Author's Notes
- Megaman still belongs to Capcom, something explicit/angry rant on how much Capcom stinks, blahblahblah...
- Welp, time to murder the serious value! :P
Chapter 37: My faire Geo
"This isn't shaping to end well…" Geo mumbled aloud, as he and the group had stared down the clones of his friends. Getting the Megabuster ready, he glanced at the others. "Anyone got any ideas?"
Magnus made a gruff sound, and attempted to summon his replica sword of Zerker, seeing as how it's immense size would aid in crowd control in addition to his GiantAxe. As he attempted to summon it, a few flicks of light had appeared, then vanished. Magnus cursed.
"Not again…" he mumbled, causing Geo to glance at him peculiarly. He looked back at him with a look on discontent. "This has been happening for a while now…ever since I started to absorb my memories, it has been harder to use some of my regular attacks…"
Rush Regelus, who was ordering his viruses to take the pressure off of them as best as they could, overheard and cursed in a swear that can't be repeated because this fic is T rated, bubs. "Are you saying YOU'RE DEAD WEIGHT?!" he exclaimed, yelling in anger and putting emphasis on the word "weight".
Magnus scoffed. "No. My body is telling me to use something more…familiar." He replied, summoning a pair of Beastclaws from his Hunter. "It's familiar…yet…."
He was unable to finish his sentence as a Harp Note lunged at Geo. Magnus quickly swipped at her, causing clothing damage. That can't be seen, because this is text.
"I'll explain later."
"Hmmm...this isn't cool enough."
A pause.
"Ooooh, I got it! I'll make it COOLER!"
He pressed a few buttons (well, mashed is the proper word to use in this case) and grinned.
In the dream world, a large pillar of light came from one of the Sonia's as Geo blew it to bits.
"Oh, joy. NOW WHAT?!" was all he managed out as the pillar of light overcame the entire group.
"This guy. He's…"
"Your own shadow." a voice had expressed in his head. The voice spoke in an authoritative tone, like it was somehow familiar. "An illusion of what you claim to be, yet…"
Devon cringed. He was at a loss for words. "I-I…I'm not an illusion! I've always fought to protect others, regardless of what happens to me in the process…!
"Yet you couldn't save those important to you. You let them die." The voice replied, nailing every single one of the transhuman's weak points.
"All in a vain attempt to…what was it again? Save you? A pathetic excuse for a hero, who's prime motivation in life is to preserve the life of all innocent lives? And yet you couldn't even save those important to you… "
Devon looked down and shut his eyes tightly, fighting back a few tears. The shadow approached him.
"Let them die…you weren't strong enough…let them die…" The voice repeated over and over again in his head, causing him to drop to knees in despair.
A lone tear dropped from his eye.
"…I…I won't…"
"Won't what? Do you truly believe you are strong enough to protect these children?"
"Let...you..."
Back with the important characters, as the light faded, Geo found himself in what appeared to be a bedroom. A neat and clean bedroom, looking fit for royalty.
The boy looked around the room sharply, completely confused as to what was going on. Of course, moment he took one step, he noticed a "ka-clack"ing sound from his feet. Looking down, he noticed he was in High Heels...
Geo blinked in confusion before noticing a mirror, and dashing towards it. When he came face to face with himself, he was shocked. Heroic Mega Man, savior of the world, virus buster extraordinaire, pretty badass for his time...dressed up like Princess Peach. Of course, before he could scream, a door opened, revealing Omega-Xis in a "prince" costume. You know, the kind with the silly looking beanie cap thingy? Whatever it's called?
There was a moment of silence between the both of them.
"I won't tell anyone about this if you don't."
"Admit it…regardless of how strong you become, you cannot protect everything."
There was complete silence from Devon. Then, he had risen up, eyes still closed.
"Alright…I know I'm not strong enough." As he finished, he opened his eyes, revealing the same determination he showed earlier, before meeting the twins. "But, that won't stop me!"
"I have a duty. Something that needs me..." As he spoke, the illusion faded away. "As long as my duty persists, I'll keep on going. I won't let my emotions weigh me down. I'll press on with a smile on my face." he finished, smiling. Seemed like he had finally snapped out his rut and regained his flame.
"Impressive. When faced with the illusion of the truth, you passed through with a smile on your face. Your dedication is admirable, boy." the voice stated, the tone sounding slightly impressed.
Only slightly, though. That kind of voice is the hardest to impress; much like fathers that don't pay much attention. Like Jecht.
"Keep fighting for your dream….it will keep you alive, and it will keep you strong…" the voice finished, as it faded out. Devon smiled, and then vanished.
"What in the hell happened?! Why are you dressed up like a pretty pretty lady, and I'm in this stupid Prince getup?!" Omega-Xis roared out, annoyed.
Geo shrugged. "This dream is turning into a nightmare." he mumbled, scratching the back of his head. "What do you suppose happened to the others?" Mega shrugged in response. "All I remember is that bright light...then I'm dressed up like a dummy! This is just so stu-"
"Mega, calm down. Whining's not going to get us anywhere...let's just get out of here."
Omega-Xis nodded, and tried to jump into Geo's Hunter, but it was nowhere to be seen. So instead, he just lept menacingly into Geo's arm. "OUCH!" Geo gasped in pain, moving his arm back. "Hey, where'd my Hunter go?!" Mega merely stared at him.
"Hey, kid, watch this; "How could this POSSIBLY get any worse?"
As if on cue, a knock at the door came, then the door opened revealing Luna dressed up in a maid getup with a comically huge frown on her face. It honestly looked like she had a :( face on her face. Eyes and everything. "Good, you're awake my lady."
"I AM NOT A LADY-"
Luna either ignored him or didn't seem to care. "As you know Princess, better than me in every single way "Prince Sonia" is coming over today to try and court you. I must point out that she is better than me in every way, is prettier than me, is funnier, and I am too mean for my own good. However, if I show any form of rudeness towards you at the moment, they will behead me, so Sonia is better for you."
Geo stared at her. Well, this obviously wasn't Luna. And this certainly wasn't how he thought of her. Sure, she was mean at times, but she still was a true friend. "Mega Servent. Make sure the Princess is all ready to meet his perfect lover later. And don't try to sneak him out, the guards are at the doorway."
Omega-Xis peaked outside and saw two Air Men guards. He cringed for a moment, knowing there was no possible way for him to beat them, then nodded. "Uh, got it."
"Good. Then'll I be on my way." Obviously not Luna replied, leaving the room.
A few moments after she left, Omega-Xis glided/flew/somethinged over to Geo. "Alright kid, we need to get out of here."
"No duh. This place isn't right whatsoever." Geo replied, rubbing his chin. "Any ideas?"
A pause.
"Weeeeelll...we could jump out the window..."
"Mega!"
"What? You got a better idea? Maybe pray for a miracle?!"
For a second time today, another cue happened and the duo heard a grunt at the window. They turned towards the window and saw a hand pull up a familiar face.
"Oi, not my best plan." Devon mumbled, pulling himself into the room. "In retrospect, climbing a castle tower from the ground isn't a good ide-" he stopped when he noticed the boys in their "outfits".
Another pause. Dev placed a pair of fingers to his forehead.
"...Welp."
"Dev? Where and how did you get here?"
Devon blinked. "Oh, well, I'm the dashing rogue come to sweep the Princess of her feet because most Princesses prefer bad boys or friendly commoners over princes..." he stated nonchalently, flipping his hair out of his head. "Kidding, kidding. I saw a big tower and figured something of value would be up here. I'm guessing the getup is because of the brat."
Geo scratched the back of his head. "Riiiigght. Well, we have no idea how this happened, but I'm feeling "Oni" as well." As he spoke, Dev walked over towards them. "You two alright? Nothin' broken?"
The duo blinked at Dev's suddenly random kind sentence. "Yeah, fine. Shouldn't we be asking you that question?"
The balancer smiled. "Great. Feels like a weight lifted off my shoulders..." he stated with an incredibly sincere smile. "Hey, uh, I overheard that conversation...what's up with Luna? Why see acting like a robot or somethin'?" he asked, titling his head as he spoke.
Geo shrugged. "Maybe it's the whole servant thing she had going..."
"Nah, kid." Omega-Xis chipped in, reading what appeared to be a manuscript. "She's acting negative because we're supposed to hate her."
Geo blinked. "On what causes? She's our friend; we have no reason to be hate her."
"Says here "she'z mean and not nice and unpleasant :( while Sunya is nice and deserves Mega Man". Mega stated, using a monocle to read. Geo looked over his companion. "Does it really say "frowny face"?" he asked, before letting out a light chuckle when the manuscript really did say "Frowny face".
Dev scratched the back of his head. "She doesn't look that mean to me. In fact, I'd say she's, ah, tsundere." The others stared at him. "Oh, it's this brilliantly scary phenomenon where if you act mean to someone but have a hidden heart of gold. Or you like them." he said with a smile. "No big deal, I've had a few friends like that."
He cleared his throat. "Anyways, let's get you two out of here and see what we can dig up."
"We were trying to think of something. Got any ideas?" Omega-Xis replied back towards his ally.
Devon's smile grew smug.
Outside
"DIE YOU LITTLE TWERP!" came a very insane voice. The Air Men jumped and shot Air Tornadoes at nothing, then turned towards the door. When they tried to open the door, they failed at first due to trying to use the buster on a doorknob. "No, no please! Leave me alone you brute!" came a second voice, one belonging to the "princess". The Air Men panicked and shot Air Tornadoes at the door. The door didn't budge. It DID use an E Tank though, like a noob.
"YE-HA! That's your spinal cord! Dig it, baby!", followed by screams of terror.
The Air Men jumped again and started rapid firing Air Tornadoes at the door. Nope, nothing!
"And now, we paint the walls! WITH YOUR BLOOD!"
"What is this blasphemy?!" came a familiar voice. It was Pat, dressed up like Captain Jack Sparrow. "Someone's in there! And he's murdering the Princess! DO SOMETHING!"
Due to being unable to talk (and 8-Bit, for that matter...) the Air Men responded by jumping up and down and shooting Air Tornadoes.
Inside Geo's room, Devon was coating the area with Oil. Where he got it, I've no idea. On the ground was a V-doll, covered in ketchup.
The screams? That was just him being "crazy". As for Geo's cries of terror, he was actually yelling to go along with the plan. Pssh, like unnecessary violence would fit here. As for how the door got stuck, the trio used Geo's oversized bed to block the doorway, and weighed it down using the mirror, a make-up desk, and the even more oversized dresser, full of thing-a-ma-bobs.
"Alright, now for the finishing touches." Dev stated with a grin, pulling out a match.
He chucked the match right as Captain Pat opened the door, and beared witness to Dev looking as insane as he could fake it (which was pretty convincing) just in time for the balancer to laugh out like an evil overlord.
"BURN! BURN TO THE GROUND!"
"NONONONONONONONO! This isn't right!" Oni/Thiago/Tharg/something witty cried out in anguish. "That poo-poo head is ruining my fanfiction! Now I need to change stories to fix this!" he cried out like a spoiled child, and slapped several buttons on his computer.
Later
We now join the Star Force cast...dressed up in blak clothing and blak hairdos and blak eyeliner and blak blak and moar blak and YOU GET THE BLOODY IDEA EVERYTHING'S BLACK HOLY CRAP
"NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MI! Even Megatwerp!" Luna whimpered out, crying and letting her eyeliner look like she was crying black tears. Geddit cause everything's blak? omg lol
"Psssh. You're just heartbroken Geo and I went to Hawt Topic together and made out sexily." Goffic Sonia stated, sticking her (surprise surprise) blak tongue out. Luna cried further, pulled a plastic butter knife out, and cut herself. Yeah.
"Hahahaahaha! Poser!" Sonia laughed out sadistically, along with everyone else in the area. Sans Geo, who looked like he had a bug in his mouth.
Omega-Xis (also blak) tapped him on the shoulder. "Kid, you alright?"
"Hate everything." he muttered through gritted teeth.
Omega-Xis' eyes widened. "Oh no! You've fallen under the influence of these ABOMINATIONS!" Geo's eyes widened back. "Wait, wha-"
"No need to worry, my bestest superpal! I shall save you!" Mega stated valiently, and pulled out...wait for it...a blak greatsword. The hilt was blak and so was the blade. (That word has lost all meaning to me at this point...)
As he stared swinging at random, Mega "accidentally" hit Loona and caused her to bleed violently. This only caused Sunya and her goffik friends to laugh harder. A few seconds later, Dev ran up followed by the misfit UL "agents" and Magnus. The UL agents all looked like they just walked out of Hot Topic, Magnus looked like Barney only completely, uh, dark grey, and Dev was dressed like Squall Leonhart, the most badass emo ever.
(Squall? Emo? Yeah right...)
The balancer wasted no time in trying to heal Luna, but no avail. "Lousy goddamn black only place! What, no WHITE magic either?!" he exclaimed, unable to work his healing magic on the now-totally-dead-and-stuff Goffic Luna.
"And...she's gone. How pleasant. Whomever is organizing this dream has the maturity of a 12 year old." Magnus mumbled, putting a claw on her forehead and "accidentally" piercing her skin. He blinked. "What is this child made of?!"
Meanwhile, Omega-Xis had impaled Geo with his Opposite-white sword causing him to die. Tragic. Goff Sonia gasped. "NOEZ! Without Geo...NO REASON TO LIVE!" she stated, running off and getting nonchalantly hit by a Hoverbus and sent off flying into a building.
Awkward silence.
"Dang, now Geo's dead AND my beloved is dead." Oni groaned out, annoyed. "Alright, fourth time's the charm!"
"You...you RUTHLESS...HEARTLESS...BASTARD!" Geo roared out, angry at a generic evil guy, complete with a Dick Dastardly esc mustache, a "evil" voice, and what not. He had done truly awful thingys, like interrupting Sonia's concert, subjecting Ace to horrible inhumane torture, murdering Luna's parents in front of her, and making Geo kiss Bud! THE NERVE OF THAT GUY!
Alongside him was a dead Luna. Cause apparently, the twerp manipulating this rly hates Luna. But you knew that, right? (For the record; I don't. I sincerly hope you don't either, otherwise you'll hurt my feelings D:)
"I...I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER!" Geo roared out, turning Super Sayian. No seriously; blond hair, gold aura, green eyes. Just when the standards couldn't get any lower.
As he lunged at Bad Guy, who hadn't said a single word at this point and was mostly assumed to be the ultimate evil right now, we turn out attention to the rest of the cast, watching completely dumbfounded.
"Enough with the damn plot changing every 12 seconds!" Devon yelled out at the sky. "You're like a kid that changes the song on the radio after every opening for a song!" Magnus tapped him on the shoulder. "How exactly are we going to get out of here...?"
"Well, I would assume that since we are in a dream, we could wake up with something completely outrageous happened..."
Magnus blinked. He turned around, then noticed Micheal playing patty-cake with Bolt, along with the UL Delinquents playing rock paper scissors with Pat. In a quick moment, he grabbed Pat and Michael, assuming he was the one dreaming this up, and threw Pat at Super Geo.
Geo turned around, surprised, then Pat came in full contact with his li-
"GAAAAAH!" Michael yelled with a startled gasp, moving forward rapidly. "GROSS! I hate Yaoi dreams! Hate hate hate!"
As he spoke, the others (Geo and friends) fell down from the sky and landed on the painful ground. Wait, that's putting it lightly; what actually happened is that Devon landed first, then the rest of the cast fell on top of him. "Pain..." was all he managed.
"OH NOEZ!" Oni gasped out, noticing that Megatwerp and his friends managed to get out of his "trap". "Ho-how did you?!"
Geo rolled his eyes. "Don't want to talk about it...what was the point of this again?"
"I wanted you all to go insane, but clearly it didn't work. Oh well, back to the drawing boa-"
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" came the voice of one Devon, crawling out of the pile of tweens with an annoyed expression on his face. "You owe us one boss battle, kid! We just spent like 8 hours going through awfulness, the LEAST you could do is fight us and lose!"
Awkward silence.
"What, fight you all at once? It's too many against one! That's no fun. Later."
And with that, Oni vanished into the darkness.
More silence.
"We are never speaking of this again." Geo said outloud, making sure everyone was able to hear him.
"Agreed, kid."
"Very well."
"Fine by me."
"I WAS JUGGGGGGLINGGGGG! MY DREAM!"
"I don't want to sleep, like, ever..."
Upon returning home, Magnus immediately returned to his chambers, going back to absorbing his memories.
Later, as he had absorbed more of his memories, he felt something strange rub his mask. What the…
Since no one was around, he removed his mask, and rubbed his skin. It was rough, like sandpaper. As he removed his hand, he noticed it had changed into something different…
A claw?
What was this doing here?
Magnus frowned. But, in order to find out the truth, he would need to willing to keep going.
Earlier, as Magnus was rushing back to his room, he brushed by Dr. Regal, who had gotten the good news that Devon had recovered on his own.
As Magnus brushed by him, he noticed Geo was nearby, and got his attention. "Geo!"
The boy glanced at him as Regal got closer to him. "What was he in such a hurry about?"
"Eh. Magnus must be going back to absorbing his memories, or something." Geo stated, shrugging. Regal's eyes widened at the mention of "Magnus". It couldn't be…
"…I see. Geo, would you mind visiting me tomorrow in my lab at End City?" the boy nodded. Regal sighed, and begun to walk off.
"If this is the same Magnus…I only pray we aren't too late. Otherwise…"
And that's the end of that. Next time; the plot strikes back. For realsises. This was the last unsrs chapter.
Later.