CHAPTER II- THE NEO-ARCADIA

DISCLAIMER: YADAYADA, I STILL DON'T OWN THEM. EXCEPT FOR MY CHARACTERS OF COURSE! CAPCOM'S SO GREAT FOR MAKING 'EM, I WISH I AM THE MAKER OF THOSE THINGS.

It's so boring going to that government. I've met new friends, and they've recognized me very, very well. I decided to sing me a song.

"My name is Amber Trasè, the famous geneticist, created by Dr. Ion, and reprogrammed by Dr. Wily. In 20XX, I fought alongside Mega Man, and in 21XX, I'm in the Maverick Hunters, hehe, even though I'm a Maverick-born!" Shocks, my voice is soo contralto. That's my problem with Dr. Ion. Anyways, I saw a large door in front of me, and a speaker nearby.

"State name, occupation, code number, and reason of stay." a voice rang on the speaker. I shrugged mentally and looked casually at the speaker.

"My name is Dr. Amber Trasè; I'm a geneticist, reploid prototype 09554MYBSS34, and I want to see the founder of this government because of some clarifications."

"Ah, so the famous geneticist I've heard about long time ago was alive?" another voice boomed on the speaker.

"I'm always alive, and no one can stop me." I answered. "Now, can you open the door?"

"With pleasure." The doors opened and I took a step inside. I saw a indescribable figure in front of me.

"Do you have weapons?" he asked. He was the first person to speak on that speaker.

I nodded, took my light saber off my back, and tossed it to him. "I recon you wanna have it? Take it, I can manage perfectly fine with or without it."

The place was all shadows, so I cannot see his face while we were walking. I then remembered another name that existed during X's time. "Alia." The reploid I'm following turned sharply when the name was called. "Uhh, excuse me, sir, do you know Alia? She's a friend of mine during the Maverick wars, and I was wondering maybe she's here."

"She's missing." He stated. I narrowed my eyes slightly. "Three years ago, she served here, but after, she went berserk and ran away."

"Berserk? No, that's impossible.oh.another question. Why was she working here?"

"Uhh.that's for the leader to answer, doctor."

"And who's your leader?"

"Mega Man X, the hero of the 21XX Maverick Wars. He leads the Neo- Arcadia anti-Resistance team. He's the one hunting those who escaped from prison."

I gasped. Ciel was right.X is our enemy now.but no.I'm confused.I fell to the floor, covering my mouth with both hands. The reploid offered support. "Doctor, are you alright?" I sighed deeply and regained posture.

"I'm okay. Let's go, I don't want to waste my time."

He looked at me inquisitively. I stared back. But that was only a moment when a strange shadow appeared before us. I then decided to turn on my light source: my hand. It was illuminating a blue glow. You can't imagine who is the person I saw. It was Mega Man X.

"Sir!" the reploid beside me saluted. X only nodded.

"You could leave us, Phantom." He answered. Phantom disappeared in an eye blink. "I shall take you to the founder."

"X? Is.that you?" I asked. He's so.so different. From the looks of it, it looks like he doesn't recognize me anymore.

"Don't keep the founder waiting, Dr. Trasè." He commanded. I sighed, and walked alongside him as we go through a long hallway. Something snapped in me.

"X, Phantom told me that Alia once worked here." I stopped when I noticed the name struck a chord in X's CPU. "Why is that.?"

"It's none of your business." X answered, returning to his no-emotion face.

I stopped walking. "It is of my business, Mega Man X." I retorted sharply. "I'm just having theories as of how someone as kind and intelligent as Alia would want to work in here. If you can't recall, I was the one who let you two work together." I sighed. "This is useless. You don't understand a word I'm saying." I then decided to take the lead. My blood runs cold. I nearly got myself killed a long time ago because I knew those two loved each other, and now.DAMN! X didn't follow me. I just continued walking, for I know sticking with this monster is useless if he doesn't understand me. I took a necklace out of my lab coat and opened the pendant. Inside it were pictures of Alia and X. I smiled, regardless of what was happening. I emitted a purple light and created the perfect double for the pendant. I faced X, and threw him the duplicate. "Here. Alia gave this to me. I can't keep it, if I'm not satisfied with the air of love you two are having."

X caught the pendant and looked at pictures, then closed it. I stopped walking when I saw a huge door in front of me. "I guess this is where the big F is waiting for me?" X stared at me because of my offensive language. I raised an eyebrow. "You have a dirty mind, Mega Man X. The F means 'FOUNDER'." I added defensively. The doors opened. I was led towards a horseshoe-shaped mahogany table. A chair twirled around and stopped.

"Please do take a seat, Dr. Trasè." He said. A chair appeared in front of the table. I sat on it and looked at the indescribable figure. "Now, what can I do for you?"

"I have a few questions, if you don't mind answering."

"Go ahead."

"First, give a complete set of what's been going on in this time. I just woke up, and I need answers. Next, what's up with X? Was his brain washed by detergent or what? Finally, what's the deal about this government?"

The old man stroked his chin. "I'll answer your second question later. It has been many years after the end of the Maverick Wars. Mega Man X continued to fight for the side of mankind. One day, we humans decided to establish a government to keep more reploids from going berserk. We have to imprison reploids who are in danger of going Maverick, and we all want a peaceful world. Mega Man X gladly agreed on our terms. Until the day when the prison was destroyed, and the reploids escaped. I know they are hiding somewhere."

I raised an eyebrow. "Then, why is X like that?!" Pointing to X, with his enhancements. "Why didn't he remember what happened during the Maverick Wars?!"

Instead of an answer, I heard a loud laughter from the strange human. "You want to know if he remembers anything? Well, put it to the test. X!" X threw a plasma bolt at me. Luckily, I recovered my senses and dodged the attack before it could cause damage. X continued shooting at me. I had to use precautionary measures. I activated my light saber and attacked. But a part of me is resisting from attacking, naturally, because he is a distant.absolutely distant relative. Wait, no.he is not. It's because he's my bro's best friend.but fate turned cold and made them the worst enemies the world would see. To make things more complicated, the creators of those two are rivals. But what's strange is that I'm leaning on Light's side, not Wily's. The fight between X and I raged for half an hour without pauses, until I knelt down on one knee, using my saber as support. The old geezer watching us laughed out loud. "Hah! Now I know that the great Dr. Amber Trasé is no match for Mega Man X! How could you possibly make up for this, hmm?"

I was bowing my head down while I was trying to regain my strength. I heard a shrill gust of wind slapping me in the face. I know help was coming.and fast, so I just plastered my face with a grin and showed it to the boastful s.o.b. (sorry for my unclean head. I'm angry) and my former friend. "Do you think you could defeat me that easily?" The glass pane high above us was destroyed, and the ever great Zero went falling down, just in time. "Think again!"

"Who is HE?!" the human gasped, as Zero approached me, and went into a battle position.

"Looks like I'm not going to waste my time." I then exclaimed, placing a hand on Zero's shoulder. "You're not X. You are just a shell.even X would recognize this man. c'mon, let's go." Zero looked at me questioningly. "Face it, he couldn't remember you at all.he can't even remember what painstaking experience I took from Dynamo just to save his worthless behind and Alia."

We both teleported out of the compound and onto the open field.

Right now, I'm on my arms, crying hell inside Zero's room. Zero and Ciel are outside, and I'm sure they're talking about me. But.I'm still too hurt. For all the reasons, I hate that stupid government. I'm going to save X from them.I'm a geneticist, a mechanic, a daughter, a friend. I'm a reploid, but human at heart. Those.those. "Argh!" I closed my fists tightly. "Damn them! Damn them all!" Warm tears began streaming out of my eyes. One of my main concerns is Alia. Where could she be? I have to find her! She's the only person who can help X.I can't do anything.

Please.reviews!!! I'm being attacked by blocks!!! Oh.wait.I'm having mental block. Anything to make the situations worse in the story!!! Like Amber killing X or something. Oh, not too bad like that. Like Amber recovering the stupid virus again, or X killing Alia.please, help!!!