Zero

[doctorzero]

Max shook his head. "Can't be, unless time travel's involved. And even then, I don't think that's the case."
"I don't even care anymore," Kaitlin sighed, running her hand through her hair. "I just want to get Jaron and LEAVE. Oh, that reminds me..." She turned on Misty again, opening her mouth to demand--
"Jaron has amnesia."
They had to admit, it was somewhat amusing, seeing Kaitlin just stand there with her mouth open. After a minute, she closed it and stared at Max wordlessly.
"It's true. Misty and Metal told me on the way up. Jaron woke up this morning having no idea who he was. He didn't remember anything, not even his own name. Gantz found him in some church, then Kavma called them, saying that Jaron would get his memory back if he played some game with him."
Kaitlin continued to stare for another minute, then said quietly, "What."
"It's true! Jaron's been hanging around with Gantz all day without a clue on who he is!"
Kaitlin's eye was twitching. "...And..dare I ask why Alex didn't simply tell him who he was when he saw him?" At this rate, if she met Gantz then, she would deck him where he stood.
"Kavma told Gantz he wasn't allowed to. Something about gutting him like a pig, I think."
Kaitlin clenched her fist. "Right. That tears it. I can handle evil tournaments and godly beings from another dimension. I can deal with mad scientists and alternate universes. But this...this is where I draw the line." She glared at the others. "At this point, I don't care if you're from a dimension that consists entirely of cheese, I don't have TIME for this. Max and I are going to find Jaron. You can come and help if you want, I don't care, but as soon as we find him, the three of us are LEAVING, memory or not."
Meanwhile, Buizel had wandered toward the sphere, which seemed to be darting through the trees or something.
"BUI!"
They all turned at the panicked shout. Buizel was running back into the clearing, pointing at the trees and shouting something.
"What? What is it?" Max ran over and looked through the bonsais.
What he found was one man, torn up and bloody, leaning against a tree in exhaustion.
"Guys, there's someone here!"

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To say Otto, Wally and Rin-Rin looked less then pleased at Kaitlin's harsh generalization would be a massive understatement. However, they didn't have time to call the young woman out before they heard Max and Buizel. "Wait, there's WHAT???" Wally yelled.

Instantly the group ran over to the scene, and took in the odd sight... "Good scions kupo..." Lea carefully walked up to the man. "H-Hey... Are you okay kupo?"

"Miss... Stand back..." Otto said with a raised eyebrow. "I don't like this..."

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The man stumbled, almost falling over. Max caught him and set him against the tree, allowing him to sit down. "What happened? Who are you?"
The man coughed. "I...I'm a researcher for Crystal Room LMT." Kaitlin and Max looked at each other in surprise. "We were posted here to contain a...well, that doesn't matter now. Our station was attacked...attacked by Zero...we didn't stand a chance against him."
"Was this Zero wearing red?" Kaitlin asked.
The man blinked. "Yes...did you see him?"
"Never mind that. Where's this station?"
The man gestured through the trees. "Straight through there."
Kaitlin and Max exchanged another look. Wordlessly, they both nodded. "Lea, fix him up, would you? We'll be right back."
The two of them ran off in the direction the man indicated before they could be stopped, Max recalling Buizel into her Pokeball as they went.

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"I HATE this, you know that?"
"Look at it this way, if we do this, Kavma will owe us a favor!"
"And you think he'll actually follow through with that?"
"Can't hurt to try, can it?"
"Okay, fair enough, but don't you think we should've waited for the others?"
"And waste valuable time debating about it? This Zero guy would've left by then."
"Always the voice of reason, eh?"
Max blushed.

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Zero blinked.
Blinked again.
Blinkblink.
"It can't be..."
On the computer screen, the words "ALEX FILE: AUTHORIZED ACCESS ONLY" were flashing.
His hands shaking, he typed in the passwords and accessed the file.
Nothing seemed to have changed from the last time he caught a glimpse of some of it. But he knew the essentials.
He took in all of the information on it, shaking. The last thing he noted was what had been written near the beginning of the report.

Current Location: Dimensional Island/Industrial Park

After a moment, Zero sighed. The thought of meeting someone like...well, sure, it was tempting, but he had other business to deal with. Though he could stop by on the way to that temple, maybe--
He paused. He could hear something move outside.

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As Max and Kaitlin ran, they were quickly joined by Otto, Wally, Misty, Metal and Rin-Rin. "And just where do you two think your going??" Misty called as she flew in next to Kaitlin. "You didn't honestly think we was just going to let you go alone did you?"

Wally grinned. "Whether or not we're the people you know, we're still templars on a mission, and we're not about to let something like this go unanswered!"

With Metal, his arm morphed into a machine gun arm. "Ready to go anytime!"

"You can turn around if you really want Rin-Rin." Otto said quickly to his student. "Something tells me this mission isn't going to be a walk in the park."

A grin was Rin-Rin's response to this. "No harder then the war was! I won't let you down sensei! Count on it!"

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With Lea, she force-fed the soldier the bottle of potion. "Now now, soldier boy, it may not taste good kupo. But the medicine is good for you, kupo-po!"

Really Lea was in a hurry to heal this man up, and catch back up with the others. She'd need to collect her guns first, but she'd still help as best as she could.

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Max grinned. "Templars on a mission? Sure sounds like the Wally we know and love, even if it's an alternate one!"
Kaitlin rolled her eyes, smirking at Misty. "Just like old times, huh?"

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Zero figured that he had overstayed his welcome. Without bothering to turn off the monitor, he headed toward the door, readjusting his Gear. Got what I came for, now I just have to get off this mountain. Shouldn't be that hard--
He had just stepped out the ruined door when he saw all seven oddballs staring at him.
F*ck.
"Oh, see? It's always the ones who smell like trouble!" Kaitlin complained. "Why do I always have to be right about people like you?"
"Because clearly you're wrong about everyone else," Zero retorted, raising his arm and aiming the Demon Gear at them. His eyes darted between them. taking note of each and every one of them. Seven of them...I don't think I can deal with seven. Can't it ever be simple?!
"Who are you?" Max asked, reaching into his pocket.
"Like I keep telling the broad, none of your business, pipsqueak." Zero narrowed his eyes.
Max, on the other hand, rolled his own. "Typical. Bad guy always has to be insulting."
"That's rich, coming from people like you," Zero snarled. He was beginning to lose his patience."I don't know you, you don't know me. You don't know what I want, either. And before you complain about those people in there--" he jerked his head towards the bunker. "--they were from CRL.; you should be thankful I dealt with them for you. You just let me go, and I won't be any more of a bother."
"And as soon as we do that, you stab us while our backs are turned, right?" Kaitlin asked rhetorically, cracking her knuckles while Max released James and Buizel.
James stiffened upon seeing Zero. "M-Max..."
Buizel nudged him. "Come on, Jim, don't lose your nerve," she muttered.

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Otto glared at the man before him and his hands instantly transformed into claws. "Sorry buddy. But we don't make it a habbit to trust sociopaths."

Rin-Rin held up her hands in a karate pose. Wally pulled out his broad-sword, holding it as easily as a baton.

Misty grinned as she went into a fighting pose herself. "Sorry charlie. But even if they WERE bad guys, you're not mr. purity either."

And with that the fight began. Otto charged Zero quickly dodging a blast from the demon gear like a seasoned pro, and tried clawing the young man. Rin-Rin was right behind him, preparing a kii-powered punch.

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Zero grabbed Otto's arm and punched him, following it up with a kick that sent him flying into Rin. "Really?" He charged up the Demon Gear. "Not three seconds and you just start attacking? Can't anyone I meet ever try to talk it out?"
He fired the Gear full-blast at Otto, sending several streams of energy into the young man's body. After a split second, the streams retreated back into the Gear. Zero flexed his hand.
"WHY YOU LITTLE--" Kaitlin ran forward and swung her fist at him. Zero caught it effortlessly kicked her in the ribs, knocking her onto her back.
"Told you not to mess with me, did I?" Kaitlin looked up to see that Zero had his hand aimed at her, with--was that darkness gathering in his hand?
"Looks like you didn't even last an hour. HELLFIRE BURST!!!"
"KAITLIN!"
James and Buizel darted forward, ramming into Zero's stomach and knocking him off balance, sending the attack into the air.Max ran forward and punched Zero, knocking him off again and opening him up for Brick Break.
It never connected. Zero spun in the air, knocking off both Pokemon, then aimed his Gear at Max and fired his Cross Cannon.
"RI!!!!" James jumped in front of Max and activated Counter, sending the attack back at Zero. Zedro simply ducked, letting the energy ball zoom over his head towards Misty.

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Meanwhile, the ball of light hid behind a tree, observing the skirmish.

[gantzgun74]

Misty quickly turned into a plume of mist and the attack zoomed harmlessly through the mist. The explosion as the attack hit the wall behind her, helped her zoom towards Zero turning into a physical form as she did. "RAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Zero easily caught her punch; however when he tried to attack, his punch phased through Misty's gut. "What?" The girl grinned. "Didn't see this coming?" Her leg materialized out of the wisp of the smog cloud.

SLAM!!! Which kicked Zero clean across the room.

Metal zoomed in and quickly pulled out his gun. "Back off everyone!!! I got him." He cocks the gun.

And opened fire. The rapid fire shots headed straight for the man.

"Here!! Allow me!!" Otto looked down right pissed as he joined Metal. "Come on!! HELLFIRE BURST!!!" He gathered energy... And nothing happened...

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Wait what?

Otto looked to his hand with surprise. "What... What the hell?"

[doctorzero]

Zero lifted himself up after Misty had hit him. Marvelous, she's intangible. One MORE thing to worry about. If it turns out she has no weaknesses I'm going to be ticked.
And that's when he heard Metal open fire.
"NOVA WING!"
Three golden blades of energy appeared in front of Zero, blocking Metal's shots. The blades vanished. Zero sneered at Otto, raising his hand as darkness formed in it.
"Here, allow me. Hellfi--"
"BUI!" WHAM!!!
While Zero had been distracted, Buizel took the chance to nail him with Aqua Jet.
"AAARGH!!!" Zero turned and kicked at Buizel, snarling, "You lousy rat!"
THIS was interupted by Kaitlin running forward and punching him in the jaw, sending him spinning. As he righted himself, he aimed at Kaitlin, snarling. "HELLFIRE BURST!"
Nothing happened. Zero glared at the Demon Gear, frustrated. "Oh, come on, not now..."
"JAMES! FOCUS BLAST!"
Zero rolled out of the way of the attack and Cross Cannon'd at James, who reflected it with another Counter. THAT one was blocked by another Nova Wing. "You people are beginning to PISS ME OFF!"

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"We're beginning to piss YOU off???" Misty's mist form zoomed over to Zero before turning her arm into a physical form. Zero managed to dodge the attack but found a kii covered fist rewarding him for his efforts smack him across the room.

"HAH!!" Rin-Rin yelled in victory.

Cheering, Wally let out a battle cry as he charged at a recovering Zero. After several athletic flips (Akin to Tidus' Spiral Cut), Wally jumped into the air and brought down his sword, Zero's demon gear blocking it. Thus cuing a volley of fast and fierce moves, Wally grinning and swinging his broadsword around much faster then one could think a normal person could swing around such a heavy sword.

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There was a loud clang as Wally's sword made contact with Zero's Demon Gear. The two of them exchanged blows, each one slashing and ducking and stabbing at each other, blocking each other's attacks each time.
Zero was getting REALLY annoyed at this point, and Wally's dumb grin was only making it worse. It made him feel that this chestnut-haired nobody was mocking him.
And he REALLY hated being mocked.
"Think you're a natural Zoro, are ya?!" he yelled, locking the blades of his Gear with Wally's own sword. He snarled in the boy's face, snapping, "Word to the wise, pal--"
There was a loud SHRAAAK as Zero forced Wally's sword flying into the air.
"KNOW how to use a sword--"
SHINK.
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Four amber blades protruded from Wally's back, blood dripping off of them. There was total silence.
"Before you actually use one." Zero pulled his Demon Gear out of Wally's torso, allowing the light user to fall to the ground.
"YOU BASTARD!!!"
Zero grabbed Kaitlin's fist before it made contact. Without bothering to even look at her, he slammed his hand into Kaitlin's head, knocking her out instantly and making her fall to the ground.
"KAITLIN!" They all ran forward--
"Stop right there!" Zero had lifted Kaitlin up and had his Demon Gear up to her throat, the blades uncomfortably close to her neck. "Back off, or she joins him...well, at least as soon as he bleeds out completely."
Max gritted his teeth. "No..."

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Everything froze when Wally was stabbed through with the demon gear's blades...

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"Sweet Jesus... No..." Misty's eyes were wide in absolute horror.

"U-Urk..." Wally gagged and hit the floor, eyes wide in disbelief as he hit the floor. "Y-Yin... R-Rach-..."

If there was two people in the room that had the worst reactions out of this, it would be Rin-Rin and Otto. "W-Wally no!!!" Rin-Rin yelled in terror.

..... Otto just stared on in absolute horror... His eyes were wide... He was dead silent...

It was around that time that the group saw Zero grab Kaitlin. "Y-you monster!!!" Metal growled as he lowered his gun. "How could you do that to him?!?!?"

"Kait!!!" Misty growled at the monster known as Zero with a loud snarl. "YOU BASTARD!!! I'LL-"

"Kill you..."

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From where he was Tarosuke lifted his head in surprise...

The dark energy on the island suddenly shifted, as if it was being drawn out of the air itself... The Dark energy was even being drawn out of areas of the island that was experiencing night... Even though where the energy was going was likely IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY...

His eyes widened in realization.

"Yeah... Sumbitch is gonna die today..."

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Back at Bonsai Mountain, everyone even ZERO watched in horror as Otto walked over to Wally dazily... AND SHADOWS AND DARKNESS WAS ENTERING INTO HIM BY TRUCKLOAD... "W-WaLLLY..."

Misty at that point, knew that any and all hope of this situation getting turned around was nil to none. Otto's eyes bore the look of someone who had completely and utterly LOST THEIR GODDAMN MIND.

"Oh sweet Yin..." Rin-Rin only had the displeasure of seeing this form 3 times in her life... All three times she grew to fear that form all the worse.

Zero watched in awe as Otto's form shifted as he looked down at Wally, his claws growing big and strong enough to slice through buildings, his teeth changing into a powerful maw of T-Rex like fangs.

..... Finally, the nightmarish beast turned to Zero... And suddenly, it didn't matter if he held Kaitlin.

The look of SHEER UNBRIDLED MURDER IN HIS EYES LOOKED AS THOUGH HE COULD HONESTLY CARE FUCKING LESS.



"YOOOOOU..."

There was a blast of dark magic, and when it cleared away, Otto was now standing up glaring at Zero with a gaze that was absolutely beastly, his form resembling a horrible T-Rex humanoid that was a mountain of muscle, and dark energy streaming off of him like a backwards WATERFALL.

"I'll... I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Kavma looked up sharply. "No."

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"ALL AVAILABLE TEAMS TO MT. BONSAI! NOW!!!"

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That was the moment Zero decided that a hostage was pointless.
Having absolutely no tact whatsoever, he threw Kaitlin's K.O.ed body aside and jumped back, firing several Cross Cannons at WHATEVER Otto had turned into.
Each one managed to make contact. None of them made the beast flinch.
Fan freaking tastic.
Meanwhile, Max had fallen on his rear, eyes wide in shock. James howled in terror and jumped behind him, shaking."No...oh, no....not this...not again..."
He could remember the last time he had seen Otto do this. He hadn't been able to sleep for days afterward. He had prayed--prayed--that he would never see it again.
But now...
It was clear that there was nothing any of them could do now. Normally, he would've grabbed Kaitlin and ran until the dust settled...
But she was still unconscious, and was lying too close to the skirmish. Getting near would've been suicide.
Still, he had to troh good Arceus what was Buizel DOING?!

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Buizel ran on all fours to Kaitlin, praying that Zero and Otto wouldn't notice. Thankfully, Otto was too preoccupied trying to hit Zero, who was surprising giving the monster a hard time hitting him.
Not that it made the situation better, mind you.
Buizel nudged at Kaitlin's limp form, slapping her lightly in the face a few times. "Come ON, Kaitlin, get up! GET UP!"

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Zerio ducked under one of Otto's swiped and rolled back, firing yet another Cross Cannon at the beast.
Again, no effect.
This is BULLSHIT! He thought angrily. Nothing works, can't hit him with Extract without him trying to murder me...why do these things always have to happen on a daily basis?! God damn it Kavma, soon as I find you your ass is GRASS!!!

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...Maybe he's right, maybe this is bullsh*t.

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"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Chaos Rex did not like in the SLIGHTEST just how annoyingly fast this little bastard was, growing angrier with each passing second... Thereby growing stronger with each passing second. He slammed the grounds with both fists... Firing out a powerful black shockwave that threw Zero off balance before he had a chance to see it coming...

He never had a chance to dodge when he saw Chaos Rex charging at him.

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CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!

The headbut sent Zero crashing clean through three walls of the facility before he finally landed outside the facility.

CRASH...

When Zero looked up he found Chaos Rex standing over him with a growl, holding up a giant energy ball of pure shadows over his head.

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BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Misty only looked on at the carnage in understandible terror. Rin-Rin meanwhile, rushed over to Wally and looked him over. "Wally! Wally are you okay??"

"O... Otto mate..." Said monk whispered weakly.

Metal rushed to check up on him. "He's still alive... But he needs medical attention now!!"

"My-my! What a mess this is kupo!!"

The others turned to see Lea rushing in... And she was notably armed to the teeth, with enough guns to make a one moogle armory. She took notice of Wally, and quickly pulled out a hi-potion. "Quick cute Wally. Drink this it'll make you feel better kupo! Auntie Lea wants to help your hurt so drink it please!" She was frantic. Apparently what had been said earlier HAD made it to the moogle's ears... And she didn't want to lose another young man.

Looking to where the Chaos Rex vanished, Rin-Rin was in notable distress... "I... I can't bare watching him like that..." She looked to the others... "We have to do something to... To help him..."

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"AAAAACK!"
Let Zero be the first to tell you that being plowed through three walls of concrete and whatever else those walls had been built with is EXTREMELY painful. The landing was just as bad as he rolled several times before coming to a complete stop.
Daaaaaammit....what the hell is this thing, anyway?! Lousy Goddamn lizards...
A loud stomp made him look up to see that the Chaos Rex was holding a giant ball of darkness and was ready to slam it into his head.
Zero aimed his Gear at him.
"Smile, motherfucker."

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As soon as Otto had left, Max ran to Kaitlin, kneeling next to Buizel and shaking her. "Come on, Kaitlin, get up!"
She stirred, then blinked her eyes open. "...Max? What happened?"
The look on his face was enough to tell her.
"Oh HELL no."
They were interrupted by a rather loud BANG from the other side of the facility.

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"INFERNOUS BLAZE BLITZ!"
Zero slammed into the Chaos Rex, aflame with black...fire. He kicked off of the monster and backflipped away.
"NOVA WING!"
Several golden energy blades were sent zooming towards the Chaos Rex, ready to impale the everloving sh*t out of it.

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Max helpled Kaitlin up. "I'm FINE, Max! What about Wally?!"
Wordlessly, he pointed at everyone gathered around the fallen monk. They both ran over, scared out of their minds. "Please, oh please don't say he's dead..."
When it turned out that he was indeed alive, they sighed in relief, then became worried when they remembered about Otto's...issue.
They could both remember the last time they had witnessed this sort of thing. There hadn't been anything they could do about it then, though; all they could do was just stay away until it was over. In this situation?
They looked at each other, both drawing a blank. Last time, Wally had been able to calm him down, but in the state he was in...
They REALLY wished that Jaron was here with his healing wind powers, amnesia or not.