Mega Man X Novelization

Disclaimer: I do not own Mega Man X or anything having to do with it. All rights are reserved by Capcom and I declare that this is not a story being written for profit, but merely for entertainment. Treat is as such.

Chapter One: Attack on the city!

X sighed as he sat at a chair before a PC, looking up data on the mavericks again. He was wearing his suit of armor, minus his helmet, letting his spiky black hair show. His current assignment? Find a cause behind Sigma's recent change to Maverick. Nothing had come up, except for one...an encounter with an ultra powerful maverick. The identity of it was never disclosed for various reasons.

"Hey, X. What's up?" he heard a familiar voice call. Zero was standing in the doorway, fully suited. Most of the hunters always wore their armor, even to sleep. There was never any telling when Mavericks would appear and try to mess things up. They were always prepared for the worst. Zero himself, in his armor, was quite tall. His armor was red, green orbs on the the square shoulders. He had the golden hilt of a beam saber attached to a pack on his back. His helmet had a blue crystal in front, the front of it curving to the left and right in spikes. It also had a bright, blond bunch of hair attached in back that fell down to his knees. Not that such a thing ever restrained him.

X, on the other hand, was rather a stark contrast. He was a little shorter and wore dark blue armor. Primary pieces were dark blue, where other pieces such as the abdomen or joint area were light blue. His helmet was also dark blue and went all around his head minus his face. It also had a bright red crystal on the front which hid a scanner of sorts. This would allow him to assimilate the prime moves of powerful mavericks and use them to his advantage.

The B-ranking hunter smiled at his friend, who was an S-rank hunter in contrast. "Boring stuff. I'm looking for a probable cause as to why Sigma went maverick. Going to have to write a research report on it," he explained before turning back to the computer.

Zero scoffed at that, shaking his head and walking in. "They have you doing that again? Why don't they let you out and do real battling at this point? You've been a B-rank for three months right now and you have had little combat experience, if any at all, minus the time that Sigma nearly killed us."

The black haired reploid shook his head. "Don't remind me of that, Zero," he told his friend, finally finding something in the data base about details of the battle with the reploid. They were scarce but this was the one source that he could use. Nowhere else had this kind of information and in the maverick hunter databases, information was rarely wrong. "Here we go, finally," X muttered, Zero looking over his shoulder now with keen interest as to what his friend had found.

Zero commented, "I never knew that there was such a battle. Something about the Maverick having the virus in them?" However, before much more research could be done, the alarms sounded. "Main city is under attack!" a computerized woman's voice announced over the PA system. Zero and X stood up immediately. X quickly bookmarked the page and then he turned the computer off. He followed Zero out, grabbing his helmet along the way and quickly placing it on as they went to the war room.

Once there, the advisers for both X and Zero sent them off to different quadrants of the city. The one who had been assigned to X seemed rather nervous and new as well as she found a place to set X down and sent him there. Both used their portable beam transporters and beamed to their designated locations. X found himself in the head of evacuating traffic, most of which avoided him and several people gave him strange looks because they didn't recognize him and found him odd. X charged forward, finding the first of the maverick robots to be standing missile launchers that were firing missiles at the highway he was standing on, creating large holes in the road.

X raised his buster and said nothing as he opened fire. Two rays hit one of them and blasted two holes clean through it. The one exploded, but its partner was turning around. X was prepping another shot when two blasts of electricity, condensed into the shape of orbs, surged across the ground towards him. Fortunately, they were easy to leap over and another clean blast put the second launcher out of commission. Now it was time to get down to the next main force of soldiers who were destroying the roads and wreaking havoc.

They had yet to notice the blue reploid approaching them while they destroyed cars and guided remote controlled missiles into buildings. Already, X saw one of the taller building collapse into a pile of rubble and dust. He wasted no time lining up his shots and opening fire. By the time the enemy reploids noticed that they were under attack, over half of them had fallen to precise shots from X's buster.

Now it turned into a firefight. They were armed with energy pistols and rifles and opened fire at X as they dove for cover. X found some cover behind an upraised pieces of the highway and took some deep breaths in an attempt to calm himself down. The adrenaline pumping through his "blood" was a real kick, something that he found somewhat enjoyable. The rush and thrill of entering battle and coming out alive. X popped up out of cover and fired, clipping one of the reploids along the shoulder with a shot of his own. He then ducked back as a rain of energy pellets hit his cover point, melting chunks of it off. The unpleasant smell of molten metal entered his nostrils and pervaded the air around him.

He pulled the trigger on his buster and held it, charging up a powerful blast from his buster. He watched the energy gauge hit a red marker and as it did, he popped out and fired a huge, blue energy ball at one of the cover points, completely obliterating it and the mavericks behind it. This made the final two come out and start running in fear, leaping off of the bridge in a ditch attempt to get away from the surprisingly powerful hunter. X watched with a sigh as they got away.

"X, there are more of them where those came from. Stay moving and head to the end of that highway. Their main deployment ship is over there. Just watch out for their beechoppers!" his advisor told him through the comms. One thing X had already noted, she had a lovely voice.

He put his finger to his ear to activate the response channel and said, "I'm on it." He then started forward, charging another shot in case he would find one of those beechoppers that was mentioned. He found himself in a rather large clearing in the building, an intersection of the highway. Above him and somewhat off to the right, he could hear the familiar buzz of a chopper. He turned to see just what his advisor had warned him about. It was a giant bee chopper, with green "eyes", a dark yellow head, and a dark green abdomen. Instead of wings, it had helicopter blades on the top of its torso, a missile launcher in place of a stinger, and a machine gun on the mouth. It wasted no time in deploying several missiles, all of which armed and homed directly on X.

X dove behind a chunk of rock that was in the middle of the road from the destruction being caused, but was blown back by the cover exploding into rubble. He quickly regained his footing and fired his charged shot at the bee's head. He was surprised to see the charge shot completely annihilate the head. The chopper crashed and brought the whole intersection crashing down with X on top of it as well!

After about fifteen seconds, X began to slowly recover from the fall down into the bottom of the city, the walkways and alleys, the areas that were sometimes considered the most dangerous. His communicator picked up a whole bunch of white noise before coming into focus. "X...re? ….are you there, X? X, come in!" he heard his adviser's voice chime in.

The blue reploid stood up and shook his head a bit to clear it. "Whew...yeah, I'm fine. Only minimal damage sustained. I'm making my way back up onto the highway to continue to my objective," he responded, looking up. How was he going to go about getting up there again? He looked to one of the buildings that was still intact and got an idea. He could jump between the wall and the support pillar for the highway and make his way up.

"If you can get back up, X. If not, just let me know and I can set another course for a different objective and add your current one to Zero's list," she said. An explosion occurred in the building he was heading for, meaning he now had to double time it or lose his way up. X sprinted to the wall and leaped to it before leaping back and forth between the wall and the support pillar, doing it as fast as he possibly could. He barely grabbed onto the edge of the highway and hauled himself up. He stood on the edge and was knocked onto the highway by a piece of falling rubble, much to his surprise and discomfort. He rolled out from under the piece of steel and stood, sprinting down the highway. For some reason, the sounds of battle were dying out. Were the mavericks retreating already? Or did they have something else in mind?

He arrived at the end of the elevated part of the highway, the next area leading him down a long path into the open on the outskirts of the city. "Alright, here I am. Where's my objective?" X asked.

"Should be above you...oh my, X! Watch out! It's above you and behind you!" she said. X spun around, looking up at a huge airship that was passing overhead. He aimed his buster gun at it and opened fire, finding that he could do nothing to the alloy that the ship was made out of. Then, a lift lowered and revealed X's new foe. A shiver ran down his spine. "V-V-Vile," he muttered, staring at the purple armored robot sitting in a powerful V-36, one of the newest models of single passenger battle armors.

The maverick second-in-command looked over at X and started chuckling. "Of all of the worthless vermin, the hunters have the audacity to send a B-rank hunter after me? I was expecting someone better, maybe even Zero himself!" Vile declared. "But all I get is a blue, B-rank hunter. What happened to your suit, anyways? Spill paint all over it?"

X growled in frustration. "I give you a choice now! Surrender yourself and I will spare you! Don't and I will be forced to destroy you!"

Vile just ended up roaring in laughter. X shook his head and decided it was time to see just how much his buster could pack in firepower. He opened fire, rapidly pulling the trigger and firing lethal rays of energy at the powered armor. Even Vile was surprised by the amount of knockback and damage that his armor was receiving just from the buster itself. But he got it out of the line of fire and had it leap into the air, straight at X.

If the blue reploid hunter had just stood there, he would have been crushed. So he dove to the side, and right into a blast that Vile had shot from his shoulder cannon while his armor was leaping through the air. His systems overloaded with electricity, causing him to fall down, limp. "Oh...crap..." he said, struggling to move but being unable to. Then, Vile had the armor scoop him up with one hand and bring them face to face.

"I am honestly surprised! Your arm cannon packs far more punch than most other B-rank hunter weaponry. Are you sure that you're in the right ranking? Honestly, you carry enough to at least be an A-rank. It's too bad that you won't live to be that, hm?" Vile asked, crossing his arms.

X just sneered at Vile. "You won't get away with this!" he shouted, struggling against the hand that held him. However, its grip just tightened, starting to crush him.

Vile laughed as X struggled. "What, did you really think that you, an archaic piece of scrap, can defeat me?" he asked, starting to roar out in his own maniacal laughter again. But it was just then that a white blast of energy came and hit the joint of the arm that was holding X. The arm blew off and the armor was sent skidding backwards. Zero himself landed in front of X, beam saber out, ready to cut Vile and his armor in half.

But Vile wasn't without a plan. He had anticipated that Zero would arrive and had his ship come back around. Just as Zero swung his Z-saber at the armor, Vile leaped out and caught onto the bottom of the ship. "We'll meet again, Zero! Just you wait!" he called as the ship went into full throttle and started flying away at high speeds, zooming off into the distance.

X watched as it flew away before looking down. "I failed. I couldn't stop him," he muttered, looking at himself. He had taken some internal damage from the crushing that the hand had started, but it wasn't anything that couldn't easily be repaired.

Zero turned around, hearing X's lamenting. He knelt down beside X and placed a hand on his shoulder. "X, you shouldn't have expected to defeat him. He's a maverick leader, and used to be one of our best hunters. Hell, before Sigma went maverick, he was practically the leader of a large force of the mavericks. I appreciate your effort and you excelled for what all you managed, but you need to be stronger and more experienced if you hope to face Vile."

Zero then helped X to his feet. "Come on, let's get you back and get you repaired," he told his friend before saying, "Alright, we're heading back. Be prepared to receive us." X gave a sigh as he looked down, wondering what they were going to do now as they beamed back to base.

Is it a grand first chapter? Prolly not...I could have done better. But this is what I get for just coming off of my writer's block so cut me at least a little bit of slack. Please review! Tell me whatcha think!