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"Every great journey begins with a single step."

Prologue

Pain. It lanced through him, burning in every part of his body, until it finally stopped. Opening his eyes, he saw that he was lying in some kind of strange capsule. His body felt strange. Turning his head, he saw an old man with a white beard standing next to a computer. "Goodbye, X, I wish you the best." he said with a sad smile. He felt himself falling into unconsciousness and wondered why the old man had called him X...

Chapter 1

Sound. Light. These things intruded upon the bliss known as unconsciousness and let him know that he was waking up. His eyes squeezed shut; he didn't want to get up. But he knew that he had to face the world sometime. Slowly, ever so slowly, bright green eyes opened to the world. Something slid back above his head, and he was able to slowly climb out. A shadowy figure moved in the corner of his eyes. Jerking his head, he saw an old man smiling happily. "Hello, Megaman X, my name is Dr. Cain." he said.

'X? That's what that other guy called me...' Absentmindedly, the newly christened 'X' looked down at his body and got a shock. He was wearing combat boots, gauntlets, hip and chest armor, all two-toned color blue. Strangely enough, it felt like he was only wearing clothes. Really comfortable ones.

"Where am I?" X asked. He absently noted that his voice sounded more mature, older. Dr. Cain looked thoughtful before he answered. "You are in the remains of Dr. Thomas Light's labs. According to the warning your capsule came with, you were built by Dr. Light and sealed away for over one hundred years."

"One hundred years!" X asked, shocked. He didn't know who Dr. Light was, but from Dr. Cain, he seemed to be pretty important. "Why?" "Apparently," Dr. Cain started, getting excited again, "you are the first of your kind." "What?" X said, getting confused. "You are the first robot able to make your own choices, have free will and able to experience human emotion. In short, you are an android that is as human as one can get. You are the first one of your kind; you're a Reploid." Dr. Cain proclaimed.

X looked around once more, his actions hiding what was going through his head at the moment. 'But...but what about my Navi? What happened to Megaman? What happened to me?' X thought. He caught sight of a mirror and walked over to it. He could finally see what he looked like. Instead of warm brown eyes, he had bright green ones. Earlier, he noticed that he was wearing a helmet, due to the slight weight on his head. The helmet was blue, two-toned like the rest of his armor, with a red jewel set slightly above and right between his eyes. Hesitantly, the blue armored reploid reached up and pulled his helmet off. A rat's nest of black hair met his sight instead of brown hair. Dr. Cain said something. "Sorry, what did you say?" he asked, turning around to face the excited old man.

"Do you want to go outside?" Dr. Cain asked. X reached up and put his helmet back on, hearing a sharp click! as it snapped into place. "Yes." he answered. Practically jumping with joy, the old scientist led the way out of the ruins of the lab, with the being once known as Lan Hikari following him.

So, did you people like this little teaser? More is to come, just don't expect a solid schedule of updates. If you, the honored reader, could review and tell me what you think, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Later--

Maverick Hunter Phoenix