BCRS
Blast From The Past
Aile executed a back flip, shooting the approaching galleons with pinpoint accuracy before effortlessly landing on a nearby car. The galleons fell like flies before her, but no matter how many she shot, their numbers would not decline. For every galleon that fell, two seemed to take its place, and soon Aile found herself overwhelmed by shier weight of numbers.
"There's too many of them, you can't last much longer Aile, you have to fall back." Model X pleaded. "Yea kid, these guys aren't going anywhere soon, you can come for them later." Model Z added.
Aile switched from her buster to her Z saber before lunging at the approaching mob of galleons. "We leave now and there's no telling what these things might do", she replies before slicing madly through the galleons with her Z saber, taking out between three and five of them with each slash, "No telling what they might destroy" she ads before slashing two gyrocopters clean in half, "And no telling who they might injure" she finishes before changing back to her buster as their numbers finally start to decline. "This one's for you Giro!" she shouts as one final charge shot drills through the remaining galleons.
With the threat seemingly over, Aile fell to her knees sobbing at the thought of the now departed Giro. Within the space of a few days the life she knew ended…, she lost her friend and guardian for so long…, and she found out who was responsible for the raid on the amusement park those many years ago…
The very thought that the one everyone held up to be a hero, actually caused all this, both sickened and saddened her.
Her memories however were soon interrupted by tremors, weak at first but getting stronger and stronger until gradually five enormous galleons came into view.
"Aile, you may have beaten the galleons, but in your weakened state you don't stand a chance against their commanders." Model X warned, as he pleaded her to retreat.
Acknowledging, Aile quickly tried getting up but soon collapsed back on her knees unable to hold herself on her feet, her injuries and exhaustion finally proving too much to bare. And as the first of the giant galleons raises its weapon at her, she looks defiantly into its robotic eyes in preparation for the shot that was to come.
But in a true Deux Ex Machina moment, a voice coming from on top of a nearby building draws the galleons' attention preventing them from shooting. "Hey big, bad & ugly" the voice called out "Didn't anyone ever teach you that you never attack opponents who can't defend themselves!"
Aile is mystified by the sight of this young boy with brown eyes and spiky brown hair, a white shirt, orange sleeveless vest, short black pants with a yellow line running down on each side, orange snickers, a blue headband with a divided red and yellow metal insignia in the middle and a look of determination on his face, who apparently thinks nothing of challenging the five galleon commanders.
The galleon commanders instantly open fire with their arm cannons, causing the boy to jump head first off the building before it is hit, holding an odd rectangular device in one hand, and a microchip in the other.
Seconds later as the boy is nearing the ground and the first galleon commander, he shouts a battle cry and in a bright white light, changes into a type of amour consisting of blue boots and gloves with green gems, bright yellow shoulder pads, a two-toned body suit which was mostly a dark navy blue with light blue stripes that ran up his sides, around his shoulder pads, down his arms, two across his legs, and down diagonally to the same crest he had on his headband, now at the center of his chest. He had the same crest for earpieces on his helmet and finally a pack of some sort on his back, also two toned.
"Wide Sword, battle chip in, DOWNLOAD!" the cobalt warrior cried out. And in an instant his right hand changed into a oddly shaped energy sword which cut through the first galleon like paper, just as our hero made a soft landing between Aile and the other galleons. "You ok?" He asked as he turned towards Aile. "I'll live." Came the reply.
With that the cobalt warrior turned back to face the other four galleons and with another swift slash, cuts the forth galleon's weapon just as it was discharging. However, since galleon firearms don't quite like being cut, this action inadvertently causes it to detonate, completely destroying its owner and knocking both Aile and the cobalt warrior against a nearby wall, and while the cobalt warrior is barely fazed, Aile succumbs to her injuries and is knocked unconscious.
"All right you metal monstrosity. You asked for this!" With that our blue hero, dashes in a zigzag pattern towards the third galleon, slashing it with his sword, then slides under the forth cutting it clean in half from head to toe.
"Four down, one to go" he rhetorically added as he set his right foot on the now two for one galleon commander, "Now where's he hiding I wonder." The warrior took his leg off of the shattered galleon and began slowly walking towards the other mangled galleons.
However, he didn't take many steps before, startled by a noise, he turned around just in time for the fifth galleon to thrust his sword clean through our cobalt clad hero's neck. He screamed in pain clutching the sword, before finally going limp on the galleon's blade. For the simple minded galleon, once the first threat has been eliminated the next threat must be engaged, and so in keeping with it's programming it approaches the still unconscious Aile intent on finishing her off as well.
But, as the galleon marches towards Aile, something remarkable happens. Our cobalt warrior slowly begins raising his right hand, placing it on the base of the galleon's sword, and then raises his head, looking directly at the galleon before adding in a low tone. "That wasn't a very nice thing to do" in a lighter, more humorous tone "Though I do appreciate the reminder to take my daily iron supplements" and in a shout "Hero Sword, battle chip in, DOWNLOAD!"
And sure enough, his right hand changes into another oddly shaped sword which is then promptly used to slash the hapless galleon to bits, causing it to finally drop it's own blade and our hero who lands softly on his legs.
"Sliced and diced. Anyone up for maverick sushi?"
The boy's body started glowing, his helmet, crest, gloves, boots, shoulder pads, and the pack on his back lifted off him before breaking apart. The glow also removed itself from his person and gathered in front of him, coming together and turning into a small blue and white device which fell into his awaiting hand.
"Nice fight. The bad guys are in peaces, the girl is saved, and collateral damage is at an all-time low." a voice coming from the newly formed device spoke out to the boy. "Thanks." The boy replied. "Though, was that dramatic scene with the sword through your neck really necessary?" the voice asked in a patronizing tone. "Neah, what can I say…its fun fooling around every now and then." The boy added while smiling happily. "Aaaarrrrggghh…I am a zombie from… beyond the grave… here to eat you…" he further jokingly adds while making zombie like movements, the galleon's sword still firmly embedded through his neck only adding to the realism.
"Yea whatever, we should get her to a doctor." the voice adds as the boy is kneeling before Aile.
Some time later, as Aile is starting to regain consciousness, she realizes that the boy is carrying her in her arms, and dizzily manages to speak a few words. "Thanks for the help. My name is Aile." she weakly speaks out. "Hey, glad to see you're awake. Don't mention it, I'm just glad I was able to help." He replies to her. "I'm Lan Hikari, and this is my best friend Megaman" he further ads, as a hologram of a dark blue suited, yellow shoulder padded, light blue helmeted, gloved, and booted figure appears, hovering in midair in front of them.
"Nice to meet you." Aile weakly replies. "Though, why exactly do you have a sword through your neck?" She then proceeds to ask. To which Lan smilingly replies "Long story short, thought I'd keep it as a souvenir. Now rest, you've been through a lot lately."
And with that, Lan arrives at the teleporter and as its door is opening, the two ends of the swords fall to the ground, the ends that were in touch with Lan's flesh looking as though they've just been melted by acid.
Dun Dun Dunnn!
Ah, back for another one of my stories are you now.
Well, I've tried very hard as you can see to make this story the best it can be, and so to that end not only is the writing style different, but also the action starts right away since I wanted this story to be a stark contrast to my other Megaman NT Warrior story, Star Force which is a prequel of sorts to this one (No serious need to read it first, since the only things linked to it will probably be some passing mentions of its events and mabe a cameo appearance by the navigator in the end).
Whereas Star Force is going into it's seventh chapter and the action has yet to begin, this one's action starts immediatly.
A measure which I hope would bring in more reviews since:
a) I really want to know what I'm doing wrong;
b) I suspect that the lack of action as well as the style of Star Force may be why it hasn't recieved a review since chapter 4
Oh well, happy reading...