Neo Arcadia: Underground Laboratory-
Iris: Are we the only ones here, Doctor?
Weil:Yes. The city was destroyed in recent days.
Iris: Oh. By who?
Weil: The reploid Resistance
Iris: Reploids? There are more?
Weil: Scores and scores and scores.
Iris: Wow... I have a question... Is Maverick Hunter Zero still alive?
Weil:* freezes * ( She knows Zero? And the way she asks means she knew him personally... Oh my... Hmm... I'll think of something...) "Maverick Hunter" did you say?
Iris: Yes.
Weil: I'm sorry to say this but the acclaimed hunter became what he hunted. And he is why Neo Arcadia is in ruins.
Iris: That can't be true!
Weil: Fortunately, he was recently retired when the space station called Ragnarok crashed. That was just yesterday too.
Iris:...
She sat in silence while Dr. Weil paced back and forth. He was trying to figure out what his next course of action would be now that he had an armed reploid girl on his side, Zero was dead, and the Resistance was without a leader.
Weil: Was he dear to you, child?
Iris: Yes...
Weil: Pity.
Another silence...
Weil: I have a proposition for you, Miss Iris.
Iris: Okay?
Weil: Would you like to help me take back Earth from these mavericks?
Iris:... I have nothing worth fighting for... But I know Zero would want me to do it. Yes.
Weil: I knew you would say that. Come, we start tonight.
Just so you'll know, anything in parentheses is a character's thought. How are you liking the story so far anyway? And no, Dr. Weil never saw Zero or Croire at the Ragnarok crash site. Do you like the fact that Iris is back or no?