Lumine reveals that all newer Generation Reploids are able to Maverick at will thanks to their copy chips, he wishes to end human's reign over reploids and proceeds to attack Axl, Zero, and X. Upon his defeat he seemingly shuts down, his eyes gloss over and all is silent. The trio turn away from their fallen foe when a shaking noise errupts from Lumine's fallen body, his chest rips appart and a tendril whips out damaging Axl's jewl, knocking him unconcious Zero grabs his comrade and pulls him aside while X finishes the job destroying Lumine and the tentacle with his buster. Unbeknownst to any of them a small crystal was placed into Axl which has seemingly no effect on him in later games...