Authors Note: For all who care about this dimensionally warped fic, I just wanted to let u know: Thanks for caring.
Disclaimer: See first chapter.
ReconSEAL: In chapter 1, I said that the Harkonnens had taken over Caladan, and (implied) wiped out all but a few Atreides.
Maelgwyn: What technical difficulties? Please tell me, I would like to have them fixed ASAP! *Starts banging head on the wall* (really fast) whowhatwhenwherewhyhow?!! Tell Meeeeeee-* *gets whacked in the head by a nameless reader*
OK, back to the action of…
Red Dawn: Insurrection
(Narrator's voice) Six months have passed since the first contact between the people of Planet Zi and the Harkonnens. It had been a long time, though: The hated symbol was everywhere- everywhere the citizens of Zi would go, there would be some type of reminder of their oppressed state, whether it be a tank, soldiers, or even the Harkonnen Banner…
Somewhere en route to Zi, at Spatial Warp Rate (SWR) 9.8
"Sir!" Commander Superior Korban Ashuran Ordos turned in his swivel chair to face the young ensign. "Yes? What news is so important that you must interrupt my briefing session?" An annoyed look appeared on his face, identical to the other admirals and generals that were there.
The young ensign flushed, his pale cheeks turning crimson. "I beg your pardon, Sir, but the Shift Lieutenant gave me a direct order to give this data disc to you immediately. He said it contained all the information that our intelligence sources have gathered, and its Priority One-A." He swallowed as Korba slowly advanced towards him, a frown on his face. Korba put his hand out, ever so slowly, accepting the data disc from the ensign's shaky hands. He was not one to interrupt on a whim; the last person who did that had been cut down by his blade, mistaken for a Harkonnen Assassin.
"Dismissed." Korba's voice cut through his thoughts. The ensign turned, and walked into the doors. His flush deepened even more, if that were possible, as the pneumatic 'whoosh' opened the door and he hurried out of the room. Korba raised his eyebrows, and heard a few chuckles from the men behind him. He shook his head slightly, 'The training isn't what it used to be...' He turned back and sat down in the smooth mahogany chair at the head of the long table.
"Alright, now let's continue…"
Mount Iselina, Planet Zi
Bit Cloud walked into the hidden hangar, yawning. He wasn't fully awake yet since he hadn't had much sleep. In fact, he hadn't had any sleep at all for the past 3 days. He had been out with the rest of the Resistance in his Liger Zero, trying to hinder the invaders, the Harkonnens, in any way possible.
"Hi guys," he greeted the rest of the former Blitz team- the ZBC had been taken out, and the (former) teams were now banded into one Resistance against the oppressors. Leena walked up to him and yelled in his face, "Where the hell were you? We've been waiting here for half an hour, just so you would show up!! I want an explanation, and I want it now, Bit Cloud!!!" Bit replied with his ever-amazing intellect: "Hey, Liger, partner, how you doing." while walking towards the Liger Zero, and away from Leena. Only one thought was present in the minds of the former Blitz, Fleugal, Vega and other teams; 'Bad move.' For, Leena's glare had shifted from Bit, who was now petting Liger, who had a huge sweatdrop on its head, to an evil-looking monkey wrench laying just a few feet away from her.
On the opposite side of the Iselina Base
"OOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" Bit's wake-up call had hit home.
The rest of the Rebellion members shook their heads as one. "When will he learn…"
Back to the hangar
"Leena, why'd you have to hit me so hard?" Bit whined for the fifth time, holding his head. "You might have broken my bones, killed off some of my brain cells-" "What brain cells?" Brad snickered. "-Hey! I heard that! Or, you could have knocked me out!" Leena muttered under her breath, "That was the point you idiot…" Naomi and Leon grinned a little at the sentiment.
Just then, an alarm blared. Alert. Alert. Unidentified forces have been detected. Warning. A small rumble shook the mountain, causing a bit of dust to fall from the overhead rafters. Warning. Hostile forces detected, approaching from the South. All units mobilize. Enemy detected. Open fire at once. All internal defense forces move out- Then, the automated warning system cut off as the power grid was knocked out. The lights shut off. Then, a small whirr was heard, then the lighting came back on.
"I got the auxiliary generators online. We have two hours before our power is depleted." The Doc, resourceful as ever, was standing in front of the manual circuitry box.
"Well, let's go guys, let's pay them back for their deeds: let's go kick some Red –the nickname for the Harkonnens- ass!!" And with that, Bit leapt into the Liger Zero's cockpit.
The rest of the pilots in the hangar smiled at the young man's seemingly insuppressible spirit.
Harkonnen POV, same time
Commander Taryn smiled, looking at the mountains they were passing through. They were almost as beautiful as the mountains of his homeworld, Lankiveil. He was born in the mountains, then as he grew older, was drafted into the Harkonnen Army. Oh well. Not that he would never see them again, it was just that the memories were too overpowering for him. He shoved the thoughts out of his mind, then focused on the here and now.
As he came back to reality, he remembered that he was the one in command of the Harkonnen effort to wipe out the Resistance on this planet. It had been a lot tougher than the other ones, back in the Imperium. The natives of the planet seemed to have these machines, Zoids they called them. These machines seemed to be capable to sentient thought, or at least a few of them. It had been five and a half months since the takeover of the planet, and the Resistance still wouldn't give. Oh well. Their loss of life.
Just then, a hole opened in the mountainside, and hundreds of Zoids streamed out.
Rebellion POV
"Let's get them, Liger!" Bit Cloud's voice reverberated throughout the cockpit of the Liger Zero Jager. As he sped up, aiming for what seemed to be the lead unit, he began to outflank his allies.
"Bit!" That would be Jamie, and right on schedule, too. "You're becoming exposed! Get back here!" Bit had never been one to listen to anyone else other than himself, and he wasn't about to start now. "I'm telling you to-" *click* Bit shut of the communications with Jamie.
As the Jager came closer towards the assault tanks, they opened fire. However, utilizing the Jager's superior maneuverability, Bit dodged most of the shots. Then, as he came in on the lead tank, the Jager's claws began to glow a familiar yellow hue.
"Strike Laser Claw!" and with that, the lead assault tank exploded in a fury of melting steel, oil, and thick gasoline. "Yeah! One down, a million and one to go!"
However, even when the Rebellion seemed to be prevailing against the 'Reds', Bit sensed that something wasn't right. Wait. What in the world was that?
Two huge oblong craft were descending! As Bit and the rest of the former Blitz team looked on in horror, the two frigates opened fire with heavy artillery (A/N: Since I based it on Emperor, only the Ordos have lasers and shielding ^_^ Go ORDOS!!!), smashing through half of the Resistance in a matter of seconds. Then, his viewscreen activated, as did all the remaining survivors. A blond man appeared on the screen, wearing what Bit supposed to be a 'Red' uniform.
"Surrender at once. Your Resistance if useless. As you can all see, we outgun you and outnumber you. Our backup forces will be here momentarily. No one, in the history of the Harkonnens, have ever successfully stood up to us and succeeded. Oh, our rivals the Atreides did for a while, but we wiped them out a year ago. No one dares to stand up to us now. NO ONE!!! Mwahahahahahahaha!!"
The frigates' cannons glowed once more as the shots tore through the air, aimed at the small semicircle of the remaining Resistance members. Bit cringed for impact, his life flashing through his eyes… Him, when he was still a child… When he became a junk-dealer… When he first joined the Blitz team… When he won the Royal Cup. All these images flashed through his mind. He closed his eyes, awaiting the darkness to claim him. However, the shockwave never came.
Bit slowly opened one eye, then the other, as he looked at the frigates in wonderment. The shots were gone, but in place, there was a shimmering green light, in a oval pattern, sitting there in the sky. Then, they (the Resistance) heard the voice.
"We dare to stand. We dare to stand up against all that represent your evils and misdeeds, Harkonnen." (A/N: In this story, I made out the Ordos to be kind of like the hero, or savior) The shimmering turned into a distortion in the sky, as the Resistance looked on in wonderment and the Harkonnens looked on with great fear. Then, as the haze disappeared, and, there, in it's place, was a ship with not the red markings of the 'Reds', but a new, different marking of a green snake wrapped around a planet within a yellow horizontal diamond, what Bit supposed to be weapon ports glowing with energy.
Then, bright cerulean beams laced with an undertone of black lanced out and struck each frigate one, two, three times. Each frigate exploded in a mass of careening damasteel and bright fireballs. Then, the ports turned on the Harkonnen Forces, within the area, but didn't fire.
"This is your first and last warning, Harkonnens. Leave the area at once or be destroyed. We will spare your lives because we dislike unnecessary bloodshed. All we ask is for you to tell the Baron this: The Ordos have arrived."
Taryn turned and shouted an order into the radio. "All forces withdraw. We are outmatched." However, the pilot of the Missile tank next to him was a little jittery from the destruction of two of their best frigates, and fired. All the missiles did was explode harmlessly on the heavy battlecruiser's shields, and invite a retaliatory strike by the Ordos. They complied, firing, reducing the missile tank to nothing but ashes.
The Ordos commander spoke again. "Ten seconds, Harkonnen. If not, then…" He left the threat hanging. What happened next would be something the whole Rebellion would talk about for years after the war. Before the ten seconds were up, the area was cleared of anything that had any red painted on it.
Back at the base
"Why did you help us?" Doc asked the commander of the new ship on the huge viewscreen, with all of the Resistance standing behind him. "Where did you come from?"
"Those questions are irrelevant. What I want to know is who are you, and why are you fighting the Harkonnens? How did you last this long with your inferior weaponry?" The raven-haired man on the screen replied, seeming aloof from the Doc's questions.
"What do you mean, inferior? These are state-of-the-art weaponry and Zoids!" To everyone's surprise, the man didn't answer the question, but posed a new one. "We would like to discuss a treaty of cooperation; we are dedicated to rid the world of the Harkonnen scum, and since you seem to know this planet the best, we would like your help. A formal dinner shall be arranged tonight, a meeting, if you will, at 1900 hours, on my ship." The man walked off before the Rebels could voice their concerns about going on a ship they didn't even know was friendly or not, and another man walked into view.
"I am Staff Officer Groshir. I shall take care of all your needs. Anything you want shall be provided aboard this ship. I shall come to your base and tell you all that you need to know." "Wait!" Leena shoved the Doc out of view of the camera. "We have to have five minutes to take down the shield, you could never…" The man had just turned into a blue haze and completely disappeared. "What just happened?" Leena whispered softly.
A buzzing sound at the back of the room made all of the rebellion turn to face it. However, they were in for a shock. A pillar of blue light had appeared, and was swirling on an overhead balcony. As the stunned people looked on, the blue faded out to reveal the same man that they had just been talking to on that mysterious ship! (A/N: Oh, by the way, I don't own Star trek Voyager- that's what the pillar of light was supposed to look like.)
"Now then, where were we?"
Authors Note: I hoped you liked it. I had nothing to do this weekend and I just had a wild idea to combine Dune with Zoids.
Anyway: Next time, on Red Dawn: Insurrection: Are the people on the ship what they seem? Why do they hate the Harkonnens so much? What will happen during the dinner (slash meeting)? And what are the Harkonnens going to do about this new threat to their power on Zi?
Next time on Red Dawn: Insurrection: The Alliance Is Formed!
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