Sorry I took so long to update, I was being lazy as usual and not sure how exactly to continue this. Well, here's the next chapter for all of you. Since I don't play Advent and I already screwed things up way too much to make things Capcom canon, keep in mind that this story isn't Capcom canon. Here's the next chapter:

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Aile gets up after rubbing her eyes and her arms scramble along the floor to search for her alarm clock. That's strange, it doesn't seem to be here and why's my mattress so hard?

Aile's eyes snap back open when she remembers the situation that she's currently in. Oh right. I can't believe I forgot all of that. I guess lack of sleep is starting to take its toll on me. I feel like I'm forgetting something important today.

Aile absently wandered to the washroom inside Weil's base. Why a base occupied completely by reploids and the likes would need a washroom, Aile would never know. Since she slept in her clothes the night before, she decided to take a shower to wash off the sweat.

She stepped into the very small shower area and turned the water on at full blast. It was around this time that Aile realizes she still has her clothes.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The cold sting of the water completely brings her back from Sleepyland and she remembers everything that has happened here so far. She steps away from the water immediately and moves under the dryer and sets it at full power.

"Looks like you're finally awake." Aile stops moving and waits for the voice to appear again.

Good, it's just my imagination. I was worried that voice was back again. Aile moves away from the heater after she's fully dried. Thanks to that, I'm not in the mood for a shower anymore.

"Imagination? You wish I'm just a part of your imagination. Sooner or later, I'll be free from my prison for good. On to more important matters, I hope you're ready to win for today's match."

"Why are you here and why would you care?" Aile moves out of the washroom as she waits for an answer.

"I already told you, my objectives are the same as yours, to escape from here. Whether you want to believe it or not, I didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere when you used that twisted biometal. I've been in your mind far longer than that. That twisted biometal just allowed my voice to finally reach you."

"So you've been trying to talk to me this entire time?" Aile aimlessly moved through the halls as she thought of what to do. Model W and his lackeys didn't specify a location. I guess I'll just walk around until I meet up with someone.

"Yes, during all your pathetic battles, I've been screaming at all the mistakes you made. I have plans and none of them involve you getting our body killed. The only reason that you're still even alive right now is dumb luck and occasionally I pitch in to help you."

"You do? I don't remember you ever helping me before and I certainly wasn't even aware that you existed until yesterday." Aile continues to wander about while absently talking to herself.

"You know some of the times when your body seems to move automatically on instinct? That's me."

Aile stops moving and looks down as she slowly turns over the information in her mind. If that's true and my actions are influenced by whatever that thing is… What else can it do? What powers does it have over me?

"How many times to I have to tell you to stop referring to me as an it? As for your question, I have no idea myself and I hope to experiment and test out just how much I can do very soon…"

"It seems that you're here." Aile looks up to see Pandora standing in front of her. "Come with me." Pandora turns her back towards Aile and floats away.

"Are you just going to stand here staying all day or do you actually plan on doing anything?"

"Can you just stop talking?" Aile mutters quietly.

"What was that?" Pandora stops for a moment after hearing some words that are inaudible. "Did you say something?"

"N-n-no, never mind, it's not important." Pandora starts moving again and Aile follows her. Inside her mind, Aile hears a dark chuckle.

"If you keep talking like that, then people really will think that you're insane. Oh wait, you are to have trapped yourself like this." Aile tries to think of a comeback, but her thoughts are interrupted again. "Well, I'll be leaving you to your own thoughts for now. I'm too tired to continue talking to you. You better not lose."

Pandora stops at a door and waits. Aile, still lost in her thoughts, continues walking and smacks into Pandora. The collision sent Aile onto the ground but Pandora just swayed back and regained her composure within seconds.

"Owwww…" Aile rubs her behind as she gets back up.

"If you want to escape, then you must be prepared to kill." Pandora doesn't turn towards Aile as she says that and teleports inside. The door opens up and light from the room illuminates Aile as she puts her arms in front of her eyes to prevent herself from going blind.

Aile's pupils constrict as she gets more ccustomed to the light and moves her arms out of the way to get a better view of the room. Large skylights loom overhead of a basically empty room with a marble white floor and walls. Pandora's white armor blends into the background and because of this, it takes Aile a while to locate her opponent standing across from her.

Shouldn't Model W be somewhere around here? Aile's eyes scan the room again and she sees a glass dome and the silhouette of a figure from it. That must lead to another room, so that's where he is…

"You have no time for that! MOVE!" Aile stumbles left as a white and blue halberd smashes the ground she was standing on just seconds earlier. "Do you want to die or win? Hurry up and activate that stupid biometal!"

Aile doesn't bother arguing, both mentally and physically as she takes out the biometal that she put in her pocket. "Rock-on!" White light illuminates Aile as she transforms into the crimson red armor of Model ZX, but then a dark shadow spread across her armor and the helmet shatters. Her armor changes to the light violet color and she stares ahead at Pandora.

"Alright, let's end this petty squabble once and for all. I'm getting tired of this." Pandora calmly states after giving Aile the chance to transform.

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With Model W

"Where's Prometheus?" Model W, now just a floating piece of metal, faces Phantom, the only other person in the room. "Iris is out on recon but Prometheus doesn't have any duties. I thought that he'd be watching this battle."

"I saw Prometheus leave earlier and didn't think to question. Aren't you aware of this?" Phantom questions Model W, but Model W turns back to watching Pandora and Aile staring each other down.

"I see…" Model W replies absently as if his mind was no longer on this conversation. I should have been aware of any movement that Prometheus and Pandora made. The parts of my power that I infused with them should have given me control over them, but this just further confirms my suspicions. Time is running out for me. I need to lay the last stone that will efficiently bury the Guardians and all those who oppose me inside a tomb for good.

"…so, what made you pick Aile?" Phantom asks as he watches Aile and Pandora exchanging blows with the white and blue reploid efficiently obtaining the upper hand.

"I gave Prometheus the choice."

"Yes, but you knew who he would pick, didn't you?" Phantom continues watching as Aile somehow sloppily but miraculously dodges Pandora's attacks. "It doesn't take a genius like you to figure out that there wasn't a chance that Prometheus would work with Vent."

"True. I've noticed that she tends to be more violent during times of peril, almost as if she's possessed. I've observed her lately and found out that as the situation grows direr, a primal instinct seems to take over. The main purpose of creating Model O was just to observe them and I found her to be an interesting experiment."

"Where exactly does reconfiguring Model Z fit into all of this?" Phantom questions as the battle ensues. Aile's shoulder is grazed by Pandora's halberd before she moves back to attempt to get a shot in. "I don't see the point in some of the things that you do."

"I've made Model Z compatible with her just enough so that she'll be able to use it but it will put a strain on her body. Model X made it so that the strain on the body is almost completely gone. Sooner or later the effects will take its toll on her."

"And the purpose of removing the helmet?"

"She'll have less protection that way, making the situation more dangerous." Model W replies. Aile narrowly escapes another one of Pandora's swings and one of her pistols is knocked onto the ground.

"It doesn't look like she'll win."

"If my theory is correct, Aile will do more than just win. If it isn't, I guess Pandora will just have to kill her to prove her loyalty to us."

"You're just going to let her leave and go back to the Guardians if she wins?"

"I always keep my words. I'll give her the chance to do that, but I doubt that she'll want or have the choice to if everything goes according to my calculations." Phantom nods to this and stares ahead. "You've been asking a lot of questions lately, Phantom."

Phantom keeps silent and the two of them watch the ongoing battle without a sound.

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Area of Combat

"Is that all?" Pandora raises her eyebrow as she picks up Aile's dropped pistol into her free hand. She squeezes it until a crack is heard before the weapon is falls to pieces at her feet. "I have no interest in fighting you any longer. Die." Pandora's halberd sparkles with electricity and it collects at the tip and two long serpent-like streams of electricity rush towards Aile.

"You haven't even got a single hit in and you're almost unconscious! Is this really the best that you can do?"

She isn't giving me any openings and if I get too close without a close combat weapon, then I might as well be rushing to my doom. Aile dashes to the wall as the streams of electricity follow her.This is a dead end…

Aile jumps and clings to the wall before kicking off, jumping over the seeking electricity. The streams of electricity turn and approach Aile from her left and right. "Attack Pandora! She isn't moving. Don't waste this chance!"

Aile rolls to the side to avoid the electricity while firing multiple shots aimed in Pandora's direction. Five purple streams left by the speeding bullets rebound off the marble wall and towards Pandora.

The streams of electricity disperse and Pandora twirls her halberd to create a shield. Moving her armed hand in the direction of the bullets, she manages to block three fo them but the other two hit her back and grazes her face.

Pandora traces the cut with her fingers before looking at Aile. "Those attacks aren't strong enough to defeat me and you're already struggling to move. This match was over a long time ago."

Aile wipes away the blood from the cuts on her face before looking at Pandora. These weapons are next to useless and if she gets a fatal hit in, then I'm dead. I should have known this offer seemed to suspicious to be true.

Pandora disconnected two components of her helmet and they float above around her before she points at Aile.

I'm not a real fan of close distance weapons, but one would be very useful right about now… The two disconnected parts of Pandora crackle with electricity and circles toward Aile at breakneck speed.

Aile stumbles and lands on the ground face first while trying to dodge one of them but the other electrically charged part of Pandora buries into Aile's back. The other extension to Pandora's helmet digs into Aile's back as well, electrocuting the violet transformed human.

"AAAHHHHHH!!" Pandora stops the attack and the extensions reattach themselves to her helmet before she looks at Aile.

She's ready to finish me off…. Is there really nothing I can do to stop her? I need more power to fight on even grounds with her. I knew this Model Z got corrupted, I just didn't know it would be so weak. Aile tries to lift her head from the ground to get a better look, but a jolt of electricity knocks her back down to the ground again.

"I just did a check on this biometal. Model W added an Overdrive system to this. Activating that may be our best chance for survival."

Model Z didn't have an OIS…

"In case you haven't noticed yet, we're not using Model Z anymore, so stop fighting like we are! Do it or die, the choice is simple."

Aile, too pained to argue, checks and confirms the fact that the corrupted biometal does indeed have an overdrive system.

Activating OIS

I don't know what this will do… but I have no choice but to use it. My body still feels too heavy to move. I think I've just gotten weaker since activating that. This battle can't be over yet… I have to return…

Aile closes her eyes as she blacks out from the strain on her body.

"At last… Now's my chance to be free."

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There's nothing left for her to do now. I guess I was hoping that she would put up more of a fight. Perhaps in some ways, I even wanted her to win. Well, that doesn't matter now. She's been defeated, now it's time to end this battle once and for all.

I'm getting tired and of all this futile fighting. Some people need to learn when to give up. In a battle, the only time a winner is determined is if there's only one person left alive. Having illusions of anything else is just a weakness. I can tell that she actually believed that she didn't have to do that to defeat me. That's why she's in this situation now.

Perhaps I should just leave her here like this… No, Model W is watching this battle. If I do that, then I'll be terminated. I'll end this quickly as a favor for the Chosen One. I don't know what Model W planned to achieve with all of this, but that biometal that she's using is ineffective against me.

I move towards the unconscious figure in front of me. That's strange, shouldn't she have switched back to her human form now that she's defeated and she used up all her energy? That won't make any difference either way.

This is the end of the line for the Chosen One. My halberd is ready to strike and it doesn't look like she will be getting up anytime soon. I kind of hoped that thing wouldn't end up this way but there's no helping it. I bring down my weapon to put an end to this once and for all.

She seems to be breathing again, but that won't last for long. What!? She blocked that? I look donw to find that she caught the blade of my halberd with her hands. Is she crazy! "Let go!"

I try to lift it up, but her grip on it is still tight. She's on her knees now. She should have lost the energy to move a long time ago! How can she move, much less block my weapon with her bare hands? She couldn't even do that uninjured!

The edge of my halberd is digging into her skin and blood is dripping out like water from a fountain, yet she isn't showing any signs of pain. What's going on? I grip onto the handle of my halberd with both my hands and pry it away from her hand before backing away. No ordinary human should be able to move after the damage she sustained, Chosen One or not.

She's getting up again… This is past the point of abnormal. I have to get a hold of myself, this doesn't change anything. I'll just have to bring her down again. Something's different about her… Her stance is completely different now. Her face is still facing the ground but I wonder what kind of determination is in her eyes right now.

"At last… after all these years of being imprisoned. I am free at last." She slowly lifts her head up to stare at me. Her eyes are a dull green, as if a mist has covered them. What did she mean by her words?

"How are you still standing? You shouldn't even be able to breathe after all the damage that you've taken!" My voice is starting to sound a bit shaky. There's something about her right now that I really don't like.

"Damage? Oh, you mean these cuts?" She trails her fingers along her face to wipe some blood away. Afterwards, she licks off the blood from her fingers. "It isn't my body that you're hurting, but I intend to fix that soon enough. Now, you'll be the first to fall before me."

Something is definitely very wrong with her right now. It's almost as if she's a completely different person. One thing's for sure, if she wasn't prepared to kill me before, then she is now. She can't stay up for long. Once she's down, I'll just have to make sure that she stays down for good.

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IRPD Building

Albert is jotting down letters and calculations in a notebook alone sitting in his desk with a pile of finished paperwork when someone knocks on the door. "Come in, the door's open."

A short fidgety officer enters Albert's office. "There's a shady character outside that's asking for you and claims to have something important to discuss with you only. I tried to get him to leave a message, but he insisted that he see you personally."

Albert put away his notebook and stares at the officer. "That's fine, tell him to come in. Don't bother getting any guards here, I want to speak with him alone" The officer gives a shaky nod and leaves the room. Moments later, a figure wearing a dark green cape and hood enters the room.

"It's been a while, Albert."

"I've been expecting you for quite a while…" The hooded figure takes off the hood to reveal a purple helmet with a white skull at the top. "…Prometheus."

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