Megaman X2: Eternal War
By Genoscythe
Chapter 1:The factory
Disc: All Megaman X characters and others relating to Megaman are property of Capcom, not me. However, the fan characters that I made up are mine. MINE! Mine I tells you! If you try to take them without my permission I will come at you with a loaded shotgun. Then after I pump you full of lead, the bowels of hell will open up and consume your tormented soul in the fires of damnation.
How could this be happening? Megaman X thought as he blasted another mechanoid to scrap. There hadn't been a maverick outbreak in six months, but here he was again, fighting for his life against crazed reploids. Dr. Cain's spies had learned that there was a fully operational factory infected with the maverick virus. It was located in the middle of a desert, so X and his companions had to use ride chasers. Aside from him, there were two other hunters with him, a green hunter named Drake and a purple female huntress named Calliope (See their bios in the prologue). On the way, sentries had spotted them and activated the factory's turbolasers. Calliope and Drake had been hit by the turbolasers. Now, it was solely up to him to destroy the factory, and it wouldn't be easy.
X had just barely squeezed through a trash compactor and lay panting on the floor. He wiped sweat off of his forehead and continued on. He was now on a large maintenance platform poised high above a dark pit. To the left, giant mechanoids lined the wall. Most were incomplete, missing arms, heads and the like. X stopped at one that looked rather finished. On the side of it read: CF-0: Class C demolition mechanoid. Use extreme caution when handling. Anyone with three fourths of a brain could tell that it was dangerous. Its long gray arms ended in enormous black balls laden with spikes. Its body looked like a giant magenta oval, with a squat head, arms, and legs. The bottoms of its feet were also covered in spikes, and its head sported two very large horns just above its comically large eyes. X shrugged and continued on across the platform. The next second, he felt an indescribable pain in his back. He was falling, but his vision was blurry and he couldn't see well.
He landed hard on a small platform. He was in the dark pit that he saw before. The pit shook violently when CF-0 landed, and X got up shakily. His vision was returning and he could see it rear back. It raised its hand high; ready to crush X. He stumbled back and pulled out his arm cannon. The pain in his back was getting worse and worse and he was straining to hold onto consciousness. He charged up and fired. His shot went wild and bounced off of its raised arm. It began to descend upon him, and he didn't have enough energy to dodge it. Suddenly, a large green beam saber flew across the room and imbedded itself in a joint on CF-0's arm. Half of its arm flew off its hinges and crashed to the ground below. The other half sailed harmlessly over X's head. CF-0 spun its head in confusion, then turned back to its prey. It didn't expect another beam saber to plunge through its head.
It began whirring unhappily, then collapsed into the darkness. X pulled himself into a sitting position and scanned the pit for his savior. A dark purple form landed in front of him, her long brown hair swaying with the motion. " Hi X! Long time no see." Calliope said. X merely grunted. She saw the tear in his back where CF-0's spiked hand had punched through. She frowned. Then she knelt down next to X and pulled out an energy capsule and a welder from her backpack. "Take this." She gave X the capsule and he put it in an open slot in his armor. As Calliope began to weld the armor on his back together, he felt his strength returning thanks to the capsule.
" Nice timing," He commented.
" I aim to please." She replied. She finished welding together his armor. " How does that feel?" She asked. X got up and stretched a bit.
" Perfect. How did you get here, anyway? When I saw you get hit, I was afraid you didn't make it."
" When my chaser stalled I knew I was a sitting duck, so I jumped off before I could be hit. It was close, and I still got a few scrapes, but I'm fine." She reassured him. " I do have some bad news though. I dropped some of the explosives on my way here. I don't think we have enough to light this place up." X sighed and shrugged his shoulders. The whole mission was a bust now, after all of that hard work. Just then something caught X's eye. It was a single huge pillar protruding from the bottom of the pit to the ceiling. Around it was another pillar, then several more. They all seemed to be holding the factory up.
" Hey Calliope, do you see those pillars over there?" X asked her. She nodded. " Do we have enough explosives to blow those up?" She smiled.
" Does the sun rise?" They made their way down the platforms and laid the bombs on the pillars.
" How long do we have?" He asked.
" About ten minutes, which should be just enough time for us to get out, but not long enough for them to figure out what hit 'em." The way back was rather uneventful since X had wiped out all of the defense forces on his way in. When they reached the exit they saw a familiar green reploid.
" Hey, what took you guys so long?" Drake asked. X gave an exasperated sigh.
" It would have gone much quicker if you had helped us at all." he retorted.
" Look, you never asked for my help, so-"
" We shouldn't have to ask you for help!" Calliope interjected grumpily.
" I actually have a perfectly reasonable explanation for being late," Drake said, leaning on the side of the entrance. When he had moved out of the way, the other two hunters could just barely make out their transport jeep parked out on the shadowed desert. " You two should feel honored. I had to drag my sore, sand-covered ass all of the way back to the jeep just so I could pick up you two."
" Forgive me if I don't feel touched." Calliope snorted as she hoisted herself up into the back of the jeep, with X quickly behind her.
" Hey, at least he didn't just leave us behind here to rot while he drove back to H.Q." X said jokingly. Drake fumed in mock-anger.
" What makes you think I would just up an' leave you stranded in the middle of the desert, huh?"
" Plenty of things." X and Calliope said in perfect unison. With a sigh of resignation, Drake slid into the driver's seat and gunned the engine. The trio of hunters were many kilometers away when the factory silently began to crumble into the dust.
End
AN: Woohoo! There goes my first chapter, now let's see how many more I get through before I lose interest in this project. Just kidding, I'm actually going to see this one through, with or without reviews. Preferably with. Hint, hint.