The air was cold. No one had expected it. No one was watching. But it had happened. The city was being attacked by a single...thing. Police had come out to fight it, only to be blown to pieces by a red aura that concealed the creature rampaging the city. "Revenge...REVENGE!!!!" was its only scream. In that section of the city where it was, several buldings were on fire already, and damage was growing. Casualties were growing.

Revenge...unfortunately, it had no idea what it wanted revenge against, anymore.

There he sat, leaning against a wall in a dim, dank ally, a cigarette stuck in his mouth. Well, it would be, if he had a mouth; right now it was just stuck to the blank grey area where his mouth should be. In fact, the only features his face had were a pair of large, round eyes, which were half-covered by a drooping fedora.

The figure himself was clearly a robot of sorts, a humanoid one at that. He was a fairly tall character, with incredibly slim limbs and body. He was dressed in a neat brown jacket and pinstripe trousers, with large boots and a flowing golden scarf.

He watched the chaos raging outside, with little or no concern for the monster rampaging through the city.

After all, it wasn't his city.

The aura's light dimmed to reveal a rather strange-looking Reploid. His left eye was red, and had been stretched about a foot out to the left of his face. He had a large, beastlike right arm. The rest of his body looked human, if not for a few small animal features. The right side of his face was covered in a white, skull-like mask. For now, he'd regained a bit of sanity, but that was only because of the Biometal. He fell over, and lost consciousness because of the mental strain his rampage had caused him.

A small humanoid robot was busy chilling out inside a dark,cold building;safe from the chaos. He had a shield an spear with him,lightweight armor and a small mechaniloid with him,also ignoring the chaos outside.

The thin robot tapped some ash off of the end of his cigarette as he stepped from the alley and out into the street. He noticed the collapsed Reploid standing there. He shrugged and kept on walking.

"Ugh..." The Reploid slowly began getting up, the aura returning. A monstrous face was its shape. "ROKKU ON!" screamed the Reploid, as his body began compressing, turning into a Reploid that resembled Omega, with a blood-red sabre. Turning around to see the Reploid walking away, he yelled,"Don't turn your back on me!" and lunged for him.

The robot didn't even look back; rather, he simply sidestepped as the rather foolish beast charged at him and flew past idiotically.

"C'mon. Do better than that."

Pulling out a buster gun, the Reploid fired from the hip at the robot, taking a quick look to make sure he was on target.

The blast went straight for the strange robot and looked as though it was about to strike him clear in the torso.

And then, somethign quite odd happened.

Without even reacting, the robot's scarf lunged out and deflected that blast with significant ease. Was that even physcially possible?

"Gee. That sucked."

"URK!" The mental battle began again. Unable to cope, the Reploid lost concsiousness. Now, both parties were deactivated. The aura faded, the Biometal turned off, and the Reploid turned into a normal blue color instead of red.

Meanwhile, a ninja-like Rockman was traveling the rooftops, looking for any signs of trouble.

The mysterious robot looked at his unconcious foe with disdain and gave him a little kick. Once he was sure it was down for the count, he stepped away and began casually strolling down the street, cigarette exhuming reams upon reams of smoke.

The ninja, seeing the robot in the streets below, drops down, landing in front of him, saying,"You found him? Good. Can't thank you enough."

The robot was totally unphased by this.

"Yeah? And to who do I owe the pleasure?"

"Shadow. I've been looking for him for a long time, now. He's a dangerous one."

(Oh, yeah, this takes place after ZXA. Damn myself for forgetting.)

The robot shrugged and began blowing away on his cigarette.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I'm outta here, pal."

"Wait," called Shadow,"I need some help from you."

The robot sighed and put his face into his hands.

"God, what is it now? I'm a busy man. Can't my assistants handle it?"

"Assistants? Who?"

The robot rolled his eyes.

"Harmony, Sabine," he called. Within moments, a pair of new figures warped in: one was a Reploid that appeared to be based on an angel girl with tiny spectacles on the end of her nicely-pointed nose and flowing blonde hair. The other was a grungy-looking demon girl Reploid with a tattered tank-top and jeans, as well as crazed red bangs. They both looked at the slim robot curiously.

"Ya called, Kanz?" the demon asked.

The Reploid and his Mechanicloidian pet watched the battle outside the window the entire time. he did not like what he saw..a thin robot with a mask plate similer to his own..with a beaten robot equipped with a damaged biometal. he saw the ninja Rockman and retreated to the shadows immedieatley.

"I see. Can you contact the Hunter's Guild for me? I have a job for them."

"Damned fool. I told him..I can't die. If there is a God he won't let me die. I want to...I want to...BUT I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO DIE!!!"

The one talking was a combat reploid. He stood there over the ruins of another reploid who made the mistake of challenging him to a fight. He had a gaping chest wound and his head was blasted off. The warrior stood over the remains and kicked them.

"Why? Why couldn't you kill me you pathetic weakling? Haven't I suffered long enough?" He gazed at the remains for some time. "Zero....why couldn't you have killed me." He then kicked the corpse again, lost in his insane ranting. "You killed everyone else....and I...why?" He then began to laugh. "It doesn't matter...someone will..in time someone will." The warrior walks off. Converting his right hand from it's variable cannon mode to normal and retracting the energy blade from his left. "I mean...I can't live forever...can I?"

The lone reploid walked slowly outside. he told his pet to stay indoors. he noticed a Corpse as well as a combat reploid. he managed to escape battle once by his speed,as he is a speed and a combat reploid in one. he had the power to control electricity. however,this was not enough. he needed a tactical stradegy to bypass this problem. so he began to think.

The mad Reploid was too lost in his insanity to notice the stranger as he began to leave the area.

However,since the mad reploid didn't notice this reploid;this was a chance for him to move. he teleported his pet back to the Hunter Guild. and he took to the rooftops to practice his moves.

The insane reploid left eyepiece suddenly detected the teleportation signal used by the other reploid. He turned in time to see the blink of the warp .

"Spies....there are spies watching me....I see." The madman says. "This one is lucky...he must have escaped far away. But I know his energy signature now...next time he dies." He then begins to laugh.

The Reploid was quickly recovering his mind. "Damn," the voice of the Biometal said, as it deactivated, and its host awoke, and fled before anyone could do anything. "What?!" cried Shadow. The Reploid was heading for the madman, his body returning to its original, monster-like form.

The scarf-wearing robot rolled his eyes and began to walk away casually. Harmony, the angel girl, stood around with her demonic counterpart.

"Should we do something, Sabine?" the angel asked nervously, her hands pressed together.

"Eh," Sabine replied with a shrug, examining her clawed fingernails, "Let 'em at themselves. Kanz's got other stuff to do."

"...Damn him. Bastard. Wait! You should be warned. That guy's mentally unstable. He can't behave himself, but...I might need your help to get his Biometal away from him."

The unstable warrior then begins to spasm, he then changes shape from his current state to that of a blue eel.

"No....not again...the pain..the pain of being alive..."

Then he morphs into several other form he has taken over the ages of him being alive until he stops at an old model reploid resembling a jellyfish.

"Why...it hurts to much...why do you let me live? Damn you...father...why?" He then shifts back to his base form. It was apparent he was a Copy style reploid. "I need help but..doctors..they might...make me...into more of a monster....Weil....Diablos...all used me....made me....made me....stay...alive. Someone...help me."

"RRRRRGGHH, DIE!" screamed the Reploid, as he dived towards the eel 'Roid, preparing to punch him hard.

Instinctively the being reacts by spinning around and firing a laser shot at the diving reploid. It was a twisted mass of it's previous forms. It's right hand was that cannon that killed that previous reploid, and tenticles flailed around. "STAY AWAY!!! I'M....A MONSTER!!! I can't die...Die...Dy...Dyna....my name..I almost remember it now." His psychosis was preventing him from focusing as pain ravaged his body.

Charging an energy blast into his right arm, the Reploid punched the twisted mass, only to have his arm entangled in it.

From a rooftop a Reploid was watching the battlescene, he was estimating the two Reploids battling on the ground. ''Finally, a fun battle'' He spoke to himself, while pollishing his giant gaunlets.

For a moment the reploid considers killing the attacker but it recoils itself. "Please...just go away....I don't want to harm anyone else..but the pain...it won't let me stop." The twisted machine steps back clutching it's head. "I want help but...I'm so afraid....I don't want to be a pawn again....someone...help.....please....."

"Shut it! I will consume you to free myself! F**k your nightmares!!"

"You fail to understand....it will end with me consuming you....as I have done to so many. My Copy chip system and..my nanomachines...I am something..beyond a reploid....I am their natural enemy." The reploidish creature steps back. "I am...death itself. I cannot help it. Expand and grow. Grow and survive. This is why I live now." The creature says. "I had many names once...I can remember again....Dynamax....Gigavolt Man O' War....Volteel Biblios....and more....but now...all I am Is Death." He looks at the creature. "I can't die....you will lose. If you seek to live run while you can. I wille ither destroy or consume you. Guilty or innocent..i don't want to kill anymore."

"Enough! Enough of your conceit! Enough of your fear! Feed me!" yelled the monster, as he charged up an energy blast from his fist and fired it at the creature several times.

''Interesting'' The unknow robot on the roof top said to himself:''Apparantly one of them is some being that needs to grow in order to survive, that's unique to a robot, he could be usefull to my boss.'' He used the communicator in his gaunlet and asked:''Boss, i got an interesting robot for you.'' ''What's special about him?''An inhuman voice whispered'. ''He needs to consume robots to stay alive, and he becomes stronger every time he consumes a robot''. ''Sounds impressive, i'll send Chargeman to bring him a visit.''

"You fool.....I tried." The creature once called Dynamax rears back and starts to pull himself together. He then charges up his cannon and fires a shot right at his enemy. "Now you will cease to exist. By the way....I fear nothing....I just don't like killing anymore but I will if I must."