iX knew, that he cannot hope to fool Irregular Hunters forever. It was obvious that sooner or later they would find out the truth and he would get in trouble. Major trouble. So he already started thinking about some kind of plan that would allow him to gain allies. One of the things he could do, is corrupting some hunters with "Light Virus", a virus that actually had practically the same effect on Repliroids like Irregular or Sigma Virus from the world he is currently in. Except it did not drive the Repliroids insane, but only turned them against humans. It was enough for iX to just touch a Repliroid and send the virus to him. Tough it was simple thing, it cost him huge amount of his much needed energy that came from the virus. Another thing he could do, is find some evil group of Repliroids which would help him take down the hunters.
X was giving him a very unneeded tour around the base. Unneeded because whole base was actually the same and everything was in the same place like in his world. But iX decided to roll with it anyway just for the sake of checking which hunters are worth corrupting. He saw few familiar (albeit a little different) and new faces, which he picked for corruption.
-"And this is our game room. W rarely spend time here but if you want to relax…then this is the place." – Said X pointing at doors with a plate saying "Game Room.".
-"Um…X. I have a question which is bugging me…kind of. Not including random Irregular outbreaks, is there any organization that tries to fight against you?"
-"Well...yes there is actually. Seeing as Sigma has finally died for good, his organization has died too. However, recently some new group of Irregulars emerged. They call themselves "Hunter Killers" and they hunt…us. But also humans. It seems like they are a well trained group, because we still didn't managed to catch any of them."
-"It's probably just the fact that you all suck." – iX thought – "Anyway, I was also wondering X, if a certain Repliroid called Gate works here."
-"Gate? Well…he didn't work here and to tell you the truth he tried to kill us, because he went completely mad because of Irregular Virus. It's a long story. Sad to say, me and Zero killed him but by a request from Alia we put his body in a Repliroid Hibernation Chamber. Alia thinks that one day when we find cure for Irregular Virus we can reactivate him. I hope so too.
-"Can you show me that Hibernation Chamber he is in? Gate in my world was my…uh…FRIEND, and I would like to see him."
-"I understand. Let's go." – Said X and started walking towards elevator.
-"He, he, heh. I think I know who will be a good servant material." – iX whispered to himself and followed after X.
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After a long ride down in the elevator, they finally reached the last underground level of the base. iX was glad that he could get out of the elevator, because through all the way down X was asking him troublesome questions about "what his world is like". He told him few lies, with which he came up, tough he almost slipped and told him about his Human Hunters.
They were now walking through white hallways. After a minute of walking they reached a huge room with a big amount of sleeping pods. In almost every of this pods was a Repliroid.
In one of them was also Gate.
-"So…here he is. I wonder how much he differs from Gate from my world?" – Said iX and touched the pod – "Hmm…it seems like I will be able to transfer the virus through this." – He thought.
-"All these Repliroids here. They all await the day when their illness can be cured." – Said X out of nowhere. – "We can only hope that the cure for Sigma Virus will be found one day.
-"Yes…indeed." – Said iX – "Let's go back. I'm done here." – He said with a wry smile and started walking towards the door.
-"Ee…yeah." – X followed after him.
To be continued