Zoids: Counterforce

By: Pyroteknix

Jico sweated profusely as he frantically evaded the Death Saurer's multiple weapons. Thousands of black spikes, similar to the ones JC installed into his Guunsniper, rained down behind the fleeing Helcat. "The rebels really come prepared." Jico thought as he contemplated on the multiple calculations required to bring the Death Saurer back to life, reequip with the most sophisticated weaponry available and program an autopilot system into it. He began to think of the immense cost of those gadgets but was flung back to reality as a spike dug into the icy ground of the Isolina mountain range mere centimeters away from Jico's Helcat. "More important things to worry about now!" He said as he swung his body in sync with his swerving zoid as gunfire erupted from the black monstrosity called the Death Saurer and blasted holes in the ground. The giant zoid had a perfectly good reason for only attacking the Helcat as the other Preventers fell prey to its initial bombardment of spikes. Jico shook violently in his cockpit as stray bullets exploded onto his zoid's leg. Without losing his composure one tiny bit, Jico pulled his zoid's control levers in reverse, watching as his red and dull silver Helcat ducked and avoided a barrage of ammunition. The Preventer zoid rolled to avoid a burst of lasers and finally retaliated with his twin cannons. He gaped in disbelief, as the explosive shells didn't even dull the shiny armor of the Death Saurer, the ammunition harmlessly detonating off like a bubble popping on contact with skin. "Not even a dent." He shook off the awe and leaped backwards, avoiding more lasers. This time however, the Death Saurer fired its guns simultaneously and scored multiple hits on the Helcat. The pain his zoid felt equaling his shock, Jico blinked as an impossible thought entered his brain. "The control unit has learning capacity, just like a human pilot!" He concentrated again as another attack headed his way seconds after he righted his zoid. His zoid rolled on its side again, blasting cannon fire like a gatling gun as lasers seared the snowy floor a few feet away. The Helcat jumped backward and fired repeatedly as the Death Saurer struggled to retain its lock. A shell exploded against the forehead-based gun barrel and finally had some effect on the Death Saurer as it roared in anger. Jico smiled and the first happy thought flashed through his mind. "The most advanced computer in the world is the human brain. No bloody autopilot can beat me!" He locked his dual cannons onto the forehead and strafed down the beast, rocking with every attack. The Death Saurer wss unable to counter the assault, as the site was Jico was aiming was in fact the location of the computer systems that controlled the behemoth. The Preventer mechanic began to understand the situation and stopped firing as he realized his folly. "The autopilot is mind control! If I destroyed it, then the Death Saurer would attack freely!" The giant machine stopped, frozen in its place. Jico clutched his controls nervously, praying that he didn't destroy the computer within the Death Saurer's head. Apparently, God wasn't listening. The Death Saurer roared and ended the tense silence. Firing all its weapons concurrently, Jico was forced to go beyond his zoid's conventional powers, panic overcoming him like a poison. He weaved in and out, dodging the sporadic bursts of missiles, endless gunfire and streaming lasers. A red-hot laser burned off his zoid's cannons and ammunition slammed into his Helcat's side. Jico's zoid crashed into the ground and fell to the floor, as helpless as a kitten. The Death Saurer charged up its final weapon, the Charged Particle Beam, and aimed it straight at the limp form of Jico's Helcat. A ball of energy formed in the gaping jaws of the black monster and grew larger and larger as it charged up. "Fortunately, I have a backup plan o great idiot." Jico pulled out a trigger from his pocket and pressed on the button, activating the earlier implanted bomb. "Please work." Jico prayed, and this time, God answered. The upper part of the Death Saurer's torso exploded in a massive explosion, the freezing agent shutting down the CPB converter and causing a devastating chain reaction. Flaming bits of the most powerful zoid ever rained on Jico'damaged yet victorious Helcat and inside, Jico laughed. "That's one for the history books!"

Meanwhile, JC was engaged in the most heated battle of all time with the greatest pilot of Planet Zi. Gunsniper fought Blade Liger and were locked in intense competition, both pilots fighting for revenge and peace. Aside from the fact that the pilots were currently trying to rip each other's zoid to shreds, the two rivals were almost eerily alike. Both belonged to a military group, had rivals other than themselves and were trying to recover things they held dear. Van and JC both wanted the impossible, for Van, he wanted his dear Fiona back from the dead, for JC, he yearned for his village. But none of the 2 bothered with this thought as they fought madly, similar to 2 dogs quarrelling over a bone called peace. JC was trying to find a way to penetrate the nigh invincible energy shield surrounding the ocean blue Liger with his vast array of weaponry. Armor piercing bullets disentegrated upon contact with the pure energy and missiles exploded harmlessly as JC threw everything he had at the steely rebel leader. "Damn. Gotta save ammo or I'm finished." JC said and checked over his zoid's deathly black shoulder to make sure his companions were doing all right. Unfortunately, they weren't. Jacob was obviously the superior pilot as he chased Marvin's Shadow Fox around in a deadly game of predator and prey. RG and his opponent, Thomas, were stuck in a stalemate of skills as their Dibison locked metal horns with each other, desperately trying to unbalance their foe. Raven was warding of Joseph's Shneider unit with his shield and pincers, blasting the ex-special forces soldier with multiple blasts from the awesome charged particle beam. The 2 Lightning Saix of Guio and the freestyle Irvine were racing across the desert, testing each other's endurance and skills with a few blasts from the Lightning Saix's dual cannons. "This would have been a lot easier if Max's cousins were here!" JC angrily thought as his zoid ducked to avoid a swooping cut from Flyheight's powerful blades.

Ian and Nico raced through the blue skies above the Isolina Mountain range and speeded of to aid the Preventers in their battle with Van Flyheight. Giving thumbs up down to Jico, currently examining the wreckage of the incapacitated Death Saurer, as they passed the rebel base that was now in ruins after the berserk attack of the Death Saurer. Nico warily scanned the airspace directly ahead of the ace flyers, noting two black specks hovering suspisciously by a mountain peak. Tapping a command into his Storm Sworder's onboard computer, Nico sent a signal to his elder brother, Ian, to scope out the unidentified zoids. Ian nodded to his sibling and started up his 3D mapping system, only to discover that they might be a bit tardy in helping JC. "Black Redlers." He sent a message to Nico to confirm that they were the infamous Aerial Devils. Nico grinned and laughed the last laugh he'll ever have inside his zoid. "Let's go, bro! We'll finish our team's mission right here and right now." Nico said as he pressed down on his zoid's acceleration levers and held on as his Storm Sworder dived toward the 2 Redlers with amazing speed. Ian sighed and pushed his zoid even faster, confirming his sibling superiority to Nico as he overtook his zooming brother. The 2 RAT pilots streaked right at the apparently bored Aerial Devils like silver lightning, only to find out why their rivals were so complacent. Extending his ethereal blades, Ian swooped down on the new Aerial Devil, Martin, as if this was his last battle. In reality it was his zoid's. Stunning Ian with his amazing skills, Martin pulled back his black Redler's controls and flipped it in midair, miliseconds before he would have been sushi. Nico gaped as he watched Martin trade places with his brother, losing control and almost slamming into a rock wall before he even reached Enzo. After rebalancing his silver Storm Sworder, Nico blinked as he realized that Enzo was nowhere to be found. "How the?" An impossible idea came to mind and Nico alternated his levers, to face the deadly power of Enzo. Directly behind him was the Redler of his opponent, weapons targetted at his face as the original Aerial Devil smirked. "You really aren't that good." Enzo said cockily and began the chase through the icy mountains. Ian pushed his zoid to the limit as he weaved in and out, dodging both missiles and cliffside as Martin tailed him, perfectly behind the Storm Sworder. "I should have outrun him already!" Ian thought as the Redler matched his speed flawlessly, unleashing hell on the poor Storm Sworder with his multiple weapons. Ian swerved sharply, hoping to out class the Aerial Devil with his Storm Sworder's agility. Unluckily, this was to no avail as the Redler flew right over the mountain and used gravity to close in on the lightning-fast RAT zoid. Nico was frantically trying to get a lock on the unbelievably fast Enzo, who was currently evading everything Nico could throw at him. Enzo sighed as a missile passed over his deathly colored Redler; the spot were he wasseconds before. Again he evaded another burst of gunfire and retaliated with a weapon the rebels kept under caps for months. "Eat this, RAT scum!" Enzo yelled at the second generation of the team he hated and detested, simultaneously firing two oversized missiles right at the Storm Sworder of Nico. Nico spun his zoid and looked back at the rebel's smug look, instead of an expected shock. "Why?" Nico said then turned around, then stared in stunned awe as the missiles collided and burst into miniature bomblets, headed straight for his silver flying-type zoid. Nico screamed in pain as electricity surged through his cockpit with every bomblet exploding and releasing jolts of lightning. His zoid plummeted downwards, Nico desperately trying to pull up to avoid sure death by means of rock wall. Seconds before his Storm Sworder hit the surface; its wings gave an almighty flap and headed straight up at the horrified Enzo. The underbelly of the silver zoid scraped the ground, revealing the inner workings of a damaged Storm Sworder, oil spilling out. He spun his zoid and pulled out the forehead blade, which cut into feet of solid rock, as he used the saber to gain traction and reverse his zoid's trajectory. He zoomed right at the stunned Aerial Devil and gained even more speed than normal with his cracked and splintered engines. Enzo tried to pull away with his undamaged Redler to no use as the dying Storm Sworder ignored the falling machinery and crippled technology and sliced through the most powerful air fighter of all time. Meanwhile, Ian was losing badly, the Redler a few feet away from his tail. Everything he had was useless and had no effect on the Aerial Devil who shrugged off bombs, missiles and bullets. Finally, a thought hit Ian that was so ingenius that he would surely be the triumphant one in this battle. But, again, every good thing has a weak point somewhere. "If I cant outrun his zoid, why don't I slow down? I'll crash into his zoid and surely destroy him! But how about my battered Storm Sworder?" Ian contemplated. "No! I will win without sacrificing my zoid!" Ian gripped his acceleration levers tightly and pushed them until they started bending from the strain. "Watch this!" Ian thought as his zoid moved far more quickly than to conventional capabilities. The Redler pilot, Martin pushed his controls as hard as he could to keep up to the Storm Sworder. The 2 zoids raced faster and faster until their zoids began falling apart from the immense pressure being forced on them. Ian looked grim as he speeded towards a mountain, the Redler right on his tail. "This is what I can really do!!!" Ian yelled as he changed his zoid's control levers from horizontally located to an upright position. "I also have technology on my side!" The RAT pilot shouted at the calm rebel as he apparently headed straight for his doom. "This guy's finished." Martin thought as he watched the Storm Sworder meet head on with the mountainside. But Ian didn't. His zoid spun like a top and faced the black Redler, gunning down its wings with his guns. His zoid shot upward as Martin screamed in fear as his zoid, lacking control, smashed onto the rocky wall. A fireball flickered briefly as Ian's fatally injured zoid hung precariously over the peak. He saw his brother and the flaming wreckage of the once most powerful dogfighter ever and fell unconscious, his now-dead zoid falling to the ground like a rocket as Nico's also destroyed Storm Sworder plummeted with him. A thought ventured into his head just before he passed out. "I wasn't able to save you, Storm Sworder."

End of chapter

Next chapter: the greatest battles on the face of Planet Zi! Who will be victorious? The psychopatic Van Flyheight and his followers or the determined heroes of the Preventers?