The Return of the End

Chapter VIII

I do not own any characters that appear in this story.

This story does not take place at any specific time, or at all, during the Star Force timeline.


It was nearing midnight. The stars had not been out long, as the light pollution of the metropolis had barely faded. With the only light being provided by the waning crescent moon, the neighbouring planets, the strange object, and by the variety of different suns blazing billions of light years away, the brightness of the ground was underwhelming, as one couldn't tell from a bird's eye view if the pitch black was a dense forest or an abandoned city. This was the case for Megaman and Harp Note as they flew through the sky, covering kilometers faster than one could blink.

"Omega-Xis, for the love of God, can you slow down and tell us where we're going!" Geo asked, frustrated beyond sanity. "I needed to get information from mom, and now she's probably worried sick!"

The half-man half-beast stopped on a dime, as did his female counterpart next to him.

"Ow, LYRA! are you trying to give me whiplash!" she screamed in sudden pain. The two were brought crashing to the floor of an old laboratory at almost the same speed as they had been flying moments ago. Nimble like felines, they landed on their feet, but with such grace and absorbancy with the impact.

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"Okay, here's the deal so you two will shut up already," Omega-Xis snarled deeply. "Lyra has found a way to access the Internet."

"What? How?" the red-headed musician inquired. The duo fell out of their EM Fusion, standing across from their partners. The light given off by the both of them was enough to show that the lab was in a horrid condition. Chirps and squeaks of mice were heard echoing from the cob web covered walls, surrounding a room of collapsed and damaged desks, their computers and unsorted plethoras of documents still supported or spilt on the ground. Vine devoured whatever was in their path, be it the marble walls, glass windows, or metal doors. It was obvious whoever was hired for custodial duties was around a century or two late for work. The thick haze of dust made it hard for either Geo or Sonia to see more than a glow ahead of themselves.

"Wait," came a gruff canine voice. Suddenly, a hole was blown in the wall to the left of the humans before the two EM beings re-fused. "Get a Fan Battle Card. This place smells like burnt, drunken death."

The two called in the cards, producing two large, high power fans, blowing the dusty, clingy air out of the newly ripped arsehole of the building. It took a bit of time, but soon the two were able to see their surroundings quite a bit more.

They once again cancelled the fusion before Lyra raised her hands to the large, 20 foot hole they had torn in the roof. Slowly, a blue stream of pure energy formed between her strings and the new celestial body, causing her flames to grow considerably, glow bright, and flames changing colour to white. She looked forward, smirking, raising a hand, and firing a short beam towards and infrared port on the console of a massive machine, which appears to be made of various sized semi-cylinders lying on their flat sides.

The lights flickered.

Lyra grinned, excited, before letting out a shrill howl and shooting a long, dense burst of energy at the port. The lights, the monitors, and doors came to life for the first time in one hundred years. Lyra ended her energy transferal, and everyone expected everything to die out. However, the generator got the kickstart it needed, and was now running at its full potential. The teenaged couple stared wide-eyed at what they had just witnessed.

"I can harness the energy from the source, and without causing any damage. I simply use myself as a medium to transfer the energy."

They didn't know what to say, so no effort to form a response was made. Lyra signaled them to follow, which they did. She led them through a short marble paneled hallway, before the door ahead of them opened automatically, stopping and bending halfway at the disrupting of vines, causing Omega-Xis to rip them open. Inside the room, servers were lined up row on row, stacked up three layers, and effectively touching the ceiling.

"This must be where the remnants of the Internet are," Sonia observed, the first one to speak up since Lyra's ability was revealed. Omega-Xis nodded, and looked to Lyra, who nodded In response.

"The generator isn't hooked up to these servers, so I'll have to power them separately. That means that only Megaman can go on from here," she spoke, disappointed that she couldn't possibly join them. "The servers' power won't have a constant source, and will take much more energy, so if Geo wants a way back into the human world, which he surely does, I'll need to keep both the link and power source constant."

They nodded, knowing she was right. She closed her eyes, hovering several feet above the floor now, and finding her way underneath a glass dome-shaped skylight, focusing deeply and fidgeting slightly. Suddenly, she was glowing blue, earning a gasp from the human party, and her eyes opened. "This, where I am right now, is the focal point of the window, since it's where the energy is the most concentrated. Now, all that's left to do is..."

Her eyes went blank, before she began glowing a harsh blue, becoming a blur of white light, that shot a concentrated beam of white light at one of the servers stacks. "Geo, Mega, go On Air, get into the infrared spectrum, and let the beam carry you."

They did exactly that, fusing into Megaman, but at the last minute before disappearing, he turned and gave Sonia a reassuring smile and a quick kiss. "I'll be back."

She smiled weakly, worried, as he turned and disappeared into the air. The beam lit up even brighter for a brief moment.


Okay so, this wasn't as long as anticipated, but you'll get something much more fun-filled next time around. I guarantee you'll like it :)

Surprises and suspense to come :)

Love,

-0ZERO0