Shock, fear and sadness became one in Axl's bright, vivacious eyes. A deadly virus was locked inside of Zero's body?
Horrible. Horrible news.
X saw the look in his friend's eyes and sighed again, feeling lost and hopeless, like a rat inside of a cage. His gentle, soft voice was burdened by thunderous grief and pain. "See? I shouldn't have told you. You have enough to worry about....and nothing can be done anyway."
Confusion joined the other emotions inside of Axl's eyes. "What?"
"I said, nothing can be done. We can't do anything about the virus."
"Wha-have you tried to get it out? There has to be something you can do!"
X smiled and chuckled at him weakly. It was like watching the sun make an attempt to break out from the chains of a black storm.
"We've tried everything. All options have been exhausted. The virus can't be transferred over to Sigma, since he has made himself immune to all viruses. Zero won't allow me to take the virus-I suggested that and he almost killed me. Douglas, Gate and all of our other researches tried to have it removed, but none of their attempts worked. Nothing worked."
The shock in Axl's voice was strong. And so was the disgust.
"So it's glued inside of Zero's body, correct?"
"Correct." X hung his head. "I would gladly cut off all of my limbs to get rid of the virus, but.....I don't know. Nobody knows. Nothing can be done, and that's all there is to it."
What Axl said next surprised him, and it made him realize that the runaway wasn't just any other Reploid.
"You're wrong. All of you are. There has to be SOMETHING. There just has to be way. Where there's a will, there's a way, right?"
For a minute, X had no response to that, since Axl's words were completely unexpected. His friend's face had determination stamped all over it-it was an amazing sight. He had never seen such courage.
"I'm not trying to say that you guys aren't trying hard enough. I'm just saying that there's another option out there. We just have to find it, that's all."
"We?"
