Years ago…

A nest was in a muddy field in the middle of nowhere, the rains once again coming down as a single female longneck, and two older longnecks were watching over it. But even they couldn't watch out for everything, as there were now only two eggs left intact in the nest.

The mother was sleeping peacefully now, as a slick little egg-napping dinosaur walked by, and gently picked up one of the eggs, running off into the night as the rain came down, getting ready to enjoy its new treat as it ran along.

That was, until, another angry egg-napper rammed itself into the one holding the egg from out of nowhere, trying to steal the egg for itself as the two wrestled, the egg rolling away as they fought.

It rolled on and on, for what seemed like an eternity, before stopping in a spot far, far away from the nest it came from, unable to be seen by egg-nappers, or anyone else for that matter.

A few days passed, as the egg finally began to move, cracking open a bit as something struggled inside of it. A baby longneck slowly began to break through, pushing through the shell with no one around to witness the event, collapsing and laying there as the baby male longneck was fully born.

It looked to its left, and then to its right…nothing was there. No mothers to comfort him, keep him warm, or feed him. The baby whimpered and mewled a bit as it slowy rose to its shaky feet and wandered off, with no one to guide him, all alone in the world.

Hours passed, as the baby longneck walked on by himself, far from the nest he came from as he mewled and cried, looking for any sign of a mother and father, as he began too feel weak and dizzy from lack of food.

It was clear now that nobody was going to help this poor child, as he collapsed and lay on his side, a series of tears falling from his eyes as he closed them, living all alone in this cruel world, and soon would die in it.

That would have been, if not for being spotted by something…something that did not belong on this planet.

The baby could hear light footsteps, very weakly picking up his head as something that walked on two legs stopped and kneeled by his side.

Impactor Lucia looked down at the baby longneck, stroking its side gently. She had been visiting earth to do some research, to look at any natural resources earth had that the Impactors could tap into in the future.

"My lord…" she whispered. "What sort of mother would leave a newborn like this…" she stroked the longneck some more as he lay his head on her hand.

"It's a good thing you're still alive." She added, before gently scooping the baby up into her arms and began to carry him off. The baby was confused, but in no condition to refuse any help, as Lucia took him to her cloaked ship, and opened the door.

The rain was no longer beading down on them as Lucia took the baby into the main lab room, drying him off with a towel. This was an uncharacteristic move for the female impactor, but something about seeing him lying there without a family got to her somehow.

"It's amazing…the kind of cruelty that organics are capable of sometimes…" Lucia shook her head slowly as she finished drying the baby, as it sat on the table and looked at her, mewling softly.

"I bet you're hungry.." she said, as she reached to a lab nearby that had been scanning local plant life, and plucked a few leaves from one specimen.

"Lucia…" the ships computer chimed in. "I haven't finished with that scan yet."

"I'm in no hurry" Lucia responded. "I'll grab another specimen tomorrow."

"Very well."

Lucia then set the leaves down next to the baby, who sniffed them and licked them, before finally beginning to munch on them as Lucia nodded in approval.

"That's right…your kind likes leaves like that." Lucia said aloud, looking on as the baby ate slowly, smiling a bit at the impactor before walking over and nuzzling her on the table.

Lucia chuckled a bit. "I suppose I could let you stay with me for a while. You're a fascinating creature, and it would be a shame to let you loose now…all you need is a name."

The baby smiled and lied down happily, snuggled against Lucia as she stroked him gently. "I know…I'll name you Logia, after that Martopian hero from ancient times I read so much about."

She chuckled as the baby mewled a bit and smiled, snuggling in.

"I guess you like it, then." She mused, stroking him as he slowly fell asleep.

"Rest well, Logia…"

Time passed since that night, as Logia was now old enough to start tagging along with Lucia on her outdoor excursions.

"Lucia!…Lucia!" he called out to her, the young longneck galloping along as he approached the Impactor at her studies.

"What is it this time, Logia?" Lucia chuckled a bit.

"I found it, Lucia!" he jumped for joy, almost. "I found the hopper!"

"Really now?" Lucia stood up upon hearing this. "Take me to it, then."

Logia smiled and nodded as he galloped off to the pond where he had discovered the hopper. He was far ahead of Lucia, but it didn't matter, as Lucia teleported over to the pond, looking down into the water.

"It's right over there…" Logia nodded over to the rock where the hopper was sitting. Lucia quickly got out a scanner and aimed it at the creature, looking into the screen on the handle.

"Ah good…exactly the species I was looking for." She said.

"Why did you want to see it so badly?" Logia enquired.

Lucia chuckled. "Because this species is quite unique among all the others…see, in some cases, it can change its gender to survive certain conditions…it's a boy now, but it can easily become a girl as well."

"Really?" Logia giggled. "That's weird".

Lucia nodded. "Oh yes…there's a lot of weird things to be seen in the organic world. Much more than you can ever know, little one."

Logia furrowed his brow. "You say that word all the time…organic…what does it mean?"

Lucia knelt down near the young Longneck. "Well…organic is what you are…you have a heart, a brain, all kinds of organs that keep you alive." She then felt her own form for a moment.

"I, on the other hand, am mechanical. I have none of the organs that you do, but rather a series of wires and mechanisms that sustain me." She pulled back one of the panels on her arm, showing off some of her internal circuitry for Logia as he looked on in wonder.

"Wow…so you don't have a heart?"

Lucia shook her head. "Nope. Just a central processor." She chuckled.

"But, I hear all those stories you tell me from the other worlds, and the heroes always have good heart, that allows them to do all those nice things. How can you be so nice if you don't have a heart, Lucia?"

Lucia chuckled a bit. "Well, I'll let you in on a little secret, Logia…You're the only organic I've EVER been this kind to…most of the time, I'm fighting them with my fellow Impactors on other worlds…you see, Logia, while its true that a heart can lead to many good deeds, a heart is also corruptible. It can twist an organic, and lead them to do very cruel things. For instance, on my home planet, we are still refused the same rights and privileges of the other planets in Universal Brotherhood, simply because we Impactors are mechanical instead of organic. Many of them believe that we are not fit to even exist, and that is why we fight with some of them now."

Logia sat down next to Lucia slowly. "Did my mother's heart get corrupted?…is that why she left me all alone?"

Lucia stroked him softly. "I don't know, Logia…I have no clue why she did what she did. But like I said, organics are much more inclined towards cruelty at times than kindness."

Logia thought this over for a moment, before something beeped on one of Lucia's scanners. She picked it up and looked at it. "Hmmm…"

"What is it, Lucia?"

She turned to Logia slowly. "This scanner's picking up a lot of building seismic activity…it looks like its all going to be released by tonight, creating one hell of a series of tremors. The land might even start tearing itself apart. My entire research area is going to be destroyed from the looks of it. I'll have to back home after tonight."

Logia looked on sadly. "You're…leaving?"

Lucia walked over and nodded as she put away her scanner. "I'm afraid so…but I don't want to leave you here all by yourself either."

"What do you mean?" Logia tilted his head. "You want me to come with you?"

"Of course." She nodded. "I know a lot of beautiful planets on the outer rim, much closer to my home than this place. I could put you in the care of one of the locals, and come and visit you as often as I can."

"Wow!" Logia exclaimed. "I'm actually gonna get to go up there with you?" he looked up at the stars, imagining all the wonderful possibilities.

Lucia nodded "Yes. Just be sure to be at the grove where my ship is by later tonight, and I'll welcome you right aboard."

Logia grinned and immediately nuzzled her. "Thanks Lucia…you're a great friend." He then took off to do some more exploring as Lucia looked on.

"The High commanders would have a fit if they ever discover what I'm about to do…but I don't care." She thought to herself. "This little organic has touched me in a way I never felt possible. And I will not leave him here on this hell hole to be eaten, or worse."

She got up and teleported back to her ship.

Time passed, and night had fallen, as Logia ate some sparse leaves, getting ready to head back to the grove where he'd find Lucia. He walked along, keeping his eyes on the path, until he heard something in the distance. It sounded like footsteps…big ones.

He looked over and saw something in the distance, two young dinos, a longneck and a three-horn, running away from a huge sharptooth. The longneck looked a lot like him, but that wasn't at the forefront of his mind right now.

"Those two are running away in the wrong direction…he can stay right on their scent with the wind blowing like it is." He thought to himself, remembering what Lucia taught him.

"I'd better go down there and re-direct them!" he resolved, his good nature leading him along as he went on trying to approach them from the opposite direction, to keep the Sharptooth off his scent.

He raced down into the rocky areas nearby where the Sharptooth had pursed them. The ground began to shake suddenly as the rocks began to dislodge and fall.

"Oh no." Logia thought. "It's happening already. I'd better act fast!"

He ran and ran, avoiding all the falling rocks as he steadied himself on the shaky ground, before he saw something in the distance.

The Sharptooth was now fighting with an adult female longneck, who was doing what she could with a badly injured back, among other things.

It was as he was watching this that he finally realized. There were no other longnecks in this area that he knew of. In fact, he never saw anything like his own kind until tonight.

"Could it be?" he asked himself as he walked closer to the fight, seeing the other young longneck trying to run away as the female battled with the Sharptooth.

Logia took in her scent, which seemed somehow familiar as she fought. "Mother?…"

Logia's jaw dropped as he walked slowly out from behind a rock, lost in the moment as The female swung her tail, too focused on the fight to notice anything of this other young longneck as she was too focused on the young longneck running off with the three-horn.

"Mother…it's really you." He said, almost in a trance…a trance he quickly snapped out of, as he suddenly saw her tail heading right towards him!

He tried to run off as fast as he could, but it was too late! The tail smacked right into him, sending him flying as he sailed over the edge of a cliff that had formed from all of these tremors!

Logia was halfway unconscious from the blow as he plummeted slowly to the bottom of this great chasm, only partially aware of what had just happened as the rocks raced and raced faster past his eyes, before he finally hit the bottom with a shattering force!

Then everything went dark…

Lucia transported down to the bottom of the chasm a while later, the rain pouring as the sky was almost jet black.

"Logia!…Logia!" she called out, hoping to find some sign that the young longneck had survived all the tremors, which were much more fierce than she expected.

She then turned, and found him there, his broken young body laying on the rocks, bloodied, scarred, and not moving.

"LOGIA!" she shouted, running over to the young longneck as he layed there, placing her fingers to his neck and waiting for a moment.

"He still has a pulse…what a survivor you are!"

She scooped up his body carefully and transported away from the rocky area, while the other young longneck above was searching for his mother in the rain…

"Hang in there, Logia…" Lucia said as she carried his body to the ship and laid him out on an operating table.

"I need a bio-scan, immediately!" she told the computer, as a machine came down from above and scanned Logia's body with a blue beam.

"I'm afraid the news isn't good." The computer said to her. "Almost all his bones are shattered, he has a collapsed lung, and his spine is broken along the middle of his back…how this young creature still has a pulse is beyond even my understanding…but it's not going to last…I'm afraid death is inevitable at this point."

"No!" Lucia pounded her fist on the table. "There's got to be a way to save him!" she was determined to somehow rescue the only organic she had ever had feelings for, not coming up with any ideas before she looked over in the corner, and remembered the crate inside marked "Impactor parts"…

She ran over and got the crate, pulling it over to the table and opening it up.

"What are you doing, Lucia?" The computer asked her. "You know we don't have enough circuitry to build a new Impactor. And you don't even have permission from the high council to do it even you did have it."

"I don't care…" Lucia responded. "I'm not going to let this boy slip away from me, and if this is the only way…" she got out an impactor helmet and began making adjustments.

The computer's eye wandered towards, Logia, and back to Lucia, realizing what she was up to.

"Are you serious?" it asked her. "Are you honestly going to graft an entire impactor model over his entire body?"

"If it will keep him alive…then yes." Lucia responded.

"You'll just kill him more quickly, Lucia." It stated flatly. "You know that all other attempts at merging organics with impactor technology have all failed."

Lucia got some instruments ready as she hooked Logia up to a respirator. "There's something different about him…he was born all alone and starving, yet he survived…then he takes a fall that would kill most impactors, and he also survived that…so I have nothing but confidence in saying that he WILL survive this operation. Now hand me the scalpel, please!"

"Very well then…" the computer responded, as a mechanical arm handed her a scalpel from under the table, along with other instruments as she got to work…

"Dear Sweet Littlefoot…do you remember the way to the Great Valley?"

"I guess so…but why do I have to know, you're gonna be with me…"

"I'll be with you…even if you can't see me…"

"What do you mean, if I can't see you…I can always see you…"

"Follow your heart Littlefoot…it whispers…so listen closely…"

"Mother?…Mother?…"

The young longneck wept in the rain, mounring the loss of his mother, who had fought so bravely to protect him and Cera from the longneck, the stinging realization that she would no longer be there to care for him hitting him hard, and starting a dark time in his life.

At the same time, back on the ship, Lucia had just completed the operation, which as she predicted, was a success. The table slowly tilted up to reveal Logia's new impactor body, which was strapped down onto the table for the time being, breathing slowly through the new respirators in his armor as he slowly came to consciousness, his head turning slightly.

"Logia…can you hear me?…"

Logia turned his head to the familiar voice, as he spoke in his new computer assisted voice.

"Lucia…"

Lucia nodded as she walked to his front.

"Lucia…what happened…what did you do to me?" Logia asked, looking down at his body.

"I'm sorry, Logia…this was the only way to save you…you nearly died after that fall."

Logia grunted a bit as he remembered. "The fall…yes…I fell…" his hazy memory tried to clarify it all as a terrible thought suddenly manifested itself inside of him. "It was her…"

"Who?" Lucia asked.

"My mother…" he continued. "I saw her…I saw my brother too…" he remembered seeing the other young longneck now.

"You did?" she asked, amazed. "What happened then?"

He began to breathe heavily. "She pushed me…"

"Pushed you?

Logia nodded quickly as he breathed harder. "She knocked me off the ledge with her tail…it was as if she wouldn't even acknowledge me as her son!…"

Lucia put up her hands. "Logia, just rel-"

"She protected my brother, but she wouldn't protect me! She pushed me out, she tried to take me out of her life!"

With that he began to growl under his helmet, bringing up his arms as he began to break through his restraints with amazing strength. Lucia could only watch as Logia ripped off his leg restraints, and stepped off the table, his metal boots banging against the deck as he walked unsteadily on his new body, growling more as he looked at his hands, and then at his reflection in a sheet of reflective metal nearby.

He breathed harder and harder, before looking up at the high ceiling, and letting out a deafening cry of anguish!

"GRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

It was heard all through the ship, as well as areas outside…

Logia stood there, now back in the present day, as he saw Lucia in the distance, explaining the whole story to General Balcus, as he looked back out the window, remembering it all.

"This was where it started…" he thought to himself. "This was where I, my old naive self, died….it was after I was taken back to the Impactor's home planet, that everything changed…"

He reminisced as he remembered his first battles, fighting with invading Aliens, and then going to other planets, fighting with his blades, shooting numerous creatures with his new gun. His armor growing more and more stained with blood.

"I didn't care anymore. Every time an organic died, it was just another notch to put on my belt…"

He reminisced more as he remembered all the accolades and awards heaped upon him for his victories, as he stood with a group of soldiers, yelling "Death to organics!" as they all cheered and carried on.

"They will pay…they will all pay for throwing me away…" he thought to himself as he came back to reality.

"I will not rest until every last organic is stricken from this universe…." He turned and looked at his reflection as he put his helmet back on.

"I must forget what I was, and embrace what I am now…I am Commander Logia…I am an IMPACTOR…"

As he walked off, Viras was standing nearby, just staring at him…