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Knuckles: "And Knuckles over here, uh, I think. S.D. You'll have to excuse
Knuckles for the moment, he just got back from eye surgery and can't quite
see yet. Uh Knuckles, you may not want to step there. Knuckles: Why? Oof,
ow, youch, ah, eeeh, argh, ow, AHHHH! S.D. Because those are the stairs.
Knuckles: (Face down on the ground) Thanks for the advanced warning. S.D.
Yeah. I'd like to start off by talking about some of the reviews I
received. *Ahem* First to Blades of Death, I apologize but I don't seem to
have every received a review from you before the last chapter. Second to
Zapper Zaku, the Guardian force was a military organization between the
Empire and the Republic in order to maintain peace between the two nations
so it seems logical that it would not just disband after the destruction of
the Death Saurer, and as for the ZBC their job pertains only to things in
the realm of Zoid Battles so they don't do the same job. Third is to AMC
08, try to contain yourself I'm getting there. And finally to Blades of
Death again but also to everyone, please keep your guesses about my story
to yourself, first of all I can't tell you if you're right, second of all
if you do get it right it could ruin the story, so please keep your
predictions to yourselves whenever possible. Thank you. On with the story!
Knuckles: Little help here. S.D. Huh? Oh, sorry.
Losing the Soul
Chapter 5: Confront
Bit walked into the old Control room of the Whale King to find Dr. Layon sitting at a collapsible table eating noodles. Layon: "Bout' time you woke up. It's already dinner time, grab a chair n' some noodles, they're still hot so be careful." Layon went back to slurping his instant noodles while Bit used his right arm to pull back a chair and grab a cup of noodles, while his left hand was grasping his right shoulder. Layon: "Little cold to not be wearing a shirt isn't it?" Indeed Bit wasn't wearing his shirt at the moment, his torso had several cuts and scrapes on it from many old battles. Bit: "The phantom pain is back." Dr. Layon nearly shot his noodles out of his nose at this. Layon: "*cough* What?!" Bit removed his left hand from his shoulder revealing two large scars on and next to his right shoulder that looked as if they were caused by skin being ripped or they had been bullet wounds. Bit: "You know whenever it starts to hurt it means something bad's about to happen." Layon: "I've told you before that's nonsense, nothing but coincidence!" Bit: "Was it coincidence when they nearly found our last base before we could get out?" Layon: "Never mind, just eat your noodles."
Leon: "Going somewhere Jamie?" Jamie had spent the night at the old base and was climbing into his Raynos. Jamie: "I'm heading over to Brad and Naomi's to see if I can find anything else." Leon: "Alright, but I already told you Brad probably won't know anything about him I didn't already tell you, plus that place is a bigger mess than the base with the twins running around." Jamie: "You told me already, trust me I can handle myself."
Officers Hawkings, Fielding and Raiys sat in a briefing room at the police headquarters staring at a holo-projector table that was displaying a large map. Ted: "All right guys, here's the plan. All of the different companies and organizations Cloud has been hitting have agreed to work together. They'll all have several shipments of parts and goods coming in on the same night with the delivery paths in all different areas. Now, the idea is to force Cloud to have to try to attack all of them, some of the shipments and employees will be lost but after he has hit two or three it will be obvious where he's headed next. Now the police from several towns and cities are hiding zoids in a huge circle around all of the routes ready to attack Cloud and keep him busy while we get to the scene. In the meantime we'll be in a Whale King that has been provided for us in the center of the enclosement allowing us to head Cloud off at the pass so-to- speak, we'll also have more men for back-up on board. We've got one shot at this guys, let's not blow it."
Officer Ted Hawkings was a man who truly believed in justice in spite of the fact he had been a criminal before joining the police force. After serving his time he had taken a good long look at his life and decided to put his best foot forward to reform himself, to become a productive citizen and, in his eyes, a worthwhile human being again. Because the fact the people worshiped Bit Cloud, because the people he attacked and killed were mostly shady people, he hated Bit Cloud, he felt as if he was denying those people the right to reform, the right to try again. He vowed to stop people like Bit Cloud no matter what anyone said about him.
*Crash* Naomi: "Damn it, Jason, not the book case! Brad do something!" The twins had gotten into the caffeine and sugar again and were wrecking the small base. Brad and Naomi had purchased the place shortly after their marriage. It was a small place with a reasonably-sized apartment in the back of it, the base had enough room for two medium-sized zoids, tools, equipment and enough room to walk around them. Brad: "My hands are full at the moment!" Brad was holding a struggling Robert in his arms, doing his best to restrain him but the little six year-old was difficult to hold on to. Suddenly there was a knock at the door, there was a back door to the apartment that was used more like a front door. Naomi: "Damn it! Who could that be?" Brad: "I don't know, let's just pretend we're not home." Jamie: "You might as well open the door I can hear you from out here!" Brad: "Wha? That sounds kinda like..." Brad ran to the door dropping Robert on the couch. "Jamie?!" Jamie: "Long time no see, huh Brad. Man the look on your face is even more priceless than Leon's was."
Bit was sweating like crazy as he was doing sit-ups in the Whale King's weight room. When Liger didn't need fixing or modification working out was the only thing to do for Bit. Dr. Layon's computers were what monitored deliveries and shipments of their unseen enemy and unless Dr. Layon requested his help, he always preferred to work alone. Layon: "Hey Bit!" Dr. Layon entered the weight room. "You might want to stop and rest up for tonight." Bit: "What, another mission?" Dr. Layon: "A big one I'm afraid, and I mean huge!"
Bit: "All those!!" Bit stared at the computer screen, which was covered with dots that represented places to attack. Layon: "It would seem they're working on another trap, they've set all this stuff up to force you to attack them while they're loading up on supplies and the police are preparing to attack you." Bit: "Think you're right, there's no way in hell they'd be allowed to make this many deliveries all at once without the police pardoning it. It's gonna be impossible for anyone else to do any business that's off-line." Layon: "There's no way you could possibly get all of them in one night, so I'm sorting through the dileveries to see which ones have to be destroyed and which ones you should skip, thankfully I'm almost done with the new power cells for the Liger so you should be able to stay out a lot longer than usual." Bit: "What was that you were saying yesterday about my scar getting phantom pains again not meaning anything?"
Jamie: "So that's it?" Jamie sat on an arm chair across from Brad and Naomi who were on the couch. Brad: "Fraid' so." Naomi: "You'd think he'd now more considering they go drinking almost every other day." Jamie: "Looks like Leon was right, that wasn't much more than what he told me." Brad: "Sorry." Jamie: "it's all right Brad, I wasn't expecting you to hand me a map to where Bit's hiding along with a short biography of his life since I left." Jason: "Cool look at the guns on this thing." Robert: "How fast do you think this booster makes it go?" Naomi: "Looks like the boys are really into your zoid." Brad: "After seeing what they've done to this place I'm amazed that you would let them near it." Jamie: "Don't worry the Raynos is built solidly, besides the gun barrels are to small for them to fit in and the engines aren't dangerous when they're not on." *Crack* Jamie: (Worried voice) "But them getting into the cockpit I'm not so sure about, will you guys excuse me?!" Jamie quickly got up and ran to the door. Brad: "I think I'll go with you!"
Darkness had descended upon the old wrecked Whale King hours before. Bit hopped into the Liger Zero's cockpit strapped himself in and stuck a needle into his neck. The needle, which was attached to a tube, was connected to a few tanks of mixed nutrients, made to be delivered directly to the blood stream. The Liger's cockpit closed and Liger ran out of the Whale King's mouth and then activated it's turbines and thrusters and took off at top speed. Dr. Layon watched him with a stern serious look on his face. Layon: "Good luck and God's speed Bit Cloud."
Jamie: "I should've gotten back hours ago, hope Leon's not mad about it." After prying the twins off of the Raynos and fixing the minor cracks they had managed to inflict on the canopy through some means or another, Jamie had left and was heading back to the Tauros Base. Jamie was getting tired and yawned a few times, his exhaustion was mostly do to boredom more than anything and he slowly turned his head to his laptop he had put to the side of him, his jaw dropped. Jamie: "What the hell?!?!" The computer showed several shipments of various things all being delivered that very night. Jamie: "Another attempt to capture Bit? Like it could be anything else." Jamie punched some keys in on the Raynos's computer. Jamie: "Hey Leon?" Leon: "Jamie there you are, what the hell have you been doing?" Jamie: "I got held up at Brad's place, you were right about his kids. Look I'm not going to be in tonight, don't worry I'll be back, I'll explain later." Jamie turned off the com-link and changed his direction.
Liger ran across the desert with several large explosions going on behind it. It was 3 a.m. and at this point the Liger and Bit had taken out about two dozen transport convoys of Gustavs surrounded by Command Wolves, Saber Tigers, Shield Ligers, Gordosaurs, and several other kinds of zoids. The military and police assistance had done almost nothing against them and many of them having König Wolves and Gun Blasters had only served to help Bit become more familiar with their capabilities. Bit was getting tired but he wouldn't stop no matter what, well maybe for a friend. Bit stopped as the Light Wing Dragon rose from it's hiding place. Bit: "John? What are you doing here?" John: "Like I wouldn't know what was happening Bit. How are you doing so far?" Bit: "Exhausted." John: "Yeah, I figured, well let me ask you, how helpful has that sniper rifle been on this mission?" Bit: "Not very." John: "Glad to hear it." Bit: "Huh?" John: "I've got something for you, raise the sniper rifle and release it." Bit did as he was asked. Light Wing rose into the air with a familiar looking gun hanging from it's magnetic claw. Bit: "Is that what I think it is?!" John: "If you think it's a replica of one of the Zero Panzer's hybrid cannons, then yes." Light Wing lowered the gun into position and Bit lowered the pivot it now rested on letting the gun swing around into stand-by position. Bit: "Thanks John." John: "No problem, just don't die or get captured, oh and try not to miss too much, I did improve its energy usage but it's gonna suck up power a bit. I'll take the sniper rifle back for you." Light Wing then picked up the discarded weapon and flew away.
The Raynos flew over the Destroyed convoys and Jamie couldn't help but stare. Jamie: "Damn, Bit did a number on these guys, that makes twenty- seven destroyed convoys and I lost count of the protection groups." Jamie decided he'd better hurry up, he's receiver hadn't picked up any transitions about Bit being captured or killed yet, but he didn't want to risk it.
Lara: "Shit! So much for catching him after he destroyed two or three convoys." Ted: "God Damn it! He's moving faster than we thought he would." Lance: "You can say that again. At this rate he'll destroy them all before we can catch up with him." Lara: "Guess he really does have cloaking shields, that's the only why we coulda' missed em'." Ted: "If that's how he wants to play like that then that's just fine. Tell the pilot to have every last type of scan this thing can do to be sweeping the desert, I want to know where every grain of sand is down there, there's been too much has been sacrificed for this, that bastard is making a joke outta us!"
4:17, Bit was really getting tired, he had been up all night destroying transporters and defenders. Liger would have run out of power if Dr. Layon hadn't installed those new power cells or had John drop a "battery" for Liger to use a mile back. Bit knew full well going into this it would take all night. He had even given himself tranquilizer to get as much rest before his mission. Bit was just about to fall asleep when an explosion knocked Liger off his feet. Bit: "What the fuck!" Liger got up to face a brown König Wolf with extra weapons, a red Gun Blaster, and a blue flying zoid he'd never seen before. Ted: "Finally caught you, you son of a bitch!" Lara: "Mr. Cloud you are under arrest, come quietly." Lance: "This time you won't get away from us!" Bit: "You're not the first to say that and trust me, you won't be the last, and what do you mean again?" Ted: "You may not remember us but we remember you, you piece of crap!" Bit: (sarcastic voice) "Humph, ouch you'd better stop insulting me your hurting my feelings." Ted: Grrr shut up you ass hole, you're going down!"
The König Wolf started firing with the extra guns on it's back and flipped up the ones on it's lower back, the Gun Blaster concentrated all fire power on the Liger and so did the Pteramander. Liger quickly ran out of the way and went into stealth mode. Ted: "Oh no you don't!" The Wolf's ears flipped up to clear the path for the visor to come down over the Wolf's eyes. Ted: "Found ya!" Ted began firing directly where the Liger was standing Bit: "Damn it! It's got a scanner!" Liger came out of stealth mode and jumped out of the way. Liger ran at the Wolf. Bit: "Strike...Laser...Claw!" The Wolf jumped out of Liger's path. Ted: "Say that was neat, mind if I try?!" The König wolf jumped at Liger with it's claws glowing. Bit: "What the fuck?!" Bit managed to jump out of the way. He then fired the pulse laser at the Pteramander and then the Gun Blaster. It hardly did anything against the Pteramander and the Gun Blaster blocked with it's shield. Bit: "Damn it. I should have known they'd of modified these things, I'd better not underestimate them, I've been doing way too much of that."
As Liger's attackers continued to bombard him Bit ran further away from them. The König Wolf began using it's missile pods on it's shoulders and the Pteramander used the missile launcher on it's back. Suddenly Bit stopped and faced them. Ted: "Surrendering are we?" Bit: "You guys sure are full of yourselves. You think just because you get some fancy zoids and new equipment you can suddenly beat me. Well guess what, a zoid's only as good as it's pilot and you three aren't bad but you're nowhere near my level. I've got places to go and I've got to finish you off quickly so consider me finding you good enough to use more skill than usual an honor." Liger's five blades suddenly flipped out glowed purple and then flipped back. Liger went into a charge, all of it's blades began to glow and flip out again and the back blades pointed forward. Bit: "Get ready. FIVE BLADE ATTACK!!!" Liger charged at the König Wolf, jumped up and came down on it's back completely destroying it's mid-section. Liger quickly put it's blades away, turned around and brought out the single hybrid cannon. Bit: "Eat this!" Bit shot at the Gun Blaster which put up it's shield but to no avail as the shots pierced the shield and destroyed it. Lara: "Nooooo!" Bit quickly turned his attention to the Pteramander and shot off it's wing. Lance: "Damn it!!!"
Liger ran away getting back on course. Ted: "DAMN HIM!!!" Ted punched out his computer screen which left cuts on his hand. Ted: (to himself) "He beat us again, with all this stuff, that smug little ass still beat us." Ted grabbed his radio. Ted: "Come in Whale King! He got away, send in the back up now!"
Bit was running as fast as Liger would go, he was behind schedule and he needed to hurry. Bit: "What the hell?!" 1 mile ahead of him was an entire fleet of Pterases and Command Wolves. He looked around and saw the same thing from every direction. Bit: "No, I'm surrounded. It can't end like this!!" Almost as if answering his desperate cry a green blur sped past the small army around him, knocking all of them to the ground with a mighty sonic boom. All of the zoids crashed into each other, all of them had been destroyed. Bit: "What...just happened?" Bit heard a loud screech, but it didn't belong to Light Wing, Bit looked up and saw a familiar green zoid descending to land in front of him. The canopy opened and Bit's jaw dropped he could hardly believe it. Liger's cockpit swung open Bit quickly stood up. Bit: "Jamie!!!!" Jamie: "Hi Bit!"
Bit and Jamie sat in a gap between their zoids talking to each other. Bit: "I can't believe you're here, I could kiss you man!" Jamie: "Glad as I am to have finally found you Bit, I'd rather you didn't." Bit: "Why are you here anyway?" Jamie: "Hard headed as always huh, Bit? Obviously I'm looking for you." Bit: "I figured that but why?" Jamie: "I had questions about your current choice of life style." Bit: "I should have known." Jamie: "Why you are attacking companies and organizations is what I really what I want to know." Bit: "I figured. Look it's complicated. The companies are all under the control of this one organization, I'm trying to unmask them and in the mean time disrupt their supplies and information. Jamie: "Gee that's more than Leon or Brad told me." Bit: "Leon and Brad don't know, I'm wondering why I just told you, look I can't tell you anymore than that, I don't want anyone else to get hur... uh involved." Jamie: "C'mon Bit you can't do this alone." Bit: "You're right, I can't." Bit stepped up to Jamie puts his hand on his shoulder and after a few seconds punches him in the gut. Jamie fell to the ground grabbing his stomach. Bit: "But I'm not alone and I can't risk you getting involved, sorry Jamie, I am happy to see you but I've got to go the sun's comin' up." Bit Walked over to Liger and turned on his intercom. Jamie was almost unconscious when he heard Bit speak. Bit: "Hey Layon, I got held up back here, better tell me where I need to go next." Jamie: 'Dr. Layon?'
A large red Whale King Flew over the desert holding some unusual people on board. A robot with no legs, obscured by darkness approached one of the side windows. A well dressed man stood staring out the window. Robot: "Excuse me, but I just wanted to inform you that we'll be arriving at the Tauros Base in two hours." Well Dressed Man: "Excellent, tell Benjamin to make sure everything is in order, would you Sebastian? Sebastian: "Of course Harry." Harry: (to himself) "It won't be long now my love."
S.D. (worried voice) Oh boy, Harry's back. Knuckles: What where, I'll clobber that idiot! S.D. In the story you blind moron. Anyways I hope you liked this chapter, I poured my soul into writing this one so please like it. Knuckles: You're such a drama queen. (S.D. hits Knuckles with the broad side of his double-edge sword). Owww!!!" S.D. First of all watch your mouth, second of all drama queen refers to girls. Knuckles: That's what I'm saying. (Knuckles gets hit again) Knuckles: Owww!!!!!!" S.D. Next time it won't be the broad side of my sword. Knuckles: Alright, I'm sorry I insulted you, sheesh. S.D. Oh, did I ever mention we're broadcasting from Angel Island, the island that floats in the sky because of the power of the Master Emerald that Knuckles guards. Knuckles: So why are you here? S.D. Because I can be, anyway I may not be able to update as fast as I have for the first few chapters so be patient. By everybody. Knuckles: Ya'll come back now, ya hear?
Losing the Soul
Chapter 5: Confront
Bit walked into the old Control room of the Whale King to find Dr. Layon sitting at a collapsible table eating noodles. Layon: "Bout' time you woke up. It's already dinner time, grab a chair n' some noodles, they're still hot so be careful." Layon went back to slurping his instant noodles while Bit used his right arm to pull back a chair and grab a cup of noodles, while his left hand was grasping his right shoulder. Layon: "Little cold to not be wearing a shirt isn't it?" Indeed Bit wasn't wearing his shirt at the moment, his torso had several cuts and scrapes on it from many old battles. Bit: "The phantom pain is back." Dr. Layon nearly shot his noodles out of his nose at this. Layon: "*cough* What?!" Bit removed his left hand from his shoulder revealing two large scars on and next to his right shoulder that looked as if they were caused by skin being ripped or they had been bullet wounds. Bit: "You know whenever it starts to hurt it means something bad's about to happen." Layon: "I've told you before that's nonsense, nothing but coincidence!" Bit: "Was it coincidence when they nearly found our last base before we could get out?" Layon: "Never mind, just eat your noodles."
Leon: "Going somewhere Jamie?" Jamie had spent the night at the old base and was climbing into his Raynos. Jamie: "I'm heading over to Brad and Naomi's to see if I can find anything else." Leon: "Alright, but I already told you Brad probably won't know anything about him I didn't already tell you, plus that place is a bigger mess than the base with the twins running around." Jamie: "You told me already, trust me I can handle myself."
Officers Hawkings, Fielding and Raiys sat in a briefing room at the police headquarters staring at a holo-projector table that was displaying a large map. Ted: "All right guys, here's the plan. All of the different companies and organizations Cloud has been hitting have agreed to work together. They'll all have several shipments of parts and goods coming in on the same night with the delivery paths in all different areas. Now, the idea is to force Cloud to have to try to attack all of them, some of the shipments and employees will be lost but after he has hit two or three it will be obvious where he's headed next. Now the police from several towns and cities are hiding zoids in a huge circle around all of the routes ready to attack Cloud and keep him busy while we get to the scene. In the meantime we'll be in a Whale King that has been provided for us in the center of the enclosement allowing us to head Cloud off at the pass so-to- speak, we'll also have more men for back-up on board. We've got one shot at this guys, let's not blow it."
Officer Ted Hawkings was a man who truly believed in justice in spite of the fact he had been a criminal before joining the police force. After serving his time he had taken a good long look at his life and decided to put his best foot forward to reform himself, to become a productive citizen and, in his eyes, a worthwhile human being again. Because the fact the people worshiped Bit Cloud, because the people he attacked and killed were mostly shady people, he hated Bit Cloud, he felt as if he was denying those people the right to reform, the right to try again. He vowed to stop people like Bit Cloud no matter what anyone said about him.
*Crash* Naomi: "Damn it, Jason, not the book case! Brad do something!" The twins had gotten into the caffeine and sugar again and were wrecking the small base. Brad and Naomi had purchased the place shortly after their marriage. It was a small place with a reasonably-sized apartment in the back of it, the base had enough room for two medium-sized zoids, tools, equipment and enough room to walk around them. Brad: "My hands are full at the moment!" Brad was holding a struggling Robert in his arms, doing his best to restrain him but the little six year-old was difficult to hold on to. Suddenly there was a knock at the door, there was a back door to the apartment that was used more like a front door. Naomi: "Damn it! Who could that be?" Brad: "I don't know, let's just pretend we're not home." Jamie: "You might as well open the door I can hear you from out here!" Brad: "Wha? That sounds kinda like..." Brad ran to the door dropping Robert on the couch. "Jamie?!" Jamie: "Long time no see, huh Brad. Man the look on your face is even more priceless than Leon's was."
Bit was sweating like crazy as he was doing sit-ups in the Whale King's weight room. When Liger didn't need fixing or modification working out was the only thing to do for Bit. Dr. Layon's computers were what monitored deliveries and shipments of their unseen enemy and unless Dr. Layon requested his help, he always preferred to work alone. Layon: "Hey Bit!" Dr. Layon entered the weight room. "You might want to stop and rest up for tonight." Bit: "What, another mission?" Dr. Layon: "A big one I'm afraid, and I mean huge!"
Bit: "All those!!" Bit stared at the computer screen, which was covered with dots that represented places to attack. Layon: "It would seem they're working on another trap, they've set all this stuff up to force you to attack them while they're loading up on supplies and the police are preparing to attack you." Bit: "Think you're right, there's no way in hell they'd be allowed to make this many deliveries all at once without the police pardoning it. It's gonna be impossible for anyone else to do any business that's off-line." Layon: "There's no way you could possibly get all of them in one night, so I'm sorting through the dileveries to see which ones have to be destroyed and which ones you should skip, thankfully I'm almost done with the new power cells for the Liger so you should be able to stay out a lot longer than usual." Bit: "What was that you were saying yesterday about my scar getting phantom pains again not meaning anything?"
Jamie: "So that's it?" Jamie sat on an arm chair across from Brad and Naomi who were on the couch. Brad: "Fraid' so." Naomi: "You'd think he'd now more considering they go drinking almost every other day." Jamie: "Looks like Leon was right, that wasn't much more than what he told me." Brad: "Sorry." Jamie: "it's all right Brad, I wasn't expecting you to hand me a map to where Bit's hiding along with a short biography of his life since I left." Jason: "Cool look at the guns on this thing." Robert: "How fast do you think this booster makes it go?" Naomi: "Looks like the boys are really into your zoid." Brad: "After seeing what they've done to this place I'm amazed that you would let them near it." Jamie: "Don't worry the Raynos is built solidly, besides the gun barrels are to small for them to fit in and the engines aren't dangerous when they're not on." *Crack* Jamie: (Worried voice) "But them getting into the cockpit I'm not so sure about, will you guys excuse me?!" Jamie quickly got up and ran to the door. Brad: "I think I'll go with you!"
Darkness had descended upon the old wrecked Whale King hours before. Bit hopped into the Liger Zero's cockpit strapped himself in and stuck a needle into his neck. The needle, which was attached to a tube, was connected to a few tanks of mixed nutrients, made to be delivered directly to the blood stream. The Liger's cockpit closed and Liger ran out of the Whale King's mouth and then activated it's turbines and thrusters and took off at top speed. Dr. Layon watched him with a stern serious look on his face. Layon: "Good luck and God's speed Bit Cloud."
Jamie: "I should've gotten back hours ago, hope Leon's not mad about it." After prying the twins off of the Raynos and fixing the minor cracks they had managed to inflict on the canopy through some means or another, Jamie had left and was heading back to the Tauros Base. Jamie was getting tired and yawned a few times, his exhaustion was mostly do to boredom more than anything and he slowly turned his head to his laptop he had put to the side of him, his jaw dropped. Jamie: "What the hell?!?!" The computer showed several shipments of various things all being delivered that very night. Jamie: "Another attempt to capture Bit? Like it could be anything else." Jamie punched some keys in on the Raynos's computer. Jamie: "Hey Leon?" Leon: "Jamie there you are, what the hell have you been doing?" Jamie: "I got held up at Brad's place, you were right about his kids. Look I'm not going to be in tonight, don't worry I'll be back, I'll explain later." Jamie turned off the com-link and changed his direction.
Liger ran across the desert with several large explosions going on behind it. It was 3 a.m. and at this point the Liger and Bit had taken out about two dozen transport convoys of Gustavs surrounded by Command Wolves, Saber Tigers, Shield Ligers, Gordosaurs, and several other kinds of zoids. The military and police assistance had done almost nothing against them and many of them having König Wolves and Gun Blasters had only served to help Bit become more familiar with their capabilities. Bit was getting tired but he wouldn't stop no matter what, well maybe for a friend. Bit stopped as the Light Wing Dragon rose from it's hiding place. Bit: "John? What are you doing here?" John: "Like I wouldn't know what was happening Bit. How are you doing so far?" Bit: "Exhausted." John: "Yeah, I figured, well let me ask you, how helpful has that sniper rifle been on this mission?" Bit: "Not very." John: "Glad to hear it." Bit: "Huh?" John: "I've got something for you, raise the sniper rifle and release it." Bit did as he was asked. Light Wing rose into the air with a familiar looking gun hanging from it's magnetic claw. Bit: "Is that what I think it is?!" John: "If you think it's a replica of one of the Zero Panzer's hybrid cannons, then yes." Light Wing lowered the gun into position and Bit lowered the pivot it now rested on letting the gun swing around into stand-by position. Bit: "Thanks John." John: "No problem, just don't die or get captured, oh and try not to miss too much, I did improve its energy usage but it's gonna suck up power a bit. I'll take the sniper rifle back for you." Light Wing then picked up the discarded weapon and flew away.
The Raynos flew over the Destroyed convoys and Jamie couldn't help but stare. Jamie: "Damn, Bit did a number on these guys, that makes twenty- seven destroyed convoys and I lost count of the protection groups." Jamie decided he'd better hurry up, he's receiver hadn't picked up any transitions about Bit being captured or killed yet, but he didn't want to risk it.
Lara: "Shit! So much for catching him after he destroyed two or three convoys." Ted: "God Damn it! He's moving faster than we thought he would." Lance: "You can say that again. At this rate he'll destroy them all before we can catch up with him." Lara: "Guess he really does have cloaking shields, that's the only why we coulda' missed em'." Ted: "If that's how he wants to play like that then that's just fine. Tell the pilot to have every last type of scan this thing can do to be sweeping the desert, I want to know where every grain of sand is down there, there's been too much has been sacrificed for this, that bastard is making a joke outta us!"
4:17, Bit was really getting tired, he had been up all night destroying transporters and defenders. Liger would have run out of power if Dr. Layon hadn't installed those new power cells or had John drop a "battery" for Liger to use a mile back. Bit knew full well going into this it would take all night. He had even given himself tranquilizer to get as much rest before his mission. Bit was just about to fall asleep when an explosion knocked Liger off his feet. Bit: "What the fuck!" Liger got up to face a brown König Wolf with extra weapons, a red Gun Blaster, and a blue flying zoid he'd never seen before. Ted: "Finally caught you, you son of a bitch!" Lara: "Mr. Cloud you are under arrest, come quietly." Lance: "This time you won't get away from us!" Bit: "You're not the first to say that and trust me, you won't be the last, and what do you mean again?" Ted: "You may not remember us but we remember you, you piece of crap!" Bit: (sarcastic voice) "Humph, ouch you'd better stop insulting me your hurting my feelings." Ted: Grrr shut up you ass hole, you're going down!"
The König Wolf started firing with the extra guns on it's back and flipped up the ones on it's lower back, the Gun Blaster concentrated all fire power on the Liger and so did the Pteramander. Liger quickly ran out of the way and went into stealth mode. Ted: "Oh no you don't!" The Wolf's ears flipped up to clear the path for the visor to come down over the Wolf's eyes. Ted: "Found ya!" Ted began firing directly where the Liger was standing Bit: "Damn it! It's got a scanner!" Liger came out of stealth mode and jumped out of the way. Liger ran at the Wolf. Bit: "Strike...Laser...Claw!" The Wolf jumped out of Liger's path. Ted: "Say that was neat, mind if I try?!" The König wolf jumped at Liger with it's claws glowing. Bit: "What the fuck?!" Bit managed to jump out of the way. He then fired the pulse laser at the Pteramander and then the Gun Blaster. It hardly did anything against the Pteramander and the Gun Blaster blocked with it's shield. Bit: "Damn it. I should have known they'd of modified these things, I'd better not underestimate them, I've been doing way too much of that."
As Liger's attackers continued to bombard him Bit ran further away from them. The König Wolf began using it's missile pods on it's shoulders and the Pteramander used the missile launcher on it's back. Suddenly Bit stopped and faced them. Ted: "Surrendering are we?" Bit: "You guys sure are full of yourselves. You think just because you get some fancy zoids and new equipment you can suddenly beat me. Well guess what, a zoid's only as good as it's pilot and you three aren't bad but you're nowhere near my level. I've got places to go and I've got to finish you off quickly so consider me finding you good enough to use more skill than usual an honor." Liger's five blades suddenly flipped out glowed purple and then flipped back. Liger went into a charge, all of it's blades began to glow and flip out again and the back blades pointed forward. Bit: "Get ready. FIVE BLADE ATTACK!!!" Liger charged at the König Wolf, jumped up and came down on it's back completely destroying it's mid-section. Liger quickly put it's blades away, turned around and brought out the single hybrid cannon. Bit: "Eat this!" Bit shot at the Gun Blaster which put up it's shield but to no avail as the shots pierced the shield and destroyed it. Lara: "Nooooo!" Bit quickly turned his attention to the Pteramander and shot off it's wing. Lance: "Damn it!!!"
Liger ran away getting back on course. Ted: "DAMN HIM!!!" Ted punched out his computer screen which left cuts on his hand. Ted: (to himself) "He beat us again, with all this stuff, that smug little ass still beat us." Ted grabbed his radio. Ted: "Come in Whale King! He got away, send in the back up now!"
Bit was running as fast as Liger would go, he was behind schedule and he needed to hurry. Bit: "What the hell?!" 1 mile ahead of him was an entire fleet of Pterases and Command Wolves. He looked around and saw the same thing from every direction. Bit: "No, I'm surrounded. It can't end like this!!" Almost as if answering his desperate cry a green blur sped past the small army around him, knocking all of them to the ground with a mighty sonic boom. All of the zoids crashed into each other, all of them had been destroyed. Bit: "What...just happened?" Bit heard a loud screech, but it didn't belong to Light Wing, Bit looked up and saw a familiar green zoid descending to land in front of him. The canopy opened and Bit's jaw dropped he could hardly believe it. Liger's cockpit swung open Bit quickly stood up. Bit: "Jamie!!!!" Jamie: "Hi Bit!"
Bit and Jamie sat in a gap between their zoids talking to each other. Bit: "I can't believe you're here, I could kiss you man!" Jamie: "Glad as I am to have finally found you Bit, I'd rather you didn't." Bit: "Why are you here anyway?" Jamie: "Hard headed as always huh, Bit? Obviously I'm looking for you." Bit: "I figured that but why?" Jamie: "I had questions about your current choice of life style." Bit: "I should have known." Jamie: "Why you are attacking companies and organizations is what I really what I want to know." Bit: "I figured. Look it's complicated. The companies are all under the control of this one organization, I'm trying to unmask them and in the mean time disrupt their supplies and information. Jamie: "Gee that's more than Leon or Brad told me." Bit: "Leon and Brad don't know, I'm wondering why I just told you, look I can't tell you anymore than that, I don't want anyone else to get hur... uh involved." Jamie: "C'mon Bit you can't do this alone." Bit: "You're right, I can't." Bit stepped up to Jamie puts his hand on his shoulder and after a few seconds punches him in the gut. Jamie fell to the ground grabbing his stomach. Bit: "But I'm not alone and I can't risk you getting involved, sorry Jamie, I am happy to see you but I've got to go the sun's comin' up." Bit Walked over to Liger and turned on his intercom. Jamie was almost unconscious when he heard Bit speak. Bit: "Hey Layon, I got held up back here, better tell me where I need to go next." Jamie: 'Dr. Layon?'
A large red Whale King Flew over the desert holding some unusual people on board. A robot with no legs, obscured by darkness approached one of the side windows. A well dressed man stood staring out the window. Robot: "Excuse me, but I just wanted to inform you that we'll be arriving at the Tauros Base in two hours." Well Dressed Man: "Excellent, tell Benjamin to make sure everything is in order, would you Sebastian? Sebastian: "Of course Harry." Harry: (to himself) "It won't be long now my love."
S.D. (worried voice) Oh boy, Harry's back. Knuckles: What where, I'll clobber that idiot! S.D. In the story you blind moron. Anyways I hope you liked this chapter, I poured my soul into writing this one so please like it. Knuckles: You're such a drama queen. (S.D. hits Knuckles with the broad side of his double-edge sword). Owww!!!" S.D. First of all watch your mouth, second of all drama queen refers to girls. Knuckles: That's what I'm saying. (Knuckles gets hit again) Knuckles: Owww!!!!!!" S.D. Next time it won't be the broad side of my sword. Knuckles: Alright, I'm sorry I insulted you, sheesh. S.D. Oh, did I ever mention we're broadcasting from Angel Island, the island that floats in the sky because of the power of the Master Emerald that Knuckles guards. Knuckles: So why are you here? S.D. Because I can be, anyway I may not be able to update as fast as I have for the first few chapters so be patient. By everybody. Knuckles: Ya'll come back now, ya hear?
