Hi everyone! This is my first story, so don't be too mean. If you like it, then review! Well...I did promise, so here's the full summary.

Axl, X, and Zero were exploring an abandoned research center when Axl found a female Reploid. She wasn't like any they had encountered before, she lacked something that other reploids had. Well, 2 somethings. This reploid had no name, and no free will. A new threat rose form her forgotten past, and she alone can stop it. How will Axl free her, when she doesn't wish to be free. Will the new thoughts entering their minds have an impact? Her lack of free will is a danger to all, because in the past it was her will that stopped this threat, can she pull it together to save the one person who has ever shown her any kindness? What are these things called emotions? And the two most important questions of all: When your supposed to be dead, what do you live for? And, Just what IS a reploid's "heart"? Is it program, or something more? Perhaps the answers lie in His Reason, and in Her Reson.

That wasn't so bad, was it?

: Yes, it was. You stink at summaries.

Axl: She wasn't that bad.....

Yes I was....... What do you guys think? Not just my summary, but my writing in general? Without further adu:

Hajimarimas!(start!)

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Ch. 1 Her Start, His Discovery...

The transmission. That was why they were at this, this, this place. That was the only thing Axl could think of to explain their dispatchment. He didn't know exactly what was on it, just that it was some kind of call for help. While he agreed with X that they needed to help as many people as possible, he didn't understand why HE was supposed to come as well. X and Zero were the legendary duo who could stop any maverick, reploids who went mad and attacked other reploids and humans because of errors, malfunctions, viruses, and in some rare cases of their own accord, in his or her tracks. HE was only a rookie. Even though he was a talented hunter, he had NO REASON to be here. And just where is here? All he could tell was that it was some kind of research facility. Probably for newer and better reploids. Reploids were robots who could think and act for themselves. Each was built with a purpose in mind, as indicated by their build and type, as well as a unique and individual personality. Each reploid had free will to some extent, but mostly they were content with their purpose. His was to fight mavericks.

"WHY where we sent here?" Axl asked, finally fed up with waiting for them to tell him.

"This is the co-ordinates that the transmission sent to us," X, a blue reploid with a slightly lighter shade of blue where he wasn't armored and green eyes answered. "so we came to investigate."

"Okay, let me restate my question." he said in a bored tone. "Why am I here? And what was on the transmission?"

"We can't tell you what was on the transmission, kid." Zero replied in her usual bored tone. She wore red armor, with black on her arms and legs. Her middle was grey, and on her chest plate there were two green power generators, and a Z on her right shoulder pad. The only parts of her body that were armored where her chest, lower arms, where legs and torso met, and her lower legs. She held a beam saber in her right hand, it was known as the "Z-Saber" and had been customized by Zero herself. "But we can tell you that it was requested we bring you along as a training mission. Don't ask me why, but I think that it's actually so that you don't feel left out of the loop if something interesting happens."

"Thanks." Axl sighed, that wasn't what he was hoping for, but it was what he had expected.

"Yeah kid. Your welcome."

"Alia," X began to say into his comm. "Axl, Zero, and I have reached the terget location. What should we do next?"

"Investigate. This is no time to hesitate, according to the transmission there's some sort of super reploid in there. I want a confirmed Maverick Situation, and as much information as you can get from that facility, we may need something in there!" Alia, a female information-type reploid, and their Navigator. She was in charge of the logistics and scientifics of their unit, known as the Crisis Cell. When things got so bad that no hunter can deal with it, THEY took care of it like a walk in the park.

"Right." X ended the transmission. Then he spoke to the other two, "You heard her, now get moving!"

"SIR!" Zero and Axl said as one. Although Zero and X were the same rank, X was in charge of the investigation.

"Lets move!" he ran into the building, butster up. X's buster was his right arm, and could do some heavy damage with a charged shot. The wise avoided getting on his bad side. It just wasn't smart. Or safe.

The inside of the buiding was as bad as the outside. It had been abandoned for years. Dust and grime formed a thick layer over everything. Axl found himself wondering if the transmission was some sort of hoax, or something similar. The musty smell seemed to penetrate everything, and it was so silent that the reploids could even hear their own breath, even though reploids don't breath. A sound drew Axl away from the main group, X noticed this, and called him back to join. Rather than obey orders, Axl motioned for him to stay silent, as much as possible. When Zero saw this, she signed to ask why, but Axl merely turned away and followed the sound, offering no explanation. Shrugging, the other two decided to follow him. He went into several rooms, completely ignoring the half-finished experiments that indicated the place had been abandoned suddenly, rather than with any sort of warning. As he entered a certain room, he suddenly seemed to wake form some sort of trance. They had reached their destination.

"Axl," X whispered so as to try to maintain the silence and find something out at the same time. "How did you find this place? Why are we in this room?"

"I just followed the sound." Axl answered. "Someone's here."

"W-what sound?"

"Couldn't you guys hear it?"

"Hear what?" Zero added to the mix. "What did you hear? 'Cuz X and I didn't hear anything."

"A girls voice." Axl quietly added. "She was crying, and she simply said three words."

"what did she say?" but of course, they already knew. It was what the transmission said.

"Axl....." he began. "'save me' was what she said."

"That's......" X and Zero exchanged a signifigant look. "What was on the transmission...."

"B-but I thought I wasn't alowed to know that!" Axl was....surprised. To say the least.

"Yeah, well, we were told to only tell you what was absolutly necessary," Zero explained. "And the transmission was in the unnecessary catagory."

"Oh..." after a pause he replied, slightly abashed. "I didn't know that, sorry."

"Of course you didn't know, it wasn't necessary to tell you!" X said normally, which was similar to a shout in the situation. "Now, where is this person? Can you find her?"

Axl shook his head, "I don't know......I can't hear her anymore. It's as if she was silenced by someone." Or something.....but I can't tell them that. I don't know for sure.....

"Well then, lets move on to trying to find this person. Any clues?"

"No....well......maybe." Axl began uncertainly.

"W-what do you mean "maybe"?" Zero said incrudiously. "It's as if you have an idea, but aren't sure!"

"That's exactly what I mean."

"Oh." X said "Then we may as well hear it. I mean, it's not like we have anything else to go on."

"Well........" What am I supposed to say? That I only have where I THINK I heard the voice come from? Well....honesty IS the best policy. "I think that her voice came from this room....but I'm not too sure....it was a very quiet voice."

"All right then, lets have a look around shall we?" Zero finished the conversation. "Alia DID say we shouldn't hesitate and to explore the whole place, didn't she?"

The room was even MORE dusty than the rest of the building, as though it had been abandoned and forgotten long before the rest of the building. The computers were so bad of that X couldn't even turn them on, and Zero had a hard time looking for the data needed to confirm a Maverick Situation. Almost nothing was made after the 6th maverick war, so nothing in it was of any use to them,. Yet, the sense that something was missing or off could not be denied by any of the the Maverick Hunters. As he explored the room Axl felt a sense of familiarity, as though he had been in or seen this room before. He even knew where to find whatever he looked for, so the search was over quickly.

"Strange..." he commented. "This is the only thing in the entire room that shows any sign of recent use. Aside form that terminal." He was refering to the one terminal that was actually working. X was copying the data on it as Axl and Zero explored the rest of the room.

He was reffering to an object in the middle of the room. It was Cylindrical, and shiny. It was the only thing in the room that didn't have a 6 inch layer of dust on it. In fact, it seemed to repel dust like an energy sheild deflects attacks. The symbol on it seemed to be some kind of identification. Angel wings spread outward below a moon, two twin intertwining lights surrounding it: one light blue starting at the right wing's tip; and the other dark blue beggining at the tip of the left wing; both ending in the same direction as tips of the wings they started at. As Axl looked at it, a strange calm enveloped him. He KNEW that the girl was in there, just as he KNEW that he was the only one who could get her out.

Axl began to walk slowly, purpously towards the strange pod. As he approached it, it began to open, revealing a reploid that looked to be about 15 or 16, just one or two human years younger than Axl himself. She wore a dark blue jumpsuit that covered everything from her palms to her toes; a light blue T-shirt that, without the junpsuit, would have shown her midriff; a light blue skirt; light blue reploid boots that went up to her knees; a mini-cape that covered her chest area over her shirt; a scarf that was obviously tied behind her neck, it ended in two tail-like ribbons that went to about her ankles; and she also had a dark blue, but sitll lighter than her jumpsuit, ribbon tied in a bow that went to about knee-length tied around her waist, just above the skirt. Her hair was crystal-blue and went down as far as her scarf. She was heavily damaged, as well as unconsious. Axl ignored all of this and continued to walk towards her at the same pace as she began to waken. When she took a look around, she began to whimper... her eyes were the same color as her hair, but her pupils were the same color as her jumpsuit. They were the only things the same color as her bottommost layer.

"Your safe now." Axl stated to say. Is that really my voice? It's so calm! "I'm Axl, what's your name?"

"I-i don't have a name...." Her voice hadn't been used for years. "So, call me what you will, do with me what you will. You are my new masters." And she collasped.

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Well....I hope you like it.

On another note.... I'm thinking of having X and the female Zero as a couple. What do you guys think? I have a poll on my profile, if you want to help or just want your opinion heard.