Cold Reunion With The Returned Metal Ally

"Good to see you again," Sparror greeted, elevating his welcoming palm as The Ozmonian flickered out the rocketing sparkles beneath his feet and smoothly landed in a firm standing position.

Glistening crimson lights sparked through both of Zero's eyes with him commencing a scanning process toward the other heroes. As The Ozmonian tilted his head from left to right, a sense of doubtfulness shivered through Agano's legs and convinced him to steer his glance at The Flaming Hero.

A half-cautious furrow painted Sparror's face as he kept eyeing his Ozmonian ally who still continued the scanning process, shimmering the yellow light within his eyes. The Flaming Hero in a steady emancipation steered his glance onto the back, capturing the glimpse of Agano taking one step closer to him.

While Chemistra briskly crossed both of her cybernetic arms and maintained an asserted look, awaiting her Ozmonian's ally to finish the scanning process. She also rotated her onto the back, locking her eyes on Agano who swallowed a large gulp of saliva as he was showered by doubt and suspicion within his mind.

"Are Ozmonian always like that whenever they return from their recovery?" Agano asked with a skeptical tone, pinching his cheek, "It felt like he didn't really recognize us or worse thinking something like a threat to him,"

"Sorry, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I never saw him like that," Sparror replied through flickering the tiny torch that spread out the puzzling voice tone, scratching the back of his head for a split second.

The Flaming Hero cleared his contorted throat and reassured, "Let's just hope this is only a normal scanning process since Ozmonian is different than humans in terms of communication and other things,"

"I see," Agano responded, retrieving the pinching cheek and switching his watchful glare at The Ozmonian.

More concisely, The Ozmonian who was now darted his scanning sight at The Bulky Robot, Ryuzen who stood behind the doubtful Agano. Either watching the cold look within the blood-red eyes or Zero sharpening his darting sight, The Onmyouji bent down his head and reluctantly puffed.

The cautious scanning process finally reached its conclusion with Zero reducing the brightness within his blood-red eyes by bowing his neck. Watching The Ozmonian begin to walk closer toward the three heroes' distance, both Sparror and Agano nodded their heads in relief.

"It's been a year since I awakened from the recovery state I began to see and notice many changes from the three of you," Zero stated, commencing the rapid survey on three of the heroes at once.

"Starting from Chemistra who completed her augmentation," Zero spoke bluntly, switching his observative sight at The Chemist before he turned it toward The Onmyouji alongside his bulky robot, Ryuzen, "While you, Onmyouji, you already had a bodyguard robot on your side."

Agano chortled and explained calmly, "My wife built Ryuzen just in case I have to face an enemy alone,"

"70% understandable," Zero spoke, rubbing his chin especially when his glance fixated on The Flaming Hero and resuming his statement as he pointed his metal finger at the levitating tiny torch, "Lastly, you, Sparror, I saw your orange armor had now possessed a dragon motif and the way you talk right was different,"

Sparror blissfully shook his head and confidently spoke through flickering the levitating torch, "Yeah…it's a quite long story, but in simplest terms, it's more like will and my persistence aid this kind of development,"

Suddenly, Zero exhaled the deep distorted grunt from his throat with the startling reminder stung through his head. A bemused look was raised in The Flaming Hero's gleaming eyes staring at his Ozmonian ally who heaved his blood-red frown of wariness. Sparror even clenched both of his fists and widened his guarded furrow.

'There is something quite off about Zero especially when he looked at Sparror," Agano pondered within his mind, 'It felt he had some kind of mistrust,'

Azure-blue sparkles emanated on The Ozmonian's metal forehands the longer he perceived his glance at Sparror, lifting his neck in an assertive demeanor. Frigid suspicion flooded the depth of Zero's mind as he commanded his metal feet to hover closer to The Flaming Hero, twinkling temporary blood-red flashes within his eyes.

"Sparror, can we have a talk where it's only both of us involve in this?" Zero asked bluntly, fulminating the bluish sparkles on the forehand.

Sparror exhaled the contorted burdensome air away and replied with a slight uneasiness shivering his fist for a split second, "S-sure."

The Flaming Hero hoisted one of his armored hands that engulfed the dancing torch on his molten knuckle, revolving it to the left. Blazing flames materialized and encircled the two armored heroes who only fixated asserted stare at one another, enlightening the mood of heedfulness within them.

Agano hastily attempted to rush forward, but he halted his steps when The Chemist gestured up her arm, acting as the blocking passage. An infuriating bleat trumpeted from The Onmyouji's lung and eyed Chemistra who exposed her cold stare onto him, forcing him to channel a spark of yellowish aura on his palm.

"Stand down and do not interfere with them, Agano," Chemistra insisted sternly and advised, "Let's wait for the outcome of their conversation,"

Agano uneasily shook his head and murmured, "As much I really wanted to complain about this, but fine I'll wait,"

"Remember, if they haven't come back in around an hour, I must check out their whereabouts," Agano blurted out a warning toward The Chemist, raising one of his marking fingers near her eyes and erasing every trace of the channeling aura by closing his grip, "You agree with it, Chemistra?"

"Agreed, Agano" Chemistra responded hushedly, retrieving her blocking arm away when The Onmyouji stepped backward from her distance.

Hence, the other two heroes silently watched the bursting fiery twister arise from the depth of the ground being standing by both Sparror and Zero. The twister whirled around in the blazing circle and omitted warmful-molten flashes managing to touch Chemistra and Agano's cheeks

A last spin of the blazing twister was declared and it led the fiery construct to vanish into thin air in an instant. Traces of Sparror and even Zero couldn't be found anymore by the naked eye, indicating they had already been transported into a possible isolated place.

'I hope you can convince him, Sparror,' Agano prayed through his thought, bowing his head and folding both of his grips.

Warmful winds gusted through the isolated scenery of Ketsueki Valley as no sign of life formed hadn't made their crystal clear appearance. Reflecting flashes transpired throughout the crimson-crystalized surface of the isolated land's ground due to the afternoon sunlight swiftly broadcasted on the entirety of the abrasive area.

The loneliness of the valley didn't last long with the human-size fiery twister ignited in the middle of the crystalized ground, declaring its whirling last spin onto the left. The twister quickly disseminated into a speck of dust floating across the above view, reemerging both Sparror and Zero's physical presence at once.

Refreshing airs on the valley were absorbed by The Flaming Hero and filled up a relief within his heart, luring him to mesmerize at an immaculate view of the cloudy sky above. A tiny fiery torch construct emerged beside Sparror's right head and secured a placid levitating position.

Although The Flaming Hero managed to grip the mind-relaxing atmosphere, Zero didn't receive the same thing as he hoisted his left metal arm and shimmering crimson sparks within his skeptical eyes. Bluish sparkles showered The Ozmonian's left arm the longer he sharpened his locking glare at his fiery ally.

"Let's get to the main point the sole reason I conducted this conversation with you, Sparror," Zero stated with a stoic tone and raised the brightness of the blood-red flashes, "Before I came here, I already absorbed some of the past recordings regarding the past events from my satellite on Rising Sun. More precisely, your experience as the hero of Neo Tokyo when I'm still in the recovery tank."

Sparror breathed out the contorted hefty puff and let out an utter through the flickering torch, "Go on."

"There is some good or at least decent news recorded in my satellite." The Ozmonian added and resumed his statement, "News of your victories toward various villains such as Sadari The Long Forgotten Hero, Frenzy Cloverland and The Humanoids Threats, Granlork The Bounty Hunter from Valtoria, and many other villains."

"It's indeed a spectacular achievement, but there is one problem," Zero continued the statement, replenishing the incredulous through his mind, "Can I truly trust you as the Hero of Neo Tokyo?"

The Ozmonian assertively lifted his frigid furrow and muttered with a chilling tone, "Even though you already redeem yourself from the Enkenko incident, I still had some doubt about you."

"A doubt about your selfish motivation," Zero announced a harsh reminder, forcing The Flaming Hero to widen his frowning eyes, "You could prevent the bomb on the Enkenko Incident, but in your frantic human sense, you decided to save Yuna that killed many innocent people."

A dreaded atmosphere frosted within The Flaming Hero's veins with him constantly shivering all over his armored limbs. Sparror even uneasily held the compressing pressure from his contorted throat as he was on the brink of fully falling into the influence of unrelenting despair.

At the same time, The Flaming Hero wiped out the shivering dread from ever lingering in his mind by igniting the molten flames in his gleaming eyes. He hurriedly turned around and unfolded his affirmative furrowed toward The Ozmonian who still persistently locked his emitting arm.

"I'm aware the horrific thing of that incident will remain in my mind, but it gave me a very important lesson too as the hero," Sparror reassured through speedily flickering the tiny torch to broadcast his resolute voice, convincing him to place his molten hand in front of his armored chest.

Sparror nodded his head and freed his statement through shimmering the flashes on his flickering torch, "An important lesson for me to always maintain a balance between my selfish ideology and the selfless action as the Superhero,"

"Also, you are the one who encouraged me to embrace this kind of thing, right?" The Flaming Hero asked with a worried tone, "Did you remember that time, Zero?"

"My memory is always 100% sure to remember everything including the time when I provided the advice," Zero responded bluntly.

The Ozmonian shook his head in bitter disappointment and uttered, "However, I'm more thinking in a long term, and based on the incident, I couldn't even 50% trust you on even saving your own city, Therefore, your previous statement regarding the advice is irrelevant."

"To be more precise, the possibility of the time when you lost Yuna in the Superheroes matters," Zero exclaimed, calling forth the glistening particles to embed his metal hands and starting to form the bulky construct the longer it prolongs the gathering process, "It gave me 80% valid reason of doubting you, Sparror."

"I'm quite a skeptic it will one day 70% chance leading you to become one of the most dangerous villains in the entire world," Zero added, "Even though you possess a cosmic power, you are still human and the majority of them can easily fall into the path of villainy because of their unstable emotions."

A bothersome grunt echoed from The Flaming Hero after receiving the recent words from his ally that stung his beating heart like a piercing arrow, strengthening his shivering grip on the armored chest. Regardless, Sparror dispersed away the blazing flames enveloping his eyes and revealing the adamant gaze he centered at The Ozmonian.

The valorous atmosphere gushed into The Flaming Hero's thoughts leading him to elevate both of his armored arms, willingly turning himself into an open target for an upcoming assault. No glimpse of resistance occurred within Sparror as he persistently obtained a steady standing position, resembling a statue especially when his motionless eyes only gave an asserted look.

"You had a valid point about me and I couldn't deny those possibilities too," Sparror admitted and blew out the perturbed puff away as he continued with the flickering torch broadcast a bold-firmed voice, "But sorry to say, I will not change my mind or the motivation on continuing this life."

"Yuna was the most important person in my life. Without her presence, I might never become like this or even be able to continue the responsibility as a Superhero" Sparror spoke out a contorting remark, "To be honest, I even accepted the reality that if I have to choose which priority the most, the whole world or Yuna, I choose her without a doubt."

"As I said before, I will try my best on balancing my selfish thought and my heroic action at the same time," The Flaming Hero assured.

Sparror bowed his head briefly and provoked with a bitter tone, "So, go ahead Zero. I will not put any resistance on every upcoming attack you'll deliver to me"

The hovering torch imminently faded out from the naked eye with The Flaming Hero kept locking his gleaming valorous furrow at Zero, refilling the persistent bravery as he pressed his feet onto the ground. A befuddled look emerged on The Ozmonian blood-red sight and doubtfully tilted his back and forth before he regained his mistrustful cold stare once more, permitting the thought of potential danger on his fellow ally to cloud his judgment.

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