Explosion

"Although short ranged, this weapon releases an explosive wave of energy directly in front of you!"

- Alia, describing X's Explosion

Explosion (エクスプロージョン) is a Special Weapon in Mega Man X7 obtain by X and Axl from defeating Vanishing Gungaroo.

Characteristics
As the name implies, Explosion generates a powerful but short-ranged explosive energy that travels slowly. Axl needs to be wielding the G-Launcher to use it. When fully charged, X can unleash blasts in all four compass directions, as well as straight up.

This weapon is Soldier Stonekong's weaknes and is also very useful on all the Crimson Palace bosses.

Trivia

 * Explosion is the only Special Weapon to date that has one word in its name as opposed to the standard two.
 * The model of this blaster was reused as Axl's Blast Launcher in Mega Man X8.

Counterpart to this Weapon

 * Hadangeki