The Blue Ashikabi – Megaman X / Sekirei Crossover
Rating: T for limes and language!
Pairing: X / Harem, Minato / Harem.
Summary: Instead of Zero piloting the Shuttle into Eurasia, it's X. This one single change changes everything for all Humans and Reploids, including the space-borne X. Not in terms of personality, but in location. X, your destiny has always been in your hands; how will you handle a whole new time, let alone world? Very AU.
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"X! Are you sure you need to do this?!"
"Yeah, Zero. You told me yourself; 'There are things cannot be seen or analyzed correctly as data. There are things we have to feel.' I feel this strongly; it's something I have to do." The blue-armored Maverick Hunter responded calmly, staring intently on the Eurasia. "You should stay here, Zero. Who else is going to protect the Earth?"
"Don't talk as if you won't be back!" Zero snapped at his long-time friend.
"I won't die on an easy mission. If I ever become Maverick, that's when I'll have died…" X trailed off, looking around the console. "All systems green!"
"X, are you ready? This is our last chance." Signas stated calmly while looking worriedly at the shuttle.
"On your orders, Commander."
"BLAST OFF!"
The shuttle screamed off into the air, heading directly for Eurasia.
"En route to the Space Colony, and locked on. I'll get as close to it as I possibly can before abandoning it – I see a lot of debris, so I have to pilot around to avoid destroying the shuttle before it collides into the Colony. I'm closing all communications."
"X, You better make it back alive!"
A soft chuckle came from X's end. "Don't worry, Partner." With that, the communications were cut.
The Shuttle made impact with the Space/Virus colony Eurasia with a blinding, powerful explosion – a shockwave was seen, and could be felt in the Earth below.
"Alia, give us a status report!" Signas demanded.
"It crashed into the Colony! Destruction of the colony is…86%! We did it! It'll be gone in ten minutes! X! Do you read me? X!"
"X! Come In X!"
"No…I…I don't feel him…" Zero said, falling to his knees, looking at the screen in pure shock. There was no sign of the Shuttle or X. No sign at all. "X...! X! X!" Zero's scream could be heard throughout the whole of the Base.
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He was being crushed; he could feel the armor on his body beginning to break and crumble, his vision went black after the explosion rocked him. He was positive he hit the ejection button just three seconds prior to impact, but it wasn't enough. A huge gravitational wave pulled him into the center of a worm hole. Why nothing else was pulled in, was beyond him.
But the next thing he realized, was that he was soaring through the sky towards Earth, well in the atmosphere. With effort, he turned; the jet propulsion from his feet greatly slowed his decent when he had less than half a mile left in the sky, and successfully landed upon the roof of a skyscraper. The first thing he did was survey the damage he incurred from that un-godlike pressure. To his great surprise and relief, he was mostly unharmed save for a dent or two. Secondly, he tried to regain contact with HQ.
"X to HQ, this is X to HQ, do you read me?" Nothing but static.
"X to Base, this is X to Base! I repeat, do you read me?" Same response. "Hmmm…Whatever I went through, it looks like it was strong enough to jam my signal, but it makes no sense." His eyes looked up to the sky, zooming into outer space. It was then that he saw an old satellite with the marking of 'MBI' written on it. "MBI? What in the world is MBI? More importantly, where and when am I?" He took a few tentative steps to the edge of the skyscraper he was on, and knelt down, looking down at the citizens. He looked off to the side, and spotted an alley way, and leapt off the building. The last thing he wanted to do was startle any citizen; with a quick snap of his fingers, his armor formed into a blue tee-shirt, and dark blue jeans. He tapped a boot onto the ground, before walking out of the alley, running a hand through his dark chocolate hair. As he walked, he performed a System Analysis.
Beginning Diagnostic Scan:
Emergency Acceleration System, Active: Aerial Acceleration, Available; Omni-directional dashing capability, Available: Hover capability, available: Hyper EAS Active.
Armor Systems:
Ultimate Armor Available…WARNING: Variable Weapon Systems Energy Reduction is currently broken.
Falcon Armor Available…NOTE: Anomaly within the Flight function detected. No threat detected…scanning for anomaly. ETA: Unknown
Gaea Armor Available
Body Armor is Titanium X-Alloy with Energy shielding, currently disabled. Current defensive ability at 50%, maximum 200%.
Integrated Armors: Force Armor, Hyper-Max Armor, Giga Armor
Mega Buster Mk 20 / X-Buster Mk 3 – Currently Disabled.
Charged Shots adjusted to fire enhanced plasma shots. Standard buster enhanced to semi-charged state is available. Dual buster capability active. Shot Storage capability available. Spread Shot available (Megaman X1 Full-Charge shot)
Integrated Armor Specialties:
Nova Strike – WARNING! Infinite use is unusable; recharges over time at a high rate. Currently – 0% charged, Disabled.
Hyper Cannon – 0% Full – Disabled.
Giga Crush – 100% full – Enabled.
Gaea Crush – 0% full – Disabled.
Falcon Crush – 0% full – Disabled.
Charge any of the above?
'Deplete and disable Giga Crush to charge and enable Gaea Crush. Wait for confirmation for the others.'
Scanning Variable Weapons System
WARNING – Several Files are corrupted. Restore Corrupt Files?
'List available files.'
Storm Tornado, Shotgun Ice
Speed Burner, Magnet Mine
Gravity Well, Acid Burst
Soul Body, Twin Cyclone
Dark Hold, Tri-Thunder
'Recover Rolling Shield, Crystal Hunter, Bubble Splash, Tunnel Fang, Frost Tower, and Crescent Shot with top priority, then the rest. List and remove any files that are unable to be recovered when complete.'
Beginning Recovery – ETA: One week for Rolling Shield and Crystal Hunter. WARNING: Only two Variable Weapons are usable – Dark Hold and Magnet Mine. All Others are depleted on energy. Charge?
'Over time. Recovery takes priority; If Rolling Shield is without energy, charge it before recovering any others. In the event that Dark Hold is used and completely drained, that takes priority over all others to get recharged as fast as possible.'
Acknowledged. End of Diagnostic Checks.
As he walked, his eyes went to a newspaper stand and frowned at what he saw. 'Shin Teito, Japan, huh? Year 2020. So I'm over 100 years in the past.' Turning to look up at a news screen, his ears twitched and eyes narrowed. "In breaking economic news, Hirato Minaka, president of the giant conglomerate business MBI has announced that the company bought up 80% of all Shin Teito stocks. " The news reporter kept talking, but X's attention was diverted back to introspection, as he started to walk north.
'So a company that can buy 80% of one of the larger, if not largest cities in the world…I don't like the sound of that.' He looked up at the sky as thunder roared overhead, black clouds rolling in. With a frown, X started to run for the nearest shelter…but his attention was pulled away when he looked up at the sound of a young woman shouting 'Water Celebration!' from atop one of the larger skyscrapers.
'Somehow I shouldn't have of expected there to be any peace here.' He thought as he ran into an alley way; his blue clothing changed into his trademark armor, then quickly flashed to white as the Falcon Armor was equipped. Quickly he scaled the walls until he was at the very top, then kicked off, rocketing towards the sound of the woman
Falcon Anomaly confirmed. Increased Flight speed; Duration able to maintain flight is doubled. Increased strength of protection energy field.
X landed on the very top of the building, dropping from mid-air as the Falcon Armor was removed, eyeing the scene with a curious look; three women were seen, a blonde with a black overcoat and long, white and frilly corset, a shield of water cascading down from the air. The other two were raven-haired twins, both donning S&M outfits, one pink the other dark purple.
"Thou dare challenge me? I am number nine, Tsukiumi!"
"Numbers 11 and 12!" They both said in synch, then the one wearing purple continued; "Hikari!" Her voice held a large tone of cockiness and power, while the other's was more respectful and calm, but still held power. "Hibiki!" Together they started to shimmer with electricity, causing X to jump into action.
His armor turned into a deep purple, as he snapped his fingers, using Dark Hold. Only He and Tsukiumi stood moving, everything else looked like a Photo Negative. She looked around, stunned, and glared up at X. "What are thou doing?! This is supposed to be a one-on-one Sekirei fight!"
He didn't say anything, instead moving to grab her, and jump off of the building with her in grasp. He turned around after setting her down, ten blocks away, the Photo Negative-like space of Tokyo returned to normal. In the distance, both of them could hear the other two screaming and cussing up a storm.
"Ah, Sorry about that, Miss. They looked to be extremely powerful right then, and I wasn't about to let a civilian get injured like that." He was met with a slap across the face.
"Thou sullied my honor by doing that…that spell! That was supposed to be an honorable one-on-one duel amongst Sekireis – I could more than handle them easily enough!"
He blinked in minor shock; the slap hadn't had any effect upon him, but rather it was a messed up concept of honor and one-on-one. "Uh, Miss…If I'm not mistaken, one-on-one truly meant one-on-one. Not two-on-one."
"Their powers are half as effective should they not remain within a physical distance of each other."
"Okay, you win that one. What do you know of water and electricity though?"
This stopped her fuming, and blinked somewhat – paying attention now.
He tapped the slightly flooded alley street with his metal foot. "Water is a valuable source of nature, no doubt about it; everybody needs to drink it in order to sustain themselves and keep themselves healthy. As an element, it's also formidable. But, there is one drawback to it. It's extremely conductive." His green eyes narrowed, beginning to observe her more acutely. "Meaning had those two actually had used their power on you, you would be cooked. Extra crispy."
"What about that building?"
"It'd probably be fine. While steel is also highly conductive, they most likely have lightning rods in place to attract stray lightning or whatever's on the building. I doubt it'd actually make it inside the building either. It really depends on the material structure of the building."
She gave a pensive look and then looked at her now blue-armored savior. "May I have your name?"
"I'm called Mega Man X, though many people just call me X."
"I am Sekirei number Nine, Tsukiumi."
With a nod, he walked past her with a wave of his hand. "It was nice meeting you, Tsukiumi-san. Try staying out of trouble until it stops raining. Might wanna get some shelter too and dry off, before you get sick."
Her hands became clasped in front of her heart, a small blush coming over her visage as she looked down. 'This knight of shining blue armor…He worried for me and saved me. What…is this heat I'm feeling? No...It can't be!' Her eyes widened and her pulse quickened, whipping around to look at him – only to find that he wasn't there. 'Where…did he go? Did he use that black spell again?' She snarled, face still flush with embarrassment. "If I see you again, I'll kill you before you try and violate me, Ashikabi!"
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X looked down at the alley where she made her declaration, an eyebrow raising somewhat. "Violate? Ashikabi? Sekirei? I don't remember ever reading about this in any history books." Standing upright, he turned and proceeded to building-hop in the rain. He stopped as he saw what had to have been the largest building in all of Japan, after leaping around blindly for hours. Leaning against a steel I-beam of an incomplete building, he stopped to think about what had happened in the past few hours, as clear night came.
"Well, I never knew of any sekirei who wore blue plate armor." An attractive, feminine voice came from the side with a giggle. She wore a purple Chinese dress, showing off ample bust and some of her stomach with long purple-black hair tied into a ponytail cascading down her chest.
His eyes turned from the largest building and looked at her, dumbstruck. "How do you know I'm a sekirei?"
"Simple. Humans don't have anywhere near the potential to jump that far, or that distance. You kind of surprised me, honestly."
"Well, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint. I'm not a sekirei, nor am I human." He said with a slight grin. "I take it…you are?"
"Mhm. Number 3, Kazehana, at your service." She held up a sake bottle. "Care to join me and tell me more?"
"No thanks. I don't get drunk at all. It's impossible. But I'll share first, if you care to share some information too."
Nodding, she extended a hand which he took pleasantly.
"My name is Mega Man X, many people call me 'X'. I am known as what is called a Reploid from the year 21XX. Reploid means 'Replicated Android.' I am a robot that has free will, something unheard of during the time of my creation. For that reason, I was supposed to be sealed away for thirty years, when my creator and father Doctor Light felt the World would be ready for such a thing, but something went wrong and I ended up being found 70 years later by a man named Dr. Cain."
Kazehana, though drunk, paid rapt attention to this man's story. "What does your name mean? X, that is."
"X is a variable in mathematics. It can mean anything. I was given free will, and the power to make my own decisions. I evolve, like humans do. Sekirei too, I'm guessing. Care to share some information with me now? Like what are Sekirei and Ashikabi?"
She grinned somewhat. "Sekirei...we're alien life forms that have a 99.9% resemblance to humans in terms of physiology. There are a total of 108 of us, and each of us has different powers. For example, I control the wind." She said, demonstrating this with a small, cherry blossom filled sphere of wind. "An Ashikabi…is someone who gives us power; they make us emerge. They're ordinary humans, and are far-and-few in between. We can tell when someone's our Ashikabi when we feel an unbearable heat consume us, whenever they're near. Any Sekirei who has, or has had an Ashikabi can never be winged again." She smiled somewhat at him.
"What about you? Do you have an Ashikabi?"
"No. The man I wanted didn't want anything to do with me, so I went on a nation-wide sake-tasting tour." She said while hugging the sake bottle.
"Hm...Sounds sad." He looked at the sky again, moon hanging high overhead.
"Have you ever been in love, X?"
"Can't say that I myself have. My partner Zero has, but…that relationship ended badly."
"Oh?"
"A story for another day, Kazehana-san. A story for another day." He said, frowning.
She nodded with a slight grin. "If you're looking for a place to stay, there's this little inn called Izumo Inn to the north. The Landlady can be a little scary, but she won't turn anyone down. Tell her that I sent you with old wishes and regards."
With a bow, X turned to the city once again, shifting into the Falcon Armor once again and earning the surprise of Kazehana. Whether or not he cared wasn't seen, but he bid her farewell all the same, rocketing into the sky.
Kazehana pulled a cellphone out from her dressed, and dialed a familiar number. "There's someone on their way to the inn. He's a unique one, no relation to MBI, but he knows of Sekirei and Ashikabi." A long pause, and a giggle. "I trust him on this. His wind was naive, innocent, strong and calming. I can already tell that he'll make a large impact on this ridiculous Sekirei plan. Somehow… Good night, Miya." She clicked her phone closed, and smiled as she stared out into the clear, starry night sky. "X may not be my destined Ashikabi, but he's definitely runner up."
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X landed roughly four buildings from Izumo Inn, having changed back into his 'civilian' form, donning the dry blue shirt, denim jeans, and leather boots. He overlooked himself, making sure he looked at least somewhat presentable. With a shrug, he gently knocks on the door once he dashed towards it, leaving afterimages of blue.
"Coming." A smooth male voice was heard from the other side of the door; said man who opened the door looked like a lady-killer; a top-end black suit covering pale skin. This man's amber eyes met with X's green. "Ah, you must be our guest of the evening. Kazehana called and informed us of your arrival."
"Ah…Yeah. From what I was told though, the landlord was a lady." This earned a soft chuckle.
"I've gotten that once or twice before. I'm not the landlord, I'm a tenant here. Name's Kagari."
X bowed calmly. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Kagari-san, I am Rock Light. May I inquire about the landlady's whereabouts?"
"Ah, she's actually taking care of another stray couple who, believe it or not, landed in our back yard not too long ago, but follow me – I'll take you to the dining room."
"Arigato, Kagari-san."
The Inn itself was what one would find out of the Feudal era or so. Even then, X couldn't help but marvel the charm of such a place. "To think I would never be able to see such a styled house."
"Yeah, this is a rare place by itself. It's fairly nice, too. Anyway, here we are. Sorry I couldn't stay much longer, I have work tonight."
"Ah, Arigato again, Kagari-san, and be safe at work." X said, bowing respectfully at the host.
"I'll try to be, as much as I can be anyway." Kagari said with a wave.
Turning to the Shoji, X carefully slid it open, poking his head in. "Um..Hello?"
Three sets of heads looked over to the door; a brunette, buxom woman and a raven-haired man, both looking to be roughly the same age, and a lilac-haired woman. She stood and bowed to him. "Come in, come in, a new guest is always welcome here at Izumo Inn." With a nod, X took a seat on the floor on an empty table-side. "I am the landlady of this inn, Miya Asama."
"Good evening sir, I'm Minato, and this is Musubi." The raven-haired male said pleasantly while extending a hand out to X.
With a nod and smile, the reploid took the hand with a friendly grin. "It's an honor to meet you three; my name is Rock Light." Turning his attention towards Miya, he asked "I'm told that Kazehana called ahead and informed you of my arrival?"
"Yes, she did." Miya looked at her two new tenants and nodded with a smile. "Go on ahead, I've cleaned and set up your rooms." The two nodded and bid their farewells to the two. Once the Shoji closed and footsteps were heard going up the stairs, Miya turned to X. "So, Rock-san, I suspected you to look a little different. This is not your regular form, I'm assuming?"
"You're a sharp one, Miya-dono." He sighed, and looked around; "There's also two other people in this building as well, aside from you, Kagari-san, Musubi-san, and Minato-san."
"Ara ara, you're sharp yourself, Rock-san. Don't worry; any secrets you have to share are safe here."
Nodding, X shifted into his usual armored form, and explained the situation to her; what reploids are, what time frame he's from, and what had happened prior to his coming here, while leaving out the messy and scientific details. As he shifted into his Civilian form, her flabbergasted face gave him a chuckle.
"So there you have it, Miya-dono. I don't have any place to go or any money. While I don't need shelter, it's certainly nice to have. Is there any form of an agreement we can come to? Work for rent or something?"
She nodded. "Of course, there's always work that can be done around here. Today has been a busy day, I must say; three new tenants in four hours. There are only three main rules you must follow; I do not allow violence within the inn, I do not allow sexual acts, and mixed bathing is allowed, that's all I suggest you do."
He smiled broadly; "You're a good person, Miya-dono. I've…been fighting for a long time, so the violence thing will be a fresh start for me, and due to a lack of a certain...anatomy, I'm safe on the sexual acts," he finished with a chuckle.
"It was my husband's belief that no one in need be turned away."
"He's also a good man. One I wish I could have met." He said, picking up on her tone.
"Yes that he was. Anyway, come with me – I'll show you where you'll be staying for now and the baths. Even if your main body is made of metal, it can still be cleansing for the soul, right?" She said, rising up to her feet; X followed with a small smile.
"Thank you so much, Miya-dono. For everything."
"It's alright. You seemed sincere enough, even without the armor, and I trust a former team mate, even if she is a drunkard now-a-days." She said with a giggle; if X didn't know any better, he could've sworn he saw a Hanya mask appearing behind her.
'She's…actually kind of scary.' X thought, a sweat drop forming at the side of his head.
As they walked up the stairs, a set of glasses shimmered in the glow of a couple of monitors with a grin forming over the owner's mouth. "Ohhh, I can't wait to try and experiment on him. He's so damn interesting! Just you wait, Rock. I can tell that you're Ashikabi material."
X stopped mid-walk, and looked back at the wall, raising an eyebrow. His thermal scanner was picking up a fair bit of heat, and a womanly form. 'What kind of secrets are here, in this unassuming inn?' Turning back, he followed Miya once again.
-END-
X: Are you sure this is a good idea, Cet?
Mmm. Who knows. But I like what I did with the intro.
X: Even if it's a near rip-off of the script?
Sacrifices had to be made, good sir!
X: You made Zero totally OOC!
Even if that's so, it seemed fitting given the situation.
X: And what's this about a harem with me?! I'm a reploid, what'd be the point of putting me with a harem! Alia's going to murder you too.
Bah, it's not going to be that big…Maybe four, five tops? Besides, it'll end up good character development, and I have a solution to that whole 'reploid' problem! I have to, in order for you to get any sekirei! At least you won't end up like a whiny, pacifistic bitch! Anyway, I'm rather pleased with how this turned out; the story will follow very few key events from either anime or manga. Minato will end up with the same amount of sekirei. However, as you can see, two of the Sekirei at least will be different.
X: Just how much of this do you have planned out?!
A lot more than Lost Numbers, that's for damn sure. I'm going out on a limb for once and going extremely AU with this, because normally I like to stick with a majority of Canon, especially in terms of backstory, which is redundant, so this is a nice change of pace for me. I'm also going to be introducing some other things, things that make Ashikabi more…useful, other than just winging and empowering Sekirei. X won't be the only Ashikabi who will be fighting alongside his Sekirei. Also, the diagnostics thing is something I've mimicked from zhead's story I,X Your Familiar, a Familiar of Zero / Mega Man X crossover. While I've largely tried to deviate from his use, unfortunately most of it stayed like his.
As I've stated, X will not be as pacifistic as he was in X7. He'll hate fighting, but it won't be thrown off the table entirely. To reflect this, the reason for his V.W.S. priority is to take on a more defensive and/or utility roll, rather than pure destruction – It's especially seen with Storm Tornado; that in the original game is insanely Overpowered – you can tear through the whole game using that, save bosses. It still has its destructive power but it will also have the ability to be used in a similar fashion to Tornado Hold from Mega Man 8 (used to lift things / Rock into the air.)
On the note of Tsukiumi not knowing about water conducting electricity…from what I've read from fanfictions and gathered from my own observations, Sekirei are given mostly everything in order to adapt to the Japanese Culture; namely television. While yes, television has many educational shows / channels, they may not watch them. Tsukiumi may be intelligent, but there has to be some form of dense-ness. I mean, think about it for a moment; going to the Anime, episode 5, when Tsukiumi is standing and over-looking the city and is challenged by the twins, she erects a water shield. Yeah, the shield may have acted like a conductor and grounded the electricity, but there's the chance that she didn't know that water is conductive. She might not have of thought about it at the time.
I gave his civilian form the name of 'Rock Light,' because of the fact that he's not going to want to reveal his reploid form for as long as possible; Tsukiumi and Kazehana are exceptions as they saw him in his reploid form. While Miya and Matsu did see his reploid form, and have some information, it wasn't enough to really warrant him giving out any vital information.