Chapter 11 – Infiltration to Realization
“That son of a bitch, I am going to kill him! I am going to kill him dead!” Jason said pacing back and forth. He was speaking funny out of shear anger. He was clearly upset because Keith kidnapped Rachel right from under their noses and he felt solely responsible.
“Jason, Jason, calm yourself. We will think of something so we can get her back safe and sound.” Naomi said trying to console him. She was also scared what could happen to Rachel while with Keith, but she knew how Jason felt about Rachel even if he didn’t show it all the time and he could get drastic with his decisions. She had to keep her head cool.
“Yea, whatever. I am going to the hanger to think.” Jason said still heated up.
“Oh no your not. In your current state, I don’t exactly trust you behind the throttles of a Zoid. You are coming with me, so I can keep an eye on you.” Naomi said sounding like a mother controlling her child.
“Uhh…yes ma’am.” Jason said giving in to Naomi and her persuasive, yet aggressive demeanor.
The two walked into the command center where Brad was waiting with a cup of coffee. Naomi and Jason sat down and Brad and Naomi began talking about a way to get Rachel back. Jason was merely tuning them out, thinking about Rachel.
“I just hope you are okay…”
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“Just the hell did Jason tell you about his past? I know that boy is attached to you, so he must’ve told you something important?” Keith said looming over Rachel as he questioned her. Rachel was positioned in an interrogation room typically used by the police when questioning criminals. Rachel was scared, but not helpless.
“He didn’t tell me…anything…” Rachel said with her voice trailing off.
“Okay, now I know you are lying. Never let your voice trail off at the end of a sentence, it shows you are hiding something. Now spill it!” Keith said with increasing intensity.
Keith was becoming belligerent because Rachel wasn’t talking. He was getting in her face and yelling for her to give him the information he desired.
“Okay, okay. I will tell you what I know. Jason told me that you should have died in a fire and explosion from your old house. He told me your bedroom door was locked, so your parents couldn’t wake you up to escape and the firefighter rescued you.”
“Okay, that is a load of bullshit. They left me in the house to die and I would be dead had it not been for that firefighter…they wanted me dead! Anyways, did he tell you anything about our father?” Keith said calming down a bit since Rachel started to talk.
“All he said was that he was scientist.”
“Did he mention anything about his whereabouts?” Keith said getting closer to her.
“No he didn’t, I swear!”
“I see, alright we are gonna keep your ass in a holding cell until Jason comes to rescue you. I know that idiot of a brother will come here trying to be the hero” Keith said yanking Rachel up by her arm and leading her to her holding cell.
“Don’t worry, when he comes, we won’t kill him yet. His purpose still hasn’t been fulfilled.” Keith said walking off.
“I know Jason will come, and he will kill you!” Rachel yelled down the hallway as she pushed a button inside her blouse.
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Jason, while tuning out Brad and Naomi, eventually fell asleep. Naomi woke him up about an hour later because she had something important to tell him.
“Hey, we came up with a great plan to get Rachel back.” Naomi said kind of happy.
“Oh yea?! What is it?”
“I will let you know once the others get here!”
“Wait…others?” Jason said puzzled.
“Yea, others. We convinced the-” Naomi was interrupted to by the door bell. She ran down and returned with some unexpected guests.
“No way…Jack Cisco and the Tasker Sisters?!” Jason said dumbfounded
“Crimson, how’s it hanging?” Jack asked. Jack was formerly a mercenary that fought solely for the reward, just like Brad, but eventually came across the Kelly and Chris Tasker and joined them to form the Lightning Team. He chose them because they understood the full capabilities of the Lightning Saix, the fastest land based Zoid.
“We will deal with formalities later, we need to get the details of the plan down and get Rachel back.”
“Yea, and this is our way of repaying that bastard that interrupted our battle with you guys and trashed our Saix.” Chris yelled.
“Okay, the plan is simple. It will run in three phases. First the Lightning Team will use their high speed Lightning Saix to run along the outside of the base and cause turmoil and destroy any Zoids positioned around, as well as getting the attention of any possible exterior defense system. We plan to attack at night so it will harder to spot them. Phase two will consist of Brad and me blasting into the base and destroying any opposing Zoids there. Phase three will be Jason going in, finding Rachel, and escaping with her. Jason, please try not to fight in the base. We have no idea how stable the base is and it could come down, killing Rachel. If you must fight, try to end it as quickly as possible. So there we have it, our plan…Pyramid Strike!” Naomi said.
“Pyramid Strike eh? The name is lame, but the plan seems well thought out.” Jack stated possibly hurting Naomi’s feelings over the name. “One question, how do you know where this base is?”
“Rachel has a homing beacon in her blouse should something like happen. I and Brad also have one. Jason doesn’t have one, but he really doesn’t need it.” Naomi said laughing. “The base is about 40 miles southeast of here, so we don’t need the transport this time.”
“Alright, good, we will leave at 7:30 and be there by night fall.” Jason said casually
With that, everyone left to do prepare for the attack since they had two hours before the plan would be in action.
7:30 rolled around faster than expected, but everyone was outside ready to depart. The light from the moon illuminated all 6 Zoids in a spectacular manner. The group departed in two groups of three with Jason, Naomi, and Brad in the front and the Lightning Team in the back. All six Zoids made haste to get to their destination to achieve their objective.
“Do you really think this will work Crimson?” Jack asked over a link.
“Of course we will, why wouldn’t it?”
“We, The Lightning Team, don’t really know what we are getting ourselves into.”
“All you need to know is that the guy that interrupted our scheduled battle was my presumed dead brother, and he is plotting to kill me. However, I feel he has another agenda…” Jason said with his voice trailing off.
“Okay, I won’t ask anymore, let’s just get the girl back.” Jack said closing the link.
The group made their way across the desert and soon made it to Vincent’s base. The outer wall of the base was just as expected. It had many automatic turrets stationed on top that fired whenever a stranger approached. The base looked very big from a far, and gave off an ominous feeling.
“Alright, there it is, you guys ready?” Naomi asked
“Hell yea we are ready!” Jason answered for the group.
“Alright Jack, time for phase one.”
“We are good to go.” With that, Jack and the Tasker Sisters ran off at high speed towards the base. The automatic turrets immediately started to fire once they were within range. The speed of the Lightning Saix caused the turrets to miss repeated with their fire. There were four of them positioned outside the base and had to be disposed of.
“Jack, think you guys can take out those turrets?” Jason asked over a link.
“Yea, sure thing.” Jack said bringing his Zoid into good position and fired off a shot from his Pulse Laser Rifle. The Pulse Laser Rifle fired off a shot of solidified red energy toward the turret. Upon impact, the turret immediately exploded. The Tasker Sisters followed suit and destroyed turrets two and three and Jack finished off the last turret.
“Coast is clear, phase two is a go!” Jack said loud and clear and Brad and Naomi kicked into action. Naomi activated her booster and jumped up onto the wall and landed on the platform that used to house the turret. She locked turned her Zoid around into Sniper Mode and snapped down the toe locks; she was ready to go. Brad and the Fire Fox ran into the base and quickly scanned for the presence of Zoids. He would a few Command Wolves in the southwest corner of the base and made short work of them. Naomi shot down a few Helcats on her own.
“Jason, get ready to get in there!” Naomi said yelling over the link.
“Alright I am preparing. Rachel…I am coming for you.”
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“Sir! Sir! We are being attacked!” An officer stated to Vincent. Vincent was in his office sipping at a glass of wine and Keith was nearby sitting. He looked less than surprised by the news.
“Looks like Jason and his flunkies finally came. And they struck the same time we did a few nights ago…can’t they be a little original?” Keith said standing up taking a stretch. “Looks like I should head to my Konig Wolf. Jason will breakthrough any second now.”
“Alright Keith, just don’t act foolish and die out there.” Vincent said taking another sip.
“Me, die? Haha, like that will happen any time soon.” Keith laughed as he walked out the room.
“Don’t underestimate your brother Keith; he is improving by the day…” Vincent said lightly.
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“Jason, get your ass in gear!” Brad yelled to get Jason’s attention. “We aren’t risking our lives for you to be lethargic; get in there and Rachel!”
With that jolt from Brad, Jason headstrong into the base, past Naomi and Brad, and into was appeared to be a hanger. The hanger was very vast, but it did not house any Zoids, or non at the current moment at least. It had stacks upon stacks of boxes that contained Zoid parts, it was definitely a sight.
“Just where the hell do I go from here?” Jason wondered as he scanned the area.
“Looks like you are lost brother.” Keith stated stepping from behind a sliding door. His Konig Wolf looked as vicious as ever. Its blue piercing eyes stared the Zaber Fang down intensely in preparation for battle. “Just so you know, the girl is down this hallway behind me. I don’t you to get distracted in our battle because you are focused on finding her, but you will have to get past me to get to her.” Keith said readying his Zoid.
“Don’t get in my way Keith, I am just here to get her and get out. Move out of my way!” Jason said brooding.
“Like I said, you gotta get past me first!” Keith said charging at Jason. Keith closed the distance quickly between the two and lunged at Jason. Jason performed a quick dodge, evaded the attack and shot Keith with his LRPLR. Jason turned around and hit Keith with a melee attack of his own. The Konig Wolf hit a stack of boxes and the stack wobbled.
“Well now…that is interesting…” Jason said to himself noticing his surroundings.
Keith staggered back to his feet very upset at what just happened. “That was just a lucky shot that shit won’t happen again!”
“Okay, then come at me again.”
Keith charged at Jason with his DSR ready to fire. Jason activated his boosters and ran to his right and began firing his LRPLR. Shots from each back cannon hit their respective target, but as well at the surrounding area of the hanger. Jason knew he had to finish things up quickly because he didn’t want to risk Rachel’s life because of this battle. Jason continued to flank Keith to the left and right and pecking away with his cannon, using its great pivot radius to his advantage.
“Ugh! You are pissing me off!”
“Good he is getting mad, this is working to plan.”
Keith lunged at Jason and connected with a melee attack which sent Jason flying back and crashing into the ground. Jason struggled to get his feet and noticed that the boxes were now perpendicular to his right side. Keith hit Jason with a few more shots from the DSR as Jason tried getting up and lunged forward for the finishing blow.
“This is it brother, you can die now!” Keith said lunging in.
“Nope, not this time, I have a girl to save.” Jason said as he moved to his left, dodged the strike and quickly shot two shots into the side of the Konig Wolf, sending it flying into the boxes. The boxes waxed and waned, but eventually toppled and landed on the Konig Wolf.
“Ugh…you bastard…”
“Looks like I win this won Keith, I can’t kill you today…got a more important thing to take care of.” Jason said running off down the designated hallway.
Jason got to Rachel’s holding cell. Rachel was undoubtedly happy to see him there. Jason told Rachel to back away and blew to cell out. Rachel climbed up the leg of the Zaber Fang and into the cockpit, where the couple shared a short kiss, and left the base. Jason emerged from the base with Brad, Naomi, Jack, Kelly, and Chris all there waiting for him.
“About damn time man…thought I would have to bust in there and save your ass.” Jack said laughing over the link.
“Oh shut up…let’s get going.”
The six Zoids made their way back to Naomi’s slowly but surely. Something was still bothering Jason. Why exactly did Keith want to kidnap Rachel? What purpose did she have in trying to kill me?
“Rachel, what went on while you were there?”
“All he really did was question me about what you told me.”
“Really? Is that all he questioned you about?” Jason said anxiously
“Well, that and he asked me about the whereabouts of your father…”
“My father...? No…he wants to kill him too?!”
“That son of a bitch, I am going to kill him! I am going to kill him dead!” Jason said pacing back and forth. He was speaking funny out of shear anger. He was clearly upset because Keith kidnapped Rachel right from under their noses and he felt solely responsible.
“Jason, Jason, calm yourself. We will think of something so we can get her back safe and sound.” Naomi said trying to console him. She was also scared what could happen to Rachel while with Keith, but she knew how Jason felt about Rachel even if he didn’t show it all the time and he could get drastic with his decisions. She had to keep her head cool.
“Yea, whatever. I am going to the hanger to think.” Jason said still heated up.
“Oh no your not. In your current state, I don’t exactly trust you behind the throttles of a Zoid. You are coming with me, so I can keep an eye on you.” Naomi said sounding like a mother controlling her child.
“Uhh…yes ma’am.” Jason said giving in to Naomi and her persuasive, yet aggressive demeanor.
The two walked into the command center where Brad was waiting with a cup of coffee. Naomi and Jason sat down and Brad and Naomi began talking about a way to get Rachel back. Jason was merely tuning them out, thinking about Rachel.
“I just hope you are okay…”
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“Just the hell did Jason tell you about his past? I know that boy is attached to you, so he must’ve told you something important?” Keith said looming over Rachel as he questioned her. Rachel was positioned in an interrogation room typically used by the police when questioning criminals. Rachel was scared, but not helpless.
“He didn’t tell me…anything…” Rachel said with her voice trailing off.
“Okay, now I know you are lying. Never let your voice trail off at the end of a sentence, it shows you are hiding something. Now spill it!” Keith said with increasing intensity.
Keith was becoming belligerent because Rachel wasn’t talking. He was getting in her face and yelling for her to give him the information he desired.
“Okay, okay. I will tell you what I know. Jason told me that you should have died in a fire and explosion from your old house. He told me your bedroom door was locked, so your parents couldn’t wake you up to escape and the firefighter rescued you.”
“Okay, that is a load of bullshit. They left me in the house to die and I would be dead had it not been for that firefighter…they wanted me dead! Anyways, did he tell you anything about our father?” Keith said calming down a bit since Rachel started to talk.
“All he said was that he was scientist.”
“Did he mention anything about his whereabouts?” Keith said getting closer to her.
“No he didn’t, I swear!”
“I see, alright we are gonna keep your ass in a holding cell until Jason comes to rescue you. I know that idiot of a brother will come here trying to be the hero” Keith said yanking Rachel up by her arm and leading her to her holding cell.
“Don’t worry, when he comes, we won’t kill him yet. His purpose still hasn’t been fulfilled.” Keith said walking off.
“I know Jason will come, and he will kill you!” Rachel yelled down the hallway as she pushed a button inside her blouse.
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Jason, while tuning out Brad and Naomi, eventually fell asleep. Naomi woke him up about an hour later because she had something important to tell him.
“Hey, we came up with a great plan to get Rachel back.” Naomi said kind of happy.
“Oh yea?! What is it?”
“I will let you know once the others get here!”
“Wait…others?” Jason said puzzled.
“Yea, others. We convinced the-” Naomi was interrupted to by the door bell. She ran down and returned with some unexpected guests.
“No way…Jack Cisco and the Tasker Sisters?!” Jason said dumbfounded
“Crimson, how’s it hanging?” Jack asked. Jack was formerly a mercenary that fought solely for the reward, just like Brad, but eventually came across the Kelly and Chris Tasker and joined them to form the Lightning Team. He chose them because they understood the full capabilities of the Lightning Saix, the fastest land based Zoid.
“We will deal with formalities later, we need to get the details of the plan down and get Rachel back.”
“Yea, and this is our way of repaying that bastard that interrupted our battle with you guys and trashed our Saix.” Chris yelled.
“Okay, the plan is simple. It will run in three phases. First the Lightning Team will use their high speed Lightning Saix to run along the outside of the base and cause turmoil and destroy any Zoids positioned around, as well as getting the attention of any possible exterior defense system. We plan to attack at night so it will harder to spot them. Phase two will consist of Brad and me blasting into the base and destroying any opposing Zoids there. Phase three will be Jason going in, finding Rachel, and escaping with her. Jason, please try not to fight in the base. We have no idea how stable the base is and it could come down, killing Rachel. If you must fight, try to end it as quickly as possible. So there we have it, our plan…Pyramid Strike!” Naomi said.
“Pyramid Strike eh? The name is lame, but the plan seems well thought out.” Jack stated possibly hurting Naomi’s feelings over the name. “One question, how do you know where this base is?”
“Rachel has a homing beacon in her blouse should something like happen. I and Brad also have one. Jason doesn’t have one, but he really doesn’t need it.” Naomi said laughing. “The base is about 40 miles southeast of here, so we don’t need the transport this time.”
“Alright, good, we will leave at 7:30 and be there by night fall.” Jason said casually
With that, everyone left to do prepare for the attack since they had two hours before the plan would be in action.
7:30 rolled around faster than expected, but everyone was outside ready to depart. The light from the moon illuminated all 6 Zoids in a spectacular manner. The group departed in two groups of three with Jason, Naomi, and Brad in the front and the Lightning Team in the back. All six Zoids made haste to get to their destination to achieve their objective.
“Do you really think this will work Crimson?” Jack asked over a link.
“Of course we will, why wouldn’t it?”
“We, The Lightning Team, don’t really know what we are getting ourselves into.”
“All you need to know is that the guy that interrupted our scheduled battle was my presumed dead brother, and he is plotting to kill me. However, I feel he has another agenda…” Jason said with his voice trailing off.
“Okay, I won’t ask anymore, let’s just get the girl back.” Jack said closing the link.
The group made their way across the desert and soon made it to Vincent’s base. The outer wall of the base was just as expected. It had many automatic turrets stationed on top that fired whenever a stranger approached. The base looked very big from a far, and gave off an ominous feeling.
“Alright, there it is, you guys ready?” Naomi asked
“Hell yea we are ready!” Jason answered for the group.
“Alright Jack, time for phase one.”
“We are good to go.” With that, Jack and the Tasker Sisters ran off at high speed towards the base. The automatic turrets immediately started to fire once they were within range. The speed of the Lightning Saix caused the turrets to miss repeated with their fire. There were four of them positioned outside the base and had to be disposed of.
“Jack, think you guys can take out those turrets?” Jason asked over a link.
“Yea, sure thing.” Jack said bringing his Zoid into good position and fired off a shot from his Pulse Laser Rifle. The Pulse Laser Rifle fired off a shot of solidified red energy toward the turret. Upon impact, the turret immediately exploded. The Tasker Sisters followed suit and destroyed turrets two and three and Jack finished off the last turret.
“Coast is clear, phase two is a go!” Jack said loud and clear and Brad and Naomi kicked into action. Naomi activated her booster and jumped up onto the wall and landed on the platform that used to house the turret. She locked turned her Zoid around into Sniper Mode and snapped down the toe locks; she was ready to go. Brad and the Fire Fox ran into the base and quickly scanned for the presence of Zoids. He would a few Command Wolves in the southwest corner of the base and made short work of them. Naomi shot down a few Helcats on her own.
“Jason, get ready to get in there!” Naomi said yelling over the link.
“Alright I am preparing. Rachel…I am coming for you.”
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“Sir! Sir! We are being attacked!” An officer stated to Vincent. Vincent was in his office sipping at a glass of wine and Keith was nearby sitting. He looked less than surprised by the news.
“Looks like Jason and his flunkies finally came. And they struck the same time we did a few nights ago…can’t they be a little original?” Keith said standing up taking a stretch. “Looks like I should head to my Konig Wolf. Jason will breakthrough any second now.”
“Alright Keith, just don’t act foolish and die out there.” Vincent said taking another sip.
“Me, die? Haha, like that will happen any time soon.” Keith laughed as he walked out the room.
“Don’t underestimate your brother Keith; he is improving by the day…” Vincent said lightly.
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“Jason, get your ass in gear!” Brad yelled to get Jason’s attention. “We aren’t risking our lives for you to be lethargic; get in there and Rachel!”
With that jolt from Brad, Jason headstrong into the base, past Naomi and Brad, and into was appeared to be a hanger. The hanger was very vast, but it did not house any Zoids, or non at the current moment at least. It had stacks upon stacks of boxes that contained Zoid parts, it was definitely a sight.
“Just where the hell do I go from here?” Jason wondered as he scanned the area.
“Looks like you are lost brother.” Keith stated stepping from behind a sliding door. His Konig Wolf looked as vicious as ever. Its blue piercing eyes stared the Zaber Fang down intensely in preparation for battle. “Just so you know, the girl is down this hallway behind me. I don’t you to get distracted in our battle because you are focused on finding her, but you will have to get past me to get to her.” Keith said readying his Zoid.
“Don’t get in my way Keith, I am just here to get her and get out. Move out of my way!” Jason said brooding.
“Like I said, you gotta get past me first!” Keith said charging at Jason. Keith closed the distance quickly between the two and lunged at Jason. Jason performed a quick dodge, evaded the attack and shot Keith with his LRPLR. Jason turned around and hit Keith with a melee attack of his own. The Konig Wolf hit a stack of boxes and the stack wobbled.
“Well now…that is interesting…” Jason said to himself noticing his surroundings.
Keith staggered back to his feet very upset at what just happened. “That was just a lucky shot that shit won’t happen again!”
“Okay, then come at me again.”
Keith charged at Jason with his DSR ready to fire. Jason activated his boosters and ran to his right and began firing his LRPLR. Shots from each back cannon hit their respective target, but as well at the surrounding area of the hanger. Jason knew he had to finish things up quickly because he didn’t want to risk Rachel’s life because of this battle. Jason continued to flank Keith to the left and right and pecking away with his cannon, using its great pivot radius to his advantage.
“Ugh! You are pissing me off!”
“Good he is getting mad, this is working to plan.”
Keith lunged at Jason and connected with a melee attack which sent Jason flying back and crashing into the ground. Jason struggled to get his feet and noticed that the boxes were now perpendicular to his right side. Keith hit Jason with a few more shots from the DSR as Jason tried getting up and lunged forward for the finishing blow.
“This is it brother, you can die now!” Keith said lunging in.
“Nope, not this time, I have a girl to save.” Jason said as he moved to his left, dodged the strike and quickly shot two shots into the side of the Konig Wolf, sending it flying into the boxes. The boxes waxed and waned, but eventually toppled and landed on the Konig Wolf.
“Ugh…you bastard…”
“Looks like I win this won Keith, I can’t kill you today…got a more important thing to take care of.” Jason said running off down the designated hallway.
Jason got to Rachel’s holding cell. Rachel was undoubtedly happy to see him there. Jason told Rachel to back away and blew to cell out. Rachel climbed up the leg of the Zaber Fang and into the cockpit, where the couple shared a short kiss, and left the base. Jason emerged from the base with Brad, Naomi, Jack, Kelly, and Chris all there waiting for him.
“About damn time man…thought I would have to bust in there and save your ass.” Jack said laughing over the link.
“Oh shut up…let’s get going.”
The six Zoids made their way back to Naomi’s slowly but surely. Something was still bothering Jason. Why exactly did Keith want to kidnap Rachel? What purpose did she have in trying to kill me?
“Rachel, what went on while you were there?”
“All he really did was question me about what you told me.”
“Really? Is that all he questioned you about?” Jason said anxiously
“Well, that and he asked me about the whereabouts of your father…”
“My father...? No…he wants to kill him too?!”
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