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This chapter's kind of big so I'm giving it it's own entry :V
3. Evil Warrior Vs Ultimate Wild Body!!
ZAC 2101, March. North Europa, Republic Army Nixie Base.
The routine has been established but I am writing this just in case, Wolff. I do not have the slightest intention to die. Not until I see you attain the Emperor’s throne. But then I will not be able to call you Wolff.
(Extract from the testament of Imperial Army 13th Special Manoeuvre Division 2nd Special Duty Unit’s 2nd Lieutenant Anna Tarles)
The Helic Republic was a wealthy country. Since the great disaster about 40 years ago, they had worked hard on earnest reconstruction. It was said that they had five or six times more national power than the Guylos Empire, who had poured their national budget into war expenditure. All of that huge financial muscle and industrial power was now being put toward the war. During the start of the war their total war potential, which was less than one third of that of the imperial army, was already far exceeded. The republic army now had the chance to commence the dark continent landing operations. The empire’s technological strength was considered to be five years ahead of the republic. If given time, it was unknown what kind of new weapons they would develop.
On the contrary, concerning the empire, the thing they wanted more than anything was time. They arranged homeland defence preparations and in addition anticipated the completion of their decisive-battle Zoid. It was a great strategy drawn by headquarters. That is, a surprise attack by an experimental Zoid. The strategy was to carry out the combat test at the same time as the sabotage of Nixie Base. The imperial army’s second arrow that would continue the preceding Zabat aerial bombing. It was approaching from the sea.
At early dawn on a day in the middle of March ZAC 2101, the republic army’s defence line - comprised of the sea Zoid Hammer Head that was believed to be invincible - was penetrated. The enemy was the Wardick; the greatest underwater Zoid in the great old war. Why had this large fleet of Wardicks, who had come close to extinction in the time since the great disaster, suddenly appeared in Nixie Sea? It was due to the skill of imperial technology. Technology that forcefully accelerated the division and growth of the Zoid Core with an OS (Organoid System). This meant that it was possible for infinite growth of a wild Zoid.
And if this technology were to advance more? Perhaps it would be possible to resurrect the seemingly dead Zoid cores of destroyed Zoids.
A rain of beam gun and missile fire emitted by the Wardicks poured down on the Nixie naval port. Zoids in the moorings, engineers, various people running about trying to escape were all shrouded in the blaze. When the republic army finally turned to counterattack the port had been thoroughly destroyed. There was no mistake that the dark continent invasion operations that had been approaching would be furthermore delayed.
Pteras and Raynos loaded with anti-warship missiles swooped down on the Wardick that were burning with anger. The Wardick attempted to escape rapidly through the water.
“Don’t let them escape!”
The harsh words of HQ resounded. However this was only the first stage of the imperial army’s counteroffensive operations. While the Wardick attracted the attention of the republic army, a more terrifying Zoid was disembarking on the other side of the peninsula.
That Zoid’s name was Death Stinger. The evil warrior that defeated both the beast king Blade Liger and the demon dragon Geno Breaker. It was a relic of the super-ancient civilisation that could infinitely self-propagate by feeding off of the cores of other Zoids. It was a devil that was capable of destroying Planet Zi itself.
There were 10 Death Stingers altogether. With the chaos of the Wardick’s raid, they broke into the unsettled Nixie Base.
---- A way of controlling it can’t be found, development of this evil warrior should be suspended, even in the Empire, so why is it here?
The republic soldiers succumbed to fear. The base fell into panic.
Orders to sortie were passed to the Ray Force. They were a new army division that had been formed for the dark continent landing war. A special unit developed for high-speed manoeuvre battles that was distantly separated from the main force. Rey Gregg was now assigned here.
It was a place he desired. As a special unit disconnected from the command system, it would be possible to independently infiltrate into the interior of enemy territory. There they would search for them; the pilot of that tyranno-type experimental machine and the small Zoid. Persistence was something Ray understood. Yet unless he brought the thoughts of his dead subordinates and Arthur Borgman and his obsession with the premonition of his death to an end, he would not be able to advance further as a Zoid pilot.
The shrill emergency alarm was like a kick to the rear as Ray slipped into the Liger Zero’s cockpit. It was the completed form of the lion-type experimental machine that Ray had stolen. The Zero’s special quality was not only the control system the made use of the wild Zoid’s instinct. It was the CAS (Changing Armour System). With a mechanism that appended armour, this ground-breaking system could give a selection of optimum armament for a function. There were 4 armours. The basic form was reproduced from data that was left by the empire. There were also the three originally developed by the republic technology unit: hand-to-hand form Schneider, bombardment form Panzer, and high-speed battle form Jäger. Unless there was a special order the form was left to the pilot’s judgement.
Ray’s preference was the basic form. The meagre armour was unpopular with other pilots but without specialisation it was easy to service parts. If it moved according to his thoughts, its weapons are enough with tough fangs and claws.
“Ray Gregg, sortieing! The target?”
“The Evil Warrior. The empire revived that monster!”
The chance to fight with the enemy that killed Arthur Borgman was suddenly in front of Ray Gregg.
Chaos was at its height outside the hanger. The corpses of a countless number of republic Zoids that had left the hanger to intercept the enemy were lying across the ground. If they challenged the Death Stingers that were appearing from in the ground with a large army then they would not be able to perform tight manoeuvres, and the victims would multiply.
“I can’t retreat!”
Ray shouted. He knew how to fight the Death Stinger. He had broken down the simulation based on records recovered from Arthur’s Zoid many times over. The key was to aim at the joints that were cracks in the super-thick armour.
Ray’s Zero leapt in. The Stinger’s raging claws intercepted. Fast. It had terrifying reaction speed. An ordinary high-speed Zoid would not have been able to avoid it. But the reaction speed of Ray and the Zero’s instinct exceeded the ordinary. Dodging the counterblow with a paper-thin margin, he soundly bit off the enemy Zoid’s joints. And he pierced the belly of the Death Stinger that had become unable to move with a finishing blow with his claws.
Zero sensed the danger. A swirl of light came from behind. It was a charged particle cannon set loose by the second Death Stinger. Zero kicked at the ground and escaped to midair. There, a rain of shelling fell from above. It was simultaneous bombardment from the Panzer unit. A barrage attack with power that crushed even super-thick armour. The moment the bombardment ceased, the Schneider unit and Jäger unit came in for an assault. Jäger caused a disturbance with its astounding speed and motion ability. From right in front of the Death Stinger, Schneider’s laser blade penetrated the super-thick armour. One by one the Death Stingers were destroyed. The Zero’s power was overwhelming. But…
There was doubt in Ray. Was this really was the enemy that Arthur Borgman had fought and died against?
“Killer From The Dark, all units incapacitated!”
From the main bridge of a Whale King that was lurking at the bottom of the ocean near Nixie, Wolff Muroa listened to the reports of the observer.
“They were more fragile than expected.”
“The machine’s output had been restrained to 70% just to be sure. What if it was this amount?”
Zigner, accompanying as an aid, answered Wolff’s query that had not contained his usual intonation.
“That was only in the hope that we would be able to use the interface, now we can conclude it is okay.”
The interface. It was the small Zoid Wolff had carried away from Nixie Base. This small Zoid that was evacuated on the brink of the fall of Nixie Base was certainly the final piece that was missing from the experimental Death Stinger machine that went berserk. The OS was a unit that shouldered the stress given to the pilot. Since the discovery of this interface, Zoids loaded with an OS were finally placed under control of people. There were also pilots in the experimental Death Stingers (KFD, Killer from the Dark) during the sortie.
“KFD self destruction device has been operated.”
The observer reported once more. It was as planned. This military secret could not be passed to the enemy - no - excluding his countrymen, it couldn’t even be passed to his allies. The KFDs exploded one after another. Wolff entrusted command to his subordinate and left the bridge. He could no longer remain expressionless. Zigner, at least, could not be deceived.
He should be pleased. As the successor to the imperial throne. The plan was advancing in accordance to his father Prozen’s predictions. The ultimate weapon will be revived and the Zenebas Empire will be resurrected. And yet Anna was dead. She had been the pilot of a KFD. She was a friend from his childhood, from before he became aware of his destiny. Even now she had been the only friend who called him Wolff.
The figure of the white Zero that killed Anna would not disappear and remained floating in Wolff’s mind.
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3. Evil Warrior Vs Ultimate Wild Body!!
ZAC 2101, March. North Europa, Republic Army Nixie Base.
The routine has been established but I am writing this just in case, Wolff. I do not have the slightest intention to die. Not until I see you attain the Emperor’s throne. But then I will not be able to call you Wolff.
(Extract from the testament of Imperial Army 13th Special Manoeuvre Division 2nd Special Duty Unit’s 2nd Lieutenant Anna Tarles)
The Helic Republic was a wealthy country. Since the great disaster about 40 years ago, they had worked hard on earnest reconstruction. It was said that they had five or six times more national power than the Guylos Empire, who had poured their national budget into war expenditure. All of that huge financial muscle and industrial power was now being put toward the war. During the start of the war their total war potential, which was less than one third of that of the imperial army, was already far exceeded. The republic army now had the chance to commence the dark continent landing operations. The empire’s technological strength was considered to be five years ahead of the republic. If given time, it was unknown what kind of new weapons they would develop.
On the contrary, concerning the empire, the thing they wanted more than anything was time. They arranged homeland defence preparations and in addition anticipated the completion of their decisive-battle Zoid. It was a great strategy drawn by headquarters. That is, a surprise attack by an experimental Zoid. The strategy was to carry out the combat test at the same time as the sabotage of Nixie Base. The imperial army’s second arrow that would continue the preceding Zabat aerial bombing. It was approaching from the sea.
At early dawn on a day in the middle of March ZAC 2101, the republic army’s defence line - comprised of the sea Zoid Hammer Head that was believed to be invincible - was penetrated. The enemy was the Wardick; the greatest underwater Zoid in the great old war. Why had this large fleet of Wardicks, who had come close to extinction in the time since the great disaster, suddenly appeared in Nixie Sea? It was due to the skill of imperial technology. Technology that forcefully accelerated the division and growth of the Zoid Core with an OS (Organoid System). This meant that it was possible for infinite growth of a wild Zoid.
And if this technology were to advance more? Perhaps it would be possible to resurrect the seemingly dead Zoid cores of destroyed Zoids.
A rain of beam gun and missile fire emitted by the Wardicks poured down on the Nixie naval port. Zoids in the moorings, engineers, various people running about trying to escape were all shrouded in the blaze. When the republic army finally turned to counterattack the port had been thoroughly destroyed. There was no mistake that the dark continent invasion operations that had been approaching would be furthermore delayed.
Pteras and Raynos loaded with anti-warship missiles swooped down on the Wardick that were burning with anger. The Wardick attempted to escape rapidly through the water.
“Don’t let them escape!”
The harsh words of HQ resounded. However this was only the first stage of the imperial army’s counteroffensive operations. While the Wardick attracted the attention of the republic army, a more terrifying Zoid was disembarking on the other side of the peninsula.
That Zoid’s name was Death Stinger. The evil warrior that defeated both the beast king Blade Liger and the demon dragon Geno Breaker. It was a relic of the super-ancient civilisation that could infinitely self-propagate by feeding off of the cores of other Zoids. It was a devil that was capable of destroying Planet Zi itself.
There were 10 Death Stingers altogether. With the chaos of the Wardick’s raid, they broke into the unsettled Nixie Base.
---- A way of controlling it can’t be found, development of this evil warrior should be suspended, even in the Empire, so why is it here?
The republic soldiers succumbed to fear. The base fell into panic.
Orders to sortie were passed to the Ray Force. They were a new army division that had been formed for the dark continent landing war. A special unit developed for high-speed manoeuvre battles that was distantly separated from the main force. Rey Gregg was now assigned here.
It was a place he desired. As a special unit disconnected from the command system, it would be possible to independently infiltrate into the interior of enemy territory. There they would search for them; the pilot of that tyranno-type experimental machine and the small Zoid. Persistence was something Ray understood. Yet unless he brought the thoughts of his dead subordinates and Arthur Borgman and his obsession with the premonition of his death to an end, he would not be able to advance further as a Zoid pilot.
The shrill emergency alarm was like a kick to the rear as Ray slipped into the Liger Zero’s cockpit. It was the completed form of the lion-type experimental machine that Ray had stolen. The Zero’s special quality was not only the control system the made use of the wild Zoid’s instinct. It was the CAS (Changing Armour System). With a mechanism that appended armour, this ground-breaking system could give a selection of optimum armament for a function. There were 4 armours. The basic form was reproduced from data that was left by the empire. There were also the three originally developed by the republic technology unit: hand-to-hand form Schneider, bombardment form Panzer, and high-speed battle form Jäger. Unless there was a special order the form was left to the pilot’s judgement.
Ray’s preference was the basic form. The meagre armour was unpopular with other pilots but without specialisation it was easy to service parts. If it moved according to his thoughts, its weapons are enough with tough fangs and claws.
“Ray Gregg, sortieing! The target?”
“The Evil Warrior. The empire revived that monster!”
The chance to fight with the enemy that killed Arthur Borgman was suddenly in front of Ray Gregg.
Chaos was at its height outside the hanger. The corpses of a countless number of republic Zoids that had left the hanger to intercept the enemy were lying across the ground. If they challenged the Death Stingers that were appearing from in the ground with a large army then they would not be able to perform tight manoeuvres, and the victims would multiply.
“I can’t retreat!”
Ray shouted. He knew how to fight the Death Stinger. He had broken down the simulation based on records recovered from Arthur’s Zoid many times over. The key was to aim at the joints that were cracks in the super-thick armour.
Ray’s Zero leapt in. The Stinger’s raging claws intercepted. Fast. It had terrifying reaction speed. An ordinary high-speed Zoid would not have been able to avoid it. But the reaction speed of Ray and the Zero’s instinct exceeded the ordinary. Dodging the counterblow with a paper-thin margin, he soundly bit off the enemy Zoid’s joints. And he pierced the belly of the Death Stinger that had become unable to move with a finishing blow with his claws.
Zero sensed the danger. A swirl of light came from behind. It was a charged particle cannon set loose by the second Death Stinger. Zero kicked at the ground and escaped to midair. There, a rain of shelling fell from above. It was simultaneous bombardment from the Panzer unit. A barrage attack with power that crushed even super-thick armour. The moment the bombardment ceased, the Schneider unit and Jäger unit came in for an assault. Jäger caused a disturbance with its astounding speed and motion ability. From right in front of the Death Stinger, Schneider’s laser blade penetrated the super-thick armour. One by one the Death Stingers were destroyed. The Zero’s power was overwhelming. But…
There was doubt in Ray. Was this really was the enemy that Arthur Borgman had fought and died against?
“Killer From The Dark, all units incapacitated!”
From the main bridge of a Whale King that was lurking at the bottom of the ocean near Nixie, Wolff Muroa listened to the reports of the observer.
“They were more fragile than expected.”
“The machine’s output had been restrained to 70% just to be sure. What if it was this amount?”
Zigner, accompanying as an aid, answered Wolff’s query that had not contained his usual intonation.
“That was only in the hope that we would be able to use the interface, now we can conclude it is okay.”
The interface. It was the small Zoid Wolff had carried away from Nixie Base. This small Zoid that was evacuated on the brink of the fall of Nixie Base was certainly the final piece that was missing from the experimental Death Stinger machine that went berserk. The OS was a unit that shouldered the stress given to the pilot. Since the discovery of this interface, Zoids loaded with an OS were finally placed under control of people. There were also pilots in the experimental Death Stingers (KFD, Killer from the Dark) during the sortie.
“KFD self destruction device has been operated.”
The observer reported once more. It was as planned. This military secret could not be passed to the enemy - no - excluding his countrymen, it couldn’t even be passed to his allies. The KFDs exploded one after another. Wolff entrusted command to his subordinate and left the bridge. He could no longer remain expressionless. Zigner, at least, could not be deceived.
He should be pleased. As the successor to the imperial throne. The plan was advancing in accordance to his father Prozen’s predictions. The ultimate weapon will be revived and the Zenebas Empire will be resurrected. And yet Anna was dead. She had been the pilot of a KFD. She was a friend from his childhood, from before he became aware of his destiny. Even now she had been the only friend who called him Wolff.
The figure of the white Zero that killed Anna would not disappear and remained floating in Wolff’s mind.
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