Caolite brushed herself off and hugged Cobalt happily, knowing he was okay. After the short reuinion, Zell came over and asked if they were okay. "Yeah I'm fine, it's the Command Wolf that isn't." She nodded over at the wreckage of the Command Wolf. "Hmm, doesn't look like we'll be able to repair that. Why dont we bring it into the repair bay and see what we can do?" Caolite, Zell, and Cobalt trudged up the mountainside to the repair bay, while Raven hauled off the peices of his Genosaurer, which was surprisingly still in a repairable status. They returned back to the explosion site with a Gustav, pulling the remains of the Command Wolf back up the mountain to the repair bay. The repairman tok one look at it and shouted. "Aye yaye yaye! What did you do to this thing?! Fly it off a cliff?!!" "Something like that." Caolite replied, blushing a bit. "Well this thing isn't going to get very far. It's cheaper to just buy a new zoid." The repairman replied cumbersomly."Well, if that's the case, why don't we try to salvage the core, and transplant it into the new zoid?" Caolite smiled as she thought of the idea. "Hmm, I never thought of that. Wow kid, you ever think of starting a career as a mechanic?" "Eh, I kinda like the job I have now." Caolite walked up to the ruins of her old fallen companion. Sorrow washed over her face as she realized she would never hear its mighty howl as she tore through battle after battle. Instead of crying and making a scene she desided to head back to her bunk and change into something more comfortable. She returned to the repair bay, and beckoned Cobalt outside. As Zi's blazing sun set, casting cool shadows of purple and orange across the harsh, scorched, desert sky, Zi's two moons started to appear in the Eastern side. Caolite sat down on the steps with Cobalt, wondering exactly what was going to happen to her. Her zoid was trashed, she was surrounded by Imperial security gaurds, just waiting for any reason to shoot her, and Raven in his evil Genosaurer, set on killing her. Either way she looked at it she was doomed. Unless that AS kid would come in handy somehow. As the moons reflection flickered across her peircing green eyes, she wondered about that Zell kid. He said he had seen the battle, but Raven was on the Imperial side. Had he figured out she was a spy? If so, this mission would be alot harder than she thought. As she lied down on the ground, watching the sunset, she fell asleep for a bit. When she woke up, it was very dark out, and Cobalt was nowhere to be found. She looked in the repair bay and found him standing in front of the ruins of the Command Wolf. He seemed sad, longing to control the Command Wolf once more. "I know Cobalt, I wish it wouldnt've happened either. But there was nothing I could do. It was either attack, or be Genosaurer chow." Caolite replied sadly. "Grarr, rrawr grr..." Cobalt growled in his own language. Although he sounded scarey and threatening, he was actually very sad and defensless. "Aw don't say that Cobalt. Shadow would probably be a very nice organoid if Raven hadn't brainwashed him to be so evil." "Grarr raaaar rrrrr grar." "I know Cobalt, it would be nice if there were other organoids for you to play with......it would also be nice if there was someone for me to play with too...." Caolite looked down at the ground, her warm smile turning into a cold frown. "Aaaaar rarr grrrrar!" "Yes you are my friend Cobalt. You're my best friend ever. I love playing with you and having fun, but I wish there were other people out there like me. Other Ancient Zoidian Lupes. They're all natives, and only speak Lupish. I'm not even sure if there are any others out there." "Grarr, rawr raaaaaaaar grrrar rawr." Caolite smiled at Cobalt's reassurance. "Thanks Cobalt, you really are my bets friend." Caolite hugged Cobalt, happiness replacing her sorrow. Cobalt broke the silence as he looked up at the Command Wolf's carcass. His face turned to determination as he let go of Caolite, preparing to meld into the Command Wolf. "But Cobalt, it's destroyed! Theres no way your ever going to fix it!" "Grrraarr....." Cobalt jumoed into the air, flashing into a bright blue light. He leaped into the zoid, but instead of the ussual, there was a bright blue wirlwind of light. Caolite stepped back as she stared at the cycloning blue tornado encasing the Command Wolf. Gaurds started pouring into the repair bay, guns aimed at the strange cyclone. An man decorated with badges that must have
been the boss somewhat, rushed ot the scene. "What is the meaning of this?!!!" He shouted. "I don't know sir! I was talking to Cobalt and all of sudden..." "Talking to an organoid?!!! You expect me to beleive that load of crap?! Well it doesn't matter how it happened, what matters is how do we get rid of it!" He interrupted. "Maybe someone could try to break it or go inside." He considered this for a moment, and then grabbed the nearest gaurd. "You, try and get inside that thing." "Yes sir!" The gaurd ran full force at the blue ball, and was hurtled backwards by a strange force. "Well, looks like that isn't the answer to it." A cuople more foolish guards tried jumpingover it, all attempts failing miserably. After a few hours of shootign at it, and trying to break into it, Caolite finally desided that this was getting nowhere. "We have to try a different approach, doing this all day isn't going to work if we know it hasn't for the past hour!" Their new approach wasn't much better. They tried blasting it with missles, only resulting in even more holes in the walls. Caolite eventually gave up hope. It seemed whatever Cobalt was doing, was not going to stop until he wanted it to. She walked up to the strange blue ball, anger and sorrow raging in her eyes. "WHY WON'T YOU OPEN!!!!" Caolite slammed her paws on the bright blue ball, but instead of being hurtled backwards, she slipped right through the light. Caolite withdrew with fear. The others awed in amazment. She stuck her paw through the cyclone again. It was like nothing was there. She gathered up her courage and ran right through. She found herself splased with blue sparkelts of light, the rays swirling around her in a vortex. In the middle was Cobalt hovering quietly over the Command Wolf. "Cobalt, what's going on?" He remained silent. "Cobalt please tell me." He continued to ignore Caolite, hovering over the Command Wolf, simply looking at her. "Cobalt, tell ne now!" Cobalt looked up at her, his blue eyes gleaming. "This, is an organoid vortex. Only organoids, zoids in need, and ones with The Gift can ever see what you are seeing now." "Cobalt....you tal..." "Yes, I can speak your language because in an organoid vortex, there are no boundaries. Just infinity all around you. If yuo walk in one direction, you will not return to the spot you started. You will continue on and on until you die." "But, what is this? Why are you making this organoid vortex? Why am I the only one that can come inside?" "You can come inside the organoid vortex because you have what they call, 'The Gift'. You can talk to organoids, and become one with them. Very few have this gift, you are lucky to know a few people who have it." "I do? Who are they?" "Raven, and your friend AS." "Raven?! AS?! But Raven's evil, and AS is a turd!" "Ah, I wouldn't be so quick to judge people." A Large holographic screen appeared between Caolite and Cobalt. It showed Raven as a little child, playing happily with an older man and woman. Probably his parents. However, the peacful tranquility of the scene was shattered as a terrifying roar. An evil behemoth charged across the valley, shooting everything it saw. It grabbed the young Raven and held him in it's claws. Raven screamed an ear-shattering cry as his parents were shot and brutally killed. "So that's why he's so mean....he's seeking revenge on all zoids for killing his parents!" The horrifying picture turned to a scene with AS cautiously approaching a strange green pod. He thouched the pod, and it exploded with a white light. A deep red organoid walked out of the pod, staring down at AS. The image flickered, and dissapeared. "Wow, I guess there was more to them than we understood." "Much more, you should be more wise in judging people. You have learned your leason, the upgrade is completed, you may leave now." "Wait wha? Upgrade? Hang on a se...." Caolite suddenly felt a searign pain all over her body, and was flung out the sphere, onto her back, where she layed uncontious. Before she blacked out, she heared a chorus of awes, and cought bits of conversation. "Damn! That thing just upgaded that kid's zoid to a Konig Wolf!"
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