Life Lessons

Chapter 1 How NOT to start your first day

"Oh man I'm gonna be so late," muttered Alia as she hurried through one hallway and them another.

"It's my first day on the job and I'm already mixed up." "Where is that darn office?"

Alia had been the newest recruit too unit 17 at Maverick Hunter HQ, she had gotten up very early this morning to make sure she was ready and had been at the door before they were even open. When she finally got inside the monitor had stated that all new recruits needed to report to Commander Signas's office for briefing and to meet their commanding officers. She had been told by the reploid at the front desk that it was right around the corner but when she got there, there were nearly a hundred doors there. She had absolutely no idea which one it was and she ended up walking in on multiple reploids changing into their battle uniforms. She had been wandering around the building for nearly 30 minutes and she was nervous to open any more doors due to more embarrassment. She was about to just give up when she bumped into a group of male reploids just outside of their dorm rooms.

"Excuse me", said Alia, "I wasn't watching were I was going," she started to turn but the biggest one grabbed her arm in a death grip and wouldn't let go.

"Please let go of me sir, I have to get to the briefing room before I get in major trouble."

"Well I'd say you're in trouble already, eh guys this one's pretty cute, its been awhile since we had any new female recruits."

"Especially cute ones, did ya'll see the last one the brought in no offense but she put the "ug" in ugly."

"Yeah, no kidding man I still get nightmares just thinking about it," said the shortest reploid shuddering in disgust.

"So, anyway missy, care to hang out with a couple of tough crackers like us," laughed the tall one.

"No sir, I can't, please let go of me I have to get to the briefing room," but try as she did the reploid's iron grip locked her in place.

"What, you think you're too good for us; well we'll change that real quick." He put his other hand over her mouth and started to shove her back into their room.

Alia was very frightened, she tried screaming but the hand muzzled her mouth so that no sound could escape, she tried kicking at him but it was like being a kitten in the jaws of a lion.

"Don't worry baby we'll take good care of you real soon," the large reploid laughed, "we'll…

"HEY, WHAT DO YOU LAZY BUMS THINK YOUR DOING, GET BACK TO YOUR POSTS NOW," said a loud commanding voice.

"Aw, crap ya'll it's the commanders, we better bolt," said the smallest one. They stumbled over each other as they scrambled to leave the area.

"Are you all right," said the shorter of the two reploids, Alia carefully tried to wipe the tears from her eyes before the two reploids could see it, she thought she hid it pretty well but it was pretty obvious to the reploids how scared she was. "I'm all right, thank you." She managed to look up at them and noticed that the shorter one had blue tinted armor and the other had bright red and while they appeared to be a bit menacing with their size, their eyes seemed very kind, "especially the blue ones," she thought.

"What in the name of Mavericks are you doing in the boy's dorm section," asked the red one, "and near the Tyran brothers no less."

"I...I wa...I was trying to find commander Signas's office for briefing but I've been looking for over 45 minutes and I can't find it." She mumbled. She hated how her voice sounded so small and pathetic especially after they had been so nice to her.

"Signas's Office, well no wonder you can't find it it's on the other side of the building!"

"Hey, come on now Zero there's no need to be so tough on her; we were all rookies at some point."

"Zero, Haven't I heard that name before?" thought Alia.

"Man you have got to come off the softy attitude, it's gonna get you in trouble one of these days."

"It hasn't yet, therefore I'll keep at it, anyway I'll go ahead and escort her to Signas's office, you better get back to your division training before the rookies get out of control," Said the blue one.

"Why do they keep calling commander Signas's name so casually, just how high up on the totem pole are these two," thought Alia.

"Yeah, I guess you're right X, we wouldn't want what happened the last time we left rookies in the training hall unsupervised to happen again would we," Laughed Zero.

"Hey, at least I didn't leave them unattended so I could go fix my majorly long and yet a major pain in the butt to manage hair." X shot back.

"Oh, you did not just go their my friend," laughed Zero, "I'm not the one who ran out my first day because I was freaking out that in the brawl room you actually brawl."

"Oh be quiet and go back to work," said X; however he was trying hard not to laugh as hard as Zero was.

"So their names are X and Zero," thought Alia as she walked quietly behind them, "Wait! X and Zero, as in the S-Class Hunters who defeated the maverick Sigma and are said to be the top fighters in the entire district," "THAT X and Zero." Alia was totally freaking out in her head; she'd just cried and acted really stupid in front of the some of the most powerful reploids on Earth, not to mention her commanding officers. She felt so embarrassed she could feel her face going crimson red. Luckily X and Zero were pretty engaged in their conversation so they didn't really notice which she was very grateful for.

"All right X, take good care of our little rookie here I better get back, see ya later." Zero said as he ran off through the halls.

"Okay then we better head down to the office its right ove…Hey, are you all right," asked X

Alia suddenly noticed that X was looking straight at her and she got very embarrassed. "I… I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused sir." She started to bow but X grabbed her shoulder and raised her up to face him.

"Hey, don't worry about it we were all there at one point, I remember my first day on the job I couldn't find the office either I was late walking in and everyone was staring at me, I was so embarrassed and humiliated that I hid in my dorm for the rest of the day, but once I met Zero and learned the ropes I settled in quite well, you will too, I'm sure of that," said X.

"Th… Thank you sir, I'll remember that," Alia said

"And another thing, you don't have to call me sir, just X will be fine," He smiled at her.

"Al...All right thank you Commander X," and despite having such a rough first morning she found herself smiling back at him.

Well, here's my first fanfiction, hope you all enjoyed chapter one. Hopefully new chapter we'll be out by the end of the weekend so stay tuned, thanks for reading.