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MegaMoon X-S Chapter 2

X looked at the girl, Sailor Moon, in confusion. She seemed to be unarmed, and if he attacked her, he'd be branded a Maverick. Even then, she seemed to know what she was doing. She continued with her speech. "Attacking an innocent is despicable, and I, Sailor Moon, will not stand for it!" She was more visible as she stepped forward, she turned out to be a girl who looked around fifteen, with a white sailor suit and blue skirt and two red ribbons, as well as red thigh-high boots. One on the front, one by her lower back. What was most distinct was her hair, which she wore in two long blond pigtails.

"Neither will I, Sailor Venus!" A second voice said. Zero shifted his gaze, and saw a girl who looked very similar to Sailor Moon, except her hair was let down, she had an orange theme on her suit, and instead of boots, she wore orange heels. The biggest difference, however, was the red ribbon in her hair.

"Sailor Jupiter won't either!" came from behind the three Reploids. Standing there was a girl who stood a fair bit taller then the other two Scouts. She had her brown hair in a high ponytail, and her sailor suit had a green colour motif. Axl shifted to they formed a circle with Rei in the center. X and Zero both looked to the corner where they expected another girl to show up.

"I, Sailor Mercury, will not stand idly by!" Like clockwork, a fourth Sailor Scout showed up. This one had short blue hair and a blue colour scheme, and when she hit her earring, a visor covered her eyes, scanning the three.

They began to speak in sync. "And in the name of the Moon… We will punish you!" They struck a pose, but were shocked when Zero began clapping.

"That was quite the performance. I'm impressed." the red Hunter said. The girls weren't quite sure how to react to this. While they were coming up with a response, the three Reploids had their own dilemma. In their world, they became Mavericks and wanted criminals if they attacked a human. Of course, they could act in self-defence, but needed to be careful to not go overboard.

The girls quickly regained their composure, and Sailor Venus was the first to act. "Crescent Beam!" Zero grabbed Rei and used his double-jumping abilities to get outside of the circle they were in. X used his Hermes Armour properties to become invisible as he dashed past the girls, and Axl simply hovered over them, leaving the ground as the new target for Venus' attack.

The Scouts all turned, now being surrounded, but Jupiter began to charge an attack, since Axl was still in the air. She crossed her arms as a tiny lightning rod extended from her tiara. "Supreme Thunder!"

Axl was struck and sent down to the ground, sparking a little bit. She thought he was done for, but he quickly got back up. "Nice shot Sparky, but it's my turn now!" He pulled out his pistols and began firing on Sailor Jupiter, sending her flying back from the force of the bullets, though they didn't pierce her skin, which caught Axl off guard. "Hey guys, they have some kind of weird armour on. Looks like we don't have to go easy on them."

Axl ran towards Sailor Jupiter, and jumped in the air. "A-Trans!" He transformed into the same hawk-like Reploid from before and flew above the other girls, who Zero and X were engaging.

Sailor Jupiter couldn't do anything, since fear was paralysing her. She had a crippling fear of airplanes ever since her parents both died in a plane crash. Being carried by a giant metal bird with jet engines was close enough to put her into shock. Axl lowered her down and reverted to normal before knocking her in the back of the head, keeping her down.

Zero was busy dealing with Sailors Venus and Mercury. He was able to block the blonde's Crescent Beam with his sabre, and Mercury had yet to launch an attack. The two girls exchanged a look, and seemed to have a plan. "Bubble Spray!"

Zero's vision was clouded by a think fog. To counteract this, he cut his visual reception to 50 percent, and increased his audio reception to 200 percent. With the increased hearing, he could hear Sailor Venus preparing another attack. "Crescent Beam!"

He sidestepped it and dashed to where he heard the sound from, before grabbing Venus' arm and hitting her with his sabre handle to knock her to the ground. Sailor Mercury wasn't going to take that lying down. "Shine Aqua Illusion!" The water splashed onto Zero and froze him solid.

She breathed out a sigh of relief, until the ice began to crack, and a beam of green light pierced it. Zero had managed to ignite his sabre and had begun to carve himself out. He smiled at her. "It was a good try. I thought I was done there for a second." He said before knocking her down like he did Venus, both too dazed to rejoin the fight.

X and Sailor Moon squared off. "I swear, we were protecting her!" X shouted at the girl.

Sailor Moon had an angry glare set on her face and wasn't backing down. These three might've hurt Rei, and she wasn't willing to take that chance. She summoned her sceptre, which fazed X slightly, but then again, X was used to Axl pulling out different types of guns for his weapons. As she prepared to attack, he engaged his X-Drive. The Hermes body part gave him immunity to weak attacks, and the X-Drive doubled the amount of damage he could shrug off.

She finished her attack. "Moon Princess Halation!" The attack shot at X, who didn't raise a hand to stop it, assuming she couldn't hurt him. That was until the attack made contact and sent him sprawling. A warning went off in his head. "Large amount of damage sustained. Switch to Icarus Armour frame recommended. Commence frame shift?"

X decided he didn't have a choice. After all, if he dodged, the attack would've hit the priestess. "Frame shift authorised."

In a flash of light, his armour was gone, then replaced with a new set. The new set, the Icarus Armour, was red-themed and much more solid appearing then the Hermes Armour. He fired a shot at Sailor Moon, the buster part upgrading it to a level one Charge Shot. Sailor Moon, in a bout of fear, managed to use her sceptre to bat away the attack, surprising the Reploid.

X began to charge his Buster as Sailor Moon felt she had the advantage. "This is it! Moon Princess Double Halation!" She fired two blasts at X, who released his charge shot. The buster parts I turned his full power shot into a giant laser that was aimed at the blonde heroine.

She didn't have a chance to block as it hit her in the chest, sending her flying into a wall, and almost knocking her out as her sailor suit collapsed into a pile of ribbons covering her. X walked forward, seeing that her broach had fallen off. He picked up the broach with the Silver Crystal that had fallen off of Serena. As he held it, it began to glow, as did X's head crystal.

X stared at the glowing crystal before both crystals stopped glowing and dulled, the Silver Crystal having lost most of its lustre, and X's head crystal was dimmer then normal. He was barely able to stand. "Come on, let's go back." He said, switching to his Dimension Shift.

Zero shook his head. "I'm gonna stick around for a bit. Axl, take him home." X wasn't in the mood to argue with his partner, so he used his weapon to send him and Axl back to Maverick Hunter HQ.

Zero then picked up the broach and walked over to Serena. She began to shiver with fright, thinking he was here to finish her off when the crystal seemingly crippled his partner. "This is yours." He handed it to her as he walked back over to Rei, standing her up. "She's fine. I understand the need to protect someone or something, but you need to learn to listen to others." He said, dashing off.

Back at headquarters, Alia was waiting for X to return. When he finally did, he staggered forward and would have fallen if Alia hadn't been there to catch him. "Axl? What happened?"

He saw the concern in Alia's eyes for the unconscious Reploid, and any quip he had died on his tongue. All he said was, "Get him to Life Saver. He'll find out what's wrong with him."

Alia nodded and carried X off to the medical bay. Axl went to make his report, passing Layer in the hall. "Where's Zero?" She asked him.

"He stayed behind to do some recon. I'm sure you'll be able to reconnect to his frequency. We'll be heading back once X is up and running." He told her, before adding. "If you think something'll happen to him, don't. From what X's told me, he's died at least twice, and always shows up with a cheesy one liner."

Layer returned the young Hunter's smile. "I thought the cheesy one-liners was your job."

Axl acted hurt, then laughed. "Well then, I'd better get some new jokes." He headed off to actually some paperwork. After all, the sooner they found out what they could, they would be better prepared. Plus, he was especially intrigued by these 'Pure Heart Crystals'. After all, since they were so similar to DNA Cores, he was curious to see if he could A-Trans into actual people by using his Copy Shot.

In the medical bay, Alia was pacing, waiting for X's status report. When Life Saver exited, Alia turned to face him. "How is he?"

The medical officer smiled, happy he had news that could ease the blonde's worries. "He's fine. Just a massive data overload. His systems went into hibernation to help him analyse the data faster. He should be up and running by the end of a full charge cycle." Alia breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright. Thank you. I better get back to work. Alert me when he's awake."

"Of course Miss." The medic told her, going back to check up on his patients.

Dreamscape (X):

X looked around. He quickly recognized where he was. "I'm on the Moon." he said. However, there was no Orbital Elevator, Copy Reploids, or spike pits. He saw a palace off in the distance. "No, that can't be right!" He cried, "It looks totally different from where I fought Sigma and Lumine!"

However, he decided to look into it anyway. It seemed abandoned as he got closer, until he heard footsteps. He turned, his Buster active, until he saw it was a woman with silver hair. "Who are you?" He asked, not lowering his weapon. After, he had just fought girls who didn't show physical damage from plasma shots.

The woman smiled a sweet, sincere smile. "I was wondering how long it would take for you to get here. But, what are you exactly?"

X figured this was a valid question, so he answered truthfully. "I'm X, the final creation of Dr Thomas Light and a Class SA Maverick Hunter."

She seemed to be sizing him up. "Ah. I see. You're a machine, but you have the heart and mind of a human." X nodded, this was close enough. But he did have a few questions of his home.

"Who are you, and where are we?"

She smiled her sweet smile. "We're in the Moon Kingdom, in the Silver Millennium, roughly ten thousand years before your time in 21XX. And I am Queen Serenity."

X was stunned. There was life on the Moon? But that was impossible. Just this being here was taxing his processors. She seemed to realize that. "I know this is hard, and your world doesn't hold the answers. But I am well aware that you have the tools to find the truth, or we wouldn't be speaking now. Goodbye for now, Maverick Hunter X."

Dreamscape(Serena):

Serena was holding her crystal high, about to transform. "Moon Crystal Power!" A brief glimmer of light began to shine, but it quickly died out. "Moon Crystal Power!" again it failed. The farthest she got was about halfway, her bodysuit would form, but she would revert to civilian form before anything else formed. "Why won't it work?"

"Just give up already." She looked up to see the other Sailor Scouts, Sailor Mars being the one who snapped at her. "Seriously Serena, if you can't transform, why should we bother with you?"

"Maybe it's time to retire Serena," Sailor Jupiter told her, as they began to walk off, Serena desperately chasing after them. She soon lost sight of her friends, but kept running through the dreamscape until she tripped over something that had a metallic clang against her foot. Looking back, she saw a wrench.

Looking around some more, she saw she was in some kind of workshop. She saw a man with white hair and a beard. He was sluggish and seemed to have a terrible cough. Clearly he was ill, but was refusing to stop. "Excuse me," He turned to her, "Where am I?"

He coughed a few more times. "Oh, child. This is my laboratory. I'm Dr Thomas Light." He told her, before breaking into another coughing fit. "You've come at a time to witness a perfect moment of glory! I have completed my crowning achievement. I have completed my greatest creation, my son, X"

Serena was stunned. X was what the others had called the blue-armoured one. She looked into the capsule, and sure enough, there was X. "Why is he sleeping?" She asked.

Dr Light smiled, his was a sad, tired smile. "I have to seal him away. He is the first android, able to think and make his own choices, and he is programmed without the Three Laws of Robotics." Serena made a mental note to ask Ami about those soon. "However, I don't believe the world is ready for this kind of breakthrough, so I have decided to seal him away for thirty years in ethical testing."

Serena looked once more at X's sleeping form. "That's so sad! How can you do that to your son?"

He turned back to Serena, regret in his voice. "I'm afraid I will not live long enough to see him emerge, but one day, I hope you will be able to help him out. After all, you seem quite young. As my last request, please help X through the world, for I fear he will not meet the warmest reception." Serena inwardly cringed, as her and her friends had not only given him a cold reception, but had openly attacked him.

Her big blue eyes looked into his aging, clouded eyes. "I promise, Doctor."

Outside of her dream, what had started as a nightmare had settled into a calm sleep, and the crystal on her nightstand seemed to shine a little bit before going dark once more.

So, how was it? I'm personally proud of it. Give me your honest opinion. And for the next few chapters, I'll be giving a brief character overview. This chapter will be X, and Zero, next will be Axl and the Navigators, and finally the Sailor Scouts.

X: The last creation of Dr Thomas Light, he was found roughly one hundred years after Dr Light's passing by an archaeologist, Dr Cain. What could be deciphered from X's coding, (I've heard only 29 percent could be used) to create all other Reploids (REPlicate andrOIDS), though they did not have the ethical testing like X did, nor the full abilities. His name X, is a variable. Dr Light gave him that name to reflect his limitless potential. He has full virus immunity, and while initially perceived to be weak, he has a strong desire to protect what he cars about and keep innocent people safe, though he is a pacifist at heart. In the Megaman Zero series, he is the leader of the last safe haven on Earth, Neo Arcadia, where his body is used to seal the Dark Elf, and he becomes a Cyber-Elf. (Those aren't important yet)

Zero: The last creation of Dr Albert Wily, rival of Dr Light and antagonist of the Meggaman Classic series. Zero was improperly woken up and went into a berserk rage, until the leader of the Maverick Hunters, Sigma, stopped him, but contracted the Zero/Maverick/Sigma Virus in the process. It warped his mind, and caused him to believe Reploids were superior, making him desire a world without humans. He staged the ten Maverick uprisings (Megaman X-X8, Xtreme 1 and 2) But X and Zero were able to stop him every time. In Megaman X, Zero seemingly died to destroy Vile's Ride Armour, and he was rebuilt in X3 (X2 if you killed the X Killers in the right order). He also died in X5, but came back once more in X6. In Megaman X4, due to a misunderstanding, he ended up forced to fight and kill his love, Iris. But from what I can tell, his character has changed little, though inX8, he seemed oblivious to Layer's advances towards him. Between X8 and Zero, his coding was used to create the Mother Elf, who could cure the Maverick Virus(Which came from him) until it was corrupted into the dark Elf, which X sealed. In Megaman Zero, Zero is awakened by a girl named Ciel to help her and her Resistance against the corrupt government of Neo Arcadia after X was no longer the ruler. (Again, not going any further, since Megaman Zero is not canon in this story)

As for the whole thing about X seeing Queen serenity and Serena seeing Dr Light, the two crystals reacted and transferred their memories to each other, X absorbed al the memories at once, almost overloading his processors and causing him to go into hibernation mode for him to analyse the memories and properly deal with them.

Serena, on the other hand, does not have that kind of mental capacity, just as a human, plus X has over a century's worth of memories, which is a lot more then Serena has, even as Princess Serenity. The crystal dimmed from holding the memories from Serena, so they wouldn't overload her brain and make her go crazy. Since it is tied to her emotions, though, her resolve of her promise to Dr Light restored some light.

Next time, We'll find out how they deal with these developments, and how Zero's self-appointed recon mission went!