Delta X: Beginnings

By: Delta X

All characters in this fic except Delta X and Sapphire are owned by Capcom, the other two are owned by me but I don't mind you using them, just tell me.

Let me explain Mega Man's history in this story, as I have twisted it to make the plot more interesting and logical than Capcom's original one. It all began in late 19XX with the battle network series were all the programs for the robots were created, Including X's and Zero's. Then in early 20XX Mega Man e.x.e. Lost his memory as he was being converted to Mega Man, hence, why he can't recognizes his brother, who became Dr. Light. Then in 206X The Robot Wars stop and things seem to slow down as the original Mega Man was converted into everybody's favorite reploid, Mega Man X. (That is if you don't count Zero or Axl.) So we now arrive at the time after the 6th maverick uprising, or the duel with Red Alert over the new reploid on the block, Axl. Shortly after, new advancements in reploid technology revolving around force metal and transformation tech from Giga city has ushered in a 'Reploid Renaissance' that has changed the world. The reploid engineer Dr. Gaudil, the creator of Cinnamon, and his new assistant, Dr. Ceil are at the head of this new era. What about the mav's you ask… well… you'll find that out. We now can truly begin the story now, as it opens up a few years after X8 in the year 2125 A.D at the hunter's headquarters.

The virus readings, suspicious movements, shady arms deals, missing reploids, and plain old instinct told Signas, the Supreme – Commander of the Maverick Hunters, that another war was about to break out. He knew that the hunters were caught unprepared before in major uprisings and he wasn't going to make that same mistake. The base was put on full alert, and the citizens were warned. Signas was at his desk staring at the Newton's cradle that sat on his desk, the never-ending monition of the balls drew Signas into a trance, (It is only a matter of time now… the war will begin and my leadership will be needed. All the training that they have gone though… was it enough? And will they cower when the casualties roll in? I hope, that by that great creator that lives in the unseen plane, we can win.)

It was all to soon when Alia came over on the intercom on his desk, " Signas, the mavericks have just appeared all over our sensors! We are deploying all of our units according to the plan."

"I will be down there immediately to oversee the operations." Signas got up from his desk and calmly proceeded to the main communications and strategy room. (It has begun… another war… another bloody war…)

When Signas arrived he saw X, Zero, and Axl ready to defend the base and the surrounding city area, "The 0th and 17th are deployed then for duty I assume."

Zero looked up, "Correct. My unit is patrolling the area while X's is in the base backing up the standard base defenses."

Signas looked over at Alia, " Is the medical wing on full alert?"

"Yes, do you want to communicate with Lifesavor?"

"No, he knows what to do."

A young operator with a 77 on her front armor contacted the group from her nearby position, "X! One of the maverick generals is challenging you to a one-on-one duel. If he sees anyone else he will launch a full assault on the city."

Nana was the only person from his Giga city mission to have transferred to the hunter base although the hunters had two additional main spotters, Layer and Pallet. Everyone else was busy trying to keep the resistance from losing more men from their battered ranks had already sustained. X walked over to the teleporting capsule, "Send me the coordinates Nana."

"Sending them now X." Before any other words could be muttered X was teleported to the location.

When X arrived he knew right off the bat that something was wrong. He double-checked the coordinates he was at and came to the horrible conclusion. The maverick had decided on having the duel in a neighborhood, "How could anyone stoop this low… I don't get it… not even sigma's generals go this low... unless it is him."

Then a familiar voice sounded form behind him, " I'm back… X! I told you I will haunt you till the end of your days! "

X's nerves stiffened, (I know that voice! It couldn't be… we just defeated him again.) X turned quickly and drew his buster, (OH SHIT!)

Right in front of him in a hawk ride armor was the demon of X's dreams, Vile, "X… I have waited for this day for the longest time for our one-on-one duel. Here's the challenge… I will wipe out this entire neighborhood while you try to stop me. And this time, there will be no Zero to help you. HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Vile let out a insane laugh and started shooting missiles at the homes around him, but X was able to shoot them all down until he felt a net fall over him.

(Dam it! He must have used his electromagnetic net wile I wasn't looking, I can't believe I fell for that stupid damn trick again!)

As X looked up, he could almost see Vile smile though his helm, " Now X, here comes the best part… seeing the pain on your face as these worthless humans are killed." Vile pointed the twin launchers at the house in front of X and pulled the trigger. But, to the surprise of Vile, only one missile came out, "I thought I had one more… oh well. I've had enough fun with you today X."

X's face was full of rage born from his strong sense of honor and his natural feelings, " Vile! You son of a…Ugh!" X then broke out of the net and fired a level one-charge shot into the launcher that Vile suspected was empty. But the shot went in the launcher detonating the jammed rocket, ripping off the arm that was attached to.

"Until we meet again X!" Vile then teleported away, leaving the burning house and X all alone.

"Vile… I swear… I can never stop fighting with people like you around." X then picked something up on his biosensors. He knew that the house that was on fire had three bio signatures before. But now it had only one weak signature.

X ran into the burning house, but not before getting information on the family living their from standard computer mainframe that was mandatory in each house so police, firemen, medics, and hunters could get valuable information, he followed the signal up the stairs and down though the debris – filled hallway to a bedroom where he heard someone crying. He smashed down the door in front of him and found a baby boy severely wounded in his crib, " This is X to Lifesavor. Do you read me?"

"This is Lifesavor, I'll get a med team ready for you when you come back."

"No, this isn't for me. I have a injured civilian here, he was the only survivor of the attack… the human medics won't be able to come out here in time so I'm bringing him back now."

"Roger."

X picked up the newborn swiftly, but gently, and teleported to the med wing of the hunter base.

As soon as X arrived Lifesavor immediately looked at X, " Where is the human?"

X showed Lifesavor the baby and he immediately took it out of X's hands, "We'll take care of things here, you can go now. Send me the data regarding his family and house later."

"Just to let you know ahead of time, the only family he has, his parents… are both… " X knew that Lifesavor understood him and left for the base ramparts where his unit was holding down the fort.

Lifesavor however, headed for surgery room. But as soon as he got there he reanalyzed the situation, "No amount of surgery will help him. He'll fit in that old machine I've been tapering with… maybe it was designed for a human rather than a robot." He then went down another 7 doors to a room labeled 'Experimental treatments' and went in. He quickly set him in the chamber and sealed the glass tube that covered it. Then he went over to the control console were he typed the commands to activate the device. The tube filled with a green liquid and a probe attached it's self to the back of the baby's neck.

Later that day, X walked over to the medical wing and saw Lifesavor, But before he could even say hello Lifesavor grabbed X by the hand and started to drag him though out the halls of the medical hall, "What on earth is going on Lifesavor?"

"Something important… Signas, Zero, Alia, and Douglas are all in my personal office. This is a Top – Secret meeting. That I personally organized by dragging everyone into my office… literally"

"What on earth is so important that you had to drag everyone personally into your tiny office in the middle of nowhere while there is a war going on?"

"First off, the only reason it is small is because it is only meant for one or two people, not in armor, and secondly, it is in the middle of the med bay, not just nowhere."

They finally got to his office and Lifesavor shoved X in, resulting almost knocked everybody down in the tightly packed room. Alia then asked, "Alright Lifesavor… now tell us why you decided to drag all of us into your little office."

Lifesavor walked up to his desk…more like shoved… and sat down with all the implications that he was in charge, " Listen… about several weeks ago, I was taking care of some front line business with a few other reploids when my eye caught glimpse of what appeared to be a old hospital, so I felt a little adventurous, and curiosity took over me since I am interested in medical history, and decided to go inside. After analyzing a few details about the structure it appeared to be Pre 20XX in origin and was apparently involved with advanced medical research. This only heightened my sense of curiosity, I thought that there could be valuable information left on the computers that remained, but as explored deeper I found something even more interesting. It was a strange device buried in what appeared to be a high-level security zone of sorts. Anyhow, I brought it back and have been analyzing it with Douglas, but it was X who was able to help me make all the pieces fit just today. It turns out that the device is able to…"

Lifesavor stopped to catch his breath and to find the right word choices for what he was about to say, "The device is able to take a human's self awareness, or what they call a 'soul' and turn it into a program. This program is the equivalent of a reploid's DNA soul and to the person going though this procedure it would only be like having a out of body experience, except that instead of returning to their body, they would end up in a computer as a program. This program can then be used in the process of making a DNA soul and then implanted in a reploid body.

Everyone stood shocked… This was something that they never would expect, "So I guess you were able to take the boy I found and…"

" Yes X, I was able to save him. Now, here is my plan of action, as you all know, a DNA soul of a fully mature person takes about a year to develop, but the problem is with him is that the only maturing program that can work with his DNA soul can do only slightly more than 3 simulated years to one real year instead of a the normal 20-to-1 ratio. At this rate, he'll be about 16 and a half years old in 5 years."

Douglass spoke up, for the first time in this entire fic, with great enthusiasm as he has been ignored in many other fan-fictions and web comics, "Well, that will give us plenty of time to plan and build his body."

Alia looked puzzled, " What about his family? Did they approve of this?"

" I was able to do a background check on him, from the information X told me, and he is the only surviving member of his family. No relatives of any sorts and X confirmed in his report that both of his parents died."

The room was quiet. Partly because out of respect for the boy's parents and partly because they where thinking of how to handle the situation, Signas offered the first suggestion, " Well, we could just tell him the truth and help him."

Lifesavor countered that; " He won't remember almost anything about his past. That will only confuse him even more."

Zero then quickly came up with a cold- hearted solution, " Why don't we just leave him an alley before he wakes up?"

Everyone looked harshly at Z boy grinning, " Hey I'm just joking."

Alia came up with an idea, " Why don't we tell him that he had a severe case of amnesia, that should work."

Douglas shook his head, " But he won't know any thing about this world and common sense would tell anybody that degree of amnesia is rare and that it could only be caused by a near lethal blow and people wouldn't believe him since nothing in his records would show it."

X thought silently, (This is all my fault! If I could have protected him none of this would of happened. He is my responsibility… it is that simple.) "He is my responsibility… it's my fault that he ended up like this! Don't worry everybody… you all have jobs to attend to. I'll handle this."

Everybody didn't want X to have to take all the blame… although they knew that X was a good arguer and he would eventually get his way. They all left the room to let X think by himself, "Lifesavor… I have to think for a while on this. Can I come back later?"

"Go ahead X."

X then left the office and walked straight across the hall to a lounge where he sat down on a couch, "You know X, you don't always have to do this to yourself."

X looked to his right, " But Alia… he is in the situation he is in now because of my failure to protect him."

"X…" Alia shuffled closer to him, " You can't be perfect… please don't do this to yourself."

X thought silently for a moment then looked at Alia, " What shall I do with him?"

"How about treating him like he is one of us? He is important to you after all. And maybe we could convince him to join the hunters."

X thought it over for a few minutes, contrasting the pros and cons one the plan. He would be 17-ish when would be activated… which is young for a reploid. Axl is about 17, and Axl always complained that he was one of the youngest people on the base, He would have a friend at least." Alright… that seems like a good idea to me."

While X was telling Lifesavor about his plans, Zero walked up to Alia, " Alia, can I offer some advice?"

"Sure."

"Alia, have you ever thought about your feelings towards X?"

"No, why?"

"Alia… from what today was like, there are going to be many long and hard battles ahead. You might never get the chance to say what you want to that special person. Alia, I've known X for the longest time. He is very kind heated and caring. He is perfect for you."

"I'm not really sure… I don't view our relationship that way though. I'm afraid that if I start doing that it would compromise the my ability to effectively work with him."

"Alia… I think X would be better off if he knew that the person spotting for him actually cared for him. Look… X does not realize it, but he is suffering emotionally. Almost the entirety of his life was spent battling mavericks, and that's a big thing for X, who is the first reploid. He's tried of these battles… he's losing hope in his dream for peace slowly. He has Signas, Axl, Douglas, you, and me, as friends… but he's never experienced love. Just give a shot, I'll back you up if something goes wrong."

"You're right, I should try to talk to him." Alia then walked over to the elevator at the center of the floor she was on and pressed the button for the spotter rooms.

Mean while, X was having a conversation with Lifesavor, " Do you think the plan will work?"

"It seems reasonable, X."

"Well then I should be more or less headed for my room now. Bye." X headed to the elevators and stepped in and hit the button for the floor that contained the unit leader's rooms. But just before the doors shut, a blonde pony tailed figure dashed (literally) in and hit the button for the first floor, "X, Don't you think you should have something to eat? It's nearly eight at night and you haven't eaten a signal thing all day. I know that we don't have to eat a much as a human but still…"

X looked up at Zero and canceled his signal for his room, " Your right Zero. Its just that I have been thinking about him all day."

"Don't worry X, I'll help take care of him when the time arrives."

"Zero… I was thinking today about… never mind."

"About what?"

"About Alia… she has always been my friend. But I feel closer to her than any one else, even you. Whenever she is near me, or talking to me, I fell… safe and… clam, no matter the situation. I don't know what is wrong with me! She has been my spotter for the longest time and I haven't felt anything till now."

Zero smiled, he knew that they loved each other, and he just had to play the role of matchmaker, " X, I know what's wrong with you. All most your entire life has been spent destroying mavericks, training new recruits, being at peace conferences, and giving speeches all around the world. But there are two things you need to do after this revolt is over."

The two hunters got off at the first floor and both headed to the cafeteria, " Take care of Delta X and stop any more revolts."

" Delta X? That's what you named him?"

"Yah… he looks a lot like me, except smaller. He is also the first person to become a reploid, like I was the prototype for the reploids."

" I think that is appropriate but X, he is going be taken care by all of us so you don't need to worry about him. But, more importantly, you need to worry about yourself. X, You have been all over the world and yet you haven't experienced it yet. The four of us are going to go on a vacation after this war. It's going to be just Axl, You, myself, and one other person."

"Signas?"

"No, Someone else."

"Delta?"

"Our vacation will be long over before he wakes up."

"Massimo?"

Zero sighed, this was frustrating, "How about someone from the opposite gender?"

X thought hard, "Um… Cinnamon?"

Zero took his helmeted head and rammed it into the armored hallway of the hunter base. Axl then jumped out behind X with a big smile on his face, "Is Cinnamon going to come over? I cant wait to see her again, I wanted to ask her out on a date the last time she was over but Dr. Gaudil wouldn't let her!"

Zero looked back at Axl, " No, although we could use her to cure X's denseness, now go. Me and X have some personal issues to discuss."

X looked at Zero and a light bulb went of in his head as Axl walked away with dreams of the medic, " Alia?"

Zero spun around, " This brings me to my second point. X… I know that you love Alia, but why don't you admit it?"

" I don't know what you're talking about. Even if I did… I don't want to degrade our teamwork. She is my partner, and I don't want to cause her mixed feelings."

" Then why do you talk to her after missions, have coffee with her at lunch, and hang out with her at the movies? X, she does care about you. And you care about her… what's wrong?"

" Zero… I know I love her but if…someone overheard me saying that or talking to her in that way she would be bothered to no extent. I am looking out for her, Zero. I really want to tell her… but I don't want to course her any trouble."

Zero sighed, " X, I'm quite sure that it won't turn out that badly. And if anyone starts to bother her your presence would put an end to their pestering." Zero took his friend to his unit's bar and convinced him that a few drinks would ease his problems. Thankfully, X was able to return to his room sober, a difficulty considering that the Zero's unit had challenged X to a drinking contest, and everybody knew that the 00th unit had the craziest hunters in the entire hunter force.

As soon as he opened his door, he found one of his friends sitting on the couch, " Alia, what's the matter?"

She was wearing some casual clothes, an oddity since she almost always wore her uniform around the base. She then looked at X, " X, I… I want to talk about something personal between us… in privacy."

X mentally sent the armor he was wearing into one of the capsules that held his armors; he was also wearing casual clothes like he did all the time under his armor, " Alia." He then closed the door behind him and sat down next to her.

" X, I've known you ever since I was activated, I heard all about your battles with the mavericks and how kind you are to the people you know. X… at first I just wanted to meet you but as I rose up in rank I felt stronger and stronger feelings for you… X… I…" She put her head on his shoulder and X ran his hand though her hair.

" I feel the same way as well, you've spotted for me ever since the fourth revolt. I been constantly buried in my work ever since I joined the hunters, I've just been constantly working, no vacations, I hardly go out. I feel so lonely, even though I have all you guys as friends. Alia, after this revolt has ended I was thinking of going on a long vacation with Zero and Axl. I was wondering if maybe you could come along?"

" I would love that. Where would we go?"

" All over the world… we haven't decided on where exactly."

" I want like to go see the Hawaiian Islands."

" I personally want to go to France. I've never been their before… I heard that it is one of the countries that is least affected by mavericks."

"Paris, the city of love… that would be romantic."

As the two love birds talked about their plans for the vacation, a lone figure stood outside, " Iris… would you be happy to see them in love? I wanted X to realize his love for Alia before he loses her. X… Alia… I hope you have better luck."

(If you notice the amount of time between major uprisings is probably less than 4 years each, even stated as less between some, then it should still be in the early 21XX era if only 6 of them occurred since I am assuming that X was discovered in 2100 A.D.)

Author's note I hope that was better than my first post, thanks to and I refined it a bit so thanks to the both of you. Oh yeah, please review! The next chapter is, New people, new places. This is Delta X, jacking out.