X's dark side

Summary:

It has been six weeks since the world sufferd the terrible punishment of the Sigma virus, three weeks since it sufferd the crash of Eurisa, and only one week of this punishing Nightmere phenomenon.

nearly a month since the dynamic duo, X and Zero were seperated...The two maverick hunters had worked side by side against Sigma, until the Eurisa incedent, where the red maverick hunter. Zero was killed saveing X from Sigma's wrath. But now. Zero has fallen, his body dissapeard from the face of the earth...acording to the maverick hunters and accepted by all of humanity.

Until now...

Prolouge:

The pulsating green and blue light sped up. a strange buzzing sound came next fallowed by nearly bearable pain. It wasn't a sharp stinging, burning pain. but a dull pulsing pain. The pain cuased a ringing in his ears. Soon the pulseing green light got brighter and brighter until it turned white, then it faded, the white slowly disolved into a blurry, glossy material blocked the vision of what looked to be darkend grey and oc-white room. The being blinked then let out a silent breath.

Soon its eye sight cleard enouph it could tell it was in a pod of somesort. A repair pod? more then likely. The being in the pod was not human not in the least. He was a type of android. A reploid.

I robot capable of totale free thought and action.

Stronger and faster then humans, only beaten in smarts by a very select few of the star born race.

The reploid in pod attempted a sigh, but again only wnded up with a silent breath.

'So...I can't use me vocal cords eh? well! lets see what else dosn't work.' thought the reploid slowly scanning the area around him, there was little to see. All he could see was the very rim of his red helmet out of the corner of his ultramarine eyes, a misplaced strand of blond hair fell over his eyes forceing the reploid to blink it away.

' so much for the pony tail...who is gods name put my helmet on...and didn't pit my hair in its pony tail? oh speacking of sombodies.' thought the reploid slowly turneing his head, surprised that his neck worked.

' Alright Zero...thats good you can now look around! lets see..do my arms work?' Zero blinked tried to move his arms. His left fingures twitched, then slowly glitched into a fist. Zero smirked and slowly realeased his fist repeating the prosses with his right hand.

'good. now the legs'

Zero consentrated hard, trying despretly to move his legs. wiggle with toes...something! anything? nope. he could move his feet...or any part of his lower body. This only seemed to amuse the reploid though.

'Not that much of a surprise, I tohught I was skrewed as of beging able to move at all! my re-pair system was destroyied when I fought Sigma...my power core was demolised...that damn fight. I wouldn't be in this mess if Sigma didn't make me fight X...X!" Zero sucked in a rapid breath, the ecuivilant of a silent gasp.

Zero turned his head to his right side and saw the warped verison of someone sitting in a chair not to far from him. Zero tried again to use his voice. but to no avail . Zero was angery now

"I have to know! is he alive!?' thought Zero punching the metal table beneath him. The man/woman in the chair jumped to his/her feet. Zero blinked noticeing how quicklt this got the persons attention and hit the table rapidly to get the human over to the pod.

Without a seconds hesitation the human rushed over to the pod anf opened the glass covering. Zero blinked as a sudden flood of light invaded his eyes.

"You'r awake!" came a feminine voice. tried to grunt and blinked several times. a girl?

Zero looked up and saw a girl with blond culy hair and green eye's. she had a white lab coat on and look overly releaved.

Zero blinked several more times and mouth afew words.

' who are you?'

The woman blinked several times

"I'm sorry but you'r vocal cords wont be working until later...here use this." said the woman handing Zero a notepad and a pencil. stared blankly at it for a moment, then began writing franticly.

who are you? Where am I? and how am I alive?!"

Zero handed the paper back to the girl who read it quickly.

"Why you sure do cut to the chase don't you? Well first off my name is Casandra. You are in my laboratory and I reapried you."

More detail please!

"Oh fine... I was exploreing out side the coove one day and found you'r body...er what was left of it anyway. just you left arm and upper body, head included."

Zero shoke his head 'well duh, god I hate stupid people'

"Tell me Zero...how did you end up in that condition?" asked Casandra.

'She knowes my name?'

Zero grabed the notepad and slowly bagan writeing. Telling the scientist everything he remeberd about the Eurisa incedent, his fight with X and the battle with Sigma.

Casandra read the paper several times in silence before actually speacking.

"T-thats terrbile...I thought you were just cuaght in a building collapse," said Casandra reading over the last part of the paper again. "I'm sorry Zero but...I don't know if this X you're talking about...but I can send scout bots out to look from him. He could be in any of the twenty cooves around here."

Zero attempted to growel then took the paper.

What are 'the cooves'?

Cassandra lauphed at the question.

"The cooves are underground cities that we humans and reploids have made together. There are twenty of them here in Japan and south Korea...the rest of the world...we don't know." said Casandra in a slightly sad voice.

Zero heard something inside his head click then bright bold lettering appeard in front of his eyes

' vocal systems back on-line in 5...4....3...2...vocal systems on-line'

Zero blinked several times and moaned. he noted already that his normaly melodus voice was sctratchy.

" W-which c-coo-ve are w-we in?" sputterd Zero. Casandra blinked several times in slight dismay.

"You'r vocal systems are working again!"

" Well duh...what was you'r first clue?" said Zero in a scratchy voice

"Do want some water?"

" That would be nice." grumbled Zero as he turned his head away fromt he human and loked at the wall. Casandra looked at Zero for a moment then turned to a small grenn and silver robot.

" Bren...go get a glass of water please." asked Casandra to the small robot.

"W-ater. *beep*" The little green robot hopped up then ran out of the room.

" Well. I'm going to return to my research, you can just rest if you want." said Casandra walking back over to her computer and typing into her digital diary.

Dear Diary: It's been three day's since Zero has woken up, he won't talk to me! The only things he say's to me are. " Have you found X yet?" or " Can I GO now?"

He onlt asks once a day though. then he just sits silently and stares at the wall. hm...to marrow I think I'll let him go and explore the cooves. I want him to come back but...I wouldn't mind if it didn't come back.

Casandra signed out of her Diary and turned to Zero who was looking at himself in a mirror. He had tied his pulled his hair back in a tight pont tail and build a saber out of parts he found in the lab.

"Zero...I think all you'r systems have been repaired...if you want you can go and explore the cooves."

"That would be...nice...do you have a cloak?" asked Zero turning to the woman.

"Yea and old black one...why?" asked Casandra scratching her head.

"Because....of the hole nightmree thing you were blabbing about. I don't want to scare people out of there wits when they see me." said Zero in a sad tone.

"Yea. theres one in the closet over there." said Casandra pointing to a closet and spinning around in her chair. Zero grunted, walked over to the closet and picked out the clock.

"Thank you...for everything." said Zero heading twards the door.

"Good luck Zero." called Casandra as Zero grabed the door.

"Thank you."