Okay, I said that I would post it in a couple hours, but it turned into like, a week. I started working on my wings for a costume and basically broke my back bent over for so long and wifi at conventions sucks. So... yeah.

SO here's my story to try and help you guys through my writers block. It's not Sonic like my other stories but I've been planning on expanding anyways. This also has a bit on a higher rating cause of... well it'd be a bit spiolerish but you should be able to get a pretty good guess out of the first chapter here.

Anyway, enjoy!

"No, I swear they announced it. It's coming out next month."

"They just announced that game last year. There's no way it's done already."

"Yes it is. I saw video footage. It comes out on the DS."

"Would you two stop? Look I can just google it now."

"Yes! Good work Ian! Prove me correct!"

Ian kept his eyes on his phone as he replied, "Working on it… Found it. She's right Nathan. They announced it a couple of days ago."

"No!" Nathan fell back on the ground in despair while their third companion cackled.

"Told ya! As always I am a fountain of knowledge!"

"You're not! You're so clueless about stuff!" Nathan complained, throwing the grass at them from the school yard.

"And yet I am the one who knew about the release date." A black van pulled up in front of the school, but they ignored it since a lot of cars came up to drop off kids. There was even a van they nicknamed 'cube-van' cause it looked like a perfect cube

"Uh huh. I'll bet you the game's gonna have a bunch of glitches though if they finished it that quickly." He knew he was defeated so might as well change the topic.

"I think glitches can be fun under the right circumstances."

"Yeah like the-"

"Ian, if you say it I will throw my backpack at you."

The black van parked across the street, but neither Nathan nor Ian took notice of this. The third group member however did. They didn't say anything though, and moved their attention back to their friends.

"Go for it." Ian challenged.

He received a suspicious narrowed glare, "You're going to steal my backpack if I do aren't you?"

"Yes."

Nathan laughed, "That was blunt."

"Yep." Ian responded bluntly, causing both of his companions to laugh.

Behind them a door opened and shut with a thud. The sound registered with the third person. They turned their head slightly to see a man in a large black trench coat and sunglasses, which was strange since it was pretty warm and sunny out.

As they watched the man reached into his coat and pulled out something that shined in the morning light. That was the last thing they remembered.

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"X! Hey X!"

Said repliod turned toward the voice, seeing a familiar gunner running his way, "Axl? What's up?"

The younger bot ran up beside the blue hunter who had stopped to let him catch up, "I've been looking for you everywhere. Commander Signas requested us to talk to him in his office. Zero's already headed there."

"Alright then. Let's go." X started walking in the direction of the office, "Do you know what this is about?"

Axl shook his head, "No clue. I thought I heard something about a group that was causing trouble."

"Heard something or eavesdropped something?"

"…"

X rolled his eyes in slight amusement at his friend's mischievous actions. The base certainly was a lot livelier since the gunner had joined the team.

"Okay then. Anything else?"

Axl looked up in thought, his hand moving up to his chin, "I think there was something about that Gravity team or something. That one's a bit iffy."

"Gravity? Hadn't they gone quiet for awhile?"

The younger boy shrugged, "I guess they came back? Like I said I'm not completely sure about that part."

"Well I guess we're about to find out." Axl almost walked past the door due to him being so lost in his thoughts, trying to determine the details of their summons. X managed to catch him before he got too far and pushed the door open.

Zero was already there waiting for them, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed across his chest. He nodded to the two as they entered. Signas was behind his desk and stood when they walked in.

"You wanted to talk to us sir?" X asked.

"Yes. There seems to have been an uprising in maverick activity lately. The last few weeks to be exact." Signas explained.

X's eyebrows furrowed in concern, "How much of a rise sir?"

"A 15% rise X." Axl whistled slowly in astonishment. That was a high rise for a short amount of time.

"What could cause a rise like that?" Axl thought out loud.

"We believe that the outbreaks were all planned." He stopped for a moment, watching the hunters' reactions. Axl seemed slightly surprised; he probably would have been more surprised if he hadn't been eavesdropping. X's eyes widened but he managed to keep a calm domineer. Zero simply raised an eyebrow. Not much seemed to surprise him. Except Axl's pranks. But those never really ended well.

"What makes you think that?" Zero asked, moving from his position to stand next to X.

"There was a quote left at every attack. 'No good deed goes unpunished.'"

"Wasn't that the quote Gravity would use?" X asked as Axl made a tiny fist pump at his side.

Signas nodded affirmative. Gravity was a group of repliods who had made themselves known about half a year ago. They acted just as any maverick group did, but did it with more… 'personality'. They tagged their targets with the quote 'No good deed goes unpunished' after they were done with whatever they were doing there. They still weren't sure why they had chosen this line or why they put it wherever they went. Witnesses also said that they heard the team talking about "Keeping this world grounded". They really couldn't figure these guys out, but that's what happens when you're dealing with mavericks.

"So what are we going to do?"

"We're keeping a close eye out for any more activity. You three will be summoned immediately as soon as we find something. Until then you three need to be ready at a moment's notice." Signas sat, indicating the end of the meeting.

"Sir." All three spoke in chorus before exiting.

"Those guys again." Zero scoffed as soon as the door had closed. "This is going to be a real pain."

"Could probably be worse," Axl replied with his usual optimism.

"He's right Zero. Stop complaining," X slightly scolded as they started their way towards the lounge area.

Zero didn't respond. He just rolled his eyes and continued walking beside X.

"Wonder why they were quiet for so long," Axl stated as he walked on the opposite side of X.

"Licking their wounds most likely," the red hunter replied simply. "Their last operation was a disaster."

Axl snickered, "Didn't one of them blow themselves up before we even got there?"

"Yes," X sighed.

"Makes our job easier," Zero had a small smile tugging at his lips.

This time X rolled his eyes. 'These two.' That was a thought that came to his mind often when he was with his friends.

When they reached the lounge room Axl immediately dashed off to the small food stand at the far end of the room. Of course they didn't need to eat but they still could. It was more for pleasure than necessity.

The room was a warm pale yellow with white couches and chairs set around the room, surrounding multiple clear tables. There was a small booth at the back that sold different snacks and drinks that Axl really liked. They had small tvs set around the room as well and you could usually find at least one repliod watching them since many of the hunters didn't have tvs in their quarters.

X and Zero sat at one of the small tables near a tv and soon Axl came over and joined them with an ice cream cone (he seemed to have a weakness for sweets) and watched multiple different programs for a few hours until all three heard a small ping from their helmets.

"Already?" Axl asked, still with a little ice cream left on his chin.

"Come on," X told him while subtly motioning for him to wipe off the left over snack.

Axl did so and the three headed for the command room.