Yeah, it's been ages since the last time I wrote for the ZX section! I kinda feel like writing for the games again after beating both games in English and Japanese (though I'm still not all that good with the language, yet). Sooo... I've decided to make the novelizations of the game and here's the first one! I see that there are other authors writing the novelization, but too bad that (from the last time I checked) none of them were completed... Alright, let's cut things short and get on with the fic!

Disclaimer: I don't own most of the storyline and I definitely own none of the characters!

Megaman ZX – The Novelization

Chapter 1 – The Maverick Raid

For many years, men and machines had continued to fight with each other. Many victims had fallen over the years of war, but yet it wasn't the reason for the war to stop. It was until a single Reploid came and saved the world, sacrificing himself for the sake of men and machines alike. With that sacrifice, the war had finally come to an end and the men and machines formed a truce.

The peace didn't last forever, however. A group of machines made to attack men, Mavericks, had once again come into a rise. More victims fell to the Mavericks and men didn't have the power to fight back. Even with the help with the good Reploids, they couldn't take down a whole army of Mavericks all around the world. It was almost the end of the world, until one man rose up and hunted down the Mavericks.

Screams were heard everywhere. As common as screams were in amusement parks, those weren't happy or excited screams. Those were screams of fear. The park's rides were engulfed with flames as an army of Mavericks charged in into the park, killing anyone they saw on their way. People were running all over the park, trapped within the fire, and on the next second, their screams weren't heard anymore.

A five years old boy with short brown hair and green eyes were running while holding a woman's hand, whose hair and eye had the same color as him, except that her hair was longer. They came into a stop when they saw a group of Mavericks in front of them, pointing their guns at them. The woman knelt down to the boy, who was shaking in fear as he looked up at her.

"M-Mommy… I-I'm scared…" The boy whispered shakily as he held on to the woman tightly.

The woman hugged him and put a hand on his head, "It's okay, Vent… Everything is going to be okay… Don't worry, Mommy's here…"

The Mavericks began shooting at them, but the woman had pulled the boy, Vent, into her arms and blocked the shots with her body. Vent shut his eyes until he noticed some liquid dripping to his hands. He opened his eyes to see the woman, his own mother, with her eyes completely lifeless before she collapsed on top of him.

"M-Mom…? Mommy! No, Mommy! Please! Don't leave me!" Vent cried as he saw his mother die in front of his eyes before peeking from under his mother's body and saw a shadowy figure in the shape of an ape, "Y-You! You killed my mom!"

The shadowy ape figure raised his left hand, which had something in it, before throwing the object at them. Vent crawled out from under his mother's corpse to get away, but his legs and arms were still shaking heavily, making him unable to move as a sphere-shaped object was thrown towards his direction.

"Look out!"

A man with blond hair quickly ran to Vent's side and picked him up before he jumped out of the way. With Vent locked in his arm, the man quickly ran towards the park's exit, where a small staff building was. The man opened the door in a hurry and put Vent carefully before he got in and closed the door back. He peeked through the window and saw that there were no Mavericks around them and sighed before turning to Vent.

"That was close… Are you okay, little boy? Are you hurt?" The blond man asked.

Vent just shook his before he noticed the sound of mechanical footsteps outside the staff building they were in, "T-There's… more… But… no security force…"

"This is bad…" The man peeked through the window once more before turning to Vent once more, "You wait here and hide. Don't let those Mavericks see you!"

Vent only gave him a silent nod and saw as the man went out through the door. Vent tiptoed to see the man came running into the park and disappeared into the raging flames in the park. Just then, another army of Reploids came, but instead of aiming for the people, they were aiming the attacking Mavericks instead.

"That's… Isn't that… the big company's security force…?" Vent asked himself as he saw that the Mavericks were being shot down one by one.

Meanwhile, the blond man was looking around in the park, desperately looking for more survivors. When he looked further in, he saw that there were people stuck in the Ferris wheel along with a flying Maverick. The man quickly made his way towards the wheel, but another flying Maverick came dashing towards him from his right side, knocking him away from the ground and towards a steel pillar supporting the thorn-down roller-coaster.

"Ugh…" The man got up and saw the flying Maverick had a gun pointed at him. Just as it was about to shoot, it was shot first and exploded. When the man turned to the direction where the shot came from, he saw a Galleon Hunter with green lights on its helmet, "Slither Inc.'s security force?" The sound of a gun was heard from the Ferris wheel, "Oh no!"

The man ran past the Galleon and quickly made his way towards the Ferris wheel, but it was too late as a corpse of a woman with brown hair reaching to her shoulder was found on the roof of the wheel's control building. As the man was still looking up at the corpse on the roof, he heard some sobbing sound and turned to the bushes near the wheel. It turned out to be a five years old girl, crying in the bushes.

"It's okay, little girl… Don't cry now…" The man offered the girl his hand. The girl, who had short brown hair and green eyes, stopped crying to look at him and took his offered hand.

After the man pulled the girl out of the bushes, they saw that the fire had died down and not many Mavericks left were around. The security force had wiped most of them out, but they hadn't left any more survivors left. The man walked out of the park along with the girl, who was clutching his hand with her own shaking hand.

Once they were out, they saw Vent, badly beaten up, standing over a headless Maverick, "It's… it's because of you guys…" Vent sniffed and let his tears drop, "If only… if only…" Vent fell to his knees and hit the headless and motionless Maverick under him with his fists, "… then… m-my mom…"

Vent didn't get to finish his sentence as he has started crying, which made the girl the man had saved to cry as well. The man looked back and forth between them before letting out a long sigh, "I'm going to have my hands full taking care of these poor orphans for a while…"

Ten years had passed since the events of the Maverick attack. The two orphans were taken in by the man, called Giro, who was the head of Giro Express Transporters. The boy, Vent, and the girl, Aile, were taken care of by Giro before he asked them to help out as transporters once they got older. Aile was being helpful and became the clients' favorite for her manners, while Vent was known to be rude to the clients.

It was a peaceful day in the city area, or Area C, and another delivery day for the transporters of Giro Express. Aile was taking a break after finishing her delivery, while Vent had just finished packing items to be delivered when Aile suddenly ran over to him and purposely making Vent to drop the boxes he was carrying.

"Stop it, Aile! Don't you know how hard it was to pack those items?" Vent complained angrily before he picked up the boxes and stacked them up.

"Sorry, sorry!" Aile laughed jokingly before she picked up one and stacked it on top of another, "Let me help out, then!"

"It's… it's fine…" Vent replied quietly, but Aile could still hear him, "You should go back to having your break. You did go to a really far place for that delivery, right?"

"Yeah," Aile turned to her friend, "Are you sure you don't need any help?"

"I'm okay, these aren't too heavy anyway…" Vent lifted up the stack of boxes before slowly walking towards the back room.

"Ah, Aile!" Giro came into the staff room, "Is that important package still on the place?"

Aile let out a sigh, "Yes, Giro… For the tenth time, it's still there," Aile moved out of the way and pointed at the smaller box sitting on top of the other bigger boxes, "See?"

"Alright," Giro turned away and reached for the communication device on his ear, "Yes, we will be on our way," Giro turned back to Aile, "Aile, tell Vent to get ready. The three of us are heading out to the forest area to deliver that important package."

"Okay," Aile nodded before Giro went out of the staff room. Aile picked up the small box and peeked through the door leading to the backroom, "Vent, are you done in there? Giro, you, and I are all going for a delivery! A very important delivery!"

"Huh? Another important delivery?" Vent's voice was heard from deep inside the backroom, "Seriously, Boss always considers every delivery to be important deliveries… Alright, tell Boss I'll be right there in a sec!"

"Don't take too long or we'll leave you behind!" Aile replied before she headed out of the staff room with the box in her hand.

"Geez, I'm going already!" Vent hurriedly left the backroom and headed out of the staff room.

The thing with Vent, Aile, and the boxes was inspired by the anime commercial, so yeah... I don't own that part too... And next time, the real story of the first game in the ZX series starts!

Quite an important note (not sure if it's really that important to you guys, but oh well...) : The next updates will come randomly between three stories (sorry, but this is just for fun!) and the participating stories will be in my profile, if you feel like going through the very not important long list of favorites.

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