Authors Note: Well, this is my first story. It's a novelization of Megaman ZX Advent, so beware of spoilers. Just so you know, my laptop came without Microsoft Office, for some reason, so I had to use the pathetic "Notepad" program. This means that the quality might not be so good. Sorry.

Disclaimer: Megaman ZX Advent and all its characters and logos are the property of Capcom.

Prologue Pt. 1

"Well?", Mick asked, "Robin, how's that lock coming?"

"This is one tough nut to crack.", Robin replied, "But hang on, Mick, I'm almost there." The two bounty hunters were in an abandoned laboratory. They were looking to see if they could find the Biometal everyone was looking for.

The door Robin was trying to open beeped. "Yes!", he exclaimed, "Got it! We're in, man!" The room the two walked into was a total wreck. There was broken machinery everywhere, along with much debris.

Mick took a quick look around, but didn't see anything that even remotely looked like it could be Biometal, "Not again...", he sighed in disappointment, "This isn't it either. I was hoping we'd find it here, and then show it off to everyone back at Hunter's camp."

Robin took a few steps forward, when he noticed something in the middle of the room. He recognized it as a Reploid Cryogenic Capsule, "Hey... there's something in there!"

Mick caught up with him, and took a look for himself. He saw a kid that looked like he was about 14 inside, in suspended animation. He wore the usual So-Dark-Blue-It's-Almost-Black jumpsuit that everyone wore now-a-days. Over that, he had some orange shorts, and a gray shirt that was very slightly armored by an orange metal.

"... A reploid kid?", Mick asked no one in particular, "No way! What's it doing here?"

Robin took another few steps toward the capsule. "Hey!", Mick said to him, "Don't touch it. If you set off the security, we'll have mechaniloids all over us." It was too late. Even though Robin hadn't touched the capsule, he had still gotten close enough to set off the security alarm. There were three loud rings, accompanied by flashing, red lights. A small group of mavericks, the pantheon kind, which were humanoid robots with all-body purple armor, came in through the door on the other side of the room.

"Ah, shit!", Robin yelled. Both he and Mick opened fire on the mavericks, who fired back. The two hunters were outnumbered 3-1 at the very least. They knew they were in trouble. They had managed to destroy a little less than half of them, when one of the plasma bullets from the pantheons hit Robin. It sent him flying back, and he collided with the reploid's capsule. The impact was hard enough to crack the glass, and the cryogenic fluids which kept the reploid asleep started leaking out. Robin collapsed to the floor, and promptly died. Mick had no time to grieve, because the mavericks were totally focusing their fire on him. Miraculously, the human was suddenly on a roll. Shot after shot, he was taking all the mavericks out. Unfortunately, his luck wouldn't last much longer. When there was only one maverick left, he shot it at the same time as it shot him. Both bullets hits their mark. The pantheon exploded, and Mick fell to the floor in a dead heap. An oppressive silence seemed to follow the gun fight.

A half an hour later, the locks on the cryo tube disengaged, and the glass was pulled into the ground by some mechanics. Two tentacle-like extensions, which came from the reploids backpack unplugged themselves from their jacks in the ceiling of the tube. The kid fell to floor, and landed with a thud. He stood up slowly, gasping in shock. His eyes flahed an amber color, but changed to green a second later. He took a quick look around, registering the mechaniloid parts and the two dead humans. "Wha... what happened?!", he asked, "Where am I? And for that matter, who am I?! Unnnngh... I can't remember anything!"

Suddenly, he heard the sound of a teleportation behind him, and he spun around. Floating in front of him was a woman reploid, with red eyes, an abnormally large helmet, and very light blue armor. She had a double pointed staff for a weapon. "Who are you?", the reploid teen asked.

"I... am Pandora...", The woman replied, "Grey... I'm here to dispose of you..."

"Grey? Is that my name?", Something clicked in his head as he realised exactly what the woman had just said, "What do mean dispose of me?!"

"You...", Pandora began, "Are like me,... a Mega Man,... but you were awakened... before the mind control sequence... was completed."

Again, Grey focused on the less important detail first, "Mega Man?... Waitaminute, Mind Control?! What have you done done to me?!"

As a response, Pandora pointed her staff at Grey, and shot a jolt of electricity at him. The attack sent him flying back, and he landed right next to one of the human corpses. "Defectives must be disposed of.", Pandora said.

Grey looked at the body next to him, and saw a pistol in the holster. He thought, I'm pretty sure this guy isn't gonna need his weapon any time soon. He snatched the gun from its holster, and took aim at Pandora. Yelling out a shout of defiance, he let loose three rapid fire shots at the woman. Surprised that Grey had suddenly acquired a weapon, Pandora put up an invisible shield in front of her. The bullets crashed into it and disappeared. They were just enough of a distraction to allow Grey to escape.

Five minutes later, Grey exited the building he was in. "Damn!", he said to himself, "How the hell did scientists get around that lab?!" He had a point. From the moment he got away from Pandora, he had run into obstacles, such as 7-foot containers that lined the floor from wall-to-wall. Aside from that, in places where most people would expect an elevator, or at least some stairs, he had found ladders. Ladders! How cheap could the people who worked there have been? What did they do when they were carrying large, fragile objects, huh?

He continued running forward. He came to a bridge with another building on the other side. Suddenly, when he half way across, a rather large robot came up to him. It was completely gray, with two hands that floated using an anti-gravity system. Grey looked at it, and said, "Oh... my... God..."

It attacked him with a laser beam, which he barely avoided. It began trying to pound him into the ground using it fists. During one punch, Grey managed to grab hold of the hand, and it pulled him on top of the giant robot. He crawled around its shoulders, trying to find a weak point. When he got around to the back of its head, he said, "Oh you have GOT to be kidding me...", In front of him was a small, but distinctive, button. It had a sign above it that read, "SELF-DESTRUCT". It couldn't have been any simpler. He pressed the button... and the robot exploded, taking the bridge that Grey had been planning on jumping back onto with it. The reploid fell down the length of the cliff, yelling in fright, "UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH..."