(I do not own Megaman Zero, or anything related to Gundam......or anything that has been developed by someone other than myself.....credit for Project Ezekiel goes to the unnamed group.....you know who you are guys!)

Chapter 3

The Green Wind, and an Omen

Zero watched the human, as Ciel adjusted the restraints one more time. "Are you sure about this?" Zero asked her. "Yes, we need to get information on who he is and why he attacked us....and then we can hold him till someone comes looking for him." Ciel said. She poked him hard, showtime

"....uuhhh.......wha-?" the human uttered dimly.

"Do you think we should procede with the interrogation now?" Zero asked Ciel, getting into the role of good cop. Ciel, wearing a black mask of metal with a red lensed visor turned toward him, and a black cloak with a metal frame undernieth to add a spiked shoulder look, looked at him, then the human, before a mechanical, evil sounding voice said, "Give him the works...and make it EXTRA painful....I like to break my meals first...."

The human's eyes grew massive at the thought. "NO! I'LL TELL YOU ANYTHING!" the human said.

Zero and Ciel looked at eachother. "Anything?" Zero said. The human nodded affirmatively......

An Hour later....

"Zero.....here, take this......it was yours from when you were a Maverick Hunter." Axl said to Zero, handing him something in a box. Zero opened it.

He saw a strange pendant in it, on a chain.

"You always wore that under your armor, so no one ever saw it, but the day you fell.....It dropped, so I took it and put it away for safekeeping. I never tried it on or anything, I respected you enough to not do that, even if you only thought of me as an annoying kid who was constantly getting in the way around the base, and always getting into trouble in missions." Axl said, looking down at the floor.

Zero could remember something about Axl then......enough to be certain of his next statement.

"I can remember enough about you....to be certain....you were NEVER just some annoying kid who got in the way. Sure, you did get into some scrapes...but you seem to have come out on top." Zero said.

"Is there anything else you can remember about your past?" Axl asked.

"....ugh......No...I can't seem to remember even how I know that about you...I just knew...." Zero said.

"Don't worry about it, I am sure you will regain your memories in time." Axl said. "........alright." Zero replyed.

"Lets get moving guys, there itsn't much time before they are on the move again, and we don't want to be late for the rondoveeeeuis.....or however its pronounced." Zeta said, with a shrug. "Roger that.....wait, where is Ciel?" Zero asked.

"Right here."

They turned, and saw Ciel standing in the doorway, laden with scientific equipment.

"Hm.....lookin' good, Ms. Ciel." Zeta said, earning him a sharp look from Zero. "Its Doctor, actually." Ciel corrected.

"Anyway....lets get on the move." Ciel said, all of them entering the transport that they had.....borrowed from a Neo Arcadia base a few weeks ago.

Once they arrived in the area of ops.....

"Alright, now....you guys get conceiled, and if it gets messy, I will be counting on you to help get our contact and I out of there." Ciel said to them. "Roger that, Dr." Zero said, the other Reploids nodding confirmation of the orders.

The Reploids slipped out of the car, and into the shrubery on the side of the park in the outskirts around the base of the orbital elevator that leads to Neo Arcadia.

The car, driven by Ciel, rolled further into the park, now in line of sight of their contact. Ciel parked the car next to the bench the contact was sitting on. She climbed out of the car, brushing hair out of her eyes.

"Ah....its you. I am glad to see you again." Dr. Ciel said, looking at his sister. "It's good to see you too, brother. Do you have the info?" Doctor Artesia Ciel asked her brother. "Yes, I have it in his disc." Doctor Casval Ciel told his sister.

They both felt something...."Odd, I did not think they would be here so soon....its almost like they knew we would meet here." Casval said.

Zero tensed up, ready to fight. Axl drew his Beam Magnums, and Zeta powered up his Beam Rifle.

"Doctors Artesia and Casval Ciel, siblings who were born within minutes of each other.....and are both Confirmed Newtypes.......Together again......how so very sweet.....and tragic." a calm voice, familiar to them both said behind them.

They turned and saw Harpuia, the Sage, standing there, watching them with green, inteligent eyes.

Casval looked to his left, and saw a large contigent of X-Drone Gunners waiting for the order to fire.

"I am only here for the data, Doctors.............and........I only need a copy.......I need to confirm something." Harpuia said to them. He gestured with a green left hand toward the X-Drones.

"They are only here to keep a new threat away from the both of you....................hm............Zero................" Harpuia said, looking toward where he saw a red flash for a moment, then looking up calmly as Zero decended from the sky above, with his saber poised to drive into Harpuia. He swung, just as Harpuia lept up to greet him, and Harpuia brough both of his redish beam knives up in an x-cross infront of their wielder, to block the saber of Zero. "I only came for the data....there is no need to fight today." Harpuia said to Zero calmly. "......hm..." Zero said, and they fell the the ground, landing upright and standing infront of each other.

"Oh...really?" Zero asked.

"Yes, and only a copy. I need to confirm something about Master X." the Sage said to Zero.

"X?"

"Yes Zero, and, both of you Resistance soldiers can come out now....I could see you from a mile away." Harpuia said to Axl and Zeta. "How did you-?" Axl began to ask. "Simple, your color scemes were not optimal for conceilment.....bright colors......you should have gone with the normal resistance soldiers colors.....you could have remained hidden for some time longer, I would have to admit." Harpuia told them.

"Casval.....give Harpuia a copy of the data." Artesia said to her brother.

He looked at her for a moment, then knew that it would actually be for the best. "Harpuia, do you mind if we just insert the disc in your built in CD-ROM?" Casval asked. "I would not mind at all." Harpuia said, as a slot in the back of his head opened.

Casval inserted the disc, and a few seconds later, it came out, and he took it back, putting it in the case he had been carrying it in.

"I thank you for your cooporation...and for your help, I will reward you with some information of my own." Harpuia said to them.

"Zero, come here for a moment." the Sage told Zero.

Zero somehow knew that he could trust the Sage, and he came to him.

"Here, take this disc......it has some of your memories.....I managed to get them, from a certain friend of yours...........someone I know of as my master.........what you do with it is up to you, but......it is time that we learn to work together, for a new threat is rising.......with the rebirth of an old enemy, one of whom you may know of at some point, if you use the disc." Harpuia said to Zero, handing him a disc. "Fefnir and Leviathan send their regards. Now...I must away." Harpuia said the Zero, turning to the Doctors. "It is time for me to go now...but...we will meet again, before thedn, I feel.....it was nice to see both of you together once again. Take care of yourselves." Harpuia said to the sibling Doctors, saluting them both, then Zero, before turning to his troops....

"All units, return to base immediately." the Sage told the X-Drones, who complied, and teleported out. Harpuia wistled a short tune of some sort, that sounded familliar to Zero somehow......a Reploid modeled after some kind of flight-capable animal came to Harpuia, and allowed him to get seated atop it. It rose, and he regarded them all as a group, one more time, before in a flash of green wind, he vanished.

Zero glanced at the disc in his hands....

He looked up at the sky, where the Sage, Harpuia had vanished....

"...............X....."