"It doesn't really matter when time stop, all we know is that time will never wait for us."
In the year 2000X human kind barely existed in this world of machines. Most of the habitants in our world are called Reploids, half-human and half-machine. Many humans decided to hide from our existence, fearing from what they created. We live out in the surface in a city called Giga City but most of us Reploids are hiding underground. The ones that protect our city from evil are called Maverick hunters. That's us; we collect data, protect others and investigate crimes. From what I remember, I still remember the day that my adventure started and till it ended. When everything was perfect for us, all disappeared like a fading dream and everything started like a never ending nightmare. All I wish that I could re-live those days, when I met my friends, my allies and my enemies but now I have nothing left than this old rusted scrappy body of mines and my precious memories. The names X and I'm about to tell you my story, even yet the story of our journey.
X: Commander Redipts! I've heard everything what happened near Giga City!
C. Redipts: Ah! X the person I was looking for! I already sent Zero to Giga City, your mission is to infiltrate the city and stop epsilon's organization as fast as possible. The group that sent before you guys perished.
X: But Commander Epsilon! Just only the two of us to such dangerous mission! We may be S rank maverick hunters but this is just way too risky!
C. Redipts: Zero is not alone, he is with Shadow but I haven't found any communication with Axel. Ever since he was given the mission to find an ally of ours, he never came back.
X: I know he is still alive commander. Something tells me that he's still alive and still fighting to complete his mission. I just know it.
C. Redipts: I understand…I will not argue with your decisions about life and death. X, you will company Zero and Shadow to Giga City right? I do believe that you would never leave Zero behind am I right!
X: Its true Commander, I promise that we will stop Epsilon and defeat his organization!
C. Redipts: Further due, you must not fail, if you do then we will have no choice but to send a crucial attack towards Giga City and bring it to its doom.
X: Yes sir!
C. Redipts: Now go! Before I change my mind on sending you instead of others!
X: Yes commander Redipts!
This is where my story starts. I left the central office heading towards Giga City where I knew that Zero and Shadow were waiting for me. Something was odd though, Commander Redipts was acting stranger that I thought. Axel's disappearance, Epsilon's organization and soon a war against the rebellions. I t took me hour's to arrive towards Giga City on foot. It was soon going to be midnight and when I arrived I encountered Zero and Shadow. Both still haven't started their mission's until I arrived. Though I felt weird and kind of down since it was my fault for delaying the mission but something told me that only both of them alone won't be easy to finish the mission.
Zero: Took you long enough to arrive X! We were already going to start the mission without you. Even Shadow had to destroy some boulders just to kill some time.
Shadow: Still were wasting time here, were all together now so we can move on and finish the mission. The sooner the better!
X: I understand, forgive me for being late. Now then, our mission is to make our way into the abandoned laboratory and destroy Epsilon's army which is recovering and being tuned up in their proper capsules.
Zero: Let's stop talking and move! It's getting darker and I don't plan on staying for a sleepover with those rebellions. Let's go!
Shadow: Right!
X: Affirmative!
Zero, Shadow and I started to run as fast as we could towards the abandoned laboratory which was in the middle of deserted part of Giga City. It took us for awhile to arrive to the destination but we arrived under an hour. We found the mission's destination, an old abandoned destroyed tower. Supposedly the Reploid Factory a few years ago before one of the doctors disappeared and Epsilon took over. Our mission was to stop Epsilon and his army, but I had a feeling that there's more to this mission than that.
Shadow: We here, this is the entrance to the tower!
Zero: I already have the feeling that were being watched, look up towards the fifth floor, you can feel that somebody is there staring at us.
X: Yeah, I can see a bit well. The person's red glowing eyes, it's not Epsilon but I do believe it's one of his soldiers.
Shadow: Could be, remember once we go through that door we have to be at our best defense and offense. If we get cut off don't go back and look for each, instead head towards the closest the lab from your destination. There are a total of five labs and in each lab there are four capsules.
Zero: A total of twenty high rank soldiers resting, we can't afford them to wake up! I would be awful to have twenty high rank soldiers against three S rank maverick hunters.
X: I wonder how the other squad got wiped out, others back at the base say that they were wiped out before they reached the sixth floor and this tower has in fact fifteen floors!
Shadow: We'll see soon enough why they were annihilated before they reached half way of the tower.
Zero: Ok let's go. Epsilon is waiting for us.
Zero started to rush into the tower as Shadow decided to take the back entrance. The only entrance left for me was the sewers but quietly after both Zero and Shadow were already in the building I went through the front entrance where Zero had gone through. I was already in the building and it would seem that Zero has already taken the stairs towards the second floor. The place was extremely in bad condition, the walls were broken down, all the doors were on the floor banged up and destroyed, electric cables hanging around the ceilings and the floor with giant holes everywhere. If this was the first floor imagine the second floor and up. As I approached towards the main computer to find the location of the nearest lab an image of a doctor appeared on the screen. A reploid named Dr. Psyche was in fact one of the doctor's that was responsible of the Reploid customization lab. The customization lab is in fact the labs where the twenty soldiers' are resting. I kept on looking at the image of the doctor. His entire body was white. Half of his upper head was red with a design around it, green glowing eyes, red metal shoes and a blue metal cape. I memorized quite well how he looked like and quickly found one of the labs that we were looking for. I turned off the main computer and ran towards the stairs which where could take me to the second floor and find one of the labs. When I reached towards the second floor I had received an incoming call from Zero which was already on the third floor.
Zero: Come in X, do you hear me? Come in X!
X: Yeah I can hear you Zero.
Zero: I've already found the lab of the second and third floor and both of them are all empty!
X: What! They already have awakened?
Zero: I believe so; also I received a cal from Shadow which is already on the fifth floor. He said that the fourth and fifth floor labs are as well empty. All that is left is the thirteenth floor which where the last lab is.
X: Be careful, I have a feeling that their waiting for us on the floor which the last squad was killed.
Zero: Pretty much yeah, I fear that the worst is about to happen.
X: What about Shadow! Shouldn't he wait for us before entering the sixth floor?
Zero: He told us to hurry up or he'll go up alone. I fear that Epsilon has us right where he wanted us to be at.
X: Isn't there anything we can do somehow surprise him and his goons?
Zero: I believe not…
X: I understand, you go on ahead towards Shadow I'll somehow make it to the fifth floor in no time.
Zero: Very well X, don't do anything cocky…it might cost your life!
The call transmission which Zero had made with me ended. I quietly lowered my head slowly looking towards the ground and thinking about Axel. I slowly walked towards the stairs that would take me to the third floor in a very slow pace. I kind of felt depressed knowing that my best friend was missing and many would say that he was dead. Axel was one of my best friends which I had ever since I was a child. It could be a lie that he was dead; the guy was a lot better than me in investigation missions.
Shadow: You made it Zero, what kept you so long.
Zero: I wonder how in hell you made up here so fast and checking out those labs in such fast pace.
Shadow: My radar sends out a signal that can detect a living Reploid meanwhile in none of the rooms was a sign of life. It was awfully weird that they would wake up in such a slow recovery.
Zero: I have a feeling that the recovery started a long time ago. The information we got said that the recovery started five days ago, instead to fully have finished recovery, a Reploid must take seven days of recovery. Further due it means that two days ago the Reploids had finished their recovery and abandoned this tower.
X: Hey! What I miss?
Shadow: Pretty much everything X. for what we can see is that we have no choice but to forget bout the labs and Epsilon before it is too late.
X: I see I found information about the doctor that disappeared before Epsilon took over; his name was Dr. Psyche, pretty much a very old Reploid since he has the appearance of an old man. Could he be connected with Epsilon?
Zero: I believe so, reports are found that Psyche really loved experimenting on bodies of other Reploids and turning them into weapons or into one of his own servants.
Shadow: So Psyche was evil from the beginning.
Zero: Pretty much yeah, his disappearance occurred when the rebellion force appeared, so I believe that he is working for Epsilon.
As Zero would give us the explanation about the truth of what happened to Dr. Psyche an earthquake appeared out of no where, an earthquake so strong that the floor on which we were collapsed and we fell towards the first floor. Shadow was still unconscious while Zero was already getting up from the fall. I rubbed my head a bit trying to make the pain go away from my head. When I looked up towards the giant hole which connected already the first floor towards the fifth floor I pretty much saw somebody jump over the hole. I got up and kept quiet on what I had sawn. Zero quickly woke up Shadow from unconsciousness and helped get up. We knew that we were already wasting way too much time in the building. We were going to the exit to climb the tower from outside something sent an echo through the corridors of the tower drawing our attention towards the hallways. Zero knew that someone didn't want us to leave the building ever since we got into it. Shadow quickly ran towards the stairs again to get to the top of the building where supposing ling Epsilon was. Zero went running behind leaving me once again alone from where we started. I felt annoyed already being left behind always in missions. So I decided to stay still and wander around the first floor until both Zero and Shadow came back. Minutes later I could hear voices coming from upstairs and then all of the sudden an explosion occurred on the top of the building. I was in shock and stunned from hearing the explosion. What came to my mind was that I lost both my comrades Zero and Shadow. I ran as fast as I could without stopping to look around and stuff towards the top floor of the tower. I finally arrived towards the top of the tower still trying to catch my breath. What I saw was Zero clashing his Saber with a man's glowing hand. The man was tall covered all over in a black cape. I could feel the pressure from where I was standing which was on the other side of the ceiling of the tower. Shadow was no where to be found and Zero was struggling. I shot the guy in black with the cannon which was my left arm. Shooting and shooting him and yet he didn't stop clashing with Zero nor looked towards me. I was afraid that my attacks were completely useless against this guy. Zero somehow got the strength and escaped from the man's attack and jumped all the way towards me. He was already in a bad shape meaning that the battle started a long time ago or that the man already finished Zero in the beginning of the battle. I felt footsteps from behind me so I turned around and found a red armored woman with red wings on her back and a electric whip in her hand. The exit route was already blocked. The only was to jump from the ceiling but when I looked towards the end of the ceiling very chubby man in a green armor was flying around with his jetpack meaning that if we were to jump he would get us easily. Every single escape route was blocked by a very tough looking Reploid. Zero was already about to fall due to his serious injuries. I had no choice but to point my energy cannon to the floor and shoot at it making the floor collapse and making us fall from the ceiling towards the lower floors.
Fermah: Oh how utterly annoying! Those wretched maverick hunters escaped!
Epsilon: Don't worry Fermah…they will be back!
Fermah: Yes, lord Epsilon.
Epsilon: Botos…fly down towards the lower floors and find them, don't let them escape alive.
Botos: Kyahahahaha! Yes sir! As you wish!
Fermah: How much I hate that annoying cowboy accent.
Epsilon: Zero was nothing compared to my attacks. Not even his attacks can land a mark on Botos.
Fermah: Knowing that Botos is our weakest soldier in the rebellion army, he does have a strong strategy to make his battle skills look impressive but in other ways their not.
Epsilon: Fermah, head towards Central City and check up on Psyche and see if he has everything on control I do believe that the old Reploid must be experimenting on a new weapon.
Fermah: Yes lord Epsilon! As you command!
Fermah flew from the tower heading west towards Central City as Epsilon looked down the hole where X and Zero had fallen into. Botos kept on checking floor by floor and yet couldn't find the bodies of the two hunters. An hour later Botos flew up towards the ceiling of the tower where Epsilon was waiting for him. Botos was prepared to hear the screams of Epsilon for not finding the bodies of the hunters.
Epsilon: YOU FOOL! HOW USELESS CAN YOU BE! IF THEY ESCAPE TOWARDS THEIR BASE THEY'LL SURELY TELL THE TALE ABOUT OUR APPEARANCES!
Botos: Oh lord Epsilon! Those hunters have to be dead by now! The hole kept on going until the first floor and all floors have no life signs. It's impossible to survive such fall.
Epsilon: Get out of my sight you foul useless Reploid!
Botos: Forgive me lord Epsilon!
Botos flew away as fast as he could from Epsilon. Fermah returned from Central City to bring the reports of Psyche towards Epsilon. She found him very angered due to Botos's failed search. She quickly bowed down just to calm him down just a bit to show her loyalty to him.
Fermah: Psyche was not in Central City and moved towards the Eternal Forest to experiment in his secret lab. The one who is in control of Central City is Jango. For now all the citizens are taking captive and being sent towards the prison on Tianna Camp which is being under the control of Silver Horn.
Epsilon: It would be impossible now to find Psyche, his forest and laboratory has the strongest security system in our entire organization. Not even I can avoid the guards and traps in that lab. Psyche in fact does know what he's doing.
Fermah: I've also heard that Jentra back at the Ulfat Factory has finished creating the perfect machine haking system.
Epsilon: Jentra! He's acting for us now? That mechanic bird never showed loyalty to me knowing I could crush him with one finger. Why in hell is he working for me now and not before?
Fermah: I believe that Psyche somehow convinced him.
Epsilon: Fermah, due to Botos's failure, I want you to find the body of those hunters's and dispose of them. Do I make myself clear?
Fermah: Yes, lord Epsilon!
Fermah had bowed down towards Epsilon and flew away heading west again towards Central City to check up on Jango and start the search for the hunter's body. As Fermah flew away Epsilon disappeared into darkness without leaving a trace behind. Hour's later Commander Redipts had received the news that Zero, Shadow and X had gone missing. Redipts did not answer to the Reploid that had informed about the disappearance and turned around to look at Giga City. An angered face was shown by Redipts but yet he maintained calm and left his office. Without further explanation the Reploid waited till Redipts left the office as he started to mess around with the paper files of the S rank hunter's.