Firehedgehog: Saying that I'm having fun with this would be like saying I occasionally enjoy a short play of a Megaman game. Take that as you will
Ri2: Wow, I have a lot to say to you. Okay. Like I said to Somebody, this is all being made up mostly on the spot. I actually now have the 'plot' finished. I mean, I know where I want this to go and I know what I want the ending to be, but I'm not 100 sure how I'm going to get there. So hence the inconsistencies. Now, about Marino. I'm unsure over whether or not she's still a thief. I would assume not now since she's a member of hunters ( hmm, maybe I should have said that somewhere ' ) and at the end of Command Mission, when you talk to her, she says she's 'through with the sticky finger business'. And with Cinnamon, er… she's not really all that different looking. Just more mature. Like Alice said, instead of being a little girl of 10 or 11 she's a woman of 20. And yes, X likes pokemon. Major pointage in his favor.
Chelsea/Allie hedgehog: Trust me, I plan on continuing this to the bitter end.
Shuinka: I'm glad you are! I'm going to keep that schedule up, posting a chapter in the morning and the evening. This one's up a little late because… it's senior skip day. So I slept in till 11. XP
Enjoy! More is revealed in this heartbreaking chapter!
"Oh, la de freakin' da. This is just wonderful. Pallette, have you made anything out of this yet?" With a frustrated sigh Alia pushed her chair back away from her desk, allowing it to spin for a moment. The navigator in question simply shook her head, not even bothering to acknowledge verbally that she had been spoken to. And why, really? They had been working on this for over two weeks. Surely the other would be jumping up and down in joy if they figured anything out.
There really were only eight different splotches of DNA found in Axl's blood – Wild Jango, Mad Nautilus, Incentas, Rafflesian, Ninetails, Depth Dragoon, Mach Jentra, and Silver Horn. It made sense, Alia knew, since they were the only transformations the boy had really undergone. For a brief moment both her and Pallette thought that had found the key with Rafflesian's DNA but, sadly enough, the female pop-star was, er… not female. Not female in the least.
The things you unintentionally find out about people. Eek.
Week three was looming around the corner. Alice had been settling in nicely according to X, Zero, Marino and Cinnamon but still… it was just wrong to leave him like that, wasn't it? Alice wasn't who Axl really was… there had to be some way to fix this.
…. Unless… "Pallette, we've been looking for any alien DNA that was absorbed into Axl, correct?"
"Yes ma'am. Why? Sudden brain smarts hit you?"
"Yes, yes they did. I think we need to focus more on Axl's own DNA…"
Sigma was bored. It was a very odd thing to say since generally the maverick leader was always busy, what with trying to rule the world or the moon or space or whatever cockamamie idea he had cooked up. But not now. No, after Epsilon and Redips stole the spotlight he had been sure his "Orbital Elevator" conquest would beat all… but Lumine, that little upstart, had to upshow him. So now Sigma was disheartened, unmotivated, and bored.
"Lord Sigma, sir?" A female maverick hesitantly walked into the room. In an attempt to amuse himself Sigma had tried designing his own warriors instead of allowing the scientists to. Dr. Wily was always persistent and had finally won, so why not go with his themes? Unfortunately HairDresserWoman just didn't have the evil feel that was needed. "I have some information you might be interested in."
Sigma sighed and waved for her to go away. "Not now HDW. I'm busy moping about how bored I am."
"But this may help stop you from being bored. It's about that hunter boy, Axl. Something… weird happened to him." As HDW launched into her tale of the heartbreaking transformation, Sigma found himself growing interested despite himself. It was evil. It was cruel. It was diabolical.
It was perfect. He just needed to figure out what caused it and how to make it happen to X and Zero. Maybe himself too, but just for a little while. Until he stopped being bored.
"Well Alice, I have good news for you and bad news for you." The now-pink haired girl groaned after hearing those words. For the past couples weeks that's all anybody had to say to her: I have good news and bad news! The good news is that you're fitting in perfectly! The bad news is that I have no clue how to fix this. Grrrr.
"I don't care anymore Alia. I don't care what leaps or bounds or sudden breakthroughs you might have made. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be female for the rest of my miserable life and I would appreciate if you would stop waving a carrot in front of my face. I'm never going to go back."
Alia was slightly taken aback by the girl's words. They were understandable but she had really thought Alice would have given them at least a month before just giving in. She didn't really want to stay a girl, did she? "No, this is really good news. I located the DNA that caused you to turn into a female."
"So what's the bad news?"
"The bad news is-"
The wall exploded and a rather odd looking maverick jumped into the room. Holding its gun out it gestured for Alice to raise her arms and follow it back through the wall. With a shrug Alice complied, walking calmly out of the room at gunpoint.
Alia blinked and continued her sentence regardless. "The DNA is innate. It's your own DNA."