"Uhh...man...that’s the last time I ever shoot a reactor point blank..." Zero moaned as his mind drifted through the darkness. He probably should have been used to the feeling he was having at that moment, but dying always seemed to bring out the biggest headaches regardless of whether or not he was ready for it.
"Still, at least Ragnarok has been stopped." He thought. "And maybe this time, I'll stay dead for good. I’ve never been so tire-"
"Zero..."
"...Huh?"
"Wake up Zero."
"Who...Who's there?!"
"You're still needed in a mortal realm Zero."
"What do you mean? WHO ARE YOU!?"As he this, he began to feel a pulling sensation.
"Zero, you're still needed. Only you can stop what’s coming for these beings."
Zero saw a bright light. "Listen, I appreciate that you would do this to help out Ceil and the others, but I'm sure they'll be able to do fine without me. To be honest...I'm done fighting."
"Zero, please, help these beings. You might not even need to fight."
Zero had a feeling that he could trust the voice. For now. "Fine...Just tell me what I need to do."
As he felt the pulling sensation pull him to life, the voice said "Wake up."
As Zero felt his return to the world of the living, he saw that things were WAY different from when he left Earth to take on Ragnarok again. For one thing, there weren’t any trees fitted with machinery, the air was clear, and he was in a meadow.
A GREEN meadow.
"...How long was I out?" He asked no one in particular. Seeing that nothing would help if he just stood there gawking, he decided to just move on. After walking for what seemed like hours, which translates to 20 minutes our time, he heard something incredibly soothing.
"Wow...is someone...singing?" He thought. Heading towards the sound, he saw a yellow horse with long pink hair lying down with many animals all around it.
"Oh! It must be a little girl behind that horse."
Walking up as not to disturb the animals, it became clear that there was no girl there. When he got right up to them, he received several huge surprises.
One, the horse had wings.
Two, there really wasn’t any girl nearby.
And three, the horse was the one who was singing.
There came a time when even the most battle hardened people had no words to say. Zero had no such problem right then, as shown by his next choice of words.
"The fu-"
The animals, seeing a very different thing from the nice singing horse cursing, decided to flee. The horse, however, made a small 'eep' sound before dashing into a nearby bush in a way that would make even a cold hearted machine say "aww".
Seeing the mistake he made, Zero decided to walk up to the now hiding horse and try to communicate with it.
"Hey, don’t worry... I won’t hurt you. My names Zero, what's your name?" He said in as nice a voice as he could muster, which wasn’t very well, but still did its job as the horse climbed out the bush slowly.
"Um...it’s...." the next part was inaudible.
"Huh? Sorry, could you repeat that..." Zero asked.
"..Its..."her voice went even lower than before. Zero was starting to lose the small amount of patience he had.
"SPEAK UP!!"
If the horse was scared before, it was terrified now, as it pulled a fainting goat maneuver and fainted. Seeing that the one thing he could probably communicate with had fainted, Zero decided to move along the path. Or he would have if a rainbow streak hadn’t slammed into his chest at mach 2 speed.
"What’s your deal bozo!" the streak, or rather, a light blue winged horse with rainbow hair, yelled at the slightly fazed reploid. "Why are you yelling at my friend!? I was enjoying that you know!"
Taking notice that the thing she slammed into was most definitely not a probably well built pony, but an elf looking monkey that seemed to look like a girl. "Wait a sec, just what the hay are you anyway? Are you a spy or something?" it asked in an accusing tone.
"What’s my problem?" Zero asked in a fairly annoyed tone, getting up from the ground. "You ran into me for no reason!"
The blue pony scoffed. "No reason? You just made my friend faint."
"Oh. Well, I’m sorry." he said, surprising the blue pony.
"Eh...it’s cool then. So you wanna help me get her home?"
Just like that you trust me? He thought. Well, better not look a gift horse in the mouth. Literally so in this case.
"I guess so. My name's Zero by the way."
"I'm Rainbow Dash, the fastest pony in Equestria! The pony you made faint is named Flutershy."
"Well that explains the quiet tone of voice then."
Some few minutes later, Zero found himself being questioned by an Alicorn named Twilight Sparkle in a tree. A fact that still sort of amazed him.
"So Mr. Zero, what brings you to Ponyville?" she asked.
"I really don’t know. I just woke up in a meadow and wandered until I ran into Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. And you don’t have to call me Mr. anything. Zero is just fine Twilight."
"Thank you. Now let’s see..." She then unfurled a checklist labeled 'found person who doesn’t know where he is or why he's here'. "Do you have amnesia?"
"Not this time."
"Oookay...You know your name, do you know what you do?"
"I was Maverick Hunter a long time ago, but until recently, I was a Resistance Soldier."
"Resistance Soldier? Against what?"
"Neo Arcadia."
"Well, that doesn’t sound like something you should fight against, but I guess I had to be there..."
You don’t seem like you would last long...he thought. In the time he had spent in Ponyville so far, he could tell that this civilization of Ponies had never really seen a day of war or strife. He could tell he would like it here. But why would they need his help? Everything was perfect. Even the weather obeyed the whims of the Pegasi.
"Zero?"
"Huh?"
"I asked if you knew what year it was."
"Well...it was 24XX last time I checked."
"Really? It’s the year 1003 AF."
"...that means after death right?"
"No, After Fall. What’s with that look?"
This was impossible. Somehow, he had come back to life in another dimension, or maybe way into the future. It didn’t matter, he was in a real bind if he didn’t even know how long he had been gone. Deciding to keep this fact hidden for now, he decided to just ignore it. "Nothing. Is that all you have to ask me?"
"Yes, thank you."
"You done Twilight?" An orange pony called from the front door.
"Yes Applejack, come in. Zero, I’d like you to meet my friend Applejack. Applejack, this is Zero."
"Well howdy, you ain't like anything Ah've ever seen."
"Heh. I've never seen talking flesh and blood ponies’ before." he said, remembering the Pegasus reploid he had fought trying to stop Ragnarok.
"Anyway Twi, Ah've got's me a small problem."
"What is it AJ?"
"Well...ya may want ta bring 'Supernaturals' with ya."
and now we get to see what happens when a reploid's brain short circuits... *takes cover in a fallout shelter*
Hey sorry for not beeing able to well do the proofread this I kinna had a bad month.
My main complain is that Zero keeps calling himself a reploid, which he isn't (unless I missed something major in the series)
zero seemes very out of character. i expected more of a person who makes sacrifices to help others, here he is just being forced to. he seems to be very talkitive right now also.
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Zero is a reploid.
As for the story, I'm glad we're progressing with the story, but this chapter seemed extremely rushed. Grammar errors are everywhere, and your formatting could be better. Nevertheless, I'd love to see where this story goes.
And sweet Celestia Pinkie, calm down!
Make zero pull out the z saber and point it towards rainbow and make them scared and then show a demonstration of it's power on a tree and make zero kick rainbow out of a window
Make zero be a complete badass and like triple the length of the next chapter
Hmmm, the pacing seems a little too fast and there are quite a few errors here and there, but in all I like it.
Won't rate this story till I see a little more of it fleshed out.
I agree with the above statement
also, i dont think zero can just be knocked out just like that, he's made of metal and has been in much tougher fights than with a multicolored cyan pegasus
The thought it was time... Ha...
Personaly i agree with what everyone else has to say. the "I'M NOT LISTENING LALALALA" ...yeah that's not zero at all. I haven't played the game in a while but i do remember him having a bolder personality, the strong slient type
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Ok, so I looked it up (I am that bored, yes), and what I found is that while Zero in a purely technical sense is not a Reploid (Reploids are "robots" created using the X template), because he is so similar to one, he is lumped into the group normally.
So we're both right... kinda
Ugugg93, The zero we are looking at in this story, his body is actually a reploid of his old body. the 'copy' body as it were. and even then, the body's frame is not the original design.
True, true. Zero is a Robot Master, the last one made by Dr. Wily... though he's been rebuilt many times, but I still think of him as such.
And yes, it looks like is way out of character, even from his Megaman Zero incarnation. His curses are a lot milder and are not censored.
Also, I'm not sure he should be KO'ed so easily- I mean, he's supposed to be made out of some really tough stuff. It's a little too short and the grammar errors are somewhat common. Has the author gotten him/herself a proofreader?
It started out well enough, but it's not going so well now.
I hope this improves, as I am a complete sucker for Megaman.
sorry if it seems a little crappy right now, it'll get back to normal in a little while. im going to be fixing some stuff too, so expect the slightly better version soon.
btw, you'll see why zero was so easily knocked out by rainbow soon...when if finish editing it.
162936 not yet...the baddass zero will come back soon enough.
Okay, ive fixed most of the stuff, but if you see something ive missed, holler!
no reploids went maverick in the making of this chapter.
163952>>164010
*Lay's down my weapon*
I concede defeat. That's what I get for not playing the Zero series
Please say in your next chapter you are going to space out every paragraph cause this was a little hard to read
Your Mega Man story is so much better than mine, still this is fantastic and I can't wait for more!
You got yourself a track!
177152
im not sure about it being better... but your praise is well thanked.
My only criticism is the fact that no-one seemed to understand the point of Zero's fight on Ragnarok. He was fighting while under the effects of the virus he originally caused in reploids that caused maverick outbreaks as seen in the X series. He had purposefully given himself a weaker strain of the virus so that he could attack Wile even if he was human. After the first stage of the fight he used the Virus Vaccine but, would still suffer from a personality damage affect. This is what would most likely cause the strange behaving Zero in this chapter. Though he was quickly overcoming the virus so by the next he should be back to normal. This is not a poke at the author but, to the people who would comment on it without knowing the whole story. For taking your story to the next level in depth. Intentional or not, I salute you sir.
180164
i honestly didnt think of it that way...holy crap...IM A GENIUS!!!
Make the next chapter nowwwwww or perish
193975
little brony...did you know that the survival rate of those who demand things from kaijin is less than 2%?
itll be here when its done.
196264>>193975
Alright, here's the plan. Bookmaster, you, me and 98 extra people are going attack Kaijinzero. That way, at least 1-2 will survive long enough to beat him down.
203836
...you know, at this rate, ill never finish brainstorming the next chapter...well, more exercise for me
man, poor Zero.... correct me if im wrong, but Reploids weight around a ton. so unless fluttershy transformed into Flutterhulk they couldnt possibly had moved Zero towards the library..... also Zero shouldn't have been knocked out by a kick from rainbow.... maybe from AJ or Big Mac.... is he low on energy, or depowered by any reason? if not.... well its your fic, i enjoyed Zero losing his temper though XD hope to see chapter 2 soon.
211550
well, in X6, Zero said that he had to repair himself after the fight with sigma, so i figured coming back to life must drain a lot out of him if he isnt near a laboratory or something. and as for fluttershy and rainbow carrying him to twi's place, fulttershy landed on a mass of butterflies from several thousand feet in the air. im fairly certain that she could have found a way to get zero to the library.
214063 well, true about X6, i still dont know if X7-8 and comand mission could count as canon... and well in Zero one when zero was reactivated, he was at full power (maybe because of the cyber elf Ciel used), only he couldn't remember about his past, hence the lack of the skills he had aquired over the centuries, also he was missing his saber.
yeah, maybe fluttershy got two bears and Dash to carry zero into the library anyways, hope to read more of it soon, im eager to know which Mavericks are coming back to life. just do me a favor.. tell me Zero is going to own Vile's arse again XD
ps: could you answer me a doubt i've had about MMX6? i never liked it so much as to the first 3 games in the series, so I didn't do a lot of research on the topic, but, is the sword that Zero weilds, the same one Sigma had in MMX1? cus i tooks entirely different from the regular saber, as to the way he attacks with it. (Z-Saber is more like a katana, meanwhile the one he uses in MMX6 is more like a longsword)
214902 honestly...as soon as i beat X6, i threw it out to my "never play again" pile. but as far as if it was his saber...i dont know actually.
Next chapter dude or I'm goin super sayan on your ass
237946
im very sorry...im swamped with entrance papers for college, so it might be a while.
163504 Technically, Zero was a robot first, and then he died. In-between the last game in the X series and the first game in the Zero series, Zero gets a new body which is basically reploid in design. So Zero is now a robot made in 20xx in a future reploid's body.
Dood... wat
3511391 Typo? i dont see no typo here*liarjack face*
one small complaint the ponies of the town accept Zero too easily