Zero Alpha
Mission Three: Wind Reploid
Zero moved into an elevator shaft that came at the end of the corridor. He looked upward and saw the sunlight that broke through a crack in the ceiling that was hundreds of miles above him. Zero couldn't see any other possible way out so he kept looking up. "Where's that reploid?"
Zero watched as the shaft vibrated slightly as if an earthquake was occurring. Se spotted a crack in the wall ahead of him and realized it to be a blocked hallway that led further into the abandoned city. "Night, night!" Zero heard that yell from Sylph and charged his buster aiming it at the rubble that blocked the hall in front of him. As the elevator pad below him began to rise swiftly he fired his blast at the rubble and darted into the hall as the elevator platform continued to the top where it crashed itself into the ceiling imbedding itself there. Zero sighed realizing that had he not move that fast he would have been crushed.
"Nice try." Zero casually admitted.
"I found you!" Sylph burst from the shaft and came charging at Zero catching the red reploid by surprise.
"Not fast enough!" Zero dashed down the hall while firing shots off behind him at Sylph. The further inward he tricked Sylph into traveling the better Zero's chances of winning. The closed area of the corridor was no place an aerial reploid could win. "take this!"
Sylph dodges every shot Zero fired as he gave chase after the legendary reploid. "So you want to play tag now? You won't last very long against me. You'll use too much energy running."
"Who's running?" Zero shouted as he lunged his saber at Sylph.
Sylph dodged the sword attack and flew past Zero who remained at attention. "This is where I retire you."
"You can't touch me at your current speeds." Zero replied with a grunt.
"I can go up to speeds of mach four! You cannot match that!" Sylph announced boldly. "That's why I'm the best tag-player around."
"Mach four? That is fast, but…" Zero moves forward as Sylph goes to dodge early, but he moves to the wrong side as Zero winds up cutting off the lower portion of Sylph's left arm with his Z-saber. "…you're only mach four in the air. This is the ground. My territory."
"Damn you! You're no fun at all!: Sylph shouted as he grasped the injured arm.
"This isn't supposed to be fun for you." Zero replied calmly.
"I won't lose in this game!" Sylph let loose a ball of wind from his buster arm sending it at Zero at high speeds. Zero jumped to the ceiling and ran across it dragging his Z-Saber along the wall as he dashed until he dropped behind Sylph. Just as he landed behind Sylph the ball of wind exploded sending a warm gust of wind throughout the hall. Zero swung his saber at Sylph's back causing damage to one of Sylph's wings. "Darn you. This is definitely not fun at all."
"You should stop this." Zero said lowering his saber and turning it off. "I don't like to harm others much. If needed I will though. You can walk away from all this now and continue to live."
"X trusted me to kill you. He gave me a home." Sylph muttered. "X and the other three of his hand are renegades who were run out from Neo-Arcadia because the other X declared us to be mavericks. We aren't!"
"If that's the case why not join the resistance? They are just the same. Exiled by Neo-Arcadia because they too are thought of as mavericks." Zero mentioned.
"X and the X you defeated are alike. They believe in the same thing, but my X is more caring than the other!" Sylph declared as he turned to Zero. "My X granted me safe-haven and I will stand by him no matter what." Sylph tore his other wing from it's place and held it as a sword. "My final attack! Windfall!" Sylph jumped as high as the corridor allowed him to and began to drop down on Zero who remained in his spot.
"Fool." Zero took up his Z-Saber and in an instant blocked the wing blade of Sylph. "I guess I have no choice if I hope to live so I can protect the innocent reploids Neo-Arcadia has declared otherwise." Zero hit the sword Sylph held away with his saber and aimed a fully charged Z-Buster aimed at Sylph's face. "So long." Zero let loose his attack shattering Sylph's helmet and face leaving the reploid to fall to his knees.
"W…Why?…All…I wanted…was to do…as X….told me…" Sylph stated with the last ounce of life. Following his words he collapsed to the ground.
Zero looked to the corpse with pity. Why had things ended that way?
"It seems Neo-Arcadia is not as concerned with us as we thought." Elpiso stated from his console to Ciel who stood below.
"What do you mean? They went and destroyed our old base just as we were leaving it." Ciel asked looking upward.
"Something, or someone has grabbed their attention as of late, and half their armies are directed at them." Elpiso responded.
"Is it Zero?" Ciel asked before thinking.
"The legendary reploid…Possibly if he still exists…It may also be that other strong reploid their after…"
"Another? I know who you speak of. We have no need to worry about Alpha."
"Whoever it is they don't matter. They are only making it harder on us to gain victory. If we were to attack with all our power on one of their forces we now would have to face a second after. Our one force cannot handle two of theirs." Elpiso explained.
Zero fired his charged buster at the roof of the elevator shaft breaking through to the afternoon desert. He kicked off against the wall until he made it outside and back on the soft desert sands. He began again on the path he felt best still cautious of X and his other three reploid subordinates.
"So Sylph failed Master X?" A bold, and rough voice questioned with a scoff. Zero turned to find a large reploid three times his size just atop the nearest dune. "I'm Geiger, the one who will destroy you."