We lope off the mountain, and leap to the top of the hangar. Liger looks up. {About time you got here.} Quickly we merge and settle down to await further developments.

Bit sat in the Liger Zero Schneider's cockpit and watched Harry in his Dark Horn set up, and exult his praise for Leena, as usual. "Oh my sweet Leena! Now you shall accept that we are bound together by everlasting love!" Bit grimaced. 'Everlasting love my butt.'

The Dark Horn charged forward. The Liger spun to the side and slashed at him with the side blades. The Dark Horn stumbled and fell. Harry sat in there and screamed like a baby. (A/N: I don't like Harry. Can you tell?)

Brad ran at the Stealth Viper and shot it down with a well-placed bullet. Leena (Of course) went all out with her ammo and exploded the Heldigunner. A ricocheting piece of shrapnel veered off and hit the Liger Zero. "Watch it, Leena!"

I groaned in pain as the shrapnel hit. It didn't hurt much, but enough to open a wound in my shoulder. Oh well. When the battle is over I can get some bandages from the base.

I climbed up into the cockpit and rummaged around in the storage space. Blood poured off the gash in my shoulder. I found the bandages, wrapped it up, and remerged.

"Doc! Have you seen my zoid gear?" "You left it in the Liger, Bit!" 'Oh yeah' He hauled himself up to the Liger and froze. Crimson everywhere, the shining shade of blood. He gawped and yelled. "DOC!"

Doc Tauros sprinted into the hangar. "What is it?" In answer Bit maneuvered the Liger's head onto the floor. Leena, Brad, and Jamie peered over his shoulder and gasped at the blood. "I didn't get hurt, Doc. Do you think that boy had anything to do with it?" He shook his head. "I don't know. We can run a scan on the Liger, I guess."

The Liger stood on the platform and slowly was pushed through the scanner. Everything was normal until they got to the middle. "Oh sh**" Doc breathed. Everyone crowded around and stared in awe.

A black dinosaur was coiled in the middle with his eyes closed. Suddenly, one eye snapped open. They leaped back in time to prevent being bowled to the ground as the Liger opened his claws and destroyed the scanner with one slash.

They stood frozen for a minute, until Bit grabbed the ladder and climbed into the cockpit, shutting down the system. "Whew. What was that?" Doc shook his head. "I don't know."

2 days later..

Harry stomped out to the battlefield. "Whoa." He heard the Blitz Team's gasps and smirked. "Do you like it? It's called the Crystalsaurer. It's a form of the Genosaurer."

The Crystalsaurer was translucent light blue, and the light hit it and shattered into thousands of beams. Bit, in the Jager, ran forward and slashed with the Strike Laser Claw, but the CS grabbed him and swung him off. He hit a cliff, and slid to the bottom, the whole frame sparking and hissing.

Leena used her Wild Weasel, but Harry threw up a shield. The missiles hit the shield and went back at her, destroying the Gunsniper's command system. Leena shrieked in anger.

Brad sprinted forward and shot, but they glanced off the shield and hit the mountains. The Crystalsaurer hit him with the tail. His command system froze and shorted out.

"Jamie, we're dead." Jamie shook his head. "No. The Liger's system hasn't frozen." The Crystalsaurer suddenly shot his claws out and grabbed the Liger. Electromagnetic pulses shot through the Liger. Bit didn't suffer, but he heard what sounded like a low moan from the inside of the Liger.

Two foot locks snapped down, and the Crystalsaurer bent forward. The barrel extended and a ball of indigo energy gathered. It shot forward and ground into the Liger. They all screamed, but they knew he couldn't have survived that.

"Oh. My. God." The Liger still stood, powerful and strong. But the camera in the cockpit showed that Bit was knocked out. The screens in all the zoids blipped. {Activating Apollyon.}

"Dad, what's Apollyon?" He shook his head. "Apollyon means Destroyer, but that's all I know."

Wind swirled in a maelstrom of dust around the Liger. Something erupted out of the wind. A black dragon, too fast to be seen, too ravenous to get close to. A last despairing scream was ripped from Harry's throat before the CS was gone and he was left gibbering in fear.

Everyone stared in shock, fear, terror, and awe. The Liger spun and stared at the Hovercargo before roaring and bounding to the base.

I picked up my sleeping pilot and carried him towards the door. But summoning Apollyon had weakened me, and it was all I could do to get him to his room and stagger back to merge.

The team ran through the base, trying to find the missing pilot. A shuffling noise was heard and Bit was standing sleepily in the doorway. "Did we win?" They nodded. "How did you get to your room?"

Bit shrugged. "I don't know. The last I can remember is seeing the energy grind into the Liger." Doc informed him, "The Liger Zero did this strange thing called Apollyon. He summoned a black dragon, which destroyed the CS, and all the area around for five miles, except for our zoids, transports, and the judge." They all yawned and trudged to their rooms to get some sleep.