*Prologue…

There was a time when two great scientist started a technological race as the world ever saw in the history…The race to develop the perfect artificial being. They fought for years and ended up in the same revolutionary design…a being completely self-sufficient, able to choose, feel and be evil. It's not clear what was needed of those robots. It was a hard transition time…chaos, war; death, ambition and egoism corrupted these brilliant scientific advances. In a time when man was totally dependent of his own technology, it was impossible to step back on the process. Full of hope one of the great scientist only could wish that one day this new generation of robots and the humans may live in harmony. In a world of peace without more suffering.

However, the other one left in his final legacy of the terrible years of destruction and confusion that might come in the future… Satisfied, he left this world condemned to its imminent destruction…His monster without conscience walks between the humans …seeking … waiting… nobody knows who he is and when he will attack… humankind can only wait

Until that terrible day…



21XX Current times.

[pic]Within the darkened sky several bug shaped aircrafts flew swiftly around a dome like structure firing plasma shots that shook the building. Debris scattered everywhere, tanks fired relentlessly at the maverick dome. A section of the dome shaped building exploded sending concrete flying through the all-ready polluted air.

" The 0th unit broke through their defenses!" Shouted a maverick hunter.

"Okay! We've waited too much! Let's help them!" X yelled to his troops of the 17th unit. The azure hunter rallied his troops in to battle.

At the battlefield where the 0th unit was stationed, the smoke and rubble cleared, whom to emerge but the Crimson hunter and his deadly troops.

"TAKE DOWN ALL THE MAVERICKS!" dashing ahead of his troops, Zero rushed into the bloody battle that awaited him.

The mavericks armed with arm cannons, plasma rifles, and laser pistols, fired at the hunters hoping to take them down. Shots sailed through the air hitting and killing some of the more careless hunters. The ground shook with excess energy from the cannons; dust swirled behind the hunters' footsteps as they hurtled to their unknown fate.



" DIE MAVERICK HUNTERS!" they retaliated, gunfire was exchanged, so were the lives the hunters and the mavericks. Each side had its share of casualties but only one would remain triumphant.

"Damn! That's Zero!" cursed a maverick; he looked onward at the opposing forces. Those behind him wondered if they really had a chance. Nonetheless, they charged forward with equal fury in their cause.

"Kill him!" shouted another. Upon hearing this, two others dashed at full speed to attack the oncoming Maverick hunters.



"Get them!" Zero hollered over the ear deafening noises of battle. The red hunter grasped his saber and ignited the pale green jet of plasma. Now ready for the purpose he was brought out in this demolished arena soon to be a massive graveyard for the mavericks.

Zero swung his beam saber, beheading a maverick and tearing apart another. Blood spurted everywhere some on the maverick hunter as well.

"Fight! FIGHT!" Zero urged his troops to keep on fighting. The red hunter continued to take every life that belonged to a maverick. Slashing through circuitry, chopping limbs off…This was a battle a part of him craved…

"These mavericks are rude!" A hunter mocked only to be ridiculed, "Uh?"

Turning his head around, the only thing he had time to see was a fist of steel pummeling his head.

A maverick equivalent to Zero, shredded the maverick hunters, he took three on at a time. He showed no emotion, said no words, his action spoke for him… A deadly assassin dressed in onyx black and pewter gray. His helmet in gray, his helmet had a unique feature to it, a black cloth that covered his hearing sensors and the back of his head. His body covered in the same pewter/ash gray armor. His legs equipped with an accelerator that excelled his abnormally swift speed. The assassin sliced cleaning through a maverick hunter, his deadly beam of plasma piercing the maverick hunter friend's vital life systems.



In the midst of chaos and hell, the two superior warriors met over the broken bodies of their fallen comrades. The ground was dyed in the liquid of life, blood. Zero's attention shifted to the mysterious assassin that just took out at least half his unit. The assassin noticed Zero as well; he gazed at the hunter as if he were reading him. They locked eyes and said nothing more. Each one dashed to engage a battle that would not end until the other was dead.

However, before either could reach each other, the ceiling gave away! ***CRASHH!!!!*** The giant maverick that crashed through the ceiling was because of X, who was above the maverick.

"X?" He asked thankful that was his friend and not a maverick. Zero got over the shock of having something as enormous collapse the ceiling above him. X landed on top of the fallen maverick.

"Blast…" X replied looking at Zero, " we're getting these killers but we've lost to many hunters…"



Zero focused his attention to the assassin, What? That guy looks very relaxed… He just awaits as though nothing was happening…



"Back-up is coming, we have to hang on for a whi-" X never got to finish his sentence, as a massive fist slammed in to him, sending him to the ground.

"Die maverick Hunter!" screamed the maverick. The maverick who had crashed through the roof was awake and very well alive and hungry for revenge

"!!!" Zero whipped his head toward the awoken maverick that just smashed his partner and best friend to the soil.

"I'll finish ya off you piece of crap!" The gargantuan maverick cursed as he got up.

"?!" X was back on his feet and ready to blow the maverick up for good. He used is dash to it's full output.



" How did he do it?" the maverick wondered aloud, " How could he respond so fast?? WOAH!!"

X put his arm cannon in front of him; fired a tremendous amount of plasma at his larger opponent. The explosion created a huge amount of dust and recoil.

"You!" Zero sought the attention of the assassin, " You killed too many of my hunters…

You'll pay for that, NOW!"



"You know…" the fully clad reploid spoke with ease, " it's a pity…Anyway… You never were a threat to me."

Angered by the cocky mavericks words, Zero replied, " What did you say?! C'mon! Take your sword! C'mon Take IT!"

Zero ignited his saber once again to fight this menace. Zero burned with fury and hate for this assassin.



" In your next life…"He didn't draw his saber…he teleported. With a brilliant streak of gray, he was gone…

"Hey! He teleported!" confused and angry at the maverick that got away with out paying penance, he turned off his saber.

X was crouching down one of his legs extended for balance, his arm cannon smoking from extensive use. Behind him were his troops, worn out from battle. All of a sudden as if on cue, all the mavericks teleported.

"Sir! All the mavericks are teleporting!" reported a miscellaneous hunter.



A rookie from X's unit named Sledge warned X," Commander X! We found explosives! This whole place is a bomb!"

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heheh so how ya guys like it? Thanks to IRA for letting me do this!

* This prologue belongs to IRA alone.