Player's p.o.v.

So how this worked was that you only went into one stage as one character. Who you played as depended on the stage. You could play four stages as X, and you played two stages as Zero, and another two stages as Axl.

"Well that's stupid," I said.

I mean, I guess it could be expected X had more stages than Zero and Axl. He was the main character, and you did need four Dr. Light upgrades.

But, I wanted to play as my man Axl first, so I chose the first stage you play with him.

The Maverick's name popped up: `Rocky Gorilla.'

I was shoved into the stage, but Axl was on the ground, not moving. I felt my gut twist. He stayed on the ground for about half a minute.

"Axl!"

His textbox popped up.

"Zzzzzzzzzzzz..."

"He's asleep... ... WAKE UP YOU MORON!"

"Pheh! Heh!? Huh...? Oh man." He got up and stretched. "My dear bed! I promise I will return to you! You are the only love I will ever know!"

I rolled my eyes and made him move forward. I sighed and smiled, it was a little funny.

As I was moving him forward, shooting in all directions, his textbox popped up again.

"Wait, who woke me up?"

I realized then that they kept the siri affect. Good. I really liked this, because it was fun communicating with these characters.

"Hey, Axl!"

"Who's there!?"

"It's me!" I said. "Do you remember my voice?"

"Well, you sound kinda familiar..."

"I'm here to help you get through the Mavericks' stage! You could call me a Navigator, but I don't work for you."

"You sound kinda like that girl from three years ago. I forgot her name, uh, Mary?"

"I may or may not be her."

"That bitch lied to us. She tried to trick us into thinking we're fictional video game characters. We put it together that she'd teamed up with some reploids to trick us and planted chips in our brains to control us."

I didn't mind too much that they thought they were real.

"Of course you're alive! How could anyone be so dumb as to think this was a video game? This is life, damn it!"

"... So are you gonna tell me who you are?"

"Call me Shiny."

"Shiny? Cool name."

Axl's p.o.v.

I didn't trust this girl one bit. But, it was nice having someone to talk to. I just had to make sure my only companion wasn't leading me into a trap. I felt my head bobbing. I was so tired!

"Stay awake!"

"Fehh! Sorry..."

A reploid popped up and punched me into a wall.

"Axl!"

"That woke me up."

It charged for another punch, but luckily I dodged it by a few inches and shot it in the chest. I noticed it'd put a hole about the size of my head in the wall, and it'd put a large dent in my armor.

It charged back at me for another punch, but I was able to dodge it again. I shot it again, this time with a special shot. It was strong... I wanted to become it.

It a LOT of shots to take it out. I had to dodge and shoot at the same time. Luckilly, my special shot delt more damage, so I could keep spamming that without worry. I finally got the copy chip and decided to use it immediately.

I felt awesome as this reploid! I destroyed everything in one hit, I could walk on spikes, and I moved swiftly as if I weighed nothing at all. Nothing could damage me, either. I was fucking invincible!

And the design was awesome! I was black with yellow legs and yellow arms, and my head was in the shape of a half moon, and my eyes were dark blue.

I snickered as I plowed through the stage. My joy was interupted by Shiny.

"Hey, Axl."

"What do you want?"

"I'm curious about something. I'm a human, so I don't know the answer."

"What is it?"

"... How do reploids fuck?"

"WHAT!?" I felt my face go red. "Why the hell do you wanna know that!?"

"Because I'm curious. It's not because I want to marry you or anything...!"

"Um..." My face burned as I explained it to her. "Well, we don't have parts to press together like you humans do, so we just make our engines as hot as possible and hug and kiss. Doing so, we produce a core chip that a human could use to make a reploid."

"How does that work?"

"Ms., if I keep explaining it to you my engine's gonna overheat, just stop, ok?"

I went back to enjoying the awesomeness that was the reploid I'd transformed into. Eventually, the copy chip faded, turning me back to normal. Damn, and I was having so much fun. About a minute after I'd changed back, Rocky Gorilla fell in front of me.

"What's with all the noise down here?"

"You're Rocky Gorilla, right? I'm sorry, but in order to find my friends and go home I have to disassemble you."

"Disassemble me!? I've done nothing wrong! Yet..."

"Plus, I hear rumors you've gone Maverick. It's my duty to disassemble you anyway."

Player's p.o.v.

The boss fight was a little tricky, but it was beatable. Rocky Gorilla would hover for a bit and throw bolders at you. You had to dodge the boulders and shoot whenever you got the oportunity. When he was done shooting the boulders, he'd try to jump on you. You had to get out of the way and then shoot him like crazy. This was pretty much the whole boss fight.

After the battle, Axl's textbox popped up.

"What's the matter!? Had enough!"

Then it popped back to the stage select. Another textbox popped up with the text already inside it. It faded away after a second or two. It read,

"That was an awesome power! I kinda wanna do it again!"

There was no voice acting there. Was that Axl talking?