Prologue

Three capsules lie in the middle of the ruins of an ancient lab. They lay in the middle of the wreckage. Silent calculations flowed through their main frames. For years they had been going through tests. Armored and sense less, they had continued to remain oblivions, through the assault, through the death of their creator, through the fiery destruction of the lab around them. They had calculated stats for 50 years.

            Now the silence breaks. From each capsule a repetitive beeping could be heard as the display reads: "TESTS COMPLETE"…

The Awakening

            Some were in what was once a thriving metropolis, a met exploded from the impact of a buster shot.

            "Good job X" said Alia through the radio, "now I want you to go 4 miles south east of your position, I'm getting strange energy readings there."

            X was standing in the middle of a large battlefield. Many robots laid in pieces from the fight with X. Nothing but him remained.

"Why? What are you reading there?" X asked.

"Well I'm getting an activation reading. Some one is activating a robot. There aren't any scientists registered out here so I need you to see what's up,"

"Oh ok," said X, "so this is just a police job?"

"Yeah pretty much" she said.

"Ok I'm on my way" he said as he teleported from the area.

X soon arrived at the site. Looking around he saw the ruins of a once magnificent laboratory. To his right was a set of monitors and controls, many monitors were shattered and controls torn out. To the left there were tables covered with tools and notes. Some of the tables were knocked over, their tools and notes scattered across the floor. In front of him there was a huge bookshelf full of books and folders; many of them had fallen off and some had pages ripped out. X looking at this realized that there must have been an assault on this lab.

"Alia. I don't see anything yet!" declared X, "could you give me directions?"

"Actually X, all you have to do is turn around," said Alia with some amusement in her voice.

"He he. Yeah" he said turning around. "Holy crap!"

"What? What's going on" yelled Alia through the COM link. "X! Report!"

"Sorry" said X. He was staring at three capsules, all in the middle of the wreckage. In spite of the ruins around them, they looked entirely unscathed. It was as if they were installed after the assault.

Then a long hiss could be heard coming from all three capsules.

"I think they're activating," said X as he watched.

"Hold on I'm getting a transmition from that area" said Alia. "Hey X! They're reploids, and they're on our side! I want you to greet them and take them to HQ"

At that point the capsules opened. This seemed all too familiar to X. Thinking back he thought of the day he was activated. He couldn't remember much. But this moment had meaning to him. If there was any doubt that reploids had true feelings, he would only need to witness a moment like this and that doubt would be gone forever.

"X did you hear me? X!"

"Huh?" said X as he snapped out of his flow of thought.

"X. You just blanked out. What happened?"

"Oh. Nothing, just thinking about the moment."

"Yeah, I can imagine. This must bring back memories for you. Well you'll need to stay alert. I've hacked into their systems and I'm reading malfunctions in the first capsule. It seems that a cable was damaged a while ago so it may not be able to activate. I need you to get it out of there and teleport to sickbay. I'll send Zero there to take care of the other two."

"Got it!" And with that he went to the capsule marked #1 and pulled the glass casing off. She was beautiful. Her hair was short and black with a violet sheen, and her eyes were violet. She didn't have armor yet so she was simply dressed in a white robe. Looking at the wires connected to the capsule he saw that a cable had been cut completely.

X didn't waste time. He carefully picked her up carried her to the door. Just then a purple beam descended to the floor from and formed into a hansom black reploid.

"Zero!" exclaimed X.

"Hey, so what's up?"

"Those two capsules have reploids in them and they're activating. So you need to greet them and take them to HQ. This one was having malfunctions so I need to get her to sickbay and see if Lifesaver can't help."

"Ok. You better get going then."

"Right," said X, and with that he teleported out in a beam of blue light.

"Now then, I guess all I have to do is wait for them to wake up."

#2 was the first to wake up. The glass rose and she sat up. She was by all means cute. Her long hair was silver with a blue tint. She had the ears and tail of a wolf and her eyes were brown. Her cloths consisted of a robe, just like the other one.

Looking around, she started getting insecure. Then she saw Zero sitting in a chair watching her.

"Hey! Who are you?" she demanded.

"I'm Zero," he responded, "I'm here to give you an update on the world and take you to HQ so you can be recruited at as a maverick hunter."

"Maverick Hunter?" she asked. "What's a maverick hunter?" Then a look of suspicion crossed her face. "How do I know you're on the good side?"

"I don't know, faith?" frankly there's no real way of telling whether or not I'm planning to kill you. Of course if I wanted to kill you I would do it right now, while you're unarmed."

"True but you could be trying to trap me and take me to you're HQ so you can reprogram me."

"Yes but once again, your unarmed. I could just grab you and teleport to HQ and you wouldn't be able to do a thing about it."

"Touché"

"So are you going to trust me or continue to debate this with me."

"Well… alright. But where's #1? She was supposed to be activated first."

"She was having malfunctions so she was taken to HQ to be looked at. Hopefully she will be alright."

"What kind of malfunction?" she asked. Worry crossed her face.

"A malfunction in the activation process," Zero answered "If our navigator hadn't hacked into your systems she would have had many circuits fried and would have been dead from that moment."

"Oh. Well um thank you," she said gratefully "at least for trying."

"Oh don't worry. Lifesaver's a genius. She'll be fine."

Just then the last capsule opened. #3 sat up and looked around. But she wasn't as smart as her sister. The moment she saw Zero she reached down into the capsule, pulled out an energy knife, and lunged for Zero.

While she was fast, he had much more experience. He pulled out his Z-saber and blocked in an instant and he counter with a punch to the gut. She then fell over.

"#3!" yelled #2. "He's here to help!"

"What? But he looks so evil. I mean look at him, he has black armor."

"So what. You can't just go attacking people on a whim like that."

"Oh ok."

"So it seems you are armed after all" said Zero

"We are?" 2 asked 3

"Duh! Of course we have weapons. They're in compartments on the right side of the capsule."

At this 2 walked to her capsule and pulled out a buster. Zero, sensing that 1 would want her weapon walked over to the first capsule and retrieved a beam saber.

"So, do you have names or just numbers?"

"Oh. Yeah I'm Mint," said #2

"And I'm May," exclaimed #3

"Since there were problems in the primary programming, we only have info about our selves. But we do have basic knowledge about each other. Such as what we look like and what our capabilities are. So we don't know each others names."

"Oookay… well we should be going the HQ. Hold my hand"

"OK!" said both girls with enthusiasm"

So they teleported out.

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In the darkness, three figures stand watching Zero teleport with Mint and May on the monitor.

"So they have awakened," said the figure in the middle, "Soon they will meet their fate at our hands. Soon we will finish the job that our creator started so long ago. SOON IRIS!!!!!! YOUR HEAD WILL BE MINE!!!!!!!!!!"