Leon's Blade Liger and Bit's Liger Zero charge each other, both seeking to gain victory in the Royal Cup.
Survival - The Mystery of the Ultimate X
Survival - The Mystery of the Ultimate X is episode 25 from the anime series Zoids: New Century Zero based on TOMY's Zoids model franchise.
Overview
The Royal Cup continues, however, while the contestants continue on their way, the Backdraft group shoots down the Zoid Battle Commission's Judge Satellites with their Charged Particle Cannon and replaces them with their own Dark Judge Satellites. Even the Zoid Battle Commision's Ultrasaurus is targeted, though it manages to defend itself with a large energy field. The Blitz team continues its wining streak, defeating a Gojulas to get their third victory, while the Berserk Fury cleans up a team of Red Horns. Altail, not content with letting Sarah outrank him, assigns three Genosaurers to the Fooma team in order to destroy the Berserk Fury.
Meanwhile, Harry heads out to find Leena wishing to propose to her, while the Zaber Tigers come across the Blitz team, who send Bit and Brad ahead to seek out a fifth team to fight. The Zabers are incorrectly called the "Fuzzy Pandas" team by the judge, which causes them to trip and freeze their own Zoids, gifting the victory to the Blitz team. Layon, not wanting Toros to win the Royal Cup, attacks the Hover Cargo with his Whale King, the crossfire causing Jamie to revert into his Wild Eagle personality. After this, the Berserk Fury shows up and engages Jamie and Leena. Jamie soars down to attack the Berserk Fury, but his Raynos is sliced apart by it's Buster Claws. Layon and Toros cease fire, but before the battle can continue, the Fooma team show up and take out the Judge. They quickly prepare their Charged Particle Cannons. Knowing the immense danger posed by these incredibly destructive weapons, Leena runs, but trips and is threatened to be engulfed by the colossal explosion. Harry dives in and attempts to shield her from the blast, but is thrown aside by Layon, who uses his Whale King to save both him and Leena. Vega, however, manages to survive the assault simply by using the incredibly powerful shield mounted into his Berserk Fury.
Meanwhile, Brad and Bit happen across Naomi and Leon, and the two teams enter into combat. Brad takes out Naomi by shooting through the Judge capsule (though no the Judge), while Leon blocks Bit's Buster Slash by sending his Blade Liger's shield energy into the Zoid's blades, a manoeuvre Van was renowned for. He continues to charge, but rather than repeatedly use his Buster Slash, the Liger prompts him to use the Seven Blade attack, while Leon repeats the same attack, allowing Bit to overpower the Blade Liger, although his Schneider takes heavy damage. As he does this, Layon explains that an Ultimate X is a Zoid with an Artificial Intelligence unit, which allows it to learn and adapt, although it requires a "chosen" pilot to master (it is implied that Leon's Liger is also an Ultimate X, although he is not the chose pilot). After this, Vega defeats the Genosaurers with one shot from his Charged Particle Cannon and he proceeds to the finish line, with the Blitz team (having won all five necessary battles) in close pursuit.
Characters
- Blitz Team
- Dr. Layon
- Flugel Team
- Tigers Team
- Champ Team
- Vega Obscura
- Altail
- Sarah
Zoids
- Gojulas
- Ultrasaurus
- Gun Sniper
- Shadow Fox
- Zaber Fang
- Whale King
- Hover Cargo
- Raynos
- Berserk Fury
- Genosaurer
- Iron Kong
- Gustav
Trivia
- When Bit and Leon charge at each other the final time (pictured at the top of the page), the spiralling vortex that surrounds their Ligers is the same style of animation used when Van is launched at the Deathsaurer in the final episode of Zoids: Guardian Force.
See also:Zoids: New Century Zero