Zoids dysfunctional families – a tale of two zoids 'families'
The long awaited sequel to chapter two.
Chapter 3 - Team Ryu vs. The champ team part two – the battle itself
-Begin-
The blitz team awoke in the base of team Ryu. Not entirely sure why they were there. When pressed for answers by team Ryu they received insults, obscenities, and the occasional fork. There was no reason, since they were already there, to avoid going to the match with team Ryu. Toros took it as an opportunity to learn about team ryu. He was told by Doc and Tom that he would learn squat since Sylvia and Henry were both being controlled by their emotions. Also reddy was the swing, whether be controlled to win by Henry or be controlled to loose because of fear of Sylvia. Either way Henry was bound to be the most devoted, and Sylvia was going to let herself be shot down in the first three minutes.
"You're kidding right; no-one would do that." A pause, "Right?"
Tom stared at doc toros flatly. Then spun around pulled a paddle ball paddle out of nowhere and bounced a rubber ball on it flipping the paddle over several times. "You think they'll listen, try it, if any of you succeed on Henry I'll give you…" Tom opened his wallet. He counted his money and then mouthed what was in all probability calculations. "Twenty bucks. Twenty for Sylvia if we loose, forty if we win and she's still functioning."
"What if you win and she's not functioning?" Brad asked.
"That's my guess on the most likely possibility. I'll give you squat. Oh and Leena's not in on the Henry part."
"Why's that?" Leena asked with disdain in her voice.
"He's controlled by his emotions for you. Hence you control him. Now doc and I have our own bets as to what will happen. But you can do whatever you want."
"You bet on your own matches?" Brad said as he thought big cash if he could get in on that. He was good at betting.
"Yeah doc is the only one who will bet we loose more than once a year." Tom frowned at the old guy behind him on the ships main bridge. Doc just grinned.
"Hey when I'm actually in plus three thousand for just losing matches."
"Shut up old coot." Tom harrumphed and faced forwards at he screen showing what was ahead.
"Did he bet on you losing?" Bit took a guess.
"Yup. And this time I can swear I know what will happen."
"Why?" Asked the whole of blitz sitting in the various station seats for various tasks that the ship could perform.
"Because I know I will be influence on reddy." Tom grinned. "He'll just try to survive while I try and direct his survival attempts to a positive effect."
The blitz team looked at Tom with a manipulating grin. Then they huddled.
"If this is how they always operate they're a lot like us." Came the first group line. Jamie took up in the awkward pause that followed. "Well I can say that we'll never learn a whole lot by watching this battle. Honestly we might get the wrong idea and then during our battle make a mistake."
"But still," doc added, "We could learn about how well reddy and Henry can maneuver their zoids. They'll be giving it their all, and maybe we'll learn about Sylvia if she tries to give it her all to fail."
"How will we learn anything that way?" Bit asked confused.
"Because she will go far, far, far out of her way and push her skills to the limit to be a big problem." Brad replied.
"Well I think we should try to take advantage of this all and get in on their betting and make some money. How much you all got? I've got… three hundred twenty bucks."
"About one hundred twenty." (Bit)
"Since I've been saving for a big model, seven hundred dollars." (Doc)
"I'm willing to bet six hundred." (Brad)
"Three thousand." Then everyone looked at Jamie. "What I am in joint control of the team budget with doc and we had some money from the various ventures we've done and I was going to make a deposit for the last one when we arrived in their base and then carrier for no apparent reason."
"Battle ship!" Doc shouted. "This is a battle ship based of the ship that originally brought humans to Zi 5,000 years ago. It can go into space, it has a shield that could deflect a charged particle beam and a gravity cannon shell simultaneously. It's armament could then rip the ultrasaurus to shreds! And it contains special AI controlled fighter craft and can hold over eighty zoids! This is no hover carrier like your puny little thing! Oh and there is no minimum or maximum on bets as long as it is less than the combined wagers of all other persons." Everyone looked at doc, save Tom who was focused on the paddle and ball, muttering, 'be the paddle, be the ball' to himself.
"We're in." Was the blitz team response. Quickly doc got their match end stats, who would win, who would still be functioning, or both.
-Meanwhile down in the zoid hangar-
Sylvia had worn a tight outfit that showed off every curve exactly and revealed a fair amount of cleavage in a vain attempt to get Henry to focus on her. Reddy was somewhat interested, but whenever he started to focus on her, any part of her or a her as a whole, something hit him, not Sylvia, at least not every time, but something, a wrench, paint bucket, sandbag, one time he slipped on a banana peel and his head hit the floor. The hitting stopped once he got in his zoid cockpit. Though he did look more. Meanwhile Henry was pre-occupied with frame from the security camera with the back of Leena's head in it. The beautiful women showing off right in front of him was ignored totally and completely. That made Sylvia swear. Reddy liked it, Henry couldn't give a damn, and doc and Tom were collecting the blitz team's bets and couldn't give a damn for those reasons. But still, Sylvia really loved Henry, but Henry made a brick wall look oblivious. That was a feat that doc, reddy, Tom and most everyone who saw the two in the same room for more than eight minutes picked up on the open love from Sylvia. And while they had different interpretations as to why everyone saw the blatant ignorance of Henry. Most saw it as spite, Tom had shown Sylvia spite on day three of her joining; she had only flirted once, when she was sober, since. Some saw it as something like add, he had been known to occasionally ignore Sylvia for a brick wall. But he always said he was 'drawn to it' and it had to deal with being part zoidian, his mother being a zodian released from a capsule like many had over the course of roughly 4,000 years since the defeat of the deathsaurer at the hands of van flyheight. Maybe the same was true with his attraction to Leena. Not that it mattered Sylvia had a zoidian relative, so did doc, Sylvia had both her grandmother and grandfather, on separate sides, doc had a great, great, great something, it was really not certain how he was related. Reddy had no known family, but lacked zodian DNA, Tom had none either. But all you, the reader, needs to know is that zoidians did occasionally awake after all these years.
Still Sylvia planned to get leena out of Henry's reach. Usually once he was denied something totally for long enough he would give up, save that brick wall, he was persistent whenever he came near that thing. And now Sylvia plotted for a loss, not the first time she did this either and she knew exactly what to do.
Team ryu launched their zoids, storm sworder, blade liger, and black reddler. The champ team already had its three iron Kong's waiting in the city. The three zoids for team ryu waited outside.
Finally the time for the judge to arrive came. But nothing happened. After enough time Harry asked, "Where's the judge capsule?"
Tom appeared on Harry's monitor. "I've been thinking, and I doubt we'll be getting a judge, I think we'll be getting a referee."
"A what?" Harry said as his radar announced an incoming man sized thing.
"A guy on a jetpack. Or so it seems." The man on the jetpack was indeed the mysterious Mr. Referee fellow that had shown up for Team ryu's last match. "Why are you here instead of a judge capsule?" Tom asked over the ships message broadcast system.
"Well since the backdraft problem, and the fact that it's off season, we were unable to get enough judge capsules. So, since I was here already, and qualified for the job I took it." Mr. Referee passed the ship by and hit the wall. "Ow that hurt. Alright I officially declare this a submission robattle, the loser must submit one medapart to the winner, Medafighters ready? Medabots robattle!"
Tom paused ready to correct the man, but decided that since it wasn't his fight it really didn't matter. "That means go." Was his final choice of words. Tom looked at doc, who was working out a bet with doc toros.
"Folks this is the final bet!" Doc said on cue. He rushed the wager with toros, sticking him with money on a tie. "Betting closed, now we watch the match!"
Mr. Referee looked up at the bridge of the ship, "Is that legal?"
"Are you legal?"
"Touché."
-Meanwhile in the maze of despair-
Henry was charging forwards through dozens of walls straight towards Harry champ. Harry was running as fast as an iron Kong could. Benjamin and Sebastian were shooting at the aerial zoids, Sylvia was almost half dodging them. She timed her getting hit with the impact on Henry. It was perfect. Her storm sworder was hit, by a shot easy to dodge. She then fell towards Benjamin and Sebastian saying as pathetically she could sound, "Help I'm falling. Reddy rescue me." Reddy looked at her, sighed, but didn't move to help her. Sylvia growled playfully, reddy did not respond, she shouted and still he did nothing. She pressed the button to shoot the grappler cables tied herself with reddy, pulled him in and caused him to shut off his jets in order to limit their falling speed. Or so she thought.
Sylvia placed a hand to her forehead, she tried to look as seductive as possible give the situation, "Oh no, I've accidentally tied up my team mate and caused him to crash. Oh what will I ever do." She cut of video feed to Henry and then grinned like a possessed woman. She impacted Benjamin and Sebastian and after the impact devices went off for her she undid a few buttons and waited for the announcement of the battle ending. When ten minutes passed and not even a peep came out of the judge/referee she finally opened her cockpit to see Henry's blade liger standing over the four zoids. "Henry you made it!" She said but she thought, YOU BASTARD! How dare you make it! "I'm so glad, now we have a chance!"
"We always were going to win, because I am truly a man dedicated!" Henry must have been making a pose inside of his blade liger. Sylvia swore violently. "What was that?"
"Oh nothing Henry go find Harry now." She turned around looking for reddy. "Stupid brat threw me off. I'm gonna kill the little bastard." Meanwhile Henry ran off ready to rip Harry to shreds.
-Sometime later somewhere in the city-
"Harry champ, man who thinks he is destined to be king, I will defeat you!" Henry finally backed Harry into a corner.
"What, you think I think I'm destined to be king!?"
"Yeah that'ssss what I said."
"Well, um… Well um… I'm Harry champ a man destined to be king, and I will not loose to you!"
"Enough of your talk prepare yourself!!" Henry's blades on his red blade liger extended outwards. Harry shot off as many shots as he could. Henry simply deployed his shield.
"NOOOOOO!! How could I, Harry champ a man destined to be king, heir to the champ corporation, one of the most advanced arms makers on the planet and the maker of this zoids weapons, not have a weapon strong enough to pierce the shield of a blade liger!?" Harry made several poses over the course of that utterance, stating with grandiose, during his catchphrase, to sly, during the advertisement of the champ corporation, to panic in the part following that.
"Because you fail at life! Take this my love my hate and all of my sorrow, shining finger sword!!" Henry charged the iron Kong. He sliced off the zoids left arm at the elbow. Then he turned his zoid on a dime, deactivated the shield and fired off the lasers from his blades. They all impacted the iron Kong at the shoulder blades, one of an iron Kong's few weaknesses. And almost impossible to get at from the front. The iron Kong slumped. A command system freeze.
"Function ceased, the winner is, team ryu!"
Tom looked at the referee fellow who had a scouter, which he had used to detect the zoids function ceasing. "I can get the practical meaning of the term. But don't the judges say 'battle over. Battle over, the winner is team ryu.'" Tom thought, "Well this works I guess. We win either way." Tom grinned lazily. "At least I get the team ryu wins bet money." Tom looked at the members of the blitz team. Brad and Jamie were counting up the money from their identical bets for this exact circumstance. Bit also made a profit, but it was minute. Leena was wiped out and doc was left crying in a corner about no new models for a month.
-Later during the post match celebration-
One of the many pre-set agreements between combatants was the leaving the loser in the hands of the victor, and Henry had no noble ideals when it came to abusing poor Henry. He had stuck him on a stake a foot or two above a fire roasting Harry. Tom had made a comment of burning Harry alive being gruesome, but was then stabbed with a fork by leena. He then shut up as he stared at the fork in his hand.
Meanwhile, while Harry wasn't whimpering (who can blame him, he's on fire), he was shouting at the laughing leena and Harry, "It's not funny my ass is on fire!!" (And there's the Mr. Bungle joke)
"Are you kidding, it's freaking hilarious!" (My response to that line) Leena would respond laughing.
Another part of the match wager was that the winner would be free to pursue leena. Harry began, "My dear leena, I would like to know if you would..."
"No."
"Oh, so you never liked me at all?"
"Yup."
"You were just using me to get at Harry."
"More or less."
"And vice-versa."
"I suppose to a lesser extent, I actually like you a bit."
"Does that mean we have half a chance if I don't act like Harry?" Sylvia joined in the conversation.
"Not until heel freezes over, thaws, re-freezes and then is caught in the last battle as stated in the book of revelations."
"Sylvia…" Henry's voice trembled with fear.
"I've got something ready special made for you." Sylvia produced several ropes, a large sturdy stick and forks galore.
"Oh crap…" Henry just hung his arms out in front of him like someone about to get handcuffed. He was tackled and then tied to the stick. He was then placed on a spit over a much larger fire.
Tom looked at Henry, "he's flailing."
Reddy looked closer, "Look in the dirt he scribed a word!"
Tom read it to himself then said, "O-H-M-Y-G-O-D-I-M-O-N-F-I-R-E-S-O-M-E-B-O-D-Y-P-U-T-M-E-O-U-T-F-O-R-C-R-Y-I-N-G-O-U-T-L-O-U-D-! Interesting, that's one big word." Tom found himself alone for a moment, approached Sylvia and said, "I really don't care about Harry, save that it's very graphic for a children's show to burn someone alive, but Henry is our teammate and we need him alive so I will tell you, I do not like what you are doing here at all and I may try to stop you." Tom paused. A fork appeared in the hand where a fork had not been before. "I see." Tom then calmly walked away.
-End-
What's coming next chapter? I dunno I'm making this stuff up as I go along! Well on with the battles! And all the more power to Mr. referee.