Chapter 4 Retrieve Data

The battered red Reploid slowly stood up. "Is he dead?" he asked himself. He looked around cautiously, his hand clutching at his Saber. Smoke clouded his eye sight. The smells of coolant oil and burnt electronics were nauseating to his smell sensors. He carefully moved forward. His foot hit something. He immediately jumped backwards and readied his Saber. There was no movement. Zero came forward and looked down upon the remaining parts of Aztec Falcon. Having confirmed Falcon's death, he turned his Saber off. A microchip caught the reflection of the lights in the room. Zero quickly turned around and inspected his find. It was the combat chip that had given Aztec the ability to use electricity. Zero quickly inserted the chip into his Saber.

"Hey! Over here!" cried an obviously relieved Reploid. Zero peered closer. He then noticed two others with him. They were large, hulking Reploids and were colored orange and yellow. They had easily blended in with some of the parts of the innocent. Zero quickly jumped off the catwalk onto the heaps of refuse.

"Yes?" Zero coldly replied.

"Uh. . . Ha," said the startled Reploid. "Ahem. Thank you. I never expected someone would come to rescue me." He hesitated. "Thank you so much. I'm still in shock. . ." he confessed. He weakly laughed. "ha ha ha I'll return to our Base. . . when I'm able to walk again. You can go back now, I'll be fine!" he said. Zero nodded and dashed away, not once looking back to see if they were "fine."

***

Ciel waited anxiously with the rest of her crew. The storm had already cleared up, yet there was no sign of communications being restored with Zero. Some of the communications officers tried furiously to re- establish contact with the brave warrior. A simple message reading, "Communications Down.," told them that there had been no change since they started. "Message Incoming," suddenly flashed on the screens.

"Establish communications immediately!" Ciel waited anxiously as the message was patched in almost immediately. A message filled with static came through. On it was Zero's face.

"I have successfully completed the mission and rescued the missing units," he stated calmly. The command center almost exploded with happiness. "Along the way, I encountered Aztec Falcon and defeated him in combat. Through these actions, the Disposal Center has been shut down. I shall be returning shortly." The center was quiet from that piece of info. It suddenly erupted with even louder cheers, if possible, and people began to hug each other. This was most definitely a sign of great things to come. No one had EVER defeated an Apprentice!

Ciel smiled happily before whispering to herself, "Thank you, Zero. You have given us the hope to survive."

***

He walked slowly through the hallways of the compound. He had agonizingly found out that going back to the city and through the defense systems again was rather. painful. He had decided to turn back and find an easier route before he was overrun by the enemy units waiting outside. He checked numerous doors. If they were locked, he "let" himself in, courtesy of his glowing green weapon. He came to the end of a hall. He checked the door and found it opened. Going through, he found an active Trans Server. He quickly jumped on and activated it. His destination. the Resistance Base.

REALLY short!!!!!!! Sorry about this. I usually have a lot more written down. I kind of rushed this. Haven't been able to write. I just have so much OTHER stuff to do. Hopefully, I can get a FULL chapter done during Spring Break. WAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Why does MY Spring Break come on APRIL18!?!? T-T I've also been addicted recently to my video games. I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics, Command & Conquer Generals, and numerous others. I'm also anxiously awaiting more updates about MegaMan Zero 2! I'll put up some more stuff on the next update. Like my thanks to the reviewers. And when I get time I'll change the title and incorporate the other stuff that people have been suggesting. But I wrote this down while reading on this website and in the span of about a total of 5-15 minutes.

Scythe244

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so. tired.