X's p.o.v.

"Everyone evacuate!" I yelled. "There's a bomb in here, I repeat, there's a bomb in here! Evacuate now!"

Before we could get everyone evacuated, Ava and a black devil (it's a yellow devil, only black) elevated out of the ground in a tube.

"If you three think you can destroy the bomb before it explodes, be my guests. You only have thirty minutes."

She decended back into the ground in the tube, leaving us to fight.

"Zero, Axl," I said. "Please leave this to me, get everyone else out of here."

"Alright, knock yourself out."

"Aw! I wanna play!"

Mother's p.o.v.

Why the fuck was this so hard!?

The bomb would sometime shrink, and hit you repeatedly. You had to dash under it and shoot it. While it was holding still, you had to shoot it as many times as you could. I found that Soldier Spider was his weakness.

His other move was that he would actually shoot at you with his Buster. The only way you could dodge that was by dash jumping, they were so fast. After what I estimated to be about three minutes of fighting, the bombshell turned red and steam came out of it.

"Five seconds until explosion."

"No... No no!"

I couldn't move X at all.

"Four."

Zero appeared on the screne, but behind the bomb shell. After he appeared, the shell's top cut in half.

"Three."

Axl hovered over it and grabbed Classic, then hovered away with him.

"Two."

"Shoot it now, damn it!"

"One."

I shot Soldier Spider's weapon. A light explosion went off.

Axl's p.o.v.

It didn't destroy anything, it was a light explosion. All it did was send us flying a few feet, and knock us out unconscious.

I opened my eyes and smiled. My two best buddies weren't too far from me, and didn't seem to be hurt at all. I sat up and looked around again. Everything else was fine, but I felt like something was missing.

I looked down at the ground.

"... HE'S GONE!"

In a panick, I ended up searching most of the park, hoping maybe he just flew farther than we did. He was a bit lighter, after all. But after what felt like an eternity (what was really only two minutes) I gave up searching and woke X and Zero up.

"Wake up! We're in a bit of a crisis here! X's brother is gone!"

At first I thought Zero wasn't waking up. Without opening his eyes, he grabbed me by the throat, almost choking me.

"Axl," he said as he turned on his saber, "go to sleep."

"I-I'm not tired-"

"No, we insist," X said behind me, charging up his Buster. "Go to sleep."

"I don't wanna-"

"GO TO SLEEP!"

Classic's p.o.v.

"You piece of crap! You bastard!" Poline screeched, digging her foot into my face. "My plan and back-up plan have been ruined because of you and your gosh damned brother! I'll kill you...! I'll kill you all!"

I felt my life slipping away. Out of all the pain I'd gone through that day, I could tell my life was coming to an end. I figured if I was about to go out, I would go out trying to help. I held my arm up against her leg.

"You bastard!" she screeched. "I'll kill you! You're gonna fucking die tonight!"

I turned my arm into my Buster and shot her. She fell on the floor with a hole in her large chest.

"Damn the... Light family..."

Thinking I could use this oportunity to escape, I stood up and held my arm in pain. I tried to walk past her, but my body felt heavy. My vision started to fade, and my strength began to cease.

"X," I whispered, "help... me..."

Zero's p.o.v.

So we couldn't get Axl to go to sleep so we could kill him, we searched the ground of the park for that tube thing that Ava was in, thinking she might've taken the boy with her.

"Come on," I growled, "where is it? Where are they?"

I grew more anxious by the second by the fact I knew this was my fault. If I had just grabbed him at that time when I could've, none of this would've been happening. I just had to let myself get jealous...

Eventually, I tripped over what looked like a glass plate.

"Ha ha! I found it!"

X shot it, making a hole in the ground.

"Come on! Let's go!"

The underground was surprisingly well lit. We searched the place for about an hour, until we finally found the slut Poline next to the blue bomber.

"Mega Man!"

Luckily, the only major damage on the outside we found was the electricity running on his slightly broken arm. But we could tell his insides needed repairs by looking at his arm.

"Come on," X said, "let's get him back to base."

A hand pierced through his stomach. We looked behind him to see an angry Poline snarling at him.

"You bastards...!"

I sliced her hand off. She rolled on the ground, moaning and screaming in pain.

"Shut up," I sneered. "X! Speak to me man!"

He wasn't moving.

"Damn you," Poline growled, "you cut off my fucking arm!"

"Poline," I growled, "go to sleep..."

X's p.o.v.

When I woke up, I was in a repair room across from 'Classic' Mega Man. He opened his eyes and looked back at me.

"Hey, bro," I whispered. "So what do you say? Think we can be a family?"

He smiled.

"That's what we were programmed to be. Ha ha- Ow..."

I moved my hand out towards him. Everything in my code was screaming at me to hug him, but all I could do was put my hand on his little shoulder. He slowly moved his hand up to touch mine.

"Hey," he said, "can I be a Maverick Hunter?"

"Sure. Why not?"

"Yes, please," said a feminine voice. "We need more Maverick Hunters that actually do stuff."

"Marianne. Where have you been this whole time?"

"Searching for you guys. You scared me half to death! Don't ever do that again or I'll personally disassemble you both!"

"Aheh heh... okay." I nodded. "You don't want to make her mad," I whispered.

Marianne's p.o.v.

I exited the repair room, and felt a bit useless. I was more helpful back when I was a human controlling their every move. That's when I remembered that someone must've been controlling the boys the entire time. I went into a private room to see if I could talk to them.

"Excuse me!" I said. "Are you the one who's been controlling the boys!? Who are you!?"

"... How... can you-"

"Mom!?" I cried. "Mom, is that you?"

"Marianne...! What the hell's going on!? What happened to you!?"

"It's a long story," I said. "The Maverick Hunters somehow came into our Universe, and I was nearly killed. The only way for me to be saved was to become a Reploid. They took me to their Universe, because they were worried what would've happened to me if I'd stayed with you. ... I would've told you, but... Oh come on, would you have believed me?"

"Probably not."

"Ha ha ha! So mom," I said, "please don't worry about me. You've seen how strong these boys are now, they'll protect me. But I don't need them, I've become pretty strong myself since I became a Reploid."

"Alright," she said. "I trust you. Hey, whatever happened to Rush?"

"Ha ha! Looks like this game also had a portal to this Universe! He's right here with us. I put him in the repair room to keep Classic company, and to torture X. Hee hee!"

"Ha. You always were a bad kid."

"Hey!" I said cheerfully, blushing a bit with a smile. "Don't you think these Hunters are cute?"

"Uh, yeah, they're cute."

"Who do you thinks the cutest?" I squeeled.

"Um... I think X is pretty adorable."

"Ha ha! By the way, good news! I've got a boy friend!"

"What!?"

Someone knocked on the door.

"Hey, Marianne! Are you on the phone or something?"

I opened the door.

"Hi, Axl. I'm talking with my mom."

"Oh, hi Mrs. D! Thanks for controlling us correctly without killing us!" There was a thud in the distance. "M-Mrs. D?"

"I think she fainted from shock," I said. "But now..." I closed the door and pressed Axl against the wall. "We are alone."

He chuckled.

Zero's p.o.v.

I was in the room next to the repair room. I felt upset, but at the same time relieved. I was happy that this was finally over, but I was feeling guilty that the last third of it was my doing.

"Why'd I let him go?"

Someone knocked on the slightly opened door. I looked up to see the pretty purple Reploid in the doorway.

"Oh, hey, Layer. You need something?"

"I wanted to see if you were alright." She snapped her head towards the ceiling. "I'm just checking to make sure if the team is doing fine, I am one of the Navigators after all."

"Yes, I'm fine," I said, not even looking her in the eye.

"A-are you sure?"

"... No," I confessed. "The latter of what happened today was my fault."

She closed the door and walked up to me.

"What did you do?" she asked.

I sighed. I knew I had to get it off of my chest eventually.

"I actually had the chance to save that kid earlier," I said. "But I let him get captured again."

"What!? Why the hell would you do that!?"

"... I was upset at... the fact that he's X's brother." It felt good to get it off of my chest, but it felt terrible to be admitting it. "I guess I wanted to be his brother, seeing as he's practically the only family I've got."

I expected her to slap me. Hell, I wouldn't've been surprised if she took one of her knives and stabbed me. I braced myself for either attacks.

To my surprise, she put her hand on my shoulder.

"Everything turned out okay in the end. Mega Man and X are almost repaired, in fact it should take only a few more minutes."

"That's good."

She kept her hand on my shoulder, but took my hand with her free one.

"But you still should've known that you didn't need to be jealous like that, you're X's best friend, and he thinks of you as family."

"Ha ha... Yeah, I guess I forgot that."

"And," she said slowly, "for being honest, you win something."

"Huh-"

She kissed me. I looked down at her, dumbfounded. She turned away from me.

"Just uh, don't lie anymore."

She began to walk away when I grabbed her wrist.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked. I pulled her closer to me and smirked. "That's not how you kiss, silly."

I pressed my lips against hers.

That moment actually made me forget about any guilt or pain I'd ever felt. It was the most soothing and refreshing thing I'd ever experienced. She was no Iris, but she'd do.

When the kiss ended, she smiled and chuckled at me.

"Man, I should take lessons from you."

"Sure thing," I said. "We can start tomorrow."

She giggled and turned around to open the door. After she left, I pulled out the recorder with X's goodbye message. I pressed play.

"Hello, guys. I've got some good news and bad news. Good news is, I've found a way to cure Mavericks and turn them back to their original state. My new... 'friend' calls it the 'Mega Project.' Bad news is... it requires me to give up my life. My friend Poline has built a type of machine that can cure whatever makes a Maverick. However, for it to work it requires the design of one of the first Reploids. You can probably see where this is going."

"Hurry up to the P.S.," I growled.

"I'm so happy. Finally, we can end this war without any more pointless violence. I know you two wouldn't let me go if I said this to your faces, so forgive me for leaving you with this."

Alia came into the room.

"Zero, X is repaired."

"Finally!" I cheered as I bolted out of the room.

"P.S."

I ran up to the blue bomber and shamelessly hugged him.

"Thanks a lot, Zero. You were always like a big brother to me."

Author's note: This is technically the final chapter, but there's one more thing I wanted to do and that's in the next chapter. See ya there. =)