Zoids: Identity Revealed
The Blitz team was back in the sunny tropics. That meant no ice at all. Ruby had learned to hate ice.

It was three days ago that Ruby fought the Fuhrer and then sprained her wrist. She wouldn't be able to fight now for a month and a half. That would mean she would miss the World Cup Championships. She pleaded and begged Toros to let her fight in the World Cup, but he kept saying no. Ruby's wrist would need to heal now, and quick. Each day Ruby visited Kiyo in the Hanger and tried to show him the better points of Zoid repair.

By herself, though no one knew it, she worked on an old Shield Liger that was in the back of the Hover Cargo. The Shield Liger had extensive damage on the leg area, so that's what Ruby worked on most. It used to belong to Leeon Toros when he was on the Blitz. He joined the Flugle team after Bit joined the Blitz team, as if it were an exchange of Zoid pilots.

A Shield Liger is a huge tiger type Zoid. It is giant. Almost ten times the size of the Gunblade and three times the size of the Liger Zero. The Shield Liger has a huge head, huge paws, and a great body build, perfect for close range combat. A Shield Liger is blue with an orange cockpit.

A day after Ruby finished working on the Shield Liger, she went to see Kiyo. Ruby wanted to see how far Kiyo was on his Zoid, considering he had two hands to use.

Ruby found that he wasn't very far at all. He just got done with the system freeze and that's about it. Ruby sat at the long table as Kiyo walked over. He was greasy from fixing the Zoid, and he sat down anyway.

Ruby and Kiyo talked for a while, and when Ruby turned to leave, she heard a soft scraping noise come from behind Kiyo's Zoid. She whipped around and looked hard into the shadows. Her hearing was ten times better than that of a normal twenty-year-old. She heard the noise again, and this time she figured it out. It was a pair of men's shoes. The heavy clunk gave it away.

"Who are you?" Ruby demanded.

Kiyo looked into the darkness. He could see nor hear anything. He only saw shadows.

Then, a man stepped out of the shadows. He was short and plump. He had a tall ratty top hat on. When he took it off he had a bald spot on his head. What hair he did have left was black and fuzzy. He bowed, put his hat back on and said in a wispy voice:

"Good day, I am Sergeant H. Q. Yenrai at your service. I would like to know why, Miss Obscura, are you hiding from the Backdraft?"

Ruby's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. She was an Obscura, but how did this wispy talking plump little man know? She never told anyone about it before in her life from fifteen on. She was shocked.

"So my hunch was right. Miss Ruby O'Sulivan Obscura has returned. It will make Samuel happy to know this..." Yenrai trailed off.
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