Previously:

"I have a mission for you."

"A mission..."

"I need you to destroy the disposal centre, where they retire our comrades one after another."

Chapter 3

Beginning of the resistance

"Destroy the disposal facility centre?" Zero asked, looking at the screen.

"Yes." Ciel nodded firmly. "Even as we're speaking now, they may be retiring a reploid who is falsely accused of being a maverick." she faced Zero with a serious look. "To prevent any additional loss of reploid life, please, I ask of you, please destroy the enemy's facility."

"Is that all I have to do?" an unnoticeable smirk spread along Zero's lips. "Destroy the facility and rescue the reploid?"

"Yes." Ciel nodded again. "Please, will you accept this request?"

"Yes." Zero simply nodded.

Ciel's eyes lit up. "Thank you, Zero!"

Zero turned towards the door. "I'll head to the surface."

Ciel nodded in respond. Please be careful, Zero.

Zero strolled towards the elevator, her helmet materialising, and took the platform up to the surface. "Ciel." she pressed the communication button at the side of her helmet. "I need the location of the facility." she said as she began walking towards one direction.

"The disposal centre is located at North-east, five miles away from your location." Ciel replied through the comm.

"Understood." Zero began running towards the directed destination. Facing less than expected resistance from the Neo Arcadian reploids, Zero looked around the city as she passed the place. "This...this is a mess!" she muttered as she glanced at some of the wrecked vehicles. Ignoring the fact that the ruins of what used to be a large city, Zero moved on, until she reached a building that seemed to be still in function.

"This must be it." Zero looked at the building in front of her.

"Zero, can you hear me?" Ciel's voice suddenly came in.

"Wah!" Zero was startled badly. "C-Ciel?! Y-Yeah! I can hear you." the reploid rapidly calmed herself down.

"Ah!" Ciel's voice came in again. "Sorry, Zero. Did I scare you?"

"N-No! Of course not!" Zero quickly defended herself, face red from embarrassment.

Stifling a giggle, Ciel continued. "Anyway, do you see any shutter nearby?"

Zero looked around and soon found a shutter not far away from her. "Yeah, found one."

"Through the shutter, you'll reach within the disposal centre." Ciel continued. "I doubt there will be a need for any specific codes to open it."

Zero walked towards the shutter, and true enough, the shutter opened the moment she pressed the green button at the side of it. "Speak about being old-fashioned." Zero remarked, walking through the opened shutter.

Aztec Falcon, one of the lieutenants of the Rekku Gundan, was transferring data codes to a control panel through the cables attached from the back of his head. "Data transfer complete." the cables detached themselves from the control panel and retracted into the component at the back of the helmet.

Suddenly, the door at the back of the hawk-shaped reploid exploded and flew towards the control panel. Aztec spun around and struck one of his wings at the broken projectile, shattering the door and deflecting the pieces from the control panel.

Warning! A bright striking red and translucent word appeared in the eyes of the hawk reploid. Unidentified signal. Warning! Unidentified signal. Threat level: Unknown!

"Who's there?" Aztec pointed one of his wings at the door.

"You must be the one controlling this disposal." Zero stepped out from the darkness behind the door. "And retiring innocent reploids for you own sake."

"Yes." If Aztec could smirked, he would have done it. "I'm Aztec Falcon. One of the four guardians of Neo Arcadia, Harpuia, sent me to clean up the garbage."

"H-Help!" a voice echoed from beneath them. Zero looked down and realised the she was standing on a large machine crusher. Underneath the crusher were at least a dozens of reploids. "Help me! Please save me!" one of the reploids, wearing the resistance uniform, under the crusher was panicking.

"What the-!" Zero almost cursed as the ground jerked. The crusher was slowly lowered, moving steadily to crusher whatever was beneath the spikes. Zero looked back up, glaring at Aztec.

"You must be some garbage as well." Aztec flashed his wings, cracking with electricity. "Heh heh. Just in time. I'll just dispose both of you resistance bastards together." he charged at her with the attempt to tackle her.

Zero dashed sideways, barely dodging the tackle. Igniting her saber, Zero spun around and slashed at her opponent. Plasma clashed with electricity charged armour piece as Aztec forced the saber back. Zero gritted her teeth and hopped back, reducing the impact of the push.

Aztec charged at the crimson reploid again. Zero spun around and dashed towards the wall. Jumping onto the wall and started running up the length of it, Zero grabbed the the buster from her thigh pocket and aimed at Aztec, firing a barrage of bullets at the reploid. Aztec dodged the bullets easily, continuing his way towards Zero.

"Tsk!" Realising that bullets would not work on the reploid, Zero kicked off the wall, back-flipping over Aztec and readied her saber.

Aztec skidded to a stop, turned back to Zero, and charged again. Zero ignited her saber to its full power and slammed onto the ground, splashing a wave of pure energy at the place just before Aztec reached it.

Finding that the energy splash was aimed at him, Aztec quickly shielded himself from the attack with his wings, but the force from the blast was strong enough to send him tumbling backwards.

Zero wasted no time to dash jump at Aztec and thrust a kick into his head, sending the larger reploid slamming into the control panel. The ground jerked again as the crusher stopped instantly.

Aztec slowly pushed himself up from the wreck, but jerked backwards as Zero plunged her saber into the chest of the reploid, impaling the energy core, and into the control panel behind it.

"That's....im...possible..." Aztec's movements began to get jerky as electricity sparked from his chest. "Si-Since when...did the resistance...get such...a power...ful...reploid?!"

Zero realised that the dying reploid was about to explode and pulled her saber away, jumping as far away as possible.

The explosion wasn't very big, but was still strong to heavily damage Zero if she hadn't jumped enough distance away from the blast.

Not long after the explosion, the dust slowly settled, revealing a large hole near the edge of the ground. Zero slowly walked to the hole and peeked down. "Is everyone all right?" she asked, hoping to get an answer.

"Y-Yes!" A soft reply echoed from beneath. "E-Everyone's all right."

Zero hopped through the hole, and down onto the ground several metres below, just beside a soldier. The already-frightened reploid literally shrieked and fell back sitting on the ground.

"Are you all right?" Zero held a hand out and help the shivering reploid up onto his feet. She looked around and saw several other reploids slowly standing up.

"Uh...ha!" the soldier tried to form a word in his mouth. "Ahem! Thank you! I-I thought I was a goner there."

"You're welcome." Zero smiled. "Are you sure you're going to be all right?"

"I-I think I'm still in shock...ahahaha." the reploid laughed sheepishly. "I'll return to our base, once I'm able to co-control my legs again." he pointed at his trembling knees.

Zero tried her hardest not to laugh at the sight, and did pretty well in doing so.

"I think there's a Trans Server just beyond this door." he pointed at the door at one end of the enclosed room. "A heavy lock was place on the door. We've tried everything to unlock it, but no avail."

Zero walked up to the door and gave it a slight push. "Indeed. This door is made to withstand heavy firepower from both side." she ignited her saber. "Stay back. This may take a while." she said, receiving a couple of nods in respond. Zero slowly thrust the blade into the door, melting the reinforced metal slowly.

Whining sound echoed throughout the room as Zero slowly pushed the plasma blade upwards. The reploids surrounding her covered their ears from the screeching pitch of the noise. Moments later, Zero was done cutting a large hole into the door. The reploids cheered loudly around her. Some grabbing her hands and started shaking it, others gave friendly pats at the back of her shoulders. Some were even overjoyed to the point of hugging the female battle reploid.

"Miss." A young reploid boy walked up to her. "Thank you for saving us."

Zero smiled at the boy and ruffled his hair. "You're welcome." the reploid boy grinned and ran back to his family.

"Let's go." Zero announced. "Soon, this place will be swarmed with Neo Arcadia troops." the rest of the reploids nodded and started climbing through the hole, one by one.

The group was led to another room, with a Trans Server at the middle of it. "Get the rest out of here first." Zero said to the resistance soldier. "And get back to base as soon as possible."

"Wha-What about you?" The soldier asked.

"I'll clear this place of enemies." Zero ignited her saber and started back. "I'll make sure that this place doesn't exist any more."

"But...but..."

"Go!" The tone of Zero's voice forced the soldier to nod and salute, before doing his job in sending the reploids out of the place.

"Now, all's left is to destroy this place." Zero dashed forward, and started wrecking havoc to the disposal facility centre.

Neo Arcadia Throne Shrine

"So, the whole of the disposal facility is destroyed?" A sole figure clad in blue cape sat on the throne, elbows on the armrest, legs crossed over each other. "Solely by a single reploid?"

"Yes, Master X." a female combat reploid, clad in green armour, knelt in front of the throne. "I deserve to be punished for-..."

"Leave it." Master X cut the reploid off with a wave of a hand. "We can build another disposal facility any time. The reploid who destroyed the properties of Neo Arcadia. Her name...is Zero, right?"

"Yes, Master X." the green reploid said. "That's what we had identified from our database bank."

"Hmph." Master X smirked. "I want you to investigate thoroughly on this reploid. And bring her to me, as soon as possible."

"Understood, Master X." the green reploid bowed and strolled out of the throne room.

Master X turned to face the screen floating in front of her. "Zero...huh?" the screen showed a footage a crimson figure rampaging and destroying equipments after equipments in the place, leaving only burning ruins at the its wake. "What an interesting reploid."

Resistance Base

Ciel waited anxiously with some soldiers when the Trans Server suddenly came to life in the middle of the room. Her face lit up as a figure started to take form in the middle of the machine.

"Zero is back!" one of the soldiers shouted and ran out of the room, almost ramming through the door without opening it.

"Zero!" Ciel almost pounced onto the said reploid when the transfer was complete. Zero had to grab onto Ciel to prevent the girl from falling. "I'm back." she said with a smile.

"Zero." the female reploid turned to the voice. The soldier she had saved from the disposal centre not long ago walked up to her. "Thank you, for saving me back there." he smiled, saluting to her.

"It's fine." Zero slowly unlatched Ciel from her body. "I must do what I can to help others." she walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "But I wouldn't have saved those innocent reploids without your help." the soldier blushed under the compliment and saluted.

Zero smiled and walked out of the Trans Server room, followed by Ciel and some of the soldiers.

"Hey, Zero." Ciel suddenly said.

"Hmm?"

"I've never dreamt the day when the disposal centre will be destroyed." Ciel smiled. "Thank you so much, Zero."

"Say Zero, I have a reward for you." Ciel started dragging Zero to her room.

"Reward?" Zero, not knowing anything, let herself be dragged along. "What for?"

Colbor was about to warn Zero when he was silenced by Ciel's death glare. Alouette started shivering and moved away as silently as possible.

"What?" Zero noticed the change in everyone's expression. "What's going on?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Ciel quickly said. "Right, Colbor?" she faced the said veteran soldier with the glare.

"Er...yeah!" Colbor said. "It's nothing." Mentally, he saluted. Good luck, Zero.

"Wha-? What?! Hey!" Zero was pulled into the room without hesitation. Seconds later, a girlish scream echoed throughout the base. Some of the soldiers winced from the pitch of the scream, others trying to keep their snickering to themselves.

"There she goes." Colbor sighed and shook his head. "I doubt even Zero can survive that."

Alouette said nothing as she nodded, still shivering from her trauma with Ciel.

There.....third chapter. I can't say it's good. I hope this can satisfy you, the readers, after missing my deadline for more than a week.

And S Prime, thank you for giving me motivations to continue this story, but I'm afraid I failed you with this chapter. I hope the next one( coming two weeks time) will amend for it.

Anyway, reviews please. XD

Preview:

"The Cyber-elf that you rescued is only a child now. Buy she's an unique Cyber-elf and will learn an awesome ability when she grows up. Raise her with love and care, Zero."