Fight at Memorial Hall
Iris watched her brother appear on the screen in front of her. The disappointment showed clearly in her face. Her brother wanted to fight Zero and she knew, if her brother wanted to, he would kill Zero. Iris started to tremble. So much stress was upon her. She felt as if she was going to burst into tears, but she stopped. She couldn't cry. Not now.
There was a flash and Zero appeared out of nowhere. "I've got a message from the Repliforce," Iris said quietly almost as if she didn't want Zero to hear her. Zero watched as she pressed a button on the control panel.
"Zero! I'll be at Memorial Hall! Be there!" Colonel's face says on the screen. Zero nodded and was ready to leave when Iris ran up to him and grabbed him tightly around the waist.
"Iris!" He yelled, a little more harsher then he thought he would. Iris didn't seem to hear him, she was too busy making sure Zero didn't go.
"Don't go Zero! Don't fight him!" She yelled through sobs of tears. Zero, trying not to hurt Iris pried her off of him. He then took her be the shoulders, looked strait into her eyes and said, "This is a matter of personal pride now. There's no avoiding this, I must go." He quickly turned he head away from Iris, he didn't want to see her cry at the moment. He already felt horrible as it was, but it was just getting worse.
Zero stood there for a while thinking about Iris. He then turned back to her. She wasn't crying, but she seemed disappointed and scared at the same time. Zero was about to say sorry, but he couldn't. He couldn't muster up the courage. Without a final glance he teleported through the air to Memorial Hall.
Colonel wandered through Memorial Hall in search of Zero. He was late, but everybody always said he would be late. Zero thought it was cool to be late or so the Colonel had heard. However this time Zero was fifteen minutes late, too late to be "cool".
"He won't show," Colonel thought after a moment. "He got scared and ran back to his base to hide."
Suddenly there were some sounds of someone jumping above Colonel. "Huh!" He said in surprise as he looked into the sky. Zero was standing on a statue, silhouetted against the sun. Colonel didn't make any moves. He wanted Zero to start and then he would finish him off.
"I'm disappointed in you Colonel!" Zero yelled from the statue.
Then, with a giant leap and a great cry of war, Zero jumped from the statue his Z-Saber raised high above his head. Zero was fast and Colonel barley saw Zero rushing at him. Colonel wasn't quick enough to pull out his sword, but he was quickly enough to move out of the way before the saber came crashing down on him. Instead of Colonel's death, the saber hit the ground leaving a large, steaming gash in the concrete floor.
Zero quickly got himself together and rushed at Colonel once more. This time however he didn't raise his sword at him instead he backed him into a corner.
"What do you think you're doing?" The Colonel yelled quickly afraid that Zero would suddenly slash him to millions of pieces. Zero however didn't do this, he was thinking about other things then fighting at the moment.
"It's not too late, stop the coup now!" Zero pleaded as he faced Colonel strait in the eye. For a moment Zero thought he saw a flush of anger and old hate for Zero in Colonels eyes.
"Never!" he yelled proudly.
Zero sighed and faced the ground, saber still in his hand. "If that's your decision," Zero clutched his saber tightly as he said this. Seeing this, Colonel put his hand on the hilt of his purple sword.
Zero didn't want to fight. He knew how disappointed Iris would be and already was. But at the moment it seemed the only choice so very quickly he yelled, "Prepare yourself!"
With that he lunged at Colonel. Colonel however was ready for the attack. He whipped out his sword and parried Zero's blow. The sabers collided with such force they sparked together creating immense heat. The sparks started to fly getting into Zero and Colonel's eyes. With a final clash with the swords, Zero pulled apart and moved out into a more open space. Colonel followed all the while slashing at Zero, but to no affect. Zero was just blocking the blows from swift moves with his own saber.
When Zero stopped the two each attacked at the same time. Both the sabers hit each other with full force. The two kept the sabers together for some time. Zero was trying to push his saber towards Colonel and Colonel was doing just the opposite. It was like a never ending arm wrestle, but with sabers.
Suddenly there was a big flash and both Zero and Colonel got thrown backwards, but remained on there feet. What was that? Zero thought as he looked at Colonel. What had happened was that the two swords over-heated causing a small explosion.
After taking a quick rest Colonel lunged at Zero again. He was going for the killing blow, one attack he hadn't used in a long time. However every time he used this attack it never failed to kill slowly and painfully. Colonel ran faster at Zero, faster, and faster, and faster until a small voice was yelling out inside his head. "Stop, please!"
Suddenly Colonel realized this voice wasn't inside his head. It was outside and it was a familiar voice. It was Iris.
"Brother please! Don't you remember, Zero saved my life!
Colonel looked shocked. He looked from Zero to Iris and then back at Zero again. Zero however kept looking at Iris with a mixture of hate, love, thankfulness, and many other emotions. Colonel made a gurgling noise in his mechanical throat and looked back at Iris. He wanted so much to just rip Zero up, tear him to pieces. However that day was not today, not in front of Iris or in Memorial Hall.
Looking back at Zero he said, "Very well then. I will spare your life for now." With that Colonel walked away back to Repliforce, but not before he said, "But next time there will be no mercy."
Zero was shocked Iris had come, he had a mixture of feelings that he wanted to just yell out. He was happy to know that she cared about him and her brother, but he was mad that he couldn't stop Colonel.
Looking back down at Iris she said, "Zero please don't fight with my brother. If you do I'm afraid one of you may end up-"
She couldn't finish because for one, she just didn't want to think about the subject of Zero or Colonel dying and the second reason was that Zero had jumped away as if he weren't listening to her.
"Some one must stop Repliforce!" Zero growled as he walked away clenching his fists.
"Zero!" Iris called after him in worry.
However Zero was gone, he had teleported away leaving Iris stranded in the middle of Memorial Hall. She started to cry and walk home sadly.
