| rdfs:comment | - In a bid to take over the world, Dr. Doppler creates Limited, a Replibrain with the ability to evolve machines while taking control of them. Desiring combat data to further refine his creation, he sends his biomechanical parasites to revive four previously destroyed Mavericks: Flame Mammoth, Bubble Crab, Wire Sponge, and Boomer Kuwanger. In addition, Dr. Doppler also employs the Reploid assassins Curtiss and Schmitt to monitor the revived Reploids as they attack X.
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| abstract | - In a bid to take over the world, Dr. Doppler creates Limited, a Replibrain with the ability to evolve machines while taking control of them. Desiring combat data to further refine his creation, he sends his biomechanical parasites to revive four previously destroyed Mavericks: Flame Mammoth, Bubble Crab, Wire Sponge, and Boomer Kuwanger. In addition, Dr. Doppler also employs the Reploid assassins Curtiss and Schmitt to monitor the revived Reploids as they attack X. X battles his reborn adversaries, starting with Wire Sponge. As the fight concludes, the Limited core fears for its survival and discards Sponge, attempting instead to merge with X. Although Zero thwarts the attempt by sniping its core, the remains of Limited cause the X-Buster to mutate into the Clear Buster, prompting Zero to investigate the situation as X continues to fight the Limited Mavericks; however, before he can interrogate any of them, a cloaked giant swiftly finishes off the Mavericks and retrieves their Limited. After defeating the first four Mavericks, X confronts the giant, revealed to be Curtiss. He was given new orders from Dr. Doppler to take the Clear Buster, only to be done in by the new weapon. Near death, he begins to spill who is behind the Limited only to be silenced by Schmitt's cleaving hands much like his own previous victims. Luckily, Zero's own investigation has led him to Dr. Doppler's research on "evolving cells," informing X and together tracking the Reploid scientist down to an abandoned factory. There, the combat data from the three retrieved Limited has already been applied in reviving Sting Chameleon, Storm Eagle, Flame Stag and Wheel Gator, now more fierce than ever. Upon defeat, the evolved Limited no longer require retrieval, tearing themselves out of the scrapped hosts on their own to escape deeper into the factory. The Limited in X's Buster is also evolving, but the intense pain from its effects leave him unable to fend off Schmitt. Zero steps in and has the assassin on the ropes, but is injured when his opponent uses the paralyzed X as a liability. By this time, the Clear Buster has mutated further into the Clear High Buster, draining X's life to further power its attacks while also attempting to gain control over its host. Defeated, Schmitt seizes the opportunity to escape and be repaired by the Mother Limited, the entity producing all Limited organisms. However, the Mother Limited instead absorbs Schmitt and uses all the analyzed data on X to birth a Limited clone, iX. Not only is iX a refinement over X's design, he also carries the abilities of all previously revived Mavericks as well as the absorbed Schmitt. X is outmatched against his evil copy until the Limited spreading through his body evolves again in self preservation, generating the Clear Armor. Struggling against the Limited's growing influence, X engages in a final attack against his clone, trading powerful blasts through the chest. It results in X's victory, narrowly dodging at the last second and letting only the Clear Armor be destroyed, finally freeing him from the parasite's control. Back to his old self, X faces Dr. Doppler, who unleashes the Mother Limited on the Hunter. Still armed with all the data it had collected on X, the giant Limited shifts its body into Repligigant Mode, a towering humanoid attack form. Despite his damage, Zero rejoins X in the ensuing battle to bring the titan down with a Double Buster attack. The two Hunters escape the factory as it explodes, hearing Dr. Doppler's words echo inside their heads that his challenge is far from over.
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