Chapter 13: The Death of Two Guardians
Ceil and the rest left to the scrap yard. The group puts Dr. Marril and Sniper's body in the scrap yard. Ceil finds something and that is two cyber elf eggs. Ceil takes care of them and cries.
"Little elves, I take care of you," said Ceil. She held the two eggs as she walks out of the scrap yard. Athena and the others looks pissed off but also grieve in the same time.
"What is the next plan?" asked X. Everyone looks at the blue bomber reploid and sighs.
"As of the time being we have none," said Fate, "Even if we have one, we do not know if it is going to work."
"She is growing in power. Though I have no idea what is the reason for killing those two. However, she is trying to send a message to people," said Colette.
"If she does then we all must be prepared for it," said Moonflower, "There is no telling what she might do next."
"Well we can always tried to find her weakness," said Axl. The others look at Axl as if he is going to get hit again.
"Actually the kid is not far. Not even I know her weakness, and I know she has one. It can be any range from ice-to other elemental attacks," said Colette.
"Well that is dandy if we find her weakness we might have a chance to beaten her," said Solar Flare.
"I might have a chance if I used Model A," said Grey, "Though try not to die while scanning is going to be tricky."
"If we have more than one person scanning then we might have more chance of finding the her weakness," said Harpuia.
"Well then that makes three of us having scanners and with that itself it may be enough to find her weakness," said Axl.
"Correction four who has a scanner," said a teenage girl with a sniper gun. The girl wears green military armor of some sort, brown hair with hazel eyes and fair skin.
"Who is going to let-" said Axl as he is interrupted by the girl in the armor with a sniper gun.
"Look my mother died protecting what she can so people will not die. My father is the same. All I know that it is thanks to them that I am still around and alive along with everyone else. I may not have my mothers range sight but I do have a scanner that will help out," said the girl.
"Search, I know you want to help but this is dangerous. Your mother and father do not want their only child to be killed," said Axl.
"Well you always go out and worried Rider a lot. Half of the time she chain you up because you have worried her," said Search.
"Well that is different," said Axl. Search gets mad at Axl as she hates when people treat her like a child.
"She was that age when Lily help out with CROSHA," said Harpuia. Axl looks at Harpuia.
"Yeah but that is different," said Axl. Search looks mad as loads her gun. Harpuia sighs.
"Well we can try to do that but we need to know when she is going to strike," said Zero.
"Let me handle that. I know where she is going to be showing up. From there everyone else can find her weakness," said Colette.
"I still do not know how can you find people so quickly," said Axl. Fate and Destiny walks in.
"That is because she is our niece. Our brother has built her to know what type of metal that each reploid is and possibly know every humanoid. She can track those who has any type of armor by the metal they are using," said Destiny. Colette stands up and start leaving. Grey looks at Colette as everyone else.
"Colette where are you going??" asked Fate. Colette stops as she does not want to turn around with tears on her face.
"I am going to bed. I haven't been shutting down properly to well," said Colette as she leaves.
"What is wrong with her?" asked Search. Destiny and Fate sighs as they look at the group.
"She still does not want to accept us as her family. Sure her father is not good fellow. And her mother just stayed there in suffering. Though the mother took her away to have a good life," said Fate.
"It is still she probably does not want to be reminded of that. It is hard enough that she has to look in the mirror as her true self to see someone that she hates," said Moonflower, "I travel a lot with her and believe me there is some things she rather not want to be reminded. And also she barely know both of you so it has to take some time for her to get to know you both as her aunts."
"Yeah that is true as well. However, she is the reploid to ask if you want to track other reploids down," said Destiny.
"Well then that is settled. She is going to help us finding CROSHA while those who has scanners will try to scan her weakness. Even if it is a weak point," said X. Zero nods.
"Ok then we will be dealing with her soon then," said Moonflower, "I think we all should get ready for tomorrow. Ceil needs her rest as well the rest of us if we are planning to find CROSHA." Everyone agrees and head to sleep. The next morning Ceil woke up early and head off to her job. Colette did warn her not to go with anyone in work. Colette actually becomes the poles and mechanism of the corporation. Colette keeps an eye out for CROSHA and her senses. She have spotted her projects and spotted a reploid she never seen at all. Ceil recognize the reploid with green trench coat and the visor.
"Cerveau??" asked Ceil. Cerveau turns around to see who calls him and to his surprise it is someone he never see for a long time.
"Ceil?? Ceil what are you doing here??" asked Cerveau. Ceil smiles as she see Cerveau.
"Working here. Though my hibernation machine did work. Now I am trying to see if I can help people out," said Ceil.
"Well that is good. I am the engineer in this place. All I have to say is that your invention did miracles," said Cerveau.
"I notice. I just wanted to know if there is any way I can improve it so everyone else can benefit from it," said Ceil.
"The Ceil System is fine. Just few modifications to help out with the cities. Now we manage to make it only to the regions now," said Cerveau.
"That is good. We may keep this up and peace will stay with us for the longest time," said Ceil.
"Well it is good to see you again," said Cerveau. Colette smiles as she puts that in her memory bank of Cerveau. CROSHA walks up to the two.
"Hello I am new here can someone show me where is the aggravation system at?" asked CROSHA as she is in a different form.
"Sorry that system is taken away long time ago. The only corporation that uses that is CROSHA," said Cerveau as he looks at the new person. He then has chills coming down his spine. He looks at Ceil.
"Ceil stay back. Something about this is not right," said Cerveau. Ceil is ready to pull out her gun. CROSHA laughs at Cerveau as she tries to kill him. Ceil pulls out the buster gun and shot few rounds at CROSHA. CROSHA feels the shots hit her and screams in pain. She revert back to her spider like self.
"Lets get out of here. Run," said Cerveau. Ceil did not think twice and both Cerveau and Ceil run out of the room. Colette signals everyone who is willing to take CROSHA down. Harpuia and Leviathan are the first ones to be there. Zero, X, Axl is there the next few. Grey and few others are last. Grey uses Model A form while the others start scanning and fighting. Search is there as well using her scope and scanner to find the weakness.
"Try to keep her busy," said Search. Zero and few who does not have scanners are doing so. The distraction does not lasted long until CROSHA start to hit on Harpuia. Harpuia moves out of the way as Grey, Axl, and Search are still scanning. Harpuia dodges out of the way and Axl becomes the next target. Axl keeps on shooting at CROSHA until Zero gets back up.
"You haven't finished with me yet," said Zero to CROSHA. CROSHA uses her electrical attacks on Zero. X fired his buster as all the distracters gets back up and attack once again at CROSHA. Harpuia gets back up and goes back to scanning. Leviathan uses her abilities to slow CROSHA down and tries to attack with all of her abilities. The ghost person also appears at the scene this time Colette looks at the person again. CROSHA fires an electrical current on the distracters. She goes after Axl again and knock him down almost killing him until Grey shot her. She goes after Grey almost killing him. Harpuia X slashes her as she manages to scream in pain. Search found her weakness and weak points. She is ready to take aim shot at CROSHA as she found where she is at. CROSHA comes around and electrifies Search. Leviathan gets in the way as she feels pain. CROSHA take the opportunity and hit Leviathan in the gem. Leviathan fell down as she is about to be destroyed inside out. Harpuia attacks at CROSHA full force. CROSHA leaves Leviathan alone and keeps on going after Harpuia. She also manages to knock him down and knock his gem. She is about to destroy them both when the strange girl again with the beads start chanting her spell. This time CROSHA is caught in it. She manages to get the broken gem Leviathan and she is trapped in a crystal. CROSHA hissed at the person as she does it again. CROSHA again uses another broken gem person. This time it was Harpuia. CROSHA again forces herself to retreat as the group looks at the girl again who disappear out of sight.
"Again who is she?" asked Axl. Colette comes out of the walls as Axl gets scared of Colette.
"I do not know. However, all I know she is trying to help. Though I have no idea who she is but all I know that she may be a key to hurting CROSHA," said Colette.
"Well what are we going to do now. She captured Leviathan and Harpuia. Not to mention Magician," said Axl.
"I think she is trying to catch them at all. But to captured CROSHA herself. We do need to have her helping us. We also need to find out what to do next," said Colette.
"Well all I know from her readings is that her weakness is electricity. Funny the element she is using is the one she is weak against. Also she has two weak points. One in the back which is a small point and the other is under her," said Search, "I would get the one under her if she did not try to go after me."
"Well we gain knowledge of her weakness. So not all is a lost," said Colette. The others nodded.
"Well everyone, lets head back to base and figure what else we are going to come up with," said Zero as everyone leaves.