Zero and Iris continued their mission in the desert, slashing and shooting all the robots who tried to block them. They had to stop when a giant robotic worm emerged from the sand, attacking the duo with his missles, helped by many other flying phanteons."
"You take the air troup as usual, I'll handle this guy." Said Zero switching his saber with his buster.
The girl did as Zero commanded and started to fight the new army, taking it without much effort while the legend easily dodged the missles from the worm and managed to shoot inside the mouth of the giant enemy with a charged shot, but it seemed undamaged.
The robotic maverick growled and the sand started to move near to the worm, taking Zero with it. "Rats!" He said after being hit by a physical attack from his enemy. "How can I damage it?" ... "I got it... Iris! When you are finished with them, try to distract this worm!"
"Roger!" Iris sent her droids in order to fight the army, then she shooted at the maverick making him turn to her. "Try with me, giant maverick scrap!" The girl faced the enemy and stared to dodge some missles, but the worm was fast and hit her with another physical attack, sending her away.
But it hadn't the time to focus on Zero: the crimson reploid had jumped and went inside its mouth with his sword, using Hellbat's ability to damage him more than normal. When Iris returned, Zero had another Cyber-elf in his hands, and he let it go.
"Are you ok Zero?" She said, seeing some scraths in his armor.
"Yeah, I faced more dangerous things than this. And we are lucky, there is a door for the Cyberspace."
"Cyberspace? What is that?"
"The Cyberspace is a world while all the Cyber-elfes uses immediately all thier effects. There, the enemies we defeat gives us more energy so we can recharge. But it has a limit and corrputs my ability to copy the skills of the enemy I defeat."
"But you already defeated Anubis Necromancess, right?"
"Yeah but there's a problem, I discovered this ability after the fight with Copy-X, and still, some weeks ago I faced a powerful reploid with the power of the Dark Elf: Elpizo. I had to use all my strenght and after the fight I lost all my extra abilities."
Iris umderstood that his partner was hit by an amnesia, but how could Zero forget everything about himself? He didn't even remember Sigma, who made them fight. "... Anyway, what should we do?"
"You should go in the Cyberspace, so you will collect enough energy for us."
"And how can I do? My armor is not meant for that."
Zero sighed and gived her a strange bottle. "Use this, it's called Subtank. It can contain enough energy to cure us if our damage is not critical."
"Wait, where did you find it? I never saw it before."
"When Cerveau was studing you. I used it to repair myself after the fight with Omega. Now go to the gate, I'll proceed in the real world."
"Wait! How do it function?"
"If you are at full strenght, just touch the energy dropped by your enemeis and it will sound. An higher sound will warn you that the subtank is full."
"I got it. Wait for me, Zero!" Said the brunette as she went in the Cyberspace.
Iris looked around and noticed that everything looked the same, just green. She saw Zero fighting his enemies, but probabily he couldn't see her, due to she being in another dimension.
Many Phanteons approched to Iris, just to be easily defeated by the armored reploid, and as Zero said, a lot of energy was dropped by the robots. Iris managed to heal herself and fill the energy tank by the 35%, even more when she defeated another little squad.
But she lost the sight of Zero, so she had to interrupt the process at the 80%, until she saw Zero again. The brunette followed the green proiection of his friend but a force of energy blocked her. Iris remembered that Zero told about the limit of the Cyberspace.
'Oh God, don't tell me I have to go back to the energy door.' Her fear was nullifed when her green eyes met another portal.
She went into it and reached Zero, who was talking to a flying reploid with a scepter. "What is happening, Zero? Is he Anubis?"
"That's right, little girl. I am Anubis Necromancess V!"
"Wait what? How do you know that Iris is a girl?" Zero asked, surprised.
"Oohh, we know some other things about her... The battle with Omega revealed some intresting things about her armor and its weakeness."
'So its clear, Omega knows a lot about me. But how? I never met him! Maybe is because of Weil? But that's impossible, Anubis referred to Omega.' Thought Iris. "Tell me the truth, are you on Sigma's side or something?"
"Sigma? Are you talking about that fool who died one century ago? Don't make me laugh! Omega, Master X and even the Guardians are far above that old scrap of metal. Now get ready, you will regret opposing Lord Weil, with your own lifes!"
From the sand, many Phanteons emerged and acted like Zombies, as Zero said before. As their first battle, Zero dodged both the Phanteons and the scepter of Anubis, trying to hit him. But the enemy was fast and went into the sand, and when Iris destroyed the last robots, two graves apperead.
"Fly up!" Commanded Zero before jumping to avoid the graves, without being hit.
Anubis emerged and Zero managed to hit him with a charged fire slash. But the boss didn't even flinched, in fact he pushed Zero away with an incredible strenght. "Zero!" "Argh! How can this be possible?"
"Ahahah! Do you really thought that I was the same of one year ago? Lord Weil knew my weakeness and inverted it!"
"Which means that you are weak against the ice now?"
"I was... Until YOU powered me up." Said Necromancess as he was surronded by the flames. "Now I can control both fire and electricity, and my power is doubled!"
"We can still beat you." Said Zero, turning in Normal Mode. "Get ready Iris!"
The duo attacked the Maverick who generated a force field with his new fire powers, blocking thier attacks. Then, Anubis throwed his scepter to Iris and managed to hit her, and he dodged a charged shot shooted by Zero, in the end he summoned another army of robots, this time with more phanteons.
The red reploid took care of them, while Iris faced Anubis in an air fight, full of beam, thunders and flames. Zero couldn't help Iris because of the powered phanteons who stopped him. "Get out of my way!" He slashed some enemeis, but he got hit by some zombies behind him.
"Zero, here!" Iris throwed the subtank to Zero, who managed to grab it. "Thanks, good job Iris!" He used the energy and at full power, he easily disposed of the entire army, but when he was ready to help Iris, the graves imprisoned Zero, and he couldn't get free even with his full strenght.
"Zero!" Iris hadn't the time to reach his, as Anubis hit her with an electric beam throwed by his scepter. "What a shame, if wasn't for Zero's mistake, you may would have a chance to defeat me."
"I am sure he will manage to get free, too bad he won't have the time to help me!" Said the girl while pointing her cannon at the enemy.
"Oohh, do you really think to win, all by yourself? You've got some nerve little girl, or maybe you're just a crazy one."
Before they could start the decisive round, Anubis saw two winged robots trying to detach the two graves. "What is happening?"
'They are phanteons.' Thought Iris. 'But they seems different.'
"Stop th-" Anubis got hit by a giant, robotic bird who slammed him into the ground. "Surrender now, Anubis Necromancess V!" Said the bird. "You are surrounded and my troups overwhelmed yours!"
"Argh! What are you doing, Aztec Falcon?"
"Hyaaaa!" Zero attacked Anubis and managed to slash him, making him split in two pieces.
"Ugh! You traitor... You will... Pay... And Zero... Your legend will be forgotten... Forever!" After his last words, Anubis exploded, and the graves with him.
"Zero, you are alive!" Iris reached him.
The crimson warrior and Aztec looked each other, without say a word. After some longe minutes, Zero said. "I bet Harpuia sent you here."
"That's right, Master Harpuia ordered me to join the resistance until the fight against Weil will end."
"I never expected something like that from him. Where is he now?"
"He is searching for Master Fefnir and Master Leviathan, he said he will contacts us later."
"Hm, I see. Ciel, transfer us to the base, including Aztec Falcon."
"Are you sure about that, Zero?" Ciel was obviously worried about having that reploid in her base.
"If he will betray us, I will take care of him... Hurry up now."
"Y-Yes! 3... 2... 1... Transfer complete!"
And so, after the fight with Anubis Necromancess V, Zero, Iris and Falcon returned to the resistance base.
Ehy folks, how are you? Did you except this? I bet nope :P Atzec Falcon apperead in Zero 1 and Zero 2 and then he dissaperead leaving us without any information about this boss, so I decided to use him in this story. And yeah, I was quite shocked to see Anubis being immune to fire in Zero 3 D: but this change, became a good spot for my story ^-^ See ya later. R&R!