Welp I'm sick. But hey, I'm going to put up a chapter anyway. Don't have much else to do, tho I might take a nap after this. Hopefully my cat will stop yelling long enough for me to fall asleep.
Anyway, enjoy and please review! X3
"There you guys are."
As soon as they had entered, Alia had called them over, still typing away at her keyboard. There were many other Navs around her staring intently at the screens in front of them. A few of them seemed like they would shut down at any moment.
"Gravity start acting up?" X asked, leaning down to view his Nav's screen.
"Yes. And it's a lot worse than we thought." She blew a piece of hair out her face. She must have been working for a while.
"Worse? What's going on?" Zero was already annoyed apparently.
Alia sighed, once again moving her hair out of her eyes, "They seem to be taking out some new tech for a test drive on a town."
"New tech?" X questioned.
"It looks like they've been gathering some old mechanaloids and upgrading them. Most likely with the equipment they've stolen in the past."
"How do we know it's them?" the blond hunter asked, apparently still not entirely sure if this really was Gravity.
"There have been sightings of the remaining members as well as a few spots where they have sprayed up that good deed quote." Alia informed him, not even bothering to look up.
"We better get out there before they hurt anyone." X started moving toward the teleport pad with his two partners right behind him.
Until Alia stopped them, "Wait. There's something else."
"What?" Axl asked, slightly bouncing in his impatience.
"There's also been sightings of another repliod."
"A new member?"
Alia nodded, "I suspect so. They seem to be commanding a lot of the mechanaloids. They must be very new though because a lot of people have been able to get away from them. It's like they're not even bothering with the citizens."
"Well we'll find out when we get there." Axl had run out of patience and was now standing next to the teleporter, trying to contain his hyperactivity.
Zero sighed, "Who thought it'd be a good idea to make a teenager repliod? He has way too much energy."
X softly laughed and went to join the hyper bot on the pad. "Come on. Let's get going before he explodes."
Zero sighed (though there was a touch of amusement and affection hidden in with the exhaustion, no matter what he says) and joined them.
"All set, Alia." The blue bomber informed.
"Be careful guys. They seem to be blocking out a lot of my signals. I won't be able to help out much."
"Got it."
"We'll be fine. We've handled worse right?"
"Right."
Alia shook her head fondly. Of course they would be okay. She wasn't even sure if anything could kill them. "All right you three. No doing anything stupid." That was one thing she was sure those three could manage.
"Of course." Axl beamed, the least reliable in that department.
With that the three vanished into a beam to their mission.
When they arrived it took them a moment to take in the surrounding. The whole area was orange with flames coming out of the buildings. There was wreckage filling the streets and animals running in panic. All the humans seemed to have already fled because beside the small creatures scurrying around there was no sign of life.
"This is… a lot more damage than usual." Axl managed.
X nodded. By now he had grown accustomed to the destruction that mavericks could cause over his many years as a hunter. Of course that didn't mean he liked seeing it. "They usually don't go this far. Either they underestimated these mechanoliods they made, or they just don't care anymore."
"Well in any case let's get going and stop these creeps." Zero took out his saber and ran forward with the others right behind him.
For a while they didn't see anything but wreckage and fire, but after a few miles Axl caught something out of the corner of his eye.
"Guys." He whispered, just loud enough for them to hear him.
"What's wrong?" X lowered his voice, now on alert from Axl's sudden warning.
"I thought I saw something." The gunner slowly stalked toward the area he saw the movement.
Zero and X watched him silently. Until X saw something out of the corner of his eye as well. "Axl, watch out!"
The younger repliod whipped around to see a wolf like mechanoliod leaping toward him get destroyed by a buster shot 8 feet away from him. He fell on his rump, looking back and forth from the destroyed robot and X. He stood up and checked the area he had been planning to check.
He shook his head, "Nothing."
"That one must have snuck around while Axl was checking." Zero commented.
Axl began to rub the back of his head sheepishly.
They all froze when they heard growling. Slowly multiple wolf and cat mechanoliods trailed out of the shadows and flames. The three stood back to back, pointing their weapons at the attackers.
"Aw, come on. They're just playing."
The hunters' head snapped up to see a girl sitting in a hole on the side of one of the buildings about a story up. She had brown eyes and hair that went down to her shoulders covered by a teal and purple helmet. There was a dark violet gem on the front with white wing like attachments sprouting from it. She wore purple and teal armor. The chest armor had a teal stripe running down the middle and she also had a short striped skirt around her waist. Her wrist gauntlets had purple triangles with the top point starting at her elbow going down to her wrist. Underneath the armor was a navy blue body suit.
"Who are you?" X asked.
She winked, "I'm Madelyn. I'm sorta new around here so go easy on me, kay?"
