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• Keeping The Lights On Low Beam by M_pH

  Fandoms: Rockman X | Mega Man X  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  04 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Dr. Cain & X (Rockman Classic Universe)
  • X & Zero (Rockman Classic Universe)
  • one-sided xzero
  • technically i shouldn't even be referring to zero bc he's only at the tail-end of this so if you want iwmt level
  • drama and homoerotic fighting
  • that ain't here
  • X (Rockman Classic Universe)
  • Dr. Cain (Rockman X)
  • and many others from the X series
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Psychological Torture
  • The inspo fic was also written by me on an old account ignore the orphan
  • dw this will not be nearly as long as wmbs
  • ...I hope

  Summary

  The war against Sigma ended. It didn't feel like a victory, and X was getting sick of everyone calling him a hero for turning into a monster. He had to become a hunter, a predator, in order to defeat the Maverick Leader. Now he wasn't sure how to turn back into himself without his best friend.

   

  X2 Follow-Up for 'We Must Belong Somewhere', but not necessarily required reading for this. A lot will be similar to 'His' and a work that was deleted back in 2022, but like wmbs, it's being revived properly.

  Series

  • Part 4 of Pre X1 - X2 era

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  27,625

  Chapters:

  4/?

  Kudos:

  7

  Hits:

  121