...after all that she's been through... good or bad... leaving everything behind...
... the Maverick Hunters...
... her friends...
... the only life she ever known, where she was not only accdeoted for what she was... but who she was...
... everything that meant anything to her... happiness...
...all gone...
sadly, she looked at a photo... a happier time... a memory from her past...
closing her eyes, allowing a tear to slide down her cheak. she felt the emotion that came with the feeling she remembered when the picture was taken... when things were simpler..a time when she could truely say she was happy... back before the hunters... back before the war...
... just the three of them...
X, Shonen, and who she proudly called her father.. Doctor Light...
In the distance, she heard her cell phone ring.
Glancing over she watched it ring softly... the stopping a few seconds later... as it went into voicemail mode.
Shonen had no intention to answer it. She knew who was calling her..
"..i don't want to talk to you X... can't you see that i'm done with you... that i'm done with the Maverick Hunters... i don't want to be a part of that life anymore.." she spoke softly as if she thought X could hear her voice in the wind, but knowing that no one would hear her voice.
Her memories faded back to the night she had to rescue X from the battlefield after dealing Zero or the maverick portion of Zero back when her father and his nemisis was still in this world...
"..i will be with you when you wake.. i promised father that i would not leave you alone... i will protect you... no matter what the cost..."
"...no matter what the cost.." she repeated with another soft whisper. Then slowly lifting her head, she peered into a dimly lit corner of the room, just barely making out a faint outline of a ghostly figure.
"...it's not his fault... his programming... he has the ability to progress and to grow... your assistance in his life would also be a factor that you can not be blamed solely on him you know..."
Shonen dropped her head.
"... but he's gone to far this time... lately... certain advancements hindered more that it helped... he started going insane... truely i had noone to blame but myself... i couldn't watch it happen... seperation was, i thought, was the best thing... the less of me around... the better i though it would be..." Shonen replied to the ghostly figure...
The figure smiled...
".. the best thing...and you know it as well... to stop being so selfish... accept things as they are... you cannot fully blame X... he did what he thought was right...he did it... for you..."
Shonen raised her head...
"...for me?" she whispered.
the figure nodded... then pointed to the door...
".. you two need each other... put the past aside...focus on the future...this war will never be won... if you two are seperated..."
Shonen turned her attention to the door...
"..go now... your brother... is waiting..." spoke with a whispered echo to his voice as the figure disapated...
Shonen smiled gently...
" thank you father..." she replied as she slowly made her way to the door, opening it carefully she peered down then smiled once again.
"...i guess there's nowhere i can go without you finding me little brother..."
... laying on his side, in a semi fetal position, his left arm tucked under his head as a makeshift pillow... breathing gently...a soft smile crossed his lips...
Shonen leaned her back against the adjacent wall and slid down until she reached the floor... deeply sighing...
"...little brother... Megaman X..."