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// CM: Get Good 
// Story: Melody of the Future 
// by Tatsurou 
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	When the light cleared, Sigma's form became visible.  It was a massive taur-esque figure, with six legs on its lower body, six arms coming out the sides with one set atop the other, and six wings on its back that shone with golden energy fields.  The entire body was heavy set, and coated in white, black, and gold armor that glowed with an inner light.  The head rotated readily, revealing three faces.  Each of the faces was Sigma's face wearing X, Zero, and Axl's helmets.  The eyes on all three glowed crimson.  Rising up out of the shoulders were two spires, on which sat the chunks of Supra Force Metal, protected by powerful shields that emitted the same energy wavelength as the spike traps X and the others had encountered on their many adventures, designed to fry positronic brains.

"Behold!" Sigma proclaimed from all three face.  "The Ultimate Form is complete!  I have fully analyzed the code of all present here, and have fused it into a single unifying build protocol for the Ultimate Being!  Behold the God of Reploids!  And now, with my control circuits amplified to their maximum output, I shall claim my kingdom!"  With that, he turned to face the Earth below.

"The Commander Unit circuitry!" X gasped in fear.  "No!"

"And not just the world," the Axl helmeted head that was facing them purred.  "But all of you!"  The two upper hands rose up to the sides of Sigma's head.  The two middle hands pressed palm to palm in front of his massive torso.  The remaining two curled middle fingers to thumb before being held out to the sides palm up.  A wave of power and command signal erupted from his entire body, passing over all present and the world below.

Epsilon, Scarface, Ferham, Massimo, Cinnamon, Marino, and Spider all put hands to their heads, wincing in pain...but soon shook it off.  "That was unpleasant," Spider declared irritably.

Sigma's three faces frowned.  "That's odd," the one wearing the X helmet declared.  "There was supposed to be more chaos...and also more fighting down below."

Octavia blinked as her communicator went off.  Looking at it, she saw a text message...and grinned widely.  "Two things, Sigma," she called out calmly.  "First, CiCi intercepted your signal.  The only places that received it were Giga City - who took it as a personal declaration of war from Redips - and HQ East, which was empty.  She also made sure your discussion with us in your office was also broadcast to Giga City...and the forces you ordered there."

"Accursed abomination!" all three heads snarled angrily.

"She thanks you for the compliment," Octavia continued.  "As for the second...it turns out Reploid brain circuitry post parenthood via Gate's modifications - whether sire or mother - more closely resembles Terran brain construction than true Reploid.  So you are the God of Reploids as you longed to be...but by your own machinations, you have no subjects."

Sigma stared down at Octavia as she smirked up at him.  "And this is where you expect me to go into a rage over being thwarted at the moment of my triumph, going on about how I will wipe the world clean and recreate it in my image and fill it with my subjects, thus giving you all the drive to go all out against me in a battle of full power attrition that will either end in my destruction or drawing the attention of beings with greater skill at using Ether than I due to me unleashing huge bursts of my power in an attempt to start said destruction with all of you."

Octavia's smirk slowly fell.  "You seem...awfully calm, all things considered."

"Well for one, I no longer have Zero's Virus making me act crazy," the Sigma head wearing Zero's helmet pointed out.  "Haven't since Eurasia.  Instead I just acted crazy to make you all think I was while I set this in motion.  And second, the Reploid control signal DID affect Terrans.  I saw evidence of that here.  All I need to do is retune it into a Terran control signal...and I just so happen to have a NUMBER of Terran brainwave patterns fully analyzed to use as a basis.  Shouldn't take more than an hour...during which I can enjoy toying with all of you."  With that declared, one hand lifted palm out and fired a massive burst of energy that sent the entire group falling back and scattering.

"Stay scattered!" Epsilon barked out as everyone got to their feet.  "Given his size, he'll only be able to target one at a time with focused attacks, and spread attacks would be too costly on his shielding to use too frequently."

"Oh good," Sigma purred from all three heads as the group scattered to surround him.  "A smart opponent.  This will be an entertaining hour."

"Everyone full power!" X barked out as he activated his Ultimate Armor, as did Octavia.  Zero activated his White Mode, as Axl and Spider both entered Stealth Mode.  Marino triggered Quicksilver, while Cinnamon activated Iron Maiden.

X, Axl, Octavia, and Spider stayed at range, moving rapidly around Sigma at ground level to shoot at him from range.  Zero, Massimo, and Scarface moved in close in an attempt to attack his legs.  Ferham zipped around above, lashing his wings with her whip.  Epsilon stood back, positioning himself between Sigma and Cinnamon as he fired off massive blasts of energy at his joints.  Cinnamon stayed a non-combatant, focusing on feeding her energy into everyone to keep them active.  Marino leapt up Sigma's body as fast as she could move, striking at his faces in an attempt to distract him from his focus on reprogramming his control circuits.

Sigma smirked as all the attacks continued to ping right off his body.  "How pathetic..." he murmured as he casually swatted Marino out of the air with one too-fast moving hand.  "The last pathetic struggles of the damned..."