Bit walked into the hangar and stared at the Liger. "Liger, what was the Apollyon? What are you?" He shook his head. "What am I doing? It's not like you're alive."

A silent voice echoed in his mind. {But I am.} He backed up. "Okay.. I'm sick. I'm hallucinating." He turned and ran out.

"Shadow, is this guy stupid or what?" Shadow looked at me and mischief glittered in his eyes. *Not really. After all, we are a zoid, and I think your stupidity is what's causing him not to believe us.* I growled and tackled him.

Bit stumbled out to the Liger. "Let's go for a run, partner. I mean, you're not really alive." He climbed into the cockpit and they set off at a run.

Bit was running across the desert with Liger, dozing. He could trust Liger to keep running for the base. Suddenly, the controls jerked out of his hands.

"Wha.." He sat up, alert. The controls spun and pushed on their own. "Liger, where are you taking me!?" The screen blipped. \To see a friend.\ His eyes widened. "I didn't really expect an answer." \Ha ha.\

"Uh, are you really alive?" \Depends on who you're talking to.\ "Okay. In your opinion?" \I'm a lot more alive than you humans. I see the past, present and future. I have been alive for millennia. Hold on.\

I leaped over the cliff, hanging in space. I heard Bit's sharp intake of breath, and we dropped. I landed on a rock and leaped from side to side, finally landing on a ledge that none but an ultimate X could get to.

The Liger landed on a ledge. The canopy opened and Bit was lowered to the ground. The screen blipped one last time. \Get out.\

He climbed out and stood on the ledge. "Hello, Bit Cloud." He spun around.

I looked back at Bit. His eyes rolled back in his head and he crumpled. I caught him and lowered him to the ground. "Well Shadow, do I really look that strange?" *Yes.* I swatted him playfully and we erupted into a full blown wrestling match.

"Urgle.." Bit opened his eyes. Yells and roars were coming from his left. He turned and scrambled back. The Liger Zero was pinned on his back by a boy and a black zoid.

I turned from Liger and looked at Bit. "Hello." He shook his head and gurgled. "I'm Raven, that baka is Shadow" I ducked the rock Shadow threw at me. "and that's Liger Zero."

"Who are you?" I rolled my eyes. (He's acting like a baka, Shadow.) *Yep.* "My name is Raven. The black organoid is Shadow. You've met Liger." His eyes darted over us.

Bit was freaked out, to say the least. A boy with shaggy black hair, amethyst eyes, and a strange red tattoo under his left eye, had been wrestling with a strange black dinosaur with sky blue eyes and Liger.

Now he was talking about them as casually as if they were his cousins or something. "Uh.. that black dinosaur is what?" Raven sighed. "Shadow is an organoid. He merges with a zoid and increases its capabilities. Organoids all died out except for Shadow, and.. well, she's not really an organoid. But then, neither am I."

"I have to go. Goodbye until next time, Bit Cloud." Shadow and I turned into the gold lightning and arced to the top of the cliff, where we watched Bit. He gurgled feebly, and fainted. "Liger, take him back to base, please."

The Liger pounded into the hangar and dropped. Bit tumbled out. "Uh, bye, Liger?" He made his way to the main area.