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Mega Man X: Hello, my name is X. A Maverick Hunter fighting for peace. We tracked down Jedah and Salem to another demon dimension where we learned they've been using human souls to create some demonic symbiote weapon. We tried to stop them but we were too late. They used the Nightmare Stone to delay us. All our enemies are preparing for endgame. We need to do something about them, and fast!
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Issue 15: To the Third Moon!
Aven-Jet, Makai. Earth-30847.
Peace and quiet envelops the entire lab Alia is working in now that the Aven-Jet is in stealth mode. No ghost or goblin will be able to find the smile she has on her face as she seems closer than ever to complete the Exo Stone device. Nothing will distract her. Except for the Resistance suddenly appearing and crashing behind her. "Oh! You're back already." Alia retorted with a surprise startle.
"My back…" Spider-Man twitches in humorous pain.
"Could you have been any less gentle?" Zero snarked at Ingrid, who was responsible for the heroes' escape from the Majigen.
"Sorry for being in a hurry to escape a collapsing dimension." Ingrid sassed.
"Alright, alright, let's just be grateful we're alive. That's the second time you've saved us, Ingrid. Thank you." X smiled.
"You're welcome." Ingrid beamed back.
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"We've lost Jedah and the Nightmare Stone." Dante approached Alia about their failed mission that disheartens her.
"Salem was with him. They have raised a Grimm-Symbiote that's been feeding on a million souls. They want to use it as a weapon against Ultron Sigma." Ruby also told the navigator.
"That's too risky. It could still be susceptible to the Sigma Virus." Alia commented.
"Speaking of. If you're here, Ingrid, then that must mean you found out where they're making the stuff." Xiaoyu said to the mystery girl.
"You got it! Grandmaster Meio is hiding in the human realm, in a space station orbiting Earth." Ingrid grinned with good news about Meio's whereabouts.
"The Third Moon." Strider realized calmly.
"That's right. I recommend we head there immediately. Hear they're just about done with their bioweapon, though I haven't found out how they plan to deploy it." Ingrid replied.
"Won't matter once we blow up their base." Sonic quipped.
"What about the symbiote?" Arthur asked.
"We'll deal with it later. Right now, saving two Earths from an interdimensional pandemic takes precedent." Jill stated, interested in finally disposing Ultron Sigma's greatest weapon.
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Earth's Orbit.
From the demon world to the human world, the invisible Aven-Jet flies to outer space until they near a mysterious space station orbiting the planet. It is the Third Moon, the secret base of Grandmaster Meio that is pivotal in Ultron Sigma's plan to kill off all life on both Earths. The Aven-Jet parks outside their sensors to avoid detection, to give themselves time to plan their assault on the satellite base.
"I've managed to located the Gravitron Core, here in the heart of the station. It's responsible for powering the entire base." Ingrid informed the heroes, pointing at a holographic display of their primary target in the moon base.
"Third Moon's defenses won't be easily breached. We'll need a diversion." Alia noted.
"And what of Grandmaster Meio?" Strider asked the party.
"Engage him only as a last resort. Our priority is to shut down that station, understood?" Chris retorted, sternly making it clear that the safety of the dimensions is more important than vengeance.
"Hmph." Strider scoffed with indifference.
"We'll split into two teams. A small group led by Commander Redfield will shut down the base. The rest of us will distract security." X suggested.
"Let Sonic do it. He's the most obnoxious out of all us combined." Knuckles smirked, teasing his hedgehog rival.
"I wouldn't mind. More fun for me." Sonic grinned cockily from his seat.
"Nuh-uh. You're gonna be chaperoned, mister. Can't let you hog all the hedge." Morrigan punned.
"Fair enough." The shrugging Sonic chuckled.
Everyone then gets into teams. Team 1 led by Chris consists of Jill, Ruby, Blake, Zero, Axl, Tron, and Knuckles, tasked with the mission to shut down the space station. Everyone else will be led by X in order to cause a diversion for Chris's team. As Wolverine joins Team X, he notices Strider has something else in mind beyond causing diversions. "Eager?" Logan privately asked the ninja.
"I'm going after the Grandmaster." Strider responded.
"Then I'm coming with you." Wolverine decided, in a mood to delay orders as well.
Reluctantly accepting the mutant's request, Strider says, "Commander Redfield!", to grab his curious attention and proclaim, "You'll have your diversion, make it count.", before teleporting Team X to the moon base.
"Um, bye, I guess." Ruby said awkwardly as she wasn't expecting them to leave in a jiffy.
"Ninjas." Chris sighed, sharing a tired shrug with Jill.
The Third Moon.
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Two Ultron Drones stand guard of the entrance port. Or they were standing and guarding until Team X appears behind them as Strider cleaves the two in two. "Do not waste any time!" Strider advised his comrades while striking his combat stance.
"Cause as much havoc as you can, people! Get their attention!" X ordered, just as a massive security horde rush in to intercept the intruders.
Heroes alike begin infiltrating the base guns blazing and fists raging, starting in the Entrance Port. This spaceport is affected by a zero-gravity effect that makes people jump high, put into great use by X firing a Cross Charge Shot that sends Ultron Drones flying toward a midair dashing Wolverine. The swift mutant unleashes one long vertical slash that knocks the goons back at X and now Arthur, both combining their respective Hadoken and Goddess' Bracelet into a powerful multi-attack that obliterates the robots.
"What is Meio cooking in here?" joked Dante, with he and Chun-Li finding themselves fighting against Light Troopers in a giant research laboratory.
"This is all inhumane." Chun-Li comments about the strange lifeforms sealed in tubes for crazy experimentation, "Is this how Meio rules the future? If so, we absolutely cannot allow it come to pass!"
Sonic is also in the lab spindashing through Light Troopers before bouncing off one with a kick. He lands just as swiftly as Hsien-Ko covers his back right before he returns the favor. His support goes the extra mile by carrying her with a whirlwind, allowing the Darkhunter to spin her saw blades superfast on all robots drawn to the tornado. A napalm bomb from a Military PNUT then disrupts their coordination, prompting Sonic to call in Ingrid for assistance against another horde, "Show us what you're made of, Ingrid!"
"Stand back and peep the lightshow! Ingrid's got this!" Ingrid smiles with casual confidence despite the fearsome opposition she's facing alone. This mystery girl fights with a mysterious power, infusing ballet-like attacks with energy derived from light. At speeds unreal, she assaults the large horde with a ballerina-like spinkick before stunning them with a burst of solar power. Just as a Light Trooper is about to intercept, she knocks away their missile launcher with a flip kick. "In the name of heaven, I'll punish you! Sun Delta!" She gets serious upon entrapping the horde in a shield-like energy, lifting them into the air just so they could crash into an explosive end.
"Well, that was over fast. And I'm still pumped up, too!" Ingrid said, disappointed that horde didn't put up much of a fight against her tremendous power.
"Whoa, you're stronger than we thought. You gotta tell us how you did all that." Hsien-Ko remarked, amazed by Ingrid's power.
"She can show-than-tell while we're blowing up this joint. Let's keep movin'!" smirked Sonic, racing ahead to fight more lackies.
Soon after, the heroes raid an Anti-Gravity Corridor. Reaverbots and Sigma Virus drones infest this area. And what's worse, they have to fight them off while standing on the ceiling as the whole area is flipped. "Gravity is wonky here too!" Xiaoyu noticed she's on the ceiling.
"Now everyone can stick to walls. I'm no longer special." Spider-Man quipped, evading the Sigma Virus and making sure Reaverbots are webbed.
Anti-Gravity doesn't bother Strider at all while he's using his Boost technique to strike all targets around him with several homing plasma waves. He soon vanishes to give Jin and Joe the chance to pummel the robots with viewtiful ferocious strikes, weakening them by the time Strider returns with his Legion of mechanical eagles and panthers that prey on their dying bodies.
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The area is nearly secured. Just a few more enemies left to destroy. Like an Ultron Drone that might've got the drop on Strider if Wolverine didn't intercept by decapitating its head. Strider doesn't give thanks as he's already racing off to eliminate Grandmaster Meio. But Logan does stop him once he curiously asks, "This man, Grandmaster Meio, who is he to you anyway?"
"He is no man, he is the Lord of Darkness. Capable of corrupting life itself, reshaping it to his own twisted desire." Strider proclaimed.
"It seems you know him well." Wolverine noted, sheathing his claws.
"I have fought the Grandmaster for a thousand years, dying a thousand deaths, as if my fate is forever bound to his." Strider said solemnly.
"But this time you won't face him alone." Wolverine declared, promising to help his ninja friend finally put an end to the Grandmaster's tyranny. A promise silently acknowledged by Strider as the two race off to find him.
Meanwhile…
Team Redfield is racing toward the Gravitron Core unbothered, thanks to the diversion team doing their job. A little too well as they can hear multiple explosions from miles away. "Strider…" Chris glanced at for a moment.
"He's a man of his word." Blake quipped dryly before moving on.
"How close are we to the core?" Jill asked their reploid navigator.
'Very close. It's dead ahead.' Alia directed.
"Get me there safely and I'll do my thing and shut this whole place down." Tron ordered, making the journey on her Gustaff as always.
"Thought we were blowing it up." Axl responded.
"Oh we will. After I plunder his treasure vault." Tron smirked deviously.
"Typical." Knuckles snarks at the air pirate.
"Can't let good treasure go to waste." Tron quipped.
Didn't take another moment longer for the team to reach the heart of the station. The main control sector where the massive Gravitron Core can be viewed from a distance. The Unified Earth Control Section. Victory is in their sights. They just need to do something about the familiar laugh that garners their stern glares, "Hehehahaha!" That laugh belongs to none other than Grandmaster Meio himself as this is his main dwelling area, descending toward his throne to mock his enemies, "Come, bear witness to the death of your world. The virus shall remake the Earth in Ultron Sigma's image…" He then unleashes godlike power from his hands to create a powerful yet familiar force to play with them. A snarling horde of Symbiote BOWs and Cyber-Grimm that are hungry for their blood, "My lifeforms shall destroy any who resist."
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"Symbiote BOWs and Cyber-Grimm?! And this isn't like Weiss's summons either. He…created them out of nothing!" Blake noted in horrific shock at Meio's mastery over creation.
"So, this is the Grandmaster's power!" Zero scowled while confronting the corrupted creations.
"Ultron Sigma believes we are making a perfect multiverse. I am merely content to see your kind suffer." Meio smiled, sadistically watching his creations go to war with the meddlesome heroes.
"You won't get away with this! Not this time! We're freeing Strider's future from your evil today!" Ruby declares with the determination that fuels her strikes on symbiote soldiers.
"I will build my teams upon your shattered bodies." Meio retorted.
Symbiote BOWs flail their tendrils that Blake backflips away from to retaliate with a dashing shadow-clone that uppercuts it into two halves. She was fast enough to dodge the symbiote but not the Cyber-Manticore Grimm that suddenly stomps on her back, prompting Tron to come to her rescue by grabbing its tail and hurling the large beast at the nearest enemy horde that she swiftly kills with her dashing drill. But then the pirate finds herself surprised by a symbiote that pulls her out of her Gustaff to repeatedly smash her on the ground until she is saved by Zero, slashing the tendril that was holding her and stunning the BOW with several buster shots before Chris comes in with a magnum that blows its brains out. And just as more monsters rampage toward them, they are mostly destroyed by a blade beam from Blake.
"Die, children of the old gods!" shouted Meio, unleashing a devastating lightning storm that doesn't keep the heroes down forever as their will to live pushes them to stand back up and continue fighting.
"Get Meio! We'll hold off his pets!" Chris ordered the likes of Ruby, Knuckles, Jill, and Axl to defeat the Grandmaster.
"Did someone forecast a bullet shower? Pretty sure I did!" joked Axl, quickly rolling away from more lightning strikes to retaliate with his dual-pistols. Meio dodges them easily, smiling while firing fireballs that put down the hunter. He then appears directly above him to charge up a large plasma orb that will seriously hurt but wasn't able to execute it thanks to a surprise Knuckles slamming his fist on his back, crashing him into a recovering Axl's Volt Tornado that blows back the creepy tyrant.
"I will watch you writhe in anguish!" Meio frowned, starting to get annoyed with their resistance. He senses a fast attack coming from Ruby a mile away and warps away seamlessly the second before her scythe connects. He forces her to run from his ruthless energy barrage, watching her use her Semblance to flee and be tricked into being eaten by a large Alligator BOW he summoned. "Submit to the ultimate power!" He laughed out his taunt.
"I'll get you out, kid!" Jill hurries to the huntress's rescue by pulling out her rocket launcher, using it to obliterate the roaring alligator that wanted to eat her next. "You okay?" The concerned agent asked the liberated Ruby.
"I'm feeling gross!" Ruby grunted in disgust, covered in smelly alligator guts. "Can you create a bath for me please?" She jokingly asked the Grandmaster.
"Sure. This will clean you up in time for the funeral!" Meio snarked, showering more energy blasts that force both Ruby and Jill to evade.
Battling Meio is starting to get tricky. Every attack the heroes throw at him is countered perfectly by his vast abilities and taunting laughter. Which means that they need to get tricky too, with the opportunity presenting itself in the form of Meio summoning a spindashing Cyber-Boarbatusk at Jill. The BSAA Agent rolls behind Axl for cover, tricking the demon into being deflected by the hunter's Gaea Shield so Ruby could uppercut it into the air for Knuckles to punch it straight at Meio. The second he evades it however, he is struck down hard and fast by the swift Ruby appearing behind him.
"Clever. But not enough!" The injured Meio recovers as quickly as him summoning more lifeforms to fend off Ruby's squad. "I have evolved far beyond your pathetic existence! All worlds must bow before us! Prepare to stand against my magnificence!" He boasted with the utmost arrogance.
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Team Redfield put up a good fight, but Meio has made it near-impossible to reach him now. His army of lifeforms is keeping them busy. So busy in fact that they fail to notice the reinforcements that have come to finally put an end to this madness. "Grandmaster Meio." said by a chilling voice that he knows all too well.
Calmly, Meio looks to his right to see his old nemesis Strider dropping in on a hanging banner, "Strider Hiryu…" His demeanor doesn't bother to change even when he notices Wolverine appearing on the opposite side. He just remains collected with a side of arrogance, "Noble to the last."
"I merely wanted you to know who it was that ended your existence." Strider boasted.
"You forget, Strider, death has no dominion over me!" Meio proclaimed, charging up a deadly double energy wave that he fires at both enemies at once. Both heroes jump away from them, and before he could fire again, Meio is struck down permanently by their cross-slash attack.
"Yet still you die." Wolverine mocked coldly, as Meio's body burst into dying darkness that should never again threaten any world.
"You have…my thanks." Strider said gratefully, albeit with a struggle, to the X-Man that he has greater respect for now.
"Must feel strange saying those words." Wolverine quipped stoically, respecting the ninja a lot more too.
"Was wondering where you two ran off to." Spider-Man joked, as the rest of Team X reunites with both Wolverine and Strider and just as Team Redfield finishes off the remaining lifeforms.
"It's disrespectful running away from your elders." Ingrid lectured the runaways.
"Pretty sure I'm older than you." Wolverine snarked.
"You have no idea how old I am." Ingrid retorted.
"And you're not going to tell us because…?" Axl wonders just how old Ingrid is.
"Because it would be both disrespectful and embarrassing." Ingrid quipped.
"Alright kids, give it a rest. We're almost there. Chop chop!" Trish snarked, shutting down the arguing so they can finish their mission.
With all opposition crushed, nothing is stopping the Resistance from reaching the walkway that leads to the Gravitron Core. There is a computer console next to it, just waiting to be hacked by the combined genius of Spidey and Tron. As they do, Jin says, "Once this station is down, we'll be one step closer in defeating Ultron Sigma. Were you able to locate his precise location?", while turning to Ingrid for answers on the Maverick God's location.
"Yeah. It was a pain to find though. He somehow used the Convergence Device to create a brand new world in the dimensional space between Earths. He calls it Xgard." Ingrid revealed the name of their enemy's hidden fortress.
"Xgard, huh. Curious to see what inspired that name." Demitri commented.
"We'll still need the Exo Stone weapon if we want any fighting chance against Ultron Sigma. How's it coming over there?" Chun-Li asked the geniuses if they're done shutting down the Third Moon.
"Just about done…Booyah!" Spidey happily announces the complete shutdown of the Gravitron Core, "Third Moon Base is shutting down and set to blow up! Let's go watch the fireworks outside!"
"After I make sure its treasures are safe." Tron snarked.
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But as Tron is walking away, the entire space station is struck by a surprise quake that makes her go, "Uh oh."
'NEOGENESIS PROTOCOL INITIATED. SIGMA VIRUS READY FOR DEPLOYMENT. PURGING CORE.' The Third Moon AI system announced, surprising the heroes even more when they see the Gravitron Core purging itself from the base.
"I thought you shut this place down!" X shouted at the geniuses.
"We did! We must've kicked off a failsafe!" Spidey retorted.
"Just what is going on? What is it?" Chris wondered urgently.
Tron hurries back to the computer console to read what exactly is happening. What she finds is nothing good. Nothing good at all as she announces, "The Gravitron Core…I-It's a weapon. Its payload…The Sigma Virus. The target…" Her friends stand in horrific anticipation of what she's about to say, as Tron dramatically turns to them to state that, "Earth.", is the prime target of the Sigma Virus.
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KFX Here: The good news is that Grandmaster Meio is dead. Bad news is everything else. We're nearing the grand finale, folks! Just need to deal with some Omega-level threats before ending this story with an epic three-parter.
superjoeyf721: I would like to add OG Prowler into one of these stories one day. I'm just not sure how yet. Maybe a Prowler vs. Prowler storyline?
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