Headscratchers / Mega Man X2

• The leadership of the X-Hunters is confusing. It seems to shift between Agile and Serges; while Agile is arguably the most Sigma-like and is the last X-Hunter faced in the final stages, Serges seems to be coming up with all their plans such as the Unification and has those sinister ties to Dr. Wily. So who's really in charge?
  • Adding to this is the ambiguity of Sigma's resurrection. Is he already revived by the beginning of the game, leading the X-Hunters himself from behind the scenes? Or is he awoken during the final stages to avenge the X-Hunters, like he was in X3 or X6? Sigma is mentioned recruiting Overdrive Ostrich in his profile, but this could have happened back in X1 too.
  • Then there's the Canon Foreigner χ -kai- from the TruForce Collectibles series of models, who was retroactively introduced as the leader of the X-Hunters. Is this a Retcon? Or simply a What If? that we're thinking too hard about?
• Why did the X-Hunters feel it was necessary to remove Zero's control chip from his body in the first place? How did they even lose it? And why in the name of all things sane did the X-Hunters turn over Zero's actual parts? They had a duplicate, why not break it up into three sections, rig them with explosives, and give that over?
  • Once you kill Serges, the second flunky that looks like Doctor Wily, he mentioned something about a "Prophecy that must be fulfilled", so that explains why they didn't rig it with explosives, they needed Zero working properly. Why there's a prophecy sorrounding robots is beyond me, but it's important to note that the only thing they needed was the control chip to make Zero go all evil-like.
  • If you fail to retrieve all of the body parts by the time you kill all eight mavericks, the "X-Hunters" find Dr. Cain's lab, and take everything you might have earned plus get the chip working. My guess is, they knew where Dr. Cain was, they just needed time to work or have someone else work on the chip.
  • Okay, I found something that clears some of this up; it's translations of Japanese trading cards with character bios: Zero's control chip was found by the Maverick Hunters and recovered. A comment further down, time stamp 2010/11/23 - 7:31 am, from the person who translated the article says that Zero's body was recovered by the X-Hunters. It doesn't explain how or why the chip was seperated, or the other questions, but at least we know the X-Hunters weren't that stupid.
  • Alright, here's a possible explaination; X took Zero's chip with him. He obviously couldn't take Zero's body with him, and he couldn't leave him intact for the Mavericks to reuse. You could even guess that the whole chip thing was a security measure installed into Maverick Hunters so their comrades could prevent their friends from being turned into Mavericks.
• What's the deal with the second, broken teleporter just before the boss rush in X-Hunter Stage 4? Does it hold any significance?
  • It's supposed to be a sudden tip off that there's someone else to fight, since at this point the X-Hunters are destroyed. How sudden depends on the version, Agile begs his master to avenge him in the English version while he asks the supposedly dead Sigma how they could've failed in the Japanese version.