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[EVENT] Welcome to the City!

The rift is rather quiet, lately. It has been for some time. Long-time members of the city know better though - that was only the calm before the mechanical storm. Soon enough, the rift rumbles again and a new wave of visitors begin to arrive all at once!

Some of these newcomers might notice a bright red metal device fit perfectly to their wrist. There is no apparent way to remove the device and any attempts to break it prove that it is nearly indestructible. More troubling is the ominous digital timer on the top of the device, slowly ticking down from 01:00:00. One hour.

What the new arrivals don't know is that in one hour, the devices will explode... Into confetti! The device is basically a timed Party Ball you wear on your wrist, complete with happy jingle and a teeny-tiny banner that says, "WERCOME TO HAPPY CITY, ARR OF GUEST!"

(Welcome to the DR! As with all events, this one is completely optional, but we thought we'd give you something fun to start with! The DR is now officially open to IC posts! We again ask that you please read the rules and familiarize yourself with the setting before posting! Have fun!)

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This sucked.

Not that Zero had anything against a clear summer sky, or a peaceful day in general, but it would have been nice if he had woken up in his own recharge capsule rather than discover that someone saw fit to cart him outside and place him on some random roof in some random city. That certain someone was going to pay.

So, he lied there on the concrete roof with his arms crossed and glaring at a jet plane's vapor trail. When he got back to base he was going to have a "talk" with a certain redhead, maybe even a certain blue bomber.

Zero didn't notice the device that had appeared on his person as of yet, he was too absorbed in plotting revenge against whoever pulled this stunt.

Quake Woman had no idea how she appeared to point A to point B. It was a peculiar set of circumstances that was for certain. Not that it mattered. Her primary objective had been disrupted by being somehow displaced into a different city. It was hard not to notice the device upon her wrist with a the time ticking down. She had attempted to disable it but to no avail.

Quake Woman moved on in trying to sending communications to Dr. Lalinde but it had all ended in failure. Her next option was to go to higher grounds, to get a better look of her new surroundings which yes, led to the very same random rooftop Zero was laying on.

Once there, Quake Woman does take a moment to regard Zero in silence before proceeding to walk past him and closer to the edge. Surely she would be able to spot an area to seek better information from.

What rooftop is complete without a ninja or two?

Marino wasn't one for staying in one place, especially not in unfamiliar surroundings with an ominous red doohickey on her wrist. The natural course of action when stuck in a potentially-sticky situation? Lay low, get a feel for the land, avoid anyone who looks like they may or may not be a police officer. Sticking to the skyline seemed like the perfect way to scope the joint out without any surprise encounters.

It would have seemed like pretty bad luck that her route had carried her right into the path of a Maverick Hunter, then, but that distinctive red armor was unmistakable. Must be her lucky day, then. The soft impact of boots meeting rooftop was the only indication of her abrupt arrival, up until she was leaning over Zero, hands on her hips.

"Well, well! Fancy running into you here."

So, X had figured that this day was going to be the best day ever.

He'd gone through the North Pole, beaten up the X-Hunters, managed to see Zero back together in one piece, and on top of all of that he and his revived-best-friend had blown up the base and main computer in which Sigma was residing, essentially eradicating him at the source for good.

(But then of course Capcom would happen, but it wasn't as though X knew that.)

He'd felt the explosions, he'd felt the heat bore into his synthetic skin as he'd made for the teleportation device, and managed to get out...

...But then, shortly after returning to Hunter Base he'd hunkered down in his trusty recharge-bed to have a much-needed nap.

...

And he'd woken up here, next to some spare trash cans with a few rats and cats jumping around on his helmet.

So now that great day? Went from great to awful in the span of a few minutes, even if X himself was acting less angry about the whole ordeal and more...confused, smelling like old trash and wandering through the city streets in some attempt to at least figure out something about where he was.

Edited 2012-06-29 00:48 (UTC)

[Other than his processors going "where the hell am I" right now, as well not being able to contact Dr. Light or Roll at the lab, this spells trouble for little boy blue here. And he's not too happy about it either. For now, he'll just fiddle with the device on his wrist. It seems that he's doing what he could to take it off right now. Hrm.]

Zero instantly noticed when Quake Woman clanked onto the roof, but in his sour mood he wouldn't have bothered to physically turn his head to look at her. He naturally assumed that she was just another reploid out doing whatever. Couldn't be a Maverick since every Maverick ever recognized him and immediately began shooting or gloating.

When she actually looked down at him, however, he had to blink curiously. Her design didn't look like any reploid he's ever seen; in fact, it looked old. The young lady's completely blank expression just piqued his curiosity even more, and he watched her quietly move toward the edge to get a better look around.

Okay, that was weird. He hadn't yet seen someone with such ... not empty, but blank eyes. There was intelligence in there to be sure, but not much else. Zero sat up, then rose to his feet and calmly walked to her side. Maybe she was a resident of this place.

"Do you know which city this is?" he asked.

Zero was still busy grousing and plotting and occasionally growling to himself when the smiling face of a pretty woman with an obviously nice rack decided to block his view of the sky.

He thought he had heard something, but thought it was noise from the A/C units at first and had therefore ignored it.

The blonde Hunter only blinked at the pink-armored reploid and asked, "Do you know where this is? My GPS can't get a particular fix on my location." Which was strange, as natural interference was a very rare thing.

Quake Woman stopped her surveillance of the area when Zero spoke. Slowly she turned her gaze to him. Her expression showed no signs of change, and her voice was just as emotive.

"I do not."

She will take a moment to observe Zero closer. He certainly wasn't a model she recognized. He had to be a newer model, judging by his appearance and the peculiar style of armor he wore. Judging from his line of questioning he had to have been thrown into the same predicament as her.

"What is your identification? I do not recognize you."

Zero had seen a lot of things, but never a being as non-emotive as this one. Not even Robot Masters had that blank of a look or that deadpan of a tone (at least, according to history texts). He stopped the urge to internally shiver, and instead bristled at her answer.

"Great."

He let her study him, which gave him a moment to do the same. She certainly didn't look like much, and she had no obvious weapons on her. Probably just a civilian model.

"The name's Zero," he answered her, "S-Rank Maverick Hunter, commander of Special Elite Unit 0. What about yourself?"

Marino stepped back, raising her shoulders in a halfhearted shrug. "Sorry, Zero, but your guess is as good as mine. Can't say I recognize anything I've seen so far. You're the first reploid I've even run into." Though that much, however, had mostly been intentional; she was in no hurry to attract attention, after all.

"Call it thief's instinct, but I'd say it's no accident we ended up here -- no GPS, teleporting's on the fritz, and someone was nice enough to give us a little present." She held up her wrist, nodding down at the red band imposed around it. "Clashes with my armor, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't look like a tracking device. Doesn't mean it's not dangerous, but it seems like we've got a pretty long leash to work with."

Oooookay. Rock's pretty sure he'd been mowing the grass seconds prior to being in the middle of the city. The seconds it took for his robotic mind to catch up with where he was was just enough time to realize he's now in the middle of the road as well. He leaped out of the way of incoming traffic and pressed his back against the nearest building. A quick scan of his memory for any hiccups or glitches provided a clean report. Besides almost getting flattened by a truck, everything was in order.

That meant one thing in his mind. Whatever had happened? Whatever had brought him here, far from home? Was Wily's fault.

Zero finally bothered to sit up and then stand up, brushing the dust from his blonde mane for a moment as he listened to the reploid woman tell him her findings. He was used to people coming up to him, X, or Axl for help or something when they were recognized, but this girl acted like she personally knew him.

There was time to clear that up later, especially when she mentioned the device on her wrist. Instantly he checked his wrist for one, and sure enough there it was clamped onto his gauntlet and counting down. 45 minutes left, but 'til what? His first thought was that it was a bomb, and he growled.

"Great. Have you been able to get yours off?"

Tornado Man had no idea how he a short trip away from Dr. Light's lab would land him to a city he did not recognize in the least. His attempts at contacting anyone back home wasn't working. It was as if there was some sort of interference.

He opted to wander through the streets as well, hoping to find someone who could set him in the right direction. Or at least see a familiar face which he did. Sort of. In a form of X.

He doesn't hide his surprise as he quickly approached.

"Rock?" ...but it couldn't be him. That appearance, and that face. It was similar despite notable differences. "Who are you?"

[...Hm. Can't say he was expecting to go from the explosion of Ragnarok to...this.

Wherever he is.

Needless to say, Zero's quite confused and a bit disoriented. He can't seem to contact Ciel, and there's this weird red device on his wrist that he can't seem to remove. First order of business, then: find a local and bother them with questions about where he is and what's going on.

Fortunately, there's a small Reploid boy nearby, although he seems to be just as confused as Zero himself. He'll approach him anyway. Somebody's better than nobody, after all.]

Hey. What's going on here?

[...hm. Strange. Is it just him, or does this kid look an awful lot like...]

...Did X just see that?

A robot appear in the middle of a road, dodge a truck, and then run to the building adjacent him?

...Either this Reploid (was it a Reploid, even? He couldn't imagine many humans traveling via teleportation, he supposed) ended up reaching the wrong coordinates or he had the absolute worst nav programs available.

In either case, something was obviously wrong.

X's hero-instincts clicked into overdrive as he jogged towards the newcomer, questions on his mind but concern falling from his lips:

"Are you all right?"

[Rock then stopped fiddling on the said device, now eyes on the other robot.]

I'm not sure. I've just got here, and I can't pinpoint where we are right now...

A big city was not where she was just a moment ago, in fact for Wily she was about to throw something at that stupid Rock as he was mowing Light's lawn. Just to get the robot's attention, of course, not for any dastardly reason. But then she was here.

Where ever here is. And with a stupid device on her wrist to boot. So now she's stomping about making frustrated noises at everything she sees, hoping to find something familiar, and mentally blaming this on Rock.

Rock took a couple breaths to cool his processors as they slowed a bit from the near death. He was about to glance down at the odd thing he felt around his wrist when a taller robot (what else could it be with armor like that, a cosplayer?) came jogging over to see if he was okay.

"I think so," he sighed, looking up with a sheepish smile. He probably looked pretty stupid, almost getting hit by a truck like that.

"There aren't many locks that can stand up to yours truly... but that depends on there being a lock to begin with," Marino admitted. The thing appeared to be seamless: no sign of the ridiculously simple lock on those energy-based handcuffs the Hunters liked using.

"I tried seeing if I could cut through it, too, but no dice. Seems like it'd take way more firepower than my knives have got to offer. Can't even crack it open to put the brakes on the timer, as far as I can tell." She added a little demonstation as she spoke, reaching behind herself to pull a beam knife from Hayohn's mouth. The short blade, sure enough, merely crackled ineffectually against the device, not even leaving the tiniest of nicks in its wake.

Still, she kept a calm face on, deactivating the weapon and holding it hilt-first to Zero. "Care to try your luck? We've gotten out of tighter scrapes than this one, but I can't say I'm looking forward to seeing what these things are counting down to."

Neither can I...

[This is kind of a problem, if neither one of them had any idea... Maybe Zero should try to find someone else nearby. Or better yet, both of them should go together. Wouldn't want to leave a kid by himself when he seemed to be lost, too.

...But first. There's something about this kid...why does he look so familiar somehow? Just like...]

Who are you, anyway?

Zero narrowed his eyes as the teal-haired reploid woman explained and demonstrated. When he saw the device completely resisted the swipe by the beam knife, Zero highly doubted his beam sabre would work. Still, it was worth a shot since sabres tended to be more powerful than the beam knives or daggers.

And there was another indication she knew him personally. Okay, switching priorities for a second.

"You act like you know me, and have for a while. Who are you? I don't remember seeing your face anywhere." Unless they had met in passing while on a joint mission with other Hunter branches or something, but he hardly ever forgot a face.

"Forgotten me already, Zero? Any other girl, and you might just have a broken heart on your hands." It did seem downright strange to her that he didn't remember her at all -- that whole Giga City incident hadn't been that long ago, had it? Then again, he had been pretty slow to warm up to the group. Well, maybe he just needed a reminder.

"The name's Marino, retired petty thief. ...Sort of retired. Part-time retired. Going to be retired any day now." Okay, she'd told X she'd planned to give up on a daring life of crime, yes, but old habits have a funny way of dying hard. "We met in Giga City, during the Rebellion Uprising. Supra Force Metal? Colonel Redips? Ringing any bells?"

Hm?

[He'll blink for a moment, and then smile at Zero.]

Ah, my name is Rock. But everyone else knows me as Mega Man. Nice to meet you!

Zero crossed his arms and lifted an eyebrow. Yeah, he got the thief part down; at least she was trying to get away from that kind of lifestyle. Her skills would come in handy in a pinch.

The name Giga City didn't ring any bells at all. Force Metal did, but thus far he had only encountered Rare Force Metal. He only faintly heard of Colonel Redips, but at the time he worked in a different branch of Maverick Hunters.

"Only Redips and Force Metal. I've only faintly heard of the Colonel, he doesn't work at HQ. As for Force Metals, R&D is just scratching the surface of what it can do. Progress is pretty quick, though. I'm sorry I don't remember you, Marino."

He thought his memory was better these days, but whatever. He refocused on the device and frowned at the timer: 35 minutes left. He quickly brought his Z-Saber from its recharge port on his back and ignited it, carefully swiping it down onto and across the device. Sparks flew, a bit of ozone smoked up, but afterwards not even a burn was noticeable. Zero gave a frustrated grunt and sheathed his Z-Saber.

Edited 2012-06-29 03:54 (UTC)

Quake Woman listened, taking mental notes of Zero's identification. Although at the term "Maverick" was on the ambiguous side for her. So his primary function was to hunt down unbranded range animals? He didn't look the type from his appearance.

"I am Quake Woman. I am made for geological surveying."

Her response was blunt and to the point. She wasn't much of a conversationalist that was for sure.

Edited 2012-06-29 04:06 (UTC)

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[EVENT] Welcome to the City!

feel so awkward being the first to post but here goes~

And miss linefais joined Zero's party /o/

Have one more lady for good measure, Zero \o\

Fail!Tag, but here we go!

derp tag is go!!!

I squee'd. This should be interesting XD

I swear, Zero does nothing and still ladies flock to him

Ohoho it shall be! 8 )

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It's the booblights. Nobody can resist the booblights.

First post and I'm already doing bad things to Rock =D;;

Like moths to a flame, man.

Woo! 8 D

hello hello, big bro of best friend.... 8)

8D This is to be expected~

kyaah kyaah lilbro's bestie /o\

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>D

Which is doubly appropriate since they glow in the dark

/o/ |o| \o\ !

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\o\ <o> /o/

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apologies for the edit