Operation: Baby Eater (Or: Ray plays Megaman Zero 2)*

[Raype]

Time to get rolling on the sequel. While I'm unable to record currently I do have a few segments of this done, as it was my plan to use these in the event I couldn't get back in time to update DQ in a timely manner. I'll be posting what I have done until then. The BoFDQ LP and possibly the conclusion of this one will have to wait until I get back to my proper recording setup. Until then, these should make me appear slightly less lazy.

Index:

Entry 1: Timeskip Shenanigans
Entry 2: Elpizo sucks
Entry 3: A Rescue mission, why'd it have to be a rescue mission?
Entry 4: FUCKING ANT.........arctica
Entry 5: Resistance Base Speak off: A whole lotta talkin' 'bout nothin'.
Entry 6: Obligatory MMZ Train Level #2
Entry 7: Collection the collectables
Entry 8: A not-so-Righteous Strike.
Entry 9: Bug Bombs
Entry 10: Sparkly, Twinkly
Entry 11: A boring day of NPC text, but at least Alouette had a good day.
Entry 12: Toad Eater
Entry 13: Snowballs, E Golems, and Cyber Elf Roundup
Entry 14: It's Okay, I've Got Reserves.
Entry 15: The World Shudders
Entry 16: There's always room for Jell-o!
Entry 17: Fefnir is one bad mother trucker
Entry 18: Icy London, Icy France, Icy Leviathan's underpants
Entry 19: The Bird Man of Arcadia and More Talking to Idiots
Entry 20: Elfomon: Gotta Catch 'em All and Ray overanalyzes shit again.
Entry 21: X Death: How to Set Up A Sequel & NG+ Speed Run

The story thus far:


Megaman Zero 1

A group of resistance soldiers are seen fleeing an army of killer machines while searching an ancient lab. While the forces are decimated, Ciel manages to locate Zero, having apparently been in stasis for an extended period of time. Once resurrected, he immediately shows why he's a legendary hero.

However, there is a problem. He is afflicted with severe amnesia, which renders him unable to remember much of his fighting style, his history, or even his name.

Ciel fills him in on the details of his previous life as a maverick hunter, a renowned warrior, and a legendary hero. Then informs him that he's needed once more. His former partner and close friend X has changed quite a bit in the intervening years. He is currently a tyrannical dictator of the last surviving human city of Neo Arcadia.

Amid an energy crisis X made the choice to sacrifice his own kind for the sake of the humans. While the humans were more than happy to continue their affluent and simple lifestyle, the reploids were less pleased by such a thing. Repoids that were deemed unnecessary or that showed any signs of opposing X's regime were rounded up and shipped off to death camps for "retirement". Those that were more fortunate fled the city with Ciel, a human scientist specializing in reploid technology, and founded the resistance.

Their plan is to create a new energy source in the hopes X will change his anti-reploid policy. However, in order to do this they need time and supplies. Both of which are not easy to come by. And that's where Zero comes in. His mission would be to save as many reploids as possible and launch geurilla operations against Neo Arcadia to procure the supplies necessary for Ciel to continue her research. And, in the worst case scenario, he'll also serve as a valuable defense against the NA military.

Being the heroic type and having nowhere else to go, Zero had no choice but to agree.

Things proceed rather smoothly, even though Zero's actions eventually catch the attention of the 4 Guardians: Harpuia, Phantom, Leviathan, and Fefnir. 4 great warriors modeled after X himself who serve as generals of the Neo Arcadian armies. The ensuing battles leave many resistance soldiers dead. But Zero fought on.

Finally, a great opportunity presents itself. Zero is given the ability to attack Neo Arcadia's inner sanctum directly, with the idea being that it'll disrupt the Arcadians long enough for the Resistance to flee to a new location. The plan is a success.

However things became rather complicated. The X in charge of Neo Arcadia is revealed to not be the X Zero knew a century ago. Instead, he is a "perfect copy" created by Ciel, who hoped to use X's fame to unite the humans as well as the reploids. Unfortunately for her, he was not quite as perfect as she had hoped, leading to her guilt over the numerous reploid deaths and her eventual creation of the Resistance. With this revelation, Zero moved onward to eliminate X. And after a long and hard fought series of battles, both X and Hidden Phantom fell. And a huge explosion destroyed Area X.

Zero was assumed dead.

But things were not as they appeared. Zero survived the ensuing explosion and receives a brief farewell speech from the original X, who had been assisting Zero behind the scenes since he awakened. While he had tried his best to repeatedly save the world these past 100 years, he is unable to continue, and leaves it to the only person he can trust to carry on his task: Zero.

Agreeing with his friend's wish, Zero begins waging a one man war against evil.

And now, one year later...