3: Born to be Wild
Octavia and X both took the time back at HQ to inform everyone of their discovery that triggering the original personality of a Reploid under the signal's control could provide an instant opening to attach a Neutralizer. "This changes our plans a bit," X indicated. "In addition to using weakness reactions to create the openings, we might be able to find ways to free them without harming them. If that can be done, it's all for the better."
"So let's take a look at the bios," Octavia suggested, hopping up to the computer screen.
Nodding, Alia called up the bios on each of the Mavericks remaining. "Let's see...Blast Hornet's a member of Zero's unit..."
"But we can't let Zero near, because of those issues with how he effects the signal," X explained.
"Right," Alia confirmed. "We don't have any information on Gravity Beetle, except that he's Boomer Kuwanger's brother. He's being questioned about him for anything usable. There's also very little information on Volt Catfish. Crush Crawfish...he went to Doppler in hopes of fixing an error in his AI that screwed up his Friend/Foe recognition."
"That's not going to be pleasant," X muttered under his breath. "And Neon Tiger?"
"A wildlife preservation specialist," Alia explained. "Not overly fond of humans or other Reploids, specifically designed as an anti-poacher. He can draw in sunlight to both recharge his core and supercharge his weapons. Vicious with poachers or other criminals, distrustful of humans or humanoid reploids...hmm, this might be useful." A video file was called up, showing Neon Tiger gently tending orphaned bald eagle chicks, carefully climbing the tree to their nest to deliver food to them exactly how the mother eagle would have.
"He's next," Octavia proclaimed. "And I'll apply the Neutralizer."
"Are you sure?" Alia asked worriedly. "He's only shown to be gentle with-"
"Young animals?" Octavia interrupted, raising an eyebrow.
Zero snickered in amusement as he looked over Iris' shoulder at the communications from Repliforce. X looked worried, but acquiesced. He knew better than to argue with Octavia.
The area where Neon Tiger was located was, unsurprisingly, a fertile jungle, cybernetically augmented trees supporting the natural ones as mechanaloid animals supplemented the biological ones. Both X and Octavia moved carefully, doing their best not to damage anything as they made their way towards the buildings. The mechanaloid animals did attack X, but the only shots that made their way towards Octavia were stray shots. None were aimed.
As they passed through the first building, the pair were careful to destroy only when necessary, leaving as many mechanaloids intact as possible. As several only attacked if X or Octavia fired a shot, this proved relatively easy. They collected a Sub Tank as they moved up into the tallest building.
Inside the building, the mechanaloids weren't animal based, and the pair blasted their way through the security. Finding a cracked wall, X used the Tornado Drill to break through it. The large chamber on the other side contained a Light Capsule.
"This capsule contains an upgrade for your buster," Light explained. "In addition to restoring your ability to fire charged shots from both busters - which I see was removed to enable a more powerful charged shot - this will allow you to overlap the charged shots for a much larger blast. In addition, it will allow you to charge your new sub-weapons."
"Useful," Octavia commented as X stepped into the capsule to download the upgrade. She smiled down at her forehooves as they flashed, turning a mix of white and gold.
Stepping out of the capsule, X tested out the overlapped cross-charged shot. The first charge shot was swirling blasts of energy, while the second was a large blast of energy. When the large blast hit the swirling blasts, they burst apart, becoming five large blasts flying forward in expanding arcs. "Nice!" X crowed, grinning.
Down below, the pair encountered a large, worm like mechanaloid that came out of the ceiling and floor to attack them. It also dropped bouncing bombs that attempted to bounce into them. Discovering that the arcs of energy from the overlapped charged shot would pass through the dirt walls to seek out the target, they blasted away, and it eventually exploded.
The path further on was very straight forward, with only a slight detour straight upward to collect another Heart Tank, just before the path to Neon Tiger's chambers. In the final passage, Octavia held up a hoof, stopping X from going forward. "I'll take it from here alone," she said calmly.
X blinked. "Are you sure?" he asked worriedly.
"Positive," Octavia replied calmly. "Varia, disengage."
"What?" X demanded, shocked.
"...understood," Varia replied, separating from Octavia to hover around her in her base form of a lump of floating technological stone.
"Octavia, what do you think you're-"
Before X could speak further, Classic and Piano had him pinned to the wall. "I'll handle this, Father," Octavia stated as she stepped through the final door. "I'll be fine!" As the door closed behind her, she glanced upward. "...I hope..."
Neon Tiger dropped down from the ceiling. His body was a robotic mix of pink, blue, green, and yellow, with his head appearing almost entirely organic. He stood hunched over, energy claws at the end of his arms, and a lightbulb shaped energy emitter at the end of his tail. At first he snarled, glancing around carefully...only to pause as he saw Octavia. He then zipped over to her side.
"It's dangerous here, little one," he whispered. "Hunters come, and I have to fight them. I don't want you caught in the crossfire." He gently lifted her into his arms. "Let us find you somewhere safe before they get here."
Smiling softly, Octavia attached the Neutralizer. "I'm safe enough right here," she replied as she saw the signs that it was working.
Neon Tiger blinked down at her. "...you speak?"
"Yes," she replied. "Octavia Melody, Maverick Hunter Class A, at your service."
"Oh, X's daughter," Tiger replied, setting her down. "And where is he-"
X came bursting through the door, Classic and Piano hanging off of him. "Octavia! Are you alright?" He paused as he saw Neon Tiger completely calm and Octavia standing by his side. "...I guess so?" he offered weakly.
Octavia giggled a little wickedly at X's expression.
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LOL, of fucking course. Good job, Titsurou.
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You might wanna fix that.
6698768 Maybe I don't.
*snerk*
HAHAHAHAHAH I CAN'T HOLD IT IN!!! I ACTUALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT!!! OH MY GOD MY SIDES!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
How many more adopted displaced stories do you plan on making?
So, Neon Tiger = Fluttershy, sounds legit.
Tavi is very smart.
carefully climbing the tree to their next to deliver food
1. Nest is what I think you meant to say.
6698872 Nah, the climbing trees to feed baby animals as their mother would is more ace ventura's style
A father's love knows no bounds, even if canine robots cling desperately to stop him. Nice touch.
6698734 Titsurou XD
Also this chapters name seems to be a reference to a television program here in the Philippines,it's literally called 'born to be wild'hehe sorry if that wasn't a reference though I tend to look for them
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Emojis aren't working for me today
6699166 There's a song in America called, 'Born to be Wild', as well several other media with the same name.
Of course Octavia would do that...
6699186 ah ok
"Clever girl..."
So... just how old is Octavia now? If I remember the early chapters right, some accidental magic science combo slowed her aging so she should last till well past 200. While I may not be entirely clear on the chronology of these games, I figured all these many uprisings and rebellions aren't likely to be happening every couple of weeks.
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She's currently 60, chronologically. And she'll hit puberty at 100.
6700066 Well, it seem we have about 40 years to build a bunker.
Giant robot tiger cooing over little filly... DAAAAWWW!!! And Neon Tiger should share his tail blaster design with Classic and Piano. Or could Varia adapt it for Vinyl to use???? Adding a fifth buster, even if it can only be good for spraying energy blasts, would be a good thing.
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Real One: No bunker powerful enough would be built in only 40 years.
6702901 Who said it need to be on Earth? Jupiter would do...If you can survive that is.
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Only if Jupiter is linked through the Maverick Hunters teleport system, if not, we are screwed.
The image of Neon Tiger fauning over Octy... Tatsurooou, why are you so good at this?!
6700483 Vinyl...? ...close enough. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/b5/0f/d5b50f03f51079bee178b6d3258fd3af.jpg
6700483 I would correct you by replacing Vinyl with Octavia, but we're both following two Mega Man stories with two music ponies. Tends to get confusing after a while.
I'm confused about Dr Ciel. You say that she's the ancestor of the Ciel from the Zero games,but wasn't Ciel a genetically engineered designer baby(Which is why she's so ridiculously smart,they made her that way),so she wouldn't really have parents? Unless they got her DNA and transferred it to Ciel(Zero).
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The genius came from somewhere. I'm suggesting that the genetic engineering merely boosted what was a natural talent in the bloodline.
6698872 Actually, I was thinking of Tigatron from the Beast Wars Transformers.
6717179 I love that show!
I hope Ciel had kids.
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... having studied genetics in the past, I can assure you, no one in their right mind would ever try to build a genome from scratch, but instead would work with an existing genome as a base and make additions for a desired effect.
Ergo, yes, any future genetically engineered super babies will have human ancestors just like anyone else.
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Unless you had infinite resources, infinite time and a planned structure for it.
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Even then we do love our shortcuts, and why mess with something that we already know works.
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to get to as close to perfection as is possible
one kindly tiger saved, here's to hoping he lived a wonderful life protecting innocent animals