I wanted more character development, and Luna I felt deserves it currently, with Bud and Zack getting some as well. The next chapter starts the Cygnus arc, so don't fret or worry about the filler, if you want to call these chapters that.
I am aware that some people don't like a Asshole Geo, but it's not going to last forever. Though, I created a poll to see if toneing down Geo's asshole additude should happen. I do like writing him as an asshole to be redeemed honestly. Its fun, and I do think there should be more stories where the MC is a general Asshole, who has to grow to learn to be nice. He won't be a person who is nice, just less likely to treat others like absolute shit for minor reasons.
I hope you enjoy the chapter regardless!
I sit up, waking up from my sleep, and notice I am at my desk. I must have fallen asleep while looking at my picture of the past. I sigh, wincing as I put my hand on my back, it being stiff from the way I was sleeping. I look at the picture again and tear up slightly. I know he is an ass these days, and when he starts being an ass, I get upset. Not because of what he says, but because it upsets me that he still doesn't remember, and treats me the way he does. One of the things I realized growing up, is that I had a crush on Geo as a kid. But ever since he turned out this way, it hurts seeing him treat me and others like this.
I would think Mega Man, who looks similar to Geo, was Mega Man if it wasn't for a few things.
One, he beat the monster Bud turned into.
Two, Geo doesn't have a head on his hand.
Three, Mega Man didn't insult me the second he saw me.
I know three is the weakest reason, but it is a legit reason. I have no doubt that Geo doesn't like me. Maybe that's why I like Mega Man so much, he looks like Geo, but actually cares. Maybe Mega Man can heal mine and Geo's friendship.
I wince again, the stiffness in my back making me want to get up, so I can go to Bud to apologize for yelling at him the other day. I overreacted massively, and I admit that. It just hurts me, seeing Geo giving me looks of hatred and anger. I want my friend back, to look at me with happiness and joy again. It hurts so much, to see a friend of mine acting like this, even if he doesn't remember at all.
I get off my chair, wincing from the stiffness in my neck and back from sleeping like I did. I need to go and apologize to Bud. I was way out of line with him and acted in the heat of the moment. It wasn't right to Bud, not at all.
After everything that happened that night, I couldn't look at Bud, due to a simple thing. I treated him like Geo has treated me for years, and I realize that I absolutely hate that feeling. I can't understand how Geo can treat others like that, and not even feel the slightest of guilt over it. It just eats me up by acting that way, and Geo does it all the time.
Though, he might be numb to it at this point, so he may not care or realize it. Either is totally possible, for all I know.
I still care about Geo, even though I shouldn't. With the way he has treated me all these years, quite frankly I should hate him. But, he was my friend for a few years, then his father disappeared, and he changed, and I can't bring myself to hate him, like he hates me.
I know he is hurting, and I want to help him. He is still my friend, no matter what. Friends help each other, and I will help him.
I wince a third time, yeah I need to eat and take some pain medicine. If I am to go see Bud to apologize to him, I should at least do that. I will even buy him some of his favorite food, as an attempt to apologize for my unjust actions to him.
I finally start moving around, to ready for the day and to apologize to Bud. Hopefully I see Geo today. Maybe I can convince him to come back to school, and begin mending our friendship, even though I know he will say no. I do just want my friend back, no matter what.
The first thing I decided to do today, was to write a journal detailing my rather limited understanding of the cards I have using simulations based on my fight with Taurus Flame.
One of the things I looked into, was the cards dad created. After the Taurus Flame Incident, I noticed that the normal cards and the one Mega card became useable. The ten normal cards are made up of eight basic weapons and two shields, and one card that I originally thought was a normal card, is actually an oddball of a card. Of course, most of what I know comes from running simulations with the cards, using the Taurus Flame Fight as the testing for them.
The shields happen to have two types, a physical blocker, and an energy blocker. The physical is capable of handling most physical attacks, though it can be overpowered, it will weaken the enemy attack. Its card name is the Hylian Shield.
The energy blocker can block most ranged and elemental attacks. Like the Physical blocker, it can be overpowered, but the enemy's attack will be weakened. Its card name is the Mirror Shield.
The first weapon card is a simple pistol, that uses EM energy to fire a shot, and if charged, it can fire a stronger shot comparable to a charged blaster bolt. It does look akin to a 21st-century pistol, but more Sci-Fi style. Its attack type is neutral, meaning it isn't strong against anything. I would estimate the Damage output for a regular shot is about five points, and a charged shot is about fifty points of damage. One of the bonuses is that I can use it while using the awakened Mega Card, so I can use both at the same time if I can find Mega to apologize to him.
The second card is another gun-like weapon, and it's a shotgun. It's an Auto shotgun. to be exact, much to my confusion. From what I have gathered in my simulations using it, it's like a generic, albeit futuristic shotgun that fires a spread of rounds, like an actual shotgun, but EM wave energy instead. Like most Shotguns, it's best at close range, for maximum damage, but it is also good for a group of weaker enemies, thus it's a good close ranged weapon. A single round causes three points of damage, with twenty rounds coming out each shot.
It also has two fire types, a multi-shot, and a grenade launcher mode.
The Multi-Shot isn't multiple shots perse, but it's one shot done in three separate firings. What makes it different than a regular shot, is that it has a high damage output, but it sacrifices the spread of a regular shot. While each shot has one round, firing seven shots coming out of it, each shot does about six damage, and a single full-round does about sixty-six points of damage peruse, with a ten-second cooldown.
The Grenade launcher mode, is a single-use shot, that unlike the Multishot, first has a thirty-second cooldown, but the damage output is crazy for a normal card type, with a staggering two hundred hit points per shot, and that's just the area of effect damage! A direct his causes about four hundred points of damage, but the cooldown is what makes it less useable for anything besides crowd control of weak viruses, or against a single tanky enemy. It's just the cooldown ruins its usefulness otherwise.
The third card is a Heavy Assault Rifle. It's essentially a heavy-hitting machine gun, able to punch through most common viruses with a couple of rounds if aimed well. The main problem, from making it a staple weapon, is that it is a one-shot pure second gun, meaning while it may seem fine in combat, a second can be a life or death against some of the more tankier and faster opponents. It would my preferred weapon for the tougher to take down enemies, or against someone like Taurus Flame. It can cause about ten points of damage per shot.
Like the Auto Shotgun, it has two mods, a scope, and a micro-missile mod.
The scope mod is self-explanatory, able to let me aim at enemies from a farther range than I could normally do, and do easier headshots. A head shot can do up to fifty points of damage per shot.
The micro-missiles mod has a little box, that holds missiles that can be fired, though only six at a time and needs time to reload it, about ten seconds, and when launched, they can home in on targets, and cause amounts of damage, enough to stun most enemies, or outright destroy them. Though, can be tricked, and made to explode on a solid object, like a wall. Each missile can do up to thirty points of damage per missile. At least four full hits by all six missile rounds can defeat Taurus Flame if aimed correctly, and the explosions happen in the right place and right time.
The fourth card is more of an oddity among the arsenal of cards my dad made is looks akin to a chainsaw, but is actually a sword chainsaw fusion, with the area where the actually saw would be coming from, a green energy instead of an actual chain. It's massive, but what makes it amazing, is its range for a melee weapon, and the damage it can output, but its great shortcoming, is its unwieldiness. It takes about five seconds to just swing the fucker anywhere, and it's a heavy as fuck weapon, that requires me to use my hand, and the arm it sports from just to hold and use it. While useful, it's a disaster to use unless you happen to be swinging in a horde of viruses, but it is idiotic to use it against a tanky virus, and something like Taurus Flame. While it does fifty points of damage per second it hits an enemy, the swing time and it's only being good against a horde of weak viruses makes it only useful in a special circumstance.
The fifth card is the Gauss Cannon. If it was a not Em Wave based weapon, it would fire a large physical slug at high speeds, piercing most objects, and destroying a majority of enemies with a single shot. Since it's EM wave based, it fires a slug of EM wave energy. A single shot does three hundred points of damage, with a cool down of a minute, making it a opener or finisher for bosses, though if it misses, it's not helpful in the slightest.
The sixth card is a Ice Spike Attack. A singular spike of ice forma in front of me, and launches forward, striking an enemy with water type damage. It does about thirty points of damage when struck by it, and has a chance of freezing an enemy in place for a few seconds.
The seventh card is a Lightning Bolt card. It forms a lightning bolt that goes down a zig zag line, hitting opponents and has a high chance to stun them. It does seventy points of damage when struck.
The eighth card is a Fire Ball Card. Its ain't a fire ball that can be thrown forward, and when it strikes an opponent, it does forty points of damage, and has a small chance to make an opponent catch on fire.
Now, the Oddball card. From what I can guess, it's an upgrade card, but I can't say for sure what it is used for. For all I know, I could use it when I am Megaman, to make myself able to use a new form of attack, but I would only know if Mega was still here.
Interesting fact about Upgrade cards, they are the rarest card in existence. Only a total of ten exist officially, making my dad's an unofficial eleventh. A single Upgrade card can go up to seven trillion Zennys, which if you were to go based off the US's dollar, a single Zenny is worth Ten US dollars, and a Giga card costs about on average fifty thousand Zenny, or Five hundred thousand dollars in US currency. A single Upgrade card can be worth up to seventy trillion US dollars. I happen to have an unofficial one, which makes it worth more, as to make one, requires a ton of luck, knowledge, and a bit of trial and error. Luna's Family couldn't even afford them, and they can afford a multitude of Giga cards.
The only Mega card I can understand is the sword one, that when I looked up a similar-looking sword, the Crucible, akin to the Doom series, mainly the reboot that happened in 2016, and Doom Eternal. I would never have thought he would use those games for inspiration if it wasn't for the fact of the regular cards he also made. He seemed to draw a lot of inspiration from them, strangely enough. Sad that he didn't name it, due to the glitches of the Mega and the fucking Giga card. I still can't believe I have one of those things. The other four weren't given names, but a description of what they should look like is somewhat unscrambled for me. Then there's Giga card.
Nothing. The only thing that I can figure, is that it requires something for me to be able to use it. What that is, I have no clue.
I sigh, closing my journal after finishing writing down the notes I took about the cards.
It sucks, not knowing what to do at this point. Mom already made it clear to me, that I am to apologize to Bud for the other day, but I don't want to, as he did deserve it. But if I don't, mom will get mad, as I simply can put it. I don't want to deal with it, so I might as well get it over with.
I get up out of my computer chair, and look at the dent left in my wall from yesterday, and wince. I really lost it yesterday. I haven't had an incident like that in two years, and that one was a bad day for me, but I don't want to think about it for a while, less I end up thinking too much about it. I walk out of my room, and leave the house, heading to Bud's house to apologize to him.
The walk to his house is short, and when I arrive, I see Luna outside his house.
Great, this is starting off swell. I hoped at least I could avoid her, but she is here, for some reason. I groan in annoyance, as I most likely will have to hear her say something irritating, like coming to school or some shit.
I finally walk up to Bud's house, with Luna looking at me.
"Geo, will you be coming to school tomorrow?" Luna asks, her tone... different than what I am used to. She normally asks, demands more than anything, for me to show up at school, but today she seems more somber as if she had an epiphany about the school situation, or something more mundane, like her hairdryer is broken. Not sure, but I bet it's the hairdryer.
"No, I will not Luna. Now shut up, I am not here for your annoying voice." I growl out. I hate dealing with Luna, even if today seems less annoying. I ring Bud's doorbell, ignoring whatever Luna is doing, and wait for Bud to come out.
A minute passes, and Bud finally comes out, looking like he just woke up.
"P-prez!? Oh, it's you as well, Geo." Bud seems surprised at me being here, though seems concerned about Luna. I don't really care, I just want to get this over with.
"Bud, I apologize for hitting you the other day." I say flatly, before turning around and walking away. There, that's done now, so mom won't ride me about it now.
Now, go cloud and stargaze, something far more meaningful and actually interesting.
"Prez, why are you crying?" The concern coming from Bud shocks me in a way.
"I... I wanted to apologize to you for the other day when I yelled at you. I was totally out of line with that, even if I didn't mean what I said, and I feel horrible about it." I sniffle out, trying to not burst out. It hurts, the way I acted like that to Bud, and Geo being Geo still. I want my friend back, but I feel horrible for how I treated Bud, and it's all just hitting me at once.
"Prez. Don't worry about it. I may not want it to be alone again, but I forgive you. You are my friend, no matter what. That's what our Brotherband means, doesn't it?" Bud asks, calmer than I expected him to be. " You may have said some hurtful things, but seeing you like this hurts more than anything you could say. No one is perfect Prez, I am not, Zack's not, you aren't either. That's what makes us human in the end. We make our mistakes, and we own up to them." Bud says gently, much to my shock.
"Bud, thank you." I say, giving him a hug.
"Don't worry about it, Prez. We are friends, no matter what happens." He says, making me tear up, remembering the promise Geo made to me all those years ago.
"Let's go somewhere Bud, my treat and as an apology for the other day." I say, wiping the tears from my eyes, looking at an excited Bud, knowing where I am referring to.
I look into the sky at Vista Point and sigh. I wonder where Mega is.
"Mega, where are you? Oh who am I kidding, he probably left me, never to return due to my actions. Maybe that's why Dad disappeared. Not because of Mega, but because of me." I say to myself, negatively. "He probably didn't like me, and just wanted away from me, so the station just happened to be a way to leave, but it turned out he disappeared. One way to leave a son he may not have loved, one like me." I mutter to myself, slowly going deep into my depressing thoughts, getting worse and worse, until I hear a voice.
"Kid, kid, KID! Snap out of it!" The voice, it's Megas. Maybe it's just my head messing with me, giving me false hope, like it usually does, making me think I hear my dad coming in the house, only to find no one coming through. "KID! Please! It's okay!" It's the voice again, and I feel something trying to hug me.
I open my eyes, to see Mega floating next to me, trying to give me a hug.
"M-Mega?" I stutter out, surprised to see him.
"Kid, it's okay. It's not your fault. None of it's your fault. Calm down, Geo. Your father loves you, even if he can't be here, he does love you, Geo. I know this because he told me before he had to scatter. No more crying Geo." Mega says, trying to comfort me.
"W-when did you come back?" I ask, feeling tears on my face.
"I never left Geo. I just wanted to give you some time to cool off, but I didn't expect you to break down like this. Is this how you truly feel about this, Geo?" Mega asks, politely and calmly, as if he is a parent, comforting an upset child.
"I... Yes. It's how I think sometimes when it just all hits me at once. I am sorry Mega for yesterday." I softly say, crying a bit after working myself up.
"Its okay Geo. I have forgiven you, as it was understandable." Mega says, only to see me shake my head.
"It wasn't. I overreacted, and all you have done is try to be my friend, and help me, and I treat you that way, isn't right." I say to him.
"Geo, don't worry about it. I forgive you. Let it go, Kid. Please." He says, looking at me in the eyes.
"I... Fine Mega." I say to him.
"Good, now let's cloud watch together. Maybe we will see some interesting clouds today." Mega says, trying to cheer me up.
It works, and we spend the day cloud watching before we head back, and I turn in to bed.
Like I said, this chapter wasn't going to be a long one, and more character development, and explaining the cards that Geo can use. I know, most of them come from Doom, but I have been playing a lot of Doom 2016, and someone bought me Two Nintendo Gift cards (because of a favor I did for them) so I Got Doom Eternal, and I am brainstorming ideas for a Doom MHA crossover (Inspiration from two great Fanfic stories, Total Command and Doom: Symbol of Hope) but I also want to give it a unique spin, so maybe I will do something with it.
When I write emotional, I tend to put it in my head the scene, and like with Geo, I start tearing up, because of the way I view it and picture it in my head. I have depression in real life, and anxiety, so I can relate in that aspect. The next chapter begins the Cygnus Wing arc, and I have plans for sure.
Like I said at the beginning, I made a poll, so vote if you wish.
I plan on updating Interspecies Hero story next, and I hope to have Cygnus Wing arc started before the end of January. Though, knowing me, it will happen in March or after, so yeah. Don't make any bets on it.
Other than all that, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!