X tried to block the powerful attack with his Beam Saber, but it slipped from his hands, and the attack striked his chest, damaging him. X stood up once again. "You´ll never defeat me! If I die, I´ll take you with me!" X replied as he charged his Plasma Beam and fired. Sigma easily blocked it with his Plasma Thunder. And after breaking up the attack, he fired again against X, and hit him on his chest once again! "I...must...resist!" He opened his wridt compartment, looking for the button that activated his Sub-Tank, but before finding it, he found a new button. "Uh... What is this?" X wondered. "Well, y Dr. Cain added it, it must be something good. I´ll try it anyway." And so, X pressed the strange button.

Back at HQ...

"What the h...?" Dr. Cain exclaimed as he watched the Assault Hawk 'waking up'.

"Computer activated, frequency contacted." the metal hawk said and got out of the room through the dome.

"Ha, now you realize that you cannot defeat me!" Sigma laughed at X as he tried to stand up.

BOOOM

"What is this?" Sigma said as he saw a strange shinning hawk get into the room. "It doesn´t matter X, I´ll destroy you anyway."

Suddenly, the mysterious hawk shot Sigma on the leg. The reploid screamed in pain as he saw the hawk land next to X. X, with curiousity, patted the hawk on it´s head, adn then pressed the button again. Inmediately, the hawk got X by his back, and joined his body as if it was part of him.

"Cool." X said surprised by the change. "I feel lighter than before..." X began flying before he could finish talking. "Now, where were we?" X asked sarcasticly. Sigma stood up and attacked X, taking him by surprise. X tried everything he had on Sigma, but he stood up again and again. "If this is the only way..." X made the hawk go away.

"X, are you crazy?" Sigma smiled with evil. "You´ve abandoned your only chance to survive. This will be your last fight X!"

"Maybe so, but I´m sure I won´t go alone." X replied to the Maverick in front of him. X began throwing his systems to overload and aimed his arm-cannon at Sigma.

"This way!" Jex shouted as he ran through the main corridor, followed by the assault team. "I think I´ve got them!"

"OK" Spade said as he ran behind Jex, "Let´s go and find them.!"

"Computer, prepare the Plasma Destruction." Sigma said through a little microphone, which came out of his helmet. "Aim... Prepare to fire, start regressive count. 5, 4, 3, 2..."

"I must wait for the excact moment" X thought as he watched Sigma prepare to fire at him. "I´ll wait until he fires."

"1, FIRE!" Sigma ordered as a powerful plasma shot crossed the air toward X. "This, is my last weapon, the most powerful of all. It doesn´t matter how powerful you are, you won´t be able to resist it!"

The plasma shot hit X in his chest. X fell on his knees and shouted, "NOW!" X shot his Plasma Beam at overload level. The powerful beam drew the last amount of 'life' that kept X alive after the strong fight.

"Noooo, how... how could you do this?" Sigma said as the beam hit his chest. "Nooo, this can´t be, you can´t defeat me again!!! AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" Sigma screamed in pain as he began to explode.

Just after that, the second assault team bursted the door and entered the room abruptly. "X, X!!!" Proto shouted as he hold his brother´s motionless body. "You knew this could happen! But you decided to come anyway, and I didn´t stop you!!! I´m such a fool!!!"

Spade instlled the new Sigma Virus vaccine into the main computer. Then, he placed a Plasma Megabomb. "OK Hunters, we´ve got 15 seconds to get our butts outta here, let´s run!" Jex and Proto Man carried the dead bodies as they ran through the same corridor they used to enter. They walked back to HQ as Sigma´s fortress exploded behind them for, what they hoped, would be the last time.

"It would be wonderful to have X and Zero watching this..." Proto Man said sadly as they walked away. "But I swear you won´t be forgotten!"

In HQ, all the Hunters, including the maximum authorities, cried for their lost Hunters, the best. They were sealed in Honor Capsules, to remind all the Squadrons, what friendship and self-sacrifice means...

"Heroes get remembered,
but legends never die..."
-Anonymous