Mar/13/2000

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Cinderella 21XX

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By Vile Deadboss

Chapter I: "CinderZero"

Once upon a time, there was a young reploid named Zero (okay I know he's not so young but just go along with it, okay?) And Zero, once lived with his father Dr. Wily, but Dr.Wily got so damn old and he needed someone to take care of Zero. By that time he was to old to get himself a woman, so what he did is he left to go down to his junk laboratory and stayed down there for a good week, leaving the young reploid Zero to wonder what Dr. Wily was doing? After the week flew by like a plasma shot, Dr. Wily finally came out of the lab all deranged and happy as a mad man like he usually is, only this time his reason was more madly scientificly outragous, and scared the hell out of poor Zero.

What did he create? Dr. Wily then sat down beside the kitchen table, drinking his fresh pot of coffee. "My son..." he started. Zero sat down across from Wily, quietly paying attention. "I think I may Die soon...and by then I won't be able to take care of you no more.." Wily hid his face behind his arm dramatically, choking back his tears and sniffles slightly. Zero sat there quietly confused with a sweatdrop eclipsed beside his head.

"So anyways, I'm old and about to Choke and Die and you will be left alone..." Wily then narrowed his eyes on Zero. "Are prepared for that fate?"

"Um...I think so?"

"Your wrong!!! there is so much for you to learn and thus I have created HIM to take care of you for me!!" Wily then jumped up quickly and waved his arms happily to another reploid that entered in the kitchen with a...charming smile? Zero's eyes widen out of shock when he saw his new care taker.

"His name is Sigma and he will take very good care of you while I'm dead." Wily sat down calming himself from all the excitment feeling very proud of himself, Wily then looked at the pot of coffee on the table and frowned. Something was missing.....

Zero had a bad feeling all the way through another two weeks when Wily took off to the lab again with Sigma. Something tells him that he was gonna live through hell literally.

A Year later Dr. Wily passed away sadly like he has said, and Zero was left alone with Sigma and his ....two step brothers? Vile and Agile, one who wears a mask at All times and the other who's face is always plastered with a stupid grin. Yep, things couldn't be more better for poor Zero.

Now Sigma was like a step Mother...er..Father. And he took good care of Zero of course for the last few decades, until Zero was old enough to help clean around Skull castle! (they inherited wily's skull castle so help 't think of anything better) but that just turned out for the worst for Zero when Sigma, Vile and Agile realized how Useful he really was around there.

They had Zero cleaning around the Fortress at all times, day and night. Not only that! Sigma became jealous always knowing that Zero was Dr. Wily's favorite back then. What was Vile's and Agile's excuse? Zero was more prettier then they were.

So the three reploids grew a certain hatred for Zero and they knew that they can't kill him, so putting him to work instead sounded more reasonable. How much reasonable can That get?

They tried to make Zero clean every corner of the fortress as much they could make him do.

With all the cleaning done, Zero's golden hair was in a mess and his clothes were ripped and dirty from all the dust that the castle had collected over the years.

Zero knew they weren't gonna keep their promise to Wily then, Zero didn't mind and decided to do what they say and do what he can to make them happy again.

Months went by and Zero ended up doing all the chores for Sigma, Vile and Agile, as all this was going on, not to far away there was a massive City aka Kingdom like and all. A big city full of reploids and humans, and in the middle of the city was a huge tower that seemed to reach the sky higher then all the buildings.

Deep in the tower was a huge throne like room that also was the ballroom, another young reploid walked about looking around the room which was well decorated and buffet tables sat about. He frowned to himself and looked down to the stylish yet fancy clothing that he wore around for awhile. What was he exactly?

"Prince X!" a voice chirped happily, and the young Prince shuddered by the call. X sighed, turning to see what his minister Storm Eagle wanted now? "Your highness! King Cain wants to know if your all ready for the ball this evening?"

"King Cain...??" X droned, Stormy just shrugged. X's face fell into his hands and cursed deep in his mind at the writer for putting him in that weird position. X then snapped back to attention and suddenly an idea came to his mind.

"You know Storm this place IS missing a few things...make notes!"

Storm Eagle nodded quickly and reached for a pikachu pen and a notebook with the sailormoon cover nearby, looking at them a bit baffled then shrugs quickly and prepared to write notes down for X.

"Alrighty then!" X started as he observed the huge room carefully inspecting it. "From the top...Kill the writer of this story when we are finished!"

"That's not possible sir.." Storm Eagle said as he shook his head slowly, it was now X's turn to be baffled.

"Why not?"

"Because it just isn't possible....Why not just tie him down and throw a sailor senshi fuku on him then throw him at some Rabid fangirl pit after?" Storm suggested, X gave that thought for a moment then looked to Storm with an amused grin.

"That sounds scary but very effective, Okay!" X chirped. "Be damned if a Zelgadis jumps at him though..." X muttered as he walked past Storm who blinked at that. "Zelgadis isn't a fangirl, Sir." resuming to follow X notebook still in hand.

As they walked through a long hallway they both got into an arguement on who's gonna put the sailor senshi fuku on the writer, halfway through the hall the second minister raised a confused brow at the prince and the first minister.

"Colonel! just the man I was looking for!" X broke the arguement there as he approached the tall neatly dressed reploid while Storm quickly made a few more notes and approached the two.

"um...X...er..I mean your Higness! I have some good news and bad news..."Colonel cleared his throat while X blinked waiting for either response. "what would you like to hear first?"

"Did the Deadboss choke on some chocobo wings?" X asked first.

"No, that would be the Very good news.."

"Damnit!"

"The good news would be is that all the invitations has been sent out all over the ....kingdom..." Colonel paused for a moment for X to catch that, but X only raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Invitations? been wondering what the ball was for..."

"Invitations for the ball and the idea for the ball was to look for a bride for you of course..."

"What!??! who decided this!!" X screeched out of shock, Storm tapped the pikachu pen on his beak out of thought for awhile til he realized that the little pikachu can light up! and started to 'coo' out of it's cuteness and amazement to light up.

A couple of sweatdrops eclipsed at Colonel's and X's head.

"er..um..it's part of the story X...We set up a ball to search for the perfect Bride for you!" Colonel digged deep in his grey overcoat looking for the script. Finding nothing he shrugged and folded his arms behind his back.

"But I dun wanna bride!!" X whined suddenly. "I'm to..to..young to get married!"

"Tell that to Deadboss..." Storm Eagle muttered, Colonel shrugged.

"Anyways...your Highness..." Colonel grinned at X after saying that, X gave him an evil glare. "The invitations have been sent out and we'll been expecting quite a lot of suitors for you pretty soon."

"soon? how soon?" X questioned. "And that's sounds like the bad news to me! what's the other story?"

"King Cain decided to go for a trip to Las Vegas and leave you with his mess here. So everything is in your hands! even the ball and such..."Colonel finished after, X's face darkened and a low growl was heard.

"I think this is a good time to leave you with your thoughts now!!" Storm Eagle chirped nervously as he zipped by the two reploids, Colonel agreed and took off with the bird-like reploid leaving X to scream curses and ran after them with his plasma cannon activated.

"Remember, he's only venting!" Storm screeched as he zipped by Colonel, unfortunate for Colonel he wasn't as fast as Storm nor couldn't fly at that point....

Back at Wily's castle Zero decided to clean the old lab of Dr.Wily's, among the dusty stuff he found a weapon there that suited his liking, a nice and shiny looking beamsaber of some sort. A light weapon that would make a nifty paperweight!

He also found the hilt for the weapon and found the whole set there, it wasn't long til one of his..er..Caretakers summoned him upstairs in need of his service for the last hundred times.

"Zero!" Vile shouted through the long hallway and seeing the crimson wonder walk out of the lab with a few stuff in hand. "There you are! Sigma has been looking for you."

"What does he want now?" Zero muttered as he slowly approached the reploid. Vile shrugged and mearly grinned under his mask, seeing that Zero was all dusty and his hair didn't have the golden sheen to it no more.

"I dunno, you have to ask him that yourself."

Zero frowned slightly and walked past Vile with some stuff in hand heading for the nearest closet to put the stuff in and sort them out later. Vile eyed the stuff Zero had and curiously followed him after. "What did you find down there CinderZero?"

"Don't call me that..." Zero snarled a bit annoyed. Placing the stuff down to the floor as he opened one of the closets and started to place whatever he could in it, yet neatly. Vile leaned against the wall watching him.

"Okay then, how about Zero-ella?" Vile grinned under his mask seeing Zero tense slightly by the name. Glaring at his direction for a bit and continued stuffing the items in the closet.

"Don't call me that either..."

"Well I'm supposed to call you something with the 'cinder' or 'ella' in it!" Vile noted. Zero shook his head as he tossed the last item in the closet and closing the door finally, facing Vile.

"Then that means I would have to call you one of the ugly sisters." Zero smirked, Vile shifted away from the wall, keeping his dark red gaze on Zero. "Now if you will excuse me..." Zero turned and made his way through the long corridor leaving the purple reploid to wonder.

Vile tapped at the side of his helmet trying to remember the names of the ugly sisters. "Dang it.. I can't believe I missed out on their names..."

Zero chuckled when he heard Vile halfway through the hallway, he then pulled out the beam saber and looked at it with a proud smile. That had to be one of his greatest finds for the day! about to pass by the entrance of skull castle the loud booming doorbell (you expect it to be fancy?) ranged causing Zero to pause and check on who would ever stop by Here?

Opening the doors slightly to see who, another reploid dressed in a blue suit stood outside and eyed the tall doors curiously til he noticed Zero and smiled cheerfully. Zero blinked at him.

"Good afternoon I am here to bring a message to the lord of this ....place..."

"Here?" Zero asked a bit confused as he opened the door more. "How did you find this place?"

"Easy! those two out there told me a cute girl and a lord lives out here!" The neatly dressed reploid said as he pointed a thumb back to a couple of robot twins that were observing the vehicle that the reploid came by with. Zero almost fell when upon noticing them..

"Techno and Middy?"

"Is that their names? oh well, assuming the lord is busy would you mind handing him this envelope, Ma'am?" The neatly dressed reploid said as he handed the letter to Zero who frowned at what the reploid said. "It's from the Palace and you for sure has to be there!"

Zero's frown dropped and blinked confused at the reploid. "Me?"

"Why yes! every maiden has to be there and The lord of this place shall be in trouble if everyone of them has not attended! eh?"

"Wait a minute...Are you calling me a Gi-!!" Zero almost growled but was pulled back by Vile who smiled kindly withen his mask.

"Now now Zero! er...Hi there! you said you were from the Palace?" Vile asked sweetly while keeping Zero down and a hand over his mouth, the tone so unusual made the reploid step back from the door as a sweatdrop eclipsed at the side of his head.

"Uh..yes and that envelope has the details for the upcoming..um..Ball! Well I have job to do, have a nice day!"

"Yes! Yes!! same to you!" and with that said, Vile dropped Zero and closed the door after the messenger left. Zero growled lowly at the purple reploid who grabbed the envelope and eyed the royal seal upon it.

"Now let's see what it says shall we?"

"But it's for Sigma to s-aaggh!!" Zero yelped as Vile sat on the blonde reploid while fiddling with the envelope.

"Now now CinderZero, Siggie won't know if I open it carefully!"

"I'm Not CinderZero Damnit!!!" Zero growled as he tried to squirm away from being under the rep. "and don't you dare open it!!"

Just as Vile was about to slip the seal off, a sudden grab on his shoulder was enough to have Vile's turn to yelp and hop off Zero right away. The envelope was slipped away from him during that moment, the tall rep eyed the envelope and the royal seal on it curiously just as Vile did earlier.

"What do we have here? a letter from the royal palace after so long?" Sigma said nonchalantly with a touch of curiousity, Vile folded his arms and pouted within his helm. "I wanted to read That!"

Ignoring Vile's whine, Sigma ripped the seal and opened the envelope to see what the palace has in mind for them, just as he slipped the letter from the envelope Agile then walked in the room wondering what the doorbell was about earlier? finding the rest of the group at the entrance he stepped up quietly to them with a raised brow.

Zero mumbled something about not cleaning Vile's room as he got up and brushed whatever dust off himself even though he knew that was hopeless.

Sigma cleared his throat, noting he was going to read the letter outloud, everybody stood with attention towards sigma except Vile who fruitlessly tried to read over the tall reploid's shoulder.

"It seems the royal prince is going to have a ball and those with these invites are allowed in, but Girls of all marriable ages are invited without the letter."

Vile blinked at the letter as he held onto the tall reps shoulder, feet off the ground. "The prince is having a ball just so he could have a Bride??"

"That's absurd!" Agile scowled, finding the whole thing detestable to him. "That is so..so.."

"Brilliant!" Sigma chirped, causing Vile to slip off his shoulder and fall to the floor with a metallic clang. "This is just the opportunity we need to take over the castle Dr.Wily has so hard tried to obtain! The Castle who belonged to the King Light!"

"King Light?" Zero twisted his lip slightly at the name, wondering why this whole thing did not sound right at all? "But Sigma...I don't remember father trying to obtain the castle.."

"Hush Zero! with a brilliant mind as his of course he would try to take over the castle for himself!"

"but.."

"Quiet! we need time to think how we are going to use this brilliant opportunity!" Sigma flinged the letter to Vile who got up and grabbed the sheets and begin to look through them finally while Sigma paced around the room in deep thought about this. Agile snorted.

"Time to think how were going to raid that Castle and kill it's king! and..and.."

"But we have no Army to do that oh brilliant one.." Agile reminded the taller rep. Sigma stopped short on his pace and frowned at Agile, not liking the idea that he was right.

"Oh? So how do you suggest we obtain the castle to our will?"

"uh guys..." Vile looked up to them. "The ball is..."

"I say we sneak in, kill the king and it's prince then take over what resembles royality that would give us power to own the castle as our will!" Agile grinned as he said this after.

Zero stood quietly with his arms folded, shaking his head at the idea. "That's stupid!"

"for once I agree with Zero, Agile." Sigma noted. Agile glared at Zero before turning to face Sigma.

"Oh so you think raiding the castle was brillaint? just with Three of us??"

"Three?" Zero blinked.

"I ain't including you House maid." Agile snorted.

"What!? why you..!" Zero snarled, tempted to go deck Agile but stopped himself as Sigma waved a hand to Zero.

"He's right, you cannot particapate on this raid, Zero."

"But I wanna see the castle!"

"Guys!" Vile Snapped after hopping around with the envelope and letter in both hands. "The ball...the ball Starts Tonight!"

"Oh my...so it means our opportunity is shorter then expected." Agile turned his gaze back to Sigma who was deeply in thought about this now.

"My plan of raiding the castle is out...so it seems we have no choice but to go with your idea Agile." Sigma huffed and stood straight, keeping his purple pupiless eyes on the now grinning again rep. Zero rolled his eyes at that.

"Uhm....Agile, for your plan you need to kill the king right?" Vile looked up from the letter and back to the two reploids.

"Yesss, both the King and the Prince.." Agile said calmly while polishing the handle of his lightsaber.

"Well which one of us has to go to Las Vegas for that one?"

"What?!" Agile and Sigma both screeched again causing Vile to fall over with a sweatdrop eclipsed at the side of his helm.

"Thuh-the King is not attending the Ball! he's on a trip to Las Vegas instead."

"Gimme That!" Agile snarled as he snatched the paper away from Vile and looked through it himself, sighing heavily after. "He's right..."

Zero blinked. "Uhm...if the king's not attending why let everyone know where he is..?"

"Maybe their hoping an idiot like Agile would kill him?" Vile said. The whole room went quiet for about few minutes til Agile raised a brow and thought over what Vile said.

"Hey!! Who are you calling an idiot you cretin!" Agile then snapped at the purple reploid who hopped to his feet with a snicker.

"ah...sad but true, What are we going to do now though? marry the prince ourselves?"

Sigma grinned suddenly, the grin so unusual and so wide that it actually made the reps cower and backed away from their fearless leader slowly. "By damned Vile....THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!"

"Huh?!" the sweatdrop appeared beside Vile's helm once more as it appeared the same on Zero and Agile.

"Sigma...your not suggesting that we.." Agile blinked.

"Zero! Show me those dresses you had found in the basement, we shall bring them up here and right away suit ourselves for the Ball!" Sigma said with brilliance.

Zero twitched at the idea slightly but composed himself and did what Sigma asked, heading for the basement as the fearless leader happily followed the blonde rep down the stairs. Leaving both Agile and Vile stunned and horrified at the idea.

"Th-That's...." Agile studdered slightly, unable to bring himself to say anything.

"now That's absurd!" Vile snapped, looking to where Sigma and Zero went. "I will not go through with that humiliation to marry a MAN!"

Just as he was about to take a step near the stairs Agile quickly grabbed Vile's shoulder in haste. "Wait!"

The purple reploid paused but still snarling between gnashing teeth within his helm, letting out a growling snap at the reploid behind him. "What?!"

"Maybe....maybe there is something to this plan.." Agile lowered his head in shame as he said this. Vile twitched at that. "With one of us married to...the Prince we could finally overtake the throne, one of us could kill him maybe..uh.."

"well You marry him!" Vile growled.

"I can't Marry him you idiot! you know you will have a better chance at marrying him then I!" Agile growled back. Vile pulled away from Agile with a horrified look within his helm.

"You..you..."

"Okay! Who wants to try the green one?" Sigma said so cheerfully that both the reps fell over at the sudden appearence. A sweatdrop still eclipsed at the side of Zero's head as he carried an armful of the gowns he found. Sigma blinked at the two collapsed reploids. "Well?? get up you two! you're both are going to the Ball dressed as women whether you like it or Not!"

Agile and Vile both looked at each other then groaned after knowing this was going to be a long, long day....

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To be continued....

Vile.D: actually it was supposed to be one long story but I was taking forever with this second half so I had to seperate them.
Second half is coming so hold on to your repliroid ponies.

Agile: why was I pushed into this?

Colonel: why am -I- the slow one?

Zero: -goes to look for that sailor fuku-

X: -goes with Zero-

Vile.D: -sweatdrops- on to the second half now...

BTW, All characters like X, Zero, Agile, Vile, Sigma etc belong to Capcom and not me! am just playing with them. and I know I shouldn't have to note cause you folks know that already, don't you?