As X and the others watched, the 'Memezord' continued to batter Sigma. While it wasn't doing enough damage to him per hit to overload his regeneration and repairs, the hits were strong enough to knock him back and stagger him, especially the blows aimed at a head. However, the disadvantage of the Memezord quickly became apparent when Sigma unleashed a fully charged blast that took it full in the chest...
Only for the Memezord to be left without even a scuff.
"Energy batteries fully charged!" Leviathan called out from inside the mech.
"Now that's just not fair!" Sigma roared angrily. "You're telling me that thing's designed to absorb incoming attacks to recharge itself?"
"No, just the superweapons!" Fefnir corrected eagerly. "Final weapon, fire!"
The wolf arm raised up, unfolding into a massive blaster before releasing a huge discharge of energy. When the light faded, Sigma's three-faced head was gone. However, it quickly reshaped out of light. "Do you have any idea how much that stings?" he demanded angrily, only one voice now echoing from him.
"Describe it for me," Phantom observed quietly as the falcon head suddenly swung up a blade made of living shadows that severed one of Sigma's arms and causing it to corrode and decay into scrap, although a replacement arm took shape in its place. "Oh, Form Decaying Sword."
"You're supposed to say that first!" Omega complained angrily. "It's part of the whole thing here!"
"...why would I warn Sigma how I was about to attack him?" Phantom pointed out logically.
"Look, I get it's flawed strategy and rather silly," Harpuia responded. "But we did all agree-"
"No, I mean specifically Sigma," Phantom corrected. "I'm fine with doing it with just about anyone else - there's really no point in being sneaky once you involve giant combining animal robots - but this is Sigma. It's his stated goal to - in essence - turn us all into his mind-controlled slaves, including Maka. And he's got this huge vengeance thing against Dad. Do you think he'd hesitate for a moment to take perverse pleasure in making Dad - under mind control - watch as he made Maka-"
"I don't need to hear anymore of this!" Leviathan stated quickly.
The Memezord suddenly lunged forward, grabbed Sigma by his front legs, and lifted him up until he was near vertical. The head then returned to draconic configuration before lunging in and biting down hard. Sigma's eyes went wide. "...why does my Ultimate Body still have those?" he whimpered in a high-pitched squeaky voice.
Everyone winced. "Omega, dude..." Fefnir spoke up in a pained voice. "That was...brutal."
"After what Phantom just suggested?" Omega growled out, his voice very dark as the entire Memezord was briefly surrounded by a black aura.
"Fair enough, fair enough," Fefnir allowed quickly.
Sigma snarled angrily as he staggered to his hooves, spreading his wings wide. "I am done playing around!" he roared as he slowly stomped towards the Memezord. "I will rip you apart with my bare hands!" In a flash of light, two of his arms shifted to resemble those of Grizzly Slash. "And since you like bad jokes so much, I'll use my bear hands to do it!"
"Hey Sigma!" Axl suddenly roared out.
Turning, Sigma stared at Axl with wide eyes. Axl's entire right side had morphed along with the Ancient Arm. The metal of his body had shifted into a strange, pulsating flesh construct that had fused with the weapon, glowing a brilliant silver. A massive white wing spread from his shoulder, seeming to collect and expel energy simultaneously. Fleshy anchors locked him in place with the weapon pointed forward. Nine glowing crystals floated in a ring around a core of blazing white, contained within the fleshy weapon as the barrel - looking not unlike an open sore - pointed straight at Sigma. "100%," the weapon intoned, the robotic voice echoing menacingly.
"Dodge this!" Axl called out.
And fired.
There was a soundless pulse, as though a sudden weight had been pressed against the entirety of reality. A beam of purest white lashed forward, larger than Sigma's entire body. Axl rocked back from the force, the anchors and the wing barely keeping him upright and not flying backwards at insane speeds. A soundless crash heralded Sigma's Supra-Force Metal shattering explosively from overload, and then there was nothing.
The light faded, and the blast seemed to continue travelling off into space, moving too fast to be accurately tracked, vaporizing anything in its path.
Everyone stared in stunned awe as the final form of the Ancient Arm collapsed in on itself, leaving just the weapon.
"So when will that blast stop?" Epsilon asked in concern.
"When it hits something it can't punch through," Axl explained. "I...think."
"So never, then," Epsilon concluded. "That's worrying. I don't relish explaining to any aliens who encounter it why they lost so many ships to an Earth-based weapons discharge."
"Then it's a good thing Earth is protected, isn't it?" Omega declared as the Memezord came in for landing, the five youngsters leaping out and striking a group victory pose.
"You kids are in so much trouble!" X snapped angrily as he stomped up to the group. "Especially you, Maka!"
"Me?" Leviathan demanded angrily. "Why am I in trouble? I'm the one who designed the combining robots that just saved everyone's collective asses!"
"And how did you build them?" Octavia inquired curiously.
"Duboar," Leviathan responded readily. Seeing the stunned looks, she shrugged. "What? You think I design the ultimate weapons manufacture plant on commission and don't sneak in a program to build us super-tough combining animal robots anytime it's in lockdown? How could I not?"
"I was wondering why we were still losing resources at Ulfat," Epsilon murmured thoughtfully.
"And that's another thing you're in trouble for," X continued in his tirade, "but before that, put something respectable on!"
"What?" Leviathan demanded in shock, glancing down at her skin tight and somewhat suggestive outfit. "What's wrong with this?"
"It's completely shameless!"
"So what?" Leviathan countered irritably as she put her hands on her hips and leaned forward confrontationally. "I'm not a little girl anymore, Dad!"
"I can see that!" X snapped back. "And so can everyone else. That's the problem!"
"Ugh!" Leviathan groaned as she threw her hands into the air in frustration. "You are such a prude, Dad! Is it any wonder I haven't told you about my boyfriend yet?"
"Your what?"
Omega buried his face in his hands. "Way to throw me under the bus there, Maka..."
"You ripped Sigma's balls off with your effigy teeth at the mere suggestion that he'd do something sexual to me against my true will," Leviathan pointed out. "Only a total idiot wouldn't realize we were an item after that."
"You...and Omega?" X stammered out, plainly confused.
"...and apparently, our Father," Shadow murmured ruefully.
"Really, kid?" Zero asked, stepping up to Omega's side. "You landed her?" He pointed towards Leviathan. He then grinned widely. "Nice one, squirt. Up high!"
"Zero!" X demanded, completely aghast.
"Look at this objectively, X," Zero pointed out. "My son just told me he's dating a smoking hot babe in his own age group who is brilliant, respectable, enjoys showing off her figure, and likes building massive battle robots in her spare time. That's like the ultimate catch there!"
"That's my daughter you're talking about!" X complained.
"Another point in her favor, excellent bloodline!" Zero countered with a wide grin. "Not to mention our families are friends, so in-law issues should be a minimum."
"We all but raised them together!" X snapped back. "They're like cousins!"
"We...aren't actually related," Harpuia pointed out.
"Except through Axl," Zero pointed out. "See, my Mom is technically his aunt, which makes him my cousin...and he's technically X's nephew as well which makes him your cousin..."
"...my head hurts..." Fefnir groaned morosely.
"Kinky," Leviathan purred, licking her lips.
"Where did you learn to act like this?" X wailed out in despair.
As Octavia struggled not to burst into laughter - the only one present who was showing such restraint - she noticed Axl was nowhere in sight. "Axl?"
With a groan, Sigma disconnected himself from the amplifier that let him control his remote bodies. He had been so close. He had actually tasted ultimate power. He had been seconds away from claiming the minds of every Terran on the planet and achieving true godhood! And once again, just as X had said, details he'd had no way of knowing about ahead of time saw to his downfall. Epsilon was nearly his equal in planning, and he hadn't even learned of Duboar until it had been shut down. X and Zero's children had advanced much faster than he'd been able to track, especially since they spent so much of their time off-base with that thrice-damnable CiCi as chaperone. And that Ancient Arm of Axl's...
Still, he would not let this setback stop him. He had other plans, other ways of claiming what was rightfully his. New keys were presenting themselves, and soon he would...address the clawed hand embedded in his chest. "What the...?"
"Firing that off at 100% has all sorts of nasty side effects," Axl growled out as his Schrodinger form sparked, "but it has a couple good ones. For one thing, it massively boosts the point-to-point teleportation unit's range...as long as I've got a signal to follow. Such as the signal you were using to control that other you?"
Sigma choked for breath. "D...Damn you..."
Grinning, Axl ripped Sigma's plasma power core out of his chest and shoved it into his open mouth. "You first!" he snapped before delivering a final, lethal uppercut.
yay!!! sigmas finally dead
Now that's a Mortal Kombat worthy Fatality!
...........................dude........................epic.
yay! Axl Wins... Karmality
8183139 doesn't that mean we are entering the Mother Elf arc?
HE'S FINALLY DEAD!
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Mother Elf arc only happens if the Maverick Virus is still a thing after Sigma's death.
Vector Cannon; ready to fire.
Like if you get that reference.
I'm also getting a Gift from the Red Emperor vibe, here.
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8183181 isn't the virus part of Zero anyway? Imagine if he just woke up one day with a cyber elf staring at him.
X:"Um...Congratulations Zero,your...a mother?"
Besides...The Dark Elf incident only happened thanks to Weil...who...hasn't really done anything evil in your story.
8183149 this. Nuff said.
8183186 Ah, Cyber Elves... You can never have just one!
I'm not sorry.
8183186
Let me make things clear.
Sometime after canon X events, Zero entered a permanent slumber to try and fix all the errors in his system caused by Wily trying to control him via the Maverick Virus. In order to stop the Maverick Virus permanently, X somehow transforms his body into the Mother Elf (or something like that). Cyber Elves are born from the Mother Elf to spread the effect.
Then Weil uses Zero's original body to make Omega, corrupts the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf, and causes the Elf Wars.
Now, point to where none of this can happen in this timeline.
now to will go to mars
Good chapter, and nice Trigun reference to boot.
8183198 actually...X used his own body as a seal to keep the Dark Elf in a hibernating sleep inside a containment unit. I just beat part 2 today where the final boss destroyed Xs body to unsealed the Dark Elf.
Also..had to research for this...
"Several years later after the events of the X series, X had ended the Maverick Wars with the help of the "Sigma Antibody Program", Mother Elf, a Cyber-elf created after Zero's body was analyzed and an Anti-Sigma virus vaccine was reverse engineered from it."
Sidenote: Weil still is a madman according to the next entry...
"Some time after this, Project Elpizo was proposed by a scientist called Dr. Weil to create a perfect ruler to control all Reploids without having to risk them going Maverick. X disagreed with the nature of the project, believing that Reploids and humans are fully capable of co-existing with each other peacefully. As a result, Dr. Weil altered the Mother Elf, turning her into the Dark Elf, and stole Zero's original body to create Omega, starting the "Elf Wars". Zero's "mind and soul" were placed into a new body, and he fought alongside X to defeat Omega. For the damages Omega and Weil had caused, Weil was modified into a cyborg and banished into the wasteland and Omega was sentenced to perpetual exile in Earth's orbit. After this war, Zero sealed himself again, and X founded Neo Arcadia."
So yeah...you still have a future nutcase on your hands...nip him in the bud early I'm guessing? Because this guy sounds like he'd be as bad as sigma even without the elves. Possibly worse...
Hey, it could always take out an EVIL alien civiliation bent on galactic conquest, earning Earth the undying gratitude of the rest of the universe. Or it could blow up a star that would have gone Super Nova and save some planets. Or destroy an extinction level asteroid and save a planet. The Great White Light of Salvation could become an intergalactic legend to many races.
Now that is an awesome win for Axl and a humiliating defeat for Sigma.
Omega with Leviathan... interesting. I can't wait to see X and Zero as Grandparents... though I think the moment he learns Maka is pregnant X will fist huddle in a corner muttering about his little girl... then try to make her a widow by brutally murdering Omega after a long Yackety Sax type chase around the globe.
8183198 Still wanna see the elf or something similar appear so X can use that line, it's comedy gold! Besides, with all the old Era tech in X and Zero, whose to say Zero can't have a Mr. Seahorse moment????
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All that still requires the Virus to be a thing.
In this timeline, it hasn't been since the events of X5.
Finally Axl got to the core of the problem.
An Ultimate form does need ultimate equipment Sigma...
Guess this finally signals the end of Sigma once and for all... or does it?
Next, I suspect:
Me gustaa!!!
F-F-FINISH HIM!
THE BEAST IS DEAD!!!
should I be concerned that their concerns is for the loss of possible alien ships and not alien lives if it hits a planet, like for say Mars?
Ooh, Ooh Like maybe the beam arriving to annihilate something giving them trouble after they return to Equestria:
Enemy about to win + white beam of energy = Axl: "Huh.. I wondered about what happened to that."
Unless that beam has perfect focus (something that just doesn't happen, EVER) I'm sure it's energy density will lower enough to not be too harmful within a light year or two. Or ten. Which, while sounding like a very long way out, is actually pretty close in cosmic terms...
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Tell 'em, Buzz!
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Unless it's bullshit magic designed to do something wonky. At which point it's own rules apply.
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no, no tats it really doesn't, all it takes is one psychotic semi-immortal lunatic scientist with a hate boner that makes Sigma PALE in comparison. Because that's what Weil is, if he had his way EVERYBODY DIES. Human, Terran, Reploid, Robot Master he'd see them all die while giggling like a looney toon. One big difference between SIgma and Weil is that one wants control the other, well the other wants everybody to JUST DIE.
As for the mother elf, honestly she could be the product of research into Ether instead of being created to destroy the virus she could have been born as a by product of the Ether and the other Cyber-elves could be there to be and accesss to the ether ambient in the air.
If you wondering how to make Weil basically immortal why not sort of trap him in amber or more accurately ether the imitates something akin to Amber. Not only would this make him a good threat for the next generation by making him OP as fuck because being able to draw from Amber but, it would make him physically weak ....
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8183236 good point.
Eh..whatever.Vinyl probably made cyber elfs years ago anyway.lol she likes Wubs after all.
8183376 Oh my god you genius.
I really appreciate Sigma getting into the spirit of things right here at the end.
Fully powered up Angel Arm shots are always pretty terrifying. I'm slightly saddened this one didn't leave a crater in the moon, though. But then again, this particular shot may have just shattered the moon so maybe it's for the best.
Hahaha! Poor Omega, he's in for it now.
Good riddance to Sigma, for hopefully the final time.
Haha, poor X. No support from his family or his best friend.
8183139 just like last time
8183601
And just like everyone else who's been commenting on this, you've missed the point I was trying to make...
And that's I'm not doing the Elf Wars part of the timeline! I never intended to extend into the Zero games, and actively worked through the earlier story to close any plot threads that could lead to it so I wouldn't have to.
Now would everyone stop trying to 'help make it work' when I've gone to great effort to show why it wouldn't?
8184071 Didn't Octavia give a guilt trip going over THE EXACT PLOT of the Zero games, thus prevent them from being a thing, BEFORE the virus stopped being a thing?
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Exactly! Ugh!
Okay...
Sounds fake, but okay.
8184144
So it's fake to use a signal that Sigma was using to broadcast himself in a remote body as a carrier to enhance Axl's point-to-point teleportation while in Schrodinger form - when in the real world secondary frequencies can broadcast "in the shadow" of a primary one?
8184222 I meant the shooting a gun boosting teleport capabilities doesn't really make sense to me.
Then again, not my story.
8184287
The gun generates a huge amount of energy when it fires. Not all that energy goes into the blast. Some of it backlashes into Axl's systems. That's why his body was sparking.
Some systems get fried. Some malfunction. Some get supercharged.
8184287
Maybe it has to do with the fact that Axl is still currently drawing from all nine ether crystals of the Ancient Arm in Schrodinger, thus amplifying all his abilities to higher levels; and it seems that Tango is barely holding on as I don't think he was designed to channel that much power ... so hence the sparking and the potential circuits frying.
But like you, this isn't my fic - that is just how I read and interpreted it
Welp, I'd call that a successful end to an era.
Now, how is Octavia going to find and follow Vinyl? Because you said before that their sequel story has them return to Equestria at the same time, despite being from different times.
An epic way to kill a nigh unkillable adversary.
The banter after Sigma's defeat and before Axl finished him was hilarious
So, Sigma is dead (for good this time), the story's plot lines have converged in such a way that the Zero series flat-out won't happen, and now the team (Gang? Group? Bizarre extended family? Call them whatever you like) is (nearly) set to work on a way to Mars, Equestria, or both, just as soon as Axl gets back and gets some needed repairs. And maybe some other things, I don't know for sure.
8183376
Super Brick Joke
I love it that Sigma was so focused on his plans that he didn't notice Axl's arm embedded into his chest until it happened. As the title already stated. Get Rekt!
Time for a victory party before the mission to mars!
With this, I feel the story approaching a conclusion. And the previous Mega Man story already ended, I happened to recall a cool robot battle, I had entirely forgotten about, and wish I'd recommended for ideas sooner. Especially in this story, as the use of melee/beam sabres, would've fit well, with a re-creation of this battle. The Afro Droid, from Afro Samurai.
8184095 HA! Called it!