Sorry for the long waite. I've had some of the longest and busiest weekends in my life. But the wait is now over. On with the story.
I do not own the Modifyers, they belong to Chris Reccardi and Lynne Naylor. I do own Zero.
Xero and Zero walked about the base with a cone stone silence, unbroken since they left the cafeteria.
'I think I know why she's not talking to me' he thought.
"Xero, I didn't tell you about my healing because it's just too weird for people to understand, and honestly, to personal to talk about to anyone" he tried to explain.
Xero kept walking not bothering to respond or turn to him.
"We're friends, right?" She finally asked breaking the silence.
"Of course" I said.
"Then why don't you trust me with this secret?" She rebuked. 'She's right' I thought. "Ok Xero. I promise no more secrets between us."
"Pinky promise?" She asked.
"Pinky promise" he said locking my pinky finger around hers.
"Since we now don't have any secrets between us, were headed to my friend. She might have answers for you. She's a brilliant scientists" she said.
Zero looked around at his new surrounding. The white tiled room, so clean that it actually hurts his eyes after a while. Outside laminated on the door was a sign that read 'MEDICAL LAB.'
"Niki! Niki!" Xero hollowed out. All that followed was silence. "Nik-"
"Allright Xero, I hear you." We both turned to see a girl close to our age. Her long black hair came to her lower back and she was from asian heritage. She wore the usual attire for a lab worker.
"What do you need now Xero. Do you have another big mission" she said sarcastically. "Is the world going to end again"
In the split of a second both girls started laughing as Zero waited for them to finish, not quite understanding the joke.
"Niki, this is Zero, my partner. He's a little different." Xero said introducing him.
"He looks fine to me. Though perhaps a little bit on the scrawny side" Niki said.
Without warning Xero pulled out her flamethrower and burned Zero's hand to a deep charred black, the smell of burnt flesh in the air.
"God Xero. You've gone crazy!?" Nika yelled.
"Just watch" Zero said to calm her down, and take the heat of Xero.
In front of both of them Zero's hand gradually started to heal till in a matter of minutes all signs of a burn where gone.
"Accelerated cell growth!" Niki said.
"I know crazy, huh" Xero continued.
" We need answers" Zero stated "at least any information you can give m- I mean us." I said to Niki.
"There are a few test that I can run. But they will take time". She said.
"We got the rest of the afternoon" Xero said.
●●●●Zack's dorm●●●●
"You think you've won Zero. No, I'm just getting started. I just need some help getting rid of you. And I think I know the person."