Legacy of the Ancients

Chapter Nine: Rebirth

By: Sci-Fi-Raptor

Disclaimer: I own Zoids and everything related to it. Not really… sob

Shadow never thought anything like this could happen… the mighty Raven had finally fallen. Even though there were times when Shadow hated Raven, he had always thought of him as master. Now he was free, but free to do what? All he had ever done was hurt and destroy people and their lives. He couldn't think of anything that he could do, except to get revenge on Van for killing his master. And he new exactly how he would do it: Shadow headed towards the Imperial Capital. He knew where Prozen had kept a secret weapon that had never been known, or used before. So, the former King's heir surely would not have found it by now, and knowing he was the only one left who knew about it, he would use it against Van… even though he had no idea what it was.

A few hours later, he arrived at the capital, and entered the Palace with a secret route that Prozen had secretly made. When he infiltrated the Palace, he went to the maintenance bay. There, he headed towards a locker that was labeled as scrap storage. Knowing that it was really a front for a secret special weapons cache, he opened the secret compartment that had the keypad to open the secret door. Then, with a lot of patience and skill, he typed in the fifty-two character long password that would open the door and let him in. The door opened, and he stepped through. What he saw inside put him in awe: he saw a glowing chasm of light being suspended in a transparent container. There was a sign near it that said: Core Combiner. He took a step forward, and stopped; he realized some secret compartments opened. All of a sudden, he was engulfed in some kind of static shock. He was paralyzed, and he could move at all.

"We got him Dr"

"Excellent. Bring him in to the lab… this is exactly what we need to perfect the Zoid Core of our new Zoid. Shadow's Ancient technology might just be what can make Fist of Mercury's systems work in sync."

Even while Shadow was unconscious, all he could think about was how he wanted revenge. The first thing he would do was kill his captors. Then he would go after Van. But he had learned one thing now… the only human he could trust was Raven.

All of a sudden MerHaru felt a jolt. Then she noticed another presence. "Where are you?" she demanded. The presence would not let speak, but she could hear it laughing. Then all of a sudden she was losing control of all of her nona-bots. At first it was from unimportant places like the tail and limbs, but then it began to take over all the internal nano-bots, and finally the core-carrying nano-bots. It was slow and painful for MerHaru; she was being hurt so much that she couldn't keep her flight stable and fell into a free fall. And this take over was thorough; it made sure it deleted ANY remnants of anything that used to operate the system; MerHaru and the bits of CABAL ceased to exist. He had full control of the body now, and knew all of its capabilities, he had been observing until now, and probably would have never made a move until he remembered his master.

But he didn't have a feel for his new body yet; he was still falling.

We all move on with our lives, surely time heals all wounds…

It has been a few weeks since the "incident", and everyone has forgotten about (even though Haru erased all of their memories). The Blitz team had been through only one match so far, but it was a forced one; the Blitz team owed Harry money it didn't have, and Harry was infuriated that Bit was going out with Leena. He knew that there was no chance that he could have Leena anymore, so he wanted all the money he had let them borrow (cause he did it to get Leena's affection). The Blitz team didn't have the money, but they struck a deal: They were to have match, and the winner would get to have Leena, at least for a week, and none would have to pay any debts or prize money. It was originally one month, but after some intense negotiations (and Leena going ballistic and doing things that threatened the bases integrity), they shortened it to a week. So, Leena, Jamie and Brad (at Harry's insistence) fought against Harry and his bucket of bolts (~ow! You son of a—alright u trash heap, ill stop calling you that. (Under my breath) bucket of bolts. Hey, I heard that!).

Naturally, Leena dumped all of her ammo in less then one minute, but surprisingly, she made direct hits: Harry's whole team was decimated! Harry cried, and left Leena alone since then, but was still the team's friend. Last time I heard, he met with this nice hillbilly type person, who he was supposed to have fallen deeply in love with.

But something disturbing has happened. Bit refuses to step into a Zoid, and the Liger is unwilling to fight. No one, not even Haru, knows why…

At this moment, Jamie and Pierce were practicing outside. Jamie let Peirce have a handicap of 10 hits, and the first to reach twenty, or knock the other player out first would win. Well, that's what they were supposed to do.

"Bit, did you see Jamie?" asked Pierce.

"Ya, I think I saw him in his room. Why?"

"We were supposed to fly with each other today"

"Oh. Well, have fun" he said, and went off to steal Leena's cookie.

She made her way to Jamie's room. She opened his door and found him listening to the Japanese music video of "Simple and Clean". "What are you doing?" she asked.

"I'm learning the technique that Utada Hikaru uses to wash her dishes" he replied.

"What are you talking about? She did a song for Kingdom Hearts, not about washing dishes…"

"Uh huh. Just come and see." True to his word, there was Utada Hikaru singing the song and washing dishes. "What has the world come to" she said as her sweat dropped. Then she pulled him by the ear and took him to the maintenance deck. "You can watch her clean dishes some other time" she muttered.

"But it was getting to the good part" said Jamie in a disappointed tone.

"SHE'S WASHING DISHES!"

"You are so gonna lose" said Pierce.

"You're talking to the one and only Wild Eagle, Little Lady"

"I told you to stop saying that! First you start calling me that, and then you somehow make that my call sign! I'm gonna tear you apart you little squirt!" she said in rage. Then she said under her breath "and I'm gonna rip that stupid author apart if he makes anyone say the one more time" (uh oh… what do you mean uh oh? Good thing I got that woman proof armor I saw on TV before. OW! Stupid infomercials…)

"Lets see you try" said Jamie, and they both launched. Jamie was in his Raynos, and Pierce was in her Storm Sworder.

"I'll just let you know one thing: My Storm Sworder is custom made, and it has things that your Raynos could only drool about. Hey where'd you go?"

"Right behind you tuts!" said Jamie. He had somersaulted behind her while she was talking, and now had her 6 fully exposed; he fired two missiles.

"Oh no you don't!" she said. She knew these missiles; they worked by trying to do a pincer attack. They would go on either side of her and attack. But she had other things in mind. She let the missiles catch up until they were right next to her. Then, right before they wer about to collide into her, she put her nose up, and rapidly gained altitude; the missiles collided, and she was almost engulfed in their flame.

"Phew! That was…" she was cut off by Jamie tearing at her with his gun.

"I've told you this so much… always watch your six!" he said as he zoomed past, laughing the whole way. She sustained massive damage, and her computer recommended ejecting, but she wouldn't lose to this… this pipsqueak! She flipped a switch, and two hidden compartments opened on the outside of her ship, and two massive booster thingys came out. She flipped another switch and she accelerated to mach 4. She caught up to Jamie in a few seconds, and started to tear up his back.

"What the…"

"Always watch your six!" she said sarcastically, and started laughing like Leena.

"Jeez… she's broken you" said Jamie. His sweat dropped when he heard her say: "I am Pierce! Her me roar!"

"Well, the score is tied, 19 all. Next shot is game."

"I know" said Jamie. He was starting to worry. He could easily go to Mach4, but he was only willing to use it when it the danger was life threatening. He knew his Raynos wasn't built for that speed. Pierces Storm Sworder was made for speed, so he was sure Pierce knew what she was doing… he was so wrong.

Pierce was setting up for another run. She had her sites set on Jamie's six. And she was so far away, he would never know until it was too late. "hahahahaa… heheheheee… ahahahahahaaa!" thought Pierce as she got closer to Jamie, and victory. She landed one well-fired sniper shot and won the game. She zoomed past him and was exhilarated by the win she had been longing for since she first fought him.

Then everything went wrong.

All of a sudden her Zoid caught fire. Her computer automatically ejected her… but nothing happened. All Pierce could think about was that she was going to die, and how this could have happened. Then it hit her. She had damage, and she went through Jamie's sonic boom not once, but twice while she was at mach4. The fear took control, and she went frantic.

"Pierce, get out of there!" yelled Jamie.

"I'm trying" she said. Jamie could tell she was crying. "Jamie, I cant eject!"

Off in the distance, something was stirring. The crowd moved back when they saw it get up. But what they saw wasn't what should have been there. Instead of the great Fist of Mercury, there was a small organoid. It opened its eyes and yawned. Then its eyes burned red. It looked around, and assessed its situation. Satisfied, it stopped moving. One of the few survivors swore that it had a grin on its face…

"Oh noo…no no no noo. This cant be happening" thought Jamie; he went to mach6. "Hold one Pierce! I'm coming to get you!"

By now, the Storm Sworder's thrusters had failed, and the special thrusters had blown up. She was still flying from the momentum she had, but she was slowing down fast, and there was no way to keep her up.

Jamie finally reached Pierce, and matched speeds with her.

This is the end… I'm gonna die. "Jamie! I know I've been a pain to you, and I know we didn't get to spend all the time together that e should have, but… I love you! And I always want you to remember that…" BOOM! An explosion of her Zoid cut her off.

"Pierce!" Jamie screamed. She thinks she's dead. And she'll die if she keeps thinking that… His Raynos had matched speed with the Storm Sworder, and had used its feet to latch onto it. At least he didn't have to worry about the Sworder losing any more speed. Jamie opened his cockpit and somehow opened Pierce's and went inside. He found her unconscious, and her head was bleeding. "Oh no…"

Jamie took her in his arms and BOOM! The cockpit exploded…

Oh no… Did Jamie and Pierce really die?

And what is Shadow up to?

Find out in the next chapter, "Rabbit Run"

Here come Peter Cottontail…

Ok guys, you don't have to worry about Fist of MercuryMerHaruShadow changing who they are anymore. I was just building up Shadow, but I had to have Haru know that there was a third colony out there.