A brawl in the badlands, this was not something they were expecting, especially with lightning raining down along the battlefield, all from the body of the Maverick that was chasing down Ziden and Takeru through the Power Plant. They barely had a chance to transform after Mandrill saw what they had planned.
Lightning whipped about the area and tore the ground apart from under them, Meiling was quick on her feet regardless, leaping along the walls to avoid the lightning along the ground, her leg being covered her chi before smashing right into the face of the ,Maverick, smashing him into the wall of the power plant, blasting him through it seeig what remained of the workers. These people were merciless it seemed. " Ziden, Takeru! Hurry up and Transform before he can get up!"
Ziden and Takeru got to their feets and summoned their drivers to get ready for battle.
Ziden grabbed his Salamander coin and held it high before sliding it right down into the slot in the Spirit Driver. Letting that fire dragon spin around him for a single moment before rising up into the air and slamming down into him. " Henshin!"
" Infernal Justice! Burn away the Stains of Evil!" Once the flames dispersed, Ziden's Rider armor was ready for combat as Takeru got ready to transform as his jacket was flying around the area.
" Henshin!" Pulling the lever, the eye of his Driver flashed open as he struck a post.
" Kaigan: Ore! Let's go! Kakugo! Gho-gho-gho-ghost! GO! GO! GO! GO!" Takeru already fully transformed, his hand darting up to remove his hood while looking forward, seeing Meiling skid past them on the walk way. Mandrill soon coming into the main area, seeing the large open room around them.
" So you seek to face me in an open area, so be it, I shall answer your call to battle with my own!" Mandrill's body began to spark to the point where lightning rumbled off of him, the group of three ready to battle against this Maverick.
Spark Mandrill [ Megaman X1 Kurogane THIRD remix]
Ziden was quick to summon his Salamander Sword, leaping into the fray by slicing hard down the side of Mandrill, causing sparks to spray out, Takeru leaping into battle as well with his Gan Gan Saber, the blade arcing and cleaving into the chest of the Maverick.
The Maverick was not like the ones before, he was tough, seasoned and bred for battle, his hand grabbing onto the head of Ziden and literally lifting him into the sky, lightning rocking his body before launching him at Takeru, the two crashing into each other and sliding along the long path to the power plant console. The two's armors arcing lightning and electricity as Meiling made her move
Haki was something useful for her, not too different from her chi, something she can easily train and use to make herself a better guard, her fist shot forward like lightning, coated in black soon collided into the chest of the Maverick, sending shockwaves through the air as it took off the ground and floated up into the air, before being slammed down into the ground by a downwards kick. She might not be at 100% but she was still a Youkai, an average one that trained herself to the limits.
The machine slowly gripped onto the ground before unleashing one of its attacks, unleashing lightning along the ground, watching it shock right into her body, causing her to scream while being shocked, up until the point where a large blade of water shot past her and into the shoulder of the machine, blasting it back some as Ziden had changed forms to Undyne form. Soon taking a martial arts stance right next to her. " You alright?" Ziden asked, Meiling slowly nodding.
" Yeah, noticing this guy is alot more sturdy than the rest, guess that means we will have to be alot more rough this time. Honestly, I'd love a nap right about now." Meeiling said, gently gripping onto her bandages.
" Hmph, laziness begets a warrior, but there is nothing wrong with simply going with the flow, so let us take down this brute and you shall rest." Ziden's eyes glowed in the helmet, even Meiling noticed the change in personality.
Ziden was quick on the attack, throwing a barrage of watery kicks at the machine, the water smashing into his face and chest before those hands of his raked along his chest, causing a large gash to form in the chest of Mandril.
" Geh! Foolishness, did you forget what lightning does to water?!" Mandrill's fist became covered in electricity, the fist slamming into his chest and feeling lightning literally tear through his body, the man screeaming in agony and his suit sparking and popping with each passing second.
But thanks to Takeru, and him slicing down hard onto that arm of the Maverick, Ziden was freed and now down on the ground as Takeru used a combo of punches annd slices on the chest of the Maverick. " Ziden! Change forms to something else!"
Ziden was quick to change into Gnome form, grabbing that Axe of his and soon charging at the Maverick and slammed the axe down, a orange light smashed downwards and made sure to explode against the chest of the Lightning Monkey, blasting him into the wall as Ziden rubbed his nose area on his helm.
" Heh, this guy's a sturdy one, not many of have survived this long against my axe!" Ziden said, founding it odd he even said that, he only used this form once before.
The Maverick gently got to his feet, sparks flying out of his body before roaring. " I will not lose! You all be bested for my lord!"
Meanwhile outside...
" Togekiss use Aura Sphere!" Sanae's command was firm and focused, the pokemon responding to the command and forming that blue sphere and firing it right at the Flare Scientist's Mightyena, seeing the attack explode against the Pokemon's body. " What!? My Mightyena! Your Pokemon is way too strong for its own good!"
Sanae rubbed under her nose before giving the peace sign to her Pokemon before yelping from the rocking sound of an explosion, Reimu and co were busy beating up the other Flare members before noticing what was happening behind them, the battle between Okuu and the Maverick Hunters.
X and Zero were seen soaring across the ground, dodging an explosion from Okuu, the Pokemon in the area all panicking and sprinting away from the area. " Hey! Calm down! Why are you attacking us!?" X shouted, quick to aim and charge his X buster whilee gazing up at the flying bird who was overtaken by fear and rage.
" Never again, you won't hurt me ever again!" Okuu was solely focused on Zero, who seemed confused by this but held onto his Z Saber tight, the light of his blade shining through the dust kicking up from the explosions around them.
Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion [ Touhou Subterranean Animism]
The music kicked up and so did an unholy storm of glowing red orbs that shot right down to the two Mavericks. All seemingly focused on Zero ." Hmm, it seems she is focused exclusively on me, X, be my back up, We've got to neutralize her!"
Zero didn't waste anytime before gripping onto his blade, letting lightning course right through it as he sees her divebombing right at him, becoming a blur of blackness. " Raijingeki!" A powerful jolt of lightning came from his blade, slamming it into the shoulder of Okuu, stopping her could in her tracks while X leapt over head and aimed his buster at her back.
" Charge Shot!" A giant ball of blue energy shot out and made sure to blast deep into her back, blasting her right into the ground, X landing several feet behind her.
She was caught off guard by that attack, she didn't know that he had such attacks with him, hhe did look a tad different from what she remembered, but that did not matter, she was not going to be harmed again, in an instant she got to her feet and unleashed an explosion of heat and aimed her blast right at the chest of ZEro, catching him off guard before blasting him clean into the side of a nearby cliff. She didn't care at all about the blue one.
Her allies couldn't even get close to try and stop her from how much energy she was blasting out at X and Zero, leaving them to fight and hope they can stop Okuu without killing her.
X was quick to appear right behind her, charging up an attack of his behind her back. " Frost Tower!" A pillar of ice shot up and smashed into her back, shooting her up into the air, watching Zero finally free himself from the wall and leaping up above her and pointed his blade right down at her.
" Hyouretsuzan!" Forming his Z Saber into a massivee blade of ice and slammed downwards into the back of Okuu, that ice blade blasted right into that back and exploded outwards in a shower of ice, forcing her deeper into the ground, flipping backwards before seeing her taking flight once more. " Damn, she's really sturdy for whatever she is!" A blade soon formed right out out of her third arm and soon came right down onto Zero, forcing him instantly onto his knees from the single impact onto his saber. " What!?"
" Zero!" X was quick to charge up another shot and fired right at Okuu, the girl quick to use her wings to deflect the shot back at him, blasting X right across the dirt. " Damn! What is this woman!?"
Her blade of light clashed with Zero's saber and was overpowering him severely, forcing him on a losing front, his blade soon turning from the green color it was to the purple color itt is now, forcing her back and leaping back. She was now firing at him with her other hand, using Danmaku to overwhelm him, which he counters by slicing through them with her shots, right after he does, she instantly appeared under him, her blade aimed at his chest,, with how close she was and him being in a cool down after that swing, this impact would cleave his body right in half, had it not been for the train that belted her right across the waste land, causing a large explosion that rocked the area, X and Zero stunned and reminded of who could do that.
" Damn...that woman was too damn much. I need a vacation after this X." ZEro said before seeing the knocked out Utsuho being approached by Yukari.
Sakuya had already pinned up several of the Team Flare Grunts up against the wall with those knives as the Scientest ended up recalling her Pokemon. " Tch, you might have stopped us here, but we will take over this place and our true plan will begin!" The woman touched someting on her outfit before teleporting away, leaving the grunts right behind.
" MAn, why did Sanae have to win, I wanted to battle with my Milotic?" KAguya complained, the sounds of lightning was roaring out of the power plant.
Inside the Power Plant...
Ziden's axe collided with the fist of Spark Mandrill and cleaved right through it, causing the Maverick to scream loudly and promptting Ziden to leap back onto the ground and back near Meiling and Takeru.
" Ooo, can we all finish at the same time with that kick thing please!?" Meiling seemed oddly eager at this before Ziden nods.
" Indeed, lets end this villain nice and crushingly." Ziden slammed his fists together before pulling out a card of a rock covered leg and slots it into his Card Reader.
" Card Set! Finishing Move Ready!" Ziden soon bends down as his leg began to shine orange, rocks slamming into it to create a leg of stone and rocks.
Meiling lifted her leg high into the heavens, channeling chi into it and making it shine with the vibrant colors of the rainbow, a new technique she was practicing while Gatekeeping.
" Dai Kaigan! Ghost! Omega Drive!" Takeru began to float up into the air with energy coating his leg.
" Dynamic Terra Impact!" Ziden leapt high into the air and aimed his foot downwards.
" Shooting Star Meteorite!" MEiling leapt into the air as well, aimig a dive kick onto the poor Maverick.
" My life is burning Bright!" His foot and the others all slammed into the chest of the Maverick, creating a rainbow ring to spread from the impact, and sending him flying backwards, the roar of the mechanical beast rang through the area.
" Impossible! I was upgraded by lord Sigma himself! This is impossible! H-hail Sigma!" The machine lets out a death roar before exploding into chunks, the trio of heroes striking poses in order to look cool after the battle, thee loud hum of the power plant began to sound out around them.
Seems he was connected to the Power Plant not working. Zidenn was quick to detransform and ran outside with the others to see Yukari literally holding off A riled up Okuu before placing his hand on her head.
Using the aura, he had to see what had her panicked, even if it was only a tiny peek, he saw that sight of that odd looking Zero attacking her, but he looked...so different to the one before him. " Calm down birdbrain, that's not the guy that attacked you, look closer."
" YEs it is! Look at him...Unyuu?" Okuu took a closer look at him, noticing that he looked alot more finished and alot less killery. " Oh...I guess he is different from the guy who gave me these injuries."
" Yeesh,I got nearly sliced in half over a thing someone who looks like me did? Man today is not my day." Zero's eyes were closed as he sighed.
" Ziden, its good to see you and Yukari again but what in tthe world is going on here, we got reports that Sigma was alive again. Well, less reports and more he outright told us he was back." X said, remembering the video message back at the Hunter HQ.
" Well, its like this."
Be patient, the heroes are explaining...
" So these Scions of Oscura are villains reborn that are plotting to drown the universe in Darkness? How cliche can you be?" Zero asked, simply shaking his head. " Well, it doesn't matter, if Sigma is here on this world, I will certainly be the one to put him down again like I did on the Moon."
" Well, we are gonna searc-" Reimu was going to speak before X caught her off guard.
"Leave Searching for Sigma to us, you guys said you're focused on freeing the towns from these Shocker and Sigma goons. We'll let you know when we find out where he is and we'll strike him together." X suggested as Ziden thought for a moment.
" Well I mean, it makes sense to focus on our duties, I think that was our majjor issue during our past journey too." Sakuya thought, softly tapping her finger on her arm. " So we should let these knights handle things while we save this place."
" Hmm, that would be best, lets go then, the Power Plant, by somee odd miracle was not destroyed by your battle is now working, so perhaps we should check out Lumiose and see what is going on in it." Yukari said, Ziden carrying Okuu on his shoulders.
" Indeed, then let us be on our way X, its good to see you're still a jackass, Ziden." Zero said before vaishing into a red light and a blue light with X.
"...Why does everyone call me a jackass." Ziden said before seeing almost everyone looking at him.
" Because you are one." All of those voices as one hit him with that line and he simply sighed, he was so mistreated by his friends and allies.
The man in Golden armor who was watching this battle simply gave a soft sigh, seemingly disappointed before vanishing into blue lights to wander off.
Trivia:
1. All of X and Zero's moves came from X4
2. They both know Ziden and Yukari from the Previous Ultima Brigade War.
3. MEiling has been making new moves, specialized in Non Danmaku combat to aid her in these types of adventures
Author's Notes: Sorry it has been a long time since the last update, took a minor break to clear up my backlog of games like Xenoblade 2 and Etrian Oddysey 5. Weekly uploads should continue, if not bi weekly as I plan on having this story finished before my birthday, so glad all of you continue to read and support my story. Enjoy the next chapter when it comes!