Dark Horizons
With the tragic loss of Zero, X took his faithful companion's beam saber to always remember him and carried on finishing the fight that his faithful companion and him started. Fighting with his friend's beam saber, X knew that Zero's spirit could finally rest in peace and a new age of Reploid freedoms would be ensnared. After fighting back the hordes of what seemed like a never-ending army, X stood victorious and sighed a sigh of relief having finished his job. He could now wash the blood from his hands and work to rebuild civilization.
Many decades had past since that day... The Earth was restored and life was allowed to live once more upon its lands. Through the work of many valiant Reploids, civilization was finally rebuilt... With the combined aid of the revolutionary anti-virus protocol, the Matriarch Genus, all Maverick outbreaks across the globe had died down, thus putting an end to the war that plagued both humanity and Reploidom for what seemed a millennium.
By the year 3122, all wars had ended and peace had been brought to the earth and its bordering space colonies. X, breathing in the air of Mount Herok, looked down into the valley that once was Delta City. He shut his eyes and the memories knocked him to his knees. As the tears ran down from his eyes, he laughed as the sun stretched over the rubble knowing that finally, finally it was all over. His war had been won and those who had paid the ultimate prices would always be remembered in the hearts and minds of the people they protected for centuries to come.
The following year,on the 1000th meeting of Congress, both Reploidom and humanity met to sign a bill to change everything. The momentous bill was designed to declare both Reploids and humans equal for the time that both would be on Earth. Smiling a teary smile, X stood before them to see the signing of this awe-inspiring decree. The thoughts flooded through X's mind as he realized that his battles were not in vain after all. Sighing softly, he knew that everything was set to look for the next endeavor, space. For millenias, man had always done horrid things to the Earth and always thought of his own ends. It took a global catastrophe to awaken the hearts that unite us and allow us to set aside our petty differences to become one nation seeking the answers of all our universal questions.
Beyond the clouds and over all mountains, man built our future, The Redemption, our shining beacon of hope that our people would forever continue to explore and fulfill our grandest desires. During launch of the ship, once again Reploid and mankind alike were called to usher in this incredible moment that would change history for the better... As the ship's engines sparked to life, X looked at the monolithic ship as his hopes soared to new heights. Maybe there was new hope for humanity and Reploidom... Maybe his people could coexist with Man....
This one moment... was history in the making... That being over a decade ago... The date, 3150... The Redemption had sent back information from all ten planets of the solar system and was now about to leave this galaxy on their quest for sentient life amongst the cosmos. No one would know that this would be answered before their hyperthrusters could engage... Striking fast and without mercy, a plague of battle-class ships attacked the Redemption crippling it and once again as fast as they hit... The ship was destroyed... The crew... was lost in the cruel void of space.
The earth took this as a hard blow and prepared for the worst to happen. The Maverick Hunter Headquarters, once decommissioned, was reopened to prepare everyone for the worst. Scientists started to dissect every bit of information from the Redemption as possible and came to a new conclusion... Whomever and whatever hit the ship was coming for the Earth now... leaving in its wake a death toll unfathomable to either races... As the sun fell once more into the horizon, X looked up from his journal logs and onto the red moon... the signifying of the coming of the Apocalypse in some accounts... What would come would test the limits of flesh and mechanics alike.... As the Fates decided the final destiny of this tiny blue orb in the dark, X looked into the sky for his next challenge as an unshakable sense that this had happened before took over his body... History does and will repeat itself, he kept telling himself... and the point of this history lesson would soon be uncovered... However, the very answer will tear all of what X knew and knows asunder... forever...