Yay! Another chappy up! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I had other things to attend to. And now, on with the chapter!
Disclaimer: Why the heck can I not own Megaman? I'm smart!
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Zero walked down the squares of ACDC area 1. He looked for Iris all over the net, and never found her. Axl beamed in smiling. He noticed Zero sitting on the sidewalk depressed. He sat down with him.
"Hey Zero, what's up?"
"SIGH, I can never find Iris… maybe she doesn't exist."
"Sure she does! You just have to keep looking."
"Then why don't you find her smart guy?"
"Haha, as a matter of fact…"
"What do you mean?"
"Follow me."
"Axl…"
Zero got up and ran after Axl. They warped out and jacked into copy bots. They walked into the metro line station and boarded a train for Scilab. The two don't talk at all. Axl finally breaks the ice.
"Sooo, Zero… What makes you think that the Iris in this universe is gonna have the same feelings for you?…
"I don't."
"Then why try? She might not be even the same as her."
"In terms of it being a mirror world, yes. But a in these terms, it'd be the same."
"Ok, would you like to confuse me more, or would you rather look for Iris?"
"…"
Axl laughed and they got off. Axl lead Zero to Sci-lab. Dr. Hikari and X were waiting for them.
"Zero! I haven't seen you in days! What's wrong?"
"Zero here can't find Iris. Luckily, Axl has found her." Axl said in third person.
"Iris… Zero, you should know-"
"Where is she?" Zero said a bit cold like. X realized that since Iris's death Zero had become colder. X wanted to try anything to see his life-long friend feel better.
"Room 404." X said with a smile. "I'll take you there myself."
X and Zero left the room.
"So, what's up doc?" Axl said to brighten the mood in the room.
"I'm working on how to send you guys back. It has to do with the Time Flux…."
"I kinda don't want to leave, seeing how I have a Girlfriend and all…"
"Axl, you have a girlfriend?" said the cocked eye browed Hikari.
…
X and Zero walk down the hall and turn into a room. It has a lot of holograms in them. Zero looks around. He try's to locate Iris, but fails. X points him in the right direction.
"Are you sure that's her?"
"I'm positive. I didn't want to tell you before, because they don't have the exact same personalities."
"Well, I'm willing to try anything."
Zero walks up to her hologram and Jacks in. Iris is rapidly mashing buttons on a keyboard. Zero walks up to her.
"Bridge is out in Yumland. Executing reformation."
"Excuse me?"
Zero walks up closer.
"My I help you?"
"Your Iris?"
"Yes. I'm very busy, so can you tell me your problem?"
"I… just wanted you name."
Zero begins to walk off. Iris puts down her cyber headset.
"Er… Who are you?"
"Z-zero." Said the red Reploid.
"Reploid… Wait, your Zero? The one who stopped Gaia?"
"Yes."
"My brother was on that ship. He was guarding the Luminie program. He was attacked and badly damaged…"
"Colonel you mean?"
"You know him?"
"… Where I'm from, him and I were rival's…"
"You… you fought my brother?"
"In my demension, I…"
Zero closed his eyes and shrugged.
"I killed him."
"W-what?"
"He was considered evil… I… My pride…"
Zero closed his eyes. He had a tear run down his cheek. Iris got up and walked over.
"What's wrong?" She said as she wiped the tear away.
"I'll tell you somewhere else…"
She and him warped out. They jacked into copy bots. They walked out towards Oran. They sat at the coast of the shoreline at Sci-Lab. He and Iris were very quiet. Until…
"What were you going to tell me?"
Zero closed his eyes and frowned.
"There… was another you."
"Another me?"
"You were his brother as well. You loved him very much. We…"
"We? You mean you and I?"
"I fell in… love with you. You did as well."
Iris's eye's bulged.
"You became over-whelmed by rage over your brother's death. I… had to fight you."
"What happened then…?"
"I…I…I killed…"
Zero had a few tears rolled down his cheek.
"You said… with your dying words… that you wanted to be in a utopia with me… Then…"
Zero began to cry a bit. Iris sat there.
"I… I said that?"
"SNIFF Yes… My emotions killed me. I went on a rampage, destroying any and all Mavericks. I could not bear your death."
She sat there and smiled.
"Do… do you think that could happen?"
"…What?" Said Zero.
"Do you think… we could fall in love?"
"I don't know…"
She paused. After a good while, she got up, and picked Zero up.
"Come on, let's go to the Cyber Café." Iris said, smiling.
Zero smiled and they walked off. X stood in the distance.
"I hope you feel better Zero…"
X felt a tear roll down his face.
"I have to tell someone important also…"
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There you have it, the Zero finding Iris fluff you wanted. What about Axl! I'll tell you guys later.
-Giga Sonic, Logging out.