Alright, this is Rockman Zero, inspired by S Prime's work "The Crimson Maiden". However, there's a little twist. Not only Zero, but X and the four guardians are created as girls too. This may be interesting. Also, none of this characters belong to me. They belong to Inti Creates. So don't go suing me. But the plot may turn out slightly different from the game itself.

Welp, this is the revamp version. Hope you enjoy some of the changes.

A few terms explained for those who are not familiar with Rockman Zero's universe.

Reploids: A breed of androids that are able to think and feel by themselves, like humans do, which also opened the possibility of reploids rebelling against the humans. The name reploid comes from the combination of the words replica and android, and the fact that they were created when a human scientist, Dr. Cain, who tried to replicate the first android with emotions, named X, whom he had found on an old archeological site. Unable to do it properly, Dr. Cain opted for an alternate form of androids, later known as reploids or "imperfects". They are often built with a fixed purpose or theme in mind, and they come in the most diverse of kinds. Mythos reploids are reploids created by Neo Arcadia to protect humans, their designs are based on mythological beings.

Mechaniloids: Machine-like robot that was created with a very special task in mind. Their purpose is usually to handle menial tasks for the humans, such as repairs, construction and many other tasks. The mechaniloids, unlike the reploids, are unable to think for itself and can also be reprogrammed easily. Golems are mechaniloids specifically used for warfare and security means.

Cyber elves: Each Cyber-elf is a sentient computer program created with pure energy and made in a physical image of an elf. As Cyber elves get stronger, they become more human in appearance, while looking like small blobs while weak. There are three categories of Cyber elves: Nurse, Animal, and Hacker. Cyber elves were created during the last years of the Maverick Wars, and designed to combat against the Maverick Virus, that turned reploids to anti-human Mavericks. The use of Cyber elves ended the war in four years but at the cost of wiping out approximately 90% of the reploids and 60% of the humans.

Mavericks: Or irregulars as some call them, are reploids or mechaniloids whose flaws has been exploited, which makes them no longer able to think rationally and occasionally displays a very violent behavior. Though, there have been several cases when a reploid went maverick as a conscious choice or because of political divergence with the current government.

Resistance: A group of reploids labelled as Mavericks by Neo Arcadia. Although they oppose Neo Arcadia and its government, they mean no harm to anyone, and fight only to defend themselves and those facing oppression. In fact, the leader seeks to end this fightings through more peaceful means.

Neo Arcadia: Considered an utopia, Neo Arcadia is the metropolis that govern the residents, reploids and human, that live in the city. Created a century ago by X, a legendary reploid, Neo Arcadia was ruled by herself, the Four Guardians, and the Eight Gentle Judges.

The Four Guardians (Shitennou): Consist of four elite reploids, commanders of Neo Arcadia's army forces. Kenshou "Sage" Harpuia, commander of Rekku Army, Neo Arcadia's military air forces. Inshou "Hidden" Phantom, commander of Zan'ei Army, Neo Arcadia's stealth squadron units. Youshou "Fairy" Leviathan, commander of Meikai Army, Neo Arcadia's military navy. And lastly, Toushou "Fighting" Fefnir, commander of Jin'en Army, Neo Arcadia's land troops.

There will be a little twist, or deviation, whatever you call it, from the original plot of the game's storyline, this being Zero, X, and the Shitennou's change in gender and combat skills(their elements remain unchanged). The plot here will go according to the sequence of the missions I play, along with changes made in the storyline. Well then, I hope you will enjoy this.

Chapter 1

Awakening

Neo Arcadia, a metropolis governing the humans and reploids that live peacefully in it. An utopia, considered by its residents, to those who are able to accept both reploids and human living together. Neo arcadia is ruled by X, the legendary reploid, the female saviour, who risked her life during the Maverick Wars, and had saved the lives of over a billion of people, humans and reploids alike. X, the saviour, was considered the angel who descended from heaven to save the world.

However, there was another legendary reploid, another reploid fighter. Legend had it said that this particular reploid assisted X during the war, helping her whenever the heroine had troubles by herself. Sadly, no record was written for this reploid. No pictures, no videos, even this particular reploid's name had escaped many. And thus the reploid's legend was hidden, buried in some place where no one knew, nor found out, and was put to sleep for eternity. Or so it should be...

Beneath the city of Neo Arcadia...

The forest was peaceful, with several different primitive creatures lounging around, looking nothing more than bored and lazy. Suddenly, several gunshots echoed among the trees, sending the animals scurrying for quick covers. Almost right after the animals were safe in their hideouts, a group of soldiers in green uniforms burst out from a tall bush and started running quickly, followed by a young blond-haired girl dressed in pink, supported by two of the soldiers. Her appearance and age made her stand out from the group of trained soldiers.

Seconds later, a larger group of blue, one-eyed, and armed reploids appeared from the bushes, firing their arm cannons and pursuing the former group.

"Quick!" One of the soldier at the back of the group yelled to his comrades in front. "They are catchi-Gargh!" His words were cut off by a blast which tore through his chest, shattering his torso into pieces.

"No!" The girl turned back and stifled a screamed at the sight.

"Shit! Ciel! This way!" The soldiers made a sharp turn around a thick trunk of a tree and continued running with their full speed. "Don't stop, Ciel, keep going!" One of the soldiers turned the girl around and they followed the rest through the thick forest.

"B-But Milan!" The girl, Ciel, started to tear up at the corners of her eyes.

"We have to get you back to safety." Milan said as he ushered her. "We can't risk having you injured, or worse, dead in this mission!"

A sudden rumble of the ground caused everyone to stumble onto their knees. "What the hell is that?" Some of the soldiers cursed as they tried to get up as fast as they can. Ciel leaned on her elbows and tried to push herself up. She heard a low rumbling behind her and turned to see a large mechaniloid looming over her body, the laser cannon at its mouth charged up and ready. Ciel could only stare with dreaded fear as the laser hit the ground and began to approach her rapidly.

"Watch out!" One of the soldiers pushed Ciel aside. However, he himself did not escape fast enough and stumbled. Soon, the beam caught up with him and he was disintegrated into molten ash along with other unfortunate ones caught in the blast.

"Come on Ciel!" Milan quickly went over to Ciel and picked her up. "We have to get moving."

"M-Milan!"

"Come on!" The remaining soldiers started running with Ciel. The mechaniloids picked up several movements ahead within their sensors and made their way towards them, attempting to stop, or destroy the group.

"Hah...hah...hah..." Ciel slowed down to a stop in front of an oddly decorated wall, panting from after the seemingly never-ending running. "This...a dead end?" She asked after settling her breathing.

"No." A cyber-elf, which had flew alongside Ciel all the time, spoke up. "I feel something...a strong energy signal ahead, just beyond this door." The small cybernetic creature flew towards the wall, which turned out to be a gate of some sort. "This must be the place."

"Don't tell me..." Ciel approached the wall, when a control panel suddenly appeared from the side corner of it. "Is this where the legendary ruin is located? Is this...our only hope?"

"Go away!"

"Eh? What?" Ciel looked around, searching for the source of the voice. "I heard someone's voice."

"Who are you? Why are you disturbing my sleep? What are you planning?"

"Who is it?" Ciel asked, continuing looking around for the speaker.

"Don't...Please...don't bother me...don't...don't get involved with me..."

"Who...Who's talking to me?" Ciel turned towards the door, after realising that the voice seemed to echo from it.

"Please, I beg of you, whoever you are. Please let me sleep, for eternity."

"Ciel?" Milan patted her shoulder, snapping her back to reality. "What wrong?"

"Ah. No...nothing at all." Ciel shook her head a little. "Let's keep going." She went towards the control panel and started typing on it. "Not good." She continued typing on it, trying to find a way to unlock the gate. "Most of the data here are corrupted. There's no way to open the door with the codes."

"There can be only one way. Leave this to me" Milan said as he walked towards the door and pasted packs of explosives on it. "Stay back, Ciel." The rest of the soldiers brought Ciel back a distance and prepared to shield her from the explosion.

Milan finished up with positioning the explosives and jogged back towards them. He nodded towards them and they covered Ciel securely as Milan jammed his thumb onto a button. The explosives beeped for a few seconds before taking the large gate apart with a huge explosion. Zero! Save us! Ciel thought desperately as she held onto her hair to keep them from flying wildly. Please...Save us!

The dust settled, revealing the torn gate and darkness beyond it. Suddenly, shuffling of running feet was heard, approaching them. "Damn! The explosion caught their attention." One of the remaining soldiers said. "You should go." He turned to Milan and Ciel. "We'll take care of them." The soldiers aimed at the bushes and started firing, expectedly receiving return fires from the enemies.

Ciel, Milan, and the cyber-elf entered the door. Instantly, lights switched on with several echoing clicks to reveal a large, worn down room inside, and a humanoid figure kneeling at the middle of it. Ciel noticed that dozens of cables, connected from the ceiling of the room, were attached onto the back of this figure, whose hands were tied to the back. Milan approached the figure slowly to have a closer look at it. What he found out made him gasp out in shock. "This...this must be..." Ciel close in to have a clearer look as well.

The figure was clad with red vambraces at the forearms, armoured breastplate lined with gold wrapped the upper torso, greaves on the shins and calves of the leg, just covering the shin-high boots. The helmet was topped with red arrow-shaped fins, joined together at the front tip of it, where slightly above rested a dust covered, due to a very long time of stillness, turquoise gem, and lastly was two white sharp eclipses on either side of the head, over the position of the ears. Blond locks lighter than Ciel's draped over the shoulders of the figure, as uneven fringe shrouded the eyes in shadow.

The whole helmet looked worn, peppered with cracks and various areas chipped off. The figure seemed to wear a crimson sleeveless vest, coupled with somewhat a mixture of a skirt and a waist cape, hiding a grey tight-fit shorts beneath. The base of the figure's helmet, the area from the doll-like joints of the shoulders to the elbows, and the thighs to the knees were covered by a thin layer of black skin-like casting, topped with ceramic coloured platings. The lower torso from the bottom of the vest to the top of her hips was dressed in green under-shirt, tucked into a chrome belt which hugged her waist and held her skirt in place.

The feature of the face and the curves of the body revealed the figure to be a young woman sleeping peacefully, despite being in a very uncomfortable position. "She's like a doll, a porcelain doll." Milan added in his mind.

"This...this must be Zero." Ciel muttered softly.

"We've found him...I mean, her at last. Can't believe that Zero is actually a she." Milan reached for the figure, getting a huge shock from an invisible barrier. "Ow! Damn!"

"It's protected by a cyber barrier." The cyber-elf piped in.

"What should we do?" Milan flicked his hand around to ease the pain. "The barrier is strong enough to prevent everything from breaking in."

"Or something from breaking out." Ciel added softly.

"Uwargh!" A pained scream made them turn their heads towards the door, one to see the last of their comrades fell onto the ground, torn and mangled. Seconds after the body touch the ground, several shots were heard followed by a torrent of bullets flying towards them.

"Watch out!" Milan jumped forward and shielded Ciel from the bullets, one of the bolts chipping his shoulder. "Ugh! We're cornered, we have to evacuate!"

"But...but..."

"We have no time to argue over this!" A bullet tore through his dark green armour. "Argh!" He flew back and landed beside Ciel heavily.

"Milan!" Ciel rushed to his side, frozen stiff when she realised the last of the soldiers protecting her was already nearing his death.

"Ci...el..." The dying veteran soldier's trembling hand slowly reach reached for the girl's cheek and wiped a dripping tear away.

"Don't force yourself, Milan." Ciel wasted to search into her waist pouch for recovery energy crystals. That was, until a hand fell onto her and gripped it tightly. Ciel looked back to Milan in shock to see him smiling to her.

"Don't...waste it..." Milan muttered in between his grimace. "I...know...I'm alrea...dy damaged...beyond repair."

"But...But Milan!"

"Wipe...your tears." Milan continued, forcing a smile in hope to calm the girl. "They don't...suit...your cute face." He then turned his wavering gaze to face the ceiling. "Passy. You...there?"

"Sir." The cyber-elf beside Ciel hovered to the other side of Milan, opposite of Ciel. "You called, sir?"

"My job...ends here..." The soldier grimaced as sparks burned through his power reactor. "Do what you can...to protect Ciel, 'kay?"

"Ro...roger that, sir." The tiny mass of data saluted, tears already flowing from the edges of her eyes. "I will do what I can."

"Passy?" Ciel turned to stare at the cyber-elf in shock. "Passy, what are you going to do?"

"You have to use my power. My power which can wake her up." The small creature said. Slowly, the cyber-elf began to glow brighter. "You have no other choice!"

"What?!" Ciel stood up. "Passy, if I do that, you will..."Die!

Just then, the reploids had already charged through the broken door, and were closing onto the two, their arm cannons aimed and ready to shoot.

"You bastards are...not getting pass me!" Milan growled as he forced himself to sit up. He painfully aimed his assault rifle at the enemies. "Passy! Do it!" He roared as fired several shot at the wave of reploids, followed by a grenade tossed at the place within the group. The detonation took the rest out, effectively blocking the passageway it the debris.

"Ciel, don't worry about me." The cyber-elf smiled softly at Ciel, its power reaching it maximum. It flew into Ciel chest and hugged the girl. "You have to live on." It turned towards the figure they found, protected by the barrier, its expression determined.

"Passy...no..." Ciel's voice was drowned by the sound of power surging from the small elf.

"Remember, Ciel." The cyber-elf shot towards the figure as fast as it could. "Everyone is waiting for you safe return."

"Passy!" Ciel could only watch and scream as the small creature charged full speed towards the invisible barrier. Thank you Ciel, for all these times. The elf thought as it slammed into the cyber barrier, sacrificing itself to break it. And...Farewell...

Those were the last thing that went through the cyber-elf's mind as it burst into millions of glitters, having used up the power of its entire being. Ciel could only watch in shock as she watched her friend disappear out of existence.

"Passy..." Tears began flowing out of Ciel's eyes. "Passy..." She sobbed, trying to keep herself from crying.

At first, nothing happened. Then, cracks began to fill the space surrounding the unmoved figure. At the same time, the air was filled with the sound of glass cracking. Ciel and Milan watched as the cracks stopped expanding, soon followed by the barrier exploding outwards.

Ciel screamed in fright as the force of the explosion threw her backwards. She had expected to fall on the hard floor and injure herself, but someone caught her in their arms and she heard a grunt of pain as the two of them landed on the ground. Slowly, she creaked an eye open and looked up to see that Milan had shifted from his position to catch her, thus cushioning her fall with his already damaged body.

The two of them then turned to the still figure expectantly, hoping that some miracle would happen. However, the figure remained still. Not a single movement was made from the supposedly legendary reploid.

"It...It can't be." Milan muttered as his reactor sparked from overload. The reploid collapsed onto the floor face-up, his power draining fast. "Don't...don't tell me...Passy...sacrificed herself...for nothing..."

"No..." Ciel fell to her knees, despair filled her eyes as the outcome was not even close to what they expected. "No..."

"Damn it!" Fizzle statics began to form in Milan's vision, signal the beginning of his permanent shutdown. "Damn it to hell!" He cursed loudly, the sparks eating at his power reactor caused his to twitch and cough few time. "I beg you...please. Please...wake up! Ciel! Go to her and physically wake her up!"

"But...Milan."

"I don't care how you do it! Go to her and do whatever it take to wake her up!" Milan shouted, despite protest from his failing system. "Slap her awake if you have to!"

Ciel could only slowly stand up and walk to the slumbering reploid. She was prepared to pull the the cables off the reploid's back. But all she did was to touch the reploid before hologramic screens began popping out around them, a low humming of the super computer starting up echoed throughout the room.

Activation confirmed. A monotonous mechanic female voice echoed throughout the room. Ciel and Milan looked around in shock, trying to locate the source of the voice.

Main energy reactor – Start up

General optical system - Clear.

Internal frame functionality system - All green

External frame functionality system - All green

Auto-repair nanomachine system - All green

Combat capability - Maximum amplitude

Main system - Start up!

Ciel jumped back in shock as the cables detached from the back of the reploid with a loud hiss. Soon the the cuffs restraining the reploid's arms popped off with a click, dropping her hands to her sides. Lastly, the gem on the reploid's head glowed from turquoise to green then to blue. Seconds later, the reploid's eyes began to flutter open.

"Zero..." Ciel muttered as the figure stood up completely, bits and pieces of wires, cables, and chunks of dust falling from the body. "...has resurrected..." Her words caught the attention of the reploid.

"You..." The female reploid started, before tilting her head a little, confusion marring her expression. "Who are you?"

And here it is, the first chapter. Like it? Hate it? Do a constructive review. I welcome all of them. XD

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