Zero Revived
Prologue
The wind battered my face like sandpaper; an incessant tapping ran in my ears as the larger granules of sand and debris hit my helmet. The explosion of Ragnarok had immobilized me; my arms and legs had been shredded and are probably now dust in the air. My eye sight flickers this is a clear sign of damage to my visual components. The loss of functionality felt odd. I thought of Ciel; I knew I would never see her again, these were my last moments. I knew what was going to had been killed thus my job was done. I lay in the sand staring up at Ragnarok's fragments watching them burn as they entered the atmosphere. I close my eyes forever.
Chapter 1 / Genesis
My eyes had opened once again, I was alone in appeared to be an old med-bay. This somewhat empty room was no larger than twelve-by-six feet; it was lit by poorly over head lamps I glanced to my lower right there on a table there sat numerous miscellaneous parts were just scattered across a stainless steel table. I then proceeded to glace to the left, on another steel table lay what appeared to be my limbs, but there's no way that they had survived. I look harder and I see on my right leg that there are shiny new mechanisms being attached. I cannot move my head it is being kept in place by a loose vice. I stared straight forward and in my view stood a large iron door, a green light dimly lit above the door, it flashes twice; someone is entering.
The door slid open quickly, in walked Cerveau; he was too busy analyzing a clipboard to notice I was booted up. Cerveau is a reploid who has been around for quite some time, he is around my height. He has been my trusty engineer over the years crafting weapons and upgrades for me for awhile now; He has been a friend of mine ever since I met him, I'm lucky to have a good engineer like him. "Hey" I said as I gave him a smirk, Cerveau looked around the room before he looked to me. "Z-…Zero" he dropped his clipboard onto the metal panels that lined the floor resulting in a loud clank. "I knew you would reboot eventually but… not this soon." I give him a puzzled look. "I haven't even finished refining your new parts!" he exclaimed as he walked to the work bench on my left, he exposed openings in my limbs that had slots for parts. "It seems we have a lot of catching up to do, don't we?" I said "It would seem that way… Zero…. It's good to have you back." He placed his hand on my shoulder sincerely "It's good to be back" I smiled. "Give me a moment; I'll be right back I must inform Rocinolle." Rocinolle is also a reploid; she specializes in helping wounded reploids, I wasn't surprised one of the first people Cerveau would tell I was awake was her, She excelled in helping Cerveau many times in the past. Cerveau scurried to the back of the room and out the door. I waited only a few moments before Rocinolle walked in with Cerveau following behind. "Zero… so he wasn't joking." Rocinolle grinned "I told you I wasn't!" mumbled Cerveau "Rocinolle it's good to see you again, what's the situation?"
"Well I think you can see how much work we still have to do" She pointed to the table on my left "I understand... can you send Ciel to see me?" I asked. The room fell silent, Rocinolle and Cerveau looked at each other nervously "She's gone…." Cerveau said. Everything froze a million questions arose all at once in my mind. "…Where is she?" I said in desperation "After we lost your signal she ran off, we looked for her but all we found were her foot prints and then someone else's…" Rocinolle said quietly. "Ciel has gone missing... for how long?" I said. "You've been gone for two years Zero, we've been building you up for awhile... To say the least your a complicated machine Zero" said Cerveau "Cerveau how long before I can search for Ciel?" I said with hope. "Zero… I will work as fast as I can, but I can't promise anything exact to you." Cerveau responded "And I will too" Rocinolle added. It made me feel reassured that they really wanted to help, I would never forget friends like them. Through all the years and chaos I put up with I still have friends like this that stand by me.
As soon as the silence set on our conversation Rocinolle left the room to order parts from neo arcadia and Cerveau had began to work on my arms. I tried to rest Cerveau would occasionally perform maintenance on me sometimes replacing and polishing parts on my torso, a few time he opened me up to make more adjustments. Cerveau didn't talk to me much about what he was doing but it was just interesting to guess, who knows what he would do, maybe attach guns in my wrists or miniature rocket launchers. Cerveau was a creative genius what he made up for in practicality he made up in skill; he was able to materialize about anything that came to his mind and with the right parts from Rocinolle I knew I was in good hands.
Authors Notes: Hey guys, I have some good news. I plan on continuing the story, I'm currently going through a planning process and also coming back and revising the story slightly. Been fixing a lot of writing errors as well as changing some dialogue. I'm trying to figure out a better format for conversations since I do plan on having a lot of in depth conversations as apposed to Zero only having a few lines. I'm still a full time student but I'm aiming to make for time to writing. I'm looking for beta readers, please send me a direct message.