Authors note: Not much really going on... Thanks again for all the
reviews! (I say that every chapter don't I)
CHAPTER 25
Hiro and the others were quite surprised when even more of the mud near the Hover cargo began to shift, a large metal hatch slowly rising out of the ground, letting in all the harsh winds and rain of the storm.
"What the hell?" Izumi asked, getting up slowly and walking over to the main screen.
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"All systems seem to be running smoothly," Will said, looking over the statistics sent from Ayane and Hikari's control panels, You two double check..."
"Everything's clear over here." Hikari said.
"Here too." Ayane answered.
"Shiro... Jess..." Nadia said quietly through her headset, "Im counting on you guy's..." She flipped another switch and continued, "Now, lets see how well this thing flies."
"Im ready," Shiro replied.
"Lets go then!" Jessie added.
"All right then." Nadia said, placing her hands on the two control sticks. From what she could tell, the one on the left was basic elevation controls, and the one on the right was for directions.
Shiro would aid her with his maneuverability skills, and Jessie would control the speed. In other words, this zoid was piloted by three separate pilots who each specialized in a certain skill. These three pilots would have to trust and rely on each other, not being afraid to do either of the two.
Nadia pulled gently back on the elevation control, surprised at how quickly and well the response came. The Phoenix roared to life as it began to elevate.
"Everything's going fine." Will reported, "We're rising quickly, there should be enough room now for you to speed up guy's."
"You heard him Jess, that's your department." Nadia said, her face appearing on a small screen on Jessie's computer counsel.
"All righty then. Shiro, Nadi, tilt her upward just a bit so I can activate the boosters and get this beauty out of this hole and into the open sky where it belongs!"
Nadia smiled and tilted the right control stick upward. Shiro turned a small dial on his control panel that would make it so when they flew strait up the cockpit would stay level with the ground. One of Chris's more ingenious creations he bet. Because the cockpit was built like a sphere, no matter what direction or action the Phoenix took, the people inside the cockpit would always stay in the slandered, flat position, so basically, the floor of the cockpit stayed level with the ground at all times. Unless of course, Shiro were to dis-activate the magnetic charges that caused this. He then pulled back a bit on a small control stick in front of him, only barely opening the wings so Jessie could activate the boosters. "Whenever your ready Jess."
"Yes!" Jessie cried activating the main boosters. A loud roar was heard as the speed boosters began to discharge and within a few seconds they were traveling upward at an amazing speed, flying strait up, heading strait for the stormy filled sky, "Activating secondary boosters..." Jessie said flipping another switch, jet streams of air could be heard as the boosters under the wing joints began to charge.
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"What's that noise?" Zack said, the sudden sound of rushing air coming through from the outside.
The adults were surprised when a bright glowing silver light appeared, coming out of the hole that had opened up in the ground. A loud screech like that of an eagle was heard, and the ground began to shake.
The light grew brighter, the sound grew louder and another screech came, one that seemed triumphant and proud. Then before their very eyes something flew as fast as lightning out of the hole, bringing the bright light with it. Their eyes averted to the sky, where another loud screech was heard.
"Holy shit..." Rei mumbled as he stared open mouthed at the sight above him. A bright light, like that of a meteor was soaring strait up, a brilliant display of colors bringing a glow to the dark, storm filled clouds that had covered the desert. It soared faster than anything any of them had ever seen, the sound was almost deafening as the aftershock, the sonic bomb filled the air.
Then, it stopped mid air, and spread what appeared to be two very large wings, the light subduing just a bit.
"Oh wow..." Tyra said walking over to the screen.
There above them was a large zoid, a beautiful bird. Each feather on the wings seemed to be a separate piece of armor, and the tips of the wings were particle charged, like that of the Tenshi's own, and separated into large glowing neon bluish white feathers. The "Feathers" above it were a brilliant gold and violet. It's body glowed where the boosters let out energy, it's crimson red and gold armor almost looked like a brilliant flame.
It's neck was the same red, all the way to the head, it's armor sprouting 5 deadly blades. It's bright green eyes shone brilliantly in the night sky, large oragnish gold plates of armor like feathers just above them. From the base of it's head sprouted 7 large scythe like blades, each one covered in a spiraling blue band of armor. It's back was the same red of the body, large plates of neon blue and violet sprouting where the shoulder blades would be. Long retractable blades covered it's "spine" all the way to the base of the long feather like tail.
The top layer of armor on the tail was red, then under that was a soft shade of orange and finally gold. from within the feathers, two long red bands of armor flowed through the air, each ending in a brilliant mix of blue and purple.
It's claws were as sharp as razors and glinted brightly in all the light created from the boosters and wings. at the bade of the knee and up missile pods were visible, along with cooling vents.
Will's face suddenly appeared on the main screen, "Everyone, what do you think?"
"Will are you piloting that thing?!" Orihime jumped up suddenly, and dashed over to the main computer panel.
"All of us are mom..." Will said, pushing a small button in front of him. Nadia's face appeared besides his, "Your connected Nadia."
"Dad..." Nadia said, "Please I need you to listen to me. I know that all of you don't exactly support us as much as Ryuji did with our decision to take charge. But now we need you... we need you to get ready for one last battle against Sin. We want you to be our main support in your zoids."
"Nadia, how do you expect Izumi, Leon and the others to pilot in their conditions!" Hiro almost shouted, he suddenly felt a gentle hand on his shoulder and looked back to see Izumi standing behind him.
"Nadia..." Izumi said softly, "Just give the command... I'll pilot the Shadow dancer for you any day!"
"We'll be fine." Leon added, "We're stronger than that Hiro, you should know that..."
"Thanks..." Nadia said, her screen disappearing.
Koh's face took it's place, "Dad... please understand...."
"Koh..."
"So lets get this show on the road all ready!" Koh yelled, various yells of agreement from the other kids could be heard, "Ok, Nadia, Jessie and Shiro... whenever!"
"Lets go then!" Nadia said, Jessie laughed as he flipped a few switches. Shiro smiled and tilted his control stick down a bit.
"Don't bug those three ok..." Koh said, "Their trying really hard to pilot this thing right." He waved, "Bye!" Then his screen disappeared.
"Koh!" Hiro cursed, "Damnit. He's always been like that."
"Nadia, Shiro and Jessie are going to take us to where we last saw the Chaos-sin, maybe we can get some clues to where it might be now..." Will explained.
"Lead the way, we'll follow!" Doc said enthusiastically, "Jemie, follow the Phoenix!"
"Roger!"
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"This is really amazing Sir..." Hikari said to Chris. She was referring to the floor of the cockpit. It was clear as glass, perfectly see through.
"Sir?" Chris said with a small chuckle, "Not anymore. You guy's are in charge now. Im in your command."
Because of the completely clear surroundings, everything could be seen by the 9 young pilots. The hover cargo could be seen following below them and at a distance behind. Huge charcoal colored clouds were above, and rain poured down. The occasional flash of lighting would fly through the air, followed by a large crack of thunder.
"It feels like we're just sitting on the air..." Kristen remarked.
"It's really cool." Rion added, "It's weird though. From the outside the armor is perfectly solid, can't see through anything but the eyes. But from the inside... It's like glass."
"Some of it is actually." Chris said, "They eyes are anyway. The rest is just the wonders of technology."
"That's awesome." Koh commented.
"Something's coming up on scanners you guy's." Will reported to all of them, "Large. Very Large. It's directly ahead of us... where those old mansion ruins were."
"You want us to get in our zoids?" Bit's face appeared on a small screen in front of each of the teenagers faces.
"Yeah." Will said, "But wait till we say until you guy's deploy."
"Ok kid." Bit gave him a thumbs up and disappeared.
"Five small objects on radar!" Will called, "Computers scanning them now." He paused as a large screen of statistics showed up, "Zebats. Traveling strait this way guys. Sin knows we're here."
"Well then, lets just give him a warm welcome!" Kristen said, "Im activating Lasers."
The Phoenix spread it's wings wide, almost completely doubling it's speed. The four power lasers along the sides of the head began to glow, and 4 of the 5 zebats were gone within seconds.
The 5th Zebat turned around quickly, back in the direction it had come. It's black armor could soon no longer be seen amidst the billowing storm clouds and Rain.
"Lost him." Will reported, "No wait... at least 50 things have shown up on radar... "
"I got it..." Ayane said, activating the charged particle canons.
The phoenix stopped mid air screeched as the bright beams fired towards the approaching objects, and a volley of explosions rang through the air.
Then the most unexpected thing happened. The Phoenix was suddenly jerked sideways, sending the canons off course.
"What the hell was that!?" Shiro demanded, trying to straiten out the zoid for Nadia, who was trying to put them back in the upright posistion.
"Something big... it's invisible to the radar..." Will said, "And apparently to eye since we can't see it..."
"The wing's stuck, I can't straiten us out!" Nadia cried, "Something's holding us!"
"Wait a sec... The Chaos-sin!" Will said, "It's cloaking!"
"Leave it to me..." Rion said, activating the energy along the blades, "Which wing is jammed!?"
"The left one!" Shiro and Nadia answered together.
The Phoenix's blades extended and a loud roar filled the shifting air... within a matter of seconds the Chaos-sin had appeared, it's arm sliced by the blades along the Phoenix's wing.
The Phoenix screeched again and soared strait up, then dove towards the monstrous dragon. Rion activated all the blades, the giant bird glowing brightly through the storm. Lighting danced along the blades, thunder could be heard for miles around. It continued to glow greatly as it spread it's wings wide, the jetstreams of wind rushing above and below the great wings.
"Well, well, well..." Sin's voice filled the air, "What a neat little toy."
"Mom, I need you guy's to keep the small zoids off of us..." Will told the people down at the hover cargo.
"On it!" Bit called, as he pushed his Ligar 0 onto the catapult.
The Phoenix dove strait at the Chaos-sin in a blinding light all blades extended to tear into the dragon. Roaring, the battlezoid elevated, but didn't manage to dodge the blow completely, it's belly torn open.
Within minutes all the adults and support zoids were out on the battlefield. They were each fighting fights of their own, and explosions rang in the air as the zoids within the phoenix dispatched and also began to join the fight.
"What a nice little army you've got there..." Sin teased.
"Shut up!" Nadia yelled as the Phoenix let out a cry of it's own. It latched it claws onto the chaos-sins back and shoved downward, pushing the battle dragon towards the ground.
The Chaos-sin retaliated by bringing it's large, bladed tail around to slash at the back of the Phoenix, tearing open a large gash. The bird roared in what seemed like pain as it released it's grip and let the strong force of the wind push it back. Sparks sprouted from it's back as it fired its charged particle canons, the dragon not quick enough to dodge at such a close range. The bright flash of light filled the air, blinding. All of them momentarily, and the dragon roared angrily.
The dragon's right arm had been incinerated by the blast, sparks and wires flew everywhere, any pieces of armor that survived the blast falling to the muddy desert below. The monstrous beast let out it's anger in an amazing array of missiles, each one locked onto the Phoenix.
"Koh!" Will yelled.
"On it!" Koh replied unleashing all the missiles he could at the time.
The two blasts met mid air, and both battle zoids were pushed back by the force of the explosion. Nadia and Shiro fought to stabilize the Phoenix as they watched the smoke intently.
"No!" Will cried, "The missiles he used jammed the radar!"
"What!?" Chris ran over to his side and began pushing buttons, "Impossible."
There was a sudden jerk as the Chaos-sin came out of the smoke, roaring loudly. It pulled up just before collision with the Phoenix, its tail striking out violently at the Phoenix's head. It missed, but barely. Hitting the shoulder of the zoid and sending it spiraling towards the ground.
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"No!" Zack yelled as he and the other adults watched the Phoenix plummet towards the ground. for a lot of them it seemed familiar... Almost the same as when Rain had fallen all those years ago.
"Rion!" Bit yelled, he cursed as he was tackled by an enemy iron kong.
"Please... no..." Izumi cried as they all continued to watch the phoenix fall.
And to their amazement, just before impact the Zoids eyes glowed brightly and it let out a magnificent cry as it spread it's wings, brought them down in a powerful blow, then veered up, strait back at the Chaos-sin.
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"What!?" Sin's shock could be heard as the Phoenix collided head first with the dragon, all blades impaling the stomach of the zoid.
They then both fell, trying to break free of one another. Phoenix was stuck underneath, trying to push it's way out of the zoid with it's razor sharp claws. The Chaos-sin spread it's wings, and barrel rolled, tearing the blades right out of itself.
Roaring in pain the dragon continued to pummel, the Phoenix not far behind. Both zoids were obviously struggling to turn themselves right side out, because both had their backs towards the ground.
The Chaos-sin eventually got itself upright, heading strait back into the dark, now night, storm filled sky. It then unleashed another barrage of missiles, strait at the falling foe.
Shiro and Nadia finally got the Phoenix back upright and Jessie activated all the boosters, avoiding the missiles.
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"Thank god..." Tyra said, pulling her zoid into the air. She had three zebats and a reddler on her tail that she had to loose fast. Quickly, she thought up a plan to take them all out. Pushing her StormSworder to the max, she flew strait under the stray missiles, barely missing all of them. The zoids that had been on her tail were not so lucky it seemed.
"You ok Ty?" Izumi called, taking out an iron kong.
"Yeah, " Tyra replied.
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"Enough!" Sin yelled, and the Chaos-sin roared, it's armor beginning to glow a dark purple. There was a sudden flash of light as a wave of energy was sent in all directions, and various zoids stopped dead in their tracks.
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"My zoid froze!" Brad yelled angrily, slamming his fists onto the control panel.
"Everyone's did..." Doc told everyone, "The only zoids that can move now are the chaos-sin and Phoenix..."
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"What the hell just happened?!" Kristen yelled, turning to see Chris.
"The Phoenix it equipped with anti-freezing mechanisms. Apparently so is the Chaos-sin..."
"You guy's...." Will said almost seeming to be scared... "Scanners indicate a major build up of energy inside the core of the Chaos-sin... to much energy..."
"What!?" Jessie said.
Sin's voice filled the cockpit, "Now witness the ultimate power of the Chaos-sin... The reason why I took the demi-humans...."
"What are you planning on doing...?" Nadia demanded.
"Im going to end it all. All humans will atone for the sin's of the past.... They destroyed the old world, and were on their way to taking out this one... I won't let them." Sin answered.
"What are you talking about...?!" Koh yelled.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you you pathetic little brat." Sin said, "You will thank me for your death..."
The Chaos-sin's mouth opened wide, and out from it emerged a cannon like that no one around had ever seen before. Sin's laughter could be heard as a bright, white light began to form around the entire zoid. Inside the dragons mouth, hot magma like energy appeared.
"What are you doing Sin!?" Chris yelled.
"Humanity will end." Sin replied, "The Demi-humans posses the power to destroy all humans. I will use that power."
"Your crazy!" Jessie yelled, "You'll die too!"
"I said all humans didn't I. Of course I'll die. I have to atone as well."
"I won't let you..." Nadia yelled, "You took them from me... My mom, my uncle... I won't let you take anything else from me! Im activating the main weapon."
"I've cleared it." Jessie said, "Will."
"I did. There's a problem though... the secondary generator for the weapon isn't getting power!"
"No way!" Chris yelled, "Something's wrong. The connection must have been damaged... The canon runs off of Zoid magnite... if it's severed..."
"The computer says that there is about a quarter sized break in the connection." Will reported, "The zoid magnite was damaged."
"That's it!" Nadia said, "Ayane get over here!" Ayane quickly dashed to her side, "Take over..."
"What!?" Ayane asked in disbelief.
"No time to explain!" Nadia said, jumping out of the seat and dashing to one of the doors. She stopped suddenly and looked over at Koh. Digging in one of her pockets she pulled out the knife she had given him for his birthday, "Catch." Tossing it across the floor to him she turned around and said, "Thanks Koh..."
"Huh!? For what sis!?" Koh demanded, to late because she was already out the door with a plan of her own.
'For everything' She thought silently to herself, running down the hallway. She reached down her shirt as she ran and pulled out the necklace he had given her.
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Authors note: Man, Im on a roll! Two chapters in one day... Im gonna start the next one now because Im really into writing for some odd reason. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
CHAPTER 25
Hiro and the others were quite surprised when even more of the mud near the Hover cargo began to shift, a large metal hatch slowly rising out of the ground, letting in all the harsh winds and rain of the storm.
"What the hell?" Izumi asked, getting up slowly and walking over to the main screen.
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"All systems seem to be running smoothly," Will said, looking over the statistics sent from Ayane and Hikari's control panels, You two double check..."
"Everything's clear over here." Hikari said.
"Here too." Ayane answered.
"Shiro... Jess..." Nadia said quietly through her headset, "Im counting on you guy's..." She flipped another switch and continued, "Now, lets see how well this thing flies."
"Im ready," Shiro replied.
"Lets go then!" Jessie added.
"All right then." Nadia said, placing her hands on the two control sticks. From what she could tell, the one on the left was basic elevation controls, and the one on the right was for directions.
Shiro would aid her with his maneuverability skills, and Jessie would control the speed. In other words, this zoid was piloted by three separate pilots who each specialized in a certain skill. These three pilots would have to trust and rely on each other, not being afraid to do either of the two.
Nadia pulled gently back on the elevation control, surprised at how quickly and well the response came. The Phoenix roared to life as it began to elevate.
"Everything's going fine." Will reported, "We're rising quickly, there should be enough room now for you to speed up guy's."
"You heard him Jess, that's your department." Nadia said, her face appearing on a small screen on Jessie's computer counsel.
"All righty then. Shiro, Nadi, tilt her upward just a bit so I can activate the boosters and get this beauty out of this hole and into the open sky where it belongs!"
Nadia smiled and tilted the right control stick upward. Shiro turned a small dial on his control panel that would make it so when they flew strait up the cockpit would stay level with the ground. One of Chris's more ingenious creations he bet. Because the cockpit was built like a sphere, no matter what direction or action the Phoenix took, the people inside the cockpit would always stay in the slandered, flat position, so basically, the floor of the cockpit stayed level with the ground at all times. Unless of course, Shiro were to dis-activate the magnetic charges that caused this. He then pulled back a bit on a small control stick in front of him, only barely opening the wings so Jessie could activate the boosters. "Whenever your ready Jess."
"Yes!" Jessie cried activating the main boosters. A loud roar was heard as the speed boosters began to discharge and within a few seconds they were traveling upward at an amazing speed, flying strait up, heading strait for the stormy filled sky, "Activating secondary boosters..." Jessie said flipping another switch, jet streams of air could be heard as the boosters under the wing joints began to charge.
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"What's that noise?" Zack said, the sudden sound of rushing air coming through from the outside.
The adults were surprised when a bright glowing silver light appeared, coming out of the hole that had opened up in the ground. A loud screech like that of an eagle was heard, and the ground began to shake.
The light grew brighter, the sound grew louder and another screech came, one that seemed triumphant and proud. Then before their very eyes something flew as fast as lightning out of the hole, bringing the bright light with it. Their eyes averted to the sky, where another loud screech was heard.
"Holy shit..." Rei mumbled as he stared open mouthed at the sight above him. A bright light, like that of a meteor was soaring strait up, a brilliant display of colors bringing a glow to the dark, storm filled clouds that had covered the desert. It soared faster than anything any of them had ever seen, the sound was almost deafening as the aftershock, the sonic bomb filled the air.
Then, it stopped mid air, and spread what appeared to be two very large wings, the light subduing just a bit.
"Oh wow..." Tyra said walking over to the screen.
There above them was a large zoid, a beautiful bird. Each feather on the wings seemed to be a separate piece of armor, and the tips of the wings were particle charged, like that of the Tenshi's own, and separated into large glowing neon bluish white feathers. The "Feathers" above it were a brilliant gold and violet. It's body glowed where the boosters let out energy, it's crimson red and gold armor almost looked like a brilliant flame.
It's neck was the same red, all the way to the head, it's armor sprouting 5 deadly blades. It's bright green eyes shone brilliantly in the night sky, large oragnish gold plates of armor like feathers just above them. From the base of it's head sprouted 7 large scythe like blades, each one covered in a spiraling blue band of armor. It's back was the same red of the body, large plates of neon blue and violet sprouting where the shoulder blades would be. Long retractable blades covered it's "spine" all the way to the base of the long feather like tail.
The top layer of armor on the tail was red, then under that was a soft shade of orange and finally gold. from within the feathers, two long red bands of armor flowed through the air, each ending in a brilliant mix of blue and purple.
It's claws were as sharp as razors and glinted brightly in all the light created from the boosters and wings. at the bade of the knee and up missile pods were visible, along with cooling vents.
Will's face suddenly appeared on the main screen, "Everyone, what do you think?"
"Will are you piloting that thing?!" Orihime jumped up suddenly, and dashed over to the main computer panel.
"All of us are mom..." Will said, pushing a small button in front of him. Nadia's face appeared besides his, "Your connected Nadia."
"Dad..." Nadia said, "Please I need you to listen to me. I know that all of you don't exactly support us as much as Ryuji did with our decision to take charge. But now we need you... we need you to get ready for one last battle against Sin. We want you to be our main support in your zoids."
"Nadia, how do you expect Izumi, Leon and the others to pilot in their conditions!" Hiro almost shouted, he suddenly felt a gentle hand on his shoulder and looked back to see Izumi standing behind him.
"Nadia..." Izumi said softly, "Just give the command... I'll pilot the Shadow dancer for you any day!"
"We'll be fine." Leon added, "We're stronger than that Hiro, you should know that..."
"Thanks..." Nadia said, her screen disappearing.
Koh's face took it's place, "Dad... please understand...."
"Koh..."
"So lets get this show on the road all ready!" Koh yelled, various yells of agreement from the other kids could be heard, "Ok, Nadia, Jessie and Shiro... whenever!"
"Lets go then!" Nadia said, Jessie laughed as he flipped a few switches. Shiro smiled and tilted his control stick down a bit.
"Don't bug those three ok..." Koh said, "Their trying really hard to pilot this thing right." He waved, "Bye!" Then his screen disappeared.
"Koh!" Hiro cursed, "Damnit. He's always been like that."
"Nadia, Shiro and Jessie are going to take us to where we last saw the Chaos-sin, maybe we can get some clues to where it might be now..." Will explained.
"Lead the way, we'll follow!" Doc said enthusiastically, "Jemie, follow the Phoenix!"
"Roger!"
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"This is really amazing Sir..." Hikari said to Chris. She was referring to the floor of the cockpit. It was clear as glass, perfectly see through.
"Sir?" Chris said with a small chuckle, "Not anymore. You guy's are in charge now. Im in your command."
Because of the completely clear surroundings, everything could be seen by the 9 young pilots. The hover cargo could be seen following below them and at a distance behind. Huge charcoal colored clouds were above, and rain poured down. The occasional flash of lighting would fly through the air, followed by a large crack of thunder.
"It feels like we're just sitting on the air..." Kristen remarked.
"It's really cool." Rion added, "It's weird though. From the outside the armor is perfectly solid, can't see through anything but the eyes. But from the inside... It's like glass."
"Some of it is actually." Chris said, "They eyes are anyway. The rest is just the wonders of technology."
"That's awesome." Koh commented.
"Something's coming up on scanners you guy's." Will reported to all of them, "Large. Very Large. It's directly ahead of us... where those old mansion ruins were."
"You want us to get in our zoids?" Bit's face appeared on a small screen in front of each of the teenagers faces.
"Yeah." Will said, "But wait till we say until you guy's deploy."
"Ok kid." Bit gave him a thumbs up and disappeared.
"Five small objects on radar!" Will called, "Computers scanning them now." He paused as a large screen of statistics showed up, "Zebats. Traveling strait this way guys. Sin knows we're here."
"Well then, lets just give him a warm welcome!" Kristen said, "Im activating Lasers."
The Phoenix spread it's wings wide, almost completely doubling it's speed. The four power lasers along the sides of the head began to glow, and 4 of the 5 zebats were gone within seconds.
The 5th Zebat turned around quickly, back in the direction it had come. It's black armor could soon no longer be seen amidst the billowing storm clouds and Rain.
"Lost him." Will reported, "No wait... at least 50 things have shown up on radar... "
"I got it..." Ayane said, activating the charged particle canons.
The phoenix stopped mid air screeched as the bright beams fired towards the approaching objects, and a volley of explosions rang through the air.
Then the most unexpected thing happened. The Phoenix was suddenly jerked sideways, sending the canons off course.
"What the hell was that!?" Shiro demanded, trying to straiten out the zoid for Nadia, who was trying to put them back in the upright posistion.
"Something big... it's invisible to the radar..." Will said, "And apparently to eye since we can't see it..."
"The wing's stuck, I can't straiten us out!" Nadia cried, "Something's holding us!"
"Wait a sec... The Chaos-sin!" Will said, "It's cloaking!"
"Leave it to me..." Rion said, activating the energy along the blades, "Which wing is jammed!?"
"The left one!" Shiro and Nadia answered together.
The Phoenix's blades extended and a loud roar filled the shifting air... within a matter of seconds the Chaos-sin had appeared, it's arm sliced by the blades along the Phoenix's wing.
The Phoenix screeched again and soared strait up, then dove towards the monstrous dragon. Rion activated all the blades, the giant bird glowing brightly through the storm. Lighting danced along the blades, thunder could be heard for miles around. It continued to glow greatly as it spread it's wings wide, the jetstreams of wind rushing above and below the great wings.
"Well, well, well..." Sin's voice filled the air, "What a neat little toy."
"Mom, I need you guy's to keep the small zoids off of us..." Will told the people down at the hover cargo.
"On it!" Bit called, as he pushed his Ligar 0 onto the catapult.
The Phoenix dove strait at the Chaos-sin in a blinding light all blades extended to tear into the dragon. Roaring, the battlezoid elevated, but didn't manage to dodge the blow completely, it's belly torn open.
Within minutes all the adults and support zoids were out on the battlefield. They were each fighting fights of their own, and explosions rang in the air as the zoids within the phoenix dispatched and also began to join the fight.
"What a nice little army you've got there..." Sin teased.
"Shut up!" Nadia yelled as the Phoenix let out a cry of it's own. It latched it claws onto the chaos-sins back and shoved downward, pushing the battle dragon towards the ground.
The Chaos-sin retaliated by bringing it's large, bladed tail around to slash at the back of the Phoenix, tearing open a large gash. The bird roared in what seemed like pain as it released it's grip and let the strong force of the wind push it back. Sparks sprouted from it's back as it fired its charged particle canons, the dragon not quick enough to dodge at such a close range. The bright flash of light filled the air, blinding. All of them momentarily, and the dragon roared angrily.
The dragon's right arm had been incinerated by the blast, sparks and wires flew everywhere, any pieces of armor that survived the blast falling to the muddy desert below. The monstrous beast let out it's anger in an amazing array of missiles, each one locked onto the Phoenix.
"Koh!" Will yelled.
"On it!" Koh replied unleashing all the missiles he could at the time.
The two blasts met mid air, and both battle zoids were pushed back by the force of the explosion. Nadia and Shiro fought to stabilize the Phoenix as they watched the smoke intently.
"No!" Will cried, "The missiles he used jammed the radar!"
"What!?" Chris ran over to his side and began pushing buttons, "Impossible."
There was a sudden jerk as the Chaos-sin came out of the smoke, roaring loudly. It pulled up just before collision with the Phoenix, its tail striking out violently at the Phoenix's head. It missed, but barely. Hitting the shoulder of the zoid and sending it spiraling towards the ground.
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"No!" Zack yelled as he and the other adults watched the Phoenix plummet towards the ground. for a lot of them it seemed familiar... Almost the same as when Rain had fallen all those years ago.
"Rion!" Bit yelled, he cursed as he was tackled by an enemy iron kong.
"Please... no..." Izumi cried as they all continued to watch the phoenix fall.
And to their amazement, just before impact the Zoids eyes glowed brightly and it let out a magnificent cry as it spread it's wings, brought them down in a powerful blow, then veered up, strait back at the Chaos-sin.
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"What!?" Sin's shock could be heard as the Phoenix collided head first with the dragon, all blades impaling the stomach of the zoid.
They then both fell, trying to break free of one another. Phoenix was stuck underneath, trying to push it's way out of the zoid with it's razor sharp claws. The Chaos-sin spread it's wings, and barrel rolled, tearing the blades right out of itself.
Roaring in pain the dragon continued to pummel, the Phoenix not far behind. Both zoids were obviously struggling to turn themselves right side out, because both had their backs towards the ground.
The Chaos-sin eventually got itself upright, heading strait back into the dark, now night, storm filled sky. It then unleashed another barrage of missiles, strait at the falling foe.
Shiro and Nadia finally got the Phoenix back upright and Jessie activated all the boosters, avoiding the missiles.
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"Thank god..." Tyra said, pulling her zoid into the air. She had three zebats and a reddler on her tail that she had to loose fast. Quickly, she thought up a plan to take them all out. Pushing her StormSworder to the max, she flew strait under the stray missiles, barely missing all of them. The zoids that had been on her tail were not so lucky it seemed.
"You ok Ty?" Izumi called, taking out an iron kong.
"Yeah, " Tyra replied.
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"Enough!" Sin yelled, and the Chaos-sin roared, it's armor beginning to glow a dark purple. There was a sudden flash of light as a wave of energy was sent in all directions, and various zoids stopped dead in their tracks.
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"My zoid froze!" Brad yelled angrily, slamming his fists onto the control panel.
"Everyone's did..." Doc told everyone, "The only zoids that can move now are the chaos-sin and Phoenix..."
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"What the hell just happened?!" Kristen yelled, turning to see Chris.
"The Phoenix it equipped with anti-freezing mechanisms. Apparently so is the Chaos-sin..."
"You guy's...." Will said almost seeming to be scared... "Scanners indicate a major build up of energy inside the core of the Chaos-sin... to much energy..."
"What!?" Jessie said.
Sin's voice filled the cockpit, "Now witness the ultimate power of the Chaos-sin... The reason why I took the demi-humans...."
"What are you planning on doing...?" Nadia demanded.
"Im going to end it all. All humans will atone for the sin's of the past.... They destroyed the old world, and were on their way to taking out this one... I won't let them." Sin answered.
"What are you talking about...?!" Koh yelled.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you you pathetic little brat." Sin said, "You will thank me for your death..."
The Chaos-sin's mouth opened wide, and out from it emerged a cannon like that no one around had ever seen before. Sin's laughter could be heard as a bright, white light began to form around the entire zoid. Inside the dragons mouth, hot magma like energy appeared.
"What are you doing Sin!?" Chris yelled.
"Humanity will end." Sin replied, "The Demi-humans posses the power to destroy all humans. I will use that power."
"Your crazy!" Jessie yelled, "You'll die too!"
"I said all humans didn't I. Of course I'll die. I have to atone as well."
"I won't let you..." Nadia yelled, "You took them from me... My mom, my uncle... I won't let you take anything else from me! Im activating the main weapon."
"I've cleared it." Jessie said, "Will."
"I did. There's a problem though... the secondary generator for the weapon isn't getting power!"
"No way!" Chris yelled, "Something's wrong. The connection must have been damaged... The canon runs off of Zoid magnite... if it's severed..."
"The computer says that there is about a quarter sized break in the connection." Will reported, "The zoid magnite was damaged."
"That's it!" Nadia said, "Ayane get over here!" Ayane quickly dashed to her side, "Take over..."
"What!?" Ayane asked in disbelief.
"No time to explain!" Nadia said, jumping out of the seat and dashing to one of the doors. She stopped suddenly and looked over at Koh. Digging in one of her pockets she pulled out the knife she had given him for his birthday, "Catch." Tossing it across the floor to him she turned around and said, "Thanks Koh..."
"Huh!? For what sis!?" Koh demanded, to late because she was already out the door with a plan of her own.
'For everything' She thought silently to herself, running down the hallway. She reached down her shirt as she ran and pulled out the necklace he had given her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter 25~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Man, Im on a roll! Two chapters in one day... Im gonna start the next one now because Im really into writing for some odd reason. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!