MegaMan Battle Network – Memories
Chapter 8 – Victory?
As we reached Scyler she struck out with the DarkSword, hitting Sarah when I dodged the blow using my speed. Sarah didn't even flinch and replied with her own DarkSword, the two parried blows as I rushed in towards Scyler. At the last moment she stepped aside and sliced through one of the wings sending me spiralling towards Sarah.
As I spiralled out of control Sarah stood her ground, at the last moment she moved and grabbed my foot. After a brief struggle she settled me down to the ground where I asked Squeeze to get rid of the remaining wing which she obediently did, the small squeak she gave sounding the pain she must have felt when the wing was destroyed.
I looked at Scyler and saw only red, twice in less than ten minutes she had hurt Squeeze twice. I ran in so fast, my blades strength didn't matter, simply my momentum allowed it to slice the DarkSword and DarkAura easily.
I rained blow after blow on Scyler, my rage focusing each hit, transforming what should have been slight cuts to huge gashes in her armour, within minutes she was down on the floor, begging for her life.
I held my blade at Scyler's throat, ready to strike the final blow. I raised my sword to strike when I heard a buster click behind me.
I turned to see the one person holding a buster in my face I never thought would, Sarah, across the now narrowing chasm, ProtoMan and MegaMan pointed their weapons at me too.
"Why?" I asked Sarah.
"This mission was to capture her," said Sarah, "You delete her, we'll have to arrest you."
"Why not delete her?" I yelled, "She tries to kill you and you defend her life."
"It's not about her life," said ProtoMan as the gap closed, "It's about the difference between right and wrong."
"It's a waste of time us preaching don't delete navis without good reason," said MegaMan, "And then killing Scyler on a vendetta over a program less than a day old."
"It's to show we're not like her," said Sarah, "You delete her in cold blood and all's you'll do is prove Dex and GutsMan right."
I looked around and saw the navis Scyler had deleted in her rampage, all's that was left of most of them was lifeless shells.
I lowered my blade. "There's been enough death today," I extended my hand to help Scyler up.
"No! Empress!" yelled Sarah a moment to late as Scyler grabbed my hand and shoved her second clawed hand through my stomach.
As I stood there, paralyzed by whatever Scyler did to her victims, I saw the others move to attack Scyler who smiled and let go. As I fell back, Sarah and the others crowded around me examining the wound. But there was something else I was focused on.
Whilst Scyler had me, my old memories had flooded through me, I remembered it all, the first N1, my attempted capture of Roll's mind and body, the second N1, all of it, but the most important thing I remembered was that my memories hadn't been locked by accident. Someone had locked them on purpose. Someone who didn't want me to remember.
That someone, was me.