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Spanter and Justifz!!

By the way, thank you to all my reviewers! Your comments have helped me a lot. At first I wasn't to sure about this story, but it seems that you all enjoy it immensely. (Typos or not! :P) Thanks for your support. Hopefully it will bloom into the three part series I had planned out at the beginning.

"New Balsera (namioco) - New Balsera (managaskar/omega, nexus)"

When I put up the map for viewing, you'll understand why I made the little thing above this way.

POWER TO THE REPLOIDS, YEAH!!

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"AAHHHHHHHH!" Stretching Zero looked at the horizon through their room's little window. Everything on this side of the world was from the 'old times'. Instead of metallic enforced walls, of which he was so used to, the building here were made of brick and gyprock. He guessed it was because of all the time that this contenant had been infected. How could the people be espected to advance technologically if they were too busy clearing out all the waste and destruction? A hint of homesickness struck Zero. He had never really had a home or family for that matter, but he seemed to have a bit of a longing to go back to the hunter's base. Even though now it was under construction from the Redips saga. Zero bit his lip bitterly. Mavericks were always messing up the good things of life. The fact that he had once been one digusted him. Turning back, he looked at X's sleeping form. Megaman had been so kind to him. Even though he had saved X's life a few times, he never felt that it had been enough. Sadly he glanced at the blue hung up armor, then stared down at his raised hands. Hopefully he would never become a threat to X. Hopefully.

Shaking his head roughly he mentally slapped himself. 'The crimson hunter does not feel sadness, or regret!' He thought stubbornly. Looking around the room, he looked at the other sleeping form. Snickering to himself, he leaned against the window ledge. How could he feel sad now? They were on an adventure! For fame, for glory, ok well, not those things, but it was nice to imagine. The red hunter had enough fame and fan mobs to last him for ten life times. He didn't know why, he never looked for it.

"Hrngh... Zero? That you by the window?... why you up so ear-ly?" Rolling over to the opposite side, Spider tried to glance at Zero, without falling asleep that is.

"Boy, you're sure the 'morning person' example aren't you?" Zero cocked an eyebrow when his retorical (Damn, I know there's an H in that word ..somewhere..) question was met with half of a snore. "Figures."

Fifteen minutes later the blue hunter woke from his sleep. Casting an incredulous look from Zero to Spider, he rose and left the room without asking a word. Coming back, he clipped and strapped on his armor. The armor seemed to glow, as if accepting his presence within it.

"Shall you, or I?" Directing the question at Zero, the Crimson Hunter shrugged. "Your call."

Walking up to the other side bed, X kneeled so his mouth was only a few centimeters from Spider's ear.

"WAKE UP MAVERICK ATTACK!!"

Shooting up faster than a lightning bolt, and grabbing his pillow Spider was ready to chuck it at any intruder. Realizing that only Zero and X were in the room. He growled at X in a half drunken stupor. "Damn you. That was heartless." (No, really, it was.)

Grinning X walked out with Zero. "Meet ya by the feerie!"

Grumbling Spider repeated the words mockingly as the two left the room. "Meet ya by the feerie."

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Several minutes later all three were wisked away with several other passengers on a small feerie by the name of 'The Light's Way'. The sun's soft rays played with the ocean's waves, giving it a mysterious aura. X took the time to just lean over the side of the railing and enjoy the sight. It wasn't often that he could do this sort of thing. He liked the feel of the droplets spraying against his face.

Not everyone was at ease, as Zero soon found out. Especially when he had to make a fast trip to the bathrooms. As he exited the stall he was a little miffed. He never had this problem before, and now all of sudden he was sea-sick. 'Nerves.' he thought, clearly peeved.

No one would have any trouble finding Spider, as he slept, half slumped over a deck table top. Looking back at the black reploid, X raised his eyes to heaven and then back at the water.

'Kuh, I thought Signas slept a lot..'

It only took a few hours for the feerie to stop at the distant port of Omega (Scream MMZ fans. Scream XP Mwahahaa!). A tiny town, seemingly out in the middle of nowhere, but teeming with boats and harbors. They didn't spend a long time there, only several minutes to buy supplies. Apparently Nexus was southwards of Omega. When they were done, they set off, the only sign of their existance a set of footprints left in the sandy trail.

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"Yo, boss!"

"Yes?" Came the annoyed hiss from the telecomunication device. "What is it?"

"No activity here yet. Do I move out?"

There was a pause "No. Keep your post. They'll come when they come."

"Huh, fine. Then I follow?"

"Yes Heinard. Don't bother me until then!" The comunication was cut short promply.

"Well, sheesh! I called five times 'cause it's boring!" Sighing the silver colored reploid sat down idian style on the ground. Looking around for any source of amusement, and not finding any, he collasped backwards giving an even bigger sigh. His visor gleamed in the morning light. Scrunching his eyes at the sudden brightness, he pushed himself up until he was sitting again. Giving another outrageous sigh, he stood up from the ground. He had been asigned to watch the Melsafe Plant for any sign of a group of three reploids. One Blue, one red and one black. The boss really did hate him, he thought sourly.

Glancing at the horizon something caught his eye. It was a mountain not too far away, but lightly covered in snow.

"YES!" Deliberately disobeying his orders he rushed off in the mountain's direction. Mountains meant snow, snow meant skiing.

2

Nexus was just as nautical as the town of Omega. It was a tad bigger, but the size didn't make much of a difference. A lot of reploids and humans resided there, and it almost seemed as busy as the first city they had walked through in the New Balsera region.

The air around the three seemed to have a blue tinge to it. None of the three actually noticed, but it made the boisterous town seem more homely.

"Perfect place for a set-up." Zero commented dryly, taking a look at his surroundings. "No one would guess that a place like this could have a blackmarket or drug fest."

"But that's not why they're wanted though, is it?" X inquired. He had only heard their name once or twice.

"They're in the black market and bounty hunting business. Everything's fair game to them. At least everything that makes a buck."

"So how are we expected to find them here?" Hesitantly Spider added, "I mean, we don't have any source to go on.."

"I guess it will be a hide-and-cover operation." X stated.

Looking at the blue hunter quizically, Spider questioned. "What do mean by 'Hide-and-cover'?"

"We'll hide and wait for the perpertrators to come into plain sight." (Darn, I KNOW I spelt something wrong there too.. . )

"-Woa woa." Holding his arm straight, beckoning X to be silent, Zero motioned over to his left. "Well, well, what do we have here?"

Both reploids looked in the direction that Zero had motioned towards. What greeted them was black and burgandy hued reploid in the distance, who seemed to be looking for a certain trading tent. The reploid turned around still trying to find the trading tent, allowing X and Spider to catch the color of his eyes. Soft green. Not noticing them, the black reploid continued it's search.

Grinning, Zero switched to a british accent. "Ello ello ello."

During the time that they had been spying on the reploid, they had all backed-up against a house's wall, just to be out of sight.

"You've seen him before?" X hissed.

"I should know the little bastard. I've fought him once on a thief run." Zero spat. "I think we should give him a little visit. Watch out he knows how to evade."

Staring at the other black reploid, something felt familiar to Spider. It was only until Zero harsh war cry rang out that he moved from his position.

The trio surrounded the individual, with their weapons drawn.

Zero, already being fired up, was the first person to speak. "We want answers."

Drawing his twin scis (Spelling?) instinctively the black and burgandy reploid crunched into a defensive position sensing impending doom.

Packing his metallic cards pack into their pack, and into his armor compartment, Spider threw up his hand in a friendly pose. "Hi Mach!"

All three stared at him like he had grown an extra head.

"What?" Stressing the word, he looked back at them with an incredulous expression.

"Spider!" Blinking a few times, the rogue reploid straightened back to his normal position. "It's been a while!" The reploid seemed to forget the previous immediate threat, as he strolled up to his old friend.

"Amazing. Never thought you'd be here! By the way I could never thank you enough for coming back and helping us with that little crisis with that other hunter, ya know, back then."

Now it was the card-throwing reploid's turn to be quiet and confused. "Umm. I never came back. This is the first time I've seen you again!"

"WHAT?!" Dismayed, Mach tweaked Spider's top hat. "You sure you're feeling alright? Haven't had a cold lately..?"

Slapping the hand away in a playful manner, Spider retorted. "Cold? Since when were reploids able to catch those?! Get a hold of yourself man, you're creeping my out with your sympathy!"

"B-But, you, you came back! I saw you with my own two eyes! Aile even brought you back to our base!!" Spider could see the reploid's eyes begin to give way to a sharp silver.

"Aile? I haven't seen him since I left a year after joinning your group!-By the way, how is he?"

Spider could see Mach Karten's features sink with the name. As if unsure how to respond, the older robot sighed. "Spider...."

Listening eagerly to his friend's words, his heart sunk as he heard the continuation of the sentence.

"..Aile's dead.."

(I GUESS X left that part out of the story.

X: No I did not!

Uzu: HUSH FEEBLE MORTAL!)

2

Wink, wink, no, I did not forget them!)

"Come on Cinnamon! At this rate we'll lose them before noon! Argh, come on girl.."

Tugging a bit harshly on his orangy hair, Cinnamon retorted. "Do not call me girl, or I will have to call you boy."

Giving her a scrunched 'you're-kiding-me-right?' look he continued walking. Rolling his eyes to an unseen audience he responded. "I'm sorry. I'm just a bit grouchy today.."

The female reploid medic mouthed the words 'so I've noticed' behind his back. Fishing out a crudely drawn paper map from her generator compartment, she twisted and turned it until it displayed the direction they were heading. "I'm amazed that Marino's been here before."

"Ya, well, she gave me that map about three weeks ago."

"Wonder what she's up too.."

"Yeah." Both glanced up at the blue sky sadly. Specks of clouds dotted the outstretched plain above them. They missed their newly made friends horribly. Massimo had been the first to go. He had decided to help Dr. Gaudile with his scientific research, and had left only two weeks after peace had been restored. Marino had left the week after, but she made deliberate return trips to the base, to talk with Axl, Cinnamon and X.

Sighing, both glanced at each other. There was no denying it. Spending so much time together under that durress makes people bond tighter. Axl almost felt as if he had lost a sister somehow.

Now they were on the trail between Trader's Main and Namioco, and hoped to catch up to X and his group fast.

"No boss."

Pivoting on the spot Axl shot his hand to Cinnamon's mouth. Searching around the foilage with his eyes he caught sight of a burgandy scarf fluttering slightly up and down at least seven meters from him. Looking closer, he could make out the back of a light blue helmet. Sniper instinct taking over, Axl started to crouch until he was almost sitting on the ground. Cinnamon followed suit as she too saw the impending danger. Silently both listened in on the conversation.

The blue helmeted reploid justified his answer. "No, I HAVEN'T seen them. I told you that already. I lost them behind the Namioco trail. Spanter already informed you of their position." A pause. "No, Heinard has not alerted us of them entering the north part of Samcurta City."

The reploid jerked back as a crackle from the receiver gave way to a slew of words. "If I know Karten, he'll spill. It's simple, their first target will be the Melsafe Plant. Intercept? Yes, ok. At what point? Lambada? Yes. Yes. I have the rounds. Yes. -And the taser. No I will not harm Zero directly, X and the others will be terminated though."

"Perfect." The receiver hissed as it was promtely shut off from the other end. The light blue clad reploid moved out of the cover of the bush, just enough for Axl to see this new felon.

The light blue helmet flipped up at the beginning of the reploid's neck, though, was not attached to his armor. He wore a navi blue jumpsuit underneath his light blue chest and back armor, which only travelled until the bottom of the reploid's rib cage and then split into three points. Light blue arm guards protected his lower arms, at his elbows the arm guards ended with a cut off tuffs of a burgandy scarf.

Quite the fighter.

They waited for at least fifteen minutes until the reploid had moved completely out of the bush and clear out of sight.

Turning to his companion, with fright shining through his eyes, Axl spoke. "We have to get to X fast."

2

It took about an hour for X to fill Mach Karten in on the events that had taken place in the past few months. Of course Zero had to restrain himself from strangling the unlawful reploid more than once. It seemed though, that at the end of the conversation, that Zero could tolerate this new head of the syndicate.

Mach had explained to them that it had been his father's syndicate for the past ten years. Unfortunetly his father had ended up being in the wrong place at the wrong time during a raid for information, which had been his untimely death.

Now, not only could Zero stand this reploid, he was starting to like him more and more. Mach Karten just had this aura of stability and power, almost like his own. He was the cocky son-of-a-bastard that people always tended to like in movies, at least his appearance gave this impression, deep down he was cautious and well balanced.

Karten took the all the information well. He did seem to faulter at one point where X mentioned about Redips' changing ability, but if you would have blinked you wouldn't have noticed it.

X blinked a bit as he straightened his pose on the bench they were sitting on. "We came here to get information on Justifz, ever heard of the guy?"

"Justifz, definetly. He joined the syndicate a while ago."

"Do you know what made him leave?" X inquired.

"Well I can't say I know the reason, but I can tell you what I think it was..

See we were on a raid mission in the Melsafe Plant.. All was going according to plan, see they refine supra-force metal there, we investigated for information and whatnot and we were in the lowest chamber, where the metal is kept, that was until there was an explosion. It burst the walls in front of us. Stepping out of the smoke was this greenish reploid, he commanded some of his people to get some supra-force metal, -right in front of us!- and then left. We all had SOME idea of the power that this metal gives, but we never realised that that's what caused that building to blast off into space..

But I saw the look on Justifz face as we watched the reploid take off with the metal, he never kept his eyes of them. Not for a second. He seemed to be thinking deeply. If I ever knew a money grabber, it'd be Justifz.

Even on regular missions he would act unruly, and completely to his own will. He obviously didn't care if any of our guys would get hurt for a last minute desision."

Getting up from his seat on a bench, Mach held his hand forth. "Well, if I'm not mistaken you're going to need another fighter."

Blankly the three gawked at him. Zero was the first to speak. "Another fighter? For what?"

Taking out a sci and twirling it, Mach turned three quarters and grinned at him. "Simple. That Redips fellow that you've told me about's been making trouble here for the past two to three weeks!"

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Uzu: Oooooooooh. Cliffy! Wow. hey, nobody's been reviewing lately. ;; I didn't post the chapter quickly enough did I? Sniffle, oh well.... Darn it Shade! You haven't reviewed yet! Damn beta reader, abandoned my story just after chapter 3 she did! Her AND Niricko! Grrrrrr!

By the way Mach's name is pronounced like 'Match'. I don't care how it's spelt! XP It's said Match!

Smirkle and a lot more oc's to come... o0 The address is :

view album Gate-Kun ....... Yes, yes I know. SHUT UP. XD I'm obsessed!! Weeeee!!! X6 Here I come! (XP I dun care if it was a crappy game, I WAN IT!!)

Keep checking it because I'm only half done with the scanning, and the scanner's being a bitchy-bitch-bitch. Spanter, Justifz and the map should be up by tonight or tomorrow, because they're already scanned. Mach and...um... Heinard (That's it!) will be up ...well hopefully tonight, but one never knows..

XD Happy reviewing!!XD

That, and I might end the fic off here or continue two or three more chapters. (It's a three part series, remember that!)