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I do not own Megaman or any of its characters (even though I want to). They are property of Capcom Ltd.
However, I do own my original characters, so :p
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Hunter woke up before either of his brothers. He took a quick look and around and noticed that Rush hadn't left the room. That's odd… he usually sleeps in X's dorm. End was still twitching, and Virus seemed to be having troubled sleep. Hunter quickly dressed and put his armor on. He was about to wake Rush when Virus said something in his sleep.
"X…. I'll go… you… get back…. But… Fine… I will." He rolled over and Hunter could see the pained expression Virus wore.
He must've… no he couldn't have… I'll have to find out. But first… Hunter had a devilish grin on his face. He walked over to Rush. "Rush (No… no I don't wanna get up….) Come on Rush, it's time to get up (Five more minutes….) Rush… I've got candy!"
"CANDY!? Where where where where where!! (Shshshsh… Rush, I've got a job for you, then you can have the candy. Alright?) Okay." Hunter explained his prank to the little red reploid. Rush was so into the plan, that he could barely contain his laughter, but he managed to slip out of the dorm without waking either of the sleeping reploids. Hunter set about collecting their armor and clothes. He left each his helmet and his weapons, and shoved the rest under his bed.
"Why X… WHY…" Virus was talking I his sleep again.
He must've had a rough day yesterday. Still, he's not escaping her revenge, I had an agreement. End is better off anyway, he's still got jeans. Hunter started chuckling to himself a little as he reached for the light switch.
"GUYS GUYS!! Get up! Rush just stole your armor!"
"Wha…? My arm—my armor!!" End's reaction was nearly causing Hunter to bust out laughing, but he contained himself. End rolled out of bed and hit the floor with a thud that woke up Virus. Virus nearly screamed when he saw his armor missing, and he begged Hunter to tell him what was going on.
"Well, Rush snuck in and starting making off with your guys' armor. He started to go for mine, but I scared him away because I was awake. I have no idea where he's keeping it all, but he's got a pretty good head start on you guys."
"Hey! Where're my clothes now!?"
"What!? He took clothes too!?" Hunter checked his closet, which was full, but Virus and End had empty closets. "Hurry, go catch him, it's still early, I doubt anyone will see you." Virus and End took off down the halls in search of Rush. "What you don't know, is that everyone is supposed to wake up early on mission days." Hunter started laughing hysterically when he figured End and Virus would be out of earshot. "3…2…1…" Rush ran back in the room and Hunter heard a scream. "You took them by Sapphire's dorm? Good work!" And both of them started laughing at the thought of Virus and End being chased down by Sapphire. Hunter stopped laughing for a minute and stuck his head out the door to see if he could see anything. He was nearly shot as Virus and End came running by, followed closely by a red-faced Sapphire. Hunter just started rolling about on the floor hysterically. These shenanigans continued for about an hour until Sapphire got fed up with it. Hunter was still laughing when his two angry siblings came back into the dorm. They grumbled and cursed and put on clean clothes and their armors. They were about to pummel Rush and Hunter when a call came to their room that they were expected in the briefing room.
"Saved by the bird!"
"Just you wait Hunter, we'll get you back for this."
"Where's my CANDY!!??" Rush was ticked off and wouldn't shut up until Hunter found his box of candies and gave him one. Content, the little red reploid skipped out of the dorm towards one of his usual hangouts.
"We'd better get going." Hunter said as the three went jogging into the main room where Ashes was already finishing up a mission briefing.
"…now that we've got that outta the way, we need three volunteers. Any takers?" There was a quiet murmur of discomfort going around. "Ah, it seems we don't need any volunteers after all, our late arrivals should be just fine." Ashes let a small grin creep onto his face, causing the clone reploids to grimace a bit. "Alright everyone, dismissed, but you three, I'll need to keep you here to explain your job." There were some grunts and laughs, as well a few shaking heads, which only served to creep out the Zero clones even more.
Hunter gulped. "A-and uh… what would that be?" he said with a faked smile.
"You get to stop the convoy… from the ground."
Each of the clones gave an uneasy "Oh…" in unison as a response.
"Basically, all you have to do is get them to stop long enough for us to get Whistler out of the transport vehicle, or even better, if you feel up to it, disabling the convoy so we can take all of its spoils."
[A very thought-filled hour later]
They were all at the canyons in their positions by now. The convoy would be getting there very soon. Each passing minute seemed to wear more and more on Hunter. He knew that Virus had the toughest part of the job, and End had the easiest, but it didn't make it any easier to bear. He would still have to make sure he didn't do anything until the right time. He heard the sound of engines roaring towards them, and it made each passing second seem longer and longer.
At long last he heard the shot peal out and the sound of the truck swerving uncontrollably. Eventually the engine stopped, and he heard the sound of a group of reploids getting out of the truck. Here we go…
"I'm over here!! Come and get me fools!" Hunter jumped up as he yelled, making sure he got their attention, and punctuating his shouts with a shot from his buster cannon. "Uh oh… there's a few more than I though there'd be…" he added under his breath. He started running into the forest as fast as he could with no less than 50 enforcers following him, firing as they went. Hunter was screaming in obvious panic. End started his job of disabling the truck from beneath it while its guards were distracted.
That was when Virus started his job: Finding Whistler inside the massive convoy vehicle. It was also when the rest of the soldiers assigned began to siege the train-like vehicle.
End finished with his job at just the right time, because Hunter came running back --still screaming, still being chased. End went to reinforce him in taking out the enforcers.
[After the battle, back at the base]
"Whistler, wake up! Come on, wake up!!" Ashes was doing his best to wake up the unconscious reploid without hurting him.
"Let me try…(what? Oh, Rush… alright, give it a go.) Thanks!" Rush took in a big breath, "WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!" The sound was nearly deafening, but it got the job done. Whistler jumped and hit the ceiling when the little metool shouted. The little red reploid skipped off giddily as everyone else was rubbing their ears.
"Well… at least he got you awake. How do you feel?" Ashes smirked a little as the obvious answer came.
"A little shook up, not to mention this killer headache I've got--!!" Whistler panicked when he spied out one of the objects his friends had collected from the truck. "Why did you take this!?" He got up and ran to smash the little blue cylinder, but was stopped by End. "Let me go, we have to destroy it now!! (Calm down! Why do we have to break it?)" Even as End finished his question, the response came from outside.
A loud booming was coming from above them, and the ceiling was practically falling on top of them. "They tracked it!" Everyone got out of the crumbling room with haste.
Sapphire came over the intercom, "Evacuation warning! Everybody get only what you need, and get out! This is not a drill, leave!" The sound of her voice faded as the booming got louder. Everyone did just that.
The Zero clones ran to their dorm and picked up what few belongings they had and ran for the emergency exit. The booming stopped and Hunter recognized the sound of an invading army of enforcers.
"KYAAAAAA!!!!" Hunter nearly froze at the sound of Rush screaming in panic, but Virus had a more extreme reaction to it.
"Hunter, take my stuff, I'm going to save him! (But--!) Do it! I couldn't live with myself if he wasn't here when X got back, so keep going!" without another word, Virus took off down the hall towards the enforcers. Hunter and End kept running, hoping that their brother would make it out with them.
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And so it went that the entire story continued in the most unoriginal fashion imaginable.
Reviews from chapter one:
Still no reviews…
But why should I complain? It has only been a few days. Anyway, this is planned out to be pretty long, even if the chapters are only a few pages long. I'm open to suggestions, as the storyboards still have a lot of blanks to fill, and the outline is still being messed with.