Chapter 35

Ragnarok V

...Fall of the Dark god...

Zero stilled himself and blasted the great doors form their hinges, and with a whistle spoke aloud, "So this is the Ragnarok Core..." Weil's dark voice sent chills through the air. "Welcome... To your font seat to the end of the world... And soon enough. It's rebirth..." Allowing him self a grin he stood. "But just fighting is so boring... and you look like you might fall apart at any moment... So for now we talk..." Weil walked easily towards the core, stopping only just with in Zero's attack reach. "I never knew how powerful mavericks could be... that is until I fond their lord." Weil's gaze rose up toward a shining blue tone in the slowly revolving sword like core of Ragnarok. "Zero. Do you know how much power it takes to power a cannon like this?" Weil's stained yellow teach gleaming in the light. "It takes fare more power than even your bassium cell infused body can produce... A power that not even you and X could destroy..." Weil through his hand up above him, as the station began it's firing sequence. "BEHOLD THE POWER OF SIGMA!" "What! NO!" Zero tried to steady himself of what he knew would be the death of whom ever Weil fired on... … … . … … Nothing. "what the hell!"Weil screamed as the Station shook from a backfiring explosion with in it's now missing cannon and energy cells. "So Much for Sigma's power uh?" Zero pointed his blade towards Weil. "Your were a fool to use Sigma's remains for a power source... I'd be amazed to even know how you found them... But it ends here." Zero finished his gaze almost as cold as they were before he had meet Ceil. "HAHAH Behold your new god..." the bladed core of Ragnarok split apart combining itself to Weil. Zero nearly stumbled as the station began to lurch forwards towards the earth. "When this station falls, your pathetic base will be destroyed..." Weil hands shot shadowy knife like blades at Zero, and he spinning, and weaving dodged them. "You see Zero... With my human body the Sigma Virus contained with in this core can't control me! A lot of good launching his remains into space did you... DIE REPLOID SCUM!" Weil swung his arms back and forth sending squirming writhing bladed armor strips that hung from his shoulders at Zero, in attempt to rip him apart. Those blades move so slow... even like this... Zero swung his blade down hard, spiting a oncoming bladed tentacle in two. I should be able to doge them... Zero ran and jumped, and spun over around, and through the blackened knives, and crimson bladed tentacles as he made his way to Weil. Making one last slide Zero fell beneath Weil "RAGNAROK!" An emerald blade lunged through through Weil, his armor turning to crystal glass, and the his plague yellow eyes winded to new demonic level's as he felt the shattering edge of Zero's Ragnarok blade tear him asunder. "... ha... ha … ha... ha.. Damn you..." Weil's shoulders heaved up and down as he tried to catch his breath. Oil, and blood oozing out from under the deep gash under his armor. "How... Omega did so much damage to you... how could... you still be able to fight?" Zero didn't answer at first... his attention being snared be the inescapable fact that the space station had begone moving. "As much as I'm loth to say it..." A understanding grin crept across his face. "... I'm the ultimate reploid... a human, no mater how strong his armor, cant beat me..." Weil snarled in defeat as Zero drove his blade into the crazed man's skull. "M-m... mav-rick..." the last word fell words draining from Weil's mouth. "... Y-your no h-He- Hero..." Zero looked down with pity and sorrow upon the old hollow man. "... uhf... I never calmed to be a hero... I never cared about Justice... I've only ever fought for the people I believe in... And when ever a enemy as risen up against us... I have, and Will Destroy it..." Zero with drew the blade form Weil's smoldering corps... seating himself before the great blue sphere that held Sigma's remains. The mavrinoid third eye that had adorned Sigma's brow like a demon's horned crown, spun in attempt to face Zero. Wired tentacles writhing agents the glass trying to break free. "So... what ever shall I do with you?" Zero stood back up and turned his communicator back on. "Ceil... It's done... transfer me..." Just before Zero was able to finish Weil's body rose from the floor. "I will not be Killed by you!... If I must die, then I'll crash this station into your pathetic base!" the station began speeding towards the earth, it's impact would have been enough to kill all hope of survival for the few surviving humans and reploids on the planet. "Zero! We'll bring you back... If we don't soon the interference will be too much for the computer to..." Zero stopped Ciel. "No... I'll take care of Weil. If I can blow the core up the station will break apart in the atmosphere." "But Zero you'll.." Ceil could feel the smile more rather than see it. As Zero spoke back his finale goodbye. "Ciel. Believe in me..." Zero turned to face the now changed Weil... He now had shed the shell of humanity and had become the floating skull like heart of Chaos... A great white horn grew from his new form, guarding his human skull, wires, and cables attached to every unarmored section of his body forming a neck. Finally he was a true reflection of what his soul had become. A voice that Zero knew fare too well spoke through Weil's mouth. "So... it comes down to you and me Zero?" Weil's voice no longer quite his own... but now part Sigma's. "I can see why you would fear such power... but I am A HUMAN turned GOD! I will not be bested!" Zero shook his head... One finale push, and this will finally be over... He rushed with all his might forward. Red blast of plasma flew by his head... yet still he ran harder. Bladed tentacles shattered against his bade... yet still his arms held strong. Weil's voice rang in his ears, yet still his resolve stood true. "Slay those, who's dark harts have drug them down." Zero shouted as he hewed the great white horn in two. "Strike down the lords who with corrupted harts bring their fell will against us," Zero's blazing sword sank into the gold shield over Weil's face. His armor fading black, and Weil finally realizing that he was about to die, about to lose all he had ever worked for. "slay though Fallen gods... RAGNAROK!" All of the space stations remaining parts were consumed by an all ending blast of Emerald light... "Commanders... We're reading the Ragnarok station as being destroyed! Commander Zero did!" "Were all safe!" "Is it really over?" Came the cry's of the Resistance, and Maverick Hunters. Everyone rejoicing as they watched the the station being to split apart, and burn in the atmosphere, expecting every moment to see Zero appear in a flash, back in the middle of the room, but he never appeared. "Were is Zero?" X ask darkly as he stood form the other end of the command room. X's gaze fell on the main screen of the command centers computer array. The static coming from Zero's com link like the breath of death on ones neck. Please... Please be alright... Zero... Zero... But thin a soul line of text... transfer coordinates... "Alia... please send me there..." Ciels voice hardly more than a whisper. "Please..." Alia sorrowfully typed the code in and in a flash Ceil was gone, all knew that there would be no solace there... only the pain that must come from such a loss... Ciel's feet carried her swiftly up the hill before her as transferred to the coordinates. It didn't take her very long to find what was there... For at the top of the hill there rest a lone tree in that dark forest, and burnt into the tree's twisted trunk was the remnants of Zero's helm, shattered and scorched from it's fall. But still she knew it was his... And it was then that she knew... beyond any doubt that Zero was still sitting with in the havens watching over them all...

"Zero... You believed in us... Now it's our turn to show you that your faith in us was not misplaced... Watch Zero... I'll make this world a better place... One where humans and Reploids can walk hand in hand, living in peace... Just come back someday... I... I believe in you!" … Finally a few long held tears fell splashing down on the old helm.

"I... I'll miss you so much... Zero..."

Ciel stood after her tears ran dry... So she smiled at the moon... now knowing why Zero had like to watch it at night... "I promise... I'll make this world into a place you'll be proud of when you come back..."

The next day, as all the Hunters, the Resistance solders, and the three thousand humans left on the earth all stood in assemble, as Ciel began speaking over them all. "I know many of you..." her voice cough... "I know that may of you don't know what... what we had to sacrifice, in order to destroy Weil, and his battle station..." A tear ran down her face. "The Guardians Harpuia, and Leviathan were both severely injured... commander Megaman X... and we lost the reploid commander Axle..." Ciel waited a moment because she heard Pallets quiet cries begin again. Then she herself began to lose her composure... but held strong. "And Zero... Zero was killed when the space station exploded..."

everyone... even the humans who had once hated the Resistance were grieved over Zero's death... or at the least they were afraid, for, they knew that from all the old legends that Zero was their only hope if ever the reploids around them turned upon them.

And yet Ceil continued. "We found a piece of Zero's armor, with in it he left us a finale message for use... I'd like for you all to hear his finale wishes..." Not one murmurer arose form the crowed before her.

Then a sound like a thousand burning violins, of a thousand minstrels of the earths atmosphere, slowly burning away the station... and then Zero's voice, just as strong as it had always been... rang out over the crowd from the speakers of the bases intercom system.

"I've watched after this world for so long now... I've come to realize one finale thing as I sit here in the cold... I know now that this is our finale chance for peace... This is the last chance for humans, and reploids to finally find peace... Earth can't stand another war... And Me and X... we've become more a threat than heroes... I've fought so long for peace, and now It'll have to happen with out me... I'm leaving behind friends... My wife... and my daughter... But I think that maybe... just maybe, all of you left will finally be able to bring, my dream of peace to life..."

What ever else Zero was trying to say was cut off by the burning of Ragnarok, and all stayed silent taking in the legends words...

Ceil felt tears rolling down her cheeks, and she felt Alouette holding onto her legs crying nearly as hard as she was... until the silence was broken by a lone man, who unlike most of the ever pampered humans was thine. And he spoke out loudly so that all his brethren might hear.

"Who are we to refuse Zero?" He looked around almost as if he was expecting someone to speak against him. "We who have shunned these people for so long, and tried to wipe them from face of the earth... and now when we are on the verge of extenuation, they came and helped use! Their doing every thing they can to save us... they even aloud for their leader to be sacrificed for us!" all that could hear the mans words seamed moved, and began cheering sporting the idea. "I say we do every thing we can to make this world great again!" Thou most every one, human, and reploid alike, rallied around this new idea!

There were still those who made it resolute in dark hearts that they would rule in a world with out the other race...

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Ten years latter...

Fallen from space, and crashed with in the wastes of the world, a reploid stood tall from the long dormant repackage of the Ragnarok station. His dull near dead eyes scanning over the horizon, and finally the dark blue stone with in his skull widened, as it took site of a city on the horizon... Finally... I will bring about evolution...

Anther's notes.

=( They killed Zero... but don't worry I didn't. =) Well this isn't quite the end yet so I'm hoping that all of you my dear readers will enjoy the ending ark of this story as I continue through these last ten or twenty chapters.

As always. Your favorite (hopefully) Narrator, Vao...