I was gonna wait a bit more til post this chapter but I've gotta take this off my chest, I AM so pissed off! (It's against my beliefs to curse, but I'll make an exception this time.)
Most people here knows about Rue-07's MMX7 story, Strings of Fate, (One of the most beautiful I read so far). I just read the now-popular review from a son of a +about her story, and here's what I have to say: what a no-good jackass! Sorry, but no one has the right to throw their prissy attitudes around, NO ONE! He said a lot of unnecessary and mean things-I know he didn't attack me or my story, but I feel like he did, so I've got something to say about it! Rue isn't lying about anything or making a wrong story-you've got no right to put down people that use their talents! I know a lot of people are bratty and snobby, and the only things they care about is flirting! But that's what makes Rue so amazing! She writes with her own heart and soul! She isn't like every other kid out there!
People like you definitely disgust me! You shouldn't even be allowed to look at this place. You're obviously nothing but a snot-faced loser, or else you'd be able to appreciate something that was created by a young but very talented kid. I'm not just speaking to him, but to ALL OF HIS PALS THAT AGREE WITH HIM! Why don't you go spend your time elsewhere? We have no need for hateful comments here. If you want to attack me, Mister Jackass, go right ahead. Give me your best shot. I dare ya!That goes for all of the other creeps out there. Go deal with your own crap somewhere else!
As for Rue-Chan, Don't mind such a pain in the ass. That guy is just like that litlle + who said such nasty things about Khilai's story. They think they're better than everyone so can they insult people just like that. That's wrong and about the friendship part, I also write like this 'cause I think, no, I believe true friends can act like this. It's kinda like brotherly love so don't let those Bastards get to you.
Sorry guys, but that was necessary. On with the story.
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Here's some more bios:
Meteor Dragonoit: A Reploid who works at the Astronomy Center. His weapon, the Comet Gun, can summon meteors to take care of enemies.
Alpheon: Hiding somewhere in the city and abandoned as he was made by his creator, he tries to find Sigma and destroys other mavericks and hunters. His only goal in life is to gain absolute power, to kill Sigma and end the Maverick world. To make people fear him, he kills maverick hunters.
Chapter 5: The Black Ninja.
Falcon made his way down the industrial district with virtually no trouble.
"The guards here are terrible." Falcon said, tossing 3 of the previous guards' heads into a dumpster. He'd been juggling them after ripping them off, after their so very brief "battle."
"What few of them remain, anyway..."
He calmly trotted down an alley and turned through a doorway.
"Where is it... ah, yes. Main Power Station."
As he walked into the room, he saw Endzone approaching from the other doorway. His armor and sword splattered with blood. Not that it mattered. It'd keep him quiet for the rest of the mission.
Falcon looked at the numerous switches on the wall. The conduits blazing with life, all the power surging in this one tiny building...
Falcon's visor gleamed. "So much power here... I'll lighten the load a bit. Take just enough for my self."
Falcon flipped a few switches, and the power began to drain into a seperate power containment unit. Too heavy for any ordinairy reploid to manage. That's where Endzone came in.
The lights grew dimmer and dimmer...
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DMZ stood close to the door leaned agaisnt the wall arms crossed.
"And that's all the reports we have..." Alia said.
Just then Pallatte came through the door.
"I think we may have a problem..." she said. Everybody looked over at her.
"There was a power station... i watched its level rise and fall in a matter of seconds..." she said.
"So? Pieces could had been corroded and the power limit could have been hit." Zero said.
"That's the only problem, it climbed past the limit, way past the limit..." She added to her previous statement.
Everybody started to run thoughts through their heads.
"Well whatever it is... It's big" Axl said breaking the silence.
"What do you suggest we do?" X said.
"We still have no idea what happened at the power station, so i guess at the moment travel to one of the spots where a maverick appeared and work on disabling them..." Alia said.
They proceeded walking out the door DMZ stood next to, the last one in line was Pallette and DMZ pulled her over.
"So you have no idea who did this?" DMZ question, hoping there was something she wasn't telling.
"No, I'm sorry..." Pallette said. DMZ grunted softly, but not loud enough for Pallette to hear, and then they both walked out the door.
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The five hunters headed out for the first mission: the Astronomy Center.
"So, what's our first mission?" Axl asked twirling his pistols.
"A Maverick is using weapons at the Astronomy Center. We have to stop him" X said.
"The Maverick name is Meteor Dragonoit. He's a Reploid who works at the Astronomy Center. His weapon, the Comet Gun, can summon meteors to take care of enemies. We don't have much more info besides this..." Star added.
"Looks like we'll just have to find out what he can do by ourselves." Zero said readying his Z-Saber.
"Works for me." DMZ said "But something bothers me." X turned to him "What is it, DMZ?" He asked.
"Remember what Pallete told us?" He asnwered with another question.
"The Power Station incident?" Axl said "That was strange. What kind of maverick could do that?"
"A really strong one." Zero answered. "Still, I don't think he did that all by himself."
"So, you think he's using someone to do his dirty work while he gets all the goods?" Star asked.
"Looks like it." X said "Either way, we can't worry about this for now. Our priority is stop the mavericks before more inocents get injured."
"Got it. Let's move out!" DMZ said.
The five hunters walked through the doors, the lights were dim and it was hard to see.
"In the year 1971 man first set foot on the moon" a voice said. "This would lead to furth investigation and further intrigued the curisoity of man kind" The voice was automated.
"Is that true?" Axl asked, but none of them had lived long enough to know if that were true.
"I have been in space before, but I haven't been on the moon" Zero said, having loose memories of the Eurasia incident.
"That's all fine and dandy..." X said "But we need to focus on the task at hand..."
Star walked closely to X, being cautious not to startle anybody.
"Wait a second..." Zero said stopping.
"What is it Zero?" Axl said.
"Where did DMZ go?" Zero asked.
"Who knows..." Axl said folding his arms behind his head, taking it easy.
"Come on guys... Stay focused" Star said.
DMZ walked slowly around. He stopped for a second and turned to his right. Opened a box and turned power to the lights. It made it alot easier to see.
"Who did that?" Star questioned.
"No tellin... but i would like to get a move on with this..." Zero said.
"Hey guys, y'all left me behind" DMZ said, sort of a clueless tone.
"Try to keep up... " X said.
They got close to the end, there was a door and they all stopped there.
"Do you ever get the feeling of deja-vu, X?" Zero asked.
"Sometimes... sometimes" X said.
The gang walked throught the door and saw Meteor Dragonoit standing on a replica of the sun.
"The...sun...Such a beautiful light..." He said turning to face the hunters "Wouldn't you think, little Reploids?"
"What do you plan to do?" X asked.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm going to aid in the destruction of this planet!" Dragonoit simply replied.
"If you carry on, you will be labeled as a Maverick, and will be destroyed." Zero warned.
"Maverick? You have some nerve calling me a Maverick." Dragonoit said angry "Honestly, X, was it not you who slayed countless Reploids just because they were possessed by the Sigma virus? And you, Zero, born as a Maverick. It's in your blood, the first Maverick created... And you, Axl, ending countless lives in your escape from Red Alert...You're all hypocrites!"
"At least we're trying to repent!" Axl shouted.
DMZ pulled out his two sabers "Let's get this fight started!"
Star used her whip to hold Meteor Dragonoit, but he flared up and burned it.
"Nice try, hotshot!" Star smirked as her whip regenareted itself.
X fired a charged shot, sending him flying. While he was recovering, DMZ and Zero charged towards Dragonoit with sabers drawn. They jumped away from each other revealing Axl who let off a series of shots.
"Did it work?" Axl questioned dropping his guard. From the dust Dragonoit emmerged shooting rings of Saturn at him. Zero dropped in front of him slicing the rings in half.
"Gonna take just a tad more than that..." Zero said.
DMZ appeared behind Dragonoit and put his foot agaisnt his head. Dragonoit flew across the room towards Star where she was waiting with her whip. She lashed it out at Dragonoit. It hit him on his left shoulder, giving him a nasty wound and sending him into a wall. "Hmpf. For a girl, you're pretty good." He said, getting up.
Star just glared at him. "Compliments from a Maverick mean nothing to me." She replied coldly.
"Let's see how you handle THIS! COMET GUN!" Dragonoit yelled as several meteors came out of nowhere aiming her and the others.
X, DMZ, Zero dashed out of the way. Star tried to run, but she was about to get hit by tons of meteors. Suddenly, Axl made a valiant move and pushed Star out of the way, taking the hits for her.
"AXL?" Star shouted.
Dragonoit laughed. "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"
Star trembled, looking at Axl's unconscious body
"I...can't go on this way... Letting other people suffer for my sake..." Star whispered getting up. "I have... I have to stand up for myself."
Star turned glaring angrily at the Maverick.
"You won't get away with this, you overgrown lizard!" She yelled. "DO YOU HEAR ME!"
Without saying anything else, she unleashed a rapid whip attack at Meteor Dragonoit.
"AARRGGHH!" He yelled as he tried to use his claws to use Gutansuizan, an attack that flares up the body to strike the ground.
"Now's our chance!" X shouted to DMZ who nodded. They both fired charged buster shots, knocking Meteor Dragonoit back, but he wasn't ready to give up yet.
"Burning STRIKE" He yelled as he dashed into them engulfed in flames.
Zero summoned his D-Glaive and jumped at him "Take this!" He yelled slicing him. Dragonoit tried to strike back, but something held him back.
"Wha!" He shouted. It was Star's whip that was holding him. She turned her face to X. "Hurry!" She shouted. "Finish him!"
X nodded. DMZ and Zero jumped back as he released a charged shot. The shot connected basting him over. Star released Dragonoit letting him hit the wall.
Axl who just regained conciousness stood up and released a volley of shots knocking Dragonoit down.
DMZ and Zero jumped up into the air and brought their sabers down onto Dragonoit's shoulders, leaving him armless.
Star stood there in front of him and pulled her whip back. She was about to finish it off when Zero saw a mysterious shadow behind her.
"Star!" He shouted "Get outta there!"
Star turned to see the shadow. It was a ninja reploid with a red scarf, black armor, a mask and red glowing eyes. He also had a black katana.
"Back off, hunter. This is my catch." He said slashing his sword at her. Star quickly jumped out of the way, barely dodging the assault. Dragonoit, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky. He was totally destroyed.
"Hunters, forget Dragonoit, attack the shadow!" X shouted
Axl confronted him."Do I have to waste my time on you?" The mysterious reploid asked. "Maverick, you'll die here!" Axl replied, letting out a volley of shots.
The shadow evaded the shots a threw a shuriken at Axl. The shuriken exploded giving him some serious injury.
"My name is Alpheon." The shadow reploid said. "Don't forget it." He vanished.
"Who was that guy?" Star asked, but no one really knew how to answer that.
DMZ and Zero picked up Axl, carrying him out of the room.
"Are you ok?" X asked Star.
"Yeah I'm fine..." Star said.
"I guess all we have to do know, is return back to the base..." X said.
"So... do you know who that was?" Star asked walking out of the building.
"Currently, your guess is as good as mine..." X said "I guess now we will have to go is go to another sight, or check out that power station..." He added, with a disgruntled look on his face.
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Back at the base, Star took Axl to the infirmary while X, Zero and DMZ talked with Alia.
"So a mysterious reploid appaered during your figth with Dragonoit?" Alia asked after hearing their story.
"Yeah. He said his name was Alpheon. Do we have any data about him, Alia?" X asked.
"Let's see..." She answered as she checked the database. Alia frowned. "I'm sorry, but there's no data on him..."
"He was after Dragonoit, but why?" Zero stated
"Who knows... We'll probably run into him again" DMZ said, drawing everybody's attention.
"DMZ might be right." Layer said "Changing the subject, we finished analyzing the data you got from Dragonoit and we developed new weapons for you." She added as she showed on the computer the new weapons.
X got Meteor Break: Fires small meteors, The charged shot fires a big one that breaks into pieces when it hits something. The pieces can also damage enemies.
Zero got Gutansuizan: An attack that flares up the body to attack the ground
Axl got Comet Gun: Rapid fire gun that fires small comets
DMZ got Burning Strike: a flaming dash
Star got Saturn Ring: Whip attack that traps enemies in an energy ring
Meanwhile...
Star, Pallete and Axl were at the Medical lab
"You were lucky, Axl." Pallete said as she finished checking the damage done to him. "But you have to be more careful next time."
"Thanks, Pallete. I will" Axl said smiling at her.
"Hey Pallete, did you get any info on the power station incident?" Star asked.
"Not really. We still have no clue on who could have done that." She answered "Well, I'll let you two rest. I'll see you later." Pallete left.
Star turned to Axl. "By the way, Axl, I didn't get the chance to thank you for saving me back at the Astronomy center..." She said.
"Hey, no need to thank, Star." Axl said smiling. "Like you said, what are friends for? You, me and the others, will teach those Mavericks a thing or two, toghether."
She smiled at him as they high-fived. "Friends 'til the end!" They said in unison.