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Chapter 6: Sigma
Location: Abandoned airport, outskirts of Tokyo
Sigma cackles as he stands in front of the military unit he just captured while the soldiers stand there like statues with Sigma's symbol on each of their foreheads.
"I've outdone myself! I haven't had an army of my own for a long time." Sigma said as he chuckled to himself as he looked at the soldiers. "The Virus Cannon project will be underway shortly, but first let's start some fear into the hearts of Tokyo's citizens. Let's see..."
Sigma mentally counted in his head as he sees about 200 soldiers. "The first 100, come with me...the rest remain on standby."
The 100 soldiers file out to the entrance and Sigma flies out to meet them.
"OK soldiers! Move out!" Sigma ordered and the soldiers moved out in unison towards the intended destination.
Location: Business district, Tokyo
A reploid businessman is sitting outside at a local coffeeshop, looking up his company stock through his laptop. Afterwards he leans back on the chair with a smile on his face. "Looks like it's going to be a good day." As he said that he hears a whizzing sound and he looks around for the source of the sound. By the time he founds the source, he gets blown up by a small rocket.
The people on the streets start running in a panic as they run by what's left of the businessman. The soldiers are just shooting randomly at buildings, at people, and at vehicles. Sigma laughs as he watches the chaos unfold before him.
Location: Maverick Hunter HQ
"This is not good." X said as he watches the news on the tv screen.
"At least we know where the army is now..." Alia said as she also looks on.
"Yea...There's going nuts all over the business district." Axl said.
"The police are on the way to try to contain the situation." Douglas said.
"A lot of good that will do. They'll just add to the injured count." Zero said dryly.
"It's better than nothing...but why would they attack innocent civilians like that?" X pondered.
There was silence in the room as eyes were glued to the TV set and X stood up.
"Where are you going?" Alia asked.
"Going to help!" X said as he warps out.
"I'll go too!" Axl exclaimed as he warps out as well.
Alia then looks at Zero. "I suppose you're leaving as well?"
"Better than sitting around right?" Zero said as he too warps out.
Alia shakes his head. "I know we're supposed to be off-duty but..." Alia then went towards the operations room and got her headset on. "We can't just sit back and let people get hurt or worse"
Location: Business district, Tokyo
The hunters warp on to the scene, surveying the destruction all around them. X looks to see some soldiers blasting at nearby stores and civilians. Axl, however, was getting ready to shoot someone with his Axl Bullets and Zero unsheathing his Z-saber waiting to strike. Both of them dash towards a group of soldiers with Zero slicing off the soldiers' heads and Axl shooting at everything coming at him. X activates his buster and quickly fires a charge shot which destroys a couple of soldiers above. After the group is destroyed, the hunters looked to see if anymore are around. It was then, Zero's communicator beeped.
"Zero, here!"
"Zero, the soldiers are starting to scatter...They're leaving the city." Alia said.
"That can't be right. They all just decided to leave?" Zero asked.
"Right! As soon as you guys arrived, everybody just left." Alia responded
"As if the guys staged the whole thing...just to lure us out here." Zero puts his hand on his chin as he said this.
"Your intellegence never ceases to amaze me."
X, Zero, and Axl had their backs towards each other with their weapons drawn, looking around.
"That voice..." Axl said as he looked around. "Come out Sigma!"
Sigma suddenly warps in a few feet in front of Zero with his cape flapping about, grinning like a madman.
"Did you miss me?" Sigma said in a sarcastic tone.
Everyone stood silent as they faced Sigma, ready to strike him.
"What's with the silent treatment? I thought you guys would welcome me with open arms." Sigma said as he spread out his arms and then he looked at X. "My, my, X, you look different...I like it though...it's an improvement." He then turned to Axl and Zero. "At least you won't like an antique...but i bet you're not here for a lecture...well...am i right?"
Axl stepped forward and changed into his Mach Jentler form. "We're here to kick your ass! We don't know how you came back...but we're going to make sure you don't come back at all."
Axl suddenly fired a Flames of Gehanna at Sigma while Sigma looks on passively. Sigma jumps in the air, avoiding the attack, but the stream changes direction and is about to hit him from behind. Sigma smiled and put up a barrier just in time before the flame attack hit him.
"If that's the best you got, then you are in trouble." Sigma said and he let the barrier down, but as soon as he did that, Zero jumped up in the air, about to slash him and Sigma dodged it, suddenly appearing behind him and launched a Thunder Bomb, sending Zero against the wall of a building. Meanwhile, X was powering up to fire his Charge Shot straight at Sigma. Sigma noticed that and was about to launch a counterattack, but suddenly he was pinned down by several Zero clones.
"What the hell is this!" Sigma said as he continued to struggle. "Is this Soul Body!"
"Sort of," Zero responded from down below. "except it's called Heat Haze."
X fired his Charge Shot at Sigma and was assured a direct hit, but Sigma powered up shaking off the clones, and deflect the shot right back at X, who in turn jumped out of the way before it hit.
Axl fired another Flames of Gehanna at Sigma and Sigma fired a Thunder Beam and the attacks collided against each other, struggling against one another to see which is stronger of the two. Sigma suddenly manuevered away from the flame and flew down towards Axl, nailing him with a roundhouse kick to the head, sending him flying into a bunch of crates, knocking him unconscious.
"Axl!" X called out, turned to Sigma and fired a barrage of buster shots and Sigma took to the air again. "He's strong and quick...he becomes more powerful everytime we see him!"
Sigma cackled. "This is how the Maverick Hunters are these days! How pathetic! I was hoping you can fight a little bit better than that and push this body to its limits," He then shrugged and looked the hunters from below. "But I guess that's asking too much...Well I loved to stay and play some more, but I got things to do."
Zero morphed his other into his Z-Buster and was about to fire a Charge Shot and X followed suit. "You're not going anywhere!"
X and Zero fired at the same time and Sigma warped out before the attack hit him.
"Damn..." Zero cursed and looked to check on the damages to the area. "It's not bad...could have been worse..."
X had Axl on his shoulders and looked around as well. "Yeah..."
"Let's get back to base and rest up, this is only the beginning." Zero said.
"Right...If we know Sigma...This is the beginning." X said.
The Hunters warp back to base and from another part of the district, Magna Centipede was watching via binoculars and the communicator on his ear beeps and he presses it.
"Centipede here!"
"Status report" said Gareth on the other line.
"He warped out, sir!"
"Any word from Mantis?"
"He's been tailing Sigma and found him in a abandoned airport on the outskirts of Tokyo."
"Good! Standby until further instructions!"
"Yes sir! Centipede out!" Centipede cut communication and warped away from the site.