Chapter 3

"They don't know a thing… and they don't even talk about you, probably because it will be too sorrowful to even talk about it… especially for those that lost their memories…" The figure said again as it looked over at the other figure.

"I understand…" The figure said as it stood up and looked out at the window.

"Then… do you want to see them?" The figure asked as it moved to the side, giving the figure some room to look out the window.

"That will be your decision… I'm just a reploid…" The reploids spoke as it sat down back onto the chair.

"Yes, you do want to meet them, so I'll let you… soon you'll be able to see them." The human finished as it walked out of the room again.

"I am so glad that they are both doing so well!" Yumi yelled as she gulped down her food quickly, talking all abut One and Two, mostly about One, since she liked him.

"Yumi, you're being too loud, remember, we are in a restaurant." Yuri whispered to her sister, noticing that many people were now staring at the loud half-human/ half cat reploid.

"Well, we're all almost done anyway, so we'll get out fast." X said as he drank his drink in a few seconds.

"Yeah, I agree with X." Axl said as he drank all of his drink in one-shot.

"You three sure eat lunch late, I ate mine thirty minutes ago." A voice spoke up and everyone turned to see Zero standing in front of him or her.

"Hello, commander Zero." Yuri said as she stood up and did a salute.

"No need for that kind of stuff." Zero said as everyone finished their lunch and paid then followed Zero out the door.

"I thought you didn't want to come to the city." X asked as Zero talked without turning his head.

"I said I didn't want to come at that time, now this time is different." Zero replied as he saw a figure on top of a building staring down at them.

"What are you looking at, Zero?" Axl curiously asked as he looked up at where Zero was looking and saw nothing.

"Almost got caught…" The figure on the roof of the building thought as it looked down from behind a wall.

"Nothing, I'm just seeing things I guess." Zero said as he shook his head.

"Calm down Yumi, people are staring at us!" Yuri loudly whispered as she nudged her sister slightly and Yumi replied.

"Okay, I'm calm now." Yumi said as she got out of Yuri's grasp and took a deep breath in then out.

"Let's go back to HQ now." Zero said and walked faster than anyone else, for he was the tallest out of the group and his legs were able to stretch out further.

By the time everyone was in their room in the head quarters, Yuri and Yumi were training again, Axl was polishing his guns, Zero was watching the sisters train and X was in his room, on his bed. X had finished his paper work and was lying on his bed flat on the back and staring at the ceiling.

Mina, Three, even Viruses… they're all gone… Things pass by so quickly… it has already been a year and we finally saw the two again… X thought as he looked at his surroundings and sighed.

"Death… you can never escape it…" A voice said and X was taken by surprise as he felt someone's hands on the back of his head, supporting it as if it was a pillow.

X tried to turn around but the hands keep his head where it was, making him unable to see who was speaking to him.

"No need to rush it commander X of the 17th irregular hunter unit… I'm not an enemy nor your ally you could say…" X was able to tell that this was a voice of a female and replied back to her.

"What do you mean…?" Before the female could reply, there was a voice coming from the other side of the door.

"You in there? I need to ask you some things, X." A voice came from the door, which X was very familiar with.

"We'll meet again." The voice said as the female disappeared without a trace and X answered the door after rushing out of his bed and opening the door for the person that continuously knocked on the door.

"Sorry I took so long, Layer." X said as he noticed that his bed was a mess after trying to get out of it and Layer noticed that messy bed.

"Were you sleeping and having a nightmare?" Layer asked, her finger pointing to her bed as she used the other hand to brush off her purple hair that was in front of her face.

"No, just I struggled to get out when I was in it and you knocked, I rushed myself a bit too much I guess." X said, noticing that he was blushing slightly from being noticed that the great irregular hunter struggling to get out of his own bed.

"It's all right, anyway, I needed to ask you about something." Layer said as she managed to muffle a giggle and X felt his sweat rapidly forming on his forehead.

"Okay." X replied, struggling to talk as he moved to the side of the door, allowing Layer to come in.

"It's not that big of a thing, but have you seen Pallette? I have been searching the whole HQ possible and I still haven't found her." Layer asked, a little concerned.

"What do you mean you can't find me? I'm right here!" Shouted a female and Layer turned to see Pallette leaning on the side of the door and smiling.

"Where were you?" Layer asked.

"I was at the operating room and I found out that you were looking for me, so I looked for you, so I guess we went to the place that we were at before and kept on going in circles looking for each other." Pallette said as she sighed and Layer got up and walked over to the female operator.

"Anyway, thanks for even trying to help, X. Pallette, let's talk about the missions that are to be given to the other hunters." Layer added as she walked out of the door.

"Okay, so tomorrow, who are we going to give each mission to?" Pallette asked, as she looked at all the data of the bosses and enemy troops.

"Well, there is this one mission where there is a major energy reading and we are to find it. Who should we send for that mission?" Asked Layer as Pallette thought of who to send.

"Depends, is this mission hard or easy? Which do you assume?"

"Most likely a little hard with all these irregulars around this area." Layer suggested as she looked at Pallette.

"Then let's send… commander X and Zero." Pallette finished as she sorted all the papers and placed them in a file, which she gave to Layer.

"All right, so then should we send Axl to a different mission, separate from commander X and Zero?" Layer questioned, knowing that Axl always went to missions with X and Zero.

"I guess so, two powerful and intelligent hunters might be enough, if it isn't and they need back-up, we'll send Axl for that." Pallette said then returned to what she was doing at the beginning.

"Okay, then that's all settled." Layer announced as she went to the operation room after Pallette and thought of all the missions and who else should go to the different ones.

"Nicely done you two, take a rest or both of you will collapse." Zero concluded as he saw Yumi rushing over to the refrigerator and taking out two bottles of water, handing one over to Yuri and gulping the water down her throat.

"Thank you, commander Zero." Yuri said after she drank some of the water for the compliment.

"Boy, am I exhausted!" Yumi yelled as she grasped for air as she finished drinking half the water in the bottle.

"I spoke with the commander of the 17th unit for the irregular hunters, he is a good commander, that I can see in his eyes." The female spoke to the reploid in the room.

"That's a good decision you had made, a good one all right. Making a friendly relationship to someone as great and kind as him…" She spoke again, the reploid staying silent.

"You know, you're not in prison, so you should stop being silent." The female recommended and the reploid finally spoke up.

"Yeah, he's a great friend… and the whole HQ is great…"

The female smiled and she looked out the window, where she saw the people of the city walking and running around the city.