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Blues Zero X

Chapter 1: Enter Rave

Rave walked into the town and looked around. It looked like any other town he'd been to as a freelance Maverick. It had a hotel, ammo shop, bar, another bar... just like everywhere else. Rave was 5'6" and his body looked much like that of the world famous Maverick Hunter, X, and of the freelance robot known as Protoman from the past. His armour was completely black and gray and had a red scarf around his neck that was long enough in the back to be a small cape. He also had a shield almost the size of his body attached to his back. His helmet was black with a gray crest embedded in the middle and a black visor that covered the top half of his face. On his right arm was plasma cannon that looked slightly more upgraded than the cannon X had. He looked around the town again and decided to go to the bar. As he walked in he saw a large Maverick picking a fight with a robot much smaller than him. Rave began walking toward the bar when the large Maverick stopped in front of him. "What? Is there something you want, little man?" The Maverick was about a foot and a half taller than Rave and looked very powerful. He had a huge plasma cannon attached to him that went half way up his left arm. "Not really." Rave said calmly and continued to the bar. The Maverick sat down and took a swig out of his glass of beer while muttering something to himself. As Rave sat down at the bar, the bartender approached him and looked him over quickly. "Hey, buddy," he said quietly, "Think you could do a job for me?"

"What's the job?" Blue asked. The bartender covered his mouth and mock-coughed while saying, "That guy." He pointed behind Rave to the large Maverick that had just bothered him. "He's been coming in here and bugging people and picking fights for a while."

"What's the pay?" asked Blues.

"Oh... one K."

"A thousand Zenny?"

"Ya."

Rave reached behind him and grabbed his shield. He was about to pull it out when the bartender stopped him and said "Hey! Wait!" The large Maverick looked up at them, and then went back to muttering to himself. "Not in here," the bartender said quietly, "Not around any of my customers. Go out to the old temple. It's about a five minute walk to the north." Rave nodded and got up. He walked over and stopped next to the Maverick. Without looking over at him, Rave said calmly, "You wanted to fight? Follow me." Rave continued to walk outside. The Maverick looked at him and finished off his beer in one gulp. He got up and followed Rave outside. They arrived at the old temple a few minutes later.

The temple looked like any other temple he'd seen, except there was an odd barrier of water surrounding it. Without hesitation Rave grabbed his shield, turned and flung it right at the Maverick's head. It hit him square on the side of the face and fell to the ground. The Maverick shook his head and looked at Rave to see him already in a ready stance with his plasma cannon charged and aimed at his head. The Maverick quickly raised his cannon and shot at Rave. Rave waited until the shot as about a foot from him and spun around it. The shot hit his left arm causing him to spin faster than he originally intended. He shot quickly when he was facing the Maverick. The shot went off target a little bit and hit the Maverick in the side of the face. The Maverick was forced back a few feet and slammed into a wall. It only took him about a second to regain his balance and get ready again. Rave's left arm twitched a few times as he raised his cannon to the Maverick again. Noticing his shield was about ten feet from him and about a foot from the Maverick, he ran at him with his plasma cannon aimed at the Maverick's face. The Maverick looked at him coming and punched down at him. Rave quickly bent backward, his cannon still aimed at his head.

He fired and grabbed his shield, which was now right behind him. The shot hit the Maverick's chin as Rave swung his shield up and slammed it into the Maverick's face. The Mavericks head snapped to one side as the shield made contact. Rave pulled back on his shield, but it stayed attached the Maverick's face. Rave looked up oddly as the Maverick grabbed the shield. He put it to his arm and the shield attached to it.

"What? Magnetism?" Rave yelled out. The Maverick swung the shield out and hit Rave in the head. Rave stepped back and noticed the Maverick was following him with his shield. Rave thought for a minute, then jumped to the side. As the Maverick pivoted the shield to block him, he brought his cannon around the shield and fired into the Maverick's chest. He stepped back a few steps and rave reached up and tried to take his shield back while the Maverick was stunned. He grabbed the top and was about to yank down when his arm twitched again. The Maverick saw what he was doing and grabbed the shield back. Rave screamed out as his arm was forced the other way at the same time as it twitched. The Maverick held the shield diagnally across his body. Rave thought for a second and grinned wickedly. The Maverick held the shield closer to his upper body when he saw Rave grin. Before the Maverick could react Rave held his plasma cannon straight out till it was about an inch from the Maverick's crotch. Rave fired a full powered shot blowing off most of his crotch and waist. The Maverick fell to the ground and began twitching wildly with sparks flying out of his body everywhere. Rave let out a loud laugh as he reached down and grabbed back his shield and reattached it to his back. He walked up to the Maverick and aimed his plasma cannon at his head. He charged up a full powered shot and fired, completely disintegrating his head and power crystal. Rave grinned again and slowly walked back to town to collect his pay and fix his arm.