Before I respond to reviews and all that jazz, I just wanted to say something. The reason why the chapter was posted today is because today, November 13th, 2018, is the 10th anniversary of the end of my favorite series of all time, Megaman Starforce 3. I can't even begin to explain the impact that game had on me, but I remember just waiting at Gamestop with my brother ten years ago on launch day for the games. My brother got Black Ace, and I got Red Joker. God, I still have my copy of it. I remember playing the entire megaman starforce series so much, having friends who had the game as well so we played PvP and became brothers and everything. I just… I get so emotional thinking about how much I absolutely love this series, and how sad I am that it has ended. If Starforce 4 ever happens, I'll be first in line to get it.
Now for reviews:
Br0ken Th0rn: Thanks for the kind words, and I am planning on changing a bit of the story, while remaining true to the original story as well. The major changes I've done won't harm the story at all, but it will enhance certain aspects of it.
cosmicblader12: Thanks! I hope the fight doesn't disappoint!
RedBurningDragon: Thanks! I don't plan on stopping this story anytime soon!
sebku ssj3: Um I don't speak spanish but it seems like that was a compliment, so thanks!
Jonas: I'm glad you are looking forward to my story!
Once again thanks for being patient. This is one of my longest chapters yet, and I tried to incorporate both the anime and the games' interpretation of the Cygnus fight in this chapter as well, also adding in a few twists of my own! I hope you all enjoy the second FMian battle!
The entire group of tourists were frozen in fear and shock of the FM monster, everyone knowing about Taurus from the news and assuming this winged monster was another alien invader. Before any of them could even think to run, the FMian spread his wings and sweeped them towards the direction of the exit. Sharp, explosive feathers came out from his wings, destroying the exit along with a few props in the space sim.
"Kid! That's Cygnus! I didn't expect him to attack again so fast!" Omega-Xis said to Geo, sounding alarmed.
'Cygnus? Wasn't he the guy who battled you before you met me? You were really injured when you ran into me' Geo internally said to Mega, the crowd of tourists panicking as Cygnus blew up more props, toying with the people. Geo couldn't pulse in with all these people around him.
"Yeah, we hurt each other pretty bad. We have to stop him, Cygnus is much more dangerous than Taurus. He is a planner, he probably has a way to destroy this entire compound and everyone in it." Mega said
'I can't pulse in while all these people are here!' Geo said internally, avoiding the crowd of space-suit wearing tourists panicking, running everywhere as Cygnus toyed with them. Geo, Sonia, Luna and her lackeys were the only tourists calm, having dealt with an FMian before. Luna looked to be praying for Megaman to come and save her, while Bud and Zack shielded Luna from debris. Sonia came over and checked on Geo
"Are you okay?" Sonia asked in her pink astronaut suit. Geo was surprised to see the girl's expression not be one of shock or fear, but one of determination. He simply nodded in response. Mr. Boreal floated over soon after, the chaos of the attack providing good cover for him.
"Kids! There's a secret emergency exit inside the model of Earth! Get out of here now!" Boreal said firmly.
"No! What about you?" Geo protested, not wanting to leave Aaron. Boreal was one of the few people Geo really cared for, he didn't want to take the chance of losing him.
"I'm going to get the monster's attention. When you get out, call the Satella Police!" Boreal said, not waiting for their response and floating away faster than they could catch up. Before Geo could chase after him, Bud grabbed him and followed Zack, Luna, and Sonia out.
"Let me go Bud! I can't let Boreal do this!" Geo yelled, but Bud didn't let up. Geo wasn't thinking clearly, only wanting to stay with Boreal. He never really was this emotional, but during the trip he realized how much Boreal has meant to him over the past few years with his father gone. Boreal was like an uncle, doing his best to support Geo and his family, and losing him would be almost as devastating as losing his father.
"Geo these FMian guys are serious news! Back at school that Taurus guy nearly killed us all, only Megaman could stop him! We'd only get in the way, the best we can do is get out of the way and pray Megaman shows up!" Bud said, sounding more serious than usual. It was clear the Taurus incident had made him more mindful of things he couldn't hope to control, such as fighting an alien.
"The dumb dude is right. If we escape we can transform and fight Cygnus." Mega said, calming Geo a bit. His raw emotions blinded his normally careful personality. Now that he had the time to think, he realized Mega and his classmates were right.
"Sorry, I wasn't thinking, let's go." Geo said to Bud, sounding more like his normal self. Bud nodded and let him go. Once they got into the lobby, Geo snuck off by himself through the crowd and pulsed in. His friends had no idea he had slipped away, thinking the brunette was following behind.
Meanwhile in the Space Sim, Cygnus continued to toy with the humans, not exactly hurting anyone directly but making them scream in fear by blowing everything up around them. Right when an elderly couple were about to lean on a model planet to rest, Cygnus blew up the model before they could, causing them to nearly have a heart attack. It was clear Cygnus had a lot of control over Tom's body, and was taking advantage of it.
Boreal floated in front of the core and yelled at Cygnus, getting his attention and stalling for time for the police to arrive.
"Hey Birdo! Get out of my facility!" Boreal yelled, trying not to look intimidated by the FMian. He gulped when the bird like FMian turned towards the scientist, grinning evilly.
"Name calling? That's no way to treat a brother Aaron." Cygnus said, using Tom's voice saying those words. Boreal's eyes widened in shock.
"Tom? Is that… is that you?" He said, unable to process his awkward assistant turning into such a monster.
"It was, but now I've fused with Cygnus and become something else. You can call me Cygnus Wing!" Cygnus Wing said, spreading his wings. "Aaron, you've betrayed me and you will pay for your sins. I will destroy this entire facility and everyone in it, I've already locked down the gates around the facility so no one can leave it." He said as he pointed at the scientist accusingly, his voice going back to a mixture of Cygnus and Tom's voices.
"Betrayed you? How? And even if I did betray you, and I didn't, how would hurting all these civilians help you? Tom please, don't do this." Boreal begged.
"Sorry, but I don't have to answer to you anymore." Cygnus was about to shoot his feathers towards Boreal, but he was blasted from the side.
"I'm pretty sure murder is prohibited in the rules of this place." Megaman said, Omega-Xis' head having blasted Cygnus Wing with a megabuster blast. Cygnus soon regained his composure within seconds.
"Ah Omega-Xis, I see Boreal was just stalling for your arrival. If not you then someone else like that abysmal police department they have." Cygnus said, dusting off his side, not really hurt by the simple buster attack.
"Cygnus, get out of here before we delete you" Geo said, pointing Mega's head towards Cygnus. He was not playing around, not when Boreal and his classmate's lives were at stake.
"Heh, please. As if you could defeat me. This is a great coincidence though, I can exact revenge and gain the Andromeda Key as well!" Cygnus chuckled.
"Only if you can beat us" Mega said
"Oh I can and will, but just so you know, Boreal wasn't the only one stalling." Cygnus grinned, Boreal suddenly getting an alert on his transer and gasped.
"Tom… this is madness!" He said in shock, looking at his transer.
"What?" Geo frowned, not leaving his gaze from the villain. He also was surprised to hear the FMian was Tom, as in Tom Dubius. He really shouldn't have been, considering he had all the signs of a victim, but having another person Geo knew become a victim to the FM invasion was infuriating for the boy.
"He's sending a satellite to crash into AMAKEN, which would kill us all." Boreal responded seriously. Megaman's eyes widened in shock when he heard that.
"He what!? That's insane! That'd kill you too!" Geo said to Cygnus, but the FMian merely chuckled at the prospect of being killed by the satellite.
"I am fast enough to escape the blast, besides even if I wasn't I can transform into EM waves and not even be affected by it!" Cygnus Wing cackled evilly
"So, Megaman is it? You can either try to stop me, or stop the satellite, but you can't do both. In fact, why don't I make this choice easy for you!" Cygnus continued, disappearing and reappearing in front of Geo "I'll just kill you do you don't have to choose" he growled, punching Geo into the core of the space sim, Geo turning himself into EM waves just before he crashed into it so he safely passed through it and landed on a wave road.
"We won't be able to get away from Cygnus to stop the satellite. He's too fast to run away from, so we'll have to delete him" Mega said, Geo quickly dodging more explosive feathers.
"Right, Battle Card! Jet Attack!" Geo suddenly went insanely fast, tackling Cygnus as fast as a jet. Before he could recover Geo called "Battle Card! Cannon!" And blasted Cygnus Wing with his arm cannon. When the dust cleared Cygnus looked more annoyed than hurt. He flew up and kicked Geo into a wave road, then used his feathers to stab into Geo, causing the blue bomber to gasp in pain.
Geo pulled out the feathers from his chest and dodged a punch from Cygnus, kicking the swan FMian and blasting him with a plasma gun.
"Kid, we have to take this fight outside the Space Sim, the pedestrians will get hurt" Mega said, Geo nodding and phasing out of the space sim and into the large outer courtyard by the entrance.
Coincidentally Bud, Zack, and Luna were also in the courtyard, trying to break through the EM gates Cygnus locked.
"Where are Geo and Sonia!" Luna said as Bud tried to pry open the gates, but failed.
"They must have gotten lost in the facility!" Zack said before they all heard an explosion and turned to see Megaman and Cygnus Wing fighting, shifting in and out of visibility for them.
Megaman was on the ground shooting his Gatling gun at Cygnus, but the FMian was meeting each bullet with one of his feathers while he flew in the air. Suddenly Dubius increased the amount of feathers he produced and blasted Megaman back into a wall.
"Megaman no!" Luna cried in fear for her hero, however Geo got up just fine after a few moments. He dusted off armor and looked up at the flying villain.
"We'll never beat him long-range. Plus it seems like Cygnus didn't get an elemental weakness we can take advantage of when he wave changed, like Taurus Fire did. We have to get in close." Mega advised as Megaman continued to blast at Cygnus Wing in the air with his megabuster.
"Problem is that he's too fast to get in close! And we have a ticking clock! I don't know when the satellite will crash!" Geo said as he jumped on a wave road, but was quickly blasted back by Cygnus's exploding feathers. He couldn't get close to him with all of Cygnus Wing's projectiles.
"I really hate those stupid feathers" Geo groaned, getting up off the ground. In the Space Sim the screens were showing the battle between Cygnus and Megaman. Boreal was able to hack into the speakers with his transer and call out to Megaman.
"Megaman! The satellite will reach the compound in ten minutes! You have to destroy it!" Boreal said
"Ten minutes, ugh we don't have time for Cygnus!" Megaman said, shooting up in the wave road leading to space, however Cygnus kicked his side, grabbing Geo's leg as he flew back, and threw him down with all his strength towards the ground, Geo creating a large crater when he landed.
"Oww…" Megaman groaned, slowly getting up. His durability in his Megaman form still astounded him. He must've fallen a few hundred feet, if he wasn't wave changed he certainly would've died from a fall like that.
"We have to focus all our attention on Cygnus Wing Geo!" Mega scolded him for being careless.
"I got it" Geo groaned in pain, looking up at Cygnus with determination in his face. He wasn't going to let his father's facility be destroyed.
"Triple Battle Card! Power Bomb!" Geo called, shooting three bombs towards Cygnus Wing. The swan monster barely avoided them, the smoke covering the entire sky. Cygnus flapped his wings and blew away the smoke, but when he did Megaman was charging right in front of him, his arm turned into a sword.
"Take this!" Geo stabbed Cygnus, the FMian not being able to dodge at all, shielding himself with his wing. Geo stabbed through the wing, unfortunately it made his sword arm trapped in it as well.
"Raaagh! Omega-Xis! You will die for that!" Cygnus punched Megaman's stomach with all his strength, the hero gasping in pain. However Cygnus wasn't done yet, he swung Geo around by his arm into a wave road, then the AMAKEN building, and eventually kicked him hard enough to be sent flying, free of the wing he was trapped in. Geo landed on a wave road, trying to compose himself, but finding Cygnus charging straight for him, spinning in an odd dance. Geo was hit by the dance, finding it hitting just as hard as one of Taurus Fire's tackles.
"Ugh!" Geo groaned being blasted back into ground. "This is getting really irritating! What was that dance attack!" He spat out some blood, the dance hitting extremely hard
"It's his swan dance attack, it's stupid looking but powerful. We can't beat him like this, Geo let's use the Mega Card, he won't be able to predict that." Omega-Xis said, to which Geo nodded.
"Mega Card! Predation! Taurus!" He yelled, the blue card being eaten by Omega-Xis. Cygnus Wing looked down on him with confusion, never hearing about a Mega Card before. Geo grew taller and stronger, taking a holographic form of Taurus Fire and engulfing Cygnus Wing with his powerful flames.
"Aaaghhh!" Cygnus Wing yelled out in agony, falling to the ground, steaming and burning. Geo fell to one knee, gasping for breath. The Mega Card had taken a lot out of him. Bud, Zack and Luna were completely shocked when they saw the hologram of Taurus.
"Did he… just summon Taurus Fire? And use him to beat the new FMian?" Bud said in disbelief, Zack looking similarly shocked.
"My hero! I knew he would win!" Luna swooned, being the first to come out of he shock and start fangirling out about Megaman once again.
However Cygnus was still not deleted yet, just injured. He raised himself to one knee as well, being in the same position Megaman was in. Despite being burned and hurt, he was still laughing,
"What's so funny Bird Brain?" Mega growled, noticing Cygnus Wing's odd behavior.
"What's funny is that just because you think can defeat me, you still won't be able to do it before the satellite strikes. What's even more funny, is that all I have to do is stall for time, and I know a perfect way to do that." He said, glancing over towards Luna, Bud, and Zack. Megaman's eyes widened when he realized what Cygnus was planning.
"Cygnus no-!" He yelled before Cygnus Wing fired some feathers towards Geo's classmates. Megaman moved faster than he ever did before, moving in front of the bystanders and his back taking the full force of Cygnus' assault. The three teens watched in horror as Megaman fell to his arms and knees, before Cygnus Wing grabbed him and threw him into another faraway wall.
"Geo! Geo! Get up! We can't die here!" Mega yelled frantically, saying it internally so no one heard Megaman's true identity. Cygnus slowly walked to the fallen hero and kicked him, sending him flying.
"It's over, your champion has been beaten Omega-Xis. And in less than 3 minutes the satellite will crash into the facility, destroying it for good. You lost, now surrender the key." Cygnus Wing said as he slowly walked to the fallen hero, standing over Geo's unconscious body.
"Tom! Stop it now!" Boreal said through the speakers once again. He was watching the full fight through the monitor and was horrified of what Dubius had become. "Tom, why are you doing this!? Please talk to me! Why?" He pleaded.
"You know why Aaron! You told those kids that the Flap Pack was yours! I heard you! I trusted you and you betrayed me!" Cygnus Wing said, though it seemed it was Tom Dubius talking this time.
"Is… is that what this is about? U-Um Mr. Boreal told us that the Flap Pack was an invention of his assistant." Zack spoke up, hearing the conversation.
"Yes! That's what I said! I would never steal an invention, especially one from my brother! Tom please listen!" Boreal begged
"Lies! This is all lies! Betrayal is all that's real, betrayal is the essence of society! I see that now! Cygnus has shown me!" Tom cried out, sounding broken. Cygnus was obviously toying with his emotions, causing him to give into evil much easier.
"You are a fool" Mega said aloud, catching everyone off guard. "I may not know a lot about humans, but from what I've seen betrayal is not everything. Think about that day in the forest where that boy gave you a piece of his chocolate, he was hungry and yet he gave you part of his food. That itself shows betrayal isn't all there is in this world." Mega said, referring to when Geo gave Dubius part of his chocolate when he found him testing his Flap Pack in the forest. Dubius seemed confused and conflicted, holding his head in distress.
"Tom, betrayal is not the essence of society. Relationships are the essence of society" Boreal said, the emotions Aaron poured into those words impacting Dubius.
"Relationships… is that true? No, I've been burned too many times, but what if it's true…?" Tom muttered aloud, the internal conflict making it impossible to focus. Geo had gained consciousness, hearing the entire speech and was sitting, watching as Cygnus Wing fought with himself.
"Tom don't listen to them, they just want to trick you to weaken you so Megaman can kill us. Allow me to take control so you can rest and think before you believe their lies." Cygnus said, Tom nodding and giving control to Cygnus.
"Tom! No!" Boreal yelled, but it was too late. Cygnus had full control over Dubius. He suddenly started to attack Megaman while Geo was down, the boy having no time to block. Suddenly Cygnus was blasted from the side, being thrown into a nearby wall. A loud TWANG was heard.
Standing where the blast came from was a girl in a pink dress and blonde hair. Her helmet and blue visor covered her face except for her confident smile. Megaman recognized her immediately, it was the FMian he saw earlier in the week.
"Harp Note's dropping in!" She said, holding her guitar up, a confident smile on her face.
For a while everyone was silent with pure shock. A battle between two FM humans was one thing, but a third was another all together. Megaman was cautious, not knowing whether he could trust the new girl, but he had bigger problems. Cygnus Wing growled and got up, looking completely full of rage.
"Lyra! Is that you? What are you doing! You are supposed to be on our side!" Cygnus yelled at the FMian.
Harp Note merely smirked and strummed her guitar again, the strings shooting off the fingerboard and tying around Cygnus. The female warrior swung Cygnus around and slammed him into the ground. She then started playing notes on her guitar, each note seeming to electrocute Cygnus Wing. Megaman just stood, not really sure of what to do. Harp Note was easily kicking Cygnus Wing's ass and Geo still was recovering from the shock of having his butt saved like that.
"Megaman! Don't just stand there, the satellite!" Harp Note called out, snapping him out of his daze. Megaman could see the satellite was already in the atmosphere, being extremely close to hitting the facility.
"Geo! A simple battle card won't do it, we have to charge up the megabuster! Once it's ready it will vaporize the satellite!" Omega-Xis said
"We can charge the megabuster? Agh, whatever! Alright let's do this" Geo said, pointing Mega's head towards the satellite. He focused all his energy towards Mega, and he could feel the power increasing, and he could see the ball of light at the tip of Mega's mouth growing larger and larger each second. After about a minute of charging Geo couldn't wait any longer, the satellite about to hit. He fired, the satellite exploding in a blue-green light. Megaman sighed in relief, feeling another wave of fatigue from the stress the charge shot caused on his body, but that didn't matter, AMAKEN was safe.
Meanwhile Harp Note had defeated Cygnus Wing, trapping the FMian in her strings. Megaman walked over and pointed his buster at Cygnus Wing.
"It's over Cygnus, I'm giving you one chance to let Tom Dubius go and leave, never returning to this planet again. If not then I'll delete you like I did to Taurus" Megaman threatened, Cygnus letting out a pained chuckle in response.
"You've beaten me today, but I will never give up. Human society is filled with liars and traitors, betrayal is all there is in this planet. You may act like you care for others, but it's all just an act so you can use that person for something later. This toxic society should be vaporized from the universe, and it is my duty to make sure that happens." Cygnus said, sounding genuinely convinced in his beliefs on society. Geo didn't have a response, he couldn't say with certainty that Cygnus was wrong about betrayal being intrinsic to society, he just couldn't. He knew he was wrong about wiping it out, obviously, but was Cygnus really wrong in thinking that humans betrayed each other because it's in their nature?
"You are wrong" Harp Note said, having no doubt, and no hesitation in her voice. Megaman looked at the girl in curiosity. "Humans do betray and hurt each other, and they do awful things to each other as well. However that's not all there is, there is happiness, friendship, love, trust. It's everywhere, plain as day. You just have to open your eyes and try to see it." She said. Cygnus seemed to be agitated by her comments, shaking his head, but Tom was impacted heavily by her statements.
"Tom, please listen to me. I'll do anything to prove I trust you, anything. I would never betray you." Boreal said, having hacked into one of the screens in the courtyard so they could see him in the Space Sim.
"...Fine" Tom's voice came out of Cygnus. "Prove to me that you trust me, and take off your helmet." He said. The others looked at him like he was crazy.
"Take off his helmet? The space sim has no air! He'd die!" Megaman yelled.
"What if I said I filled the space sim with air last night? If you really trust me then you would do it." Tom said. Boreal was silent, his expression unreadable under the astronaut helmet. After about a minute Cygnus Wing laughed "See! Cygnus was right! You don't really-" he was cut off by Boreal taking off the helmet.
A moment of stunned silence happened soon after, no one sure if Boreal was going to make it through. Soon though, Boreal took a deep breath. Air was in the space sim.
"... whooo! There is air in here, though it's a little thin." Boreal said, his signature smile on his face.
"W-What? Y-You could've died! How could you trust me when I tried to kill everyone?" Tom said in shock, even Cygnus was too surprised to say anything.
"I told you, I trust you. I know this isn't you doing all these horrible things, and I want you to know you can still recover from this. I'm standing with you Tom, I won't betray you. I swear on my life." Boreal said.
"Y-You… you're right. I was a fool to think betrayal was all there is, relationships are the essence of society!" Tom said before yelling, pushing himself out of the wave change.
"No Tom! Don't!" Cygnus said in desperation, being forced out of Tom.
"Get. Out. Of. My. Heart!" Tom said firmly, pushing Cygnus out of himself. Cygnus screamed before the wave change broke, Tom lying unconscious on the ground, Cygnus attempting to fly away. Megaman pointed Mega at Cygnus, about to delete him, but then lowered him, allowing the FMian to escape.
The EM gates were disabled and the police helped everyone out, tending to any injured and helping Tom to a hospital. Surprisingly no one outed Tom as Cygnus Wing, everyone deciding that Tom had suffered enough. Geo stood on the edge of the wave road with Harp Note, watching everything.
"So, why did you decide to let Cygnus go?" Harp Note asked, leaning on her guitar as she stood. Megaman shrugged in response.
"I just figured there was no reason to kill him. He was clearly defeated, and he was running away. Why didn't you kill him? You had him in your strings the whole time and you certainly were strong enough to do it." Megaman asked.
"I guess I don't like killing either. I feel like, unless it's in self defense, if you kill you turn into something else. Something, uglier" she said. "Anyways, I have to be going, see you around Megaman!" Harp Note winked, pulsing out.
"You let her go?" Mega asked as they stood alone on the wave road, Geo looking at where Harp Note was.
"She's seems like she's an ally, and we definitely will need those. Plus you saw how she fought, and we're barely holding the wave change together. If I tried to stop her we'd lose badly." Megaman said, holding up Mega's head as he talked.
"Fair, still you never know with Lyra." Mega muttered
"What?"
"It's nothing, hey did we get a new Mega Card from Cygnus Wing?" Mega asked, to which Geo nodded.
"Yeah, it seems part of his data was transferred into this battle card even though we never actually killed him." Geo responded
"That's good, the more weapons we have the better our chances are of beating the next FMian. Anyway, let's check on Kelvin's friend." Mega said, to which Geo nodded to and pulsed out.
Boreal was back in the compound, resting on a bench. Geo sat down next to him, both of them sitting in silence for a bit.
"So, quite the opening day for our museum huh?" Boreal finally said, smiling again. It astounded Geo how positive Boreal was, despite the life-threatening situations he was exposed to.
"Yeah, for what it's worth the museum was really cool. The Space Sim was to die for, until we nearly died." Geo smiled.
"Yeah, but Tom will be fine I'm sure. I think despite the horrible things he went through today, he will come out stronger than ever." Boreal said, Geo nodding in response.
"Something has been bothering me." Geo admitted "When you took off your helmet, and trusted Mr. Dubius. Did you know that the room was filled with air? I can't see how you could trust anyone trapped in those FM monsters." He said honestly, he couldn't wrap his head around what had happened still.
"I trusted him, that's how I could do it. I had no idea whether he was lying or not, but even though he was trapped in a monster, I could still hear my brother Tom. I will say there was a time where I wouldn't have done what I did, but one man changed my life. You father, he influenced me so much, he's the reason I am the way I am. His joy was infectious, and the room would brighten whenever he walked in." Boreal reminisced, having a nostalgic smile.
"He was like that." Geo smiled sadly, knowing exactly what Boreal meant.
"Do you remember what I said to Dubius? That relationships are the essence of society? Those were your father's words." Boreal said, Geo blinking in surprise.
"Dad… said that?" Geo asked quietly.
"Yeah, he truly believed in friendship and bonds. Heck, he even assisted the creation of the brother-band. Geo, I think you are living proof of this. I mean, you look and act stronger than you did a few weeks ago, and today you brought a whole group of friends with you. I don't believe those two things are unrelated." Aaron said, patting Geo on the shoulder.
"They're just classmates." Geo could only respond, he didn't know whether what Boreal was saying was true. In truth he did feel stronger, but Geo always thought that was due to training with Omega-Xis. However, now that he thought about it, he had become friends with Omega-Xis without realizing it. Maybe friendship was making him stronger after all.
"Classmates only huh? Maybe now they are, but in the future they might be more." Boreal stood up. "Go check on your classmates, they must be shaken up from the attack. I'll go check on Tom in the hospital, goodbye Geo." He said, waving and leaving.
"You good kid?" Mega asked, Geo sitting on the bench a little longer.
"Yep, just tired. Two FMians down, a whole lot more to go." He said, trying to sound upbeat.
"It's fine if you are shaken Geo. What happened with Cygnus was pretty heavy." Mega said.
"I'm fine, really. I just don't understand how FMians are so… okay with taking advantage of people's weaknesses like that." Geo frowned.
"Planet FM is full of traitors, liars, and murderers. That has an impact on us as children." Mega responded.
"Then why are you going against them if hate is all you know?" Geo asked.
"...Heh, 'cause I felt like it." Mega chuckled, once again giving Geo a non-answer.
"Are you ever going to give me straight answers?" Geo sighed, this being a frequent occurrence whenever he asked Mega a question.
"Maybe later. For now you should go check on those annoying humans." Mega yawned, losing interest in the conversation. Geo chuckled, finding the FMian's personality amusing. He got up and went to check on his classmates.
When Geo found everyone, he was not surprised to see Luna fangirling our completely about Megaman, Bud and Zack looking like they wanted to be just about anywhere else in the planet.
"And then he like, SMASHED that wing dude with his sword and he winked at me and and!" Luna retold the story with her own romantic twists on it, concluding with Megaman declaring his love for the Prez and proposing.
"Prez… none of that happened." Zack sighed
"And how would you know Zack Temple!" Luna huffed.
"We were there, right next to you. If anything, Megaman is already dating that blonde girl in the pink dress. I think her name was Harp Note." Zack said
"Yeah, she was pretty cute!" Bud commented, both the boys not realizing Luna's look of absolute hatred.
"WHAT. DID. YOU. SAY?" She yelled sternly, "That pink slut has nothing on my Megaman!" She yelled, seemingly having a purple aura of rage.
"Help, please." Bud pleaded to Geo as the two boys were scolded by Luna about how she was superior to Harp Note. Geo laughed sheepishly and decided not to help.
"What's going on here?" A voice said behind Geo. The brunette turned and saw Sonia standing behind him, watching as Luna chewed out Zack and Bud.
"Well, Luna is mad about Harp Note, I guess she thinks she's trying to get with Megaman?" Geo answered, Sonia giggling.
"That's funny, I lost you guys in the crowd, did you get hurt or anything?" She asked, both of them ignoring the sounds of Luna beating Zack with her shoe for suggesting Harp Note was prettier than herself.
"Uh, no not really." Geo lied. After the battle he could still feel the places where the feathers impacted his body.
"That's good." Sonia nodded, both of them shifting their attention to Luna again.
"That's it! I'm declaring Harp Note to be my love rival from now on! I'll kick her ass any day!" Luna announced, her voice as loud and commanding as ever.
"But Prez, she has super powers! She'd totally win!" Bud made the mistake of saying. A few seconds later he too was being beaten with Luna's other shoe.
Sonia started laughing at the whole situation, Geo joining her soon after. Bud and Zack were too busy being chased by Luna, holding two shoes looking like she was about to murder someone when they suggested Harp Note might have been already married to Megaman, of course they said it as a joke, but even so Luna was still chasing them around.
Geo smiled at the whole goofy situation, thinking of what Boreal said to him.
"Friends huh?"
Whoo! Two down, a lot more to go! Next up is Sonia's arc, which is probably the arc I put the most effort into. I just finished it as well, so look forward to that!
Review, and please tell me how you got into Starforce since it's its 10th anniversary!