Wow, my story was at the second page there for a few days. Anyways, for hound of drak's question, it's kind of hard to explain the relationship between Vent and Aile.
In the game, if you choose Vent, Aile doesn't exist, and vice versa. Some say that Vent's just a male form of Aile, some say they may be related, some say they exist in different universes, but Capcom has no official explanation. Let's just use the story I wrote for the relationship between Vent and Aile, since background didn't really give any details about that.
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Ragnarok Ruins
"DIE!" Forte's feet lift off the ground as the wind starts to rapidly circulate around him. Yuriskah puts his arm over his mouth and nose as dust and grass begin to surround the area.
Yuriskah whips his arm out as a purple blade appears from all the dust in the air. A loud clang is heard as the two blades meet. Yuriskah pushes Forte back, stopping the attack. Forte executes a flip in the air and lands while the wind settles again.
"How did you know where I was?"
"You may be powerful, but the direction you approached from was very predictable. If you keep this up, then you won't even be able to get close to touching me."
"We'll see about that!" Forte points his sword at Yuriskah, but Yuriskah stands there unconcerned of his opponent's plans. Forte's sword starts to glow and slowly change shape until it transformed into a buster. "Let's see you try to dodge this!"
Forte fires as a large violet energy shot leaves his buster. Small blue trails of plasma from the tail seem to become even thinner and longer as it accelerates toward Yuriskah. Yuriskah spins around and avoids the blast at the last second, allowing the blast to hit a nearby rock, completely shattering it to dust.
"Is that all?" Forte growls in frustration and he points the buster at Yuriskah. I'll show him. Let's see him try to dodge this! Forte turns his buster onto auto-fire mode as rapid small plasma blasts leave his buster.
Yuriskah begins to run in a counter-clockwise circle around Forte turns to try and hit the silver haired reploid. After Forte turns three hundred sixty degrees, Yuriskah jumps up into the air and pulls out a dagger from his sleeve.
I can't stop the attack… Damn it! Forte continues spinning out of control, hitting rocks and the decaying pieces of Ragnarok as he tries to stop. Yuriskah moves his arm back for a throw and whips it forward while flicking his wrist.
The beam dagger slices the very air as a whistling sound is heard. The tip of the dagger digs through Forte's armor as he screams in pain. Forte puts his uninjured hand onto the handle of the dagger as electricity surges through his body. Forte rips out the dagger and manages to stand up as blood escapes from his mouth.
I'm losing too many fluids too fast! I can't see straight… Forte tries to focus on Yuriskah, but only finds a silver and black blur headed in his direction. He's coming closer. What am I suppose to do!?
"I wanted to have a challenge to regain my true power, but I guess I'll have to get my fun from fighting X." The blur starts to move closer as Forte struggles to keep his eyes open. Forte presses a few buttons on his buster and his armor becomes a shade of white. Rapid Recovery Mode: Activated Just a bit more time…
The blur disappears for a second and reappears right in front of Forte. Yuriskah brings his knee into Forte's gut as he falls down in pain. Yuriskah puts his hand on Forte's face and then it starts to glow.
"If you don't struggle, then I'll make this as painless as possible. Well, maybe not painless."
Recovery Complete: Switching to Battle Mode. Forte's armor transforms into a blue color as he opens his eyes. "Get off of me!" Forte fires something, but Yuriskah doesn't seem to cringe.
"Looks like you've run out of energy. Tough luck!" Forte puts his feet against Yuriskah's stomach and kicks with all his might, pushing the larger reploid off. "You're already at your end, Forte! Don't bother delaying the inevitable!"
"You should pay more attention to what your opponents doing." Yuriskah looks on his coat at hearing Forte's comment and sees a small blue and red beeping object attached to the arm cuffs on his coat.
"A Remote Mine!" Yuriskah tries to remove the beeping object, but it starts to beep more rapidly and then exploding. Forte watches the black and silver figure fall down from the ground, crashing into a huge stone pillar and crushing it before sinking even further into the ground and creating a crater.
"Did I do it?"
The dust cleared and Forte gasps in surprise as he sees Yuriskah. One of his arm is dislocated from the looks of its position, and his coat is ripped, revealing a less bulky version of Forte's black armor.
"I underestimated you. This will be more of a challenge than I first thought." Yuriskah throws his coat into the air as billows into a passageway. Forte takes a closer look and sees Yuriskah black armor, resembling a less bulky version of his own.
If he looked any bulkier with a helmet, then he'd look almost just like me. Forte looks at Yuriskah and his eyes widen when he realizes that all Yuriskah's injuries from his previous attacks are gone.
"Oh, since we're fighting seriously now, then I thought I'd even it up a bit so none of us have any disadvantages. My repair nanomachines are just as advanced as yours." Yuriskah dashes at Forte. Forte transforms his buster into a sword and slashes at Yuriskah, but before the attack could connect, Yuriskah jumps back at the last moment.
"What are you trying to pull!?"
"Die," Yuriskah lifts his hand up to reveal his other hand pulling a pistol. Yuriskah squeezes the trigger shooting Forte's buster. Forte's buster transforms back into his hand and he clutches it in pain as it starts to sizzle.
"Hehe, that was too easy!" Yuriskah slashes with his saber in an arc, launching a sonic wave at Forte. The wave cuts Forte in the shoulder of his injured arm and Yuriskah smiles.
"Well, it was pretty interesting while it lasted, but I guess now's the time to end this battle!" Yuriskah lunges at Forte with his blade, but a crescent blade appears on Forte's uninjured hand. Forte throws it at Yuriskah, hitting him in the shoulder and forcing him to stop.
Forte continues his attack by transforming his hand into a buster, shooting several shots at Yuriskah, but not hitting him. "You need to improve your aim if you want to hit me!" Yuriskah lunges at Forte again, but something cuts him from behind, knocking him down.
Forte raises his hand up as the blade he threw earlier returned to his hand. "I didn't intend to hit you with my buster shots. It was just to get you in place for my blade's rebound attack."
Yuriskah stands back up again as he wipes the dust off his armor. "You're getting stronger as we fight, interesting. Let's just see what your limit is!" Yuriskah's blade disappears and two pistols appear on his hands.
He raises his arms up and fires several small energy blasts into the air. The blasts turn in mid-air and start to fall in Forte's direction. Forte jumps backward to avoid the attack, but bumps into a rock pillar.
Yuriskah begins to move forward at the same speed of the incoming blast. Oh great, just my luck. Forte summons an ice wall and lifts it up. He throws it at the energy shot in the air to nullify it, and then looks down to deal with Yuriskah, but finds Yuriskah stabbed his leg with a blue blade.
Wait, something isn't right. I didn't take any damage! Forte notices ice beginning to form on his feet and it starts to rise up on his armor. Yuriskah smiles as he pulls out his blade from Forte and it morphs into a red color.
Yuriskah stabs his red saber in the ground and brings it up with roll, shattering the ice on Forte and cutting him along the center of his chest. Forte rises into the air from Yuriskah's attack and then begins to fall toward Yuriskah.
I need to stop my descent! Forte looks down to see Yuriskah with his blade upward, ready to impale him when he lands. "What are you going to do now? One false move and you're finished!"
Forte transforms both his arms into busters and fires in the air to change the angle of his fall. Forte lands to the right of Yuriskah, and transforms his hand into a blade just in time to stop Yuriskah's blade from piercing him.
Yuriskah kicks Forte with his foot, knocking the black reploid away before his saber begins to glow. "It's already obvious who the winner will be before the battle even began, and your injuries have made it all the more clear!"
"These injuries are nothing. I will beat you!"
"This is getting tiresome. Disappear!" Yuriskah whips out his blade, sending out a large white crescent wave towards Forte. Forte dashes to the side to avoid the attack, but screams in pain as his left arm gets caught in the attack.
The attack disperses and Forte looks at his left arm to find the metal slowly beginning to turn grey. Error! Error! Left Arm Response Systems have been shut down! "What did you do!?"
"That's a new move I created in my spare time. Any metal the attack touches will be infected with a virus, and will slowly corrode. Your arm has been rendered useless, and soon it will spread through your whole body! You should have given up when you had the chance."
"I told you that… I…" Forte puts his right hand on his left arm. "WON'T LOSE!" Forte screams as he rips out his left arm and tosses it aside, revealing ripped circuitry and electricity coming out of his arms.
"Looks like you've gotten really desperate. This battle is taking too long. I no longer have any interest in fighting you, so you can expect to lose soon."
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Guardian HQ
"Alright, we're all ready to go to Ragnarok." X and the others walk into the Commander's Room.
"Are you sure all your injuries are repaired?" Prairie looks at Vent and Aile doubtfully, looking at the cuts and bruises on their body.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine." Aile cringes for a moment while saying that, but regains her composure and flashes a weak grin at Prairie.
"You'll probably all go anyways regardless of what we say." Ciel points to the trans-servers. "This won't take you to the exact location of Zero and Forte, but they shouldn't be too far off from where you'll end up."
"Alright, let's hurry up and go. I hate being cooped up in one place for so long, it gets boring." Prometheus and Pandora step onto the trans-servers, and the others follow soon afterwards.
"Preparing to load co-ordinates to the trans-server," an operator hits a few keys onto the computer. "Loading complete, preparing for transfer!"
"Good luck. I want you all to come back alive." As Prairie finish speaking, everyone is transported out of the room. "Zero, Forte, the two of you better come back with them as well."
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Ragnarok Ruins
The eight of them teleport into an area with pieces of metal, some large and some small, mixed with the earth and grass. Harpuia looks around at the remains of Ragnarok, but sees no signs of Zero or Forte. "Where should we start looking for them?"
"I say we split up and then try to find them." Prometheus suggests and receives a nod from the others. "Alright, Pandora, let's go." The two reploids leave the area as the others decide on the groups.
"I'll go with Fefnir, Leviathan will go with Harpuia, and Vent will go with Aile. Does anyone have any problems with that arrangement?" The others nod as they split up and head in separate directions.
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"Will this do?" Prometheus stops at a huge chunk of Ragnarok, about ten meters in width and twice as tall as he is. Prometheus looks at his white armored partner, and receives a nod.
"Alright, Phantom, we found a piece of Ragnarok that should be suitable." Prometheus pulls out a communicator from a hidden pocket in his cape, and a hologram of Phantom's face appears.
"Transport it over here right now and then we'll be able to start with the next phase of our plan."
"Got it," Pandora and Prometheus move away and they put their hands on the two ends of the Ragnarok chunk. The piece of Ragnarok begins to glow and then disappear, leaving only a patch of dirt where the large piece of metal once was.
"Alright, should we return back to base?" Prometheus picks up the communicator to contact Phantom again.
"No, keep us informed about the movement of the Guardians. It pays to be two steps ahead of the competition."
"Roger that, Prometheus out," The hologram of Phantom's disappears and the purple reploid feels someone tapping his shoulder.
"Let's keep going, we don't need the others catching on to Lord W's plans." The white armored reploid receives a grunt from her partner as a reply, and the two walk off to search for Zero and Forte.
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"See anything yet?"
"That's the fifth time you asked, and for the last time, the answer is NO!" Harpuia sighs as he tries to block out Leviathan's chattering.
"Aww, you don't have to be so mean, Harpy. I was just curious. You really hurt my feelings with your outburst." Leviathan starts to sniffle a bit and Harpuia pauses.
"I know you're just pretending. You can stop that." Harpuia pauses as he looks at his cerulean companion. Leviathan just sniffles a bit louder and Harpuia pauses for a bit. Is she really crying? I don't think I did anything wrong, but…
"Now, you're calling me a liar. That just adds insult to injury. You've become so mean today." Leviathan starts to rub her eyes with her hands and Harpuia notices a drop of liquid rolling down her cheeks.
I think she's really crying! I have to do something quick… Come on, think… "Uh… Look, I'm really sorry alright. How about I make it up to you…" Harpuia searches for possible ways to mend his relationship. "…by taking you to that new restaurant in Inner?"
"Promise?"
"Yeah, I promise. Just stop crying, alright?" Leviathan stops crying right away and Harpuia looks on her hand to see a block of ice, realizing that he's been tricked, again.
"Alright, you owe me a date when this is over. Come on, let's hurry." Leviathan rushes off, leaving Harpuia. Harpuia sighs before going after the cerulean reploid. Sometimes I really wonder if it's worth it to be in a relationship with her…
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Forte's arm goes down as Yuriskah brings down his blade on his. If I still had my other arm, then maybe I could do something! Yuriskah puts both his hands on the handle as he pushes Forte's sword to the ground.
"How does it feel to be overpowered?"
"I'll tell you when that happens!" Forte concentrates all his strength as he rips his sword upward, knocking Yuriskah's blade out of his hands. "I told you I won't lose!"
Forte charges at Yuriskah and jumps up with his saber raised. "I'll make you pay for everything you did!" Forte brings his saber down, but stops before he could touch Yuriskah. Error! Main systems have been damaged! Preparing for system shut down!
Forte looks down to see Yuriskah's hand. In Yuriskah's hand, he's wielding another dark purple blade, identical to the one he just knocked out of his hand, impaling his chest. "If an opponent doesn't know everything about you, then you have the advantage."
Yuriskah grabs Forte by the neck and pulls his blade out of Forte. He then drops the ebony reploid out of the ground before moving away.
"I'll take care of you for good later." Yuriskah drops his sword and it hits the ground, part of the blade going through the ground. "Die."
Yuriskah's dark purple blade starts to glow and cracks begin to form in the ground. Forte looks beneath his feet as the earth splits, causing him to fall. Forte grabs onto the ground with his remaining arm as he tries to pull himself up. I have to hold on. I can still make it!
"You actually still think you can live?" Yuriskah punches the ground, causing the piece of the earth that Forte's holding onto to split. Forte screams as his silhouette begins to fall deep into the dark chasm.
"Bye bye." Yuriskah waves at the disappearing figure and stops when Forte's scream is no longer heard. Yuriskah goes to his saber and picks it up, causing the ground to close again. Yuriskah gets his other saber and looks just in time to see the energy prison he trapped Zero in break.
"Zero, I'm afraid you're already too late now."
"What? Forte's…"
"He's not dead yet, but I'll go down and retrieve the remains of his power once I deal with you."
"Bring it on!" Zero grabs the hilt of his Z-Saber, but stops as a sudden pain begins to spread throughout his body, paralyzing him. This is getting worse! I can't fight… Zero's knees touch the ground as he tries to support himself with his arms.
"This will be even easier than I thought." Yuriskah grabs the saber that Forte knocked out of his hand and sheaths one of his two sabers. He swings it in a arc and sends a sonic wave towards the crimson reploid.
The wave gets closer to Zero as dust begins to form. A huge explosion is heard and Yuriskah smiles. "Looks like the Legendary Hero isn't so tough after all," the dust begins to clear and Yuriskah makes out the shadow of three figures in the settling dust.
"The two mini Rockmans, I figured you'd show up sooner or later." Vent and Aile appear as the dust clear with their buster raised, defending Zero.
"Be careful, he's strong." Zero warns before covering his eyes with his hands. My vision's becoming blurry.
"Yuriskah, give up right now or we'll be forced to fight you!" Vent and Aile begin to charge their X-Buster as the black reploid begins to walk closer.
"Aww, that's cute. You actually think you stand a chance." Yuriskah disappears and reappears behind Vent, slashing him with his saber and forcing him to revert to his human form.
Yuriskah then turns to Aile and puts his arm around her neck, pointing his saber at it with his free hand. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
I have to… Aile reaches into her pockets to grab a biometal, but drops it and it begins to roll away. Oh no!
"Too bad!" Yuriskah lets go of Aile's neck and pushes her onto the ground. He points his sword downwards and brings it down, but stabs only dirt. "She's gone?"
Who saved me? Aile looked to see red armored arms carrying her to safety. "Zero?" Aile notices that they stopped moving and gets a better look at her rescuer. Aile gasps in recognition.
The shattered visor and the crystal on his head proves her first guess wrong as she and Vent whisper out one word simultaneously. "Boss…"
"I won't let you touch these two, Yuriskah! I've come to defeat you once and for all to stop this madness!" Girouette pulls out his Z-Saber and points it at the black armored reploid.
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I've been very busy with homework lately because of Spring Break approaching and all. I can barely keep track of all the tests and projects in the next week.
I think this chapter was done pretty well, I feel like I'm getting better with every new chapter I type. Anyways, was that unexpected for you guys? Remember to read and review!