Return of the Angels

Standing on a cliff she saw the destruction of the base below her. She didn't witness how it happened or who had done it, but she could see the blackened scar it leaved on the ground and she was able to see the scorched, crumbled, buildings that remained of the base that had once been called a base. Her dark eyes frantically wandered over the remains of the building from where she stood, trying to decipher more than the total outcome of the attack. Having the flashing images before her she was able to see that only one zoid had done this. She couldn't tell who had done it through this because obviously the pilot didn't get out of the zoid for her to see. There was no one that she knew in the base, so there was no upsetting feelings coming from her, but she was upset because the peace that she had wanted to prolong on this planet was being violated again.

Her golden blonde hair was bright, especially under the brightness of the shining sun above. Blazing in its heat, the humid temperature from the sun affected neither she nor her companions. The wind dragged her hair, forcing it to bellow as it flew in its wind, and this is what made all of them able to withstand the temperature from the sun. The coldness of the wind conflicted against the heat of the sun and therefore made the atmosphere bearable. Her sapphire like eyes couldn't help but narrow in disgust of how someone could even deliver such a horrendous amount of damage onto the land, especially getting rid of innocent lives that probably were forced into the battle. She didn't turn away like she would have normally done before, she withstood this and remained standing as she watched and evaluated, giving a brief final discussion on how she thought of it.

Someone walked over to the edge, standing at her left and already she could feel her company's disapproval of the sight already. The hot pink haired female was most likely standing there. Slowly casting her eyes over to her company, she saw that she was right; it was the hot pink haired female who had joined her in the viewing of the scenery. Her murderous red eyes were truly murderous this time around and through these easy to distinguish of emotion eyes, she was able to find out that this female beside her already wanted to take out the person that had performed such a horrible disaster. When her red eyes glanced over to view the female she followed, she was able to tell something that disappointed her.

They were not going to intervene until it was proven that the person responsible for this was truly delivering true evil onto this world.

It was true then, Celine would only involve herself in the true evil doings behind people's actions.

"Celine…" This time the voice was hazed with sleep and when she turned around, her golden hair turning around like a ribbon in the breeze, she saw the silver hair shine under the lighting and surrounding the female in a river of silver water. Her pools of slightly dark blue eyes were definitely glazed over in sleep and as she yawned, Celine could see her tongue until she closed her mouth. She padded her way over to the edge of the cliff, nearly falling down it until Celine caught her arm and pulled her to a halt. "Thanks…" She muttered hazily and then looked down at the landscape before her.

"If this is the spa resort, I want my money back." She yawned again.

"Storm, you never spent any of your money." Celine told her, making the girl open and close her mouth almost instantly when she opened it. Her smirk faltered as she gazed down at the base again. Her eyes frowned and she sighed, wanting so badly to look away. To her it was nothing more than a hindrance. It was making her disapprove more and more about wanting to keep these people alive on this planet. "May, prepare a perimeter check, I want the all clear on this place. Ray, gather a team, I want the inside of the base with the all okay. Any survivors remove them sight and continue investigation. I want a full report, including the gathered data from the computers. Storm, gather your own team and search the skies. I want full confirmation there isn't anyone else out here and keep an eye on the distance."

"You got it, Celine!" May stated and turned to the people. "Alright, my team, let's go. I want a full perimeter check and I want nothing left unturned. Make sure there's no zoids on the radars and keep all eyes and ears pierced for unusual sightings and sounds. You hear me?" Celine watched as May and her team got in their zoids and were sliding down the cliff and going different directions to form a perimeter check. Their work was always exclusive, top of the charts, always giving back reports that she liked to hear.

"Right…!" Ray stated, so quietly that Celine thought she heard nothing. She turned around to see that Ray was already facing towards the team. "Infiltration team on me! We're going in. Search for survivors, if there are any; remove them from the sight immediately. I want some on collecting analysis from the computer data. Don't just stand there, get moving!" He shouted the last sentence, which surprised all but Celine who knew this sort of thing from him. Although he remains quiet that people would have to be really silent to hear him, he always does the unexpected and shouts when he thinks it's time.

They begun moving the moment he got them moving. Top notch infiltration team, these guys were definitely trained superbly well for this sort of thing. Turning to the last team, she watched Storm as she stood in front, hands on her hips as she faced the rest of the group. Not all of them were pilots for flying types of zoids. Singling them out with her eyes, she already knew Storm's team who already knew their actions when their leader turned to address them. They took the front line and stood with a salute to their heads. Their eyes focused and their ears obviously ready to hear the issued orders.

"I'm sure you heard her orders. We're searching through sky, focusing on the distance for any signs of other zoids in the area. If there are, you will await orders for confirmation to fire an assault against them, understood?" Celine knew she was no longer asleep. Action makes her lose her tiredness and she always goes on the alert. They raced towards the flying type zoids, strapping themselves in; they took to the skies with their energies made for high speed. Looking and speeding like jets in the skies they begun a perimeter in the skies themselves, circling around the base like vultures, keeping an eye on the distance and on their radars for any signs of zoids in the area they frequented.

The last of the group remained with her on the topside of the cliff. Watching the others perform their duties, they quietly performed their own. Celine gazed over both the base and the scenery, although her plans were not to gaze at the beauty of the world. Enclosing over to the west horizon was the sun that had a few hours left before its time was up for the day. She gathered she had enough time to be able to get what she wanted from this base by the time the sun sets. If she didn't, she would just continue the rest of it tomorrow. However, that was where her problem lies. Tomorrow she wanted to do something else, in case that this is a case that she must be involved in.

XxX

Van was focused on two pieces of information at once. The reports lay on the desk before him and he had no idea which one he wanted to consume himself into more. The thought of having lost a very good friend pained and angered him, he didn't want to believe it, he just didn't want to. But then there was the fact that his rival had returned, not knowing how he did it, but he was alive, according to the reports. He closed his eyes trying to concentrate, but it wasn't working for him. His mind was wrecked between two different things and he was so unsure on how he was going to sort out this problem. If it was a problem that he was able to fix!

He sighed heavily, leaned back against his chair and looked out the window, trying to digest what it is that he should do.

The right choice, the one that would lead him to doing the right things for this planet… to keep his promise to her… anything to keep that promise…

He gazed at the ceiling above him. Nothing so interesting about it but yet he neither looked away nor seemed to grow bored of it. It was a colour that easily reminded him of her hair colour, although it was slightly coloured blonde. Being reminded of her, anything that resembled her in a way, it confused him, ached his heart, and drove him forward to achieving things that only his thoughts registered possible. But would he do them? See if it is possible like his thoughts deemed them to be? No, he wouldn't. He would never come close to trying to perform them, always thinking irresponsibly he deems them to be. Reckless, careless and undeniably stupid! If he tried to perform them he could get himself killed.

And that would be a waste of a life…

If he were to intend on doing that he would have let Raven finish him off three years ago.

But he didn't… he battled and defeat Raven instead.

A knock broke him out of his state and he looked over at the door and saw Fiona step inside. Her red eyes were pained as usual, for the past three years there has been nothing else that replaced the emotion in those eyes. He wasn't the only one to be dwelling on her no return. She walked further inside, stopping short of his desk and gazed upon him with a sadness that threatened to break his heart. Her hands were in front of her, clasped together, almost seeming nervous and he watched her tightened her grip on her other hand. He narrowed his eyes a little in wonder of why she was doing such an action. Was she nervous? Or afraid…?

"Fiona… what's the matter?"

"It's strange…" She replied.

"What's strange?"

"She…" She gulped down some nervous building. "…disappeared three years ago and yet her zoid energy only disappeared a while ago."

"You're right, that is a little strange." Van closed his eyes in thought, wondering strongly on the very point that he suddenly realized through Fiona. What the hell was going on? Sapphire had... disappeared three years ago… Fiona confirmed it. But her zoid itself vanished off the radar just a very short while ago. "Maybe we should send some people out to investigate. This is getting a little weird… Fiona inform the rest of this, I'll be sure to speak to Karl about this and see to his opinion on it. We'll discuss what needs to be done and how to approach the situation."

She nodded in agreement. "That does appear to be the best course of action, but Van, who will go and investigate? No one but us knows anything about her and we have the case with Raven to discuss as well."

"Everyone knows bout Raven, so I'm sure that Karl will assign some high levelled specialists to do the case on Raven. But we do need to discuss it before we do plan anything. After all, Sapphire involves the lot of us and all of us deserve to know about this."

"Alright, I'll go and inform the rest to gather in the Intel room for a private conference."

"Okay, I'll find Karl and get him to the Intel room as quickly as possible."

He stood and they both left the room together. They separated along the way, both thoughts pondering on the same thing. Was Sapphire alive or not? Was someone frequenting her zoid or not? But no one had been able to pilot her zoid, not one, it was impossible. Its zoid core was created by her hand, it refused all else and allowed only her. So what was the reason that the zoid had been active when they had believed that Sapphire had been dead for three years? Surely Fiona couldn't have been wrong in her knowledge, she was an ancient Zoidian and usually she was never wrong because her race appeared to be more advanced than the current human race.

He couldn't believe it as much as Fiona was confused and she really was confused.

What the hell was this all about?

If she was alive, why hadn't she contacted them?

Was she busy?

Was she alive?

Where the hell is her zoid?

How the hell is it operating when she's supposedly dead?

Confusing questions lingered in his mind and he was unable to get rid of them. This was as much confusing as it was paining. Sapphire was found to be dead by Fiona's superior senses, since she's an ancient Zoidian. But there was her organoid and her zoid that remained to be lingering. Either on a violent rampage because Sapphire was and will be their only operator, or just stone somewhere unable to be sensed. But her zoid had been very much active for the past three years and suddenly it just vanishes off the radar? There was no sense in any of it at all. Where had it gone and why did it suddenly vanish so easily?

Was it possible it could have done that from the start? If so, why didn't it do that until now?

It really wasn't making any sense.

What was going on with this planet?