Chaotic Century Zoids fic. This is about the Shubaltz brothers when they're kids and their relationship to each other. Being the series doesn't go into detail things in this story may be OOC. My theory of the Shubaltz brothers life as kids.

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A/N: Sorry for the loooonnnngg wait and not getting any out during X-Mas but I had to get my grades up and things came up at X-Mas that prevented me from writing. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews. This chapter is their sixth and seventh grade year. Next chapter starts one grade per year. Remember, this story happens during the War after Karl met Van. Enjoy reading!! ^_^

Chap.5 (6th Grade; Karl-11 hasn't had b-day yet, Thomas-11)

It was the last day of summer vacation. Tomorrow started school Karl and Thomas were now in their last year of elementary school. The boys were excited. Their mom had taken them out shopping to buy new clothes and school supplies. After getting home, the boys went out to practice in their Zoids. When they came back, their mom cornered them.

" Hi boys, how would you like to go to a movie?" their mother, Tiffany, queried.

" Great! Can we go see, Zoid Hunters?" Karl enquired.

" Sure."

The three of them packed away into the jeep and headed towards the theater. Once they were there, they got their tickets and popcorn and went inside the theater.

The movie was very exciting. It was about a tribe of Zians (my word for people who live on Zi) who were searching for the ultimate Zoid to defeat the oppressing power of the Zions, another tribal clan of Zi. In the process, two Zian boys meet up with the Zoidians and receive great power from them. The two boys Alex and Mike prevented this power from falling into the wrong hands. Ultimately they receive the greatest honor of their clan.

The boys left the movie completely satisfied. Once they were home the two got ready for tomorrow the start of their last year of elementary school. After they were done, exhausted, they crawled into bed.

The two woke up early, excited about what the new day had in store for them. Once they had ate breakfast and said goodbye to their mom and Lisa, they were on their way to school. The two brothers arrived at the school with plenty of time to spare. After they had set up their lockers, they decided to wait in the library for the warning bell to ring.

Their talk was pretty random from Zoids to Music to the 6th grade trip that was at the end of this school year. It was tradition for the 6th grade class to go on a three day trip to the Imperial capitol, Guygalos. There they would go see the sites along with some educational junk but it wasn't that bad most of the time. There was only two requirements to go on the trip: 1. You had to be able to pay for it. 2. You had to be passing the grade. Neither of the requirements were a problem for the brothers. They had more than enough money, and they had no problems with grades ever.

Eventually the bell rang, halting their conversation. They went to class and found out they had two new teachers from the ones of last year. Their day went by quickly. The brothers had made a few new friends and still saw some of their old ones. Grinning from ear to ear the two went home and trained their goals of joining the military still present in their everyday lives.

(May of their 6th grade year)

Karl and Thomas were bouncing off the wall. This was the day they were leaving on the 6th grade trip. They would be away from home for three days with no parent to badger them to do this and do that. They were dressed in simple tank tops, shorts, and sneakers. Karl was wearing a baseball cap and Thomas was wearing sunglasses. The most interesting thing about their attire however was two armbands that were on both boys left arms.

" Hey guys what are those armbands for? They look cool. Are those dragons on them? Where can I get one?" asked one of their friends, the boy's name was Kirk.

" Whoa, whoa, and whoa, put the brakes on! Will you? One question at a time please!" Thomas told him. " To answer your questions, the armbands were a present to remember a friend, and yes they have dragons on them, and they were custom made by our friends mom."

" That's cool I would never have thought of that for a going away present."

" Kirk?" Karl asked.

" Yes?"

" Shut up!" both Thomas and Karl said at once. They looked at each other and started laughing. That was Kirk for you. He could get on your nerves but deep down he was a great friend.

Suddenly, the teachers called the students onto the buses. It was finally time to go.

The three boys, Kirk, Thomas, and Karl, got off the bus. They had finally gotten back from the trip to Guygalos. All three had had fun and were currently talking about the trip as they were waiting for their rides home.

" Remember children! Summer Vacation is in two days! Don't forget to come to school for the two days of school next week! We won't have a lot of work so they will just be goof off days!"

The two boys laughed. Karl and Thomas saw their mom and went over to her. They got into the jeep and drove home. The boys got through the two days of school left. Finally, Summer Vacation was here.

7th Grade (Karl – 13, Thomas – 12)

It was the middle of the school year. The season where the talk is Basketball, Christmas that had just past, and any other fad or fashion that is popular in school. It is also the season of cold and boredom for two brothers stuck in school with the most boring teacher of them all. They were in Science currently with Ms. Hall who just droned on and on about cellular reproduction and the structure of DNA on a molecular level. Stuff that they had been going over since the start of school and frankly the two boys were getting sick of the topic. Both however had had the worst luck of getting seats in the front of her room.

Ms. Hall was the kind of teacher that wouldn't pay very close attention to her students… well her good students anyway. For there sat Karl and Thomas with books that were not pertaining to the topic of discussion which they were reading right in front of her face. Karl was reading a book about dragons while Thomas was reading some manga that he just happened to have in his backpack. The two had A's in her class. Strangely in a moment of a freak occurrence, Ms. Hall actually started paying attention.

" Karl and Thomas! Put those books away! Unless you wish to teach the class about everything we have covered and every thing we are about to cover for you obviously know all about it to be reading!"

The two siblings stared straight at Ms. Hall. Thomas gave this look to Karl that purely said " Should we put her in her place?" Karl just looked at Thomas and nodded. Karl decided to speak up.

" Is that a challenge?"

" Yes it is!"

Thomas piped up, " Then we will teach the class. It is the same stuff we have been going over since the beginning of the year."

The teacher looked at them with dumb shock, clearly she had not expected that kind of reply from a student. She thought they would just obey and not take her up on her threat. The class started cheering at Thomas' remark for they too were sick of the subject and were glad someone was finally putting Ms. Hall in her place. The message was finally getting across that they already knew the material and were ready for a new subject to talk about. That started a new chapter in that teacher's life and definitely made science more interesting for the remainder of the year.

March 7th Grade

It was baseball season as well as track season. Karl and Thomas still kept up with their training and their promise to one another. So as they had promised themselves in 3rd grade they went out for the track team. The first day of try outs was hard. Many wanted to be on the track team and the competition was vigorous. The next day first cut had been posted and both boys had gotten through that. They again went through another hard try out for the final cut. The results of the cut were to be posted on the gym's bulletin board.

The boys were currently waiting for Math to get over so they could get to the gym for their final class of P.E. and hope to get a peak of the board before the end of school when every one was going to check out the results of the cut. The bell rang, the two of them taking off like a shot for the gym to change out then check the cut list. They quickly changed in the locker room. The P.E. teacher was having them play baseball so the two boys before leaving the locker room grabbed their baseball gear for they had also played a little at home. Among their equipment was their gloves, their bats, the ball, and the spikes they used for track and running during their training sessions at home.

The two of them were the first out of the locker room. They dropped off their stuff and told the teacher they were there and then they quickly ran over to the bulletin board. Sure enough the list was already up and had only been there for a couple minutes for it hadn't been there when they passed by it to go change in the locker rooms. Checking for their names, they ran down the list getting more disappointed as they went. Finally, they found their names at the very bottom of the list. They had not only made the running events they had also made the all around field events as well.

The two boys thoroughly happy now went over to join their classmates in PE. They had been playing baseball for a week now and Karl was playing first base and Thomas was playing out field and occasionally allowed to pitch. Karl was aloud to be catcher whenever Thomas pitched for the two made what the PE teacher thought an unlikely team when it came to being pitcher and catcher together. At the end of PE that day the teacher came up to them. Pulling them aside he asked them.

" How would you two like to join the baseball team?" he queried for he was the baseball coach as well.

They looked at him. " We would love to but we made the track team. There is no way we can do both and keep our grades up. We wouldn't even be able to go to all our meets or games for either sport because we would be rotating back and forth in sports."

The coach looked at them and raised a hand up, " I thoroughly understand. Oh well have fun and congratulations on your acceptance to the track team."

Walking home that night after the first track practice of the season, both boys were exhausted but happy. They were on their way to realize their dreams not only that they could always do baseball for fun on the school teams if they were not during track season. The rest of the school year and track season went on. The siblings won many trophies and awards for their track meets. They also at the end of the school year were awarded as the two best students of the year in grades. Bubbling over happy the two of them looked forward to a summer of training with their Zoids for their dreams of the future.

" This has been a good year, Thom." Karl commented looking back on the school year.

" Yes it has." Thomas replied, " Yes it has, Karl. We have all summer for training and next year I'm sure it will be just good as this one."

As they were waiting for the blissful realm of sleep and dreams to come. The two looked back on the last year. As they fell asleep both of them said goodnight as blissful dreams came. The two boys had fallen asleep in their beds with peaceful smiles on their faces, looking to the promises of a new day tomorrow.

A/N: I need to know what you think before I continue with this story. If you want to see what the two were like in the past please review. FLAMES ARE ACCEPTED!! BUT PLEASE GIVE ME THE REASONING BEHIND THE FLAMES!!!!! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews once again. Till next time… Ja'ne and Sayonara ^_~