Chapter 1: The Researcher and the Naked Girl
One year later…
At a beautiful field in a battlefield that once took place, a young man was ravaging through Mechon parts.
He is 18 year olds, has blonde hair, blue eyes, wore a red jacket with a black sleeved shirt with uquine designs, red shorts with some designs, and red shoes. Strapped to his back is a sword that looks pretty bad, but useful for battle.
"A Mechon M71! I bet I can use its optical system to align one of the Anti-Air Batteries." The man exclaimed with a smile, but frowned when he found out it is broken, he tossed it aside.
"No good. It's broken." The man sighed. Then he inspected a Mechon part. "The joint section…" With another frown he said "It's buckled." And tossed it away.
The man stretched his arms and moaned "It's completely useless." He lay on his back and looked at the sky. He noticed a bug flying and landed on a part. He looked at it and gasped. It was a wrecked Mechon soldier.
"A M69!" He got up and ran towards it. He inspected it. "Its armour would be perfect for making a shield." The man grinned as he grabbed it and struggled to get it off. "If I could just get it off, I should be able to…"
Suddenly, the armour started to move which started the young man and made him fell on his butt. Suddenly again… "Shulk!" A young man who is also the same age as the man identified as Shulk, has auburn hair, brown eyes, wore a brown and orange sleeveless vest with brown gauntlets with many designs, black pants with many designs and he is wielding a combination of a shield, gun and lance, came in to hurt the moving armour with his shield.
The moving piece of amour was knocked into a piece of scrap and lay motionless for about 40 seconds. "Reyn!" Shulk gasped. The armour revealed to be a crab like creature using the Mechon piece as a shell.
"It's not a Mechon! It's just a Krabble!" Shulk pointed out as he got out his sword. "It was using the Mechon armour as a shell!"
"I'll lure it away and Topple it. When it's down, use your Arts to finish it off! Hammer Beat!" Reyn slams his gunlance and it emitted a red circle around the Krabble and it exploded, damaging it.
Shulk let out a yell and shouted "Slit Edge!" Shulk thrusts his sword into the Krabble's side, damaging it and making green blood spurt out of it.
"Wild Down!" Reyn charged at the Krabble and toppled it. "Now, Shulk!" Reyn shouted.
"Back Slash!" Shulk got behind the monster and leaped into the air and slams his sword downward onto the Krabble's exterior, making green blood fall to the ground and the Krabble died.
Suddenly, a medium size caterpillar monster burst out of the ground, ready to attack. "Oh bugger!" Shulk gawked as he panted.
"It ain't over yet, Shulk! Come on, let's kill it! Hammer Beat!" Reyn used his attack again and gave the monster caterpillar some hurt. Shulk charged at the beast and slashed it three times.
The caterpillar monster tried to lurge at Shulk, but Reyn knocked it away with his gunlance, making it tumbled on its side. "Now Shulk!" Reyn called out to his friend.
"Right!" Shulk let out a battle cry and slashed the caterpillar monster 10 times, making green blood fell on the grass. The caterpillar let out a weak screeched as it fell down, dead.
Shulk sighed as he sheathed his sword. "Thanks, Reyn. That was a close one." He smiled at his friend. Reyn frowned as he placed his hands on his hips.
"Man, what were you doing wandering by yourself?! Stay where I can keep an eye on you." Reyn scolded."It's pretty dangerous outside of the colony. There are all kinds of monsters." He added.
"Yeah." Shulk nodded. "But thanks to you, we got its shell. Everyone in the colony's gonna be really happy." Shulk smiled at the shell as he went to pick it up.
"I'm more worried about you than the shell." Reyn scratched the back of his head, then he sighed "Ah… Whatever." He then added "Knowing what you're like, you'll make a decent weapon out of it." Reyn grinned at his weapon and said "This Scrap Driver's excellent."
"I just learned by watching Dickson make weapons." Shulk said with a smile.
"'Course, Dunban's weapon still beats them all." Reyn commented.
"The Monado…" Shulk scratched his chin in thought and said "I hope I can figure out the secret of its power one day."
"You will, Shulk. Anyway, we'd better get back to the colony. If I'm late for drills again, old Square-tache is gonna kill me." Reyn sighed as he shook his head.
"Square-tache?" Shulk arched an eyebrow. Then Shulk figured out what he meant. "Oh, the Defense Force Colonel. He's pretty scary." Shulk smirked playfully.
"Tell me about it." Reyn sighed again.
"Sorry, I didn't mean for you to come all the way out here during your break." Shulk apologized, feeling guilty for making Reyn miss rounds.
"Don't worry about it. Let's get back." Before Reyn can leave, Shulk stopped him.
"What's up?" Reyn asked him in concern.
"Listen…" Shulk narrowed his eyes and found what he was looking for. Reyn followed his lead and the two of them walked towards something.
What they discovered was a girl… She has green hair… and was also naked.
"What the… What's a girl doing out here?" Shulk gasped.
"And in her birthday suit!" Reyn added trying to look away. The girl moaned as she slowly risen up out of her sleeping position. She looked at her surroundings before turning to Shulk and Reyn with a awakening look.
Shulk and Reyn blushed in embarrassment as they see the girl in all her nakedness. "Who… are you two?" She asked in a dazed tune.
"My name is Shulk, and this is my childhood friend, Reyn. Now that we gave you our names, can you tell us yours?" Shulk asked politely.
"My name…?" The girl murmured as she stared at her hands for about 1 minute then she looked at the two friends and said "Bridget Verdant…"
"Well, it is certainly nice to meet you, Bridget." Shulk smiled.
"Now can you tell us why you're sleeping out in this area, naked?" Reyn asked her, a bit suspicious of this mysterious naked girl.
"Huh…?" Bridget blinked as she stared down at her naked body. 20 seconds later she looked at the two and said "I don't know…"
"Well, can you tell us what colony you're from? 9 or 6?" Shulk asked her.
Bridget stared at them for about 50 seconds then she said "I don't remember…"
"Hold up, Shulk. Could she have… amnesia?" Reyn gasped.
"It could be… Amnesia is pretty rare these days. We don't have the technology to completely cure it." Shulk scratched his chin.
"Well, what are we gonna do? We can't leave her out in the buff like this. She'll be targeted by monsters." Reyn asked in concern.
"Well, we can take her back with us. Maybe someone in Colony 9 will recognized her. Hold on… I got a blanket to cover her up." Shulk went through his backpack and got out a brown blanket. He covered it around Bridget, covering her nakedness.
"Thank you." Bridget bowed politely.
"Anytime. Wanna come back with us to Colony 9? We'll get you some clothes and maybe someone will recognized you." Shulk offered.
"Really? You don't mind?" Bridget blinked, why are these strangers helping her?
"No problem at all. We have enough Gold to get you some clothes, maybe get those nice goggles I wanted so much." Shulk smiled.
"Yeah. We better get a move on. I don't wanna feel the Colonel's wrath again." Reyn sighed.
"Alright, Bridget. Stay close to us and we'll protect you from the monsters." Shulk smiled at her.
"O-Ok…" Bridget nodded nervously as she followed her new friends down to Colony 9.
Shulk, Reyn and Bridget run towards a huge city with three giant cannons stationed around the city. This is Colony 9.
The three friends walked on the bridge to Colony 9. "So this is Colony 9…?" Bridget gasped in awe.
"Yep. Here we are. I'd better stop in at HQ. You off to the Weapon Development Lab?" Reyn asked Shulk.
"Yeah, when I've sold any parts I can't use." Shulk nodded.
"Yeah. Maybe you can take Bridget there after you get her some new duds and show her the Monado. I'll see you later." Reyn waved good bye as he went to HQ.
"The Monado…?" Bridget asked confusedly.
"I'll explain later…?" Shulk eyed a golden pendant with a heart on it that Bridget was clutching. "Bridget, what is that you got in your hand?" He asked, eyeing the mysterious pendant.
"Oh this?" Bridget looked at the pendant in her hand. "I don't know… But there's something familiar about it…" Bridget stared at the pendant.
"Well, let's not worry about it for now and get you some clothes." Shulk smiled. Bridget nodded as they went to the nearest shop to buy Bridget some clothes.
10 minutes later, Bridget came out wearing the Nine set while Shulk came out wearing some sort of goggles. Bridget has the pendant tied around her neck.
"Now let's ask people if they know you." Shulk told her with a gentle smile.
"I hope someone will recognized so I can regain my memories." Bridget prayed as she looked up to the sky.
To be continued…
Next chapter: The Sword of Legend and Shulk's Childhood Friend
