Legacy of the Ancients
Chapter Two: Z's Revenge…
By: Sci-Fi-Raptor
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoids. But I wish I owned A Zoid!
It has been three days since the Blitz team won the Royal tournament. Currently, they are en-route to a hot springs resort to take their well-deserved vacation…
"BIT! Give me back my cookie!"
"What cookie?" said Bit right after he gobbled it up.
"You are SOO dead Bit Cloud!" said Leena as she charged after Bit, ready to pummel him into the wall.
As she was about to crash into Bit, Bit sidestepped, and Leena hit the wall head on. Bit started walking away slowly, but started running as fast when he heard Leena recover. When she got up, she left out a cry of rage that could be heard outside the Hover Cargo.
"BBBIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!! When I get my hands of you, your gonna be SOO dead!"
This got Bit really scared, so he headed straight for the Liger 0, sprinting the whole way. But Leena knew that he would do so, since when she got really mad, like now, Bit would run to the Liger and hail tail.
When Leena got to the hangar, it was too late; Bit was already exiting the hanger with his liger, and got his Liger to run as fast as it could, running out to the seemingly endless desert.
Normally, Leena would go to her Gun Sniper, and chase Bit, but her rage was clouding her mind, and she started chasing the Liger. But she did something very disturbing; she caught up to and kept pace with the Liger. She even managed to rave on and on about the explicit things she would do to him when she got her hands on him. Unfortunately for her, her adrenaline could no longer support her rage anymore, and Bit decided to turn on his ion boosters. She gave a final threat and concluded with, "Come and fight me like a man, you coward!" and gave up. She then turned back to go to the Hover Cargo fuming over what she would do to Bit when he came back.
Bit sat in his cockpit, nervously waiting for the entrance door to open. When it did, he saw Leena coming in. He decided not to taunt her, but to hail tail while he could; he made the Liger go to its fastest running speed. He was waiting a few seconds to be hit by her Gun Sniper, but was surprised that nothing was happening. He looked around his screens, and gave a surprised/scared yelp to what he saw.
What he saw was very, very scary, Leena running parallel to him! And he could kind of hear the obscene things that she was spewing that she would do to him. Bit's heart jumped a micro second later, and he activated his ion boosters, sure that Leena would never catch up. And he was right about that; he looked at his rear-view screen to find Leena shrinking in the distance. Bit started relaxing, sure that he wouldn't have any more trouble for the rest of the day.
"Well, Liger. I guess we can have this as our daily run for the day."
Liger growled in agreement, and started increasing power to its boosters, making it go even faster. Bit and Liger "ran" for about an hour and a half. When they reached a part of the desert that was full of dunes, Bit thought that the run had lasted long enough (and that Leena would have a cool head when he would get back). Bit was about to head back, when all of a sudden, something hit him really hard. When he recovered from the surprise attack, he looked up to see a large group of heavy, heavily armed Back Draft pilots.
The entity known as "Z" finally reached the Liger. Before entering the Liger, it thoroughly scanned it to find a place to accommodate itself. The best place it could find was inside its short-range guns. There was no risk whatsoever from being there, since the gun didn't emit enough energy to move a single bot. It did not emit anywhere close to the amount of energy needed to damage any of the bots either. But "Z" determined that he could improve the devastation of the gun with very quick and minor adjustments, or use the energy to grow, and eventually convert the whole Zoid into an extension of the colony.
"Z" entered the Liger and determined what immediate modifications it could do to the Liger to increase its offensive and defensive powers. It also computed which of his attacks would be compatible with the Liger's hardware. It determined that it could increase the Liger's by 200% by removing all friction in its legs that slowed it down. It also determined that that the short-range guns and ion-boosters could be exponentially more devastating/faster with very minor changes. And the best of its attacks that could be used without modification of the Liger was its "Offensive Shield", which wasn't an attack, but the mechanism that the attack came from. It was about to implement its plans, but some part of the Liger wouldn't let it make the changes without the pilot's consent. So "Z" requested the pilot to activate "Hybrid Mode".
"Pilot of Liger 0, immediately give up your Zoid or prepare to be seriously hurt." Said the pilot of a War Shark.
"No way, you damn Back Draft scum! I've never lost Liger to you, and I never will" Bit loudly responded.
Bit was about to high tail it out of there, until he saw the words "Hybrid Mode" flashing on his screen. Bit thought that Liger knew himself best, so he agreed. Unknown to him, it was really "Z" telling him to do this, but it probably knew more about the Liger than the Liger knew about itself. Bit activated Hybrid Mode, and was shocked to see light coming out of all the openings in his Liger. Then he felt the great increase in speed, and turned it down a little, since he was not used to being able to go that fast without boosters. Then he noticed his tactics screen showed that his boosters', short-range guns' and running speed capacities dramatically increased.
Then another item flashed on his screen, "Offensive Shield". He decided to go with Liger's judgment (actually the judgment of the entity known as Z, since when Bit consented to Hybrid Mode, "Z" took over the Liger). He expected some kind of charge up attack, like the Strike Laser Claw attack, but what happened completely surprised him. A shield formed around his Liger (like a Shield Liger) that was a crimson red. Also his cockpit charged into Liger 0 Panzer mode. His screens were locked on to all the enemy pilots, and the screen flashed "Galactic Fury". Bit thought that it must have been some kind of attack if Liger wanted to use the word Galactic in it.
Bit activated the attack, and the Liger started to run away from the Back Draft Zoids. When it was about 1 kilometer away, it started running toward them, ion-boosters at their max speeds.
"Galactic FURY!!!" exclaimed Bit when he was in range of the Back Draft Zoids. When he was close enough, he saw some kind of energy being expelled from the shield; they looked like the beams from charged particle cannons.
"AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the Back Draft pilots said as the were being vaporized one by one.
"Holy Shit Liger! Since when could you do that shit!" exclaimed Bit as the Liger gave a loud roar of victory. Then it started to move from the direction that the Back Draft pilots came from.
"What the hell are you doing Liger! They came from there, which means there will be more of them there!!!!!!!!!! Common Liger, go to the Hover Cargo, so we can get out of this alive!"
The Liger growled in defiance, and continued to go toward the source of the Back Draft pilots, now using his ion-boosters with his offensive shield down.
"Commander, intel reports that all our ground units have been destroyed, and something from their vicinity is coming towards us at extraordinary speeds."
"Obviously the work of Z. That's it, we don't stand a chance. Evacuate the base."
whine like an alarm "Warning, this is not a drill. Evacuate the base in an orderly fashion. This is not a drill" whine like an alarm
"Sir, the unidentified Zoid is 10 seconds away from us! I don't think we can make it."
"Damn it. Why wasn't Jani on this one? Wait, where is Jani."
"Our garage said that he check out a vehicle not too long ago…"
"That bastard! He knew this was gonna happen, and he left us here to die. That bi….". The commander's words were cut short by an immense emission of energy that came from a four legged white Zoid…
"What was that all about Liger?"
The Liger growled in reply in what would be taken as a shrug if it were human. The Liger had no idea what he was talking about, since it was off-line when Z took it over. Z gave the organoid its body back after it was satisfied by the damage it caused.
"Well, that's definitely a side of you that I've never seen before, Liger…" said Bit somewhat confused with the recent actions of his Liger. Not only did it just take out an army and a base, the Liger 0 didn't respond to his order, or at least tell him why he was doing what he did.
The Liger was just as confused as Bit was, since it had no recollection of what just happened. All it remembered was getting hit, and going into "Hybrid Mode", and ending up with a burning base in front of it. It wasn't sure about what to do, but it was sure that its run for the day was over; it started going back to the Hover Cargo.
What does Z have in store for Bit and the Blitz team? And what of our evil doctor Jani?
Sorry if these first chapters are short. Just had to get the setting just right…