ZOIDS: Double Dealing, Ruby is Betrayed
After the argument about the fight, the Blitz team went to their separate rooms. The Hover Cargo was like a mobile house, except it was a snail type of Zoid. Ruby went to her room. It was the last one in the hallway.

Besides a bed, her room had posters of Zoids and their pilots. The one pilot Ruby even came close to thinking was cute was Kiyo Wakatsaki from the Derby Team. He and Ruby had been dating for the longest time until the day when Ruby stole the Zoid from the Backdraft along with... Her life went downhill after that day. The rest of her room was furnished with two dressers, three lamps, a phone combined with a CTZ, a large mirror, and a bedside nightstand. Nothing fancy, really.

Ruby walked into her room and looked at herself in the mirror. She saw a lady like look in her face, almost like her mothers. Her red- blond hair was short, only coming to her shoulders. She had cut her hair when she joined the Blitz team. Her eyes were an inquisitive color of greenish- brown.

Ruby sighed and sat on her bed. It made the most annoying squeak as she sat down. She turned out the lamp, lay down and thought about things. At first she slept well. After a few minutes though, she started to toss and turn. As she looked out of the window, she saw a silver streak go by. Curious, she got out of bed and looked. A Zoid was flying around outside. It was, obviously, a flying Zoid.

She opened the window to get a better look and she smiled. It was the Storm Shadow that Ruby had gotten for her birthday from her dad. Softly and slowly she whistled and the Zoid almost did a three-sixty in midair to come to the call.

A Storm Shadow is like an eagle. It is big, silver, and has more arsenals than it would know what to do with. They have Ion Boosters to make it go faster, as well as Hyper Speed. A Storm Shadow is for the richest person because they are reckless and cost a lot to get repaired. The recklessness pays off in the end because their courage wins many battles.

As the Shadow came to the window, it didn't slow down. It kept going, and rounded for another time. As soon as it was under the window and still moving, Ruby jumped in the cockpit. She demonstrated amazing talent with this feat, as if she had done it before.

When she was in and ready to go, she did a few test dives and spirals. She was the best Zoid pilot there was. That is what she thought. But inside she knew it was the Zoid that took all the credit. The pilot doesn't get much credit because the Zoid does all the work.

Ruby let the controls go and looked at the ground. The Hover Cargo was out of sight now. The ground below was sparkling with the fresh snow. As she thought about it, this was near the place where Kiyo Wakatsaki had his 'vacation' house, not that snow is a vacation. She turned the Zoid in the direction she thought the house was.

The snow created a fairly boring time passer. The Storm Shadow had a game of dodging the larger flakes and pieces of hail. The game was pointless. In a few minutes they came to a well-worn road made by some fast Zoid. Instead of finding Kiyo's home, Ruby blew it off and decided to follow the trail. The trail eventually led to a large house, nearly the size of a small mansion.

The Zoid, Shadow, went towards the house. They were still quite a ways away and Ruby tried to turn the Storm Shadow around with the manual controls, and her Zoid froze them! Ruby let go and sat back, saying words that are not appropriate of a young lady.

"Shadow, you unfreeze these controls right now or else I'll..." Ruby shook her fist in the air. Then she grabbed the controls in one last futile attempt to shake them loose. She shook them with every ounce of strength she had, but it wasn't enough. She looked out the cockpit screen and gasped. The house was Kiyo's vacation house! In another attempt to turn her Zoid, she drained her energy. It felt almost as if someone had sucked all the energy out of her.

Ruby sat in the cockpit, unable to stop her Zoid as it landed. The harness that held her in both of her Zoids were two piece sets. One to go over the left arm and one to go over the right. Her Zoid ejected her out of the cockpit and she fell to the ground, nearly a twelve-foot drop. Luckily, she landed on her feet. As soon as she was out a blinding flash of pure white light issued from the Storm Shadow.

A small Zoid came from it. The Zoid was blackish- gray in color with green eyes. It stood only about seven feet tall. It was an Organoid. The Organoid system in the Liger Zero is different because it is built in. The Organoid in front of Ruby was an original. Its name was Shadow, partially because of the color. It stood in front of Ruby with a pleased look. It came close to her and nuzzled her arm.

Ruby pushed it away and said angrily, "Don't ever disobey me again. You know I don't like Kiyo, and I don't want to see him! If he catches me up here, he's probably going to ask me to stay, and I don't want to."

The commotion, and the landing of the Zoid, Shadow, made Kiyo Wakatsaki come up from his room. He was in his night cloths with his slippers on. He had black hair and gray eyes, a sort of hazel color. He had a bandana around his neck along with a chain, and on it was a lucky rabbit foot.

"Hello. How have you been, Ruby?" Kiyo said in a voice that made him sound as if he were hiding something.

"Fine. How has your Royalty been?" Ruby kept her guard up because of the way Kiyo talked.

"I've been perfectly fine. I just want you to stay here with me. You can't hide with the Blitz team all the time. Stay with me, or do I have to make you?" Kiyo asked in an odd way.

"Make me," Ruby sneered.

"Ok, I will." Kiyo said. From the shadowy depths of the roof came Altile, the leader of the Berserk Fuhrer part of the Backdraft, along with Sara. He came backed with three guards.

As two of the guards grabbed Ruby by the arms, she looked in confusion at Kiyo. She couldn't understand why he would turn to this. He was going to surrender her to the Backdraft. She struggled to get free from the two guards, but they overpowered her and held on tight.

Kiyo looked at Ruby. He said under his breath, "I'm sorry, but I had to do this. You'll understand." He was then ordered to sit on the ground and not talk to anyone.

"So, will you work for me?" Altile asked Ruby.

"Huh? Work for you? Are you crazy? Why would I work for you?" Ruby asked angrily. As she yelled, she felt the little strength she had slip away. "Oh, I know why. Because you can offer me all kinds of junk. Well, I'm not like Kiyo Wakatsaki. I don't go for something because of the money, or the reward. I do it because I want to."

"Well then, if you don't work for me, I just might happen to 'accidentally' do something to Mr. Wakatsaki over there. Would you like that?" Altile spat angrily. He hated dealing with what he considered to be 'children.'

"What do I care about that double-dealing rat, huh? And the Blitz team is going to pull through and you're going to be defeated again!" Ruby yelled back, fighting against the guards. She sat down in defeat.

"Is it a yes? Or did you say no? Either way you will work for me. Then again, if you deny... Wakatsaki wont be..." Altile paused, "You know what I mean," He said in a steely voice.

Ruby was confused. Forget Kiyo and say no, or save him and work with the team who put the bounty on her. She looked slowly from Kiyo to Altile, back and forth. She got up off the floor and shakily stood up. She faced Altile and said in a voice that was wreathed in hate, "Fine. So be it. I'll work on your team."

"Ok, fine. It'll be so;" Altile smiled and snapped his fingers. Immediately, Kiyo was pulled up off his feet and brought to the dark blue Whale King that Altile piloted.

"You said you wouldn't do anything to him!" Ruby screamed angerly.

"Oh, its just an added percaution, dear."

A very pissed off Ruby was brought to the Zoid hangers to choose her Zoid. She flatly refused to use any other Zoid than her Organoid and the Storm Shadow. Altile finally gave up trying to make her pilot the Shield Liger or War Shark and said she could pilot the Storm Shadow.

Ruby would pilot the Zoid with two more flying Zoids and their pilots, Sky, and Kiyo, if he would. The first battle Ruby would be teamed up with the Berserk Fuhrer, meaning that she was to fight against the Blitz team. That is, unfortunately, she didn't know yet.
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Does Ruby still like him? After all he's done to her? I cant see how thats possible, but... well.... ^_^