A/N:

Hey everyone! Some of you may know me, some of you may not. This is my first submission to the Mega Man genre so I'll start with an introduction. My Name's Satashi and I hope to make an impression on you as you read my little 'fic here. This is a Mega Man Zero story with a few flash backs, these will be in complete italic type. The first 2 chapters will be kind of slow (in my opinion) because I have to set up a firm ground to start from (the game doesn't give any info on Zero's home life at all) Takes place after Mega Man Zero 2.

Being my first entry to Mega Man, I've added a small tribute to Red Draco's Bass is Not a Fish story in here. Try and spot it ^_^

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"Is there anything I can do today?" Zero asked as he stepped into Ciel's lab room without knocking. The female scientist, in turn, gave a startled gasp before turning to look at him.

"Zero, don't do that to me!"

Zero ignored her and asked again, used to the welcome by now, as he had scared her every morning since he came back to the base. " Is there anything I can do?"

Ciel sighed. "Yes, Zero, there is." She tapped a few keys on her keyboard. "I think you should get a hobby, though. I can't find missions for you every day since there isn't much activity now."

Zero leaned over her chair and watched the screen. "What is it?" His hair fell from his shoulder and onto the keyboard. Ciel hardly noticed.

"We found an abandoned base about one hundred and fifty kilometers from here while scouting with our plane. We think it could be the old Maverick Hunter Head Quarters."

"The HQ?" Zero asked, looking at the image. As it was taken from the air, he couldn't make out too much detail. The building had clearly not seen life in ages. Vines grew abundantly around, covering it mostly from view.

"It was abandoned at the end of the Maverick wars. We don't know if anything is still there, but I just thought that maybe you would like to go?"

A sudden memory flashed across Zero's mind.

 A blue and purple robot laughing as he walked next to him. Several humans saluted the two as they passed, which they responded with a wave or a thumbs up.

"Zero?"

"eh?" Zero shook his head before placing his hand on it. "Yeah, yeah, I'd like to go. Maybe I'll find something about my past there."

Ciel smiled. "I'm hoping so. I already set the quordinats for you."

He smiled at her. "Already?"

The scientist blushed lightly. "I thought you'd want to leave as soon as you found out…"

Zero nodded. "I do. Thanks Ciel." With that, he turned and walked out of the room.

Reploid: Zero

By:

Satashi

"Ready to trans server." The operator stated into her headset. Lights flashed, signaling to steer clear of the transporter. "Commencing. Three, two, one, Transit in progress."

The world blurred in front of Zero's eyes as he felt his body  phase out. Not a moment later, a new scene was in front of him. There were vines growing up broken rock and weeds growing between the cracked and shattered concrete. Zero started walking slowly, looking at the area around him.

The reploid placed his hand on a monument, broken and eroded from several years without treatment.

The blue and purple reploid saluted the statue as he passed by, but quickly grinned at Zero and waved him over, showing two cans of beer in other hand.

Zero shook his head and looked at the spot from his vision. "Are these memories?" He asked aloud, not expecting a reply back. He continued on his way until he came to a doorway. Looking around, he spied a small box that might have once been a doorbell. Faded letters were under it. Dusting it off, he made them out slowly.

PUSH TO FEEL GOOD

He blinked and went past the doors, ignoring the corny welcome he got. The inside was a little more preserved than the out, but still showed signs of the years. Broken glass was everywhere, leaving crunching sounds under his boots. Two doors to his left lead into a large room with tables, obviously a mess hall.

Zero laughed as the blue reploid threw a punch at him "Is that the best you have, X!? My mother could do better, and I don't even have one!"

Zero continued along his way, looking into random rooms. Some held broken computers, some were caved in from decay. Several more memories flashed through his head, but he came to a stand still when he entered a room that could have passed as a medical center.

"Is… Can you…?"

"No, she's gone. Everything. We can rebuild her, but she won't be the same. Not even close."

Zero sighed and sat down on a bed, placing his head in his hands, taking off his helmet and sitting it bedside him. "I lived here once." He spoke aloud again.

"Hey, Zero!" X called as he ran into the room. "I just got a new nitro for our bikes! Let's put them in and check them!"

"X?" his voice spoke without really noticing. "You was my best friend… Hey, bikes! I remember!"

Zero hopped up from the bed and ran down the halls, turning whenever he thought he saw a glimpse of his former best friend running with him. After a few moments, Zero burst, panting, into what looked like a large hanger. Walking where his feet lead him, he made his way to a corner and reached to a large sheet covering something. He hesitated for a moment before grasping it and pulling it off.

Dust flew thick from the removal of the sheet, but under it lay something that made Zero speechless. It was a hover bike, modified for war. The amour didn't shine, nor did the details look nice at all. It was torn and tattered, never restored after it's final run. Kneeling down, he picked up a small sign of sorts.

IN MEMORY OF ZERO

"This… is mine…?" His eyes scanned over it.

"X! Let's take it all the way!"

"All right!"

"No!" a voice came in over their intercoms. It was Alia. "Do not engage the plasma nitrous! It will explode if you do!"

Zero clicked off his communicator. "Not since we installed them right!" He screamed against the wind as he rode his hover bike at break neck speeds. "Ready X!?"

X grinned and gave a thumbs up sign. Both hit the red button on their handle bars. Almost immediately, both bikes exploded in flames, sending the riders hurling in the air. Their screams rang long and loud, stopping only when they hit the ground, skidded, and rolled several meters.

"Ugh…I think I broke my arm…" X grunted out, arching his back in pain.

"I shattered my calvarias…majouris…" Zero added in. After a moment, they chuckled, then laughed fully, wincing in pain afterwards. "Got to… get that fixed…"

"I told you." Alia spoke into X's headset. "Too much fire power."

"Heh…Ow… yeah… If we increase the strength of the frame, we can keep the same firepower."

X thought about it for only a second. "Yeah…let's do that."

Zero smiled to himself at the memory. "I bet I can salvage this…" Standing up, he set a marker on his quordinates so he could return later to pick it up. Walking around for a moment, he gathered tools that seemed remotely familiar to him and placed them in a pile next to the hover bike.

When he was done, the crimson wonder left the room and walked around more, running his hand along the wall, almost seeing people walking past him, as if they were ghost from his past. Some looked scared of him, others smiled, while more saluted him. He then felt something tackle him from behind. Turning, he caught a glimpse of a girl's face with brown hair. "Iri-"

Zero snapped out of it. It was a memory again, not reality. "What was her name?" He whispered, desperately trying to remember. "I should know this!" He closed his eyes tightly. "Think Zero! Think!"

"Zero, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity."

Zero whirled around, seeing the fading image of the same girl. "It started with an 'I' …..I…..Ir…..Irlus? Iioness?"

Zero opened a door, mind lost in thought. What he saw behind the door, however, shocked him enough to make him pause fully.

Leviathan looked at him, equally as shocked.

Both quickly took a step backwards and drew their weapons. Zero's light saber came to life a mere second before Leviathan's trident, but the girl's faster agility made up for her delay, and she parried the blade and moved into a stalemate position.

"Zero!?"

"Leviathan?!"

"What are you doing here!?" She demanded. "Do you have spies in our base? How did you know I would be here?!"

Zero's mind whirled. "Yeah, several spies" he lied easily.

Leviathan glared at him, tasting the words and not liking them.

"Emergency! Emergency! All Maverick hunter personal report to the launching bay immediately! Class S and A Hunters are to report to the engineering bay for Hover bike interception!"

When Zero's mind snapped out of his memory, he found Leviathan's plasma trident placed to his neck, making it itch terribly. "Are you really Zero?" She asked, looking at him. "He would never leave himself open like that!"

"X!" Zero laughed, helping his friend up from the floor, where he just tripped over some marbles some kids were playing. "Keep your guard up man! There are little evil ones all over the place!" He laughed happily at his own joke, while X took his hand for a help up.

Zero stumbled backwards and put a hand to his helmet. "I'm… I'm not myself right now, Leviathan. I don't want to fight you."

The blue haired girl studied him a moment before slowly placing her weapon on her back. "At the chance of sounding like I am worried about you….What's wrong? You're not here on a mission are you?"

Zero sat down and placed the palm of his hand onto his forehead and sighed. "My mind is trying to recall the past… There are so many memories flashing around me…"

The female reploid let this sink in. "wait a minuet. You don't remember your past!?"

Zero bit his tongue. He shouldn't have let that slip. Only Ciel and X knew he had amnesia.

Leviathan suddenly looked at him a little sympathetically. "Wow… that must suck, huh?"

"You have no idea." Zero replied absently. Hopefully there wasn't going to be a fight here today. "I don't suppose you could just let me wander around here?"

" 'Fraid not. Unlike you, I have a mission to do here. If you stop me, I will fight you."

Zero sighed. "If I don't make the first move, will you not make one?"

"A truce?"

Zero stood. "I think you realize that if I get my memory back, I will be able to fight better. I realize whatever you get here will help you as well. We both have something to gain."

"And fighting here won't do anything." Leviathan thanked her lucky stars he suggested a truce. Even though she put up a strong show for him, she was positive he knew she couldn't fight well on land. She was built and designed for water. Here she would have almost a 50% handicap. "Okay, truce accepted. I am the only one here. We stay apart and don't do anything to stop each other. I won't attack you when you are distracted and you won't stop me from getting what I want. Risky on both our parts."

Zero nodded. "Truce." He extended his hand, which she took without hesitating.

"Truce then. Ends tonight at midnight."

"Agreed."

The started walking, ironically going the same way. They split at the end of the hall, however, just as Zero got a blip in his ear. "Zero, this is Ciel, how are things?"

"Everything is fine." He replied.

"Want me to warp you back?"

"Not now, I'm still looking."

"Okay. Our radar just picked up something, hold on……. Zero, there is an unfriendly unit in the building!"

Zero looked over his shoulder to Leviathan, who was looking in a room, but obviously paying attention to him. "Everything is fine, it was a scout unit. I must not have destroyed it completely. I'll contact you if anything else comes up."

Leviathan walked away from the door, as though she didn't ease drop on him. Zero in turn ,continued on his way as well.

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Zero held his emergency glow stick out in front of him as he walked. It was dark, and close to eleven. He was on the top floor now, and bits of the ceiling were gone, showing the stars above him. His mind had shown him countless flashes from his past, but nothing solid that he didn't already know. He was Zero, his friend was X, they were hunters that fought against Mavericks. Several people showed up repeatedly, but he could never remember who they were when the ghostly memory faded from him.

It was serving to irk him greatly.

He sighed and took out a book from a shelf next to him. The book only tilted, though, and the shelf slid to the side on hinges that still worked, despite the years. "Well, well, well." He spoke aloud. "I thought this might be a head office, but a secret passageway? Now I'm sure of it."

Zero walked through the opening and immediately fell down. His mind clicked into gear and he grabbed the small handle on his side and pushed the button as he swung it. A long whip of plasma ignited and latched into the wall before becoming solid dry plasma. The reploid swung lightly and hit the wall on his side, making a clanging sound.

"Whew." He breathed out, looking down. Seeing nothing, he dropped his light stick down and watched it free fall three stories before hitting the bottom. Now with a stopping point in sight, Zero let his whip disconnect and fall down a bit, grab the wall the slow him down, and fall again.

He landed on a type of elevator lid. Without really thinking about it, he pulled the top hatch open and jumped down. Light blinded him for a moment when he looked. The optics in his eyes quickly adjusted and he found himself walking into an almost fully operational lab.

"Zero!"

Zero spun and saw Leviathan  next to a type of blue capsule. From the looks of it, she was trying to hack it open. "So this is why you were here?" He asked, waving his hand when she reached for her weapon. "Truce is still on, girl."

"Don't call me "girl" please. I have a name."

"Sorry," he walked to the capsule. "So, um, what is that?" He jerked his thumb to the glowing capsule.

"That's why I'm here." Leviathan retorted. "I'm going to see what it is. I've been here ever since you left and I still haven't opened it.."

"Did you try touching it?" Zero asked, with a cocky grin he picked up somewhere from his memories.

"You idiot, do you really think that by touching it you can…" Her words failed as she watched Zero touch the capsule and it spring open effortlessly. "What the…?"

Zero took several steps back, obviously shocked at what just happened.

"We meet again, Zero." A voice came, followed closely by a holographic image of a heavy set man in a lab coat. He had a beard and a kind face. "I see you have a friend with you?" He looked over at a stunned Leviathan. "I'm sorry, I don't know your name?"

"Leviathan." She answered automatically.

"Again?" Zero asked, walking forward. "I've… met you before?"

"Of course!" the man replied. "It is I who stored your memory and gave you the amour you are wearing now."

"…Why?" was all he could ask.

The man looked saddened. "After the… incident, you wanted to rest for a while. X brought you to me and I saved your memory from your dieing body and created the new one you are in now. Although I'm afraid you are only at about twenty percent of your original power."

"You're a program…" Leviathan spoke, shaking her head. "You can't answer questions like that!"

"Ah, but you are wrong my dear." He replied. "I am a part of a soul. I was embedded into this capsule by a famous scientist and incredible empathic. Using this method I have helped X through many of his wars, building armor and upgrades for him. This one, however, is only the second I've built for Zero. The first he refused to take. An armor upgrade during the fifth Maverick war."

Zero was having trouble keeping up with all of this, but somehow he knew it was true. "What is this capsule for…?"

The hologram looked at him. "I hold the data of the Maverick reploid Zero. The first of his life."

"I… was a maverick?"

"Only at first. Commander Sigma took you to Dr. Cain and they purged the memories from your body. I hold those memories here. Come, Zero, step inside and relive your past."

The hologram faded and Zero stepped forward, as if awed.

"I can't let you do that Zero." Leviathan stated, getting in his way. "I am supposed to take this back to the base with me if I couldn't crack it here."

"But… it's open. Your mission is done!"

Leviathan looked as though she was fighting an inner struggle. "But… I can't let you go in! It would be like I was betraying master X!"

"The copy X doesn't know what's going on here!" Zero retorted, glaring. "Leviathan… Leviathan, please. I've never asked anything of anyone in this life… give me this…"

Leviathan opened her mouth, then closed it. After a second try, she turned her back to him. "Just… answer me one thing first." Zero nodded, although she couldn't see him. "Why… why did you never kill me when we fought? Everything else was sliced into pieces, but not us…why?"

Zero looked at her back while answering. "I respect you. You are fighting to protect the humans. You would give your life to do that. Although we are going for the same goal, we are walking different paths that lead to it. You kill reploids to save all humans from them. I kill your reploids to stop you from killing more… If we weren't enemies, maybe we would be friends… I can't 'retire' a reploid like you, you are too much like myself… and a skilled fighter also."

Leviathan didn't turn to look at him, but whispered softly in reply. "…Go in…"

Zero walked past her and put one boot into the capsule. "Thanks… Lev."

Leviathan turned just in time to see the capsule close.

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Kill, destroy. Maim them all! Kill the beast, split it's throat, spill it's blood!

Bass laughed insanely at Zero. "It's perfect! A reploid! You did it, Doc! This being will be a god! A GOD! Bass slammed his hands onto the table where he was laying and talked right into his face. " I'm going to teach you everything. Humans will all bow to us! The world will be ours!"

"After a 30 year hibernation to set his mind straight." The Scientist stated. "He needs a name."

Bass grinned at him. "I have a name. You shall leave no survivors on a battle field. I shall christen you with the name ZERO!"

The lid closed down and Zero fell asleep, not to be disturbed for thirty long years.

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Zero broke out of the capsule and laughed insanely. His eyes were sharp, looking at the people who awakened him.

Destroy, kill! Bash their heads! Slit their throats! Do them in!

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Sigma walked into the mine shaft where Zero was. The reploid turned and saw him, immediately running, fist raised to attack. Sigma moved so quickly away it looked as if he left afterimages of himself.

Zero was shocked. That was the first time he hadn't killed in the first punch. Grinning madly now, he attacked again.

The battle lasted several hours. Sigma was beaten badly and his artificial skin was ripped by both eyes. Zero smiled, knowing he would win. That was when Sigma finally pulled his light saber from his belt and ignited it.

Zero froze, looking at the pulsating plasma. Sigma, seeing his chance, dashed forward and sliced, cutting Zero's crystal in his helmet and knocking it off.

The crimson reploid fell without restraint.

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Zero's vision was blurry. He was strapped to a table, with several people above him. They were nothing more than black fuzzy shadows, however.

" His hand to hand skills are off the charts!"

"A born killer! We can use him on our side."

"format his hard drive and we'll start over."

"But he'll lose all of his skill!"

"His body will remember. We need this warrior."

"…Fine. We'll equip him with a light saber. Sigma said that he was awe struck by it."

Zero lost consciousness.

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Zero broke from the capsule, sending shards of glass everywhere. Leviathan screamed in shock, not expecting this, but already had her lance out and ready to use it. Zero landed in a crouch and slowly stood up, his eyes moving over her body.

"…Zero?" She knew it was him, and yet he was not the same anymore. His eyes… they were cold, hard, emotional less. They were no longer the usual battle hardened eyes, but now were those of a killer.

"Kill the beast…" he whispered to himself. Leviathan took a step backwards. "Slit her throat…" Zero took a small step forward. "Spill her blood…" Leviathan started to feel truly afraid. Never had she seen such an intent to kill . "… Do her in…"

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A/N:

Hope you enjoyed chapter one. Chapter two will be a little better as I start getting a feel for these characters. Please review if you think this deserves it. I welcome all comments, critisim, and flames. Please flame maturely and point out specific parts that agrivated you enough to flame, so I can work on it. If you don't, I won't know what to improve upon.

I take all request (if they will fit into the story – if not, I'll try and make a new one for you) so please don't hesitate to ask.