MegaMoon X-S Chapter 4

One week had passed since the battle against Nekonell, The Hunters had received approval to bring over the Navigators along with several Metools to serve as sentries around the house. X, Zero and Axl had repaired the house while Alia and Layer had been using special devices to siphon power right out of the city's power grid to them.

They had all picked aliases. X had taken the name of his creator, Thomas Light, while Zero did the same with his creator, Albert Wily. Axl was posing as Zero's son, and Palette was meant to be Axl's cousin. Alia was X's girlfriend, like in reality, while Layer posed as X's sister, since Zero was unattached, and didn't hold any romantic interest for Layer.

It was almost time for school, so Alia pulled out Zero's copy body. It was about five feet tall, thin, and had short hair. It was dressed in a boy's uniform for Juuban Middle School, where Axl was enrolled. The hair was reddish, like Axl's, and as soon as he copied the body, styled it back into spikes. Zero was walking Axl to school, to make sure he actually attended.

Zero dropped him off at the front gate. "Now you know who to watch. Go get your timetable and behave. And do not destroy anything!"

Axl shrugged him off. "Don't worry. I'll be fine. Can't you trust me?" He asked, knowing the answer.

"No."

"Right. Seeya later old man!" As Axl ran off, Zero sighed. Who would've thought being a father would be such a trial on a man who has died twice?

In class that day, Serena was tired, almost asleep on her desk. Nearby, her friends Ami and Lita were discussing the new characters, X and Zero who saved them. There was also her dream with that man, Dr Light, who said X was his creation, and how she promised to help him. She wanted to talk to him about that.

Throughout the classroom, other students were either tired like her, or getting out their books for class while talking to their friends. They all looked up when their teacher entered with a new student. He looks to be a little shorter then most, with red hair that he appeared to be fighting to keep it spiked. Well, it wasn't as red as her friend Molly's, more of a reddish brown.

"Class, we have a new student. Please introduce yourself." Their teacher said. Everyone looked to see him sitting on her desk. "Please get off of my desk."

He grudgingly got up. He liked to push people's buttons, but decided that everyone else would get mad if he got detention on the first day. "Hey everyone. Axl Wily here." He said, taking an empty seat behind Serena. He smiled at her once the teacher began to teach the class, but didn't say anything.

The day was rather uneventful, until halfway during the afternoon, Axl, who was sleeping with his feet up on his desk, began screaming in terror and fell off his chair. IT continued until someone threw a bucket of water on him to wake him up. "What happened?" Ami asked, as their teacher glared at him.

"Mr Wily, what is the meaning of this?"

He seemed to cower under her glare. "I-I'm very sorry Miss. I fell asleep, and I'm prone to night terrors." Although he didn't remember anything from before Red Alert, he did have awful night terrors about fractured memories. Night terrors are like nightmares, except many times more vivid and feel much more real. Having some of Lumine's data in his copy chip from his last strike on him didn't help any. He was the only Reploid to have these, but he was fit to fight, even if his terrors meant he had to be sedated before going into a hospital. "If you check with my parents, they can confirm it. They never put it on my record because they didn't think it'd ever come up."

Most of the girls were looking at the new kid with sympathy. Just a cool guy afflicted with something so awful. After hearing this, the teacher's gaze softened. "Alright, I'll let you off easy today since it's your first day, but if it happens again, I'll be calling your parents and giving you detention."

He nodded, "I understand. Thanks, Miss." He said, wide awake and ready to pay attention.

Serena looked back at him. "Are you sure you're alright?" She asked, a look of concern on her face.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Axl reassured her. Her attention was drawn to his empty notebook.

"Aren't you taking any notes?" She asked. Just confused now.

"Nah. Photographic memory. I see it, and I remember it." that was a total lie, he already knew this, after all, he was a, android from 21XX, and he was stuck in an eighth grade class in 1992. He was set for any tests.

At the end of school, Axl let out a sigh of relief. "Whew, that was not a day I wish to repeat. All of the girls not in a relationship had an eye on him, making him wonder how well they'd react to his actual body, which was way cooler in his opinion.

On his way out he saw Serena leaving, and picked up his pace to catch up with her. "Hey Serena!" He called, "Where're you going?" He asked her.

She looked back at him as he ran to catch up. "I'm just heading off to my friend Rei's place to study with the rest of my friends."

Axl kept walking with her. "I live this way. Mind if I walk with you." She seemed okay with it, so he kept walking with her. They made small talk until they walked by the arcade. Serena's eyes lingered on the sign, but then she tuned away.

"No way! Good grades and arcades don't mix. Right Axl? Axl?" She asked, looking back. He was looking in the door. "Hey Serena, I didn't know you had a twin." She dashed back, looking in. "MINA!" She was inside in a flash as Axl casually strolled in.

Mina was talking to the boy who worked there, Andrew, and most likely about Serena, who was getting redder and redder, looking like she was about to explode. Axl knew because he had exploded. So had X and Zero. Many times. Needless to say, Sigma's palace lined with instant-death spikes was not fun. Back to the plot…

Axl lowered his audio sensors to their minimum, which was 15 percent. Even then, he heard Serena scream at her friend, causing the building to shake. "Axl? What happened?" He heard in his head.

"Nothing Alia. Moon got a little angry. That's all."

"That's all? We picked up seismic activity!"

"Let's just say she's really angry. I'm going to watch from a distance, kay? Axl out." He killed the link, just as Mina dragged Serena over to a racing game. Axl watched as Mina easily destroyed Serena, lapping her. Serena's car crashed in a vain attempt to catch up,

"Not bad." A voice said to the two girls. The voice came from a handsome young man with short sandy blonde hair. Axl thought his features were rather feminine, but then again, he lived with Zero's long ponytail. Being slightly feminine in looks meant nothing to him anymore.

It was just then Serena remembered he existed. "Oh, Axl! Sorry I forgot about you! This is my friend Mina." He smiled and shook her and. "It's a pleasure to meet someone as lovely as you." Mina's cheeks flushed as she smiled sheepishly. He felt the man watching him, nodding approvingly.

The man walked up. "Were you going to play?" Axl shook his head, respectfully declining the challenge. After all, he didn't see a turbo boost anywhere on the controls. And those graphics1 Were they 16-Bit? He may as well had been in the Stone Age.

Mina pushed Serena out of the chair. "It's all yours." He handed Serena his school bag. "Will you hold this for me?" She nodded, as they inserted coins into the machine. Mina smirked, thinking she was doing great, but the man hadn't even started. Axl recognized the tactic right away. An artificial handicap experienced players to novices. Clearly the girls didn't get that.

Serena watched Mina and the man. "This is the part where you're supposed to go."

His face stayed neutral. "I know. I'm giving myself a handicap to make it fair." he took off soon after, and not only caught up, but managed to get a lap past Mina with ease. In an attempt to regain the lead, Mina floored the pedal, making her game end in a flaming wreck.

The boy began to console Mina. "I'm sure if you practiced, you'd be the prettiest race car driver there is."

As she was about to respond, a new voice was heard. "Sorry to keep you waiting Haruka." All of them looked over to the doors where they saw a beautiful girl with blue green hair that well in waves down to her shoulders. She was wearing a girl\s uniform that seemed to be from the same school as the boy's.

He smiled at her, "No problem. I was just enjoying myself."

She raised an eyebrow. "With these ladies?"

"Jealous Michiru?"

"Maybe." She said coyly, as the two left together.

Serena and Mina began to follow them, and so Axl did as well. Halfway across town, Serena asked Axl, "Why are you following us?"

He smirked. "Well, I know you both kind that boy cute, but that girl he was with was amazing! I was thinking we could work together on this." Mina seemed to be thinking, she liked how Axl's mind worked, and now, she wouldn't have to rely on Serena to be her wingman. However, when they stepped inside, Axl was impressed by the car sitting there.

The three of them hid behind the corner as Haruka walked out. She began to talk to the girls as Axl walked in and began talking to Michiru. After a bit of flirting and pressing, Axl discovered that Michiru and Haruka were close. How close, she wouldn't say. Amidst their talking, however, they didn't notice a Daimon Seed floating into the car.

As the mechanic went to work on it, it glowed with a red light that filled the entire garage. Mina and Serena ran in, slipping on some oil and crashing under a pile of oil cans. Haruka and Michiru were gone while Axl turned around. He watched the car the mechanic turn into a monster. It had pink skin and was wearing a one piece which was modeled after a car. Tires were pointing from her shoulders and thighs. She also was wearing a helmet and a yellow scarf along with fingerless gloves.

"STEERINGOO!" The Daimon cried. It shout out four tire jacks that attached the mechanic to the ceiling. It drove under him and lowered the windshield part of the car to reveal cleavage and a black star slightly above. A beam shot out of the star, making the mechanic cry out in pain as his heart crystal as removed.

Axl took this time to back away and turn back to normal. "Alia! We've got a situation! Send someone!"

Alia replied. "I'm the only free one. Is that alright?"

Axl watched the Daimon drive out and Haruka and Michiru chase it on a motorcycle. "You're fine! Arm your buster and get out here now!" She replied in the affirmative and took off.

Axl watched as the Daimon drove away and Haruka and Michiru chase it on a motorcycle. Axl waited a few seconds. "A-Trans!" He transformed into Mach Gentra, (Mega Man X Command Mission) and flew off after them. On the way, he stopped over where Alia was.

"Hop on!" He cried as Alia jumped onto Axl's back. He took off at top speed, almost making her fall off. They charged through the sky and stopped the Daimon as Alia used her buster to shoot the ground in front of it. It stood up in surprise as Alia and Axl landed, the latter transforming back to normal.

"Who are you?" It asked. Alia and Axl readied their weapons.

"I am Maverick Hunter Axl"

"And I am Maverick Hunter Alia! You endanger human like, so you must be a Maverick!"

"Therefore, it is our duty to destroy you!" Axl said, firing his two pistols at the Daimon while Alia charged her buster. However, before she released her charge shot, they heard two new voices.

"Guided by a new era! Sailor Uranus acts with elegance!"

"Guided by a new era! Sailor Neptune acts with grace!"

Two Sailor scouts were standing on the other side of the Daimon. The blonde prepared her attack. "Uranus World Shaking!" As the sphere began to fly, Alia released her charge shot and both impacted the Daimon at the same time, making it revert into a car once again.

Since it was standing up at the time, the car was on it's side as the Daimon Seed was expelled and Sailors Moon and Venus drove up. "Huh! It's already over?" The two blondes cried.

Axl waved. "Hey girls! Sorry we started without you! Why not help and take this back to its owner?" He tossed them the Heart Crystal as they pedalled off with it.

"Stop!" Uranus called. "We didn't get an chance to check it it's a Talisman!"

Alia rolled her eyes. "Listen, whatever these Talismans are, are they really more important then someone's life?"

"We need them for our mission! Are three lives more important then everyone else on Earth?" Uranus asked.

"Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good!" This struck a chord with the Hunters. They had heard about the Repliforce war where Zero had to kill his love, Iris, to save the world. Alia was even there when X had to kill the Zero Nightmare to try and stop the Space Colony Eurasia from crashing into the Earth. (X4 and X5 respectively).

"Do you even know about sacrifice?" Alia cried. As the two took a moment to respond, she cried, "I've seen people kill the ones they love for the sake of the world! Would you have the ability to do that?"

The two Scouts looked rather shocked, but they shrugged it off rather quickly. "So what? This is our mission, and we have to complete it!" Uranus shouted.

Axl stepped up ."I'll handle them, if you don't mind." He said. His guns dematerialised as he changed it to a larger gun. "Ice Gatling!" Large ice bullets were fired out at Uranus, hitting her in the stomach and knocking her back about ten feet.

Neptune wasn't going to sit around. "Neptune Deep Submerge!" She threw her attack at Axl, but it failed to connect as Alia helped him out. "Crystal Wall!" the wall shattered, but the attack dissipated when it hit.

Axl's gun changed again, as he began to fire at Neptune. "Black Arrow!" This attack sent out black energy bolts. Neptune easily dodged every one, until she realised they were homing and hit her in the back.

"Let that be a warning." Axl said. "Don't go against us. And if you threaten human life again, we will declare you Maverick, and we will exterminate you."

"Alright," Neptune said, as her and Uranus got up. "How about if we check the Heart Crystal only after the Daimon is defeated?"

Alia lowered her buster. "We'll talk it over with the other Hunters. That sounds fair to us." Axl A-Trans'd back to Mach Gentra and flew Alia away. As they left, the two retransformed into Haruka and Michiru.

"That hurt." Michiru said, feeling the spots she was hit in beginning to bruise.

"Come on home Michiru." Haruka said, "Next time we'll be ready for them. Especially that Zero. Did you see the sword he had last time?"

"You don't think-" She began.

"I do!" She told him. "That sword is not normal."

Alia and Axl watched from the sky. Axl's form improved his eyesight and he had watched the two. The only thing he could say was, "Haruka's a chick!" Alia face palmed as Axl said that. "Oh, yeah. She's Uranus and Michiru's Neptune."

The next day, Axl was at the arcade. He was kicking butt at the Sailor V game. "So Alia," he asked, "Where was everyone yesterday?"

Alia replied through his earpiece. "X was with Palette. She was recoding all his armour forms so he can use them anytime, except for the Falcon Armour, which I still need to fix. Zero was busy feeding the cats, and Layer was helping him."

Axl nodded, "I see." Layer was trying to do anything to get Zero to notice her as more then just a fellow Hunter, so far without success. "Uh oh." He said suddenly.

Alia called. "Axl? What is it? Axl?" He didn't hear her. He had shut down his hearing entirely as he saw Serena and her friends see Haruka and Michiru walk in. Haruka was wearing girls clothes. Luckily, he couldn't hear, but everyone else was left temporarily deaf as five shout of "HARUKA IS A WOMAN!" echoed.

Axl turned his audio receptors back on as the shockwave passed. "Hey ladies." He said. He had a thought. "You two spend a lot of time together. Are you two cousins?"

Haruka and Michiru broke out in a chorus of laughter. "Cousins? Oh, that's a good one!" Leaving the Scouts confused and Axl with a sweat drop.

Alright done! So I wanted to leave Haruka and Michiru's name as is. For those of you who watch dub instead of sub, Haruka is Amara, and Michiru is Michelle. I will be calling Pluto Setsuna, not Trista when she's in the story. Rini will be Rini, because it would make no sense to call her Chibiusa.

If you wish to flame, first give me marshmellows, graham crackers, and chocolate, so I can use your flame for s'mores.

Sailor Moon says: R&R!"