Mega Man X: The Mist Enigma
Chapter 17: Armada Lambada
We had landed on an array of battleships ablaze and in wreck. It looked like the fleet that was destroyed by Splash Warfly in the Red Alert duel. Not bothering to look around, we ran all the way down. Along the way, the battleships began falling apart. Nine times out of ten, rubble was falling on top of us. We avoided all that came across us. There was one towering inferno that came crashing towards us. I jumped on top of it with a Devil May Cry style Air Hike and ran up it with my Kaiser stabbing its side. Just before it hit the Hunters and Dynamo, it split and missed them entirely. They nodded to me.
"Thanks," X smiled. "Where would we be without you, Chris?"
"I dunno," I shrugged as I continued flying forward. They followed on foot.
Further ahead, the battleships had been reduced to small floating pieces of concrete. Most were in jumping distance of each other. Occasionally the Hunters would have to improvise with air dashes, double jumps, or hovers. Dynamo used his twin saber as a helicopter for some of the large gaps, which made me giggle.
There was one piece of rubble that was extremely tall and floating vertically like a buoy. "How do we get up there?" I asked. The Hunters began wall kicking up to the top. "Oh, right," I hit myself in the head. "I forgot about that." I flew up to catch up to them. Halfway up, Axl fell inside the rubble. I flew inside to check on him. He was hovering inside it. There was no bottom to this rubble, just water. The other Hunters made their way inside and clinged onto the wall.
X pointed out, "There's another brittle wall."
Axl hovered into it face first. It didn't break. Axl rubbed his bruised face. "Remind me not to do that again." Zero rolled his eyes, jumped over to the wall, and used the Senpuugeki. That broke the wall. We went though the new opening.
On the other side was a destroyed command deck, and another of Dr. Light's capsules was inside it. It activated when we got close. "Hello again," the doctor said.
"Hi, Dr. Light. Which part do you have for me this time?" X asked him.
"Actually," Dr. Light started, "this is for Axl."
Axl pointed to himself in confusion. "For me?"
"Yes. I don't know your systems well enough to give you new armor, but I can improve your current armor. Step inside and receive the Lumine program. It shall give you a different color scheme, increase your speed, and grant you the strength of a Seraph."
Axl smiled. "Sweet!" He stepped into the capsule. Light encircled him and changed his armor to white with blue outlines, his hair to purple, and his eyes to orange. His thin wings became three sets of angel wings as well. Axl looked at himself in amazement.
Dr. Light looked to him. "I'm sorry I couldn't do any more for you, Axl."
"Nah," Axl waved, "this is great. Thanks a bunch, Doc." Dr. Light smiled as the capsule shut off.
As that happened, the wall behind the capsule was destroyed by a missile. A few yards away was a lone floating piece of ship with a large turtle Reploid on it; Rainy Turtloid. He leaped up and crashed down on the rubble, creating a wave coming right towards us. When it hit us, it catapulted us right to Turtloid.
Well, we thought it would be Turtloid, but in fact Gleam Marymer was waiting for us. We all let out a cry of confusion. "You telling me they're going to fuse?" I cried. They didn't in the sense I was thinking. Turtloid drew his head and arms into his shell. Marymer then leaped into Turtloid's empty head opening, which caused large gattling guns to form from where Turtloid's arms were.
Those gattling guns then fired water bursts at us at blinding speeds. We narrowly avoided them. "Time to get on the offensive!" Dynamo shouted. He leaped and attacked the giant shell. No effect. Dynamo gritted his teeth. Marymer then fired many missiles from the shell, heading right for Dynamo. Zero and I destroyed them with simple slashes. Axl fired a bullet to the two jewels on the shell. Nothing happened.
"That sucks," I said. Those jewels were what kept Turtloid's shell indestructible. The Mist must have fortified them. Marymer then threw a water ball into the air. Thousands more then came raining down to us at an angle, knocking us towards the ocean. She smiled as we came closer to falling into the deep water.
Little did she know that she left Turtloid's front side completely vulnerable. Actually, we forgot about that too. X didn't. He had ran around the turtle and leaped into the air. X fired a Plasma Shot through the turtle, bringing him onto his back. Marymer fell out of Turtloid's head opening wounded.
Axl laughed hysterically. "That is so pathetic!" He jumped up and spread his wings. He fired plasma lasers from them and his pistols into Turtloid's chest. They pierced through easily. At the same time, I fired a large fireball into the downed Marymer. Surprisingly, it hit with explosive results.
The Mavericks cried in pain as he and the area began warping in shape again. It formed another downward spiral that took us to another new area. Based on what we'd seen before, I was guessing it would be another Maverick's area that was already defeated. Which one was beyond me until we landed in it.
I had expected to be in pain because of crashing on a hard floor. In actuality, we were rather comfortably placed in a bed of snow in a large metal shaft. "What place is this?" I asked as I looked around.
Axl was making a snow angel. "I don't know, but it's fun!"
Zero stepped on Axl face. Axl waved his arms frantically as he tried to get up. "I think this where we fought Ice-Snow Yetinger," Zero said. It did look a lot like it.
X checked his radar. "There's a door all the way below us. Another Investigator must be down there."
"Well how do we get down?" Dynamo asked.
I threw a fireball to the ground, melting a portion of the snow bed. "Like that." We all then began blasting the snow away.
According to X's radar, the twenty-by-twenty foot shaft was four miles deep. At about three square feet of snow melted per blast, firing blasts at about six second intervals..., oh hell, you do the math. We were going to be doing this for a WHILE.