AN: This story develops in the Buffy World a short while after Overdrive's
last chapter. It concerns only one character from Overdrive, but it does
involve a few other Buffyverse characters as it deals with a situation from
the show.
A pale blue hedgehog twitched slightly as he began to move. The light slowly drawing him awake. His eyes fluttered open and he scanned the wreckage around him, the computer parts of his being were empty as they reinitialized.
His mind was blank, no memories, no past, no history. A thought bubbled up within him.
"Who am I?"
He crawled to his feet, no answer coming from the rattled recesses of his mind.
Pain shot through his leg and he reached down, spotting an item that his mind identified as a crossbow bolt protruding from the leg, just above his sock.
Without a second thought, he ripped it out and stared at it for a moment before tossing it away as the wound sealed, the nanobots inside of his bloodstream already sealing the damage and healing him, not even leaving a scar as the wound simply shrunk and vanished within thirty seconds.
He tried to find his name, some self identification; one brushed his mind for a mere moment, "Cyber Sonic."
But then it vanished, the name didn't sound right, it was not who he was, his mind searched and compared probabilities from the little information he had, choosing a name that would suit him.
"I am Zero," he whispered, the tag identifying him now firmly in place.
He headed out of town as fast as he could, one of the programs within him left him rather paranoid and the destruction around where he had come to was not something he wished to be connected to.
The only stop that Zero made was to retrieve an interesting object, a sword that carried several streaks of dried blood, stains that matched the blood on his hand that he analyzed and confirmed was not his, the plot thickened.
Zero leaped off the roof of the bus and into the shadows of an alley, he had decided that it was in his best interest to leave town and headed to LA. His first major obstacle was that he didn't look human, so he hitched a ride up top.
His crimson eyes seemed to penetrate the darkness as he moved like a wraith, the stealth programs activating on reflex.
"Well, lookie here," a harsh voice said, and a brief glance from Zero in the direction identified the target as human, "A little snack!"
The identification changed to unknown as the targets face distorted.
It charged, its motions portraying that it was far stronger than it looked.
Zero classified it as hostile one for the moment and lashed out, the flat of the hand to the throat with a blow that would be capable of shattering bricks. The creature hit the far wall, the cybernetics augmented muscles reacting at full strength.
The audible shattering of bones filled the alley as Zero stepped towards the fallen beast, sensors on full, attempting to identify the hostile.
The creature clambered to its feet, something that made Zero step back, his mind reassessing the targets resilience and threat assessment, raising it by one notch.
It lunged at him, and Zero reacted instinctively by leaping vertically, grabbing hold of the bottom rungs of an old fire escape and driving his boots into his enemies face, dropping it again.
The cyborg yanked downwards, dropping the fire escape on his foe, the targets arms were spread wide, expecting to catch the pale blue hedgehog as it dropped, missing the two iron tips that imbedded in the upper arms.
"Pathetic," Zero said to himself as he crouched down, "Identify yourself, what are you."
"I'm Andy, I'm a vampire," the creature said as Zero got a far away look for a moment as his computer part accessed all data that it could find on the subject.
"Why did you attack me," the hedgehog continued with the same monotone voice.
"I drink blood, you're nothing but a meal!" the vampire roared as it freed itself.
"Interest, parameters of further contact with species vampire now defined," Zero said, crimson eyes seeming to grow colder as he stared at the vamp, forcing it back several steps, "Exterminate, with extreme prejudice."
Zero ripped the bottom rung off of the latter as lunged, grasping Andy by the throat and hefting him into the air without the slightest effort before slamming him into the wall. He rammed the metal spike through the creatures heart and bent it to the side, both ends firmly implanted in the wall behind the blood sucker as the hedgehog ripped off a second one.
"Interesting, you are resilient, I'll give you that, tell me how to kill you."
"No," Andy whimpered as Zero trapped his arms to his side with the second bar, each end breaking ribs and bones before its ends sunk into the wall.
"Perhaps my weaponry will work," the hedgehog said after cocking his head to the side for a moment, a red glow developing from the gloved hands.
The blast seemed burned through the head of the vamp, who seemed to crumble to dust in mid scream.
"Interesting," the cyborg hedgehog muttered to himself as he set off once more, no defined goals as to the location he was headed to.
A figure seemed to coalesce from the shadows before him.
"Are you lost?" the figure, revealed as a man as a stray streak of light from a street light reached in.
"Perhaps, I am searching for something."
"Perhaps I can offer you some guidance," the man responded calmly.
Zero thought for a moment as he was handed a card by the man, "I will consider it."
'That's all I ask," the man said, "I'm Ken by the way."
"My current identifier is Zero," the hedgehog responded without emotion.
Ken stepped out of his way as the cyborg set off once more, his scan of the man seeming to open up more questions then answers about the human.
A pale blue hedgehog twitched slightly as he began to move. The light slowly drawing him awake. His eyes fluttered open and he scanned the wreckage around him, the computer parts of his being were empty as they reinitialized.
His mind was blank, no memories, no past, no history. A thought bubbled up within him.
"Who am I?"
He crawled to his feet, no answer coming from the rattled recesses of his mind.
Pain shot through his leg and he reached down, spotting an item that his mind identified as a crossbow bolt protruding from the leg, just above his sock.
Without a second thought, he ripped it out and stared at it for a moment before tossing it away as the wound sealed, the nanobots inside of his bloodstream already sealing the damage and healing him, not even leaving a scar as the wound simply shrunk and vanished within thirty seconds.
He tried to find his name, some self identification; one brushed his mind for a mere moment, "Cyber Sonic."
But then it vanished, the name didn't sound right, it was not who he was, his mind searched and compared probabilities from the little information he had, choosing a name that would suit him.
"I am Zero," he whispered, the tag identifying him now firmly in place.
He headed out of town as fast as he could, one of the programs within him left him rather paranoid and the destruction around where he had come to was not something he wished to be connected to.
The only stop that Zero made was to retrieve an interesting object, a sword that carried several streaks of dried blood, stains that matched the blood on his hand that he analyzed and confirmed was not his, the plot thickened.
Zero leaped off the roof of the bus and into the shadows of an alley, he had decided that it was in his best interest to leave town and headed to LA. His first major obstacle was that he didn't look human, so he hitched a ride up top.
His crimson eyes seemed to penetrate the darkness as he moved like a wraith, the stealth programs activating on reflex.
"Well, lookie here," a harsh voice said, and a brief glance from Zero in the direction identified the target as human, "A little snack!"
The identification changed to unknown as the targets face distorted.
It charged, its motions portraying that it was far stronger than it looked.
Zero classified it as hostile one for the moment and lashed out, the flat of the hand to the throat with a blow that would be capable of shattering bricks. The creature hit the far wall, the cybernetics augmented muscles reacting at full strength.
The audible shattering of bones filled the alley as Zero stepped towards the fallen beast, sensors on full, attempting to identify the hostile.
The creature clambered to its feet, something that made Zero step back, his mind reassessing the targets resilience and threat assessment, raising it by one notch.
It lunged at him, and Zero reacted instinctively by leaping vertically, grabbing hold of the bottom rungs of an old fire escape and driving his boots into his enemies face, dropping it again.
The cyborg yanked downwards, dropping the fire escape on his foe, the targets arms were spread wide, expecting to catch the pale blue hedgehog as it dropped, missing the two iron tips that imbedded in the upper arms.
"Pathetic," Zero said to himself as he crouched down, "Identify yourself, what are you."
"I'm Andy, I'm a vampire," the creature said as Zero got a far away look for a moment as his computer part accessed all data that it could find on the subject.
"Why did you attack me," the hedgehog continued with the same monotone voice.
"I drink blood, you're nothing but a meal!" the vampire roared as it freed itself.
"Interest, parameters of further contact with species vampire now defined," Zero said, crimson eyes seeming to grow colder as he stared at the vamp, forcing it back several steps, "Exterminate, with extreme prejudice."
Zero ripped the bottom rung off of the latter as lunged, grasping Andy by the throat and hefting him into the air without the slightest effort before slamming him into the wall. He rammed the metal spike through the creatures heart and bent it to the side, both ends firmly implanted in the wall behind the blood sucker as the hedgehog ripped off a second one.
"Interesting, you are resilient, I'll give you that, tell me how to kill you."
"No," Andy whimpered as Zero trapped his arms to his side with the second bar, each end breaking ribs and bones before its ends sunk into the wall.
"Perhaps my weaponry will work," the hedgehog said after cocking his head to the side for a moment, a red glow developing from the gloved hands.
The blast seemed burned through the head of the vamp, who seemed to crumble to dust in mid scream.
"Interesting," the cyborg hedgehog muttered to himself as he set off once more, no defined goals as to the location he was headed to.
A figure seemed to coalesce from the shadows before him.
"Are you lost?" the figure, revealed as a man as a stray streak of light from a street light reached in.
"Perhaps, I am searching for something."
"Perhaps I can offer you some guidance," the man responded calmly.
Zero thought for a moment as he was handed a card by the man, "I will consider it."
'That's all I ask," the man said, "I'm Ken by the way."
"My current identifier is Zero," the hedgehog responded without emotion.
Ken stepped out of his way as the cyborg set off once more, his scan of the man seeming to open up more questions then answers about the human.