Well! This is the first time I've barely gotten any comments on my fanservice chapter! I'm a little unsettled. But enough about that. As much as I could revise this next one, it's still rather short. And pointless. Short and pointless. Yeah.

Chapter 10

After breakfast, almost every hunter in HQ was awake by now (Alia, more than anyone). Cut Man did as Signas told and, after looking at another HQ layout, reported to the training facility at 10:00. The place was large, covered with white paint which was peeling in some corners, supported by large pillars which seemed to be made from stainless steel. He looked around only to see no one there.

"Hello?" Cut Man's voice echoed through the whole facility. There was no response for a few seconds until.

"Hi! You're early!"

The cheerful voice of the young reploid girl, Kimberly, answered his call.

"I thought X was going to be here…"

"Oh, he's already sparring with Zero. Those guys are really intense, even for a practice round! Anyway, Signas assigned me instead. You don't mind, right?"

"Uh…" Cut Man felt himself blushing, which was really something because his entire face was normally red. "No! Not at all!"

"I'm still new at being a hunter myself, so to make things fair, can you not use your weapons?"

"How about neither of us use our weapons?" He suggested as he took his scissors off his head and threw them aside.

"That's fine with me." Kimberly disengages her Buster Arrow on her right arm. "I don't want you to go easy on me, just because I'm a girl!"

"All right, just as long as you don't hold back because I'm not a reploid!"

"Bring it on!" Kimberly shifted to a kickboxing stance.

"Let's do this!" Cut Man pounded his knuckles together (look familiar?) and charged at Kimberly with both fists swinging.

Kimberly, however, was just a little faster and dodged each of his punches with only a small shred of difficulty. She tried to redirect some of his attacks by moving her arms to block some of his punches. Eventually, she screwed up when she miscalculated his attacks and took a hard shot in the chin. This was followed up by an even harder blow to her stomach. Kimberly struggled to keep standing, wiping a trickle of oil from her mouth.

"Did I hurt you, Kimberly? Maybe we should stop for now…"

"And ruin the fun?" Kimberly spit out some more oil. "Not even Ten-kun would fight me seriously. This is the first time one of my allies has actually hurt me!"

Kimberly started kicking furiously at Cut Man, who shielded his face with his arms. Like Kimberly, Cut Man tried to deflect some of her attacks, but he was having more difficulty than he had expected as he took a hard kick in the mouth. He staggered back and noticed he was missing a tooth.

"You're not bad for an old guy."

"Old? I may be over 100 years old, but I ain't old…wait, that doesn't make sense."

"Just get back to bracing yourself."

"And you do the same."

The monotonous fighting seemed to last for 10 more minutes, when…

"WHAT IS THIS?!"

Tenfold entered the training facility, looking absolutely livid. He looked like he was about to grab the nearest object and skewer it with his katana.

"Wait, your name's Tenfold, right?" Cut Man asked.

"First, you destroy my ride armor, then you attack my girlfriend?!"

"GIRLFRIEND?!" they said in unison.

That made Tenfold stop dead cold as he tried to correct his mistake. "Uh…I mean…"

Tenfold was now officially in trouble. Kimberly's eyes were hidden under her hair and she seemed to exude a "death aura" which made Cut Man double back. "Cut Man, could you excuse me?"

"Sure." Cut Man stepped away from Kimberly, picked up his scissors and fixed them back on his head.

"Now, Kimberly I thought we agreed…"

"We've only been dating for two weeks, that doesn't make me your girlfriend!"

"I thought we had a thing going on!"

The two continued bickering like a typical married couple while Cut Man slipped out of the training room, detected only by one of the security cameras.

"I'll just let them slug it out while I check out the rest of the base."

The chapter after this is kinda pointless too. Basically Cut Man checks out more aspects of the Hunter Base.