Tori the Hanyou: Wow, already Chapter 3! This is so cool! I know, I left
you guys at a cliffy last time, so I'm gonna skip the usual crap and get
you guys right into the next chappie!
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The Unknown Ultimate-X
Chapter 3: Betrayal
"What do you want this time, Backdraft?" asked Bit. He was still ticked off for Liger's attempted kidnapping.
"Actually, we weren't interested in talking about the Liger-Zero today," replied the voice. Everyone was shocked. "We wanted to introduce our newest member. He shows major promise, especially since he can pilot the Berserk Fury."
Tori squinted at the screen. Something about the figure behind the man on the screen was familiar.
"Before we show him, we just wanted to congratulate you on your newest member," continued the voice. "This young man here claims to know her, don't you, Taylor?" He turned to the figure behind him. Stepping out of the shadows was a fifteen-year-old boy about 5'11'' with short brown hair and dark brown eyes.
"Hey, sis," he said, in a not-too-nice tone. Tori's eyes widened.
"T-Taylor? But . . .but how could you . . .I haven't seen you in . . ."
"Four years? Yeah, it's a long time. But, as you can see, I've found some new people to hang with. Happy reunion, Victoria." With that he turned and walked out a door. Tori stared after him, tears in her eyes. She didn't even want to listen to the rest of the conversation. She turned and raced out the door.
Lena looked after her new friend worriedly, and followed.
Tori raced down the stairs and out on the porch outside her and Lena's room. It was raining, and a distant rumble of thunder could be heard. Tori stood, looking over the plains. She pulled up the sleeve of her shirt, revealing a small bracelet. It was gold, with a small locket hanging from it. She took off the bracelet and opened the locket, revealing a minute picture of Taylor giving her a noogie. They were both laughing. The tears spilled over as she stared at their happy faces.
Closing the locket in a fist, and shutting her eyes tight, Tori suddenly threw the bracelet as far as she could. It landed far away from the balcony on which she stood. She sank down against the wall, tucking up her legs and crying into her knees. (If you've ever seen Swan Princess, the animated version, imagine 'Far Longer Than Forever' playing on the piano in the background)
Lena spotted Tori outside, and opened the door. She knelt down next to her.
"Tori?"
"It can't be true!" cried Tori, raising her head. Lena looked at her. Her eyes were blood red from crying. "We haven't seen each other for four years! And the first I see of him, he's gone and joined the side that just happens to be the enemy of the team I joined! Why was he being so mean to me?" she sobbed.
"Tori, I . . ."
"He and I used to have so much fun together . . .we were more than just siblings, we were best buds! He'd make me laugh whenever I felt down, but now . . ."
"Tori, maybe that wasn't him," said Lena, before Tori could launch into another tear fit. Tori stared at her like she was nuts.
"Lena, you don't think I wouldn't know my own brother anywhere?"
"Listen, what I'm saying is, maybe that was some sort of hologram, or robot, or a hired person," explained Lena.
"But why would they want to turn my own brother against me?" asked Tori.
"Maybe, because they really do have him on their side, but if he knew you were on ours, he wouldn't fight us as hard, and that wouldn't be good for the Backdraft Group. He probably told them your name, and that you were his sister, and they just found out about your joining our team, so they decided to turn the tables in their favor."
Tori thought long and hard. She turned to look at Lena.
"That might be it, Lena, thanks." She stood up, drying her eyes. The rain stopped as she ran inside. Lena stood up.
'Man, I come up with the craziest things these days,' she thought.
Tori stopped out the front door as the clouds began to part. A beam of sunlight shot through, right on the bracelet she'd thrown off the balcony. She ran to it, picking it up, smiling at the sky. 'I'm coming, Taylor,' she thought.
~*Six days later*~
The four Blitz Team members launched out of the hover cargo. Across the desert battlefield, the Lightning Team climbed out of their HQ. The three Lightning Sykes came racing across the desert at their opponent. They stopped when they saw the Liger in its normal form, facing them.
"You really think you can beat us without your fancy armor?" laughed the front pilot.
"Um...let me think...yeah," said Bit, confident. Tori and the Ligress appeared beside him. "The Liger and the Ligress are gonna take all of you down, right now!" With that, Ligress shot behind them, barely giving anyone time to blink, slashing the middle Sykes's back legs. It fell to the ground, startling the other two. Bit smirked, racing at the right one, taking it out with one Laser Claw Attack. "Looks like you guys are big on talk, but not on defense, and not on speed anymore," smirked Bit. The left one tried to run, but Lena chased after it, going mad with her Weasel Assault. (Big surprise . . .-_-;;)
"The battle is over! The battle is over! Victory goes to...the Blitz Team!" called the robot judge.
"Wow, that was quick, hope that means we get more cash," said Brad.
"Doesn't look like it's over just yet," came Jamie's voice over the microphones. "Look up." Everyone did.
Coming right at them was an enormous Whale King. "Looks like the Backdraft wants a personal talk with us. Over and out." Jamie closed the link.
Ligress growled. Tori's eyes widened. Lena, recovering from her rush of insanity, walked over to her. Liger put up his spikes, walking over to the Ligress. They were giving each other low growls.
"Hey, Bit? Are our Zoids talking?" asked Tori. Bit examined Liger and nodded.
"Looks like it, he's probably warning her about the Backdraft's rep."
The huge Whale King landed. The doors opened, and out stepped none other than the Berserk Fury. The Backdraft Leader came up on their intercoms.
"Hello, again, Blitz Team."
"What now?" snapped Bit.
"We're here to have a battle with you, of course!" came the response.
"Why? We just had one!" said Lena angrily.
"Yes, therefore, your Zoids aren't at their fullest power," said the Leader.
"Actually, they're fine. It didn't take anything to wipe out the Lightning Team," said Brad calmly.
"Easy for you to say, you didn't do anything! I'm out of ammo from my Weasel Assault!" cried Lena.
"Hold on, Lena," said Jamie, coming up over the intercom. "I'll take the Raynos out in your place while you go get your ammo replenished, ok?" Lena agreed, and hurried back to the hover cargo.
"Where do you think you're going?" came a voice from the Berserk Fury. Suddenly, a shot fired from one of the cannons, straight at the Gunsniper.
"Lena!" cried Bit. He sent the Liger after the Gunsniper, and tackled it out of the way, just in time. The shot went zipping overhead, blowing up a large hill a half-mile off.
Tori stood there in shock. Taylor had fired at one of her friends! Ligress growled furiously. She let out an immense roar, charging at the Fury. It shot, but the Ligress vanished, reappearing on the Fury's neck, her fangs buried deep in the back of it.
"Wow, that was fast," commented Brad.
Bit opened his eyes and looked out the windshield at the fallen Zoid.
"Lena?" he called over the intercom, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks, Bit," said the pilot as she got her Gunsniper to stand up. There was an awkward silence for a minute, until Bit heard the angry roar of the Ligress, and soon the cries of the Fury. The two turned to see the enemy Zoid's head thrashing here and there, with the furious Ligress clinging to the back of its neck by its teeth and front claws.
"You'd better get back, now," said Bit calmly.
"But..."
"No buts! Do it!" said Bit sharply, and Liger nudged the Gunsniper towards the hover cargo.
"Okay, okay, I'm going!" she said, hurrying off. Bit kept his eye on her until she was safely back inside, and Jamie came launching out of the top level.
"Let's go, Bit! Quit standing around!" snapped Jamie as his Raynos pilot side took over and he became a whole different person.
"I'm coming!" Bit turned the Liger, and headed towards the Fury, where the Shadow Fox was trying to shoot it in the face. Suddenly, the Fury fell over backwards, purposely slamming its head into the ground. When the dust cleared, it rose to its feet, and in a crater in the ground, there lay the fallen Ligress. The Fury aimed all of its guns, particularly its Neutron Cannon, at the Zoid, but a green blur zoomed in, slicing off the ends of most of the artillery.
"HAHA! Take that, you oversized gecko!" cried Jamie as he swooped in, aiming for the Neutron Cannon this time. Suddenly, one of the undamaged lasers pointed at Raynos, firing. Jamie barely dodged it, but it grazed the Raynos's underside. "Damnit!" he cursed, as he swooped away to analyze the damage.
Bit raced for the crater while Brad and Jamie had the Fury distracted.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Ugh, never...been...better..." came the injured, yet sarcastic voice of the fourteen year old. "Ligress? You ok, girl?" The Ligress gingerly stood up, shaking herself. "Take it easy, that was a rough blow we took," said Tori. The Ligress nodded.
"Isn't he your brother?" asked Bit.
"Yeah, but brother or not, no one hurts my friends," said Tori as she launched for the Fury again. It turned its laser at the Fox, who was still firing at its supposed weak places, like its joints and face. The laser fired in a wide range this time, and Brad couldn't move out of the way. He was blasted off his feet, landing a few hundred yards away.
"Go, Liger! Laser Claw Attack!"
"Ligress, Deadly Slash!"
Both Zoids roared in anticipation as they leapt at the enemy Zoid. Suddenly, the Fury moved quickly, slicing its tail through the air, crashing it into Liger. Bit's yell of surprise could be heard as Liger flew through the air, landing hard on his back at the foot of a hill. As it completed its tail swipe, the Fury shot Ligress off course with the laser gun. Jamie swooped in for another attack, but got caught in the line of fire as the wide-range laser struck him again on the underside, and the Raynos spun out, crashing into the ground.
Over the intercom, the Leader's voice yelled,
"Come on, Berserk Fury! Destroy the Ligress first! Then get that annoying kid Bit and his Liger! Move it!"
The Berserk Fury's Neutron Cannon pointed straight at Ligress again. With Jamie down and out, there was no way she'd be saved this time. Unless...
'I don't think that was him...it was probably a robot, or hologram, or hired person...' Lena's voice came in her mind.
Tori struggled to move her hand to the intercom button. Ligress's hit had caused her to be thrown into the back of the seat, and then again into the front dashboard, nearly giving her whiplash. Her entire body felt like it was bruised. She hit the button, calling...
"Taylor, don't...do it..."
"What? How do you know my name? Who are you?" Taylor's face appeared on the screen.
"Hey...bro..." Taylor's brown eyes widened.
"V-Victoria? What the...how did you..."
"Nice seeing you again..."
"Why are you on their side?"
"Because...they're my friends..."
The Backdraft Leader's voice came up again.
"What are you doing??? Destroy it!"
"Why would I attack my own sister?" retorted Taylor.
"What the...so you know..." he said, in a low, evil voice. Tori's eyes widened with suspicion. "Berserk Fury, retreat!" he called.
"Hold on a minute! Can't I at least have some time to talk to her? We haven't seen each other in..."
"I know how long!" came the voice, apparently very irritated. "No! You can't! Retreat now, or suffer the consequences!"
"Ugh...like...what?" said Tori, angry, yet still hurt. "You're...separating...two siblings who...actually want...to talk...to each other? You're...sick..." she managed to gasp out.
"That's enough out of you, brat!" The Whale King fired a shot, blasting the already damaged Ligress another few hundred yards back. "Berserk Fury, come back, now! Or your sister will suffer the same fate you almost did!" The Ligress was already furious. Bit had been up for a while now, watching the scene. He raced for the Whale King.
"WEASEL ASSAULT!!!!" screamed an all-too-familiar voice. Suddenly a bunch of bullets blasted the Whale King's side, leaving a considerable dent. "Don't you DARE hurt one of my friends!" yelled the fearsomely furious redheaded pilot as she stepped in front of Ligress, who was rising to her feet.
"Lena...thanks..." said Tori. "Ligress and...I will take it from here."
"Oh, no you don't, you're not having all the fun," retorted Lena. Bit had leapt for the cargo door. Fury stood there, unsure of what to do. Suddenly, the Fury began to glow red.
"Wha-what's going on?" yelled Taylor as the Berserk fury began to race towards the Whale King.
"I'm using a remote control system previously built into Fury!" yelled the BD Leader. "Since you won't get back here, I'm making you!"
"Taylor! Try to open the cockpit door and jump out!" called Tori, suddenly energized.
"I...can't...it won't budge!"
"Hang on, Ill get it open!" cried Bit as he raced for the Fury. Suddenly, its laser cannon struck him again. "Damn! I can't get close!" he called after many repeats of this.
"TAYLOR!!!" Tori screamed as the Fury reached the King, leapt inside the door, and the gigantic Zoid flew off. She felt rage. Ligress felt the feeling pulsing from her partner, and it affected her, too. She turned to the Whale King's retreating form, and gave an absolutely furious roar that echoed throughout the battlefield, and gave chase.
"Tori, don't!" cried Lena. Tori didn't hear her. As they ran, Ligress snarled at it as it continued to get smaller. Tears forming in her eyes, Tori finally ordered Ligress to quit it. Tori jumped out of the cockpit onto the ground, watching as the Whale King continued its flight, getting smaller and smaller, until it had disappeared altogether. Tori blinked, sending the precipitation down her cheeks.
"I'll have your heads...Backdraft..." she gasped through gritted teeth. Ligress lowered her head sadly. They had failed. She lay down next to her friend as Tori sat down, watching the sky for what seemed like eternity.
He was gone, and there was nothing she could do about it...
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Tori the Hanyou: Well, how'd you like that? I know, I'm still VERY busy with my other fics, but this one's finally been updated! Yay! 10 reviews for just two chapters! Whoopee! I'm happy! *does little dance* Anywho, thanks to all of y'all for reviewing! Cya next chappie!
~*Tori the Hanyou*~
DISCLAIMER: Check the other chapters
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The Unknown Ultimate-X
Chapter 3: Betrayal
"What do you want this time, Backdraft?" asked Bit. He was still ticked off for Liger's attempted kidnapping.
"Actually, we weren't interested in talking about the Liger-Zero today," replied the voice. Everyone was shocked. "We wanted to introduce our newest member. He shows major promise, especially since he can pilot the Berserk Fury."
Tori squinted at the screen. Something about the figure behind the man on the screen was familiar.
"Before we show him, we just wanted to congratulate you on your newest member," continued the voice. "This young man here claims to know her, don't you, Taylor?" He turned to the figure behind him. Stepping out of the shadows was a fifteen-year-old boy about 5'11'' with short brown hair and dark brown eyes.
"Hey, sis," he said, in a not-too-nice tone. Tori's eyes widened.
"T-Taylor? But . . .but how could you . . .I haven't seen you in . . ."
"Four years? Yeah, it's a long time. But, as you can see, I've found some new people to hang with. Happy reunion, Victoria." With that he turned and walked out a door. Tori stared after him, tears in her eyes. She didn't even want to listen to the rest of the conversation. She turned and raced out the door.
Lena looked after her new friend worriedly, and followed.
Tori raced down the stairs and out on the porch outside her and Lena's room. It was raining, and a distant rumble of thunder could be heard. Tori stood, looking over the plains. She pulled up the sleeve of her shirt, revealing a small bracelet. It was gold, with a small locket hanging from it. She took off the bracelet and opened the locket, revealing a minute picture of Taylor giving her a noogie. They were both laughing. The tears spilled over as she stared at their happy faces.
Closing the locket in a fist, and shutting her eyes tight, Tori suddenly threw the bracelet as far as she could. It landed far away from the balcony on which she stood. She sank down against the wall, tucking up her legs and crying into her knees. (If you've ever seen Swan Princess, the animated version, imagine 'Far Longer Than Forever' playing on the piano in the background)
Lena spotted Tori outside, and opened the door. She knelt down next to her.
"Tori?"
"It can't be true!" cried Tori, raising her head. Lena looked at her. Her eyes were blood red from crying. "We haven't seen each other for four years! And the first I see of him, he's gone and joined the side that just happens to be the enemy of the team I joined! Why was he being so mean to me?" she sobbed.
"Tori, I . . ."
"He and I used to have so much fun together . . .we were more than just siblings, we were best buds! He'd make me laugh whenever I felt down, but now . . ."
"Tori, maybe that wasn't him," said Lena, before Tori could launch into another tear fit. Tori stared at her like she was nuts.
"Lena, you don't think I wouldn't know my own brother anywhere?"
"Listen, what I'm saying is, maybe that was some sort of hologram, or robot, or a hired person," explained Lena.
"But why would they want to turn my own brother against me?" asked Tori.
"Maybe, because they really do have him on their side, but if he knew you were on ours, he wouldn't fight us as hard, and that wouldn't be good for the Backdraft Group. He probably told them your name, and that you were his sister, and they just found out about your joining our team, so they decided to turn the tables in their favor."
Tori thought long and hard. She turned to look at Lena.
"That might be it, Lena, thanks." She stood up, drying her eyes. The rain stopped as she ran inside. Lena stood up.
'Man, I come up with the craziest things these days,' she thought.
Tori stopped out the front door as the clouds began to part. A beam of sunlight shot through, right on the bracelet she'd thrown off the balcony. She ran to it, picking it up, smiling at the sky. 'I'm coming, Taylor,' she thought.
~*Six days later*~
The four Blitz Team members launched out of the hover cargo. Across the desert battlefield, the Lightning Team climbed out of their HQ. The three Lightning Sykes came racing across the desert at their opponent. They stopped when they saw the Liger in its normal form, facing them.
"You really think you can beat us without your fancy armor?" laughed the front pilot.
"Um...let me think...yeah," said Bit, confident. Tori and the Ligress appeared beside him. "The Liger and the Ligress are gonna take all of you down, right now!" With that, Ligress shot behind them, barely giving anyone time to blink, slashing the middle Sykes's back legs. It fell to the ground, startling the other two. Bit smirked, racing at the right one, taking it out with one Laser Claw Attack. "Looks like you guys are big on talk, but not on defense, and not on speed anymore," smirked Bit. The left one tried to run, but Lena chased after it, going mad with her Weasel Assault. (Big surprise . . .-_-;;)
"The battle is over! The battle is over! Victory goes to...the Blitz Team!" called the robot judge.
"Wow, that was quick, hope that means we get more cash," said Brad.
"Doesn't look like it's over just yet," came Jamie's voice over the microphones. "Look up." Everyone did.
Coming right at them was an enormous Whale King. "Looks like the Backdraft wants a personal talk with us. Over and out." Jamie closed the link.
Ligress growled. Tori's eyes widened. Lena, recovering from her rush of insanity, walked over to her. Liger put up his spikes, walking over to the Ligress. They were giving each other low growls.
"Hey, Bit? Are our Zoids talking?" asked Tori. Bit examined Liger and nodded.
"Looks like it, he's probably warning her about the Backdraft's rep."
The huge Whale King landed. The doors opened, and out stepped none other than the Berserk Fury. The Backdraft Leader came up on their intercoms.
"Hello, again, Blitz Team."
"What now?" snapped Bit.
"We're here to have a battle with you, of course!" came the response.
"Why? We just had one!" said Lena angrily.
"Yes, therefore, your Zoids aren't at their fullest power," said the Leader.
"Actually, they're fine. It didn't take anything to wipe out the Lightning Team," said Brad calmly.
"Easy for you to say, you didn't do anything! I'm out of ammo from my Weasel Assault!" cried Lena.
"Hold on, Lena," said Jamie, coming up over the intercom. "I'll take the Raynos out in your place while you go get your ammo replenished, ok?" Lena agreed, and hurried back to the hover cargo.
"Where do you think you're going?" came a voice from the Berserk Fury. Suddenly, a shot fired from one of the cannons, straight at the Gunsniper.
"Lena!" cried Bit. He sent the Liger after the Gunsniper, and tackled it out of the way, just in time. The shot went zipping overhead, blowing up a large hill a half-mile off.
Tori stood there in shock. Taylor had fired at one of her friends! Ligress growled furiously. She let out an immense roar, charging at the Fury. It shot, but the Ligress vanished, reappearing on the Fury's neck, her fangs buried deep in the back of it.
"Wow, that was fast," commented Brad.
Bit opened his eyes and looked out the windshield at the fallen Zoid.
"Lena?" he called over the intercom, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks, Bit," said the pilot as she got her Gunsniper to stand up. There was an awkward silence for a minute, until Bit heard the angry roar of the Ligress, and soon the cries of the Fury. The two turned to see the enemy Zoid's head thrashing here and there, with the furious Ligress clinging to the back of its neck by its teeth and front claws.
"You'd better get back, now," said Bit calmly.
"But..."
"No buts! Do it!" said Bit sharply, and Liger nudged the Gunsniper towards the hover cargo.
"Okay, okay, I'm going!" she said, hurrying off. Bit kept his eye on her until she was safely back inside, and Jamie came launching out of the top level.
"Let's go, Bit! Quit standing around!" snapped Jamie as his Raynos pilot side took over and he became a whole different person.
"I'm coming!" Bit turned the Liger, and headed towards the Fury, where the Shadow Fox was trying to shoot it in the face. Suddenly, the Fury fell over backwards, purposely slamming its head into the ground. When the dust cleared, it rose to its feet, and in a crater in the ground, there lay the fallen Ligress. The Fury aimed all of its guns, particularly its Neutron Cannon, at the Zoid, but a green blur zoomed in, slicing off the ends of most of the artillery.
"HAHA! Take that, you oversized gecko!" cried Jamie as he swooped in, aiming for the Neutron Cannon this time. Suddenly, one of the undamaged lasers pointed at Raynos, firing. Jamie barely dodged it, but it grazed the Raynos's underside. "Damnit!" he cursed, as he swooped away to analyze the damage.
Bit raced for the crater while Brad and Jamie had the Fury distracted.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Ugh, never...been...better..." came the injured, yet sarcastic voice of the fourteen year old. "Ligress? You ok, girl?" The Ligress gingerly stood up, shaking herself. "Take it easy, that was a rough blow we took," said Tori. The Ligress nodded.
"Isn't he your brother?" asked Bit.
"Yeah, but brother or not, no one hurts my friends," said Tori as she launched for the Fury again. It turned its laser at the Fox, who was still firing at its supposed weak places, like its joints and face. The laser fired in a wide range this time, and Brad couldn't move out of the way. He was blasted off his feet, landing a few hundred yards away.
"Go, Liger! Laser Claw Attack!"
"Ligress, Deadly Slash!"
Both Zoids roared in anticipation as they leapt at the enemy Zoid. Suddenly, the Fury moved quickly, slicing its tail through the air, crashing it into Liger. Bit's yell of surprise could be heard as Liger flew through the air, landing hard on his back at the foot of a hill. As it completed its tail swipe, the Fury shot Ligress off course with the laser gun. Jamie swooped in for another attack, but got caught in the line of fire as the wide-range laser struck him again on the underside, and the Raynos spun out, crashing into the ground.
Over the intercom, the Leader's voice yelled,
"Come on, Berserk Fury! Destroy the Ligress first! Then get that annoying kid Bit and his Liger! Move it!"
The Berserk Fury's Neutron Cannon pointed straight at Ligress again. With Jamie down and out, there was no way she'd be saved this time. Unless...
'I don't think that was him...it was probably a robot, or hologram, or hired person...' Lena's voice came in her mind.
Tori struggled to move her hand to the intercom button. Ligress's hit had caused her to be thrown into the back of the seat, and then again into the front dashboard, nearly giving her whiplash. Her entire body felt like it was bruised. She hit the button, calling...
"Taylor, don't...do it..."
"What? How do you know my name? Who are you?" Taylor's face appeared on the screen.
"Hey...bro..." Taylor's brown eyes widened.
"V-Victoria? What the...how did you..."
"Nice seeing you again..."
"Why are you on their side?"
"Because...they're my friends..."
The Backdraft Leader's voice came up again.
"What are you doing??? Destroy it!"
"Why would I attack my own sister?" retorted Taylor.
"What the...so you know..." he said, in a low, evil voice. Tori's eyes widened with suspicion. "Berserk Fury, retreat!" he called.
"Hold on a minute! Can't I at least have some time to talk to her? We haven't seen each other in..."
"I know how long!" came the voice, apparently very irritated. "No! You can't! Retreat now, or suffer the consequences!"
"Ugh...like...what?" said Tori, angry, yet still hurt. "You're...separating...two siblings who...actually want...to talk...to each other? You're...sick..." she managed to gasp out.
"That's enough out of you, brat!" The Whale King fired a shot, blasting the already damaged Ligress another few hundred yards back. "Berserk Fury, come back, now! Or your sister will suffer the same fate you almost did!" The Ligress was already furious. Bit had been up for a while now, watching the scene. He raced for the Whale King.
"WEASEL ASSAULT!!!!" screamed an all-too-familiar voice. Suddenly a bunch of bullets blasted the Whale King's side, leaving a considerable dent. "Don't you DARE hurt one of my friends!" yelled the fearsomely furious redheaded pilot as she stepped in front of Ligress, who was rising to her feet.
"Lena...thanks..." said Tori. "Ligress and...I will take it from here."
"Oh, no you don't, you're not having all the fun," retorted Lena. Bit had leapt for the cargo door. Fury stood there, unsure of what to do. Suddenly, the Fury began to glow red.
"Wha-what's going on?" yelled Taylor as the Berserk fury began to race towards the Whale King.
"I'm using a remote control system previously built into Fury!" yelled the BD Leader. "Since you won't get back here, I'm making you!"
"Taylor! Try to open the cockpit door and jump out!" called Tori, suddenly energized.
"I...can't...it won't budge!"
"Hang on, Ill get it open!" cried Bit as he raced for the Fury. Suddenly, its laser cannon struck him again. "Damn! I can't get close!" he called after many repeats of this.
"TAYLOR!!!" Tori screamed as the Fury reached the King, leapt inside the door, and the gigantic Zoid flew off. She felt rage. Ligress felt the feeling pulsing from her partner, and it affected her, too. She turned to the Whale King's retreating form, and gave an absolutely furious roar that echoed throughout the battlefield, and gave chase.
"Tori, don't!" cried Lena. Tori didn't hear her. As they ran, Ligress snarled at it as it continued to get smaller. Tears forming in her eyes, Tori finally ordered Ligress to quit it. Tori jumped out of the cockpit onto the ground, watching as the Whale King continued its flight, getting smaller and smaller, until it had disappeared altogether. Tori blinked, sending the precipitation down her cheeks.
"I'll have your heads...Backdraft..." she gasped through gritted teeth. Ligress lowered her head sadly. They had failed. She lay down next to her friend as Tori sat down, watching the sky for what seemed like eternity.
He was gone, and there was nothing she could do about it...
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Tori the Hanyou: Well, how'd you like that? I know, I'm still VERY busy with my other fics, but this one's finally been updated! Yay! 10 reviews for just two chapters! Whoopee! I'm happy! *does little dance* Anywho, thanks to all of y'all for reviewing! Cya next chappie!
~*Tori the Hanyou*~