This is chapter two of this awkward Fanfic. From now on, I will put some informative data for the people that are not familiar with the series. Besides, I will use that too for further explanation of the story. The section will be called "Sigmaverick's guide for Unanswered Questions"

Disclaimer: I don't own X, Zero, Axl, Alia, Layer, Palette, Signas, Lifesaver and Douglas. They are property of Capcom and all the bla bla bla yara yara. I just own the plot and the Ocs Takuma Ryusaki (Ryuta), Roh Mina (Romi), Gamma Tron, Searing Kitsune (Kitse), Lightning Wolfang and Crush Kumaroid.

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Year 21XX

Dargia City, Big Mansion. September 28th, 10:41

Kitse

System reboot...

Vital energy system compromised...

Main generator damage level critical...

Diverting all power to vital systems...

...

...

...

System's basic functions restored!

I woke up. I'm damaged pretty badly. I still can't believe that he did this to me just for 30 credits. My armor is gone. I feel the so familiar weight of the shackles on my wrists and legs. At this rate, I'll be gone in 10 minutes. I hear steps that are coming closer. Damn, my eyes are not working. What is he going to do now with me?

Big G: - "I hope you had a pleasant night of sleep. You will think twice now before you ever steal from me"

Kitse: - "I t-told you... I might ha-ave l-lost that mon-n-n-ney"

Big G: - "Lost money is stolen money. You should be thanking me for not trashing you out, you worthless piece of junk metal! You're lucky that I can't afford to lose more of you on my streets."

I feel his grasp over mi face. He opens up my mouth and I feel something going in. At this point, I'm used to his perversions. However, this time he gave me a large energy plet. My energy systems came back online, but I need a mayor repair. I don't know how much damage he has done to me or how bad is it.

My eyes are working again. I see Big G cleaning himself with a towel after he touched me. Now that I can take a closer look to myself, it seems that someone has taken advantage of my temporary 'disconnection'.

Big G: - "Here, clean yourself up. Go see Fuzz and get yourself ready. I want you on the streets in 30 minutes."

He throws the towel on my face and leaves. I hear the click of the shackles mechanism being opened. I need to get my body fixed quickly. Fuzz will be able to patch me up to be out on time.

As I make my way to Fuzz's workshop inside the mansion, I found the remains of my armor suit. Like it wasn't bad enough to clean all my body with a hand towel and walk around naked. 'Damn it, I loved this skirt. It's only 5 days old' I say to myself. I just can't have this anymore. I hate this lifestyle, this place... this pain. I can't take it anymore. Ryuta Kun... Why? Where are you?

Maverick Hunter Base, Crisis Cell Unit. 11:48

Zero

Lifesaver has been working on the Roh investigation reploid for almost 13 hours. The rescue was a success, but there are still a lot of questions hanging around this matter.

I do not know why we have been called in. We handle issues that regular hunters can not; after all we are the Crisis Cell. This was usual, but to rescue someone from a Tower-Clark? Something is not right about this female.

Axl: - "What the hell are you still doing here?"

Zero: - "Something is not right about this assignment, and I want to interrogate her, once Lifesaver is done"

Axl: - "Ok... Did any of your memory chips got burned or you lost your common sense circuits?"

Zero: - "Don't make me hurt you, kid"

Axl: - "I was just saying... Have you forgotten that you have that hot date with Layer, the one you have planed all week? And that, unless you teleport yourself, you will be late for it?"

Holy damn!!! What was I thinking? I started to run from sick bay to the teleporting bay. How could I forget about it? No time to polish my armor. My shoulder pads are dirty; I'll change them on the way. Damn, I need a gift. It's too late for that. I got to the transporting area, but there are no navigators to operate them.

Zero: - "Why me?"

Nana: - "Do you need anything, Zero?"

Zero: - "Nana! I'm so glad you are here. I need a teleport to Auriga City's Starlight Park"

Nana: - "We had no reports of any-"

Zero: - "Please, Nana. It is an emergency!"

Nana: - "But I'm off duty... Besides you shouldn't use them for personal matters"

Zero: - "I really don't have time for this, Nana. Please, I need the teleport"

Nana: - "You better get me something nice for this, ok?"

Zero: - "I will. I owe you, big time."

I was teleported in no time. However, I landed on south-west side, outside the park. Layer likes the jasmine flowers that bloom here, so I guess I could get one on the shops of this side.

It has been hard for us to come to this point and I really want it to be special. Although she is very shy, I have always found her intimidating. Sometimes, I actually think she is a little too much for me. However, I am glad that she feels the same way as I do. It has been hard to feel this way again after what happened with Iris... Still the past is one of a few things that will never come back.

Auriga City, Starlight Park. 12:01

Layer

I never thought that he might ask me out. I almost reset all my systems when he told me that. And after the last fight against Sigma, he told me so... That he... I can't even think about the word without blushing like a signal beacon!!! I'm so happy, so exited, so... in love. Yes, that is the word. Love... I feel like all my circuits are buzzing. It is such a strange but incredible sensation.

Zero: - "Layer!"

Layer: - "Zero! Hi. Is that for me?"

Zero: - "Yes. I remembered that you liked jasmine that grows on this place. That is why I wanted us to come here."

Layer: - "Thank you. I really wanted to come here too, but never had the time. We are always too busy"

Oh my, he is looking at me... Oh my, he is blushing, he so cute. Now I'm blushing...

Layer: - "What?"

Zero: - "No... Nothing. I just can stop looking at you"

Layer: - "That makes me a little nervous"

Zero: - "It's just... I think you are beautiful, that's all"

Layer: - "Thank you"

OH MY!! HE CAN'T BE SO SWEET!!! He keeps giving me more and more surprises. I never thought he could be so tender and at the same time so gallant. At all times, he has been so serious, so hard to reach and now, to see him like this, to know him like this, is the most comforting surprise I had ever received.

We spent a lovely day, watching the different flowers at the park until sunset. We talked about a lot of things. How did we start our duties as Maverick Hunters; places we like to go, places that would like to go and stuff. But our peace had to be interrupted.

As I was lying on his shoulder, I could hear the sound of his inicom.

Zero: - "This better be important... Sir... I'm sorry, sir. I will be there in a moment"

Layer: - "I know... You have to go. Don't worry, I will see you on the HQ tomorrow, ok?"

Without any warning, he was already holding my chin on his fingers. I couldn't believe myself, until I felt his soft lips on my own. It was a tender, but passionate kiss. I kiss him back, a little bit dazzled by the moment. I hold him as our lips seemed to dance a slow waltz. I so was dazzled by the moment that I barely noticed when he raised to go back to his duties.

Zero: - "I will make it up to you. That IS a promise"

Layer: - "You already have... I will see you tomorrow"

I was still shaking up to my circuits, even when he teleported back to base. This has been an incredible day, among all incredible days. I really couldn't ask for more.

Maverick Hunter Base, Crisis Cell Unit. 16:21

Axl

Zero is lucky bastard. Layer is quite hot. I hope that 'Mr. Bitter side' doesn't blow the date.

But, back to this chick Mina, Zero had a point. Something weird is going on to be called over this. Still, that gives me the chance to get closer to her. I haven't seen a chick this cute in a while.

She had the design of a small female with short gray hair, a delicate pair of azure eyes, pale skin and a very expressive face. She was wearing human clothing, however. She seemed not to be caring any kind of armor. She was wearing human female boots, long white jean pants, a strange brown belt, a matching red long jacket with no sleeves, net long gloves with black color hand gloves and a white strapless shirt.

Lifesaver: - "Eh... your mouth is open"

Axl: - "Ah... Yeah, I... How is the patient? I would like to ask her a few questions"

Lifesaver: - "Zero or X should be doing this"

Axl: - "X had to do something regarding the mission and Zero is out on a... T-thing"

Lifesaver: - "Well, I hope the 'Thing' goes fine. Layer was a little nervous about it"

With a tricky glare and a smile, Lifesaver got out of the room. Being the medical head on this pace can also provide a fair amount of gossip and rumors.

I went inside the room and I saw her, sitting on the restoration capsule, just about to get out of it. I rush my step to help her out. My eyes met hers. Damn, she was pretty. She started giggling and I smiled back at her.

Mina: - "Thank you. That was really nice of you"

Axl: - "Anytime"

Mina: - "You are a very sweet boy for hunter. What is your name?"

Axl: - "I'm Axl. So, you already know that you are at a Maverick Hunter facility, right?"

Mina: - "Yes, the doctor told me every thing that happened after the Tower Clark when maverick on me. Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Mina; most people call me Roh Mina or just Romi"

Axl: - "Then I will call you Romi, if that is ok with you"

Mina: - "That's Ok, Axl. Can you help me go back to the digging site? My friends must be worried about me. I hope they are ok"

Axl: - "Come with me, I will try to contact your friends. Meanwhile, I would like to ask you a few questions"

Mina: - "Of course... Officer"

This chick is just amazing. She is funny, playful, cute and smart. I can hardly believe that she is an investigation officer. I received an incoming transmission. Damn, why can't I have some privacy?

Axl: - "Yes?"

Signas: - "Axl, report immediately to the meeting room with our guest. Her excavation team is here"

Axl: - "We are already on our way, Sir"

Mina: - "Who was that?"

Axl: - "My commander officer. It seems that your friends are already here, waiting for you"

Mina: - "Aww... We had such little time. Well, I guess we should go now, right?"

X

I've been looking at all this data that Takuma had gathered. It was very thoughtful of him to have most of the information downloaded in Data Cubes. The download of that data to my memory saves a lot of time than reading it.

I never got to know Dr. Light. I've been really curious about who he was and what my purpose was back then. I knew that I would not find my destiny on this cubes and pages, but at least I could learn a little about his life's work.

What seemed strange to me is that there are no mentions of his creations anywhere. I know I'm not his first robot. Otherwise, things might have been different.

It's strange... Why in every place that there should be a name or any other concrete data there is none? I think Takuma just got himself a new job. I received an incoming transmission

X: - "X here"

Signas (Comlink): - "X, report to the meeting room. We have visitors that you might want to know"

X: - "Ok, I will be there in a moment"

I guess I'm going to talk to Takuma sooner than I expected. Why so many historical data can be just lost and nobody even thinks about it? I will finish this meeting with Signas and will call Takuma. I want him working on this as soon as he can.

Zero

I manage to teleport myself back to the base, hoping not to run into Nana. I had no time to get her something. She made me a huge favor, but I need to figure out what she likes to make her a present.

As I got to the meeting room, X, Axl and Mina were already there with Signas. Standing along with them, there were other 3 reploids in the room. I could recognize one of the three.

It was Lightning Wolfang, Blizzard Wolfang's older brother unit. His black and blue design of armor was similar to his younger brother, except for two small lightning shaped tusks on his shoulders.

The other two were quite different to each other also. One was a massive bear like Reploid with a Brown and gray armored plate. Both arms were wearing black and grey gauntlets that seemed heavily armored and strong. His face showed, however, a peaceful expression. It might be possible that this was a construction model than a battle model.

The other one, humanoid designed, was wearing human clothes, just like Mina. He was wearing human black military boots, black jeans, a brown male buckle belt, a black thigh-fitting turtle neck shirt and a white jacket with black details. He had long black hair, tied into a braid. His almost paled white skin mad him look a little grim. I might have confused him as human, if it wasn't for those specially designed dark purple eyes. This was an investigation reploid, a Gamma design type.

Signas: - "Now that we are all here, let me introduce you to the ones that saved your life, Mina. I believe you have already met Axl. This is-"

Tron: - "The so famous Crimson Reploid, Zero. And, of course, the walking legend X. We are honored to meet you all."

Signas: - "Ok... This reploids are an archeological expedition from the Research Center of Able City. I believe you all met Roh Mina and Lightning Wolfang. This is Gamma Tron and finally Crush Kumaroid."

X: - "You are from Dr. Cain's Archeological Center?"

Mina: - "Yes. We have continued his work after his dead, to find more information about the past. After the complete black out of the planet in 20XX, there is so little we know about humanity's past and ours as well."

Zero: - "How you ended up captured by that Tower-Clark? I'm quite surprised that you did not were not infected by the long term exposure to the Sigma virus"

Gamma: - "Well, you are not the only ones that have anti-virus guard systems. We have designed one as well. Besides, as long as I was not infected, Mina would not be affected by the virus."

Zero: - "What do you mean by that?"

Gamma: - "Roh and I are first generation Duploids"

Axl: - "Duploids? You have to be kidding! Dr. Cain disposed that technology years ago..."

Gamma: - "We are the first models, based on X's original specs"

Mina (Giggling): - "So, we are like X's cousins"

Zero: - "So, she will not become infected, unless you do. Also, if she takes integral damage, that will reflect on you too."

Wolfang: - "I think that is not the point here. Gamma, we have what we came for, now let's go"

Gamma: - "Please, Lightning Wolfang, do not be rude to them. Try to make aside your differences for a few more minutes"

Lightning Wolfang kept his look at me and I returned him the look. I know that he and Blizzard Wolfang were close, so he must be quite upset. After all, I was the one who retired his bother.

Gamma: - "As we were saying, we have a digging site located at 30 miles from Morien City. Everything was fine with the equipment, until a storm came pass our way. Our anti-virus field generator was damaged during the storm. Four of our Tower-Clarks went maverick, along with half of our digging mechaniloids. Lightning Wolfang managed to take out the infected digging mechaniloids and one Tower-Clark and Crush Kumaroid handled the other two. The other one got away, as Roh tried to descend from it."

Axl: - "You were lucky that you had them with you."

Gamma: - "Yes. Our work is way too important to lose it because of a few running around mavericks."

Axl: - "What is that so important discovering?"

Gamma: - "We found what we believe it was the house of Dr. Thomas Light. We are hoping to find out more about him. I doubt we find something as revolutionary as the first time that his laboratory was found, but we might learn a thing or two about him and who he was."

X: - "That is amazing. I would like to know some more about my creator."

Gamma: - "Unfortunately, X... All information regarding Dr. Light's work is restricted to the investigation team on Able City. However, I can tell you that you will be the first one to know, if we found something important. Now, if you excuse us, we must continue with our work"

Signas: - "Absolutely. Axl, please escort them to exit"

The group of reploids left, with Axl as escort. Still, I had a strange feeling about them. Why those Duploids were looking like humans? Besides, we had some problems to take down that Tower-Clark and they handled three?

Signas: - "X, Zero... I want your personal report on this mission on my desk by the end of the day."

X: - "Yes, sir"

Zero: - "Sir, should we let them go just like this? I-"

Signas: - "That will be all, gentlemen. Dismiss"

X

I walked to my quarters along with Zero. He looked a little upset and troubled.

X: - "What is it, Zero? Something is bothering you"

Zero: - "I have a strange feeling about those duploids and their team. Something doesn't fit here. Signas is up to something, I know it"

X: - "I had a strange feeling too. I will investigate them on my own, just to be sure."

Zero: - "Just don't get yourself into trouble. Signas seems to be on their side, for some reason"

X: - "By the way... What is going on with you and Layer?"

Zero: - "Why? You want to know?"

X: - "Zero, I know. We have been friends for a long time. I know you almost as good as you know yourself and I know that something is going on with you and Layer."

Zero: - "Is it that obvious?"

X: - "Just to me. Unless you have already told someone"

Zero: - "Alright, I guess I can tell you. I like Layer, a lot... I love her. We have been seeing each other since April. Just a few hours ago, we had our first kiss."

X: - "Zero, that is wonderful! I'm really glad for you."

Zero: - "Thanks... Just try to keep it quiet. We haven't told anyone yet and I don't want to make a decision without her. I have enough with Axl finding out about our date."

X: - "Well, let's hope he can keep it secret"

Ok, now I am worried. Axl doesn't know how to keep a secret. He doesn't even know to lie, when he have to. This might be a problem, if he can not keep his mouth shut...

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Sigmaverick's guide for Unanswered Questions: File 1.0.0 – Reploids

First, I will clarify that this how I see and interpret reploids. Comments and reviews of this section will be thanked as well.

As many of you know, reploids are robots with the ability to think and develop feelings. However, very little is known about their real function. Here, I will provide some information about what is a reploid made of.

Even though there are 3 different types of reploids (Humanoid, Beastoid and Mechaniloid), they are all build on the same basis. To explain the hole thing would take while, so the vital parts for them are the main generator (secondary is optional), vital systems energy (the energy that makes the reploid stable and sustain his own program), weapons/skills energy (energy that uses his weapons or special abilities) and the cybernetic core (most times, it looks like a jewel. Is the main processor of the reploid).

Let's just make this simple: If the main generator is down, no energy can be generated, so the reploid would have 10 minutes of functionality, if the generator does not make critical mass or the reploid can not store vital energy (Mechaniloid's case)

No vital energy on the system means two things: Screwed, big time. The reploid is going critical mass and explode or full shut down of all systems. In both cases, the program of the reploid itself (Who he really is) may be lost in the process (Yes, death).

No weapon/skills energy means: Bad, real bad. If this system fails, the reploid is almost helpless against any foe or might be unusable (Mechaniloid's case).

If the cybernetic core is destroyed, it is quite uncertain what might happen, as the body might still move, but the program will surely be damaged or corrupted. However, there have been cases where reploids came back after their cybernetic core was smashed, but they are never the same (Zero is a living proof of that).

Well, that was all for this week. I hope you are enjoying this fic as much as I am enjoying doing it. Please, R&R