Megaman Excel 2
By: Metal Sonic EX
Disclaimer: The eight stage select Mavericks, X's Genesis Armor, the Apollo Ride Armor, and the Blitzkrieg are all © to me. Everything else is © to Capcom.
In this chapter, the hunters backtrack for the misc. items they missed and an old figure once thought dead returns. All I'm going to say is someone from the almost-end of the original Megaman Excel is coming back. Anyways, here's chapter nine!
Chapter IX
Backtracking For Items
X walked into the command room and Axl followed him. "You summoned?" Gate kicked up his legs and crossed them. "You said you wanted to go backtracking for the items you missed, right?" X nodded. "Then be my guest, but take Zero. I'll remain here with Dynamo and the girls. There isn't much and I can teleport you closer to the actual location of them. So, are you ready?" Zero walked in at that moment. "We are now." Zero raised an eyebrow. "We are now what?" X and Axl beamed off as Gate typed coordinates into the computer. He shrugged and beamed off too.
Level Styles - Solely 3-D
Active Member - X
(Spider (PSX) - Museum Boss begins playing)
X beamed down in the Ulfat Factory mixing pools. He blasted a lone Bat Bone that fell from the ceiling and entered the next two rooms easily. Upon entering the third room, he walked up onto the walkway over the magma and charged Flame Wheel. He fired it (no pun intended) and dropped harmlessly onto the lava. He easily skimmed across the surface and jumped onto the platform. He walked up to the capsule and it activated. Again, the Gate hologram appeared.
"X, take the helmet parts. These parts will allow you to not only scan your enemies, but use uncharged special weapons unlimited times. Step aboard the capsule and have the parts." The hologram disappeared and X walked onto it. When he walked out, his hands and arms had been replaced with a white armor with a red streak going down the side. X smirked and beamed off.
(Spider (PSX) - Museum Boss fades out)
(Megaman X6 (PSX) - Rainy Turtloid Stage begins playing)
X beamed down automatically on Forbidden Island. He ran up the small slope of snow and ice until he came to the wall of ice. "Alright. Fire didn't work before. Maybe your new weapon will work." X shifted his weapons and his armor became gold and orange. "Cryptic Grenade!" He fired the attack and it exploded harmlessly on the side of the ice. "Hmmm… Try the charged version. If that doesn't work, then you may need to go around." X charged it and unleashed the massive blast the same way he did Neo Genesis. "Cryptic Grenade!" This time, the ice wall cracked and fell to pieces on the ground. "Got it!" Roll giggled on the other end. "Alright! With that out of the way, you should complete the Genesis Armor." X walked over the ice shards and, sure enough, the final capsule lay in wait.
It activated and Gate's hologram appeared. "X, if you've gotten this far, then you must have found the other three. These are the buster parts. With these, you'll be able to fire the Plasma Shot like as a normal fully-charged shot. However, you can also attack enemies of a certain elements and gain the ability to launch elemental Plasma Shots as well. Board the capsule and take the parts." X did and, when the armor was completed, he threw his fist into the air. "Yes!" The helmet had stayed basically the same since the Force Armor, but it was completely white and had two red streaks along the temples of it.
X ran back down the slope and began looking for an ice enemy. "Alright. Let's try this out." Soon enough, he found a large elephant Reaverbot. He charged a shot and blasted right through it as it charged him. When the Reaverbot expired, four beams of blue light appeared and were absorbed into the buster. X then changed the type of Plasma Shot like he would special weapons, charged it, and fired a large sphere of ice. "Sweet!" X smiled approvingly and beamed off to his next destination.
(Megaman X6 (PSX) - Rainy Turtloid Stage fades out)
(In The Groove (PS2) - KaW - Anubis begins playing)
X beamed down and was above to dash into the main hall of the Nakkai ruins when Axl beamed down. "Hey! You're part of a team. Remember? Let us up to bat!" X smirked. "Sorry, I was getting the capsule parts." Axl also smirked. "Tell that to Zero." X beamed off and Axl took lead.
Active Member - Axl
Axl ran down the hall until three Mettaurs emerged from a small hole in the wall. Axl brought out his grenade launcher and easily disposed of them. He then turned into the room with the massive hole and he immediately noticed a small pink tank. "The EX Tank! Gate could make something out of this." He studied the distance to it and took a running start. When he jumped, e began hovering over to the tank. He landed safely on the other side and he fished the tank out of the rubble and debris. "Sweet!" X beamed down and was handed the tank. He downloaded the data and they beamed off again together.
(In The Groove (PS2) - KaW - Anubis fades out)
(T2: The Arcade Game (Sega Genesis) - Sound Test 04 begins playing)
X and Axl immediately warped to the construction yard where Krillion was held captive. This time, it was the massive girder structure Zero had passed. The explosion from the Apollo armor had shaken a few girders loose and the Energy Tank sat snugly between two of them. "There's no way we could get up there without collapsing the whole thing. We'd have to get a headstart, probably halfway up it." Zero beamed down and brought out V Hanger. "Watch and learn."
He threw the grapple line and it wrapped around one of the girders halfway up the structure. Zero walked over and retracted the weapon, sending him shooting up. The grapple was retracted and Zero managed to grab one of the highest girders. He was several stories above ground level, so a fall meant either massive damage or instant disablement. He climbed onto the girder and used the grapple to grab the highest one, right above the Sub Tank. He shot up and nabbed the tank on his way up. "Got it!" However, the grapple slid off the girder and he stopped going up. "Uh oh." Zero began his plummet down, trying to retract the grapple for another life-saving shot, but it was retracting fast enough. All seemed lost when Zero landed, not on the round, but on as bed of floating petals.
(T2: The Arcade Game (Sega Genesis) - Sound Test 04 fades out)
"What the hell?" It lowered him to the ground and dropped him not-so-lightly. Zero stood up and handed the tank to X (who swiftly downloaded it's data) before cracking his back. "That was weird." Suddenly, a large crash was heard and a massive Reaverbot appeared and charged the hunters. Before they could draw their weapons, a massive spike rose from the ground and impaled it. It exploded and a figure was seen standing it the middle of the fire.
(A.N. Guess who's back. Back again. Axle's back. Tell a friend.)
(Megaman X5 (PSX) - Axle The Red's Stage begins playing)
The familiar rose head was the first thing that they saw. "kind of pathetic that these creatures were once the dominant robots of this planet, isn't it?" He looked up and both X and Zero gasped. "Axle! What the hell's going on!" Axle chuckled, but continued to stand in the fire, unharmed by the flames. "I find it kind of sad tat you think I'd throw my life away like that. If it was to tell you of Sigma's rebirth, then I can understand that. But I've cheated death and not even it was the wiser." X raised an eyebrow. "Cheated death?" Axle would've smirked if he had a mouth. "If you were paying absolute attention, when Sigma launched his attack that 'destroyed' me, you would've seen me dashing away with Split Dream. Sigma destroyed nothing but my copy."
They stood standing for a minute until Zero began into laughter. "You've proven us wrong yet again. I admit, you had even me." Axle chuckled. "I had everyone, even Sigma himself." Axl turned to the other hunters. "Now that this reunion is done and over with, do you think we could get moving now?" Gate's voice prevented a response. "Actually, Axl, there's been a change of plans. Another uprising has started in the scrap yard. I need you and Dynamo to go there pronto." Axl sighed. A hunter's work is never done." He beamed off, leaving the three behind. "So, what are you going to do now, Axle?" The rose-based reploid stepped over the debris and walked over to the hunters. "I might as well go with you. I've got something that might help." Zero shrugged. "Fine with me." The hunters beamed off and Axle disappeared in his usual breeze of rose petals.
(Megaman X5 (PSX) - Axle The Red's Stage fades out)
(Megaman X7 (PS2) - Soldier Stonekong Stage begins playing)
Axl and Dynamo both beamed down and immediately saw a massive brawl between two armies of Preon S Botos and Preon S Ferham. "You've got to be kidding me. A Preon war? Yeah right." Dynamo drew his saber and began charging his saber. "Watch this skill!" He dashed over and jumped into the air. Then, he swung the saber downwards, wiping out several of both kinds of Preons. Axl dashed up with his grenade launcher and began picking the Preons off. "There's too many of them! We can't take them out like this!" Dynamo turned to his temporary partner. "Then, let's wipe these things off the map!"
Giga Attack
Strike Raid
Dynamo threw his saber into the brawl four times began whipping it as hard as he could into the brawl. When the saber returned to him, another chunk of Preons were wiped out. Then, Axl used his Giga Attack.
Giga Attack
DNA Change
Given the data through his latest special weapon, Axl turned into Jacquelyn. "Behold the power of Eve!" Three massive lasers just about wiped all of the Preon S Botos soldiers out. He turned back and they both activated Double Attack.
Execute Axl/ Dynamo Double Attack
This wiped many of the remaining Preons out. Only a handful of Preons were left on both sides and they turned to run. Dynamo slashed through the rest of the Preon S Botos soldiers while Axl picked off the rest of the Preon S Ferham soldiers. "This was too damn easy!" Axl nodded and they both beamed back to Central Tower.
(Megaman X7 (PS2) - Soldier Stonekong Stage fades out)
Back at Central Tower, Teasel, Bon Bonne, Roll's parents, Prof. Barrell, and Axle all awaited the hunter duo's return. They walked in the door and Gate turned to Axle. "Alright, you said you had something for us." Axle pulled out a micro-sized camera. "I don't follow." Axle walked up and handed it to Gate. "It's what's on it. I think this will be most interesting." Gate downloaded the data from the camera and put it on the big screen. Then, he backed up so he could see it. A floating mask of sorts was seen in a darkened room. "What's this?" Gate turned to Axle again. "This is the cause of your new virus. The Mother Limited." Zero raised an eyebrow. "Mother Limited? This thing has a name?" Axle nodded. "The Limited Virus is the same one that infected Strider, Leo, and Jacquelyn. This is what the virus is spawned from."
As the hunters began gathering more data about the virus, another shaded figure watched as the scientist and his temporary colleague prepared to leave. "Are you ready? My ship's already airborne. If we can leave any time soon, that would be lovely." The scientist finished typing and hit the Return key on the keyboard. The Mother Limited shimmered before disappearing. "The evasion program has been activated. The hunters now have no chance of destroying the Mother limited. And your sarcasm annoys me." The other figure scoffed. "Your speed annoys me! Now hurry that old ass of yours up or I'll leave without you."
The scientist sneered and turned to face him. "Need I remind you that I'm the one who rebuilt you?" The figure shrugged. "So? It doesn't matter what you did. Now that I'm back, not even you are going to tell me what to do. Now hurry the -bleep- up!" The scientist held his sneer, but complied. As they left, the shaded figure chuckled. "Those fools. They'll fall soon enough. And when they do, it'll be my turn to step up to the plate."
Don't you hate that? Every time I reveal one figure's identity, I bring up another one. Har har! Anyways, in the next chapter, the first figure is revealed and things start spiraling downwards as a race against time begins. Until then, Read and Review and I'll continue!