Hi. I apologize if this isn't a good story; I'm new to this, so please state anything wrong with it and I'll try and improve. And yes, it's Gods of Destruction for a reason.

All copyrights go to Capcom and Inti Creates. I have no claims on these characters.

Mega Man ZX – The Gods of Destruction

Chapter 1 – One True Zero

They stood, staring each other down. Two beings of identical appearance, but one having dark armour to the other, they appeared quite human, wearing what appeared to be a bluish-black jumpsuit under a red body jacket, the body jacket actually a very flexible metal known to most as 'Deradiated Force Metal,' or 'DFM,'with a white abdomen guard around their waists and…*ahem* crotches. They wore gauntlets around their forearms, both having a gold bracelet-type object around the wrists, the same went for the DFM Boots they wore, which had them just above the ankles. Their armour was complemented by the helmets they wore, mostly bluish-black with 4 red, and white in the bottom two's case, horn-like protrusions, containing a jewel upon the forehead, the darker reploids own jewel glowing. The lighter Reploid had two significant differences to the darker one, one being his eyes were blue not glowing and blood red and the second being his knee-length blonde hair that emerged from the bottom of the helmet. A voice came from over the darker one's intercom, sounding cold, calm and tired, but at the same time completely insane.

"Hehehehe…you, the legendary Reploid? You fool!" it said, sounding almost giddy at this, "those Resistance losers just decided to call the Reploid they found here "Zero" for some reason… You may be Zero, in a way, but you are still merely a copy. You're no legendary hero at all. You're just a reproduction!"

Zero remained motionless, not allowing his emotions to show. Even then, there wasn't any to show. He may have been a copy, but everything he had done up to this point had been real, even defeating Copy X. An amusing thought crept into Zero's head, "A copy of a famous Reploid beat a copy of another famous Reploid, huh?" He immediately got rid of it, since now wasn't the time nor place.

"Hehehehe…You thought you were a hero all along, didn't you! Never suspecting that you were a mere copy. What a joke!" he stated. The darker Zero appeared to be getting restless; almost as if he desperately wanted to fight Zero personally, instead of within the armour he had fought him from the last two times. Said armour was now littering the flooded laboratory, having been destroyed prior, which had unfortunately caused the machinery in the room to explode and flame. Both Zeros stood near a machine which Lighter Zero had recognized as the place he had been sleeping before being awoken by a young scientist named Ciel, "Omega himself is the one and only, original Zero! You're just a copy of him!"

"The original Zero…why is he your slave, then?" inquired Zero, curious as to why such a powerful being (such as himself) was following the orders of a weak, old nutjob.

"Hmph! He's a bloodthirsty God of Destruction, all I did was upgrade him to draw out all his power!" Now Omega was really restless, waiting for the second the old man gave him the order to go for Zero. The old man noticed this via a surviving Security Camera, "All right, Omega……or should I say "Original Zero"! Time to wake this pitiful fake from a century-long dream!"

Taking that as the order, Omega took a position indicating his readiness to attack. As his hand swung behind him, a white light came down from his helmet and went down to his knees, before dissipating to reveal his own, platinum-white hair. Now the two were virtually identical, besides colours, and Omega yelled out his battle cry, a Japanese phrase:

"WARE WA MESHIA NARI! HAhahaha!"

With that, he lunged for Zero, pulling out a pink blade and swinging at him. Zero immediately drew his own, green blade, and put it up defensively. Green met Pink as the blades clashed, before Omega pulled back took more swings, all being deflected by Zero. Omega then jumped into the air and span, releasing 5 blasts of energy, which shot at 45degree intervals. Zero took a position between then and replaced his blade, replacing it with a gun-like weapon, before firing at the God of Destruction as he landed. The shots hit their mark and Omega…grinned?

The Original Zero then swapped his own blade for a similar gun-like weapon and fired two large blasts at Zero, before redrawing his blade and swinging down and firing another burst of energy behind them. Zero attempted to jump them, being successful with the first one, but the second one hit. Zero was knocked back but pulled himself together in time to dodge the slash. Omega then came directly at him, looking to punch Zero but instead ramming his fist into the ground, which then fired several beams of energy into the air around him. Zero was caught offguard from this manuver, being hit but evening out the scores with his blade, slashing Omega's chest. Both Zeros held their blades and went at each other, not letting up.

Although he'd rather not admit it, Zero was rather enjoying this fight, which wasn't very familiar to him, as he preferred to get a fight over with as quickly as possible. The same could be said about Omega, who seemed to be enjoying himself in this battle, which unnerved Zero. This was a fight for life and death, but both participants were enjoying it.

The battle continued for quite a while, until eventually Zero landed a clear blow which damaged Omega enough to emit an explosion, indicating he was defeated. The God of Destruction hunched over, kneeling into the water and clutching his injured chest, before breathing heavily. Zero was in a similar state, but doing much better, being able to stand and with most of his internal systems intact, bar a couple of unnecessary ones.

Black energy suddenly crackled around Omega, forming a black shield, before a ball of the black energy emerged from him. Closer inspection would reveal a feminine figure within the swirling energies, but Zero was more concerned by what it was doing. The ball was dropping energy into Omega, which proceeded to begin repairing his damaged parts.

"You plan to…reactivate Omega?" Zero said, before dashing straight for the God of Destruction. He was forced back by the black energy he had seen before, causing a large amount of damage to be dealt to him. Now it was his turn to kneel in the water, the black energy causing a few important systems to shut down briefly, whereupon he let out a gulp of pain.

"Hehehe…watch but don't interfere," came the cold voice from before, obviously happy with this new turn of events, "Don't forget, I hold the lives of all humans and Reploids in my hand!"

Zero let out another grunt of pain, sounding like an erk, before Omega stood back up. His internal systems were restored and his armour was quickly resealing. However, he didn't appear to be too pleased by this. Zero thought he was done for, even with his systems returning to function, when he heard a teleport occur from behind him. He then observed as a green blur shot straight for Omega and slash him 5 times before the shield was activated. This wasn't enough to put Omega back down, but it had done plenty of damage to the internal systems, as his armour hadn't fully healed yet. Zero recognized the new attacker as Harpuia, a Guardian and a child of Mega Man X, based upon the Falcon Armour X had once worn, which inturn had apparently been based upon one of X's brothers, someone named Tornado Man.

"Zero! What are you doing?! Hurry, stand up!!!" the green guardian said, before another teleport was heard. This time, three large blasts of fire were shot at the recovering God of Destruction. Although the blasts themselves didn't make contact, being dissipated by the shield before they could, the resulting blasts did injuring him further. The shield responded by growing to a distance to prevent the explosions from causing damage to Omega.

"Hey! I'm here to get a little payback, Omega!" stated a familiar voice, Zero recognizing it as Fefnir, another Child of X who was based upon his Gaea Armour and another brother to X, Magma Man, though not as heavily as his brother. The expansion to the shielding proved to be a fault to Omega's health, as it provided enough room for a blue armoured female Reploid to teleport into and strike Omega 3 times. The shield deactiviated and reactivated quickly, forcing the woman back but also causing the shield to collapse due to the amount of energy that had been used to repair Omega after the attacks. Omega knelt to the floor, the energy leaving him for no apparent reason.

"Time to straighten the record," stated the blue Reploid Zero recognized as Leviathan, another Child of X who wasn't based upon any of his armours, but that of her aunt, someone by the name of Splash Woman. Zero wondered how weird the names were, but shrugged it off mentally. There were more important things to worry about, such as the health of his best friend's children.

"You guys!" He said, shocked they had come to assist him, even though he was responsible for the death of the fourth child, Phantom, who had been based upon X's Shadow Armour and vaguely upon his uncle, one named Proto Man…or was it Blues? Either way it was extremely vague.

"Weil is trying to bluff you…" was Harpuia's reply, before indicating to the currently crouched Omega, "He can't do anything in his current state."

The voice identified as Weil let out an angered argh, "Dark Elf! Shut them up!"

However, instead of taking control of them, the Dark Elf began to shake, switching between dark and light. The Cyber-elf then called "Zeeeerroooo!" which Omega seemed to believe she was referring to him.

"What is it, Dark Elf?!" he asked her angrily, apparently not happy with his current injuries. Another elf dropped down from above, smaller then most, but appeared as a blue Reploid with a ceremonial cloak upon him. His helmet had a red jewel and had a halo-like energy form above him.

"Her…the Dark Elf's curse is fading…" he said, his voice peaceful and calm. Weil seemed to recognize the voice, unable to see due to the Security Camera's inability to pick up Cyber Elves, but was able to regonize him just the same.

"Who's that! X?!" He inquired, sounding slightly panicked at how things were turning out. If he was right, then Omega was doomed to be killed.

"That's right, Weil. Just like a century ago…I worked with Zero to defeat Omega then…and we saved the world from your greedy clutches," X replied, his voice sounding tired, as if his energy was being drained. Zero thought about what he had just heard.

"Just like…a century ago?" Zero muttered in thought, unsure if he had fought Omega before or not. X seemed to pick up on this, going on with his words.

"The defeated Omega is using your original body. That's all…your current body may be a copy…but your heart is the real thing," X said, lifting Zero's worries about being copied from a homicidal maniac, "all right, now's the time. While the Dark Elf's power is weak. Time to finish what you started a century ago, Zero!"

Zero understood, standing up and getting ready to land the final blow. Weil noticed this and began to panic about losing his strongest warrior, resulting in a weak argument of "Zero, don't do it!!! That's your original body! Don't you feel any attachment?! Are you really prepared to spend the rest of your life in that cheap fake?!"

Although he knew there was no need, X decided he should act the good conscience to Zero's decision and merely stated "You can do it. You know what's truly important. Go on, Zero!"

Without a second though, Zero charged forward and slashed Omega clean through, resulting in another explosion which consumed the room, a result of so much of the Dark Elf's energy being used on him, then being spontaneously released by the slash. Think like an atom in an atomic bomb.

Unfortunately, that hadn't destroyed Omega. Whoever had built Zero was a smart one. After the damage was done, the body parts began to regather and rebuild him, as if Omega had gotten 1-up in a game. Without anyone around to prevent him from reactivation, it would be soon the God of Destruction would be restored…until a figure walked into the room. The figure wore a cloak that blocked any view of him, but what could be seen were two glowing red eyes and purple markings upon his face that led to a black helmet.

The figure reached down and grabbed Omega's arm, revealing a black gauntlet with yellow markings on the end and a white glove, before pulling him to the machine Zero had been hooked up to beforehand. Plugging Omega into the machine, the figure made his way to a panel, but noted the lack of power. Reaching into the cloak, the figure pulled out an odd blue tank with the letter 'E' written upon it. Hooking it to the machine, it activated immediatly and began to look for another, more permanent source of power. Once found, the figure told the machine to remove the obedience to Weil and the bloodthirstiness, but leave everything else as it should be.

The figure made their way over to what appeared to be a purple, robotic wolf, who the figure signalled to move back. The figure then turned to the roof, lifting his hand which folded into his gauntlet and fired three purple shots in rapid succession. The shots caused the place to cave in, blocking off any attempt to get to Omega, just as intended. The figure and the wolf then left the scene, going into the forest surrounding the area.

That was in 22XX. Now it's 24XX

Author Notes: No, I'm not going into detail for the figure, maybe a future story. And before you say there's only desert, I recall Ciel and some troops running through a forest to the area where Zero lay sleeping. If it's not, I'll change that part.