This fanfic is an old fanfic request I got on my BF5 Tumblr before! Tho I rewrote it since the original one didn't hold up to my current standards, much more happier with this one now ^w^ I really enjoy writing Soulmate AUs, especially if the two are enemies, love my drama lol

Anyways, hope you enjoy reading!

For as long as Zoom could remember, he has always had the same dreams. Of cloudy panes of glass in front of him with bright yellow lights that were sometimes nauseating to look at. The sounds of machines working constantly around him, so loud that they were nearly deafening.

His dreams were not like the dreams of the other members of the Order. Their dreams were always of the outside, always changing and never constantly in the same scene, unlike Zoom's dreams that could never change no matter how hard he tried. It made him feel even more isolated from the others, he couldn't understand why his dreams were so different from theirs, was it because he was the Chosen One?

He asked why his dreams were like this to Master Takeyasu, back then when he was still young and thought that his master was wise and always to be trusted. Surely he would have the answers, right?

Instead, he was met with these words-

"They mean nothing, Zoom. Focus on your training."

And Zoom, he listened. He listened and obeyed his master's word, for they were law to him. Until he grew older and grew more disillusioned with the ways of the Order and towards Master Takeyasu. He wanted out, he wanted to be free, most of all he wanted answers to the constant and never changing dreams.

Once he was out and traveling the world, discovering and experiencing things he wasn't able to back in the Order, Zoom finally found out what those dreams meant and why they couldn't be changed.

Since they weren't his to control in the first place, for they belonged to his soulmate. What he was dreaming, his soulmate was currently experiencing and the same would happen if his soulmate were to dream while Zoom was awake.

For a moment, he felt unsure. His soulmate was supposed to be his partner, assigned to him by fate, and Zoom isn't exactly someone that is fond of being bound to fate/destiny due to his experiences with the Order and being its supposed "Chosen One". However, the more he thought about it, the more he became concerned about the type of life his soulmate was living.

They didn't move, they didn't speak, it didn't even sound like they were breathing. Zoom's soulmate just existed like how a statue existed.

Was his soulmate even human?

He became even more sure of it when he joined Battle Force 5 and upon discovering the existence of the Multiverse. Zoom's glad that Sage picked him for the role of Scout out of all the other possible choices, for he got to meet others who were in the same position as him, having dreams of their soulmates who never seemed to move at all despite how many years have passed.

It made him all the more determined to try and find his own soulmate and help his friends' find theirs as well. Even though he didn't like the idea of being tied to someone down to their souls all because "fate" decreed it, he liked the idea of leaving someone who was most likely imprisoned even less. Perhaps, he might even get along with his soulmate once they meet, wouldn't that be nice?

However, the day they went after Krytus as he was on his way to free his own Scout named Kytren, Zoom's own world turned upside down the moment he and his team stepped into the Vault Battle Zone.

The sounds of heavy machines working so loudly that they were almost deafening, the sickening yellow lights around them that glowed too brightly-

The same place he has been seeing every time he slept and dreamt, the very place his soulmate was trapped in.

Scanning the place, Zoom finally found Krytus walking towards a platform to a figure, encased in a coffin-like prison with cloudy panes of glass.

He denied it, there is no way that Kytren was his soulmate, right? It must be just some sort of horrific coincidence, that's all.

Zoom kept telling himself that as he fought and eventually shattered the Red Sentient Scout's shell and released the antimatter within. He kept reassuring himself that his soulmate was still out there and not some sort of monster.

It was until he slept on his bed, that he realized he was only fooling himself.

His dreams were finally changing, moving and no longer constant.

For his soulmate, Kytren, was no longer imprisoned thus tainting Zoom's mind with a red-tinted nightmare.