Author's Note: Megaman, Rockman or any other properties are of Capcom, not mine.

Chapter 2: Trouble's afoot

Location: Museum, Osaka University

The Technology Expo is bustling with scientists, human and reploid, displaying their latest projects to the world. Security guards are patrolling about the area, making sure nothing goes wrong at this event. X, Zero, Axl are also on the job. Alia also went along to see the event and she stares at all the projects with a starry-eyed expression.

"Look at all the stuff going on here! Operating systems, graphic processors..." Alia sighs happily to herself "I'm in heaven!"

Axl just stares at her as she prances about. "She sure is enjoying herself!"

Zero also stares at her. "She sure feels right at home here."

"That's true! But maybe we should follow Alia so she doesn't get lost." Axl said.

X looks at Axl. "She'll be alright. What harm could she do?"

Zero & Axl just shrugged their shoulders and moved on. Meanwhile, Borock is on the roof of the museum

having an impatient look on his face and his arms are folded across his chest.

"That reploid said I would have help on the way. Well, where is it?" Borock said in a frustrated tone.

In the distance a tiger-like reploid is heading towards the museum at breakneck speed. Borock sees the reploid coming up ahead.

Borock grins "So that's the distraction...now all I have to do is wait."

Meanwhile, the demostration of the energy generators have started and onlookers were getting amazed. The generator are about the size of a little box. The human scientist explains "This generator is fresh off the assembly line by Cain Labs. This is going to be installed inside the new line of reploids currently in production as we speak." He then points to a green reploid next to him lying on the table. "Once the generator is installed, this reploid would be like a athlete and work more proficient than most of the older models. He would be stronger, and faster than most people and the generator would expend less energy on him so it wouldn't overload his other system."

Applause is heard throughout the audience and the scientist smiles. Suddenly there is screaming heard outside. X, Zero, and Axl rush over there to see the problem.

Suddenly a security guard sent flying away from the scene and Axl suddenly catches him. Alia runs up to them and sees the tiger reploid growling and slashing at the guards.

"Who is that?" Alia asked.

"A rampaging tiger..." said Axl.

X stares in disbelief. "That's Neon Tiger! But I defeated him a long time ago."

"Looks like he's come back for revenge. Let's stop before it before it causes more damage." Zero says as he unsheathes his Z-saber

Axl takes out his gun. "I'm with you!"

X then looks at Alia. "Take the guard and go!"

Alia nods. "Right! Be careful..."

X gives a thumbs-up sign and morphs his arm into his X-Buster and rushes into battle As Alia runs to safety, she sees Borock by the generators.

"What he doing over there?" Alia thought as she watches.

"So he said just grab one of the generators, huh?" Borock thought as he grabs one from the display case. "My work is done!"

"Hey you!"

Borock whirls around and sees Alia.

"Hey there miss!" Borock said in a polite tone.

"Put that back!" demanded Alia.

"Or else what?" Borock said

Alia sees a blaster on the ground, grabs it and points it at him. "I'll blast you!"

Borock shrugs his shoulders. "Oh...Well in that case! He then screams loud and the sound waves send Alia flying into a booth. Security guards come over and start blasting Borock, but he had a barrier up just in time.

"Futile!" said Borock and he starts screaming again and the guards are thrown back. As Borock prepares for another attack...a bullet came out of nowhere and shot Borock in the waist. Borock sees Axl with his gun out pointing at Borock.

"Drop it!" Axl commanded.

Borock shakes his head. "Can't do that!" He then let out a huge scream and the sound waves go past Axl and hit a machine behind him. Axl gets caught in the explosion and is knocked unconscious.

Borock waves at the guards and Alia and flies away

Meanwhile, X and Zero are contending with Tiger and it seems that their attacks are futile and they are out of breath.

Zero looks at Tiger while catching his breath. "Damn! Nothing's working!"

"It's tough, but it's not unbeatable!" X said as he catches his breath.

Meanwhile, Tiger charges up and fires a barrage of energy bullets from his tail towards X and Zero and both of them had their barriers up.

"Tiger was never this strong before! We can't keep this up!" X said as the barrage of bullets hits his shield.

"There is got to be a way to kill this guy." Zero said.

More security guards come out of nowhere and starts blasting Tiger and the shots bounce off him. Tiger turns his gaze towards the guards and charges up once again.

"No!" X screams as he turns off his barrier and points his buster at Tiger and gathers energy. "Charge Shot! "

X fires the shot and Tiger gets hit in the back by the blast and is knocked off his feet and onto the ground.

"I did it!" X said as he raise his buster in the air.

Suddenly Tiger gets up and launches himself toward X and Zero. They managed to dodge him and Zero notices the wires coming from the wound.

Zero shouts at X. "I got this!"

X looks at him. "Huh!"

Zero smiles. "Trust me!" He then waits as the savage dashes towards him. Zero dodges his attack, spins around and stabs his saber through Tiger's wound which then causes Tiger to shut down and collapses.

X retracts his buster. "That was tough!

Zero sheathes his saber and folds his arms across his chest. "Yeah..."

X sighs. "Now that that's over and done with, we should find Axl and Alia."

Zero looks down and has a worried expression. "Why was he here in the first place and how did he come back?"

X and Zero walk to meet Axl and Alia.

"Quite the mess we made..." said Alia as she looked around.

"Yea..." said Axl.

"You alright?" Alia said as she looked at Axl.

"Yea..." Axl said as he rubs his head. "Nothing serious."

Alia smiles. "That's good!"

X and Zero walk up and see the destruction all around the inside of the museum.

"What happened here?" Zero said to Alia and Axl.

Axl looked at X with a serious look. "Borock made off with one of the generators."

X and Zero both had disbelieving looks. "Borock!"

"Yeah! Axl tried to stop him and..." Alia explained.

"Didn't fare too well..." finished Axl.

X pondered about this. "Maybe Tiger was a diversion...

Zero looked at X. "Borock is too stupid to plan this on his own. He had help, but I wonder from who."

Location: Laboratory, Coast of Honshu

Meanwhile, Borock went back to the lab and showed the generator to the reploid. "I got the generator, after a whole lot of trouble, mind you."

"Very good, Borock!" exclaimed the reploid as he took the generator. He then had a evil grin. "I'll give you your reward later."

-30 minutes later-

The reploid smiles in triumph. "Finished! He is completed."

Suddenly, the Reploid glows and a pink floating ball comes out.

Borock has a shocked expression. "What the...?"

The pink ball flies into the body and the eyes light up. He gets up off the table and stares at Borock. Borock slowly backs away.

Borock now has a terrified expression. "Who are you? What are you?"

"I am...Sigma!" said the white reploid.

"But you're dead...over a hundred years ago" said Borock.

Sigma stares at Borock with a blank expression. "It's true...the body was destroyed." He then points at his head. "but the mind lives on."

Borock backed away studdering. "S-s-so what is m-m-m-my reward?"

Sigma looked at him. "Reward?...Oh...That!"

"Y-y-y-yea!" exclaimed Borock in a fearful tone.

"Since you are no longer useful to me...here is your reward." Sigma said calmly as his arm charges with electricity.

"No!" Borock yelled as he turns and flies away.

"Thunder Wave!" He spreads his arm out really fast forming a crescent wave of electricity which cuts Borock in half and Borock falls to the floor.

Sigma then looks at the corpses as sparks starts flying out of the top half of Borock as he shuts down.

"So that's what you did with the body. The master said it disappeared and figured you had something to do with it."

"I wanted to make my own modifications. I want the body to be just as good as me." Sigma calmly said without looking behind him.

Dark Mantis comes out one of the rooms and stares at Sigma's back. "So now that you're done, we need to see the masters so the plan will go underway."

Sigma turns to Mantis. "You know what they're up to and yet you morons continue to follow them!"

Mantis continues to stare silently.

Sigma turns around and was about to leave the lab. "You do as you please but I'll do things my own way!"

Mantis suddenly teleports in front of him "I won't let you!"

Sigma then holds out his hand and charges his hand. "Move, Mantis!"

Mantis gets into a fighting stance and stares him down.

Sigma continues to gather energy into his hand as he stares at Mantis. "One more time, MOVE!"

Mantis continues to hold his ground and gathers energy on his blades.

"Thunder Bomb!" Sigma fires a ball of electricity and Mantis jumps over the attack and the ball hits the door, blasting it to bits.

"Shadow Runner!" Mantis, then lands and fires his technique and the two boomerangs home in on Sigma and he dodges the attack and flies out the lab while Mantis gives pursuit.

Sigma then stops and fires multiple Thunder Waves and Mantis continues dodging every single one of them, dashes towards Sigma, and slashes him in a frenzy. Mantis backs away from Sigma as he falls, but he slowly gets back up and Mantis sees that Sigma's wounds starts to heal really fast.

"Slash me all you want, it won't do you any good and tell your masters this message!" Sigma said as he jumps up in the air and brings both hands together and gathers energy, aiming diagonally towards Mantis. "I TAKE ORDERS FROM NO ONE! THUNDER CANNON!" Sigma fires a big beam of energy and Mantis puts up a Barrier and is engulfed in the blast. After the explosion subsided and their was nothing left of the lab, Sigma looked on coldly at the debris, a cape forms around him and he flies off over the horizon.

Mantis got out of the debris, with numerous burns and sparks flying out of him. A communication line beeps and Mantis presses a button on his left arm panel. "Mantis here!"

"So where is the body?"

"Sigma apparently had it, He complete it with some help..." Mantis said as he looks at the direction that Sigma went.

"So he turned on us too, eh?"

"Yes, Berkana-sama!"

"So that's two traitors, not a good thing. Speaking of traitors..."

"I'm still looking for him...he hides himself very well."

"Find him and eliminate him...and don't kill Sigma yet...he may be still of use to us."

"Understood, Mantis out!" Mantis cuts off.

Location: Beach house, Honshu

Berkana is looking out the glass door to the balcony and Gareth is sitting on a chair reading a book.

"And why are we letting him live again?" said Berkana without looking at Gareth.

"He will serve as an distraction and we can still work on our plan without being discovered. We don't want the Maverick Hunters on our backs like last time." Gareth said without looking away from his book.

Berkana turns towards Gareth. "True..."

Gareth closed his book, stood up and walks towards Berkana and puts his hands on her shoulders. "Don't worry, we learned from our mistakes and now we're stronger than ever. We just have to stick with the plan and we'll be fine."

Berkana can only nod. "So what's our next course of action?"

Gareth smiled. "In due time, Berkana, but first relax and let Sigma do the dirty work and after a while, we make our move."

Berkana nods, smiles, picks a book out of the bookcase and sits on the chair, opposite of Gareth, reading.