The Return Chapter 4
X and the man teleported back to Maverick Hunter HQ and were welcomed by Alia and Signas.
"X, it is good to see you are in relatively good shape, well compared to Zero and Axl that is." Signas said grimly.
"Huh? What happened to them?" X said with a worried look on his face.
"They were both beat up pretty bad, but they were brought back here by a strange Reploid, he left before we could question him." Alia said.
"Speaking of strangers, who is that with you X?" asked Signas.
"You can just call me Serid Sir, I am a member of the B.R.C. and I am afraid I must be going now."
With that said Serid teleported out of Maverick Hunter HQ.
"Yeesh didn't stay around very long did he." Alia said a bit exasperated.
"I don't think he is an enemy, at least I am pretty sure he is not our enemy, seeing as how he did distract the maverick I was fighting long enough for me to charge up my buster."
"What is the B.R.C.?" Alia asked.
"Well, first off, B.R.C. stands for the Biology and Robotics Company. They are located in the American Midwest. As you can guess by the name they specialize in Biology and Robotics. They are actually a fairly small organization, but from what my sources tell me they have teams of highly trained Geneticists and Robotocists at their disposal. I am just wondering why one of their agents would be all the way over here at our HQ." Signas said.
"We can deal with them later; right now I just want to see Zero and Axl." X said.
"Yes, I think they need you right now X, you may go and see them." Signas said in his usually commanding tone.
As X and Alia were walking to see Zero and Axl, Alia decided to start a bit of a conversation with X.
"So, X what happened out there? I mean Zero and Axl are in really bad shape; Zero probably would have died had that strange Reploid not brought him back. We better take a look at you as well; you look like you need to rest a lot too."
"Are they both in that bad a condition? Man, those mavericks are more powerful than any of the ones I have fought before. I wonder who is behind these attacks; they can't all be completely separate incidents. Oh, and what about the reploid that brought them back? What did he look like, and did you at least get his name?"
"Well, I can tell you what he looked like. He was wearing gray and red body armor. His helmet was red and a visor covered his eyes, but his most noticeable feature was his huge yellow scarf around his neck."
"Hmm, well at least he brought back Zero and Axl before their condition worsened. I hope I can meet him someday so I can thank him."
The hallway they were walking in then lapsed into a silence until they reached where Zero and Axl were being treated. X walked up to Zero first and cringed when he saw his longtime friend in such bad shape. His armor had been taken off, it could be seen in a pile in a corner of the room, he was just wearing some hospital type clothes. Exposed circuitry could be seen on most parts of Zero's body; even part of his synthetic flesh on his face had been ripped off, revealing the mechanical working beneath.
"Hey buddy, you think you will be able to pull through?" X asked softly.
A weak grin came on Zero's face and he said "Yeah, I think I will be okay, I just need to get all this stuff back where it should be and I should be alright."
X and Alia then walked over to Axl, he was not in as bad shape, as Zero, but he was still pretty banged up. His armor had also been taken off and put out of the way. Both his arms were broken and he too had some exposed circuitry and his legs and broken arms.
"Well, X, it looks like I wasn't as good as I thought I was. Man, that maverick was so fast; I was down and out before I even knew what hit me. I think I will be alright though."
"Heh, that is good to hear Axl, well I better get myself checked out." X said.
X then went about the prcess of finding someone to tend to his wounds, he found them soon enough in another area of the HQ's hospital.
"Hey, Livesaver, can you help me out a bit. I am not as beat up as Zero or Axl, but I still need some patching up."
"Certainly X, I shall have you fixed up in no time."
After X had been healed he went to his room to rest. He took off his armor and put on some casual sleep clothes and then he removed the books that lie on his bed and lie down and slowly fell asleep.
When he awoke, his internal clock systems told him it was about 9:00 in the morning, not too late, but not exactly early either. He decided he would go and get something to eat. On his way to the cafeteria he came across Alia, who was wearing a slightly oversize gray T-Shirt that said in navy blue text "Kiss me, I'm a Reploid." And shorts that showed off her shapely legs. Her hair was down, and not in its usually bun fashion. She smiled and then stretched, her hands on both sides of her heard and her arms going backward, and chest going forward, showing even more a prominent part of her anatomy, needless to say, X started blushing.
"Hey, are you alright X? Your main processing unit isn't overheating is it?" She said as she saw the redness that was now on X's face.
"No, I am fine, just a bit warm, that is all." X said as he tugged at his shirt collar.
"Yeah, it is a bit warm in here."
"Anyways, I am really curious as to whom that Reploid that saved Zero and Axl is. I have never seen anybody who matches his description around the base."
"Neither have I, but I guess it doesn't really matter right now. I think we should just focus on the task at hand."
"And that is getting food?" X said with a grin.
"Yep, can't work on an empty stomach, even though we really don't have a stomach like Humans do."
As X and Alia were about to eat breakfast, in an the outskirts of an American Midwestern town called Raccoon City, underneath a mansion lay the main labs of B.R.C.. Serid had arrived back some hours ago and he was walking around in the Robotics area of the lab. There he saw a figure wearing a yellow scarf looking up at a stasis tube with a medium-sized blue reploid in it.