Chapter 1

"Hey, Zero." X started, breaking the silence.

"What?" Zero asked, not turning his head so that he won't bump into anything like X had done earlier.

"It seems like One and Two know each other… and they're brothers, so do you think they have a nice relationship?" X asked, thinking it was nice that the brothers can be good friends even if they did not know they really were brothers.

"Guess so." Said Zero as he crossed the street and entered the HQ.

"I'm going to eat my breakfast, see you later Zero." Said X as he turned to the other direction and headed for the cafeteria.

While walking down the hall, X saw Alia, who was holding a coffee mug and carefully sipping on it to make sure it wouldn't get too hot. It had been a year, but the two still did not express their love towards each other yet. X noticed Alia spotting him and waving at him while drinking the coffee.

"Hey, X!" shouted Alia as she finished drinking her coffee and walked over to X.

"How's everything today so far?" Alia asked, and X nodded.

"It's great so far, I saw One and Two just out a few minutes ago. Right now, I'm going to eat breakfast." X finished.

"What do you know, I'm going to breakfast right now too!" Alia shouted with joy, she always wanted to eat with X everyday, for she loved him evermore now.

"Hey X, Alia!" They heard someone shout.

The two couple turned around to see Axl, in his civilian clothes, waving at them. X, Zero, and Axl were wearing civilian clothes because they were off-duty for today and was enjoying themselves by having to have their day smoothly instead of always fighting and having the day go fast.

"Hey Axl." Alia replied as she saw Axl's clothes.

He was wearing a navy blue T-shirt and red pants that went down to his feet, covering his leg. His orange hair was still spiky and instead of wearing his helmet, he had a blue and red headband on his forehead. Axl was also no longer wearing his battle gloves and just wore blue gloves with red on the edge that revealed his fingers.

"Seems like you went outside too, X?" Axl said as he noticed that X was wearing different shades of a long blue shirt and long pants.

"That means you were outside too?" Came Zero's voice as X turned around to see Zero standing behind him.

Zero's civilian clothes were all red and white, red long pants and white t-shirt also without his helmet, his long silky blonde hair pouring freely around the air. In X's case, he had his helmet off too, exposing his brown hair that had two spikes going forward and two going down on the back.

"Yep, I saw One before and saw him running into X, then I saw Two, walking with One. It's pretty neat that brothers that don't even remember each other goes in a same path." Axl said, smiling, the smile that held Three's smile since Three was Axl's copy.

"Yeah." Everyone replied in unison.

"Are all of you going to eat breakfast? I am." Axl said with a smirk as he saw everyone nod and that he was right.

"I'm starving, let's go eat you three." Alia said as she walked down to the cafeteria, dragging X's arm as she opened the door and walked in.

The breakfast for the day was waffles and pancakes, Axl sat next to Zero while Alia on the other hand, sat right next to X, as if she was absorbed into him. Everyone dug in as they filled in their empty stomachs and finished quickly.

"That was delicious!" Axl said as he wiped his mouth with a napkin after finishing glass of milk for reploids.

"You bet!" Alia said as she finished her coffee and X and Zero nodded.

"I'm going outside again, do you want to come along, X, Zero?" Axl asked as he started to the door.

Zero decided to stay and X came along. While walking down the hall, they heard a few voices.

"Hello, commander X!" Yuri and Yumi said in unison as they smiled.

"Hi you two, and you don't have to call me commander, just call me X." X added and noticed that Yuri had her blade out and that Yumi had her hand transformed into a buster.

"Yes, we have been training again." Yumi said as she giggled and felt her sister elbow her slightly on the waist.

"Hey." Axl said as he waved slightly at them.

"Hi, Axl." Yumi greeted as she smiled and Yuri chuckled slightly.

"Hey, Axl, you going outside again? You know, we are off-duty too, so it might not hurt to skip a few hours of our individual training and tag along with you two." Yuri suggested.

"Sure, more the merrier!" Axl said as he smiled and walked on ahead.

That smile… it always reminded me of Three since he is his original form… but it's just like I can really see Three there inside on him… Yuri thought as she walked next to Yumi and behind Axl and X.

"Hey I have something to tell you." Axl said to Yuri and Yumi.

"What is it?" Yuri asked, Yumi even more curious than she was.

"X, Zero and I saw One and Two a few minutes before eating breakfast." Axl said and noticed that sisters getting excited.

"Really!" Yumi screeched as she covered her mouth, for having lack of control over her volume.

"Yep, if we hurry, we might be able to see him again." Axl added and walked faster.

"Come on you three, don't lag behind or we might never find them at this speed." X jumped in as he looked around to find the brothers so that the sisters were able to see them again after a long time.

"Maybe we should check the area we last saw them, X." Axl suggested and X nodded.

"Okay, let's begin this search once again." Everyone said in unison as they looked around the city.

"So they are looking for them… well, looks like your time will come soon…" The figure said as it looked out from a window at the irregular hunters.

"Besides it is about time you see them…"The figure said and walked out of the room after that, leaving someone in the room alone.