Author's Notes: I got the idea to make this fanfic from a similar fanfic I found online. However, I plan to use a far different plot than the one I saw.

Disclaimer: I do not own any officially licensed Touhou characters.

"Maverick... a term mostly used for robots who attack humans. However, it is not a term made specifically for robots. It is possible for a human to be labeled as 'Maverick'."

On one of the streets of a futuristic Gensokyo, everything seemed normal, until a group of robotic beings, Mechanaloids, suddenly began to rampage. Following the attack, a young woman with long, blonde hair, wearing a black dress with a white apron, as well as a black witch's hat that had a purple ribbon tied around it, walked onto the Mechanaloid-infested street. Each step she took gave off a metal-hitting-metal kind of sound. She was a Reploid known to some as "MegaMari X", or others as "Marisa X", sometimes even just called "X".

"Damn these Mavericks... they just never give up.", she said, clearly annoyed. "But I suppose it's to be expected." She held her hand out toward a Mechanaloid, sending a stream of plasma shots at it that hit it just before it was able to land an attack on a citizen that it had targeted. "I guess it is a bit easier than it would have been if I was still human, though.", she sighed. In truth, she was not always a Reploid. She used to be a human simply known as "Marisa". However, she died off from an unknown disease. But when she died, a flash drive containing data of her memories and thought process, as well as a strange data coding known as "Soul Data", has mysteriously appeared, thus allowing her mind and soul to be uploaded into her Reploid body.

"X, can you hear me?", A voice came from a built-in communicator. "Yeah, I hear ya, Reimu. I'm working on a maverick situation at Hikari Street.", she replied. "Looks like you beat me to it, as usual. Good luck with the mission." "Right, then." After cutting communications, she dashed out onto the street, destroying Mechanaloids left and right. After a while, a ship flew above her, and a hatch on the bottom lowered, with a green-haired girl wearing a blue and white outfit fell down from it, giving the same sound as X's footsteps when she landed. "Sanae..."

"Well now, if it isn't X." "What happened to you, Sanae? You used to be our friend. Mine and Reimu's. Now you're labeled as a Maverick..." "Things change, Marisa." X scoffed at the use of her old name "I simply have a new goal in life." Sanae was a victim of the same virus that had killed Marisa. But, like Marisa, her mind and soul were transcribed onto a flash drive. And they weren't the only ones who had fallen victim to the same virus.

Sanae had cut the conversation short by dashing up to X and attacking her. She tried to defend herself, but it was apparent that Sanae had greater experience with her Reploid body, easily overpowering her. "It's time to finish you off, X!", she said, just before her attention shifted to a blaze that was headed her way, barely dodging it. After the blaze had vanished, a teenage boy with red, spiky hair that reached as low as his ankles had appeared between the two. "Tch. You got lucky this time, X." Sanae then flew back into the ship, barely dodging the second blaze. The hatch closed below her, and the ship flew off.

"Thanks, Flare." Flare, the boy who had saved Marisa, turned his head toward X and gave a small smile. "Not a problem, X." Flare wasn't a Reploid, nor was he from Gensokyo. He was a Psuedo-Gensokyian human. When the Reploids began to be built, Flare had requested that he would be an exception to the first rule of robots, which stated that robots could not harm a human being. For Gensokyo, that rule was changed a bit, making it so that they could not harm Youkai either, or else they would be labeled as Maverick. However, Flare's request went through, making it possible for him to spar with the Reploid Maverick Hunters without his partners being labeled as Maverick.

"Listen, X. You're not used to your Reploid body yet, but I know you'll become stronger. You might even become an S-class hunter, like me." Flare was a Maverick Hunter who had risen all the way to S Rank, where only the best hunters resided. Because they were the best, only 5 S-class hunters could exist. "Thanks for that.", X replied. Flare's smile then grew a bit just before he waved a "good-bye" at her, going off to who-knows-where. After he had left, X returned to the Hunter Base, which was underneath Reimu's home, the Hakurei Shrine.

"I still can't believe Sanae betrayed us like that...", Reimu said. She wore a red and white Shrine Maiden outfit, and had long, brown hair that was tied up into a ponytail, along with brown eyes. "I don't want to believe it either... but we have no choice but to accept that she's gone Maverick." "I know... it's just... hard..." Just then, another figure entered the room. He seemed to be a teenager with pink-tinted white hair, pink-tinted white eyes, and pink-tinted white wings, and he wore casual clothes that were usually seen from the Outside World. "Hey, Seth.", X called out to him. "Huh? Oh, hey, X. How's it going?" Seth, a Gensokyo-born Youkai who was raised by a human in the outside world, was the cause of the futuristic Gensokyo that they now lived in. Somehow, he was able to get everyone to transition between the old Gensokyo, which was low-tech, to the new Gensokyo, which was very high-tech, quite easily.

"It's going alright.", X said. "But I ran into Sanae a bit earlier." "Oh... I see..." Seth was also upset about Sanae's betrayal, but he took it better than the rest of the hunters did. Just then, the alarm went off. "We've got Maverick readings coming from eight different areas!", Reimu said, pulling up squared images of the Mavericks on the screen, showing Iku, Utsuho, Nitori, Cirno, Aya, Reisen, Mystia, and Nue. All eight of them were also victims of the virus. "X, you're the only Hunter currently available. You'll have to stop them yourself.", Reimu said. "R-Right..." X looked over the images of the eight Mavericks, who used to be her friends. She knew this would be a difficult job to pull off, but she had to do it. "I'll start with Cirno."

*To be continued*

Author's Notes: So, what do you think? Pretty interesting story, huh?