World Reset

Chapter 13 – Vent's Retrieval

A week had passed since Vent's movement was detected. Mavericks were still attacking the city, but their numbers had slowly decreased. The Reploid siblings, Prometheus and Pandora, had already recovered from their strange headaches and were still staying in the Guardian Base. The Hunters were staying in the Hunter Camp when they got a transmission from Prairie.

"What!?" Grey asked as he had his hand on the communicator on his ear, "Alright, we're on our way."

"Wait!" Prairie's voice was heard from Grey's communicator, "Prometheus and Pandora wanted to come with you two, so I'm going to send them over to the Hunter Camp."

"Okay," Grey ended the transmission and went out of his bedroom, where he slept on his own, before he went out of the 00 building to find Ashe already waiting outside.

"Come on, I've already heard about the details from those two siblings," Ashe went on ahead with Grey following her as they met up with the Reploid siblings in the 04 building before they teleported to the Tower of Verdure.

The four teleported to the top floor of the tower into the room where some vines were hanging. They looked around the room, but found that the room was completely empty. Ashe let out a sigh before turning to the Reploid siblings, "Are you sure that Prairie told you Vent would be here?"

"Yes," Prometheus replied with a nod, "The signal was coming from around this tower."

Grey noticed that two people suddenly teleported into the room and stood in front of them with both having their sabers ready, "Vent! Giro!"

"Looks like the Guardians still have some people to be sent looking for you, Vent," Giro turned to Vent, who stayed silent.

"What are you doing here?" Ashe asked.

"What are we doing here?" Giro asked back before he stretched out his arm towards the Reploid siblings behind the Hunters, "This is what we're doing!"

Giro's stretched hand suddenly glowed in purple color before purple-colored thunder struck down on Prometheus and Pandora. The Reploid siblings yelled in pain before they collapsed on the floor, fainted. The Hunters saw as the siblings lost consciousness and turned back to Giro, who had a smile on his face as he drew back his stretched arm.

"It turns out that those two doesn't have any good information about Weil," Giro spoke up, getting confused looks from the Hunters, "You don't get it, do you? Lord Thomas rebuilt those two using the remains of Weil's data in order to get their memories, but I guess it's a waste of time."

"W-Wait, so Thomas rebuilt those two?" Grey asked as he pointed at the collapsed siblings behind him, "And now you're just going to destroy them after knowing that they don't know anything useful to you!?"

"I'm not ordered to destroy those two," Giro drew his saber back, "I'm simply unlocking their useless memories and power. We don't need them anymore because it's only a matter of time before Lord Thomas can finally reset this world in order to make the ideal world for us," Giro turned away from the Hunters, "Vent, I'm leaving these two Hunters to you. Destroy those two siblings if you must. We have no use for them anymore."

As Giro teleported away, Ashe ran over to his place angrily, "You coward! Are you just going to run every time you see us!?"

"Ashe! Behind you!" Grey warned his partner, who quickly pulled out her buster guns to block Vent's incoming saber. Grey released a charged shot, knocking Vent against the wall before turning back to Ashe, "We have to fight him again! We'll see if we can get him back to normal!"

"Right!" Ashe nodded in agreement before she distanced herself from Vent as he had got back to his feet.

Ashe released a reflect laser followed by a Homing Shot, giving Grey the chance to take the Reploid siblings away from the battle area. Vent took the attacks head on, but barely damaged by them as he had charged in at Ashe with his purple saber in front of him. Ashe sidestepped to dodge the attack and released a Homing Shot as he passed by, knocking him a little.

Grey released a charged shot at Vent, who used his saber to cut through the shot and slashed Grey across his chest. Grey was knocked back to the wall next to the unconscious Reploid siblings, but managed to get back to his feet slowly and released another charged shot to knock Vent back. Ashe followed up the attack with her reflect laser, making Vent turn her way as he released a few charged shots at her.

Ashe dodged the attack easily, but didn't expect that Vent had charged at her again with his saber in front of him. Ashe barely dodged it as she got hit on her arm, but it gave her the chance to land a Homing Shot on him. Vent was knocked away from her and Grey released his Giga Crush attack as Vent was about to get back to his feet.

Ashe distanced herself away from Vent as she jumped to Grey's side and saw that Vent had got back to his feet with his back turned to them and he was holding his head, "What's he doing now…?"

"S… Stop… it…" Vent closed his eyes shut as he slammed his body to the wall, "I… don't want… to hurt… them…"

"I think he's almost back to his old self! He's fighting it!" Grey replied as he and Ashe watched Vent trying to get back to normal.

Vent opened his eyes and the red color in his eyes were slowly turning to his normal green color, but suddenly turned back to red before Vent pulled out his purple saber and charged at the Hunters. Ashe and Grey had moved out of the way, but Vent's attack stopped in the middle as he dropped his saber and fell to his knees before he started clutching his head once more.

"No…more…" Vent shakily turned to the Hunters with his eyes still red in color, "S… Shoot… me… quick…" Ashe was about to point her buster gun at Vent when he suddenly let out a pained yell before he turned back to the Hunters, "Quick… I'm… holding… mind control…"

Ashe took a deep breath as she aimed her buster gun at Vent once more before closing her eyes, "Sorry, Vent…"

Ashe released her reflect laser, which hit Vent on his chest before he was knocked down on the ground. The dark red armor covering his body disappeared, leaving Vent as he transformed back to his human form. The brown Biometal, Model O, was in Vent's left hand as Model X was in Vent's right hand.

"Nice… job…" Vent let out a weak laugh before he lost consciousness.

"Alright, we've got Vent back now," Grey spoke up before he walked over to the Reploid siblings, "Now we only need to take him along with Prometheus and Pandora back to the Guardian Base."

"Okay, I'll tell Prairie now," Ashe said as she turned to Grey before she reached the communicator on her ear, "Prairie, guess who's back in the team!"

"Ashe, have you and Grey retrieved Vent back?" Prairie asked in surprise.

"You are correct, Miss!" Ashe replied jokingly before turning to Vent, "But I think this big guy needs some good rest!"

"Thank goodness…" Prairie sighed in relief, "Okay, I'll transfer you and the others back to the Guardian Base."

"Thanks!" Ashe replied before she ended the communication and the five of them were teleported out of the area in a flash of white light.