Disclaimer: I do not own Mega Man® Zero or any other things related to that franchise. Though I wouldn't mind owning, I don't exactly see myself owning.

Mega Man Zero: The Beginning

By Rorhen Cast

Based on the game Mega Man Zero

"……" – vocal '……' – thought

Zero

The drone was disabled in a mere second, its head, shot off by the mysterious crimson Reploid. This gave the Pantheons another target. Zero didn't waste any time in defeating these drones. He withdrew his Buster and dashed towards his enemies. One swift kick dislodged the Pantheon's head from it's shoulders and wires and another kick sent the disfigured body flying. Zero turned his vision to the other Pantheon, whose gunarm was ready to fire. One of the three shots hit Zero in the shoulder. Zero found he wasn't exactly used to this kind of action all of the sudden. How he did this even amazed him, yet he seemed so well in what he did. The crimson warrior grasped his shoulder where the wound was. The drone took aim to his enemy's head. Zero dashed away, under the drone's arm and behind him. The drone suddenly fired and felt all three shots meant for the enemy go right through it. It was disabled, but not before realizing that the Reploid had grasped its gunarm when he dashed behind him, twisting it to a new target: the Pantheon's own back. It fell, landing besides Ciel, who was still in shock and contemplating all that just happened. Even so that she couldn't speak when the Reploid talked to her.

"We should go," were the first words out of Zero's mouth. His dark violet eyes were locked onto Ciel and his palm held out in help for the lady. She slowly looked to him and gained sight of this happening. He was helping her. She nodded her head in agreement. It was time to leave. She took his hand and jumped up. Together they ran through the dead lab, now filled with Pantheon enemies. Ciel whispered to Zero.

"We need to find a Trans Server."

A Trans Server? The word was new to Zero and it showed on his facial expression. He looked to Ciel, who only offered a quick answer. "It's what we need to return back to the Resistance Base."

Still though, Zero was confused. What was going on? Who were the Resistance? And what was that thing he killed so efficiently? Although so many thoughts clouded his mind, he still kept to his mission objective: protect the human.

Three more Pantheons were bunched together, scanning the area for the rebels. Zero took hold of his gun and fired a shot per Pantheon. All his shots reached their targeted positions: the head of the cycloptic drones. They fell easily before even a realization of what hit them. Zero and Ciel proceeded deeper in the lab.

By this time, transmission to the other drones had already been sent that a new enemy was present. They began the hunt for this new enemy, searching all places for this new threat. Ciel had insisted that Zero and her stay concealed in the shadows to avoid fighting. But alas, some fighting can never be evaded. The couple ran into a new form of Pantheons. These walked cautiously slow with electrified clubs on their right arms. They surrounded Zero, who had broken away from Ciel, hiding away behind a desk away from the action.

The first Pantheon took a swing at Zero with it weapon, only to have his arm taken by Zero. The second met a quick end to the first's weapon, being handled by Zero. The dispatch of the first was to Zero's Buster; three shots through the abdominal area of the drone. All that remained was the third. Zero was going to deal with this another way, without his gun.

Zero took gave the first blow, a punch to the head. But the drone managed a swift parry with his left arm and readied for a stab with his weapon, but Zero persevered. He ducked in time enough for the punch to go safely overhead, feeling the surge of electricity over his head. He swung a kick to the drone's leg, and it collapsed. Its last sight was the flash of crimson light above it, coming down towards its head. And then everything went black.

Ciel looked up at the sound of a crushing sound. She saw the Pantheon's head crushed while the others lay dead on the ground.

"Hurry," Zero ordered. 'We need to find that Trans Server."

Ciel nodded to this Reploid's request. She moved to a dead-end. She looked to Zero, disappointed.

"A dead-end… What should we do now?"

But there was no time for Zero to respond with words. The ground beneath Ciel began to crack. She tried to escape but there was no good in doing it. The foundation she stood on fell and she herself felt the rush of air flowing through her blond hair. And suddenly a stop. She opened her eyes with a curiosity. She was not dead? No. Instead she was in the arms of Zero. He had saved her. She felt the touch of ground and looked up. They must have dropped 100 feet or so. The top seemed so distant. The air was thick here. They must've fallen even deeper into the earth. She looked on to the entrance of a room. On the wall was written "TRANS SERVER". But Ciel was not greeted with a door but with a wreckage of boulders blocking the door. Her hopes were once again dampened with disappointment. What could they do? They only way out was right in front of them and was blocked by debris. Ciel examined the rubble but found no way to get through.

Zero suddenly heard something. A humming coming from somewhere. It was faint but somewhere. He looked above but nothing was there. It couldn't be through the walls, they were too thick for that. He suddenly came to a realization. The sewer water they stood in began to form small waves from the sound.

"Look out!"

He was too late. A monstrous arm blasted through the rubble of boulders and grabbed Ciel. Ciel was taken inside by the hand, retracting back to its origins: the beastly structure of the Golem. That was the sound Zero had heard. He dashed to the computer laboratory that it resided in with its prisoner in hands.

Ciel had shouted to Zero, "Zero! No! Run… You can't damage this thing with a Buster!"

Zero didn't listen. He just locked eyes with the Golem. Despite Ciel's warnings, he fired his Buster towards the head. Nothing happened to the Golem. Zero watched as the upper half of his body armor lowered, revealing its laser. It fired, trying to hit Zero. The red Reploid leaped to the head of the Golem and began to furiously kick and punch at it but to no avail. The Golem was just too heavily armored. He landed to the ground.

"Dammit…" His attempts at attack were pointless. He could only wound himself by physical combat to the beast.

The computers were relatively dead, however one kicked on. Zero and the Golem itself both noticed this. Ciel also looked on. A strange symbol appeared on the screen. It resembled a Cyber Elf almost, Ciel thought. It was a bright blue and was the only thing on the screen. Suddenly the speakers spoke in a voice almost too familiar to Ciel but she was in too much of a shock to put a face behind the voice. Something just too familiar to her…

"Zero… Use this…"

"…this" was ejected from the computer. Zero saw it and caught it in his hand. He looked at this small, silver shaft in his hand, something that was very familiar to him.

"Hurry… You have little time… Save her… You have to…"

Zero initially ignored what just happened and took the shaft in both hands. Suddenly, an emerald light formed in the shape of a broadsword. Zero took use to his new weapon and leapt to the Golem who was already preparing another laser shot to the crimson enemy. But the laser never happened. Its systems shattered after the initial stab to the head. Zero forced the blade in deeper through the head, ripping through cords and structures in the beast. It dropped the girl to the ground. Zero then forced the saber through the Golem further down. He was slicing it in half, feeling the structure, wires, and metals being sheared. A light began to emit from the Golem. Electricity began to surge through the body of it. Zero retracted the saber light to nothing and leapt down to cover Ciel from the explosion.

She felt his body shielding her from the intense heat of the explosion. His armor wasn't even damaged from it.

Ciel finally came to her senses. She was safe. She stood and looked to Zero. She was in total surprise that the Golem was completely disintegrated. She looked to Zero who returned the look.

"I can't believe that you managed to destroy a Golem."

He looked at her quizzically.

"We were right about you… You are Zero, the legendary Reploid…"

He gave her another quizzical look at the mention of the name "Zero".

'Is that my name?'

"Don't you remember your name?"

'Zero…'

The thought hurt his head. A million questions came surging in at once. Who was he? Where was he? What time period is this? Was Sigma still present? Where was X? Why did he know what he knew? Who even was X? Who was Sigma? What were these things he knew…? He grimaced in pain from the rush of it all. He touched his forehead area around his helmet and main energen crystal in thought and pain trying to find these answers within himself. But nothing came.

"…I can't remember…"

"Try and Relax. You're experiencing hibernation sickness."

She saw him look back up at her and all around the computer lab.

"I'm sorry for having to wake you up so suddenly. And thank you for saving me."

He drove his attention to her.

"My name's Ciel. I'm a scientist. We should return to the base before more enemies arrive."

"You call me Zero and you claim that I am a legendary warrior but what if I am not the one you're looking for?"

"You must be Zero. No one else could destroy the Golem like you did. I'm positive of it."

The Reploid said nothing to her. He just starred into her calm blue eyes while she returned the look into his fierce violet eyes which sheltered a calming feeling of safeness and hope to her. He was Zero and Ciel was sure of it.

"We should go. The Trans Server should be in here. Hopefully it's still intact…"

She proceeded past the room door while Zero stood behind in thought.

'She thinks that I am this Zero. Am I?'

Suddenly memories of war came to him all at once. He shook it off.

'Perhaps this girl can provide me with the clues that I need… to regain my memory…'

He walked into the Trans Server room and saw Ciel. She was operating this round structure, fit to hold a couple people.

"We're in luck. It works."

She noticed his puzzled look at this thing. He examined it carefully.

"This is a Trans Server. It detects the Server of any other operational Trans Server and can instantly transfer anything to that area. We keep an encrypted message to keep our base safe from assault."

"What do you mean? You mean you're being hunted down?"

"Yes… Perhaps it is best that we return to the Resistance Base first. I can better explain there."

She walked up to the middle of the Transfer. Zero joined her as well and saw the outer rim of the ring scanning the two and suddenly he felt his body being assimilated into tiny pieces and suddenly being replaced. When he came too, he was in a new place. A lighter place. Some old city building. He stepped off the transfer and was soon joined by Ciel. He saw a green suited soldier Reploid troop of some sort join her by her side. He was followed by many.

"Miss Ciel! Congratulations on your safe return!"

This and many other questions of joy and praise followed from the young men, children, and woman around Ciel. Zero stood away from it all, lost in confusion.

Soon the troops began to notice the crimson, blond haired Reploid behind Ciel. Soon, all began to stare in wonder at him.

'Is this…?'

"Everyone," Ciel began. "This is Zero."

They suddenly changed their look to surprise, astonishment, and amaze. Ciel had found him.

"And Zero… We're the Resistance…"

Author's Note: Well, that's it for this chapter. Zero will learn a bit more on what's going on and who it is that is hunting the Resistance down, while Ciel asks of Zero to take on a rescue mission. That's what I plan for the next chapter.

Anyways, I'm open for pre-readers. Anyone? Just email me. I'm pretty sure there's some grammatical error in this fic that I could care less than to find that someone else has found. Plus of course you do get an inside look at the chapter. But anyways, I'll stop bribing you folks with offers you could very well refuse.

Well I hope some of you are pleased with the fic. Give me feedback please. I enjoy it and it keeps me motivated to write more than anything. But it's not like anyone is reading this fic… oh well onto to the next chapter!