Chapter 1: Sacrifices Made

This first chapter is just a retelling of the ending for Zero 4, I hope i did a good job, and that I did justice to such a great ending. Without further ado enjoy.

EDIT: minor changes to the text itself making it generaly more pleasant to read based on feedback, chapter 2 comming soon enough.

"thinking"

"Talking"

narrating

Zero could barely stand, one final fight ahead. Weil, in front of him, had just fused with the space station itself, probably not as powerful as omega, X, or even Sigma before him. Zero thought to himself: "My past seems so clear to me now, fighting sigma, meeting axl, the time I spent with X, even the Elf wars themselves, Weil is a joke compared to any of them, yet in this state..." he conteplates his battered body from the years of sustained punishment, a deep cut underneath his right eye, "omega did that one, destroyed most of my right side too..." The left side of his helmet bashed, in, his gauntlet emiting small shocks and a bit of lightning from time to time, "The armies of Neo arcadia...", looks at all the other cuts and bruises on his body, "Leviathan 1 year back, Harpuia 2 years ago, Fefneer, Phantom, Elpizo, and alot of these from omega. This is about the most pathetic state I've ever been in." Weil continued his speach.

"The reploid hero... Protecting justice and humanity... I am one of those humans you were sworn to protect! Do you have it in you to defeat me?!"

Zero doesn't even need to think of an answer, he already knows Weil's rethoric all too well.

"I never cared about justice, and I never recall calling myself a hero... I have allways fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy apears in front of me, I will destroy it!"

Ciel's calls for his name echoed in the background and pierced his ears like the sharpest of knives.

"Ciel... Believe in me!"

A final cry from Ciel is heard as Zero charges, forward, into his battle with Weil. The battle is huge, Zero runs and leaps towards Weils Core only to get wipped back by one of the Tubes comming from the space station, Weil procedes to charge up and fire the central lazer from the core itself which zero dodges out of the way every miliseccond a mist of red drops behind zero as his blood flies up due to the rapid velocity of the falling space station, Zero's eyes spot an opening as the lazer clears, he lunges towards the core only to get shot by a seccond time, by the lazer and then the turrets that sprung up from the station. Weil laughs at the now bleeding out reploid on the floor.

"IT'S ALREADY IN MOTION ZERO, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH."

Zero gets back on his feet, his left arm being nearly broken off, meerly a few strings of it keep it attatched to his body, blood comming out of every wound he took, his new body was at it's limit, he coughed out blood, as he charged in again, This time, with increased speed, going super sonic nearly as soon as he started running, Weil responded, he had the turrets firing, his lazer was all over the place, even the tubes from the space station swung at the red streak that was now Zero, as he jumps at the core itself, penetrating it with his Saber. the explosions being heard from inside Weil's body.

"As expected... Hero..."

Weil screams out while his insides explode, the damage from this smaller explosions pounding his own core and that of the space station into a massive explosion, Zero taking it's full force.

Back on the ground, Ciel tries to reach Zero:

"Ragnarok... is... breaking apart... most of it will burn up on entry into the atmosphere... Impact with Area Zero adverted... Mission... successful..."

"Zero! Come in Zero! Zero... Please... Come in..."

Only stactic and a snowy screen was what Ciel got in response, as the navigator stated.

"There's no response from the reciever..."

These words cut into Ciel's heart, like a hot knife through butter, like someone had just dropped a bucket of ice cold water on her. She turned around and she left the Command Centre.

"Ciel!"

The navigator called, but there was no response on screen, there was no response from Ciel either, she continued to walk out into area Zero, the spot where 200 years earlier the space station Eurasia colided with the earth, almost extinguishing life on the planet.

The residents of the Area Zero encampment and the resistance soldiers stationed there, looked up to the sky in awe. One of the children called out.

"Oh! A shooting star... Alot of shooting stars!"

Neije spoke up - Those are... fragments from Ragnarok, so... he did it...

Ciel runs up to them, they had never seen Ciel run like that, Cervaux quickly asks her:

"Ciel! Did you reach Zero?"

The desolated look on Ciel's face as she finaly stops panting from the sprint she had just taken says it all.

"Zero... Why..."

One of the resistance soldiers speaks up.

How could this happen... After saving all of us... And just when humans and reploids were finaly comming together... What do we do now?

There was silence for a few secconds

"It's ok..." Ciel says holding back her tears "I'm sure Zero is... Still out there... And one day he'll come back to us"

With this she runs off again towards a hill nearby while neije whispers to herself:

"Ciel..."

Ciel Ran and Ran untill she got to the top of the hill and finaly droped to her knees crying, she couldn't take it anymore, the pain was just too much and too real for her to take it, she cried like the broken hearted girl she was, the green of Area zero in the night looked pale now. the hill she was on had a great view of the surrounding area, and atop it rested a single tree. She was still sobbing when she saw it... one half of his helmet, the left half, the one that hadn't been nearly destroyed by omega, it was covered in blood, but more importantly, Zero wasn't attatched to it, Ciel, couldn't think anymore... She grabbed the helmet piece, and she walked down the hill, with a now blank expression on her face, she went to her room. she closed the door, she placed the remains of her fallen crimson knight on her desk and she cried...

Hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter of "A New Dawn". Leave a review telling me what i can improve on, if you spot any grammar errors that i might have missed and if you're enjoying the story so far and what roam do you think it will take next, untill then, this is SunWhisper, signing out.