Megazero nodded and walked toward Zero. Zero took a step back and quickly looked at X, he was still on the floor and he didn't look like he was gonna get up with just noise alone.
"Mega?" Zero said as she pulled her sword out and continued to approach him. She just smiled, as Zero backed up with each step she took.
"Mega, listen to me. You are being manipulated by Vile. Megazero you are a maverick hunt-" Megazero slashed her sword at him. Zero dodged it and pulled his sword out and blocked her attacks. Vile watched and laughed.
"Zero, there is no point in talking to her. The old Megazero is gone and now the better and stronger Megazero is here and is gonna kick your ass." Zero blocked her sword with his and he pushed her. She took a step back and leaped toward him. Zero fell on ground and felt his whole arm throb with pain as he watched Megazero pull her sword out of his arm. He cried softly, tears began to run down his face. He felt so much pain, but his arm....wasn't sending those pain messages, his heart was. She began to giggle wickedly as she sat on his stomach and played with his wounded arm.
"What's wrong Zero? Does your arm hurt?" Her voice was cold, yet familiar. She watched him shake his head. "Then what is it? Aren't I making you suffer?" She looked disappointed. Zero tried to get up but she just pushed his head back on the cool grass.
"It's not what you are doing Megazero. It's just that you don't remember..." Megazero looked at him and replied.
"What don't I remember? I don't need to remember anything. You laughed, you hurt, and you did so many things to me. You and Iris were always making my life harder than need be. Until..." She turned to Vile and smiled. "Until Vile made me remember what life was like when I controlled the mavericks. I may have not been a maverick myself but they accepted me and you didn't. So now you're gonna pay." She picked Zero up by his neck and threw him with all her strength. Zero slid across the grass, leaving a trail of blood from his wounded arm. He tried to get up but Vile walked up to him and stepped on his arm. Zero cried out in agony. Megazero looked at Vile and snared.
"Vile, don't touch him. He's mine, this is my mission not yours." Vile got off of Zero.
"You haven't changed have you?" She picked up Zero and answered.
"You may have brought me back, but that doesn't mean I will be yours." She looked at Vile and noticed he was disagreeing. She touched Zeros' cheek softly. She played with his face. Vile felt his anger rise.
"Megazero, finish the job." The possessed hunter pulled Zeros' chin up and kissed him. Zero was so shocked, he couldn't move. "This is no time for games. I order you, right now." Vile continued. "I want this mission done." Megazero broke the kiss and began to beat up Zero. Vile put his hand on her shoulder. She continued punching Zero an ignoring Viles' actions. Vile began nuzzling her and getting closer. Megazero dropped Zero and kicked him. Zero hit the grass and slowly got up on his knees. Megazero pushed Vile and walked to Zero. "Don't forget your place, Vile. Or else you'll end up like Zero." Vile laughed and muttered.
"We'll see about that...." Zero looked up at Megazero, who was waiting for him to get up. He sighed as he got up. She smiled and cooed.
"What's wrong Zero? Are you hurt badly?" She pulled him to his feet and kissed him again. She jammed her tongue in his mouth. Zero growled in pain. He punched her hard. She took a step back in surprise and placed her hand over her cheek. She smiled and positioned herself to fight. "Good job, Zero you got one punch. Let's see you do that again." Zero got up and realized that part of his helmet was cracked. He broke the piece off and held it in his hand. He swung his sword at her and as he wanted, she dodged it. He quickly took the helmet part and threw it at her. Megazero saw the helmet part a little too late. It hit her near her eyes and cut her. Zero jumped back, firing his gun buster and sending her flying into the trees. She slammed into a large old tree, only to be broke in half. The tree snapped and fell to the ground as Zero watched her as she rose from the trees' branches. She laughed as blood ran down her face.
"What?" Zero was surprised as she ran toward him and continued to fight. He tried blocking each hit she threw at him but they seemed to get stronger each time. "Why aren't you weakening?" Zero asked. Megazero grinned and stopped.
"Cause I'm just toying with you. You actually think that if my strength doubled you would have still been able to hit me?" Zero knew he couldn't win; he looked at X again, hoping that he would awaken and help out. Megazero turned around.
"What? You want your little friend to help you?" She signaled Vile to awaken X. Vile nodded and picked up X and slapped him. X cried out as he felt a sharp pain across his face.
"X's a very heavy sleeper. But now..." Vile threw the confused hunter toward the battlefield. "He joins the battle." X hit the floor and got up immediately.
"Mega?" He asked as he saw the two hunters injuries. Zero shook his head as he held his wounded arm. X got the idea and yelled out. "I thought you weren't gonna change sides anymore." Megazero chuckled.
"Well, she didn't have a choice." X charged his gun buster. "It's no use." Megazero said. "Both you and Zero can't defeat me, not even your strength combined can help you now." Vile waited impatiently as Megazero and the hunters just stood their ground. He looked at the moon and began to daydream about the past.
(Flashback)
Vile watched the child train with other mavericks from a dark window. A man in a lab coat was at his side. He looked at the small girl training.
"How is her body reacting?" The man asked. Vile smiled and replied.
"Just like you said, Dr. Rued. She's getting stronger with every fight." Dr. Rued nodded his head.
The little girl looked a big red maverick that approached her. He looked at his other maverick friends and pointed at the child.
"This is the experiment that use to be Dr. Rueds' kid?" The little girl watched him and the rest of the room laugh; she looked at him, with anger in her eyes. "Was it scary when that mad maverick hunter killed your mommy and you?" The maverick stopped laughing and sarcastically added. "We better watch out, she might blow out our ear drums with her sobbing." The room filled with even harder laughter. She stared at the group of mavericks then turned to the red one. She felt tears coming, and couldn't hold them in. She didn't know what to do next and she let the tears running down her cheeks. The maverick stopped laughing and pointed. "Look you guys we made her cry. You'll never become a great maverick like us. You're probably just a prototype of the real experiment that Dr. Rued is creating." He pushed her and watched the little reploid fall backwards. Getting up; she continued to try and keep her tears in. Dr. Rued continued to watch his child get pushed around. "Vile, go stop him before that maverick does something stupid." Vile nodded and began to leave. "Oh..and Vile?" Vile turned to the doctor. "You were the one that gave me hope; enough to save my daughter and change her to the way she is now. Train her, show her everything you know. I want her to get revenge for her mother, for our past, for us! Those maverick hunters betrayed me and they will not live!!....Now go." Vile nodded and closed the door behind him. He went to the training room and opened the door. He was too late on saving the red mavericks life. The little girl pulled her hand out of his body, and watched him fall to the ground, dead. The whole room became silent at an instant. The small girl watched with curiosity, the blood flow down her arm and smacking the floor. She dropped the wires and turned to the crowd. The other mavericks backed away as Vile got closer. She turned to him. Vile kneeled so he could be at eye level with his new partner. She stared at him and said nothing. Her eyes showed no emotion at that moment. She waited to see what he wanted and tried to look past his helmet. Vile put his hand out to her. She looked at his hand and then at him. He smiled and nodded, the little girl turned to the window, even though she couldn't see through it, she knew her father was watching. She placed her hand in his and reached for his helmet. Vile let her take it off and stare at his purple eyes. He took his helmet from her hand and whispered.
"My name is Vile." The little girl tried to smile and whispered back.
"And mine is Megazero." Vile gave her hand a soft squeeze, and walked out hand in hand.
(End of Flashback)
Vile came back into reality, he noticed the battle already started and watched as Megazero beat the crap out of X and Zero. Megazero kicked Zero and ran toward X. X got up, only to be punched into some bushes. Zero rose up and muttered.
"Megazero...don't..... don't do this." Megazero walked up to him and pushed him down with the smallest of effort. Zero hit the floor and felt Megazero sit on him. He placed his hand on her leg and tried to push her off. She turned to Vile.
"Should I just kill him now or let him suffer?" Vile smiled and responded.
"It's your mission, but please, let them suffer. Make them suffer for what you suffered as a child." Megazero turned to Zero and smiled and she grabbed his throat and slowly began to steal his breath. Zero put his hands on hers and tried to pull her hands off him. Vile laughed and remembered her training.
(Flasback)
He took her into a private training room of his own; he kneeled down and placed a gun in her small hand. She looked at it and asked in her childish voice.
"What do I do with it, Vi?" He laughed softly and messed up her small blonde pigtails. He rose up and walked behind her.
"Targets are gonna appear and I want you to shoot them." Vile turned to the controls. She looked ahead of her and she saw something move in the distance, immediately her eyes focused on it and raised the gun at her eye level. She concentrated on the object as she stood quite and then she slowly pulled the trigger. The gun shot and hit the moving object, a cry came out and the thing in the distance fell to the ground. Vile turned around and took the gun out of her hand and snapped.
"The targets aren't out yet. What did you shoot?" The little girl shook her head and motioned that she didn't know. Vile turned the machine on. Targets appeared and disappeared, suddenly a maverick fell out form one of the targets. He fell into his own puddle of blood. The girl yelped and grabbed on to Viles' waist and hid her face away from the corpse. She began to cry and tremble. Vile sighed and picked up the walkie talkie. She raised her head and looked at him as he talked to someone.
"Yeah, she didn't mean to. ....Well come and pick it up.....Yes I'm pretty sure he's dead, she hit him directly in the head...... All right." He picked her up and comforted her. "Don't worry about it. He was bad, and he deserved it. But remember you have to kill when you are ordered, you understand?" The girl wrapped her arms around his neck and sniffed. Vile wiped her tears and kissed her on the cheek. "Next time, wait until I give you the signal, got it?" The girl nodded. Vile carried her out and took her to a different room. He put her down and sighed as he handed her a sword. "Don't do anything this time until I tell you got it?" Megazero nodded and tried to hold the sword up with one hand but it was almost her own size. Vile showed her the moves and slowly but steadily she learned. She grew in his mind, she developed into a woman; each time she trained it was more graceful and ladylike.
(End of Flashback)
Zero choked out a cry and began to feel dizzy as she continued to squeeze his neck. He knew this was it and had to tell her his feelings; one last time.
"I.....I love yo...you, Mega...." Megazero let go in shock as a picture came to her mind. She pictured Zero holding her for the very first time. Zero felt her let go and he repeated. "I love you so much, Megazero. You mean everything to me." Megazero put her hands to her ears.
"You shut your mouth, how dare you say that!!!" Megazero hissed. Zero sat up as she got off him and he watched her shake her head furiously.
"I need love just like everybody else does, and the love that I need, can only come from you." Zero continued. Vile came back from his memories and yelled out.
"Megazero, what is the matter!?" Megazero stood up and shook her head and yelled out.
"Stop it!!! Zero I command you!!!" Zero got up and walked closer to her as she shook her head violently. The memories flowed into her head. Zero kissing her and holding her played in her mind. The training they had together, the small fights, the love they made. She gave a cry as her head began to push the malevolence thoughts out. Zero tried to hold her as she stopped shaking violently. Vile ran to them, he pulled his sword out and aimed for Zero. He felt the sword go into the armor. Zero gave a cry as Megazero pushed him away. Vile pulled the sword out and backed up. Zero grabbed Megazero and ran. Vile held his side as he watched Zero and his love run out of harms way. He yelled out his last words.
Vile exploded sending X, Zero and Megzero flying. Zero held on to her as tight as he could. They hit the floor and Zero opened his eyes and let go of Megazero. He smiled as Megazero struggled to get up.
"Mega, you're okay." Megazero looked at the flames from the explosion. Zero got up and put his hand over her wound, near her stomach. She took Zeros' hand and kissed him. Zero didn't want her to break the kiss and moved forward as she broke it. She took a step back and smiled weakly.
"I love you, Zero Omega." Zero couldn't believe what he was hearing. Zero Omega? Oh please..Don't do this to me. Zero thought as she walked backwards toward the flames. "Megazero, please don't go. I love you. I need you, I won't survive without you." Megazero smiled and tears appeared in her eyes.
"I love you and I need you too, but I got to make sure Vile won't appear and hurt you ever again. Besides I'm probably going to explode as well." She placed her hand on her wound. "The chip is destroyed and just like he said, I will be going too." She pulled her sword out and threw it at Zeros' feet. Zero bend down to pick it up and Megazero took this chance to run toward the flames. X began to approach them when Megazero threw her sword at Zero and ran toward the flames. X ran after Zero as he ran toward the flames after Megazero. Zero struggled to get X off him and cried her name out. Megazero stopped and blew a kiss at Zero, then jumped into the flames and disappeared. Zero pushed X and ran toward the flames. X grabbed Zeros' arm and yelled out.
"Zero, it's going to explode again, we got to get out of here." X pushed a button his armor and teleported them back to headquarters.
X and Zero appeared at the entrance of headquarters. Zero fell to his knees as he tried to keep his tears in. X kneeled beside him and whispered.
"Zero, let it out. It's alright, just let it all out." Zero looked at X and continued to hold them in.
"I....I wasn't able to protect her, X." X barely understood him; Zero was too occupied trying to hold his emotions. X put a hand on Zeros shoulder.
"Don't try to keep them in. I know everything will turn out okay, you just wait." X hugged him. Zero let out a loud cry; his tears burned his cheeks as they rolled down onto Xs armor. Zero raised his hands to his face. X stared at Zero and felt tears trying to break out. X sniffed and let them go and wrapped his arms around Zero. Zero and X held each other in the night.
"Zero, I'm sorry." X managed to whisper as Zero gave a long cry like a child would. Zero didn't know what to do, should he continue to cry or just suck it in. He looked at X and tried to stop but kept on failing. Zero sobbed out.
"It hurts soo much, X. I just can't stop." He tightened his grip on Megazeros' sword and closed his eyes. The second explosion suddenly echoed into the night; Zero held X even tighter as it faded away.
The next morning Zero, X and a whole search team where on the scene. Zero prayed that he would find her. The whole building was in ruins and the forest was burned down. Zero walked through the ruble and searched for her. X looked at Zero and sighed as he helped the team lift up a part of a fallen wall. X heard someone call his name and signal that he found something. X ran to him and the man handed him something. X ran up to Zero and held it out to him. Zero turned to X and took Megazeros' helmet in his arms. He held it up to his chest for a moment then held it at his side. Zero lifted his head up and smiled. X gave him a confused look, as Zero put his hand on Xs' shoulder and replied.
"She's okay, X. I know she survived, I can feel it in my heart. She's telling me that she'll come back someday, and this time when she comes back she won't leave me." X still didn't seem to get what Zero was smiling about but if Zero was happy then everything was going to be okay. X nodded and began to walk to the rest of the team. Zero held his and her sword in one hand and her helmet in the other and whispered. "I promise I will find you and when I do, you; Megazero Rued and I; Zero Omega will be truly happy once again."
The End....Well not really!
The second part to this is on its way.
What happened to Zero and X? Did Megazero really come back? What about Vile is he really gone? Did Iris ever figured out what Zero and Megazero did? How will she react if she ever does find out? This isn't even the beginning of the questions!! I hope I will see you all in the next part of :
Megaman X (MXZ): Your mission maverick hunters, is to find true love!