Chapter 11
Blasts of energy and loud, foul language could be heard from the cave where Mother Brain was hiding. Ridley picked himself off the ground and prepared to re-enter the cave when another energy blast knocked him even further from the cave.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Mother brain roared as she fired an energy beam at Sepiroth. He retaliated with an Ice 2 spell, but it only seemed to piss of the brain more.
"Listen you dried up old prune. I don't take orders from anyone, especially when they're not of this planet. It doesn't belong to you." Sepiroth called back.
"Dried up… Oh you will pay for that." She yelled as she fired another beam at him.
"Mother Brain please!" Ridley said as he finally managed to re-enter the cave. If you keep this up you'll put Samus out of a job!"
"Oh shut up!" Mother Brain and Sepiroth cried in unison. His flare spell and her energy eye beam were more than enough to annihilate Ridley once again. Both turned from the other in disgust.
"This is pointless." Sepiroth finally said. "It appears that neither of us are willing to work together, yet we both have the same goals." The Brain nodded, as best she could and looked at him.
"So what do you propose?" She asked. Sepiroth sat on a large stone and lowered his head.
"You come up with a plan, as will I. Then we shall compare ideas, make a joint plan and rid ourselves of these pitiful so-called heroes." He said. The Brain agreed and Sepiroth left the cave, but not before casting Life 2 on Ridley.
"You know you really should go easy on him. One of these times he might not come back." Sepiroth said as he left.
"Bah!" The brain retorted, closing her eyes and trying to form a plan.
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Mega man awoke and looked around. Tron wasn't in her bed, so he headed outside. She was looking at the sun, and other sights around her. He walked up beside her and she smiled.
"Good morning Mega man. I've found out something very odd." She said. He looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "You see this isn't an island at all. It's a continent. As in a huge land mass. Do you know what that means?" After he shook her head, she continued. "Wherever we are now, isn't anywhere from where we belong. Mega man, we're on a different planet!"
"What!? That's impossible. How did we get to another planet?" he asked in disbelief. She shrugged.
"I don't know myself. It must have happened when we got caught in the explosion. Maybe it opened a gateway or warp or something." She said softly. Mega man noticed that one of the villagers had pointed over to them. He was talking to someone who was obviously not from this village. He was wealthy. The stranger walked over to them and smiled.
"Hi there, I'm recruiting for Shinra. Would you care to tell me where you got such odd armor?" He asked. Mega man looked at his armor. He hardly thought it odd.
"I don't know. I've always had it I guess." He said. "And I'm not looking to join Shinra, whatever it is. I'm just trying to find a way to my friends."
"Hmm. Seen someone who looked kinda like you. But different you know what I'm saying? They were staying over in Nibelheim. It's not overly far from here." He said. "I can give you a lift there if you want. Maybe when you meet you're friends you'll reconsider about Shinra." Mega man looked at Roll and she nodded. Hopefully it was Tiesel or Bass, maybe even Roll. They left the town, and entered a small helicopter. It lifted off and flew over some mountains. They could see a town approaching in the distance.
"That's Nibelheim there in the distance, I'll set down a little ways away. They might not give me the warmest of greetings." He said with a chuckle.
"I wonder why that is." Tron whispered to Mega man. She had noticed the armaments on the chopper and figured this must be an army that tried to control people. Little did she know just how right she was. They landed and Mega man and Tron started to head for the city. When they entered, a few people pointed at Mega man, but for the most part ignored Tron. Mega man walked up to one of the town's folk.
"Have you seen anyone sort of like me?" He asked. The man nodded.
"Yeah, I seen someone like you. Saved Mary's child they did. Her and a bunch of her friends anyway. They're staying over at the Inn." He said, pointing to one of the buildings.
"Thank you very much." Mega man said, heading to the Inn. He activated his comm. system again and called out for Roll and the others. Instead he got the female voice again.
"You again? I thought I told you not to use this frequency." She said.
"I'm sorry, but I'm trying to find my friends. I was told one of them might be nearby so I tried contacting them again." He said. They entered the Inn, and Mega man not only heard her through the comm. system but from down the hall. He headed down that way, and knocked on one of the doors. He heard footsteps come towards them and a woman opened the door. Mega man had to catch his jaw from dropping. A beautiful woman was standing before him, wearing only her nightgown.
"Can I help you?" she asked. Mega man shook his head.
"Sorry, I'm looking for my friends." He said. The girl looked him over.
"Hmm. Hey Samus, do you know this guy? He's got some crazy armor and a cannon like you." The girl called.
"Just a second Tifa." He heard a voice call back. Samus came up to him, leaving her helmet off, but otherwise in her full armor.
"No I don't recognize him, and I doubt he's a bounty hunter. What's your name?" she asked.
"It's Mega man. And I see where the guy thought we looked a like." He said.
"Mega man? You're the guy using my frequency!" She said.
"It's not yours, it's the one Roll and I have always used. But I suppose that doesn't matter since we're no longer on our own planet." He said.
"Own planet? What do you mean?" Tifa asked. Mega man told them the story about the refractor exploding and how they woke up here.
"Just like Terra and her group, sort of. It's like we've all been called here." Samus said. "But for what reason?"
"Heroes from different worlds and planets are summoned here? Surely Sepiroth couldn't pose that great a threat. Could he?" Tifa said to no one inparticular.
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"Suck them all dry!" Ridley ordered to the two Metroids that the Brain had created. The metroids were absorbing the life force of people from one of the town's. The Brain had become weakened in this new world and needed energy to sustain herself, so she had sent Ridley and the two nearly perfect metroids to gather energy for her. They had already dealt with over half the town, some already turned to dust, the others just hanging on to the thread of life. After he felt the Metroids could absorb no more for now, Ridley called them back and they returned to the cave. Mother brain was resting to conserve her energy and Sepiroth was in a back corner enforcing his hold over the meteor spell. Upon his arrival, Mother Brain looked up at him.
"You were successful?" She asked. He nodded and the metroids latched onto pods surrounding the Brain's chamber, pumping energy into her. Almost instantly she seemed more alive and fully recharged.
"Excellent!" She said, brimming with energy. "Now what's your report on those blasted heroes?" She inquired. Ridley sat on a rock and looked at her with concern.
"Well it wasn't easy being in the vicinity of them, but I bring even more bad news. During the night, two more seemed to join their team. Though only one of them seemed to be an actual warrior. He was clad in armor much different than Samus, but in ways similar. If this keeps up we will soon be so greatly outnumbered, we won't have a chance to succeed." He replied. She laughed hard and loud. Even Sepiroth, who never smiled, had a grin on his face.
"No matter how many pathetic fools they gather together, they can not withstand our evil." She said. Sepiroth stood and walked towards them.
"Agreed, but we should now put our plan into action. They will not be expecting such tactics and therefore will be easy prey." He stated. All three nodded and Ridley and Sepiroth left the cave to start their evil work. However after they left, mother brain became concerned. It wasn't that Samus had beaten her before, but there were now twelve heroes she had to worry about. Would the two of them be enough? She closed her eyes and started pondering things.