Chapter 3
Identity Revealed
At the last battle, the Blitz Team won against the Liger Team, and that moved them to S class. Now at the coffee shop, The Fluegel Team is having a break, and talking about their life experiences as a zoid pilots. Just then the Blitz team came in.
"Have you guys heard?" asked Bit brightly
"Heard what?" asked Naomi
"We won against the famous Liger Team!"
"You what????" yelled Ashley
Everybody stared at her. "You don't have to be that surprised!" said Leena while giving Ashley one of her death glares.
"I don't believe you," said Naomi as she took a sip of her tea
"Then look on TV, that should be enough proof for you," said Brad
Then they saw the Liger Team going on against the Blitz team. Bit's liger took down the blue blade liger, and Brad and Leena took down the Shield Ligers.
"This doesn't seem too good, if this keeps happening then they'll drop down to Class A. This should prove to Josh that he really does need me on their team." Thought Ashley
"That really doesn't seem like the Liger team at all, usually they have really good strategies." Said Leon
"I know what you mean," said Jamie, "The liger team is famous for their strategies. Nobody had ever successed using them, except the liger team."
"They are very experienced zoid pilots," said Naomi
"Have you noticed that one of their warrior is missing," said Leon
"Yes, I have. When they took our challenge, they asked for a 3 on 3 battle," said Jamie
"I wonder why?" said Naomi
"I checked their last few battles, and they were all 3 on 3. The last 4 on 4 one was against the Storm Team, and apparently the blue blade liger was the only one damaged," said Jamie
"This is really strange," said Naomi
"I don't care as long as I get my prize money," said Brad
"Come on this is not the way we should celebrate moving up to class S," said Bit
"He's right! Lets go out for a big dinner, or a shopping spree!" said Leena
"I'll skip that one," said Jamie with a sigh
Just then Dr. Toros came in the coffee shop.
"Hi son, it's great seeing you again!"
"Nice to see you too dad."
"For the next battle we are going against you guys."
"Really?" asked Ashley
"OH, Man, I can't wait!!!!!" yelled the over enthusiastic Bit
"This is going to be a great match," said Naomi
The next day. They met on the zoid battlefield, everybody is pretty psyched.
"Battle mode approved, area scanned, battle field set up. Ready... FIGHT!" said the Judge
Leena and Naomi immediately went their own way. Bit took off as well, and Leon followed him. (Liger Zero is in its Jager form.) So that leaves Brad and Ashley.
"Sorry, kid, but a battle is a battle," said Brad
"I know, I won't take it personally," said Ashley. Thinking to her self, "This is just great, I finally get the chance to battle against the Blitz team, but I can't actually show my real power. I suppose it wouldn't hurt if I have a little fun."
Just as Ashley finished thinking that she piloted her zoid in the direction of the mountain. And Brad's shadow fox followed. When Ashley kept enough distance between her self and Brad, she turned her liger around, and fired the machine gun on the liger's stomach. The Shadow Fox was too close to dodge it, the shots landed. Just then missiles came out of the nowhere, but none of them landed on either of those zoids. Smokes from the missiles surrounded them.
"What's happening?" asked Brad
"I don't know, but I didn't fire those shots,"
"Maybe Leena went crazy with ammos again," said Brad but when the smoke cleared, he saw 10 Cannon Tortoises, he knew immediately knew, "OH, no, it's the Back Draft Group! ASHLEY RUN!"
"I'm not going to leave you here by your self to battle against all of them!" said Ashley as she fired some shots against the Cannon Tortoises.
"Look, you have no idea how powerful those zoids are, I'd never forgive my self if I let you get hurt!" said Brad, (I know cannon tortoises aren't that strong, but considering who's piloting those zoids, I'd say they are pretty dangerous. And Maybe I did over do it a little bit about Brad being so nice and stuff.)
"Brad! Ashley! Get out of there!" said Jamie, his face appeared on the screen.
"We can't, we're surrounded!" said Brad, "How's Bit and Leena doing?"
"Not too good, Leena is in the same situation as you. But Naomi is looking after her. Bit and Leon are handling them selves."
"That's good news," said Ashley, "But in the mean while, let's get ready for a real battle! Mobilizing Vulcan gun." Just then the hidden Vulcan Gun appeared on the liger's back. Both the Liger and the Shadow Fox fired, and managed to take half of those Cannon Tortoises out.
"That's pretty good aiming."
"Thanks, but lets get out of here!"
They piloted their zoids out of the line of fire. Then War Sharks appeared out of the nowhere. They almost hit both of them, but they stopped in time to dodge them.
"Liger lets dance," just then her zoid went straight toward the war sharks
"Are you crazy!" yelled Brad
Just as it looked like it was about to be hit, the phantom liger dodged it, by going in the speed of a lightning saix. She turned her zoid around and took one out by using the strike laser claw. Then the Cannon Tortoises caught up with them. They fired missiles at the liger and the shadow fox. Brad was a bit too close to do anything, but the missiles never landed on him. When he opened his eyes, he saw the Phantom Liger in front of him, and there was a shield in front of it.
"That's impossible! How does your liger do it? You were 1 mile ahead of me when the cannon tortoises appeared,"
"Um, I'll explain it to you later. We got company."
Just then the Cannon Tortoises attacked them again, and they both ran. The phantom liger kept ran to the right and then to the left again, to doge those shots, and the shadow fox did the same thing.
"Lets split up, it'll give us a better chance of dodging those shots," said Ashley
"Sure,"
They went their separate ways. The liger used its hyper speed to get away from the cannon tortoises, but they still followed. It turned around before the cannon tortoises reached it. The liger used the evade technique to reach the cannon tortoises, and stroke it down using the Vulcan gun. (The evade technique is like when you dodge while you are running toward your opponent in an extreme speed, but manage to get there with out getting hit.)
"That's impossible!" said Jamie, "I've only seen one team who ever managed that technique! Can she be?"
"Bit to Jamie,"
"Yes Bit,"
"I need a little help here, I'm completely surrounded by 20 command wolves, and I think Leon's in the same situation as I am."
"Sorry Bit, but the hover cargo is under attack by the war sharks."
"I think we're doomed."
"Don't be so sure," said Leon as he came to Bit's aid, he managed to get Bit out.
"It's time to take drastic measures. Doc, mobilize Schneider." Bit ran to the hover cargo and transformed to Schneider. Bit and his liger stroke down the war sharks that was after them.
"Um, guys? I think I need a little help here?" said Ashley
"Be right there!" said Brad (On the second thought I want Brad, not Leon.)
When Brad got there the liger was surrounded, and pretty badly damaged. Its optional shield was down. The cannon tortoises fired missiles at the liger, just as it about to hit Ashley, Brad blocked it. The shadow fox fell on the ground, with a system freeze.
"You shouldn't have done that," said Ashley quietly; she knew Brad couldn't hear her, since he was knocked out. "It's time for pay back!" She aimed her gun at her opponents and put all of the Cannon Tortoises out of commission. She jumped out of her liger, and ran to where the shadow fox was; she opened the cargo and looked at Brad. He was unconscious, with a scratch on his forehead and there was blood on it. (No duh! If there is a cut, then there should be blood! But I didn't want it to look like he was dead.) She took out her handkerchief wiped the blood gently, not wanting to hurt him. He opened his eyes slowly, and saw what was happening. "I'm fine," he said softly.
"No you're not. And it's all my fault, I should have been more careful." said Ashley sadly
"You were careful, not to mention a great zoid pilot! There were just too many of them."
"You shouldn't have saved me, I didn't deserve it. I lied to you and the rest of your friends!"
"I'm sure you had a good reason."
"No, just for my selfish cause."
"Hey, don't worry about it, the others will understand," said Brad as he put his hand on her face.
"I hope," said Ashley as she put her hand on top of Brad's. "Let's get you out of here and take care of your wounds. Can you move?"
Brad tried to get up, but he immediately fell back down. "No, I don't think so."
"Here," said Ashley as she gave him her arm to help him get up, and Brad took it. They stopped near a ruin, and both of them sat down by the wall. Ashley took out the first aid kit she got from her liger. And started putting antibiotics on the scratch on his forehead.
"This is definitely going to hurt."
Brad flinched and showed the pain in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I told you, but this is really necessary," said Ashley with a sad face
"I know,"
Ashley went back to applying the antibiotics. After she finished taking care of his forehead, she cleaned the wound on his left hand. "Ashley? How long have you been a zoid pilot?"
"All my life. I use to be a pilot on the Liger Team."
"So you were the one missing on our last battle."
"Yes,"
"Why did you leave?"
"Got in to a little fight with my brother."
Brad persuaded the subject no further. And Ashley went back to bandaging his cuts. When she finished, they saw the hover cargo coming their way. Jamie jumped out, and ran to the couple.
"Brad? Are you ok?" he asked
"Course, I'm ok. My head just starts bleeding every day at this time." Said Brad sarcastically.
"Point taken! Ashley? Are you all right?"
"Thanks to him!"
Bit and the rest reached them.
"So Ashley mind explaining your self?" said Jamie
"I knew this day would come."
"Am I right? Are you the forth pilot of the Liger Team?"
"Yes,"
"WHAT?????" said Everybody except Brad and Jamie
"She's the pilot of the Phantom Liger, if I'm not mistaken that zoid is in fact the one." said Jamie as he pointed to her liger.
"You are smarter than you look! How did you find out who I really was?"
"Nobody except the liger team has such control over their ligers."
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Bit
"You can't control your liger, and you know it!" said Dr. Toros
"You are your team's strategy planner. We battled your team when you left, that's why we won, because they don't have a brain with out you around." Said Jamie
"I wish my brother would realize that, he thinks strategies are a waste of time"
"It's the same with Bit, and Leena." Both of them sighed
"Is that why you left your team?" asked Leon
"Kind of, you see at my last battle with the Storm Team, I told my brother to follow my plan, but he just ignored me. And he got his liger damaged. When I said I told him so, he got mad at me, and we just started a big fight, and well, I just left."
"And then you met us on the exact same day," said Naomi
"Yup, that's my whole story."
"Why didn't tell us who you really were?" asked Leon
"Cause I wanted a team who cared about me not just some people who wants to use me."
"So you messed things up on purpose, and see what we would do."
"That's right, and you guys were great. Definitely, the team I would want, but I'd understand if you want to kick me out."
"Why would we want to do that?"
"You mean it?"
"Who wouldn't want a "S" classed warrior on their team!" said Naomi
At the last battle, the Blitz Team won against the Liger Team, and that moved them to S class. Now at the coffee shop, The Fluegel Team is having a break, and talking about their life experiences as a zoid pilots. Just then the Blitz team came in.
"Have you guys heard?" asked Bit brightly
"Heard what?" asked Naomi
"We won against the famous Liger Team!"
"You what????" yelled Ashley
Everybody stared at her. "You don't have to be that surprised!" said Leena while giving Ashley one of her death glares.
"I don't believe you," said Naomi as she took a sip of her tea
"Then look on TV, that should be enough proof for you," said Brad
Then they saw the Liger Team going on against the Blitz team. Bit's liger took down the blue blade liger, and Brad and Leena took down the Shield Ligers.
"This doesn't seem too good, if this keeps happening then they'll drop down to Class A. This should prove to Josh that he really does need me on their team." Thought Ashley
"That really doesn't seem like the Liger team at all, usually they have really good strategies." Said Leon
"I know what you mean," said Jamie, "The liger team is famous for their strategies. Nobody had ever successed using them, except the liger team."
"They are very experienced zoid pilots," said Naomi
"Have you noticed that one of their warrior is missing," said Leon
"Yes, I have. When they took our challenge, they asked for a 3 on 3 battle," said Jamie
"I wonder why?" said Naomi
"I checked their last few battles, and they were all 3 on 3. The last 4 on 4 one was against the Storm Team, and apparently the blue blade liger was the only one damaged," said Jamie
"This is really strange," said Naomi
"I don't care as long as I get my prize money," said Brad
"Come on this is not the way we should celebrate moving up to class S," said Bit
"He's right! Lets go out for a big dinner, or a shopping spree!" said Leena
"I'll skip that one," said Jamie with a sigh
Just then Dr. Toros came in the coffee shop.
"Hi son, it's great seeing you again!"
"Nice to see you too dad."
"For the next battle we are going against you guys."
"Really?" asked Ashley
"OH, Man, I can't wait!!!!!" yelled the over enthusiastic Bit
"This is going to be a great match," said Naomi
The next day. They met on the zoid battlefield, everybody is pretty psyched.
"Battle mode approved, area scanned, battle field set up. Ready... FIGHT!" said the Judge
Leena and Naomi immediately went their own way. Bit took off as well, and Leon followed him. (Liger Zero is in its Jager form.) So that leaves Brad and Ashley.
"Sorry, kid, but a battle is a battle," said Brad
"I know, I won't take it personally," said Ashley. Thinking to her self, "This is just great, I finally get the chance to battle against the Blitz team, but I can't actually show my real power. I suppose it wouldn't hurt if I have a little fun."
Just as Ashley finished thinking that she piloted her zoid in the direction of the mountain. And Brad's shadow fox followed. When Ashley kept enough distance between her self and Brad, she turned her liger around, and fired the machine gun on the liger's stomach. The Shadow Fox was too close to dodge it, the shots landed. Just then missiles came out of the nowhere, but none of them landed on either of those zoids. Smokes from the missiles surrounded them.
"What's happening?" asked Brad
"I don't know, but I didn't fire those shots,"
"Maybe Leena went crazy with ammos again," said Brad but when the smoke cleared, he saw 10 Cannon Tortoises, he knew immediately knew, "OH, no, it's the Back Draft Group! ASHLEY RUN!"
"I'm not going to leave you here by your self to battle against all of them!" said Ashley as she fired some shots against the Cannon Tortoises.
"Look, you have no idea how powerful those zoids are, I'd never forgive my self if I let you get hurt!" said Brad, (I know cannon tortoises aren't that strong, but considering who's piloting those zoids, I'd say they are pretty dangerous. And Maybe I did over do it a little bit about Brad being so nice and stuff.)
"Brad! Ashley! Get out of there!" said Jamie, his face appeared on the screen.
"We can't, we're surrounded!" said Brad, "How's Bit and Leena doing?"
"Not too good, Leena is in the same situation as you. But Naomi is looking after her. Bit and Leon are handling them selves."
"That's good news," said Ashley, "But in the mean while, let's get ready for a real battle! Mobilizing Vulcan gun." Just then the hidden Vulcan Gun appeared on the liger's back. Both the Liger and the Shadow Fox fired, and managed to take half of those Cannon Tortoises out.
"That's pretty good aiming."
"Thanks, but lets get out of here!"
They piloted their zoids out of the line of fire. Then War Sharks appeared out of the nowhere. They almost hit both of them, but they stopped in time to dodge them.
"Liger lets dance," just then her zoid went straight toward the war sharks
"Are you crazy!" yelled Brad
Just as it looked like it was about to be hit, the phantom liger dodged it, by going in the speed of a lightning saix. She turned her zoid around and took one out by using the strike laser claw. Then the Cannon Tortoises caught up with them. They fired missiles at the liger and the shadow fox. Brad was a bit too close to do anything, but the missiles never landed on him. When he opened his eyes, he saw the Phantom Liger in front of him, and there was a shield in front of it.
"That's impossible! How does your liger do it? You were 1 mile ahead of me when the cannon tortoises appeared,"
"Um, I'll explain it to you later. We got company."
Just then the Cannon Tortoises attacked them again, and they both ran. The phantom liger kept ran to the right and then to the left again, to doge those shots, and the shadow fox did the same thing.
"Lets split up, it'll give us a better chance of dodging those shots," said Ashley
"Sure,"
They went their separate ways. The liger used its hyper speed to get away from the cannon tortoises, but they still followed. It turned around before the cannon tortoises reached it. The liger used the evade technique to reach the cannon tortoises, and stroke it down using the Vulcan gun. (The evade technique is like when you dodge while you are running toward your opponent in an extreme speed, but manage to get there with out getting hit.)
"That's impossible!" said Jamie, "I've only seen one team who ever managed that technique! Can she be?"
"Bit to Jamie,"
"Yes Bit,"
"I need a little help here, I'm completely surrounded by 20 command wolves, and I think Leon's in the same situation as I am."
"Sorry Bit, but the hover cargo is under attack by the war sharks."
"I think we're doomed."
"Don't be so sure," said Leon as he came to Bit's aid, he managed to get Bit out.
"It's time to take drastic measures. Doc, mobilize Schneider." Bit ran to the hover cargo and transformed to Schneider. Bit and his liger stroke down the war sharks that was after them.
"Um, guys? I think I need a little help here?" said Ashley
"Be right there!" said Brad (On the second thought I want Brad, not Leon.)
When Brad got there the liger was surrounded, and pretty badly damaged. Its optional shield was down. The cannon tortoises fired missiles at the liger, just as it about to hit Ashley, Brad blocked it. The shadow fox fell on the ground, with a system freeze.
"You shouldn't have done that," said Ashley quietly; she knew Brad couldn't hear her, since he was knocked out. "It's time for pay back!" She aimed her gun at her opponents and put all of the Cannon Tortoises out of commission. She jumped out of her liger, and ran to where the shadow fox was; she opened the cargo and looked at Brad. He was unconscious, with a scratch on his forehead and there was blood on it. (No duh! If there is a cut, then there should be blood! But I didn't want it to look like he was dead.) She took out her handkerchief wiped the blood gently, not wanting to hurt him. He opened his eyes slowly, and saw what was happening. "I'm fine," he said softly.
"No you're not. And it's all my fault, I should have been more careful." said Ashley sadly
"You were careful, not to mention a great zoid pilot! There were just too many of them."
"You shouldn't have saved me, I didn't deserve it. I lied to you and the rest of your friends!"
"I'm sure you had a good reason."
"No, just for my selfish cause."
"Hey, don't worry about it, the others will understand," said Brad as he put his hand on her face.
"I hope," said Ashley as she put her hand on top of Brad's. "Let's get you out of here and take care of your wounds. Can you move?"
Brad tried to get up, but he immediately fell back down. "No, I don't think so."
"Here," said Ashley as she gave him her arm to help him get up, and Brad took it. They stopped near a ruin, and both of them sat down by the wall. Ashley took out the first aid kit she got from her liger. And started putting antibiotics on the scratch on his forehead.
"This is definitely going to hurt."
Brad flinched and showed the pain in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I told you, but this is really necessary," said Ashley with a sad face
"I know,"
Ashley went back to applying the antibiotics. After she finished taking care of his forehead, she cleaned the wound on his left hand. "Ashley? How long have you been a zoid pilot?"
"All my life. I use to be a pilot on the Liger Team."
"So you were the one missing on our last battle."
"Yes,"
"Why did you leave?"
"Got in to a little fight with my brother."
Brad persuaded the subject no further. And Ashley went back to bandaging his cuts. When she finished, they saw the hover cargo coming their way. Jamie jumped out, and ran to the couple.
"Brad? Are you ok?" he asked
"Course, I'm ok. My head just starts bleeding every day at this time." Said Brad sarcastically.
"Point taken! Ashley? Are you all right?"
"Thanks to him!"
Bit and the rest reached them.
"So Ashley mind explaining your self?" said Jamie
"I knew this day would come."
"Am I right? Are you the forth pilot of the Liger Team?"
"Yes,"
"WHAT?????" said Everybody except Brad and Jamie
"She's the pilot of the Phantom Liger, if I'm not mistaken that zoid is in fact the one." said Jamie as he pointed to her liger.
"You are smarter than you look! How did you find out who I really was?"
"Nobody except the liger team has such control over their ligers."
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Bit
"You can't control your liger, and you know it!" said Dr. Toros
"You are your team's strategy planner. We battled your team when you left, that's why we won, because they don't have a brain with out you around." Said Jamie
"I wish my brother would realize that, he thinks strategies are a waste of time"
"It's the same with Bit, and Leena." Both of them sighed
"Is that why you left your team?" asked Leon
"Kind of, you see at my last battle with the Storm Team, I told my brother to follow my plan, but he just ignored me. And he got his liger damaged. When I said I told him so, he got mad at me, and we just started a big fight, and well, I just left."
"And then you met us on the exact same day," said Naomi
"Yup, that's my whole story."
"Why didn't tell us who you really were?" asked Leon
"Cause I wanted a team who cared about me not just some people who wants to use me."
"So you messed things up on purpose, and see what we would do."
"That's right, and you guys were great. Definitely, the team I would want, but I'd understand if you want to kick me out."
"Why would we want to do that?"
"You mean it?"
"Who wouldn't want a "S" classed warrior on their team!" said Naomi