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[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Yes! YES!"

In the hangar, amongst the various vehicles and machines that line the expansive room, Lord Zedd had found something he had been looking for for the longest time: Serpentera. Exposed within the damaged area from KAIN's attempt to kill Sasami, the head of the massive Warzord stood exposed and, at its base, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of Evil", excited to see his weapon of mass destruction on board the ship. From the angle where he was looking at, though, it was hard to see just how big the thing was, especially since it was laying down.

"So, it seems not everything has been lost. Serpentera still stands, thus I still have some sort of power here." Zedd said. At that moment, a few of Zedd's Z-Putties started to flank him. "Putties! Guard Serpentera. I'm certain Billy's told everyone about me by now. I refuse to let anyone take advantage of that. If they're going to win this 'war', they're gonna need my help! Like it or not!"

With that, Zedd began pacing the Hangar, eying various leftover vehicles in an attempt to see what would make excellent monsters.

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[twilit-midna.livejournal.com]

Oh, look at that. A funny-looking man in a silly costume, plotting someone's demise. Midna simply had to find out what this was about.

She floated up, banging on Serpentera's flank with one delicate fist. "So. What's this hunk of junk?"

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"That, my friend, is Serpentera." Zedd said. "My Warzord and the answer to all of our troubles!"

Making sure the Putties didn't attack immediately, Zedd continued. "This machine has enough firepower to destroy a world. I'll make those Ohm regret ever making their presence known!"

[twilit-midna.livejournal.com]

Give that man some ham.

Midna continued examining Serpentera, looking skeptical. "A Warzord? Well, it's big and ugly, all right, but wouldn't a real dragon be better? Can it even breathe fire?"

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Bah!" Zedd scoffed. "Can dragons destroy whole worlds in one breath? I think not!"

Most dragons don't run out of power so quickly.

[twilit-midna.livejournal.com]

"Eee hee hee! Whole worlds, huh? Sounds scary." She lowered herself down closer to Zedd, not quite in arm's reach.

"But something as big as this always has a weakness. You know what they say: they bigger they are..."

[thewunderkind]

Lash had been busy in the hanger herself, trying to see if there were more of her Neotanks to be found when Zedd's delightful whispered sounds of joy (aka overly grandiose villain voice) echoed so far to reach her ears.

"Serpentina..." she repeated, rubbing her hand against her chin. This, of course, would require her to tell the others and...oh who are we kidding, she was already waltzing over there like nothing was wrong and peered thought the putties to see what they were looking at.

"Hey that's a pretty big dragon!" Seriously, she was expecting a SNAKE or something with a name like that. Probably with a giant Z on it.

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

Well, giant dragon's close enough. No Z, though!

"It is! It's bigger than anything else in this place!" Zedd said. "This... this is what will earn us our victory. That I'm sure!" He stopped and blinked (if he could) "Wait..." He turned back to see Lash there, though he still didn't put two and two together yet.

[thewunderkind]

It wasn't your fault really Z. Being once on the 'bad' side herself, Lash had a good idea how these villains acted (Sturm was pretty prima donna when he wanted). The first thing she had done after Billy's message was to high anything yellow-related clothing she might have and cover up her items with large sleeves of her coat.

"Eh, I've seen some other bigger things in here," she said shrugging, gently pushing a Putty out of the way to poke at it. ""What does it run on? Gas? Fire? The souls of dead children?"

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

The Putty looked at Lash confusingly as she went to poke at the giant machine.

"Something's that's way beyond your understanding. Though frankly, if I could, I'd replace it with something stronger."

[thewunderkind]

It's cool Putty. You could almost be bros.

"Yeah yeah yeah, I know the whole thing and how it goes," she took on Sturms robotic voice. "Miserable worms, tremble underneath my feet and my inventions you simply cannot understand," then on to the outright silly. "Oh! By the way Lash, could you possibly please make me a new weapon or something?"

She snickered and hit the metal to see how much it echoed.

"Pretty strong material, I'll give you that. What does it do? Does it shoot lasers?"

Lasers were cool.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

She had been waiting. It would have been smart of her to be sleeping, but she had business right now. It started by accessing the situation. Those...whatever they were, looked pretty sturdy. She didn't have a lot of time to be fighting them, so she figured she would have to go for a weak spot.
It was hard to not notice the big Z's on their chest. She would try that first, though that seemed far too stupid and simple to actually be the solution. She would have to be certain though.

It was obvious that this had to be dealt with, soon. Billy was her Bonded, Ronnae was her friend and he was threatening them, the same as Azula. Those thoughts drove her purpose. It was time to make a stand, to show these s-called major villains that they were not going to victimize people anymore.

She came at the putties with her mask on, going straight the the Z's. The training Sheeana gave her made her cold and quiet, directing force with a single blow, enough to know the enemy completely out of commission. In this case, they work well, and she was making her way silently toward Lord Zedd.

It was time she made something clear.

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

The first Putty went down pretty quickly, exploding with its great force. The others would follow suit. However, it wouldn't let her get away with being too quiet.

"Hrrn... who's there?!" Zedd snapped, turning as he heard the Putties' disappearance. Someone was here. "What's wrong, Billy? Decided to take care of me once and for all?!"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya wasted no time, and rose, high in the air. She let loose ice shards from her fingertips with a lethal throw, taking out several of them. She would be nowhere near as accurate as Mai, but it would get the job done. The putties were falling, and she was now in viewing range of Lord Zedd.

He looked like something of a nightmare, and his chrome seemed to give a malignant shine. But Kaya cared about one of this.

"Not Billy," she said, but I'm here to take a message to you, in his defense."

And she ran toward him.

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Well, then. Let me give him a message back." Zedd said, turning in the direction of where Kaya was. "Don't try something foolhardy against someone like me."

With that, he raised his Z-Staff and fired a burst of lightning.

[memory-hax.livejournal.com]

There was a roar of a motorcycle as a young man pulled up on it, wearing a helmet and a pair of gloves. He gazed at the massive head of Serpentera and remarked "That's quite the machine. How interesting."

Hoping that Hoshi wouldn't get mad at him for being released before she did, he stepped forward, book cradled in his hand as he brought his fingers up near his lips, examining it, and the skinless man who just screamed "bad news". And yet, curiosity won out and Phillip inquired, "How much ordinance does it carry?"

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Enough to obliterate an entire planet. That is, if some people learned to keep the thing charged up!" Zedd said, not caring who the person was at the moment. At the very least, he wasn't trying to pick a fight. Not yet at least.

[memory-hax.livejournal.com]

"Hmm," said Phillip with a nod, approaching Serpentera and reaching out, rapping the metal hide once. "Good sturdy material, incredible aesthetic design... I must learn more about it!"

Turning towards Zedd, and frankly not caring that he screamed evil, he began to pester him with questions. "How fast does it run? Sublight or warp speed? Engine drive, how much energy does it take? How often can you use it at maximum capacity?"

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Do I look like Albert Einstein to you?!" Zedd snapped at Phillip's questions. "All I know is is that it can travel the galaxy in a matter of minutes and that it can run as long as possible as long as it didn't overexert itself!"

Really, that's about as much as he could figure out. Or remembered.

[be-a-warmachine.livejournal.com]

Zedd may or may not have passed the big blue tyrannosaurus-shaped mech (http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/ohmypteras/59-129.png) on his prowl through the hangar. It stood there placidly enough, as unmoving as any machine ought to be, but anyone coming near it might have gotten the impression that it - or something - was staring at them.

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

And, indeed, Zedd did have the feeling that something was watching him. And he didn't like it. Who or what it was, he couldn't tell. For the moment, he decided to brush it off.

[expendable-mind.livejournal.com]

Having given Lil her exploration through town, 779 and Miguel made their way to the hangar in hopes to spot his Wraith fighter.

In their search however he hears Zedd being all loud like in the Obs deck during pod pop. He looks up at the mech and raises an eyebrow.

"Don' ya think it's unnecessary big? Not to mention the design looks... flimsy."

[Dude that shit looks like something out of a cheap earth cartoon man. Bigger ass bigger target yo.] The second voice came from a doll in his side bag. Said doll was sporting a sombrero, an eyepatch and a green '1-up' shirt.

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

A slight snarl left Zedd as he heard the two talking down towards his machine.

"It may look flimsy and it may big a big target, but I guarantee that it's far from the truth!" Zedd reassured

[expendable-mind.livejournal.com]

"Yeah yeah, looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But it looks like it might fall over from a Thor's 250mm cannons. Won't even say what a Odin could do.... Have you thought about upgrading it?" Splicer was now relaxing against one of tool chests in the hangar, looking up at the mech.

[Why waste you're time homey? Might as well buy a new ride with the credits you'll throw into fixin' up that heap.]

[not-edd.livejournal.com]

"Upgrading?" Zedd said, a curious tone in his voice. He couldn't help but let out a thoughtful hum as he actually took that into consideration.

[cow-abunga.livejournal.com]

Cowabunga, in the midst of reprogramming his Zaku to integrate with the Tactical Arms II-C, looked up as Zedd started shouting.

"Is that thing even worth guarding? I mean, even from here I can tell that thing's a massive power-hog. Probably runs out of fuel in under 5 minutes. Strategically speaking we'd be better off rendering it for parts. Or blowing it in the middle of an Ohm army..."