Code X Chapter 18 - Battle
All but the Lyoko Warriors heard Signas's shout of warning. That made the robotic fighters stop in thier tracks and turn back to back.
Axl appeared before Megaman and the others, his white armor glowing brightly.
"Well hello there. Ready to get filled with bullets!" Axl laughed meniacly, firing his bullets to hit the ground at them. The mechanical heroes didn't flinch. Megaman and Protoman had so much experience fighting, they knew the bullets wouldn't hit. As for Spider, he was able to sense that the two of them weren't scared, so why should he be?
"Hey, you two are skilled enough to take this guy down no sweat right? So, why not let a rookie like me take a shot at him?" Spider suggested.
Axl, in a sense, raised a brow towards this card player. "You? Take me down? That's not gonna happen!" He started firing off his array of bullets directly at Spider's chest. Megaman and Protoman looked at each other, nodded, and jumped away to watch as the two of them battled it out.
"If the time comes ... I'm jumping in." Protoman said. Megaman nodded and watched with him from a distance.
Spider raised his hands up together and slammed them down before him, blasting an array of cards at the bullets.
"Ha ha! What's the matter? Don't like to dance? I can do this all day Spider!" The words were spat out as he engaged his hover jets and began firing.
Spider made a grunt and side stepped his way out of the bullets. The bullets kept getting closer and closer. He just wasn't fast enough to escape them. He then stopped and rolled towards the flying opponent and threw a card at his leg.
"Argh!" Axl shot the card away, giving Spider the extra second he needed to continue the assualt. He began to throw a mass array of cards at Axl. It was time for him to be on the defense. Axl landed to the ground, but Spider didn't let up. He continued to throw his cards, forcing Axl to duck and roll away.
"Tch. Looks like you're better than I thought. I'll just be leaving. You win this round, Spider the Fake." Axl then teleported away.
During all of this, the Lyoko Warriors were amazed to find William land before them. His dark aura emminating before them.
"Well well well, if it isn't our ol' buddy William. How're you today?" Odd joked.
"Fools. You're not in Lyoko anymore. Once I kill you, you're dead," he responded.
The adolescents gasped in fear as they realized William said was true.
Ulrich scoffed, "Yea right. You're just trying to scare us."
William made a smirk and threw his blade at the crew, the large weapon spinning in circles.
"Look out!" Yumi shouted. The four original members leaped out of the way, but Jeremy pulled out his spear, using it to block the weapon.
"Did you forget, I'm your worst nightmare." Jeremy moved his weapon so that the blade would be sent flying off behind him. While the blade was still in the air, he pushed forward, his spear thrusted forward for a piercing blow to his opponent's chest. The possesed foe turned to smoke and went below him, sliding past all of the Lyoko Warriors to retrieve his blade.
Yumi threw her fans at him, however, William easily deflected them with his blade.
"What's the matter William? Don't feel like fighting!" Ulrich shouted as he sprinted towards his opponent. The two of them clashed thier blades.
Odd rolled to his left, a slab of rubble laying before him. He used this land as a barracade as he began firing Laser Arrows. William took notice of the shots and pushed Ulrich off of in just in time to roll away.
Aelita shouted, "Energy Field!" and fired her pink blasts at him. His blade was swung in time to deflect the orbs. Jeremy took this oppurtunity and came in from the air, his spear flying downward, ready to pierce through his skull. William grabbed the spear and flew the blonde across the arena, slamming him into Ulrich and Yumi.
"Jeremy what're you doing? You'll kill William!" Yumi shouted. Jeremy only spat as he got off of her and the two love birds.
"We have to beat him eventually."
William grunted. "I'll let you live a little longer." He then took to his smoke form and slithered away once again.
Meanwhile, with X and Zello stood face to face with the black armored Zero.
The two 'roids stared at their former ally.
"Long time no see X," Zero scoffed.
"Why Zero! Why are you doing this!" X shouted. Zello didn't give him time to respond. He fired a single buster shot at him. "What are you doing Zello? That's our comrade!"
Zello made no attempt to look at him. He began to charge the power of his buster. "If a friend tries to kill you ...," he then dashed and leaped forward, his Z Saber unsheathing as it clashed with the Black Zero's Saber, "you fight back!"
"Not bad. But you're nothing than a pathetic copy," Zero spat. He then began to push Zello back with the power of his Black Armor.
Zello then smirked,. firing off a fully charged buster shot at the warrior before him. "Copy? I'm no copy. I'm still the one and only Zero. But you can call me Zello." He then used a long, chain rod to pull Zero back to him, then grabbed his head with a single hand, slamming him into the ground, skidding his body against the ground, then sending him flying through the air.
X sat back, terrified at the battle of the two Zeros. His best friend was a Maverick fighting another version of himself from the future. What the hell was he supposed to do! What! What! WHAT!
He then snapped out of it when he noticed Bass standing in front of him, his buster's barrel pointed directly at his face. X then dashed away as the purple shots narrowly missed him.
"What's the matter? Don't wanna play with your old friend the sissy robot? I'll play with you."
"Bass. You're an old school robot who is now classified as an enemy maverick and will be terminated as such. Turn yourself in!"
"Terminated? Ha! You're definatly not anything like that earlier version of you. Megaman is much more powerful. But you, you can kill. I like that."
"I've never killed. I've only finished enemy Mavericks."
"Yea yea. Listen, I'm leaving now. Have fun watching your two friends battling it out." He laughed meniacly and disappeared.
"Wait!" X shouted, but it was too late. He turned his attention back to the two Zeros. They were panting heavily as it was obvious the two were exhausted.
"Ha ... ha... ha... Not bad...For a copy."
"I could say the same ... about you."
Zero stood straight up. "We'll do this another time." He too disappeared.
Signas had all three fights recorded for future references. The three navigators then teleported the groups back.
Layer looked at Zello and X. "So ..." She really had no idea what to say.
Pallette smiled and made a thumbs up. "Way to go on coming back A Ok."
Alia smiled and nodded. "Pallette's right. Way to go guys."
Author - And with that, another chapter down~!
Bass - Yea but it took you forever to write it.
Author - Shut up!
Zello - Heads up for next time.
Author - I promise I'll try harder!