And I updated, after a VERY long time. Sorry about that you guys. I know that its tough to read a story that takes such long gaps in time to update.
I also have some bad news. While I had this chapter done for a while, I didn't post it because I needed my co-author to check it out, but she's currently got issues to sort out, and I can't force her to write for me.
So until she manages to come back on her own, I'm going solo once more.
The quality of the story will drop a bit, but I'll still do my very best to give you the enjoyment you want.
Chapter 7: Awaken! Fire Saurian!
"Stop this, Capricorn Kid!" Megaman cried out as he ducked to avoid a sweeping high kick by the humanoid goat. Capricorn Kid didn't listen to him and continued to assault the blue bomber with punches and kicks to strike him down.
Geo couldn't fathom on how it was possible for their friend to turn on them so easily. Sure, they hadn't known one another for very long, but Geo saw how Kidd was a truly a kind, young individual that wanted to help them fight Apollo and the others. Geo then recalled that Solo had said that Kidd was being manipulated, so perhaps there was no way of talking through him. Even so, Geo wanted to believe that he could reach out to him.
"Geo, there's no point. I can sense the EM wave frequencies of them. It's completely erratic and I doubt that Solo would be telling us he's being manipulated just cause he wants us to beat him up," Omega-Xis told Geo from his left hand, feeling Geo's wavering spirit. "Focus on the battle. If we defeat him, maybe we can save Kidd and Capricorn from whatever's controlling them, though then again, what we're fighting isn't even the real one. Rogue's got that one."
Jumping back, Megaman raised his left arm. "Battle Card! Sword!" he cried out, before he charged in and slashed at the clone of Capricorn Kid.
However, much to his shock, he felt no resistance against the blade, even though the clone didn't move to avoid it. Rather, the sword had simply passed through him like nothing was in the way. Before Geo had time to figure out what happened, Capricorn Kid raised his right leg and attempted to strike Megaman down with a heel kick. Blocking it by crossing his arms at the last second, Megaman was sent down against an EM Wave Road with great force.
"This is bothersome… we can't hit him, but he can hit us," Omega-Xis grumbled as the Battle Card's effect wore off and his arm returned to normal, "We'll need to go after the one that Rogue is taking on. Fighting this projection is useless."
Nodding at that, Megaman moved through the EM Wave Roads to try and find where Rogue's battle was being held on. Sensing the approaching battle through the disruption of the EM waves, Megaman looked to see two streaking lights fighting, one white, the other purple.
The blue bomber was about to join into the fight when he heard someone shout at him, "DUCK!"
Acting before his brain could decipher the meaning behind the word, Megaman instantly dropped down on one knee, to avoid a kick that was soaring towards him. Silently thanking his savior, he jumped to another Wave Road and saw the source of the warning: Lyra Note.
"Thanks for the save, Lyra Note," Megaman said, though he couldn't go on, as the two projections of Capricorn Kid were already on them.
"Megaman, these things are impossible to beat! We have to take out the real one," Lyra Note said as she avoided her opponent's hooves, though it was obvious that she was growing tired the longer the fight lasted. She couldn't win against an enemy she couldn't hit.
"I don't think they'll be letting us pass at all. We might have to hope that Rogue can get the job done," Megaman said, as he activated Barrier to protect himself from another attack.
Meanwhile with Rogue, he was beginning to see through the patterns of Capricorn's attacks, having stayed on the defensive merely to spot any openings to exploit. Though at first it looked like nothing could work, he could slowly spot points of when Capricorn Kid wasn't able to react in enough time. Now that he knew, Rogue was done playing around.
Charging at the humanoid goat, he seemed at first ready to clash fists with his opponent's hoof, but at the last moment, Rogue's form was outlined with a white glow, having distorted his EM waves to phase through his opponent in an instant, but not before he had his right hand had grasped his opponent's horn, making a tug to make Capricorn Kid stop in his tracks, before Rogue threw him with great force.
"Gah!" Capricorn Kid cried out as he tried to regain his balance, planting his hoofs against the Wave Road to create enough friction to slow him down, until he came to a stop. He looked angrily at his opponent, but his eyes soon widened to see that Rogue had already moved right in front of him.
"Rogue Fist!" Charging his right fist with the power of the Indie Darkness, Rogue made a strong right hook on Capricorn Kid's face, followed by another hook with Rogue's left arm, before he switched back to his right arm, and finally crouched down and flipped backwards to send a kick at his opponent's chin, knocking Capricorn Kid flying backwards till he fell on his back on the Wave Road. Not waiting to give him a chance to catch his breath, Rogue once more charged his right fist, before slamming it on the road, causing a shockwave to be sent to his opponent, causing another explosion and the humanoid goat falling on the ground.
At the moment of the explosion, the two projections facing Megaman and Lyra Note faded in an instant, much to the duo's relief.
"Saved by the bell…" Megaman muttered as he looked to where Rogue was.
They two moved to try and join up with Rogue as he descended to the ground to see if Capricorn Kid was still conscious. However, as the Murian's feet touched the ground, he witnessed his opponent once more getting up. Damn, was this resilience from the extra boost in power he received from being manipulated? He could hear a hollow chuckle coming from the goat.
"Not bad… you're much stronger than I gave you credit for. Guess I have to really get serious to stand a chance against you…" Capricorn Kid muttered as his eyes glowed, the strange symbol appearing in his eyes once more. "Battle Card! Grass Stage!"
The trio looked below them to see grass beginning to grow all around, till the concrete roads and sidewalks looked like a meadow.
"Grass is my power. I grow stronger by communing with nature," Capricorn Kid said, as the grass around him before to tear and swirl around him in a spiraling manner. A radiant green aura began to be emitted by him as he started to suddenly grow in size, till he was already twice the trio's sizes. They stared up, only Rogue's face remaining stoic, though even he was a bit surprised that this ended up happening.
"You're finished now!" the enlarged Capricorn Kid said as he rushed them all, his speed somehow also raised to a new level, as he was already there without needing to jump frequencies, and aimed a devastating kick to Lyra Note first, the female EM warrior raising her arms and activating Barrier to protect herself at the last second, but the barrier broke through in an instant and sent her flying through the air and crashing through a building, knocking her out instantly.
"Lyra Note!" Megaman shouted, while Rogue reacted to the chance of Lyra Note taking a hit as he fired his Flying Knuckle attack, several copies of his fist struck the oversized goat and sent him back, but much to his shock, he only went back a few yards, and didn't even lose balance. Rather he was only pushed back by the assault and nothing else.
It couldn't be… was growing in size really enhance everything he had, offense, defense, and speed? Megaman began worrying that they might be in trouble now.
"That felt weak. Is that all you got, Rogue?" Capricorn Kid asked with a grin.
Rogue glared at him, but wasn't looking too worried. Maybe it was because he had full confidence that he could beat him, but he realized that if he fought with Capricorn Kid and tried to win, it'd consume some time, and Rogue was still thinking that there was more to it that. Capricorn Kid was guarding something, or maybe he was a diversion for something else… Rogue needed to know.
"Rogue Wave!" Striking the ground with his right fist, he sent a shockwave toward Capricorn Kid, but he didn't bother to dodge and took the attack, causing an explosion, creating a smokescreen around the area. Rogue then looked toward Megaman, who was still worried about Lyra Note and looked like he wanted to see if she was alright. "I'll leave him to you, Megaman. I'll check to see if Lyra Note is alright."
Megaman looked at him and felt relieved, though now he had to deal with the ten feet tall humanoid goat. Capricorn Kid looked around and noticed that Rogue was already gone. "What, did he run away?" he questioned, before he looked at Megaman. "Oh well, guess I'll deal with you now."
"Hey, are you gonna sleep here all day? I'd have expected you to have gotten up by now, even after taking such a big hit," a voice called out to the unconscious Lyra Note, the girl slowly waking up and groaned from the pain she had. Even though her EM form prevented her from getting as seriously injured as she would have if she were in human form, it didn't mean that she was immune to pain, especially since the titan Capricorn Kid was even stronger than before. Opening her eyes at last, she saw Rogue crouching down to make her wake up.
"Ugh… felt like I got hit by a truck…" she groaned out, sitting up.
"Yeah, enough whining. I need you to help Megaman out," Rogue said, once more showing a complete lack of care for another person's well being. And this guy was supposed to protect the world from Mu as the Guardian?
Getting up slowly, she managed to regain her senses completely and could move easier again. "So what about you? We can't let him fight alone," she said.
"Which is why I'm telling you to go and help him. I'm going to check something out," he responded, and then jumped frequencies without saying anything else, making Lyra Note sigh at how he certainly wasn't the team player.
She jumped frequencies and went to the Wave Roads, watching the battle between Capricorn Kid and Megaman continuing, though it was Megaman going on the defensive now. With the difference in power, there was no way that Megaman could win. Wait, why didn't he transform? Surely if he could, he'd be able to turn the battle around to his favor. Lyra looked and figured something out.
"I think Geo isn't getting a chance to transform. Capricorn is attacking relentlessly, and any chance that he gets to transform, he'd get interrupted," Lyra stated from her observation. Lyra Note frowned and knew what to do. "Then we'll have to help him out!"
Getting ready to strum her guitar, she cried out, "Quick String!" Her guitar then released several strings resembling those on her guitar to try and bind Capricorn Kid, though the goat noticed in time and avoided capture. Lyra Note then jumped between the two combatants. Megaman looked at her and smiled, his expression feeling relieved. "Lyra Note, thank goodness you're alright," he said.
"Guess you want so more punishment. Hoof Kick!" Capricorn Kid jumped and performed a flying kick towards the duo, both of whom dodged at the last second. Lyra Note looked at blue bomber. "Megaman, transform into Zerker now!"
Megaman nodded. "Right!"
"Like I'll let you!"
Performing a drop kick from above, Capricorn Kid missed Megaman at the last second, as the latter jumped away, though the attack on the wave road was so strong that it created a shockwave and knocked Megaman to another wave road with force, stunning him for a moment. Capricorn Kid moved to attack again.
"Here's a special surprise for you! Shock Note: Fortissimo!" Lyra Note cried out, strumming her guitar once more, create an even larger speaker that fired a larger Shock Note at the enlarged Capricorn Kid, the attack making impact on the humanoid goat on his side from focusing too much on Megaman, and much to the former's surprise, the attack had dealt some real damage on him. Capricorn Kid growled at Lyra Note, but the moment that she had bought for her partner was enough, as a burst of energy was released and a thunderbolt struck the ground where Megaman stood and he came out in his silver armor and the sword made of electricity. Lyra Note smirked at her accomplishment.
"Heh… I guess you think that with the power of Zerker, you'll win the battle easily. Well too bad for you, I won't go down that easy!" Capricorn Kid declared, forming a battle stance once more.
Megaman Thunder Zerker looked at Capricorn Kid and got into his own stance, ready to charge and deliver a powerful blow with his mighty sword. With his heightened power from using Tribe On, Megaman clearly had the advantage over him in terms of power. As the two charged towards each other, Megaman used his large sword to strike against, parry, and block many of Capricorn Kid's attacks, as each attack seemed to send a strong force that echoed throughout the area. Eventually, the difference in power began to show, before Capricorn Kid jumped back and sent two projections of himself to attack Megaman.
Coming at him from both sides, the two projections attacked, but were both blocked with Megaman's sword and Omega-Xis. Seeing that both arms were busy, the original charged to deliver a kick at him, but before it affected Megaman, the latter jumped a little and raised both of his legs to meet the kick, the force sending Megaman flying back, before he regained his balance fast and spun with his sword raised, striking the wave road and then slashing upwards. "Thunder Slash!" The slash sent a bolt of lightning that went up to the sky that crossed the wave road to strike at Capricorn Kid, before he dodged at the last second, panting a little. "Give it up, Capricorn Kid, you won't win," Megaman said to him.
All he saw in response was a smirk, and soon noticed that the two projections were gone. A shout was heard before he turned to notice that the projections had moved from the original after Megaman got away from the hold they had before, and were now attacking Lyra Note. There was a moment when he wasn't looking and they took advantage of that. Lyra Note didn't stand a chance, since she had trouble dealing with just one that was normal sized, so two that were even bigger and stronger was out of the question.
Megaman hurried over to try and help her, that he ended up turning his back on his opponent, something that his opponent intended to make him regret, as before Megaman reached Lyra Note, the original jumped frequencies and teleported right in front of Megaman, and sent a powerful punch on his stomach, making him cry out in pain, to which the other two projections also took advantage of and moved to attack him as well.
Reeling in the pain, the opening created then gave the projections a new target to take on, as they jumped towards him, moving in a cross motion to deliver a punch to him, making him be sent up in the air, while the original was up as he dived down with a Hoof Kick, the attack impacting him and sending him crashing to the ground.
"Megaman!" Lyra Note shouted out in shock, as she watched the smokescreen fade and Megaman returning to his normal form, losing his Zerker form. Lyra Note gritted her teeth, feeling anger, not towards Capricorn Kid, but to herself. It was all her fault… if he didn't have to worry about her, he would have won already.
"Now that he's done, you're next!" The three Capricorn Kids charged towards her, looking to finish with her now that Megaman was done.
"Sonia, move!" Lyra cried out in warning as she saw the enemies approaching, forcing Lyra Note to try and get away, but not run away too much so that they'd forget about her and hurt Megaman any further.
Megaman saw the two and the two projections leaving, as he fought to stay conscious, but felt the strength leaving his body. "Geo… get up…" Omega-Xis said, though even he was feeling some pain and fought to help Geo get up.
As his consciousness began to fade, Geo heard a faint sound of a roar in his mind, along with a pulsing sensation, before he finally passed out.
"… Huh? Where… where am I…?" Awakening in an empty deserted field, Geo looked around, wondering what was going on. Though Geo felt that something about the place seemed very familiar, like he had been there before.
Hearing the sound of a roar that echoed throughout the field, Geo felt his body tense up, as goosebumps formed all over him and he slowly turned around to see a large dinosaur shaped head glaring at him, covered in a red metallic armor and above him Geo noticed an emblem in the sky, the mark of Saurian.
"This is… it's just like with Zerker… a trial?" Geo questioned as he recalled the memory back when Zerker had finally put him through a trial after going out of control several times, except Geo had only turned into Saurian once, right before he turned into the Tribe King. Maybe because he already used the OOPArts in complete control the first time, they were now letting him go on the trial already without needing to go through the out of control process. Either way, maybe a new transformation was she he needed to use. And it seemed like it knew that its power was needed for Geo, as the emblem glowed and revealed a scene with Lyra Note fighting the three Capricorn Kids, and getting completely overwhelmed by them.
"No! Lyra Note!" he shouted, as the Saurian head roared once more, releasing a torrent of flames, that seemed to form a wall of fire in the area in front of it, before particles were releasing into the area at the center of the fire, that showed the Rock of Saurian OOPArt.
This trial wasn't like the one with Zerker, where he had to simply pull out the sword. So what was this about?
Almost immediately, Geo felt incredible pressure coming over him and he felt himself crashing down onto the ground with force. "Ugh… can't… move…"
What was going on? Why did his body feel so heavy that he couldn't feel like he could move a muscle? It was as if there was a force over him that was pressing him down. Gravity…? Was it an increase in gravity perhaps? This trial wasn't anything like Zerker indeed, but if this was the case, how could he pass this one? He could hear the Saurian calling him into the flames. Maybe he needed to simply reach out and touch it, but to do that, he'd have to get up and go there, but the pressure over him was too much.
Hearing more of Lyra Note's cries of pain as she was being beaten by Capricorn Kid, Geo gritted his teeth, realizing that he couldn't fail here. Groaning in pain as he forced himself up, he felt all his muscles burning, before he made his first step forward.
As the Saurian head observed the boy standing up to the force of its increased gravity zone and heading straight into the flames to get to the source of its power, it watched as he looked on with determination and desire to protect the one he was being shown was being harmed.
As Lyra Note used Gatling Battle Card, she fired at the three foes and on the ground to make a smokescreen and then used the cover to get back towards Megaman's body and help him get out of there. Even if she couldn't win the battle, she couldn't let him get hurt because of her weakness.
Geo finally entered the wall of flames that were guarding the Rock of Saurian and felt the fire burn his flesh, but even so, he was reaching his arm out to touch the stone.
Lyra Note was about to reach Megaman's body, but was caught up by her foe and struck, forcing her to fall on the ground, before Capricorn decided to finish off Megaman first before he got to Lyra Note.
Letting out a scream, Geo finally touched the Rock of Saurian and the fire immediately faded away, and the increased gravity dissipated, and soon, the Saurian head that observed him began to fade away, acknowledging that Geo had the strength he needed to overcome his adversaries, and thus would deem him worthy of the power of Saurian.
Capricorn Kid was about to deliver the final strike, before he sensed a disturbance and jumped away as a large pillar of flame erupted from where Megaman was laying down, as he donned a new red armor with horned helmet, and Omega-Xis' head transformed into one resembling the Rock of Saurian. Emerging from the flames, Megaman Fire Saurian looked at his foe.
"That form… Saurian? You shouldn't have that power yet!" Capricorn Kid cried out as he formed his two projections once more and had them charge both sides while he charged him from the front. The two from the sides were blocked with Megaman's arms, while he took the punch from the original Capricorn Kid and didn't so much as flinch. Pushing the other two away, Geo made a fist and slammed it against Capricorn Kid's face, the force sent him flying against a building with incredible force.
"Let's end this…" Megaman muttered as he raised Omega-Xis' head and he began to charge a shot in his mouth.
Capricorn Kid emerged from the building, seething in anger and his horns grew longer and he charged at Megaman, intending to ram him with all the power he had in his body, while Megaman finished charging. "Dino Cannon!"
Firing, the recoil moved Geo back a few feet, before the orange ball of light that soared through the air struck the humanoid goat and exploded upon contact, creating a fiery explosion as he screamed in pain, the crest in his eyes finally being destroyed, and finally being pulled out of wave form, as both Kidd Gruff and Capricorn were now unconscious and on the ground.
Finally finished with the battle, Geo panted and fell on one knee and returned to his human form as well, his Star Carrier falling on the ground. Lyra Note hurried to his side, looking a little beat up, but mostly fine, as she crouched by Geo's side.
"You're alright… thank goodness," she said, with a relieved smile.
"Y-yeah… but what about Kidd? We have to make sure that he's alright and no longer under control," Geo said, still worried about the unconscious boy.
"Yeah, but you first. You took a lot of damage from that battle, and you used Saurian's powers for the first time, so you need to rest. We finally won, after all," Sonia said, before another voice interrupted hers.
"No, we didn't. It's more our loss…" the voice said, revealing to be that of Solo's. Seeing the duo's confused looks, Solo decided to elaborate for them. "This entire was just a diversion. The disruptor field, Phantom Dark, Capricorn Kid… there were all a means of delaying time so that the enemy could acquire something… and now they got what they were looking for…"
The revelation shocked the two, along with their EM partners. So even though they had just won the battle, they were already on their way to losing the war.
And the chapter is finished. I'm gonna work on the next chapter and try my best to make sure that you get it even sooner.
Oh yeah, another thing to mention. I know that I want reviews, but please, don't spam anonymous reviews, because I'll know its from the same person based on how it looks. So please, if you read the chapter, don't send multiple reviews like that and expect me to happy.
I want honest reviews for the work I put into these stories, and if I get reviews like this, it doesn't feel as good as it should be.
I know that it'll make it hard for my story to surpass the last one in reviews cause of it, but this is how I feel. I want reviews, but more honest ones that review because they have something to say about the story, not because I'm asking here that I want reviews.
That made sense, right? Hope so.
Anyways, until the next chapter, later.
