CHAPTER 1: Time Travel
It had been a while since Zero destroyed Omega. Since Copy X no longer rules Neo Arcadia, Weil is starting to take over. During this silence, the world seemed in peace. Maverick attacks become less and less while the Resistance is working hard to make sure every innocent human and reploids were unharmed.
During that silence also, the Resistance had found something they had never seen before – an off-the-chart energy signal. It was not just any signal. This was more than a reploid or a human's signal.
"What's wrong, Ciel?"
"It's the readings. Not only it was fluctuating, it had this weird interruption during signal, Zero."
"I'll go check it out."
Zero then walked to the center of the room. The operator started keying in some inputs.
"Inputting coordinates… done. Proceeding to transfer."
The command room started giving an alarm. Zero then disappeared seconds after the alarm rang.
"Transfer complete."
Few miles away from the Resistance base, Zero reappeared in a lush forest.
"Ciel, did you get everything on the monitor?"
"I did."
"What's my mission?" Zero asked.
"Um… Zero; go to the east from the forest. The readings came from that direction." Ciel stated. "Beware though, the reading at the ruins ahead now started to multiply."
"I understand. Commencing mission."
Zero then ran towards the ruins, where he found a large barrier.
"Ciel, did you get any readings of a barrier around here?"
"No… why is that?" She asked back.
"There's a barrier in this area."
"…"
"Ciel?"
"Oh! Sorry! But I'm sorry, Zero, I couldn't detect any signs of a barrier in 20 meter radius."
"If that's so, I'm going to investigate what is inside the barrier." Zero said as his long golden hair flowed in the wind.
"Okay, please be careful."
Meanwhile…
"Ciel, are you alright?" Rouge asked from the Command room.
"You should have a rest." Jaune said.
"Why do I feel weird…?" Ciel said as she tried to stand up properly.
Follow me…"?"
Follow me… the eerie voice echoed in the CMD room, even the operators Rouge and Jaune could hear it."Where did that voice come from?"
Follow me…The third time the ghastly voice echoed through the CMD room, Ciel's eyes immediately turned blank and lifeless. She walked towards the transport panel and she warped away – without any coordinates from the operator.
After few steps inside the barrier, Zero didn't find anything. He then contacted Ciel.
"Ciel-"
But when he turned his radio communicator on, he could hear strange bleeps and glitched radio signals. Few seconds later, the radio turned off by itself. The mysterious mist dissolved, and Zero saw four figures suspended on air, all of them were encased in bubble-like substance.
"Leviathan? Fefnir? Harpuia? Phantom…?" Here, Zero gasped. "Ciel!"
Zero reached his hand to the young human, only to find him encased in the bubble too.
"Nobody dares to touch the Sacred Jewel…"
"!" The red reploid saw a woman-like apparition in the center of the altar.
"…Trespassers… be gone…!"
With a flash of bright light, Zero could feel that his body dissolving into the thin air. At that moment, he managed to reach for Ciel.
-UNKNOWN AREA-
As Zero opened his eyes, he first saw Ciel in his arms. He then proceeded to look around the area.
"Looks like we're on a roof of some sorts."
"Uh… what a nightmare…"
"Ciel? Are you awake?"
"Wh-where am I, Zero? I thought that I was at the Base?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing." Zero said. "Hang on tight. I'm going down."
Ciel closed her eyes and she held on to Zero. As Zero landed, he could hear a shriek. The red reploid could see a small furry figure running away in a corner. Seconds later, two other figures came out.
"What the…? Is that a robot?" The first one commented. He's quite inhuman, having long white hair and animal ears and tail.
"Who are you?" The second figure, a blonde and short-haired boy, about Ciel's age asked. He had emerald eyes while the other boy had bi-colored eyes.
"Um… I'm Ciel, and this my Reploid, Zero."
"Reploid?" Now it's the second boy's turn to be bedazzled.
"I'm Amar Ma'aruf and this is Chris Belmont, my partner."
"From the looks of it, I think that you two are a time traveler, right?" Chris asked.
"Actually, we're kind of it. We needed to return to our time soon though."
Amar sighed. "Sorry Ciel, but there is some limitations there. Consider that I can only travel through Past and Present. I can't time travel to the Future yet."
Then, a voice came over from a corner.
"Amar, is everything's okay?"
"Everything's A-OK here, Sherry-nee-chan. We just got ourselves a visitor from the future!"
"WHAT?!"
Two other figures came over to Amar Ma'aruf. One of it was wearing a short pink vest and skirt while the other one was wearing white and red Shinto priestess attire.
"Well, I'd think we would have a good introducing you two to my family later."
A/N: Biolink enabled! Zero Cross Fusion established! C.I.E.L System online! Well, I always wanted to make Zero and the others fuse without the Biometal item. I know it's a bit sudden, but I needed the acronym's (CIEL) meaning for each letters. Another note: it's the CIEL System from MMZ3. By the way, this is my first time making a Megaman fanfic. So, keep on reading and reviewing!