Chapter 1: Why?
Explosions rocked the room as the training area buckled under the vicious attacks of the grief stricken hunter. Zero attacked with a fury unknown to even himself as questions raced through his torn mind.
"Why did X have to die?!" was the question asked to the broken holograms of Mavericks littering the room in a pile of ionized air. "Why didn't I stop him from going alone?!" demanded Zero of the smashed and tumbling building in front of the crazed hunter. So many why's crossed Zero's mind as he activated a Sigma dueling program…
The program couldn't hope to survive the hunter's assaults as he was mercilessly hacked again and again. "Why did that bastard Sigma have to come along in the first place?!" screamed Zero as he tore the dueling program apart with his beam sabre.
Never letting a piece touch the ground, the hologram's body was ravaged by continuous slices of the sabre until it was nothing but vaporized air.
Tears flowed freely from Zero's eyes as the wave of exhaustion that comes from grieving washed over him. Zero's last coherent thought before blacking out was: I Will Not Cry! I will not cry! I will get even! Sigma! You will feel the taste of my blade when I shove it down your miserable little throat! And as our hero slipped into a welcome slumber, the training programs ended and Zero was left in a badly damaged room that would take months for even the most skilled technicians to repair.
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And in another part of the world surrounded by his underlings, Sigma shivered as he felt a fleeting sense of fear of the repercussions that would follow the murder of the fallen hunter and friend of Zero's, Mega Man X.