Blues Zero X
Chapter 2: The Underwater City
After getting repaired, Rave decided to walk around the city for a while. After talking to some of the people in the town, he heard a rumour that said of a Maverick Hunter city hidden underwater under the island Southeast of the main island. He found out where the entrance was and decided to check the city out. The entrance was on the edge of the island in an old abandoned mine. He managed to get the door to the mine open and upon walking inside the door closed on it's own. The mine had a few weak maverick robots inside, but nothing that made Rave even break a sweat. He finally made it through the mine and was walking down a long tunnel. As he looked around, he noticed the walls began getting really creepy. Silhouettes of tormented souls began lining the walls more and more frequently as he walked. Finally he came across a robot that was kneeling on the ground. He looked as if he was asleep until he slowly rose and looked at Rave. "I wish to enter your city," proclaimed Rave. The humanoid said nothing and rose his arm cannon up toward Rave. It looked like the standard issue arm cannon for any guard humanoid. As the cannon was aimed at Rave, the blaster extended out a few inches then extended outward in a growing circle. "Oh, shit." Rave pulled out his shield and held it to his body, looking out the darkened visor.
"Cast down your shield and fight me," the humanoid said slowly and emotionless. Rave adjusted his hand behind the shield so he could grip the side. Without warning he flung his shield at the humanoid. It looked at the oncoming threat and fired a quick shot at it causing it to deflect to the side and stick about two feet into the wall. The whole time he kept his arm cannon trained on Rave. Rave quickly brought up his arm cannon opposite his opponent's. "Greetings!" he yelled as he fired a shot at the humanoid. It easily sidestepped and circled around the shot. He charged up his own cannon and shout out four consecutive scatter shots. They sped at Rave, covering the entire corridor. He jumped over the first shot and was bombarded by the second one. He smashed into the wall behind him as the other two slammed into his side and arm. He reached over with his right hand and grabbed his damaged left arm. As he did, his left arm twitched and sparks flew out of both arms. "Ok... we can stop this now." His arm twitched and sparked again.
"You're the one that attacked me," the humanoid said.
"I was defending myself."
The humanoid mocked Blues and raised his arm cannon to Blues. "'Greetings!' Bang!"
"You held a very large gun at me. It was self defense."
The humanoid grinned and grabbed Rave's shield from the wall and tossed it to him. Rave caught it with his good arm and put it on his back. "Sorry. I've been asleep for a long time. You may pass." Rave nodded to him and proceeded down the rest of the corridor. He entered the city gripping his left arm and limping slightly. Right in front of him stood a human. He was rather tall and wore deep violet and black. Attached to his back were two swords of some kind, Rave couldn't quite make out what kind of swords they were. "So," he said, "you made it past the guard. Impressive."
"It was a cinch." His whole body twitched and a sparks flew from his arm and chest. "Okay. He roughed me up a little bit."
"Uh-huh," the human said as he walked off, obviously not caring about Rave's ordeal. Rave sighed softly and headed straight for the inn. He slowly walked in, twitching slightly and limping a bit. The men at the counter looked at him and grinned. They obviously knew what he had just gone through. One of them looked him over and said, "Hmm, okay. With you injuries it'll come to about two hundred Zenny."
Rave handed him the money. He got into the rejuvenation tank and it closed and began filling with liquid. As it rose up, Rave relaxed and began floating in the greenish blue liquid. After a few minutes, a humanoid that looked a bit like a Reploid limped in. He kind of looked like an ancient mummy and was wearing red-ish armour. He had two swords on his back that were like those of the human he ran into a few minutes earlier. Rave recognized the Reploid as one he'd seen before. He remembered the humanoid's name was Klaymoor. He had injuries all over his body that looked severe and extensive. After he took a single step into the inn, he collapsed on the hard floor. One of the men ran to help him as the other one walked up to the tank. "Hey," he said, "think you could get out for a bit? He kinda needs it a bit more."
Rave nodded and they drained the liquid out. He stepped out of the tank and Klaymoor was assisted into it. Klaymoor closed his eyes as the liquid raised, dulling the pain and causing his body to float as if in space. Rave looked at him and tapped the Kevlar holding tank twice as he said, "Poor guy." Klaymoor slowly opened his eyes upon hearing Rave's tap. He looked down at the Reploid as his eyes turned an eerie green from the energy. Rave nodded once more and Klaymoor closed his eyes again. Rave pulled out a cigarette and leaned against the wall opposite the rejuvenation tank. He lit it and waited patiently for the heavily damaged Klaymoor to finish repairing. Shortly after he finished the cigarette, they drained the tank and Klaymoor stepped out fully rejuvenated. "Thanks a lot, man," he said as he walked by Rave.
"No problem," Rave replied as he walked back into the tank. After about ten minutes he was fixed and fully regenerated. He walked out and pulled out another cigarette. He stretched his aching arms and walked out of the inn as he lit the cigarette. He still had two thousand seven hundred and fifty Zenny, so he decided to go to the local weapons shop to see what they had in the way of sabres. Since it was a rather small town, and a rarely visited one at that, the weapons shop was small and without a wide variety of weapons, though the rareness and power of the weapons they had made up for their lack of them. The shopkeeper looked at the Reploid entering his shop and smiled, knowing he was probably going to get some business. Rave looked around at all the weapons for a while then asked the shopkeeper, "What do you have in the way of sabres?"