Samuel152

HowardTheAwesome1

ReidTheSniper

Inside the crystal temple, the crystal gems and the maverick hunters went inside. They spent the last 2 hours explaining everything that had happened, namely the maverick hunters' appearance in beach city, and what the centipedes were...

"So, you guys mean to tell us you're from the future?" Asked lapis in awe

"it's a possibility, but I can't see the direct future they are all from..." said garnet adjusting her visor "perhaps...a different future?..."

"That could be possible," said X "we're not in Abel city, though..."

"if anything, we might be an...alternate timeline?" Wondered Zero as he had his hand on his chin in thought

"I think that might be it," thought axl

"Wait, an alternate timeline?" Asked steven

"yes, why do you ask?" Said zero as he turned his attention to steven

"I think I know what might have brought you guys here!" Said steven

"ya do?" Asked spinel, "what was it?"

"the thing!" Said Steven as he took out the hourglass orb out of his pockets "you pulled them out of time, didn't you!"

"steven!" Cried pearl, "you mean the hourglass pulled these 'reploid' humans here?"

"It could be possible," theorized garnet, "it is capable of transcending time."

"transcend time?" Asked zero concerned, "is that really what brought us here?"

"it could be zero." Said X, "but listen, Steven, if what you say is true, then could you please use that orb to help us get back home?"

"I would but did you guys just get here?" Asked Steven, "at least take the time to know people around here and get settled in"

"But, we don't belong here..." said X

"Neither do we," lapis stepped in, "and yet we still fought for this planet and made it our home."

"Whoa! Really?" Asked axl

"it's kinda a long story..." said spinel

"we'll when we got the time, we can all sit down and hear it," said zero "for now, we may need to rest for a while since we're not going anywhere anytime soon."

"I agree with zero," said iris "we'll need to learn more about our surroundings."

"Oh! Oh! You could settle in with my dad and me for the time being until we decide where you guys could stay, miss!" Said steven

"we would appreciate that," smiled iris "oh, and my name is iris."

"you're very welcome, iris," said Steven "beautiful name, by the way."

"*giggles* thank you, Mr steven," smiled iris.

"We would appreciate your hospitality, too, steven" nodded X

"that's great!" said steven "let's go see dad!"

"see you soon!" waved X as he and his friends and steven exited the temple.

The young gem hybrid led the maverick hunters to his father's garage near the "it's a wash" station. X and the others also meant to inform Greg Universe of his son's safety.

"Hi, dad!" Said Steven as he opened the door

"Schtu ball! You're okay!" Called Greg as he hugged his son as he rushed to him

"Mr universe, don't worry, your son is safe now," reassured X as he stepped forward.

"yeah! we made short work of those roach mavericks!" smirked Axl

"no wonder..." said Greg "they all seemed to have vanished after a while. I wonder what happened?"

"we've run into a bigger centipede, and when we destroyed him, the others seemed to have vanished into clouds of smoke," explained zero "though, I myself am just as puzzled."

"me too, zero," said Steven, "but at least beach city is safe!"

"yes, but now, we would like a place to stay, Mr universe," said iris.

"sure thing, iris," smiled Greg, "for right now, you're welcome to stay at the car wash, my van, or my U-Stor."

"U-stor?" asked X

"that's my storage facility," explained Greg, "but as I said, you're welcome to stay in any of my places if you like until we can settle on a home for you guys."

"thank you, Mr universe," said X

"no, X, I should be. Thank you and your friends for protecting my son alongside the crystal gems." smiled Greg.

"you're very welcome, Greg. We were just doing our duty as maverick hunters," nodded X

"still, it's very much appreciated," said Greg. "I'd like to talk to stchu ball here for a little while,"

"very well, Greg," nodded zero "in the meantime, we'd like to check out your U-stor."

"wait! while we're at it, we should pick up our rides too!" said Axl

"Oh! That's right!" Snapped X "we have to go back to the forest!"

"you got it!" Said Greg, "see you guys soon! I'll check up with you at my U-stor!"

"bye!!" Waved X as he and his friends made a dash for the forest for their ride chasers

After reaching their ride chasers, the maverick hunters rode to Greg's U-stor after finding him again. Then, after arriving at the formally rented storage facility, Greg was there waiting for them.

"Hi again, guys!" he greeted. "I see you got your rides."

"We sure did, Greg!" Said Axl stepping off of his ride chaser

"So you guys will be staying here for a while?" Asked Greg

"at least until we can find a proper place to stay in." added zero.

"I understand you guys; make yourselves at home here until then."

"thank you, Mr universe," smiled X as he and his fellow maverick hunters entered the storage unit.

"This seems like it'll have to do for a while..." said Axl as he looked around. "Greg's really packing a lot of stuff in here...."

"I'll say," said zero as he and iris moved into a clearing of the storage warehouse where they found two small windows and a small Tv. The maverick hunters all settled in the nearby chairs when something caught zero's eye.

"Is something wrong, zero?" Asked X

"I think I saw something in there..." said zero as he pointed in the direction of a slight pink shine. The crimson maverick hunter stood up and walked closer to the source of the pink light, followed by his best friend X

"What is that?" said X as he and zero saw the source, it looked like a bulky crystalline cannon that's almost shaped like a floral rose but closed,

"it looks like some kind of cannon..." thought zero as he then lifted the cannon as if it was a medium paperweight "maybe the crystal gems know about this?"

"I think they might," nodded axl

"Hopefully, we'll find out more tomorrow..." said iris "for now, let's rest. I'm sure we'll have a lot to do."

"you're right, iris," smiled zero as he set the cannon down right next to his spot as he sat back down, and the maverick hunters rested for the evening.

The next day, x and zero were outside the storage unit with axl and iris at the back door of the storage unit.

Suddenly they heard footsteps coming towards them. It was amethyst and Steven.

"how do we stop it?" Asked axl

"the only thing powerful enough to destroy the red-eye is the Laser light cannon that belonged to rose quartz." said garnet as she adjusted her visor

"laser light cannon?" asked iris.

"if rose were here, this would be so easy!" Groaned amethyst

"I know, but she's not here, and the cannon is missing," said pearl

"The cannon is missing?" Asked X, "since when was it missing? What happened to it?"

"We...had the cannon for a long time before the rebellion ended, and we've been fighting these corrupted gems," explained pearl "after we met Greg, somehow the cannon turned missing."

"What would rose have done?" Asked X,

"well, she would..." thought pearl even she was unsure about her supposed owner's mindset "uh...find another solution?"

"Hey!" Said Steven, "if it belonged to my mom, I bet my dad knows where it is! He can help us save the day!"

"that's a good place to start!" Agreed axl smirking

"I agree!" Nodded zero his detective skills coming into effect

"I believe so, steven," smiled iris "let's go see your father."

"Yeah!" cried steven, waiting for the crystal gems to agree "eh? Eh? eh?"

The gems were silent for a little bit, hesitant to explain their distrust of Greg because they believed that Greg took their leader rose quartz, from them by rose giving up her physical form to give birth to her son, steven. Pearl held the most animosity more than any of them.

"Greg is...nice Steven," pearl said nervously, "but I doubt rose would entrust someone like him with such a powerful weapon."

"But don't you think rose would have trusted you all with where the cannon is?" Replied X pointing out maybe this rose wasn't as bright or as perfect the crystal gems thought she was

the crystal gems then fell silent, realizing the blue maverick hunter had a point about rose, including Steven, even pearl couldn't bring herself to retort, and all she could do was stutter, unsure of what to counter with

"ya know, the blue guy has a point," thought bismuth.

While pearl was stuttering to herself, zero was in deep thought, a laser light cannon? He could have sworn he and his fellow hunters saw a huge pink crystalline cannon back at the U-Stor when they were resting.

"wait a minute," zero stepped in, focusing steven and the crystal gems' attention on him "what exactly did this laser light cannon look like?"

"Well..." said pearl as she showed a hologram of the laser light cannon in it's accurate appearance from her forehead gemstone steven watching the hologram with awe, "rose's light cannon is a large sundown pink cannon like powerful weapon made up of crystalline material. It's bulky and hefty but still powerful."

Zero looked at the hologram of the cannon in thought along with X, axl, and iris, almost ignoring pearl's verbal description of it, placing a hand on his chin. The crimson maverick hunter then saw a connection...the shape, the form, it all matches the same cannon he and the other hunters saw last night!

"...why do you ask?" Finished pearl

"Because what if I told you..." said zero "steven's father DOES have the laser light cannon."

the gems gasped so did steven, but then he looked at zero with stars in his eyes

"you mean it zero?" cried steven

"yep," nodded zero, "I think we saw a cannon of pearl's description while we were at that U-stor thing."

"Yeah, I could have sworn it looked like a cannon from what it looked like back then," thought axl.

"you might be right, zero!" agreed X "let's go check it out!"

"Yeah!" cheered steven

"But, it's impossible!" snapped pearl holding her head in disbelief.

"why?" asked x, zero and steven

"well...because there's no way she would have entrusted the cannon to a human!" replied pearl

"and yet you don't seem to think for a moment that humans are just as capable as we are?" sneered zero crossing his arms deciding to defend humanity, despite the fact zero never considered himself a hero "humans built us robots and reploids in the first place, so it's obvious that teamwork and collaboration should be no different for them In this scenario."

"I don't appreciate your tone." said pearl sternly

"get used to it then..." countered Zero, not having any of it with pearl.

"We should go now, we have to hurry, or the red-eye will collide with earth!" cried X bringing everyone back on task

"right!" nodded axl, zero and iris

"let's go!" cried steven, just about to leave.

"We can handle this, steven," insisted garnet, and she turned to amethyst "ready?"

amethyst nodded, and then garnet grabbed jumped up high, spinning and then tossed amethyst into the red-eye, but when amethyst made the impact, it was not very effective, and amethyst slid off of the scout ship into the ocean below

"that doesn't look like handling it to me..." quipped axl iris nodded with him as she knew even his brother, the colonel, could almost come up with a better solution than just throwing people at things

"Yeah, we're gonna go," said steven

"we're on our way, steven!" cried X, the maverick hunters and iris following him and steven

"Okay...good luck wasting your precious time..." waved pearl.

"speak for yourself, pearl..." groaned lapis with her arms crossed with a disapproving face.

"lapis Ain't wrong ya know?" Added bismuth "we ain't even making a crack on that thing!"

"I KNOW! RIGHT!!" Cried amethyst in the distance swimming back to shore

"You know what? I'm going with them!" Cried lapis spreading out her water like wings and flying to follow the maverick hunters

"me too!" Said spinel changing her feet into springs to hop after lapis and join the maverick hunters

The maverick hunters and steven, led by zero, ran as fast as possible to the U Stor unit. They went across Greg first and let him know they needed to find rose quartz's laser light cannon.

"It should be where we were last night..." said zero while running with the maverick hunters and Steven towards the storage unit with the others seeing Greg at the U-stor up ahead; however, behind them was lapis and spinel following, wanting to see if zero and Steven were right

"dad! dad!" cried steven as he saw Greg, his father

"sthu ball!" cried Greg hugging his son "what are you guys doing here? I was just going to clean up my storage unit."

"Mr universe, we're sorry to intrude," replied mega man X, "but we need to look into your storage unit where we were resting yesterday."

"of course, you can look inside, but why do you guys need to look into my storage?" asked Greg raising an eyebrow

"We need to find something called a laser light cannon to blast something out of the sky," answered zero.

"what do we need to shoot out of the sky?" said Greg, confused

"to shoot down the red-eye, dad! look!" cried steven as he pointed a finger at the incoming red eye, which was somehow on a collision course for the earth, seeing amethyst get thrown at it again only to fail again

"idiots..." thought zero in his head as he facepalmed at the sight of the crystal gems' narrow-mindedness and lack of imagination.

"seriously!?" said axl, almost as if reading zero's mind, "they already tried that!"

"that's what we said!" rang a voice. It was lapis lazuli swooping down from above with spinel following her.

"lapis! spinel!" cried steven with stars in his eyes, happy to see two of his five favorite crystal gem friends

"hiya, ste man!!" replied spinel as she stretched her arms over to hug her brother-in-law.

"oh my..." gasped iris.

"what the!?" said X surprised amazed by spinel's ability to extend her body.

"What's up?" Asked spinel while she hugged steven

"you can extend your arms?" asked X

"Sure I can!" smiled spinel as she let go of steven and focused her attention on dr light's greatest creation's amazement "gems can shapeshift after all!"

"just like me?" replied axl reminding him of the new generation repliod's ability to shapeshift as well using their

built-in copy chips

"yeah! wait, what?" said spinel, baffled

"We can demonstrate later, guys," reminded lapis "we've got bigger problems right now."

"she's right," nodded X. "Mr universe, we need to look inside the storage unit again where we rested yesterday."

"oh yeah, that," said Greg, "that laser light cannon you guys mentioned, yeah! I think you guys can have a look!"

"Thanks, dad!" cheered steven as he and the others headed to the front door of the U-Stor.

"allow me," said zero as he gripped the bottom of the metal door to the storage unit and lifted it all the way open almost effortlessly.

"whoa..." said Greg, "you're pretty darn strong, ain't you?"

"you bet" nodded zero as many would expect no less from dr wily's greatest creation's power and strength.

"How far do we need to go inside?" asked steven

"If I remember right," thought zero, as he pointed at the path where they went into when the hunters rested yesterday, "that cannon should be at the far back of the storage unit."

"Okay, let's check it out," said X, "but we have to hurry before collision!"

Steven and the maverick hunters wasted no time going into the storage unit. The maverick hunters had cleared most of the path due to moving the stuff inside out of the way when the hunters were staying for the night, making it easier to navigate through the mess that laid ahead until...

"over there!" said steven, seeing the pink crystalline cannon. "is that what we're looking for?"

"yeah!" smiled zero "that's the one we saw last night!"

X and Zero went over to the laser light cannon and picked it up, and began to haul it out of the storage unit.

"guys!" cried X, "I think we've found the cannon!!"

"I thought it was still in there!!" smiled Greg

"well, what do you know!" cheered lapis lazuli, amazed that her newfound friends flung from the future were right "she did leave it with him after all!"

"Great job, guys," waved spinel, "but now we have to hurry. The red-eye will hit the earth any minute now!"

"you got it, spinel!" nodded axl as he looked at the cannon "soon as we figure out how to get it working."

"how do we activate this laser light cannon?" asked X

"well..." thought lapis trying to remember rose saying any about how to activate the laser light cannon but had no luck due to rose's addiction to secrecy. "I wish I knew...if only rose quartz had told us about the light cannon and how to work it..."

"now that you think about it..." said spinel, "she never told me about it either..."

"aw, man...I wish mom would have told any of us about the cannon," sighed steven, knowing the planet is doomed without the cannon's functionality.

"oh dear..." worried iris knowing her brother's superior. The General of the repliforce wouldn't hide how their weapons would work, and neither would the maverick hunters "this isn't looking good..."

"well, if every pork chop were perfect," said Greg, "we wouldn't have hot dogs."

suddenly just as Greg said that the laser light cannon began to glow, and the top started to bloom like a rose

"what the hey!?" cried zero as he and the others saw the cannon

"that actually worked?!" gasped mega man X

"It worked!" cheered Steven.

"Thank you, Mr universe," smiled X, "and now we must hurry back to the others."

"Right!" everyone cried as they raced back to the crystal temple with X and zero carrying the laser light cannon, almost like a paperweight. Greg was almost suggesting they use his van, but the others could manage with X and Zero's strength.

"look! the red-eye has almost here!" cried lapis, pointing at the sky

"oh no!" gasped Iris, running with the others back to the beach.

"We must hurry!" cried X. This almost reminds him and zero of the Eurasia space colony incident

a few minutes the maverick hunters made it back to the crystal gems who were still throwing amethyst at the red eye

"throw me again!" groaned amethyst. "I think I'm cracking it!"

"it looks like you haven't been doing anything to it in THE LAST 10 MINUTES!!" snapped lapis, already having enough of the gems' ignorance. "I thought you said we needed rose's cannon to destroy it!"

"I did," said garnet, "gems! they got it!"

"h-he he actually had it!?" stammered pearl "but how!?"

"if you actually listen to us and the other humans, you might learn something!" snapped X

"Okay, let's get this thing working," said Steven "now what was it? That dad said earlier?"

"I think it was if every porkchop were perfect, we would have hot dogs," said X

Just as X said it, again, the laser light cannon started to glow. Now it was time to aim the cannon,

"quick! aim it!" cried iris

lapis spinel steven zero, and the other crystal gems helped aim the laser light cannon at the red-eye. meanwhile, X again assumed his first armor

"axl!" cried X while preparing a secret technique gathering blue energy in his hands

"you got it, X!" acknowledged Axl and then glowed brightly as he used his Copy chip to shapeshift into one of the deadliest mavericks the hunters have ever encountered, Ninetails

"whoa..." said spinel, "he can shapeshift like us?"

"in a manner of speaking, yes," said Axl, his voice assuming ninetails' own accent.

"it's right on target!" confirmed Zero "everyone! now!"

"fire!" cried Iris, almost sounding like her brother the colonel for a minute.

"if every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dog!" cried steven, causing the laser light cannon to fire a beam almost resembling rose quartz's form and figure at the red eye

"HADOUKEN!" Cried X, thrusting his hands forward firing a large blue ball

"ANNIHILATOR HADOUKEN!" Cried Axl as Ninetails also thrust his hands forward, firing a similar projectile but a straightforward beam

The combined power of the laser light cannon and the twin hadoukens vaporized the red-eye, sending it's debris into the ocean as most of the remained had been destroyed by the blast before it could hit beach city any falling debris were shot down by X and axl

"good job, you guys!" cheered amethyst "you all saved the town!"

"Mission accomplished!" nodded, raising an arm in triumph zero and axl joining him.

"oh, thank goodness!" nodded iris.

"yes, the red-eye has been stopped," sighed pearl in relief, "but how did you get the cannon to work?"

"It turns out it needed a passphrase to activate," explained zero.

"like a magic word?" asked steven

"something like that," answered zero, shrugging.

"I think It happened when I said the thing is usually said," theorized Greg.

"the pork chops?" questioned pearl.

"yeah, that 'if every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs' thing," thought bismuth "rose always seemed to like that."

"no wonder she put that as vocal confirmation for the laser light cannon," garnet concluded.

"yeah, but that could be an issue if any of us forget that phrase..." said bismuth. "I might have to adjust it when I take the light cannon back to the forge..."

"forge?" asked X

"oh, sorry, I'm the gems' blacksmith," said bismuth. "I make and design their weapons and armor they need for our missions."

"a gem blacksmith?" thought mega man X "interesting..."

"yep, it sure is, when I get down to bismuth!" chuckled the crystal gem blacksmith

X raised an eyebrow, clearly not getting the joke at all, but axl was chuckling.

"uh, I don't think they all get it, bismuth..." said spinel rubbing her head, "except that guy."

"Oh, sorry, guys..." said bismuth.

"Hey, it's alright," said X Although axl would crack a few jokes here and there, it was not to this level of comedy. "I'm just not that used to jokes, is all."

"Thanks, uh...X was it?" said bismuth, in which the blue reploid nodded "well, I guess we better be getting down to bismuth on cleaning up and securing the light cannon in case we need it again."

"Okay, bismuth," nodded Greg "steven and I need to go back to clean up the car wash anyways."

"Okay, dad," nodded steven.

"We better get going too," said zero as he and the hunters turned to leave "call us again if you need us!"

"we will!" cried lapis "see ya!!"

"bye, guys!" waved axl as he left alongside the hunters back to the storage unit.

the crystal gems and the maverick hunters went back to representative homes for the day as Greg and steven then went to have some father and son bonding time at the carwash bismuth then took the light cannon back to her forge and worked on it to create a failsafe feature on the laser light cannon should any of the crystal gems need to use it someday in the future but can't remember the passphrase

in the storage unit, the maverick hunters seemed suspicious of rose not telling the gem that she left the laser light cannon and didn't tell any of them how to work when they needed it if it weren't for steven or zero finding out about the cannon beach city would have been destroyed it seems rose quartz has not told them everything and keeping secrets from them even from beyond the grave, but the maverick hunters decided to keep an eye out for more activity like that among the crystal gems until further notice

the next day, however, steven went to the storage unit of the maverick hunters, having worked out a more permeant residence for the hunters to rest and be available when the crystal gems needed them

"guys! guys!" steven called in, opening the door. "I think we figured out a new home for you guys!"

"where at?" asked axl

"the beach city lighthouse," said Steven, "and the best part is you guys will be nearby us at the crystal temple on top of the hill slope where it's at!"

"that's wonderful news!" smiled iris beaming with happiness

"Okay then," smiled mega man X, "lead the way, steven!"

Steven and the maverick hunters all then headed to the Beach city lighthouse to establish their new home in the past to protect the people of the past and future...

WEAPON GET!

X GOT QUINTET-LIGHT CANNON

Normal shot fires five intense beams of peach-pink light that either home in on targets or form a more powerful beam.Charged shot, ten more peach-pink light beams are fired, forming a continuous barrage or become a massive, devastating laser.

ZERO LEARNED 天光波 TENKŌHA

Zero punches the ground making pink beams of light rain down from the sky like a meteor shower.

AXL ACQUIRED LIGHT BAZOOKA

fires an intense peach pink blast which causes enormous area damage

Author's note sorry it's been months since I last posted a chapter on this story, and I'm pretty frustrated with myself for that, but I'm glad I finally wrote in a chapter on mega man crystal hunter X. Be sure to tune in next time as the hunters establish their new home in beach city and receive their new mission from the crystal gems in learning about each other.