Warning: This is about an AU with Mega Man X with Formula 1, as well as possibly OOC-ness, my incomprehensible rambling and making Max suffer (I love Max but I also have the bad habit to make my favs suffer)
Okay. Listening to the X4 for a while having it assigned to my Mega Man X Formula 1 crossover.
It's just making me want to make Max be severely emotionally damaged. (For extra context of my AU, Max's gonna be the Zero of the AU, while Charles' gonna be the X)
I mean, taking the things of the 2nd Seat Curse along with the Red Bull changes on management. By making it a plot where previous Red Bull drivers related to Max are going after him, then Max finding out that the grudge towards Red Bull was actually intensified by a main villain (That I haven't planned on yet) as well as their issues regarding RBR being justifiable, then Max having to confront both Horner and Marko. But also being forced to confront Isack due to him being SO SCARED and conflicted between Max's mission to stop Red Bull's BS as well as being afraid of what's is He gonna end up.
...I CAN PICTURED that after the final battle against the main villain, Max just looks around the RBR HQ, looking how destroyed it is, as well as some inner guilt of having to stop his previous infected teammates, makes him drop to his knees in a catatonic state. And a damaged Isack contacts VCARB to send aid and help both Max, himself and the other teammates.
...And I can imagine that Max on my AU is gonna have like a inner guilt afterwards. Especially seeing how the repaired Yuki (who for context, he was also part of the teammakes that became Maverick for the idea) still works on RBR as an Operator and Reserve Driver. And Max also feels like an inner conflict.
He has to the best due to his past of having to outperform for his creator (also I need to elaborate on that aspect later), but he now feels that he's the reason RBR prioritized him over this teammates, which led to the events of what I wrote above.
Either he has a breaking point and becomes a Maverick a-la-X5 or he decides to temporally retire a-la-X7 (which is kinda funny since remember what I said below of Max being Zero and Charles being X? Kimi's gonna be Axl, so ironically Charles has to aid Kimi while their efforts battling the Mavericks are also accompanied with attempting to convince Max to go back to battle that incident)
Sorry for my rambling that probably didn't made sense.