After Van and Thomas fight off the Helcats in the mountains across the border, Van gets word from his superiors that there are zoid hunters that are taking sleeper zoids because now that the war is over, they can take zoids and no one would notice. Also a whole battalion of sleepers were taken a couple of days ago. Anyway, the zoid hunters strike and unknowingly capture a sleeper Rev Raptor, Van is hiding in. Thomas tries to stop them, but the new recruit to the zoid hunting team, a very familiar Command Wolf to us takes out Thomas with one shot. Then they capture the Rev Raptor and go back to base. Later, Van gets out of the Rev Raptor and searches the Whale King to see if he could find anything to whats going on. He gets seen by one of the members of the zoid hunters and runs around a bit until he is caught by Irvine. Van is placed in a cell and later Irvine goes to check up on him. All the while, Thomas was stranded in the middle of nowhere.