Hello all! Here's my third fic Megamanx9:Evolution Reploid! After recent events I'm hooked on the X series once more and decided to write this! Please enjoy and If you have

any ideas for Mavericks I'd accept them!This is mostly Zero and Axel based then X but he's still in here.

When news of Lumine's going Maverick reached the ears of those in power, it was decided that all new generation Reploids with copy abilities still in production would be

cancelled and the manufacture and use of copy chips would be terminated.

However, with the development of space in full swing the need for these new Reploids became stronger despite warnings of those who knew better.

Maverick Hunter base

The dull grey room seemed more like a prison to X then a bedroom. It had been three years since the Jakob incident and despite the current problem with the new generation

Reploids X found that his long fight would be over at last. Or so he thought, over the past years he and his two fellow hunters, Zero and Axel, had slowly drifted apart. After the

defeat of former hunter leader turned Maverick Sigma, Zero found peace and rarely left base for missions anymore seeing as Sigma's hold on him was finally gone. As for Axel...

When Lumine was defeated all that time ago the young hunter had been hit with a surprise attacked and was offline for days. When he awoke a scan showed that somehow a

small amount of Lumine's data had entered Axel's copy chip. Being a prototype of the new generation Reploids, Axel had not been affected by Sigma's data corrupting the other

new generation Reploids into turning Maverick. However, according to Alia, one of the base's navigators, This data was slowly consuming Axel and the once cheery Repliod has

turned depressed and angered at the fact that any day now he could turn into the very things he swore to defeat for the name of justice. X had never enjoyed his life, His

creator Dr. Thomas Light , had always wanted humans and Reploids to be one strong community. But with all the new Mavericks attacking everyday, X had grown tired of the

never ending fights and wars. Yet he had to fight in order to protect his world and his ideals, he was also the one who kept Hunter base in line nowadays. A knock at his door

alerted X and he opened it to show Zero. The red Repliod was the same as ever, his long blood ponytail behind him and the same red and white armor. In his hand was his

weapon, the Z-saber, which has sliced many a Maverick in half. " X, Alia has detected a new Maverick signal. You,me, and Axel have to go after it." X signed but followed his

friend to the briefing room. " So Zero... How's layer doing?" X asked his friend. To X's surprise the infamous Zero, slayer of hundreds of Mavericks, blushed and mumbled " Fine."

Shortly after returning from the Jakob incident Layer, one of the new navigators, Had throw herself at Zero asking if he was okay. Zero had been shocked at the time, and

within a few weeks Layer had asked him out for a date, and to everyone's surprise the red Reploid accepted. He found that he also had feelings for her, despite her always

worrying about him. The other new navigator, Palette, had developed feelings for Axel, not caring about the Maverick data inside him, and had tried to cheer him up since day

one. However he still was depressed and X found it hard to watch the young Repliod act this way. When they had met Axel seemed to be a bit brash and always joking around

, but now it was lucky to see him even smile. When X and Zero entered the briefing room, they saw a sight that the two hunters had grown use to: Axel sitting in one of the

chairs with his head sunk low while Palette was trying to cheer him up. " Axel come on! What do you say after your mission we have a night on the town? You hardly ever leave

base anymore!" She was telling Axel, who just sighed and said " What's the point? Palette I'm glad that your trying to cheer me up, but I could go Maverick at any time, and you

wouldn't want a monster like me to kill you!" X and Zero hated when he said things like that, but the door opened and the hunter leader, Signas, entered and said " Axel... It's

been three years since the Jakob project incident. Will you not admit that you might not turn Maverick anytime soon and focus on helping the planet like your peers." Axel

looked shocked at his commanders words, but he shook his head and sat down as Signas explained the mission. " In a small town a few miles east of here, reports of a huge

Repliod used to repair the town gone Maverick have reached us. Normally only one of you could handle this... but another report states that a strange new generation Repliod

had caused the Maverick to be created!" This caught the hunter's attention and Zero asked " This Repliod can force others to go Maverick? So it can wield the Sigma virus

freely?' Signas nodded grimly and Zero banged a fist on the table as he said " So someone else is trying to rally the new generation Reploids while using the virus to create an

army of Mavericks? X! Axel! Let's go already!" The red Reploid then ran out the room and into the teleporter room hunters used to travel. X had to drag Axel along but they

followed their friend within seconds.

When the three hunters reached the small town, they found half of it in ruins and tons of humans and Reploids running away in panic. " Looks like it left a trail for us to follow."

Axel said as he drew his twin pistols, Zero his Z-saber, and X his X-buster. They followed the trail of destruction for a while until they followed it into a building and were

stopped by someone. " Well if it isn't the three Maverick hunters of legend; X, Zero, and Axel. It took you long enough to get here." A Repliod stood in their way, he was as tall

as them and had armor very similar to X's except for two triangle shoulder pads and metal straps on his feet. In one hand he had an extremely long Z-saber of sorts, and his

other hand was a buster similar to X's. " Who are you? Why do you have those weapons?" X said as he aimed his buster at the Reploid. The Reploid smirked and said " I am

simply known as Virus, the one true heir to my father's throne! I have copied the powers of the two hunters who destroyed him along with my brother!" At this Axel slightly

lowered his weapons and asked " Father? Brother? Do... Do you mean Sigma and me?" Virus laughed and charged his buster as he answered " Yes brother! I will not have you

become the heir to father's throne before even accepting his ideals!" Virus then shot his buster at Axel, but Zero quickly reflected it, and X fired his own charged shot. However

it didn't seem to do much to the Maverick who only said " If it's a fight you want hunters, then I'll give you one!"

Back at the base, Palette was in her room crying while the other two navigators Alia and Layer tried to comfort her. " I just hate it when he says things like that! Axel isn't a

monster he's the kindest, sweetest guy I know!" Palette sobbed. Layer patted her shoulder and said " We know dear, It's just once that scan showed Axel having the chance

of ending up a Maverick he lost all will to think otherwise. I say once he and the other two get back we force him to go out and have some fun!" Palette stopped sobbing and

asked her friend " Is that how you deal with the fact that Zero use to be a Maverick?" Layer blushed but nodded " Zero... I know he cares for me, but I worry about him

sometimes and that bothers him. Still I don't think any less of Zero because of his past, neither should you think like that about Axel. Right Alia?" Alia nodded and the three

navigator then left to wait for Axel's return.

Done! Hope you all like it, and expect much more action next chapter. Also any reviewers feel free to give ideas for the eight Maverick bosses, as i only have one as of now.