CHAPTER 1:
--X--
Year: 2120 AD
As X sat in a meditative position, resting in the spare bedroom in Dr. Cain's spare bedroom, X thought about the situation with the Mavericks, and that it seems things are actually getting better. This is a relief to him, after his first thoughts about the Maverick Hunters.
Suddenly, Cain rushed into his room. "X, get up and look at the holo-screen!"
X, slightly groggy but was quick to react, got up and hurried towards the living-room. As Alpha sat on the couch, concentrated on the holo-screen, Cain and X stood up, watching the horror that is happening on it.
"This is Terri Koritsua here, reporting at Rokoll's capitol, where a massive amount of Mavericks tear up the city after watching the vid-screens around town, which the leader of the Maverick Hunters, Sigma, shown he has gone Maverick, and wants to recruit other Mavericks in an army. The city is in complete chaos, with no one knowing who's a normal Reploid and who's a Maverick.
"The Mavericks are capturing and killing Humans for either ransom or for sport. And I need to get out of here, now!" Rick shouted at the camera man to run, then the camera caught a laser bolt impact on Rick's back.
"What the hell is going on?!" Cain said, aghast. "This shouldn't have happened. There was no possible way this could've happened!" He fell to his knees, starting to cry uncontrollably. "It's all my fault!"
X was just furious that this kind of thing, a Maverick Hunter, Sigma, of all people, going Maverick himself! And taking as many Reploids down with him as he can!
I need to do something about this, thought X.
"Dr. Cain, I'm going out!" X headed for the front door.
"X, don't be a fool! You'll be killed out there!"
"But Cain, I need to do something about it. It's my fault that there's Reploids, and that this situation came from that. I've got to do something!"
"But X . . ."
X ignored him, and concentrated on beaming out to the capitol of Rokoll. He knew of this from the notes of Dr. Light, of how Rock used to beam to different locations. He just had to get his mind set for it.
X's body began to glow light blue, almost like charging.
"Come on . . ." X concentrated harder.
Then he beamed out of the room, through the upper floors of Cain's house, and up into the sky.
Whoa! X thought, but couldn't speak, since he was just a beam of energy at that moment.
Better not go into space, thought X and concentrated on the coordinates of the capitol. His beam-body bent and was heading ground-ward.
The next thing he knew, he was on the interstate bridge, with cars almost crashing into his formed self. X dodged them and got to the side of the bridge, where the vehicles avoided him, honking their horns at him.
This is close enough for now, thought X.
He got his bearings and headed down the street, where traffic was becoming more scarce. Eventually, he found several destroyed vehicles on the side of the road, where one car was smoking from the rear. X came to the car to see if there were any survivors, and was startled by a Reploid which jumped onto the car, looking wildly excited.
"Come, brother," he said. "Join the cause. You know it's true."
A Maverick! X thought. Better be careful.
"Sorry, but I have to go . . ." X was blocked when the Maverick jumped in front of him.
"No, you don't want to join, do you?" The Maverick turned toward the car and wrenched out a long pipe. "Well, then . . . if you are not an ally . . . you're an ENEMY!!" The Maverick rushed towards X, holding the pipe above him.
X's right arm turned unconsciously into the X-Buster, and X ignored it, running away from the Maverick. X heard the 'whoosh' of the pipe almost hitting him several times.
Since we're both Reploids, and we can't tire out for days, I have to use force to stop him.
X turned around and shot a plasma bullet at the Maverick, which hit on the shoulder. He flipped on his side and started to get back up. X, however, pointed the X-Buster at him. "I don't want to hurt you any more than I have to."
The Maverick sighed, dropped his pipe, then jumped at X. He shot the slavering Maverick, it flipping over the side of the bridge, the Maverick falling hundreds of feet.
X was shocked at what he just did.
I just killed a Maverick. And, unfortunately, if all of them are like this, then I have one large battle to fight.
--X--
Continuing down the interstate, X noticed more and more Mavericks showing up, being any kind of Reploid that a Reploid can be: construction workers, police, fire-fighters even, but the worst was the experimental Combat Reploid soldiers, driving fast military vehicles and shooting down humans like it was a sport with their laser turrets. X stood around, looking at the chaos and confusion, grabbed his head, trying to block out the wails and screams from both non-Maverick Reploids and humans.
X then had an epiphany: he would do his hardest to make peace between Reploids and humans.
"THAT'S IT!," X screamed into the evening sky, starling the Mavericks and even the Reploids and humans around him. "I will not stand for this!" He looked around and waited for the Mavericks to attack.
One of the racer-soldiers waved his hand to another one, then both started speeding towards X. He dodged the oncoming vehicles and shot at one of them. It hit the vehicle, but did little damage.
X remembered he can charge up his shots. He then concentrated on making a one-level charge, a term he just came up with in his head. His body glowed slightly pale blue, pulsating gently. One of the vehicles swung back around and started shooting at X. X rolled out of the way of the turret's barrage, shooting into the driver's seat with a green plasma bolt.
The shot hit the Maverick square in the chest, making him expire on the spot. The car went out of control and crashed into the side of the other military vehicle, whose driver was furious.
X then charged up again one level, this time noticing that he grew slightly tired from using his energy. The driver then shot at X's feet, which the bridge crumbled underneath his weight. X dropped down, grabbing onto the side of the bridge, not knowing how to get up quickly.
The driver smiled and sped up fast towards X's hand, shooting the ground in front of him. X then pulled himself up and kicked on the side of the bridge and threw himself over the vehicle and rolled over the hood, landing on the bridge.
X turned quickly and saw the car fly off the bridge and crash into a building, making a horrendous explosion.
X shook his head. I must go on.
He then continued to run down the interstate, now leveling down lower to a highway, getting close to the city limits. X felt the ground give under him at several places and jumped away from them as they collapsed.
Then an entire section of the highway started to wobble harshly as a giant bumblebee-Maverick with large helicopter blades came from the sky, heavily armored and had a cannon on where the 'mouth' would be.
This is bad, thought X.
It started shooting at him with bullet-fast plasma bullets, X almost being hit by one. He then fell down and slid behind the bee-blader accidentally.
I just got to stay level, thought X.
He then charged his X-buster up two levels, his body giving a pulsating, light-pale-blue color. He then aimed it at the bee-blader's face and released.
The energy was tremendous that it blew back X several feet, landing him hard on his back. The released energy was a giant, blue-pulsating blast that tore up the Maverick's posterior.
The Maverick buzzed loudly and was flying off-balanced, turning towards X rashly. It knocked into a light pole and shot its stream of bullets at X crookedly. He ducked the oncoming barrage and charged up another two levels, making X feel tired.
He then fired it onto the Maverick's head-area, making the head explode. It then ceased buzzing and fell slowly down.
Oh crap! Thought X.
He then ran away as far as he could as the bee-blader crashed onto the highway, making a great explosion, collapsing the area around it. The bridge was falling under his feet and X jumped forward, praying for a safe landing.
He did, rolling on his side far down the bridge. When he stopped rolling, he looked towards where the bee-blader landed. What was left was part of the bridge on either side.
Knowing now's not the time to rest, X continued to run down what's now the road. He then stopped, looking for where a large shadow was coming from.
What loomed above him was a massive hover-ship.