Legacy
By Raven Cowboy aka Mandz.
And this, my friends, is the long awaited 3rd chapter that I have finally gotten off my lazy holidaying ass to write just for you :D As always, reviews are quite welcome, flames laughed at, but constructive criticism dutifully taken into account. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own diddily-squat.aside from Madra.and a few zoids models.and a couple of posters.but I love my models so if someone decides to sue, I'll unfortunately have to hire a hitman.
"You mean it dad?" Madra asked excitedly. "I can actually enter a real battle!?"
Bit watched his 8 year-old daughter bounce around in front of him. Again he asked himself if this was a good idea, a Class S battle might be a bit much for her to start with, but then he reminded himself that two of the Blitz team members would be right beside. Leon had graciously lent his Blade Liger, now a Blitz registered zoid after his trade-off with Brad two years ago. That day, the day Madra encountered Jack Sisco for the first time.
She hadn't thought about that too much until today, when, surprise surprise, the team's opponent was to be the Lightning team. She now understood what had happened that day, and wanted not just to beat the Saixs, but humiliate them. At least, that's what she reasoned when she hid everyone's zoid gear, even Jamie's. Madra knew big trouble would follow, but at the moment she had a zoid battle to worry about.
~*~
"What do you mean our zoid gear is missing?!" Bit exploded to the hapless Doc. "It was right here! We always leave it in the hover cargo control pit!"
"Mine's here," Madra piped up.
"Sweety, you need two other warriors with you out there. This is your first battle, not a simulation," Leena replied, looking a little distressed. "You could get hurt."
"Mom, I'm beating Gojulas' on the simulators. I think I can handle a few Saixs," her daughter assured her. "Besides, it's just Sisco and the Taskers. And they suck."
Jamie, Doc and Leon burst out laughing at that.
Leena glared at them. "You're not helping," she muttered.
"What? They do."
"Oh..let her go..she'll be fine," Doc gasped out between fits.
Leena glanced at Bit, who just shrugged.
"Oh alright, but at the first sign of trouble, we're calling in forfeit," the redhead relented, ruffling Madra's dark hair.
"Yes!" 'That was too easy!' Madra pumped her fist in the air and sprinted to the hangar.
"She hid the zoid gear, didn't she," Bit stated, watching his mischievous daughter go.
"Yup," Leena sighed.
"She's your kid," Leon threw in.
"Oh shut up. That's your zoid she's using. You know her style," the Gun Sniper pilot shot back.
"Melee," everyone sighed, sweat dropping in unison.
~*~
The 8 year-old laughed, strapping herself into the Liger's cockpit and loading her zoid gear.
flashed across her screen. Suddenly, her communicator crackled to life.
"Have fun kid," Bit's voice echoed in the speakers. "Oh and by the way, you're in some serious trouble when you get back."
Madra slapped her forehead before opening a reply channel. "Dad, I can explain-"
Bit chuckled. "No, no. You just worry about the Saixs for now. See ya!"
The young girl gripped her controls as the Judge's announcement crackled over the comm. A gong sounded and the Liger launched from the rotation deck of the hover cargo.
~*~
Meanwhile, at the other end of the battlefield, the Lightning team were going over some last minute tactics to combat the Liger Zero. The last thing they were expecting, however, was a solitary zoid on the horizon, steadily growing larger as it closed the distance between them.
"What?! Where's the Liger Zero?!" Chris exclaimed, searching her Saix's scanner outputs.
"There's no other zoid out there!" replied Kelly, suddenly smirking as the lone zoid grew closer. "It's only Leon and his Blade Liger. This'll be an easy victory."
"On your guard, ladies. Something's not right," Jack looked out over the terrain, watching the Liger's movements. "Are you sure they don't have zoids stationed as fixed weapons on the cliffs?"
"Affirmative, no zoids confirmed," Kelly replied.
"I'm going after it," said Chris, urging her zoid into motion and speeding towards the approaching unit. A head on collision seemed unavoidable as the two zoids targeted each other, when the Liger suddenly grounded a forepaw and used its momentum to pivot around as the Saix passed where it had been microseconds ago.
"What?! How could I miss?" exclaimed the Tasker, watching as the Liger began to slipstream her. The Saix seemed to be pulling away from it's pursuer, until the crimson zoid charged its boosters and began firing its low-mounted cannon, hitting its target with disturbing accuracy.
"Dammit!" yelled the enraged woman as her screen flashed 'SYSTEM FREEZE' over and over again.
"Now it's our turn Jack," Kelly grinned to her comrade over the vid-link. Jack simply nodded, wondering how Leon had gotten so skilled in such a short time. The remaining Saixs slipped into the drag stream formation, hoping to knock the Liger off-balance with the pulse-wake. Madra reflexively sidestepped and deployed the blades, and with a quick boost forward removed one of the forelegs on Kelly's trailing zoid, narrowly missing Jack.
'I know that move!' Jack suddenly realized. His mind shifted to the simulation against a certain young girl two years before. 'That kid.'
"You!" Jack growled into the open channel of his comm. Madra's grinning face lit up on the vid-screen in front of him.
"Hiya Jack! Haven't seen you in a while. How've you been?"
"Better. Get out of here kid, this is a zoid battle, not a playground."
Madra's expression suddenly darkened, and an unfounded fear wormed into Jack's chest. "No Jack. I'm gonna make you pay for how you insulted me and my parents," she hissed. "I'm gonna humiliate you like you tried to humiliate me."
"She smirked, opening a variety of comm.-link channels to nearby TV stations, feeding images of herself, the downed Saixs and the stand-off taking place.
~*~
"A kid's piloting that zoid?!"
"She's the only one out there for the Blitz team! What were they thinking?!"
"She's already taken down two Lightning Saix's."
"Oh this is too good. Jack'll never live this down."
Crowds in various bars and zoid stores alternated between disbelief and laughter at the position one of the top Class S teams was in. At one particular bar, a pair of zoid pilots quietly laughed among themselves in the corner; Team Fluegal was thoroughly enjoying the show.
"Smart kid," Brad stated absently, taking a sip of his drink.
"Mmm hmm, I almost feel sorry for Jack," Naomi replied. Brad raised an eyebrow.
"I said 'almost'. He's a cockroach and deserves everything Madra dishes him."
Brad smirked into his drink and turned his attention back to the battle on screen.
~*~
Taking advantage of her opponent's momentary lapse in concentration, Madra directed the Blade Liger to leap into the air, the sun's glare radiating behind her, and deployed her blades again. Suddenly remembering where he was, Jack shook himself awake and blindly peppered fire in the Liger's general direction as said zoid flew down and cleanly sliced the cannon off the Saix's back. flashed across Jack's screen as he put his head in his hands in disbelief and anger.
"Little bitch," he muttered, as Madra's grinning image again appeared on the vid-link.
"That was fun Jack! We should do it again some time!"
Jack planted his fist into the screen as it closed.
~*~
"Dammit!" Thomas yelled, removing his damaged hand from the now shattered screen. How could he have lost Raven so easily? Beak hummed and whirred inside the lieutenant's helmet as the DiBison plowed over the moonlit terrain, still on the fading trail of the Berserk Fury. He was determined to get revenge on Raven for Van and Fiona, even if it took him years to track the maniac down.
As Thomas rounded yet another set of cliffs, he suddenly skidded to a stop and cautiously turned off the searchlight. There, on the beach in front of him, was the Fury in all its pale glory. Just off to the side, three more dinosaur-like zoids stood proud in the dull light.
"Genosaurers," Thomas gasped.
Silently he looked on as all four zoids were loaded into containment units and dragged into the ocean by Demantis'. As carefully and quietly as he could, Thomas loaded his handgun and opened the bull-type zoid's hatch, landing in a crouch on the sand and stalking towards the beach.
~*~
Raven smirked. Vega was ready, and Reese would soon be recovering the Fury in the future. He briefly wondered if Reese's premonition was wrong, as only Van had died in their last battle, and not himself as well. Of course, it was only a brief thought, as he heard the distinctive click of a bullet sliding into the chamber behind him. Slowly he turned around, still smirking, to face the barrel of Thomas Shubaltz's gun. He closed his eyes and raised his hands in surrender.
"Of course."
There was a shot.
~*~
"That was a fantastic battle, kid," Bit congratulated, sliding an arm around Madra's shoulders and walking her from the hangar. Poor Leon was left slack jawed, staring at the ammunition marks that had managed to find target on his Blade Liger.
"Thanks Dad," Madra replied, smiling up at her father. "I had a blast out there!"
"Good, now where's the zoid gear?"
"I can't win, can I?"
Bit shook his head and waited for an answer.
Madra's shoulder's slumped as she waved towards the living quarters. "My room."
Bit ruffled her hair and started off in the direction of his daughter's room, while Madra continued on to the common room where the rest of the team were waiting in silence.
"I'm in big trouble, aren't I?"
"I can't believe you hid our zoid gear! What if you'd gotten in trouble out there? Huh?!" Leena exploded, causing the young girl to cringe slightly.
"Um, hey, look on the bright side. A single rookie pilot beat one of the top teams, that's gotta be worth a few points from the ZBC," she offered weakly.
"She has got a good point-"
"Shut UP Jamie," Leena interrupted. She turned back to her disturbingly silent daughter. "Promise you'll never do that again."
"I promise," Madra apologized quietly.
Leena broke into a grin and whispered into her ear. "Though it was pretty cool seeing you take down the Tasker's like that."
"And the look on Jack's face was priceless," Madra whispered back, causing both girls to break into giggling fits. Jamie and Doc just looked at each other and shrugged. It was probably best not to ask.
~*~
Vega's Berserk Fury roared as it took down another Stealth Viper with a vicious downward strike with its tri-blades. Even the simulated image in front of Sarah, no, Reese was enough to send a slight shiver of fear down her spine. Vega's combat style was almost identical to Raven's, a thought that both scared and excited her. Specula sidled up beside her seat in front of the console and the blue devil absently reached out and petted the organoid, the smooth metal cool under her fingers.
"It's almost disturbing, isn't it Specula?" She asked softly, still stroking the organoid. Specula growled her agreement and Reese smiled.
"He'll be ready. Don't worry."
Yes yes, almost a pointless chapter. But it was more of tying up a loose end I made for myself last chapter. I promise there'll be no more Jack humiliation. Actually, it gets pretty fun for me from here on out. And darker too.
Next chapter: We focus on Vega and Madra's relationship; Friends? Companions? Ancient enemies from a distant past? Hell, it's almost pointless fluff, but it's fun, I promise.
Unfortunately my family and I are trekking up to Mackay next week (For all those international reader's, think the most boring town you've ever been to, compounded with creepy relatives) (Sorry to those actually in Mackay) So that mean's no updates till the new year. So until then, Happy Holidays and have a safe New Year.
Cheers, The Raven Cowboy.
By Raven Cowboy aka Mandz.
And this, my friends, is the long awaited 3rd chapter that I have finally gotten off my lazy holidaying ass to write just for you :D As always, reviews are quite welcome, flames laughed at, but constructive criticism dutifully taken into account. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own diddily-squat.aside from Madra.and a few zoids models.and a couple of posters.but I love my models so if someone decides to sue, I'll unfortunately have to hire a hitman.
"You mean it dad?" Madra asked excitedly. "I can actually enter a real battle!?"
Bit watched his 8 year-old daughter bounce around in front of him. Again he asked himself if this was a good idea, a Class S battle might be a bit much for her to start with, but then he reminded himself that two of the Blitz team members would be right beside. Leon had graciously lent his Blade Liger, now a Blitz registered zoid after his trade-off with Brad two years ago. That day, the day Madra encountered Jack Sisco for the first time.
She hadn't thought about that too much until today, when, surprise surprise, the team's opponent was to be the Lightning team. She now understood what had happened that day, and wanted not just to beat the Saixs, but humiliate them. At least, that's what she reasoned when she hid everyone's zoid gear, even Jamie's. Madra knew big trouble would follow, but at the moment she had a zoid battle to worry about.
~*~
"What do you mean our zoid gear is missing?!" Bit exploded to the hapless Doc. "It was right here! We always leave it in the hover cargo control pit!"
"Mine's here," Madra piped up.
"Sweety, you need two other warriors with you out there. This is your first battle, not a simulation," Leena replied, looking a little distressed. "You could get hurt."
"Mom, I'm beating Gojulas' on the simulators. I think I can handle a few Saixs," her daughter assured her. "Besides, it's just Sisco and the Taskers. And they suck."
Jamie, Doc and Leon burst out laughing at that.
Leena glared at them. "You're not helping," she muttered.
"What? They do."
"Oh..let her go..she'll be fine," Doc gasped out between fits.
Leena glanced at Bit, who just shrugged.
"Oh alright, but at the first sign of trouble, we're calling in forfeit," the redhead relented, ruffling Madra's dark hair.
"Yes!" 'That was too easy!' Madra pumped her fist in the air and sprinted to the hangar.
"She hid the zoid gear, didn't she," Bit stated, watching his mischievous daughter go.
"Yup," Leena sighed.
"She's your kid," Leon threw in.
"Oh shut up. That's your zoid she's using. You know her style," the Gun Sniper pilot shot back.
"Melee," everyone sighed, sweat dropping in unison.
~*~
The 8 year-old laughed, strapping herself into the Liger's cockpit and loading her zoid gear.
flashed across her screen. Suddenly, her communicator crackled to life.
"Have fun kid," Bit's voice echoed in the speakers. "Oh and by the way, you're in some serious trouble when you get back."
Madra slapped her forehead before opening a reply channel. "Dad, I can explain-"
Bit chuckled. "No, no. You just worry about the Saixs for now. See ya!"
The young girl gripped her controls as the Judge's announcement crackled over the comm. A gong sounded and the Liger launched from the rotation deck of the hover cargo.
~*~
Meanwhile, at the other end of the battlefield, the Lightning team were going over some last minute tactics to combat the Liger Zero. The last thing they were expecting, however, was a solitary zoid on the horizon, steadily growing larger as it closed the distance between them.
"What?! Where's the Liger Zero?!" Chris exclaimed, searching her Saix's scanner outputs.
"There's no other zoid out there!" replied Kelly, suddenly smirking as the lone zoid grew closer. "It's only Leon and his Blade Liger. This'll be an easy victory."
"On your guard, ladies. Something's not right," Jack looked out over the terrain, watching the Liger's movements. "Are you sure they don't have zoids stationed as fixed weapons on the cliffs?"
"Affirmative, no zoids confirmed," Kelly replied.
"I'm going after it," said Chris, urging her zoid into motion and speeding towards the approaching unit. A head on collision seemed unavoidable as the two zoids targeted each other, when the Liger suddenly grounded a forepaw and used its momentum to pivot around as the Saix passed where it had been microseconds ago.
"What?! How could I miss?" exclaimed the Tasker, watching as the Liger began to slipstream her. The Saix seemed to be pulling away from it's pursuer, until the crimson zoid charged its boosters and began firing its low-mounted cannon, hitting its target with disturbing accuracy.
"Dammit!" yelled the enraged woman as her screen flashed 'SYSTEM FREEZE' over and over again.
"Now it's our turn Jack," Kelly grinned to her comrade over the vid-link. Jack simply nodded, wondering how Leon had gotten so skilled in such a short time. The remaining Saixs slipped into the drag stream formation, hoping to knock the Liger off-balance with the pulse-wake. Madra reflexively sidestepped and deployed the blades, and with a quick boost forward removed one of the forelegs on Kelly's trailing zoid, narrowly missing Jack.
'I know that move!' Jack suddenly realized. His mind shifted to the simulation against a certain young girl two years before. 'That kid.'
"You!" Jack growled into the open channel of his comm. Madra's grinning face lit up on the vid-screen in front of him.
"Hiya Jack! Haven't seen you in a while. How've you been?"
"Better. Get out of here kid, this is a zoid battle, not a playground."
Madra's expression suddenly darkened, and an unfounded fear wormed into Jack's chest. "No Jack. I'm gonna make you pay for how you insulted me and my parents," she hissed. "I'm gonna humiliate you like you tried to humiliate me."
"She smirked, opening a variety of comm.-link channels to nearby TV stations, feeding images of herself, the downed Saixs and the stand-off taking place.
~*~
"A kid's piloting that zoid?!"
"She's the only one out there for the Blitz team! What were they thinking?!"
"She's already taken down two Lightning Saix's."
"Oh this is too good. Jack'll never live this down."
Crowds in various bars and zoid stores alternated between disbelief and laughter at the position one of the top Class S teams was in. At one particular bar, a pair of zoid pilots quietly laughed among themselves in the corner; Team Fluegal was thoroughly enjoying the show.
"Smart kid," Brad stated absently, taking a sip of his drink.
"Mmm hmm, I almost feel sorry for Jack," Naomi replied. Brad raised an eyebrow.
"I said 'almost'. He's a cockroach and deserves everything Madra dishes him."
Brad smirked into his drink and turned his attention back to the battle on screen.
~*~
Taking advantage of her opponent's momentary lapse in concentration, Madra directed the Blade Liger to leap into the air, the sun's glare radiating behind her, and deployed her blades again. Suddenly remembering where he was, Jack shook himself awake and blindly peppered fire in the Liger's general direction as said zoid flew down and cleanly sliced the cannon off the Saix's back. flashed across Jack's screen as he put his head in his hands in disbelief and anger.
"Little bitch," he muttered, as Madra's grinning image again appeared on the vid-link.
"That was fun Jack! We should do it again some time!"
Jack planted his fist into the screen as it closed.
~*~
"Dammit!" Thomas yelled, removing his damaged hand from the now shattered screen. How could he have lost Raven so easily? Beak hummed and whirred inside the lieutenant's helmet as the DiBison plowed over the moonlit terrain, still on the fading trail of the Berserk Fury. He was determined to get revenge on Raven for Van and Fiona, even if it took him years to track the maniac down.
As Thomas rounded yet another set of cliffs, he suddenly skidded to a stop and cautiously turned off the searchlight. There, on the beach in front of him, was the Fury in all its pale glory. Just off to the side, three more dinosaur-like zoids stood proud in the dull light.
"Genosaurers," Thomas gasped.
Silently he looked on as all four zoids were loaded into containment units and dragged into the ocean by Demantis'. As carefully and quietly as he could, Thomas loaded his handgun and opened the bull-type zoid's hatch, landing in a crouch on the sand and stalking towards the beach.
~*~
Raven smirked. Vega was ready, and Reese would soon be recovering the Fury in the future. He briefly wondered if Reese's premonition was wrong, as only Van had died in their last battle, and not himself as well. Of course, it was only a brief thought, as he heard the distinctive click of a bullet sliding into the chamber behind him. Slowly he turned around, still smirking, to face the barrel of Thomas Shubaltz's gun. He closed his eyes and raised his hands in surrender.
"Of course."
There was a shot.
~*~
"That was a fantastic battle, kid," Bit congratulated, sliding an arm around Madra's shoulders and walking her from the hangar. Poor Leon was left slack jawed, staring at the ammunition marks that had managed to find target on his Blade Liger.
"Thanks Dad," Madra replied, smiling up at her father. "I had a blast out there!"
"Good, now where's the zoid gear?"
"I can't win, can I?"
Bit shook his head and waited for an answer.
Madra's shoulder's slumped as she waved towards the living quarters. "My room."
Bit ruffled her hair and started off in the direction of his daughter's room, while Madra continued on to the common room where the rest of the team were waiting in silence.
"I'm in big trouble, aren't I?"
"I can't believe you hid our zoid gear! What if you'd gotten in trouble out there? Huh?!" Leena exploded, causing the young girl to cringe slightly.
"Um, hey, look on the bright side. A single rookie pilot beat one of the top teams, that's gotta be worth a few points from the ZBC," she offered weakly.
"She has got a good point-"
"Shut UP Jamie," Leena interrupted. She turned back to her disturbingly silent daughter. "Promise you'll never do that again."
"I promise," Madra apologized quietly.
Leena broke into a grin and whispered into her ear. "Though it was pretty cool seeing you take down the Tasker's like that."
"And the look on Jack's face was priceless," Madra whispered back, causing both girls to break into giggling fits. Jamie and Doc just looked at each other and shrugged. It was probably best not to ask.
~*~
Vega's Berserk Fury roared as it took down another Stealth Viper with a vicious downward strike with its tri-blades. Even the simulated image in front of Sarah, no, Reese was enough to send a slight shiver of fear down her spine. Vega's combat style was almost identical to Raven's, a thought that both scared and excited her. Specula sidled up beside her seat in front of the console and the blue devil absently reached out and petted the organoid, the smooth metal cool under her fingers.
"It's almost disturbing, isn't it Specula?" She asked softly, still stroking the organoid. Specula growled her agreement and Reese smiled.
"He'll be ready. Don't worry."
Yes yes, almost a pointless chapter. But it was more of tying up a loose end I made for myself last chapter. I promise there'll be no more Jack humiliation. Actually, it gets pretty fun for me from here on out. And darker too.
Next chapter: We focus on Vega and Madra's relationship; Friends? Companions? Ancient enemies from a distant past? Hell, it's almost pointless fluff, but it's fun, I promise.
Unfortunately my family and I are trekking up to Mackay next week (For all those international reader's, think the most boring town you've ever been to, compounded with creepy relatives) (Sorry to those actually in Mackay) So that mean's no updates till the new year. So until then, Happy Holidays and have a safe New Year.
Cheers, The Raven Cowboy.