Zero The Legendary Reploid
Disclaimer: I do not own MegaMan or Zero. They are the sole rights of Capcom Inc.
A/N: This story is based off another's story on this site. But this is many years after, peace between reploids and humans has still not come about, but now X and Zero, finally together again, are both on the search for their past. they both want to know what thier purpose was when they were created. But X is starting to question his own existence in the war for peace.
Prologue: Zero's Diary
The whole existence of my life was at that time, to protect the humans. I don't know if I was right in what I beleived, but what I belived was what we all thought was right. Maybe we were wrong, but I trusted my friends. X once told me that if you wanted to preserve the peace, once in a while you had to use force. I know now after he has been gone, that he was right. Everything we have gone through proves that we were right. When X came back however, we started to wonder if our own purposes might have been a little different from what we wanted to beleive. We found several capsules that were meant for me and X. We never opened them, we wanted to make sure that they would never be made to serve the other Mavericks or confused hunters. Once X had asked me if maybe, Copy-X might have been right? I did not know how to take that question, it seemed so unlike X to ask such a question. But after a while I realized that he was only asking this out of his own questioning of his role in the fight of good and evil. But I too started to wonder if maybe humans were better off without reploids? We also found a capsule that for the first time, had a label on it. It said: FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY. FOR MEGA MAN'S EYES ONLY. It confused us to no end, because we started to wonder if maybe Dr. Light had made another reploid. But later on, we found out from Dr. Cain that only X was found in the old lab of Dr. Light's, and there were no notes as to the whereabouts of this reploid/robot named Mega Man. We started to wonder about it and X almost was obsessed with finding out if maybe he wasn't the only robot that was made by Dr. Light.
Chapter 1: The Secret Lab
"You know X if you keep this up, your going to make us think your going Maverick." Zero said kiddingly to his partner as he walked next to him. They had been looking in the rubble of the lab that Dr. Cain had found all those years ago. When Dr. Cain had found it, the rubble looked as if it might have been hundreds of years old already. X was looking at every note he could find. Some of it was almost impossible to read, and some of it was encoded so that only X could read it. Dr. Light must have been worried that the wrong people might have stumbled accross X and didn't want them to know what it took to creat a robot like X. But then suddenly X let out a sharp yell. "Zero! You must come quickly and see this! I think i might have found what we were looking for." X said as he was practically jumping up and down. "It's encoded but I think you can read it." Zero dahsed over to X and took the peice of paper, wondering what to make of it. But then a tone sounded in his ear and he suddenly heard the voice of Dr. Light.
"I've been trying to find Wliy's base, without Mega it will be alot harder to take him down. I fear that he may have found out the secret of my robot X. I would have hoped that X might have gone on undisturbed for 30 years or more, but it seems now I might have to activate him. I fear that if his systems aren't tested properly, he may not respond with the kindest of dispositions. But I have to try, I have to stop Wily, if not because he stole my plans to X. Then because he is a mad man, and only wishes to controll the world. I dream of one day there being peace between robots and humans. Maybe someday, X will make that possible. I have a feeling that X will be awakened far after I have gone, and I hope that someday, he will be able to live in peace. That is a dream that his predecessor wanted till his last days. I miss Mega, and Roll, but they died doing what I had programed them to do. Protect humanity."
Zero and X stood there for several minutes in awe of what they just had read. Dr. Light had made X in the prospects of protecting humanity and creating peace between robots and humans. X put his hand on his head, the clang of it didn't even shake him. X fought hard to try to remember if he had ever been woken up before, maybe even a little glimpse of his creator. But X came up with nothing. "Darn!" He yelled out loud with frustration. Zero walked over to his best friend, took him in his arms and hugged him. "We will find the secrets to your past. I promise." Zero said to X. This brought a smile to the blue robots face. Then suddenly all the lights in the cavern lit up, buttons lighted up, beeps were heard all over from the ancient technology. X and Zero looked on in confusion, mainly from the realization that all this stuff must have been hundreds of years old. And yet it all still had power, and still funtioned even from all the pressure from being under ground.
"X do you beleive this?" Zero asked as he turned around and tried to understand how this was all possible. X looked around and then realized that he had sat down on a console. He picked up his hand and saw that he had pushed a button. He tried to read it and found it to be a back-up power supply switch. X then realized that it was fit to his hand, and that it looked almost like a hand print scanner. "Hey Zero, I think I know how it turned on!" He said as he pointed to what he was sitting on. Zero came over to investigate it. He looked at the hand print scanner and then at X's hand. It had been especially made for him. Or maybe a robot with his exact desings. This confused the two reploids even more, because as far as they knew, they were the only two origional robots that had been created in the time of Dr. Light. But apparently they weren't and it in fact worried Zero a little. If there was another robot created when they were, then it had been hiding, or destroyed. Zero wanted to know what happened to it.
A screen flashed on the west wall and then lit up with the face of Dr. Light. He looked very pleased to see X, and even a little pleased to see Zero. "Well, it would seem that the two robots who survived our war have returned. And no doubt with many questions. According to my readings it is a couple hundred years since I have passed away. And according to sensor readings, you two have found several capsules. I am very proud of you two. Even though you Zero were not created by me, I had expected that your independent thinking systems would have come up with the concept that protecting humans was the right thing to do. I am sorry you both had to live in a world of war and destruction. I had so much better hopes for you. I hoped you had a chance to live in peace, and harmony. But seing as you have had to use the capsules, I suppose that you were not granted that luxury. I assume that the person who awoke you X had made replicas of a sort out of your technology. And from the looks of things, some of them have turned against humanity or come to the conclusion that they are sentient too and deserved rights. Some of them are right X. They are sentient, they do deserve rights, but the ways they go about it probably wasn't the right way.
"I had designed the lab to withstand most of whatever might have happned after I was gone. So I am glad you have had a chance to make it. Zero, I am so glad you and X have been able to become friends. I worried that you would listen to your origional programming as you did against X's predecessor and killed my Mega Man. But you seem to have realized your wrongs. I hope that you two continue on your journys together in trying to bring peace between robots and humans. It is not a bad wish, and it is possible. Sometimes violence must come about to bring ultimate peace. Let's just hope it ends in good ways instead of bad. But to the reason you are here. You both are probably wondering what ever happend to my robot Mega Man. And no doubt you found my capsule labled for him. When you attacked Mega Man, Zero, you defeated him. You may not have memories of this, but it did happen. You were created by my old friend and now enemy Dr. Wily. He broke into my lab twice, once to steal my plans for robots in the begining, and then again to steal the plans to X. That is how you were created. You and X are one in the same, you are brothers. Just as my Mega Man and Wily's Proto Man were. X is just the new version of Mega Man and you are the new version of Proto Man. I regret that you had to live the life of violence but it can't be helped.
"If you are still interested in meeting your prototype X there is schematics in the drawer to your left. And Zero, all the memories of his circuits were salvagable. They are in the far cabinet to your right. With these you should be able to re-create him. He could be a powerfull ally, or a powerfull foe. He may not understand what has happened right away. You would be best to let him sit by himself for a while and let him gather his thoughts. I do not know how he will react to being deactivated for this long, I would hope he will respond good, but only you can make that possible. Treat him like a brother, and he will treat you the same. I have tried to alter his memory so he knows what happened, and knows who you two are. But I am not sure if I was successful. You will have to be there for him. I must leave you now, the reserves were only built to get main power back up and I do not know if your power means now will be sufficient to get the lab back up and running. Please, do take care of yourselves, you are the hope of the free world. And Zero, don't take all of this harshly, you were only a tool used to hurt people. You had no choice but to follow your programming untill your reasoning circuits activated. You did no wrong. It brings me great joy that you two have come this far. Please take care of each other. Good bye my friends"
The screen went blank and all of the lighting and buzz of computers shut down. Save for a small light above a capsule. Both X and Zero walked over to it. "Think this is what he was talking about?" X asked Zero. Zero looked at him, "I'm not sure X. It could just be another update for you or me." Zero shruged. "But there is no harm in looking is there?" The two of them touched the capsule and it opened with a great hiss. The smoke cleared and there stood a robot body. Complete, and from the looks of it untouched throughout the years. They both looked at it in awe. The blue robot looked alot like X but more simple. The chest plate was not there as like X, but the helmet and forearms looked much like X's. The legs looked similar and the face looked like a younger version. "Man, Dr. Light sure made him to be alot younger than either of us didn't he?" Then all of a sudden a bright flash of light and there stood behind them a hologram of Dr. Light.
"Well you guys finally found this one. I was wondering when you might get curious." The hologram put his hands in his lab coat. X and Zero looked at each other quizzically and then looked back at the hologram. "Is this the body of Mega Man?" Zero asked, a little bit of curiosity escaped his voice. "Yes you are correct Zero, this is the body of Mega Man. It is not complete because I did not have time to install his Mega Buster. I have been thinking that we could update it with X's X-Buster." The hologram paced back and forth. X looked at his arm, and then looked at the hologram. "Do you really think his body can withstand the X-Buster Dr. Light?" X asked skepticaly. Zero looked at X's arm and then looked back also at teh hologram. The hologram stopped pacing and then looked at them. "Yes, I do believe that it is compatible, and should be able to handle the power. You may have to update his power supply though. But this is what you were looking for. Mega is the link to both of your pasts. I hope he will make it alot easier for you to decide what your path is." The hologram then dissapeared and the robot of Mega Man fell to the floor.
"EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY! X and Zero, report to HQ for your mission briefing. I repeat, X and Zero report to HQ for your mission briefing." Came a voice on thier intercoms. X and Zero put a transmission beacon on the Mega Man reploid and then contacted HQ. "Ceil, this is X. Please take what we are sending you and transmit it to our quarters." X said as he punched a button on the beacon. "All right X, but you and Zero better get back here, it's getting pretty nasty. There are still followers of Copy-X around, and they seem to think, that they can ressurect him. They are making a world wide statement in 3 minutes." Zero looked back at X and then to the dissapearing robot. "Well, guess we have to clean up the mess we left again huh?" Zero said to X as he slapped him in the back. "Yea, but I bet this time I beet you by about 30." Zero grinned as he tapped the gem on his helmet. "Your on!"