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Ch. 2 – Yay for suicide missions!
"Sai..?"
"Maverick?" I was staring up through the familiar screen of my PET, into the face of my worried operator. She seemed to be fine... doing homework…
"Holy fudge-monkeys, rat-chick! I see you!" She laughed.
"Nice to see you too, Mav. Are you okay?"
"I don't know... I can't tell what's real and what isn't any more... I'm split between two worlds, it feels like..."
"What do you mean?" She asked, and I explained briefly what had happened. "That's odd…" Was the response when I had finished. "I met with Lan and Chaud earlier; they've been having a small bit of trouble with their connections… Ask Protoman and Megaman if they can get in touch with their operators."
"Will do, Sai." I told her with a grin. The connection started to go bad, kinda fuzzy, like I was being pulled away again.
"Maverick!"
I sat straight up, on a metal table or bed of sorts, startling the nurse next to me. My systems were fine, so I sung my legs over the side of the table... only to get punched backwards, causing me to do a back-flip over the whole thing. Landing none too gracefully on the other side, I stared up at an angry Protoman. "Hey, what's your problem!"
"That's for earlier..." He said simply. What was that supposed to mean? Getting to my feet, I saw that both Megamans, the blond, and Protoman were there, plus a nurse. The rest of the 'hospital' seemed empty, able to hold many more people than it did...
"What? You asked for a person who knew the Undernet well, and anyone that surfs the Undernet to know it as well as you want them to has to be insane... Like me!" I said with a smirk. Megaman.EXE sighed.
"That's not the point... Maverick, this is Megaman X and Zero..." He said, pointing to the other two.
"X and Zero... Nice ta meetcha." I signaled to the other Navis and spoke in a low under-tone, so X and Zero couldn't hear. "By the way, Mega, Proto, have you been able to get ahold of Lan or Chaud?"
"Not without speaking out loud… last thing we need is for them to think we're crazy… too late for you, though." A small smile tugged at Megaman's expression, though we quickly returned to the matter at hand.
"It seems when we're on stand-by we can return to the PETs... if the connection isn't buggy, you can communicate with them, and help each other out... Sai's even managed to send me battle chip data..." X and Zero were majorly confused, thanks to our small huddle and my sudden serious-ness. The Navis nodded and broke away, the three of us deciding which way would be best to deal with our present situation.
"What was that about?" Zero asked, eyes narrowed.
"Oh, nothing important." I said with a smile, which only caused him to narrow his eyes even more. "What? You don't trust me? Eh, I don't care; no one trusts me anyways... I'm surprised these two wanted my help, to tell ya the truth..."
"Why's that?"
"I'm a maverick! I do what I want, when I want, where I want, and how I want! No one tells me to do anything, 'cause everyone knows I'm one of the most dangerous and unpredictable around." I finished with a smirk.
"Sorry to interrupt..." A woman said as she stepped in. Blond hair, comm. set, pink uniform-ish-thing... a navigator? "Zero, X, we have a situation..."
"Okay, what is it, Alia?"
"Well..." She looked hesitantly over at us; they obviously still though we were their enemies...
"Don't let us get in the way of business..." I said, an edge in my voice. I suddenly had the urge to explore this new world, and wanted them to shut up and let us leave. But my harshness caught their attention.
"What was that for?" X asked, looking a bit hurt, which confused me even more.
"You'll have to excuse Maverick; she's not good around others..." Megaman explained, covering up my confusion. Wait, who made him my spoke-person?
"Alright... anyways, we need one of you two to go on a mission..." Alia had turned her attention back to the two guys.
"What kind of mission?" X asked; he didn't seem like a fighter...
"Well... infiltrate a Maverick base and take out their main power source..." She then explained all the technical details, which had me want to roll around on ground pretending I was a bug for lack of anything better to do.
"So it's a suicide mission?" Zero simplified it, which caught my attention.
"Pick me, I'll go, I'll go!" They looked at me like I was either insane or... insane. Yep, they thought I was insane. But... twenty minutes, a small series of tests, and a loud argument later, I was in a chopper, ready to kick some Maverick ass... and I was still uber-confused... Wasn't I Maverick...?
"..." Eyes darted left... eyes darted right... edge forward... man, I was jumpy. It wasn't the fact I was on a suicide mission that scared me though; they had said this place should be swarming with Mavericks. What were Mavericks, anyways? Rebels? And I had head something about a 'Reploid', whatever in hell that was... But the area was empty... I could almost hear my thoughts echo in the hallway... echo, echo, echo... "Hehe, that was easy..." I whispered, reaching the main power source. No opposition what so ever... Alright Sai. Gimme a Time Bomb...
You got it. A bomb appeared in my hand, preset. Attaching it to a weak spot on the source, I started the countdown and turned to head out. Only to find a buster pointed at my face. A smirk tugged at my expression as I took a step back.
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"Hey, you guy are late. I was expecting to meet you at the front door." They glared at me... I think... they all looked like bugs, so it was hard to tell...
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"Hunter scum..." One hissed. Uhmm... Hunter..?
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"Uhmm... Hunter..? What's a Hunter?"
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"Destroy her." Meep! They all moved closer...
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"Neh!" Think fast, Mav... "I'm not a Hunter! I'm just a mercenary, I swear!" Sai, help me out here!
With what!
Errr... Burner! Send me a Burner chip, then a Sand Trap one!
Got it!
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My saber activated in a fiery blast, flames surrounded me as I burst forward and spun, destroying the guys around me. Glancing down at their bodies, I realized they were robots as I made my way through the base...
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