Mega Man Cross
Chapter 1
"So it begins"
By MEGAMANX411

Disclaimer: This fan fiction is a cross-over between Mega Man X and Chrono Cross, hence the title: Mega Man Cross. Although the story will essentially follow Chrono Cross (to a certain degree, it won't be exact), I will make some changes. First and foremost, X and Zero will play the lead roles as the two main heroes. Second, the characters that appear in Chrono Cross will be reploids, not human, save for one (not all of the characters will be used). Also, the storyline will have many similarities, but it won't be exactly the same. I will try my best to try to stay somewhat true to the game, however, I will still try to integrate Mega Man X elements as well as possibly some other ideas. However, I won't deal with all the Chrono Cross characters, just some. So...I hope that clearssome thigns up, andwithout further ado, here goes.

Mega Man X entered a room with four other people. Zero, and three other unfamiliar reploids.The place was large and ornate, and certainly appeared beautiful in terms of arhcitecture. But something bothered X. He couldn't understand why he was there.

"Oi! You're gonna get it now Lynx! Better say yer prayers..not that it'll do ya any good!" the reploid girl boasted.

X just ignored what was going on and continued. He couldn't tell what was going on, and what was real. He just knew that hew was there, and somehow, he felt as though something in this whole ordeal was real. Or at least had some amount of truth to it.

The main thing that puzzled X was that he couldn't seem to hear anyone else talk. He saw their mouths move, but he only heard that one reploid girl speak once. There wasn't much he could do about it, however. X and the rest entered what appeared to be a teleporter, and that brought them to a small blue room.

Located in the middle of it was a very beautiful artifact..it looked as though it were a piece of fire frozen, but it appeared so incredibly beautiful that it was difficult to look away. Before X knew it, his vision blurred, and suddenly he was bombarded by violent images. He saw his friends reduced to bloody heaps on the floor. He then saw the image of himself...smiling at their demise, apparently coated in their blood.

"Ah!" X shouted, waking himself up.

X was still in Maverick Hunter base. Apparently, he just had a little nightmare. He was rather fatigued from all the fighting all day, and he definitely disliked his line of work, so he reasoned that his little dream was merely stemmed from his own distaste for violence.

Mega Man X sighed deeply as he took a seat in the lounge at Maverick Hunter HQ. He had a very long and exhausting day, and just wanted some rest. Fighting against rengeade reploids all day and dealing with the occasional fanatical human wasn't something X enjoyed as a means of recreation. X stretched out his legs, and then grabbed a nearby glass of water.

"Long day, eh?" a voice teased.

"Hey Zero," X replied.

Zero, the red reploid, sat down beside X. He stretched out as well.

"Man, I haven't had a day like that in while. Sure was pretty busy," Zero observed.

"Yeah, but I think we've had worse, heh.." X replied, rubbing the back of his head.

"You got a point there," Zero muttered.

All of the sudden, a voice came through the comlink system in the lounge.

"X and Zero, please report to the navigation room immediately," the voice commanded.

"It never ends," X muttered.

"Heh, loosen up a little..it could be fun," Zero teased.

X followed Zero into the navigation room where they found a very befuddled looking Alia.

"Is something wrong Alia?" X asked, craning his neck to see the computer monitor.

"It's nothing like an attack or anything..I'm just getting a very odd signal on the monitor," Alia replied.

"Odd like how? What do you mean?" Zero asked, now becoming a bit curious.

"Is it related to Sigma somehow?" X asked.

"I don't know...I don't think so, anyway," Alia replied.

"So what is it?" X asked.

"Here, take a look," Alia offered, bringing up the image onto the larger overhead monitor.

At a map of the nearby area, there was a strange accumulation of energy at one focused point. When Alia zoomed in on this spot, she analyzed the energy symbol to be similar to that of a funnel. It sucked inwards,but only the portion going out did not appear in the same plane of existence or timestream.

"What does that mean?" X asked, scratching his head.

Alia began to furiously type on they keyboard to try and further her analysis.

"From the looks of it..it's not actually emitting energy, but devoid of it," Alia replied.

"No energy? So why is it emitting a signal?" Zero asked.

"Well, because the energy it's emitting isn't located there, but it is," Alia answered.

"That doesn't make one bit of sense Alia," Zero muttered.

"You see, the funnel there is a wormhole of sorts..or at least it appears to be. And it apparently ends up in the same location, but not in this dimension," Alia replied.

"Now you've completely lost me.."Zero muttered, hanging his head low.

"Hm..this is really weird. How did this just appear?"X asked.

"I'm not quite sure. Whatever the reason, I think we should stay away from it," Alia reasoned.

"Maybe Sigma went through it himself though?" Zero replied.

"That could be the case...I mean, he may have found it already if we did," Alia added.

"I think we should go investigate. There are no assignments now, so there isn't much harm in doing so," X reasoned.

"Just be careful you two..we can't afford to have our two best hunters gone for a substantial amount of time," Alia replied.

"Don't worry Alia, we'll be just fine. Coming X?" Zero asked.

"Yeah, let's go. Take care Alia," X replied.

With that out of the way, X and Zero went to investigate this strange phenomenon. It appeared as if there was a virtual tear in the very fabric of existence before them, like the space there was distorted.

"Now this is really weird.." X muttered.

"What if this thing grows?" Zero asked.

"I don't know what'll happen..." X replied.

X then noticed that several of the small rocks located near the tear where gradually being pulled into it.

"Zero look..I think that thing has some kind of gravitational pull to it," X reasoned.

"So what do we do? Just report this to base, or do we see what's on the other side?" Zero asked.

"I don't know..." X replied.

"I say we go for it. Knowing Sigma, he may have already beaten us here," Zero reasoned.

"You may be right..ok, let's go," X replied, nodding his head.

Both X and Zero reluctantly walked closer to the dimensional tear, and stuck their hands out. As soon as it drew close enough, they could feel themselves being sucked into it, and couldn't pull themselves out!

"Guess there's no turning back now!" Zero shouted.

X and Zero blacked out as they were sucked into the void. But X was still conscious, or at least he thought he was. He entered a dream state, and before him, he saw a figure of a humanoid feline creature before him.

"Come to me..the assassin of time! The Chrono Trigger!" the figure hissed.

"What did you say?" X shouted.

X hadn't realized that he not only woke himself up from this supposed dream, but he also shouted that last question aloud.

"What are you talking about X?" Zero asked, rubbing his head.

X rubbed his head as well, and struggled to his feet.

"Agh..just a dream I guess..it was nothing, don't worry about it," X replied.

"Man, where are we?" Zero asked, taking a look around.

The area looked nothing like it did before. It was covered in tropical looking trees, and there was water almost everywhere.

"I have no clue...let's try contacting Alia," X reasoned.

X opened up a computer panel on his arm, and tried to establish a connection with Maverick Hunter HQ. No such luck.

"I can't get a signal here," X muttered.

"So we're cut off from base?" Zero asked.

"Looks that way," X replied.

"Well..let's just head back the way we came," Zero reasoned.

X and Zero turned around, but the supposed dimensional rift wasn't there.

"This is where we arrived, right?" X asked.

"Yeah...at least I think so, I don't remember anything else about that trip," Zero replied.

"What are our options now?" X asked.

"Damn...looks like we'll have to investigate the matter a little futher. Maybe a local city would have some stronger communications," Zero reasoned.

"Let's hope so," X replied.

Suddenly, a blue and white reploid wielding some kind of energy axe appeared and blocked their way. He was a humanoid reploid, a bit bulky and musucular looking, and appeared to have long flowing blue hair. He wasn't downright big, but he had a rather strong looking build. Zero, of course, payed little attention to this individual.

"Move aside," Zero commanded.

"Hm...what do you know? He's here, just like he said he would," the figure muttered.

X's eyes widened when he saw that the figure was gesturing to him.

"What..who, me?" X asked. "And who are you?"

"My name is Karsh. You, my dead friend, aren't supposed to exist," Karsh replied.

X rubbed his head and shrugged his shoulders.He couldn't understand what this guy was babbling about. He turned to Zero to hear his opinion on the matter.

"What the heck is this guy talking about Zero?" X asked.

"I have no clue..but he's obviously got some bad information," Zero replied.

Karsh tightened his grip on his axe, and narrowed his eyes at X and Zero.

"I have orders to bring you back with me. Don't bother resisting," he mocked.

Zero smirked, and slowly drew his saber.

"You think you can take both of us?" he asked.

All of the sudden, a female humanoid child-like reploid leaped out and stood beside X and Zero. The reploid didn't appear very big, perhaps a little more than half X's height. She had short blonde hair, and she wore green and red armor. She apparently wielded energy daggers as her weapons.

"Hey! Leave them alone! Or I'll kick yer arse so hard you'll kiss the moon!" the reploid shouted, apparently sounding quite crude.

Karsh shook his head, apparently not very impressed with the little reploid girl's presence.

"Don't get in the way brat. Or I'll exterminate you too," he threatened.

X, Zero, and this mystery reploid engaged Karsh in a fight. Karsh started things off with a swing of his axe, which knocked Zero out of the way. Zero wasn't one to be down for long, however, so he quickly regained his composure. The unknown reploid took this opportunity to jump on Karsh's back, and pulled out an energy dagger. Before Karsh could throw the reploid off, the dagger struck his shoulder.

X used his X-Buster to follow up on the attack, but Karsh dodged it, and retaliated by throwing his axe at X. Zero knocked it down with his saber, and the unknown reploid threw her dagger at Karsh. He was hit by it, and gave them an angry glare. Although Karsh certainly wasn't defeated, he was becoming quite annoyed.

"This is merely a minor setback. I'll be back for you later," he threatened.

"Serves ya right!" the mystery reploid shouted.

Karsh teleported away, leaving X and Zero there with the mystery reploid. X slowly approached her and extended a hand.

"Thank you very much..but um..who are you, anyway?" X asked.

"You can call me Kid," Kid replied.

Zero blinked heavily when he heard the name from the rather obnoxious child.

"Kid?" Zero asked.

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Kid asked, narrowing her eyes.

"No, it's just that you seem a little on the violent side for such a little girl.." X muttered.

"Whatever. Well, those chumps seem to be after you, and I have a bone to pick with them, so I'll join up with you," Kid replied.

Zero rolled his eyes.

"Ok..but who are they, exactly? And what do you mean, 'a bone to pick'?" he asked.

"Karsh there is one of the Acacia Dragoons, elite warrior class reploids. There's a city called Termina up ahead, that's probably where he came from. Maybe we can get some info on how to get into Viper Mansion, where the other Dragoons are. And, maybe we can find out why they're chasing you," Kid replied.

"But why do you want to help us?" X asked.

"I told you, I have a problem with those Dragoons..alright? I can't stand seein' blokes like that pick on innocent people," Kid answered.

"Alright, alright, take it easy," Zero replied.

"So how do we get to Termina?" X asked.

"Follow me, I'll show you," Kid replied.

With that, X and Zero followed Kid along aseemingly neglected old trail.

"Are you sure about this?" Zero asked.

"I'm always sure, come on!" Kid shouted.