Disclaimer: I of course do not own Mega Man X or Sailor Moon. Then again I hope that was painfully obvious from the beginning.
Time:
2000
Location: Silicon Valley, Nevada. The Main Headquarters for RamTech Microsystems.
Silicon Valley. A name synonomous with the tech industry. The most successful companies in the field of Telecommunications, Software and Hardware are located in this artifical valley. One particular megacompany, RamTech Microsystems, is renowned for its leaps in the field of DDR and Magnetic Ram. Which is exactly why it has been targeted for takeover.
"Excuse me? Can I help you?" the secretary manning the front desk asked politely. A man in a black business suit, sunglasses, and gloves had just entered the building. So far he had contented himself to simply standing there and survey the floor. "Is there something I can help you with?" she asked again, this time a bit louder.
"No................" he answered flatly.
"Well.........you seem to be confused. Do you need directions, do you have an appointment?" she asked again, this time not as politely due to his rudeness. Suddenly the man's hand shot out like lightning, he grabbed her firmly by the throat and lifted her several feet into the air with no trouble.
"Where is the office of the CEO located?" he asked without emotion. Since she couldn't talk due to lack of air, she motioned with her hands that it was located on the top floor of the thirty story building. With a flick of his wrist he snapped her neck like a twig. Everyone present immediately ran like mad, not wanting any part of whatever he was going to do.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!" several members of building security arrived on the scene of the killing and immediately aimed there weapons at the intruder. "HANDS WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!!! RIGHT NOW!!!" one of the ordered.
He slowly raised his hands into the air as the security inched closer, making sure he wasn't armed.
"DON'T TRY ANYTHING! DROP ANY WEAPONS YOU HAVE AND LIE ON THE FLOOR!!" the guard ordered again. The man slowly lowered one arm, removed the glove, and aimed his palm at the group.
"Pathetic organics." he muttered. Suddenly a small hole opened in his palm.
"What the hell.............." was the last thing the guard would speak. A massive wave of energy erupted from the man's palm, the blast completely vaporized the security and the following explosion blasted a large chunk out of the front of the building.
"Local authority response time: 15 minutes." he muttered as he surveyed the flaming wreckage. He looked up toward the ceiling, he raised his hand again and released a second blast which shot straight through 28 floors. The blast exploded on the 28th and completely eradicated any living thing on the floor. He slowly rose into the air and shot straight through the destructive path he had created, he came crashing through the 30th floor and in the presence of the CEO of RamTech Microsystems.
"What in the...........WHAT IS THE MEANING THE OF THIS!!!!" the 58 year old company owner yelled.
"Are you Sylvester Fitz, owner of this company?" the black clad being asked as he slowly floated down to the ground.
"I..........I am. And who........or what.............are you?" he asked backing away slightly.
"I................am you." his face suddenly began to shift and mold rapidly. Mr. Fitz was obviously disgusted at what he was seeing and had to try and restrain his lunch, but then before his eyes stood, himself.
"What? How did you..............whats going on here?"
"You. Mr. Fitz, are going to create a new world. A world where the machine rules everything." the being smiled. Then, from a distance, one could see a man being shot out of a thirty story building with the very same man staring out and watching himself plummet to his death.................
"All Systems functioning at 87% capacity. Damage Assessment now being compiled...............please standby.............."
Zero groaned as he looked over the city on his perch at the roof of an office complex that was still standing after the devastation.
"That blast did more damage than I realized. I won't be at full power until I return to the future for a complete diagnostic." he rose and surveyed the crater that marked the impact site of the energy wave that followed them to the past. "So much destruction, and we were supposed to STOP the future from being tampered with." he leaped down and landed from such a height without any trouble.He strolled through the rubble a ways before he stopped in his tracks.
"Why don't you just show yourself already? Its pointless to follow me when you know you've been spotted already." Zero talked out loud. His sensors had detected an unknown energy signature following a mere few feet from where he was. Suddenly the air behind him began to warp and mold until it took the shape of a being who seemed human, but obviously wasn't. His eyes glowed a deep blood red and his body seemed to be covered in a cloak of some kind. "Heres the obvious question. What the hell are you?" Zero asked calmly.
"I am someone who has taken great interest in your presence in this timeline........." the being explained, his voice was warped and distant at the same time.
"Presence in this timeline? How do you know who we are?!" Zero instinctively reached for his saber, despite that he had no idea who he was up against.
"I know far more than you can possibly realize, machine. You gained my attention when you pierced the timestream and brought destruction with you, I never realized that mortals can be so utterly foolish."
"Sorry pal but I don't have time to deal with cryptic talk. I have a mission to complete and it looks like your ready to get in my way." Zero drew his beam saber and prepared to attack.
"No force on this earth has dared raise a hand against me since the Silver Millenium. Could it be that this era has forgotten the legend, or are you simply too foolish for your own good?" he questioned.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!!" he charged, ready to strike down his adversary in a single slash. His speed was incredible, greater than anything a human could achieve, and even greater than some reploids. But none of that matter considering that he all of a sudden couldn't move.
"Such a reaction from a machine. You are far more advanced than even I realized."
"What in the hell have you done to me!!!" Zero struggled but couldn't move a single limb.
"What have I done is not even a proper example of the least of the abilities. From what I have observed thus far you have no affiliation with the quarry I seek. But should you attempt to disway me again, I shall show you what the wrath of Chronos will bring." his glowed brighter for a moment and immediately Zero was free to fall to the ground hard. In an instant the being was engulfed by light and vanished into thin air, leaving a very confused Maverick Hunter lying there.
"Silver Millenium? Chronos? What the hell is going on here?" Zero murmured to himself. He was at a total loss for words, ever since they arrived in this timeline it was one thing after another. If they were going to have any hope of surviving this mission, he needed to get answers, and fast.
X walked down the stairs of the temple slowly. During his little chat with the priestess who ran the establishment he had been getting constant readings of an unknown source. Rapid fluctuations in tachyon particles were occuring at odd intervals and he had no idea how.
"This can't be good. It could mean the Mavericks are sending back multiple troops. But the spikes don't last for very long at all, and there far too controlled for our understanding of time travel." he murmured to himself. It was nearing nightfall and he guessed that Zero had to be back online by now, and a status report would probably be the first thing he'd ask for when they met up. He began running, the streets were deserted enough that he could get up to about 38 M.P.H without worrying about running someone down. "This is so bizarre I wouldn't even know how to explain it when we got back. I've detected so many anomylous energy signatures, it as if this entire country is saturated in it. And all those signatures are completely unknown, so of them could only be supernatural." he talked to himself as he ran down the streets at blazing speed. If a police officer had spotted he probably would be the first person in history to be ticketed for reckless running. He suddenly stopped, he skidded to a halt and began to carefully search the area he was in. He could spot what seemed to be an arcade and several shops, but nothing too glamorous.
"Another tachyon spike. And its very close to my position.................." he whispered. Several people were already staring at him, he had been running at the speed of a car and he came to a sudden stop in the middle of the street. He launched into the air in an instant, just narrowly avoiding the explosion that ripped the ground out from under him. In mid-air he disengaged the body mask and went total reploid, he immediately began charging his buster cannon.
"Oh he's a fast one alright. Seems to be at the same level as that red guy the master encountered." voices were talking from somewhere, but because of the buildings and the people his radar was having trouble discerning them. People immediately began running for the hills, the sight of an explosion out of nowhere tends to do that to.
"WHO ARE YOU!! SHOW YOURSELVES!!!" X yelled.
"Hehehe. He's eager for a fight isn't he?" One of them snickered.
"My sensors are getting readings I've never registered before." X whispered to himself as he looked foward and he noticed a figure emerging from the shadows of an alleyway. A pair of glowing red eyes was all could be made out.
"HOLD ON SHADOW!!" his apparent partner yelled from nowhere. "I'll handle this one. You can have fun with the red one."
"Red one? Could they mean Zero?" X wondered.
"Whatever you want Stryke. Just don't rough him up too badly, the Master might want him alive for study." just as quickly as they appeared the eyes vanished into the darkness from whenst they came.
Without warning X boosted himself into the air again, mere seconds before the ground he was standing erupted out from under him. A column of energy blew through the pavement and annihilated everything within a three foot radius. X landed nimbly some feet away and was completely baffled at the readings he was getting.
"Don't worry. Your sensors won't be able to comprehend what I am. If you think a mere machine could possibly stand against the power of Chronos you are sadly mistaken." the being slowly floated from the smoke and flame. He bore an aura of white energy that swirled about his body like liquid fire.
"This is going to be interest." X muttered as he charged his Buster Cannon.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Adanti Fatima Zona. But I am known to most peons as Stryke." he smoke cleared revealing a man with pitch black hair that reached down to the small of his back, and glowing white eyes. He seemed to be wearing some form of light body armor that covered a black bodysuit underneath, but the metal was not in X's database.
"My sensors say he's human. But the power he's giving off definitely isn't." X kept his eyes on the newcomer.
"Most people would be cowering in my presence. But I suppose machines can't experience true fear can they?" He slowly lowered himself to the ground, his arms constantly folded across his chest.
"I don't care who you think you are! Your a danger to the general public and its my responsibility as a Maverick Hunter to put you down!" X yelled out. His prime directives completely inhibited him from striking or engaging a human in any sort of physical altercation. However those same directives were for some reason not active since he had entered the past. As evident in his first encounter in this timeline.
"You can try machine. Though if you manage to last the time of a candlewick in the middle of a tornado, I will grant you a painless death."
"Your full of yourself aren't you?" X was suddenly on the defensive as Stryke unleashed a barrage of energy bolts from his palm. X was pushing his boosters to red as he fought to avoid the blasts themselves as well as the following explosion.
"Yes jump around my little metal flea!!!" Stryke laughed.
"Damnit! Where are all these coming from, where is he getting his power!!" X backflipped another shot, then as soon as he landed he charged foward at full-boost. Stryke was too busy laughing to notice X charge straight toward him and land a solid left to his face that sent him flying backward and skidding to a halt across the pavement. "Hopefully that will shut you up for a while!"
Stryke simply picked himself up and casually dusted himself. He reached up to his mouth and touched the red liquid that was oozing from his mouth. "So you actually have the gall to strike my person. For that I shall enjoy ripping out your version of a heart and crushing it in my hand." He thrust out a hand a wave of power tore itself through the ground toward X, he instinctly dodged to the side where he met Stryke face to face.
"WHAT!!!" X could do nothing as he placed his palm on X's chest and unleashed a point blank blast that sent him crashing into and through the arcade he saw earlier. He came to crashing halt amidst the game machines and lay there as his systems attempted to descramble themselves.
"Foolish machine. A love-tap like that and it sends you flying for miles." Stryke sneered as he floated towards his prey.
X dug himself out of the rubble and deduced that this man had power he couldn't even imagine. "His speed is amazing, a match for my boosters at full power if not faster." X muttered as he went over a quick diagnostics check. His armor integrity had been knocked down by 20% by that blast. And his boosters were being pushed far past there limits since coming to this time, if he wasn't careful he could permenantely blow them out. "Alright. Human or not it looks like I'm going to have to go all-out with him. If I don't then I have no chance in hell of surviving let alone winning." X said to himself as he touched his arm and a compartment opened.
"COME OUT AND PLAY MACHINE!!!! OR ARE YOU ACTUALLY ABLE TO FEEL FEAR AFTER ALL?!" he was about to continue when a massive ball of plasma energy exploded from the remnants of the arcade, he raised a shield and the blast exploded like a star before him. X burst from the building an let loose a maelstrom of shots from his Buster Cannon, each shot exploded against the shield harmlessly. "Such a useless counter-attack. What do you expect to achieve robot?"
"To distract you!!" X declared as he landed some distance away from his target.
"Distract?" he suddenly a strange beeping sound from above. He looked and noticed an odd device attached to his shield. "What is........" before he could finish his sentence the device erupted in a brilliant blast that lit up the area.
"High-yield demolition charge. Perfect for blasting through armored structures, or hopefully forceshields." X smiled.
Stryke was completely taken by the surprise by the intensity of the close-range blast. His shield was completely warped and unstable and he was having a difficult time trying to reform it because of the ringing in his ears the loud blast had caused.
"THE NAME'S X, STRYKE!! REMEMBER IT!!!" X yelled as he dashed at and charge through the shield like nothing. He unleashed a barrage of punches at inconcievable speed and continued batting him around until he finished it off with a shot of his fully charged X-Buster. This time it was Stryke getting shot back at point-blank and he was sent crashing into car which caused the gas to ignite and explode all around him.
Stryke gave off an inhuman scream and let off a wave of force that blew the flames and car away from him like paper in the wind. His face bore a look of sheer madness that wouldn't be satiated until the blue robot before lay torn apart and lifeless at his feet.
"STRYKE!!!!" a booming voice stopped him in his tracks.
"L..Lord Chronos.........."
"What the hell is that?" X wondered as he heard the same being but could not spot him.
"STRYKE! RETURN NOW!! THIS MACHINE IS NOT ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE SILVER MILLENIUM!!!"
"I.......I apologize my lord. I did not know." Stryke immediately went down to one knee.
"RETURN AT ONCE!!!" it ordered him.
"Y....yes Lord Chronos." Stryke turned to the bewildered X. "There will be a reckoning robot........." he snarled and then dissappeared in a column of light.
"Silver Millenium.............Chronos.................This is just too much................What the heck with this timeline............."
To Be Continued.....................