Zero
Senya Starseeker
Chapter 12
Disclaimer: I'm sure if you've read the other chapters' disclaimers you know by now that I DO NOT OWN Megaman X, kay?
Author's Notes: It takes me forever to update anything, doesn't it? I'm SORRY! But school is a real pain, and I've been suffering through final exam hell. Almost over now, though, no more exams for me until the end of June ::yaay:: anyway, I've been busy with other fics to, the more reviews I get the faster I'll update each fic, okay? But anyway, this is a long chapter, so enjoy it for now, at least. Now, on with the fic . . .
Chapter 12
The crimson reploid rose slowly, picking himself up, his long tangled threads of golden hair streaming in front of his face, his emerald eyes bright with madness.
"What the hell happened to your friend?!" Dynamo exclaimed.
There was no time, however, for explanations, as soon as Zero had risen he jumped towards the three, slashing his saber at them wildly. They quickly leapt aside, May and X were unsure what to do, and still in a state of shock, but Dynamo unhesitantly whipped out his buster and pointed it towards the former Maverick Hunter.
"NO!" X screamed suddenly, roughly tackling Dynamo, who, in surprise lost his balance and slid from the pile of wreckage, taking X with him, a few meters to the ground with a horrible cracking sound.
"X?!" May cried after the two.
"Don't worry, you'll be joining them!" Zero yelled, striking her with a massive force in the stomach, in an instant May felt the rush of wind against her back, and weightlessness, and then a horrible feeling that she was plummeting downwards . . .
"May!" X cried as she landed on her back beside them on the ground.
"I'm . . . okay." She said slowly, struggling to sit up, "You?"
"I'm fine . . ."
"Dammit, X!" Dynamo shouted, apparently very annoyed, "What did you do that for?! How the hell can you be protecting him at a time like this?!"
"And why exactly are you doing protecting humans?" X questioned.
Dynamo's eyes narrowed, he opened his mouth to reply but thought better of it and closed his mouth, an uncharacteristic frown deepening on his face. "It's only through an unlucky series of events I happen to be helping you." He told X dryly, "Believe me, I'd much rather be at home h-"
"G-GUYS!" May stammered, they both looked towards her, Zero had leapt gracefully down to them, grinning widely, his saber drawn.
"I've already killed oh . . . nineteen people today . . . let's see which of you will gets to be lucky number twenty?" He asked wryly.
X looked frustrated and upset and near to tears, "Why? Why? Why, Zero?" He kept asking, in a pleading voice. "Please snap out of it! I know you're stronger than this-this virus!"
"A virus?" Dynamo asked, raising an eyebrow.
Zero pointed his saber directly towards X, "Cease your sniveling, and fight me now, if you don't, I'll go kill the rest of them."
X blinked in surprise, unsure what to say he did nothing.
Zero moved the saber back, and smiled, closing his eyes softly, "Tsk. I guess that's that then, they all have to die." He leapt back towards what was left of the school.
"What?! No! Wait!" X screamed, running after him, "ZERO!!"
The golden haired one paused, "Oh? You've had a change of heart, have you?"
X pointed his buster at Zero, and fired, it wasn't enough to kill him, but it still hurt to fire at his best friend.
Zero dodged, laughing maniacally, he swerved around, and rammed his saber into X's shoulder before the blue reploid could get out of the way.
"Agh!" X cried, grabbing his arm.
May stepped forwards.
"No!" X cried, "I must do this!" He fired again, this time hitting Zero directly on the chest, the reploid fell backwards, and landed on the ground with a thud.
All four of them remained silent for a moment then, until a low, uncanny, laughter slowly rose from Zero.
"Zero . . ." X murmured.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha . . ." Zero laughed softly, "So you would hurt your dear friend, after all?" He laughed, rising up off the ground. "Ahahahahahahaha!"
"Zero . . ."
"This is what I wanted!" Zero shouted exuberantly, striking at X again and again with his saber, X trying to dodge and make sense of what he was saying at the same time. "The fight I've been looking for! It would have been so boring to just kill you all right away, I'm so glad I'll at least get a struggle!"
X fired at Zero again, and missed, Zero swung around gracefully behind him, and shoved X down to the ground. He then raised his saber menacingly above X's head, raising it as though to kill him.
A blast shocked through the air, and Zero stood there shaking, having just been hit full-force square in the chest with a shot that was powerful enough to kill, was intended to. His red armor was dented inwards were it had struck, and small bursts of electrical energy crackled about, still.
"Zero?" X asked. "Dynamo, what do you think you're doing?!"
The latter simply tossed his hair over his shoulder in a nonchalant manner, "You should thank me, I wouldn't normally save your life."
Zero, meanwhile, stumbled backwards, in a fazed state, before glaring at the three with angrier eyes than before.
May and X drew their busters as well, and aimed, prepared for if Zero attacked them. He glared at them with narrowed eyes, a frown on his face. Dynamo readied his buster as well. "Not until I give the order." X commanded.
He had taken on a strangely assertive role in this situation. Unfortunately, however, Dynamo seemed to take no interest in following it. A rather amused look on his face, the Maverick mercenary gave X a look that said, 'yeah, right' and fired another round at Zero.
They struck the dazed Zero dead on, and he stumbled backwards a few feet and fell back.
"Dynamo!" X nearly screamed, "What do you think you're doing?!"
"Hey!" Dynamo smiled with a carefree shrug of his shoulders, "I'm just trying to protect the humans."
"Dynamo protecting humans?" X asked suspiciously, raising an eyebrow, "Now why do I find that so hard to believe?"
"Uh . . ." Dynamo grimaced, running a hand through his hair as though nervous. "Well . . ."
"GUYS!" May interrupted him, thank the gods Dynamo whispered, because he really had no idea what sort of an excuse he could give.
Zero was busy picking himself up off the ground, he glared at them through icy green eyes, "Is this what you would call a fair fight, X?" He asked. "Three against one?"
"Uh . . ." X shifted uncomfortably.
"Damn it, shut up!" May yelled at him, "X, ignore him, he's to strong!"
"No . . . he's right!" X cried suddenly, "But Zero, if I beat you, you have to come back with us so that Lifesaver can fix what's wrong!"
"You'll have to kill me." Zero smirked, and lunged towards X maniacally, with his saber drawn. He crashed into X, the two spilled to the ground, Zero rolled over and punched X across the face. May cringed at the sound of metal cracking from the force of the blow.
"That's it!" She screamed, pulling out her blaster, she shot fired at Zero, so did Dynamo, although the latter was actually quiet amused him to see the one Maverick Hunter beating the crap out of the other.
The force of May's and Dynamo's shots was enough to send Zero flying backwards, he crashed into the rubble of the school building and got up slowly, obviously he was damaged this time, a few sparking wires had become visible beneath his armor, and he was grimacing. "This isn't over . . ." He hissed, and leapt into the air again.
"Wh-what's he doing?" X asked in amazement, as Zero rose higher and higher into the sky.
"I . . . I think he's flying." May said, equally as astonished.
"He can't fly!" Dynamo fumed angrily.
"Evidently . . . he can." May whispered, she turned to X. "X, I don't think you should try to fight him again, at least not without your ultimate armor."
X sighed, he looked rather sad, but managed to nod.
"And what about all of these civilians?" May asked.
Alia and Douglas leapt down from the helicopter when she said that, "We'll take them back to the HQ to make sure no one is hurt, and stuff." Douglas told her.
"Yes." Alia agreed, "Will you . . . . three . . . . get them together?" She asked. Eyeing Dynamo strangely.
Dynamo grimaced inwardly, more helping humans? He hated the thought, and it would be just his luck that the other Mavericks found out about it to, he thought. But he didn't have much choice, he went back to the group, and found Senya still pretty shocked standing with a bunch of other teachers and students.
He thought about just leaving, but somehow he thought that wouldn't quite be fair. /Damn it all! I'm a Maverick, why the hell do I care about what's right and wrong?/ He screamed inside of his head. /What the hell is happening to me?/
The others would never let him live it down, and then there was his assistant, he didn't want to know what would happen if she found out about his little affair with the human woman. /Damn it damn it damn it!/ He cursed mentally, /and they warned me my carefree nature would get me in trouble one day!/
To make matters worse, as soon as the three Reploids approached the humans, Senya bolted straight for him, and threw her arms around him as X and May gaped in disbelief. So did all of the humans, and not to mention Alia and Douglas who were behind them. He tried a lopsided nervous grin, maybe he could just go with the flow, it had worked pretty well the rest of his life. "So-ah-ha-you okay, Sen?" He asked.
It seemed that she'd just noticed everyone staring at them too, and quickly went red, "Aw, crap." She muttered.
Then they noticed the cameras. News crews were swarming them, photographers flashed pictures of everything, news crews had already swarmed over the group, interviewing students, teachers, the Hunters, anyone they could get their hands on.
"Is it true the famous Maverick Hunter Zero Omega has gone Maverick?" One reporter interrogated X furiously.
"U-Uh no, it's something else . . ."
"How did you feel to know your life was in danger?"
"Can you trust Reploids again?"
"Is it true you are a cyborg? Part human, part Reploid?"
"How did you react to knowing several of your classmates and friends were killed in your own school?"
Then it was their turn, of course reporters would love them, Dynamo thought, no human-interest story could possibly beat that of lonely young school teacher having a secret love affair with a renegade Maverick mercenary. He groaned silently and hoped his assistant wasn't watching the news.
"So, you two are a couple?"
"How long has your relationship been going on for?"
"Are you aware you are the first Reploid/Human couple in the history of the world?!"
"How did you meet?"
The questions bombarded them from all sides.
"Uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . w-we're really more like . . . uh . . . friends . . .?" Senya stammered nervously.
"Oh, like that really helps." Dynamo whispered to her sarcastically.
"Yeah, well what do you suggest?" She shot back in an equally whispered tone.
"I dunno, maybe we should just go with it." He grinned, back to his old not-a-care-in-the-world self.
"What about my job and your reputation." She hissed, "Who's going to hire a Maverick mercenary who cuddles up to humans? Or a school teacher who hangs out with a Maverick?"
The lady had a point. Several in fact. But they were definitely in a tight spot.
"Is it true you were once a Maverick?" One reported asked Dynamo.
"I wouldn't say "once."" Dynamo replied slyly, eyes narrowing at them with a kind of sadistic smirk on his face.
The people took the hint, and quickly backed away from them. Senya breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, you can go to the Maverick Hunter's HQ with the rest of them." Dynamo told her, "I'm gonna go."
"What? You can't just leave like that!" She demanded.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Well-be-because, it wouldn't be very nice!"
/Oh please, is that the best you could do?/ Dynamo thought. "Sorry." He shrugged.
"One of my best friends since Grade 10 just died today!"
"Shit happens."
"DYNAMO!!" She cried, she was practically in tears now, he'd never seen her so upset, for some reason it bothered him greatly.
". . . . I'm sorry. That's why I don't get close to people, they end up dying. There are only two people on this planet I care about in the least. One is you. . ." /And the other one would kill me if she knew you existed!/ Of course he didn't say the last part out loud, but the more time he spent with them the more chance all of the Mavericks were going to no he'd been spending time with a human, and even protected them.
"Please, Dynamo, at least stay for a little while?" She pleaded.
"The Hunters will take care of you." He said, a little annoyed.
"But I hate places like that! Military bases, government buildings, office buildings, jails, asylums . . ."
"The Maverick Hunter Head Quarters isn't any of those things." He told her.
"No, it's like all of them rolled into one!" She exclaimed.
"Hahahahahaha!" He laughed.
"What's so funny?!" She demanded.
"Haha-n-nothing, I just hate those kinds of places to, and your right, it is. But do you really think they're gonna let a Maverick walk right in? Besides, I have to go before they forget I saved their sorry asses and arrest me."
"A-Actually," Alia interrupted them, both turned to see her, "A- Actually, I just received a transmission from Dr. Cain, he's in charge for the moment, and he says after what you did you could stay for a while and h- help."
"We're you listening in on our conversation?" Dynamo and Senya demanded.
"Uh n-no." Alia replied.
Even though it was obvious she had been.
Dynamo sighed, didn't look like he was going to get out of this. Unless he just left. Why the hell was that so hard to do lately, anyway, he wondered?
They began towards the large MH HQ, it was huge, even though it had been damaged by Zero's attack. It was huge, and they ushered the humans in, in pairs, checking them over and sending them to the doctors and paramedics they had called over.
"Damn, I hate doctors." Senya muttered, "Let's go this way." She pulled Dynamo's arm and they swerved abruptly down a hallway to the side.
"Uh . . . I don't think we should be going this way." Dynamo said, "It'd be better to stay with the others."
"That's strangely unlike the smiley faced D I know and love." She joked.
He did not reply, Maverick Hunter were passing through the hallway all around him, several gave him strange looks, the fact of the matter was that he had to be outnumbered at least one thousand to one in the massive complex and he didn't trust or like the Hunters in the least. He did not want to be there.
Senya seemed to notice his expression and tightened her grip on his arm possessively, it wasn't like her at all, but he knew she was probably going through post-traumatic stress or something.
"Dynamo!" X's voice suddenly said, the Maverick's back tightened.
"Oh . . . hello, X." He replied, trying to keep cool even though he knew that if X wanted a fight he couldn't possible beat every Hunter in the base. Coming with Senya was steadily beginning to seem a bad idea.
Senya Starseeker
Chapter 12
Disclaimer: I'm sure if you've read the other chapters' disclaimers you know by now that I DO NOT OWN Megaman X, kay?
Author's Notes: It takes me forever to update anything, doesn't it? I'm SORRY! But school is a real pain, and I've been suffering through final exam hell. Almost over now, though, no more exams for me until the end of June ::yaay:: anyway, I've been busy with other fics to, the more reviews I get the faster I'll update each fic, okay? But anyway, this is a long chapter, so enjoy it for now, at least. Now, on with the fic . . .
Chapter 12
The crimson reploid rose slowly, picking himself up, his long tangled threads of golden hair streaming in front of his face, his emerald eyes bright with madness.
"What the hell happened to your friend?!" Dynamo exclaimed.
There was no time, however, for explanations, as soon as Zero had risen he jumped towards the three, slashing his saber at them wildly. They quickly leapt aside, May and X were unsure what to do, and still in a state of shock, but Dynamo unhesitantly whipped out his buster and pointed it towards the former Maverick Hunter.
"NO!" X screamed suddenly, roughly tackling Dynamo, who, in surprise lost his balance and slid from the pile of wreckage, taking X with him, a few meters to the ground with a horrible cracking sound.
"X?!" May cried after the two.
"Don't worry, you'll be joining them!" Zero yelled, striking her with a massive force in the stomach, in an instant May felt the rush of wind against her back, and weightlessness, and then a horrible feeling that she was plummeting downwards . . .
"May!" X cried as she landed on her back beside them on the ground.
"I'm . . . okay." She said slowly, struggling to sit up, "You?"
"I'm fine . . ."
"Dammit, X!" Dynamo shouted, apparently very annoyed, "What did you do that for?! How the hell can you be protecting him at a time like this?!"
"And why exactly are you doing protecting humans?" X questioned.
Dynamo's eyes narrowed, he opened his mouth to reply but thought better of it and closed his mouth, an uncharacteristic frown deepening on his face. "It's only through an unlucky series of events I happen to be helping you." He told X dryly, "Believe me, I'd much rather be at home h-"
"G-GUYS!" May stammered, they both looked towards her, Zero had leapt gracefully down to them, grinning widely, his saber drawn.
"I've already killed oh . . . nineteen people today . . . let's see which of you will gets to be lucky number twenty?" He asked wryly.
X looked frustrated and upset and near to tears, "Why? Why? Why, Zero?" He kept asking, in a pleading voice. "Please snap out of it! I know you're stronger than this-this virus!"
"A virus?" Dynamo asked, raising an eyebrow.
Zero pointed his saber directly towards X, "Cease your sniveling, and fight me now, if you don't, I'll go kill the rest of them."
X blinked in surprise, unsure what to say he did nothing.
Zero moved the saber back, and smiled, closing his eyes softly, "Tsk. I guess that's that then, they all have to die." He leapt back towards what was left of the school.
"What?! No! Wait!" X screamed, running after him, "ZERO!!"
The golden haired one paused, "Oh? You've had a change of heart, have you?"
X pointed his buster at Zero, and fired, it wasn't enough to kill him, but it still hurt to fire at his best friend.
Zero dodged, laughing maniacally, he swerved around, and rammed his saber into X's shoulder before the blue reploid could get out of the way.
"Agh!" X cried, grabbing his arm.
May stepped forwards.
"No!" X cried, "I must do this!" He fired again, this time hitting Zero directly on the chest, the reploid fell backwards, and landed on the ground with a thud.
All four of them remained silent for a moment then, until a low, uncanny, laughter slowly rose from Zero.
"Zero . . ." X murmured.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha . . ." Zero laughed softly, "So you would hurt your dear friend, after all?" He laughed, rising up off the ground. "Ahahahahahahaha!"
"Zero . . ."
"This is what I wanted!" Zero shouted exuberantly, striking at X again and again with his saber, X trying to dodge and make sense of what he was saying at the same time. "The fight I've been looking for! It would have been so boring to just kill you all right away, I'm so glad I'll at least get a struggle!"
X fired at Zero again, and missed, Zero swung around gracefully behind him, and shoved X down to the ground. He then raised his saber menacingly above X's head, raising it as though to kill him.
A blast shocked through the air, and Zero stood there shaking, having just been hit full-force square in the chest with a shot that was powerful enough to kill, was intended to. His red armor was dented inwards were it had struck, and small bursts of electrical energy crackled about, still.
"Zero?" X asked. "Dynamo, what do you think you're doing?!"
The latter simply tossed his hair over his shoulder in a nonchalant manner, "You should thank me, I wouldn't normally save your life."
Zero, meanwhile, stumbled backwards, in a fazed state, before glaring at the three with angrier eyes than before.
May and X drew their busters as well, and aimed, prepared for if Zero attacked them. He glared at them with narrowed eyes, a frown on his face. Dynamo readied his buster as well. "Not until I give the order." X commanded.
He had taken on a strangely assertive role in this situation. Unfortunately, however, Dynamo seemed to take no interest in following it. A rather amused look on his face, the Maverick mercenary gave X a look that said, 'yeah, right' and fired another round at Zero.
They struck the dazed Zero dead on, and he stumbled backwards a few feet and fell back.
"Dynamo!" X nearly screamed, "What do you think you're doing?!"
"Hey!" Dynamo smiled with a carefree shrug of his shoulders, "I'm just trying to protect the humans."
"Dynamo protecting humans?" X asked suspiciously, raising an eyebrow, "Now why do I find that so hard to believe?"
"Uh . . ." Dynamo grimaced, running a hand through his hair as though nervous. "Well . . ."
"GUYS!" May interrupted him, thank the gods Dynamo whispered, because he really had no idea what sort of an excuse he could give.
Zero was busy picking himself up off the ground, he glared at them through icy green eyes, "Is this what you would call a fair fight, X?" He asked. "Three against one?"
"Uh . . ." X shifted uncomfortably.
"Damn it, shut up!" May yelled at him, "X, ignore him, he's to strong!"
"No . . . he's right!" X cried suddenly, "But Zero, if I beat you, you have to come back with us so that Lifesaver can fix what's wrong!"
"You'll have to kill me." Zero smirked, and lunged towards X maniacally, with his saber drawn. He crashed into X, the two spilled to the ground, Zero rolled over and punched X across the face. May cringed at the sound of metal cracking from the force of the blow.
"That's it!" She screamed, pulling out her blaster, she shot fired at Zero, so did Dynamo, although the latter was actually quiet amused him to see the one Maverick Hunter beating the crap out of the other.
The force of May's and Dynamo's shots was enough to send Zero flying backwards, he crashed into the rubble of the school building and got up slowly, obviously he was damaged this time, a few sparking wires had become visible beneath his armor, and he was grimacing. "This isn't over . . ." He hissed, and leapt into the air again.
"Wh-what's he doing?" X asked in amazement, as Zero rose higher and higher into the sky.
"I . . . I think he's flying." May said, equally as astonished.
"He can't fly!" Dynamo fumed angrily.
"Evidently . . . he can." May whispered, she turned to X. "X, I don't think you should try to fight him again, at least not without your ultimate armor."
X sighed, he looked rather sad, but managed to nod.
"And what about all of these civilians?" May asked.
Alia and Douglas leapt down from the helicopter when she said that, "We'll take them back to the HQ to make sure no one is hurt, and stuff." Douglas told her.
"Yes." Alia agreed, "Will you . . . . three . . . . get them together?" She asked. Eyeing Dynamo strangely.
Dynamo grimaced inwardly, more helping humans? He hated the thought, and it would be just his luck that the other Mavericks found out about it to, he thought. But he didn't have much choice, he went back to the group, and found Senya still pretty shocked standing with a bunch of other teachers and students.
He thought about just leaving, but somehow he thought that wouldn't quite be fair. /Damn it all! I'm a Maverick, why the hell do I care about what's right and wrong?/ He screamed inside of his head. /What the hell is happening to me?/
The others would never let him live it down, and then there was his assistant, he didn't want to know what would happen if she found out about his little affair with the human woman. /Damn it damn it damn it!/ He cursed mentally, /and they warned me my carefree nature would get me in trouble one day!/
To make matters worse, as soon as the three Reploids approached the humans, Senya bolted straight for him, and threw her arms around him as X and May gaped in disbelief. So did all of the humans, and not to mention Alia and Douglas who were behind them. He tried a lopsided nervous grin, maybe he could just go with the flow, it had worked pretty well the rest of his life. "So-ah-ha-you okay, Sen?" He asked.
It seemed that she'd just noticed everyone staring at them too, and quickly went red, "Aw, crap." She muttered.
Then they noticed the cameras. News crews were swarming them, photographers flashed pictures of everything, news crews had already swarmed over the group, interviewing students, teachers, the Hunters, anyone they could get their hands on.
"Is it true the famous Maverick Hunter Zero Omega has gone Maverick?" One reporter interrogated X furiously.
"U-Uh no, it's something else . . ."
"How did you feel to know your life was in danger?"
"Can you trust Reploids again?"
"Is it true you are a cyborg? Part human, part Reploid?"
"How did you react to knowing several of your classmates and friends were killed in your own school?"
Then it was their turn, of course reporters would love them, Dynamo thought, no human-interest story could possibly beat that of lonely young school teacher having a secret love affair with a renegade Maverick mercenary. He groaned silently and hoped his assistant wasn't watching the news.
"So, you two are a couple?"
"How long has your relationship been going on for?"
"Are you aware you are the first Reploid/Human couple in the history of the world?!"
"How did you meet?"
The questions bombarded them from all sides.
"Uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . w-we're really more like . . . uh . . . friends . . .?" Senya stammered nervously.
"Oh, like that really helps." Dynamo whispered to her sarcastically.
"Yeah, well what do you suggest?" She shot back in an equally whispered tone.
"I dunno, maybe we should just go with it." He grinned, back to his old not-a-care-in-the-world self.
"What about my job and your reputation." She hissed, "Who's going to hire a Maverick mercenary who cuddles up to humans? Or a school teacher who hangs out with a Maverick?"
The lady had a point. Several in fact. But they were definitely in a tight spot.
"Is it true you were once a Maverick?" One reported asked Dynamo.
"I wouldn't say "once."" Dynamo replied slyly, eyes narrowing at them with a kind of sadistic smirk on his face.
The people took the hint, and quickly backed away from them. Senya breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, you can go to the Maverick Hunter's HQ with the rest of them." Dynamo told her, "I'm gonna go."
"What? You can't just leave like that!" She demanded.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Well-be-because, it wouldn't be very nice!"
/Oh please, is that the best you could do?/ Dynamo thought. "Sorry." He shrugged.
"One of my best friends since Grade 10 just died today!"
"Shit happens."
"DYNAMO!!" She cried, she was practically in tears now, he'd never seen her so upset, for some reason it bothered him greatly.
". . . . I'm sorry. That's why I don't get close to people, they end up dying. There are only two people on this planet I care about in the least. One is you. . ." /And the other one would kill me if she knew you existed!/ Of course he didn't say the last part out loud, but the more time he spent with them the more chance all of the Mavericks were going to no he'd been spending time with a human, and even protected them.
"Please, Dynamo, at least stay for a little while?" She pleaded.
"The Hunters will take care of you." He said, a little annoyed.
"But I hate places like that! Military bases, government buildings, office buildings, jails, asylums . . ."
"The Maverick Hunter Head Quarters isn't any of those things." He told her.
"No, it's like all of them rolled into one!" She exclaimed.
"Hahahahahaha!" He laughed.
"What's so funny?!" She demanded.
"Haha-n-nothing, I just hate those kinds of places to, and your right, it is. But do you really think they're gonna let a Maverick walk right in? Besides, I have to go before they forget I saved their sorry asses and arrest me."
"A-Actually," Alia interrupted them, both turned to see her, "A- Actually, I just received a transmission from Dr. Cain, he's in charge for the moment, and he says after what you did you could stay for a while and h- help."
"We're you listening in on our conversation?" Dynamo and Senya demanded.
"Uh n-no." Alia replied.
Even though it was obvious she had been.
Dynamo sighed, didn't look like he was going to get out of this. Unless he just left. Why the hell was that so hard to do lately, anyway, he wondered?
They began towards the large MH HQ, it was huge, even though it had been damaged by Zero's attack. It was huge, and they ushered the humans in, in pairs, checking them over and sending them to the doctors and paramedics they had called over.
"Damn, I hate doctors." Senya muttered, "Let's go this way." She pulled Dynamo's arm and they swerved abruptly down a hallway to the side.
"Uh . . . I don't think we should be going this way." Dynamo said, "It'd be better to stay with the others."
"That's strangely unlike the smiley faced D I know and love." She joked.
He did not reply, Maverick Hunter were passing through the hallway all around him, several gave him strange looks, the fact of the matter was that he had to be outnumbered at least one thousand to one in the massive complex and he didn't trust or like the Hunters in the least. He did not want to be there.
Senya seemed to notice his expression and tightened her grip on his arm possessively, it wasn't like her at all, but he knew she was probably going through post-traumatic stress or something.
"Dynamo!" X's voice suddenly said, the Maverick's back tightened.
"Oh . . . hello, X." He replied, trying to keep cool even though he knew that if X wanted a fight he couldn't possible beat every Hunter in the base. Coming with Senya was steadily beginning to seem a bad idea.