This batch should be up a few hours ago, but I couldn't because of the site's server problems so... yeah, blame them, not me.

World Reset

Chapter 16 – The Great Four

The next morning came, and the male brown-haired Guardian was woken up by the call through the intercom, much to his annoyance. Vent got up from his bed lazily before getting ready and headed out to the command center as he was called to. The two Hunters, Ashe and Grey, were already in the command center in their Model A forms along with Prairie in the room.

"Vent!" Prairie noticed the incoming Guardian, "We've detected Thomas' movement again. There are four Biometal signals coming from the ocean where Ouroboros fell years ago."

"Ouroboros?" Vent asked, getting nods from the others in the room, "But why would Thomas want anything to do with the Ouroboros? The last time we checked that place, its remains can't be rebuilt anymore!"

"That's what we need to find out," Prairie turned to the Hunters, "Could you get Prometheus and Pandora to work with us?"

Grey only let out a sad sigh, leaving Ashe to answer the commander, "Nope, they're locking themselves in their bedroom. Again."

"I see," Prairie nodded in understanding, "I'm counting on you three to stop Thomas from taking that Ouroboros no matter what it is he wants from it."

"Roger!" Vent nodded and transformed into his Model ZX form before the Hunters turned to him and nodded.

The three Chosen Ones headed towards the transerver room before teleporting to the Ouroboros' crash site. The four missing Mega Men, Aeolus, Atlas, Thetis, and Siarnaq were all standing in front of the remains of Ouroboros with their backs turned to the three other Chosen Ones. The four noticed as Vent and the Hunters approached them and pulled out their weapons.

"What do you want with that thing?!" Ashe asked angrily before pulling out her buster guns and pointed them at the four, "What is Thomas planning to do with it?!"

"It's none of your pitiful concern," Aeolus replied coldly before drawing the end of his pink sabers together, "You have no right to know."

"Yes, we do! This is our world we're living in, and it's also yours as well!" Vent argued as he pulled out his green ZX saber.

"This world is a world filled with weak people. That's why this world isn't ours," Atlas replied, getting angry growls from the three.

"That's right," Thetis let out an evil smile before he put his staff on his side, "You guys are the pollutant of this world, and I don't live in polluted worlds!"

"Will you guys snap out of this whole madness!?" Grey asked angrily, "Just like how Albert used you, Thomas has been using you as well! He's trying to make you four do the dirty work for him while he gets to destroy this world and make a new world for his own!"

"THOMAS IS AN HONORED MAN," Siarnaq spoke up with his robotic voice, "HE HAD PROMISED THE IDEAL WORLD FOR ALL OF US."

"These guys just don't get it, do they?!" Ashe asked in irritation, "How can they just take a bunch of nonsense into their heads while leaving the truth passing by?!"

"Ugh, forget it! They're not going to listen to whatever we're saying!" Vent said angrily, "We have to take them down and force the truth into their heads!"

Vent charged ahead with his green saber in front of him, only to be blocked by Aeolus' pink sabers before Atlas appeared beside him and knocked him away. Grey went to Vent's side and caught him before he fell to the ground, not noticing that Thetis had swum behind them. Ashe released her reflect laser and knocked Thetis away, only to be hit by Siarnaq's raining kunai.

Vent pulled out his buster in his free hand and began shooting normal buster shots at Siarnaq, but Thetis' ice towers had blocked his shots completely and bounced them back to him. Vent dashed away from the shots, but was knocked to the ground with Atlas' buster gun. Grey was about to release his charged shot at Atlas, but Aeolus' ball of electricity had paralyzed him and cancelled his attack.

Ashe was surrounded by Siarnaq's clones, but her Homing Shots had cleared the clones away to see that the real body was nowhere to be found. A shuriken came from behind her, but she managed to dodge the attack and the shuriken only tore the side of her helmet a little. Siarnaq appeared behind Ashe, but Vent's saber had hit Siarnaq just as he was about to attack with the kunai in his hand.

Grey slowly recovered from his paralysis before he aimed his charged shot at Thetis, but the Ice Mega Men had swum away to dodge the attack. Ice dragons suddenly came out from Grey's feet, much to the Reploid's surprise, and almost froze his body completely as Ashe's Homing Shots had destroyed some of the ice dragons' bodies and shattered them into small ice spikes.

The ice spikes went straight towards the Hunters, but Vent's charged shot destroyed the spikes before they made in contact with the Hunters. The three regrouped and formed a small circle as the other four Mega Men had them surrounded with their weapons ready. The Hunters released their rapid Giga Crush attacks, which didn't damage the four that much.

"This is bad… They're much stronger than the last time we fought them!" Grey spoke up as he looked at the four Mega Men.

"Not to mention that we lost pretty badly that time too…" Ashe added.

"We're not too outnumbered, but we're definitely too overpowered!" Vent commented as his grip on his saber got tighter, 'Darn it… I can't use Model OX here or I'll take Thomas' side again…'

"Stop this fight!"

"Huh?" Vent lowered his saber before he looked around in confusion, "What was that?"

"What do you mean by that?" Grey asked as he noticed the confusion on the Guardian's face.

'I think… I heard Model X's voice just now…' Vent thought before he looked at the four Mega Men in front of him as they closed in on him and the Hunters, 'But his consciousness should be gone after I used the special overdrive system to take down Weil…'

"Four Guardians of Neo Arcadia, I command you to stop this fight!"

The four Mega Men suddenly fell to their knees and were all wincing in pain, much to the three's surprise. The four glowed for a moment before they all transformed back, leaving their Biometals in their hands before they fell to the ground. The three paused for a bit as they watched them to be motionless on the ground before they ran over to them and checked their pulses.

"There's still alive," Vent said as he held on to Aeolus before turning to the Hunters, "I don't know why, but I think Model X had something to do with this."

"Whatever has happened, let it happen," A familiar voice was suddenly heard in the three's communicator.

"Thomas!" Grey recognized the voice, "What are you planning now?! Your loyal Mega Men have just fallen!"

Thomas let out an evil laugh, "It doesn't matter anymore if they can't fight anymore. They were merely just pawns in my grand plan."

The remains of Ouroboros glowed for a moment before they disappeared from the site as Vent ran over to it, "No! The Ouroboros!"

Thomas let out another evil laugh, "You can have those so-called Guardians back. I have no use for them anymore."

Thomas cut the connection and left Vent in anger with the other Chosen Ones. Grey laid Thetis and Siarnaq on the ground before he walked over to Vent, "Come on, let's just go back and have a rest today. There's nothing else we can do here."

"I guess…" Vent slowly turned to him with a frown on his face.

"Hey, why don't you just take a break in the Hunter Camp?" Ashe suggested before she put Atlas down on the ground and walked over to the two Chosen Ones.

Vent eyed the four unconscious Chosen Ones before turning back to the Hunters, "Maybe tomorrow. I need to get those four back to the base."

The Hunters nodded before Vent contacted Prairie and the seven of them were teleported out of the area in a flash of white light.