Megaman ZX: Omega
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Chapter 1: The beginning
Maria Light meandered home from school, pushing her silver hair out of her blue eyes. While heading out of the school yard, other kids would look at her and murmur about how nice she was. Maria was a quiet, soft-spoken girl who hated seeing people get hurt. She listens to her mother, studies (fairly) hard in school, get's (pretty) good grades, and if there's anything she truly despises in this world (besides homework, but everyone hates that so it doesn't really count) it's hurting others for your own gain. She lives with her mother and her brother. (Jonathan) In a sense, she's just a normal girl…but define 'normal' after what happens to her every night…
Maria woke up with a start, breathing hard. "God, it happened again…" The recurring dream she was having made her scared to go to sleep. In her dreams, she saw a crimson reploid chained to a post, his blood red eyes locked with hers. He would whisper "Find me, Maria. Tear off the chains that bind me. Then you will have my power…and you'll be needing it." Several times, her mother told her she was just dreaming, and there was no point in getting herself all worked up. But when she went to history class at her high school, there was much talk about a crimson destroyer called Omega, who loved to wreak havoc and destruction. He was the one responsible for the mass casualties in the worst war in history, the Elf Wars. Worst yet, his description matched that of the reploid in her dreams. After she heard about THAT, Maria was too scared to even mention her dream to anyone, afraid of what they would think when they found out that Omega was offering her his power, afraid of what this might mean.
Maria sat up in bed. The alarm bell was ringing and her mother frantically shaking her. "Maria! Stand up, we need to get out of here! It's a maverick attack!" "Where's Jonathan?" Maria asked, on her feet in an instant. "His teacher put him inside a shelter. We need to get out of here now!" They ran outside. Heliopolis had changed. The world seemed to be on fire, the sky had gone red, and mavericks were everywhere, shooting randomly at fleeing civilians. Airships hovered around, blowing apart office buildings. Tanks rolled through the streets, crushing people below them and shooting at others. The screams of terror and fear filled Maria's ears. Her heart pounded, filled with fear and confusion. What's happening to my home?
Maria tripped over a piece of fallen concrete and fell. A group of mavericks promptly cornered her. "Maria, run." Her mother was standing in front of her, arms outstretched. "Hand over the girl, and you can live." A maverick growled. "Not my daughter, you bitch. You can take me but leave her alone!" "So quick to throw your life away." A gunshot filled the air, and Maria's mother crumpled lifelessly to the ground. Maria stared, her eyes filling with tears, while her heart suddenly went cold, and the world fell silent. She could feel…Rage. Intense hatred. Fury. Hot from head to toe, with no fear. All the hate she had felt in her life roared through her, obscuring everything else. Maria was on her feet and running before her mind registered what she was going to do next. She had a destination, unconsciously chosen. In the centre of town sat a biometal. A chain was wrapped around it. Her dream. "Omega!" Maria shouted, locking her fingers around the chain. Summoning all her strength, she pulled away. The chain flashed purple and snapped. Light erupted from Model O. Omega's cold laughter ripped through her mind. "Good choice, girl!" Maria's voice broke through the air, a single scream no maverick or citizen would forget, ever: "M-E-G-A… MERGE!"
Maria hadn't imagined Megamerging would hurt. But it did. A lot. It was crazy. Power flooded Maria's body, violent and raw. It was like being struck by 1,1991 000 000 lightning bolts…all at the same time. Flashes of Omega's past appeared in her mind, all the images of his battles, and his joy of fighting, smashing his enemies into bloody pulp so they would never and could never get up again. It all flowed into Maria, until she thought her body would not be able to contain the blaze of energy tearing at her limbs, searing her heart, causing her blood to roar through her veins at warp speed. Finally, the insane power ebbed enough for Maria to be able to see clearly, and to think clearly...to some extent. She was covered in sleek, dark red armour, red as blood. White aura surrounded her. There were bracelet-like shackles around her wrists, ankles and neck. A long, v-bladed purple saber was in her left hand, pulsing eerily. A small white buster was clamped firmly in her other hand. "Biolink establish. MEGA systems, online." Model O's voice was calm and cold. "Welcome to my world, Maria."
Maria's eyes narrowed with hatred, sizing up the army that confronted her. She attacked one of the closer mavericks, tentatively at first use of her saber. The maverick's metal flesh was slashed open like someone would cut an onion with a kitchen knife. So easy. Then came her buster. A giant hole burned into a nearby airship. Then, her sanity was washed away in an instant, seeing a world of blood. KILL! KILL THEM ALL! Maria succumbed to her emotion and let her power fly. Within moments, she was violently slaughtering every maverick she found, wildly shooting and slashing without target. To a girl, the front lines fell backwards as if being sheet bombed by an unseen force. Carving a swath of death through the middle, with her bare hands Maria ripped open another tank that had been heading for the shelters before spinning around and attacking more of the Mutos troupes. Oil flowed like a river over her body, into her eyes, until she was seeing more red than her armour and there was no distinction between it and the shade of crimson her eyes had become. Hissing like an animal, Maria hurtled forward, slashing a bloody path through the maverick's ranks unchecked-Mutos, maverick and mechadoloids alike were not spared her wrath. She felt no pain, no fear-only the driving will to seek and destroy.
DESTROY… CRUSH…KILL…ANNIHLATE… Seeming to realize that they had bitten off FAR more than they could chew, mavericks started to retreat. Even then, Maria followed relentlessly, somersaulting over them and blocking the only escape route. Running forward again, she killed whoever couldn't keep up while straining every limit of her slamming heart in order to keep fighting. "Bring it on, rodents!" Her voice was slurred with that of a boy; her biometal. "You're about to be exterminated!" Green light flashed on the palms of both her hands, tearing a hole in cyberspace; in order to select a bigger weapon. "Not this one…not this one either…" An eerie smile appeared on her face. "Perfect." Summoning MuraMasa - a massive, sixty-feet long, v-bladed weapon with a handle nearly bigger than her - Maria whipped a devastating shockwave through the second army; which was instantly decimated. There were wounds in her body, but they were insignificant.
FIGHT! KILL! DESTROY! Maria had one objective-to kill every maverick on Heliopolis, and she wasn't about to let a few scars slow her down. Besides, they sealed up again after a few seconds. Her weapons cut through opponent after opponent, leaving waves of carnage in her wake. Her O-Saber, O buster, and a whole assortment of weapons from cyberspace including MuraMasa were used, while all along, the ground itself grew red with oil while the scale of maverick slaughter rose and rose. Maria howled in rage and hatred as she tore her way towards the heart of the army, each blow merciless. Tanks that came at her simply had a huge hole blown through the cockpit-and then were cut straight in half while their gunman were killed. Airships got their rudders cut right off, and as they fell, the light of the titanic MuraMasa was the last thing their pilots ever saw. Foot troops got the worst of it, facing her in all her fury and might head on. The people who had been running around could now only stand and stare as a girl, god alone knew how young and inexperienced, tore apart armies of mavericks with little more than the weapons in her hands and her own two feet.
"A few minutes ago, we were up to our necks in mavericks…along with six boss-class Mutos reploids…that was behind our request for backup…" The officer's voice was tightly under control, as if he was trying to conceal terror. "…but, now…" he watched Maria slaughter yet another platoon effortlessly; as if she was slicing bread in a kitchen. "…that won't be necessary."
Spinning around, jumping, twisting…there was no room for rational thought -only for pure instinct. Killing another Mutos reploid, Maria dropped to her knees and kicked a tank backwards. It flew into a pile of rubble on impact, its roof smashed in - and it was not going to be operational for some time. Maria scaled the walls of Heliopolis's devastated mall, and gasped the side of another airship. The maverick pilot looked up to see his face level with a buster primed with a charge attack, and knew that there would be no time to scream. The ship exploded, and Maria landed like a cat before steadying herself for another go. She ran after the retreating army, relentlessly killing whoever straggled behind and using long-range attacks to get those ahead of the others. So far, MuraMasa was her favorite…in her present state of mind. She had only one thought: This… is… the… power…of…Megaman… Model… O…!
There came a time when no mavericks came forth to confront her. Maria spun in circles, not believing she had killed off them all. Where are you? Come out and fight! She saw someone coming towards her. Her grip on her saber shifted and she spun around. But it turned out of be Jonathan. "Sis?" The oil cleared from Maria's eyes, which were blue once more as her mind slowly began to process what had happened. "Omega spirit, deactivate." Model O's voice could clearly be heard through the dead silence. Maria was surrounded by enough metal carnage to fill the Grand Canyon, and she was up to her ankles in oil-the lifeblood of uncountable mavericks. The number was staggering, somewhere in the billions. All dead-in under thirty minuets. All of this blood…came from the mavericks…? "Jonathan, keep your distance! The way I am now…I don't know who I might attack!" "But sis…it's over. The mavericks are all dead. There's no one else to fight." Jonathan held Maria's blood-soaked hands, looking faintly desperate, searching her eyes for any sign of the tender and caring sister he knew and loved. "Please, turn back to normal…there's no other maverick left alive." Maria felt her blood flow slow down. "Mom…?" She de-megamerged and crumpled to the ground. She saw only black as she passed out.
Somewhere in the abandoned factories, a man slammed his fist down. "YOU…IMCOMPETENT….MORONS!" A computer terminal was smashed against the walls. "I SEND FIVE GOD-DAMN ARMIES TO RETRIVE THE BIOMETAL, AND STILL THEY FAIL ME!" He could see it all. Attacking the citizens, winning hand over foot - when all at once the unstoppable form of an enraged goddess of destruction erupted from the centre of town, slaughtering mavericks at an insane rate - sixty per second; maybe more. She had no particular fighting style, no fancy techniques, just a blind, bloody free-for-all…and even the strongest armada's were annihilated as if they had been sheet bombed. The man signaled to one of his subordinates. His voice was still trembling with rage as he spoke. "Bring…me…that… girl! BRING ME MARIA LIGHT!"