"Hey, Sub!"

Kuai Liang looked from his drink and saw Zero, "Yes, what is it?"

I was just wondering, what were some of your robot buddies like? I know you had some." Zero asked in his usual tone.

"Technically they were cyborgs." The cryomancer clarified, "Why the sudden interest?"

"I was just wondering if any of them were guys like you." Zero clarified, "Y'know, a good guy."

"There were two that stood out." Sub-Zero answered, "One of them was Smoke. But, due to Rayden's alteration to the timeline, he was not cyberized and was instead killed as his human form." Kuai Liang held a moment of silence for his fallen friend.

"The other was Cyrax."

"What was he like?"

Zero and Kuai Liang turned to see the original Mega Man, his eyes widened in a way that implied genuine curiosity.

"Hey there, OG." Zero 'ruffled' Mega Man's head affectionately, "How long have you been there?"

"Not long." Mega Man replied, "I was just wondering if you had any stories of the version of me that you know. The uh…"

"The 'X' version." Zero finished, "I'll tell you later after subby here finishes up his story about his Cyber-Ninja buddies."

"'Buddies' is a strong word." Sub-Zero clarified, "Cyrax was more of an acquaintance. Smoke was more of a friend."

"But we aren't talking about Smoke anymore." Rock pointed out.

"Yeah, we're talking about the other guy." Zero finished.

"Right. Well, Cyrax was one of the others who opposed cyberization." Sub-Zero said as if he was telling a story to young minds who wanted to hear stories of heroics.

"He tried to talk sense into Sektor, whom I am aware that some people here are already acquainted with, but failed."

"Right. I remember hearing about that." Mega Man recalled.

"Right, he refused to kill Johnny Cage, as an act of mercy- Or as a means to 'repay' Shang Tsung for ordering Sheeva and Baraka to try to kill him." Kuai recalled, "I got that information from Smoke, so I may not have all the details."

"Think it was that." Batman said, entering the room, "I'd have to extract the information from the databanks that we got from a scuffle that Raiden had with him a few weeks ago." he sat down and poured himself a drink.

"Thought you didn't like alcohol." Mega Man wondered, "Wouldn't it mess with your senses or something?"

"Gotta build up a tolerance so that Bruce Wayne can hold his liquor in public." Batman replied, "You keep telling your story." he said to his counterpart.

"Right. Anyways, Cyrax was turned into a Cyborg for his troubles, and was sent to try to attack me and several of my allies but was unsuccessful."

"What happened after… y'know?" Zero tried to dance around the touchy subject of Sub-Zero being Cyberized, and being then turned back to human form.

"There was a fight between me and the clan I had made, and the one that Sektor and he had made. I had used a virus to free Cyrax, and he… gave his life so that I could restart the Lin Kuei."

"Sorry to hear that." Zero comforted.

"Last cyber Lin Kuei I saw was my old body that was in the Special Forces holding facility. I think they are trying to reprogram it to do something." Sub-Zero finished.

"I think it's called the Tekunin Initiative or something." Batman replied, slowly drinking his alcohol, "They want an army of cybernetic soldiers to do things too dangerous for others."

"Heh," Zero chuckled, "Selfless reasoning, but I'm willing to bet that it backfires on them."

*ALERT! ALERT!*

"Great, what now?"

"Alright guys, we have a mission to complete out there. Word has it that the villains have some kind of doomsday device that threatens to put the city in jeopardy." Cap stated, "Everyone has their objective, and knows what they're getting into. Word has it that they've unleashed Doomsday to run interference. So, a larger part of us will try to fight him off with Kirby. The rest of you have to find that device, and stop it."

"Right." Iron Man said, "Luckily, the bad guys were at least smart enough to put a power inhibitor on Doomsday so that they could control him, but we still have to be careful."

"Alright everyone," Cap stated, "Let's move out!"

X: Prepare for the storyline that I've hyped up for SUCH a long time. Hope you enjoy it.

Wade: You know what's going to happen, right?

X: Dude, I have like, 75% of it done as of me writing this chapter. I'll probably have 95% of it finished by the time I post this.

Pinkie: Don't rush yourself though. Take your time, and keep up your filler.

Alexis: Tweet tweet tweet.