Axl's p.o.v.

I told them about the voice in my head, and how I felt it driving me insane. The only solution we had was to temporarily deactivate me to remove whatever was torturing me.

"D-deactivation!?"

"Don't worry, Mr Axl," Cinnamon said. "We'll have you reactivated the moment the "voice" is removed. I promise."

My hands formed a grip. Being deactivated is the most horrifying thing for us Reploids. And if something happened, if they failed to remove the voice, then I would never wake up.

"Axl." A stern hand held mine. I looked up into X's narrowed and serious eyes. "I promise you'll wake up."

I stared at him for a few seconds. With a gulp, I turned off my hard drive.

X's p.o.v.

Axl fell into my chest as he deactivated himself.

"Miss Cinnamon," I said, "I leave Axl to you."

"Don't worry, Leader," the blonde said as she took the deactivated prototype. "I'll be as gentle as I can."

"X! Zero!" Alia cried through our speakers. "The west town is being attacked by Mavericks!"

"What!?" I snapped. "You've gotta be kidding me! We can't leave Axl unsupervised-"

"What am I? Chopped liver?" a high pitched voice asked from behind me. "I'm Axl's Navigator, aren't I? I'll be taking care of him, obviously."

I nodded.

"All right. Make sure he stays deactivated, Pallette."

?'s p.o.v.

It was almost painful trying to hold back my laughter, but I had to wait until the Hunters were gone from the scene.

Once they were out and my host was on a stretcher, I let loose my joy.

"You morons! You fucking idiots!"

"M-Mr Axl?"

I fully consumed Axl's armor, turning it to a dark shade of purple and white.

"So many codes to eat, so little time."

My fangs dug into a Reploid next to the stretcher, consuming their blood. Screams of terror filled the room as the alarm went off.

Blood dripped from my jaws as I snickered at my surrounding prey. Backing away slowly, fear written all over their faces, practically begging me to eat their hearts out.

I charged at another, indulging in their taste. More Hunters burst into the room, which caused my smile to widen.

"Wait!" a high voice cried. "Mr Axl!" A streak of blue and yellow burst through the other Reploids, wrapping their arms around me and pressing their face into my chest. "Please. fight it, Mr Axl. Please, wake up!"

Holding back my laughter was impossible. I grabbed the Reploid by the hair and held her up to my face.

"Little Axl is gone."

I was about to bite into her face when a bullet shot through my fangs, making me drop her.

"Cinnamon, get out of the way!" another blonde snapped.

"P-please wait, Ms Pallette!" the other girl stood up and spread out her arms. "He's obviously corrupted, but this is still Mr Axl! If you hurt him, you'll be hurting your own Hunter!"

"Quite frankly-" She hovered over the younger girl and started shooting at me. "-I don't give a damn!"

Her shots were easy to evade. I eventually made my way in the air to punch her into the wall. When I landed next to her to bite into her, she punched me off and kicked me.

"Who are you?" she growled as she held her pistol up. "How have you taken over Axl's body?"

I chuckled.

"My name is Lumine," I said, "and I just so happened to implant myself in his strong and sturdy little body right before X murdered me."

Axl's p.o.v.

The sounds of flesh violently clashing awoke me from my sleep. I was in the dark room from my nightmares.

"D-don't tell me-" I started banging on the walls. "X! Zero-"

Pallette's p.o.v.

"-it's gonna kill you!"

My eyes widened when I heard a childish voice coming out of the Maverick.

"Axl?"

The purple Reploid aggressively grabbed his head, groaning and cringing.

"Damn it," he growled, "the brat's waking up..."

I smirked.

"So you are still in there, are you, you idiot?" I charged back at him. "Time to wake up!" My fist slammed into his face, knocking him into the wall.

I stood up straight, tightly holding my pistol towards the Maverick as sweat dripped down my face.

"P-Pallette," a familiar voice whimpered. My enemy reached out his hand towards me, a look of desperation and fear over the mask. "Help me..."

"Axl!" I charged towards him, on the verge of tears. My only friend was right in front of me, about to be lost forever. His green eyes started to turn to a shade of yellow as a smirk replaced his whimpering.

Our fingers weaved through each others, as I punched him in the face with my other hand. We were both silent for several seconds.

"... Pallette..." The Reploid I knew to be my dimwitted Hunter looked up at me, crying. "Pallette... Help me..." I pulled him towards me, wrapping my free arm around him, still holding his hand. "Please help me, I'm scared!"

His sobs rang right next to my ears as I kept my arm around him.

"Axl," I said, "quickly, deactivate yourself." The sobs were caught in his throat. "You have to do it soon, before Lumine wakes up." My hand moved to cup his shoulder. "I'll be next to you the whole time, I promise."

Axl didn't respond, which was a good enough answer.

"... Cinnamon."

"Y-yes!?"

"Quickly, get rid of Lumine before he wakes up."

"R-right."

Axl's p.o.v.

I slowly opened my eyes to see two worried blondes staring at me. There wasn't a voice, there was just complete silence.

"Axl?"

"P-Pallette... Sarah..."

Cinnamon started crying as she tightly held my hand.

"You're not even trying anymore!"

Shit!

"Axl...," Pallette slowly said as she held my other hand. "You had me scared half to death!" She tightly wrapped her arms around me. "I'm so glad you're safe!"

Heat rushed to my face as I slowly held her back.

"I-is it all over?"

"... Yes," Pallette said. "It's all over."

A/N: Or is it? Well, I'm not done with this story yet, so I guess not. I wanted to thank all of you for the reviews. How about we try to get ten reviews in total before the next chapter? Huh? Huh? =3 I'm asking too much. XD Anyways, I'm glad to know people still like my stories. See ya chumps next chapter. ;)