Wave Battle: High Max

As soon as the Wave Battle began Zero ran into a major problem.

"Gatling Gun!" she shouted activating the card and firing, only to have the shots bounce right off of High Max's tough armor. "What's the?" Zero shouted.

High Max then ran up to Zero and began punching her continuously. Zero was able to move out of the way of the attacks, only but she was clearly getting overwhelmed. She tried to block one punch, only to be sent flying back into a jungle gym.

Kitty looked at Zero fly back in horror, and then watched High Max approach Zero, him with his usual emotionless yet stern look, Zero struggling to get up.

High Max picked Zero up with one hand and electrocuted her. As Zero screamed High Max turned to Kitty, "Kitty Munroe, although I am able to handle Zero on my own, your assistance would be appreciated," but Kitty just stared in horror, clearly frozen in fear and unable to move. High Max turned to Zero and threw her into the swing set with the force tat would have killed a human, and although Zero wasn't human at the moment, the though of her getting up anytime soon was unbelievable.

Zero was on her knees trying her hardest to get up. She looked at High Max, who was approaching her again, and got a little worried.

"Xerox," she breathed out, "What is this guy?"

"Beats the hell out of me! There's no way a human turned EM Being would be this strong! I don't even think a Wizard would be this powerful!"

High Max shot a blast of electricity at Zero, who managed to move out of the way and pull out a Battle Card.

"Heavy Ax!" she said as the Heavy Ax appeared in her hands. She ran up to High Max and tried to slash at him...

Only to have the Heavy Ax shatter on contact.

"My armor is superior to your weapons," High Max said, "You're chances of success, rated at merely ten percent," High Max then shot an electric blast close quarter to Zero, who fell back onto the ground.

As she tried to get up, she held out the black Battle Card, "Nightmare... Zero..." she said slowly putting the black card into her arm. An injured Zero was engulfed into a small red orb, and when the orb exploded a healed Nightmare Zero was standing in her place. She rushed at High Max with her Z-Saber out, but her slash met High Max's fist and was stopped immediately.

She activated a Mega Cannon Battle Card and fired at High Max jumping away, but her attacks weren't doing any damage to him whatsoever.

When N-Zero's Battle Card ran out High Max charged his entire body with electricity, and then shot a large orb of electric energy at N-Zero. It was too big and too fast to dodge, so N-Zero took heavy damage from the attack, falling to the ground again. High Max walked over to her and kicked her further back, not giving her the chance to get up. He then picked her up and looked at her as if trying to read her.

"Resistance is futile. Transcode 666, you will be terminated."

Kitty watching this was so confused. She didn't know who to root for, as one was her supposed best friend, and the other was her ally. She held her head in frustration and just screamed, "Please STOP!"

High Max just turned to Kitty slightly, "That statement has proven my point that you have become too attached to the human Luna Platz. For that reason I will eliminate the threat, thus giving you no reason to hold back."

Just as High Max was about to charge his attach though, High Max got a call from Issac.

"High Max, that's enough. Return to HQ immediately," Issac said.

"Understood Master Issac," High Max said letting go of N-Zero, who turned back to normal Zero. High Max turned to Kitty, "I will see you back at Headquarters," he said teleporting away.

Zero staggered up to her feet and Transed Out, turning back into Luna. Luna slowly walked over to Kitty, who was on her knees crying.

"Kitty?" Luna asked.

"Why..." Kitty sobbed, confusing Luna a bit.

"What are you talking about Kitty?" Luna asked reaching for Kitty, who pulled away and ran off a bit, stopping to look at Luna in sadness and anger.

"Why you? Of all the people in this world, why did you have to be Zero?" she screamed, still crying.

"Kitty, I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I didn't want to put you in any danger so I..."

"You don't get it!" Kitty shouted shocking Luna, "Didn't you hear what High Max was saying, how he was talking?"

"Kitty, I..."

"Transcode 110! Lynx!" she shouted. A large Mu symbol appeared in a pink light in front of her as her body began glowing white and turned into the sillohette of a large cat. The Mu symbol floated through her going behind her turning the white cat figure into the white cat EM Being on the ground on all fours. Kitty Munroe EM Wave Changed into Lynx, right in front of her. Luna and Xerox (who materialized during the transformation) were just staring at Lynx in shock.

"I'm Lynx!" Lynx shouted, "I was the one who attacked the Satella Police base! I was the one who attacked you in the school cafeteria! I was the one who helped Delphinus Ice at the concert! All of it was me! ME!" Luna was shocked looking at Lynx, who before she saw as a mere nuisance, but now she saw in a whole different light, "Stop looking at me like that!" Lynx shouted, "STOP IT!" Lynx then rushed at Luna and tried to slash at her. Luna jumped to the side putting the Visualizer back on.

"Transcode 666! Zero!" After Wave changing back into Zero, Lynx rushed at Zero and started slashing at her at high speed. She then kicked Zero to the ground and stood over her looking at her, still crying.

"YOU WERE MY FRIEND!" Lynx shouted looking at Zero on the ground, who was just looking up at Lynx seriously, not speaking, "Say something! Damn it Luna, SAY SOMETHING! I'm your enemy! Fight back! Tell me you hate me! DO SOMETHING!" but Zero didn't say anything, she just kept staring at Lynx. Lynx eventually turned away and ran off a bit, letting Zero get up. For the next few seconds she stood there silently with her back turned to Zero, "The next time we see each other, will be in a Wave Battle! Be ready, Zero!" with that said Lynx teleported away from the playground.

Zero fell to her knees in sheer shock as to what just happened.

"Kid, I'm sorry..." Xerox said trying to comfort Zero, knowing full well it did nothing of the sort.

Rogue, still on the Wave Road, turned his head away with his arms crossed, "I guess we can't all be strong," he said, Transing Out of the Wave World.

It was night fall when Luna and Xerox made it home. Luna's parents were still out, so it was just her and Xerox. Luna stormed right to her room, Xerox floating after her.

"Luna, can we talk about this for a second?" Xerox asked, hoping that Luna would stop. Sadly she didn't, and instead walked right into her room and slammed the door shut, a gesture Xerox knew meant to leave her alone. He just stood at the door looking down, feeling even more powerless to do anything to help Luna.

In the Neo Arcadia base, Kitty was storming to her room, Issac following behind her.

"It's a good thing High Max aided you in your investigation, otherwise we would have never found out that she was Zero," Issac said, "Now we can begin moving on to the next phase of our plan against Neo Arcadia. Kitty, I hope you'll be able to help us," Issac said letting Kitty go inside her room on her own.

Inside, Kitty fell onto her bed crying. She looked at her Hunter VG at the picture of Luna, and pushed a button to request the Brother Band be broken. She didn't even wait for a response, she just threw her Hunter VG away from her and cried herself to sleep.

Luna was looking out the window of her room when she got a message from Kitty.

"Kitty Munroe requests that your Brother Band be broken?" Luna read aloud in shock, "Damn it Kitty! Why are you doing this?" she shouted throwing her Hunter VG on her bed. She then looked up at the sky with the Visualizer on, "Geo, what should I do?" she asked, hoping her shooting star heard her cry for help.