I am now in a very good mood. Apparently there is a ThinkGeek near where I am and I just got back from there. I now have a megaman plush and he is super cute and I am super happy so have another chapter. If I keep going at this pace though I might run out of chapters. X3

Madelyn spun her pencil around in her hand with a very annoyed look on her face. 'The Wizard', as he liked to call himself, had called all of them down for a meeting. But when they had arrived there had been no one here. They had been waiting for 15 minutes now and there was still no sign of him.

She looked back down at her paper, some rough sketches, some kids sitting by a school, her cat, just anything she could think of to stop the boredom from taking over.

"What'ch ya drawin there Mads," someone asked from behind her.

"Just stuff," She told him as she hit him with her book, "Why are you always so interested in my drawings Tigelaar?"

Said repliod smiled. He had been on this team for the longest out of the rest of the members. He had a sort of humanoid figure but none of the body proportions made enough sense. He had a large chest with smaller legs that Madelyn was surprised to could hold him up. He was mostly yellow with blue details from his chest to his legs. The yellow sort of reminded her of a bale of hay at a farm. He wasn't the brightest but he was certainly one of the friendliest. At least to other members of Gravity he was.

"You're just so good at it. You've always been drawin right?"

She paused for a second before answering, "Yeah. Always."

"Be quiet you two," Tinboq scolded, receiving a nasty glare from Madelyn, "He's here."

"Finally," the female repliod muttered as the leader of Gravity walked into the room.

He walked in full of confidence. He was a tall repliod, definitely a humanoid model. He had a very square head with part black part gray hair and dark purple optics lighting up his face. He had black armor underneath a long green coat that almost reached to the floor.

"Sorry I'm late, I just had to finish up some details," he held up a rolled up piece of paper that seemed to excite everyone in the room.

Except Madelyn, "What's that?"

"This is our biggest plan yet," The Wizard rolled out the paper on a table that was quickly crowded by the mavericks eager to take a look.

Scanning through it many wicked smiles filled the room and even some cheers. But from Stella's hiding place, it made her sick.

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Axl fell face first onto his bed as soon as he entered his quarters. He stayed there for several minutes contemplating. X could tell that he was upset. Heck he could've sworn that the light bot was psychic. With those weird powers of his, how long could he keep this from him. He didn't like keeping things from them, but he had promised her and she hadn't even explained why she was acting so… non-maverickish.

Speaking of which how was she even supposed to explain it to him? It's not like they can just go to some coffee shop to talk. She definitely couldn't just walk into HQ. Was he just being played?

Axl groaned, rolling onto his back. Why was he thinking so much about this? He never thought about stuff like this! It certainly wasn't any fun. How does X always do this without exploding!

He stared up at the ceiling. "Maybe I should tell them," He thought aloud, "How do I know I can trust her?"

He sat up, ready to go find the two older hunters, but just couldn't do anything more.

"Why me?" He complained, falling back onto the bed.

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X and Zero walked into the former's quarters. Zero taking a seat on the couch while X went over to his small desk in the corner of the room.

"What are you doing?" Zero asked.

"Looking for something," X replied as he dug through the contents on the desk.

"What?"

"It's- oh here it is." X pulled out a small box from one of the drawers and came back over to Zero.

Zero leaned over to get a better look as X lifted the lid, "Pictures?"

"Yeah," X picked one up, "I started putting them in here after the first maverick war with Sigma." He stayed silent for a few moments; memories flashing through his mind. "I wanted to make sure people remembered them as the great hunters they were, and I didn't want anyone else to be forgotten for how they were and remembered for virus that changed them."

Zero said nothing, absorbing X's words until a smile reached his features. "How many do you have in there?"

"Don't know. I just look at them sometimes when I'm stressed or worried."

Zero picked one up, "Heh. Storm Eagle."

X looked over. The picture showed him and Storm Eagle talking in the hallway in front of training. It had probably been taken during X's training when he first joined the hunters. "You two were close right?"

"Yeah," Zero answered, "He and I would compete in almost everything."

Seeing the sad smile on Zero's face X dug for another photo, "Who took this one?"

The picture showed X and Axl sitting in the lounge room. Axl looked like he had just been crying but had a smile plastered on his face anyway. X had a hand on his shoulder and was talking to him.

"When did this happen?" Zero asked slightly surprised at the sight of the energetic young hunter.

"After we came back from that final battle with Red and Sigma Axl sort of snapped. He had to kill his own friends after all."

"So did we." Zero pointed out.

"Yes, but he's a lot younger than us remember. And Red Alert was more a family to him than anything," He looked back at the picture again, "Alia must have come in and saw us and took the picture."

"How'd it get in there then if you didn't know about it?"

"She caught me putting a picture in here once. Now I'll randomly find pictures she put in here that I didn't even know existed."

"Heh."

As X put back the discovery a ping went through both of their helmets. X held his hand to the side of his helmet with Zero copying the action, "Alia? What's wrong?"

"Madelyn's been spotted a few blocks from here. We need you guys to intercept her."

"Does Signas know?"

"We haven't contacted him yet, no. Our first priority is to get you guys out there immediately. Axl's not answering though."

X glanced over to Zero at the mention of the young hunters name, "Don't worry about him," Zero told her, "We're on our way."