Disclaimer: I do not own Mega Man X or Sailor Moon. Any one who thinks otherwise and decides to sue me will get at most my collection of pet rocks.
Author's Notes: As I said for the Moon chapter. Not much happens here save for a small recap of the battle from there perspective. But after this, all this boredom ends! So get ready.........
Year: 2000
He slowly removed his helmet, the customary hissing of rapid decompression accompanied its removal. He ran a hand through his spiked up black hair. "Alright. I have to make sure all your primary operating files are in one piece. Hopefully I won't have to reinstall your whole OS." He removed the helmet of his unconscious partner. "Jeez he keeps calling me a punk whenever I have my helmet off. Seems pretty funny coming from Mr. Long-Haired Hippy." He considered different procedures and eventually came to the conclusion that he should assess the condition of his brain before anything else. "Open Network Neighborhood." X said to himself. He ran small fiber-optic cable from the back of his head to that of his only comrade-in-arms. Who even now lays in the reploid version of a coma. An image of a C: drive appeared before his eyes only. "Run Scandisk."
Running Scandisk.Please Standby.......................
"What have I told you about running around in my head without my permission." a weak voice brought X back to reality.
"What the......ZERO! Your alive!!" X exclaimed. Zero weakly opened his eyes and attempted to move, which proved to be an utter failure.
"Alive isn't the word I would use right now. Where are we?" he found the strength to ask.
"Were in the old garage from when we first jumped here. There was an area wide evacuation when the blast went off, so thankfully theres no one around."
"Ahhh man. My neural pathways took a nasty shock. What the hell did she hit me with?" He attempted once again to stand, and once again failed miserably.
"You are not going to move. You were in worse shape when I brought you here and your still in bad shape now. Scandisk is still running and is closing off any corrupted sectors."
"So thats why everything is so sluggish."
"Anyway concerning what she hit you with, from what readings I picked up after we bailed. It seemed to be some form of hydro-kinetic energy."
"Hydro-kinetic? I didn't feel myself get hit by water I felt myself get hit by a massive jolt of power. I got a reading on it myself and I couldn't make anything of it. Whatever form of energy that is, it doesn't exist in nature."
"I don't know. All I know is when I got you back here I found scarce traces of H20 on your body. I had to scan down to the molecular level but it was there."
"Damn it. This is the one thing I just don't understand. Those people we were fighting were not reploids..........."
"How can that be?! I heard you yell that to me while we were fighting, but the power those people exhibited cannot come from a normal human. That and the fact that our embedded programming totally prohibits us from engaging a human in any violent behavior let alone combat!"
"I understand that. My only explanation is that while there organic, they are not full blooded humans." There was a tense silence between them as they assessed there situation
"Shit. We just haven't been taking this mission seriously enough! We've been going through this completely blind and with no plan whatsoever! Those Mavericks are still running loose doing who knows how much damage to the timestream and were sitting on our asses trying to figure out what to do next!!!"
Will you calm down!!!!" Zero yelled just as loud. "I think we've both come to the conclusion that we screwed up royally. But we are NOT going to sit here and gripe about it! This time were going back out there with a plan, and the next we engage the enemy its going to be a Maverick's arm I cut off."
"Yeah. Sorry about that. I guess all the loose energy from the time jump and the fight is affecting me more than I thought."
"Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure the Mavericks are still just as disoriented as we are, were going to have to assume our human guises for a bit longer and get out there and investigate. See if the locals saw anyone or anything suspicious before and/or after the explosion. I would go with you but I still can't seem to move."
"Well don't try to. You don't need to create anymore damage to your motor functions."
ScanDisk Complete...........
"Whats the verdict?"
"Only 230 bad sectors out of 80 gigs. Your pretty damn sturdy if I say so myself!"
"Well at least I didn't lose anything vital. I still can't seem to move. I'm gonna restart and run a hardware diagnostic. You go on ahead of me, I'll catch up later. Keep your comm open to line 32 channel 17."
"Right. I'll see what I can dig up." X once again donned his blue helmet and was engulfed by a brief shimmer of light. He once again donned his human guise. "And you are not going to be in a hurry to catch up. We both need you at a 100% so take it easy."
"Trust me, I intend to. I rarely get the chance to relax like this." he grinned.
Year: 2145
Location: Gibson Desert, Australia. Underground Maverick Command Base.
Deep within the heavily fortified stronghold a single being stood atop the catwalk over looking the massive factory that continued to produce more loyal soldiers to fight in there great cause. The total slaughter of any and all organic life. And if this newest strategem was a success the dream of a perfect machine utopia would become a reality.
"Lord Vile." A gray reploid knelt before the Maverick general and second-in-command to Sigma himself.
What?" was his only response.
"We have recieved confirmation of a signal lock on Operative #4" the apparent servant reported to his master.
"Excellent. I take it you transmitted his orders?"
"Yes sir. While transmission through the time stream was difficult if near impossible, we succeeded. However it will be some time before we can transmit again. Therefore he was given additional orders to find the other four operatives and relay there orders to them."
"Good. Alert my Elite Mavericks. Tell them to prepare for departure within five hours. I expect our operatives will run into undue resistance and I intend to be prepared for any Hunter interference."
"As you command Lord Vile."
He was left to his devices once again and he smirked as realized how close to victory they really were. His single red eye blazed within the darkness as he turned on his heel and prepared to tell the master of all Mavericks of there imminent victory.
To Be Continued...............