Zero, Axl, Alia, and X all where inside the castle throne room, meanwhile down the staircase in the great hall was Signas and .
"So do you know where we are going?" Dr. Cain asked
"Of course I know where we're going!" Signas said as he walked up a flight of stairs.
"…Are you certain?"
"Yes I'm certain!" Signas bellowed back at the doctor.
"……I don't think that's the right way…"
"Oh really? Why?"
"…Because the sign above the door says L1. That stands for Lab 1, and we are going to the Throne Room, which is in the opposite direction."
Signas and Dr. Cain remained silent as the doctor turned and walked away, and up the other flight of stairs.
"You're not always right you know!" Signas yelled back.
"Yes I am!" Dr. Cain said back
"NO YOUR NOT!" Signas said as he ran after the doctor, who despite his old age moved very quickly.
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Falcon slowly flew to a stop on the castle rooftop. The top tower, where the throne room was, had a flat roof. And on this roof sat the Midnight Breaker cannon. And Falcon had the Sol Card to activate the cannon.
"This world needs to repent for its sins. It is too unstable. Soon…everything will be perfect."
Falcon spoke in a trance as his eyes suddenly turned as red as Nocturnes', his colors changed to black and red, and his voice deepened. His talons grew longer, and he grew taller.
"This world…and everything in it…is trash…."
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Zero and Axl stood over Nocturne's body.
"So is he dead?"
"…Yes..."
I hope…
"N-no…" X stammered as he tried to stand.
"X!" Alia yelped as she ran to his aide, just in time to catch him from falling.
"Thank you A-Alia…" X said as he looked at Alia with a kind caring face.
Alia and X just stood there staring at one another until Zero cleared his throat, making them move away from each other.
"Why do you say no X?"
"…He's strong…very strong…there's no way he would die that easy…"
"How right you are Megaman X." Nocturne's body said as it began to shake and shift into a standing position.
"HOLY!" Axl was cut off by a loud metal screeching sound.
"What was that!?" Alia asked.
"The Midnight Breaker…the time for this world to repent is at hand! So all of the human and reploid races will be extinguished!"
"But you're going to die too!" Zero said.
"No…no I won't die. Because Master Wily made me invincible! I can't die! He told me so himself!"
He might have been invincible at the time…
Suddenly the doors burst open and a army of maverick hunters burst inside. Signas and Dr. Cain followed at the end of the line. Dr. Cain hoppled over to X and started to repair him with a kit he had brought with him. Signas walked next to Axl and Zero and drew his weapon. It was a Saber, like Zero's. Only much larger and it glowed purple instead of the greenish yellow of Zeros.
"H-Hi D-Dr. Cain….i'm glad to see you…I hurt like hell."
"Ha-ha…well don't you worry X, you'll be up and running in no time. SIGNAS! KEEP THE NUTJOB BUSY!"
"Yes sir!"
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So you puny maverick hunter think you can defeat me!? AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Nocturne opened his cape all the way and it seemed like gravity was gone. Things in the room floated into the air, including the hunters. Nocturne moved his arms as if throwing something and the objects in the room crashed into one another.
Zero was picked up by some invisible force and thrown into another hunter. Axl was thrown into Alia, and Signas was slammed into the wall. Nocturne laughed madly at seeing the hunters scattered around the room, Zero, Axl, Alia, and Signas all stood up, but some of the other hunters didn't.
Nocturne opened his cloak yet again, but this time giant orbs of electricity and fire shot out striking Signas and Zero as they ran at him. Axl drew his gun and fired, but Nocturne used his hand to deflect the shots. Alia fired a gun she had at Nocturne but he used the same gravity in the room to turn the gun around and make it shoot her.
Alia fell down onto the wall, with a large gunshot wound on her shoulder.
"ALIA!" X screamed trying to stand up.
"X! If you keep doing that I'll never get you repaired!"
"Doctor I feel a lot better now! Go help Alia!"
"I'm not finished…"
"GO HELP ALIA!" X yelled right in the doctors face. Dr. Cain was frozen in place, X had never done that to anyone, especially him.
X staggered to his feet and stood in front of Nocturne.
"Hmhmhmhm…so…The Great Megaman X is going to challenge me to a fight?"
"Yes! You, me! No one else! The roof NOW!"
"As you wish!"
A large black cloud engulfed X and Nocturne and teleported them to the roof.
Zero and Signas stood back up, Axl cursed, Alia cried and Dr. Cain sighed.
Now X was on the roof. Alone.
Fighting Nocturne, and soon….Falcon…
"I have to go help X!" Zero said.
"Me too!" Axl said.
"There are some stairs to the rooftop in the great hall. Hurry!" Dr. Cain said as he kneeled down to help Alia.
"I'm going too." Signas said.
"No…leave this to the young ones. Now Signas, I need you to help me with Alia here."
"…Yes sir…"
"But Dr. Cain! You need to be there for X!"
"Here you go again Alia…putting those you care about ahead of our own health…"
"Doctor please! I'm fine! I just want you to help X!"
"…X will kill me for doing this…but ok. Signas, haul her up. We're going to the roof!"
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X stood on the roof; Nocturne was floating in the air. The wind was dead, and it was eerily quiet. Nocturne floated up and removed his cloak, revealing two crystals on his body. One was on his neck, where the cape had hung, and the other was on his back in the center of the W symbol.
Over to the side of the roof was the Midnight Breaker, and Falcon.
"Sire! Should I help you kill this fool?"
"No…I will do it myself!"
Nocturne snapped his fingers and a large barrier wall cut X and himself off from the rest of the roof.
X began to charge his buster and Noctunre slowly floated across the roof.
"Your move Master X."
"Thank you." X said as he fired a large buster shot at Nocturne. The shot moved all the way to his body but was deflected by his armor.
"WHAT! That was a full charge shot!"
"That was the best you can do!? No wonder Master Wily said you where weak!"
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There was a large explosion on the staircase, stopping Zero, and Axl in their tracks. As the smoke cleared they saw a small child standing on the other side of the stair.
"HEY! What's going on!?" Axl yelled to the child. The child's eyes glowed red and it floated into the air as well.
Then Zero recognized the child, it was the one that was with X when he found him.
"You are bad people…" Nathan said.
"What?"
"You came here and angered Master…you made father very mad…"
"Father!"
"Yes…Father Wily…you made him very mad…and for that…you will die…along with your friend Mr. X…"
"Oh yeah! And you're going to kill us!?" Axl yelled.
"No not me…them…" Nathan said pointing behind Zero and Axl to a group of mavericks standing behind them. It was Flash Beast, Shadow Nightshade, Degree Fangard, and Rockslide Keeper.
"Oh shit…" Axl said.
"Oh shit indeed." Said another voice. Dr. Cain. He and Signas where just now ascending the stair.
Flash and Shadow turned to Zero and Axl. Degree and Rockslide turned to Dr. Cain and Signas.
Dr. Cain sighed and lay Alia against the wall. He then took his cane and gripped the top and pulled. The cane came out of its wooden base to reveal a sword hilt. Dr. Cain then pressed a small button and the sword extended into a full Saber, just like Zero and Signas.
"You're going to fight Doctor?!" Alia exclaimed shocked at the doctors actions.
"I'm old but I still know how to use this. And besides, if I die I would like to die an exciting death."
"I'm fight with you Doctor." Signas said.
"Good, try and keep up." Dr. Cain said, causing Signas to chuckle. However as he had a good chuckle Dr. Cain pointed the sword at one of the mavericks and it shot out a long laser at him. Hitting Degree and knocking him to the stairs.
"Wow!" Signas said.
"Cool sword Dr. Cain!" Axl said.
"That's not all it does." Dr. Cain said grinning.
Degree jumped at Dr. Cain, Dr. Cain quickly slashed at him, and missed, but was able to block Degree's attack on the down thrust. Signas ran at Rockslide and jumped up toward the large crystal on his head, Rockslide lifted his arms and pounded them onto the stair making a large section of it fall away. The very section that Dr. Cain stood on.
Dr. Cain grabbed Alia and pressed another button on his sword hilt. A large round bubble of energy encased them and Dr. Cain walked with the bubble back onto the stair.
Alia looked at Dr. Cain with a wild look.
"You didn't think I just gave threw away all of X's old powers did you?"
Alia chuckled and Dr. Cain laid her back against the wall, further down the stair.
"Now…where were we?" Dr. Cain said as he pointed the blade back at Degree.
Degree jumped upward, revealing a crystal on his stomach. Dr. Cain took note of this and ran at Degree. Degree quickly shot sickles of ice straight at the doctor. Dr. Cain used his sword to destroy them; he then took the blade and threw it at Degree. Upon hitting him it returned to Dr. Cain's hand like a boomerang.
Degree shot ice into the air, which stuck to the ceiling and dropped down at Dr. Cain in large chunks.
Dr. Cain, amazingly, did a back flip and landed out of range of the ice.
Alia sat this and clapped.
"GO DOCTOR CAIN!" yelling this made everyone, good and bad, stop and watch Dr. Cain.
"Ouch…I'm not that young anymore." Dr. Cain said as he began to feel the pain from the flip. Degree ran at Dr. Cain, he countered this by pointing the hilt of the sword in Degree's direction and pressing a button, causing Degree to become encased in a large energy barrier.
As Degree tried to get out, Dr. Cain moved his sword toward the area where there was no stair, and the closets ground was about three story's down.
"Any last words?" Dr. Cain asked.
"…Fuck you." Degree said as Dr. Cain released the button causing Degree to fall, and make quite a sickening splatting noise at the bottom of the stair.
"Not very nice last words…" Dr. Cain said as he returned to Alia.
Everyone had returned to fighting by now. Signas had removed Rockslides arms by cutting them off, and now Rockslide couldn't attack.
"This is too easy." Signas said as he jumped up and did an uppercut, smashing the crystal and destroying Rockslide.
Meanwhile Axl and Zero had teamed up and taken down Flash, now all that was left was Shadow.
"….So, do you still think you can beat us? After all Dr. Cain just beat you friend up pretty bad! And we're a lot younger than him!" Axl said.
"HEY! HOW OLD DO YOU THINK I AM!" Dr. Cain yelled after hearing Axl's remark, which made everyone laugh.
"….Um…shit…" Shadow said as he realized that he was outnumbered, badly.
"Give up?" Zero asked.
"…N-Never! I'm a loyal officer till the end!"
Zero took his Saber and sliced directly into Shadow's center killing him instantly.
"Pity…we could use more hunters with that attitude…"
"I'M NOT DONE YET!" Nathan yelled as he suddenly appeared in front of the door with two large guns in his hands.
"Whoa! Put those down!" Axl said.
"NO! YOU MADE FATHER MADE! AND MASTER! SO I HAVE TO KILL YOU! OR DIE TRYING!"
Zero was about to kill the kid when Dr. Cain stepped in.
"Wait! Child could you grant an old man one last request?" Dr. Cain said in a very convincing lie.
"Yes."
"Turn around…"
"ok."
Nathan turned and Zero saw the strange leech like robot attached to him, and on it was Sigma's symbol. Zero carefully sliced off the robot and Nathan fell to the floor unconscious.
"So what does this mean?" Axl asked.
"…It means that all the reploids here aren't mavericks…they were being controlled by Sigma…"
"But Sigma's dead!" Zero said.
"…Maybe…or maybe these reploids are trying to recreate him! Maybe the Midnight Breaker isn't a weapon to destroy the world…"
"But a machine to give life to Sigma…" Signas finished.
"Oh…" Axl started.
"Shit." Alia said as she stumbled up the stair.
"Indeed." Dr. Cain said.
If this was true than Nocturne wasn't the only thing that they had to worry about…