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Juno landed just as the spikes had disappeared, quickly sighing. Her dark black hair was completely wet, but her white crystal still glistened. "Another maverick?" She wondered.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

The man wore a dark Red Cloak with an odd pattern on it. He turned around, and picked up one of the eyeballs from the dragon's head. It was the size of a basketball, and it radiated with Force Metal energy. It was gold, but also metallic. His cloak had an odd design on the back. It showed the world, the Jakob Orbital Elevator, and the Moon. It was positioned so that a "?" was formed. The man spun around, and waved his arm. The entire party was hit with a burst of odd energy, and an immense, long lasting pain surged through them. R, Kazuo, and Chiba were all blown back around 20 feet, and the man dashed forward to Kazuo, and grabbed him by the neck.

"Tell me... Do you fear... Death...?" he asked.

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Juno felt the energy being siphoned from her, as she fell to her knee for a brief second. "Energy-draining device of some sort.." She murmured.

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Kazuo was struggling to try and get free.

"You have the same power... As the fallen lord..." the man said.

He threw Kazuo across the room, and he walked over to R.

"You will surely be most... Beneficial to me later on so..." he said.

Chiba was out cold, and Kazuo was as well.

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Juno saw this as her chance. She got to her feet, quickly raising both scimitars. She still had enough energy for a final round! Fixing a kink in her neck, she shouted, "People don't like being used!"

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

The man glanced over. He forced Juno back using a technique like Kazuo's.


"You are truly annoying... The lot of you..." the man said.

"Who... WHO ARE YOU?" R said, trying to get back up.

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Now pinned to a wall, she felt like she was slipping from consciousness. That's when she activated her subtank, restoring half of her energy. She was at 75% efficiency.

Now waiting until he was distracted with words, she dashed off of the wall, throwing one scimitar and lowering the other one to jam into the opponent.

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"... I am nobody of your concern... Yet..." Elzareth said.

The scimitars were seemingly repelled. Exactly like Kazuo's ability; the Laws of Magnetics.

"Enough from you... Little Girl... We will meet in the... Future..." he said.

Juno was stopped in her tracks. The man grabbed her scimitar, and forced her empty hand to hold it. He held up his hand, and used his ability to push Juno into a transceiver in the wall.

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Juno was teleported away with a force greater then she could imagine.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

"... Good bye... Mega Man Reverse..." the man said.

He placed his hands on R's chest, and R felt a short pain in his reactor, but it was soon gone. He pushed the entire group into a transceiver. The entire group was warped back to the [IT Bay.]

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The Cloaked Man sat in the Phoenix Tower for a few minutes by himself. He sniffed the clean, cool air.

"How beautiful the Arctics are... I should really get going... Things to do..." He said to himself.

He stepped onto the Transceiver, and warped to [Visitors IT Bay]

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Elzareth teleported in from [Federation Base: New Hera] using an emergency return. He returned to the room he sent Chiba, Juno, Kazuo and R away in. He looked up at the ceiling and manipulated the gravity around him. Snow was lifted as the gravity flipped, him falling towards the ceiling. He flipped himself over in air, landing on the "ground". He ran over to one of the walls, spotting a hole in the ground. He hopped in the hole, going to a floor higher up. He landed, this time in a smaller room. He walked over and reversed gravity on himself again. He landed back on the normal ground and walked through the messy room. There was completely decomposed bodies here, slightly freezing since the damage done to the tower years ago by Chiba Masato. He snorted and spit at the ground. The scent was gone and only skeletons and rotting clothing remained. The scientists. He walked over to a table, just deciding for some nostalgia... when he saw it. Dried blood upon several folders; he picked one up, trying to remember where he saw it. He opened it up and froze up. Inside, was a picture of the SYN-Lust duo, Izanami Kaede and Izanami Kira, SYN-Intelligence and SYN-Air... happy. They were smiling away, wearing human clothes, they were waving at the camera. Elzareth immediately tensed up. He grabbed the other folders and flipped them open. All six of the other folders had the same except for the last one. SYN-Wrath had the fashionably alert one sealing and standing straight, while the shorter, rugged, kaleidoscope armoured one looked livid as he had his arms folded however, he also had a smile. SYN-Sloth, one looked like he was dead while the other one looked hyperactive as she tightly squeezed the other's body tightly. SYN-Gluttony had the fat twins standing side by side, unable to tell one apart. SYN-Envy... almost the same as SYN-Sloth except the male wore casual clothes while the female wore a rather high school-esque outfit. SYN-Greed just had the two nude, male and female unable to pick proper clothing and were awkwardly smiling. SYN-Pride however... Elzareth didn't notice the papers getting droplets of water. there were synthetic tears leaving his eyes. There was a picture of him, head and body constructed, head doing it's best to formulate a smile without muscles. It only looked creepy and the other SYN-Pride... it was a picture of parts and a red stamp print on it saying [TERMINATED]. They had fallen out of a larger folder and he closed them up. He slid them all back into the larger folder and looked at it...

"SYN-UNKNOWN: The Future of Next Generation Civil Defense."

Elzareth shook his head. He hated this. He had such a noble purpose then until Sigma struck... He slammed a fist into the desk.

"GODDAMMIT, WHY!?" he shouted out in Japanese, tears flowing freely. He sniffled and moaned, groaned... he was in a total depression. He also couldn't fight at peak efficiency either. His mind was in the state that was designed to beat him: Envy. He was envious of normal Reploids. He hated being a New Gen. He hated his life but... wait, it wasn't Reploids. He thought. He was envious of Chiba Masato. He was a New Gen who endured the chaos. He kept fighting even if he didn't know how, he fought for peace, he fought even when he was deemed a Maverick... if Elzareth waited, he could have met Masato differently, maybe even been a partner. He wanted to be Chiba Masato. He wanted to live freely, as a New Gen. He loved being a New Gen because of his powers, he was special. He was unique, he could do many things, however he also hated it. He was a Maverick time bomb... no, he ruined that himself. He was already a Maverick. He did it himself. He murdered humans, he murdered Reploids, he was stone cold. He hated it all...

He tucked the folder under his arm as he walked over to a large door. He pushed them open since the power no longer worked on this floor only as he stepped into a large, LARGE shaft. He manipulated gravity once more, floating to a platform above. He eventually got passed it and landed on the platform and the windows that now appeared... he had a beautiful view of the Arctic. The winds, the snow... Aurora Borealis; the Northern Lights. Elzareth took this moment to not be himself. He dropped his pride. He dropped his murderous thoughts. He dropped everything that made him him... something Chiba Masato never did, and he lost himself. He let his tears flow freely as he stared at the Arctic's vast landscape. He admired the region of the Arctic he was on, the Archylite Steppe. He could see the snowy desert, look to the right a bit, he can see volcanic activity. It's a true mystery to science but...

He walked over to a panel and pressed a few buttons. A click, a whirr, then a loud noise happened before quieting down to an audible, quiet, relaxing "Brr". The platform started moving... and he was riding the Orbital Elevator. He got higher and higher, constantly watching the Northern Light's radiant colour spectrum. He felt the atmosphere layer change as it got colder as he went up then he entered the Ozone layer. The area he was in got warmer but it still didn't intoxicate anything. He went higher as he passed the Electrosphere. Then... space. He was on top of the world. The platform stopped and he was there. He was at the top of this abandoned Orbital Elevator. He could see in the distance Jakob and Babel. He looked around. He looked down. He could see Asia, he could see his home country Japan, he could see Canada. He was on top of the world. He smiled and began to laugh. He dropped the folder, letting it fall to the almost gravity-less ground. The area he was in had a weak gravity generator due to the years not being kind. He sat there, watching the world. He saw the hundreds of satellites, and he saw where "it" was going to wind up. If he could erase his past and start new, he would. He wanted his Copy Chip transformations to be permanent so he could not be Elzareth. He could be... anybody, and anything. He watched the Earth.

Right now, he was on top of the world.

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Elzareth slapped himself in the side of the head and focused. Right now, he was out of Ordarium's reach. Right now, nothing could read his mind. To "him" down on Earth, he was recruiting for the future and in Master Z's base, it was already difficult to understand who he was meeting; that place was secure. Right now, he had one prize on his eye. He got in deep during the Nano Incident and the little dog fight he and SYN-Air had with Aquilo confirmed various things. He had to locate Nemesis. He had a general idea but he just has to teleport himself to the location. He stood there thinking, concentrating...

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After a few moments, Elzareth allowed his mind to be put at ease. He smirked, glad that he could actually locate the signal he was looking for. Nemesis. With the Ordarium Network having found nothing and left patches of area uncharted, Elzareth had to pick the areas Ordarium couldn't get to or wasn't at yet... and he found it.

He tapped his ear, adjusting coordinates for teleportation and tapped his ear a second time. He teleported to [Sigrun].