Zoids dysfunctional families – a tale of two zoids 'families'
The long awaited sequel to chapter one.
Chapter two Team ryu vs. The champ team. Part 1 – the challenge
This chapter contains my twisted sense of humor, and a fork. I'll let you imagine for a moment before reading.
As a general aside, in all my stories italicized stuff is thought and may be included within a speech or short talking period.
Oh and story specific, since I have two doc's, doc toros and doc, I will refer to doc toros just as toros for the majority of the time.
-Begin-
They day after the match of team ryu and team ken team ryu and the blitz team met, quite unintentionally, they just both happened to like the same diner. Doc was the one that made this critical observation. "Hey isn't that the blitz team at table 105?"
Sylvia leaned out of her seat and took a look, "Sure looks like it."
Doc muttered, "Ah I see. It appears that we are both regulars to this diner. For I the ever observant Doc. Has observed them here on many an occasion."
Tom returned from using the bathroom to hear doc's little speech. "What I miss?"
Henry looked at the blitz team and all of the sudden he became love struck. "Who is that beautiful woman?"
"Who the one at table 104 or table 106?" Sylvia asked without looking.
"No the one at table 105." Upon Henry's words doc Tom and reddy froze in whatever they were doing. Sylvia grew red with rage.
"Oh shit." Tom muttered as he doc and reddy ate much faster. "In order to avoid the end of the world we must get out of here fast. Check please, Check please!!!" Tom spoke with his mouth half full.
"But I'm not done yet." Sylvia said anger behind each word and the extended pauses between them.
"Just wrap it. Take it and go, take it and go. You to hen- oh god no please tell me he went to the bathroom." Tom's head hit the table incredibly hard.
Doc sighed as Sylvia disappeared too. "The end of the world has come."
Meanwhile at the blitz teams table Henry was trying to woo Lena. And Harry was watching Henry, and the hole of the blitz team, and Henry and Harry were being watched by Sylvia. And the whole of this was being watched by the remainder of team ryu still at their table all three of which were accepting absolute defeat.
"Oh Lena, oh Lena. Where for art thou Lena." Henry was on one knee facing Lena.
"So he's your cousin right brad?" Bit asked coffee drinking brad. "Hello, earth to brad, is this guy related to you or not?"
Bit," Jamie whispered into bit's ear, "brad's embarrassed, it would be best not to ask questions."
"Ah got ya'." Bit said as he decided to back off.
Then Harry champ arrived and things went more off tilt. "So you're trying to steal my girl I see you, you, you person you!"
"Your girl? Who are you to say?" Brad glared down Harry.
"I, Harry Champ, heir to half the fortune of the champ family and a man destined to be king." Harry took up an elegant pose then his face contorted in pain. "OW that girl stabbed my hand with a fork!"
Sylvia held a bloody fork in her hand. She put on her cutest face and said, "Who me?" She pointed the fork tip at her neck for some reason known only to her.
"No." Said Harry. "I must have been hallucinating; it must have been this bastard over here trying to steal my girl!" Harry turned to face Henry.
"Me, why you moron you probably stabbed yourself. Or maybe it was one of your robots trying to help you play the sympathy card! Ow! See now I've been stabbed with a fork. That settles it you are the one at fault!" Sylvia pulled a fork out of the hand of Henry. Reddy, doc, and Tom tried to sneak out.
"Stay!" Sylvia said enraged. She threw a fork at the table. It hit Tom.
"Hey!" Tom shouted.
"You can heal it."
"Yeah, but that's not the point!"
"SHUT UP!" Sylvia now seemed possessed.
"Yes mam." Tom said as he completely submitted and pulled a fork out of his hand.
Henry and Harry looked at Sylvia, "Did you just throw a bloody fork at Tom/that guy?" They both said at once.
"Me?" Said Sylvia again forcing innocence to her face, "What would ever give you that idea?"
By now Lena had formed a plan. "Stop bickering over me boys. The only way to solve this is a Zoid battle. Henry you shall accept to Harry's terms on the matter."
"I hope there's no way you think I'm getting involved!" Came a cry from across the diner. Two women's glares silenced him.
Harry handed Henry a digital clip board. "My battle conditions."
"Three zoids, unlimited ammo, two days from now. At the place where I first fought bit." Henry recited, "Okay I'm all good."
The two hmph'd and walked opposite ways.
"Lena you do know that Henry is part of team ryu." Bit stated to Lena.
"Yes."
"So you know how screwed Harry is." Bit again pointed out the obvious.
"Do you think I care?"
"This is true, you are cold and un-feeling." Bit laughed "OW! I just got stabbed with a fork!" Bit grabbed his hand.
"Nice stab, Sylvia was it?" Lena said.
"Yeah, nice manipulation of the weaker gender." Sylvia smiled as the two shook.
"That's it." Tom sighed, face facing the table top, "The two devils on this earth have shook, it's the end of the world."
The waiter came, "Your check."
"WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE MY HAND WAS PIERCED WITH A FORK!!!?" Tom exploded. "For that you get a bad tip."
The waiter looked at the cash handed to him. Still seemed more than fifteen percent of the top of his head. "Oh the horrors."
-Later-
Tom's hand had healed, as if by a miracle. Henry was still healing however and he had bandages around his hand. Also bit, Lena, brand, Jamie, and Doc toros were with team ryu at team ryu's base. Harry champ was there also, hand in bandages. He and Henry were constantly vying for Lena's attention.
"Alright, Henry, myself and Tom-" Sylvia started.
"No." Tom interrupted, "You threw a fork at my hand. I will not help you."
"YOU BETTER OR…" Sylvia said, her voice gaining a hint of evil.
"OR WHAT?" Tom outdid the evil in Sylvia's voice by a long shot.
"Fine. Reddy will sub in for Tom."
"Um wait!!!" Reddy quickly tried to find an excuse, but music made by Richard D. James started playing, it went 'I will eat your soul'. Tom was pressing the play button. "Fine I'll do it."
Tom grinned, "Now to go socialize with the blitz team." Tom walked off with Brad, Bit, and Lena. Harry was also evicted from the hangar. Jamie and Toros stayed behind to watch Team ryu plan. They got very little.
"Alright the battle field is a giant city, so the plan is Henry chases Harry while me and reddy stay above the city and shoot at everything that moves." Sylvia looked around at her team mates. They nodded and shrugged their approval.
"That's it. That's how you guys plan for battles!" Doc toros exclaimed in surprise.
"Yeah more or less, especially if it's a b-class team." Doc (Ryu-doc) said. "Especially a really weak and somewhat lucky b-class team."
Toros then saw why there were no real plans, "Oh yeah for an s-class team anything less than s-class enemies are cakewalks for you guys."
"Um not exactly." Doc said. "Some a-class teams give us trouble. But b-class teams are real easy."
"Ah I see." Toros said.
"Yeah. The point system can give us a relative idea of how well a team is doing, but over time a team is bound to accumulate more points. So the champ team has been around for nine years, they're only in b-class. Team ryu has been around for nine years. Six years as a solo team, three in its current incarnation. That should give you a hint of the difference in skill levels. That and our match record, a match record rarely leads ya' wrong." Doc ended his speech.
"Okay I know exactly what you mean. How about we talk about it?" Toros was interested, the man was very smart.
"Fine, we've got an all purpose kitchen, then a bar right in the other room, whatever your preference may be."
"Do you collect zoid model kits?"
"Some, mainly I focus on my cat Garfield however."
"A cat I see." The two walked off to somewhere in the base.
This turn of events left Jamie with Reddy, Sylvia and Henry. He had no idea where the others had gone, and the fact is he didn't care to get close to two of the people in the room. He didn't want to get close to Henry because he was very similar to brad, Minus the Henry complex in relation to Lena. And Sylvia stabbed people with forks. She was a danger to society. Reddy seemed normal. At least more normal. That and he was the closest to the Black dragon/Tom. It would be a good chance to learn things no website could teach anyone. Now how to get rid of the others.
"Um reddy, you're an aerial zoid pilot; can you show me all your different zoids?" Jamie asked specifically to reddy. Sylvia had a storm sworder; he had to hope she took no interest in him.
"Sure why not. They're really not all that special zoids, nowhere near as secret or as special or rare as a blade liger, storm sworder, or a shadow fox. Those three I won't show you, but we do have over three dozen zoids that I can show you." Reddy seemed enthusiastic about this.
"Whoa." Jamie blinked, "That's a lot of zoids.
"Yeah." Reddy smiled and chuckled. "Actually Tom and my self only paid for a command wolf long ago, and we pay to upgrade our zoids, other wise every zoid our team has that officially belongs to either him or me we got for free."
"How's that?" Jamie was curious. They had only ever paid for one zoid. It sounded like Sylvia and Henry had bought theirs, and while it wasn't impossible to find zoids laying around here and there it wasn't so easy as to get three dozen of them.
"You ever heard of the northern conflict?" Reddy asked as he started walking.
"Who hasn't heard of it at one time or another?" On the extreme northern end of the continent were two large nations that were always fighting. They fought each other most of the time, and mostly over a border that crossed three rivers, a large forest, and a mountain range, but sometimes over other things. And they sometimes brought the battles down south to other countries either by way of alliance systems established in half year peaces or by assaulting the allies made in those same treaties for the other side.
"Six years ago when half the continent was at war I was caught in hells alley. Tom saved me with the one command wolf he had bought. My parents were dead so he took me in." Reddy looked up at the ceiling and stopped talking for a moment. He was thinking. "He was there as a free unit working for the just resurrected guardian force. He responded to a lot of wild calls and he took me all the time. And once he got a second zoid he gave it to me. Taught me how to use it and everything. That's how I got my favorite and perhaps toughest zoid." Reddy paused as he pressed some buttons by a door. The door hissed open. "My black reddler." In front of Jamie was a black reddler that was in the air. Fully equipped with some very modern and very advanced equipment. As well as a lot of other top of the line items not available even six years ago.
"You've upgraded since you first got it haven't you." Jamie said quite bluntly as he looked at the zoid.
"You can tell." Reddy opened his eyes wide in shock, "That's amazing. I've had some pretty decent zoid experts come before and told them the same story, and when I show them this they think that these are all the original parts. But you could tell, that's real amazing."
Jamie was unused to getting praise like this. "Why thanks a lot. That's really nice." He turned somewhat red and scratched the back of his head.
"The black dragon told me that if someone really deserves something it's not nice, it's what they deserve. I could never argue with his logic." Reddy groaned and kicked a wall. Then he paused in pain for a moment.
"Are you okay?" Jamie asked more cautious than caring. "I know someone who broke their toe by kicking a wall."
"Yeah I'm fine, I just forgot I'm not wearing steel toes." Jamie looked at reddy's combat boots.
"Why does a fourteen year old kid wear combat boots? That's a weird fashion statement." Jamie thought as he helped reddy up from down on the floor.
"Oog thanks Jamie. I guess I'll show you the rest of the zoids. Let me just get my reddler out of our faces." Reddy walked over to a control panel and got that very same flying zoid out of their faces. It seemed to be held on more than twenty steel cables. "It should have enough cables to not crash down when you're under it." Reddy chuckled.
Now that the one zoid was not in his way Jamie got a chance to look at all the zoids team ryu possessed. Near him were the core zoids, the storm sworder, Blade liger, and shadow fox. All on the bottom level of this large round coliseum like room. There were also the extra zoids. Gunsniper, other reddler, zabat, a slightly beaten up raynos, a petera, four other flying zoids, and what looked to be a badly damaged pile of scrap. Ignoring the scrap for a moment Jamie looked to his left, there was a well maintained, only the slightest bit dusty, command wolf. Like reddy said Tom had. It was brown and black like the infamous Irvine model. On the tier above it were various weapons that it could be equipped with. There was a fair array. But what was most noticeable was a guardian force symbol emblazoned on the lower jaw and on each leg and weapon. The other zoids were a mix of many different types, including some older, rarer, and not so good looking zoids.
"There are a lot of zoids here." Jamie said after several minutes looking.
"Yeah." Reddy smiled as he put both hands behind his back and started walking towards the side with the main team zoids. "These are the three main team zoids. Look but don't touch. Here's the gunsniper, and my extra flyers'. And there." Reddy said pointing to the scrap about half way around the ring of zoids, "Is what we believe is a genosaur. Not confirmed but we have no reason not to think so. Save its all red." Reddy said sounding confused and somewhat annoyed. "Past that is an old blade liger, supposed to be practically ancient. Same story with the lightening saix, di-bison, and Gustav. All supposed to be ancient. The only reason we have them is because we found them during the war. They were free, and they could be used as spare parts. But they weren't and now we're trying to restore them." Reddy looked at all the 'ancient zoids' and sighed. All of them were very badly beaten up, "It's going pretty slowly."
"So you guys restore these zoids?"
"Yeah, us and a few old friends who are supposed 'experts' but they aren't as smart as you. Sylvia and Henry do little, although Sylvia helps me with the raynos, our current project. Henry does do some work on the blade liger, but we focus mostly on the genosaur. And get very little done."
Jamie and Reddy got more and more absorbed in zoids technical talk as they discussed almost every somewhat damaged zoid in the room.
Meanwhile Tom had been treating Lena, Bit, and Brad to drinks in the round wood paneled old west decorated bar. After a while he had began ranting why Sylvia was dangerous because Henry was obsessed with Lena, and verbally released his rage on her. Referring to the danger of forks constantly. Lena ended up to drunk to care. Bit was drunk but was still a recognizable bit, Tom was an angrily venting drunk, and brad seemed impossible to get drunk. Despite having three more drinks than anyone else.
When doc and Toros entered they were surprised at the scene. Brad explained what had been going on, "Tom's been venting on Lena, who's been drunk and giggly the whole time. Bit, well he's been halved for enthusiasm, intelligence, and everything else, but he's still undoubtedly bit. And I've been sitting here. No-one blabbed anything key other than the fact that Sylvia is a raging bitch, and that I could guess when she came in and stabbed Tom's hand with a fork 20 minutes ago."
"That's impossible." Said toros. "If he was stabbed 20 minutes ago he'd still be bleeding. And even if it was a shallow stab, which I find hard to believe, we'd still see the marks."
Brad looked around. "Well the forks still here and blood covered. And though I can't attest to the deepness of the wound I can tell you there was, and still is blood." He said pointing to the counter as he looked for the assault device.
"Brad." Asked doc, "Did Tom wash his hands?"
"Yes." Brad said now leaning over the counter itself to look for the fork.
"Well then toros, I believe brad."
"Why? It would be almost impossible for someone to heal that fast and it doesn't make sense for one team mate to stab another."
"Oh, the stabbing is easy to believe when it comes to Sylvia. She does it all the time to Tom, and she stabbed Henry, Bit, and Harry in the diner remember. Not to mention she threw the fork and it hit Tom in the hand." Doc chuckled and then sighed a bit.
-End-
Well that's the end to Ryu vs. champ part 1. I planned for the team to become friendly with each other, as is well established between Henry and brad (their cousins) Doc and toros, Henry and Lena (not vice-versa) and Jamie and reddy. It is also not as well established, but the bar group (Tom, bit, brad and Lena) got a bit more friendly while they were sober.
As a controversial side, no-one is planned to be in a same sex relation (i.e. Jamie and reddy) I just did that Jamie and reddy part to do some explaining and hinting at what's to come. Not to mention hint/base overview for the prequel to this that tells about Tom/the black dragon's time in the guardian force and give more of an idea of my take on the zoids history. Still working on this mentally, no title yet, should be out before the end of july, most likely early july 07'.
That's all.