The Hunter and The Navigator
Chapter 4
The unexpected virus!
"X?! X, is that you?!" 'Please let him be okay. I hope he is or were in trouble.' Pallette said in her mind. X's body was totally different. He wasn't just all blue anymore. His inside color was black, his leg armor was still blue but at the knee was gold and red and his ankle armor was white. He had a fancy new belt, a pentagon in the middle, a pack to hold small items on both sides. His hands were still white and his forearm was blue and at the tip by the elbow was red and gold. His shoulder armor was still blue and his chest armor had a white X in the middle and the color of the vertical parts of the 'X' were dark blue, the horizontal were light blue. His helmet was basically the same. (if you don't know what this looks like, thas ok I suck at descriptions! Just look up Megaman X command mission and that's how it looks! That looks really cool!! So I wanted it to be like that! Hahaha)
"Pallette?" X answered.
"Yes, X?" Pallette looked at X worriedly.
"…" X looked at her. His look was hard and strong. He looked like he was ready to attack. All of the sudden there was a shifting sound. It was the sound of his right arm transforming into a buster.
"X! Don't do this!! You should be able to fight the virus!! It shouldn't be easily controlling you." Pallette screamed. She was beyond scared now. She was now backing up to the wall. "X, please…I beg you….FIGHT IT!!"
"Pallette…I…" X said very lightly. He sounded as though he was weak but his body was showing the opposite. It was moving forward towards Pallette. It was ready to attack her and destroy everything else that was in the Maverick Base.
"Alia! Layer!! We have a problem!! I need your help!!" Pallette screamed her lungs out to make sure she could be heard by the two.
Maverick Base, Control Center…
The two girls that were sitting and sulking in their losses had their attention attracted by Pallette's scream. Both of their heads shot up.
"Was that?" Layer asked.
"It was! We better hurry and go to her. X may have been totally corrupted by the virus now." Alia said.
The two dropped down their head sets and headed for the R&D Lab.
"Hurry, Layer! We need to save Pallette!" Alia said obviously sprinting towards the Lab.
"I'm running as fast as I can!" Layer said, the gap between the two increasing.
"Don't worry about me. I'll be there right after you!" Layer said watching Alia run up ahead.
R&D Lab…
Pallette decided that it was time to take some action and enough of being scared. Though she was still scared out of her mind she took out her gun. She aimed it at X but she was not willing to fire.
"X, I can seriously hurt you with this, you know!" Pallette said with tears in her eyes and her voice in complete fear.
The body of X didn't not fear what Pallette had said. It just kept walking forward to her. Just then the body lifted its right arm, its buster, and aimed.
'No!!! Why can't I control my body?! I don't get it!! This virus is so weak but what's making it so that I can't destroy it from my body. It probably has a barrier but with my body moving I don't have time to extract it! Argh!! I need to stop! DAMNIT!!' X said in his mind.
He had now lost full control of his body. He was not even able to speak on his own free will now.
Pallette now more afraid and scared than ever with the body of X aiming at her.
"You left me no choice, X!!" Pallette said and fired directly at X. It was a direct hit and its was hard. It made the buster aim of the body lose its target and the trajectory of the buster shot was interfered. Instead it shot at the ceiling and the ceiling collapse between the two.
At that moment X, momentarily, had full control of his entire body and yelled.
"Pallette destroy the crystal on my helmet!!! That's the source! The Maverick I saw repla-" X then lost his control again.
"What?! X? What was that?! You want me to destroy the crystal? Why!?" Pallette asked.
Suddenly the entrance to the Lab exploded open.
"Pallette!! Where are you?!" Alia asked.
"I'm on the other side of the pile of rubble! Watch out! X is there and he's being controlled by the virus! You have to destroy the crystal on his helmet!! He said that's the source." Pallette yelled back at Alia.
Alia and Layer were having a hard time seeing anything. The room was filled with dust from the ceiling collapsing and there were sparks flying everywhere. One spark came flying at Alia.
"Ahhhhhh!" Alia covered herself in hopes it would reduce the damage but in the end she did not feel anything. She looked and she saw that Layer had cut it in half so it wouldn't reach their distance.
"Thank you, Layer." Alia said gratefully and with a smile.
Layer smiled back at her. "You'd do the same for me, its not a big deal." They both laughed then became serious once again.
"Can you see him?" Layer asked Alia. Layer was trying to find X. She had to take out the crystal but taking it out would mean complete shut down for X.
"No. But he's there. I can feel him." Alia said.
"Yes, so can I." Layer still looking around. Just then a shining light came from the middle of the area in the lab.
"What's that?" Layer asked.
Alia's eyes widened. "OH NO!!" Alia then changed her hand into a buster and charged her shot. She fired at where she saw the shining light. X was charging his shot and she knew she was the only one who could counteract it.
"CHARGE SHOT!!" Alia screamed and fired.
"CHARGE SHOT!!" X yelled and fired at the same shining light.
'Good, Alia. It's a good thing this girl knows me too well.' X said to himself.
'Now I need to stop this virus so they can get a clear shot to my crystal.' X said thinking to himself.
'It is useless, X. Your powerful body is now mine!!' Another voice in X's mind said.
'What? Who are you?! Get out of my head!! Get out of my body!! Give it back!!' X ordered the voice.
'Right now you are in no position to give me orders, X. I control every part of your body and that's all I need. You cannot stop me because I am neither virus nor Maverick.' the voice said in great confidence.
'Then what are you? What else can there be besides viruses and Mavericks in this world now.' X asked.
'Something that was thought to not be real. Something that was thought to be only superstition. HAHAHAHAH!! X, I am Sigma, but not the one you destroyed when Lumine was using him. I am a new and completely different Sigma. One to be released when the first one was completely destroyed!! My code name is Signas!' Signas said.
'What?! Signas?! Are you the same Signas I know?!' X asked.
'The one and only, X! haha! You see I was really an incarnation of Sigma while he was alive and now that he has died I have died as well. That is why you did not see me around the Base anymore. I have become a ghost that still avenges Sigma! Sigma's virus will never come to an end, X! Can't you see. He will not stop until he has control of this world!! Even these new generation reploids work for the same cause.' Signas explained.
'You guys are way in over you heads!! You were destined to lose this battle eventually!! And now that I have your body, its over! We have the strongest Reploid on our side of the field! This world will now be ours!' Signas said.
'Think again, Signas! Better pay attention to your battle.' X said in a sly voice.
'Huh?' Signas then went back to control X's body. Alia had removed the rubble to allow Pallette a passage through. Now the three were ready to take on X.
"You guys, our target is the crystal. Pallette and I will set up a distraction while Layer goes and attacks the crystal. You guys got it?" Alia said setting up their strategy.
"Roger!" Layer and Pallette said in unison.
"Alright, LET'S GO AND GET X BACK!!" Alia exclaimed.
Layer then jumped into the air, making the first move. She reached the ceiling and kicked off the wall to get a harder impact when she makes contact. X's body looked up. He saw Layer coming at him. He aimed and tried to fire a shot but Pallette shot the buster and the aim moved to the side. The buster shot destroyed a computer in the lab.
"Damn you, bitches!!! You are all gonna die by the hands of your precious, X!!" Signas said.
Alia was charging her shot behind X's body. He was totally oblivious to her location. Layer then made contact with X. She used three slashes to try and weaken X before taking out the crystal, trying to facilitate the battle. X was hit pretty badly by the three attacks of Layer. Pallette was now shooting at X in every part of his body. The shots were paralyzing him for moments which disabled him from much movement.
'Damn! These girls are better than I thought!' Signas said.
'And you thought all they were good at was navigating, huh?' X said mockingly.
'Well that's all I see them do.' Signas said.
'You've been missing out, pal. They've been fighting for us for awhile now. We have been training them. Their just as good as us!' X said, very proud of this friends, especially Alia for taking the command, just as he would have done.
"Hii-yaaah!!" Layer again charged at X's body. This time around she was heading for the crystal. Pallette was still barraging X' body with rapid fire shot and Alia still charging. She was setting up to weaken him right before Layer attacked.
'Time to get serious!!!' Signas said. He then used the new feature that Pallette installed into X's new model. Instant Transportation. The same ability that Lumine has but it was complete. He used the ability and avoided the shots fired by Pallette.
"Oh no! He's using his new ability! Watch out. This one is complete unlike Lumine's model!" Pallette told them. Layer stopped charging after seeing him disappear.
"That doesn't sound too good." Layer was now scanning the area.
"FOUND HIM!!" Alia screamed and she fired in the middle of the rubble. The impact made everything fly. Debris and rubble went flying everywhere. The impact also caused a big explosion and a sonic boom in the area. This made the three girls get blown away and hit the walls bringing them into an unconscious state. But how did Alia know that X's body was hiding in the rubble?
Well, whatever the reason, it hit his body dead on and the explosion caused a chain reaction to happen between X and Signas.
They became…
To be Continued…
Whoa, now that was a pretty cool chapter, if I do say so myself. More action than the last two or three chapters had. I needed to get you guys more excited for my story. Well anyway yes, I bet you didn't expect it to be Signas. But I don't really like the guy and don't see any point to him in the X series except to be a hot shot, yep. So I made him evil!! Plus it gets you thinking in what other unexpected twists I will put in the rest of the story. Anyway this story is far from complete…well actually its half way, now that you know the mysterious figures. Well Reviews please!! Thank you!!