Well, this chapter has arrived. Even if it took a bit. I hope you guys like this chapter!
One of the things Counciler-Man, the program capable of studying a humans mental state and diagnosing you with a mental issue, has told me multiple times before, that I have Rage management issues and Depression. He also said that I tend to get into an enraged state rather easily, especially now-en-days. I agree with him. Before meeting Mega, I always had a short temper. Luna and her gang never helped it, instead of pushing it farther and farther down the path of 'hard to control.' I am fully aware that it's my choice and actions that I act upon my emotions, but I don't care honestly.
The Depression, on the other hand, makes it easier to get upset about things, which feeds into my rage issue, and it creates a feedback cycle that would make the Sun jealous of the energy output until the thing pissing me off gets a nice punch in the face.
While both came about, they didn't really kick about until SHE came around.
With both anger issues and depression, it's not easy to deal with others, just like it's not easy to keep your temper around assholes who only care about themselves, and an Alien that refuses to be honest with me.
It's been three days since met Mega, but he has been irritating to deal with.
"Kid, do you ever do anything besides sitting around looking at your computer, or going to Vista Point to cloud and stargaze?" Mega asks, bored out of his mind. What a question for him to ask, with him basically forcing me to take him with. He basically forced himself with me and hasn't told me anything about my dad yet.
Like I said, irritating.
"Mega, you can wander the town without me. You don't need to be following me every second of the day. But yes, that's what I do. You don't have to stay with me when I do my things, Mega." I say to him while looking at the computer, researching constellations. Mega just sighs, and his body leans forward slightly, putting his claw on my desk, looking at me all the while.
"Kid, you shouldn't be locking yourself up like this. Pretty sure it isn't healthy. From what I know, humans are a social species, so it affects you mentally when you keep to yourself for long periods of time. From what I understand of your species psychological and physical needs." Mega says to me, with a slight tone of worry coming from him. He has only known me for three days.
"First, humans have a range of personalities, one of them is introverted. That means we are perfectly fine without social contact for long periods of time. I happen to be an introvert, thus I am perfectly fine without social contact. If I want to lock myself up, doing what I like, that is fine. Now, are you going to talk to me about my dad now? I gave you three days to do it." I ask irritated at Mega. He acts as if he cares, but I know he doesn't. I even question at times if mom does care. Everyone who I interact with has selfish desires to make me do what they want, and I don't want to deal with that nonsense. Maybe I am being negative, but I don't care.
Mega just sighs, shaking his head as if he is disappointed. "Kid, your father is alive. That's all I will tell you at this point. You currently aren-" Mega starts to say until I explode. How dare he say that? He, an alien who came to this planet, to escape foes who could have destroyed this town, that I am not ready? I am 18 fucking years old! It has been nine fucking years since he went missing, and all he will tell me is that 'he is alive'? Hell fucking no.
"Mega," I say, arms shaking in anger, "you think I am not ready to know more about my FUCKING FATHER!? THE ONE WHO WENT MISSING WHEN I WAS A KID! THE ONE WHO I LOOKED UP TO UNTIL HIS SPACE STATION DISAPPEARED!? I HAVE WAITED NINE FUCKING YEARS, NINE! DON'T FUCKING-" Suddenly, the doorbell goes off, much to my confusion, stopping my enraged rant. I get out of my chair and look at Mega. "This isn't over Mega, not one bit." I say coldly to him, who looks like he was slapped in the face hard. I guess he didn't expect me to go off on him.
The doorbell rings again, so I exit my room, and walk down the staircase, into the main room of the house. Walking over to the front door, I look out through the peephole, to see Luna, Bud, and Zack outside. It's lunchtime then, so they are here for their daily 'Come to school' tripe. Great, now I deal with them again. I sigh, knowing the three will stay there until I either answer the door, or five minutes until lunch is over for them, and quite frankly, I feel like cloud gazing to relax a bit. I crack the door open slightly, enough where they can hear me, but not enough for them to do anything idiotic.
"What do you three want now? If it's to come to school, then fuck off." I say, trying to sound as rude to them as possible, hoping they get the message to leave me alone. Sadly, it didn't work. Bud, irritated that I just told the Prez to fuck off, quickly snatches me out of the door, holding me by my red jacket. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Mega hop into my Transer, with a stone-cold expression.
"Now listen here jerk, the Prez cares about you. She wants you to succeed in life, by coming to school. It's no reason to be disrespectful like that to her! Now, you should apologize to her." Bud says, trying to sound tough, and failing. Maybe if I was younger, it might have worried me, but now, his attitude and attempt to seem like the bigger, tougher guy just doesn't phase me.
"No. Now let me go before I force you." I say with a pseudo calm tone. My left arm, the one Prez and Zack can't see is tensed up, fist slightly balled up, ready to deliver an uppercut on Bud, should he refuse to let me go. I can't stand these three dunderheads and their inability to understand the word, no.
"Oh? And what do you think-" Bud says, only for me to quickly throw an uppercut at him, cutting him off, and making him start bleeding from the mouth, most likely making him take a bite of a part of his tongue. The punch knocks him back and makes him let me go do to the force of the punch, which must have knocked him out. That punch also had the anger I had at Mega mixed in, so I expected it to have quite the impact.
"Well, I hope you like dirt, because fuck you, asswipe." I say walking away, turning slightly to look at Prez's and Zacks shocked faces. They must still think of me as a shy, nice kid from six years ago. He died when he gave up on being nice to people. When SHE appeared and broke my trust in people. I wonder, does she still remember what she did? Probably not, as that was six years ago, as children. SHE ruined any chances of me trusting others. In my first attempt at a friend, I thought SHE was nice until SHE destroyed a few items close to me. After that, she disappeared, never to be seen again. SHE is the reason why I can't trust other intentions.
I eventually reach Vista Point, the Overlook of it to be exact, and just lay down to look at the sky. The white, fluffy clouds that dance across the sky. Uncaring of the world below them, able to move on beyond what happens in one spot. Unaffected by other clouds, uncaring to the world below it. Sometimes I wish I could be a cloud, free of the hardships of this world. I hate people. I hate Luna. I hate HER.
"Kid, what's wrong?" Mega asks with worry. I don't believe for a second, that he cares about anything except his own goals. His worry is merely a front, to have me lower my guard, so he can strike like SHE did.
"Nothing is wrong." I grumble with irritation. I just want to look at the clouds and stars. I don't know why he has to follow me. Why he has to constantly bother me about unimportant things.
A few hours pass, with peaceful silence, clouds floating by, being clouds, when the sky starts to show the stars, the night sky peeking through. As always, it looks beautiful. The pitch-black sky, with little dots of light showing. The stars of the universe, letting us know they exist. I slightly wonder, where among the stars Mega is from. Only slightly of course. Another hour passes when Mega breaks the silence.
"Geo. I know you don't like or trust me, and quite frankly, I get it. You don't trust me due to the way I met you, and the fact that I am an alien." Mega starts to say, only for me to interrupt him.
Getting off the ground, shaking in anger, I point at Mega, and start to shout at him. "Oh, what makes you think that? The constant question dodging, refusal to be honest with me, or the fact that you REFUSE TO TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT MY DAD!? I am Eight-Fucking-Teen Mega, old enough to be told about what happened to my dad! You also came from space, being chased by viruses, AND you basically try to tell me what to do like I am fucking ten. YOU CAME BARGING IN, YOU REFUSE TO TELL ME ABOUT MY FATHER, AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN HONEST TO ME FOR BASICALLY THE ENTIRE TIME I HAVE KNOWN YOU! WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I LIKE OR TRUST YOU AR THE MOMENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT!?" I start panting from my screaming rant. Pretty sure if anyone was in the schoolyard or on the Vista Point Stairs, they would have heard me shouting like that.
Mega just looks at me, jaw down in shock that I would yell at him like that. I guess either he forgot about this morning, or he just didn't expect me to interrupt him like that. It takes a few moments for him to regain his composure from me shouting at him like that. "Kid, I can fully admit I haven't been transparent with you, in fact, I haven't told you anything about your dad. I can't tell you anything, because your dad asked me to. I know I said I could talk to you about your dad that I said as a potential deal, but that wasn't meant to be completely serious. I apologize for the false hope, Geo." Mega conveys with as sincere of a tone of voice as he could muster.
I just stare at him, dumbfounded at his response. He just admitted to lying to me, for all intents and purposes. He then apologizes, acting like it was a minor mistake. Are you fucking kidding me? I start to get angry, even more than before, when a loud booming noise is heard. I quickly look around, to see the clouds, once white and puffy, turning into darker clouds. A sure sign of storms. Great, just great. I was hoping to enjoy the sky for as long as possible, but instead, a thunderstorm has to start rolling in. I look at Mega, who has retreated into the Transer device. I just sigh, I am irritated, but I have to head home now. I don't want to get soaking wet, and mom would be upset if I didn't come back, as I would be risking my health, among things. I start the trip back, ready to just cry in my pillow, being so close to my father, but I can't reach him at the same time.
Elsewhere
"PATHETIC! THAT WAS ABSURDLY PATHETIC!" Prez shouts at me. I couldn't have guessed the twerp would have that much of a punch! My jaw still hurts from him giving me that uppercut though. How can I eat if my jaw hurts like this! "BUD BISON, ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!" Prez screams in my face, bringing me back to her speech. I jump, surprised at the fact that she is up in my face, shouting at me.
"Y-yes Prez!" I stammer back, worried about her reaction.
"Good. Now, about earlier, it's pathetic that you got taken down with One Punch. ONE. How can I trust you to protect me, if a single punch can bring you down!" Prez says, hurting me with each word.
"H-He just sup-" I start to say, only to get cut off.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER! You should be able to take more than a single punch! It's embarrassing that you, my bodyguard, could be taken down with one punch from someone far WEAKER than you!" Prez says, striking deeper and deeper with each word, making me feel worse. "I should just cut our brotherband because of that!" I at that, I jump in shock.
"P-Prez!?" I say, scared at the that of being alone again. I don't want to be alone again! I... I have to prove that I am still of worth to her!
"I won't this time, but if you fail again, we will no longer be brothers, Bud Bison." Prez says, walking away with an irritated expression.
I just fall to the ground, on my knees. I can't be alone again. I have to prove myself to her somehow.
"It looks like you have hit a rough spot." A mysterious voice says.
I look around, confused. "Who, who said that?" I ask, looking around confused and slightly scared.
"I did." The voice says before a flash of light occurs, a red plated, oranged colored being appears, it must be Mr. Steaks ghost! I quickly back up terrified of the ghost. If Mr. Steak came back to haunt me for eating him. Oh no.
"I'M SORRY MR STEAK, I DIDN'T ME-" I got to ask for forgiveness before Mr. Steaks interrupts me.
"What? No, I am not Mr. Steaks! I am Taurus, and seen you needed... Help. You are afraid of the girl cutting your connection with her, and leaving you alone right?" Taurus asks, folding his arms while looking at me.
"Yes. I am sir." I answer honestly.
"I can help you. Let's team up, and convince her to keep you as an ally." Taurus says, with a strange tone.
A way to prove to Prez that I can still be helpful, and stay as her brother. "Yes. I want to keep her as a friend." Bud says, Taurus just laughs, before turning into a ball of orange, and going into my Transer, then everything goes dark.
Three Days Later
"In other news, a mailbox was found to be damaged, causing citizens to be worried for their saf-" the newscaster says, before being turned off.
"Kid, what do you think of this?" Mega says, looking at me curiously.
"I am thinking that none of this is my business, honestly. It's interesting that only red objects have been targeted though. My guess that whoever is doing this has a vendetta against the color red. Who knows, as it isn't any of my business." I say flatly to Mega. He just chuckles, rubbing his claw against the back of his head.
I check my Transer, just turning the damn thing on for the first time today. With it booted up, I first check the weather, to see if it ends up storming tonight. Well, it should be fine to go out tonight, but tomorrow will be sketchy, with an eighty percent chance of a thunderstorm. Great, I won't be able to star and cloud gaze tomorrow. Fucking hell.
Well, might as well get as much sky watching done as possible tonight. Though, I got this strange feeling that something is going to happen tonight. Meh, so long as I am not bothered, I don't care. I get off the couch, with Mega going back into my Transfer to be lazy I guess.
I leave my house, making sure the door is closed, before making my way to Vista Point, to cloud and stargaze my normal activities.
As soon as I leave my house, my Transer help alert goes off, much to my confusion. Who could possibly need help, and what with? I decide to investigate, only because I am curious, nothing else.
I follow the signal for a minute, winding up in front of a mansion, with an old lady standing in front of what I presume to be her car. I walk up to her, inspecting the car for a minute, before dropping the question. "Is everything alright miss?" I ask trying to be polite. She jumps slightly, not expecting me apparently. She quickly turns to me scared, before calming down.
"No young lad, my car stopped working for some reason. I tried for a couple of minutes, turning it on and off multiple times, before giving up. Can you please help me, young lad?" She asks me, clearly upset about this situation.
"I will try my best, but I can't say either way if I can do anything." I say, politely yet honestly.
I spend about thirty minutes looking through the cars various points of interest in mechanical parts, and find that everything is working properly. It's just like it stopped working for no reason. "Kid, it might be a case like the train." Mega sudden;y says, making me think for a moment. It is possible for that to be the case, but why would a virus... Huh, maybe it could be the reason.
"I have an idea miss, but I need to go get a tool to try. Is that okay with you?" I ask, half-lying. Mega isn't a tool, but the point of the matter remains.
"It's okay young'in. I am not going anywhere with my car like this. Take your time. She says, sighing a bit. I slightly feel bad, but if Mega is correct, I can fix her problem easily.
"Thank you. I will be back." I say, before walking off in the direction of my house, before putting down my visualizer. To my surprise, in the park next to the Big Wave ship, there is a whirlpool I can use, to Wave change. I walk to the Whirlpool, and EM Wave change, fusing with Mega.
It takes a minute of navigating the EM roads, but I reach the little spot that has the little line leading to the tiny whirlpool into her car. Touching the line, I am transported into the cars EM world thing.
I walk around the place, trying to find the spot where I could find the problem, when I find a tallish brown creature thing, with a spiky mouth, a strange hat, and blood-red eyes. It looks at me in rage, as if I interfered with something it didn't like. "ThIs Is My PrIzE! LeAvE oR dIe!" It says, its voice seeming to change in pitch while it speaks.
"No. Leave the car." I say before the brown monster thing jumps at me, intent to kill me, most likely.
I quickly dodge the attack, firing a few of Mega's bolts at it, which seemingly does nothing to it, before it throws a ball at me, which I narrowly dodge, and the ball explodes. The shrapnel does him me though, leaving me with a few scratches. To my shock, no blood comes out, instead just a strange green energy. The creature, taking advantage of my shock, jumps at me, landing a sucker punch on my left cheek, knocking me to the side, and leaving a bruise on my cheek. Pulling up the plasma gun card, I use it and hit the creature in mid-air, as it jumped to deliver another blow to me, and the plasma shot stuns it, giving me enough time to get out of the way, and to hit it with the Long Sword card, which does hurt it, due to the combo of the two cards, and it crashing into the spot I was once in, and I think it beaten. I was wrong.
The creature gets up, injured, but able to continue fighting, as it readies some strange attack, which acts as a minigun, as I find out as I raise a shield to protect myself from the rounds. As my shield drops, it jumps at me again, using the minigun attack to make it impossible for me to dodge, and it bodyslams into me, flinging me to the center platform. I slowly get up from that hit, hurting, but able to continue. I quickly fire off an Air Spread card attack, then a Plasma Cannon shot, both hitting the being directly, stunning it. Following up that attack, I use another Long Sword attack, then a Cannon attack, and it must have been all that was needed to beat it, as it starts exploding, before it seemingly warps out of the car.
"Wow, kid. You did well without me. That was a Jammer, a relatively weak, but a dangerous none the less creature, a fusion of an EM virus, and a human. While weak, it is still a tough opponent, and you did well." Mega says as I catch my breath.
That was a weak opponent!? Just how strong is the average FM-ian then!? I look at Mega, who winks at me. Bastard thinks he is being cheeky I bet. I sigh, before I walk to the control panel of the car, and return it to normal, then leave the space, and defuse, making sure that none of my injuries came back to my human form, then to alert the old lady that her car is fine now. I quickly run back to my house, to grab a tool kit, and run back to the old lady.
"Hey young man! My car just started working on its own! Thank you for your help, even if you couldn't get it working when you went to grab your tools. Thank you anyway, young man!" She says, before giving me two thousand Zenny as thanks.
"It's no problem. Have a good day." I say, before walking back to my house to drop the tool kit off, then making my way to my original destination, Vista Point.
I eventually arrive at Vista Point without further incident, I go to the vantage point, to lay down and observe the sky. This goes well for an hour, before Mega pops out of the Transfer, and just floats around, bored I think. I just continue looking at the sky, watching the clouds go by.
Time seems to fly, as the night sky finally shows. I continue my gazing of the sky, for another hour, until my fucking Transfer breaks the peace. "For fuck sake, who is messaging me at this time of night?" I grumble to myself, pulling up the email from Mom. She wants me to come home now, due to the incidents that have happened. I sigh annoyed, I would rather stargaze, but she would cry herself with worry if I don't come back, and I just don't want that to deal with. I get up from my laying position and look for Mega. "Mega! It's time to go!" I look around for him, to find him asleep on the bench. That's amusing. I didn't think he could do that, but he must have been pretty bored. "Mega, wake up." I whisper, trying not to chuckle.
Mega perks up, slightly confused before he notices the sky. He then turns into a ball of green energy and goes into my Transer, I guess to either sleep or because he wants to be lazy. I start walking out of Vista Point, to head back home. The feeling I had earlier is still there, and that slightly worries me.
As I start walking back home, I hear the rumble of a machine, some sort of vehicle. Odd, I thought the old woman would have left already unless she needed to be here, and the car stopped working as she arrived.
I stay on the walkway, off the street to prevent an accident from occurring, then look both ways, wait a minute, the look again to be sure, and low and behold, a truck is coming by, wait who owns a truck in this town? Most likely either rich ass Luna or Bud Bison. The old look, with rust slowly forming, tells me it isn't Luna's rich family, so it must be a regular person.
Oh yeah, Luna is fucking loaded, like Two trillion Zenny loaded. She could by three hundred Giga Cards, and not even dent her money. Though, the fact she will go to the Public Highschool, and lead around Bud and Zack surprises me to an extent, though I feel like their whole group is a generic anime or video game groupie. Meh, I don't know nor care. They are just irritating to me.
The truck pulls up in front of the crosswalk, which is illegal to park on, and the aforementioned three-step out, Luna looking cocky, Zack being short and snotty, but Bud just has a blank expression, empty of emotion. It's strange, and a bit disturbing, l am so used to him shoving his ugly nose in Luna's ass. Meh, whatever his deal is, it's none of my concern.
"What do you three want now?" I ask, slightly irritated at them. "Wait, let me guess what you want. You are here to inform me that you are the nightly patrols, to help catch the red color vandal. If that's what you had to say, then go back into your truck, and let me be. I am heading home. Oh and before I forget, no I won't be coming to school." I mockingly say, walking to my house, watching Luna's face grow red in irritation, anger, or embarrassment, while Zack is trying to calm her, and Bud gaining a slight enraged look, either at the way I treated Luna, or him missing valuable time eating. Not sure which.
As I reach the crosswalk towards my house, I stop, look both ways, and listen, only to hear the truck again. I decide to wait and watch the truck fly by, at speeds I am sure Luna would be having a bitch for about, much to my confusion. I mean, Luna would have a fit about that speed, they look like they are going at one hundred miles per hour.
Why the hell are they going that fast? I then hear Luna and Zack screaming for help, and each time they pass by, I get a better idea of what happened. Bud turned into a creature, and entered the truck, making it go flying at the speed it is going. What the fuck. I don't care about this, I just want to go home.
"Kid, we should help them." Mega says, looking at the road with eyes that speak of knowing what is going on.
"Why should I help them? All three of them have been nothing but pains in my ass for nine years, and if they get hurt, oh well. They should be more careful about what they do." I say, watching the truck speed by again, with the screaming stopped. Thank goodness, they were getting annoying.
"What would your mom say, and how would she feel if you had the ability to save them, but didn't because of a personal grudge?" Mega strikes a rather low blow with that remark, making me flinch. Mom loves me, but she would be VERY disappointed with me, simply put, if I didn't help.
"She wouldn't be happy with me." I say flatly. I know flat out he is trying to guilt me into helping, and sadly, it is working. I hate Luna and her cronies, but I can't just ignore that mom would be very displeased with me. "Mega, I really hate you." I say, though I lack the heat I thought I put in my words.
"Sure kid. Sure." Mega chuckles. I just glare at Mega, irritated that he is making me play hero, for a group of people I would be happy to see never bother me again.
I pull down my goggles, and see the whirlpool behind me, in the playground, the same one I used earlier today. I walk up to it and do the EM waves fusion.
Reappearing on the EM wave road, I see the truck zoom by, as I walk on the road. I know flat out I won't be able to 'hop' into its world, so I look around and see the old lady's car from earlier. I feel bad, but I know I have to use her car to stop the annoyance gangs truck before they get hurt if the crash I am about to do doesn't.
Running over to the car, and watching the truck Zoom by three more times, I hop into the car, run towards the control panel, and move the car forward to stop the truck.
I wait a minute until I hear a-
CRASH
Yep, the crash happened and based on the fact I didn't hear Luna's annoying voice scream, I am willing to bet that Bud somehow dragged her and Zack into the trucks EM world.
I quickly hop out of the car's EM world and see the two smashed up, not enough to affect their worlds, but enough to make both useless for the time being. I quickly hop into the trucks EM world, ready to just get this over with.
Trucks EM World
Entering the world, the first thing I notice is the background of bulls. This doesn't seem normal. Unless this EM world is supposed to look like this.
"Damnit. Kid we have a problem." Mega says suddenly, to my confusion.
"What, could be the problem Mega?" I ask, irritated.
"I know we who will be fighting, and you aren't going to do that good kid. His name is Taurus. He is a low tier general of FM's armies. He still a dangerous opponent for you to face, more dangerous than that Jammer you fought." Mega says grimly.
"So instead of telling me this sooner, you wait until NOW to tell me? Are you FUCKING NUTS!?" I scream at Mega, pissed off now. This is shit you tell someone sooner, not the last fucking moment!
"Kid, I didn't think that they would send in an FM-ian general! Hell, I didn't think that they were after me still!" Mega says, worry dripping from his words.
"Mega, we are going to have a long talk after this mess is over. A Long talk." I say, protraying as much irritation as I can to Mega.
While navigating the world isn't very hard, the annoying parts are finding the keys to progress and the malfunctioning bulls. Oh I hate the bulls.
Don't lean a certain way? You get bucked off.
You lean a certain way? You get bucked off.
You reach the end, only for the bull to start bucking? You get bucked off.
I, fucking, hate, those, BULLS. I really do. They are so fucking frustrating.
The keys are also a pain to get, thanks to the bulls. Oh and the multitude of Viruses that exists in the world. Just getting the first Key, and destroyed Three Thousand of the fucks, though while easy to deal with, it was still frustrating to handle no thanks to the bulls. Hey, I got a few new cards, and about four thousand Zenny from all of the deleting.
I eventually reach the very back of the truck, where a giant red metal bull thing, which I assume to be Bud and Taurus fusion, is standing at the truck controls with Zack and Luna unconscious to the side. Well, that makes my life somewhat easier, knowing where the two idiots are.
"Where is he? Where is Geo, so I can crush him?" The bull says, which I guess doesn't surprise me.
"Hey ugly, I want to get this over with. Let the two morons go, and release your host." I say to Taurus Bud fusion, not wishing to deal with this shit.
"Ugly? I am Taurus Fire! Who are you?" Taurus Fire asks, irritated and confused at the same time, as he turned around to look at me.
"Ah Omega-Xis, you show yourself at last." Taurus says, as he appears in front of me, looking at Mega. "You can't run forever. Even if you somehow win, the others will come to get you." he laughs, before going into Taurus Flame. "Get him, and prove to your Prez, that you aren't useless." Taurus whispers to Bud, sending him into action.
The fight starts as you would expect, Taurus Flame running straight at me like a bull, horns first, though this bull has flames coming from his sides, making it harder to dodge. I jump over his charge, narrowly avoiding a potential impalement, and fire a Plasma Cannon shot at him, only for him to jump to the side, avoiding it, then he launches a wall of flame at me, and it hits me directly, causing a good amount of pain. I then noticed a strange feeling at my butt, so I turn around and-
"MY ASS IS ON FIRE! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!" I scream in pain, running around in a circle, as Taurus Flame just starts laughing at my situation. Maybe it's Karma for what I did to Bud, I don't know, as the fire on my rear dies down, and I fire one of the new cards I obtained, a fire wheel.
The wheel directly hits him, though it seems to have done nearly nothing, just leaving a scratch on him. He stops laughing and does another charge, so I jump, and fire a Air Spread, and hit him directly, I then continue with another Plasma shot, then a sword strike.
Altogether, it slightly damaged him, but not enough to beat him. He turns around, looking mad now, before she breaths at me another wall of fire, which I shield against, only for him to burst through the firewall, charging at me, and landing a direct hit on me, and boy does it hurt.
While he didn't impale me on one of his horns, the blow still knocked the wind out of me and threw me against an EM wall, which hurt like hell. Damn, Mega wasn't kidding when he said this would not be easy. Hell, this is harder than the jammer fight, far harder.
I notice, now one of my Mega cards my dad made is glowing. I hope that it can turn the tables, and I feel that if Taurus gets another few good hits on me, I won't be here anymore. Making Mega eat the Mega card, at first nothing happens, until Mega starts growing into a sword, not like the normal sword card, but one that different somehow. The main difference I do notice is the odd amount of symbols on it, and the fact that it's blood-red, though I will have to look at it more closely later.
Taurus is charging at me again, so I jump, making sure to use the sword on Taurus. To my shock, it actually cut Taurus to such a degree, that fire starts to spew from him at an incredible rate. The fire ends up forming into a barrier, and it launches at me! I quickly raise my shield, which protects me, but some of the fire still hits me.
I look to where Taurus Fire was, to see he is no longer cut, but he looks pretty damaged. Though, I bet he is stunned from that.
Then the red glass on my helmet gets changed somehow. It has for a few seconds, a bunch of odd symbols flies by at an incredible speed, and it stops just as fast as it happened. Wait, did those symbols create a health gauge for myself and my opponent for me to read!? How the fuck does that work! It may be looking a gift horse in the mouth, but how the fuck does this work!?
Well, whatever the case is, investigating that later, I notice my health bar is about one-third full, with a number of two hundred next to it, and Taurus Flame has about one-fourth of his health remaining, with the number three hundred next to it. Dear God how have I not lost?
I pull out the Mega card again, and Mega turns into the odd sword again. Taurus Flame bellows in rage, and using the flames he can produce, covered himself in a barrier of fire. As he readies up to charge at me again, I realize that dodging isn't possible due to the fire. So I wait. Taurus Flame starts charging at me, the fire barrier leaving a trail of flame in his wake. I just ready the red sword, and as Taurus Flame is almost on top of me, I swing.
The sword cuts through the fire barrier and forces Taurus Flame to stop. Then I notice Taurus Flames health bar drop to zero, as his head slowly splits in half, and falls off before he starts exploding like the Jammer from earlier.
"Curse you Omega-Xis! I won't be the only one coming here, the others will take revenge for me!" Taurus says, also exploding, before disappearing, leaving Bud on the ground unconscious.
"Don't worry kid, they will be kicked out of the EM world soon, now that Taurus isn't influencing it." Mega says to me
"You aren't out of the woods with me yet Mega. You still have some explaining to do." I say flatly, due to the pain, and the fact that I had to rescue the irritation gang. Mega just chuckles nervously.
I check on Bud, to see if he is alive, and his heartbeat tells me that much. At least the fight didn't kill him. I back up away from him, just to keep my space from him.
I get ready to leave, I then hear a groan, a feminine one. Great, Luna is awake. Just what I wanted to deal with.
"Ugh... What the hell?" Luna says groggily, looking around slightly confused, before noticing me, and my beaten up form. "W-who are you?"
I just look at Mega, thinking in a seconds notice. What should I call myself? If I reveal myself to be Geo, that would lead to an endless amount of annoyance. Then, I get an odd name idea. "I am Mega Man." I say, before teleporting out, not wanting to deal with whatever she has to say.
I come to, slightly confused. That's right, Bud turned into that ox creature thing and brought us into this strange place. I notice that Bud is no longer in that odd form of his, meaning someone stopped him. But who did it?
I then notice a man, covered in blue armor, clearly beaten up from fighting Bud's odd form, looking at me. "W-who are you?" I asked, half out of it still. My head's killing me, but I feel the urge to ask this of him.
He looks at his hand, and seems to think for a few seconds, then answers the question, with the now known Mega Man. He then leaves, to places unknown.
"Mega Man. My savior. I will have you if it's the last thing I do, as my Husband. Only I will be worthy of you." I say, feeling my heart racing at the thought of him, with a determined mindset, to make him mine. Everything goes black again, but instead of just regular blackness, this blackness is accompanied by images of myself and Mega Man, walking down the aisle, to become husband and wife. He will be mine, this I swear!
Leaving the truck, before things get annoying, I look around to see that it's still night. Thank goodness, I didn't want to deal with the idea of not seeing my mom at dawn.
I quickly defuse with Mega, and run home, to see my mom at the table, asleep on it. She must have fallen asleep waiting for me. I feel bad, but it was out of my control. I walk up to her, and carry her to her bed, and tuck her in. It's not good to be sleeping like she was. I then leave a note for her, giving a half-truth about what happened and why I was late, before I head to my room, and crash onto my bed, exhausted from the day.
Turning around, to look away from my bed, I see Mega, looking confused about something. He just keeps looking at his hands, like the problem he is having, is connected to them.
"What's the problem Mega?" I ask, exhaustion protruding from my voice.
"Nothing that is worth talking about for now kid. Get some sleep, you definitely earned it." he says quietly, rubbing his claw on my forehead, deep in thought, as I soon fall asleep, for a dreamless night.
Well, this was a fun chapter. I am glad people seem to like the story, even if it is currently just in the beginning stages of it.
The SHE is not an OC, just so everyone is aware. No, it's not Sonia, but a character that was gender-swapped. I won't say who it was though, but I left a few crumbs on who it is.
I borrowed an element from the Anime, Luna being in love with Mega Man. Though in this story, since Geo can't tolerate her, that's going to be interesting.
I am aware I sort of breezed through the Taurus Fire arc, but like future arcs, most of them aren't exactly long, as the prologue and Taurus Fire arc, are kinda infused. I hope to make later arcs longer.
If you couldn't guess, the red sword is an edited version of the Crucible Sword.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and have a spoopy Halloween!