Megaman Axl.
The actual situation in the world just got worse. The maverick wars torn the world apart back to the old ruins of the Eurasia crash. The hunters tried their best, but the thing is getting worse than expected.
A single idea from a survivor of the scientific council, Dr. Weil, was of bringing X back to life using his DNA data. But to get the data, they needed Axl. After Alia convinced Axl, X's DNA data was used to create a memory back up and a new body for X. But in that night, a shadow sneaked into the lab muttering about a secret plan…
Next day, X was resurrected. Everyone's hopes went back, but Axl didn't believed in that X… Until Axl heard that this X was indeed the old X who he admired.
Some days have passed since Axl and the resurrected X started working together to end the war, but that mysterious individual identity would be revealed, and the ultimate power would be used to bring the war to an end…
And Axl would discover even some mysteries about him… his feelings…
Chapter 3. – I found you…
Alia was at her desk staring at multiple screens looking at some statistics and graphs. Those showed the number of Mavericks in the world.
Alia: Looks like those two are doing a great work out there. The number of Mavericks has been reduced in 25 over the last days.
Ciel: If this goes on, then maybe the war will end in a couple of days.
Alia: I just hope so.
In that moment, X and Axl arrived from a mission. They were getting along pretty well.
Axl: And then those Mavericks just went BOOM!
X: Yeah, but remember when we got trapped in that hole?
Axl: Yeah. I was barely able to keep those worms off, but you did the job there X.
X: Oh come on. If it wasn't for the quickness of your guns, we weren't able to exterminate those birds.
Alia: Looks like you two had a hard day.
Axl: Yup! Now those Mavericks are shaking and running away now that X's here.
X: So, how is everything doing?
Alia: Maverick attacks have been decreasing over the last days. But the war isn't over yet.
X: Damn you Sigma. He had to call the Mavericks around the world when he tried the second outbreak of the Sigma Virus.
Axl: But with Iris's effort, he isn't around anymore, isn't he?
Ciel: Who is this Sigma anyways? I just heard about him.
X: Believe me. He was the nastiest Maverick around.
Axl: He even tricked the minds of multiple scientists and bad guys for his own purposes.
Alia: The X hunters, Dr. Doppler, Repliforce, Dr. Gate and Red Alert. All of them powerful, but their minds were too weak by falling in Sigma's plans.
Axl: And he even tried to capture me because I had X's DNA data.
X: But still, some things about Sigma remain in mystery. Like how he became from the commander of the Maverick hunters v1 into the most powerful maverick. And I think the only one who knows that and many more things is his most powerful rival… Zero.
Alia: Zero was such a puzzle. I remember that after the sigma virus outbreak when Zero turned evil, we were able to suddenly get all kinds of info about you X. But Zero… he's so shrouded in mystery.
Axl: Yeah… like what happened to him?
X: ……… He got killed by an ambush of Mavericks…
Obviously, X had to lie to keep his promise to Zero that day when he said the last goodbye to him…
Alia: X?
X: Is nothing. Anyways, we better look for something to stop the war. I don't think the world can wait time to finish it.
Ciel: Yeah, but what?
Alia: We would need some kind of program with massive amounts of information to work as something…
Axl: The Maverick behavior is produced as the infection of the Sigma virus.
Ciel: Can we use some kind of anti-virus?
X: Unless…
Axl: What is it X?
X: The spirit of Iris…
Alia: What?
X: Iris was reborn as the angel… a Reploid with ultimate powers… is we manage to awake her again with that configuration, maybe we can use her powers to somehow create a program that will allow us to reconfigure the Maverick's program to delete the virus within them.
Axl: But where are we gonna get such info?
Dr. Weil: The stone tablets at the ruins of the dark castle.
Ciel: Dr. Weil!
Dr. Weil: We might be able to get some info there.
X: Dr. Weil is right. We better go recon the ruins of the dark castle.
Axl: Okay, I'll prepare the ship with Douglas and Midi.
Later, a shadow entered into a dark room within the Maverick Hunters HQ. The shadow was wearing some kind of black coat. The man typed a few commands of a keyboard and some kind of container opened up… some pieces o what appears to be a neural unit, the brain of Reploids, stored in a tube of liquid. The beating pulse on a green screen emanating a voice.
: So you're back.
: Yes. Looks like the hunters are up to something…
: I cannot regenerate myself anymore… now you're my only contact to them…
: I know…
: So, what do they want to do?
: Apparently, they want to create a program to eradicate the last remains of your infection.
: Those hunters never give up, do they? Well. Did you find something interesting during X's check up?
: Apparently some coordinates to some secret lab.
: If I think it is what I think it is… He he he… you must go and investigate that place at once… maybe we'll be able to find the perfect configuration for the perfect body for me…
: And what do I get when I do that?
: You'll get to rule the world along me Dr.
: Good… now I like our businesses for you being a Reploid who caused mass destruction. Once the commander of the Maverick hunters and now the most powerful Maverick in history… a god… Sigma…
Sigma: Those hunters do not stand a chance.
Then, a single ship went out from HQ going somewhere in a mountainous region. The single ship landed on the peak of the mountain, as the cloaked figure walked to a certain sector. He crouched placing some kind of bomb, backed a way and pressed the button on his remote control. A powerful explosion resonated around the entire roar followed by silence. The smoke dissipated revealing a big sturdy door. The cloaked figure opened the lid of a console ripping some cables off and bypassing some of them. With a green light on the console, the two big doors slid from the center slowly. After they opened, a dark hall was visible. The cloaked figure kept walking until he reached a secret lab. When he placed his right foot inside, alarms resonated in the whole lab.
Computer: Intruder alert, intruder alert.
The cloaked figure raised his right hand holding some kind of magnetic remote and with the touch of a button, the alarm systems shut off, and the lights of the lab light up revealing what the lab looked like. A big screen displayed with a big "W" and some power generators had cables leading to a single capsule…
: He he he… I found you Zero…
Zero, the one who was Sigma's greatest rival, the original one with the Maverick Virus… He somehow holds the key for the ultimate body for Sigma.
: Let's see… Virus extraction… 50… I don't need this…
As the figure typed, a screen appeared.
WARNING! MANUAL OVERIDE OF VIRUS EXTRACTION WILL LEAVE PROJECT ZERO V2 WITH VIRUS INFECTION! DO YOU WANT TO PROCEED?
The figure clicked on the yes button and the virus extraction was interrupted.
: Se were you trying to extract the virus from yourself? I don't think so. And now, to avoid anyone in my way when I trigger X's secret programming…
WARNING! BY EXECUTING THIS COMAND, ALL SOFTWARE AND MEMORY IN PROJECT ZERO V2 WILL LEAVE HIS BODY WITHOUT MIND. DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE?
The man typed yes, and Zero's mind and heart got deleted… Zero was now dead…
: And now, let's seal off your body and take it for analyzing it and create the ultimate body for Sigma.
So the man took Zero's body and left the lab… Maybe this was the real end for Zero… until a holograph appeared from the computer. The holograph was wearing a white coat, and looked like an old man with spiky gray hair.
Dr. Willy: So, you are planning in using my greatest creation for your own deeds?
Dr. Willy turned to the screen, a new window popped up.
MEMORY BACK UP COMPLETE, BEGINNING NEW BODY FOR PROJECT ZERO V3
Dr. Willy: I know I did wring in the past, and the thing I can do is aid Zero in his quest for justice… it might take a while, but the new Zero will be complete…
The holograph faded leaving the lab in darkness again.
Later that day, X and Axl returned from the ruins of the dark castle. But there wasn't any new info for their project.
Signas: I heard you two went off to the ruins of the dark castle. Did you find anything?
X: No. The stone tablets aren't there anymore. Whether they were destroyed or taken by someone.
Axl: And now with the Maverick Wars crisis going to an even more devastating phase, we don't know what to do.
X?
Axl: X! Can you feel it?
X: Yes… some kind of warm energy…
Alia: What? I don't feel anything. Wait a second… There is some kind of encrypted data in my monitor. Running a decoder program. Got it! They look like instructions for creating a program…
Signas: What kind of program?
Alia: I don't know… but it is generating an energy signal opposite to the Sigma virus.
Axl: That maybe…
X: The anti-virus?
Alia: I don't know… I'll be running a spectrum analysis to determine whether it disables the infection or not. It might tae a day, so you guys can go back to your daily things. And can someone please call Ciel? I think I'll need her help.
Axl: I'll go get her. I'll be right back.
X: Got it. I'll help Alia right now.
Axl turned around to the connectional hall to the living quarters where everyone's rooms are. Axl arrived to living quarters #163, Ciel's quarters.
Axl: Uh? It is unlocked.
And Axl opened the door. As the door slid up slowly, the blood burning light of the dusk filtrated from the window to Ciel's bed. Ciel was on it, sleeping, at her right, a few books, a plate with a half eaten sandwich on it and a photo of Ciel when she was little and her parents.
Axl: Poor little… She was reading and got asleep.
Axl kept staring at Ciel… and felt something… a new feeling he didn't felt before… somehow warm on the inside. He got closer looking at Ciel's sleeping angel face with her messed golden hair, a few strands of the golden tread laying on her peach colored face. With a single glance, Axl felt like the whole world turned into clouds with a warm white rose scent.
Axl: God, what's happening to me?
Axl felt like leaning his head closer to her face… he felt like he was being attracted to the sleeping beauty about to wake her from her eternal slumber… Then, with a few slight movements, Ciel was waking up. Axl's face got all crimson blush as he backed away keeping his hands together looking away.
Ciel: "Yawn" Oh! Hiya Axl!
Ciel's angelic voice resonated in Axl's head like a sweet melody.
Axl: Hi… Hi Ciel…
Ciel: How did you get here? I think I locked the door.
Axl: It was unlocked… I'm sorry if I…
Ciel: Oh… I can be so goofy sometimes.
Axl: Anyways, what were you doing that you forgot to lock the door before going to sleep?
Ciel: I was reading a book, and eating my lunch. A sandwich just like mom used to make them.
Axl: Just like your mother used to make them uh? And what book were you reading?
Ciel: Romeo and Juliet.
Axl: Never heard of that one.
Ciel: Is about this boy named Romeo and this girl named Juliet. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and Juliet is in love with Romeo too. But they cannot be together because they are from different families, rival families to be exact. So Romeo and Juliet go away one night to get married, but they return to their places to avoid problems. And Juliet plans to send a message to Romeo that she will drink a powerful poison to make herself look dead, so she can be taken away, and Romeo would pick her up, and the two of them would go away to live their fairytale lives. But the message never got to Romeo, and the word spread. Romeo thought that Juliet was dead, and wanted to make sure. After seeing her dead, he killed himself with his own dagger. Juliet woke up, and after seeing Romeo dead, she stabbed her own heart with her beloved's dagger. A very touching love story if you ask me. Uh? I gotta be boring you. Am I not Axl?
Axl: What? Oh no… very interesting.
Ciel: Weird. I never got to meet a Reploid that is interested in literature.
Axl: I guess so… anyways, Alia needs your help at the command room analyzing some data, and as you're pretty good doing that stuff…
Ciel: Oh dear! Then I better hurry!
Ciel got off her bed slipping her shoes in as she ran to the hall. As Axl saw her leaving, he saw her in slow motion. Some kind of view with ruby and diamond sparks. He still felt that feeling…
Axl: Romeo in love with Juliet… Am I in love?
