Sigma floated back with his gun held lightly in his hand. "So you think you can handle me, is that it kid?" he taunted as he leveled the weapon and started firing.
Axl spun the scythe rapidly, generating an energy shield that deflected the shots. "I am the leader of Red Alert, successor to Red himself, trained and raised by his hand into a warrior worthy to hold this weapon!" Stopping the spin, he swung, turning the energy shield into a projectile discus, forcing Sigma to fade out of the way of the blast. "I will see you destroyed for what you did to my men!"
"That makes this the end of the leadership challenge then, doesn't it?" Sigma laughed as he warped behind Axl, delivering a hard backhand to the back of his head to send him flying. "I guess I'll just have to take that weapon off your cold dead-" The image of Axl faded and vanished. "What?"
Axl reappeared in front of Sigma, unleashing a flurry of blows with the spinning weapon against the Maverick Commander. "Did you really think I spent so long with X, Zero, and Mom without picking up a few tricks? The techniques may be old and outdated, but Varia still has them in her systems, and the old techniques use less energy, and can be combined."
"Soul Body and Chameleon Sting?" X gasped out in shock.
"Clever," Zero praised, staying back out of range of the spinning scythe.
Growling, Sigma faded back out of range. "Clever, but I won't fall for the same trick twice-" He let out a yelp as he tried to dodge out of range of the scythe thrown like a discus, only for it to split into several copies, many smashing into him before fading while the last boomeranged back to Axl's hands as the effect of the charged Boomer Cutter wore off.
"No, you'll fall for different ones!" Axl roared out as his body burst into flames before lunging forward in Speed Burner, the scythe spinning rapidly around him like a crazed electron around and a flaming proton.
Sigma desperately tried to evade, only to take a heavy blow that sheared off an entire shoulder pauldron. Screaming in pain, he shot back down to the platform the battle took place around. As he landed, he hefted his gun to his shoulders, supercharging it and firing off a massive blast straight at Axl. Before everyone's eyes, it looked as though Axl had been incinerated. "Hah!" Sigma shouted out in triumph. "You are nothing to me! X and Zero may have unlimited power, but you are-"
The beam petered out as Axl split the power cables feeding it from behind, having made use of Dark Hold to evade the blast and waited just long enough behind Sigma for him to have committed the majority of his energy to the attack. "I'm part of their family," Axl said simply. "And I have more tricks than you could possibly imagine." Spinning, he broke Sigma's armor completely with a heavy blow of the scythe shaft.
Sigma staggered back, growling in rage. "You think it's so easy to beat me?" His eyes glowed brightly. "And what of your friends? Will you let them-"
"Don't bother," Axl interrupted as he once more transformed...into Sigma. "I've already downloaded enough of your DNA Data to completely block the control signal you use to remotely manipulate my men. And now that you've actually attempted to broadcast the signal, I've analyzed it enough I don't even have to be in your form to block it...or even be anywhere near them." He reverted back to his own form. "As a temporary measure, the control codes for that override are now keyed to my RDNA code. It'll only work if I send the signal. And I'm not about to take free will away from my men."
Sigma leapt to his feet, lunging for Axl only to be knocked away. "You think this is the end?" he roared out angrily.
"I think so," Axl stated firmly, bringing his scythe down and out, ready to deliver a lethal blow. "This time, you're done for...once and for all."
Sigma began to chuckle. "You know, I thought it would be X and Zero who pushed me this far. I even thought it might be that bloody pony. But I never thought it would be a brat like you." He staggered backward, watching carefully as Axl followed, maintaining the lethal distance. He then stopped and grinned widely. "But you aren't the only one aware of the strength of the past!"
A shot rang out.
"Axl, get down!" Octavia shouted out, dashing forward as fast as Varia's systems could manage to knock Axl to the side before the depleted uranium round could punch through his skull.
X and Zero immediately brought up their weapons towards the source, and both gasped out in shock. "Vile!"
The armored former Hunter was once more revived and violent, his armor having changed from the purple it originally had been or the blue Doppler had colored it, now a bright green and yellow as his active camouflage deactivated. "Hello boys and girls," he greeted teasingly. "Miss me?"
"Who's that?" Axl asked curiously as Sigma leapt up to beside Vile.
"An annoying headache that should have stayed gone," Octavia growled out angrily.
"I'd love to stay and chat, but that'd give you too much knowledge of my new capabilities for next time," Vile teased maliciously. "And don't doubt that there will be a next time. You haven't seen the last of either of us." Both Vile and Sigma vanished.
X, Zero, and Axl clenched their fists in rage. Octavia pawed the ground angrily, snorting in fury. But it was too late to stop them.
They'd won the battle...but the war had begun all over again.
I never understood why Vile wasn't in X7, but it was nice to see him included here
Aw yeah! X8 here we come!
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Axl is strong with the force of the old programs.
Guess Axl signalled Sigma's defeat quite clearly there.
What a Vile way to make an exit.
GENIUS!!! PURE GENIUS!!!
Yay, we get to see him get killed for the third time!!!
Well, Axl is a certified Badass if he can keep on doing tricks with the old special weapons. I can't wait to see what other tricks and moves he can pull off.
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and i called it my last commet said i call a epic solobattle and there was
Well, this was fun to read.
That was most fun. May I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
So, the scythe's position can only be described as a diffuse cloud of places it probably is?
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Well, I thought I'd take another swing at this but my puns just won't cut it.
Looks like Sans took charge again.
Dang it, Sigma! That was so... so... VILE!
Huh. I thought making puns was going to be a blast but rereading the puns rubbed my shoulder the wrong way.
Well, I actually predicted him reflecting Sigma's attacks. Hold on... am I the only one that thinks Axl is a changeling? He changes form, he's black with a blue orb, and he has been getting family-type love recently.
I'm really enjoying Axl's fighting style, this is great.
Ah, Axl. So good to see him single handily pwn Sigma.
Nevermind. I forgot the cardinal rule of this universe: Tension does not exist.
I think I'm starting to get the "Rule of Cool", now. It isn't enough that the main character has to do something batshit insane, but there has to be some way for the other side to counter. Imagine the coolest fight you've ever seen. Now, think about why that scene is cool, and what the characters had to do to earn that scene. It isn't enough that the characters are firing punches at 1/googolplex a second, or that there's a beam struggle that could determine the fate of reality itself. You need to care about the characters, what they're fighting for, and how they're fighting.
I care about Axl. He's cool enough, and there's not much about him that has me rolling my eyes aside from the whole Octavia momsense. He's fighting for his comrades who are in bad shape, and could potentially lose them forever as brain farts because Sigma's a dick, so he pulls every trick in the book to end him once and for all.
Sigma... Sigma is a complete joke. Take Hercule, mix him with Haze Shenron, and you'll have a proper approximation of what Sigma is in this story. He only serves as a punching bag to make the protagonists win, and nothing else. There's nothing interesting about him or his way of thinking, due in part to the superficial manner this story is structured, and for nothing of interest being done to present him as being totally insane, but maybe having a point.
This fight is basically if Ichigo Kurosaki had to fight Klaus Von Affenkugel; regardless of how much Ichigo wants to exact vengeance on him, it's offset by the fact this guy is a horrible excuse for a rival who can't put up jackshit for a fight.
It's basically Superman vs. Steppenwolf from the Justice League movie all over again, and I understand why people hate that movie a little better now.
Don't you just love it when the characters say what they're doing instead of the story showing what they do, and what they do end up doing turns out to be really lackluster and destroys all conflict of a given scene, all while it spans two or three sentences?
I think you're selling God Empress Televangelist Principal Arch-Duke Octavia a little short, there. Don't you know; she can wipe you out just by blinking!
Shouldn't Octavia have taken him out mid-monologue by climbing on his body and firing a Hadouken by now?
Oh hey, it's that one character I mentioned once who I thought had lots of potential. Let's see what happens.
Huh, okay. Let's see what they do going forward, I guess.
the battle is won, but the war begins anew, challanges await our heroes, but axl showcased here just how powerful he really is, managing to best sigma to the point he needed backup to take him on.