Amy's First Kiss

Chapter Five: Kiss of Death

By: Sci-Fi-Raptor

Disclaimer: I Don't own Zoids

Circling your head contemplating everything you ever said

Now I know the truth I got a doubt

A different motive in your eyes and now I'm out

See you later

I see your fantasy you want to make a reality paved in gold

See inside, inside of our heads

Well that's all over we heard what you said

Back off we'll take you on

Headstrong to take on anyone

I know that you are wrong

This is not where you belong

-Trapt (Headstrong)

We really had no idea what to do, since we couldn't see everyone else, so we just headed to the middle. But I didn't like to go anywhere blind, so I told CHOAM to launch our satellite into orbit some time before the battle, that way we could see what was going on.

"CHOAM, patch me into the satellite"

"Accessing… link established"

"Good" I opened up the link, and told the satellite to track every Zoid in the tournament, including Amy's and mine. From what I saw, two teams were already fighting, the Desert Marauders, and the Hell Fighter Squadron. The Blitz team was just standing idle, and we were heading to the middle. "Hey Amy, head thirty degrees East."

"Why?"

"We're gonna fight the Blitz team"

"Why don't we go straight for the Desert Marauders?"

"Because they're busy, and they'll be easier to take out after they fight those Storm Sworders."

"Won't we be weaker after we fight the Blitz team?"

"No"

"Why not?"

"Because we have an advantage they don't"

"What's that?"

"You'll see"

We were still heading to the Blitz team, but slowly, so they couldn't see us coming. Since it was a long ride, I sat there and watched the fight between the Desert Marauders and Hell Fighter Squadron; it seemed that neither side would win. The Wardicks were mostly underground, and kept on going under ground after every time they attacked. The Storm Sworders were high enough to detect the firing, and were fast enough to dodge them. Then they would swoop down, and recklessly shoot where the Wardicks shot them from, but they would be underground before that, so it was basically a stalemate. After seeing this cycle a few times, Amy announced that she could see the Blitz team.

"Crass. I can see them!"

"Great… well lets make this quick."

"I dunno… the Liger 0 Jager is supposed to be really fast, and the Shadow Fox hard to keep track of."

"Well, they'll have no idea what hit them… you go after the Fox, I'll go after the Liger. But we're gonna do one thing different. Type in DVS into your computer."

"Why?"

"Just do it…"

"Ok" she typed it, and then she disappeared. Then I did the same, and I disappeared.

"Crass where'd you go?" Obviously she didn't know that we had both just cloaked.

"I'm still here. But we both cloaked. Now they'll have no idea what's about to happen."

"This is dirty…"

"I know" we slowly approached the two, so they wouldn't see us due to the environment (foot prints, etc…), until we were right next to them; well at least I was. Amy hovered on top of the Shadow Fox.

"3, 2, 1" I said, and we both opened fired.

"What the hell?!"

"Who's shooting us?"

"I don't know, I can't see them!"

"We should have listened to Jamie and gone to the middle"

"Yeah. Ahh"

The Liger and Shadow Fox tried to get away from us, but we were on their tail, and shooting them. I kept up because I had installed a heavy jetpack to the Kodiak so it could hover and move faster. Amy kept on shooting the Shadow Fow with her PPC's, and I shot the Liger with my Autocannon. Then something weird happened. The Shadow Fox released a mist of black gas, and I couldn't see the two.

"Where'd they go?" I said.

"They're probably inside the cloud" said Amy.

"Then lets bow it up!" I said, and fired a volley of PPC's into the cloud; so did Amy. The force of the PPC's explosion made the cloud dissipate, and we saw the Shadow Fox strewn over the ground.

"Where's the Liger?" I said.

"Behind you!" I heard Amy say.

"Strike Laser Claw!" I heard someone say. I turned on my shield, and felt an impact behind me. I turned around and saw the Liger trying to get back to its feet.

"What the heck… that should have destroyed you!" said the pilot.

"And the explosion from your Hybrid Cannon and that Gogulas' Charged Particle Cannon should have killed us.

"What? Wait… its you two?"

"Yeah" said Amy, and destroyed the rear part of the Liger with her PPC's, and LRM's.

"I must commend you for being able to attack me with my cloak on though…" I told the fallen warrior as Amy and I headed to the rest of the fighters.

"No! Liger! Speak to me!"

Before we went to battle the remaining teams, Amy and I went back to CHOAM to get refueled and refitted. After a quick tune-up, and repair, we were headed to the brawl.

"CHOAM, do I still have that link?"

"Affirmative"

"Good" I looked at the battle via the satellite. Everything was basically the same, except the two teams were scoring a few hits; the fatigue must have worn them out. And they were also just using their energy weapons; they must have run out of ammo.

"Amy, you take out the Storm Sworders, and I'll take out the Wardicks."

"Hey, I wanna be the one to take out Joe!"

"Don't worry. I'll knock out the other guy, and you can have him all to yourself."

"That's more like it"

Soon we arrived, and we had our cloaks on. Amy shadowed one of the Storm Sworders, and was waiting for one of the Wardicks to try and shoot it. That way, when she would shoot it down, everyone would think it was the Wardick, and she would still go undetected when she went after the other Storm Sworder. I decided that I would take out my Wardick when she would attack the Storm Sworder, since they would both be shooting at each other, and that would be the only time the Wardick would be "out of water".

We waited a bit, and then the Storm Sworder swooped down to try and get the Wardick. The Wardick came out, and fired a stream of lasers at the Storm Sworder, as it did the same; Amy and I took our cue. Amy fired her lasers at the Storm Sworder's thrusters, and I fired my Autocannon at the Wardicks boosters. We hit dead on, and our targets were knocked; the Storm Sworder was going down, and the Wardick was immobile. Then we focused on the remaining Storm Sworder. Amy shadowed it, like the previous one, and waited for me to fire my LRM's at it. When I did, she fired her PPC's at it, and the pterodactyl went down in a heap of burning metal. Then we searched for the last opponent, the Xi'an pilot's Wardick.

"CHOAM status report. All systems optimal. Warning! Fold space anomaly detected…"

Where are you… I thought to myself. All of a sudden, the ground near me exploded, and the Wardick came flying out. It fired all its remaining weapons wildly in the air, and a stray shot hit Amy. Unfortunately for Amy, it was one of its powerful weapons, and it hit her thruster, so she was going down.

"No!" she said as she was losing altitude. Her seat was ejected, and she was floating down on a parachute right above the "Zabat". All of a sudden, the hologram started flickering, and then went dead; the Harrier had shown itself, but then it crashed. "What the hell was that thing?!" I heard Amy angrily demand over the intercom.

"I'll explain to you later" I replied.

"I know what is and isn't a Zabat, and I know that that isn't a Zabat. I'm not even sure if it's a Zoid!"

By this time I had cut off communication with her, and was just looking/listening for the enemy Wardick to show itself. Then I noticed a slight rumbling. I looked at the Kodiak's feet, and saw the sand falling into the ground. I thought there was something weird about that, so I boosted into the air, and good thing too. Right when I got off the ground, the Wardick surfaced, and bit the air that I had just been standing on. I quickly locked onto it, and fired my PPC's and Autocannon. The momentum of the fire made me go up a few feet higher, and I saw the Wardick fall onto the ground in a heap.

I landed my Kodiak a good distance from the Wardick, and gave it everything I had; LRM's, PPC's, Autocannon, and heavy lasers. Explosion after explosion ripped the Wardick apart until all I could see was explosions and fire. I stopped firing until the smoke settled, and I could see the remnants of the Wardick. It had taken much damage, but the cockpit seemed intact. Then it seemed like it lost a blue tint, and all of a sudden, something shot out of the cockpit, and was heading straight for mine.

"Oh no you don't" I said to myself, and activated my deadliest HES mode, space combat mode. Blue-white-metallic scales came out of my CORE module until I was covered in a shiny blue/white overall. Then the jetpack, life support and weapons slithered to their positions. Finally, this clear, blue shield/crystal like thing went on my chest, and started to glow. I boosted out of my cockpit and collided with the Xi'an pilot.

"You humans are so ignorant… you and your ways will destroy the universe and the noble Xi'an will never allow it!" it said to me mentally.

"Us destroy the universe? You're the ones blowing up planets!" I replied right before we collided. We bounced away from each other, but went after each other again. We struggled with each other until we were holding hands and pushing each other; his psionic waves violently pulsating behind him, my jetpack brightly burning behind me.

"You humans are tampering with forces that you can never comprehend in your quest for military superiority!" it hissed to me in my mind.

"We're just trying to keep you from stamping us out of existence!" I rebutted.

"All you humans do is waste all the environments you encounter."

"And you kill everyone you encounter… including Amy and my friends!" I said. The reminder of all the people that he had killed in cold blood infuriated me, and I started pushing him even harder. Suddenly, his psionic waves couldn't match my boost, and I drove him into the ground, punching him many times and burying him deeper into the ground. He jumped out of my rage and started aiming psionic beams at me. I dodged them, and fired a volley of MPPC's at him. He couldn't dodge them, but blocked them all with a psioic wave. The explosion blinded me, and I lost track of him. The next time I could see, I saw his silhouette, and then I felt him punch my face. My helmet took the hit, but I was flung a few hundred meters by the psionically-enhanced punch, and crashed into the ground. I was dazed, but slowly got up. When I looked through my visor, I saw a huge circular crack where he most likely punched it. I turned and saw the smoldering remains of the fallen Harrier. No one could have survived that. That bastard… he hilled Amy… he killed Amy! I forgot that Amy had actually ejected, but that didn't matter, this guy was going down.

The Xi'an was slowly approaching me. "You killed Amy! You damn murderer!" I said in a rage, and started firing everything I had at him, and flew in his direction at maximum velocity. We collided, and he was flung a few hundred meters away. I was about to go after him, but he emitted a quick pulse of psionic waves behind him, and stopped. Then he charged at me. I tried to shoot him down with my MPPC's, but he just took the hits and continued his assault. As he was about to hit me, I braced myself, and fired a burst of thruster behind me to keep me from being flung again. He crashed into me, and we just stayed in the same position, our momentums canceling out. Then he disappeared, and I felt something above me hit me hard, and I was crashing into the ground.

I tried to stand up, but I was too dizzy. I finally got up, but my head was spinning. When things looked normal, I saw the Xi'an pilot aiming his hand at me, a bright ball of light in front of it. I couldn't see the crack on my visor, so I assumed that it had shattered from the impact. It was affirmed, when I could feel a stinging sensation all over my face, and I could smell blood. "Die human…" he said, and then he exploded. No wait, that's not right. I rewound my mind, and saw a MPPC hitting him from the side, and then it exploded and made him fly away.

I looked at the direction the MPPC had hit him from, and there I saw Amy with a MPPC bazooka on her shoulder. "Hey Crass!" she waved to me. I smiled weakly at her, but she gasped. I guess she noticed my bloody face; she started running towards me.

"Crass, are you all right?" she said in a scared voice.

"Tis' only a scratch." I said and waved it off.

"You stupid idiot…" she started saying, but started crying mid-sentence as she saw the blood streaming down my face, and my pain seemed obvious. She gently touched my face with a torn piece of her shirt, and wiped some of the blood away.

"Crass…" she said after looking at my eyes for a few seconds.

"Yeah?"

"I…" she started again, but couldn't continue.

"I know" I said, sure that I was thinking what she was thinking. I wiped away her tears, and managed to smile at her, even though the pain was staggering.

"Oh my God!" she screamed suddenly. I looked behind me, and saw the Xi'an agent hovering towards us at an alarming speed, and he fired the energy ball he had charged up earlier. It hit me in the back, and flung Amy and I a few hundred meters. In midair, I tried to make a cocoon around her so that she wouldn't get as injured as she normally would, since she didn't have any kind of armor on her. Lucky for us, we landed on a soft patch of sand, and Amy was cushioned from the impact, since I hit it first. I looked at her face for any signs of life.

"Amy, speak to me!" I shook her a little, but I knew for fact she had lost consciousness, maybe worse…

"You bastard!" I said in a rage, and I completely lost control. The rage had built up, and what happened to Amy was the breaking point. The blue crystal thing on my chest started glowing red inside, and then the whole thing became a glowing/burning crimson red. My armor started glowing red, and my weapons started changing; things that were one part of a certain weapon went to another part, and they looked completely different, and a lot deadlier. I activated the hidden wrist guns, and grabbed the hidden guns on my legs' holsters. My normal shield, which was very useless this whole fight, changed its color, and it could be seen cocooning my body. I charged at him, and shot everything I had at it.

It was fast; impossibly fast. It disappeared and reappeared from one place to another, and managed to dodge all my shots (like people from DBZ when they dodge a punch or kick). I stopped firing, exhausted from all the energy it took me to do it, and tried to catch my breath. Then it reappeared a few feet in front of me.

"You weakling… you are no match for me. Just like your little girlfriend."

"How dare you!" I screamed, and started shooting it again. I got it by surprise this time, and he got hit full-fledged.

"Argghhh" he said, and fell to the ground.

"This is for my pain" I said as I punched him in the gut "My anger" I said as I kneed him in the ribs "And all my sorrow!" I said and I punch him in the face, and blasted it with a MPPC. Then I focused all my energy to my MPPC, and charged it up. When I was sure it was at full power, I shot it at him.

I started stirring, and I could see the two still at it. Then Crass (I think it was Crass) stopped moving, and Joe stopped in front of him. It seemed like they were talking, but then all of a sudden, Crass started beating the life out of the guy. Then Crass went high into the air, and seemed to be charging something. Then he fired, and a huge shaft of bright white light came out of him, and went straight at the fallen Joe. At first I thought that Joe had somehow absorbed the beam, since there wasn't any explosion of anything, the light just went straight down. Then Crass quickly went into the air, and then the explosion happened. It was beautiful, even though it was deadly. It looked like a rainbow of colors exploding from one spot; Joe Black. Then I just lay down in the sand, watching as the explosion died out, and as Crass flew to me.

I flew to Amy quickly, in the hope that I could somehow save her life. As I approached, me fears were alleviated; she was standing up, waiting to go into my arms.

"You made it!" she said, and ran to where I landed with her arms outstretched. I disengaged my HES.

"Did you ever doubt me?" I asked as she wrapped her arms around my neck. She still had her momentum from her run, so it made her travel in a circular motion, with me as the pivot. I turned to keep her in the air until I could see that it really was her, and that I wasn't really imagining all of it. I slowed the spinning to the stop, and put her on her feet.

I was about to say something professional and stoic to keep up the image of being an intergalactic representative, but she just put her index finger to my lips, and said "Sshhh". I understood, and let her just hold onto me for awhile; she was in a pretty bad shape…

When she finally gained some of her energy back, she looked at my eyes again. She had lost the fire of life that used to burn in them after all this; they were dull now. But as I gazed into those pools of her essence, I saw that they were coming back to life, they just needed a little time to recover. But then all of a sudden they grew scared, and I was out of my trance.

"He's back!" she said.

"What? Man, not again." I said, and reengaging my HES. I turned around, and put Amy behind me.

"What does it take to kill you?" I said in frustration.

I was about to shoot him, when all of a sudden my handgun shot him in the head. What the hell? OMG! My armor is haunted!

I was about to wet my pants until I noticed the hand that was holding the gun. I turned around until I saw Amy.

"I told you I'd get him" she said, and had a smile on her face. She had come back to life.

"That's my Amy!" I said cheerfully, and raised her up like a mother would hold up her baby (under the armpits) and started spinning around again. Both of us just kept on spinning until I lost my balance, and landed on top of her. Luckily, my HES had retracted, and she was still in that soft patch of sand.

"You know what I've always wanted to do with you Amy?"

"I think I have a slight clue…" I lowered my head to hers, and she closed her eyes, and wrapped her arms around my head.

The fleet finally reached the planet. It had jumped to the wrong coordinates, but was close enough to the planet to cruise to it. The distress beacon had been received not too long ago, and the fleet was immediately mobilized. A satellite had been found, and it was destroyed, since initial scans indicated that it had weapons on it. The carriers launched all their fighters, and spread them throughout the planet in search of the Xi'an pilot. Some people on Zi thought a plague was coming from the sky as the ships unloaded.

"This is Alpha One. Xi'an pilot has been spotted. Request permission to engage" said the Herculean X3's pilot.

"Permission granted Alpha One" said Mission Control from the flagship.

"Engaging" said the Pilot, and locked his CT-808 Zit on the Xi'an pilot. The status screen said the bomb was locked on, and he dropped it. The Herculean X3 quickly accelerated away from the soon-to-be ground zero, not noticing the two humans nearby the fallen Xi'an.

(Mission Control-) "Commander Molotov, the bomb will hit in t-minus five…"

"Crass?"

"Four…"

"Yeah?"

"Three"

"I've never told you this before, but…"

"Two"

"I love you"

"One"

"I know" I said. After all we had been through, all the pain, suffering, and loss, our lips finally touched…

An eerie white flash exploded on the surface of Zi. It was so bright, people from a quarter of the planet could see it, and it blinded the Terran Fleet in space. The explosion forced the atmosphere to make a bubble on the atmosphere's surface. The sudden rush of air blew the sand miles away, and in severe cases, it rained sand for a few minutes when the floating sand finally settled. The vacuum made by the sudden loss of air made everything contract, and anything close enough got sucked in and crushed. The Judges and knocked out Zoids were lucky to have been flung away, because everything that got sucked by the vacuum was crushed with enough forced to change Zi's rotational speed. At Ground Zero, the sand got so hot that it melted, and when it cooled down, became a glass surface on the once forbidding desert; if one looked at it from far away enough, they may have thought that it was ice.

"Commander, ground forces have scanned the area, and have found no traces of the Xi'an pilot, or anything else within a 2 mile radius from the epicenter. I think its safe to say that the mission was a success"

"Indeed" said a man in the shadows. All that could be seen was his hand holding out a glass of blood red wine. He started to swish it around the glass. "Tell Lunar Base 001 that the area has been cleared, and to send in the Ambassadors' ships"

"Yes sir" the first mate said. He did as he was told, but was asked about the two research scientists that sent the distress signal.

"Sir, Lunar Base 001 requests a report on what happened to their scientists…" he said as he turned to the Commander's chair, but found him missing.

"Tell them that the Xi'an pilot had killed them before we arrived" said the Commander. The mate looked to where his voice was coming from, and saw him walking down the corridor to his quarters. "I don't care about the details"

Well, that's the end to "Amy's First Kiss", I hope ya'll liked it!