Here I am again with chapter 2. Like I promised here's some bios:

Veldogger: Veldogger is the younger brother of Sigma's old pet dog, Velgauder. He has been angry at X and Zero for many years because they murdered his brother and he swears revenge. Veldogger has implanted himself with a speech chip which allows him to speak. Weapons: Burning flame, electric shock, powerful bite. He looks like Sigma's dog, only he's red.

Fire and Ice, the Wolf Brothers: Life has been hard for these two. Fire being older by two years has a little more expeirence than Ice. They both have barely survived multiple battles and were deprived most of their lifes of proper maintence by humans, which leads to their hate of them. They view reploids and humans as one in the same. Now they think only Mavericks should be able to live. Their teamwork and their ability to control fire and ice make them though opponents.

Endzone: A new generation reploid. However, he had his copy chip removed and transferred to another new generation reploid for an experiment. So in place of it, he was granted immense strength and defense. Later escaping the facility he was created in, he decided to join up with D. Falcon and his crew, in exchange for even more enhanced power. Weaponry: Aside from his own brute strength, he fights with a massive vibro blade- a reinforced titanium sword emitting energy on its ends to grant it enhanced cutting ability.

Check the chapter one for disclaimer.

Chapter 2: Battle and secrets.

Veldogger, the evil dog maverick, sniffed the air. He knew he was getting closer.

"I have finally tracked you down, X!" He said to himself. "I've roamed the world for many years, and soon I will destroy you. You'll pay for murdering my beloved brother!"

Just then he saw the Wolf brothers. Veldogger could tell that they were mavericks like him, not hunters.

"Aha!" He thought. "Some of my canine bretheren. Perhaps they will be useful in helping me get revenge on X and Zero!"

With that he cautiously approached the 2 Wolf brothers.

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DMZ and Star left the R-Armor bay towards the area AA-67. On the trip there, DMZ didn't notice any problems. As they got closer to the area he could see some smoke. Something was burning. The big puffs of smoke bellowed high above the fire. All that was remaining was an oil pipe.

"A petrolium explosion?" DMZ asked looking at Star. She gave a slight shrug. But there was another explosion down the line. Both decided to check it out.

Further down the line Fire saw the twin ride armors appear.

"Only two?" He asked, towards no one in particular.

"Uh... brother?" Ice said.

"What is it Ice?" He replied.

"Who is that Maverick over there?" Ice asked. Fire looked over to see Veldogger.

"I dont know, but he may be of some assistance"

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Star and DMZ were heading towards the explosion. Finally, she decided to break up the silence.

"DMZ?" She called him. He turned to face her."You know that oil pipe we found earlier? Someone or something caused it to explode. Maybe a fire-type maverick or something..."

Star trailed off when she spotted the Wolf brothers. "Nevermind. Looks like we already found the problem."

DMZ blinked looking at the two brothers. Fire jumped down destroying DMZ's r-armor. He barely escaped and looked at him. Ice who was getting annoyed jumped down towards Star, but he was having a harder time becomes he was less skilled. Star easily evaded the attack, but her r-armor was also destroyed.

"Who are you two and why did y'all attack us?" DMZ questioned.

"You imbecile... don't you know anything? You work with those wrechted humans, so we have only but a grudge to hold with reploids and humans alike..." Fire said.

"That's nice and all but you still haven't told me your name yet..." DMZ said.

"My name is Fire, and my brother is Ice" Fire replied.

"Cool, now I have two more trophies I can collect" DMZ said.

"Don't get too cocky..." Fire said smirking.

DMZ pulled out both of his sabers. "Lets finish this quickly!" He yelled charging towards fire. But he was intercepted by Ice, who just took a frontal blow from Star. "Meh..." said DMZ as he stood back up. He charged towards Fire again, locking his sabers with Fires claws.

As Fire stayed locked in battle with DMZ, Star was getting the upper hand on Ice. He shot an ice blast at her, but she moved out of the way and swiftly countered with a punch to his stomach. Ice crumpled to the ground in pain.

But Star had her back to Veldogger, and he saw this as his opportunity to attack. He pounced on Star, knocking her down.

"You!" Ice said to Veldogger as he got up. "I saw you earlier! Who are you?"

"My name is Veldogger, but that's not important. What is important is that we mavericks join forces and destroy our enemies!"

"Sounds good to me," said Ice. Just then Veldogger was blasted from his side. He skidded across the ground.

"Sounds to me like now I will have 3 trophies," said DMZ, who had fired the blast.

He was set ablaze by Fire. "I don't think so." He said. "You won't hurt us or our new friend."

Star ran to help DMZ but Veldogger sent her flying with a powerful electrical shock. "Hahaha!" He laughed. "The odds are now 3 to 2, in our favor. Get ready to die, hunters!"

"Forget 3 on 2..." DMZ said as the flames poofed out. "Leave her out of it, I will take all three!" He said. The color from his irises drained and turned red, his hair started to rise and turn black, as his armor turned black. His sabers fused together and his buster grew in size.

"Many don't know but I used to be a maverick also..." he said.

"Doesn' t matter..." Fire said. DMZ pulled his buster up and pointed it charged his buster. He let off one shot that ripped off Fire's right shoulder.

"You've got to be kidding..." Ice said.

Star was recovering from the shock blast when she noticed DMZ's transformation. So that's his berserk mode... She thought in awe I heard it was powerful, but I never imagined it could have THIS power!

Finally she got up and glanced at Ice but he was nowhere to be seen! What the! He's gone! Wait a minute... She quickly spunned around, drawing her spear just in time to block ice claws.

"No one does this to the Wolf Brothers and gets away with it!" Ice hissed clearly mad about what DMZ did to his brother and what Star had done with him.

"You two started this fight, Buster!" Star replied angry. "And I'm gonna end it!" She added as they broke away from each other.

"Take this! Ice Blast!" Ice yelled as he fired several ice spikes. Thinking fast, Star twirled her spear, blocking some spikes, but one hit her damaged arm. Crud... She winced. I just hope DMZ are doing better than me.

She glanced at her friend. He and Veldogger were facing each other, waiting for the right time to attack.

DMZ stood there with the tip of his saber down, standing straight up. The targeting sytem brought up a fourth target. A fourth target? He tought to himself. He looked over towards the direction to see Star's injury had worsened.

"TOO SLOW!" Veldogger said pouncing on DMZ.

"LEAVE... US... ALONE!" DMZ yelled, he pointed his buster at Veldogger's stomach sending him into the air.

He turn towards Star, and dashed. He dropped his saber across Ice's wrists cutting his hands off.

"Let's go..." DMZ said grabbing Star by her good arm, pulling her into the air, jetting out of the battle zone.

"Come back and fight us, wuss!" Ice yelled, but it was too late. They were gone.

A few miles from there, DMZ landed.

"Are you ok?" He asked Star.

He frowned slightly as he got a better look at the damage that had been done to her arm. He sat her down lightly and reverted back to he normal form. His once red, furious eyes turned back to their caring blue. Slight anger came to his face though.

"Sorry I pulled you out like that. But I didn't want you to get hurt anymore than you are." He said. "And don't worry about them, I have electronic tracers on them, when more people are suitable to follow them the chase will resume..."

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Falcon watched the reploids do their vicious battle.

"Dance, my puppets! Dance for your master!" He said, delighted.

"I'm sicka this crap!" A voice echoed from the hall behind him.

Falcon sighed and swerved around in his chair to see Endzone lumbering down the hall.

"I'm bored! I want action!" He roared.

Falcon groaned. "I'm starting to regret ever rescuing you. I'm working up to something here, alright? So chill for a bit, then you can shed all the blood you want."

Endzone grinned his stupid grin and bounded down the hall. "Moron..." Falcon muttered under his breath.

The reploids were still fighting. Impressively, he should note.

"Right... I think I need to build my numbers a bit." He said to himself.

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Star nodded, before looking away, upset. She nearly got herself and her friend killed... Again.

"Darn... It's just like what happened with X and the others..." She said with a sigh. DMZ gave her an odd yet curious look. Star sighed again.

"I guess you don't know what I'm talking about, right?" Star asked. DMZ nodded.

"Well, as you must know, X, Zero, Axl and I were training some rookie hunters when this giant Mechaniloid attacked. Several rookies were injured so X told me to get them out of there and head back to the base while they kept it busy... I lead them back, but after I made sure everybody was ok, I went back to help them although X had ordered me to stay at the base..." Star explained before taking a short breath.

"When I got back, I found out things had taken a turn for the worst... That Mechaniloid was stronger than we expected and he was giving them a really hard time. I tried my best to help them..." She trailed off.

Flashback

Star slashed the Mechaniloid with her whip, trying to make it back off from X.

"Star! What are you doing! I told you to go back to base with the rookies!" X yelled.

"The rookies are going to be fine! It's you guys that could use some help here!" Star shouted back at her friend. She knew X was worried that she could get hurt, but that wasn't going to stop her from helping him, Zero or Axl.

"X! Star! Heads up!" Axl yelled at them. Both looked up and jumped out of they way before the Maverick smashed them.

"This isn't good..." Zero said after an unsuccesful strike "That thing got some though armor."

"He gotta have a weak spot!" X said "If we don't stop that thing now, everybody at the base will be in danger!"

"What about its head?" Star asked after dodging being crushed. "This type of robot has a strong body armor, but its head's armor is more fragile."

"That might work!" Zero exclaimed "X! Axl! Go for its head! Star, you and me will keep that thing busy!"

"Got it!" They replied in unison.

They made their move. Zero and Star ran towards the Maverick. X charged his buster while Axl fired everything he had at the robot, cracking it's armor, but not stopping it.

Just when the robot was about to attack, X's buster was fully charged and he yelled "Charge shot, NOW!" He fired.

That was Zero and Star's cue. They striked right after X's shot hit the Mechaniloid's head. He fell, defeated.

"All right! We did it!" Axl chereed.

"Good job, guys." X praised before looking at Star "And Star, thanks."

"Yeah" Zero agreed. "We couldn't have done it without your help."

Star smiled, blushing; "No prob, guys. After all, what are friends for?"

"By the way, Star, how did you know how to beat that thing?" Axl asked curious.

"When you work as a navigator you can learn a lot of things." Star answered, winking. "Anyway, let's go back. Alia and the others must be worried sick about us by now."

They nodded and started walking away when they heard a beeping sound. They turned around.

"What the?" Axl said.

"It's a self-destruct sequence!" X yelled "Everybody down!"

Zero and Axl hit the ground while X pushed Star. The robot exploded.

End Flashback

"When I woke up, I found Zero and Axl injured, but X was in really bad shape..." Star said, trying her best to not cry. "He... He protected me, using his own body! That was the reason why I only got an injured arm... We barely made it back to the base..."

Silence fell over them until Star slammed her fist against the ground, angry. "It was my fault they got hurt! I should've never suggested that! I should've known that thing had a self-destruct device! And now... I nearly got us both killed!"

DMZ looked at Star. He had no idea what he should do.

"Star, if you hadn't have gone back it could have been alot worse. X, Zero, and Axl would have ended up dead instead of this state of condition." He said.

DMZ put a hand on her shoulder and turned her slowly. "Star... you did the right thing going... and you did the right thing coming with me..." he said. "Don't beat yourself up on what happened in the past, if i did so, i would have more than just this scar across my left eye." He said, his caring face turning to a slightly depressed one. "Now come on, we should go back and get you repaired... all those three were damaged pretty badly so I don't think they would make the decision to launch another attack..." He said.

But inside, DMZ knew there was a problem. It took too long for him to react in his beserker mode. Could he be changing back to a Maverick?