X's p.o.v.

I slowly opened my eyes, but it was too dark in the room to see. I tried to sit up, but I was strapped to a steel sleet.

"Hey... Hey! What's going on!? Let me out of here!"

I couldn't see because of the darkness, but someone was massaging my face.

"Finally, the Mega Project can begin. Dr. Light, you have given many great gifts to us, but this is your greatest."

"Who are you!? Let me out of here!"

To my surprise, she actually let me go.

"Oh. Wow, I actually didn't think you were going to do that."

"I'm so sorry, Mega Man X. We just needed to repair you a bit, we accidentally made you bleed a little bit."

"Hey... would you mind turning on the lights?"

"If we do, there's a chance we could be found."

I started to charge my Buster.

"What do you want with me...!?"

She gently held my Buster, soothing me. I felt myself loosen up, and I lost the charge.

"Relax, Mega Man X, I just want to talk. I'm so happy to finally meet you."

Axl's p.o.v.

So, to escape Zero, I had to run into the next Maverick 'Devil Seaking''s stage by myself. Little did I know I'd fallen into the stage of the Maverick that nearly killed Zero.

While I was shooting down a few flying wheels, I remembered that there was somebody controlling me. And unless they were as cute and hot as my Marianne, I wasn't going to let it go without mention.

"Hey!" I called. "Whoever's playing this video game, start talking to me!"

"Huh? Oh my gosh, they're actually continuing to break the fourth wall? And they're actually expecting me to try and break it as well?"

"There you are. So have you been playing our games for a while? ... What? Who are you, anyway?"

"Uh... I'm... Michele de los Santos."

I nearly dropped my guns.

"Y-you're Marianne's mother!?"

"Huh!? That... girl is..."

"Oh my gosh...! Uh, i-it's a pleasure to finally meet you, Mrs. D. Uh, y-your daughter's very cute and kind. She's told me a lot about you." I heard a thud. "Mrs. D? Mrs. D? Did she faint?"

I tried to move, but I was frozen still like a statue. I knew it was because I was still in a video game, and I needed her to control me. I sighed.

I heard a light 'throom' sound from a saber.

"Axl, where are you~"

"EEE!"

I was too terrified to wonder how the hell he got in here, when only one of us were allowed at a time. I tried to move, but I was still completely petrified.

"Damn it...! Shit...! Mmm... Maybe he won't find me-"

"Hello, Axl."

"AHH!"

"Now... go to sleep so I can get this over with."

"But I'm not tired-"

"GO TO SLEEP!"

"Alright...! Alright...!" I got on the ground and just sat there.

"... Are you asleep yet?"

"If I fall asleep, you'll kill me in the most brutal way possible."

"That's the point, now go to sleep!"

"Hey, guys."

"... ... ... ... Hi, X."

"Where the fuck were you?" Zero snapped, turning his saber off. "You almost made me kill Axl in his sleep!"

"I uh, I-I went in here to take on the Maverick. I thought maybe we could do this separately."

"Well what the hell is this!?" I asked as I held up the note. "Why's this written in blood? And why was there blood next to me?"

"Um... I uh, I don't know where that came from."

I grunted.

"Well, don't scare us like that!"

"S-sorry..."

"Wait a second." Zero looked around. "How are we all here? I thought only one of us could enter at a time."

X seemed rather nervous, as he didn't even look either of us in the eye when he said,

"Aha ha ha ha! I guess that sign was lying!"

We were both skeptical of him. I could tell even Zero knew he was hiding something. He seemed to catch on to us, and said quickly,

"Isn't there a Maverick we should be blowing up?"

"Yeah," I said, "but the person from Marianne's Universe who's controlling us just fainted. We're stuck here it seems."

"What!?" X cried. "Uh, maybe they're just controlling you for now-" He tried moving forward, but was stuck in place. "Nope. Looks like we're stuck here."

"Oh yeah, also it's Marianne's mom."

"WHAT!?" they cried in unison.

Classic's p.o.v.

I was walking through the city, lost and confused. I didn't know what to do, or what to think. Everything I ever knew and loved was gone. The layout of the city was absolutely nothing like any other city I'd ever been in.

"Oof!" I bumped into someone. It was a taller blue female robot- Sorry, 'Reploid' with pink hair. "Sorry, miss."

"Oh, don't worry about it, young man!" She kissed my forhead. "Today is not the day to be opologizing! Today is the day to be celebrating!"

She skipped off, humming.

I turned my head back to her in shock. Not just because I was just kissed by a random stranger, but because that voice... She was the one I heard before I deactivated!

I slowly followed her, hiding under a box.

"Hmm," she said, stopping. "That Reploid looked a little familiar... ... Oh well." She continued to walk forward.

I scuttled after her.

Her phone started to ring, and she picked it up immediately.

"What do you want? ... Just keep your eye on him. ... Do what you have to."

Wait a sec! I thought. Why am I freaking hiding!?

I tossed the box up and held up my Buster.

"Hey!"

"Hmm?"

"You... You probably don't remember me, do you? I'm Mega Man." She was shocked by that. "You're the one who deactivated me. Why? What did you mean by 'I've been replaced'?"

She turned her body towards me and glared at me.

"I meant what I said. You have been replaced, nobody needs you know. I'm actually surprised Stein Kong didn't do a good enough job of watching you."

I charged it.

"You're ticking me off! Tell me who you are and why you deactivated m-"

"Shut the fuck up."

She attempted to punch me, but someone swooped me out of the way letting her put a hole in the ground.

"Hey!" It was Marianne. "What's wrong with you!? Are you going Maverick!?"

"Oh! Uh, n-no, this boy just made me mad, that's all. I just lost my head."

"Okay, well don't loose it again, or I'll have Maverick Hunter X look at you!" She started to walk away with me. "Come on, kid."

I looked back. The woman snarled at me.

"That woman," I said, "she deactivated me."

"What!?" Marianne cried as she turned around. She was gone. "Damn it! That explains why she was attacking you. Well, did you get any answers out of her?"

"No."

"... Hey, Mega Man," she said, "you can fight, can't you? And you've got nothing else to do until we find out who that woman is, right?" She smiled. "Would you consider becoming a Maverick Hunter?"

I blinked. "What's that?"

"Hmm... Uh, 'Mavericks' are bad guys, and 'Maverick Hunters' are the people that stop them. Please consider, we only have three members who actually do anything."

"..." I hopped out of her arms. "Right now, I want to find out who that woman- uh, Reploid is. Maybe after I figure out what happened to me I'll join you guys. You sound interesting."

"Thank you. But hey, you can't go alone, mind if I help you out?"

"... Promise you won't do anything funny with me?"

She smiled and held out her pinkie.

"Promise."

I put my pinkie against hers.

"Alright. Let's go. My name's Mega Man."

She giggled. "I know. My name's Marianne."

Mother's p.o.v.

When I woke up, I saw the three Hunters all in one place. I figured I must've been hallucinating, and decided to move them forward. It turns out, I could switch between them at will, only they would still be on the screen.

Eventually, a cut scene triggered.

"You're Devil Seaking," X said coldly, "and you've gone Maverick. Don't take this personally, we're here to disassemble you."

"My Master told me you were coming. I won't hurt you, but don't expect me to go easy on your comrades."

"You keep your hands off of them too!"

"That's asking too much."

The fight against Devil Seaking was pretty difficult, but at the same time his pattern was incredibly simple. He almost always jumped in the air, and when he hit the ground, your character took damage. And he took off a chunk of your health.

The best I could do was use Zero's double jump and saber.

With a few hits from that, he went down rather quickly.

After the fight, Zero's text box popped up.

"Four down, four to go."

An anime cut scene triggered.

"Hey," X said, "you're Mrs. D, aren't you?"

"Huh!?" I looked around the room. "C-can you boys hear me?"

"Yeah, we can hear you," Zero said, turning to face me. "You're our Ms. Marianne's mother, right? Your daughter is very helpful."

"Oh yeah!" Axl cried merrily. "Were you the one who taught her that aggressive and caring attitude, and that adorable thing where she brushes her bangs out of her eyes?"

I felt my blood freeze.

"H-how did my daughter get in here...!?"

"It's kind of a long story. Putting it short, the video game Universe and your Universe were connected temporarily and we actually took a vacation in your house. But, Marianne was almost killed, so we had to turn her into a Reploid to save her. Because of this, she came to our Universe."

"Oh! And she and I are dating, is that alright?"

I decided to keep my blood pressure under control, and thought maybe this was apart of the game.

"It's... fine, just so long as she's safe."

"Phew..."

"So you're controlling us throughout the rest of this 'adventure.' Please try not to get us killed, I don't like dying."

"Yes, please, I don't want to die again!" Zero said angrily. "I've died like, twice already!"

"I can't make promises, this game is really hard."

"If your anything like your daughter... then I don't think we can trust you anyway."

"What's that supposed to mean!?"

I didn't know what kind of game this was, but I chose not to believe anything told to me. I came to the conclusion it was a seri affect, and they were programmed to say this dependent on my gender. So I kept playing.

Hoh boy, I shouldn't've.

Marianne's p.o.v.

Classic and I were wandering the city. We'd checked every place we could think of, to the point where he had to carry me. Eventually, I was walking on my own again, but we still had no luck.

"So, Classic- uh, mind if I call you that?"

"Uh, sure."

"Do you know that woman?"

"No," he said as he shook his head. "First time I ever saw her, second time I ever heard her voice."

"Hmm... So why would she want to deactivate you?"

"She said something about replacing me."

I looked up to the sky, ransacking my brain for ideas.

Come to think of it, it was never explained why X was built. Maybe... he was replacing Classic. But, why was she deactivating him? Was Light too busy working on X's armor or what?

A machanaloid jumped in front of us, breaking bits of the landscape.

"What!? The fuck!"

It reached out and pulled Classic away.

"Hey! Marianne!"

"Mega Man! HEY! Hey, wait you bastard!"

Zero's p.o.v.

"Okay, which one are you taking on next, Mrs. D?"

"Uh, give me a moment..."

I looked over at X. He was staring at the ground, with a mix of angst and confusion.

"Hmm..."