//------------------------------// // Meeting new allies // Story: MEGAMAN ZERO: Legends Never Die // by belmontzar //------------------------------// "Good bye Zero.. Rest Well." "Ciel.." Zero shakes his head as he sits up.. blinking as he looked about his location. Not that it answered any of his questions... one fact was certain though, this wasn't a resistance base. Nor was it any form of base at all actually. Zero's scans definitely confused him.. his surroundings where made of wood..natural wood.. not the normal metal+wood hybrid some places used. Standing up he noted the different strange lay out of the area, how different it all seemed. "Where am I?" Closing his eyes he triggered some of his Call scans.. but nothing was intelligible, the only data was a horde of voices arguing about some bomb but nothing that made sense. He slowly stands up and glances around the dark room.. a small window showed a small view of a Star filled night sky. He made several deductions from his surroundings. The many books and experimental tables and potions led Zero to theorize the owner was a mad scientist, though oddly he felt none of his parts touched or impacted, nor any of the usual scientific tools. Many pieces of furniture where also fairly low to the floor. Though the table was at a normal height to him personally which he found strange. Walking towards the stairs he notices that the door had no handle.. and was also very low to the floor. Pushing open the small door he finds himself in a large Circular room. The walls where covered in shelves and books. The only other thing that popped to mind where the small group of Equine like beings. One was a fairly normal looking horse that wore a western style hat on its head. The other three where a bit stranger. Two of them, a Blond and pink maned pony and a blue and rainbow maned body had Wings. Sort of like how an actual pegasus would look like. The third was purple and a star like shape was seen on its leg. The more impressive thing was the horn on its head, and the fact that it was sleeping on a book. Now far more curious about the owner of the building. Whoever it was, had interesting taste in decor.. and pets. Walking outside of a slightly large door he heard voices. "She has been so worried about this thing.. she fell asleep reading! Fluttershy, Rainbow dash and Apple jack even stayed with her, but I noticed Fluttershy start to drift." A young male voice was saying. "I see she still has trouble with.. panicking problems. any word from the princess?" A female royal sounding voice replies. "No not yet.. but I'm keeping my eyes open. Thanks again for agreeing to come over Rarity." "Not a problem Spike, I must admit that, from the strange descriptions, I was already planning to look at this, thing, anyway." Zero stays still watching for the person.. yet seeing a small purple.. dragon and another of the horned horses... ah unicorn that's what it was. Unfortunately he had gotten so distracted by his mental word search hat he had forgotten to hide or anything as the Purple dragon yells and the Unicorn backs away. "THE BOMB IS AWAKE! TWILIGHT!" The dragon yells as zero blinks. "Bomb?" he asks confused. "You think I'm a bomb? Seriously?" Zero was genuinely appalled at the thought. "Do I look like a bomb to you?" "Well.. not really.. more like an odd.. wait did you just talk?" the unicorn Rarity asks. "You know I was going to ask that myself. I have never met a talking equine before.. oh and for the record. I am not a bomb. I can make things explode.. but I'm not a bomb myself." [not that kind anyway] he adds mentally to himself. HE blinks as a purple glow covers him as he is sent flying into a street. "Whoa! hey!" Looking over he saw the Purple unicorn.. and her horn was glowing the same shade of purple as the energy had been. "IT..It's.. walking and Talking? What sort of THING is that?" the purple one asks. "Oww... what was that energy? It felt like my weapon hum.." Zero murmurs as he stands up slowly. "Look.. will you just relax miss.. Purple.. unicorn thing? I'm not here to hurt anyone." [I don't even know where I am..] "Wait... your not?" The purple one asks as the rainbow and blonde ones walk out. "Yeah? why should we believe you? We don't even know what you are!" the rainbow one asks as the blond shivers. "Simple. this will sound cold but.. your still alive right?" Zero says with a shrug. "I saw you all asleep and left. I would have had plenty of time to kill you if I wanted. But that's not my intention. I'm tired of war and battle, I just want to rest." Zeros arms go down to his sides. "That is your evidence. I left the basement and saw you all and left you alive. IF I wanted you dead. You would be dead." Twilight blinks and frowns in thought. "Hes got a point there Rainbow.. he did manage to sneak out of our basement and get out." Zero nods and turns to look around. "Ill be honest. I don't know where this is.. I don't know what you are, or how I got here. My last memory is of getting hit in an explosion and launched off a station that was on a crash course to earth." "hmm..." Twilight says thoughtfully. "Well we can help with some of that stuff..." shes says. "Come one back to the library, we can start getting you read up on things." "Oh so your not a mad scientist then?" Zero asks blinking as the purple horse froze and others snickered. "I um... well I'm sorta a scientist I guess... I'm studying the magic of friendship as the student of Princess Celestia." Twilight says as they all head back into the tree house. "Celestia. In my memory that reminds me of Celestial, one of the heavenly bodies of the sky." Zero says before pausing. "hmm.." "Why yes shes the princess of the sun.. uh is something wrong?" She asks looking over. "I'm following a scientist magic pony into a magical Library that's inside a giant tree...." Zero shrugs. "Just had the strange feeling that some amount of sanity just kinda fled my mind..." Zero blinks. "then again I have don weirder Technological stuff so.. I can adjust." He says walking into the tree. [Shorter chapter, I have more typed but I thought I should listen to advice (OMG) and cut it in half. that way I can expand my next idea more.]