Authors Note: ok now's when the chaos begins! Now unlike the last story, people will die in this fic! Now I'm not just going to kill you off for the fun of it, it will be for the story because it is a war after all! And if you're reading this and you still don't have a character in yet…well its not too late so send in your characters now!!

Trace stood wit his face buried in his hands, he wished he would just wake up because he knew that a hellish nightmare was about to begin. Trace clenched his fists and swung it into the drywall causing his fist to be enveloped into a large hole. "YOUR KIDDING!" he shouted out causing every one to step back. Valger stepped slowly behind a corner and starred at Trace. "Velger, I put you in charge for a reason… so what do we do first?"

Valger slowly moved thinking of what to do "Well first of all, I suggest we all go back into battle for this one. If we get to this problem soon, we can stop them before it gets too cold."

Trace looked over to every one and shook his head "alright we will all go to battle…Catalina has a new device for TJ that if she gets shot down…" he looks at 'Lina with the smirk he wore at all time "TJ will be ejected and safe from battle. You all have three minutes to get to the hangar!" All of the friends begin to walk fast down to the hangar which held all of their Zoids.

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Trace and Valger both entered at the same time talking strategy. Valger and Trace both stood facing hundreds of soldiers waiting for orders. Valger stepped up first and began to speak "Listen up! We have a possible war on our hands, so we brought in the specialists! Here are the greatest pilots I know, you all know emperor Trace, Catalina, Alberto, Kanis, Izumi, and Lace."

Trace walked up now and spoke "I am warning each and every one of you hear today that this mission will not be easy! And I don't expect you all to decide to join us, and if you do join I don't expect you all to come home. So if you want to back out then leave now!" to Trace's amazement not one person left. "Ok you have 25 minutes to do what you have to do then I expect you in your Zoid ready to go! " every one scrambled as fast as they could to get ready.

"Trace, I say we split up, I think it should be me, you, Catalina, and Kanis in one group, and Izumi, Lace, and Alberto in the other."

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Kanis stepped out of his room, his boots caused an echo down the hall way. Kanis never really let any one get close to him, so he took the room farthest away from any one, but closest to the Hangar where they kept the Zoids. He walked onto the steel floor feeling the chill hit him, he slowly got in his Lunar Angel.

"you ready to go?" Lace asked, jumping in his Blade Liger popping his knuckles. Kanis just nodded and prepared to go into battle once again. "You know, I've known you for what? 3 years, and I think I heard you speak like maybe once."

"It was more like 3 times" he snapped back by closing his cockpit, blocking out the sound from the outside.

'Man talk about a psycho' Lace thought to himself. Lace ran his hand through his long blonde hair before pulling out a large handgun out from under his coat "I'm coming back, and if I can help it no one on my side will die in this battle" He smiled before jumping in his cockpit.

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Trace avoided every one before a battle, especially if he didn't expect all of them to return. For some reason he could never say goodbye to any one, He reached in his pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. 'if I don't return, I will make sure every one knows how I feel' He slid it in a drawer and walked out of his room. "Trace wait up!" Catalina ran after him with little TJ in her arms, Trace didn't even look back. That was the last person he wanted to say goodbye to. "Trace, Damnit! Wait up!"

Before she knew it Trace was gone and in his Konig Wolf. "Why do you always have to be so stubborn? "

"Sdubbon!" TJ mimicked his mom the best he could.

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The Seven friends, and hundreds of other Zoid Pilots marched in the burning sands of the desert's of Zi. Not one person expected the attack at this point, The first shot flew over a sand dune hitting a cannon tortoise. "the Battle is now!" Trace said as a whole line of zoids came into view

To Be Continued….

Well chapter 2 is done! I know its short again but its 2 A.M. and I'm tired so enjoy this small cliff hanger.