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Rockman X Series: The Return

Prologue

It had been a year since the day Three and Virus were gone and everything seemed to have gotten normal and the same after a few days. One and Two were both a little droopy since then and caused many people to get very tired of it. After a few weeks after the death of the two enemies, the brothers decided that they would get their memories cleared out and start a new life.

The head quarters did not argue with this and did as the two suggested. It took them about two days to completely wipe the memories out and do it without any damage and took a couple of days to be activated again after being told that they were completely safe and okay to go out.

One and Two had their memories erased and some other's were now doing better and some were doing worse, except for Mina. Mina was killed during one of the irregular attacks that occurred while she was researching at an inn. While researching, the attack took place and an irregular stabbed Mina on the side of her waist. Mina was still weak like her usual self and her soft skin tore from the blade and fell on the ground unconscious, drifting to the darkness.

But for Yumi and Yuri, they went through same paths and were getting along as good as ever. Yuri remained as a hunter and devoted herself in training now under Zero's order. Yumi, on the other hand, was under X's order and in his unit. Yumi always admired her older sister and also devoted herself in training like her sister.

X was walking down the hall, dressed in his civilian clothes as he went out of the entrance to the city. I wonder where One and Two are now… X thought as he walked past the shops and wasn't paying attention to where he was walking. Of course, that caused him to bump into someone, and he did. The force was very hard and X fell on the ground and so did the other person.

X got up and saw that the person he had bumped into was a reploid and was hurriedly picking up all the papers and books that had fallen on the ground.

"Here, let me help you." X said as he helped pick up the papers that were flying past the reploid.

"I'm sorry, I was in a hurry, I didn't see you there. I apologize." The reploid's voice was very familiar to X and he looked at the reploid carefully.

"…One…?" X said then the reploid looked up.

"Not to be rude but… do I know you mister?" One asked as he got up with a confused face.

"Right, he got his memory wiped out…" X murmured to himself as he looked over at the his clone, who was also dressed in civilian clothes like he was and said,

"Anyway… uh oh, I'm late…" One said as he quickly got his things, thanked X politely and ran rapidly down the road and ran across the street.

"Late…?" X repeated as he looked at the direction One ran to, who was now nowhere to be seen.

X stood their dumfounded when he felt a tap on his shoulder. X quickly turned around to see Zero, in his civilian clothes as he smirked at X.

"Seems like you saw him again after about a year." Zero said as he looked at the street.

"Yeah, he seems to be fine now. Back before, he was really feeling bad about losing his brother." X said with a sigh.

"Even after a reploid self-destructs, at least a small piece of them remains… but there was nothing at all that remained of Three, maybe someone took it…" X added then noticed Zero was dragging him across the street.

"Don't you want to see where he is going? Then come on." Zero said as X regained his balance and walked next to Zero, trying to match his speed for he was shorter.

But little did they know that someone was watching them not so far away.

"Correct, X… I did take his data… but it was not for a bad objective, but for a good one. You'll be surprised." The figure said with a grin on its face.

"Zero, are you sure that he went this way?" X asked, not sure if Zero was going the right way, thinking this was not a kind of place One would go to.

"Yeah, I saw him come here from a long distance, I'm sure." Zero said plainly as girls cooed X and Zero as they walked down the dark alley.

"You were right, Zero, I see him!" X said as Zero covered X's mouth with his hand.

"Quiet, he's with someone else." Zero said as he heard voices, one of them being Ones and the other he was not so quite sure of but was still familiar.

"You're late… again…" The voice said.

"Sorry, I keep getting delays like this… I know it's not good…" One said as he grasped for air.

"It's all right, as long as you don't do it in front of the others so that they won't pick that habit up from you." The voice said as the voice chuckled slightly.

"What are they talking about?" Zero murmured as he felt X tug on his arm.

"I'm not feeling easy with this stalking thing… why don't we just get out there and say hi." X recommended and Zero nodded to his conclusion.

"All right…" Zero then dragged X out of the alley corner to the open, where they both saw One and…

"Two?" X whispered to Zero as he got off Zero's grip.

"Well, we should get going now…" Two said as he walked down the alley to a building, his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Okay." One responded as he got all his things and followed out after Two.

"So they are together again… that's… nice." Zero added as he walked out the other direction with X following right behind him.