Sleeper Trap

Synopsis

After saving the village from the Desert Alcavaleno Gang, the Shield Liger had some pretty serious damage. Van almost has a heart-attack when he finds out that Fiona ate his Papaya. A little while after that, they meet a sassy girl called Moonbay. She checks out his Shield Liger and sees that the front-back leg had some missile damage on it. They talk until a couple of sleeper Guysacks attack them. With Moonbay's Gustav weighted down by the heavy load, she can not put any weapons on it. Just then, Irvine comes and saves the day again by destroying all of the Guysacks except one that managed to slip by and cause him some damage. Moonbay finds a good place to camp out for the night, an ancient fortress base. Both the Command Wolf and the Shield Liger had taken on pretty serious damage. Irvine gets suspicious and asked Moonbay if her cargo had any Imperial firepower. Moonbay verified that and told Irvine that it was all loaded with Imperial arms and that they would explode if anything hid it. At dinner, Van tells Moonbay and Irvine what they have been doing. Van, Fiona and Zeke go off for a treasure hunt and wind up swimming. During his swim, Van finds the remains of a Zoid. Irvine goes to get his electromagnetic whip to get Zeke and just then more sleeper Guysacks start attacking. Irvine figures that it was a sleeper trap. The Guysacks they fought earlier were just decoys that led them into the ruins so that they could be surrounded very easily. The remains that Van saw were one of its captured prey that the sleepers successfully defeated. Moonbay took her cargo and went out the back with Van while Irvine made a complete 360 and came around. There is a fierce battle with just two zoids against more than a battalion of sleepers. Moonbay drives half of them her way. Then Van and Irvine show up again but this time Moonbay decides to jettison her cargo and she leaves. When the Guysacks start attacking the ammunition it blows them all up. Moonbay returns and asked Van to be her protector. (Source: Wikipedia)