Pure Light - Discovered

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A/N: The MegaMan and Spyro franchises do not belong to me while Burner and the Pure Light Verse belong to Xannador on deviantart.

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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed." - Bob Riley

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Burner gave the recently acquainted Zero a dull look which he showed by slowly raising his left eyebrow due to the way he introduced himself, said response caused Zero to give a nervous chuckle at his previous action before returning to his normal posture and stood there. This result made it very awkward for the both of them until Burner realised that he was waiting for him to say his own name which caused him to mentally hit himself, he wasn't really himself today.

"Burner," he replied smoothly as Zero gave him a small nod in thanks.

"Thank you for trusting me Burner, I appreciate that. But I was wondering if you could tell me where I am, after all you were the one to wake me up so I'm guessing you know the answer," Burner quickly opened his mouth to reply only to stop midway and close his mouth. He was about to snap back with a remark about Zero's attitude when he realised that his attitude actually seemed to take a 180 degree turn around. He knew this by the way he now looked at him, gone was the cheerful and curious air around him as it was replaced by a new demeanour.

Zero leaned backwards against the front of the stasis-pod as he crossed both arms, giving Burner the first serious look the young dragon had seen from him since he was awakened from stasis and by the way he looked in that position, it actually seemed to intimidate him slightly…slightly. Burner shook off the slight chill that was creeping its way up his spine, he decided that it wouldn't be wise to be on Zero's bad side due to the fact that he didn't know what he was even capable of yet especially when the room that they were in said 'everything you see will be able to kill you in a specific way'. Oh, right…

"Well to be honest…I don't really know myself," Burner confessed, rubbing the back of his head. Zero seemed confused at the fire dragon's explanation, raising his own left eyebrow to say that Burner needed to clarify what he had just told him. "In short, I was part of a mining group and during my work time I kind of stumbled upon this room we're in by sheer luck. In other words I only found this place by the direction the tunnel was going and just so you know, I don't know what all these other thing are," He put the last few words out as to eliminate any further questions that might be asked about the room in particular and although he himself wouldn't even talk this long to other people he didn't know because life in the third class district wasn't that pleasant, discovering Zero seemed to be the most interesting thing to happen to him for a long time. His eye colour was even the same as-

Burner looked away from Zero when he saw that he had a bit of his father in him, his mind thinking back to his time with his mother and father and just as quickly as he looked away, he turned his head back to him with wide eyes as he realised that this was the first time he felt genuinely guilty for someone upon quickly looking around the room again: Zero had no mother or father with him, not even any siblings. He was completely alone. Perhaps even the last of his kind. Maybe he wasn't like the other things in this room, like other people.

I get it, you don't trust me.

The words that he heard from Zero a few minutes ago instantly came back to his mind at the thought, he was a creature, a LIVING creature that was thrown away and forgotten by his own family. He was then supposed to fend for himself when he woke up and that was if anyone would ever find him, heck who knows when someone else would have discovered him if he himself didn't. Burners face turned to one of disgust by thinking what Zero's family was like, creating weird equipment that looked like advanced weaponry and cylinders that contained something that causes metallic limbs to go on the fritz? And he thought he had it bad, at least his parents loved and cared for him like normal people rather than putting their own son in a pod to sleep for the rest of his life than to go and actually live it!

Perhaps he should show Zero to his friends, after all the world is a lot different now than when it probably was for him before he went to sleep. Although he wasn't the one who talked about history and all that stuff he knew that his friends would do way better then him at explaining everything that you needed to know about Warfang: The 'gracious' princess who cares for her subjects in the first class district and thinks that the third doesn't exist, the royal guard who 'guard' the city and 'help' those who need it. Yeah, Zero wouldn't have lasted more than ten minutes outside of the crystal mines before being hunted down by the royal guard, hell they would have hunted him down for just looking different than the rest of the people living here. Speaking of which…

"Zero," the creature in question looked back to him with open eyes, having closed them in thought of the answer to his previous question. "Can I ask you a few questions, you did ask me some as well after all."

Did he say that right, was that how other people ask each other questions? Man, this would be a lot easier if it was one of his friends as this was the first time he asked a question to someone who wasn't said friends. His worrying was cut short when Zero gave a light smile, giving him nod as to shoot the questions at him to which he answered them as soon as they came.

"Okay, first question: What are you?"

"I'm an android that has complete free will and has the thought processes that are comparable to that of human beings. In other words I'm a robot that can think, feel and make my own decisions just like humans." Burner seemed to understand that to some level but that just gave him another question to ask.

"Second Question: What's a human?"

"A human is a bipedal creature that like myself, can think and have free will. In a way, your very similar to a human, it's just the physical features that are different," Burner just rolled his eyes at that, that's the same with most of the different species in Warfang. "They don't have any scales like you do but they do have hair that only forms largely around their head so a lot of their skin is shown unlike the apes where their fur grows all over their body and they're a lot smarter then apes just so you know. I was designed to look and be just like a human anyway, well except for all the metal and armour of course."

"And the girlie long hair? I thought long hair was supposed to be for females," The look that Burner received made his day, giving Zero a smug look as to know that he was right caused said robot to slightly scowl at him, very well knowing that he was right before finishing with a sly smile and shaking his head to brush off the joke, knowing that he was going to get that sentence a lot in his time here. Zero returned to his normal expression and looked up as if he was lost in thought when he felt something from the back of his mind move its way to the front. Burner at the time just realised what his answer also meant.

Ha! This girlie looking, long haired robot will be the strongest? Don't make me laugh!

Zero's right hand instantly held his now aching head when he heard the voice, making Burner jump slightly at how fast he did so but quickly apologised to him by clarifying that it was just a headache. The unknown voice sounded confident and reckless even hidden jealousy was there but he knew who the voice was talking to, but why was it like that?

Burner only seemed to raise an eyebrow at the explanation. "How the hell do robots get headaches? They're robots," Zero, still holding his head looked back to Burner and gave him a 'what do you think' look before taking Burner five seconds to realise what he meant. "Oh…right, created to be just like humans," he muttered to himself as Zero's headache had finally calmed down enough for him to stop holding his head.

"But if you were created to be what you look like now does that mean it's the same for your age?" This is the question he wanted to ask Zero by what he meant by being designed to look like a human and one where he knew if he got the answer he was looking for then he would reach boiling point at the robot's 'family'. Zero gave a nod, confirming Burner's theory but wasn't ready for what he said next.

"Yes, I was designed to look exactly as I am now and that also counts for the age that I look which is considered to be someone in their late teenage years but I was actually created over nine thousand years ago," Burners eyes widened to the point that Zero thought they could fall out of their sockets as he screamed the word 'What!?', he decided to ignore the outburst and continue with what he was saying but knew that was the reaction that most people would have made at the revelation of him being that old. "The thing is Burner, although I'm over nine thousand years old I've only been alive from the point when you released the capsule lock. I've only been alive for ten minutes."

Burner didn't know what to feel about what Zero had just told him. Shocked, angry? Perhaps even sad at the revelation that the robot in front of him has only been alive for ten minutes, that he was technically born when he opened up to capsule.

"So…you never met your family?" Burner tried to keep his mixed emotions out of his voice when he asked the question, mostly his anger at why someone would not even let their own son live with them and just lock him away. The thought just sickened him. His parents would never do anything like that.

Zero frowned slightly at the question before closing his eyes and shaking his head, a no then. "I never met my family or my creator, at least I don't think I did. Some of my core programming was lost during the time when I was in stasis so maybe memories during my creation were in that specific section that was lost. Another thing that I know is that my creator wasn't able to finish me as my system is called the 'Z-Prototype' so perhaps he didn't have any more time because of old age," Burner huffed at the last part.

"How would you know that he died of old age? You said that you don't even remember him," Zero turned back to look at him, an expression that clearly showed that he was worried was on his face.

"Because, out of all of my memories that I've tried to find before I went to sleep I only found one and it was just a still image of him, I couldn't tell most of his features due to the shadows that were cast over him as there was no light in the room but I know for a fact that he was old and he wore what I think was a white lab coat," Zero new that he was lying to Burner when he said that he only had one memory, he had two, that voice being the second and he didn't want Burner to worry about him. He then shivered before going on. "I couldn't see his eyes but there was something…unnatural about them, the way he seemed to look at me was unnatural, it was like I was a trophy or a prized possession. It gives me the creeps," Burner knew what Zero was talking about, some of the citizens in Warfang had a few screws loose as well and he knew what the robot was talking about when he said that his creator wore a lab coat, Takanobu always seemed to wear one when he visited him to see how Vale was going.

"Sounds like a looney to me," Burner mumbled which caused Zero to smile at the dragon who had now claimed that his creator was insane, he need to be cheered up anyway after seeing that image. He needed to say one more thing though so he got Burner's attention by waving his hand so he would notice that he was going to continue talking.

"Burner, although you were the one to wake me up, I believe that you were not the first to discover me because around twenty years ago someone else stumbled upon this room," Burner narrowed his eyes at the new information due to the fact that twenty years ago the third dark war hadn't started yet and that it was just after the end of the second. "When I looked through the security feed I don't think he had any idea about what was in this room either as he wasn't in the room for very long but because of the computer detecting movement near its vicinity, it activated the star-up sequence for my systems. I'm pretty sure that the dragon had activated it by accident though. Soon after the start-up it began to download the finishing procedures into my systems, files that were designated: ZBuster, ZKnuckle, ZSaber and AbilityCopy."

Burner frowned. "What do you mean by 'security feed'?" Zero explained that despite being in stasis, he could hear whatever anyone said in the room and that when he woke up, all the security files would download into his system so he could look through them. Again, Burner only had a grasp on what he just said. "Okay I guess that makes sense but what were you talking about when you said that you got those four things?" Zero was quick to answer.

"The AbilityCopy and Z Files? Well, they were the last few programs that needed to be installed into my system for me to be completed and I'm not happy about what they are designated as, it just makes me think that your statement about my creator was true. They…their weapons, both made for ranged and close combat purposes but I have no idea what the AbilityCopy program does or what it's used for. So in other words I guess I was created to be a weapon," Burner shook his head at the information, was Zero really created to be just a weapon?

No, if he was then he wouldn't have any emotions and have been hostile when he woke up, he would have tried to kill him. "That's stupid. You said yourself that your species was created to be like humans so why would your creator give you weapons as soon as you woke up? It's because there's dangerous people out there, things that would want you dead without a second thought so your creator at least had some brains when he created you," Burner said in order to cheer up the android.

He was even surprised at how well the words came out of his mouth, after all Darkers were the main example in what he was trying to get through to the robot and he was nothing like them. He made a mental note to tell Zero about the Darkers when he managed to get all of his friends together, quietly pondering what each of their reactions might be but there was that one question he kept on asking himself. Would he count Zero as a friend? He only just met him and the robot said it himself that he was designed to be a weapon. Burner was one that usually trusted his gut on these types of things and it hasn't let him down so far and besides, it could also be the fact that Zero could be wrong about being a weapon. It was a possibility that was pretty likely after all, especially with the reason that he just gave him.

"Zero, stop acting like that. What you just said make you sound like you want to be hunted down and killed by the royal guard so put your head out of the gutter and let's get out here," Zero gave Burner an incredulous look at his attempt to make him forget about his creator before moving over to his position. Doing the same motion as the young fire dragon he moved over the fallen wall and poked his head out of the self-made doorway, noticing the tunnel that led to what he assumed was the main section of the mine Burner was talking about. Said dragon looked up at Zero, ushering him to move into the tunnel which the robot happily obliged to.

When Burner stepped back into the tunnel he turned back to see Zero lifting up the fallen wall to its original place before his left claw started to glow a light green, moving his left claw around the cracked sections of the wall it seemed to form back together as if it was never broken in the first place. When Zero finished, he turned back to face Burner who seemed to be slightly shocked at what he just did for a second before making the motion for him to follow his lead.

They followed the tunnel until it reached the middle of the mine where Burner motioned him to move behind the large boulder that connected the tunnel to the main section of the mine. Although they made it this far, the fire dragon knew that although the racket from the workers drew attention away from Zero's figure due to the tunnel not being watched, getting said robot all the way across to the elevator without being seen by any of the guards won't be so easy. However luck seemed to be going Burner's way today, taking a small peek from the left side of the boulder he found that there was only one guard near the elevator, the others must be down the many different tunnels.

Turning back to Zero, he told him his very short plan. "Okay Zero there's only one guard here and he's near the elevator so I'm going to see if I can get his attention while you move past him to the elevator, sound good?" All Zero did was nod but as he took a small peak to see for himself he noticed how all the workers looked so ragged and starved.

"Burner, what's with the workers here?" Zero asked to which Burner told him that he would tell him later, once they got to the elevator. Giving another nod, Zero let Burner start his part of the plan while he himself tried to get as close the elevator without being spotted. He managed to get closer by using his equipped thrusters on his large metal boots (were they boots?) to dash from cover to cover which surprisingly didn't make as much noise he thought they'd make, much to his relief. Taking a quick look out of his cover to see how Burner was going it didn't seemed to be going very well, the dragon and whathe think was a minotaur were in an argument that Zero knew was going to get ugly unless he did something.

Slowly sneaking up to the both of them, Burner facing him while the minotaur had his back turned, he was glad that neither of them saw him because if Burner did then the minotaur might look in his direction as to see what he was looking at. Once he was only about a meter away from them both, his fist began to glow green, charging his so called 'ZKnuckle' until it reached full charge and as soon as it did he quickly made his move. Standing fully upright as he dashed right next to the minotaur, moving his left leg in front of his right only to then push it both backwards.

Due to the fact that the minotaur was too busy arguing with the dragon in front of him, he was caught off guard when he felt the sudden movement of his right leg being pushed backward, causing him to almost fall forward if his left leg wasn't rooted to the ground. The minotaur's back was quickly forced forward slightly which was all Zero needed, moving his left hand to the back of the minotaur's head he slammed it down onto the ground with the fully charged ZKnuckle and said force of the impact knocked him the minotaur out completely.

Burner, who had witnessed the whole thing looked at Zero with a small smirk at his performance before he turned around to the elevator and sprinted off into the room, Zero in tow.

"Not gonna lie…that was pretty cool."