Guardians of Humanity - PG-13. *Massive MMZ4 Spoilers*

[Pyroman.EXE]

Smoke was rising. A single reploid looked over the city, from a hill in the distance. The capital of the world, the once-peaceful, ex-utopia, Neo Arcadia, now lay in a smoking ruin. It was clear that the city was gone. A crater lay where Ragnarok's charged beam had struck, obliterating everything. All that was left was a pool of melted metal, which had accumulated from the huge temperatures that had been caused. The laser actually took out enough earth to actually expose that area to a higher concentration of geothermic heat, causing the whole area to shimmer from the blend of humidity and heat. The rest of the buildings surrounding the crater were blown to bits, leaving nothing but wreckage where once had stood tall, beautiful skyscrapers. The reploid sat there, looking on.

"I'm sorry. Neo Arcadia, Master X, I failed you all. I wasn't there to help stop this crisis. All I could do is help evacuate. All I could do is get a few people out. The nation that I have fought for, the humans I vowed to serve and protect, they've been destroyed. You, Master X, are gone because I couldn't do anything to help..." Harpuia stood up. "I lost a friend, a nation, millions of the people I promised to protect, my home, my pride. We had to rely on... Mavericks, of all creatures... in order to merely stop Weil. In the end, we couldn't prevent the crisis from happening, and now, look. Neo Arcadia has fallen. And I couldn't do anything..."

Another reploid showed up. "I figured I'd find you here." Leviathan sat down next to him. "Listen, I know you made a promise to serve and protect, but this isn't your fault. These deaths are not on your head. We couldn't do anything even if we tried. It's Weil's fault, you know that."

"But, you heard what he said, as he battled Zero. How he had become what he was because of us, because of reploids and humans. I just think, maybe it was us. Maybe we're all to blame. Our actions, our wars. People like him get hurt through it, and the only thing they can think of is revenge." Harpuia turned his back to Neo Arcadia. "I don't even know what I fight for anymore. Are these wars really worth it?"

Leviathan sighed. "I don't even know myself, Sage. We say that we are protecting humanity, but why do we even fight the Mavericks anymore. The reason why they were outlaws was because of the energy crisis. But, now because of Dr. Ciel, it's solved. There's no reason for us to fight. Why is there still hurt, still problems?"

"I wish I knew. By the way, where's Fefnir? I thought you two were sparring."

"Well... we were just kinda down in the dumps I guess. With Zero gone... it's like the motivation to fight, to get stronger is gone. We sparred a bit, but we just got bored, and he went off, saying he had something to do that he remembered. I wonder sometimes, whether Zero was more of a friend than enemy, at times..." Leviathan smiled at the rememberance of the fights she shared with the legend.

"Zero... I wonder if he escaped Ragnarok... Anyways, we should go back. We may be needed to help out any injured humans." The two of them got up, and left.

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Yep, I'm attempting another fanfic. Cause I'm bored. If you've played MegaMan Zero 4, you should know what's going on. If not, go find some way to play it. This fic is mainly going to focus on the guardians after the events of MMZ4. Hopefully I'll keep working on it. If you have any suggestions, I'm open.

[Pyroman.EXE]

"Hey, Ciel?" Hirondelle waltzed through the door. Ciel stopped typing for a second.

"What's up?"

"Looks like you have a guest." Harpuia walked through the door. Hirondelle left the room.

"Oh, hi, have a seat." Harpuia sat down in a chair by the old Cyber-Elf examination chamber. "You're name's Harpuia, right?"

"Yes, Dr. Ciel. I came because we need to discuss some things."

"Okay, what do you need?"

"Doctor, I'd like to propose a truce to the conflict that we've been having for a long time now. With the energy crisis solved and Dr. Weil supposedly destroyed, it looks like I'm going to be resuming control of Neo Arcadia once repairs have been finished on the city. I noticed that... perhaps you reploids weren't what we thought you were. I wish to extend an apology and welcome you and your group back into Neo Arcadia."

Ciel was surprised at first, but regained her composure. "Harpuia, you have no idea what this means to us. Thank you so much."

Harpuia stood up, but turned back to her. "One last thing... we're trying to locate Zero's signal. It hasn't been picked up yet, but once we get a hold of it, we'll let you know. Also..."

Ciel looked up.

"Stay safe. Now that the Neo Arcadian capital has been destroyed there may be some chaos. Anarchy and the like. We may wind up in war because of this. I am asking that for now your group stay here at the Antarctica base. At least until the rebuilding of Neo Arcadia's capital has been rebuilt and the government over the region has been re-established. Is that okay?"

She nodded. "Sure. Thanks, sir."

Harpuia teleported out. Ciel ran into the command room to inform them of the news.

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"Well, that went well." Fefnir smiled as Harpuia walked through the doorway to the shelter.

"Keep them under watch. I understand that the conflict is over, but they are reploids like us, and have their faults. We can't afford to have problems with Mavericks at this time. Phantom!"

Phantom's image appeared on the computer screen. "Yes, Harpuia-san."

"Monitor their computer systems. If any viruses appear in their network, delete them immediately."

"Got it." Phantom disappeared.

"So now what? You seem a little edgy, Sage." Leviathan stood up.

"We have to rebuild the city. I don't want any chaos going on due to the fact that no one's in charge right now. I want you to keep an eye on the city itself. If any conflicts arise, inform me immediately. I'm heading out to see if I can set up a reconstruction team."

"Okay, good luck."

Harpuia warped out. Leviathan sat down in front of one of the monitors, looking at the city from sattelite imagery.

Fefnir stopped his work for a second. "You think Sage is alright?"

"I dunno." Leviathan kept her eyes on the monitor. "I hope so."

[Dark Liger]

Great story, Pyroman.exe. It's not often we get an MMZ story where the Guardians are the main characters (with Phantom too). Keep it up.

[Magicman DX]

ho ho so the sekuel of MMZ 4 hmm interisting i guess there's more political conflict than action(my own prediction of this fanfic)
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[Fan]

I see. The story looks good, but the fact still remains, you have to at least make them discover Zero's Helmet or something. After Z4, Ciel should be at least slightly touchy about Zero. You'll need that to make it realistic.
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[Pyroman.EXE]

"So, what do you think, Harpuia?" The man walked up to him and rolled out a blueprint on the ground. "We plan to once again erect the temples first, as a refuge for those humans who are remaining. From there, the next part will be the reconstruction of the residence areas around."

"But what about the crater, where the beam directly hit? Patching that up is going to take a while, isn't it?"

"It seems so. What we..." Out of nowhere, a scream.

"Hang on, sir, I'll be with you in a second." Harpuia began to walk over to where he heard the scream. One of the ladies working hard was shoved to the side. A bulky man walked up to Harpuia.

"So, you're that Guardian they call Harpuia, huh? You're much shorter than I thought." The man grinned.

"What do you want?" Harpuia looked serious as ever. "You're delaying our rebuilding plans."

"Your rebuilding plans. Listen, stupid reploid, us humans are taking over. Besides, I thought X fired you?"

"Someone needs to step up as leader. I was closest to Master X, and even..." Wait, I can't mention that... if they heard Master X was destroyed by Zero once... I can't tell them I was the leader at one point. "...helped manage Neo Arcadia's systems. I know more than you would about these matters. Now, please, knock it off and help out."

"Knock it off? It's because of your stupid wars that Neo Arcadia is like this! Because of your f***ing war our homes and lives were destroyed!!" The man walked up to Harpuia. "How can you have the guts to say that you're going to be leading Neo Arcadia when you guys destroyed it?!" He turned around. "Why should we even let reploids control a paradice for humans?" The humans and reploids working stopped their jobs and were now watching.

"So, what? You plan to incite a rebellion? Destroy us reploids?"

"Why not? Why shouldn't we destroy you all? Ever since reploids have been around we've been dealing with chaos. Why can't we just wipe all the reploids out and return to the way we were? We didn't have mavericks in 20XX, if I recall correctly, am I right?"

Harpuia looked him dead in the eye. "So, in order to restore society to the way it was, you plan to just destroy all reploids, instead of just the ones who turned maverick? Do you even realize how few mavericks there are? It's like slaughtering an entire race for a few infidels. For that, you might as well say all humans should be destroyed! Why would you think like that?"

"Because I'm sick of reploids. The world was at peace 200 years ago. Then robots showed up, and caused chaos. Then, once reploids came, the damage became so widespread, that everyone here can recall a time at one point or another where we came face to face with a maverick. We didn't have those problems 200 years ago!" The man shook a fist at him. "It's because of machines like YOU that we have these problems!"

"So, you think that because a few reploids are evil, that means all reploids are bad?"

"They may not all be bad, but they are all capable of becoming bad."

"Just like humans. JUST. LIKE. HUMANS." Harpuia turned and walked away.

"But us humans don't just go and destroy things, do we? We may be evil too but we don't go around massacring hundreds of people like mavericks do! I'm sick of this, I say we kill you all. We can't trust you."

"So, that's how it is? That we reploids have lost the very trust of OUR CREATORS?" He turned around. "You forget, you make us. You humans created us and still create us. We're merely a result of YOUR WORK!"

"That's why we're going to end this little mistake. Once and for all." The man whipped out a buster. "DIE!!!" He began firing at Harpuia. Harpuia leaped back, fighting off bullets with his daggers. One grazed his leg but didn't damage much. He teleported to a nearby building.

This is crazy. We may have a full-scale war if things like this keep up. I can't believe the lack of trust in reploids has gone this far... "Operator, transfer me and the zoning official to the base." He and the person, still waiting at the site, was transferred out.