Days passed quietly in the lab.
Dr. Light's assistants worked on various science experiments, to try to find the most efficient way to defeat Wily and the red menace that he has thrust upon the citizens of New York. Leaving Shonen and X questionable about Dr. Light's current judgments…
Finally…. Shonen had enough, and decided to confront the aging scientist.
"Dr. Light… we seriously need to have a talk." Shonen demanded as she stood nearby as Dr. Light monitored X's vitals as X quietly slept in his capsule.
"There is nothing to talk about Shonen…. I refuse to allow you to do any more 'experiments' on the X project." Dr. Light said curtly, not turning his attention form the monitor.
Confusion crossed Shonen's face.
"The X project? Experiments? What the hell are you talking about?"
Dr. Light snapped his head around. (Which wasn't easy for a man of his age).
"Yes… experiments… you did things to it… you changed it… years of work…gone…"
Shonen took a small step back.
"Doctor… I…." she tried to explain herself, but no reasonable thoughts came to her head.
Dr. Light took a deep breath, and sighed.
"Shonen… I thought I would never say this… after months of your assistance, you have become a valuable asset to me and all the work I have accomplished… but, there are boundaries you have crossed and I have overlooked a great deal of them…." " Dr. Light scolded, then he pointed to X. "This, though…. Is unforgivable…"
Shonen remained speechless…
He then took a step closer, until he was but a whisper away from her.
"I will not ban you from my lab, for you are, like I said but a minute ago, a valuable asset to me, but… I will ban you from assisting me any longer with the X project."
Shonen grabbed her chest as Dr. Light spoke those final words which also rang in her ears… repeating itself over and over again.
"Ban you from the X project…."
Shonen shook her head slightly.
"Dad…. You can't be serious…"
Dr. Light looked sternly at Shonen.
"I'm very serious… now, please…. Leave this room…"
Shonen became silent, as she stepped backwards out of the room, into the hallway.
… The metallic door slid past her face, locking her out of the room.
She blinked in confusion as she stared at the door.
"I don't believe…. I just got yelled at…for doing something….that was helpful." she whispered to herself.
Shone then turned and slowly walked back to her room, dropping her head slightly…
Later that night….
A shadow quickly darted through the halls of the lab…..
To quick to be seen by any security cameras….
… Silently, it dashed from room to room…. Looking for something….
After a few short minutes… it had arrived at the door it was searching for…
The shadow lifted its hand, and slowly passed it over the door lock keypad…
….. A small glow emanated from the hand as it passed over the keypad…
With a soft click, the doors released its locks as it slid open, allowing the shadow to enter the room.
Quickly, its eyes darted around the room until they became fixed on what it was looking for.
Traipsing up to the capsule, the shadow then laid its hand on the glass.
Soft blue eyes rested on the figure that silently slept inside the capsule.
"Synthetically beautiful…." the shadow whispered, as it turned its head towards the monitor.
"…. now, my brother…. It's time to wake up…."
Stepping ever so silently towards the monitor. A soft hissing sound could be heard coming from the capsule.
The shadow turned its head over its shoulder.
Various lights began to glow on the capsule, releasing the figure inside.
.. The shadow never turned around…. But, it did smile…
"I knew Dr. Light couldn't re-reprogram you that easily…. It's a part of you now X…. as it always shall be… until your ultimate demise…."
X's eyes began to open, as he slowly began to sit up.
"We are one in the same now… never to be parted… united…forever…." the shadow spoke once again….
X turned his head towards the voice….
"….S….Shonen?"
"Who else could it be?" Shonen began as she then turned and stepped into a beam of moonlight to reveal her body.
"…Dad's going to kill you if he finds out you're here in this room…. Not to mention, what he's going to do to me due to the fact that I didn't alert him."
Shonen sighed.
"Never mind about that X…. what's important now… is that we go and find wily, and that red menace that he released on the city."
X gripped the side of the capsule as he hopped out. His feet making a soft metallic thud as they hit the floor.
"… that's been taken care of… dad sent some of his old robot masters outfitted with new armor to take of that problem… so…. There's really no reason for you to be in here…. Unless you came to visit me… and to make out…" X added with a wink.
Shonen rolled her eyes at X's attempt to make a joke.
"X…. I'm being serious…."
".. So am I…. except for the make out comment…. Dad's got it taken care of…"
Shonen reached over, grabbed X's hand, dragged him out of his room and down the hall to the lounge.
"Shonen…. Where are you taking me? Dad's going to find out faster that we're together if you drag me down the hall in the open like this…." X protested.
"Don't worry about the security cameras…. I disabled them a while ago… now please be quiet…."
A second or so later. Shonen brought X into the lounge. Sat X down on the couch as she grabbed the remote.
"Now…. Are you really sure Dr. Light has everything under control?"
X nodded.
Sadly, she shook her head as she turned on the TV.
A local news report flashed across the screen.
"It's just the worst destruction I have ever seen ever since the World Trade collapse back in the twentieth century. (R.I.P.)
…bodies…. Bodies everywhere…. It's just too horrible…. To describe…."
Shonen switched the TV. To another channel… and another….
Similar reports were heard on different channels…. But they all confirmed Shonen's apparent accusation…
She turned to X…
"You still sure about things are being taken care of?"
X sat on the couch… ultimately speechless…
Shonen crouched down next to X…
"Little brother….. You know…you know what we must do…."
X's eyes started to water as he swallowed a lump in his throat.
"….I know we're going against dad's wishes…. But… if there's going to be any future….we have to do this…. For the sake of the world…. I can't do this alone…." Shonen then reached out her hand. "Please X…."
X drew his eyes to her hand… tears started to fall from his eyes, forming small rivers down his cheeks.
Shonen drew her hand closer to X, as he gently placed his in hers.
Gripping it softly, Shonen raised her eyes and looked into X's own.
"… Thank you…."