Fiona sat there alone eating the breakfast she had cooked. She had been alone for a little more then a month now. Van was dead, Zeke and the Blade Liger destroyed. She had lost track of everyone else, most of the time they were on transport missions. With the legendary Van Flyheight dead a lot of people were starting to take advantage and attacking Imperial and Republic bases. They all ended up getting caught or killed, but damage was still done and they always seemed to want Moonbay to transport the supplies. Irvine and Thomas always ended up escorting Moonbay as well. And as her herself, she had been doing what she had done a little more then a year ago, helping Dr. D learn as much as they could about the Zodians and Zoids Eve, even though it didn't make much of a difference anymore. She finished her breakfast and sat down, just thinking of her past, her times with Van and Zeke, and how all of her dreams and feelings were crushed by Raven's one swift blow. Fiona smiled as the memory's flew by in her mind, as far back as she could remember to just a month ago. She heard the door open, awakening her from her daydream. Four men walked in, one of them was Dr. D, and the other three she had never seen before.
"Fiona, I want you to meet a old friend of mine and a few of his partners." Dr. D said, pointing to Paul.
"Nice to meet you." Paul said, putting a hand out.
Fiona shook it and tried to smile, but couldn't.
"These two behind me are Zack Rigor and Marcus Toro, few of my friends."
Zack and Marcus both introduced themselves.
"They found something that you might find interesting Fiona." Dr. D said pulling a chair over to the table.
Paul nodded and put a book down on the table and opened to a page that was book marked.
Fiona read the words, they resembled Zodian but she just couldn't translate it. "What language is that right there?"
"Old form of Zodian." Paul said. "You can't read it."
Fiona shook her head.
Zack looked down. "It a journal, it talks about a gate created to keep Zoids Eve at bay, but then it says she escaped within a human and would eventually do what she had attempted to do long ago."
Fiona looked up at him with a surprised face. "You're a Zodian?"
Zack smiled. "Me, no. I'm not even from this planet. I just spent about 10 years studying it and learning how to translate it."
"But we found Zoids Eve inside the gate, how could she have escaped in a human if she was there." Dr. D said, looking down at the book.
Paul shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know, but I plan on finding out."
"You're going to open the gate?" Fiona asked.
"No, no. There's a map, apparently a old city which hid the last few Zodians during the siege of the Death Sauer." Paul turned the page. "Rusiano, it's the old name."
"So Fiona, do you want to come with us." Dr. D said, looking at her hoping she would say yes.
She nodded. "I guess."
"Alright, well leave in a few hours. If we leave when I'm hoping we do then we can make it there by sunrise tomorrow." Paul said standing up from the chair and taking the book. "Lets go you two."
"Got it Paul." Marcus said walking out of the room, Zack and Paul followed him.
Drake looked down at the Tiger, which slept down in the pit filled with crystal blue water. He knew the destruction that Zoid could cause, and he didn't want to see it again.
"Only a matter of time Drake, you know your plan will fail." Jason said walking into the dark catacomb, Phantom besides him.
Drake laughed. "You enjoy this, don't you?"
Jason gave a mocking laugh back. "Yea I do."
"Well, so what's your plan now Jason."
"Simple, Hilz revives the Death Stinger causing even more chaos then before and again keeping them off guard for the revival of my Tiger."
"You're missing the stone Jason." Drake said, still looking down in the water.
Jason smiled. "Not anymore." He reached into his cloak and pulled out an orange stone with black streaks all over it. It was about 4 inches long and was in the shape of a large diamond.
Drake looked down, fear was all he felt running through his mind and body. "Where the Hell did you get that?"
"Hilz found it, the same place I knew it would be in. Down in the Red River Canyon."
"How did he get past the Republic base there?"
"It was no where near the base, so that wasn't a problem." Jason looked over at Drake and laughed. "Your plan is floating in a oil well now, Drake. And I just lit the match."
Drake smiled back at him. "Just make sure you don't burn yourself in the process." He looked down, the growling of the Tiger increased and he waited for it to rise out of the deep water, but it didn't. "So how come you haven't revived it yet."
"In time, I am simply waiting for the right moment."
"Which is?"
"You, just like me, will have to wait Drake." Jason looked over at Phantom. "I promised you I would revive Van."
"You did, over a month has gone by and you haven't."
"I am waiting for my plan to work itself out. But I promise you, in exactly one week from this day, I will revive him no matter what has happened."
"And if you die?"
"That wont happen, but something very shocking will."
"And what's that, you lose."
"No Drake, you aren't that lucky. But you will see, that is my plan and I know it won't fail. They never do."
"So what, now you have the power to see the future." Drake looked over at the much smaller man.
"Yea Drake, I do." Jason smiled back at him.
Drake shook his head in disappointment. "Anything else you can do that you haven't told me about."
Jason laughed. "Many things my friend, many. I have the power of God Drake, you know that."
Drake made a fist and punched Jason in the jaw, but saw it had no effect on him. "Yea Jason, I know." He turned and walked out quickly.
Raven looked out at the setting sun, still thinking of what to do when he met the people who he hated, and the people who hated him even more.
"Hilz is back." Drake said, slowing walking behind Raven.
Raven looked back.
"Maybe Ryss as well." Drake said, Anubis beside him.
"Why would Jason bring them back?" Raven said, his voice its usual tone.
"You already forget what I said. Jason used them just like he used you. Now Hilz is bringing back the Death Stinger, and Jason has the Tiger stone."
Raven nodded. "You told me Van would have been revived, how the Hell am I supposed to beat him without a decent pilot to help me."
"I doubt you can beat him now, but you have nothing to lose. Take out Hilz quickly, Loki and Shadow will be enough help and this GenoBreaker is twice as strong as the one you had."
"I don't care about Hilz." Raven got up and stared the man almost twice his size in the eyes. "I want to kill Jason."
"No, you do want Hilz dead. You just want Jason dead even more. If you can finish Hilz off fast then Jason will be at a disadvantage reviving his Zoid."
Raven still stared him in the eyes. "What the Hell is this Zoid your talking about anyways?"
Drake stepped back and looked over at one of the red canyon walls. "Zoid about a hundred times more powerful then the Death Sauer or Death Stinger. Long time ago and I don't want to give you the whole story, but basically Jason's father created it, wanting to use it as a peace tool. It went crazy and killed him, then let Jason command it and he started killing everything around. Zoids Eve eventually stopped it, putting its power in a stone, which Jason now has. I don't know what he's waiting for but get rid of Hilz fast, last thing you want to do is fight off Hilz and Jason at the same time."
Raven nodded. Where is he at?"
Drake shrugged his shoulders. "Ask Fiona, she'll know."
"Wish it was that easy." Raven said, trying to keep it to himself but Drake heard him.
"It will be, trust me on that."
Raven watched as Drake walked off, when he was out of sight he looked over at his two Organoids. "Shadow, Loki. Lets go." Raven got in the GenoBreaker and looked down at the radar and a map, trying to find a place to go. He found a spot and took command of the GenoBreaker, Shadow and Loki followed it closely behind.
"Wake up Moonbay, will ya." Irvine yelled, watching as the green and orange Gustav nearly fell into a fairly large hole in the canyon road.
"I am, I saw it the whole time." Moonbay snapped back.
"Just keep your eyes open ok, last thing we need is to spend a few extra days cleaning up the mess you made with that cargo.
"Will you cool it already Irvine, I know what I'm doing."
"Both of you need to relax." Thomas said, getting tired of the shouting match going on between the two of them. "We need to set camp up here, its going to be way to dark to get around this canyon real soon." Thomas said, stopping his Dibision.
"Alright." Moonbay agreed, stopping her Gustav but felt it make a sudden push forward as the Lighting Saiex rammed it in the back. "Damnit Irvine, and your yelling at me about keeping my eyes open."
"What are you talking about, you slammed on your brakes without even giving me a warning." Irvine kept the fight going.
Thomas shook his head and walked over and leaned against his Dibision and slowly started falling asleep.
Thomas woke up, the yelling had stopped and both of them were asleep. It had been a few hours and he wasn't sure why he woke up. He shook his head and stood up stretching. Thomas walked around a bit, trying to figure out what to do since he wasn't tired anymore. Thomas knew there was a river near by and decided to walk over to it and get some water. It only took him a few minutes to reach it. He got some water in his canteen and took a drink with his hands, soaking his dry throat with the cool water. He got up and started walking back. Thomas looked over and saw Moonbay and Irvine still sleeping. "I wish those two would stop fighting." He said to himself, putting the canteen in the back of his Dibision and turned around, staring at the red eyes of a Zoid. It took a few moments to see it was a GenoSauer due to the dark, he slowly stepped back. "Irvine!" He yelled, still looking at the Zoid. "Irvine!!" He yelled even louder.
"What is it Thomas." Irvine said, slowly getting up.
"GenoSauer." He said softly. "GenoSauer." He pointed up at the hill.
"Where the Hell did that come from." Irvine ran over to his Lighting Saiex as a small glow began to grow near its mouth. "Great. Moonbay wake up!" He yelled.
Moonbay got up and watched as they each ran towards their Zoids. What's up?" She said with a drowsy voice, rubbing her eyes.
"Get up quick!" Irvine yelled as he closed the cockpit of his Lighting Saiex.
Moonbay looked around and saw the GenoSauer on the cliff. She got up and ran towards her Gustav. "What does that thing want?" Moonbay said watching the ball quickly grow.
"I don't know." Thomas said. "Beek, target it fast." He listened to the beeping sounds of his AI, the GenoSauer slowly coming into his target. "Fire, Migalow Max." He watched as the massive guns made a direct hit on the GenoSauer. "That got him." He said smiling.
"Wanna bet." Irvine said, watching as the GenoSauer's shield had deflected the shots.
"How the Hell did it deflect it, I made a direct hit." Thomas watched as the charged particle cannon crashed into the ground in front of him and as bright light coming about.
Hilz watched as the light finally died down, the two Zoids lay on the ground motionless and Gustav showing signs of slightly damaged. He turned his Zoid around and took off.
Moonbay finally opened her eyes and letting go of her tight grip on the controls of her Gustav. She looked around, smoke everywhere but the GenoSauer long gone. She got out of the cockpit and ran over to the Lighting Saiex. "Irvine!" She screamed watching him slump out of the cockpit. "You ok." She said, pulling out a cloth and wiping off some of the blood on his face and arm.
"Yea, go over and check on Thomas." He said, slowly getting up.
Moonbay nodded and ran towards the damaged Dibision. "Thomas, where are you." She found him, and he was ok as well. Moonbay helped him up and got back to the Gustav, contacting the Jade River base.
Two Sabertiger's and a Hellcat quickly moved across the frozen lands, the wind and snow blowing hard but hardly slowing the three Zoids down any.
"Paul, I hate the cold." Zack said, looking out at the icy blizzard.
"You told me that already, and like I said suck it up you big baby." Paul was piloting his Hellcat, moving well ahead of the other two Zoids.
"Slow down Paul, we can't move all that fast in this blizzard." Marcus yelled.
Zack shook his head and looked in the seat behind him. Fiona was sleeping and he wasn't sure how that was possible, but she was. He turned back and saw a few mountains ahead. "That's it, the underground city is in those mountains up ahead."
"Got it." Marcus said, Dr. D sitting behind him.
It took about another hour due to the weather before they reached the foot of the mountains.
"Can't stay out there to long." Paul said. "Search the sides for a opening or something."
"Alright." Zack said, taking his Zoid around to the back.
"Are we there?" Fiona said softly.
"Yea basically, all we need to do is find a entrance or something." Zack said, keeping a close eye on the mountainsides.
Fiona looked up at the mountains, seeing something familiar about them.
"Found it!" Marcus yelled excitedly.
"Alright, where are you at?" Zack said, reading the information Marcus sent him.
"Ok" Paul said. "Here we go."
They got there Zoids as close to the entrance as they could each of them putting on something to keep them warm. When they got out, the piercing cold was harsh on the areas exposed, and eventually to the areas covered by clothing. They ran to the entrance and looked around.
"For a place that's supposed to be centuries old, they seem to have good power." Marcus said, taking the lead.
"Yea, this is weird." Zack walked up next behind Marcus.
"When Van found me in that old Fortress they had power running to." Fiona said, staying behind the group.
"Yea but was it brand new like this." Zack added. "There is no way in Hell this is an ancient city."
"Unless people are still living in here." Paul said.
"It is possible." Dr. D added to Paul's comment.
They walked down the long walkway. It was a single long hallway, white and well lit. A few minutes later they came to a split in the hallway.
"Well, which way do we go?" Zack said scratching his head.
"Simple." Paul smiled. "Me and Marcus will go left, D and Fiona will take that one over there."
"There's still one more." Zack said.
"Exactly, you take it." Paul said, leading Marcus to the separate hallway.
"Great, I get to be alone."
"Well one reason is because you're the only one with a weapon." Paul pointed to Zack's shirt.
Zack smiled. "Fine, walk down and meet back here in a hour. Find anything then find a way to contact the rest." Zack quickly walked through the open door and down another hallway exactly like the one they had gone through before. "Damnit, something isn't right here." He took out the shotgun he was carrying and gave it a pump, getting it ready to fire if he needed to. He came to a door a minute later and opened it. There were no lights on so he couldn't see anything in it. Finally he found a power button and turned on the lights finding it to be an old cafeteria of some sort. "Smells like beef." He said, smelling the air with a fresh scent of meat. "Damnit some ones here." Zack walked back to the main hall and continued where he left off.
"This doesn't seem like a ancient city to me." Dr. D said looking around at the steel walls and bright lights overhead.
"Maybe this is from a archeological dig." Fiona said, putting her hands on the cold wall.
Dr. D nodded. "Perhaps, but this doesn't seem right. I have never even heard of this city before."
"There are a lot of things we have never heard of, that doesn't mean they don't exist."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I guess your right."
They continued to walk down the straight hall, nothing changing from the bright white lights overhead. Finally coming to a door.
"Great it's locked." Dr. D said. He tried forcing the door open but it wouldn't budge.
Fiona watched as he tried to keep forcing the door open. Finally it opened, the hinges were torn off and the door laid flat on the floor.
"Oh well, at least it's open."
Both of them walked in, looking down at the floor. It was red, dry blood in the form of footprints all over the floor.
"What happened here?" Fiona asked, covering her mouth.
"This is old, and I mean at least 10 years old. I guess nobody decided to clean it up. We better keep going." They continued, the polished steel walls started to rust and weaken, and the lights were beginning to dim. Soon they reached a few rooms, each of them seemed old and damaged. They searched each room and found little, the footprints made from the dry blood continued to march in the opposite direction from where they were going.
"Look over there." Fiona said, pointing at two broken pods and two skeletons lying in the same room.
"Those are the same kind of pods Van found you and Zeke in right."
Fiona nodded, her heart started to pick up pace as she stared at the two bodies. "I think we need to leave." She turned and saw herself staring at a familiar man with long red hair.
"Hello again, Fiona." Hilz said, smiling down at her. "I see you found something you didn't expect to see." Hilz reached in his pocket and pulled out a knife, he raised it and threw it at Dr. D. It flew into his neck, killing him only a few moments later. He looked back at Fiona who was now scared and shocked. Hilz smiled and grabbed her by the throat. "I wont kill you yet, we still have a need for you." He let her go, throwing her onto the floor as he walked away.
Fiona got her breath and crawled over to the body of her old friend, she pulled out the knife and got up, the blood quickly pouring onto the floor. She felt her heart drop and a tear come out of her eye. Fiona turned and ran.
"I don't like this Paul, I have been hearing some weird sounds." Marcus said, slowly leading Paul down a rocky cavern.
"I know, plus I want to know where the Hell this cave came from."
"Wish I knew, wouldn't mind leaving either. Damn hasn't it been a hour yet."
"You and Zack get scared to damn easy, you need to toughen up."
"Easy for you to say, your 90 or something like that. Me, well I'm only 25 and would like to live a lot longer."
"So would I, but that doesn't mean I will." Paul smiled. Listening to the sounds coming in through the walls. "Alright, lets get out of here." Both of them turned and started to quickly walk out. Finally they reached the main hall again.
"Paul, get down!" Marcus yelled, looking down at two men carrying rifles. He heard them open fire, shooting and killing Paul, the old man falling to the ground as his blood spattered all over the floor, walls, roof, and Marcus, who was standing next to him at the time. "Paul, Damnit!" Marcus screamed, diving back into the cave then quickly scrambling while trying to come up with an idea.
Zack heard the gunfire and looked around. "What the Hell is going on." He moved down the hall slowly, trying to listen for any sound or voices. Finally Zack reached the end of the hall, a massive door stood there at the end. He looked around and saw a password panel on the wall next to it. Zack shook his head and shot the panel, watching the door slide open. He went in, finding it to be a balcony with glass panels and an elevator along with a few consoles. He walked over to the glass and slowly put his hand on it as he looked down into the deep cavern. "Oh my God." He said softly.