Disclaimer that doesn't legally mean a thing:
I don't own Mega Man, Mega Man X, Zero, yaddda yadda yadda they are properties of Capcom yadda yadda or other assorted characters that may make a cameo appearance as they are owned by their respective owners yadda yadda PLEASE DON'T SUE ME! I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE IT WORTH THE TIME, OR COVER THE LAWYER'S FEES!!!
OK. Now that that's over with… lets move on to the next phase.
I assume quite a few things, namely because of several hiatuses (hi ate' tus – noun – a gap in time) in my knowledge of the Mega Man and Mega Man X series. I've only played Mega Man 1-6, Mega Man X 1,2, and 4 only touching on 3, and played Mega Man Soccer. So if I royally screw up something please don't flame me about it.
A few notes:
1) Please, PLEASE I emplore you, DO NOT use the voice of X in MMX4 for X in the story—Zero is not so bad—but PLEASE (I hope I've made it emphatic enough) use the one that was used in the one episode that X appeared in the short-running series of the same name. This holds true for any voice and character appearance that was used in the series.
2) X is Mega Man, just "grown up", if you will Any Time spillage into Mega Man X 3 will please be ignored or at least pointed out so I can fix the timetable.
3) Measurements are in metric unless specified otherwise meaning temperatures are in Celsius
4) I use the US names for all the characters
5) If there seems to be a vocabulary problem, I will post a small glossary of all the "big confusing words" used at the beginning of each subsequent (sub sah kwent'- adjective - following)
6) By the way, the panda is my favorite animal, I couldn't come up with a better idea
Finally All the garbage is finished… time for what you came here for!
A Family Reunited
Chapter I: Memories
After long last, it was finally over.
"Oh you're gonna' pay for that Mega-wuss!" PandaMan shouted. "BAMBOO SPEARS!"
"Oops! You missed me again!"
Mega Man easily jumped the sharpened bamboo rods. One final powered up Mega-Buster blast was all it took to make PandaMan extinct. Wilie's last defender was gone.
"It's over, come out Wilie!" challenged Mega Man. He knew it wasn't going to make him give up, but he had to say it anyway.
"Never!!!" came the deranged reply. A spidery-looking Mech fell from the ceiling of the lab down to the ground, in an attempt to smash the blue bomber, naturally, Willie was the pilot.
A barrage of energy shots was fired at our hero, followed up with a couple jabs from the menacing-looking legs of the Mech. Mega Man dodged them all, meanwhile trying every weapon he had acquired and shooting at various places, to no avail.
'MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!" came the maniacal laugh of Wilie, "There's no way you'll beat me now!" Wilie took a couple more swings with the Mech's arms
Contrary to Wilie's belief, it was at that moment Mega Man noticed that the plating underneath the Mech was loose.
"Maybe," replied Mega Man, "but how about this!" Mega Man dodged another blast from the Mech, slid under the Mech and fired a shot into the Mech's weaker underside.
As Mega Man slid out the other side, an explosion underneath the Mech sent it flying into the main computer for the lab. Naturally with anything like this, it was only a matter of time before the lab was reduced to rubble.
"I'll get you next time Mega Man!" Said the frustrated Wilie as he slammed the escape button, the usual refrain meant nothing really to Mega Man though.
However, there would be no next time.
"WORK YOU STUPID THING!!" came the frantic cry of the evil doctor as he pounded on the button.
Even the insane, however, eventually realize when escape is futile.
"Well," said Wilie, "you may have beaten me, but my legacy isn't over yet!!!!" Then everything went white.
There was no doubt about it. There it was in the rubble, Wilie's body.
"Rush," said Mega Man in a flat voice, as he leaned over to pick up the body, "jet mode. Let's tell Dr. Light it's over."
* * *
"X, would you stop daydreaming?"
Zero's sudden query caused X to jump slightly, his reminiscing brought to a sudden stop.
"Look X, I know it's hot in here, but we gotta' stay focused." Zero returned to his keyboard.
It was only months after Sigma's second fall, and as there had been no new Maverick threats, the bureaucrats and politicians had done what had come natural to them: they cut the budget, thus relegating most of the Maverick Hunters to the ranks of mere paper-pushers.
X shook his head, trying to wake himself up, "Sorry."
There was a glitch in the heating system, resulting in half of Hunter H.Q. existing in a balmy-yet-wonderful state of 200 degrees. Some kid named Lan was supposed to come and fix the problem, however, he was late, as usual.
The computer Zero was working at made a few strange noises and then locked up.
"What the…!?" shouted Zero. Grumbling he activated the reset sequence for easily the twentieth time that day, the heat obviously having an adverse effect on the computer's ability to function. As he was waiting for it to boot up again he ranted, "We save the world, what, twice and what's our thanks? GETTING F#%@ PAPERWORK IN A %^$# SONNA FOR A CUBICAL WHERE EVERYTHING DOESN'T #&!@ WORK!" said the slightly ticked off Zero.
Zero had been cursing all day. Being sick of it X had rigged up a crude button-activated censoring device that would replace Zero's cursing with beeps. Caught off guard X had barely reached the button in time.
"OW!" said Zero, who had just received a jolt of pain, a side-effect of the device. "It hurts when you push that thing… and didn't you say that you were going to get rid of it?"
"Well… I… um… forgot…" X admitted, without looking up, quickly putting the device down and attempting to look busy.
"OH! So that's the game is it?!" Said Zero mockingly "X can do whatever he wants and Zero's just a piece of scrap metal!"
Dr. Cain Walked in, wearing a heat suit, however the duo weren't paying attention.
"I never said that…"
"But you implied it!" roared Zero, then mockingly imitating X's voice said: "Lookie me! I'm X and I've saved the world two times and I can do any thing I want because I saved the.. OOF!"
X, uncharacteristically had just left his cubical and punched Zero, sending him sprawling into the isle—the heat was obviously getting to X too.
Zero got up, "OH, so you want to fight, now, do ya?" his retaliatory punch sent X face-first into the isle. X got up again.
It was just seconds from a fight, when fortuitously for the surrounding four city blocks, Dr. Cain intervened.
Dr. Cain audibly cleared his throat, "AHEM!"
Both snapped to attention, "Sir!"
Dr. Cain simply shook his head, "I'll pretend I didn't see that. Head quarter command has decided to shut down the building until the problem's fixed."
"WOHOO!" Went Zero.
"YES!" Went X.
Both of them flew out of the building faster than one of X's fully powered shots on a caffeine high.
* * *
In a stark contrast to the Hunter Headquarters Building, the temperature outside was a quite comfortable 24 degrees. Not only that, it was quite clear out, the sky never looked quite so blue, the sky only broken slightly by the occasionally white feathery cloud.
Since it was so nice out, X and Zero both decided to head to the park to relax, maybe even play a game of soccer or two. After arranging the time and place for the match, the duo attempted to find somewhere to relax before the game was underway.
The place the duo decided to rest a bit was by a lake, encircled by bushes, flower beds, trees, and other assorted foliage.
"Hey, Zero, how much longer till the other guys arrive?"
"Fifteen minutes."
X was sitting under a tree, with his back propped against it, as Zero was looking for flat stones with witch to skip over the lake. Finding one, he wound up and threw it.
Pap! Pap-pap! Pap! Plonk!
"Four," said Zero. He fired another.
Pap! Pap-pap! Pap! Pap-pap-pap! Pap! Pap! Pap!
It was looking good, and still going strong it seemed.
"Wow!" said X, "Four more and it'll break your record!"
Pap-Pap!
"Come on!" said Zero, fists clenched in excitement.
Pap!
"One more!" said both.
The rock then shifted in the air and hit the water edge-first. Not a very healthy environment for propagating skips.
Plunk! The water rippled, almost tauntingly.
"ARGH!"
"Thirteen," said X, as he resettled himself against the tree, "at least you tied it."
"Yea," said Zero, "easy for… XLOOKOUT!"
The blast came from seemingly nowhere, straight at X's head. He had just enough time to shift it out of the way. There was now a hole in the tree where X's head was.
X, with his head shifted slightly to the left, rolled forward and in a crouching position on one knee took three quick shots into the bushes from where the blast had likely come.
Silence. X stood, buster ready, Zero completely still.
Another blast emanated from the bushes behind Zero. He dodged it in a single move, pulling out his beam sword meanwhile doing a spinning backflip. He dashed into the bushes and disappeared.
X ran over to the place Zero had dashed into, and could see flashes of light coming from within. As he was about to run in to help out, Zero came flying back into X.
"Ugh" grunted X, as they both went tumbling.
The aggressor stepped out of the bushes. A wolf-like reploid, he had a strange color scheme, mostly red with lighter red. His weapon was a plasma gun inside his mouth, along with intimidating looking claws and teeth, and high speed. One other noticeable feature was that his speech was strange. By this time, both X and Zero had returned to their feet.
"Row Roo RIE!" it growled.
It made the mistake of lunging at X, who had a powered up X-Buster shot ready. He dropped to the ground on his back, and unleashed the blast. It sent the offending reploid into the air, as it came back down, Zero's sword was ready.
* * *
Suddenly Dr. Cain came over X's communications device.
"X? X? Are you there X?
"Yes, what is it?"
Dr. Cain noticed X was breathing hard. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," chimed in Zero, "just took some dog to the pound."
"Right," replied Dr. Cain. "Anyway, X, we just received something at the Dr. Light Memorial Lab you might want to see.
"Guess we'll have to cancel that soccer game," said X to Zero. "Roger, Dr. Cain, be right over."
"Hey, can I come?" asked Zero.
"Sure, I guess," X knew Zero would follow him anyway, so X figured he might as well not bother.
* * *
Arriving at the lab, Dr. Cain met Zero and X..
"Hey, what's the deal with interrupting our break?" joked Zero. "Another budget cut meeting?"
"No." Said Dr. Cain, "This pertains mostly to X, however, as one of his closest friends you may join if you wish, come."
Dr. Light's Lab was refurbished with all the newest technology, and had a touring group head through it once at least every half hour, thus it was the least affected building by the budget cuts.
As they were walking through the corridors of the lab, Zero noticed X was looking awfully down. Realizing whatever was on his mind may not be something X would want to share with the world, he walked closer and asked in a hushed tone:
"X, what's the matter?"
"Wha--? Oh, nothing."
"Come on," said Zero, "You know I know you know I know you better than that, really, what's wrong?" asked Zero, attempting to be funny and make X loosen up a little.
X, however, was saved from having to share when a rookie scientist caused a small explosion. In a quavering voice, with a face covered in soot, he said, "I'm OK…"
* * *
Arriving at their destination, Dr. Cain procured a small disc.
"Holie cow! Is that what I think it is?" Exclaimed Zero.
"Yes," said Dr. Cain, "It's a RDS 3100 vid-disk. Luckily I, in my stash had a player for such a thing." It was already prepared, so all he did was slide it in, push a button and off it went.
The seen was having a problem displaying the video portion, but the audio worked just fine.. a little too fine.
"Hey, brother, long time no see," came a familiar voice.
A look of pure shock went through X's face.
* * * * * *
X has had quite a day today. Who is this voice? What does he want? Why is Zero looking for where all of X's blue has gone? Is it possible to spell onomatopoeia without looking it up? Most of these questions answered in the next chapter!
Please read and review. I'm kinda proud of this, it took me a while to finally write it, but here it is, my first fanfic. Flamers are accepted, only if they post constructive criticism. 1 Gold Star to the first to put in their review the names of the two Mega Man games I have referenced and not be a flamer.