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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 7, 2009 21:58:34 GMT -5
And again, we have more revelations ... or updates on those behind the scenes.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Twenty-Six: Updating
That very night of day 121, Axl had never felt gloomier than ever. He may have passed through much trials of fighting, persecution and punishment and he may have even come closer to death just like his inhabitants. This case was different: he was never going to see a human who had a deep place in his heart, ever again.
It was close to 9.45 p.m. and the Big City skies are decorated with dark clouds. Rain poured over the many streets and districts of the center, south and southwest of the island capital. The Prez grounds were no exception.
Lumine had brought all of them to Prez’s personal room on the 86th floor of the tower mansion. Axl was wet slightly all over him, still weeping from Sue’s farewell. The white Reploid carefully moved the body to a nearby chair close to the fireplace and sat down, hoping to dry up his host’s clothes a little.
“I’m fine, Lumine, thanks.” Some tears still rolled down his cheek as his fingers reached out to rub his eyes. He felt relieved of much grief from Iris’ warmth and blew a small breath of sigh. Finally noticing his clothes, he immediately stood up.
“My clothes are wet! I’m going to have to change into a new set!”
“That’s the spirit, Axl! Go on! You’ll feel all fresh again!” Instantly, Axl entered the elevator and rushed down to the 54th floor to grab a new set of clothes from the cabinet. He decided to resume his usual human form: a dark blue sweater and long-sleeved jacket, both with blue stripes, a blue-black baggy trouser and brown leather shoes.
“This form makes me feel more comfortable. Where is dad anyway?” He stood up from sitting on Lumine’s resting pod and looked around the room.
“That’s the look I know of you, dear boy. I also feel comfortable in it. If you’re trying to find father, I suggest you look at his huge computer screen back upstairs. It always shows his schedule whenever he’s not around.”
That Axl did. He didn’t use the elevator; he just teleported again. At one end of the room there was placed Prez’s giant flat screen device. Indeed what the white Reploid said was right; the schedule was there. Prez was assumed to be in his office.
Axl preferred to be led this time by the employed humans, although teleporting was way better. Upon leaving the main ground hall of the tower mansion, he requested the aid of humans to be shown to Prez’s office. Axl gained some old sights.
The giant machines were still operating although it was past working hours. Pipes poured out endless glowing liquid and gears were running. Machines still assembled electronic components and other machine parts together. Instead of humans, they were run by the newer Reploids which looked like construction robots during the Jakob crisis.
“Has the plants always worked all the time? It’s no wonder dad is earning so much. Too much, perhaps. And Sue… why?” No one said anything until they got to the front door of mister Prez’s office. The humans left the Reploid on his own.
Opening the door, the usual sights of book-stacked shelves and chairs and pool table were revealed to his eyes. At the end of the room, an old man was staring at papers, counting the numbers with a scanner.
“Axl! How have you been? And you guys? I hope you are fine!”
“Hi, dad. I’m fine, thanks for asking. Lumine and Iris also say hi to you.” He landed himself on a couch close to the office desk and showed his sad face. He didn’t want to show it to Prez but the old man obviously knew the actual scene. Halting his scanner, he got up and sat next to the Reploid.
“Alright, what’s going on? Why the long face?”
“Dad, it’s you.” His inhabitants pressed him to not worry and go ahead with the storytelling. “I know that Sue’s dad misused your money for loan activities and other sort of stuff, but you had to banish him away from Big City? Now, his whole family is moving. I’ll never see Sue again. Why did you have to do this?”
“Can’t you at least make his family stay behind? I miss Sue already. She was the first thing I have ever thought about love, besides you that is. I just can’t leave her.”
Axl’s arm moved to switch on the speaker on his right ear in case his inhabitants wanted to say anything. Prez placed his palm on Axl’s knees.
“Axl, you have to understand. I requested his banishment as a lesson to everyone out there. I know I’m unfair but I cannot bear to have a man in prison while his family has no source of income. Having said that, that’s why I asked Sue’s mum and herself if they were fine with the banishment. Obviously they wanted the family to stick together.”
“But you knew that was going to happen, didn’t you, dad?”
Prez was speechless. Both said nothing at all. Putting his palm on his face, he sighed. “That is true, Axl. Things can’t be avoided no matter how much I try. This is all partly my fault because I was too angry. This is the fourth mistake I’ve made in my entire life and I’m glad you didn’t follow my style.”
“Four mistakes? You mean, this fourth mistake was letting your emotions get the hold of you?” Prez nodded. Axl’s sadness disappeared as he took interest in this new topic. “What were the other three?”
“The third mistake was trusting Bob too much until I’ve suffered losses. Despite my profits, I am still losing quite a lot. Damage repairs and the like. I hoped that we could have stayed united but this whole mess in the past four months had to happen. I’m just glad we’re all back together.”
“Father, this wasn’t your fault…” Iris’ calm voice filled the air.
“The second mistake was simply supplying the world with faulty Reploids upon the plans my friend Cain left behind. Since X’s discovery, I had never noticed the fault in Cain’s plans till around twelve years ago. That was when you came in. I am still trying to figure out the catalyst to make Reploids never Maverick. I released the new generation Reploids to the world too early, already Maverick. It’s all my fault.”
“Father, please stop blaming yourself. I’m sure you didn’t want all that to happen.” Lumine’s pleas filled the office. The four were silent then.
“My first mistake was something to do with your case: love. It was all back in my teen orphan years when I met my first love. Should I have avoided that mistake decades ago, I would have had a family of my own and never stressed myself too much till today. I shouldn’t have accused her.”
“Dad, what happened back then?” Axl sat closer to Prez.
“I was around the age of fifteen in a school in north central Big City. We were all happy kids. I first met this girl of my age while I was trying to cut some roses out of paper. She showed me how to tenderly cut the paper. We eventually got along and started having feelings for each other. We went on for three years.”
“One day, I had just only completed this huge clay sculpture of my favourite teacher. The girl was slightly jealous but praised me nonetheless. She was the only one who spoke to me about the clay sculpture so I had no idea others were jealous of me. Some boys wanted to break it in my hostel. A fat boy did it.”
“I was so furious. I saw her looking at the clay pieces so I thought she did it. I accused her so much of foul words that she got so sad, she ran away crying. I was still furious so I had no idea what to do.”
“I got a failing grade for the project. I learnt to overcome that feeling and tried to apologize to her. Over the next few weeks, our relationship was ruined. However the tables were turned when another boy told the teacher what he saw. The teacher rounded up the boys and made them confess. I learnt the truth and was given another chance to start my clay again. Ironically, this other boy who made the boys confess was – I hope you’re not shocked – Bob.” The trio kept the shock to themselves.
“I earned a grade of B for the project. By then, I realized my erroneous ways and tried to make it up to her. I remembered the way she taught me to make paper roses. I did it many times; only then did I make one correctly.”
“The girl had a family who lived far across the town. I knew where she lived so I rushed over to her house. Unfortunately, faulty brakes of a bus caused her to die in a crash. I wept the whole night thinking about that. I never got to say sorry to her and that grief haunted me for the rest of my life.”
“WHAT?! How could have that happened?!” Prez ignored Axl’s sudden burst.
“After high school, I met Dr Cain and we studied the formula of X. We worked together, though I tend to hide myself in the labs making machines. I was still haunted by the grief. Over the years, I somewhat matured without a family. I grew wealthier from X’s formula and rapid industries. I rebuilt them after the Eurasia incident. Eurasia reminded me vividly of that grief and for that, I didn’t recycle the massive structure.”
“Sought to finally have a son of my own, I took advantage of Iris’ fragments and created you, Axl, also trying to prove my theories of science correct. Lumine was created and improved later to replace you but I’m glad you all three are here.”
“I see, dad… I’m sorry.” Axl gave his apologies.
“It’s all over anyway. The girl’s older sister knew of it and tried to forgive me but the grief stayed. Yet I appreciate it. Many years later, that older sister got married and had her own daughter whom I shared some happiness with her before Eurasia. That daughter turned out to be one of my few friends and also, Sue’s mum.”
The trio were deeply shocked. “WHAT?!”
“Hard to believe isn’t it? Sue’s mum also knew of her aunt’s death and my unfulfilled wish to apologize to her. That’s why she was always there to calm me down whenever I got angry. She also rang me up when I blew my top at the exhibit.”
“The fat boy who knocked down the clay sculpture; he was Sue’s father’s father. Last I heard of him, he died during the Eurasia crash. Like father, like son; he inherited his father’s taste for insults and rough belittling. My taste for revenge had never dried up till I made the verdict.”
“I understand your love situation completely, Axl. I’m sorry if it harmed you a lot. I understand you met Sue during your time at the store but you didn’t know all this. Don’t you worry about Sue; she’s young but a strong girl. She’ll make it by her own in the mainland Federation. Her father will also be watched by a Federation-designated company so he doesn’t make any trouble.”
Axl then remembered the rose he saw, stored in a bottle of fluid in Lumine’s room and the two separate stands placing one broken clay statue and another complete one in Prez’s personal room. Those were a long time ago. He realized the purpose of them now and instead of feeling angry, he sympathized the old man.
“Gee, dad… I’m sorry. I feel bad for you. You’re right. I had this thing better than you, dad. About Sue, it’s okay. I’m fine with her going away… thanks for updating my knowledge about this thing, dad.” Silence again prevailed in the atmosphere.
Prez smiled. “Cheer up. It’s all gone now: the guilt and revenge. Sue’s mum somehow rang up a reliable medium between this world and the other. She passed apologies to the girl on my behalf and she was reportedly cheerful for me. That was the last time I heard of her: several days before the exhibit.”
“This world we live in is a strange world. We can talk to the dead but select few can. There’s so much trouble here and there but we somehow survive the worst. I for one, am glad that I lived through the worst. I will join the other world soon; it’s only a matter of time. That time, you three will have to fend for yourself.”
“Father, please don’t talk about this any more…” Iris sounded like she was crying.
“Very well then. Let’s get back to you. How are things on your side, Axl? I’ll like to do some updating myself about my favourite children.”
“Well, okay.” Axl cheered up and sat on the comfy chair. “I’m doing well in my lessons, I guess. Lumine helped me a lot in my work but I did the work myself. Last time I checked was I have some more work to do.”
Lumine spoke up. “Thank you for the compliment, dear boy. Father, we managed to get hold of the Maverick in here. He’s originally my corrupted conscious when I had a body back then. He somewhat merged himself with so much data, he is a full-fledged personality like us.”
Prez got up with a shock. “What? You’ve got him?”
“Yes, father. His sole mission was to propagate human trash’s rubbish ideas through me by means of getting you to approve me as the Jakob director around three years ago. Thankfully, dear boy’s body separated us and I was free from any corruption. Now we managed to imprison him, largely thanks to dear girl. Now he can never plan any more attacks on our systems.”
“It was nothing… I can’t bear to watch you two getting injured.”
“He told us everything about himself. He’s particularly biased towards dear girl out of inherited respect. He can see whatever we see but he can’t hear us or speak to us now. We’ve installed a censor program on him.”
Prez made deep thoughts. “I see… what will you do with him?”
“It’s all up to dear boy now. He’s effectively sealed away and we’ve talked about this issue before but dear boy just keeps stalling. I have my ideas but neither dear boy nor dear girl are happy about them.” He sparked criticism from Iris.
“Lumine! All you ever think about is destroying him! He’s a personality now and he seems to have repented! Can’t you just quit the idea of finishing him off?!”
“Sorry, dear girl but I still prefer to destroy him. I have my reasons.”
“Well, one thing’s for sure…” Axl spoke this time. “He inherited some of your intelligence, Lumine. We can’t just simply destroy him without a good reason. We may even see something coming out of that smarts.”
“But… dear boy…I …” Lumine stuttered in his words but stopped.
Prez sighed. “Huh. Bob, such a smart yet cunning guy. Too bad he chose the wrong path. The world could use more smart people. Anyway, about that copy of Axl, maybe there is a way to change him. I don’t know, he rather kind in cooperating with you. It’s all up to you three now. Decide for the best.”
“Sure thing, dad. Hey, how are things on your end?”
“Me? All I talk is just plain business. You know, the plants and the factories and the goods and the, aw you know what I’m talking about. You don’t need to hear it. I find you three are bored with all the talks on economics and stuff like that.”
“Not me.” A cold voice shuddered the air. It was obviously Lumine’s. “I’m your heir, father. You can’t forget that I need to know what’s going on in this place and around the world. I have to manage this place and all your affairs in the future. I need to know. Dear boy and girl, bear with me, will you?”
“Of course.” “Sure, I’ll just be patient.”
Prez led them out of the office and switched on an alarm signaling every machine in the wide place to stop working. A siren was horned out loudly and all newer Reploids began to retreat back to their warehouse pods as well as clear up all materials and ores. Machines were shut down one by one. The place soon darkened, save the lamps, and the human and trio-in-one Reploid began to work their way out to the south wing.
They walked past the high-rise corridors, above many reactors and pipes. The gears stopped moving and the newer Reploids walked back to their posts. Along the way back out, Prez told much of his daily affairs.
“Well, so far everything is quite fine. Despite the speed I’m going. It looks like I’ll only be able to recycle all of the Elevator’s metal to scrap around next month. Even at the speed I always go, I had finished building the Elevator in two years. Just in time for Lumine to become the director at the time.”
“Most of my projects are coming fine. Oh you know the basic laws of economics. Demand and supply keeps the market running. The major reconstruction projects around the southern hemisphere of the world are progressing very fast. Time is limited so we must get everything done as fast as possible to bring peace again.”
“Of course, according to the laws in the super nations of the southwest and south, I am required to allow stockholders in my corporation. But you know me; everything is mine and there’re my sweat and blood. So I decided to sell those houses and buildings to either the governments or companies. I built them all with my money, you know!”
“Just in case you are interested, I am taking over the fat bloke’s fishery company. Yup, all must be repaired and fixed. New methods to bring in, new people and Reploids to move around and the same market to explore.”
“That was very informative, father.” Axl kept on walking along the high-rise bridge. “So tell me father, what do you do with the profits?”
“I’ve got plans, Lumine. Besides the usual role of paying the scientists, workers and directors for their work, this time I’m investing in a brand new project. There’s where the new land purchase comes in. I’m built a new plant for the research of minute technologies. It will be a living computer side by side with humans and Reploids.”
The trio became interested. “What is that?”
“They are sort of like Reploids, only smaller and friendlier. They will have the power to heal combat Reploids of injuries and they’ll be great assistants to the humans in many fields. They’ll be invincible!”
“Wow, dad. That sounds very promising. What will you call them?”
“I haven’t figured out a name for them yet. Our current technologies won’t be able to provide so much power and mechanics into a small Reploid. That’s why this plant will be strictly for research and development. I also hope that we’ll be able to fix the errors in Cain’s mechanisms and create all Reploids with intellect and sense of righteousness, never be able to go Maverick at all! But that would be up to you to continue my works.”
“I also will be investing further in space exploration. Just between you guys and me, the asteroids are filled with tonnes of ore, waiting to be mined. I’m going to send the first colony to the asteroid belt in a few months and mine the minerals essential for this new assistants and rebuilding a new world of peace.”
“Such grandiose dreams, father. I promise I shall do my best to complete them.”
“I’m proud of you then, Lumine. Remember, you two must also help him to fulfill his responsibilities.” Axl smiled at Prez. “Sure thing, dad. No problem. We already agreed to help each other.” They walked on the bridge.
Soon they had arrived outside of the giant plants at the south wing. The security guards went to lock the doors only after the duo had left the building. This time, they proceeded to walk slowly back to the southwest wing.
“So, Axl? How exactly is X and Zero now? Heard from them?”
Axl shrugged his shoulders and scratched his head. “No, not much. We haven’t talked for a long time, only briefly. Ever since there are rarely Mavericks around the world and Big City, we haven’t been talking much. Only focusing on this education thing and his patrols. Can I blame you for that, dad?”
“If it makes you feel happy.” The duo laughed together, walking along side the walkways to the tower mansion. Although they felt it as insulting, Axl’s remark was humourous nonetheless so Lumine and Iris laughed along too.
“Well, dear boy, now that is good humour.”
“Hey, dad. Sue also said that Lumine was a good dancer. But he didn’t really do the dance properly the other time. He was supposed to pass the rose to Sue the old fashion way, not just giving it to him.”
“What? Dear boy, I am insulted. She is your girl, not mine. You are the one who ought to have danced then. I would love to see you fall down on your own feet.”
“Hey! I didn’t get the education ten years ago, you know!”
Axl and Prez arrived at the tower mansion’s ground hall. It was there that Prez remembered something vital. “Ah yes. You three, we will be going on vacation in the islands south of the Big City in three days time. Know why? In three days’ time, it will be Lumine’s four month anniversary of returning from the Moon!”
Iris squealed with joy while Axl cheered. The white Reploid was touched, his eyes glittering with the emotion. “Father, you didn’t have to do all this for me. I’m fine alone with dear boy and dear girl. Really!”
“Nonsense! We ought to have family reunions like this more often! Words can’t express my gratitude for having you back!” Lumine was so overcome by happiness that he grasped Axl’s body to rush forward and hug his creator.
“Thank you father. Thank you ever so much.”
They let go of each other just before Prez pressed the elevator’s ‘UP’ button thus opening the door. Axl got a hold of himself and told Prez a surprising news.
“Dad, I think I want to quit my job at the old sir’s store.” That shocked Lumine and Iris a lot as they never expected this announcement. Prez however was calm, replying: “I’m fine with that. It’s up to you. If you’re feeling guilty about having to leave him, I can always search the lower classes for an unemployed and send him to work.”
“Wow, you act fast and smart, dad. Thanks. Smart… fast… yeah! I kept on forgetting! Dad, why did you grant Lumine so much intellect? Why did you give Iris so much hidden powers? Why did you make me who I am today?”
The inhabitants just remembered they had to ask that question to Prez.
“I’m only doing it out of love. Lumine’s magnificent intellect and powers, Iris and her great personality of love and you your power of justice and righteousness… You all are the embodiment of love. It isn’t everyday that a human invests love in Reploids, y’know. I feel you three are special because I want you to be special. Just like X and Zero, you three must know your rightful place in society. I’m making it clear.”
“Alright, enough about this. I’ll arrange that the old sir gets new help so you could focus on your studies. I hope you’ll wish the best for Sue and her family and you’ll work harder to fulfill your responsibilities. Right now, it may be late but who’s up for video games? I bet you can’t race me to the finish line!”
“Hey! I’ll beat you flat, dad! Just watch me!” The elevator door closed shut and as they rose higher to the sky, the ground hall turned dark and all doors were automatically locked. They were going to have a nice time knocking themselves out over racing games.
Continued in Chapter 27.
Notes: That explains mister Prez’s revenge and the flower and statues mentioned respectively in Axl Story Existpeace chapter 11 and Continuation chapter 10. Next chapter; Axl decides what to do with his evil copy!
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 8, 2009 21:46:50 GMT -5
Huh, didn't expect this to extend into 4 pages now. Well, today's update is twisty-turning.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Transfer
Axl let out a loud yawn in the lecture hall. Zero has noticed it as he slammed his fist on the lecturer’s desk. He called out Axl’s name loud and the sleepy Reploid sat back up and straight in an instant. He appeared much drained.
“Axl! Pay attention! This is the last time I will repeat on resource management!”
“Huh? What? Oh that’s okay. He knows everything. I can just ask him to teach me again after this class.” Axl then went into a nice sleep on his desk. Some Reploids giggled at the sight, some stared, some didn’t care. Even Zero himself was close to getting angry but continued on his lessons anyhow.
Of course, from that conversation, Lumine felt as though he was being treated like a convenient bank of knowledge. He wanted to shock Axl back to reality but he would stir up trouble. He felt that it was all Axl’s fault for getting into this trouble. Axl shouldn’t have played too much video games in the tower mansion last night.
For the next two hours or so in the morning, Axl slept soundly on his desk. He did feel refreshed after the sleep and was able to concentrate in Layer’s and X’s classes. Apparently he was under the watchful eyes of the two. Prez may be soft on the Class S Hunter but X was keen to do his tasks with full responsibility.
Later in the evening, after Layer’s class was over, Axl was called to stay back for the moment. Once again, most Hunters assumed that Axl had failed another assignment. However, Layer’s usual questions for Axl would be that concerning White Axl’s status and a solution towards him.
“You have to decide what to do with him. White Axl is a Maverick after all. You can’t keep him in you forever. One day when his limit is breached, he’ll take revenge on all of you. That will be very dangerous by then.”
“You think I don’t care? Of course I care. It’s just that I hadn’t found the correct solution yet. I will come up with my decision. That time, I’ll inform both you guys and Lumine. Oh by the way, did I tell you who made my copy a reality?”
“No, I don’t think so.” Layer was rubbing her chin with her finger.
“Oh well. I’ll let you guys know later when I’ve made up my mind of what to do with White Axl. I think we ought to be prepared for drastic events. I keep getting the feeling something bad will happen when the time comes…”
Axl grabbed his books and paper stuff from the lecturer’s desk and walked off while Layer was doing some deep thinking. It was already evening of day 122. Axl sighed as he walked all the way back to his cubicle. Dropping his borrowed items on his desk roughly, he crashed himself on his chair.
“Aw great. I’m coming down with some pain in my head…” Axl rest his chin on the folded arms on his desk. Despite feeling angry over what Axl did in his first lesson in the morning, Lumine decided to reach out to Axl.
“Headache, dear boy? Should I check it for you?”
“Nah, that’s not necessary. Thanks anyway. I’m just having a lot of thoughts, that’s all. One thing’s for sure, dad is the all-powerful human around here and we can’t blame him for having some things his way since he worked with blood and sweat. You’re getting some full acceptance from society about the heirdom; that’s good for you.”
“Me? I’m getting all the stress. I’ll probably never see Sue again thanks to her obnoxious dad. Now I have to deal with further education and stress and also White Axl. Yeah, we have to figure out a way to deal with him but it seems I must find a better solution than having him destroyed. I also do plan to stop working at the store. Gah, I need a rest. I’m taking a nap at the central chamber.”
Axl immediately got off his chair and made a slow walk to the central resting chamber. Hunching himself to the front while walking, he let out his usual sigh of sadness and depression. What was he going to do with his Maverick copy?
He cometed himself on a cushion close to the fireplace. Oddly enough, the entire place on that day had a very cold atmosphere. It has been raining heavily for the past 3 hours and showed no signs of stopping.
“Aw, man. What am I going to do? I am reaching dead end, Iris keeps pressuring me and so do everyone around me, Lumine’s bent on destroying my copy; why can’t things just go easy for me?!” Thinking the matter to himself only made his headache worse so he pressed his fingers against his temples.
In the computer brain, his inhabitants watched him as he groaned to himself. Iris darted a sharp, stern eye at Lumine while he returned the look with a wide eye. Iris was indirectly blaming Lumine for Axl’s trouble but the white Reploid was surprised.
An idea just struck Axl. Maybe there is a way to solve this problem concerning White Axl. Maybe it doesn’t have to be just destruction. There should be some sort of way out, another way much better.
“We may even see something coming out of that smarts…”
Iris approached Axl. “Axl? Did you say something?” Axl hurriedly closed his eyes and met Iris. Upon looking at him, she felt somewhat nervous. It was one of those times when Axl had an exciting idea which could possibly harm everyone. The times of him getting human clothes were indeed beneficial but this one was different.
“Alright, Axl. What is it this time?” Axl had a small smile on his face.
Quite a distance away, a white personality was watching the other three data souls walk some distance before sitting down on the pitch-black floor in a circle. The Maverick frowned upon the sight and his curiosity grew as he watched.
Axl kept on talking for the following sixty to hundred seconds. What he said must have held a lot of content with striking keywords to his idea because from White Axl’s point-of-view, Iris seemed very cheerful but the white Reploid only raised an eyebrow.
“That’s what I think we should do.” Axl looked on his inhabitants.
“Oh, Axl that was the best thing you’ve ever said! You’ve got my full support! Hee hee!” Iris giggled as she got up and jumped on Axl. “Umph! Hey, you didn’t have to do that! C’mon, get off me!”
Lumine only put his fingers on his chin and rubbed it a little. His lips and eyes had the same kind of expression for the past two minutes. It should be noted however, that his yellow pupils shrunk slightly; though no one noticed, if anyone did, they would have difficulties in guessing his thoughts.
“So dear boy,” – the white Reploid stood up – “this is your final decision? I can trust you to your actions, right?” Axl stared back at Lumine.
“Yeah I guess. You still want to destroy White Axl, right?”
“True, but I still respect your decision as well. I have my reasons. My point-of-view tells me that your decision is unacceptable but I guess, from your view, maybe this decision of yours can change things for the better. I’ll see you later.”
Axl was slightly ticked off from the white Reploid’s reply and he wanted to ask what were his reasons for wanting to destroy his Maverick copy but Iris held him back. “Please, Axl. I believe you’ve made the right decision. It will take time but I’m sure that the greater good will be served.”
His eyes opened quickly. Axl had just obtained the approval of his friends for his solution towards White Axl. Full with excitement, he jumped from the cushion and dashed towards Layer’s office to give her the news.
“Axl, are you serious?! You’re going to-!”
“Relax, will you? I’m sure that Lumine can handle it! He’s an expert on this matter of writing codes, even if he’s in my head! I just need you to prepare a container, anything of the sort! I’m waiting at the mechanics room!”
Axl dashed hurriedly out of Layer’s own room. Layer tapped her fingers on her desk before getting off her chair. “I feel something bad is going to happen. Iris may approve of Axl’s decision but it’s just making me nervous…”
The blue-red Reploid had opted to do this faster and it had to be now. Not only will he get the entire issue over with, he could also look forward to better time-spending. The white Reploid though expressed his satisfaction with Axl, still remained skeptical of that decision for certain reasons.
Axl crashed into X’s office, shocking the Commander while he was doing some documentation. Axl rudely slammed the door shut behind him and rolled on the floor before grabbing a chair. X looked at him, bewildered.
“Axl! You know better than to do that! What is it this time?”
“I think I know what to do with my Maverick copy! But first, I gotta tell you the history behind this!” He went on talking for the next fifteen minutes or so about White Axl’s past. By the end of it, X only raised an eyebrow.
“So, it was Bob again? Lumine wasn’t a Maverick originally? And now you are trying to… save him?! Why would you do that?”
“Well,” – Axl sat on the chair properly – “my dad always said that the world needs smarter people, or in this case Reploids. Since Lumine has been taught many things somewhere from eleven to three years ago and the human trash had corrupted him with a kind of conscious, along the way he picked up lots of those knowledge.”
“I’m guessing that if we brain-cleanse this Maverick of his designated purpose and wipe out the memories, we could save a soul and with some goodness and knowledge, I’m sure he’ll produce great results. He could work as a researcher. Maybe there’ll be results which help restore some order around here.”
X closed his eyes, frowning on the desk. Axl waited for his reply anxiously. He was certain that nothing could go wrong and everything would be solved easily.
“Huh… alright. We’ll do what you suggest. We could get something positive out of that, who knows? So Layer’s preparing a device to store White Axl?”
“Yeah, then it’s a matter of memory cleansing and giving White Axl a body. A new identity, new purpose, everything will be solved instantly.” Axl reclined on the chair some more. Silence prevailed the Commander’s office for the moment.
Axl got off the chair back on his feet again. “Well, I’d better get going. I have to wait and see what kind of ‘container’ Layer is getting. In the mean time, I’m doing my studies.” Axl rushed off back to his cubicle.
Some hours later, the blue-red Reploid was being taught by the white Reploid concerning mathematical calculations of force and power of electricity. Iris on the other hand had made a secret trip to the electronic prison to meet White Axl. The Maverick stood up and smiled upon her arrival. She deactivated the prison audio censors.
“Iris, what is going on? Is it to do with me?”
Iris had her eyes shut briefly before explaining. “White Axl, we have finally decided on what to do with you. Well, since you were kind enough to cooperate with us in the past, we are now going to spare your life and reward you your very own body.”
“But there’s a price you must pay. We are going to purge all your negative thoughts, ideals and your memories. We want you to start anew and do something good; prove your worth to everyone. Lumine was kind of convinced it was the better way, though he still wants to destroy you. It will all be over soon.”
White Axl trembled slightly. “What?!”
“Yeah, I guess it kind of hurts you to have your memories cleansed and forced in new ones. I’m sorry but please don’t get angry. It’s all for your own good.” Just before the Maverick was going to say something, Iris reactivated the audio censor and walked away. She didn’t see the Maverick’s face full of fright and speechlessness.
On the other side, Axl blew a sigh of relief. “Well, that’s all done! Thanks for your help, Lumine. If it weren’t for you, I would have never been able to finish this Core Sciences assignment and start working on the other two more.”
“It’s nothing, dear boy. You have my word that I would tutor you.”
Axl lied on the pitch-black floor while the white Reploid stood. “So dear boy, this is it, isn’t it? You’re willing to spare the Maverick and let him start anew, despite the unknown circumstances to come?” Axl raised an eyebrow.
“What unknown circumstances? I know you’re quite uncomfortable with Mavericks ever since you got back here and defeated Bob, but can’t you give him a conditional chance? That reminds me, what are your reasons for destroying White Axl?”
Lumine scratched his head. “Yes, you’re right that I can’t tolerate Mavericks. Dear boy, you may have a point that Mavericks can be given conditional chances… but I guess this copy of yours is different. I hope you understand me.”
“No, actually I don’t. Could you elaborate that?”
“Alright, I will. You see, dear boy-” They were interrupted by a fellow Hunter tapping hard on Axl’s cubicle walls. The Reploid got shocked as he had not anticipated that. “Hey (Reploid’s name), what’s up?”
“It’s Commander X. He wants you in the mechanics department.”
Once again, it was back to the mechanics room for Axl. The familiar sight of the advanced scanning machine that detected Lumine and the given bad weather of heavy rains was all too familiar nearly 3 1/2 months ago. Axl made a gulp before he voluntarily strapped himself to the seat and allowed his head gem to be exposed.
The wires were all connected to his head gem. He was watched over by X, Zero and two navigators. Layer hadn’t arrived yet for the ‘container’ she had prepared was being ‘pushed’ on its way to the room.
“What do you mean the body’s not here yet? X!!”
“Well, do you know how hard it was for Layer to look for a spare, dummy Reploid? Now that the newer Reploids have replaced the earlier new generation ones, it’s hard to get some specimen from anywhere! Lucky for you, she found one in the HQ’s warehouse which she used for running the simulations during the Jakob crisis.”
“You mean, she forgot all about it?!” His inhabitants made a laugh only he could hear. “Sure, if you insist on putting it that way. Oh look, she’s here. Gear yourself, Axl.”
Several Reploid guards were pushing a trolley with intact, standing new generation Reploid on it. The Reploid dummy looked exactly like those the Hunters had fought in many places during the Jakob crisis. It was a construction Reploid.
“Phew… well I forgot that we had this type of Reploids used earlier. I spent so may hours looking here and there! Anyway, let’s get this started.”
Zero made a step forward. “So, what exactly is the plan again?”
Alia stepped forward. “Axl wants to spare the Maverick in him, Zero. So, before we do a safe transfer, Lumine is going to delete many of his memories and mission. His new memories will make him safe so he could inhabit a new body.”
“Alright, here we go. I’ve already set up the scanning machine to link Axl’s brain to the dummy’s brain. Axl, close your eyes.” Layer pressed a red button.
Axl had closed his eyes as Layer instructed him to. Axl was back in his computer brain with his inhabitants. He watched Lumine tapping codes of instructions on the green orb to disengage the prison. The prison disintegrated into cubes thus letting the Maverick free in the mind. Iris walked out to hold his hand.
“Don’t worry. I wouldn’t hurt, I promise.” A loud noise was heard and everyone turned to see a vertical blue warp just ahead of them. Lumine made a sound no one heard and placed his right hand out, emitting a globe or purple aura.
“Alright, Maverick. Here’s what going to happen. I know dear girl had already told you what I am going to do to you, but this time there’s a catch. I am going to input some new data about your form. This old one has to go. You’ll get a new form along with a new identity and memory. Got that?”
White Axl nodded. Iris still held his hand firmly. Axl was watching the whole thing with anticipation. Lumine’s hand was about to pierce through the Maverick…
Suddenly, White Axl swiped away Iris’ hands and pushed her down on the pitch-black floor. “Aaah!” The other two data souls were shocked to see this and so were the rest watching via a monitor. “Iris!” Zero shouted out.
“Iris! Why you!” Axl dashed forward to pin his copy down but the Maverick was quick this time. He dashed faster to Axl and gave him a rough knock on the head, causing Axl to fall on the floor as well. “Urgh!” Lumine became angry.
“Dear boy! Dear girl! You Maverick!! I knew not to trust you!” Lumine sped forward and engaged a brief battle with White Axl. Many punches and kicks were traded among the two. Lumine had clenched his fist tight and gave White Axl a blow on the face.
White Axl sped up behind Lumine and before he knew it, he was given a rough kick on his back. “Gurrgghh!” The moment Lumine fell on the floor, White Axl sped towards the warp. X saw that and turned to Layer.
“Seal off the connection now!” Layer was about to cut the joint but she was too slow for the Maverick. White Axl had already entered the warp into the dummy Reploid. A second later, the standing dummy was shaking violently at the middle of a wall. X and Zero geared themselves for battle while Pallette tried to stir Axl awake.
“Axl, wake up! This is serious! The Maverick has – Oh no!” The dummy Reploid’s form stirred violently of its shape and in a split second, the form of White Axl was fully displayed. His eyes opened wide, revealing evil yellow eyes and a sneering smile.
“Free at last! Gahahaha!” He made a cross with his arms, gathering some energy before he set them free in the form of white-silvery aura. The aura expanded spherically and just like the incident of day 14, everything in its way was destroyed.
Axl had got up just in time and unbuckled himself. He got on the floor only to find debris, concrete melted and his friends were all injured. Axl got really angry and looked up at his copy. “You! How did you do that? Why didn’t you-?!”
His body was taken over by the white Reploid. A dark shadow covered his eye but his lips showed violent degrees of anger. He looked around him and saw the rest struggling to stand up. “Are you all alright?!”
“Well, well. Tsk tsk tsk.” Everyone turned their attention to White Axl. “Thank you for giving me the chance to live again. However, I’m afraid I can’t allow you to delete my memories and original identity. Your little salvation plan simply won’t work. In fact, Axl, your salvation plan WILL never work.”
Lumine’s arm somehow reached for the speaker button on his right ear. Axl yelled out full of anger: “What are you saying? What’s going on?!”
“Oh you don’t know, do you? Ah yes, that’s right, Lumine never told any of you. I will answer your other curiosities still. You see, I merely took advantage of Iris’ pity all along.” Iris was highly shocked. “What…?”
“That’s right. The moment Iris approached me a long time ago for her little cooperation idea, I cooked up a plan to gain her sympathy. Her sympathy was the only way I had to survive. I’m sorry if I had roughed with you, Iris, but I’m not allowing you all to kill me this easily.”
“This little ability to release damaging aura? Simple. The moment Lumine extracted all those combat data back then before he was going to imprison me, I made a very quick copy of all of them. Hah. I was never going to let Lumine’s precious combat data go. All that diversity and power, wasted? Never.”
“Ah yes. About your salvation plan? It’ll never work. If you delete my memories and my mission, it’s the same as deleting me. That’s right; my sole mission was to propagate the new world and my life is attached for that. I had also failed to corrupt you all; if I can’t do that, at least I’ll wreck havoc in your precious City, all for Master Bob!!”
“Lumine, you knew this was going to happen, didn’t you? That’s why you can never bring yourself to tell the truth to Axl and Iris, right? Go on, tell your friends. I’m waiting for you. Gwahahaha!!”
White Axl flew off in the middle of the heavy rain. Several damaged floors were getting wet due to the rain and there was a little chaos. Lumine remained where he was on the floor, looking all sad; the rest slowly going to him.
“Lumine…what’s going on?” Axl asked softly.
“Dear boy… dear girl…White Axl isn’t just only a personality of his own, he is the incarnate of Sigma, a new Sigma loyal to the human trash. He has grown from a mere corrupt conscious to a full-grown little Sigma. It’s true that the corrupted data of Sigma never left me; that wasn’t necessary.”
“Lumine…what exactly do you mean?”
“Dear boy, when human trash first detected Sigma’s corrupted data in me, it is true that he made another corrupt program to control me. However, this data was actually an exact same copy of that Maverick data, only more modified to be loyal to him. In other words, he’s unstoppable and forever loyal to human trash.”
“Think about it. Commanders X and Zero have fought him countless times. Did Sigma ever give up on his idea of Reploid freedom under his rule? He never did. He went on and on, until you all defeated him for good on the Moon. It was exactly the same thing here. White Axl will go on and on until someone wipes him off the face of the Earth. That’s why I still prefer him to be destroyed. He’s an incarnate of Sigma, only more vicious and more loyal to human trash.”
“Why didn’t you tell us? Is it true you were afraid, Lumine? Tell me the truth!”
“The truth? Of course. I was never afraid to tell you; White Axl already told you all himself, indirectly, that he was an incarnate of Sigma. He said “I am a form consisting of majority Virus data”. I expect you two to know that since the Maverick himself told you but I guess I was wrong. Forgive me if I did something wrong, dear boy and girl.”
Iris was angry. “That…that piece of data misused me! Took advantage of me right on my face and yet I was too blind to see it! Axl, Lumine, you have my permission to delete that personality! Zero, don’t disappoint me!”
Zero charged up his saber. “Right! Time for some Maverick fighting! I am going to enjoy this! Let’s move!” X nodded at Zero and the white Reploid.
X had started giving orders. “You three navigators, quickly alert the government that there’s a rampaging Maverick of Bob’s on the loose! There are many innocent lives to save! We can’t afford to lose time! Reploids, let’s move out!!”
Continued in Chapter 28.
Notes: There. Every last fact I know has been told to you all. A small spoiler: expect the next 2 whole chapters full of action and destruction. Intense!
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 10, 2009 1:31:06 GMT -5
Today's update of a battle. Yayyie.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Rampage
“Gwahahaha! Take this, humans! And some of these! And also one of those!” Barely two minutes after White Axl had taunted Axl and gang, White Axl had floated around the skies of the Big City and fired random large white-silvery fireballs, causing massive explosions and destruction.
Various structures were either blown apart or torn in huge pieces that ruined the surface below. Underground pipes were burst with water flowing out, fires and blackouts became widespread and there was total chaos in the district of the Hunter HQ and those surrounding it. It was raining heavily.
Reploid and human security forces have been deployed to gun down the Maverick. That would have been a dumb thing to do, though they are trying, as White Axl often avoided the bullets with perfection.
“So, you humans are indeed looking for trouble, huh? Let the fight begin! Take this!” His arm gathered a huge aura globe. The forces got frightened and tried to flee.
Just when he was about to fire, a small object at unbelievable speed has hit him hard. It even punctured into his armour. “Guurrgghh!” The aura globe was dissolved and he turned to his back.
He saw an angry Lumine; with him was a huge flame ball containing a familiar sphere of metal. Both confronted each other while levitating. “So, you’ve finally shown up. Had enough with playing coward all along?”
“I was never a coward, you Maverick. You hurt my friends, especially after giving us your word and that is a despicable act. Everyone knows that. TAKE THIS!” Lumine waved his arm forward and the metal sphere began to be pinched into high-speed bullets.
“Is that the best you can do? Hah!” White Axl fired a big white-silvery laser ray at Lumine. The white Reploid avoided it, only at the cost of a giant explosion below.
“Those were innocent humans! You’ve made me really angry!” Both of them charged forward to one another and clashed at a certain point with their arms defending each other. Without wasting minutes, they engaged in another hand-and-feet battle in the air. Both tried to hit the other and defend themselves.
Lumine collected all metal bullets and super-cooled a huge hammer and hit White Axl hard on the head, crashing him into a nearby building. White Axl returned back a silver flame and hit Lumine also hard. After some difficulty, Lumine neutralized the flame to harmless laser away.
Iris had lent her power to Lumine but Axl couldn’t so he naturally felt guilty. Lumine could only use Axl’s guns and do some rapid firing. Finally not tolerating silence, Axl grabbed Lumine’s arms to unveil his guns and fired back at White Axl.
The Maverick was showered with tonnes of plasma bullets, injuring him amid flying the air. Lumine was surprised and briefly talked to Axl, also flying around to avoid White Axl’s repeated punches. The raindrops were splashed away.
“Dear boy, dear girl, this fight is personal. I can handle this alone!”
“No you can’t! He’s got your powers and could easily wipe us out! I’m helping you no matter what!” Iris continued channeling her power to him. “Lumine, I know I can’t do much but my guns are at your disposal. Help me finish him off.”
“That’s nice of you, dear boy. Thank you.” Lumine returned to firing multiple laser rays; some striking his opponent, some missed him. White Axl grinned evilly and made a strong hand swipe. Realizing what the attack was, he activated his force shield to protect himself. He was immunized but the many streets and structures before weren’t.
A bigger explosion yielding much smoke ensued. The forceful waves pounded him upwards and White Axl had appeared in front of him. A powerful punch from him was however repelled back and White Axl was flung backwards in return.
“I should have not listened to dear boy and have crushed you myself weeks ago! GRRAAH!” Lumine fired a huge laser flame at the Maverick, thus causing another giant explosion in the skies. The fight continued in the smoke.
Meanwhile, on the ground, everywhere was rugged amid the rain. Serious damage and uneven terrains showed up. Maverick Hunters and human authorities were rushing to get most humans and Reploids past giant cracks and the like. Two familiar figures approached a Hunter in charge of one of the operations.
“(Reploid’s name), how’s the situation coming?”
“Commander X, everything is under control! While the Reploids above are fighting, we managed to get hold of some populace in already 3 districts! Hey, isn’t that the ex-Maverick Lumine with …Axl?!”
“Focus on your duty. We’ll handle it from here.” X and Zero immediately dashed off in another direction to try to reach the fighting duo. This battle was going to be hard as two Reploids would be constantly levitating and the commanders aren’t exactly fully-equipped for aerial battles.
Just then, a giant flaming ball of shining red and orange appeared and it was going towards Zero. “Zero, look out!” X dodged downwards and pushed Zero backwards. Both nearly got hit by the speeding projection of energy and a giant explosion occurred, creating a crater and pounding them further to the back.
“Where did that come from? There they are!” Zero pointed upwards at 2 o’clock. Two white Reploids were furiously battling each other, often with firing of auras and laser rays. Lumine occasionally super-cooled the liquid metal sphere to various objects he used to smack White Axl real hard and fired Iris’ fireballs.
“Really, you white Reploid, is that the best you could do? How about this? Your laser slashes! Hah!” White Axl made a hand swipe and a crescent beam of orange and ten feet wide appeared. The beam charged towards Lumine but he had prepared another aura to smack it back towards the Maverick.
“Grraahh!” With dark purple aura on both hands, he clenched his fists and smacked the crescent with huge force, faster towards White Axl. Having figured the Maverick would avoid to the left, the crescent had been pounded to Lumine’s right thus slicing a small portion of his body. His third fingertip was partially sliced.
“You! Just watch me - Gaarrgh!” A huge charged plasma shot appeared from the back and struck White Axl hard, injuring him. Then from his top, a red familiar Reploid was charging downwards.
“Take this!!” Zero had released his charged saber shockwave, powerful enough to deliver his own blow and pound the orange crescent back to White Axl. The plasma shockwave and the crescent somewhat merged and became a huge spiky beam. The Maverick was hit hard down to the ground.
“Gwaahh!!” White Axl yelled out the pain while being plummeted, creating a crater on the roads and throwing up many human vehicles. The explosion ended with large smoke rising to the air. The surprised white Reploid flew towards a nearby building where X and Zero soon gathered.
“I didn’t expect you two to come here. What took you so long? I can handle things here by myself.” He got rebuked by Axl and Iris for that comment. X and Zero smiled as they dusted themselves, getting wet by the rain.
“Not really. If X hadn’t caught him off guard and I hadn’t come in, the Maverick wouldn’t have been pounded down badly. Besides” – Zero flared his saber more – “I’m doing this not just for you, I’m doing this for everyone. Axl, Iris, his dad – we all wish for no Mavericks, don’t we?”
“We had some trouble.” X spoke up. “We had to make sure first that the Hunters had spread out to evacuate everyone in the 3 districts so no one gets hurt.”
“GWAHAHA!!” A large spherically-expanding aura appeared and thrown the three Reploids backward. “Garr!” As the aura dissolved slowly in the air, many structures in the range got caught up. They broke into large or small millions of pieces and fires were flamed along the way. An evil-looking White Axl levitated to them.
The three Reploids glared back with shock. White Axl had a very evil grin on his face and surrounding himself was a distinct white flame.
“It will take more than that to stop me, you scum! I have much of Lumine’s power and I’m bound to win and further Master Bob’s dreams!! HAH!!” A mere strong hand swipe and the trio were blown off their feet, along with a huge portion of the building they were on. The structural portion collapsed heavily on the ground.
“X! Zero! Huh!!” Lumine emitted his aura to save the two Commanders and brought them close to himself. The two Commanders blew relief or else they would have fallen down 35 storeys; Zero was able to safe himself earlier due to dashing to a wall.
“This is not over yet, Hunters and Reploid!” X raised an eyebrow.
“Of course it isn’t.” Lumine spoke. “You have not been defeated yet.”
Only about 1 1/2 hours of battle and a big portion of Big City’s core districts have been severely damaged. Smoke billowed and huge flames were unstoppable, even by the rain. Chaos reigned everywhere. Yet hope remains on the two Commanders, according to most humans and Reploids who were accustomed to peace already.
The battle had resumed again. Zero delivered another round of charged saber attacks at White Axl but that often cost him height and health since White Axl easily flung him back to other buildings. Big concrete shards and furniture were thrown everywhere from his collision. “Grr! Must defeat… Maverick…”
White Axl repeatedly engaged on X and Lumine, capable of fighting both at the same time. X made many jumps and repeated charger Buster shots while White Axl’s aura broke through many objects just to get him. The white Reploid made repeated blasts on the Maverick.
“You guys are seriously very irritating.” With that, White Axl made a cross with his arms and stretched far out, releasing lots of electricity flying everywhere. X and Lumine were caught up in the range and were heavily damaged.
“Arrgghh!” They both fell roughly to the ground below them. Other than that, many safe electrical and electronic applications became damaged due to the excessive power. They all caught on fire, unknown to them. X got up from his own crater and rushed upwards to fight but Lumine wasn't.
He had used up much energy from the inexhaustible reserve in Axl’s body but that doesn’t mean he was not affected. He struggled to stand back up but his legs wouldn’t listen. He fell back down on the round and sighed heavily.
“Lumine! Don’t give up! Here, let me help you!” Iris channeled in more of her power but that wasn’t sufficient enough. Lumine could stand up a little but still puffed.
“I’m fine, dear girl. Just bear with me for a while-” Just then, he felt suddenly much replenished. A very warm and gentle feeling encapsulated him. Interestingly, it wasn’t Iris who did it. It was Axl.
“Dear boy?!” Axl had his right hand stretched out with his left hand holding on it. He looked very tired and sort of breathing heavily. He managed to smile meekly.
“I did my best… This power-giving thing is so hard to do… till my energy is drained… Don’t bother me, Lumine… just go… finish him off…”
In the computer brain, Lumine gave a quick bow to him. “Thank you, dear boy. It helps a lot.” Stretching his hand far, two plasma guns just appeared and he held the trigger tightly. Wordless, he levitated back to confront White Axl.
White Axl was busy fighting with X. X’s repeated Buster shots were vaporized away by the Maverick’s own aura despite his best efforts to hit him. Charging up a powerful punch, the maverick dashed forward and hit him on the chest.
“Argh! I won’t give up!” X was pounded back to another structure and fell all the way down. He climbed back up the wall and managed to hit the Maverick with another charged Buster shot. White Axl was cometed to an aerial train passage, creating a small crater. Looking on the huge concrete block, he yelled out.
“Huuuarggh!” Both hands gathered globes of aura and he formed a cross with his arms. The concrete block behind him was shaking violently and shining white light was noticed. The block was separated from the whole passage, lifted on White Axl’s arm. X’s eyes widened with shock.
“I won’t let you get in my way!” With much strength he hurled the giant block towards X. X was very damaged by the impact and the worse part was that he couldn’t escape in time before his collision with other giant structures and a giant explosion.
Just when White Axl thought he had finished off the Reploids for good, Zero had sneaked up on him and yelled out just before he launched a far stronger attack.
“I was just getting started, Maverick!!” A gigantic saber beam was launched from his saber. The power embedded inside was very far stronger than before and even chipped in a slash of a scar on White Axl’s back.
“Garrghh! Why you! Ahh!!” He was in turn fired with multiple plasma bullets and pink fireballs from Lumine. The white Reploid first showered him with the yellow rain of plasma shots and rapidly bolted him off with Iris’ power.
“Give up now!” Some of the metal on White Axl’s chest armour was chipped off due to the attacks. His health status was steadily declining as well. As if that wasn’t enough, during the shower of fireballs, X returned dramatically from another explosion and fired another round of charged shots at the Maverick.
“Hargh! WAHH!!” Lumine had already flown on top of White Axl and blasted him with a thick laser flame. He was darted along with the flame to penetrate the ground heavily. This explosion is far bigger and more destruction. The three Reploids gathered to a common spot. Lightning struck even stronger.
X looked at the white Reploid with a stern look. “Try to tone down on the destruction, Lumine. Look at this! Three districts have been severely damaged because of your powers! If only we knew how to defeat the copy of Axl…”
He hung his head down briefly in shame. “I guess I’m sorry then…X. I was told of by father once for that same reason but I guess this time I’m going to be in lots of trouble this time. I have to destroy that copy of me and dear boy no matter what it takes!”
He stretched out his arms and emitted a globular purple flame of an aura around him. Zero only raised an eyebrow and started his comments.
“No response from our enemy yet.” He checked via a communicator and spoke with other Hunter officers. “So far, much of these 3 districts have been evacuated. Everywhere is quiet and empty. The other surrounding districts have been put on high alert and caution. Now, let’s start looking for that Maverick.”
Suddenly a huge row of intense fire appeared and hit the three Reploids directly.
“Warrghh!!” All three shouted their pain. The flames withered away shortly after and soon emerged the evil White Axl. The trio made a combat stance to prepare themselves for the next attack. The Maverick merely smiled.
“Everywhere is empty? Good. It seems my effort to wreck havoc for Master Bob is paying off indeed. Perhaps you think you could fight me easily here, hm?”
“I’m just getting tired of you, that’s all.” Zero’s saber flared fiercely.
“On the contrary, I love to play with you guys. So, what’s say we get somewhere excitement somewhere else? Bwahahaha!” White Axl extracted from his body five burning spheres of dark orange circumferencing himself, pretty much the same like he made Lumine attack the Hunters the first time on the Moon.
“Try and catch me if you can!!” White Axl flew backwards, still facing the Reploids and began firing off random shots of the flaming spheres which were constantly regenerating. “He’s going for the other districts! Move out!!”
A Reploid and two Hunters began chasing the levitating Maverick. Originally the flaming spheres were supposed to target and destroy various human structures. Having seen the good guys coming after him, White Axl made the flaming sphere target them instead. Dangerously fast and damaging they obviously were, everyone avoided them.
X made repeated dodges while running on the rooftops and climbing the walls of structures. The giant explosions on vacant buildings occasionally pounded him forward and once nearly made him fall off. He managed a few charged shots, all which missed and were avoided by white Axl.
Zero himself felt angry because his short-range attacks were useless. The only things he could do were keeping up with the rest and avoid the oncoming spheres.
The white Reploid was the obvious one who could only fight the Maverick. “Taste destruction! Hah!” A thick flame ray was released towards the Maverick. “Is that all you have?” the Maverick merely flew to the left to avoid the ray.
“Sorry, but I believe you know my powers better. Grraarr!!” His left hand doing various movements; the ray suddenly froze and took the shape of a bag-like object. Its ‘mouth’ swallowed all of White Axl and the regenerating spheres. Shocked, the Maverick tried to burst his way out. Unbelievably, the ‘bag’ shrunk in size thus creating a giant explosion that injured White Axl severely.
“AAAHH!! Why, you-!!” White Axl somewhat lost his balance and fell down a considerable height before he managed to stabilize him. Just then, Zero jumped from a far distance, charging towards him. “Get ready for a real fight!!”
His feet were somewhat enveloped by purple aura; now thanks to Lumine, Zero was able to fight well in the air without worrying about gravity. The red Reploid launched a heavy assault on the Maverick, mostly from saber slashes.
The slashes were very fast but the Maverick also managed to perform that speed on his defense. The last strike of Zero’s clashed with the aura. Electrical sparks started flying out of them. As both weapons consisted mainly of laser-like projections of beams, both side continued to clash.
“You’re just so irritating. Gah!” White Axl’s hand swipe created a strong force that blew Zero away to his left. The purple aura was no longer there. It was X’s turn to battle the Maverick. He fired around six fully-charged Buster shots all towards White Axl. Smug-looking, he repelled them all with a hand swipe.
“Really, X, I think that’s the best you can do.”
“NOT ME, YOU COPY!!” It was Lumine. He had picked up a giant portion of one of the buildings sliced earlier. X awed as he ran, for the object was four storeys big. “HUUAARGH!!” He threw the giant thing with full force towards the Maverick.
Full of shock and eyes wide, White Axl quickly conjured an aura to the form of a giant driller. The driller of immense proportions collided with the giant structure, drilled cracklines to cut the whole thing to huge shards. The shards crashed onto the ground below. He was however showered with Axl’s plasma bullets.
“Urgh! Not these again!!” It seemed as though White Axl couldn’t defend himself against the plasma bullets because they were numerous and fast. Axl smiled to himself, knowing that with his weapon, his copy could perhaps be defeated faster.
“Try against this!!” Lumine dashed towards the Maverick in the air, conjuring his aura to take the form of a gigantic sword of 18 feet length and three feet width. Holding up the sword high, he swung it towards White Axl’s head. The opponent also conjured his own sword of equal length and they clashed.
More electric sparks flew out. They were fighting at a rather still position in the air. Withdrawing both swords back, they clashed and clashed again, neither able to strike the other. Meanwhile X and Zero were reunited.
“They’ve come to a standstill. This is our chance!” X nodded.
Zero flared his saber more viciously and X charged up his Buster more. They rapidly made a leap to the clashing duo. While Lumine and White Axl glared eye to eye fiercely, the Maverick saw the leaping duo towards him. He was in a fix.
If he turned on to X and Zero instead, Lumine would immediately slice him into two and that would be the end of him. If he struggled against the white Reploid, the other two would cook up serious damage on him. He preferred the latter choice.
The expected happened. Zero delivered a massive slash on his back, creating a distinct slash scar and X blasted him with a far powerful charged shot. The Maverick had no choice but to hold on tight.
The unexpected also happened. Lumine had detected a small sign of retreat, though it was not obvious and withdrew his sword higher and charged it onto the Maverick with even more strength than before. “You’re doomed!”
In a split second, White Axl’s sword was sliced into half and the sudden instability of the laser caused a massive explosion. Both were pounded back in opposite directions and fell down further. Lumine retained his balance in the mid-air and spotted the other two, incapable of saving themselves.
“Hah!!” His aura emerged from his right palm and stretched out like two great ropes. Each rope managed to tie up its ‘prey’ safe and sound. X and Zero were placed on the ground gently. The aura was dissolved back into his body and he got down.
“Thanks for saving us, Lumine.” X dusted himself while the white Reploid smiled back. He still had the speakers switched on so Zero was able to hear Iris’ burst of concern.
“Zero, you’re okay! Thank goodness!” Zero made a meek smile. “Sure Iris. No problem.” The reunion was brief once again as three human vehicles were flung out of nowhere towards the trio. A dark purple force shield was created around the whole street and the three human vehicles melted upon contact.
“THIS IS NOT OVER YET!!” White Axl walked out of the flames behind him; his right hand holding onto his left and sparks flying out from his back. “You!!” the trio made a combat stance again. White Axl grinned evilly.
“I’m in luck! Do you know what just lays opposite there?! It’s the district of Megalopolis! Tough luck!! HAH!!” White Axl emitted his spherically-expanding aura, damaging other property as well as repelling back raindrops.
“He’s going after the humans in Megalopolis!!” X yelled out as two different auras clashed again. Just behind White Axl was the distinct border of Megalopolis and the third district. Human security had either ducked or ran to avoid the clashing auras.
“You… can’t … beat the likes… of… me! Grrarr!!” Lumine became angrier and flared up his aura even more. His hands were stretched out to the left and right sides and seemed to yell out something inaudible. The purple aura expanded further against the white aura and approached closer to the Maverick.
“Grrgh… aahhh!!” The purple aura overwhelmed the white counterpart thus dissolving it away. The humans made a run for their lifes, seeing that the purple plasma force approached closer. It was the widest it had ever stretched out’ being at 240 meters. Most objects in its way were severely destroyed.
However this wasn’t the case for White Axl. As long as the Maverick had spare energy and copies of Lumine’s powers, he would be able to survive any attack related to use of controlled nuclear energy. After the aura had vanished, White Axl turned out to be quite tired and so was the same for Lumine and the Commanders.
“Why aren’t you tired at all?! It’s impossible!!” Lumine smiled.
“Sorry, but have assistance from my friends. Axl, Iris, X and Zero… they are all next to me. I have their support which continuously regenerates me. I’m glad for that. You on the other hand, are very alone. No one can make it alone, you see. That’s the way of life. You know that and you’re still in defiance.”
“Why, you! Master Bob’s words alone are my inspiration! You fools just keep denying the inevitable! Arggh!!” White Axl levitated back in the air and flew off to a certain destination. He also fired more laser shots, exploding structures here nad there. The trio repeatedly jumped to avoid huge falling objects and ran along.
Some minutes later, they arrived at the Megalopolis powerhouse; the same powerhouse they’ve been before. Amid the sight of fleeing humans and Reploids, the trio climbed higher to reach the Maverick and they met on the 49th floor.
White Axl yelled out as he sliced a giant concrete block away, crashing on the roads. Many wires came flying out of the hole and the Maverick held on it tight. Before anyone could do anything, a bright white flash occurred.
Seconds later, much of Megalopolis experienced blackouts or fires. White Axl was gleaming very brightly of white aura. He grinned and laughed loudly and evilly.
“Oh…darn it. He absorbed most of the districts power supply. Just like that Maverick you’ve fought before, dear boy. Indeed I have much diversified powers but I usual prefer not to show them to anyone.” The white Reploid hung his head down again.
“I know, Lumine. You’re a neat Reploid. Now go fight him!”
“So, you don’t like publicity huh? Well, never mind that! This time I’ll make sure that I’ll fry up all the five of you!! You death is imminent!! Bwahahaha!!” White Axl levitated and another round of battle has begun.
Continued in Chapter 29.
Notes: Refer to Axl Story Continuation chapter 6 for the explanation on Megalopolis energy powerhouse. Ah, battles. Love them but are quite tiring to write. Nonetheless worth the effort to read.
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 11, 2009 5:32:00 GMT -5
The continued epic showdown. Thanks all for coming to read.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Continued
“I’m (human’s name) and we are watching a powerful fight of our favourite Maverick Hunters against a white Maverick from the skies of raining Megalopolis. If my eyes aren’t deceiving me, another Reploid fighting is the heir of the Prez Corporation! It is already 46 minutes into a new day and a destructive battle has interrupted our daily lives and possibly the worst since the last series of attacks!”
Back at the Maverick Hunter HQ, three navigators were watching the battle on a large screen, along with many other navigators in the command room. It seems that the situation in the three earliest devastated regions was under control.
“Oh I hope the guys are alright. It’s been already more than 3 hours they were fighting the Maverick. This is the last of Bob’s creations after all.”
“Don’t worry, Alia. The guys will be able to beat him flat. There’s nothing to worry about.” Then the alarm rang out loud suddenly. “Except the fact that the Hunters have reported in a new situation of chaos. Everyone, it’s back to work!”
The trio were fighting lots in the district and because of that, various streets and places were subjected to either small or large-scale destruction. Smoke billowed thick into the airs. Places crumbled and citizens ran.
X fired many charged Buster shots but all were frustratingly neutralized by electric charges of White Axl’s new aura. Zero tried his near-range slice attack but overwhelmed by the voltage. Just then, a pink spiky fireball was able to pierce through the voltage and dealt big damage on the Maverick.
X and Zero stopped on different buildings and turned to the levitating Reploid. “Thank dear girl, not me.” That was all he said. A giant aura surge occurred, bringing back the Reploids’ attention to the Maverick.
“Grrr… you may have defeated half of me, but my other half is just enough to bring your doom! I’m just getting started!” Crossing his arms and stretching it out, his white electrical aura flared up more. This time, seven giant fireballs pinched out from the aura.
They were constantly regenerating. When a fireball left its position to target a certain object, another fireball would pinch out on the same spot. Three fireballs were launched at them. Naturally they avoided it and the surface below received the explosion.
“Ahh! There has to be some way we can stop his powers!”
“X… leave that to me. You keep focused on distracting him. Only auras can fight auras. This one is personal!” The white Reploid flew rapidly to the Maverick and engaged with him another battle in the airs. As always, Lumine was right for he alone had the power to confront aura with aura.
“You’re good. I’ll enjoy fighting you.” Lumine’s eyes expressed much anger.
“ENJOY THIS!!” He gave the Maverick a spinning back kick at the right ribs thus pounding White Axl to another structure. Due to the electric voltage, several circuits in the commercial building exploded gigantically and raised fires in surrounding areas too.
White Axl sped out of the flames and gathered some force in his fist. The white Reploid harshly blocked it upon contact with his purple aura. Releasing more heat into the aura, White Axl’s knuckles were boiling slightly. The Maverick withdrew it away and instantly fired a white fireball at Lumine. Too fast to avoid.
Another huge explosion in the raining skies. Lumine was plummeted all the way down to the roads and made his own crater. He jumped back on his feet and found the Maverick flying towards himself and the seven fireballs all targeting him.
He jumped backwards to avoid the giant collision. The next explosion ripped off many street lane blocks, human vehicles and scarred all buildings including that of the powerhouse. Lumine then fired a thick laser flame, causing another round of destruction. The duo were about to levitate when an interruption came.
“Now, X! Shoot!” Zero slammed his saber charge on the ground while X fired his giant-sized charged shots. Both plasma shots cracked through the roads and as they went on, they somewhat merged into a larger entity. The blast came from White Axl’s immediate left and it blasted him thoroughly.
“Waaahh!!” All they saw was a blur shadow inside the white projection. But then seconds later, the white sphere vanished without any explosion. White Axl was half-kneeling on the ground with notable traces of thin smoke from his joints. He bore an angry look and yet managed a smile. Rain trickled on him.
“That…was...very…powerful… How is that possible?!”
“Haven’t you realized it yet? Friendship allowed it possible! We also know what we are doing with our abilities! You’re still convinced that Bob’s ideas are true! Well, that is wrong!” X stretched his Buster forward at the Maverick while the others looked on.
“My mood stinks. You’ve really made me mad. My purpose is solely for the new world! If I throw it away, I have no other means of survival or existing!! If I can’t bring in the new world, I’ll just have to destroy your precious City as I have said before!! Huuargghh!!” He emitted more of his aura.
The white flame enveloping him and the seven pinched fireballs appeared again. Without any issue of warning, seven of the fireballs and another seven more sped off in various directions. Full of shock, the three Reploids jumped away and hence the destruction of many places.
Some navigators back at the Hunter HQ were still watching the screen and they got a fright upon seeing multiple simultaneous explosions over a range of a mile or so.
Back at the site, nearly everyone was doused in fire and smoke. “Gwahahaha! See you Reploids later!!” The Maverick flew off straight away. The three of them, especially Lumine, were most angry about the explosions and sped with faster speed.
The next battle was performed run-and-gun style. Enemies kept running in the same direction. X had tried to take White Axl down with multiple shots but were dismissed back by the white aura. Zero was closer to the Maverick so he made many leaps from rooftops down to streets to at least slash him once. All ended in failure.
“Taste destruction!!” Lumine levitated further to the front of White Axl and blasted him with a thick laser flame. The attack was successful as it dealt him great damage at the cost of another explosion. Amid the smoke, a huge sword was swung downwards to the white Reploid’s head. He saw that faster.
“Please!!” Instantly a sword of dark purple aura was formed and the clashing began. While X and Zero tried to keep up with them, the duo fought on without proper sense of direction. Some sword clashes sliced portions of walls and abandoned aerotrains, all crashing down to the ground. Fierce looks were exchanged.
During the fight, Iris had channeled power to the white Reploid to maintain his health status all the time. Axl made occasional contributions but all were huge amounts yet few; since he was new to the method, he finally broke down on tire.
“Axl! Are you okay?!” Axl showed his palm to Iris. “No… (pant)… help Lumine…I’m fine…” With that he collapsed on the pitch-black floor. Full with new determination, she returned to her position and channeled more energy out.
The metal sphere Axl had was continuously used. Also controlled by Lumine, it was melted and super-cooled numerous times to form objects to whack the Maverick hard. So far, White Axl was hit by a cinderblock and boulder various times, often distracted so he was pounded several times severely.
“Arrghh!!” Lumine’s ‘sword’ sliced White Axl’s ‘sword’ to half, causing another explosion from the unstable aura. White Axl crashed on a human vehicle, smashing it to paper-like, and looked back up. This time, Lumine conjured a huge globe and darted at the Maverick.
“Farewell!!” The globe was intended to melt the Maverick instantly and get over with all the troubles. Sensing that, White Axl formed several aura shards and clashed with the globe. The more Lumine forced forward, the more he was being repelled.
“Did you think it was that easy, Lumine?!” “Of course not.”
Forcing more strength while yelling “Haaarrggh!!”, the globe pushed the protective shards far back away to a commercial building and caused hallway’s destruction. Dissolving the globe back, Lumine took out Axl’s guns and fired rapidly.
“Arrgh!! Not the rain of bullets again!” White Axl yelled out while being damaged. He was pushed backwards more and even lost balance till he was rolled. Getting a grip with his boots, he summoned forth two nearby large human public transport vehicles and flung it to Lumine. He shielded himself with purple aura and the vehicle parts that came in contact were melted instantly.
However, there was a twist in the situation. As soon as Lumine dissolved back his aura, white Axl directed the large vehicles to pull back and slammed the trio-in-one Lumine-led Reploid real hard. “Aaaahhhh!!”
“Hah. So long.” Then, a huge speeding force slammed on the Maverick too fast and hard. An airjet bike had been set at maximum speed and slammed on White Axl, darting him back around 400 meters and crashed onto the wall of a faraway building.
From the air, Zero landed on the ground softly. “Biking is better than running after you any time.” With that, he released the super-charged saber slash attack on White Axl, still stuck in the crater. He kicked Zero hard back and levitated back out.
“Rah! Bothersome red scum! Let me teach me- Aahh!!” It was X’s turn to use the airjet bike on him. The bike crashed him far up in the sky and X had leaped earlier to launch a thicker charged blast on the Maverick.
“Gaarhh!” White Axl was flung off to the near northwest side of Megalopolis and crashed onto an airborne advertisement sign and fell down 45 storeys high, crashing onto an aerotrain passage. Unfortunately there were still some humans over there and that made things worse.
“Hah! Meddlesome humans! Arrggh!!” The two same vehicles he used earlier this time were slammed onto him by Lumine. “That’s for smashing me earlier.” White Axl was slammed several more times in between the two vehicles. The noise attracted the humans’ attention and they made a run for their lifes to the bordering district.
White Axl was very much tired after all the attacks and he knelt down on the passageway to catch some breath. Lumine threw the huge vehicles away and glared evilly on him. “Had enough already?”
“Not as long as I’m still alive!! Graaahhh!!” The duo sped forward to each other and X and Zero came in just on time to join the fight. This scene decorated the site where humans fled, also yelling, to the bordering district.
By now, nearly four districts have been severely damaged in flames, smoke and destruction. No authority and human dared to enter the four districts for the fight was still on, despite the dispatch of the army. It was close to 2 o’clock of day 123 and everyone was frustrated and roared angrily, demanding the Maverick be stopped.
More destruction was caused as the four Reploids continued fighting. If X’s simple estimations were correct, White Axl’s health status would be about 35 percent now. Then again, he wasn’t sure because this is not a video game; it was reality.
White Axl produced more fireballs and crescent beams in a now-desperate attempt to hurriedly wear down his enemies. Due to quick movements, the beams and fireballs ended up on structures above and below, frustrating everyone further.
More and more structures were wrecked. The white Reploid got angrier by the minute and forced a lot of his strength in his left leg. He immediately gave the Maverick a strong kick on the head, sending him crashing on the head to a sturdy wall not far away. Another crater was created and an aura surge occurred.
“Grrr-argh!!” The building behind White Axl had a big part of this wrecked to concrete and metal bits. With his permission, Lumine used his aura to fling X towards the Maverick and he was given a hard punch on the stomach area.
“Argh! Fine then, I won’t destroy the city but I’ll destroy you all instead!!” Emitting two aura spheres on his hands, he swung them back and forth thus releasing a shower of white darting flames to Lumine. He was injured.
“Urk!!” Protecting himself with only the cross of arms, he suffered from much of the darting flames. Axl was slightly unconscious and he felt the pain. “Uh… hurh…” His face showed pain and Iris could do little but stop and rush to Axl.
“Axl! C’mon, you’re gonna be okay! Let me help you!” Iris placed her palm on Axl’s head gem and emitted her pink aura. Axl was thus enveloped in pink light. Lumine was pleased with the incident and passed a quick message to her.
“That’s right, dear girl. Dear boy needs you more. I am fine on my own. Don’t worry for me.” Iris made no reply and continued on tending to Axl. With a revival of strength via determination, Lumine formed his dark purple aura again. All other darting flames were repelled off at other directions, destroying other places.
White Axl smirked at him from far away. “Hmph! I thought you wanted to save the City and now, you’re protecting yourself from the price of destruction?!”
“I know, but it seems the whole place is vacant. My worries had been deducted.” Having said that, Lumine sped forward with greater speed; reaching White Axl in a blink of an eye. The following sentence was said in slow motion.
“You’re toast.” At lightning speed, Lumine’s fist had punched into White Axl’s stomach area, held White Axl’s head and was given a rough head-butt and hurled him fall at 8 o’clock. White Axl crashed through many walls and windows; finally arriving out on the other side of the street before stabilizing himself.
“This is harder than I thought- Urrhh!!” Lumine brought out Axl’s guns and showered the Maverick with plasma shots. He was pushed bit by bit downwards to the ground 43 storeys below. The shower stopped.
A red shadow dashed up to him after jumping off the rooftop and swinging off various advertisement signs. It was Zero. “Miss me, Maverick?” He let go a charged saber slash on White Axl’s chest, creating a huge line of scar on his armour.
“Garkk!” Some electric sparks flew out of the exposed mechanisms inside. He was then pounded on the back by X’s charged Buster shot. “Umph!!” White Axl was stunned all over. The two Commanders were falling downwards when a great purple hand came forth and grabbed both of them.
“When will you guys stop falling down from such great heights?” The white Reploid released his aura from his right palm to do so. He suddenly flung them all towards a nearby structure but they knew better and caught hold on them.
Lumine and White Axl resumed fighting in the air. This time, Lumine defended himself against the shower of spiky aura darts. His body gleamed silver slightly to show his body was immune to all attacks. He bore all attacks with giant explosions but there were no health damages.
White Axl smirked. “Being immune? Well I can do that!” The Maverick’s body also gleamed shiny in return. “Hm. But there is one thing that this feature can’t protect you against, Maverick.” Lumine rapidly appeared to him.
“That is physical injury. GRARRH!!” Lumine landed several punches on the Maverick’s cheeks and body and gave him a strong upward kick. However, the Maverick fired some darting beams at Lumine in return and he swiped them away with his hand.
Lumine fired back beams and laser rays very quick, but the Maverick was able to dodge all of them. Getting closer and closer, he formed another weapon from the white aura but it was a large hammer. “Ughh!!” Lumine was hit hard on the head downwards but he was able to stabilize himself.
“Isn’t that physical injury too, heir of Prez?!”
“Of course it is. You’re starting to get a good picture, despite your intelligence.”
“I wouldn’t tolerate that from YOU!!” White Axl charged forward and Lumine made another giant sword with his aura. The battle this time was thrice-fold faster than the previous weapon-play and X and Zero could do little but watch for an opportunity to join in the fight again. Lightning struck again.
White Axl occasionally fired back some crescent beams but Lumine repelled them strategically to nearby objects. Those nearby objects are either huge advertisement boards or those aerotrain passage connectors. White Axl avoided many advertise boards but a concrete slab did hit him quite seriously, flaring his anger and fuelling the battle further.
The scene was watched by many humans over at the neighbouring district, via the cameras of bold press members who dared danger by helicopters, and back at the Maverick Hunter HQ. Iris ‘enjoyed’ the front seat view for the price of pain.
She was still healing Axl’s great tire from his new experience of channeling energy to Lumine. Her effort seemed to have paid off as Axl’s closed eyes were flickering a little. He made a moaning sound that caught her attention.
“Axl? Axl! Oh c’mon, wake up already! You got me so worried! Please Axl, don’t be so dead! Not after I nearly lost you! Please!” Axl’s eyes opened slightly and the first thing he saw was a blurry image of a sad concerned Iris.
“Uh…Iris?” The image blurred further to become the point-of-view of Lumine fighting his white copy. He got a rude shock for that, yelling out; that yell earned a moment’s worth of attention from the white Reploid.
“Dear boy?!” In the computer brain, Lumine rushed over to the lying Axl. “You’re okay! Thank goodness; I was thinking you were gone for!”
Axl smiled back. “Hey, I was just tired. Thanks for your concern, Lumine but you have to take care of my copy first, since you insisted.” In the outside world, X and Zero had re-joined the fight, blasting shots and slashes everywhere.
“Of course. It’s personal because I have to settle some debts with the two of you.”
Before Axl and Iris could ask anything further, Lumine put full concentration on his battle with White Axl. He quickly avoided incoming concrete blocks White Axl had ripped apart from some other high-rise towers. In return, he fired back several large globes, all which were surprisingly homing.
White Axl continued to fly around here and there to deter the homing globes. He used the old trick of suddenly darting vertically up a building to stop the homing globes. The destruction was powerful but he met up with Zero.
“Hah!!” It was another charged saber attack that scared him on the body. White Axl earned his second slash, next to his first. “Grrahh!” He immediately formed a gammer hammer from his aura and smacked Zero to his right.
“Arrgghh! I won’t lose!” Far up the Megalopolis skylines, Zero was slammed straight to a 65 storey building and crashed onto much furniture. Hurriedly, he raced out of the place and jumped to fall deep down to confront the Maverick again.
Along the way, he met Lumine who had forcibly halted his fall by enveloping him in aura and brought him high to the skies. X was also fighting, this time using an aerial platform he cleverly obtained to support his position on the heights.
Though X’s attacks helped further damage White Axl, Lumine’s fierce laser flames were most damaging. Zero, assisted by the white Reploid, was able to give all his best of saber slashing to the defenseless Maverick.
Moments later, all three Reploids and a Maverick seemed to have finished their battle, ended by X’s giant-sized charged shot at the Maverick. They were all in the air, slightly higher than the tallest tower in the district, getting a neat view of the surrounding and the previous three districts on fire. White Axl was panting.
“You three… are really… (pant)…persistent. But I do not…intend on letting you… live any more!!” White Axl crossed his arms and curled slightly. His aura flared with increasing fury. X and Zero were taken back slightly by the stance but Lumine wasn’t worried at all. All three of them felt strong winds blowing from him.
“What is he doing?!” Zero looked at the cold, emotionless Reploid.
“He’s going to perform Paradise Lost, I suppose. Just like the day on the Moon, when the projection of darkness everywhere and accumulation of energy is complete, he’ll weave himself in a cocoon and instantly kill us all. I supposed my modifications of the attack were too powerful years ago.”
“What?!” X stared at Lumine. “If the attack succeeds, he’ll kill us and other citizens around us?!” X got a small nod. “Possible. That depends on the range he sets.”
Axl had left the speakers switched on the entire time so X and Zero heard Axl’s and Iris’ pleas. “What?! You have to stop him then!” “Lumine, please! Stop him now!!”
“I don’t think so.” Just when the Maverick stretched out his hands to release full force of the planned attack, something unexpected occurred. His movement was suddenly stunned and huge sparks and electric jolts ran though his body. There was no attack.
“WHAT?! What’s happening to me?! I feel so unstable! Why can’t I perform your most powerful attack?!” White Axl glared evilly at the smiling Reploid.
“It seems you’ve let your guard down. Haah-Hah!!” Lumine released more of his dark purple aura and brought everyone with him forward to a decisive fight. White Axl remained paralyzed though levitating in the air. He struggled to move but due to the sudden error, his joints were stiff.
X repeatedly fired five charged Buster shots at White Axl. All hit the stunned Maverick, decreasing his health status seriously. “Hm! That ought to teach you a lesson!” X seemed satisfied but still kept firing.
Zero performed some Charged saber attacks more easily now. Ironic as it may seem but he felt that his attacks this time was a little ‘boring’. Lumine gathered a flaming pink sphere in his right palm. “This one is for dear girl.”
He threw the thing like a baseball at White Axl. The result was another giant explosion. Somehow due to weird reasons, the Maverick’s joints were loosened and he was able to move again. He retreated slightly to the back and prepared another attack.
But he was instantly approached by his three opponents. X launched several more Buster shots but they were slammed away by White Axl towards the surface below. Several structures in the neighbouring district became the first few to be damaged in the fifth district. Chaos occurred briefly.
Thanks to the flying protection of an aura enveloping him, Zero dashed forward in the air and presented a giant saber slash to White Axl, injuring the Maverick severely. X stared on as he never saw Zero do that kind of attack before.
“What? I was saving that for a special Maverick!”
Lumine clamped his fists tight and whacked them on White Axl’s left side of his face. The force pounded him slightly downwards and he crashed on the walls of another building at the northwest border of Megalopolis. White Axl grudgingly fired back a laser flame but Lumine smacked it further into space.
The fury of Axl’s plasma bullets returned. Oddly this time the Maverick was being fired upwards and was further given upwards kicks and punches. X and Zero were dragged along to watch the fight. “This one is for dear boy.”
Lumine gathered more strength in his right palm. The strength consisted of part of Iris’ power, Axl’s bullets and his own, to show their unity. “Besides myself, this one is for all of us. Haah-HAH!!” He quickly placed the palm on White Axl’s body gem and fired the shot. This time the injury was more and another giant explosion was formed. White Axl’s body gem was smashed to bits.
“Gaahh!!” White Axl couldn’t fight any further. The evil-looking white Reploid glared down on him when the smoke had vanished and sneered at him.
“Oh, two more things. One, you don’t deserve this.” Lumine’s hand penetrated through White Axl’s body; shards flying out and in his grasp, a sphere-like machine. It was the nuclear chamber for vaporizing human foodstuffs. The white Reploid brashly took it out and smashed it with his bare hand.
“Second, you don’t need this anymore.” He used his slicing laser, also called secret laser technique, and sliced off White Axl’s lower half of his feet below the knees. Two leg parts were forcefully separated and were grabbed by the white Reploid.
Out of nowhere, Axl’s metal sphere was melted and merged with the sliced-off leg parts and super-cooled into a large hammer. “HAAAHH!!” Lumine dealt the final blow on White Axl and he was thrown down 63 storeys onto the ground of the neighbouring fifth district. Shards of roads were torn apart as White Axl was finally put to a hold.
The humans ran away screaming. Seconds later, it was all clear. White Axl was lying in a small crater of his own and a small puddle of water, barely able to move. X and Zero landed safely on the ground and so did Lumine. The white Reploid wordlessly dropped the huge hammer on the road and walked up to White Axl. X and Zero followed suit.
“We win, I guess.” X nodded at Zero. Slowly, a crowd of humans and Reploids gathered around the scene, standing 50-or-so feet away for safety. Whispers were heard and the situation calmed down. After a tiring 6 ¾ hours of battle against a single Maverick, they have won.
White Axl opened his eyes and saw a blurry image of evil-looking white Reploid, who was switching off the speakers on his ear. The lightning and thunder struck again while he glared back. “You lose.”
Continued in Chapter 30.
Notes: Ah, the battle has ended. The metal sphere appeared out of nowhere, just for the fun of it. A little gory violence at the end… groovy.
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 12, 2009 0:53:29 GMT -5
More revelations and deep-seated explanations, going all the way back to First Series.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Thirty: History
For Iris, she had seen enough of so much violence. For her, firing lasers, the huge explosions and destruction of structures was fine as she had seen some herself. But slicing off a Maverick’s body and even pulling off machinery from the inside was too much. Overwhelmed by emotion, she hugged Axl for soothing.
“Lumine was too much!! Why did he have to do that?!” She cried on him. Axl merely held her closely and patted her back gently. “That’s the way he settles scores, I guess. It’s all over now, Iris. Don’t worry.”
The white Reploid heard that and he felt guilty for displaying much violence while Iris had to watch. “I’m sorry, dear girl.” He whispered before getting back to business with the Maverick personality. He made a mean glare.
“Well, well. That was very entertaining. But I’m afraid your little entertainment cost us four districts’ peace. I suppose the same ought to go with you.” Lumine’s right leg stepped forward to smash White Axl’s left arm, much to everyone’s shock. Even X and Zero were shocked by the sudden brutality.
“You…why? Why can’t I perform your precious attack?! Could it be I copied some errors along with your data? Why?! Tell me!!” He shouted at Lumine.
Lumine made a small laugh full of meanness. “You’re kind of desperate to know things around here, aren’t you? You see, it’s really quite simple.” Unexpected to everyone else, he proceeded to smash flat White Axl’s right hand.
“Aaahh!” That was Iris’ scream. She held on tighter to Axl and wept more. X and Zero were utterly surprised with his brutality. “Lumine! What are you doing? Stop this madness now!” Lumine turned back at them.
“Really? I finally had dear girl’s and dear boy’s permission to destroy this Maverick. I waited for more or less a month already and I am tired of letting him live on more. I wish to do this quickly and besides, I could have my own fun.”
X wanted to protest further but Zero held him back.
“Ha ha ha.” The laugh was directed to White Axl. “Why can’t you use my abilities fully? Why you were stunned? I’m sorry but you seemed to have inheritance dear boy’s lack of analytic skills. That’s why you don’t seem to comprehend.”
“You may have copied all my data and dear boy’s too, but you can never be me. Simple as that. Let me tell you further. You see, there have been no errors in the data you copied but it was a matter of specificity. Really, for an intelligent Maverick like yourself, you aren’t so observant, taking things so easily for granted.”
“There are several factors why you can’t perform my special attack. Firstly, it’s the body you’re occupying. This body may be that of a new generation Reploid, having the ability to adopt new data for survival, but this body is just that of a construction Reploid. It doesn’t have so much reserves of energy, compared to this body.”
“Why?! How could a prototype body possess so much energy compared to the new generation Reploids?! What about all the other attacks I made?!”
Lumine laughed some more. “It’s just like you said: it’s a prototype body. Features are meant to be modified into a friendlier, improved form. Me? I’m just glad father gave me the same schemes as that of the prototype, only far more enhanced. Thanks to you, I had never shown my true abilities for the past two years.”
“Then again, the first type of new generation Reploids are just Reploids able to mimick other Reploid’s data. It is of no surprise that they may inherit useful data such as the ability to explore deep hot furnaces but yet, they possess the same weaknesses.”
“I’m talking about the energy reserve in your occupied body. You inherited some unwanted features from me and dear boy. The energy is indeed near inexhaustible but you just used up so much proportions the body could tolerate at the right levels.”
“In other words, your occupied body’s reserves are limited and only allow the most maximum consumption. This body doesn’t. It’s near unlimited, unlike X’s design. So no matter how long you fight me, I can still fight back. It’s just the matter of personal health where I take damage from your attacks.”
“You’re talking gibberish! Speak clearer!”
Lumine tapped his chin. “Let’s put it this way, Maverick. Your body has reserves of energy worth, oh say, 4000 points. Your lasers need around 2900 points of energy. The body tolerates that. It is rechargeable. You can fire as much as you want. But Paradise Lost procedures: it takes around 342 thousand equivalent points. It isn’t easy to generate so much energy to alter your surroundings and instantly kill your enemies. So naturally your body can’t take the pressure.”
“This body? Near unlimited, but it’s a matter of massive rechargeable by resting after a day’s work or battle. Actually, all Reploids have plasma energies of great measure. It’s just a matter of manufacturing and standard of energy used. I guess you can say this body has millions of points worth of energy.”
“Hah! Then what about that personal health status thing? It isn’t affected!?”
“Like many Reploids, my health status is limited. It’s totally independent of the energy reserve specialized for battle. You may be close to death and tired like crazy, but you still can fire the same laser beam of 2900 points. Do you understand everything I’ve said so far?” White Axl grimaced and smiled suddenly.
Acting quickly, Lumine’s leg stepped hard on White Axl’s body. “Don’t even think about trying to attack me. That’s why I deliberately smashed both your hands. Besides, I finally have a chance to toy with you for a while.”
White Axl grimaced even more. “Where was I? Ah, yes. The second and most important factor why you can’t launch my other form and initiate Paradise Lost. You are not me. You are not Lumine entirely. Just a bit of data here and there. Your data composition is impure, hindering you further.”
“You see, father had given me this destructive ability for reasons unknown, though he said previously it was out of love. Back in the years when I was fairly sane, I noticed that the data is very easily accessible to all new generation Reploids.”
“This was dangerous, since the new generation Reploids could copy any Reploid DNA and use them. I wasn’t going to take any chances so I had it modified to the strictest level.” Lumine coughed a little from the air before continuing.
“The strictest level possible was that in order to access this ability, the type of personality must be exactly like me. Every single data encryption must be exactly the same like mine. From my physical features to my routinely habit, from the way I speak to the way I express my emotions. Not a single bit different.”
“Under such circumstances, no one can invade me and misuse that ability. Even if a Virus possesses my body, it’s just a shell. It hasn’t affected my personality or thoughts. That was until you came in as my corrupted conscious. You were able to influence me to destroy the Hunters on the Moon because you already affected my thoughts.”
“Oh? Didn’t I affect your personality to be loyal to Master Bob?”
“Sorry, you’re plain not analytical. You may have affected my purpose that time but you have never penetrated into my core personality. The way I act and speak, the degree of self-thought and meanness. It was already programmed like that by my father. I supposed he can’t tolerate a softy as an assistant.”
“I have explained all I know of this matter of Paradise Lost. Hm. Did you really think I will allow piracy of my data so easily? The very attack I named myself out of sheer randomness? I don’t think so. Naturally, you’re not a perfect copy of me so it will never work. Only I can access it, not even dear boy and dear girl could, what more the likes of you? Ha ha ha.”
The human and Reploid crowd have little understanding of what the conversation was about but X and Zero did. “Well, I guess the last thing to do is to destroy you. Shall I proceed?” Lumine stretched out his hand and emitted a globe of aura.
“Hah. You can’t totally destroy me. I can just run away and hide in another part of this body. Let’s see how you fare with that!” White Axl shut his eyes. Moments later, Lumine got tired of waiting and gave the body a hard kick.
“Ouch! Huh? What?! Why am I still here?! Why can’t I hide in any inactive data or make myself move so easily?! What’s going on?!” Lumine laughed more.
“Really, it’s like I said, you took things for granted too much and you never really bothered to observe the things around you. Oh well. I suppose it is never too late for another set of explanations. I have revealed the answer weeks ago to dear boy, though less detailed. It depends whether you were paying attention or not because that time, you weren’t imprisoned yet.”
“Now, the norm of society, Reploid or not, is that every soul inhabits just a single body. The body thus registers a single dominancy of a soul. That is only the natural way things work. However, your case was different. You were forcibly incorporated as my conscious and were already adjusted to a life of occupying someone else’s body. Isn’t that right, Maverick?”
“Grr…” White Axl grumbled while the white Reploid smiled inwardly. Lumine smirked on him more and talked further.
“All this while, you were too accustomed with living in someone else’s head and took for granted that’s the way of life. Well, let me disappoint you further. Upon registering the single dominant soul of a Reploid body, the body systems immediately anchor themselves to that data soul. The entire body now depends only on one mind for decisions and actions.”
“Dear boy’s case was different. His body has registered dual dominancy so the system no longer rigidly anchors itself on just one soul; in fact, it doesn’t at all. The body’s free for anyone to control and take over. One soul can prefer to hide itself while the other holds onto the systems as much as it wants.”
“So the body is much looser than the original design. What’s the importance? It allowed you to hide wherever you please. Among the circuits, inside the inactive data, the reactor coding systems; anywhere. Even if a part of the body is destroyed, we can choose to move to some where safer or possibly avoid the detection by another personality.”
“I don’t believe it!! Where’s the proof?!” “I performed one of them just now. I gave you a hard kick and you got up instantly. You were awake, not barely alive. Another piece of evidence can be found in your sight. I want you to close your eyes and tell me what you see.”
White Axl scowled back. “I did it just now and I saw nothing! Everything was pitch-black! What has that got to do with anything?”
“You’ve seen it yourself, Maverick. Ordinary Reploids see nothing but dear boy was different. According to dear girl on my first meeting with her after she purged me of your leftover codes, she said that dear boy has been seeing rectangles and squares every time he blinks or close his eyes all these years. That is enough evidence.”
In the computer brain, Axl looked at Iris who nodded at him.
“You see, the subconscious is a very mysterious and powerful realm. We can move about in this physical world and yet when we close our eyes, we are sort of transferred into another world. You have experienced it yourself, so I don’t need to elaborate on this issue. Okay with you, Maverick?” White Axl was speechless.
“We can talk to each other and explore the circuits of the body at our free will, all thanks to the main registry system of the prototype body: the Chameleon Chip. Remember the energy systems earlier I told you? We can even divert that energy from the systems to replenish our health status anytime we want.”
“You, on the other hand, are held tightly to the body’s systems. A poor conscious like you, so used to being free in another Reploid’s head, can’t even be free now. The body you are occupying registered single soul dominancy. No extra souls to accompany you. That’s why you’re not entirely free anymore.”
“Well, then I guess I’ve told you just about everything I know that led to your entertaining downfall.” The crowd looked on as the white Reploid laughed evilly over the Maverick. “I guess it’s time to make your end now.”
“Grr! You won’t be so lucky next time! Master Bob will resurface from his hideout, wherever that is! He will strike back personally! That time the new world will be created with him as Supreme Ruler!! He will be back!”
Lumine raised an eyebrow. “Oh really? He lacks financial capabilities. How will he ever come back? Go begging in the streets, I suppose?”
“You just watch! Master will be back, no matter the cost! I may be defeated and you have stopped me but the mission lives on!! You’ll see soon!!”
Everyone present became afraid. Many whispers were raised. X and Zero exchanged looks. The white Reploid did nothing. He then glared down evilly at the Maverick.
“Maverick, do you know what day it will be tomorrow?”
“Hm. It’ll be that anniversary thing you three always celebrate. Four months since the end of the Jakob crisis. Why? Has your memory wiped off a little?!” Lumine glared down evilly on the Maverick. No one knew what he was going to do.
“Indeed. Tomorrow is the fourth month anniversary. You know, father, dear boy and girl had given me much presents all this while and I intend to repay them back. It seems I’ve found my own present. Now, they don’t have to do so this time. My present is… destroying you! FAREWELL!! GAHAHAHAHA!!”
White Axl’s eyes widened. Before he could yell out anything, the last thing he saw was the sole of Lumine’s right leg and then, a total blackout. He was officially dead. What caused it? Lumine had crushed White Axl’s head with his own leg, stepping down very forcefully on his nose and smashing everything else.
It was also a convenient spot to carry out instant death on Reploids, because the data soul and computer brain are located in the head. Just like killing a human, Lumine chose the equivalent way to deal with the evil White Axl. What he had wanted to do for so long was finally done.
The sight of violence was too much for most citizens to bear. The act of smashing an individual’s head by the face was very unthinkable and they saw it in front of their eyes. Iris was the most disturbed by the sight and wept even more in Axl’s arms. Lumine heard that but did not offer his apologies.
Even X and Zero couldn’t take the violence. “Lumine! That will be quite enough!”
The white Reploid regained sanity and turned his head back to the Commanders. “But of course. My debts have been settled anyway.” His following actions seem to contradict his words for he lifted every metal shard left of White Axl, even the mechanisms, and melted them all in his dark purple aura.
With the same aura, the huge hammer he earlier dropped was attracted to the liquid metal and it was melted too. The glob of liquid was remolded and super-cooled to a big sword. He held the sword tight on his left palm.
X and Zero walked forward to talk to him. “Are you quite satisfied yet? You’re making the whole crowd of humans and Reploids afraid of you.”
Humans and Reploids gulped as they looked on the trio. They were anxious and afraid of what the Reploid was going to do next. Lumine meekly smiled.
“I suppose you can say that. The Maverick is history and the City is back to normal. Well, at least there’ll be no more attacks from any Mavericks now that newer Reploids are filling the streets. No one has to worry as long as they don’t harm me. Other than that, our business is finished here.”
“Alright, let’s head back to the HQ. We need to get certain things settled quickly.” Zero nodded at X. The rain had lessened slightly, although it was still rather heavy. The onlookers, well, looked on as they watch the trio about to teleport away.
“Mister Reploid, wait.” Everyone’s attention turned to a small human girl who walked up to Lumine unnoticed. The girl’s mother was aghast of her daughter’s actions and ran out to retrieve her. “(Girl’s name), what are you doing?!”
Lumine bent down on one knee to approach the little girl. He gave a cheerful smile to her with his eyes closed briefly. “Yes, human girl?”
“Is the bad guy beaten?” The white Reploid smiled more cheerfully. “Yes, you can say that. He won’t come back to give us any more trouble. You can have a happy life again with your mum and dad now.”
He however noticed something familiar about the girl. “Hm? Have we met before? Yes, I believe we do, not directly as least. You’re the little human who was trapped under some rubble during a Carnival three months ago.”
The girl nodded. She never questioned how he knew her but the girl’s mother was particularly concerned as of what’s going on. The Reploid gently graced the girl’s cheek and eventually her hair.
“You’ve grown fast and in three months too. Perhaps you could be a brilliant one in the future. You have lots of unlocked potential in you. The world could use more gentle people like you. Now be a good human and listen to you mum and dad, okay? Never do any bad things in the future. Go on.”
The girl only nodded and was carried by her mother. They both walked a few steps back before they turned around to look at the three Reploids. Zero smirked at X, telling him they ought to teleport back to the Hunter HQ.
Wordless, they teleported back to the command room. Some navigators were shocked to see the ex-Maverick with their Commanders and retreated back a little. Alia, Layer and Pallette knew better than to reveal that they know him so they only greeted X and Zero.
“The good news is that all districts have now been under control. The army had managed to enter the four districts after putting out the fires. It was just before you came back. All Hunters have been dispatched to assist, including the 6000 new ones.”
X was surprised. “The 6000 new recruits Prez sent us? That reminds me, what about the south wing blocks? Have they been completed?” “We had just received a report some hours ago that all south wing facilities have been complete. It was magnificent the speed they had when building the structures. So fast and convenient. Oh… the heir is here too?”
“Yeah, Lumine helped us a lot. But I don’t think mister Prez will be too happy once he found out most of the four districts were trashed severely. Axl and Iris aren’t exactly taking him too well either; Lumine crushed the Maverick’s head with his leg. He needs a time out now.” They gazed on Lumine who had retreated to a chair near a big window.
The rain poured on as usual. Several navigators and Hunters were talking behind his back of his presence. He didn’t care; now he had to settle things with his fellow friend and host and a female inhabitant too.
In the computer brain, he knelt down before Axl and Iris. “Dear boy, dear girl… I’m sorry. Sorry for all the destruction and the violence I displayed. I had to crush the Maverick’s arms because he could attack us. His feet were sliced to stop him from flying. I got overreacted in torture by crushing his head. I’m truly sorry. I promise I wouldn’t act so violently next time.”
Axl and Iris talked for a while. Lumine still knelt down with sadness before the duo. Then Axl approached him and brought him back standing.
“Alright, I forgive you. The Maverick issue is history already. Besides, you did quite a great job back there. I could only help you with health status and access to my plasma bullet guns. I couldn’t do much.” Lumine raised an eyebrow.
“No dear boy, thank YOU. I was much drained earlier on and you even supplied me with almost all of your health energy. Dear boy, you transferred nearly your whole health status to me. I only did my part for you and dear girl. You’re the hero, not me.”
Iris appeared grumpy. “Hmph! You… you know I hate all those grotesque scenes of violence! You even promised father to tone down your destruction! You are so detestable at times!” Then she smiled. “But you had showed that you care for others. You treated the girl so gently. For that, I also forgive you. Hee hee!”
She hopped over to Lumine and gave him a great hug. He was touched again by their huge hearts. His eyes glittered again and this time, instead of merely patting her shoulders, he returned her the hug. All three of them were happy for each other.
Just as soon as he let go the hug, the white Reploid opened his eyes and immediately got off the chair he sat on. He stared on outside the huge glass windows, staring at the flashes of lightning and heavy rain. He closed his eyes briefly, happy with himself for being forgiven by his host and Iris.
Just about suddenly, X was approached by the sword-holding white Reploid. “Well, X, what are you going to do now? I’m basically here and it seems most of your Hunters despise me. Looks I have nowhere else to go. Either that or I’ll allow dear boy back out.”
X placed his hand on Lumine’s shoulder. “No, I have something important for you. I’m going to take you around the HQ and show you on a tour. I don’t know if Axl already did that for you but this one is for everyone’s need to recognize you. Zero, you’re in charge of my affairs for a while.”
“No problem. If there’s anything, I’ll ring you up.”
They walked all the way to the central resting chamber. Some Hunters have been discharged of their duty and have seemed to fill the hall quite a lot. One hunter noticed the white Reploid and many others start to notice him. Some became mad.
“It’s you! What are you doing here, Maverick?!” One of them charged forward and attempted to tackle him. X wanted to stop that Hunter but he was too late. Lumine had held that Hunter’s arm quite tightly and wrenched it in a position he could not attack.
“Enough. Your Supreme Commander has some words to tell you all.” He released the hunter and he retreated backwards. Some stared on; waiting for X’s words while some had angry faces. X began to speak.
“Hunters, in case you hadn’t been reading the news, a month ago Lumine had been designated the heir of the Prez Corporation. Soon he will hold power over all of us because the human holds giant interests Lumine will soon inherit. You have my word that he is no longer a Maverick and will deserve equal privilege in this place.”
All were surprised and the loud chatter of whispers was heard. Some talked of anger and hatred and some talked of other related issues. The White Reploid heard one of them ask: “Darn it. The Reploid’s here? Where is Axl anyway? He likes to beat this kind up so badly.” Axl also heard that and he made an apology to Lumine.
The duo decided to walk away before something bad gets stirred up. The white Reploid sighed. “It’s okay, dear boy. We can’t expect immediate acceptance now, do we?” As they walked on, X was speaking via his communicator to Zero.
It seems that the situation in all four districts have returned back to normal as the City army had marched in to extinguish all the fires, also thanks to the rain. Mister Prez was reportedly rudely awakened from his sleep and was detailed the entire situation.
A tired Prez soon sent in the thousands of reserve newer construction Reploids as well as materials to repair the City. Work of all major rebuilding was to be paid by the government and Prez, a move many fear could expand the human’s monopoly and isn’t expect to finish until three months from now.
The Hunters were also sent out to participate in reconstruction of the Federation capital districts. It was due to this that X had decided to suspend all classes and delay the deadlines of all assignments until all work is done. Axl sighed with relief.
“All that fighting made me tired … I want some rest …” He moaned a little.
The white Reploid was asked to take a rest in X’s office who quickly agreed. After entering the office, X deliberately locked the door to give the trio a private time. The white Reploid merely sat down on the usual cushion and sighed.
“We should get some rest. We were up all night already and used so much energy. If it’s fine with you two, I’ll just remain in control in case something else happens. I’ll see you guys in the morning.” They immediately settled down and were already sleeping soundlessly a minute later.
Continued in Chapter 31.
Notes: The inactive data and rigidity issue, refer to Chapter 17. The little human girl, refer to Axl Story chapter 17 also. Iris? Despite seen much violence and experienced pain, she felt worst of White Axl’s head being smashed because she sort of had some connection with him. You know, you talked to someone and that person dies, that kind of sentimental feeling.
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 12, 2009 23:35:23 GMT -5
Even more revelations today. A whole bunch of talkie stuff.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Thirty-One: Settledown
All he saw was nothing but pitch-black. Seconds later, the image has those annoying horizontal folds of crooked lines and the projections of inactive data circulating the air appeared. Seconds later again, the lines blurred more to become the blur surroundings of X’s office. He sat up straight and rubbed his eyes with his left hand.
“Oh, darn it… I do not have enough rest. And yet, it’s only 8.35 in the morning. One day I must make dear boy sleep for longer hours…” It was Lumine, who still had control over the prototype body. His eyes were still tired yet he somehow woke up.
It was still the same day of day 123. The trio-in-one Lumine-led Reploid had battled a Maverick for over 6 hours. The sun had risen from the horizon. Apparently the office door was still locked, meaning X never entered his own office.
The white Reploid saw that Axl and Iris had not gotten up so he silently walked over to X’s desk to access his computer. Hacking into Axl’s account, he went on the Internet to read some news. Bad and irritating news, he got.
According to the morning news, despite the destruction of four Big City districts, the press centers had not been involved and they somehow got exclusive photos and many articles written about the previous night’s battle. In the wee hours of the morning, the media had arranged a conference with the Maverick Hunters the same day.
The last thing Lumine needed was attention from the press because he preferred a quiet life. On a better note, an article was written about his talk with White Axl shortly before his demise. Most people didn’t understand what they were talking about; only hints such as body mechanisms. This meant that no one found out about the secret of the prototype body containing three data souls.
Having had enough of the news, he abruptly logged out and switched off the computer. At the same time, Axl and Iris got up from their sleep and greeted him.
“Hello, dear boy and girl. Had a nice rest, I assume?”
“Yeah, I’m refreshed. So how’s everything here?” Axl stretched himself in the computer brain. The white Reploid looked slightly sad. “Most things are under control, dear boy. Just expect some rude conferences later.” He told them the news he read.
Iris was the first to speak up. “I know how much you hate to meet those kinds of humans but I think this time, it will be necessary for you.”
The white Reploid was flabbergasted by the suggestion. “Unbelievable. You know that fact and yet you are asking me to attend to their negative demands? What might be your rationale behind this, dear girl?”
Iris made a grumpy face. “Listen, the whole districts have been devastated by a battle just hours ago. Most humans and Reploids spotted both you and a Maverick that looked like Axl. Most humans will tend to focus on the negative aspects of such incidents. Now you have the power to correct that kind of perspective.”
Lumine, stubborn as ever, still refused to comply with Iris.
Seeing the situation going nowhere, Axl decided to threaten Lumine. “Well, if you don’t go, then I’ll go. I’ll tell the humans how I decided to spare an ex-Maverick in my body, hiding in my head all this while. I’ll also tell them it was me who set the Maverick loose to the City and allowed the battle to go too destructive.”
“What?! Dear boy, then you’ll get the entire negative attention from everyone! Those battles were my doing, not yours! Father will be most disappointed in you! Everyone, humans and Reploids, will despise you for those facts! I…I don’t want you to go through all the isolation and backstabbing again! Please don’t do that to me!” Lumine was shaking quite violently; his heart filled with excessive emotion.
They saw that Lumine was truly one who cared much for his friends. He didn’t even want his host to take all the blame for his revengeful and destructive motives so badly. He couldn’t believe that Axl was going to do this. It meant a lot to him. Dropping on his knees and facing down, he let go several tears drop on X’s office floor.
“Dear boy, I did all those things. Don’t take all the blame. I can’t bear to watch you suffer anymore. You suffered much negative perception because of me in the past four months. Please, just don’t…” Iris and Axl exchanged looks, unknown to Lumine.
“Gee, Axl. He really cares a lot for you. Why do you do this to him?”
Axl said nothing. In the computer brain, he walked forth to the crying Reploid. His palms reached the respective shoulders. “But Lumine, if you really cared for me that much, why are you still so stubborn?” Lumine’s eyes widened.
“The way I see it, the damages was caused by both of us. All three of us, in fact. We let you destroy White Axl but at the cost of the City’s peace. Someone should bear responsibility for all this. You were the one who performed the battle to stop White Axl. If you’re not going to go press to settle some things, it’s fine by me. I’m going instead. I permitted this destruction and I’m at fault.”
Axl grasped back control from Lumine. His full physical features were displayed but his eyes still had the tears the white Reploid had released. Axl wiped away the tears and assumed his normal behaviour self. The white Reploid was still bent on the pitch-black floor and Iris was looking at both of them.
“Well, I’m off. I’m going to the east wing where the Main Hall is located.”
Some minutes later, what he was told of was true. Members of the press, both human and Reploid, were gathered so early in the morning to ask various questions to X and Zero, who were sitting on a stage behind a large desk. So far, the reporters have already asked the questions concerning Big City reconstruction.
“We are only providing assistance of Hunters in construction. The government and the Prez Corporation have jointly decided to settle any financial concerns. We have started the reconstruction; it’s only a matter of time.”
Axl crept behind the stage just as before and hid behind the curtains. Seeing that there were only two chairs of two Commanders sitting at the desk, he was about to grab another chair from behind when he felt the sudden warmth inside him.
Axl and Iris turned to the source: the white Reploid. His red aura stretched out far to envelope the body inside. His expression was that of no longer sadness; more accurately it was close to full gratitude and a strong sense of cheerful responsibility.
“You’re right, dear boy. I’ve been very stubborn, all to protect my own ego. I’m sorry. I’m going to settle the issues now. Who cares about what I think of those people, it’s you that I care for. Like I said, the battle’s my whole fault. I don’t want you to get all the blame; I’m fine with being blamed as long as you’re happy.”
He then took control of the body and grabbed the chair instead. As a surprise to everyone in the hall, he plainly walked from behind the curtains and sat next to X. “Oh, you’ve come just on time. What happened?”
“Nothing much. I owed an apology to dear boy, that’s all.”
Almost instantly, many reporters raised their hands and called on the trio to answer their questions. X picked the choice while Zero stared on. “Commander X, what are your first perceptions of Lumine now that the new crisis has been solved hours ago?”
X smiled. “Oh, I think he’s just doing his job. Ever since he got back from the Moon, he’s a totally changed Reploid. Well, more accurately he returned back to his former true self. We managed to get around and solve many problems together. We had to make his presence secret before the time was right. Along the way he helped us fight against many Mavericks. Now, we feel, is the right time to tell everyone.”
X pointed to a human close to the stage. “Who is the cause of these troubles?”
Upon hearing that question, the white Reploid let out a sudden burst of laughter that stirred the hall. “Ha ha ha ha! You really weren’t paying attention to your own articles, were you? Of course it’s the human criminal Bob. He stirred attacks in the City twice! Isn’t that enough proof for you humans? Ha ha ha ha.”
Zero spoke. “Bob invented a Maverick that was responsible for the Jakob crisis. That Maverick had just resurfaced in the City and he is a copy of a fellow Hunter Bob despised so much. He was designed to wreck havoc. We only went ahead and stop him, though I must say the extreme degree of violence was highly regrettable.”
“In fact, that fellow Hunter was the one who saved Lumine from further going Maverick. Bob was very angry so it was only natural that he tried to frame the same Hunter.” The white Reploid nodded. “However so far, we found no traces of Bob as of recently. Efforts had been increased to locate him.”
X pointed to another reporter. “What are your ideas of mister Prez’s corporation? Isn’t he too domineering in many fields? What will you do with the wealth you’ve inherited? Will you do anything to the giant monopoly he holds?”
The white Reploid got slightly irritated about those issues. “My father is not dead yet. He still holds the wealth and everything else, not me, so I have no right to say anything about that. Ask another question, human.”
X pointed to another human reporter. “Do you find it hard to gain trust from your surroundings?” X and Zero exchanged looks while the white Reploid raised an eyebrow. “Was it hard? Of course it was hard. Especially since when I first came to about three hours after the government had branded me Maverick. It was never that easy.”
“Now that you’ve shown to the people that you are not a Maverick, is there anyone in particular you would like to give thanks?”
He was in deep thought then. “Well, I suppose so, human. I owe it to that fellow Maverick Hunter who brought me back down to Earth and another Reploid who restored me back to my original pride. The other Reploid is my sister. I would also like to thank these Commanders for being patient with me and allowing me to prove myself worthy. Lastly, a thanks also goes to my father.”
The hall was buzzing with chatter about his ‘sister’, known to be Prez’s third unknown Reploid child. Lumine reclined on his chair with peace because he had been careful not to reveal Axl’s and Iris’ identity. Zero glared at him for claiming Iris as his sister. X then managed to calm the hall down by picking another reporter.
“Would you care to give us their names?” Lumine glared back.
“I don’t think so. The three of us prefer a quiet private life and mine was an unfortunate case. Saying their names out would severely disappoint them.”
The conference went on for another two hours or so. It was to imagine that after an outburst of emotion, the white Reploid had so quickly resumed his normal mean and sarcastic self. The trio were having some hard times answering questions from the media but nonetheless, settled them properly. One thing’s for sure, all vital issues have been solved and the proper image it should be has been established.
Some bare minutes after the conference, Lumine was already leaning against the corridor walls, being looked at by other Hunters. He ignored the negative comments and instead focused on his conversation with Axl and Iris. They were impressed with his way of censoring important info.
“That was neat of you to censor us properly. Thanks.”
“Thank you, dear boy. I have to or else we will all be under much unwanted attention. Well then, I think we ought to go and have some issues checked with father. I may be smart but I do tend to be forgetful. Well, rarely. We want to know what exactly makes the newer Reploids more distinct than the first batch, don’t we?”
“Hey, I almost forgot about that! Take us there now!”
Instantly after Axl’s request, the white Reploid teleported away. Unknown to him, X was watching him not far away. The Commander sighed and entered a door, leading to the backstage of the Main Hall. Zero bluntly stared at him.
“You still hadn’t informed them? C’mon, don’t trouble the old human already.”
“No, I can’t just bring up the issue so suddenly. Axl’s inhabitants have previously disagreed with the idea and I don’t think they’ll ever talk about it again. I have seen this problem when mister Prez announced the heir the other time so I immediately notified him the problem. They would be better off told by him than me.”
“Suit yourself, but don’t come telling me that Axl grumbled at you again. C’mon we have to go assist the other Hunters in construction.” The two Commanders walked out of the Main Hall and it was locked by security guards.
Meanwhile, 35 miles north of the HQ in another district, the trio-in-one Reploid arrived in the south wing compounds of the giant grounds of the Prez Corporation. The white Reploid made a speedy go towards his creator’s office.
This time, around the gigantic factories, things were going rather slowly. The machines and gears weren’t working as fast as they used to and the humans and Reploids were moving faster than usual. The ceiling-born and ground forklifts were all busy carrying around various precious materials.
“This has to be the reconstruction of the districts.”
No sooner minutes later, the three of them arrived in Prez’s office. As partially expected, the tycoon wasn’t there. The immediate option was to gaze on the giant screen above that dominated the room. The human was in the areas of the new plant.
“The new research facility… something about minute Reploids and assistance. Hm, this is more interesting than the previous time.” Lumine jotted down the coordinates on his teleporter and warped himself there.
He ended up in a giant area where never-before-seen machinery has been assembled. The machines were large cylindrical tubes with hemispheres on top of them. Instead of pipes, wires decorated the surrounding airs. Tubes containing mysterious green fluid were everywhere. Various charts and graphs were displayed on the screens.
The area was quite dark and empty. Suddenly, the lights were switched on. The person who turned on the power was just behind him and it was indeed Prez. “Father?! What are you doing here?” He walked slowly to Prez.
“You three are the first to see the new plant for yourselves. It’s nearly 12 noon and you’re here. I was planning to call you and all the scientists to start working but you are ahead of me, I guess. C’mon, let’s have lunch. Follow me.”
After boarding an elevator upwards and walking past some corridors of the 18th floor, they arrived at a balcony overlooking the forest and urban areas, north of the grounds in the same district. A table of delicious marinated chicken and vegetable with some wine had been prepared earlier on.
They had already settled down on their chairs and began light consumption of the chicken. Mister Prez began speaking.
“Well, congratulations to you three for defeating Maverick Axl. As you would have probably known by now, the cost of the construction has been jointly paid by me and the government. It is most regrettable such destruction had to take place.”
Lumine hung his head down. “I’m sorry, father. I know you warned me previously not to be too violent but-” Prez held his hand out, telling him to stop. “There’s nothing to be sorry about. I know you don’t want such destruction. You can do as you please, of course. This whole place will belong to you soon enough.”
His eyes widened. “No, I prefer to be bound by ethical codes and what I think is right, father. I also intend to share this place with dear boy and dear girl.”
“Well, of course you do. Finally, this is the you I remember between eleven to three years ago. Mean, sarcastic, brilliant but also caring, nice and cautious. My parting and efforts all these years have paid off. I am proud of you and I’m also proud of the way you two interact, Axl and Iris.”
“They said thank you, father. Father, could you possibly enlighten us as to what are the programmings of the newer Reploids? They seem to be pretty well-functioned and the only Mavericks in the City and the world are old Reploids.”
“Ah yes. The newer Reploids or the second batch of new generation members. Well, the history does go back to as far as twenty years ago or so. Ten years after the Eurasia incidents, the world’s reconstructions had been progressing fine. Then, somehow amid the new beginning Mavericks started to show up again. I tried to look for an alternative or cure for this repeating disorder. Firstly I consulted Alia.”
Axl blurted via Lumine: “Alia? The navigator? How’s that so?”
“Hm…well, there was this brief article about her trying to create a vaccine to create corrupt-resistant Reploids. I was halfway trying to figure out a solution and I saw it. I had some private talks with her and decided to buy the idea and mechanisms. The payment was in the form of the construction of the HQ’s east wing.”
“After having scientists analyze the schematics, we started a brief prototype. No, it wasn’t you because it was applied data vaccine to the Maverick Reploids. However the test subjects reveal that the vaccine wasn’t strong so my own modifications came in and combine that with Reploid scrap and the result was you, Axl.”
“So after the Red Alert kidnapping scheme, it took me at least another ten months to create Axl’s replacement: you, Lumine. The schematics were different as all data of nearly every Reploid has been implanted, including a tiny bit of Sigma’s personality to repel the same bits. Oddly the mechanisms made the new Reploids already Maverick. I don’t know how but I wasn’t going to spend extra millions on research.”
Axl remembered Lumine’s explanations about that issue many weeks back.
“Receiving the report on Maverick after the Jakob crisis, I just remembered that Axl has been fighting Mavericks all this while. Axl, you have set your mind for justice by the right means. That determination never made you go Maverick. So that became the basis for a second breed of new generation Reploids.”
Axl blurted out via Lumine: “You reverted back to my design?”
“Yes, but slightly different. This time I omitted the copy chips for fear of any incident repeating. However, I did incorporate a tiny fragment of Sigma personality in each data soul, just like the way magnets work; south repels south. I also made some restrictions regarding their thoughts: they are meant to love the Earth and peace so all developments will become very positive.”
“Having done that, copy chips have become quite irrelevant. So what about adaptability and survival? Simple. The new mechanisms now incorporate much stronger nuclear energies which not only repel any foreign personality but also to reconfigure armour design to withstand harsh surroundings. They are not meant for battle however, unlike the prototype body you three are in.”
“Let me summarize the entire thing. The newer Reploids have Axl’s mechanism designs but more nuclear energies for better anti-Maverick purposes and to survive harsh environments and their mindset has been restricted solely to the contribution to peace. Copy chips are no longer relevant. They have showed no evidence of possible corruption so they have been rolled off the factories around three months ago.”
Lumine drank some wine. “That was very satisfying, father. Our curiosity is officially dry. You did something great this time, father.”
“Yeah, I guess so. But I would have preferred models based on X’s design instead so I don’t have to spend so much. That way peace would have been long achieved. The only downside is that you three would have never existed.”
“HEY!!” They all laughed for a moment there.
“Yeah, there’s a price to pay for everything we want. For peace, we had to purge all new generation Reploids and replace them with the second version. For peace, we must spend more to understand the designs of X and Zero. For peace, I have decided to venture in the new project: Cyber Elves. Neat name, huh?”
Iris squealed wildly. “That’s a cute name for the whole batch! How’d you do it?”
“Well, there was one day when I decided to discuss it with someone I know. I called on X to get Alia and we had a private chat. She proposed a number of other names so I was left undecided. After going through the list this morning, I chose Cyber Elf. They’re cute, small like elves and their programming is based on cyber energies.”
Lumine smirked. “Well then, it seems we have to thank her for all this.”
Prez smiled. They continued on eating the chicken slices. After drinking another cup of wine, Prez continued talking. “Hm, has X told you anything yet?”
“Not that I’ve heard of, father. What seems to be the matter?”
“Oh I see. I guess I have to break the news to you. X has already labeled you two, Lumine and Iris, as officially alive. Based on recent events, he decided to change and clear the whole history records. His reasons were very good so I’ve decided to separate the three of you in the near future by creating your own bodies.”
The three of them burst out: “WHAT?!”
Prez sighed. “Yes, well it seems that you two do deserve your own right to freedom and self-expression even though you wanted to remain together in Axl for all eternity. I know you three enjoy being together but think about it. The corporation will need you, Lumine, very much in the near future. You can’t expect to occupy Axl’s body and talk to the directors while Axl’s on a mission now, can you?”
“But we want to be together! Can’t you do something about it, father?!”
The human smiled. “As a matter of fact, yes I can. This time the new bodies will have transmitters. Let’s say Iris is in her own body. When she wants to, she can then send herself over to Axl’s body and you two can be together. By the time the bodies will be complete, I’ll install a transmitter in Axl too so he could send Iris back to her own body to avoid any time clashes. I’ll think you should expect the bodies in around a year’s time. I’ve started working on it already.”
“By the way I have a present for all three of you.” Prez took out a small case of a box with purple wraps and silver strings. “This is a little something I came to know by watching you. I’ve a big collection of music discs in here that you all will like to listen. Although it’s tomorrow, happy fourth month anniversary, Lumine!”
The white Reploid received the present amid cheers of thanks from his friends. His eyes glittered and he stood up from his chair. Prez also did the same; Lumine hugged the human. “I… I … thank you, father.”
“Oh that’s no problem. I love to see you three happy anyway. Oh did I mention that the new body Iris will have is based on her new form? I noticed the new form, Iris and I know Lumine made it for you around 2 1/2 months ago. That is brilliant!”
Iris blurted out via Lumine: “You did? Oh I didn’t even know you did! That was nice of you, father! Thank you!” The white Reploid shut his mouth.
“Dear girl, do you mind? I can’t stand you talking through my mouth. If you two really need to talk, I’ll just switch on the speakers then.”
The speakers were switched on. “Hey, don’t be so rude!”
Everyone there gave a long laugh. The human seemed to be enjoying it the most. “Ha ha ha! Ah, you three make me feel so happy. C’mon, finish your lunch first. I want you to meet my fellow workers while opening the new facility.”
They sat down again and munched up all the food they could reach. Mister Prez only ate a bit of meat because his old body couldn’t take so much digestible solids and demanded more insoluble materials.
After getting up from the chairs, human father and Reploid child strolled along the corridors while the human servants cleaned up the table. Without any word of warning, the human held on the Reploid tight to himself. The strength was pretty strong for an old man. The Reploid felt a strong grasp.
“Ow, father! You’re almost going to crush me!”
“Relax, this old man couldn’t be strong! Ah yes, I almost forgot! You apply the microchip by slotting it in the watch you have while you are in human form in order to enjoy the other human form. Oh yes! X said that you three have to participate in reconstruction of the City districts, no excuse.”
“That’s no fun.” That was the last sentence the white Reploid said before they continued walking down the corridor silently to the new research facility. They gave another long laugh just before the elevator door closed shut tight.
Contnued in Chapter 32.
Notes: Huh, this is probably the chapter using the most references to past chapters. X and the issue of separate bodies, refer Axl Story chapter 14. Iris’ Xtreme 2 form, refer to Axl Story Continuation chapter 10 or just refer to the game itself. More recent references; Axl listening to explanations on new generation Reploids Maverick is this series’ chapter 10 and 11 and X calling off Alia, chapter 22. Unless your memory is good (not mine, I had to refer back too), you don’t need to refer. Ah, about the giant metal sword our white Reploid molded, it has been recycled back to useful scrap.
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Chapter 32 is the last chapter of Existpeace, everyone.
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 13, 2009 20:42:52 GMT -5
The final chapter, as stated earlier. Enjoy.
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All characters belong to Capcom, except for those you’ve never seen before and the story doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s interests. -M’siaFanWriter
Chapter Thirty-Two: Vacation
‘The white Reploid, also heir of the world’s largest diversified corporation, Lumine has made a stunning, unexpected appearance here in the Big City Maverick Hunter HQ in order to give the society answers to vital issues yesterday morning.’
‘Shortly after a near-7 hour battle that plunged four districts into severe destruction, the Reploid had resurfaced again and this time, with the support from Maverick Hunter Commanders X and Zero, further solidified claims that the previous criminal Bob was responsible for the unleashing of madness in the City.’
‘When asked about to whom he owed gratitude upon revival, he merely replied “a fellow Maverick Hunter…another Reploid…, these two Commanders… (and) my father.” The “another Reploid” was revealed to be his ‘sister’, the third Reploid child of mister Prez, besides himself and Axler. He however declined to reveal her name.’
‘On another side, the government had announced more searches around the Big City island for the human criminal Bob. So far there have been no signs of him and although the chances of finding him are slim, the government said they must take actions to prevent further destabilization of the nation and the world.’
Axl kept reading the same article again and again. His head turned left to right and back and forth. Feeling dizzy, Lumine harshly made Axl’s head became stiff and even jerked his body repeatedly to shake off the paper.
“Hey, I was reading that! I have another three-quarters more to go! Let go of my body! Urgh!” Axl was made to be lying like a log on his beach-chair. The white Reploid held on tighter and smiled rather sneakily at him.
“Dear boy, this is the third time I’m telling you to stop shaking your head, so deal with it. Also, I’ve said many times before that I do not enjoy reading articles concerning myself. At the same time, let me remind you that we didn’t have a good rest for the past two days so I’m making you rest to the full so that you will continue back on duty working at the construction sites! Don’t make me do this to you again!”
It was already day 125, two days after the conference and a day after the article had been printed and Axl was sent out to a group in Megalopolis to assist reconstruction of the powerhouses. Just like mister Prez said, they were on a vacation in the southern islands of the Big City.
Ironically, it was revealed that mister Prez never wanted a vacation. The issue which the directors were talking about when Lumine chased them away for Axl’s pranks was actually about Prez’s health. They decided that the human must take a vacation or else they will threaten to protest. Prez had never given in to those sort of demands but eventually decided to give in, making the board sighingly happy.
No one there noticed the presence of the duo, making Lumine more comfortable. On other side notes concerning the white Reploid, he was pleased to inform his friends that no viruses of foreign files of the sort have been detected, meaning that the body was now clean and he easily disabled the program to a far corner of the mind.
Other news; the old sir at the store had been notified that his debts were permanently slashed and he even got some millions from Prez as aid to run the store but was not a dominating share. Some children had returned and worked for their father, thus replacing the ‘resigned rich kid’.
Axl has begun a step-by-step self-education about the world outside of that of just fighting the Mavericks. Now that the Hunters won’t be hearing much from Mavericks, their time was to be spent on some things else more beneficial; Axl for example was taught human education, manners on the floor and enjoying music.
Back to the relaxing outing; Axl was eased of body strains by the white Reploid and he could relax on his beach chair. The umbrella shaded him nicely and the golden sands were breathtaking, if he could breath. Axl would try to get off the chair and do something else but Lumine constantly jerked him if he did, so he had no choice but to lay down on the beach chair.
“Axl, just relax. I’ve have enough of battles and constant movement, so Lumine might be right in forcing you to lie down.” Iris stepped out from being alone to being with her host and fellow inhabitant. “Um… can someone play some music discs? I’d love to listen to some of those nice tunes right now…”
“Hah, sorry dear girl, but that will have to wait. I don’t want dear boy struggling with me. He’s been reading some articles I’d rather not read and that irritates me. So right now, the best thing for me to do is watch over him and stun him if he does anything I don’t like.” Axl grumbled under his breath.
“Oh, I’m sure that’s not a big problem, right? That reminds me, I hope father is okay…” That sentence attracted Lumine’s attention. “What do you mean by that, dear girl? Are you trying to bring up the subject of his death again?”
“Ah, no! That’s not what I meant! Two days ago, after that talk in the Cyber Elf plant, He strangely remarked something about applying the microchip into your watch to enjoy another human form… what was that all about?”
Lumine reminisced. “… oh, that one. I have no idea what he was talking that time. It’s most likely a symptom of old age and forgetfulness, which reminds me again about that will father force me to sign…”
Iris made a squirmy face. “Uh… let’s forget about that. Talk about – oh no! Lumine, that battle between you and White Axl! Zero gave away details too! What if the Reploids learn that Axl is a major key role in all of this!? Isn’t everyone back in the Hunter HQ going to recognize that Axl helped you back on Earth?!”
The white Reploid smiled. “Relax, dear girl. Haven’t you remembered? X met with us yesterday on this issue too. He said that there was no way all the Hunters are going to know about this, nor any humans. Simply said; no one can access the secret documents of the Maverick Hunter archives ever since X locked them up.”
“So even if some Hunters or humans had managed to get a glimpse of White Axl and Axl on separate accounts, they will mostly ignore it and not bother searching for clues to this little secret. The archives are locked, no one can have any proof to stir up any rumours and it will all be forgotten.”
Iris sighed. “Wow, that’s a relief … I don’t want to be known to the public so much… I’m glad I can be with everyone I care for without having to spill more secrets. Hey, Axl, what are you doing?”
The inhabitants felt Axl’s left leg move downwards onto the floor. He was slowly going to rise up from the chair to try to get something to drink. Lumine thought that he was up to no good and decided to stun him everywhere. In his head, he left out a scream as his body got limp from the shock.
“Aw, come on! Can’t I just walk around or do stuff or something?!”
“Sorry, but I insist you relax on the chair. We need a good rest, after all.”
Axl glared on at Lumine so much that the white Reploid couldn’t dare continue looking at him. He sighed and immediately emitted his aura to grasp all of Axl’s body controls. Iris got slightly annoyed and powered her aura to counter the white Reploid.
“Lumine, please! Not on this day! Why are you fussed up anyway!?”
“Dear girl, I really need dear boy to rest! I do not have enough rest, even with all the sleep for the past two days! Unfortunately I don’t have my own body to control to do as I want so I have to rely on dear boy’s cooperation!”
“Lumine, what you are doing isn’t asking Axl to cooperate! You’re forcing him to do something he doesn’t want to! Let me try for you, okay!?” After listening to Iris’ logic, he relented. “Fine, let’s go with your way.”
The aura clash stopped and they agreed to try out the soft approach to check out what made Axl quite restless. Axl, on his side, let out a huge sigh. “Thanks, guys. I really appreciate it if you two don’t fight over me.”
“Lumine is right in his own sense, I know. He fought much the other day and he hasn’t recovered. Well, even I want to relax too by other means. Originally I wanted to read the article so I can doze off. Guess that doesn’t work.”
“But, it seems no matter what I do, I can’t relax. I can’t give us the sleep. That’s because … I’m thinking about something that’s important to me. That’s all. I hope you’ll understand, and I’m sorry if I can’t get my body to make us sleep.”
Lumine, briefly touched, replied: “It’s okay, dear boy…”
Iris asked: “Axl, what is this you keep on thinking until you can’t relax?”
“I can’t relax because … I thinking about Sue.” The situation in the computer brain completely changed. Iris watched on as the atmosphere in the computer brain turned dark and gloomy.
“Well, I can’t stop thinking about her though it was only a short period of time. So, please, let me go and get something to drink. I’m feeling the need for some water.” Axl got up and walked to a vending machine.
Placing some banknotes in a money slot, he pressed a button and a can drink came out. Breaking the lid, he drank many gulps and also talked to his friends in his head.
“What will happen to her anyway…?”
Lumine sighed. “You don’t have to worry, dear boy. Don’t even imagine wildly that Eurasia ruins will try and destroy the airship.” Axl blushed slightly. “Come on, dear boy, Eurasia is a dead place, a painful memory of the past. Like father said, he didn’t want to recycle the area due to his own painful memories.”
Iris stepped in. “It is not a dangerous place but the government recommends not going there instead. C’mon Axl, nothing wrong’s going to happen.”
Axl felt a shoulder tap and turned around only to find an unexpected guest.
“SUE?! What are you doing here?!” He was clearly very shocked to find the human girl staring with a smile at his face. “Hi, Axl. Actually today’s the day I’ll be leaving for the mainland Federation but I thought I’ll go on a reunion with my friends. Humans, that is. We are having a party in this hotel too. I never thought I’ll see you here too.”
“Oh really? Wow, I’m glad I could see you here too! Say, do you want to meet my dad? I know he blew himself that time but not today. He’s taking a short vacation so his mood is fine.” Soon, Sue shook hands with the most important man in the Federation.
“Ah yes. You must be Sue, the daughter of the niece of my former admiration. Hm, I’m such an old man. Today must be the day you’re leaving. I’m so sorry for you leaving. I only wanted that (Sue’s dad’s name) to leave the place, not you.”
“No, sir. It’s alright. This time, we’ll control my dad for sure. It’s such an honour to meet you, sir. Especially your heir and Axl. I wish I could meet your sister, Axl. But I suppose she just wants privacy and low profile all to herself.”
“No, not really. You see me and you’re also seeing her… if you pardon the bad joke that is.” Sue gave a light laugh while Iris hushed Axl to keep her secret. Prez smiled. “Alright, I understand how much you two like each other so you have my permission to spend the whole day to yourselves. I’ll be fine here.”
After thanking Prez, the duo walked off. “Okay, so Sue where do you want to go?”
“Oh, let’s get out of this place to somewhere much better. I know of a game carnival down the road and we could get some time to ourselves.”
“What about your human friends?” “Nah, you matter the most to me!”
Sue grabbed his hand and pulled him forward so suddenly. Axl struggled to maintain his balance while being pulled by Sue. His inhabitants gave a light laugh to him.
“Aw! Axl, go have your fun! We’re just walking by here!”
“Yes, dear boy. We’ll just watch over you. Have fun.”
“Thanks, guys.” Axl turned up to Sue, still pulling him with much strength. Eventually he caught up and started to pull her this time. They ran out of the hotel, hands still holding each other and turned right towards the great gate of the carnival.
Sue hurriedly bought tickets so they could be permitted to enter the carnival. Axl felt he was really being dragged on but he didn’t care now that he saw what a human carnival looks like on the inside. Humans were running along wildly from rides to rides and the presence of balloons was especially notable.
“So Axl, which ride do you want to go first?” Axl made faces.
“Gee, I dunno. I’ve never been to this kind of places before. I don’t usually see much of this stuff. It’s what you humans are best at. Lead the way.”
“Okay then! C’mon, let’s go on the roller-coaster!”
Sue got them both front seats of the roller-coaster and she personally buckled Axl up. The giant ride was pulled upwards very slowly. They were going up nearly vertically. Axl looked down and he saw the many small buildings below getting smaller.
“Em, how high are we now?” “About a 50 meters. It’s no big deal. Oh my! We’re going DOWN NOW!! AAAHHHHH!!!” The roller-coaster took a deep ride downwards and Axl felt the mighty force of the winds blowing on him hard. “Oh man! This is so cool! I’m enjoying speed during a non-Maverick occasion!”
“Hm. It’s those speeding things again. Call me when this thing is over.”
“Aw, Lumine! You’re spoiling your own fun!” The white Reploid vanished.
The roller-coaster went for further swirls and tilts. Most humans whose eyes are swirling would get headaches or even throw up. Axl and Sue felt nothing but fun. The strong winds blew their hair back and they were screaming and all like crazy. Just when they passed over the 360-degree-swirl, the ride was over and came to slow down.
“Wow. Over already? That was great, Sue! Where next?”
“The video game arcade! C’mon it’s this way!” Sue pulled Axl off the stage and charged towards her left. Firstly they made a go at the water balloon contest. If anyone hits a certain target, he or she wins a prize.
“Hah! This one is easy!” Having bought some tennis balls from the keeper, he immediately threw two of the balls towards heavy bowling pins and knocked them down easily. The keeper grudgingly gave them extra tickets to other rides. Sue was doubtful of the keeper but turned back to Axl.
“Gee, Axl. That was very fast. Wanna go try some other games?” “Sure.”
Sue first took him for some shooting rounds where the obvious was obvious: Axl bulls-eyed all targets of wooden dogs and cars and won Sue some more tickets. She partially wished she hadn’t brought Axl to the bumper cars because kept on ramming into a lot of other humans.
Even his inhabitants were uncomfortable with the constant crashing. Both tried to grasp hold of Axl’s body but Ax; was able to deter them, resulting in slight rougher crashes on others. He even crashed on to quite roughly.
Some 30 minutes later, it was already around 2 in the afternoon.
“We’ve been here for only two hours or so, Sue. Isn’t there some better booth which can provide us some relaxation and togetherness?” Axl grumbled. They were already eating some lunch at the carnival’s food court. It was the usual sight of busy humans and the unusual sight of 21st century carnival settings.
“Well, there is one ride I wanted to share with you but I’m afraid…”
“Afraid of what? Nothing wrong’s going to happen.”
Axl found himself buckled to a seat just next to Sue in a relatively small boat. Surrounding the boat was water and the walls were full of murals and various light flashes. Axl made a face at Sue. “This is the place?”
“Axl, it’s a tunnel of love. Somehow when I first met you, you have such a huge feeling of reliance and trust. In fact, safer than anyone else I know. I had always wanted to take you here so we could be lonely together. That’s all.”
Axl made a shocking face. He blushed slightly and turned his head downwards out of embarrassment with his eyes close. He also saw his two inhabitants snickering at him. He became more embarrassed and turned back to Sue.
“Well, the flow of things is slow here. It’s just odd that this huge booth rarely receives customers. So this means…we are… lonely?” Sue immediately landed her head on Axl’s shoulder. She leaned closer to Axl, making the Reploid blush more.
“Huh… Axl, I just feel so relieved being with you. I just don’t know the exact words to express it but, you’re just the kind who can give pure relaxation.” Her hands gripped on Axl’s hands. Axl, somewhat in the mood for relaxing, leaned on to Sue as well.
“Sue… you’re a nice girl too. I’m just sad you’re leaving.”
“You know what Axl? I don’t want to just think about you. I also want to keep in touch with you. I know it’s not normal, me having a limited life on Earth but so not you but at least I want to show that I also care for anyone around me, human or Reploid. Well…” She sat back up, ruining the moment. “Can I have your contacts?”
Axl’s mood was also ruined. “Er… yeah. Sure. Here you go-”
Just suddenly, everything came to a halt. The boat stopped moving at a certain junction close to a steep waterfall. All lights were blacked out immediately, making the entire place dark. The sound of running water was still heard. Sue hurriedly held on to Axl, giving the Reploid quite a fright.
“Gah! Sue, don’t do that again!” Sue didn’t say anything. Axl closed his eyes and found the inside of his head surprisingly brighter than his surroundings. He ran towards two figures not far away. His inhabitants were also running to him.
“Iris! Lumine! The whole place got dark suddenly! Do you have any idea-?” “Simple. It’s a short circuit.” It was the white Reploid who answered. “Some 80 meters from where we are, the circuits blew up due to sudden overreaction. Some opposite wires have crossed so the flow of electricity was messed up. The whole place is affected.”
“Wow. How do you know that?!” He smiled back at Axl nicely.
“Sorry if I’m boasting, but this is one of the many abilities father gave me when I was programmed. I can just check the whole place without you knowing and it helps a lot just in case. Don’t you worry, dear boy. Soon technicians are bound to surface.”
“Technicians… uh, you remind me of Abe. Stupid Reploid.”
For the next tens of minutes, Sue had clutched on tight to Axl’s body just in case something went wrong. No one said anything so far. The sound of running water still drenched the air. Feeling her hands over his lap, Axl moved his hands to hold on hers.
“Don’t worry, Sue. Everything’s going to be okay. We’ll be out of this place in no time.” Sue blushed but her face wasn’t seen by Axl. “Gee, thanks. You’re such a sweetheart. Brr… it’s quite cold in here, don’t you think?”
“Yeah, I guess it is kinda cold. Here, take my sweater and cover yourself.”
Though they couldn’t see each other, Sue was still able to take the warm sweater from Axl ad covered herself. “Axl, don’t you feel cold? Oh silly me. You Reploids can’t feel so much cold air. Ha ha.”
“Not really. I can feel the cold airs but only to a certain extent. That’s when I feel as if it is really cold and start to shield myself. Well, anyway, I don’t think the power supply will come back so fast. Why don’t you get some sleep first? You must be tired.”
“Thanks. You’re a nice Reploid.” Sue tucked herself in on the boat.
Several hours later, there was still no sign of any signal from the outside. Sue had fallen into a deep sleep and Axl was stroking her gently. He couldn’t move his right hand elsewhere because Lumine had seized it to do something. His middle and second finger were pointing to an unknown direction, swirling in small circles.
In the computer brain, Axl and Iris sat in front of him while he folded his arms, standing with his eyes closed. “Hm… there are still no heat signatures on the outside… Hm? What’s this? Two figures are walking. One of them is bending down and doing something… Red signals everywhere? Dear boy, dear girl, the power supply is back!”
The moment Axl opened his eyes, a great flash occurred. All the lights were surged with excess power and then darkened back to its original brightness. For some reason, the lights flickered out colours more brightly and when Sue woke up, she was astonished.
Her eyes flickered. “Wow… this is so beautiful! Me and you getting to see this together!” Once again, Sue leaned on Axl, this time closer and even to the extent of nearly hugging him. Axl blushed more but with his mood of care back, he felt it was only proper to return the act with a hug as well.
Finally, the boat was moving. They made past the waterfall junction and back into the semi-dark caves. Sue and Axl were still on to each other. Apparently, his inhabitants had decided to give them some quiet time to themselves.
Several minutes later, they were close to approaching the exit. Sue had already let go of Axl and upon arriving at the main stage, Axl helped he disembark from the boat. The skies outside were light and dark brown. Sue’s eyes widened.
“Oh no! My flight to the mainland is at 7.30 pm! How will I make it in time to the airstation? I would have missed the flight by then!” Axl turned to her.
“So, you’ve got your baggages and stuff all in this island?”
“No, they’re all with my family. I only came here with my handbag, that’s all. And the airstation is around 400 kilometers west of this island. I will never make it in time!”
“Hey, have you forgotten already? I’m a Maverick Hunter and all Maverick Hunters are equipped with teleporters. We’ll get you there in less than a second!”
Sue slapped her forehead. “Oh right. Sorry, I forget things when I’m in a rush.” They both gave each other a light laugh. Step by step, they walked to the food court. It was time for some dinner and Axl chose a food they usually eat when together: hotdogs.
“Hm… hotdogs. Ha ha.” Axl gave a meek laugh and handed one to Sue. They sat down at a nearby table and munched in together.
“Sue… I guess that… we could only go as far as friends. That’s all. I’m sorry for disappointing you in any way. Reploids and humans are not supposed to engage in strong relationships. The results are usually disappointing…” Sue stared back.
“Everyone knows that, Axl. Besides Maverick hunting, don’t you observe? We humans only tend to be polite with your kind, more as a trustworthy ally. But we never go to the extent of being close friends. We know it hurts us when we do so. That’s why. But I guess you and Lumine are a different case. Mister Prez is your father.”
“I guess you can say so. Hey, time passes fast. Isn’t it time to leave? I guess you should. You don’t want to be late for your flight.” Axl bore a quite sad face. Sue smiled. “Aw, cheer up. I won’t forget you. I won’t forget Lumine too. You guys are sweet. It was initially hard to imagine you two being related. Ha ha.”
“Yeah… that reminds me. My sister and Lumine wish you a safe trip to the mainland. They hope you’ll have a great time there.” His inhabitants had no idea Axl would do that actually but nonetheless, appreciated it.
“Oh thank you. Please send my regards to them. C’mon, send me there now.”
Some seconds later, Axl and Sue were already in the grounds of the airstation. It was back to post-modernity as the structures are constructed with the red lights and techno designs. The airstation is located at the tip of the central south district of Big City and nearby was a flat green land which serves as a sparse park.
They were outside the main lounge where vehicles come and go, dropping and picking up customers and baggages. The duo safely crossed the roads before arriving at the main door on the airstation. Sue turned around to Axl.
“Well, this is it. My dad and family are there.” Sue pointed to a very far counter at the convenient shops and restaurants. Sue’s mum could be seen nagging the fat bloke and her son while packing the baggages on the conveyer belts. No one saw Sue with Axl and that was a good thing.
“Oh… this really is goodbye. I’ll be in a new home and a new school. But like I said, I will never forget you. You’re such a sweet Reploid. You helped the old sir cancel his debts, you sort of helped me relieve my troubles, you took me on a first date and had given me so much fun and joy. I can’t really express how grateful I am for you so I guess this is the only way.” Sue gave a light kiss on Axl’s lips.
The trio were surprised by the act. Axl was the only one who blushed more from the kiss. Sue briefly waved goodbye and ran inside the airstation. The Reploid remained standing where he was for the next few seconds. Getting back proper consciousness, Axl dashed inside and tried to get a last minute look at Sue.
“Grr… Why was I just numb there? Sue!”
The most he could go further was towards a out-stretching walkway. He saw Sue already walking on a platform ground below him with her family. None of them noticed Axl; at least until Sue dropped a piece of paper and saw him.
“Don’t worry! I’ll keep in touch! Goodbye!” That was her last sentence.
The family of blokes and beauties disappeared behind the shuttle door which led to another gateway where passengers boarded the airship. Axl only waved at her though she didn’t see it, until she disappeared behind the shuttle.
Feeling all sad on the inside, Axl stopped waving and walked out of the place. After going through many curves and turns down many floors, Axl’s inhabitants found themselves moved to a sparse green park behind the 7-storey airstation.
“Well, that’s it, dear boy. She’s gone.” Axl gazed on an airship which just floated in the air briefly before flying horizontally to the west and slowly rising in the air. He was lying down on the grass plain and the winds blew his hair nicely.
“Yeah… and tomorrow it’s back to working in the construction sites. I’m just tired.”
“Hm. If you wanted to ditch the work, you could ask me, dear boy. I’ll gladly do your work for you this time.” He got rebuked by Iris but Axl smiled. “Nah, that would be cheating. I think I can manage by myself anyway.”
Iris spoke: “That was nice of you to pass some regards to her, Axl, although we really didn’t think about doing that. Yet you represented us. I’m sorry. So I’m your sister now, huh?” Axl laughed briefly.
“I guess we can say that. Theoretically in age, you’re the oldest and Lumine’s the youngest. Hey, Lumine, next time listen to my orders!” “That’s not fair, dear boy!” They laughed further. Axl again lied on the plain.
“Huh… time passes so fast. It’s already so dark. The Moon seems rather glaring tonight. Such old memories.” Iris felt awkward suddenly.
“Em… Axl? Sooner or later, we’re bound to separate. We will have to forget our pledge then, isn’t it? I don’t think we could spend so much time with you any more when that time comes. How’d you feel about that?”
The white Reploid smirked. “I suppose you’re right, dear girl. Soon, I won’t be able to spend so much time with you, dear boy, compared to the present. Do you really think X was right? We deserve to be free despite our choice?”
Axl made a cheerful face. “X was right previously. I guess we are rather stubborn on remaining together at the time. Heck, we went through quite a lot of concentrated trouble here. This much trouble during the first four months since you came, Lumine, is about the same of… 5 years or so before the Jakob Project. But eventually, this couldn’t last long. We have to separate soon. Dad needs you the most but he’s just comfortable with me and Iris. Don’t worry. We’ll think of something.”
“If you say so, dear boy.” In the computer brain, he relaxed on the pitch-black floor. “Remember, if you need me, I’m always here by your side.” Axl smiled. “That’s kind of helpful. Iris, what about you?”
“Gee… I love to stay with you, Axl but I also want to explore the places around me.”
“Well, then go explore the places. It’s no problem. I’ll be fine even if you two are gone. But I will need you two occasionally. That’s because… we are family now…” No one spoke further of the issue any more. They decided to spend the next half-hour staring at space; the Moon and the stars were glittering too beautifully to resist.
In time, they will be separated. In fact, over the next few years, peace and development prospered all over the world, despite sporadic Maverick attacks, thanks to the newer Reploids. The trio continued spending time together with their ‘father’ as time elapsed and they did many things humans could do.
However, something will happen. Something that spread far over the world; something more devastating than any crisis previously. This moment will change many things in the future. Perhaps even the destiny of the planet called Earth…
The End.
Notes: Ah, what a sad ending of Sue and Axl, no? Iris thinking about Prez’s weird speech, refer to Chapter 31, second last paragraph. Lumine signed a will in Continuation chapter 25 to inherit all of Prez’s wealth. Axl replying to Sue’s wishes to see Iris herself, that was a metaphoric and a literal sentence.
Ah… Axl Story Existpeace has been finished. The dates taken to draft the entire story is from 12th January 2006 to 10th March 2006 and the dates to type out the whole story is from 26th January 2006 to 5th May 2006. All times are those of Asian time.
I would like to thank everyone from the readers who have taken their time to read this whole story, as well as the Zero Virus administrators and moderators for keeping the site up and to host this story. Big thanks go to Keiji Inafune for having developed the Megaman series or else the story will never exist.
I’ll just take a rest and also plan up the upcoming fourth series of the whole saga, though I have yet to confirm it. One thing is for sure, most likely, that it will be a giant set of chapters just like this one, possibly with more action and origins.
See you all by then! Have blessed lifes!
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In a day or two, I'll post my thoughts regarding to any sequels of the fanfic, as well as some updates or so.
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 17, 2009 12:06:35 GMT -5
I'm back.
So here's the situation, as stated above that I would post in these days or so.
Currently, I'm extremely busy with stuff and family, and as for a long time now after having completed this gargantuan fanfiction, I have always thought of making the sequel to this Existpeace. I really have. I even have the draft plots written down and written some parts of chapters here and there. But, just the other day, looking back at some extra information with regards to some chronological events, I decided to go through everything that I have written so that I can revamp the next story and make it even more relevant and better to the mainstream.
At the same time, I'm currently also interested in writing a sequel to the Comic Arts Spinoff: Tale of Two Souls, since I've already finished writing it and it's just a matter of time, before posting all the chapters for that original story. But like any other writer, I have to make the plots more interesting and balance everything between emotion, suspense, action and pace. Both these sequel projects are very tough, therefore I am afraid I'm just going to have to postpone these projects for now, as I'm working on my honours degree in order to advance my life.
But, don't worry, a postponement is not a cancellation of the series, unless I say otherwise. So therefore, stay calm, and just hope that in due time when I'm free I'm actually able to get down on the sequel to this An Axl Story Existpeace and make them all another great touch to this gargantuan series.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation and willingness to read the stories. I truly do.
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Post by Professor Fann on Sept 19, 2011 17:19:45 GMT -5
* inhales a lot of air * exhales and blows away a lot of air and dust on the big ol thread HEY EVERYONE! Just felt like shouting. Well, it's been an awfully long time since I last wandered in this fiction field - AN AXL STORY - considered by all Axl fans to be the ultimate Axl fanfiction. Bwahaha. So anywho, recently, I sorta cancelled all my planned sequels and prequel for this stories, but then it didn't feel right, so I did what I did with the Comic Arts - write all the summaries of the ideas I have for these projects! SO for now, a giant summary of the stories in this entire thread has been posted here, for your major convenience of course. It's a very long read, but it's still worth it, unless you want to read the unabridged version. ENJOY!!! msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Summary-259234301Thanks for coming!!
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 20, 2011 10:14:44 GMT -5
* inhales air again * blows the htread clean of dust Hi everyone. It's me again. Wow, I sure am active on this thread and other stuff, ain't I? Anywho, it has been a desire of mine to summarize and gather together the entire history of the Megaman Classic and X series, because it's been so much pieces of info here and there, and there're all cluttered up - I figured that I should do it. Well, there are other people who have done so, but having read those, I found them to be horrible and made even worse than when these various histories were not gathered together. So I felt it was up to me to create the most rational and logical piece of Megaman Classic-to-X history, the best one of them all, of course, with my own An Axl Stories together, since they were based off where X8 left off. All other details, you can view the details in the Deviantart descriptions, and the journal of mine talking about An Axl Story Origintale. AN AXL STORY ORIGINTALE - THE STORY THAT SUMMARIZES IT ALL LOGICALLY AND RATIONALLY!! But because it is too long, so for now, I'm chopping it up into 2 large pieces. So ... here's the first part of AN AXL STORY ORIGINTALE!!!! msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Origin-1-264366944Read it, enjoy it, savour it and thanks for coming! Hope you will find yourself rationally satisfied!
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 22, 2011 1:59:41 GMT -5
* inhales more air and keeps the thread clean Alright, everyone. Here's the second (and final) part of the An Axl Story Origintale. We go on further into analyzing the events that led to our favourite X series, and then finally culminates with the most recent An Axl Stories. msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Origin-2-264648512However, I would like to note one thing though - I found out some inconsistencies in my own stories - having read through the three An Axl Stories (First Series, Continuation, Existpeace) where time and chronology is concerned - meaning certain amount of years or months are not right. The solution? I advise you to refer to An Axl Story Origintale as the ultimate guide for timelines and their corresponding dates. If you happen to find such inconsistencies in the previous AAS stories, well, just use AAS Origintale as your supreme guideline then. Having said that, I hope you enjoy reading the histories of the Classic and X series combined together. Thanks!
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Post by Professor Fann on Nov 6, 2011 0:08:13 GMT -5
* cleans the place again. Hey all. After the AAS summaries, and now the AAS Origintale summary, what comes next? A X9-like plot you say? If you said that, then you'll right! I've finally done up a summary of the next sequel of the AAS - THE AAS GREATFRICTION!! There's a lot to read, so stay calm, remember your Origintale history, and the games as well, and off we go. Enjoy! AN AXL STORY GREATFRICTION SUMMARY msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Sequel-267476577
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Post by Professor Fann on Oct 13, 2013 5:21:29 GMT -5
Hello everyone! This is a final update for the entire An Axl Story saga in this thread called Combo Bucket of An Axl Stories. So you've read the An Axl Story First Series (first time fighting Bob), Continuation (second time confronting Bob), Existpeace (fighting the evil that was the infamous White Axl program from X8), the entire summary of these three An Axl Stories. Next came An Axl Story Origintale, which is a prequel of a sorts telling the tale from Dr Light and Dr Wily to the recent Jakob crisis of X8 (me considering the Command Mission as between X7 and X8) and how Axl avenged the death of two former comrades in a battle in Giga City. And then there was An Axl Story Greatfriction posted above - where Bob died and the ending laid the foundation for the Zero series. So far, we've cleared through the following games: CLASSIC Megaman 1 Megaman 2 Megaman 3 Megaman 4 Megaman 5 Megaman 6 Megaman 7 Megaman Power Battle 1 Megaman 8 Megaman and Bass Megaman Power Battle 2 Megaman 9 Megaman 10 X Megaman X1 Megaman X2 Megaman Extreme 1 Megaman X3 Megaman Extreme 2 Megaman X4 Megaman X5 Megaman X6 Megaman X7 Megaman X Command Mission Megaman X8 The Present in An Axl Story NEXT. Now we're going to cover the entire remainder Megaman timeline and its respective series made by Crapcom, from the Zero series, to the ZX series, and finally to the Legends series and a possible speculative beyond in .... AN AXL STORY BIG CONSUMMATION!! Here you go! Enjoy the summary! Part 1 msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Future-1-406941060Part 2 msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Future-2-406942399An Axl Story Big Consummation covers: ZERO Megaman Zero 1 Megaman Zero 2 Megaman Zero 3 Megaman Zero 4 ZX Megaman ZX Megaman ZX Advent LEGENDS The Misadventures of Tron Bonne Megaman Legends 1 Great Adventure of the Five Islands Megaman Legends 2 Megaman Legends 3 Yes, Legends 3 is cancelled, but it had some vital clues of the plot outlined in the Prototype version, so why not? And then guess what? After that Big Consummation story, we have An Axl Story Epilogue art 1. msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Art-236-AAS-Epilogue-1-406942756AND an Epilogue Twist for the entire saga. msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Word-AAS-Epilogue-Twist-406943787Long story short - everything from An Axl Story Greatfriction and Big Consummation NEVER HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE, only in AXL'S DREAM. Yes, still stuck in the 21XX era with the Reploid siblings of mister Prez. I wrote the Big Consummation as a means to solve the Megaman timeline, yes, but when I thought about it - mankind and robotkind keep on fighting, the eternal sorrow and war, o the humanity, when it will end!? Hence this little thing, the previous art and the upcoming art that REALLY REALLY marks the end of the An Axl Story Saga. And lastly, to see the An Axl Story Saga with a firm and happy ending, we have Epilogue art 2. msiafanwriter.deviantart.com/art/FanWriter-s-Art-237-AAS-Epilogue-2-406944631With this, I hereby declare that the An Axl Story Saga has lasted from 2005 to 2013 and thus ends on 13th October 2013. Thank you for your amazing patronage all this while. It was a pleasure to have you as a reader and viewer. Continue on loving the series as they all are, but do support Mighty No 9 and continue hating Crapcom. THANKS!!!
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Post by Professor Fann on Sept 11, 2018 7:15:30 GMT -5
Hi everyone. Just want to make an update here. I only have three links to post. First, for my Deviantart folder that contains everything An Axl Story related. For you to access anytime. www.deviantart.com/msiafanwriter/gallery/2844752/All-An-Axl-StorySecond, I have uploaded all the An Axl Story chapters and whatnot - now on Fanfiction.Net! Everything under one roof! www.fanfiction.net/s/12986811/1/The-Original-An-Axl-StoryThird, recently, I decided to rewrite the entire An Axl Story which includes elements from all the three AASs, ignoring everything from the Zero to Legends series, and including elements on the go when I was thinking of what a proper AAS sequel would be (without anything leading into the Zero series and beyond). It's called AN AXL STORY REWRITTEN (plain title, I know). And this ongoing work since May may also be seen here on Fanfiction.Net too! www.fanfiction.net/s/12931234/1/An-Axl-Story-RewrittenI have no idea how long AASR will take to be written, nor do I know when the end is. I just hope you all can be entertained with some Axl fiction. With that said, happy good day to all of you.
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