~Chapter 10~
~Fallen Lives...~

It was about... 12am. Late. Maybe even a few minutes after 12:00 but I wasn't paying attention, it didn't matter anyway. I was left alone in the Main hall. The others had left off to their rooms to get rest, and prepared for the next day. Like always, they told me to get rest... I actually chuckled at those words, 'rest', I wish it were easy to do so. We all already know I can't sleep for anything in the world.

Those Night Terrors... they show me many things. Sometimes, I swear its like future vision, but everyone probably would think so if similar events happened whenever you dreamt them. They would show me the Death's of others... and lately, one that... was similar to what happened here at the Facility not even a full Month ago... It showed me a Tragedy that was just like the one we had... but instead of Red Alert coming here, it was someone else. Large Droids attacked everyone, killing everyone, not one person spared.

Sometimes with my Terror's, things help me. Whether its Droids or Humans... there's in most cases, someone who helps me out of that big mess that, in my Nightmares, I seem to get myself into whenever I could. During... the night terror I had, involving another tragedy, I saw a white figure. Its glow, was warm and comforting. Its light shined over me, clouding over the Darkness that was just about me...

Those Droids that sat in the Darkness though, came after me... I thought me anyway. Right away, that blinding white figure gripped my wrist, running along with me. It was so fast that it basically carried me, it stopped at a wall... and stuffed me through... leaving its self to the others who were after it.

That Figure... was the kind you knew, but you couldn't put your finger on who it was. The hall was empty, not even those who would help the Doc were there... even the Slackers weren't wandering about trying to cram their work into that night like usual...

Our whole world just flipped upside down... nothing would be the same, even if things did get better from the incident... I went back to my room, my ankles aching from the amount of times I had to have twisted them, and from the length of walking it took to get to my room, from the Main Hall, to the 4th wing of the Building. The Building had multiple parts of it. Understandable why, considering the amount of People... had lived here.

I felt lost... Like, what was I going to do? What could I do? I knew some information, but that alone wasn't going to help me with the problems... that are new and, are affecting my family. How could knowing how they got into the Facility, undetected, even show any help to us? The wounds we all suffered, were too deep now for needles to sew them... If I told anyone, a Month after the incident and after that chance I had to say anything, they'd be upset with me... or they'd take their anger out in ways that could hurt themselves or others. Its bad enough that we're all on edge, but for us to grow angry and upset towards one another... it would just drive us all Mad.

With the Doctor's behavior... the losses we suffered... the heartbreak. Anything said wrong or seen as wrong, could send us into the breaking point. I looked out the glass windows as I walked through the halls, my reflection being covered over with the Darkness outside, the stars piercing through it. The footsteps of my boots being the only thing to fill the halls. You could feel the loneliness... or was it me feeling Lonely? In such a depressing place-that my home had become-its hard to tell whether its just me or not...

Why did I feel like this? I wish I could figure it out. Only when I thought of Emerald green eyes did I feel relieved of that loneliness... It felt like my family was whole again when I thought of those eyes... Even filled with Grief... they showed some spark to them, if you just looked close enough. I felt like, I could relate...

He looked lonely, miserable, and I felt the same. I walked over to the window, sitting on its sill. I puffed... "Come on ol' girl.." I mumbled, rubbing my head. "Keep it together, we need to stay strong for the others..." I finished muttering to myself. I pulled up my legs to hug them tight, laying my cheek on my knees to face out the window. The lights seemed to dim... I felt tired.

I'm not sure what happened then, because I seemed to have fallen asleep there... someone carried me back to my room, and had nicely tucked me into the bed that I rarely ever used. My Jacket sat on a chair in the corner. I sat myself up, rubbing my head... I found it shocking, I felt rested. It must have been Fortune who took me to my room, after all, my Jacket was folded and placed in the neatest, obvious spot where I could find it.

I smiled, but... it faded after that. The amount of destructive noises I heard that night... sounded like a War zone. I jumped up from bed, throwing on my Jacket as quick as I could. Red Alert? Were they attacking again? Fear filled my legs, I forced open the door, and found... nothing? Was I hearing things...?

"I couldn't have just imagined that..." I muttered to myself, starting to walk. Slowly and cautiously. As I got closer to where I heard the sounds, smoke burst from the opposite side of the building. The blow so strong it knocked all of the windows inward from where I stood. I covered my head with my arms, thankfully, none had pierced into my body, only a few scratches...

Smoke continued to flood from the broken windows it shattered, I looked down out through the broken, bullet proof, glass windows. People scattered about from the building... only for... Large Reploids to follow after them, cutting them down with the weaponry they were given. They were cutting down their own masters... their creators...

My stomach twisted, my mouth had gone dry, and my chest filled with sadness and fear. The new designed Droids... they were set loose... and now I knew why I felt so fishy about them, why they were all too strange to me. They were the Demon's play things... they were designed by the Doctors hands to kill. To Kill alone and nothing more. My eyes widened, explosions sending everyone into a frenzy, both those who lived around the Production building and especially those within.

My legs trembled beneath me, as I began to force all of the energy I had into my legs. I found myself running, clutching onto the railing of the stairs when another explosion was heard. Screams of terror and pain... the noises of weapons firing and cutting through metal... the sounds of fires burning away at wood and gravel, metal and steal... All of which came at me like a wave.

It was so much to take in. I rushed down the 5th floor stairs cases as fast as I could, until I finally got to the bottom. I knew every exit and entrance in the building... I was aiming for a back door to get through, my plan was to get out and later search for the others. Whether they were dead or not. Though... I made the mistake of stopping...

Another Explosion, coming from the roof above me, I was alone... and Darkness clouded me, as gravel, metal... wood... collapsed onto me, without any mercy... all well black, after so... My mind, drifting into a darkened hole, as the yells for help, the crying, the pain... the suffering... rushed into my ears, causing my mind to fall deeper into the Darkness is had to pursue to keep my hard drive running... that all faded... and it was lights out for me...

/Over here!/
/Found another one!/
/She's still breathing! Get the Medics!/

I remember bits and pieces... my eyes would open for merely a few seconds or minutes, in which I could get a glimpse of people around me. Were they, my family? Or someone else? I didn't know, I was too dazed to care. All I knew, was that they were helping me. My vision was blurry, the blinding light of a ceiling light burned my eyes. All I could make out, was the four or five blobs of colors that were most likely medical Droids... later, my eyes closed again... I grew conscious later, I had to have had some damage to my head... in some form.

Probably the rubble falling onto me head on... I kept my eyes closed, I didn't want to scorch them with the likely lights that were on. I mumbled, listening to the people around me...

/Do you think she'll be alright?/ A worried voice in the distance...
/She should be fine after some Rest, X./ An older voice replied... X..?
/This is just wonderful isn't it? First Red Alert, and now another problem to deal with?/ A deeper voice muttered, seeming close the worried toned one.

I opened my eyes only slightly, so that I could peek as to who was there... My eyes, of course, blinded for a moment. When they adjusted, I could spot a tall Droid, much taller than the other two. He seemed like, the Doctor in command... the one who, seemed to order the others. In front of him, were two others. One, a crimson red, with long Blonde hair and light blue eyes that complimented the blonde ponytail. The other, a Blue Droid. His eyes green, he had a worried expression.

Was he worried for me...? Or for someone else?

/Lifesaver, please be sure that all of the survivors will make at least some form of Recovery./

Lifesaver? Was that the Doctor's name...? I guess he felt me looking, because the one they called Lifesaver-who's back was facing me at the start-was now facing me. "No need to worry anymore X. It looks like she's regained consciousness." He said, in a calm, collected tone. X... so that's who X was...

X made his way over to me, crouching. Obviously being cautious with coming over to me. Probably not to startle me. I guess he must of had practice with dealing with those in a Medical bay, and to be careful when approaching the injured. "Don't bother her too much X. Even though she's conscious doesn't mean she'll be fully ready to talk just yet." Lifesaver stated, with his arms folded behind his back.

X nodded. "Don't threat anymore." X began, he must have noticed my nervousness, "You're safe now. You're in Maverick Hunter Headquarters now." He finished. Maverick hunter HQ? "X, why immediately tell her where she is? She could be part of the problem." The crimson hunter said, seeming protective of his comrade. "It could make her feel safer Zero." X responded. Zero...

Zero seemed like the stricter type, with X seeming like the more kind natured one. I could barely speak... was I scared to? I couldn't blame myself, I laid my head back tiredly. "Maybe we should leave you to rest for now." X said, getting up from where he crouched. "I'll come back to check on her later on." X stated, beginning to leave, with Zero following not too far behind. Lifesaver nodded, and my eyes fluttered shut into unconsciousness...