Disclaimer: no I don't own zoids you figure I don't have to write this since I'm posting this on FANFICTION.NET I don't know anyways. .

The sky was deep red as the sun started to set. The whale king was in mid- flight with Nero at the helm. A tanned skinned woman walked up behind him looking out at the scenery.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" The woman looked at Nero then outside again. "It almost makes me forget what's happened the last month."

"I know what you mean Jayde. I know what you mean." Suddenly a large explosion happened beneath them. "Hmmm. I wonder what's going on down there."

"How about we don't and get out of here." Paige said walking into the room. Both Nero and Jayde agreed and Nero increased speed.

~ Meanwhile below them ~

The republic outpost lay in ruins after the sneak attack. A pierce sniper and a lightning siaxs walked out of the smoke followed by 5 rev raptors. Lt. Nicholas Hatsuharu opened the cockpit of his pierce sniper and opened up coms.

"Good job men. Mission accomplished with no casualties." He saluted his unit.

I wouldn't be so sure about that Nico was startled by the transmission. Next to him the lightning siaxs turned around prepared for an attack.

"Who is this? I demand to know." Nico closed his cockpit and got strapped him. Then a picture of a man in an imperial uniform appeared. "General? I don't understand?"

Exactly. You see how should I put this. You and your men are doing an excellent job. In fact too good of a job A Geno Saurer came out of the sand. Nico went to full alert. You see these missions I've had you do never happened. Don't take it personally its strictly business

The lightning siaxs took off toward the geno sauer along with the rest of the unit. Nico was too busy dealing with his men then feeling betrayed by his own government. "Rei holdfast! We can't beat that thing with what we have. We have to retreat!" The lightning saixs continued to charge. A screen popped up in front of Nico of a girl with black hair and blue eyes that were burning.

And where would we go! The battle raged on. The geno sauer easily took out all the Raptors. It sung its head and rammed into the chest piece of the pierce sniper sending it to the ground. The lightning saixs jumped and managed a few shots hitting its legs and damaging the foot lock. Meanwhile the battle was being monitored by satellite far away. Seeing the unit being disposed of pleased the General. He hated leaving loose ends.

"That boy better not ruin the geno sauer I lent him." Behind him the lady in the trench coat smiled. All was going according to plan. (A/n: Though I forgot about them didn't you)

~ On broad the ultra saurus ~

A tall man with light green eyes and short black hair with red and yellow streaks walked down the hall. He was late for a meeting. When he finally walked into the room he was met by the captain, his second and four other officers that he considered friends all lined up. The captain nodded and the man lined up with the others.

"Thank you for finally joining us Lieutenant Cooper." The captain walked back and fourth parallel with the other soldiers. Cooper gulped. "Now that everyone is here, Commander if you do the honors." He looked over to his left where a woman stood. She took out a list and began reading.

"Through your courage and leadership ability you have all shown on the battlefield the captain and myself have decided to promote the following officers." She began reading the names of everyone in the room and their new titles. "And the last is Lt. Commander Zack Cooper. You are dismissed." Everyone saluted and left the room but Cooper, the Captain asked him to stay behind.

"At ease Lt. Commander." He smiled. "Feels good doesn't it Cooper?" He walked back to his desk and grabbed to folders. Cooper relaxed a bit.

"Captain what did you want to discuss about?" He then was handed the two folders.

"First things first. The top folder contains the profile of three soldiers I'm putting under you. Don't get too excited but I felt it was time you received your first command. The second is on a mission I'm assigning to you." Cooper opened that folder and began looking over it and listening at the same time. "Recently our research facilities and outposts on the frontier have been fallen to attack by an unknown enemy."

"Could it be the empire?" Cooper continued to flip through the photos in the folder.

"We don't know. My opinion is that it probably is but they can't be stupid enough to do it. They know if they ever committed these kind of attacks the only result would be war." He looked into Cooper's eyes. "I want you to investigate these attacks while we pursue the liger."

"May I ask what is so important about that liger that a Captain of the fleet has been assigned to retrieve the thing? Why not send a retrieval squad?"

"No you may not. Now get ready you leave at the next port we stop at. And that's tomorrow."

~ Nero's what king high in the sky ~

"How long till we get to Fiona's oasis?" John asked. He walked across the bridge. "Are you sure this is the best idea. You know separating."

"Its our only idea unless you can come up with a better one." Jayde looked at him.

"Are we sure this Owen Demitos can help us and if he can do you think he will help us?"

"Nope. But we have to try, for Jack's sake." Paige crossed her arms and Jayde closed her eyes her a brief second but then nodded.

"Yeah for Jack's sake." Jayde looked over at Savanna. "When we get to the port I'm sure you can find a transport back to wherever."

Who said I'm going." The dirty blonde stared into her eyes. "You saved my life the least I can do is help you guys with this mystery."

A/n: sorry for the long delay, finally got over the block. Oh and for those wondering everyone's characters are coming into the story. Its hard I have like twenty I have to fit so be patient okay.