Avengers and Mavericks

Chapter 1: Rebooted

By: Maverick Hunter Phoenix and Firehedgehog

It was a simple Grave, a tombstone surrounded by grass. There was only one thing written on the stone.

Zero.

The Hero of Reploids and humans was no more, there wasn't even a body to bury. The only thing that had survived that final Catalytic battle was his sword.

"He fought bravely… so long, it's a shame he never got to see this day," Axl said sadly, the red-haired reploid had his helmet off in respect, his hair fluttered in a gentle wind.

"His sacrifice finally brought peace Axl, we can finally rest… I only wish he hadn't had to end this way," X sadly said, sighing as he stared at the silent grave.

"What do you plan to do now X?" Axl asked curious, X frowned thoughtfully.

"I'm going to seal myself away… I really have no use in a peaceful world. Me, who hates fighting… ha. It's funny Axl, I'm going to sleep and maybe one day someone will need me again," X said sadly.

"Then I'll join you," Axl said brightening.

"What," X said startled, he turned to face the black armored reploid. "But you're still young, there's still so much for you to see… to learn," X protested.

"I know," Axl replied with a shrug. "But I'm better at fighting anyway, also… I'm not going to just let one of my best friends go. I already lost my other best friend."

X stared at the teen, Axl was serious. He then sighed, and gave a tired smile.

"Is that your final decision?" He asked, Axl nodded.

"There's no stopping me," Axl said, putting his helmet on.

"Then… lets do this," X said.

Yet, neither knew when or how far in the future they'd wake.

Or, even what the world would be like.

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Years passed. Now that the Mavericks were gone, the Hunters faded into legends, unable to stop the flow of time. Reploids slowly disappeared from the Earth, opting sleep to permanent shut-down, unknownily following X and Axl's example, waiting for the time when they are needed again. After all, they were humanity's protectors.

The world teetered on, then fell off of the brink of war by ignorant humans who decided that certain nations had to die. As nuclear war rained down on unsuspecting civilians, the entire world was effectively blasted back to near Stone Age, with certain aspects of technology available to them. As the human race struggled to rebuild, the planet itself healed from the damage done. Forests grew unheeded and unnoticed, free to prosper due to the lack of human influence. Endangered species also came back from the brink, now that humans were no longer hunting them. Polluted rivers and lakes healed, due to forgotten nanotechnology installed in the waters, self-destructing once their job was done.

The existence of charka was discovered and harnessed, as demons became reality to those who believed them to be a mere fairy tale. But still, as shinobi Hidden Villages rose and fell, the reploid race slept on, undiscovered by the new generation of humans. Only the memory of the race survived, preserved in legends as the world's last hope and defenders.

Very few reploids stayed awake, acting as guardians to their sleeping brethren. But, even they sealed themselves away with the rest of them when it became apparent that they were not needed yet.

But human curiousity was growing, and soon the secrets of the past were to be revealed once again, starting with one simple object...

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It's amazing, really, how one finds things when one least expects it. This tried and true method was once again demonstrated by one Uzumaki Naruto early morning while heading to meet his team. The blonde leaf nin was heading to his next mission with team 7, which involved protecting a client while he was on an archelogical dig, quite a ways outside of Konoha. Kakashi had told them to meet near the main gate--ten minutes ago.

For this reason, the blonde was currently hurlting at breakneck speed towards the gates, taking a short-cut to shave off running time. At the moment, Naruto was preparing to leap over a larger than normal stream. It had rained the night before, and it was taking some serious charka control to stay on top of the mud. The sixteen-year-old started to jump--and his foot caught something sticking up out of the ground, and the boy landed face-down in the mud. Pulling his face out of the mud and wiping it off, he turned and glared at the object. The glare turned into a face of thoughtful curiousity as he discovered that it wasn't a rock as he first thought, but really a corner of a metal box!

Naruto gazed at the weird thing a minute more, then started to dig it up. Once he was done, he was faced with a medium-sized metal box, still slightly covered in mud. It had a simple lock on it, and looked easy to break. He was about to open it when..."CRAP! I'M LATE!"

The young shinobi looked again at his discovery--he wanted to open it quite badly, and he couldn't just leave it here...

Making his decision, the blonde demon-vessel hurridely took off his jacket and wrapped up his box in it and resumed running. Maybe he could look at it later...

And with that simple decision, the wheels of fate began to turn once again...

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It was a chamber... undisturbed for what seemed like eternity; large metal boxes were stacked against the too smooth walls… even a amazing computer that was undamaged was there.

But: these were not the important things in this long lost cave.

What was important, were the two cylinders set into the wall covered with dust. They had been inactive for a very long time; that time was just about to end.

-Click-

After the click, electrical sounds began and the whole place lit up. Then there was a hiss as air was decompressed, then slowly the capsules opened.

"X… you all right?" Axl said as he pretty much stumbled from his capsule, X looked to the red haired hunter and nodded.

"Yeah… I'm just wondering how long it's been... and why we woke up… no one woke us and we still have plenty of power in the system," X said curious, the blue hunter was right though.

"Maybe… we're needed again," Axl grinned.

"Maybe…" X said.

"Well... lets go see what this time has in store for us," Axl said cheerfully.

With that, the two hunters headed to the surface, both ready and fearful of what it could hold for them.

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