World Reset
Chapter 7 – Pitch Black
Ashe felt herself falling into the hole under her feet, which seemed to be a bottomless pit. She closed her eyes to brace for impact, which never seemed to have come. She reopened her eyes, but her surroundings were completely black, as if she never actually opened her eyes. She tried moving her body, but she didn't feel herself moving at all. She was starting to get panicked until a white flash came to her eyes.
Fire was burning everywhere. Hundreds of Galleon Hunters were running around, shooting out at anything they detected to me moving until they had all stopped moving. Hysterical cries were heard all over the area as more and more wooden shacks were burned down, silencing the cries. A young girl was running through the burned shacks, occasionally stopping when a person came into sight.
"Have you seen my mommy and daddy?" The girl asked the man who was leaning on a burning pillar before the man fell down with his bloody arms spread wide.
The girl shrieked in fear before running away, only to crash into a few more Galleon Hunters with their guns pointed at her head. The girl's body was shaking out of fear before she lost her footing and fell backwards, letting her long silver hair to be partially dipped into a small pool of blood. The girl backed away as the Galleons came closer and closer to her.
The girl closed her eyes shut and braced for the shots which might hit her body, but they never came. She reopened her eyes and saw the Galleons were on the ground, destroyed, along with three men in orange suits and guns in their hands standing over the fallen Galleons. One of the men who had no visor over his eyes but had a mask over his mouth and nose knelt down to the frightened girl and patted her head.
"Hey there, little girl… Come with us, and we'll get you to safety," The man offered her a hand, which the girl took hesitantly.
"Nicol! What are you doing there!?" The man with a blue visor asked, "We need to find Siarnaq and get out of this place!"
"Calm down, Lazarus!" The man with a red visor said, "We don't have the time to look for the survivors and Siarnaq at the same time!"
"Red's got a point," The man with the face mask, Nicol, said as he carried the girl in his arms, "We have to trust Siarnaq to find a way out of this place," Nicol turned to the girl in his arms, "What's your name?"
"My… name…?" The girl looked up at Nicol, "I'm… Ashe…"
Ashe shot her eyes open before panting, finding herself lying down on something invisible. She got up and looked around, seeing that the area around her was completely black. She looked at her hands, which were still visible to her, and saw that she was still transformed. She let out a sad sigh as she recalled the vision she had just seen.
'That vision… was it from my memory? The forgotten bitter and hurting memory of my childhood?' Ashe let out another sad sigh before she noticed that a figure had teleported in front of her, "Y-You! Siarnaq!"
Siarnaq looked at her silently, glaring at her with his glowing red eyes. A scar was seen over his right eye, and a cross-shaped scar was seen on his left cheek. Siarnaq pulled out his purple Biometal before he transformed into his Model P form, "OPPONENT CHECK: MEGA MAN MODEL A. MEMBER OF DISHONORABLE TRAITORS."
"Traitors?" Ashe asked, but got no answer as Siarnaq just glared at her with his glowing red eyes, "Wait, are you saying that the Hunters betrayed you after they saved me?"
"RESPONSE CORRECT," Siarnaq shortly replied with his robotic voice before he disappeared from Ashe's sight.
"Here we go again…" Model A's sighing was heard in Ashe's head, "Try the Giga Crush. Maybe that'll put an end to his weirdness…"
Ashe let out a laugh as she got her buster guns ready, "I like your idea, Model A!"
Just Ashe was about to release her rapid shots, a shuriken suddenly struck her hand and cancelled the attack. She looked to the direction the shuriken came from, but saw that no one was there. Just as she was about to release her rapid shots once more, a few kunai had flown towards her direction and hit her hands, making her drop her buster guns.
Ashe picked up her weapons once more before releasing her rapid shots, but there was no sound of the shots hitting anything. Siarnaq suddenly appeared in front of her punched her aside, knocking to the ground before he disappeared once more. Ashe got back to her feet slowly, only to be knocked back once more as Siarnaq's knee made contact with her chin.
Ashe landed hard on the ground and was about to get up to her feet, but some kunai had flown towards her and knocked her back to the ground. She stayed down on the invisible ground and scanned the area with her Homing Shot gun, but Siarnaq wasn't detected anywhere nearby. Ashe sat up, only to be sent back into the ground with her face down as a shuriken knocked her down from the back.
Ashe got up shakily while holding on to her buster guns tightly before Siarnaq appeared in front of her with a shuriken ready in his left hand while a few kunai was between his fingers in his right hand. Ashe quickly dodged the incoming attack, but Siarnaq stayed still with his weapons in his hands, leaving the female Hunter confused.
Siarnaq suddenly disappeared from her sight once more before she was rained down by the kunai from above. Ashe put her buster guns above her head to block the incoming kunai, not noticing that a shuriken was heading towards her legs. Ashe got knocked down by the shuriken before the kunai rained down on her.
Ashe lost her consciousness and Siarnaq reappeared in front of her with a kunai in his hand. Ashe's body disappeared in white light, leaving Siarnaq's kunai to hit the invisible ground where Ashe used to be. Siarnaq pulled out another kunai and threw it hard at the ground where Ashe used to be before he transformed back.
Siarnaq let out a wicked laugh before he fell to his knees and teleported away from the area with his laugh still echoing in the area.
The rest of the story should come soon, hopefully...