Zero Alpha

Mission Ten: The End

"Zero." Ceil looked out from the hanger bay. There was only miles upon miles of virtually nothing. There was not much these days in the wild. Not for a long time. Still, her thoughts remained on the hero who had gone to fight Omega. It was all her fault for everything. She brought the X copies into the world. It was her fault. And, Zero knew that. He still fought for her, sort of. He fought for everyone. The world still needed him though. She still needed him to help take out Neo-Arcadia. Even without X they still posed a threat after all.

"Miss Ciel?"

"Elpizo?"

There stood the golden commander. "What brings you here?"

"I was just thinking. I can't be working forever."

"I was listening to Andrew today."

"Oh?"

"About his story and his wife. How he asked you to modify him."

"Yes, it's romantic. He wanted to be old because of his wife."

"I was thinking more about how his wife was human, and he reploid."

"That too."

"Do you think that's possible?"

"That he and his wife were in love? Of course."

"No, maybe I should ask this. Would you, being human, love a reploid?"

"Isn't that very personal?"

"I'm only asking."

"A person can love anyone, or anything. If there came along somebody who I could love i wouldn't care what he was."

"I see."

"Does that help?"

"Yes, indeed. Thank you." Elpizo lurched away.

She stared after him bewildered. He was acting quite peculiar. At least when she talked to him.

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"That doesn't matter."

"I think it does Zero."

"Just because you are based partly on me doesn't mean you are me."

"A simple observation."

"Ciel only wanted to create something good. That's why she made you."

"Do you hate her, for making me? For making Omega?" Alpha scoffed.

"No, why should I hate her. I shouldn't have to hate anyone." Zero sighed grasping his blade. "But, I hate you. I can't digest that a person so ruthless exists."

"Maybe I am not this way because of who I am. Maybe I was made this way Zero." Alpha noted. "Maybe even by Ciel."

"Her dream had nothing to do with what you and Omega wanted." Zero countered.

"Then maybe, what if I said that the fact I have parts based on you caused me to be as I am?"

"You attack every character except yourself! What if the blame rests souly in you!" Zero replied enraged. He was tired of talking with somone who would never recognize their own faults.

"Right, lets do as we've come to do." Alpha fired a buster shot towards an unready Zero. In response Zero jumps aside to the wall and flips back. "How many shots does it take to blow you apart? Maybe three?"

Alpha fires off to consecutive shots that Zero gets by. "hardly." He let out with a breath. More shots came and each one he was able to dodge, but Alpha was getting closer with each shot. Zero was actually running out of breath. A first in a long while. He was not getting any attacks in. That was why Alpha was sure to win. He needed to pull one of his good one liners. "You're not as strong as Omega y'know. He was a better aim too."

"Ha! He was nothing compared to me!"

"If he was better than you, and X was better than him, and I was better than X and Loki. Doesn't that mean I'm the best?"

"Who ever said you were better than X?"

"No one really."

"You're wrong! I am better than X was. He was nothing but the basis of who I am." Alpha argued as he continued firing at the slowing Zero. "He was nothing compare dto me. As are you!"

"Believe what you will." Zero uses the ceiling to fly at alpha slashing off a leg in the process. "You stink." Zero froze as he heard the buster charging behind him.

"I do?"

"Yeah." Zero smirked and had his shoulder grazed by a blast he nearly was hit by. "Horrible aim again. If you want somebody dead," He stood and turned firing a blast for Alpha's face. "Hit them in the face!"

Alpha moves but is hit in the collar by the blast sending him to the floor. Zero acts on that and thrusts his saber into the abdominal area of his enemy. "good shot." Alpha grimly noted.

"I know." Zero withdrew his blade and stumbled aside in exhaustion. He had won. That was all that mattered now.

"But, it wasn't good enough." Zero's eyes shot open. "Omega had a second form correct? He turned into Seraph."

"He did."

"I'm his oposite if you remember." A light blinded Zero as he tried to stand. The small underground area seemed to fall apart around him. He jumped up trying not to be caught in the rubble. He kept jumping off the sides of anything he came across. Always going a bit higher. He finally reached the desert ground and found there was no higher to be. There was nothing. He was there above where he stood. There was one large hole and nothing more. "Welcome to your end Zero."

"Omega changed to Seraph and lost." Zero noted with confidence. "X never changed. At least I don't remember him doing so." He continued. "And, I never needed to change either."

"That's why you lose." From the pit rose Alpha in a new fashion. A demonic form. He had the devil's tail, the wings of a demon, and his arms with claws like a dragon. Nothing seemed any deadlier.

"A new change to you? I thought Seraph looked a bit better."

"No more of your blasphemy!" A beam shot from Alpha's head for Zero who nimbly dodged the blast as sand and rock splinetered and fell about the red warrior.

"It took me about five minutes down there to beat you." Zero commented as he dodged a swipe of Alpha's arms. "One change in you." He moved from a second swipe and a thrust of the tail. "That means You'll be on your face in about two minutes."

"You think this is a joke."

"No, just you." Reigniting his saber Zero jumped to the air above the demonic form of Alpha. There he felt he could hear five people calling out to him. One was Loki. Then there was Undine. She only wanted to rest. There was X too. He wanted the world to be at peace above all else. "I'm tired of your voice Alpha!" There were two others though. They did not seem audible right now, but he knew he would get to hear those two again. Very soon enough. he had to just do one more thing. "Stop being stubborn." Zero tossed his blade downward as he prepared a blast from his buster. Just as he did Alpha charged up the beam weapon on his head. Zero's seen his future. He had nothing to worry about.