Mega Man ZX Chronicles
Disclaimer: I do not own Capcom's Mega Man ZX series or its characters. Only the elements and characters I create in this story are mine.
Arc 01...
Chapter 1: Slither Inc. Ruins
"Two months have passed since Serpent's demise. His demise caused the entire company to crumble. The government has plans to make the area into a Control Center, a building which is to be used to control energy furnaces in the surrounding city. However, we need to make sure the area is safe from any mavericks or other problems before construction can commence."
On the Grand Nuage, the Guardian HQ, Prairie explained her mission to the Guardians, including Aile and Vent. The two are 13-year old siblings who together fought against Serpent.
"So, what do you want us to do Prairie?" asked Vent. He was holding his hands into his pockets while looking at his commander/friend sternly.
She turned to the Operators and they projected live footage of the Slither Inc. Ruins that Vent and Aile had previously destroyed.
"I would like you two along with other Guardians to investigate the area to make sure it's safe for construction. If there are any mavericks at the area take them out immediately. Understood?"
The Guardians yelled "Understood!" and left off to the Transerver to Slither Inc.'s ruins.
Making it there, they saw how the place was untouched for a long time. They saw that construction vehicles and supplies were lying around the area, meaning that they intend on fixing up the area. Of course, the group don't want to interfere with any of the objects and such. Of course, they knew that construction workers were reconstructing Cinq Ville and that they were working on the Slither Inc reconstruction as well. It must have taken them a while to reconstruct Cinq Ville as the Slither Inc building was still trashed.
"Where do we check first?" asked Bar who held his weapon, trigger-happy.
Vent and Aile looked at the area, wondering themselves where to look first. The place was huge. Aile eventually came up with an idea, saying, "Let's split up." Vent nodded.
"Right." Vent and Aile directed the group as to where they were suppose to go. Vent pointed at specific locations while giving directions as if he was leader to his teammates.
"Group A, head to the giant walls. Group B, head to the entrance area. Group C, head towards the exit area. Investigate and destroy any mavericks you come across!", he said sounding more mature than usual.
The Groups left off to their designated areas.
Aile looked at Vent asking, "Vent, what do we do?".
"We are going to the inner area. I didn't send them off their because I have a feeling it's dangerous." Aile smirked.
"You could be right about that.", she said, pulling out Model X, her and Vent's Biometal. She continued on, "So just to be safe, let's Megamerge."
Vent smiled at his sister, pulling out his and her Biometal memento from a special friend of theirs, Model Z. "I like the way you think sis."
Aile and Vent got Model X and Model Z together to perform a Double Megamerge.
"Double Megamerge!" They both yelled in unison.
Model X and Model Z said their usual lines. It was as if they wanted to say it in these occasions. "Biolink Established! M.E.G.A. System Online!"
The two transformed into Mega Men Model ZX. Red armor was stuck onto them and they received a helmet with long blonde hair coming from it.
"Alright, let's get a move on.", said Vent, putting his fist in the air in determination.
Aile nodded and followed her brother into the inner area. They were chatting on the way to their destination.
"So, I heard how you took Prairie out to play. That was nice of you." he said rather nicely, trying to be the older brother and such.
Aile smiled back at him and replied,
"Yeah, she was working too hard after the whole Prometheus and Pandora with the Model W thing. I had to do something. She was going to pass out at that rate."
"She's a lot more happy and she smiles more often because of what you did, Aile."
"I'm glad. I don't want to lose her or anyone else for that matter." she said with a sad smile, looking at the horizon.
The two made it the inner area, only to find that the place was huge. They found broken glass there, broken tables, and oddly some non-broken jewels.
"The place is huge. *sigh* I thought it might be smaller." said Aile in a disappointing tone.
"Well that's a lesson for you. Objects in your eyes are bigger than they seem." he said jokingly.
"I don't think that makes any sense."
"Whatever, you get it. Anyway, let's split up for now."
"Okay.", she said, nodding her head.
Vent and Aile went their separate ways, heading left and right. In the direction Vent went, he found many broken items. Surprisingly, the destruction created a cave like area.
"Huh, that's very strange." said Vent in confusion to the cave-like creation. It was strange indeed.
"Agreed. We should check it out." Model Z said. No one could hear him other than Chosen Ones. One might think Vent was crazy, talking to himself like that, if they didn't know who he was. But everyone in the city Cinq Ville knows who Vent and Aile as they are known best as heroes. Maybe even the entire country knows of Vent and Aile's existence now.
"Right."
Vent entered the cave and it was dark. Vent quickly came up with an idea. He pulled out his ZX-Saber so it would shed some light in the cave. Doing so, he found a bunch of maverick bats called Batties (Batty) hanging upside down. Their eyes shined red in surprise.
"Uh oh."
The batties quickly flew out of the cave and Vent started screaming like crazy. Aile heard the scream and turned around only to find a bunch of batties flying into the sky. She smiled in a teasing matter.
"What a scardy cat."
"Haha, that's Vent for you." Model X said happily. Apparently, when Vent and Aile both preformed the Double Megamerge, Model Z stayed with Vent and Model X stayed with Aile. Made since right? Aile continued walking to find a bunny robot.
It looked incredibly cute to Aile, expressing out loud, "Aww... How cute!" The bunny robot's eyes shined yellow and jumped onto Aile's face. She was screaming like crazy, similar to what Vent was doing with the batties. She got the bunny robot off her face and threw it on the ground, rather harshly.
"You stupid robot!"
Aile kicked the bunny robot, getting it out of her sight. She panted in frustration. Aile isn't the one who would get angry this easily and fast, especially with a robot like that.
"Don't you think that was a bit much?" Model X asked. He was always a pacifist at heart and seeing a robot like that get hurt kinda made him feel uneasy.
"It was a maverick!... At least, I think it was." Aile dropped sweat across her cheek as she realized it was playing around.
"Okay... I think that was inappropriate for me to do that to the bunny robot." Aile continued walking until she found a mountain covered with the building's scraps.
"That mountain of scrap doesn't look right." Model X said with suspicion. Aile nodded her head.
"I agree. There is no way that a crumbling building could create something like this. Someone else had to do it. Perhaps it was probably the construction workers."
Aile approached the mountain of scrap, finding spider mavericks quickly crawling out.
"Eek!" Aile got so afraid she fell down on her bottom. She did not like spiders, especially spider mavericks.
"Ugh! I hate spiders"
"Aile, we must continue." Model X had said, trying to keep her mind off the spiders. He knows how much she hated them, especially in the past battles with Serpent. Aile knew her friend was helping her out, saying "R-right!"
Aile decided to climb the mountain of scrap. She almost fell a couple of times but she made it to the top in the end. She stood tall and proud on top.
"I feel like I'm a princess!", she said rather childishly.
"Aile..." Model X thought Aile was being childish with her actions. Of course, she was a child, but right now wasn't the time for such behavior.
Aile noticed Model X's toned and apologized. "Sorry Model X. We must keep going."
Aile slid down the mountain of scrap. When landing, the entire mountain of scrap crumbled. It was now a part of the ground. Aile turned around to find a dusty portrait of Serpent. It was one of those typical portraits of villains in some typical evil lair or mansion. Ailewas angry seeing his face again. She tried to keep her cool, but to little avail.
"Serpent...!"
"Aile... please don't draw back into the past again." One again, Model X's kind-hearted personality helped Aile out.
"I won't. Thank you Model X." Aile continued walking, searching for trouble.
Vent, however, was still inside the cave looking around.
"Those batties were scarier than before." he said, shivering a bit.
"That scream was loud enough for the entire group to hear. Even your sister probably heard it." Model Z quipped.
It wasn't like Model Z to tease or joke, but Vent didn't seem to mind this new thing Model Z had. Vent simply rolled his eyes in response to Model Z's comment.
"Yeah, yeah. It's done and over with, so let's push forward."
Vent continued to use the ZX-Saber as light for the cavern. Eventually, Vent stopped as there was a wall in front of him.
"Looks like this is the end."
Vent tapped his chin multiple times, thinking about a solution to this problem. He snapped his fingers and said quietly,
"Not yet."
Vent looked down and found a whole big enough for Vent to crawl into. Model Z congratulated Vent for being as perceptive as he usually was.
"A hole. Nice find Vent."
Vent bent down and was about to crawl until he found a dozen of rat mavericks coming out of the hole. He wasn't afraid of them however. He just merely moved out of their way. There was a possibility that they were coming out of the rattrap machines in the end of the cave.
"Didn't Prairie say we are supposed to destroy mavericks like them?"
"I don't think they are mavericks. Those batties weren't either. I don't want to destroy innocent robots like them."
"If you say so Vent." Vent was Model X's Biomatch, so there was a possibility that Vent was a pacifist at heart like Model X was.
Vent crawled into the hole. Crawling through the hole, it seemed like the passage way would go on forever, but Vent didn't quit. He eventually found an exit, seeing the light.
"Finally!" he yelled out as he left out of the cave.
Exiting out of the hole, he found a room-like area with a broken desk and chair there as well.
"This is strange..." Model Z said.
Vent agreed, "I know right? How could a crumbling building create... this?"
He observed the area, looking everywhere.
"Hm?", he said aloud as something had caught his eye.
Vent looked into the desk to find a computer-disk. It had lots of dust on it and cracks on the disk, but it looked like it would still work.
"We better hold this for Prairie and Fleuve. It might contain important data."
"You are thinking very well Vent." Model Z said, commending Vent on his observing skills.
Vent chuckled a bit, rubbing his artificial blonde hair which came from... somewhere.
"Hehe, thanks Model Z. Alright, maybe we should leave and find Aile."
"Wait."
"What is it?" he asked with very small impatience.
"Look up."
Vent looked up to find a hole in the ceiling. It apparently was where the ventilation shaft cover used to be at.
"Again... strange."
"Let's investigate."
Vent jumped and wall kicked his way into the vent like a passage way. In fact, it was exactly like a vent as it was metal like. Crawling through the area he found two passage ways, left and right.
"Two passage ways? How original." he said, commenting on how in adventures, heroes always find two or more passage ways.
Vent took the left passage way first. He found the exit and got down. He found very little in the area. "Pretty empty here." Vent still observed the area to find broken glass and dirty water.
"What the?", he said while observing.
Vent found a broken sink on the ground far in a corner. Vent also found a toilet seat behind the sink. He eventually put two and two together.
"Uhh..."
"I would say this is the bathroom for the company."
"Yeah... Let's get out of here." he said, feeling very uneasy.
The fact that he was in bathroom made him think that there was in a female bathroom. Vent exited the bathroom and took the right passage way in the vents. Exiting he found that the room was really small.
"Small room." Vent said rather short and quick.
Vent felt something under his foot after taking a step. He looked and found a book.
"Huh? A book?"
Vent wiped the dust off the book and found out something incredible when observing the title.
"This is...!"
Meanwhile, with Aile. She was continuing walking in the ruins.
"We've walked for a long time now and found nothing. Not even a maverick. I'm starting to wonder how Vent is doing in his area.", Aile said, feeling more tired with each step she took in the "junkyard" of Slither Inc.
"I'm sure he's doing fine Aile." Model X said, hoping that his words would urge her to continue on.
It fortunately did the trick... slightly. Aile continued walking, looking quite annoyed and exhausted because of her endless walking. Eventually she saw something that made her stop dead in her tracks. "
What the!?"
In her eyes, she saw a person standing in front a giant sphere. It actually that glowing pink sphere that was in the above center of the Slither Inc. Company. The mysterious being looked at the sphere as if he/she was observing it. Aile didn't know who this person was, but she did know that Mega Man-like armor was on him/her, meaning that there's a possibility that he/she is a Mega Man. She was beginning to move, sneaking forward. She was speaking to Model X in her mind just if this person was an evil Mega Man like she had learned from Fleuve and Prairie.
She continued to approach the mystery person, speaking to Model X in her mind...
"This Mega Man has similar colors to you Model X. Who could this person be?" Aile asked.
"I don't know. But bring out your ZX-Buster in case we need to use it. You never know what might happen..." Model X instructed.
Aile slowly walked towards the mysterious Mega Man. For some strange reason, she felt something of this person. She felt afraid from him/her, but not so afraid she'd wet herself. She knew that if this person was evil, she would have to act fast. She eventually got close enough to the mysterious guy/girl who just stood there. To Aile, it looked like this mysterious Mega Man was observing the broken sphere. Making one more step, she made noise and alerting her presence. The Mega Man quickly turned around with a X-Buster-like weapon out, revealing a boy looking like he was 13-years old, the same age as Aile.
Aile got her ZX-Buster out and pointed it at him, nearly close to his face. She saw the boy's face, looking like he were prepared for any attack she might throw at him. Before officially attacking, Aile wanted answers, immediately, before the true trouble began.
"Who are you?!" she yelled, holding the trigger, ready to shoot at any given moment.
The boy repeated exactly what Aile had said, but with his own tone.
"Who are you?!"
"I asked you first!"
"So?!"
The two continued to stare at each other with their weapons pointed at each other. Model X noticed this typical childish scene and spoke up,
"This is going nowhere. Aile, get him to talk."
But the sound of the boy speaking shocked both Aile and Model X. "Get me to talk?"
Aile was shocked. This meant that this boy was a Mega Man chosen one, like she had suspected. She withdrawn her weapon, although it wasn't the best idea considering that she let her guard down and the Mega Man in front of her could get her on the double. Politely and calmly, Aile asked once again, "Who are you?".
The boy easily noticed Aile's tone of voice. He knew Aile let her guard down... Any enemy would strike in an instant. The boy stood up straight making his Buster disappear, back into a regular hand.
"My name is Rokku!" He said, holding out his hand, presenting himself. His tone sounded childish yet confident. "What's yours?"
Aile continued to hold the trigger. She wasn't ready to get rid of her weapon so easily. Aile placed her hand on her hip, smiling a little. Rokku couldn't tell if she was smiling however.
"My name is Aile. Rokku... that's a nice name." Aile introduced and commented. "Though, I feel like I heard that name before... Have we met?"
Rokku smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think so, but I feel like we have though."
Rokku defused but Aile stayed Megamerged, as she's not near Vent and de-merging like that would de-merge Vent as well and who knows what he's doing at the moment. A 'Biometal' floated next to Rokku's head. It spoke, but it didn't sound like it was being heard from their minds. In fact, it was like it was speaking aloud that any human or reploid could hear. The blue 'Biometal' spoke up,
"Rokku, this place is the Slither Inc. Headquarters, where Serpent was at. That was the reason we came here, remember? Maybe this girl was the one who defeated him?"
Aile's eyes widened a little, seeing the 'Biometal'. It was different from the Biometals she knew. It looked like a head with a blue helmet, white skin, and light blue eyes resembling Model X.
"Is that a Biometal you have?" she asked in curiosity.
"Biometal?" Rokku questioned.
"You know, your 'floating piece of metal'?" Aile said.
"Uh..." Rokku said, still confused.
He heard of the word 'Biometal' before, but he couldn't think of where he heard it before... Aile pressed her fingers on her chin, thinking about the Biometal in Rokku's possession.
"I never seen a Biometal like that. It even looks different from the Biometals we have. What is it?"
Rokku turned his head to find the 'Biometal'. He jumped in surprise, seeing the floating piece of metal. "Wha-What!? Mega Man! Why are you a little thingie?!"
"Huh?" 'Mega Man' said. Suddenly, he too screamed. "What!? H-Hold on..."
Aile had her hands on her hips, greatly confused. Suddenly, a bright light formed around Mega Man. The light then disappeared, revealing a figure. The boy had a blue helmet, a blue collar, blue and light blue bodysuit with blue briefs, blue gauntlets, gloves and boots. His eyes were blue and underneath that helmet was brown hair. The boy looked like he was 7-10 years old. Aile stood there in awe.
"There we are!" 'Mega Man' said. "I have no idea how that happened!"
"It's weird... That's what you looked like when I first found you Mega!" Rokku said, with a silly grin.
Aile suddenly coughed loudly, catching the boys attention. "Excuse me...! Do you mind telling me what's going on here?!"
Rokku chuckled nervously. "O-Oh! I'm sorry! His name is Mega Man."
Aile was suddenly confused. "Wait... His name couldn't possibly be Mega Man."
"Why not?" Rokku asked in confusion.
"Because those who fuse with Biometal are called Mega Men." Aile explained.
"Well, that's his name..." Rokku said, rubbing his hair. "...Or you can call him Rock."
Aile was drawing a blank. "What...?"
Before Mega Man could explain, Rokku felt rumbling under his feet. Aile felt it as well, keeping her balance on the ground. They looked straight ahead to find an active mechaniloid rampaging. It was on Tank-like wheels, riding its way towards Rokku and Aile. It opened its (Guts Man-like) jaw and let out a mechanized roar to scare away any normal citizen. Unfortunately for the mechaniloid, Aile and Rokku were not normal. Aile expressed shock that a mechaniloid would be lurking around the area, gripping her ZX-Buster.
"A mechaniloid!?" she exclaimed.
"Oh man... I thought we got rid of him...!" Rokku whined in slight annoyance.
Aile looked at Rokku, instantly realizing that he fought with this thing before. She noticed that it looked like Slither Inc.'s mechaniloids, yet, very different. At the moment, she couldn't make heads or tails on it now as she had a battle coming up. Rokku fused with his 'Biometal', getting ready to fight.
"We got to destroy it before it goes for the city!" she yelled out, thinking that Rokku would help out anyway.
Rokku was fortunately, and to Aile's surprise, someone who she could count on for help.
"Right!"
Aile and Rokku charged at the mechaniloid charging their weapons. The sound of the typical buster charging up was heard as they rushed towards the enemy.
Going back with Vent, he was making his way out of the cavern, speaking to himself at the booty... er, I mean, treasure he had found.
"I can't believe we found Serpent's journal!" he said, knowing that finding a journal belonging to Serpent must have something very useful for the team.
"The information he wrote is highly useful for us. It's a good thing we found it." Model Z said.
Vent eventually got out of the hole he found before in the ceiling, but the second he landed on his two feet, he felt rumbling under his feet. He kept his balance as the rumbling continued on as if it was a small earthquake.
"What's going on?!" Vent exclaimed, hoping that no one was in trouble at the moment.
"It's coming from outside no doubt!" Model Z said, giving Vent the idea to go out there and solve the problem.
"Let's hurry! Aile and the rest are probably caught in the problem!"
Vent brought out his ZX-Saber again to see through the cave and ran as fast as he could without hurting himself. He made it out safely, only to see something that caught him by surprise.
"Oh no!", he yelled out as his pupils gotten smaller by shock.
Vent saw one of the guardian soldiers fly in front of his eyes. The guardian landed on the ground hard. Vent hurried toward the guardian. It was a female reploid guardian.
"Hey! Haley! Are you alright!? What happened!?" he yelled, hoping he could get some response to his fellow teammate.
Haley attempted to speak but she was too damaged to even do so. She pointed towards the area where she was thrown. Her voice chip was quickly breaking apart as she explained with a single word...
"M... Me... Mecha... Mechani... mechaniloid...!"
Haley soon went into unconsciousness in Vent's arms. Vent closed his eyes in sorrow for his teammate. He clenched his fist together. "Don't worry, Haley. I'll make sure Muguet and Rose help you...!" Vent sat her down somewhere safe to rest. He reached for his Communicator on Model ZX's helmet. "Carrelet! This is Vent! I have Haley with me and she's injured! I need you to take her back to the Base for repairs! I'll send you her location!"
Carrelet soon responded through the Comm. System. "Gotcha. I'll be over there with a Rescue Team! Go deal with that wild Mechaniloid!"
Vent nodded. "Okay! I'll be right there! Breaking contact now!" Vent disconnected the call and ran towards the mechaniloid's site.
"Another one... in front of my eyes again!" Vent said to himself as his eyes and face filled with rage.
"Vent, I understand your situation, but don't go out of control with your anger." he said trying to get Vent's mind focused so he can engage in battle.
"I won't, but if I don't hurry then people will die! I won't stand by and let that happen!" he yelled out with Model Z's words slowly sinking in his mind.
Vent ran as fast as he could. He ran as if he could run forever. He didn't feel tired, his legs weren't tired and his eyes were filled with determination and didn't want anymore to perish in front of him. Vent made it there to find more guardians were getting harmed who had immediately joined the battle when they found out Aile was fighting. Most of them were able to continue fighting and some were injured. Most of the injured continue to shoot at the mechaniloid only to get injured more by the mechaniloid's shots. Vent's anger at risen past his maximum limit, seeing more people perish like he had hoped wouldn't happen again.
"NO!"
Vent was going to dash into the fight but he noticed Aile fighting. He also noticed that another person was fighting with her with a similar color scheme to Model X's. He eventually joins them into the fight by slashing the mechaniloid's right arm off with his ZX-Saber. The mechaniloid's right arm was mostly used by the mechaniloid as it shot missiles from its fingers.
"Vent!" yelled out in happiness to see her brother out in the battlefield.
Vent returned the smile with a hint of determination.
"Sorry I'm late Aile. Let's end this!"
The mechaniloid noticed Vent and used his left arm to grab him. Aile brought out her ZX-Saber and slashed the left arm off releasing Vent. Aile rushed to Vent and grabbed him. Grabbing him they got against a wall and two other walls next to them. It was like a room without a door or ceiling. They didn't seem to notice that there was red sticky goo on their feet that the mechaniloid shot out while fighting Aile and Rokku...
"You okay?" Aile asked in concern.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Let's finish him off! He's defenseless now!"
However, the mechaniloid opened his mouth and charged up a big cannon. A typical way to attack, yes, but it's what it had. It was like a scrapped war-machine.
"Whoops, spoke to soon." Vent said with a nervous smile and sweat sliding down his cheek.
The two were about to escape but they couldn't move because of the goo. They attempted to shoot it but they couldn't get it off, even with their ZX-Sabers. It was like the goo were made of Ceratanium, the resistant alloy that was almost impossible to break. They realized that they couldn't escape this. They held onto each other waiting to perish.
"I love you Vent!" Aile said as she was going to breathe her very last breath.
"I love you too Aile!", he said to his sister, his grip getting tighter.
"Come on, don't give up you two!" Model Z yelled out to those two.
"VENT! AILE! Don't give up hope now!" Model X yelled out. They were giving up so easily...
The two held onto each other tighter with their eyes closed, seemingly ignoring Models X and Z. Their hold kept getting tighter and tighter and their eyes soon did the same, closing tighter and tighter. However soon, they heard a charged shot. Vent opened his eyes and saw the boy charge his buster.
"Aile! Look!" he yelled out in surprise.
Aile opened her eyes and looked to see Rokku shoot the mechaniloid. The mechaniloid screamed in mechanized pain as smoke from its forehead was coming from where Rokku released his charged shot.
"Knock it off!" he yelled out, making sure the mechaniloid heard his message loud and clear.
Rokku charged up another shot and shot it back at it. The mechaniloid got hit with a barrage of charge shots. It eventually couldn't take it anymore and charged at Rokku. He was caught by surprise by this act of action, especially since the mechaniloid rolling at him, made it lose its balance, making it fall on Rokku. Rokku, acting fast on his feet, ran and slid under the mechaniloid's falling body. The mechaniloid was on the ground, unable to get up without arms or legs. The legs were tank-like wheels making it another reason it couldn't get up. Rokku quickly ran up to the mechaniloid's head and charged up his last charged shot. The mechaniloid's jaw dropped in a cartoon-like manner.
"Eat this...!" Rokku said as he blasted the mechaniloid's head off.
Aile and Vent watched in amazement as Rokku finished off mechaniloid. Rokku withdrawn from his buster and turned to the guardians who were injured or harmed in any way. He approached a female and male guardian.
"W-Who are you?!" the guardian female asked in fear, hoping Rokku wouldn't hurt her or the male guardian.
Rokku defused revealing his human self. Rokku had long blue pants on with his shoes being similar to Aile and Vent's. He had a blue jacket with silver shoulder plates on it's shoulders, and a attachable hoodie. The jacket was wide open, revealing his black shirt. Strangely, unlike many people of the world, Rokku did not have a bodysuit on. The Black T-Shirt was tight on him like a bodysuit though. He was wearing those fingerless gloves but they did not have the white fingertips. Instead, it was his human fingertips shown. If one was looking at that area, they would notice a silver chain on the left side of his pants with a star-shaped emblem attached to the chain. The emblem was dangling on his pants' pocket which was clear for someone who would look down there. His eyes were blue and his skin was slightly lighter than Vent's. His hair was brown and it was mostly spiky, nearly identical to Vent's as well.
He also had a blue device wrapped around his left arm shaped in a hexagonal shape. It had a large, impervious "touch" screen on the front side of the device. It tended to shine whenever Rokku fused and changed back.
Rokku offered his hand to both the female and male guardian as they were not injured.
"Are you okay?" he asked politely.
The two guardians realized that Rokku was not their enemy and gripped his hands, being pulled up as they thanked him.
"Yes we are. Only a few minor scratches." the male said, acting like he wasn't hurt at all. It was like he was trying to impress the female guardian.
"Thank you for asking." the female said with a smile.
Rokku nodded while smiling back them. He turned to Aile and Vent who were in the corners on the ground. He approached them asking them the same thing. When he approached them, the sticky goo that was stuck on the two was gone. Apparently, the goo would have dissolved at a specific duration of time. Rokku held out his hands to Vent and Aile with his friendly smile shown.
"Are you two okay?"
Both Vent and Aile grabbed his hands and were lifted up. Vent dusted himself off and looked at Rokku with no signs of relief on his face.
"Yeah, we are. Who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Rokku."
Mega Man then introduced himself. "And I am Mega Man, otherwise known as Rock."
"Thank you for saving us." Aile said with a smile.
"No problem! Let's see if everyone else is alright."
Rokku went off to help the other guardians. Aile was about to follow him but Vent stopped her. They both de-merged from Model ZX and Model X and Model Z were floating beside them.
"What's up?" Aile asked in curiosity. Vent's eyes were rather serious than usual.
"That guy, Rokku... Did you feel it?", he asked.
"Are you talking about that energy? Yeah, I felt it when I first met him. It was when we went our separate ways." Aile replied. "It might be his... um, Biometal though."
"What if... what if Rokku is an enemy Mega Man? You know, like Prairie and Fleuve had told us before." Vent asked seriously.
"But... he saved us from the mechaniloid." Aile said, trying to defend him.
"True, but he could have done that for another reason. You know, as part of 'his plan'?"
Aile was a little angered by Vent saying that. Their lives could have been taken away if it wasn't for his help. Thinking about it though, she also thought his theory was pretty silly.
"Vent, Rokku saved us and everyone else. What part of the plan could that be? Besides, he doesn't look or sound like he would hurt anyone innocent."
"Aile, think about it. Serpent was believed to be a hero but he really just played the hero. We fought him together remember? Rokku could be that exact same thing."
Aile was silent but she felt something towards Rokku. She felt as if she met him before sometime in the past. She also feels that Rokku is not evil but rather friendly. But she couldn't deny the fact that Rokku had something evil inside of him nor could she deny the fact that Vent could be right about him. Therefore, Aile made a "deal" with her brother.
"I don't really care about your dumb theory." Aile said. "But answer me this: Do you feel like you know him?"
Vent thought about it for a second. "As a matter of fact, yeah, I actually do."
"Strange right?" Aile asked. "It's funny, because he feels the same way."
Vent then put his finger on his chin. "Well, maybe we should invite him to the Guardian Base and get to know the guy." Vent said with a grin. "And maybe we can find out about this 'Mega Man' character who's following him around. I'm pretty eager to learn about them!"
"Me too, but first, we gotta help the others!"
Vent nodded and ran to help the other Guardians. While walking, they were receiving lectures from Models X and Z since they easily gave up against the mechaniloid.
Rokku continued to help out people, asking if they were alright and lifting out his hand to them. Just then, Rokku thought about something, talking to his Biometal for help.
"Hey... Mega Man?"
"Yeah?" Mega Man replied.
"There's something about Aile and that boy with her. I feel like I met them before. Why do I feel this way?"
Mega Man couldn't give him the answer he wanted but regardless, he gave Rokku an answer.
"I don't know. Perhaps you did meet them before, but just forgot about them."
Rokku thought about his answer, thinking that he was probably right.
"We did come here because we heard of two heroes who defeated that Serpent guy. Judging from what we learned from her, those two might be the assumed Chosen Ones." Mega Man surmised.
"Hmm..."
Aile and Vent got the group to carry off any injured people to the Transerver to go back to the Guardian HQ. Rokku was about to leave the area after he had grabbed his backpack from one of the giant gray pillars, but he felt something touch his shoulder. He got scared by being touched by surprise.
"AH!"
Rokku fell backwards trying to turn around and realized it was Aile who looked at him blinking twice.
"Oh, it's you," Rokku said in relief.
Aile offered her hand to Rokku and helped him up, the same way Rokku helped her out.
"Rokku? ...Mega Man? I was wondering... would you like to visit our HQ?" Rokku was surprised again.
"They have a HQ?" Mega Man thought.
"HQ?" Rokku said, confused.
"Yeah, I'm part of the group called the Guardians. We help out people. I'm pretty sure our commander would want to see the hero who saved our lives."
"Erm..."
Rokku was a bit hesitant when Aile asked him about a visit. She stared at Rokku with patience and with a smile. It sorta gave Rokku a reason to say...
"Yeah, I would like to visit. It sounds nice!"
"Cool!" she said with excitement. "We can talk there, so follow me!"
Aile ran off with Rokku and Mega Man following her. Aile was moving a bit faster than them but it didn't really matter to the boys. Mega Man soon spoke with his friend.
"So, we get to be with the two heroes of this city..." Mega Man said, sounding eager.
"You know, I forgot that they did save this city by Rattlesnake or whatever his name was." Rokku said, chuckling.
"I figured you would forget... I don't understand how you can forget so easily." Mega Man sighed.
"Sorry!" Rokku apologized. "But hey! We get to go inside a HQ! Pretty cool, eh?"
"Of course!" Mega Man agreed. "And who knows, you might even befriend these guys!"
"Yeah maybe!" Rokku said in excitement. He closed his eyes and started to moan in anticipation, yelling out: "This is gonna be fun!"
Reaching the Transerver, they had just saw Vent leave.
"It was him." Rokku said.
"Yeah, that was my brother, Vent." Aile explained.
"Okay, I know I heard his name before!" Rokku said. "I'm really starting to think we met somewhere!"
"Me too. That's why you're coming with us!" Aile said.
Aile offered her hand to Rokku again stepping on the Transerver. Rokku was curious about the Transerver as he never actually gotten on one.
"Soo... how do these things work?" Rokku asked.
"You'll see." Aile said with a smirk and a wink. She pretty much assumed he never went on a transerver considering that he asked how it worked.
The two were teleported from the Transerver room.