World Reset

Chapter 10 – Omega Challenge

A week had passed since the Guardians and Hunters encountered Omega and Giro once more, but they weren't given the time to think as Thomas' Maverick attacks were keeping them busy. As Aile was out in the city to fight the Mavericks, Vent decided to stay in the base and he was lying down on the bed he and Aile shared before letting out a sigh.

"Vent, please come to the command center. This is important," Prairie's voice was heard from the intercom, making Vent get off the bed and go out of the room.

The door slid open and Vent went into the command center to be greeted by the worried look on her face, "If it's the mission about the Mavericks, I'm not going. If it's somehow about Boss, then I'll go on my own."

"Vent…" Prairie moved away to the side to reveal a popup screen behind her, "I wish that I don't have to force you to go, but…" Prairie turned to the pop up screen as Vent approached it, "Thomas wants you to come on your own to the research lab again. He gave you this challenge message."

"A challenge…" Vent repeated as he read the message on the pop up screen before nodding, "Alright, I'll go. Don't tell anyone that I'm going to take a challenge from Thomas unless you have no choice," Vent turned away from the screen and looked at the door instead, "I don't want anyone to get worried and I don't want anyone to get hurt because of him, not when I'm still this weak…"

"Vent…" Prairie saw as Vent ran out of the door, "No… Vent, you're not weak… They're just too strong…"

Vent stood in front of the door leading to the command center for a moment with his head lowered before he suddenly raised his head and turned to Fleuve's lab. The lab's door slid open, surprising the old scientist as he hid a brown object behind him when he saw Vent coming into the room. Fleuve walked backwards as Vent approached him until his back reached the computer behind him.

"Fleuve, I know that you've been working for that Biometal again," Vent spoke up, "Are you finished making the replica of Model O?"

Fleuve was silent for a moment before he let out a sigh in defeat, "So you know that I've been working on it, huh?" Fleuve took out the brown Biometal from his back, "I've just finished it a few minutes ago and I think it only contains Omega's power only, and not the soul."

"Let me have it, Fleuve," The old scientist looked up at the brown-haired Guardian, who had a serious look on his face, "I need its power."

"Vent…" Fleuve looked at the Biometal he was holding before looking back at Vent, "You can't use it anytime you feel like it. The power contained in this Biometal is too powerful, so I'm not entirely sure if you can fully control it," Fleuve handed the Biometal to Vent, "Use it only when you're completely out of options, only as a last resort."

Vent nodded before taking the Biometal and smiled at the old scientist, "Thanks, Fleuve," Vent put the Biometal in his pocket, "I promise that I'm going to use this power carefully."

Vent went out of the room and headed towards the transerver room to teleport himself to the research lab. Vent transformed into his ZX form and looked around the destroyed lab, before the sound of footsteps were heard echoing in the room. Vent pulled out his saber and turned to the direction where the footsteps came from to see the dark red Reploid walking towards him with his purple saber ready in hand.

"Omega!" Vent put his green ZX saber in front of him in defense, "Where's Boss and Thomas?"

"Giro doesn't have the time to take care of you now," Omega replied as he looked at Vent without any emotions on his face, "He is busy helping Lord Thomas create the idea world by erasing this crumbling one."

"Then fight me! You'll tell me where they are when I win!" Vent charged at Omega with his saber, but Omega had easily blocked the incoming saber with his purple one.

"Lord Thomas has told me that you, a rip-off copy of me, had defeated me more than once before," Omega swung his saber, knocking Vent's off his hand, "However, Lord Thomas has given me life and more power than Weil had given me before."

Omega pushed Vent away with his other hand, knocking him against the wall. Vent slowly got up and saw that Omega was walking towards him with the Reploid's location not too far away from his knocked saber. Vent pulled out his ZX buster and released a few regular buster shots, only to bounce off Omega's armor.

Omega picked Vent up by the neck before throwing him over his head, making him land near his green saber. Vent took his saber and charged at Omega, who still had his back turned to him, until he suddenly turned to him and stopped Vent's saber with his two fingers. Vent's eyes grew wide in disbelief before Omega swung his purple saber and destroyed Vent's green one.

Vent threw away his broken saber before he pulled out his buster once more, only to have it grabbed by Omega before he crushed it in his arms. Vent, having no other weapons to fight, used his own fists as he punched and kicked Omega while the dark red Reploid easily blocked the attacks. Vent was about to punch Omega's chest with his right hand, but Omega caught it before he threw Vent to his side towards the remains of the lab.

Vent's armor had some cracks on it as the impact from Omega's throws had damaged him greatly. Vent saw that Omega was walking towards him once more, but he felt that his armor couldn't hold any more attacks and transformed him back to his human form. Vent knelt down before trying to find something on his feet to knock Omega away, until his arm felt something inside his pocket.

'Model O…' Vent looked at the pocket where he put the brown Biometal before taking it out, 'Fleuve told me to use this only when I'm out of options…' Vent turned back to Omega, who was getting closer and closer to him, 'I guess… that time is now!'

Vent suddenly stood up with Model O along with a slightly cracked Model X in his hands. Omega looked at the Biometals in Vent's hands before stopping to look at him, "What are you planning to do now?"

Vent let out a smile, "Using my trump card," Vent put the Biometals in front of him, "Rock ON! Model OX!"

The ground started shaking for a bit before a sphere of white light engulfed Vent's whole body. A dark red armor similar to Omega's appeared on Vent's body along with a purple saber in his hand. The light died down to reveal Vent in his OX form before he turned to look at Omega. Instead of Vent's normal green eyes, Vent's eyes were blood red like when he first transformed into his OX form. Omega was about to get his purple saber ready, but was stopped when a familiar voice was heard in the room.

"That's enough, Omega. It is my plan to draw him here," The red-haired man teleported behind Omega, "Your job here is to make him our servant, and he is already one of us now."

"Yes, my Lord," Omega bowed down before he teleported out of the area, leaving Thomas and Vent in the research lab room.

Thomas let out a smile as Vent stood in his place, "That old scientist didn't know that I was the one who sent that Biometal data for him to make," Thomas turned to Vent, "You'll become a powerful asset to my plan, thanks to the mind control data I put alongside the Biometal's original data."

Thomas let out an evil laugh before him and Vent teleported out of the room, leaving Thomas' laugh to echo in the whole room.

More chapters will come soon! We're almost halfway through the story now!

EDIT (23/02/2018): Minor (detected) typos fixed.