PART XVI -
And they say that a Zero won’t save us
Megaman’s not gonna stand there and wait
I’ll hold on to the ponytail of a Zero
Watch as Strider Hanglides away!
Wily’s watching us!
Watching us… (If you don’t know what song I’m badly spoofing, rent Spider-Man today!)
Zero’s blade went an inch into Megaman’s body, but something seemed to stop Zero, for try as he might something in his will would not allow him to plunge his sword any deeper. As Zero looked at Megaman, his Computer Mind’s Eye flashed images of Megaman and Protoman’s schematics. Zero began to speak. “I… was… created… from the same schematics as this Android and another… I can not destroy him, for he is like a brother to me!” Zero drew his Sword, held his head, started screaming once again and stepped away from Megaman. At this point Megaman lost consciousness.
Strider took advantage of the situation, and quickly caught Zero with an Ame No Murakamo Slice! The slice cut off a good part of Zero’s Mid Section away! Zero came at Strider while uttering, “HUH! HA! HUH!” as he tried the same three hit combo! Strider blocked each stroke and then buried his Sipher Sword deep into Zero’s shoulder blade! Zero leaped away quite some distance to remove Strider’s handheld Sword from his body, and light green electriity started rising from Zero creating a hovering mass of electricety in the sky resembling a cloud! Zero yelled, “REKKOHA!” as he punched the ground, and many beams of light green energy eminating from the electric cloud began to fall down nearly destroying the roof! Strider managed to dodge all of the blasts except one which electricuted him fiercely! Strider fell to the ground once again.
Zero ran with his Sword ready to finish Strider off, but Strider rose and held two fingers up that shone as Strider performed his Legion Super Art! Hordes of Robot Jaguars coming out of seemingly nowhere began attacking Zero! Zero managed to destroy some of them but not all, as they badly mangled his body biting chunks off and giving him very deep scratches! During the Legion attack Zero managed to leap away from the Jaguars in a last ditch attempt to pounce on Strider and Slice him with his Sword! But Strider’s Robot Bird appeared for it was also part of the Legion Super! The Robot Bird in one strike clawed both of Zero’s eyes out! Zero yelled, “AAAAGH!” As he fell in the swimming pool! With a lot of his circuitry exposed to water, it caused Zero’s body to get electricuted until he remained Motionless!
All of Hiryu’s Robot allies were gone almost as fast as they appeared. Strider heard the familiar Protoman whistle. Protoman beamed down (again with less flaire than Megaman used before) grabbed Megaman and beamed away with him. Strider jumped off the building, his Hanglider caught onto him as he flew off.
From Zero’s body in the pool, the huge Gray Aura left Zero’s body. It took the form of the Grim Reaper of Legend - a Skeleton wearing a Cloak. The Aura moaned as it traveled very high until it vanished.
Dr. Wily’s Spaceship appeared high above the swimming pool as Wily turned off the Stealth Mode. The Shuttle began to levitate Zero’s body up to the Shuttle via invisible Tractor Beam, as it came through a small sliding door in the ship’s bottom. “So, dark magic was used to revive Zero! That’s excellent!” “What good is that to you? You’re not a Magician!” said Wesker. “Fool! The lines between Magic and science blur a little more each day! You just saw me reappear and disappear using Stealth Mode, and you saw me float Zero’s body! It won’t be long before my science can perform a similar Magic Trick to bring Zero to life! I just have to repair Zero, give him a stronger outer shell and a more powerful Saber, and when I find the energy source to power him he will truly be unstoppable! Then I will rule the world! MWUAHAHAHAHA!!!” began to laugh Wily as he pressed a button and the ground opened under Wesker’s feet! Wesker fell in to the pool and since the electric current in the water was still live, Wesker got electricuted! Wily continued with his nutty laugh as his Spaceship flew away! Once the pool stopped frying Wesker, he put his arm on the side of the pool hoisting his head above the water. Wesker’s sun glasses were off as you could see Wesker’s yellow reptilian looking eyes! “Madman!” said Wesker. “It is I who will obtain the power to rule this world!”
Sometime later Dr. Light was finishing up the last repairs on Megaman while Roll and the newly repaired Rush looked on. Dr. Light said, “Megaman, are you awake?” Megaman opened his eyes and said, “Dr. Light, I…” Roll hugged Rush and said, “Alright! He’s going to be Okay!” and Rush happily barked, “Woof! Woof!” Dr. Light said, “Someone rang the doorbell and when I opened the door I saw your severely damaged body and no one else outside. The Robot you were investigating must of hurt you badly. I managed to try to retreive some of the images of this Android from Rush’s Memory file, but Rush was just to far away in the dark to get a good shot. Do you happen to remember what Dr. Wily’s new Robot looked like?” Megaman said, “I… don’t know what you’re talking about. The last thing I remember is all of us going to the Arcade.” Roll said, “Going to the Arcade? but that was last week!” The Docter said, “I see. since a good portion of your skull was lopped off some of your memory was lost. I’ll have to run a few more tests later but for now it seems that you only lost a week of memory so it’s no big deal. Still, some information on Dr. Wily’s new robot would of proven useful so we could know what we are up against.”
“Dr. Light, may I go to sleep now?” Roll said, “Sleep? Are you sure you’re all right now? You’ve been putting off powering down every night for months now, trying to stay up late watching T.V. Almost like you’re scared of going to bed.” Megaman responded, “It’s just that I feel…” Zero’s words echoed in Megaman’s mind. ‘I can not destroy him, for he is like a brother to me!’ Megaman continued, “I just feel that I can rest with ease now.” as Megaman closed his eyes and smiled.
Next time - Haggar is datin’, so don’t be hatin’! So until then, let’s strive for a world where the only peace is not the peice that deletes ya peeps! Sorry, been listening to a lot of underground Hip Hop lately! I bid thee farewell!