Now that Luna is beginning to except who she is, and her condition, she's going to be going through a lot of changes. I hope you still like it.
The Beginning of the End
Cassiopeia, a large flagship looking similar to Andromeda, was approaching Earth at a slow pace. It still had far to go, but it would still be there in at least a day or so. By now it had just passed Jupiter, when the Satellites Pegasus, Leo, and Dragon flew up to it.
"Well now, they decided to come to us," Aries said sitting in the throne in the bridge.
"Brothers," Pegasus said from inside his Satellite, "It appears he is serious."
"Sending that monstrosity to Earth!" Leo said from his Satellite, "My God."
"There isn't much that we can do," Dragon said from inside his Satellite, "But we need to at least slow him down, and do as much damage to Cassiopeia as possible!"
Pegasus, Leo, and Dragon left their Satellites, now in their Battle Forms.
Aries, looking at this, could do nothing else but laugh. Did they really think that such feeble forms would do anything against his flagship and personal doomsday machine?
"Such fools," he said, still chuckling to himself, "Blast both them and their stupid Satellites out of the sky!"
Cassiopeia fired its large lasers at the Three Wise Men, all three of them flying off in different directions. Pegasus and Leo both jumped onto Cassiopeia (which was significantly larger than them, and that was saying something) and began running on top of it, Pegasus firing beams of ice from his horns to destroy incoming missiles.
Leo stopped short and shot fire balls at some of the cannons. They were destroyed, but turrets targeted him and fired at him knocking him off.
"Brother!" Pegasus shouted looking over to where Leo was shot. He then turned back to where he was running and saw three laser cannons pointed at him. He tried to turn and run away, but the lasers were too fast even for him (being a horse, he was the fastest of the three) and he was thrown off of Casiopeia as well.
Dragon had been flying all around Cassiopeia, actually firing lightning bolts at some of the weapons, which were being destroyed, but there were so many of them it didn't make too much of a difference. He also had missiles chasing him, so he couldn't afford to stop moving. Missiles appeared in front of him and he flew straight up, causing the missiles to collide and destroy each other.
When he was about to fire another attack though, turrets began firing at him point blank. He was knocked down, and he found himself floating next to his brothers, all three of them anxious.
"ATOMIC BLAZER!"
"MAGICIAN'S FREEZE!"
"DRAGON CYCLONE!"
A green barrier protected Cassiopeia from Leo's attack, the ice from Pegasus' attack wasn't able to get a good hold, and Dragon's attack passed it by as if it were nothing.
"No!" Dragon shouted looking up in horror.
"None of out attacks are working on it!" Pegasus shouted.
"Brothers, I think this is the end!" Leo stated. Dragon looked down, feeling a little hopeless. This was the first time he had felt this way in a long time. No, they couldn't give up! They needed to stop this! Their sister was counting on them!
"We need to try one last thing," Dragon said gravely.
"Brother, you don't mean-" Leo began, getting cut off.
"Yes, Leo. Our power alone is not enough to face this. We need to use our full power, even if we must die in the process."
"So it has come to this," Pegasus said looking down in sadness. All three of them had hoped that it wouldn't come to that.
All three of them jumped into their Satellites, which began glowing golden in the center. Aries looked a little intrigued, but he wasn't scared. He knew exactly what they were going to do, and as far as he was concerned, this was just going to make his job easier.
"Charge up our main cannon," he commanded. A Mettaur Lvl 3 saluted with it's pickax, and then turned to the controls.
All three Satellites fired a large golden beam at Cassiopeia, which at the same time fired an equally large white beam at all three of them. Their beams met in a white flash, and everything went silent as one of the beams made it though...
Luna was standing outside in her school uniform looking up at the sky. She felt like something dreadful had just happened, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Something though, in her heart, really wanted to cry now. Xerox, who was floating beside her, also was looking up, feeling a bit of the same thing.
"Luna?" Kitty called out from in front of her, also wearing a school uniform (shorter skirt though), "Are you okay?"
"Yes Kitty," Luna said shaking it off, "I'm fine."
The next day after their talk, Luna decided she still wanted to try and go to school. At first Bud and Zack were against it, but Kitty felt it was a good excuse to go back to school as well, this way they could at least walk in together. Kitty felt a little awkward going back, but she wanted to support Luna, who had gone through a few changes. She tried to tie her hair in it's usual style, but it just didn't feel like her at the moment, so she decided to wear it out today, which made Xerox secretly happy. He always loved her with her hair out, feeling that she looked like a goddess in thsi style.
"Are you sure about going back?" Luna asked, "You've technically been dead for going on three months now. You're going to get a lot of strange looks."
"I'm sure," Kitty replied, "I don't want to be left alone in that house all day. What about you? I may have amnesia, but you're the one with serious medical issues. Should you really be up and around?"
"I can't go onto the Wave Road unless it's an emergency, and there's nothing else to do except watch TV all day; I need to do something, and school seems like the best thing," she coughed a few times after that sentence, which made Kitty look worried.
"Honestly, do you even still need school?" Kitty asked changing the subject, "I mean, being well over a thousand years old, you could probably teach the school now."
Luna laughed at that, "I may know a lot now, but my knowledge of this plan-" she had to stop herself, as she tended to have to do nowadays, "I'm still only fifteen in this life, so I don't know everything."
"Yeah, I guess so," Kitty said shrugging her shoulders. It felt nice to walk next to Kitty again. She had missed the times of walking together to school, just enjoying her presence. It was soothing. She coughed a few more times while walking, and she was feeling a little weak, but she hid it from Kitty as to not worry her. She did however feel Xerox's gaze on her, which meant although she might fool Kitty, she couldn't fool Xerox, her other best friend.
Of course when they walked into the school there was a unified gasp. With so many rumors about why Kitty left, no one knew what to believe when Kitty walked through the halls. Before she could go to her homeroom, she had to tell the principle that she was returning to school to stay, and needed to be reassigned a schedule and locker. Thankfully she saw that her homeroom was still the same as Luna's, and there were only two classes she and Luna didn't share. Was this fate?
All eyes were on Luna as well. People remarked at her change in hair style, shocked by how long it actually was. That wasn't all people noticed though. It had become harder to hide her condition, as she had a hard time standing up, and her hands were shakey now. Xerox had to help her out with a lot of things today after getting it okayed with the teachers. It was lunch now, and Xerox was helping her up.
"You sure this was a good idea?" Xerox asked, "Most kids stay home when they're sick."
"Before I became Zero I had perfect attendance, and some days I actually did have a cold. I'm not about to ruin that now."
"Okay, first of all, perfect attendance has already been ruined, and second of all, this looks way worse than a cold."
Luna couldn't argue with that, but she still couldn't remain out of school. Besides, whatever she had didn't seem contagious. In fact, she didn't feel "sick" per say. More so, she felt weak, and sort of out of it. All the symptoms of being sick, just not "sick" sick, if that made any sense.
Luna sat with Bud, Zack, Pat, Kitty, and even Solo (don't ask, even he didn't know). They avoided talking about Luna, and instead focused on getting Kitty caught up on everything she missed. She got reacquainted with Rey, who made a horrible joke about if Pat ever dated Luna, could he take Kitty. Pat instantly took over and insisted that Rey was joking, which made everyone laugh, although Luna was looking at Pat strangely afterwards.
After lunch, Luna caught up with Pat and took his arm.
"Pat, about what Rey said at lunch," she began.
"It's nothing," Pat stuttered quickly, "Besides, you have Geo. I don't want to step on that."
"Lier!" Rey said in Pat's head.
"Shut up, Rey," Pat said under his throat, clearly forgetting that Luna couldn't hear Rey.
"What did he say?" Luna asked, shocking Pat a bit.
"What? Uh..."
Luna giggled, "Patrick Springs, do you like me?"
Pat's heart was racing right now. Truth was, he did like Luna, a lot, but he always knew that she was still in love with Geo. Deep down he did wish that he could be the one for her, but he didn't want to impose on her.
"Well," Luna edged on, leaning closer, getting right in his face.
"I, uh, well," Pat pictured Rey in his head, and asked him for help, but the mental image he saw turned away as if saying "You're on your own", "I just want you to be happy, and if I could be the one to make you happy then great, but I know how you feel about Geo, so I'm content just being your friend."
"Oh, Pat," Luna was actually really touched hearing him say that. Truth was, she didn't know how she felt about Pat. She suspected for a while that he had a crush on her, but hearing him say that actually made her heart skip a beat. She had at one time thought about getting together with Pat, but she didn't want to give up on Geo, and if there was still a way...
The bell rang, snapping her out of her internal moment. They laughed at themselves, but were then surprised when both of their Hunter VG's went off.
"Hello?" Luna asked, surprised when Ace's picture appeared, and for the first time ever, she saw serious angst on his face.
"Luna, you and and everyone else need to get here now!" Ace said, "It's... you just need to see it!"
Now Luna was scared. She had to get there fast, but she promised Bud she wouldn't use the Wave Road unless it was an emergency. Still though, this felt like an emergency.
A second later, Luna and Pat appeared in the Real World, Luna falling over after traveling through the Wave Road. When they got to the command center, everyone was there, and I mean everyone.
"Luna?" Bud asked, "We weren't expecting you for another hour or so. How did you-"
"I took the Wave Road," Luna said, putting her hand up before Bud had the chance to protest, "I know, Bud, but this is serious. I was only on for a few minutes, and Pat and Rey were with me." Bud sighed in defeat. At least she was okay.
"Well now that everyone's here," a familiar voice said. The screen came up and Aries appeared on the screen, shocking everyone except Ace and Dr. Goodall, who apparently already knew he was there.
"What are you doing here?" Bud asked, clearly getting fired up. He was using the body of his best friend after all.
"I just wanted to pass on a message, but now that I see Phoenix is right there I can just tell her in person."
"So, you knew?" Luna said stepping forward.
"Yes, I knew from the moment I heard that Xerox had a human partner. As you know, we FMians and AMians can only EM Wave Change with a human with our similar wave frequency. Xerox however, can only Wave Change with the one he was already bound to, that being the human reincarnation of Phoenix."
Xerox materialized and stood next to Luna, "That's why you wanted both me and Luna, and why you let me get to Earth! You wanted me to find Luna and EM Wave Change with her!"
"Actually, yes. You Wave Changing with her actually allowed for a lot of things to fall into place, including that thing you humans call the Nightmare Virus."
Now everyone was shocked, "Wait, how is Zero connected to the Nightmare Virus?" Sonia asked.
"You didn't figure it out? How all EM Beings go insane when in contact with it, except for Xerox. How Zero didn't go insane when infected with it, but simply got stronger. How even now she doesn't experience any of the negative effects of it. Xerox Wave Changing with Phoenix infected your planet with that virus, which was exactly what I wanted to happen. The real name for the Nightmare Virus as you call it, is the Zero Virus!"
When Aries said that, everyone looked horrified, and Xerox looked down, his eyes wide with horror.
"You mean, I..." he began with a shaky voice.
"That's right Xerox, by trying to save that planet, you unintentionally aided in it's destruction," Aries began clapping, "Thank you Xerox, I couldn't destroy that planet without you," he said with a smile.
"You bastard!" Pat shouted, "You used both Xerox and Luna!"
"This is war, imposter of Gemini," Aries said, shocking Pat and Rey a bit. How did he know they had Gemini's power, "And I'll do anything to win. I'm not as easy going as my foolish father, I do what's necessary to win!"
"So is this the only reason you called?" Ace asked harshly, "To gloat about your master plan?"
"Oh no, human. I may be arrogant, but I'm not that full of myself. I came to make you an offer."
"Oh, yeah?" Bud asked.
"What kind of offer?" Solo continued.
"My doomsday machine is currently on it's way to your planet," Aries said, "I've already used it's power to destroy those eyesore Satellites, and your planet is next on my list," he then pulled up images of the wreckage of the fight against the Satellite Admins. All three Satellites, totaled, and no sign of Pegasus, Leo, or Dragon.
Luna was shaking her head in grief, "No..." she said, "NO!" she then buried her face in her hands and cried, Xerox putting his arms around her. She knew what had happened, that was what she felt this morning. She felt their deaths. At that moment, everyone: Ace, Dr. Goodall, Bud, Zack, Pat, Sonia, and Solo, were enraged. He would really go this far?
"If you and Xerox do not come back to Planet FM with me," Aries continued, coming back on screen, "then the deaths of your brothers will not be the only deaths on your conscious."
"You..." Xerox growled looking up. He had had enough of this. He wanted to end this today, NOW.
"You have to go to the place where we last faced each other before your rebirth," Aries said, "There I will come for you. Oh, and the only person allowed to come with you is Xerox. You have until the end of the day to comply, otherwise I'll have my viruses fire on this planet destroying it's Wave Road, and the Net Society you worked so hard to maintain. I'll see you tonight." With that, the line cut off. Everyone was silent for a long time, the only sound being Luna's sobs.
"Well, I think it's obvious we can't give into his demands," Solo surprisingly said.
"I never thought I'd agree with anything Solo said," Bud said, "But ignoring the obvious reasons why his demands are messed up, he's not going to spare the planet just because we hand over Luna and Xerox. Luna's story of her past showed me that."
"So, what do we do?" Sonia asked, "We don't have any way of fighting that thing of his up in space."
"And even if we did," Zack continued, "That's a doomsday machine! If the Satellite Admins fell to it, what could we do?"
"Maybe nothing," Luna said through her sobs, now sounding really determined, "But Xerox and I can stop him!"
"Luna, no!" Pat said, "You aren't well! If you go out there-"
"We don't have a choice Pat!" Luna shouted, "Zero may be the cause of the problems on this planet, but Zero will also be the one to end it! Xerox, we're going!"
Xerox nodded and the two of them walked out together. Everyone stood at the entrance watching them leave, wanting to stop them, but knowing full well that they couldn't afford to. As of fight now Zero, no, Luna may have been their only hope.