Disclaimer: As usual, I own nothing in this story related to Mega Man X. The only things I can claim as mine are my original characters used.

Chapter 21: Coming Full Circle

Zero and Iris had finally made it to the Command Room like they had been ordered to do and looked around. Signas sat in the Commanders Chair looking extremely serious.

"Once Alia arrives I will get down to why I called you all back here so quickly," Signas explained, his expression unchanging.

"What about Violet?" Iris questioned.

"Right now Axl needs her more than we do," the Commander replied simply.

The Crimson Killer and the former Repliforce member exchanged a small glance with one another. Before another word could be said the door to the Command Room opened once more and Alia stepped in.

"All right, now that you are all assembled," Signas started.

"Not quite, planning something without me 'Commander'," came Shadow's voice, speaking the word Commander like it was something laughable.

The mysterious hooded Reploid appeared in the center of the room earning a look of annoyance from the Maverick Hunter Commander and Chief. Signas let out a sigh as Zero, Iris, and Alia looked at Shadow seemingly a little transfixed on him. The Reploid had appeared out of nowhere and had nothing but a bad attitude with them since his arrival. None of them knew what his true agenda was and despite what little he had done to actually help, none of them trusted him.

"We have pinpointed at last the H-Hunter base," Signas stated profoundly to his assembled unit.

"Bout time, took long enough," Shadow scoffed sound unimpressed.

"You know what, I have had about enough of the attitude from you," Zero snarled as he walked towards Shadow in a threatning manner.

Shadow let out a low sigh as he turned to face the Crimson Killer, obviously not intemidated by him.

"Oh, and what are you going to do it you ancient piece of junkyard scraps," Shadow said with a low growl in his voice.

"That's enough, knock it off, both of you!" Signas roared at the two getting to his feet to step in if needed.

Zero and Shadow both turned to look at Signas almost as if the two of them would go after him first just so they could deal with each other.

"Right now, the H-Hunters are our top priority, if you two want to rip each other apart, then you can do so after we deal with them," the Commander stated.

"Very well," the hooded Reploid replied sounding a bit reluctant.

"Now then, we have pinpointed the H-Hunter Base at point 5567," Signas said.

Zero turned and looked at Signas confused for a moment.

"Is that some kind of joke?" Zero questioned.

Now it was Signas's turn to be confused, gazing over to the Crimson Hunter curiously.

"No, why?" Signas asked in turn.

"Point 5567 was the coordinates of the Sky Lagoon before it crashed," Zero stated.

Iris's eyes went wide at the mention of the Sky Lagoon, it was the very thing that had triggered the war between the Maverick Hunters and Repliforce.

"I remember reading the old reports on that, Sky Lagoon was a floating city that was sabotoged by the Mavericks and covered up to look like a Repliforce occupation and assault," Signas said.

Zero simply nodded and walked away from Shadow and back to Iris whos eyes he looked sadly into.

"A lot of good lives were lost during that conflict and damn Sigma for ever having brought it about," the Crimson Killer stated glacing from Iris's eyes to the floor clutching his fist in rage.

"I remember hearing about that as well from sources in the know, isn't that the conflict where you 'murdered' the Colonel of the Repliforce, your lady friends brother just before 'murdering' her as well?" Shadowed questioned tauntingly, adding emphasis on Murder and murdering as if trying to attack Zero personally.

Zero quickly glanced back up and glanced over his shoulder back to the hooded reploid, his eyes full of intense rage. Before anyone could react Zero was on Shadow, gripping him by his cloak and putting him through a wall sending him on a drop that was a few stories down.

"Sorry, but I can't hold it anymore, this bastard is way too arrogant for his own good," Zero said with a slight snarl before leaping down after the mystery Reploid.

"It can't be helped and I can't really blame Zero for this, what Shadow said was taking it too far when we have bigger concerns to worry about," Iris said.

Alia who had remained silent and stoic the entire time finally walked over to Iris and gripped her shoulders turning her to face her and giving her a soft smile.

"If it's any consolation, I know Zero didn't do what he did on purpose, X told me the story a few times since he was personally involved and I read the reports just like Commander Signas, I know Zero is a good guy and I understand why you care so deeply for him," Alia said trying to reassure the obviously upset reploid.

Iris smiled back at her giving the Navigator a confident nod.

"Well, you have to admit, the we definitely chose two of the most interesting Reploids to fall in love with," Iris said with a small chuckle.

Alia looked a little pained at the comment since X was now gone but she understood Iris's intent.

"I agree with you 100% Sister," Alia said.

All the while Signas just stood there looking like he was trying to keep his cool. There were other more important matters that needed to be attended to such as assaulting the H-Hunter Base and dealing with them once and for all and there was some serious dissention amongst his ranks, something they could ill afford to have going against such deadly opponents.

~A/N~

Well here it is at last ladies and gentlmen, the first promised update to this Fanfic. I know this is simply a rewrite of an already done chapter but after a near two year absence I did a reread to catch myself back up on my own plot and refresh my memory and I felt this rewrite made a little more sense and helped to move the plot along a little more smoothly. Plus it helped to get me back into my writing state of mind lol. I plan to try and keep up with the story at this point and add future chapters now that I am back in the jist of it instead of doing rewrites till its conclusion depending on what all happens in life between now and when I start college of course. As always, I encourage you to R&R no matter if it's good, bad or ugly, even the bad reviews help to make me a better writer. That's all from me for now, till next time my peeps!