The next morning after Neal had introduced himself, he was enlisted as the newest member of the Guardians (for his own safety). At that time he was given the codename, Chosen 04, since he was the fourth Chosen One behind Giro, Vent, and Aile, who were members of the Guardians before him.
At the time, Neal's combat ability was rather limited. While Vent and Aile would've been able to do what Neal had done in Legion without getting hit and in less time, Neal didn't have the battle prowess to fight on the same level as them.
In truth, Neal's power was very different from Models X and Z. Model E's weapon was a rapier, a weapon less designed for slashing and more for thrusting and/or stabbing. Of course the weapon could still cut, but not as effectively as a beam sword. Also, there were no built-in projectile weapons, so Neal didn't have the same benefits that Vent and Aile had with the ZX and X Busters.
There were also the fundamentals of movement that would have to be addressed, such as the Dash, the Wall Jump, and finding a fighting style that would work to Neal's advantage that would help with his limited ability.
Of course every operation is ten percent execution, and ninety percent preparation. And how exactly do heroes prepare for their day?
At that very moment, Vent, Aile, and Neal were in the cafeteria eating their breakfast. Since the three of them were still human, they needed to fuel their bodies for the upcoming training. And after all, breakfast was the most important meal of the day.
As Aile and Neal ate their breakfasts quietly, Vent realized something and needed to ask Neal an important question.
"Hey Neal. I have a question for you," Vent asked.
Neal bit from some bacon and nodded. "What is it Vent?"
"Doesn't it feel weird being the only Mega Man out there wearing pink?" Vent asked, causing Aile to gag on her milk.
"Just what's wrong with pink?" Aile demanded as she gulped the rest of her milk down and slammed her palms on the table.
"Nothing," Vent answered with a shrug of his shoulders. "I just thought that since Neal is a guy that maybe he'd want to be in a more manly color."
"Hey Vent. Would you like to know why I'm fine with pink?" Neal asked casually with a wave of his hand.
"Sure," Vent answered.
Strangely at that moment Neal stood up and left the cafeteria, which confused both Vent and Aile. When he got back, he was carrying a projector under his arm, which he set down on the table and had set up within a few minutes.
"The reason I am not upset about being the only Mega Man in pink is because..." Neal said as he pressed a button on the remote control, causing the projector to project a yellow and red-striped Japanese sunset.
"I am fully confident in my sexuality!" he said boldly as he assumed a dynamic pose on the table, his left foot elevated and his left hand clenched into a fist, and his right on his hip.
This caused some of the other guardians there to question whether or not the newest Mega Man didn't have a screw loose after taking that one hit back in Legion. Of course it did take all kinds so...
After their little "display" in the cafeteria that morning, Vent and Aile escorted Neal to the Grand Nuage's training room to help Neal with his fighting style.
The training room was located directly above the cargo hold and next door to the firing range. The room is pretty much a large empty room, but obstacles could be brought in for training purposes whenever they were necessary.
"Okay guys, lets get started," Neal said as he took Model E out of his pocket. "Megamerge!" he intoned as he spun it in his right hand before bringing it in front of his left shoulder, then moved it across his heart, simultaneously summoning his weapon with the same motion as he appeared in his megamerged form.
"Ah, I see you've already set up your own personal flair for when you megamerge,"Vent commented.
"It suits you very well," Aile added.
From the information that had been collected by Ashe, the other Mega Men had a certain "flair" for when they megamerged as well. Aeolus held his Biometal by his sword and transformed in a whirlwind, Atlas slammed hers into the ground and transformed in a pillar of flame, Thetis tossed his in his hand before being covered in a column of ice, and Siarnaq assumed a fighting stance and transformed in a swirl of a dark mist.
Next Vent and Aile megamerged as well with their own personal flair.
"Okay Neal, the first thing we'll work on are your physical abilities," Aile said as she walked over to some large crates placed by each other. "The first lesson will be the Wall Jump."
"Wall Jump?" Neal asked raising an eyebrow. "Sounds like a ninja trick to me."
"Well it isn't a trick exclusively for ninja," Aile explained. "When you're megamerged, an ability you have is the ability to jump between two walls to reach greater heights, or to jump up the side of a single wall to scale walls quickly, at greater ease."
Aile demonstrated by jumping onto the side of one crate, then onto the adjacent wall, and then on top of the first crate. "Now you try."
Neal took a deep breath before running at the first crate. His feet hit the side, but before he could do any more he lost his footing and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Try again Neal," Aile encouraged. "This time try to force yourself away from the first wall before going to the second one."
Vent watched with some amusement as Neal struggled to do the first Wall Jump right, whether it was falling off the first wall or slamming face-first into the second one. It just came from the part of people's minds that found other people's physical pain humorous.
"You almost got it that time," Vent said sarcastically as Neal hit the floor once again.
Neal huffed as he looked at the first wall again with narrowed eyes. He quickly ran to the first wall and planted his feet a yard above the ground, then before he could slide down, he quickly pushed himself off and turned in mid-air to plant his feet on the next wall, then pushed himself off again and landed right next to Aile.
"Good job," Aile said patting Neal's shoulder. "Next we'll move onto the Dash ability."
Aile hopped down and motioned Neal to follow as she motioned to a set of cones placed on the floor.
"Let me guess, it lets me move faster across the ground," Neal asked.
Aile nodded. "That's right. Whenever you need a quick boost of speed, the Dash will be invaluable. The Dash can also work on conjunction with the Wall Jump for added speed and height."
"Then wouldn't it have been more prevalent to teach me the Dash before the Wall Jump?" Neal asked, rubbing the bruises he had under his black underarmor.
"Hehe. Guess I didn't think that one through," Aile said rubbing the back of her head. "Although I have to admit, you caught on pretty quickly."
"Well what can I say?" Neal said with a shrug of his shoulders, "I had a great teacher."
"Aw stop it Neal," Aile said waving him off, "you're going to make me blush."
At the same time, Vent retched at Neal's display toward his sister. Ignoring her brother with a huff, Aile continued with the lesson.
"I'm not completely sure how to explain how to do it," Aile said. "All I can say is to build energy into your legs and move forward with everything you have."
"Okay Aile," Neal said as he began to concentrate. He began to feel his Bio-Energy slowly build. When it reached its peak, Neal unleashed it at the bottoms of his feet and rushed forward.
At the same time outside the Training Room.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" a female Guardian member asked a male Guardian member as he set a bolt up onto the wall, under his arm was a large picture frame. "I'm not sure we should be trying to hang a picture on the wall."
"You think too much," the male Guardian member said as he hung a picture of the Grand Nuage on the wall. "Besides. Prairie will be thanking me later for livening up the place a bit."
As the two Guardian members stepped back to look at the picture, a loud crashing sound suddenly came from the other side of the wall. The next moment, the picture was jostled off its bolt and fell to the floor with a crash.
"Don't. Say. A word," the male Guardian member growled as he tried to pick up all the pieces of the broken frame while grumbling to himself.
The female Guardian member didn't say anything. Although she did giggle a bit.
Back in the training room.
"Dang," Neal moaned as he fell off the wall and onto the floor. "Felt like I just got hit by a truck."
"That's going to leave a mark," Vent commented as Aile helped Neal to his feet. "And just to clarify on that last statement, it should be the other way around."
"Good thing you have such strong armor," Aile commented as Neal tried to regain his balance, "otherwise that hit would've powdered every bone in your body."
"By the way, did you hear something crash outside?" Neal asked holding the sides of his head to make the room stop spinning. "It sounded like something fell off the wall."
"Nah, couldn't be," Vent said. "That stopped happening a long time ago when Prairie made it a rule not to hang pictures up on the walls."
Neal sighed as he shook the dizziness out of his head. "Well it isn't important. Anyway, what's the next lesson?"
"Don't you want to finish training with the Dash first?" Aile asked.
"Nah, it'd take too long to teach me everything else then," Neal said. "I can always work on the Wall Jump and the Dash on my own time anyway. So what's the next lesson?"
"That's where I'll be coming in," Vent said as he got up from his seat and put an arm over Neal's shoulder. "Since you don't use a projectile weapon, I'll be teaching you about a little thing called sword play."
"You mean fighting with the sword right?" Neal asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, that about sums it up," Vent said, obviously not catching the hint of sarcasm.
The next hour was mostly Vent criticizing Neal on his weak points in swordsmanship such as-
"Neal! Your grip is too tight!"
"Oh c'mon! Now your grip is too loose!"
"Are you even trying?"
"Your stance is too open!"
"C'mon, my sister fights better then you!"
Of course it went without saying that Aile didn't take that comment too kindly.
"You swing like a sissy!"
"You're too slow!"
"Your grip's too loose again!"
"Hey shut up Vent!" Neal roared at that last comment.
After that, the three of them left for the roof to take a break from training.
Neal, Vent, and Aile stood atop the Guardian Base's sky deck, overlooking the world down below as it moved through the skies. When Neal looked over the edge, to Vent and Aile's surprise he suddenly fell on his butt and hastily crawled toward the center of the roof.
"Is something wrong?" Aile asked.
Neal was still trembling from the shock of seeing the ground so far below, but eventually regained his composure to give a response. "Well... When I was a kid, I had a bad experience with... flying. Ever since then I've been afraid of high places" he confessed. Of course what he had left out was that he had flown out of a collapsing building. But that wasn't an important issue yet.
"Wow. It must've been pretty traumatic for you to scurry away like that," Vent commented.
As the Grand Nuage flew through the skies, another sound met their ears. It sounded like the roar of a large engine.
"What's that?" Neal asked as he got up.
As he and the others watched the starboard side of the ship, a large metal bow suddenly pushed up through the clouds. It was one of the large air ships commonly used by galleons when they needed to get from one place to another quickly.
Author's Notes:
And by that I'm talking about those red shark-shaped ships.
"Vent! Aile! We have something on the radar!" Prairie spoke through the com links. "It looks like a large airship!"
"We see it!" Ashe answered. "Are we under attack?"
"Not yet. But I wouldn't hold my breath," Prairie said. "Just be ready in case something happens. Hopefully if we don't attack it the ship will ignore us."
"I don't think that's going to happen," Neal shouted into Vent's ear piece.
"Why's that?" Aile asked.
"Because we're already being boarded," Neal said as a boarding junction that looked like a mix between a door and a snake suddenly latched itself onto the side of the ship. The next moment the door was blasted open by a gout of flame, and its carrier walked out onto the roof of the Guardian Base.
"What the-" Vent said as he recognized the figure that came out.
"It can't be! We saw him go down ourselves!" Aile said taken aback by the figure's sudden appearance.
Neal's mind tried to process what was happening. So far he figured that they were being boarded, but that they were only being boarded by one mehcaniloid. It was a large orange and red-armored lion-shaped mechaniloid with a flaming mane, and large silver claws.
"Rooooar! I am Fistleo the Predatoroid!" the mechaniloid shouted. "This time I don't intend to lose!"
"Geez who is this guy?!" Neal asked as the large mechaniloid let out another threatening roar.
"That's Fistleo. One of the pseudoroids we faced in one of our previous adventures," Vent explained.
"I knew that Pseudoroids could eventually regenerate," Aile added, "but I never thought we'd actually see him again."
"Don't think I'll fall for the same tricks twice!" Fistleo roared. He suddenly launched a wide gout of flame from his mouth at Neal, Vent, and Aile.
Neal dropped to the ground to dodge the blow, but Vent and Aile had to backstep back into the hangar to avoid getting fried.
"Neal you okay?" Aile asked as Neal got to his feet..
He quickly licked his fingers and put out a small flame that had started on top of his hair before giving an answer. "Don't worry. I'm good."
"C'mon Aile! Lets finish this guy!" Vent shouted as he pulled out his biometal.
"Not so fast!" Fistleo roared. He reared his head and arms back behind him before firing a large wave of purple fire out of his mouth and hands at the entrance to the hangar. As the flames afixed themselves to the roof, they suddenly formed a semi-clear barricade, keeping Neal separated from the others.
"Neal!" Aile cried as she tried to get through the flames, only to have Vent stop her.
"Its no good! These aren't ordinary flames, they're a force field of some kind," Vent said. "Somehow our old friend's gotten a little upgrade since the last time we fought him."
"But look at Neal," Aile said. "He's barely fought at all, and already he's having to face off against a pseudoroid!"
"Don't worry guys! I'll be fine!" Neal said as he stood his ground. "Just focus on getting rid of that airship on the starboard side. Last thing we need are more guys attacking the ship."
"Way ahead of you!" Prairie called out from the intercom. "All starboard cannons prepare to fire on my signal!"
On the right side of the Grand Nuage, panels began to move outward as Guardian troops manned large plasma cannons. They took aim as they charged their cannons and awaited for the signal to fire.
"Fire!" Prairie shouted over the intercom system.
"Megamerge!" Neal shouted simultaneously as he pulled out Model E and megamerged.
Mega Man ZX Soundtrack - Rockin' On
As large balls of plasma fired out of the cannons and bombarded the side of the enemy ship, Fistleo charged at Neal with claws extended.
"You're mine!" Fistleo shouted as he swung in a wide arc with his right claws. Neal blocked the attack with his rapier, but was knocked backwards by the sheer force of the attack.
"Man. This guy's tougher then he looks," Neal said as he pulled himself to his feet and readied his weapon.
Fistleo roared and charged again, this time with an overhead strike aimed right at Neal. He quickly responded by bringing his sword up and blocking with both hands, only to buckle underneath Fistleo's brute strength.
"Rrgh. Not this time furball!" Neal shouted as he used all his strength to redirect Fistleo's attack behind him while he rolled underneath and quickly got into a stance.
As Fistleo pulled himself up from the ground, Neal quickly checked the Interface and went to the Cyber Elf page. Sitting in one of the slots was Recon, rested and ready to go.
"Recon! Scan that pseudoroid!" Neal ordered. Recon woke up with a start and shot out of Neal's visor at Fistleo, scattering crosshairs across his body as he did so. Fistleo tried to bat him away, but all of his efforts missed and Recon flew back into Neal's visor.
"Targeting information acquired. Target: Fistleo," Recon read out from his report while a wireframe appeared on the visual interface. "He appears to be a Flame-Element enemy. Built for close-range combat, but has a few ranged attacks."
"Neal! Go for his face! That's his weak point!" Vent shouted over the roar of the flames and cannon fire.
"Not from where I'm standing!" Neal said as Fistleo lunged at him, noticing that the Fistleo-wireframe didn't show any evidence of weak points. He quickly dodged to the right and managed to get a slice in at his ankle. "Seems his face is extra-reinforced."
"That's odd," Vent said. "When Pseudoroids regenerate, they usually stay at the same strength as when they were fought the first time around. They aren't supposed to get stronger, or get new weapons for that matter either."
"Prairie! Analyze the fight," Aile spoke into his ear piece. "We may need to use this data later."
"My operators are already on it," Prairie said. "For now just try and break through that barrier. I don't know how long Neal can hold out on his own."
While Vent and Aile megamerged, Neal continued to fight against Fistleo on his own.
"I had heard there was a new Mega Man since I was last time I was alive," Fistleo said as he and Neal circled each other on the roof. "At least this time it isn't a couple of scrawny kids."
"Gee, thanks for the compliment!" Neal said sarcastically as he lunged at Fistleo with an overhead strike. However, before the attack could connect, Fistleo caught the sword with his left hand and delivered a brutal fire punch with his right into Neal's gut, sending him flying across the deck.
"Damn!" Neal cursed as he hit the roof with a thud.
"Pitiful!" Fistleo spat as he brandished Neal's sword in his clawed hands. "You're as pathetic as they come!"
This guy doesn't know about my weapon's power yet, Neal thought to himself with a smug grin. Maybe I can turn this around after all.
Fistleo leapt at Neal with the stolen sword ready and prepared for an overhead strike. However Neal knew exactly what to do in this instance.
"Too slow!" Neal shouted as he summoned his sword back to his hand in a flash of light, much to Fistleo's shock as the blade left his hands. At the moment the sword changed hands, Neal readied his sword for a forward thrust to the chest, however Fistleo managed to twist out of the way in time and only took the hit through his left arm.
"Ha! Take that!" Neal said as he saw Fistleo's HP bar drop by a sixth.
"Damn you boy!" Fistleo roared as he held his left bicep with his hand.
"Heh. For a second there I thought you'd actually be a challenge," Neal said shakily as he shakily got to his feet, "but so far you've barely put up any of a fight."
"Neal what're you doing?! You're barely holding up as it is!" Model E spoke through Neal's mind. "Any more and you'll be finished!"
Its called "bluffing", Neal thought back. If I can make him angry enough, he'll make more mistakes.
"ROOOAAAAARRRRRRR!!!" Fistleo roared in a fit of rage as massive red and orange flames covering his whole body, giving off the heat of an exploding volcano.
"Okaaaay. Maybe making him mad wasn't the best idea," Neal admitted as the heat from Fistleo's body began to sear a hole through the roof.
"You think?" Model E asked in a sarcastic tone.
"RAAAAH!!!" Fistleo roared as he lunged headfirst at Neal, his body blazing like the sun itself as he barreled right at him, and then slammed headfirst into the wall of flame in front of the hangar.
FOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"Gyaah!" Vent and Aile cried as they barely managed to escape the aftershock of the attack.
Back in the bridge, the piloting crew payed close attention to the fight monitoring every detail of the Pseudoroid Fistleo. Suddenly there was a massive flash of light as Fistleo's full-body flame attack barreled right for Neal.
"Neal!" Prairie cried out as the searing heat from the attack fried the cameras, cutting Neal off from view.
"Commander, we've lost visual contact," Gardenia spoke as several monitors blacked out.
"We have also lost cameras 1 through 7," Tulip reported.
"So then all we have left is camera 8..." Prairie said halfheartedly.
"Commander," Marguerite spoke, "it seems that Fistleo's attack has missed."
"Huh?" was Prairie's response.
As the smoke cleared from the hangar, Fistleo stood in a mini-crater, pieces of metal alight with flame. A massive column of smoke was issuing from the hangar where parts of it had gone aflame.
"Where'd he go?" he asked himself as he looked around the roof. During his attack, it felt as though he only hit the wall, which must've meant the boy had dodged the attack somehow.
"Vent, do you think Neal managed to dodge the attack in time?" Aile asked.
"Probably," Vent replied. "Otherwise we would've heard a blood curling scream or something like that."
At that comment Aile smacked Vent over the back of the head. "Baka."
After a minute of looking around, his eyes eventually landed on their target. Or at least part of it anyway.
"So. Thought you could get away from me could you?" Fistleo asked as he walked nonchalantly over to the port side of the roof. Dangling from the edge on the ground railing was Neal, barely holding on. "Any last words?"
"Thbbbbbt!" Neal spat as he stuck his tongue out at Fistleo.
"Alright that's it!" Fistleo roared as he threw his head back and prepared to launch a gout of flame at Neal from point-blank range.
"Don't think so!" Neal shouted as he used the Dash to push his feet from the side of the ship, while still holding on to the railing with his hands, and grab onto Fistleo's head with his ankles. The next moment Neal threw Fistleo over the edge and through a window on the floor below.
Neal quickly dropped down to the next windowsill and pulled himself in, ready to fight Fistleo once again.
"Grrrr!!! You'll regret that!" Fistleo roared as his flaming mane doubled in size.
MegaMan ZX Soundtrack – Ogre Claw
Four Guardians stood across the hallway in both directions from the room Fistleo was thrown into, their blasters ready, after hearing reports of a large Pseudoroid attacking the Grand Nuage. Others stood by in other halls in case the battle spread out any further.
"Steady," one of the Guardians said as he tightened his grip on his blaster. "Steady..."
There was a moment of silence, but it was soon broken as the Pink Mega Man rushed out the door of the room, only for it to be torn off a moment later by the raging lion-type pseudoroid.
"Open fire!" the Guardian shouted to the others behind him as they began shooting at the Pseudoroid's unguarded flank, giving Neal the cover he needed to get some distance between him and the pseudoroid.
Fistleo quickly raised his arm up in defense before shooting a gout of flame at them.
"Take cover," the Guardian cried as he and the others leapt into the rooms beside them for cover.
"Leave them alone you flaming tin can!" Neal shouted, getting Fistleo's attention.
"Grrarrrr!" Fistleo shouted before launching a wall of flame at Neal, who quickly responded by bringing up his armored trench coat to shield himself from the heat as best he could.
After the flames died down, Neal lunged at Fistleo. Fistleo swung right, scraping his fist across the wall, only to have Neal barely duck underneath in time before slashing at his abdomen, and stepping backwards after Fistleo launched a gout of flame at the floor he was standing on.
"DAMN YOU!" Fistleo roared. "STAND STILL SO I CAN HIT YOU!!!"
"Not likely," Neal said as he pulled his left eyelid down and stuck his tongue out at Fistleo, goading him further into making a critical mistake.
Said pseudoroid growled angrily before launching a large column of flame right at Neal.
Crap! It's too big to dodge! Neal realized to his own horror as the flame attack took up too much of the hall for him to dodge to the left or the right.
However, before the attack connected, a thick security barricade dropped down in front of him, shielding from the attack.
"Neal! This is Prairie! Do you read me?" Prairie's voice said through the comm link.
"I hear you," Neal replied. "Thanks for dropping the barricade."
"It won't last too long," Gardenia said. "You've only got ten seconds before Fistleo's flame attack breaks through that barricade."
Neal immediately noticed that the center of the barricade was beginning to turn red, obviously having reached its melting point. "Then just tell me what to do," he said as he tightened his grip on his sword. "How do I finish this guy?"
On the other side of the barricade, Fistleo was nearing his reload point, where he'd need to recharge his flamethrower before he could use it again, and the wall was just about to go down.
The next moment the barricade shattered, and pieces of metal flew across the halls. The hall had begun to fill with smoke from the site of the explosion.
"Yes!" Fistleo roared in triumph. "I killed him!"
But his moment of triumph was interrupted as the smoke at the end of the hall parted, revealing the pink-armored Mega Man, his sword in hand as energy began to build.
"Its time to end this fight, right here and now!" Neal roared as he lunged headfirst at Fistleo and unleashed the built up energy inside his E-Rapier.
"You're dead this time!" Fistleo roared as his right fist was suddenly engulfed in orange flame, and he attempted to deliver a devastating right hook, only to find himself stopped midway through the swing.
KRRRRRTCHHHHH
What the? Gah! Fistleo thought to himself before he saw that his right fist had become wedged into the wall beside him.
"You've fallen into my trap!"
Fistleo turned away from the wall and realized that the pink-armored Mega Man was already upon him. Damn it! I don't fight well in confined spaces!
"Certain Kill!!!" Neal roared as he felt all of his body's energy converging into his right arm and sword. At the same time, a large amount of data poured from Model E and directly into his mind, incorporating a powerful new technique. "Sword Rain!" he shouted as he quickly thrust his E Rapier through Fistleo's unguarded body multiple times, piercing his chest, arms, and legs in a fury of sword stabs. The resulting attack had only taken a few moments, but by the end Fistleo already had eight large puncture wounds across his body.
The resulting attack knocked Fistleo backwards, his broken body coming apart as he tumbled down the hall from the sheer force of the attack.
"How... can this... be happening... again?!" Fisleo roared before beams of light shone out from his body, before a massive explosion filled the hall.
Neal barely had enough time to turn around and shield his eyes from the blast before getting knocked backwards by the force of the explosion.
As soon as he righted himself a few moments later, another message in blue writing appeared on the visor before disappearing.
You acquired the EX Skill: Lion Blazer
"Phew. Good thing that's over," Neal said to himself as he finally allowed his shoulders to slump downward. The next moment the megamerge canceled, leaving him in his human form.
"Neal! Neal are you alright?"
He turned his gaze down the hallway and saw Vent, Aile, Prairie, and Rose coming towards him.
"Don't worry guys. I'm... fine..." he said warily before passing out on the floor.
As Rose and two other Guardians moved Neal onto a stretcher and got him to the infirmary, Prairie looked back to what was left of Fistleo's body, which wasn't much to say the least.
"Five years. Why would Fistleo appear after all this time?" Prairie asked herself as Vent and Aile spread out to get help fixing the hole in the side of the ship.
"I don't know why either," Vent said. "Truthfully I though we'd seen the last of him at Serpent's main office building."
"I'll have Fleuve examine his memory banks," Prairie said. "See if I can get some decent info out of it."
"I'm still surprised that Neal managed to beat Fistleo after so little training," Aile commented. "He barely had any training, but he still won."
"Yeah, but it was only because of the barricade and Fistleo's overconfidence," Vent said in a serious tone. "Against another Mega Man, he wouldn't last five minutes."
"We'll just have to hope he learns fast," Prairie said. "Neal acquiring Model E may've been by chance, or maybe not, but I have the strangest feeling that things are about to get very hectic again."
Bio-Energy isn't an official term used by Inti Creates. It is simply a way for me to categorize the type of energy that exists in Biometal, which gauges its power output.
Neal's EX Skill, Lion Blazer, is a concept under my ownership. It will come to relevance in later chapters.
Next time on Mega Man ZXA: Recurrence...
"Things have been peaceful since Ouroborous fell into the sea."
"What're you looking for?"
"Someone's been here!"
"Ugh! If its Buckfire again, I swear there's gonna be hell to pay,"
"You give me your name and I'll give you mine,"
"Biometal... Model... A..."
See you then.