X's p.o.v.

In the sleeping pod was a small Reploid that resembled me, only a few years younger. He slowly opened his eyes and sat up, cringing. When he saw me he gasped and jumped backwards, holding up a Buster.

"Hey," I said, "take it easy, calm down!"

He trembled slightly.

"Wh-what happened to me...!?"

"You just got deactivated." I took a step forward. "Relax, everything's okay now."

"D-don't come any closer!"

I put my arms up.

"I don't want to hurt you, kid."

The boy seemed angered by my words. He slided under the pod and shot me in the shoulder. I grasped it as I fell to my knees, moaning in pain.

He glared at me and said, "I'm not a kid." and left.

I remained on the ground in utter shock and pain. What the hell had just happened!?

"Zero to X, did you find what was in there!?"

"Yeah," I moaned, "but I don't know what exactly it was."

Classic's p.o.v.

I didn't know where the heck I was. I was beginning to think I probably should've stayed with that robot. But I didn't care about that very much, something else was on my mind.

"You've been replaced, Mega Man."

Those were the last words I heard before I was deactivated. I was trying to remember who has said that to me. The voice was cold and deep, and it sent shivers down my spine. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

My thoughts were interrupted when a robot the size of one of the trees popped in front of me.

"Uhh, hi?"

I jumped back before its punch hit me.

I tried shooting it, but it seemed unfased by it. Before it could stomp on me, the robot from earlier jumped in front of me and shot it down. He then turned to face me. I was a bit intimidated by his expression.

"This place is dangerous," he said as he picked me up. "I'm getting you out of here!"

Heaven knows I'm not going to fight against a guy who seemed way stronger than me, so I let him haul me out of the area. He tossed me into what I assumed was a weird looking trampaline. I was wrong, it was a portal.

I opened my eyes to see a scarred face.

"Whoa! X, did you shrink!?"

The robot jumped in after me.

"I'm back," he said. "And I brought company."

I kicked the other robot in the face and landed on my feet, holding up my Buster.

"Hey," another said, "take it easy. X, where did you find this Reploid?"

I blinked. "Reploid?"

"I found him in a sleep pod. I think he just woke up from deactivation."

"Hey," I said, "wh-who are you Robots?"

"WHAT. THE FUCK...!" The blue robot blasted a hole in the wall. "IS A ROBOT!?"

"Robots are what we used to be called," the red one said.

"... Oh."

The blond ponytailed man looked down at me. "We're Reploids, we haven't been called 'robots' in ages."

"Marianne to Hunters, are you there!?"

The black and red one seemed a bit excited.

"Hey there, Marianne! We're kinda busy fighting off Mavericks at the moment, could you call me back-"

"More Mavericks? This was supposed to be your day off!"

"Yeah... How long will this last?"

"Shut up, X," the girl said dully. "Alia filled me in on your situation. How're you holding up against the Mavericks?"

"I just defeated one, but now we've found a mini me. What's your name, kid?"

I was a bit annoyed at being called a kid, but I decided not to pick a fight with a guy whose Buster was stronger than mine.

"Mega Man."

They seemed shocked by my words.

"That's my name. I'm Mega Man X."

"Wait," the girl said. "I think I might know who this boy is!"

"How?"

"I've been controlling you boys as fictional video game characters for years, remember?"

"Oh, yeah..."

"Anyways... A few years before the first game for you three came out, well, I guess a thousand years in your time, there was actually another series of a robot the same color and name as X. Only he was a few feet shorter, and didn't have any armor to collect. The people in my Universe call him Classic Mega Man."

"Huh. That's craz- Huh!? Where'd he go!?"

I was already on top of the ledge. I wasn't going to stay with those loonatics, that woman actually thought we were in a video game!

I stood still when I saw a dog in front of me. He growled slightly. I smiled and rubbed his back.

"Hey, puppy!" I said in a high pitched voice. "Hey, you precious puppy!"

He seemed to enjoy my massage quite a bit, as his tail bobbed back and forth like a bobby head.

"You wanna get the heck out of here with me? Come on, let's go!"

The dog somehow reminded me of Rush. But then again, I love all dogs equally, so I shook it off at the time.

Mother's p.o.v.

I felt my blood run dry. That was the name and voice of my daughter! And she had just broken the 'fourth wall.' I shook it off, thinking maybe they did that in all the games, and maybe another reason Marianne liked these games was because there was a character with her name.

Marianne's text box popped up.

"Let him go! You three need to focus on defeating the Mavericks! Alia and I will look for the kid!"

"Alright. Careful, he has a prety powerful Buster."

I was put in the character select again. Not wanting to choose Axl, as he reminded me of Marianne, I chose the red one, Zero.

When he appeared on screne, the Maverick's name popped up. 'Soldier Spider.'

As I was moving him forward, his text box popped up.

"Hey, Marianne, something just occured to me. If you're no longer controlling us from your Universe, then who is?"

"Probably someone else from my Universe. I'm surprised there's a new game out, maybe this is a rom hack. Damn they're lucky to be playing a new game involving you boys!"

"I don't know weather to take that as a compliment or not."

I chose to ignore that, and continued on to Soldier Spider.

Zero was actually pretty fun to play. You couldn't shoot, but instead you could repeatedly slash robots with a saber. They were lightning fast, and I could only see the green light for a brief second. He was also faster than X, and he could jump higher plus do a double jump.

The only things about X that I prefered over Zero was that Zero couldn't dash. And no matter how many times you cut up a robot, it never did as much damage as a fully charged shot from X, which killed almost everything in one hit.

Eventually, I came across his door and another anime cut scene triggered.

"Soldier Spider. I'm sorry to say you've gone Maverick. Don't even bother forgiving me, I'm here to disassemble you."

"What? Are you here to interfere with our master's plan?"

"What're you talking about?"

"So you don't know. Good. Trust me, even if I miraculously die, there will be no hope for this world."

The was Soldier Spider played was almost identical to how the spider from Sigma1 played in MMX1. (I know how it played because Marianne kept rambling how hard it was) The only difference is that he never shot out any minny spiders.

It was kind of a bad idea playing this with Zero, because I had to get up close to fight with him, but every time I got too close to the spider he took damage. It took a while, and I was down to low health, but I eventually took him down. Zero's text box popped up.

"Child's play. But what was he talking about?"

Author's note: Sorry this took so long. And yes, this is Classic Mega Man. And just so you know, I don't know too much about the classic series. I've seen a let's play up to the first third of Mega Man 8. So if I get anything wrong, I apologize. Also, I think I'm going to rename this fanfiction. So... wait for next chapter. =)