Author's Note
Hello! I missed another couple of weeks lol. I was really stuck on the beginning of this chapter.
It's also the 23rd Anniversary of MMZ1, so that's nice.
Resistance base
It was a normal day at the resistance base. Cerveau was working on... something, Alouette was playing with her plushies and the Generic Female Resistance Soldier was... actually where was she?
"Hello!" Ciel called out. "Has anyone seen a resistance member that went missing! They currently don't have a name. They're a little taller than me, bright red hair-"
"Big boobs?" Called out a voice.
The crowd turned to face exactly the person you'd expect to make this statement, Z-Diddy.
"Z-Diddy come on, this is serious." Ciel complained.
"Am I wrong?"
"Possibly."
"Look, I gave a perfectly accurate description. Why are you mad?" Responded the Diddler.
"Because this is another instance of you constantly talking about the bodies of our comrades." Ciel rebutted, slightly angry. "Are boobies the only thing you think about!?"
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"That's not... entirely true." Z-Diddy stated. "I also think about booty sometimes."
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Ciel took a deep breath and recomposed herself before continuing her speech.
"Right... anyway! If anyone has seen her, or has a clue on her whereabouts, please bring it to my attention!"
Resistance base - Ciel's room
Ciel was in her room, spending her time stressing about the current situation.
"Generic Female Resistance Soldier wasn't the first resistance member to go missing." Ciel muttered to herself. "She's the most recent out of 7."
"I'm stressed about this too much, I guess I should just assume they're dead at this point." Ciel said, turning off her computer before shuffling to her bed.
Knock knock
"Come in."
It was Cerveau, who stood in the doorway.
"I came to tell you about the missing residence members."
"Yeah?"
"Well, it seems like we found a lead on them." Cerveau said.
"Really!" Ciel yelled out "-oop, sorry for being too loud."
"There's rumors of a secret Neo Arcadian base underneath the desert. They could potentially be captured there. And if they aren't,it's worth checking out anyway." Cerveau explained.
"That's great news, but I think I should get some rest before I take any action." Ciel responded, yawning before getting into her bed.
"Alright then." Cerveau said before leaving, closing the door behind him.
Desert
Z-Diddy found himself in the same place as last time,
"Alright. You already know why you're on this mission right?" Ciel asked.
"Yeah yeah, I gotta find this base." Z-Diddy responded. "Why'd you sent me to do this? Finding things isn't exactly my specialty."*
"Well, there are also rumors of a Mythos Reploid guarding the place. And you're our guy for beating Mythos Reploids."
"Fine, just tell me where it could be."
"We don't know where it is, I already said that." Ciel replied.
"Damn, well I'm gonna fight that camel mechaniloid I see over there." Z-Diddy responded.
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The Diddler charged at the Cameloid only to be stopped by it spewing out flames. Z-Diddy jumped back and charged up a shot, nailing the Cameloid and stopping it's attack.
"You're in my way." Z-Diddy said before he lept up and sliced at the Cameloid's neck. Landing on top of it's back as the mechaniloid fell.
"Hmm, very impressive!" Ciel complimented.
"No problem, now where's the secret base?"
"It's secret, it's gonna take a lot of effort to find." Cerveau lectured.
"I'll shoot this Sand Jaws, could be a clue." Z-Diddy said.
following through with his statement, the Diddler shot the sand jaws only for the entire pit around it to collapse, uncovering a hole that went to who knows where.
"Think I found it."
...
"Good work."
???
Z-Diddy slid down the hole, reaching to bottom only to be met with an electric barricade.
"So there is someone here, and they clearly don't want us here." Ciel stated. "Gimme a few seconds, I'll try to disable it."
zztp
The barrier disappeared and Z-Diddy continued onwards, sliding down the walls to get to the bottom of this place.
"Damn spikes"*
Moving forward the purple reploid came across a series of pits, with stalactites* above them.
"Can you find a faster way around those pits?" Ciel asked.
"I got it." Z-Diddy replied, shooting at the Stalactites to bring them down, using the exposed top of them as platforms.
Unfortunately a wave of Gli-Eyes were awoken by the sounds, attacking the Diddler. Z-Diddy used his shield alongside his buster to beat them, they closed in on every angle and were even getting some shots in, but eventually the Diddler beat them all.
"This is the most competent I've ever seen you be." Cerveau complemented.
Z-Diddy jumped across the stalactites shooting them down as he moved. Eventually coming across a field of ice. In sight there was a ladder that probably led to his destination.
"Watch out for the Battle Tutle Bros."* Ciel advised.
"The who?"
BOOM
A missile blasted Z-Diddy's legs, when the dust settled, it was clearly the Battle Tutle Bros that sent it.
"I gotta get outta here." Z-Diddy said, regenerating his legs.
Booking it towards the ladder, a whole group of Battle Tutle Bros fired at him. With the Diddler weaving through every shot, narrowly making it onto and up the ladder.
"Get inside!"
Z-Diddy ran inside the base and up another ladder, faced with another locked door.
"I got this one, it'll be quick." Ciel assured.
whrr
The door opened, with Z-Diddy dashing inside.
Secret base
"Looks neat." Z-Diddy commented.
"Focus on the mission, try to be stealthy, you're in NA territory." Cerveau lectured.
"Alright, now I gotta search for the guys."
Z-Diddy went further upwards, met with a splith pathway. "Mmmm... right." He thought, going to the right and down a ladder, finding one of the prisoners.
"Huh? Oh it's you." Said the Generic Female Resistance soldier.
"Yep, the boss asked me to rescue you guys!" Z-Diddy said. "Now how do I get this open?"
"Try hitting it really hard with the Z-Saber." The redderhead advised.
SLASH
The door actually unlocked itself and the woman was set free.
"Thanks, I actually have a way we can all get out of here." Explained the GFRS. "There's a shuttle stationed here, we can hijack for ourselves and get outta here!"
"Sounds awesome."
"There's still 6 more people here, I doubt I could handle myself here, so let's team up."
"Sure, after you." Z-Diddy offered, pointing out the ladder he used to get in."
"Nuh uh, it makes more sense for you to lead, if I'm behind you and we get shot, I have a nigh immortal reploid to shield me." The Soldier explained. "Plus, you probably just wanna look at my butt on the way up do you?"
"First of all, yes. Second of all... actually yeah that idea checks out. It's fucked up that you immediately thought of using me as a shield, but it's a solid strategy."
"I'll go first then." The Diddler conceded.
Making it out of the area they decided to go left and found another ladder that went upwards. Climbing up top they were in a long hallway... with more ladders.
"How many ladders are there!" Z-Diddy loudly complained.
"Keep your voice down, there are Neo Arcadians here."
The duo went left again and up the nearest ladder. Finding another prisoner.
"Are you guys here to save me?"
SLASH
"No." Z-Diddy sarcastically replied, opening the cell.
"Thanks!" Said the soldier, can I join you guys?
"No... actually wait that one's not obviously sarcastic, sure I guess."
The three were trying to make it back down when the GFRS saw a green Pantheon Guardian* with a searchlight shining out of it's eye.
"I don't think we wanna get in that things line of sight." Whispered the redderhead.
"He's not leaving what do we do?" Asked the soldier.
"If only the combat model reploid wasn't stuck at the top of the ladder. This pattern is a lot less efficient when we're climbing up ya know."
"Well at least my dignity's intact." The GFRS snapped back.
"All that dignity, and soon you won't be around to have any." Z-Diddy smugly responded.
Suddenly the trio were bathed in red light, an alarm went off as Pantheon Warriors filled the room and surrounded them.
"Why didn't you just ask Z-Diddy for one of his weapons?" Asked the soldier.
"What's going on?!" Ciel yelled out
"It's nothing important." Z-Diddy smugly stated before jumping off the ladder and beginning to fight the pantheons. He ended up vaulting over one of the Warriors and running off to the right, getting the pantheons to come after him.
"You guys go ahead, I got stuff to do."
"Is he gonna be ok?" Asked the soldier.
"He's nigh immortal, don't worry about it."
Going left then down, the duo came across the 3rd resistance member.
Hyaa
The Generic Female Resistance Soldier kicked the door open, due to her lack of weaponry.
"Thanks!"
Then the 4th one almost immediately afterwards by going back up and right, then up another ladder.
Hyaa
"Awesome! I thought I was gonna be here forever."
Looking down at the hallway, there were seemingly no more of those Pantheons.
"Great, let's get down quickly." Said the GFRS.
but as soon as the group touched the ground, a red light enveloped them.
"Were they waiting for us?" Wondered the soldier.
"Let's book it!" Yelled out the redderhead, grabbing her comrades and rushing all the way to the rightmost ladder and going up.
"Let's just wait for them to forget about us." Said one of the soldiers with a panicked voice.
"Sounds like a plan." A soldier responded from inside their cell.
"Let's free that girl first." Proposed the GFRS.
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"Man, it's a good thing I took that detour, I almost forgot about you." Said Z-Diddy addressing another prisoner.
"Thanks man."
"I mean like, it's my job."
The two came across the group of Pantheons standing around the ladder, seeing them give up and go back to their default positions.
"Hide."
the two went down a ladder to hide, as the Pantheons marched on top of their hiding spot.
"Couldn't you deal with them yourself?" Asked the soldier.
"Yeah, but it would be a hassle." Z-Diddy explained. "Hey wait is that another cell?"
The duo walked towards the cell, only to find another woman.
"Hello there, we're gonna free you now." Said the soldier."
"Oh thanks! My name's Skiba D. cool huh?"*
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...
"Let's leave this guy." Z-Diddy flatly stated.
"Come on, all because of a silly name?"
"Relax I was joking."
SLASH
"Great, let's Go!"
Z-Diddy just sighed and led the two up. With them coming face to face with the rest of the soldiers.
"Oh hey, that's where you guys went."
"Nice to see you again Z-Diddy." Said the GFRS. "Hmmm, I think that's all 7 of us now, good thing the exit to the shuttle is so close to us."
"I'm pretty sure there's a Mythos Reploid guarding that area, be careful ok." Ciel pleaded.
"I got it."
"Wait, I got something to sweeten the deal." The redderhead said, with a little bit of disgust at the idea. "I'll give you a kiss if you manage to beat this guy."
"Is she serious?" Thought one of the soldiers.
"Well now I gotta win." Z-Diddy said before entering the shuttle room.
"He wasn't determined to win because he wanted to save our lives?" One of the soldiers said in disbelief.
Boss room
"Whoever's in here let's get it over with, I got a prize waiting for me."
On the other side of the room stood a humanoid deer, with huge arms and antlers made of ice.
"I'm Blizzack Staggroff, Fairy Leviathan's strongest soldier and-"
"Shut it Ballzack scrotumoff, Let's make this quick." Z-Diddy said, putting in his fire chip.
"That's not my name, whatever, you'll learn it real soon!" Responded the Reploid.
WARNING
Blizzack started off with a volley of icicles shot from his antlers. Z-Diddy dodged them all and ran up to the deer, charging up the Z-Saber while running.
The Mythos was in trouble but shot a wave of icy wind at the Diddler and slowed him down enough to punch him square across the room.
"I need to lock in, I want that kiss, but I need to focus and soundly figure this guy out instead of rushing him." Z-Diddy thought, still fixated on his reward.
The purple pervert took a more defensive stance with his shield boomerang and simply waited.
The two reploids stared each other down, nither of them willing to make a move...
...
...
"Fuck this." Blizzack said before he jumped at the Diddler.*
Z-Diddy dodged the landing and threw a charged boomerang at his back, hurting like hell for the deer."
"Hmm, backshots." Z-Diddy mentality chuckled.
The Diddler added a second backshot by kicking Blizzack into the wall. Immediately pulling out his saber to slash at the deer's back. Continuing his devastating offense with the Triple Rod as well, buying time for his saber to charge up and unleash even more fire attacks.
SLASH
Deep gashes were all over the Mythos' body.
STAB
His body punctured, even occasionally leaking out the fluid that he used to make his ice.
BANG
He was even mixing in buster shots from time to time, it was almost inescapable.
"All this because he wants a kiss? He was supposed to be an idiot that got lucky because of his regeneration. I dread what he'd be like if he was promised actual sex."
SLICE
Z-Diddy cut clean through him, severing his body in twain.
"That's wraps, Blizzy Stagoroni. Anyway I'll be getting my kiss soon, I need to make absolutely sure you're dead. I apologize, but I'll be stabbing you in the head some more."
"Wait that's it!" Blizzack thought, coming to a conclusion made by desperation. "If I invent some stupid reason to keep going, then I'll get a boost as well."
"Nggg, Leviathan, give me strength."*
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...
"Ok I think it's safe to come out-"
Suddenly a shadow was cast over the Diddler's vison. Blizzack somehow fused himself back together with his ice in order to keep going. The gashed and wounds either regenerated or plugged with ice.
"Nevermind."
"I saw how delusional you were, and the power it gave you." Explained the deer. "I needed to obtain that power for myself. I filled my head with images of my commander. Her praising me, rewarding me, coming to rely on me, eventually loving me. I would become her king. And that's a thing I'll fight tooth and nail for, Z-Diddy."
"I respect you remembering my name, Blizzack Stragnoff." Z-Diddy responded, getting ready for round 2.
The two clashed, ready to die for their delusions. Expertly blocking, weaving and countering each other. Z-Diddy's offense fell back and Blizzack got a small string of attacks in, but Z-Diddy parried the last one with his shield and counterattacked with a charged saber hit, slicing off one of the deer's arms.
"This feels so odd, I've never been so even with someone like this. Normally I just get my ass beat until I find a way to win." Z-Diddy thought, while continuing his onslaught as if thinking about nothing at all. "I feel so... focused. I've been this analytical, or efficient. All because I want a kiss from some redderhead girl."
In the middle of this monologue he was currently getting blasted by Blizzack's icy wind. Aiming it at the feet to maximize the slowdown effect. Blizzack proceeded to backhand him.
"Come on, I need my arm to come back already."
The deer tried rushing over to where it fell to reattach it, but even when slowed down, the Diddler was still fast enough to block his hand with his leg and blast him in the face with a charged buster shot.
Blizzack took some time to clutch his face in pain meanwhile the slowness weared off on Z-Diddy allowing him to rush in and nail him with charged Z-Saber, this time to the neck
SLICE
"Nice second wind." Z-Diddy complimented. "Not even being sarcastic."
"Feels strange to have some common ground with an enemy of Neo Arcadia, especially one who's grown so infamous."
"Really?"
"Yes. Soon you may catch the eye of my commander, and her fellow guardians." Blizzack responded. "If you think I'm tough to beat. Then they'll wipe you out in an instant."
"Hey, speaking of your commander... is she hot?" Z-Diddy asked. "I know you were forcing you delusions back there, but they had to be based in some kinda reality right?"
"Many people find her beautiful, like a Siren."
"Well I'll be the judge of that. Peace out." Z-Diddy said, charging up a buster shot at the deer's head
BANG
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"Ok now you guys can come out." Z-Diddy said.
The resistance soldiers came running out the door to meet the Diddler.
"Where's the shuttle?"
"Hold it, I have a 'reward' to cash in." Z-Diddy said, shutting up the soldier.
...
"Yeah yeah yeah, I'll make good on the promise." Said the GFRS. "Let's lay down the rules. How about a short simple peck on the lips. That's a kiss right? Not too long, no tongue stuff, just a regular short and sweet kiss."
"I can get behind that." Z-Diddy said, slightly disappointed, but only slightly.
The two got closer, the redderhead leaned forwards and...
MWAH
"There you go, pleasure doing business with you." Said the girl as she walked off with the rest of the soldiers to the shuttle.
Z-Diddy was absolutely stunned. It was his first time getting to this level of intimacy, even if it was only a transactional kiss.
...
"Hey are you coming!"
...
"Yeah sure!" Z-Diddy said, snapping out of his trace.
Resistance base, the day after
"Congratulations Z-Diddy, everything's back to normal." Ciel said. "I'm a little concerned about what Blizzack had to say however. The guardians are probably way too much for you at this point."
"Nah, I'd win." Z-Diddy said with 100% confidence.
"I understand that you feel on top of your game right now, but he's correct. At least learn to be more consistent. Don't you wanna act like how you did in that fight every single time?" Ciel lectured. "A new threat could be knocking on our door any minute now!"
Suddenly an alarm went off. Ciel's face immediately became one of horror, feeling like she jinxed whatever emergency this was.
"There's a giant enemy mechaniloid approaching our base. We need someone to stop this thing or we're dead!" Said a voice on the intercom
"Well I guess you were right." Z-Diddy admitted. "So where do I go to beat this thing up."
"I think you might be able to approach it from behind if we teleport you to the disposal center." Ciel responded.
"Hehehe, I get to hit it from the back. This is gonna be great!" Z-Diddy exclaimed, running off for his next mission.
Today's Baddie: Blizzack Stragnoff
"Can't believe I actually like this guy, to an extent." Z-Diddy said. "Don't worry about it." Ciel responded
"Anyway we'll be ranking their stats from A to E, with S and F being special exceptions, reserved for the best of the best, or the worst of the worst." Z-Diddy added.
Blizzack Stragnoff
Power: B
(Z: Packs a serious punch)
Speed: D
(C: Not the fastest, has low mobility outside of jumping.)
Intelligence: C (Possibly S)
(Z: I think he's a fucking genius. C: Nothing indicates he's any dumber or smarter than average, but he has a very very weird sense of logic. Z: yeah but it worked out.)
Skill: B
(Z: He has some moves.)
Durability: B
(Z: When I was corner comboing him he was taking lots of punishment that's for sure.)
Abnormality: A
(Z: That delusion was hella strong. C: But you took it in the end!)
Author's note
*To explain more on this, Z-Diddy doesn't really go on regular mission, only Mythos Reploid stuff, as that's something only he can handle.
*First mention of spikes, not sure what to do with them. Maybe make it ambiguous if they instakill like in the games, just have him never get hit so it's a mystery. Or at least that's my current plan.
*Stalactites are the ones that grow from the ceiling, Stalagmites are the ones thay grow from the floor, in case you forgot.
*Yeah that's actually that name of those turtle enemies in Z1
*Apparently the Pantheons in Blizzack's stage don't have names, they're just... Pantheon Guardians, but green.
*This was a request from a person on the Purple Megaman discord. I accepted it, I think it's stupid, but inoffensive enough to include.
*This is a callback to chapter 2, but with the roles reversed.
*This was originally gonna be a whole scene, but I wanted to reserve the guardians appearances for later, you'll be seeing them soon, don't worry...
