Status update re: ZL, comments, etc.
hey, blunder_buss, I'm hoping to get back to your comments this eveningish. I'm hosting a friend from waaaay out of town this week. ;)
ZL 7- well, I have finished the draft of the Zero/Light scene, and have made an attempt at the Axl/X scene in Giga City- I've been a little stalled on this though, and work-projects and RL have combined for a time-crunch issue.
The other thing blocking the fics is that I got sucked into roleplaying online again and ZOMG it's intense. I think I'm playing... four characters now, Neo? No, five: X, Zero, Forte, Bishounen!Sigma, the personified Maverick Virus... Neo's doing Axl, Lumine, Ferham, Blues, and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone or another on both our lists... It's amazing what a couple of sessions of OIC snarking at badfic online can turn into. o.O I told myself I wasn't supposed to be RPing at all this year, but I've worked hard to put my RL life back in order, and now that it's doing a bit better, I'm letting myself have a little fun again...
I'll leave off with a teaser for ZL 7, since I've been dragging my ass on it for waaay too long...
~ ~ ~
It should be nearby.
Zero stopped to catch his breath. He hadn't been running, hadn't been
fighting, but he was panting. His core was pounding, his skin was flushed...
I'm terrified, he realized. I don't want to find out that I'm right.
He shook his head, brushing his wrist over his brow, and closed his
eyes, forcing himself to breathe, just breathe...
Hmph. Next I'll be seeing Nightmares here... Standing here freaking
out is useless. It won't change what's already happened.
He sighed hard and opened his eyes with fresh determination, steeling
himself to go on. Even if he dreaded every step.
~ ~ ~
The capsule was where Zero remembered it, dark and inert, a green
cylinder of glass a bit taller than himself. His scanners read that it
still held power; he wondered about that, when the rest of the area
had been torn open, stripped bare by salvagers and thieves, and left
rotting. How had the capsule escaped notice?
We've taken these for granted for so long, haven't we, X? So handy,
always there everywhere when we need them...we never stopped to question
it...
Anxiety chewing at his wiring, Zero stepped forward, shifting his
Saber to his left hand, and reached out with his right to brush his
fingertips lightly against the capsule. It was vibrating, humming
faintly- and at his touch it came alive, lights along the surface
blinking on.
Zero stepped back as the familiar figure of a sad, tiredly smiling
human, rotund and with a snow-white beard - X's creator, Doctor Thomas
Light, formed within the capsule. But his expression almost instantly
changed, from the familiar wistful smile to something frantic. His
eyes were wide, his brow furrowed, and he seemed to look straight into
Zero's core.
Zero, it's truly you?
Zero swallowed sharply, nodded. "...As far as I know."
The hologram of Light seemed to inhale. Thank God... thank God. I
hoped you'd come.
"You know what's happening, then."
Yes. The hologram looked sadder and tireder than before, hunched over,
shoulders collapsed. I'm so sorry, Zero. I should have contacted the
Maverick Hunters, months ago. I should have contacted you... I was
afraid. We both were. Thank God your intuition brought you here...
"That's fine, but..." Zero's eyes snapped open, and he raised the
Saber sharply, holding it before him, toward the hologram. "Come out
of there. Show your real form. I need the truth from you. In fact, I
insist on it. Everything you've kept from us... It's time."
And Light stepped out of the capsule.
He was a brilliant form of sapphire energy, shaped like himself and
shimmering; Zero'd never seen anything like it, and he stared in
amazement. Power, so like X's that it made Zero's chest ache, flowed
out from him.
"The blue light..." he whispered, shaken. X had told him, much later,
about the glow he'd seen at the end of the Fifth Uprising... "You've
been in this world all along...!" He heard himself choking on his own
words.
Dr. Thomas Light nodded once and slowly, aware of the pain Zero felt.
"Zero, please enter this capsule. The answers you seek will be given to you."
ZL 7- well, I have finished the draft of the Zero/Light scene, and have made an attempt at the Axl/X scene in Giga City- I've been a little stalled on this though, and work-projects and RL have combined for a time-crunch issue.
The other thing blocking the fics is that I got sucked into roleplaying online again and ZOMG it's intense. I think I'm playing... four characters now, Neo? No, five: X, Zero, Forte, Bishounen!Sigma, the personified Maverick Virus... Neo's doing Axl, Lumine, Ferham, Blues, and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone or another on both our lists... It's amazing what a couple of sessions of OIC snarking at badfic online can turn into. o.O I told myself I wasn't supposed to be RPing at all this year, but I've worked hard to put my RL life back in order, and now that it's doing a bit better, I'm letting myself have a little fun again...
I'll leave off with a teaser for ZL 7, since I've been dragging my ass on it for waaay too long...
~ ~ ~
It should be nearby.
Zero stopped to catch his breath. He hadn't been running, hadn't been
fighting, but he was panting. His core was pounding, his skin was flushed...
I'm terrified, he realized. I don't want to find out that I'm right.
He shook his head, brushing his wrist over his brow, and closed his
eyes, forcing himself to breathe, just breathe...
Hmph. Next I'll be seeing Nightmares here... Standing here freaking
out is useless. It won't change what's already happened.
He sighed hard and opened his eyes with fresh determination, steeling
himself to go on. Even if he dreaded every step.
~ ~ ~
The capsule was where Zero remembered it, dark and inert, a green
cylinder of glass a bit taller than himself. His scanners read that it
still held power; he wondered about that, when the rest of the area
had been torn open, stripped bare by salvagers and thieves, and left
rotting. How had the capsule escaped notice?
We've taken these for granted for so long, haven't we, X? So handy,
always there everywhere when we need them...we never stopped to question
it...
Anxiety chewing at his wiring, Zero stepped forward, shifting his
Saber to his left hand, and reached out with his right to brush his
fingertips lightly against the capsule. It was vibrating, humming
faintly- and at his touch it came alive, lights along the surface
blinking on.
Zero stepped back as the familiar figure of a sad, tiredly smiling
human, rotund and with a snow-white beard - X's creator, Doctor Thomas
Light, formed within the capsule. But his expression almost instantly
changed, from the familiar wistful smile to something frantic. His
eyes were wide, his brow furrowed, and he seemed to look straight into
Zero's core.
Zero, it's truly you?
Zero swallowed sharply, nodded. "...As far as I know."
The hologram of Light seemed to inhale. Thank God... thank God. I
hoped you'd come.
"You know what's happening, then."
Yes. The hologram looked sadder and tireder than before, hunched over,
shoulders collapsed. I'm so sorry, Zero. I should have contacted the
Maverick Hunters, months ago. I should have contacted you... I was
afraid. We both were. Thank God your intuition brought you here...
"That's fine, but..." Zero's eyes snapped open, and he raised the
Saber sharply, holding it before him, toward the hologram. "Come out
of there. Show your real form. I need the truth from you. In fact, I
insist on it. Everything you've kept from us... It's time."
And Light stepped out of the capsule.
He was a brilliant form of sapphire energy, shaped like himself and
shimmering; Zero'd never seen anything like it, and he stared in
amazement. Power, so like X's that it made Zero's chest ache, flowed
out from him.
"The blue light..." he whispered, shaken. X had told him, much later,
about the glow he'd seen at the end of the Fifth Uprising... "You've
been in this world all along...!" He heard himself choking on his own
words.
Dr. Thomas Light nodded once and slowly, aware of the pain Zero felt.
"Zero, please enter this capsule. The answers you seek will be given to you."