"what should we tell him?" "I guess we'll just have to be honest with him." "Even Doctor D is throwing in the towel." "But maybe it just looks worse than it really is." "The Zoid Core was hit with a fatal blow." "That's like the heart." "It's over." "The Command Wolf is dying." "0)}The Black Lightning" "neighbor." "Good morning." "We've received a report of sighting of a red Zoid that appears to be the Geno Breaker in sector E32." "There's nothing out there but farmland." "Is that Geno Breaker in some kind of sightseeing tour?" "it's certainly enough to make people nervous." "Raven's just rubbing it in." "He's laughing at how powerless we are." "The Empire and the Republic will be holding an emergency summit conference." "It's hard to believe that all of this is happening because of just one Zoid." "Doctor D?" "there's something I'd like to show you." "Doc?" "This is an ultra high speed Zoid that I've been secretly developing for the Empire." "I call it the Lightning Saix." "Lightning Saix?" "My research of the ancient Zoidians led me to discover a templed of their technology which I was able to recreate here." "Ancient Zoidian technology? it should be able to put up a fight against the Geno Breaker." "but this was what you're up to." "I'd rather see a trial than hear about its capabilities in theory." "That's the idea." "OK." "All your readings are five by five but if there's a problem aboard." "Copy that." "All right." "Let the trial begin." "Beginning trials." "Mobilize." "You certainly found a good pilot for your test run." "that Zoid sure is fast." "All admit to that much." "I'd have to say its bare capabilities are not much different from those of the Command Wolf." "do you?" "The true extent of the Lightning Saix's capabilities remain unknown. but the Lightning Saix itself is actually being held back by the pilot's limitations." "There's a safety device built into it that prevents it from operating faster than the pilot can safely handle." "it's actually being powered down!" "Powered down?" "At that speed?" "Pilot conditions normal." "Prepare to launch anti-Zoid guiding missiles." "Launch!" "No way!" "It just disappeared." "it didn't." "Using its ultra high speed combined with holographic technology it was able to present the illusion that it disappeared." "That Zoid has been really improved." "All right." "End of trial." "Wh-What's the matter?" "the pilot has lost consciousness." "What?" "!" "How could that be?" "Wake up if you can hear me!" "That's an order!" "Open your eyes!" "wake up!" "Eject the pilot!" "You had us worried." "Don't you think it's better if you stayed in bed for a while?" "Irvine." "But the Command Wolf... it's... this guy was always a rough one to handle." "it sure did take me a while to get the hang of him." "I'd say we got along pretty well. his controls would kind of fight me a little." "Isn't that weird?" "You and me sure earned a hip of prize money together." "pal?" "I'm sorry." "But could you guys just leave me with him?" "OK." "Poor Irvine." "He's gonna give up being a Zoid pilot." "old friend." "I'll stay with you till the very end." "I promise." "please." "we have just entered Imperial air space." "Thank you very much for the report." "It looks like we'll arrive without being spotted by the enemy." "I'm afraid I wouldn't count on that." "The heads of state of both nations are meeting together in one place." "Yet your security is unbelievably careless." "Who are you?" "It's a great pleasure to finally meet you." "I thought you should know that the presidential aircraft headed to the Empire for the summit conference has just disappeared." "What?" "But how?" "Madam President!" "sir." "And you're sure that the Madam President was traveling in a Hammerhead?" "I'm sure." "Then maybe they had to make an emergency landing." "Let's spread out and do a search." "this is really not good." "Do you think you're gonna be able to fix it?" "The damage to the body will be easy enough to fix but the problem is with the memory bank." "Memory bank?" "That's where all the combat data is stored." "Exactly." "The combat data stored in the Lightning Saix is completely lost because of all the damage to the memory bank." "why couldn't you just reprogram it?" "Because it took us three months to program it the first time. the Lightning Saix will not operate without possibly hurting another pilot!" "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to take it out on you." "Maybe you just tried to move too fast." "Because the Command Wolf isn't OK." "Wait!" "That's it!" "What I think about all the times you've saved my hide." "I just wish there was a way I could help you in return." "Irvine." "I've come up with a new way to save the Command Wolf." "How?" "By transplanting the Command Wolf's memory bank combat data to the Lightning Saix." "Transplant?" "That's right." "saving them both." "So?" "There's no time to waste." "We have to deal with this before it's too late to save the Command Wolf's memory bank." "old man!" "You're just a mad scientist!" "I won't hand him over for any of your weird experiments!" "The Command Wolf's memory bank in the Lightning Saix could save us all." "Please." "Shut up!" "Doctor D!" "What's wrong with you?" "How would you guys know how I feel anyway?" "Irvine." "You might be right about that." "Maybe I don't know how you feel." "But are you so sure that you know how he feels? and he just might be looking for a little payback even if it meant he had to be reborn as another Zoid?" "If it were me I'd feel a little more open to the possibility." "I'm begging you." "Hurry!" "There's no time left!" "Oh no." "I know you." "Lieutenant Schubaltz." "just take me." "Release the others right now. but you're the one who is tied up and I'm the one who is free to do what I want." "Now get up." "It's time to go." "Be extremely careful with that." "Our entire future could be at stake here. the two Republican Pterasses and the two Storm Sworders that were providing air support make up the wreckage." "Preliminary findings indicate that they were brought down by missiles from the Hammerhead carrying the Madam President. nor have the whereabouts of the aircraft been determined yet. a unit of Republican Zoids has headed this way." "They did not respond." "Also it has been confirmed by identification number that one of the Zoids in the group is a Dibison assigned to Lieutenant Thomas Richard Schubaltz of the Guardian Force." "Lieutenant Schubaltz?" "That's right." "We have also been able to confirm that are ten Gun Snipers approaching in the group." "But the republicans are denying any knowledge of the registration or movements of that unit." "I've found it." "Madam President!" "Van!" "Defuse the bomb!" "Where is the President?" "Please try to contact them again?" "It's the Madam President!" "She's in the Dibison." "you must attack the Dibison immediately!" "The enemy's objective is to destroy the leadership of both nations." "This Dibison has fallen into enemy hands." "destroy it immediately!" "There has to be another... just..." "No!" "Madam President!" "we must attack." "The enemy the President told us about will succeed soon if we don't put up a fight." "But the Madam President is on that Dibison and while she's in the Empire it's our duty to ensure her safety." "Then I'll accept full responsibility." "But... then the leadership of both nations will fall today." "Return fire." "You can't be serious." "We've gotta run some tests with the Lightning Saix first." "you know?" "This is the closest base and the Lightning Saix is the only thing we have that will operate." "We'll do the testing in actual combat." "I can't guarantee that the transplant of memory bank from the Command Wolf will work properly." "old man?" "Do what you want!" "You forgot this!" "Thank you." "The Lightning Saix is having trouble accepting the Command Wolf's combat data." "Irvine!" "At that rate the body will be torn apart!" "Damn it!" "Come on!" "Command Wolf!" "You and me are back!" "It's a miracle!" "Stage 2 mobilize." "Your Highness!" "Homalef." "Is everyone safe now?" "You're all too slow." "OK." "It's time for you to hand the President back now." "What?" "!" "Damn!" "I can't see him through this smoke!" "Hold it!" "no!" "He's gonna go right over the cliff." "pal." "I'm impressed." "they sure do keep it interesting." "Looks like Irvine is gonna do just fine with his new Zoid." "it's almost like the Command Wolf has been brought back to life." "But doesn't that thing actually belong to the Empire?" "but I promise not to tell anybody if you don't." "Lightning Saix." "Preview" "Raven." "What happened in your past to make you hate Zoids so much?" "Do you even know?" "Is the answer locked deep inside your mind?" "The Guardian Force trains for the inevitable battle against the Geno Breaker." "Meanwhile Raven and Shadow are confronted by Reese and the Geno Saurer." "Reese unlocks Raven's painful memories of the past." "Zoids episode 49:" "The Distant Stars." "The Distant Stars"