Chapter 9: Only Four Years
In the year 23XX the shadow virus was founded and tested by Sigma corrupting more than ten maverick hunters and reploids, Sigma infecting X first causing the down fall of the heavy Maverick Hunter Headquarters but it did not last, with help of Zero ended the reign of Shadow X but not before Zero himself gets infected and with Zero-less X obtains help from Xiel and Sarah Maxis Light. But wait Light as in Dr. Thomas Light? That is correct but how? Now that the Shadow virus flows though Sigma's body this power force might become unstoppable too. Is Blues on Sigma's side?
Four years has passed since the events of the Shadow virus in Cujo it is far from forgotten…
"I have tried everything but Zero's virus is still strong and could expand at any moment, X"
"Keep trying Rife" X closes his com. X and Xiel both on hover bikes outside of Cujo. "Blues' reading came from around here, prepare yourself." Both of them stop their bikes. No sound besides the wind blowing the sand around them. Xiel detaches her saber from her wrist holster. The ground begins to shake violently, as they hop of their bikes. X readies his buster, and charges it. A giant sinkhole forms in front of them; the two walk backwards as the hole swallows the hover bikes. Eight mechanical legs shoot up from the hole and a small eye attached to the legs rises from the center of the hole. "That's not Blues…"
"We still need to kill it." Xiel noted, she scans the surrounding area to see another sinkhole forming. "Both of them." The eye of the first spider begin to glow red and shoots a laser slicing right though X's buster. X drops to his kneels, the spider quickly moves his front leg to pin X down, and charges his eye again. Xiel uses her jet boots to dash upwards to the joint of the leg that pinned X, and slices the leg off. The eye shoots the laser off-target hitting the second spider exploding the eye. Xiel then jumps toward the eye to finish the job, but the spider moves all of its legs in front of him to block. "My saber has no effect of the shielded part of his legs.
"Go for the joints again!" X commanded as he stands up. Xiel tries just that but unable to get close to joints. The eye begin to charge again aimed at X. he looks down at the downed spider leg and buries his destroyed arm into it and picks it up with the other the laser fires and bounces right off the shielded leg held by X. He dashes towards the spider and plants his feet and swings the leg, it rips right though three of the spider's leg on the right side. Unable to remind standing the spider topples over. Xiel slices off the remaining legs from the eye. "It cut right though my armor like nothing, your saber had no effect on its shields. This spider is way too advance." X opens his com. "Rife we are going to need a transport out here. We have some scraps that needs to be taken in."
"On the way."
"What are you thinking about, X?" Xiel asks.
X smirks. "An upgrade."
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Gambler5 - If you haven't noticed the publish days on chapter 1-8 and chapter 9 have a 4-year gap. Also changed my name from Zero X. Omega to Gambler5, I had plan on making a Shadow Virus Trilogy, with book One about the X and Zero, Book two about a new threat called Cyprus, and the third about well…the conclusion mainly Sigma. But I never made it past the prologue of book two, which is now the beginning of chapter 9. So I extended this story and plan on a few more chapters to a complete conclusion , hopefully this year.
