Megaman XZ: Battle of Light
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Zero had informed Ceil of his mission and was dealt a serious lecture from her about letting his mind adapt to the body again and how he could have been killed. X watched and couldn't help but laugh "this is priceless" he spoke quietly but obviously not quite enough as both Ceil and Zero shot him a nasty look. "Ha-ha sorry" he gave them a sheepish grin. After their talk the red hunter went to rest in his healing capsule. X stayed behind "hey Ceil, I warned you he wouldn't stay down", she nodded and smiled "you really are like brothers aren't you?" X nodded "funny thing is…during my time in cyber space I discovered the final program implanted into Zero's mind chip…was to destroy me upon awakening". Ceil covered her mouth with her hands. "Don't worry; we got that out of the way a long time ago, during the Maverick wars, the fifth outbreak if I remember correctly". "So, you've battled Zero before! A bunch of the guys here are always talking about what it would be like if you fought again… so who won?" X laughed "you're a strange girl. Well when we confronted each other neither of us wanted to harm the other so it ended in a draw… but it was all set up by Sigma" X said his name with distaste. "And to tell the truth I'd rather not have to fight my friend again let alone when he's at full power. Not after all he's done for me…" Ceil looked confused "Zero's sacrificed himself numerous times…" he looked at his boots and remembered those days, he constantly wished he could go back and fix everything. "Zero's too modest to bring it up…and I don't think he remembers it at all"
Zero lay in his capsule, the dream he was having was strange. He saw a Reploid with a circular red crystal on his forehead and a beam saber. Standing beside him was a black armored copy Zero "Look who I found wandering around, Mega Man! My friend here has a small problem with you. It seems that you let him die, and he's not too happy about that! I think it's time he repays the favor!" before the black copy could attack X, Zero himself destroyed it with his saber. He woke up, "what was that all about? Maybe a memory…" he started feeling uneasy but didn't know what it was about. "Maybe X knows something" he said aloud. After he got out of his capsule he heard a voice "Zero, it won't end, you will be haunted by the same problems from the past that led to your sealing ha- ha- ha". Zero drew his saber and its blade shot to life. "Who are you? Show yourself" there was no response, he returned the saber but kept his guard up and left the room to warn the others.
X had just finished talking to seal when he saw Zero running towards him "X, there's an intruder in HQ!" X was shocked how could anyone have slipped past them? "Are you sure about that?" Zero nodded "yea they spoke to me after I woke up something about my problem in the past and my sealing." X knew just what he was talking about, the Zero Virus. "Zero I think your memories are affecting you. No one could have gotten in here. Just get some rest and let things get back to normal with your body and mind Syncing up again. It will pass soon; I had the same problems after I used my original body to seal the dark elf". Zero didn't like what he was hearing from X and still believed that someone was their "I'm going to check around the base to be safe, if I need something ill contact you" he took off and hunted for the intruder. Every now and then he spotted a strange shadow but it always disappeared when he reached its location. After many hours of searching he gave up and admitted it was all in his head. He returned to his capsule hoping some more rest was all he needed.
X stepped through the doorway and studied the area. Everything looked ok, "I better check the security systems". He logged in and watched, he saw Zero running through the base but nothing else was out of place". After he left X heard laughter coming from down the hall. He activated the X buster and dashed to the source. A mysterious Reploid wielding two beam daggers, dark green and black armor and two wing like protrusions on his helmet. "Harpuia, is that you?" X took a step closer but the Reploid pointed one of the daggers at him "stay...back" he forced out before leaping at X with three swift attacks. X managed to dodge them with ease due to his training with Zero. "Harpuia stop! Why are you doing this?" all he received was more crazed laughter. X jumped back and fired three shots from his buster but to no avail. He barely dodged an attack directed at his neck and countered with a kick to Harpuias legs knocking him to the ground. "Stay down!" his warning was ignored. Harpuia stood up and jumped away "X...I am you Master Now!" the Reploid held his arms out to the sides and a light emerged from his body. X knew what was happening; his former ally was activating the LIGHT modifications AKA his ultimate armor. More wings appeared on his body like the ones attacked to his helmet and the armor became black with red lines running across the armor. "...I'm sorry old friend" the hunter crossed his arms in an X pattern and a similar light shone from his body. When it faded he was clad in black armor it was his Ultimate form. It had been ages since he had been forced into this armor...not since he battled Zero. Harpuia laughed "I always wanted to see my master at full power, now I will be the one to DESTROY YOU!" he fired three blasts of electricity at X, they moved slowly but once they got close they would explode and shut X down. He wasn't afraid though he had more than enough power to simply destroy them. He fired a charge shot and stopped Harpuias attack, then dashed at him to knock him out, the former guardian grinned and teleported behind X and set the beam dagger on his enemies neck "good bye X-.." he heard the sound of a saber cutting through the armor but X was untouched. He turned around to see Zero standing with his saber and Harpuia in two pieces on the ground. "So it was him. I never would have guessed it was Harpuia; someone is resurrecting them, that means there's two left. Leviathan and Fefnir" Zero turned around to leave "wait Zero... thank you" he received a thumb up "you should have the Ceil take a look at his systems to find out what did this to him". Zero left X alone in the room "could it be...Weil?" he shook the thought from his mind "no there's no way he stills around". He scooped up the remains of his former guardian and left for the lab to get some answers. Upon arriving the people looked shocked at what they saw. Ceil ran forward "Harpuia! X who did this to him?" before X could respond Zero entered the room "he attacked X. Ill protect my friends no matter the cost. I told X to bring him here to find out what did this to him." X nodded as one of the scientists took the body from him and set it on a lab table. "It'll take some time, go scout the area for more invaders while we perform a system check". Zero was already out of the room and X ran to catch up with him "Hey what's wrong Zero? You've been acting strange..." he just shrugged "I'm sorry X... I don't know how to explain it. Since I returned to my original body iv felt different, uneasy." X had a feeling he knew what it was, the one reason Zero sealed himself away. It was the Maverick virus that had originated inside Zero; it had merged with their greatest enemy and created the Sigma virus witch was later used to manipulate Zero. X didn't want to tell him about it, he didn't want to lose his friend again over the same internal dispute that had plagued Zero so many years ago but knew his best friend would find out sooner or later and hate X for keeping it from him. "Zero...we need to talk, before the start of the Maverick wars; you yourself were the first Maverick. You killed many people due to a virus inside you. One day our captain a great leader named Sigma came after you to stop you reign of terror once and for all, but you nearly killed him in the process before he was able to knock you unconscious by shattering your power crystal on you head. But doing so caused the Virus that granted you terrifying power to leak out and infect Sigma. And he later spread it out to many other Reploids starting the Maverick wars. When you found out... you, you weren't the same. You blamed yourself for the wars and it lead to your sealing in order to cleanse yourself. The doctors failed to remove it from you but in turn created the cyber elf's to debug the others that had been infected. The virus still resides inside of you, dormant and seeking away to take over again. But you mustn't allow it to control you if it occurs, I fear nothing will be able to stop you". Memories flooded Zero's mind causing him great pain, he fell to his knees screaming for it to stop before passing out.
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