Megaman ZX Advent – The Novelization
Chapter 3 – Destiny
It was a silent evening inside a laboratory. A boy Reploid with short silver hair, a red triangle on his forehead, and a small scar on his lower left cheek had his eyes shut as he was inside a capsule in the lab's room. The capsule was filled with transparent liquid, and the red cables on the Reploid's back were plugged into the two plugs on the ceiling of the capsule.
The door into the room where the Reploid was slid open and two men in yellow armor with a gun each came into the room. The two men looked around the room, before one of them let out a disappointed sigh, "Man, this isn't it either! I was hoping that we'd find it right away and show it off to the others back at Hunter's Camp…"
"Come on, let's just see if we can anything else interesting here…" The other one walked passed his partner and noticed some dim light on the floor. He looked to the side and saw a capsule as the light source, "Hey, there's something there!" The other man approached him as he pointed at the Reploid in the capsule, "It looks like…"
"Wait, a Reploid kid?" The two men looked at each other in disbelief before turning back to the capsule, "No way! What's it doing here?" The man saw as his partner was about to touch the capsule and pulled him back, "Don't touch it! If you trip the security, we'll have Mechaniloids crawling all over us!" The man let out a sigh before unconsciously putting his hand on the capsule as he leaned on it, making the alarm ring.
The other man turned to his partner, "And that, is not my fault," Mechanical footsteps came closer to them before the door on the opposite side of the room opened to reveal some Mechaniloids coming in, "Great. More Mechaniloids."
The two men pulled out their guns, and began shooting at the Mechaniloids, which were also countering with their arm buster guns. One of the buster shots hit the man standing the closest to the capsule, knocking him against the capsule and broke the glass a bit. As the man was down, warning signs popped out on the capsule's glass before the liquid in the capsule was drained away and left the Reploid hanging with the cables on his back.
The Mechaniloids and the other man went down soon after, leaving the room in the lab to be silent once more. The capsule opened up as the glass was lowered down, before the cables on the Reploid's back unplugged themselves from the capsule's plugs and the Reploid fell on the ground in front of him.
The Reploid got up and was panting before he opened his red eyes, but their colors slowly turned into green. The Reploid looked around the room, which had the bodies of the two men along with the remains of Mechaniloids lying on the ground. The Reploid looked at his hands in confusion, having no idea what happened.
The Reploid moved his feet, and was shocked to see a man in yellow armor lying next to him, "W-What the!? What's going on here? Where am I? Who am I?" The Reploid clutched his head in pain, "Ugh… I can't remember anything… My head hurts for trying to remember…" A female Reploid suddenly teleported in front of Grey, surprising him, "W-Who are you!?"
The female Reploid, who had white and light blue armor and a staff with a yellow end, looked down at him as she hovered a little above the ground, "I… am Pandora…" The Reploid, Pandora, replied, "Grey… I'm here to dispose of you…"
"Grey? Is that my name?" The male Reploid, Grey, asked in confusion before he backed away from Pandora, "W-What do you mean dispose of me!?"
"You… are a Mega Man… like me…" Pandora looked down at Grey with her red eyes, "But you were awakened… before the mind control sequence was completed…"
"Mega Man? Mind control!?" Grey backed away more, feeling more and more confused, "What have you done to me!?" Pandora ignored Grey's questions as she raised her staff and sent a line of thunder balls at Grey, knocking him down near one of the man lying on the ground.
"Defectives must be disposed of…" Pandora raised her staff once more.
Grey got to his knees and noticed the gun lying next to the man's hands and took it, 'I guess this guy won't be needing his gun anymore…' Grey aimed the gun at Pandora before letting out a few shots at Pandora who was surprised but managed to put up a barrier to shield herself. Grey ran away through the door behind him while Pandora wasn't watching him. Grey stopped a few steps after going through the door and looked back at the door while panting, "Why did she call me a defective?" Grey turned around from the door, "I have to get out of here before they kill me!"
Grey made a mad dash through the lab, which was crawling with Mechaniloids all over the place. Grey shot the Mechaniloids out of his way as he ran straight ahead, hoping to find and exit somewhere. Grey got through another door, which led him to a waterfall outside the lab, and continued running towards the red bridge made of metal.
A golem-like Mechaniloid came crashing down on the bridge, blocking Grey's way across. The Mechaniloid's hands dropped down, but Grey had run out of the way and jumped on it. The hand moved up, and Grey pulled out his gun before aiming it at his head and let out a few shots at it. The shots destroyed one of the eyes before the hand moved down a little bit as the other hand dropped down on it, but Grey had jumped back to the bridge before he could be squashed flat.
Grey waited for the other hand to move back into its place and moved down before he jumped on it. Grey aimed and shot the Mechaniloid's other eye, destroying it completely. Grey jumped down as the Mechaniloid's body started glowing before it exploded, breaking the bridge Grey was standing on before the remains along with Grey fell into the water under the broken bridge.
Grey's body hit the cold water, and that was the only thing he remembered before blacking out completely.
