Hey everyone! Did you guys miss me? It's been a very, very, VERY long time, but I'm back, and here with the story you've all been waiting for.
That's right! The 2nd phase of the Megaman Project is here. Tribal End!
If any of you are new to this Project and never read my Phase 1 fic, then click my profile link and scroll down and find the story named:
The Guardian of Mu: Solo
Read it and review it for me, and then get over here and read and review some more. I wanna hear all the things you've got to say for each and every chapter in detail if you can. If not, a simple good work is alright.
Oh, and before I forget, this fic is also being co-authored by a good friend of mine, Animegirl257, who also has some great stories. I recommend that you read them too.
Disclaimers: I do not own Megaman, cause if I did, Keiji Inafune would still be here, making the next part of them.
Now without further ado, here's Chapter 1 of Tribal End!
Chapter 1: A Night of Training
The night was young; stars glimmered and winked down on the world from their perches. Some cities shined back at them even brighter, fueled by their EM wave technologies. However, intertwined with it was another world unseen by the naked eye, existing and forming roads that wrapped around and connected all over the world.
Three lights traveled down these roads, moving rapidly and irregularly.
Two streaking lights, green and pink, trailed only a little behind the purple light. With a violent flash the three lights collided, the colors twisting into pure white at the points of impact. A moment later the lights peeled away, reviling the forms hidden beneath.
The pink light reviled a young girl in dress-like armor of the same color set over her black bodysuit, her boots and helmet colored the same. A gold border surrounded the heart-shaped breastplate, golden rings also ending the pink and white-striped sleeves. A long white scarf was wrapped around her neck, contrasting sharply with her short blond hair. Her hands held firmly onto a sky blue guitar with a face at the end of it, a mic held in its 'hands'.
Beside the girl the green light died away and presented a similarly dressed boy. Oddly toned purple hair stuck up from the gap in the back of the blue helmet. Blue armor laid over the dark blue suit, twin yellow stripes running smoothly down the sides, disappearing into the thick boots her wore. Of course, few people paid all that nearly as much attention as they did to the beast-like head that was attached to the end of his left arm, green fire-like waves consuming his arm up to his elbow.
They both panted in exhaustion as they looked at where their shared foe stood, "This is too much… we can hardly even keep up with him…" the girl said.
He nodded, "No matter what we do, he's easily able to dodge and counterattack."
"I hope you aren't done. If so, you won't stand a chance for the fights to come," a third voice spoke to them.
The voice belonged to yet another boy with wild hair that seemed even whiter coupled with his almost pure black outfit, a red crest and simple grey shoulder and neck armor being the only thing to decorate the black suit her wore. The black cat suit disappeared seamlessly into the dark armor. A slotted red ring covered the ends of the armor, a single red spine protruding outward. What looked like unearthly purple fire surrounded his right hand and contained with a thick bracelet, his X-shaped visor mimicking the color perfectly.
"Alright Rogue, I get that we're supposed to be training and all that, but why can't we just use our Tribe powers and show you who's boss?" the left arm of the boy spoke out irritably, glaring at the one dubbed Rogue.
Rogue looked at the head like he was stupid, "It is precisely because you are far too reliant on its powers to win your battles that you are not allowed to use it here. If you are ever in a situation where you cannot use it, what will you do then? You need to hone your own skills so that you can take on anyone that attacks you without help," Rogue responded.
"He's got a point, Omega-Xis. We have been using the OOPArts' powers a bit too much when we fight, and there might be times when we can't use it," the boy agreed, looking at the head that replaced his left arm.
Omega-Xis merely huffed at that, "You're too soft, Geo. He's just scared cause we can totally kick his butt when we use the power," he retorted.
Rogue held back the urge to roll his eyes at that. Clearly the alien lacked the intelligence necessary to understand that he didn't fear something like that. He was always to focused on the one thing he deemed important to see the big picture.
"Well, whether that's the case or not, why do I have to do this? You do realize that I have a concert coming up soon, right?" the girl asked, clearly displeased.
"Sonia has too much work to be coming out here late at night of all times. If you want to train, at least choose a time where she isn't already busy, what with the new contract she just signed for," the face on the guitar that held the mic agreed.
Irritated with the pointless chatter, Rogue jumped to the air and let the flames on his right fist flair wildly before they flew outward, quickly taking form. The four looked up in shock at the sudden unprovoked attack, quickly scattering.
Sonia pivoted on her heel until she faced her supposed ally, "What was that-"
Rouge didn't bother letting her finish, instead allowing his frequency to destabilize until a translucent white aura covered him. Without any hesitation his hand shot forward and through her chest, turning upwards and grabbing the back of her head.
Geo was taken aback by this, but recovered quick enough and ran towards the pair, intent on breaking the fight up. Rouge saw this and just managed to resist the urge to scoff, twisting his hand around and throwing Sonia at the blue bomber.
Geo had just enough time to see the incoming projectile before Sonia crashed into him and knocking both of them backwards. Geo let out a small groan of pain, having absolutely no desire to look up from where he'd ended up on his stomach and Sonia crushing his lower back.
Sonia, however, had no such desires, "Pervert! You don't do that!" she crossed her arms protectively over her chest as she stood up angrily, "You don't put a hand on a girl's chest like that!"
Rouge ignored her.
"You two need a lot more training before you can take what is to come," he said, before being enveloped in a swirl of purple light, revealing his original form, "I can't even fathom how you managed to defeat nine FM-ians on your own." He had learned a while back about the attacks from FM and the EM beings that struck the planet and how Geo had defeated them.
"… Cancer didn't really count, and Gemini was just one FM that split into two," Geo said with a groan as he also pulled himself up, "… And Gemini also killed the other FM-ians…"
"You still fought them though, but I'm starting to doubt the power of these FM-ians," Solo said, watching impassionedly as Geo and Sonia followed his lead and released their wave forms, though Sonia kept glaring at him.
"Sorry Solo. Guess it's just hard for us to get the hang of having to fight so long in our wave forms. Usually we're never on them for longer than a few minutes, since that's how long those fights would usually last," Geo explained, up to this point almost all their fights had been about landing crippling hits instead of endurance and conserving their energy. Even traveling vast distances didn't take long and didn't use up too much energy.
"That's what you need to get used to. Having to fight for an extended periods of time will raise your endurance and allow you finer control of your EM Wave Change form," Rogue, or rather Solo, stated as if it was common knowledge.
Sonia was still looking at him with heated anger in her eyes, Geo doing the smart thing by inching away from the other two, "Are you ignoring me? Haven't you ever learned that you cannot touch a girl's chest like that?"
"For the record, I didn't actually touch you. My hand went through you since I was intangible and I allowed only my hand to become tangible enough to grab the back of your head after it had passed through you. If you two actually practiced, you might be able to do something similar," he corrected, unfazed by the girl's returning glare.
He turned and walked away, speaking before Sonia had a chance to say something else that he really wouldn't have cared about, "Meet me tomorrow night, and be ready. We have a lot of work to do before you guys are anywhere near ready to take them on."
With that, Solo transformed again and vanished in a flash of purple light. Sonia shouted several insults after him, Geo raising an eyebrow at the girl's extensive vocabulary. After a moment Sonia settled for silently fuming.
Geo was trying to not show his exhaustion, even as his entire body felt weak without the extra energy fueling and supporting it and it amazed him that Sonia could still have so much energy. Several hours of chasing, dodging and fighting had drained him, and now there was no adrenaline to help him ignore the aches and pains he could feel growing, "He does have a point though… I can actually feel myself getting stronger. The first time we did this, we could hardly move after changing back."
"Yeah, that's true. But we're still far from being anywhere near as skilled as Solo on our own. We can barely touch him. Makes me wonder if he held back those times we fought before," Sonia said, remembering how they once fought Rogue and triple teamed him, with even Cancer on their side, and he still overwhelmed them. Only a few hits on him and that was it.
"Bah! He's got nothing on us when we're in our Zerker form. Twice we kicked his butt with that, and we didn't even break a sweat!" Omega-Xis said from the hand held device known as the Star Carrier.
However, the voice from Sonia's Star Carrier started speaking. "And that's exactly the reasoning that will make you lose. Solo's right about you wanting to use that form too much. The rest of us don't have that advantage like you, or did you forget that?"
"If the stupid thing's going to be stuck inside me, then I might as well use it!" Omega-Xis reasoned.
"But from what I remember, you used to be a proud warrior of FM that hated getting help. Oh how you've fallen so far."
"What did you say, you out-of-tune harp?!" Omega-Xis shouted through the Star Carrier. Pretty soon, the two EM beings were arguing and Geo and Sonia had to step in to get them to stop.
"But you know… I can't believe that soon enough, a lot of fights will be happening…" Geo muttered, looking at the starry sky as he walked alongside Sonia. It had gotten so dark so fast.
"Yeah. EM wave virus activities are on the rise too. It's clearly a sign that they're getting ready to fight us. And apparently the very fate of the world hangs in the balance… again," Sonia replied, almost overwhelmed by the idea that they have to fight for the safety of the world again.
Last time, she didn't feel like she was much help since she was more of a distraction or was rendered unconscious early on. This time, she wanted to, would be, a lot more useful. That's what this training was for.
After walking a while, Geo looked at his Star Carrier for the time, and then back at Sonia. "Well, I have to go now. See you tomorrow, Sonia," he waved, smiling, as he ran off.
"Bye Geo," she waved back, smiling, before sighing to herself after Geo was gone from her viewpoint. Despite being enthusiastic about the training and wanting to get stronger, sometimes she wondered just how much difference it would make. There was so much at stake here, and this threat might be even more dangerous than the FM-ians and Andromeda.
Last time they had lucked out and had three insanely powerful AM life forms on their side. If those three hadn't stepped in and given Geo their power when they did, if they hadn't helped when Gemini had revived Andromeda…
"Let's go, Lyra…" she muttered to her partner as she transformed and took off to her place.
And… that's it! So how was the first chapter of Tribal End? Was it good? Was it bad? Let me know in a review in detail if you could.
To those that are unaware of what it is that they are fighting for and why Solo/Rogue is with them, training them, then I recommend that you read the previous story.
So far the story will be straightforward and easy to understand, but later on, there'll be some more twists and turns that'll keep you to the edge of your seats, hopefully.
Well, until next time, later.