Past Shadows, Future Shock
by Buzzsaw the RIGHTEOUS

Prologue

Over 100 years ago, Dr. Light had been credited with creating robots that can do any human job more efficiently than anything on Earth, especially the hero robot Mega Man. When his former lab partner, Dr. Albert Wily, made his ulterior motives known and stole Light's industrial robots to take over the world, Dr. Light created Mega Man to battle against the most dangerous of Dr. Wily's machinations and bring him to justice. Since then, Mega Man and Dr. Wily had been bitter and eternal enemies and had fought many grueling battles. One day, however, since the defeat of the StarDroids, Dr. Wily had mysteriously disappeared, and no one had seen or heard from him since the raid on his last Skull Castle ever built. Many people believed that he died of natural causes somewhere, or maybe he committed suicide. Either way, everyone was happy that he was gone, out of sight and out of mind.

Even after all of Dr. Wily's robotic rebellions, Dr. Light still stood firm in his belief that all humans and robots can live in peace and tranquility if given the chance. Therefore, he created Mega Man X, his first Reploid, a robot that can think, feel, and make their own decisions like a normal human being, in a way they are human. But Dr. Light knew that if X hurt any human being, there would be very serious and disastrous problems. Dr. Light posted that warning on the capsule designed to run diagnostics and keep X preserved until he was found by someone worthy of creating the Reploid race with care. 100 years later, after X was found by Dr. Emil Cain, a prominent archaeologist/robotic designer, he had decided to continue Dr. Light's work. But he had ignored the warning, and so the Mavericks were born. The Mavericks are a group of rebellious Reploids that consider all humans and the Reploids who follow them to be inferior. Therefore they must either be enslaved....or eradicated. Led by Sigma and his second-in-command Vile, the Mavericks had been constantly thwarted by Mega Man X and his friend Zero, and the battle still continues to this very day.