Chapter 6

While the figure was dashing towards them, Axl suddenly stood up straight and looked up at the sky.

"What're you doing Axl?" X asked and Axl continued to stare at the sky.

"Something else is watching us…"

"What?" Zero said and they heard a loud thump that was getting louder every second.

"It comes!" Zero added and a plasma blast was shot at them.

The three hunters dodged the blow and X and Zero turned around. A large tentacle like object flew towards X and Zero. It wrapped it self around X and Zero and lifted them up into the air. Axl turned around and was hit by the tentacle object when it flew towards X and Zero, knocking him back. Axl was sent to the ground, smashing into the hard soil as he somersaulted and jumped back up. His eyes were wide as he looked at the tentacle like object around X and Zero.

"What is this thing!" Zero yelled and it tightened its grip on him.

"How am I supposed to know?" X said, the grip also tightening on him.

Then Axl heard something else and turned around, just to receive a slight punch into his face. He took a few steps back, his hand on his face as he removed it and looked at the figure that had punched him.

"What are you looking at!" The figure said and it punched him again, his nose was bleeding now.

"You're the most powerful girl I ever had to face…" Axl said, wiping the blood off his noise, and the female smirked.

"You don't even know who I am!" She said and she kicked him in the abdomen, and Axl clutched his abdomen, and heard a low yell.

The teen turned around again to see X and Zero, the 17th unit commander and the Zero unit commander was both getting crushed by the tentacle object, which was tightening its grip every second. A sound of metal cracking was heard all the down where Axl was. It just seemed like slow motion to Axl. The female running towards him and kicking him on the side of his face, and the way X and Zero was reacting to the crushing moment. But then a distant noise sounded and a beam of red light flew towards the tentacles and shot them, and it split in half.

"What!" The female said, sounding very furious.

The figure that had dashed towards them was standing on the ground in front of the girl a few feet away.

"You killed my precious pet… how dare you!" She screamed and another set of tentacles flew towards the figure, which was covered of his image, because there was a sand storm forming in the area, covering everyone's view.

"X, Zero! Where are you!" Axl yelled as he saw a blur of blue and red.

"Here, Axl!" Axl heard X's voice.

"X and I are fine! Try to see what's happening!" Zero yelled and Axl nodded, and he turned around and saw a red beam fly right past him.

"Yikes!" Axl yelped as he saw the red beam fly right past his cheeks, almost hitting him.

Then all three hunters heard a shriek of the female reploid, also possibly an irregular, and the sandstorm calmed and ceased.

"What was that anyway?" X thought out loud and Zero looked across the sand covered area.

"Most likely that irregular was a type of earth." He added and Axl nodded as the figure walked over to them.

The figure had a blue shirt and a blue skirt. She also wore brown leather gloves and shoes. She had long blonde hair that reached to her waist that was braided into one knot. And the female had blue eyes as light as the sky. Then she opened her mouth to say something. The three hunters looked at her, then her mouth closed.

"Hi… I'm Axl, you are?" He asked, hoping to get along with the girl, not frightening her, she was a human.

"I'm X, this is Zero." X said and the female human nodded.

"Let's go back to the HQ." Zero said plainly and turned around, getting ready to walk away.

"Excuse us." X said as he walked over to Zero and whispered to him,

"Zero, what are you doing? She's probably feeling bad now." X said and Zero looked away.

"I have a feeling that she's not who she appears as." Zero, the red demon, said and shook his head.

"Well, we'll see, let's just try to get along, okay?" X asked and Zero finally nodded.

"X and Zero are coming back now!" Axl said and the female nodded, and when the three hunters got back, she opened her mouth again to say something, and her eyes were filled with determine.

The hunters looked straight at the girl's eyes, as the human began to speak.