Assassination Confrontation

"…Ready, Fight."

The newly strengthened Team Dusk was facing off against the Mega-fists Team, a team that relied on the might of the Iron Kong. Each one was a different color: red, blue, and green.

"Sarah you're in charge of Mr. Green," Jacob said. "I'll take Red. That leaves Blue for you, Leslie. Let's see what you've got."

"Roger," Sarah responded.

"Got it," said Leslie as she moved Shadow forward. The Helcat was a deep blood red and it had a custom-made Angel of Death Booster Cannon System that replaced the back-mounted 20mm beam cannons. The 20mm beam repeaters in the chest remained though.

Shadow's stealth shield activated and Leslie disappeared from the map.

"Take this," Sarah yelled, flipping the 20mm repeaters up from her back to fire at the red Iron Kong as she fired all 16 of her rockets at the green Iron Kong. To her dismay, neither of the attacks did any real damage to the heavily armored behemoths.

"Jacob, I'm not exactly equipped to combat these units," Sarah pointed out.

"I am," Jacob yelled. He turned toward the Iron Kongs that his sister was facing, flipped open the front of his thrusters, and launched all 16 of his mortars. Though he knew they weren't powerful enough he waited for them to impact anyway.

Once they did he turned around, set his talons, and extended the rifle that was the Gun Sniper's pride and glory. Taking careful aim he fired twice before shifting his aim and firing twice more. To his relief, all four rounds found their mark. Both of the Iron Kongs were out of the battle.

Retracting his talons, he said, "Only one more." He started to turn the Gun Sniper but the raptor-like Zoids was sent sprawling by the impact of three 70mm rounds from the wrist cannon of the last Iron Kong. He looked at his screens in horror as Command System Freeze flashed over them. "Damn it, I'm out," he yelled.

Jacob watched as the Iron Kong turned toward his sister, raising its cannon once more. In desperation he yelled, "Sarah, your shield!"

She engaged the shield just in time for it to get hit by two 70mm rounds. "Yes," she yelled in glee. "I did it."

Jacob smiled then gasped as a plate of armor opened on the Iron Kongs left shoulder. "Get out of there," he yelled as the Iron Kong fired the 10 rockets in its shoulder and a missile from the belt-fed missile launcher on its right shoulder. "Your shield isn't good against explosive weapons!"

Sarah's reaction wasn't quick enough as the rockets struck the shield and brought it down almost instantly, leaving the slower missile to hit her directly. Her screens flashed the same message Jacob had seen earlier and she was out of the battle.

"It's all up to you Leslie," Jacob said halfheartedly.

"What, you don't trust me," Leslie's voice came over the radio. "I'm sorry but the Angel of Death Cannon takes a while to charge." There was a bright flash of light from the Iron Kongs right side and the 187-ton gorilla-like Zoid toppled over.

Shadow's stealth shield turned off and the blood red Helcat could be seen, the long barrel that protruded from the booster glowing a faint red and smoking. "Charging enough energy to beat the armor of the Iron Kong can really put some stress on the barrel. By the was Jacob, whatever happened to you taking out entire teams on your own?"

Jacob, who had been glaring at her over the comm. screen, lowered his head so his face couldn't be seen and quietly, and quite mysteriously, said, "Just leave dead men lie."

That night the Twilight Assassin made his way toward the location of his next target. He smiled as he thought of how easy this one would be. He and Twilight would be facing off against a Spinosapper. All he had to do was stay away from the beam saws and he would win without breaking a sweat.

He looked down when a Zoid appeared on his radar. He looked in that direction and saw a silhouette that he recognized to be a Lightning Saix. He turned Twilight to face the newcomer as his comm. screen lit up.

He saw the face of a hardened warrior with buzzed blond hair and dark brown eyes on the other end. "May I help you," he asked the warrior politely.

"Yeah," the pilot said harshly. "You can identify yourself."

"Why," he asked. "Am I in some kind of trouble?"

"Well," the pilot said. "You are if you're the Twilight Assassin. That is who I, Rudolph Blazer, Assassin of Assassins, have been sent to kill."

"Than kill away," he said smiling. "For I am the Twilight Assassin."

With that, Twilight leapt into the air and tackled the Saix, sinking its teeth into the Saixs shoulder and easily piercing the armor. Twilight then leapt back and looked at the enemy whose shoulder it had just crushed.

"Sorry Rudolph," the Twilight Assassin said. "I'd love to stick around and chat but I've got places to go, people to kill. See ya."