Mega Man Zero Omega
Chapter 13
Mind Crush
"Ciel, I…it was an honor standing behind you and the Resistance but my soul is urging me onward. I have to move on. I'm sorry." Alpha said.
Alpha couldn't look her in the eyes.
"Alpha, you're troubled aren't you? You can't decide what you are or what your place is. I believe that Omega should accompany you. Perhaps together, you two can figure out what your future is. I know that I can't find my future on my own. I rely on others to gain the wisdom, and peace I need to get through each day. You can't go alone. It would destroy you." Ciel said.
"Omega existed alone for decades." Alpha reminded Ciel.
Ciel shook her head.
"He is also broken. All he knows is duty. It is all he is, and it is all he has. Alpha, you don't want to become that. I've seen that destroy too many of my friends. Please." Ciel pleaded with her.
Alpha shook her head in amusement.
"You truly are persistent aren't you?" Alpha asked at long last.
"When it comes to this, yes. I will plead with you for the rest of eternity if I need to." Ciel said to her.
"If Omega agrees to come along then I'll let him." Alpha finally agreed.
"Thank you Alpha." Ciel smiled at her.
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"Axl, you thought that you could defeat me?" Vile mocked the younger Reploid.
They were in the training facilities. Upon beginning their training Vile had brutally crushed him. The armaments that Vile carried devastated Axl. Vile had armed himself with a shockwave cannon, a rapid fire arm part, and a close quarter's fireball. If he tried to stay away from Vile he would get pounded by the arm parts or the shockwave cannon. If he tried to draw near he would be blasted by a wave of blue fire that enveloped Vile.
In other words he had been outmaneuvered and Vile's armaments were too many and too great to get close.
Vile laughed lightly before he drew the laser that he had 'borrowed' from Cerveau.
"Enough Vile. You've made your point clear." Zero said as he entered the room.
"Are you certain?"
"I am." Zero responded.
"What are you going to do about it?" Vile demanded.
Zero drew his saber.
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"You are preparing to leave?" Omega asked.
Alpha nodded.
"Yes, I have to…Find my redemption." She whispered.
"You shall." Omega assured her.
Alpha's crimson eyes were stormy, and troubled.
"Alpha, you're scared aren't you?" Omega sensed her pain.
"No…I…"
"You are afraid." Omega replied gently.
"I…I…don't want to die, but I don't want to live forever either!" She broke.
"Alpha…"
"Am I forced to merely exist? Must I become a demon?"
"What do you mean?" Omega asked.
"Everyone like us becomes merely an engine of destruction, because all that we half-breeds are are weapons!" Omega couldn't deny that they were unusual and that he was an abomination, but…
The warrior-woman's eyes flooded and tears trailed down her face.
Omega, not knowing what to do merely pulled the heartbroken woman into his arms. She clung to him sobbing.
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"The resistance is reading itself for another attack is it…? Perhaps, but it matters' not, after all, I've gathered the power that I need." Wiel smirked.
"Omega!" Wiel roared calling his obedient servant.
Almost before Wiel had finished calling the name the massive god of destruction appeared.
"Excellent! Now, if you don't mind, could you manipulate the minds of the Reploids around the world?" Wiel asked cheerfully.
"Yes…Lord…Wiel…" The giant reploid said.
"Thank you."
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"Zero, Vile, Axl, Phantom, Harpuia, Leviathan, Fefnir, all of you, we now know Wiel's plan." Ciel said.
"What is it?" Sage Harpuia asked.
"He plans on using the combined might of Omega, and the Dark Elf to control the minds of every Reploid on the planet."
"He-he, well done, Ciel…" A feminine voice chuckled.
Dozens of Resistance Troops entered the room, each of them aiming their weapons at the small group.
"Haha! Like a weak reploid like Omega could control me." Vile aimed his shoulder mounted cannon at the nearest group of soldiers.
"Vile, we'll need them, we can't kill them." Zero reigned the ex-maverick in.
"…Tch, pity."
"What are we to do then?" Leviathan asked; her face was slightly pale.
"We'll have to pull out of HQ." Axl said as more troops appeared.
"But, how are we supposed to do that…?" Phantom asked dryly.
"The trans server, well, use the emergency evac system. It's the only chance we've got." Zero said grimly.
"But…" Ciel said in concern.
"It's that or dozens of our own die." Zero said sadly, his arm had pulled Iris to him protectively.
"I…I understand….Alright, e trans activate!" The pad the group was currently standing on flashed and the group vanished.
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"While you're at it, would you mind-" X had been speaking to Archmaiden when she interrupted, a first for the loyal navigator.
"X, you truly are a fool."
"Archmaiden?" X questioned.
Alia ran up to X and with a horrified look she began to speak.
"Everyone…They're being manipulated by Wiel!" She exclaimed.
X pulled her close.
"That's right 'Legendary Hero.' According to the legends you would have figured it out faster."
"I must be slipping in my old age." X agreed.
"True, incidentally I was actually curious, how old are you anyways?" Puppet Archmaiden asked.
"About three hundred and fifty years old actually." X replied as he began to power up his internal trans server.
"Three hundred and fifty years you say?"
"Yes."
"I'll be, well, I'm willing to wager that being so old, you're tired."
"Can't deny that." X agreed pleasantly.
"Well, then perhaps this was a good thing for you then, good-bye legend."
"Good? Yes indeed, I'll have to prioritize you a tad higher than I had before." X nodded.
"What do you mean?"
"Before I had 'clean out the sock drawer' higher on the list, I suppose that now you get pushed up to 'after I do the laundry'." X said, buying critical seconds.
"Clean out the sock drawer?" Archmaiden sounded faint.
"I considered it more dangerous than you at any rate."
Archmaiden's eyes narrowed.
"By the way, I'll be seeing you soon Wiel." X promised as he and Alia vanished.
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"Where are we?" Phantom asked.
"The former Resistance HQ." Ciel said quietly as she fumbled for a switch.
The lights flickered on slowly.
"This is where you used to operate out of?" Phantom asked in surprise.
Ciel blushed.
"It wasn't like we had the millions that Neo Arcadia does." She replied.
"Enough." Zero interjected, his blue eyes were scanning the area.
"What is it Zero?" Iris asked.
"I'm not sure, it is an enemy…? Or perhaps, an ally? I know not." Zero drew his saber quickly.
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Alpha dropped to knees and clutched her head; she let out a moan of agony.
"Alpha?" Omega asked kneeling beside her.
"What is this...Presence in my head…?" She gasped.
"Mind Control. Someone's trying to take over us…" Omega's normally indifferent face showed he was under the same stress she was.
"We are so powerful, this…" Alpha tried to reason her mind out of the pain.
"It affects us more than normal reploids because we also have human components. Believe me, I know." Omega said as his face slowly paled.
"What are we supposed to do…?" Alpha asked.
"I've never found out." Omega-1 admitted as he collapsed next to her.
"I…feel…………….. tired……………………" Alpha admitted.
"It's the strain, but, if we are to remain…free…we…….can't…………….fall ……………………..asleep…………………………………." Omega gasped.
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"Omega…? Alpha…?" Zero asked looking at the two shaking figures.
"Z-Z-Zeeerr…o….W-Wiel's…….trying…t-to…." Omega said slowly.
"….Control….usssss….." Alpha spoke in agony and exhaustion.
"Hold out for a short while, and I'll destroy his source of control." Zero swore.
"Be…quick…." Omega warned weakly.
"I'll do my best." Zero swore.
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"Where are we?" Alia asked X, as he handed her a cloak.
As they put the black cloaks on X answered.
"Neo Arcadia."
Alia, then noticed the sharper edges on X's body.
"The Final Armor?"
"I can't allow Wiel to get access to the information in the Final Armor, no matter what else." X said grimly.
"Oblivion?" She questioned.
"Yes, Oblivion is far more powerful than anyone realizes."
"X?" Alia asked in concern.
"It has more than enough power to destroy this planet. Even if I alter it into its contained form it's so powerful that I can't use it much otherwise…" X shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Alia asked.
"If I use it more than a few times in fifty years the effects begin to damage the earth, one I use it more than that allotted amount of times in that time frame the weather across the planet will be affected, and space-time anomalies will open across the planet, then, there will no longer be an earth to harm, space-time rifts will have opened across the universe and the entirety of existence will be forever altered by my actions…Wiel…he can't get it, otherwise, it'll all be over." X said shakily.
"That much power…Dr. Light must have truly entrusted everything to you." Alia smiled at him.
"But, I…"
"You're afraid." Alia stated.
"…Yes…"
"X, look at me." She commanded gently.
"Alia?"
"You are not going to misuse this power. You only use it when it is absolutely required. You won't destroy or harm the planet, I know you. I believe in you." Alia pulled him into her arms.
"I have such horrific powers and it's too much…" X whispered.
"You think that no one should have the kind of power you do?" Alia asked.
"Yes."
"You're right. No one should." Alia agreed.
X looked at her like he slapped him.
"But, people do have the power to destroy everything, that's been a constant since the…. 'Cold War'….My word, my data base has knowledge of over three hundred wars, and each of them had a weapon, usually on either side that could eliminate everything. They just didn't misuse it, because MAD isn't something anyone wants."
"MAD?" X blinked.
"Mutually Assured Destruction." She replied.
"Yes, you're correct but, still…"
"It's just how this world sits right now, eventually we won't need weapons like that, but until then we'll do what we can for love, freedom, and peace." Alia said.
"Yes, you're right, all that I can now do is help destroy Wiel, permanently."
"One thing you could do assume leadership of Neo Arcadia, after the reploid's minds are freed."
X shuddered at the thought.
"Lead an empire? Not an idea I relish." X replied dryly.
"I understand that concept." Alia agreed with a faint smile.
Back! I know it's been almost half a year since I updated, and I'm sorry, but I've been facing something called life, and it hasn't been very nice. Fortunately, I'm rebounding and I've finally felt able to write another chapter at long last, I should be able to update more frequently, I am now in college so I might not update like I did while in High School but, at least more frequently than I have been!
Mega Man Zero Omega will be completed! I can promise you all that, and I plan to finish the MMZL Saga, and perhaps even get into ZX era too!
As another note, I might also expand into more than just Mega Man, but I'd like to hear people's opinions about that!
A very much alive and (Surprisingly) not needing resurrection Gardian X!