This episode begins with Van running a test in the Blade Liger. Moonbay, Fiona, Thomas and Irvine are observers. The Liger's speed and performance surprises Irvine. Fiona explains that she has done an upgrade on the Liger and now the Liger can almost match the Lightning Saix in speed. When Van completes the test and returns to the base he thanks Fiona for the upgrade and Moonbay pouts (quite prettily) because she helped too. Laughing Van thanks both his friends for their assistance. Fiona then presents to Thomas a circuit board that will provide the D-Bison a one-shot protection against the GenoBreaker's particle beam. As usual Thomas goes red faced and starts to stammer his thanks at receiving such a gift etc.. before Fiona drops a bombshell and offers an identical circuit board to Irvine. You could feel Thomas' jaw drop from here to eternity. 

The team is then interrupted by the Colonel. He explains that he has bad news, that the Imperial Research Lab developing the Lightning Saix has been destroyed. The totality and pattern of the destruction indicates that it is the GenoBreaker. Even worse is that the GenoBreaker's trail of destruction is headed in our heroes way. As the Colonel leaves he asks Fiona to meet with him later at his office. 

Scene break to Hiltz and Ryss who are surveying the potential battlefield where the GenoBreaker will probably meet our valiant forces. Ryss asks why Hiltz wants to force Raven and Van into a showdown. She also hints that there is something mysterious at the way the G.Breaker has changed its colors to red from the GenoSaurer's blue/black and it might be something to do with Ambient, Hiltz's organoid. Hiltz tells Ryss she should now. It seems that Hiltz only wants someone to win and doesn't care who it is. 

Back in the Colonel's office, Fiona is shocked when the Colonel asks her to remove the enhancements she has made to the Liger. He explains that the increased speed of the Liger made it difficult to maintain the attack formation and that the safest place for the Liger is at the rear of the formation. This is because it will have the lowest probability of getting hit. He then goes on and asks Fiona to remove the shield circuitry from the Lightning Saix and the D-Bison. He explains that the circuitry has the potential to cause tremendous energy drains on Zoids power systems and increases the probability of Zoid malfunctions like command system freezes and miscalculation of energy levels. Fiona tells him that without the shield circuitry, Thomas and Irvine could die and refuses to do it. The Colonel tells Fiona that he is willing to sacrifice everyone to destroy the GenoBreaker, and it has to be done here. He gives her a final chance to remove it or he'll orders someone else to do it. Then he throws a curve ball, suggesting that Fiona joins his own special unit in researching Ancient Zoidians and organoids. Fiona storms out saying she'll handle the removal of the circuitry. 

The G.Breaker is sighted approaching the base and our heroes roll out to meet him. Raven is surprised that they sent only 3 Zoids. Irvine and Van charges out.. surprise surprise, the Liger keeps up with the Saix. Obviously Fiona did not undo her enhancements. The Colonel back at the observation post glares at Fiona but is surprised as the team manages to maintain the attack formation. 

Irvine attacks the G.Breaker but his rounds do no damaged. It seems only the Liger's blades can do damage. So Thomas launches a Megalo-Max and the G.Breaker disappears in a mass of explosions. The dust clears and we find that he missed, the G.Breaker has taken to the air. Raven then lands the G.Breaker and directs a charge particle blast at the D-Bison. Thomas frantically activates the shield, it seems that when told by Fiona to remove it, he refused saying that it was a gift to him by Fiona and that the Colonel has no right etc.. The shield withstands the particle beam with Thomas giving thanks to Fiona. . When Van attempts to drive the Liger at the G.Breaker, Raven uses the retractable claw of the G.Breaker to draw the Liger off balanced. 

Irvine steps in with the Saix, easily dodging the G.Breakers claw with the Saix mobility but gets too close. The G.Breaker fires off another particle beam but Irvine ups his shield! He too refused to take off the circuitry saying he's not of the republican forces and that the colonel knows nothing about fighting. The shield holds and in the meantime Van attempts to shoot the foot locks of the G.Breaker. Raven wises up to the team tactics and takes the G.Breaker up into the air. Van once again drives the Liger up to attack the G.Breaker and succeeds in slicing off one of the foot locks. 

Believing that Raven can't use his particle cannon, the Colonel orders the rest of the Republican forces to attack. The attack force drops their stealth shielding and lobs in enough ammo to level a small mountain. When the smoke clears the G.Breaker is not damaged. It's shield withstood the attack. Raven, being extremely pissed off then shows that the G.Breaker does not need to be on the ground to fire the particle cannon. He does a 360degree strafe of the Gondolas wiping out the entire attack force and leaving only our 3 heroes. 

Seeing that, Van attacks Raven once again, but this time Raven is prepared and grabs the Liger. He then ascends into the sky and drops the Liger onto the ground. A stunned Van barely manages to trigger the Liger's shields as Raven fires the particle cannon at point blank range. The Liger survives the blast but as Irvine and Thomas tries to help they find that their zoids have problems. The shield circuitry they used caused the D-Bison to miscalculate the amount of ammo remaining so Thomas has run out of ammo and can't attack. The Lightning Saix suffered a command system freeze. So the Colonel was right after all!!!  

Van challenges Raven "Mano a Mano" (his words) and leads the G.Breaker away to the edge of a ravine. There he attempts to attack Raven using the same attack that he used against the G.Saurer. In the meantime, Fiona exits the command centre and heads out in a Reddler. Unfortunately for Van, against the particle beam which Raven pushed to the max, the Liger has insufficient power, the shield holds but the Liger is pushed backwards and flung off the cliff.. 

The cliff hanger ending (pun intended) showed Fiona's Reddler hovering above the ravine with her calling out... "VAN!!!!!"

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