Armored Adventures
It was a rather ordinary day at Maverick Hunter HQ. X was helping Zero get accustomed to working with other Reploids...and society in general. Vile had recently gone Maverick, and was the primary focus of Maverick Hunter activities given how dangerous he was. CiCi was performing her secondary duties as a navigator, since she was able to process a great deal more data than most Reploids, as well as handle multiple consoles at once(1). She was also babysitting Octavia, using her tentacles that weren't actively engaged in her duty to give Octavia a little obstacle course to climb through.
Commander Sigma was once again out and about, as he frequently was these days. He was in constant communication with the HQ, so it didn't really matter. Still, it was odd for him. No one really questioned it, though. After what had happened with Zero, it was understandable that Sigma would need some time to sort his head out...especially since Zero had joined the Maverick Hunters.
Most of the other command units - Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Sting Chameleon, and the like - were also in base at the moment, coincidentally having a break as they examined the details of various reports and data that CiCi gave them. Seeing how everyone was there, Octavia decided now was the best time to broach something with X. "Father," she called out, leaving CiCi's tentacles to trot over to him.
X groaned as everyone turned to watch. Octavia had been a staple of Maverick Hunter HQ long enough that everyone knew some of her quirks. If she called X 'Dad', she was being playful and just wanted to enjoy his company a bit. If she called him 'Daddy', she was feeling vulnerable and needed comforting. If she called him 'Father', however, then she wanted something...generally something that would give X a headache. As such, everyone but X was eager for the entertainment, and X was dreading what was coming. "Yes, Octavia?" he asked softly.
"I want some power armor, so I can go with you into battle," she stated simply. Another quirk of Octavia's was that she rarely beat around the bush in conversation. She tended to be quite blunt, which had shocked, amused, and occasionally scandalized those she spoke to.
X stared at her in shock. "Out of the question," he stated bluntly. "What if you got hurt? We can't just piece you back together like we can each other. You're too young. It's too dangerous."
Octavia sighed as she sat down, her face assuming a tragic expression. In response, the other Hunters drew nearer. "I suppose you're right, Father," she replied theatrically. "I suppose I shall merely have to continue as I have done so, and sit back here at HQ as you head out on successively more and more dangerous missions, never knowing what it is you're going out to do as the other Hunters seek to protect me from that to keep me from worrying too much, leaving me with only the worry of whether or not you will come back from the unknown.
"And someday you might not come back," she continued, putting one foreleg to her forehead. "A Maverick will get you, or you'll break down, or you'll fall into an abyss where the teleportation satellite network can't reach you...and I won't know. The other Hunters would never want to tell me you had died or were lost...so they'll tell me you were sent on an extended mission, and that I might not see you for a while. And the mission will get extended and extended, no one wanting to tell me what really happened, and reveal how long they've been deceiving me, to protect me..."
At this point, X wasn't the only one looking uncomfortable. Everyone else looked away awkwardly, realizing far too readily that Octavia had read them all like so many books. They were so fond of her, they would do exactly that if something happened to X. They knew it too well. Even Dr. Ciel and Dr. Cain - having entered the room in the middle of that speech - knew just how accurate it was.
"But of course," Octavia continued, "they couldn't leave me without you forever. I'll live for centuries. That's too long to leave me pining for you. So they'll talk Dr. Ciel or someone like her to use everything learned of your blueprints to build a replacement...a Copy X to take your place in raising me. It will - at first - look like you, talk like you, act like you, and will care for me as you do...but it will all be programmed. It won't be genuine, as it is with you...and I'll know.
"But everyone will be watching me, hoping it will be enough. They care so much for me, and they will have done this for me. I couldn't possibly disappoint them..." Octavia lowered her eyes, drawing spirals on the ground with her hoof. "So I will pretend. I will pretend to accept the duplicate in your place. And they will be happy, because they will believe they will have made me happy...but every time I say 'I love you' to that Copy X, it will be a knife in my heart, knowing you are dead and I can not even grieve, for fear of upsetting everyone else who cares so deeply for me.
"And the Copy will know. He will see in my eyes every time I speak that I know he is a fake, a replacement...and it will drive him mad. He is built to be a replacement for my lost Father, and I deny him his purpose." She sighed dramatically. "In all likelihood, he will kill me and resurrect me as a pony-Reploid he can control and will love him...but then I will be as fake as he is...and then he will go Maverick.
"And what fate will befall the world...when they face a Maverick with your abilities, that everyone is convinced is really you because I acted like I accepted it as you, and nothing left to lose or live for?"
"Alright!" X gasped out. "Alright! I'll talk to Dr. Ciel about building you some power armor to go with me on the less dangerous missions! Just...just no more..."
Dr. Cain did his best not to burst out laughing. X's greatest strength - and weakness - was how much he cared. He worried about allies, civilians, and enemies at all times. He had mastered every non-lethal take down method ever created in the hopes he'd never have to kill, but knowing always that he might have to. If there was one thing that might easily destroy him someday, it was his excessively strong sense of personal guilt, his need to take responsibility for things. And Octavia had used that to play him like a cello.
However, Octavia was nothing if not gracious in victory. "Thank you, Father," she said lovingly, taking hold of his arm to pull herself up to kiss him on the cheek. "I knew you'd come around...eventually."
X tried to glare angrily at her...but that couldn't last long against her beaming smile and loving eyes.
Ciel chuckled a bit. "I'll get right to work on designing that armor," she promised. "It might take a while, though. If we want to make it work right, I'm going to have to figure out how that unique energy field you generate works...and that's going to be tough, Tavi."
Octavia smiled beatifically at her. "Quite alright," she replied. "I've learned to be patient."
(1) No one was quite sure how she was able to do this. Much like X and Zero, much of what made her work couldn't be analyzed entirely as data, and she seemed to redesign herself at need. The rest of Cain's team wanted to ask CiCi's creator about this, but he was apparently completely insane. Shortly after CiCi's completion, he was found in his basement at the center of a summoning ritual, his body carefully dissected and spread across the circle, with a suicide note written in R'lyehian. The dissection wounds were, somehow, self inflicted. Translation of the note was difficult, as the scientist in question apparently couldn't spell even in that language, but the words 'eternal vessel' and 'Ancient One' cropped up frequently in conjunction.
CiCi had taken over the investigation into his mental state, at Octavia's suggestion, as she was likely the only one who would be able to understand it. While CiCi always reported progress, there were no new breakthroughs.
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Did...did Octavia just call out every single person in the building with one speech at once?
X, how the hell did you raise this child?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: One of the most Awe-inspiring Guilt Trips EVER!
Not to mention one of the best slippery slopes ever created.
Damn... not only did she play on X's feelings and everyone in the base, but she may have even looked into future events.
That child... is terrifying.
And why do I get the feeling that CiCi is going to be important in the story based on that note at the end?
.... I think she just guilt tripped an entire building for things they might do as opposed to things they have done..... Damn.....
A pleasure to see the old ones are still affecting people in the future.
IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN!
6358169 Not what they 'Might do'. What they 'would do'.
Octavia needs at the very least, a jetpack or rocket hoof booties. for a weapon I suggest a titanium Kanabō... with rocket boosters to let her send giant mechanoids up into LEO as a Twinkle in the Sky
6358149 Given a Great Old one was involved with Chrysalis's story, I cheer for the thought! Plus, CiCi is the nicest eldritch abomination I've ever seen and I can totally see that after spending time with Octavia she'd have a soft spot for ponies.
I imagine the armor will be done by at most late X2, for when the Mavericks directly attack the base.
Also, will you be incorporating the Xtreame games?
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No, I won't be incorporating the Xtreme games.
6358129 Sounds more like She raised Them.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Damn that was cunning and drawn out. She's a dangerous one, that Octavia.
My sides!
Oh, there goes my lungs.
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I'd call her a manipulative bitch, but she's not a bitch, and this is too hilarious.
Did Tavi just predict the Zero series?
6358218 Fair enough. IMO about the only important thing that happens in them is in Xtreme 2 where they flesh out Iris' and Zero's relationship more.
6358209 And a mega buster for her front hoofs
when i read the chapter and the notes the first thing i thought of was a piece of fan art by Sanyo2100 after seeing his cover for W.W.W, any time i think of Tavi going into battle i see her looking a little like this . am i close?
only with out the blood and scars
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He's making the cover art which will be the basis for her armor...
6358469 Beam Saber unicorn horn so she can head butt enemies to pieces??? And mini Pegasus wings so she can glide over long distances????
so i can go with you into battle
1. Forgot to capitalise.
Wow. I would honestly think that half of this chapter alone is nearly guaranteed to just be Octavia going 'Worst Case Scenario' mode. And goddamn if I can't get a violin to stop playing during half of that speech in my head.
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I had thought he would be, he has done most if not all the rest for you, That was just one of the weapons I'm hoping to see in the story. Mostly because i can see Vinyl making one and hiding it away like Dr. Light did with X's capsules.
"or you'll fall into an abyss where the teleportation satellite network can't reach you"
You simultaneously explained bottomless pits and Extra Lives. You crafty bastard.
AND SHE KNEW THE ENTIRE PLOT OF MEGAMAN ZERO. ...Like I should be surprised that the ponies solve arcs in unexpected ways, I really shouldn't be. =P
*sometime after constructing this comment*
Hey, I think we found the name of that suicidal creator. Let's see here...Jeremy Hartwood. Something about his family being well-versed in dealing with pesky mythos like that.
And then she goes on to learn the Hadouken, Shoryuken, and the exceedingly destructive Shin variants...Good show!
6358647 A sonic disruption attachment that plays Cello music at a destructive frequency? A chainsaw tail?
I'm really not surprised that she's so good at guilt tripping them. She plays a cello. She's good at plucking strings.
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Actually I think Octavia just PREVENTED the Mega Man Zero series from happening AT ALL. Given that Copy X only got wide spread acceptance because few people actually knew he was not the real X, Octavia's presence makes that impossible. As she said, she WILL know if it's really X or not. With her massively increased lifespan Octi will not die of age, and magical nature makes disease unlikely. Thus baring her being killed, she will still be alive by the time of the Dark Elf. People were in a panic because both of the major powers, X and Zero, were gone. But with Octavia preped and suited for combat she will have just as much experience, and possibly power, as either of those two. This prevents the panic that caused Doctor Ciel to build Copy X in the first place. And even if the 6 year old genius (Yes she build Copy X at age 6, crazy shit) builds it anyway, she will know it's not the real X. And all that assumes X still has to sacrificed his physical form at the end of the Elf Wars in the first place.
Tatsurou how much of the X age are you going to do? Just the main 8 games? Command Mission? Or will you address Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX as well?
6359218 Sounds awesome!
6359840 Zero: Give her a gun as well.
Octavia:But I already have a gun.
Zero: Get that bitch a cannon, bitches love cannons!
Octavia: What's a bitch?
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Nothing past Command Mission.
wow that pony is EVIL
6359888 Then I guess I was right, Octavia prevents Mega Man Zero and beyond from happening in the first place.
OH MY GOD WHY DID I FORGOT TO TRACK THIS ALSO OCTAVIA YOU MAGNIFECENT CELLO PLAYER YOU! Now thats out of my system
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but if the cover art is anything to go by she was the first holder of the model-x from mega man zx. i do wonder if the other models will show up or if that was just a little homage to that series?
*response to everything she said to get the armor* ...just give it to her already for the love of pony give her the armor I beg you!
Man, that is one hell of a guilt trip
I ended up thinking of A Goofy Movie 
Also, that foreshadowing, though...
Tavi.
Like a
BOSS
To all of the recipients of that epic guilt trip.
GEEETT DUUUUNKED OOONNN!!!
Ok, I have to say this before I go on.
I have never seen a pony in an alternate media pull the "I'm adorable, and you will do all that I say" in manner that was actually believable.
Usually, it's done in a manner that completely brings other characters OOC (Never will I read a fanfic that has Nick Fury "[Squealing] like a fangirl" over a filly Rainbow Dash).
Here, however, you have that card played in a manner that plays on the compassion of another character, and thus the fact that it works makes sense.
Bravo, Tatsurou. Bravo.
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Perhaps 'Nag' then? If she'd been a Daimond Dog she'd have been a bitch, though.
I've never seen a guilt trip this intense, bravo.
Well, then Reploid Octavia dies by Zero hands, her old personality restored and her last words are to ask Zero to please save everyone.
Oh my god Octavia just explain the zero series in a dramatic way. Good job tavi, good job.
6360210 Only when she sees the need to do so. She can be a mighty
when those times come.
Impressive guilt trip there.
Gotta love that CiCi backstory.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes reference!
7547664 trip? More like a lethal plunge! Dayum!