For those of you who've read Mega Man ZXA: Recurrence, this is the rewritten version of the prior, including corrections, chapter overhauls, and additional content that the first version did not have. The overall storyline will remain the same as its predecessor.
Lastly, I do not own Mega Man Zero, Mega Man ZX, or Mega Man ZX Advent. OCs and original content that is not made by Inti Creates is under my "ownership".
With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the retelling of Mega Man ZXA: Recurrence, now known as Mega Man ZXA:R Redux.
One month ago, there had been a mass outbreak of Maverick attacks all across the territory surrounding Legion, the governing body of the world which was led by the Sage Trinity: Master Thomas, Master Mikhail, and Master Albert.
However, prior to said events, the Raiders, an illegal group of Hunters not belonging the Hunters Guild, nor sanctioned by Legion, uncovered a piece of lost technology in the Outlands and proceeded to transport it to their site of illegal dealings via a large airship convoy. It was at that time that a group of Hunters, led by a young woman who had survived the destruction of her home town by Mavericks, reclaimed the piece of lost technology. Afterwards, the Hunters Guild was requested to bring the lost piece of technology to Legion for further study, since being a piece of technology from ancient times, could potentially hold may secrets that could benefit mankind as a whole.
However, the lost technology was never taken into Legion for study, which happened right around the same time that a pillar of light erupted from the middle of the Outlands, sighted just outside Legion's borders. Since then, a plethora of Maverick attacks coinciding with a series of disasters, both natural and coordinated occured, including but not limited to; a coordinated Maveric assault on Legion HQ, an energy runaway at the nucear energy plant, the reanimation of mechaniloids at the scrapyards, a maverick attack ont he highway targeting fleeing civilians, and a massive gravity destruction in the outlands. Or at least amongst the most well-known
The final events of the recent Maverick outbreak were precedented being the rising of a massive oroborous-shaped battle station rising from the sea, said battle station being the epicenter of a mass outbreak of giant mechaniloids. Hours after this station rose however, a massive energy fluctiation caused the entire station to collapse, its entire structure falling apart before it sunk back into the ocean. After this, the Sage Trinity, or at least the remaindor of it -though details on that weren't too well-known-, announced that the maverick uprising had ended.
With this, the country settled back into a lulled sence of security, so many not knowing that it was a false peace. This was likewise similar in circumstance, to the ending of the previous string of maverick-related incidents four years and eight months prior.
Years before said events, the country of Cinq Ville was facing the brunt of an ongoing energy crisis that threatend the collapse of its capital city, Inner Peace. Coinciding with the energy crisis was a seemingly unending strings of Maverick Raids, each one claiming the lives of dozens, if not hundreds. It was at the peak of the crisis that a man by the name of Serpent, founded the company Slither Inc. By utilizing technology that had been excavated from the Outlands, the ongoing energy crisis was brought to and end, and all the energy that everyone could ever need was provided. On the inverse, to deal with the ongoing Maverick Raids, a security force of mechaniloids was established, and began to force the Mavericks, otherwise known as Irregulars, back into the outlands.
In doing so, the man himself became a genuine national hero, held in the highest standards by the entire country. Shortly afterwards however, Serpent was approached by two mysterious figures, and that's when things began to change. It was from that point on that employees at Slither Inc. noticed a tremendous change in their benevolent philanthropist. From that point, the man began scouring the Outlands like a man possessed, as though he were searching for something. People played it off as him simply being dedicated to excavating more ancient technology to make the lives of the people better, however, they knew not of the true horrors behind the Maverick Raids.
During the ten years since Slither Inc.'s founding, hundreds, if not thousands of lives, were lost in Maverick Raids, and while Slither Inc.'s security force arrived each time to prevent even more casualties, a key detail was constantly overlooked, or at least overlooked to a select few.
At the sites of the Maverick Raids, no bodies were ever found, almost as though they disappeared into thin air. In addition, energy began building up in numerous sites within Inner Peace's territories, but it wasn't going anywhere. Instead it continued to be stockpiled for some unknown purpose.
However, four years and nine months prior to the present day, a massive coordinated assault shook Cinq Ville, claiming many lives in the process and leaving a portion of the city in ruins. Shortly afterwards, a massive energy surge caused one of the energy conductors that utilized the ancient technology, which granted near-infinite energy to all of Inner Peace. It was at that time that calamity struck, one of the six super-conductors collapsing from Slither Inc.'s main building, demolishing a good portion of the city. No one knows just how many were killed, or ended up missing, but as great a tragedy came in the form of Slither Inc.'s president. Serpent's body was never found amongst the rubble, and the country mourned as their hero was labeled as dead, once the remains of the Slither Inc. building were excavated.
Afterwards, Legion stepped in and regained control of the region, their own forces routing out the remaining Irregulars and bringing peace back to the region. Even if only a false one. However, people seemed to be content with letting what happened happen. True, people mourned at the loss of friends, family, and lovers, but eventually, everyone decided that it was better to continue leading a carefree existance, settling into their daily routines and living their daily lives, seeming to forget the world just beyond their cities, as well as forgetting the past.
However, among those unknowing masses stood a person who had borne witness to such attacks first-hand, and knew that there was more to this world then was being let on. As he stood apart from the public that were content to live their lives blissfully unaware of things to come, events that would alter the fate of the world once again began to take root, and his own fate too would stretch far beyond that the reach of his own hand.