Thanks to the recent information from Ambient's message, the location of the sercet base of this particular remnant of the Backdraft group was located somewhere on a island in the blue ocean off of the west side of the continent of Europa itself, somewhere in the middle of it.

Now having the information of where the location of their secret base with them, everyone immediately packing up everything that they needed. Tons and tons of ammunutions for all of their weapons and supply like food, water, and medicines, were loaded onto Bebop with the Cowboy Bebop Team's Zoids while all of their Zoids (and Liger Zero's CAS) were loaded into Laon's Great Whale King. It have took them quite a long while, about a couple of hours, to get all of this done, but they have manage to get it finish for them to leave. All while that was doing on, everyone else were doing either eating and drinking or playing games or even just talking to each other, as if that this was going to be the last time that they are going to see one of each other alive after this was done. And given the current situation that is going on, all depending on how it will played out, that was certainly a probability in that anything could happen when they've arrived at this remnant group's secret base of operation on this island on the ocean west of Europa. Once that was now done with, everyone got on board onto the Great Whale King, with the Cowboy Bebop Team getting onto Bebop, preparing to leave Laon's base for the final battle against this group. Before long, the 2 Whale King hovar off the ground and lifted themselves into the air with their respective 2 turbine jet engines working at their maximum capabilities and powers before the both of them were now flying through the beautiful sky that was the sky of Planet Zi itself. As they were now flying through the skies of Zi, everyone begun to do other things to keep them occupied while they are now flying through the air and heading toward the location of this group's secret base, like either checking up on their own Zoids in order to make sure that their Zoids and everything would run smoothly or doing other things to occupied their times like either playing games, doing on some model kits, drinking some alcohols, or watching some old corny movies that were so bad that they were utterly and completely cheesy in a home theatre that was equppied with a 200 inch TV screen and full surround sounds, as they flew through the daylight blue skies of Zi itself, heading toward their chosen location. They flown high through the atmosphere for about a few hours before they were beginning to near their destination and when they were beginning to near it, every of the Zoid pilots immediately went to their respective Zoids and got into them, preparing for themselves to face of whatever is going to be thrown at them by this particular remnant group. As they were nearing the location of this secret base, Leena fiddle around with her finger nerviously, anxiously at the seemingly endless possibilities of what was going to happen that were racing through her mind as this was the first time that she and the others have done this before, all before Bit connected a com-link with her and spoke to his girlfriend. "Anxious about this?" He asked.

"Yeah... this is my first time of doing this. Doing an attack on a secret base." Leena answered.

"I can understand of what you are feeling right now..."

"... Thanks, Bit..."

"You're welcome."

On the t-shape command bridge sticking out right on top of the Great Whale King, Laon was piloting the massive transport Zoid that he have personally modified and customized through the console command that was equipped with both physical buttons and an touch screen in front of him by pressing the buttons on it and putting in the commands on the screen in front of him, allowing him to maneuver his Whale King and make adjustments to them, all while Dr. Toros and Oscar were just standing by from the sidelines and watching him, as they were getting close to the location they were heading at.

"So... how close are we getting to it?" Dr. Toros ask.

"Not too far away, Toros. Just a couple of minutes away from the landing site of this secret base they have." Laon answered his friend's question.

"Ah, well... that's good to know at least." Oscar comment on this.

However, that was when the sensors of Laon's Great Whale King suddenly start bleeping red like crazy before a pair of explosion were heard as the entire transport and whole Whale King shook from it. This have cause Dr. Toros and Oscar to lose their balance just for a moment and nearly tip before catching themselves as Laon use his console to help him to push himself up from it. "What was that?!" Dr. Toros asked, taken by surprised by this.

"A couple of missiles have hit the hull. However, they are just minor damages due to the far more toughen-design of the hull, since it is gonna take more than that to take out my Great Whale King out of the sky! Like a giant metal ball that is launched by the Eletron Mass Driver of another Whale King!" Laon said before he started to laughing at this, causing sweatdrop to appear on the sides of Dr. Toros and Oscar's heads at their friend's oversized ego. However, that was when Laon's egotisical laughter was cut short when the raders were starting to bleep like crazy again, causing Laon to check on the rader of what they were before his eyes widen at this and he immediately grab the handheld corded microphone on the side of the console before he spoke through it. "HEY! Attention everyone aboard my Whale King! Get you Zoids ready as fast as you can! We're being attacked! There are two heavy objects coming in bound at hypersonic fast! So brace all of yourselves for impact!"

"Hold on! Let me steer your Zoid!" Oscar said as he grabbed Laon by the shoulder and moved him to the side away from the console before taking control of his Great Whale King. When 2 objects, both of them being giant balls made of metal, appeared from the horizion and were flying straight through the air, heading toward the Great Whale King at hypersonic speeds, about to hit the wings of the massive transport Zoid, Oscar put his skills and experience of being an former flying Zoid warrior in the past to use by steering the Whale-type transport Zoid to do evasive maneuvers to dodge the two incoming giant metal balls by tilting the giant Zoid in an 45 degree angle, causing them to cling onto of whatever is nailed right down to the floor, just managing to barely miss and narrowing evading the balls just by a couple of inches, as they flew right pass their intended targets before falling into the ocean below.

Oscar give smirked to see that his skill from his Zoid warrior days were still good as they were before the crash that ended his career, while Dr. Toros and Laon just give a blank yet baffled expression to what have just happen on their faces before one of them manage to find their voice to speak. "How did you do that?" Laon asked, his voice and entire body still numb from shock of what have happen.

"Heh. Didn't you forget? I was an Zoid Warrior back in the day, specializing in flying Zoids. Not any one kind of flying Zoids, but all of them. I did all of the calculation in my mind. I knew that with your skills, you won't be able to steer your Whale King just in time to dodge them, but a skilled pilot like me can. After all, what you think Jamie got his sharp and strategic mind from anyway?" Oscar said with a grin as he point his finger pointing at the brain inside of his head. He give a cocky smirk at this as he give an hearty laughter at this. "My ability as a Zoid pilot is still good as ever before!"

"Yeah, that's really good for you." Laon comment... before the radar then start bleeping like crazy once again. Annoyed by this already, he decide to check of what it is now... only to see that it was now a two to four Whale King flock of drone-controlled Zabats and about a dozen of Storm Sworders coming in their way, along with aforemention 3 Whale Kings that far more behind of the Storm Sworders group and rather large Zabat flock. He just give out an annoyed groan at this as he make an comment on this. "They've never seem to quit with their attacks, don't they?" He mutter to himself at this before he got the microphone again and press in a few button in order to speak to Jamie and Pierce.


Meanwhile... in one of the Great Whale King's Zoid hangar bays...

"What was that now?" Jamie ask, being took by surprised and confused by the sudden tilting of the Great Whale King inside the cockpit of his own Salamander F2, which was given to him by Laon to replace his now destroyed Raynos.

"I have utterly no clue really." Pierce said with honestly in her voice to him while sitting in the cockpit of her own Salamander F2, as she was just equally confused by what happen as he was by this with an baffled expression to this. However, their shock over this manage to wore off before they heard Laon through the radio.

"Hey, Jamie and Pierce. Just making sure that the radio working and hearding it on your ends. Is it? If so, then i'll just quickly explain to you now: We're being attacked by a pair of at least 2 to 4 airborne Whale Kings, and they have just send out a flock worth of drone-controlled Zabat and a group of about a dozen of Storm Sworders that are heading straight for us." Laon quickly explained, as what he have promised, as he told them. "Spike of the Cowboy Bebop Team is already preparing himself to launch out of team's own Whale King, the Bebop, to fight them in the air. So I suggest that you two should launch immediately into the air to fight them as well."

"Right!"

As soon as they have heard that through the radio, both Jamie and Pierce immediately moved their Salamander F2 and got into position before the roof part of the Zoid hangar area they were in immediately open up by sliding the both roof and ceiling open internally, which reveal the blue sky above them. Once it have Jamie and Pierce have gotting their Dragon-like Pterosaur-type Zoids that were equipped with a pair of Republic Supercannons into positions as the roof have completely open up, they spead their Salamander F2's wings wide open and begun to create a loud humming sound like that of a Pteras that was far lower and deeper in tone and pitch as the skeletal frames of the wing glow the pale yellow color of the Magnesser System, the same system that are used in the Pteras and the other Zoids that use it, all before with just one mightly flap of their massive bon-like angular wings, they took themselves into the air and launching themselves right out through the top of the hangar bay that they came form, taking flight into the seemingly endless sky of the Planet Zi's own atmosphere and flew themselves among the white clouds that move along the spinning earth breath them. Once they have gotting into the air, Jamie and Pierce tested the full capabilities of their new Zoids by doing an ascending and descending, turning and rolling to test their agility, leveling their flying Zoids, accelerating to their Zoids' maximum speed of Mach 3.5 and decelerating to their stalling speed, yawing, and a few high G-turns, before doing some other aerobatic manuvers with their Salamander F2s, which have awoken an certain subconscious state of Jamie's other ego.

"Hey there, little lady. So how you doing these days?" The Wild Eagle, the other ego of Jamie, ask Pierce with an confidence smirk on his face, as he flew his Salamander F2 beside Pierce's own Salamander F2 at the cruising speed of their Zoids at Mach 2.

"Oh, nothing much. Other than before Laon ask me to help you guys to deal with the situation that are you in now." Pierce simply answered. "And considering of who is exactly leading this particular remnant and who they are team up with, you need every helping helping hand that you can get."

"Yeah, pretty much. So you didn't think that you would be flying in the sky along side with me in some new Zoids, huh?"

"No. Not really. Not this soon anyway. And certainly not in our new Zoids." Pierce simply said with a smirk of her own on her face behind her helmet.

Bebop slowly open up its maw to shine the lights of the sun directly upon the red paintwork of Spike's custom Storm Sworder FX as he was preparing for his Zoid, preparing his blood red custom Storm Sworder FX to launch right out of the mouth of Bebop. The jet blast deflector fence panel slowly raised up from the floor right behind Spike's red customized Zoid by a pair of hydraulic cylinders as the red Storm Sworder FX position onto the EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) by attaching its nose gear into the shuttle of the EMALS and its turbo ramjet engines begun to slowly and silently whine to life with the air intakes beginning to spin around in their circular motion rapidly as the thrusting force of the increasingly powerful turbulent air exit the exhausts of its engines right behind upon the jet blast deflector fence, redirecting the force of the rapid movements of the air streams itself into a non-dangerous directions to nullified the force itself, before the countdown to 1 for his Zoid's launch begin. "10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!" When computer finished the countdown, the EMALS catapulted and propelled the Zoid, sling shoting and launching it straight into the air, as Spike's red Storm Sworder FX blasted itself right out of Bebop's mouth like a speeding bullet being shot out of a revolver gun and taking its flight into the encircled sphere of the atmosphere. Spike soon quickly joined up with the Wild Eagle and Pierce's Salamander F2s with his red Storm Sworder FX of soaring among the clouds floating in the endless blue of the skies that they were flying in at his Zoid's cruising speed, all before he then spoke to the two of them through the com-link connections between the 3 flying Zoid warriors. "So you 2 are ready for this kind of stuff?"

"Ready for this? Heh. Mister... we're born ready for anything that are coming straight at us head on." The Wild Eagle answer Spike's question to them with an cocky tone in his voice, as he told the pilot of the red Storm Sworders. "In fact... how about we show you of our Zoid piloting skills by easily destroying all of those incoming swarms of Zabats right behind those group of dozen Storm Sworders in a instant. Isn't that right, Pierce?"

"Of course we can, Wild Eagle." Pierce said. "But only if that he is alright with that."

"Sure. Why not? Beside, it'll be quicker for us to deal with the 4 Whale Kings and the Storm Sworders sooner and letting our friends and allies go through anyways."

"Thank for that."

"Ready?"

"Yes."

Jamie and Pierce instantly speeding up their Zoids to go ahead the rest of the group toward the incoming Zoids, breaking the sound barriers in the process of it, before immediately splitting up and going around the group of the dozen Storm Sworders in opposite directions but still going around them in different direction to their targets regradless. All before they suddenly did a tight G-turns to their right and left respectively, before thrusting their controls forward into accelerating to the maximum speed of their Salamander F2s of Mach 3.5 and passing by each other as they bolted right by the massive flock of Zabats, letting the shock waves of the resulting sonic booms created by the speeds of their Dragon-like Pterosaur-type Zoids do the rest of the work for them, as the intensity of the resulting shock waves themselves to ripped and shredded the fragile frames of the Bat-type Zoids, causing all of them to explode into pieces due to the combination of the intense shockwave and rattling of their ammunutions.

Spike observed it from the cockpt of his Zoid before he gave a impressed whistle at what he have saw as this have caused shock and panic among the pilots of the Storm Sworders and all of the crews of the 4 Whale Kings at what have just happen to all of their Zabats that were in the air all at once.

"WHAT THE HELL?!"

"They're all gone in a blink of an eye!"

"What is happening and going out there?!"

"All of the Zabats that were following our leads were destroyed in an instant!"

"WHAT?! How that is possible?!"

"I don't know, sir!"

"ENEMY INCOMING!"

"DODGE! DODGE!"

When all of the Storm Sworder pilots have saw Spike's red Storm Sworder FX coming from the front of them and charging at them at its maximum speed of over Mach 4, the group of Storm Sworders have immediately scatter among themselves in every directions they can fly in all of their Zoids in order to dodge his incoming attack in fear... but soon reveal that Spike wasn't interest in them as he dashed his Zoid straight by them and kept heading right toward the 4 Whale Kings in his direction. The crews of those same Whale Kings sooon realize that he was actually heading straight for them and they were his actual intented targets.

"CAPTAIN! THAT ZOID IS HEADING STRAIGHT FOR US AT MACH 4!"

"ALL WHALE KINGS WITH AVAILABLE WEAPONS! OPEN FIRE! OPEN FIRE! OPEN FIRE OF ALL WEAPONS! OPEN FIRE ALL ON THAT RED ZOID!"

As soon when they have realized of his actual intentions, they all immediately have focus all of the 4 Whale King's AA guns onto him and instantly fired all of their shells and bullets right upon Spike and his custom red Storm Sworder FX, but his speeding Zoid easily dodged all of the incoming shots on him and his Zoid before the red Pterodon-type Zoid aimed its Plasma Railcannon and fired a streaking laser beam made of plasma through the air at one of 4 Whale Kings' left wing, shredding through it and tearing its left wing clean off, causing that particular Whale King to destabilised and send it into a crashing course with the second Whale King that was the closest to it. The end result was the first damage Whale King crashing straight right through the closest Whale King, resulting in a chain reaction that cause a spectular explosion that shattered them into pieces that fall into the water below.

However, that wasn't all as it was not over just yet...

"SIR! WE GOT TWO HOSTILES COMING INBOUND FROM ABOVE!"

"WHAT?!"

As soon as that was now reveal to them, the Wild Eagle and Pierce were coming at them from above as they were diving straight toward the two remaining airborne Whale Kings floating in the skies that are blocking the rest of the group's way to the secret base. They dodge all of the incoming firing shots at them as they were diving down toward their targets before firing about a few times from the pair of Republic Supercannons of their Salamander F2, letting the combinations of the Supercannon's muzzle velocity and the laws of gravity itself to help with the trajectories of the Supercannons of their Zoid's cannon shells coming down toward their destinations before landing an hit on their targets, puncture two different hole through their wings and striking one of their two turbine jet engines breath those same wings, resulting in 2 different immense explosions at the same time that completely destroyed one of their two turbine jet engines and torn off the wings above those same turbine jet engines, resulting in those 2 remaining Whale King to tumble right out of the air out of control and sending them to purge out of the air before crashing right into the water of the oceans below.

The pilots of the group of Storm Sworders quickly have manage to immediately regroup with each others and once they did, they immediately responded to this by immediately dashed toward the three customized flying Zoids in the air and fought them. The fight between the 2 Salamander F2s and the red Storm Sworder FX against the dozens of Storm Sworders upon all 3 of them was somehow evenly matched, but it was obvious that the three flying Zoid pilots has the advantages in most of the categories while the group of dozen Storm Sworders only had the number advantage over them.

However, this have allow the two Whale Kings of the group to pass right through without any sort of interfere or troubles from the group of Storm Sworders and flew underneath the dog-fighting above them as all of them headed and traveled toward the island where the location of the secret base itself was at.

Soon, the secret base of operation for this particular remnant of the Blackdraft Group was now in their sight as they were nearing and closing on it and they have gotting a good look of what it was exactly: It was a massive metal-made dome that was on tableland formation of a high island that is protruding right out of the ocean's water by at least several dozen of feets and meters with an landing strip that was jugging right out of its front side that is specifically made for about at least 4 Whale Kings to land on.

When Laon's Great Whale King and Bebop landed on that same landing strip, the base itself have suddenly let out waves and waves of thousands and thousands of Sleeper Zoids of who know how many species of Zoids that there are that were programmed to be sentinel sentry guards to immediately attacked the two Whale Kings and fired upon those same two Whale-type transport Zoids on the strip as all of the guardian Sleeper Zoids charged at their chosen enemy targets that have landed right on their doorsteps.

However, the moment that Laon's Great Whale King and Bebop have dropped their jaws to deployed all of the Zoid that were waiting from inside of them, all hell has finally broke loose when most of them have been deployed against the incoming waves of Sleeper Zoids; Naomi in her red Gun Sniper, Faye in her deep-black Shield Liger, Jet in his Dibison, Cinquedia in her Gul Tiger, Langh?nder in his Dark Dimetrodon, and Estoc and Tuck in their Dark Heldigunners were giving serious fire supports with Laon, Ed, and Eins assist them by remotely-controlling all of the Great Whale King and Bebop's turrents by picking out and striking down the weaker Sleeper Zoids out of the fight and either damaging, weakening, or disabling the stronger Sleeper Zoids with the long-ranged weapons of their respetive Zoids at long range while the Lightning Team in all of their 3 Lightning Saix, the Night Ravens in their three custom Rev Raptors, Rapier in his Dark Helcat and Spatha and Vik in their Dark Molgas were doing that as well at close range with the added bonus of either slicing them with either their fangs, claws or blades for the Lightning Saixs, Rev Raptors, and the Dark Helcat or headbutting them with their armored heads for the Dark Molgas as they're personally helping them with the Sleeper Zoids too, but Leon in his red Blade Liger, the Tiger Team in their 3 Zaber Fangs, Sander in his Elephander Assault, Sabre in her Dark Zaber Fang, Claymore in his Deadboarder, Dao in his Dark Iron Kong, and Cutlass in his Dark Wardick are the ones who were doing all of the main offence upon the approaching waves of multiple and multiple species of Sleeper Zoids with all of the weapons of their claws, teeths, blades, guns, missile pods, and cannons on them, all destroying the Sleeper Zoids on sight and were holding them off in their lines of defense by ripping them to shred, smashing and crushing them into pieces, punching and cutting them down into bits, blasting them and blowing them up into smithereens, flinging and throwing them around in the air everywhere, and even shooting them down like they were ducks (you know, from that same game from 1980s with that annoying dog before he became better as of recent at this time when this chapter is being created) with all of their might and ferocity.

As most of the Zoid warriors were holding the line in their offensive defenses against the waves of Sleeper Zoids coming at them in their respective Zoids. The 5 of the Zoids warriors; Bit and Van in Liger Zero X, Vega and Raven in Berserk Fury, Leena in King Baron, Brad in Ice Blazer, and Stoller in Elephander Command, along with Zeke and Shadow flying beside them with their boosters and wings, were easily plowing themselves right through the horde of Sleeper Zoids straight like, going straight through them it was nothing to them, until they have just barely manage to got into and enter the secret base after going right through the endless waves of Sleeper Zoid just before the giant pair of horizonally sliding heavy-duty metal doors could slide close upon them, leaving the others outside of the base and facing the Sleeper Zoids, hoping for the best of them...


Once they were inside of the base, they have made their way toward the center of the base while destroying various Sleeper Zoids in their path, that were position around the base and which were far more stronger than the ones outside fighting the rest of the group, giving them a much more harder time and trouble for them but they still manage to destroy them in their path toward the central parth of the secret base itself, as they have left behind a trail of the remains of Sleeper Zoids and their destructions at their hands behind the route that they were taking, all while they are pressing on their way through and pass onward toward their target to end of all this.

They were making halfway through toward the center of the base until they have came to a large room when they've pass through the enterance of it from the hallway that they were in just moments ago. All of them noticed the lack of any sorts or kinds of Sleeper Zoids in the room itself, making them feel rather uneased by all of this, or rather, the lack of this, which Leena comment on. "Why is there a lack of multiple Sleeper Zoids in here? That doesn't seem to make any sense... and why is it dark too? That sounds really concerning now."

"I don't know either." Vega said.

"Yeah, but whatever is the reasons for it, it is not a good sign." Bit said. Liger Zero X let out a growl as both she, Van, Raven, Zeke, Shadow, and Brad agreed with the blonde Zoid warrior on that one. As something was just... off in the room they were in.

Stoller suddenly notice movement in the darkness at the middle of the room with his eyes before he moved his Elephander Command forward, stepping in ahead of the group, getting their attention to him, before he then told them. "... Look like they only needed one to guard this room in this only path." However, before any of them could ask the retired Zoid warrior of why, four streams of bullets were suddenly fired upon them and were racing toward the group through the air, which Stoller respond to this by immediately turning his Zoid's ESCS unit on into Energy Shield, erecting an force shield in front of the Elephander Command and the group, causing all the force of the shells to be nullified and bounce right off of the energy shield before it stops.

When the lights of the room turns on, it have soon reveal to be a Death Stringer KFD that was standing in the middle of the room and right behind it at the end of the room, the enterance to the second path, path of the hallyway that continue to lead toward the center of the base and the island itself, before those doors to that path alone suddenly begun to close on them. All of them were silent at this, as they didn't know what to do exactly... before then Stoller then told them.

"Go before the doors close on you." Stoller said to them through the com-links connections. "Go on without me. I'll fight this Zoid alone."

The seven of them were took by surprised of what he said to them, before Van then spoke to him. "Are you sure? After all, even without a Charge Particle Cannon, a Death Stringer is still a Zoid that is not to be stifled with."

"Yeah, Van is right about that one. Me in my Geno Breaker and even the entire Guardian Force at that time over a milleninna ago still had a hard time against only one of this Zoid." Raven said, pointing it out to the old Zoid pilot.

"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine on my own. Beside, i'll only slow all of you down." Stoller said calmly to them, closing his eyes and smirking at this, as he told them calmly. "I'll handle this Zoid alone. As you need to focus on your own objective right now. So go on now before the door close on all of you."

"Yeah. He got a point. So let's get moving." Brad said through the com-link. The Ice Blazer and Berserk Fury let out a howl and roar at the same time before they made their dash toward the doors ahead of the other two Zoids, running around the Death Stringer KFD, as they manage to get into the other side of the room. Liger Zero X and King Baron with Zeke and Shadow still stuck around his Elephander Command before Bit spoke to him.

"Hey. In case if you don't make it out alive, all I am going to say... that we're thankful for your help with all of this, Stoller."

"Yeah, thanks for the helping hand for us." Leena said.

"Hmph. You're welcome... now get going, before the doors close."

"RIGHT!"

Both Liger Zero X and King Baron let out their own roars at this before they made a mad run and dash at their maximum speed toward the other side of the room, where both Ice Blazer and Berserk Fury are waiting for them. The black Liger Zoid manage to get in with an pounce into it before King Baron nearly and barely got through as the doors fully closed right behind them, sealing Stoller and his Elephander in the room alone with the Death Stringer KFD itself. However, he wasn't bother by this as he simply close his eyes and give a calm exhaled breath before he give a kind smile as he spoke to himself. "... Go... Go on the path that you have chosen now and keep walking on it, even with those choices you made are weighting down on your shoulders..."

Stoller's looks return to his usually stoic expression as he turn Elephander Command to face the Death Stringer KFD standing at its tallest height in front of him with its stringer high in the air and focus on it, all before he transformed his Zoid's ESCS unit into its Beam Sword Mode and swung his Zoid's truck on it like he was a old Jedi master who was calmly accepting that this would be his last battle alive on this plane of existance if he was going to get serious. And he knew that all too well, but he've decide to do it anyway in order to prevent the Sea Scorpion-type Zoid right in front of him the chance to chased after them and giving them the fighting chance against the opponent that they are facing.

The 2 Zoids waited for each other to make the first move as the Elephander Command slowly swung its trunk around in an calm and elegant manner, waiting patiencely for this, while the Death Stringer KFD was snapping both its front and back pincers in a completely agitating and irritated manner, waiting restlessly for this, waiting for the other to make the first move.

All before, finally, the Death Stringer KFD let out a wailing battlecry of its rage and wrath as it then charged and lunged itself right at Stoller and his Elephander Command, but he've easily dodge the attack by hopping backward, causing the massive Sea Scorpion-type Zoid to missed its pouncing attack on him completely, but the Death Stringer KFD wasn't done with its own assault, the beginning of it, on Stoller yet by swiping its front pair of pincers and thrusting its stringer forward, all right at his Zoid. However, Stoller have already decide that enough was enough, he've decide to get truely serious now, serious now to use the full extend of his Zoid piloting ability from back when he was a Zoid warrior with his Elephander Command: First, he easily block all of the Death Stringer KFD's onslaughted series of swiping pair of pincers and thrusting stringer attacks with his Elephant-type Zoid's ESCS Unit Beam Sword mode like it was just battering multiple grenades with an baseball bat as if it was nothing before he block the stringer of the armored Sea Scorpion-type Zoid for the final time with his Zoid's ESCS Unit Beam Sword mode before he push away and swat the Beam Sword at the massive Zoid's own stringer, cutting right it off of the end of its tail, causing to wail in pain. Next, he use this as a distraction into converting his Elephander's ESCS Unit back into Energy Shield Mode before emitting an sphere of Energy Shield on the nose of its trunk before using it as a boxing glove to throw a uppercut punch with it, punching right under the chin of the Death Stringer KFD, bursting the energy shield breath it, paralzying the massive amphibious Zoid, and sending the Sea Scorpion-type Zoid through the air before landing back on the floor. Then, the Death Stringer KFD immediately pick itself up from the floor, fluming and steaming with rage as its wrath have now taken control of its mind now, letting it to cloud the rational thinking of its judgement at this, before letting out a wailing screech of its now unleashed raging temper as the Zoid making a berserking dash at its opponent, speeding toward the Elephant-type Zoid with the intent of smashing and cutting up its foe into countless and countless of pieces, and then launching and jumping into the air, lunging itself right at Stoller and his Zoid. And now... Finally, Stoller responded to the attack of his opponent by unexpectly transforming his Zoid's ESCS Unit back into its Beam Sword mode and then swirled his Elephander Command around in a counter-clockwise motion before finally swinging its Beam Sword at the incoming Zoid and striking its foe, cutting off the left arm and legs off of Death Stringer KFD's body, sending it flying right above Elephander Command before crashing its injured body into the wall of the room and finally landed on its back, finally finishing this fight.

The Death Stringer KFD let out a series of short screeches as it struggle to tried to get up from its back. Stoller look in silent as he breathing in and out before he suddenly start coughing, causing him to cover his mouth, and cough a few drops of blood onto his hand. When he look calmly and saw the blood on his hand, he gave a silent stare before he give a sigh. Since he already knew that if he ever fought seriously at his true Zoid piloting ability, it would take a toll on his own body due to his advanced age. Being a reminder that he was no longer a young man of his Zoid warrior days...


The now four remaining Zoids with the two organoids beside them inside of the base were running down the hallway toward the center part of the base as they have destroyed the last of the Sleeper Zoids guardians that are placed around the path and made their way through it. However, as they were making their way through with the Ice Blazer leading them ahead due being the fastest Zoids out of the 4, Brad have suddenly sense something was off before he saw a pair of 3 shining lights at the end of the hall and he immediately shouted a warning to all three of them behind his Zoid. "Guys! Jumped out of the way now!"

They didn't need to know the reason of why when they have suddenly saw a pair of at least 3 streaking beams fired, 1 larger beam accompy by 2 smaller ones, and came racing down the hallway toward them, causing all of them to dodge by jumping to the sides of the hall as the beams pass by them before a explosion was created at the other end behind them when it hit something. All four of them give a blank look at what they have just saw in stagger shock before they have manage shook it off and turn their heads toward the end of the hallway in front of them, where they saw smoke rising from the barrels of a pair of chrome gold beam cannons... sitting on the back of a Zoid that was standing still at end of the hall.

The Zoid in question was a Dog-type Zoid, specifically, a German Shepherd Breed-type Zoid, in a color that was moulded in a combination of white, light blue, and black with chrome golden eyes and it was rather well-armed for its size as it was equipped with two light blue Cross Lances that are pointed backwards and are folded this way for storage as they swivel to point them forward, the aforemention pair of chrome gold beam cannons that are attached to a single connector in between them on its back, three-barreled cannon that are arranged in an upside-down triangle-shaped arrangment that are build into the upper part of its chest just below of where the jaws of the Zoid was, and a more larger cannon that was right breath them in the bottom part of its chest with smoking clearly rising from it as it cool down. They were astonished by what they saw before Leena ask. "What the hell is that?"

"I don't know... I never seen it before." Bit said.

"Us either." Van and Raven answered.

They didn't know what this German Shepherd-type Zoid was since they have never seen like it before and thought that it must be another Zoid that was designed by the Ancient Zoidian race like either King Liger and King Baron or Zeekdober and Ice Blazer. Vega notice that Brad was being unusually more quiet than he is usually before he spoke to him. "Is something the matter? What's wrong, Brad?" He asked in concern, figuring that something was wrong.

"That Zoid is given off... a similar presence, like that I met it before, but where?" Brad said. However, that was when he got his answer when they have heard a unfamiliar voice through their com-links.

"Hello, Brad. We finally meet again."

"Oh, it's just you, Duncan." Brad said, rather causally about this. The five humans with the two Zoids and Organoids became confused by what was going on before they look back and forth between Brad's Zoid and the pilot who is apparently named Duncan's Zoid, still confused of what between the two pilots of certain Canine-type Zoids.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK CAUSALLY TO ME LIKE THAT, YOU GODDAMN FUCKER!"

They were now more confused than ever efore Leena manage to speak.

"Wait, you two know each other?" Leena asked, confused by this.

"Oh yeah. I've meet Duncan in a pub after I have won a couple of battles with my Command Wolf for the first time."

"Oh yes. We have meet each other in a pub for the first time... all before this man right here have took Naomi's attention from me!"

"Wait, wha?" Everyone said at the same time, dumbfounded by confusion of what they have just heard from Duncan himself about Brad.

"Yeah, long story short: I first met Naomi in that same pub and when we first met, we talk to each other about some stuff. Ya know, like any new friends would that you have made friend with them. Apparently, Duncan here was a Zoid warrior that has a unhealthly obsession with Naomi from the first time they've met each other and so when he saw me and Naomi talking, he wasn't happy to me talking with her... as the thought that instantly came to his obsessive mind is that me and her were in a relationship at that time. So he immediately ran up to me and told that me and him are gonna have a Zoid battle with each other and the win for it? A date with Naomi. Despite me being rather inexperience at the time and him being longer in the Zoid warrior job and was technially older than me in that regard, I easily manage to trash his own Command Wolf with my own Command Wolf and won the battle with ease, so I have pretty much won a date with Naomi. And ever since that day, he have swore vengance upon me. So in short: He's basically Harry and Laon together but who is more of a obsessive stalker than they were."

"Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh...!" Everyone said, as it have suddenly explained a lot of things and manage to clear them up all at once.

"OH YES! THAT HOW IT HAPPEN! ALL OF IT! Ever since on that day that you have took Naom's attention away from me as well as utterly humiliately trashed and destroyed my Command Wolf along with my pride as a Zoid warrior, I have cursed your own name upon that day when I have swore my own vengance on it. I trained to my upmost limits until I have broken every single Zoids that I brought and piloted in my trail for the quest of my revenge on you. Luckly for me through, the rather kind Dr Zelve have given me a shiny new high performance Zoid to accommodate my newly refined skills. This Zoid that you are looking at with your own eyes is named: HOUNDSOLDIER! And with it! I'LL SHALL RECLAIM OF WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY BELONG TO ME ALL ALONG! MUHAHAHAHAHAHHA!" Duncan said as he give out a completely maniacally laughter, causing Naomi to shiver all of sudden when she got the uneased chills all over her back and she have no idea of why exactly... but with a blank unreadable expression, Brad have just gave him a pure look of flummoxed at all of this, just confounded with stupefy as he was utterly clueless, before he scratch his head and give a groaning sigh of annoyance as he was now just fed up with all of this before he told the others.

"You guys can go on without me. I'll deal with this idiot right here by myself." Brad told the others through the com-link.

"Wait, seriously?" Vega asked, as all of them were surprised by what they heard from him.

"Yeah. Don't worry, i'll catch up to you guys soon. Since the central part of this room is just a few rooms away. And beside, Duncan only want to fight me. So there's no point for you guys to stand around here waiting for me."

"Okay. If you say so Brad." Bit said as Liger Zero X and Berserk Fury turn and immediately ran toward the end of the hallway, passing by Duncan and his Houndsoldier, before they've enter the room, causing multiple sets of doors to slowly close on them.

"And don't you dare to died on us, Brad! Because I will go after you in whatever afterlife that you're in if you're dead!" Leena warned Brad as King Baron turn itself around and instantly ran toward the end of the hallway.

"Don't worry, I won't." With that, King Baron manage to quickly to get into the another room with Liger Zero X and Berserk Fury and heading toward the center of the base itself, sealing Brad and Ice Blazer with Duncan and his Houndsoldier in the room. He took in some breath to calm some of his ire at this down and let out a sigh... as he unfurled his Ice Blazer's pair of 2 Hell Blazer Strike Blades before he spoke to his opponent in a wary tone of voice, no longer giving a shit about this anymore. "Alright, Duncan. Let's finish this once and for all so I can no longer deal with this crap."

"Yes..." Duncan as he swivel his Houndsoldier's pair of Cross Lance to point forward at his own opponent in front of him. "Let's finished this, once and for all."

The 2 Zoids stood absolutely still in the room they were as their respective pilots of both Zoid warriors looked at each other in silent, locking their glare with each other, as they waiting for the other to make the first move to begin the fight officially. All before Duncan made the first move by trusting one of his Houndsoldier's Cross Lance at Brad and his Ice Blazer, but he used one of his Zoid's Hell Blazer Strike Blades to blocked the attack, beginning the battle between the two Zoid warriors of Canine-type Zoids, the battle between the two Dog-type Zoids. The Houndsoldier attacked its pilot's opponent's Zoid by using a series of thrusting attacks with its Cross Lance, but the Ice Blazer block its opponent's incoming attacks with its Hell Blazer Strike Blades and the Dog-type Zoid traded blow with the other Dog-type Zoid's Cross Lance as they fought across the room they were in until it easily dodge one of its opponent's swiping attack with its Cross Lances before jumping forward with its pair of Hell Blazer Strike Blades, forcing its opponent to dodge as well by jumping backward and then jumping to the side again when it attack with its close-range weapons again. Duncan thrusted his Zoid's Cross Lances at his opponent again, but Brad easily dodge it by jumping his Zoid to the right, before they locked their Zoid's closed-ranged weapons together in an weapon lock between each other, as they both glare at each other from the cockpits of their Zoids. Sparks flew everywhere in the room as their weapon clashed with each other until they broke it and jumped back from each other before Brad ran to the left with his Zoid as Duncan ran to the right with his Zoid to chase after him. Their Zoids speeded through the room before Ice Blazer made a skidding stop and swipe its left Hell Blazer Strike Blade at its opponent, but Houndsoldier easily blocked the incoming attack with its right Cross Lances before the German Shephard-type Zoid did a counterattack on its opponent by thrusting its lance forward, forcing the Dobermann-type Zoid to dodge it by jumping backward. The two Zoid warriors and their respective Dog-type Zoids dashed at each others, rushing their own respective Canine-type Zoids at each others, charging at each others with the closed-range weapons of their Zoids, both of them deciding to end this battle between each other once in for all to see who was ultimate victor of this fight, all of this all before Duncan thrusted both of his Houndsoldier's Cross Lances at his opponent and his Zoid, but that proved to be his own undoing as Brad and Ice Blazer easily the dodge the incoming attack by ducking under it and immediately taking advantage of this by striking the Hell Blazer Strike Blade across the chest of their opposing foe, cutting through the armor and hitting the Zoid Core, slashing it, causing damage in the process.

This made Brad to give a smirk at this when he did that, when he knows that he have already won this fight and got in the bag when he did, as it make Duncan himself to looked on with horror in his eyes at what is happening right now.

"NNNNOOOOO! NOT MY ZOID OF WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAARRRRRRAAAAAAA-!"

This cause Houndsoldier to violently exploded into a burning weckage of fiery flames, all but premanently killing off Duncan for good, as it has collapse to the stone cold floor of the room. Brad watched the scene of this in silent with Ice Blazer before he give out a sigh of complete relief at this. "Whew... look like I'll never deal with him ever again." He comment at this, just rather causal about it, before he focus his attention on the doors as he thought to himself in his mind. "Now then... how to get through these doors..."


When all 3 Zoids have now made it to the center room of the base, they were expecting and prepare for whatever is inside of it exactly, but they weren't expecting this, as this wasn't what they were expecting. As the center part of the base in question was not only a utterly massive space, but was also completely empty, almost bared with nothing in it, almost with no features at all, just... barely nothing. The only noticable feature that the five humans and the two Zoids with the organoid were seeing in the enormous empty space that was in the space itself was the utterly monstrous and mammoth of a pod tank that was located right at the very center of the entire secret base of this Backdraft remnant itself and was placed right in front of them, leaning at its full colossal height of over 100 meters (328.08 feets) tall height that was thanks to its tremendous and humongus shadow that was looming over the 3 Zoids. They notice that the space was quiet. Too quiet. However, that didn't last for about a couple of seconds before all of them suddenly heard a calm giggle, all before a insane laughter.

"Hehehehheheh... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAAA!"

Jolted in surprised by this, all of them look their head to see, where they've saw a unknown figure of a man standing right on top of the titanic pod tank, through they couldn't really see the exact feature of his face nor his body due the shadow of the darkness covering him that is thanked to the blue shining liquid inside of the pod tank that was glowing with an bright hue right behind him, obscuring of what he look like exactly to them down below, before he have spoke to them from where he was standing on top of, his voice echoing down to them.

"So... I see that a few of you have... made it to this area. This is... good. You're thought of who I am exactly is simply not one of your... concerns. As Siegrotgar is a far more of your concerns than me."

Before they could wonder what he meant by that, they have suddenly saw an Wolf-like Zoid suddenly appearing beside the man standing on top of the pod tank before it jumped from its spot on top of it beside him and landed in front of them with the pod tank behind it. When it landed in front of them, it have soon reveal to be none other than the upgraded form of the K?nig Wolf itself standing that was in front of them. So what was once a white-colored armored Wolf-type Zoid with red eyes, bluish-greenish gyrocaps, black body, and was equipped with a Dual Sniper Rifle on its back was now a black-colored armored Wolf-type Zoid with Eletric Purple-colored eyes, NCS blue gyrocaps, a Royal Purple-colored body and Delft blue-colored legs underneath its black armor, and was equipped with an AZ 30mm Armor Piercing Laser Vulcan Gun like the Shadow Fox on its back now, giving an appearance of a K?nig Wolf with negative colors like Liger Zero Midnight Shield. With the only things that still remained of the original K?nig Wolf with its upgraded form was its still noteworthy headgear that is currently folded up on the back of its head and the AZ five-enclosed cells missile pods units on both sides of its shoulders. The moment that they saw the upgraded form of K?nig Wolf and got clear view of the Zoid itself, they immediately knew of who the pilot himself was before a com-link was suddenly now establish to Bit and open it up to reveal the face of Siegrotgar.

"Hello, Bit Cloud."

"Siegrotgar. You upgraded your Zoids in order to match me and Liger Zero X, huh?" Bit said, guessing the exact reason of why he upgraded K?nig Wolf. "And that old guy that is standing up there is Dr. Zelve?"

"Yes. That is correct on your assumption. The good doctor up there that you know as Dr. Zelve have upgraded my Zoid with better performance and different weapons into the K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to match against all of your upgraded Zoids that you have with you, but that is not the only Zoid that was now upgraded." Siegrotgar said. Before one of them could ask why he said that, they have suddenly heard a familiar roar from a familiar Zoid, a Zoid that they have met before when Liger Zero was evolving into Liger Zero Ambient in the red cocoon of energy and a Zoid that Siegrotgar previously piloted before K?nig Wolf, before the Liger Zero Midnight Shield appear right out of the shadow beside the pod tank by turning off its Optical Camouflage System and walking right up to the K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike before standing beside it, showing itself to the 3 Zoids as the 2 inverted-colored Zoids were standing beside each other in front of them, as Siegrotgar then told them. "The good doctor himself has also upgraded Liger Zero Midnight Shield itself by replacing the entire cockpit itself with an Artificial Intelligence computer system that have enhanced its performance even further than before, now finally matching the performance level of both Liger Zero and Berserk Fury. However, its performance level is now even more further increased, giving better performance than them now, since he have based the Artificial Intelligence of the computer system on my own technial and behavoir templates that I have provided, making the Liger Zero Midnight Shield my equal now. A partner that can now equal me and help me in battle."

Everyone were now silent at what they have heard from Siegrotgar, while all the good docter himself, Dr. Zelve, was looking at the scene still on top of the pod tank he was on, all before Leena then spoke to Bit through the com-link. "Hey, Bit."

"Yeah?"

"I want to take on Liger Zero Midnight Shield."

"... So that you can have avenge on it for Leon and giving a beatdown of its life for absolutely destroying him and his Zoid in battle?"

"Yep. What else did you think?"

"I thought that you want to have a tough target practice for you to test out the full capabilties of your upgraded Zoid."

"That too."

"If I were you, I suggest that you should pay more attention to your own surrounding." The moment that he said that, Bit and Leena immediately return to their attention to Siegrotgar, just before K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike and Liger Zero Midshield suddenly pounce and swipe their claws right at their intended targets. This forced Liger Zero X and King Baron to dodge the incoming attack by immediately jumping backward, with Berserk Fury jumping away from them sideways in order to not have their attention on her, causing their foes in front of them to missed their target, before they dashed toward their chosen opponent, with Liger Zero X going for K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike while King Baron charged at Liger Zero Midnight Shield, beginning their 2 Vs 2 battle against each others.

Seeing that Bit and Van in Liger Zero X and Leena in King Baron were battling against K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike and Liger Zero Midnight Shield and keeping their respective opponents busy with fighting against them, this have cause both Vega and Raven to quickly realizing and figuring out that this meant that Dr. Zelve has no guards to protect him from danger now and is now left unguarded, before they immediately took advantage of this fact as Berserk Fury then instantly flew upward toward the standing doctor before reaching and hovering with her thrusters with Shadow himself hovering beside her on her left right in front of Dr. Zelve himself, hovering at height he was at with her propelling thrusters. "You're mine!" Vega declared with Raven agreeing, as Berserk Fury then swivel her Buster Claws out and aim them forward at him, attempting to attack him.

However, before they could do that, Berserk Fury was then suddenly hit and strike down by the explosion created by the shot that struck down the Tyrannosaurus-type Zoid, causing her to drop and plumment down from the height she was at before crashed down upon the floor of the room, receiving some damage from that shot and her crashlanding, just as the Zoid that fired that shot stepped forward. This cause Berserk Fury to lifting her head up to see and saw that it was a Geno Breaker, the same Zoid that both was Raven had piloted before and was the previous form of Berserk Fury, and looked similar to Raven's Geno Breaker except for its X-Breakers was a different shape standing in front of them and loomed over them, much to Vega's and Raven's shock to this but especially to Raven at what they were seeing before he shouted at this. "Geno Breaker!? Where did that come from and how they did get it?!" Raven yelled, confounded by this.

"Survival first and ask question later!" Vega said. Berserk Fury quickly got back up from the floor and stand back rightup on its two legs before she turn to faced the Geno Breaker, but she was immediately stuck by a second shot when it suddenly strike the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid when it struck right on her face upon impact and damage her even more, sending her right back down to the floor on her side, only to reveal that it was a second Geno Breaker. This made Vega and Raven to look in dumbfounded shock by the lone sight of a second Geno Breaker as they couldn't believe their eyes nor didn't think in their minds that they somehow have a second Geno Breaker nor how they manage to have required one at all. Berserk Fury growled in pure irritation at the inconcevience of this development as she manage to quickly got right back up on her two legs once more and roared at this, still planning on trying to attack her target, before she was then hit and struck from behind by a third shot, causing the Tyrannosaurus-type Zoid herself to topple forward while the shot also damage her body, to reveal that it came from a third Geno Breaker approaching from behind, causing Vega to be flabbergasted by this and making Raven growling all in annoyance out of déjà vu, which have made him comment and lampshaded at their current predictment. "Great, this is like fighting those 3 Genosaurs all over again! Utterly fan-freaking-tastic."

Berserk Fury manage to quickly get back up from the floor once again before she then see that they were now surrounded by the 3 Geno Breakers themselves, much to their obvious (not at all) enjoyment at this, as the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid then let out a roar of challenge to them, daring one of them to attack. Before she could react, the first Geno Breaker instantly made the first move by immediately propelling forward with its thrusters and rammed right into her with its head and pair of X-Breakers, causing the Tyrannosaurus-type Zoid to skidded a few meters as Berserk Fury was took by surprised, as the third Geno Breaker came up to her side with its thrusters from behind before swinging its tail and strike her with it, causing her to stumble forward, before the second Geno Breaker immediately start blasting her with its shots fired upon her from its only pair of ranged weapon, receiving further damages to her body and also shaking it from the impact of the shots while further damaging Berserk Fury's armor with various cracks starting to appear from her 3 opponents.

"Facing 3 Geno Breakers is going to be a challenge." Vega noted causally.

"YOU THINK?!" Raven reply irritatingly.

Before Berserk Fury could respond with an attack, the first Geno Breaker then suddenly fired its Charge Particle Cannon from its mouth while she was being blasted upon by the second Geno Breaker, destroying her left Buster Claw, before the third Geno Breaker rammed right into the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid and then using its right X-breaker to promptly grab her right Buster Claw in its pincer claws and ripped it off, disabling her other weapons and its Energy Shield and rendering them inoperative that preventing her from using them, before using its other X-breaker to grab Berserk Fury by her tail and begun thrashing around the body of the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid, beating and striking her body down to the floor, giving more serious damages to her, until the third Geno Breaker decide that it was done and thrown Berserk Fury to the floor, causing her to skid her body across it, and all the three Geno Breakers then begun firing their only ranged weapons at the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid, blasting Berserk Fury with their shots, damaging her body even more, all as they continue kept firing until they finally stop when they've gave enough damage to her.

Berserk Fury attempted to get up from the floor despite the damage that she have received, but couldn't when she've suddenly collapse back down to the cold floor due to the significent amount of damage that she took to her body, causing Vega and Raven to shout in alarm worry and concerns at this, their fears running in their minds. "BERSERK FURY! Get up! Please get up!"

"REESE!"

Berserk Fury continue tried to get up from the floor and fight her opponents but still couldn't manage to get her body up from the floor, all as the three Geno Breakers were now starting to approaching her. Shadow saw what had unfolded and happen below with his eyes while he was flying in the air around in circles before he let out a roar of resolve at this as he then envelope his entire body into a shining glow and he immediately begun diving down toward the Berserk Fury with the speed and appearance of a shooting star before entering right into her body and merge with her Zoid Core in order to heal and repair her injures and damage to her body. However, when Shadow has did that, the body of the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid herself was suddenly envelope into a shining and glowing half-sphere shape cocoon of white blinding light, which made the three Geno Breakers to stop approaching closer due to the sheer intensity of the blinding light, all before the light slowly faded away... to reveal the completely repaired and healed Berserk Fury, with all of her injuries and damage that she've received during her battle were now only mended, except this time both the appearance and colors of her body armor and her eyes were now completely different. Berserk Fury was now no longer the lavender-colored Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid with red eyes, but was now an Jet Black-colored Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid with Azure Blue-colored eyes like Shadow, standing absolutely still on her two legs in her newest and most powerful form that she have achieved, as she was now no longer Berserk Fury: Now... she was Berserk Fury Shadow Edge. Taking her name after Shadow since he was the one who evolved her into a new form while also due to the color of her jet black and added Edge in the last part of the name of her Zoid's form since she figure that the jet black colors of her armor have reminded her the colors that a emo would use them in an attempt to make themselves look more edgy and cool with Raven having a inkling of a strange feeling that he somehow felt being insulted by Reese. Vega was amazed by Berserk Fury's newest form before he immediately realized in his relief and happiness that Berserk Fury is alright and has now achieved a new form.

"Berserk Fury! You're alright!" Vega exclaimed in joy, glad that his Zoid partner was still okay despite taking large amount of damage thanks to Shadow healing, with Raven giving a calm smirk at this as he knew that Shadow would heal and repair Berserk Fury's damage body with his powers. Berserk Fury Shadow Edge growl softly to him, telling him that she is alright and is now better. He smiled in happiness before he then grin at this. "So ready to test out your new form?" She immediately gave a growl of confirmation as she push full power to all of her thrusters before she charged forward and accelerated up to speeds of about 400 km/h (248.55 mph), thrusting herself forward straight toward the first Geno Breaker as she start spinning and rotating her Buster Claw around before she then swung the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid at its head, decapitating and beheading the first Geno Breaker with ease, disabling and deactivating the first Geno Breaker. Berserk Fury Shadow Edge then saw the second Geno Breaker of what it was about do when it fired its shot at and she dodge the attack by skidding herself to the left all before the third Geno Breaker then blasting its Charged Particle Cannon out of its mouth at her, but the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid immediately respond to this attack is to dodge the attack by skidding to the right before she then turn around as she then fired a beam out from one of her Buster Claws and hit its mouth with extreme accuracy, causing a backlash that made the third Geno Breaker's head to imploded from the inside of its head, disabling and deactivating the third Geno Breaker with its deactivated body collapse to the floor as Berserk Fury Shadow Edge then focused the rest of her attention on the last Geno Breaker that was standing last and thrust herself forward with accelerated speed toward the last Geno Breaker. The second Geno Breaker immediately realized that it was her target and she was heading straight toward her target before begun immediately firing both its Charged Particle Cannon and its only other range weapons pair of two AZ 140mm Double-barrel Shock Cannons, but Berserk Fury Shadow Edge just dodge all of its shots with ease before she then spin both of her Buster Claws all once and thrust them forward when she have gotting close to it but the second Geno Breaker manage to block her close-range by quickly using both of its X-Breakers to grab both of the spinning Buster Claws in its pincers claw, which made the two pilots and Berserk Fury Shadow Edge impressed but not before the Tyrannosaurus-type Ultimate X Zoid fired her own Charged Particle Cannon at it, going right through its neck and beheading it from it, causing its body to collapse as she stood and loomed over its body. Vega cheer Berserk Fury Shadow Edge at their victory over this while Raven just elect to remained silent before the three of them looked and saw the other battle that was going on.

In Leena and King Baron's battle against the Liger Zero Midnight Shield: It was a intense battle with Liger Zero Midnight Shield being a quite difficult and hard opponent for both Leena and King Baron as the two Lion-type Zoids fought against each other with fierce agression while both of them dance around each other's attempted attacks. King Baron then swung its claws, but Liger Zero Midnight Shield dodge the attack by jumping backward before then pouncing forward and swipe its right claws, but King Baron easily dodge the attack by jumping to the left. King Baron then attack Liger Zero Midnight Shield by using its fangs to attempting to bite its neck, but Liger Zero Midnight Shield dodge the attack by jumping to the left before it then jumped into the air as its right front blue claws were enveloped into a shining blue flaming-like aura glow and swung its Blazing Phantom Blue Laser Claw attack at the majestic Lion-type Zoid, but King Baron quickly dodge its attack by jumping to the right as the striking heavily-armed Lion-type Zoid landed on all of its four paws and fired all of its range weapons at its opponent, but the nimble phantom Liger Zero quickly dodge it by jumping to the right just as all of the laser beams that the noble heavily-weapons Lion-type Zoid had fired missed their target and have zoomed right passed it before Liger Zero Midnight Shield then use its Plasma Blox Assault Rifle to instantly fired a bolt of plasma to attack and streak through the air when it was shot out from its weapon toward the awe-inspiring Lion-type Zoid, which King Baron respond to this is to dodge by jumping backward as the golden-chromed Zoid then unfurled all four of its Laser Blades before it then charged toward its opponent and accelerated right up to its top maximum speed, trusting itself forward as it rush straight toward the ghostly and phantom Liger Zero attempt to attack its opponent with its four Laser Blades, which Liger Zero Midnight Shield respond to this is to quickly and swiftly dodge the attempted closed-range attack by jumping to the right before shooting out a round of several plasma bolts right at the opponents that it was facing by firing its Blox Assault Rifle, but King Baron's own respond to this is to activate its Electromagnetic Shield to surround and encase itself into the force field of Electromagnetic energy as the plasma bolts that were fired from the Plasma Blox Assault Rifle of Liger Zero Midnight Shield hit King Baron's Electromagnetic Shield, causing them to scatter and disperse their energy when they have made impact on it, before King Baron then dispersed its Electromagnetic Shield and the noble heavily-armed Lion-type Zoid fired all of its range weapons right at the stealth-oriented Liger Zero, causing Liger Zero Midnight Shield to dodge by jumping to the left before the nimble phantom Liger Zero immediately pounce right at the majestic and magnificent Lion-type Zoid itself, continuing their fight and battle against each other. Their intense and fierce battle between each other was fought both hard and aggressively, with both of them being a even match against each other, all while they continue fighting each other to see of who will still standing alive and to see who will fall to the cold floor dead. "Ggggggrrrrrrrr..." This cause Leena to growl in frustration at this, as they can't get a hit on Liger Zero Midnight Shield since when they attempt to attack with either her Zoid partner's claws or fangs or guns, it will just constantly dodge either one of those attacks due to the nimbe and agile nature of its design that it was based on and cloned from (which have made her curse every now and then of how the hell did they manage to get the Liger Zero design in the first place but she decide that it because they were probably the ones who have created Liger Zero in first place) as she glared at Liger Zero Midnight Shield while the two Lion-type Zoids stood and glared at each other, waiting for the other to make a move... until she suddenly got a idea in her head when it have pop right into her brain like a lightbulb being turned by a mere flick of a switch that turn it on and off. She gave a crazy grin at the plan of her idea when she give it a thought and think about it keenly until she decide that the idea of her plan was worth a shot to try out and spoke to her Zoid partner. "Hey, King Baron." King Baron made a curious growl when it heard its pilot's voice in order to get its attention, curious of what she wanted to say. "I got a idea that might work. Trust me on this one?" King Baron didn't need to wait to answer that sort of answer as it immediately gave her a rumbling growl of affirmation to her trust. "Thanks King Baron, you're the best Zoid partner that I could ask for. So here's the plans..." The trigger-happy girl then explain in a whispering voice to her Zoid partner of her plan as King Baron listenly sharply and acutely to its partner until it give a growl of confirmation and nodded its head in a yes once she was finished with explaining of her plan to the magnificent Lion-type Zoid. Liger Zero Midnight Shield mildly and idly wonder in its computer of what they were planning exactly, evidence by the tilting of its head toward to its left side, before it was snapped out of its thoughts when the black phantom Liger Zero abruptly saw King Baron suddenly pounce into the air to attack it, causing Liger Zero Midnight Shield to immediately dodge the incoming attack that was coming straight at it by jumping to the right before immediately attacking by firing its Plasma Blox Assault Rifle, shooting out several plasma bolts that bolted and zoomed right across the air like the speeding projectiles that they were straight toward their intended target to hit. King Baron instantly responded to this is by putting up its Electromagnetic Shield, causing the plasma bolts that were fired and shot by Liger Zero Midnight Shield's Plasma Blox Assault Rifle to instead its hit that resulting in their kinetic energy to spread out along with what they were made out of, before Liger Zero Midnight Shield then suddenly dashed straight toward for the noble-looking Lion-type Zoid rival that was the opposite itself and jumped right into the air all as the front right blue claws of the inverted-colored black and white phantom Liger Zero glows and were envelope into a glowing and radiating blue flaming-like aura all before it start and begun descending toward its opponent with its Blazing Phantom Blue Laser Claw attack by using its own body mass and weight along with the path of both its falling descend and its trajectory course to its advantage until when it have descended close enough to that it swipe its claws, attacking with its Blazing Phantom Blue Laser Claw attack against King Baron, its Blazing Phantom Blue Laser Claw attack penetrating right through the red and white imposing heavily-armed Lion-type Zoid's Electromagnetic Shield. But this is what Leena was counted exactly on, however, thus proving for its own downfall, in her plan by using its own attack against its own user and wielder when King Baron suddenly move by thrusting and pushing its Electromagnetic Shield forward the inverted-colored Liger Zero toward it while simultaneously dodging its Blazing Phantom Blue Laser Claw attack that cause the attack itself to missed its intended target right at the same time all at once, taking the Liger Zero Midnight Shield by complete flabbergasted surprised and utterly staggering shock at what that it was least expecting, before Leena then pressed the trigger when the Electromagnetic Shield disperse, shooting and firing all of the long-ranged weapons of the majestic-type Zoid itself at Liger Zero Midnight Shield, unloading all of the fired beam that were shot upon the inverted-colored Liger Zero, riddling and filling Liger Zero Midnight Shield with the multiple of holes when the multitudes of beams pierced and gored right through its body, including through its head that have cause it to immediately implode and obliterate it in the process when its Artifical Intelligence Computer System unit was struck that same beam, that instantly killed it just as the sheer kinetic forces from both King Baron's Electromagnetic Shield that it rammed it into and the explosion of the impact that was made by its multiple beams melting through its armor with intense temperatures send its dead body flying through the air and skidded right across the floor when it land with a loud screeching sound of metal scratching together until the now dead body of Liger Zero Midnight Shield came a crawling stop.

Just to be safe than sorry, Leena and King Baron immediately did a double tap move to make absolutely sure that Liger Zero Midnight Shield is truely dead and not playing dead in order to trick them by firing all of King Baron's beam weapon, shooting out a cluster of multiple beams that flew and streak through the air like a metoer shower before they struck their target like a showing droplets of rain, completely obliterating the dead body of the inverted-colored phantom Liger Zero to oblivion to the point that the only left of it was just a smoking crater, destroying Liger Zero Midnight Shield for good. Leena breath slowly in and out at this before she finally let out a sigh of relief, glad that their battle against Liger Zero Midnight Shield was now over. "LEENA!" Leena turned her head to see Berserk Fury Shadow Edge hovering right up to King Baron's side along with Shadow standing on top of her head before a com-link was established as Vega's face was shown on the hologram screen. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah... I'm fine. Just a bit winded..." Leena answered while she lean against her seat as her pumping blood and veins were calming from the excitment from their fight against Liger Zero Midnight Shield before she open her left eyes and saw the Berserk Fury in its newest form, which made her ask about it. "... Did the Berserk Fury evolve into a new form?"

"Yep!" Vega answer as he then told her. "Shadow was the one who help her evolve. He was really trying to regenerate her injuries and enhanced her powers, but he accidentally made her evolve into a new form. Not we're complaining through. The best part about it is that the evolution only lasted a couple of second! So yeah, thanks to that, we manage to easily trash 3 Geno Breakers at once!" Shadow barked in confirmation.

This made surprised by what she heard. "Huh. That's... pretty impressive when I think about it. But then again, you are technially a prodigy, so would been impressive to hear someone managing to defeat a Geno Breakers, much less three of them, at once at such a young age. So I guess it is not surprising then." Leena comment and basically summized about Vega himself perfectly. This made prodigy boy himself chuckle shyly and sheeplishly at what he've heard of her own description of himself with a massive sweatdrop clinging to his head while Raven and Shadow just rolled their eyes in a deadpan manner at this before the trigger-happy girl then suddenly remember something else that came to her mind that make her worry. "Bit!"

The six of them immediately turned their heads to see what was happening with the other three and they all immediately saw the third battle both that was continue on at this moment and was happening: The battle between Liger Zero X and K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike against each other was both greatly fierce and incrediblely intense with both of them being evenly matched for each other with the black Liger-type Zoid herself proven to be stronger of the two yet the pilot of the black Wolf-type Zoid has far more years of experience along with using his Zoid's headgear to make up for that and allow him to keep up with them as they fought against each others with aggressive and murderous ferocities against each other. Liger Zero X immediately jumped and pounced right at the Wolf-type Zoid with the swinging and swiping silver claws of her front right paw use to swipe right at her opponent in a swiping attack, but Siegrotgar immediately respond to this incoming attack is to piloted K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to dodge the attack by jumping backward from the attack, causing the swiping silver claws of her front left paw and her attack to miss their intended target. Siegrotgar then commended his K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to fired its AZ 30mm Armor Piercing Laser Vulcan Gun, causing the Laser Vulcan Gun to instantly start spinning and rotating around before begun firing and shooting out rounds of multiple laser bullets at the black and gold Liger-type Zoid, but Liger Zero X easily dodge the attack by instantly jumping to the right, causing the rounds of laser bullets that were fired upon by the black Wolf-type Zoid to miss their target by a margin, before she immediately dashed toward it as the silver claws of her front left paw started to glow and bathe in a golden shining lights and then jumped into the air as the black and gold Liger-type Zoid then use her Strike Laser Claw attack against the enemy Zoid that she was facing, but K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike then immediately dodge her attack by jumping sideways to the left. Siegrotgar commanded K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike through the controls in the cockpit of the Zoid that he was steering and piloting at his disposal to attack the enemy Zoid and opponent by immediately sprinting and bolting toward her as the Wolf-type Zoid open its mouth to reveal its Electron Bite Fangs all before it jumped into the air toward her as it pounce at her in an attempt to attack her and attempt to used its Electron Bite Fangs attack, but Liger Zero X quickly and swiftly dodged the attempted attack by suddenly jumping and darted forward as she zoom pass right underneath the Wolf-type Zoid, causing K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to missed its target with its Electron Bite Fangs attack, before she then suddenly turned around by performing a sliding turn to the left as she then unfurled and deployed her two Stun Blades on her sides all before the black and gold Liger-type Zoid immediately sprinted forward and charged toward her opponent, dashing and bolting toward K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike as she leaped and surged forward that allowed her to go faster with speed of over 315 km/h (195.11 mph) as she then increased and accelerating her speed up even faster up than she never gone before up to 360 km/h (223.69) with her Ion Turbo Boosters when Bit have actived them to accelerated her speed even faster and higher, rushing right toward the Wolf-type Zoid with her two Stun Blades on her sides as she got close to the enemy they were facing against, but Siegrotgar's immediate response to the attack that was coming right at him is to instantly forced K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to to suddenly start running straight toward at one of the incoming Stun Blades, taking the three of them by complete shock at what have happen, before finnaly dodge the attack by jumping right over the Liger-type Zoid and one of its blades, dodging Liger Zero X's attack with her two Stun Blades, and performing a landing while doing a turn round by a sliding itself around as it use its claws to stop by digging them deep into the floor while it skidded across the metal floor backward with the sounds of metal scratching together and the sparks made by the skid with its claws flew everyway in the massive room until the Wolf-type Zoid have quickly stop its skidding now with long grooves in the floor from using its claws were now created before K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike fired its AZ 30mm Armor Piercing Laser Vulcan Gun to shot round of laser straight at its opponent. However, Bit, Van, and Liger Zero X immediately recovered and quickly shook off their jolting shock at what just happened of what they saw with their own eyes, as Liger Zero X then instantly perform a siding turn around as she then flipped and deployed her Electron Drivers forward on her back and immediately dodge the rounds of laser-like bullets coming at them by instantly jumping sideway before firing electrical bolts from her Electron Drivers at the Wolf-type Zoid, but Siegrotgar's response to this is to quickly and immediately forced K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to swiftly dodge the incoming projectile attack by jumping sideways that cause the beams of voltage to missed their intended target as the black Wolf-type Zoid have then shoot and fired another round of laser-like bullets from its own AZ 30mm Armor Piercing Laser Vulcan Gun, which black and gold Liger-type Zoid respond to this is to immediately putting a Energy Shield up around herself in order to block the incoming attack, resulting in the round of laser-like bullets bounding off of it but cause her Energy Shield to deplete most of its energy due to the strength of those same round of laser-like bullets, which have force the Liger-type Zoid herself to dispel her Energy Shield in order to recharge its energy until its next usage.

K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike, when Siegrotgar have decide to forcing it to take the immediate advantage of this opportunity at this very moment, suddenly sprinted and darted forward with a surge of speed toward the Liger-type Zoid, charging at its opponent all as it draw up all of the electromagnetic energy that was created from within its body and focused all of its collected electromagnetic energy that it have gathered into its front right claw and coating over its front right claw with it which have created a surge and burst of destructive electrical energy from its own front right claws, unleashing a surging and bursting electrical sparks of powerful and destructive electromagnetic energy from the shining and radiating electron-coated claws of its front right Electron Claws, preparing itself to use its Electron Strike Claws attack against Liger Zero X. Liger Zero X along with both Bit and Van, however, quickly and swiftly responded to what it was doing by deciding to do the same thing that it doing when she have suddenly bolted forward with a burst of speed straight toward the incoming enemy Zoid that was coming right at her, dashing and streaking straight toward the Wolf-type Zoid, rushing right at her opponent all as the silver claws of her front left paw start to bathe in a golden radiating and gleaming glow of shining lights, preparing herself to use her Strike Laser Claw attack against K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike. The two different black Zoid continue to rush and charge straight at each other before both of them then jumped right into the air all at the same time and immediately use their respective attack simultaneously when they have got close, using Strike Laser Claw attack and Electron Strike Claws attack against each other at the same time, swinging their respective claws at each other with a single stroke of their attack, only for their respective attacks to be blocked from each other when their respective claws struck each other by mere chance, thus neglecting their respective attacks that they attempt to use against each other as they passed by each other through the air before then landing themselves on the opposite side of where they've landed with their own backs facing toward each others.

Their battle with each other continue on, continuing to trading blows against each other with their own attacks, for a long while. A long while until Siegrotgar decide that their fight have finally gone too long now and attempted to finished this fight once for all by immediately taking the advantage of the oppontunity the moment when the three made their dodge from one of the attacks, all before K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike have suddenly went and ran straight forward before jumping right into the air and tired to pounce its opponent when it attempt to use its Electron Strike Claws attack against her. Liger Zero X along with Bit and Van, when they saw the Wolf-type Zoid jumping, have also decide to finish this battle when they've saw the chance of finishing... by doing something differently that is completely unexpected that not even Siegrotgar himself doesn't even expect to see it, since it was a risky stunt move to use that only a experience Zoid warrior could be able to pull it off but even then it was still a dangerous stunt move to use and pulled off in Zoid battles without the utterly risk of getting injured or even getting killed, as she deployed and unfurled her 2 Stun Blades out and then pointed them forward all before she suddenly made the move when she've finally made her move by using it; Liger Zero X, nobody completely seeing this coming nor expecting it in all of their minds when they saw this in front of them with their own eyes, jumped right into the air straight for her opponent, jumping right into the air straight toward the black Wolf-type Zoid, activing and using both of her Ion Turbo Boosters and her Energy Shield while using two of her Stun Blades to send out bursting bolts of electrical energy from their blades all at the same time, creating an swirling and intense vortex of powerful voltage electricallies around her body as the black and gold Liger-type Zoid thrusting herself forward right through the air like the wind themselves and propelling herself forward straight toward K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike. Inside of the Wolf-type Zoid's cockpit, Siegrotgar instantly broke his facade at what is going happen when he have immediately realized to his complete horror of what is about to happen next, but it was far too late for him to do anything since he can't stop the momentum of his Zoid when Liger Zero X easily broke right through his Zoid's Electron Strike Claws attack, destroying the Wolf-type Zoid's front right claw when they struck and immediately shattered into pieces upon impact, before she struck and tear straight though the body of K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike, ripping and shredding straight through its body, that tored the body of K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike right into two pieces, as Liger Zero X landed behind it. With no where to go, the excess heat created from Wolf-type Zoid's core resulting in a backlash of energy and causing explosion, killing and destroying Siegrotgar and K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike for good when they were completely and utterly obliterated right out of their existance and straight into hell by the explosion, all behind Liger Zero X until the energy of the resulting explosion spread and thin out before finally dissipating.

Bit, Van, and Liger Zero X stood still in silence all for a moment... before they exhaled their breath that they didn't know they were holding and start breathing in and out rapidly all until they were breathing again normally, not knowing that they were holding during the entirely of the battle. They couldn't believe of how luckly they were lasted that long in the fight and manage to finish it by using that life-risking move. which have Bit spoke about it. "Jesus! That *pant* was a close one!"

"Yeah, it *pant* it was one of closest fights that I *pant* I have ever been in." Van said as he slowly breath in and out, something of which Liger Zero X growl in agreement with both of them.

"BIT!" The three turn their heads around to see both Leena in King Baron and Vega and Raven in Berserk Fury Shadow Edge with Zeke and Shadow flying right beside them running right up to the Liger Zero X's side as a com-links was then reestablish between the three Zoids before two hologram screens of Leena's and Vega's faces pop up in the cockpit of the Liger-type Zoid as the fuchsia-haired girl then spoke to them, particularly her boyfriend. "BIT! Are you okay?"

"Ye-*pant* yeah, Leena. I'm *pant* i'm okay, just *pant* just little exhausted and out *pant* out of breath from *pant* from the battle." Bit answered, deciding to telling her in order to calm down his girlfriend's concerns and worry for him as he was still alright and they were only exhausted temporary anyway.

"That was a close one." Vega commented, commenting of what he seen in their battle against Siegrotgar and K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike, seeing their battle against him and his Zoid before finally finishing off Siegrotgar and K?nig Wolf Midnight Strike to end their battle when they used and pulled off that dangerous move easily with his own eyes. "It was really amazing you guys have manage to pull off that move, since it would still be troublesome for even experience Zoid warriors on opposite side to pull off that move."

"Oh, you have no idea of how true that is, Vega." Van said as he told. "This was easily one of the closest fight of me being killed and be dead by another person."

"Speaking about other persons." Raven said, deciding to speak into the conversation as the oldest pilot in the room currently spoke and pointed it out to the rest of the other while he lifted his head up and looked up at the very top of the utter colossal pod tank. "We still have to deal with Dr. Zelve. We need to deal with that old man first since we still need to stop him from what he's doing."

Upon being reminded of why they were here for, all of them immediately lifted their heads up and look up toward the top of the mammoth pod tank standing in front of them where the old scientist was standing on. Dr Zelve was standing absolutely still in the same spot where they first saw him on top of the massive pod tank like a stone statue, standing completely and absolutely like a cold and emotionless statue without speaking a single word nor uttering a single sound, which made all of them creep out by what they were seeing since it was now complete opposite of how he introduce himself to all of them... all before he suddenly keel over from his spot and suddenly start falling from the top of the enormous pod tank toward the floor until his body hit the floor when he smack into the floor upon impact. This cause all 10 of them to be in complete shock of what have just happen before they manage to shook it off when they realized that his dead body was now out of shining light on top of the pod tank and decide to get a closer look at his dead corpse of who he is. When they got a good look on him, Leena was shock when she instantly recongized him. "DAD'S OLD COLLEGE TEACHER?!"

"Wait, WHAT?!" Bit, Van, Liger Zero X, Zeke, Vega, Raven, Shadow, and Berserk Fury Shadow Edge shouted in shock of what they heard. "THIS OLD DEAD GUY ON THE FLOOR IS DOC'S OLD COLLEGE TEACHER?!"

"Yep. There's no mistaken about him, he's definitely my dad's old teacher back when he was in college since I can recongize mustache from anywhere of the photo that I saw in dad's old photos." Leena said.

"So wait a second, if Dr. Zelve is actually doc's old teacher from when he was in college? Then who is actually running this organization for over a 1000 y-" Then a realization hit Bit's mind when he thought about it, as there was only one other person, or rather, thing, who is running the UAG organization for over a millennial that was in the room right now with them. "... Oh, you got to be..." The blonde pilot groaned at this in vexation when he have realized it of who it was it exactly and which cause everyone to realized the same thing too soon when they heard him, just as the room start shaking like if it was earthquake when the pod tank suddenly begun rumbling from inside...


A/N: Hey guys! Sorry, if you waited so long for this chapter to be posted. I mean, this is the longest chapter of this story, but it is now done, time for the final chapter since... I actually have nothing else to say really since it would unnecessary long really.