Hello again and welcome back to The Chosen of Destruction, I'm sorry for not updating yet, but I got Mega Man ZX Advent in the mail shortly after starting on this chapter and I've been busy beating up Pseudoroids and a crazy fruit loop who thought he was a god. Now for the disclaimer; I do not own any of the Mega Man game series, nor do I own any characters associated with them, all rights belong to Capcom.
Bitterness
Area I
Dana looked at the newly named Model O with a small bit of confusion, wondering why the Biometal seemed to have been expecting to be locked up.
"I wonder if we can Megamerge..." She muttered more to herself than to the paperweight in front of her, who still heard her.
"Now why would I want to Megamerge with a human?" Model O sneered, and then added, "And how do you know about Megamerging?"
Instead of being offended, Dana chuckled. "Well it isn't like there's anything else you can do now is there? And to answer your second question; I do a lot research, not that all of it's legal but to me everything is need-to-know."
Dana got the impression that, had Model O had a mouth, it would have opened and closed multiple times.
"Fine wretched human," The Biometal hissed, "We can try to Megamerge, but if we succeed, we do it again only if it's before or during a fight."
Dana was about answer when she heard soft footsteps coming towards her.
"Am I interrupting something or can I make my report?" The newcomer, clearly male but hidden by the darkness, asked in a partially respectful manner.
"Actually, you're just in time to see if this will work." Dana relied while gesturing to Model O.
Without giving any warning to the floating paperweight whatsoever, she snatched it out of the air, held it over her head and shouted "MEGAMERGE!" with as much drama as she could muster.
A carmine maelstrom of energy immediately surrounded Dana as crimson-colored data spiraled around her and armor replaced her clothes.
It took seconds for the whole process to happen, and when it was done, Dana looked exactly like a female version of the fabled 'God of Destruction'.
More footsteps were heard as another entered the room, turned on the lights and leaned back against a nearby wall.
With the lights on, Model O saw the two who'd walked in and preformed the mental equivalent of raising an eyebrow.
Standing in the room were two Pseudoroids.
"What." He stated flatly as he forced the Megamerge to disengage and slowly floated back to the table, landing soundlessly.
Dana held back a laugh at the Biometal's reaction. "Flaraptor, you may begin your report." She said formally to the first Pseudoroid.
The Pseudoroid being addressed looked like a Velociraptor; the 'feathers' on the arms were actually miniature dash thrusters that expelled fire instead of compressed air with the arms themselves were slightly humanoid in that they ended in four-fingered hands with sharp claws, his legs had more of the same kind of thrusters as well as some regular ones, the claws on his feet so sharp they could tear a gash in a safe, a flame pattern ran down his back and onto his tail before ending in a red starburst, his mouth was lined with dozens of jagged teeth and his eyes were a bright orange. This Pseudoroid was clearly of the fire element and built for speed.
Flaraptor looked concerned. "Roughly 45 minutes ago, Skorpio went to Area A, either he forgot to cloak his signal properly or the Guardians have updated their sensors as he's currently fighting for his life against both Vent and Aile." He finished.
Dana had narrowed her eyes at the mention of the Guardians and when the fiery Pseudoroid had finished talking, she stood still for all of three seconds before racing to the table Model O was on, scooping up the startled Biometal and speeding out the door way with Flaraptor at her heels. Megamerging, she leaped backwards and quickly steadied herself into a sitting position on the Pseudoroid's back.
Holding up a communicator, she turned it on with her free hand as Flaraptor ran into a small room with a dimly glowing green circle on the floor.
"Stormwing, send us to Skorpio's last recorded coordinates before the fight started and do it yesterday!"
The hidden speakers overhead crackled and an "On it!" could be heard before the circle flashed and both Pseudoroid and Mega Man disappeared.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Area A
Flaraptor and Dana appeared in a flash of light and the sounds of a fight could be heard almost immediately.
Rushing towards them they came open a clearing. Not wasting any time, they rushed behind a bush and looked at the ensuing battle in front of them.
A scorpion Pseudoroid was fighting against the two Mega Men Vent and Aile. And losing. Badly.
The scorpion Pseudoroid was predominantly black with a violet streaks running down his back and stood mostly upright; while the lower half of his body more closely resembled a real scorpion, the upper half was vaguely humanoid. His four legs were completely black, his arms ended in two armored pincers, his long tail had the most vicious-looking stinger that most people had ever seen and his head was slightly flat with two small mandibles on either side of his mouth. His eyes glowed a soft indigo.
At the moment though, his armor was chipped and cracked, his tail was sparking a bit and bent at an odd angle even for a Pseudoroid and he looked like he was about to collapse.
"Help had better arrive soon or I'm headed for the scrap heap!" Skorpio wailed, the pain in his voice clear as day, as he dodged a fully charged buster shot.
Flaraptor wasted no time. He backed up, rushed forwards with all of his thrusters flaring to life, leaving a sonic boom and hurricane winds in his wake as he ran at full speed towards Vent and leaped onto the surprised Chosen One before he could even acknowledge that his face was currently digging skid marks into the landscape at Mach 1.
It's a good thing I've trained using a beam saber or I'd have no idea how to fight. Dana thought to herself as she prepared to enter the fray.
Play music- Mega Man Zero Collection OST- T3-37: Cannon Ball (Vs. Omega Zero; Final Battle-Phase 3!)
With a wild yell and the O-saber in her left hand, she charged at a stunned Aile and slashed horizontally.
Aile snapped out her startled daze and rolled sideways, the only thing that saved her from being cut in half was her battle experience and reflexes.
Dana dashed again, this time pulling back her right arm and punching the Guardian in the face, breaking Ailes' nose and knocking her down.
Dana was about to charge and slash again when she paused as words appeared in her vision.
Required conditions have been met.
Data file CP0 has been restored.
Commence file upload? Y/N
With Aile on the ground trying to stop her broken nose from bleeding any further and Vent struggling to get 400 pounds of Pseudoroid off of his back, Dana confirmed the upload and watched as images flashed through her mind.
A grin slowly made its way onto her face and she casually strode over to Aile, bent down next her just as the ZX Mega Man managed to get the bleeding to stop and punched the ground with a shout of "Rakuhouha!"
In an explosion of blue energy, Aile was launched backwards into a tree and debris flew in every direction, Flaraptor jumping back to avoid flying soil.
"Hmph, you Guardians are all the same. You claim to save people from Mavericks, but my entire town was wiped off the map seven years ago and no one was there to help me!" Dana raged venomously, "I lost everything but my life to Mavericks, multiple times! Every family I found, every community I became a part of, all destroyed!"
"And where were the Guardians? They were either hiding or on the other side the planet! You can take your heroics and choke on them!" She finished, glaring at Vent as he managed to dig himself out.
Aile jumped out of the tree and somehow managed to land gracefully next to her brother, doing her best ignore the fact that her nose was aching.
Vent and Aile solemnly at each other; they both could hear the pain in the girls' voice.
"We've only been part of the Guardians for three years, but in that time we've seen nothing malicious in any of the crew stationed on board or on any of the ground forces spread throughout the world!" Vent stated.
"The Guardians can't be everywhere at once." Aile added.
Dana could only laugh in what sounded like a mixture of bitterness and mockery. "Yet for eight entire towns to be wiped off the map without receiving any help whatsoever?" She began to shout again, "This whole planet is full of sheep; people believe whatever the higher-ups want them to! The florist who lives down the street could spontaneously combust for all that persons' neighbors care, if the whole neighborhood blows up people think 'oh hey, some folks died.' Then they go back to business as usual! Maybe Aeolus was right when he said that the world was full of fools!"
Both ZX Mega Men had flinched visibly halfway through Danas' rant and were standing dumbstruck by the sheer amount of anger this girl had displayed before something else registered in their brains.
"W-wait, you know Aeolus?" Aile stammered out in surprise while Vent could only stare stupidly.
"Better yet, how do you know him?" Vent managed to ask.
"You'll have to find that out for yourselves!" Dana answered smugly, apparently not noticing her sudden change of mood.
Aile began to tremble as she suddenly felt waves of hatred coming off of the mysterious Mega Man that far stronger than what the whole of Ouroboros had radiated.' Just who is this girl?' She wondered to herself.
"Who the hell are you anyways?" Vent asked, echoing Ailes' thoughts.
Dana looked at the two ZX Mega Men, thought for a moment and stepped forwards; O-saber raised to her face as to cast an eerie glow, and answered somewhat maliciously, "You may call me... The Chosen of Destruction." With a grin on her face that would have given Prometheus cold chills she charged once more, leaped into the air and preformed another Rakuhouha.
Aile and Vent jumped sideways to dodge, but were caught off-guard when nine blasts of energy erupted from the ground around the 'Chosen of Destruction' and hit them both. Hard.
"Why are you here?" Aile managed to ask, Vent grunting in either pain or agreement. Possibly both.
Dana glared at them as Skorpio and Flaraptor walked over to her (limped in Skorpios' case) and faced the ZX Mega Men with no small amount of anger.
"You attacked Skorpio. That's all the reason I need." She answered, before adding, "Besides, isn't two-against-one unfair?"
Holding her communicator in her right hand as she was still holding her O-saber in her left, Dana turned it on, muttered "Port us back, Stormwing." And disappeared alongside the two Pseudoroids in a flash of light.
Aile looked at her brother, "Maybe we're getting a little jumpy around Pseudoroids." She said sheepishly.
"Yeah, maybe I should have given you a chance to ask him what he was doing instead of rushing in and attacking him after all." He replied, his expression and tone matching Ailes'.
"You could have taken that into consideration sooner." A new voice spoke up.
Aile jumped slightly, "Model X, why didn't you or Z say anything after that girl showed up?" She asked a little sorely.
The Megamerge disengaged and Model X and Model Z floated in front of the two Chosen Ones.
"As soon as that girl showed up, Model Z and I felt like there was a terrible pressure pushing us the back of your minds. We struggled to talk but were unable to." Model X answered worriedly.
Vent and Aile looked at each other, then at their Biometals, then wordlessly walked to the nearest Transerver.
For anyone who noticed that I took down this chapter for a little bit, I decided that, seeing as half of this was originally written at 11:00 P.M., it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been. So I took it down and worked on it some more. It should much better now, if a little wordy. Hope you all like my first ever fight scene. And no, you won't learn anything about this 'Stormwing' other than that she's a thunder element Pseudoroid and that the unnamed Pseudoroid is a female ice element. See you all on the next chapter.