Re: Mega Man Zero Five: Part III - Five Stones, One Legend

[SwampertOwnage]

The claws left sizable marks through the Copy's armor, which almost immediately began to regenerate and make up for the damage taken. The punch, however, was enough to daze Elpizo, if only for a moment. Catching his face, he hissed in a furious fashion as an aura engulfed his hand. "Your words are empty - perish!" Aiming his hand directly at the Reploid, Copy Elpizo unleashed another straight beam directly towards Nebula's head.

[NebulaGregarZX]

Raising his arms, Nebula blocked with his claws, getting himself pushed back a bit. Switching to the Shining Laser, he responded in kind.

[SwampertOwnage]

As the attacks collided, the dim shadows previously swallowing up the room were obliterated in a harsh white glow, sharply illuminating the captive Reploids still frozen in time. "You honestly believe you stand a chance against me, fool?" Three Model W fragments appeared from behind the Copy, adding power to his beam via three small beams of their own. "There will be nothing left of you but a charred, smoking husk!"

[NebulaGregarZX]

[Rerouting power to the Shining Laser.]

"Kaioken times four, bitch!"

[SwampertOwnage]

"Kaio-wha-" Perplexed was Copy Elpizo's face, even as the realization of what was occurring hit home, quite literally. The Shining Laser wholly overpowered his own attack, catching him square in the chest and flinging him into the wall. The structural integrity of the roof it supported by now was fully compromised, and it crumbled before collapsing. The room filled with sunlight, choked with dust from the debris. Just when it seemed as if it was over, however, a quite blackened Elpizo stood amid the rubble. The look of confusion was still predominate upon his face. "No, in all seriousness, Kaio-what? What even IS that?"

[NebulaGregarZX]

Elpizo immediately found himself faced with Nebula again, who reached out to grab him with his left claw, lift him up, raise a fully-charged buster to him, and fire at him point blank.

[SwampertOwnage]

Raising a hand, Elpizo guarded his face from the blast, before delivering a swift knee jab into Nebula's face. Generating his rapier, the Copy lashed out with a vengeance, attempting to leave razor thin gouges in the White Reploid's armor.

[NebulaGregarZX]

Switching out his claw for a chakram, Nebula tried to shield himself from the speedy attacks as he stumbled back, dazed. The moment he could regain his footing, he threw it at Master E.

[Warning, WCS has sustained damage.]

[SwampertOwnage]

The Chakram was unexpected, and Copy Elpizo barely skirted out of the way in time. It's blades still managed to leave incisions across his partially exposed face, drawing red lubricant from underneath. A snarl was given as a dark aura began to take hold. "I've had enough of this, you insolent worm! Grand Burst!" Tossing his rapier skyward, Elpizo summoned a massive pillar of light from the weapon, gouging into the earth and launching massive hunks of debris in all directions, filling the air with projectiles capable of crushing a truck.

[NebulaGregarZX]

With a look that could only be described as 'holy shit', Nebula switched to his imitation Chain rod, using it to grapple to the pieces of debris and avoid getting crushed between them and the ground.

[Copying EX Skill data "Grand Burst"...]
[...Error.]
[Error]
[Error]
[Error]
[...Critical error.]

The whip-like weapon disintegrated, dropping Nebula to the floor and forcing him to scramble out of the way of the falling masses like an ant desperately trying to escape being crushed by someone's boot. ...Oh... Oh god. I think the Weapon Copy System is broken. But how?

He tumbled out of the way of another slab of Duracrete, barely missing it. ...Kathros. It must've gotten buggy after trying to comprehend magic. Shit... and it's only been getting worse. It's almost completely fried now...!

His thoughts were interrupted by a glancing hit from one of the projectiles, sending him flying and bouncing off another one, falling to the ground.

[SwampertOwnage]

Seeing his opponent tumble to the cracked floor of his throne room, Copy Elpizo ceased the barrage of rubble. Summoning his blade back to himself, he walked towards the fallen Nebula, the chamber eerily quiet save for the sound of boots upon the cold marble. "That was your full power? Hmph, you've impressed no one today, traitor." Again, his blade was raised, poised to pierce clean through the Reploid.

[NebulaGregarZX]

Looking up at his opponent, Nebula grinned weakly. Still have one trick up my sleeve... He raised one fist and swept it across his field of vision.

"Souleater!"

A wave of energy ripped forth, covering a wide space, leaving virtually no room to dodge. It was unstable, and not meant to be used at close range, or without a weapon to focus it.

[SwampertOwnage]

Once more, the Reploid Copy found himself with no time to evade the attack, and the shockwave caught him square on the face. Elpizo was sent back several meters, flipping and still gracefully managing to land upon his feet. What damage had occurred had already begun to patch itself up, the wounds and cracks glowing with an all too recognizable purple. "That is enough. I have grown weary of this charade." Again, the rapier was tossed upwards, spinning directly above Elpizo. His eye flashed brightly as he transferred energy into the weapon, before pointing directly at his foe.

"Solar Collapse."

The energy gathering around the blade fell into itself, the weapon firing off five massive corkscrewing blasts in Nebula's direction, each one intertwined with black, gold and indigo strands of virulent energy.

[NebulaGregarZX]

He got back to his feet, but lacked the strength to so much as stand up straight. Hunched over and clutching his side, Nebula looked at the oncoming attack. ...I've lost. I just hope Sola's far enough away that she can't see this...

Warnings flashed up as he was struck by one of the blasts. The White Reploid made an attempt to activate his Sub-tanks in an effort to regain lost energy and repair his body, but he knew that he was practically already dead. Another hit would probably break him in half, and even if he managed to survive with his reserves, he wouldn't have enough to harm Elpizo.

Dammit... If only... I had some breathing room... Aaaaaand a working WCS... and maybe a faster sword...

[SwampertOwnage]

Watching as his foe finally began to cave, Copy Elpizo could feel the elation of victory enter into his twisted mind, reflected by the vicious grin spreading across his face. "Perish now, you worthless pile of-!"

Before another blast could impact the severely wounded Nebula, it was swiftly punched by a figure sporting bulky, flaming orange armor. Dual cannons were in his hands, oddly reminiscent of Fefnir's Sodom and Gomorrah. The figure was far too short to be the Fire Guardian, however. This was only further confirmed as he turned to face the White Reploid, blue goggles covering eyes that brimmed with excitement. "Glad I got here in time! Took a while to get used to dashing - but Colbur's in the game now!"

Stunned silence was all that was heard from Master E, who watched as the remaining blasts were all similarly punched aside. Colbur - or rather, Megaman Model F, turned to face him squarely, giving a huff of exertion. "Y'know, I never liked Elpizo all that much - the guy was always too stuffy and prim for the Resistance - but even he was better than this cheap faker! C'mon Model F, let's take this wanna-be tyrant down a peg!" Echoing through the minds of all those present, a hearty voice sounded. You betcha! I'm dyin' to wreck someone's shit - might as well be his!

[NebulaGregarZX]

Nebula just stared at him for a moment, falling flat on his ass. "...Holy ffffff... There oughta be a point where I stop being surprised, but I guess not!"

Standing back up as his Sub-tanks did their work, he grinned. "Colbur, you just saved my hide!" He backed off a little bit to get to work on something.

[Salvaging SABER...]

If I can get at least one of my weapons online, then I can probably help out, at least. C'mon, c'moooon...!

[Some of the data has been corrupted. Generate SABER?]

Yes!

His weapon appeared in his hand, igniting. The second it was back, he started charging it up, moving back into the fray.

[SwampertOwnage]

"Just don't go making me into a hero, yeah?" He replied, rolling his shoulders with a grin. "Would hate to be the bad guy one day - getting diced up looks like it'd hurt."

And so would getting your guts punched out your back! Too bad Elpeso or whatever is about to find out just how much!

Elpizo's astonishment quickly melted away into anger, which in turn exploded outward in a blazing aura of rage. "WHY?! Why won't you blasted, pathetic interlopers just lay down and die?! Why must you be so persistent?! This world is damned! It isn't worth saving! You petulant, arrogant little-!"

Any further words of ranting were silenced as Megaman Model F landed a nasty blow straight into the Copy's face, sending him reeling backwards. As he did so, a portion of Master E's stamina was cut, and one of the Energy Nets disintegrated. A still unconscious Harpuia fell free of the stasis cell, landing upon the floor with a thud. "C'mon, Mr. Nebula! Let's wipe the floor with this copy and get back home! We've got a lot of cleaning up to do, after all!"

[NebulaGregarZX]

"Yeah, it's not gonna be half as fun as tearing things apart and kicking ass, so I guess I'll have to get used to it!" Nebula dashed after Copy Elpizo, pursuing him with a charged smash-attack with the saber and sending him back to Colbur, preparing to use another skill.

[SwampertOwnage]

Elpizo would have made some snappy remark, no doubt laced with cutting wit and emotionally damaging phrasing, but being knocked back and forth akin to a tennis ball tended to make retorts rather difficult. Colbur was waiting for the return long before Nebula had saber-smacked the copy back towards him, and gave the Reploid a hearty punch straight into the gut. His target was sent careening into what was left of a nearby pillar, completely shattering the marble, as well as another Energy Prism.

By this point, Harpuia had begun to snap out of his forced coma, his eyes attempting to refocus after the disorienting experience. "Grk... that knock more than... than just a few systems awry..."

[NebulaGregarZX]

The second person to be broken free of stasis was Falcona.

Nebula hefted his blade over his shoulder, then swung with tremendous force, throwing a wave of energy at Copy Elpizo not entirely unlike Kougenjin - however, this one would split upon hitting anything, creating smaller waves. "Blade Beam!"

Man! Looks like we've got a team of berserkers on our hands right now!

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