Chapter 23
Battles Are Fun
As they materialized, they were surrounded in a circle of Reploids. Zero didn’t like the look of this. A tall Reploid in a robe with grey hair and a visor stepped forward. “Ms. Ciel, what are the results? Were my calculations correct?”
Ciel stepped out of the circle, and smiled. “Yes, they were. This is Zero.” Ciel pointed at Zero, who was shocked by all the eyes staring at him. “Give him some room, you don’t need to crowd in. Zero, come with me.”
Zero followed, along side the tall grey haired Reploid. Ciel opened a door, and brought them in. The tall Reploid looked at Zero. “Hello, I am Cervaue, the Mechanic around here. Pleased to meet you. Ms. Ciel needs the assistance of you.”
Zero sat down, and looked at Ciel. “Why do you need me? Out of all the Reploids you could have picked! You picked me!”
Ciel closed her eyes. “Zero, you are our last hope. Neo Arcadia is now against us. We are alone, and too weak to go on. You are strong. You are a legend, long forgotten. Washed away in the wrinkles of time. Many of us believed your existance was only a fantasy, but when it came to this, we had to believe.”
Zero looked at Ciel strangly. “Legend? Washed away in the wrinkles of time?”
Ciel looked back at Zero. “You may not realise it, but you have been asleep for nearly 100 years.”
Zero stood up in disbelief. “WHAT!? It can’t have been 100 years! You mean, Dynamo has won?”
“I have no clue what your talking about. Anyway, no one knew what happened to you. A huge war begun, and this is all that’s left...” Ciel sighed.
“Wait, the Elves, they are not found yet?” Zero grabbed his containment unit, and saw all the Elves he had so far, rolled up in the container. “Good. Dynamo didn’t get them. But, wait! Variable!” Zero ran to the transerver.
Cervaue and Ciel followed closely. “Wait! What are you doing?”
Zero stood on the transerver, and began the transfer. “I have unfinished buisness to attend to...” Zero dissappeared, and Ciel was almost crying.
“No, this isn’t happening! We’re finished!” Ciel sat down, with tears flowing down the sides of her face.
Meanwhile, Zero had just made it to the area he fought the Golem in. “Now, to find Variable. He is the only connection to the Republic.” Zero searched all the piles of rubble, and found nothing. “Damn! If I can’t find him, I can’t stop Dynamo.”
Something flew by Zero, and landed near him. “Thought I was dead, did you? I don’t die easily. It takes alot more than that to bring me down.” It was Variable.
A look of relief covered Zero’s face. “Good. Now to go find the other Elves!” They searched the chamber, but found no exit. “Damn! We’re trapped.”
A voice could be heard above them. “Yes, of coarse your trapped! You think Master Harpuia would allow me to let you live? I think not!”
Zero looked up. “What? Who are you talking about?”
“Listen, you out of date scrap heap! Hand over the Elves, and I’ll see to it that your spared! If not, you will be destroyed!”
Zero drew his Sabre. “We can’t hand them over! Why would you need them anyway? I don’t care!”
“Suit yourself. I, Aztec Falcon will terminate you with pleasure!” Falcon swooped down, and grabbed Zero’s shoulders with his Talons. “Enjoy the ride!” He flew around really fast, and Zero was becoming dizzy. As he flew near a wall, he let go of Zero, as Zero crashed face first into that huge stone wall. As a final blow, Falcon ran Zero through with the long sharp edges on his wings.
After Variable saw this, he was a bit scared. Falcon was too fast. Not even Zero could dodge him. Variable drew his V-Buster, and as Falcon swooped down at him, he jumped up onto Falcon’t back. With a charged shot, Variable blew Falcon’s head off. “What a loser!”
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Chapter 24
Withdraw
As Zero got up, he started to walk to the transerver, as Variable stopped him. "Aren't we gonna bust our way outta here?"
Zero stopped. "No. We head to the Base, because we can't get out of here." Zero continued to walk and he stepped on the transerver, and disappeared.
As they got back to the base, Zero stepped off of the transerver. "Hello, Cervaue."
Cervaue, out of shock, dropped a bunch of glass vials on the floor, and knocked the monitor off the desk. "Jesus, Zero! Why did you have to scare me? Wait, Zero. Your back! You don't look so good." Cervaue knelt over and cleaned up the glass shards.
"Oh, sorry about that. Eheh, need some help?" Zero's face went red.
"Um, no. Why don't you, wait! Who is with you!?" Cervaue stood up in surprise.
Variable smiled. "I am Variable, and I am here with Zero. No worries, I'm not gonna hurt ya!"
Ciel walks through the door casually. "Cervaue, is your research do- Zero! Your back! Where were you? I was so worried about you! Are you ok? Are you hurt?" She ran to Zero's side, and inspected his body.
Variable laughed. "You sure do have a way with girls!"
Zero looked at Variable disaprovingly. "That's NOT a good thing right now!"
Ciel ran to Cervaue. "You have to repair him. The wounds look awful!"
Cervaue cracked up. "I'll take a look, but Zero's allot tougher than you think he is."
Ciel left, and Variable sat down. Cervaue directed Zero to the work table. Zero layed down, and looked at Cervaue.
"Zero, it won't hurt. Trust me." Cervaue got a tool, and started to carefully remove the chest plate, as it had a huge hole in it. After seeing Zero's insides, Cervaue was freaked out. "HOLY SHIT! Your a model from the year 20XX, but your insides and programming is even more advanced than our current technology! It's amazing! This will take a while to fix, but It will be done."
Meanwhile, Variable stroked Rubi's long shiny hair. "Interesting. So those skills we saw him preform, how smoothly he did it, it's not a coincidence. This Zero really is special, and he is a very important part to everyones existance..."
Rubi looked at Variable strange. "What do you mean, part of everyones existance?"
"It's simple. He prevented so much from happening, like risking his life in a space shuttle, on a collision course to destroy the Space Colony, Eurasia. Or the countless times he prevented Sigma from taking over!" Variable looked at Rubi as if he expected her to know what he was talking about.
Rubi shook her head. "You have only know Zero for a little while, so how the heck do you know all this!?"
"It's a huge part of history. Don't you read?" Variable looked at the door, as it opened. "Looks like we go to bed. Come on Rubi, time to go." They walked to the door, and left.
Later that night, Zero was fixed. Armor wasn't the same, but that's ok, as long as he had some. He saw Ciel walk in. "Zero, do you have a moment?"
Zero nodded. Ciel came over and sat down. "Not much time is left. Neo Arcadia has gathered allies. At this rate, they will get us very soon. We found you, because you are the only one who can help us. You are the only one who is strong enough." As she finished, a huge explosion could be heard, and an alarm went off.
"Calling ALL units! We are under attack! I repeat! Calling ALL units! Get the Elderly and Children out NOW!" The voice was computer animated, so it wasn't anyone speaking, but just a warning.
Zero got up. "Well, this is what your talking about, huh? Well, no problem!"
Cervaue threw an ear piece at Zero. "Use that if you get into trouble! I'll be on the other line!"
Zero drew his Sabre, and dashed out the door. He was cut off by Spark Mandrill and Boomer Kuwanger. "Damnit! Not you again!" Zero charged at Spark Mandrill, and used Hyruetsuzan. Boomer Kuwanger grabbed the Boomerang off his head, and threw it at Zero. Zero jumped, and smashed his fist into the ground chanting "RAIKENHOUHA!" A large aura surrounded him, and blasted both Boomer Kuwanger and Spark Mandrill through a wall. "Sorry, I don't want to wear out my welcome!"
Zero found the elevator, and got to the surface. GutsMan and Storm Eagle chased Zero to a shed. The closed it, and locked the door. It was pitch black. The lights turned on, and there was no one there. Zero was suddenly jumped.
"So, I finally caught you off guard!" A black arm was around Zero. He looked up to see Dynamo.
Zero kicked Dynamo away, and got up. "You bastard!"
Dynamo laughed. "Well that wasn't very nice, Mr. Hero."
"You can talk, but can you fight?" Zero drew his Sabre.
"Oh, I can more than fight!" Dynamo got out his pink double sided Sabre. He ran to Zero, and Zero jumped out of the way. Dynamo faked him out, and grabbed him by the throat. Dynamo began to glow. "You will see! You can't stay away from me! Hand over the Elf, you fool!"
As Zero was struggling to get free, he could barely talk. In a low voice he said, "No, you give me the Elves!"
"Very well, fool, I'll give you the Elves, after you die!" Dynamo used his strength to throw Zero into the air, and he used Ryuenjin, and forced Zero's head through the ceiling.
Zero's head was out the top, and he saw three Resistance Soldiers. They just stared at him. Zero glared at them. "A little help here?"
They backed off. "Um, sorry, um, Ciel just called us in, um yeah! Se ya later, Zero!"
Zero tried his Comm. Unit, but it was busted. Meanwhile, Dynamo was playing Pinyata with Zero's dangling legs. Zero couldn't stand it. He was stuck. "Goddamnit Dynamo! Stop it! Arghh!" Zero began to kick Dynamo with his legs.
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Meanwhile, Variable was blasting his way through countless Mavericks. He saw a familiar head sticking out of the top of a nearby shed. "Not again." Variable dashed through the Mavericks, and leaped to the top of the shed. Zero was paying no attention whatsoever.
Variable blasted a hole in the ceiling, and jumped in. "So, your the fool who smashed my friend's head through the ceiling. You won't last any longer!"
Dynamo laughed. "That pathetic piece of scrap is your friend? Trust me, you would do better as to not help him. He has lived long enough."
"And I care, why? I don't care!" Variable charged his buster, and chased Dynamo around the room. He shot, but missed. Variable kept missing. "Damnit! If your not gonna stay still, I'll find another way!" Variable gritted his teeth as he fired madly in all directions.
Dynamo ran and ran, avoiding it all. "Trigger happy, are we?"
Finally, a shot hit Dynamo, and he was downed. Once that one shot stopped him, the rest pierced his armor badly. He shot the ceiling near Zero, and he fell. Dynamo had run out of ideas. He shrugged. "B-back off! I, I'll, I'll kill the elves if you come any closer!"
"Variable, stay put! He's not bluffing!" Zero got up, blood trickling down his legs.
Variable stopped. "But Zero, we can end this! Once the elves are destroyed, no one can use their powers!"
"No, that will disrupt the balance!" Zero drew closer.
"What balance?" Variable hesitated.
"The balance! The world's balance! You wouldn't understand! Just draw back. Let him go." Zero stood next to Variable. Dynamo teleported.
As they got back to base, Ciel began asking questions.....
Ciel was furious. "Why the hell did you let them go?"
Zero sat down. "Ciel, Dynamo would have killed the elves if we came any closer."
"What elves?" Ciel began to find interest in this.
Zero thought of a way to put this.
Zero: Ok, there is a legend. So, there was 13 special Elves, blag blah blah...
Ciel: ZERO! I wanna hear the whole story!
Zero: Well, according to Klonoa, There was a big war called the Elf Wars, and at the end, a blue Reploid sealed the 13 mystic elves away.
Ciel: Your missing something!
Zero: Well, let me finish! Ok, these elves are Issac, who was hidden in the Temple of the Vedlt, Klonoa, locked in a tower that reaches the heavens, Gaia, hidden in a Sacred Forest, but the other 9 were unknown. If these 13 are brought together and fuse with a Reploid, nothing can stop that Reploid.
Ciel: Wow, I never knew it was that serious! This is very interesting!
Zero got up. "Come on Variable! We need to find another elf!"
Variable nodded. "K, let's do it!" So they were off, as Ciel was perplexed. Why not kill them so their power is never unleashed? Only time can tell...........
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School starts tomarrow, but I will try to get the time to Update!