"The Boy from the Ruins" "Where could he be?" "We've been looking everywhere for hours." "if he was moving we would have picked Van upon the radar screen by now." "it's possible he might be too badly injured to move." "Unless he is..." "Shut up!" "You stop that kind of talk." "Van is still alive." "And that attitude is not gonna help us find him." "But..." "But adjust your sensors and try looking a little bit harder." "He is close." "What?" "I can feel him." "He is in a lot of pain somewhere in a valley several miles to the southwest of us." "You guys!" "Stop your Zoids!" "Well now." "Not you again." "That was a close one." "I thought for sure that you were going to kill Van." "It doesn't matter to me whether he lives or dies." "It's not really important." "I will always be able to beat him." "Everytime." "You sure she meant this valley?" "Our sensors are having a hard time penetrating the strong magnetic field that permeates this valley." "there's still no reason to think that Van is somewhere down here in this fog." "Fiine's reason is good enough for me." "Love." "She loves him." "Love..." "Love?" "I've spotted the Liger." "And Sieg too." "He's pretty bad." "What about Van?" "Is there any sign of Van?" "I got to... get up." "I could be in real trouble here... The cockpit could have come open when it crashed." "But then where's Van?" "Oh no!" "Sieg says that Van fell into the river." "What did you say?" "Is he sure?" "I doubt that even Van could have survived if he went over those falls." "Where did that pessimistic attitude come from?" "I know of an Imperial base just a little ways downstream from here." "We'll contact them and request that they help us in our search for Van." " Thank you." " Come on." "Van's out there waiting for us." "A village." "Hello!" "wait." "What's with this people?" "I can't take much more of this." "Fiine and... everybody else... must all me so worried about me." "you must open the door." "It's in here." "I've been waiting for such a long time." "Fiine?" "Is that you?" "Yes." "I have reawakened to bring an end to everything." "Where am I now?" "Don't worry." "He's not gonna hurt you." "His name is T-roll." "He's the best and gentlest friend I have." "A Zoid and... a boy?" "Isn't he cute?" "Ah..." "Yeah." "Are you the one that patched me up?" "Hm." "But it was T-roll who brought you here." "I see." "Thank you." "My name is Nicholau." "Pleased to meet you." "My name is Van." "Nice to meet you too." "Van Freiheit?" "There's no doubt about it." "It's that kid." "are you saying that you've met this man before?" "Yes." "But it was a long time ago. starting with the village nearest the river." "Cancel that." "I seriously doubt that he's in this area." "this is straight from Imperial headquarters!" "Just let them know that Van Freiheit wasn't found anywhere on our unit's area." "That's all headquarters needs to know." "sir." "So what if that kid is missing?" "All that I have to say is good riddance to big trouble." "Are you sure?" "He could still ruin everything for you." "Huh?" "Freiheit is a spy." "He knows you've been extorting the villagers in this sector." "Squeezing them for money." "Scheming off the payrolls and filling your pockets." "He'll run straight back to headquarters if you let him go." "Then they'll come searching for you." "And what can I do about it?" "That's easy." "You have to find him first." "And get rid of him." "I have just contacted the Imperial headquarters..." "We must dispatch those search parties immediately." "Van Freiheit..." "We can't let him get away from us." "Nicholau?" "Sure did." "don't you?" "But the people living in the village really don't like Zoids at all." "That's not your fault." "Nicholau?" "Everybody was sure scared of something. and they bring destruction to villages and that they're not meant to be played with." "But the war is over now." "The reason they wouldn't help you is because they always think of protecting their village first." "It's not the first time they've acted like that." "but you're not like that." "Sounds like you've already figured out that Zoids aren't tools of war." "helping us with the problems we face in life." "I think you like Zoids too!" "of course." "Didn't you know that I'm a Zoid pilot?" "You think you can show me how to make T-roll work properly?" "You've asked the right guy." "Amazing!" "I think T-roll is really liking it as well." "I didn't know he could run this fast." "Wait!" "I'm still gonna show you what he's capable of." "Amazing!" "It was just like I was flying with the wind." "I know!" "That's how I've always felt about being a Zoid pilot too." "we have a report that someone matching Van Freiheit's description was seen near the village of Northends." "Excellent." "Dispatch all units." "Throughout my entire life I've been cursed by miserable fate." "But it's quite possible that fate is finally on my side today." "Everything past this river is the jurisdiction of a Captain Sephers." "I've heard some pretty bad things about this character." "BEEK." "I'd like you to pull up a detailed report on that village we're heading towards." "Access denied?" "Who would put a security block on this village?" "It was Prozen who did it?" "go ahead and override it." "Ten years ago a Republican archaeological survey unit attacked the village of Northends in Imperial territory." "Their objective... was to capture an ancient Zoidian girl?" "I've dreamed about running like that with T-roll." "you've made that dream come true to me." "I don't know how to thank you." "There's gonna be lots of chances for you to run." "You've definitely got the instincts of a great Zoid pilot." "Take my word for it." "What's wrong?" "A pilot." "That girl said I'd be one too." "And I told her that one of these days I'd give her a ride on my Zoid." "What girl?" "She'd never hurt anybody in her entire life." "She's only a scared little kid like me." "And then the war came here." "What the...?" "The village!" "I am Captain Sephers of the Imperial Army." "We have received reports that a dangerous criminal from the Republic has sought shelter in this particular village." "The man we're looking for is Van Freiheit." "This nefarious criminal must be turned over to me immediately." "If you do not hand him over I'll be forced to lay waste to your traitorous little village." "But that's not fair!" "We never let strangers into the village." "That's right!" "We're telling you the truth!" "Even this morning we didn't allow that..." "That's your problem." "My men will wait one hour." "Produce Freiheit or we will burn your village right down to the ground." "That is all!" "are we really going to fire on them if he can't be found?" "Yes." "Once we attack the village he'll appear quick enough." "We're waiting for this." "we'll eliminate him." "B-But..." "You know as well as I do how much we've squeezed out of these villages." "We cannot let him get out of here." "Not matter how many pathetic villages we have to burn." "you will be safer back at the ruins." "Wait." "Are you gonna fight these guys?" "That's right." "I have to protect the village." "But all those people wouldn't even help you before." "You're right." "I don't understand them." "But..." "It certainly doesn't mean I'm not gonna do my best to help them out." "this will show them that the good guys have Zoids as well." "Your time is up." "We swear we don't know where the person you're looking for is." "our village was destroyed ten years ago." "And we've never really recovered." "Have mercy on us!" "Your sad little story doesn't really concern me." " Prepare to burn it down!" " Hold it!" "I'm right here." "I thought I'd take one of your Red Raptors for a little spin." "You bastard!" "That's one of our Zoids." "You've been calling me such a big criminal that I thought I'd steal something worthwhile." "It looks like you've grown up a little bit." "you've still got that same cocky attitude!" "Captain Sephers." "I'd have to say you've grown a bit since we last saw each other too." "that is." "because today is the day I take my revenge on you." "All units..." "Fire!" "Would it be easier for you if I painted a target on myself?" "Deploy blades!" "then how can it be so much faster?" "but he's all alone." "Surround him and drive him into the village." "Cut off!" "There's no room to maneuver here." "Why that young man there is protecting the village?" "Damn!" "Those shots took out the engines." "he's helpless." "Finish him off!" "What's wrong?" "Get him." "the villagers are all shielding him." "We're not gonna let you kill him." "We will not let it happen again!" "In the past we made a terrible mistake when we chose not to protect that other boy." "But this time we will protect our village!" "It's now time to show a little bit of courage and stand up for ourselves." "Not to protect other boy?" "Begone!" "We are no longer afraid of your soldiers." "Then you leave me no options." "We're going to demolish your village with all of you in it." "Everyone get out of the way." "He's serious." "At least we'll die with our dignity and pride intact." "What?" "Somebody's shooting at us?" "but here you are having yourself a nice little party." "Damn it!" "I am placing you under arrest by the authority invested in me by the Guardian Force." "I'm afraid we have to give up." "You really think I'm going to surrender." "I've a better plan." "I'm going to take all of you with me to hell!" "That takes care of Captain Loser and all of his buddies and Red Raptors." "Fiine." "I hope you didn't worry too much about me." "I wasn't really all that worried." "I could sense that everything was OK." "you know." "I'm not crying." "In fact I'm extremely happy for everybody specially Miss Fiine." "he was nothing more than an old hound dog." "I've been waiting and waiting for all of you to gather in this particular little village." "And it will become your final resting place." "Die!" "It can't be!" "Teese..." "Why..." "Why... did you save them?" "Nicholau..." "So you're saying the boy who helped you out lived here in these ruins?" "That's right." "considering he was just a kid." "I'm afraid there's no such child in our village." "But I..." "I'm not sure I understand." "I'm pretty sure that's an old Hellcat." "but this Zoid hasn't functioned in a really long time." "I'm sure I met him right here!" "His name is Nicholau." "We talked all about Zoids." "Ten years ago a boy named Nicholau died in this village." "Ten years ago?" "But I saw him." "a boy did die here." "He was killed ten years ago by the republicans who were attacking the village." "It also said he brought an ancient Zoidian girl he'd found back to the village." "But there were no more entried after that." "The boy's death was all our fault." "In our cowardice we all wanted to hand that young girl over to the army in return for sparing our village." "Only Nicholau resisted then." "I just don't understand why he helped me." "That boy sure loved Zoids." "He always dreamed of becoming a Zoid pilot one day." "He would draw pictures of Zoids and pretend to play with them." "It was just like I was flying with the wind." "Looks like you missed an opportunity to kill Van yourself." "What?" "Did you come here to laugh at me?" "No." "I didn't mean that at all." "drop it." "Preview" "The Blade Liger's check up." "Propulsion system: check." "Weapon system: check." "Armor recovery at one hundred percent: check." "All systems seem to be operating normally." "But something is not right." "There are still some improvements I'd like to make." "I only hope Sieg doesn't take it too personally." "Zoids episode 52:" "Van's New Power." "Van's New Power" "See you on the battlefield."