FINAL CHAPTER: Copy Reploid Axl VS Master Copy X!
"We meet at last, Axl. I've been looking forward to this moment. But what do you mean by 'Fake'?" said the blue armor Reploid innocently.
Axl gritted his teeth. "It means what it means. You're a pirate copy of my best friend, a fraud. A fake." Axl spat the last word venomously.
The blue Reploid chuckled at Axl's reply, finding something amusing about his response. "No… you're wrong. Not a fake, but a perfect copy of the original X. I am the new hero who saved the human race from this wasted world polluted by the Mavericks."
Bending his arms up, giving a V-shape appearance, as he scrolls down the room emitting a aura of superiority and authorized glared down Axl in a manner of looking down at an insect that has no business breathing the same air as a god.
Copy X mused, "Didn't you noticed yet? The humans have finally found happiness more than ever before… The utopia that humans have searched for is here in Neo Arcadia."
The blue Reploid stopped. Looking triumphant and smirking with the most evil and cruel smiles. "This is something that Zero, the original X… and you, an unknown made-up Reploid, could never create… this is something only I can create!"
It was Axl's turned to scoffed at his speech, smug and cocky etching his features. "That's a load of garbage I've ever heard before, and I thought Sigma was bad! This is a false peace, only a coward would take this route! You can only achieve something like this by sacrificing an uncountable number of innocent Reploids! No one wants this, not me, not X and Zero, not Ciel! This place is worthless with you as leader!"
Copy X looked at Axl stunned and expressionless, an eerie silence lasted almost an eternity until the blue Reploid broke it by laughing.
"Hahahaha! I've heard you had a strange sense of humor and they were right, you really are funny… but I have a proposal to ask of you."
"Proposal?" Axl cocked a brow and narrowed his eyes.
"Yes," the blue Reploid extend his hand. "I would like you to join Neo Arcadian and help maintain the peace here by eliminating the Mavericks known as the 'Resistance Army'."
Surprise is to say the least as Axl was full-blown shocked that Copy X would even ask that of him! He's fought alongside of them against Neo Arcadian for X's sake!
"Was that some sort of joke? Do you honestly believe I would side with you! Maybe if you changed your ways and learn to be a better leader, but that's not going to happen I see. You're going down!" Axl breathed out each word angrily, he was beyond peeved now.
"Oh well, it's been fun I was hoping you would consider it, but alas it wasn't meant to be… Now, let's get down to business!" Copy X brought his arms up in an X formation and pulled them back as white and golden armor appearance on his head, body, arms, and legs.
The winged and celestial appearance gave the fake Reploid the impression that he was an angel. Axl snorted to the idea, and prepared himself with his guns out.
"Prepare to meet your maker, Maverick!" shouted the celestial Reploid.
This was the final battle. It's do or die time and Axl was planning on bringing back the gold!
The blue Reploid fired off three charged shots at once at blinding speed, like more like blurs than energy shoots, and changed his gun to the G-Launcher fired off three quick short-range shots to counter the incoming assault.
Immediately after the attacks collided, showering off shockwaves, Copy X charged in after Axl in a energy-powered sliding dash a powerful shockwave emitting from his boots as he slide closer to Axl.
Axl quickly reacted by kicking himself into a somersault in the air behind Copy X and reverted his launcher back to its original form and executed a bunch of rounds in perfect unisonance as he landed and turned his attention to where Copy X was.
Eyes widen to the incoming damage about to slam into him, Copy X took to the air and changed his regular blue armor to green and air dash to Axl's side while extended his arm buster at him, becoming a drill of some sort, and grazed the black Reploid as he dodged in response to Copy X's attack.
Axl A-Trans him into Aztec Falcon and spud up into the air as quickly as possible and started to descend at crazy speed, in a sky dive fashion, twirling himself in a spin becoming a drill and nearly ramming Copy X as he fired off several plasma air bullets at Axl knocking away all of them from his attack and as Copy X dodged Axl's spinning attack and A-Trans into Harpuia and slashed at Copy X with a beautiful arc of swords cutting up his Ultimate Armor.
The blue Reploid covered with cuts on his white and gold armor backed away and turned his element from Wind to Fire as he armor color changed again from green to orange respectfully and shot a fireball from his buster.
In retaliation Axl performed another A-Trans and became Maha Ganeshariff and spin dashed the fireball away and transformed into Fefnir as Axl got closer to Copy X and slugged him square in the face, but not without Copy X firing a charged into Axl's chest blowing him back several feet away.
Getting back up on their feet both Reploid fired several charged giant fireballs at each other, turning the room into a hellish fiery warzone, prompting Axl to fire two rounds into the ground creating an fiery electric shockwave following Copy X's path.
Copy X returned to the skies again and changed his armor to a lightly shade of blue this time, granting him Ice element powers, and froze the shockwaves from his blizzard shots. Axl hustled under Copy X and transformed into Blizzack Staggroff and head butted Copy X from below but he dodged at the last second as Axl quickly A-Trans into Leviathan and threw a fury of barrage of halberd strikes where Copy X was.
The Master of Neo Arcadian had a hard time dodging all the deadly strikes, all aiming for his chest, in order to protect himself from further damage he created an ice shield around him and pushed back Axl reverting back to him normal form.
However he wasn't done there and fired three more charged shots at Axl, but Axl A-Trans into Anubis Necromancess III and used his staff to knock away the charged attacks and changed into Hanumachine and monkeyed his way over to Copy X and set fire on his staff and he tries to pummel whacked the arrogant ruler.
Copy X grabbed the staff, ignoring the burns on his hands as he hurled Axl into the air and slammed him into the ground kicking up debris as he falls.
As the dust clears Axl's body is nowhere to be seen as Copy X looks behind to avoid several shurikens coming his way and looked up to see Axl in Phantom's form as he landed gracefully on the ground and sprinting in his direction. Copy X turned his buster into the drill form again and tries to smash his attack in his face as Axl disappears behind him while Copy X dodges him by sliding away.
Axl reverted back to his normal and Copy X too changed back to his original blue color and turned their attention to one another and both fired a fully charged energy burst at one another.
Both of the attacks collided with each other, pushing each other back struggling to succeed the other not giving an inch until… Axl's charged shot broke through dispersing Copy X's charged attack and nailing him hard in the chest. The force of the attack so too much as Copy X lost his balance and started to kneel.
Axl stood triumphantly above Copy X, hardly taken any real damages and without breaking a sweat, as he closed the gap between them in mere moments.
Copy X was breathing heavily as Axl brought him down to his knees. The blue Reploid looked up tirelessly and glared back at the black Reploid.
Axl laughed. "Was that it? Seriously you're weaker than I thought! X was NEVER this weak, you sure you're his perfect copy?"
"Wha… What…!" the blue Reploid stuttered in disbelief.
"I know it's been a long time, but I distinctly remember that the original X was way more powerful than you are and even with your Ultimate Armor you barely scratched the surfaced of X's real power." The black Reploid shrugged disappointed that the copy of his best friend didn't reach his expectations.
A low growled emitted from the celestial Reploid, gritting his teeth in annoyance.
"Silence!" roared Copy X in pure rage. "Now you will feel my true power!"
The blue Reploid jumped into the air, enveloped in a bright light.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
As the celestial Reploid turned into a sphere of light, rainbow-like sparks shooting off from him, devouring all the darkness in the room and blinding Axl as he turned away the light started to take form.
Swallowing the rainbow-like sparks that escaped earlier back into his body, the blue Reploid reappeared entire in a different form.
Six blue colored wings extended from his back, his body into a cone-like shape losing his legs with a white armor plate over his chest, two large claw-like hands, and the most evil shade of red-colored eyes coldly started down at Axl's blue eyes as a rainbow-colored halo appearance above Copy X's head.
"This is my true power! You will regret angrier me like this! Farewell, Axl the Copy Reploid!"
The blue Reploid spoke in a more robotic voice as he launched two blue-colored rods with spikes all over the room, destroying the entire floor.
Even after dodging the attack there was no place for Axl to stand as he pummels into the dark abyss, the image of the celestial Reploid growing smaller and smaller as Axl continues to fall deeper.
"Hahahahahahah! That serves you right! You will not go unpunished from insulting me like that! I AM the strongest Reploid, and I AM superior to that old junk of scrap metal!"
A shot grazed Copy X's face. The blue Reploid looked down where the shot came from alerted to Axl's presence.
"What the…!" surprised escaped Copy X's mouth as he sees Axl flying in the air. Flying in his original form, not a copy form.
Axl had extended his white wings from his back to engage into flight mode, his boots igniting his rockets to boost him into the air.
"Ha! I still have a few more tricks up my sleeves… and in my armor!" cried Axl in excited, he was feeling exhilarating now.
Copy X growled, this Reploid just won't give up! "Don't get cocky! This is far from over!"
"But being cocky is one of my most appealing qualities!" smirked the black Reploid as he air dashed towards the semi-towering celestial Reploid.
Axl flew at Copy X at high-speed, increasing his velocity each second as he charged up his guns from a charge shot. The giant celestial Reploid fired off yellow energy lasers from his back, all homing in on Axl. The black Reploid performed one barrel roll after the last one dodging the incoming attacks in successful unisonance, moving back and forth as he launched his charged shot.
The blue-clad Reploid wasn't going to stand for it to lose to this black Reploid as he brushed away the attack with his gigantic clawed hand like it was nothing and fired a more powerful and twice the size charged shot at Axl. The young boy widen his eyes in surprise to the sheer overwhelming size and speed of the attack that he barely had enough time to evade it by rocketing himself upward, as the attack nicked his boots causing him to spin uncontrollable for a few seconds.
"Hahaha! Give up, you can't win!" roared the celestial Reploid very arrogant in tone.
Axl regain his control and gave him a playfully smirk. "As if! This is just the warm-up!"
The black Reploid dashes even faster than before, circling all around Copy X firing wave after wave of rapid fire at him. The blue-clad Reploid couldn't evade them as he wasn't as fast as Axl in the air and took his punishment square on. He let out a low growl of annoyance and suddenly shot glowing white rings at Axl's attacks… pulling them down into the dark abyss.
"Whoa!" Axl had little time to admire the unique attack as he dodged all of the incoming rings heading his way.
Spinning, dashing, and somersaulting all of the attacks Axl fired another charged shot at Copy X. It didn't faze him like last time, but it did momentarily stop his onslaught attacks of rings. Without warning the celestial Reploid lowered his body a bit and started speeding up on Axl.
The black Reploid took this as his cue to get the hell out of the way, and barrel rolled himself to the left as the speeding giant celestial Reploid came brushing by him. Axl was in trouble, he can't use his A-Trans in Flight Mode without disengaging it and turning into something that lack flight capabilities, plus there wasn't a lot of energy left in him to quickly change back and forth.
Axl was in a pickle, he used to finish him off in his original form and quickly. He didn't know how long he'll last at this rate.
"Would you like it if I lend you my powers?" a familiar icy cold voice crept at the back of Axl's head again.
Axl snarled at annoyance. "Not now Lumine! I don't have time for this!"
"Really? I'm my point of view, you're going to lose. Do you think you can beat him as you are now?" the evil Reploid playfully teased Axl.
"Ha! I wouldn't be able to call myself an S-Class Maverick Hunter if I relied on the powers of a Maverick! Besides X and Zero could beat this clown without any power-ups… and so can I!"
The black Reploid yelled at his declaration as he fired rapid shots at the celestial Reploid as he circled around him again and again, increasing his speed each lap. Axl may not be the strongest Reploid like X and Zero when it comes to sheer power, but Axl is definitely one of the fastest and his resourcefulness is what makes him a dangerous powerhouse.
Copy X looked back and forth as the black Reploid started to turn into a black blur, getting nailed by a seemingly endless rain of bullets, and to counterattack this barrage the blue Reploid folded his hands and sent out a powerful shockwave blowing Axl back a good twenty or so feet away.
"This is it! The end!" Copy X declared as he fired off a strange white-blue sphere of light.
The lights completely surrounded Axl in quick response, as the black Reploid looked at them dumbfoundedly. The sphere of light connected with one another, linking themselves up with an electric line and Axl realized what was about to happen.
"Oh crap!" was the only words that can to mind.
"Light Judgment: Salvation from a Hero!" cried Copy X.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Axl couldn't escape the attack, completely cut off from all forms of exit he was encased by the attack and swallowed up by the light dust covering where Axl was.
"I AM the strongest and this is why! Not even X could do this!" the celestial Reploid laughed manically believing he has won the fight.
A sound of coughing was hear with Axl was, and the celestial Reploid looked in completely disbelief and shocked. There he was the white-clad armor Reploid was… wait, white-colored armor?
Axl looked down upon himself. He once again was equipped with white-armor and felt the incredible surge of power once again.
"L-Lumine…?" Axl was dumbfounded. He was saved once again by Lumine.
"Don't get me wrong, you die I die. That's all, plus this guy is really annoying me. Sniff him out kid; he's an embarrassment to the real X." Lumine retreated back to Axl's subconscious as Axl averted his eyes upon the still stunned celestial Reploid.
"Sheesh, I'm such a hypocrite." The black Reploid laughs to himself. "But, I'll take you on your offer since you're being so generous today and this guy really is ticking me off."
The now white-clad Reploid disappeared from Copy X's sight, snapping him back into reality.
"W-What? Where did he go!" the blue Reploid looked back and forth scanning the area for the enemy.
Unbeknownst to him, Axl was right behind hovering very quietly looking very smugged and pleased with himself as he slammed his elbow onto the back of Copy X's head and jumped right over him firing a few round of bullets into his face.
The celestial Reploid cried in pain! The pain! Why does it hurt so much now!
He looked back at the white Reploid, his orange eyes looking mischievous at him, as the Copy X raised his hand at him a fired ten fully charged shots at Axl, but he dodged them easily as if they were moving in slow motion.
Axl sped up once again and kneed Copy X in the chest pushing him back slightly as him hurl himself above him and fires a charged shot into his head. The celestial raged in angry, slashing above his head attacking Axl as he followed him not letting him out of his sight or range.
The white Reploid somersaulted below and sprung himself back up kicking Copy X's in the chin and kicking himself away from the blue Reploid.
The look in Copy X's eyes was filled with murderous-intent, his red eyes and darker than before. He was pushed too far now, nothing will remove this stain upon his honor and title as leader of Neo Arcadian unless he kills the Reploid in his presence now.
"You've done it now," growled the celestial Reploid. "I'm going to kill you!"
His chest opened up and revealing a cannon embedded into his body. Swarms of energy slowly gathered into the cannon, white-blue lights heating up the air distorting it as it grows.
"About time! I was saving up this attack for the final assault! I'll show you what it really means to fight for others!" Axl beckons the celestial for one more attack to end their final battle.
The celestial Reploid started a chant. "Devour all that stand in my path, shatter and send them in oblivion, punish them with extreme justice! Zeus Cannon!"
The lights surrounding the cannon vanished for a brief pause and than an enormous white-hot energy beam came hurling towards Axl.
"That's your special finishing move? That's nothing, now this is a special finisher! INFINITE GIGA CRUUUUUUUSSSHHH!"
A familiar steam of multipliable purple-violent and blue-hot electrified beams shot out from the barrels of the Axl's twin guns coloring the air with their mystifying powers as it rips apart Copy X's final attack, hacking it bit by bit before finally reaching where Copy X. The celestial Reploid could only watch in horror as the attack getting closer and closer.
A piercing sound was heard. A sound of metal before ripped apart from the core, melting in the process. The pain was unbearable, the celestial cried out as he felt his chest ripping apart. Watching the scene transpire in front him, Axl slowly returned to his original color scheme and powers.
"Gck….!"
The blue Reploid looked down as he saw where the black Reploid fired. A huge hole was embedded into him, a tunnel of carnage that ripped him apart. He looked up at the black Reploid, silently cursing him as he pummeled to the ground in the dark abyss.
His body breaking apart as he finally reaches the ground, smashing his body further into pieces, his left side of his face ripped off showing his mechanical features and eye. He was nothing more than a head and half a body now.
"Why… Why…?" coughed the fallen Reploid. "I was… supposed to be… the perfect copy…"
The blue Reploid couldn't stop coughing up blood with each breath he took. "How can this be… possible… how could I… lose to a relic… like you… I was supposed to be… a hero…"
Axl shook his head. "You still don't get it, do you? You know what made X a real hero?" The black Reploid leaned forward to whisper in the blue Reploid's face.
"He wasn't naïve like you. He suffered, he struggled, he experienced all kinds of pain and hurt and understood what it meant to fight and protect everyone. That's what made him a hero and that's why he's my role model."
The black Reploid sighed, annoyed by the blue Reploid's ignorance. "You know, we could've been friends if you only knew what the world was really like back then." He extended his hand to the fallen Reploid.
"It's not too late you know, I'll show you what it means to be a REAL hero and I'll help with this energy crisis so everyone, both Human and Reploid, can live happily. Got it?"
The black Reploid gave the fallen Reploid a friendly smirk, scratching the back of his head with his other hand, waiting for Copy X's reply. However the look on his face darkens and looks away.
"It's too late fool… I have a back-up plan," the blue Reploid rebuke the black Reploid's hand of friendship. "I won't forgive you. I will take you with me… I'll leave everyone to my Guardians… farewell Axl…"
"Hey! Wait a minute! You don't have to do this! Come on, wake up! What about your Guardians! You're really going to leave them hanging like that! And what about the people!" Axl frankly panicked shaking Copy X to response.
The blue Reploid had already fallen silent as the room started to flash in red.
"THE FINAL DEFENSE LINE HAS BEEN DESTROYED SELF-DESTRUCTION MODE ACTIVATED IN AREA X. ALL DANGEROUS ELEMENTS ARE TO BE ELIMINATED."
The computer alerted Axl's to the immediate danger and a realization of horror etched into his face.
"Oh this is perfect! Time to go!" yelled in annoyance Axl quickly looked around the destroyed to find a way out.
However there was one problem. To his disbelief and horror, there was no way out. He was trapped.
"Ah dammit!" pulling out his guns he made with last ditch attempt to escape with the low energy he has remaining and he was completely out of energy in his Sub-Tank reserves.
Axl rapidly shoot at all the walls hoping to break them but to no avail. But he ran out of energy too soon from the constant firing and started to lose focus and balance as he started to waver.
"Is this the end…?" Axl muttered tirelessly as he fell to his knees and soon fell to the ground completely drained.
The entire area started to explode, enveloping everything in its path as it quickly creped closely to where Axl laid.
A blue-colored Cyber Elf appeared in the room and above Axl as it enveloped him into its light and vanished before everything was gone. Silently both Axl and Copy X vanished from the world without a trace.
Author's Note: It's finally come to this, the final battle between Axl and Copy X. This was truly one of the best fights in the story, one of my personal favorites, showing all of Axl's full capabilities in battle against Copy X's full arsenal of attacks and I even threw in a few original attacks to be it more unique. I hope you guys enjoy this fight!
I wanted to make the fight a little more unique and different from the game's battle, plus the idea of Axl flying came from watching the Rockman Online Trailer where it showed Axl flying so I thought I might as well add in it! Making it into an Aerial Final Battle, but admittedly I'm not that good with Aerial Battles so I hope it was good.
There's one more chapter which is the Epilogue, ending the story of Mega Man AXL: Zero Era and paving the path to Mega Man AXL: Zero Era 2. I'm amazed I've gotten this far with my fanfic, but it's all thanks to you all the reviewers and readers for supporting me.
Please enjoy the final two chapters and happy holidays to everyone!
