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MMZX3: Mega Man ZX Enforcers

A True Enemy of Nature

Dashing through the frigid waters of the near-frozen Aqua Preserve, a thought came to Grey's mind: the group still didn't know who the Pseudoroid was. Thetis probably knew, so he decided to ask.

"Hey, Thetis, what kind of Pseudoroid are we up against here?"

"Judging by the general area, and what's happened here, it would have to be Chillguin." The Ice Mega Man explained. "She's an Ice Element Pseudoroid who specializes in underwater combat like I do. We never got along at all. She hates nature, so I should've figured she'd be here."

"Well then, we need to cook this bird!" Ashe chirped. Thetis smiled, feeling he could trust the group. Out of nowhere, strange living blocks of ice flew towards them.

"Watch out!" Atlas yelled. She jumped in front and bashed the ice block. It was quite durable, but against her cannon, the ice shattered. A fish was trapped inside, and it flew off after being freed. Thetis became cross.

"Now he's using fish as tools? Chillguin really enjoys ticking me off!" He growled. Another ice block came behind Taylor. He tried blasting it with his O-Buster, but the shots bounced off. Trying his O-Saber would kill the fish, and he didn't want to anger Thetis even more. He then remembered an attack of his. He activated his Omega Aura and faced the oncoming ice block.

"Ganzahna!" The Model O Mega Man yelled. He punched the ground with his fist, causing an energy spark to shoot up. The ice made contact and shattered instantly. Nothing was inside that one. Turning to his comrades, Taylor gave a smirk. "Guard Breaker." He described the move.

"Not bad!" Grey called to him. Glancing right, he noticed more projectiles coming their way. "Incoming!"

"Thetis!" An echoed voice called out. It sounded like a Biometal, but the voice was female. Thetis had an idea who it was.

"Model L? Is that you?" He asked.

"Yes, Thetis!" The Ice Biometal said. "Listen, you'll need the OIS technique to help you out. I need you to yell 'Model L Overdrive' out loud to activate it."

"Right." Thetis responded. He grasped his halberd with both hands and plunged one blade into the seafloor. "Model L, OVERDRIVE!" He was surrounded by an aura that looked like an icy mist with snow sparkles.

"Good, it worked." Model L remarked. The ice blocks began firing laser blasts. "Okay, Thetis, time for your special technique, Ice Barrier! Charge up to Level 1, then release to throw up a shield of ice. It should be able to deflect those blasts."

"Okay, here goes nothing." The Reploid mused. He began charging his energy until it hit the first charge level. "Ice Barrier!" He swung his halberd once, creating a disc-shaped piece of ice in front of him. The blasts deflected off it, but tiny cracks began to form.

"The Ice Barrier cannot last forever." Model L explained. "However, you can use it as a battering ram. The enemies will perish upon contact with it, but each enemy destroyed will damage the barrier even more."

"Right, I'll be careful." Thetis said. He rushed forward to intercept the enemies. The ice blocks broke apart on contact with the barrier, and the trapped wildlife darted away. Because of repeated impacts, however, the barrier shattered. "Note to self: use when needed, but use sparingly." With all the assaulters gone, he turned back to the group. "All clear. Let's go!" All the others nodded, so they pressed on. Soon after, they came to a familiar kind of door beneath the waves.

"Chillguin should be through here." Taylor said. "Are we ready?" After giving a unanimous nod, the group entered the door. Inside, they found a room almost totally frozen.

"Took you long enough to get here!" A young voice spoke. Something jetted past from behind them. It was a penguin-shaped robot, mainly having an ocean blue body. It was actually no taller than any of the Mega Men. The chest area was colored a bright yellow, and its arm flippers were bladed on the edge. It had green feet with medium-length talons. Its beak was green as well, pointed up at a 30-degree angle. Halfway down the beak, it turned downward at a 90-degree angle. A pair of beady ice blue eyes gazed at the group. When it locked on to Thetis, it gave a squealing laugh.

"Well, look what the catfish dragged in!" She said while laughing. "Don't get too attached to this place, Thetis, because when I'm done, this place will be frozen forever!"

"You wish!" Thetis yelled, scowling. "This place is one of the few sanctuaries of nature! You won't defile it any longer! Oh, and here's a message for Model D: you're going down for using me!"

"Tch! Pathetic fish-hugger." Chillguin scoffed. "You're living in a dream if you think you can save this place." Her bladed arms glowed once. "I guess it's time I woke you up from that dream!"

WARNING

WARNING

BATTLE SEQUENCE

ENEMY: CHILLGUIN THE PENGUROID

Opening her hooked beak, Chillguin exhaled a freezing breath, forming an ice block in front of her. She then positioned herself as if she was lying on her belly and began spinning rapidly. Suddenly, she shot forward, sending the block straight toward Thetis at a high speed. Thinking quick, he stuck his halberd out, piercing the ice and shattering it.

"What was that?" Thetis sarcastically asked with a smirk, shrugging his shoulders.

"That was the weakest of my powers." The Penguroid chuckled. She backed off, gave a whistle, and then positioned herself for another dash. Then, from a pair of holes in the wall, two penguin drones rocketed out. Chillguin shot forward, flanked by the two drones. "Spread out!" The drones changed direction, one heading towards Ashe, the other towards Taylor. Chillguin herself went towards Atlas.

"Does she really think these things can stop us?" Ashe asked. She pulled out her guns and began firing. The blasts made contact, but the drone kept going. Ashe quickly ducked to dodge it, and the drone stupidly slammed into the wall and exploded. Taylor, on the other hand, merely had to carve through the drone going after him with his O-Saber. Atlas just stood and waited for Chillguin.

'Here, birdy, birdy, birdy!' She thought. She was suppressing a smirk, so she wouldn't tip Chillguin off to her plan. The Penguroid was almost there when… "Model F, OVERDRIVE!" Atlas invoked OIS and charged her energy up, and then unleashed her Knuckle Dasher, nailing the Pseudoroid upside the head and sending her back. She was reeling from the extra damage she took, since she was hit by a Flame-based attack.

"Clever, but I'm not done yet!" Chillguin cried. Her bladed flippers began glowing a light blue color again. All of a sudden, she darted left, stuck her flipper forward, and then dashed down and to the right, causing a large ice blade to shoot towards the group.

"I've got this!" Taylor yelled. He activated his aura and began a Ryuuenjin attack. The flame blade clashed with the projectile, but it overpowered him and nailed him dead-on. "Gaah! Okay, maybe I haven't got this."

"Hee hee! Not very pleasant, is it?" The Penguroid mused. "My ice blades are my strongest attack!" Rather than use them again, however, she gave a whistle, and four of the penguin drones from earlier shot from the wall, Chillguin dashing with them. Grey and Ashe stepped in front of the injured Model O Mega Man, their head symbols sporting a familiar glow. The aiming area appeared around them, and they unloaded Giga Crush on the penguin army. The sheer amount of bullets was too strong for the drones, as they exploded after several hits. Chillguin herself took some good damage as well.

"Thetis, now!" Grey yelled. The Pseudoroid whipped around to see the Ice Mega Man with a pair of yellow energy balls surrounding him: a Level 2 Sub Charge. Thetis swung his halberd, releasing the energy as a spiked mass of ice. Swinging his halberd again, he shattered the ice into multiple spike projectiles, several of them managing to strike the Penguroid. A smirk crossed Thetis's face, but it vanished when he saw the glare to kill in her eyes.

"All right, you asked for it!" She yelled. Chillguin took up position near the center of the arena and stood upright. Then, she started spinning around rapidly like a top with her fins outstretched. The speed of her spinning caused a water tornado to form around her. Out of seemingly nowhere, ice blocks began shooting out randomly from the vortex.

"Watch out, guys!" Thetis called to his allies. He slashed any ice blocks that came his way with his halberd, and Taylor did the same with his saber. Grey, Ashe, and Atlas blasted the projectiles to bits with their blasters. Oddly, after about 20 ice blocks were fired, they stopped coming. The vortex slowed down as well, revealing the reason: Chillguin had a mass of ice blocks in front of her. She was panting heavily.

"Now… with this attack… I'll finish you!" She said weakly. Taylor got an idea.

"Everyone, get close to me." He told them. Not bothering to question him, the other four Mega Men darted next to him.

"Setting yourselves up like dominoes, eh? Makes my job a lot easier!" The Penguroid shouted. Using her spin-dash, she sent the entire mass of ice blocks towards them. With his aura still active, Taylor charged his O-Buster to Level 2, and then raised his fist.

"Rekkoha!!" He yelled. Slamming his fist onto the seafloor, rays of light shot down and surrounded them. The ice blocks all exploded on contact with the rays, causing Chillguin's eyes to widen in fear. However, during this, she hadn't noticed Thetis slip out between a gap in the beams. When the "attack" faded, none of the Mega Men took any damage.

"I… I can't believe it!" She shuddered. "How can you be this strong?" Realization struck her hard when she noticed there were only four of them. "Hang on! Where did Thetis go?" She would soon get her answer.

"Dragon!" She heard. The frightened Penguroid barely had time to turn around before her chest area was pierced by the fangs of an icy dragon-like entity. Turning her head in pain, she saw a smirking Thetis. He had used Freezing Dragon on her, shattering her core. An angry scowl formed weakly on her face.

"Fine… you win." She growled. "You can have your clean waters and aquatic wildlife. You can rot in them for all I care! I'm just glad to get away from you!" She didn't let out another sound as her body exploded from the attack. Almost immediately, the ice in the room melted, revealing the workers trapped inside. The Mega Men ran toward them.

"Hey, are you all okay?" Ashe asked.

"Ugh… yeah, we're fine. Thanks for helping us." One worker said. Grey happened to glance to his left and saw a familiar object where Chillguin's body used to be: a DNA Core. He approached it and absorbed it, acquiring the Penguroid's data. He then went back to the others.

"I guess it's Mission Complete." Taylor said. He activated his communicator to radio in to the Hunter's Camp.

"Commander here. What's the status?" The officer's voice boomed.

"Mission Complete, sir. The Pseudoroid has been destroyed and the Preserve has been saved."

"And Thetis?"

"He's on our side now." The Model O Mega Man explained. "He'll be with us when we get back."

"Good. I'll prepare the Hunter's Scan." The Commander said. "Commander out." The transmission ended.

"Let's head out." Grey spoke up. Everyone else nodded, and the group headed through a nearby door. A ladder was on the other side, which they climbed one at a time out of the water. However, they were met by another that was almost-closed, having a small gap on the bottom.

"The transerver signal is coming from the other side, but I don't see how we're going to get this open." Atlas said.

"Hey, Grey, transform into Chillguin!" Model A told the Reploid. "Since she's a Penguin, you can slide on her stomach to get through small places."

"Good idea." Grey responded. He went to his A-Data Selection and chose Chillguin's data. "A-Trans!" In a flash, he had become the Penguroid. "Let's see if this works!" He said in her voice. Waddling forward, the transformed Grey jumped forward and landed on his stomach, sliding under the gap in the door with ease. The others saw a flash from the other side, and then the door began slowly rising. When it was fully open, Grey was back to normal, the door switch next to him, the transerver behind him. He motioned for the others to follow him, which they did. Luckily, the platform was large enough to fit five people, so the all stepped on and were covered by the beacon and warped out, including their new ally, Thetis.

Two Mega Men down, two to go. If I get ideas, I'll get the next Chapter out soon.

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