Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Blended Dimensions ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )
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By: Hibiki54 
Anime/Manga: Crossover Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 01.21.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 6.7K | Visits: 395 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Crossover Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 01.21.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 6.7K | Visits: 395 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: -Naomi Flugel- Didn't ya know that Bud already has this in the first chapter? You'll never get anywere by reading these so why don't ya just back off a bit. Yeah, right there. A little to the left. Perfect. *She pulls the trigger*
In the last episode...
What started off as a perfect plan by the Gairos Empire to take over the Republic capital of New Helic City actually turned to be a trap deviously set up by the Civil Defense Forces headed by Bud, Ranma and Montel. Many skirmishes were fought between the trapped Emperial forces and CDF pilots. The Empire, seeing a complete loss at hand sent in a Whale King, a huge aerial ship that could drop thousands of mechanized units from the sky. But CDF tactician and make-shift commander Buddy and his "Alpha-One" blew the thing out of the sky with a pair of powerful weapons called Buster Rifles. As a small force of the Gairos Army retreated, the civilians start their rebuild from the massive destruction and devestation their lovely capital has taken. But, a lone Zoid along the beach-head stood in waiting, taking Bud and Ranma by surprise....
Blended Demensions
By Bud
Chapter 6
Bud eyes the Zoid 200 meters across the sandy beach from his mecha, while Naomi stand a distance away by his request.
"Shadow Fox."
"I'm looking for the Army commander." A synthesized voice asked over an open channel. "And by the look of your machine and your actions in a fight, it must be you."
"Whaddya want with me, eh? If you wanna fight you got it!" Bud growled and put on his UN Spacy "Thinking Cap". With a simple mental command the YF-19 converted to gerwalk. "Common."
There was a long pause before the Zoid pilot responded. "Aight. A challenge then! Ground based combat only! First one to have their system frozen is the winner." Another pause. "And no cock-pit shots."
Damn. Bud cursed to himself. Is this guy a mind-reader?
A couple mountain ranges down on a long stretch of road, the group of Van, Fiona, Moonbay, Irvine and Zeke, along with Captain Herman and Colonel Krugger and the survivors of Mt. Osa base marched quickly back towards New Helic City to reinforce the CDF and establish a new base close to the city.
"I've got word from CDF HQ that the city is safe, but took heavy damage from urban fighting. But all in all, they completely stopped the Gairos from taking our capital." Rob Herman told Col. Krugger. Van and Irvine heard this but didn't say anything, though Moonbay was curious.
"How could one small group take on that many units at one time, it just ain't possiable." She said increasing the speed of her Gustav to catch up with Van and the others. "I mean, not even you Republic guys could stop the Empire from nearly taking over Mt. Osa let alone a small unit stopping a whole army."
"You'll see when we get there, Moonbay."
Fiona noticed some flashing lights and smoke in the distance. "Hey what's that?" she pointed.
One of Herman's soldiers gave him some coordinates. "It's on Y100 X40. Shoreline, New Helic Beach." He paused. "Near where the Gairos landed their units."
"Come on Zeke! Let's head there and help out!" The Shield Liger roared loudly and took off in a high-speed dash towards the fighting. "Whoever's fighting might need some help. Let's go guys."
"You guys go on ahead, my company will catch up." Herman said.
Moonbay sat back. "I'll stay here. I don't want to get my Gustav damaged for no reason."
Irvine just took off after Van to catch up.
'I just hope it's not one of them fighting. Van's gonna get a big trouble when they get their hands on him.' Herman thought at his vehicles and zoids trugged along the long dirt road.
Back at the beach...
"Where are you fucker?!" Bud screamed in anger. He knew what the Shadow Fox pilot was trying to do when the zoid suddenly started to produce smoke from it's frame, but he misjudged the pilots actual skill to use the smoke effectively. Slight damage shown on Alpha-One's frame from a near-fatal strike-laser claw attack.
Getting an idea, Bud pushes the throttle forward and skii's across the sand towards the sea, barely getting his left wing taken out by another claw attack. He misjudge his direction and was heading towards a flat cliff. "SHIT!" A mental command later, his jets fired and the variable fighter literally skated along the side of the rocky surface until it began to hover inches over the ocean surface. "Can't get me now fucko!" Bud taunted, flipping off the Zoid pilot with Alpha-one's free hand.
"SHI-NE!" With a loud wine, the laser gatling gun mounted on the back of the Shadow Fox open fired on Bud sending out a wall of laser beams at the fighter.
Though the YF-19 was a superb piece of robotech weaponry and a fighter that was and still is years ahead of it's time, it could not dodge the wall of laser beams. But that didn't mean Bud couldn't dodge it.
Quickly changing modes to fighter, he took the plane to mear inches from the salty water before changing to soldier mode and strafing across the water like an ice-skater. He brought up the massive XS-15 gatling rifle and layed out bust of depleted transuranium slugs at the fast zoid.
The Shadow Fox ducked and jumped from side to side avoiding the armor piercing bullets while returning fire.
But the pilot couldn't believe his opponent dodged his all-accurate and planned attack pattern. His frustration began to show. "How the hell can you duh-duh-DODGED my ... SUPERB shooting skills?!" he yelled in anger.
"Cuz you suck! Fucking cock-sucker." Bud changed modes back to gerwalk, firing a group of SRHM (Short-Ranged High-Maneuver) missles before switching back to soldier-mode to follow up his attack with more gatling fire.
That move he just did! That mech! The Shadow Fox pilot thought to himself, gunning down the small missles and jumping over the hail of bullets before trying to flank the variable fighter. He remembered a friend of his from were he originally came from, but that was a while back. He'll never find his way back.
Then what his opponent said hit him.
"EAT A BOWL OF DICK BITCH! I DON'T SUCK!"
"Yes you do!" Bud dropped into a prone (laying position) on the ground and rolled away from wild fire. "... LAST TIME I CHECK!!"
"Righteous, righteous..." the other pilot replied.
Both pilots froze immediately. And with those spoke words, an inside joke that was said between friends, they both come to a realization. Recodnizable maneuvers, phrases and now... voices.
"L.C.?" Bud asked.
"B?" The Fox pilot asked.
"How the fuck did you get here?!" they both asked.
"I don't know! And I asked you first." Bud said as he settled down.
L.C. or also known as Lawrence opened up a vid screen direct into Bud's cockpit. He was neither short nor very tall for a black man, standing at 5'10 to 6ft, though he was sitting down so you couldn't really tell. A pair of small bifocals was perched upon his nose, partially shrouding his dark brown eyes from site. His short black hair, styled in a stereo-typical urban style otherwised known as 'waves', could of been seen if not for the other stereo-typical item known as a 'wave-cap'.
Plus, the brutha had a type of helmet on resembling one which a Naval fighter pilot would wear.
"Dawg, I asked YOU first, foo." Lawrence replied. There was a short pause before he spoke, looking Bud up and down from his visual. "Cock sucker."
Bud growled. "What you say niggah?!"
"Niggah, I ain't no niggah. Damn 'flip." LC's hand slipped and pressed a button. "Oops."
Bud's fighter suddenly fell back from a burst of laser fire from the Shadow Fox's back-mounted weapon. "You dickhead!" Accident or not he wasn't gonna take shit like that. Firing his jets, YF-19 flipped up onto it's feet then leaped at LC's zoid in a drop-kick.
The black fox zoid skidded back from impact, it's hydraulic servos and bio-mechanical systems keeping it from flipping back and over. Bud ignited his legs thrusters, leaping off of it's head and leaving a scorched mark. Landing 100 years away he brings up his XS-15 rifle up to bear. "That'll teach yer punk ass for fuckin' up like that."
"KONO---" LC started in a fake, heavily american accented, and obviously deep, japanese while starting his laser gatling to start spinning. He was interrupted suddenly by the charge of another zoid.
"LOOK OUT HE'S GONNA FIRE! COMMON ZEKE!!"
Out of nowhere a blue Shield Liger suddenly charges in with it's barried shield up in a direct course towards the Shadow Fox. Before the surprised fighters could react, the blue zoid rammed the black fox, sending out thousands of sparks and nearly tearing it's head off.
Throughout the commotion, as Bud stared in horror of what was happening, he could hear his long-time best friend try and contact him.
"BUD! Help me man I----!!" Then he was cut off.
"LAWRENCE!!!" Bud cried in fear and anger. His friend was in trouble and he couldn't of helped him in time. Damn that Van.
On the sidelines, Ranko watch and listened as Bud cried in agony. Of the time she and Ranma has been with Bud and Montel, he was the one they both cared for the most, almost considering Bud a big brother (ranma) and at times a love interest (ranko/id).
His sad/angry cry calling to the other pilot, a friend from what she heard, awoken something in her mind.
An erie crimson glow start to form around her body giving her a visage similiar to one Iori Yagami while in his "Riot of Blood." Yet, Ranma, Ranko or Id as she wishes to be called, are not descendant of the Yagami clan nor do they posses the blood of the Great Eight-Headed Orochi. This was not a sign of the 10th, 11th or even the 12th Hakkeshu.
The Slayer of God was angered!
In a flash, Ranko appeared below the Shield Liger and looked up at the huge mechanical creature with protective barrier surrounding it. With power that could kill the Gods, she attacked.
A round house was thrown, missing by a mile yet causing the Liger's front-right leg to buckle.
An over-head creascent axe kick, knocking the zoids head down.
Panting her left foot after the kick, she delievers a high round house to the ligers head again, knocking it to the side.
Twisting around in the same motion, she send a vertical back kick that knocks the Shield Liger's whole body up onto it's hind legs, nearly tipping over.
As the Liger comes back down, she faces towards it, cupping her hands. As it nearly hits the ground, she shouts "SENRETSU!!" planting her feet and thrusting both arms forwards, fist clenched. It completely misses, but the intensity of her aura knocks the huge Shield Liger backwards, flipping once before skidding along the sand on it's belly.
Naomi watched in interest from the sidelines inside her Gun Sniper, eating from a bowl of non-fat popcorn. She then looks at the fallen Shadow Fox, seeing some movement from the cockpit. "Better check it out," she decides.
Ranko stood calmly before the Shield Liger, seeing as it's system was frozen. Sure, she has killed many times in the past few years since being with them, but that all changed when she aquired her Gear. Speaking of which..
She noticed a black command wolf approaching and looked towards her gear. Weltall seen better days but could still function, though below 65%. That .. Lawrence friend of Buddy's sure knew were to hit.
Bud approached her from behind so she gave Ranma control, needing to rest and think to herself. Without water she went through the ever common change of female to male body. He shook his head slightly getting back into form. "Kuso.." He turned to Bud and cracked his knuckles. "This one is mine. I don't care if it's male, female, some kid. Someone's gonna get punished."
Bud shrugged, holding back some tears. He noticed the command wolf also, and could hear the approach of tank vehicles and.. a Gustav? Probably. He still wasn't familiar with all the sounds of Zoid mecha.. yet.
Bud then noticed something. "Hey Ran-man. Someone else has it. You go help Naomi over there and see if my friend Lawrence is okay or if he needs medical attention. We'll take care of this guy."
"Alight, I guess." Ranma said while grumbling, walking away.
Van Freiheit jumped down from his damage Shield Liger with a bit of an attitude and slightly confused. How in the world did that girl mess up his zoid so bad and where did she go? He decided to find out later and see if the guy that he saved was aright. Taking a few steps forward, he stopped in mid-stride as a large, muscular asian man wearing some sort of flight suit stared him down across his vision.
"Hey ya lil' bitch!" Van turned his head to the side and gasped seeing a tall dark colored man running toward him at full speed followed by mob of angry men and women in the uniform of the Civil Defense Force he heard about from Captain Herman.
"What the-- OOF!" He doubles over from a hard punch to the gut then flies back from an upper cut by the black-man.
"Niggah I'mma beat your ass for fuckin' up the homie!" Montel literally jumped on Van and procceeded to do him wrong, bitch-slapping him and repeating punches to the chest and head while emphasizing with word. "Don't. Your. Punk. Ass. Ever. Fuck. One. Of. My. Boys. Up. You. Lil'. BIATCH!"
"ZEKE!"
"GGRRRROOOOWWWLLL!!" Zeke, Van's pet organoid and friend, transported itself from out of the Shield Liger next to Montel. Raising it's tail up to air, he brings it down like an axe at Montel's head.
He never made it, now rolling back after being charge at by Bud from the side, tackled from the back. They both rolled a few yards before seperating. The grey organoid growled dangerously at this human in front of him that's preventing him from helping his partner. Zeke crouched down preparing to pounce.
Bud just had this unnatural calm feeling about him as he just stood there with his shoulders square, knees bent slightly while his body leaned forward a bit. A huge circle of men and women, including Irvine and the just arriving Cpt. Herman and his men, Fiona, Moonbay and Dr. D. An ambulance took off with Ranma, Naomi and the unconsious and wounded L.C. after getting him pulled out of his damaged Zoid. Montel and Van would of joined the make-shift ring if the former wasn't stomping out the latter.
Zeke quickly closed 30ft distance between them swinging his tail high at Bud's head. Surprisingly, the large asian man quickly ducked and then jump over the return swing of the organoids tail. His hand shot out in an attempt to grabs the organoids small dinosaur arms but Zeke quickly leaped away. "Grrrrr..." he growled at the human, not underestimating him.
Bud just stared at Zeke, taking off his upper half of his flight-suit to exposed his highly scarred arms and muscular upper body clad in only a tight fitting black shirt that hugged him like a glove. He went into a south-paw boxing stance, that showed off his huge shoulder muscles.
"Get'em commander!" "Yeah! Show that zoid-thingy whose boss!" "Yeah you an do it!" "Whoop his ass Zeke!" "Bite his head off!" "Eww he looks fat even though he has so much muscle" "I got money on you Buddy!" "Fight! Fight! Fight!" "Throw dem bows!" was some of the crowds mixed reactions.
Zeke jumped at Bud bearing his metallic teeth preparing to bite the mans head off. But he stepped to the left, making the organoid miss and gave Zeke a left hook to the jaw making the zoid reel slightly. Bud held in a small cry, waving his hand. He fell back as Zeke swung his tail around tripping him up.
Hitting the ground, Bud rolled off to the side just missing a metal foot that would of crushed his head then used his legs to push himself into a forward roll, barely missing the huge tail that would of smashed into his back.
The grey organoid started to circle around it's enemy trying to find the right time to attack. He started swing his tail to the left and watched the human start to go right. He switched up and swung to the right catching Bud in mid-dodge batting him away. Zeke charge him as he landed close to the edge of the ring of people and darted his muzzle at him. He ate dirt as Bud grabbed his head and smashed it into the mixture of sand and soil. Recovering before Bud, Zeke quickly bull rushed him smashing his head into Bud's gut then tosses him in mid-motion to the other side of the crowd, a good 45-50ft distance.
Unlike most men or humans for the matter, being smashed in the stomach by a 300+ pound fast moving object and tossed like a rag doll into the air and land 50ft away would kill most men, prepared or not. In Bud's case he wasn't prepared. But he wasn't like most men.
To the surprise of most (99% of the crowd), Bud sluggishly got up to his feet with a cold glare directed at Zeke while one of his arms held his stomach and ribs. He spat some blood on the ground and licked his lips before motioning Zeke to come at him.
Zeke thought this guy was crazy wanting more. But if he wanted to be destroyed then that was his problem. With a growl, Zeke charged the leaped at him bearing his jaw open to bite into Bud's chest. He missed as the man twisted away, but Zeke's claw caught him scratching across Bud's chest leaving a huge red welt and ripping his shirt off.
Those who never seen Bud's naked body gasped seeing hundreds of scars upon scars littering his body. Little scars, big scars and even scars the formed in "X's" and even some that could be bullet wounds. But one huge scar, trailing from the base of his neck all the way down to his lower back and flared out into what looked like burned knife imprints made many of them want to literally puke.
Ignoring the gasp and talking from the crowd, Bud dodged another lunge from Zeke and jammed his elbow into the zoids metallic jaw. He followed up with an uppercut that sorta lifted Zeke's 300+lbs frame off the ground before bringing his elbowing arm around and clothelining him to the ground. Bud hopped back a few feet, waving his hand in pain again and wiggling his arm. But Zeke got back up just a quickly as he got thrown down and whipped his tail around while Bud thought he had time, sweeping him by the ankles. He landed sickly onto his upper back and didn't get up.
"Yay Zeke won!" Van, thoroughly beaten, cried from the side line.
Montel smacked him upside the head. "Shut up."
"Owwww...."
Zeke slowly approached the downed man seeing if he was out. Upon closer inspection he decided that he was out and let out a loud roar of victory. He turned and slowly made his way away from Bud and people in the crowd started to exchange money.
Just as he turned away, Buddy suddenly spang to his feet in a forward leap, breathing heavily, hot steam comming from his mouth in the cold night air as he gave the zoid a deadly snarl. His body let off more steam while sweat covered his body giving him a type of shine in the moon light. Zeke stopped his walk, sensing something wrong. He turned around then suddenly took a step back seeing his opponent up.
Just as Zeke turned to face him, Bud snapped. Letting a out a roar, he charge Zeke and clotheslined him across the neck area with enough force to make the organoid literally flip twice before falling to the ground. "Get up!" Bud demanded loudly in his deep, acidic voice. "GET UP!"
And Zeke did, charging Bud quickly going for a bite to the head again. This time, Bud took him head on and instead of dodging, he ducked down them came back up just a quickly and clutched Zeke around his body, belly-to-belly. With strength powered by adrenaline, Bud suplexed the grey zoid over his head, throwing it as easy as one would throw paper ball into the trash.
Bud quickly dashed up to the organoid as it started to get up. Ramming into him and picking Zeke up like he was earlier, he carried the organoid over his shoulder past the parting circle of people and slamming Zeke into the leg of the downed Shield Liger. Bracing himself against the cold steel, Bud started ramming his shoulder into Zeke's stomach area over and over and over and over and over and over and over making the grey organoid somehow growl in pain with each thrust. Then he let up and stepped back, letting Zeke stagger forward. Zeke, now weak, tried one more lunge of his mouth at Bud and thats when he made his move.
Knocking Zeke's head to the side, Bud grabbed the organoids small arms and pulls as if whipping him one way. But then he pulled him back, ducking down and picking up the 300+lbs zoid over and across his shoulders in a hold somewhat like a fireman's carry. Bud then slowly took a few steps towards the crowd, giving them a good view of how he has Zeke. He gave Van an evil smile before twisting body to the right, then like a gale, twisting the other way pushing Zeke's lower half over his head while he falls back and Zeke slams into the ground next to him and doesn't get up.
"OH SHIT! That niggah Buddy F-5'd Zeke! Oh shit! Daaaaayyymmmm!!" Montel said in surprise, covering his mouth and jumping up and down like a high school kid seeing someone do something crazy. "He F-5's that foo!!"
Bud slowly got up and walked to his discarded suit, and started limping away clutching his sides and spitting out blood. Montel soon joined him, giving Bud his shoulder to lean on to help him. He started telling Bud how he was one crazy ass foo and couldn't believe he F-5 that kid's organoid. "Dude I couldn't believe you did that." he said as he walked off.
"Oh no! Zeke" "Zeke!" "ZEKE!" Van, Fiona and Moonbay ran over to the beaten organoid, followed by Irvine and Dr. D.
"Oh god Zeke.. You okay boy?" Van held his friend in his arms and felt the vibration of Zeke 'breathing' but very slowly. He was beaten up and now Zeke got trampled by that.. No, he couldn't even call this 'Bud' a man. He was a monster to do what he did to Zeke.
"Oh my, look at this." Dr. D pointed at the dents in Zeke's body where Bud was ramming his shoulder. "It would take something very strong to actually scratch the type of Zoidian Armor Zeke has, let alone dent it."
"Poor Zeke." Fiona said softly, petting the organoid.
Van clenched his fist and started crying. "I'll get him for doing this to Zeke. He'll pay. Both of them."
"No you won't."
Van turned his head up to Irvine. "What do you mean I won't?! Look what he did to poor Zeke!"
The one eyed pilot looked at Van with a serious expression. "You may not know who that guy was or even his friends but I do." He watched as "Alpha-One" was rolled onto a flat-bed trailer and trucked off along with a black humanoid zoid. "Their known as the 08th MS Team, some sort of mercenary team that operated on the borders taking out the big bounties. Their really good. I heard rumor they took up permanent position as some local militia but I didn't know where until now. The guy that fought Zeke was their commander."
Dr. D nodded in confirmation of Irvine observation while Moonbay snapped her fingers in recodnition. "Now I remember him! I use to transport some weird parts and munitions to some coordinates then transfer them onto a commercial truck. And he was driving it. Never guessed he was from their group." Maybe I can see if he's single, she thought secretly.
"Ah man that sucked!" "My money!" "Bullshit!" "What a good fight" "Oh hell yeah!" "Imagine?" "Pay up foo!" "Damn bitches."
"PAY UP!" CDF soldiers all held out their hands as Republic soldiers gave up their money.
One CDF soldier gave his money to a Republic soldier because he was stupid enough to bet against Bud. He was then stomped out by his comrades. Lesson: Never bet against your commander.
"Wow. That must hurt." Fiona commented off handedly. Everyone face-faulted.
A few hours later in CDF Sick bay...
"He'll be fine commander. He just suffered a concussion and a few lacerations. It's mostly blood loss he's suffering from." What? Were am I?
"So a few days rest will do him good, eh?" Who are these voices?
"Heh. I still owe him for taking me down." That voice...
"Shaddap Ranko, ya ho." I know these voices. He decided to stay calm and pretend he wasn't awake to see what and who these people were.
"Both of you shut the fuck up, damn coons. Some people are trying to rest." He felt a hand press against his chest. "Ain't that right LC?"
"B-b-buddy?" Lawrence opened his eyes. "Agh!" He shut them just as quickly, flinching from teh sudden pain. He slowly opened up again, getting use to the light in the room, wherever it may be. His eyes roamed the face in the room, recodnizing a couple while a few made him think for a minute. "Bud-man, Montel...!"
His eyes fell onto the red-head's face... then drifted down to her--
"Ah! Cuz?!" he rubbed his shin with his opposite foot.
Ranko glared at him. "Eyes up baka."
Bud sighed. "Anyways.." He pulled up a chair and sat by the bed. "How did you end up here, man? I mean, the last time I saw you was about a year ago when you went to the east coast of the US to go to some cheezy college."
Lawrence's eyes drifted towards a tall redish-brunette sitting at the foot of his bed wearing a revealing red-leather outfit. "Oh, H-h-hi. Aren't you lookin' fine today?"
Naomi raised an eyebrow at him. Is this guy for real? she thought.
Noticing his old friend dodging the question, Montel whapped him upside the head. "Dawg. Niggah. Dude, don't fukin' dodge the question man! We need to know how ya got here!" He gripped the edge of the bed. "And how did you end up working for the bad guys?!"
"Oh! I was on th-th-the ice-berg transport before it was s-sunk."
"NOT THAT YOU IDIOT!" Bud, Montel and Ranko shouted.
Bud looked at Ranko. "You have no right to call my best friend an idiot." He gave her a glare that made her actually shrink back.
"B-b-but---!"
Montel shook his head. "Just shut up and sit down." She did so. Wow, that was easy, montel mentally celebrated. He turned to LC. "I mean shit like, how ya got on Zi; how ya got that zoid an' how did you come in contact with the Empire?"
"Well..."
*FLASH BACK!*
*I was flying on the plane to ATL, Georgia when the captain said somethin' about ch-ch-changing course to avoid a storm.*
SPPHHH!! "Eh err-- This is yer... captain speakin'." he started in a lazy voice. "We uhh... just got word from weather watch that a storm is forming up around Alabama and we uhh... been instructed to ... divert our course to pass over CE-U-Bah and then swing towards ATL Airport." Many people started complainin' "The in-flight attendants will now serve another meal." Everyone cheered.
*So the flight took longer than it original was. And uh... And uhh.. Umm.. S-s-so we flew over Cuba until I saw this weird light over the ocean.*
What's that? thought Lawrence as he looked threw his window-side seat. Then a flash of light hit him.
*F-from what I guess, we pasted thru the Bermuda Triangle.*
*HOLD THE FUCK UP!*
*Back to real time.*
"You sayin' yer whole plane got sucked in by some unknown and mysterious phenomenon that happens over the Atlantic Ocean?!" Montel ask.
Lawrence adjusted his glasses. "Uhh... yeah."
"Oh."
*BACK TO FLASH-BACK!*
*I guess I was knocked unconsious because I then woke up in some vast d-d-desert with only my back pack of worthless crap and luckily the bottle of water that was in my hand.*
"Damn it's hot cuzz..." He drank the whole bottle of water down.
*But that water didn't last long. So then I travelled the desert heading west thinking I'll hit California soon. But I didn't know were I was.*
"WHERE THE FUCK AT I NOW?!! KUSSSSOOOO!!!" He screamed in his fake japanese accented voice, not noticing the sign that said 'Gairos Empire - 5 miles.'
*So I walked somemore for a couple days, using my knowledge of science to know that cactus had water in them. So I survived a few more days drinking cactus water and eating them.*
"Put some hot sss-ssause on my bu-burrito baby! Ya know ya look good to m-m-me!" He applied said sauce on some boiled cactus and took a bite.
"AHhhh!" he ran around waving his arms while the cactus stuck to his tongue by it's thorns.
*Just remember to take the thorns off.*
*Anyways, about a week later, I then found this valley full of broken down and ancient Zoids, though I never knew what they were called until I remembered the few episodes that B' showed me. It was a real t-trip since I uh.. I uhh.. never seen up close and personal some really old and nearly petrified machines. I mean, that's alot of rust.*
"Damn this is alot of rush." Lawrence commented on the condition of the weird aged metallic structure from what he could tell. It was nearing night time and the sun was setting in the west, already allowing the darkness to form in the valley depths. What he really needed now was shelter from the cold desert night.
His pace slowed nearing an intersection of the valley were two paths crossed from north to south and east to west. Not really keen on which way was which he closed his eyes and spun around a couple times till he face a direction.
East it is, he guessed. So he trudge down the path which seemed to somewhat get wider as he went, and the valley walls getting higher and higher. Soon, the sun will set and nothing but the stars and the megar lunar light will save him from the darkness.
A shiver went up his spine as he passed a mangled piece of mecha along his walk. It looked fairly new, plus he caught the sight of blood leaking from a hatch. He decided not to mess with this, not knowing if whatever did this was still here or not. So he continued on.
He didn't notice the pair of red eyes following him.
As the night grew more colder, Lawrence started to get more paranoid of his surrounding. A howl of a desert coyote, made him jump nearly giving him a heart attack. Small noises from insects and other creepy crawlies made him jump.
Then he heard them.
It was faint, but was getting closer to him. A type of mechanical sound. He felt a slight tremor, like one would feel from an aftershock of an earthquake. Yet, this didn't feel like it was underground. Maybe it was something causing it above ground? Maybe it could be--
GRRRRROWLLL..!
Slowly the black man turned around and was face to nose with a HUGE robot. His analytical mind told him it resembled a fox, while his mind-mind said to get the fuck out of there!
It growled at him while he stood their frozen in terror. It's metallic teeth shown in the darkness, moonlight reflecting off of the shiny surface. It's red-glowing eyes somewhat narrowed, seemingly gazing into Lawrences light brown globes. It growled in a low-tone while it's head raised high above L.C. bearing it's sharp metallica teeth.
Lawrence screamed. He ran. Or he tried to. He was completely frozen in terror in this situation. He desperately tried to move, yet he couldn't. His nerves were to shot to even respond to his bodily commands. He was just lucky his bladder didn't go. He had to piss big time.
The black fox zoid suddenly came down, teeth bared and ready to chomp into the little human before it. It didn't care if some fleshling was destroyed by it's own cold steel. Just like the Zoidian's that tried to keep it contained, this one shall die to prevent others from trying the--- !!!!
It stopped it's attack mear inches from the dark human's head. It detected a strange reading from his human and was curious to find out what it was.
Lawrence's frozen state broke when the machine stopped it's attack. He looked at it questioningly. It slowly pulled back and somewhat, nudged him with the tip of it's 'nose' slightly pushing him back yet he stayed on it's feet.
"Hey!" He shook off what fear he had and stepped up to the offending machine in a urban thug-like fashion. "You bes' step back fo' I bust you up cuz!" He looked at the fox-thingy up and down before saying, "Cocksucker."
The fox-mecha stared at the young black man for a moment, rearing it's head back in a laugh-like growl. Up above, the clouds parted allowing the moons luminescence to shine down upon the valley basin. Lawrence nearly fell over when he saw the quad-barrels of what would be a gatling or vulcan type of machine gun that was mounted on the back of the zoid.
He screamed in fear and quickly hit the dirt when the Fox-thing reared back and howled at the moon, firing it's weapon into the air.
A few seconds later, all was silent and he felt a presence next to him. Slowly and cautiously, he looked up from his low position and noticed the black mecha kneeling down next to him with some sort of compartment open on it's head. Being non-stereo-typical, he got to his feet and walked up to the fox. It lowered itself even lower as when he got closer as if beconing him to come to it.
"Y-y-you want me to come in?" He asked. But what was the use? Mecha can't talk anyway. It gave off a deepened mewl, somewhat like a growl yet not in response.
Oh shit oh shit! It said yes! he thought. I can understand her? Her?! Where did I get that from? He was totally confused.
"Fuck it," he said. "Y-y-you oh-oh-only live once." So he hopped in.
*END FLASH-BACK*
"So I earned a friend out of Shadow Fox. She's a real life-saver sometime." He sighed. "So I was with her for like a few week, bustin' foo's up until I was 'recruited' into the Gairos Empire since I accidentally took-out one of their squads when I was just minding my own business. I was guess that Shadow didn't like 'em."
"Well, so I joined the Emperial army. Got trained a bit. Then they put in 'special' forces. From there they needed a volunteer to do a mission."
Bud chuckled to himself. He knew what happens when high-ranked person asks for a volunteer. A cough caught his attention, and he turned his head towards the originator.
"So," Naomi started. "What your saying is that you," she points at Lawrence. "are from some other dimension and that they," she turns her hand facing up and gestures at Bud, Ranma and Montel. "are from the same place as you?"
"Nah-nn-nah-umm... not exactly." the bed-ridden black man stutters out.
"I'm not from whatever whacky place these morons came from." Id slightly grumbled followed by gentle sigh. Though I wish, she thought.
"Well umm.." Montel stood, then suddenly sat back down and got into a story telling position on the chair, turning it around so he can lean his chest on the back=rest. "It's like dis'..."
Buddy sat back, closing his eyes for a moment. He took a deep breath that he let out slowly before he spoke again.
"It starts like this...."
End Chapter 6
Author Notes:
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In the last episode...
What started off as a perfect plan by the Gairos Empire to take over the Republic capital of New Helic City actually turned to be a trap deviously set up by the Civil Defense Forces headed by Bud, Ranma and Montel. Many skirmishes were fought between the trapped Emperial forces and CDF pilots. The Empire, seeing a complete loss at hand sent in a Whale King, a huge aerial ship that could drop thousands of mechanized units from the sky. But CDF tactician and make-shift commander Buddy and his "Alpha-One" blew the thing out of the sky with a pair of powerful weapons called Buster Rifles. As a small force of the Gairos Army retreated, the civilians start their rebuild from the massive destruction and devestation their lovely capital has taken. But, a lone Zoid along the beach-head stood in waiting, taking Bud and Ranma by surprise....
Blended Demensions
By Bud
Chapter 6
Bud eyes the Zoid 200 meters across the sandy beach from his mecha, while Naomi stand a distance away by his request.
"Shadow Fox."
"I'm looking for the Army commander." A synthesized voice asked over an open channel. "And by the look of your machine and your actions in a fight, it must be you."
"Whaddya want with me, eh? If you wanna fight you got it!" Bud growled and put on his UN Spacy "Thinking Cap". With a simple mental command the YF-19 converted to gerwalk. "Common."
There was a long pause before the Zoid pilot responded. "Aight. A challenge then! Ground based combat only! First one to have their system frozen is the winner." Another pause. "And no cock-pit shots."
Damn. Bud cursed to himself. Is this guy a mind-reader?
A couple mountain ranges down on a long stretch of road, the group of Van, Fiona, Moonbay, Irvine and Zeke, along with Captain Herman and Colonel Krugger and the survivors of Mt. Osa base marched quickly back towards New Helic City to reinforce the CDF and establish a new base close to the city.
"I've got word from CDF HQ that the city is safe, but took heavy damage from urban fighting. But all in all, they completely stopped the Gairos from taking our capital." Rob Herman told Col. Krugger. Van and Irvine heard this but didn't say anything, though Moonbay was curious.
"How could one small group take on that many units at one time, it just ain't possiable." She said increasing the speed of her Gustav to catch up with Van and the others. "I mean, not even you Republic guys could stop the Empire from nearly taking over Mt. Osa let alone a small unit stopping a whole army."
"You'll see when we get there, Moonbay."
Fiona noticed some flashing lights and smoke in the distance. "Hey what's that?" she pointed.
One of Herman's soldiers gave him some coordinates. "It's on Y100 X40. Shoreline, New Helic Beach." He paused. "Near where the Gairos landed their units."
"Come on Zeke! Let's head there and help out!" The Shield Liger roared loudly and took off in a high-speed dash towards the fighting. "Whoever's fighting might need some help. Let's go guys."
"You guys go on ahead, my company will catch up." Herman said.
Moonbay sat back. "I'll stay here. I don't want to get my Gustav damaged for no reason."
Irvine just took off after Van to catch up.
'I just hope it's not one of them fighting. Van's gonna get a big trouble when they get their hands on him.' Herman thought at his vehicles and zoids trugged along the long dirt road.
Back at the beach...
"Where are you fucker?!" Bud screamed in anger. He knew what the Shadow Fox pilot was trying to do when the zoid suddenly started to produce smoke from it's frame, but he misjudged the pilots actual skill to use the smoke effectively. Slight damage shown on Alpha-One's frame from a near-fatal strike-laser claw attack.
Getting an idea, Bud pushes the throttle forward and skii's across the sand towards the sea, barely getting his left wing taken out by another claw attack. He misjudge his direction and was heading towards a flat cliff. "SHIT!" A mental command later, his jets fired and the variable fighter literally skated along the side of the rocky surface until it began to hover inches over the ocean surface. "Can't get me now fucko!" Bud taunted, flipping off the Zoid pilot with Alpha-one's free hand.
"SHI-NE!" With a loud wine, the laser gatling gun mounted on the back of the Shadow Fox open fired on Bud sending out a wall of laser beams at the fighter.
Though the YF-19 was a superb piece of robotech weaponry and a fighter that was and still is years ahead of it's time, it could not dodge the wall of laser beams. But that didn't mean Bud couldn't dodge it.
Quickly changing modes to fighter, he took the plane to mear inches from the salty water before changing to soldier mode and strafing across the water like an ice-skater. He brought up the massive XS-15 gatling rifle and layed out bust of depleted transuranium slugs at the fast zoid.
The Shadow Fox ducked and jumped from side to side avoiding the armor piercing bullets while returning fire.
But the pilot couldn't believe his opponent dodged his all-accurate and planned attack pattern. His frustration began to show. "How the hell can you duh-duh-DODGED my ... SUPERB shooting skills?!" he yelled in anger.
"Cuz you suck! Fucking cock-sucker." Bud changed modes back to gerwalk, firing a group of SRHM (Short-Ranged High-Maneuver) missles before switching back to soldier-mode to follow up his attack with more gatling fire.
That move he just did! That mech! The Shadow Fox pilot thought to himself, gunning down the small missles and jumping over the hail of bullets before trying to flank the variable fighter. He remembered a friend of his from were he originally came from, but that was a while back. He'll never find his way back.
Then what his opponent said hit him.
"EAT A BOWL OF DICK BITCH! I DON'T SUCK!"
"Yes you do!" Bud dropped into a prone (laying position) on the ground and rolled away from wild fire. "... LAST TIME I CHECK!!"
"Righteous, righteous..." the other pilot replied.
Both pilots froze immediately. And with those spoke words, an inside joke that was said between friends, they both come to a realization. Recodnizable maneuvers, phrases and now... voices.
"L.C.?" Bud asked.
"B?" The Fox pilot asked.
"How the fuck did you get here?!" they both asked.
"I don't know! And I asked you first." Bud said as he settled down.
L.C. or also known as Lawrence opened up a vid screen direct into Bud's cockpit. He was neither short nor very tall for a black man, standing at 5'10 to 6ft, though he was sitting down so you couldn't really tell. A pair of small bifocals was perched upon his nose, partially shrouding his dark brown eyes from site. His short black hair, styled in a stereo-typical urban style otherwised known as 'waves', could of been seen if not for the other stereo-typical item known as a 'wave-cap'.
Plus, the brutha had a type of helmet on resembling one which a Naval fighter pilot would wear.
"Dawg, I asked YOU first, foo." Lawrence replied. There was a short pause before he spoke, looking Bud up and down from his visual. "Cock sucker."
Bud growled. "What you say niggah?!"
"Niggah, I ain't no niggah. Damn 'flip." LC's hand slipped and pressed a button. "Oops."
Bud's fighter suddenly fell back from a burst of laser fire from the Shadow Fox's back-mounted weapon. "You dickhead!" Accident or not he wasn't gonna take shit like that. Firing his jets, YF-19 flipped up onto it's feet then leaped at LC's zoid in a drop-kick.
The black fox zoid skidded back from impact, it's hydraulic servos and bio-mechanical systems keeping it from flipping back and over. Bud ignited his legs thrusters, leaping off of it's head and leaving a scorched mark. Landing 100 years away he brings up his XS-15 rifle up to bear. "That'll teach yer punk ass for fuckin' up like that."
"KONO---" LC started in a fake, heavily american accented, and obviously deep, japanese while starting his laser gatling to start spinning. He was interrupted suddenly by the charge of another zoid.
"LOOK OUT HE'S GONNA FIRE! COMMON ZEKE!!"
Out of nowhere a blue Shield Liger suddenly charges in with it's barried shield up in a direct course towards the Shadow Fox. Before the surprised fighters could react, the blue zoid rammed the black fox, sending out thousands of sparks and nearly tearing it's head off.
Throughout the commotion, as Bud stared in horror of what was happening, he could hear his long-time best friend try and contact him.
"BUD! Help me man I----!!" Then he was cut off.
"LAWRENCE!!!" Bud cried in fear and anger. His friend was in trouble and he couldn't of helped him in time. Damn that Van.
On the sidelines, Ranko watch and listened as Bud cried in agony. Of the time she and Ranma has been with Bud and Montel, he was the one they both cared for the most, almost considering Bud a big brother (ranma) and at times a love interest (ranko/id).
His sad/angry cry calling to the other pilot, a friend from what she heard, awoken something in her mind.
An erie crimson glow start to form around her body giving her a visage similiar to one Iori Yagami while in his "Riot of Blood." Yet, Ranma, Ranko or Id as she wishes to be called, are not descendant of the Yagami clan nor do they posses the blood of the Great Eight-Headed Orochi. This was not a sign of the 10th, 11th or even the 12th Hakkeshu.
The Slayer of God was angered!
In a flash, Ranko appeared below the Shield Liger and looked up at the huge mechanical creature with protective barrier surrounding it. With power that could kill the Gods, she attacked.
A round house was thrown, missing by a mile yet causing the Liger's front-right leg to buckle.
An over-head creascent axe kick, knocking the zoids head down.
Panting her left foot after the kick, she delievers a high round house to the ligers head again, knocking it to the side.
Twisting around in the same motion, she send a vertical back kick that knocks the Shield Liger's whole body up onto it's hind legs, nearly tipping over.
As the Liger comes back down, she faces towards it, cupping her hands. As it nearly hits the ground, she shouts "SENRETSU!!" planting her feet and thrusting both arms forwards, fist clenched. It completely misses, but the intensity of her aura knocks the huge Shield Liger backwards, flipping once before skidding along the sand on it's belly.
Naomi watched in interest from the sidelines inside her Gun Sniper, eating from a bowl of non-fat popcorn. She then looks at the fallen Shadow Fox, seeing some movement from the cockpit. "Better check it out," she decides.
Ranko stood calmly before the Shield Liger, seeing as it's system was frozen. Sure, she has killed many times in the past few years since being with them, but that all changed when she aquired her Gear. Speaking of which..
She noticed a black command wolf approaching and looked towards her gear. Weltall seen better days but could still function, though below 65%. That .. Lawrence friend of Buddy's sure knew were to hit.
Bud approached her from behind so she gave Ranma control, needing to rest and think to herself. Without water she went through the ever common change of female to male body. He shook his head slightly getting back into form. "Kuso.." He turned to Bud and cracked his knuckles. "This one is mine. I don't care if it's male, female, some kid. Someone's gonna get punished."
Bud shrugged, holding back some tears. He noticed the command wolf also, and could hear the approach of tank vehicles and.. a Gustav? Probably. He still wasn't familiar with all the sounds of Zoid mecha.. yet.
Bud then noticed something. "Hey Ran-man. Someone else has it. You go help Naomi over there and see if my friend Lawrence is okay or if he needs medical attention. We'll take care of this guy."
"Alight, I guess." Ranma said while grumbling, walking away.
Van Freiheit jumped down from his damage Shield Liger with a bit of an attitude and slightly confused. How in the world did that girl mess up his zoid so bad and where did she go? He decided to find out later and see if the guy that he saved was aright. Taking a few steps forward, he stopped in mid-stride as a large, muscular asian man wearing some sort of flight suit stared him down across his vision.
"Hey ya lil' bitch!" Van turned his head to the side and gasped seeing a tall dark colored man running toward him at full speed followed by mob of angry men and women in the uniform of the Civil Defense Force he heard about from Captain Herman.
"What the-- OOF!" He doubles over from a hard punch to the gut then flies back from an upper cut by the black-man.
"Niggah I'mma beat your ass for fuckin' up the homie!" Montel literally jumped on Van and procceeded to do him wrong, bitch-slapping him and repeating punches to the chest and head while emphasizing with word. "Don't. Your. Punk. Ass. Ever. Fuck. One. Of. My. Boys. Up. You. Lil'. BIATCH!"
"ZEKE!"
"GGRRRROOOOWWWLLL!!" Zeke, Van's pet organoid and friend, transported itself from out of the Shield Liger next to Montel. Raising it's tail up to air, he brings it down like an axe at Montel's head.
He never made it, now rolling back after being charge at by Bud from the side, tackled from the back. They both rolled a few yards before seperating. The grey organoid growled dangerously at this human in front of him that's preventing him from helping his partner. Zeke crouched down preparing to pounce.
Bud just had this unnatural calm feeling about him as he just stood there with his shoulders square, knees bent slightly while his body leaned forward a bit. A huge circle of men and women, including Irvine and the just arriving Cpt. Herman and his men, Fiona, Moonbay and Dr. D. An ambulance took off with Ranma, Naomi and the unconsious and wounded L.C. after getting him pulled out of his damaged Zoid. Montel and Van would of joined the make-shift ring if the former wasn't stomping out the latter.
Zeke quickly closed 30ft distance between them swinging his tail high at Bud's head. Surprisingly, the large asian man quickly ducked and then jump over the return swing of the organoids tail. His hand shot out in an attempt to grabs the organoids small dinosaur arms but Zeke quickly leaped away. "Grrrrr..." he growled at the human, not underestimating him.
Bud just stared at Zeke, taking off his upper half of his flight-suit to exposed his highly scarred arms and muscular upper body clad in only a tight fitting black shirt that hugged him like a glove. He went into a south-paw boxing stance, that showed off his huge shoulder muscles.
"Get'em commander!" "Yeah! Show that zoid-thingy whose boss!" "Yeah you an do it!" "Whoop his ass Zeke!" "Bite his head off!" "Eww he looks fat even though he has so much muscle" "I got money on you Buddy!" "Fight! Fight! Fight!" "Throw dem bows!" was some of the crowds mixed reactions.
Zeke jumped at Bud bearing his metallic teeth preparing to bite the mans head off. But he stepped to the left, making the organoid miss and gave Zeke a left hook to the jaw making the zoid reel slightly. Bud held in a small cry, waving his hand. He fell back as Zeke swung his tail around tripping him up.
Hitting the ground, Bud rolled off to the side just missing a metal foot that would of crushed his head then used his legs to push himself into a forward roll, barely missing the huge tail that would of smashed into his back.
The grey organoid started to circle around it's enemy trying to find the right time to attack. He started swing his tail to the left and watched the human start to go right. He switched up and swung to the right catching Bud in mid-dodge batting him away. Zeke charge him as he landed close to the edge of the ring of people and darted his muzzle at him. He ate dirt as Bud grabbed his head and smashed it into the mixture of sand and soil. Recovering before Bud, Zeke quickly bull rushed him smashing his head into Bud's gut then tosses him in mid-motion to the other side of the crowd, a good 45-50ft distance.
Unlike most men or humans for the matter, being smashed in the stomach by a 300+ pound fast moving object and tossed like a rag doll into the air and land 50ft away would kill most men, prepared or not. In Bud's case he wasn't prepared. But he wasn't like most men.
To the surprise of most (99% of the crowd), Bud sluggishly got up to his feet with a cold glare directed at Zeke while one of his arms held his stomach and ribs. He spat some blood on the ground and licked his lips before motioning Zeke to come at him.
Zeke thought this guy was crazy wanting more. But if he wanted to be destroyed then that was his problem. With a growl, Zeke charged the leaped at him bearing his jaw open to bite into Bud's chest. He missed as the man twisted away, but Zeke's claw caught him scratching across Bud's chest leaving a huge red welt and ripping his shirt off.
Those who never seen Bud's naked body gasped seeing hundreds of scars upon scars littering his body. Little scars, big scars and even scars the formed in "X's" and even some that could be bullet wounds. But one huge scar, trailing from the base of his neck all the way down to his lower back and flared out into what looked like burned knife imprints made many of them want to literally puke.
Ignoring the gasp and talking from the crowd, Bud dodged another lunge from Zeke and jammed his elbow into the zoids metallic jaw. He followed up with an uppercut that sorta lifted Zeke's 300+lbs frame off the ground before bringing his elbowing arm around and clothelining him to the ground. Bud hopped back a few feet, waving his hand in pain again and wiggling his arm. But Zeke got back up just a quickly as he got thrown down and whipped his tail around while Bud thought he had time, sweeping him by the ankles. He landed sickly onto his upper back and didn't get up.
"Yay Zeke won!" Van, thoroughly beaten, cried from the side line.
Montel smacked him upside the head. "Shut up."
"Owwww...."
Zeke slowly approached the downed man seeing if he was out. Upon closer inspection he decided that he was out and let out a loud roar of victory. He turned and slowly made his way away from Bud and people in the crowd started to exchange money.
Just as he turned away, Buddy suddenly spang to his feet in a forward leap, breathing heavily, hot steam comming from his mouth in the cold night air as he gave the zoid a deadly snarl. His body let off more steam while sweat covered his body giving him a type of shine in the moon light. Zeke stopped his walk, sensing something wrong. He turned around then suddenly took a step back seeing his opponent up.
Just as Zeke turned to face him, Bud snapped. Letting a out a roar, he charge Zeke and clotheslined him across the neck area with enough force to make the organoid literally flip twice before falling to the ground. "Get up!" Bud demanded loudly in his deep, acidic voice. "GET UP!"
And Zeke did, charging Bud quickly going for a bite to the head again. This time, Bud took him head on and instead of dodging, he ducked down them came back up just a quickly and clutched Zeke around his body, belly-to-belly. With strength powered by adrenaline, Bud suplexed the grey zoid over his head, throwing it as easy as one would throw paper ball into the trash.
Bud quickly dashed up to the organoid as it started to get up. Ramming into him and picking Zeke up like he was earlier, he carried the organoid over his shoulder past the parting circle of people and slamming Zeke into the leg of the downed Shield Liger. Bracing himself against the cold steel, Bud started ramming his shoulder into Zeke's stomach area over and over and over and over and over and over and over making the grey organoid somehow growl in pain with each thrust. Then he let up and stepped back, letting Zeke stagger forward. Zeke, now weak, tried one more lunge of his mouth at Bud and thats when he made his move.
Knocking Zeke's head to the side, Bud grabbed the organoids small arms and pulls as if whipping him one way. But then he pulled him back, ducking down and picking up the 300+lbs zoid over and across his shoulders in a hold somewhat like a fireman's carry. Bud then slowly took a few steps towards the crowd, giving them a good view of how he has Zeke. He gave Van an evil smile before twisting body to the right, then like a gale, twisting the other way pushing Zeke's lower half over his head while he falls back and Zeke slams into the ground next to him and doesn't get up.
"OH SHIT! That niggah Buddy F-5'd Zeke! Oh shit! Daaaaayyymmmm!!" Montel said in surprise, covering his mouth and jumping up and down like a high school kid seeing someone do something crazy. "He F-5's that foo!!"
Bud slowly got up and walked to his discarded suit, and started limping away clutching his sides and spitting out blood. Montel soon joined him, giving Bud his shoulder to lean on to help him. He started telling Bud how he was one crazy ass foo and couldn't believe he F-5 that kid's organoid. "Dude I couldn't believe you did that." he said as he walked off.
"Oh no! Zeke" "Zeke!" "ZEKE!" Van, Fiona and Moonbay ran over to the beaten organoid, followed by Irvine and Dr. D.
"Oh god Zeke.. You okay boy?" Van held his friend in his arms and felt the vibration of Zeke 'breathing' but very slowly. He was beaten up and now Zeke got trampled by that.. No, he couldn't even call this 'Bud' a man. He was a monster to do what he did to Zeke.
"Oh my, look at this." Dr. D pointed at the dents in Zeke's body where Bud was ramming his shoulder. "It would take something very strong to actually scratch the type of Zoidian Armor Zeke has, let alone dent it."
"Poor Zeke." Fiona said softly, petting the organoid.
Van clenched his fist and started crying. "I'll get him for doing this to Zeke. He'll pay. Both of them."
"No you won't."
Van turned his head up to Irvine. "What do you mean I won't?! Look what he did to poor Zeke!"
The one eyed pilot looked at Van with a serious expression. "You may not know who that guy was or even his friends but I do." He watched as "Alpha-One" was rolled onto a flat-bed trailer and trucked off along with a black humanoid zoid. "Their known as the 08th MS Team, some sort of mercenary team that operated on the borders taking out the big bounties. Their really good. I heard rumor they took up permanent position as some local militia but I didn't know where until now. The guy that fought Zeke was their commander."
Dr. D nodded in confirmation of Irvine observation while Moonbay snapped her fingers in recodnition. "Now I remember him! I use to transport some weird parts and munitions to some coordinates then transfer them onto a commercial truck. And he was driving it. Never guessed he was from their group." Maybe I can see if he's single, she thought secretly.
"Ah man that sucked!" "My money!" "Bullshit!" "What a good fight" "Oh hell yeah!" "Imagine?" "Pay up foo!" "Damn bitches."
"PAY UP!" CDF soldiers all held out their hands as Republic soldiers gave up their money.
One CDF soldier gave his money to a Republic soldier because he was stupid enough to bet against Bud. He was then stomped out by his comrades. Lesson: Never bet against your commander.
"Wow. That must hurt." Fiona commented off handedly. Everyone face-faulted.
A few hours later in CDF Sick bay...
"He'll be fine commander. He just suffered a concussion and a few lacerations. It's mostly blood loss he's suffering from." What? Were am I?
"So a few days rest will do him good, eh?" Who are these voices?
"Heh. I still owe him for taking me down." That voice...
"Shaddap Ranko, ya ho." I know these voices. He decided to stay calm and pretend he wasn't awake to see what and who these people were.
"Both of you shut the fuck up, damn coons. Some people are trying to rest." He felt a hand press against his chest. "Ain't that right LC?"
"B-b-buddy?" Lawrence opened his eyes. "Agh!" He shut them just as quickly, flinching from teh sudden pain. He slowly opened up again, getting use to the light in the room, wherever it may be. His eyes roamed the face in the room, recodnizing a couple while a few made him think for a minute. "Bud-man, Montel...!"
His eyes fell onto the red-head's face... then drifted down to her--
"Ah! Cuz?!" he rubbed his shin with his opposite foot.
Ranko glared at him. "Eyes up baka."
Bud sighed. "Anyways.." He pulled up a chair and sat by the bed. "How did you end up here, man? I mean, the last time I saw you was about a year ago when you went to the east coast of the US to go to some cheezy college."
Lawrence's eyes drifted towards a tall redish-brunette sitting at the foot of his bed wearing a revealing red-leather outfit. "Oh, H-h-hi. Aren't you lookin' fine today?"
Naomi raised an eyebrow at him. Is this guy for real? she thought.
Noticing his old friend dodging the question, Montel whapped him upside the head. "Dawg. Niggah. Dude, don't fukin' dodge the question man! We need to know how ya got here!" He gripped the edge of the bed. "And how did you end up working for the bad guys?!"
"Oh! I was on th-th-the ice-berg transport before it was s-sunk."
"NOT THAT YOU IDIOT!" Bud, Montel and Ranko shouted.
Bud looked at Ranko. "You have no right to call my best friend an idiot." He gave her a glare that made her actually shrink back.
"B-b-but---!"
Montel shook his head. "Just shut up and sit down." She did so. Wow, that was easy, montel mentally celebrated. He turned to LC. "I mean shit like, how ya got on Zi; how ya got that zoid an' how did you come in contact with the Empire?"
"Well..."
*FLASH BACK!*
*I was flying on the plane to ATL, Georgia when the captain said somethin' about ch-ch-changing course to avoid a storm.*
SPPHHH!! "Eh err-- This is yer... captain speakin'." he started in a lazy voice. "We uhh... just got word from weather watch that a storm is forming up around Alabama and we uhh... been instructed to ... divert our course to pass over CE-U-Bah and then swing towards ATL Airport." Many people started complainin' "The in-flight attendants will now serve another meal." Everyone cheered.
*So the flight took longer than it original was. And uh... And uhh.. Umm.. S-s-so we flew over Cuba until I saw this weird light over the ocean.*
What's that? thought Lawrence as he looked threw his window-side seat. Then a flash of light hit him.
*F-from what I guess, we pasted thru the Bermuda Triangle.*
*HOLD THE FUCK UP!*
*Back to real time.*
"You sayin' yer whole plane got sucked in by some unknown and mysterious phenomenon that happens over the Atlantic Ocean?!" Montel ask.
Lawrence adjusted his glasses. "Uhh... yeah."
"Oh."
*BACK TO FLASH-BACK!*
*I guess I was knocked unconsious because I then woke up in some vast d-d-desert with only my back pack of worthless crap and luckily the bottle of water that was in my hand.*
"Damn it's hot cuzz..." He drank the whole bottle of water down.
*But that water didn't last long. So then I travelled the desert heading west thinking I'll hit California soon. But I didn't know were I was.*
"WHERE THE FUCK AT I NOW?!! KUSSSSOOOO!!!" He screamed in his fake japanese accented voice, not noticing the sign that said 'Gairos Empire - 5 miles.'
*So I walked somemore for a couple days, using my knowledge of science to know that cactus had water in them. So I survived a few more days drinking cactus water and eating them.*
"Put some hot sss-ssause on my bu-burrito baby! Ya know ya look good to m-m-me!" He applied said sauce on some boiled cactus and took a bite.
"AHhhh!" he ran around waving his arms while the cactus stuck to his tongue by it's thorns.
*Just remember to take the thorns off.*
*Anyways, about a week later, I then found this valley full of broken down and ancient Zoids, though I never knew what they were called until I remembered the few episodes that B' showed me. It was a real t-trip since I uh.. I uhh.. never seen up close and personal some really old and nearly petrified machines. I mean, that's alot of rust.*
"Damn this is alot of rush." Lawrence commented on the condition of the weird aged metallic structure from what he could tell. It was nearing night time and the sun was setting in the west, already allowing the darkness to form in the valley depths. What he really needed now was shelter from the cold desert night.
His pace slowed nearing an intersection of the valley were two paths crossed from north to south and east to west. Not really keen on which way was which he closed his eyes and spun around a couple times till he face a direction.
East it is, he guessed. So he trudge down the path which seemed to somewhat get wider as he went, and the valley walls getting higher and higher. Soon, the sun will set and nothing but the stars and the megar lunar light will save him from the darkness.
A shiver went up his spine as he passed a mangled piece of mecha along his walk. It looked fairly new, plus he caught the sight of blood leaking from a hatch. He decided not to mess with this, not knowing if whatever did this was still here or not. So he continued on.
He didn't notice the pair of red eyes following him.
As the night grew more colder, Lawrence started to get more paranoid of his surrounding. A howl of a desert coyote, made him jump nearly giving him a heart attack. Small noises from insects and other creepy crawlies made him jump.
Then he heard them.
It was faint, but was getting closer to him. A type of mechanical sound. He felt a slight tremor, like one would feel from an aftershock of an earthquake. Yet, this didn't feel like it was underground. Maybe it was something causing it above ground? Maybe it could be--
GRRRRROWLLL..!
Slowly the black man turned around and was face to nose with a HUGE robot. His analytical mind told him it resembled a fox, while his mind-mind said to get the fuck out of there!
It growled at him while he stood their frozen in terror. It's metallic teeth shown in the darkness, moonlight reflecting off of the shiny surface. It's red-glowing eyes somewhat narrowed, seemingly gazing into Lawrences light brown globes. It growled in a low-tone while it's head raised high above L.C. bearing it's sharp metallica teeth.
Lawrence screamed. He ran. Or he tried to. He was completely frozen in terror in this situation. He desperately tried to move, yet he couldn't. His nerves were to shot to even respond to his bodily commands. He was just lucky his bladder didn't go. He had to piss big time.
The black fox zoid suddenly came down, teeth bared and ready to chomp into the little human before it. It didn't care if some fleshling was destroyed by it's own cold steel. Just like the Zoidian's that tried to keep it contained, this one shall die to prevent others from trying the--- !!!!
It stopped it's attack mear inches from the dark human's head. It detected a strange reading from his human and was curious to find out what it was.
Lawrence's frozen state broke when the machine stopped it's attack. He looked at it questioningly. It slowly pulled back and somewhat, nudged him with the tip of it's 'nose' slightly pushing him back yet he stayed on it's feet.
"Hey!" He shook off what fear he had and stepped up to the offending machine in a urban thug-like fashion. "You bes' step back fo' I bust you up cuz!" He looked at the fox-thingy up and down before saying, "Cocksucker."
The fox-mecha stared at the young black man for a moment, rearing it's head back in a laugh-like growl. Up above, the clouds parted allowing the moons luminescence to shine down upon the valley basin. Lawrence nearly fell over when he saw the quad-barrels of what would be a gatling or vulcan type of machine gun that was mounted on the back of the zoid.
He screamed in fear and quickly hit the dirt when the Fox-thing reared back and howled at the moon, firing it's weapon into the air.
A few seconds later, all was silent and he felt a presence next to him. Slowly and cautiously, he looked up from his low position and noticed the black mecha kneeling down next to him with some sort of compartment open on it's head. Being non-stereo-typical, he got to his feet and walked up to the fox. It lowered itself even lower as when he got closer as if beconing him to come to it.
"Y-y-you want me to come in?" He asked. But what was the use? Mecha can't talk anyway. It gave off a deepened mewl, somewhat like a growl yet not in response.
Oh shit oh shit! It said yes! he thought. I can understand her? Her?! Where did I get that from? He was totally confused.
"Fuck it," he said. "Y-y-you oh-oh-only live once." So he hopped in.
*END FLASH-BACK*
"So I earned a friend out of Shadow Fox. She's a real life-saver sometime." He sighed. "So I was with her for like a few week, bustin' foo's up until I was 'recruited' into the Gairos Empire since I accidentally took-out one of their squads when I was just minding my own business. I was guess that Shadow didn't like 'em."
"Well, so I joined the Emperial army. Got trained a bit. Then they put in 'special' forces. From there they needed a volunteer to do a mission."
Bud chuckled to himself. He knew what happens when high-ranked person asks for a volunteer. A cough caught his attention, and he turned his head towards the originator.
"So," Naomi started. "What your saying is that you," she points at Lawrence. "are from some other dimension and that they," she turns her hand facing up and gestures at Bud, Ranma and Montel. "are from the same place as you?"
"Nah-nn-nah-umm... not exactly." the bed-ridden black man stutters out.
"I'm not from whatever whacky place these morons came from." Id slightly grumbled followed by gentle sigh. Though I wish, she thought.
"Well umm.." Montel stood, then suddenly sat back down and got into a story telling position on the chair, turning it around so he can lean his chest on the back=rest. "It's like dis'..."
Buddy sat back, closing his eyes for a moment. He took a deep breath that he let out slowly before he spoke again.
"It starts like this...."
End Chapter 6
Author Notes:
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