Well, I've finally decided on the five Robot Masters that will be in Shademan's gang. Anyways, here's the next chapter for you guys to enjoy:
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Guardian HQ
"Get up, Zero!" X shakes at the bundle in the bed and is rewarded with a groan. "Come on, get up already!"
"Go away, X." X sees the figure of Zero facing the wall as he looks carefully at the blanket. "It's still in the morning."
X thinks for a moment. "Ciel's still working on the biometals. Don't you want to keep her company?" Zero groans again as blond hair slowly starts to emerge from the blanket. Zero pokes his head out and rubs his eyes.
"Fine, just give me a moment in the bathroom."
"Hey! I need to…" Zero slams the door in X's face as he gets out the comb. X starts slamming on the door as Zero ignores him. After a few minutes, the banging on the door stops and Zero turns on the water.
"Open up the door! We're supposed to be sharing a bathroom!" Zero puts his hair under the running water and enters a combination on a lock. The lock opens and Zero reaches in to pull out his shampoo.
"Don't make me blast the door down!"
"I'd like to see you explain to the others." Zero unscrews the lid and scoops up some of the shampoo with his hand. He applies the mixture on his hair and starts to rub it in as the hot water pours down his hair.
After finishing his treatment, Zero puts a towel around his hair to dry it off. Zero looks at the door in surprise as it comes down with a kick from X. "Get out, now!"
X grabs onto Zero's collar and throws him out of the washroom. X puts the broken door up and transforms his hand into a buster as he slowly tries to make it stick to the wall.
"Fine, you don't have to be so snippy about it." Zero throws the towel off and his helmet appears on his head. "You should take better care of your hair." Zero points at X's unruly black hair and leaves the room, barely dodging a plasma shot from X's buster.
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"Any luck on the biometals?" Ciel turns to find the figure of Zero standing in her room. Zero looks around. "Where's Prairie?"
"She went to visit Aile to make sure she's okay." Ciel presses a few more keys on the computer. "Alright, I'm done." Ciel leaves the room and Zero follows. The two of them go to the hallway as Ciel gets a cup of coffee from the coffee machine.
"You pulled another all-nighter again, didn't you?" Zero looks at the bags under Ciel's eyes. Ciel starts to doze off as she drinks her coffee. "I'll just take that as a yes."
"I'm sorry. It's just that so many things have happened so far. I just can't seem to be able to sleep at times like these." Ciel feels Zero's hands on her shoulders. "What are you doing!?"
"Just relax. I'll help you if you can't rest." Zero carries Ciel to her bed and starts to massage her back, helping her relieve stress.
"Where'd you learn to do this, Zero?"
"I used that on X a few times while he wasn't paying attention to put him to sleep. Of course when he woke up, he'd find something out of place." Ciel immediately sits up, but Zero gently pushes her down. "Relax. I won't try anything like that."
Ciel's eyes start to slowly close as Zero continues. Before long, quiet snoozes start to form from Ciel's lips as Zero looks at her. "Don't worry about anything, Ciel. I'll take care of it." Zero plants a kiss on Ciel's forehead before sitting on her chair and watching her.
Stupid X, waking me up early in the morning. Guess I might as well get some rest too. Zero's helmet turn into a white light and warps out of the room as eh dozes off on Ciel's desk.
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Zero's eyes open as the door starts to creak. "Oh, it's just you three." Prairie inspects the room to find Ciel on the bed and Zero with his head on her desk. "Glad to see you're alright, Aile."
"What are you doing here this early?"
"X woke me up, so I decided to pay a visit." Zero notices Vent and Aile's eyes wandering the room. "The biometals are right over there."
Zero points to where Ciel was working and the two chosen ones go there.
"Uhh… which Model X is real?"
"They're both created by the same person. I'm sure there's no real difference, so just pick one." Vent and Aile shrug as they pick up a Model X. The intercom starts to blare, waking up Ciel.
"Attention all units, six intruders have been detected in the premises! Get in your defense post immediately!" Zero, Vent, and Aile rush out of the room as Zero summons his helmet.
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"Who did this!?" Vent and Aile start to shake at seeing blood splattered all over the floor. X, Harpuia, Leviathan, and Fefnir appear from behind them.
"Looks like we're already too late," Prairie and Ciel appear as well with reinforcements just as Harpuia finishes talking.
"Get everyone to the medic wing immediately!" The soldiers nod at Prairie's order and they all start to drag their fallen comrades.
"Well, that was a nice warm-up."
"Burnerman!" Fefnir looks at the red reploid as he appears.
"So you're the one behind this!" Leviathan charges at the red reploid and prepares to swing her halberd, but vines shoot out from the ground, stopping her movements. "What?"
"You shouldn't rush into battle without counting the number of opponents first." The ground seems to open up as Plantman enters. "I guess I'll just take the girl on."
Harpuia flies into the air as a huge shard of ice emerges from the ground. The ice shatters, revealing another figure. The figure wears white and light blue armor, with crystal shards designing his armor.
"You can just call me Freezeman. I'll be the one to fight you." Zero jumps out of the way as a large metal blade slices through the ground. X and Zero turn back to back and jump as the ground below them explodes.
"Well, guess I'll just take the one in red." A bulky red and black reploid appears. Two metal blades seem to attach his arms to his body and he holds two metal blades in his hands. "Just call me Metalman."
"In that case, I'll take care of the other one." Another figure appears, this time a red oen with drills as arms. "You can call me Crashman."
"Where's the other one?" Vent and Aile look around as bats start to surround them. They manage to separate and jump out of the way as the bats form together. "SHADEMAN!"
"Glad to see that you remember me. I'll be taking both of you on!" Vent and Aile dig into their pockets to retrieve their newly repaired biometals.
"Rock-on!" The two of them transform into blue figures as Vent raises his buster at Shademan. "Haven't been like this in a while, hope I still remember what to do."
"We need to be careful. Shademan is possibly the most powerful foe we've ever faced." Shademan reveals his wings and laughs.
"Crush Noise!"
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He's a lot stronger than last time! Fefnir dodges another stream of flames and counters with a blast from his twin buster. Burnerman just raises his hand up and absorbs the blast.
"You might have stood a chance the last time we fought, but you certainly don't stand a chance now!" Burnerman raises his hand up and fires another stream of flames at Fefnir, knocking him down.
"Heheheh, BURN!" Flames start to surround Burnerman as he charges at Fefnir, knocking him back. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. This isn't good…
Plantman slams his arm into the ground as vines start to come out under Leviathan's feet. Leviathan jumps into the air and charges at Plantman as the vines follow her. I need to get closer to him! Just a bit more…
"Heh!" What!? Plantman's tail launches at Leviathan, knocking her back into the vines following her. The vines bring her down to the ground and cover her completely. "That wasn't a very smart move. Now prepare to pay the price!"
The vines start to freeze as Leviathan jabs her staff through it. "It's already too late!" Plantman's arm transforms into a vine spear as he charges at Leviathan. Leviathan steps out of the way but the spear pierces the side of her armor, cutting off a huge chunk of her armor.
I need to focus… Leviathan puts her hands down on the ground as she starts to pant. It's no good, that attack did too much damage on me. Leviathan manages to stand up again as Plantman laughs.
"Guess I'll have to end this right now." Plantman thrusts his arms and tail into the ground as a large wall of vine appears behind Leviathan.
Harpuia charges at Freezeman and slashes. The blade hits solid ice and bounces off harmlessly. I can't get through his shield! Large ice spikes start to appear from the block of ice, stabbing Harpuia on multiple parts of his armor.
The ice wall shatters as Freezeman brings his hands together and a cold gust of wind starts to collect in his palms. Now's my chance! Harpuia slashes his blades in a cross pattern, sending two waves at Freezeman.
The attack knocks him down, but he gets back up. "You haven't won this one yet!" Freezeman fires an icy blast, freezing Harpuia's left hand.
I need to do more damage to defeat him! Harpuia turns his jets on and takes to the air. If I use my descent to empower my attack, I should be able to defeat him.
Harpuia prepares to dive down at Freezeman, but couldn't move. "What!? My jets stopped responding."
"I control the very temperature around you. You can't do anything in your position." Harpuia faces Freezeman and dives at him without the jets. Guess I have no other choice!
Freezeman launches a large ice spike towards Harpuia as Harpuia grips onto the blade on his right hand. Harpuia's blade meets the large piece of ice and he tries to slash through it. My blade is starting to break apart! The blade starts to crack and Freezeman appears behind Harpuia.
Freezeman launches a freezing blast at Harpuia, knocking him into the large block of ice. "This is almost over. Now don't struggle unless you want a painful death."
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Zero's Z-Saber meets Metalman's Metal blades as he tries to cut it. It's no good! His blade is too powerful! Metalman raises his other hand and throws the other blade at Zero, cutting his armor.
X tries to fire at Crashman, but Crashman manages to avoid all the attacks as he charges at X. X jumps away at the last second and shoots Crashman from behind, but the attack only seems to scratch him. Crashman runs at X and pushes his drill into X's armor as it explodes, sending X back.
"Well, it looks like we have no other choice but to go all out, X."
"Right behind you, Zero." The two of them transform into their ultimate armor as Crashman and Metalman charge at them.
"Now!" X and Zero run past each other. X fires his buster at Metalman's exposed point, sending a plasma blast through his armor. Zero's blade slices through Crashman's drill as he easily pushes him back.
"Don't think that it's that easy to beat us!" Metalman stands back up again and another drill comes out of Crashman's arm.
"This is only the beginning!"
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"AILE!" Vent charges at Shademan, but is easily pushed back as Shademan opens his wings, sending a gust of wind in Vent's direction.
"V-V-Vent!" Shademan tightens his grip around Aile's neck as she screams. I have to do something! Aile aims her buster at Shademan's face and charges up, but reverts back to her human form before she could fire.
"I'm sorry… Vent…"
"Well, this will be the first time that I tasted a human before. Hope that you're as tasty as those female reploids I had before I came here."
Vent slowly reverts back to his human form as he tries to get up. "This is pathetic, is that the best you can do, chosen one?"
Who are you?
"Do you want to save your friend over there?"
Of course I do! Vent tries to stand up again, but couldn't.
"If that's the case, then reach into your left pocket. Use my power to destroy the foe." Vent reaches into his pocket to see a dark red biometal. This is the biometal from before! I have my doubts… but I need to save Aile!
"Rock-on!" Vent screams as a light surrounds him. Pieces of armor forcefully attach onto his body before he finishes. An insane look appears in Vent's eyes as he stares at Aile and Shademan.
"DIE!" Vent shoots his buster, sending a large white blast at both Shademan and Aile. Shademan absorbs most of the hits, but Aile takes damages as well.
"Vent? Is that you!?"
"Grr…" Vent turns his head and points his buster at Aile, hitting the ground in front of her.
"Vent! What's wrong!?"
"So the chosen got a new toy, it doesn't matter. I'll still destroy you!" Bats gather together as Shademan reappears. "This is where the real fight begins!"
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