Zero isn't mine, probably never will be, but he is Capcom's
*...* = Thoughts {...} = internal communicator chatter
Ch.8
Regroup
The robotic arms had dropped from the ceiling and were once more working on Zero's circuitry. There was the occasional twitch as one of the circuits was reconnected. After his arm was fixed Zero flashed out of the armor and decided to go see what the others were doing. They were all sitting around in the main room. Dr. Light had gratefully made chairs and a table after they had complained about having to stand all the time.
"Hey, Doc."
"Yes, Zero?"
"Is there anyway to enlist more Reploids on our side? Like maybe some of the older ones that used to help us out as Hunters? Not that we can't do it, but we might need to sleep sometime."
"I could rebuild a few of them, but they wouldn't be the same. It's hard to rebuild someone and have them be the same without their control chip. It's like building a body and not putting a soul into it."
"Okay...I guess I see what you're saying. Are there any of them still alive? I find it kind of hard to believe that Sigma could've wiped out all of them."
"Oh, there are still a few of them around...but they've managed to hide themselves very well. I haven't picked up signs of them for a good decade or so now."
"Ok, that gives us hope for them."
"That seemed like an awfully easy battle," X was stating as Seero came into the room. "I had harder battles than that with the Maverick leaders the first few times around. And that's not including the fights that I had with Sigma."
"I can see why you had problems with Sigma," Toronto answered in his rumble. "The only reason I'm not dead is because contact with my weapon knocked him off balance every time. And my sword just bounced off of him every time I tried to get in a stroke. I might have left a few dents but that's about it. Fun watching him try to compensate for the extra kick my sword has when it comes to weight though." Toronto chuckled.
X had a thoughtful face on. "That means that Sigma is not only bigger and just as fast but that he has managed to increase the effectiveness of his armor as well. Great, just what we need. If he can do that to himself, he can do it with the other Mavericks as well."
"But he won't," Seero interrupted as he walked up behind them.
"And just what makes you say that?" X asked somewhat challengingly. Arguments were always fun.
"Think, X. You may not want to remember, but we were both Mavericks at one point. We know how they think. They're evil, off-balance, and twisted as all hell. Not to mention idiots for a large part."
"Are you implying that I was an idiot?"
"No, but we were different. But think back and you'll realize that we were also very, very paranoid. A Maverick will suspect his own shadow. Sigma won't give his minions anythign close to his armor because they would revolt and possibly destroy him if he did."
"True, I remember trying to figure out which one of them was going to stab me in the back first. You win."
"Thank you, I hate when you argue to the point of idiocy."
"Are you implying that I'm an idiot?"
"Pretty much, now stop repeating yourself."
"I did not repeat myself"
"You just did it again."
"I did not," realization dawned on X's face "...um, peace?"
"I suppose, but only if you say that-" Alarms went off.
"What the hell?" Zenton yelled, jumping up from his chair. "I didn't know we had alarms in here."
"Sorry folks," Light said into the middle of their room. "I needed to get your attention. We've got a bit of a problem in the general area of one of the old cities. Somewhere in the old United States state of Alaska. Sigma seems to have sent one of the Mavericks up there to take out the dwellings that are still there."
"If it's just dwellings, then why do we need to bother? Are there any people there anymore?" Seero asked.
"There aren't any people there anymore, but I'm sure they'd like to have somewhere to live once we manage to free the general populace."
"Oh, okay, good point. Who wants to freeze?" Seero asked, looking at the other three. X looked back at him and grinned.
"I'll go, who knows, maybe I'll meet another bunny." Seero put his head in his hands and groaned.
"Bunny?" Zenton asked, looking perplexed.
"Ask Zero, I'm sure he'd love to tell you about it." X grinned for a moment longer before turning into a blue beam and heading upwards.
"Why does he always turn into a blue beam?" Toronto queried.
"That's his main color," Light explained. "X's armor is the only part of him that changes with his weapon system, which is okay since he's the only one I designed with the weapon integration system, although I'm working on implementing it into Zero's system. In any case, X's original color was the solid blue that I created him with and that is the color that his beam turns into. It's just like Zero and his beam being red. Even if he's using the black armor that I created for him he still teleports with a red beam."
"What about mine and Zenton's?" came the rumbling reply.
"Yours is white because you don't have armor yet. Zenton's is white because that's the main color of his armor."
"Oh. I think I'm sorry I asked."
"I don't see why. There's really no such thing as a stupid question. If you don't know the answer to a question then the only wy to find it is to ask. Either that or figure the answer out through analysis, and why bother with that if someone else already knows?"
X came down in the middle of the remains of an old airbase. He changed into his Gaea armor just in case something got he drop on him and started looking around to see what damage had been done. There was nothing visibly wrong with the area. X quickly hopped up a wall and looked from up there. What he saw was absolutely nothing. Nothing but a big white space surrounding the area. He brought up his communicator channels.
"Hey, Doc. Are you sure about that reading? I haven't even met any bunnies up here." Zero could be heard groaning in the background.
{I had a Maverick reading up there, X. I don't know what the problem is but I'm still getting readings.}
"I'll keep looking then. But I swear there isn't a thing up he- arrggh!!"
"Hearrggh??" Zero asked, as he had been privy to audio only. "Something tells me that's not what he meant to say."
"Head up there Zero, I'm not sure why, but I have a feeling X will be needing a hand." Light stated.
X hit the ground and shook himself as he got back up. He turned to find Blizzard Buffalo standing on the building, along with Chill Penguin, Frost Walrus, and Duff Mcwhalen.
"Um, Doc? I could use a little help here. I can't take on all four at once."
{Help's already on it's way, X}
X stood and looked at the four Mavericks. "I don't suppose you'd care to wait a moment before we actually start fighting?"
"For what reason would we allow you to live, traitor?" Chill penquin asked before hawking an iceball at X. X blocked the iceball with forearm of the Gaea armor and looked up at a red streak coming down from the sky.
"Oh, no reason really. but yo should have taken me out when you had the chance."
Zero solidified before hitting the ground and gracefully landed next to X. "Did I miss anything?"
"Not much. Just a bird trying to clear his throat before we rip it out."
"Sounds like fun." Zero said while pulling his saber from it's case. "Such a wonderul idea." Zero stated, a grin sliding across his features.
And with that X flashed into his Falcon armor and fired a fully charged shot that went through all four Mavericks. None of them showed a scratch. X stopped and stared. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Z?"
"They're all still standing there completely unfazed, if that's what you mean. I can understand that, but what I dont understand is how they're still standing there with all of their limbs. Hey, Doc, can you run an analysis on these four through my visor or X's helmet?"
{I can if you can keep them busy long enough for X to stop and keep them solidly in view.}
"Okay then, give me a minute to try and tag them and then we'll try that."
With that Zero leaped up to the building, rushing through all four, hitting them at least once with the saber. He stopped when he reached the other end, put the saber up, and fired level 4 shots from both cannons. Before the blue plasma trails could even fade he was already rushing back through them with the sword, dodging punches from them once or twice, but other than that leaving nothing more than scratches on them. He went off the end of the building and came to rest next to X again.
"They're entirely too easy to hit. But their armor is insane for some reason." Zero stated.
"You're right. They aren't even taking the amount of damage Sigma should've taken."
{Watch it there boys. They've been weighted down with nearly a literal ton of armor. I'm surprised that building is still standing.}
Zero looked down and scraped the snow off the concrete at his feet. "Actually Doc, I'd be surprised if it had caved in. This was a Repliforce air base."
{Well, then, answers that question. They can't move, but they can take almost anything you throw at them.}
"Doc," Zero asked after a moment. "Is there any way for me to reroute power to my cannons? Or maybe lower the inhibitions on this suit? I know it's got more power available than I'm using."
{You can reroute the power and get rid of the inhibitions, but if you balance the power wrong without the inhibitions, you'll blow circuits left and right.}
"That's a chance I'll have to take, Doctor Light. We've got to take these four out. I may end up damaging the buildings, but better a few than the multiples these guys could take out."
{Very well, Zero. We'll do it your way, but I'm probably gonna have to piece you back together after this.}
"As long as it's just fixing the pieces and not putting them back together, I could care less, Doc. And just how much power does this suit have anyway?"
{I don't know.}
"You don't know?!?!"
{Of course not, I never bother to rate my creations. They're usually too far off the scale to bother with anyway.}
"Thanks Doc, it's nice to know I might become nuclear waste at any moment."
{I thought you might like that. And although I hate to disappoint you, I didn't use nearly enough nuclear material to give you anything to worry about. You can overheat the circuitry, and I'll warn you, blow the circuits in that suit, and either you'll be dragging yourself back home, or you better hope X gives you a ride, because you won't be able to teleport, or change out of the armor. The suit feeds off you and feeds you at the same time. You kill it, and it's nothing more than dead weight. X's suits are the only ones that I've designed to tap directly into his system. He can't overload himself, or he dies. You on the other hand, have the capacity to do what he can, with less injury to yourself. That's not saying it won't hurt at all, but it shouldn't kill you, unless you really manage to over-do it.}
"Ya know, I'm not sure if I'm comforted by that thought or not."
X dashed back from where he had gone up to fire off a few more volleys at the leviathans.
"I'm going to try something X. It may leave me a little on the overcooked side, but hopefully it'll work. If I start smoking, let me know."
"Sure, just go ahead, we're obviously not making much headway with normal tactics."
"Here goes nothing then," Zero said as he braced himself by slamming his feet into the ground a few inches. He brought both cannons up, making sure they were locked into place. "System override code: Zero Delta 3345. Initiate." The visor slid down and showed all of the system failsafes being disabled.
"All failsafe systems disabled. Suit overload may occur." the computer's metallic voice stated.
"Like I didn't already know that." Zero stated, irritated that Light had put that in the system. Zero brought the power guage for his arm cannons up on his visor and watched as it climbed into power levels he hadn't even kown were achievable, even by X. "Holy shit..."
"Z, you're smoking, you might wanna fire now."
Zero heeded the warning, allowing the cannons to discharge finally. The cannons fired at the same time, the plasma trails entwining into one beam as they fired. Fortunately, and unfortunately, X had been standing behind Zero when he fired.
The blast vaporized the building, along with the Mavericks, as well as a city block's worth of space behind the building. Zero was blown backwards and into X, sending him skidding backwards a couple dozen feet. Zero fell to one knee where he had hit X, although he obviously refused to drop further. His breathing was ragged from the energy still running rampant through his system. Energy crackled in the air around him.
{Don't touch him again, X.} Dr. Light came through on X's comm channel. {I'm not sure how safe it is yet. Wait until there's no more visual energy at least.}
"Got ya, Doc." X replied. When the area in front of him no longer crackled, X took a look around Zero's now standing shoulders. His eyes widened when he realized what Zero had done. He watched as Zero started to sway where he stood. X got under Zero's arm before he could fall and held him up.
"Well," Zero said between breaths, "looks like that did the trick. Although I'd hate to have to do that under more exciting circumstances." X looked up right as Zero's head fell forward int unconciousness.
X looked at the now barren spot in the ground before him. The smile that he had slid from his face. "Light, did you program me with these capabilities?"
{Not without considerable risk to yourself, X. Were you to attempt what he just did, you wouldn't be able to move at all. Your systems are fully integrated. You blow your motors the way he did, and you don't move at all.}
"Thank you, Doc."
{You don't have to thank me, X. I knew how your mental programming would turn out. After all, I watched you through the Wily Wars. You were actually running on the beta version of the Reploid mental system before you became X. And I had to give you a weakness somehow. Something to keep even Sigma from being able to access all of your power. You don't have an internal layer the way he does."
"I'm aware of how my body is set up, Dr. Light. But why did you design him to still be able to fight after doing something like that? What if he goes Maverick? What if we have to take him out...again?"
{That won't happen this time, X. That was the advantage of turning a human into Zero. There is no way for Sigma to completely turn him now. His human heritage will not allow him to go fully Maverick. He might get mad at single humans, but never the entire race."
"Are you sure about that Doc? It doesn't take much for a human's mind to snap sometimes."
{I did a mental scan on the man as soon as he walked into the lab. I also did so to Zenton and Toronto before I offered to turn them into Reploids. Seero's mental patterns are almost an exact match for Zero's. His looks aren't the only thing he can fool Sigma with. His attitude, his style, his personality, they all match Zero.}
"If he's that much of a match for Zero, then there's still a severe chance of him going Maverick on us."
{I didn't say it was impossible, X. I just said that it would be very difficult. You saw what happened with him before. He got severely irritated. All we have to do is watch for that sign, and we'll be fine. His system naturally fights of the virus even before I can initiate the anti- virus.}
"If you say so, Doc. I'm bringing him back in now."
A blue beam shot up through the wilderness.
Author's notes: I had to re-type this chapter, because for some reason FF.net didn't like the last save file of it I had....oh well, but that was the hold up, sorry for the long break between updates.
*...* = Thoughts {...} = internal communicator chatter
Ch.8
Regroup
The robotic arms had dropped from the ceiling and were once more working on Zero's circuitry. There was the occasional twitch as one of the circuits was reconnected. After his arm was fixed Zero flashed out of the armor and decided to go see what the others were doing. They were all sitting around in the main room. Dr. Light had gratefully made chairs and a table after they had complained about having to stand all the time.
"Hey, Doc."
"Yes, Zero?"
"Is there anyway to enlist more Reploids on our side? Like maybe some of the older ones that used to help us out as Hunters? Not that we can't do it, but we might need to sleep sometime."
"I could rebuild a few of them, but they wouldn't be the same. It's hard to rebuild someone and have them be the same without their control chip. It's like building a body and not putting a soul into it."
"Okay...I guess I see what you're saying. Are there any of them still alive? I find it kind of hard to believe that Sigma could've wiped out all of them."
"Oh, there are still a few of them around...but they've managed to hide themselves very well. I haven't picked up signs of them for a good decade or so now."
"Ok, that gives us hope for them."
"That seemed like an awfully easy battle," X was stating as Seero came into the room. "I had harder battles than that with the Maverick leaders the first few times around. And that's not including the fights that I had with Sigma."
"I can see why you had problems with Sigma," Toronto answered in his rumble. "The only reason I'm not dead is because contact with my weapon knocked him off balance every time. And my sword just bounced off of him every time I tried to get in a stroke. I might have left a few dents but that's about it. Fun watching him try to compensate for the extra kick my sword has when it comes to weight though." Toronto chuckled.
X had a thoughtful face on. "That means that Sigma is not only bigger and just as fast but that he has managed to increase the effectiveness of his armor as well. Great, just what we need. If he can do that to himself, he can do it with the other Mavericks as well."
"But he won't," Seero interrupted as he walked up behind them.
"And just what makes you say that?" X asked somewhat challengingly. Arguments were always fun.
"Think, X. You may not want to remember, but we were both Mavericks at one point. We know how they think. They're evil, off-balance, and twisted as all hell. Not to mention idiots for a large part."
"Are you implying that I was an idiot?"
"No, but we were different. But think back and you'll realize that we were also very, very paranoid. A Maverick will suspect his own shadow. Sigma won't give his minions anythign close to his armor because they would revolt and possibly destroy him if he did."
"True, I remember trying to figure out which one of them was going to stab me in the back first. You win."
"Thank you, I hate when you argue to the point of idiocy."
"Are you implying that I'm an idiot?"
"Pretty much, now stop repeating yourself."
"I did not repeat myself"
"You just did it again."
"I did not," realization dawned on X's face "...um, peace?"
"I suppose, but only if you say that-" Alarms went off.
"What the hell?" Zenton yelled, jumping up from his chair. "I didn't know we had alarms in here."
"Sorry folks," Light said into the middle of their room. "I needed to get your attention. We've got a bit of a problem in the general area of one of the old cities. Somewhere in the old United States state of Alaska. Sigma seems to have sent one of the Mavericks up there to take out the dwellings that are still there."
"If it's just dwellings, then why do we need to bother? Are there any people there anymore?" Seero asked.
"There aren't any people there anymore, but I'm sure they'd like to have somewhere to live once we manage to free the general populace."
"Oh, okay, good point. Who wants to freeze?" Seero asked, looking at the other three. X looked back at him and grinned.
"I'll go, who knows, maybe I'll meet another bunny." Seero put his head in his hands and groaned.
"Bunny?" Zenton asked, looking perplexed.
"Ask Zero, I'm sure he'd love to tell you about it." X grinned for a moment longer before turning into a blue beam and heading upwards.
"Why does he always turn into a blue beam?" Toronto queried.
"That's his main color," Light explained. "X's armor is the only part of him that changes with his weapon system, which is okay since he's the only one I designed with the weapon integration system, although I'm working on implementing it into Zero's system. In any case, X's original color was the solid blue that I created him with and that is the color that his beam turns into. It's just like Zero and his beam being red. Even if he's using the black armor that I created for him he still teleports with a red beam."
"What about mine and Zenton's?" came the rumbling reply.
"Yours is white because you don't have armor yet. Zenton's is white because that's the main color of his armor."
"Oh. I think I'm sorry I asked."
"I don't see why. There's really no such thing as a stupid question. If you don't know the answer to a question then the only wy to find it is to ask. Either that or figure the answer out through analysis, and why bother with that if someone else already knows?"
X came down in the middle of the remains of an old airbase. He changed into his Gaea armor just in case something got he drop on him and started looking around to see what damage had been done. There was nothing visibly wrong with the area. X quickly hopped up a wall and looked from up there. What he saw was absolutely nothing. Nothing but a big white space surrounding the area. He brought up his communicator channels.
"Hey, Doc. Are you sure about that reading? I haven't even met any bunnies up here." Zero could be heard groaning in the background.
{I had a Maverick reading up there, X. I don't know what the problem is but I'm still getting readings.}
"I'll keep looking then. But I swear there isn't a thing up he- arrggh!!"
"Hearrggh??" Zero asked, as he had been privy to audio only. "Something tells me that's not what he meant to say."
"Head up there Zero, I'm not sure why, but I have a feeling X will be needing a hand." Light stated.
X hit the ground and shook himself as he got back up. He turned to find Blizzard Buffalo standing on the building, along with Chill Penguin, Frost Walrus, and Duff Mcwhalen.
"Um, Doc? I could use a little help here. I can't take on all four at once."
{Help's already on it's way, X}
X stood and looked at the four Mavericks. "I don't suppose you'd care to wait a moment before we actually start fighting?"
"For what reason would we allow you to live, traitor?" Chill penquin asked before hawking an iceball at X. X blocked the iceball with forearm of the Gaea armor and looked up at a red streak coming down from the sky.
"Oh, no reason really. but yo should have taken me out when you had the chance."
Zero solidified before hitting the ground and gracefully landed next to X. "Did I miss anything?"
"Not much. Just a bird trying to clear his throat before we rip it out."
"Sounds like fun." Zero said while pulling his saber from it's case. "Such a wonderul idea." Zero stated, a grin sliding across his features.
And with that X flashed into his Falcon armor and fired a fully charged shot that went through all four Mavericks. None of them showed a scratch. X stopped and stared. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Z?"
"They're all still standing there completely unfazed, if that's what you mean. I can understand that, but what I dont understand is how they're still standing there with all of their limbs. Hey, Doc, can you run an analysis on these four through my visor or X's helmet?"
{I can if you can keep them busy long enough for X to stop and keep them solidly in view.}
"Okay then, give me a minute to try and tag them and then we'll try that."
With that Zero leaped up to the building, rushing through all four, hitting them at least once with the saber. He stopped when he reached the other end, put the saber up, and fired level 4 shots from both cannons. Before the blue plasma trails could even fade he was already rushing back through them with the sword, dodging punches from them once or twice, but other than that leaving nothing more than scratches on them. He went off the end of the building and came to rest next to X again.
"They're entirely too easy to hit. But their armor is insane for some reason." Zero stated.
"You're right. They aren't even taking the amount of damage Sigma should've taken."
{Watch it there boys. They've been weighted down with nearly a literal ton of armor. I'm surprised that building is still standing.}
Zero looked down and scraped the snow off the concrete at his feet. "Actually Doc, I'd be surprised if it had caved in. This was a Repliforce air base."
{Well, then, answers that question. They can't move, but they can take almost anything you throw at them.}
"Doc," Zero asked after a moment. "Is there any way for me to reroute power to my cannons? Or maybe lower the inhibitions on this suit? I know it's got more power available than I'm using."
{You can reroute the power and get rid of the inhibitions, but if you balance the power wrong without the inhibitions, you'll blow circuits left and right.}
"That's a chance I'll have to take, Doctor Light. We've got to take these four out. I may end up damaging the buildings, but better a few than the multiples these guys could take out."
{Very well, Zero. We'll do it your way, but I'm probably gonna have to piece you back together after this.}
"As long as it's just fixing the pieces and not putting them back together, I could care less, Doc. And just how much power does this suit have anyway?"
{I don't know.}
"You don't know?!?!"
{Of course not, I never bother to rate my creations. They're usually too far off the scale to bother with anyway.}
"Thanks Doc, it's nice to know I might become nuclear waste at any moment."
{I thought you might like that. And although I hate to disappoint you, I didn't use nearly enough nuclear material to give you anything to worry about. You can overheat the circuitry, and I'll warn you, blow the circuits in that suit, and either you'll be dragging yourself back home, or you better hope X gives you a ride, because you won't be able to teleport, or change out of the armor. The suit feeds off you and feeds you at the same time. You kill it, and it's nothing more than dead weight. X's suits are the only ones that I've designed to tap directly into his system. He can't overload himself, or he dies. You on the other hand, have the capacity to do what he can, with less injury to yourself. That's not saying it won't hurt at all, but it shouldn't kill you, unless you really manage to over-do it.}
"Ya know, I'm not sure if I'm comforted by that thought or not."
X dashed back from where he had gone up to fire off a few more volleys at the leviathans.
"I'm going to try something X. It may leave me a little on the overcooked side, but hopefully it'll work. If I start smoking, let me know."
"Sure, just go ahead, we're obviously not making much headway with normal tactics."
"Here goes nothing then," Zero said as he braced himself by slamming his feet into the ground a few inches. He brought both cannons up, making sure they were locked into place. "System override code: Zero Delta 3345. Initiate." The visor slid down and showed all of the system failsafes being disabled.
"All failsafe systems disabled. Suit overload may occur." the computer's metallic voice stated.
"Like I didn't already know that." Zero stated, irritated that Light had put that in the system. Zero brought the power guage for his arm cannons up on his visor and watched as it climbed into power levels he hadn't even kown were achievable, even by X. "Holy shit..."
"Z, you're smoking, you might wanna fire now."
Zero heeded the warning, allowing the cannons to discharge finally. The cannons fired at the same time, the plasma trails entwining into one beam as they fired. Fortunately, and unfortunately, X had been standing behind Zero when he fired.
The blast vaporized the building, along with the Mavericks, as well as a city block's worth of space behind the building. Zero was blown backwards and into X, sending him skidding backwards a couple dozen feet. Zero fell to one knee where he had hit X, although he obviously refused to drop further. His breathing was ragged from the energy still running rampant through his system. Energy crackled in the air around him.
{Don't touch him again, X.} Dr. Light came through on X's comm channel. {I'm not sure how safe it is yet. Wait until there's no more visual energy at least.}
"Got ya, Doc." X replied. When the area in front of him no longer crackled, X took a look around Zero's now standing shoulders. His eyes widened when he realized what Zero had done. He watched as Zero started to sway where he stood. X got under Zero's arm before he could fall and held him up.
"Well," Zero said between breaths, "looks like that did the trick. Although I'd hate to have to do that under more exciting circumstances." X looked up right as Zero's head fell forward int unconciousness.
X looked at the now barren spot in the ground before him. The smile that he had slid from his face. "Light, did you program me with these capabilities?"
{Not without considerable risk to yourself, X. Were you to attempt what he just did, you wouldn't be able to move at all. Your systems are fully integrated. You blow your motors the way he did, and you don't move at all.}
"Thank you, Doc."
{You don't have to thank me, X. I knew how your mental programming would turn out. After all, I watched you through the Wily Wars. You were actually running on the beta version of the Reploid mental system before you became X. And I had to give you a weakness somehow. Something to keep even Sigma from being able to access all of your power. You don't have an internal layer the way he does."
"I'm aware of how my body is set up, Dr. Light. But why did you design him to still be able to fight after doing something like that? What if he goes Maverick? What if we have to take him out...again?"
{That won't happen this time, X. That was the advantage of turning a human into Zero. There is no way for Sigma to completely turn him now. His human heritage will not allow him to go fully Maverick. He might get mad at single humans, but never the entire race."
"Are you sure about that Doc? It doesn't take much for a human's mind to snap sometimes."
{I did a mental scan on the man as soon as he walked into the lab. I also did so to Zenton and Toronto before I offered to turn them into Reploids. Seero's mental patterns are almost an exact match for Zero's. His looks aren't the only thing he can fool Sigma with. His attitude, his style, his personality, they all match Zero.}
"If he's that much of a match for Zero, then there's still a severe chance of him going Maverick on us."
{I didn't say it was impossible, X. I just said that it would be very difficult. You saw what happened with him before. He got severely irritated. All we have to do is watch for that sign, and we'll be fine. His system naturally fights of the virus even before I can initiate the anti- virus.}
"If you say so, Doc. I'm bringing him back in now."
A blue beam shot up through the wilderness.
Author's notes: I had to re-type this chapter, because for some reason FF.net didn't like the last save file of it I had....oh well, but that was the hold up, sorry for the long break between updates.
