Disclaimer: Megaman/Rockman X is not in any way associated with myself.

Author's notes: Ah, the crazy and hectic freshman year of high school. Lots of hard work and labor, especially after you factor in band and choir, and the screw up that my school made putting them in the same class period. But I digress. I didn't expect updates to slow down this much, so I'm going to just write whenever I have free time.

Now, we last left Zero in a house with several bedrooms of varying familiar colors. What will he do with these rooms? Bring in the J-pop theme song!

Chapter 4

"So does anyone want to answer the question?" Forte stood up by the classrooms white board which had a complex mathematical equation written across it. "Hmmm, who to pick who to pick." Forte looked around the numerous members of his class.

It certainly was fun picking on Double yesterday, he thought, but variety is the spice of life. Let's see who else I can screw with. Of all the faces he could see however, the one that caught his eye, was the one he couldn't see. Namely, Vile's face, beneath his purple helmet. "Vile!" Forte cried out suddenly. I just noticed that your always wearing that helmet, even though your restricted from taking armor to school." Forte approached Vile's desk.

"What of it?" Vile replied coolly.

"I'm actually quite interested in what happens to be beneath that helmet of yours." Forte grinned mischievously. "Would you mind taking it off."

"Yes I mind!" Vile slammed his fists on his desk. Forte smiled, seeing as he had finally struck a nerve. Vile was now shivering in his seat, although weather out of fear or anger was uncertain.

"You do realize, that such a harsh tone against a teacher is meriting of discipline." Forte grinned, as Vile gulped.

In a half a second, Vile had jumped eight feet in the air, in an attempt to escape. Forte however, was quicker, as the two were now at an equivalent height above the other student's heads. Forte quickly grabbed Vile, placing the rebellious student in front of his legs, and launched him with a powerful kick, planting the poor reploid's head in the wall firmly, right next to the shattered window.

The students all watched as Vile vainly struggled to release his head from his new concrete prison, as Forte stuck his upper body out the window. "Now let's see what we have beneath the hood!" the demented teacher looked like a child in a candy store. A few seconds later. Vile was launched out of the wall by Forte's fist, still wearing his helmet. Forte pulled himself back in the classroom, his face green.

"Keep the, Ulp!" Forte covered his mouth, resisting the urge to puke. "Keep the helmet on."

As the bell to signal the end of the day rang, all of the boys of the class, save Zero gathered around Vile, wondering just what he had beneath that helmet. Forte went to powder his nose.

Zero took a look around. Iris hadn't been there today. Maybe she was sick? Maybe I'll go down to the office and check. Zero thought, as he walked down to Signas's office.

"Principle Signas?" Zero cracked the office door open when no one answered his knock.

"Come in." The principles deep voice echoed through the room as Zero opened the door. "Ah, Zero! Just the reploid I wanted to see."

Zero cocked an eyebrow "Really?"

Signas nodded. "Indeed, I need you to do something for me," Signas began, allowing no room for Zero to interject. "As you've no doubt noticed, Iris is absent, as well as her brother Colonel. As is school protocol, I need to send someone to check on them and give them their home work," Zero thought for a moment. We get homework? "As well as make sure they know that they both have one unexcused absence on their record right now. I'd do it myself but I just have so much to do, I have a paper that needs to be filled out and filed, a dinner date that I just can't miss, and,"

"In other words," Zero managed to pull in a word. "You can't be bothered." Signas looked to be pouting. Zero had after all, hit the nail right on the head.

The large reploid put his hands together and in his best Oliver Twist voice pleaded. "Please Zero." Before Signas could put in another word, one thing flashed through Zero's mind. WANKER!

Zero shivered. "Fine, I'll do it, just give me the home work."

Signas looked confused "What homework?" This would be the last thing Signas would say, before waking up the next morning with a large bump on his head.

Meanwhile, about five blocks away, a very annoyed Colonel and Iris looked up at their former residence, a second story apartment which had been taken from them because of "budget cuts" in Repliforce.

Colonel decided to break the silence with some levity. "You know, I thought you'd at least be a sophomore before we got evicted."

Iris sighed. "We'd better start looking for a place to sleep for the night." As they picked up their luggage, a blonde figure in a school uniform ran up to the siblings. "Zero!" Iris's mood immediately lightened up as she saw the long haired reploid running towards her.

The first thing Zero noticed was that Iris and Colonel were holding suitcases and other bags that were no doubt filled to the brim. "What's going on?" Zero was clearly confused. "Are you leaving?"

Colonel frowned. "We will if we can't find a place to stay. This morning the landlord came and gave us the rest of the day to clean up the apartment and pack our belongings. Seems that with all the budget cuts, Repliforce can't afford to house us anymore. The rate things are going, we may have to just leave."

The next thing Zero said would either be the best thing he ever did, or the worst mistake of his life. "Why don't you come to my place?" he offered. "I've got some extra room at my place, so maybe you guys could give me some company."

Colonel's eyes went wide. "You really mean that? We wouldn't want to impose or anything and-"

Iris stepped on Colonel's toe. "We'd love to come and stay." Iris accepted the offer as Colonel hopped on one foot whilst holding the other.

"I thought you couldn't hurt things." Colonel said through clenched teeth. Iris ignored the remark and followed Zero.

"Are you really sure this is a good idea?" Colonel whispered to Iris as they trailed behind Zero. "Our apartment was hardly big enough for me, let alone the both of us, and now you want to go add a third person into the mix?"

"We don't have much of a choice." Iris sighed. "We'd be homeless for the night if we didn't come."

"Even so, do you really think that he'll have an apartment that would be big enough for all of us? It's not like he has a house"

"Okay guys this is it." Zero called back to the two siblings. The duo looked up from their conversation to see Zero's large two story house.

"You were saying?" Iris looked to her brother.

Colonel's jaw simply dropped.

Post Author's notes: Sorry for the long time it took for the release this chapter. I actually started it before school began and began working on it again two weeks into school. You can thank my buddy Gamer Geek for trolling me and making sure it even got put up in the first place. I'll try to keep writing in my free time and keep updates a little more frequent than never.