The Resistance
Zero slowly opened his eyes after reappearing. The Trans Server teleported him and Ciel directly to the Resistance Base, with the help of Ciel's access codes to the base. Their trans server room appeared to be very dull, as nothing around but the trans server and the control unit and one door. Ciel got off the trans server and went directly to the trans server and began to rapidly type away on the trans server.
"What are you doing?" asked Zero.
Ciel finished typing in her commands and then turned back to Zero and smiled.
"Changing the pass codes on the trans server, Neo Arcadia will scan the trans server we used back there and try to get in our base using our own trans server."
Zero had never heard of Neo Arcadia or anyone else for that matter, it only made him want to know what was going on even more.
"Neo Arcadia?" asked Zero.
Ciel sighed and nodded and slowly began to walk around the trans server to where Zero was.
"Neo Arcadia government and the rest of the world have been in an energy crisis. Since the energy crisis, reploids have been considered secondary citizens and have been moving to camps were they are 'retired'." explained Ciel.
It didn't make much sense to Zero and it didn't explain why the soldiers wanted to capture Ciel.
"Why were they after you?" asked Zero.
Ciel sat down on the Trans Server pad and brought her legs up to her chest as if trying to hide something.
"They want my research and as a political scapegoat." she said in an angered tone.
Zero was about to ask what did she mean by political scapegoat and what her research on, but Ciel quickly got back up and turned toward Zero.
"Lets head up to the others, everyone must be worried about me." said Ciel.
Zero didn't need to think hard to figure out that Ciel had changed subjects intently; she must really not want to talk about it. He didn't push it; he was a stranger to her. Ciel went over to the door and pressed the button to open the door when he felt danger again. He didn't waste time as he dashed forward, pushing Ciel down to the ground. Zero heard a signal shot fired and then his shoulder almost exploding into little pieces, as the shot found its way into his shoulder. Zero rolled to the side away from Ciel and with his good arm pulled his saber and swung it upward to strike the person who fired, Zero stopped just when he was about to hit his target.
"Huh?" said Zero.
He was looked at a solider in green with huge goggles and a green cap. Zero didn't think he was connected with the blue soldiers before but it didn't explain why he almost blew Ciel's head off. Zero held his saber only an inch from his neck and remained in that position for a few moments. He turned and looked to the side as he found three more soldiers, aimed and ready to fire on him. Zero turned back to the solider he had is saber on, looking into his eyes. He sensed the reason why he fired, as sweat began to come across the reploid's face.
"Rookie." said Zero.
Ciel finally came back around as she shook her head clear as Zero almost gave her a concussion. She looked back and forth between the soldiers and Zero. She got instantly to her feet.
"Drop you weapons!" yelled Ciel.
The soldiers aimed at Zero looked at Ciel and then back at the crimson reploid.
"But Ciel! This reploid..." said the middle solider.
Ciel cut him off using her authority in her voice to over rule the solider.
"This reploid saved me from Neo Arcadia AND from being shot by friendly fire." exclaimed Ciel.
Zero smiled and shook his head as he put away his saber; almost causing the solider he had pulled it on to sigh in relief. The soldiers slowly brought down their weapons as well. Ciel walked over to Zero to see the damage done but only now did it become apparent. His shoulder components were showing and with even more bad news, his back seemed all ripped up from falling stunt a little while back. His back shoulder blades seemed to have taken the worse part of the damaged from the rolling landing he did. Ciel was amazed at how well he was hiding the pain.
"Zero! Your wounds! Don't you feel in any pain?" exclaimed Ciel
She began to feel around his shoulders as she checked the how bad and deep the wounds went. Zero however seemed a little distracted, he felt a little warm but couldn't explain why, but he quickly passed it off when he winced in pain from Ciel touching his damaged parts. The soldiers stood down but seemed a little on guard.
"We going to have to get Cerveau to help and fix you up." said Ciel.
Zero didn't like the aspect of being looked over by anyone else right now, like the soldiers the only person he trusted currently was Ciel. Ciel seemed to feel what Zero felt as she spoke.
"Cerveau is a good person, you can trust him." said Ciel.
The soldiers seemed to want to question him right now but Ciel wouldn't have any anything to do with it. She turned to them and addressed them with a strong formal voice.
"Tell the others I'll be up in the command once I escort Zero to Cerveau for repairs." ordered Ciel.
The soldiers seemed surprised and then decided to ask if it was the very same.
"Zero! THE Zero?" asked one of the soldiers.
Ciel nodded and the soldiers gave a quick solute and then quickly left, they seemed eager to tell people about this, however some of the soldiers didn't seem completely convinced as some looked back with a questioning look on his face.
"Maybe this will give the troops a much needed moral boost." smiled Ciel.
"If they believe you... and its true." replied Zero.
He didn't feel like this so called 'Legendary Zero', he didn't even know for that matter his name was really Zero. He decided to accept the name though, since he didn't have any name he could remember off hand. Ciel looked at him and seemed to be thinking on similar lines of Zero.
"Are you really that unsure?" asked Ciel.
"I'm confused and lost, I don't know where I am or who I am. I have no clue what time this is or for that matter how I even knew what I was doing. I was playing everything by instinct." explained Zero.
"Yet, the part that bothers you is you can't remember your past?" asked Ciel.
Zero nodded, for some odd reason he didn't have any problem being able to think instantly or have a sixth sense of danger. He was only bothered by the fact he couldn't remember anything in the past.
"Why was I even their?" asked Zero.
Ciel bit her lower lip, she knew he wanted answers but she didn't have any to give at the moment. She quickly decided to get his mind off his memory trouble, as this was only confusing Zero as he thought more about it.
"Zero, lets get you fixed up first." said Ciel.
She grabbed Zero's hand and almost dragged Zero to the evaluator. Zero, for the first time, noticed how Ciel's hand felt, it felt smooth and warm. It felt very awkward for him to be holding her hand now, even know before he had no issue with it. Ciel didn't notice the facial expression on Zero.
"You do know what you are right? And what I am?" asked Ciel.
Ciel was testing his memory and how bad it was, she wanted to know how far the memory problem extended too. Zero didn't reply for a few moments as he thought about what a reploid and humans were. He knew, but he didn't know why he knew. He quickly stopped thinking about it, as questioning his own knowledge wasn't getting him anywhere.
"...I think I understand what reploids and humans are." replied Zero finally.
Ciel stopped right outside what appeared to be the control room for a run down, out of data power control room.
"You seem to be recalling your programmed information." replied Ciel.
"The information I was programmed with before I turned on." asked Zero.
Ciel nodded as she reached for the button to open the door.
"Yes, see you even knew what I was talking about." smiled Ciel.
She knew if he was recovering this quickly then he was sure to recover his memories soon and then maybe he would help the resistance but at the same time, she felt guilty for wanting to 'use' Zero, yet she really didn't have any other option. She turned her attention back to bring Zero to met Cerveau and get repaired.
"This is Cerveau's work area, it may seem out of place but the resistance had no other place to put his workshop." explained Ciel.
Ciel opened the door, while at the same time a loud yell could be heard from the brown haired reploid, with an visor and green with blue lines lab outfit.
"DON'T COME IN!" yelled Cerveau.
Ciel watched in amazement as she could see a flying energy disc randomly flying around the room, hitting and destroying anything it touched as it buzz sawed it way around the room, seemly with no set course.
"What the!" said Ciel.
Ciel and Zero watched as the spinning disc hit the ceiling causing some of the lights in the room to go out, and then bounced downward crashing into a computer destroying it and making a prefect line threw the computer. After it went threw the computer and went straight for Cerveau, who quickly ducked to avoid the spinning disc of energy. The spinning blade then headed straight for Ciel, who seemed too surprised to move. Zero drew his saber and defended Ciel by matching the spinning disc with a defensive saber position. The disc hit and spun, hitting his saber as it tried to cut threw his energy saber. The spinning kept going for about a good seven seconds before the energy around the spinning disc suddenly died. A mental disc hit the ground that was the source of energy that had made the disc. Zero slowly put his saber away and picked up the mental disc giving it a look over. Ciel was catching her breath, yet again. Cerveau seemed to be surprised by the sudden appearance of the new reploid and the fact he had so effortlessly stopped the disc.
"Well... it seems, my Shield Boomerang needs some more work before it goes to testing." said Cerveau with relief.
Zero slowly walked over to Cerveau and handed him the disc, still staring at it with interest. Cerveau noticed the reploid's interest in the flawed weapon as he placed it down on the table.
"It's a prototype, the shield itself works and the throwing mechanism works fine but the receiver... that's a different story." explained Cerveau.
"Could be useful when it works." said Zero.
Cerveau seemed impressed in Zero's taste of weaponry, and held out his hand.
"My name is Cerveau, you're new here aren't you? What's your name?" asked Cerveau.
Ciel finally got over her spell of near-death-trauma for the second time since she got back from the abandoned research facility.
"He's Zero, Cerveau." explained Ciel.
Cerveau almost jumped when Ciel said he was indeed, Zero. Zero had already reached out his hand and shook Cerveau's hand, almost forcefully, cause Cerveau was in such shock.
"Zero!" said Cerveau.
He began to circle around Zero, taking note of his design and his weapons on his sides still. He stopped for a moment and looked at Zero's backside that had been overall badly damaged as his armor didn't seem like it would stay on for long on his back. He also stopped for a moment when he came back around looking at the black spot on his chest region, were the plasma cannon shot had hit him. Zero felt like he was being looked over with a microscope, or like he was on display at a mall.
"You're Zero!" asked Cerveau.
"Ummm, Yes?" uneasily replied Zero.
Cerveau laughed as if almost taunting Zero, this only confused Zero even more.
"That explains how you stopped my Shield Boomerang then, that weapon was designed to go through those saber's the X-drones use, along with almost anything else." explained Cerveau.
"I think Zero got that picture Cerveau." points out Ciel.
She pointed at the room and it was pretty easily seen that the weapon had destroyed just about everything in Cerveau's lab. Two windows broken, a broken light now dangling down, a computer with a prefect hole though it, and a table perfectly cut in half. Cerveau gave a weak laugh and then turned to a chest full of reploid repair tools, very old and crud but they worked.
"I see you've taken a few hits. Well, I think we better patch you up then." explained Cerveau.
Zero looked at Ciel, as if uneasy to be left behind at this time since his memory was badly damaged.
"Trust him Zero. I have to report in and find out what has been happening in my absence." she explained.
Zero nodded, it was very important for Ciel to stay update with her forces and he really didn't have any right to ask her to stay.
"I'll come and visit once I'm done." she said.
She turned around and slowly walked out of the room, stopping a moment to look at Zero one last time before leaving. Zero felt a little weird after she left, as if a little sad. He passed it off quickly when Cerveau managed to hit his central arm nerve system, and a sharp pain surged through his body.
"Watch it! That hurt!" quickly said Zero.
Cerveau seemed a little worried now as he didn't understand Zero's design too well, and trying to repair something you don't understand wasn't his specialty, let alone with inferior tools.
"I'm sorry, its just I've never worked on a reploid with your design before." he explained.
Zero got the feeling it was going to be one long painful day.
It was dark and raining and the old facility didn't make it seem any better. The green reploid slowly landed in the ruins of the trans server room. The server still functioned but as some of the more smarter reploids attempted to hack it, they found the passwords on the transfer server had been changed, and they were unable to break its encryption.
"We are unable to hack the password, it appears the password was changed after transfer." reported an unarmed technical reploid.
"Any reports on what happened?" asked the green reploid.
The green reploid was pretty tall; he seemed very well up kept. His helmet had huge fins that extended far above the normal of most reploids. He had boosters on his back, showing he was a flyer. He had cylinder objects on his sides, his twin blades.
"A reploid apparently did this as he found marks on the crater he crashed in during the battle with Golem." he replied.
"That's all?" questioned the green reploid.
The technical reploid quickly backed away, scared of the green reploid. He seemed very fearful of what the reploid might do to him.
"Please! Sage Harpuia! Forgive us!" said the tech.
Harpuia seemed mad at this but turned his attention away and looked back at the remains of the Golem. His mind clicked onto something as he walked over to the Golem, he began to look over the Golem and the damaged done to the massive machine. The technical reploid watched in surprise as Harpuia stepped up onto the destroyed Golem. He slowed reached down to his side grabbing one of his blades and then kneeled down to get closer to the Golem. He turned it on and it formed a short dark pink blade. The technical reploids had stopped to watch what Harpuia was doing. He then suddenly stabbed his blade into the Golem's chest, startling the techs. He began to slowly cut a careful hole into the Golem and then he brought up his other blade turning it on and quickly using it to pier off the mental circle he had just made in the armor. He turned off his blades off and placing them in their holsters. He then thrusted his hand into the opened Golem and quickly jerked it out, ripping out a black box out of the Golem. The techs seemed completely surprised by this and simply wondered what he was doing. He stood back up, only glancing at the damaged for a moment and then hopped off the Golem. He almost threw the box at one of the technical reploids, who fell down from the weight and force of the box.
"Analyze the visual data. Master X wants answers." he ordered.