This is a rewrite on my super old MMX fan fic, titled "Mega Man X: Messenger". It's in ten parts and this time I SWEAR that I'll finish it. For those wanting to know where this story takes place in the MMX timeline. It's right after X7 and Command Mission, but right before X8. Enjoy! I'll come up with the next part soon, and also profiles the main players in this story. Feedback is always welcomed as well.

-LADY MAVERICK81

"Mega Man X: Messenger"

By Lady Maverick81

I. An Angel Descends

Even reploids can dream, after all they where created in the image of man. Almost some sign of vanity that man has. Reploids, they dream of fame, fortune, life, death, living, love, and many others as well.

But, one dreams of a prophecy of an angel sent down from heaven, to save this world from further decay.

Darkness that was darker than the night...

A void of emptiness, nothingness, this is where, a "light" showed him the way.

Pale white skin as pale as death, in speaking of which, he was in a way like death. Blond hair tied back, but still wild like fire. He was wearing armor the color of crimson, the color of blood.

The "light" was a sphere; inside was a woman, words cannot describe her. The woman in the sphere "light" spoke to him...

"I have chosen you, please guide and protect Goddess." she said.

He replied, "Why me? Why not someone else?"

The woman lowered her head and answered, "Because none can handle the challenge..." The sphere containing the beautiful woman started to drift

away into the darkness.

He ran after it yelling, "No, please wait, what do you mean to help Goddess?" Then the light was too bright to see anything...

He woke up...

He could feel the cold sweat on his face. He closed his eyes again, but the dream came back and consumed him once more. Once again he was in the void of darkness and once again the sphere came to him.

"You again, what do you mean by helping Goddess? Who is this 'Goddess' you speak of?" he said.

The sphere containing the woman said nothing.

Angry he said his question once more, "Answer me! Who is this Goddess?"

The woman replied, "Please, the fate of the world, the fate of EVERYTHING, and your future as well is in your hands…"

Once again the light was too bright to see, and one again he woke up.

With cold sweat and blood shot eyes, he was greeted by the sound of the alarm.

"Attention all Maverick Hunters, please report to the main hangar!!"

He wiped the cold sweat off of his face and said out loud, "The same dream, again. What does that woman mean by helping this 'Goddess'?"

This was his dream, the same dream he was having for the last three months.

This was the dream of the Maverick Hunter Zero...

But, the answers to his dreams or nightmares would be answered by the "Goddess" herself.

He was running, he tried to push the nightmare away and focus more on the crisis at hand. As he was running, faces and places started to blur. None of those seem to matter to him. That was until those faces and places focused on the face of his best friend X.

"So you heard the alarm to eh?" he said.

Nodding his head and throwing a smile at the same time, "Yeah, so where is Axl when you need him? He loves it when something like this happens. Oh well, his loss X."

X looked at him with bewilderment, "He could have left earlier than us. But, we might as well be on our way. This attack doesn't feel right at all. I have a bad feeling about this one…"

"So where's this attack at anyways?" Zero asked.

"Sky Lagoon, I think. I just barely got the information from Alia herself." X handing him a packet, "Come on, we don't have much time", and walked right pasted him.

Looking at the packet Zero's stomach dropped, "Great, and I thought Red Alert was dead… I hope that Axl's alright, if he didn't head out already".

At Sky Lagoon there was nothing left standing. X looked around and to his horror he saw a dead body of a little girl who was laying in a pool of her own blood. He kneeled beside the corpse, closing his eyes, tears started to roll down his face, "The...the carnage is terrible! Those Red Alert, no those mavericks will pay for this." He looked up to the already dying sky with his tear streaked face and motioned Zero to go on ahead of him. Replying to the silent gesture Zero walked away.

"You think so, Mega Man X"

X could hear it, he could hear laughter. Laughter that was so sinister, that made his artificial blood start to run cold. His gaze returning to the dying sky, he saw a woman on top of building that lie in a shell of its former glory.

Beautiful was a word that can describe her, but every other word pales in describing her beauty. Long, flowing, wild purple hair covered her body, what her hair didn't cover her black and purple armor did.

She looked at X with blood red eyes, cold and cruel. Her hands were stained with blood of humans and reploids alike. Even the wind that danced around them tasted like fresh blood.

"I am Phoenix." she started, "I was the one who attack Sky Lagoon."

X stepped forward and yelled, "You...you...monster! How could you do this!"

Phoenix laughed, "As you can see, I like to do this line of work. After what you did to Red, I can never forgive you or the kid! At least I took care of that one thorn in my side. Well then, time to die no?"

X looked at Phoenix oddly, "What do you mean…" then it hit him, "You didn't…"

His chain of though was cut off by the voice of a familiar and serious friend. He turned around to see his friend carrying the body of another hunter.

"Axl?! What happened to him?" examining the injured young hunter his gaze returned to Zero.

"I don't know, but the broad in front of us might have the answer." looking at the female maverick.

Laughter filled the air once again, instead of chilling artificial blood, made it to the point of boiling, "You monster, why Axl? Even if he did leave Red Alert, why do this to him? He left on his own free will!"

"Because he betrayed Red Alert, he walked away from all that Red did for him! He had to pay for his crime of abandoning Red! One down, now if I can kill you two off then Red's death can be avenged. Get ready!" entering a battle stance Phoenix's expression turned into something of monster. But her battle stance was cut of short by a sharp pain to her legs. She went down screaming in pain, seeing the blood coming out from her legs, she saw feathers.

"Maverick, if you wish to live. I recommend that you leave this place at once."

Phoenix gazed up at the dying sky, and saw a figure falling down to earth at a great speed Barely rolling out of the way, she missed barrage of feathers that stabbed the blood soaked ground, beside her.

Struggling to get up her eyes started to madly searched for her attacker. Her search was cut off when she was slammed down to the earth again. Screaming in pain she saw a geyser of blood erupting from her side. Placing her hands on the open flowing wound her eyes finally reached their goal.

Her eyes say a woman, clad in sky blue armor. Resembling the Norse goddess of war, a goddess to her that stupid humans had worship for centuries.

"Who are you? Are you the goddess that humans have worship?" she growled at her female attacker.

The heavily armored woman replied, "That's what people say about me. I could be that goddess that humanity has worship."

Phoenix yelled at her attacker, "Then just WHO are you?"

The female attacker merely replied, "I am Goddess."

Zero's eyes flew open in shock, "Goddess! So my dreams where just no dreams! But, that of a warning, then I have to…"

His chain of though was cut of by the sound of metal clashing against metal. Carefully handing Axl to X he drew his sword, "I am going to help her, you get him back to base ASAP. Don't worry about me, I'll be alright. If the kid wakes up ask him about the broad will you?"

X silently nodded in reply and retreated from the battlefield.

Zero was running, along with visions of the nightmare that consumed him the night before ran through his head as well. He knew that he had to help Goddess out, but how. His thoughts where cut off by the sound of an explosion, then replaced by a hallow sounding thud. He saw before him Goddess, and right beside her the body of Axl's attacker, who was lying in a pool of her own vital fluids.

"Are you Goddess? Are you the one that has been haunting me in my dreams?" Zero asked looking her.

If Zero couldn't see any emotion in her face, Goddess' face was covered in a dark blue visor. But, he knew that she would have the answers to his countless questions. But his questions where cut off by laughter. Both turned around to see Phoenix's body gone. The laughter that filled the wind turned into words, "Goddess, this is just a minor little set back... you cannot stop my revenge or the true inevitable. Until we meet again Goddess, the next time you will not be so lucky!"

Goddess started to walk away, "Zero, I know that you want answers to your countless questions. Now is not the time for that. I must be going now. But, I promise you that I will answer your questions."

The wind that danced around them started to pick up as feathers consumed Goddess' body. When the winds died down and the feathers settled to the ground, Goddess was gone…

-To Be Continued…