Chapter 4: Avenger in Blue, Vs. Wheel Gator
With the defeat of Wire Sponge, X made it back to the Maverick Hunter HQ and took a quick stop by the repair station to get his armor fixed up after his battle with Agile specifically. Once he finished up there, he went back to the central command center and met up with Alia, who was currently looking at Zero's legs parts as they hovered above her keyboard. "Fascinating…A lot of this technology is from an earlier time period, but the structure looks as advanced as a Reploid's. Whoever created Zero must have been a genius beyond his time."
"Alia? What are you doing with Zero's leg parts?" X asked in a puzzled tone as he approached her chair, and though Alia flinched a moment at X overhearing her scientific babble she kept her composure and acted natural enough that she was able to use her keyboard to move the sphere containing the parts aside to the right and summoning forth a monitor containing information on the legs. She then said to X calmly "I was running a comparative scan between Zero's repairs in the past to the legs present to us now to make sure these are real."
"And?" X inquired as he looked at both the past scan and the present legs with a firm glare, and Alia replied to him with "There's no way anyone could replicate Zero's design to make fake parts. Zero's armor was created with a very, very rare material known as bassnium." "Bassnium? Wait…So what you're saying is that we have Zero's real parts?" X, after some initial confusion, found himself speaking in relief at what he was hearing.
Alia nodded her head once and remarked "Yep. I'm wondering what the X-Hunters' plan is though…Why would they allow us to get Zero's parts back without putting in some sort of trap to harm us?" "Agile sounded pretty confident that I wouldn't acquire all the parts. I don't think they were expecting me to defeat any of them." X offered as a reason, and Alia nodded her head in agreement and said "It only makes sense for followers of Sigma's way to be so conceited. Anyways, while we have one of Zero's parts, it means nothing when we don't have either blueprints or someone capable of making repairs."
"We don't have blueprints? Oh yeah, I think Dr. Cain would've had those on him before he died…" X remarked in a slightly melancholic tone, and Alia responded to that by mentioning "I think he likely saved them to that capsule he uploaded his consciousness to. But I don't know how to get in contact with him right now, unfortunately." "He said he was finding someone who could help repair Zero, so we won't get any answers until he returns." X lamented before he pulled himself away from Alia's chair and stood upright.
"Right…All we can do for now is focusing on finding more Mavericks and more of Zero's parts. With Overdrive Ostrich and Wire Sponge down, there's only one other priority target I want you to tackle for now, X." Alia said, and she switched the focus on the monitor from Zero's parts to the map of the island the X-Hunters were occupying. Alia then pressed a few buttons to get the monitor to focus on one part of the island, where a gigantic, scaly green tank was seen making it's way through an inhabited city, the treads grinding down buildings that the artillery fire was blowing up.
X watched in horror as hundreds of innocent humans and Reploids were being threatened by this tank, and upon looking at the face of the tank he realized just who was manning it. He clenched his right fist tightly against the head of Alia's chair to the point of crunching it down as his expression turned to one of absolute anger, and he remembered the face of the Maverick who had killed Persius in perfect detail, including the arrogant, callous smirk on his face.
"Send the coordinates to the teleporter Alia! I'm going in now!" X exclaimed without hesitation, and Alia sensed his anger and turned her head around a bit as X began to run off, telling him with plenty of concern in her voice "X! Wait!" It was too late though, as X had gone out the door already. Alia lifted her eyelids up in shock of just how angry X had gotten just now, but then sighed and turned herself around so she could get the coordinates in for X, commenting to herself as she does so "…I shouldn't get attached to a comrade again. Don't make that mistake twice, Alia."
Alia then glanced aside at Zero's parts, and as she thought back to what X had said about Dr. Cain looking for someone who could work on rebuilding Zero Alia began to consider the possibility of doing it herself. If she had the blueprints, she knew she would've been able to rebuild Zero from the ground up without any problems. However, with a short shake of her head Alia went back to focus on the monitor and repeated herself by saying in a melancholic tone "Don't make that mistake twice…"
Meanwhile, X had gotten to the teleporter and was sent off to the tank in an instant. X was dropped down onto the back of the tank, which was shaped like a long reptilian tail, and was immediately met with some shakiness due to the tank's constant movements. X bent down and felt out the rhythm of the tank's movements before he stood upright, and he had to make sure not to be thrown off as the tail of the tank swung to and fro. Looking around, X saw how hundreds of towering buildings had been reduced to ruinous states, and that the Reploids and humans below were screaming as they ran.
X couldn't jump down to help the innocents without compromising the mission, something he laments with gritted teeth until Alia contacts him and explains "We're sending in a rescue squad to save as many innocents as we can X. But their job will be difficult unless you get rid of the artillery cannons on the tank and stop Wheel Gator's control over the tank." Laying a hand against his repaired helmet, X inquired with some disdain in his voice "Wheel Gator? So that's the name of the Maverick that slaughtered Persius…?"
"Wheel Gator is a very ferocious Maverick. He served the Maverick Hunters under the 6th Naval Unit for a long time until he suddenly attacked a fellow hunter during a mission and was branded a traitor. After that, his Reploid causalities skyrocketed as he joined Sigma's army…He's probably one of the most cold blooded Mavericks out there X, so be careful." After Alia explains Wheel Gator's deal, X clenched his right fist and said "I'm not going to show him any mercy Alia. Anyone who betrays their fellow hunter are the absolute worst."
"I understand your feelings on this X, but if you go in too hot-headed you're going to make a mistake. Just calm down and-" Alia is stopped midway through by X exclaiming "Calm down?! Wheel Gator is a murderer! I cannot allow his injustices to go unpunished!" "X, I know you're doing this to avenge Persius…But no matter how you destroy Wheel Gator, it won't bring him back to life. Honor his memory by saving the innocents here, X…" Alia spoke softly to X out of concern for his revenge-driven nature at the moment.
X scowled a bit, but then calmed down enough to relax his body and stood perfectly upright before saying to Alia "…You're right. I have to save the Reploids and humans suffering from Wheel Gator's rampage. I-I'm sorry Alia…I was being selfish." Alia sighed and said "No X, I don't think you were being selfish. Persius' death got to you and you wanted to avenge him for his sake…You just needed a reminder of everything else that is at stake here."
X nodded his head in agreement and said "Yeah. Lets not speak anymore for now Alia. I need to get a move on…But thank you for reminding me of my duties as a Maverick Hunter." "…You're welcome, X." Alia remarked quietly before shutting off communications. X grabs onto his arm cannon and dashes forward, leaping over the ridges of the tail and making his way to the entrance of the tank's innards. After blowing open the door X leaps through the flames created by his attack and lands on the blue metal steps.
The innards were dimly lit by blue lights on the ceiling, and the passage itself was very confined like a beast's innards would be like. At the top of the steps was a small mobile triceratops tank with glowing eyes that act as spotlights. The spotlights focus in on X and cause the mini tank to fire it's drill-like nose down at him, but X leaps right over it and places himself on the step directly below it, where he fires a few shots into the open hole where the drill was to hit the weak point within the tank.
X ducks down as the tank explodes, sending debris everywhere but none of them hitting X in the process. X then stands up and vaults over the last step with one hand to get himself onto the floor at the top. He pays attention for more spotlights coming from other tanks, holding his arm cannon up beside his helmet as he activates his night vision and prepares a charged shot. Two miniature tanks were in his way up ahead, but X was able to clear them out of the way with one charged shot.
Up ahead was a ladder leading further into the tank, and after the tank shook up a bit from hitting a building X leaped down the hole the ladder was attached to and landed right in the path of another mini-tank. The tank flashed it's spotlights red and charged right at X, but X noticed it quickly enough to leap over it with a somersault and let the tank ram into the wall behind him and blow up.
X then went down another ladder, took down another small tank, and began to go down a descending staircase a bit as he ran into some windows on the left. He stopped on one of the steps and looked outside, where he saw an artillery cannon firing out at the buildings. He held his arm cannon out and fired a charged shot aimed directly at the back of the artillery cannon, and his attack blew it up and destroyed the Maverick inside.
"That'll help the innocents escape…" X commented on in a relieved tone before he pulled himself back into the tank and continued going down the steps. But before he leaped off to the floating platform down below Alia suddenly called in and proclaimed "Wait a second X!" X was halfway off the edge of the step before Alia stopped him, and he pulled back so he wouldn't fall off and laid a hand on his helmet before saying "What's the emergency?"
"Remember how I said I'd keep an eye out for more of Dr. Light's capsules? Well I'm detecting one directly above your currently location. Look up." Alia's advice allows X to lift his head up and see a shaft high up into the ceiling that it appears X could wall jump to from the wall directly in front of him. "I'll try and check that area out. Hang on." X says before taking his hand off of his helmet and climbing back up the stairs, using the long floor at the top to give himself a running start so he could leap right over to the wall with the help of his Air Dash to get the full momentum.
He then attaches to the wall and drops down a bit so he won't hit his head on the ceiling before leaping right off and attempting to make the wall on the other side. However, X underestimates the height of his jump and even after swinging his right arm out he isn't able to grab onto the bottom lip of the wall. X falls on the ground with his right arm swung forward and says "I just can't make it Alia."
"Hmm…Try using that weapon you acquired from Wire Sponge. If I'm right, it might be enough to close the gap." Alia advised, and X agreed with the idea by nodding his head once and then turning around for round two. He leaps over to the wall and climbs his way back up to the proper point before changing colors to the one for Wire Sponge's weapon, and after jumping off the wall he holds his arm cannon out and fires out an electrified chain that connects to the bottom lip of the wall and pulls X right in.
X is thus able to leap off of the wall from there and climb the small shaft to a secluded room where another Dr. Light capsule was on the right. X leaped over the shaft and landed right in front of the capsule, his presence causing it to pop open like the one before it as Dr. Light's hologram appears in the holographic cylinder. "Hello again X. I see you found another one of my capsules. This capsule contains the Arm Parts. With it, your blaster will become much stronger than before, and you will be given a second X-Buster on top of that…However, before I can give you these parts, there's something I wish to discuss with you…" Dr. Light said in his gentle voice until near the end, where his voice became more troubled.
"What's up?" X inquired in a puzzled tone. "When you went into my first capsule, I detected something off with your processors. A hint of unbridled rage, if you would…Are you alright, X? If something is troubling you, I'd be more than willing to talk." Light replied, and X widened his eyes a bit and said "So you are aware of what's going on…Are you alive somewhere, Dr. Light?"
"…I cannot reveal that right now, X." Dr. Light remarked, sounding almost saddened that X asked that question. "…Dr. Light, I'm currently in the territory of a very vicious Maverick named Wheel Gator. Wheel Gator killed one of my allies, and…And a part of me just wants nothing more than to get revenge on Wheel Gator above all else. I-Is that right?" X inquired with some child-like hesitation in his voice.
After a deep, innermost sigh, Dr. Light's hologram closed his eyelids and said "You want revenge on another because someone close to you perished. That's just your compassion at work there, X…You want revenge BECAUSE you cared for another's life. And there's nothing wrong with that…But there is such a thing as letting revenge consume you. I knew someone who wasted their life away on petty revenge, and he did nothing but ruin the lives of those around him."
"…Who was it?" X inquired, and Dr. Light replied "There's no reason to list a name, X. Don't worry, you'll never be anything like them. All I can advise you to do at this moment is stop this Maverick, and prevent him from harming anyone else again. You must succeed X, for the sake of all Reploids and humans." The Dr. Light hologram then fades away, leaving X to remark in an appreciative tone "Thank you, Dr. Light…That's what I will do."
X then leaped into the capsule to accept the next upgrade, and after the influx of data like last time X now had two arm cannons on his body just like Dr. Light said he would. Both cannons were colored white with a bright green barrel. X put away his left arm cannon and found that his hand was now red, and after leaping out of the capsule Dr. Light's hologram appeared one more time and said "Thank you X…I know you will make me proud."
X nodded his head as the capsule sealed up, and with his newest upgrade X leaped down the shaft and went back to dealing with the innards of the tank. As he went back down the staircase Alia called in and said "So the hologram is sentient just like Dr. Cain's…But I still have no idea who this Dr. Light person even is. How could someone this smart not be in our history files?" X went down to the next area and landed on a platform controlled by three separate rockets that was currently pressing against a wall, but the moment he stepped on it the platform went down an inch and then changed it's course to move in the other direction.
As X was carried over the bed of spikes below he said to Alia "I don't know. I wish he could give me more answers, but I don't want to sound too demanding considering how helpful he's been so far." "Taking advantage of his generosity like that would be wrong, I guess. He doesn't seem to be an enemy, so that's the most important part." Alia remarked afterwards as X got off the jet propelled platform and saw a couple generic Reploids soldiers carrying blast proof shields.
X immediately thought of testing out his new arm cannons on them and began charging energy in both of them. His body glowed brightly when the maximum charge was reached, and with a thrust of his right arm out X fired off a straight-forward blast of red energy that punctured right through the Reploid's shield and took it out. X then leaped off of the platform and fired his other charged shot at the second Reploid, this one coming out as a slightly smaller blue blast with streams of small energy orbs trailing around it.
Both Reploids were taking out easily, and X smiled momentarily at the power of his new arm cannons before he continued on his way with a serious expression. The power of his new arm cannons allowed him to easily dispatch the enemies that got in his way as he descended down a couple floors. But eventually X ran across a small garage close to the bottom of the tank, but instead of Ride Bikes he found the much more impressive Ride Armors being housed within this garage.
Each Ride Armor was bipedal and colored with a faded hue of blue, all of them having two arms with sharp spiked fists and jet boosters on the back. Without hesitation X decided to leap into the Ride Armor, placing his hands on the control levers and getting the machine upright on both legs with a whirr and click before he swerved it around and guided it straight towards the gasoline tank at the end of the garage. The durability of the Ride Armor meant that X felt safe going right over to the tank and punching it straight on with the right fist of the armor.
The gasoline reacts to the sparks from the Ride Armor's punch and explodes, creating a series of explosions through the tank to rip apart most of the inside and create a jagged hole into the floor that X could jumped down in order to reach the outside of the tank. The explosion took out a few artillery cannons much to X's relief and surprise, and as he lands on a small thin platform of blue metal suspended by green girders.
From this position, X could turn the Ride Armor around and get a good view of the legs of the tank. They were very large and bulky, but the joints were not protected well. X lifted himself up off of the Ride Armor slightly and thrust both of his arm cannons out, charging them up until he could fire both of them off at the right back leg's joint. Both attacks rip right through the joint like butter, breaking them down enough that the top of the leg crunches down on the bottom half and completely stops the tank from going any further.
Now that the buildings were safe from being run over, X got back in his Ride Armor and turned it around just to meet a punch from a green cyclops Reploid riding another Ride Armor. The punch dented X's Ride Armor a bit, but X counters by throwing two punches in rapid succession to break into his enemy's Ride Armor and destroy the core, leading to the Ride Armor and Reploid's destructions. X then sprinted with his Ride Armor across the platform and effortlessly punched through the enemy Ride Armor and mini-tanks while making his way to the other side, where a ladder prevented him from taking the Ride Armor further.
He leaped out and climbed the ladder, going into another part of the tank where another artillery cannon could be seen out the window. X repeats the process he used against the first one to destroy this cannon, watching as the outside is consumed with some explosions before he sprinted on ahead towards a deeper part of the tank. He ends up landing on one of those rocket lifts after a jump, but this one rises upward through a spike-lined shaft.
X had to be patient since he couldn't touch even one of the spikes, but he was pressured when a Reploid with a shield threw out a spiked top from the ledge above, forcing X to leap just enough back to keep on the platform but not run into the spike wall as he dodged the top. But once he was on level with the Reploid, X destroyed it in two charged shots and the made it to the top of the shaft, leaping off before his head hit the spiked ceiling.
It wasn't long until X reached another platform, and he used it to cross over to the over side while firing charged shots to destroy the small blue bird Reploids that came his way. He leaped off and made a bold air dash over a pit leading out of the tank, landing perfectly on the edge of the platform on the other side where he found another window with an artillery cannon outside. After destroying it, X leaped down onto another rocket propelled platform and made the climb further up into the tank.
He dodged the spiked tops thrown at him by leaping off the spike-free walls, holding both of his arm cannons out to the sides to destroy the Reploids throwing them at him while floating in mid-air temporarily, and he lands on the platform to continue going up a little bit more. He then leaps off to the left and wall jumps up a few floors until he reaches a machine that spawns swarms of those blue bird Reploids, with X destroying them in one fell shot along with the generator using a diagonal charged shot.
X then blasts his way outside of the tank by destroying a door and leaping forward, performing a roll on the scaly green metal, and he's met by a resistance of a swarm of at least two dozens bird Reploids. As the Reploids all dive-bomb X, he runs forward to get underneath a couple of them, turning around and firing some regular shots rapidly from both of his arms cannons to get rid of some of them, flipping backwards off the edge of the ledge and firing upward rapidly to get rid of the rest before landing on the ground below.
After that, it was just a matter of destroying a couple of artillery cannons near the 'snout' of the tank and then going backwards into a passage that would allegedly lead to Wheel Gator's location. X drops down through a long shaft until he has reached the deepest confines of the tank, and standing before the sliding iron doors is a bipedal cannon Reploid with thick green armor. X swerves left and right to dodge the cannon fire while moving close to the Reploid, and with a roar and a leap he uses his right arm cannon to blast a hole right through the center of the Reploid's body.
With a vault over the Reploid with his other hand, X goes through the iron doors as the Reploid falls over and explodes. Inside of this small corridor, X paused and laid his hand on the side of his helmet and said "Alia, I think I've disabled most of the cannons and stopped the tank from moving. I'm going in to confront Wheel Gator, so now would be the time to send in the rescue teams." "Good work X! There's still a couple cannons near the top of the tank, but we can send in an attack copter to deal with them." Alia stated.
"Then I'm going in." X stated, with Alia remarking proudly "Just try and remain calm X. You've been doing great so far without succumbing to anger." With X laying a hand on his right arm cannon he advances towards the next door while stating calmly "I'll be fine. I'm ready for Wheel Gator now." The door opens up, and X drops into the room ready to confront the Maverick.
Inside this room was a large pool of red liquid that went up to X's stomach as he landed down in it, and there were a few windows around the room to show the city outside. After observing the area for a bit, X saw some bubbles rising up to the surface a few feet ahead, and made a point of holding his arm cannon out as the being responsible for them erupted out of the liquid and landed on the ground with his body halfway into the water. It was Wheel Gator who had emerged, and X had already seen him once before and thus did not need to repeat the details of his appearance. The Maverick sneered with all of his fangs, and in his guttural voice he stated "So you finally showed up to ruin my fun, X!"
"Wheel Gator, your Maverick behavior ends here! You've harmed enough innocents with your actions!" X stated without acknowledging Wheel Gator's desires. "Hahahah! It ends here? You are an incredible killjoy X! What's wrong with me killing a few Reploids and humans?" "Your causality number is in the hundreds!" X exclaimed in disbelief of how Wheel Gator was shrugging things off.
Wheel Gator raised his head up a bit and continued to sneer as he told X "And how is that any worse than how you and the Maverick Hunters operate?" X lowered his arm cannon a bit and said "What do you mean by that?" Wheel Gator remarked in response to that "You kill plenty of Reploids with your actions. Have you ever considered for a second that some of the Reploids you killed were just still doing their jobs like guarding facilities from intruders? Or is anyone that opposes the Maverick Hunters just considered a Maverick without any second thought?"
"That's not true at all! All of you are Mavericks, no question about it!" X exclaimed with a frustrated look in his eyes, and Wheel Gator just laughed at that and said "Keep telling yourself that X! You and I both know what's going to happen once you 'stop' all of the Mavericks! It'll get to the point that you'll hunt your own allies, calling them Mavericks just so you can continue your line of work! I'm not a Maverick for killing my own fellow hunters, I'm just far ahead of the curve!"
"We'll never become monsters like you and the other X-Hunters!" X exclaimed, leading to Wheel Gator stating "You're better off just accepting your fate X! You enjoy battle and carnage, just like the rest of us!" Wheel Gator then punches his fists together and snaps his jaw out once before exclaiming "Time to join Persius and Zero in the scrap yard, X!"
This comment angered X a bit, but he remained calm enough to start charging his arm cannon. Wheel Gator then charged at X with his jaw open, moving ferociously through the liquid to brush it all aside as he prepared to bite down into X. X flip jumped over Wheel Gator's body as the Maverick chomped right into the wall, and X aimed his arm cannon down and fired right towards Wheel Gator's back.
Wheel Gator rips himself out of the wall and throws a chunk of metal from his mouth to intercept the charged shot, the thickness of the metal causing the shot to blow it up without reaching Wheel Gator, leading to X landing into the liquid without getting the hit. Wheel Gator then dives into the liquid and swims forward at high speed, rippling the surface as X pays attention to this motion. X aims his arm cannon down and shoots into the liquid while moving back, making sure to leap back before Wheel Gator could leap out of the liquid and chomp down into him.
X attaches to the wall behind him as Wheel Gator dives back down into the liquid, but this time the Maverick doesn't move an inch forward or back and instead seems to have gone deeper into the liquid. X keeps to the wall and prepares a charged shot in his right arm to fire down at Wheel Gator the moment he emerges from the liquid. But instead of the Maverick making a reappearance, X looks straight down and watches as a saw blade wheel rides up the wall at him, forcing him to leap off and fly across the room as the saw blade travels along the entirety of the wall. While he was leaping through the air, X is caught when Wheel Gator lunges right out of the liquid and wraps his jaws around X's midsection, pulling him from the air to drag him right down into the liquid.
X is slammed against the rusted metal floor within the liquid, his vision blurred as Wheel Gator tries to bite through his armor. The fangs were slowly puncturing into the metal, but X had a trick up his sleeve to get the Maverick off of him as he quickly thrust both of his arm cannons up into Wheel Gator's chest and fired charged shots from them both. At point blank, the charged shots didn't do as much damage as they could've, but X still managed to blow a couple holes into the Maverick's armor while simultaneously making him stop biting.
X quickly stood up and out of the liquid and coughed some of it up, lifting his head up as Wheel Gator stumbles back and holds an arm over his damaged armor, growling before he launched two saw blade wheels right off of his shoulders. Both wheels run across the top of the liquid towards X, but X leaps up to get over them while Wheel Gator leaps up to try and bite into him again. X responds by bringing his right fist down atop the Maverick's snout to make his teeth slam together and break some of them off while simultaneously pushing him right back into the liquid.
X lands back down and immediately moves to the right before Wheel Gator could grab him by the feet, aiming his arm cannon down and firing a few shots to hurt his foe while he was down. Wheel Gator retaliated by throwing out two more saw blade wheels from his body straight at X's head, but X ducked down just enough to avoid getting into the liquid while also dodging both blades as they slice right through the wall and fly outside.
Wheel Gator then lunges forward and tries to bite down X again even with his weakened jaw, only for X to leap up high and attach himself to the wall just below the windows, leading Wheel Gator to just chomp down on nothing but the wall in front of him. X had Wheel Gator figured out for the simple brute he was at this point, and all that was left was to finish him off. While Wheel Gator was pulling himself out of the wall, X changed his colors to that of Wire Sponge's weapon and aimed his arm cannon down at the liquid.
Charging up the power of Wire Sponge's weapon, X points it down at the center of the liquid as Wheel Gator pulls back and moves towards it. When the weapon was fully charged, X exclaimed "This is for all of the innocents you've harmed!" From his arm cannon emerged a larger chain than the one he fired earlier, this one completely electrified from end-to-end. Wheel Gator could only look up in surprise as the Strike Chain hit him square in the chest and pushed him right into the liquid.
Placed back first against the rusted metal underneath, Wheel Gator tries to pull the Strike Chain off of him with his vicious might, but the electricity from the weapon not only zaps him at full power, but electrifies the liquid as well. The room is filled with rapid flashes of light as the surface bursts into electricity, and X pulls the Strike Chain out of the water before the electricity recoiled back to him. Wheel Gator felt the full might of X's power underneath the liquid for ten whole seconds, his body spasming around as air bubbles right out of his jaw until his robotic form could not take it anymore.
X holds his arm cannon up to brace himself as Wheel Gator explodes underneath the liquid, sending his parts flying across the room along with an eruption of liquid, a lot of both objects going right out the windows to never be recovered again. X only holds his right hand out once Wheel Gator's head comes flying by, and he plucks it out of the air and grabs onto it from underneath to bring it close to his face. Wheel Gator's right eye had been blown out with smoke seeping out, and his teeth had all but been dismantled. Using his powers, X copies Wheel Gator's ability and briefly gains a dark green color scheme on his armor, but then quietly says "And this is for Persius…" He then uses his strength to crush Wheel Gator's dismantled head into a crumple of metal, throwing the ball of scrap out of the window before getting off the wall and landing back in the liquid.
X then lays a hand against his helmet and says professionally "Mission Accomplished Alia. The tank has been stopped and Wheel Gator has been dealt with." "Great work X. We've managed to evacuate most of the citizens to safety while you were busy with Wheel Gator…At least now Persius can rest easy." X nodded his head in agreement of that, followed by him saying "Bring me back to HQ then Alia. There's nothing else to take care of here."
"I'll get right on that. It seems you only took a little damage this time around too, so your repairs should only take about a minute or two when you get back." Alia pointed out happily, and X said with a bit of a smile on his face "It's all thanks to Dr. Light's armor parts." "Yep, you have a lot to thank the good doctor for. Alright, I got a lock onto your position, I'm bringing you back now." Alia said before X was carried away from the tank by a beam of light, his mission here accomplished but at the cost of Wheel Gator's words leaving a bit of an impression on X's thoughts…
Next Time: Violen-t Sea Battle