Utopia
Title: Utopia
Series: Rockman X
Pairing: Jade/Kate, Zero/Iris, X/Alia
Rated: 14+
Content: Language, Graphic Violence, blood, Angst, OC (original characters)
Summary: X and Zero have their work cut out for them when a secret organization needs their help…
Disclaimer: All characters and majority of situations are property of Capcom. I do not make money off of this fic. Plots coincide with their respective games and/or Mangas. I do not claim them as my own. My OCs are my property. Don’t steal them please!
Chapter 1: Infiltration
*Sigh*
The small sound of a heavy sigh was the only sound heard outside of the Maverick Hunter H.Q.
It had been quiet ever since the last reploid war. Everyone was beginning to relax and security was starting to slack off, however, there was still an uneasiness in the air; an uneasiness that the majority of Hunters were oblivious too. All accept two…
A blue-armoured reploid sat on the roof of the H.Q. staring off into the distance, pondering life. He did this often. He couldn’t help it. He tried to focus on the fact that he had saved his mentor Zero from the clutches of Sigma before it was too late. How hard he had worked to find his best friends parts and rebuild him, so that they may reunite to protect society. He tried to focus on the positives, but there was something bothering him that he could not ignore.
A cold wind blew towards the base causing the blue-reploid to shiver. Coming out of his deep contemplation he noticed storm clouds heading towards the city in the distance, the only part in the clouds being the large strobe lights on top of the tallest building. He jumped suddenly as he felt a hand rest on his shoulder.
“Looks like a storm is coming…” A tall, blonde reploid in crimson armour stated, he too staring off into the vastness.
“Zero…”
“X, I have a bad feeling. You feel it too don’t you?”
X nodded in agreement fixing his gaze at his friend and partner as he waited for him to continue.
“Ever since Dr. Doppler discovered a cure for the so-called maverick virus everyone has been joining him. Don’t get me wrong X, It’s good that we might not have to worry about Mavericks anymore if this anti-virus works long term, but I can’t shake the feeling that it all came together too easily.”
“What do you mean?” X asked quizzically.
“The newly discovered maverick virus… The miracle-cure for mavericks and preventative for reploids… The perfect utopia Doppler Town… These are all good, but unbelievable without some kind of price. I wonder what the price will be…?”
“Why can’t we be happy that the utopia we have been fighting for has finally begun?” X asked defensively.
“Suit yourself X.” Zero smirked walking towards the doorway leading back into H.Q.
X looked down at his feet. He so desperately wanted to cling onto his hope that humans and reploids could finally live in peace, but a tiny part of him also knew that Zero had a point…
The next day an alert went out to Maverick Hunter Base about an emergency in Doppler Town. X and Zero rushed to the scene wondering what the cause of this sudden disturbance was.
At the far end of the city at the outskirts intersection, roads were blocked off. A lone maverick standing at the centre was holding a gun. He was surrounded by a few bloody reploid corpses.
X walked slowly towards the blockade refusing to take out his X-buster. Before speaking he signaled Zero to stay back. Zero gave a nasty glare, as if he was insulted by Xs sudden order, but he decided to obey since the 17th unit was originally called to handle the affair. The #0 Unit came freely as back-up. Zero knew X could handle himself and his glare suddenly turned into a warm smile and nod of approval.
“Listen, I’m not going to hurt you. Please put down the gun. You don’t want to do this.” X said calmly as he slowly maneuvered over the blockade and walked towards the maverick.
“No… I can’t… The voices… They’re telling me to do it… I must follow them… humans, reploids, people… kill, kill! For good… For all”
X looked at the maverick confused.
“I don’t understand.” He shook his head quickly remembering standard procedure “Drop the weapon and put your hands up!” X said forcefully.
“No… won’t betray… won’t shame… leave… go away!”
“What? Betray who? What are you talking about?” X, in shock aimed his buster gun at the maverick. The mavericks trigger finger trembled.
“No… No… NO!!!” The maverick started to scream hysterically.
X couldn’t tell if it was from pain or frustration. He stood in disbelief, unsure of what to do next. If he moved the maverick may fire and hurt a standby, if he didn’t he could be the one shot dead, and standing there dumbfounded would be useless. X froze as he was enveloped by the familiar feeling of self-doubt.
“All civilians evacuate the area! I repeat, evacuate the area!! Run NOW!!” Zero yelled as he jumped over the blockades and ran towards the maverick.
“Zero NO!!!” X yelled running in front of his comrade, pushing him back.
*BANG!!!!*
Both reploids stopped and stared in horror as a pool of blood came pouring from the mavericks’ neck, his body falling forward and hitting the pavement.
“Z-Zero what did you…?” X stuttered in disbelief.
“I didn’t do anything! I don’t even have any weapons out…” Zero exclaimed “What the hell?” Zero stood up scanning the crowd who were too paralyzed in fear to move from the crime scene “Don’t move! I want to know who fired that weapon! Whoever did is now a criminal and will be taken back to H.Q. with us and put under arrest!”
X walked towards the corpse to examine it as Zero headed towards the crowd to perform a routine search.
“You think you were being a hero firing that shot?” Zero stated smugly, searching the: hands, jackets, purses, pockets, battle armour, etc. of all the reploids and humans in the vicinity.
X scanned the corpse. The body was fine, but he noticed that reploids head was nowhere to be found. The majority of the damage was from the collision which appeared to have been at the back of the neck hitting the main set of wires connecting the cybernetic brain to the rest of the body. A fatal blow no question.
X soon recognized the damaged area as that similar to his plasma gun. Whoever did this used plasma shots similar to his. X stood up and walked towards Zero.
“Any luck Zero?”
“No, nobody has any weapons on them. All the reploids deny shooting anything.”
“Even if they did none of the guns humans use could have caused this type of damage and it is rare to find a reploid with a plasma buster of that strength.”
“What do you mean X?”
“I mean the wounded area looks similar to the damage my X-buster can cause, but it couldn’t have been me or you because the contact point of the blast was at the back and we were both in front of the maverick at the time.”
Zero looked and noticed that the crowd was still standing around and some were trying to listen in on their conversation “Go home!” Zero ordered the crowd “X, I think we should whisper from now on…”
X smiled and nodded like he was ready to burst out laughing “Ok. Let’s head back to H.Q.”
They were about to warp out of Doppler Town when suddenly an emergency call came from the transmission comm. It urged them to get back to Maverick Hunter Headquarters immediately. That they were under attack and needed back up.
“H.Q. is under attack!” X exclaimed.
“Let’s go!” Replied Zero as both men teleported to the front gates of their base.
Right away both robots looked up and saw three giant flying robots shooting at the front defenses. X shot at two of the three flying machines causing the two to crash into the ground away from the base however, the last one was gaining speed. X and Zero jumped into the air hurling them selves at the flying robot. X fired rapidly at its mid-section causing blood, oil, and electricity to drain from its stomach. At the same time Zero slashed out its eyes and ripped its neck open with his Z-saber causing it to crash near the base with little damage.
“X, I’ll clear the rest of the enemies out here. You go inside and defend the interior.”
“ok!” X ran into the front doors of the base destroying all the enemies in his way until he saw a familiar reploid in the distance. He increased his speed thrusters until he saw who it was waiting for him.
“Mac, where have you been?”
Mac just laughed at Xs question and shot an electronic force-field at X trapping him on his knees.
“Urgh!! Damnit! Mac what are you--?”
“You are far too trusting X! I follow Doppler now and I want you to join us… if not by free will then by force!” Mac snapped his finger and X was carried away by the machine maintaining the force-field.
Zero cut a whole into the ceiling above where Mac and X had been. He cursed when he realized he was too late and that Mac had indeed captured X.
“Shit! I’m too late! But he can’t be far… I’ll get you Mac, you traitor!”
Zero continued deeper into the base killing every maverick in his path. He had a bad feeling and wanted to rush to find X and Mac as soon as possible.
“X!!!” Zero yelled running towards the electronic trap X was in “Hold on!”
“Not so fast!” Mac said teleporting in front of Zero holding his hand up to his face “You think I’ll give you your partner that easily? Hah! You’ll have to fight for him!”
“Fine” Zero agreed taking out his Z-saber readily.
The fight lasted for a good 10 minutes. Zero cutting Mac easily making puddles of his blood spill onto the floor. Zero made his final cut stabbing Mac in the chest casing him to collapse onto the floor.
“Rot in hell Zero” Were Macs final words before he died.
Zero ran to X and destroyed the machine holding him captive “Are you ok X?”
“Yes, Zero I’m ok.”
“Be careful next time.”
“I will.”
“These forces are Doppler’s subjects.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, and there’s more on the way, which means our main maverick is still in here somewhere. We must find it fast so the re-enforcements will stop.”
“Leave it to me!”
Zero warped back to the front of the base to keep the re-enforcements at bay while X searched deeper inside for the boss maverick. X stopped as he felt a sudden rumble under his feet. It began to increase in intensity as he looked up and felt the asphalt from the roof raining on him.
“The roof… The main maverick is on the roof Zero!” X shouted into his comm radio.
“I’m stuck here. Take care of it.”
“Roger.”
X made his way to the roof of MHHQ. When he finally reached the top he was surprised to see an old acquaintance of his, a giant robot with spiked wrecking balls for arms and glowing green eyes.
“Maoh the Giant! What are you doing? You’re a construction robot. There have been no orders to tear the base down.”
Maoh took a swing at X with his spiked wrecking ball. Clearly he was ready to fight and nothing was going to change his mind.
“Maoh… You can’t even talk… I’ll put you out of your misery so you may rest in peace…”
X charged his buster and aimed it at Maoh the Giants’ head. X closed his eyes, turned away and shot him square between the eyes. The low screeching sound made Xs stomach turn as he fell backwards crashing into the ground.
“X, the maverick attack on the base has been stopped.” Zero teleported in and greeted X with a nod “Good work.”
“Same to you” X reciprocated “I’m going to go check on everyone.”
“I’ll join you in a minute.” Zero paused and looked out into the horizon “I have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of them…”
Meanwhile…
A dark figure looms from the rooftop of a nearby building where the berserk maverick incident had taken place. The figure sits on the cold cement leaning against one of the strobe lights.
The lights cast its shadow over the figure revealing the person to be female. She wore black metal armour and was wearing a long leather coat so that she could not be easily spotted when the darkness set in.
She stood up and adjusted her headset.
“Are you sure this is necessary?” She spoke into the microphone.
“I think it is. You know we need their help… We can’t do this alone.” The navigator responded.
“What if they refuse to help us?”
“They shouldn’t. We are all working for the same cause.”
“That may be. But…”
“I know how you feel… We don’t seem important in the grand scheme of things, but… We have to think of everyone’s safety. We are both only humans.”
“I know… We can’t endanger others lives and I can’t be our main line of defense forever.”
“You did the right thing saving X and Zero back there…”
“Did I? I don’t see how…”
“Killing isn’t the answer. We all believe that too. You know that. That is why I believe that if anything X will help us, so Zero should follow.”
“At least you don’t have to fight.”
“Correction you won’t let me fight!”
“Don’t start!”
“Then YOU don’t start!”
“I don’t think I’ll be able to locate them until morning.”
“Ok, then please be safe and head back. You’ve had a long day. Get some sleep.”
“I look forward too it. See you soon.”
She teleported off the building as the sun finally disappeared leaving the world now covered in Darkness.
Chapter 2: Stranger
Thunder and rain poured over Doppler Town that night. The storm that was moving closer to MHHQ as if to convey the omen of tragedy that would soon be approaching.
During the night reploids began to act strangely. They walked out of their homes and began murderous riots all over the city. It was pure chaos. And where was the supposed savior Dr. Doppler in all of this?
He was busy hiding in his lab creating a new body for an unknown reploid he’d found on the street a few months ago. Doppler felt sorry for the reploids unfortunate destruction and decided to build him the ultimate body to defend himself in the future.
‘Reploids can be such monsters sometimes, just like humans…’ He thought to himself. He laughed a diabolical laugh just then as if his last piece of sanity had been swept away. All he knew was that he had to keep building the body for his subject. It had to be perfect, at all costs.
Back at Hunter Base X and Zero were startled awake by the emergency alarm. Mavericks were on the loose all over Doppler Town causing it to be considered a war-zone. The safest approach was to clear each infected area of the city one by one.
“You and I will take separate paths X. I’ll scout around and take out some of the main mavericks nearby while you go to the outer parts of town and take care of the rest.”
“Sure thing Zero See you later.”
His first destination was the Ski resort where the maverick Blizzard Buffalo used to work at. It didn’t take X long to find him. He was working away on an ice-sculpture. X did not know what the purpose of this was, however.
“Blizzard Buffalo stand down and come back to Maverick Hunter with me!”
The maverick didn’t even turn around. He kept working on his ice-sculpture as if he didn’t even hear X behind him.
“Hey!” X raised his voice “Do you understand what I’m saying to you?”
“No, he doesn’t. It seems these mavericks have been completely taken over by the maverick-virus!”
X quickly turned around towards the mysterious female voice that had just answered his question. He turned to see a female in black armour from the neck down. She had a white complexion with green eyes and her hair was long, blonde, and tied in a pony-tail. Her armour looked identical to any ordinary fighting reploids design minus the large boots. Her boots were platform knee length hooker boots fixed with metal plating for protection.
“Who are you?” X asked.
“Shut up, shut, SHUT UP!! I’m trying to work here!! Stop distracting me! I’ll kill you!!” Blizzard Buffalo shouted in anger.
“The formalities come later X. He’s gone crazy! We have to take him down now!” The woman commanded taking out her weapon. She took out her arm cannon which looked similar to Xs with the exception of her hand staying in place and multiple cannon holes appeared around it.
X aimed his X-buster at the mavericks’ chest while the woman ran to the side a few feet away from them. She tapped her headset and held her microphone.
“What are you doing?” X asked looking in her direction.
“We have a giant maverick on our hands here. Can you analyze it and tell me its weak spots?”
“Ok. Give me a few minutes.”
‘Who is she talking too?’ X looked puzzled as he jumped to avoid Buffalos icy wind blasts.
She ran towards the maverick and Xs direction.
“X we have to keep him pre-occupied for a few minutes! I’ll explain later just do it!” The woman yelled forcefully.
“I guess I have no choice!” X shouted back shooting plasma blasts at the enemy. They hit him, but did not do any damage “Why aren’t my shots hurting him?”
X ran swiftly dodging the attacks until a large ice bullet hit X in the stomach sending him sprawling to the ground.
“X!!” The armoured woman shouted “Get up please! Hang in for just a bit longer!” She turned her head to her microphone “Hurry up!” she mumbled into the headset.
“Almost done” The navigator answered.
The woman ran to Xs side and carried him to a nearby crevice beside the ski-resort. They huddled quietly while Blizzard Buffalo looked for them.
“Finished” The navigator informed “The weak point is the neck!”
“But it’s covered in armour!”
“Find a way to make his head go back, snag his armoured plating, and shoot! I’m sorry that’s all I can suggest the rest is up to you… By the way is he with you?”
“Yeah”
X opened his eyes and sat up “Where is Blizzard Buffalo?” X asked as he stood up wearily.
“He’s looking for us. Can you fight?”
“Yes.”
“Good. Our enemies’ weakness is his neck! It’s covered in armour, so we’ll need to find a way to get it off and shoot the synthetic skin underneath. Can you help me?”
X nodded and readied his buster cannon “I have an idea. You sneak up behind him and quickly climb to his shoulders, grab the neck plating and pull it off. Make sure he struggles enough to throw you off. Once it’s off and I know you’re a safe distance away I’ll charge my X-buster and defeat him.”
“Ok good plan. You distract him while I sneak behind him, so his sensors won’t catch me.”
X ran out of hiding and towards Blizzard Buffalo shooting like a mad man. The woman ran behind her enemy and noticed a large pile of snow. She climbed onto it and jumped off landing on Buffalos shoulders. She wrapped her arms around his neck tightening her grip on the plated protection. She gritted her teeth and pulled as hard as she could until she felt the armour piece rip off and she was flying in mid air. She was blinded by a flash of light as X charged his shot and hit him. A loud scream echoed across the empty ski-resort as he fell backwards onto his sculpture.
Silence filled the air as X walked towards his enemies’ dead body. The woman followed his lead as they both bowed to pay their respects. Afterwards X knelt down on one knee and extracted his weapons chip.
“This should be useful.” X said holding it up to his face before he put it into his blaster.
The woman retracted her buster weapon and smiled at X “My name is Jade.” She reached out her arm to shake his hand. He returned the sentiment.
“Seems like you know who I am already.” X smiled.
“You are a well known fellow” Jade smiled “I have been looking for you X and your friend Zero where is he?”
“He is working.”
“I see maybe another time then.”
“You said you were looking for me? Why? Who are you?”
“I can’t say much right now. All I can tell you is that we want peace just as much as you do. I… We are doing the best we can in fighting our enemies, but I don’t think we can fight them by ourselves much longer. We are asking for your help. You don’t have to answer just yet. When the time comes that you gain my trust I will show you what you and I are fighting for…”
“Show me?” X asked baffled.
“There is one important thing. Don’t tell anyone except for Zero that we talked. This is nothing to get your entire organization involved with. Make sure Zero doesn’t say a word either! Promise I am trusting you…”
“I promise Jade.”
“Until we meet again blue stranger…”