Zero, Resistance Warrior

AxelWildfire000

Disclaimer: This is going to serve for the whole fic. I don't own Megaman, Capcom do, and if I did own it, it would take me all of a week to burn it to the ground.

Well, I got bored and decided to novelise the Megaman Zero series. I'm planning on updating every week, but depending on what's happening, may yet be unable.

On a note, Harpuia is female in this, because I can, so don't argue with me about that.


Prologue: Zero, Resurrected

The young woman panted hard. She was wearing a pink outfit, and glittering ball of energy hung in the air beside her blond hair, and she was surrounded by a group of soldiers. Three of the soldiers glanced back and stopped, opening fire with their machine guns. Something glowed red in the darkness behind them. Three red dots grew in to pale blue robots, each the size of a man and with an arm cannon attached. These were Pantheons. A fourth soldier stopped and opened fire, but bullets simply pinged off the Pan's armour. The three 'bots opened fire, energy bolts flying through the air, arrows of death winging towards their targets. The four soldiers screamed, their goggles cracking as they fell to the ground, red blood staining their green uniforms.

"How is the assault going?" questioned a cold voice.
"Perfectly…" said a cold female voice, like the edge of ice.
"They will soon be cornered…" whispered the next, in a voice like a soft breeze.
"And then they will meet Golems." Laughed a male voice, burning with rage.
"Excellent." The first voice said, and there was a glint of light in the darkness as he smiled.

The Golems thundered through the forest, which was once a laboratory. They were thrice the size of a man, boxy. Their chest plates had red lines along them, their hands were huge and boxy, and the thrusters burned purple. The first one caught up with the rearguard of troops. "Wha? What kind of monsters are these?" shouted one of the soldiers, as the rearguard brought their weapons to bear. The bullets made pinging sounds as they ricocheted. The chest plate of the Golem slid down and the head came up a bit, revealing some kind of weapon. There was a quick burst of energy that traced up the passage, and the soldiers screamed as they were incinerated. The Golem kept moving.

The woman kept moving. Finally she came to a blue door with yellow lines along it. "puff, puff A dead end?" she growled.
The glittering energy hovering beside her spoke. The noise was like a musical chime.
No. I feel a strong energy. This must be the place.
A soldier spoke. "Okay, stay back! Leave this to me, Miss Ciel." He planted some kind of explosive on the wall, which detonated with a mighty crash and blew the door cleaned off it's hinges. A rank smell hit them, causing all four people to wrinkle their noses. Nevertheless, they dashed inside, into ankle deep, green water. The area appeared to be a trashed lab. "You should go, I'll take care of them!" screamed another soldier, spinning and opening fire.

Ciel nodded and dashed forwards with the last soldier. They came to an area that wasn't trashed. There was a red bot on his knees. His arms were behind his back, and a batch of wires attached into them and to his back. His armour was cracked, and long blond hair dangled into dirty water.
Ciel heard a sharp intake of breath from the soldier. "This must be…"
"… this… must be Zero…" Ciel breathed.
"We found him at last!"
The soldier approached the 'bot, when something triggered a force field, throwing him head over heels backwards. "Waaa!"
It's protected. Stated the energy.
No shit. Thought the soldier. "What should I do…?"

"Waaa!"

A constant stream of energy blew a hole clean through the guard soldier's stomach, spewing blood everywhere. A large group of Pantheons streamed through the ex-door and opened fire. "Watch out!" screamed Ciel's guard, pushing her backwards and jumping in the way. The first three shots hit him in the chest, but still he stood, his only thought to complete his mission. He dashed back to stand in front of Ciel. "We are trapped. We must evacuate now." He muttered, opening fire.
"But…"
"We have no time to argue – ARRGGH!" the next three shots blew his head clean off.
"Milan!" screamed Ciel, dropping to her knees beside her ex-friend.
Ciel… muttered the energy.
"……………"
CIEL! It yelled.
"Huh?"
You should use my power! You have no choice!
"What? Passy… if I do, you'll be…" Ciel faltered, as the Pantheons grew closer.
Don't worry about me. Remember, everyone is waiting for your safe return!
"… okay. Thankyou."
Ciel closed her eyes stood up, and raised her right hand.
No. I should thank you, Ciel. Goodbye… The energy began to gather power.
The energy launched towards Zero. "PASSY!" Ciel screamed, in farewell. The glitter passed through the force field, creating a ray of energy that pushed the Pantheon's backwards.

Everything happened at once. The wires snapped, and Zero's armour was repaired. He stood and snapped his arms apart as his system flushed excess energy. Ciel found herself in the awkward position of having to hang on to Milan's corpse to prevent being blown backwards. When the energy subsided and the light vanished, Ciel stood again, blue eyes gleaming with excitement. "Zero… has been resurrected."
"…" Zero said nothing.
"Zero?" Ciel faltered. Zero looked over his shoulder at her. "Help me. Please." Zero nodded and all hell broke loose.

Zero dashed forwards and grabbed the first Pantheon's head, crushing it in his grasp. Using the still standing corpse as a vault, he somersaulted over it and kicked the next one's chest so hard his leg went through, and left him completely open while he removed it. the last Pantheon raised its arm cannon. Zero instinctively reached for his lower left leg and the handgun their. He raised it and squeezed the trigger, the energy pulse blowing a hole clean through the Pantheon's head. The corpse crashed to the ground, smoking, and Zero growled while he removed his leg from the wreckage. Examining the weapon clutched in his hand, he realised that no one else would ever be able to use it. He returned it to his holster, and noted that he had another on his right leg, though he knew his sensor package was not sophisticated enough to use both at the same time. He heard something move behind him, and he span, drew, and fired in the same motion. Ciel screamed as the pulse winged past her ear and Zero shuddered, wondering what would have happened had it connected. He needed to get a system update.

His attention was drawn to a blue light fluttering around. "Hey," he said, "What's that?"
Ciel breathed deeply to calm herself. "It's called a Cyber-Elf. The blue types are Hackers. They change things that are happening. On the flipside, when you use an elf it dies. I resurrected you with one." the Cyber-Elf alighted on Zero's shoulder and fluttered into a slot on his armour. Zero nodded and turned around. "Come." He said, walking away.

As they left the lab, they began moving through a metallic tunnel. Zero's first surprise came when he encountered a purple-blue web like substance. He attempted to walk past it when a group of spider-bots jumped him, covering him, biting down and draining his energy. Zero cursed and shook them off, sending the flying everywhere. He squished the last one underfoot, and then proceeded to blow the web to bits. "Stupid things." He said, and kept walking, Ciel one-step behind him.

Throughout the rest of the gauntlet, they encountered bigger spiders, which spat webs and energy. One of them caught Ciel and Zero had to step close and tear it apart, making the young woman blush deeply. The other threat was a platoon of Pantheons with electro-rods in place of arm-cannons. One of them seemed to think it was a Jedi or something and Zero spent a half hour shooting at it before he managed to blow it's head off. "C'mon, c'mon." he yawned. "It's getting late."

Ciel suppressed a smile at her saviour as he walked through the wreckage. Eventually they came to a patch of blue floor and a wall. "What?" Ciel growled. "It's a dead end! What should we do… AHHH!" The floor gave out from beneath her.
"NO!" Zero yelled, as yellow text slammed into his optics: Emergency Acceleration Activated. Boosters in his feet activated and slammed him forwards. He caught Ciel around the waist and slammed into the wall, his right hand gripping the wall and allowing him to slide. He held Ciel close to his chest. "Don't worry, I've got you."
Ciel closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensation of being close to him, a light blush forming on her cheeks.

Finally they dropped into soft green water and Zero let her go. She leaped to dry land and Zero followed suit. Ciel turned to him. "You… thankyou…" she turned away and walked off, to hide her blush. "This place seems to be a prehistoric lab. We may be able to find a Trans Server, which will allow us to return to the resistance base." She walked ahead and Zero followed. The duo halted at a collapsed wall. "How nice," Ciel sighed, "The wall has collapsed in. Shall we go back?"

Suddenly Zero's danger sensors slammed to the max, focused in on the wall behind Ciel. "Stay back!" he shouted, too little too late. The wall shattered as a boxy fist smashed through and grabbed Ciel. "NO!" Zero roared, chasing after it. He found a Golem on the other end. "Zero! No! Run… you can't damage this thing with a Buster…"
Zero ignored her and primed his systems for intense combat. A sheet of metal closed down behind him, cutting off his retreat path.

Zero leaped back and planted both feet on the wall, using it to leap upwards and fire at the Golem's head. It took superficial damage but Zero kept firing. The Golem primed it's laser and Zero leaped up the wall to avoid it, then as he dropped back to the ground it fired the blast up at the roof. Zero glanced up and growled as he was forced to run here and there to avoid the cement falling from the ceiling. Zero made a high jump and leaped up onto one of the blocks, continually blasting the Golem. It charged forwards, catching him by surprise and crushing him, hard, against the wall. It retreated back to its side of the room. "Rats! I can't damage it!" Zero growled. Suddenly something appeared in the middle of the room, like an atom. Something slid out of it and dropped to the ground. Zero dove to catch it and somehow it managed to land in a slot above his right wrist.
ZERO… USE THIS…
"Who are you?" Zero asked.
HURRY… YOU HAVE TO… SAVE HER… DON'T WASTE TIME…
Zero nodded and suddenly a jet of green light shot from the device. "What the… a sabre."

The Golem charged again. Zero jumped back, planted both feet on the wall, and leaped up and off, cutting down. The Golem's head fell off and it dropped Ciel, right before it began to explode. Zero dived on top of her, protecting the woman with his own body.
The light faded and Ciel attempted to move, only to find that she couldn't. "What the…"
"Sorry." Zero muttered, standing up. Ciel followed suit.
"I can't believe you were able to destroy a Golem… we were right. You ARE Zero, the legendary Reploid!"
"Zero…? Is that my name?"
Ciel nodded.
"… Ugh, I can't remember."
"Just relax for a moment. You have hibernation sickness. I'm sorry for forcing you to wake up. And… thankyou for saving me. My name is Ciel. I'm a scientist. Let's go to our base, before more enemies arrive."
Zero nodded. "What if I'm not the Zero you're talking about?"
"You proved to me that you are Zero by saving me from the Golem." Ciel smiled, disappearing through the door in the room.
Zero smiled as well and looked around the room at the computers. "Interesting." He muttered, walking through the door.

A brown pad greeted him, with Ciel standing in front of it. "We are in luck; the Trans Server is still active. Stand on the pad and we can return to our base. Let's go!"

A fireball flickered through the darkness, blowing a Pantheon to bits. "I can't believe he destroyed a Golem!" roared the fiery voice.
"PATIENCE!" another voice commanded. It was the breezy one. "We must not forget that Zero is legend!"
"On the flipside, he is rather outdated." Said the icy voice. The cold voice spoke at last.
"You are right. Let us see how strong he truly is; then you shall crush him."

"Fefnir. Red lord. The Jin'en army is yours to command." A light clicked on, revealing Fefnir. Red and white, with two 'horns' protruding from his helmet, and a cannon on one arm.

"Leviathan. Blue lord. The Meikai army is yours." Another light clicked on, revealing Leviathan to be a Reploid wearing skimpy battle armour and wielding an ice sceptre.

"Harpuia. Green lord. You know what you must do."

"Yes, lord." Two pink laser daggers cut through the darkness. They were raised and then crossed, causing lightning to rain down around the point of contact, revealing a green flight 'loid as their master, lighting them in fluctuations of pink.

"Your will be done." The three echoed.


There's the first chapter then. Please R&R, no flaming. if you don't like don't read it, but don't badger me about it.