The Zero Factor...
Chapter 5 - Malicious Intent.
The trek to the near-by city on the island of Japan took Zero and Samus only a short time. As they neared the city, Zero began to get a slight grin on his face. Apparently he had concealed his true purpose in life, not even his programmer could tell now what his intention were, he had developed a conscious and a own mind, instead of following a path blindly thinking that this was HIS choice. The two of them got to the gates of the city, apparently the city had been put under Martial Law.
A lot had changed since the last time Samus had been to this place, even this world. She had been on many journeys and jobs for a long time. Only stopping by her base for a quick recharge or rest ever now and then. Samus stepped forward as if she was going to talk to the guard, but was rudely interrupted as Zero pushed her back and stepped up. Without consent to anything or anyone he reached to his back as he grabbed the hilt of his sabre. He brought it out as it glowed that dull silvery-black color as he swiped it through the air. With not even a yelp the guard was sliced in half, horizontally as Zero smirked, kicking the upper part of the body as he slid across the ground, knocking the upper torso into the air as he slid between the dead man's legs, guards coming to kill the attacker as he aimed his cannon at the upper torso, blowing it to bits as he leapt to his feet. Samus stood there completely shocked by the reploid's violent actions. Zero gave n mercy to these people as he rushed towards the three guards that came to confront him, he reached out as the one on his left as he crushed his throat. Using his own momentum he flung the man into the right guard and as the guard hit he fired off a plasma blast that incinerated them both. Still running towards the middle man he thrusted his sabre right through the middle of him, runnign with the man almost on him as he blasted his chest with his cannon and let the man turn into a shower of blood and entrails.
Samus gasped as she mouthed the word, "Oh my god…". Zero gave no consent to Samus, she was of no use to him now as he realised what his goal was, pressing his left foot hard towards the ground he bolted forward, lifting his right leg to gain more momentum as he leapt into the air, over the gates with amazing agility as he took off into the city.
Samus stood there dumbfounded as several more guards came rushing up to her, she shook her head lightly as one of the guards spoke to her. "Samus!? Is this your doing?", He asked her. She shook her head in disgust and confusion as she replied, "No…But the killer must be stopped." The other guards nodded and turned, running into the city with the newly opened gates, trying to stop the killer, not even formulating a plan, which is a bad move. Samus nodded to herself as she still seemed to be deep in thought over this man. She then burst into a run, not nearly as fast as Zero, but she ran into the city after him.
Meanwhile, Zero went running down the almost empty streets with his sabre glowing, guards rushing at the madman as he continued to pick them off, one by one. A merciless intent was in his eyes as he slashed the guards and even civilian to bits, blowing one up every now and then as he continued to run down the street, blood seeping down the street and roads as if it were red rain. The bloody footprints were all that anyone would ever see of him and remember as he ran down the street towards the central building where the mayor of the city lived. He burst through the doors as he grabbed one of the guards by the neck, sheathing his blade he grabbed the man's chest as he struggled against him. With no mercy Zero ripped the man's head and spine right out of his body, throwing the corpse to the side, he grinned a bit to himself, having lost any sanity that he had as he ripped the skull off the spine and wielded the spine as his new weapon and went towards the stairs of the building, guards seeming to run at him knowing they had no chance but with increased valor as he wielded one of they comrades spines. They ran at him as he grinned, shoving the spine through their chests, leaving them their impaled upon the spine as he dropped the spine and the guards and went running up the stairs, the staircase leading towards the mayor's office. The guards then began to shoot at him from afar. He laughed lightly to himself as he began to leap off the walls in an incredibly quick rate as he bound up the stairs and walls, the bullets missing him completely as he continued to blast the guards, the staircase now looking utterly red, and burnt from the plasma blasts. He then kicked down the door to the mayor's office. The mayor stood there trembling and frightened by the pyschotic and blood-stained reploid who he had seen coming from down the street, watching him as he tore civilians and guards apart, He ran up towards the mayor, grabbing him by his shirt as he ran towards the window facing the rest of the town as he saw samus running towards the building. He laughed again at this as he threw his arm forward, tossing the mayor out the window as the glass shattered and the mayor hit the ground with a thud, blood leakign all over the pavement as Samus looked up at Zero. Zero grinned as he narrowed his eyes at Samus, from the building.
Stay tuned for Chapter 6.