Issue 9: Mecha Captain

Maverick Hunter HQ

BGM-Megaman X8 OST-With the Hunter Base

"You guys sure got smashed, haha!" Sonic laughed at his little joke. He and the rest of Team X are with Team Zero after narrowly defeating a roboticized Hulk. Zero is sitting down getting his circuits recharged while Spider-Man uses his majestic blue Other aura to heal Blake and Knuckles, noticeable with the web-like veins covering parts of their body while they hold an ice pack on their respective heads.

"Try taking on a rampaging Hulk without getting your arms broken, noodle limbs." Zero remarked, annoyed by Sonic's taunting.

"He wouldn't get the chance. You'd probably fare better if you were a little quicker." Sonic taunted, angering the Maverick hunter as he growls.

"You could've called for back-up." Spidey said.

"That's what I said!" Blake retorted as she suggested that to Zero but he was too stubborn and overconfident not too. She reels back to grunt when her head aches again and puts her ice-pack on that part of her forehead.

"Easy, kitten, I'm almost done." Pete said as he continues healing her. "Imagine if you were fighting Thor instead of the Hulk, or maybe both."

"Zip it, webhead." Blake calmly retorted but visibly annoyed.

"You're lucky you three survived. I doubt it's easy beating the Hulk." X said.

"Just watch. One day I'll get strong enough to knock him out with a single punch." Knuckles cockily said.

"I doubt you could beat him in your dreams, knucklehead." Sonic joked as Spidey finished healing his organic friends.

"There. Did all I could. Still not used to these "spider-healing powers"." Peter said.

"They sure come in handy in life-and-death situations, assuming you actually remember them." Blake glared at Pete as he tends to forget he has access to some very useful spider-powers thanks to his Other that he rarely uses like cloning or web glyphs.

"Hehe." He embarrassedly chuckled.

"How's the process on that armor?" Blake asked, wanting to know if their weapon against Ultron Sigma is complete yet.

"Smoothly. Should be done in about an hour." Peter replied.

"Hopefully we've found Ultron Sigma by then to end this." Zero said.

"Yeah, so let's hustle, team. We got two more Avengers to rescue!" X said as his team are off to their next mission right away.

BGM End

A Maverick Hunter Training Facility

BGM-Mega Man ZX Advent OST-Twisted Vine (Tunes Ver.)

Team X arrive inside a highly advanced training dome as they begin their mission. "Where are we?" Spidey asked as they already start fighting Guardian and Blast Raster mechaniloids.

"This looks to be a training facility meant to train new Hunters." X answered as he blasts a group of Batton Bone B81s.

'Correct. The Mavericks are killing new recruits to weaken our forces. We must put a stop to their plans.' Alia said through their comms.

"Okay. Let's do this thing!" Sonic grinned, running along the wall before leaping off to homing attack small and fast Dejira mechaniloids. They enter a room that beings firing lasers at them from wall turrets.

"Whoa! Intense!" Spidey commented, using his amazing reflexes and agility to dodge all laser fire perfectly.

"Take down those turrets!" X commanded as he destroys a few turrets. Spidey webs up a batch of turrets, causing them to explode from building up their energy, while Sonic speedily takes care of the rest. With the turrets destroyed, they exit the room to enter a large obstacle course that tests their reflexes, speed, and agility over an electrified pit. X barely avoids getting burnt by a fire pillar erupting from the ground, getting Sonic to laugh at his expense. Seconds later, the hedgehog hits his face with a reappearing-and-disappearing block, earning X's sly smile and Spidey's laughter.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." Sonic said, clearly unamused.

The amazing acrobatic webslinger swings from pole to pole, performing stylish tricks when in the air. "I could beat this course in my sleep. Where's the challenge?" He cockily asked as he drill kicks a Raiden enemy solider piloting a Ride Armor.

"Don't get too cocky. This course has been hijacked to the highest difficultly, X8." X said as he destroys more robot goons.

Meanwhile, Sonic ricochet spin-attack from a squadron of enemy robots. "Still feels too easy. Admit it that we're too awesome for this training exercise." The hedgehog said to his reploid pal.

"I guess you're right." X smiles as he wall-jumps to another level with his team.

"Of course I'm right. I'm always right." Sonic arrogantly said.

"I don't think so." X smirked as they work together destroying more Mavericks. "So Spider-Man, there's been something I've been meaning to ask." He started a conversation with the webhead.

"What?" Peter replied.

"That Salem woman. She called you her "son". Why was that?" X asked, remembering their last encounter with Doom and Salem at the weapons factory.

"Eh, don't mind her. She's just saying that to annoy me since we share the same blood." Spidey replied while webbing up Knot Beret S robots.

"How did that happen?" X asked while blasting red targets in another room.

"Long story short, she transferred some of her blood into me during a symbiote invasion, then was infected with my DNA when New York caught the "Spider-Flu". So we are, in a way, "related" since she has my powers and I have her powers. I don't use them a lot because they creep me out." Spidey answered while swinging through the air.

"Must suck sharing the blood of a villain." X said, feeling bad for Peter.

"It's not all bad." Peter light-heartedly said. "In a way, I should thank her. She helped me get stronger, learn new powers to protect my love ones." He said until his voice starts to sound a little serious. "Still, I can't forgive her what she done. She tried to destroy the world, and almost used me to do it."

"What do you mean?" X asked.

"She tried to turn me into her own "living weapon" using the symbiote. Almost made me kill friends, betray promises, all just to serve some selfish vendetta against Ozpin." Peter answered. "Don't know what's the beef between those two, but now it's my responsibility to stop her. I'm the only one who can."

"Why?" X asked him.

In response to his question, Peter unsheathes his wrist stingers to show them to X, "Like I said, I gotten stronger over these past few months. Learned new powers that can bypass that immortality she has. I could end her whenever I want, but it would go against everything I stand for."

"I understand. You're not one to kill. It'll make you no different from the villains we face." X replied.

"It's an eternal struggle, but there are better ways to end that struggle without killing anyone." Spidey said.

"Like sealing her in a rice cooker." Sonic joked while fighting more Mavericks.

"That's one good idea." Spidey replied, laughing with X. "One day, I'll permanently put a stop to her and the Masters of Evil. End this conflict before they do something that'll affect all of us for the worse."

"Right. And if you need any help with them, I'll be happy to assist." X said to Peter.

"Thanks, X. It feels good making new friends across the cosmos." Spidey smiled.

BGM End

BGM-Megaman: Maverick Hunter X OST-Boss Appearance

The marvelous Team X finish the training course with flying colors, giving them the opportunity to fight the boss of this facility, a roboticized Captain America holding his shield as he waits for them to approach his challenge room.

"It's Cap!" Sonic noticed.

"Captain America! Aaargh! It's my fault he's like this. If I just stopped Ultron from escaping that missile base, the Avengers wouldn't be like this." Spider-Man said, berating himself for everything that has happened lately regarding the Avengers and Ultron Sigma.

"Pull it together, Spider-Man. The best we can do for him now is free him from the Sigma Virus." X said, prepping his buster for battle.

"H-Hurry…You must…stop me…" Captain America speaks, still possessing some free will to talk to his friends.

"He's still in there! Cap's barely hanging on. Let's help him out." Sonic said.

"Okay, Cap. If that's your order, then I can't ignore it. Let's do this, guys!" Spidey said, crouching to his spider-fighting position.

BGM End

BGM-Megaman X8 OST-VS 8Boss

X fires multiple energy pellets the roboticized super-solider blocks with his shield, giving Sonic the chance to attack him from behind. Cap tries to counter until Spidey zipped over and punched him, then works with Sonic for some quick double-team attacks. Cap grips onto his shield and was able to slam it on the ground, unleashing a blue energy sphere that shields him and scatters the red-and-blue jokesters.

"Neat new trick. What else can you do?" Sonic taunted.

Cap throws his shield at the heroes but missed. It didn't matter though as it ricochets from all the walls inside the room in another effort to attack the heroes. The team dodges each shield throw but it continues to gain more speed from every ricochet, slowly starting to get some hits off the heroes. "Hey Cap! I think your shield misses you!" Spidey quipped, able to use his spider-sense to locate the speedy shield and web it up, throwing it back at Cap's head. The corrupted first Avenger grabs his shield and fires an energy beam at Spidey from its open reactor core. Cap dashes towards Sonic and swipes his shield at him. Sonic jumps over it and counters with a spin attack Cap blocks intensely with his shield, then deflects Sonic to the side.

"Hey X. Got any new trick that can slow him down?" Sonic asked as he stands up.

"Sure do! Equipping Hex Bolts!" X equips himself with the special weapon he acquired from Scarlet Witch, granting himself a red color scheme as well as Wanda's red headpiece. He fires three crimson, chaotic orbs of chaos magic at Cap. He tries to block them but it was too late. He gets stunned by the bolts and gets weakened, with the Hex Bolts actually being his weakness.

"Nice one, X!" Spidey said as he kicks the defenseless captain. He webs up Captain America to keep him from doing anything else, but it was all in vain as he unleashes his corrupted Ion Mode with the pink veins on the body, breaking free from the webbing. "Cap, if you want us to stop you, stop making this so difficult!" He quipped. The powered-up Maverick Avenger throws his shield yet again at Spider-Man. He dodged it but wasn't able to dodge the empowered punch to the face and the gut punch to the stomach from Cap. His shield returns in time for three uppercuts on the webslinger, sending him flying up in the air.

He then turns his attention to X who was shooting at him. He throws his shield at the pacifist reploid, only to miss and eat a charged shot to the face. Sonic comes in with a frontal kick that briefly sends the captain flying until he uses his shield to strike on the ground and land safely. The two blue rivals exchange glares at one another, waiting for the other to perform the next attack. Finally, Cap decided to use his charge at Sonic with his shield, using his "Hyper Charging Star" attack. At the same time, Sonic boosts towards Rogers with a blue aura and the two clash their powers, neither one holding up. Their struggle intensifies, slowly cracking the floor beneath them until, at the last second, Sonic gained enough strength to beat Captain America in the clash, sending him flying once more while the hedgehog stands on one knee, panting as he regains his strength.

"Look up above!" Spidey announces his presence, hurling himself with a web-slingshot at Captain America while he's still weakened from the clash. He found the strength to block Spidey's diving dropkick with his shield, forcing the webhead to hop off and fight him hand-to-hand. "Hey Cap! Remember our training sessions together! Boy, were those fun!" Spidey talked while trading blows with his training mentor. "Let me show you one move you taught me. You're gonna love it." The webhead performs a quick leg-sweep on Cap's legs, then immediately follows up with a spinning roundhouse kick and lastly smoothly delivers a fast, upside-down spinning roundhouse kick that damages the metallic armor.

"We done yet?" Spidey asked Cap. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it as Cap goes for another swing on Peter. Luckily, he was interrupted by a supercharged Unibeam blast from X's chest, after equipping himself with the "Repulsor Ray" weapon, granting him a red-and-gold color scheme and aesthetics that resembles Iron Man's armor.

BGM End

"Think that's it." X said, unequipping himself of the Repulsor Ray and fires a Spider Shot to free Captain America from the Sigma Virus, as well as giving X a new special weapon for himself.

"Wheeew! Cap sure was tough. He gave us a good fight. But what would you expect from a living legend?" Sonic smiled.

"Am glad we got him back. My world wouldn't be the same without Captain America. He's inspired so many people, including me. Hope one day my legacy will be as great as him, and I'll be as great a hero like him." Spidey said, expressing his absolute respect for a man like Captain America.

"I'm sure you already have. I could tell. And I'm sure Cap does too." X smiles.

"Heh. Yeah. Thanks. C'mon, let's bring our fellow solider back home." Spidey said, picking up Captain America as they get teleported back to base.

BGM-Rockman. EXE Stream OST-Be Somewhere Instrumental (DVD Menu Theme)

Spider-Man: It's Spider-Man, reporting for duty! We're almost done. One more Avenger to save, and it might take all of us to stop him.

Spider-Gwen: He won't be easy. We're facing a god.

Sonic: No problem! I've faced many gods before.

Axl: Ones that were roboticized and empowered by a gem of unlimited energy?

Sonic: I'm sure I did.

Yang: Heh. Liar.

X: Get ready everybody!

Next time in D-Avengers: The X Factor:

Metal of Thunder

X: Once we're done here, we're coming for you, Ultron Sigma!

KFX Here: Here's X's new special weapon copied from Captain America:

Special Weapon: Shield Slash

Regular attack: Create an energy shield to block attacks or throw it like a weapon.

Charged variation: Charge full speed at opponents with shield (Hyper Charging Star)