The New War

Birth of Blood

The day after the fusion Leena, Vega, and Brad tested their Zoids to see if the upgrades will be enough to allow the Zoids to keep up with their pilots.

Brad was the first to go through the test. Basically the test was a simulation battle against sleeper Zoids and base weapons. Brad charged forward into the 1st part of the test.

As he was running 2 missiles were fired at his side. He slowed down and shot the missiles as they passed in front of him. Instantly 2 more missiles were fired at his other side. Brad went faster to try to dodge them but they were heat seeking. Brad did a 180 turn and shot the missiles coming up to him. He continued to run in his original direction and then 2 sets of 2 missiles were fired at his front. Brad had the Koing Wolf jump and land its front paws on the first set of missiles pushing them closer to the floor so his rear paws could land on them as well. Then he jumped off of the 1st set making them hit the ground and explode, landed on the 2nd set doing the same.

After all the missiles were destroyed a large group of low to medium performance sleeper Zoids came at him signifying the start of the 2nd part of the test. He dealt with them easily. When he dealt with the sleeper Zoids groups of medium to high performance sleepers were sent out. Also missiles were being fired at him from the base's weapon systems. This was harder than the other 2 parts. He first dealt with the medium performance Zoids. Getting pinched in-between 2 of them and then dodging the attack of 1 of them so it hits the other and maneuvers like that. Then he decided to use the base's missiles to take out the high performance sleepers. Brad got a cluster of heat seeking missiles to follow him. He ran towards ground sleepers and jumped so some missiles would hit them. When the missiles ran out he used his newly added blades cut through the remaining ground sleepers. He then used his shock cannon to take out the fliers, which were only medium performance.

"Attention Koing Wolf," A voice came from Brad's radio. "You have completed the test."

"How did I do," Brad asked.

The voice replied, "You barely used half of your maximum speed and fire power. And your reading say that you were pushing yourself to your limits."

"So I should be fine with this Zoid the way it is," Brad commented as he walked the Koing Wolf into the hanger.

Leena went next. She also completed the test in a similar matter. She dodged the first 2 sets of missiles and used the first half of the 3rd set of missiles to destroy the 2nd half. She used a quarter of the missiles in her launchers to take out the 1st set of sleepers. Then she used the built in Wild Weasel unit to take out most of the 2nd set of sleepers and then sniped out the remaining units with her newly added sniper rifle/cannon. She too barely passed half of her Zoid's full potential while pushing herself to her limits.

Finally Vega took the test. The Berserk Fury disposed of the missiles and low performance Zoids with no problems. But the medium and high performance Zoids proved difficult mainly due to the Fury's lack of medium range weapons. He passed the test but the Fury did take some damage. Vega had some laser cannons added to the Fury and took the test again. This time around it was much easier and he finished much faster.

After they all finished Jamie met them and they all went for a walk. As they passed the building where the Liger cocoon was, they all stopped and looked at it.

"I wonder how Bit is," Leena asked.

"Last I checked he was watching over it expecting it to hatch any second," Jamie added in.

Vega just stared at the building and said, "It's been almost a month and that thing hasn't hatched yet. How long is it going to take?"

Brad answered in a curious tone, "It's been centuries since the last time Zoid cores were fused. No one knows how long it will take."

They all walked towards the building to go see Bit but then there was an explosion over by the storage area. A voice sounded from the base's speakers, "All pilots report to your Zoids and prepare for battle. We're under attack by an army of Geno Saurers and Geno Breakers."

Instantly all available pilots ran to the hangers and entered their Zoids. The Geno Saurers and Geno Breakers proved to strong for basic units like the Command Wolf and Pteras. Even with the use of Organoids, they were no match for the strong enemy units. When the special forces (Leena, Brad, Jamie, Vega and, Bit) finally reached the battlefield several Zoids had been damaged. Bit had gotten into the Lightning Saix with the Liger Zero's battle data and was ready for battle.

Brad opened his blades and activated his boosters. The Koing Wolf's blades cut through 4 Geno Saurers and 2 Geno Breakers. Brad then came up to a blue Geno Breaker. The Koing Wolf charged up its electro bite and bit the enemy Zoid freezing its system. Brad's cockpit went dead briefly because all power was being diverted to the cooling system so the Koing Wolf wouldn't freeze. Tiger was working extra hard. Inside of the Koing Wolf Tiger started to glow. This gave the Koing Wolf an even larger power boost and it took out ¼ of the army.

Bit went in after Brad but because his Zoid's battle data was from a Liger the Lightning Saix was malfunctioning. Because of the problem Bit took too many hits and was forced to eject. Before he ejected Bit copied the battle Data onto a disk. As soon as he hit the ground he ran or cover. The explosion from the Lighting Saix took out at least 3 Zoids.

Leena got a huge amount of Geno Saurers and Geno Breakers to surround her. When they got real close she hit the trigger and every missile on her Zoid was fired. And because Ambient was fused with the Death Sniper the attack was even more powerful. When the smoke cleared another ¼ of the attacking army was destroyed.

Jamie and his Double Sworder took to the Air. Specular was inside of the Zoid increasing its speed and power. Jamie activated his shield and dove into the crowd of enemy Zoids. When he hit most of them suffered system freezes. When he started to climb a missile launcher on the Double Sworder's backside spat out a cluster of missiles taking out yet another ¼ of the attacking force.

Vega got the charged particle gun ready. The vents on its tail opened and its mouth opened revealing the barrel. Vega fired the charged particle gun. Because the floor locks were no longer needed the Berserk Fury was to move while firing. The Berserk Fury spun around hitting every enemy around him. Destroying the last of the Geno Saurers and Geno Breakers.

Lena and the others climbed out of their Zoids. Their Organoids also emerged from the Zoids. Tiger, when his feet touched the ground started to glow. When he returned to normal, his plain dinosaur head looked like the head of a dragon, similar to that of Ambient. Specular looked at the wrecked Zoids and started to growl.

Specular's growling caught Jamie's attention. "What's wrong Specular?"

The blue Organoid walked up to a Geno Breaker and hit a button under the cockpit door opening it. Instead of a pilot there was a computer inside of it.

"A sleeper," Jamie said in surprise. "Guys go check the others."

Jamie, Vega, Leena, Brad, Tiger, Ambient, Shadow, Specular, and Tiger each opened up a Zoid. All of them were sleeper Zoids. Jamie unplugged the computers inside the Zoids' cockpits and radioed for a crew to pick them up.

"But why would the Empire send out an army of Sleeper Zoids," Leena asked.

Just then there was an explosion in the direction of the Liger's hanger. 4 Redlers were above the building. As they pulled up they were pulling the cocoon up with them.

Bit sprinted to a Geno Breaker and jumped into it. "Leena can I borrow Ambient. This Zoid still hasn't repaired itself."

Leena nodded and said, "Sure but be careful. Ambient fuse with that Geno Breaker."

Ambient roared and fused with the Geno Breaker that Bit was in. The armor on the Zoid was repaired and it was instantly active. The canopy closed and the Zoid's boosters came to life and it flew off towards the direction of the Redlers.

Out of pure rage Bit neglected to check to see if there were any other Zoids in the are. 2 Storm Sworders came up on the sides of him. The blades on the Storm Sworders' wings sliced through the armor on the Geno Breaker' sides freezing the command system.

Bit hit the eject button but the safety on the Zoid was turned off when the Sleeper computer was installed. Bit waited a few more seconds and then forced open the cockpit. Bit jumped out.

While Bit was trying to open the Geno Breaker's cockpit the cocoon cracked open. As Bit was falling the crack got bigger and bigger. After a few seconds the Liger jumped out. Its cockpit opened right after it jumped out of the cocoon and the new Liger caught Bit inside the cockpit. The canopy closed and the computers inside the cockpit activated.

"Hey buddy," Bit said with a smile. "You ready for some fun?"