Mega Man X: The Mist Enigma

Chapter 2: Assignment Given

Axl lead all of us to a room far into HQ. It was where a body was kept. The body was that of Gate, the Reploid that created the original Nightmare. He had been shut down and taken to HQ in hopes of rebooting him. The room was ransacked with no sign of Gate. Alia clenched her teeth. "What bastards. Why would they do this?" She began to weep. Layer put her hand on her shoulder as she leaned on her.

X looked to Axl. "Did you see anything happen?"

"No," Axl answered, "I was just walking by and saw that the doors were open. I looked inside to see that mess and no Gate."

"Why would they take an offline body?"I thought. "It doesn't make sense." Aloud, "unless this and the other thing are somehow related," I said.

"That would be my guess." Signas, the head commander of the Maverick Hunters, approached us. He looked at X, Zero, and Axl. "You three have been assigned to stop the strange wind and recover Gate's body."

They stood at attention. "Yes sir!" they said in unison.

Signas nodded. "Now move out!" Everyone returned to the control room. The three hunters prepared for battle. The three Navigators sat down and crunched keys on the supercomputer.

"Now that we have knowledge on what the Nightmare can do," Alia began, "we can better anticipate what this is capable of. But be prepared for anything." The three Hunters nodded.

I floated over to them. "I'm going too. I can't seem to return to my world from here, and I think this has something to do with it."

"You are injured," Signas said from his podium. "Also, we have never seen what affects this wind can have on a human. For all we know they could mean death."

"Maybe," I said, "but I'm not a normal human."

X came to me. "We know what you can do. Just let us go first, Chris. After one mission, you can come with us."

I nodded. "Okay."

Pallette called to us. "We've got the 8 strongest readings of the black wind. And there is a Maverick in each area making it even more powerful."

"Typical," Zero sighed. "Who are they?"

Alia read their names off. "Crash Minotank, an excavator, is in the Gold Mines. Destruct Gryfflion, a sniper, is in the Hurricane Mountains. Dive Choujean, a stealth fighter, is in Wind-Swept Valley. Shadow Renaraid, a Buddhist priest, is in the Grand Dojo. Hell Sanhound, a bodyguard, is in the Withered Wood. Swamp Kappaphi, a nautical researcher, is in the Green Everglades. Helios Unicrown, brother of Spiral Pegacion, is in Bright Canyon. And Gleam Marymer, an operator, is in the Calm Reef."

I thought to myself "They're all mythical creatures. That's weird."

"Who do we do first?" Axl asked his superiors.

X and Zero looked at each other. Neither had an answer. "Who do you want to fight?" X asked.

Axl was stunned. "I...I can choose?"

"Yeah, sure," Zero said.

"Ummm..." Axl put his hand to his chin. "Let's do the Unicrown guy."

"You heard him," X called to the Navigators. "Send us to Bright Canyon."

"You got it," Pallette said. She typed in the coordinates and pushed one last key. The Hunters warped out of HQ in a flash.

I floated beside Alia and watched. I pondered, "It's strange. Why can't I just teleport back home? Did that wind, like, tamper with my abilities?"

Alia turned to me. "Maybe. It could also explain why you can't heal your injury on your own."

"Yeah, that too. But I can still fly, that's for shit sure."

Signas called to me, "It's possible that it is hunting you. With a title such as yours, it might be trying to eliminate you out of threat."

The title he was referring to was Satoryu, the Connector of Worlds. For those who don't know, I use my divine abilities to travel between different worlds and, by interacting with the denizens of them, linking them to other worlds. I also purify them to an extent of the malice that every world contains. I had already linked this world, hence why everyone knew who I was. I'll admit Signas did have a good point. I guess only time would tell if it was in fact true.