Chapter 3

Axl ran with X and Zero to Tianna Camp with Axlia next to him. He looked at her, and she was filled with determined, but for not looking where he was going, he ended up bumping face-first on the poll when he turned his face.

"Ow...!" Axl said quietly as he rubbed his face and ran to catch up with Axlia, who didn't notice since she was absorbed in uniting with her sister again.

"Come on, we can't be too slow, it's already 11:30, and it takes around 20 minutes to get there, so we'll be there right in time 10 minutes before noon.

"X, you should hurry too, right now, i'm the fastest in running." Zero said as he smirked and X yelled at him in response,

"You have longer legs than anybody else in this group!" Zero just ignored him and continued running to the Tianna Camp, where Axliniana was with a certain reploid next to her.

While Axl was rubbing his face in pain, he felt someone following him. He looked back but there was no one there.

"Hmm..." Axl thought to himself.

"What's the matter Axl?" asked X.

"Nothing...".

"Are you sure?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine!" said the cheerful Axl.

"Ok..." X thought to himself.

"What's taking you guys so long!" asked Zero.

"We're coming!" said X and Axl.

"Sister..." Axlia thought to herself.

"Are you ok?" asked Axl.

"..."

"Axlia?"

"...Huh? Oh, yeah I'm fine...!"

"...Don't worry… We're going to find Axliniana no matter what it takes we won't give up!"

"Thanks!" Axlia said as she stops Axl to hug him and X and Zero was looking at them being nosey.

"Wow...Now you have two girlfriends!" shouted Zero.

Axl started blushing red as he was still hugging Axlia and then Axlia looked up at Axl then started to blush.

"We should be walking to Tianna Camp right now, not standing...or hugging..." said Zero.

"Sorry!" said Axl and Axlia letting go of each other.

"What do you want with them anyway?" Axliniana asked as she fidgeted, trying to pretend that she was still held by the chain, but the chains were weakening and she was able to shake herself and loosen the chain even more.

The reploid looked at her,

"I have an important business with them that I want to clear." He said plainly as he looked at her and noticed her keep moving and fidgeting.

"Stop moving or you're going to die earlier." He said as he checked the clock and it was 11:50. "They should be here soon." The reploid said as he heard footsteps drawing closer into the room they were in.

But the visitors he was expecting didn't come through the door; it was a lone figure, cloaked in a brown cloak and stood at the door, standing.

"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" (How did that person get past the security? I only made my securities to allow the hunters in only, is this person one of them?) He said and thought and stood in front of Axliniana, his back on her.

(Yes, this is my chance to get free without him noticing and somehow hit him... my weapons were taken away somewhere... there it is! it's on the table over there! Now all I have to do is get free!) Axliniana thought as she finally broke out of the chains and accidentally made a loud noise, causing the reploid in front of her to turn around and spot her out of the chains.

"You little-" He was cut off when the figure walked towards him and stood in front of him as Axliniana kicked him in the face, making him fly to the wall nearby and crash into it.

"That's for kicking me earlier." She said as she brushed her hair from the side off to the back, her orange hair waving around the air in the process.

"Axliniana!" They heard a voice yell from the hall outside of the door.

"Are you in there! Then open this door, it's locked!" This voice belonged to none other than X.

Axliniana looked confused as she went over to the door to discover that it was locked in a computer logic hacked in way and stomped on the ground.

"I'm here, and I'm fine too. It's just that this door is locked and there is no lock on this side or that side! This is done by computer hack in wise!" Axliniana yelled as she remembered the reploid and the cloaked figure. She turned just in time to see a bullet flying towards her.

The bullet hit her, but it was just a fraud, it hit her armor and fell to the ground, like a signal of telling her that someone was here. After when the bullets flew towards Axliniana, she thought of Axl.

"Axl?"

"Hey, what's up Axliniana! Anything happened while we was not here?" asked Axl.

"Not really, except this stupid maverick put me in chains which I manage to brake free".

"Well, that's good news."

"Sister! I'm sooo happy to see you!" said Axlia.

"Me too!"

"Well the two Axl fans are reunited again" said Zero.

"Well, you could say that!" said Axl blushing a little.

While Axl and the rest of them were talking except X who saw the maverick who kidnapped Axliniana was trying to escape.

"Hey! The maverick is getting away!" shouted X.

Everyone looked back and saw the maverick escaping. Then everyonr ran as fast as they can to catch up with the maverick. Axl shot five bullets but missed him because he disappeared from the area without a trace.

"...He's gone..." responded Axl.

"...That's ok...at least you saved my sister and you was willing to do it no matter what...that just shows how much you care". Axl started to blush.

Then Axlia gave him a kiss on the cheek, which caused him to blush even more.

After seeing the girl kiss Axl on the cheek, just like what Axliniana'd done before, Zero walked over to them and said,

"Hey, no mushy stuff here, all right." And Axlia blushed even redder than Axl, but it was different, not like how reploids would blush and look, but when she did it, it looked like she was a human. But somehow, when Axlia kissed Axl on the cheek, Zero felt uneasy and uncomfortable with himself as thoughts came into his head.

"Iris… I killed her…" Zero thought as he looked tough and coarse on the outside, but in the inside, he was still heartbroken, even after a few months after killing his own love, Iris.