Mega Man GT
Chapter I: The Janitor is Always Right

He was trapped. The sound of Sigma's laughter seemed to echo through his systems as he felt his energy begin to be depleted by the bizarre, viral energy taking the form of Sigma's head, which had now seemingly become a part of him.

In desperation, X built up every last bit of energy he could possibly muster and fired two fully charged shots into the crimson walls of energy that surrounded him. All at once, the laughter ceased, and a horrible screeching noise filled the chamber as the Sigma head released him and seemed to thrash around the room, slowly but surely fading away.

He is… last… of the Doctor's… creations…

With his last words, Sigma seemed to disappear into the central computer of the X-Hunter base, and the facility began to self-destruct. X moved quickly to escape before the structure collapsed on him. As he left, he thought he heard something behind him. It sounded like Sigma's laughter, and some final words… but he couldn't quite hear them over the explosions.

…suffer… virus… destroy yourself…

Paying no mind, X raced out of the fortress, allowing him to transport away before the explosion, ignoring the occasional flickering of some kind of static in his optics.

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"Let's see how well you do when my mind is clear!" A good-natured smile was shared before Zero lunged at X, who evaded precise, non-lethal strikes from the Z-Saber and answered with his own precise X-Buster blasts.

"At this rate, well enough that I'll have to put you back together again!" X grinned back at Zero's annoyed glare.

"You're never gonna let me live that down, are you?!" A Saber wave was countered with a fully-charged Buster shot.

As the two comrades continued to spar in a training simulation within the Maverick Hunter HQ, X felt himself begin to slow down, resulting in the occasional successful strike on his arms or shoulders from Zero, as that strange flickering began again. It seemed minimal at first, but then it began to cloud his field of view. What the hell? What's happening?

He had thought, back when he escaped the X-Hunter fortress, that the static was just been a few errors in his system after all the damage he had taken during his assault on the base. He had since been patched up in the medical bay, but just a day later, it looked like that had not done the trick.

Zero immediately stopped his attack as X stopped moving altogether. "X, what is it?" There was no answer. The operators overseeing the simulation also began to call out to X, but he stayed completely still.

Within the growing static, X saw the brief, horrible sight of Sigma's face before feeling the sharp equivalent of pain for a Reploid in his head, and he exited the simulation.

"X, what is it?!"

"Commander!"

"Where are you going?!"

Now in the Hunter Base, X ran through the hallway, only barely able to see. Whatever was going on, he sensed he needed to get away from his friends and comrades quickly. At top speed, he soon found himself outside of the city where the Hunter HQ was situated, now alone in rocky terrain. The pain was unbearable now, and he collapsed to his knees, clutching his head.

Suffer my virus, X… now you will be destroyed… and you will carry out my wishes yourself…

With a scream, X felt the pain begin to dissipate as some kind of energy was expelled from him. The static faded, and the voice of his enemy was gone. The viral energy seemed to be out of his system now. Breathing heavily from the exhaustion, he looked up and his eyes widened.

Small orbs of energy were surrounding him, floating in the air. Reploid souls…? X thought. They were of varying colors, and from his readouts, he saw that their energy was that of Sigma's virus.

Then they began to glow, and seemed to expand and take new forms. Human-shaped forms… or rather, X-shaped. They were featureless images of color, until soon, the glow they emitted seemed to increase in brightness before fading away and revealing their appearances.

X was looking at 8 evilly grinning Mega Man X's. He saw a red and silver X, a green and purple X, a blue and orange X…

He quickly realized he was looking at exact copies of the forms his body took whenever he utilized his most recent weapons gained from the last 8 Maverick leaders. But why?

Commander, hold on! We'll transfer you out! Apparently, HQ had seen what had just happened, and from the sound of their voices, were just as panicked and confused as he was. Immediately, his body glowed and then vanished from sight as he was transferred back to base.

The octad of X-clones wasted no time, and split up to enact their sole purpose: The systematic destruction of humankind.

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Dr. Cain looked horror-struck as he explained. "It would appear that Sigma managed to infect you with his virus, if only for a short while. His evil energy was most likely going to be used to control you, but your resistance and expelling of the energy caused it to take on a new form. Or forms, as it were. If my theory is correct, the virus targeted and attacked your weapon systems, which, having been acquired recently, did not have adequate defenses against the Maverick virus. It most likely began to replicate itself rapidly to take total control of your weapons, and when you managed to expel it, the data was plentiful enough, and the virus powerful enough, to manifest itself in our physical world, creating these copies."

A stunned silence followed his words. A passing Reploid janitor spoke up, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Everyone in the room nodded, including Cain. "Well, yes," he admitted. "But you have to admit, it's the only theory we have at the moment."

X shrugged. "I don't care about theories. The only thing we have to worry about… and by we, I mean me, is destroying these things before they cause too much damage. Get the transporter up and running, I'm going in now."

"Good luck, Mega Man X!"

"Thanks, Zero!"

As X teleported out of the base, everyone in the room looked at Zero expectantly. Zero was simply looking into the distance with a smile on his face… the "distance" being directly at a wall of computer terminals, but that didn't stop him from having his anime-esque contemplation moment.

"Um, Zero?" The Reploid janitor spoke up. "Why aren't you going to help him?"

"This is his mission. Because he's the hero the world needs, but not the one it deserves… or something like that."

"Wait… what?!"

"What a hero…" Zero almost looked like he was going to shed proud tears of pride.

"You know what? You jerks don't pay me enough…"

And so, X was off to defeat his copies. Alone. With no one coming to help him. Not even Zero. Why? Because Mega Man GT.

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Disclaimer: The Mega Man franchise belongs to some Japanese dudes/dude in Japan who are/is Japanese. The same Japanese dudes/dude that I will never forgive for turning the X series into the Zero series before the Zero series even existed. But that's another pointless rant.

Okay, explanation time. This is an idea I had for a story when I was 14 years old and only knew of the first three X games. It's been nine years, and I finally feel ready to unleash my magnum opus upon the Internet… and mock it relentlessly. "GT" is a reference to Dragon Ball GT, as well as the nonsensical plot resembling the Black Dragons arc and X being the lone hero despite other strong guys (or just Zero) being around to help him just like Goku getting all the attention.

I'm not entirely sure where I was going with the tone. I enjoy writing serious stuff, so that obviously came out at first, but I also enjoy laughing at my ideas from a more innocent time, so I threw in a lot of weird humor at the end there. Kinda like Dragon Ball, in that sense. So anyway, I may or may not continue this. I'm actually looking forward to thinking up fight scenes for each of the Evil X's, so I might keep this going just for fun.

And if you've read all of this BS, you're awesome. E-cookies for everyone. Even you, person who skipped all of those words.