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Megaman ZX – The Novelization

Chapter 2 – Rock ON!

A few minutes had passed since they left from the head office in the city on their bikes and Giro, Vent, and Aile had arrived in the forest area or Area A. Vent looked at his surroundings before he got off his bike and walked towards a dead tree on the end of the cliff. Aile, who was stretching her arms and legs, saw him walked away and followed him. Giro was standing by his bike as he got a transmission on his communicator.

"Hello! Thank you for calling Giro Express Transporters! We can take anything, anywhere!" Giro answered through his communicator.

"Giro? Is that you?" The voice of a girl was heard from the other side.

"Ah, the Guardian…" Giro replied, before he noticed what he said and corrected himself, "… or should I say client."

"Did you receive the package from the archaeological recon unit?" The girl asked.

Giro looked back to Aile's bike, where the package was, "Yes, I got it."

"My unit is heading for the agreed upon rendezvous point. It's a little sooner than expected, but let's meet up there," The girl continued.

"Alright," Giro finally said before ending the transmission and turned to the two transporters standing next to a dead tree by the cliff, "Vent, Aile! Are you two ready to move out?" The two completely ignored him, making Giro walk closer to approach them, "Hey, did you hear me!?" Giro looked ahead from behind them and saw a big building in the middle of the other smaller buildings, "You can see the Slither Inc. building from here. This country sure has grown and prospered thanks to them."

"Bigger isn't always better," Vent bluntly replied, not bothering to turn his head to the blond.

Aile nodded in agreement, "If only the security force had come sooner, then our mothers would still be with us today…"

Giro let out a sigh as he recalled the day when he saved the two from the Maverick raid and how he listened to their stories about how they lost their mothers, "I'm sorry that you two lost your mothers in the Maverick raids. I understand how you two feel, but don't let on about your feelings in town. We were experiencing an energy crisis and suffering from never-ending Maverick raids. But that company stepped up and fixed all of those problems. As far as the people are concerned, the president of the company, Serpent, is a genuine hero,"

Giro turned away from the two and the cliff, "Anyway, we better get going. Our client is already on their way to the rendezvous point."

Aile was the first one to go, but noticed that Vent was still standing on his place, "Come on, Vent. Let's get going."

Vent nodded and he went back to his bike, before noticing the package on Aile's bike, "Hey Boss, just who are those Guardians that we took the job request from?" Giro turned to Vent as he continued, "They haven't even told us what's in the package they want delivered so badly."

"The Guardians are a defense force that banded together to fight the Mavericks," Giro started, getting the attention of both Vent and Aile, "Right now, they're moving from place to place investigating the cause of Maverick outbreaks. As for the package, try not to ask too many questions. I'm sure it's very important and very dangerous. It's probably better we don't know."

"I see…" Aile shortly replied as she looked at the package on her bike.

Suddenly, the sound of buster guns were heard before the shots hit Giro's bike. The three quickly crouched, hiding themselves behind their bikes. A small group of Galleon Hunters approached them, who had their guns pointed at the three of them. Aile peeked from behind her bike and saw that the Galleons were pointing the guns at them.

"W-What's happening?" Aile asked, turning to the two males with her.

"Those are Mavericks! But how did they get here!?" Giro asked himself, bracing himself as more shots were coming his way, "Ugh!" Giro moved back as his bike started smoking and headed for Aile's bike, which was right behind his and noticed the package, "The package! They must be after it!"

Aile grabbed the package and held it tightly, not noticing that buster shots were coming to her way, but Vent noticed them and jumped from his bike to Aile's side, but the shots had hit her bike and making it explode, before its explosion expanded to Vent's. The shockwave from the two exploding bikes had sent the two younger transporters off the cliff, along with the package.

"AAAHHH!" The two fell off the cliff, and Aile's grip on the package loosened up, separating it from them.

"Vent! Aile!" Giro yelled as he saw the two being thrown away off the cliff.

The two landed hard on the grassy ground, not noticing that the package had fallen and rolled away from them. Aile got up slowly, unaware of the male transporter under her, "Ugh… That was a long and scary fall…"

"Yeah, to me it was a really bad and painful fall…" Vent added and Aile saw that she was sitting on Vent, who landed face down, "Can't you get off me already!?"

"Sorry!" Aile quickly stood up before Vent stood up in pain.

"Vent! Aile! You two okay!?" The two looked up and saw a worried Giro, "The package! Do you see it!? It should've fallen near you!"

Aile looked ahead and saw the small box, which had been thorn a bit, "There! Is that it?"

Vent and Aile walked closer and picked it up, "Oh great, the box's ruined," Vent took out a blue box of metal from the worn box before throwing away the thorn box, "We won't need this junk anymore!"

"Vent!" Aile glared at him angrily.

"Vent, Aile! Listen!" The two younger transporters looked up, "Take that package to the rendezvous point and give it to the Guardians! I'll join you later once I take care of business up here! Protect that package at all costs!"

"Roger that, Boss!" Giro saw Vent saluting at him with a smile before he took off with Aile.

'Seriously, Vent… what should I do about you? You can take Aile as a good example for you…' Giro thought before turning back to the Galleon Hunters, which had him cornered to the edge of the cliff, 'This is bad… I think they knew that I still have another one with me here…' Giro eyed his pocket before turning back to the Galleon Hunters.

"I can help you."

"Huh?" Giro looked around, but saw that he was the only one there along with the Mavericks, "W-Who are you? What do you want!?"

"I am Biometal Model Z," A red box of metal came out of Giro's pocket, "You can trust me. I will lend you my strength to fight them and reunite you with your precious friends."

Giro looked at Model Z for a moment before nodding, "Please do, Model Z," Model Z floated closer to Giro before they were both engulfed in bright light.

Meanwhile under the cliff, Vent and Aile had only walked for a few meters when they were stopped by two people in green uniform with a gun and a girl in pink behind them. As they walked closer, the two pointed their guns at the transporters, who raised their hands out of reflexes.

"Who are you!? What are you doing here!?" One of them asked, pointing his gun at them.

"H-Hold on! We're only delivering a package!" Aile nervously replied.

The girl behind the two people in green walked in front of them, "Bar, Maquereau, lower your weapons," The girl motioned the two, who did as they were told, "Are the two of you transporters?"

"Yeah, we are," Vent replied, "Are you Guardians?"

The girl in pink nodded, "Yes. We heard an explosion nearby and came to investigate."

The ground suddenly started shaking, before a snake-like Mechaniloid came out from the ground right in front of the five of them. The Mechaloid looked down at them with its shadow completely covering the five of them.

"W-what's that!?" One of the Guardians, Maquereau, asked in panic as he got his gun ready.

"A snake Mechaniloid! Is that thing with the Mavericks?" Aile asked as she looked up at its head.

"I'm sure of it! It must be the leader of the Mavericks which attacked us!" Vent replied and turned to see that the two Guardians were getting their guns ready before firing the Mechaniloid.

"Prairie! It's too dangerous! Take the Biometal and get out of here!" The other one of the Guardians said as he kept firing the Mechaniloid, but his bullets kept bouncing off. The snake Mechaniloid slammed its tail down, knocking the two Guardians down.

"No! Everyone!" The girl ran over to the two Guardians and knelt beside them.

"Hey! Please get up!" Vent said as he approached the three, "We need to move! They're after the package! Just leave it! If we take it with us, they'll hunt us down!"

"But I can't let the Biometal fall into the wrong hands!" The girl looked up at Vent and protested.

Aile threw the blue metal she was holding angrily before she ran to Vent's side and faced the girl, "Is that Biometal thing that important!? Whatever that Biometal is, it can't be worth throwing your life away! Come on, we have to go!"

"But Sis…" The girl looked down sadly, "She left that for us. It's too valuable to just give it up now!"

Vent growled angrily before noticing that the snake Mechaniloid was getting closer to them. Vent and Aile quickly ran between the Mechaniloid and the three Guardians, but they had no clue what to do next as the Mechaniloid was at least three times their own height.

"What now, Vent?" Aile turned to Vent, who was as clueless as she was.

"How should I know!?" Vent replied in frustration before looking back to the snake Mechaniloid, "We can't handle this on our own!"

"But we can together," The blue metal which Aile had thrown away earlier floated in front of them, "I'll lend you a hand." The blue metal floated closer between them and engulfed them in bright light.

"AAAGHHH!"

"Biolink Established! M. E. G. A. System Online!"

Vent and Aile's bodies were covered in blue-colored armor, and their heads were covered with a blue helmet with a red gem on it. Their right arms turned into buster guns, which they charged up before aiming their shots at the snake's head. The snake let out a screech in pain as the attacks hit its head hard. Vent and Aile were panting, drained from the charged shot attack.

"What happened to us?" Aile asked in between her panting, "This power… is this the power of the Biometal…?"

"Don't be afraid. I'm Biometal Model X," A voice echoed in the two transporters' heads.

"Model… X?" Vent turned to Aile, who was looking as confused as he was, "Aile, did you hear that? Did you hear a voice?"

"Yeah, I guess I did…" Aile replied before lowering her buster gun.

"We have to move away from here or that girl will get caught in the middle. With our combined strength, we can fight them off!" Model X told the two, who nodded in reply.

The snake moved away, leaving the two along with the three Guardians. The girl stood up and gasped when she saw that Vent's and Aile's appearances had changed, "They transformed!? Are they the two of the Chosen Ones?"

"Hey, you!" Vent turned to the girl in pink, "We need to deliver this to the rendezvous point, right? You just wait here!"

"W-Wait!" Vent and Aile stopped as they were about to dash away and turned to the girl, "I have a name! Prairie. The name's Prairie."

"Ah, please excuse his rudeness!" Aile pushed Vent as she walked a step closer to the girl and apologized, "My name is Aile, and this is Vent. We'll be your transporters today! Just wait here and we'll get some help!"

"Thank you," The girl, Prairie, smiled at them, "Please be careful, Vent and Aile!"

The two nodded before dashing away through the forest, following the tracks which were left by the snake Mechaniloid. As they were halfway through the forest area, they only encountered a few of the Mavericks which only popped out one by one from the bushes as they passed by. Once they were farther in the forest, more and more Mavericks came popping out.

"There's more!?" Aile asked as she shot them one by one, but more of them were still coming.

"Watch out!" Aile turned to see that Vent had shot a charged shot, which was only a few inches away from her, heading straight towards the group of Mavericks and destroyed many of them in mere seconds.

"Hey! I'm standing right here!" Aile turned to Vent angrily.

"Well, I did say 'watch out' didn't I?" Vent defended himself, and then noticed that the ground was shaking a little, "Huh?" The shaking become more violently as the snake Mechaniloid was approaching them, "Aile, you ready? Just like last time, aim for-"

"The head," Aile finished his sentence, "I know, Vent. I know what we did to that thing before!" Aile let out a sigh before charging her buster gun and aimed it at the snake's head.

Aile's double charged shots hit the snake's heat, which made it turn to slam its tail against them, "Look out!" Vent tackled Aile, sending them away so that the snake's tail hit the ground instead.

Aile charged up her buster gun again while Vent shot out his own double charged shots, but he missed his second shot. The snake shot up four green balls at them, but Aile had shot them before they could hit them before releasing her second shot at its head. As the snake turned away to slam its tail at them once more, Vent released both of his charged shots and both shots hit it, finishing it off.

"We did it…" Vent lowered his gun before turning it back into his arm, "You said your name was Model X. Why did you help us?"

"Do I need a reason to help people?" Model X replied, "You seemed determined to help that girl even though you've never met her before. I just lend you a helping hand, you're the brave ones."

"Us? Brave ones?" Vent laughed in embarrassment, "Not really, I guess… I personally think that if I didn't at least try, I'd always regret it."

"Well said, Vent!" Aile patted Vent's back before casually putting her arm around him.

"T-Thanks…" Vent blushed as he noticed how close she was to him.

Aile looked ahead, "The rendezvous point should be just up ahead, right?" Aile asked and turned to Vent, who nodded in reply, "Let's go!"

The two of them continued ahead and entered a door, which lead to a room with a transerver in it along with a few Guardians and an old Reploid in blue. The people in the room noticed them coming and turned to the door.

"We're the transporters and we brought the package," Aile started, getting the attention of the people in the room, "Back there a girl named Prairie is waiting and needs your help."

"No way!" One of them spoke up in disbelief before turning to two of his comrades behind him, "Come on! Prairie and the others need us!"

The three Guardians left, leaving Vent and Aile along with the old Reploid who was looking at the two in fascination. Vent turned to the door where the Guardians left, "Everyone seems awfully worried about that Prairie girl…"

"Amazing…" The two transporters turned to the old Reploid, "It looks like you've managed to link up with the Biometal," The old Reploid noticed that the two were staring at him, "Anyway, I'm glad it made it to us safe and sound."

Aile suddenly remembered something, "Hey, have you seen Giro? There should have been another transporter with us. Has he arrived yet?"

The old Reploid shook his head, "No. You're the only one that I've seen so far."

The transerver beeped and the communication service was turned on as a voice came from the transerver, "This is Marue from the rescue squad, and we've found the others! We'll treat the wounded and then head on back to HQ."

"Hold on," The old Reploid approached the transerver, "You haven't spotted another transporter out there, have you? Apparently a transporter has gone missing in the area."

Marue paused for a moment before replying, "Hey! There's some serious smoke rising from the next area. It's totally like someone has fallen under attack!"

"No… Boss!" Vent turned to the old Reploid, "We're going to borrow this Biometal a little longer. We have to save him!"

"What!? You would put the Biometal at risk again!?" The old Reploid asked angrily.

"Oh I see!" Aile folded her arms in annoyance, "Now that your precious package is back, you don't care about the man who risked his life to deliver it!"

"B-But!" The old Reploid was about to argue, but was cut off as Prairie's voice was heard from the transerver.

"Wait! Fleuve! Let them go!"

"Prairie!?" The old Reploid, Fleuve, noticed the familiar voice.

"It's okay Fleuve. They'll keep the Biometal safe from the Mavericks. Vent… Aile… You risked your lives to save me even though you didn't know me. I have faith in you two. I'll clear it with Guardian HQ. Go, help him," Prairie said, getting a nod from the two transporters.

"Now before you go, I have something to tell you two first," Fleuve started, getting the attention from the two, "I've just received orders from HQ. You currently have two mission requests. One mission is to find your fellow transporter. The other mission is to complete a trial in order to get permission to enter Guardian HQ. Complete the two missions and return the Biometal to HQ. At HQ, we'll sign off on the transporter request and your work will be done. You can decide which mission to start first at the transerver."

"I see… We just have to complete those two missions then," Vent said before turning to Aile, "Let's go, Aile! We have to save Boss first!"

Aile nodded in agreement, "Yeah!"


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