"Arise my greatest creation." An old man in a lab coat muttered in a hidden lab in aa abandonned warehouse. "You shall be greater than that traitor Zero!" A shinning reploid arose from a capsule that kept him locked. He his armor was black. His eyes meant death, and his name was... Bass!!

"Who... Who are you?" Bass was a little confused by the time he´s been in the capsule. "Oh, I remember now. Hi, Boss!" Bass took a little time to look at his whole new body. "Why did you reactivate me?"

"I need your help. You must destroy that Mega-dweeb for once and for all!" Dr. Wiley looked pretty old to Bass. Indeed, he looked older than before the Great War.

"What?!" Bass was pretty astonished. "The Mega-jerk is still alive?! I can´t believe he survived the Great War!" Suddenly, Bass remembered something."What happened to Treble?"

"Treble was destroyed in the Great War. But that doesn´t mind, I´ve got a mission for you..." Dr. Wiley eyes were full of evil and hate. Dr. Wiley explained everything about the reploids, the mavericks and the Hunters.

"What?!" Bass was almost shouting. "You want me to go on a frontal attack against the Maverick Hunter Headquarters with just eight mavericks! It´s almost a suicide!" Dr. Wiley was beginning to get pretty mad.

"Don´t worry!" Dr. Wiley´s german accent filled Bass ears. "X and Zero, the Hunters that defeated Sigma, are now retired. Compared with them, the rest of the Hunters are just scrap metal. Now go!"

Meanwhile, in HQ... "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! All Hunters report to their battle stations." All the Hunters began running to their battle stations. HQ was under attack. "What´s wrong Coordinator Spade?" Protoman asked as Jex and he ran with Spade towards the display room. "This is too much to be caused by a few Mavericks."

"Those... Mavericks... ain´t... common... ones..." Spade was going out of breath. Soon, they reached the display room. "We detected this strange emblem in all the Mavericks. The computer analized it but, it didn´t match with any Maverick Organization. So, the computer compared it to the emblems of the robots in the Great War and... they match with Wiley´s emblem! Those Mavericks belong to Dr. Wiley!"

"It doesn´t matter!" Proto was getting angry. "We can´t surrender just because they belong to the greatest mad-scientist in the past. Maybe he sealed himself in a cryogenetical capsule. Let´s go out there and show those Mavericks what we´re made of!"

"Litanium, steel and circuitry, right?" Jex said joking to release some preasure.

The battle was fierceful, no one surrendered. The mavericks were just nine, but their weapons were pretty advanced, as usual with Dr. Wiley. "We won´t resist any longer!" Proto contacted Spade with their wrist communicator. "We need enforcements!"

BEEP, BEEP. "I´ll take the videophone call, honey" X said to Diane. "Who is it? Oh, hi Proto, what´s up?" X was happy about Proto calling him.

"I´m pretty sorry to call you in this circunstances, but we´ve got major problems here." Proto looked pretty tired. "While we´re talking, Jex is communicating with Zero. We need you two to come to HQ as soon as possible."

Soon, X and Zero met with Spade, Proto and Jex in HQ. "X, Zero," Spade began talking, "we need your help. You´re the only ones who can defeat this new Mavericks."

"What´s so special about those Mavericks?" X had a doubtful look in his face as well as Zero.

"Well, they belong to Dr. Wiley. Their weapons are pretty advanced for the weapons we´ve got. Only you have the new arm-cannon models." Spade´s face became even more serious (oh, it can?). "Look, I know you´re retired, but we need your help!"

X looked at Zero for a while. "All right. We´ll help." X and Zero entered the capsule room. "Blade, let´s go! X activated Blade, his Hawk. Zero activated Claw, his wolf. "Let´s separate and destroy the eight maverick bosses."

Soon the Mavericks had been destroyed and they reached the Skull Castle. X and Zero entered a large room. Soon, they found a strange Maverick at the end of the room. "I was expecting you." Bass was standing there, with his black armor shinning, and his arm-cannon ready to fire.

"I´ll handle him, Zero." X said as he took a step towards Bass. X and Bass fought for a while. X activated his Sabre and easily destroyed Bass. X and Zero reached Wiley´s room. "All right Doc. It´s time for you to surrender."

"No way Mega!" Dr. Wiley was wearing some kinda battle armor. "This is your end!" Dr. Wiley prepared to fight with X.

"I´ve got two things to tell you." X had a little grin in his face. "My friends call me X, YOU can call me Mega Man X. And, Sigma always told me the same thing, and now, he´s nothing but scrap metal."

"But I´m different. You know why?" Dr. Wiley was laughing. "Because, I created the Sigma Virus!"

"Why I am not surprised!" Zero talked for the first time since they found Dr. Wiley. Without waitIng anymore, X and Zero dashed towards Wiley, he easily avoided them. But X turned around, charged his arm cannon and fired a level 9 shot and destroyed the battle armor that Wily was wearing.

"This ain´t the end X!" Dr. Wiley stood up and began to laugh as he activated a secret door and disappeared behind it. "I shall get my revenge soon! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

"Come on Zero." X talked to Zero as he took of his helmet. "Let´s go back to HQ."