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For lack of a better word, Zero was f***ed

Big time.

And as the pool of lava below him continue to send its heatwaves tauntingly at him, and the grip of the brunette up above him loosen even more by the millisecond, Zero couldn't even bring himself to try to be optimistic, that's X's forte, the pacifist'll probably spout something along the lines of "believing in your inner muscles" or some other pansy quote to go by, hell, the blue bomber could probably giggle his way through inside a slowly enclosing room of death spikes much to the horror, but most likely annoyance, to his captors.

Despite the current circumstances, Zero let out a half hearted chuckle, whether it's at the expense of his best friend or because facing a few more moments before certain death has finally cracked what's left of the crimson warrior's brittle sanity, he wasn't so sure, but he hoped he'd at least live long enough to guess.

The warrior dropped another inch dangerously, and with extreme willpower alone looked up into the reddened face of the spotter up above the ledge, who’s looking worse for wear.

Zero might have grabbed the other reploid in an abandoned storage room for some R and R time, if not for this godforsaken situation they are in right now.

Another centimeter down “ Ze-zero, wh-when did you get so *huffs* h-heavy?” Iris just barely said it, heck, she could barely even breathe, the continous airflow from the lava pool wasn’t helping the situation at all, and with her slowly tiring quivering hands and overall sudden contempt for everything in the world as of the moment, there was nothing much she could do except hold on to Zero with everything she had, while silently chastising herself for wearing her bell skirt now of all days, it feels like a sauna in ther-

“Just a little longer, scorpion’s paralyzing venom is still 95% out of my mainframe..” Zero quipped, interrupting Iris’ momentary fashion dilemma.

“T-that’s absolutely, *pant* f-fantastic “ Iris answered back, nearly passing out as she did so, dear kami why was he so heavy? The young spotter can’t predict on how much longer she could hold on, how much this whole situation screams bloody mary, how much she hated herself for barging in the middle of a grueling fight between zero and that oversize insect, how naïve she is to think that her brazenly and stupidly injecting the virus into scorpion’s hide was such a brilliant idea, how much she hated that at the last moment zero had to take the full brunt of the paralyzing poison to save her yet again, how much she hated that the very cave they were in decided to crumble inwards further into the belly of the dormant volcano, how much she hated that the reason she and zero were in this mess together was because she decided to disobey her commander’s orders yet again, and finally,how much she hated the fact that the very reason they might die in an agonizingly painful death was because of her,

again

Even without the lava fumes, iris felt her eyes water, tried to look anywhere but zero as she mentally berates herself again and again that this was all her faul-

“Don’t blame yourself “

despite her inner turmoil, Iris dared a look back at the only other person who could have said that

“wh-what?”

“ Don’t Blame yourself ‘ris” zero said, and he said so quietly, that damn it, iris can’t help but feel the familiar heat on her cheeks

“ I should have listened to you” was all iris could offer back

“Scorpion would have ripped off my limbs and would have probably escaped into area 34 if you did, in any case”

Zero paused, as if hesitating about something then finally lowered his head back into the blazing inferno below, suddenly finding a bunch of lava bubbles very interesting

“Your apparent disregard for your previous order was the best course of action given the circumstances ”

Iris stared at him for a moment and finally lowered her head, wiping her cheeks as much as she can with whatever she can

Despite the apparent hopelessness and downright inappropriate timing and venue, Iris couldn’t help but allow herself a tiny smile, Zero always has a habit of regressing to Commander mode as she’d like to call it whenever the hunter feels awkward or more accurately, tried to be more expressive

It’s no secret that the crimson hunter was terrible at expressing sometimes, which scared a fair bit of new recruits and even veteran hunters towards the nearest safe room,

Seeing the familiar mannerism, Iris felt genuinely relieved

“Zero…”

The dilapidated hunter slowly looked up again, slowly taking in the spotter’s features and squeezed her hand

Iris couldn’t help it and squeezed right back at him, feeling for the first time that day, that everything was going to be all right

“I-” iris started

Crack

Like the proverbial pin drop in a cemetery, the brunette froze, auditory sensors at their highest settings, zero following suit despite being annoyed from being interrupted in the blissful reprieve from the situation

Crack

Another sickening sound was heard and the red hunter couldn’t help but heighten the rest of his senses t- wait, a crack?

Clearly wishing that he was horribly wrong, zero slowly laid blue irises just below the rock formation un der iris legs

Seeing a rapidly forming crack, and going all around the rock formation, the very ledge Iris was on, the very ledge Iris was on while holding onto his hand, the very ledge that’s keeping both of them from plunging into a miserable, fiery death

Well shi-

Before Zero had the time to finish the expletive, the ledge broke in half sending both reploids plunging 50 feet into the blazing inferno below them

Faster than anything zero has ever done in his entire lifetimes, he hurriedly grabbed hold of Iris’ waist who was too shocked to scream and was hyperventilating instead, and recalibrated his internal systems to maximum

“systems still 98.5% completed” the display read

“Damn it!” Zero cursed, as he tried searching multiple solutions, scenarios, untested maneuvers, ANYTHING to get them out from becoming smelted scraps

40 feet

30 feet

25 feet

Zero’s internal chronometer meticulously keeping track of their countdown to their demise, and between Zero’s frantic racing mind and iris holding onto Zero with eyes wide shut, absolutely unadmitting to their apparent deaths

Zero decided to hell with it and at 10 feet before impact, grabbed hold of his sword with barely functioning hands and prayed, pratically begging over everything holy and un holy, that this will work

5 feet, it was now or never

HYOURETSUZAN!

Author’s notes: It’s not the best, and it’s actually one of my first ever fics to be posted here so I should be able to improve on it some more, soooo yeah, here ya go.

P.S. Made for an ol’ friend of mine, cheer up dude

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Eleckles's avatar
This. is still awesome.