Chapter 28: Morph Moth: The Third Giga Light Capsule and the Dogsian Ambassador of Evil!


(X-Hunter Base)


"It seems the Hunters now have all of Zero's parts…" Serges frowned as he replayed the X-Hunters' past battles with our heroes on the monitor.

"Indeed. But they're unaware of our true plan…" Agile smirked darkly.

"Yes, the resurrection of our lord and master, Sigma!" Violen grinned darkly. Then out of the shadows stepped out two figures.

The first one has purple hair and wore a military outfit, but the most notable thing about her are her dog ears and tail.

The second one looked a bit like Muttley from the Hanna-Barbara cartoons, only slightly different.

"In that case, grant me permission to crush those Catians and their allies in this dimension." The dog woman smirked.

"Very well." Serges nodded. "I will inform Morph Moth of your arrival. The Hunters will never find our base and all they can do is wait for the omniverse's downfall."

"Very well then. But know this I will do things my way as my name is Janes, an ambassador of Dogsia." The Muttley clone laughed like the real Muttley as Janes and him exited the base.

"Are you sure it's a good idea leaving it up to them?" Violen asked skeptically.

"She did said she wants to pay those Catians back for ruining her race's chances at establishing a relationship with that alternate Earth of hers." Agile commented.

"Yes. And her Dogsian Assist-Roids may be flawed, but they are quite useful." Serges smirked evilly.


(Maverick Hunter Base's Repair Bay)


Zero was fully rebuilt, but he remains inactive. Dr. Cain turned to everyone. "Well done, everyone. We have all of Zero's parts. Now we can fully reactivate him." He smiled.

"Yes. But Zero's new body looks different than the one we're familiar with." Cecilia added.

"Indeed. Zero's creator must have built him a second body incase his old one was destroyed. But the question is, who made him and why?" Dr. Cain scratched his beard in thought.

"Dr. Cain, how long will it take to reactivate him?" Kio asked him.

"It will probably take a few days to reactivate him." Dr. Cain calculated. "I have to bypass his security measures and find the access code to reactivate him. I still have his control chip, so cracking the code will take me a few days to fully reactive him." Dr. Cain told them.

"I see. Well, we'll focus on the remaining Maverick Generals when you do that." X nodded. "And then, we'll try to find the location of the X-Hunters' base."

"Let's check up on Orihime at home." Houki suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement as they headed back to X Estate.


(X Estate)


Orihime groaned as she slowly turned her head a bit. "Hey, I think she's coming to!" Orihime heard Ling's voice as she slowly opened her eyes and rose up.

"W-What happened? And where am I?" Orihime muttered as she rubbed her eyes.

"Sister! I'm glad you're alright!" Momoko gasped as she hugged Orihime.

"M-M-Momoko-chan?" She muttered, she noticed the Celestial Maidens and Momoko's animal guardians as well as some unfamiliar faces. "Where the heck are we anyway?"

"I guess Orihime has no clue on what happened so far when she arrived in this dimension." Suika smirked teasingly.

"H-Hey! It's not my fault I don't have a clue on what's happening right now!" Orihime snapped at Suika, an anger vein on her forehead. "That reminds me, who are you all who I don't recognized?"

X, the IS girls and Eris's group introduced themselves to Orihime and told her about the dimension she, her friends and Eris's group are in and what happened so far.

"Wait… I think I remember now…" Orihime nursed her temples and began to think back about what happened. "Those X-Hunter creeps placed some sort of mind control device on me to make me do their dirty work…" Orihime's eyes turned fiery red. "Oooooh! Nobody brainwashes me and turn me against my sister and her friends and gets away with it!"

"Well, why don't we talk about it at dinner?" X offered with a smile. Orihime's eyes showed sparkles in them.

"Dinner?! What kind?! Sushi?! Egg rolls?! Ramen?! I don't care! I like them all!"

Chaika giggled cheerfully. "Well, we'll prepare a feast for our newest guest then." She smiled as she gave the order to the Assist-Roids to prepare dinner for everyone.

After dinner was finished, X, the IS girls, Momoko and her friends told Orihime about Reploids and X and the IS girls' heroic efforts in the first Maverick War.

"I see…" Orihime nodded with a growing smile. "So this is a futuristic version of another Earth where metal puppets called Reploids helped out humans, but something turns some of them into berserk robots called Mavericks and the former leader of the Maverick Hunters, Sigma turned Maverick and became the leader of the Mavericks so he can mass genocide every human in the omniverse just to make a utopia for Reploids, but X and his friends stopped him from achieving that mad dream from becoming a reality?"

"That's about the size of it." Laura nodded in response as she ate her grilled fish. "The Mavericks started another Maverick War just to ensure Sigma's dream becomes a reality. And the X-Hunters are bent on making it happen."

"So that explains why those X-Hunter jerks brainwashed me to do their bidding." Orihime frowned angrily as she placed her fork on the table. "They want to make this Sigma guy's goal of a omniverse run by Reploids a reality."

"Yes. But something has been bugging me about that…" Cecilia voiced her concerns.

"What is it, Cecilia?" Charlotte asked, she and the others looked at Cecilia for answers.

"I think them nabbing Zero's parts was probably a cover up for something big. What is their true motive besides trying to turn Zero against us? Agile said we're only delaying the inevitable." Cecilia frowned seriously.

"Yeah… What does he mean by that?" X frowned deeper.

"And not only that…" Inugami added. "That Serges guy said it doesn't matter if we have all of Zero's parts because the omniverse will belong to the Mavericks. That makes me wonder the X-Hunters' true obejective…"

"I got a bad feeling about this…" Antonia frowned.

"Well, let's not worry about it too much." Kijigami reassured everyone. "We'll think about it in the morning. Right now, we need to celebrate acquiring all of Zero's parts and Orihime back to normal."

"Not to mention we need to deal with the three remaining Maverick Generals before we take the fight to the X-Hunters and end this nightmare." Houki added.

"Agreed." Everyone nodded in agreement and after dinner and cleaning up, our heroes went to bed for the next day.


(The next day…)


X walked out of his room and went into the living room and saw Momoko, Orihime, the Celestial Maidens, Eris, Antonia, Manami, Aoi and the IS girls watching Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy on the Cartoon Network Rerun Channel. Orihime was laughing out loud.

"What's up, Orihime?" X asked as he walked up to the sofa.

"Hehehehe!" Orihime mustered up between giggles. "Oh Sir X! There's this funny show about three boys who scam people for money and they get beaten up every time their scams fail! It's my favorite!" Orihime laughed out loud.

"Still… You can't help but feel sorry for Double D. Having to deal with Eddy's abuse." Charlotte frowned.

"Yeah, all Eddy cares about is money, money, money…" Manami closed her eyes and huffed.

"Well, that's enough cartoons for a while." Durel came in and changed the channel, showing the History Channel. "It's time for some proper education."

"Aww, but I liked that show, it's funny as heck!" Orihime moaned.

"Well, you should learn more about this Earth's history. Sometimes, cartoons will rot the brain." Manami scolded Orihime. Orihime muttered some inaudible words and pouted.

Suddenly, the phone ranged. Charlotte walked up to it and answered it. "This is X Estate. What is it, Dr. Cain?" She asked.

"I have located the next Maverick General. His name is Morph Moth, a Maverick that has the power to manipulate metal and junk into deadly weapons. He's holed up in a old Reploid waste facility where he is planning to revive old Mavericks to increase the X-Hunters' ranks. It must be shut down at once." Dr. Cain urged. He then added "Also, strange dog like robots have been seen around the facility."

"We're on it, Dr. Cain." Charlotte nodded as she hung up. She turned to everyone. "We got a new mission."

"Okay, we're on it." X nodded.

"In that case, take me with you. It's time I pay the X-Hunters back for brainwashing me." Orihime volunteered.

"Okay, we can use the extra help." Cecilia nodded with a smile.


(Reploid Waste Facility, 2 hours later…)


X-Squad warped in front of the facility. X used his wrist computer to analyze the building. "Just as I thought, the Mavericks are intending to use this facility to build more Maverick Soldiers."

"Then let's shut it down." Manami suggested as she loaded her gun, but her eyes widen in shock as she sees dog robots that looked like the Muttley lookalike armed in Ride Armors rushing towards our heroes. "It can't be… Dogisan Assist-Roids?!"

"Huh? Dogisan?" Ling looked at Mananmi with a confused expression.

"Let me explain. The Dogsians are the Catians' sworn enemies who want to established a relationship with our race so they can use them to turn against the Catians, but we stopped that from happening." Kio glared at the Dogsian Assist-Roids. "What are they doing here in this dimension? Unless…"

"They somehow got a Dimensional Warper too…" Aoi frowned as she made a block of junk appear above two Dogsian Assist-Roids and it crushed them and the Ride Armors.

"We'll deal with that later, right now, we need to focus on Morph Moth…?" X's gem lights up and it pointed towards inside the building.

"Another Light Capsule upgrade?!" Sarugami gasped.

"A What Upgrade?" Orihime blinked in confusion.

"X is the final creation of a good scientist named Dr. Thomas Light, before he died, Dr. Light left special capsules for X to power him up in case the world is in danger. So this place must have a Light Capsule." Cecilia figured.

"Then let's prowl through those Dogsian Assist whachamcallits and find it if we have any chance of powering X up!" Orihime smirked as she got her kunai sword ready.

"I'm ready to fight by your side, sister!" Momoko smiled heroically as she and Orihime charged forward with Ringo, Karin, Suika and Maron beside them.

After a few minutes, the Dogsian Assist-Roids were demolished. "Awesome teamwork, you guys!" Ling grinned.

"Yeah, let's press forward." Manami nodded as our heroes entered the facility. They traced the light where it pointed downwards into the floor.

"That's odd…" Eris murmured as she tapped the floor concrete. "Why would X's gem light go down into the floor?"

"Wait… I detected something unusual about this floor." X figured. "Stand back everyone." They backed off a little when X switched to Wheel Gator's weapon. He fired the wheel and the wheel broke through the floor, revealing a secret passage.

"Huh, what do you know? A secret passage." Orihime whistled. The gang jumped down and X was right, there was a Light Capsule.

X walked up to the Light Capsule and the hologram of Dr. Light appeared.

"So that's X's father, his creator?" Orihime muttered in awe.

"X, take the armor upgrade of the Giga Armor. With it, your defensive shields will increase and when you sustain enough damage, you will unleash the devastating Giga Crush. Only use this attack when you're in a jam. Good luck, X!" Dr. Light smiled as he disappeared. X entered the capsule and light surrounded him for about an minute and his blue chest plate turn into a white, red and yellow armor with yellow rectuangles on the shoulders.

"I liked the new armor you have on, X." Charlotte blushed with a smile. "It makes you kawail."

"Um… Thank you." X rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Let us move forward. Flame Stag said that Morph Moth's weakness is fire, so I'm glad Flame Stag gave me his powers."


(Meanwhile…)


Morph Moth, a Maverick that looks like a junky moth humanoid was watching X-Squad's progress through the facility. "Hmph, looks like your Dogsian Assist-Roids are all talk and no bite." He said to Janes and the Muttley lookalike. The Muttley lookalike muttered some inaudible words as he glared at Morph Moth.

"I don't understand how one Reploid and five girls from an era are considered a threat to your army…" Janes muttered as she crossed her arms and glared at X and his friends' progress through the building on the computer screen.

"Do not underestimate X… They say he used a strange and godlike power to defeat the great Sigma and those five IS pilots are considered the best in their era before they were put into suspended animation after the Phantom Virus Tragedy." Morph Moth warned.

"Hmph, I better see for myself if they're all talk." Janes sneered as she turned to the Muttley lookalike. "Ready my battle suit, Matrey." Matrey did the Muttley laugh as he saluted and went to get Janes' battle suit ready.

"I should get ready as well." Morph Moth nodded as he prepped himself for battle.


Back with X and the gang, they dealt with robotic mosquitos that can form Maverick Robots, tractor beams and half-alive Maverick Soldiers. Eventually, they reached the end of the building.

"Inside is Morph Moth and whoever is commanding these Dogsian Assist-Roids…" Kio frowned.

"Let's give them a warm Catian welcome then." Houki frowned as she readies her katanas. Our heroes pressed forward through the doors and found themselves in a junkyard like arena.

"You sure kept us waiting, fools!" All eyes turned to see Janes in her battle suit and Matrey ready for battle. And Morph Moth flying above them. Eris gasped in shock as she recognized Janes.

"J-Janes?!"

"You know this woman, Eris?" Charlotte asked as she readies her spear.

"Yes. She was in charge of the underground relationships of her Dogsian race and Kio's world governments, but we foiled her race's plans to turn Kio's race against the Catian race. How did she get here?" Eris wondered.

"Unless her race copied the Catian's Dimensional Warper…" Aoi frowned as she aimed her gun at Janes and Matrey.

"Janes, what are you doing in this dimension?! Don't tell me you joined forces with the Mavericks to get revenge on us for ruining your race's chance to make peace with our people!" Mananmi frowned as she too pointed her gun at Janes.

"You brats always seem to interfere with the Dogsians' plans…" Janes frowned as she aimed a bazooka at our heroes. "This time, I will establish a relationship between my people and the humans of this dimension! I have sided with these Mavericks because I want payback for the humiliation you gave me. So I will have my chance at destroying you all!"

"Morph Moth!" X aimed his X-Buster at Morph Moth. "We will put an end to your Maverick Revival Plan!"

"I like to see you try then, X!" Morph Moth sneered. "You may have collected all of Zero's parts, but you're unaware of our true plan! Now prepare yourself for battle!" Morph Moth manipulated some junk and turned it into a boulder and flung it at our heroes. They leaped out of the way.

"We'll take you down!" Houki yelled out as she flew towards Morph Moth, but Janes clashed blades with her.

"Your fight's with me, human!" Janes grinned evilly as she and Houki locked blades for about 15 seconds until they flew away from each other. Houki frowned as she readies her katanas as Janes let out a battle scream as she charged at her.

X used his Giga Boots to leap up and fired Flame Stag's weapon at Morph Moth, damaging him greatly. "Augh!" Morph Moth screamed out in pain as the flames died down. "You know my weakness! You'll pay for that!" Morph Moth mainplated more trash and flung them at X who had to jump on them and fired his weapon at Morph Moth again, damaging him greatly again.

Orihime and Matrey were facing each other down. "Alright, you evil pooch, prepare to get clobbered!" Matrey did his Muttley laugh as he got out a gatling gun and fired at Orihime who yelped and had to dance like crazy to avoid them.

"Hang on Orihime!" Cecilia shouted out as she fired Buster shots at Matrey, damaging him. Matrey growled as he switched targets and fired at Cecilia who flew to dodge them.

Meanwhile, Houki and Janes were clashing blades for awhile until Janes got the upper hand and slashed Houki five times with her katana. "Give up, little girl! I am a experience fight of my race!" Janes mocked as she charged at her.

"We'll see about that!" Houki frowned as she flew below Janes, surprising her and slashing her in the back.

"Ugh!" Janes winced and cursed slightly. She glared at Houki. "You'll pay for that, runt!" She flew in at Houki and clashed blades with her.

Morph Moth flung trash after trash at our heroes, forcing them to dodge them. Charlotte flew towards Morph Moth and jabbed him five times with her spear before he flew above her, his wings spraying some pollen which paralyzed her.

"I… can't move…!" Charlotte winced as she struggled to move.

"That was my paralyzing pollen. It's temporary, but gives me the chance to take you out!" Morph Moth mocked as he flew towards her. Luckily, Laura got in his way and slashed him five times with her claymore.

"You'll have to get by me first!" Laura challenged as she swoop in and slashed Morph Moth three times with her claymore. Morph Moth retaliated by firing his Buster at her, hitting her a little.

"Take this!" Ling yelled out as she swoop in and gave Morph Moth a killer uppercut, knocking him into a wall. Morph Moth growled as he flung more junk attacks at her, she dodged and punched some of them.

Meanwhile, Matrey was still firing his Gatling gun at Cecilia and Orihime who hid behind some piles of junk.

"Shoot! How do we stop that crazy dog?!" Orihime grimaced.

"I'm on it!" Karin shouted out as she fired her beads at Matrey, destroying his Gatling gun. Matrey yelped as Orihime saw her chance and lashed her kunai sword at him. With her sword around him, Orihime let out a mighty scream of might as she flung Matrey into the sky. Matrey let out a yelp of fear as he disappeared, ala Team Rocket style.

Meanwhile, Houki and Janes continue trading blows with each other with Houki getting the most. Janes did a vertical slash with her katana, but Houki ducked and kicked Janes in the chest, she flew in and slashed Janes five times with her katanas. Janes growled as she and Houki continued their duel.

Back with X, Laura and Ling, Morph Moth continue flinging trash at our heroes, they dodged it. X fired Flame Stag's weapon at Morph Moth, damaging him greatly. "You little human lover!" Morph Moth growled as he fired a junk shot at him, X did a back flip away from the shot and fired another flame shot at Morph Moth, damaging him even further.

"Take this!" Ling gritted her teeth in fury as she flew in and gave Morph Moth a rapid twenty punch combo and slams her foot down onto his head and knocked him to the ground. Morph Moth was even angrily than before as he tried to manipulate the trash, but Manami and Aoi fired their guns at him, damaging him.

"Have at ye, fiend!" Momoko shouted as she and Ringo combined their attacks to give Morph Moth some decent damage. Laura swoop in and slashed Morph Moth five times with her claymore.

X charged up his Giga Buster while still using Flame Stag's weapon. He aimed his X-Buster at Morph Moth and shouted "Take this!" With a heroic yell, he fired a large flaming phoenix attack at Morph Moth who was caught by it. Morph Moth screamed in agony as he exploded, reduced to scrap metal.

Janes noticed Morph Moth's defeat. "Drat! They finished him off already?!" She glared at Houki who got into a defensive position. "This isn't over… I will return to finish you off one day…" With that said, she warped out of sight.

"…And we'll be waiting." Houki frowned as she lowered herself down. X walked up to the remains of Morph Moth and touched one of them. He got out his X-Buster and fired the same junk attack Morph Moth used on them.

"Cool, looks like there are only two Maverick Generals left." X smiled. "And there's one more piece of the Giga Armor left." He added.

"Yeah, but something tells me we haven't seen the last of Janes and her Dogsian Assist-Roid…" Suika frowned as she crossed her arms and began to think. Ling and Laura were helping Charlotte up.

"Well, I hope we don't see Morph Moth again… His pollen is dangerous…" Charlotte shuddered.

"Don't worry, if he somehow comes back from the scrapyard, we'll be ready for him. I promised." X smiled softly at her which made Charlotte blushed.

"Right, let's head home then." Sarugami smiled as X-Squad warped back to Hunter Base.

Only two Maverick Generals left and one more upgrade of the Giga Armor left, will Janes returned to seek revenge on our heroes?

To be continued…


Next chapter: Crystal Snail: The Last Giga Capsule: They Call Her JACK!

A/N: Well, only two more Maverick Generals left until the end of the second arc. Next up is Crystal Snail, the final Giga Capsule and JACK aka Janis Alectos Carotenas Karinato joins our heroes, so stay tuned for more updates.