The Pain Of Loss Chapter 30 – Awe of She, Part 3
Me: Well folks, this is it!!!
Everyone else: #Cheers and throws a party#
Me: FOR THE BATTLE, NOT THE STORY!!!
Everyone else: #Groans and packs it away#
Me: No respect...
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Roll sat before Kali and her final form, created of strongest opponents that Megaman had ever faced. She forced herself up, shivering out of lack of energy, and fear. Kali grinned, cracking her neck by tilting it side to side. "It's time for you to face deletion, Roll. Don't worry, you'll be reunited with Megaman, and maybe I'll bring you two back as my servants!!!" Kali raised her left arm, signifying Alpha's arm to lift. Before Roll had time to react, it slammed into her and drove her into the ground. Roll cried out, able to feel her bones starting to crack and shatter beneath the pressure. She struggled as best she could, but couldn't even budge the hand.
After a moment of this slow, torturous attack, Kali drew her hand back, smiling. "How pathetic... But you look so adorable when you're writhing in agony like that... Maybe I won't kill you... Maybe I'll just keep you as a pet." Roll grit her teeth, forcing herself up into a sitting position with all her might. "I... I'd rather... have every last piece o... of my body r... r... ripped to shr... eds..." As she spoke, she coughed blood ran out her mouth. Her body was seriously damaged internally, and at this rate, she wouldn't last much longer. Kali shrugged softly as Roll said this. "Suit yourself..."
Back in the real world, during the moment Roll took the crushing blow from Alpha's Left Arm, Mayl cried out in pain, rolling over and arching her back. Tears rolled down her cheeks as Lan rushed to her side from across the room, kneeling down and shaking her. "MAYL!!! MAYL, WAKE UP!!!" Mayl grit her teeth, panting heavily as the attack ended. She slowly came to, looking to Lan. "L... Lan, we have... we have to help Roll somehow... sh... she can't fight Kali alone like this..." Lan narrowed his eyes, sitting Mayl up, but still supporting her back. "Fight Kali like what?" Mayl held her head, forcing herself up as she leaned against the monitor. "K... Kali's using parts from the Life Virus, Gospel, and Alpha... she merged them into one super body, and, and she's gonna delete Roll, Lan!!!"
Just as she said this, her PET began to beep and flash. Immediately, a screen came on. Mayl snatched it up and looked at it, her eyes wide as she saw her Navi being blasted by the flames of the Gospel Head. Mayl wasted no time, pulling out three Recovery 300 chips and downloading them into her PET. Roll moaned gently as she lay still on the ground, receiving the chip data and regaining her senses and energy quickly. She sat up, blinking a bit. "How...?"
"Roll!!! I'm so glad you're okay!!!" Roll blinked, looking behind her and smiling happily. "Mayl!!!" Kali narrowed her eyes as she saw the monitor revealing Roll's Net Op, then huffed, thinking to herself. 'The Jamming Program I initiated must've been cancelled out when I created this body... No matter, her Net Op being along of the ride will only delay the inevitable!!!' "I hope you've gotten your second wind, Roll!!! Because now the real battle begins!!!" Immediately, a huge blast of flames shot out from the emblem on the beast's chest. Mayl pulled out three Bubbler chips and put them in, one after the other. "BUBBLE SHOT ADVANCE!!!" Roll held her arm out, sending a huge blast of water at the blaze. They collided halfway, but the flames had no chance. The Bubble Shot not only snuffed out the flames, but slammed into the emblem, giving Kali a severe shock. She grit her teeth, then shook her head. "Let's see how you like this, then!!!"
Kali held out Gospel's head and created a data copy of Airman. But instead of 3 Homing Tornadoes, hundreds were launched. Roll grit her teeth and jumped up in the air. "ROLL HURRICANE!!!" She performed a flip in the air, sending her massive hurricane attack at the smaller tornadoes. Unfortunately, this was what Kali had hoped for. The tornadoes moved willingly into the hurricane and started turning with it, combining into one enormous typhoon. Now in control, Kali sent the typhoon at Roll, slamming it right into her and throwing her towards her new body. Kali grinned and chuckled. "OPTIC LASER, FIRE!!!" Immediately, the cybernetic eye within Alpha's mass fired out a red beam, engulfing Roll too quickly for her to even scream, and driving her straight into the ground. Roll grit her teeth as the blast faded, forcing herself up. She spat some blood out to the side, glaring up at Kali's new body. Kali smiled and pointed Gospel's head at Roll, launching it at her in it's Drill form. Roll dodged to the side quickly, forming her cannons.
"ROLL CANNON!!!" She slammed the two cannons together before her and sent out an enormous wave of energy that slammed directly into the emblem. Kali shrieked out, arching her back. The beast she was manipulating seem to go into convulsions from the attack. Kali regained her composure quickly, chuckling a bit. "That won't be enough to stop me, Roll... Do you know what I call this? I call it the Chimera!!! Multiple different parts create this body of mine, and each part has it's own life force!!! You can try and take me out, but it won't do you any good!!!" Roll's eyes shot as a Wood Pillar slammed into her from below, sending her flying up into the air. The Alpha Arm caught her and started applying tremendous amounts of pressure. Roll screamed out at the top of her lungs, wriggling wildly against the grip. She managed to move the fingers just a slight bit, but that was all she could succeed in doing.
Kali cackled wildly, feeling in her heart as if victory was assured. She grinned, aiming Alpha's cybernetic eye at Roll as it began to glow a light, then dark crimson color. "Well, Roll, it's been fun, but now it's time for you to be deleted!!! Goodbye, "Dear Roll"!!!" Just as Alpha's eye prepared to fire, a barrage of blue charge shots slammed into the Chimera's chest. The beast cried out in great pain, tilting it's head back and firing upward into the sky, in turn dropping Roll to the ground. Roll grit her teeth as she lie there, barely conscious. She looked to a figure standing beside her. It was male, and he was a transparent being, phasing in and out. He wore a blue and yellow body suit and helmet, with blue and black boots. He looked to Roll, smiling. "Are you okay...?"
As Roll's vision cleared, she recognized the figure as it began to fade. Her eyes shot wide, suddenly finding the strength to stand. "M, MEGAMAN!!!" The blue Navi smiled, nodding to her in response. Roll stood there, tears rolling down her cheeks. "... Mega... I missed you so much..." Megaman sighed, looking down at his hands. "Unfortunately... I can't stay, Roll... I was able to summon up enough energy to come and assist you, but, that's it... I'm spent... I have to go back now." Roll shook her head, gritting her teeth. "You can't!!! Please Megaman, don't leave me again!!!" Megaman sighed, looking at her. He walked forward, putting his hand upon her cheek. Roll blinked, holding her hand to the same cheek. She felt nothing. Megaman sighed, lowering his head. "Roll... even if I was able to stay like this, I'd be totally useless to you... That was everything that I'd gained over these past couple months in the data stream... If I don't go, then I'll be totally deleted... not even my fragments will remain..."
The Chimera reared back, clutching it's chest. Kali was on her knees within the beasts body, stunned from the earlier blasts. She looked up, her eyes wide as she saw the Blue Bomber's image. "So... h... he manifested to give assistance... When I get moving again, I'll destroy both of them for good..." Roll stood there, her tears pouring freely now. "... I... I love you, Megaman..." Megaman nodded, smiling gently to her. "I love you too, Roll..." He blinked, then snapped his fingers, kneeling down and gathering data from the debris. He then stood up, pressing it into Roll's emblem. Roll gasped as she felt it merge with her body, feeling a final new power beginning to swell within. Megaman looked to Kali, his eyes narrowed. "... Roll... this is my final request..." He leaned forward as the data from his feet up began to disperse into the air rapidly. He kissed her gently on the cheek, leaving a strange warmth upon her face. "... don't let Kali destroy everything that I love... finish her off with your new power..." Roll stood there, watching as Megaman smiled until the last second when the rest of his data vanished. She lowered her head, sniffing a bit.
Lan and Mayl were dumb founded by what they had just seen. Megaman's spirit, manifesting to rescue Roll and present her with his feelings, as well as a new power, not yet known to the two young Net Ops. Lan smiled, tears rolling down his cheeks. "Megaman... You were always there, huh...?" Roll smiled, hearing Lan's words. She looked up to Mayl, smiling. "Mayl, Lan... Megaman also wishes you two the best..." Both the Net Ops blushed slightly, then sighed, smiling. Roll turned, facing the Chimera as it regained it's composure. Kali growled, shaking furiously with rage within the Chimera. "Your boyfriend's gone now, Roll!!! All he managed to do was delay your fate!!! You're as good as DEAD!!!" Immediately, Kali charged up all three parts of the Chimera's body, firing a massive beam of energy. These were the three ultimate attacks of the Life Virus, Gospel, and Alpha, all merged into one. Roll stood firm, watching the blast come at her. "Megaman's final wish was for your deletion to secure the safety of everything he loved..."
Roll floated up off the ground, holding her left arm out. Immediately, a pink bow with a heart in the middle formed where her hand was. Her right hand held an arrow composed purely of pink energy, comprised of every power she had attained over the past couple of months from her Roll Hurricane, right down to the Paladin Style. Roll loaded the arrow in the bow and drew the string back, her eyes narrowed into a fierce glare, intent on making her only shot the one that would end the battle. "AND I WILL HONOR THAT LAST REQUEST!!! ROLL ARROW!!!" The instant she let go of the string, the arrow shot, growing hundreds of times over in size. The arrow easily absorbed the blast and added it onto it's own mass, heading straight for Kali and the Chimera. Kali's eyes shot wide as she saw this, never having felt a power like this before. "NO!!! THIS CAN'T BE THE END!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!" Kali shrieked out as the arrow slammed into the emblem upon Chimera's body, totally engulfing it in energy. Kali cried out in agony as the arrow pierced straight through her, annihilating her once and for all.
Moments later, Roll walked through the path of destruction, coming across the very sphere that held every one of her original powers in it's purest form. She knelt down, smiling as she spoke gently. "Now Megaman can come back... and everything will go back to normal..." As Roll reached for the sphere, she noticed cracks running throughout it. She blinked, only touching it ever so slightly. The sphere flashed and exploded into a dome of white light that enveloped all of the Internet. As the energy faded, Roll found herself present within a new Undernet 6, totally reformatted. Mayl looked across multiple monitors in the Sci-Lab assembly room, finding every bit of damage that Kali and her revived Navis caused to be gone. New layouts were spread all over the Net, replacing the old outdated ones. This was the final effect of Roll's power. Roll sat there, her eyes wide in shock. Her Roll Arrow was the only new technique she had left, and it would never be as powerful as the first shot ever again, as she had to pour every other power she had into the shot to make totally sure that Kali would never re-emerge. With her original power gone, it seemed as though her heart was torn apart. "... that... that was the only way of reviving Mega... and... and now it's gone..." Roll felt her body return to normal, her hair even back to the single metal plate it once was. Roll grit her teeth, then broke down into sobs, shuddering uncontrollably. Mayl and Lan lowered their heads, embracing one another, both in tears. They realized the fact just as well as Roll had. Megaman was deleted, and it was meant to remain that way.
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Everyone but me: #Starts throwing the party again#
Me: THE STORY'S NOT OVER YET!!!
Everyone else: WHAT?!!!
Me: I still have to finish up filling the last couple days before school starts!!!
Mayl: BUT KALI'S DEAD, WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY?!!
Me: It's for the interest of being a good author. I personally believe a good author drives the story right to the very end, making it the best that it can be!!!
Shadowman.EXE: So why are we still here?!!
Me: YOU DIMWITS ARE THE MAIN CAST, I NEED YA AROUND!!!
The EXE character: Oh...
Me: #Sighs, then smiles# Well, readers, this is it. The next chapter's going to finish it up. I'll see you one more time in chapter 31!!!