MEGAMAN X3 - THE FIGHT FOR EVERLASTING PEACE Wars are never good. Whether they're for greed or justice, it never is good. As long as the fight for victory continues, lives will be lost. In this existing reign of reploids, the mind that controls the body is by far the most dangerous weapon ever to be created. Some use it for the good of mankind. Some, for their own selfish reasons. As long as one is willing to chip in and help, he or she might not create miracles but their actions will leave an ever-lasting impression in the hearts of those who want a better life. Survival is vital to all. The wars against good and evil carries on. Yet those who know him will never forget his daring and courageous attempts to help make peace between humans and reploids. He is the one who will be there to fight our wars against evil. His name is Yakasa and his title is known to all as Megaman X. CHAPTER ONE - THE DEVIL HIMSELF Yakasa walked on. Once he steps inside Sigma's fortress,he knew he would never step out of it alive. But yet he knew that he cannot depart from this world till he has rid the earth of Sigma. Already too many humans and reploids have fallen prey to the current masscare. Even his best buddy Zero died in this war in the hands of Bit and Byte who both later succumbed to the forces of X himself. There is now no turning back. Destorying a wall, an opening was form and Yakasa moved in. The interior of the fortress was much simplier than he had anticipated. There was just one way that led to a wooden door. From where he was, Yakasa could hear music being played from a piano. Walking forward, he smashed the door and entered an extremely spacious room with a piano in its middle. There was a figure playing the piano and Yakasa instantly recognized the figure. " The humans call this a piano " said the figure. " And they consider playing the piano an art. " Yakasa took a step towards the figure whose image was reflected in his white, gleaming armour. " Composers are said to be born with talent " the figure continued. " Yet we, the reploids are also born with talents. If not, how was it possible that you were able to defeat me in the past? " Yakasa's nerves channelled his energy to his left elbow that triggered a system which turned his left arm to a cannon with a rectangular opening. " I see that you've become stronger since our last battle " said the figure. " But then Dr Doppler has also given me a new body to deal with you. Do not underestimate me Yakasa. I've cheated death once and have risen from the dead so as to execute my revenge on you. " " VAVA ! I WILL DESTORY YOU ! " " GO AHEAD AND TRY, MEGAMAN X. SHOW ME WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF. " No more words were necessary. Blows and plasma shots were exchanged as both reploids tore at each other's throats. Two very distinctive weapons could be seen on Vava. One was a semi-long cannon that was fixed onto his right shoulder and shot out heat inferno while on his left shoulder laid a three hole homing missle barrel. The battle was carried on outside the room. The shots fired soon destoryed a good section of the wall and both reploids dashed further into the fortress. They then ended up in a desolated city. " Yakasa! Feel the warth of my inferno! " With this, an extremely intense heat flame was fired towards X. Upon noticing, Yakasa quickly and smoothly dashed out of the way. His senses tingled as he noticed six homing missles coming down upon him. Too late! The missles crashed onto him and an explosion followed. " You fell into my trap Yakasa. " shouted Vava in pride. " You never were a match for me ! You were just too...what?...Impossible ! " Yakasa stood about 20 metres away from Vava. In his hand he gripped a shield made out of ice. " This is Blizzard Buffalo's Freeze Ability ! " shouted Vava in rage and shock. How is it that you were able to use it? " There was no reply from Yakasa. Instead he charged over with his arm tramsformed into a Drill and aimed straight for Vava. Vava took out a small shield from his back and countered that attack. Even though that shield could not hold out Yakasa's Drill for long, it brought him enough time to fire an inferno shot directly at Yakasa's face. " ARRAGGHH ! " shouted X as he fell back. Upon recovery, he fired a three charged shot at Vava who dodged it easily. Suddenly Vava's heat sensor detected something from behind and he ducked down just in time as a long beam shot came from behind. Vava struck his fist back and caught Yakasa in the jaw. With that, he once more fired an inferno at Yakasa who staggered back. Vava opened his foot trottles to full and charged over towards Yakasa with full speed. " My desire to kill you is beyond mere words! " shouted Vava as he grabbed Yakasa's face and dashed on. " My body might be given to me by Doppler but my spirit is given to me by the devil himself ! " At this, Vava ramed Yakasa's head into a wall that gave way and into a building they went. Releasing his grip on Yakasa, Yakasa himself further smashed into another wall and finally stopped till seconds later - all the time that Vava needed to dash out of the building. Charging his shoulder cannon to maximum, Vava released an eighty thousand degree celsius heat inferno towards the building that instantly went up in flames. " Burn Yakasa. Burn. Feel the heat of hell. Be consumed in it. " Soon, all that remained was a huge pile of ashes and rubble. Vava walked towards the rubble he had just created. In his heart, he was pleased that his enemy was finally gotten rid of. Then out of the blue, a hand rose from behind and with great speed, that hand tore Vava's Shoulder cannon away. Vava jumped to a side and looked. There, was Yakasa holding onto the torn off cannon. Letting the cannon drop onto the rubble, Yakasa charged over and laid a kick onto Vava's chest who fell back. Yakasa made no attempt to slow down and rained blows onto Vava. Vava after a while finally reacted to this and sommersaulted back. " I cannot die yet." said Yakasa to Vava. " If I do, then there will be no one to stop devils like you. " " NOOOOOOO... It can't be. What does it take to kill you? Why can't I defeat you? " In his frenzy, Vava release a whole barrel of thirty missles. Yet none managed to hit Yakasa who stood a distance off. Panting, Vava shouted a cry and ran over. Fist clenched and ready to strike Yakasa. Waiting for his opponent to strike, Yakasa got into a stance and calmly blocked the blow inflicted. Undaunted by this, Vava immediately did a scissors kick that struck Yakasa on the head. Blood flowed from his injury but Yakasa appeared unaffected by this. Instead, he grabbed hold of the leg that Vava struck and dashed towards the tallest building he can see. Injured and not in proper position, Vava was unable to retaliate nor fire his missles. " What are you doing ? Let me go ! " shouted Vava but to no avail. Yakasa, still holding tightly onto Vava's leg did a multiple jump onto a hundred and twenty storey building. Every jump he took, he release a jet of trust to help him jumped further up the vertical wall. Finally, Yakasa reached the hundred storey but he went no further. Turning round, Yakasa grabbed hold of Vava's face and releasing his leg trottles to maximum speed bursts, Yakasa aimed straight for the ground below. Both reploids fell from the hundredth storey. Each second causing their fall to be heavier due to earth's gravitational pull. " No, Yakasa. I must'nt die. I must finish you off. I came back to life so as to kill you! I can't leave now." There was a mere silence as both reploids came in close to the ground below. Then a deafening metallic smash was heard. Pieces of the ground gave way. When the dust and debris had cleared. Vava laid motionless. Joints broken and internal circuits smashed. Much of his circulatary fuel had already splattered onto the ground. Yakasa stood up. Apparently, he had used Vava's body as an impact breaker by falling onto Vava himself. All that remained of Vava was his lifeless metallic body. Yakasa took a last look at his opponent and walked on towards the dark abyess. " And now Sigma. It's your turn. " END OF CHAPTER ONE The story you've just read is translated by Redflute from the manga comics. Redflute has absolutely no part in creating the original concept and idea. The translation was done because Redflute wants others out there to know what's going on in the MMX manga world and also for those who have the comic but can't understand Japanese nor Mandarin. Original comic and story is done by YOSHIHIRO IWAMOTO. Comments or suggestions? 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