ZOIDS:

Eisen Dragoons

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Kylea- (First Reviewer) I am usually like that, but don't worry; as more chapter are posted, my writing skill improves!

Sanctum101- That's a typo, I got it stuck in my head that it was spelled with two n's; it's the actual Dark Spiner zoid, but in this fic, it's going to be uber powerful!

Chapter 2: Reaction and Dreams

"Hurry up dad, it's about to start!"

"Come on Doc, hurry it would ya!"

"I KNOW I KNOW! Just give me a moment, Jamie, dinner can wait."

"But Doc…"

"No 'buts' Jamie, lets move before Leena goes postal and kills Bit or something" And with that, Doc bounded out of the kitchen cradling his new Dark Horn model.

Jamie sighed, it was useless trying to argue with Doc, not that he wouldn't listen but when he had a new model, he was in another world altogether. He sighed again as he set the pot to a low simmer. As he walked out of the kitchen, Jamie paused at a wall mounted mirror, and smiled. Each and every day, he began to look more and more like his dad, or as Doc had put it, the wild eagle. With each passing day, he also felt more confident about what he was doing as well as making him just that much better at zoid battles.

"COME ON JAMIE!"

Of course there were things that never changed as well, like Leena's temper. Rather than tempt fate, Jamie ran for the living room. As he entered the living room he vaulted over the couch, landing next to his dad, Oscar Hemeros. As the couch stopped bouncing from his rather abrupt landing, Jamie took a look around. Bit was back; apparently he only needed two weeks of vacation to wait for the media feeding frenzy to die down.

Doc was sitting in between Leena and Bit, whilst playing with his model of course. Brad was sitting at one end of the couch, looking very satisfied with himself - apparently he had just gotten off the phone with Naomi - while Jamie and Oscar were sitting on the other end of the couch. Everybody became quiet as ZBC News came on. Jamie grinned, for despite the similar name, this ZBC stood for Zi Broadcasting Company, not the Zoid Battle Commission as everybody though.

Leena had insisted that everybody watch the interviews. Jamie didn't know why, but he thought that Leena wanted to see more of her 'crazy Uncle Layon.' Brad got up to turn off the lights so everybody could see the TV better, while Bit passed around a bowl of popcorn. As the anchor came on for their final report, Leena turned up the volume.

"…And finally tonight, we leave you with our final, and rather amazing, interview with Dr. Layon." The scene changed to Layon's room at the hospital, a reporter was talking with Dr. Layon. The interview was obviously taped as the conversation they were having was barley audible, and the reporters' disembodied voice came over the background.

"When we arrived for our final interview, we were expecting the usual parting words and closing comments, what we didn't expect was that Dr. Layon had made a rather amazing discovery."

Doc Toros stopped playing with his model, all he had heard was 'Dr. Layon' and 'Discovery', but that was enough to get his attention. The scene changed, this time just focusing on Dr. Layon, who had apparently been crying. As Layon wiped his eyes with his sleeve, everyone in the Blitz team base was silent, for what Layon was about to say would shock them beyond belief.

"I have a son."

There was a thud as the bowl of popcorn was dropped and a crunch as the dark horn model landed in the popcorn. Everyone was stunned speechless, except Leena.

"SAY WHAT!" As if reading her mind, the reporter went on.

"You heard right people, Dr. Layon discovered that he had a long lost son only minutes before our arrival," the camera had once again switched scenes, this time to Dr. Layon talking to some one off screen. As the reporter began to speak again, the camera pulled back, reveling a very fit looking young man with messy, black hair, almost identical to Layon.

"Young Scorpio Cortez, only heir to the renowned Cortez family line, and only child of the late Rachael Cortez, is Dr. Layons son." The camera again switched scenes, this time focusing on Scorpio.

"I was surprised to say the least, I mean; I came in here to get Dr. Layon to help me create a zoid so I could compete in zoid battles, I never expected to discover that my father would be that same man." Scorpio suddenly stopped as a low growl came from off screen. The cameraman suddenly swore and brought the camera around to the right.

To Doc, what he saw on the TV was the most amazing thing in the world. It was seven feet tall, was black with blue eyes, and very dragon-like. Scorpios voice came from off-screen.

"Easy there Succubus, they're not going to hurt us or anything." As he said this, there was a genital 'clink, clink' as Succubus tapped her nose against the camera lens. Satisfied that the camera wasn't going to cause any harm, she walked over to the side of Layons' bed and rested her head in his lap.

"Just so you know, her name is Succubus, yes she is an organoid and she has been with me ever since my mother died."

The Blitz team sat in silence for the rest of the interview. At the end of the interview however, they received a rather nasty shock as the reporter came back on.

"Apparently, Scorpio and Dr. Layon are starting their own team as well, the "Eisen Dragoons", and because of Scorpio, the ZBC has added new rules governing the use of organoids in official battles that is all for ZBC News, good evening and good night everyone!"

For a while every thing was dark and quiet as the TV was turned off and everybody sat in the dark; that is until Brad turned the lights back on. Everybody, except Bit and Doc, had a freaked out look on their faces.

"OK, so I'm not the only one who finds this just a little too weird to be true?" asked Brad as he regained some of his composure.

"Man, an organoid, I can't believe it," said Bit, who just sat there with a dazed look on his face, until he suddenly punched his fist in the air and yelled "I just can't wait to fight him!"

Hearing this Jamie finally returned to his senses.

"Sorry to get you down Bit," said Jamie, "but since he's going to be on a new team, he's going to be at the very bottom rank. He'll have to be at least class B for you to challenge him to battle mode 0992 and our whole team won't be able to challenge his team until they're is at least class A, and even if he does make it to those ranks, since we're ranked class S, he would have the choice to accept or not."

Bit's ego looked as though someone had taken a sledgehammer to it. In fact he looked as droopy as Doc looked; only standing up instead of sitting down.

Leena sighed, "Thanks a lot 'Wild Eagle', now Bit's going to have that depressed look on all day now"

Jamie grinned, "It's almost dinner time, so you won't have to put up with it for very long, and after that it'd be 'bout time to hit the sack."

"I, for one, agree with Bit." This surprised every one, not just because someone was agreeing with Bit, but also because it was Brad who was talking.

"You probably didn't listen to the whole report, did you?" Jamie shook his head, after hearing about the organoid; he was a little too stunned to listen.

"Well, just to recap what they said, Scorpio has the empires highest score on the elite piloting test, and he got that score when he was seven years old! Now the kid's 18, so he's going to be much stronger, faster, smarter and tougher than when he took that test. Hell, he'll probably move up the ranks faster than Vega!"

"Don't be so sure Brad," It was Oscar who spoke this time, "If I've learned anything from experience, it's that your pilot test score doesn't exactly reflect you actual piloting skill; for all we know, the kid might just freak out during his first battle or panic when he gets into a zoid for the first time." He turned to Doc, "What do you say Steve?"

Doc only mumbled something inaudible. The team leaned in closer, hoping to hear what. It was then Leena noticed her dad looked depressed as hell.

"Uh, Dad, what's eating you?"

Doc sighed and mumbled just loud enough for everyone to hear, "Why does Layon get an organoid?"

As everybody laughed themselves silly, Jamie thought 'typical Doc for ya.'

In the Neon city General hospital, Dr Layon turned off the TV. 'That ought to set Steve off his rocker' he thought as he returned to his writing. After the news crew had left, Scorpio had allowed him to look at all Rachael's blue prints, and together, they had found a number of blue prints that they could put to good use. He glanced at the pile that they had deemed 'harmless', for these were the inventions that they were going to mass-produce. They were inventions that would help out zoids and their owners without spelling disaster to the world, like advance cooling systems, joint and leg reinforcement, fracture resistant display panels, heavy-duty stabilizers, compact sensor back-ups and overload inhibitors.

Layon chuckled, when they called ZOITEC industries he gave them the offer of being the only company to have access to the blue prints of advanced zoid parts if and only if they gave him 90 of the profits they would make off of the parts. The CEO had been on the verge of hanging up on him until Layon told him that the parts were designed by Rachael, then the CEO agreed to his terms so quickly that Layon had barley caught him saying 'yes'.

Dr. Layon looked at the blueprint that he was working on. Using some of Rachael's inventions, he had decided to make a new zoid transport. He called it the 'Dragoons Nest', it was going to be a lobster type land and sea based transport capable of hold a good dozen or so zoids, maybe more if they were Zabat sized. The major components that Rachael had contributed were called 'pressure resistant armor' and 'Ultra-heavy duty hydraulics,' and it was because of these that it would be able to go on land and sea. The armor would allow it to survive over 3000 meter depths, while the hydraulics (which formed the eight massive legs on the transport) would allow it to pull its massive size around and tackle any land-based obstacle.

The most unique equipment on board the Dragoons Nest was held within its antenna. Packed with sensor and communication equipment, the Dragoons Nest would be able to punch through any ECM and be able to give them a clear view of anything within a radius of a hundred miles. Dr. Layon smiled, for Rachael wasn't the only one contributing parts and inventions to the Dragoons Nest. Dr. Layon was going to design the aquatic turbines so it would be able to move in the water, and the seals that would allow the transports claws to be able to function as their own escape pods/mini transports.

Dr. Layon put his pencil down, for his hand was starting to ach, and this was a sure sign that he had been writing for far too long. As he folded up the blue print for the Dragoon Nest, he sighed; with the ZOITEC deal, they now had the funds necessary to create the Dark Spiner, but according to Rachael's journal, they would still need one last 'ingredient,' a Genosaurer. He remembered the passage that dealt with why they needed the Genosaurer "… of all he zoids that I have researched, the closest match for the body and zoid core structure is the Genosaurer and Spinosapper, the Genosaurer for the size and strength and the Spinosapper for the type, spinosaurus. In order to prevent the Dark Spiner from rejecting the core, it will have to be an 'open' core. In other words, we will have to clone the Genosaurers' core due to its massive power output…"

Layon groaned; cloning a zoid was one thing, cloning a zoid core was a whole different ballpark. When one cloned a zoid's body and core together, it would come out identical to the zoid the sample was taken from. But when one cloned a zoid core, the cloned core would become 'open,' that is it would have no pulse. A zoid core is like a human heart, it had a pulse, but instead of pumping out blood, it pumped out energy. An open zoid core wouldn't release a pulse of energy, but rather a constant stream of energy.

An experiment that Layon remembered doing in the academy was planting a Molga zoid core into a command wolf, the result was the core would refuse to give off its pulse and the command wolf would refuse to accept any energy the core gave off, thus, both the core and zoid rejected each other. But when they put an open zoid core in the command wolf, the core accepted the command wolf and started giving out the steady stream of energy, despite the fact that the zoid refused to accept the energy.

But if the zoid accepts the core, then the core and zoid might develop a pulse and the zoid and its' core would be in perfect sync. Layon sighed; Rachael always had to do things the hard way. Layon looked to his left and smiled, If Scorpio learned anything while he was in the desert, it was how to sleep in the most uncomfortable places. Scorpio was curled up in one of the hospital chairs sound asleep, and as Layon watched, a smile tugged at the corner of his lips.

'He must be having that "dream" again' thought Layon. Scorpio had told Layon about an odd 'dream' he stared having three days after his mother died, and from Layon could figure, it probably wasn't a dream. Layon stiffened a huge yawn, it was late, and after a full day of excitement, he was tired. One last thought ran through his mind before he finally fell asleep 'This has been one hell of a day.'

Scientifically, Scorpio was asleep, but to him, he as was awake as he could be. He knew where he was, the endless desert, the full moons, the crystal clear night sky, they were all part of the dream world in which he first meet her. Scorpio was lying on his back, just looking at the stars, thinking about what happened recently, when he heard her speak.

"Well, that was an exciting day now was it?"

He rolled his head to the left and looked at Sasha who, in his option, was the most beautiful girl in the world. She was looking at him with her beautiful blue-green eyes, which Scorpio positive that she inherited from her mother. When he first saw her, he thought that he was looking at the blue devil herself, except that she had Raven's hair color and Zi marking. He had asked her and she had confirmed his belief in that she was the daughter of the maverick Raven and Reese the blue devil.

Her figure was lean, yet powerful, like her mother, and she wore a black flight suite with blue highlights, that in Scorpio's option made her look even more attractive. Her hair was cut it the style Reese had hers cut, but the color was a mirror image of her fathers. Scorpio also thought the Zi marking that she had also inherited from her father, a small red dot and a number 7 on her right cheek just below her eye, made her look all the better.

Scorpio smiled, nodded his head, and closed his eyes, so many things happening in that one day than what ever happened in his whole life. He felt her press her lips against his in a short, but sweet kiss. He opened his eyes and looked straight into hers as he said "Exciting? More like amazing."

Since she was lying sideways, she was able to rest her head on his chest and still look into his eyes.

"Well, at lest you got everything that you wanted to done" she replied

His smile turned into a grin, "Everything, but get you out of Succubus."

Like all organoids, Succubus was capable of holding a person inside of her chest cavity, thus protecting them, as she was doing with Sasha. What Sasha had explained to him was that before the Great Calamity, or as it was more commonly known, the Meteor Holocaust, her parents had Dr. D figure out how to store her in Succubus, while still being able to put Succubus in a stasis pod without the unwanted memory loss. The only way for Succubus to release Sasha was for someone to say a three word phrase to Succubus in order to deactivate a chip that was attached to Sasha's flight suite which prevented Succubus from opening and closing her chest cavity at will. Scorpio had tried, but he hadn't found what the phrase was, the only clue that Sasha could give him before the chip would break her psychic connection was 'it is said often between two people, but some times doesn't need to be said at all.'

He was glad that Sasha was even able to psychically connect with him. Apparently, when Succubus woke up, Sasha mentally woke up while her body was still in stasis. She would see what Succubus saw, and thus was up to date on all that happened during the day and it was because of Succubus that she was able to connect to him. According to Sasha, outside of Succubus, she could only read what people were thinking. There was also a recent development that they were both quite found of; it was the fact that they were both in love with each other. She had admitted how she had feelings, now that he had, in her words, 'become an amazing young man.' Scorpio had also told her that he had the same feelings for her as well, generally feeling attracted to her in every way.

Scorpio diverted his eyes back to his love, and said "And I won't stop trying until I get you out of there."

Sasha smiled, she knew that Scorpio would keep his word, slowly she dissolved their connection, not that she wanted to, but Scorpio needed to sleep and Succubus would get cranky from her staying connected to long. As Sasha dissolved the connection, Scorpio had time for one last thought before he finally slipped into the realm of dreams, 'God I love that girl.'

-LT- (slumping back in his chair) Man that took awhile! Don't worry people, there's going to be some action in the next chapter and thanks to those who reviewed me, I love you all!

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