Here's a trip to the memory lane for those who've played the Zero series as well! Please enjoy!
And thanks to kingpariah for breaking the silence of reviews! I hope you're enjoying the plot twists!
World Reset
Chapter 24 – World Peace
The blonde commander of the Guardians looked nervously at the popup screen in front of her as one of the operators continued on speaking, "The Ragnarok has crumbling apart… The small pieces of Ragnarok had slowly burnt through the atmosphere… They're no longer harmful to the Oil Field…"
"Vent…" Prairie whispered softly before the door behind her slid open and the female brown-haired Guardian came into the room.
"Prairie! I saw from the Hunter Camp that Ragnarok is falling apart," Prairie listened to her, but didn't dare to turn to her, "Prairie… what happened to Vent…?"
There was a long pause before Prairie turned to the worried Guardian with a frown on her face, "I'm sorry… Aile…"
"N-No way…" Aile backed away in disbelief before lowering her head and let a single tear fall from her face before she turned away from the commander, "I… I-I'll be in my room…"
Prairie stood still, unable to do anything, as she watched the brown-haired Guardian run out of the room with her sniffles heard even after she was out of the room. The commander let out a sad sigh before turning her head back to the screen, 'I knew it… History is going to repeat by itself and Vent went into the same fate as Zero did…'
One of the operators turned to the commander, who walked towards the door without a word, "Commander Prairie? Where are you going?"
Prairie left the room without replying to her operator, heading straight for the elevator. She went up to the deck area, where it was bathed with lights of the stars in the dark sky of the night. She walked over to the railing and leaned on it, looking up at the stars sadly. Some shooting stars were seen occasionally as she looked up with a frown.
"Those are… pieces of Ragnarok…" Prairie whispered softly, "Falling to the Earth like shooting stars… just like back then…" Prairie let out another sad sigh before she looked down, "And that memory was still burning in my head… until now…" The commander covered her body with her pink coat entirely out of cold before she slowly walked back to the door leading into the airship.
Prairie looked back once more before turning her head away, not noticing that a big sphere of light suddenly came behind her along with seven smaller lights, "But that's not the end of that memory this time."
The commander gasped in surprise and turned around to see the blond Reploid standing in front of the big sphere of light with a smile on his face, "G-Giro…?"
The Reploid nodded before turning to the sphere of light behind him, "But I'm not alone."
The sphere of light disappeared, revealing the male brown-haired Guardian in his human form lying on the ground on the deck, "Vent!"
Prairie immediately ran over to the unconscious Guardian and knelt beside him to check his pulse before letting out a sigh in relief, "Thank goodness he's still alive…" The commander in pink looked up at the blond-haired Reploid, "Thank you, Giro…"
"I'm not the only one who helped him out," The six lights went to Giro's left and right sides before they materialized into six Reploids familiar to him.
"You're…" Prairie carefully put Vent back down before getting up to her feet and turned to the green Reploid, light blue Reploid, and orange Reploid on Giro's left side, "Sage Harpuia… Fairy Leviathan… Fighting Fefnir…" She turned to the three Reploids on Giro's right side, "Hidden Phantom… and…" The red Reploid and blue Reploid walked over to the commander before she smiled sadly, "Zero… X…"
"The seal Commander Ciel made to seal Weil was broken due to their consciousness," Giro spoke up, "But they couldn't have their peaceful rests until Vent beat Thomas and freed them from the prison in Ragnarok."
"We were trapped," The blue Reploid, X, continued before turning to Vent with a smile, "but this young man had freed us all…"
"I see…" Prairie let out a smile back before it shortly disappeared as she turned to the red Reploid, "Zero… where is Sis? Where is the first commander?"
"Don't worry, Ciel will be fine," The red Reploid, Zero flashed a smile he rarely let out, "She was freed along with us, and she's going to live with all of us safely."
The smile returned to the commander's face before she turned back to the blond-haired Reploid, "Giro, please come back here to us… Stay with us…" Prairie put a hand on her chest in a short pause before looking up at the Reploid with a faint blush on her face, "Please stay with me!"
Giro gave her a smile before shaking his head, "I'm sorry Commander, but I can't… I'm only a Cyber-elf now. I don't have a body for me to life in."
"I can ask Fleuve to make you one! So please…" Prairie pleaded as she took a step closer to Giro, "Please stay…"
"I'm a new model Reploid," Giro spoke up, "Even if I come back to life, I'm not programmed to live longer than five more years…"
"O-Oh…" The commander let out a frown before lowering her head, "I… see…"
"How much time do you have left, Commander?" Giro's question made Prairie raise her head back to face him, "How much longer are you programmed to live?"
"I don't really know…" Prairie let out a sad sigh, "I think I only have fifty years left the most…"
"I see," The blond Reploid nodded in understanding before he turned to the six Reploids with him, "Let's all go now. Commander Ciel must be waiting up there…"
The six Reploids nodded before they turned back into small lights again along with Giro and flew away, but Zero stayed behind. He saw that Prairie had walked over to Vent and put his arm over her shoulder before getting up. She turned to the door with the unconscious Vent with her, not noticing the smiling Reploid before he called out to her, "Alouette…"
The commander gasped in surprise after hearing her being called by her old name and turned to the red Reploid, "Zero… it's been a very long time since anyone called me by that name…"
"And I don't want you to forget that," Zero smiled before turning away and turned into a small light, "Take care, Alouette…"
The commander in pink watched as the light flew up before letting out a sad smile, 'A wonderful nostalgia, Zero…'
Next up will be the very last chapter and pretty much the end of my ZX series. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the last chapter tomorrow! (hopefully, but I should be able to update)