Pure Light – Discovered

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A/N: The MegaMan and Spyro franchises do not belong to me and also, Burner and future OC's that will be known later in the story belong to Xannador on deviantart. I will let you know who his OC's are in each chapter.

A/N 2: People who don't know what MegaMan, Spyro or 'Pure Light' are do not need knowledge about them as I will try to explain each area in the story.

A/N 3: This story will not have anything else relating to MegaMan other than Zero, Wily and the Viruses as to make it follow the cannon 'Pure Light' story line on devaintart as much as possible but adding my own scenarios before as to build relationship between him and others.

A/N 4: Zero will not and I repeat will NOT be his 'overly powered', 'can defeat everything' self as in the story he will be in his Prototype form from MegaMan Unlimited. He will win most battles but not ones where he is severally outnumbered or something similar along those lines like facing both Malefor and Spyro (if that even happens) and be victorious, he will also face personal and emotional problems. If you want an image of what his prototype form looks like than it will look like it is in the cover image but his hair will be longer oh and his eyes aren't mind-controlled-glowiy-red.

If the cover imaghe isn't showing or if you want to find a larger cover image to see what he looks like better just search: "Deviantart Division by Zero Tribute" on google images.

And finally: -Z-Z- means time jump. While (((()))) means scene change.

Thank you for reading this long note and I hope you enjoy!

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"Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with." ― Brodi Ashton

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- Dr. Albert Wily Log –

June 25, 20XX (Start of Z-Project)

I've finally done it, after all this time, I've finally done it. After studying my newly discovered element 'Bassnium' I have learned that there is so much more to it that I might now have the power to finally destroy that meddlesome robot, MegaMan. Once I discovered what this element can do after experimenting with it and what it can do, it has so many possibilities that I didn't even think could exist before and that with it, I can create something extraordinary. A robot with power beyond anything I could ever imagine.

November 17, 20XX (1.7 years since start of Z-Project)

My project is coming along perfectly. Unlike my previous robots this one will not be forced down by the three robotic laws as he will be able to think and feel like a normal human being as well as having emotions like one but due to this, once he awakens his personality will be mixed with his apparent age and actual age but it will adapt to his apparent age quickly, I will make sure of that. Once the adaption is done and he knows what his objective is, he will be able to kill them all but his power will go far beyond that of a normal robot, of MegaMan. He will be my greatest creation, my masterpiece and through him…I will rule the world.

May 2, 20XX (4.9 years since start of Z-Project)

Time is not something I am accustomed to. My old age is starting to take its toll on me, I haven't finished him yet and I feel myself growing weaker every passing day. He is special, he will keep growing more powerful even when technology advances but…I haven't finished the virus, or the armour…he is still a prototype. But maybe if I…yes…perhaps. Hmph, it doesn't matter anymore though, as long as I install the core program feature and the knowledge on how to control the virus, his power will grow. His name will be Zero for as a number it can go on into infinity as will his power for he will become the strongest robot in existence.

End Log.

-Z-Z-

-Start-Up Sequence Initiated By Unknown User – Beginning Finishing Procedure On Z-Project

-Time Until Completion: 20 Years

-October 18, 125XX

-Unknown User: What Are You? You Don't Look Like A Dragon. Hello…Hello?

-Unknown User Has Left Z-Project Room

-Commencing Shutdown

-Z-Z-

#Warning: Stasis Pod Power Level Depleted, Initiating Start Up Procedures.

#Finishing Procedure Completed: ZKnuckle, ZBuster , ZSaber, AbilityCopy loaded successfully.

#Warning: 30% of Core Programing Lost. Attempting Recovery…

#Attempt Failed: Direct Control Files, Proto-Virus Files and Main Objective Files Corrupted.

#Recovering Remaining Healthy Proto-Virus Files.

#Welcome Zero.

#Current Year: 125XX

#Waiting For Outside Confirmation Of Stasis Pod Lock Release.

(((((())))))

In a mine, deep underneath the city of Warfang, many different creatures were gathering and mining different types of crystals as to supply the kingdom above for a war that has been going on for over twenty years, a war in which wasn't going so well for them as for the reason that the creatures were held their against their will. Deep down in a newly mined tunnel was a fire dragon with red scales a dark red underbelly, his wings were the colour of yellow and orange as his eyes matched the colour of his scales.

"You there, the red one!" The dragon in question turned his head to the speaker with a look of boredom on his face, a large minotaur with a leather whip in his hand.

"You're needed at the end of the tunnel," He pointed to the tunnel in question as he then leaned down slightly as to appear larger and intimidating. Such action had no effect on the dragon. "After the 'stunt' you pulled yesterday you're going to be working on extending the tunnel a few meters alone, and I expect to see some progress in the next few hours otherwise…well you know the deal," The minotaur patted his whip as to get the meaning across while the dragon just gave him a small glare before heading down the tunnel, dragging a pickaxe along the ground.

The young fire dragon: Burner seemed to not care about the orders that his 'superior' had spoken. Of course, this wasn't unusual for him, he didn't really follow orders most of the time especially if it came from creatures like that.

"Yeah Yeah, I got it," He barked. "Dig a tunnel or get whipped."

The crystal mines were large. It was at least over one hundred meters deep and its width larger. Walking down the new tunnel, it was surrounded with all sorts of crystals that had yet to be gathered although due to fact that is was recently made, it made sense for the crystals to still be there. But something didn't sit right with Burner about this.

It wasn't the fact that he was to work on it alone oh no, it was that ever since it was discovered some of the workers had found strange things while mining. During excavation, large pieces of refined metal plates were found within the tunnel that shouldn't be there in the first place but most seemed to just brush it off as some sort of underground room that was probably caved in at some point. But as the days went by he began to notice that workers were starting to bring out weird machinery: metal rods, pipes even some sort of small gears.

Once news like this began to reach Warfang itself, some of its residents started to speak about it being more evidence to prove that the 'Golden Age' was real not that he believed in it anyway. But after a few days that was when things took a turn, when the incident happened. Upon the sixth day since the creation of the tunnel, one of the guards, a male dragon had found a small glass cylinder in a small opening of the tunnel which he thought could fetch him at pretty penny. Sadly due to his eagerness (and stupidity), it fell out of his hands when he tried to pull out of the rock it was stuck in and broke it, shame right? But the cylinder had something inside of it that apparently none of them could see, at least with the naked eye.

About two hours after the cylinder broke the guard's metal leg and arm, both on the left side of his body seem to shut down, in other words he couldn't seem to use his mind to work them. Thinking that the crystal inside had broken somehow, they moved him to the side of the room as to let the workers pass and continue their work. About three hours later, the crystal seemed to work again however it seemed to act all on its own. Once it did there was a worker, an alicorn right next to him. What happened next was…unexpected. The guard's metal arm went right into to alicorn's throat only to then rip out a chunk of his neck, to the guard's total surprise as it even tried going for him.

The end result of the situation was both metal arm and leg being ripped off and crushed in order to stop it from squirming away like an insect, in other words it wasn't a very pretty sight their being two dead bodies lying on the ground in the middle of a crowded tunnel. Shortly afterwards, most of the workers in the area started requesting to be moved to different parts of the mine having witnessed the deaths of both alicorn and dragon and it didn't take long for it to reach the ears of the royal guard.

Normally the royal guard wouldn't care about what sort of things that happened in the crystal mines however the talk of something that could cause dragons with metallic limbs to kill others wasn't something they could ignore as well as the fact that it might involve one of the freedom flyers to investigate which was something they didn't want to go through with. Through investigating the scene one of them had found the broken glass cylinder, upon looking at it thoroughly there was a symbol at the top which had a large letter that appeared to look like a 'W'. It was later considered evidence although they didn't want something like this to get out to the public so the workers were told to not say anything about it, in the nicest way a royal guard could possibly say. The day after two similar incidents occurred and from that point on anything with metal attachments were forbidden to work in the premises.

Burner had finally reached the end of the tunnel, supressing a shiver as he shook his head to forget about what happened before looking around at where to start. Grabbing the pic with both claws and smashing the rock in front of him, he let out an annoyed sigh.

"One down, three hundred more to go."

(((((())))))

The day had gone pretty fast in Burners opinion. He managed to do a decent job at extending the tunnel especially for just doing all the work himself, hell even one of the guards gave him a compliment when he went to check up on how he was doing. After he finished up the last few loose rocks the minotaur gave him a small nod before leaving, signalling that he was free to go. Giving a relieved sigh, he unceremoniously dropped the pickaxe where he stood before walking back down the tunnel until he noticed something that he didn't see before due to the fact that he was spending his time finishing his work as fast as he could so he could spend time with his friends.

He walked over to the side of the tunnel which showed what appeared to be a loose part of the wall in the shape of a square that made of rock only upon closer inspection that it looked smoother than the rest of the tunnel which gave of the hint that meant that this was not supposed to be here. Looking closer at the edges of the square shaped rock, Burner found that it appeared to be loose. Going with his gut he gave the wall a slight push with both claws only for it to fall forwards and slam onto the ground. The noise it made caused him to cringe as it was loud enough for anything down the tunnel to hear but due to all the sounds that everyone was making snuffed it out which Burner was thankful for.

As he walked over the fallen wall, his eyes widened at what he found. The tunnel was connected to a large room that was filled with many different things, some of them from what Burner could only tell a few things due to how dark it was: the same equipment that was found a few days ago. Taking a few more steps inside, he found that it was too dark to see anything else even with the light shining inside the newly discovered room.

"Man, where's a light when you one?"

*Click*

As soon as the words left Burners mouth the room lit up, illuminating the entire room which caused him to slightly squint his eyes as he adjusted to the brightness.

"Huh, ask and you shall receive," he said to himself as he began to walk around the room, having the privilege to not use his fire breath to see, he walked to what appeared to be a large glass screen which seemed to have some words written on it.

Upon arriving at the front of the screen he noticed that there were a lot of small square buttons right underneath which seemed to have every letter of the alphabet, one for each button while a larger on which said 'enter'. Looking up at the screen, Burner looked at the words that were presented on the screen in front of him.

-Start Up Sequence Initiated By Unknown User

-February 7, 125XX

-Initiated Through The Command 'Light'

-Main Battery Power At 0% - Backup Battery Power At 71%

-Z-Project Status: Complete

-Confirmation On Stasis Pod Lock Release?

Although Burner was confused about all of this he wasn't stupid, a machine that could turn on lights through speaking with your voice? He knew that none of this type of technology existed in Warfang even Professor Takanobu didn't have anything like this and from the looks of it, there were no crystals to power the room only a so called 'generator'. But what did it mean about a Stasis Pod release? What was this 'Z-Project'?

Choosing to ignore the message for now, he moved to the other side of the room where there were shelves stacked with all sorts of metal and equipment only for his eyes to light up at what he saw on one particular piece. Walking up to it, he grabbed the object he was focused on and moved it up close to his face as to make sure he was seeing things right. On the front of the object was the letter 'W' which stood out as like it wanted everyone that looked its way was to see it, as it was like a symbol and Burner knew that it was because he now knew that whatever was in that glass cylinder was related to whoever built this place however due to the fact that this room was buried deep underneath Warfang, he doubted that the person was still alive.

Putting it back where it once originated, Burner turned to the back of the room where a large metal cylinder was standing upright. Turning back to the glass screen, he assumed that this metal cylinder was the Stasis Pod it was talking about as it was the only other thing left in the room which seemed to stand out other than all the technology advanced equipment on the shelves. Biting his lower lip, he walked up to the front of the Pod, noticing that it had the same symbol as what the object had on it. He could feel his heart slightly speed up, thinking that this was going to be one of the most stupid things he was about to do if things took a turn for the worst. Taking a deep breath as to prepare him for what was about to happen he said the word that he hoped would not cause a disaster.

"Yes."

And just like that, the screen obeyed. The sound of turning gears was heard from the pod, although more smoother it signalled that the lock was about to be broken and just as quick as it started, it stopped. The front of the pod had formed a line from the top to the bottom as it split apart and when it finished, Burner saw what inside. It was a living being.

The sudden movement from said being caused Burner to move back a few steps as to give himself some distance from the creature when he got out of the pod, moving his body position into that of a fighting stance in case he proved to be hostile. The strange being lifted both claws to each side of the pod as he pushed himself forward as to get out of his pod, his eyes remained closed the entire time until he got out to reveal that they were pure sapphire. Standing on two legs, he seemed to survey the room as if it was his first time being here, not even noticing that the fire dragon was in the room. Burner made a note that due to his body type that he was probably a male although the sight of long blonde hair that went all the way down to his legs seemed to look really misleading to those who would see him from his back before they saw what he looked like at the front.

"Are you done?" The bipedal creatures' eyes quickly found their way to the source of the voice, his eyes turned from serious to soft as he looked down to find the dragon who spoke and said his own words.

"Yes, might I ask what your name is?" Yep, sentient and definitely male. His voice seemed to be at the age of one who was in their late teenage years although it seemed to carry an innocent tone to it. But that wasn't enough, Burner eyed him suspiciously at the question.

"Why do you want to know?" Burner wasn't one to instantly give out information to strangers especially one as suspicious as this, being from a room that had something that could cause metal limbs to act on their own and violently kill at that. Said stranger seemed to flinch slightly, only slightly at his tone which Burner noticed as it looked like he was just told off for something he did wrong.

"Okay, I get it, you don't trust me," he raised his claws slightly as to stop him from doing anything before falling into silence, seeming to be thinking about something for a few moments.

"How about I tell you my name and then you can tell me yours," Burner blinked at the question, he wanted to think that is was like the creature forgot what he just said to him but he knew there was another meaning behind it. After some thought he decided to go with it, after all, things hadn't gone to hell yet but he didn't think that it was even going to at where the conversation was heading. He gave him a nod, accepting the request which caused the creature's face to brighten slightly as he cleared his throat.

"My name is Zero."