Sixth part of my MMX fan fic rewrite. This tile was originally titled, "The Unmasking of the Angel of Battle", but the title and the name of the character called "The Angel of Battle" have been changed. Now that character's name is Goddess and the title now listed below. Where I got that name from? I'll tell you later then okays! X3

-LADY MAVERICK81

"Mega Man X: Messenger"

By Lady Maverick81

VI. The Human Creation

The true face is always under the mask. How much will you pay to see that face?

"Owww! Alita, that hurts!"

"Hey, hold still Zero. I am almost finished, please try to stay still until then."

Alita carefully applied some gauze and an air brace to Zero's left leg, that was injured in his recent encounter with Goddess. As she was doing that, He would, every now and then would scream in pain. After she was finished mending his leg, she was helped him walk with crunches. Every now and then Zero would lose his balance on the crutches and fall down often, taking Alita with him. Alita just smiled and said, "You'll get the hang of it, I promise. Your armor on the other hand will take a few days to fix..."

As these events were going on, Zero couldn't help but think that Alita reminded him of someone from so long ago.

As Zero lay awake in his bed, a thousand questions ran through his head like water running down a river.

"The way Alita treated my leg and the way she acted today was almost the same as the way Goddess healed my shoulder and kissed me after my last encounter with her. Could it be that Goddess and Alita Cain are the same person?"

He turned around to lay on his side and started to close his eyes, trying to sleep. He would worry about that tomorrow and get some sleep instead. That's when he heard a weird tapping sound coming from the door. Quietly he grabbed one of his crutches and threw it towards that mysterious sound. With the second crutch he carefully flipped the switch on. To his horror, he found Alita Cain on the floor, bleeding from her shoulder and unconscious.

"Oh, my God! Alita I am so sorry, please wake up. WAKE UP, PLEASE!!" he yelled, shaking Alita by her shoulders.

After a couple of seconds of silence, Alita started to moan and move around a little. He sighed and gently propped Alita against a nearby wall.

"Good. She's going to be alright, then," He said to himself.

Zero looked down at his hands and noticed that they were covered with blood. Then he looked at Alita's bare shoulders to only discover that her shoulders were bleeding though her white lab coat..

"What the?!"

"So you now know Zero, my dark little secret."

Alita opened her eyes and sighed. A single tear streaked down her face. He looked at her oddly and asked, "Who or what are you, Alita Cain?"

Alita stood up and motioned Zero to sit down on a nearby chair.

"Zero, I have lied to you about who and what I really am." she sighed and stared down and the cream colored carpeting that now had spots of her own red blood sprinkled all over.

"To begin with," she started, "Zero, my real name is not Alita Cain, but that of Alita Origa Light. I am the daughter of the creator of your best friend.

Also, that my "skin" is fragile and..." Alita took off one of her blood stained lab coat. He sat there in complete shock as Alita was taking off all of her clothes right before him.

"My body," she continued, "My body is both cybernetics and biological components. This is because when I was placed in suspended animation, an acute bacterium entered the capsule that I was in and started to eat away at my own flesh. The only way to save my life was to replace the parts of my body, with advanced cybernetics. You know that this kind of work is illegal, with the Darwin Peace Treaty that is in effect now. So Dr. Cain my "Uncle" had to break the rules to save my life." She paused for a moment as the cold night wind started to blow through the windows.

"So it is true that you Alita Light that you are Goddess as well, correct? That you are both the same person, then." he said.

"Look at me, Zero I am a monster, I should have died a hundred years ago alongside my father." she slowly sank to the floor and started to break down and cry.

Zero managed to get out of the chair and hobbled towards Alita.

"Get up Alita," he said.

She managed to stand up and look at him with a pair of dark blue, tear-streaked eyes.

"Here, take this Alita," he carefully draped a fire red blanket over Alita's nude body.

"Don't speak, Alita. I know how much pain you feel and, not to mention the isolation that this world has placed you in." he softly touched her tear- streaked face and he kissed her softly.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because I care for you, Alita Origa Light, more than anything thing in this world."

-To Be Continued