~A/N~
As noted in the description for this story just in case anyone missed it, this is a sequel story to my fic A Tale of Legendary Love so if you haven't read it yet, I would recommend doing so before jumping into this one /end shameless plug.
Disclaimer: The cycle now continues! I own nothing in here except my OC's and stuff. Beyond that, the rest is owned by Capcom.
Chapter 1: Calm Before the Storm
The past few months had been relatively peaceful for the Maverick Hunters. Outside of small outbreaks no major uprisings had occurred. Even a minor one such as the H-Hunter incident hadn't cropped up. In some ways, the fact the Maverick's had once again fallen so quiet actually worried the hunters more than relieved, especially the unit of hunters known as Specials Unit. Despite their unease however they decided to take each day step by step. With the exception of Signas, the Commander and Chief of the Maverick Hunters. During the H-Hunter incident he had started receiving reports of corruption high up on the command chain of High Command, the absolute authority of all Maverick Hunters from Lifesaver. Nothing had come of it yet much to a grateful Signas but he still wanted Lifesaver to keep an eye on things. Sure the former Chief Medic had been transferred out of H.Q. to High Command but he had remained a vigilant comrade to Signas and Specials Unit, even getting relieved of his duties there long enough to come back to assist with the X Virus.
The Commander and Chief had kept all of this secret from X, Zero, and the others, for now at least. He didn't want to cause them any unnecessary unease, they had after all been through too much already. If something more concrete or dangerous emerged though he would get them involved immediately. For now since there wasn't anything too major to worry about the unit was off enjoying a particularly nice day actually relaxing, something they typically didn't do on their own. Signas let off a small smile as replaced the recent batch of Lifesaver's reports in his desk and locked it before turning to look out the window.
"A nice day indeed, think even I will take a stroll," the Commander and Chief mused to himself.
The black armored reploid got to his feet and made his way out of the office.
Mega City: Civitan Park
Megaman X, legendary hero, former Commander of the Maverick Hunters's Seventeenth Unit, and Specials Unit member sat on a park bench near a beautiful pond under an oak tree with the spotter turned Maverick Hunter and fellow unit member Alia, the woman he loved. The Blue Bomber looked over at the blond haired beauty as she fed some bread to some ducks that collected around the area smiling and giggling some at their reactions. Watching her be so carefree made the hunter smile slightly and made him wish he could also be as carefree as she was. Alia had tried countless times to loosen the legendary reploid up to no avail however. X would typically blame the same thing time and again as the reason he couldn't, his long involvement in the Maverick War, all the fighting, all the killing, etc. The spotter could understand where he was coming from but it still bugged her to some extent and she couldn't just let it go. She knew one day being as pent up and guarded as the Azure Hunter was, would one day be his undoing, almost like back when.
Alia quickly forced herself to move away from those thoughts because it always brought her down significantly when she would think on the time X had 'died'. Alia threw another piece of bread and looked over at X who was looking at her thoughtfully, a smile on his face. Alia smiled back at him wondering what he was thinking about. Alia tilted her head playfully and poked X on the nose.
"What are you thinking about?" she inquired cheerfully.
"Nothing much really, only," X started.
The Blue Bomber stopped himself there however which made Alia even more curious. Through out her time as a Maverick Hunter she had never really talked about her past outside of what was relevant back during the uprising that involved Gate. X had been curious for a long time now, wanting to know more about her past but he didn't want to tread any ground she may otherwise didn't want anyone to come near. Unlike him whose life was basically an open book, all you needed to do was look up any number of battles since the start of the Maverick Wars and read his involvement up to this point and there was his entire life in a nutshell.
"What is it X?" Alia asked a bit more worriedly now.
X's face had become a little more serious and it sort of scared her when it did that because there was any number of things the reploid could be thinking about. Letting off a sort of sigh X decided he had come this far, what was the worse that could happen.
"Well, I have wanted to bring it up for awhile but didn't want to ask anything that you may not want to talk about but, we really don't know much about your past outside your time as a colleague of Gate," X started.
Alia let off a soft smile toward her blue armored boyfriend. Definitely not the reaction X was expecting.
"That's because no one has really every asked about it, what would you like to know?" Alia inquired.
X was extremely surprised, this was even further from the reaction he had expected. The Blue Bomber mulled his beloveds question over a little, not entirely sure where he would like to begin.
Mega City: Main Street
Zero Omega, another legendary hero of the Maverick Wars, best friend and partner of Megaman X, having served in the war for just as long as he had, former Commander of the Maverick Hunters Zero Unit and another member of Specials Unit. The reploid known to many as the Crimson Killer or the Red Death walked along the main street of Mega City with the woman he would proudly say was his other half Iris who was also in Specials Unit. The two didn't have any particular destination in mind but Iris wanted to keep Zero away from Maverick Hunter Headquarters for now just to keep him out of the training room where he had started spending a lot of time of late. When asked about it, his main reply was he had a feeling something bad was about to happen and he wanted to be ready. For now though, Iris wanted a worry free day for the red Maverick Hunter. The two were even in their human forms which was an especially rare sight for the Crimson Killer. His blond hair tied back in a tight ponytail with a blue hair tie he wore a black tank t-shirt, black jeans, black boots, and his hunter issued red jacket with black trim that had his easily recognizable z symbol embroidered on the left shoulder. Iris herself however was wearing white dress that hung loosely around her knees with a flower print design on it and let her hair flow freely.
The former member of Repliforce and the sister of the late Colonel walked alongside the repoloid of her heart with her arm linked through his, letting him lead the way ignoring the hustle and bustle of the city. Sure it wasn't much or extravagant but she didn't mind, she enjoyed the simpler things even more so if it was while enjoying them with Zero so a simple walk through the city was more than enough to make her happy. They would make occasional detours into random shops here and there and Zero had bought her a few things as gifts and beyond that, she couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. Zero however was putting up a facade for the sake of Iris, as long as she was happy he didn't much care but he still had a deep feeling something was wrong and that something was coming, it was a feeling that had served him well both on and off the battlefield and had become a trusted ally of his so until whatever came, he would make sure Iris was enjoying herself.
"Oh Zero, look over there!" Iris chimed in disrupting his thoughts.
Zero brought his gaze to Iris who was pointing at something. Zero followed the direction she was pointing. It was a small amusement center that had caught her attention. The Crimson Killer chuckled inwardly to himself at her enthusiasm.
"Let's go see what kinda games they have!" she said excitedly speeding up toward the Amusement Center as it was named dragging him along with her almost pulling him off his feet.
Mega City: Relana's Diner
Axl, the third of the S Class Hunters as he liked to refer to the trio of himself, X, and Zero, the youngest member of the Maverick Hunters that had been taken under the wing of the Blue Bomber and the Red Death after the Red Alert incident and another member of Specials Unit. He sat in a dining booth across from Violet Omega, recently discovered sister of Zero and the final member of Specials Unit. The two friends glared at each other, a ten pound burger a piece sitting in front of them. It was the specialty of Relana's Diner and the two had challenged each other both in human form as well. Axl was wearing a black hoody with a white skull and crossbones on it, black shorts, and black tennis shoes. His reddish brown hair still spiked up even with his helmet missing which also made the x shaped scar on his face more prominent and easy to notice. Violet herself was wearing a purple tank top and a red and black checkered pleaded short skirt with black leggings and black thigh high boots, her auburn hair braided back instead of hanging freely. The two of them had a wager with each other. First one to entirely finish the grease ball of cholesterol would pay for lunch. Close as they had become they still had rivalry with each and would challenge other to competitions with a wager as often as they could, this simply being their most recent. Locked into each others eyes they glared at each other trying to make the other back down, it was like a scene from duel in a Western film. The poor waitress who had served the duo had been also been dragged into it as the one to officially signal go. Looking between the two nervously the waitress wondered how good of an idea it really was to agree to this.
In her raised hand was a napkin, the drop of it being the signal for them to start. Letting of a slight eep she let the napkin fall and quickly got away from the scene of what she was sure would probably devolve into a crime against food. The moment it landed the two dug into their burger, never taking their eyes off of each other. By the time it was over, the two of them were glad they were reploids and not actually human because if they were, what they had just ate would have easily taken several years off their life span and they both would have ended up unintentionally returning what they had just eat. As it came down to the wire Axl managed to come ahead and finish the last bite of his just before Violet did. With a mouth still full of food the young reploid got up and triumphantly raising his arms in victory.
"I win!" he said happily after finally swallowing.
Violet let off a sigh of defeat as she gazed at the enthused reploid.
"Alright, you won this one punk, but next time you won't get so lucky!" Violet threatened.
This entire time the rest of the patrons in the diner had turned and was looking at the obnoxious hunter and his partner nervously.
Maverick Hunter Headquarters: Main Hall
Hydro, the Chief Medic for the hunters since Lifesaver had been transferred to High Command walked through the Main Hall of the headquarters carrying several medical files intended for Signas. The medic was mas making her way toward the Commander and Chiefs office when something started feeling off to her. As she turned turned down the hall that would lead to his office and before she could really push the feeling aside the main doors behind her that led into the H.Q. swiftly busted open and several reploids walked in like they owned the place. There were four relatively tall reploids, all wearing armor that was black as night with a white colored armor underneath the black color of the armor that was designed to look like a buttoned up. The armor on these reploids were designed like the human armies Service Uniform with white armor underneath the jacket like appearance of top layer of black armor with a metal designed red tie. The leg armor, the greaves, and the gauntlets were also black as night like the top layer of chest armor. The four similarly dressed reploids stood flanking the the corners of another reploid who stood directly in the center of them.
This reploid was a little a smaller than the ones that were flanking him but he held himself up straighter and more proud than the four. The reploid in the center wore armor that was designed like a buttoned up over coat that was silver in color decorated with various medals and ribbons. His gauntlets and greaves were silver like his chest armor and his leg armor was black giving the appearance like he was wearing pants. On his head was a black beret that bore the Maverick Hunters ensignia. Hydro gasped and it took a moment for her to recover.
"G...General Morisha," Hydro stammered out, starting to breath heavily.
All else forgotten she broke out into an all out run toward Signas's Office.
~AN~
And here we go again folks, the sequel to A Tale of Legendary Love has officially begun. Seeing as how I only have several general plot points formulated for this tale it will be interesting to see how the story develops and evolves as it goes and I get new ideas and my current ideas change. Like I said in the final chapter of Legendary Love I have at least this sequel planned for my A Tale of series and I do plan to get back to Metroid X soon and to add to that I have been kicking around some ideas for a ZX era fic as well so look forward toward that as well. To begin anew R&R no matter if what you have to see is good or bad, it all helps! Till next time my peeps.
