X and Zero arrived to HQ. Dr. Cain was waiting for them in his lab. "Hi Dr. Cain. It has been a while." X saluted Dr. Cain when they arrived. Diane and Liz were waiting on the videophone. They´d been pretty worried about X and Zero. "Don´t worry Diane, we´re OK." X told Diane.

Suddenly, a group of Mavericks entered abruptly into the lab and grabbed X by his arms. The rest of the group grabbed Zero, Dr. Cain, Blade and Claw and transported away. Soon, the two Mavericks grabbing X transported too. Then, Dr. Wiley´s face appeared in the screen. "X, I told you I would get my revenge soon! I sent those Mavericks to kidnap your friends... Do you dare to come for them? Ha, ha, ha!!!!"

"You bet I do!" X muttered to himself as he read the coordinates Wiley wrote on the screen. X set his destiny, and dashed out of the main door, heading for Dr. Wiley´s new Skull Castle (you might wonder how Dr. Wiley could build a new Skull Castle in such a little amount of time). "Well, how far is this Skull Castle anyway?" X was thinking about his friends when the floor beneath him began to rumble. "What the...?" X began falling into a large pit that seemed to have no bottom...

Meanwhile, back at Skull Castle. "Dr. Cain, I want you to build the most outstanding robot ever built!" Dr. Wiley was talking to Dr. Cain through a small screen in the lab where he sealed Dr. Cain. "And make sure that this Reploid has the power to desroy that Mega-dweeb for once and for all!" Dr. Wiley began laughing out loud, and then, the screen went blank. "Oh boy." Dr. Cain muttered as he looked at all the material he got in front of him. "Well, I might be able to do some upgrade chips for X without Wiley noticing."

"Ouch!" X said as he got to his feet. "Where am Y? And how am I going to get out of here?" X asked to himself as he looked a way out of the pit. Suddenly, he knocked the rock wall and it sounded like metal, X wiped out the dust the hid a metal door and a button panel. There was a small screen next to the button panel. The screen had the folowing message: "ENTER CODE NAME". X looked with wonder and typed 'Dr. Cain' but the screen showed a failure message. Then X typed 'Mega Man X' and the screen showed the following message: "CODE NAME ACCEPTED. OPEN HAND SCANNER". A small metal plate slid into the metalic door, and a hand-shapped crystal panel was shown. X curiously placed his left hand on the crystal... and the computer started beeping, the screeen showed a message that said: "HAND SCAN COMPLETE. PROCEEDING IN DOOR OPENING". Just after that message was displayed, the metal door opened heavily. X entered...

"Dr. Cain, how is the construction proceeding?" Dr. Wiley asked Dr. Cain. "I´m getting anxious." Dr. Cain was still working in the Ultimate Maverick, as Dr. Wiley decided to call him.

"I´m finished with the interior circuitry and the interior skeleton, I´m beginning to build the Litanium X body skin." Dr. Cain was sweating, he was pretty tired of working on the Ultimate, but he has been working in the upgrade chips for X at the same time, and he was almost finished with that. "The Ultimate might be finished by next week Dr. Wiley." "Good!" Dr. Wiley replied and closed the communication channel.

"What is this place?" X wondered as he walked in a strange place that looked like a laboratory. X found a computer working from about 10 that were in there. It was doing something strange, it had a code name request. X typed 'Mega Man X' again. A strange hydraulic sound was made, and a short capsule emerged from the floor. The capsule opened and a holographic image of Dr. Light appeared. "Fa... Father?" X was out of breathe.

"My son, Mega Man X, I knew you would one day find this secret lab, and I expected it to be in other circunstances. But now, it seems that you have to fight." X listened carefully. The hologram continued speaking. "I sealed your pet, Rush, in this capsule after reconstructing him, and I made some changes in him o that he might be able to accoplate with you once again." Tha hydraulic sound started again and another taller capsule emerged next to the small one, enter this capsule, and receive a whole new body armor that will allow you to accoplate with Rush and use the new Super Adaptor." The hologram disappeared, and Rush was finally revealed. The screen in the capsule showed the following message: "ACTIVATION IN 10 SECONDS. 10, 9, 8, 7..." X entered the other capsule and received a new armor. This armor was pretty cool, X looked back at the small capsule...

"I´ve got to get outta here!" Zero was muttered to himselk as he looked around the room were he was sealed for a way to get out of it. "There must be a way to... Aha! It looks like this steel plate is loose." Zero began trying to take the plate of the wall. "Almost... almost... Done! It looks like some kind of weapon, but why? Why is there a weapon in here? Wait, was the heck is this?" Zero took a small box in his hand, and pressed a red button. Suddenly, Dr. Cain appeared. "Zero, while I was in here, I placed a weapon here so you could escape and get X. Quick, there´s no time!" The recording faded.

Back at Dr. Light´s secret lab. "This capsule is empty." Suddenly, X heard a 'bark' behind him, and saw a dog standing with it´s tongue out. "Hi Rush!" X talked to the dog. "Ok, let´s think about getting out of here." Rush wagged his tail. "Bark!" Rush began transforming into some kind of armor. The armor joined X. "Wow, this armor feels good. Let´s see if it can help me out of here." X engaged the Super Armor´s rocket busters and went flying out of the pit. X flew all the way to Skull Castle.

"Well, this looks like a small laser beam. I´ll try to cut the door to get out." Zero cut the door and went through a long corridor. "First, I gotta find my Beam Saber, the key for this Arm-cannon-cuff and my transporting device." Zero finally arrived for something that looked like a warehouse. A Maverick was guarding the door, Zero grabbed him by the neck, took the key and deactivated the Arm-cannon cuff. The Maverick aimed for Zero, but Zero avoided the plasma shot and blasted the Maverick into pieces. Zero opened the door, took his Saber and transporting device, located X and transported away.

X was standing outside the Skull Castle. Suddenly, Zero appeared next to him. "X, we´ve got to hurry! Oh, by the way, nice armor you got there." "We´ll talk about that later Zero!" X looked at Zero as he prepared his Beam Saber. "Let´s go Zero!" X blasted the door away with the X-Arm (it really used to be the Mega-arm, but I changed te name myself). And they went in...