For many years Zoids and humans fought together to control one thing or the next but no matter how many times they fought it always ended the same; Planet Zi would be left in a shambles, the strong would prey upon the weak, and civilization would be practically non-existent, this is one such incident. 6000 years after the battle for Z.O.S control, Planet Zi needed a new hero and as per usual someone just happened to be in the wrong place at right time.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Zoid Socket Level Aboard Jace.

'Because something's wrong with Jace,' said Alec, 'I can't reach him on the communicator and I need you to transport me to the Med-Lab.' Maiden didn't reply: she didn't need to, because suddenly Alec was standing in the middle of the Med-Lab right next to Triggers room.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Med Lab 1 aboard Jace

'Trigger?' whispered Alec, 'Trigger!' Alec continued to quietly and carefully move around the Med-Lab, when suddenly there was a 'rolf!' and Alec was laying on the floor with Triggers body right on top of him, 'Trigger?' asked Alec, the large Organoid just tilted his head and continued to lick Alec's face, 'Great!' groaned Alec, 'Your minds locked in its energy form isn't it?' Trigger smiled and climbed off his partner, 'I'll take that as a yes,' said Alec shaking his head, with a snap he un-curled the small lead that Trigger had asked him to use if this ever happened again, and tied the Organoids body too the table-leg and told him to stay.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Hallway just outside of Med-Lab 1 aboard Jace

'Alright, now listen,' said Jace, this woman was persistent and he didn't have anything to loose by telling her, 'I don't precisely know Alec's history per-say, all I know is that he was the son of my former Captain," Kat nodded and waited for Jace to continue. 'You see I was the only one of my kind to survive the great extermination, when the Z-Empire was attacked by the Rebels. Who I might add were destroyed six years into their rule, and when they stormed the fortress my brothers and sisters rode out to fight them,' Jace sat down on the small bench and looked at the wall- or beyond it, as if he was flying into his past, 'We were winning, then the Rebels did the most horrible thing known to my kind, earlier they had been using rifles that fired small nano-spiders that proceeded to plug themselves into the computer cores of my brothers and sisters.' Jace shuddered as if remembering something horrible, perhaps something out of the past he was visiting.

'At first nothing happened, then suddenly, when we thought we'd finally managed to push the Rebels back, they activated a special virus, this virus overrode my siblings main hard drives, completely wiped out their mother boards and took complete control of their bodies, I wasn't affected because I had been damaged when the Rebels had been launching the nano-spiders, and so I was forced to… to kill my family, or at least what was left of them, they weren't the carriers I'd grown up with, those that still had enough of their individuality asserted asked- No begged me to end their suffering,' Jace sighed, 'And I- I- I did. After the battle it was clear who had lost, I was forced to run with the Queen and the Emperor, to a safe haven where they did… well I don't know what they did, as soon as we arrived I was shut down and the next thing I knew I was standing in some smugglers store-house, the King and Queen were dead, and all I had left was this… this strange pregnant woman who kept staring at me and an elderly man with a long beard.'

'That must have been horrible!' said Kat, 'A warrior suddenly forced to go into hiding after all his years of fighting, too be forced to exterminate your own race…' she stopped, suddenly Jace looked a lot older and sadder than she had originally thought, 'I'm sorry,' she said sympathetically.

'It makes no difference,' said Jace regaining his composure, 'I failed to protect the King and his Wife, I will not fail to protect the descendant of the man and woman who saved me all those years back,'

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Med Lab 1 aboard Jace

Alec heard voices, a male and female it sounded like, he checked the power level on his Zoid Energy Power Blade (or ZEP-Blade for short) he fingered the small pistol in his hand and with a snap he pulled on his helmet, and jumped into the hallway.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Hallway just outside of Med-Lab 1 aboard Jace

Jace stood up and smiled, 'But we've talked enough and you need to get back to the-' suddenly Jace saw someone move in the shadows, a man in Imperial Zoid Battle Armor, 'Alec?' asked Jace.

'How does this man know my name?' Alec wondered, 'And why does he look so familiar?' Alec shook his head and decided Jace would have a chance to scan this… whoever he was later, with a flash of blue energy Alec fired straight at the man's chest,

'Oh great!' groaned Jace as the energy bolt hit the holo-projecter inside his chest cavity and shorted it out, with a whoosh the holo-projecter shut down and the robotic skeleton the had supported the holo-projecter collapsed.

Kat gasped as an energy bolt hit Jace and he vanished, leaving only a smoking metal skeleton and the faint whiff of melting plastic left over from the robots wiring. Kat spun on her heel and dodged the other shot, then she ran into her room and grabbed a small energy rifle that was sitting in the wall-socket and waited for whatever it was that had killed Jace.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Jace's main hard drive

'I'm sorry mother,' said Jace for the umpteenth time, Maiden had been yelling at him for the past twenty minutes about how back in her day, an Avatar never allowed its Captain to disturb the infinite memories that dwelled deep inside a Zoid Carriers mind.

'Why what would your great-great grandfather Gustav have said,' she continued to bicker, she was awake now and wanted to make sure that when she went back to sleep that she would stay asleep, 'if your great-grandmother had woken him up, Hmmm?"

'Look mother,' said Jace annoyed. 'We both know that our species has no specific gender and-'

'Don't give me that Olpa!' she grunted, 'You know that the last two Z-Carrier controllers leaned more towards being female, each member of our species has a gender preference,'

'Yes mother,' said Jace, 'Look,' he said as he closed his eyes and began to re-assert his control over the Z-Carrier, 'The Captain and that girl are going to kill each-other if I don't get down there, I promise not to bother you anymore alright?'

'Good boy… Jace,' she said as her personality began to re-join her ancestors in the eternal data-stream that was Jace's mind, 'Thank… you… for… listening…' and with that M returned to her comfortable slumber and left Jace to his business.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Med Lab 1 aboard Jace

The two humans continued to shoot at each other across the room, Alec yanked out his ZEP-Blade and ran towards… whatever it was he was facing, a monster, some great big burly pirate whatever, he was going to end it now.

Kat saw the armored shadow headed for her, she rolled under a table as he swung some yellow glowing blade at her and grabbed a table leg to use as a club, with a crack she swung the make-shift club at the shadows head and knocked the helmet off of his head- revealing a sweating young man of about twenty, Kats eyes widened, 'A man?' suddenly the realization hit her, 'This must be that Captain Prue!'

Alec couldn't believe what he saw, a young woman, her body draped in nothing but a white hospital night-gown, he blushed and turned his head, the night-gown was meant for sleeping in, and the light was streaming through her clothes, 'I- I- I assume your that human we rescued,' he said as he pointed to a small closet, 'There's some- some clothes in that coset- I mean closet that might- um suit your needs,' turning on his heel he promptly marched out of the Med-Lab, 'I'm going to kill Jace!' he thought to himself as he headed for the bridge.

Planet Zi: Southern Continent: Southern Desert Quadrant: Captains Ready Room onboard Jace.

'Yes Alec,' said Jace, 'I purposely didn't bother to tell you about the injured woman in our Med-Lab,'

'Well it wouldn't have hurt to answer me when I called you on the com-watch!' said Alec as he removed his armor, he didn't like sleeping this close to the bridge but this room made an excellent place to change out of sweaty armor, 'I mean she was… half naked, and- and- and all… articulate!' he was still embarrassed for trying to chop the head of an injured woman.

'Look, you're the one who activated the emergency override!' shouted Jace, 'If I have to listen to M tell me what a bad Avatar I am one more time I'm going to kill myself!'

There was a whoosh as the lift opened up and Kat emerged onto the bridge, she was wearing the female version of Jace's Imperial Uniform, and she didn't seem to be enjoying the uniform at all. 'Captain?' she called, standing right outside the lift, she was used to people doing just what she said, why shouldn't they? She was a governor's daughter; she was the only one who'd kept the village running all those years. 'Captain!' she shouted Alec came onto the bridge and crossed his arms, 'What can I do for you, miss?' he asked, trying not to start trouble.

'Its Miss Katrina Valen,' she said sternly, 'And I demand that you take me home right now!'

'How about I just drop you off here your majesty?' he said cocking an eyebrow, 'Or better yet, you can leave me here and take my Zoid Carrier, would that work?'

Kat narrowed her eyes, 'Look you overgrown Galpa; I don't have time to bother with you! If you don't take me home I'll- well I'll…' Kat was trying to muster up some sort of punishment that would get him to turn this crate around and take her home when Jace chimed in.

'If you don't take her home she'll never shut up,' said Jace smugly.

Alec stared at her and then looked at Jace, 'What are you waiting for?' he asked Jace, 'Fire up those engines!' Kat grinned as Alec sat down at the captain's chair, activated the pilot's interface, turned the carrier around and headed towards the northern dessert.