You had to ask. After a while of walking and a WHILE of reading endless Iris data for possible excuses to give Repliforce (ranging from Vile being reprogrammed for good to being Vile's distant twin cousin, Kile), you sensed foreign brainwaves headed your way. BAD foreign brainwaves. They felt similar to 'He Who Walks Behind' but a lot more threatening. Sensing danger, your CPU pulled off the danger alarm within you!

Iris noticed your worried look, "What is it, Erjohn?"
"IRIS, GET DOWN!!" without even thinking, you pounced on Iris, dropping her to the ground... narrowly avoiding that big flaming fireball headed her way!
Despite being a little nervous that youre lying on top of your female friend, you remind yourself that she's a machine, she wants to put you in a little cage and make you her pet, and that there's no time for awkward moments! You tilted your head upwards to see another reploid a ways away staring your direction!

The big fat hulking pyro-maniacal anthro elephant you remember from the first X game!
"F...Flame Mammoth?!" Iris shouted in disbelief, well aware of him too, "...But... didnt X scrap you a long time ago?!"

You read his intel and didnt like what you read. There were no natural thoughts emitting from this guy. Just prerecorded zeroes and ones translated into commands. Even the emotionless stare in his eyes told you something was off about him. Not that you even needed to read it. He looked like he just stepped out of the junkyard! His paint was scratch off, sparks flew out of several tears in his body, one of his ears was torn, and half of his trunk was missing!

FM gazed into your soul, prepping his gun arm. You in turn, got up off Iris and aimed your machine gun his way!

"GRROOAAA!!!'
"Yaagh!" only to get knocked by a super-hard fist to the helmet by the equally big but not nearly as fat Maverick monkey, Spark Mandrill! After knocking you to the ground, he let out another roar and pounded his damaged chest in victory! Colorful vapors emitted one of the severed tubes on his back as his one remaining eye glared at you!
"Ugh... damn dirty ape," you groaned as you leaped back up.

"EEEeeeee!!!" you dodged a screaming reploid penguin who tried to slide into you like a demonic figure skater! One of the canisters on his back was punctured, leaking strange liquid all over the ground as he tried to charge into again with his broken beak pointed toward your throat! Fortunately, your Vile body was pretty strong AND agile!
"Eeeee!!!" he screamed again STILL trying to charge you, but you swayed and leaped out of the way every time... at least until the last time when you stood in place to greet him with a metal boot to his face when he got close enough!
"Chill, penguin!" you tried to sound badass!

"Th...this cant be!!" Iris started to freak out, "these are the same Maverick Hunters who revolted during the Day of Sigma! But... but theyre supposed to dead!" You were just about to say something, when more foreign data emitted through your head.

[THIS... ONE....] 'This One'. Typed out in blood red text, you could imagine it being spoken in a creepy zombie-like voice.

"HISSSS!!!"
"Arrghh!!" Not long after, you felt yourself tangled up by a long red machine-like tongue! It was wet or slimy, but it still felt disgusting. Lo and behold, the tongue from the big green lizard clinging to the wall! Your least favorite Maverick boss, Sting Chameleon back from the scrap heap! His funny chameleon eye was shattered, his spikey tail had been ripped off, and the horn on his nose had cracks that looked like it close to breaking off! "HIISSS!!" still, he hissed with plenty of energy as his put the squeeze on you!
"GRR!! Let go of me!" you struggled to break free.

[THIS ONE... SHOWS PROMISE] the text read as you felt an electrical jolt surge through your body by Sting's tongue!

"ERJOHN!" Iris screamed in panic of you. Fortunately, you werent in pain. The shock barely tickled!
[THIS ONE... WILL NOT BE TERMINATED]

"Grrr!!" after getting one of your arms free, you grabbed Sting by the tongue and with one hefty swing and sent that scaley bastard straight smack into the nearest building! Before the dust cleared, you unloaded a boatload of Vile-rounds to make sure he dont get up from that!
[THIS ONE... MUST BE PRESERVED] the text continued to read.
"Erjohn! Behind you!
"EE!!"
Thanks to Iris's quick warning, you dodged Chill Penguin's charge from behind, causing him to run straight smack into Flame Mammoth! His beak pierced a vital curtain under his exposed armor, making his short circuit! Being the opportunist that you are, you grabbed him by the arm cannon and pointed it toward the penguin as he fired!!

"EEE!!!" the penguin shrieked as you spun around covered in flames. He went berserk and started spinning out icicles everywhere! Lucky enough, one of them hit Spark Mandrill freezing him in place! Just like the game!
[THIS ONE... IS A NECESSITY]

"Ka-boom!" you fired a laser at the Mavericksicle, shattering him to pieces! Let's see him come back from THAT!
[THIS ONE... WILL BE WATCHED] Before you could celebrate, you spotted several shadows surrounding you. Each silhouette shaped like a human (or reploid) figure. Everyone staring directly at you with glowing red eyes, watching your every move!
You picked up nothing but hostility from the silhouettes, so you pointed your gun at him, ready to defend yourself!

[ALL EYES... ON THIS ONE]
You saw more of the silhouettes standing on the rooftops! They said nothing and did nothing. They just stood completely still and stared. You began to panic. You felt even tense than when you single handedly took on those Maverick zombies! These figures aint doing jack and yet at the same time it felt like you were being bombarded by a million bullets!

"WHAT THE?!" Worse even, your vision turned completely red. As red on the text on your screen! Loads of text filled your screen, blurring out your reddish vision, but you couldnt understand any of it. You were being hacked. But by who?

"EEEEKKK!!!!" you heard Iris shriek! Damn, the silhouette's got to her!
"Iris!" you shouted out to her, but by then, she was already dangling off the edge of a rooftop!

Your eyes (if you had them) widened as you stared at poor little Iris being held over a long drop by her being squeezed in the hand of the head silhouette! The source of this hacking came directly from Iris's kidnapper! A tall metal man in a rather luxurious tuxedo... missing his head! If he did have a head, he'd probably be staring right at you as he taunted you with your poor little friend!

"PUT HER DOWN!!" you screamed at the headless man as you pointed your gun at him and fired!
*Click!* Nothing came out! "W...what?!" damn, he's jamming your weaponry too! Who the hell is this guy?!

[CONTINUE TO WATCH... THIS ONE]
"Aaaahh!!!" the headless stranger's hand emitted an electrical surge, electrocuting Iris right in front of you! Her scream didnt last long before you sensed her system shut completely offline!

"NO!!!" you wanted to climb up the damn roof and shove your fist into the bastard's neck orifice, but it was too late! In the blink of an eye, the reddish vision went away, the bloodred text was gone, and so were all the silhouettes! Worse even, Iris was gone as well! Where did they take her?!

"Iris?! IRIS!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" you shouted out for her. No response. You cant even pick up her signal. "Damnit... Zero's gonna kill me." Normally, you'd ask how this day could get any worse, but you dare not out of fear you'll jinx yourself again.

"FREEZE! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!!" But too late! You were quickly surrounded by reploids in military attire. REPLIFORCE military attire!
'...that is if Repliforce doesnt kill me first,' you think to yourself.
"What are you doing here! This is restricted territory!" one of the soldiers pointed his gun to you and questioned, "all unauthorized personal are forbidden!"

You didnt have to say a word. One of the other reploids already recognized you!
"Holy crap! Is that Vile?!
"You mean the one-man Maverick wrecking machine?! THAT Vile?!"
"Oh man, that looks just like him! But didnt he get scrapped after the Doppler fiasco?"

This was bad. Without Iris here to plead your case, you were a sitting duck.
"Guys, wait! I'm not-"
"Shut up, Vile! Nobody asked you to talk!" of course, nobody's gonna listen to what you have to say, "I wont repeat myself! Hands in the air! NOW!"

Talking was useless. But then again, it's not like you COULDNT take these guys! The Maverick zombies were no problem. These'll be a piece of cake.
Then again, do you dare try to cause a ruckus and ultimately a WAR between them and the Maverick Hunters due to your recklessness?!