Mother's p.o.v.
You might know my daughter, Marianne. She'd been missing for a month, and all we'd been able to find was her phone. I remember the words she said on the phone so clearly... She was going to a place I couldn't follow. I knew what that meant, she committed suicide.
I knew that's what she did, but I tried to deny it and begged my new boy friend to help me find her. Now all I have to remind me of her is our dog, Rush, and her old Mega Man games.
I went to the grocery store one day and was shocked to see on the shelves, a game called Mega Man X11. I don't remember if I ever got it for Marianne, but I decided to buy it anyway, as I knew Marianne would've wanted it if she were alive.
I didn't play it. I just looked at the cover. I remember Marianne used to tell me about these boys. I think I know their names... X, Zero, and Axl, I think? She always kept telling me how cute they are. And yeah, I guess they're cute. She also told me her favorite was Axl. Um, wasn't he the black and red one?
To my shock, on the cover also was a girl robot that looked like Marianne. Maybe she was a character she never told me about. I sighed and put it down. I was hoping her soul was at peace.
Zero's p.o.v.
"Why did I agree to let Marianne live with us?" I moaned. "This is the worst month of my entire life...!"
"You're enjoying this less than the time we had to fight?"
"Hey, at least that was fun!"
X seemed physically hurt by my words. "Well, she did help us out a lot, even if she can be a bit of a bitch. I thank the girls for keeping her company most of the time."
Someone knocked at the door as if they were in a boxing match.
"LET ME IN! FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK LET ME IN!"
"Axl?" I opened to door for him to fall in. "What-"
"SHUT THE DOOR, SHUT THE DOOR! WE LEFT HER DIMENSION! GET HIM AWAY FROM ME!"
"What is wrong with you!?"
A dog rushed in. In just one glance, we knew who it was.
"You...!"
"BARK BARK BARK!"
Marianne's p.o.v.
"Y-you think so?" Layer asked.
"Yeah, totally! Don't worry, my woman, I'll help you out with this!" I said enthusiasticly.
She smiled and took my hands. "Thank you so much. What advice can you give me to start?"
"Well... don't ever show him your eyes. Or your irisis..."
"Why? What's wrong with my eyes?"
"Umm..." My communicator beeped. "Marianne to ba-"
"Send help," X whispered.
"X? What the hell's going on!?"
"There's a monster in here that's hunting us."
"BARK BARK BARK!"
"OH SHIT IT FOUND US!"
"Did you let a dog in there?"
"ABANDON SHIP!" Axl scrieched. "ABANDON THE FUCKING SHIP! YOUNG PROTOTYPES FIRST!"
I sighed. "It looks like the boys have let a dog in. Come on, let's go help 'em."
X's p.o.v.
We'd finally lost the thing. We were hiding in small cave with enough room for another person. I was clinging to Zero, terrified.
"We left her Dimension...! We left her pet demon...! But it's followed us all the way here...!"
He patted my back.
"But how did it get here? Did it follow us?"
"I don't know. But it probably came for Marianne."
"BARK BARK BARK!"
"Oh sh-" Taking a step backward, we fell into a crevice.
Mother's p.o.v.
"Rush! Rush!" I searched the entire house, plus the backyard, and I couldn't find my dog. "Well, fine. You can feed yourself."
Angry, I marched back into the house and picked up the cartridge for MMX11. I decided to see why my daughter loved these games so much and popped it into her old WiiU. There wasn't an intro or anything, it just showed the boys on the cover in a cave. I'm glad their textboxes had their names, otherwise I'd just be calling them the colors they are.
X's text box popped up.
"Ow... I hit my head on something."
"Yeah, my head!" Zero snapped.
"Can you hear me, boys!?"
"Alia! Yeah, we can hear you."
"Where are you boys? We've looked all over for you!"
"We were hiding from the demon when we fell in this ditch. We would climb back out, but it looks like there are Mavericks in here."
"You're not serious!?"
"Yeah, there's one behind each of these wormholes."
I was shown a close-up of the wormholes. Above them was a picture of a robotic animal.
"Does this seem familiar to you?"
"Yeah. And according to this sign, only one of us can enter at a time."
"You three play rock-paper-scissors or something to decide. Just hurry up, okay?"
I was then put in a character select. I looked at the black one which the game called 'Axl.' I remembered he was Marianne's favorite character, and chose not to play as him. I selected one of the other two at random. When he appeared on screen, I saw I chose the blue one, X.
The name of the 'Maverick' popped up as he appeared: "Stein Kong."
I moved him forward, and damn this game was hard! Enemies were spawning out everywhere, and you had such a small health bar. I guess it wasn't too bad, this was the beginning of the game. But as hard and unforgiving as it was, it was adicting. I could see how my daughter loved it so.
I picked up two little tanks, one of which was shaped like a heart, and a jingle followed each time. One time, my health bar increased.
About halfway through, another textbox popped up.
"Zero to X, are you there?"
"I here ya."
"Have you found the Maverick yet?"
"No, I'm still looking."
"Have you found anything else out in there?"
"No, why?"
"Because for the past nine years now, there's always been either an 'anonymous Reploid' or cheeky and/or sexy woman out trying to kill us. So is there anything down there that would interest us?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary."
"Stuff like this is in the ordinary?" I cried.
X's textbox popped up. "Did you just say something, Alia?"
"No. Why?"
"I uh, thought I heard something."
I came across a door and went inside. A cutscene with animated drawings triggered.
"You're Stein Kong, right? You've gone Maverick. I'm here to disassemble you."
"You must be Maverick Hunter X. Are you here for the Reploid I'm guarding?"
"What Reploid?"
"Go ahead and try to take him from me. Even if you do succeed, nothing will prevent what's coming to this world. But I won't be defeated so easily!"
Stein Kong was pretty simple; his pattern was that he would throw barrels at you. You could dash and jump at the same time to shoot him in the head, or you could shoot the barrels and destroy them.
He also sometimes punched the ground, which would make X hit the ground, leaving him open for the punch that followed. I only had an inch of health left when I took him out. After the fight, X's text box popped up.
"Now to see that Reploid."
An Anime cut scene triggered.
X's p.o.v.
I found a sleep pod which contained the Reploid. I whiped the moss off of it.
"'20XX.' This was from a thousand years ago?" I opened it up and gasped.
"Marianne to X, what Reploid was he guarding?"
"It's... it's... me!"
Author's note: I had this idea after I wrote 'Brothers by Code.' I was inspired by my own story, ha ha. Well, I am working up a plot as I go. I have the first two chapters planned out, everything else I'm going to have to work with. Also, on 'Brothers by Code' there was a review saying this might explain why Axl mysteriously vanished. I don't know what you mean by that. Anything past the first third of the Zero series is unknown to me. Is Axl not cannon in any Mega Man game past X8? Well if so, don't worry, I have a theory. ;) See ya guys later.