Disclaimer: I do not own Megaman Zero or any character portrait on this fic, with that out of the way, let's continue:
´´ ´´: Dialogue of characters
Italics : Thoughts of characters
Lost Love
Flashback:
´´Iris!´´
Zero stood before Iris when he reached the space port, a look of mixed sadness and anger on her face.
´´You killed my brother Zero and for what , for the humans that aren't worth it , they must suffer what I suffered , as well as you´´.
´´Wait Iris, listen to me!´´
´´It's over Zero, goodbye…´´
The battle of Zero and Iris raged on, each attack more intense than before until only one would remain standing. Zero…
End flashback
Zero awoke by the first rays of light coming from the window , he looked around to remember where he was : pink dresses hanged, a computer with a lot of documents lying around , and Ciel sleeping next to him. Now he remembered.
Last night Zero arrived at the resistance base with Ciel ,X, Harpuia and Cerveau, the members of the base were surprised and happy to see their comrade once more and they decided to throw a party to celebrate , everyone except Harpuia was there , he remained outside during the celebration , although the resistance and Neo arcadia remained in peace ,he didn't liked the idea of being in the same room as them.
The party lasted until late night , in the end Zero lead Ciel to her room and she asked him to stay with her that night , just to keep her company.
Zero slowly rise from bed carefully leaving Ciel to sleep some more as he went for a walk to clear his mind from the dream he had.
´´Maybe X would know something about her´´- so he went searching for him. Zero entered the cafeteria in hopes to find him there, but only found a few reploids cleaning the mess from last night and a couple of reploids passed out in the floor from too much partying.
Zero searched the entire base until he found X on top of a turret outside of the base , X was looking at the morning sun rising from the horizon.
´´I thought you were tired of looking at the sunrise by now´´
´´That's right´´ - X said - ´´but that was when I was a cyber elf , I missed the feeling of the sun in my face. How was your night Zero?´´.
´´It was fine´´
´´I mean How was your night with Ciel ´´- X said to Zero with a teasing look.
´´ Nothinghappened , you perv. ´´
´´I'm just joking around loosen up a bit , Its been a while since I saw you this happy´´.
´´If only I could remember happier times…´´ – Zero thought, after looking around Zero spoke -´´ By the way , where's Harpuia? ´´.
´´He went to Neo arcadia to check on things over there, he'll be back in a few hours´´.
´´ Don't doubt it, Master X ´´
Both of them laughed after that remark of the green guardian, Harpuia needed to loosen up as well. Zero remained with X in peaceful silence , until Zero broke the silence asking him of his last dream.
´´X , do you remember someone called Iris?´´
X looked at the horizon for a moment -´´ So you finally remembered her , Id hoped you wouldn't´´
´´Please, tell me about her´´
X stood up and remained a few moments quiet , then he began:
´´Iris was your first love Zero , you first met her when your comrade the colonel who was your fellow maverick hunter introducer her to you , at first you and Iris didn't got along very well but slowly you grew feelings to each other´´
´´When the repliforce began attacking the civilians you and I began investigating and we discovered that the colonel was behind the attack , he wanted to make a world only for reploids by eliminating the humans , but we stopped him´´
´´Iris didn't want the two of you fighting each other , her brother and the one she loved , but you had no choice , you defeated the colonel and Iris lost it , she took the remaining repliforce to the final weapon and you had to fight her to save everyoneIn her last moments she confessed her feelings towards you and she regretted not being able to tell you before´´
´´I see´´- Zero whispered -´´ I killed her , after I was in love with her´´.
´´You had no choice , it was the only choice left to save everyone´´.
´´That doesn't make it better ´´- Zero replied – ´´I'm not better than Weil or Omega´´.
Seeing his friend like this, X took a decision - ´´I hope this will help´´.
X and Zero were surrounded by a blue light and were transported to Neo arcadia.
´´Look Zero´´- X motioned him to the streets - ´´do you see all those people in the street , they are alive today thanks to us, we are called heroes for saving them time after time , but they don't know of the decisions we have to take to ensure their safetyYou and Iris knew that the day you enlisted to be maverick hunters ,and she knew that the day you fought each other, she wanted you to stop her , because she knew you would never give up, so you see Zero, we have to take the hard decisions to protect those we love even if it cost us everything´´.
´´That is the difference between us and them, is that what you're trying to say´´- Zero said.
´´ What I'm trying to say is that she wouldn't want you to feel sad for her anymore, she would have wanted you to live happy ,for her in this world ´´.
´´It's not that easy X´´.
´´I know´´ – X said with a fore long look - ´´But we have no choice´´
Zero contemplated the idea as a green reploid approached them.
´´Master X , we sensed your signal here is something wrong? ´´
´´Nothing's wrong Harpuia, I'm just showing Zero a few things´´.
´´We'll , since you're here I would like you to come with me to discuss a few tactical measures for the city´´ - Then Harpuia turned to Zero - ´´we also need miss Ciel to help us out.´´
´´Alright ,Zero would you go for Ciel back at the case , I'll go with Harpuia´´.
X and Harpuia left while Zero went for the nearest transport , but little did they knew that someone was listening closely…
Meanwhile at the base:
Zero was heading to Ciel's room still thinking of the conversation he had with X:
´´ If I have to eliminate someone I love just to save everyone else I'm not different from Weil and Omega , I am just a mindless reploid programmed to finish the job without considering every fact…''
´´Zero did you say something''
Zero turned around to find Ciel coming out of her room - ´´No , I'm just thinking out loudCiel , Harpuia needs you to review a few tactical data for Neo arcadia ,I came here to give you a ride´´
´´Ok, let me get something and I'll be right back´´ -Ciel gathered her materials and headed to the transerver with Zero ,the transerver uses more energy but it was more safe due to the recent dark maverick attacks.
On the way Ciel was talking with Zero:
´´Zero you left early today , did something bothered you? ´´
´´No , I just went for a walk to clear my mind and started to talk with X´´.
Ciel accepted his words, but something bothered her, that something was when Zero repeated the name Iris while he was sleeping.
Ciel and Zero boarded the transerver and headed for Neo arcadia's security section. When they arrived Zero noticed a few reploid and humans walking in the streets , the last attack from the dark mavericks didn't concern them a bit , Zero was understanding what X said early that day.
´´Well I'm heading In ,I'll see you later Zero´´- Ciel said
´´Yeah I'll patrol a while here with the X bots just in case´´.
´´Just don't overdo it Zero, You are not a mindless reploid , you are a very important person for us , and me´´. Ciel said kissing Zero in the cheek, then she left rather fast, a bit embarrassed.
Zero touched the spot where she kissed him -´´Then she did heard , I've got to be more careful next time´´.
Zero patrolled the surroundings of the building with the X bots for a few hours , getting bored very quickly due to the impressive company the bots offered.
´´North sector secured´´- ´´no enemy present here´´ - ´´cero maverick activity on quadrant 3´´ - and a bunch of other boring droid phrases.
Zero reached the top of the nearest building to inspect the street more carefully, nothing out of the ordinary for a while when a mysterious shadow caped reploid appeared in the street , the reploid stopped at the middle of the street revealing her long chocolate brown hair and looked at the red reploid on top of the building.
Zero's dream came back as he saw the female reploid in the street - ´´Iris It cant be...´´
Well another chapter finally up , a bit short anyway (and the beginning of the Ciel-Zero-Iris triangle), sorry it took a while to write it but it was a busy week for me, thanks for all the reviews I got , I didn't think that I'd get even a single review when I started but that's how things are , by the way thanks for the tip of the allow anonymous reviews , Id thought everyone could review it. Well I'll try not to take so long for the next update so stay tuned, again thanks for the reviews. Until next update.