Megaman Battle Network - New Generation
Book 4 - The Last Shadow
By Zelloss
Author's Note: And so, we come nearing the end of the Megaman Series with the X series... Already half-way through. NOTE: I don't have many intentions of doing the Zero series, but you NEVER KNOW... ^^
WARNING: I don't need to give more, do I? HONESTY? Well, alright. Please sign this form - I, ____________ (Name), swear that I hereby will NOT give bad reviews to this author due to the violence contained in this story. Even if there may only be a tiny bit in this chapter...
Chapter 4 - New Age
-=-Tykybereft-=-
I waited a hundred years in that pod...
A hundred freaking years! Those bastards who sealed my body up, left my mind alive... But, 'tis as he said...
'Upon an act of betrayl by the one you love most, your mind shall be torn apart for a hundred years, your soul eaten by the 9 demons, and your control lost to the infinite darkness... Your body becoming a vessel for the Dark One...'
Yes, that was what I was told, and it had come true... But time was not yet up...
Ah, that fool, Wily... Trying to destroy everything... No, no! All wrong!
Slowly, the door to the pod opened again. Another 150 years, I had waited, but this time, I had left my mind wide awake, to absorb what knowledge was left...
In that time, I had seen it. The incredible continuation of man... But they had made the mistake of never returning the net... Never giving it form nor access... Never using it again as they had once... The net... Where their one hope comes from... Those fools...
Slowly, I stepped out of the pod, the fluids that were left on my body draining off quickly. I gave a look around.
Ah, the same figures in the pod, so perfectly preserved... Not an inch had changed... The wounds unhealed, but no more blood having been removed. Ah, that is good, I may still...
I looked at my left arm, smiling as I saw the dark mark upon it. "Ah, yes, they'll do... Allies are hard to come by, but easier to create..."
Gears set in motion in my mind, programming... Ah, and that's it!
* * * * *
-=-Zelloss-=-
'Upon an act of betrayl by the one you love most, your mind shall be torn apart for a hundred years, your soul eaten by the 9 demons, and your control lost to the infinite darkness... Your body becoming a vessel for the Dark One...'
I'm the one who delivered that message, so many years ago... To the one that I once considered my blood, and now even... even I'm beginning to fear his powers...
That man... The one who killed Wily in an instant... His name is Tykybereft. You much more likely know him by another name...
In due course, you will know, but there is no need for you to right now. Yes, though, he is a Grausherra... One who extended his powers so incredibly they even surpassed mine...
This man, and the demon curse... Blackfang... They were one...
I silently watched. Time flew by in front of my eyes. Tykybereft never slept. Tirelessly, I could see him working. No, he would never tire, not even in the slightest. I didn't think there was enough human left in him to allow him to tire... There certainly was not enough left in him to die...
A few months passed before my eyes, as I watched every detail happen. I myself was in amazement, such a change...
To think that nobody had died, except Wily... This devil was working life... But I couldn't find out what was working in his mind...
One question stayed in mind, as I continued watching.
Why?
-=-Tykybereft-=-
"They're done..."
A smile broke out over my greasy face. Ah, I had done it... Brought life into those that were dead, and made them... made them incredible...
Not even my father could have done better...
I slammed the ground with my fist, suddenly, cracking it. Damn family... Father goes and leaves me as a child... Not even raising me long enough to know how to bring up my own children...
I pulled back and puched harder, a fissure going through the stone floor. "Damn!" I swore, thinking of my children... They were so innocent, but what they had done...
I growled. I could never forgive him, but, if he were alive now, I could never bring myself to harm him...
After a few moments, it returned to my mind just what the task at hand was.
I looked to the figures in front of me. "Ah, so incredible..." I held something out. "Now, then, become soldiers of darkness!"
I walked over to the first. Brilliant white and blue armor... Amazing what a makeover could do... I slammed the mark down on his arm...
The next. No, why had I bothered? This girl... Ah, but she could possibly be the most usefull... I grinned to myself, slamming the mark down onto her left arm...
The next. Ah, such a chance... This man had wanted power, so I had given him lots of that... I slammed the mark down...
And the next... No, I couldn't use him. He could no longer even be worked as a soldier... His body would soon die, even I could not fix the damage that would kill him... I turned to one of the pods, and put him back in it.
"You're alive..." I grinned, "and perhaps in another few years I shall awaken, ready to bring you back..."
I looked to the last one. Ah, such evil already in his heart, was it necessary to give him this? But yes, I told myself, he is not quite mine yet...
I took the mark and slammed it down.
-=-Amyrth-=-
I suddenly screamed out. What... What was this?
My body shot up, in a sitting position, an incredible pain in my arm.
"He, that's the reaction I wish!" the figure in front of me laughed. Who...? This man... I had never seen him before. What had he done?
"Who are you?" I asked.
"That's of no importance, seeing as how you never need to know..." the man laughed. "Darkness will soon overcome you, and you won't awaken for a few years... By then, though..." he laughed harshly.
"What are you doing!?" I jumped up and went to grab, only to discover that one arm had no hand, the other, it was limp. I looked at myself. "What... WHAT!?"
"Zero..." the man laughed. "That's what I'll call you... Zero... Yes, that'll do..."
"What shit are you talking about!?" I shouted, dashing at him. My hair seemed so long, I could feel it trailing down my armor. A long energy blade formed in my palmless hand, a long sabre...
The man turned, as I brought the sabre crashing towards him. He grinned.
He lifted his hand, and caught it as if it was a feather.
"What...!?" I cried.
"No, no, you're still to weak... Go back to sleep!" the man commanded.
A wave of darkness swept over me.
-=-Zelloss-=-
Ah... So that's it! I understand... Even the darkside needs allies...
But this man... Why would he need allies? His power is so perfectly tuned...
But was that not the same with me? No, I fell to a bullet, this man catches energy sabres... I could not even match him...
My fear was growing.
I looked on at Tykybereft. Amyrth/Zero fainted in front of him.
The others had changed so much. Rockman, he had lived... His body covered in a blue and white armor... Upgrades of his own...
Roll... Her body covered in dress-like armor that floated out like a UFO... She looked unusually formiddable...
And Forte... Oh, what a change! His face solemn, his body covered in weaponry of every sort...
A ghost floated up beside me.
"Sirius... It's time you see what your decision has created..." I said.
Sirius, my great-grandson...
The one who didn't kill Tykybereft when he had the chance... I wondered if it was true that it was better this way...
-=-Sirius-=-
I looked down at Tykybereft. Ah, I remembered him all right. Gave the world a scare, about a couple hundred years ago, when I was only growing... Only his own children managed to stop him...
Then, I had been left powerless (and hated it!). I still blamed myself for not taking the chance... At one time, I had the chance to kill him, end his life, when he could not fight back...
Damn pride to the bowels of hell!
"Zel-san..." I turned to the man beside me. "Are you sure? What you said about it being better that he have not been killed?"
"The world would have long ended..." Zel turned to me. "If you had've killed me, the children would have followed their father instead... Because of your decision, we may still have a chance..."
"Are you... You're kidding!" I laughed nervously.
Zel shook his head. "I believe I know what will happen... Listen, we've got only a little while in our time to find the Descendant..."
"The Descendant?"
"His name is Zerse Shenbi... You must find him, or..." Zel's voice trailed off, and there was a sudden bright flash.
-=-Tykybereft-=-
I turned and walked over to the bodies. What was that bright flash?
I saw it, suddenly. The marks of Blackfang... On Rock and Roll's arms... shattering? No, that can't be...
No, of course it could. They were Hikaris... Origianlly Hitoris... Those who are the light... I should have seen it!
Then I heard the same sound - Forte, damn it, the symbol was breaking! I couldn't control him!
But Amyrth... As long as I had one...
I looked to the bodies. No, I couldn't control them now... Should I destroy them completely?
I pulled back, ready to slam open the heads.
"NO!"
For some reason, I couldn't do it. I frowned.
"You win this time!" I shouted out. "Zell... Sirius... Gairyio... All of you, I'll destroy your world with this one, trust me!"
I looked at the bodies. Well, I could not destroy them without them putting up a fight. Damn pride to the bowels of hell!
It hit me. No, don't get rid of them! Relocate them! Somewhere where others will never find them!
-=-Rock-=-
"What... A reploid?"
"Cain, all data signatures are checked! We've identified him. He was originally named Rock Hikari... Then he became Rockman... And some strange remake has turned him into a figure named 'X'"
"X?" Cain's voice answered. "How strange..."
My eyes opened lazily. Wait... no burning chest? No harm? Was I completely recovered?
No, something felt different... My armor heavier? Yes... Upgraded! I realized it quickly. Incredibly upgraded!
"Cain, the others... One was named Forte... Now Sigma... The other one... Roll... Ah, according to the files, she was renamed Iris..." the voice said.
"Roll!" I shouted, pulling myself forward suddenly. Cain, who was a decently aged doctor in a white uniform, looked at me under his grey hair. "Hey, you're alive!"
"Where's my sister!?" I cried out.
"Just over there" Cain pointed, making hasty notes on a clipboard.
I stood up from some kind of flat sleeping chamber and rushed over. Roll was in one, and looking quite different...
"Roll!" I cried out. Suddenly, her eyes opened to, and she looked at me.
"Who... Ro... Rock?" tears welled up in her eyes.
I nodded.
She started crying, jumping up and embracing me. "Oh, I thought you were dead... I saw what Forte did to you... and I chased you... And then I got put to sleep with you... And... And... Oh, Oniichan*, I'm so glad you're back!" Roll refused to stop crying.
(*Onichan - Endearment term, usually for a sibling/parent)
"I'm glad to see you too..." I answered.
Then another figure rose up from the third one. His body was covered in a greyish armor, and his face was strange. Somehow, I knew it. I pushed Roll off. "Forte!"
Forte looked at me. "E... Excuse me? Is that... my name?"
"Memory... loss...?" I wondered. "No, we would have suffered it too..."
"Who... are you two? Where are we?"
"You are Sigma, not Forte..." Cain cut in. "At least that's what your data files say. I am Doctor Cain, and these are X and Iris..."
"X?" I thought for a moment. "Oh... Whoever upgraded me must have renamed me..."
"Same..." Roll seemed to smile. "I like this UFO... er... dress..."
I laughed a bit.
"Sigma... Thank you for confirming that..." Forte nodded through the armor. "I await your commands..."
I smiled. "Mabye this won't be so bad?"
"Probably not..." Roll smiled back. "Oh... Wait! These aren't the Cyro pods, so somebody must have moved us... Cain?"
"No..." Cain shook his head.
"And... And there was three others two!" Roll shouted. "One... Dynastu! Oh, I remember... he must be dead..."
"The other two?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.
"Amyrth... I wonder... He was perfectly fine! He looked so peacefull in that pod, I remember..." Roll blushed a bit. "Kinda handsome. Anyway, he's not accounted for... And that... that creepy guy... That looked a lot like Amyrth..."
I shrugged. "I wasn't there, I don't know... Well, I wasn't concious to know, anyway..."
-=-Sigma-=-
He, some people are easy to fool. Of course I'm Forte! But they don't need to know that...
Wily's gone, so I might as well try to infiltrate a big power... And being a reploid with tons of hidden weapons gives me a lot of power anyway. I found it annoying when I got assigned as a 'small' punishment to clear out a warehouse... An old one, in a dead, radioactive-gibbled city named Kotobuki.
I walked through the warehouse, and I started to move the boxes back and forth. Then, I saw something in one of the corners.
A pod!?
One just like the one I had come out of. The robot in it... It made me think of Protoman suddenly, but no, that couldn't be right.
His right arm was disabled, and some strange mark was on his left. His right arm... So disabled, I didn't even see anything beyond the wrist!
Then suddenly, the robot stood up. He had long, blonde hair, and an energy sword formed in his hand.
A black look was in the reploid's eyes. "Die, fool..."
The robot dashed at me, and I jumped out of the way. Something about that look... No!
Amyrth...?
Amyrth came dashing at me, swinging the sword around, blasting open a crate of explosives. I dived, the blast tearing open a bit of my armor, and Amyrth caught a good blast. The armor on his left arm began to crack... Right where I noticed a strange symbol...
Blackfang? I knew it all right... The real symbol of a Grausherra! Amyrth had known about his heritage... And so did I...
Amyrth dived at me suddenly, and the blade cut down my armor. I gasped, it had torn open my chest completely! In one strike... Some blood came out, splattering onto Amyrth's red armor. Some landed just above his lips.
Greedily, Amyrth licked it up, a twisted look in his eyes. "He... You fool!"
Amyrth suddenly came dashing with a great combo, tearing open my body armor and my body. Slices so fast I could hardly see them...
The the 'flat' of the blade struck the side of my head, and something accidentally triggered. One of the weaponry.
A large beam of electricity shot into Amyrth, stunning him for a moment. The rest of his left arm armor cracked, the Blackfang symbol falling off with it.
Amyrth fainted, and I did a quick data scan. It was Amyrth Skie... Now, he was Zero...
Suddenly, the full force of the combo Zero had done on me hit me, and I fainted.
-=-Tykybereft-=-
"No!" I shouted. "Damn... I lost him now too! I guess..."
Both of my eyes, not just one, were now firmly black and lifeless. "I guess I need to get into this mess myself..."
"'Tis finally time for the world to fear my name once again..."
-=-Lesteo-=-
I floated, watching over Tykybereft.
I was one of Hayato's triplets, in case you don't remember. But I could not forget who this one man was.
"Tykybereft..."
Another ghost, that of two near-twins floated over. They looked so much still like children, the way they had been. Although their bodies... Well, I'll say that they were not as 'innocent' as their kid-like bodies would have you think... (They were actually full grown and capable, they just still look like kids... Imagine, hav... Nevermind... Bad way of putting it...)
Seinjaii, the first one, with the short hair and bandana, and his left arm missing, looked at Tykybereft. "He... That's him all right!"
Marius, the other, with the much longer blue hair (like that of his mother), looked at the same figure. "Yes! I can't be wrong! Then Zel wasn't lying!"
I looked at the two. "Grandsons, please, find Zerse... Or somebody! We don't have much time before it happens..."
Seinjaii nodded. "Yes, Grandfather. I'll stop my father again... And this time, I'll make sure that he joins me... I miss speaking to him..."
Marius laughed. "We'll stop Tykybereft... Err... Dreamer... Don't you worry!"
And then the two were off.
Author's Note: And so, we come nearing the end of the Megaman Series with the X series... Already half-way through. NOTE: I don't have many intentions of doing the Zero series, but you NEVER KNOW... ^^
WARNING: I don't need to give more, do I? HONESTY? Well, alright. Please sign this form - I, ____________ (Name), swear that I hereby will NOT give bad reviews to this author due to the violence contained in this story. Even if there may only be a tiny bit in this chapter...
Chapter 4 - New Age
-=-Tykybereft-=-
I waited a hundred years in that pod...
A hundred freaking years! Those bastards who sealed my body up, left my mind alive... But, 'tis as he said...
'Upon an act of betrayl by the one you love most, your mind shall be torn apart for a hundred years, your soul eaten by the 9 demons, and your control lost to the infinite darkness... Your body becoming a vessel for the Dark One...'
Yes, that was what I was told, and it had come true... But time was not yet up...
Ah, that fool, Wily... Trying to destroy everything... No, no! All wrong!
Slowly, the door to the pod opened again. Another 150 years, I had waited, but this time, I had left my mind wide awake, to absorb what knowledge was left...
In that time, I had seen it. The incredible continuation of man... But they had made the mistake of never returning the net... Never giving it form nor access... Never using it again as they had once... The net... Where their one hope comes from... Those fools...
Slowly, I stepped out of the pod, the fluids that were left on my body draining off quickly. I gave a look around.
Ah, the same figures in the pod, so perfectly preserved... Not an inch had changed... The wounds unhealed, but no more blood having been removed. Ah, that is good, I may still...
I looked at my left arm, smiling as I saw the dark mark upon it. "Ah, yes, they'll do... Allies are hard to come by, but easier to create..."
Gears set in motion in my mind, programming... Ah, and that's it!
* * * * *
-=-Zelloss-=-
'Upon an act of betrayl by the one you love most, your mind shall be torn apart for a hundred years, your soul eaten by the 9 demons, and your control lost to the infinite darkness... Your body becoming a vessel for the Dark One...'
I'm the one who delivered that message, so many years ago... To the one that I once considered my blood, and now even... even I'm beginning to fear his powers...
That man... The one who killed Wily in an instant... His name is Tykybereft. You much more likely know him by another name...
In due course, you will know, but there is no need for you to right now. Yes, though, he is a Grausherra... One who extended his powers so incredibly they even surpassed mine...
This man, and the demon curse... Blackfang... They were one...
I silently watched. Time flew by in front of my eyes. Tykybereft never slept. Tirelessly, I could see him working. No, he would never tire, not even in the slightest. I didn't think there was enough human left in him to allow him to tire... There certainly was not enough left in him to die...
A few months passed before my eyes, as I watched every detail happen. I myself was in amazement, such a change...
To think that nobody had died, except Wily... This devil was working life... But I couldn't find out what was working in his mind...
One question stayed in mind, as I continued watching.
Why?
-=-Tykybereft-=-
"They're done..."
A smile broke out over my greasy face. Ah, I had done it... Brought life into those that were dead, and made them... made them incredible...
Not even my father could have done better...
I slammed the ground with my fist, suddenly, cracking it. Damn family... Father goes and leaves me as a child... Not even raising me long enough to know how to bring up my own children...
I pulled back and puched harder, a fissure going through the stone floor. "Damn!" I swore, thinking of my children... They were so innocent, but what they had done...
I growled. I could never forgive him, but, if he were alive now, I could never bring myself to harm him...
After a few moments, it returned to my mind just what the task at hand was.
I looked to the figures in front of me. "Ah, so incredible..." I held something out. "Now, then, become soldiers of darkness!"
I walked over to the first. Brilliant white and blue armor... Amazing what a makeover could do... I slammed the mark down on his arm...
The next. No, why had I bothered? This girl... Ah, but she could possibly be the most usefull... I grinned to myself, slamming the mark down onto her left arm...
The next. Ah, such a chance... This man had wanted power, so I had given him lots of that... I slammed the mark down...
And the next... No, I couldn't use him. He could no longer even be worked as a soldier... His body would soon die, even I could not fix the damage that would kill him... I turned to one of the pods, and put him back in it.
"You're alive..." I grinned, "and perhaps in another few years I shall awaken, ready to bring you back..."
I looked to the last one. Ah, such evil already in his heart, was it necessary to give him this? But yes, I told myself, he is not quite mine yet...
I took the mark and slammed it down.
-=-Amyrth-=-
I suddenly screamed out. What... What was this?
My body shot up, in a sitting position, an incredible pain in my arm.
"He, that's the reaction I wish!" the figure in front of me laughed. Who...? This man... I had never seen him before. What had he done?
"Who are you?" I asked.
"That's of no importance, seeing as how you never need to know..." the man laughed. "Darkness will soon overcome you, and you won't awaken for a few years... By then, though..." he laughed harshly.
"What are you doing!?" I jumped up and went to grab, only to discover that one arm had no hand, the other, it was limp. I looked at myself. "What... WHAT!?"
"Zero..." the man laughed. "That's what I'll call you... Zero... Yes, that'll do..."
"What shit are you talking about!?" I shouted, dashing at him. My hair seemed so long, I could feel it trailing down my armor. A long energy blade formed in my palmless hand, a long sabre...
The man turned, as I brought the sabre crashing towards him. He grinned.
He lifted his hand, and caught it as if it was a feather.
"What...!?" I cried.
"No, no, you're still to weak... Go back to sleep!" the man commanded.
A wave of darkness swept over me.
-=-Zelloss-=-
Ah... So that's it! I understand... Even the darkside needs allies...
But this man... Why would he need allies? His power is so perfectly tuned...
But was that not the same with me? No, I fell to a bullet, this man catches energy sabres... I could not even match him...
My fear was growing.
I looked on at Tykybereft. Amyrth/Zero fainted in front of him.
The others had changed so much. Rockman, he had lived... His body covered in a blue and white armor... Upgrades of his own...
Roll... Her body covered in dress-like armor that floated out like a UFO... She looked unusually formiddable...
And Forte... Oh, what a change! His face solemn, his body covered in weaponry of every sort...
A ghost floated up beside me.
"Sirius... It's time you see what your decision has created..." I said.
Sirius, my great-grandson...
The one who didn't kill Tykybereft when he had the chance... I wondered if it was true that it was better this way...
-=-Sirius-=-
I looked down at Tykybereft. Ah, I remembered him all right. Gave the world a scare, about a couple hundred years ago, when I was only growing... Only his own children managed to stop him...
Then, I had been left powerless (and hated it!). I still blamed myself for not taking the chance... At one time, I had the chance to kill him, end his life, when he could not fight back...
Damn pride to the bowels of hell!
"Zel-san..." I turned to the man beside me. "Are you sure? What you said about it being better that he have not been killed?"
"The world would have long ended..." Zel turned to me. "If you had've killed me, the children would have followed their father instead... Because of your decision, we may still have a chance..."
"Are you... You're kidding!" I laughed nervously.
Zel shook his head. "I believe I know what will happen... Listen, we've got only a little while in our time to find the Descendant..."
"The Descendant?"
"His name is Zerse Shenbi... You must find him, or..." Zel's voice trailed off, and there was a sudden bright flash.
-=-Tykybereft-=-
I turned and walked over to the bodies. What was that bright flash?
I saw it, suddenly. The marks of Blackfang... On Rock and Roll's arms... shattering? No, that can't be...
No, of course it could. They were Hikaris... Origianlly Hitoris... Those who are the light... I should have seen it!
Then I heard the same sound - Forte, damn it, the symbol was breaking! I couldn't control him!
But Amyrth... As long as I had one...
I looked to the bodies. No, I couldn't control them now... Should I destroy them completely?
I pulled back, ready to slam open the heads.
"NO!"
For some reason, I couldn't do it. I frowned.
"You win this time!" I shouted out. "Zell... Sirius... Gairyio... All of you, I'll destroy your world with this one, trust me!"
I looked at the bodies. Well, I could not destroy them without them putting up a fight. Damn pride to the bowels of hell!
It hit me. No, don't get rid of them! Relocate them! Somewhere where others will never find them!
-=-Rock-=-
"What... A reploid?"
"Cain, all data signatures are checked! We've identified him. He was originally named Rock Hikari... Then he became Rockman... And some strange remake has turned him into a figure named 'X'"
"X?" Cain's voice answered. "How strange..."
My eyes opened lazily. Wait... no burning chest? No harm? Was I completely recovered?
No, something felt different... My armor heavier? Yes... Upgraded! I realized it quickly. Incredibly upgraded!
"Cain, the others... One was named Forte... Now Sigma... The other one... Roll... Ah, according to the files, she was renamed Iris..." the voice said.
"Roll!" I shouted, pulling myself forward suddenly. Cain, who was a decently aged doctor in a white uniform, looked at me under his grey hair. "Hey, you're alive!"
"Where's my sister!?" I cried out.
"Just over there" Cain pointed, making hasty notes on a clipboard.
I stood up from some kind of flat sleeping chamber and rushed over. Roll was in one, and looking quite different...
"Roll!" I cried out. Suddenly, her eyes opened to, and she looked at me.
"Who... Ro... Rock?" tears welled up in her eyes.
I nodded.
She started crying, jumping up and embracing me. "Oh, I thought you were dead... I saw what Forte did to you... and I chased you... And then I got put to sleep with you... And... And... Oh, Oniichan*, I'm so glad you're back!" Roll refused to stop crying.
(*Onichan - Endearment term, usually for a sibling/parent)
"I'm glad to see you too..." I answered.
Then another figure rose up from the third one. His body was covered in a greyish armor, and his face was strange. Somehow, I knew it. I pushed Roll off. "Forte!"
Forte looked at me. "E... Excuse me? Is that... my name?"
"Memory... loss...?" I wondered. "No, we would have suffered it too..."
"Who... are you two? Where are we?"
"You are Sigma, not Forte..." Cain cut in. "At least that's what your data files say. I am Doctor Cain, and these are X and Iris..."
"X?" I thought for a moment. "Oh... Whoever upgraded me must have renamed me..."
"Same..." Roll seemed to smile. "I like this UFO... er... dress..."
I laughed a bit.
"Sigma... Thank you for confirming that..." Forte nodded through the armor. "I await your commands..."
I smiled. "Mabye this won't be so bad?"
"Probably not..." Roll smiled back. "Oh... Wait! These aren't the Cyro pods, so somebody must have moved us... Cain?"
"No..." Cain shook his head.
"And... And there was three others two!" Roll shouted. "One... Dynastu! Oh, I remember... he must be dead..."
"The other two?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.
"Amyrth... I wonder... He was perfectly fine! He looked so peacefull in that pod, I remember..." Roll blushed a bit. "Kinda handsome. Anyway, he's not accounted for... And that... that creepy guy... That looked a lot like Amyrth..."
I shrugged. "I wasn't there, I don't know... Well, I wasn't concious to know, anyway..."
-=-Sigma-=-
He, some people are easy to fool. Of course I'm Forte! But they don't need to know that...
Wily's gone, so I might as well try to infiltrate a big power... And being a reploid with tons of hidden weapons gives me a lot of power anyway. I found it annoying when I got assigned as a 'small' punishment to clear out a warehouse... An old one, in a dead, radioactive-gibbled city named Kotobuki.
I walked through the warehouse, and I started to move the boxes back and forth. Then, I saw something in one of the corners.
A pod!?
One just like the one I had come out of. The robot in it... It made me think of Protoman suddenly, but no, that couldn't be right.
His right arm was disabled, and some strange mark was on his left. His right arm... So disabled, I didn't even see anything beyond the wrist!
Then suddenly, the robot stood up. He had long, blonde hair, and an energy sword formed in his hand.
A black look was in the reploid's eyes. "Die, fool..."
The robot dashed at me, and I jumped out of the way. Something about that look... No!
Amyrth...?
Amyrth came dashing at me, swinging the sword around, blasting open a crate of explosives. I dived, the blast tearing open a bit of my armor, and Amyrth caught a good blast. The armor on his left arm began to crack... Right where I noticed a strange symbol...
Blackfang? I knew it all right... The real symbol of a Grausherra! Amyrth had known about his heritage... And so did I...
Amyrth dived at me suddenly, and the blade cut down my armor. I gasped, it had torn open my chest completely! In one strike... Some blood came out, splattering onto Amyrth's red armor. Some landed just above his lips.
Greedily, Amyrth licked it up, a twisted look in his eyes. "He... You fool!"
Amyrth suddenly came dashing with a great combo, tearing open my body armor and my body. Slices so fast I could hardly see them...
The the 'flat' of the blade struck the side of my head, and something accidentally triggered. One of the weaponry.
A large beam of electricity shot into Amyrth, stunning him for a moment. The rest of his left arm armor cracked, the Blackfang symbol falling off with it.
Amyrth fainted, and I did a quick data scan. It was Amyrth Skie... Now, he was Zero...
Suddenly, the full force of the combo Zero had done on me hit me, and I fainted.
-=-Tykybereft-=-
"No!" I shouted. "Damn... I lost him now too! I guess..."
Both of my eyes, not just one, were now firmly black and lifeless. "I guess I need to get into this mess myself..."
"'Tis finally time for the world to fear my name once again..."
-=-Lesteo-=-
I floated, watching over Tykybereft.
I was one of Hayato's triplets, in case you don't remember. But I could not forget who this one man was.
"Tykybereft..."
Another ghost, that of two near-twins floated over. They looked so much still like children, the way they had been. Although their bodies... Well, I'll say that they were not as 'innocent' as their kid-like bodies would have you think... (They were actually full grown and capable, they just still look like kids... Imagine, hav... Nevermind... Bad way of putting it...)
Seinjaii, the first one, with the short hair and bandana, and his left arm missing, looked at Tykybereft. "He... That's him all right!"
Marius, the other, with the much longer blue hair (like that of his mother), looked at the same figure. "Yes! I can't be wrong! Then Zel wasn't lying!"
I looked at the two. "Grandsons, please, find Zerse... Or somebody! We don't have much time before it happens..."
Seinjaii nodded. "Yes, Grandfather. I'll stop my father again... And this time, I'll make sure that he joins me... I miss speaking to him..."
Marius laughed. "We'll stop Tykybereft... Err... Dreamer... Don't you worry!"
And then the two were off.