Back for round two! More action in this part and a bit more plot. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Megaman X

Virus was one of the few Mavericks that X had fought that was really deadly. The only one besides Virus who was this deadly was Sigma, which made sense. " X! Duck!" Axel

said before shooting is duel pistols at Virus who simple reflected them at Axel with his Z-saber. He then aimed his X-buster and shot a bolt of lightning at X, who was saved by

Zero's saber skills. " It seems as if he didn't just copy our weapons, but some of our old specials as well." Zero said. Virus laughed and said " That's not all Zero! Watch this!"

He then glowed and second later X was standing in front of them. Well it wasn't really X just Virus in X's form... but he was wearing X's old Falcon armor. " How can you do that?

My copy chip never allowed me to copy X's old forms!" Axel said. Virus laughed and aimed his X-buster " That is true for you brother! However that is only due to the fact that

you are a prototype of the new generation Reploids, so your chip is not as powerful as ours dear brother." He then used the Falcon armor to fly and then used a charged

buster shot to stun X before landing and using his Z-saber to slash at X three times. " X!" Zero cried out, before being stabbed in the chest by Virus. Virus then reverted to his

normal form and walked towards Axel. " Brother If you are to be the heir to father's throne then join me and our other siblings and help create a world of Reploids like father

dreamed!" he said as he raised his hands. Axel used this time to shoot the Maverick in his face which blinded him and then both he and Axel heard X firing off a charged shot

that stunned Virus and Axel shot at Virus and destroyed one of his arms. " Impressive brother, but watch and learn!" Virus said before somehow regrowing his arm. " Face it

brother! Father has blessed me far more then you...yet you still carry the will. But seeing as your so called Maverick hunter friends are this weak I shall take leave for now."

Virus said as disappeared and left the three hunters alone. " X! Zero! Are you alright?" Axel asked as he helped them up. "Yeah I'm fine, takes a lot more to kill me. Zero on the

other hand..." Zero somehow had fixed the hole in his chest and was helping Axel tend to X " Zero? Didn't you just have a hole in your chest?" Axel asked. The red Reploid

sighed and said " I hid myself and fixed it." Axel thought that was just lame to explain it like that, but X had heard it before. " Come on then let's complete the mission already!"

Axel said as the other two followed.

Hours later after the three hunter's completed the easy mission, Axel found himself in trouble. What Virus said had him thinking alone in his room, when a knock came and

Palette stepped in. " Axel? X told me about what happened... maybe we could go out and talk about it?" Axel rolled his eyes and said " No thanks Palette, I have some stuff to

do and-" He was cut off by the familiar hum of a Z-saber and saw Palette standing in front of him with it. He jumped back and said " Palette! What's with the Z-saber ?" She

looked at him and said " Zero let me borrow it so I could knock some sense into you. Axel... I like you alot and I don't care about the fact that you could go Maverick! Why can't

you see that?" This took Axel back and she dropped the saber and grabbed his hand and softly asked " Can't you see what all this worrying has done to you? Your not the

same Axel I... That I fell in love with!" She then surprised him by grabbing him and kissing him full on the lips. " Please... Axel just forget about everything for one day and come

with me!" She said to him in desperation. He thought for a minute then for the first time in a while smiled and said " Okay Palette! What did you have in mind?" She beamed at

his sudden attitude change and gave him a big hug as she said " Anywhere you want to go!" The two then left Base hand in hand for a peaceful night. Unknown to them

however there was a crisis at hand, and X and Zero were left to handle it. As it turned out Virus had sent out eight Mavericks to random areas to cause chaos and lure X and

Zero there. " How many times have we done this X?" Zero asked. " At least eight, but really who else can do this but us?" X answered. With some help from Alia X and Zero

decided to start on the Maverick who called itself Blast Bookworm, a former Liberian Reploid that had gone Maverick and taken control of the central libraries to gather info on

space development. " " X, Zero can you two handle this?" Alia asked. Zero smirked and said " No Alia, we're only done this how many times?" She rolled her eyes and the two

hunters left for the mission.

Once the two made it into the libraries, It looked clear that a Maverick was here, as all of the bookcases were either overturned or on fire and hundreds of enemies were

everywhere. " Looks like this could take us awhile, think you can handle it X?" Zero asked as he drew his Z-saber. X drew his X-buster in reply and both of them rushed at the

enemies.

Axel was the happiest he'd been in years, after the scene in his room with Palette , both of them had left the base and gone to a quiet little cafe a few blocks away from Hunter

base. Axel had to admit that he had never noticed the way she looked at his these past few years but then again he was always by himself sulking about the Maverick thing .

But... H e had never even thought about the slim chance of him not going Maverick until she told him how she felt about him. " Axel? Are you okay?" Palette asked, bringing him

back to the present. " I'm fine... just thinking about ... about.." His voice suddenly trailed off and his head started to hurt really bad. " Axel!What's wrong?" Palette yelled as she

got up to help him. His eyes were closed and suddenly the roots of his hair slowly started to turn purple. Palette gasped in horror and said " Axel. Be very calm and just look

and think on me okay?" He tried to look but she saw that his eyes were also changing into a shade of yellow , however upon looking at her beautiful face his features slowly

returned to normal. " Palette... I'm so sorry that you had to see that." He said but she put a finger to his lips and softly said " Axel, no matter what happens to you I will never

leave you just because you might turn Maverick! I'm way to stubborn to be scared away by something like that! He smiled at the words and the two left hand in hand back to

base. " Say, Palette? I have to asked, what made you think I was the one? My handsome good looks, hunting skills-" Axel started to say before she answered " Your heart. X

and Zero are great hunters and all , but they're way too serious. But you... when I first saw you I knew you were different. You had fun with the job, while knowing how not to

act like a goofball. And... To be honest I was so worried when X was carrying you back three years ago that I stayed up with you that whole night ." He remembered that, the

second he woke up he saw her eyes stareing back at him. " Don't worry Palette, I promise that as long as your by my side I won't go Maverick." He told her. She blushed and

gave him a small kiss on the cheek as they both entered base.

all done. more on the way!