I'm basing them on their EXE counterparts, but only appearance wise, since I think they look better. For you Forte fans, he won't appear for a while, but he will be a part of the story. Well, this chapter is pretty short since it sets the mood for the next chapters:
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Guardian HQ
"Are you two feeling any better?" Prairie goes to the medic wing to visit Vent and Aile. "If you need anything, then don't hesitate to tell me."
"Yeah, the ringing in my head is finally gone." Vent gets up from his bed. "Have there been any Irregular attacks lately?"
"None that we couldn't take care of. Just keep on resting, you two need it after all you've been through." Prairie looks at Aile, who starts to get up as well.
"I'm pretty sure that we'll be out of here soon." A Guardian bursts into the room panting heavily.
"Commander… Someone has gotten past our security. There are two groups attacking from different areas."
"What!? I'll get right on it. Split the Guardians up and search in every room. Don't try to approach them alone of you find anything." The Guardian leaves the room as Prairie turns to Vent and Aile. "Well, I guess I better be going as well. Take care of yourselves, okay?"
After waiting for a few moments, Aile gets up from the bed. "Come on, we better go check this out."
Vent gets up as well as the two of them leave the room. "Who do you think it is, Aile?" Aile thinks for a moment.
"Shademan's group, probably, he seems to be plotting something." Aile keeps on running. "Hurry, I'm sure that the commander needs our help."
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"Recovery and immunization successful," A robotic voice seems to call out, "Preparing to release the occupants." The five pods in the room open up as five reploids step outside.
"Zero! You're okay!" Ciel jumps at Zero and hugs him. "I'm glad that it worked…" Zero seems to be looking at a distance. "What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong in Guardian HQ, I can feel it." Zero looks at the other reploids as well as they nod in agreement. "Come on, we better go and help the two chosen ones."
"Man, it feels so great to move by myself again!" Leviathan stretches for a moment. "My memory seems to be complete now and I still remember everything as a biometal."
"Come on, we better go stop whatever problem there is." Harpuia starts to shake a bit for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Fefnir notices the look of concentration in Harpuia's eyes.
"Nothing, I just thought that I felt something strangely familiar for a moment." Harpuia opens the door and activates his jets. "Come on, we better go."
Fefnir and Leviathan follow him as X and Zero look at Ciel. "Well, Zero, guess you have to carry her. I'll be going as well." X transforms into his falcon armor and flies off. Zero shows his back to Ciel.
"Well, climb on." Ciel climbs onto Zero's back as he speeds off again. He pauses for a moment before moving again. "I think Harpuia's right, there is something strangely familiar on Guardian HQ."
"I hope whatever it is. It doesn't cause too much trouble." Zero speeds up, catching up to X, and then catching up to the other three reploids.
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Guardian HQ
"Burning Jet!" Flames engulf Burnerman as he knocks down the Guardians. "This is too easy!" Burnerman transforms his arm into a flamethrower as he aims at the Guardians.
"We don't have time for this!" A door closes, blocking Burnerman's path. "I've hacked into the security system, come on, let's go."
"Fine, if you say so." The two of them find a door as Burnerman looks at his partner. His partner nods as Burnerman gets out his flamethrower and burns down the door. "Is this the place?"
Burnerman's partner goes up to a computer as he starts rapidly typing. "I'm going to need some more time to copy everything down. Make sure no one gets in the way." There are a few knocks on the door as Burnerman smiles.
"No problem!" Burnerman opens the door and attacks the Guardians, knocking them out cold as reinforcements arrive. "The only thing you people have is numbers!" Burnerman burns the reinforcements as he waits for more.
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"What happened here?" Aile and Vent find a hall with damaged Guardians. "Are they even still alive?"
"I'm not sure." Vent frowns for a moment. "Let's keep on going." The two of them continue to move on and hear more screams coming from Guardians. A body gets thrown at them, and they barely dodge t as three figures come out.
"Well, looks like the chosen ones decided to show up after all." An all too familiar figure to both Vent and Aile moves forward out of the shadows.
"Prometheus! It was you behind the attacks." Vent gets out his biometal. "Rock-on!" Both Vent and Aile transform into Model ZX as Prometheus laughs.
"You really think you can defeat the three of us?" Vent frowns as he tries to make out the two figures behind Prometheus. He recognizes one as the figure of Pandora, but couldn't quite put his finger on the other person.
"Did you two stoop as low as fighting an unfair fight?" Pandora steps out of the shadows and speaks up.
"This is coming from the two people who decided to gang up on Serpent to defeat him?" Aile frowns at her remark. "Anyways, it'll only be me and Prometheus fighting you."
The other figure steps out of the shadow as Vent and Aile immediately realize who it was. "Model P!?"
"You can just call me by my real name, Phantom." The ninja reploid starts to leave the room. "I serve Model W now. I'll continue to look and find the other members of the Guardians. If you two aren't done by the time I'm finished, I'll interfere with your fight."
"Wait!" Vent tries to follow Phantom, but gets knocked back by Prometheus's scythe.
"Don't try to run away from us!" Aile tries to follow as well, but gets knocked down by an electric snake.
"You're not going anywhere." Pandora and Prometheus draw their weapons as Vent and Aile do the same. This isn't good, we were barely able to defeat them last time, and now, we don't have the biometals to help us.
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Prairie walks around the halls to see some badly burnt Guardians. "Are you all okay? You should go to the medic wing." Prairie tries to give a Guardian a hand, but he doesn't take it.
"Go to the archives… two intruders are… there… we'll be… alright…" Prairie nods as the Guardian gives her his hand gun.
I just hope I'm not too late. Prairie moves forward to the locked door and types in a combination on the lock. The door opens to reveal two figures. One seems to be a reploid with red armor and two streaks of fire coming from his head.
The other seems to be a male humanoid, about the same age as Prairie looks like. He has long silver hair reaching down to his elbow and both of them have their backs turned to her.
"Freeze!" The two figures turn, the silver haired male reveals his red eyes as they look at the gun in Prairie's hand.
"Heh, should I destroy her?" The silver haired male's hands leave the computer as a small disk pops out.
"There's no need, I'm already done. Let's get out of here quickly." Fire comes out of Burnerman's hands as he burns the floor, creating an exit.
They've escaped, what were they after? Prairie looks down at the hole in the floor. Well, I better take everyone to Rose. Prairie helps a two Guardians up and leads them to the medic wing.
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Outside
"Well, I guess we've escaped for now." Burnerman prepares to move, but a shockwave heads toward the two of them as they narrowly doge it. "Who's there?"
"So you two are the intruders." A crimson reploid with a green saber greets the two of them as four more reploids and a human catch up to him.
"That's right, the name's Burnerman. You better remember the name of the person who destroyed you." He prepares to lunge at the red reploid, but gets stopped by his accomplice.
"Stand back, Burnerman, he's mine."
"And you are?" Zero looks at the human. It doesn't seem like he has any weapons. Looks can be deceiving, I better be careful for any tricks he might try to pull.
"I go by a lot of names. For now, you can just call me Yuriskah." Burnerman eyes the other reploids, looking for a suitable opponent.
"I guess I'll just take the other red one." Burnerman points at Fefnir as Fefnir gets out his twin buster. "I'll burn you to a crisp!"
"I haven't had a good fight in a long time. I'm going to enjoy this." Zero looks back at Ciel and the others.
"You should all go inside and check on things. I and Fefnir will take care of these two." X leaves and Harpuia and Leviathan follow.
"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Zero nods as Ciel goes as well. Zero turns to Yuriskah.
"You're going to regret making that decision, Zero."
"How do you know my name?" Zero looks over the person in front of him. I thought most of the people forgot about me…
"I spent some of my time researching the biometals, so I learned about their origins." Yuriskah pauses for a moment. "Although I am surprised why all of you are still alive."
"We'll talk about that after I beat you!"
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The next fights will be Fefnir vs. Burnerman, Zero vs. Yuriskah, and Prometheus and Pandora vs. Aile and Vent.
Some of you may be wondering where the heck I got Yuriskah's name, so I'll tell you. Anyways, I got it from my favorite character in Summon Night, named Ureksa. I decided to change that name a bit, so this is what I got.