Note: MegaMan Zero belongs to Capcom. Glad you could make it.
Chapter 5: Let's Regroup and Rethink Our Strategy.
"Why are you looking at me? Was I supposed to say something?"
-Fighting Fefnir
~~~~(don't move! I dropped my brain)~~~~
Cerveau stared at the three blonds absolutely dumb struck. Zero was holding his Z-Saber like he was a dad holding his infant, Elpizo was chewing on the hilt to his rapier, and Ciel was busy pushing buttons on a nearby control panel ( which is probably why Colbor and his team were being chased by an angry Mechaniloid outside the base, but I digress).
"Zero!" Cerveau shouted, deciding to deal with all three problems, "Your Saber is an inanimate object! Stop treating it like a baby!" Zero suddenly looked very offended and held the weapon closer. "He didn't mean it... Shh..." he said, "Don't cry..."
Crack!
Cerveau expected to hear Elpizo cry out in pain after he heard that, but surprisingly the pink-clad Reploid was silent. Cerveau looked to see why, and saw Elpizo staring blankly at the hilt, which was now in two pieces. Afterwards, Elpizo put the two pieces in his mouth and ate them, his teeth miraculously unharmed. Cerveau's left eye twitched. "I wonder what this button does...?" Ciel inquired, pressing the big shiny blue button labeled 'Disco ball'.
Now, simply because I like explaining things I probably don't need to, a disco ball suddenly came out of the ceiling and began spinning, its pretty lights reflecting on the wall.
Zero suddenly dropped his Z-Saber and stared in awe at the lights, before pouncing on them like a cat when it sees the light of a flashlight. Elpizo and Ciel caught on and began pouncing on the lights as well. Cerveau backed away, as if the insanity was contagious. Then, after a few minutes, when the disco ball went back into the ceiling and the three crazies were somewhat coherent, he said something he was better off not saying:
"What's going to happen next? Is it going to rain cats and dogs?"
A light-bulb suddenly appeared over Elpizo's head and he pulled some strange remote out of nowhere, then pressed a shiny red button. Screaming could be heard outside and all four ran out of the room and to the 'deck' facing the desert, where Hirondelle and Alouette were standing. The two's eyes were glued on the scene before them, and the other four saw it as well.
Colbor and his team were trying to avoid getting flattened by cars which were falling from the sky, the Mechaniloid having been deactivated and forgotten.
Hirondelle grabbed his head and dug his nails into it, screaming, "What the heck did you guys do? DO I EVEN WANT TO KNOW?" Elpizo looked at the remote in shame. "I pressed the wrong button..." he said apologetically, "I meant to make it rain cats and dogs... But instead I made it hail cars... Sorry guys... My bad."
"Well, can't you fix it?" Alouette shrieked, as the Resistance Base itself was getting horribly battered by the cars slamming into it. Ciel got a light-bulb over her head and cried, "I think I have a remote that can fix this! Lemme find it..." She then dug into her pockets, as the sounds of glass breaking among other things could be heard. Zero had lost interest in the strange weather and was chasing his ponytail for no reason whatsoever ( and judging by the look on his face, he didn't realize it was attached to his head).
Cerveau, Hirondelle, and Alouette were all wondering how difficult it would to be survive in the cold, Maverick-infested, and cruel world by themselves. After awhile, they decided it was wasn't worth it, no matter how sweet freedom from these three yahoos sounded.
"Listen to me!" Phantom snapped, as he dragged his three siblings across the streets of Neo Arcadia ( which is an amazing feat in itself), "I don't care if you don't want to go, I am taking you to see the psychiatrist even if it deactivates us all!" The three all struggled against his grasp, but he was too strong. "Phantom is mean!" Leviathan promptly declared to the Humans, who were staring at the Four Guardians like they were freaks. Everyone failed to see the cake with a camera strapped to it, following the Guardians on a motorcycle and filming them...in broad daylight.
Harpuia, Leviathan, and Fefnir all suddenly froze, and for Phantom, that was a sign that something very horrible was about to happen. A screech could be heard from afar, before gaining an intense volume, letting it be known that whatever it was coming from, that thing was close. Phantom's siblings then all screamed in unison:
"NIGHT-FURY!"
Right after they had screamed that out, a black Dragon suddenly flew overhead and fired a bluish purple fire at one of the towers, blowing it up.
That tower happened to be where Copy X and the Gentle Judges were.
"THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!" Childre screamed, as the building around them crumbled and fell, all the Gentle Judges managing to not get hurt ( Copy X was buried under the debris somewhere). "What just happened..." Foxtar groaned, "NOT COOL!" The other Gentle Judges were busy running around screaming like little kids that some mean person decided to scare for no reason.
"Okay, just WHO is responsible for this?" Phantom snapped, before noticing three people who certainly had no business being in Neo Arcadia whatsoever ( drum-roll please). Zero and Elpizo promptly pointed to Ciel, who was holding a Plot Hole activating device. Hiccup and his Dragon Toothless were nearby, looking at their surroundings. "Toothless..." the scrawny Viking said worriedly, "I don't think we're in Berk anymore..." Toothless did the Dragon equivalent of a sigh, then flew upward into the Plot Hole, taking him and his rider back to Berk and out of Neo Arcadia.
"Ignoring that..." Phantom said bluntly, before narrowing his eyes dangerously at the three, "Why are you here?" Zero and Elpizo said nothing, clearly not sure how they ended up in Neo Arcadia. "It's my fault," Ciel answered, "I accidentally pushed a button on the wrong remote. See, Elpizo made it hail cars, and I was trying to fix that."
Phantom quietly made a mental note to never, ever, ask these three a question again.
Ciel then pressed a button on the remote, and she and her friends all sank into a Plot Hole, returning to the Resistance Base. After they left, Phantom noticed his siblings were gone, and that the Gentle Judges were all doing the Caramelldansen dance...thing, apparently fully recovered from the incident. Copy X was busy trying to get unburied.
Meanwhile...
Weil let out a sigh, trying to figure out how his awesome plan could've failed before it could even be enacted. "Are you depressed?" Omega asked, trying to be helpful. "I'm not depressed," Weil answered, "I'm just taking deep breaths and exhaling loudly." Omega for some reason found that a good answer and curled up into a ball like a cat, before falling asleep and purring. Weil's left eye twitched, but he shrugged it off and got back to planning world domination.
"Let's see..." Weil started, considering his options, "The Gentle Judges are far too unreliable to be of any use..."
This was evidenced by a live video feed Weil was seeing on his computer screen, which showed the Gentle Judges trying to find Copy X, before becoming distracted by the ice cream man who was driving way above the speed limit ( Heaven knows what was distracting them; the crime, or the fact that it was the ice cream man).
"I don't even know where my Ragnarok Reploids are..."
Sol Titanium stared at the faded sign which said 'Coolsville'. She and the other Reploids then saw the ruins of the city that some Scooby-Doo cartoons took place in. "We're dead..." she groaned.
"Ragnarok itself has been overrun by the Aquatic Blue People that attacked me in Chapter 2..."
In Ragnarok ( which now looked like Atlantis gone space station, or maybe it was the other way around), the Aquatic Blue People were busy blowing up random meteors with the cannon, before blowing the Death Star to smithereens.
"The Dark Elf and the Baby Elves...well, I can't afford another lawsuit from them..."
Weil then grimaced at all the papers saying the Cyber-Elves were suing him stacked near the wall.
"And then I have..."
Omega yawned and muttered something about cookies, before resuming his nap and awkward purring.
"...him..."
It was then Weil realized how much he needed to up his game.
Phantom groaned and went to help Copy X, his siblings and the Gentle Judges having left in pursuit of the ice cream man ( make of that what you will). After a few minutes, he managed to get the poor Reploid unburied. "I need to find better quality judges..." Copy X groaned, rubbing his head, "But if I have more judge-type Reploids built, they'll likely go insane on me, too... This planet has enough crazies... Oh...woe is me..."
The ice cream truck sped by after a few minutes, and Childre was the only Gentle Judge still pursuing it. Harpuia, Leviathan, and Fefnir were also still in hot pursuit of it, and Copy X could tell the poor ice cream man was going to quit once this was over, like the previous ice cream men had done. The other seven Gentle Judges would later be found causing chaos at an amusement park, but I digress.
"Phantom..." Copy X started, "Let's just get back home... I've had enough insanity for today..." Phantom only nodded, deciding trying to take his siblings to see a Reploid psychiatrist was a lost cause and should never be attempted again. The two Reploids then ran back to wherever the Neo Arcadian government officials stayed, not seeing the cake filming them while double-parked. Apparently, Childre had noticed the cake ( there was a lopsided ice cream cone on his head, giving indication to what had happened prior), and screamed, "HEY YOU! DOUBLE-PARKING IS ILLEGAL YOU FREAK!"
Okay, apparently Childre failed to notice he was yelling at a cake... And thus, I have once more overestimated someone...
"Come on Elpizo!" Zero cried, "Eat another spoonful!" The pink-clad Reploid stared at the spoonful of sugar, his left eye twitching. Finally, his willpower gave way and he downed it without a second thought. Mother Elf watched this in horror, before looking at Zero and Ciel with pure disdain, as Elpizo promptly merged with her power, before going on a sugar-induced rampage within Neo Arcadia. Zero and Ciel then pulled lawn-chairs out of nowhere, sat down, pulled some popcorn out of nowhere, and watched with interest. The amazing thing was that Elpizo managed to steer clear of Human and Reploid civilians, instead focusing on Neo Arcadia's military force and its leaders.
Poor Phantom and Copy X never saw the sugar-high Elpizo coming until it was already too late.
Resistance: 3.
Neo Arcadia: 0.
Weil: 1.
Gentle Judges: 0.
Mother Elf: 0.
The Cake: 3.
Aquatic Blue People: 2.
Hiccup and Toothless: 200.
THE PIECES ARE FALLING INTO PLACE.
Note: There's Chapter 5! Review please? ...Uh... I'll be over there...having my brain checked for any damage... Also... How to Train Your Dragon is awesome!
