Sorry for another delay, the internet's acting up again so I decided to continue my Zero Collection game while waiting for the internet. As for the reviewers:

Shades of Kurai: Wow... thanks a lot for taking the time to point them out! About the fact, Model Z really isn't Zero himself. The Biometals only contain the powers of the legendary heroes and some of their personalities or maybe the souls of them (I think I've read about this somewhere, but I don't remember where :P). Maybe this is the reason why they are called the Livemetals in Japanese instead of Biometals.

marvelboy12: I'm glad you like it! I'm happy to know that people appreciate my work.

GoldPhantom and z-eion: Oh, so that's what you meant... Well, I already have a plan for Omega and Vent about that so just wait and read... Khukhukhu... (evil laugh much? XD)

Lastly, I don't own any of the Megaman ZX and ZXA characters!

Now on with the story!


The Power of LOVE

Chapter 7 – Aile's Solo Mission

A few days had passed since Vent, Aile, Ashe, and Grey met up with Omega. Ashe and Grey often visited the base, checking on Vent who had been training really hard. Aile rarely saw him in bed or on the deck at night, but always saw him in the training room.

Aile had just finished doing some requests from the townspeople and was going to have lunch together with Vent. She went to the training room and saw that Vent was still training, as usual. He swung his ZX saber at the Galleon holograms, making the holograms disappear one by one.

'Vent… Ever since the day we met with Omega, he had been training almost non stop. Vent, you have to rest for a while, or you'll end up hurting yourself…' Aile thought as he looked at Vent through the training room's window.

Ashe walked over to the ponytailed Guardian and put a hand on her shoulder. "Aile, is he always like this since that day?"

Aile turned and saw Ashe there. She slowly nodded before looking back to Vent. "Yeah… I asked the Guardian that was on duty last night and he told me that Vent hadn't left the training room for days…"

"Wow… I didn't know that he was that extreme…" Ashe commented.

Vent continued swinging his saber, but soon his movements slowed down. He swung at the Galleon hologram that was behind him before he fell to his knees and collapsed on the ground. He transformed back to his human form as he had already exceeded his limits.

"VENT!" without thinking, Aile ran into the training room and ran over to Vent. She put his head on her lap looked at him worriedly.

"Aile… please… I have to train…" Vent said weakly as he tried to get up, but Aile held him back down.

"No Vent! You have to rest! Your body needs some more rest!" Aile held him back as he continued to struggle. "Please Vent…"

Vent stopped struggling and paused for a moment. "Fine…"

Aile helped Vent to his room and laid him on his bed. She looked at his face for a moment and gently stroked his hair. "Take a rest, Vent…"

Aile left his room and found Prairie in front of her room. Prairie noticed that Aile came out of Vent's room and came over to her. Prairie saw the worry on Aile face after she had left the room. "Is something the matter?"

"Vent went overboard with his training and collapsed in the training room. It's a good thing that I was there…" Aile explained and sighed.

"Oh, it's not good… I was going to assign you and Vent to do some investigation. There have been some strange activities in Area E, where the power plant is." Prairie explained.

Aile looked at Vent's room, and looked back to Prairie. "I'll do it on my own, Prairie. Vent needs a lot of rest right now."

"Are you sure? I'm also picking up some strange readings there, similar to Omega's energy reading." Prairie asked as Aile nodded.

"It's okay, I'll be fine. I'll be heading to the power plant then…" Aile walked towards the elevator to the transerver room. Prairie watched her as she left to the elevator.

Aile teleported to the power plant and saw that the plant was active again. The last time she and Vent came here, the power plant had already been shut down.

'Now that's just really strange… I wonder who got the plant activated again…' Aile went deeper into the plant, but didn't spot any Mavericks or workers there. The machines were running, but she didn't see anyone there.

She went to a room with giant moving gears, and spotted something in a corner. She walked over to it and examined it.

'This looks like a reploid arm… and it was cut off from the body with something sharp…' Aile picked the arm and suddenly remembered something. 'Could this be… the work of Omega? If so, what is he doing here?' Aile suddenly heard something fell down from the ceiling.

Aile approached the source of the sound and saw a body. A dead reploid, with his head cut off. She looked up at the ceiling and saw a secret passage.

"Okay, there's a way to reach the passage!" Aile pulled out her Biometals. "ROCK ON!" Aile transformed into her ZX form and dash jumped into the passage.

She climbed up the stairs and saw more of the dead reploids. They all had cuts on their body. 'There's no mistake… It's him!'

"Are you surprised?"

Aile turned around, and saw that Omega was standing behind her. "Omega! I knew it! You're the one who killed off those reploids!"

"Well, it looks like I've been caught!" Omega shrugged and grinned evilly. "Now, it your turn!"

Omega charged at Aile, but she quickly dodged out of the way. She pulled out her ZX buster and was about to shot him in the chest again, but Omega pulled out his dark grey buster and shot the ZX buster off her hand.

"The same trick won't work on me twice! Give it up, girl!" Omega commented as he put away his buster.

"No, I won't give up to someone like you!" Aile pulled out her ZX saber and charged at Omega, but Omega easily blocked her saber with his.

"Now, now… why don't you just stay out of this!" Omega knocked Aile's saber to his side and hit Aile's head with the back of his saber. Aile fainted and collapsed on the ground next to Omega. He looked at her as she reverted to her human form.

Omega chuckled before looking at the window. "It looks like you don't have any choice but to lose if I have the girl as a hostage… Lord Weil, I'm sure you would be pleased to have me as your loyal servant…" Omega grabbed Aile by the back of her coat and got ready to teleport away.

"I'll be waiting for you, Chosen One…" Omega laughed evilly before the two of them teleported out of the power plant.


Aile has been kidnapped and it's up to Vent to save her!... Okay, now that line is just really weird if I write it down... Well, let's just ignore the line and please review!