Mega Man ZXA Soundtrack - Slam Down
Neal stood against the Four Mega Men with is sword poised for battle. As he prepared himself for the fight of his life, Thetis suddenly charged at him with an overhead strike.
Neal blocked it with a horizontal swing, but Atlas was suddenly at his unguarded right flank and delivered a brutally powerful attack directly into the side of his body, sending him flying right into the statue of Serpent with a sickening crunch before he hit the ground.
"Ugh," Neal grunted as he forced himself up. Before he could even get to his feet, he was suddenly bombarded by a wave of Atlas' fire bullets. He quickly pulled his trench coat over himself and took some of the hits before he heard the familiar hum of Atlas's charging sequence. He quickly leapt out of the way between the moment the small bullets stopped and the time the Charge Shot smashed into the base of the statue, creating a large dent but not making it fall.
The next moment Siarnaq launched a barrage of energy knives at Neal as he fell onto his back, pinning his trench coat to the ground before launching a massive shuuriken right at his chest. Neal quickly back-flipped in his trench coat before the shuuriken hit where his chest would've been, then slipped his arms from his sleeves before yanking the whole thing from the ground and throwing his rapier at Siarnaq, narrowly slashing at his scarf before recalling it to his hand as he threw his coat over his shoulder.
Just as he felt his grip tighten around his rapier, Aeolus dropped down behind him and slashed at his back three times before launching a shockwave through Neal's side. He quickly retaliated with a horizontal slash, but Aeolus countered with a double-horizontal block before kicking him backwards right into an Ice Dragon attack courtesy of Thetis that froze his left side.
Neal quickly jerked his arm in its icy prison to break it, but was interrupted when Siarnaq launched another wave of shuuriken that grazed his back, a couple lodging themselves in his shoulders.
I'm getting overwhelmed here! Neal cursed as he repelled one of Thetis' slash attacks, but was suddenly hit by another of Atlas' Charge Shots.
"Come on. Let's finish this," Aeolus ordered as he and the other Mega Men charged right at Neal with their weapons drawn.
"Ohhhhh, this is not going to be pretty," Neal cursed to himself before he was blasted by a wave of icicles from Thetis, slashed at by Aeolus, smashed in the gut my a right hook from Atlas, slashed across the back by Siarnaq, hit by an electric cyclone from Aeolus, hit by a fireball from Atlas, and hit by a wave of shuuriken from Siarnaq, and then an Ice Dragon by Thetis all in rapid succession.
"Good job you three," Aeolus said as he walked over to Neal's battered and bruised body before kicking him across the square. "Just a little more and this pathetic human will be no more."
"Argh!" Neal cried as he was pelted by another wave of kunai.
"This'll teach you to learn you place human filth!" Atlas roared as she slammed both of her Knuckle Busters right into Neal, sending him into the ground with each hit.
As Atlas walked away, Neal crawled out from the pit, only to be slashed at by another cheap shot from Thetis. "You should've just surrendered when we had the chance," he spat as he slashed at Neal's body before walking away proudly.
Mega Man ZX Soundtrack - Babel Tower
Neal tried to get up, but his body simply gave out under its own weight.
"Gah!" Neal cried as he fell to his knees once again. The four Mega Men then took their time to completely surround him in a tight formation and look down on him like they did all beings who weren't Mega Men amongst their ranks.
"And thus ends the story of the Model E Mega Man," Aeolus pronounced with his arms crossed before drawing both swords and preparing to end Neal's life.
"Even when he's megamerged, he's a testament to his species. Weak and pitiful," Atlas spat as she charged her Knuckle Busters, preparing to crush Neal even more.
"Yeah. You're just a weak kid who got lucky," Thetis said, venom in his voice as he prepared to launch another wave of icicles at Neal. "That Biometal you have must be as weak as you are."
"DECLARATION: YOU NEVER STOOD A CHANCE," Siarnaq said in his empty monotone voice as he drew a giant shuuriken and spun it in his hand like a buzzsaw as he and the other Mega Men bore down on Neal.
Damn! How could this be happening? Neal cursed to himself as he tried to force himself off the ground, only to winch as his cybernetic implants short-circuited with every movement he made. I fought as hard as I could! Why can't I keep fighting?
"I'm sorry Neal. If I had more power, then maybe I'd be able to save you," Elpizo apologized, his disappointment in himself cleary evident.
Is this really the end? Neal asked himself as he closed his eyes before he could see himself get completely destroyed.
MegaMan ZXA Soundtrack – Pallida Mors
At that moment, his entire body pulsed from the core, a chill running through his spine as a dark energy was unleashed from the depths of Model E and into every corner of his being. Suddenly, a massive pillar of dark energy erupted in the center of the square from Neal's body, knocking the four Mega Men out of their attacks as his body was lifted into the air.
"What the-" was all that Aeolus could get out before a massive energy wave knocked them all off their feet again.
"What's happening?" Thetis demanded as he tried to stand back up, only for the energy being emitted from Neal's to push him back. "Our intel didn't say anything about him having this much power!"
"How could such a weak human knock all of us off our feet?" Atlas demanded as she slammed her fists into the ground to make handholds before she was pushed back any more.
"ENERGY LEVELS RISING AT TREMENDOUS SPEEDS," Siarnaz declared as he held two energy kunai in his hands and stabbed them into the ground. "CANNOT FIND REASONABLE EXPLANATION."
At the same time, Neal's body was coursing with a new energy. However this energy wasn't the same kind of energy he felt when he megamerged with Model E. This energy was dark and sinister, like something from the depths of the underworld.
My body... like it's on fire... Neal managed to think out as the energy seemed to be bombarding every aspect of his being. The next moment the aura began to thicken around him, completely blocking the outside world from view. "GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The next moment, he felt like every fiber of his being had just been torn apart and mashed back together a hundred times over, the only sounds were his own bloody cries of pain.
Back on the Grand Nuage.
"Commander! We've just received confirmation of the four evil Mega Men appearing in Inner Peace," Gardena said as four emblems appeared on a topographical map of Inner Peace.
"The four of them?" Prairie cried. "What on Earth's going on down there?"
At that moment Tulip's console was monitoring Neal's vital signs and Bio-Energy readings. The next moment the Energy Gauge began to rise rapidly.
"Commander! It's Neal! Something's going on with himl!" she cried. "Heart rate, respiration, and brain waves are through the roof and still climbing!"
"What? Show me!" Prairie ordered.
The main monitor in the bridge transformed into the same as Tulip's console. On it was a wireframe of Neal, and on the right of it were several gauges, which were rising over their safe thresholds. Suddenly the hologram began to rezz accompanied by a loud hissing sound.
"What's going on?" Prairie cried as the image seemed to rip itself into little pieces.
"Ahhhh!" Tulip cried as her monitor suddenly blew up right in front of her, along with several other computer systems in the bridge, knocking her out of her seat and onto the bridge floor.
"Tulip!" Gardenia cried as she ran over to help Tulip onto her feet.
"Neal's Bio-Energy readings were too much for our equipment to handle," Gardenia said as she tried to salvage whatever data she could. "Just what on Earth could cause such a reaction?"
"Trouble," Prairie answered. "Vent! Aile! Get down there and back Neal up!"
"Got it!" Vent and Aile said as they ran for the Transerver.
Back at Inner Peace.
"Just what the hell was that?" Aeolus demanded as he righted himself as the energy waves began to calm.
His answer came as the smoke cleared around the Model E Mega Man.
MegaMan ZX Soundtrack – Fate Deep-Seated Grudge
Neal was now standing again, except his appearance was completely different from before. His armored trench coat was gone, but instead he wore white armor with gold ornamentation over his arms and legs. A layer of armor was mounted on his front and back, connected by three straps on his sides held in place by gold ornamentation. His hands were now adorned with claws, and his shoes were pointed upwards at the tips. On his shoulder pads were gold epaulets, and his rapier was now green instead of crimson. What was also noticeable was that his eyes (or at least the one not hidden by his mask) were cold and emotionless, and had somehow been changed from cerulean to an eerie shade of pink, almost as if someone had injected pink neon gas into them. His face was also contorted into a psychotic sneer, like that of a crazed killer who wanted nothing more then to experience the intoxicating feeling of someone else's blood between his fingertips.
"What happened?" Thetis asked. "Did he just go Over-Drive?"
" . . . Weak . . . " Neal spoke, his voice now more dark and sinister then before.
"Huh?" Aeolus asked with disgust.
" You're all . . . weak . . . " Neal spoke once again.
"Excuse me?" Atlas demanded. "Did you just call the four of us weak?"
"That's . . . right," Neal chorused. "Weak . . . little bugs."
Atlas yanked her fists from the ground and glared right at Neal. "Oh yeah! Well if that's what you think I'll just have to give you another beating!" she cried as she launched a massive Charge Shot from her Knuckle Buster right at Neal.
"Ffft . . . ," Neal spat as he simply raised his left hand to the attack and took it head-on, a massive column of smoke formed from the blast.
"Ha! Got him!" Atlas cheered as she pumped her fist into the air. The next moment her face faltered as the smoke cleared around where her attack hit, Neal hardly fazed by the attack at all. "What?"
"Atlas, you are an idiot," Aeolus cursed to himself.
"I am NOT an IDIOT!" Atlas roared as she charged at Neal with her Knuckle Busters ready. She delivered a left hook to Neal's unguarded right side, but was blocked when Neal raised his forearm effortlessly and used a brutal palm thrust right into Atlas' face with his right hand, breaking her nose with a sickening crunch as she was thrown back like she'd been hit by a train.
"Your attacks . . . cannot harm me now . . . " Neal spoke as he brandished drew his weapon in his hands.
"Well it looks like this kid just doesn't know when he's not wanted," Aeolus said, angered that Neal was holding out as long as he was. "No more holding back. Let's end this now!"
The four Mega Men charged at Neal with their weapons primed, intent on finishing the new Mega Man once and for all. Little did they know it'd be easier said than done.
Mega Man ZX Soundtrack – Dance-Macabre
Atlas quickly re-aligned her nose with an audible crack before leaping onto the air and delivered a powerful straightforward punch at Neal, only to have him catch it with his bare hand. She swung her other fist at his "unguarded" side, only to have him catch it just as easily. She tried to pull away, but Neal's grip tightened on her Knuckle Busters to the point that he crushed the barrels with his sudden vice-like grip. The next moment he leaned back onto the ground and kicked Atlas in the chest with enough strength to knock her hands out of her weapons and right into the statue of Serpent with a sickening crunch. Her armor cracked under the strain, and the cracks already present in the statue to widened.
Neal discarded the two weapons like they were merely hunks of trash. The next moment Thetis rushed at him from the side.
Thetis quickly attacked Neal with his halberd, only to have Neal tear it from his hands, a look of horror crossing his face as he suddenly found himself without a weapon, before smacking him across the face with it multiple times before kicking him right into the statue of serpent, a sickening crunch as his armor cracked under the strain as well.
"Damn," Atlas cursed as she finally pulled herself together, only to have Thetis suddenly drop down and land on top of her. "Get off me you idiot!"
Just as they were about to get up, Neal threw the stolen halberd into a crack in the statue with enough force to widen it tremendously. The next moment he leapt high into the air before driving it all the way in with a powerful kick, then leapt out of the way as the base shattered altogether, causing the statue to collapse on top of the both of them.
As Siarnaq moved to get the others out from under the rubble, Aeolus flew high into the air before dive-bombing at Neal from above with his swords crossed. Neal parried the attack by thrusting his sword skyward, breaking Aeolus' guard. As Neal's neon green rapier headed right for him, Aeolus quickly twisted out of the way, just to have his left shoulder be grazed right down to his undersuit before he dashed away in order to assess the damage he had taken.
Siarnaq clenched his fist and launched a half-dozen ring-shaped purple shuuriken right at Neal before slicing through the rubble with a giant shuuriken. Neal didn't even flinch as the six Mondala Stars impaled themselves into his armor by their points. At the moment he acted like the weapons impaling him were just mosquito bites.
Just as Siarnaq had freed the other two Mega Men from beneath the rubble of the statue, Neal's clawed grip suddenly took hold of the back of his head. The next moment he was yanked right off his feet before being slammed into the ground face-first in an over-head swing, breaking the front of his helmet and sending cracks through the ground in the process.
Thetis quickly launched a wave of ice shrapnel at Neal after getting off of Atlas, but he quickly grabbed Siarnaq by the head once again, then used his vulnerable body as a shield to take the bulk of the damage. The next moment Neal threw Siarnaq at Thetis, knocking the both of them into Atlas who had just begun to recover, but found her face back into the dirt again.
" . . . Heheheheheh . . . " Neal cackled as his head lazily tilted to the side, a murderous look filling his visible eye as he continued to laugh. "You're all so weak . . . It makes me laugh . . . Heheheheheh . . . "
"Get up you fools," Aeolus cursed as he and the other three Mega Men rose. "Let's eliminate this plebian and bring the Game of Destiny to a swifter conclusion."
The four Mega Men rose, their armor cracked and their weapons damaged as they had resummoned them to their hands. Their pride having just been trampled on by the supposed upstart, they all blindly rushed at Neal simultaneously.
As they all did, the grin on Neal's face widened, threatening to tear it apart as his eyes filled with an unsatiable bloodlust.
Up in the Grand Nuage, Vent, Aile, Prairie, Gardenia, Tulip, and Marguerite continued to watch in horror as Neal in his transformed state continued to shrug off the four Mega Men's attacks, and at the same time deliver brutal attacks right back.
"What on Earth is going on down there?" Vent asked as he continued to watch.
"Somehow Neal has managed to transform into a new form," Prairie answered. This is just like when Elpizo transformed with the power of the Dark Elf.
"Just look at how he's beating the four of them into the ground," Aile said worried. "It's like he isn't even fighting them anymore. It's like he's just hurting them for the sheer pleasure of it."
"Neal isn't in control of his own actions any longer," Prairie said.
"Huh? How do you figure?" Aile asked.
Prairie rested her head behind her hands as she watched Neal continually thwart all of his enemy's efforts to subdue him. "I may not know Neal that well, but I know that he's the kind of person who'd never fight like that. There's obviously something else at play here."
"So what do you want us to do then?" Aile asked.
Prairie turned her seat around and faced the two ZX Mega Man. "I want you to go down there and try to talk some sense into him." She looked over her shoulder to a close-up shot of Neal's face, and knew that the cold look in his eyes wasn't in his own. "I don't like that cold, empty look in his eyes. It's like looking into a snowstorm in the dead of winter."
"Where'd that tidbit come from?" Vent asked. "A fortune cookie?"
The next moment Aile smacked him over the back of the head for his blatant display of disrespect.
"Doesn't matter," Prairie said as she turned her gaze away from the monitor. "Are you up to it or not?"
"We're up to it," Aile said as she dragged Vent out of the room.
"I'll see if I can contact the Hunter's Guild and get a hold of Ashe," Prairie said. "I have a feeling we're going to need everyone we can get for this one."
"But what about crowd control?" Aile asked.
"I've already sent Guardian troops down there to help," Prairie said. "You two just focus on trying to get Neal back to his senses. The others will get the citizens to safety."
Mega Man ZX Soundtrack – Crisis Zone
Vent and Aile appeared before the five fighters in their megamerged forms just in time to see that Neal clearly was definitely no longer in control of his own actions. The sight that greeted them was clear evidence to that.
Thetis, Atlas, and Siarnaq's beaten bodies were scattered across the square, large chunks of their armor either ripped off and scattered around, their bodies bruised and bloodied like they'd been thrown through a meat grinder. At the center of the square by the fallen remains of the statue of Serpent, Neal continued to fight a beaten Aeolus, who at the moment was clutching his left side with his right hand as he continued to fight with one sword, only to have each strike parried near-effortlessly.
"Woah," Vent said as he looked around. "The two of us could barely hold our own against the four of them, but Neal's beating them into the ground like it's nothing."
"Vent look!" Aile cried as she suddenly jabbed Vent in the shoulder from his rubbernecking.
Neal had suddenly knocked Aeolus' sword out of his hand, and just as he turned around and tried to dash away, Neal suddenly grabbed onto his back and literally tore his wings out, tossing them aside before grabbing the right side of Aeolus' neck and his right shoulder with his clawed hands.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Aeolus cried as Neal began to pull his neck and shoulder apart from each other, sparks beginning to fly out as the armor shattered under the strain.
"He's going to tear him to pieces!" Aile cried. "We have to stop him!"
"Already on it!" Vent said as he rushed at Neal from behind, building energy into his saber before slamming it into the ground releasing all its power directly into Neal's body, separating the two of them and throwing Aeolus from his grip.
Neal suddenly summoned his rapier in a flash of green light and turned on Vent, their weapons clashing as they both fought for dominance.
Aeolus tried to crawl away as best he could, but he was suddenly yanked into the air by his collar by Aile as she pulled him to eye-level.
"What did you four do to him?" she demanded pointing to Neal.
"Why would I tell a fool such as you?" Aeolus spat, but quickly regretted it as Aile dropped him onto the ground again.
"I'll let the four of you go this once since you're all so beaten," Aile said as she began to walk over to assist her brother. "But-" she said suddenly turning a cold gaze at him. "The next time we meet, you'd better be ready to meet your match."
Atlas spat a wad of blood out as she managed to collect her weapons, which had been damaged beyond belief in the short struggle. "We don't need sympathy from the likes of you," she cursed as she forced herself up, only to have her legs buckle underneath her and send her sprawling to the ground in a bloody heap. "Damn that human."
"CONCLUSION," Siarnaq muttered as he weakly got to his feet, favoring his right side. "CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT WOULD BE UNWISE. TACTICAL RETREAT ADVISED."
"Just you wait Model E Mega Man," Thetis spat as he helped Atlas to her feet the best he could. "You'll get yours yet. And that Biometal of yours too."
In a flash of light the four Mega Men were whisked away, leaving the ruined battlefield bare except for the shattered fragments of armor, Neal, and the two ZX Mega Men.
At the same time, Vent finally overpowered Neal and managed to launch a charged shot from his ZX Buster at his chest, only to have Neal shake it off with little effort.
"Heh. Just like old times huh?" Vent asked as he readied his weapon.
"Don't forget, Neal's our friend too," Aile corrected. "We can't afford to hurt him too much."
At that moment Neal took a piece of rubble in his hand and tossed it into the air before throwing it right at the two of them. They both managed to dogde the projectile, but next moment a deep rumbling sound could be heard from behind them. As two of them turned around, the building directly in the path of the thrown debris beginning to collapse on itself, a massive hole could be seen going straight through it before it completely collapsed on itself.
"Hurt him?" Vent asked pointing at the pile of rubble that used to be a building. "What about us?"
"We'll just have to do our best then," Aile said. "Get ready. He's coming," she said as Neal began to walk towards them.
In the Grand Nuage, miles away from the chaos of Inner Peace.
Prairie, Gardenia, Tulip, Marguerite, and Pandora continued to watch as Neal in his "Dark Form" continued to wreak havoc on the center of Inner Peace. The only thing keeping him from terrorizing the city any further were Vent and Aile's continued interference.
Prairie remembered back to the time that Elpizo had transformed into his Dark Elf Form from footage the Resistance had manage to capture from data that Zero had collected and that salvaged from the security equipment. Just watching her new friend run wild in his berserker-like state sent a chill down her spine. As she clutched the stuffed animal that Ciel had given her many, many years ago, she began to wonder if she'd ever live long enough to see the world at a true peace.
No matter what kinds of attacks Neal was hit with, he just kept fighting like a mindless beast. Finally Pandora had seen enough. "Commander Prairie. Send me down there via Transerver."
"What? Why?" Prairie asked.
"At one point my brother and I nearly destroyed Inner Peace, and since then we've only been remembered for the evil we've committed," Pandora explained, a pang of regret crossing her face. "I don't want Neal to be remembered like that when he isn't even in control of his own actions."
"It isn't a matter of whether or not I can send you," Prairie said. "It's a matter of whether or not you can hold out long enough."
"I think I can hold out for at least a half hour," Pandora said as she clutched Model M in her hands.
"I can understand if you want to repay Neal for all he's done for you," Prairie said, "but that isn't any reason for you to risk your life like this."
"I'm not doing this because I owe him," Pandora said. "I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do."
Prairie turned away from Pandora and looked back up at the screen. Vent and Aile both launched fully charged buster shots right at Neal, but just as fast as he was knocked off his feet, he was back up again, hardly fazed in the slightest. "Okay. You can go. But try not to die down there."
"Thank you Prairie," Pandora said as she left for the Transerver room.
"Set the coordinates and get her down there this instant," Prairie ordered.
"I'm afraid we can't do that," Gardenia replied.
"Why not?" Prairie asked.
"Neal's biometal seems to be releasing some kind of interference that's affecting our ability to lock onto the proper coordinates," Tulip answered.
"Hold on. How did you get Vent and Aile down there then?" Pandora asked.
"I don't have a full explanation for what's going on," Marguerite said. "However I have a theory. It may be possible that while Neal was fighting the other four Mega Men, that his attention was being more diverted, and that in turn may have affected his Biometal's interference."
"So now that only Vent and Aile are fighting him," Gardenia continued, "the berth of his Biometal's interference field has widened considerably."
"So where does that leave me then?" Pandora said, tapping her foot irritatedly.
"We'll have to send you out of the disruption field's range," Marguerite answered.
"From there you'll have to go on foot," Gardenia finished.
Prairie sighed as this day just kept getting worse and worse by the second. "Okay then. Just get her as close as you can."
"Yes ma'am," Tulip said as she and the others began to type in transerver information.
"Preparing for transfer," Marguerite said as she finalized the coordinates. At that moment Pandora had just gotten to the Transerver room and was mentally preparing herself for whatever was about to happen. "Transfer start," she said as she hit the final button.
After being thrown from the Transerver Network, Pandora finally hit the outside world. When she finally got her bearings, she realized that she was at least a dozen feet in the air before she started falling.
"Ahhh!" she cried as she was about to hit the ground. "Megamerge!" The next moment she hit the ground with a thud. "Owwwwwww."
After shaking off her fall, she looked around to get some idea of where she actually was. What immediately caught her eye were the massive trees bolstered by synthetic implants, and the thick canopy hiding several dozen colonies butterfly-shaped mechaniloids.
"Where the heck am I?" she asked as she looked around, having no real cognitive idea of where she was. The next moment there was a small burst of light above her head before a small ear-mounted communication device (like the ones Vent and Aile used) suddenly appeared and dropped right onto her head. "Ouch!"
"Pandora! Pandora do you read me?"
"Commander Prairie?" Pandora asked as she picked the device and placed it on her ear. "Where am I right now?"
"Sorry about the drop," Prairie said. "The best we were able to was drop you a half-mile from the city walls."
"So then I have to go the rest of the way on foot," Pandora said to herself. "Okay then, I'll get on it."
As she shut off her communicator, she summoned her weapon in a flash of light before getting into a running start, her staff in her hand. "Okay then. Let's see if I can still do this."
As soon as she was running as fast as she could, she threw her leg over her staff and began flying forward. At that moment an odometer, compass, and obstacle-notifier appeared in the form of blue holograms with red and yellow highlights, a beautiful silver contrail of sparkling energy flowing off the back of her staff as it took off into the air. At the same time a set of footholds appeared behind her feet, offering her better support.
As the landscape flew past her while she sped through the forest, only one thought crossed her mind.
Neal. Just hold on.
Twenty minutes later, Pandora had finally ridden out of the forests and found the wall surrounding Inner Peace in her sights. Just as she neared the wall, she quickly pulled back on her staff, directing it up and over the wall. As she touched down and sat against a wall, she took note that in her new form, that flying higher then ten feet above the ground on her staff took a lot of energy out of her.
"Pandora. We've got track of your location," Prairie said over the comm link. "Right now you're at the southwestern wall, and the others are currently at the northeastern."
"So in a nutshell I'm really going to have to book if I want to get there in time to help?" Pandora asked, already knowing the answer as she saw several massive plumes of smoke rising from Inner Peace. "Man, this is the worst."
"Ashe said she'll be there very soon," Prairie said. "I'm not sure what she meant when she said she'd be bringing a friend, but I'd feel better if you were there to help regardless."
"Okay," Pandora said after taking a short break. "I'll get there as soon as I can."
As the link cut off, she threw her leg over her staff once again before leaping over the edge and hoping her staff had gliding capabilities. The next moment, as if by its own will, a wide pair of glowing white energy wings sprouted from the front and back of her staff before filling with air and gliding over the slightly-repaired highways of Inner Peace.
At first Pandora was completely amazed at the new power her reborn Biometal had given her, but she quickly remembered what she had to do and urged her staff to fly through the air faster. The next moment she felt her staff's speed increase considerably.
"I'll have to remember to thank Neal even more once this is all said and done," she said to herself with a smile as she tightened her grip on her staff, her hair and robe fluttering behind as her body and staff cut through the wind.
Mega Man ZX Soundtrack – Rockin' On
As Vent continued to clash blades against Neal, Aile ran around behind him and charged her buster to full power. The next moment she spun around and aimed at Neal's back. "Now!"
Vent quickly dashed backwards away from Neal just as the shot was about to hit him in the back. The moment it got within his range however, he swiftly spun around and thrust his sword straight through the blast, causing the energy to scatter behind him in all directions, nearly striking Vent and blowing out several ground-level windows at the same time.
"Watch it!" Vent cried as he made sure all his polymorphic hair was still there. "You nearly shot me!"
"Gah!" Aile cried as Neal suddenly slashed her weapon right out of her hand before raising his weapon to strike her down.
"Aile!" Vent cried as he dashed over to her, praying beyond all hope he'd be able to get to her in time.
Suddenly, just as Aile was about to get cut down, one of the ZX Buster's charge shots suddenly came out of nowhere and slammed right into Neal, knocking him off his feet.
"What the?" Vent and Aile both asked, realizing neither of them had used that charge shot. "Who-" Vent asked as he looked to the left, seeing an exact replica of Aile blowing a bit of imaginary smoke off the end of her blaster barrel.
"Hey guys. Miss me?" the other "Aile" said with a wave. The next moment there was a bright flash of light, revealing Ashe in her megamerged state, twirling her own buster around her hand. "So uh. Who's the psycho?" she asked jabbing a thumb at the recovering Neal.
"Long story," Aile said as he quickly grabbed her weapon and extended her saber.
"Well okay then," Ashe said cracking her knuckles as she aimed both weapons at Neal as he was about to recover. "I'll just give him a good shot between the eyes and we'll call it a day," she said as she aimed her buster right at Neal's head, her cursor locking onto him between the eyes as her finger neared the trigger.
"Hold it!" Aile cried as she knocked Ashe's aim away from Neal, sending the charge shot bouncing off a wall and into the engine of a car, blowing it out in a massive fireball.
"Hey what was that for?" Ashe demanded shaking her fist in the air. "I almost had him!"
"I was just about to say why," Aile added. "Something happened when he was being beaten by the other four Mega Men, and now he's a crazed berserker. We can't just blow him up like every other Maverick."
"So… You're saying I need to be a little more delicate," she said, a hint of amusement at that last word. "You hear that Grey? You need to be a little more delicate!" she shouted above her.
"Who?" Vent and Aile said looking at each other, then to Ashe.
The next moment a loud growling sound suddenly caught everyone's attention. When they all looked to the top of the nearby building, a beastial silhouette suddenly appeared above Neal just as he pulled himself up from the ground. The next moment a large black and red-armored panther-shaped pseudoroid touched down behind him before wrapping its arms and legs around him.
Neal tried to shake the panther-shaped pseudoroid off his back, but the next moment it suddenly stabbed its tail into the ground before suddenly sending a massive electric current through his body and into the surrounding ground. "YAHHHHHHH!"
After the electric current died out, the panther-shaped pseudoroid let Neal fall to the ground in a heap, his armor smoking like a short-circuited appliance.
"Sorry about that sis," it spoke in a beastial voice as it walked over to Ashe. The next moment in a flash of light, the panther-shaped pseudoroid disappeared and was replaced by a lookalike of Ashe in her megamerged form, except with darker skin, a small scar under his left eye, and two large plugs extending from his shoulders. "By the time you said delicate, I was already off the building," the lookalike said rubbing the back of his head.
"Wait a minute," Vent said confused. "Who is this, and why does he have the same armor as you?"
"Long story," Ashe rebuttled. "I'll tell you later."
"Anyway, that Ground Spark outta knock him out for a while," Grey said jabbing a thumb at the downed Mega Man. "We can get him in restraints or something until then."
"Um, I think the restraints may have to wait," Vent said, pointing at Neal as he was slowly getting up, his body still smoking as his eyes regained their bearings.
"What the!" Ashe and Grey both cried as Neal got up, then fell to one knee before getting back up again, an arc of electricity running across his armor causing him to convulse.
"That should've had him down for a week!" Ashe said.
"Yeah! I just pumped him with enough voltage to move a train!" Grey added.
The next moment Neal lunged at them, but Vent and Aile quickly brought out their sabres and locked him in a cross-guard grip.
"Doesn't anything stop this guy?" Ashe asked as she charged her blasters.
"I'm not, ugh, completely sure," Vent said, grunting under the strain of holding back the crazed megaman.
"All I know is, ugh, that he nearly ripped Aeolus, rrgh, in half like a phonebook by the time we got here," Aile added as she tried to hold up against Neal's tremendous strength.
"Wait, when you say like a phonebook," Grey asked as he charged his blasters and took aim, "do you mean vertically or horizontally?"
"Diagonally!" Vent and Aile both cried as Neal suddenly overpowered them, but leapt out of the way as he was blasted in the back from both sides by Ashe and Grey.
"Wow. Seriously?" Ashe asked in shock, but had to suddenly transform into Aeolus to block Neal's slash attack aimed right at her.
"BAD IDEA!" Vent and Aile shrieked. "Transform into something else! NOW!"
"Why?" Ashe asked, now in Aeolus' voice.
" . . . Aeolus . . . I'll tear you . . . in half . . . " Neal said darkly as his eyes suddenly filled with an intense anger. The next moment he suddenly slashed Ashe's swords right out of her hands before grabbing her shoulders and trying to tear her arms from her sockets.
"Don't worry Ashe! I'll save you!" Grey said as the bolt on his helmet suddenly split. "A-Trans!"
The flash of light accompanied by A-Trans suddenly cleared, and a massive set of blue-armored jaws suddenly clamped on Neal from behind, pulling him away from Ashe just in time to prevent a premature dismembering.
Ashe immediately transformed back into her megamerged state, her hand going to her heart as she felt her life flash before her eyes. "My whole life just flashed before my eyes! There was a whole lot of shooting stuff for no reason in it too."
" . . . Rrrrrrrrr . . . " Neal grumbled as he tried to pry Grey's jaws open with his own hand, but was suddenly thrown out of his fanged grip and into the side of a building, causing a section of the building to collapse right on top of him before he had the chance to get up.
"Giga Freeze!" Grey roared as he widened his jaws, launching a freezing cloud of super-cooled air right at Neal, freezing him in a thick, jagged block of ice mixed with debris.
"Woah," Ashe said completely shocked at her "brother's" sudden display of power. "How'd you do that?"
The next moment Grey transformed back into his megamerged form and fell to his knees, gasping for air as he looked up at the miniature iceberg he'd created. "I just *gasp* didn't want *wheeze* to see you get hurt."
"Awwww. Thanks Grey," Ashe said with a smile.
"Well at least this guy's out of it for a while," Vent said pointing to the mini-iceberg, relieved as he leaned against a wall and took a much-needed breather.
"Yeah, there's no way he can break out of all that ice when he's buried under a ton of rubble," Ashe added.
"Yeah, but how're we supposed to get to him now?" Aile asked. "He's buried under a ton of ice and rubble, and we still need to bring him back to his senses."
Just as things seemed to finally be calming down, a large cracking sound echoed through the empty city air. A moment later the mini-iceberg broke clean in half down the middle. Everyone quickly grabbed their weapons and aimed them at the pile of debris, knowing this fight was far from over once Neal broke free.
"Everyone! Keep your guard up!" Vent ordered as he charged his sword, Ashe and Aile charging up their busters.
"I can't believe he's still moving after all this," Ashe added in complete shock. "I mean we electrocuted the guy for Christ's sake! And then we flash-froze him right after throwing him into a building!"
"This fight is far from over guys," Ashe said as her muscles tensed, her trigger finger twitching in preparation for the oncoming fight.
Right as Grey was about to get up from the ground where he was kneeling, a white-clawed hand suddenly burst out of the ground in front of him and took him by the throat.
"Oh boy," he muttered as a pair of murderous eyes shot out of the ground in front of him.
After flying for what felt like forever, Pandora finally managed to get to the war-torn streets of Inner Peace where Neal's battle had started, and had then taken a drastic turn for the worse. Lamp posts were either bent out of shape or knocked over altogether, cars were blown out entirely, and windows were shattered in a flaming trail of destruction that lead from the heart of Inner Peace.
"Oh boy," Pandora said to herself as she looked around, remembering that it used to be her causing this kind of destruction. "I have to find Neal before he hurts someone."
She ran as fast as she could through the ruined streets, her muscles protesting at the massive amounts of activity without the support of Model W. When she suddenly came to a split in the road, she debated which way she should go, her answer suddenly came to her when a wave of disrupted energy flared at her from the right side of the street.
She quickly ran around the corner and was faced with the sight of four armored warriors shooting at a single white-armored individual. The four continued to pelt the individual with energy blasts, but he continued to slice them in half or reflect them with his green-hued blade or reflect them back at his attackers, forcing them to dodge out of the way.
At a glance, she recognized the first three right away. The two with long blonde polymorphic hair were Vent and Aile, the two Mega Men who combined both Model X and Model Z together after the death of their guardian, Girouette. The third with the long ponytail of silver hair was Ashe, the descendant of Master Thomas from his the time when he was still human, and had by some strange construction of fate defied destiny. The fourth one had darkened skin, a small scar below his eye, and two massive plugs in his back. She suddenly remembered that while she was still bound to Model W, that it was her job to monitor Master Thomas' "heir" until the mind control sequence was completed.
She quickly rushed over, past them and aimed her staff at Neal. "Fire Head!"
The next moment an explosive force was launched from the end of her staff and driven squarely into Neal's chest, knocking him backwards from the sheer surprise of the sudden attack.
"Sorry I'm late," Pandora said with a slight bow. "I had a bit of trouble getting here."
"Okay I'm not sure who you are," Ashe said. "Hey guys. Care to let me in on who your new friend is?"
"Oh, uh…" Pandora said. "Um… I'm-"
"Incoming!" Grey cried as he fired desperately at Neal with his blasters, only to have his shots be smacked away with the flat of his sword.
"He's too fast!" Ashe cried as Neal was suddenly able to dodge her lock-on shots when she launched them.
"Pandora! Slow him down!" Vent ordered.
"Did you just say Pandora?" Ashe shrieked.
"Ice Head!" Pandora intoned as she slammed the end of her staff into the ground, sending a thick wave of ice across the ground, sending a sheet of ice up Neal's legs the moment his feet touched the ice.
"Wait! That's Pandora?" Ashe cried again. "Just what happened in the past three months?"
"Guys! He's hacking his way free!" Aile cried, pointing to Neal as he started hacking away at the ice covering his lower body with his rapier.
"Good grief," Vent moaned. "Doesn't anything stop this guy?"
Ashe and Grey both looked to each other, then nodded in recognition. "Guys. I think I just got an idea," Ashe said as she spun her busters in her hands.
"Wait, what're you going to do?" Pandora said, not liking the look in Ashe's eye.
"Double…" Ashe and Grey both cried as the bolt on their helmets split, before a pair of massive blue and purple holographic cubes spread out from Ashe and Grey's bodies, bathing the surrounding area in an eerie blue/purple light.
"I don't like the looks of this," Vent said as he took a few steps back.
"Giga…" Ashe and Grey both cried as Neal's body became covered in red crosshairs in their line of sight.
"Oh man! They're really going to do it!" Aile cried as she quickly jumped away, turning her back to the others and covering her ears as she laid on the ground.
"CRUSH!" Ashe and Grey both cried as they both raised their busters and took aim.
"No! WAIT!" Pandora cried as she ran out to stop them, only to have Aile tackle her to the ground.
"Too late!" Aile said as she threw her arms over her head. At the same time, Vent and Pandora suddenly did the same.
The next moment, the air was filled with the sounds of gunfire, hundreds of energy blasts arcing out of Ashe and Grey's blasters as they all slammed right into their designated target kicking up a massive cloud of dust and debris, the dozens of spent rounds clattered against the ground as they landed around the two gunmen.
What felt like an eternity later, the rounds finally stopped, the eerie blue/purple hue disappeared as the bolt on Ashe and Grey's helmet slammed shut with a loud clack. Both of them fell to their knees, their weapons dropping out of their hands.
"Phew," Ashe sighed as she whipped some sweat from her forehead. "I've never seen so much gunfire in one place before."
"You're telling me," Grey said as he poked at the spent rounds before they began to disappear in tiny burst of light.
"Hey are the two of you out of your frickin' minds!" Model A demanded in both of their heads. "That was the most exhausting thing I've ever done! What in the world were you thinking?"
"That we'd get the job done sooner?" Grey responded.
"Neal…" Pandora muttered to herself as she got to her feet, staring into the dustcloud.
"Eh heh. Yeah, I guess I went a little overboard there huh?" Ashe said awkwardly rubbing the back of her head.
"A little? A LITTLE?" Pandora demanded as she suddenly pulled Ashe up off the ground to eye-level. "Do you even know what you've just done! You two trigger-happy idiots just killed my first friend in the whole world! And now you have the nerve to say you went a little overboard?"
"Hey get your hands off my sister!" Grey cried as he got to his feet.
"Stay out of this!" Pandora said turning on him as she looked right at him with anger filled eyes.
Grey suddenly shrunk back, and Pandora turned her attention back to Ashe.
"If I walk over there and find out that Neal is gone, I'll make you wish you never found Model A!" Pandora screamed as she threw Ashe to the ground. "You got that?"
"Wow. I've never seen her so angry before," Vent whispered over his shoulder.
"Well what do you expect? She just saw the first person who ever really helped her get gunned down like a helpless animal," Aile whispered back.
As Pandora walked toward the column of smoke where Neal had been frozen in place, her footsteps echoed off the now abandoned buildings in Inner Peace as she continued to walk forward, the wind brushing against the buildings as she looked into the column of smoke.
"Neal…" she cried to herself as she looked into the depths of the mist. "Please don't be gone."
"She seems pretty torn up about him," Ashe said sadly. "Great. Now I'm the bad guy."
"The both of you gunned him down like a helpless animal," Aile said flatly. "Of course you're the bad guys!"
Pandora felt her heart sink as the mist began to clear, no sign of Neal in sight. As she turned around, she let tears of sadness grace her face for the first time in a long time. Just as she was half way back to her friends, a powerful wind suddenly cut through the air, clearing the smoke completely in a single swoop.
"Pandora! Look out behind you!" Grey cried, pointing directly behind Pandora.
She turned around, and her defeated expression changed to a smile as the smoke cleared. Standing in the center of the blast zone was Neal, his armor damaged beyond all belief as it laid about in bits and pieces across the ground, only leaving him in his black under-armor except for his boots and helmet. At the moment he was hardly standing at all, and his gaze was fixed to the ground. It was nothing short of a miracle he was semi-conscious, and at the moment no immediate threat.
"Neal! You're alive!" Pandora said in relief.
"Look out! He's going to attack!" Grey overreacted as he suddenly shot at Neal in a panic when he raised his pink-eyed gaze from the ground.
"Wait!" Pandora cried just as Neal was knocked flat onto his back by the blast.
"Uh oh. I think we just walked back into square one," Vent said, paling as his exhaustion began to catch up to him.
"What makes you say that?" Ashe asked.
The next moment Neal jumped back up onto his feet, his hands balled into fists, his gaze narrowed, and his teeth gnashing together as he stomped towards them. As he stepped past the bits of armor, they suddenly leapt up off the ground and re-grafted themselves onto his body like something out of a sci-fi film.
"That," Vent said as Neal ran straight past Pandora and lunged right at Grey, pulling him into a chokehold as he slammed his head into the ground multiple times, making him bleed synthetic fluids.
"We've gotta stop him!" Ashe cried as she tried to pry Grey out of Neal's chokehold, only to fail before stepping back. "A-Trans!" The next moment she transformed into Vultron and pulled out her electric guitar before raising her right arm into the air. "Everyone cover your ears!"
Pandora quickly covered her ears, Vent, Aile, and Grey following suit as Ashe ran her now clawed hands over the strings of the guitar, sending a shockwave directly into Neal's body, causing it to vibrate enough so that Grey could squirm out before his head was popped off like a bottle cap.
Just as Neal was about to strike Grey in a rage, Vent quickly pulled out his sword and fought him off, Aile and Ashe quickly pulled out their blasters and began shooting like crazy in an attempt to subdue him. The next moment everything went to hell as the four-on-one fight started all over again, the crazed berserker somehow holding off the other four. Any damage done was just repaired by the self-healing armor, and his present augmentations kept him on an entirely different level than any them.
In the midst of watching the fight, Pandora suddenly stopped. She looked at Neal, a sadness filling her eyes at the horrifying creature her friend had now become, and was instantly reminded of how she once was when she was fused to the Model W.
After running it in through her mind, she came to a decision. As she stepped towards Neal, she let her weapon fall out of hand, letting it disappear in a flash of light before it hit the ground. At the same time just as Vent, Aile, Ashe, and Grey leapt back from Neal to get a quick reprieve, their eyes widened as Pandora walked past them completely unarmed.
"Pandora what are you doing?" Aile cried as Pandora walked down the street to Neal.
"I'm going to get through to Neal," Pandora said as she walked toward him. "Neal. It's me. Pandora. Do you remember me?" she asked as she stood down the battle-torn street from him
Neal looked at Pandora, a mixture of blind fury and confusion filling his eyes as she looked at him.
"Everything's all right," Pandora said as she continued as she tried to get through to him. "The four evil Mega Men have fled. You can stop fighting now."
Neal's cold gaze narrowed at Pandora, his twisted senses interpreting this as a potential sign of attack. The next moment Pandora did something that had everyone in utter shock. In a flash of light, Pandora had released her megamerged form, her Biometal in her left hand.
"Neal. I know you're still in there," Pandora said as she spread her arms out to the sides. "There's no reason to fight. So please… return to the way you were before."
A bit of confusion crossed through Neal's eyes as he tried to process what was going on. Pandora then knew she'd have to take a gamble.
In a complete leap of faith, she tossed her biometal away from her, letting it clack across the ground until it came to a stop facing the sky.
"Pandora! Don't do it! It's too dangerous to go in unarmed!" Vent shouted.
Pandora didn't hear him. All she did was stare up into Neal's eyes, hoping beyond hope that she'd be able to reach him. "Neal . . . "
Neal's eyes suddenly became cold once again as he dashed right in front of her before raising his sword hand up into the air to strike her down.
"Run!" Grey cried. "Get out of the way!"
Neal swung his sword down in an arc right at Pandora, but she didn't waver. Everyone quickly closed their eyes, not wanting to see what was about to happen. A few moments later however, no scream came. The four of them all looked up and were shocked to see that Neal's hand was shaking above his head, frozen in place as he looked up at it in confusion.
"He stopped!" Ashe said surprised.
"Neal. I believe in you," Pandora whispered as she looked pleadingly into his eyes, clasping her hands together to show her faith in him.
Mega Man ZXA Soundtrack – Destiny
Suddenly, for a brief instant, his eyes flickered a familiar shade of cerulean as his hand continued to shake.
The next moment Neal's sword fell from his hand and clattered onto the ground before disappearing in a flash of light. He suddenly stepped back, his hands going to the sides of his head before he fell to his knees as he let out a blood-curling scream that echoed through the destroyed section of Inner Peace. "Yaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"She got through to him!" Ashe said.
"This battle is out of our hands now," Model X said. "Everything is up to Neal now."
Neal's eyes began to water as he felt his soul become aflame as he tried to rout this dark power from his body that had taken root. As he did so, golden energy began to shine between the seams of his armor. The next moment he slammed his fists to the ground leaving deep fissures, and then his own forehead as he continued to cry out. "Rrrrraaaaaaaaahhhh!"
"Come on Neal! You can do it!" Pandora said as Neal continued to fight for control. "I BELIEVE IN YOU!"
As Pandora's cries echoed through the air, Neal got back to his feet as the dark energy began to be forcibly expelled from his body, and the ground beneath him began to crack under the strain before he fell to his knees. As he was standing once again, the sickly white armor on his right arm began to crack. The next moment it suddenly shattered, revealing the thin pink-armored gauntlet from his true form.
"Just a little more!" Pandora encouraged as Neal was slowly gaining control. "You can do it!"
Neal's fist clenched as his white-armored left hand grabbed it by the wrist, a pinkish aura surrounding his right hand before he suddenly drove it through the armor on his chest right where his heart was. The next moment he suddenly tore Model E out from his body, which at the moment completely pitch-black due to the dark power that was imprisoning it.
"Hold on! How's he still megamerged?" Ashe asked as Neal continued to cry out in pain, still trapped in his megamerged form as his grip involuntarily tightened on his biometal.
"Whatever power in his Biometal has caused this transformation must still be connecting itself to him somehow," Grey answered as he shielded his eyes.
"But then how're we supposed to help him?" Aile asked as she watched Neal's torment. "He looks even worse now!"
As his grip tightened around the corrupted Model E, his arm began to be taken over by the sickly-white armor again, the dark power continued to flow into his body from its depths. He continued to release a blood-curling cry as blood began to trickle out his eyes and mouth, still fighting for control.
"NEAL!" Pandora cried as she was thrown back by a darkened wind being exuded from the corrupted Biometal. "WAKE UP!" she cried as she forcer her way towards him, the waves of darkness trying to keep her at bay from its host.
"Pandora!" everyone cried out Pandora held her right arm out in front of her face, using it to shield herself from the oncoming darkness, much like how Neal had done for her before.
Pandora continued to force her way forward, her body becoming more and more damaged by the minute as the waves of darkness rolled over her. Right as she neared him, she put the last of her strength into one last push as she leapt at Neal with everything she had, resting her head on his chest with what little energy she had left.
"Everything's all right now," she whispered to Neal as the torrent of dark energy began flowing past her. "It's all right. It's all right."
Neal's eyes quickly clamped shut, then suddenly opened, revealing their original cerulean as the dark energy began to slowly abade. As the dark torrent finally ceased altogether, his arms fell to his sides, and Model E was suddenly purged of the darkness that had taken it over, its color swiftly returning before it clattered onto the ground as it left his grip.
The next moment in a flash of light, Neal fell out of his megamerged state, and his head rested on Pandora's shoulder as he fell to his knees. His hair fell over his face as his shoulders slumped before letting out an exhausted sigh as unconsciousness claimed him.
"Welcome back Neal," Pandora whispered into his ear as she allowed herself to slip into unconsciousness as well, the sun setting over the horizon of Inner Peace behind them.
MegaMan ZX Soundtrack - Awake
One day later in the Grand Nuage's medical bay.
As the sun's light peeked through the blinds of the window, Neal groaned as he finally felt the feeling coming back to his anything from that trying ordeal the other day. He felt like he'd been hit by a truck, rolled over by a steam roller, and his head pressed in an industrial strength vise.
But more so then that, he was alive. Somehow, even after all the hell he went through.
The door to the room he was in opened with a silent hiss, and two people slowly tiptoed over to the side of his bed as it closed behind them.
"Oh look. He's still sleeping," one voice said.
"I guess we should've waited for Rose's approval before we snuck in here," the second voice said.
Man. I can barely move a muscle, Neal thought to himself. I'm so tired I can't even open my eyes, he told himself as he racked his brain, trying to figure out who's voices those were. His head was still a bit foggy from what had happened yesterday.
"What does her diagnostic say?" the second voice asked.
The sound of the clipboard being removed from the bottom of the bed and turning pages could be heard. "Seems he's suffering from a bit of internal bleeding, some neurological overload, bloodshot eyes, and a full-body case of sore muscles," the first voice said. "It looks like a tranquilizer has been applied to get his heart rate back down to safe levels, and he's currently in restraints to keep him from hurting himself."
So that's why I can't move anything, Neal thought to himself as he realized what that pressing feeling was.
"Anything else?" the second voice asked.
The sound of flipping pages echoed silently through the room again. "Well, it looks like his voice box has been under a lot of strain. Says a chemical moisturant was used to ease some of the swelling," the second voice said. "Probably from all the screaming he did yesterday."
Screaming? he asked himself.
"Is he going to be okay?" the second voice asked.
The sound of the clipboard being moved back to the end of the bed could be heard as someone took a seat beside the bed. "Well, he's probably unconscious right now, and by the looks of things, he's going to be like this for a few more days."
Not unconscious, Neal said to himself as he was able to let out a weak sign. Just can't move.
"But what's happened to Model E?" the second voice asked.
"Fleuve and the rest of his staff are looking into it right now," the first voice responded. "We were able to get some footage from the security cameras before the interference from the biometal fried their circuits, so we can still get a little information out of that."
"Although what happened yesterday was so terrifying," the second voice said. "It was like he'd been taken over by the Model W completely."
"Fleuve is looking into that possibility," the first voice said. "After all, Model E did used to be a Model W."
"But what if that's the case?" the second voice asked. "What will become of Neal and Model E?"
The first voice signed. "Well, if Model E proves to be too dangerous, then we may have to end up destroying it."
What? Destroy Model E!
"As for Neal, we'll have to hide him within the ranks of the Guardians until things cool down," the first voice finished.
"But that could take forever," the second voice argued. "Or did you forget how hard Legion has been hunting Neal down. Don't you remember how Atlas and that army of modified galleons hunted him down."
"Yeah, I do," the first voice said. "But what really worries me is the way they were organized. It was almost like someone had… prepared them for her as soldiers."
"Well we won't get anywhere talking about it in here," the second voice said. "I'm going to my room. You coming?"
"Um. Yeah. I'll be there in a second," the first voice said. A few moments later the sounds of footsteps and the hissing of the closing door could be heard. "Neal. You've been through a lot haven't you?"
The next moment Neal felt a hand lovingly brush some of his hair out of his eyes in a caring gesture.
"I hope you get better soon," the first voice said as the door hissed open, and then closed once again.
Man, if I wasn't so tired, I could've figured out who those two were, Neal said to himself as he tried to get more comfortable. Man, it sure is hard to sleep comfortably when you're strapped down, he said to himself as he let his muscles relax. A while later he finally fell asleep again.
Neal's transformation is based on what Elpizo looks like when he fused with the Dark Elf, except it has been a little bit modernized (even though I didn't do a good job of describing it). It also goes without saying that for most of this chapter that when Neal had transformed that he was hardly in control of his actions.
Also, when I say that Atlas (the Model F Mega Man) "punches" at something, I will mean that she usually uses her Knuckle Busters. That is unless I specify otherwise.
As for the reason the streets of Inner Peace were described as such things like "war-torn", or "battle-torn". The streets got that way because of the stray attacks that were deflected.
One last thing. As for who the "first" and "second" voices were, I'll leave that up to you to interpret.