Note: MegaMan Zero belongs to Capcom. The 'Oh sweet pineapples' phrase is my own creation.
Chapter 3: You Can All Learn From This.
"Can I has cookie?"
-Omega.
~~~~(you're alive!)~~~~
"Okay, these guys are the enemy!" Copy X yelled, pointing to a rather awkward picture depicting Elpizo and Ciel trying to control a water hose while it soaked poor Zero to the bone. Copy X looked at the picture and his left eye twitched in annoyance at it, but if Harpuia, Fefnir, and Leviathan could understand what he was trying to say, then the unfortunate Mechaniloid that took said picture, well, its sacrifice was not in vain.
"Now, we've received word that they will be trying to sneak in again!" Copy X shouted, "This cannot happen! Understood?" All four Guardians nodded.
"Good. Any questions?"
Harpuia raised his hand. Copy X motioned for him to ask the question. "Can we go play ping-pong now?" he promptly asked.
Copy X wanted nothing more than to slam his head repeatedly against a wall.
"Honestly, this plan sounds even crazier than the last one!" Alouette shrieked, Hirondelle having briefed her and Cerveau on the situation. "The heck it is," Hirondelle replied, "It has a very low success rate, in my humble opinion."
"Who came up with it?"
"Elpizo and Ciel came up with the original concept. Zero added the extra weight that will likely make the already weak tower collapse."
"No good can come from this..."
"It would appear so," Cerveau agreed. The three sane Reploids all shook their heads. This was going to end in disaster.
Later...
Copy X couldn't wrap his mind around it.
It was absolutely impossible.
But yet Zero and his friends pulled it off.
They had sneaked into Neo Arcadia by somehow cramming themselves into E-Crystal containers.
E-CRYSTAL CONTAINERS.
No matter how crazy that idea was, they pulled it off, and the Four Guardians were currently pursuing Ciel and Elpizo while Copy X was left to deal with the Crimson Menace himself. His left eye twitched as he stared Zero down, having tripped over a strategically placed banana peel.
The stare was abruptly stopped when Zero decided to ever-so-casually stick his tongue out at Copy X.
"Oh, it is ON!" Copy X yelled in rage at the insult, getting back to his feet and rushing towards Zero, ready to blast him to kingdom come. Zero gasped in mock fear, running towards a nearby ladder and climbing up it. For some reason, Copy X seemed to forget he could fly, and climbed after Zero, who had reached the top. Zero grinned mischievously, pushing the ladder back. Copy X screamed as he fell backwards and landed with a thud.
"I'm gonna retire that loser..." Copy X said in a pitiful mantra, his voice rather whiny. Zero jumped down, picked up the ladder and threw it -Copy X included. "Yeah well, good luck with that!" Zero taunted, pulling something out of his pocket. Copy X scrambled to his feet, still with the ladder confining him. "What are you doing?" he shrieked, when he saw what Zero was holding. "I don't really know..." Zero replied, throwing the Pokeball behind him.
Copy X let out a shrill scream as a Charizard came out of the Pokeball and proceeded to attack him. Zero didn't seem to notice. He was instead looking for something in his never-ending pocket, but just couldn't find it. He had pulled out a whole bunch of things, including the Master Sword, a Fire Mushroom, a Chaos Emerald, a Biometal ( don't even ask), the StarForce ( Geo Stelar probably wants it back) and a ginormous cannon. But not whatever it was, leaving Copy X at the mercy of all these items. Neither one seemed to notice the chocolate cake hanging from the ceiling.
Meanwhile...
Ciel and Elpizo made a sharp turn to the left, trying desperately to evade the Guardians, who were sending all sorts of attacks their way. "Wait!" Elpizo cried, pulling something out of his pocket, "I have an idea!" The item he pulled out was a horn, the type you'd see on a bicycle. He stopped and turned around to face the Guardians, blowing the horn. Harpuia, Fefnir, and Leviathan let out shrill screams in response and retreated, absolutely terrified.
Phantom, not so much...
Ciel and Elpizo looked at each other, swallowing hard. They then screamed and ran, as Phantom pursued them while throwing shurikens. "I shall eliminate you, Mavericks!" he yelled as they made a sharp turn to the right, somehow out-running him. "Now I have you where I want you!" he cried victoriously, knowing that way lead to...
"Oh sweet pineapples!" Elpizo shrieked, "It's a dead-end!" Ciel examined the situation, then pulled a bucket of black paint and a paintbrush out of nowhere. She then casually painted a large black hole on the wall. "Problem solved." she said bluntly, jumping through the hole, Elpizo following soon after. Phantom wasn't able to put on the brakes fast enough and smashed into the wall.
"Ugh..." Phantom groaned, getting back up and examining the 'hole', before grabbing his head and screaming, "How do those yahoos do it?" He then thought for a moment. Now, if Phantom were insane, a light-bulb would've appeared over his head, but he's not insane, so he just had an idea. He then ran off for a moment, returning with a protesting Leviathan. He pointed to the hole and glared at his sister rather harshly, basically telling her to jump in or else. She looked at the hole and promptly jumped in with no problem.
Phantom waited for a few minutes, fairly certain his sister would be alright. After all, when insane people fought, insane people usually won. It all boiled down to who was more insane. Suddenly, Leviathan jumped out of the dark abyss the hole had led to, absolutely terrified. Ciel and Elpizo followed soon after, both looking like they were about to have an accident. Phantom wondered what the heck had scared the three senseless, and was promptly tackled by a growling Omega ( who was still in his Zero paint-job form, by the way).
Phantom struggled to escape the crazed Reploid's grasp, but was unable. 'So this is how it ends...' he thought grimly, 'At the hands of a brainless monster...' Weil suddenly came out of the hole, grabbing Omega by his ponytail and pulling him off Phantom. "Bad Reploid! You know better than that!" he chastised, smacking Omega senseless, making him whimper an apology. Phantom blinked, the scene before him scaring him witless. The ninja Reploid scrambled to his feet and fled the scene, while Weil continued to discipline the unruly Omega. No one noticed the chocolate cake off to the side.
Back to Zero and Copy X...
"Yes!" Zero cried triumphantly, "I have found it!" He held up a feather for all to see, though in this case, Copy X was the only one who would see it. "A...feather...?" Copy X questioned, not at all liking where this was most likely headed.
"Indeed! You have one weakness that shall be your downfall! AND I KNOW IT!"
"Oh sweet pineapples... Don't..."
Copy X's quiet plea went unnoticed by Zero, who instead walked menacingly to his 'victim', holding the feather like he was holding a knife. "TICKLE ATTACK!" Zero screamed, 'attacking' the blue Reploid with the feather. Copy X screamed in protest.
That scream happened to be heard by the Guardians.
"Master X is in trouble!" Harpuia cried, "What do we do?" Leviathan and Fefnir blinked. "Meh, he can handle it," Fefnir replied, "He doesn't appreciate us, anyway."
"True... Hey! Phantom's waking up!"
Immediately after Harpuia shouted that, Leviathan knocked Phantom unconscious with her weapon. "No he isn't." she said bluntly. In case anyone is wondering, Phantom had run into his siblings shortly after the scene with Omega, and they wanted revenge on him for taking their muffins away. I don't think anything more needs to be said...
Except, well, so much for the Guardians protecting their master.
Copy X screamed and laughed, trying so hard to get away from the feather, but Zero wouldn't allow him to. Neither would the ladder, which was still confining him. "Surrender and I'll consider sparing you!" Zero demanded. "Never!" Copy X snapped, still squirming, 'Oh, someone make it stop... PLEASE!'
"Then I shall finish you now!"
Just as Zero prepared to deal the 'finishing' blow to Copy X, Ciel and Elpizo suddenly ran in screaming like toddlers. They then crashed into Zero, and the three tumbled into some random Plot Hole that appeared out of nowhere. Copy X let out a sigh of relief, for once thankful that the girl who built him and the errand boy showed up. He then managed to get himself out of the ladder, and left the room, feeling only slightly victorious. The day was over, and the Resistance's scatterbrained plan didn't exactly work out completely.
Oh but wait, there's more!
"What does this do?" Harpuia asked, pointing to a large red button labeled 'Self-Destruct'. "DON'T PRESS IT!" Phantom screamed, trying to keep his idiotic brother from pressing the button. "Press it! PRESS IT!" Zero, Ciel, and Elpizo all urged, having appeared out of nowhere. Leviathan blinked. "How'd you get here?" she questioned. "Plot Hole." Ciel replied, as if she just stated the sky was blue.
Suddenly, Fefnir came running into the room, covered in whipped cream. "YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS YOU IMBECILES!" he screamed in rage. Elpizo then pulled out a can of whipped cream and attempted to spray Fefnir with it, then realized it was empty. "Ha!" Fefnir mocked, "Now what're you gonna do?" Elpizo answered that question by whacking him upside the head with the can, making him stumble backwards and hit the self-destruct button.
KABOOM!
"Arrest that cake!" a Neo Arcadian officer yelled, pointing to a chocolate cake on a skateboard that was sliding away, as if it was trying to escape the scene of the crime ( the site of the explosion, to clarify). A bunch of officers suddenly attacked the cake, and they all disappeared in a cloud of dust usually seen in Looney Tunes or something. "That cake is a spy." Zero said bluntly, as a few officers pinned him to the ground and handcuffed him.
"Why are we still in one piece?" Phantom shrieked, in the same predicament as Zero. "Plot Hole." Ciel replied, her situation not any better. Elpizo then looked at Zero, treating the whole 'You're under arrest' deal as if was routine or something. "Wait, I thought the cake was a lie..." he muttered. Zero shook his head. "The cake is real, this time," he started, "And it was spying on us. That's why it hijacked a skateboard as an escape vehicle."
"How would a cake hijack a skateboard?" Harpuia questioned, a whole mess of handcuffs and chains on him, so that he wouldn't be able to fly away. "Plot..." Ciel started, but Phantom cut her off. "SILENCE!" he demanded, clearly ticked off. Fefnir and Leviathan were currently running away from the officers, determined to not get arrested.
"Fool!" Copy X yelled as the head officer handcuffed him, "I am the real Master X!" the officer rolled his eyes. "Yeah yeah," he replied, "That's what they all say. Now, get in the car." He then shoved Copy X forward, and the Reploid grumbled at the act of incompetence. He then looked upward as he got into the police car. "MegaMan X, wherever you are, I hope you're enjoying this..." he seethed.
"As a matter of fact," Cyber-Elf X started, having appeared out of thin air, "I am. Thanks for checking." The officer quickly noticed him. "Arrest that Elf!" he yelled. Cyber-Elf X's pupils shrank as a bunch of Mechaniloids attacked him and handcuffed him ( don't ask how that's possible), before hauling him off to another police car. Copy X allowed a devious grin to creep upon his face.
Weil and Omega watched the madness from afar. Omega then looked at Weil quizzically. "Does this mean we win this round?" he asked hopefully, speaking English for the first time in this story. Weil shrugged. "I have no earthly idea..." he answered, "And I don't have an unearthly one, either."
"Oh... Well then, can I have a cookie?"
Weil resisted the urge to facepalm. Nonetheless, he pulled a box of cookies out of nowhere. Suddenly Omega started growling like a beast getting ready to pounce on its unsuspecting prey. Watching him warily, Weil slowly reached inside the box...
Omega snapped.
The Reploid growled and roared viciously, grabbed the box, and ran off with his catch. Weil let out a sigh. "I thought I fixed that glitch..." he groaned.
Resistance: 1.
Neo Arcadia. 0.
Weil: 1.
The Cake: 1.
What have we all learned from this?
Note: And there you have it... Until next time... *arrests a cake*