Wave Battle: Centaurus Flame V2

Centaurus Flame walked out of the warehouse to wait for Zero. He never planned on hurting Luna, but he had his orders. He decided that he would explain his reasons when he saw Luna.

He saw a red flash at the side of a building, and Zero walked out in front of him.

"So Zero, you came," Centaurus Flame said, "I knew that bringing your parents here would get results."

"Ryan, why?" Zero asked, "You were so nice, out of all the people why did you have to be a member of Neo Arcadia?"

"Luna," Centaurus Flame said looking down, "The me you saw then, that is the real me. I'm not a bad person, and I don't want to hurt anyone," Centaurus Flame looked down and sighed, "When Planet FM attacked that last time, I got scared. My father was severely injured in the attacks four years ago, when Mega Man first appeared. I was afraid that it was going to be like that time again, and I wouldn't know what to do. But Issac came, he gave me this power, and a purpose. He has a way to put an end to Planet FM."

"You mean the Ara?" Zero asked, "What the heck is that anyway?"

"It's an ancient weapon made from an ancient civilization. Issac called them Mu," when Centaurus Flame said that Zero was shocked, "The girl he's always with, Kitty told him about it. With that weapon we'll fire directly at Planet FM. With it we'll be able to destroy the entire planet and put an end to the reign of Planet FM."

"You really think it's going to be that easy?" Zero said, "Planet FM is made completely out of EM Waves! If he fires at it there's no guarantee that he'll destroy the planet!"

"He will! We have to have faith in him!"

"What makes him so sure that he'll succeed?" Zero asked, "Does he know how powerful the Ara is? Does he know how strong Planet FM is? If not then trying to destroy the entire planet is a fools errand! Issac is putting the entire planet at risk, and I can't let this continue!"

"Then you'll have to get through me Luna. Even if we are friends I will not let you stop us!"

"The same goes for me!" Zero shouted getting in a fighting stance. She then shouted...

"Wave Battle! Action!"

Centaurus Flame charged at Zero with his lance pointed out. Zero dodged to the side and activated a Battle Card.

"Mega Cannon!" she shouted as her left arm turned into the Mega Cannon. She fired at Centaurus Flame, but he was too fast for her attacks. He charged out of the current location, confusing Zero a bit, "Xerox, why did he run away?"

"Don't be so sure kid, his EM make up is kind of funny to me. This might be a part of his-" no sooner had he said that did Centaurus Flame charges past Zero from a different direction, this time knocking her to the ground.

"Shoot!" Zero shouted as she got up, "He's using the field to his advantage!"

"Then we just gotta do the same! Just like when we fought Lynx the first time, we gotta slow him down!" Xerox stated.

Zero had to look down on that though. The first time she fought Lynx that wasn't her friend Kitty, or it was just she didn't know Kitty. Zero shook it off and activated a Long Sword Battle Card. This time when Centaurus Flame charged at Zero, she stopped him with her sword. She took a little damage, but she was able to fight close quarter for a little while.

Inside the warehouse, Luna's parents had woken up and were struggling to get free.

"Horace," Mrs. Platz started, "If we get out of here, we need to tell Luna the truth."

Mr. Platz looked at his wife in shock, "Janet, are you serious?"

"Yes. Why do you think she ran away that last time? We were always so distant to her because she wasn't our blood child, she sensed that, and it eventually got too much for her. Weren't we doing all of this to eventually tell her the truth?" Mr. Platz had to think on that one. It was true, the reason they decided to spend more time with Luna was to hopefully lessen the blow when they told Luna the truth about their family. If they kept prolonging it though they would never tell her, so Mr. Platz nodded in agreement.

Before they could say anything, Gemini Spark teleported in. Both twins turned around to face Luna's parents, who were scared out of their minds. They didn't know that Gemini Spark was good now, so when the twins ran up to them and started untieing them they were shocked.

"You two..." Mr. Platz said.

"Are you guys alright?" Gemini White asked.

"We're fine," Mrs. Platz answered, "but why are you here?"

"That's not important," Gemini Black stated, "Just be glad we're here."

With that said Gemini Spark lead Mr. and Mrs. Platz out of the warehouse. Once outside they saw Zero and Centaurus Flame fighting. They tried to keep running, but when Mrs. Platz saw Zero she stopped.

"Janet, what's wrong?" Mr. Platz asked.

"That red one with the sword," she said pointing to Zero, "Do you know who that is?"

"Wait a second..." the realization hit Mr. Platz that moment, and he was shocked.

Zero slashed at Centaurus Flame and turned around, only to meet the stares of her parents. For a few moments they just stared at each other.

"L, Luna...?" Mr. Platz asked. The next second Centaurus Flame charged out from the side and tackled Zero into another warehouse.

"LUNA!" both her parents cried out at the same time.

Gemini Spark looked at each other, nodded, and ran toward the fight, "Stay here!" they said in unison to Luna's parents.

Inside the warehouse, Centaurus Flame was spinning his lance above his head charging it with fire. Right before he could fire at Zero, a jolt of electricity hit him knocking him down. Gemini Spark then ran in, Gemini White helping Zero up.

"Pat, Rey, thanks," Zero said.

"Don't thank us yet," Gemini Black said, "He's still hot for a fight!"

Centaurus Flame got up and looked at his two new opponents, "Zero and Gemini Spark? I don't care how many there are, I can't let you get to Master Issac!"

"Luna..." Gemini White said.

"It's okay Pat," Zero said answering Gemini White's unasked question, "I know that my friend is still in there, but he won't back down, so neither can we. Let's end this!" She stepped forward, both twins on either side of her. Unknown to them, Mr. and Mrs. Platz were watching this from a distance.

Gemini Spark rushed forward first with their swords out and overwhelmed Centaurus Flame with their unified sword attacks. After a while they parted so Zero could shoot at her with a Wide Wave Battle Card. Centaurus Flame took heavy damage from that attack, and fell out of the warehouse. The twins stood back to back holding their golden arms forward and charged up for their strongest attack.

"Gemini Thunder!" they shouted shooting a large electric blast at Centaurus Flame paralyzing him.

"Heavy Ax!" Zero shouted right before knocking Centaurus Flame into the water with her Heavy Ax. Once he was in the water, Gemini Spark stuck their sword arms into the water, electricuting everything inside, doing extreme damage to Centaurus Flame, who exploded inside the water. Ryan floated up from the lake unconscious. Zero breathed a sigh of relief as the twins high fived. The three of them did a group hug laughing happily at their victory. Mr. and Mrs. Platz were watching this, happy to see their daughter smile like that, but confused as to why she was even there fighting period. When Zero looked and saw her parents, she let go of Gemini Spark and slowly walked over to her parents.

"Mom... Dad..." Zero said softly. There was no reason to hide it anymore. It was clear they knew who she was up close like this, and she was tired of all the secrets.

"We need to talk, Luna," her mother said just as softly.

A few minutes later after the Satella Police had come to arrest Ryan, Zero (still wave changed on Ace's request) was sitting on the side of the harbor with her parents next to her.

"So, you didn't run away that time?" Mrs. Platz asked.

"No, I didn't. I was captured by Planet FM's soldiers and had to fight all the way back here," Zero explained, then looking at the screen on her wrist showing Xerox, "If Xerox hadn't come to save me, then who knows where I'd be," Xerox smiled, proud that she was having this conversation with her parents, "I'm sorry I kept it a secret, and I'm sorry I lied about Xerox. He isn't a Wizard made from Mr. Stelar. He's actually a being from Planet FM. He's good though, not like the others. He wants to help save the planet."

"It's alright Luna," Mrs. Platz said looking at her husband.

"We haven't been totally honest with you either," Mr. Platz continued. They both turned to Zero with worried expressions.

"Luna, you're not our biological daughter," Mrs. Platz started, "Our real daughter was separated from us in an accident. Six years later our doorbell rang and all we saw was an infant child on our doorstep, and a note telling us to take care of her as if she were our own. So we gave you our first daughter's name, took down all the old photographs of her, and decided to start anew."

Zero looked down hearing this. It was great that she knew the truth, but now she really wanted to know where she came from.

"The past doesn't matter though," Mr. Platz chimed in, "You're Luna Platz now. We'll never see our first daughter again, but you're our daughter now. Never forget that."

Zero couldn't hold the tears any longer, and she fell into her parents arms crying, this time they were tears of joy though, tears that were for the family she always dreamed of having, and for a second was out of reach, but now she had, and was as strong as ever.

Ace picked that time unfortunately to walk up to them, "I'd really hate to break up this moment, but I really need to see Zero."

"It's fine Ace," Zero said getting up, "I can fight. What do you need?"

"Acid and I just got an anonymous tip on an old church in the far end of Cyber City, and we were wondering if you could investigate it for us."

Zero looked at her parents, who both nodded, and then turned to Ace, "Sure thing, just let me stop off at home first to get changed."

A few minuted later, Luna stepped out of her room, only this time she was wearing her usual dress, her usual jacket, her usual high heels, her usual make up, and her hair was in it's usual style. She looked at the mirror with a smile, and then looked at her Hunter VG, at the message she never did answer:

Kitty Munroe requests that your Brother Band be broken.

Luna quickly responded to he message, and then put on the Visualizer, "This time, I'm putting an end to Neo Arcadia once and for all!" she then held her hand in the air as Xerox materialized behind her, "Transcode 666! Zero!" Xerox embraced her, and both of them vanished in a red light.