Mega Man had finaly rid the world of Dr. Albert Wiley. Even though he had broken one of the Rules Of Robotics, he had been let of the charge since it WAS Dr.Wiley that had been killed. And now, Mega Man had been invited to join the Space Corps crew of the USS Victory on a tour of the galaxy. And now, Mega Man found himself in the middle of space. "Well folks, we just cleared the asteroid belt." the captain said in a snoty voice. "Mega Man, please take a seat." Mega Man smiled, then sat. They crused for a while in silence. Then, the communications officer said quickly, "Captain, we are recieving a distress signal. A ship seems to be cought in some kind of plasma storm." Mega Man stood, a bit starteled. The captain thought for a second. "Set in a course for the storm, best speed." A minute later, the Victory arrived at the storm. "Put the ship on viewer." The screen switched and the small ship could barley be seen. "The ship is a class 2 Explorer. It's hull won't last long." "Can we beam them out?" "Yes, but we have to get closer." "Do it." The ship lurched forward slowly. "Shields up." the captain ordered. The plasma storm was very strong. The ship was hit and Mega Man was thrown to the ground. "Get them out of there!" the captain yelled. "I'm having some trouble! There patterns are phasing in and out!" "There hull is colapsing!" the halmsman said. "Beam them out!" The view screen was filled with a bright lite. "I got 54,...... out of 302." he said sadly. The captain looked up. "Helm, get us out of here." "I can't! There's to much interfierence!" The science officer quickly said; "We need to create a particle beam. But someone will have to go down to engenearing to do it." Mega Man looked starteled. "We only have a skelleton crew on board. I'm going down to enginearing." the captain said. Mega Man stopped him. "No, you have to stay here. I'll go. Where is it?" "Deck 34. But how will you know how to do it?" "Trust me." In the enginearing section, Mega Man climbed down the later. He ran over to the main computer and touched it. Immiediatly, he knew everything about the ship. He triped as the ship was hit again. He stood up and pushed a series of buttons. A board slid out. He opend a cabinet and grabbed a bulky object. He jammed it in to the board. He called the bridge. "It's on!" The captain didn't even have to say it. The particle beam shot out and made a big enof clearing for the ship too get out. The Victory was almost out. A beam of energy tore through the hull of the ship, makeing a huge hole in it. "We're out!" the helmsman screamed. "You did it Mega!" there was no response. "There is a hull breach on decks 32, 33,..... and 34." "The captain rose. "Have security force fields up. Tell the doctor too meet me on deck 34." As soon as the captain entered, he knew what had happend. There was a gigantic hole right in front of him. The doctor ran in. "My god, was any one in here?" The captain looked down. "Yea."

37 years later...
X strode down the hall of Maverick Hunter HQ. He had been called bye Comodore Vine for an unnown reason. He stepped up to the door and knocked. "Enter." a voice said from inside. X walked in. "Ah, X. Welcome." "Hello, Comodore." "As you know, the Maverick Hunters have always delt with the Star Core." X looked confused. "Yea." "Well, we feel the Mavericks are spreading into space." he leaned closer, "you're going to command the Victory temporarily." "Me? I don't know any thing about what you're asking me to do. And another thing, wasen't the Victory the ship that the original Mega Man was killed on?" "Yes, it was. And you know as well as I that you can absorb all the information just by touching the main computer, is that not true?" X shrugged. "I guess." "You're leaving in," the Comodore looked at his watch, "five minutes. Better get movieng." X grimaced, then ran at top speed out the door. X walked on the decks of the Victory. He had gotten his uniform and his electronic implant and, you can't forget this, his patch, and now, he looked pretty funky. He didn't have any kind of bulky matierial on him. No helmet, no chest plate, nothing. Except his arm cannon. He felt quite odd and unballanced. His red uniform just wasen't him. And now, he had to go to the bridge. He just didn't want to command a starship. He entered the lift. "Bridge." He already viseted the main computer. He found the ship quite complex. The door opend. X saw a huge room filled with flashing lights and humans and Reploids alike. Then he saw his chair. It looked uncomfertable. "Captain on the bridge!" someone said. "I'd prefer it if you didn't say that." X smiled. A tall Reploid stood. "Hello captain. I'm Commander Shard. As you know, this is the bridge. Our Helmsmen are Frog and Dacron." "Dacron?" "My creator was not fond of me." Shard contineued, "This is our science officer, Panzer. Our chief enginear is not here, but he is Commander Forge. What are you're orders?" X shrugged. "Take us on normal patroll." He walked over to the chair. "Is this mine?" "Yes, sir." replied Shard. X sat. It was uncomfertable.

"Are you Commander Forge?" X asked a busy looking enginear. "Yes, Captain. To what do I have the pleshure of this encounter?" "Oh, I just wanted to farmiliarize myself with the crew. Have you ever....." X was cut of by the voice of Shard. "Red Alert! Captain to the bridge!" "If you'll excuse me chief." X walked out of the lift. "What is the situation?" X inquired. "We just recived a code red distress signal from the Saverian Observatry. They are under attack." X thought for a second. "Best speed to the Observatry." The ship hummed. A minute later, the Victory arrived at the Observatry. "Let's send an away team. Shard, take Dacron, Forge, and two security officers. And Shard, be carefull." A moment later, Shard and his team beamed abord the station. "You two," he motioned to the two security officers, "go that way. The rest of you are with me." They walked in silence for a few seconds. "Sir! Look at this!" Shard walked over to Forge. He picked up a hunk of metal to reveal the lifeless body of a human. "He died of plasma burns." "Shard! Come here! Quick!" Shard hurried over to Dacron followed by Forge. "Mavericks!" The shattered body of the Maverick lay broken. Then, suddenly, they heard a couph. "It's comeing from over here! Don't struggle! We will get you out!" The three lifted off a hunk of metal. A silver haired man emerged. "What's you're name?" Shard asked. "Wiley," he replied, "Dr.Logan Wiley." "The Mavericks aperantly attacked you. You are the only survivor."

"The Mavericks aperantly attacked." "Hmm. Send Dacron and Forge over. I want to see if they can find anything. No, send them tomarrow." X concluded. "Yes sir. Also, the survivor, Dr. Logan Wiley, wishes to speak with you. Here's his picture." Shard handed him an electronick pad and left. X left his office too. In a matter of minutes, X was in the observation lounge. He aproached a young looking man. "Are you Wiley?" "Yes. You must be the captain. I need to go back to my lab to conduct an expierament." "I'm afraid we don't have enof time for that now." "In my experament, time, is of the essence. Right now captain, my time is running out."

The next day, Dacron and Forge beamed over to the observatry. They were to inspect a room left untouched. Dacron walked over to a capsull of some sort. "Let's open it. I'm getting some strange readings." Dacron walked over to it and pushed a button. A panel slid open. "Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!" Dacron screamed and fell down. Forge ran over to him. He was unconcience. "Forge to Victory. Victory?" "Is there a problem Comander?" Wiley said as he entered. "Yea, there seems to be a jamming signal on. We can't contact the ship. Can you turn it off?" "Certinly." He walked over behind Forge to the capsul, but instead, he hit Forge with all his might, knocking him out. On the bridge, Lt.Frog spoke. "Sir, the Observatry just launched a probe at the sun." "What?" The screen flashed as the sun went supernova. "It has created a level 12 shockwave." Shard stood. "That'll destroy every thing in this system." "Sir, Forge and Dacron are not on board." X reeled around. "Shard, you and Frog go over and get them. You only have four minutes!"

"Wiley, transmit you're coordinates." Vile's voice said over the intercome. Wiley ran over to a controll panel and hit some buttons. Then he heard footsteps. He could see Shard and Frog running towards him. He rolled behind cover and drew his hand pistol. He aimed and fired a level 2 blast that barley missed the two. "What is he doing?!" Shard said as he and Frog redied there arm cannons. "You have two minutes." X's voice said over the intercome. "You here that, Wiley?! You made a level 12 shokwave and we gotta' get out of here!" Wiley fired again, barley missing. Frog and Shard returned fire, but missed. Out in space, a Maverick ship decloaked. "Sir," said the current helmsman, "a Maverick class battle cruiser has decloaked of the port bow." "What?!" On the Observatry, Wiley ran over to Forge. "Now!" he said. He was instantly beamed aboard the Maverick ship. Then, Shard, Frog, and Dacron were beamed aboard the Victory. "We have them sir." "Mach one! Go!" The needle shaped ship cut through space like scissors going through paper. The Victory left right before the shochwave hit. Everyone breated easier. "Dacron, come. I need you're help in stellar cartography." "Yes sir."

"Dacron, have the computer bring up all of the things that changed when the star was destroyed." Dacron pushed a few buttons and the computer listed them. "Gamma waves have increased by 7%. The USS Fencer was forced to make a course correction. The..." "Wait. Why was the Fencer forced to make a course correction?" "The gravitatiol fields were minerly changed." Dacron replied. "Bring up all of the information on Logan Wiley." The screen lit up. "He is the son of the late Albert Wiley. Mother, killed. Sister, killed. Father, killed. He was on the ship that was coaght in a plasma storm travelling threw the system. He was thirteen then. He has been trying to get back since then." Dacron stated. "Can you project the coarse of the storm?" X inquired. Dacron pushed some more buttons. The screen showed the caorse. "Did the computer take into account the destruction of the Saverian star?" "No sir. I will make the proper adjutments." Dacron said as he did so. The red line moved slightly. "Does the storm's coarse take it close to any class M planets?" "Well, it comes close to Angoris 3, but not close enof." Dacron said. "Dacron, what would happen if Wiley destroyed the Angoris star?" The red line again moved, but this time, right through Angoris 3. "Thats what he's trying to do. He can't get to the storm, so he's bringing the storm to him." X said in awe. "It should also be noted that Angoris 3 is uninhabbited, but Angoris 4 supports a pre industrial race with a population of 700 billion." X pounded his comunicator. "Shard, set a coarse for Angoris 3, maximum speed." X said as he and Dacron said.

Wiley walked up to Vile. "Why did those Mavericks attack the Observatry?!" Wiley yelled. "Quiet you're self, human scum. The only reason I let you live when I found you was becouse you promised me a wepon. I see no such wepon." Vile said. "Both of you, stop bickering!" Harbinger said smuggly. "You will get you're precious wepon. But only after I am beemed safley to the planet. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some work to do." Wiley said as he walked out. "Well Forge, you have some nice items on you."

Later.....
"We shall now beam you down." Vile said after he beamed Wiley down. "Vile! Get to the bridge." Sigma said. He got there within a minute. "Space Corps battle ship entering the sector. Incomeing message, 'Maverick ship. We know you are there. We will destroy any probe you launch or the planet launches at the sun.'." Rek'Nor said. "Decloak." Sigma said. On the bridge of the Victory, the screen lit up with a decloaking Maverick ship. "Hail them." X said. The screen was then filled with the faces of Sigma and Harbinger. "Sigma! Where's Forge?!" "He has been our," Harbinger replied for his master, "guest." X walked closer to the screen. "Then you will release him?" "Now now captain," Sigma said, mockingly, "you know me better than that." "Give me the coordinates, Sigma." "The good doctor wouldn't take kindly to an armed away team beaming down." "Then I will become you're prisoner. But first, beam Forge back. And I also wish to beam down to the planet, if only for a moment, to speak with Wiley." The bridge crew looked at X with dissmay. "We will concider it a prisoner exchange." X looked around the bridge. "Shard, keep the ship together until I get back." X ran to the transporter room. As soon as he started to dissapear, another figure started to apear. Forge fell to the ground and a medic went to him.

X found himself on a rocky surface. He looked up and saw Wiley. Wiley started to walk towords him. "Don't tell me," Wiley said, "you've come to stop me from comiting my evil deed. Good luck." "You don't have to do this Wiley. What you are about to do is no different from when you're house was bombed. Those people killed you're entire family." Wiley's expression changed. Then, he smiled evily again. "Nice try." Wiley said as he shook a tool in X's direction. "You know there was a time, when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the murderer came. He showed me that time is a predator that hunts you all you're life. Then one day, time will make the kill. We're all going to die sometime, X. It's just a matter of how and when. And one day, X, you will too." "But Wiley," X said as he approached him. But before he could touch him, he ran into some kind of force field. "AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!" "I wouldn't try that again. That's a 300,000 volt force field. We wouldn't want you to get hurt."

Back on the maverick ship, "Can we make visual link yet?" Vile asked. There was no need for an answer. The screen lit up with the sight of enginearing. Then they saw what they had been looking for. "There shields are modulating on a frequency of 764.98!" "Set plasma cannons and torpedoes to 764.98!" The Maverick's ship came about and fired at the Victory. The plasma went right through there shields and severly damaged them! "They have found some way to penetrate our shield!" Frog yelled over the explosions. "Return fire!" Shard yelled, at the top of his lungs. The Victory's plasma cannons fired, but only damaged the shields. The needle shped Victory was being pummled. "Dacron, is there anything we can do?!" "Yes, if we release all of the antimatter from the core, that should destroy the other ship! But it will require I rewire some things." "Do it. And do it fast!"

X sat on a ledge, looking around. He picked up a few rocks. He took aim and threw the rock at the force field. It went right through, but made a loud noice. Wiley looked up. "Haven't you got anything better to do?" X saw a small crevice. He trew a rock through it. It looked as if the force field wasen't affecting that area.

"Target thier bridge and fire!" Vile said in the Maverick ship. But on the bridge of the Victory, Dacron was done. "Fire when ready!" he said. Shard looked hard at the other ship. "Fire." A small glittering tube was then launched. It collided with the Maverick ship directly and destroyed it! On the bridge there where many smiles. Dacron stood up. "Yes! Oom!"

Wiley walked over too X. "Now if you'll excuse me," he said I have a date with eternity." He then ran off and started climbing up a cliff. X ran over to the crevice and started unpileing the stones so he could fit through. He started to climb through, but the arch fell on his back, pinning him in place! Wiley heard the force field agian and turned to see X half way through. He took out his plasma pistoll. He fired at X. When the smoke cleared, there was nothing left.

Back in enginearing, everything was in chaos. "It must of been that last hit. Bridge, we have a new problem. There's a core overload, there's nothing I can do. Ok people, move out!" "Frog," Shard said, "evacuate everyone out of the hull section. Dacron, prepare to seperate the ship." In the hull section... "Mendoza! There's no one with these kids! Get them out of here. We'll call there parents later." Forge said as he picked up the younges in the group an began running. A minute later, "Bridge that's all of us." "Dacron, seperate the ship." Shard said. "Seperation in proggres." Dacron said as the needle shaped part of the ship started moveing off from the other part. "Hold on kids," Forge said in another part of the ship, "hold on tight!" "Core breech in proggress!" Dacron said as the hull section exploded behind them, releasing a shockwave that hit the remaining part of the Victory, knocking it into the planets atmosphere. Dacron gazed at the view screen in terror. "Oh, @%$*!"

Wiley looked at his readings while crossing a bridge. He was looking down, and he thought he saw feet. He looked up at there owner. X threw a punch that caought Wiley off gaurd. X grabbed the arm that held the plasma pistoll and banged it against the rail. The gun fell to the ground and exploded.

If you happend to look up in the sky on that particular day, you would have seen a giant needle come punching through the clouds. "Attempting to level our decent!" Dacron yelled. The Victory flew over the ground for a few seconds before hitting. There were screams all over the ship. The Victory skidded along the ground for a good minute, and then halted. Frog looked up from the pile of metal he was burried under. Shard spit the dirt out of his mouth. Dacron sqinted.

X and Wiley had been fighting for so long, they had lost track of time. Wiley was surpriseingly strong. The probe suddenly launched. Wiley smiled as he raced on top of the hill. The sun turned black. A strange yellow storm began to lower itself upon them. Then, they were gone. The shockwave from the sun destroyed everything, including the Victory.

X was spinning. "Where am I?!" he shouted. His head stopped spinning. "Surprise!" many voices said. X looked up and saw Dr. Light, Roll, Rush, Tango, Beat, Protoman, Auto, and Eddie. He also saw the faces of children. "Where you scarred?" one asked. It was then he noticed that a christmas tree behind him. There were presents, galore. All the children began opening the presents. They all said thank you. X began smileing. He realized that this was his dream family. HIS family. He began to forget what he was trying to do. He forgot about Wiley, he forgot about Zero, he forgot about everything. He noticed one of the ornaments on the tree. It was an ordinary bulb, except that in the middle, there was a star in the middle. But it appeared to go super nova, but then it started agian. "No," X said, "this isen't right. I wish there was someone else here." As soon as X uttered those words he appeared next to a short, blue bot. "Aaagghh! Who are you?" X looked down at him in amazment. It was Mega Man! "So you wern't killed!" X excidedly yelled. Mega Man raised an eyebrow. "The last thing I remember was being in the Victory's enginearing section setting up a particle beam. The bulkhead infront of me dissapeared and here I am with you. Who are YOU anyway?" Mega Man concluded. "I am," X said, "Mega Man X. You're predessor. I came here to ask if you would help me..." "Whoa! What are you talking about?" "We need to stop Dr.Wiley's son, Logan Wiley, from destroying a star. If he succeeds, he will kill not only the entire crew of a starship, but an entire race." "Hmm," Mega Man thought, "I take it the odds are agianst us and the situation is grim. Sounds like fun." There was a flash of light and they were gone.

Wiley looked at his readouts. He saw a pair of feet. He looked up at there owner. "Just who the heck are you?!" Wiley asked. "He's Mega Man! Don't you read history?" X said from the other side of Wiley. Wiley jumped of the bridge. "I'll take care of Wiley." Mega Man said as he raced after him. He jumped behind a wall of rock which Wiley had ducted around. Mega Man suddenly had a plasma pistol next to his head. "Acually," Wiley said, "I am farmiliar with history." Just before Wiley could pull the trigger, X leaped behind him and hit him. "Urrrgggghh!" Wiley said as he fell of the edge of the cliff. He grabbed a handy bungy cord and slaped agianst the stone wall. "I thought you were going for the launcher?" Mega Man said. "It was my perogative." X ran toword the launcher, but Wiley pointed the controll pad at the launcher and pressed a button. The launcher beamed away to some unown location. The bungee cord loosend and Wiley droped the pad on accident. It landed on a bridge. "We need that controll pad." X said. "I'll get it." Mega Man replied. "No, no, we have to work together." "We ARE working together." With that, Mega Man leaped toword the bridge. He was half way across when a level 4 plasma burst came from behind boulder and struck the bridge, cutting it in half! Mega Man slid down the bridge, but grabbed part of it. X's hand came towords Mega Man's. X grabbed Mega Man and pull him up. "Thanks." Mega Man said as he approached the bridge agian. It swayed beneeth his weight. He cauciously approached the end. He looked at the other end and..... he jumped! He grabbed the edge and climbed up until he reached the controll pad. He picked it up and pushed a button that brought back the launcher. Mega Man smiled. X ran to the launcher. Mega Man stood, but was hit by a force blast, which knocked him into the chasm. "Whaaaoooouuuuuwwww!" CRASH! X fiddled with the controlls, and locked the probe. "X!" Wiley yelled as he pointed his plasma pistoll at him. "Get away from that launcher." X jumped of the platform and ran behind a stone wall while Wiley ran up to the launcher. He looked at the readings. He looked up, for he knew his fate. The launcher exploded in a briliant aray of colors!

X walked into the chasm. He had seen the little blue body bellow him severall minutes ago. "Mega?" "Did....did we.....win?" Mega Man asked, weakly. "Yes. Thank you." X replied. "It was......fun." Mega Man's expression sudenly changed. "Oh dear.......!" His eye's went blank. X picked up the shattered body of the worlds greatest champion. He buried it atop the mountain. "Thank you..." X said agian. He placed his Maverick Hunter badge on the mound. He saw a glint in the sky. It was a shuttle craft.

X and Shard walked onto the broken bridge of the enterprise. "I always thought I'd get a shot at this chair. But every time some new captain came along. I don't think it was her time to go." Shard said. "Someone once told me time is a predator that stalkes you, but I rather belive that time is a companion that comes along on the jurney. And besides, I dout this will be the last ship called Victory. But remember, Shard, we're only mortal." "Speak for you're self, X," Shard smiled, "I plan to live forever." X grinned. "X to Quentin, two to beam up." X and Shard dissapeared in a swirling mass of molacules. The Quentin then sped of towords Earth.