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The agonizing screams grew louder and louder and the temperature became more erratic. Blistering, freezing, blistering, freezing, never once did it come to a comfortable middle.

"Confirming alliance, it sees ZOID as Zutnic." Zutnic's voice whispered over the link.

Jury hissed than moved its head slightly to the side. As it moved the information stopped appearing on the screen than the screen vanished all together. Shun was once again left to the darkness, only this time his worst nightmares were left to run wild. Eerie noises, strange and dark things drifting about outside the canopy.

Another screech and the Jury swung its head at the Zaber's side. Luckily it was not with all the ZOID's force, but it was still enough swing to send the ZOID to its side should it hit.

Jury hissed at the ZOID once it got back to its feet. Luckily, it did nothing more to the ZOID before turning around and walking away.

The fog slowly lifted from the area revealing the setting sun. As the story goes with any Jury encounter, there were no traces of the massive ZOID to be seen. The ground was seemingly untouched other than the Zaber's own prints. Jury's encounter seemed like nothing more than a nightmare. It seemed surreal.

Shun was now among the very few to have survived the Jury, and the only one to not have his memory completely altered. Aside Nick that is.

Everything that went on in the temple up until the Black fog was clear, all but Nick's appearance. In the memory she would appear as she did before the Judge incident, how she was when in the military. *[Blond hair], a scar-less face, and even two regular human arms and eyes. The slight alteration would no doubt cause some parts of the memory to become confusing. *(Pardon the messiness of the old old art)

After the point when Shun tried to free Nick from the wall everything would seem like a bad dream, nothing about it felt real.

Inside the temple there were no traces of the ZOID or strikers ever being there. It was as hollow as the entrance. The Statue had been smashed to where only its feet remained.

Zutnic lept back on the ZOID quickly before it had a chance to take off. The Jury's slight blow had knocked it clean off the Zaber's neck. It was still confused why the death father had not done away with the human. It knew he was there...

"Human still alive?"

What appeared to be a red blade GunSniper could be seen bolting away in the distance. It was too far for even the Zaber to see the details, but it had the GS shape with long blades tucked to its side.

Zutnic shook his head than rest his chin on the ZOID.
"Mission good still than..."

He paused, unsure of what Shun meant by his question. He had never had anyone ask before. Of course he was the first of the strikers to break free of being a mindless drone.

"Zutnic good too." He dug his claws in deeper for a better grip. "Zutnic want to come with human still, messenger told Zutnic to watch human, Zutnic still do that..."

Blaze had caught Nick's signal and followed it here, but he was a bit to late. The pilot-less ZOID noticed the imperial fang and turned to face it. The origional blaze was colored like a regular republic GS, save for the Imperial emblem on its right arm. Kagi had given him his new color during the change. Not to mention his larger size. These details were hard to tell from the distance he was at in any case.

Blaze reactivated his cloaking causing him to vanish completely from sight and radar.

"Human not tell Zutnic name... Zutnic only call human what Zutnic knows..." The striker huffed.

"But message, messenger say don't worry and thank you... Messenger say she not meet such a fine soldier till now... Messenger also tell Zutnic to tell human to be careful, do not mention death father or strikers to armys. Lead them to certain death is what it does." Zutnic paused as he tried to recall the message. The sudden jar had confused him slightly.

"Ah, Zutnic know there is more... be weary. Something is not right in 'air'..." He paused again. The rest of the message would not surface in his mechanical memory.

"Zutnic remember rest later..."

"Shkun..." Zutnic clicked. "Zutnic remember and stay hidden. But stay close. Sometime..."

He couldn't promise to be there all the time. It had been a very long time since he had seen the world outside that temple, centuries in fact, curiosity happens.

It would also be the first time he was not receiving messages from the 'queen bee'.

-Zutnic would say so... but at same time... Zutnic under think strange strange strange organoid. Zutnic have to keep eye on strange organoid too... be it exciting.- He spoke to the organoid directly.

Blaze continued to watch the ZOID from his cloak. There was a familiar signature coming from it... though not strong. His target already was elsewhere, but it was very curious.

Blaze sent a signal to the familiar and waited for a response before turning back around and heading on his way. Zutnic paused and contemplated what was said by the other ZOID. He than hastily sent a signal back to the ZOID.

The Zabers controls would flicker as the messages were exchanged. A screen full of code would pop up to the side of Shun very briefly before vanishing again.

-Zutnic not know what to call strange... just strange. Like human is now know Shkun- He clicked. -Zutnic not all knowing like great mother...-

-Shkun took eye, not crushed my head... So messenger would call me that in the case of not being aware of Zutnic identity...- Obviously he had a very different concept of naming.

Once the crew came into the view of the base Zutnic crawled under the back armor of the ZOID. It was a convenient spot to hide...

Shun would be greeted by several officers, his temple fiasco had taken longer than any of them had expected. Not to mention he had missed his check in.

Each one would be very eager to hear the story.