Samuel152

RoseTheMagicalFlower

HowardTheAwesome1

ReidTheSniper

AUTHOR'S NOTE sorry to keep you all waiting, everyone. Writing has been a little slow on this story lately; I'm worried it might take me years to finish it. I feel the same way about the other stories I've written.

I'm determined to see them through, however, and make them as entertaining as possible if I ever lose interest and my stories become incomplete as a result.

Anyway, thank you all for your patience, and Please enjoy this latest chapter of Mega Man Crystal Hunter X.

Making their way to the top of the large hill overlooking the crystal temple, the maverick hunters X, Zero, Axl, and Iris followed Steven to a tall lighthouse, where they saw Greg and Garnet waiting for them.

"hi, sthu ball!" waved Greg. "I see you've brought our new friends here."

"Yeah, I have, dad!" nodded steven "hi, garnet!"

"Hello, steven," greeted garnet, steven's Adoptive Square mother.

"Is this it?" asked X "a lighthouse?"

"Yeah, we figured it'd be the best place for you guys to stay after what happened," said Greg. "I still can't thank you all enough for saving my son and beach city yesterday and the day before."

"you're welcome, Mr. Universe," nodded mega man X "we were just doing our duty as maverick hunters."

"That's real generous of you," said Greg, "and please just call me Greg."

"sure thing Greg," said mega man X,

"Are you sure we'll be fine inside this lighthouse?" asked zero.

"yes," nodded garnet, "after your performance the past two days, I believe you four will become valuable members of the crystal gems."

"you really believe we will?" asked X, seemingly doubting this invitation.

"I have foreseen it," smirked garnet, a light shining on her visor and shining behind it, her third eye, "in the future"

"What?" cried the hunters and iris in shock

"yes, I can see the future using my future vision," explained garnet, "but it's not 100% accurate."

"interesting," said iris, almost looking a little shy

"yeah, garnet has a habit of doing that. Sorry guys," said Steven, "anyways, I hope you all like your new home here!"

"I think...we will, steven," said X, "but where are all the supplies inside the lighthouse?"

"Hey, don't worry about it. Steven and I took care of all that," said Greg. "I think you'll find them on each floor inside the lighthouse."

"we'll look at them, Greg. Thank you," said Mega man X

"we'd appreciate this new home of ours," said Axl

"Please make yourselves at home," said garnet. "I believe you will have a big day ahead soon."

"we'll face it when it comes," the confident crimson maverick hunter said.

"I hope you guys like you're new home!" said Steven as he, his father Greg, and garnet prepared to leave them "we'll see you all soon!"

"bye, steven!" waved X as he and the maverick hunters settled in the lighthouse. They had much to do to get settled in beach city.

The next few days passed quickly. The maverick hunters had sorted out all the supplies given to them by steven and Greg. They placed the supplies on each floor of the lighthouse.

It was a long and challenging job, but X zero, axl, and iris completed their new home in beach city. Still, they were soon worried about what had been happening back in their world in their timeline.

Commander Signas would undoubtedly be worried, and so would repliforce, especially iris' brother, the colonel. The time-displaced hunters were hoping they could at least let them know where they were while they got settled in beach city for the time being

One day in beach city, there was a knock at the door on the top floor of the lighthouse. Iris went to answer.

"oh! hello, garnet," greeted iris.

"Hello, Iris," nodded garnet. "I've come to speak with your friends."

"X zero and axl?" said Iris. "Oh sure, they're here, this way."

Iris led garnet to the center of the room. X and zero stood overlooking the window while axl was lying down, twirling one of his Handguns.

"X, Zero garnet is here, and she wants to see you." Spoke iris.

"garnet?" said Mega man X. "hello! how are you?"

"I'm doing fine, thank you," replied the embodiment of the romance between Ruby and Sapphire of ages past "how are you and the others here?"

"we're doing fine," nodded X, "is there any trouble?'

"no trouble yet," said garnet. Adjusting her visor, "but otherwise, we're doing well ourselves."

"That's great to hear," said X trying to shake off the ominous feeling "what are you doing here, by the way?"

"I'm here because I would like to ask you to join us for training," answered garnet "if you and your friends are going to help us out, we need to see what each of you can do. One at a time, however."

"we'd be happy to oblige you," said zero "which of us will go first?"

"We decided that we would see X's skills first," said garnet pointing to the blue reploid

"me?" Said, X

"yes, if you would, come with me to the crystal temple, and we will begin," nodded garnet

"Okay, garnet, I'm on my way," said mega man x as he turned to the others. "I'll be back soon, guys."

"we'll be here, X," said axl, the young prototype new generation reploid recruit

"good luck, X," nodded zero adding a thumbs up to His best friend, to which X returned in kind.

Garnet took the maverick Hunter to the crystal temple, where they discussed the training at the sky temple, where they would test mega man x and his various special weapons.

Soon enough, garnet and X warped to the sky temple with lapis, pearl, amethyst, steven, and spinel.

"here we are," said Pearl, "the sky temple!"

"wow.. so it's like a flying platform?" asked X

"Yeah, you could say that," nodded lapis as they all stepped into the arena of the flying temple. "this is where we usually train any crystal gem recruits."

"Amazing..." awed X as he examined the surrounding floating arena. This was where one of the first fights against the crystal gems' homeworld Gemtalsis tyranny began.

"Before we begin, I would like to tell you that after you're done, we will have your friends Zero and Axl along for training in separate sessions," explained pearl. "now, for today's training lesson, you are to show us more of your special skills against multiple holo pearls."

"holo pearls?" asked mega man x "would be holograms of you?"

"Why yes," nodded pearl, "after you and your friend's performance from what we gathered from lapis, bismuth, and spinel, you seem to have extraordinary abilities from that weapon that comes from your arm, but garnet says that may not be all of them, so we wish to see more."

"Okay," nodded X, "is there anything else I should know?"

"yes, if possible, we would see how good you are with a psychical melee weapon like a sword," said pearl

Megaman x

Upon seeing X accept the challenge, pearl got to work on materializing the holo pearls as a beam shot out from pearl's forehead gemstone and constructed a hard light copy of pearl, but with empty eyes, pearl soon produced more until there were 30 holo pearls. Long ago, pearl programmed the ability to materialize multiple holo pearls at once for various training sessions for the crystal gems into her internal systems.

"Woah, that's a lot of holo pearls," said steven in awe.

"you don't know the half of it, steven," giggled lapis, the water goddess of the crystal gems.

"yeah, but something tells me it's gonna be one heck of an exhibition," nodded amethyst, eagerly anticipating the battle ahead.

"be careful, X!" cried steven from the bleachers

"I will, steven, don't worry about me!" nodded X, then turned to face his hard light foes.

"do you wish to engage in combat?" asked the holo pearls monotonously.

Usually, X hated violence, but this is training, so unless he shows what he can do, he won't be able to win the crystal gems' trust. So the blue maverick Hunter clenched his right fist and had his X-buster armed and ready, then he took aim.

"... I do," said X hesitantly, his pacifism wavering.

"you are foolish to come at me!" said the holo pearls all at once as five of them charged at X

Mega Man X made the first move by firing a few standard shots from his x buster at two of the holo pearls making a direct hit in the stomach and at the right shoulder of one of them.

"X! Look out!" Cried Steven from the seats

Looking to his left, x side-stepped upon seeing one of the holo pearls nearly cut him. The blue maverick Hunter then responded with a special weapon: his blue became red, and his cyan blue parts became orange.

"FIRE WAVE!" Cried mega man x, his x buster then shot out a torrent of flame as it burned the holo pearls in front of it and disappointed their hard light forms.

"whoa! That's hot!" said amethyst. Garnet, partially her ruby half, gave a chuckling smirk.

A holo pearl came rushing at X with a sword in retaliation, but x reacted quickly.

"SONIC SLICER!" x's color palette changed again as two crescent-shaped blades of energy shot from his buster and sliced the holo pearl's weapon in half. The second slicer cut through the holo pearl's stomach, which made X cringe a little bit.

"I will not go so easy on you this time!" cried a holo pearl as she went toward X

"STRIKE CHAIN!" cried x as his buster shot out an energy chain and gripped a nearby pillar, and x was grappled away by it just before the holo pearl could hit him.

"he's really thinking outside the box!" Said Steven watching x use one of his utility special weapons to escape the holo pearls

"yeah, it was a clever move to grapple away from those holo pearls!" Complimented lapis

"Hey! Just like me!" chuckled spinel as she stretched her right arm long before returning to the average arm's length.

"I'll bet!" said amethyst with a chuckle of her own before seeing mega man x recover his footing and prepared another attack "heads up, I think he's going for another shot!"

"THUNDER DANCER!" Shouted mega man x as An arc of electricity shot out from his X-buster and hit a holo pearl, but then it ricocheted to the other holo pearls

"and he can shoot electricity!?" gasped steven as the holo pearls soon disappeared, having been short-circuited from the chain of lightning "he's got all sorts of stuff up his sleeve!"

"impressive," said garnet stoically, as always.

"Very good!" Clapped pearl, offering a sword to X as she halted the holo pearls with a mental command, "now let's see how well you do with a melee weapon."

"Okay, pearl," nodded X as he was handed the weapon, "but if you don't mind, I have my own"

"oh? where is it?" asked pearl, but then she soon found herself staring in awe as mega man X's armor started to shine and transform.

The armor transformed into what looked like a fusion between x's first and third armors. However, this armor had more blue around the white areas and green power crystals on the shoulders, knees, and solar plexus chest. It also had gold details stacked vertically and a crown with a red jewel on the forehead while the crown fins stuck straight up in a V shape.

The buster also looked different as it now had hand guard-like fins resembling a bow, and they would open when used in z-saber mode. The buster would then resemble a sword hilt.

This armor was called the Blade armor. It is designed to focus on mobility and its own version of zero's Z-Saber from template design data, the buster,

"Cool!" cried lapis. She liked this so far; with luck, she may be able to create a water-like in X"s likeness in the future in case they run into any corrupted gems.

"he almost looks like a samurai!" awed steven with literal stars in his eyes, having enjoyed his favorite movie, the lonely blade.

"he has another set of armor!?" asked amethyst in amazement.

"impressive, but for this challenge, you will need to face only one holo pearl," said pearl as she made the holo pearls present disappear save for one "now, you may begin, and please be careful. We'd sure hate to lose you too soon now."

"I'll do my best, pearl," Mega man x nodded. Then he materialized a hard-light arm blade shaped like a katana from his buster, almost like zero's Z-Saber, when I had it for a time while zero was recovering.

"whoa! Lightsaber!" cried steven, having watched a lot of star wars movies (except the sequel trilogy)

"ooh! That's a neat sword ya' got there!" complimented spinel with an enlarged waving hand in the bleachers.

"thank you, spinel!" smiled X, then the original reploid turned around to face his final opponent for today's training.

"zero has more experience at fighting mavericks with blades or swords with his saber..." contemplated mega man X as he looked at his blade armor's signature buster weapon, remembering his best friend's incredible swordsmanship, even though, for a time, zero lent X his Z-Saber to utilize while he was heavily damaged "but...if I don't do this...no, there's no time to be wishy-washy here!"

"do you wish to engage in combat?" asked the holo pearl holding a hard light rapier.

"...Yes, I accept your challenge!" Nodded x with determination, igniting his blade armor's X buster in saber mode

"you raise your sword in vain, challenger!" taunted the holo pearl taking a stance with red eyes glowing with power. And then lunged at X, beginning his final challenge for the day.

X then clashed swords with the holo pearl in front of him. Their blades of light locked for a while, moving forwards until they broke off, jumping away from each other. X hesitated a bit as he saw the holo pearl move towards him but quickly regained focus to intercept the holo pearl's rapier of light.

"zero's still better at this than me," thought X as he deflected blow after blow from holo pearls rapier.

After breaking off from each other holo pearl swung again. Still, X dodged the slash this time and tried to slash at the holo pearl, but she jumped away from the blow, almost telegraphing X's movements.

"PARRY! PARRY!" shouted holo pearl as she executed three parries but then switched to thrusting when X intercepted one of the parries. "THURST! THURST!"

"she's relentless!" cried X as he took one hit from the thrusts, but it only sending him back a bit though it still hurt,

"X!" cried steven and spinel in worry over their new friend taking a hit from a holo pearl

"unh! I'm fine!" reassured X, but then he saw the holo pearl kept coming, but this time, X was prepared as he intercepted the thrust with his Buster Saber.

Despite zero's experience with his Z-saber far exceeding X's own experience with his blade armor's saber, X felt like he was learning and getting better somehow.

As the duel between the last creation of dr light's genius and the holo pearl clashed swords. The crystal gems are commenting on Megaman x's performance.

"he seems to be holding his own so far..." commented garnet, even as she focused her future vision a bit on mega man X's potential future on where his training will take him

"yeah, he might be one of us after all," nodded lapis, almost thinking of what it would be if the water demi-goddess of the crystal gems created a water clone of mega man X. "I have a good feeling about that,"

"I think so, too, lappy," joked amethyst as she watched from a cloud floating above the bleachers "he's got moves!"

"Yes, our friend from 'another timeline' is showing promise, he does seem to have a lot of abilities at his disposal, but I think he might need to go through more before we can welcome him and his friends," Pearl, "but how far do you think he'll go in these training sessions, garnet? He might have a long way to go."

"Well, I see he will go very far, pearl," said garnet, "in fact, to tell you the truth...i...I can't see any end to his growth."

"What!?" gasped pearl and the other gems.

"you mean he'll keep getting stronger forever?" asked steven in concern

"it appears so..." said garnet, her voice trembling as sapphire's gem shook with fear due to being unable to see an end to mega man x's limitless potential with her future vision. Garnet almost unfused from mental instability.

"Are you serious, garnet!?" asked lapis lazuli in awe "he'll become that strong!?"

It took a little while for garnet to answer their question. Ruby within garnet did her best to comfort the love of her life, sapphire, then garnet continued, "i... I've seen multiple paths of his future, most leading to dark times of his world and life, but of his growth...there's no end."

"do...do you mean...?" said pearl in fear and worry

"his potential is..." said garnet in awe as she removed her visor to reveal her three eyes. "...limitless,"

The crystal gems gasped in awe at the limitless potential mega man x was designed with when dr light created him, along with sentience and a heart of gold. The gems were a little worried. Still, they calmed down since X had shown good intentions so far.

X continued to duel with the holo pearl. With his X buster in saber mode, x was still struggling to keep up with the holo pearl's movements. However, he was still getting better and better as the original reploid then side-stepped and swiped the holo pearl's sword out of her hand, sending it flying and finishing it with a horizontal slash through the waist at the holo pearl ending the fight once and for all.

"Challenger wins! Defeat accepted!" said the holo pearl as her eyes returned to normal and her whole body vanished into digital particles.

"Well, I think That concludes our training session for today, X," said pearl calling for his attention. "you might just have what it takes to be a crystal gem."

"thank you, pearl!" smiled mega man X as he disengaged the blade armor and returned to normal "although next time, you might ask my friend zero for these sword fight lessons. He's more experienced at it than I am."

"no worries," said lapis as she approached X, "we'll definitely ask him to show us what he can do. And take on a holo pearl."

"thank you," said X "so, what now?"

"Now I think we should all head home for the day," said steven. "I'm sure we're all pretty tuckered out."

"speaking my language, ste man!" giggled amethyst as she hovered her cloud over to steven.

"um, where did you get that cloud?" asked X curiously. A little bit of hope reignited within him, which might come from the relief that at least this world isn't as war-torn where he, zero, and axl come from "and how are you sitting on it?"

"I just found it near the sky temple. Why? You want one~?" teased amethyst playfully as she got close to the blue maverick Hunter.

"um...maybe?..." answered mega man X innocently. "I'm just curious, that's all..."

"heh, it's alright, we all do," said spinel as she came up to X as well. "but yeah, she should be going home now. That was quite the show ya put out there!"

"thank you, spinel...even though I don't exactly enjoy fighting..." admitted X, still being a pacifist at heart even after all the mavericks he had been forced to put down.

"Well, to tell you the truth x, neither do i..." sympathized steven, "but seeing the gems go at it seems fun!"

"I see," said x, and then everyone left for the warp pad to return home to rest until tomorrow

"thank you all for having me here."

"it was our pleasure," smiled garnet.

The warp pad then flashed as everyone was transported back to the crystal temple in the warp pad room.

"Welcome back, guys!" waved bismuth, who stayed behind at the crystal temple to guard the house while her fellow crystal gems were gone.

"hiya, bismuth!" greeted spinel with a slightly enlarged waving hand "we've just got back from our audition with our blue friend here!"

"That's great!" said bismuth "how did he do?"

"he shows great promise," said garnet. However, there was a slight shudder as she looked at X. She was almost reminded of her worst enemy, blue diamond, but relaxed after ruby and sapphire reminded each other that X was not like their worst enemy. "I believe he will make an excellent addition to the team until he and his friends decide to return home."

"yeah, this guy's almost like a walking arsenal and a powerhouse mixed in one!" complimented amethyst, "I think he'll fit right in!"

"and we'll have to consider seeing what his two friends are capable of next time." added pearl.

"Thanks for the compliments," smiled x as he placed a hand behind his head, "but I was only doing what I had to if I were to earn your trust."

"Hey, don't worry about it, x," reassured steven as she approached him. "I trust you. You save me and my dad's lives after all."

"yeah, if steven trusts you, then so do I," added lapis as she stood next to steven, ruffling his hair.

"any friend of steven's is a friend of mine," said spinel extending an arm to X's blue metal shoulder

"thank you all," said X, starting to feel like he might fit in thanks to steven, lapis, amethyst, and spinel vouching for him

"don't mention it, X," smiled steven, the young son of rose quartz, sensing the beginning of a beautiful friendship "feel free to come back and hang out with me sometime this week."

"I'll consider it," said X as he walked to the door to leave the temple for the day, "I think I should be going now."

Okay, see you, X!" waved steven and the others as they watched the maverick Hunter leave.

"Goodbye!" X waved as he exited the temple's front door and walked off into the sand beaches

Mega man x then returned to the lighthouse, where he met up with his fellow maverick hunters and iris and told them about what had happened today at the sky temple.

X almost felt a sense of relief in his heart. Initially, any reploid he tries to make friends with runs the risk of turning maverick at a moment's notice, as zero had warned him numerous times before. Even though X himself was not responsible for the reploids going maverick, he still blames himself for everything that happened in his world.

X hated war, even though he was forced to fight and had to make numerous hard decisions.

It only got worse whenever x had to put down those maverick hunters that had turned maverick or were maverick after all, like magma dragoon and double.

Zero and Alia, and the other maverick hunters were there to support X; however, when things got rough for him.

but perhaps in this world, despite the dangers and even greater ones that still occupy it, X and his friends could find relief, a break from fighting the war even, but eventually, X and his friends will have to go back to their time, but not now,

for now, they will make their home here in this timeline

Soon it would be zero's turn to take the crystal gem audition.

But the maverick hunters will also have to face their first serious mission with the crystal gems, for there are hundreds of corrupted gems around the globe.