot out, and there was a chunk of metal lodged in the remaining one, with spider-webbing cracks branching out from it, twisting the scene below into an even more grotesque. I opened a link to a very startled Brad.
"Brad! If you give it some cover I can get the door open and you and who evers in Leena's Gunsniper can get out. What the hell happened to Leena?" His initial shock faded fast. I knew there was another reason Tauros was keeping him on the team.
"I dunno what happened to her. I was making some adjustments to the Fox and she walked in all zombied out. Then something blew a hole in the roof and she started destroying stuff--"
"That's nice and all, but do you want to get out of there or not?" He snarled something out that I didn't hear, and continued to frown.
"You have six seconds to get out of there at most. It knows the layout of the entire base, and'll know where the person would have to have opened the door. I'll smoke the room and launch my net and try to tie his guns up. 6 seconds after that he'll break the net. I already tried it once, but the door was too thick and I only managed to dent it."(A/N: Brad tried to go open the door with out the Shadow Fox and almost got himself killed. He then decided it might be easier shooting his way out and was in the process of doing so when Bit popped up.)
"All right. On three shoot, on two I'll start the door open. 1..., 2!,..." Brad filled the room with smoke and I typed in the access code that starts the door open and hit the button. "3!" The Fox leaped around the component boxes and under the door then fired the net. I ran for the door and felt rather than saw the glass shatter as the force of the shot struck the already cracked window.
"AGGGGGGHHHHHH!!" I fell to my knee's as I felt the icy kisses of cold sharp glass pierce my back and arms.
I grabbed the nearest shard of glass and pulled it out, stareing at it dimly as it dripped sticky red blood. Overhead something roared. I pulled another out. It roared again. Another. Again. Another. Again. Again and again till there was a neat little pile of bloody shards. I stared at them duly and felt blood trickle down my back. I looked up. The Geno Saurer's green eye stared back. It turned to face me, opening it's maw and ejected a long silverish tube that spewed purple/blue shining light. The nearly destroyed Gunsniper on the floor moved and tried to take one last shot, but it went wild and all it did was knock a very large slab of the ceiling down onto the Saurer's head. The attack had been paused. I looked up into the empty hole that had been the ceiling and saw what appeared to be a cat shaped head. No that wasn't right, it looked like the Geno Saurer's, more elongated and less blocky. (A/N it's like a Lightning Saix's, but longer and leaner, with one long tooth sticking out and one short one, alos like a lightning Saix's. no ears, but it has the same head thing as Liger has.)
"The Dragonis." It's long head plunged in through the hole and a blank blue eye studied me dispassionately. The Geno Saurer stirred and whirled on the Dragonis. Screeching it flew out the open door and snapped at the Shadow Fox which lay sparking at it's gate. The Dragonis snarled and snapped at the air the Saurer had just vacated then narrowly missing me snapped at the air in front of my face. As I fainted I felt something come crushing down on me, then the world went black.
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Liger snarled. This was not good. Brad was out cold, and the Fox was out of commission; Leena was off with her new Saurer, Jamie was who knew where, and Tauros was out cold and had no extra Zoid to pilot anymore. The worst part was he couldn't find Bit. After almost being hit by the Dragonis as it vacated it perch on the top of the base, he'd benn immobile for several minutes as several blinding pains shook through his body. It was bigger than Liger remembered. He shivered at the thought of it, then continued his search for Bit. He'd resumed the human form after his breif run in with the Dragonis, and still didn't feel secure, even though the Dragonis wouldn't recognize him in this form...he hoped. Briefly checking in and around the fallen Gunsniper to make sure that Bit wasn't trapped underneath it and to make sure the Doc was ok he noticed that the operations room had been destroyed. +He isn't in there, he's probably still wandering around the base somewhere. I bet he didn't even make it here., what with not using any of his limbs for a couple months. But still...better check just in case.+ Padding over to a nearly ruined set of stairs he took what steps were left two at a time, fear pushing him forward ever faster. Getting the door open was another matter completely. It was wedged shut from the inside, and there were several large dents in the door where it had been struck. Hard.
+Damnit.+ Li frowned at the door thoughtfully then grabbed the handle and pulled as hard as he could. The handle pulled out of the door leaving a hole as big as his fist in the place where the handle had been.
"Piece of crap." He grabbed onto the door and pulled it opposite the way it normally opened, and after a few moments of grinding indecision the door bent in half just wide enough to admit a small child. Gritting his teeth he hefted on the door again and managed to pull it open just wide enough to pull himself through, though what lay on the other side proved to be more dangerous than his breif run-in with the Dragonis. I-beams and tile and all other assortment of sharp objects cluttered most of the small space the room entailed. More than once he narrlowly missed puting an eye out while trying to make it to the clear space in the right corner.
"Well, haven't seen him yet. That can only be a good thing I suppose." After clearing the left corner of some of the smaller debris he found he could not lift some of the debris and had to result to extreme measures. Jumping out on of the broken windows and returning to Liger he very slowly cleared the heavier peices out and moved onto the smaller ones that had been hidden underneath. Returning to the human form once again, he paused as he began removeing the rubble. There was a smear of red along the floor, then a small puddle of blood. Bit's. It couldn't be anyone elses, everyone else had been accounted for. Except Bit. Throwing peices out randomly, not careing the nics and cuts he was getting he focused getting deeper into the pile. It wasn't long before he found him, only fifteen minutes or so.
"NO!" Li's face went if possible, even whiter in shock. Bit lay face down in a pool of his own blood.The only sign that he was still alive were the small bubbles that appeard every few seconds as he slowly breathed in and out. Li pulled Bit out of the rubble and as gently as possible, so as not to harm him further picked him up with out touching any of the acheing area's that were mirrored and only slightly less painfull on Li's own body. Jumping out the winodw and flying were completely different things when he had a load Li realized too late. He landed hard on his kness and almost dropped Bit in the process of getting back onto his feet. +I have to waken the other's. I better leave something to tell the them where we're going. If we make it.+ The last thought made Li grin, but it wasn't a pleasant grin, it was just a bareing of teeth. Li looked around and then remember3ed the fallen Gunsniper underfoot.
"Good. I can take the Sniper's first aid kit and put it out of misery all at the same time. I wonder who ho was..." He shook himself and took off his cloak makeing a temporary pad for Bit to lay on. He would return to his other self to take Bit away, but he would have to tell him the truth sooner or later. Li climbed back into the shattered puit of the fallen Gunsniper and grabbed the kit from under the seat where Doc stil lay unconscious. He studied the still form for a moment then crawled down to what was left of the midsection of the Sniper. A faint light shown from a small crack and pulsed very weakly.
"It's alright. If you will do one last thing for me then I will release you from the broken form so you may go and inhabit a new one." The light around the crack pulsed strongly once then went back to it's weak pulsing. "Thank you. Record a message and leave it for all to see, it is a simple task and once it is done you shall go to your next fate, this one been played out." Without staying to see if it would or not he climbed back to Bit then picked him up, balanceing him precariously with one arm, and holding tightly to the first aid kit with the other. The cloak vanished and returned to Li's shoulder's with out disturbing any of them.
"You may start. Doc Tauros, Brad, Leena has run off and Bit and I are going to bring her back. Find Naomi and Jack. We'll need them when the time comes. Watch out for shady people who propose false deals." He returned to his other shape and was surprised to find Bit already in the cockpit strapped in with the kit on the floor between his knees. Liger rumbeled a farewell one last time his friend and released him from the world.
okey okey here is ANOTHER revision. if i get 2 reviews then I'll try to write more, but i'm not promising anything, stoopid writer's block can't even be cracked by Goku's head.
oh and i don't own nothing 'cept a really cute Liger and and Zaber Fang.^_^