Vile: I was on a little roll here, so I got this chapter out as well! Now we see the battle against Pseudoroid Number 5. Enjoy!
MMZX3: Mega Man ZX Enforcers
Chapter 17: Feelin' the Burn
The Shadow Mega Man hopped onto the flat top of the beetle, followed by the rest of the Mega Men. The staircase hatch slowly returned to its spot, and the beetle's legs raised and started moving, carrying the Mega Men across the lava like a personal ferry.
"This might be a bad time to think this, but this is the way to travel!" Taylor mused, placing his arms behind his head.
"This must be one friendly Mechaniloid if it's letting us ride it right after fighting it." Grey mused.
"Either that or it doesn't know what it's doing anymore." Atlas mused.
Aeolus then looked up. "Incoming air enemies!" Sure enough, various dragonfly robots were on their way, firing fire blasts.
Then, Thetis noticed a hand splash out of the lava, grabbing hold of the Mechaniloid's side. "GEEH! Lava zombies!" He cried, freaked out. The hands belonged to Model FS Mega Men. The team broke into two groups: Grey, Ashe, Atlas, and Siarnaq took care of the airborne enemies while Thetis, Aeolus, and Taylor took care of the "lava zombies". With some quick work, the Mega Men managed to keep all the threats at bay until the bug Mechaniloid came to a stop at another stretch of rock platform that they could use. Each of them hopped off, and beetle sank back into its lava home. As they pressed on, they came to an area with six boulders fashioned to look like tall spires.
"Ya-hee-HAH! Someone finally showed up!" A male voice suddenly said. All of a sudden, the platform behind them was destroyed by a lava surge, and something leapt out. It leapt around the spires until it came to a stop on the ground, turning to face them and standing up. It was a jaguar-type Pseudoroid with a bright red torso area, orange arms and legs, an orange head with brown eyes, and an orange tail. Black spots were all over its body, and a flame was burning on the edge of the tail, and flames were burning from its front paws. "Mega Men, eh? I'm glad you're here! I was so bored, I had to set off these volcanoes just for a thrill!"
"You did this for fun?! You're sick!" Grey snapped.
"What do you care? Nobody even lives around here!" The Pseudoroid replied. "As far as I can see, I ain't doin' anything wrong!"
"Listen, Lavaperd. The more those volcanoes erupt, the more imbalanced the ground becomes." Siarnaq told him. "If you keep this up, you can end up creating volcanoes all over the world!"
"I could? Awesome!" The jaguar replied. "Model D's gonna love that! Why don't you help me with this? Or better yet, I'll crush you in the process! Ya-hee-HAH!" Lavaperd formed claws from the flames on his front paws, then took a position on all fours.
WARNING
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BATTLE SEQUENCE
ENEMY: LAVAPERD THE JAGUARROID
Lavaperd suddenly dashed forward on all fours, quickly trying to slash at the Mega Men with his claws, but those in his path quickly dodged. As a result, Lavaperd ran into a spire and started running up it. "Ya-hee-HAH!" When he was on top of it, he quickly jumped down and performed a flaming Drill Claw technique toward Thetis and Aeolus, who dodged. When he landed, however, a small shockwave of fire was created. Aeolus was able to fully dodge, but Thetis took some of the heat.
"Gaaaah!" He yelled, gripping his arm. Being the Ice Mega Man, he took extra damage from the Fire-based attack.
"I got ya covered, Thetis!" Aeolus yelled, charging his energy before firing his Plasma Cyclones, striking Lavaperd hard and being extra effective through his Electric properties.
"Damn! Nice spark!" Lavaperd laughed, almost disregarding the pain. "Don't get me wrong, it hurt! But that's what keeps me going!" The tip of his tail then opened, and several fireballs were fired from the tail as small missiles, spreading the fire around.
"Aah!" "Guh!" "Gwah!" Ashe, Taylor, and Siarnaq were all nailed by a fireball.
"All right, that's it!" Taylor activated Omega Aura and performed a Shinkuujin slash wave, but Lavaperd dodged.
"My turn!" He flared his claws and slashed, sending out shockwaves of fire. Taylor acted quick and blocked them with his saber.
"Let's go!" Lavaperd ran toward a spire and ran up it, jumping off to Drill Claw toward Siarnaq.
"A-Trans!" Grey's voice was heard. All of a sudden, Lavaperd was blasted out of Siarnaq's path by Shadraco's Shadow Flare, Grey transforming right back.
Lavaperd shook his head, making the "blblblbllblbllblb" sound. "*whistles* Shadraco gave you somethin' good! Too bad it won't help you very much!" He pointed his tail at him and started launching fireballs. Grey, however, quickly transformed into Bombat and blocked the fireballs with the Wing Shield. "Comin' at ya!" The Jaguarroid rushed forward for a claw swipe.
Out of nowhere, though, Thetis stopped his attack by sticking his halberd toward him, which happened to go down his throat. Lavaperd quickly backed off, making a few choking sounds before expelling a small wave of fire from his mouth into the rock, clutching his chest. "Fire breath, too?"
"Heck no! Your little stick just made me puke!" Lavaperd retorted, panting slightly. "You're gonna pay for doin' that!" The jaguar started slashing with his claws, firing out fire waves from them.
Thetis quickly activated his OIS mode. "Ice Barrier!" He quickly threw up the ice shield, managing to deflect the fire waves, but with the Fire damage against an Ice shield, it cracked more than it normally would.
"Okay, bein' stubborn, are ya? I think it's time I got more serious!" The jaguar rushed up the side of a spire, standing on top. "UWAAAAHHH!" An aura of flames surrounded him, then he suddenly started Drill Clawing to another spire, but as he did, fireballs were being cast off from him in a rain.
"MOVE!" Grey cried, and everyone began dashing around to avoid the fireballs. When Lavaperd reached the second spire, he immediately began Drill Clawing to another one, continuing his fiery cast-off.
"Anytime you wanna stop would really be appreciated, big guy!" Taylor yelled to him.
"You want it, you got it!" The jaguar replied before recoiling off the next spire into their center, stopping in mid-air, then immediately Drill Clawing toward the Model O Mega Man.
"Uwaah!" Taylor quickly got out of the way as the Pseudoroid landed, sending out the fire shockwave that just barely missed him. "I didn't mean come at me, genius!"
"Then ya should've been more specific, dude!" Lavaperd said. Out of nowhere, he yelled in pain as he felt something being sliced. Looking behind him, he found that his tail had been completely sliced off, fire leaking from his rear. At the same time, a Cross Star was moving back to Siarnaq. "Da hell?! No one cuts off my tail and gets away with it!" He immediately turned to the Shadow Mega Man and started slashing at him, Siarnaq barely managed to dodge.
"I can't keep this up! Shadow Dash!" Siarnaq said, activating his Overdrive mode and Shadow Dashing right through the Fire Pseudoroid, surprising the jaguar.
"What the heck?!" Lavaperd quickly turned his head, only to be headlocked by Siarnaq and had a kunai lodged into the back of his neck. "Ugah-!" All of a sudden, Lavaperd's body lost any ability to move, except for his head. "What… did you just… freakin' do to me?!"
"I researched you Pseudoroids while I was with Model D and found something useful: Your weak spots!" Siarnaq told him. "You have a vital part in the back of your neck, almost like a human's spine. All I had to do was jam a kunai in there. Now, except for your head, you're completely paralyzed!"
Lavaperd growled. "Let… me… go, damn it!"
A light bulb went off in Siarnaq's head, and he grinned. "Atlas, Thetis, Aeolus! Huddle up, I just got an idea!" He dropped the Pseudoroid and met them, discussing a plan between the four of them.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Ashe wondered. Grey and Taylor shrugged.
The four once-evil Mega Men then broke apart. "All right, everyone, break!" Siarnaq said, rushing back to Lavaperd while Thetis dashed away and Aeolus leapt into the air and activated his wings. "You're goin' for a little ride, Lavaperd!" Siarnaq picked up the paralyzed Pseudoroid and threw him toward Atlas, throwing a few waves of kunai that pierced his body.
"Going up!" Atlas said before uppercutting Lavaperd into the air with her Knuckle Cannon.
As he soared up, Aeolus flew above him into his face. "Going down!" He did an X slash to send Lavaperd back down to the ground.
Standing where Lavaperd would land was Thetis. The Ice Mega Man smirked as Lavaperd fell toward him, and stuck his halberd toward him. Lavaperd gave a choking gasp as he was skewered by Thetis's lance right through the chest. "FATALITY." Thetis said in a low voice, imitating Mortal Kombat. He then threw Lavaperd off of his lance, docking it.
Lavaperd's body crackling electricity, but the Pseudoroid chuckled. "That fight… was awesome." He said. "I had the time of my life… so I don't mind that I'm about to eat it. Up ahead is a little machine… it's the one causing those eruptions. Adios, Mega Men!" Streaks of light came from his body, and he was engulfed in a massive explosion that destroyed him completely. A DNA Core was left in his place, which was absorbed into Grey's helmet.
"All right! Five DNA Cores down!" Model A said.
"Let's get moving." Grey said. The rest of the group agreed and pressed on. Along the way, they came to another lava gap, but on the other end, there was an odd machine. "What is that?"
Aeolus put his hands to his eyes like binoculars to try and get a better look. "That must be the eruption machine that Lavaperd mentioned."
"Hmm. Let's check it out, Grey." Model A said. "Lavaperd was able to move in lava, so we should be able to as well."
Grey nodded. "A-Trans!" Grey morphed into the recently defeated Pseudoroid and hopped into the lava, not being damaged and finding it surprisingly shallow. With Lavaperd's speed, Grey crossed over the lava with ease and made it to the machine, transforming back. Once there, he whipped out his pistols and filled it full of holes, making sure to step back when he was done so the explosion didn't get him in it. When the machine was destroyed, all of a sudden, all of the lava began to super-cool, turning into standard rock that they could walk on. The other Mega Men joined him as he observed the cooling lava. "The machine must've kept the lava in its molten state as well, preventing it from cooling. With it gone, this area should go back to being dormant."
"There's a base up ahead. There should be a transerver in it to get back." Siarnaq said, and the group took off again. When they reached the base, the officials thanked them greatly for their help and pointed them to the transerver. It was large enough to accommodate them, so they stepped on and activated it, being surrounded by the green lights before being warped back to the Hunter's Camp.
Vile: 5 Pseudoroids down, 3 to go. When we return for the next Chapter, let's see if we find out if the Commander spotted Vent and Aile. If you guys liked this chapter, leave a review for me! See ya!
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